25 by Adele drops back up to second on the weekly chart with over 67,000 album project units. Other top new releases of the week were This Unruly Mess I’ve Made by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, debuting at #4, Dig in Deep by Bonnie Rait at #9 and For All Kings by Anthrax at #14.
BuzzAngle Music Album Project Chart (Friday February 26 – Thursday, March 3 2016):
| Rank | Title | Artist | Genre | Label | Total |
| 1 | I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It | The 1975 | Indie Rock | Interscope | 103,401 |
| 2 | 25 | Adele | Pop | XL Recordings/Columbia | 67,502 |
| 3 | Anti | Rihanna | R&B | Roc Nation | 65,946 |
| 4 | This Unruly Mess I’ve Made | Macklemore & Ryan Lewis | Hip-Hop/Rap | Macklemore | 57,193 |
| 5 | Purpose | Justin Bieber | Pop | Def Jam | 55,224 |
| 6 | Piece By Piece | Kelly Clarkson | Pop | RCA Records | 44,113 |
| 7 | Traveller | Chris Stapleton | Country | Mercury Nashville | 39,855 |
| 8 | Blurryface | twenty one pilots | Alternative | Fueled By Ramen | 34,191 |
| 9 | Dig in Deep | Bonnie Raitt | Rock | Red Wing Records | 31,276 |
| 10 | Beauty Behind The Madness | The Weeknd | R&B | Republic | 30,764 |
On the song side, Kelly Clarkson’s Piece by Piece was the top selling song with over 211K song sales, while Rihanna’sWork was the top streamed song with over 43M song streamsProject units are used to measure the value of the album’s total performance by using the combined weighted equivalent of its related consumption types (album sales, song sales and song streams). To view the full set of charts, please visit www.buzzanglemusic.com/charts.
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