Nine Inch Nails album earns $1.6 million on Web (Reuters)
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DENVER (Billboard) - The online release of the new Nine Inch Nails album, "Ghosts I-IV," resulted in just under 800,000 transactions in its first week, totaling $1.6 million in revenue, the industrial-rock band has revealed.| ADVERTISEMENT // // (c) 2008 adInterax, All Rights Reserved, http://adinterax.com // LOAD THIS PAGE INSIDE THE IFRAME //adx_U_7077=”[ your-click-through-URL-goes-here ]”; adx_D_7077=”http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=14u4q2i7o/M=617533.12402336.12793662.2896325/D=news/S=85529496:LREC/_ylt=A9G_RnoqQ9pHvsUAGQSYExkF/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1205493578/L=dsBlEdG_Rt3gQK9Zgu_MJAIm2P.2KkfaQyoAAkjm/B=TzCAEdG_XL8-/J=1205486378162356/A=5275022/R=0/*”; //adx_I_7077=”[ your-impression-track-pixel-URL-goes-here ]”; adx_data_7077=”A=151,AN=counting_crows_banners%2fMUS_LiveSetCntngCrows300x250v2,AC=,AV=,PB=1/SIG=14fstatbr,X=1205486378,B=5275022,C=617533.12402336.12793662.2896325,D=LREC,Z=,R=news,P=dsBlEdG_Rt3gQK9Zgu_MJAIm2P.2KkfaQyoAAkjm,E=85529496,Y=YAHOO,V=1.0″; function adl_7077(){ var d=document,r=d.referrer,i,a,b=’ad’,e,p=new Array(”data”,”U”,”D”,”I”); var u=”http://richmedia.yimg.com/js/151/counting_crows_banners/MUS_LiveSetCntngCrows300x250v2″; if(top!=self){try{a='’+top.location}catch(e){} if(a){adxid=Math.random();b=’ad-iframe’}else if(r){ u=((r&&(i=r.indexOf(”/”,9))>0)?r.substring(0,i):r)+”/adx-iframe-v3.html#ad=”+u; for(i=0;i<4;i++)eval(”if(typeof(adx_”+p[i]+”_7077)!=’undefined’)u+=’&adx_”+p[i]+”_7077=’+escape(adx_”+p[i]+”_7077)”); d.write('’); return}}d.write('’)} adl_7077(); |
The tally includes free and paid downloads, as well as advance orders for physical configurations like various limited-edition vinyl releases, CDs, and a boxed set.
"Ghosts I-IV," the band's first release since becoming a free agent last October, went on sale March 2 at its Web site, http://www.nin.com. Fans can receive the first nine songs from the 36-track project for free, or can pay $5 for the entire digital album.
NIN will not release traditional sales figures to SoundScan, whose data are used to compiled the Billboard 200 albums chart.
A $10 double-CD set will reach stores on April 8. A $70 deluxe edition and a $300 autographed version will ship May 1.
After Nine Inch Nails' contract with Interscope expired, the label released a remix album, "Y34RZ3R0R3MIX3D." The band's last studio release, "Year Zero," debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 last April with 187,000 copies.
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