Top 5 most recent albums bought
| Artist | Album |
|---|---|
| Amy Winehouse | Back to Black |
| Mika | Life in Cartoon Motion |
| Kate Nash | Made of Bricks |
| Prince | Planet Earth |
| The Killers | Sam's Town |
As for your current favourite song, be it old or new, Rihanna and 'Umbrella' is the one being hummed or sung at present; which is topical for the summer we've had. The Klaxons won the Mercury Music Awards and 48% had heard of them before, with 9% owning the album. Just 2% thought they would win but 5% thought they should. Amy Winehouse was your overwhelming favourites to win.
Looking at reality TV show voting, 45% have cast a vote for someone / something related to a programme. Slightly more (48%) have entered a competition to win a prize from a TV show. So it just goes to show that a lot of revenue can be made from these shows!
You are big spenders online with 54% having purchased CDs/DVDs/Videos in the last 3 months. Tickets for events (46%), books (45%) and airline tickets (42%) are the next most frequent purchases in the last 3 months.
80% are members of a social networking site. The most popular site is Facebook, with 59% currently belonging to it, followed by Friendsreunited (44%) and then Myspace (32%). The females amongst you are more likely to be members of a site and the average number of sites you are members of is 1.6. The majority are positive about them with 51% stating they are a good way of staying in touch with people and just 13% believing them to be a waste of time. Curiosity is the main reason why you joined your first site, just wanting to see what all the fuss was about (43%) and you joined on average just under 2 years ago. Looking specifically at facebook, you have on average 73 friends. This is higher for 18-24 years olds (101) than 40-44 year olds (20). Women are also more likely to have more friends with an average of 80, 13 more than men.
