Radiohead album crowns US chart

[Clowgon]

Radiohead have topped the US album charts with the physical release of In Rainbows, originally sold via the internet for a price chosen by fans.
The album sold 122,000 copies during its first week, displacing soul singer Mary J Blige from the number one spot. Hmm i think they shouldnt have the top spot. Oh well

[PaulMacC]

What do you a mean a price choosen by the fans

[Kardan]

What do you a mean a price choosen by the fans

They could pay what they wanted for the CD. Nothing from up to £100 I think.

And do we really need someone copy and pasting from the BBC all the time? At least post a link, and if we wanted something like that the forum could install a BBC news bot onto the site.

[PaulMacC]

I'd pay nothing, why would someone pay £100

[Energizer]

i hate it, the album is so boring.

[Wootzeh]

So they sold 122,000 copies for nothing? :S That's the only way they'd get to number 1.

[Josh-H]

NO. The album was initially up for sale for nothing - £100. But now thats been taken down and its been released officially as a CD via normal distribution methods. Its been out ages on http://inrainbows.com but that promotions now over. So its off to iTunes for you suckers, or of course you favourite *other* download methods :]

Besides though, I don't even like the album :/

[RedStratocas]

you guyz is so dumbbbbb

they self-released the album in october on their website, and people could type in a price for the album and pay however much they wanted. it was all an experiment, they wanted to see how much people think cd's are worth. and quite a large amount of people actually chose to pay for the album. Jay-Z payed $50. and if any of you saw those "this year in music" thing that artists did on myspace, about half of them had in rainbows on their list, which includes paramore, lupe fiasco, and as i lay dying. weird, eh?

you don't have to like it, but it's not boring, you just don't understand it.

So they sold 122,000 copies for nothing? :S That's the only way they'd get to number 1.

they've been to #1 before with kid a. as a matter of fact, their past 4 albums have made it into the top 3.

[Tbh]

i got it for free

[Azul]

Same here. I feel abit guilty because it's amazing.