In the midst of the rumors that it is the next torrent site to be shut down, The Pirate Bay (TPB) continues to prove its resilience by acquiring traffic much greater than that of some of the biggest music streaming services available.

Data from the team at the website traffic and mobile app analytics group Similar Web show that The Pirate Bay is the third most popular music and audio site in the world.

TPB surpassed audio and music giants like Spotify and Pandora. The only programs that passed The Pirate Bay on the list are SoundCloud and Youtube-mp3.org, which is where users go to convert YouTube videos into an audio format, effectively downloading the music.

Despite the efforts of a litany of production and music companies to take it down, The Pirate Bay remains afloat, and it has never been more popular in years.

This is partly due to the shutdown of Kickass Torrents (KAT) and Torrentz.eu, whose users flocked to TPB after the aforementioned torrent giants succumbed to the efforts of copyright holders to stop piracy and illegal file-sharing.

The Pirate Bay has garnered a whopping 47.16 million unique visitors worldwide in August, as indicated by the data also collected by Similar Web.

It will not be a shock if the numbers are still around that level since KAT and Torrentz.eu never rose from dead, despite various efforts of both their operators and loyal users.

This suggests that users who get their daily torrenting needs from The Pirate Bay should not be worried about the torrent giant giving up the ghost anytime soon.

The site is just getting more and more prominent, which is impressive, seeing that it has already dodged tons of attempts to shut it down, dating back to 2008, as stated in the report of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), for being one of the sites that contribute to "notorious markets."