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A1 RECORD SHOP 439 E. Sixth St. Growing up in the West Village, Kirke frequented Bleecker Bob’s and Bleecker Street Records, but A1 — its ceiling quilted with album covers — is her go-to “for vinyl LPs,” she says. “I don’t buy CDs, but does anyone anymore?” AVENUE D Kirke once ran into Mozart co-star Gael Garcia Bernal in Alphabet City while she was jogging: “I see this gaggle of dudes kicking a soccer ball around in the middle of the street, and I get closer, and it’s Gael,” she says. “He’s kind to everyone, and so brave with his choices.” TR CRANDALL GUITARS 179 E. Third St. The specialty shop is co-owned by Kirke’s pal Alex Whitman. “I feel like an idiot every time I go there ... I…

“New music on the way ??? Take JB to the trap ???” —2 CHAINZ The rapper hinting at new music with Justin Bieber in the caption for an Instagram photo of the unlikely pair. “It’s so cool to sing your own words and watch people in the crowd f— with it...”—LAUREN JAUREGUI The Fifth Harmony member on Twitter after her first public performance outside the group alongside pop duo Marian Hill at California’s SnowGlobe Festival. “When you let those genies out of the bottle — bigotry, racism, intolerance — they don’t go back in the bottle easily, if they go back in at all.”—BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN The rocker speaking on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast about the 2016 election. “Sacrificing animals for your gain is the wackest shit I’ve ever heard. Get…

IT WAS FEBRUARY 2014, AND Melitta Baumeister, then a 28-yearold, freshly graduated Parsons School of Design MFA alum, was about to make her New York Fashion Week debut. Among those sitting in the audience was Mel Ottenberg, the Los Angelesbased stylist to Rihanna and fashion director of 032c magazine, who would request to borrow an oversized pleather jacket from the collection the next day. Baumeister needed no persuading. Two weeks later, Rihanna would arrive at the Commes des Garcons show during Paris Fashion Week draped in a giant fur stole and Baumeister’s glossy black jacket. For Rihanna and her team, it was just another stellar fashion moment. For the designer, though, it was career-changing. “A lot of press reached out to me, and then [influential global retailer] Dover Street Market…

Charli XCX’s third album, due in May, will be a “party record” (see: single “After the Afterparty” featuring Lil Yachty) Will Butler has suggested that Arcade Fire will release a new album, the act’s fifth, this spring Depeche Mode promises a new album, Spirit, this spring and will return to the road in May ILLUSTRATION BY GEOFF KIM ILLUSTRATION BY REMIE GEOFFROI Lady Gaga will play the Super Bowl LI halftime show on Feb. 5 Meanwhile, Taylor Swift will headline Super Saturday Night on Feb. 4, potentially previewing a new album On Feb. 24, Little Big Town will release The Breaker, its eighth studio album (Swift wrote the single “Better Man”) The Weeknd’s Legend of the Fall Tour runs February to June Expect John Mayer’s next…

New Edition exploded out of Boston’s housing projects in the early 1980s, setting a precedent for the fleet of boy bands to follow, with its carefully groomed look (and moves) — and the group’s share of offstage drama (contract ripoffs! Onstage fights!). Before a three-part BET biopic, The New Edition Story, airs Jan. 24-26, members Michael Bivins, Bobby Brown and Ralph Tresvant look back on the pivotal career moments you’re likely to see onscreen. resvant is unofficially designated the group’s star when he’s pushed to the center of New Edition’s “Candy Girl” photo shoot. RALPH TRESVANT I remember everybody being kind of defensive during that shoot, but I loved it! I didn’t focus on me being in the center; I just focused on our first album coming together. BOBBY…

Faced once again with a deeply challenging and painful tragedy, in June 2015 President Barack Obama was called to deliver a eulogy for the Reverend Clementa Pinckney, one of nine people murdered at the historic Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., by a hate-filled gunman. As he had done so many times before, as our best presidents — FDR, Kennedy, Lincoln — have done in crisis and challenge, Obama spoke to the soul, courage and love of our nation. When people could have felt demoralized, he “re-moralized” our nation, fixed our compass to true north and reminded us of who we are and who we aspire to be. Then, the unexpected: Just when his speech had seemed to reach its moving conclusion, the president began to sing. As he hit…

George Michael’s Sales Surge The death of George Michael on Dec. 25 prompts the return of three of his solo albums to the Billboard 200 — along with Make It Big, his breakthrough set with Wham! in 1984. Michael’s 2008 greatesthits album Twenty Five re-enters the list at No. 12 — a new high, surpassing its No. 28 debut and peak. The set earned 39,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Dec. 29 (up 1,471 percent), with 9,000 of those in traditional album sales (up 9,476 percent). Michael’s 1987 debut solo album Faith returns to the tally at No. 18 with 33,000 units (up 6,061 percent), with 14,000 copies sold (up 8,189 percent). The smash release, which spent 12 weeks atop the chart, was the best-selling Michael or Wham!…

Urban Triples Up Keith Urban (above) banks his 21st No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart as “Blue Ain’t Your Color” climbs 2-1, increasing by 18 percent to 44.8 million audience impressions in the week ending Jan. 1, according to Nielsen Music. Written by Steven Lee Olsen, Hillary Lindsey and Clint Lagerberg, the retro sound and waltz time signature of “Blue” are a departure from most of Urban’s past hits. “We worked for a long time in the studio to get the feel and simplicity to where it is,” Urban tells Billboard. As “Blue” rules Country Airplay, it also paces both Hot Country Songs and Country Digital Song Sales for a ninth week each. The track leads the latter list with an 88 percent surge to 48,000 downloads sold in…

Ortiz’s Record Rise Gerardo Ortiz notches his eighth No. 1 on Regional Mexican Airplay with “Regresa Hermosa,” earning the record for most No. 1s on the 22-year-old chart among solo acts, as he breaks a tie with Vicente Fernandez for the title. The track, which is the lead single from his upcoming album, Comeré Callado, steps 2-1 in its 11th charting frame with a 6 percent increase at the radio format (to 13.3 million audience impressions in the week ending Jan. 1, according to Nielsen Music). Among all acts on Regional Mexican Airplay, six groups have tallied as many or more No. 1s as Ortiz. In the lead overall: Conjunto Primavera and Intocable, each with 16 leaders. Elsewhere, Ozuna scores his first top 10 on Hot Latin Songs as “Dile…

Coldplay Cruises To Success Among the five highestgrossing concert engagements on the latest Boxscore chart, Coldplay (above) owns four of them, based on box-office revenue reported from a trek through Australia and New Zealand during December. The 12-day stint was the final 2016 leg of the world tour that began last spring. Concerts in North and South America, Europe and Asia preceded the Oceania run that included sold-out shows in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Auckland. (The tour is on break until March 31, when it starts up again in Asia, continuing through October.) Melbourne’s Etihad Stadium produced the best box-office results from the December slate of shows, earning the No. 1 ranking with $8.9 million in ticket sales from 103,482 sold tickets for shows on Dec. 9 and 10. Sydney…

ENVIOUS’ IS THE WORD THAT The xx bassist Oliver Sim, huddled next to bandmates Romy Madley Croft and Jamie Smith in a hotel room at Melbourne’s Grand Hyatt, uses to describe how he felt watching Smith perform as a solo artist. In 2015, while the London trio was effectively prolonging its hiatus following its 2012 album Coexist, Smith (who performs as Jamie xx) released a dance album, In Colour, that was critically beloved and yielded an international tour. Compared to The xx’s delicate, heart-rending pop, the squelching bangers of In Colour were fresh and exciting; the band, in turn, began to feel like a relic from the indie-rock boom of the 2000s. Sim, leaning forward on a large sofa while Smith lounges back beside him, says he used to find…

How’s the move to CMT? We’ve always strived for authenticity ... and now on CMT we can tell the stories with fewer showy story points and let things breathe — like a country song. Living in Nashville, have you met anyone who reminds you of Deacon? Artists and songwriters have difficulties. There’s a lot of pain that is drawn upon to create beauty, and Deacon is the patron saint of that. (Laughs.) He has been through so much it has almost broken him completely, but it means he has some things to say behind a guitar or sitting at a notepad. I’ve run into that again and again. What is the show’s truest aspect? The way it can just happen in this town, where suddenly things take off. I’ve…

When George Michael died, electro-funk duo Chromeo posted a simple tribute on Instagram: “Rest in peace, style god.” Singer David Macklovitch (aka Dave 1) has not only adopted Michael’s mid-’80s looks as his own but also modeled Chromeo’s latest music video, “Old 45s,” after “Faith” — “with the jukebox, and me shaking my ass,” he says. Macklovitch, 38, spoke to Billboard about that iconic look and the singer’s ability to rock a dangly earring. When did George Michael’s style first make an impact on you? I was a kid in the ’80s watching music videos on the Canadian equivalent of MTV, and the two guys I had the biggest nonsexual crushes on were Robert Palmer and George Michael. The “Simply Irresistible”/“Addicted to Love” look was one thing, and the other…

The 22-year-old rabble-rousing rapper Lil Uzi Vert has always defied genre conventions. He dyes his hair in an ever-changing spectrum of colors; he performs in a very Kurt Cobain plaid-on-acid-wash uniform; at his solo shows, he’s more likely to crowd-surf than stay onstage. On Instagram, where he has more than 2 million followers, he follows a single account: Marilyn Manson, the androgynous rocker whom Uzi calls his greatest inspiration. In just a year’s time, the North Philly artist born Symere Woods has captivated a social-mediaobsessed young audience with tuneful rhymes warbled over trap-inflected, electrobrushed beats. His single “Money Longer” rose to a No. 7 peak on Billboard’s Rap Streaming Songs chart (and garnered more than 80 million streams on Spotify). On SoundCloud, the seven tracks on his latest release —…

Billboard’s annual Women in Music event, held at Pier 36, recognized and honored the remarkable achievements of today’s top influential female artists and dynamic executives. The honorees, selected by the magazine’s editorial team, included revolutionary women who have motivated and inspired the music business with their achievements, leadership and individuality throughout the past 12 months. Among the 2016 artist honorees were Madonna, Shania Twain, Meghan Trainor, Kesha, Halsey, Andra Day, Maren Morris and Alessia Cara, while the Executive of the Year was Bozoma Saint John, head of Apple Music’s global consumer marketing division. Thank you to our 2016 partners American Express, PANDORA Jewelry, Mercedes-Benz, American Airlines, Nielsen Music and Iron Mountain. 1. Woman of the Year Madonna accepted her award and gave an emotional, thought-provoking speech. 2. To share their…

Christmas Closes Out 2016 Pentatonix spends a second week atop the Billboard 200 with A Pentatonix Christmas as the release earned 101,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Dec. 29, 2016 — the final tracking week of the calendar year — according to Nielsen Music. The album (the act’s seventh charting set) is the first for Pentatonix to spend more than a single week at No. 1 as its previous leader, the band’s 2015 self-titled set, debuted and peaked atop the list for one week (Nov. 7, 2015). The last tracking frame of 2016 included the two days leading up to Christmas (and the holiday itself), so it’s fitting that a yuletide release leads the tally. While the album’s total units earned for the week were down by 51…

Green Day ‘Still’ Earning No. 1s Green Day (above) crowns Rock Airplay as “Still Breathing” rises 2-1. The second single from the band’s 12th studio album, Revolution Radio, gains by 3 percent to 11 million audience impressions, according to Nielsen Music, and follows lead single “Bang Bang,” which ruled for three weeks beginning Oct. 22, 2016. “Still” is Green Day’s fourth Rock Airplay No. 1 (dating to the chart’s 2009 launch); only Foo Fighters have more (five). The track is also the Greatest Gainer on Alternative (No. 3) and bullets at No. 6 on Mainstream Rock. Speaking of rock’s elder statesmen, Skid Row returns to Hard Rock Digital Song Sales for the first time in three-and-a-half years as 1989’s “18 and Life” re-enters at No. 16, boosted by a 69-cent…

Williams’ New LP Debuts “Chain Breaker,” the first Christian music single by Zach Williams (above), returns to No. 1 on Hot Christian Songs and Christian Airplay, while his new LP of the same name debuts on Top Christian Albums. On Hot Christian Songs, the song rebounds 3-1 for a fifth week on top. As radio stations put their Christmas music in storage, “Chain” flies 5-1 for a ninth frame atop Christian Airplay, vaulting 236 percent to 10 million impressions in the week ending Jan. 1, according to Nielsen Music. It supplants the leader from the prior week, Matt Maher’s holiday single, “Glory (Let There Be Peace).” Williams, who formerly fronted Zach Williams & The Reformation, concurrently bows at No. 27 (1,000 sold) on Top Christian Albums with his first full-length,…

Actress-singer Debbie Reynolds — who died Dec. 28, 2016, at age 84, just a day after losing her daughter, Carrie Fisher — is remembered by Sire Records founder and longtime fan Seymour Stein. Debbie Reynolds was first and foremost an actress, but she was an exceptional pop singer — she probably could have been as great as anybody. Maybe there was so much emotion in her singing because she was also an actress. Her song “Tammy” [from the 1957 film Tammy and the Bachelor, in which she starred] was one of the last hurrahs for pure 1950s pop in a year that was the height of change: It was the peak of Elvis, there were breakthroughs in rock’n’roll, country, R&B, calypso. In the midst of all that, “Tammy” was No.…

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1963 Born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou in London, to Greek Cypriot restaurateur Kyriacos Panayiotou and English dancer Lesley Angold Harrison. LATE 1970s Attends Bushey Meads School, where he and classmate Andrew Ridgeley form a ska band called The Executive. 1981 Forms a duo with Ridgeley, naming themselves Wham! after a rhyme in one of their early rapinfluenced songs. 1982 Wham! signs with Innervision Records and releases a pair of singles, “Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do)” and “Young Guns (Go for It),” the latter of which gets the duo invited on Top of the Pops for a star-making performance. 1983 The duo’s debut LP, Fantastic, makes Michael and Ridgeley U.K. sensations, spending two weeks at the top of the album charts — though the U.S. response is lukewarm, with the…

About five years ago, a woman brought a leather jacket into Decades. She was from George’s inner circle, and the jacket belonged to him. It’s by Katharine Hamnett, and it’s studded; I knew it from the late ’80s, when I worked at a shop called Theodore. I had a lot of her pieces, and I’ve since repurchased her “Choose Life” and “Stay Alive in 85” T-shirts. If you were a British pop star in the ’80s, Hamnett was your go-to. Her clothes distilled what was happening in pop. And her slogan tees were radical. People have used clothing to make political statements before, but this was so bold. Having George wear them really exposed it to pop culture. I had to do some restoration on the jacket, but it’s…

Donald Trump’s election in November startled the largely liberal music industry, making it reckon with the prospect of an administration that contradicts many of its values. Billboard asked a group of industry players to discuss how they might best cope with a Trump presidency: Chuck D, 56, the firebrand leader of Public Enemy and member of the rap-rock supergroup Prophets of Rage; 75-year-old folk-rock icon David Crosby; WWPR (Power 105.1) DJ and New York radio fixture Angie Martinez, 45; and 28-year-old female Roc Nation rapper Rapsody. What were your first thoughts when Trump was elected? CHUCK D Anything is possible. I was more surprised when Trump beat out all those other Republicans. Hillary Clinton had as much going against her as Trump did, in different ways. RAPSODY I…

Mark Johns wasn’t even looking to land a record deal when, a year ago, she posted a cover of “N—s in Paris” on SoundCloud. Recorded with her producer friend Sable, “In Paris” utterly transformed the Jay Z/Kanye West track, with Johns’ alluringly layered vocals flitting over shimmering electronic beats. It also quickly attracted the attention of Skrillex. He posted the song on his Twitter and on his “Skrillex Selects” SoundCloud page, asking Johns for more music, which she sent him. Then he asked her to come to Los Angeles. Suddenly, Mark Johns, who’d only started making music a few months earlier, found herself the first solo singer signed to Skrillex’s OWSLA label. She released her first EP, Molino, in October, and she’s at work writing her first album. “I wasn’t…

‘Starboy’ Shines Rebounding 2-1 to reclaim his title as the top musical act in the United States, The Weeknd (above) leads the Billboard Artist 100 chart for an 11th total week. The pop/R&B star ties Justin Bieber for the second-most frames atop the tally (dating to its July 2014 launch) among males, with the Canadians following only fellow countryman Drake (23 weeks). Among all acts, only Taylor Swift has logged more time at No. 1 (31 weeks). The Weeknd rules the Artist 100 with streaming accounting for the greatest share of his chart action (39 percent), led by single “Starboy” (featuring Daft Punk), which ranks at No. 4 on Streaming Songs (23.3 million U.S. streams in the week ending Dec. 29, according to Nielsen Music); the song topped the Billboard…

Wyclef, Thug Team Up Wyclef Jean and Young Thug’s “I Swear” re-enters at No. 2 on Billboard + Twitter Top Tracks, besting its previous high of No. 14 and giving Jean his first top 10 on the chart since it launched in May 2014. Jean promoted the Dec. 8-released music video for the song (not to be confused with All-4-One’s same-named 1994 hit) during the tracking week ending Jan. 1, triggering the title’s return. The clip has surged to 431,000 global views on YouTube through Jan. 4. “Swear” also secures Young Thug’s best showing to date among 15 entries, surpassing the No. 4 peak of “Pick Up the Phone” last October. The pair is blocked from No. 1, however, as Shawn Mendes’ “Mercy” flies 10-1, knocking his own “Ruin” from…

Big Sean’s Top 10 ‘Bounce’ Big Sean (above) earns his 10th top 10 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs with his latest single, “Bounce Back,” climbing 11-10 in its eighth week on the list. The rise is triggered in part by a 196 percent hike in digital song sales (to 49,000 downloads in the week ending Dec. 29, according to Nielsen Music). Its music video released Dec. 12 on YouTube has gathered more than 14 million global views to date. The track previews his new studio album, I Decided, due Feb. 3. Meanwhile, the rapper also takes the chart’s Hot Shot Debut with “Moves” arriving at No. 30, supported by 4.1 million U.S. streams and 18,000 downloads sold. On the Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop airplay chart, Rihanna picks up her 18th top 10 as…

DJ Snake’s New ‘Love’ DJ Snake and R. Kelly debut at No. 11 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs with “Let Me Love You,” a fresh version of Snake’s hit featuring Justin Bieber. The new “Love” swaps Bieber’s vocals for Kelly’s and contains different lyrics (so, although sonically similar to the original, it’s treated as a separate entry). The first title on the chart for R&B star Kelly bows with 25,000 downloads sold, according to Nielsen Music — also good for top 10 arrivals on Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales (No. 5) and R&B Digital Song Sales (No. 9). Concurrently, Snake’s first “Love,” featuring Bieber, earns top Digital Gainer honors on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs (at No. 2), up 154 percent to 103,000 (with sales for most songs up noticeably in the week ending…