Innholdsfortegnelse for 10/29/2016 i Billboard Magazine

BRUNO MARS SHINES AS HIS FIRST SOLO SINGLE IN almost three years, “24K Magic,” launches at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100, marking his highest career debut. The track begins at No. 2 on Digital Song Sales with 101,000 first-week downloads sold in the week ending Oct. 13 (according to Nielsen Music) and No. 9 on Streaming Songs (12.8 million U.S. streams), while vaulting 36-15 on Radio Songs (65 million in audience following its first full week of airplay tracking). On the Nov. 5 charts, it should benefit from his Oct. 15 performance on NBC’s Saturday Night Live. “Magic,” Mars’ 13th Hot 100 top 10 and the title track from his third full-length (due Nov. 18), marks his highest Hot 100 start. In 19 entries dating from 2010, he…

WORLDWIDE EXECUTIVE/PRESIDENT OF MUSIC, ELECTRONICARTS THE GLOBAL APPELLATION IN Steve Schnur’s title isn’t just for show. In any given month, Electronic Arts’ worldwide executive and president of music pingpongs across multiple time zones visiting the company’s campuses — in Sweden, London, Texas, Canada and other locations — and finding untapped music for top sports franchises like the FIFA soccer series, Madden NFL (100 million units sold) and NBA Live, actioners like the robot shooter Titanfall, theater-of-war epic Battlefield and the dystopian Mirror’s Edge. EA’s net revenue for fiscal 2016 was nearly $4.6 billion for game sales across all major platforms — Forbes estimated total U.S. revenue for video games at $23.5 billion in 2015 — the year that one of EA’s biggest successes, Star Wars: Battlefront, with 14 million units…

When the Grammy Award nominees are revealed on Dec. 8, one surefire contender will not be on the list: Frank Ocean, who released two albums — the charttopping Blonde and the “visual album” Endless — in August. A source confirms to Billboard that neither album was submitted for consideration by Ocean’s labels, management or other reps, even though both were released well before the 2017 Grammy eligibility cutoff date of Sept. 30. Blonde (also known as Blond) — which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for the week ending Aug. 25 with 276,000 equivalent-album units (according to Nielsen Music), the third-largest total of 2016 — arrived on Ocean’s own Boys Don’t Cry imprint, although many traditional label functions for the still-digital-only release were handled by Apple Music. Endless,…

Daya And Zedd Exchange Digits Is a date with Zedd in Daya’s future? The 27-year-old DJ and the pop singer, who turns 18 on Oct. 24, traded phone numbers at Nylon magazine’s party for its October It Girl issue at Doheny Room in West Hollywood. They met and posed together for pictures after Daya performed at the Cliniquesponsored event, which was hosted by Nylon cover girl Tinashe. Zedd had already texted the singer by the time she was introduced to Billboard at the party and asked if she would like to collaborate with the DJ. Daya, who was featured on The Chainsmokers’ “Don’t Let Me Down,” said, “I’d love to,” then acknowledged with a big smile that Zedd (who previously dated Selena Gomez) was “super cute.” Wiz-O-Lantern Los Angeles…

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RACHEL BLOOM’S FIRST MUSIC video was called “F— Me, Ray Bradbury”; her second, “I Steal Pets.” Unorthodox, sure — but the 29-year-old comedian has turned YouTube clicks into TV stardom with the Golden Globe-winning musical comedy Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, whose second season premieres Oct. 21 on the CW. “Just wait for the first episode,” she says coyly before sharing some of her most memorable music moments. “There’s a Beyoncé-style number that’s different — and more expensive — than anything we’ve ever done!” FIRST CONCERT I saw Bette Midler at the Staples Center. She sang a song called “Sweet Marihuana” that made me so uncomfortable. Obviously I wouldn’t be now, but I was in sixth grade! It was the first time I heard anyone talk about pot, and I was with…

AFEW YEARS AGO, drummer-producer Robert Biesewig was on tour with the reggae band Orange Grove when he met doctor of audiology Julie Glick, who changed the way he listened to music. Backstage before a Los Angeles show, the group was fitted for in-ear monitors — earphones often custom-designed from impressions of the ear canal — that pump in music while blocking out background noise so musicians can hear themselves play without damaging their hearing. The $1,500 pair of JH Audio JH16 monitors that Glick recommended, recalls Biesewig, “sounded better, and I didn’t have to turn up the volume so high anymore.” He liked them so much, in fact, that they ultimately became his go-to when listening to music on his smartphone, since they also fit into standard headphone jacks. He’s…

Clothing Store UNDER 40 “Round Two in Los Angeles. It’s the best of everything I want in one store. I love old ’90s vintage T-shirts, and they have the greatest sneaker selection.” —Sophie Ash, Parkwood Entertainment POWER 100 “Gratus in Beverly Hills.” —Michelle Jubelirer, COO, Capitol Music Group Vacation Spot UNDER 40 “Kanopi House in Blue Lagoon, Port Antonio, Jamaica. I went there when Rihanna shot the ‘Man Down’ video. It’s like a tree house with panoramic views of the rain forest.” —Mildred Delamota, Def Jam Recordings POWER 100 “Bora Bora.” —John Branca, coexecutor of Michael Jackson’s estate Expense Account Restaurant UNDER 40 “If someone is taking me out, it’s Gotham Bar and Grill. If I’m taking someone out, it’s Bowery Meat Company.” —JP Evangelista, Vevo POWER 100 “The Palm,…

For students considering a future in the law while seeking their bachelor’s degrees, the American Bar Association offers some encouraging advice. There is no single path leading to a legal education, reports the ABA, the professional association for lawyers. Pre-law students can study any field that encourages such skills as research, problem-solving and communication. Schools that attract undergraduates already focused on careers in the music business offer classes of particular interest to aspiring attorneys. These are three programs of note: FULL SAIL UNIVERSITY Orlando Within its music business bachelor of science degree program, Full Sail offers undergraduate classes in copyright and publishing, artist management, business law and more. The law class covers business formation, insurance, taxes, accounting and intellectual property issues. THE LOS ANGELES FILM SCHOOL Los Angeles The…

Maverick’s Guy Oseary (Madonna, U2), and Heather Parry, president of Live Nation Film and Television, have signed on to co-manage the estate of Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain. Cobain’s daughter, Frances Bean, and widow, Courtney Love, brought in the Beverly Hills-based firm, which will oversee the name, likeness, artwork, digital and licensing for the singersongwriter who died in 1994. Says Oseary: “Heather and I are humbled ... to support Courtney and Frances in protecting and celebrating a legacy that’s important to us all.” Nirvana, the pre-eminent alternative rock band of the modern era, sold 9.4 million copies of its 1991 majorlabel debut album, Nevermind, in the United States, according to Nielsen Music. Throughout its career, the group’s catalog has moved 27.6 million units. Estate management, once a business that rarely made headlines,…

THE PULSE OF MUSIC RIGHT NOW “I’VE ALWAYS SPOKEN OUT ABOUT WHAT IT means to be ‘the other,’ ” says Janelle Monae, seated on a plush vintage couch in the New York offices of A24, the film studio that’s releasing her first feature film, Moonlight, later this month. “As a black woman who has experienced sexism and racism, I feel obligated to say something,” she says of her attraction to the role of Teresa, the de facto surrogate mother of a black boy grappling with his sexuality in Miami. “I have to say something.” Monae has historically used psychedelic R&B to redefine the feeling of being “young, black, wild and free,” and, fittingly, her first forays into Hollywood come in Academy Award contenders that challenge the #OscarsSoWhite trend. In Moonlight…

Saxophonist Donny McCaslin has been recording as a sideman since 1994, but his work on David Bowie’s Blackstar, arrived two days before the singer died in January, became a poignant career peak. As he releases his own Beyond Now album (Oct. 14, Motema Music), McCaslin, 50, talks about why a record with multiple EDM covers is dedicated to Bowie. How did your work on Blackstar affect Beyond Now? The reality of the jazz budget is that you usually go to the studio, set up and try to do the whole record in one or two days. With Blackstar, we took almost three weeks, which was more time then we’ve ever had in the studio. That made a big difference. I didn’t have the means for that, but we had four…

One surprising result of the vinyl renaissance has been the emergence of listening lounges: swanky showrooms, town houses and cafes that exist solely for the purpose of allowing music fans to hear records with the highest-quality sound possible. “My biggest demographic is 20- to 34-year-olds,” says Colleen “Cosmo” Murphy, who has hosted Classic Album Sundays in London and around the world since 2010. “They want to learn about the records, but the biggest draw is the sound,” she explains of millennials who mostly have experienced music through MP3s and cheap earbuds rather than tube amplifiers and belt-driven turntables. Los Angeles DJ Zach Cowie, a fixture at the new Flora Chang lounge, which boasts Audio Note’s Jinro Shochu amplifier and Klipschorn loudspeakers, says, “All you have to do is hear this…

The week’s most popular artists across all genres, ranked by album and track sales as measured by Nielsen Music, radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen Music, streaming activity data from online music sources tracked by Nielsen Music and fan interaction on social networking sites as compiled by Next Big Sound. See Charts Legend on billboard.com/biz for complete rules and explanations. © 2016, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved. Pink Is On ‘Fire’ As Pink ranks at No. 50 on the Billboard Artist 100, she continues an uncommon run of both adult and country chart success. For a second week, the primarily pop singer-songwriter burns bright atop Hot Country Songs, featured on Kenny Chesney’s “Setting the World on Fire.” Meanwhile, her own “Just Like…