{"id":14840,"date":"2015-01-27T13:13:13","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T19:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14840"},"modified":"2015-01-27T13:13:13","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T19:13:13","slug":"digital-music-sales-on-itunes-and-beyond-are-now-fading-as-fast-as-cds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14840","title":{"rendered":"Digital music sales on iTunes and beyond are now fading as fast as CDs."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The top 1 percent of bands and solo artists now earn about 80 percent of all revenue from recorded music, as I wrote in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2014\/12\/the-shazam-effect\/382237\/?single_page=true\">The Shazam Effect<\/a>.&#8221; But the market for streamed music is not so concentrated. The ten most-popular songs accounted for just shy of 2 percent of all streams in 2013 and 2014.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2015\/01\/buying-music-is-so-over\/384790\/\">Digital music sales on iTunes and beyond are now fading as fast as CDs. &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top 1 percent of bands and solo artists now earn about 80 percent of all revenue from recorded music, as I wrote in &#8220;The Shazam Effect.&#8221; But the market for streamed music is not so concentrated. The ten most-popular &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14840\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378],"tags":[288,525,216],"class_list":["post-14840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","tag-apple","tag-market-trends","tag-streaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14841,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14840\/revisions\/14841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}