A recent study put together by SeatSmart, served as testimony to the fact that no matter the number of streaming services that are available to fans, illegally downloading music is still a huge problem in the music industry. Despite the broad range of options including Apple Music, Spotify and Tidal, there has been no indication that illegal downloads have or will slow down in the future.
The analysts over at SeatSmart broke down illegal downloading according to genre and album and according to their findings Drake’s If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late sits a number for being the most illegally downloaded album.
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According to the study, ‘Drake’s album alone scored more downloads than the top 10 albums from Christian, Rock, Classical, Rock, Alternative and Country music combined,” IYRTITL was illegally downloaded 268,597 while the other genres were downloaded 207,323 times altogether.
Future’s DS2 followed behind Drake’s with the most daily downloads coming in at 3,378 downloads a day but only 81,075 total downloads.
Click the gallery to see all the charts and data. Do you still illegally download music or do you use a streaming service? Sound off in the comments.
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