{"id":591,"date":"2011-02-09T23:17:57","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T23:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/02\/09\/rock-music-outsells-rap-in-2010\/"},"modified":"2011-02-09T23:17:57","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T23:17:57","slug":"rock-music-outsells-rap-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2011\/02\/09\/rock-music-outsells-rap-in-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Music Outsells Rap in 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xxlmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/eminem-beatles-featured-300x169.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"157\" height=\"83\" \/><br \/>Rap music may rule the airwaves, but rock music surprisingly dominates the sales market. In a story in New York\u2019s\u00a0<em>Daily News<\/em>, writer Jim Farber took a close look at the Nielsen SoundScan figures to discover that rock was the most profitable genre in last year.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While hip-hop attained several serious accomplishments in 2010 \u2013 including earning a four percent sales increase in sales (the only musical genre to experience a sales increase) and boasting the highest selling album of the year with Eminem\u2019s <em>Recovery<\/em> (3.5 million units and counting)\u2014rock music moved more albums due to the popularity of classic rock acts back catalogue sales.<\/p>\n<p>According to SoundScan, 103 million rock discs were purchased last year, while only 27 million rap LPs were sold. If alternative and metal CDs are taken into consideration, then that bumps rock\u2019s overall numbers to 188 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere isn\u2019t any genre that translates better to catalogue sales than rock,\u201d David Bukula, Nielsen\u2019s senior vice president told the <em>Daily News<\/em>. \u201cLast year, 55% of our overall track sales came from catalogue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho\u2019s going back to rediscover DMX right now, as opposed to who\u2019s just discovering the Beatles?\u201d Bakula added. \u2014<em>Elan Mancini<\/p>\n<p><\/em>Source: XXL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rap music may rule the airwaves, but rock music surprisingly dominates the sales market. 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-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","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=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}