{"id":899,"date":"2015-03-19T02:11:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T02:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=899"},"modified":"2015-03-19T02:11:13","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T02:11:13","slug":"streaming-music-sales-tops-cds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/streaming-music-sales-tops-cds\/","title":{"rendered":"Streaming Music Sales Tops Cds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have known that this day was coming for a while now. \u00a0 Streaming music juggernauts such as Spotify, Groveshark, E-music and many more have been growing for years. \u00a0 ABC news reported on March 17th that,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The U.S. retail music business was essentially flat in 2014 as growth in streaming revenue helped offset further decline in sales of CDs, a report from the <a class=\"r_lapi\" href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/topics\/entertainment\/music\/recording-industry-association.htm\">Recording Industry Association of America<\/a> said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, retail revenue declined about half of a percent to $6.97 billion. Wholesale revenue for the recorded music industry, meanwhile, grew 2 percent to $4.86 billion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Over the past 5-10 years the streaming music industry has taken the fast track as up and coming entertainment and will without a doubt soon pass physical CD sales and downloaded MP3s. \u00a0 While there are many reasons for this, the obvious one that comes to mind is the convenience of streaming to a mobile or a personal device. \u00a0This &#8220;pain point&#8221; \u00a0is well taken care of when any person can stream any song at any time to any device fro a very reasonable price. \u00a0We can see this is the pattern of other entertainment media as video and game streaming also and it is well advertised and sold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have known that this day was coming for a while now. \u00a0 Streaming music juggernauts such as Spotify, Groveshark, E-music and many more have been growing for years. \u00a0 ABC news reported on March 17th that, &#8220;The U.S. retail music business was essentially flat in 2014 as growth in streaming revenue helped offset further [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":901,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions\/901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}