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Most Downloaded Songs in the Digital Era All- Time
1 LOW FLO RIDA FEATURING T-PAIN 4,865,695 2 APOLOGIZE TIMBALAND 4,212,880 3 CRANK THAT(SOULJA BOY) SOULJA BOY 4,141,486 4 I'M YOURS JASON MRAZ 3,860,773 5 JUST DANCE LADY GAGA FEATURING COLBY O'DONNIS 3,740,040 6 BLEEDING LOVE LEONA LEWIS 3,665,987 7 VIVA LA VIDA COLDPLAY 3,664,239 8 STRONGER KANYE WEST 3,551,289 9 HOT N COLD KATY PERRY 3,517,135 10 HEY THERE DELILAH PLAIN WHITE T'S 3,438,337 11 LOLLIPOP LIL WAYNE 3,433,636 12 I KISSED A GIRL KATY PERRY 3,389,750 13 DISTURBIA RIHANNA 3,364,494 14 LOVE STORY TAYLOR SWIFT 3,284,841 15 WHATEVER YOU LIKE T.I. 3,279,131 16 LIVE YOUR LIFE T.I. FEATURING RIHANNA 3,273,095 17 SO WHAT PINK 3,253,527 18 UMBRELLA RIHANNA FEATURING JAY-Z 3,216,934 19 BIG GRLS DON'T CRY FERGIE 3,148,000 20 LET IT ROCK KEVIN RUDOLF FEATURING LIL' WAYNE 3,097,451 21 HOW TO SAVE A LIFE THE FRAY 3,071,808 22 SEXYBACK JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE 3,037,000 23 NO ONE ALICIA KEYS 3,000,000 24 ROCKSTAR NICKELBACK 2,975,168 25 LOVE SONG SARA BAREILLES 2,876,052 26 BUBBLY COLBIE CAILLAT 2,847,858 27 NO AIR JORDIN SPARKS 2,830,711 28 HEARTLESS KANYE WEST 2,811,069 29 PAPER PLANES M.I.A. 2,797,554 30 RIGHT ROUND FLO RIDA 2,781,348 31 BAD DAY DANIEL POWTER 2,756,106 32 SMACK THAT AKON FEATURING EMINEM 2,742,000 33 BEFORE HE CHEATS CARRIE UNDERWOOD 2,682,246 34 GIRLFRIEND AVRIL LAVIGNE 2,681,810 35 DON'T STOP THE MUSIC RIHANNA 2,675,331 36 GIVES YOU HELL ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS 2,632,852 37 WOMANIZER BRITNEY SPEARS 2,623,368 38 LOVE LOCKDOWN KANYE WEST 2,613,671 39 SINGLE LADIES(PUT A RING ON IT) BEYONCE 2,589,628 40 IRREPLACABLE BEYONCE 2,588,000 41 THE WAY I ARE TIMBALAND 2,562,000 42 DON'T STOP BELIEVIN' JOURNEY 2,541,157 43 POCKETFUL OF SUNSHINE NATASHA BEDINGFIELD 2,491,745 44 4 MINUTES MADONNA 2,471,692 45 PARALYZER FINGER ELEVEN 2,457,058 46 THE SWEET ESCAPE GWEN STEFANI FEATURING AKON 2,447,466 47 KISS KISS CHRIS BROWN 2,428,910 48 FERGALICIOUS FERGIE 2,427,377 49 CRAZY GNARLS BARKLEY 2,419,022 50 GLAMOROUS FERGIE 2,396,770 2009 Year - to - Date 1 RIGHT ROUND FLO RIDA 2,781,348 2 POKER FACE LADY GAGA 2,145,799 3 GIVES YOU HELL ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS 2,101,215 4 JUST DANCE LADY GAGA FEATURING COLBY O'DONNIS 1,997,128 5 DEAD AND GONE T.I. FEATURING JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE 1,859,812 6 HEARTLESS KANYE WEST 1,695,233 7 MY LIFE WOULD SUCK WITHOUT YOU KELLY CLARKSON 1,646,471 8 KISS ME THRU THE PHONE SOULJABOY'TELLEM FEATURING SAMMI 1,590,964 9 LOVE STORY TAYLOR SWIFT 1,483,953 10 CRACK A BOTTLE EMINEM, DR. DRE & 50 CENT 1,483,632 11 YOU FOUND ME THE FRAY 1,374,060 12 SINGLE LADIES(PUT A RING ON IT) BEYONCE 1,336,519 13 CIRCUS BRITNEY SPEARS 1,266,261 14 LET IT ROCK KEVIN RUDOLF FEATURING LIL' WAYNE 1,212,345 15 I'M YOURS JASON MRAZ 1,186,358 16 I HATE THIS PART PUSSYCAT DOLLS 1,121,418 17 HOT N COLD KATY PERRY 1,043,339 18 I LOVE COLLEGE ASHER ROTH 918,148 19 THE CLIMB MILEY CYRUS 912,140 20 BLAME IT JAMIE FOXX FEATURING T-PAIN 905,865 21 SOBER PINK 898,464 22 LIVE YOUR LIFE T.I. FEATURING RIHANNA 864,217 23 THE UNTOUCHED VERONICAS 847,686 24 BEAUTIFUL AKON FEATURING COLBY O'DONIS & KARDINAL OFFISHALL 841,730 25 BOOM BOOM POW BLACK EYED PEAS 803,889 26 WOMANIZER BRITNEY SPEARS 800,980 27 MAD NE-YO 785,577 28 DAY 'N' NITE KID CUDI 750,710 29 VIVA LA VIDA COLDPLAY 750,235 30 LOVE LOCKDOWN KANYE WEST 722,528 31 GOTTA BE SOMEBODY NICKELBACK 718,940 32 TURNIN ME ON KERI HILSON 676,320 33 SO WHAT PINK 663,352 34 HALO BEYONCE 658,177 35 DON'T TRUST ME 3OH!3 653,530 36 RIGHT NOW (NA NA NA) AKON 618,236 37 DISTURBIA RIHANNA 598,165 38 WHATEVER YOU LIKE T.I. 597,276 39 WHITE HORSE TAYLOR SWIFT 585,086 40 THINKING OF YOU KATY PERRY 571,154 41 JAI HO A.R. RAHMAN FEATURING MIA 561,343 42 1,2,3,4 PLAIN WHITE T'S 560,968 43 DIVA BEYONCE 559,190 44 CHICKEN FRIED ZAC BROWN BAND 556,901 45 IF I WERE A BOY BEYONCE 524,768 46 PROM QUEEN LIL WAYNE 518,381 47 SECOND CHANCE SHINEDOWN 514,122 48 PAPER PLANES M.I.A. 507,235 49 LUCKY JASON MRAZ 502,415 50 IF U SEEK AMY BRITNEY SPEARS 489,821 | |
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booooo. | |
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Holy moley! what an awful list  If you will, so will I | |
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newpower99 said: All- Time
8 STRONGER KANYE WEST 3,551,289 9 HOT N COLD KATY PERRY 3,517,135 17 SO WHAT PINK 3,253,527 18 UMBRELLA RIHANNA FEATURING JAY-Z 3,216,934 22 SEXYBACK JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE 3,037,000 23 NO ONE ALICIA KEYS 3,000,000 25 LOVE SONG SARA BAREILLES 2,876,052 27 NO AIR JORDIN SPARKS 2,830,711 29 PAPER PLANES M.I.A. 2,797,554 37 WOMANIZER BRITNEY SPEARS 2,623,368 41 THE WAY I ARE TIMBALAND 2,562,000 44 4 MINUTES MADONNA 2,471,692 45 PARALYZER FINGER ELEVEN 2,457,058 46 THE SWEET ESCAPE GWEN STEFANI FEATURING AKON 2,447,466 48 FERGALICIOUS FERGIE 2,427,377 49 CRAZY GNARLS BARKLEY 2,419,022 2 POKER FACE LADY GAGA 2,145,799 13 CIRCUS BRITNEY SPEARS 1,266,261 21 SOBER PINK 898,464 26 WOMANIZER BRITNEY SPEARS 800,980 34 HALO BEYONCE 658,177 50 IF U SEEK AMY BRITNEY SPEARS 489,821 I suppose I could stomach these 
but that's a stretch If you will, so will I | |
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I wonder how much the royalty is? 10cents if their lucky? Any ideas? | |
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mynameisnotsusan said: I wonder how much the royalty is? 10cents if their lucky? Any ideas?
heres what i found 
>>>Internet royalties With the explosion of the Internet and the ease of downloading music onto your computer, a whole new royalty arena has opened up in recent years. Record companies usually treat downloads as "new media/technology," which means they can reduce the royalty by 20% to 50%. This means that rather than paying artists a 10% royalty on recording sales, they can pay them a 5% to 8% rate when their song is downloaded from the Internet. In the case of downloaded music, although there is no packaging expense, many record company contracts still state that the 25% packaging fee will be deducted.<<<< | |
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Look at the quality of the talent on this list. | |
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newpower99 said: mynameisnotsusan said: I wonder how much the royalty is? 10cents if their lucky? Any ideas?
heres what i found
>>>Internet royalties With the explosion of the Internet and the ease of downloading music onto your computer, a whole new royalty arena has opened up in recent years. Record companies usually treat downloads as "new media/technology," which means they can reduce the royalty by 20% to 50%. This means that rather than paying artists a 10% royalty on recording sales, they can pay them a 5% to 8% rate when their song is downloaded from the Internet. In the case of downloaded music, although there is no packaging expense, many record company contracts still state that the 25% packaging fee will be deducted.<<<< That's a damn shame. | |
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newpower99 said: mynameisnotsusan said: I wonder how much the royalty is? 10cents if their lucky? Any ideas? heres what i found :shrug: >>>Internet royalties With the explosion of the Internet and the ease of downloading music onto your computer, a whole new royalty arena has opened up in recent years. Record companies usually treat downloads as "new media/technology," which means they can reduce the royalty by 20% to 50%. This means that rather than paying artists a 10% royalty on recording sales, they can pay them a 5% to 8% rate when their song is downloaded from the Internet. In the case of downloaded music, although there is no packaging expense, many record company contracts still state that the 25% packaging fee will be deducted.<<<< Thanks for that, pretty much what I thought. So it's highly unlikely that the 'artist'  with the most downloaded single ever cleared half a million out of it. Prince just sold 350 copies of the Opus book over the weekend at $2,100 a pop, so $735,000. With costs taken out, Prince has got to be laughing his ass off. | |
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 @ how much they get... | |
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mynameisnotsusan said: newpower99 said: heres what i found
>>>Internet royalties With the explosion of the Internet and the ease of downloading music onto your computer, a whole new royalty arena has opened up in recent years. Record companies usually treat downloads as "new media/technology," which means they can reduce the royalty by 20% to 50%. This means that rather than paying artists a 10% royalty on recording sales, they can pay them a 5% to 8% rate when their song is downloaded from the Internet. In the case of downloaded music, although there is no packaging expense, many record company contracts still state that the 25% packaging fee will be deducted.<<<< Thanks for that, pretty much what I thought. So it's highly unlikely that the 'artist' with the most downloaded single ever cleared half a million out of it. Prince just sold 350 copies of the Opus book over the weekend at $2,100 a pop, so $735,000. With costs taken out, Prince has got to be laughing his ass off.exactly! | |
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woops edit [Edited 4/21/09 14:24pm] | |
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Timmy84 said: @ how much they get...I'm kind of disgusted myself. Though I feel T.I. and Lil Wayne still probably got way too much. | |
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abigail05 said: Timmy84 said: @ how much they get...I'm kind of disgusted myself. Though I feel T.I. and Lil Wayne still probably got way too much. And I doubt no one will remember those songs. Hell I don't even know how they sound so how the fuck is this an accomplishment for them?  | |
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Timmy84 said: abigail05 said: I'm kind of disgusted myself. Though I feel T.I. and Lil Wayne still probably got way too much. And I doubt no one will remember those songs. Hell I don't even know how they sound so how the fuck is this an accomplishment for them? Exactly! and the funnier thing is that the Top 3 dudes.....T pain,FLO-rida and Soulja Boy cannot translate their zillion downloads into anything more than a few hundred thousand albums sold. TRANSLATION, they aint getting paid, dude at the label and dude at Itunes is fucking raking in the cash, while T pain and Flo-rida have to use their own money to rent shit for videos....good, fuck em. "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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lastdecember said:[quote] Timmy84 said: And I doubt no one will remember those songs. Hell I don't even know how they sound so how the fuck is this an accomplishment for them? Exactly! and the funnier thing is that the Top 3 dudes.....T pain,FLO-rida and Soulja Boy cannot translate their zillion downloads into anything more than a few hundred thousand albums sold. TRANSLATION, they aint getting paid, dude at the label and dude at Itunes is fucking raking in the cash, while T pain and Flo-rida have to use their own money to rent shit for videos....good, fuck em And to be honest the only one in that Top 10 that will have any SHELF life and catalog, is Coldplay and Kanye [Edited 4/21/09 16:52pm] "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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thekidsgirl said: newpower99 said: All- Time
8 STRONGER KANYE WEST 3,551,289 9 HOT N COLD KATY PERRY 3,517,135 17 SO WHAT PINK 3,253,527 18 UMBRELLA RIHANNA FEATURING JAY-Z 3,216,934 22 SEXYBACK JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE 3,037,000 23 NO ONE ALICIA KEYS 3,000,000 25 LOVE SONG SARA BAREILLES 2,876,052 27 NO AIR JORDIN SPARKS 2,830,711 29 PAPER PLANES M.I.A. 2,797,554 37 WOMANIZER BRITNEY SPEARS 2,623,368 41 THE WAY I ARE TIMBALAND 2,562,000 44 4 MINUTES MADONNA 2,471,692 45 PARALYZER FINGER ELEVEN 2,457,058 46 THE SWEET ESCAPE GWEN STEFANI FEATURING AKON 2,447,466 48 FERGALICIOUS FERGIE 2,427,377 49 CRAZY GNARLS BARKLEY 2,419,022 2 POKER FACE LADY GAGA 2,145,799 13 CIRCUS BRITNEY SPEARS 1,266,261 21 SOBER PINK 898,464 26 WOMANIZER BRITNEY SPEARS 800,980 34 HALO BEYONCE 658,177 50 IF U SEEK AMY BRITNEY SPEARS 489,821 I suppose I could stomach these
but that's a stretch you got me beat. I could only find 6 "We may deify or demonize them but not ignore them. And we call them genius, because they are the people who change the world." |
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bboy87 said: thekidsgirl said: I suppose I could stomach these
but that's a stretch you got me beat. I could only find 6 I can handle 7 or 8 but half are Britney. "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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lastdecember said:[quote] lastdecember said: Timmy84 said: And I doubt no one will remember those songs. Hell I don't even know how they sound so how the fuck is this an accomplishment for them? Exactly! and the funnier thing is that the Top 3 dudes.....T pain,FLO-rida and Soulja Boy cannot translate their zillion downloads into anything more than a few hundred thousand albums sold. TRANSLATION, they aint getting paid, dude at the label and dude at Itunes is fucking raking in the cash, while T pain and Flo-rida have to use their own money to rent shit for videos....good, fuck em And to be honest the only one in that Top 10 that will have any SHELF life and catalog, is Coldplay and Kanye [Edited 4/21/09 16:52pm] Basically, lol. | |
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It's interesting that other than Journey, all of the top digital downloads have been songs from the last four years. It's probably indicative of the state of the music industry these days.
newpower99 said: heres what i found
>>>Internet royalties With the explosion of the Internet and the ease of downloading music onto your computer, a whole new royalty arena has opened up in recent years. Record companies usually treat downloads as "new media/technology," which means they can reduce the royalty by 20% to 50%. This means that rather than paying artists a 10% royalty on recording sales, they can pay them a 5% to 8% rate when their song is downloaded from the Internet. In the case of downloaded music, although there is no packaging expense, many record company contracts still state that the 25% packaging fee will be deducted.<<<< WTF!?!?    The record companies are losing CD sales yet they are still managing to rip off their artists like they're a bunch of sharecroppers in Jim Crow days. No wonder why people hate the record companies.
Having said that, they may as well enjoy these profits now, because they won't have any shelf life since most of these artists are or will be just one hit wonders anyway.  | |
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728huey said: It's interesting that other than Journey, all of the top digital downloads have been songs from the last four years. It's probably indicative of the state of the music industry these days.
newpower99 said: heres what i found
>>>Internet royalties With the explosion of the Internet and the ease of downloading music onto your computer, a whole new royalty arena has opened up in recent years. Record companies usually treat downloads as "new media/technology," which means they can reduce the royalty by 20% to 50%. This means that rather than paying artists a 10% royalty on recording sales, they can pay them a 5% to 8% rate when their song is downloaded from the Internet. In the case of downloaded music, although there is no packaging expense, many record company contracts still state that the 25% packaging fee will be deducted.<<<< WTF!?!? The record companies are losing CD sales yet they are still managing to rip off their artists like they're a bunch of sharecroppers in Jim Crow days. No wonder why people hate the record companies.
Having said that, they may as well enjoy these profits now, because they won't have any shelf life since most of these artists are or will be just one hit wonders anyway. Record companies will never learn. And you're definitely right @ "they won't have any shelf life", they sure won't. | |
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thekidsgirl said: Holy moley! what an awful list
You said IT. Das some awful songs. | |
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"Pocketful of Sunshine" is the best song on that list by a mile. | |
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Graycap23 said: Look at the quality of the talent on this list.
It's laughable isn't it. Some people just don't care what kind of trashy music they support. | |
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Empress said: Graycap23 said: Look at the quality of the talent on this list.
It's laughable isn't it. Some people just don't care what kind of trashy music they support. I laughed....then I cried.  | |
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Graycap23 said: Empress said: It's laughable isn't it. Some people just don't care what kind of trashy music they support. I laughed....then I cried. I hear ya! | |
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