With the recent download of techno song `Monkey Drums' (Goksel Vancin Remix), by British DJ Chase Buch, hitting the `25 billionth song download' landmark for Apple's popular iTunes music store, the lucky customer - a German student - who downloaded the track got a gift card worth 10,000 euro ($13,500) from the company.

The sale of the `25 billionth' song by the online music store came after ten years of its 2003 launch by Apple. The customer who downloaded the milestone track, and got the gift card, is a Hanover, Germany-based 22-year-old Economics student Phillip Luepke.

Elated at being the lucky iTunes customer to have downloaded the milestone `Monkey Drums' song, Luepke said that he had heard the song on Saturday night at a disco; and had used Shazam song-identification smartphone app to look up the name of the song, before finally downloading it on Sunday evening.

Revealing that he and his friends will celebrate over a few beers, Luepke said that though he presently has no specific plans as to how he will spend the gift card from Apple, he could certainly say his music and movie collection will grow.

Meanwhile, acknowledging the immense contribution of the iTunes customers for the success of the online music store, Eddy Cue - Apple's SVP of Internet Software and Services - said: "We are grateful to our users whose passion for music over the past 10 years has made iTunes the number one music retailer in the world."