One of the most reliable music charts in the world, Gracenote's "High Tech Top 40", had a very surprising entry at number two position in last week -- Eminem's yet-to-be-released new album "The Eminem Show".
Gracenote, who owns CD database CDDB, tracks music listening behaviour based on wide range of software audio players. Basically if users use popular audio players like WinAMP to play their audio CDs (NOTE: not MP3s or other digital audio files), the player connects to CDDB database to retrieve album information (which audio CDs generally speaking don't have stored on the CD) based on the statistics the album has (exact length of tracks, number of tracks, etc). And Gracenote keeps track of these requests.
So, Eminem's new album was second most played album on the charts week before it was about to be released (last Sunday), providing a pretty solid proof that professional CD pirates had already received a copy of the album earlier and had started producing professional audio CD copies of the album for sale.
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So, Eminem's new album was second most played album on the charts week before it was about to be released (last Sunday), providing a pretty solid proof that professional CD pirates had already received a copy of the album earlier and had started producing professional audio CD copies of the album for sale.
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