{"id":13039,"date":"2011-02-26T23:06:23","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T14:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=13039"},"modified":"2011-02-26T23:06:23","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T14:06:23","slug":"japans-online-music-market-shrank-for-first-time-ever-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/japans-online-music-market-shrank-for-first-time-ever-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Online Music Market Shrank For First Time Ever Last Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/riaj_logo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13047\" title=\"riaj_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/riaj_logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"102\" height=\"58\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBad news for the Japanese music industry: the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riaj.or.jp\/e\/data\/download\/2010.html\">released<\/a> [information in English] the sales figures of digital delivery in 2010 and said that the market for online music shrank for the first time last year.<br \/>\nOnline music sales contracted by 5% year-on-year to 85.99 billion yen\/$1.05 billion from the 2009 figure. According to the RIAJ, music delivery via PCs and smartphones remained relatively stable (slipping just 1% to 10.12 billion yen\/$124 million).<br \/>\nBut sales of music titles via feature phones, which represent 80% of the overall market, dropped 6% to 74.74 billion yen\/$915 million.<br \/>\nFull breakdown (click to enlarge):<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Picture-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13045\" title=\"Picture 1\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Picture-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"317\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad news for the Japanese music industry: the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) yesterday released [information in English] the sales figures of digital delivery in 2010 and said that the market for online music shrank for the first time last year. Online music sales contracted by 5% year-on-year to 85.99 billion yen\/$1.05 billion from&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/japans-online-music-market-shrank-for-first-time-ever-last-year\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japan&#8217;s Online Music Market Shrank For First Time Ever Last Year<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,24],"tags":[2731,3128],"class_list":["post-13039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-news","tag-online-music","tag-riaj","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}