Chris Gilbey, my business partner at Perceptric, after 30 years in the music business continues to amaze me with his anecdotal stories of how up and coming artists “made it”.

I have learnt a lot listening to Chris over the past few years.

However, today I saw a new method of artist promotion.

Twitter combined with Live Feed. Demi is live and answering fan questions!

Announced the Banner on top the www.ustream.tv service.

This morning Twitter was fluttering about Demi Lovato as the second most popular Twitter subject. (#demilovatolive)

Who is Demi Lovato and why should I care?

According to Chacha (yet another Internet trivia responder), Demi Lovato is a teen actress and singer & is mostly known for her role as Charlotte on Disney Channel's "As the Bell Rings."

This is relevant because?

So far, Demi is almost invisible to the World outside Disney fans and the P2P community. She is a virtual unknown. On the Emule network this morning a Kademlia ED2K search revealed 160 music tracks from her album without a single fake listed anywhere.

A TV special that she appeared in “camp rock 2.avi” appears to be enjoying quite a bit of download attention with almost 500 peers advertising its availability; as is the film clip file “Camp Rock – The Jonas brothers & Demi Lovato - This is me 2.avi”.

As for her Telemovie the Princess Protection Program – here is just the top four entries from the Kademlia listings- Snapshot taken at 2:00 AM Madrid Time.

It’s interesting that the Spanish version (Spain is in the top three download countries) is out-doing the rest of the world.

With a new album due out 27^th of July - we will report back as her star climbs higher.

Perfect P2P Publicity fodder.

In other words, Demi, an actress and singer most famous for her role in a Disney Channel program is so popular that a live streaming appearance has the capability of attracting millions of Tweeters to the point of pushing her topic to nearly the top of the Twitter top 10 chart.       

How many Twittering's does it take to get to the top of the Tweet List – well about the same number as would make NBC or ABC executives turn green with envy in the USA.

Her fan club has been started (lots of information on the linked page) and is offering discount concert tour tickets to members.

We will be watching this lass and reporting on her rise through the P2P networks.

We’re pretty sure the P2P community will drag her into Stardom.