Innholdsfortegnelse for 10/8/2016 i Billboard Magazine

Though the fourth quarter is considered the most fertile for potential Oscar releases, there already is a “luxury of riches” — as one Academy Awards voter puts it — when it comes to best original song prospects. Leading the contender charge for the Feb. 26 ceremony is Sia, who has cowritten three strong potential entries, including “Unforgettable“ from Pixar’s Finding Dory and “Try Everything” from Disney’s Zootopia. She also will have another song — her fourth — eligible from Lion, which opens Nov. 25. “Sia could have a category of her own,” says new Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences memberat-large Mike Knobloch, president of film music and publishing for Universal Pictures, who worked with the Australian artist on 50 Shades of Grey. “There’s something amazing and cinematic about…

Global Citizen Festival NEWYORK, SEPT. 2 4 AROUND 60,000 ACTIVISTS filled New York’s Central Park for the fifth annual Global Citizen Festival, a daylong concert that rewarded volunteers for their commitment to solving the world’s biggest issues, including global poverty and gender inequality. Among this year’s festival highlights included a moving cover of Patti Smith’s “People Have the Power” from Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder and Coldplay’s Chris Martin, as well as performances from Metallica, Kendrick Lamar and Usher. As in years past, the message of altruism was always present. “Hopefully these kind of movements will help us to be a bit more sensitive to others and what it feels like to be humans and to share,” said UNIC EF Goodwill Ambassador Yusuf Islam (aka Cat Stevens) during his career-spanning set.…

What’s the thinking behind “Kids,” the first single off the new album? It doesn’t sound like anything we’ve ever done before. We love M83, and so the idea was, “Let’s do something that captures the spirit of what we love about M83 and make it a OneRepublic song with the lyric and the melody.” You’ve worked with so many megastars. How was it with Beyoncé? “XO” was one my favorites. For a week I was at their home in the Hamptons, with Jay Z and Beyoncé and their kid around. It was me, Greg Kurstin, Sia, one of the girls from Florence & The Machine. I had no idea “XO” was going to be the first single, but unless you are in the room with Beyoncé, no one is going…

“I come alive in the fall time.” —The Weeknd The R&B hitmaker explaining his surprise single “Starboy” and upcoming album of the same name (out Nov. 25) on Twitter. “You have to believe in something. Like, I’d prefer Beyoncé didn’t do a Pepsi tour. Do not take $2 million from Pepsi and be a role model for young girls.” —justin vernon The Bon Iver frontman — and former Bushmills brand ambassador — in an interview with The Guardian. “Oh, look, Hillary invited her friends Sanity and Experience to the debate.” —Bette Midler The star responding to the first presidential debate on Sept. 26, on Twitter. “Going by myself to meetings they’d say, ‘Little girl, you don’t know what you’re talking about.’ There’s this ‘shut up and be pretty’ mentality.” —sky…

JULY 9, 2012 He makes his debut appearance on Keeping Up With the Kardashians. AUG. 23, 2013 He reveals the first baby photo of North on Kris Jenner’s ill-fated daytime talk show. JUNE 14, 2014 She Instagrams herself in a sheer top at his return to Bonnaroo after a 2008 misfire. NOV. 2, 2015 She releases a photo of previously unseen versions of his Yeezy Boost 350 sneakers. FEB. 1, 2016 She asks her 40 million-plus Twitter followers to vote on his next album title. FEB. 12, 2016 The Kardashian clan is on hand at Kanye’s Yeezy Season 3 fashion show. JULY 17, 2016 After an episode of KUWTK, her Snapchat of him speaking to Taylor Swift goes viral. SEPT. 5, 2016 She teases his tour’s first New York stop…

How will Star compare with Empire? It is the complete antithesis of Empire. I don’t know whether you ever saw the first 15 minutes of John Waters’ Female Trouble, but these girls will do whatever it takes. They’ll murder. They’ll f— you. They’ll rob you. [The characters] Star and Simone are very, very poor. They come from the fostercare system, and we explore the atrocities that happen there. The show debuts in early 2017. Where are you in production? We’re shooting the second episode. I just left a rehearsal for a vogue number. That performance that Teyana Taylor did at the MTV Video Music Awards? Well, we’re going to get down in the dirt with mine. You’ll see the girls with the gay boys voguing in a way [TV audiences]…

“WE have SEEN A LOT OF streaming services built for tech-savvy early adopters,” says iHeartRadio president Darren Davis. Instead, he wants his company’s new on-demand venture to remind users of an earlier, more intuitive Internet service. “AOL was so easy to use that millions of people did.” That kind of simplicity could set apart iHeartRadio’s newly announced initiative in the fiercely competitive world of on-demand streamers. In January, the company plans to add two tiers to its existing radio-style streaming service: iHeartRadio Plus (ad-free radio with additional features) and iHeartRadio All Access (closer to an on-demand streaming service). Features and prices have not been announced but are expected to cost around $5 and $10 per month, respectively. Unlike Spotify and Apple, which trumpet innovative music-discovery tools or exclusive content to…

FORMED 1988, Berkeley, Calif. ALBUM SALES TO DATE 26.9 million, according to Nielsen Music POP PEAK Dookie may have vaulted pop punk into the mainstream in 1994, but a decade later it was American Idiot that took the band (and the genre) to Broadway. PUNK PEAK Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong dropping trou and starting a massive mud fight at Woodstock ’94. CHANCE OF SU CCESS Revolution Radio (Oct. 7) features boisterous, anti-gun-violence single “Bang Bang” — Green Day’s first No. 1 on the Mainstream Rock chart in seven years. “What they’re putting out is actually going to hold up in [today’s] landscape,” says SiriusXM Alt Nation programmer Jeff Regan. FORMED 1994, Mesa, Ariz. ALBUM SALES TO DATE 3.2 million POP PEAK 2002’s Bleed American sold 1.6 million copies, with the…

In FX’s breakout Tuesdaynight hit Atlanta, writercreator Donald Glover stars as Earnest Marks, manager to fictional Atlanta rapper Paper Boi (played by Brian Tyree Henry). It’s the first TV show for director Hiro Murai, 33, who previously created surreal, dreamlike videos for Glover (aka Childish Gambino) and St. Vincent. How are you using music in Atlanta? It’s a strange thing, because the show is kind of a quiet show — there’s a lot of ambient sound. In some ways, it’s the opposite of a music video. We’ll very rarely use music to support a scene. The cool thing we’ve been exploring is how to use that music diegetically. So if you hear music, the song is rarely just played over the image. It’s supposed to be originating from some dude’s…

Half a century ago this month, a silly sitcom knockoff of A Hard Day’s Night and Help! premiered on NBC. It was called, of course, The Monkees, and “serious” rock fans — a new breed then — detested the show and the band alike. How could anyone be suckered by this pap, just when The Beatles themselves were transitioning from lovable moptops to hippiedom’s answer to James Joyce, T.S. Eliot and Ouija boards? But the kiddies flipped for both band and show, and the kiddies were right. Even if the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame famously disagrees, The Monkees are every bit as important in rock history as, say, The Grateful Dead. Besides having a much catchier songbook, they were fun — a key value that was the first…

NEARLY 50 YEARS BEFORE JIMMY Fallon and The Roots performed with pop stars and kazoos for The Tonight Show’s Classroom Instruments bit, or James Corden strapped chart-topping singers into the passenger seat for Carpool Karaoke, Sesame Street invited celebrity guests to perform originals and musical parodies in the service of educating preschoolers while entertaining their parents. In many ways, Sesame was the proto-viral show — and its all-ages public-television singalongs were the pre-Internet equivalent of viral music videos, effortlessly humanizing such artists as Johnny Cash, Billy Joel and Nina Simone, much like Fallon’s and Corden’s segments do with their guests. This month, Sesame Street’s 46th season rolls out on PBS — its first since Sesame Workshop, the show’s educational production nonprofit, announced a five-year deal with HBO. (New episodes premiere…

ON SEPT. 29, 300 delegates from all sectors of the electronic music industry will converge in Shanghai for the third International Music Summit in the Asia-Pacific region to discuss one thing: how to unlock the world’s largest untapped market for dance music. In many ways, the shift is already happening. In 2012, Ultra Music Festival expanded to South Korea, gradually raising the number of events and countries to eight in 2016 — with headliners including Afrojack, DJ Snake, Deadmau5, Kygo and Martin Garrix — which attracted more than 350,000 fans, a 56 percent increase over 2015, bringing in an estimated $29.5 million in ticket sales. IMS launched its annual Asian conference in 2014, and during the past two months, two of the world’s largest dancemusic promoters — SFX’s Made Event…

CO-FOUNDER/CEO, TICKETFLY As music industry TRAILblazers go, Andrew Dreskin stands in rarefied company, having pulled off two ticketingbusiness feats during his 25-year career. He co-founded TicketWeb, the first online ticketing platform, which was sold to Ticketmaster in 2000 for $35.2 million. Then, in October 2015, Ticketfly, a 2.0 version of Dreskin’s vision (for which he serves as co-founder/CEO, overseeing a staff of 208), was acquired by Internet radio giant Pandora for $450 million. It’s a long way from New Orleans’ Tipitina’s, where the New Jersey native promoted his first show while at Tulane University. Post-college, Dreskin eventually landed at Bay Area-based indie label Beserkley Records (Greg Kihn Band, Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers), where he built the company’s website during the Internet’s infancy. Later, partnering with Rick Tyler, who…

ON A RECENT SEPTEMBER MORNING, Kim Kardashian West woke up at dawn and dressed, as usual, in an outfit her husband, Kanye West, helped her select. She spent the morning shooting her E! reality series, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, and now, just after noon, is floating through a scrum of paparazzi waiting outside of New York’s Mercer Hotel. Her look involves clear vinyl thigh-high boots; an old pair of Levi’s denim shorts; a sheer, pale-blue, nipple-revealing La Perla bra, worn as a top; and an oversize denim jacket from the line of fashion-y merch that Kanye put out around his latest album, The Life of Pablo. In the time it takes her to step out of her chauffeured Mercedes and reach the hotel door, photographers snap the outfit dozens…

MTV BY THE NUMB ERS 6.5M Viewers for the Aug. 28 VMAs, a 34 percent decrease from 2015 400 Number of hours of original programming Atkins hopes to produce in 2017, with an eye toward 600 in 2018 $72M Total of exit package for ousted Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman When you left Discovery Communications to join MTV last October, what’s the overarching thing you were brought on to do? To bring MTV back to the cultural forefront. That’s no small task, given the current state of the network. There are ebbs and flows for any consumer brand. That’s not unique to MTV and it’s not unique to cable — it happens to brands like Tide or to technology brands, too. But obviously, in traditional TV, the Nielsenmeasured universe has been…

WHO WILL SHAPE THE FUTURE OF the music industry? The students at the nation’s top music business schools are just waiting to take their best shot. As the challenges facing artists and executives grow in complexity, an increasing number of educational institutions are preparing the next generation of industry leaders. In many cases, the schools are doing so with the financial support of a previous generation of music power brokers. Among those who have helped endow music industry programs at major universities are A&M Records co-founder/artist Herb Alpert, Sony/ATV Music Publishing chairman/CEO Martin Bandier, one-time MCA Records president Mike Curb, Sony Music Entertainment chief creative officer Clive Davis and, most recently, Apple executives Jimmy Iovine and Andre “Dr. Dre” Young. At the program that Iovine and Young endowed at USC,…