The 30 Country Singers with the Largest Digital Footprints

Posted on June 6, 2013 by PeekYou Team

What is PeekScore?: PeekScore is a rank from 1 to 10, assigned to every person. The higher someone’s score, the “more important” they are on the web. In calculating your PeekScore and updating it often, PeekYou takes into account your known presence and activity on the Internet, including but not limited to; your blogging, participation in social networks, the number of your friends, followers, or readers, the amount of web content you create, and your prominence in the news. For first time visitors a more in-depth explanation of what the PeekScore is, and how to increase your own, can be found by clicking through here.

These aren’t necessarily the best-selling country acts, although many of them are included here, nor is this a list of the most influential, although a handful of performers of whom that can be said can be found below. This list features the 30 country singers currently most prominent in cyberspace, as measured on our PeekScore scale.

While sure to be controversial, we must stress that this list reflects no bias on our part. The list leans heavily toward modern acts, particularly those most active at social media; with a majority of the acts below having over a million friends and/or followers on Facebook and/or Twitter, and sometimes both. The singer topping the list would top nearly any PeekScore list she was on, as she’s simply one of the internet’s most inescapable faces. Her runner-up is no PeekScore slouch herself; and while a former American Idol winner, and mainstream pop-culture figure, perhaps still considered a more legitimate country singer than our number one.

The most pleasant surprises for us were the incredibly high showings of flat-out legends Dolly, Willie, and Loretta. And the biggest surprise was perhaps mega-platinum superstar Garth Brooks’ current digital footprint finding him just shy of the top 30.

Rank	Name	Songs	PeekScore
1	Taylor Swift	Our Song, We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together	10.00 / 10.00
2	Carrie Underwood	Jesus Take the Wheel, Cowboy Casanova	9.99 / 10.00
3	Blake Shelton	Austin, She Wouldn’t Be Gone	9.75 / 10.00
4	Tim McGraw	Grown Men Don’t Cry, Angry All the Time	9.60 / 10.00
5	Dolly Parton	Jolene, Coat of Many Colors	9.56 / 10.00
6	Shania Twain	You’re Still the One, Man! I Feel Like a Woman!	9.48 / 10.00
7	Alan Jackson	Don’t Rock the Jukebox, Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)	9.39 / 10.00
8	Faith Hill	Wild One, Piece of My Heart	9.36 / 10.00
9	Toby Keith	Should’ve Been a Cowboy, Courtesy of the Red, White, & Blue	9.35 / 10.00
10	LeAnn Rimes	Blue, One Way Ticket (Because I Can)	9.34 / 10.00
11	Willie Nelson	Good Hearted Woman, Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain	9.32 / 10.00
12	Eric Church	How ‘Bout You, Guys Like Me	9.32 / 10.00
13	Keith Urban	But for the Grace of God, Somebody Like You	9.31 / 10.00
14	Luke Bryan	All My Friends Say, We Rode in Trucks	9.24 / 10.00
15	Loretta Lynn	Fist City, Coal Miner’s Daughter	9.23 / 10.00
16	Billy Currington	Must Be Doin’ Somethin’ Right, People Are Crazy	9.23 / 10.00
17	Trisha Yearwood	She’s in Love with the Boy, There Goes My Baby	9.22 / 10.00
18	Jason Aldean	The Truth, Don’t You Wanna Stay	9.19 / 10.00
19	Brad Paisley	I Wish You’d Stay, Two People Fell in Love	9.18 / 10.00
20	Miranda Lambert	Kerosene, Over You	9.17 / 10.00
21	Kenny Chesney	The Boys of Fall, Out Last Night	9.16 / 10.00
22	Trace Adkins	Ladies Love Country Boys, You’re Gonna Miss This	9.16 / 10.00
23	Reba McEntire	How Blue, Somebody Should Leave	9.13 / 10.00
24	Dierks Bentley	Settle for a Slowdown, Come a Little Closer	9.13 / 10.00
25	Zac Brown	Highway 20 Ride, Colder Weather	9.11 / 10.00
26	George Strait	Fool Hearted Memory, Ocean Front Property	9.10 / 10.00
27	Brantley Gilbert	Country Must Be Country Wide, You Don’t Know Her Like I Do	9.10 / 10.00
28	Josh Turner	Why Don’t We Just Dance, All Over Me	8.87 / 10.00
29	Kellie Pickler	Red High Heels, I Wonder	8.84 / 10.00
30	Scotty McCreery	I Love You This Big, The Trouble with Girls	8.77 / 10.00

The PeekScores of the CEOs of the Top 10 “Most Valuable Brands”

Posted on June 4, 2013 by PeekYou Team

Rank	Name	Brand	PeekScore
1	Tim Cook	Apple	9.45 / 10.00
2	Larry Page	Google	9.21 / 10.00
3	Ginni Rometty	IBM	9.17 / 10.00
4	Li Yue	China Mobile	9.16 / 10.00
5	Steve Ballmer	Microsoft	8.52 / 10.00
6	Louis C. Camilleri (CEO of Philip Morris International)	Marlboro	7.54 / 10.00
7	Don Thompson	McDonald’s	7.52 / 10.00
8	Muhtar Kent	Coca-Cola	7.20 / 10.00
9	Randall Stephenson	AT&T	7.15 / 10.00
10	Charles Scharf	Visa	7.12 / 10.00

Which of People Magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive” Honorees has the Largest PeekScore?

Posted on June 3, 2013 by PeekYou Team

What is PeekScore?: PeekScore is a rank from 1 to 10, assigned to every person. The higher someone’s score, the “more important” they are on the web. In calculating your PeekScore and updating it often, PeekYou takes into account your known presence and activity on the Internet, including but not limited to; your blogging, participation in social networks, the number of your friends, followers, or readers, the amount of web content you create, and your prominence in the news. For first time visitors a more in-depth explanation of what the PeekScore is, and how to increase your own, can be found by clicking through here.

Back in 1985 People Magazine did the Earth’s inhabitants a huge solid and filled them in on who, of all the many men walking the planet at that time, was the Sexiest Man Alive (it was, for the record, Road Warrior star Mel Gibson).

On a mostly annual basis in the years which have come and gone since, People has continued to keep the general public abreast of the various developments and changes in the field of sexiest men. In that time, they’ve named 23 different men — with some of the men being honored more than once — as sexiest (all but two of whom, Patrick Swayze and John F. Kennedy, Jr., are still alive).

We here at the PeekScore blog don’t know from sexy, sexier, or sexiest. That’s not our gig. These seem like a fine bunch of gentlemen, and we wish them the best. But we do know from digital footprints — a concept outlined in brief above and more in depth here — and we decided it a fine idea to see how these apparent hunks measure up in terms of their impacts and presences here in the ether of the Web.

Rank	Name	Year(s)	PeekScore
1	Tom Cruise	1990	10.00 / 10.00
2	Brad Pitt	1995, 2000	10.00 / 10.00
3	Johnny Depp	2003, 2009	9.99 / 10.00
4	George Clooney	1997, 2006	9.91 / 10.00
5	Mel Gibson	1985	9.85 / 10.00
6	Ryan Reynolds	2010	9.74 / 10.00
7	Ben Affleck	2002	9.34 / 10.00
8	Channing Tatum	2012	9.15 / 10.00
9	Matt Damon	2007	9.12 / 10.00
10	Pierce Brosnan	2001	9.11 / 10.00
11	Richard Gere	1993, 1999	9.10 / 10.00
12	Bradley Cooper	2011	9.10 / 10.00
13	Hugh Jackman	2008	9.09 / 10.00
14	Nick Nolte	1992	9.05 / 10.00
15	Sean Connery	1984	9.04 / 10.00
16	Denzel Washington	1996	8.99 / 10.00
17	Harrison Ford	1998	8.97 / 10.00
18	Jude Law	2004	8.80 / 10.00
19	Matthew McConaughey	2005	8.63 / 10.00
20	Mark Harmon	1986	8.23 / 10.00
21	Harry Hamlin	1987	7.94 / 10.00

Which of Maxim’s “Sexiest & Hottest Celebrities” Has the Largest Digital Footprint?

Posted on May 28, 2013 by PeekYou Team

What is PeekScore?: PeekScore is a rank from 1 to 10, assigned to every person. The higher someone’s score, the “more important” they are on the web. In calculating your PeekScore and updating it often, PeekYou takes into account your known presence and activity on the Internet, including but not limited to; your blogging, participation in social networks, the number of your friends, followers, or readers, the amount of web content you create, and your prominence in the news. For first time visitors a more in-depth explanation of what the PeekScore is, and how to increase your own, can be found by clicking through here.

While there are many men within the vicinity of the PeekScore blog, we’re not a particularly “laddish” bunch. As we’ve detailed previously, right here in these very virtual pages, our firm exteriors merely protect — from some of the world’s more cruel and unsavory elements — tender hearts and extremely enlightened souls. Ranking humans based upon the degrees to which they are or are not “sexy” or “hot” is not really our area of expertise; those sorts of concerns being best left to lad mags, and the like, to debate and determine. We “digital footprints” blogs are far more concerned with inner-beauty (as quantified on our PeekScore scale).

What we can do, though, is let those concerned — in this instance the readers of popular men’s magazine Maxim — decide who’s sexiest, and then we can step in and see how the folks that they’ve deemed appealing measure up here in cyberspace. And here we’ve done just that.

We’ve taken the top 10 women from Maxim‘s recently published Hot 100 to see how they compare in terms not of their hotness, nor sexiness, nor popularity with men, but in terms of their impacts and presences here in cyberspace (their digital footprints, as it were, a brief explanation of which can found in this entry’s header, and a more in-depth explanation of which can be found here).

Rank	Name	Bio	PeekScore
1	Miley Cyrus	Former star of Disney’s Hannah Montanna	10.00 / 10.00
2	Selena Gomez	Former star of Disney’s Wizards of Waverly Place	10.00 / 10.00
3	Kate Upton	Sports Illustrated swimsuit model	9.99 / 10.00
4	Vanessa Hudgens	Former star of the High School Musical series	9.98 / 10.00
5	Ashley Tisdale	Former star of Disney’s The Suite Life of Zack & Cody	9.86 / 10.00
6	Jennifer Love Hewitt	Former star of Party of Five	9.69 / 10.00
7	Rihanna	Multi-platinum r&b singer	9.53 / 10.00
8	Mila Kunis	Former star of That 70s Show	9.52 / 10.00
9	Jennifer Lawrence	Former star of the Bill Engvall Show	9.39 / 10.00
10	Elisha Cuthbert	Former co-host of Popular Mechanics for Kids	8.48 / 10.00

The World’s Most Powerful Women and Their Digital Footprints

Posted on May 28, 2013 by PeekYou Team

What is PeekScore?: PeekScore is a rank from 1 to 10, assigned to every person. The higher someone’s score, the “more important” they are on the web. In calculating your PeekScore and updating it often, PeekYou takes into account your known presence and activity on the Internet, including but not limited to; your blogging, participation in social networks, the number of your friends, followers, or readers, the amount of web content you create, and your prominence in the news. For first time visitors a more in-depth explanation of what the PeekScore is, and how to increase your own, can be found by clicking through here.

Forbes has very recently released their annual list of the women they believe to be the most powerful in the world. You can head over to Forbes here to get more insight into what criteria they used to determine their findings, but – to the degree that such a thing as “power” is quantifiable – we will say that their list seems to be pretty accurate. These are surely some enormously influential women. While we hope to one day live in a world where there’s no novelty whatsoever to the notion of a woman in a position of power, influence, or leadership, we at this time have no problem acknowledging those women who have achieved and/or gained such statuses on the world stage.

Anyway, it’s not our place to rank or compare the various powers of these women, but to instead see how they stack up here in cyberspace. This is a look at the digital footprints of the top 10 women from Forbes‘ list. You will find the “digital footprints” concept explained in brief in the above disclaimer and more in detail if you click through here.

Rank	Name	Character	PeekScore
1	Hillary Clinton	US Secretary of State	10.00 / 10.00
2	Michelle Obama	US First Lady	9.96 / 10.00
3	Angela Merkel	Chancellor of Germany	9.48 / 10.00
4	Dilma Rousseff	President of Brazil	9.08 / 10.00
5	Melinda Gates	Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation	8.54 / 10.00
6	Sheryl Sandberg	COO, Facebook	8.20 / 10.00
7	Christine Lagarde	Head of International Monetary Fund	8.37 / 10.00
8	Janet Napolitano	US Secretary of Homeland Security	8.07 / 10.00
9	Indra Nooyi	CEO of PepsiCo	7.66 / 10.00
10	Sonia Gandhi	President, Indian National Congress Party	7.07 / 10.00

Which of the Top-Paid CEOs has the Largest PeekScore?

Posted on May 28, 2013 by PeekYou Team

Rank	Name	Company / Earnings	PeekScore
1	Larry Ellison	Oracle / $96.2mil	8.18 / 10.00
2	Howard Schultz	Starbucks / $28.5mil	7.83 / 10.00
3	Bob Iger	Walt Disney / $37.1mil	7.38 / 10.00
4	Mark Parker	Nike / $35.2mil	7.33 / 10.00
5	John Donahoe	eBay / $29.7mil	7.32 / 10.00
6	Ken Chenault	American Express / $28mil	7.20 / 10.00
7	Philippe Dauman	Viacom / $33.4mil	7.08 / 10.00
8	Richard Bracken	HCA / $38.6mil	7.05 / 10.00
9	Louis Camilleri	Phillip Morris / $24.7mil	7.04 / 10.00
10	Stephen Chazen	Occidental Petroleum / $28/5mil	7.00 / 10.00

The PeekScores of the Cast of Arrested Development

Posted on May 28, 2013 by PeekYou Team

What is PeekScore?: PeekScore is a rank from 1 to 10, assigned to every person. The higher someone’s score, the “more important” they are on the web. In calculating your PeekScore and updating it often, PeekYou takes into account your known presence and activity on the Internet, including but not limited to; your blogging, participation in social networks, the number of your friends, followers, or readers, the amount of web content you create, and your prominence in the news. For first time visitors a more in-depth explanation of what the PeekScore is, and how to increase your own, can be found by clicking through here.

Netflix has recently garnered a fair bit of attention by reviving, exclusively for their streaming services, the cult sitcom Arrested Development. Created by Mitchell Hurwitz, and originally airing on Fox between 2003 and 2006, the critically lauded and award winning series just never caught on with mainstream audiences and wound up canceled after three seasons. In the intervening years since its lamented removal from TV screens, however, via DVD and streaming video the program’s cult following has only grown in both size and dedication. Additionally, many of the show’s cast members have gone on to greater successes in film and television.

In honor of the much-hyped return of this show, we’re putting its cast members to the PeekScore test; measuring and comparing their various impacts and presences here on the Web. The biggest surprise for us was the cast-member topping the list. While married to one of our top PeekScore champs, we didn’t realize that she herself was such a formidable presence on the web.

Rank	Name	Character	PeekScore
1	Portia de Rossi	Lindsay Bluth Fünke	9.34 / 10.00
2	Jason Bateman	Michael Bluth	8.24 / 10.00
3	Ron Howard	Narrator	8.22 / 10.00
4	Michael Cera	George-Michael Bluth	8.16 / 10.00
5	Will Arnett	Gob Bluth	8.09 / 10.00
6	David Cross	Tobias Fünke	8.08 / 10.00
7	Jeffrey Tambor	George Bluth, Sr.	7.80 / 10.00
8	Alia Shawkat	Maeby Fünke	7.58 / 10.00
9	Jessica Walter	Lucille Bluth	7.45 / 10.00
10	Tony Hale	Buster Bluth	7.44 / 10.00

The PeekScores of Wall Street’s 25 Most Powerful Women

Posted on May 7, 2013 by PeekYou Team

What is PeekScore?: PeekScore is a rank from 1 to 10, assigned to every person. The higher someone’s score, the “more important” they are on the web. In calculating your PeekScore and updating it often, PeekYou takes into account your known presence and activity on the Internet, including but not limited to; your blogging, participation in social networks, the number of your friends, followers, or readers, the amount of web content you create, and your prominence in the news. For first time visitors a more in-depth explanation of what the PeekScore is, and how to increase your own, can be found by clicking through here.

As we’ve pointed out here on numerous occasions prior (such as here), we wish we didn’t live in a world where the idea of women in positions of affluence and leadership seemed novel or worthy of singling out. It is 2013, after all. But, there’s no denying that — for at least today — such specific acknowledgements do still often seem appropriate.

That tiny bit of what should frankly be uncontroversial politics aside, a little while back the good people at Business Insider created a list celebrating the accomplishments of who they deemed to be The 25 Most Powerful Women On Wall Street (you can read their article here).

What we’ve done is what we always do, and taken these 25 women to see how they measure up and compare in terms of their relative impacts and presences in cyberspace, as quantified by our PeekScore scale (an assessment of their “digital footprints,” as it were, a concept explained in brief above, and more in depth here).

These women all have scores within a very narrow PeekScore range, with many statistical ties throughout. While no internet superstars to really be found among them (with few if any Twitter accounts or blogs, etc) they are all, at least in part owing to the internet’s extensive financial and business coverage, present and accounted for here on the Web.

Rank	Name	Title – Company	PeekScore
1	Meredith Whitney	CEO – Meredith Whitney Advisory Group	7.56 / 10.00
2	Irene Dorner	President and CEO - HSBC USA	7.10 / 10.00
3	Eileen Serra	CEO of Credit Card Services – JPMorgan	7.09 / 10.00
4	Nancy Peretsman	Managing Director – Allen & Co.	7.08 / 10.00
5	Sonia Gardner	President, Managing Partner, Co-Founder – Avenue Capital	7.08 / 10.00
6	Blythe Masters	Head of Global Commodities – JPMorgan	7.07 / 10.00
7	Carla Harris	Managing Director, Emerging Managers Platform – Morgan Stanley Investment Management	7.06 / 10.00
8	Abby Joseph Cohen	U.S. Investment Strategist – Goldman Sachs	7.06 / 10.00
9	Ruth Porat	CFO – Morgan Stanley	7.05 / 10.00
10	Edith Cooper	Executive VP/ Global Head of Human Capital Management – Goldman Sachs	7.04 / 10.00
11	Mei Gao	Partner – Fore Research & Management	7.03 / 10.00
12	Sharmin Mossavar-Rahmani	CIO – Goldman Sachs (Private Wealth Management group)	7.03 / 10.00
13	Catherine Keating	CEO of United States Institutional Asset Management – JPMorgan	7.02 / 10.00
14	Dominic Barton	Founder – Tse Capital	7.02 / 10.00
15	Marianne Lake	CFO – JPMorgan Chase	7.02 / 10.00
16	Jamie Zimmerman	CEO – Litespeed Management	7.01 / 10.00
17	Dawn Fitzpatrick	CIO = UBS O’Connor	7.01 / 10.00
18	Candace Browning	Head of Global Research – Bank of America Merrill Lynch	7.01 / 10.00
19	Mary Callahan Erdoes	CEO – JPMorgan Asset Management	7.00 / 10.00
20	Renée Haugerud	CIO – Galtere	7.00 / 10.00
21	Leda Braga	CIO – Bluecrest	7.00 / 10.00
22	Dottie Mattison	Senior Managing Director – Guggenheim Partners	6.99 / 10.00
23	Alexandra Lebenthal	President/CEO – Lebenthal & Company	6.98 / 10.00
24	Lara Warner	CFO of the Investment Banking Division – Credit Suisse	6.97 / 10.00
25	Hope Pascucci	President – Rose Grover Capital	6.55 / 10.00

Which of the 20 Best-Liked CEOs Has the Largest Digital Footprint?

Posted on May 7, 2013 by PeekYou Team

What is PeekScore?: PeekScore is a rank from 1 to 10, assigned to every person. The higher someone’s score, the “more important” they are on the web. In calculating your PeekScore and updating it often, PeekYou takes into account your known presence and activity on the Internet, including but not limited to; your blogging, participation in social networks, the number of your friends, followers, or readers, the amount of web content you create, and your prominence in the news. For first time visitors a more in-depth explanation of what the PeekScore is, and how to increase your own, can be found by clicking through here.

Recently, the popular job rating site Glassdoor.com posted their annual list of the CEOs most highly rated by their employees. We’ve taken the top 20 executives from the list and measured and compared their PeekScores.

Simply, and as before and as ever, we’re sizing these bigwigs up not based upon the varying quantities of wealth contained within their bonus checks, nor even – as Glassdoor has already done – the degree to which their employees are satisfied with the jobs they’re doing. This is a look at how these popular chiefs compare to one another here on the web, in terms of their respective impacts and presences (i.e., their digital footprints, as outlined above and more in depth by clicking through here), as measured on our nifty PeekScore scale.

Note: SAP has co-CEOs, both of whom are on this list. The list, therefore, features 21 names.

Rank	Name	Company	PeekScore
1	Mark Zuckerberg	Facebook	10.00 / 10.00
2	Larry Page	Google	9.25 / 10.00
3	Tim Cook	Apple	8.68 / 10.00
4	Jeff Bezos	Amazon	8.08 / 10.00
5	Paul Otellini	Intel	7.98 / 10.00
6	Richard K. Davis	U.S. Bank	7.95 / 10.00
7	Howard Schultz	Starbucks	7.74 / 10.00
8	Paul E. Jacobs	QUALCOMM	7.46 / 10.00
9	Jen-Hsun Huang	NVIDIA	7.26 / 10.00
10	Joe Tucci	EMC	7.20 / 10.00
11	Ken Chenault	American Express	7.19 / 10.00
12	Hans Vestberg	Ericsson-Worldwide	7.13 / 10.00
13	Bill McDermott	SAP	7.08 / 10.00
14	Dominic Barton	McKinsey & Company	7.07 / 10.00
15	Mark B. Templeton	Citrix Systems	7.06 / 10.00
16	Jim Hagemann	SAP	7.05 / 10.00
17	Jim Turley	Ernst & Young	7.03 / 10.00
18	John Schlifske	Northwestern Mutual	7.02 / 10.00
19	Frank D’Souza	Cognizant Technology Solutions	7.01 / 10.00
20	Pierre Nanterme	Accenture	7.00 / 10.00
21	Carlos Rodriguez	ADP	6.96 / 10.00

The Digital Footprints of the Judges and Hosts of The Voice

Posted on April 29, 2013 by PeekYou Team

Rank	Name	Bio	PeekScore
1	Christina Aguilera (sitting out the 4th season, apparently returning for the 5th)	Multi-platinum singer of such megahits as “Beautiful,” “Genie in a Bottle,” and “What a Girl Wants”	10.00 / 10.00
2	Adam Levine	Lead singer for Maroon 5	9.35 / 10.00
3	Christina Milian	Singer and actress, and the star of films such as “Love Don’t Cost a Thing”	9.18 / 10.00
4	Blake Shelton	Country star	9.14 / 10.00
5	Usher (4th season only, so far)	Multi-platinum singer of such hits as “Nice & Slow” and “Confessions Part II”	8.99 / 10.00
6	Shakira (4th season only, so far)	Colombian born singer, songwriter, producer, and dancer	8.72 / 10.00
7	Carson Daly	Former host of MTV’s Total Request Live	8.30 / 10.00
8	Cee Lo Green (sitting out the 4th season, apparently returning for the 5th)	Multi-platinum singer, songwriter, and producer	8.11 / 10.00