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A s music fans increasingly turn to streaming services to listen to new releases and discover artists, the Billboard charts are making it easier to access today’s hits. On April 21, Billboard announced it has teamed with Spotify as its exclusive streaming partner for 2016, a deal that allows the streaming service to power playback of more than 75 Billboard music charts and will include a weekly New Music Fridays editorial feature and three additional Spotify-centric tallies. Billboard and Spotify are also teaming to present three new Spotifydriven charts published weekly on Billboard.com. The Viral 50 will feature songs with the greatest volume of social and sharing activity; the 30-track Velocity Chart covers songs that are growing rapidly on Spotify; and the Spotify Rewind tally will highlight five songs for…

Insta-star Niykee Heaton on how she parlayed social media love — and lots of skin — into a rising pop career Play What You Love In 2012, Heaton blew up with a YouTube cover you wouldn’t expect from a pop singer with an acoustic guitar: Chief Keef’s “Love Sosa.” “I’m a white girl with blonde hair; I didn’t want to seem like I was mocking rap,” says the Illinoisraised 21-year-old. “But my manager said, ‘Cover the music you like.’ So I tried it to humor her.” Deals with Russell Simmons and Steve Rifkind’s All Def Digital and then current home Capitol followed. A Little Skin Doesn’t Hurt Heaton has more than 2 million followers on Instagram. Her feed is mostly pictures of her wearing a bikini — or nothing at…

+ Start With Canada The Toronto band, formed after singer Simon Ward took out a Craigslist ad in 2008, is already big at home: The group took home a Juno Award in 2014 for best roots and traditional album. X Add A Dash Of Mumford & Sons The band is proudly inspired by fellow folk-rockers Mumford & Sons, and even signed to the same label (Glassnote) for its third record, Hope (April 22). “They are my Beatles,” says Ward, 32. = Amplify The Emo The melodies sound sweet, but the lyrics aren’t (from “Shovels & Dirt”: “If we all die young, we don’t get hurt”). “I’d love to write happy, but I was in a bad place,” says Ward. Winning Formula! The Strumbellas used to play “empty bars” in the…

ELVIS, 1957 “Colonel Tom Parker came to my grandfather [left, with Presley] and said, ‘I have this new kid. I want to do something spectacular that has never been done before,’ ” says Jamie Nudie of Elvis’ gold lamé suit, which then cost $10,000. It is now on display at Graceland. SONNY & CHER, 1966 “My grandfather knew Cher before she was Cher — he knew her mother, Jackie,” says Nudie of the singer who, with then-husband Sonny Bono, put on Native Americaninspired, suede-fringed Nudie suits. GRAM PARSONS, 1969 Already a Nudie devotee, Parsons had the rest of his Flying Burrito Brothers band outfitted in embellished suits for the cover to the group’s 1969 debut album, The Gilded Palace of Sin. ELTON JOHN, 1972 John wore a custom rose-covered…

MARC ANTHONY HAS SEEN the future, and it’s sitting next to him on a couch. It is three in the afternoon in Miami, on the kind of gorgeous, blustery spring day when the South Florida scenery — sky, sea, swaying palm fronds, pastel-painted buildings — seems to have been arranged by a meticulous set designer. Anthony is holding court in a small office on the second floor of the spiffy new headquarters of Magnus Media, the entertainment company he launched in March 2015. The room is packed. There’s Anthony; his business partner, Magnus Media CEO Michel Vega; Anthony’s brother, Bigram Zayas, a longtime music industry insider and the co-founder of Loop Labs, an online tool for music collaboration; Anthony’s nephew, a producer and DJ who makes music under the name…

CLINTON JENNIFER LOPEZ When Clinton announced her candidacy, Lopez exclaimed, “It’s time for a woman [president].” RICKY MARTIN The singer tweeted his endorsement in December and asked his 13.3 million followers to text their support for her. LUIS CORONEL The regional Mexican singer performed the national anthem in February at a Clinton rally in Nevada. CARLOS SANTANA The legendary guitarist told Billboard in April that a female prez “may bring more compassion and equality.” SANDERS RESIDENTE The Grammy-winning Calle 13 singer introduced Sanders at a recent campaign rally in the Bronx. ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO The Texas troubadour announced he was “proud to represent” Sanders on his Facebook page in September 2015. CEDRIC BIXLER-ZAVALA The Mars Volta singer has been tweeting his Sanders support since October 2015. RAUL PACHECO The Ozomatli…

GLORIA ESTEFAN, 15 The singer has more No. 1s on Hot Latin Songs than any other female artist. SHAKIRA , 10 Her 2006 smash “Hips Don’t Lie” was a No. 1 on the chart for eight weeks. SELENA, 7 The late icon also has seven No. 1s on the Top Latin Albums chart. ANA GABRIEL , 6 Her 1987 ballad “Ay Amor” spent 14 consecutive weeks at No. 1. PAULIN A RUBIO, 5 Her first single to hit No. 1 on Hot Latin Songs was 2003’s “Te Quise Tanto.”…

DADDY YANKEE AND DON OMAR The reggaetón genre started in Puerto Rico in the 1980s as an underground musical movement, built on a thumping dembow beat, a rhythm with its roots in older Caribbean sounds like dancehall and soca. But reggaetón was something fresh, with its gritty lyrics and stripped-down production, playing in the island’s toughest neighborhoods. Songs were released on mixtapes and sold out of car trunks. Then two artists figured out how to bring reggaetón from the barrio to the masses. Don Omar’s The Last Don and Daddy Yankee’s Barrio Fino arrived within months of each other in late 2003 and early 2004, respectively. Together, they started a Latin music revolution. Yankee’s Spanish-language single “Gasolina” rose to No. 32 on the Billboard Hot 100, and his…

HELLO GOODBY E B LUE Americana duo Goodbye Blue formed in 2002 after Charlotte Kendrick’s teacher suggested she work with Dan Rowe. Not only did the two click musically, releasing three albums; they eventually married. Worth the Wait (Wondermore), bubbling under Folk Albums, marks the New Jerseybased duo’s return from a hiatus to focus on family, which the pair is celebrating at an April 27 show at Club Passim in Cambridge, Mass. BREAKING NEWS Breaking Southwest (Kent Bell, Kyle Gaston and Lauren Hall) bullets at No. 57 on Country Airplay with its debut, country-rock single “Ghost Town” (Hall’s fiddle provides the twang). The Texas group won the maiden Nash Next talent competition, resulting in a deal with Nash Records, the new label launched by Cumulus Media. The trio is working…

Nielsen Music counts as current only sales within the first 18 months of an album’s release (12 months for classical and jazz albums). Titles that stay in the top half of the Billboard 200, however, remain as current. Titles older than 18 months are catalog. Deep catalog is a subset of catalog for titles out more than 36 months. For week ending April 14, 2016. Figures are rounded. Compiled from a national sample of retail store and rack sales reports collected by Nielsen Music.…

THE PULSE OF MUSIC RIGHT NOW IT’S AFTERNOON RUSH IN LOS Angeles, and Yuna is cruising through Mid-Wilshire in a black SUV with the windows rolled down. At a stoplight, the singersongwriter, who left her native Malaysia for the land of movie stars and pricey green juices in 2011, cues up Snapchat and flips the camera to selfie mode. “Some guy on the street just shouted, ‘You’re beautiful!’ ” she says, letting out a pinched giggle. “That just made my entire day!” Los Angeles looks good on Yuna, even if she doesn’t fit the Hollywood standard for pop star — hair always wrapped in a hijab (she’s a devout Muslim); a stylishly chaste wardrobe that covers her from turtleneck on down; a label home, Verve, known for legacy jazz and…

Back when she was still singing Janis Joplin covers around New York in her early 20s, Cyndi Lauper blew out a vocal cord. A doctor suggested a move to country music, telling the “Time After Time” singer her voice was too small for rock. Forty years later, she’s finally there: On Detour, her debut on Seymour Stein’s Sire Records (out May 2), Lauper shares vintage Nashville songs with luminaries like Willie Nelson (“It felt like Yoda walked in the studio,” she says) and Emmylou Harris. The singer, 62, explains the detours that led to Detour. It all started at her former label. “In 1989, someone at Sony said to me, ‘What are you wearing? Why can’t you dress like Katrina & The Waves [whose hit was “Walking on Sunshine]?’ I…

Songs In The Key Of Sea The entertainment onboard Microsoft founder Paul Allen’s rented ship — where he hosted 250 A-listers (Nobel Prize winners and Quentin Tarantino among them) on a cruise around Southeast Asia April 1-10 — almost rivaled the sights of Singapore and Malaysia. Especially when Quincy Jones was feted in celebration of his 83rd birthday with a performance by Stevie Wonder, who sang his signature version of “Happy Birthday.” As party favors, guests received currency for every country they visited, plus a copy of Allen’s own album Everywhere at Once (retailing on Amazon for $6.99). Stars Rock & Roll All Nite Los Angeles A-listers who didn’t head to Coachella, including LL Cool J, David Foster and Ashley Tisdale, gathered April 15 at Nancy Davis’ Race to Erase…

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Working within the tradition of Nudie Cohn, Fort Lonesome founder Kathie Sever is repurposing western wear for a modern audience that includes Jimmy Kimmel (who gifted Bill Murray a bespoke armadillo-embroidered button-down) and Jenny Lewis, who recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of her album Rabbit Fur Coat. “She had a vision of Nudie suit-inspired stagewear,” says California native Sever, who once worked on a cattle ranch in Montana and now lives in Austin. “I realized it was this unique national costume that seemed to cross all boundaries. Whether you were an oil guy from Houston or musician from L.A., everybody seems drawn to this aesthetic.”…

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GS AWARENESS GROWS of the burgeoning U.S. Latin population and its formidable buying power — $1.5 trillion in 2015, according to Nielsen — brands, sports franchises, media companies and even politicians are increasingly looking to music, an acknowledged “passion point” for Latins, to reach bilingual or bicultural fans. Justin Bieber collaborated with J Balvin and dances to Daddy Yankee’s “Gasolina” at his shows; in the wake of Donald Trump’s inflammatory remarks about Mexicans, Hillary Clinton reached out to Hispanic voters through Marc Anthony, who introduced the candidate at a Miami concert in October 2015; Cuban-American singer-songwriter Jencarlos Canela played Jesus Christ on Fox’s The Passion; and Mexican chanteuse Carla Morrison sings on Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ new album. “I call this ‘the new America,’ ” says Andrés Ordoñez, chief creative…

DURING A FOUR-DECADE CAREER, Marco Antonio Solís has recorded 12 albums that have reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Latin Albums chart — more than any other Latin artist. In 2010, he was named Billboard’s Latin Artist of the Decade for his chart achievements, which include 30 songs that have hit the top 10 of Hot Latin Songs. Yet, the 56-year-old Mexican singer declares with a laugh, “If they asked me to give a songwriting class, I’d be a failure! I write from my heart. I can’t repress my emotions. I still like to write on paper, because I feel more in touch with the words. You see my scrawls, my corrections — and along the way, I find myself.” Solís also has learned that inspiration can’t be forced. “I…

Enrique Iglesias remembers when he performed his first sold-out concert in the United States: It was in 1997, at the Don Haskins Center in El Paso, Texas, and behind the scenes promoter Lazaro Megret tended to every detail of the show. Nearly 20 years later, Iglesias looks back fondly on his relationship with the man who helped launch his touring career in America. What makes Megret a good promoter? He is more than a promoter. He’s a guy that I love dearly. He’s the kind of guy that always speaks the truth, which I appreciate. It’s good to get honest answers when you ask about how many tickets were sold and how well we did. I wanted to know when things were going well and when they weren’t. Lazaro was…

THE LUMINEERS SCORE THEIR FIRST NO. 1 album on the Billboard 200 as their second set, Cleopatra, debuts in the top slot. The album, released April 8 on Dualtone Records, starts with 125,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending April 14, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 108,000 were in pure album sales — the band’s best sales week ever. Cleopatra builds on the instant stardom The Lumineers earned with their self-titled debut, released in 2012. The album broke out with the No. 3-peaking Billboard Hot 100 smash “Ho Hey,” which went on to sell 1.7 million copies in the United States and garner the band a Grammy Award for best new artist. All that set an extremely high bar for the group’s follow-up. “Our first album…

REWINDING THE CHARTS ON APRIL 28, 1990, RAPPER MC Hammer stutter-stepped to No. 1 on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart with his third LP, Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ’Em, thanks to the runaway success of single “U Can’t Touch This,” and spent 29 weeks in the coveted spot. Almost 30 years later, it remains the longest No. 1 run by a rap album and led to Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ’Em becoming the first hip-hop full-length to sell 10 million copies (according to the RIAA) and the first to be nominated for an album of the year Grammy. With its sample of Rick James’ “Super Freak” and a deliriously choreographed music video that featured Hammer in harem pants, “U Can’t Touch This” also topped Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and reached No.…

SUNDAY Exhausted after a late show in Las Vegas, ASAP Ferg, 27, lands in Santa Monica for a “silent listening party” for his second album, Always Strive and Prosper (April 22, RCA). “It was 150 kids with headphones,” he says. “I’d never done anything like that!” MONDAY After some radio promo and shopping for Ralph Lauren on Rodeo Drive, he hits the studio with ASAP Rocky to listen to Cozy Tapes, Vol. 1, a posthumous project from late mentor ASAP Yams. “It’s his vision, so we really want to nail it,” says Ferg. TUESDAY In between launching Trap Lord Tuesdays with new song “Let It Bang,” the Harlem MC sets aside catch-up phone time with loved ones: “My uncle’s about to have a baby; Mom’s looking for a house. When…

“I didn’t intend to trivialize that issue.” —ANNA WINTOUR The Vogue editor-in-chief apologizing in a statement after calling Kanye West’s Yeezy Season 3 line “migrant chic” on Late Night With Seth Meyers. “I really don’t have any concern for little small minds that get frustrated when they get blown.” —FLEA The Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist talking to TMZ about the backlash against his all-bass version of the national anthem, which opened Kobe Bryant’s last game as a Los Angeles Laker. “I’ve been in... situations where male producers would literally be like, ‘We won’t finish the song unless you come back to my hotel room.’ ” —GRIMES The alt-popper on sexism in the music industry to Rolling Stone. “His depth of passion, his knowledge and commitment to community is an…

DECADES HAVE passed since cowboys wore rhinestones — specifically, the bedazzled suits created by country and western tailor Nudie Cohn. The eponymous Nudie suit, born in Hollywood in the early 1950s, was worn by everyone from Glen Campbell and Cher to Keith Richards and Robert Plant. Though Cohn’s family closed its North Hollywood store in 1994, more than 30 years after he died, his influence resurfaced on the spring and prefall runways at Gucci, Valentino, Fausto Puglisi and in collections from fast-fashion retailers like Nasty Gal. For Jamie Nudie, 54, granddaughter of the designer who changed her last name to honor his legacy, the look’s revival comes with the relaunch of the family’s tailoring biz, which she runs with partner Mary Lynn Cabrall, 56. The two recently outfitted the cast…

0 Hot Latin Songs No. 1s by solo female lead artists since April 16, 2012 15 Hot 100 No. 1s by female lead artists, out of 39 total Hot 100 No. 1s On the Hot 100, 10 different women have reached No. 1 as lead acts. ON THE HOT LATIN SONGS CHART, 0 SOLO WOMEN HAVE REACHED NO. 1 AS A LEAD ACT Paulina Rubio’s “Me Gustas Tanto” was the last No. 1 with a female lead act, peaking on Feb. 11, 2012. It topped the chart for one week. 7 Solo women have reached No. 1 on Top Latin Albums, with 12 albums. 21 Solo women have reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200, with 33 albums.…

THE HALL OF FAME AWARD Presented at the Billboard Latin Music Awards to the artist whose contributions and influence extend well beyond the Latin music industry ALEJANDRO F ERNÁNDEZ As the youngest son of mariachi king Vicente Fernández, an icon of Latin music, Alejandro Fernández, 44, always has carried the burden of stratospheric expectations. With his 1992 selftitled debut album, he began to meet those high hopes. He has done so since, not only as a mariachi star in his own right but also by acting, touring and collaborating with the likes of Beyoncé and Christina Aguilera. Fernández has had five No. 1s on Billboard’s Top Latin Albums chart and eight No. 1s on the Hot Latin Songs tally. “Alejandro has earned the highest award any artist dreams of:…

Broadcast on the Telemundo network for the 18th year, the 2016 Billboard Latin Music Awards follows a 2015 show that drew 2.9 million average viewers, according to Nielsen, and a cumulative audience of 6.4 million, the most-watched edition yet. This year, fans can expect every performance to feature a unique duet. This comes at a time when collaborations are more prevalent than ever in Latin music. With 66 categories, these are the award finalists in four top fields. Artist of the Year Enrique Iglesias Juan Gabriel Nicky Jam Romeo Santos New Artist of the Year Ariel Camacho y Los Plebes del Rancho Banda Clave Nueva de Max Peraza La Séptima Banda Maluma Tour of the Year Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull Juan Gabriel Ricardo Arjona Romeo Santos Social Artist of the…

Meghan Trainor is riding high on the Billboard Hot 100 with her smash “No,” but that’s only part of her current success — she also has co-written the latest hits by Rascal Flatts and Jennifer Lopez. 696 K “No,” which ranks at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 (dated April 30), has sold 696,000 downloads through the week ending April 14, according to Nielsen Music. It has spent all six of its weeks on the Digital Songs chart in the top five. 47 M Rascal Flatts’ “I Like the Sound of That” rises 2-1 on Country Airplay, with 47 million in audience. In 2014, Trainor called it her “biggest dream come true” for the act to record the song, which she wrote with Jesse Frasure and Shay Mooney. 1.8…

Puth, Mendes Rule Radio Charlie Puth scores his first No. 1 on a Billboard radio airplay chart as a lead artist with “One Call Away,” which crowns Adult Top 40. In 2015, he led Mainstream Top 40, Rap Airplay, Rhythmic, Radio Songs and, of course, the Billboard Hot 100 (for 12 weeks), with a feature on Wiz Khalifa’s “See You Again,” which Puth co-wrote and co-produced. Meanwhile, Shawn Mendes earns his first No. 1 on Adult Contemporary with “Stitches” — the third airplay chart the single has topped, following reigns on Mainstream Top 40 and Adult Top 40. 13% THIS WEEK ERIC CHURCH’S “RECORD YEAR” STREAMS 1 .4 MILLION 10% THIS WEEK MELANIE MARTINEZ’S “PITY PARTY” STREAMS 2.8 MILLION 12% THIS WEEK SHAWN HOOK’S “SOUND OF YOUR…