Innholdsfortegnelse for 8/20/2016 i Billboard Magazine

SALES, AIRPLAY & STREAMING DATA COMPILED BY The week’s most popular current songs across all genres, ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen Music, sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music and streaming activity data by online music sources tracked by Nielsen Music. Songs are defined as current if they are newly-released titles, or songs receiving widespread airplay and/or sales activity for the first time. See Charts Legend on billboard.com/biz for complete rules and explanations. © 2016, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved. CHAINSMOKERS: SARA JAYE WEISS/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK. HALSEY: ROB GRABOWSKI/INVISION/AP. EDM DUO THE Chainsmokers — Andrew Taggart and Alex Pall — roars onto the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Aug. 20) at No. 9 with “Closer,” featuring Halsey, and enters atop the Digital…

AFEW WEEKS BEFORE THE DEBUT of Netflix’s new Baz Luhrmannhelmed hip-hop odyssey, The Get Down, the show’s young stars are feeling a little antsy. In a production office — part of a network of redbrick factory buildings in Queens where much of the show is shot — Shameik Moore (age 21, best known for his starring role in 2015 cult-fave Dope) and Jaden Smith (18, son of Will and Jada, actor, fashion designer, author of spirited tweets) spontaneously drop to the floor and bust out a series of push-ups — a ritual between the two. Justice Smith (unrelated to Jaden), age 20, and Herizen F. Guardiola, 18, the show’s male and female leads, roll their eyes and laugh. “How we all relate to each other in the show is pretty…

Vintage-clothing guru Bob Melet, 49, spent his formative years scouring St. Mark’s Place in Manhattan for hard-to-find punk-rock T-shirts with his older brother. That early thrill of the hunt led to a lifetime of serious finds for the man behind Melet Mercantile, downtown New York’s appointment-only emporium of fashion artifacts that have been marveled over by everyone from Kanye West to Karen Elson. What genres will be most valuable in coming years? If you have an original Bob Marley or Peter Tosh T-shirt from the early 1980s, before Bob died, that would be worth a lot. The Rolling Stones’ iconic tour T-shirt with the tongue is very valuable. Things from the ’90s as well: Nirvana and Courtney Love command a lot of money right now, and they’re 25 years old…

No. 8 BILLBOARD 200 DEBUT Coloring Book is the first-ever streaming-only album to chart on the Billboard 200, with 57.3 million first-week streams (38,000 equivalent album units), according to Nielsen Music. 338 M STREAMS Total on-demand U.S. audio streams of Coloring Book, including Apple Music and Spotify. That’s 226,000 equivalent album units. $2.13 M STREAMING GROSS Potential gross revenue generated during roughly three months by the 338 million total streams of Coloring Book, as estimated by Billboard. 47, 609 TICKETS The previous U.S. Cellular Field attendance record — which was broken by Chance’s Magnificent Coloring Day Festival, with 50,000-plus tickets sold. $3.8 M FESTIVAL GROSS Estimated gross ticket sales for the Magnificent Coloring Day Festival. More seats were made available to meet demand after the first round sold out. 32…

for as long as musicians have signed contracts with record labels, there have been those who have loudly protested the perceived injustice and imbalance of what’s known as a personalservices agreement. But not since Prince scrawled “Slave” on his cheek has an artist generated the level and intensity of attention that pop star Kesha Rose Sebert did when she sued her producer, Lukasz “Dr. Luke” Gottwald, and record company, Sony Music, in 2014, to be released from her contract. This was no mere financial or philosophical disagreement: Kesha’s legal action was predicated on the accusation that Luke was both sexually and emotionally abusive for the duration of their decadelong creative partnership (a charge that Luke denies). Celebrities from Lady Gaga to Adele to Lena Dunham vigorously supported Kesha on social…

T here’s a reason why Maren Morris’ Hero — the critical and commercial country-pop breakthrough of 2016 — sounds the way it does: artfully exposed, rhythmically supple and breezily, powerfully hooky. The first Top Country Albums No. 1 debut from a rookie since Sam Hunt’s 2014 release Montevallo, the 11-song LP has the unmistakable genre-blending feel of Busbee, 40, a California-based writer-producer who has co-authored major singles for Pink, EDM wunderkind Martin Garrix and pop-punk band 5 Seconds of Summer. “We love commercial music,” says Busbee (whose first name is Mike, though he just goes by his last name) from his Pasadena home about his collaboration with Morris, which includes the coolly irreverent anthem “My Church” (a Hot Country Songs No. 5 hit). “We were just trying to make a…

sia is simply incredible, like no one I’ve ever met. I first became familiar with her when she sent me her demo for [my 2013 single, which she co-wrote] “Loved Me Back to Life.” My son RC — he’s much cooler than I am and teaches me what music I should listen to — couldn’t believe that Sia wrote a song for me. He’s a huge fan, too. I not only fell in love with the song and the words, but also with Sia’s absolutely beautiful voice: It’s so powerful — like nothing I had ever heard. I listened to the demo 20 times in a row that day because her words spoke to me and I just couldn’t get enough of her voice. One of the first times I…

Touré Why is Kanye so disruptive? My initial answer is Kanye believes in himself. Immensely. This began when he was a child: His mother once told me she worshipped the ground he walked on. I met her circa his first album [2004’s The College Dropout] when, to me, he seemed massively entitled, a level of entitlement I had never seen in a black kid — I had only seen it in white boys who had grown up with money. You think Kanye loves Kanye? Dr. West loved him more. Kanye is not powered by external validation; he validates himself. I saw the same thing in Prince. Joy Reid I agree Kanye’s disruptiveness stems from an overwhelming self-belief. He takes hip-hop swagger and braggadocio to another level, basing it on his…

Anthony Saleh, 30, is the rare artist manager (he represents Future, Alina Baraz and Nas) who also is known as a savvy investor. “I want to make sure I don’t come off as a business manager,” says the Beverly Hills resident, who is quick to credit those who do guide the finances for his acts. Saleh, a protege of Atom Factory’s Troy Carter, has teamed with Nas to run Queensbridge Venture Partners with some $15 million under management and a piece of rising companies including Dropbox, Lyft and MakeSpace. The fund’s expected internal rate of return: 25 to 30 percent.…

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Crow Is Cancer-Free And Very Busy Sheryl Crow’s next album will have some heavy hitters on it. The rocker, 54, appeared in downtown Los Angeles on Aug. 5 at the BlogHer16 conference, where she told the crowd that after being treated for breast cancer in 2006, she has been free of the disease for 10 years. Crow, who last released an album in 2013, also told Overheard that she is in the process of recording a new album at her home studio in Nashville that is “inspired by the people who have inspired me since I was a kid.” Among the guest stars: “Stevie Nicks, who is a dear friend,” and “Keith Richards, who is an inspired and amazing human being.” Crow expects the record to be out next spring.…

Daniel Glass Founder/president, Glassnote Entertainment Group The Shirt And Show PHOENIX, MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK, 2010 “[The tee] is iconic. I get nervous each time I wash it. I had goose bumps and tears during the encore when the band played with Daft Punk.” Emma Quigley Head of music, PepsiCo The Shirt And Show RADIOHEAD, MSG, 2003 “I bought it during the Hail to the Thief Tour. The shirt looks like a piece of street art, but more importantly, that was one of the greatest shows I have ever been to.” Peter Kaden Director of media and artist relations, Def Jam The Shirt And Show KANYE WEST, MSG, 2005 “My favorite tee was the original G.O.O.D. Music T-shirt with the angel on it. I rocked this T-shirt…

You started with Chance in April 2012, right? His dad hit me up [after we met] and was like, “I think you should manage Chance.” I said, “I’d love to.” We all met up at Hooters, had some wings and were like, “Let’s do this.” And you started getting calls in June. Sylvia Rhone, who was starting a new label, was the first person to reach out. She offered us a deal, and we were so stoked. But my mentality was “We’re just learning about all this.” So we met with pretty much every major label and a few indies. We met with John Janick at Universal, L.A. Reid at Sony, Ashley [Newton] at Columbia; we met with Jody Gerson, who was running Sony/ATV at the time. As we went…

When Amazon in late 2014 released the Echo, a “smart speaker” powered by digital assistant software called Alexa, those who wanted one had to endure a waiting list and a $200 price tag — and what they received was a new class of device that is always listening. After some product missteps (you probably forgot about that phone), Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is again the ultimate disrupter, releasing a tectonic piece of home tech that removes physical interaction and encourages users to think more about “what” and less about “how,” which means more listening and less searching. The Echo not only promotes Amazon’s own Prime Music store, it also connects seamlessly to Spotify, Pandora, iHeartRadio and TuneIn, providing listeners an endless array of choices while their hands are otherwise occupied…

A major frustration of stadium-concert designers is that the crowd’s distance from the stage forces the audience to focus on side projection screens rather than the live action. For Beyoncé’s Formation World Tour, stage designer Esmeralda “Es” Devlin, 44, solved this problem with the “Monolith”: a towering video-screen centerpiece that stands nearly seven stories, takes four minutes to revolve completely and projects the stage action onto a glowing, 60-foot magnification. “It’s a kinetic, sculptural, 21st-century LED take on a stained glass window,” says Devlin, a London-based theater-set designer who first crossed into the popmusic space when Kanye West enlisted her for his 2005 Touch the Sky Tour. During the last decade, the Tony Award nominee has since devised four more West tours and elaborate roadshow scenes for Lady Gaga, U2,…

with 90 million users, Musical.ly’s social network is larger than the population in Germany. A free app that allows “musers” to upload 15-second lip-sync videos, the platform’s popularity has skyrocketed in the last six months, drawing 50 percent of American teens and reportedly helping the company raise $100 million. “Musical.ly allows everyone to be an entertainer,” cofounder Alex Zhu tells Billboard. It also, in theory, allows everyone to be a star. That’s the case with 13-year-old Jacob Sartorius, a tween-pop personality whose 8 million Musical.ly followers helped propel his debut single, “Sweatshirt,” to No. 58 on the Billboard Hot 100 this summer. Such momentum hasn’t escaped industry attention. In May, a campaign for Ariana Grande’s “Into You” yielded 150,000 lip-sync videos in one day. Acts like 5 Seconds of Summer…

EVERY MORNING, RIGHT AFTER breakfast, Tony Bennett practices his craft — not with sheet music and a microphone, but with a sketch pad and canvas. Bennett, one of the finest interpreters of the Great American Songbook, is also an accomplished artist, with three watercolors (of Central Park, Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald) hanging in galleries of the Smithsonian Institution. Both his art studio and his apartment, which he shares with Susan, his wife of nearly 10 years, overlook New York’s Central Park. Today, as it is many days, the park is his subject. “Nature always changes,” he says. “It just becomes different throughout the year, so it’s never the same.” Bennett, who turned 90 on Aug. 3, will have less time for painting in the months ahead, amid activities to…

Despite being a critical misfire, Warner Bros.’ Suicide Squad (Aug. 5) is a hit both at the box office and on the charts. Atlantic Records president of film and TV Kevin Weaver (Furious 7) explains bringing together big-leaguers (Skrillex) and buzzy artists (Kehlani, Action Bronson) for the soundtrack, which reached No. 1 in 15 countries. What is your first step in assembling an oversized soundtrack like this one? We dug deep with the director, David Ayer, and the crew right when they got back from shooting, identifying the sound of the movie and what its music needs were. Then we tried to align the artists we thought would be meaningful contributors. Why did you want so many big collaborations? It is a very laborious process, but being…

starring CHANCE THE RAPPER The Crusader plus MELANIE MARTINEZ KESHA AMAZON ECHO BUSBEE TUMA BASA ES DEVLIN DEV HYNES SIA MUSICAL.LY IRVING AZOFF KANYE WEST Holed up at a recording studio in Chicago’s Near North Side, Chancelor Bennett — the local phenomenon known as Chance the Rapper — is in wise-old-man mode. Chance, 23, holds a cigarette aloft in one hand, a pen in the other, his narrow shoulders hunched over a notebook. It’s late on a Saturday night in July, and he has been working for hours, writing a song he will perform as a tribute to Muhammad Ali during the finale of the ESPY Awards, to be held in Los Angeles in a couple of days. “When I write, I work off of a theme, an emotion, a…

“I think of myself as a storyteller, ” says the 21-year-old singer-songwriter, photographed by Lucy Hewett on July 28 at Lollapalooza in Chicago. For a video of Martinez discussing her Cry Baby alter-ego, go to Billboard.com or Billboard.com/ipad. Melanie Martinez has always felt like an outsider. “I was picked on when I was younger for being super emotional,” says the 21-year-old singersongwriter, who grew up on New York’s Long Island. “I didn’t have a lot of friends.” Today, though, she can claim a cult of teen admirers as a rare Voice success story who only broke through when she embraced her not-fit-fornetwork-TV surrealist-pop impulses. The daughter of Puerto Rican and Dominican parents, Martinez channeled her adolescent alienation into her first fulllength, Cry Baby, a concept album about a young woman…

after Tuma Basa, global programming head of hip-hop at Spotify, featured Lil Uzi Vert prominently on Rap Caviar — the service’s second-mostsubscribed playlist, with more than 4 million followers — the rising Philadelphia rapper’s music soon jumped from an average of 442,000 Spotify streams per day to more than 1 million. As competition between streaming services intensifies, Spotify — the industry leader with 35 million-plus paid subscribers to Apple Music’s 15 million — has become instrumental in breaking new artists like Vert through its expert playlists. Since joining the company in April 2015, Basa has built Rap Caviar into the type of hitmaking platform once exclusively the domain of powerhouse radio stations, in the process growing its base by more than 3 million followers in a year. “When you go…

Hynes, photographed by Peter Ash Lee on Aug. 6 in Brooklyn, has said his latest album “is for everyone told they’re not black enough, too black, too queer, not queer the right way, the underappreciated.” At a time when some of the biggest pop artists are grappling with weighty problems like racism, Dev Hynes — who records deeply personal, highly influential R&B under the name Blood Orange — pushes further, adding liberated meditations on black masculinity, sexuality and faith to the conversation. His particular brand of openness is evident in his resolute concern with these issues. And how, if you see him in New York — wandering the East Village taking photos or playing ping-pong in his favorite pool hall — he’s always up for a chat. “I usually want…

Some music executives see things as they are and say why. Irving Azoff dreams things that never were and asks, “Why the f— not?” During the course of his half-century in the music business, Azoff, 68, has asked this so often — usually at high volume, seldom politely — that he has changed more facets of the industry than anyone else. Two decades ago, Azoff asked why his biggest management clients, like the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac, weren’t getting higher percentages of concert grosses and merchandise sales — and changed the economics of the touring business. Then he wondered why the live-music industry was so fragmented — and helped bring together Front Line Management, Ticketmaster and Live Nation into a concert colossus. And he has spent much of this year…