{"id":320,"date":"2010-10-04T21:00:56","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T21:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/10\/04\/50-million-digital-albums-sold-in-the-uk\/"},"modified":"2010-10-04T21:00:56","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T21:00:56","slug":"50-million-digital-albums-sold-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2010\/10\/04\/50-million-digital-albums-sold-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Million Digital Albums Sold In The UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/a2.typepad.com\/6a0111683c7a25970c0133f4d1e4ea970b-100wi\" border=\"0\" width=\"105\" height=\"108\" \/><br \/>New figures released by BPI to<em> The Telegraph<\/em> indicate that the &#8216;500 millionth single download was purchased in the UK last week.&#8217; Also, UK digital album sales have topped the 50 million mark. When figures started being recorded four and a half years ago, digital albums accounted for less than 2% of UK music industry revenue\u2014now they&#8217;re up to nearly 20%.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p><a><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-more\">\n<p>Incredibly, the amount of time that it took digital albums to reach that mark is <em>less <\/em>than the duration that it took CDs back in the 1980s; a difference of about half a year. According to BPI\u2019s chief executive,<strong> Geoff Taylor<\/strong>, these numbers reflect that fans are still interested in hearing the full body of work from artists, rather than just the singles. Thus far <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/news\/8037387\/UK-digital-album-sales-top-50-million.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">this year<\/span><\/span><\/a>, only five albums have sold over 100,00 copies in the UK, with Mumford &amp; Sons\u2019 ablum being the top seller.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Hyperbot<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New figures released by BPI to The Telegraph indicate that the &#8216;500 millionth single download&#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-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","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=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}