First and foremost, if you are from Rap Genius let me apologize first. In the past few days I have absolutely hammered your servers. I ended up sifting through 9.1 GB of data. You may or may not have noticed Crawlytics as the user-agent...<p>Now to the interesting part, a few days ago I spent some time browsing Rap Genius and as I was wondering around I thought wouldn't it be fun to find out which artists are most shared and more importantly how is Rap Genius doing in terms of social media traction.<p>Here is what I found:<p>Total shares <i>440524</i><p>Total pages scanned <i>824001</i><p>Total download bandwidth <i>9.10 GB</i><p>Social Spread:<p><i>Twitter: 27.7%</i><p><i>Facebook: 67.4%</i><p><i>Google+: 2.7%</i><p><i>Pinterest: 0.1%</i><p><i>Stumbleupon: 2%</i><p><i>Delicious: 0.2%</i><p><i>LinkedIn: 0%</i><p>Most shared artists:<p><i>Lupe Fiasco</i><p><i>Jayz</i><p><i>Kanye West</i><p>In case you were interested how I got these stats, I used https://socialcrawlytics.com/ (Full Disclosure: It is an app that I have created.)
Not too interested in those stats actually, but being a huge hip hop fan I think Rap Genius is a great site and if they can stand that kind of mass-crawling, even better for them!