Most-Traded Music, Movies and TV Shows of 2007

Shop Boyz, Heroes, Resident Evil excite most P2P users
By Laurel Jorgensen,  Newser Staff
Posted Jan 1, 2008 1:28 PM CST
Most-Traded Music, Movies and TV Shows of 2007
Justin Timberlake performs at the MTV Video Music Awards at the Palms Hotel and Casino on Sunday, Sept. 9, 2007, in Las Vegas. Songs by Timberlake were among the most frequently downloaded files from p2p services in 2007. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)   (Associated Press)

Forget box office numbers and Billboard charts: Wired reveals what people were really into last year by probing the action on peer-to-peer file-sharing networks. The year's most-traded files:

Songs:

  1. Shop Boyz, "Party Like A Rock Star"
  2. Akon, "I Wanna Luv U"
  3. Sean Kingston, "Beautiful Girls"
Movies:
  1. Resident Evil: Extinction
  2. Pirates of The Caribbean: At World's End
  3. I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

TV Shows:

  1. Heroes
  2. Prison Break
  3. Top Gear
Music Artists:
  1. T.I.
  2. T-Pain
  3. Akon
Click the link to see the top 10 lists and learn why online sensation Radiohead didn't crack a single one. (More file sharing stories.)

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