{"id":4965,"date":"2018-02-08T04:04:06","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T09:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=4965"},"modified":"2018-02-08T04:04:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T09:04:57","slug":"bestbuy-says-goodbye-to-compact-discs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=4965","title":{"rendered":"Bestbuy Says Goodbye to Compact Discs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/8097929\/best-buy-to-pull-cds-target-threatens-to-pay-labels-for-cds-only-when\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Billboard<\/a> has claimed that Bestbuy stores will not longer carry compact discs as of July 1st, 2018 and that some American stores may continue to sell vinyl.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect they may continue to sell CDs online but streaming is still taking its toll on physical and digital music sales according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.riaa.com\/u-s-sales-database\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Recording Industry Association of America<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billboard has claimed that Bestbuy stores will not longer carry compact discs as of July 1st, 2018 and that some American stores may continue to sell vinyl. I suspect they may continue to sell CDs online but streaming is still taking its toll on physical and digital music sales according to the Recording Industry Association [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,7,1],"tags":[108,231],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4965"}],"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=4965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}