Innholdsfortegnelse for July 22-28, 2017 i Billboard Magazine

AS “DESPACITO” LEADS the Billboard Hot 100 (dated July 22) for a ninth week, the Luis Fonsi- Daddy Yankee hit (featuring Justin Bieber) makes history on the Radio Songs chart. It rises 2-1 on the latter list, up 5 percent to 149 million in all-format airplay audience in the week ending July 9, according to Nielsen Music, becoming the first predominantly Spanish-language song (or any song not sung primarily in English) to reign, dating to the chart’s 1990 inception. On the remix, which was released April 17, Bieber sings just the first 40 seconds of the four-minute track in English. “Despacito” also ascends 2-1 to earn the same distinction on the Mainstream Top 40 airplay chart. “I first noticed it on Shazam many months ago, as it was No. 1…

After facing off with Pandora, SoundCloud and YouTube of late, the music business has a new No. 1 frenemy: SiriusXM. Though the 9-year-old satellite radio service has paid record labels and artists hundreds of millions of dollars annually while promoting unsigned and emerging acts on its niche music channels, SiriusXM’s relationship with the industry has grown more contentious recently. The issues between them range from whether SiriusXM should pay to play songs copyrighted before 1972 — the subject of an imminent bill in Congress — to the rates it should pay for the music on its service during the next five years, a matter currently being argued before the Copyright Royalty Board. And now, following SiriusXM’s $480 million investment in Pandora in June, some label insiders fear SiriusXM will use…

Premios Juventud MIAMI, JULY 6 WITH THIS YEAR’S THEME “APOSTANDO POR EL FUTURO” (“Betting on the Future”), Univision’s 14th annual youth awards Premios Juventud focused on social causes that directly affect Latino communities, as artists presented awards to young activists who were honored as “agents of change” for a better world. Colombian star Maluma kicked off the night with a salsa spin on his hit “Felices Los 4” alongside Marc Anthony, and was also the top winner, earning live, fan-voted honors for best style and best Instagram as well as the evening’s Supersonic Award for his highly accelerated and successful career. Other multiple honorees included Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, who both scored a win for “Despacito,” the best collaboration between two artists. The megahit, now in its 10th week…

01 Beyoncé $62.1M [2016 TOTAL REVENUE SALES $4.3M STREAMING $1.9M PUBLISHING $1.3M TOURING $54.7M Bow down to the Queen. Beyoncé slayed the competition as 2016’s top Money Maker with a mammoth $62.1 million — $20 million more than the No. 2 act. The bulk of that payday stemmed from her Formation World Tour, in support of her sixth album, Lemonade, an all-stadium trek that boasted DJ Khaled and Rae Sremmurd as opening acts, not to mention Kendrick Lamar and husband JAY-Z as surprise guests at the MetLife Stadium finale in East Rutherford, N.J. That tour sold 1.2 million tickets and grossed an industryleading $161 million across 32 North American dates, but Bey didn’t stop there. Finishing in the top 15 in every category we measured, she was one of only…

BEHIND THE SUCCESS of every artist — from the industry mainstays and chart-toppers to rising stars — is a lawyer fielding the deals and disputes that are a constant part of today’s ever-evolving music business. With the rise of new business models and the growing dependence on brand licensing and streaming, attorneys are more important than ever. The scope of their legal expertise is also wider, moving beyond issues of contract law to questions of intellectual property in the digital age and social justice in entertainment. At which law schools do the top music counselors gain expertise? These 12 stand out as the alma maters of the majority of music’s most accomplished litigators. BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO SCHOOL OF LAW CITY New York ENROLLMENT 803 TUITION AND FEES $58,764 per year…

IT WASN’T EASY WORKING Post Malone’s 2016 single, “Congratulations,” up Spotify’s charts. Despite its placement on playlists including Universal Music Group’s Hip Hop Hits, Spotify’s Fresh & Chill and user-generated NEW SH*T, the song “wasn’t performing in a traditional sense,” says UMG’s senior vp global streaming marketing Jay Frank, even though data noticed by Republic Records president Avery Lipman showed it was “hitting home with a core audience.” Only after weeks of bringing the data to the attention of an array of Spotify staffers did the UMG team convince the streaming service to help push “Congratulations” into its top 10. “We worked together to have a plan,” says Frank. While Republic pulled out all the stops to get the song streamed 532 million times to date, according to Nielsen Music,…

T ORONTO BAROQUE-POP ENSEMBLE BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE is not typically in one place at the same time. Since its 1999 formation by Toronto singer-songwriters Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning, the BSS rotating cast of Canadian troubadours has included Feist, Metric’s Emily Haines and Stars’ Amy Millan, and has stretched to 19 members at a time. With 2002 breakthrough You Forgot It in People, the group became a staple on the festival circuit prior to going on hiatus in 2010. For new album Hug of Thunder — a title coined by Feist, who contributed to the group’s latest project — Broken Social Scene regrouped in Bath, a small village east of Toronto, and re-established its sense of community. “With Social Scene, it’s not about you,” says the 40-year-old Drew, who attended…

AMIDST ITS RETRO homages, Selena Gomez’s “Bad Liar” video is a subtle reminder that the 24-year-old has serious acting chops. The former Disney Channel star has appeared in films like Spring Breakers and The Big Short as an adult, but had never played multiple roles at the same time. Now, Gomez can boast about playing a high school student, a gym coach, a mustached male teacher and her own mother all at once. Gomez tapped TV director Jesse Peretz (Girls, Orange Is the New Black) to helm her latest visual: Although the 49-year-old hadn’t directed a music video in a decade, his Grammy-winning clip for Foo Fighters’ 1999 single “Learn to Fly” — where frontman Dave Grohl took on several roles — was the perfect blueprint. Peretz says that the…

35 Years AgoJENNIFER HOLLIDAY’S ‘GOING’ WENT TO NO. 1 A Tony Award-winning turn in Dreamgirls made the actress a pop star before personal crises and label troubles hobbled her career ON DEC. 20, 1981, A BROADWAY newcomer named Jennifer Holliday got her first taste of stardom. It was the opening night of Dreamgirls on Broadway, and as the character Effie White, Holliday brought the house down with a powerful performance of “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going,” one of the boldest declarations in the musical theater canon. “If the curtain didn’t fall, the audience would probably cheer Jennifer Holliday until dawn,” wrote The New York Times. The enormous response to the performance led to the release of an official single, a rarity for a show tune. Then 21,…

Judging from the abandoned hookahs and busted railing, the July 7 grand-opening party for LVRN Studios, dubbed Kids Against Cubicles, was a rousing success. Standing tall is a lush, floor-to-ceiling art installation creeping out of the 3,000-squarefoot artist collective’s brick wall; above the artwork’s tree, in glowing neon, is the mantra for the space: “You’re safe here.” Three flights upstairs, LVRN’s five co-founders — Sean Famoso, Justice Baiden, creative director Carlon Ramong, finance director Junia Abaidoo and Tunde Balogun, who oversees management and communications — are crashed out on plush velvet couches in the Moulin Rouge-inspired Studio B. From the expansive open kitchen and the basketball hoop in the living room downstairs to the coziness of the recording studios, LVRN (which stands for “Love Renaissance”) has a relaxed feel. The…

If a hip-hop musical about Alexander Hamilton can become a phenomenon, why can’t an opera about Apple? With The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, premiering July 22 at the Santa Fe Opera Festival in New Mexico, San Francisco-based composer-DJ Mason Bates showcases “a redemption story” as channeled through a conflicted baritone (opera vet Edward Parks). You started working on this in 2015. How did you get the idea? Bates I thought about what a 21st century opera would look like. [Jobs] changed how we communicate, and yet in his own life had challenges dealing with people. That tension between the sleek look of his devices and the messy quality of his life is the stuff of opera. Did you have either of the Jobs biopics in mind while writing? I haven’t…

One by one, the women of Fifth Harmony settle in at a picnic table on the balcony of a mall in Santa Monica. They’ve come here on this balmy June afternoon for a cooking class, but they haven’t left their style swerves at home. Ally Brooke Hernandez, 24, has a twotone thing happening, with a black leather hat and skirt paired with a fuzzy pink sweater and pumps. Normani Kordei, 21, has accented herself with huge chrome hoop earrings and silver-dipped nails. Lauren Jauregui, 21, wears a lacy boho- chic blouse and carries her puppy, a rescue mutt named Leo. Then there’s Dinah Jane Hansen, 20, who peels off a trippy floral jacket to reveal a bright yellow tee that reads, in big block letters, “I’M A RAY OF FUCKING…

Beyoncé, Drake, Kanye West: It may not seem surprising to see three of R&B and hip-hop’s biggest names in the Money Makers top 10. But it’s the first time since the 2006 inaugural list that so many artists from those genres have placed that high. With Rihanna, Future and The Weeknd also making the top 50 (nearly double the number of R&B and hip-hop stars on last year’s ranking), several metrics point to 2016 as the year the genres turned a corner. So what’s driving R&B and hip-hop to ever-more lucrative heights? In a year when hip-hop and R&B albums ruled the Billboard 200 for 28 weeks, on-demand streaming exploded. Of the 15 artists who earned 1 billion on-demand audio streams in the United States in 2016, 11 were R&B/hip-hop…