Consequently, Radiohead has never done the kind of volume that these big video-driven stars du jour command. "The only area where Radiohead was possibly the story of the year was complete album downloads," Garland said. Likewise, it's Radiohead's focus on producing albums rather that hook-filled tradeable tracks that denied the much-talked-about band a place on the "top music artists" list, despite reports of one third of downloaders getting their pay-what-you-want album In Rainbows off of P2P networks. "They'd be superstars on par with 50 Cent and Kanye West." "If Soulja Boy and Shop Boyz would have sold as many CDs as they did singles, they'd be household names," Garland told Wired.
Meanwhile, other artists with tracks on Wired's "top songs of 2007" like T-Pain, Soulja Boy and DJ Unk have yet to make a really firm impression on the mainstream. Shop Boyz's Party Like a Rock Star tops the list of top songs downloaded through P2P networks, but it got stuck at number two on the US Billboard Hot 100 this summer because of the stubborn hold on the top spot by Rihanna's Umbrella, a song that appears nowhere in BigChampagne's top 10. While Wired touts the study of file-sharing in 2007 as "the most reliable barometer for determining what's hot and what's not among the most tech-savvy media consumers", however, they could equally be criticised for only showing what's hot and not with young men who spend a lot of time on their computers - the demographic of the majority of P2P users. "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". At the top of the top 10 list of songs shared on peer to peer (P2P) networks was crunk number Party Like a Rock Star by Shop Boyz, while TI, the American rapper born Clifford Joseph Harris, Jr, was the year's most pilfered-from artist overall. If by "hottest", of course, you mean "most stolen".Īccording to a study conducted by Wired, 2007 was the year of downloading hip-hop for free. But if you really want to know what the "hottest" tracks of the past 12 months were then you have to take a peek online. LA, get out your puffy shirt and celebrate Dirty Dave's bday with the best DJs in the city - Franki Chan, Daniel LeDisko, Blake from Moving Units and more.As the final sales figures for 2007 come in, record labels and industry observers are busily putting forth their competing claims for the biggest songs and albums of the year. Black Dice and Excepter at the Bowery Ballroom (head to Home Sweet Home a few short blocks away after) On your home to Brooklyn, hit up the 265 McKibben Winter Solstice Roof Rave with Lauren Flax and Dances With White Girls DJs Dirrty and Minski join with Project Matt for the best party in NYC.
#Dj unk walk it out music video full#
Grab the full length CD, Beat'n Down Yo Block, and learn that I am not a self-respecting music fan, according to Amazon reviewer Patrick L. This is the sound that sounds right to my ears coming out of hip hop, that minimalist snap production. Anyway, y'all have heard "Walk It Out," but make sure to give "2 Step" a listen as it's just as good. Shout out to global warming, btw, as I'm loving the warm weather/light jacket steez. This song is the jam and it's all I want to listen to walking around in this beautiful summer weather.
Yeah yeah yeah, this song has been out forever and it's lame for me to be putting it up so late and the South is ruining hip-hop and blah blah blah. Andre 3000 and Jim Jones, "Walk It Out (remix)" (YSI link)