{"id":1030,"date":"2008-12-02T08:54:01","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T15:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2008-12-02T08:54:01","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T15:54:01","slug":"unsigned-musician-sean-fournier-draws-over-25000-downloads-in-one-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/unsigned-musician-sean-fournier-draws-over-25000-downloads-in-one-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Unsigned Musician Sean Fournier Draws Over 25,000 Downloads in One Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FrostWire&trade; is positively on the news this morning showing how P2P can achieve great things when artists have an open mind when it comes to sharing some of their work for free.<\/p>\n<p>As of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frostwire.com\">FrostWire&trade;<\/a> 4.17.0, we can promote legal content, or important information using the FrostWire&trade; welcome screen. We&#8217;ve vowed to never use this screen for spam or evil purposes of any kind, only to help content creators of all kinds (musicians, film makers, writers, software programers, photographers, video game shops and independent professionals) that are willing to share some of their work for free, or under creative commons licenses get their message across our ever growing network.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sean-fournier.com\/ohmy\">Sean Fournier<\/a> is the first musician to do so, in only 4 days his 6 track album &#8220;Oh-my&#8221; was shared via FrostWire&trade; by over 25,000 users, at the time of this writing the download count by the torrent tracker is 27,923, saving Sean almost 1 Terabyte of data sent, plus having his music on tens of thousands of computers and who knows into how many portable music players. <\/p>\n<p>You can read the full story on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frostclick\">FrostClick.com<\/a>, our initiative towards the distribution of 100% free and legal content over FrostWire&trade;.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a press release we found this morning on the news:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMilford, CT (PRWEB) December 2, 2008 &#8212; Musician Sean Fournier harnesses the power of Peer-to-Peer networking to distribute his free album, &#8216;Oh My&#8217;, to hundreds of thousands all over the world via FrostWire&#8217;s welcome screen. Within the first weekend, this exposure returned over 25,000 complete downloads for this independent singer\/songwriter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gubatron\/3061470885\/\" title=\"sean_fournier_featured_frostwire_torrent_download by Gubatron, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3161\/3061470885_5751e176ee.jpg?resize=500%2C321\" width=\"500\" height=\"321\" alt=\"sean_fournier_featured_frostwire_torrent_download\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFrostWire Welcome Screen Featuring Sean Fournier<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spread it like the plague.<\/strong><br \/>\nFournier&#8217;s &#8216;Oh My&#8217; is the first free album download to be featured on FrostWire&#8217;s Welcome Screen, which is a new feature designed to help musicians and content owners share their media for free on the FrostWire network.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Oh My&#8217; is a six-track album which was created to be 100% free. Sean encourages his listeners to download it, share it, give it friends and family &#8211; and do anything within their power to &#8220;Spread it like the plague.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Aside from it&#8217;s recent exposure on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frostclick.com\/wp\/index.php\/2008\/11\/26\/sean-fournier-oh-mya-great-free-album\">FrostClick.com<\/a>, listeners can get their hands on &#8216;Oh My&#8217; at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sean-fournier.com\/ohmy\">Sean Fournier&#8217;s Official Website<\/a>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a professional content creator willing to share some of your work for free to get more exposure and thus increase your sales, contact us at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frostclick.com\">FrostClick.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fournstar.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/breaking-into-peer-to-peer-realm.html\">Sean Fournier&#8217;s Blog &#8211; FrostWire related Post #1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fournstar.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/unsigned-musician-sean-fournier-draws.html\">Sean Fournier&#8217;s Blog &#8211; FrostWire related post #2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>FrostClick.com &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frostclick.com\/wp\/index.php\/2008\/11\/26\/sean-fournier-oh-mya-great-free-album\/\">Sean Fournier&#8217;s &#8220;Oh My&#8221; &#8211; A great Free Album<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FrostWire&trade; is positively on the news this morning showing how P2P can achieve great things when artists have an open mind when it comes to sharing some of their work for free. 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