{"id":2912,"date":"2013-04-18T06:03:57","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T06:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/04\/18\/amazon-claims-22-of-us-digital-music-downloads-in-q4-2012\/"},"modified":"2013-04-18T06:03:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T06:03:57","slug":"amazon-claims-22-of-us-digital-music-downloads-in-q4-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2013\/04\/18\/amazon-claims-22-of-us-digital-music-downloads-in-q4-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon claims 22% of US digital music downloads in Q4 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scm-l3.technorati.com\/13\/01\/29\/74795\/amazon.jpg?t=20130129232715\" border=\"0\" width=\"155\" height=\"156\" \/><br \/>Amazon claimed a 22% share of the digital music download market via its AmazonMP3 platform in the fourth quarter of last year.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to research from NPD Group in its Annual Music Study and compares to a 15% share in 2011, 13% in 2010, 10% in 2009 and 7% in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The e-tailer is, however, sharing the space with iTunes, which claimed 63% of the market in Q4 2012, although the Apple platform is down from 68% in 2011 and 69% in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>NPD Group\u2019s senior vice president said that Amazon\u2019s entry into the tablet market probably helped its performance. The company launched the Kindle Fire in 2011 and sells a range of content including music, video and apps on top of the books that the original Kindle provides.<\/p>\n<p>Reports that Amazon is in talks with a number of record labels about launching a subscription streaming service surfaced in March.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Music Week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon claimed a 22% share of the digital music download market via its AmazonMP3 platform&#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-2912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912","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=2912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}