Comments on: Radiohead sells 3 million copies of In Rainbows, but how much is that in American?

By: thom

thom — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:53:05 +0000

Hopefully more bands will discover this model which will pin record companies down further. Yeah it might have been a gimmick but it made people talk about the future right?

Not only did they make the album available (pay what you can). but tracks to songs were dissected and distributed for people to play with. They also had a video contest which was friggin’ brilliant!

Ground breakers and I hope they do more of it.

What you don’t like the art work?

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By: Jason Bogovich

Jason Bogovich — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:25:56 +0000

I just wanted to note that Radiohead is one of the coolest bands alive. How many artists encourage fans to upload videos of particular songs they want a different angle on, and pay for the bandwidth their self with waste net.

Agreed Kid A was one of the best, I’m actually a bit partial to Hail to the Thief myself though. There are some sweet Flacs out there (band allowed) of their live shows and Radiohead returns perhaps the best results on Youtube for live content.

Jason

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By: David Weitzner

David Weitzner — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:28:51 +0000

I’m a long-time Rhead fan and I payed $.45 for the downloadable version of In Rainbows….the album was so darn good, the guilt of only paying $.45 pushed me into the record store to buy it at retail price. Perhaps it’s my ongoing guilt – or the sheer brilliance of the band – that causes me to purchase additional copies.

By: john

john — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:41:15 +0000

Yah really, it was a stunt, cuz RH are just a fad…

-or-

you have no idea what you’re talking about, you’re a TC clone that is skeered of consumers not being force-fec bs and if you didn’t like Kid A you don’t really get RH anyway…

By: nitsuj

nitsuj — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:26:38 +0000

Don’t they only make about $.25 per album sold the traditional manner? If so they can sell a % of the offline sales online at $1 per and come out ahead.

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[...] Radiohead sells 3 million copies of In Rainbows, but how much is that in American? CRUNCHGEAR Warner Chappell, Radiohead’s distributor, is announcing that the band “sold” 3 million copies of In Rainbows, the album that they essentially gave away online in a pay-what-you-want scheme. The reports are that they made more on the album than they did on their previous dumpling, Hail to the Thief. Previous sales numbers were in the high hundred thousands, which makes this move particularly interesting. Source> [...]

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By: Brett

Brett — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:00:46 +0000

I’m just appalled you didn’t like Kid A (AKA their best album). Was it so good that it pissed you off?

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:58:09 +0000

I can not believe how poorly this article was written. Oil-rich oligarchs? Currency conversion cutting into their profits? An implication that this album was pirated more than others? Is there anything you got right that you didn’t directly pull from the press release Warner sent you? I’ve come to view TechCrunch “analysis” as laughable, but this is over the top awful.

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By: Emily W Sussman

Emily W Sussman — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:29:44 +0000

… I smell an economic model revolution!

By: Raskin

Raskin — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:05:53 +0000

Wait – why did this article appear on the TechCrunch RSS feed?

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:02:23 +0000

you were angry about Kid A?

By: QSM

QSM — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:01:53 +0000

Who care?

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:47:01 +0000

I don’t get the reference “…the oil-rich oligarchs who could have paid Thom and his buddies $1 million for 15 Step alone.”

By: insicdesigns

insicdesigns — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:46:54 +0000

im a big fan.

By: boilr

boilr — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:40:13 +0000

the point is the music. if RH only cared about $$$, they would have resigned with another mega-label.

unlike other bands who h8 on their fans (see Metallica suing fans for DLing), RH has nothing to lose. In that sense, you are right that it takes the right band to make this happen.

But really, it just takes immeasurable talent…

http://www.boilr.net/2008/09/09/radiohead-live-in-santa-barbara-mp3/