Radiohead's New "Nude" Remix Concept Ends 12 Year Dry Spell On Top 40 Singles Chart
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Radiohead have done it again. This time the band that's changing the industry made an innovative way back onto the Billboard Hot 100, where their latest In Rainbows single "Nude" is currently 37. (According to Billboard "Nude" is the band's first appearance on this chart since "High & Dry" in 1996.)
About a week and a half ago "Radiohead decided to hold a fan remix contest":http://mog.com/Charley_Rogulewski/blog_post/153575 for "Nude." Fans were encouraged to purchase stems (the bass beat, the vocals, etc.) on iTunes, with each stem costing $0.99, remix it and upload onto the Radiohead Web site. Fans were asked to "vote for their favorite remix,":http://www.radioheadremix.com/ with no concrete incentive announced for the remix that would garner the most votes, although Radiohead did promise that they'd win something. Perhaps a pat on the back?However, each separate iTunes stem purchase "accounted for one download":http://www.richbradley.org/blog/?p=55 for "Nude." (You follow?) So each person who wanted to remix "Nude" purchased the single five times! Add that to the downloads of the full track and Radiohead have conned their way back to the Billboard chart. Do you think this is a fair way to count a single?
About a week and a half ago "Radiohead decided to hold a fan remix contest":http://mog.com/Charley_Rogulewski/blog_post/153575 for "Nude." Fans were encouraged to purchase stems (the bass beat, the vocals, etc.) on iTunes, with each stem costing $0.99, remix it and upload onto the Radiohead Web site. Fans were asked to "vote for their favorite remix,":http://www.radioheadremix.com/ with no concrete incentive announced for the remix that would garner the most votes, although Radiohead did promise that they'd win something. Perhaps a pat on the back?However, each separate iTunes stem purchase "accounted for one download":http://www.richbradley.org/blog/?p=55 for "Nude." (You follow?) So each person who wanted to remix "Nude" purchased the single five times! Add that to the downloads of the full track and Radiohead have conned their way back to the Billboard chart. Do you think this is a fair way to count a single?
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