{"id":323,"date":"2010-10-05T07:37:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T07:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/10\/05\/guitar-hero-makes-soundgarden-go-platinum-instantly\/"},"modified":"2010-10-05T07:37:08","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T07:37:08","slug":"guitar-hero-makes-soundgarden-go-platinum-instantly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2010\/10\/05\/guitar-hero-makes-soundgarden-go-platinum-instantly\/","title":{"rendered":"Guitar Hero Makes Soundgarden Go Platinum Instantly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.undercover.fm\/medias\/small\/6625.jpg?1284941702\" border=\"0\" width=\"157\" height=\"155\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Marketing synergy has resulted in Soundgarden\u2019s retrospective going platinum in the US before release.<\/p>\n<p>Their career retrospective <em>Telephantasm<\/em> has been bundled in with copies of the new installation of the <br \/>Guitar Hero videogame, called <em>Warriors Of Rock<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>This means that Activision essentially purchased one million copies of the album to add to the game, meaning that Soundgarden instantly sold platinum.<\/p>\n<p>Getting a platinum record is becoming more and more rare, as music fans share music online rather than going to the store to actively buy CDs.<\/p>\n<p><em>Wired<\/em> put the achievement in perspective, noting that it took two months for the super-dedicated horde of Justin Bieber fans to buy enough copies of his <em>My World 2.0<\/em> album to achieve platinum status.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Music Industry Report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marketing synergy has resulted in Soundgarden\u2019s retrospective going platinum in the US before release. Their&#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-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","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=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}