His album, called +, tops a list of recordings illegally downloaded from "torrent" websites, in which fragments of electronic files are accessed from numerous sites and then assembled.
The figures suggest 33.5 million albums and 9.5 million singles were accessed in the UK from the BitTorrent website in the first half of 2012, compared with 43.6 million albums sold legally – either as downloads or physically – during the same period, and 93.6 million singles.




