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Prince and Radiohead both ineligible for Brit Awards nominations due to unorthodox album releases
It appears you really can’t have your cake and eat it too, as Radiohead and Prince are both to be excluded from next year’s Brit Awards in London, due to their album releases online and free with The Daily Mail, respectively.
The criteria for being nominated in the prestigious awards means artists must have had a single or album in the UK top 75 in the past 16 months. Radiohead, releasing In Rainbows online, has not announced the official sales figures…
Show us your 'Sunny Sundae Smiles', as My Bloody Valentine is releasing their new album online
The brilliant Irish shoegazer band, My Bloody Valentine, is continuing their assault on our eardrums, by following in the large footsteps of Radiohead (and Trent Reznor, The Charlatans, Kylie, Cliff Richard…) and are releasing their upcoming album online without a music label.
Just last week their reunion tour was confirmed, with tickets to their London gig selling out in under a minute, fuelling…
Courtney Love on a Radiohead-style digital release, forgets previous album sold 250,000 copies
Courtney Love still makes music?! You mean, she has time in her schedule amongst flogging Kurt’s clothes and organising biopics about him?! That woman never ceases to amaze, as according to her incoherent ramblings on her MySpace account, she wants to go down the Radiohead route, by possibly releasing her music exclusively online.
Those with graduate degrees in decoding insane, possibly drug-related musings, appearing to be written by a 14-year old English-language hating morons can click here to read the full extent…
Radiohead says 'In Rainbows' figures are nonsense
Radiohead has said the independent sales data released for its In Rainbows digital download is a load of old rubbish.
The band said that Comscore’s figures “are wholly inaccurate and in no way reflect…
Generous Americans paid the most to download Radiohead's 'In Rainbows' digital release…
But only 38% of buyers of Radiohead’s download only album actually paid anything at all.
The average price paid by the generous 62% that spent money on the you-set-the-price download was $6 across the entire…
EMI to sell entire Radiohead back-catalogue on bear-shaped USB stick
So, hang on. Radiohead have seen out their contract with their label (Parlophone – part of EMI), and struck out on their own with the innovative digital release of new album ‘In Rainbows’. But now EMI’s launched a website called Radiohead Store, to sell special versions of the band’s seven albums from when they were under contract. Cheeky.
Trent Reznor gets even more riled up with music industry, vows to do a Radiohead
My, that Trent Reznor is an awfully angry man. Pretty obvious if you’ve ever heard ‘Burn’ by his band Nine Inch Nails, and if you’ve been following his rants against the music industry recently, where he’s been urging fans to pirate his music rather than actually pay for the ‘overpriced’ CDs themselves.
Reznor has been ranting on the band’s website, and all but said they’re going to follow Radiohead and release their next album exclusively online. With the subject of ‘big news’, he said “Hello everyone. I’ve waited a LONG time to be able to make the following announcement: as of right now Nine Inch Nails is a totally free agent, free of any recording contract with any label. I have been under recording contracts for 18 years and have watched the business radically mutate…
Radiohead's In Rainbows available to download midnight tonight at 160KBPS
Just a quick reminder that Radiohead’s new album, In Rainbows, is going on sale tonight at midnight, GMT-time. You have to pre-order, and pay for, the album and then you’ll get sent an activation code after midnight, which when entered upon the site, you can download the 48.4MB zip file containing the 10 tracks. Unfortunately they’re only recorded…
Opinion: Radiohead's In Rainbows is their bravest decision yet
Stuart Dredge writes…
As a band, Radiohead aren’t shy of taking risks. Witness how they’ve evolved musically, in the transition between The Bends and OK Computer, and then onwards into their more electronica-influenced recent albums. The easy path would’ve been to have cranked out a few more emotive rock albums and become The New U2.
Now the band has made its bravest move yet, taking the decision to sell their new album ‘In Rainbows’ directly to fans as a digital download, for which fans decide how much they want to pay. Admittedly, there’s also a £40 ‘Discbox’ option for the hardcore fans, which should reduce the risk.
Radiohead ARE selling their new album In Rainbows online… and they want you to set the price
After the kerfuffle this weekend surrounding the mysterious RadioheadLP7 website, which turned out to be a hoax, now Radiohead have actually annnounced their new album. It’s called ‘In Rainbows’, and the band will be selling the digital version themselves in just ten days time. Oh, and it’s up to you how much you pay for it.
What’s that? You don’t trust me after the last time I raised your hopes? Well, it’s an official announcement on the Radiohead website, with a link through to the In Rainbows site, where you can preorder the digital album, and also order a £40 ‘Discbox’ version which includes vinyl, CD and a bonus CD – as well as the downloads.
