As the first anniversary of the release of In Rainbows and its revolutionary whatever-you-feel-like pricing system approaches, publisher Warner Chappell revealed some long coveted details and fuzzy statistics at the You Are In Control conference in Iceland. Of interest, In Rainbows had sales of over three million copies: a figure that includes physical CDs, the Collector's Edition box set and downloads regardless of source.

While no concrete figures were given, Warner Chappell announced that the digital sales of In Rainbows made more money in total than Hail To The Thief, Radiohead's previous album. In light of the fact that Radiohead has only recently made their catalog available on iTunes, the related claim that the digital sales of In Rainbows "dwarfed" the band's previous digital publishing income rings slightly hollow.

Although confirmed that more people downloaded the album for free as opposed to paying even a nominal fee, the average price paid for the album - a figure we are all dying to know - is still being kept a secret.

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