Innholdsfortegnelse for February 23, 2013 i Billboard Magazine

Jimmy Iovine has always been in tune with artists, working in perfect harmony early in his career as a recording engineer with the likes of John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen. ¶ Last week, Iovine tapped into something today’s musicians care deeply about—more data on who exactly is listening to their music. Iovine, who is co-founder of Beats Electronics and chairman of Interscope Geffen A&M, said that the digital music service that Beats plans to release this summer will share listener data with artists it streams. ¶ “I think that’s fair play,” Iovine said at the AllThingsD Dive Into Media conference in Dana Point, Calif. “I would die to know who bought my records on iTunes, but I don’t.” ¶ Iovine’s promise to share more data with artists is one way…

For those who believe the life span of the CD has only a few more years left, label actions speak louder than digerati words. Not only are labels supporting the CD album, but they’re still supporting the CD single and vinyl, even though Nielsen SoundScan’s singles chart rarely has fve titles selling more than 1,000 units each week. As it is, this week’s top seller is Jimi Hendrix’s “Somewhere,” which debuted with more than 3,000 copies and is, according to sources, a Walmart- and indie-store exclusive. The Walmart B-side features a Band of Gypsys live cut of “Foxey Lady” recorded at New York’s Fillmore East in 1970, while the indies’ B-side is an unreleased Band of Gypsys studio version of “Power of Soul.” The single is meant to serve as…

As chairman of Estefan Enterprises, Emilio Estefan employs more than 4,000 people among his many ventures, including five Bongos Cuban Cafes, Larios on the Beach restaurant, hotels and his Crescent Moon Studios. Add an upcoming Broadway show based on his life, a production deal with 20th Century Television, his seat on the National Museum of the Americano Latino board and his ownership stake in the NFL’s Miami Dolphins. 5.30AM Get up and have breakfast with my daughter. Then go for a run down Ocean Drive, or ride my bike, and have my Cuban coffee at Larios. Mornings are my time. I see [my wife] Gloria, have lunch with my son and grandson, who live next door. 11.00AM Meeting with Bongos staff in my Miami Beach office. 1.00AM I usually don’t…

After fulflling his contract as a New Jersey-based talent buyer/promoter for Live Nation and waiting out his noncompete, Bamboozle festival founder John D’esposito has re-emerged with what he believes is a new revenue stream for artists: mobile gaming. He has launched GameChanger World, an artist-driven platform developer based in Freehold, N.J., as a joint venture between D’Esposito’s Max Cruise Entertainment and Storm City Games. GameChanger Labs, the company’s development arm, sifts through gamer apps and finds cool, under-the-radar titles, then enlists artists as creative partners, creates mobile games with band members as characters and puts the games on the artists’ social sites and GameChanger.com’s mobile gaming “boardwalk.” The games are free and fans pay $0.99-$1.29 through in-game micro-transactions to advance and compete with other users. Each act contributes a minimum…

1. Red hot: Miley Cyrus took in Rachel Zoe’s fashion show, seated front row with her mom, Tish (left) on Feb. 13. 2. Does the devil wear Edun? Edun co-founders (and husband and wife) Bono and Ali Hewson chat up Vogue’s Anna Wintour (right) at the Edun Fall 2013 fashion show on Feb. 7. 3. Hey! Ho! Tommy Hilfiger (left) with Marky Ramone, backstage at the designer’s Feb. 8 Men’s Fall 2013 show. 4. Jennifer Lopez and manager Benny Medina buss cheeks at the Feb. 13 opening party for Topshop Topman at Cecconi’s West Hollywood. 5. Solange Knowles, wearing Topshop, and Topshop’s Philip Green at the L.A. opening. 6. A$AP Rocky (far left) struts on the catwalk for Hood by Air at Milk Studios on Feb. 10 and chills with…

“This is the room where I feel like I’m back where I started.” Name: Swizz Beatz Big break: Producing DMX’s “Ruff Ryders Anthem” in 1998. Notable 2012 beats: Nas’ “Summer on Smash,” Alicia Keys’ “New Day,” solo single “Everyday Birthday” Grammy Awards: Best rap performance by a duo or group (2010), Jay-Z’s “On to the Next One” Recent work: “I worked on some potential Beyoncé placements in here. I worked on some potential stuff for Jay-Z in here. I worked on some Nas stuff in here. I worked on some movie score stuff in here.” On producing for his wife, Alicia Keys: “It’s fun, creative and exciting. And when we hook up, we do things that I wouldn’t normally do and things she wouldn’t normally do, so the chemistry is…

For members of the Grammys’ in-house social media team, Grammy night actually started Sunday morning. Long before the red carpet was unfurled, five social media pros piled into a suite behind the stage at Los Angeles’ Staples Center, sipped on Starbucks and settled in for the long haul. The first tweets were to go out at 11 a.m., and there wouldn’t be downtime until the East Coast broadcast came to a close at 9 that night. The Recording Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences put its full weight behind a social media-driven marketing campaign for this year’s ceremony, going so far as to make the offcial slogan of the event a hashtag (#theworldislistening). These efforts paid of with year-over-year growth—though how much depends on who you ask. Twitter claims significant…

Sorry, Video Music Awards. Nice try, Super Bowl. This year’s Grammy Awards turned out to be the biggest destination for music marketing in recent memory, with brands shelling out an estimated $30 million on music-related advertising during the three-and-a-half hour telecast. According to Billboard’s tally, more than 30% of the 115 ads that aired during the ceremony featured music in some capacity—14% of which were musicians who appeared on-camera. Those ranged from Pepsi pitch people Beyoncé, Hunter Hayes and “X Factor” winner Tate Stevens to Target’s spots for Justin Timberlake, Taylor Swift and P!nk to CoverGirl’s musical faces Nervo, Janelle Monáe and (again) P!nk—not to mention a second Timberlake branding spot, his first ad for Bud Light Platinum. No wonder several marketing experts were accusing brands of “newsjacking” the ceremony—…

The powers that be at Madison Square Garden Entertainment, first under the watch of former MSGE president Jay Marciano and then orchestrated by Melissa Ormond as COO and now president, knew that their flagship venue had to be updated. The World’s Most Famous Arena has held court at its current location atop New York’s Penn Station since 1968. That is, in fact, the fourth location in Manhattan for the showplace since it debuted in 1879 at Madison Square on 26th Street. For most of its modern history, the Garden was the highest-grossing arena in the world, as documented by Billboard Boxscore. But the sports and entertainment arena business has changed dramatically in the past decade or so, as revenue from suites, club seats, modern concessions and sponsorships became critical to…

The live performance video for Major Lazer’s “Jah No Partial,” the second single from new album Free the Universe (Mad Decent/Downtown, March 12), is Diplo’s reggae-dance project in a nutshell. There are booty-shorted B-girls Mela and Lafayette, with their eye-popping drop-down moves; giant revolutionary fags bearing the visage of the Major, a cartoon, zombie-fghting Jamaican commando designed by crew creative director Ferry Gouw. There’s hype man Walshy Fire on the mic, and DJ/producer Jillionaire at the decks, a bottle of rum beside him. There’s dancehall legend Johnny Osbourne, whose 1980 song “Mr. Marshall” provides the vocal line for “Partial.” There’s Diplo, alternately crowd-surfng or scaling the lighting truss, a fearless master of ceremonies. And there’s a crowd in a permanent state of jump-up, waving T-shirts and whipping hair and basically…

Is Nelly making it hot in here yet again? Fresh of recurring roles on BET’s “Real Husbands of Hollywood” and VH1’s “T.I. & Tiny: The Family Hustle,” the St. Louis rapper is steaming up Billboard’s Mainstream Top 40 airplay chart with new single “Hey Porsche.” Serviced to radio on Feb. 5, it’s the first song from his upcoming seventh album, M.O., due later this year on Republic. Packed with firty double-entendres and a catchy hook, the uptempo track is No. 31 with a bullet this week, with a 28% jump in plays, according to Nielsen BDS. “Hey Porsche” leaped 36-29 on the chart a week prior. Leading all stations with 205 plays through Feb. 11 is mainstream top 40 KDWB Minneapolis. “I put this on based on gut and how…

THIS ISSUE WE LOOK AT TWO WEEKS’ WORTH OF DATA, HIGHLIGHTING TOP % GAINERS OF THE WEEK THAT ALSO GAINED IN THE PREVIOUS WEEK. 1 PITBULL This Week: 46 (52,000 sold) Last Week: 52 (34,000) Sampling a-ha’s 1985 Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 “Take on Me,” the collaboration is likewise finding support at radio, as it climbs 31-29 on Mainstream Top 40 with a 79% increase in plays. The track has already reached the top 10 of multiple European charts; it rose to No. 7 on the Official U.K. Singles list last month. 2 OLLY MURS This Week: 37 (54,000) Last Week: 39 (45,000) The British pop singer seems to have found himself a budding hit single with “Troublemaker” (featuring Flo Rida) as it continues to make weekly gains in…

In the pre-social media age, a brand naming a celebrity “creative director” was a largely superficial process that rarely drove results. But a new trove of deals is seeing musicians sharing in the risks of product development and financial stability in an increasingly long line of creative partnerships. In the past two weeks alone, deals have included Alicia Keys and BlackBerry, Justin Timberlake and Bud Light Platinum, Taylor Swift and Diet Coke, and Swizz Beatz and Monster International. But those are just four in an even longer list of similar deals in the last year-and-a-half, including Beyoncé and Pepsi, Jay-Z with Duracell and Anheuser-Busch, Swift and Keds, and Will.i.am and Intel. Why the new influx? Not only are musicians the most-followed personalities on Facebook and Twitter and therefore more accessible…

On the evening of Feb. 10, in an upstairs corner of Hollywood’s Emerson Theatre, where Republic Records held its offcial Grammy Awards after-party, acts like Florence & the Machine, Gotye, Kelly Rowland, the Civil Wars and Nelly could be seen signing instruments and posing for photographs with a placard that read, “I Stand Up.” In addition to celebrating the Grammys, the party served as a platform to help relaunch Stand Up for a Cure, a New York concert series designed to raise funds for various causes. SUFAC’s last charitable concert was in 2010, but Joseph Shalom, whose company Live Production Group produces the series, has big plans for the future, including numerous shows this year and several events planned for New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom around the next Super Bowl. “We…

For the second year in a row, Don Omar leads the list of finalists for the Billboard Latin Music Awards, garnering 18 nods, two more than in 2012. His sustained popularity underscores the increasing importance of digital business to Latin music in general and Don Omar’s pull within that realm: He’s a finalist in every digital category, including social artist, streaming song, digital song (where he competes against himself) and streaming artist of the year. The awards honor the most popular albums, songs and performers in Latin music, as determined by the sales, radio airplay, streaming and social data that inform Billboard’s weekly charts during a one-year period (this year’s spanned Feb. 4, 2012-Jan. 26, 2013). But Don Omar’s encore, coupled with the names of most other big finalists—Romeo Santos,…

Creativity loves constraints. When it seems like there’s no other option, human history shows that we create one. We innovate. The question is, What is the best way to innovate when times get tough? To quote warren Bufett, “Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.” Here are three things you need to know and do, now. 1 Launch your most disruptive ideas. Industry leaders leapfrog the competition by launching their most disruptive ideas when others pull back. To illustrate, consider this: In February 1930, four months after the stock market crash, henry r. Luce launched an audacious, irreverent and vibrantly colored arsenal of human-interest stories in the form of a new media product called Fortune magazine. Not only did he have the gall to launch a new product in…

Lena Dunham’s raw nerve and curvaceous body aren’t the only things getting majorly exposed on her HBO hit “Girls.” Emerging acts like Icona Pop, Solange Knowles and Tanlines get a big boost, thanks to the show’s music supervisor, Manish Raval of Aperture Music. Here, he opens up about the musical firsts that made a lasting impression on him. First album I bought: Duran Duran’s Rio— on cassette! It was a very shady transaction. Someone at school brought in these tapes that his dad stole. I paid $3 for it. First album I knew all the words to: Guns N’ Roses’Appetite for Destruction. I was in seventh grade, and hearing f-bombs on an album at that age was shocking. It was like this dangerous rebellion that I wanted to be a…

1. Carrie Underwood dazzles the crowd. 2. From left: Beyoncé, husband Jay-Z and Drake. 3. All smiles: Dave Grohl and Adele cozy up. 4. Sting onstage during the Bob Marley tribute. 5. Fun. performing. 6. Alicia Keys singing “Girl on Fire.” 7. Mumford & Sons celebrate their two Grammy wins. 8. Gotye and Kimbra accept the Grammy for record of the year 9. All-white everything: Taylor Swift opens the show. 10. Portia De Rossi (left) and Ellen DeGeneres check out Katy Perry. 11. Prince presents the Grammy for record of the year. 12. From left: Grammys executive producer Ken Ehrlich, Recording Academy president Neil Portnow and host LL Cool J. 13. Justin Timberlake hitting high notes. 14. Wiz Khalifa (left) and Bruno Mars. 15. T Bone Burnett (left) and Elton…

Kelly Clarkson was a testament to the power of Grammy music discovery when she said during her acceptance speech for best pop vocal album at last week’s Grammys, “Miguel, I don’t know who the hell you are, but we need to sing together. I mean, good God. That was the sexiest damn thing I’ve ever seen.” She was talking about Miguel’s performance of “Adorn,” and clearly a lot of music fans felt the same way, as Miguel’s single achieved its best sales week ever on the strength of Sunday-night sales alone, rising to 44,000 downloads, according to Nielsen SoundScan, a surge of 229%. The single also won for best R&B song. His album, Kaleidoscope Dream, was a breakout hit when it was released last fall, debuting at No. 3 on…

The biggest breakouts of the Grammy Awards came courtesy of two Atlantic acts, country wunderkind Hunter Hayes and folk-pop singer Ed Sheeran. Each up for one of the top categories (best new artist and song of the year, respectively), Hayes and Sheeran also scored coveted performance slots that shone a light on their hits “Wanted” and “The A Team,” both peaking at No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100. With Hayes inking a new deal with Pepsi and already on the road with Carrie Underwood, and Sheeran about to start a year-long tour with Taylor Swift, expect even bigger things from these artists in 2013. How did it feel to attend and perform on the Grammys for the first time, all at once? Hayes: It was huge, man. Life-changing. I…

In January, the same month he celebrated his 18th birthday, lanky rapper Joey Bada$$ was named creative director of Ecko Unltd., the pioneering streetwear brand founded by Marc Ecko in 1993. As creative director, Bada$$, born Jo-Vaughn Virginie Scott, wears many hats, both fguratively and literally. This week in February, his job is to come to Ecko’s New York headquarters wearing anything he wants, from any brands he admires, while designers study his choices in hopes of revitalizing the company. “What about this one?” asks Bada$$’ manager, Jonny Shipes, dangling a green camoufage T-shirt. He’s trying to get Bada$$ to pick an outft, one actually made by Ecko, for the cover of a magazine he’ll be shooting soon. But Bada$$’ stony silence makes it clear Shipes’ choice won’t work. “I…

ROCK Fall Out Boy Shines A ‘Light’ It’s been three years since Fall Out Boy’s unexpected hiatus. But with new single “My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up),” the band has crashed the pop party again in a reliably famboyant way. With mega-watt production, glam-metal backing shrieks, cheesy string samples and arena-rock guitars, the oddly titled song is the most cinematic single in the act’s catalog. Bassist/main songwriter Pete Wentz remains the Sylvia Plath of emo lyricists, but he’s gotten artier during the interim: “A constellation of tears on your lashes/Burn everything you love, then burn the ashes,” Patrick Stump sings over sampled gun clicks and percussive blasts. When Stump soars to his highest register on the pre-chorus and extends every syllable of the song’s…

Josh Groban’All That Echoes arrives at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 this week, selling 145,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It’s the singer’s third No. 1 album, following 2003’s Closer and 2007’s top seller, Noel. His last studio release, 2010’s Illuminations, debuted and peaked at No. 4 with 191,000 sold in its first week. Groban is one of the few artists in the past year to earn a No. 1 album without ever having a top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. The others are Chris Tomlin, TobyMac and Jack White (the latter two as solo artists). While Groban has claimed 17 entries on the Adult Contemporary airplay chart, he’s only visited the overall, all-genre Hot 100 chart four times. His highest-charting Hot 100 single thus far is 2008’s…

If you think each of the seven days of the week is equal, think again. Yes, each day is equally divided into 24 equal hours and each hour has 60 equal minutes. When it comes to the social-media behaviors of musicians and their fans, however, the days of the week are far from routine. Data provided by Next Big Sound shows there are rhythms to the ways artists and people act online. The metric, loosely termed “periodicity,” represents the day’s share of the week’s activity. (So, 14.8 means 14.8% of that week’s activity on a particular service took place on that day.) Understanding the peaks and valleys in these behaviors can be advantageous in using online marketing tools. Take Facebook, for example. An artist will post on Facebook hoping to…

Blavatnik Gets His Prize WHAT: Warner Music Group’s pre-emptive bid by far beat the nearest competitor to win the auction for Parlophone, home to Coldplay and Pink Floyd. It has agreed to pay £487 million ($762 million) to Universal Music Group, which had to sell the label and other assets in order to win regulatory approval from the European Union for its own purchase of EMI Recorded Music. According to sources, Parlophone, which includes Chrysalis and the Ensign label, generated about $105 million in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization on about $400 million in revenue last year. Sources indicate the nexthighest bid was $550 million. WHY: Did Access Industries’ Len Blavatnik, who’s known for disciplined investments, overpay? Some sources suggest he had to absolutely win Parlophone and needed…

There’s an old saying that goes, “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” With this being Black History Month, the quote rings especially true in light of a Dec. 18 article written by National Newspaper Publishing Assn. Washington, D.C., correspondent Freddie Allen. The headline: “Blacks Poised to Own Smaller Share of Media Outlets.” The disturbing takeaway: That additional consolidation regulations proposed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will place black media ownership even further out of reach. Despite African-Americans’ growing consumer power and mainstream brandmarketing clout (Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj)—one key voice is slowly and systematically being silenced. That African-American communities across the country are losing a vital means of local engagement, while new and established artists, especially in R&B, are losing a…

What did you wake up thinking about this morning? The data networking industry, and how this $40 billion sector is going to get rebuilt. We’ve made about four investments in this sector and they all seem to be working. We sold Nicira Networks for $1.3 billion in July. There seems to be unlimited opportunity in this area. Then I had that Trinidad James song in my head [“All Gold Everything”]— the line “Mom always told me, boy count your blessings.” Describe a lesson you learned from a failure. I’ve had so many failures. My big lesson in general is not quitting. If you take failure personally and you give up, it really does become a failure. People start thinking, “I failed, therefore I’m a failure.” The same way you don’t…

SUN Let’s face it, South by Southwest in Austin and Ultra Music Festival in Miami are the (working) Spring Breaks of the music industry. But when top execs and artists want to truly step of the mid-winter awardsseason and music festival treadmill, here’s where they go to bliss out. With its luxe hotels playing host to the likes of Katy Perry and Akon, the Maldives aren’t exactly a secret. But BB Gun Press co-founder Brian Bumbery, who represents Green Day and Jimmy Clif, still loves the island paradise’s yetunspoiled serenity. “It’s the only place in the world where I’ve completely lost track of time. It’s so breathtakingly beautiful that I weep every time I arrive and leave.” He’s enamored with Four seasons landaa Giraavaru (below) (fourseasons.com/maldiveslg) and the secluded villas…

Total Activity This year’s Grammy Sunday drove a total of 15,465,321 interactions across Facebook and Twitter, with 84% of those interactions taking place during the broadcast, according to social TV analytics provider Trendrr. Year Over Year This year’s Grammy Sunday drove a 511% increase in reactions from 2011, but the volume of conversation fell shy of 2012’s broadcast by about 1,534,679 interactions, where an outpour of sentiment on behalf of Whitney Houston drove a high volume of conversation, according to Trendrr. Mobile Activity Data The second screen was mobile: An overwhelming majority of viewers used their mobile devices to participate in the conversation, according to Trendrr. Demographic & Sentiment The gender division of the Grammy TV audience remains the same as it has during the past three years with the…

At last year’s Grammy Awards, Adele took home six trophies, and also another honor: her best sales week ever. In the week following the ceremony, her 21 earned a 207% gain. It held at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 that week, moving from 237,000 copies sold to 730,000. It’s too early to know the full sales impact of this year’s awards— Nielsen SoundScan’s tracking week ended at the close of business on the night of the broadcast (Sunday, Feb. 10)—but this week’s Billboard charts still feel the force of music’s biggest night. And though it seems there’s no runaway sales winner like Adele in 2012, retailers who spoke to Billboard predict a spread-the-wealth effect. Mumford & Sons’Babel, which won album of the year, is the biggestselling album directly linked…

The strength of the live music industry can be measured in many ways, from the year-end reports of talent buyers and sellers, to the keen interest in the proposed sale of AEG Live, to the rapid sellouts of one’s favorite act at the local concert venue. To add to those indicators, Billboard offers another way to judge the bullish outlook for the live business: the millions of dollars being invested in the buildings to host events. For existing venues to remain financially solid and attract talent, they must stay up to par in fan amenities, production capabilities and methods to drive ancillary revenue with concessions, sponsorships and premium seating. For a marketplace to be competitive in drawing top-tier content, it must have a competitive venue—even if it has to build…

The duo known as Raul y Mexia are the sons of Hernan Hernandez, vocalist/bassist of regional Mexican titans Los Tigres del Norte. That should be enough to perk up some ears. But key to the advance appeal of their debut album, Arriba y Lejos, out Feb. 19 on Nacional Records, is Antonio “Toy” Hernandez (no relation to Hernan), who steered the mashed-up pop, rap, Mexican roots and Latin dance sound of Arriba y Lejos and produced the majority of its 10 songs. The Mexican DJ and hip-hop pioneer (with the group Control Machete), who’s also known as Toy Selectah, is the producer behind 3BallMTY’s electroroots smash Intentalo, the top-selling album of 2012 on Billboard’s Regional Mexican Albums chart and the third best-selling Latin album overall (64,000 sold that year, according…

Three years after the band announced an indefnite hiatus, Fall Out Boy has returned with both fsts swinging. On Feb. 4, the quartet, which splintered in 2009 to pursue side projects, announced a multipronged comeback: the release of new single “My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)”; its accompanying video featuring rapper 2 Chainz; its ffth studio album, Save Rock and Roll (Island Def Jam), due May 7; an upcoming tour; and three intimate shows later that week in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York that sold out immediately. The response has been substantial. “My Songs” is the Hot Shot Debut on both the Billboard Hot 100 (No. 26) and Hot Rock Songs (No. 8) this week, selling 162,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The…

LEGEND Bullets indicate titles with greatest weekly gains. Album Charts ● Recording Industry Assn. of America (RIAA) certification for physical shipments & digital downloads of 500,000 albums (Gold). ▴ RIAA certification for physical shipments & digital downloads of 1 million units (Platinum). Numeral noted with Platinum symbol indicates album’s multiplatinum level. ◆ RIAA certification for physical shipments & digital downloads of 10 million units (Diamond). Numeral noted with Diamond symbol indicates album’s multiplatinum level. ○ Latin albums certification for physical shipments & digital downloads of 50,000 units (Oro). △ Latin albums certification for physical shipments & digital downloads of 100,000 units (Platino). Numeral noted with Platinum symbol indicates album’s multi-platinum level. Digital Songs Charts ● RIAA certification for 500,000 paid downloads (Gold). ▴ RIAA certification for 1 million paid downloads…