Innholdsfortegnelse for March 14, 2020 i Billboard Magazine

BAD BUNNY’S ALBUM YHLQMDLG debuted on the March 14-dated Billboard 200 at No. 2 with nearly 179,000 album consumption units for the week ending March 5, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data, making it the highest-placing Spanish-language album in the chart’s history. The album’s unprecedented success shows the U.S. market’s growing appetite for Latin music, and also boosts Sony Music Entertainment’s industry-leading Latin music distribution market share to nearly half of the overall pie — to 49.13% year to date, up from the previous week’s 47.59% year-to-date total. Within that, The Orchard, which retail sources say distributes Bad Bunny’s music, also saw its market share jump — to 23.75% year to date from 20.99% in the prior week. If Bunny’s dominance is a sign of what’s to come, The Orchard…

GIVEN THE 8,700 miles and 20-hour flight between Los Angeles and Mumbai, India, it stands to reason that most folks making the trek might stay for at least a week. Diplo stayed for 24 hours. During that time he toured the city, headlined a festival and posed for plenty of photos with locals (which, along with sundry other shirtless-in-India snaps, amassed over 430,000 Instagram likes). Then he flew back across the globe to Diplo HQ — his house in Los Angeles’ Beachwood Canyon neighborhood — where, on this warm Thursday afternoon, various members of his team stare at their MacBooks with the focus of NASA engineers as Diplo himself strolls into the kitchen, sits down and declares himself ready to be interviewed. “I actually drove myself today to an…

AFTER PERFORMING his usual flashy, bass-filled set at a Milwaukee club in February, Destructo found himself at a backyard afterparty, where kids he had never heard of were blasting dance mixes to 40 or 50 freezing revelers. “They’re not thinking, ‘How can we turn this into some big fucking festival to make a bunch of money?’ ” recalls the longtime DJ, also known as Gary Richards, North American president of dance music promoter LiveStyle and founder of festival specialist HARD Events. “It’s just got to be fun — when it gets too scientific and too researched and too business-oriented, it just becomes another random business.” To Richards and other dance music veterans, EDM — the genre of Marsh-mello, Calvin Harris and The Chain-smokers — has been booming for so…

Real Estate Listing Real Estate (above) debuts at No. 11 on Emerging Artists thanks to the rock group’s fifth LP, The Main Thing, which debuts at No. 26 on the Top Album Sales chart with 4,000 sold, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. The act has made three visits to the Billboard 200, reaching a No. 34 high with Atlas in 2014. Nengo Flow debuts at No. 20 on Emerging Artists thanks to two co-lead billings on Bad Bunny’s new LP, YHLQMDLG, which opens on the Billboard 200 at No. 2. “Safaera,” with Jowell & Randy, leads at No. 10 on Hot Latin Songs, followed by “Que Malo” at No. 14. Plus, Breland enters Emerging Artists at No. 49 as his breakout single, “My Truck,” rolls 36-35 on Hot Country…

Residente Arrives In the wake of the release of the song “Rene,” Residente (above) debuts on the Social 50 chart at No. 29 with 78,000 Twitter mentions (up 1,141%) and 60,000 Twitter reactions in the week ending March 5, according to Next Big Sound (up 911%). The Puerto Rican artist, who also is a founding member of Calle 13, debuts after premiering the introspective, autobiographical “Rene,” titled after his given first name and released in conjunction with his 42nd birthday on Feb. 27. In addition to Residente’s Twitter metrics, his Wikipedia page views cross 81,000 in all (a boost of 4,912%), as fans visited his page to read about more details of his life aside from those he shared in “Rene.” The track debuts at No. 34 on the…

Morris, Brown Are Chart Queen, King Maren Morris (above) earns her first Hot Country Songs No. 1 as “The Bones” bumps 2-1. The song reigns in its 53rd week on the chart, the second-longest ascent to the top after Dan + Shay’s “Tequila,” which led in its 54th frame (Feb. 2, 2019). Both songs were aided by pop crossover airplay. Morris is the first woman to rule solo since Kelsea Ballerini with “Peter Pan” (Oct. 1, 2016). Kane Brown achieves his fifth Country Airplay leader as “Homesick” rises 3-1, up 17% to 36.2 million in audience. “I’m truly grateful to my beautiful wife, Katelyn, who was the inspiration behind it,” says Brown of the song. Plus, Ingrid Andress’ “More Hearts Than Mine” rises 11-9 on Country Airplay (22.1 million,…

Bad Bunny’s Takeover As Bad Bunny (above) makes history on the Billboard 200 with YHLQMDLG (see page 50), he also breaks the record for the most career entries on Hot Latin Songs. He places 20 tracks on the tally (all from YHLQMDLG), bringing his total to a record 83, surpassing runner-up Daddy Yankee’s 74 hits. With Bad Bunny tunes ranking at Nos. 1-3, 5-6 and 8-22, he also sets new records for the most concurrently charting titles in the top 10 (eight), top 20 (18) and top 25 (20). Among those songs: a debut at No. 1 by “Si Veo a Tu Mamá” — the opening track from the new album — his fifth leader. Meanwhile, YHLQMDLG’s lead single, “Vete,” climbs 6-1 on Latin Airplay due to a 44%…

Gaga Feels The ‘Love’ As “Stupid Love” by Lady Gaga (above) debuts at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 (see page 1), the track blasts in at No. 1 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs. It’s her second leader on the latter list (which began in January 2013), after “Applause,” which ruled for three weeks in August/September 2013. Thanks to both songs, Gaga remains the only female artist to have topped the chart without any accompanying acts. Plus, Gaga’s 2008 debut LP, The Fame, returns to No. 1 on Top Dance/Electronic Albums for the first time since November 2018 (7,000 equivalent album units, up 25%), extending its lead for the most chart-topping weeks — 109 — dating to the survey’s 2001 inception. On Dance Club Songs, Dutch DJ Chico Rose…

Sounwave SONGWRITER-PRODUCER Compton, Calif., native Sounwave, born Mark Spears, is an in-house producer at the record label Top Dawg Entertainment and has had a hand in every release from rapper Kendrick Lamar since his self-titled debut EP in 2009, including Black Panther: The Album (2018) and the albums DAMN. (2017) and To Pimp a Butterfly (2015). Sounwave, who has also produced for Ab-Soul, Jay Rock, Bleachers and St. Vincent, recalls the Grammy Award-winning success of Lamar’s jazz-and funk-inspired Butterfly. In 2014 we took a very important trip to South Africa, which opened our eyes to our homeland and touched us in a very special way. That’s when this album started. Sitting in [Nelson] Mandela’s house in Johannesburg, we said, “This is the sound, this is the message.” It was…

JESSIE REYEZ STARTED feeling anxious in January, as soon as her debut album was announced. “There’s so much pressure for a first album,” says the singer-songwriter. “And I never felt that before I started doing interviews and people started bringing it up, asking, ‘Do you feel pressure for your first album?’ and I’m like, ‘Well, fuck, I didn’t till now.’ ” Reyez, 28, started releasing music online in 2014, and her debut album, Before Love Came to Kill Us, finally comes out March 27 on FMLY/Island Records, but “I could keep working on it today,” says Reyez. “Like, someone is going to have to put me in handcuffs real soon if they don’t want me to keep switching shit up.” She has been feeling so impatient that she even…

Less than a decade ago, a self-described “frustrated punk rocker,” Chris “Bronski” Jablonski, and a sidelined professional dancer, Amber Rimell, crossed paths for a second time while working on Rita Ora’s then-upcoming tour. Bronski — whose band never took off, but who had become an expert in audio, lighting and onstage visuals — and Rimell — whose knee injury halted her dance career but drove her to become a choreographer — decided to pitch their own creative direction. They say Ora was adamant that they execute it, and in November 2012 they formed their own creative studio: Tawbox. Additional work with Ora sustained momentum, but it wasn’t until Stormzy enlisted Tawbox for a 2017 tour that the two-person team became a go-to company for performers in the United Kingdom.…

Baby Booms At No. 1 Lil Baby lands his first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 as My Turn debuts atop the tally with the biggest streaming week of 2020 for an album so far. The set earned 197,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending March 5, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data — Lil Baby’s best week yet in terms of units. My Turn generated 261.6 million on-demand streams for its songs in the album’s first week, making it the most-streamed set of 2020. Lil Baby’s high-water mark likely will be crushed on the March 21 chart by another “Lil” artist, as Lil Uzi Vert’s Eternal Atake should open atop the tally with well over 325 million clicks in its first week. Forecasters estimate…

Unlikely Candidates Victorious The Unlikely Candidates (above) earn their first No. 1 on the Alternative airplay chart with “Novocaine.” The song is their fifth entry, dating to their 2013 arrival. Volbeat’s “Die to Live” (featuring Clutch’s Neil Fallon) jumps 3-1 on Mainstream Rock. Volbeat adds its eighth leader on the list, while Fallon garners his first No. 1 song solo or with Clutch. Five Finger Death Punch lands its sixth Hard Rock Albums No. 1, tying Linkin Park for the most in the chart’s history, as F8 launches with 55,000 equivalent album units, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. Plus, Ace’s “How Long,” which hit No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1975, enters Hot Rock Songs at No. 19 and Rock Digital Song Sales at No. 1. The…

WHEN CHRIS TAYLOR TALKS ABOUT Entertainment One Music (also known as eOne) becoming Hasbro’s new plug-and-play music team, he sounds like a kid in a toy store. “The amount of opportunity that I was hoping would result from this deal is crystallizing now,” says the global president of the New York-, London-and Los Angeles-based music company, speaking from a car en route to Hasbro’s Pawtucket, R.I., headquarters. Later that day, Taylor and a group of eOne executives met with Hasbro management and presented a portfolio of music assets, from music supervision and soundtrack production to synch licensing and a production music library, created through eOne’s $215 million acquisition of the United Kingdom-based Audio Network in April 2019. “Hasbro didn’t have a music department previous to our arrival,” says Taylor.…

THE YEAR 2005 WASN’T EXACTLY an auspicious time to launch a record label. Music sales were declining worldwide, and wide-spread piracy created an existential crisis in the industry. But when Barclay Crenshaw told his wife, Aundy Caldwell Crenshaw, that he wanted to launch an electronic music label called Dirtybird, she didn’t think twice. “I was basically like, ‘I will support you for one year, and if you can do it in that one year and you are good, you can keep doing it,’ ” recalls Aundy. “I wanted to make sure he gave it his all. And he did.” Fifteen years later, Barclay is celebrating the release of his sixth album as house and techno luminary Claude VonStroke, and Dirtybird has established itself as a pioneering tastemaker brand and…

PETE TONG DJ, BBC Radio 1 Streaming, streaming, streaming. As the major [digital streaming platforms] mature, I expect dance and electronic music will become more important in distinguishing Apple’s and Spotify’s services too, with the introduction of mixes on Apple [a little over a year ago] being the first example. GINA TUCCI VP/GM, Big Beat Records This next decade is about artists who grew up with electronic music in their formative years influenced by their own internet culture. Shorter, quicker, pix-elated music will come to the forefront, giving listeners a much more dynamic experience with less fatigue. It will also be about how to take this accelerated music onto the main stage in a compelling way. CODY CHAPMAN Agent, Paradigm Talent Agency Artists that innovate and develop their own…

Bad Bunny’s Historic Debut Bad Bunny lands a historic debut on the Billboard 200 as the Puerto Rican artist’s YHLQMDLG bows at No. 2 with 179,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States during the week ending March 5, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. With the arrival, he scores the highest-charting all-Spanish-language album ever, the biggest streaming week ever for a Latin album (201.4 million on-demand streams for its songs) and the largest week for a Latin title (in units) since Billboard began tracking albums by equivalent album units in December 2014. Prior to YHLQMDLG, the highest rank logged for an all-Spanish-language album was No. 4, by both Maná’s Amar es Combatir (Sept. 9, 2006) and Shakira’s Fijación Oral: Vol. 1 (June 25, 2005). —KEITH CAULFIELD Taylor’s Six-Decade…

SALES DATA COMPILED BY AIRPLAY & 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…

Snoh’s Record Climb Snoh Aalegra (above) rewrites the record for the longest trek to the Adult R&B chart’s summit as “I Want You Around” lifts 2-1 in its 41st week. The mark eclipses the 34-week journey of R. Kelly’s “Step in the Name of Love” from 2003. “Around” ascends with a 3% bump in plays in the week ending March 8, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. “I’m so thankful for all the love that this record has been getting,” Snoh tells Billboard. “It’s a very special song to me. The journey has been pretty insane. I’ve worked extremely hard to get here, and yet I’m only just getting started.” Though adult stations have carried “Around,” the song now finds favor with mainstream outlets as it debuts at No. 40…

We The Kingdom Dons Crown We the Kingdom (above) earns its first Christian Airplay No. 1 with “Holy Water,” which gains by 8% to 12.4 million impressions, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. The act comprises brothers Ed and Scott Cash; the former’s daughter Franni and son Martin; and friend Andrew Bergthold. The group previously hit No. 10 in December with “Christmas Day,” with Chris Tomlin. Meanwhile, genre icon Michael W. Smith climbs 12-10 on Hot Christian Songs with “Waymaker” (featuring Vanessa Campagna and Madelyn Berry, in their first chart visit apiece). It drew 6.7 million in radio reach and 483,000 U.S. streams and sold 2,000 in the tracking week. “Waymaker” marks Smith’s fourth Hot Christian Songs top 10 and first since “All Is Well” (featuring Carrie Underwood), which hit…

Aventura’s Impact Aventura (above) crowds the Boxscore chart with four top 10 entries. The superstar Latin bachata group makes an appearance due to domestic reports from its reunion Inmortal Tour. At No. 2 are its three shows at Chicago’s United Center, which grossed $5.5 million and sold over 40,000 tickets, according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore. Shows at Houston’s Toyota Center, Boston’s TD Garden and Dallas’ American Airlines Center follow at Nos. 3, 4 and 9, respectively. As of the group’s March 5 show in Washington, D.C., the tour has grossed $24.1 million since its Feb. 5 launch at The Forum in Inglewood, Calif. The trek will run through April 25, wrapping at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena. —ERIC FRANKENBERG BOXSCORE: THE TOP GROSSING CONCERTS AS REPORTED BY PROMOTERS, VENUES,…