More than 4,000 copies of the new War Child charity album, featuring Radiohead’s ‘I Want None Of This”, have been downloaded in two-and-a-half days. Organisers say ‘HELP: A day in the life‘ is the fastest-selling download album.
BBC reports; Stars recorded 22 songs on Thursday and Friday and by Monday lunchtime fans had spent £40,000 downloading the tracks. The album will be released on CD on 26 September. A decade ago, the original Help album raised £1.25m for War Child. Help: A Day in the Life, which costs £9.99 to download, is currently on the warchildmusic.com website and will be available on major download sites from Tuesday. Artists were asked to enter the studio at 1200 BST on Thursday, although some started work a few hours early. The completed album went online at about 1810 BST on Friday.
Ben Drury, managing director of War Child’s retail partner 7 Digital, said no other complete album had been downloaded at such a rate. “We receive data from the Official UK Charts Company every week and no download bundle or album has sold anywhere near the amount that Help did in a single week let alone over just two days,” he said.
The Official UK Charts Company said it was unable to confirm whether Help had set a record. The War Child site crashed under the demand and the album is on course to be the biggest selling download album, organisers say.
Some fans have downloaded single tracks for 99p each and Radiohead’s new song I Want None of This is currently the most popular choice.
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