{"id":679,"date":"2011-03-24T17:50:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T17:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/03\/24\/canada-beats-us-in-digital-music-growth\/"},"modified":"2011-03-24T17:50:24","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T17:50:24","slug":"canada-beats-us-in-digital-music-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2011\/03\/24\/canada-beats-us-in-digital-music-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Beats U.S. In Digital Music Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hypebot.com\/.a\/6a00d83451b36c69e2014e86efbaed970d-100wi\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\u00a0According to the latest Nielson Soundscan figures digital music sales grew in Canada by 19%, while the U.S. market remained stagnant, with just 1% growth.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>This marks the fifth straight year in which the Canadian digital market has grown faster than the U.S., says law professor Michael Geist. &#8220;The recording industry will no doubt point to decelerating growth and the fact that the Canadian digital market comprises a smaller share of the market than in the U.S.,&#8221; he says.<a><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-more\">\n<p>&#8220;Yet the reality is that Canadian market&#8217;s global ranking is the same for both digital and non-digital sales &#8211; according to the Recording Industry in Numbers 2010, Canada ranks 7th worldwide on both counts.&#8221;\u00a0Contrary to popular belief, Geist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgeist.ca\/content\/view\/5704\/125\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">believes<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0these stats prove that Canada isn&#8217;t the music piracy haven it&#8217;s made out to be; it&#8217;s digital music market is growing faster than the U.S.\u00a0<strong>Chart<\/strong>:<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hypebot.com\/.a\/6a00d83451b36c69e2014e6014ce6f970c-450wi\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Source: Hyperbot<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0According to the latest Nielson Soundscan figures digital music sales grew in Canada by 19%,&#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-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","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=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}