Innholdsfortegnelse for February 3, 2018 i Billboard Magazine

DRAKE’S NEW SINGLE, “GOD’S PLAN,” BLASTS IN with a record 68 million on-demand U.S. streams in the week ending Jan. 25, according to Nielsen Music. It scored 82.4 million clicks overall and starts atop the Streaming Songs chart (see page 59), and also opens at No. 1 on Digital Song Sales with 127,000 downloads sold. “Plan” is paired with fellow new song “Diplomatic Immunity” on Drake’s two-track “Scary Hours” single, released Jan. 19. The latter tune enters the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 7 (28.4 million streams; 39,000 sold), making Drake the first act to have twice debuted two songs in the top 10 simultaneously. On April 8, 2017, he bowed at Nos. 8 and 9 with “Passionfruit” and “Portland” (featuring Quavo and Travis Scott), respectively. “Plan” is Drake’s fourth…

After falling out of first place for the first time in five years, Sony/ATV Music Publishing roared back to the top in the fourth quarter of 2017 with 24.1 percent of the period’s top 100 radio songs. The publishing giant was up almost five-and-a-half percentage points thanks to stakes in 49 songs, including the top track for the quarter, Portugal. The Man’s “Feel It Still.” Sony/ATV also claimed the fourth quarter’s top songwriter, Ed Sheeran, who had a hand in four of the top 100 songs, including “Perfect” (at No. 7) and Liam Payne’s “Strip That Down,” featuring Quavo (No. 97). Despite falling to No. 2, Warner/ Chappell Music still owned 20.5 percent with cuts of 57 songs — the most of any publisher for the quarter. It also was…

“I don’t want to be boxed in.” —Rich Brian “RICH CHIGGA ISN’T ME ANYMORE,” says Brian Imanuel, the Indonesian rapper who, after rising through the viral ranks with the controversial moniker, changed his name to Rich Brian in January, ahead of the Feb. 2 release of his debut album, Amen. “Being in the United States made me realize that I wanted to [make the] change,” says the 18-year-old, who moved from Jakarta to Los Angeles last July. “I wanted to go a certain way with my music, a certain direction. It just felt right.” Brian’s original stage name was a better fit for his early, more troll-like incarnation. His internet hit “Dat $tick,” which peaked at No. 4 on Billboard’s Bubbling Under R&B/ Hip-Hop Singles chart in 2016, was criticized…

Brandi Carlile is traipsing through an airport with her 3-year-old, Evangeline, discussing her latest album, By the Way, I Forgive You (out Feb. 16), over the phone, when there’s a serendipitous event: “There’s this girl with a guitar, singing ‘What Can I Say’ from my first album,” says the Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, 36. “She doesn’t know it’s me — I look like a kindergarten teacher.” Coincidentally, that’s the core tension of Carlile’s weighty new LP: how an older millennial faces motherhood, marriage (she wed Catherine Shepherd in 2012) and mortality. 1 SHE LISTENED TO ELVIS PRESLEY “[Co-producer] Dave Cobb loves [Presley’s 1972 medley] ‘American Trilogy’ and wanted me to understand the emotion and intensity Elvis put into it when we were working on [lead single] ‘The Joke.’” 2 SHE EMBRACED MOTHERHOOD…

Charli XCX “He’s a real musician: He plays, like, a thousand instruments and understands the structure and theory behind music,” says the singer songwriter, who cast Puth as a car-wash stud in her “Boys” video. “He’s crazy, crazy talented.” Jason Derulo Puth co-wrote on Derulo’s Everything Is 4, most notably the Stevie Wonder-Keith Urban collaboration “Broke.” “He’s a little left of center, which is always cool to me,” says Derulo of Puth. “He’s not worried about a trend.” Kehlani The duo collaborated on a “Hotline Bling” remix; Puth hopes to rope her in for VoiceNotes. “She’s almost like the Bruce Springsteen of R&B,” says Puth of the singer. “She just pokes at people’s hearts.” “A lot of artists get lost in their own sauce and don’t know…

DUA LEAPS Dua Lipa (above) lifts to her first No. 1 on the Mainstream Top 40 radio airplay chart with “New Rules.” The British pop singer-songwriter previously charted three entries in 2016 and 2017: “Blow Your Mind (Mwah)” (No. 23), “Scared to Be Lonely” with Martin Garrix (No. 21) and “Be the One” (No. 40). With the song released on Warner Bros., “Rules” is the first Mainstream Top 40 No. 1 for a female on the label since Madonna’s “Take a Bow,” for five weeks beginning Feb. 25, 1995. (Lipa was born in August 1995.) The label’s last No. 1 overall before “Rules”: Lukas Graham’s “7 Years,” on May 28, 2016. Go to Billboard.com for full Chart Beat coverage, including columns and podcasts.…

The return of Def Leppard’s music catalog to digital retail, and its arrival on streaming services (both on Jan. 19), pumps big gains for the band on the charts. The bulk of the rock act’s older catalog had been absent from digital retail since 2007, and from streaming services almost entirely, as the group had long disputed its payment rates from digital sales and streams. The Def Leppard hit parade is led by its 1987 smash album, Hysteria, as it re-enters the Billboard 200 at No. 39 — its highest rank since 1989. The set, which spent six weeks at No. 1 in 1988, returns to the list with 13,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Jan. 25 (up 2,337 percent), according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum,…

“Meant to Be” by Bebe Rexha (above, center) and Florida Georgia Line (above) continues to become a match made in country-pop heaven, ascending into the top 20 of Streaming Songs. The crossover hit leaps 27-19 with 18.4 million streams in the week ending Jan. 25, a boost of 14 percent, according to Nielsen Music. The single, which concurrently moves 19-18 on the Mainstream Top 40 airplay chart and 27-24 on Country Airplay, is Rexha’s second as a lead artist to reach the top 20, following the No. 3 peak of 2016’s “Me, Myself & I,” with G-Eazy. Meanwhile, it’s Florida Georgia Line’s first top 20 since “Cruise,” which peaked at No. 9 in June 2013. “Meant” also increases in streams following a Jan. 23 performance on The Tonight Show Starring…

Miguel (above) collects his first No. 1 on the Rhythmic airplay chart as “Sky Walker” (featuring Travis Scott) glides 4-1. The collaboration ascends to the summit with a 14 percent rise in plays in the week ending Jan. 28, according to Nielsen Music. The R&B singer previously topped out in the runner-up spot twice, with “Adorn” in 2012 and when featured on J. Cole’s “Power Trip” in 2013. As “Sky” rises, its 20-week climb ties Kid Cudi’s “Day ‘N’ Nite” for the second-longest trek to No. 1 since the chart launched in 1992. The pair trail only TLC’s “Waterfalls,” which needed 24 weeks before it eventually reigned for two weeks in 1995. On the Adult R&B airplay tally, Daniel Caesar also nabs a first No. 1. His debut entry, “Get…

Niall Horan (above) notches his second solo leader on Dance Club Songs with “Too Much to Ask” (2-1). The track follows “Slow Hands,” which hit the summit on Oct. 21, 2017; his first solo entry, “This Town,” reached No. 3 in March 2017. As a member of One Direction, Horan led in 2012 with the group’s debut smash, “What Makes You Beautiful,” and reached No. 6 later that year with “Live While We’re Young.” “Ask” was remixed by Cedric Gervais, TRU Concept and Bro Code, among others. On Dance/Mix Show Airplay, Dua Lipa leads for the first time with “New Rules” (2-1). It’s her second chart showing, following “Scared to Be Lonely,” with Martin Garrix (No. 4, May 2017). Remixed by the likes of NoTech, Vicetone and Alison Wonderland, “New”…

FOR A PLACE WITH A POPULATION under 10,000 people, the village of Amityville, N.Y., carries an outsize reputation. For some, it’s The Amityville Horror, the book and film from the 1970s; for others, it’s the wave of crime in the 1980s that turned it into a microcosm of the drug war tearing apart the country. For music attorney Julian Petty, Amityville was the breeding ground of a hip-hop scene that was both sanctuary and a way out, and which shaped the decisions that would take him to the highest reaches of the music industry. “I remember hearing De La Soul’s first single, ‘Plug Tunin’,’ as a demo,” says Petty, 40, now a partner at Los Angeles-based law firm Nixon Peabody representing the likes of Childish Gambino, A Tribe Called Quest,…

EXECUTIVES CHOSEN FOR THE BILLBOARD POWER 100, AND artists including Diplo, Big Sean, Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and Pentatonix, packed Nobu Fifty Seven in Midtown Manhattan for a celebration of the magazine’s seventh annual ranking of the 100 most influential individuals in the music industry. “To be more accurate, the Billboard Power 163,” said The Hollywood Reporter- Billboard Media Group president John Amato, noting the total number of executives profiled in this year’s report, including “41 new faces.” Live Nation Entertainment CEO Michael Rapino accepted his first-time honor as the No. 1 executive on the Power 100; Atlantic Records chairman/CEO Craig Kallman and chairman/COO Julie Greenwald credited their teams for Atlantic’s recognition as Label of the Year; and the 2018 Clive Davis Visionary Award was presented by Davis to Universal…

IN 1981, SIX NORTH HOLLYWOOD studio musicians knew it would take an album packed with hits to save their tenuous relationship with their label. By April of the following year, the guys of Toto got precisely what they needed: Toto IV went triple-platinum, generating the band’s first Billboard Hot 100 top 10s since its 1977 debut and winning it six awards at the 1983 Grammys, including album of the year. But while the band and label focused on the set’s funky lead single, “Rosanna,” it was a cut that barely made the final track list that ended up becoming the true smash, and, eventually, Toto’s signature song: the soft-prog ballad “Africa.” Released as the album’s third single, “Africa” is the band’s first and only song to top the Hot 100.…

Fall Out Boy scores its fourth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 as Mania arrives atop the list. The set — the band’s seventh full-length studio effort — earned 130,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Jan. 25, according to Nielsen Music. Mania is Fall Out Boy’s fourth leader on the chart and third consecutive studio release to reach the top. The band previously hit No. 1 with its full-length studio titles American Beauty/American Psycho (2015), Save Rock and Roll (2013) and Infinity on High (2007). Its other full-length studio efforts that missed the top were Folie a Deux (peaking at No. 8 on Jan. 3, 2009), From Under the Cork Tree (No. 9 in 2005) and Take This to Your Grave (which didn’t reach the Billboard 200,…

Following the Jan. 22 announcement by Neil Diamond (above) of his retirement from touring due to his recent Parkinson’s diagnosis, the music legend’s catalog grew in sales and streams during the week ending Jan. 25. Diamond’s overall album sales jumped 157 percent to 6,000 copies sold, according to Nielsen Music. His total equivalent album units earned grew 121 percent to 10,000, while digital song sales vaulted 197 percent (to 14,000) and on-demand audio streams rose 41 percent (to 3.3 million). His All-Time Greatest Hits album re-enters the Billboard 200 at No. 86 — its highest rank since 2014. It earned 7,000 units during the week (up 119 percent). The set also zooms 27-4 on the Catalog Album Sales chart with 4,000 sold (up 164 percent). Also on Catalog Album Sales,…

Hallelujah Nights, the first full-length from LANCO (above), soars in at No. 1 on Top Country Albums with 19,000 equivalent album units (13,000 in traditional sales), according to Nielsen Music. “We’ve always believed in the power of country-music storytelling,” frontman Brandon Lancaster tells Billboard. “Our stories have different people, different names, different places, but they all have the same emotions attached to them. To me, this album is about glorifying the reality of life.” LANCO’s No. 1 entrance on Top Country Albums marks the first for a debut set by a group of three members or more (excluding holiday fare) since Sept. 10, 2011, when Pistol Annies’ Hell on Heels arrived in the penthouse. That threesome featured Miranda Lambert — an established star — plus Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley.…

J Balvin (above) notches his 13th top 10 on Hot Latin Songs as his single “Machika,” with Jeon and Anitta, debuts at No. 10 on the Feb. 3 chart. The track, which arrived Jan. 19, opens with 4,000 downloads sold and 3.2 million streams earned in the week ending Jan. 25, according to Nielsen Music. It’s the first top 10 for Anitta and Jeon. On Latin Airplay, the track rises 29-9 in its second frame (up 118 percent to 9.9 million audience impressions in the week ending Jan. 28) after debuting a week earlier from only three days of airplay. It’s Balvin’s 11th top 10 on the tally and the first for Anitta and Jeon. Also on Latin Airplay, Jennifer Lopez banks her sixth No. 1 as “Amor, Amor, Amor”…

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…

EEARLY IN JANUARY, WHEN MUSIC FESTIVALS like New York’s Governors Ball, Delaware’s Firefly Music Festival and California’s Coachella revealed their summer lineups, Halsey was quick to call out an issue that surfaces every year. “Where the women at,” she wrote on Twitter, referring to Firefly. “This was one of my favorite festivals I’ve ever played and it’s a shame there’s not more females on the bill. It’s 2018, do better!!!” Women are almost altogether absent from the bold-print few who sit atop the major summer festival lineup posters — with the exception of Beyoncé at Coachella, who was slated to headline in 2017 before she revealed her pregnancy. And only a handful of solo female artists and bands either comprised of women or with at least one female member —…

Vision of love LAUV (born Ari Leff) began writing breakup songs when he was 13 — even though he had not experienced a broken heart. “I had never been in a relationship, so I don’t know how that works,” says the 23-year-old. “For whatever reason, I’ve always gravitated toward music that feels longing or beautifully tragic.” Star power When LAUV started at New York University in 2012, he set aside a solo career to focus on writing for others. But he didn’t get a publishing deal until he released solo track “The Other” that attracted attention. “It was my first song where I felt like I couldn’t give it away,” he says. “All of a sudden, labels and publishers were reaching out to me.” Quadruple threat A singer, songwriter, instrumentalist…

Country singer-songwriter Devin Dawson (above) crowns the Emerging Artists chart on the strength of his debut LP, Dark Horse, which opens at No. 5 on Top Country Albums with 11,000 equivalent album units, according to Nielsen Music. The set is driven by his breakthrough single, “All on Me,” which hits the Country Airplay top 10 (see page 61). Meanwhile, Bazzi vaults 27-7 on Emerging Artists as the 20-year-old pop singer’s debut single, arrives at No. 56 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song earned 11.4 million U.S. streams in the tracking week (up 88 percent) and starts at No. 46 on Streaming Songs. Bazzi (full name: Andrew Bazzi) began building a following on the since-shuttered Vine, as well as YouTube, where he sports over 100,000 followers.…

2 SOUNDTRACK The Greatest Showman For the first time since the Billboard 200 transitioned to an equivalent album units ranked tally in December 2014, a soundtrack has scored four weeks of 100,000-plus units. The Greatest Showman, which holds at No. 2, earned 109,000 units (up 5 percent) in the week ending Jan. 25, according to Nielsen Music. It is also the fourth straight week it has earned over 100,000 units. Previously, among soundtracks, the Fifty Shades of Grey album logged three 100,000-plus weeks in 2015. —K.C 11 SAM SMITH The Thrill of It All The album zips 17-11 with 26,000 units (up 30 percent) and 13,000 albums sold (up 116 percent) after Smith’s concert ticket/album bundle redemption promotion offer generated further sales. 108 THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS I Like Fun…

South Korean singeractress Suzy (below) makes her first appearance on the Social 50 chart, debuting at No. 17. The former member of the now-defunct K-pop girl group Miss A launches on the tally with 8.9 million Instagram reactions and 58,000 new followers in the week ending Jan. 25, according to Next Big Sound. The social media attention comes as the artist, who more recently has found time to act in multiple dramatic roles, prepped the release of her sophomore EP, Faces of Love. It arrived Jan. 29 and was preceded by songs, videos and teasers Suzy shared on social media. Ed Sheeran bursts back into the top 10 of the Social 50 thanks to his recent engagement. The singer, who jumps 14-7, posted on Instagram on Jan. 20 that he…

Black Label Society (above) bows atop Hard Rock Albums for a third time with Grimmest Hits, which starts with 15,000 equivalent album units (nearly all in traditional sales), according to Nielsen Music. Previously, the band reached the pinnacle with 2014’s Catacombs of the Black Vatican and 2010’s Order of the Black (both of which also launched at No. 1). The new set also opens at No. 3 on Top Rock Albums. Lead single “Room of Nightmares” peaked at No. 29 on Dec. 30, 2017, Black Label Society’s 11th charting title dating to 2003 (“Stillborn,” No. 12, June 21, 2003). When Dolores O’Riordan, late frontwoman of The Cranberries, died Jan. 15 in London, she was in the city to record vocals for an upcoming cover of her band’s 1994 classic “Zombie”…

Rend Collective (above) scores its third Top Christian Albums leader — all have debuted at No. 1 — as Good News arrives with 9,000 equivalent album units (7,000 in traditional sales), according to Nielsen Music. The group, based in Bangor, Northern Ireland, previously led with As Family We Go (2015) and The Art of Celebration (2014). Two tracks from Good News hit new highs on Hot Christian Songs: “Rescuer (Good News)” (No. 14) and “Counting Every Blessing” (No. 39). Also on Top Christian Albums, Nashville-based husband-and-wife duo Caleb + Kelsey makes its inaugural appearance at No. 3 with Worship (4,000 units). The twosome also debuts at No. 24 on the all-genre Emerging Artists chart (see page 55). On Top Gospel Albums, Todd Dulaney scores his second straight and total No.…

Bruno Mars (above) lands on the Boxscore chart with two December concert engagements at venues owned by MGM Resorts — one in Las Vegas and the other in the Washington, D.C., market. The Vegas appearance was a two-night New Year’s Eve run at the Park Theater at Monte Carlo Resort & Casino. Earning the No. 2 ranking with $2.7 million in sales, it’s the latest stint on his extended engagement at the theater that began after it opened in December 2016. In 2017, he appeared there three times with two-show stands in March, September and on Dec. 30 and 31. His overall gross from all eight performances at the theater is $9.5 million from 41,420 sold seats. Also in December, Mars played the MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md.…