Innholdsfortegnelse for August 4, 2018 i Billboard Magazine

YOU MIGHT CALL MITSKI A DRIFTER. BORN IN Japan, the singer-songwriter lived in 13 different countries growing up. Today, she has embraced a sort of permanent displacement, inhabiting various sublets and Airbnbs along the East Coast when she’s not on tour, as she was earlier in 2018, opening for Lorde alongside rap duo Run the Jewels. “In order to find a place and move into a place, you need time to do that, and I just don’t have time,” says the 27-year-old born Mitski Miyawaki. At the moment, she has found a couple of hours of respite at a Szechuan restaurant in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood, where she’s staying as she does press and rehearses for a headlining international fall tour. She pauses. “I think I will next year.” It’s…

FROM Miami AGES Caresha “Yung Miami” Brownlee, 24; Jatavia “JT” Johnson, 25 SURPRISE HIT Yung Miami and JT met in eighth grade through a mutual friend. Hip-hop wasn’t their immediate goal. “We just did that ‘Fuck That N—a’ song, and it took off,” says Yung Miami of the in-your-face track, which arrived last December on Quality Control’s Control the Streets Vol 1. “[Rapping] became important once that got popular.” FAST FAME The two, whose labelmates include Migos and Lil Baby, cemented their up-and-comer status with the debut mixtape Period, which trended on Apple Music upon its May release. Then, they hit the mainstream when Drake tapped them for backup vocals on his current Billboard Hot 100 No. 1, “In My Feelings.” “My son is 5 and he’s advanced, so…

On Aug. 4, 1958, Billboard launched the Hot 100, forever changing pop music - or at least how it’s measured. Sixty years later, the chart remains the gold-standard ranking of America’s top songs each week. And while what goes into a hit has changed (bye bye, jukebox play; hello, streaming!), attaining a spot on the list — or better yet, a coveted No. 1 — is still the benchmark to which artists aspire, from Ricky Nelson on the first to Drake on the latest. Which brings us to this hottest-of-the-hot list: the 100 most massive smashes over the chart’s six decades PLUS: The chart’s 100 biggest artists of all time MEET OUR POP EXPERTS! Annotations to the list from… DIANE WARREN Songwriter of “How Do I Live,” No.…

The first No. 1 song by a black performer on the Billboard Hot 100 — which arrived merely a month after the chart’s inception — tells one of those tales that finds American music slipping the bounds of genre. Tommy Edwards’ 1958 song, “It’s All in the Game,” wasn’t rock’n’roll or R&B, but a tune-up of Edwards’ own 1951 version of a swelling, croony ballad — itself an adaptation of a four-decade-old ditty by an amateur parlor tunesmith. That last detail also makes it the only pop hit ever written by a top White House official and improbably ties a 1925 Nobel Peace Prize winner to the 2016 literary Nobel laureate. “It’s All in the Game” draws its sweet tune from “Melody in A Major,” written in 1911 by…

On September 15, Billboard will celebrate Quincy Jones’ 85th Birthday and 70 years in music. During his career, the world-renown producer has worked with legendary artists such as Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Ray Charles, Paul McCartney. Quincy has earned himself numerousaccolades including 79 Grammy nominations, 28 Grammy wins, including a Grammy Legend Award, and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as the winner of the Ahmet Ertegun Award. Please join Billboard in celebrating Quincy Jones 85th Birthday, and recognizing his lifelong success. CONTACT Joe Maimone 212.493.4427 | joe.maimone billboard.com Debra Fink 323.525.2249 | debra.fink@thr.com Lori Copeland 323.525.2020 | lori.copeland@thr.com ON SALE 9/15 | ISSUE CLOSE 9/6 | MATERIALS DUE 9/7 Editorial content subject to change…

Four On Top For Drake Drake’s Scorpion holds on to the No. 1 slot for a fourth week on the Billboard 200, making it the album with the most weeks atop the list in 2018. The set earned 184,000 equivalent album units (down 29 percent) in the week ending July 26, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 15,000 were in traditional album sales. The streaming-powered set debuted atop the list and hasn’t left the penthouse since its arrival. The last album to collect four frames atop the list was Taylor Swift’s reputation, which earned four nonconsecutive weeks: three in a row from in 2017 (Dec. 2-16) and then one more on Jan. 6. The last set to link four weeks in a row in the top slot was…

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 © 2018, Prometheus Global Media, LLC…

6ix9ine’s ‘FEFE’ Debuts 6ix9ine’s “FEFE” (featuring Nicki Minaj and Murda Beatz) debuts at No. 3 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. The track is 6ix9ine’s second top 10 — following “Gummo,” a No. 5 hit in December 2017 — and producer Murda Beatz’s first as an artist. For Minaj, “FEFE” is her 28th top 10, and she leaps ahead of Beyoncé and Mariah Carey (each with 27) for the third-most top 10s among women. Aretha Franklin (52) leads all women, with Janet Jackson (31) in second place. “FEFE” starts strong due to its status as the second-most-streamed song in the United States in the tracking week ending July 26, according to Nielsen Music, with 45.7 million clicks. It also sold 24,000 downloads in the same window, the sixth-best showing among all…

Ross’ ‘Out’ Is In Again Diana Ross (above) rules Dance Club Songs for the second time in 2018 and for the sixth time in her legendary career as “I’m Coming Out/Upside Down 2018” rises 2-1. Upon hearing the news, Ross exclaimed, “Thank you, thank you, thank you, for so many blessings!” The medley, remixed by Eric Kupper, Chris Cox and StoneBridge, among others, follows another remixed Ross classic, “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough 2017,” which led the Jan. 20 list. Ross spent five weeks at No. 1 in 1980 with the titles reversed: “Upside Down”/“I’m Coming Out.” (They were two separate songs but listed as one entry, according to chart rules at the time, as opposed to the current mashup.) On Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, Zedd, Maren Morris and Grey…

ALLISON KAYE DOESN’T LET A little thing like pregnancy slow her down, even when she’s touring the globe with one of the world’s biggest pop stars. The newly promoted president of Scooter Braun’s SB Projects says she has been pregnant with each of her three kids — Barrett (age 4), Elle (2) and Ryan (1) — while on the road, most recently during Ariana Grande’s 2017 Dangerous Woman Tour. “I was scaling a tower trying to deliver files from the soundboard to the video guy, and Scooter stopped me and asked, ‘Should you be doing that?’” recalls the 37-year-old former New Yorker. “I told him, ‘I’m pretty sure I shouldn’t, but you’re the only person here who knows I shouldn’t be doing it, so I’m going to keep climbing.’”…

It was no surprise that after Nicki Minaj tapped rapper 6ix9ine to open her fall NickiHndrxx Tour with Future, a backlash ensued. After all, 6ix9ine has become one of hip-hop’s most controversial figures after pleading guilty to three counts of sexual misconduct with a child. The pair’s new track, “Fefe,” which bows at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100, stoked the flames further, garnering hot and cold takes from Minaj’s fans. NICK NIEVES FAN, BEAUTY BLOGGER “Absolutely the fuck not.” SAFAREE EX-BOYFRIEND, SONGWRITER “Ayo I ain’t no hater so I gotta say that line ‘Ac just stop working so they hit me told me bring my wrist back’ is soooo hard. I love Icy talk” MALIIBU MIITCH RAPPER, CO-SIGNED BY MINAJ “Fefe my new mood” KHLOE KARDASHIAN SHOUTED…

While working at Atlantic Records from 1987-1990, when, she says, she was fired for complaining about the misogynistic treatment she suffered at the hands of the virtually all-male executive staff, Dorothy Carvello realized that the diaries she had been keeping could make a good book. Her subsequent experiences at RCA, Columbia, Epic and other labels only confirmed that notion, and 18 years after leaving that world, the Brooklyn native is set to publish her frank and funny memoir, Anything for a Hit: An A&R Woman’s Story of Surviving the Music Industry, on Sept. 4. Carvello, 56, who still works in the industry as an indie publicist, spoke about her unvarnished depiction of her former boss, Atlantic founder Ahmet Ertegun (who died in 2006) and the industry’s treatment of women.…

ABBA, Mamma Mia! Surge All things ABBA are on the rise thanks to the ABBA-inspired movie Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. The soundtrack to the film, the sequel to 2008’s Mamma Mia!, zooms 20-3 on the Billboard 200. Meanwhile, the original Mamma Mia! soundtrack returns to the top 25, and ABBA’s 25-year-old Gold — Greatest Hits reaches a new chart high. The Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again soundtrack surges in its second week with 48,000 units earned in the week ending July 26 (up 150 percent), of which 34,000 were in traditional album sales (up 104 percent). The set, which also rises to No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart, benefits from the film’s opening on July 20, the first day of the chart’s tracking week.…

Jake’s Jumping ‘Jack’ “I Was Jack (You Were Diane)” by Jake Owen (above) ascends 2-1 on Country Airplay with 40.1 million audience impressions in the week ending July 29, according to Nielsen Music. The nod to John Mellencamp’s four-week 1982 Billboard Hot 100 No. 1, “Jack & Diane” (Mellencamp claims a writing credit on Owen’s hit), is Owen’s seventh Country Airplay No. 1 among nine top 10s. He first ruled with “Barefoot Blue Jean Night” for two weeks in September 2011 and last led with “American Country Love Song” in September 2016. Luke Bryan achieves his 26th Country Airplay top 10 and his 25th consecutive top 10 promoted single as “Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset” darts 13-10 (26.3 million, up 13 percent). Starting with Bryan’s second Country Airplay top 10 (“Country…

Anuel AA Tops Latin Albums, Again Puerto Rican trap singer Anuel AA (above) spends his second week at No. 1 on Top Latin Albums with his debut, Real Hasta la Muerte, following its first full week of tracking. The set debuted at No. 1 on the July 28 list after an abbreviated release week (ending July 19), as it arrived July 17 — the same day he was released from prison. The LP holds at No. 1 with 13,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending July 26 (up 10 percent), according to Nielsen Music. That sum is the fourth-largest week for a Latin album in 2018. Anuel AA also holds four slots on Hot Latin Songs, led by “Brindemos,” featuring Ozuna (No 19). Elsewhere on Hot Latin…

From homeless to headlining the Hollywood Bowl: That’s what Charlie Wilson will no doubt be thinking as he steps onstage the weekend of Aug. 3-4 backed by the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. Wilson’s two-night stand at the famed venue is the latest salvo in manager Michael Paran’s long-term game plan to rebrand the 65-year-old former Gap Band frontman as a solo headliner. In fact, Paran and Wilson’s agent at ICM Partners, partner/head of music Mark Siegel, along with AEG, pulled another coup in July, when Wilson performed for the first time on the Hyde Park festival’s main stage in London on a bill that also had Bruno Mars and DNCE. “Charlie lit the place up so hard that it was like seeing Bruno before Bruno performed,” recalls Paran. “We…

WHEN YG BEGAN DRAWING UP A BLUEPRINT FOR Stay Dangerous, his third studio album and one of the summer’s standout hip-hop releases, one thing was nonnegotiable: DJ Mustard, his old friend and co-architect of raunchy West Coast rap, had to be behind the boards. It was a welcome reunion for the duo, who mined magic collaborating on YG’s 2014 debut, My Krazy Life, which bowed at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. But success also bred acrimony, and not a single Mustard beat made it onto YG’s 2016 follow-up, Still Brazy. “We was on our ‘fuck you’ shit; we ain’t work for two years straight,” says the 28-year-old Compton, Calif., native (born Keenon Daequan Ray Jackson), reclining on a snow-white sofa in the living room of his home outside…

Three years ago, producer Taz Taylor started collaborating with friends he had met online. “I was like, ‘Let’s build something to take over the internet.’ That was the first goal,” says the 25-year-old. He didn’t take over the web, but he did form his own label, Internet Money, and the group of beatmakers is dominating music-streaming services, producing hits in 2018 for artists like Juice WRLD, Rich the Kid and the late XXXTentacion. Fronted by Jacksonville, Fla., native Taylor and Virginia-bred Nick Mira, 17, the collective’s 15 full-time members followed a familiar path to ubiquity, selling “type” beats — instrumentals in the styles of mainstream hip-hop artists — online to aspiring rappers. But they’ve surged past a sea of competitors, securing credits with Drake (Scorpion’s “Blue Tint,” a No.…

I STARTED WORK ON MONDAY, April 6, 1987, nine days before my twenty-fifth birthday. I got an office in the executive wing, near Atlantic president Doug Morris, vice chairman and CFO Sheldon Vogel, and of course, Atlantic founder/chairman Ahmet Ertegun. My official title was secretary to the chairman, or as Ahmet said it in his frog-croak voice, “sec-a-tary.” My office was in the middle of the hallway leading to the executive wing, making me an easy target. One executive walked past my office every day and said, “Blow me.” I hadn’t even met him. I was also across the hall from the head of A&R, Tunc Erim, the most vulgar, disgusting man of the bunch. He called everyone a cocksucker or a cunt, and he grabbed my ass constantly.…

Eilish Dons Chart ‘Crown’ Billie Eilish (above) ascends 7-1 on the Emerging Artists chart as the 16-year-old’s “You Should See Me in a Crown” debuts at No. 93 on the Billboard Hot 100, where she earns her second entry. In June, “Lovely,” with Khalid, peaked at No. 78. On the Billboard 200, debut set Don’t Smile at Me (which does not include “Crown”) spends its second week in the top 40 (at No. 40, with 13,000 equivalent album units, up 6 percent, according to Nielsen Music). Plus, The Internet debuts at No. 4 on Emerging Artists as the Syd-fronted R&B/soul group’s fourth LP, Hive Mind, opens at No. 2 on Top R&B Albums and No. 26 on the Billboard 200 (16,000 units). —Xander Zellner CHART BEAT DRAKE’S ‘PEAK’…

One Direction Turns 8 As fans of One Direction (below) celebrated the eighth anniversary of the boy band’s inception on July 23, all current members of the group — as well as the act itself — rise on the latest Social 50 chart. Leading the foursome on the chart is newly minted X Factor judge Louis Tomlinson at No. 3, while One Direction shoots 45-2 thanks to 2.8 million reactions and 1.2 million Twitter mentions in the week ending July 26, according to Next Big Sound. “Where has the time gone!?” tweeted Tomlinson. “Thank you so much to every single person who’s ever supported us. Big love!” He added later, joking, “And remember, if it’s by One Direction and it’s a banger, I probably wrote on it.” Tomlinson leaps…

Dragons Take Top Four For the first time, the top four positions of the Hot Rock Songs chart are occupied by the same artist. Imagine Dragons (above) rank at Nos. 1-4 as new single “Natural” surges 13-4 following its first full week of tracking. It follows “Thunder,” which returns to No. 1 for a 22nd week, “Whatever It Takes” (which spent 17 weeks at No. 1) and “Believer” (29). Previously, the Las Vegas-based rockers had infused the chart’s top three in 15 weeks, joined in that distinction by twenty one pilots (five such weeks). “Natural,” released as the anthem for ESPN’s college football coverage for the 2018-19 season, concurrently rules Rock Digital Song Sales and Alternative Digital Song Sales, marking the band’s seventh leader on each chart, with 36,000…

Hawthorne Extends Reign “Won’t He Do It” by Koryn Hawthorne (above) stretches its run atop Hot Gospel Songs (which combines airplay, streaming and sales data) to 20 weeks. “Won’t” retains the No. 1 spot as it leads Gospel Digital Song Sales for a 13th week and Gospel Airplay for a 12th frame. The track first reached the Hot Gospel Songs apex on March 3, becoming Hawthorne’s second No. 1. A finalist on the eighth season of NBC’s The Voice, she first led with “How Great Thou Art,” which she performed on the show in 2015. “Won’t” ties Jamie Grace’s debut hit, “Beautiful Day,” which dominated for 20 weeks in 2014 as the third-longest-leading Hot Gospel Songs No. 1 by a woman. Tamela Mann boasts the top two such hits:…

Stones Roll Away With $237.8M The close of the second European leg of The Rolling Stones’ No Filter Tour finds the band (above) with 14 more sellouts to its credit, which was every show of its jaunt from May to July, according to tour data reported to Billboard. The rock band scores 13 of Boxscore’s 35 positions thanks to the shows, which were led by a two-date stint at London Stadium on May 22 and 25 that brought in $20,496,697 among 137,475 tickets sold. In all, No Filter’s second European leg, which kicked off May 17 at Dublin’s Croke Park and concluded at PGE Narodowy in Warsaw, Poland, on July 8, grossed $117,844,618 over 750,874 tickets sold. That’s coupled with another 14-date set (Sept. 9-Oct. 25, 2017) on the…