Innholdsfortegnelse for 7/2/2016 i Billboard Magazine

SALES, AIRPLAY & STREAMING DATA COMPILED BY The week’s most popular current songs across all genres, ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen Music, sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music and streaming activity data by online music sources tracked by Nielsen Music. Songs are defined as current if they are newly-released titles, or songs receiving widespread airplay and/or sales activity for the first time. See Charts Legend on billboard.com/biz for complete rules and explanations. c 2016, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved. SIA ADDS A SUMMERY SPLASH OF REGGAE TO THE top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 as “Cheap Thrills,” featuring Sean Paul, blasts 13-8. The track also enters the top 10 of the Digital Songs chart, jumping 12-7 with…

$120m Jennifer Lopez’s Glow sold $120 million in just nine months after making its 2002 debut. The fragrance smashed projections of $20 million to $26 million for the year. $3m After having promoted fragrances for Emporio Armani and Tommy Hilfiger, Beyoncé launched Heat in 2010. Macy’s sells $3 million worth during the scent’s first month. $400m Beyoncé’s Heat, created by Givaudan’s Claude Dir and Olivier Gillotin, generated more than $400 million in sales between 2010 and 2013. $30m Lady Gaga’s Fame, a black-tinted perfume that sprays clear — and was overseen by Coty — sold $30 million in the six months following its release in 2012.…

INSTAGRAM BECAME A KEY, IF underutilized, music marketing platform as it passed 500 million monthly users in just five years. But in the past six months it has taken a more active role in the industry, largely due to the hire of head of music partnerships Lauren Wirtzer-Seawood, from Beyoncé’s Parkwood Entertainment. That has meant working with Taylor Swift and Beck to integrate Instagram’s tools into artists’ marketing campaigns. Posts by Beyoncé and Drake timed to recent album releases drove follower increases of 28 percent (up 16 million) and 16 percent (up 3 million), respectively. But the inability to include direct links in Instagram captions limits effectiveness, and with other social networks competing for devotees — Snapchat reported 7 billion daily views in January and has attracted fans from DJ…

THE PULSE OF MUSIC RIGHT NOW I’M JUST TELLING THE TRUTH, AND I DON’T know how that can be combatted, really,” says Seth Avett. The singer-guitarist is discussing “Divorce Separation Blues,” a standout track from The Avett Brothers’ new LP, True Sadness (American Recordings/Republic Records): “Some folks just want the dirt/And don’t even care if it’s true/Well then again who cares who’s talking/I’m worried for myself and you.” In 2013, Seth found himself in an unexpected position, especially for an earnest folk-rocker from the mountains of North Carolina: tabloid fodder. His relationship with Dexter star Jennifer Carpenter — and subsequent divorce from his first wife — had become grist for a gossip mill that usually focuses on Real Housewives and misbehaving pop stars. Outlets like Perez Hilton and Us Weekly…

Rob Sheffield writes musical love letters to his book subjects. In his tender memoir Love Is a Mix Tape, he eulogized his late wife; Turn Around Bright Eyes limned the joys of karaoke (and new love). In the funny, poignant and wickedly insightful On Bowie (Dey Street Books, June 28), this lifelong David Bowie superfan pays homage to one of his musical heroes. Billboard asked Sheffield to share some of his favorite Bowie memories. The book is filled with so many dazzling observations about Bowie’s life and art. As a Bowie-loving teenager, was there a lyric that spoke to you most? The whole Major Tom mythology was really etched on my brain. Still is. The part in “Space Odyssey” where he sings, “I’m floating in a most peculiar way/The stars…

“Mercedes Benz,” Janis Joplin Joplin’s 1971 plaintive pleas to God to buy her a Mercedes, a symbol of her lifetime of hard work, was the last song she recorded. “Hotel California,” The Eagles Among the indulgent items collected by the 1977 hit’s hotel-residing seductress (including Tiffany jewelry and pretty boys) is a Benz. “Mercedes Boy,” Pebbles The 1988 dancefloor hit uses “ride in my Mercedes” as a seductive come-on. “Heartbreaker,” Mariah Carey The 1999 single features Jay Z rapping about a girl wanting to “drive my Benz with five of her friends” — but the only six-seat Mercedes at the time was a station wagon. “Otis,” Kanye West & Jay Z West has so many cars in this 2011 Otis Redding sample-driven tune, he refers to driving his Benz, his…

Paul Simon has a bit of a cold, and he knows where he caught it: on a plane a couple of days back. “I stepped off that flight, and I said, ‘Uh-oh.’ ” Simon is in the midst of a two-month-long tour in support of his 12th studio album, Stranger to Stranger, and he needs to keep his singing voice stage-ready. So now, on a bright day at the end of May, Simon is resting and restoring, sipping tea and lying low in a spacious bungalow at The Beverly Hills Hotel. He’s dressed in his usual uniform: black jeans, denim cowboy shirt over a purple tee, boots. On the ring finger of his left hand, there is a wedding band — 24 years earlier, to the day, Simon married singersongwriter…

ON THE EVENING OF JUNE 15, THREE days after Omar Mateen killed 49 people and wounded 53 others at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, the New York Police Department was investigating handwritten letters left on the windshields of parked cars in Hell’s Kitchen, a neighborhood on Manhattan’s West Side with a high concentration of LGBT residents. “Those homosexuals, sexual pervert, sexual impotents — trash, garbage, socioeconomic drop out — bartenders — cooks — trash — you will be corpes [sic],” one of the 10 letters read. Five blocks away from the investigation, security guard Aaron Andre stood at his usual post outside Atlas Social Club, a gay bar that is co-owned by Anderson Cooper’s partner Benjamin Maisani. Andre, a 30-year veteran of nightclub security, looks like a Marine, broad and…

LATE ON FRIDAY, JUNE 10, CHRISTINA GRIMMIE was doing what she had done many times: hugging and chatting with fans after a performance. Of the roughly 300 people police estimated were at the Plaza Live nightclub in Orlando that night, about one-third lined up to snap selfies with the 22-yearold singer, who had opened for the pop-punk band Before You Exit. Interacting with dozens of fans at a time was not easy for Grimmie, her brother Marcus, 23, said at a candlelight vigil held the following Monday, June 13, in Evesham Township, N.J., near where they grew up: “She was introverted.” Still, witnesses say she had her arms open as Kevin James Loibl, a 27-year-old who had driven from St. Petersburg, Fla., for the show, approached for his turn to…

1 TEXT 644-33 NOW Text “DISARM HATE” to 644-33 to get a call that will connect you to the congressional switchboard. A message gives instructions on what to say. 2 SIGN THIS PETITION Tell Congress to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people by signing the petition at act.everytown.org. 3 WRITE LETTERS OR SEND EMAILS Find your senators at senate.gov/senators/contact, and your representatives at house.gov/representatives, and ask them to do more to end gun violence. 4 CONTACT YOUR LOCAL PAPER Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper, urging local leaders and the community to get involved in the fight to end gun violence. 5 USE SOCIAL MEDIA Participate in the online conversation by following and using the hashtags #disarmhate and #enough. 6 STAY UP-TO-DATE Learn…

Ruth B Finds Top 40 Canadian singer-songwriter Ruth B (above), who first found an audience by posting song performances on Vine in 2013, reaches the top 40 of the Billboard Artist 100 (42-40) thanks to her debut single, the hopeful, Peter Pan-themed “Lost Boy” (which started as a snippet on Vine). Digital song sales account for 53 percent of her Artist 100 points as the piano ballad rises 10-9 on the Digital Songs chart (58,000 downloads sold, according to Nielsen Music). Airplay follows (25 percent of her sum) as the track bounds 35-27 on Radio Songs (42 million in audience, up 8 percent). “Program directors are not fond of slower-tempo records, for the most part,” says Columbia Records senior vp promotion for adult radio Pete Cosenza. “That has been the…

IT’S LIKE AN EPISODE OF GREEN Acres every day,” jokes Amani Duncan, vp brand marketing at C.F. Martin & Co., while seated in her well-appointed office above the “pickin’ parlor” in the 183-year-old company’s headquarters in rural Nazareth, Pa. (population: 5,703). “I don’t dress like anyone here, I don’t look like anyone here, but none of that matters — those are just accoutrements.” Indeed, Duncan’s music business bona fides are many, having spent two decades working for such veteran executives as Lyor Cohen, Sean Combs, Julie Greenwald, Kevin Liles and Jason Flom and with an array of acts including Jay Z, Melissa Etheridge, Gorillaz and Slipknot. But preserving the legacy of an instrument that Neil Young and Bob Dylan cherish is about as far a left turn as this major-label…

Kelly Osbourne’s Indecent Proposal Reality star Kelly Osbourne, the daughter of rocker Ozzy Osbourne and his manager wife, Sharon, proved to be the secret weapon at the Babes for Boobs auction to benefit the local chapter of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation in Hollywood on June 16. Osbourne had just auctioned off a date with former NFL player Brandon London when she put herself on the block. “You never know what could happen on our night out.” she told the crowd, adding: “I will show you my vagina.” The pitch worked. Osbourne fetched the highest bid of the night — $5,000 — from woman. The winner may want ask Osbourne for an update on her parents’ marital drama. At the event, she told a guest, “My mom and…

Going to South Africa had been on the horizon for a long time. Our records have done quite well there, and we had gotten shit from people because we had never been. We put it off for longer than we should have, and when tickets finally went on sale, we were blown away by how many people wanted to come see us. Pretoria was 25,000 people each night; Capetown was three nights of 15,000 people. That made us more ambitious. Like, “Since we have this audience, we should do something special. Let’s do a week-and-a-half in South Africa, and work every day.” We were familiar with South African music, and once you’re in the country, you feel like you can actually play it. We recorded nonstop in this old building…

SOMETHING IN THE FRAGRANCE business stinks. For a decade following the blockbuster launch of Jennifer Lopez’s 2002 scent Glow by JLo, celebrity-branded fragrances have been a steady, if modest, source of revenue for perfume makers like Coty, Elizabeth Arden and Estee Lauder. But since peaking around 2011, the business has “seen its heyday and now is not very much in vogue with the consumer or with the trade,” according to Bart Becht, chairman/CEO of Coty, the company that churns out fragrances for Lopez, Beyoncé and Katy Perry (who released Mad Love on June 21, a follow-up to 2015’s Mad Potion). Though year-over-year sales for individual fragrances are not released to the public, Coty’s net fragrance sales declined by 9 percent on a reported basis in the most recent holiday quarter,…

1 Simon jump-started his acting career when he appeared as skeevy record producer Tony Lacey in Woody Allen’s 1977 film Annie Hall, which won the best picture Oscar. His character briefly steals the affection of Allen’s girlfriend Hall, played by Diane Keaton (below). 2 The 1987 music video for the Graceland hit “You Can Call Me Al” is a minor MTV classic, with Chevy Chase (above) lip-syncing and hitting congas alongside the singer. Simon’s pal Lorne Michaels came up with the concept. Simon’s and Chase’s moves were originally choreographed, but the two mostly improvised. 3 Michaels didn’t just help Simon with the “Al” video: He invited him to appear on Saturday Night Live 14 times between 1976 and 2013. After a “booking mix-up” with a 1987 episode, the singer teamed…

1 INVEST IN SECURITY “There is going to be an increase in security costs,” says Cory Meredith, founder of the sports and entertainment security firm StaffPro — and fans ultimately will pay that bill through increased ticket costs. In addition to the price of installing metal detectors (see No. 3), small venues (capacity: 500 to 1,000) can expect to spend $125,000 to $150,000 annually hiring appropriate levels of trained security personnel if they’re hosting 200 events or more, and midlevel venues (2,500 to 5,000) as much as $1 million. Stadiums and arenas (10,000 to 80,000), which tend to be the most secure venues, routinely spend $100,000 or more per event. 2 HAVE A PLAN IN PLACE “Unless something is done to reduce gun violence, event professionals ... will have a…