Poor old John’s relaunch last year was blighted by the Coldplay song scandal. Now Coldplay are giving their next single away for free. I wonder if John could redistribute a remix of his Ambitious DVD?
John, Coldplay will give you your next song for free…
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April 29, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Alternatively, he could pick a Radiohead song this time. They were stupid enough to effectively give their last album away via an Internet-based “honesty box” approach…..
April 29, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Stupid? As I undertood it, they generated net sales revenues ahead of the net sales revenues from the previous album - possibly because they earned greater profits from avoiding the manufacture costs for a significant number of total sales.
Besides, an honesty-box might not be best for use by any politician…
April 29, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Two-thirds of people who downloaded the album didn’t pay anything for it. Not exactly a heart (or wallet)-warming signal of the value your fans place on the music.
Couldn’t agree with you more on your second point, though…
April 29, 2008 at 7:42 pm
It’s hardly a statement on the quality of Radiohead’s music that millions of punters with internet connections enjoy acquiring stuff for free. That’s simply a fact of life.
I think I read somewhere that Radiohead were fully expecting the majority of downloaders to take it for free. As you would, really. They didn’t trumpet this expectation at the time (obviously, as it would be interpreted as a bit of a ‘green light’) but they weren’t at all surprised about it.
And although, as Mardy says, ‘In Rainbows’ did make them a fair bit of wedge, the main idea was really to generate a massive amount of interest/publicity by stepping outside the system in a very obvious way. So - job done.
April 29, 2008 at 7:43 pm
PS: Coldplay’s next single is free too? Still overpriced, I reckon!
April 29, 2008 at 7:58 pm
I’ve previously declared In Rainbows the best album this decade, thus far, and although I’ve previously been a fan of Coldplay, I’m less and less enamored of their music. It’s so light and derivative when compared with Radiohead.
April 29, 2008 at 8:18 pm
When I heard that the Nats liked Coldplay so much that they went to all the trouble of stealing one of their tunes, that was the final nail in the coffin for me.
The tories liking them is a bit like when your parents start to make comments about your music like “Oh that’s nice dear. Who’s this?”… You simply can’t like them anymore. You simply can’t!
Not that I liked Coldplay much to begin with to be honest… I was at the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury a few years ago, having just seen New Order, and I physically left the place because Coldplay were on next. Any other band were (at least) a 30 minute walk-through-mud away, but I still had to get away! :-/
100% agreement that In Rainbows is a staggering thing.
April 29, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Staggering, yes that’s the perfect adjective. It’s on high-rotate on my iPod. The next most played albums are Dimmer’s There My Dear, P J Harvey’s Whores Hustle (thanks Sardonik) and Arcade Fire’s second album. I suspect Dave Dobbyn’s Available Light will soon reach the top too!
April 30, 2008 at 11:17 am
I’m hanging out for 2011 - the next Tool album will be about due by then. As you may guess, my album of the decade thus far is Lateralus…