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Which of the Top Female Pop Stars Has the Largest Digital Footprint?

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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.

This list is really rather straightforward. Here are ten of today’s most enormous female pop stars – some more veteran, some newer, all current huge sellers, award winners, and headline grabbers – measured and compared not based on the sizes of their record sales, nor the qualities of their recordings, but based upon the sizes of their impacts here on the Net (i.e., their digital footprints, an explanation of which can be found above, or more in depth by clicking through here).

Are there any female megastars you would want to see on this list? Let us know in the comments.

Rank Picture Name Major Song PeekScore
1

Lady Gaga Poker Face 10.00 / 10.00
2

Katy Perry California Gurls 9.98 / 10.00
3

Britney Spears Toxic 9.96 / 10.00
4

Taylor Swift Should’ve Said No 9.94 / 10.00
5

Avril Lavigne Girlfriend 9.93 / 10.00
6

Beyoncé Knowles Crazy in Love 9.93 / 10.00
7

Nicki Minaj Super Bass 9.89 / 10.00
8

Rihanna SOS 9.64 / 10.00
9

Adele Rolling in the Deep 9.05 / 10.00
10

Ke$ha Rolling in the Deep 9.04 / 10.00

The PeekScores of the Biggest Female Pop Stars

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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.

This list is really rather straightforward. Here are ten of today’s most enormous female pop stars – some more veteran, some newer, all current huge sellers, award winners, and headline grabbers – measured and compared not based on the sizes of their record sales, nor the qualities of their recordings, but based upon the sizes of their impacts here on the Net (i.e., their digital footprints, an explanation of which can be found above, or more in depth by clicking through here).

As you may notice, the majority of these superstars find themselves topping out our 1 to 10 PeekScore scale. Given the household name status of them each, this comes as no surprise to us. It should be noted, though, that the order is not arbitrary and is in fact legitimate. Within our score of 10 there are subtle gradations and there’s a little wiggle room at the top. While it’s a VERY close race amongst these divas, this is still an accurate ordering of where things stand today. Whatever the order today or tomorrow, though, it goes without saying that all of these women are far and away, and well and beyond accounted for here in cyberspace.

Are there any female megastars you would want to see on this list? Let us know in the comments.

Rank Picture Name Major Song PeekScore
1

Jennifer Lopez On The Floor 10.00 / 10.00
2

Lady Gaga Poker Face 10.00 / 10.00
3

Katy Perry California Gurls 10.00 / 10.00
4

Britney Spears Toxic 10.00 / 10.00
5

Taylor Swift Should’ve Said No 10.00 / 10.00
6

Avril Lavigne Girlfriend 10.00 / 10.00
7

Beyoncé Knowles Crazy in Love 10.00 / 10.00
8

Nicki Minaj Super Bass 10.00 / 10.00
9

Rihanna SOS 9.12 / 10.00
10

Adele Rolling in the Deep 9.03 / 10.00

The PeekScores of the Highest Paid Celebrities Under 30

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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.

They’re all under 30, and they’re all worth more than most if not even all of you reading (and certainly we writing). These are the past year’s ten entertainers under the age of 30 most handsomely remunerated for their efforts in being fabulous. Comparing their fortunes and/or their works as actors, musicians, and so forth is the work of other blogs, of course. What we here at the PeekScore blog intend to do with these ten vastly wealthy whipper-snappers is compare their various impacts here on the World Wide Web, as quantified on our PeekScore scale (an explanation of which can be found above, or more in depth by clicking through here).

The folks topping our list are all grade A PeekScore Goliaths, but still there are some slight surprises to be found in the exact order of how things have shaken out.

Any thoughts on the below? Any youthful pop or film stars you have expected to see on a list of this sort? Let us know in the comments.

Rank Picture Name Age/Past Year’s Earnings PeekScore
1

Taylor Swift 22, $57mil 10.00 / 10.00
2

Justin Bieber 18, $55mil 10.00 / 10.00
3

Lady Gaga 26, $52mil 10.00 / 10.00
4

Katy Perry 27, $45mil 9.99 / 10.00
5

Robert Pattinson 26, $26.5mil 9.98 / 10.00
6

Kristen Stewart 22, $34.5mil 9.96 / 10.00
7

Taylor Lautner 20, $26.5mil 9.54 / 10.00
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Adele 24, $35mil 9.03 / 10.00
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Rihanna 24, $53mil 8.81 / 10.00
10

Lil Wayne 29, $27mil 8.70 / 10.00

Which of 2012′s Grammy Winners has the Highest PeekScore?

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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.

The Grammys have come and gone, and by now it’s pretty well known far and wide that the night’s big winner was British, blue-eyed soul songstress Adele. But is she the big winner here on the Internet? Well, as it just so happens, we here at the PeekScore blog believe we may have an answer to just such a question. And if you’ve been here before, you’re probably not surprised.

With this entry, we’ve taken this year’s big Grammy winners and ranked them according to the sizes of their digital footprints, as quantified on our PeekScore scale (an explanation of which can be found in brief above, or more in-depth by clicking through here). With the groups and duos who won – as PeekScores, at this time, only measure individuals – we’ve taken the most prominent members, and used their scores for this survey.

What were some of your favorite records this year? Did you watch the Grammys? What did you think of the telecast? Let us know in the comments.

Rank Picture Name Grammys Won PeekScore
1

Taylor Swift Country Solo Performance, Country Song 10.00 / 10.00
2

Chris Brown R&B Album 10.00 / 10.00
3

Kanye West Rap Album, Rap Performance, Rap Song, Rap/Sung Collaboration 10.00 / 10.00
4

Jay-Z Rap Performance (w/ Kanye West) 9.56 / 10.00
5

Tony Bennett Pop Performance by a Duo or Group (w/ Amy Winehouse) 9.14 / 10.00
6

Louis CK Comedy Album 9.07 / 10.00
7

Adele Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Pop Solo Performance, Pop Vocal Album 9.01 / 10.00
8

Cee Lo Green R&B Song, Traditional R&B Vocal Performance 8.72 / 10.00
9

Justin Vernon (of Bon Iver) New Artist, Alternative Album 8.24 / 10.00
10

Joy Williams (of The Civil Wars) Country Performance by a Duo or Group 8.19 / 10.00
11

Skrillex Dance Recording, Dance/Electronica Album 8.15 / 10.00
12

Charles Kelley (of Lady Antebellum) Country Album 8.10 / 10.00
13

Dave Grohl (of Foo Fighters) Rock Song, Rock Album, Rock Performance, Hard Rock/Metal Performance 8.03 / 10.00
14

Corinne Bailey Rae R&B Performance 7.24 / 10.00

Which of 2011′s Top Recording Artists Has the Highest PeekScore?

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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.

While none but pop music’s very biggest stars sell recordings in anything like the quantities of the pop stars of 15-20 years ago, pop music itself looms as large in the culture as ever. Below is a list of 2011′s top recording artists ranked not according to the quantity of units they moved, but according to the sizes of their digital footrpints.

Of all the popular artists, from all the popular media, none – with the possible exception of athletes – have taken to social networking the way pop musicians have. While the PeekScore is a measurement of an individual’s overall digital footrpint – taking in to consideration all aspects of one’s online life, both active and passive – it surely doesn’t hurt your score to generate your own content, and most of those below are doing plenty of just that (or are having it done on their behalves). Between this and their mostly enormous celebrities – particularly receiving attention in the youth driven music and gossip blogospheres – there’s not a meager PeekScore to be found below.

It will be no surprise to anyone familiar with the internet’s assorted celebrity fixations to see that this list’s top three names all are accompanied by a PeekScore of 10. Within that lofty peak of “Peek” there are subtle gradations, and these three do – as of this writing – fall into line, in sequence as you see below; meaning Gaga’s 10 is slightly bigger than Bieber’s, and so forth. (PeekScores do change over time, and if we were to refresh this list a month from now things might shake out slightly differently.)

Who were some of your favorite recording artists of 2011? Do you have any ideas for other pop music related lists you’d like to see us do? Let us know in the comments.

Rank Picture Name Recent Releases PeekScore
1

Lady Gaga Born This Way 10.00 / 10
2

Justin Bieber My World 2.0, Under the Mistletoe 10.00 / 10
3

Taylor Swift Speak Now 10.00 / 10
4

Lil’ Wayne Tha Carter IV 9.99 / 10
5

Michael Bublé Crazy Love: Hollywood Edition, Christmas 9.98 / 10
6

Jason Aldean My Kinda Party 9.47 / 10
7

Adele 21 9.34 / 10
8

Drake Take Care, Thank Me Later 9.11 / 10
9

Marcus Mumford (of Mumford & Sons) Sigh No More 9.03 / 10
10

Charles Kelley (of Lady Antebellum) Own the Night, Need You Now 8.10 / 10

The PeekScores of PeekYou’s 10 Most Searched For Female Celebrities

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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.

The good folks over at Celebuzz.com asked us to cook up a list of the ten female celebrities who are searched for the most frequently on PeekYou. They then, of course (knowing how much we love to do such things), requested that we rank these women according to their PeekScores.

Being insanely famous, or being massively searched for online does not necessarily translate to the largest PeekScore (for the record, being searched for here on PeekYou has no impact on PeekScores whatsoever). Per usual, it is the celebrities who most actively participate in their online lives – via social networking, blogs, and personal websites – whose digital footprints are the most profound. Pop musicians seem to, in general, lead among the most robust social media existences and this is surely reflected in the scores below. We’ll spare you the long-winded analysis for the moment, but it obviously relates to the demographic of the pop music audience and the degree to which it intersects with the general specs of social media’s most avid users.

Yet another list of this precise nature, only for male celebs, is coming very soon, so stay tuned. And in the meantime, head on over to Celebuzz.com and spend some time clicking around there, why don’cha?

Rank Picture Name Occupation PeekScore
1

Rihanna Pop star 10.00 / 10
2

Lady Gaga Pop star 10.00 / 10
3

Katy Perry Pop star 10.00 / 10
4

Adele Pop star 9.14 / 10
5

Emma Watson Movie star 9.10 / 10
6

Kristen Stewart Movie star 9.00 / 10
7

Jennifer Aniston Movie star 9.00 / 10
8



Angelina Jolie Movie star 8.10 / 10
9

Sandra Bullock Movie star 7.96 / 10
10



Anne Hathaway Movie star 7.33 / 10

The Digital Footprints of the Artists on the Billboard Top 10, for the Week of June 4, 2011

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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.

In the previous entry of this type, wherein we ambitiously introduced this as a recurring feature, we explained our feelings on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and the suspicious formulas which drive it to its conclusions. These thoughts were typed up by us as lifelong fans of popular music, and observers of our popular culture. We did not generously share with you our concerns to, by contrast, shine a favorable light upon the PeekScore blog simply because all of our lists are imbued with an integrity which Billboard’s Hot 100 sorely lacks (however much that is true). It is apples and oranges, we know, to compare the Hot 100 to what we do. Billboard’s chart is a song chart and our charts are, well, AWESOME. Nonetheless, it’s worth noting that while the Hot 100 seems to be somewhat arbitrary, if not quite random, our charts are impartial, and driven by a little thing called (oh, I don’t know…) computers. Also, unlike the Hot 100, PeekScore lists are a valid and accurate measure of the prominence, or even the cultural import, of artists and public figures (well, okay… at least in relation to to each other, and specifically relating to where their impact in cyberspace is concerned). If either our or Billboard’s findings are meaningful is up to you, and for history, to decide; it remains the case, though, that our charts are better… Not that we’d ever gloat about such a thing.

Regardless, the modern marketplace – and frankly, commonsense – simply commands an online presence for any pop musician, and each of the below listed artists have certainly, to varying degrees, pursued this truth (and wisdom) and have risen to the occasion. Our beloved Internet is sort of where it all happens in that industry, these days (and “where it all happens in that industry,” of course doesn’t mean only the good stuff; as the Internet is where the musicians’ goods are bought, sold, traded, borrowed, and on a very, very rare occasion even stolen).

There are few surprises to be found below – Britney, Gaga, and J-Lo, dominate in cyberspace just as they do out here (where we sit, as we type this) in the flesh and bone world of questionable touch and disagreeable odor. We recognize that in this case, Billboard’s chart – where Brit and J-Lo both have top ten hits in 2011 – is a touch more surprising.

If you want to see hacky swipes at Brit for her breakdown of a few years back, Chris Brown for being a violent creep, or Bruno Mars for his stupid hat, just click through to our last attempt at an entry of this sort. Commentary will return in subsequent posts, as new obnoxious digs at the innocent strangers adorning the charts occur to us. There is a purity and sincerity to our stupid insults of strangers, and we don’t wear the catty hat simply for its own sake. While we’re certain these men and women remain profoundly silly and fairly irritating, we’re in just too peaceful a place at the moment to much care. Their songs are hummable, their beats propulsive, and they make the kids happy. Do you honestly have a problem with that?

Anyway, enjoy this quickie post, and while you’re at it, enjoy your life.

A QUICK NOTE: This week’s Top 10 featured 4 songs with one or more guest artists appearing on them, for a total of 7 different guest artists in all. Those guests will not appear on this list. Also, for Black Eyed Peas, we had to choose one of the two members anyone actually gives a damn about. We had previously promised to rotate in Fergie this time around, but a) ultimately feel it’s most fair to stick with BEP’s highest PeekScored member as their representative on the chart, and b) really don’t suspect that anyone cares.

Rank Picture Name Chart Position/Song PeekScore
1

Britney Spears #8 with Till the World Ends 10 / 10
2

Lady Gaga #3 with The Edge of Glory 10 / 10
3

Chris Brown #9 with Look at Me Now (feat. Lil Wayne & Busta Rhymes) 10 / 10
4

Jennifer Lopez #6 with On the Floor (feat. Pitbull) 8.3 / 10
5

Bruno Mars #7 with the Lazy Song 9.81 / 10
6

will.i.am (for Black Eyed Peas) #5 (as part of The Black Eyed Peas) with Just Can’t Get Enough 9.63/ 10
7

Adele #1 with Rolling in the Deep 9.14 / 10
8

Jeremih #10 Down on Me (feat. 50 Cent) 8.06 / 10
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Katy Perry #2 with E.T. (feat. Kanye West) 8.06 / 10
10

Pitbull #4 with Give Me Everything (feat. Ne-Yo, AfroJack & Nayer) 7.99 / 10

Billboard Top 10 Singles – Week of May 7, 2011

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There’s always been an element of magic to the Billboard Hot 100 Songs chart. While we’re romantics and have always been admirers of how – in our gloriously, simultaneously insane, profound, and inane culture – something as seemingly insubstantial as a pop record can define, or even transform, a moment in time, please make no mistake; we don’t here mean “magic” in the “wow, hearing this song magically transports me back to the summer of ’85… it was the first time I got plucked and folded, with ol’ sweet Lu from Bakersfield, and it was a time I won’t soon forget” sense. We mean that the chart’s findings themselves seem to be the product of wishes, elves, fairies, and favors, and not necessarily a solid and irrefutable reflection of a given week’s most “popular” songs.

While the ranking formula employed by Billboard to determine which songs will make the chart, and in what order, is sort of readily shared information, it’s all still rather vague. It’s claimed that the Hot 100 reflects a combination of sales, airplay, jukebox plays, and (in the modern era) downloads and streams, and the like. But the degrees to which each of these factors are weighed, or in what quantities they’re considered, or how these considerations may differ from song to song, or to what extent sleazy backroom chicanery may also play a part in determining a given song’s chart position, has always been quite unclear. Even if the process is one of unassailable integrity, in the absence of a consistent standard of quantifiable metrics applied across the board, there just has to sometimes be an element of guesswork and/or favoritism involved. When all is said and done, though, the public just accepts the chart’s results as fact; “this song is number one, and who really cares?”

Billboard’s Top 200 Album Chart abandoned ill-defined voodoo algorithms 20 years ago – since adopting the SoundScan sales tracking system – and now theoretically only reflects sales and sales alone. The songs chart remains an enigmatic list of mysterious calculations and dubious results. If we’re incorrect in this characterization of things, feel free to express your displeasure in the comments section. We hardly feel passionately about the above, as there are far greater things to worry about than the integrity of the Hot 100. All this chatter has a greater purpose, and is setting the stage – the stage which is the PeekScore blog – for something PeekScorish, as you’ve likely already guessed.

This fine day, PeekYou introduces what it hopes will be a weekly feature, a PeekScore assessment of the women and men whose songs grace the current week’s Billboard Top 10 Songs chart. While PeekScores apply to people not songs, we still think that there’s something to be gained* from running Billboard’s suspicious conclusions through our own indubitable analysis.

No lengthy diatribes necessary beyond this point (which is not to say they won’t be extant), as it’s all quite self-explanatory. Keep your feet on the ground, and keep reaching for the stars, and all that stuff, and keep checking in each week to see how that week’s charting artists fare on the PeekScore scale.

A QUICK NOTE: This week’s Top 10 featured 5 songs with one or more guest artists appearing on them, for a total of 7 different guest artists in all. Those guests will not appear on this list. Also, for Black Eyed Peas, we had to choose one of the two members anyone actually gives a damn about. In future weeks we may switch that up, but don’t believe our hard math will be too compromised by doing so.

*At a minimum, a pageview, or two, from when this entry comes up as a search engine result for some creepy dude’s late night Katy Perry query.

Picture Name Bio PeekScore


Chris Brown #10 with Look at Me Now (feat. Lil Wayne and Busta Rhymes):
While he tops our list, and of that he can be proud, Mr. Brown seems to be a young man with some issues, and a man who has exhibited some behaviors of which we do not approve. We’ll let the matter drop there, however, as we’re not sure we want to tangle with him. He has a tendency to respond to talk of his violent temper in rather dramatic and terrifying ways.


Jennifer Lopez #7 with On the Floor (feat. Pitbull): She seems to have rehabilitated her reputation and career with her recent stint on American Idol, perhaps even bucking what had been the conventional wisdom by doing so. But, as there are real problems in this world, we’ll pretend to have no thoughts on the matter.


Britney Spears #3 with When the World Ends (feat. Nicki Minaj and Ke$ha): Remember when all that crazy stuff happened with her and her untimely, oddly heartbreaking demise was accepted as an inevitability? Yeah, that was pretty weird. I guess it’s all okay now, though? That’s good.


Rihanna #6 with S&M: We’ve got no problem with Rhianna. Her records are usually okay, and we read that she does a lot of charity work for sick kids, which is pretty swell in PeekYou’s book.


Bruno Mars #5 with The Lazy Song: Somebody who’s both relatively new to the charts (as a solo artist, anyway), and not entirely worthless. A rare enough combination that we won’t even make a wisecrack about his stupid, ever-present hat (nor will we point out that he’s still mostly worthless).


Adele #2 with Rolling in the Deep: Everybody’s going on and on about “Adele-this,” and “Adele-that.” We’d join them, but we’d have to learn a damned thing about her to do so, and at the moment we’re too busy writing smart-alecky entries for the PeekScore blog.


will.i.am #4 with Just Can’t Get Enough (as part of The Black Eyed Peas): Man, that Wolverine movie really stunk up the joint. will.i.am was in that, wasn’t he?


Jeremih #9 with Down on Me (feat. 50 Cent): We’d never heard of him until just now, but apparently he has a song called Down on Me which the nice people seem to like.


Katy Perry #1 with E.T.: We think Neil Diamond’s Heartlight explored the same subject matter with more class and aplomb.


Ke$ha #8 with Blow: Regarding her “party girl” image, Ke$ha once had this to say: “If you mean ‘party girl’ like, at a club with a short skirt on with no underwear, then no… I don’t go to clubs. I try not to let my vagina hang out. I don’t do drugs, but I think I’m a walking good time and I talk kind of funny, so people think I’m messed up all the time. I’m not.” We think we should all follow her lead and at least try to not let our vaginas hang out. It’s just good practice.

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