Radiohead rocked the music industry
On Wednesday, the music industry, very slowly reacting to the spirit of the times and detracting the decision to adopt a scheme for distributing music through the Internet, as equal to the traditional one, suffered another shock. The British band Radiohead, in the past having had the fame of one of the most ardent fighters against Peer-to-Peer networks, released its new album “In Rainbows” exclusively in mp3 format and independently, that is, without the participation of record labels. You can buy it on the official website of the group. But as if the "joy" of the record companies would be incomplete without it, the band made their album almost free - everyone can pay for it just as much as they see fit, without any restrictions.
The release of the album on CD is expected only next year. On Christmas, only a collector's edition worth ÂŁ 40 will be released in a tangible form.
About their willingness to do with their future albums as already stated no less popular Oasis and Jamiroquai. Leader of the Nine Inch Nails group Trent Reznor (Trent Reznor), impressed by the decision Radiohead decided to completely go online, what he wrote on the home page of her site. Approval was also expressed by many other performers and their managers, who are obviously already tired of watching the inaction of the Labs against the background of the constant and rapid decline in CD sales in recent years.
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And, which can not but rejoice, all these events seem to have become for the record industry a good “fried rooster”. According to Rolling Stone magazine, the owner of the EMI company sent a letter via internal mail, in which he advises employees to pay close attention to the Internet and carefully consider and evaluate the prospects that it opens. The very first statistics on downloading the album “In Rainbows” shows that the percentage of those who did not pay a cent for it is so small that they can be neglected. And perhaps it is the model applied by Radiohead that can serve as a counterweight to the fall in sales of compact discs.
The release of the album on CD is expected only next year. On Christmas, only a collector's edition worth ÂŁ 40 will be released in a tangible form.
About their willingness to do with their future albums as already stated no less popular Oasis and Jamiroquai. Leader of the Nine Inch Nails group Trent Reznor (Trent Reznor), impressed by the decision Radiohead decided to completely go online, what he wrote on the home page of her site. Approval was also expressed by many other performers and their managers, who are obviously already tired of watching the inaction of the Labs against the background of the constant and rapid decline in CD sales in recent years.
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And, which can not but rejoice, all these events seem to have become for the record industry a good “fried rooster”. According to Rolling Stone magazine, the owner of the EMI company sent a letter via internal mail, in which he advises employees to pay close attention to the Internet and carefully consider and evaluate the prospects that it opens. The very first statistics on downloading the album “In Rainbows” shows that the percentage of those who did not pay a cent for it is so small that they can be neglected. And perhaps it is the model applied by Radiohead that can serve as a counterweight to the fall in sales of compact discs.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/14911/
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