{"id":1878,"date":"2012-07-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/07\/16\/swedish-q1-record-sales-up-30-thanks-to-streaming\/"},"modified":"2012-07-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T00:00:00","slug":"swedish-q1-record-sales-up-30-thanks-to-streaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2012\/07\/16\/swedish-q1-record-sales-up-30-thanks-to-streaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish Q1 record sales up 30% thanks to streaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/flags-and-anthems.com\/media\/flags\/flagge-schweden.gif\" border=\"0\" width=\"156\" height=\"93\" \/><br \/>Swedish music sales rose by 30.1% in Q1 compared to the corresponding period in 2011 thanks to the success of streaming services in the territory.<br \/>The latest comes from the Swedish Recording Industry Association (Grammofon Leverantoremas Forening &#8211; GLF) and places digital music accountable for 63.5% of total recorded music revenues in the quarter, 89% of which came from streaming services.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>4.4 million CDs were sold in the first six months of 2012 in Sweden \u2013 an increase of just 1% on last year\u2019s sales.<\/p>\n<p>Music sales overall generated 446 million kronor (approx \u00a341 million) with streaming services bringing in 253 million kronor of the sales (approx. \u00a323.3 million).<\/p>\n<p>Digital\u2019s 89% contribution has been attributed largely to the growth of Spotify in particular but also to the impact that its increasing dominance has had on a la carte services. iTunes, for example, remains the dominant digital player in most territories. <\/p>\n<p>After seeing the figures, Universal Music Sweden MD Per Sundin is optimistic about the future. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re back to the same revenue levels as during 2004,\u201d he told Music Ally. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the development continues in the same way we\u2019ll be back on turnover similar to those during the \u2018golden days\u2019 of the CD in just a few years\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Music Week<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish music sales rose by 30.1% in Q1 compared to the corresponding period in 2011&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}