{"id":687,"date":"2011-03-28T20:46:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T20:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/03\/28\/umg-extends-market-lead-over-sony-remains-dominant-major-label\/"},"modified":"2011-03-28T20:46:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T20:46:55","slug":"umg-extends-market-lead-over-sony-remains-dominant-major-label","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2011\/03\/28\/umg-extends-market-lead-over-sony-remains-dominant-major-label\/","title":{"rendered":"UMG Extends Market Lead Over Sony \u2013 Remains Dominant Major Label"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hypebot.com\/.a\/6a00d83451b36c69e2014e86f5b69a970d-200wi\" border=\"0\" width=\"141\" height=\"75\" \/><br \/>Universal Music Group extended its lead over Sony Music Entertainment last year following an increase in its market share of recorded music sales, says new research from Music &amp; Copyright. SMI, while it did lose some share, still remained quite a ways ahead of its nearest rival WMG.   <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-more\">\n<p>In 2010, UMG increased its market share of physical music sales to 28.7% from 27.6% in 2009. In terms of publishing, however, things are much different. While EMI is the smallest of the four major labels, it increased its publishing share to 19.7% last year from 19.3% to in 2009. Lastly, adding all the revenues received by the major music groups, Music &amp; Copyright <a href=\"http:\/\/musicandcopyright.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/23\/universal-music-group-reasserts-its-recorded-music-dominance-in-2010\/\" target=\"_blank\">has determined<\/a> the total figure for 2010 stood at $19.8 billion, down by 7.4% from $21.4 billion in 2009.<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hypebot.com\/.a\/6a00d83451b36c69e20147e375892e970b-450wi\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hypebot.com\/.a\/6a00d83451b36c69e2014e86f5b9d8970d-450wi\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/span>Source: Hyperbot<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universal Music Group extended its lead over Sony Music Entertainment last year following an increase&#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-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","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=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}