LOS ANGELES, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Napster, the music download service, announced the winners of the first-ever Digital Music Awards Tuesday in Los Angeles.
The awards honor artists and songs played most by subscribers, revealing consumers' listening habits. The winners of the awards brought to light substantial differences between fans' buying and listening habits.
The 2006 Napster Award for "Most-Played Artist" went to singer-songwriter Jack Johnson, who was not recognized at the 2006 Billboard Music Awards. The award for "Most-Played Song" went to Fall Out Boy's "Dance, Dance," which curiously was not among the top 10 tracks sold on iTunes in the past year.
"The Napster Awards provide insight into how music fans behave when they can listen to an enormous variety of music away from restrictive radio playlists, limited retail shelf space and 30-second clip, buck a track digital stores," said Chris Gorog, chairman and CEO of Napster.
