A Few Questions That Weren't Answered By Yesterday's Happy Radiohead Announcement [The New Model]
In honor of In Rainbows' one-year anniversary, the UK branch of Warner Chappell, which licensed all digital rights for the album, released a few statistics about its "pay-as-you-like" digital release, as well as some notes on the the physical distribution of the album. You probably won't be surprised to learn that Radiohead made money from the record—the band earned more money from just the digital revenues on In Rainbows than they ever made on Hail To The Thief, and sold 100,000 copies* of th...
Rolling Stone — A year after its release sent shock waves through the music industry, the publisher of Radiohead’s In Rainbows has finally revealed some details about the success of th... more info
Pitchfork — Photo by Kirstie ShanleyOver the next couple days in Reykjavik, Iceland, music industry sorts will gather for You Are in Control, an international conference dealing with... more info
L.A. Times - Entertainment — For a band like Radiohead, with an enormous and slavishly devoted fanbase built after a decade in the major-label trenches, its pay-what-you-want distribution system
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Guardian Music — Even after it was sitting on hard-drives and iPods all over the world, In Rainbows still went on to sell more CD copies than their previous two albums more info
Wired - Listening Post — Whatever way you slice it, Radiohead's In Rainbows album, released just over a year ago, was a stunning success. New numbers revealed by the band's publisher at a confere... more info
Paste Magazine — Many were
baffled
when Radiohead
announced
its "pay what you want" deal in 2007 for the band's seventh studio album
In Rainbows
. But the unconventional release mo... more info
Idolator — In honor of In Rainbows' one-year anniversary, the UK branch of Warner Chappell, which licensed all digital rights for the album, released a few statistics about its "pay... more info