{"id":4582,"date":"2014-08-29T10:02:02","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T10:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/08\/29\/us-weekly-album-sales-under-4m\/"},"modified":"2014-08-29T10:02:02","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T10:02:02","slug":"us-weekly-album-sales-under-4m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/08\/29\/us-weekly-album-sales-under-4m\/","title":{"rendered":"The worst album sales in the US music industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/a\/a4\/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg\/1235px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"219\" height=\"115\" \/><br \/>US album sales have fallen to 3.97 million &#8211; the lowest figure since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking data in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>The figure is down 91,000 year-on-year, the week ending August 25 2013 recorded 4.88 million albums sold.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicweek.com\/news\/read\/mid-year-numbers-album-digital-song-sales-down\/058913\" target=\"_blank\">Nielsen SoundScan\u2019s mid-year report in July<\/a>, US album sales were down 15% on 2013 at a total of 120.9 million albums. Last year\u2019s sales were 142 million.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, overall US album sales are down 14.6 percent. Digital album  sales are down 11.7 percent and track sales are down 12.8 percent.<\/p>\n<p>This decline isn&#8217;t a first &#8211; in 2013, average weekly album sales fell  from 5.7 million units in the first quarter to 5.23 million units in  the second quarter, then 4.86 million units in the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a different story to streaming, however, which grew 39% in 2013,  making up one-fifth of the business for recorded music in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Billboard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US album sales have fallen to 3.97 million &#8211; the lowest figure since Nielsen SoundScan&#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-4582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582","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=4582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}