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davidjennings's Archive on Mar 12, 2008
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Last week Kevin Kelly argued that a solo music artist with "1,000 true fans" had enough to make a living (a band would need more, he said). He may have been thinking of Marillion, whose database of 90,000 fans helps them raise enough money in advance sales to record an album.
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London - U.K. rock band Marillion has raised $725,000 from fans to record their forthcoming fifteenth studio album, Billboard reports. Over 12,000 fans have paid about $60 to pre-order a deluxe edition of the double album. The current effort will be the band's third go at fan-financed albums; Marillion claims to have a database of some 90,000 fans.