{"id":7352,"date":"2015-01-06T10:00:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nccomputertech.com\/?p=7352"},"modified":"2015-01-06T10:00:33","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T15:00:33","slug":"digital-downloads-give-way-to-strong-sales-of-vinyl-records-streaming-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2015\/01\/06\/digital-downloads-give-way-to-strong-sales-of-vinyl-records-streaming-in-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital downloads give way to strong sales of vinyl records, streaming in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While it should come as little surprise that sales of digital albums and songs continued to decline in 2014, you may be taken back by the fact that sales of vinyl records more than doubled since 2013 according to data compiled by Nielsen SoundScan.<\/p>\n

Over the course of 2014, Americans purchased 257 million albums, 106.5 million of those digitally, representing a decline of nine percent year-over-year. Digital song sales were down 12 percent versus 2013, from 1.26 billion to 1.1 billion.<\/p>\n

In the wake of digital music purchase declines, streaming music grew by an impressive 54 percent. In 2013, 106 billion tunes were streamed \u2013 a figure that shot up to 164 billion last year.<\/p>\n

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All said and done, however, overall music consumption didn\u2019t change one way or the other last year when the industry standard of 1,500 streaming songs or 10 individual track sales are counted as an album.<\/p>\n

Vinyl sales, meanwhile, weren\u2019t even close at just 9.2 million but that figure is impressive when you consider it\u2019s the most sold in a single year since SoundScan started tracking sales way back in 1991. Compared to 2013, vinyl sales were up 52 percent last year.<\/p>\n

Nielsen found that the most popular album of 2014 was Taylor Swift\u2019s \u201c1989\u201d with more than 3.66 million copies sold. The top track of last year was Pharrell Williams\u2019 \u201cHappy\u201d followed by \u201cAll of Me\u201d from John Legend and Katy Perry\u2019s \u201cDark Horse.\u201d<\/p>\n

via Digital downloads give way to strong sales of vinyl records, streaming in 2014 – TechSpot<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While it should come as little surprise that sales of digital albums and songs continued to decline in 2014, you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[277,1044,1162],"class_list":["post-7352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-digital","tag-streaming","tag-vinyl-records"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/papNkV-1UA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3027,"url":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2013\/07\/24\/record-iphone-sales-and-reduced-margins-dominate-apples-third-quarter\/","url_meta":{"origin":7352,"position":0},"title":"Record iPhone sales and reduced margins dominate Apple\u2019s third quarter","author":"NCCT","date":"July 24, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"achimh Apple dropped its financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2013 today, and the news was decidedly mixed. 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