{"id":449689,"date":"2010-03-19T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100319\/0410388629.shtml"},"modified":"2010-03-19T19:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T23:01:00","slug":"the-onion-puts-out-an-equally-accurate-report-on-recording-industry-revenue-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/449689","title":{"rendered":"The Onion Puts Out An Equally Accurate Report On Recording Industry Revenue Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, leave it to The Onion to successfully encapsulate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/news_briefs\/report_music_industry_made?utm_source=onion_rss_daily\" >the state of the recording industry<\/a> with a report that is basically as accurate as most of the reports that come out of the RIAA these days:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\nThe Recording Industry Association of America announced Tuesday that the combined revenue brought in by Warner, Sony, EMI, Universal, and countless independent music labels in 2009 totaled $18. &#8220;The music industry is back,&#8221; RIAA representative Doug Fowley said. &#8220;Not only was Kenny Chesney&#8217;s Greatest Hits CD purchased at a Knoxville, TN Borders for $12.99, but we also had two songs downloaded through iTunes, and our ringtone sales reached three.&#8221; Fowley added that as long as no one returns or exchanges the CD, the music industry would continue to be a vital and creative force in American culture.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100319\/0410388629.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100319\/0410388629.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20100319\/0410388629&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=c909d2508fd87e73f748d206c402a518&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=c909d2508fd87e73f748d206c402a518&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<!-- foo --><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=R54kLT74cRo:_iISKlykZ0o:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=R54kLT74cRo:_iISKlykZ0o:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=R54kLT74cRo:_iISKlykZ0o:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/R54kLT74cRo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, leave it to The Onion to successfully encapsulate the state of the recording industry with a report that is basically as accurate as most of the reports that come out of the RIAA these days: The Recording Industry Association of America announced Tuesday that the combined revenue brought in by Warner, Sony, EMI, Universal, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}