Apple touts record App Store holiday sales of $1.22 billion, plus $322 million on New Year’s Day

A comparatively weak season for iPhone hardware is being offset somewhat by strong App Store sales, as Apple announced today that its app and game stores set new holiday records. The company had released lists of the year’s most popular selections and its own top picks in the middle of the holiday shopping season.

Between 2018’s Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve alone, App Store customers spent over $1.22 billion, while sales on New Year’s Day 2019 set a single-day record of over $322 million. Ahead of its Q1 2019 earnings call on January 29, Apple CEO Tim Cook disclosed yesterday that overall “Services” revenue similarly hit an all-time record for the quarter, bolstered by individual record revenues from the App Store, App Store search ads, Apple Music, cloud services, and Apple Pay.