The album released by Thom Yorke, lead singer of Radiohead, has surpassed one million downloads on Thursday (2), six days after being made available by BitTorrent. The launch was the first in which the transfer system files online, usually associated with piracy, was used to sell music.
First solo Yorke in eight years, “Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes” brings eight songs and was produced by Nigel Godrich, his longtime collaborator.
To hear the full album, the user has to pay $ 6 Download the single “Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes” and the music video is free. The number of downloads is related to these two modes of access. Until the publication of this text, 1.2 million downloads had been made.
“If it works well, this can be an effective way to give back some control over Internet commerce to the people who are creating their work, “said Yorke about being the first artist to use this type of file transfer. Currently, music streaming services dominate the digital music distribution side of tools that sell downloads of tracks and albums to.
Yorke and his band, Radiohead, has experienced alternative distribution models, such as when launched album “In Rainbows” in 2007 primarily for download on their site, leaving customers free to pay whatever price they wanted.
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