Music fans are choosing to search for information about their favourite bands by using Wikipedia instead of MySpace, data from a Yahoo report has claimed.

Despite MySpace offering streaming music and featuring over three million artist profiles, music fans are choosing to head to a band's Wikipedia listing twice as often as they go to their MySpace profile.

However, communications manager for Wikipedia Jay Walsh said the website would not be adding music to artist pages on the site.

"That's not what we're about. We're about knowledge," Walsh explained. "We're about bringing the reader to other free content - content they can use and enjoy without worrying about violating any copyrights."