{"id":3487,"date":"2011-02-18T16:16:51","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T16:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=3487"},"modified":"2011-02-18T16:18:19","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T16:18:19","slug":"heres-what-the-death-of-the-music-industry-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/heres-what-the-death-of-the-music-industry-looks-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s what the death of the music industry looks like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wirefresh.com\/images\/music-industry-1.jpg\" alt=\"Here's what the death of the music industry looks like\" \/><\/p>\n<p>People can talk about the death of the music industry and throw figures around, but\u00a0nothing\u00a0brings its demise into sharp focus more succinctly than this\u00a0graphic\u00a0plotting sales over\u00a0various\u00a0formats from 1973 to 2009.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wirefresh.com\/images\/music-industry.jpg\" alt=\"Here's what the death of the music industry looks like\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Eight tracks are but a mere blip of the 1970s, with LPs and EPs peaking during punk and new wave, while CD rose like an erupting\u00a0volcano from the mid-80s onwards.<\/p>\n<p>Since its towering peak on 2000\/1, it&#8217;s been downhill all the way for\u00a0\u00a0CDs, with digital\u00a0sales not doing enough to\u00a0compensate\u00a0for fast-falling\u00a0physical\u00a0sales.<\/p>\n<p>Not a good time to be in the music industry then &#8211; especially with big acts like Radiohead <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wirefresh.com\/radioheads-king-of-limbs-worlds-first-newspaper-album-19th-feb-2011\/\" target=\"_blank\">not even troubling themselves to get them involved<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Happily, the live music scene is alive and well and kicking very hard &#8211; and if you were in any doubt about that, come down to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offlineclub.com\" target=\"_blank\">Brixton Offline Club tonight<\/a> and see two great bands for free!<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wirefresh.com\/heres-what-the-death-of-the-music-industry-looks-like\/\" target=\"_blank\">Originally published on Wirefresh<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People can talk about the death of the music industry and throw figures around, but\u00a0nothing\u00a0brings its demise into sharp focus more succinctly than this\u00a0graphic\u00a0plotting sales over\u00a0various\u00a0formats from 1973 to 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[196,43],"tags":[1197],"class_list":["post-3487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nightlife","category-music","tag-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/music-industry-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-Uf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3487"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3489,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487\/revisions\/3489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}