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Music File Share Top Ten

p2pnet.net Feature:- We started running a p2pnet File Share Top Ten last year. Based on statistics from p2p research firm Big Champagne, it lists the most-downloaded mp3s in the US. Big Champagne’s home page gives a weekly Top Ten list which includes both download and search activity. Our BC FSTT lists only deal only with downloads. Go here if you’d like a few words on how the stats are put together. COMING SOON =====> The p2pnet / Big Champagne Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards! (Note: If a song is out of the charts for two weeks or more and returns, it’s designated ‘New’. Week ending March 7, 2005 All categories Ranking Artist Title Downloads #1 The Game How We Do (unchanged) 7,120,136 #2 Mario Let Me Love (unchanged) 6,443,358 #3 Snoop Dogg Drop it like It’s Hot + #4 5,883,391 #4 Ciara 1 2 Step + #5 5,536,243 #5 Eminem Like Toy Soldiers + #7 5,027,738 #6 Green Day Boulevard Of Broken Dreams (unchanged) 4,952,075 #7 50 Cent Candy Shop + #9 4,883,975 #8 Ludacris Get Back (unchanged) 4,460,516 #9 Kelly Clarkson Since U Been Gone + #10 4,163,580 #10 Destiny’s Child Soldier (new) 3,958,096 Country Ranking Artist Title Downloads #1 Nelly Over And Over (unchanged) 3,034,327 #2 Rascal Flatts Bless The Broken Road (unchanged) 1,597,521 #3 Keith Urban You’re My Better Half + #4 700,995 #4 Josh Gracin Nothing to Lose + #5 687,733 #5 Kenny Chesney Anything But Mine + #6 657,412 #6 LeAnn Rimes Nothin’ ‘Bout Love Makes Sense + #7 568,122 #7 Martina McBride God’s Will + #9 485,492 #8 Sugarland Baby Girl + #10 446,502 #9 Alan Jackson Monday Morning Church - #8 443,506 #10 Reba McEntire He Gets That From Me (new) 338,693 Adult Contemporary Ranking Artist Title Downloads #1 Nelly Over And Over (unchanged) 4,962,059 #2 Mario Let Me Love You (unchanged) 4,925,440 #3 Ciara 1 2 Step (unchanged) 4,448,420 #4 Green Day Boulevard Of Broken Dreams (unchanged) 4,357,312 #5 Kelly Clarkson Since U Been Gone + #6 3,924,485 #6 Destiny’s Child Lose My Breath + #7 3,239,833 #7 Green Day American Idiot (unchanged) 3,226,218 #8 Destiny’s Child Soldier (unchanged) 3,103,639 #9 Usher Caught Up (new) 2,869,056 #10 Maroon 5 She Will Be Loved (unchanged) 2,786,737 Rock Ranking Artist Title Downloads #1 The Game How We Do + #2 4,215,407 #2 Green Day Boulevard Of Broken Dreams - #1 4,252,591 #3 Linkin Park & Jay-Z Numb/Encore + #4 3,207,145 #4 50 Cent Candy Shop + #5 2,952,898 #5 The Killers Mr Brightside + #6 2,478,914 #6 Bowling for Soup 1985 + #7 1,864,781 #7 Maroon 5 Sunday Morning + #8 1,693,166 #8 Gavin Degraw I Don’t Want To Be - #89 1,518,819 #9 John Mayer Daughters + #10 1,507,016 #10 Trick Daddy Sugar – Gimme Some (new) 1,499,455 Urban Ranking Artist Title Downloads #1 The Game How We Do (unchanged) 6,460,303 #2 Mario Let Me Love You (unchanged) 5,832,857 #3 Snoop Dogg Drop it like It’s Hot (unchanged) 5,293,180 #4 Nelly Over And Over (unchanged) 5,085,252 #5 Ciara 1 2 Step (unchanged) 45,042,263 #6 50 Cent Candy Shop + #8 4,415,430 #7 Trick Daddy Let’s Go - #6 4,335,211 #8 Ludacris Get Back - #7 4,078,857 #9 Destiny’s Child Soldier + #10 3,609,092 #10 50 Cent Disco Inferno (new) 3,592,751 Something you think we should know about? tips[at]p2pnet.net

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7 Responses to “Music File Share Top Ten”

1. Reader's Write Says:
   March 9th, 2005 at 5:19 am

   It would be nice for albums to be included.

2. Reader's Write Says:
   March 9th, 2005 at 6:48 pm

   What IS an album? And how many people actually download every track?

   With the Net, we’re back to ’singles,’ so to speak.

   Cheers!

3. Reader's Write Says:
   March 10th, 2005 at 1:34 am

   Napster created a class of P2P in which users would search for an MP3 and download it. It made no difference how many people shared the exact same file – each duplicate file was for all relevant purposes a unique file. Because interrupted downloads could not be resumed (let alone multi-sourced) using Napster, this necessitated the sharing of singles rather than single-file MP3 albums (which would later include Albumwrap).

   Although all P2P networks since Napster allow for resuming interrupted downloads, and most support the sharing of all filetypes, the pattern of downloading primarily MP3 singles largely held over on these post-Napster networks.

   However, there were 2 other trends in P2P:

   1. Edonkey2000 and BitTorrent allow widespread broadcasts of files, with file checksums posted on websites so that each unique file is typically downloaded by many people simultaneously. Since both networks were designed for broadcasting large files to many people, it was primarily albums – not MP3 singles – that were always the method of choice on these swarming P2P networks. Most of the audio files that are released are zipped or rar’d albums containing not only the MP3s, but often playlists and scanned CD covers.

   2. Audio Galaxy allowed collections of files to be shared, so an album download could be easily compiled. Soulseek, Piolet, and other P2Ps followed this trend.

   There is a primary difference between the MP3s shared as singles and in the form of albums. Singles are often created by novice computer users, ripped from their own CD collections. Using consumer-friendly software such as MusicMatch Jukebox – with its once-awful Xing encoder – these files are then quietly shared, and as a result, many different encodes of the same song – most of poor quality – are available throughout the network. In its early days, Kazaa only allowed the sharing of 128 kbs-encoded mp3s, a decision presumably made in an attempt to placate the record industry during their pre-lawsuit days.

   By contrast, the music available on eDonkey and Bittorrent is usually high quality rips and encodes, typically using EAC and Lame – applications not designed for novice users. It was only more recently, due to the multi-network clients such as the new Morpheus, that MP3 singles even began appear on the ED2K network.

   Although most casual music downloaders patronize singles – many people, after all, still use Kazaa – members of the more ‘elite’ P2P crowd tend to get their music in the form of albums. Unfortunately for the music industry, more and more P2P users continue to graduate into the latter category.

   -tm

4. Reader's Write Says:
   March 10th, 2005 at 9:34 am

   “Unfortunately for the music industry, more and more P2P users continue to graduate into the latter category”

   Agreed. Since I discovered Shareaza, and then BT, I have downloaded my music as albums 99% of the time, and I’ve been showing friends how to do it too. So it’s definately catching on, which is, of course, a good thing.

5. Reader's Write Says:
   March 10th, 2005 at 5:31 pm

   The only ‘albums’ I download in their entirety, these days, are usually ones with ‘guaranteed’ content – Bach’s Cello Suites, for example, or Mose Allison or Miles Davis or Stevie Wonder. Otherwise, I download single tracks.

   One of the reasons I stopped buying CDS, etc, years ago was because most of the tracks are dross. For me, nothing has changed in that respect, at least where 99% of current pop releases are concerned.

   Cheers!

6. Reader's Write Says:
   March 10th, 2005 at 9:19 pm

   Why do the same songs sometimes show up in separate categories? Are they counted twice in some way? How does that work?

7. Reader's Write Says:
   March 10th, 2005 at 10:33 pm

   I think it’s something to do with what radio stations they get played on. I would like to see an overhaul of the genres, as they don’t make much sense to me at the moment.

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