

It sold five times more copies on the latter.

Take living-dead shame heroes Motley Crue, whose last single was released simultaneously on iTunes and Rock Band via Xbox Live. And established acts are discovering a new lease of life through the medium.

On the other, foreign bands can now crack America simply on the strength of featuring on the soundtrack to a top-selling sports game. On one side, there are the clunking corporate dinosaurs like EMI, which continues to flounder in a post-iPod world, its business precariously reliant on the latest dinner party vacuity from a whiny pseud who likes to scrawl embarrassing slogans on the back of his hand. It says something pretty significant when some of the most exciting and promising innovations in the music business are coming straight out of the videogames industry.
