Innholdsfortegnelse for March 12, 2022 i Billboard Magazine

HOT 100 1 “Heat Waves” Glass Animals LAST WEEK 2 PEAK POSITION 1 WEEKS ON CHART 59 GLASS ANIMALS’ “HEAT WAVES” hits No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, completing the longest climb to the summit in the history of the chart: 59 weeks. The first Hot 100 chart-topper (and entry) for the British quartet — Dave Bayley, Edmund Irwin-Singer, Drew MacFarlane and Joe Seaward — debuted on the Jan. 16, 2021-dated list. Released in June 2020, the song topped Alternative Airplay for three weeks in March/April 2021 and Mainstream Top 40 and Adult Top 40 for two weeks each this January and February. In between, it connected prominently on TikTok, which helped spark its crossover. “The song is about nostalgia and the past and remembering and missing people,”…

NO, NO, NO. You were too late,” says Sebastián Yatra, lifting his phone again and turning it to selfie mode. “One more time.” It’s nearly midnight at a half-empty restaurant in Miami’s hip design district, and Yatra has roped me into what he calls “Instagram therapy”: lip-syncing on camera to his track “Melancólicos Anónimos,” with me playing the prissy-voiced therapist to Yatra’s lovelorn Romeo. And while we may technically be filming for the 27-year-old Colombian pop star’s 29 million Instagram followers, there’s another rapt audience here — namely, the young Venezuelan mothers and their well-manicured husbands at the table next to us, not-so-surreptitiously looking on. So I focus on delivering my lines on the beat and, this time, nail it. “Yes!” Yatra exclaims, uploading the video to both his…

FOR ONCE IN ITS HISTORY, the music industry has embraced an emerging technology in its infancy, contradicting its decadeslong history of shunning evolution until — as the Napster era demonstrated — it becomes impossible to ignore. Over the past three years, music executives have shown a growing interest in blockchain, a digitally distributed, immutable public ledger — and the basis for the next generation of the internet known as Web3 — because of its far-reaching application potential. A transparent, secure digital record maintained through a decentralized network of servers that eliminates the need for a trusted third party can theoretically reinvent how royalty payments are distributed and reduce the time it takes for rights holders to get paid. Tickets sold as non-fungible tokens could end scalping in the live-entertainment…

“LET’S DO THIS SHIT!” Young Thug bellows as he enters an Atlanta photo studio just after midnight, with Gunna by his side. They are five hours late to their photo shoot, but their laughter is infectious as they swoop in to save the day, and the mood in the room seems to instantly relax when the crew hears the bounce in Thug’s voice. The term “fashionably late” couldn’t be more apt for the Young Stoner Life label stars. Draped in a short-sleeve denim jacket, a spry Thug towers over everyone at 6 feet, 3 inches, courteously greeting those in attendance, then joking about the size of his too-small shared dressing room. Gunna briskly walks in behind him, exuding the same Southern warmth — handshakes, hugs. “This room small as…

YGO TAKES HIS COFFEE black. No sugar. Given the past 72 hours the Norwegian producer has just careened through, his need to mainline caffeine is understandable. On Friday, he flew out of Los Angeles on a private jet for a show at Las Vegas mega-club XS. The next morning, he touched down in Arizona, played a set at the Phoenix Open golf tournament, then ping-ponged back to L.A. to perform that night at a pre-Super Bowl party hosted by Sports Illustrated and Palm Tree Crew, his own musical collective and lifestyle brand. There, a horde of VIP types — some of whom paid upwards of $35,000 for a table near the stage — warmed up to an opening set by Goldman Sachs CEO David “DJ Sol” Solomon, guzzled free…

THE MARCH 2021 announcement that Ron Bension had been named president/CEO of ASM Global, the world’s largest facility management company, was received with great interest in the live-event industry. And it wasn’t just because Bension had spent 11 years at the much larger competitor of ASM’s AEG Presents division. (Many of the sector’s major players, including Live Nation president/CEO Michael Rapino and Full Stop Management chairman Irving Azoff and his Oak View Group partner, CEO Tim Leiweke, have been both colleagues and rivals.) It was that Bension’s run at Live Nation had largely been spent overseeing the company’s House of Blues nightclub chain, which has an average venue capacity of about 1,850 people. ASM Global formed in 2019 from the merger of AEG Facilities and SMG, then the No.…

I HIT A LOW POINT A FEW YEARS AGO,” Shawn Mendes admits, his brow furrowing beneath his shaggy curls. The sun is setting over a Santa Monica, Calif., apartment complex, and Mendes is leaning forward from his seat as he explains a recent major life change: his embrace of spirituality. It started with meditation to bring a little balance to his chaotic life of pop stardom. That turned into reading religious texts, which turned into a deep dive on the Bhakti movement in Hinduism. For nearly a year, Mendes has spent every Thursday meditating and discussing scriptures like the Bhagavad Gita with Jay Shetty, the author of Think Like a Monk. “I think everybody has a moment where they just decide it’s time to kind of do something different,”…