Innholdsfortegnelse for 8/6/2016 i Billboard Magazine

Panorama Festival NEW YORK, JULY 22 – 24 SANDWICHED BETWEEN THE END OF the Republican National Convention and the beginning of the Democratic National Convention, political undercurrents ran steady at the inaugural Panorama Festival (presented by Coachella producer Goldenvoice as well as The Verge) in New York. SZA, Run the Jewels and Kendrick Lamar all touched on the current state of affairs, with Lamar using massive LED screens to play footage of presidents George Bush and Barack Obama as he ran through his politically charged catalog. And then there was Friday-night headliner Arcade Fire. Frontman Win Butler, who was vocal in his vitriol for the Republican presidential nominee, yelled: “Donald Trump will f—ing never, ever be the president of the f—ing United States of America!” before declaring, “Black lives matter!”…

Kassidy Cook SPORT Diving AGE 21 HOMETOWN The Woodlands, Texas ARTIST WHO WOULD MAKE A GREAT TEAMMATE Taylor Swift. Who wouldn’t want to be in her squad? ARTIST I’D MOST WANT TO COMPETE AGAINST Kanye West. He has a very arrogant demeanor — it would be cool to show him who’s boss (insert sunglasses emoji). SONG THAT DEFINES MY CAREER “Lose Yourself” by Eminem. He talks about succeeding despite all obstacles. Over the last four years I’ve endured many injuries that threatened to end my career, but I never gave up because I had a goal in my mind — to compete in and win the Olympics. Charlie Buckingham SPORT Sailing AGE 27 HOMETOWN Newport Beach, Calif. ARTIST I’D MOST WANT TO COMPETE AGAINST Bono, for putting his music on…

“I don’t want to see you catching any Pokemons up in this bitch.” —RIHANNA The chart-topper to fans at her concert in Lille, France, telling them to put away their phones during her Anti World Tour. “ ‘And they both lived happily ever after.’ I’d like to find the person who wrote that and poke him in the eye with a burning stick.” —OZZY OSBOURNE The rocker explaining that his marriage to Sharon Osbourne is “back on track” in an interview with Good Morning America. “Knowing them, it’s probably a big master plan. They’ll probably all come together at the MTV Awards or something.” —FERGIE The star sharing her theory about Kanye West and Taylor Swift’s current dispute during an interview with Australia’s KIIS radio station. “He had the nerve…

1956 Patsy Cline’s rendition of “Walkin’ After Midnight” on Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts was so well received she quickly recorded the song, which became her first radio hit. 1967-1974 Dolly Parton made her name on The Porter Wagoner Show, turning out hits with the host until breaking away to focus on her own career. She wrote “I Will Always Love You” about him. 1967 Lynn Anderson was a regular on The Lawrence Welk Show before releasing her hit version of Joe South’s song “(I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden” in 1970. 1969-1972 Glen Campbell had hits before and after The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, but the variety show, with guests like Johnny Cash and Cher (left), helped bring him to the peak of his fame. 1990 Six years before…

IT FELT LIKE SOMEONE GIVING YOU A WARM hug” is how Martina McBride describes first stepping into the six-bedroom, neoclassical-style home just five miles from downtown Nashville, which she purchased 16 years ago. “I knew our family had to live here,” she says, even though it meant the four-time Country Music Association award winner and her husband, production manager John McBride, had to borrow money to afford — and make livable — the home that was built in 1917. “We gutted it. But each time I walked into this house after being on the road, I knew I was working toward something.” Today, the 13,000-square-foot property welcomes guests with the scent of sandalwood-infused candles and the echoes of an outdoor waterfall. Perched on an oversized linen couch in the family…

BANKRUPT DANCE MUSIC promoter SFX Entertainment has a plan to move forward — with veteran concert-business executive Randy Phillips at the helm. Phillips, the former CEO of entertainment giant AEG Live and the man behind Michael Jackson’s ill-fated plan to play 50 shows at the O2 in London in 2009 (later chronicled in the This Is It documentary), has been offered the CEO job and plans to accept it, according to a source close to the situation. The salary is in the $2 million range. public in October 2013 with a value of more than $1 billion and entered Chapter 11 in February, filed a restructuring plan to emerge from bankruptcy. For the past two months Phillips has worked for SFX as a consultant on the reorganization, Billboard has learned.…

ON A HOT SUMMER MORNING IN DOWNTOWN NASHVILLE,SIX YOUNG COUNTRYstandouts take seats around a table, making small talk while awaiting instructions from a surrounding film cew. “Pretend like we’re not here,” urges a producer. “Yeah, it sure feels intimate,” deadpans singer-songwriter Margo Price, 33, drawing knowing laughter from the fie other women who also have tiny microphones inside their dresses. Once the tape rolls, they’re anything but timid, though, as they freely discuss the highly competitive, male-dominated industry in which they live and work. A lot has changed in the two decades since divas like Shania Twain, Faith Hill and Martina McBride filled the anks of country’s leading hitmakers. In May 2015, a radio consultant publicly advised country programmers not to play too many female artists if they wanted to…

GARTH BROOKS ARGUABLY was the biggest solo artist on the planet when, in October 2000, he announced that he would retire to Oklahoma until the youngest of his three daughters graduated high school. Though he periodically emerged for brief, sold-out runs at arenas and, from 2009 to 2013, played a 186-show acoustic Las Vegas residency with his wife, the country star Trisha Yearwood, Brooks remained out of the public eye. When the couple’s daughter Allie opted to attend Belmont University in Nashville, Brooks, 54, moved back and reassembled his touring team as promised. Since launching in September 2014, Brooks’ world tour has moved an estimated 4.5 million tickets (Brooks doesn’t report his touring data), playing as many as 11 shows, often two in one day, in 48 North American cities…

NOSTALGIA FOR THE 1950S RULED THE summer of 1978 when the soundtrack album to Grease, a movie musical set 20 years earlier, topped the Billboard 200 chart dated July 29 and spent a total of 12 weeks at No. 1. “There’s something magical [about Grease]. It’s contagious,” says Olivia Newton-John, who was 29 when she played Sandy, the sweet and pure cheerleader whose teen romance with bad boy Danny Zuko (John Travolta, then 24) during their senior year at Rydell High in the late ’50s is at the center of the story. The musical, which originated as a Chicago theater (and later, Broadway) production, also followed the exploits of the couple’s colorful friends, such as bad girl Rizzo (Stockard Channing), and Newton-John says that the movie “hit a chord” with…

STREAMING SERVICES LIKE SPOTIFY AND Pandora steadily have increased their visibility — and marketing spends — in recent years, but as Apple Music and now YouTube have joined the competition for subscribers, the battleground has moved to Madison Avenue. What began with Apple’s Super Bowl-sized spot with Taylor Swift falling off a treadmill to Drake and Future’s “Jumpman” in April has become a bona fide blitz: In the past month, YouTube Music aired its first TV commercials, Spotify decorated several New York subway lines, and Apple Music — the heavyweight in the advertising stakes — rolled out its latest viral clip with DJ Khaled and Goodfellas star Ray Liotta getting pedicures while talking up the service. Add a series of TV and digital spots from Pandora earlier this year, and…

“IT’S A STUPID SONG,” BLAKE SHELTON says with a shrug. “I know that.” He’s finished singing “Boys ’Round Here,” his magnificently stupid 2013 hit, in the middle of a surprise set at a Nashville club one lunch hour in early June. During the annual Country Music Association Music Festival, about 150 people had crammed into The Stage, a bar on lower Broadway in Nashville, enjoying the AC and a cover band, when Shelton walked in the back door. He’s 6 feet 5 inches tall, so it was hard to miss him. Amid whoops and selfies, he commandeered the stage. For about an hour, Shelton — country singer, star of The Voice and brand ambassador for HAVIN’ A DAMN GOOD TIME — plays unplugged, relying on the qualities that distinguish him…

Little Big Town A new album is expected this year from the quartet, whose massive 2015 hit “Girl Crush” led Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart for 13 weeks, a record for a song by a group of three or more members. To date, the track has sold 2.2 million downloads. Luke Bryan Kill the Lights, his fifth fulllength studio set, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, as well as Top Country Albums, where it ranked at No. 1 for eight weeks. It is his fourth album to sell more than 1 million copies. Keith Urban Urban has notched a record 36 consecutive top 10 singles on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart. Mike Dungan “It is nice to be No. 1,” says the outspoken chairman/CEO of Universal Music Group Nashville,…

FOR THE FIRST TIME, BILLBOARD HAS compiled extensive chart recaps of country music, ranking the genre’s top artists, songs and albums during the past six decades (see chart methodology, opposite page). Given his longtime “King George” sobriquet, it should come as no surprise that the No. 1 country artist of all time is George Strait. The legend has earned a record 44 No. 1 titles on the Hot Country Songs chart (which launched as an all-encompassing genre songs ranking on Oct. 20, 1958), from 1982’s “Fool Hearted Memory” to 2009’s “River of Love.” Strait likewise has logged an unprecedented 26 No. 1 entries on Top Country Albums (which began on Jan. 11, 1964), from Right or Wrong in 1984 to 2015’s Cold Beer Conversation. The Hot Country Songs chart’s all-time…