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Radiohead to give away new album - pay what you want... (pg. 2)
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| AustralianGQ |
| 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 s they are. id still pay $20 for an album |
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| Chris Allen |
| 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. |
Source: http://www.purebuttons.com/pr/ |
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| MissK |
Jay told me about this.... as I have been recently coincidentally rediscovering radiohead.
This article answered a lot of questions I had. |
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| jon jon |
| Has anyone downloaded it yet? Holy it's great. |
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| jon jon |
3 weeks in and this album only gets better and better. So much depth.
Has anyone ing heard it? lol FFS
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| Jeff Button |
| quote: | Originally posted by jon jon
3 weeks in and this album only gets better and better. So much depth.
Has anyone ing heard it? lol FFS |
LOL
been meaning to check it out..... been too busy on Beatport ( there is so much to go through on that site these days), to even consider looking elsewhere for other music. |
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| Candeeman |
| I read that over 60% of the people that downloaded it chose to pay nothing.... |
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| rabbitjoker |
| 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. |
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| English Rachel |
| 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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| rabbitjoker |
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. |
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| jon jon |
| quote: | Originally posted by English Rachel
And then, after christmas, number of boxed set sales
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This is a big one.... they are also selling all of their albums on a bear shaped USB stick. So dope. lol
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| rabbitjoker |
| quote: | Originally posted by jon jon
This is a big one.... they are also selling all of their albums on a bear shaped USB stick. So dope. lol |
Yeah, for $170. |
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