Real Madrid Celebrate Clasico Week, Overtaking Barcelona in Engagement Rankings

The world will watch on Sunday, as great rivals Barcelona and Real Madrid take to the field for an El Clasico showdown at Camp Nou.

Early bragging rights go to Madrid, who have toppled Barca in our weekly digital engagement rankings.

Arsenal and Chelsea—who were both knocked out of the Champions League—swap places in the top 10, while Liverpool fall a place and Beskitas rise up the charts.

In the trending stakes, it's been a good week for Paris Saint-Germain, whose victory against Chelsea in Europe got everybody talking on social media—that and Zlatan Ibrahimovic's most recent outburst.

ListenFirst

In the ever-evolving sports industry, where far more fans are captivated on a smartphone than in a stadium, Bleacher Report has teamed up with ListenFirstMedia to keep a finger on the pulse of the digital arena. Every Wednesday, ListenFirstMedia will provide Bleacher Report with its Digital Engagement Ratings for soccer clubs, a syndicated rating system for digital fan engagement—think decibel meter on the Jumbotron. ListenFirst Digital Engagement Ratings aggregate engagement data across the most critical and widely trafficked digital platforms to assess the level of fan engagement generated by the leading franchises