Innholdsfortegnelse for March 3, 2018 i Billboard Magazine

THESE DAYS, MAC PRESENTS president Marcie Allen is known for orchestrating some of the highest-profile brand partnerships in the music industry. But she had to pivot across several jobs over more than a decade to find her true calling. Straight out of college, at the age of 21, Allen began her career as director of marketing at Cellar Door Concerts (since folded into Live Nation), before transitioning to an assistant position at WME Nashville. Realizing the agency world wasn’t for her, she founded her own event production company, MAD Booking & Events, and produced over 100 concerts and festivals over the course of six years, including Voodoo Music + Arts Experience in New Orleans and the weekly free concert series On the Bricks in Nashville and Atlanta. Most importantly,…

PORTUGAL. THE MAN The biggest breakthrough at triple A in 2017 came with the six-piece ensemble’s ubiquitous “Feel It Still,” which crowned the chart for 11 weeks. SPOON Fronted by Britt Daniel (left), the Texas quartet sent “Hot Thoughts” — the strutting title track to its ninth studio album — to No. 1 for seven weeks. DAN AUERBACH Taking a break from The Black Keys for a solo jaunt, Auerbach notched two top 10s at triple A radio, including the No. 1 “Shine on Me,” from Waiting On a Song. THE WAR ON DRUGS The Americana band, led by Adam Granduciel (left), hit the top 10 on the Billboard 200 with A Deeper Understanding and reached No. 1 at triple A with “Pain.” THE NATIONAL With lead singer Matt…

Solange and I meet in a transitional season. It is early February, and the colors of Mardi Gras are blooming in the city of New Orleans. The Pontchartrain Hotel is on St. Charles Avenue, and, by dusk, the Garden District will be flooded with the sights and sounds of the first Carnival parade. In the afternoon, the Living Room lounge at Pontchartrain is an oasis. Solange tells me that she chases quietude. It helps her to plot. Talking about her 13-year-old son, Daniel Julez Smith Jr., Snapchat and inquiring girls, she puts a hand to her temple and smiles, amused. Later, she’ll pick him up from school, as always. With her husband and collaborator, music video director Alan Ferguson, away, “I’m on mommy duty,” she says. “Orion’s Rise,” her…

PEPE GARZA, 52, IS THINKING LIKE A TEENAGER THESE DAYS. As a radio personality, TV talent-show judge and awards show producer, Garza has long been a tastemaker in the world of regional Mexican music. Now he’s focused on content shareable on social media to draw younger fans. His YouTube program, Pepe’s Office, has gained nearly 679,000 subscribers since Garza began featuring interviews with the rising young stars of the genre. He’s aiming for 1 million subscribers by June, when the show will mark its second anniversary. Garza already is a multimedia star in the regional Mexican music world, which is the most popular radio format in the United States among Latino listeners, according to Nielsen. He’s the program director of FM station KBUE (Que Buena) Los Angeles and oversees…

Panther Doubles Up Black Panther: The Album spends a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, as the set earned 131,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Feb. 22 (down 15 percent), according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 40,000 were in traditional album sales (down 23 percent). The album debuted at No. 1 with 154,000 units (52,000 in album sales). The set, featuring music from and inspired by the Marvel Studios film Black Panther, benefits from the movie’s opening on Feb. 16, the first day of the latest tracking week. With Black Panther: The Album’s slight decline — down 15 percent to 131,000 units — it earns the biggest second week for a soundtrack since 2015. That year, on the chart dated March 7, the…

McCreery’s First No. 1 Song Scotty McCreery (above) notches his first No. 1 on Country Airplay as “Five More Minutes” ascends 3-1, increasing 10 percent to 40.2 million audience impressions in the week ending Feb. 25, according to Nielsen Music. “I’d just lost my granddaddy Bill,” McCreery tells Billboard of the song, which he co-wrote with Frank Rogers and Monty Criswell. “He was my guy, a cool cat, 85 years old, doing cannonballs in the backyard pool. He was awesome, I loved him. Monty was the one who said, ‘It’s just like you wanted five more minutes with the guy.’ I was like, ‘That’s the song I’m going to write today.’” McCreery won the 10th season of American Idol in 2011. (Notably, the runner up that year was Lauren…

Ozuna & Cardi B’s ‘Modelo’ Hits No. 1 Ozuna (above left) collects his second No. 1 on Latin Airplay with “La Modelo,” with Cardi B (above right), who earns her first, as the song zooms 12-1. The track, which earns Greatest Gainer honors, rises a whopping 70 percent in audience in the week ending Feb. 25, according to Nielsen Music, climbing to 16.8 million. It’s the second song to vault to No. 1 from outside the top 10 in 2018, following Jennifer Lopez’s “Amor, Amor, Amor” (featuring Wisin), which also rose 12-1 (Feb. 3). Ozuna first led Latin Airplay as the featured act on Wisin’s “Escapate Conmigo,” which spent a week at No. 1 (Sept. 9, 2017). On Top Latin Albums, Ozuna’s Odisea spends a 26th week at No.…

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…

Derrick “Chef Teach” Turton managed Pitbull for over a decade starting in 2003. But after rapper Bun B requested his lobster mac and cheese as a studio snack, Turton, 42, had an epiphany. He left music to open his World Famous House of Mac food truck in 2015, and helped launch a standing location in Miami in December. Turton dishes advice on creating a standout eatery. TEST EVERYTHING Yo Gotti and N.O.R.E. sampled Turton’s jerk chicken and Buffalo wings at his home barbecues, and helped him realize his mac was the masterpiece: “[Taste tests] are like going to the club and seeing someone sing [Pitbull’s] songs.” STAY WEIRD “Nothing about Pitbull was acceptable when we started — he was like a UFO,” says Turton. “But the craziest…

AT JUST BEFORE 2 A.M. ONE December night in 1984, the voice of a young but tenacious sounding girl broke across the New York airwaves on Mr. Magic’s Rap Attack, one of just two radio shows devoted to rap in the city. There was nothing slick about it: no hook or melody over the crunchy boom-bap beat — just four straight minutes of rhyming from an MC who called herself Roxanne. “I hope you got that on tape,” said host Mr. Magic, “because you might never hear it again.” He couldn’t have been more wrong. “Roxanne Speaks Out,” the debut single from 14-year-old Lolita Shanté Gooden — soon to become known as Roxanne Shanté — would ignite both the career of rap’s first female star and hip-hop’s first recorded…

MAX Makes It Nearly two years after MAX released Hell’s Kitchen Angel, the set finally makes the Billboard 200, arriving at No. 154. The set, powered by his hit single “Lights Down Low,” earned 5,000 equivalent album units (up 25 percent) in the week ending Feb. 22, according to Nielsen Music. Hell’s Kitchen Angel was released April 8, 2016, and debuted and peaked at No. 7 on the Heatseekers Albums chart dated April 30 of that year. Its single “Lights Down Low” (featuring gnash) reached its first airplay list on Aug. 12, 2017, when the song arrived on the Mainstream Top 40 tally. Now in its 31st week on the chart, it climbs to a new high, rising 9-8. Meanwhile, on the Billboard Hot 100, “Lights” hits the top…

Carlile Makes ‘Way’ To No. 1 Brandi Carlile (above) notches her second No. 1 on Top Rock Albums as By the Way, I Forgive You starts with 43,000 equivalent album units, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 41,000 are traditional album sales, marking Carlile’s second-best sales frame, narrowly trailing only The Firewatcher’s Daughter (42,000) in 2015. The new set also debuts atop Americana/Folk Albums, where it’s her fourth No. 1. Its lead single, “The Joke,” enters Hot Rock Songs at No. 43, which is Carlile’s first appearance since 2012. After tallying a pair of No. 27-peaking singles on the Mainstream Top 40 airplay chart since 2014, brother trio AJR rules Alternative Songs in its first visit to the latter survey as “Sober Up” (featuring Rivers Cuomo) rises 3-1.…

Asbury, Hawthorne Hit No. 1 Cory Asbury (above), of Bethel Music, the musical arm of Bethel Church, scores his first No. 1 on Hot Christian Songs as “Reckless Love” lifts 2-1. The track dominates Christian Digital Song Sales for a third week, hiking 20 percent to 7,000 downloads sold, according to Nielsen Music. “Reckless” is the title-track lead single from Asbury’s LP, which launched at No. 1 on Top Christian Albums (Feb. 10). Prior to “Reckless,” a male artist last led Hot Christian Songs with a first entry when Sundance Head, the winner of season 11 of NBC’s The Voice, debuted atop the list dated Dec. 17, 2016, with “Me and Jesus.” That coronation followed Zach Williams’ maiden hit, “Chain Breaker,” which reached No. 1 on Nov. 19, 2016.…

THE PULSE OF MUSIC RIGHT NOW “ LAST TIME I WAS HERE I GOT KICKED OUT,” says the barrel-chested singer-guitarist Nathaniel Rateliff, 39, from under a wide-brimmed hat. He’s sitting in The Spare Room, a small, swanky bar and bowling alley inside the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, where he’s either unrecognized or still welcome. “The lady who keeps score on the chalkboard didn’t like my comment of, ‘Wait, your only job is to keep score?’” Night Sweats bassist Joseph Pope III, 38, a blue bandana encircling his neck, throws in: “It snowballed.” Rateliff, joking (probably): “If I’d had a .38 on me, I would have fired a couple rounds into the ceiling.” You’ll have to pardon the man. His earlier life — before fronting the hottest vintage-sounding soul octet in…

In early 2017, Australian producer What So Not (born Chris “Emoh” Emerson) flew to Central America for his first vacation in six years. While staying in the Nicaraguan jungle, the staple festival performer assembled previously recorded pieces for his debut album, a breathless exercise in eclectic dance music featuring 15 far-flung acts across 12 songs. “I pretty much worked with my friends — that was the deciding factor,” he says, describing his approach on Not All the Beautiful Things, out March 9. SKRILLEX “GOH” “This is a demo from 2014 that leaked but never officially came out, and anytime we would put out a song, fans were like, ‘OK, but where’s “Go”?’ Since my [nickname] is Emoh, we added the ‘H’ to the title, so there’s me in…

THREE NIGHTS BEFORE the 2018 Grammy Awards, as music-industry executives huddled at familiar corporate functions around Manhattan, Steve Stoute hosted an intimate dinner party in a private room above the posh Gramercy Park restaurant Eleven Madison Park. Stoute, the founder of ad agency Translation and former president of urban music at Interscope and Sony Music, declared that the gathering was “about culture, storytellers coming together in a room, celebrating greatness” — a grandiose statement that actually seemed fitting when one surveyed the guests: Nas, Naomi Campbell, Colin Kaepernick, Darren Aronofsky, Quavo and Migos manager Coach K, art dealer Gavin Brown, Gucci CEO Marco Bizzarri, artist Hope Atherton and Thelma Golden, director/chief curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem. “They’ve all got something to gain,” says Stoute two weeks later…

Rich Rises To No. 1 Queens-based rapper Rich the Kid (above) tops the Emerging Artists chart for the first time on the strength of his singles “New Freezer” (featuring Kendrick Lamar), which jumps 53-46 on the Billboard Hot 100, and “Plug Walk,” which ranks at No. 69. On Hot R&B/ Hip-Hop Songs, the tracks place at Nos. 22 and 32, respectively. “Freezer” drew 15 million airplay audience impressions (up 28 percent), 12.7 million U.S. streams (up 4 percent) and 5,000 downloads sold (up 11 percent) in the tracking week, according to Nielsen Music. Meanwhile, I’m With Her debuts at No. 5 on Emerging Artists as See You Around, the first collaborative set from singer-songwriters Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz and Aoife O’Donovan, arrives at No. 5 on Americana/Folk Albums and…

Bad Bunny Hops Up Social 50 Bad Bunny (below) continues to make waves on the Social 50, as he zooms 32-6. The Latin artist does so with an increase in most social metrics in the week ending Feb. 22, according to Next Big Sound, including a 646 percent boost in YouTube subscribers and 1.7 million reactions on the platform. The rise follows the Feb. 14 release of his new music video for “Amorfoda.” The track garnered 5.9 million U.S. streams in the tracking frame, enough to help it to a No. 11 debut on the Hot Latin Songs chart. Meanwhile, Snoop Dogg returns to the top 10 on the Social 50 for the first time in over three years by moving 13-10. The rapper, who peaked at No. 5…

Nipsey Hussle’s Victory Triumphs Nipsey Hussle (above) scores his first top five success on Top R&B/ Hip-Hop Albums and Top Rap Albums as Victory Lap arrives at No. 3 on both charts. The set opens with 52,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Feb. 22, according to Nielsen Music. Victory completes a long road to a debut studio album for the California native, who made his Billboard chart debut in 2010 with the single “The Life” on Epic Records. After the rapper left the label, he produced independent projects and charting mixtapes in the ensuing years. Victory was released through Hussle’s own All Money In No Money Out label in conjunction with Atlantic Records. Elsewhere, Drake’s “God Plan” completes a coup of ruling four R&B-based radio charts…

‘Mad Love’ Bows In Top 10 Sean Paul (above) and David Guetta’s “Mad Love” (featuring Becky G) launches at No. 9 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs. The reggae-influenced dance track earned 1.4 million U.S. streams and sold 13,000 downloads in the tracking week ending Feb. 22, according to Nielsen Music. The tune marks Paul’s first top 10 as a lead artist (and second total) and Guetta’s ninth, tying the DJ with The Chainsmokers and Zedd for the second-most in the chart’s five-year history, after Calvin Harris (14). Rising Latin music artist Becky G makes her inaugural appearance. Zedd, Maren Morris and Grey crown Dance/Mix Show Airplay with “The Middle” (3-1). Zedd scores his fifth No. 1, while Morris and Grey each lead for the first time. Notably, Morris is the…