On August 26, Muse will release their ninth studio album, titled
Will Of The People.
To mark the occasion, the group publishes 1000 copies in the form of NFT.
And, for the first time, the charts in the United Kingdom and Australia will take this new mode of sale into account in their calculations.
“
Just like vinyl, 8-track, cassettes, CDs and even minidiscs (…) we also welcome NFTs and we will be really happy that the first album that will be delivered in NFT and which will contribute to this ranking [ or that of] Muse, which will lead the way at the end of the summer
”, explains Martin Talbot, the head of the Official Charts Company, the equivalent of SNEP.
The NFT album will feature flac (uncompressed audio format) versions of all ten songs from the album as well as the digital signatures of band members Matthew Bellamy, Dominic Howard, and Christopher Wolstenholme.
Muse's thousand albums will be available at 20 pounds (23 euros) on the Serenade platform, according to
The Guardian
.
To pay for your purchase, credit card and cryptocurrency are accepted.
The group was already interested, two years ago, in innovative formats.
He had thus worked with the CryptoKitties blockchain platform (which allows anyone to own unique virtual cats).
On this cryptocurrency game, the three members of the group appeared in the form of collectible cats.
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