For the first time, sales of the most-downloaded track in the US have been higher than those for the CD single at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.

anti-riaa tools:

riaa radar (http://www.magnetbox.com/riaa/)
downhill battle (http://www.downhillbattle.org/)

factoid: Music executives are prodding artists to limit the number of tracks on their CDs in a bid to raise fans' perceptions of the value of albums. (source: LA Times, 11/18/03)

Awesome links, Arctic...

Tested the RIAA Radar... it told me that the Scarlet's Walk album by Tori Amos was on the list... I downloaded the entire album recently as mine got scratched to hell (twice) and the mp3 are fine. Hmmm...

yeah. there isn't much that isn't on the riaa-published list. you really have to be a purist to not have any riaa music at all. it's interesting to see which companies you're supporting though. to me anyway.

if you go into the charts section (http://www.magnetbox.com/riaa/zeitgeist.asp) it compares the top selling riaa and non-riaa albums in various genres. the non-riaa albums definitely are not as mainstream, but that's to be expected.

modest mouse is an RIAA published group. who woulda thunk it.