Innholdsfortegnelse for April 23, 2022 i Billboard Magazine

WE DON’T TALK about Bruno, but Disney is giving the music business something to talk about: its impressive gains in market share. As 2022 got underway, the soundtrack to the Disney film Encanto was the biggest album of the first quarter. The Lin-Manuel Miranda-penned collection of songs is the first album to pass 1 million equivalent album units year to date in 2022, according to Luminate, formerly MRC Data, and its success has boosted Disney Music Group into the top 10 of overall U.S. market share rankings for the first quarter, the most significant of several moves atop the rankings, year over year. Interscope Geffen A&M maintained its spot atop the rankings for the first quarter, coming in at 9.76% and fending off a charge from No. 2 Atlantic,…

U.S. REP. TED DE UTCH has played piano most of his life, and a Bruce Springsteen song, “Land of Hope and Dreams,” helped inspire his first run for office — a Florida state senate race in 2006. But as much as he loved music, he didn’t understand how complicated music-business legislation could be until he learned the laws were inspired by the advent of player pianos over 100 years ago — the term “mechanical royalties” comes from the mechanics of the instrument. “That’s when I knew that there was a lot of work to be done. And I’ve spent a lot of time learning about copyright and boning up on the really challenging aspects of it,” says Deutch, a Florida Democrat and one of this year’s Grammys on the…

Leading Light Award ▪ Kevin Liles, 300 Entertainment ▪ Monstercat ▪ Warner Music Group Agent of Change Award ▪ Made in Memphis Entertainment ▪ The Recording Academy ▪ Spotify #NextGen_Now One To Watch Award ▪ Shauna Alexander, SoundCloud ▪ Jenna Gaudio, Vydia ▪ Tiffany Kerns, Country Music Association ▪ Geoff Ogunlesi, 300 Entertainment ▪ Jennifer Turnbow, National Songwriters Association International Master of Metadata Award ▪ Lindsay Conlin, Exactuals ▪ Britnee Foreman, Exceleration Music Jaxsta ▪ Music Reports ▪ SoundExchange Frontline Innovator Award ▪ Darkside Records (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) ▪ Music Millennium (Portland, Ore.) ▪ The Record Exchange (Boise, Idaho) ▪ Seasick Records (Birmingham, Ala.) ▪ The Sound Garden (Baltimore; Syracuse, N.Y.) Marketing Superstar Award ▪ All Time Low “It Was Never a Phase” Campaign, Hopeless Records ▪ Cleopatrick, Thirty Tigers/The…

THE FIRST TIME Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis discussed the song-writing business, they were in middle school 40 years ago, a decade or so away from producing a string of hits for Janet Jackson, Boyz II Men, Mariah Carey and many others, as well as winning five Grammy Awards. “The only business that Terry and I talked about back in that day was we were going to split everything 50-50,” Jam recalls. “We shook hands, and our handshake was our agreement, and that’s still in place.” As the duo’s career progressed, the discussions of copyrights, royalties and publishing became more complex, and Jam and Lewis evolved into songwriter advocates. Jam was the first Black person to chair the Recording Academy’s board of trustees in the early 2000s, and he…

MANY IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS lean liberal, but when it comes to congressional music legislation, much of the progress comes from bipartisanship, with Republicans from former Sen. Orrin Hatch to Rep. Michael McCaul sponsoring crucial creators’ rights bills. “A lot of our strongest advocates are on the Republican side,” says Jimmy Jam. “It’s the one place we agree upon things.” McCaul — a guitarist who plays every day, attends Austin City Limits in his hometown and saw U2 on its first U.S. tour in 1981 — tops this Republican list, and will join Jam, Terry Lewis and U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch, a Florida Democrat, as Grammys on the Hill honorees this year. McCaul co-sponsored 2018’s Music Modernization Act and the Save Our Stages bill, which brought $15 billion in…

THE DETAILS ARE A little blurry on Billie Eilish’s first time meeting Danny Rukasin. She remembers him wearing a leather jacket (“I was?” he asks with a skeptical laugh) and was convinced he was in his 40s. (“30s!” he later objects.) “It’s so cute to be thinking about all of this,” Eilish, 20, reflects with a soft smile while sitting next to her brother, FINNEAS, 24, in a serene greenroom in Phoenix, mere hours before her next headlining show. But the facts about what led to that moment in late 2015 are irrefutable. When Eilish first met Rukasin, now 43, FINNEAS already had a rapport with the manager — he had previously reached out to him about his own band, The Slightlys. “Danny gave me great advice way before…

I’VE HEARD IT described as the most interesting mix of music and politics,” says Todd Dupler — the Recording Academy’s acting chief of advocacy and public policy officer — of the academy’s annual Grammys on the Hill event, which brings musicians together with legislators at a Washington, D.C., dinner, followed by a day of meetings on Capitol Hill. This year, on April 27, the dinner will honor Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, along with Reps. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., and Michael McCaul, R-Texas. “We can connect artists with lawmakers who make decisions that affect their livelihood,” Dupler says. The night includes performances — usually by the creators being honored and others — plus members of Congress getting onstage to join the musical guests. “The members feel relaxed,” Dupler says, “and…

John Geraghty, Blythe Scokin AGES 27, 32 COMPANY rogue. KEY CLIENTS Fletcher, Ingrid Andress Geraghty and Scokin co-founded the boutique management firm rogue. in 2020 — and by 2021, Ingrid Andress had scored three Grammy nominations, including best new artist. (Scokin has managed Andress since 2018.) This year, Fletcher wrapped her sold-out North American tour that sold nearly 50,000 tickets globally within minutes — without a debut album out. Says Geraghty: “It brings me joy to see Ingrid represent country music the way she does and Fletcher create safe spaces for young queer kids.” Alex Valenti AGE 26 COMPANY 3V Method KEY CLIENTS Peach Tree Rascals, CLAY, Felly, Sean Leon Launching her own management, recording and publishing company, 3V Method, in early 2020 — and then having the pandemic…

IN 1978 PAUL MCGUINNESS sat down in Dublin’s Granary pub with the four members of The Hype, who were too young to drink — but not too young, in his view, to be served a cold truth about making music for a living. “It is pathetic to be good at what you do if you are bad at the business of it,” said McGuinness, then an aspiring manager. Over the coming decades, the manager and the band — rechristened U2 — would prove anything but, staying a step ahead of the fast-changing music business as it shifted from albums to downloads and tours became megatours. Half a world away in Los Angeles, Irving Azoff gives his acts a similarly blunt message. “The first thing I tell a young artist…