{"id":34822,"date":"2020-10-20T15:58:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T14:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/?p=34822"},"modified":"2020-10-20T15:58:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T14:58:59","slug":"official-charts-national-album-day-80s-theme-boosts-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/official-charts-national-album-day-80s-theme-boosts-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Official Charts: National Album Day – 80s Theme Boosts Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>National Album Day: 80s theme helps boost sales of classic albums<\/strong><\/p>\n

Several popular titles were reissued to coincide with this year’s 80s-themed National Album Day.<\/em><\/p>\n

This year’s National Album Day resulted in a boost in album sales last week, new figures have revealed.<\/p>\n

The UK-wide event – a celebration of the album format organised by The BPI and the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) – took place on Saturday, October 10 and was themed around the 1980s.<\/p>\n

The BPI reports that of all the albums released to coincide with National Album Day, 25,000 copies were sold on vinyl, contributing to a total of just under 112,000 vinyl albums sold that week – a week-on-week uplift of 9.2%.<\/p>\n

The Saturday of National Album Day itself (Oct. 10) saw vinyl sales rise by 24% on the previous Saturday (and 19% year-on-year), while the Friday \u2013 the day the albums were largely all released \u2013 saw a 44% year-on-year spike.<\/p>\n

One of this year’s National Album Day ambassadors, Toyah Willcox said: “This year\u2019s re-releases encouraged music lovers to buy timeless music. I like to think NAD has also encouraged new up-coming artists to think about making full albums as their right of expression, thus keeping the high street retailers stocked and trading in decades to come.”<\/p>\n

\u2022 Continue reading at Official Charts<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

National Album Day: 80s theme helps boost sales of classic albums Several popular titles were reissued to coincide with this year’s 80s-themed National Album Day. This year’s National Album Day resulted in a boost in album sales last week, new figures have revealed. The UK-wide event – a celebration of the album format organised by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[2544,1698],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34825,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34822\/revisions\/34825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}