While the iTunes Music Store was officially launched in 2003, it was only in 2005 when the digital era of music was finally evident around the world: it's the year when iTunes hit 500 million overall downloaded songs, iTunes opened more stores in Europe, also launched in Japan and Australia, and the video-sharing website YouTube was born, a medium now used by billions to stream and share music. The rapid rise of digital music in 2005 eventually led for individual tracks (singles) to replace albu