The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently conducted some very interesting research on the subject of global fame of musicians.

Their findings have been taken from such areas as Wikipedia entries, social media music sales piecing together each piece of data to produce what they believe to be “the most famous musicians in the world”.

We’ve extracted the 19 most well known artists in accordance to MIT, there’s few guaranteed surprises that pop-up, however we won’t give any away… do you agree with MIT’s analysis?

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