The nominations for this year's Brit Awards are in. But who will the winners be? In the public eye who's more popular. Busted or The Darkness? Beyonce or Christina?
Espotting Media have compared the nominees to see which ones British Internet users have been searching for the most. The winners[1] according to which nominee is the most popular amongst Internet users on Espotting's network are:
Best British Male Solo Artist
DAVID BOWIE
Best British Female Solo Artist
DIDO
Best British Album
THE DARKNESS - PERMISSION TO LAND
Best British Group
BUSTED
Best British Single
GARETH GATES - SPIRIT IN THE SKY
Best Urban Act
MIS-TEEQ
Best Dance Act
GOLDFRAPP
Best Rock Act
THE DARKNESS
Best Breakthrough Artist
BUSTED
Best Pop Act
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
Best International Male Solo Artist
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
Best International Female Solo Artist
CHRISTINA AGUILERA
Best International Album
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE - JUSTIFIED
Best International Group
BLACK EYED PEAS
According to the searches conducted by British Internet users, the night would go to Justin Timberlake (3 award wins), Busted (2 awards) and The Darkness (2 awards). Justin was the clear winner of the International Male Solo Artist award, receiving 56% of the search requests in this category. Not surprisingly, Dido won the British Female Solo Artist, with a staggering 77% of the requests. The Darkness pipped Dido to the post for best British Album, with 38% of the requests, compared to Dido's 29%. But our favourite glam rock lads, came second place to the boys from Busted in two categories - British Breakthrough Artist (Busted: 62%; The Darkness: 30%) and British Group (Busted: 45%; The Darkness: 22%).
Espotting is Europe's leading paid-for listings network. Espotting's data is based on information aggregated from its entire UK network, rather than from one site, thereby providing a wide and unique insight in to UK public opinion. Across Europe, Espotting powers over 1 billion requests every month through its network.
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[1] Data Period: January 1st 2003 - 31st December 2003. Data taken from Espotting's UK network.
Published on: 12:00AM on 17th February 2004
