Reznor on Saul Williams project
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