Arctic Monkeys more popular in LA than Liverpool

Arguably Britain’s biggest rock group, the Arctic Monkeys - set to play two weekends of the Coachella festival from this weekend - are now bigger in LA than Liverpool.

According to filesharing statistics from music analytics company Musicmetric, the success of their current tour of the States and South America is highlighted by their global filesharing figures.

The data on the number of filesharers shows that the Arctic Monkeys now have a third more filesharers in LA than in Liverpool.

The data also shows that Chicago in now almost level with Manchester for filesharers of The Monkeys’ music.

Arctic Monkeys now can also count both North and South America’s biggest cities in their top ten filesharing locations.