« ClearChannel, the darling of the radio world (heh), is doing something novel: the company is launching program that will take data from monitored P2P networks, and report to radio stations on what songs are hot. The idea is that this information can aide in creating more successful, responsive programming by keeping a rather direct finger on the pulse of the ‘net. »
BigChampagne, the monitoring compagny has a BandBattle page where you can plot the sharing-and-searching status of your favorite artists. The compagny seems to have a fairly pragmatical take on p2p. Worth a read.