{"id":4061,"date":"2014-02-13T06:46:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T06:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/02\/13\/album-download-sales-edge-past-cds-in-us\/"},"modified":"2014-02-13T06:46:14","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T06:46:14","slug":"album-download-sales-edge-past-cds-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/02\/13\/album-download-sales-edge-past-cds-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Album download sales edge past CDs in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/d0\/Compact_disc.svg\/220px-Compact_disc.svg.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"219\" height=\"219\" \/><br \/>Digital album sales are exceeding that of physical CDs in the US so far in 2014. That\u2019s according to Nielsen SoundScan data, which says that for the  year-to-date (to the week ending February 2), 22.99 million albums have  been sold \u2013 comprising 11.18m downloads and 11.10m CDs. It\u2019s the third time in 2014 that the year-to-date tally has seen  album downloads outstrip physical. It also happened in the first week of  2013.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, US vinyl sales in the year-to-date have topped 710,000.<\/p>\n<p>The above figures do not take into account track equivalent albums \u2013  where 10 track downloads equals an album. When they are added, download  surpassed physical sales in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Here in the UK, a new BPI survey suggests that t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicweek.com\/news\/read\/rock-claims-a-third-of-uk-album-sales-in-2013\/057607\" target=\"_blank\">he rock genre edged in front of pop in 2013<\/a> as far as album sales are concerned.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: Music Week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital album sales are exceeding that of physical CDs in the US so far in&#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-4061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061","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=4061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}