Radiohead Finds Sales, Even After Downloads
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In a twist for the music industryâs digital revolution, the new Radiohead album ranked as the top-selling album in the country this week.
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Radiohead's offer inspires musician, who wants classical music to reach a new audience.
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Idea 'stark raving mad', says Radiohead frontman Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has described the idea of releasing the band's In Rainbows exclusively on the net as "stark raving mad", and insists that fans want a tangible "object" - a reference to Monday's physical release of the album.â¦
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Kanye West sold almost a million  copies of his latest album during its first week in U.S.  stores, winning a much-hyped sales race with rival rapper 50  Cent and providing the ailing record industry with a rare piece  of good news.
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CLASSIC songs that should have been No1 but didn't quite make it are being given a second chance by an internet campaign.   As downloads now count to the Official Singles Chart, a surge in internet sales of an old hit could catapult it to the top spot.
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Sales of portable MP3 digital-audio players are booming and are set to generate US&#36;58 billion in revenue worldwide by 2008, according to a new study from research firm IDC.
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Radiohead have earned their fifth UK  chart-topper with "In Rainbows," which was released in stores  last week, several months after fans were able to download it  from the group's Web site for a price of their own choosing.
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British rock band Radiohead scored  its second No. 1 album on the U.S. pop charts on Wednesday with  a release that was initially sold on the Internet under a  revolutionary "name-your-own-price" system.
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Top-selling bands The Beatles, Oasis, U2 and Westlife go head-to-head in the album charts.
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Record companies' revenue from digital music sales rose 40 percent to $2.9 billion over the past year, but the growth is still failing to cover losses from collapse of international CD sales, the music industry's global trade body said Thursday.
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Apple has revealed that it has sold more than 150 million songs trough its online music store, iTunes. The company said that iTunes users are now downloading more than four million songs a week, a rate of over 200 million songs a year.
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LONDON (Billboard) - Radiohead have earned their fifth UK chart-topper with "In Rainbows," which was released in stores last week, several months after fans were able to download it from the group's Web site for a price of their own choosing.
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Apple announced yesterday that over 200 million songs have been sold via the iTunes online music store. According to Eddie Cue, Appleâs VP of Applications, the amount of sales/downloads from iTunes has vastly accelerated since its launch in April 2003.
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com December 16, 2004, 3:01 PM PT. Apple Computer on Thursday said it has now sold more than 200 million songs through its iTunes Music Store--and it has new plans to keep the sales trend continuing upwards.
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DENVER (Billboard) - Rock band Radiohead's decision to release its new album "In Rainbows" by itself -- online, without a record label's help and at any price the user chose -- rocked the industry last fall.
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U.S. album sales were down 4.2 percent in the first half of the year, but sales of music downloaded online soared 77 percent, according to industry figures.
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Radiohead has signed with iTunes to allow its latest album to be downloaded from the online music store, Agence France-Presse reported. The band was one of the few major acts not to have its songs on the service. In October Radiohead left the EMI record company after its contract expired. The band made its new album, âIn Rainbows,â above, available on its Web site, radiohead.com, asking fans to pay whatever they thought it was worth. Radiohead has not said how many times the album was downloaded or the average price paid. ... The concert producer Live Nation said it had reached a two-year deal with the Jonas Brothers band, under which that New Jersey group would play more than 140 concerts around the world, starting in Tucson on Jan. 31, Reuters reported. In October Live Nation lured Madonna from Warner Brothers with a multi-album touring and merchandising partnership.