{"id":4649,"date":"2016-12-06T12:12:36","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T17:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=4649"},"modified":"2016-12-06T12:12:36","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T17:12:36","slug":"british-vinyl-sales-surpass-music-downloads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=4649","title":{"rendered":"British Vinyl Sales Surpass Music Downloads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-38221420?ocid=socialflow_facebook&#038;ns_mchannel=social&#038;ns_campaign=bbcnews&#038;ns_source=facebook\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a> reported that vinyl sales have surpassed download sales last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Entertainment Retailers Association have estimates vinyl sales in the U.k were \u00a32.4 million whilst the download sales were valued at only \u00a32.1 million. <\/p>\n<p>Apparently vinyl has become a major gift item in the country and many British vinyl purchasers will keep their vinyl in mint condition, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-36027867\" target=\"_blank\">poll conducted by the BBC<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC reported that vinyl sales have surpassed download sales last week. The Entertainment Retailers Association have estimates vinyl sales in the U.k were \u00a32.4 million whilst the download sales were valued at only \u00a32.1 million. Apparently vinyl has become a major gift item in the country and many British vinyl purchasers will keep their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}