{"id":742,"date":"2011-04-29T19:17:29","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T19:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/04\/29\/amazon-declares-war-drops-hit-mp3s-to-69-cents\/"},"modified":"2011-04-29T19:17:29","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T19:17:29","slug":"amazon-declares-war-drops-hit-mp3s-to-69-cents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2011\/04\/29\/amazon-declares-war-drops-hit-mp3s-to-69-cents\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Declares War: Drops Hit MP3s To 69 Cents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hypebot.com\/.a\/6a00d83451b36c69e2014e8826346f970d-150wi\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\u00a0In recent days, the price of most track downloads in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fbestsellers%2Fdmusic%2Fdigital-music-track%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ref_%3Dpd_ts_zgc_dmusic_digital_music_track_display_on_website_mor1%231&amp;tag=hypebot-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Amazon&#8217;s Top 100 Singles<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=hypebot-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/span><\/span> have dropped to $.69 cents.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Many of these same songs sell on iTune&#8217;s for $1.29 including Katy Perry&#8217;s &#8220;E.T.&#8221;, Jennifer Lopez&#8217;s &#8220;On the Floor&#8221; and Lady Gaga&#8217;s &#8220;Born This Way.&#8221; Sources tell Hypebot that the labels receive full wholesale payments with Amazon absorbing losses in an effort to attract new customers.<a><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-more\">\n<p>Amazon is stuck at about 10% market share while Apple dominates with 70% of the digital music market. &#8220;The average music consumer spends $46 a year on digital music, which is half of what it was last year,&#8221; Ross Crupnick of researchers NPD told the <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/music_blog\/2011\/04\/price-war-amazon-launches-69-cent-mp3-store-for-top-selling-tunes.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">LA Times<\/span><\/span><\/a>. &#8220;The question is not whether you can sell a 69-cent track. It&#8217;s whether you can get a customer to spend $69.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Hyperbot<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0In recent days, the price of most track downloads in Amazon&#8217;s Top 100 Singles have&#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-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742","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=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}