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World, meet Charli XCX — again. The British alt-pop singer, 21, who first landed a Billboard Hot 100 top 10 with her guest spot on Icona Pop’s “I Love It,” not only leads the Hot 100 for a fourth week as featured on Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy,” she also soars 62-29 with her own single, “Boom Clap,” her first entry as a lead artist. As its push to top 40 radio begins, the track reaches the Digital Songs top 10, jumping 16-9 with a 55 percent surge to 116,000 downloads sold in the week ending June 15, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The song also roars by 266 percent to 1 million U.S. streams and grows to 3.4 million in radio audience (up from 150,000), according to Nielsen BDS. Meanwhile, its parent…

Eddie Holland, lyricist for the famed songwriting trio of Holland-Dozier-Holland, is shopping his writer’s share of the team’s catalog, which includes such classic songs as “Stop! In the Name of Love,” “Heat Wave” and “You Can’t Hurry Love.” Holland, 74, and his brother Brian joined Lamont Dozier at Motown in the early 1960s, writing and producing hits for such artists as The Supremes, The Four Tops and Marvin Gaye. Dozier split off on his own for a time, but the three reunited recently to write for a musical version of the movie The First Wives Club. As one-third of the team, Eddie Holland presumably owns one-third of the writer’s share of the catalog (the publisher’s share is owned by EMI Music Publishing). “Eddie Holland, Lamont Dozier and Brian Holland are…

News leaked June 13 that NBC has a team developing an eight-part miniseries on The Beatles. At the outset, it has two big challenges: no music rights and a competing project at Sony Pictures Television. Marty Bandier, chairman/CEO of Sony/ATV Music Publishing, publisher of all but six of John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s Beatles compositions, says he has long pursued a Beatles TV show with the intention of it running on a pay cable outlet like HBO or Showtime. “About six months ago, we were working with Sony Pictures TV on a show centered around the journey of the Beatles, and at one point we were talking about working with Baz Luhrmann,” says Bandier, noting Sony/ATV hasn’t been approached by NBC. “We hadn’t taken the next step, which is to…

From the NBA Finals to baseball’s pennant races, “Hey Jude” by The Beatles. ESPN will be sporting new songs by Santana (left). In a first for the cable network, ESPN has licensed three tracks across network platforms from Corazon, released May 6 on RCA. “Saideira” is heard in June and also has been featured on SportsCenter and First Take; “Yo Soy la Luz” is July’s soundtrack; and “La Flaca,” with a guest turn by Juanes, takes August. “The conversation started at the [advertising] upfronts,” says ESPN music director Kevin Wilson. “ ‘Summer of Santana’ rolled off my tongue.” He cites the diversity of the music’s appeal, which matches the network’s audience: predominantly male and a broad mix of ethnicities. ESPN negotiated a single deal to cover multiple uses, and the…

Most concertgoers have experienced tinnitus, or ringing in the ears. Typically, it goes away in a few hours. But for about 10 to 15 percent of that crowd, the maddening noise never ceases. Among the high-profile musicians who have suffered with it: Chris Martin of Coldplay, Will.i.am and the Gallagher brothers of Oasis. So far, the only available (and barely effective) treatments have included hypnotherapy and soothing ambient CDs. There is no known cure, but some scientists may have stumbled upon a very unexpected remedy: MDMA, the main ingredient in molly, the purest form of the popular club drug Ecstasy. When it comes to studies like these, “we’ve only scratched the surface.”—Jag Davies, Drug Policy Alliance MDMA’s psychotherapeutic application to veterans’ tinnitus, a symptom of their post-traumatic stress disorder, was…

The Hard Rock Hotel Ibiza — the first hotel in Europe for the chain — is not for those seeking tranquility. The property, which is now the island’s largest five-star hotel, consisting of 493 rooms (235 of them suites), hosted its grand-opening weekend on June 13 with a series of blowout performances for 3,000 revelers, as Masters at Work, Sister Sledge and Chic all took the stage. Throughout the summer, such acts as Robin Thicke, Snoop Dogg, Ellie Goulding, UB40, Icona Pop and Jason Derulo also will perform at the Hard Rock. The timely opening of the hotel, located on the shore of Playa d’en Bossa, which is a major holiday resort area south of Ibiza Town, will help cater to the thousands of tourists who flock to Ibiza every…

The world’s definitely got talent, but no one single singing competition show is the undisputed global champion. Veteran formats Idol, The X Factor and Got Talent, all originally from Britain, have recently lost ground to dominating Dutch upstart The Voice, while Israel’s interactive Rising Star — No. 1 in its home market — remains in the wings, set to go on the air in over 25 countries in 2014. Along the way, the explosion of reality talent competition shows has delivered a handful of international stars and a bargain bin full of one-hit wonders. THE VOICE OF ITALY Sicilian nun Sister Cristina Scuccia sang hits by Alicia Keys, Cyndi Lauper and Bon Jovi. Her winning number on the June finale? “What a Feeling” from Flashdance. THE X FACTOR AUSTRALIA After…

Heavy metal certainly doesn’t enjoy the same mainstream profile it did back in its hairy heyday. Yes, Metallica still headlines arena tours worldwide, but a number of newer bands are putting their own unique spin on the music and enjoying commercial success. Here are five you should know. —R.B. Five Finger Death Punch This Las Vegas band’s meat-and-potatoes metal sent four straight LPs to the Billboard 200’s top 10. The last two, The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell (Vol. 1 and 2), both hit No. 2. Volbeat After Metallica tapped it to open a 2009 tour, this Danish, death metalrooted act’s 2013 album Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies debuted at No. 9 on the Billboard 200 and nabbed a Grammy nom. Lamb Of God The…

Love and romance always have been Ne-Yo’s stock in trade. The Grammy-winning singer/songwriter and Motown executive, 34, first crooned his way to a Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 in 2006 with R&B ballad “So Sick.” But in 2011, he sashayed onto the EDM floor, first as a guest on Pitbull’s No. 1 smash “Give Me Everything” and then on his own “Let Me Love You (Until You Learn to Love Yourself)” in 2012. Now, Ne-Yo is circling back with a sumptuous new R&B single, “Money Can’t Buy” (featuring Jeezy). “I’ve heard people call this my comeback record,” he says, “but I haven’t gone anywhere.” Your new single includes a nod to William DeVaughn’s 1974 R&B hit “Be Thankful for What You Got.” What else provided inspiration for the song? That…

MYERS’ STRONG ‘DESIRE’ After her debut Atlantic EP, Make a Shadow, charted on Heatseekers Albums in March, singer-songwriter Meg Myers is bubbling under the Alternative tally with lead track “Desire.” It was the fourth-most-played (38 times) on KRBZ Kansas City, Mo., in the week ending June 15, according to Nielsen BDS. “It’s real and raw,” says PD Scott “Lazlo” Geiger. “It’s No. 1 in our research.” JUNGLE FEVER Following the success of horn-filled hits like Jason Derulo’s “Talk Dirty,” Ariana Grande’s “Problem” and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ “Thrift Shop,” Jungle’s “Busy Earnin’” is breaking through, with leading support from tastemaking radio station KCRW Los Angeles. The XL-signed London band made its U.S. TV debut on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! on June 16. RAELYNN’S ‘GIRLS’ GROWS Singer-songwriter RaeLynn is making the…

The climax of Celebrate Brooklyn’s Celebrate Ornette tribute in Prospect Park on June 12 was supposed to come when two 1930-born saxophone legends, Ornette Coleman and Sonny Rollins, strolled, if not strutted, in to join the “Lonely Woman” encore. But instead the climax came early. Before a note was played, engineer-turned-MC Gregg Mann and Ornette’s son Denardo Coleman, his drummer at 10 years old and his manager for 30 years, called Rollins out. Rollins, 83, didn’t strut — he had a helper. His voice was shaky. But he knew what he wanted to say: “Ornette has changed so much in music, in politics and in human relations between people.” And also: “I’m going to say something that Ornette already said to me. It’s all good. Don’t worry about nothing.” Enter…

IN 2011, WITHIN FIVE MINUTES of Lana Del Rey becoming famous, the Internet did what it does best and exposed her. To let the haters tell it, she was a phony, with an invented alt-pop princess persona. For some reason, this was a problem. Here was a pretty child of privilege singing about the crassness and artificiality of American culture; why shouldn’t the presentation be artificial too? So it was on 2012 breakthrough Born to Die, wherein the then-25-year-old Lizzy Grant (previously a far less stylized singer- songwriter) recast herself as a wasted 1940s Hollywood starlet with a hip postmodern edge. Her shtick: celebrating the baseness of 21st-century life while digging up beautiful corpses of the past. In a voice that was coquettish one minute, deep and wise the next,…

Warped Returns The Vans Warped tour’s long-running compilation series marches on, as the latest edition rides onto the Billboard 200 at No. 58. The 50-track album, Vans Warped Tour ’14: 2014 Tour Compilation, sold 6,000 copies in the week ending June 15, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The set is the companion piece to the annual tour, which began June 13 in Houston. Half of the album’s first-week sales came from mass merchants, while digital downloads amounted to just 15 percent of its debut. Since 2002, the series has charted a set every year, reaching a high 10 years ago with the No. 8-peaking Vans Warped Tour 2004 Compilation, which also is the biggest-selling edition with 367,000 sold. In total, since 1998, the series has generated 2.4 million album sales. Always…

Russell Simmons is climbing off the yoga mat. The hip-hop impresario-turnedlifestyle guru, author of the New York Times best-seller Success Through Stillness, moved from the East Coast to Los Angeles early in 2014. Now, he is launching a flurry of new entertainment projects — and has begun blasting the way Hollywood works. Simmons, 56, has already shot a number of TV pilots under the firstlook deal he has with HBO, he says in a phone interview from his new home in the Hollywood Hills. The most high-profile project he has in development: 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen’s first foray into TV drama, about a young African-American man’s journey into high society in New York. Simmons says that his “true passion project” is a rap opera called Cain and…

“I didn’t know how to scratch, so I used to pull up and down the zipper of my hoodie — it sounds exactly like it!” — ROBERT PATTINSON The actor, telling Late Night host Seth Meyers about his youthful dream of becoming a rapper named Big Tub. “I’m a person who could always lose a couple [of pounds] here and there, but I would rather be strong than bony.” — PINK The pop singer, expressing her confident body image to Who magazine, on whose cover she appears nude. “She was afraid of celebrity.” — KANYE WEST The rapper, expressing his annoyance at photographer Annie Leibovitz, who was unable to shoot his wedding to Kim Kardashian. He has since sought to downplay his remarks. “HE DID PLAY A D-CKHEAD VERY WELL.”…

When beloved jazz singer Jimmy Scott (left) died June 12 at age 88, he left behind one last unreleased recording, a duet of “Over the Rainbow,” sung with a superfan hoping to create a documentary of the experience. Storm Gardner, a Scottish singer who, after watching the 2012 Oscarwinning film Searching for Sugar Man, was inspired to search for his own hero, spent part of the last six months with Scott. “Jimmy had promised me a duet 20 years ago,” says Gardner of first meeting the diminutive vocalist at New York’s Iridium club. After securing Scott’s number from music biz perennial Bill Bentley, Gardner traveled to Scott’s home in Las Vegas and fulfilled his life’s dream with little more than a rough backing track on a laptop. “Jimmy kept saying,…

It seems fitting that Nicola Peltz is about to star as Mark Wa h l b e rg’s daughter in Transformers: Age of Extinction (out June 27). “I’m a big Transformers fan. I grew up with six brothers, so I definitely know it very well,” says Peltz, who most recently was in the A&E series Bates Motel. The actress reveals her musical tastes. Who’s on your iPod now? Rihanna. What’s the first CD you remember buying? Britney Spears. First concert you attended? The Rye [N.Y.] Country Day School concert for my little brothers. How about the last concert? Katy Perry. What’s a song you love that might surprise people? “Hey Jude” by The Beatles.…

06-12 The Band Perry singer Kimberly Perry and pro baseball player J.P. Arencibia wed in Greeneville, Tenn. Her brothers/bandmates Reid and Neil Perry were the best men. Nashville stars Lennon & Maisy and Mac Powell performed. 06-12 Singer Kelly Clarkson and her husband, talent manager Brandon Blackstock, welcomed the birth of daughter River Rose Blackstock. Announcing on Twitter, Clarkson wrote: ”Thank you everyone for all of your well wishes! Brandon and I are on cloud 9!! :).” 06-12 Longtime country marketing executive Cindy Mabe was promoted to president of Universal Music Group Nashville by chairman/CEO Mike Dungan. 06-12 Big Machine Label Group, home to Taylor Swift and Tim McGraw, announced a direct licensing deal with Cox Media Group, which will pay Big Machine for plays of its music on terrestrial…

Weeks after Michael Jackson’s virtual performance at the Billboard Music Awards, another surreal — and controversial — avatar of the King of Pop will embark on a world tour of sorts. On June 27, Jeff Koons’Michael Jackson and Bubbles, the larger-than-life gilded porcelain sculpture of the late artist and his cherished pet chimpanzee, will return to New York as one of the highlights of Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, the largest solo exhibition of an artist ever mounted at the Whitney Museum, and the last the institution will mount before moving downtown. Come October, the exhibit travels to the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Guggenheim Bilbao in Spain. Like Jackson, Koons, 59, has a knack for genre-bending. His message of acceptance and tolerance for all aspects of culture has garnered…

Casey Kasem, who hosted the syndicated countdown radio show American Top 40 and a number of spinoffs for more than 30 years, died June 15 at the age of 82 after a prolonged dispute between his wife, Jean, and his children Kerri, Mike and Julie relating to his care. Kasem brought world renown to the Billboard top 40 charts. Two guest columnists assess his influence on music, radio and popular culture. ELVIS DURAN HOST, ELVIS DURAN AND THE MORNING SHOW “Hi. Z100.” “Yeah, Elvis. Listening to the show. Who was this Casey Kasem guy you keep talking about?” “The guy that passed away?” “Yes.” “He’s the reason I’m on the radio every morning. Go Google him.” Lots of those calls came in Monday morning. I get it. Casey hasn’t counted…

HIS RAPS FREQUENTLY EVOKE HIGHER consciousness, but Ab-Soul is only half-awake — if that. It’s 11:15 a.m. on a Saturday and the selfdescribed “Black Lip Bastard” groggily talks about his new album, These Days, due June 24 on TDE, in terms of metaphysical duality. “I’m trying to bring people into light and lead them out of darkness,” he says, stifling a yawn. “I want to offer balance. For every action, there’s a reaction. You need to stay neutral. The universe bends toward a still mind.” His tufts of hair are unruly and his eyes shrouded by trademark black sunglasses, worn due to an ocular sensitivity to light that will likely require a corneal transplant one day. His aesthetic is something like if Bone Thugs-NHarmony had played the first Woodstock —…

Jungle” may be on its way to becoming one of the most ubiquitous songs of 2014. The track — a collaboration between Brooklyn quartet X Ambassadors and British singer Jamie N Commons, both signed to producer Alex Da Kid’s Interscope subsidiary KidInaKorner — is featured in an epic Beats by Dre World Cup commercial, which, with Lil Wayne, LeBron James and other stars acting as human product placement, has clocked more than 15 million views. But it also has appeared in trailers for Orange Is the New Black’s new season, Michael Bay’s film Almanac, NBC’s The Blacklist and Electronic Arts’Battlefield: Hardline video game. On June 15, a remix featuring Jay Z was unveiled during game five of the NBA Finals and, in a groundbreaking move, made available exclusively on Beats…

“e try not to see boundaries between genres — we believe you can just do whatever you want,” says Jack Patterson, multiinstrumentalist of Clean Bandit. For the British quartet, that means pairing live classical strings and old-school dance music — a combination that has fueled worldwide chart success ahead of its debut album, New Eyes, released June 17 on Big Beat/Atlantic Records. The group’s breakthrough single, “Rather Be,” featuring singer Jess Glynne, debuts on the Billboard Hot 100 dated June 28 at No. 97. The song, a joyous slice of vintage house with a violin melody, also rises 10-9 in its 19th week on Hot Dance/Electronic Digital Songs. In the United Kingdom, it topped the Official Singles Chart for four weeks. “It has come as a shock to us all,”…

Decades before the festival boom changed the touring landscape in America, music fairs already were an industry mainstay in the United Kingdom, providing prime plays for acts and immersive experiences for fans. The 10 largest jamborees in the country attract about 800,000 fans combined. Many more draw audiences in the 10,000-to-15,000 range, and an estimated 2 million fans attend the United Kingdom’s outdoor events each year, according to Billboard. Here, ahead of the legendary 44th Glastonbury Festival (June 25-29), arguably the epicenter of the festival explosion — and often cited as the inspiration for Bonnaroo and Coachella — a survey of some of the biggest and most unique festivals in Britain. FIELD DAY (June 7-8) London’s East End The Victoria Park event launched in 2007 with a village aesthetic that…

AFTER SPENDING TWO ALBUMS exploring electronic textures, Linkin Park has rediscovered guitars. The Hunting Party, the group’s sixth set overall — and first since 2003 without producer Rick Rubin — is a blast of muscular fury that’s as fierce and raw as Linkin Park has been since its career-opening tag team of Hybrid Theory and Meteora. The difference is, 14 years on, the sextet’s blend of metal, rap and prog flavors is even more seamless — and more dynamic, as evidenced best by shifting arrangements throughout, particularly on album closer “A Line in the Sand,” whose stark, airy start gives way to a blustery, metallic fusillade. Frontmen Mike Shinoda and Chester Bennington continue to find fresh ways to intertwine their vocals on these angsty, angry and occasionally politically minded tracks.…

TWENTY-SIX YEARS AGO, WHILE MOST HIGH school seniors likely were looking for a summer job, one precocious overachiever was adding a historic punctuation to an already impressive résumé. The year before, Debbie Gibson became an overnight sensation thanks to her aptly titled debut album, Out of the Blue, which produced five top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. But on June 25, 1988, the 17-year-old hit the record books when her biggest smash of all, “Foolish Beat,” reached No. 1, replacing Rick Astley’s “Together Forever” and fending off Michael Jackson’s “Dirty Diana,” which topped the chart the following week. With the coronation, Gibson became the youngest artist to write, produce and perform a Hot 100 No. 1, a record that still stands. How did she and her friends celebrate…

According to multiple published reports, the upcoming Jay Z-Beyoncé stadium tour, set to begin June 25 in Miami, is struggling with “dismal” ticket sales. But those reports are inaccurate, Billboard has learned. On the contrary, sources close to the Live Nation-produced tour say that, as of June 17, the tour has racked up roughly $86 million in ticket sales and is expected to gross close to $100 million from just 19 shows. Attendance is on a pace to top 850,000 tickets sold, and a Live Nation source confirms that the tour is indeed nearing that threshold. That’s a nightly take of $5.2 million, and an average attendance of nearly 45,000 per show. Numerous shows have sold out; Live Nation cites “unprecedented” VIP and platinum ticket sales. Those figures put On…

Americans finally have caught World Cup fever. The June 16 thriller between the United States and Ghana drew 15.9 million viewers on ESPN and Univision combined, according to Nielsen. While the games are grabbing eyeballs en masse, the musical tracks pegged to the World Cup are drawing mixed results. A sampling of top World Cup hits and their performance in the early rounds: WYCLEF JEAN “Dar Um Jeito,” by Santana with Jean, Avicii and Alexander Pires, sold 1,000 downloads in the week ending June 15. SHAKIRA She hasn’t even performed “Dare” yet, but already it is No. 53 on the Billboard Hot 100. PITBULL Official song “We Are One” entered the Hot 100 at No. 59 but sold 22,000 downloads in the Cup’s first week. JANELLE MONAE Not even a…

Tupac Musical Brings Thug Life To Broadway Outside Manhattan’s Palace Theatre on 47th Street, 2Pac’s “California Love” and “Ghetto Gospel” blast onto the sidewalk — not from a passing car or boombox, but from the Broadway box office, in the hopes of enticing potential ticket buyers to its latest jukebox musical. The differences between Holler If Ya Hear Me and its neighbors dedicated to the music of Carole King and The Four Seasons are many, but key among them is that Holler targets an audience much younger than the baby boomers who are keeping houses full for Beautiful and Jersey Boys. “I hope we have time to find our audience,” says Holler director Kenny Leon. It’s a valid concern for all involved in the $8 million production that officially opened…

Broadcast radio accounts for roughly half of the audio that Americans consume in a given day, according to a new study by Edison Research. What they listen to the rest of the time helps explain why Apple, Amazon, Google and others are launching or acquiring new digital music services. Americans are clearly drawn to such digital music services as Pandora, iTunes Radio and Spotify. In total, consumers surveyed (age 13 and older) spent 22 percent of their listening time on new alternatives to AM/FM radio and purchased music. That’s more than the time spent listening to “owned music,” such as CDs and downloads, which account for 20 percent of listening. Streaming services, from webcasters like Pandora to on-demand services like Spotify, account for 12 percent of listening time. Satellite radio…

“I’VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR A LONG TIME. The [older I get], the more I love doing it. This is my first-ever festival in America, and I know it’s the best one,” said Elton John during his Sunday headlining set to close out the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn. The singer performed a duet with Ben Folds on the latter’s “Grey Seal” and started a mass singalong to John’s “Tiny Dancer.” It was the perfect end to a raucous four days of music, jam-packed with five main stages and a diverse mix of artists impressing the overheated crowd of campers. Besides John, other artists, including Sam Smith, MS MR and Frank Ocean, had their own stand-out moments during their performances. Thousands flocked from headliner to headliner, with…

In 2012, Avi Nir had a problem. A Ph.D. who had studied the psychological appeal of series TV, he was a decade into running one of the most successful TV production companies in Israel, Keshet Broadcasting, which had scored in the international license market with shows like Prisoners of War, the origin of Showtime’s Homeland. But one of the shows he had started with —A Star Is Born, the Israeli version of American Idol — was suffering in the ratings. It wasn’t interesting the audience the way it used to. Or Nir, for that matter. There was no drama to it, no innovation. Who wanted to look at the same old phone number on the screen? And text messaging for voting had been around for a decade. The show wasn’t…

“Bonnaroo, howdoyoudo?” Brent Hinds, the curly-haired, face- tattooed co-guitarist/singer of Atlanta metal act Mastodon, is shouting, and the crowd is shouting back. It’s the second day of the annual Bonnaroo music festival in Manchester, Tenn., and Hinds and his bandmates — bassist-vocalist Troy Sanders, guitarist Bill Kelliher, drummer- vocalist Brann Dailor — have just begun a late-night set in front of a crowd packed into Bonnaroo’s This Tent. Across the way, on the considerably larger What Stage, Kanye West is wrapping up a headlining show. Hinds makes a lighthearted, and expletive-laden, remark about this as well, to even louder cheers. At another end of the campgrounds, meanwhile, Ice Cube is preparing to take the Which Stage for a run-through of his catalog of hip-hop classics. Needless to say, the members…

From San Antonio Lineup Lead vocalist Jonny Hawkins, bassist Daniel Oliver, drummer Paul O’Brien and guitarist Mark Vollelunga (from right) Sounds like A harder-charging Incubus, hardwired with Korn’s classic guitars and Karnivool’s heightened spiritual awareness Backstory After a 10-year DIY career where the band did everything from outfit its touring RV with biofuel to create a twirlable bass guitar that could be simultaneously played by three people, Nothing More wasn’t holding its breath for a label co-sign. “We put getting a deal out of our mind,” says Hawkins. But then Allen Kovac, founder of Eleven Seven Music (Motley Crue, Papa Roach), heard the quartet’s self-titled, selffunded 2013 album. “I listened to it one time and said, ‘I have to sign this band,’ ” recalls Kovac. “This could be a very…

Chicago-based DJ duo Flosstradamus, real names Josh Young and Curt Cameruci, was instrumental in the emergence of so-called EDM trap, which combines Southern rap beats with a dancemusic sensibility, and led to hits like Bauuer’s “Harlem Shake.” The pair — who released a new single, “TTU (Too Turnt Up)” with Waka Flocka Flame, on June 10 — looks back at the classics that helped set trap loose. 1. T.I., “RUBBER BAND MAN” Young: This is the first trap song that broke through Chicago radio. I had heard Atlanta artists before, but this was the first that had that 808, trappy pop feel. 2. YUNG JOC, “IT’S GOIN’ DOWN” Cameruci: This song helped trap get to white America. I’d hear frat boys singing it, it’d be on at bougie, bottle-service clubs.…

Maroon 5, led by singer Adam Levine, is poised to return to the Billboard Hot 100 with buoyant new single “Maps.” The song is Maroon 5’s first new music since its last album, Overexposed, dropped nearly two years ago. 289% “Maps” was released just after midnight on June 17 and immediately shot to No. 1 on the real-time Billboard Twitter Trending 140 chart. The band had a 289 percent increase in mentions of its Twitter handle that day, according to Next Big Sound. 17M The song logged nearly 1,800 radio plays on June 17, amounting to a one-day audience of 17 million, according to Nielsen BDS — partly due to hourly spins from numerous Clear Channel Media and Entertainment stations. 100K Industry sources suggest “Maps” might sell 100,000 to 125,000…

Brooklyn-by-way-of-Montreal singer-songwriter Mac DeMarco has been hitting the road hard in recent months, spreading the word about his critically acclaimed second album of summery slacker rock, Salad Days, released April 1 on Captured Tracks. The self-described “jizz jazz” artist, 24, has expanded his ongoing 2014 world tour to include dates in Canada and the Northwest, before an August run in Europe. What keeps him (mostly) sane onstage, backstage and on the road? He answers. PRE-SHOW RITUALS “I used to get hammered before every show, but now I don’t drink a drop. It’s a new outlook: respect for the kids.” BACKSTAGE RIDER “It’s been the same since our first tour. It began as a joke: We always put four fish filet meals from McDonald’s, four packs of Viceroy smokes — I…

Jack White claims his second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, as Lazaretto bows in the top slot with 138,000 copies sold in the week ending June 15, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The effort follows White’s 2012 solo debut, Blunderbuss, which also opened atop the list and sold 138,000 in its first week. (It sold a handful of copies less, actually, but when rounded to the nearest thousand, both figures become 138,000.) Lazaretto — released on White’s Third Man Records label through Columbia Records — also sets the record for the largest sales week for a vinyl album since SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991. The vinyl LP sold 40,000 copies — easily enough to debut at No. 1 on the Vinyl Albums chart. (The vinyl edition has many…