An interesting survey this week takes a snapshot of the filesharing world to find out what the most popular music downloads of 2007 were. With filesharing surging in popularity from one year to the next, what people are downloading is a fairly reliable source of what’s popular, perhaps even more so than the official music charts.

BigChampagne Online Media Measurement is the company that provided the data based solely on P2P filesharing traffic, both legal and otherwise. All major filesharing services were incorporated in the research, including BitTorrent and eDonkey.

So, without further ado, here are the 10 top songs of 2007 according to the world of filesharing:

1. Shop Boyz “Party Like A Rock Star”
2. Akon “I Wanna Luv U”
3. Sean Kingston “Beautiful Girls”
4. Mims “This Is Why I’m Hot”
5. Akon “Don’t Matter”
6. T-Pain “Bartender”
7. Soulja Boy “Crank Dat Soulja Boy”
8. Justin Timberlake “My Love”
9. DJ Unk “Walk It Out”
10. Jim Jones “We Fly High”

What we learn from this is that the majority of people who use filesharing services like Limewire have bad taste in music. Just kidding. It seems that the filesharing networks are dominated by hip hop-crossover songs. Interestingly, none of the artists in the top 10, except for Akon, have done very well this year in terms of CD album sales.

For the top 10 artists in the world of filesharing, album and single downloads were combined.

1. T.I.
2. T-Pain
3. Akon
4. 50 Cent
5. R. Kelly
6. Lil Wayne
7. Justin Timberlake
8. Fergie
9. Ludacris
10. Snoop Dogg

This must surely say something about the age range of the majority of people who use filesharing services. The top 10 artists reads like a hitlist for a teenybopper serial killer.

Next year, we’d like to see filesharing put to better use and used to download better music.

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