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The iTunes App Store is changing rapidly. There are thousands of new apps every week, and the number of new publishers is keeping pace. At the same time, apps disappear from the app store every day. Apps move up and down in popularity, change price, and even shift from one category to another. It's a churning urn of burning funk!

We have lots of App Store data and we love digging around in it. Some of you find this stuff really interesting too, so we offer you some raw data in the hope that you will find it useful, and that you'll derive something interesting and share it with us. We've packaged up two recent snapshots of our ranking data from the US iTunes App Store, one week apart.

Download file #1US AppStore July 2

Download file #2US AppStore June 25

 

If you're unfamiliar with the structure of the App Store, these notes may be helpful:

1. Apps are organized into categories
2. The Games category has a number of sub-categories
3. Apps can belong to multiple categories
4. Rankings are relative to other apps in the same category
5. There are other ranked lists that contain apps across multiple categories

The data is de-normalized, and is presented in as simple a format as possible. Each record consists of:

• Category name
• Rank
• App
• Price

Questions are welcomed, critique appreciated, insights revered. So download our data, pop it in a spreadsheet or database or whatever your flavor, and get back to us with your results!

UPDATE: 7/16/09 check out the new data, world wide!