Innholdsfortegnelse for November 2, 2019 i Billboard Magazine

SONY/ATV MUSIC PUBLISHING WAS THE No. 1 publisher among both the top 100 radio songs (22.96% share) and Hot 100 songs (23.96% share) for the third quarter of 2019. That marks the eighth straight quarter it topped the radio songs list, while it wrested the top spot among Hot 100 songs away from Universal Music Publishing Group (22.93%), recording the highest market share since Billboard started tracking shares of those songs at the beginning of this year. Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” was the No. 1 Hot 100 song, while Khalid had the No. 1 airplay song with “Talk” and was also the top writer for that list in the third quarter. Sony/ATV had a share in 56 of the top 100 radio songs, including “Talk,” in which…

WHEN CHARLES KELLEY, HILLARY SCOTT AND DAVE HAYWOOD were starting out as Lady Antebellum 13 years ago, the Nashville-based trio scored early gigs — and made a name for themselves — at local music venue 3rd & Lindsley. Which is why, in September, the five-time Grammy Award-winning country act chose that very same place to debut several songs off its upcoming seventh album, Ocean, for friends, family and industry insiders. The intimate gig was a celebration for the band in more ways than one; Ocean, out Nov. 15, will be its first album on its new label, BMLG Records, after over a decade with Capitol Records Nashville. Days before the show, Kelley explained the change was necessary, as the band wanted more freedom to take artistic risks — and…

In 2008, photographer/video director Randee St. Nicholas was working with her longtime friend and subject Prince on his event-specific biography, 21 Nights. True to form, before that book was even finished, he was pitching her on another idea: a decade-spanning photo book. “Don’t worry,” she told him at the time. “We’ll do that.” Nine years later, after the first anniversary of Prince’s 2016 death, St. Nicholas got to work. She had just spoken to 1,000 Prince fans at an event hosted by his recently opened Paisley Park complex in Minnesota and was overwhelmed by their thanks. “They came up afterward and said, ‘We feel like we got to know him better,’” says St. Nicolas. “I thought, ‘I need to do this book.’” On Nov. 19, St. Nicholas will release…

COSTUME DESIGNER By the time Marina Toybina was 16, she was already booking seam-stresses to bring her early fashion designs to life; she remembers doing a photo shoot of her first design, a purple dress, with a friend. The Moscow-born designer, who was raised in Phoenix, later enrolled in Los Angeles’ Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising and started working with stylists whom she met on Myspace. Her interest in couture led to costuming — influenced by Tim Burton and the 2000 sci-fi film The Cell — and since 2010 Toybina has been booked solid: She has done stage design for artists like Britney Spears, costume design for The X Factor, her first TV job; Katy Perry’s 2015 Super Bowl halftime show (she designed the internet-famous “Left Shark”); and…

P!nk vividly remembers one of the first times she played a show in Australia. “You expect someone in the front row to be like, ‘Yeah, I love this song!’” she recalls. “Instead they were like, ‘Tell them to turn your fucking microphone up!’” She was thrilled to recognize kindred spirits in the crowds. “I think they can smell bullshit a mile away, and I’ve never handed them any,” she says. Merely a few years later, in 2009, her fan base Down Under had grown so much that she became the Brisbane Entertainment Centre’s biggest-selling artist ever, earning a unique honor from the venue: a row of six toilets, dubbed the “Pink Ladies.” Since then, P!nk’s touring presence in Australia and New Zealand has only grown. On her latest worldwide…

Post Malone’s Back At No. 1 Post Malone’s Hollywood’s Bleeding becomes the first album released in 2019 to score four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 as the set climbs 2-1 on the list. The album earned 93,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Oct. 24 (down 6%), according to Nielsen Music. Hollywood’s Bleeding spent its first three weeks at No. 1 (charts dated Sept. 21-Oct. 5). Hollywood will likely step aside on the next chart (Nov. 9) as fore-casters expect Kanye West’s Jesus Is King to open at No. 1. If the set starts as expected, it will grant West his ninth No. 1 and land him a pair of record-tying feats: He would match Eminem for both the most consecutive No. 1 albums (nine)…

A Year Of Panic! Panic! at the Disco (above) marks an entire year atop the Hot Rock Songs chart, dating to the coronation of “High Hopes” on Nov. 10, 2018. The song has gone on to rule for a record 41 nonconsecutive weeks and counting, interrupted by follow-up single “Hey Look Ma, I Made It,” which led for 11 frames in July-September. The band’s 52-week streak at No. 1 matches the longest in the chart’s decadelong history: Directly before the act’s domination, Imagine Dragons ruled for 52 straight weeks (November 2017-November 2018) with “Thunder,” “Whatever It Takes” and “Natural.” Meanwhile, twenty one pilots’ “The Hype” hits No. 1 on the Alternative airplay chart, marking the duo’s sixth leader, and CAAMP’s “Peach Fuzz” tops Triple A, marking its first No.…

2econd Wind Blows In Anthony Brown & group therAPy (above) earn their third total and consecutive No. 1 on Top Gospel Albums as 2econd Wind: Ready breezes in with 3,000 equivalent album units, according to Nielsen Music. They previously led with A Long Way From Sunday in 2017 and Everyday Jesus in 2015. The group first appeared on the chart in 2012 with its No. 3-peaking self-titled set. On Top Christian Albums, The Collingsworth Family unwraps its first top 10, in its ninth appearance, as A True Family Christmas bows at No. 8 with 3,000 units. The Ohio group comprises husband and wife Phil and Kim Collingsworth and their five children. The act bests its prior high point of No. 14, set by Mercy & Love in 2018 and…

Madame X Marks The Spot After touring arenas and stadiums for much of her career, Madonna (above) kicked off the theater-set Madame X Tour with a sold-out 16-show run at Brooklyn’s BAM-Howard Gilman Opera House. According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, Madonna’s nine shows in September appear at No. 2 with $5.5 million (17,708 tickets), followed at No. 7 by seven shows (on Oct. 1-3, 5-6, 10 and 12) that earned $4.1 million (13,693 tickets). That averages a gross of $601,985 and 1,963 tickets per show, with the average ticket selling for $306.73. The Madame X Tour continues with dates in North America and Europe before wrapping in Paris on March 8, 2020. —ERIC FRANKENBERG BOXSCORE: THE TOP GROSSING CONCERTS AS REPORTED BY PROMOTERS, VENUES, MANAGERS AND BOOKING…

You helped break Lady Antebellum a decade ago. What are the biggest differences you see in the band now? They’re still the same three great kids that they were when I met them back in 2007. Even after all of their global success, they’re grounded — and charming. Charles Kelley said you played a major role in “I Run to You” becoming the band’s first Country Airplay No. 1. What were some of the challenges? I was very outspoken that “I Run to You” should be the second single off of their debut album. Nothing against the actual second single, which was called “Lookin’ for a Good Time,” but it just felt very kitschy to my ears. I remember the first day I heard “I Run to You,” Charles…

MEGAFORCE When Jon and Marsha Zazula started selling vinyl imports and picture discs at a New Jersey flea market in 1981, they had no aspirations of founding a record label. The then-recently married couple’s goal was modest: Make a profit on $180 worth of inventory, which was all they had. But one day, a customer brought by a demo cassette of Metallica’s No Life ’Til Leather and insisted Jon play it on the spot. Jon obliged, and his plans became much loftier: Get Metallica signed. After he was turned down by every label he approached, Jon decided to start his own; in 1982, he and Marsha co-founded Megaforce Records, which became the imprint for a handful of now-iconic heavy metal acts. “Once I started working with music, I knew…

LABEL MOM + POP IN HIGH SCHOOL, singer-songwriter Lili Trifilio performed covers of Katy Perry and Adele songs in a talent show, tweaking the delivery to make them her own. After she started at Chicago’s DePaul University as a journalism major in 2015, she soon found herself more interested in music as a career. “Every other person I’d meet was either going to shows or played something,” says Trifilio, 22. “Chicago definitely inspires that.” That same year, she formed the indie-pop project Beach Bunny, rounding out her band with friends Matt Henkels on guitar and Jon Alvarado on drums (Anthony Vaccaro recently joined on bass). By March, Beach Bunny had hired Chris Crowley and Mike Scrafford of Salty Artist Management, who started pitching the band to labels. Trifilio was…

PANEL HIGHLIGHTS DAY 1: NOV. 5 The New VIP — How Record Demand Is Shaping Fan Experiences (9 a.m.) Artists and touring shows are finding new ways to meet fan demands for access and drive increasing value as prices rise. Brand partnerships specialist, content strategist and journalist Andrew Hampp (who founded consultancy 1803 last year) chats with Joe Killian of marketing agency Killian + Company; Creative Artists Agency’s Allison McGregor; Paradigm vp tour marketing Jessica Lawson; and American Express vp global brand experiences and partnerships Deborah Curtis. Cannabis 2.0: How Vape Hardware and Next-Gen Cannabis Tech Will Change the Live Experience (3:45 p.m.) Billboard West Coast senior news editor Colin Stutz moderates a discussion of recreational cannabis and CBD’s rapid growth with Gopi Sangha of experiential agency CUSP; Double…

Holiday Tidings If it’s October, then the Christmas season has officially begun — at least on the charts. Idina Menzel’s second holiday effort, Christmas: A Season of Love, debuts at No. 1 on Top Holiday Albums with 3,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Oct. 24, according to Nielsen Music. (Most of that sum is in album sales.) The set, which features such guests as Ariana Grande and Billy Porter, also launches at No. 24 on Top Album Sales. Menzel’s first seasonal offering, 2014’s Holiday Wishes, debuted at No. 1 on the Nov. 1, 2014-dated Top Holiday Albums chart and has earned 511,000 equivalent album units. Elsewhere on Top Holiday Albums, rocker Rob Halford debuts at No. 4 with Rob Halford With Family & Friends: Celestial (3,000…

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…

India.Arie At No. 1 With her 15th chart entry on Adult R&B, India. Arie (above) finally tops the list as “Steady Love” jumps 3-1 with a 13% surge in plays in the week ending Oct. 27, according to Nielsen Music, and nabs the chart’s Greatest Gainer award. The past year has marked a return to form for the singer-songwriter. She ended a nine-year absence from the top 10 with “That Magic,” which hit No. 6 last December, and, with “Magic” and “Love,” posted consecutive top 10s on the chart for the first time since 2001. On Top Rap Albums, Gucci Mane’s Woptober II extends his record for the most top 10s — 21 — on the chart, which launched in 2004, as it debuts at No. 6. The set…

Gryffin’s Gravity Debuts Los Angeles-based producer Gryffin (above) lands his first Top Dance/Electronic Albums top 10 as his debut full-length, Gravity, enters at No. 3. The set, which follows Gravity, Pt. 1 (EP) (No. 12, December 2018) and Gravity, Pt. 1 (Remixes) (No. 20, March), starts with 5,000 equivalent album units, according to Nielsen Music. Concurrently, the new LP’s “Body Back” (featuring Maia Wright) bows at No. 14 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, drawing 1.6 million U.S. streams. Additionally on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, The Black Eyed Peas bounce to their first top 10, and J Balvin rings up his third, as “RITMO (Bad Boys for Life)” rises 11-9, bounding by 89% to 4.1 million streams. On Dance Club Songs, the trio of Dirty Werk, DJ Bam Bam and Steve Smooth…

“Moe is a franchise player like Kobe [Bryant] or [Michael] Jordan to any management team whose artists want the strongest starting lineup.”—RODDY RICCH In 2018, manager Moe Shalizi starred on the cover of Billboard’s Dance Issue alongside his marquee client, Marshmello. The now-29-year-old — then working for Red Light Management — was named executive of the year and credited with building the genre’s “most irresistible brand” with the masked DJ producer. By November, he had established his own firm, The Shalizi Group, and brought along his full client roster, which today includes EDM star Alesso and rapper-singer Roddy Ricch. Shalizi recalls the transformative year. I left Red Light because I realized that my vision was different from what was being done there, and I needed autonomy. At The Shalizi…

FOR THE SECOND year in a row, stand-up comic and The Daily Show With Trevor Noah correspondent Roy Wood Jr. will host the Billboard Live Music Awards, honoring the stars and industry powerhouses who — like him — know there’s no substitute for putting in work on the road. “Touring is the red blood cells of the music industry,” says Wood, 40. “You can put out all the songs that you want, but from a profitability standpoint and an exposure standpoint, you have to go out and press flesh.” Wood’s return to the ceremony, which will take place Nov. 5 at the Montage Hotel Beverly Hills in California, comes on the heels of his onehour special No One Loves You, which premiered in January and is Comedy Central’s highest-rated…

clipping., keshi Debut Experimental hip-hop trio clipping. (above) debuts at No. 13 on Emerging Artists as the group’s third LP, There Existed an Addition to Blood, arrives at No. 3 on Heatseekers Albums and No. 34 on Top Album Sales with 2,000 copies sold, according to Nielsen Music. The act comprises William Huston, Jonathan Snipes and Daveed Diggs, the lattermost of whom won a Grammy Award and a Tony Award for his roles in the musical Hamilton. Plus, lo-fi hip-hop artist keshi makes his Billboard chart debut, opening at No. 20 on Emerging Artists, as his new EP, Skeletons, starts at No. 5 on Heatseekers Albums (2,000 sold). —XANDER ZELLNER CARTERS’ BEST The Carter Family, long revered as “the first family of country music,” scores its highest career rank…

West Returns Thanks To King Kanye West (above) reenters the Social 50 for the first time since January, at No. 30, after promoting his long-delayed album Jesus Is King, which was released shortly after noon ET on Oct. 25. According to Next Big Sound, during the tracking week ending Oct. 24, West was mentioned 73,000 times on Twitter and logged 147,000 reactions to his tweets. During the week, West posted on Twitter for the first time since earlier in the year, announcing the album’s release and its tracklist. Meanwhile, BTS spends its 150th week atop the Social 50, making the K-pop group just the second act to reach the milestone — Justin Bieber has ruled for 163 weeks. BTS has led the chart every week since the list dated…

Combs Ties Twain This One’s for You by Luke Combs (above) rules Top Country Albums for a record-tying 50th week. It matches Shania Twain’s Come On Over, which began its 50-frame domination in 1997. (The chart launched in 1964.) Combs’ set reaches the milestone with 20,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Oct. 24, according to Nielsen Music. It bowed atop the June 24, 2017, chart. His second full-length, What You See Is What You Get, is due Nov. 8. Cole Swindell’s “Love You Too Late” climbs 3-1 on Country Airplay, increasing by 12% to 37.1 million audience impressions. It’s his fifth leader on the list and first since “Middle of a Memory” in November 2016. Plus, Luke Bryan’s “What She Wants Tonight” bounds in at No.…

Becky G Arrives Mala Santa, the debut full-length by Becky G (above), is just the third effort by a woman to enter in the top 10 of the Top Latin Albums chart in 2019 as the set opens at No. 3. Mala Santa starts with 8,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Oct. 24, according to Nielsen Music, with streaming activity driving most of that sum. (The album’s songs garnered 9 million on-demand audio streams.) The set also earns a Latin album’s second-biggest week of 2019 by a woman, following the debut of Karol G’s Ocean (12,000 units). Becky G’s lone previous album, a 2013 English-language EP, only charted on Heatseekers (No. 17). Meanwhile, Daddy Yankee’s “Que Tire Pa’ Lante” debuts at No. 10 on Hot Latin…