Well, Denied By Reign has released for about a day now, and I want to thank everyone for their kind comments and support behind the project.
I am pretty tickled-pink with the response so far. I have been trying to keep track of write-ups of the project and the album, and so far I have seen the following:
- Creative Commons Weblog
- Creative Commons Features Commoner
- Ars Technica Write-up
- GearDiary
- Stephan Hermann’s Blog
- Linux Outlaws
- Rich Johnson’s blog
- My Science Is Better
- CLibra’s Blog
- Joaquim Rocha’s Blog
- lummie.co.uk
- Mean Machine
- Singpolyma’s Blog
- Alternating.net
- Cesarius
- Locohygynx
- simsus.de
- Nicubunu’s Blog
- Dave Neary’s Blog
- Der-Lehmann
- Mediterranei’s blog
- Linux Today
- Newsvine
I also noticed some good Twitter and identi.ca action going on, and there has been lots of chatter on the Severed Fifth Forums and in the #severedfifth IRC Channel on Freenode.
In terms of downloads, I have been reliably informed by Neuro, king of the BitTorrents, that it is blazing pretty hard with over 500 BitTorrented downloads in the first day. I estimate that in terms of downloads from the Bytemark mirror that there have been about 280 downloads and I need to check with Adam about how well his mirror has done, but I think it is reasonable to suggest 1000 copies of the album have been shifted in its first day. Nice. 🙂
As I mentioned in my last post the next step of the project is to spread the word and build exposure. I am pleased to see that the Severed Fifth Street Team is growing and a bunch of street teamers are getting out into the trenches to spread the word. We have heard of people printing out posters to put up at schools/colleges/stores, contacting local radio stations, posting on discussion forums, sending messages on IM and various other activities. If you put up a poster, give out fliers or whatever else, do take a photo of it and send it over – I would love to feature some of these in the Severed Fifth News. 🙂
Another key element here us growing exposure of Severed Fifth and Free Culture in social networking websites. This is kicking off in earnest, and check the following:
More coming on MuseAmp (a rocking website by a friend of mine, Dan) and Jamendo. If you know of more which need attention, do let me know.
More later… 🙂
I just hope that someone will do a Severed Fifth based rock XDG sound theme. If that license allows that? That would rock! http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/free-sound-themes.html
Hey Jono,
Using Facebook Pages is a much better way to publicize your band on Facebook. Check it out…
http://www.facebook.com/business/dashboard/?ref=sb
“but I think it is reasonable to suggest 1000 copies of the album have been shifted in its first day. Nice.”
Congratulations – you’ve out-shipped Russell Crowe!
(If memory serves, Thirty Odd Foot Of Grunt’s last effort sold somewhere around 800 copies).
I am not into the music business, but I wonder, how 1000 albums shifted in the first day compares with publishing in the traditional way? (that is, for an independent artist)
Just wanted to drop a line in on this album, I am currently listening to this and I’ve burned copies for my friends. I’ve got to say it’ll ROCK YOUR @$$ OFF! Anyone who seeing this has nothing to lose and I’ll continue to seed for awhile. I love the approach your taking to this release and now your on Digg! Hope you guys do great!
Thanks god you had your Mac. God knows if you could get do far using some Ubuntu 😆
I set up a torrent client on my server in Belgium especially for this, currently the MP3 version has seeded 36 times, and the OGG version has seeded 17 times.
Good work, Jono!
Hey Jono, you are in my blog. Congratulations for your excelent album! 😈