Innholdsfortegnelse for November 5, 2022 i Billboard Magazine

BILLBOARD 200 1 Midnights Taylor Swift LAST WEEK - PEAK POSITION 1 WEEKS ON CHART 1 TAYLOR SWIFT’S new album, Midnights, soars in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with the biggest week for any project in nearly seven years. Released Oct. 21, the set launches with 1.578 million equivalent album units earned in the United States during the week ending Oct. 27, according to Luminate. The album scores the largest week, by units, since Adele’s 25 bowed with 3.482 million (Dec. 12, 2015). Midnights also arrives with the most weekly sales — 1.14 million — since Swift’s reputation began with 1.216 million (Dec. 2, 2017). After just its first week, Midnights is already the top-selling album of 2022, besting Harry Styles’ Harry’s House (633,000). Midnights, Swift’s 10th…

IN SEPTEMBER, “Dumb Dumb” — a song by mazie featured in the Netflix teen drama Do Revenge — caught a wave on TikTok, and listenership grew exponentially. Over the course of two weeks, “the record went from doing around 10,000 streams per day to around 1.4 million per day and has sustained since,” says Max Gredinger, who manages the 23-year-old artist. “We saw increases across the rest of her catalog as well, which showed new fans were sticking around to learn more about mazie and her music.” Artists and executives compare success on TikTok to the lottery — it often seems just that random. But crucially, the payout on a winning ticket doesn’t come from TikTok itself. The financial rewards accrue outside the platform in the form of royalties…

ELVIS WAS ANGRY — and broke. In a 1970s showdown in Las Vegas with Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley fired his longtime personal manager — only to have Parker respond by presenting the singer with a multimillion-dollar bill for unrecouped expenses that went back decades, from the cost of gasoline for Elvis’ first trip to the Louisiana Hayride radio show to fuel for the Lisa Marie, his private jet named after his daughter. In his hit film Elvis, director Baz Luhrmann depicts the confrontation — a true story, according to Alanna Nash, author of the definitive biography The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley — and in his dramatization of the episode, a distraught Elvis lashes out at his father, Vernon, blaming him for…

THE NO. 1s ISSUE YEAR IN MUSIC ISSUE DATE | AD CLOSE 11/29 MATERIALS DUE 11/30 12/10 CONTACT East Coast/Midwest: Joe Maimone | joe.maimone@billboard.com Southeast: Lee Ann Photoglo | laphotoglo@gmail.com Latin: Marcia Olival | marciaolival29@gmail.com Touring & West Coast: Cynthia Mellow | cmellow615@gmail.com International: Ryan O’Donnell | rodonnell@pmc.com billboard’s Year in Music, the No. 1’s, will wrap up 2022 with an extraordinary editorial package. Included will be year-end charts, interviews, and analysis on the year’s top artists, titles and labels as well as the year’s top producers, songwriters and publishers. The year-end Boxscore rankings will shine a light on the most successful tours as well as the top venues and promoters. This highly-anticipated year in music—the No.1s, serves as a compilation of must-have information. It is referenced year-round by…

FOR THE FOURTH TIME this year — and second in a row — Bad Bunny leads Billboard’s monthly Boxscore ranking with the highest-grossing tour of September. He initially earned top honors in February, becoming the first Latin act to do so since the monthly list began in February 2019. In March, he scored the highest monthly total for an arena tour since the charts launched. And when his World’s Hottest Tour grew to stadiums in August, he claimed the title for the largest monthly sum for a solo act. With his latest four weeks of performances, Bad Bunny is running out of records to rewrite. Over the course of 11 shows from Sept. 1 to Sept. 30, World’s Hottest Tour earned $123.7 million and sold over 500,000 tickets, according…

LESS THAN A YEAR AFTER THE FINAL coronavirus restrictions were dropped on concert capacity and attendance, the country’s largest two concert promoters are forecasting record sales in 2023 across a broad swath of building categories and genres. Although another promoter says he’s concerned the future is not nearly as bright for new acts. Live Nation’s chair for global touring, Arthur Fogel, says his company has seen “absolutely no diminishment in sales” since the full-scale return of concerts and believes there is still significant growth opportunity for the company’s top-line touring acts to command record grosses. Likewise, AEG Presents president for North America Rick Mueller says that ticket sales for shows already on sale in 2023 indicate record revenue and attendance at every capacity level in the concert space, “from…

Along with her indie-punk project, Illuminati Hotties, Tudzin has become an in-demand studio whiz by producing, engineering and mixing records for several independent acts, all while stressing the importance of learning how to help one’s own community. I THINK THE LABEL “ DIY ” IS a little misleading — like you’re out on this island, fighting your way toward some sort of success or fame. To me, it’s really about doing it with all the people around you. The DIY community is what sends artists into the next levels of their careers, so it’s about surrounding yourself with people whom you believe in, who believe in you and want to support you. For me, that was mostly going to shows, meeting people who liked music that I liked [and]…

How did you feel watching this film come to life? It hit home. It’s realistic. Scenes between Whitney and me, obviously, were emotionally impactful, from the time we first met to going through the musical, personal relationship we had, the more difficult times in dealing with her problems. I think the film is very accurate in its portrayal of the dialogues we had. Were you involved in the casting? I met and spent some time with Stanley Tucci, who plays me — and who was everyone’s primary choice, though I did not meet him until after he agreed to do the part. Before he and I spoke, he wanted to and did read my autobiography and saw my documentary [Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives]. And then we…

Bill Zysblat CO-FOUNDER/MANAGING PARTNER, RZO Tom Cyrana John Gula Lila Sweet PARTNERS/MANAGING DIRECTORS, RZO With concert tours managing ongoing health risks and artists eager to perform live once more, “everything is amazingly good—from a fan perspective,” says RZO co-founder/managing partner Zysblat. But for artists? “It’s COVID, COVID, COVID,” he says. Zysblat brings nearly five decades of perspective to discussions of touring. He and his late business partner Joe Rascoff began advising The Rolling Stones in 1975, and they formed RZO in 1988. The firm stands out among its peers in the business management field not only for its focus solely on artists, but also the stature of those names it works with. RZO still counts the Stones among its clients (although AEG manages the finances of the band’s tours)…

ADAM FOSTER, product director for Luminate, which provides data for the Billboard charts, died Oct. 11 at his home in Los Angeles from ALS, surrounded by wife Larissa, dog Dido and others. He had worked at the data provider since 1994. Originally from Montgomery, Ala., Foster studied at the Georgia Institute of Technology, from which he graduated in 1992. After beginning at Luminate, he grew to become the point person in the weekly production of Luminate’s BDS, and Billboard’s, radio airplay charts. Foster long served as a face of BDS, literally, through the “Ask Adam” feature on BDS’ website, and continuously provided key information to those in the industry, even (and often) late on weekends amid close races for No. 1. Luminate CEO Rob Jonas remembers Foster as “most…

THIS PAST SUMMER, THE second-largest U.S. bank, Bank of America, looked at how its customers’ spending on entertainment for the month of May compared with a year ago. What researchers found was surprisingly positive for the touring industry, and there are signs the good news is holding steady, at least for now. Spending on concert, theater and movie tickets in May was up across all income groups. Moderate-and high-income earners — households bringing in over $50,000 and over $125,000 in annual income, respectively — exhibited the most pent-up demand, with spending levels up more than 40% in May compared with May 2021. Demand among lower-income consumers — households earning less than $50,000 a year — was up almost as much, rising roughly 38% year to year. In October, Bank…

LONDON — Deezer has always been the streaming service that charted its own path. After launching in 2007 — a year before Spotify debuted — the Paris-based company rapidly opened its service in over 180 countries; but, unlike Spotify, which focused on one or two markets at a time, Deezer avoided the biggest markets, like the United States and Japan, for many years. But now that the number of on-demand music subscription services has boomed, Deezer has struggled to keep up with its rivals. New CEO Jeronimo Folgueira, who took over in June 2021, hopes to change that. Deezer is shifting from targeting small and emerging territories to renewing its focus on large and established music markets, where consumers are more willing to pay for subscriptions. In August, Folgueira…

Last year, the electronic producer/digital artist added a clause to a single deal letting him potentially use the track later as part of a non-fungible token or in a Web3-related project. He encourages other artists to learn how to negotiate for similar arrangements. I WAS LUCKY ENOUGH to write an NFT clause into an indie single deal of mine back in February 2021, via the Australian label Club Sweat [a subsidiary of Sydney-based record label Sweat It Out]. Verbatim, the contract said, “Licensers shall retain exclusive rights to create and exploit NFTs in connection with license masters.” I actually did exploit that for my Alaska drop, a collaboration with Party Pupils, on [NFT marketplace] Catalog in October 2021. [These clauses] allow you to be versatile in a way that’s…

FROM Vancouver, B.C. AGE 27 LABEL Independent FOUNDATION Growing up home-schooled by his mother, bbno$ was encouraged to learn how to read music and play piano. In 2008, as a young teenager, his brother’s friend suggested music production, too. But it wasn’t until high school, when he broke his back and derailed his aspirations of professional swimming, that he considered it. Soon enough, playing around with AutoTune during a casual hang with a friend led to an “epiphany” for bbno$ (born Alexander Gumuchian) — and helped ease his depression following the injury. “I wish I had started earlier,” he says, “because I didn’t know there was this much fun in creating.” DISCOVERY While studying at the University of British Columbia in 2017, bbno$ started writing two songs a day…

BETTING BIG RUNS IN Evan Bogart’s family. His father, the late Casablanca Records founder Neil Bogart, was known in the 1970s for being as extravagant as the acts he worked with, including Donna Summer, The Isley Brothers, Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield. And his penchant for gambling both in the casino and with his label made him one of the disco era’s most successful and outsize businessmen. The relation between father and son is obvious: Evan has his dad’s entrepreneurialism and golden ear. And most recently, the 44-year-old has made a gamble of his own: launching an independent music empire of catalogs and front-line publishing and label acts, Seeker Music. Certainly, in the last few years, there has been a flurry of high-priced song-catalog acquisitions by music companies and…

HIGH ABOVE BROADWAY near the southern tip of Manhattan, perched atop what’s known as the Standard Oil Building, sits a particularly privileged slice of Old New York history. The top two floors of the 31-story structure once served as sanctuary for the Rockefeller oil tycoons: The lower has 360-degree panoramic views of New York Harbor, the Statue of Liberty and Governors Island and used to house an executive conference room; the upper, known as the Tower Club, was once home to John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s squash courts, with some ball marks still scoring the walls. In the stairwell connecting the two hangs a sign: “IF WE SEE SMOKE AROUND YOU WE’LL ASSUME YOU’RE ON FIRE AND DRENCH YOU WITH WATER.” It appears to have only recently been taped to…