EZChaku-utafull, the branded Chaku-utafull service offered by Japanese operator au, exceeded 50 million downloads on May 20th this year according to a press release from KDDI today.

EZChaku-utafull tracks are currently available from 80 EZweb sites with a combined catalogue of over 150,000 tracks and 20,000 tracks are also available on au’s PC-based LISMO Music Store since its launch earlier this month.

The service was launched in November 2004 and recorded 1 million downloads by January 2005. The rate of growth has accelerated, with 5 million downloads recorded by April 2005 and 10 million downloads by June 2005.

# posted by Jan Kuczynski @ 7:59 am