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Dean Goodman, Reuters

Published:Ā Wednesday, January 09, 2008

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - British rock band Radiohead scored its second
No. 1 album on the U.S. pop charts on Wednesday with a release that
was initially sold on the Internet under a revolutionary
"name-your-own-price" system.

"In Rainbows" also topped the charts in Britain, Canada, France, Japan
and Ireland, a representative for the group said.

The critically acclaimed album sold a relatively modest 122,000 copies
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Thom Yorke, lead singer of Radiohead, performs on stage during their concert at the Rock-en-Seine Festival in Saint-Cloud, near Paris, August 26, 2006. Radiohead plans to sell its new album from its Web site as a digital download and let fans choose what they want to pay. REUTERS/Benoit TessierView Larger Image
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August 26, 2006. Radiohead plans to sell its new album from its Web
site as a digital download and let fans choose what they want to pay.
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Retail sales also were cannibalized by Radiohead's decision to allow
fans to download the album from the group's Web site in October.
Radiohead has not disclosed Internet sales or the average price paid,
subjects of considerable debate within the music industry.

After British music magazine NME reported in September that fans
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that fans paid an average of about $6 for the album, and that 62
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"In Rainbows" marks Radiohead's first album since it declined to renew
its contract with EMI Group Plc. It was distributed in the United
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Meanwhile, R&B singers claimed the next spots on the U.S. album chart.
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Alicia Keys' "As I Am" remained at No. 2.

After suffering a 15 percent slide in total album sales last year, the
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