Music’s Contribution To Web Growth Continues

Music related traffic is growing on the web and represents some of it’s top traffic. 

Nielson has published a list of the fastest growing web sites and it includes MySpace, Facebook (a youth community site), and P2P application LimeWire which jumped 345% last year to 7.6 unique visitors. Meanwhile among the sites with the highest overall traffic Apple and iTunes now attract 30.8 million unique visitors monthly, a 57 percent jump  over November of last year.  Apple is the strongest of the top ten websites with Yahoo (#1 with 104 million visitors), MSN and Google holding on to the top three slots measured by total unique visitors.  All three sites have recently stepped up their music initiatives after reporting increasing consumer demand.

Further proving that – declining sales to the contrary  –  music still matters, musicians topped the rankings on Yahoo’s search engine. Their recently released annual "Buzz Index" of top searches showed Britney Spears was the most searched overall with 50 Cent, Green Day, Jessica Simpson, Eminem, Ciara, and Lindsay Lohan also landing in the top 10 beating other celebrities from film, TV and politics.