![]() "The volume of downloads for individual songs dwarfs the downloading of albums." "Songs are the new currency online," he told Wired. While this illegal downloading data is surely bittersweet news to the hip-hop industry, which spend much of double-oh-seven bemoaning its decline in sales and popularity, for BigChampagne' CEO Eric Garland, what's really notable about the list is the dominance of singles artists. ![]() Filling out that Akon sandwich were reggae-popster Sean Kingston's Beautiful Girls at number three and East Coast rapper Mims' This is Why I'm Hot at number four. Aside from TI, the top 10 artists of the year - based on P2P downloads of albums and individual tracks - included rappers T-Pain, Akon, 50 Cent, Lil' Wayne, Ludacris and Snoop Dogg.Īs for the individual tracks, Akon's I Wanna Luv U was the second most swapped after Party Like a Rock Star and his song Don't Matter was fifth most swapped. The technology magazine based their conclusions on data collected from major music-swapping networks like BitTorrent and Gnutella by a firm called BigChampagne Online Media Measurement, a company that "tracks media-consumption trends across all digital channels - legal and otherwise".
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