Alpha Data (formerly, but commonly known as BuzzAngle Music) is a
music analytics firm which provides statistics for the music industry, including record sales and music streaming.
BuzzAngle partnered with ''
Rolling Stone
''Rolling Stone'' is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, in 1967 by Jann Wenner, and the music critic Ralph J. Gleason. It was first kno ...
'' to provide information for the magazine's
music charts
A record chart, in the music industry, also called a music chart, is a ranking of recorded music according to certain criteria during a given period. Many different criteria are used in worldwide charts, often in combination. These include re ...
.
BuzzAngle was founded in 2013 by Border City Media.
It uses
big data
Though used sometimes loosely partly because of a lack of formal definition, the interpretation that seems to best describe Big data is the one associated with large body of information that we could not comprehend when used only in smaller am ...
collected from platforms used by people to listen to music. The website shows total music consumption including album sales, song sales, streaming history, and social media analytics.
The data it collects comes from retailers, record stores, radio stations, and music venues. In 2018, BuzzAngle received an investment from
Penske Media Corporation
Penske Media Corporation (PMC) () is an American digital media, publishing, and information services company based in Los Angeles and New York City. It publishes more than 20 digital and print brands, including ''Variety'', ''Rolling Stone'', '' ...
, the parent company of ''Rolling Stone''. The following year it announced its partnership with Rolling Stone to provide data for the magazine's music charts.
References
External links
Official WebsiteMajor Movez
Companies established in 2013
Penske Media Corporation
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