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The most popular act of the digital age is Michael Jackson
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Michael Jackson is “most popular act of digital age”
09:51 | Monday April 4, 2011
By Eamonn Forde
Data from Gracenote has revealed Michael Jackson is the most popular act of the digital age.
Alley Insider spoke to Gracenote about the type of music users are searching for and listening to online, based on its metadata.
It found that Michael Jackson was the artist most looked up on Gracenote's database, followed by Bob Marley and Tupac Shakur.
Gracenote's metadata covers artist names, album and song titles as well as sleeve artwork and the company say it is used in “billions of searches” a month on services like iTunes, Google lyric searches and Sony products. (Sony acquired Gracenote in 2009.)
The company added The Beatles were popular in Europe and North America but did not appear high in Data for the rest of the world.
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http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?s...de=1044787&c=1
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Michael Jackson 'biggest act of digital age'
Monday, April 4 2011, 16:15 BST
By Lewis Corner, Music Reporter
Michael Jackson has been named the most popular act of the digital age.
Information collected from Gracenote, which compiles its data from billions of searches on services such as iTunes, Google lyrics and through Sony products, has indicated that Michael Jackson is the most looked-up, reports Music Week.
Other artists who follow Jackson on the list include Bob Marley and Tupac Shakur.
Gracenote added that The Beatles rank highly in Europe and North America, but do not appear in the uppermost parts of the data in other territories.
Jackson was recently overtaken as the most popular person on Facebook by Eminem.
Watch the video for Michael Jackson's third posthumous single 'Hollywood Tonight' below:
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http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/ne...gital-age.html
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QUIZ: Who Are The 3 Most Popular Musical Acts Of The Digital Age?
Gracenote is in the unglamorous but critically important business of providing metadata for music files -- song titles, artist names, album cover art, and so on. The company claims that it serves "billions of searches a month from thousands of products used by hundreds of millions of consumers."
It was bought by Sony in 2009 and is used in many Sony products, but also by Apple's iTunes, Google's lyric search, and many other services.
So that gives Gracenote a pretty good look at what people are actually listening to and interested in, unlike sales charts or analysts like Big Champagne, which measures songs that are downloaded from file-trading networks.
The other night, an executive revealed to me the three artists that consistently get the most lookups in Gracenote's database. They are:
* Michael Jackson -- particularly after he died in 2009
* Bob Marley
* Tupac Shakur
This exec said that The Beatles are popular in North America and Europe, but less so in the rest of the world.
That rings true to me -- I've had a kid in Indonesia quote back Bob Marley lyrics to me, and Marley and Jacko are played in almost every corner of the world I've visited. (Tupac is a more recent development, I guess.)
But I have never once heard a single Beatles song played outside the U.S. or British Commonwealth countries.
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