{"id":5782,"date":"2016-01-07T05:56:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T05:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/01\/07\/double-music-downloads-in-2015\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T05:56:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T05:56:27","slug":"double-music-downloads-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2016\/01\/07\/double-music-downloads-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Double Music Downloads  In 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/44\/Daniel_Ek_addressing_Spotify_staff.jpg\/1280px-Daniel_Ek_addressing_Spotify_staff.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"218\" height=\"149\" \/><br \/>Song downloads plunged another 12.5 percent last year, and a depressing 23.4 percent since 2013, according to preliminary US-based stats from Nielsen Music.\u00a0 Indeed, downloading is plunging downward, but streaming is absolutely soaring: according to the same dataset, the total number of streams doubled in just one year.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Overall, Americans streamed 317.2 billion tracks last year, up from 164.5 billion songs streamed in 2014.\u00a0\u00a0 Leading the pack were the typical suspects: YouTube, Spotify, Tidal, Apple Music, and Google Play Music, but doesn\u2019t include \u2018non-interactive\u2019 radio streams like Pandora.\u00a0 Most of that streaming was free, with YouTube and Spotify still avalanching the space with ad-supported music.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, ad-supported streaming is big and getting bigger, but it still makes less than vinyl.\u00a0 In 2015, according to the top-level look, total LPs boomed 29.8 percent to 11.9 million units.\u00a0 CDs, unsurprisingly, continued to slide into oblivion (more details on all formats in the coming days).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: Digital Music News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Song downloads plunged another 12.5 percent last year, and a depressing 23.4 percent since 2013,&#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-5782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5782","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=5782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}