Popex
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Popex is a free Internet-based game in which players, using fake money, buy "shares" of musicians and bands, similar to a stock market. As demand for these rises and falls based on their popularity and chart performance, so does their price; each week, "dividends" are paid out base on real world performance of those musicians and bands. Occasionally prizes like compact discs and shirts given out to those who perform best. As of June, 2005, over 150,000 people belonged to the site, which is based in London, United Kingdom.
It was built by Paul Clarke as a hobby website, was acquired by FortuneCity in October 1999 and then Channelfly in February 2001, taking its creator with it each time. The BBC licensed the code for the game to make their own version Celebdaq.