{"id":2458,"date":"2012-12-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/12\/18\/music-investment-tops-600-million-in-2012-up-34\/"},"modified":"2012-12-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T00:00:00","slug":"music-investment-tops-600-million-in-2012-up-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2012\/12\/18\/music-investment-tops-600-million-in-2012-up-34\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Investment Tops $600 Million In 2012; Up 34%&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theinternationalman.com\/img\/categories\/investing.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"157\" height=\"104\" \/><br \/>Anyone who thinks investment in music is &#8216;drying up&#8217; clearly hasn&#8217;t looked at the numbers.\u00a0 Because with less than two weeks left in 2012, investment in music-related startups and companies has reached $619.3 million, a near-34 percent gain over 2011.  <!--more-->  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.digitalmusicnews.com\/research\/musicfinancing2012.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Spotify wasn&#8217;t the biggest catch, either.\u00a0 Deezer claimed a monstrous $130 million round, while Sonos received a handsome $135 million in financing.\u00a0 Those rounds, coupled with Spotify&#8217;s $100 million, accounted for roughly half the total pot.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the rundown of every financing round that we reported in 2012, typically confirmed by the participants (company, investors, or both), or filed publicly.\u00a0 Other times, figures were reaffirmed by publications like the Wall Street Journal.\u00a0 If we couldn&#8217;t solidly confirm the round, it wasn&#8217;t included.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.digitalmusicnews.com\/research\/musicfinancing2012-2.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Source: Digital Music News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who thinks investment in music is &#8216;drying up&#8217; clearly hasn&#8217;t looked at the numbers.\u00a0&#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-2458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458","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=2458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}