In case you missed it, iTunes Connect is back online. The web interface that allows developers to submit apps, updates and price changes went down on December 23 for the so-called “holiday shutdown” which didn’t freeze the App Store charts as many believed, but still made it impossible for developers to submit apps and users to find updates in iTunes. iTunes Connect went back online a few hours ago, and app updates are now showing up in iTunes and propagating through the App Store.

Together with iTunes Connect, the “Sales & Trends” section went back online, too, offering developers the possibility to check on sales for the shutdown period, which included Christmas day – usually a good day for sales as millions of users worldwide likely get a new iOS device. The Camera+ developers, tap tap tap, provided MacRumors a copy of the iTunes Connect sales report for Camera+ (the app was released right ahead of the iTunes Connect shutdown) and the results are, quite frankly, impressive.

Camera+ 2.0 sold over 78,000 copies on Christmas day alone, ranking #6 on that day:

Camera+ reached an impressive 78,995 downloads on Christmas Day alone, which represents $54,743 for the developer after Apple’s 30% cut. While the sales graph seems to suggest that the sales have returned to pre-Christmas levels, the graph is somewhat misleading, as Camera+ had been ranked as high as #2 in Top Paid Apps before Christmas but today holds a rank of #13. Therefore, it seems that there has been a sustained boost in overall App Store sales since Christmas Day.

As MacRumors also notes, last year’s #3 ranked app reached 79,000 downloads and Camera+ got to a similar figure this year while ranking #6 in Top Paid Apps. Thus, the apps ahead of Camera+ in this year’s charts likely sold more than 100,000 copies on Christmas day alone, with most of those apps being discounted games by Electronic Arts.