i think its a really cool concept, so congrats to radiohead on the idea even though im not a fan. i have a feeling most ppl will download it anyways or buy it for as cheap as possible like the assholes they are. id still pay $20 for an album
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Oct-12-2007 02:00
Chris Allen
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Calgary, Alberta
quote:
Purebuttons, LLC has purchased the new Radiohead album, In Rainbows, for $1,000.00 in support of Radiohead's "silent" effort to revolutionize the music industry.
Originally posted by jon jon
3 weeks in and this album only gets better and better. So much depth.
Has anyone fucking heard it? lol FFS
LOL
been meaning to check it out..... been too busy on Beatport (fuck there is so much SHIT to go through on that site these days), to even consider looking elsewhere for other music.
I read that over 60% of the people that downloaded it chose to pay nothing....
Nov-09-2007 16:30
rabbitjoker
aural sadist
Registered: Aug 2002
Location: Toronto, ON, CANADA
quote:
Originally posted by Candeeman
I read that over 60% of the people that downloaded it chose to pay nothing....
Some 62 percent of the people who downloaded "In Rainbows" in a four-week period last month opted not to pay the British alt-rockers a cent. But the remaining 38 percent voluntarily paid an average of $6, according to the study by comScore Inc.
Between Oct. 1 and Oct. 29, about 1.2 million people visited the Web site the band set up for fans to download the album, comScore said Monday. The research firm did not say how many people in its study actually bought/downloaded the album.
Dark Dirty Tech Tribal. | Hands in air (trance) and feet on the floor (house).
Nov-09-2007 16:49
English Rachel
I Am Canadian
Registered: Jul 2006
Location: Lovely Leslieville
quote:
Originally posted by Candeeman
I read that over 60% of the people that downloaded it chose to pay nothing....
Aha but that percentage means nothing without other information such as....
Number of albums sold last time
Number of downloads this time and therefore number of 'paid for' dls
Amount paid by dlers
And then, after christmas, number of boxed set sales
I would be really interested to know the numbers
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Nov-09-2007 16:49
rabbitjoker
aural sadist
Registered: Aug 2002
Location: Toronto, ON, CANADA
When they were with the label...
Chris Castle, a long-time music attorney and record executive, offered an educated guess about what the British band was earning at EMI. He figures that in every year a Radiohead album was released, it was EMI's top-selling record. The band likely negotiated a larger royalty rate than most performers earn.
He guessed that when royalties were combined with money earned from publishing, Radiohead saw between $3 and $5 for every album sale.
Castle also estimates that the band typically sold between 3 and 4 million units worldwide. That would mean Radiohead hauled in between $9 million and $20 million per album.
