Innholdsfortegnelse for December 9, 2017 i Billboard Magazine

AFTER TAKING CENTER STAGE AT THE AMERICAN Music Awards, broadcast live on ABC from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Nov. 19, several of the night’s performers shine on the Billboard Hot 100. Imagine Dragons and Khalid teamed up for a medley of their respective songs “Thunder” and “Young Dumb & Broke,” and both surge in sales: The former, which holds at its No. 4 Hot 100 high, gains by 17 percent to 66,000 sold in the week ending Nov. 23, according to Nielsen Music, while the latter hits a new peak (29-22), jumping 22 percent to 16,000 sold. Portugal. The Man’s “Feel It Still” rises 9-8 on the Hot 100 with a 25 percent boost to 33,000 sold (and makes history on the Alternative Airplay chart, where it…

In October, Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider fired up Twitter to attack pop music’s latest fixation. “This new trend of non-metal fans wearing vintage metal T’s is pretty sickening. Metal is not ironic! Dicks,” he vented. “It’s not just the wearing of our metal T’s, it’s their cherry picking of our style #skulls #metalhorns. These are OUR symbols; OUR image.” Justin Bieber, Rihanna and Kanye West are just a few of the contemporary acts who in recent years have mined metal symbols and logos for merchandise, and worn outfits inspired by acts from Slayer to Marilyn Manson. Calling out posers for repping bands without knowing the music is about as old as rock tees themselves, but rock dudes reacting against pop trends goes back just as far, and Snider’s not…

As Hailee Steinfeld readies for the release of Pitch Perfect 3 — the third installment in the series that follows a cappella group the Barden Bellas — she can’t help but notice how closely her own life mirrors the plot. Come Dec. 22, she’ll reunite with co-stars Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson, as the movie’s group members again join forces after trying to find separate paths in the real world. “A couple of years had gone by between the second [film] and this one, and the whole time it felt like we were living the storyline,” says the 20-year-old. “Here we are, a bunch of [actors] that love what we get to do together. It never gets old.” When Steinfeld first took on the role of Emily Junk in 2015’s…

Since DJ Snake’s “Let Me Love You” (featuring Justin Bieber) reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2016, songwriter Andrew Watt (aka watt) has been on a hot streak. Working frequently with songwriters Ali Tamposi and Brian Lee, the 27-year-old has eroded any remaining walls between soft guitar rock and chomping electronic music, crafting melodic, genre-agnostic records that are equally hospitable to pop singers, country stars, rappers and bigname DJs. Watt breaks down a sampling of the hits he had a hand in this year. “HAVANA” Camila Cabello featuring Young Thug As soon as the former Fifth Harmony member announced she wanted to pay tribute to her birthplace of Havana, watt and Tamposi found a way to incorporate their favorite phrase: “We like ‘nah nahs’ in our songs,”…

Wizards Of Waverly Place At 15, Gomez moved to Los Angeles to star in this hit Disney Channel sitcom, for which she also recorded the theme song. Spring Breakers Her breakthrough indie-movie role was with director Harmony Korine: “I still talk with him. He has been consistent in my life.” 13 Reasons Why Gomez (center) with Katherine Langford and Dylan Minnette, stars of this Netflix sensation, which she executive-produced. “Fetish” “It was one of those liberating moments,” says Gomez of shooting this edgy music video with director Petra Collins. Untitled Woody Allen Movie ”People said [Allen] wouldn’t give a lot of direction. There was no rehearsal; you just showed up and tweaked it from there.”…

TRACI ADAMS* SENIOR VP PROMOTIONS, EPIC RECORDS Hip-hop hot streak. In 2017, the Savannah, Ga., native helped drive three Epic hits up the Hot 100: French Montana’s “Unforgettable,” featuring Swae Lee (No. 3, 575 million ondemand streams); DJ Khaled’s “Wild Thoughts,” featuring Rihanna and Bryson Tiller (No. 2, 426 million); and Yo Gotti’s “Rake It Up,” featuring Nicki Minaj (No. 8, 332 million). LISA LICHT, 42 CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER, LIVE NATION Live growth through bots. “Eighty-five million fans are projected to attend 29,000 Live Nation shows in 2017, which makes my job very exciting,” says Licht, who helped launch the company’s new Facebook Messenger tool — a “concert bot” that speeds ticket buying — and played a key role in Live Nation’s 20 percent year-over-year increase in ticket sales.…

Sia’s Season’s Greetings On Top Holiday Albums, Sia (above) arrives with her first seasonal effort, Everyday Is Christmas. The set bows at No. 3 with 19,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Nov. 23, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 15,000 were traditional album sales. Atop Holiday Albums is an act that has profited greatly from Christmas during the past few years: Pentatonix. The a cappella group (which has placed four titles in the chart’s top 10 in the past five years) holds at No. 1 with its 2016 release, A Pentatonix Christmas (47,000 units; up 131 percent). On the Billboard 200, the set — which topped the list for two weeks in January — climbs 17-5. The album is sure to grow again on the Dec.…

McGraw & Hill, LANCO Lead Tim McGraw and Faith Hill (above) debut at No. 1 on Top Country Albums as their first collaborative LP, The Rest of Our Life, launches with 104,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Nov. 23, according to Nielsen Music. McGraw earns his 16th leader, tying Garth Brooks and Merle Haggard for the third-most No. 1s in the chart’s nearly 54-year history. George Strait leads with 26, followed by Willie Nelson (17). Hill scores her fourth No. 1 (and first since 2005). Speaking of Brooks, McGraw and Hill are the first married couple to crown Top Country Albums as a tandem since Brooks and Trisha Yearwood, whose Christmas Together topped the tally on Dec. 3, 2016. Meanwhile, LANCO posts its first No. 1 on Hot…

Fonsi Returns, With Lovato Following smash hit “Despacito” with Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber, Luis Fonsi (above, left) is back with his followup single, “Échame la Culpa,” with Demi Lovato (above, right). The song debuts at No. 3 on the Hot Latin Songs chart, one step below former No. 1 “Despacito.” The new single opens with 9.7 million streams and 33,000 downloads sold in the week ending Nov. 23 and 2.5 million in audience impressions in the week ending Nov. 23, according to Nielsen Music. Fonsi collects his 31st charted title and becomes the third act in 2017 to have two songs concurrently in the top three. Previously, Daddy Yankee did it on the Feb. 4 list with “Despacito” and his own “Shaky Shaky,” while Maluma notched four weeks in…

Billboard will wrap up 2017 with exclusive year-end charts, interviews, and analysis on the year’s top artists, titles and labels in multiple genres as well as the year’s top producers, songwriters and publishers that reigned concurrently on the Hot 100 charts. The year-end Billboard Boxscore rankings will shine a light on the most successful acts on the road, as well as the top venues and promoters. This highly anticipated year in music- the No.1s, serves as a compilation of must-have information and is referenced year-round by everyone in the music and touring industry. It is their de facto resource of musthave Billboard historical data and information. Advertise in this signature collector’s edition and position your company, artist or breakthrough achievement to the power players in the industry. This issue provides…

Iglesias, Pitbull Score Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull (above, from right) land 13 concert engagements on the Boxscore chart with ticket sales reported from the final North American leg of the artists’ 2017 co-headlining tour. Their highest gross — $2.4 million — earns the No. 2 ranking based on 27,605 sold tickets at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre at sold-out performances on Oct. 14 and 15. The Toronto sales total is the tour’s second-highest this year, surpassed only by a $2.6 million take at Madison Square Garden in New York that hit the chart during the summer leg of the trek. The arena logged a total of 25,118 sold tickets for shows on June 30 and July 1. The tour launched with an opening trek through North American markets beginning with a…

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EVERY INDUSTRY HAS A CODE OF CONDUCT, BUT IN music, lines are even more blurred around what is normal consensual behavior and what is abuse. Famous artists as well as powerful executives have given women and men drugs and alcohol in order to take advantage of them. I know a woman in the entertainment industry who was roofied by an executive she trusted who is too powerful to go up against. Harvey Weinstein was exposed, in part, because he had lost a lot of the power and economic influence he had previously. If he had the same power now as he did in the 1990s, I’m not sure all this would be happening. That’s one reason we haven’t seen this happen in music yet. We know there are stories of…

YBN Nahmir Hits Top 10 Birmingham, Ala.-based rapper YBN Nahmir (above) jumps 19-9 on the Emerging Artists chart, entering the top 10 for the first time. The move is powered by the 17-year-old’s breakthrough single, “Rubbin Off the Paint,” which vaults 32-19 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and 80-52 on the Billboard Hot 100. The track leaps almost entirely on the strength of streams, surging by 62 percent to 15.5 million U.S. clicks in the week ending Nov. 23, according to Nielsen Music, as it climbs 50-23 on Streaming Songs. Meanwhile, frequent Kanye West collaborator Cyhi the Prynce enters Emerging Artists at No. 20, fueled by the rapper’s first studio full-length, No Dope on Sundays. The set arrives at No. 25 on Top Rap Albums and No. 65 on…

David Cassidy Saluted The late David Cassidy (below) bows on the Social 50 at No. 27, following the 67-year-old’s death on Nov. 21 due to multiple organ failure. The singer-actor is pushed onto the chart after his Wikipedia page tallied 814,000 clicks in the week ending Nov. 23, a boost of 14,191 percent, according to Next Big Sound. Cassidy, best known for his role as Keith Partridge on TV’s The Partridge Family, notched numerous hits on the Billboard charts — with and without The Partridge Family — in a career dating back to the early 1970s. They include, of course, The Partridge Family’s No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hit, “I Think I Love You,” and Cassidy’s solo No. 9 single, “Cherish.” Selena Gomez rockets 22-2 on the Social 50 after…

‘Still’ Scores Record Run “Feel It Still”by Portugal. The Man (above) breaks the record for the most weeks at No. 1 on the Alternative Airplay chart as it spends its 20th week atop the tally. The song bests Muse’s “Madness,” which had held the mark (19 weeks) since February 2013. “Still” also has led the Triple A, Mainstream Top 40, Adult Top 40 and Dance/Mix Show Airplay radio rankings. Meanwhile, follow-up “Live in the Moment” bullets at No. 21 on Alternative, up 26 percent in plays, according to Nielsen Music. Two veteran acts earn their latest No. 1s on rock airplay charts. Foo Fighters’ “The Sky Is a Neighborhood” crowns both Mainstream Rock and Rock Airplay, the latter with 11 million audience impressions (up 5 percent). The song is the…

With no female or black CEOs running record labels at the world’s three biggest music companies, it’s clear the industry lacks diversity where it counts. But University of Southern California associate professor Stacy Smith, founder of USC’s new Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, wants to determine just how big of a diversity problem the music biz has, and why. To do so, Smith’s team is interviewing dozens of executives while analyzing charts, song lyrics and music videos “in order to really understand and counter implicit and explicit bias,” she says, aiming to release the initial findings in early 2018. Smith says that she hopes to create “targeted solutions,” such as encouraging music companies to put language into their employment contracts that incentivizes the promotion and retention of women and minorities in bigger…

LOS ANGELES, NOV. 19 THE 2017 AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS WERE PACKED with standout performances, like the theatrical delivery of Selena Gomez and marshmello’s “Wolves,” P!nk’s aerial dance down the side of a Los Angeles hotel to “Beautiful Trauma” and the uplifting medley of hits from Lifetime Achievement Award winner Diana Ross that closed the show. But the real winners of the night were those who came out on top awardwise: Bruno Mars, Keith Urban, and Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s “Despacito.” Mars (who wasn’t at the Microsoft Theater for the event) earned seven trophies, including favorite artist of the year. Urban was behind him with a hat trick including favorite male artist, country, while Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber were rewarded for one of the biggest Latin crossover hits…

“TO TRY TO DO IT ALL BY YOURSELF — that’s the ego talking,” says Big Sean, pacing around one of the recording studios in a stylish rented house in Venice, Calif., near the ocean. He and superproducer Metro Boomin are playing songs from their surprise joint album, Double or Nothing (out Dec. 1), and they’re feeding off each other’s energy: Metro will scrunch up his face at certain lines of Sean’s, while the rapper will let out a spontaneous “Woo!” when Metro’s beats drop in. Sean, 29, and Metro, 24, are at the top of their games — each is one of hip-hop’s most in-demand talents — and could easily claim the spotlight for himself. Instead, they’re shooting each other excited looks over the cranked-up songs they’ve made together. “Sometimes…

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“Caroline knows her artists’ worth. She fights for them, and she doesn’t let up. That alone speaks volumes. I have a daughter, so I’m all about girl power. That’s another of the many reasons Caroline is my agent.” —ScHoolboy Q…

AS BILLBOARD FETES THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF women in music throughout the industry, the charts likewise reflect that female artists have accomplished some of the biggest hits in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart and the Billboard 200 albums ranking. Madonna reigns as the all-time top-performing female artist since the Hot 100 launched on Aug. 4, 1958. She has earned a record (among all acts) 38 top 10s, including 12 No. 1s. Mariah Carey follows at No. 2, powered by her 18 Hot 100 leaders, the most of any soloist. LeAnn Rimes’ smash “How Do I Live” is the all-time top Hot 100 single by a woman. Despite peaking at No. 2 on Dec. 13, 1997, the ballad — penned by a superstar female songwriter, Diane Warren —…

Swift Stays Steady Taylor Swift’s Reputation racks up a second frame at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 as the set earned 256,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Nov. 23, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 232,000 were traditional album sales. The set debuted atop the list with 1.24 million units, of which 1.22 million were album sales. The latter sum marked the 10th-largest sales week since Nielsen began tracking sales in 1991 and the biggest sales frame since Adele’s 25 premiered with 3.38 million in 2015. Swift finally gives the list its first No. 1 with more than a week at the top in four months. The last title to spend multiple frames at No. 1 was JAY-Z’s 4:44, on the July 29 and Aug. 5…

AIRPLAY DATA COMPILED BY nielsen MUSIC RADIO SONGS: The week’s most popular songs, ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen Music. Stations are electronically monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. DIGITAL SONG SALES: The week’s top-downloaded songs, ranked by sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music. POP/RHYTHMIC/ADULT: The week’s most popular current songs at mainstream top 40, rhythmic, adult contemporary and adult top 40 formats, respectively, ranked by radio airplay detections, as measured by Nielsen Music. Songs are defined as current if they are relatively recently-released titles, or songs receiving widespread airplay and/or sales activity for the first time. Stations are electronically monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. See Charts Legend on billboard.com/biz for complete rules and explanations. All charts ©…

AMAs Bring Houston Back Whitney Houston arrives on Top R&B Albums with I Wish You Love: More From The Bodyguard, which debuts at No. 22 with 6,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Nov. 23, according to Nielsen Music. The set, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the 1992 film starring Houston, includes the film versions of her tracks recorded for the movie, along with live and remixed renditions of the songs. The album benefited from a tribute to Houston and The Bodyguard during the American Music Awards on ABC on Nov. 19 that was performed by Christina Aguilera. The soundtrack’s “I Will Always Love You,” also the opening song of Aguilera’s performance, re-enters R&B Digital Song Sales at No. 18 with a 149 percent gain to 3,000 sold.…

Skillet’s Reissue ‘Unleashed’ Unleashed by Skillet (above) flies 19-3 on Top Christian Albums, soaring 180 percent to 7,000 equivalent album units (4,000 in traditional album sales), according to Nielsen Music, thanks to a deluxe reissue (Unleashed Beyond) bolstered by additional tracks. (All versions of the album are merged for sales- and chart-tracking purposes.) Unleashed debuted atop the chart dated Aug. 27, 2016 (with 58,000 units), earning the veteran band its third No. 1. The new package contains five previously unreleased songs, including “Breaking Free” (featuring Lacey Sturm), which enters Hot Christian Songs at No. 27, the chart’s highest arrival. More, the new solo set from Jeremy Riddle, pastor and worship leader for the Redding, Calif.- based collective Bethel Music, enters Top Christian Albums at No. 4 with 5,000 units. Riddle’s…

‘All’ Aboard Steve Aoki (above) and Lauren Jauregui jump onto Hot Dance/Electronic Songs at No. 9 with “All Night.” It’s the fourth top 10 and 15th chart entry for the superstar DJ and the first chart appearance for Fifth Harmony singer Jauregui. “All” arrives with 13,000 downloads sold (also good for a No. 3 start on Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales) and 2 million U.S. streams, according to Nielsen Music. Atop Hot Dance/ Electronic Songs, Selena Gomez and marshmello return to No. 1 as “Wolves” rises 3-1 (see the Billboard Hot 100, page 5) following the Nov. 18 release of its official video and the pair’s performance of the song at the American Music Awards on Nov. 19. The collaboration dethrones marshmello’s “Silence” (featuring Khalid; 1-2), marking the first time that…

WITH THE OPENING COUPLET “I said a hip hop the hippie the hippie/ To the hip hip hop and you don’t stop,” The Sugarhill Gang introduced a new musical genre to the masses. And true to the (otherwise nonsensical) lyrical boast, hip-hop did not stop. Today, it ranks as the most significant musical development of the last 50 years. The agent of change was “Rapper’s Delight,” recorded by Henry “Big Bank Hank” Jackson, then 23; Guy “Master Gee” O’Brien, 22; and Michael “Wonder Mike” Wright, 17; and produced by R&B singer-turned-executive Sylvia Robinson. The tune samples Chic’s “Good Times,” which prompted a lawsuit from that song’s writers, Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards. They ended up with co-writing credits as a result. Like all new art forms, hip-hop — and “Rapper’s…