The 10- and 20-city composites gained 8.6% and 9.3% on a year-over-year basis, with every metropolitan area clocking in a second consecutive month of positive growth for the first time since early 2005.
Loughborough - which has a very large student population - does not rank so highly, clocking up a monthly average of just over 3, 000 illegal music downloads, the data indicates.