Crowded House front man Neil Finn confirmed the news this morning, together with members of the original Seven Worlds Collide lineup and other artists, he will record an album of entirely new material in support of Oxfam.
Posted by Jonny on November 13th, 2008 under Apple, News
Snow Patrol’s iPhone application generated 30,000 downloads during its first week of release, a senior executive from the band’s label has revealed.
Polydor’s head of digital Paul Smernicki says the label is pleased with the performance of its recently released Snow Patrol iPhone application, which promoted the band’s new album. “We’re relatively pleased with the results,” he exclusively told Music Ally, Distorted Loop can reveal.
The executive also noted that the release of the software did help generate interest in the band’s latest album, ‘A Hundred Million Suns’.
Radiohead’s Thom Yorke has made a free remix of “Harrowdown Hill,” a song off his solo album The Eraser, available to download to mark the election of Barack Obama as the new US President.
“I humbly donate a remix of ‘Harrowdown Hill’ that was finished ages ago during the band webcasts,” Yorke writes. “A small reminder of the dark days of Bush’s…”
The Radiohead front man made this quiet announcement yesterday on Radiohead.com.
Franz Ferdinand have teamed up with Beatport to promote a remix competition for the release of the band’s third album, ‘Tonight: Franz Ferdinand’, preceded by first single ‘Ulysses’, set for release January 19.
Aping Radiohead’s remix competitions, remixable elements of the single will be made available to buy on November 4. Fans will be able to put together their own version of the track - all in advance of the release of the track, which will see its first radio play on November 17.
Fan-submitted remixes will be judged by Beatport and the Beatport community and the overall winner will then be picked by the band. The winning entries will then be released digitally to coincide with the single release in January.
Posted by Jonny on October 15th, 2008 under Apple, News
Radiohead’s publisher Warner Chappell today revealed that the band’s first ever iTunes album release sold 30,000 units in the US in week one - and explained a whole heap more concerning the band’s ‘In Rainbows’ release strategy.
These statistics put paid to any criticism that the band’s release was in any sense a failure - some highlights include:
- After being made available free for three months the album was Number 1 in the UK and in the US
- The physical CD has sold 1.75 million to date and is still top 200 UK & US
- They sold 100,000 boxsets via W.A.S.T.E.
- Nearing 17 million plays on last.fm
- 1.2 million fans will see the tour
“A group of British recording artists including (edit to add: Billy Bragg) Radiohead, The Verve and Iron Maiden say the digital music revolution has come up short in terms of the fair treatment of artists, citing an agreement between record labels, ISPs and the British government as an example of artists’ viewpoints being ignored. To make sure their priorities are taken into account in the future, over sixty British artists have joined the Featured Artists Coalition. Read the rest of this entry »
Radiohead have chosen the new fan-made video for forthcoming single ‘Reckoner’, it was directed by Clement Picon, who entered the competition to make a video for the song - and this is it…
iTunes beat down 7digital, eMusic, Music Station and Napster to win the Best Music Store category.
We7 beat 7digital and Sellaband amongst others last night to win the Best Digital Music Service category, yet another highlight for the service which signed distribution deals with the Orchard this week, following on from deals made with Sony BMG, EMI and Warner Music.
Radiohead won the Artists Of The Year award, while Coldplay won the Best Rock/Indie Artist award and their website, Coldplay.com, won the Best Official Music Website gong. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Jonny on September 25th, 2008 under Apple, News
As the band invites fans to take part in a second remix project, Radiohead has revealed some of the numbers pertaining to the band’s last remix experiment.
The last remix for ‘In Rainbows’ track, ‘Nude’, saw “6,193,776, Page Views: 29,090,134, Hits: 58,340,512, Bandwidth: 10.666 Terabytes, Number of mixes: 2,252, Number of votes: 461,090, Number of track listens: 1,745,304,” the band revealed in a note to fans despatched in the early hours today.
Posted by Jonny on September 24th, 2008 under Apple, News
Marillion’s move to make the band’s latest album available through file-sharing networks raised lots of eye-brows, with industry mutterings claiming the scheme would never, ever work…they were wrong.
The band’s business manager, Erik Nielsen, MD of Intact/Racket Records, told attendees at yesterday’s hugely interesting EconMusic Conference just how successful the free release has been for the band.
“We made our album available through BitTorrent, ” he said. “Since then we have tripled our sales of physical product…” That’s right - they tripled physical sales - by being nice to their fans. Read the rest of this entry »
Members of Radiohead, Wilco, Johnny Marr and KT Tunstall have confirmed plans to record a new album - part of the Seven Worlds Collide project - in support of Oxfam International.![[Post to Twitter]](http://distorted-loop.com/wp-content/plugins/tweet-this/tweet-this-small.png)
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