War Child's 'Help: A Day In The Life' album looks likely to be the biggest selling download album to date, with 90,000 tracks already downloaded from the http://www.warchildmusic.com website, including 4000 full album downloads. That means a lot of money has already been raised for War Child's charitable work. The number of downloads and amount of funds raised should both continue to grow when the album goes on sale via other download platforms today, and then, of course, there's the proper album release still to come on 26 Sep.
As previously reported, Gorillaz, Razorlight, Anthony & The Johnsons, The Zutons, Belle & Sebastian, Manic Street Preachers, Bloc Party, Radiohead, Coldplay, Babyshambles and The Go! Team were among the artists who recorded tracks for the charity project, designed to mark the tenth anniversary of the original 'Help' album, which raised £1.25m to help children caught up in the Bosnian war. All those recordings took place during a 24 hour period last week, with the finished album available to download within 36 hours of the first band entering the studio.
According to the NME, Radiohead's 'I Want None Of It' is currently the most popular track on the album. It was downloaded so many times within 24 hours of going online it appears in this week's download chart, even though it was only available for one of the seven days that chart covers.