{"id":26290,"date":"2021-05-26T22:34:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T22:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/how-soundscans-debut-in-the-early-90s-turned-the-music-world-on-its-head#id29799"},"modified":"2021-05-26T22:34:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T22:34:00","slug":"how-soundscans-debut-in-the-early-90s-turned-the-music-world-on-its-head-transforming-the-charts-from-guesses-into-real-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/how-soundscans-debut-in-the-early-90s-turned-the-music-world-on-its-head-transforming-the-charts-from-guesses-into-real-data\/","title":{"rendered":"How SoundScan\u2019s debut in the early \u201890s turned the music world on its head, transforming the charts from guesses into real data."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>For a certain breed of rock snob, the chart dip experienced by Sting&rsquo;s January &rsquo;91 solo album <em>Soul Cages<\/em>&mdash;from no. 22 to no. 56 in that same span&mdash;was far more amusing, as the former frontman for &rsquo;80s new wave giants the Police was already exuding a certain classic-rock pompousness.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theringer.com\/music\/2021\/5\/25\/22452539\/soundscan-billboard-charts-streaming-numbers\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; The Ringer<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/how-soundscans-debut-in-the-early-90s-turned-the-music-world-on-its-head\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        For a certain breed of rock snob, the chart dip experienced by Sting&rsquo;s January &rsquo;91 solo album Soul Cages&mdash;from no. 22 to no. 56 in that same span&mdash;was far more amusing, as the former frontman for &amp;rs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26291,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26290\/revisions\/26291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}