The downloads won't count towards the Billboard charts as BitTorrent refuses to reveal the actual sales numbers.
- Oct 3, 2014
AceShowbiz - Thom Yorke's newest solo album "Tomorrow's Modern Boxes", which came out last Friday, September 26 via BitTorrent, has been downloaded for 1.1 million times. According to the file-sharing site, the number includes the $6 paid downloads of the full eight-track album as well as the free downloads of lead single "A Brain in a Bottle" and its video.
The downloads, however, won't count towards the Billboard charts as BitTorrent refuses to reveal the actual sales numbers. "By the artist's request, we are not disclosing sales figures," a rep for the company says in a statement. "But we have been very happy with what is happening."
For "Tomorrow's Modern Boxes", Yorke reunited with longtime Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich with whom he also works together as Atoms for Peace. BitTorrent will get 10|percent| from the sales of the album, while the rest 90|percent| goes to Yorke.
"It's an experiment to see if the mechanics of the system are something that the general public can get its head around," Yorke said in a statement on his new project's release day. "If it works well, it could be an effective way of handing some control of Internet commerce back to people who are creating the work, enabling those people who make either music, video or any other kind of digital content to sell it themselves [and] bypassing the self-elected gatekeepers."
