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Charlie Amter Bernard “Harv” Harvey is having a fruitful year.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorDrake’s “Certified Lover Boy” topped the Rolling Stone albums chart for a second week, holding the No. 1 spot with more than 232,000 project units, according to Alpha Data.

Geoff Mayfield One rarely hears about “spring songs” or “winter songs,” but the songs that resonate during the year’s warmest season are almost their own category.

Drake‘s ‘Certified Lover Boy‘ outstreamed Kanye West‘s ‘DONDA‘ in just three days, according to new data from the Rolling Stone Charts.Alpha Data, the analytics provider that powers the charts, found that from Friday (September 3) through to Sunday (September 5), ‘Certified Lover Boy’ saw more than 430 million on-demand audio streams in the US.By comparison, ‘DONDA’ clocked just under 423 million streams in its first eight days.‘Certified Lover Boy’, Drake’s sixth album, was released last

Chris Willman Music WriterIs breaking up good for business? It can be, at least in the short term, as the members of Daft Punk are (separately) finding out.On the day the duo’s split was announced Monday, total single-day on-demand streams for the duo’s catalog amounted to 5,025,000… more than five times Sunday’s figure, which was 854,100.

MRC and Penske Media Corporation on Thursday unveiled a new joint venture to bring together their respective data businesses. The newly formed company combines MRC Data (formerly Nielsen Music), Alpha Data and Variety Business Intelligence, with MRC and PMC sharing equal ownership and control.

Shirley Ju Steven Victor’s Victor Victor Worldwide label had a very strong summer, dropping Pop Smoke’s “For the Night” on July 3 and seeing it climb its way to sales of 2 million song adjusted units, according to Alpha Data. The album on which the song appears, “Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon,” has moved 1.4 million units since its release.

Chris Willman Music WriterTaylor Swift became the first artist in the history of the Rolling Stone album chart to land five consecutive weeks in the No.

As a result of the Black Lives Matter protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd last month, streams for N.W.A.‘s 1988 hip-hop anthem “F**k tha Police” have nearly quadrupled in overall numbers.

Childish Gambino, YG and Kendrick Lamar also see song surges

Streaming activity is down ever since the pandemic forced millions of people to stay at home and social distance to avoid the further spread of the novel virus.

Streams in the US dropped some 7.6% last week.