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1975 Scores #1 Album This Week, Adele #2, Rhianna #3

Number-1The second studio album by the band 1975, "I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It", takes #1 on the BuzzAngle Music‘s Album Project chart for last week (Friday, February 26 to Thursday, March 3, 2016) with over 103,000 album project units. Billboard reported similar results.

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):

RankTitleArtistGenreLabelTotal
1I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of ItThe 1975Indie RockInterscope103,401
225AdelePopXL Recordings/Columbia67,502
3AntiRihannaR&BRoc Nation65,946
4This Unruly Mess I’ve MadeMacklemore & Ryan LewisHip-Hop/RapMacklemore57,193
5PurposeJustin BieberPopDef Jam55,224
6Piece By PieceKelly ClarksonPopRCA Records44,113
7TravellerChris StapletonCountryMercury Nashville39,855
8Blurryfacetwenty one pilotsAlternativeFueled By Ramen34,191
9Dig in DeepBonnie RaittRockRed Wing Records31,276
10Beauty Behind The MadnessThe WeekndR&BRepublic30,764

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.

BuzzAngle Music’s new charts offer data at a much more granular level (and in a much more timely manner) than the most commonly used forms of sales and streaming measurement available up to this point, leading to an ability to produce over 250,000 unique charts daily, revolutionizing a slow, staid and stale aspect of the music industry. The week-to-date charts will be updated each day to reflect the previous day’s sales and streaming activity.

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