AC/DC Downloads Hit 400,000 Prior To Physical Only Release
October 13, 2008, 15 years ago
Duncan Riley from Inquisitr.com is reporting:
AC/DC has hit new highs this week, but their own stubbornness means that they may miss out from the record numbers.
According to TorrentFreak, a leak of the forthcoming AC/DC album Black Ice, due to be released October 20 in physical form only and with no digital sales, has been downloaded 400,000 times from BitTorrent alone, so not including other P2P and file sharing services.
AC/DC maintain a complete refusal to allow their music to be sold online, because they believe that their music should be sold in album form only, where as Apple forces bands to offer sales of each single from the album individually. AC/DC cites album sales figures that have actually increased in the last 5 years as proof that their refusal to offer digital sales works for them.
Read more here.
