{"id":745,"date":"2004-05-18T09:07:27","date_gmt":"2004-05-18T14:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/2004\/05\/18\/the-joy-of-statistics-music-sales-actually-up\/"},"modified":"2004-05-18T09:07:27","modified_gmt":"2004-05-18T14:07:27","slug":"the-joy-of-statistics-music-sales-actually-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/2004\/05\/18\/the-joy-of-statistics-music-sales-actually-up\/","title":{"rendered":"The joy of statistics &#8211; Music sales actually up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Radio And Internet Newsletter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kurthanson.com\/archive\/news\/051704\/index.asp\">RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter<\/a><br \/>\nThe labels manipulate the numbers showing declining sales as a result of peer-to-peer file sharing.  In truth, there are other reasons for the numbers and music sales at stores are actually up.<br \/>\nFrom the article:<br \/>\nNow here&#8217;s where things get interesting: The RIAA forecast a 7 percent decline in recorded music sales for 2004, but data from market research outfit Soundscan, which measures point-of-purchase sales, shows a 10 percent increase in music sales when comparing the first quarter of 2004 to the first quarter of 2003&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter The labels manipulate the numbers showing declining sales as a result of peer-to-peer file sharing. In truth, there are other reasons for the numbers and music sales at stores are actually up. From the article: Now here&#8217;s where things get interesting: The RIAA forecast a 7 percent decline in recorded &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/2004\/05\/18\/the-joy-of-statistics-music-sales-actually-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The joy of statistics &#8211; Music sales actually up<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking","category-streaming-and-multi-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}