HorsePerson and the ShoeMan

I didn't know the war was on, but apparently it was and Beethoven beat Bono. Big time.

Forget Coldplay and James Blunt. Forget even Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which, in the version performed at Live8 by Sir Paul McCartney and U2, has become the fastest online-selling song ever. Beethoven has routed the lot of them.

Final figures from the BBC show that the complete Beethoven symphonies on its website were downloaded 1.4m times, with individual works downloaded between 89,000 and 220,000 times. The works were each available for a week, in two tranches, in June.

I'm not sure what to make of this, but you can read it here yourselves.

And I can't help myself -- it seems that this battle was won in the tranches, not in the trenches :)

Categories: music