{"id":4455,"date":"2014-07-08T04:59:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T04:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/07\/08\/us-album-and-digital-song-sales-down-in-h1-2014\/"},"modified":"2014-07-08T04:59:45","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T04:59:45","slug":"us-album-and-digital-song-sales-down-in-h1-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/07\/08\/us-album-and-digital-song-sales-down-in-h1-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"US album and digital song sales down in H1 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/a\/a4\/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg\/1024px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"217\" height=\"114\" \/><br \/>According to Nielsen SoundScan\u2019s mid-year report, US album sales are down 15% while digital song sales have fallen by 13%. A total of 120.9 million albums and 593.6 million digital songs were  sold by the week ending June 29, the halfway point of SoundScan\u2019s  tracking year. Last year\u2019s sales were 142 million and 682.2 million  respectively.   <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Disney&#8217;s Frozen soundtrack is the biggest-selling album, having sold 2.7 million copies.\u00a0Happy by Pharrell Williams (<em>pictured<\/em>) has sold 5.6 million, leading as the year&#8217;s biggest-selling digital song.<\/p>\n<p>2014 is the third year in SoundScan&#8217;s history, dating back to 1991,  where only one album has sold more than a million at the year&#8217;s mid-way  point. It is also the third year in a row that this happened.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Timberlake\u2019s The 20\/20 Experience was the biggest selling album at the same point last year, with 2.04 million sales.<\/p>\n<p>High School Musical was the last soundtrack to lead mid-year sales figures, having sold 2.6 million by this point in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>38 songs have been sold a million times this year compared to 51 last  year, while 12 songs have sold at least two million, versus 13 one year  ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: Music Week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Nielsen SoundScan\u2019s mid-year report, US album sales are down 15% while digital song&#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-4455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455","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=4455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}