{"id":7280,"date":"2011-01-19T12:20:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T17:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=7280"},"modified":"2018-06-08T15:13:13","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T19:13:13","slug":"dire-straits-not-suffering-due-to-cbsc-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/01\/19\/dire-straits-not-suffering-due-to-cbsc-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Dire Straits not suffering due to CBSC ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dire Straits may need to send a nice gift basket to the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council after they banned the song <a href=\"http:\/\/exploremusic.com\/new-releases\/weekly-cd-sales-report-48\/\" target=\"_blank\">Money for nothing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Britney Spears\u2019 return with \u201cHold It Against Me\u201d say 37,000 downloads, which is the best-ever first week performance ever since SoundScan started tracking digital sales six years ago.  Avril Lavigne also did all right with 16,000 downloads of \u201cWhat the Hell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But here\u2019s my favourite stat:  what with all the hoopla of the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council ruling on the unworthiness of Dire Straits \u201cMoney for Nothing,\u201d digital downloads of that track went from 167 last week to about 2,700 this week.  That number represents a full 10% of all downloads of that song since tracking began in February 2005.  Meanwhile, Brothers in Arms, the album from whence the song came, saw its digital sales spike 406%.  It\u2019s now the fifth-best selling catalogue album in the nation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/InklessPW\/statuses\/27725264884600832\" target=\"_blank\">Paul &#8220;Inkless&#8221; Wells<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dire Straits may need to send a nice gift basket to the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council after they banned the song Money for nothing: Britney Spears\u2019 return with \u201cHold It Against Me\u201d say 37,000 downloads, which is the best-ever first week performance ever since SoundScan started tracking digital sales six years ago. Avril Lavigne also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[8,6,25,28],"tags":[52,459,1209,200],"class_list":["post-7280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-cancon","category-economics","category-media","tag-absurd","tag-censorship","tag-direstraits","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1Tq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7280"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43738,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7280\/revisions\/43738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}