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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
9

Rihanna 24, $53mil 8.81 / 10.00
10

Lil Wayne 29, $27mil 8.70 / 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 Year’s Highest Paid Musical Acts

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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 music industry may be in a bit of a shambles in recent years, but try telling that to the ten folks listed below; each of whom fell asleep last night on a pile of money and awoke this morning on a different, bigger pile of money. They earn their keep (and oh boy, do they!) making with the tunes, even while the record labels scramble and panic, and we civilians come to regard recorded music on demand as something akin to running water.

Forbes has lately been blessing we of the (at least relatively) broke and curious class with their annual “top paid” lists for this profession or that, and just a few weeks ago bestowed upon us mere fiscal mortals their list of the year’s highest paid musicians. As we’ve done previously with other such lists – and will likely do until there’s no internet left for us to do it upon/within – we’ve arranged these fabulous popsters not by their heights, weights, ages, or numbers of records sold, but according to the sizes of their digital footprints as measured upon our handy, dandy PeekScore scale.

Ms. Germanotta, unsurprisingly, tops our list. Sir Macca, only slightly more surprisingly – until you think about it for even five seconds – holds strong at number 2. The vocalist for the year’s biggest money makers, even for all his global fame and import, just hasn’t left his mark here in cyberspace in the way many of his less well financially rewarded peers have, and lurks shadily at the list’s bottom. We can’t say that we mind the internet being a reasonably Bono-light zone, but we know we don’t speak for all.

Talk to us in the comments section. Complain or praise us. Tell us what you think of Gaga, Elton, Bono, or whomever. Just say hello.

Rank Picture Name Earnings for Last
Year		 PeekScore
1

Lady Gaga $90 million 10.00 / 10
2

Paul McCartney $67 million 10.00 / 10
3

Dave Matthews (for The Dave Matthews Band) $51 million 10.00 / 10
4

Elton John $100 million 10.00 / 10
5

Justin Bieber $53 million 10.00 / 10
6

will.i.am (for The Black Eyed Peas) $61 million 9.63 / 10
7

Michael Bublé $70 million 9.01 / 10
8

Jon Bon Jovi (for Bon Jovi) $125 million 8.98 / 10
9

Don Henley (for The Eagles) $60 million 8.80 / 10
10

Bono (for U2) $195 million 8.40 / 10

The 10 Pop Musicians with the Highest PeekScores

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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.

This list could not be simpler. Basically, of all the 250,000,000 people indexed in PeekYou‘s database, these are the 10 pop musicians (or, indeed, active musicians of any description) with the highest PeekScores.

Who would you have expected to see higher? Who are you surprised to see so high? What musicians do you follow on Twitter, or “like” on Facebook? Let us, the good men and women of the PeekScore blog, know in the comments.

(We know that some of the commentary below is repeated from previous entries. Cut us some slack, man; not everyone reading will notice.)

Rank Picture Name Bio PeekScore
1

Britney Spears 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. 10.00 / 10
2

Rihanna 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. 10.00 / 10
3

Taylor Swift We’d never in a million years have predicted that Taylor Swift’s career would know such longevity, and in fact we took her limited shelf-life for granted. Looking through this list we see a few artists who are now approaching middle-age as superstars, whose enduring appeal also once to us seemed an impossibility. In other words, what the hell do we know? 10.00 / 10
4

Lady Gaga While not as charmed as we once were, we still have no problem with good old Stefani. She remains pretty a-okay in our books. 10.00 / 10
5

Ashley Tisdale Before compiling this list we’d never heard of Ashley Tisdale. Apparently she’s not only a huge star, she’s been one for a little while. Go figure, and good for her. 10.00/ 10
6

John Mayer Whatever. 10.00 / 10
7

Jessica Simpson Wasn’t she supposed to do a record with Billy Corgan, or something? Did that already happen? Did anyone care? I’m not sure that we do either, so we’ll just move on. 10.00 / 10
8

Mariah Carey We and Mariah, of course, go back like babies and pacifiers. That goes without saying… She had a breakdown at some point too, right? Not as spectacular as Britney’s, but something went on there. 10.00 / 10
9

Sean Combs We watched Diddy perform on American Idol, a year or so ago. He had these huge strobe lights flashing frantically throughout the performance. Watching it on high def TV, we actually became nauseated. That was oddly impressive, and subversive in its way; whether deliberate or not. 10.00 / 10
10

Chris Brown 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. 10.00 / 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
9

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