1000 fans = enough
Kevin Kelly argues that a thousand fans are enough to support an artist. Where the definition of a fan more or less is determined by his willingness to spend one day’s wages annually on something the artist supplies.
If that’s the criteria, then there aren’t many causes I can consider myself a fan - after all most bands produce a single album per a couple of years, and tour Finland even less often. And unless there’s a considerable backlog to pick up of an author, single books don’t break the limit either. Games might come close, but they’re hardly the products of an individual artist these days, rather a sizable production company.
Nine Inch Nails, whose new album Ghosts I-IV was released on tuesday in multiple formats broke all the expectations with the most expensive variant - the 300$ alternative was sold out in a day.
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