{"id":504,"date":"2009-12-07T10:39:31","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T14:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pressleypress.com\/blog\/?p=504"},"modified":"2009-12-07T10:39:31","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T14:39:31","slug":"vinyl-record-sales-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pressleypress.com\/blog\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"Vinyl Record Sales Growing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ Sales of vinyl albums have been climbing steadily for several years, tromping on the notion that the rebound was just a fad. Through late November, more than 2.1 million vinyl records had been sold in 2009, an increase of more than 35 percent in a year, according to Nielsen Soundscan. That total, though it represents less than 1 percent of all album sales, including CDs and digital downloads, is the highest for vinyl records in any year since Nielsen began tracking them in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>Sales of CDs, meanwhile, have been falling fast, displaced by the downloading of digital files of songs from services like iTunes. Sales of albums on CD, which generally cost half as much as their vinyl counterparts, have dropped almost 20 percent this year, according to Nielsen. ]<\/p>\n<p>Full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/07\/nyregion\/07vinyl.html?_r=1&#038;partner=rss&#038;emc=rss\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ Sales of vinyl albums have been climbing steadily for several years, tromping on the notion that the rebound was just a fad. Through late November, more than 2.1 million vinyl records had been sold &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p32FB4-88","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":99,"url":"https:\/\/www.pressleypress.com\/blog\/?p=99","url_meta":{"origin":504,"position":0},"title":"Outsourcing Customer Support Sucks","author":"Matt","date":"September 12, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a transcription of my customer service request to a leading software testing tool company... 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