Bruno Mars and Rihanna were recently named the two most-pirated artists of the past year, according to rollingstone.com.
The two stars, Mars and Rihanna, were reportedly illegally downloaded more than five million times each, as per rollingstone.com, which used Musicmetric to analyze BitTorrent data.
Daft Punk, Justin Timberlake, Flo Rida, Kanye West, Eminem, Jay Z, Drake and Pitbull were also named in the report.
Musicmetric executive, Gregory Mead, spoke about the company’s data.
“Back in the day, people went into record shops to try records before they bought them,” Mead said. “Nowadays, they download or stream a track and then perhaps buy a download or a gig ticket.”
In 2012, Drake’s “The Motto” was the most-pirated song of the year, as per Spin, as reported by HipHopDX. According to that report, The Jay Z and Kanye West collaborative album, Watch the Throne, was the most downloaded album in the United States with more than 70,000 illegal downloads.
According to Musicmetric this year, Beyonce’s self-titled album was pirated approximately 240,000 times in its first 10 days of availability.
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i dont think you can accurately say who was pirated the most…
and i thought i read the other day that jay, em and drake were more pirated..
Drake was definitely more butt pirated.
hey that’s biased info though ‘cuz you know Drake was propped up asking for it
Drake got drilled so bad he broke his accent.
Who gives a shit, all those artists have so much money they won’t even notice
this list cannot be right.. no one checking for flo rida songs, even for free
my co-worker’s step-mother makes $68 every hour on the laptop. She has been out of a job for eight months but last month her check was $21239 just working on the laptop for a few hours. read the article,,,,,,,,,,,,,, http://x.co/3XZg8
You can’t accuratly say just by bit torrent. There are many sites that u can use to pirate, i use share beast. There are probably more pop fans that use bittorrent than rap fans, judging by experience.
true
LMAO. these statistics are WAY to low. There are at least 10x more illegal downloads than actual albums bought and this thing suggests that there are half as much. Clearly only looking over a small part of the actual data.
before I looked at the check of $4362, I accept that my brothers friend really erning money part-time on their apple labtop.. there dads buddy started doing this for only about eight months and a short time ago paid for the mortgage on there mini mansion and got a brand new Cadillac. Get your free trail from use this link, Get your free trail from… http://www.WIKI34.COm
we don’t support them. Ironic if you tell me. Oh well Beyonce will stay on top for the coming weeks cause her fanbase support her.
I told you before…kill yoself
Like I give a fuck they make more from one show than most people make in a year. I support real hip hop niggas on the grind The LOX Wu-Tang Boldy James
lol nobody is downloading pitbull or flo rida this aint muthafuckin 2007
Pitbull has the #1 song on Itunes.