Ironic that Clear Channel, long a foe of file sharing, is teaming up with Big Champagne, a company that tracks the top downloaded songs and artists on the major P2P groups. Here’s the story, from RAIN and the Wall Street Journal. I guess they know that the almighty dollar rules all. Or if ya can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em:
From the Wall Street Journal: “A unit of Clear Channel Communications Inc. will begin offering radio stations data about the popularity of songs on peer-to-peer Internet networks, a move that will sharply raise the profile of activity on the controversial online services.
“Premiere Radio Networks, Clear Channel’s national-programming arm, will add information provided by Los Angeles peer-to-peer tracking firm BigChampagne LLC to the research services it offers to radio stations.
“The new offering could reach an extremely influential audience in the music world, since Premiere has more than 1,000 research customers. Clear Channel, of San Antonio, itself is the biggest radio broadcaster.
“The upshot is that activity on online services such as Kazaa, Morpheus and iMesh could eventually have significant clout in shaping radio playlists, even though much of the music in those networks is deemed pirated material by record labels.”
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