Innholdsfortegnelse for November 3, 2018 i Billboard Magazine

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN over 16 years, a song from the Spider-Man film franchise hits the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, as Post Malone and Swae Lee debut at No. 9 with “Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse).” The collaboration ensnared listeners on the web in its first full tracking week, entering Digital Song Sales at No. 6 with 24,000 downloads sold and Streaming Songs at No. 8 with 24.2 million U.S. streams. It also drew 13.2 million in radio airplay audience, according to Nielsen Music. Post Malone collects his fifth Hot 100 top 10 — and fourth to debut in the region — while Lee scores his second as a solo act, following French Montana’s “Unforgettable” (on which he’s featured), which hit No. 3 in August…

Kesha “Our generation can force our government to focus this country back toward the principles it was founded upon: equality and freedom for all.” Dan Reynolds “If I want a progressive, safe future, I must vote. Otherwise, my words on Twitter, Facebook and the stage are meaningless.” Brandi Carlile “I have a family exclusively comprising women, LGBTQ people, one immigrant and two little girls.” Bethany Cosentino “I want to protect the rights of my body and the bodies of all women.”…

On Oct. 26, the first major crop of Christmas releases arrived, from John Legend, Gwen Stefani and Pentatonix. But with the holiday itself over two months away, what’s the rush? “The straight answer is the physical market,” says John Fleckenstein, co-president of RCA Records, Pentatonix’s label. “Christmas albums tend to be multigenerational, and thus, they skew very heavily on the physical side.” He explains that in the United States, stores like Target and Walmart start holiday in-store marketing and positioning around Nov. 1, “so anybody who’s going for a broad-base national play with their album will need to get a physical version into stores by the end of October.” Pentatonix’s previous Christmas release, 2017’s A Pentatonix Christmas, hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200, and now, according to industry…

Eilish Gets The Party Started Billie Eilish jumps 8-2 on Emerging Artists as her new single, “When the Party’s Over,” debuts at No. 65 — a new personal-best rank — on the Billboard Hot 100. Eilish, 16, also hits a new high on the Alternative airplay chart, as “You Should See Me in a Crown” ascends 13-12. BTS member RM re-enters Emerging Artists at No. 1 to become the week’s top emerging artist for the first time, as his sophomore solo mixtape, mono., arrives at No. 2 on World Albums and No. 26 on the Billboard 200 (21,000 equivalent album units, according to Nielsen Music). Plus, Summer Walker debuts at No. 31 on Emerging Artists, as her debut LP, Last Day of Summer, opens at No. 6 on Top…

Aoki & BTS Reteam Steve Aoki (below) returns to the top 10 of the Social 50 thanks to his latest collaboration with BTS, “Waste It On Me.” Aoki, who ranked at No. 2 last December following the release of his remix of the K-pop boy band’s “Mic Drop,” re-enters at No. 8. He resurfaces on the tally with 287,000 reactions and 243,000 Twitter mentions in the week ending Oct. 25, according to Next Big Sound. The release of “Waste,” which features BTS on its first all-English-language song, generated the social buzz. Aoki met up with fans in Los Angeles promoting the single on Oct. 24 and posted photos and videos from the meetup. Lauren Jauregui also re-enters the Social 50 thanks to a new single. The Fifth Harmony member…

Disturbed Drives To No. 1 Disturbed (above) debuts atop Alternative Albums as Evolution, the band’s seventh studio set, bows as its fourth No. 1 on the list with 71,000 equivalent units earned, according to Nielsen Music. Each LP of new Disturbed material has debuted at No. 1 since 2008, beginning with Indestructible. The new album’s lead single, “Are You Ready,” rules the Mainstream Rock airplay chart for a sixth week. Greta Van Fleet, meanwhile, debuts at No. 1 on Top Rock Albums and Hard Rock Albums with its debut full-length, Anthem of the Peaceful Army (87,000 units), the Michigan band’s first title to lead the former chart and second to rule the latter. The group’s eight-song EP, From the Fires, topped Hard Rock Albums on Dec. 2, 2017. Greta…

Casting Crowns Climbs Casting Crowns (above) moves into the lead for the most top 10s among groups (of three or more members) in the 15-year history of the Hot Christian Songs and Christian Airplay charts as “Only Jesus” hops 13-9 on the former and 11-9 on the latter — increasing by 16 percent to 6.4 million radio audience impressions in the week ending Oct. 28, according to Nielsen Music. On the airplay, streaming and sales-based Hot Christian Songs, “Jesus” — the title track to Casting Crowns’ upcoming studio LP — is the act’s 26th top 10, one more than MercyMe’s sum for the most among groups. On Christian Airplay, Casting Crowns adds its 25th top 10, one-upping MercyMe (24) for the same honor. Among all artists, Chris Tomlin leads…

KANE BROWN’S MODEST SUITE HERE AT THE DOWNTOWN Los Angeles Westin is quiet but for the buzz of clippers currently freshening up the country sensation’s fade. It’s the night of the American Music Awards (AMAs), and Brown, nominated in three categories, sits nervously at a desk while CT, his barber, scuffs around on the beige carpet in a pair of Gucci slides. Brown’s manager Martha Earls swipes glasses from the bathroom for a champagne toast while his stylist smooths out a purple tie-dye jacket. There’s some debate over whether Brown should wear a hat on the red carpet. The man himself is in favor — “I just want to feel like me,” he says — but Earls carries the day when she suggests it’s better to “show off the…

As a teenager in Medellín, Colombia, Karol G saw her city’s flourishing music scene and imagined that she, an aspiring singer, would find an easy way to its top. “At the time, there weren’t many women. And I thought, ‘I’ve got a clear path. I have no competition,’” she says on the phone from Miami. “Then, when I started working, I realized why there weren’t more women.” Even as Medellín transformed into Latin America’s reggaetón capital, there were “zero opportunities” for females in the urban genre, where, says Karol G, the explicit lyrics, machismo and stereotyping of women made it impossible to break in. Mexican-American singer Becky G understands those obstacles well. “What Karol goes through is very similar to what I go through,” she says on the same…

WHEN THE NFL announced that Super Bowl LIII would take place Feb. 3, 2019, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, music fans and artists created wish lists of halftime performers who could spotlight the city’s rich musical history. Bruno Mars called for a set that included OutKast, T.I., Gucci Mane, Lil Jon, Jeezy and Jermaine Dupri. “It would be the best party TV has ever seen,” Mars tweeted to the NFL, telling the league that it had an “opportunity to celebrate incredible hip-hop [artists] from Atlanta.” The NFL ended up choosing Maroon 5 for the performance, but Atlanta isn’t wasting time complaining about a non-hip-hop headliner. Its music industry leaders are instead determined to showcase — off the field — the business and creative strengths of Georgia and its capital…

Star Shines For Third Week At No. 1 Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born soundtrack holds steady at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for a third week, earning 109,000 equivalent album units (down 24 percent) in the week ending Oct. 25, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 61,000 were in traditional album sales (down 30 percent). A Star Is Born is the first soundtrack to spend its first three weeks at No. 1 in over 10 years. The last title to do so was the soundtrack to the Disney Channel TV movie High School Musical 2, which ruled for its first four weeks (Sept. 1-22, 2007). The last theatrical film soundtrack like A Star Is Born to score its first three weeks at No.…

AIRPLAY DATA COMPILED BY 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,…

Scott’s ‘Mode’ Moves To No. 1 Travis Scott (above) replaces himself at No. 1 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs as “Sicko Mode” darts 4-1 to dethrone Kodak Black’s “ZEZE” (featuring Scott and Offset). The move is the chart’s second self-replacement at No. 1 in 2018 after Drake did it twice. “Mode” ascends following the Oct. 19 arrival of its official music video, which helps the tune climb to No. 2 on R&B/Hip-Hop Streaming Songs with 38.5 million U.S. clicks in the week ending Oct. 25, according to Nielsen Music, a 41 percent gain. The track also advances to the runner-up spot on R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay as it registers a 21 percent surge to 28.6 million in audience in the week ending Oct. 28. Plus, Future and Juice WRLD ring in a…

Major Chart Feat Major Lazer (above) enters Top Dance/Electronic Albums at No. 3 with the hits package Major Lazer Essentials, starting with 5,000 equivalent album units, according to Nielsen Music. The act adds its sixth top 10, dating back to Guns Don’t Kill People… Lazers Do (No. 7, 2009). The Diplo-fronted threesome has earned two No. 1s: Free the Universe (May 2013) and Peace Is the Mission (July 2015). Concurrently, new Essentials song “Blow That Smoke” (featuring Tove Lo) bows at No. 21 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, arriving with 1.1 million U.S. streams and 4,000 downloads sold. Elsewhere on that chart, Steve Aoki makes his 20th showing (at No. 11) with “Waste It on Me,” featuring BTS, which earns its first. The collaboration, from Aoki’s Neon Future III (due…

For the fourth quarter in a row, Sony/ATV Music Publishing is No. 1 in Billboard’s publisher rankings of the top 100 radio songs during the third quarter of 2018. The company placed 57 titles in the top 100, down one from the 58 it had in the second quarter. It also held a share in the quarter’s top song, Maroon 5’s “Girls Like You,” as did Kobalt Music Group, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner/Chappell Music, BMG and Pulse Music. Kobalt retained the No. 2 spot for a second quarter in a row, placing 36 songs in the top 100 (17.53 percent), down from the share of 40 tracks (19.06 percent) that it had in the previous quarter. UMPG held on to No. 3, with a share in 53 of…

MIA NYGREN HAS A CLEAR mandate: “I’m responsible for the monthly active users we have in the Latin American region and how fast we grow,” she says with her trademark no-nonsense style. It’s no small task: 21 percent of Spotify’s 180 million global users are Latin American, a number that doesn’t include U.S. Latin users or users in Spain. And the video-obsessed market has presented Nygren, 45, with an array of unique challenges, from figuring out how to price streaming subscriptions in high-inflation economies to finding ways for the region’s “unbanked” population — those without bank accounts — to subscribe without a credit card. (See page 58 for more.) So far, so good. “Latin America is outpacing the growth of all other regions in the world,” says the Swede,…

TEDDY GEIGER’S EYELIDS FLUTTER AS SHE repeats the phrase, “My mother makes marvelous meals.” Here at a Vietnamese restaurant in Los Angeles’ Silver Lake neighborhood, she’s deep inside herself, trying to decipher which octave feels most comfortable, most true to who she is. After hovering in a helium-high range, she lets her voice drop into a lower, but still fem, register. “If I let it settle here, this feels pretty natural,” she decides, taking a long sip of her iced tea. Constantly monitoring the femininity of her voice, she notes, is “a real pain in the ass.” Geiger, who was marketed as a teen heartthrob in the mid-2000s, presents differently these days. It has been a little over a year since she revealed to her fans that she was…

Tove Lo soundtracked dancefloor debauchery and heartbreak on the club-ready Blue Lips in 2017. On Oct. 19, she turned the album into a short film of the same name that follows two friends on a party-fueled road trip. For the 31-year-old singer, that journey doesn’t have an end in sight as she works on her fourth LP. Even when she has rare downtime at home, a few items help her keep the celebration going. … her kitchen “I always have champagne in the fridge because there’s always a reason to celebrate. Either this organic one called Bellissima, or Veuve [Clicquot].” …in her makeup drawer “Glitter jars. I’m not great at doing my own makeup, so it’s a good savior when I can just throw that over my…

At the start of this year, the Latin music world faced a reckoning. Reggaetón and urban had, over the previous few years, helped take Latin mainstream in the United States, but there were few women among the genre’s new stars. In 2015, only three female artists ranked in the top 50 of Billboard’s year-end Hot Latin Artists chart; in both 2016 and 2017, there were four. “There were always obstacles when you went to radio,” says Mayna Nevarez, whose PR/marketing firm clients include Daddy Yankee and Natti Natasha. “There was an ongoing rhetoric: that women couldn’t be too sexy, that they didn’t sell, that they were divas and complicated.” But during the past year, a change has come over the Latin landscape. All three major labels have made a…

Movie Tunes Score Queen’s soundtrack to its biopic Bohemian Rhapsody and the score to the new Halloween movie arrive on the charts, while Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again gets a home-video boost. Queen collects its 17th top 40 album on the Billboard 200 as Rhapsody bows at No. 22 with 24,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Oct. 25, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 12,000 were in traditional album sales. The companion album to the film of the same name (out Nov. 2) collects familiar highlights from Queen’s career, including a handful of tracks from the band’s performance at Live Aid in 1985 — the first time the recordings have been released in audio form. Meanwhile, the score soundtrack from Halloween scares up a…

Banner Year For Fresh Faces Mitchell Tenpenny (above) earns his first Country Airplay top 10 as “Drunk Me” ascends 11-9 (24.8 million in audience, up 11 percent, according to Nielsen Music). Tenpenny becomes the eighth artist in 2018 to reach the top 10 of the chart in a first visit. How rookie-friendly has the survey been in 2018, compared with the same period (Jan. 1 through the first week of November) one, five and 10 years ago? 2018 easily tops the others, with five artists reaching the top 10 with maiden entries in 2017, two in 2013 and three in 2008. Before Tenpenny, the seven artists to reach the Country Airplay top 10 in 2018 during their first visits were (in chronological order) Devin Dawson (“All on Me”), Jordan…

Fonsi & Ozuna Arrive Luis Fonsi (above right) scores his 20th top 20 hit on the Hot Latin Songs chart as his new collaboration with Ozuna, “Imposible,” arrives at No. 11. The track, which arrived Oct. 19, launches with 5,000 downloads sold (a No. 3 debut on Latin Digital Song Sales) and 2.5 million streams earned in the week ending Oct. 25, according to Nielsen Music. The tune logged 6 million in Latin radio audience in the week ending Oct. 28, bowing at No. 22 on the Latin Airplay chart. “Imposible” is Fonsi’s 33rd charting song on Hot Latin Songs overall. Meanwhile, Silvestre Dangond and Natti Natasha top the Latin Airplay chart as “Justicia” jumps 5-1 (up 38 percent in audience, to 13.5 million). It’s the second No. 1…

Pearl Jam Hits A Boxscore Homer Pearl Jam (fronted by Eddie Vedder, above) leads the Boxscore chart by raking in $7.1 million at Chicago’s Wrigley Field (Aug. 20) and $6.7 million at Boston’s Fenway Park (Sept. 4), according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore. The grosses are accompanied by mammoth single-show attendance tallies, as the band sold 71,694 tickets in Boston and 83,100 in Chicago. It marks the first time that Pearl Jam has topped Boxscore since its 2016 two-show stint at Madison Square Garden in New York and the first time an act has taken the top two spots since Beyoncé and Jay-Z did so on Aug. 11, 2018. In addition to its two baseball stadium blowouts, Pearl Jam’s Aug. 13 performance at the Washington-Grizzly Stadium in Missoula,…

IN 1993, MEAT LOAF WAS HUNGRY FOR A taste of the success he had enjoyed in the late 1970s when his debut studio album, Bat Out of Hell, scored three top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 — including the epic “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” — and spent six months in the top 40 of the Billboard 200 in 1978. In the wake of Bat Out of Hell’s phenomenal success — the album would go on to be certified 14 times platinum by the RIAA — Meat Loaf (real name: Michael Lee Aday) released three LPs in the ’80s that didn’t produce a single top 40 Hot 100 track. Over 15 years would pass before his fortunes would change. Financial and legal squabbles had resulted in Meat…