{"id":1534,"date":"2006-06-19T20:00:42","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T20:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2006\/06\/depressing\/"},"modified":"2006-06-19T20:00:42","modified_gmt":"2006-06-19T20:00:42","slug":"depressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/depressing\/","title":{"rendered":"Depressing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seen on the tube this evening: a kid in his generic Orson\/Feeder type t-shirt with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downloadfestival.co.uk\">Download Festival<\/a> wristband. That is to say, he hasn&#8217;t removed his plastic wristband from a concert that was over a week ago. Oh dear&#8230;<br \/>\nIncidentally, I discover that it only takes 10,000 single sales to make the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio1\/chart\/singles.shtml\">Top 10<\/a> at the moment. So a back of bus ticket calculation suggests that you could buy your way into the top 10 by spending &pound;20k. I&#8217;m not suggesting that anyone does this sort of thing since the BPI don&#8217;t like it and it&#8217;s all electronic these days so you&#8217;d need to ensure that singles were sold relatively evenly around the country, but it&#8217;s interesting nonetheless. And it seems that around 27% of your sales might be digital. Very interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seen on the tube this evening: a kid in his generic Orson\/Feeder type t-shirt with a Download Festival wristband. That is to say, he hasn&#8217;t removed his plastic wristband from a concert that was over a week ago. Oh dear&#8230; Incidentally, I discover that it only takes 10,000 single sales to make the Top 10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}