Friday, December 12, 2008

Radiohead In Rainbows Pulls up to $10 Million


Van Buskirk then on the seminal inside information has been said that the band earned about 10 million U.S. dollars in the first week of album sales, based on 1.2 million albums sold in the average price of $ 8.00 per. He also pointed to other estimates that he felt quoted a more reliable average price of $ 5 for the album to a total of 6 million U.S. dollars.

Call Eliot said that the band numbers to their own, we may never know the true figures, at least in the short term.

Anyway, the band much more money as an artist with a major label deal was revoked, provided that this year Linkin Park has the highest opening week in between majors with 623,000 records sold. High School Musical 2 came in second place with 615,000 units. That is about half the units Radiohead delivered.

As the average transaction volume with major label recording artist on average about 0.50 U.S. dollars per CD sold (minus some ... he ... business and handling costs, such as the destruction of the sale on the file, the Killers, Panic) is easy to see how Radiohead has many, much better. A, the band has two big middle men; local retailers and the label itself

The big question now is what will happen to us as a copy to other artists to experiment. For supermarkets with the status of artists like Madonna, which has an album out soon, the result may be quite the same, or near enough. I just wonder how he is with two of those who steps in the supermarkets status? That is the big question is concerned that the label for those who were successful artist is approaching the end of their contract.

In the following questions? In Rainbows is recognized as the top-selling album of the year? As we refused, the actual number is doubtful. Of course, the real winner should not Radiohead or Linkin Park, but the prince is in the CD 3 million per day through the campaign this summer with the London Mail, the strategy most of May, he received more than 0.50 U.S. dollars an album .

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