Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Who Were The Most Pirated Artists In 2013?

Piracy is way down since the mid-2000's but it does still happen. Here's a list of the most pirated artists on BitTorrent in 2013, according to MusicMetric.com. I think you'll find few surprises in terms of the most popular artists.


rankartistsest. downloads
musicmetric.com
1Bruno Mars5,783,556
2Rihanna5,414,166
3Daft Punk4,212,361
4Justin Timberlake3,930,185
5Flo Rida3,470,825
6Kanye West3,199,969
7Eminem3,176,122
8Jay Z3,171,358
9Drake3,139,408
10Pitbull3,138,308
11One Direction2,920,445
12Maroon 52,857,652
13Zed2,828,764
14Nicki Minaj2,681,177
15Adele2,594,275
16Avicii2,562,151
17David Guetta2,441,235
18Linkin Park2,352,385
19Pharrell Williams2,336,996
20Katy Perry2,318,740





































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1 comment:

Jef Knight said...

I can't imagine how these guy would be able to know this. Seems like more music industy magic numbers.

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