I’m a big fan of sticking it to the man, when one can. So, sure, we overdid the Radiohead love for a few months last year, but still we must once again celebrate both their musicality and their business acumen. For, thanks to all those stems they sold on Itunes upon launching their current remix contest - their song “Nude” crashed onto the Billboard Hot 100 at # 37. This makes this song only their 2nd Top 40 hit and effectively their biggest hit single since “Creep” charted - 15 years ago.
A long time between hits, no?
Of course, one could go on about how they sold out, jumped the shark, blah blah. However, when one is an unsigned artist with nothing but distribution deals, hustle is the name of the game.
Besides, Radiohead have finally done for themselves in a short time period of commercial freedom what l4 years be chained to EMI could not.
And they couldn’t have done it with a lovelier song:
Stumble It!
