{"id":2146,"date":"2012-10-03T21:58:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T21:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/10\/03\/us-digital-album-sales-up-15-on-track-for-record-breaking-year\/"},"modified":"2012-10-03T21:58:46","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T21:58:46","slug":"us-digital-album-sales-up-15-on-track-for-record-breaking-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2012\/10\/03\/us-digital-album-sales-up-15-on-track-for-record-breaking-year\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Digital Album Sales Up 15%, On Track For Record Breaking Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wallpapers.free-review.net\/wallpapers\/21\/Usa_-_Flag.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"155\" height=\"116\" \/><br \/>For the first 9 months of 2012, digital album sales in the U.S. are up 15% over the same period last year. American fans have already purchased 1 billion digital tracks, a pace that should break 2011\u2019s record of 1.3 billion sold, according to Nielsen.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>A look at music sales over the past few years show that an explosion of new devices including smartphones and tablets has played a major factor in the growth of digital music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we look ahead, it\u2019s clear that digital music purchases &#8211; and consumption through streaming sources -will continue to grow, and that consumers\u2019 appetites for digital music will change at the speed of technology,\u201d said David Bakula, SVP of Client Development at Nielsen. \u201cThese trends will no doubt continue to shape the way that music is discovered, marketed, consumed and sold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: Hyperbot<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first 9 months of 2012, digital album sales in the U.S. are up&#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-2146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146","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=2146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}