{"id":6816,"date":"2017-12-18T20:25:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T20:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/12\/18\/music-database-discogs-surpasses-37-million-record-releases-available-internationally-through-marketplace\/"},"modified":"2017-12-18T20:25:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T20:25:58","slug":"music-database-discogs-surpasses-37-million-record-releases-available-internationally-through-marketplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2017\/12\/18\/music-database-discogs-surpasses-37-million-record-releases-available-internationally-through-marketplace\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Database Discogs Surpasses 37 Million Record Releases Available Internationally Through Marketplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"normal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent.fath2-1.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-1\/p200x200\/11224818_10153121370264117_6168334873342488416_n.jpg?oh=94b96941ea9d0d8fba6e4d7a2ec614bd&amp;oe=5AC090C2\" border=\"0\" width=\"196\" height=\"196\" \/><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"normal\">Discogs, the World&#8217;s most extensive user-built  database of music, announces a monumental landmark today as it exceeds  27.5M vinyl recordings and over 37M physical music items in total listed  for sale in the Global online Marketplace. In retrospect, Discogs  celebrated its 15th Anniversary in November 2015 with nearly 10M  releases. Over the following 24-months, the Discogs Marketplace has  grown more than 370% culminating in a record-setting 130,000 orders over  the first week of December 2017, another landmark cementing the Discogs  Marketplace as the essential music marketplace of the World.  <!--more-->  &#8220;I&#8217;m always in awe of the Discogs community&#8217;s passion for carving out  the best place to buy and sell records online. From nearly 40 million  albums listed for sale worldwide to the ultra-rare Jamaican releases  uncovered by our collectors, it feels good to be a part of a growing  community of like-minded music lovers.&#8221; &#8211; Ron Rich, VP of Marketing<\/p>\n<p> Last week Discogs announced the record-breaking sale of The Beatles&#8217;  &#8216;Love Me Do&#8217; at $14,757.00 during a month of sales that included an  original 1973 UK pressing of Pink Floyd&#8217;s &#8216;Dark Side Of The Moon&#8217;  selling for over $1,500.00 and a rare Prince Buster 7&#8243;, &#8216;Funky Jamaica&#8217;  selling for over $1,100.00. Meanwhile, U2&#8217;s &#8216;Songs Of Experience&#8217;  released on December 1, sits at #1 on the Discogs new release chart  ending the week of December 8.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"normal\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"normal\">Source: Discogs<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discogs, the World&#8217;s most extensive user-built database of music, announces a monumental landmark today as&#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-6816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6816","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=6816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}