Radiohead released their first single, "Creep", in 1992, and their debut album, Pablo Honey, in 1993. Though initially a flop, "Creep" was a worldwide hit when reissued a year later.
Radiohead's seventh album, In Rainbows, was released in October 2007 as an online digital download for which customers chose their own price. Although it was reported that 1.2 million digital downloads were sold by the day of the album's release,
Radiohead's management have not released official sales amounts, claiming that the Internet-only distribution was intended to boost sales of the physical album. Yet according to lead singer Yorke,
Radiohead's profits from the digital download of In Rainbows outsold combined profits from digital downloads of all of the band's other studio albums.
A "discbox" including a bonus CD from the recording sessions, a double vinyl edition of the album, and a hardcover book of artwork was released in early December. In Rainbows was physically released in the UK in late December on XL Recordings and in North America in January 2008 on TBD Records, and charted at number one both in the UK and in the US. The album's remarkable success in the US marked
Radiohead's highest chart success in that country since Kid A, while it was their fifth UK number one album. "Jigsaw Falling into Place", the first single from the album, was released in the UK in January 2008, and a tour of North America, Europe, South America and Japan from May 2008 to the end of the year will follow.
In Rainbows has received extremely positive reviews, among the best of
Radiohead's career. Critics praised the album for having a more accessible sound and personal style of lyrics than their previous work. Explaining the rationale behind the album's delivery and pricing scheme, Jonny Greenwood said, "It was an experiment that felt worth trying...it's fun to make people stop for a few seconds and think about what music is worth." Yorke described the album as
Radiohead's attempt to "describe...as coherently and conclusively as possible, what moves us." Tickets for
Radiohead’s eight American venues (May 2008) and numerous European venues (June through July 2008) are now onsale.
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