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EMI Set To Release Radiohead "Greatest Hits"

12th February 2008 | by Gavin Riley

Poor Radiohead. Ever intelligent to come up with new ways to startle the music industry, to turn it up on its head and managing to embarrass their former label EMI in the process.

Yet EMI will fight back the traditional way this summer, striking the cash piñata that is Radiohead's back catalogue, by releasing a “Greatest Hits” album, something the band say they are powerless to stop.

Ed O'Brien recently interviewed by the Canadian music press said that “They're [EMI] planning to do a greatest hits for April or May to coincide with our tour, that's an interesting one. We won't be doing any promotion for that, obviously.”

The news comes swiftly on the heels of new EMI boss Guy Hands stated policy, to start using the back catalogue of their artists to beef up profits. Something that was quite apparent when EMI released the seven disc Radiohead boxset at the same time as the band unveiled 'In Rainbows'.

Quite whether EMI will go the whole hog and get the album sponsored as they've been reflecting upon recently remains to be seen.