New report shows the U.S. leading in illegal downloads worldwide
The data- and trend-mapping company Musicmetric has released the first edition of its Digital Music Index—an analysis of who's downloading what, where—and the U.S.A. is No. 1, as always. More specifically, the United States has been ranked No. 1 worldwide in the number of music files downloaded illegally, racking up almost 97 million in the first half of this year alone. The United Kingdom comes in a distant second with just over 43 million downloads. (TorrentFreak adds that Manchester is the most active city in the U.K. London comes in at a paltry 20th.)