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Dan Bull's Free Single Hits The Charts
from the not-bad dept
Last week we wrote about Dan Bull's experiment to release a song, "Sharing is Caring" for free via The Pirate Bay (and other sites) and to see if he could still get it to show up in various charts. As we discussed, it definitely was making its way onto the lists of Amazon UK's top hip hop sales. And, on Sunday, the official UK charts came out -- with Sharing is Caring coming in at number 9 on the Indie singles chart and number 35 on the RnB singles chart.
In both cases, "Sharing is Caring" was the top new entrant on both of those charts. While some will say that not making the pop charts suggests this was a failure, it sure looks like a ton of folks were happy to support Dan's effort. As for the US charts, those have a weighted system that includes radio airplay, meaning that there's simply no way Dan could get listed, because he's not going to play the payola game to get on the air. Either way, it was a great experiment, and a job well done by Dan.
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Ergo...this artist who deliberately released his music on the Piratebay, now can't service his customers.
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Boycott the MAFIAA !
Support & Buy INDIE Stuff
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Just like Marcus to completely miss the point. And btw I'm still waiting for you to publicly post every detail of your life and job to establish your credentials, and until you do I'm just going to ignore everything you say.
But see, none of that actually counts, because he's completely skipped out on posting on Authorized channels!
Obviously since he didn't go the smart route and signed up to get his music distributed by (whoever is in place of the RIAA over there) his music is completely terrible, since everyone knows if you're signed up to a major label that means you're a good musician!
The only possible way he could have gotten that high up on his own was having a bunch of pirate freetards just downloading the file multiple times, and since they probably used Big Search to find it Google is once more encouraging people to steal from artists.
(I take it back, that was actually kinda fun, though still made my head hurt to read it after)
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Three Words
Duh.
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Without the padding, and reading all the usual shills on this site, as well as the 'brilliant' business decisions made by the RIAA/MPAA/other 'entertainment' overlords, I'd have knocked holes in every inch of my wall long before now...
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'Sites like The Pirate Bay destroy jobs in the UK and undermine investment in new British artists',
makes you wonder how the hell Dan and others ever make any money at all! a better comment would be that the money grabbing fuckers in the BPI cant bear to have any artist make the charts or make money unless a large proportion of it goes to the industries first!
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Well done Dan, a shame so many morons still fail to grasp how the industry really works hence see how significant this is.
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yes but...
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Streisand Effect post evidences recursion.
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Yeah, but...
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Seriously, though, huge congratz to Dan Bull!
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Wait for the week 2 results, where the song completely disappears.
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LOL, Radio - what's that? Is there 'free' music there? Is that legal?
OMGz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MUSIC IS FREE ON THE RADIO!!! THE ARTISTS ARE **DOOMED**!!!!
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HEARD MUSIC FOR FREE ON PANDORA!!!!
OMGz!!!!
IT was FREE!!!!
But it prompted me to buy CD's - HOW CAN THAT BE?!?!?!?!?!?
lol
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As always, it only works for artists his size, smaller, or larger.
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It's more of a nose tweak concept, and getting everyone from social media sites to push it (Hi Mike!). It's nothing more and nothing less than that.
As a business model, it's lacking.
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Oh, good, a particular claim that's easily testable. Very well, let's see where this goes in a week.
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Much like a label contract. Remind me, what percentage of label acts don't recoup? 94%, is it?
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and considering the his country is now forcing ISPs to block access to the site, you may be right; just not for any of your reasoning, or rather lack of reasoning.
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It's more of a nose tweak concept, and getting everyone from social media sites to push it (Hi Mike!). It's nothing more and nothing less than that.
I would like to see the data, that you apparently have found, that proves his music career will not be better in the long run for doing this. Please post your data and/or a link to where said data can be found.
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As a business model, it's lacking.[emphasis added]
I bolded your comment to show just how absolutely stupid your actual comment is, well unless you have never heard of the concept of MARKETING ever before.
Getting sites to push something either by asking them too AT NO COST and then for Word of mouth to occur so other sites do it so it gets a certain viral push behind it is the wet dream of any marketer.
Though hey what does anyone know, you have decreed that it's a horrible business model. You sure you never sold buggy whips in another life?
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