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Led Zeppelin Agrees To Digital Distribution

Posted by kdawson on from the stairway-to-profit dept.

cphilo points out a NYTimes article on Led Zeppelin's decision to sell its music online. The group is one of the last superstar acts to hold out against the digital tide. There was a months-long, trans-Atlantic bidding war for the rights to license the band's catalog. In the US, the only digital holdouts that outsell Led Zeppelin are the Beatles and Garth Brooks.

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  1. Garth Brooks may never go digital by ubernostrum · · Score: 5, Interesting

    IIRC when he went into retirement he inked a deal which granted exclusive distribution rights, going forward, to Wal-Mart; unless they get into downloadable music in a big way, or can grant digital rights to a big online player like Amazon or Apple, that may come back to bite him pretty hard.

  2. The real news... by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...is that Garth Brooks outsells Led Zeppelin?!? Who knew?

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