The InfoFilter Top 10 Torrents List: Unsurprisingly, People Aren’t Interested In Paying For The James Blunt Album

noah | September 24, 2007 11:00 am

It’s been a while since we checked in with InfoFilter’s top music torrents chart, which tracks how many BitTerrorists are swapping files around the Internet, MediaDefender’s efforts be damned. Not only is this chart the first one I’ve seen in a week that hasn’t been topped by Kanye West, its top five had a couple of other surprises:

1. Coco – Colbie Caillat -WayNotBurger 2. Common – Finding Forever[2007] -mVs 3. Luke Bryan-Ill Stay Me-2007-JAW 4. Ledisi – Lost and Found [2007] 5. 00-swizz beatz-one man band man (clean advance)-2007-ogc 6. Kanye West – Graduation (Japan’s bonus tracks) [www.torrentsonline.com] 7. 50 Cent is Curtis 8. Details of Kate Nash – Made Of Bricks [2007][CD+SkidVid+Cov]192Kbps 9. James Blunt – All The Lost Souls [2007][CD+SkidVid+Cov] 10. Top 40 Singles And New Releases

MySpace sensation Colbie Caillat’s popularity among filesharers shouldn’t surprise anyone, but I honestly had only the vaguest idea of who soul-gospel singer Ledisi and good-old-boy Luke Bryan were. (Ledisi’s album debuted on the Sept. 5 top 200 albums chart, selling 8,900 copies, and then dropped off; Bryan’s album had sold 44,000 copies through that week, then fell off as well.) So perhaps their success is either the result of lower-than-usual weekend traffic or unconventional viral-marketing tactics on behalf of their labels. Below the inevitable Kanye-and-Curtis entries, we have the “British” traffic, with Kate Nash, No. 1 UK album James Blunt, and a “top 40 singles” collection that includes Robyn, Mika, and the Indiana Jones fanboys Status Quo. And The Fray, which I’d like to apologize for on behalf of my homeland, even though I feel like I’ve been doing so for, oh, about a year now.

Top 50 Music Torrents – 23 Sep 2007 [InfoFilter]