{"id":8028,"date":"2016-12-16T17:45:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T00:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8028"},"modified":"2016-12-18T17:49:10","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T00:49:10","slug":"rock-beyonce-amadeus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/16\/rock-beyonce-amadeus\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Beyonc\u00e9, Amadeus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/mozart-has-sold-more-cds-in-2016-than-beyonce\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from Atlas Obscura<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Mozart Has Sold More CDs in 2016 Than Beyonc\u00e9<\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/users\/ericgrundhauser?view=articles\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Grundhauser<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.atlasobscura.com\/article_images\/37999\/image.jpg\" alt=\"Jealous?\" width=\"480\" \/><em>Jealous?\u00a0<a class=\"caption-credit\" href=\"https:\/\/simple.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Piano_Concerto_No._20_(Mozart)#\/media\/File:Wolfgang01.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">JOHANN NEPOMUK DELLA CROCE\/PUBLIC DOMAIN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The artist who sold the most CDs in 2016 hasn\u2019t toured in over 200 years, but is still more famous than Drake. According to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/7597586\/giant-mozart-225-box-set-2016s-biggest-selling-cd-release\" target=\"_blank\">a report on\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em><\/a>, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart made a massive comeback this year with a career-spanning box set that left other CD sales look weak in comparison.<\/p>\n<p>Released in October,\u00a0<em>Mozart 225: The New Complete Edition\u00a0<\/em>is a 200-disc collection of Mozart\u2019s entire musical catalogue. From his symphonies to his concertos, down to little scraps and fragments of his work, the set is one of the most comprehensive collections of Mozart\u2019s music ever released. And at just over $300, it\u2019s not even that expensive (considering the amount of music it contains).<\/p>\n<p>The box set itself is a fascinating collection, and now it has the modern honor of moving more CDs than Beyonce, Kanye West, Adele, or David Bowie. While the set has sold just over 6,200 units, thanks to the hundreds of CDs it contains, it means that Mozart has sold 1.25 million discs. Pretty damn impressive for a long-dead composer.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/mozart-has-sold-more-cds-in-2016-than-beyonce\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at Atlas Obscura<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Atlas Obscura Mozart Has Sold More CDs in 2016 Than Beyonc\u00e9 By\u00a0Eric Grundhauser Jealous?\u00a0JOHANN NEPOMUK DELLA CROCE\/PUBLIC DOMAIN The artist who sold the most CDs in 2016 hasn\u2019t toured in over 200 years, but is still more famous than Drake. According to\u00a0a report on\u00a0Billboard, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart made a massive comeback this year with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}