Firemint has release a 16 page report detailing the sales success of Flight Control, which recently held the top spot as the #1 selling app worldwide. It’s chock full of great numbers, data and info for iPhone developers.

The data covers more than 587,000 sales overall, broken down by country and day — including their eye-popping best-day sales number of over 35,000 units! It’s a nice, slick app too – proof that quality really does sell sometimes.

From their blog, the highlights of the data:

* Sales during the report period: 587,485
* Sales to date (6 March to 27 April): over 700,000
* Graph of global sales per day
* Total sales per country (57% of sales in USA)
* Peak sales days (over 35,000 sold on best day) and sales trends over time
* Highest daily sales per country (19,164 in the USA)

You can read even more here: http://firemintgames.blogspot.com/2009/04/flight-control-sales-numbers.html

Great read for prospective developers and number junkies alike.