Innholdsfortegnelse for September 28, 2019 i Billboard Magazine

LABEL ELEKTRA RECORDS Six years ago, singer-songwriter-producer Phil Good was working as a touring guitarist but wanted to start a career of his own. While on the road, he connected with manager David Conway and his business partner Brandon Goodman (Billie Eilish, Finneas), who were on the hunt for a new client. “I always have been a fan of Phil’s,” says Goodman. “He has the innate ability to write big melodies and produce catchy music that feels fresh and specific to him.” Born Jared Maldonado in Portland, Ore., Good grew up listening to Slipknot, John Mayer and Death Cab for Cutie. But at Conway and Goodman’s suggestion, he moved to Los Angeles in February 2016 and branched out stylistically. He has produced vocals for Chaka Khan’s daughter, Indira Khan,…

Prince Pops With Reissues Prince makes a fashionable reentry on Top Album Sales at No. 12 with The Versace Experience: Prelude 2 Gold (6,000 sold in the week ending Sept. 19, according to Nielsen Music), while on Catalog Album Sales, Chaos and Disorder and Emancipation enter at Nos. 10 and 12 (about 2,000 sold each), respectively. The Versace Experience was first issued as a promotional cassette at a 1995 fashion show by designer Gianni Versace, but didn’t earn a commercial release until earlier in 2019, when it dropped on cassette for Record Store Day (and debuted at No. 39 on Top Album Sales with 4,000 sold). On Sept. 13, it was widely issued on CD, vinyl and digital download. Also on Sept. 13, Chaos and Emancipation (a pair of…

A Lot About ‘Living’ Dierks Bentley (above) earns his 17th Country Airplay No. 1 as “Living” lifts 2-1, up 12% to 39.5 million audience impressions, according to Nielsen Music. “The dream is to write and record songs that are authentically personal to me, but also have commercial success; I want both,” Bentley tells Billboard. “Usually, you wind up with a little bit of one and a little bit of the other. But with ‘Living,’ I got it both ways. I got something that has deep meaning for me, a song with the importance of gratitude at its core. And I get to go out there onstage and pound my chest and sing it at the top of my lungs, along with all our fans who know it by heart…

THERE HAVE BEEN hip-hop collectives and rock supergroups, but SM Entertainment’s SuperM is being touted by the company as a boy band full of leading men — and K-pop’s most impressive lineup to date, with seven members from SM’s most successful and still-active groups. “I see this as a new challenge,” says EXO vocalist Baekhyun, who at 27 is the oldest member of SuperM and has emerged as its leader. “There are a lot of expectations, because even though this is new, each of us comes from a different [popular] group. But there’s this awesome synergy between us.” The group — which will release its self-titled debut EP on Oct. 4 — also consists of EXO’s Kai, 25, who recently became the global face of Gucci’s new eyewear campaign;…

On her first three albums, Angel Olsen had trouble loosening her grip. “I have a lot of issues with control,” says the 32-year-old singer-songwriter. But for the expansive All Mirrors, out Oct. 4 on Jagjaguwar, the Asheville, N.C.-based artist opened up her inner circle, recruiting string arrangers Jherek Bischoff and Ben Babbitt. “It was a really testing process for me,” she says, “but really rewarding.” Olsen also shares how a more collaborative process, and her early studies of piano theory, actually worked in her favor. PIANO THEORY Ahead of recording All Mirrors, Olsen laid down bare-bones solo versions of each song on guitar. But once in the studio, she saw the songs were changing form so drastically and felt compelled to learn them on piano — the first instrument…

SINCE RELEASING HIS DEBUT album, The Hybrid, almost a decade ago, Danny Brown insists he has learned “the science of rapping” — the Detroit native has landed a top 20 album on the Billboard 200 and two top fives on the Top Rap Albums chart. But for his fifth album, uknowhatimsayin¿, out Oct. 4 on Warp, Brown, 38, wanted to change up his formula. So he enlisted A Tribe Called Quest’s Q‑Tip to executive‑produce — something the legend hasn’t done since 2014. “It was almost like I was an actor in a movie,” says Brown of working with Q‑Tip. “I just had to show up and know my lines.” How did working with Q‑Tip change your approach to crafting an album? Tip is a person who turns over every…

A marine biologist. I love orcas. If I could live on the ocean, I would be so happy. One of my favorite pastimes is whale watching. —Marissa Gastelum I think every promo person would say, “[Selling] real estate.” There’s a human emotion when it comes to buying a house or listening to music. It’s the hustle, but it’s also about connecting with people. Buying a home is an investment of your life savings, and that’s what artists do — they trust us with their life. —Nicki Farag A violinist. When I went to high school, my dream was to play in the Disney recording orchestra and play the soundtracks to Disney movies. I still play professionally for a few orchestras. I have a band that was pretty successful —…

Johnson’s ‘Story’ Continues Emo/spoken-word act Hobo Johnson (above) debuts at No. 13 on Emerging Artists as his third LP, The Fall of Hobo Johnson, arrives at No. 99 on the Billboard 200 with 8,000 equivalent album units, according to Nielsen Music, marking his first entrance on the chart. Single “Typical Story” concurrently rises 28-24 on Alternative Songs. Plus, (Sandy) Alex G enters Emerging Artists at No. 24 as his House of Sugar starts at No. 5 on Heatseekers Albums (3,000 sold), where the rocker adds his third top 10. —XANDER ZELLNER CHART BEAT MAROON 5 MAKES NEW ‘MEMORIES’ After logging its longest reign on the Adult Top 40 airplay chart — 14 weeks with “Girls Like You” (featuring Cardi B) last year — Maroon 5 returns with “Memories.” The…

SuperM Shines; King Returns K-pop supergroup SuperM (above) makes its maiden appearance on the Social 50, debuting at No. 2. The seven-piece group featuring members of Exo, NCT and SHINee arrives with 1.2 million Twitter reactions and 188,000 Twitter mentions in the week ending Sept. 19, according to Next Big Sound. Concept photos of SuperM’s members have been posting to the group’s social media accounts while the act gears up for its first EP, a self-titled release scheduled for Oct. 4. It’s the highest debut for a K-pop act since BTS (No. 1; Oct. 29, 2016). Meanwhile, B.B. King, who last reached the Social 50 after his 2015 passing (No. 20; May 30, 2015), reenters at No. 30 due to Wikipedia views (246,000, up 3,758%) after a Google Doodle…

Money, The Cars Remembered The Cars (above) and Eddie Money infuse Hot Rock Songs following Money’s death on Sept. 13 and Cars frontman Ric Ocasek’s passing two days later. Money’s 1986 top five Billboard Hot 100 hit “Take Me Home Tonight” enters at No. 3, while crowning Rock Digital Song Sales, up 266% to 11,000 downloads sold, according to Nielsen Music. The Cars bow highest with “Drive” (sung by bassist Benjamin Orr, who died in 2000) at No. 6, up 1,526% to 7,000 sold. Lana Del Rey helps make history atop the Alternative airplay chart as her cover of Sublime’s “Doin’ Time” rises 3-1, marking the first streak of four consecutive leaders belonging to soloists. Del Rey’s first No. 1 follows chart-toppers by Dominic Fike, Matt Maeson and Billie…

‘My Type’ Tops Rhythmic Saweetie (above) earns her first No. 1 on Rhythmic as “My Type” steps 3-1 in its 16th week. The song ascends thanks to a 5% bump in plays at the format in the week ending Sept. 22, according to Nielsen Music. Notably, as “Type” takes the pole position, it surpasses the Rhythmic peak of the song that it samples, Petey Pablo’s “Freek-a-Leek,” which rose to No. 2 in June 2004. Plus, Megan Thee Stallion’s breakout year expands with her third top 10 on R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay: “Hot Girl Summer,” a collaboration with Nicki Minaj and Ty Dolla $ign. The single races 11-7 thanks to a 7% gain to 16.7 million in audience in the week. The rookie boasts concurrent top 10s on the list as “Cash…

Daigle Ties Record “You Say” by Lauren Daigle (above) ties the record for the most weeks — 61 — spent atop the Hot Christian Songs chart. It matches the reign of Hillsong United’s “Oceans (Where Feet May Fail),” which began its rule in December 2013. “Say,” which first hit No. 1 on Hot Christian Songs on July 28, 2018, drew 5.6 million U.S. streams in the latest tracking week, according to Nielsen Music. It also tops Christian Streaming Songs for a 57th week (second only to Skillet’s “Monster,” which has dominated for 236 weeks since 2013.) With 5,000 downloads sold, “Say” leads Christian Digital Song Sales for a record-extending 56th frame. “Say” led Christian Airplay for 17 weeks starting in September 2018 and crossed over for a two-week command…

EPIC RECORDS CHAIRMAN/ CEO Sylvia Rhone will make history as the first African American woman to receive the Spirit of Life Award from medical research foundation City of Hope at its annual gala, set for Oct. 10. Rhone follows 2018 recipient Jon Platt, now chairman/CEO of Sony/ATV Music Publishing, joining a lineage of honorees that also includes industry legends Mo Ostin, Clive Davis and Quincy Jones. Stars and industry leaders alike will gather to celebrate the executive at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. Alicia Keys and Sara Bareilles will sing a special duet, and Yolanda Adams—whose career Rhone helped launch while in charge of Elektra Records in the 1990s — will perform hits from her gospel repertoire. Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will present Rhone with…

Founder/CEO Reservoir Media GOLNAR KHOSROWSHAHI once played at the highest levels as a pianist — she attended both the Royal Academy of Music in the United Kingdom and the Royal Conservatory in Canada — and didn’t even consider a career in the music business until after she worked as managing director for the Canadian pharmaceuticals firm DRI Capital. “When you look at an inventor trying to create a molecule versus a songwriter creating a song,” she says, “it’s really not very different.” This revelation led the Iranian-Canadian pianist turned entrepreneur to found independent publisher Reservoir Media in New York in 2007 under the umbrella of a family office. (Khosrowshahi’s father, Hassan, is a billionaire businessman, one of the richest men in Canada; her cousin Dara is currently the CEO…

S.M. THE BALLAD SM vocalists from TRAX, Super Junior (and its sub-unit Super Junior-M), SHINee, TVXQ!, Girls’ Generation and EXO — and two former SM members, one of whom is now in Cube Entertainment’s boy band Pentagon — released two EPs under the name S.M. the Ballad. In 2010, one grouping recorded Miss You; in 2014, another recorded Breath, which hit No. 9 on Billboard’s World Albums chart. YOUNIQUE In 2012, South Korean car manufacturer Hyundai Motor Company unveiled its new marketing campaign, “Premium Younique Lifestyle,” and worked with SM to debut a supergroup in promotion. Within two months, Younique — members of EXO, Girls’ Generation, SHINee, Super Junior and Super Junior-M — released PYL Younique Volume 1, featuring singer-songwriter BoA and rappers Dok2 and The Quiett. SM THE…

⚫ MASHUP MAVEN At 15, Atlanta native Summer Walker started playing guitar and singing in her bathroom — “I liked the acoustics and how I sounded,” she says today. Inspired by the likes of Erykah Badu, Amy Winehouse and Marvin Gaye, she started uploading clips to Vine, then covers to YouTube. She didn’t find a following until 2017, when she uploaded a mashup of Drake’s “Fake Love,” Rae Sremmurd’s “Black Beatles,” Ginuwine’s “Pony” and Beyoncé’s “Yes”: “People are still discovering me from that.” ⚫ DOUBLE TROUBLE Among those who discovered her was another Summer Walker, then studio manager for LVRN, who offered to help with her career. (She discovered the singer while Googling herself.) Within a year, the artist became the first woman to land a recording contract with…

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Posty Goes For Two Post Malone’s Hollywood’s Bleeding holds atop the Billboard 200 for a second week, earning 198,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Sept. 19, according to Nielsen Music. That’s down 59% compared with its launch of 489,000. Bleeding’s second week unit figure is so large, it would have been enough to make the set the No. 1 album in all but nine earlier weeks in 2019. Further, its 198,000 units are the largest second-week haul for an album in over a year, since Travis Scott’s Astroworld logged 205,000 units in its second frame (on the chart dated Aug. 25, 2018). As Hollywood’s Bleeding holds its position for a second week, it halts the revolving door at the top of the tally, where in the six…

Hip-hop dominates every other genre claiming a quarter of all music consumption. On September 15th, Billboard will publish it’s 3rd annual hip-hop power players list showcasing the artists, producers, songwriters, executives and publishers that wield the most power in this genre. Advertise and congratulate the people who are creating excitement and making some noise in hip hop. Reach an influential audience of decision makers in the music industry and pop culture. ON SALE: 10/17 | COVER DATE: 10/19 | AD CLOSE 10/10 | MATERIALS DUE 10/11 Special Issue ON SALE OCT. 17, 2019 CONTACT Joe Maimone 212.493.4427 | joe.maimone@billboard.com Debra Fink 323.525.2249 | debra.fink@thr.com BONUS DISTRIBUTION: Billboard Hip Hop Summit 10/17 (NY) Editorial content subject to change…

AIRPLAY & SALES 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…

On October 12th, Billboard will profile the most influential people in Latin music, from record label executives, music publishers and management companies to radio and television stations and live entertainment. This feature will include a report on mid-year charts, top Latin songwriters, publishers and publishing corporations. Advertise and congratulate the people who are creating excitement and making some noise in Latin music. Reach an influential audience of decision-makers in the music industry and pop culture. ON SALE: 10/12 | AD CLOSE 10/03 | MATERIALS DUE 10/04 CONTACT Gene Smith 973-452-3528 | eugenebillboard@gmail.com Marcia Ollval 786-586-4901 | marciaolival29@gmail.com Joe Maimone 212.493.4427 | joe.maimone@billboard.com BONUS DISTRIBUTION: Latin Power Event 10/16 AES Pro Audio Convention 10/16-10/19 Billboard Latin AMAs 10/15 Editorial content subject to change…

Los Tigres’ Folsom Prison Debuts Los Tigres del Norte (above) return to the top 10 of the Regional Mexican Albums chart after three-and-a-half years with their live set Los Tigres del Norte at Folsom Prison, as the album debuts at No. 10. The effort doubles as the soundtrack to the Netflix concert documentary of the same name. Carrying on Johnny Cash’s Folsom legacy (the Man in Black’s Live at Folsom Prison was recorded 50 years ago), the norteño band gives new life to its songs with the first live concert recording from the prison since Cash’s. Los Tigres’ Folsom opens with a little over 1,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Sept. 19, according to Nielsen Music, mainly on the strength of streaming activity four days following…

P!nk Cashes In At No. 1 P!nk (above) prances to her seventh Dance Club Songs No. 1 with “Can We Pretend,” featuring Cash Cash, which earns its first. The song, remixed by MOTi, Bart B More and Yves V, among others, is P!nk’s second leader in 2019 (after “Walk Me Home” in June) and her fifth in a row dating to “What About Us” in 2017. On Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, Major Lazer leaps 27-9 with “Que Calor,” featuring J Balvin and El Alfa. Lazer’s ninth top 10, Balvin’s second and El Alfa’s first earned 4 million U.S. streams and sold 4,000 downloads in its first full tracking week, according to Nielsen Music. The collaboration soars on Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales (20-2) while vaulting 19-1 on Latin Digital Song Sales…

Maluma Takes North America Maluma (above) hits the Boxscore chart with the first three North American dates of the 11:11 World Tour at Nos. 3 and 35. According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, the Sept. 6 opener at San Diego’s Pechanga Arena grossed $738,000, while his double-header at the Los Angeles-area Forum on Sept. 7-8 earned $2.9 million. He builds upon his last Forum showing with the highest-grossing and best-selling engagement of his career. His 2018 stint on April 7 and 11 grossed $2.3 million and sold 25,079 tickets, nearly matching 2019’s count of 25,364 tickets. Maluma will tour North America before closing the trek at Mexico City’s Auditorio Nacional on Dec. 13-14. —ERIC FRANKENBERG BOXSCORE: THE TOP GROSSING CONCERTS A S REPORTED BY PROMOTERS, V ENUES, MANAGERS…

PRIZE FIGHTER “As a woman in music, having the support of a strong female leader like Sarah Stennett is essential. I’m so blessed to have someone as badass as her in my corner.”—BEBE REXHA The talent manager from Liverpool, England, is known for her work with such pop stars as Bebe Rexha, Rita Ora and Madison Beer, but managing the legacy of the late Lil Peep — born Gustav “Gus” Åhr — has become her most defining project to date. In November 2018, a year after his death from an accidental drug overdose, Stennett worked alongside his estate to release his first posthumous album, Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 2. The set earned the artist his highest peak on the Billboard 200 (No. 4). Stennett recalls the bittersweet…