Radiohead refuse to answer the question everyone's asking - how much did they make from, and how much did people choose to pay? Artist managers at this year's Midem, citing inside knowledge, said the average was 2.90 but as much as 5.
And In Rainbows reached number one on both sides of the Atlantic on proper sales. Counterpoint - Nine Inch Nails' free The Slip album was downloaded more from NIN.com than torrents.
So illegal is now entrenched, it's habitual and the business faces an uphill struggle to change that. What's more, 'an off-limits venue may be even more appealing' to the core youth market. The report's 'venue hypothesis' posits net users have simply become accutomed to using technologies like Gnutella, BitTorrent and trackers like Mininova. How big? More than double the top torrent through March and May (Panic At The Disco's Pretty Odd) got in a whole week (ie.
In Rainbows torrent downloads peaked on the first day data was collected, October 27, at 400,000 - what Page and Garland call 'a bloody big number'. The research, by MCPS-PRS chief economist Will Page and Big Champagne CEO Eric Garland, said discoverability may have been a factor, citing early teething troubles with Radiohead's website as one reason freeloaders stuck with P2P.īut that's wishful thinking. The bottom line is that legal free was trumped by illegal free. Why? Maybe so many people are already downloading the rest of their albums from torrents, they simply couldn't be arsed to type in their browser. A research paper from P2P monitor Big Champagne and the UK's MCPS-PRS royalty collection society said the 'staggering' number ' far exceeds what outsiders have reported as the estimated download total from the bands official website Panic At The Disco Full Concert Setlist, regardless of whether those downloaders paid or not'. This story was written by Robert Andrews.Some 2.3 million people skanked Radiohead's latest album from BitTorrent sources during the two months it was legally available for free.
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