Innholdsfortegnelse for September 2-8, 2017 i Billboard Magazine

BRONX RAPPER AND FORMER CAST MEMBER OF VH1’s Love & Hip-Hop: New York Cardi B bounds 8-3 on the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Sept. 2) with her breakthrough hit, “Bodak Yellow (Money Moves).” She’s the first female rapper to reach the top three with a debut entry since Iggy Azalea, whose “Fancy” (featuring Charli XCX) reigned for seven weeks in 2014. As the top of the Hot 100 has been largely dominated by male hip-hop and pop acts in 2017, “Yellow” is the first song by a woman unaccompanied by another artist to rank in the top three since Meghan Trainor’s “No,” which peaked at No. 3 in April 2016. Only one other song solely by one woman spent time in the region in 2016: Adele’s “Hello.” Those totals are…

No. 17 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart At first, bluegrass was her thing Kentucky, where Pearce grew up, is an epicenter for bluegrass as well as country, so she became fluent in both at a young age. “I got asked to join a bluegrass group at [age] 11,” says Pearce, 27. “Bluegrass musicians are unbelievable, so that’s how I learnt to sing harmony. I played an all-boys prison, every tent revival you could think of, churches, bars — they would sneak me in.” She earned her stripes working at Dollywood Pearce traded high school for home schooling when she was 16 so she could work at the Dolly Parton-owned theme park. “I did six shows a day, five days a week,” she recalls. “We did everything from June Carter…

The tipping point had arrived: For the U.S. music business in 2016, streaming overtook sales as its leading source of revenue for the first time — echoing global results for the $15.7 billion music industry. Income from music streams last year also led to the first double-digit growth seen in the United States in nearly two decades. U.S. recordedmusic sales rose 11.4 percent to $7.65 billion, the strongest annual increase since 1998. Billboard’s Digital Power Players are the top executives behind these historic numbers, chosen for their data-driven roles at companies in every industry sector — streaming services, record labels, music publishers, social media platforms and others. These leaders are tackling the challenges that come with change: questions over data management, emerging business models and fair payment to creators. Collectively,…

The original Broadway cast recording of Hamilton: An American Musical continues its remarkable run on the Billboard 200. The album, now in its 99th consecutive week on the tally, rises 26- 22 with 18,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Aug. 17, according to Nielsen Music. The set is up 5 percent in units and 11 percent in traditional album sales, having sold 7,000 copies in the latest frame. Notably, that 11 percent sales bump is the largest percentage gain for the album since December 2016, when the album rose 34 percent in the lead-up to Christmas during the week ending Dec. 22. The album’s latest gains are owed to publicity for the musical’s opening in Los Angeles, at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre, on Aug. 16. The show’s…

As Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s “Despacito” (featuring Justin Bieber) moves to within a week of the record for the most weeks spent at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (see page 3), the smash rewrites the mark for the most weeks spent atop Streaming Songs, leading the latter list for a 15th frame with 46.4 million U.S. streams in the week ending Aug. 17, according to Nielsen Music. “Despacito” passes Desiigner’s “Panda,” which led Streaming Songs for 14 weeks beginning April 30, 2016. “Despacito,” the first predominantly Spanishlanguage No. 1 on Streaming Songs and only the second non-primarily English chart-topper in the tally’s history (after PSY’s “Gangnam Style” in 2013, the chart’s first year), debuted on Streaming Songs at No. 50 on Feb. 25 and reached No. 33…

Moneybagg Yo marches to a No. 4 arrival on Top R&B/ Hip-Hop Albums and No. 3 on Top Rap Albums with Federal 3X, which kicks off with 30,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Aug. 17, according to Nielsen Music. Album sales comprise nearly 14,000 of those units, making the set the top-selling rap album of the week. 3X easily gives the Memphis native his highest placement on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, outpacing the No. 48 peak of 2 Federal, his 2016 joint mixtape with Yo Gotti. The new set is Moneybagg Yo’s first entry on Top Rap Albums. Meanwhile, on Rhythmic, singer SZA claims her first visit to the top 10 as “Love Galore,” featuring Travis Scott, zips 14-9. The collaboration surges 16 percent in spins for the…

During the last week of August, Sony Nashville chairman/ CEO Randy Goodman and executive vp/COO Ken Robold will visit Amazon’s, Spotify’s and Apple’s U.S. headquarters to tout the label’s fourth-quarter release slate. Also on the agenda: how to convert lagging country consumers to streaming. Though country music accounted for 11.5 percent of all albums and track-equivalent albums sold in the United States during the first half of 2017, it made up only 5.6 percent of total on-demand streams, according to Nielsen Music. On Nielsen’s top streaming artist tally for 2016, the highestranking country act was Luke Bryan, at No. 35 with 894 million streams — less than one-seventh of No. 1 Drake’s 6.8 billion. “We have to far outpace the growth of the industry to get our numbers up there,”…

DURING ITS FIRST TELEVISED PERFORMANCE at the Teen Choice Awards on Aug. 13, PrettyMuch made a convincing case to lead the next boy band wave. Clad in casual streetwear and exhibiting boyish charm, the quintet glided across the stage in sync, hitting choreographed dance moves to its debut single, “Would You Mind.” The rhythmic pop track wouldn’t sound out of place on an early New Kids on the Block album; meanwhile, the homemade signs and excited shrieks from the crowd of teenage girls recalled the fandom captured in the Backstreet Boys’ classic “I Want It That Way” music video. “The world’s ready for another boy band,” declares PrettyMuch’s Edwin Honoret a few days after the performance, relaxing on the rooftop of Los Angeles restaurant E.P. & L.P. next to fellow…

EVER SINCE SHE WAS A teenager in Paris in the ’70s, Carine Roitfeld wanted to be a rocker: a female Alice Cooper, Lou Reed or Iggy Pop. But a few things got in the way, says the former Vogue Paris editor- in-chief and fashion icon who has 1.1 million Instagram followers. For starters, she can’t hold a tune. “I have an ’orrible voice,” crows Roitfeld, — dropping the “h” in a seductively French way, while checking off qualities that otherwise hit the mark: “I love black. I line my big, dark eyeballs with black. I love fishnets with holes. I love concert tees — my current one is 1981 Clash.” She definitely has a rock hairdo — spiky, sexy and stick straight a la PJ Harvey on the Stories From…

Post Malone “No better way to end the summer than this year’s VMAs. Looking forward to getting weird.” Kygo “Super excited about this year’s show, and even more excited about my nomination for ‘It Ain’t Me’ [with Selena Gomez].” Saint Motel’s A/J Jackson “I’m most excited to see if anyone shows up wearing the same outfit as the VMA Award itself. That’d be dope.” Fitz & The Tantrums’ Noelle Scaggs “I am really looking forward to Harry Styles’ shirt choice.” Sigrid “I’ll be watching from my computer. Watching live performances is probably my biggest hobby.”…

AUGUST 1 | NASHVILLE Billboard’s inaugural Country Power Players event, held on the L27 Rooftop, celebrated the men and women running and influencing the world of country music. Guests enjoyed music by DJ Rate and passed hors d’oeuvres and cocktails courtesy of Old Camp Whiskey as the sun went down in Music City. The evening’s highlight was Billboard’s Mike Bruno toasting Sarah Trahern, CEO of the Country Music Association, with the executive of the year honor. In addition to Trahern, the room was filled with industry leaders including Scott Borchetta, Mike Dungan, Joel Katz, Leslie Fram, Randy Goodman, Rod Essig and many more. Notable artists and songwriters included Kelsea Ballerini, Cam, Hunter Hayes, RaeLynn, Luke Combs, Josh Osborne, Zach Crowell, Nate Cyphert and Heather Morgan. Thank you to our 2017…

Effective this issue (Sept. 2), Billboard has revamped its Emerging Artists chart, a breakout of the overall Billboard Artist 100 that will highlight the top-performing rising acts each week. The Emerging Artists chart will use the same formula as the Artist 100, which debuted in 2014 and measures artist activity across Billboard’s most influential charts, including the Billboard Hot 100, Billboard 200 and Social 50. The methodology incorporates key metrics of music consumption, blending album and track sales, radio airplay, streaming and social media fan interaction to provide a weekly multidimensional ranking of artist popularity. (The former iteration of Emerging Artists served as a weekly title-based ranking of the most shared songs on Twitter in the United States by new artists.) The Emerging Artists tally will exclude acts that have…

Breakout R&B singer Khalid reaches the top five for the first time on the Billboard 200 as debut album American Teen vaults 10-4 in its 24th week on the list (32,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Aug. 17, up 17 percent according to Nielsen Music). The set surpasses its initial peak of No. 9. The gain is owed to sale pricing in the iTunes Store, where the album was discounted to $5.99 during the tracking frame, as well as continued robust performance on streaming services. The album tallied a 107 percent gain in traditional album sales, rising to 6,000 sold — its best sales week since its debut frame of 12,000 in March. The set also rises 78-23 on Top Album Sales. American Teen has sold 80,000…

“Somebody Else Will” by Justin Moore (above) tops Country Airplay (2-1), up by 8 percent to 44 million audience impressions, according to Nielsen Music. His sixth chart-topper is the second single and second No. 1 from his fourth studio full-length, Kinda Don’t Care. Lead track “You Look Like I Need a Drink” topped the Country Airplay chart dated Oct. 8, 2016. Concurrently, “Somebody” becomes Moore’s seventh top 10 (12-9) on Hot Country Songs (which blends airplay, streaming and sales data). The song gains by 5 percent to 5,000 downloads sold and by 2 percent to 3.5 million U.S. streams. Meanwhile, Lindsay Ell arrives at No. 4 on Top Country Albums with her debut LP, The Project. The set, produced by Kristian Bush (of Sugarland), starts with 11,000 equivalent album units.…

Pedro Capó scores his second top five album on the Top Latin Albums chart as En Letra de Otro arrives at No. 5 with a little more than 2,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Aug. 17, according to Nielsen Music. Nearly all of Capó’s unit launch were traditional album sales, yielding his first No. 1 on Latin Album Sales and best sales week. The new set bests his sophomore LP, Aquila, which opened at No. 3 on both Top Latin Albums and Latin Album Sales (a little less than 2,000 sold). The new album’s sales were aided by well-attended in-store events in Capó’s native Puerto Rico during street week (with Capó on hand for the festivities). Meanwhile, Ulices Chaidez y Sus Plebes earn their second No. 1…

Avicii (above) ascends to the Top Dance/Electronic Albums top 10 with AVICI (01). The set storms 19-3 after its first full tracking week, earning 9,000 equivalent album units, according to Nielsen Music. Traditional album sales account for 3,000 of the sum as the EP crowns Dance/Electronic Album Sales (4-1). The set is the superstar DJ-producer’s fourth top 10 on Top Dance/Electronic Albums and follows Stories, which debuted at No. 1 on Oct. 24, 2015. Two tracks off AVICI (01) start in the top 20 of Hot Dance/ Electronic Songs: “Without You” (featuring Sandro Cavazza) at No. 18 and “Lonely Together” (featuring Rita Ora) at No. 19. A toast to marshmello: The DJ earns his highestranking hit (and second top 10) on Hot Dance/ Electronic Songs as “Silence” (featuring Khalid) debuts…

Metallica (above) lands on the Boxscore chart with six performances from its WorldWired Tour that played 21 stadiums in the United States and Canada this summer during a 14- week span. Shows in these six venues occurred during the first half of the trek that began May 10. With a gross of $5.8 million, No. 1 on the list is the band’s June 7 concert at Denver’s Sports Authority Field at Mile High. Total attendance at the city’s NFL stadium was just under 52,000 for the show that was interrupted by a lightning storm but completed after about an hour’s delay. Also topping $5 million in sales was a performance on June 18 at Chicago’s NFL stadium, Soldier Field. The concert grossed over $5.3 million from 51,041 sold seats to…

THE SELF-TITLED 1972 DEBUT ALBUM BY New Jersey’s Looking Glass wavered between midtempo country rock and plaintive ballads, but “Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl)” was an exception. A breezy soft-rock number, “Brandy” told the story of a seaside waitress’ unrequited love for a sailor, accented by a backing chorus of “doot-doot-doot-doot” and a horn section. The track propelled the quartet into the national spotlight when it reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 dated Aug. 26, 1972, after four weeks at No. 2 behind Gilbert O’Sullivan’s “Alone Again (Naturally).” It would be the band’s only song to crack the top 30 and one of two titles to reach the Hot 100 at all. Looking Glass peaked at No. 113 on the Billboard 200. After its 1973 follow-up, Subway Serenade,…

Kerry Trainor PREVIOUSLY Vimeo CEO REPLACED Alexander Ljung SUCCESSES Increased Vimeo staff from 40 to 200; added 500,000 new paying creators ASSETS New $170 million investment; 88 million active users, per SimilarWeb CHALLENGES Closed San Francisco and London offices and laid off 40 percent of its workforce in July ANALYSIS “SoundCloud is a beloved service,” says Media Insight Consulting CEO Chris Carey. But to survive, it will have to adjust. “It’s not, ‘Can SoundCloud become a more professional service?’ ” says MIDiA Research founder Mark Mulligan. “Yes, it can. It just has do it in a way that’s authentic and honest to its user base.” Richard Sanders PREVIOUSLY Kobalt Music Group president REPLACED Jeff Toig SUCCESSES Helped launch Kobalt’s label services division; bold catalog additions ASSETS Sprint’s $200 million investment;…

FOUNDER, ROCKSTAR THE RAPY IN THE GO-GO DAYS OF THE MUSIC industry, Jodi Milstein climbed her way up from an intern at A&M Records to its senior director of artist relations and artist development. Along the way, she worked closely with bands like Soundgarden and Blues Traveler, comanaging Korn early on before leaving to help run Lionel Richie’s touring business. But as the Los Angeles native watched many of the acts in her orbit begin to grapple with depression and drug overdoses — from Kurt Cobain in 1994 to Blues Traveler bassist Bobby Sheehan in 1999 — Milstein decided to head back to school. Now, she works as a licensed marriage and family therapist and licensed professional clinical counselor, having opened her own music-world-focused therapy practice in 2008, followed by…

RONSON’S A QOTSA SUPERFAN The “Uptown Funk!” producer has a signed poster of the group in his London studio; his innate understanding of what he calls “my favorite rock band of this era” made him want to push the act into new territory. “It’s odd to produce a band you grew up on,” says Ronson, 41. “[But] as a fan, you know what a fan wants to hear.” LADY GAGA GREASED THE WHEELS Credit for the uptempo sound of Villains (out Aug. 25) goes partly to the pop star, who brought in both artists for 2016’s Joanne. Homme, 44, was impressed with Ronson: “I got to watch him immerse himself in Lady Gaga’s world,” he says. “He’s a good communicator who’s not afraid to say [something] you don’t like…

Kesha claims her second No. 1 on the Billboard 200 as new album Rainbow bows atop the list. The set earned 117,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Aug. 17, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 90,000 were traditional album sales. Rainbow scores the second-largest week for an album by a woman in 2017 in terms of both units and sales. Only Katy Perry’s Witness logged a bigger frame among women, when it launched with 180,000 units and 162,000 in sales (July 1). Rainbow’s sales bow of 90,000 was aided in part by a concert ticket/ album bundle redemption promotion for Kesha’s upcoming tour. It’s the latest No. 1 set to boast a ticket offer following chart-toppers from Perry (Witness) and Arcade Fire (Everything Now), among others. Rainbow…

An impromptu cover helps Ariana Grande (below) rise 6-2 on the latest Social 50 chart. The singer posted a clip on Instagram on Aug. 15 of her singing the Spice Girls’ “Say You’ll Be There” in a bathroom, adding the hashtag #imissagoodharmonicasolo. She also tweeted portions of the lyrics, which led some of her younger fans to question whether the words to the 1997 hit were actually part of a new Grande song. The singer had to let them down gently a few minutes later, questioning, “am I old?” That and more from the start of Grande’s latest tour stops in Asia pushed the singer to gains of 279 percent in Twitter mentions and 241 percent in Instagram reactions during the week ending Aug. 17, according to Next Big Sound.…

All That Remains (above) pushes 4-2 on the Hard Rock Digital Song Sales chart and makes its first Rock Digital Song Sales appearance at No. 13 with its version of Garth Brooks’ 1991 Hot Country Songs No. 1, “The Thunder Rolls.” The final track on the band’s album Madness, which debuted atop Hard Rock Albums on May 20, gains by 36 percent to 4,000 downloads sold in the week ending Aug. 17, according to Nielsen Music, after its video arrived Aug. 3. The cover rises 41-31 on Hot Rock Songs and is drawing early radio airplay on SiriusXM’s Octane channel (18 first-week plays through Aug. 20). Also on Hard Rock Digital Song Sales, The Relentless debuts at No. 8 with “Let Him Burn” (3,000). The band is a fictional act…

Love Has a Name, the new live release from Jesus Culture, bounds in at No. 1 on Top Christian Albums, starting with 10,000 equivalent album units (9,000 in traditional sales), according to Nielsen Music. The act, created as the youth outreach ministry for Redding, Calif.- based Bethel Church and featuring Kim Walker- Smith, Chris Quilala and others as worship leaders, recorded the set at the collective’s home church in Sacramento, Calif. Jesus Culture earns its second Top Christian Albums leader following Unstoppable Love, which launched atop the chart dated June 21, 2014. The act’s 11 Top Christian Albums appearances include eight top 10s, starting with its debut entry, Come Away (No. 10, 2010). Also on Top Christian Albums, Alan Jackson’s Precious Memories Collection re-enters at a new No. 2 high,…

LEGEND Bullets indicate titles with greatest weekly gains. Album Charts Recording Industry Assn. of America (RIAA) certification for physical shipments & digital downloads of 500,000 albums (Gold). RIAA certification for physical shipments & digital downloads of 1 million units (Platinum). Numeral noted with Platinum symbol indicates album’s multiplatinum level. RIAA certification for physical shipments & digital downloads of 10 million units (Diamond). Numeral noted with Diamond symbol indicates album’s multiplatinum level. Latin albums certification for physical shipments & digital downloads of 30,000 units (Oro). Latin albums certification for physical shipments & digital downloads of 60,000 units (Platino). Numeral noted with Platino symbol indicates album’s multiplatinum level. Digital Songs Charts RIAA certification for 500,000 paid downloads and ondemand streams where 100 streams equal 1 download (Gold). RIAA certification for 1 million…