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January 4th 2008

Reznor on Saul Williams project

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Trent Reznor, producer of Saul Williams "Niggy Stardust", is taking a moment to reflect on the numbers the free album download generated in a insightful post on NIN.com.

Here are the raw numbers, quoted from Reznor's post :

Saul's previous record was released in 2004 and has sold 33,897 copies.

As of 1/2/08,
154,449 people chose to download Saul's new record.
28,322 of those people chose to pay $5 for it, meaning:
18.3% chose to pay.

Of those paying,

3220 chose 192kbps MP3
19,764 chose 320kbps MP3
5338 chose FLAC

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