Just over a year since the choose-what-you pay digital release of Radiohead’s seventh album, ‘In Rainbows’, statistics unveiled over the weekend have revealed that the unconventional release of the record was an unmitigated success for the band.

It was over a year ago that Radiohead introduced their pay-what-you-like plan for their seventh album, In Rainbows, and finally we're getting the details of just how successful that innovative venture was. At the "You Are in Control" conference in

Radiohead say "fuck you" to the RIAA, give their album away for free, and still sell 3 million copies

Sales figures of Radiohead's bold pay-what-you-want distribution release of "In Rainbows" have often been speculated upon, but never confirmed... until now.

...In no rush to do it again though

The statistics behind the pay-what-you-like release of Radiohead's 'In Rainbows' album, released on October 10 last year online, have been revealed today.

Radiohead sold more than three million copies of its In Rainbows album, with 1.75 million of those being CDs, despite the band's innovative 'pay-what-you-want' digital promotion. The band also sold 100,000 $80 discboxes from their website, too. It's the first time they've revealed how many copies In Rainbows sold.

In Rainbows voted KEXPs top album of 2007.

In Rainbows, as a title, implies a sense of comfort and delightfulness. Symbolically, rainbows are more likely to be associated with kittens and warm blankets than the grim and glum circumstances Radiohead is known for soundtracking. There's a slight, if expected, twist at play.

Radiohead have begun working on the follow-up to their 2007 album 'In Rainbows'. Speaking to BBC 6, Colin Greenwood said that the band plan to enter the recording studio before the end of the month.