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Possible Changes Ahead For Concert Security In the wake of the attack, touring and security experts address the challenges of protecting music fans. ISIS Declares War On Western Music Behind the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria’s particularly twisted hatred for heavy metal and goth. Le Bataclan Manager: ‘We Will Return’ The famed nightclub — at once a cultural hub, architectural marvel and storied concert hall — refuses to be defined by the tragedy. Stories Of Their Lives: A Tribute A “rock star” merch manager; a “gentle and warm” music executive; a journalist and father of two... remembering those who were lost.…

IN A CITY FAMED for its architectural and cultural marvels, Paris’ Le Bataclan nightclub has always stood out. Built in 1864 and located in the bustling, cosmopolitan 11th arrondissement, Le Bataclan has been a longtime favorite of concertgoers, as much for its brightly colored facade and chinoiserie-style features — a specialty of architect Charles Duval — as for its welcoming atmosphere and prescient and eclectic booking policies. The queues to get into Le Bataclan on any given night snake far along the Boulevard Voltaire, and have so for decades. “My father used to go when he was my age,” recounts Maxime de Abreu, 26, a music journalist for the popular magazine Les Inrockuptibles. “He’d drive all the way from the suburbs just to go to the disco there. The place…

If a man’s work indicates how he lived, then Fabrice Dubois embraced wit and light. For more than 12 years he worked as a senior copywriter at Publicis, a French multinational advertising and PR firm, crafting off-kilter and breezy campaigns for major corporations and nongovernment organizations. “Everybody appreciated his kindness and his talent,” says a colleague who asked to remain anonymous to keep the focus on Dubois. “He loved a lot of things: He was a tennis player, he loved cinema and music, and he played the guitar.” That love of music took him and a group of friends to Le Bataclan on Nov. 13. “His musical tastes were very grunge,” his sister Nathalie told Paris Match, describing the 6-foot-7 Dubois as “extremely gentle and shy.” When terrorists stormed the…

As it did for the overall top 100 radio songs, Sony/ATV leads country radio for the 13th consecutive quarter. It had a 1.4 percent rise in market share from the second quarter and a stake in 43 of the top 100 country tracks, including the No. 1 tune: Keith Urban’s “John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16.” Warner/Chappell finished a close second, up more than three percentage points from Q2, to 21.5 percent and a share in 48 of the top 100 songs. Universal Music Publishing Group came in at No. 3 with 10.5 percent, down from 14.1 percent in the second quarter. Among the indies, the No. 4-ranked BMG had the biggest boost, with a twopercentage-point-plus gain thanks in part to Brett Eldredge’s “Lose My Mind,” the No. 6 song.…

THE PULSE OF MUSIC RIGHT NOW CAMARON OCHS WALKS INTO AN EAST Nashville taco joint on a crisp November night, and she’s instantly the brightest presence in the place. A shock of platinum-blond curls frames the country singer’s face, and her yellow flower-print dress is paired with a mustard-hued shawl, a look that mirrors her sunny disposition. There’s most definitely a theme here. “I thought, ‘What are the most interesting things about who I am, things people can get?’ And yellow is a thing you don’t have to think that hard about,” says Ochs, 30, explaining her look. “It’s just like: ‘I love yellow and sunshine — I’m a songwriter!’ ” Her manager, Lindsay Marias, hands her a phone for a peek at the final art for Untamed (Dec. 11,…

After building a career off romantic hits like “Closer” and “Sexy Love,” Ne-Yo is channeling a guy with no heart. The singer, 36, is playing the Tin Man in NBC’s live remake of The Wiz, airing Dec. 3 and co-starring Mary J. Blige and Queen Latifah. How is this remake different from the classic 1978 film version? It’s a hybrid of the Broadway play and the movie. It’s not based in the ’70s; it’s based in 2015. That has been everybody’s challenge, above the dancing, the singing, the lines: getting into who these characters would be in 2015. Today’s Tin Man is heartfelt, but he wouldn’t be soft. Today’s Dorothy would be sassy. Our hope is you’ll look at it as something completely new. The remake features a new song…

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“I SAID TO MYSELF, ‘OK, HE HAS shooped me now. He has run out of words to say,’ ” Whitney Houston said in 1995 about Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, who wrote and produced her 11th and final No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100, “Exhale (Shoop Shoop).” “It’s true,” Edmonds tells Billboard today. “I couldn’t think of any lyrics at that point.” He says the track, written for the 1995 film Waiting to Exhale, which starred Houston, actually was inspired by Bruce Springsteen’s Oscar-winning “Streets of Philadelphia,” which Springsteen wrote for the 1993 movie Philadelphia. “There was a haunting-ness to it, [and] I thought, ‘It would be great if Whitney had a haunting song...’ I started ‘shoop shooping’ — and then [the lyrics] started to make sense.” In 1995, Houston,…

AS MASS shootings in movie theaters and churches have shocked the world in recent years, many music business insiders quietly wondered how long it would be before concert halls would suffer a similar tragedy. On Nov. 13, those concerns became a horrifying reality, as terrorists made an Eagles of Death Metal concert at Paris’ storied Le Bataclan theater the centerpiece of a citywide assault, killing 89 people at the venue. In the United States, most arenas and stadiums heightened their security measures in the wake of 9/11, and fans have become accustomed to metal detectors, pat-downs and/or wands at large venues. But the relatively small size of the 1,500- capacity venue and the niche popularity of the headlining band made the Paris attacks “the first direct hit on music that…

Among the confirmed dead were 89 concertgoers at the nightclub Le Bataclan. Billboard recalls the lives of five of the victims of the Paris attacks Thomas Ayad wasn’t assigned to work on the new Eagles of Death Metal album — he asked for the job and persisted until his bosses agreed. “Thomas wanted to do this project so much because they were one of his favorite bands, and he went out of his way to convince us,” says Andrew Daw, senior vp strategic marketing at Universal Music Group International (UMGI). “It’s a sad twist to the whole scenario.” Ayad, a 32-year-old international product manager for Mercury Records in France, was one of three Universal employees killed during the Eagles of Death Metal concert. The other slain Universal staff members were…

Nick Alexander worked as a concert merchandise manager but he dressed like a rock star. In a job that’s done far from the spotlight, Alexander made such an impression on bands like Sum 41 and Alice in Chains that tributes started pouring in as soon as he was identified among the victims of the attack at Le Bataclan. “You don’t remember everyone,” says Jim Runge, a tour manager for The Black Keys, “but you remembered him.” Nicknamed “Handsome Nick,” Alexander took his share of ribbing for wearing skinny jeans, boots and his beloved black leather jacket — whatever the occasion or the weather. “We were at a dusty English festival, and Nick walked in with thin jeans, English boots and perfect hair when everyone else was wearing Converse and shorts,”…

WHEN JUSTIN BIEBER APPEARED onstage at West Hollywood nightclub 1OAK on Nov. 13 to perform the Jack U hit “Where Are U Now?,” the pop singer was not only serenading the 500 superfans in attendance but symbolically addressing throngs of Beliebers who have the power — and the cash — to take his new album, Purpose, to No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Behind the scenes, a retail war was brewing that pinned the 21-year-old star against the United Kingdom’s most popular boy band, One Direction, both of whom released albums that same day. Who won? The music industry. As of press time, Purpose, released by Def Jam, is projected to reach 450,000 units in sales with another 100,000 in TEA (or track- equivalent albums, whereby 10 individual downloads of…

PRESIDENT, DISNEY MUSIC GROUP OF ALL THE MEMORABILIA LINING Disney Music Group (DMG) president Ken Bunt’s office walls, his favorite is a large-scale illustration from a 1935 Silly Symphonies cartoon short called “Music Land.” It depicts two warring musical islands: the “Land of Symphony” and the “Isle of Jazz.” “Jazz was encroaching [on classical music],” he says, “and it’s a constant reminder that the winds of change are going to blow, so be prepared.” Bunt, 45, is better-prepared for change than most thanks to years of experience as a digital marketer at Def American and at Hollywood Records beginning in 1998. His division’s recent pop successes include Breaking Benjamin’s No. 1 album Dark Before Dawn and a healthy second-place debut for Demi Lovato’s Confident. Hollywood also scored with Andy Grammer’s…

PROMOTER PAUL DAINTY IS A TAD PERTURBED when he arrives in Brisbane, Australia, where he is presenting a sold-out Neil Diamond show at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre. Dainty has flown a thousand miles north, from his office in Melbourne. While in flight, he missed viewing one of the nation’s annual sporting spectacles, the Melbourne Cup horse race. “I only put a few grand on [the race],” he says backstage at the arena. “I’m annoyed now to see the winner.” Prince of Penzance — whom Dainty did not pick — triumphed at odds of 100 to 1. Concert promoters are natural gamblers in a way, placing bets on the popularity of every artist they present. For the past four decades Dainty (who declines to give his age) has been a consistent…

THERE ARE A number of reasons why the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) might have targeted Le Bataclan concert hall in Paris. According to the group’s own statement, it was a place “where hundreds of apostates had gathered in a profligate prostitution party.” Maybe they knew Le Bataclan had once been Jewish-owned, or chose it simply because it would be a soft target. But the fact that it was a popular music venue playing host to an American band called Eagles of Death Metal may also have been significant. ISIS despises both America and popular music, and for some years has been building a particular hatred of its darker, louder forms. At its birth, in Northern Syria in spring 2013, ISIS was a sinister puzzle. Why, when thousands…

The day after attending the Eagles of Death Metal show at Le Bataclan, Mathieu Hoche had planned to meet friends in his native Normandy to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their tennis club. The 37-year-old father and camera technician for the France 24 news station had been playing for years, even spending summer vacations as a teen at tennis camp with childhood friend Antoine Rousseau. “He was very funny, very open and with a big heart,” says Rousseau, who was due to pick up Hoche from the train station in Normandy on Nov. 14. Hoche had worked at France 24 since the channel was established in 2006. Colleagues remember him as a “good guy” who was “always smiling.” “He was just a lovely person,” says France 24 international correspondent Melissa…

Two nights after he attended the Eagles of Death Metal concert at Le Bataclan, Guillaume B. Decherf was supposed to cover Motorhead’s show at Le Zenith in Paris for the magazine Les Inrockuptibles. Decherf had broad tastes, but hard rock and heavy metal were his beat: His recent reviews included AC/DC, Mastodon and his favorite band, Iron Maiden. He looked the part, too, with his shoulder-length hair, earrings and vintage T-shirts. “It was impossible to forget him after you had met him,” says Azzedine Fall, his editor at Les Inrockuptibles’ website. Guillaume Barreau-Decherf, 43, was born in Bar-le-Duc, a small town in northeastern France. While studying in Paris in the early 1990s, he spent a year at Loughborough University in England through the Erasmus student exchange program and hosted a…

Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Competition & Gala HOLLYWOOD, NOV. 15 WELCOMING AUDIENCE MEMBERS TO THE 2015 THELONIOUS Monk Institute International Jazz Vocals Competition & All-Star Gala Concert, Herbie Hancock declared, “Our hearts are with the city of Paris and the brave people of France. Paris opened its arms to jazz musicians when others turned us away, and our debt of gratitude is never-ending.” Three hours of nonstop music followed at the Dolby Theatre, as newcomer Jazzmeia Horn won first place in the competition and Quincy Jones was honored with the Herbie Hancock Humanitarian Award. Among the stars joining Hancock in paying tribute to Jones through words and rhythms were Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jeff Goldblum, Seth MacFarlane, Ledisi, Arturo Sandoval, Dee Dee Bridgewater and Al Jarreau. “Our indigenous music, jazz, is…

SINGLES ERYKAH BADU “PHONE DOWN” CONTROL FREAQ RECORDS A sequel to Badu’s awesome remix of Drake’s “Hotline Bling,” “Phone Down,” from her forthcoming mixtape, is another Drizzyinspired, cell-centric track. “You ain’t gonna text no one when you with me,” she vows, with a steamy confidence that’ll make you cancel your Verizon contract. - JOE YNCH PUSHA T “UNTOUCHABLE” G.O.O.D. MUSIC/DEF JAM Pusha T’s new single proves time off hasn’t made him rusty. Over a creepy, uncharacteristically off-kilter Timbaland beat, G.O.O.D. Music’s new president wraps sharp metaphors about U2, Scarface and Netflix’s Narcos around a Biggiesampling hook with coke-kingpin flair. —DAN RYS PRINCE ROYCE “CULPA AL CORAZON” SONY MUSIC LATIN After showing off a bad-boy urban sound on English album Double Purpose, Prince Royce returns to his more…