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One Million Free and Legal Torrent Downloads, The Album

The FrostWire P2P client promotes music of starting and independent artists through its FrostClick service. The service has been running for over a year and is a great success. To celebrate the first million downloads of 2009, a compilation album has been released, featuring free Creative Commons-licensed tracks from 21 artists.

frostwireFrostWire is a popular free and Open Source P2P client supporting both Gnutella and BitTorrent downloads. Last year, the client introduced its FrostClick service through which it promotes independent artists.

All featured artists get a 7 to 10 day feature on the welcome screen of the Frostwire client. The promotion includes a direct link to the album that users can download at their convenience. All albums are totally free and released under a Creative Commons license.

The service has been a great success thus far with between 35,000 and 100,000 downloads per album in just a week. It shows once again that BitTorrent can actually be a great tool for artists to promote their work, and build a larger fanbase.

To celebrate these great results, FrostWire has now released a compilation album featuring music from the 21 featured artists that achieved the first million downloads through the FrostClick project.

“In only 21 weeks we had our first 1,000,000 copies distributed, some artists reaching over 75 thousand downloads during their promotion, nowadays FrostWire artists can get over 100 thousand downloads during their runs on the FrostWire welcome screen,” the FrostClick team says.

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Unlike most digital music albums, the compilation includes a very complete and high resolution virtual booklet. “For each artist we’ve included 2 high resolution booklet pages with information about the artist, song, license, number of downloads, facts and where available we’ve even put the lyrics of the song to sing along.”

More info on the compilation album, the torrent and the featured artists can be found on the FrostClick website.

Disclaimer: Frostwire is one of TorrentFreak’s sponsors.

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  • Qwizie

    sweet

  • Tuck

    So guys dwld without threat…..
    1st

  • Empty handedNo-Name

    We all know P2P is evil… NOT

  • Mr.Afghanistan

    In only 21 weeks we had our first 1,000,000 copies distributed ==> and who cares ?

  • buck

    @4 probably the RIAA who should see that they’re not needed as much, or artists not wanting to deal with labels and seeing that p2p actually works for them, not against them

  • Mr.Afghanistan

    RIAA/MPAA is just a joke really.
    which technology they wills top first ?

    P2P sharing ?
    IRC sharing ?
    DC++ Sharing ?
    FTP sharing ?
    100 sites giving free direct download to million mp3 files and 1000 softwares sharing mp3/movies etc…

    and every single day there is a new technology for sharing.

    It’s just impossible to stop sharing!

    They should stop wasting their money and artists money and stop fooling around.

    BUT i have a solution for “RIAA/MPAA”, if they really have the power and want to stop sharing, just SHUT DOWN the F**king INTERNET and sharing is DONE !

    I am just tired of their junky tactics which really don’t work.

    Indeed they don’t want to stop file sharing, they are just making $ from file sharing and ARTISTS and that’s very very TRUE !!! ;)

  • Wolfy

    I can’t wait for the MAFIAA to target these guys. There should then be a huge backlash, as these guys have NOTHING to do with them.
    One question, are the torrents filtered or something on this site? As in, do artists email etc saying we’re indie, here’s a torrent of our music albums, please post it? That would be a great defense for these guys if the MAFIAA started breathing down their necks.

  • Simplex

    “Disclaimer: Frostwire is one of TorrentFreak’s sponsors.”

    Thanks for putting that down the bottom, saves people raging at you. Interesting anyway, just under 50k downloads per artist, and i’d assume the numbers are rising as time goes by. Do the artists make anything from this, or is it purely the free publicity for them? :)

  • anonymous

    free downloads now, cash from albums later is my guess

  • Piratz0r

    Sounds interesting, very nice actually.

    Hope with technologies like these the world will soon be freed from greedy institutions like MAFIAA and IFailPI.

    Just need to make all artists and indie labels wake up and recognize the future.

  • Cyko_01

    I hope you can disable the ads on the welcome screen or these guys are no better then limewire. I don’t care who, the ads are for – I don’t want to see them!

  • Jefo

    I’ve never heard of FrostWire except that there is an ad on this site. Not really something you can call “popular”…

  • hmmm

    ask rapidshare, megaupload or mediafire how many files they serve every day, you might get a better idea of what “popular” means, internet-wise

  • Dc

    Is there anything good though, I mean most unsigned artists are crap !

  • http://warez.dy.fi

    Free downloads, the world wil be crazy if they offer free live-concerts also.

    CC licence to kill media cartels.

  • Nonameneeded

    Aaaw, a sweet 196MB file.

  • Tony

    Looks like a marketing article for frostwire – not labeld as ad.

    May the graphical ad in your sidebar is the better way to promote…

  • Me

    And even if the torrent doesn’t have any seeds anymore, it remains plenty of seeds on Gnutella so a little search finds the files. I got a nice metal album from Djizoes thanks to FrostWire that way.

    Hugs to the RIAA, how does it feel to become useless?

  • MD3

    That is the REAL SECRET fear of music labels: becoming unneeded.

  • BIOS

    1st

    I have always loved seeing artists getting distributed like this :D @#$% the labels -_-

  • Ace Hall

    MD3, the music labels are already unneeded!

  • Dresandreal Sprinklehorn

    Yuck! I hate legal! :)

  • pirate

    thanks for the albw. Also limewire is popular as for most people I have met using file sharing use it in real life although I have met in real life some torrenters. I say why not use what works 4 ya. If you like one network or all networks, do what you want and use what you like.

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  • onecowboytoo

    dirty-deeds.biz the place to be

  • nah in bmore

    I used to get my Skateboarding Videos including (DC Video, FLIP Sorry, Fourstar Something something) from Limewire (Frostwire is like a Limewire clone) back in the day….

  • nah in bmore

    I also agree with 14…most unsigned, indie artists arent my cup of tea. They seem to be for elitist hipsters. I’ve tried alot of those indie artist music listening like Spotify, Jamendo, and Frostwire….and I end up like only like a couple of songs from my selected genres…it could be that Im just overconditioned to like less indie stuff….

  • del system32

    frostwire sux IMO

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  • Gubatron

    @14 and @26

    It’s in our ambition to start changing that view of Indie being boring weird ass experimental crap.

    We try to promote music that sounds like any million dollar per track promo, ready to be on the radio. Clean (as in no cursing) versions as possible.

    We listen to a loooooooot of music to select what gets promoted.

    Just download the album and all the other promos we’ve made and hear for yourself. There’s some amazing talent. It’s just unsigned.

    If you look at it from a numbers perspective, how many artists are signed and playing on the radio? how many are unsigned, probably 100 fold more than the signed ones.

    There’s plenty more music to be found and we hope p2p and similar initiatives are the way to level the playing field for everyone, and to broaden the public’s music tastes. Like I said before, there’s more to pop than Lady Gaga and The Black Eyed peas.

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  • ultraleetj

    As an educator and musician I’ve found this action to be one of the most inspiring. Copyright law is one of those things that causes more of a problem than it pretends it can solve. In music, chords are the underlying accompaniment to a song. If you ave an open mind, and good ears and listen (something many don’t do with most musicians) you’ll notice that often the accompaniment to most songs is the same. Its like food on plates. Thankfully we haven’t gone as far as copyrighting the shapes of the plates nor the materials with which they are made. Copyright is there indeed more for proffit than for anything else. If we would extend copyright to the chords of songs and the rhythm patterns used.. this means we’re further restricting the creativity that copying is giving because I couldn’t play a vallad anymore because that’s been in use and secured with a million rights, so I must find a different rhythm… and so on and so on, it also destroys music by placing restrictions in all kinds of ways. It kills ways of expression as well (here we go wit the “its illegal to quote” fallacy). Which shows that its use is completely ineffective. It may be an effective way for outlilning how much of a piece the industry robs from you and to calculate royalties, but that’s it. Many musicians and especially composers have been exploited because such royalties were not even paid in time either. Music and writing both do require practice and study, and the industry doesn’t see this. It doesn’t picture a musician sitting at a piano and figuring out the chords to a song, reading the music sheet, (if they even know what that is), they don’t care, they just want you to put on a good show and get people throwing bills all over them, which is in its most plain form, abussive and despicable. Its advantages are only relegated to a business practice, but many people fail to see the other side of the coin. The other side of the coin is what is experienced by society. Its the joy of sharing the music, of feeling it, of listening to it. That feeling the industry is ruining every second more and more. We don’t need more restrictions or more business tactics being placed on us. This hinders creativity and the only people that will benefit out of it are the ones that suck the money out of the composers. Thanks to the infections that drm brings I can’t play my music on the mp3 player i bought, i can’t have the flexibility I would with other things. It might be a great business tool as well, but capitalism is pretty much brainwashing and infesting many people… so all they care about is money and their propaganda stays well written on their site that “the customer is right”. So does this again go with ethics? maybe business ethics but not on the moral side.

  • Ace Hall

    @ultraleetj

    Well put!

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    omg block’o text

  • anon

    >>31

    Please be a good man and buy a freaking domain. Even a 16 years old can buy one.

  • rob in madrid

    It should be noted that FrostWire is a P2P program just like bittorrent and you don’t need to download the program to download the torrent. Some that wasn’t made clear in the article above.

    Personally as someone who is married to a singer song writer I’d like to know how much it cost and how long it took to create studio quality albums

  • G

    @34 Some of the songs in that album were created at home with good microphones and regular pcs with sound editing software.

    There’s no need for labels anymore.

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  • Jade Wood

    29: There’s a really funny example of songs that all use the same chord structures here:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP0–qwCuek

    Jade Wood
    http://www.opensourcemusical.com

  • Andy

    http://officialmp3s.com is home to over four million legal mp3 downloads

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