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‘In Rainbows’ available as free stream at Last.fm
Radiohead have teamed up with Last.fm to offer their album, In Rainbows, for free, ad-supported on-demand streaming. The album will be made available on Last.fm to listen to in its entirety, for free today at www.last.fm/music/radiohead.
As CNN reports, this deal marks the first time the band have granted a worldwide license of this nature for In Rainbows to an online music Web site.
The rights to In Rainbows have been licensed to Last.fm through the “one stop shop” digital licensing platform that Radiohead and their publisher Warner/Chappell Music created at the end of last year. The service enables rights users around the world to secure all the necessary digital licenses across both the recording and publishing rights for In Rainbows from one destination. All licenses are subject to band approval.
In Rainbows, Radiohead’s seventh album, was first made available as a download, which fans could purchase at a price they decided, in October 2007. Last.fm, which is able to track the listening habits of its 21 million-strong community of music fans, revealed that the album was listened to over 22,000 times in the first 12 hours it was available, or once every 2 seconds.
Martin Stiksel, Last.fm co-founder, said: “Radiohead understand that the Internet is changing music distribution, and we’re extremely proud that they’ve teamed up with us to offer In Rainbows for free-on-demand streaming. We believe that music fans should be able to access music for free, and just as importantly, that artists and rights holders should be paid when their music is listened to. Last.fm makes this possible, and we’re thrilled to be working with Radiohead to once again break new ground in digital music.”
Bryce Edge, Radiohead’s co-Manager, said: “We felt this was a fantastic means of offering a new way for people to discover In Rainbows. It’s perfect timing for the band’s current world tour.”
Jane Dyball, Senior Vice President, European Legal and Business Affairs, Warner/Chappell Music said, “The experimental ’one stop shop’ for all In Rainbows digital rights has proved a great success. It has offered the band a whole spectrum of innovative ways to digitally distribute and promote their album, whilst providing all their licensees with a nimble service on terms set in consultation with the group and their management.”
Listen to In Rainbows on Last.fm at www.last.fm/music/radiohead. [thx amy]
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7 Responses to “‘In Rainbows’ available as free stream at Last.fm”
FitterHappier113
July 3rd, 2008
And it’s not even full songs, only 30 seconds snippets… Big deal.
Popoyt
July 3rd, 2008
In Rainbows and hte rest of Radiohead’s catalog has been streamable from imeem.com for some time now, how is this anythign special?
username7410
July 3rd, 2008
how is this different than streaming in rainbows, or any other radiohead album for that matter, on youtube?
Ken
July 3rd, 2008
Yeah they should be the Full songs
air_towel
July 3rd, 2008
There seems to be a bit of a glitch (probably from so many people trying to listen to it), but give it a few seconds and then it plays the tracks just fine. The whole things, too.
How bouts we all just sit on our thumbs and bitch.
Lyttleton
July 4th, 2008
how is this different from being different?
ImATumbler
July 6th, 2008
how is this any different from the tons of other albums that last.fm lets you stream?