{"id":90,"date":"2007-03-30T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-30T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themediumtech.com\/wp\/index.php\/2007\/03\/30\/sales-of-music-long-in-decline-plunge-sharply\/"},"modified":"2012-05-17T22:51:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T22:51:28","slug":"sales-of-music-long-in-decline-plunge-sharply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"Sales of Music, Long in Decline, Plunge Sharply"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml'><\/br><a href='http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article_email\/SB117444575607043728-lMyQjAxMDE3NzI0MTQyNDE1Wj.html'>WSJ.com<\/a> <br \/><\/br> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a dramatic acceleration of the seven-year sales decline that has battered the music industry, compact-disc sales for the first three months of this year plunged 20% from a year earlier, the latest sign of the seismic shift in the way consumers acquire music.<\/p>\n<p>The sharp slide in sales of CDs, which still account for more than 85% of music sold, has far eclipsed the growth in sales of digital downloads, which were supposed to have been the industry&#8217;s salvation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ.com In a dramatic acceleration of the seven-year sales decline that has battered the music industry, compact-disc sales for the first three months of this year plunged 20% from a year earlier, the latest sign of the seismic shift in the way consumers acquire music. The sharp slide in sales of CDs, which still account [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}