Innholdsfortegnelse for December 10, 2022 i Billboard Magazine

MOST TOP 10 HOT 100 HITS FROM ONE ALBUM With Midnights’ opening week, Swift occupied the entire top 10 of the Hot 100, making her the first artist to accomplish the feat and also making Midnights the first album to ever generate 10 top 10s. The set surpasses Drake’s Certified Lover Boy, which generated nine after its 2021 debut. (Swift and Drake, among others, have scored record hauls on the Hot 100 in recent years largely thanks to the inclusion of streaming data.) MOST TOP 10 HOT 100 HITS AMONG WOMEN Swift has 40 top 10 hits on the chart. Only Drake has more top 10s, with 67. The pattern repeats with top 20 hits — Swift has 67, Drake has 115 — and top 40 hits, with 104…

2022 WAS A BREAKOUT YEAR for the producer, as she landed her first major credits — and made history. Now, the “Beat Barbie” is the first and only woman this century to debut at No. 1 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs as a producer with Nicki Minaj’s “Super Freaky Girl.” The Olympia, Wash., native reveals how she created the hit with one of hiphop’s biggest stars. How did the beat for “Super Freaky Girl” come together? I was [working] with two of my favorite collaborators, and we were just having fun. When we landed on [Rick James’ “Super Freak”], we were like, “OK, this is a big sample.” We spent several hours fine-tuning the beat and it ended up in the hands of LunchMoney Lewis. It gets played for Nicki…

9 The number of nonconsecutive weeks ENCANTO spent at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, becoming the first soundtrack to hit No. 1 since Frozen II in 2019. 4th ONEREPUBLIC’S “I AIN’T WORRIED” from Top Gun: Maverick became the band’s fourth top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 6, and first since “Counting Stars” hit No. 2 in 2014 2.3B Total on-demand official streams for ENCANTO’S tracks.* *In the United States through Nov. 24, according to Luminate. 13 This year, Encanto scored the most weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for a soundtrack since Disney’s own FROZEN spent 13 nonconsecutive weeks atop the list in 2014. 7 The number of credited artists on “WE DON’T TALK ABOUT BRUNO” — the most ever on…

THERE IS SO MUCH THAT has happened this past year in the pop-punk scene, and I’m stoked to be making music. Being able to get back onstage has also been a lot of fun because I’ve been able to travel all over the world just this year through Canada, the United States, South America and Japan. The energy of a pop-punk show is really special, and it’s something that I found was missing in the last few years, and thankfully, it’s back. I think a lot of the resurgence of pop-punk in general started when Machine Gun Kelly and Travis Barker teamed up for [MGK’s 2020 album] Tickets to My Downfall, and that album was so successful. It introduced and reintroduced emo and pop-punk music to the world again.…

FOR A SECOND straight year — and second time in the company’s history — Republic Records is No. 1 on all three of Billboard’s leading yearend label rankings: Top Labels, Billboard 200 Labels and Hot 100 Labels. The Top Labels recap represents aggregated metrics for labels’ performance on the weekly Billboard 200 and Billboard Hot 100 charts combined during the chart year (Nov. 20, 2021-Nov. 12, 2022). Helmed by founders and brothers Monte and Avery Lipman — CEO and COO, respectively — Republic has held the leading slot on the Top Labels chart in six of the last eight years, as well as on Hot 100 Labels in nine of the last 11 years. During the 2022 tracking year, Republic placed 72 albums on the weekly Billboard 200, including…

The 2023 BILLBOARDPOWER LIST will celebrate the executives who are creating excitement and making a difference in the global music industry. Featured will be those who have had the greatest impact in recorded music, live entertainment, touring, publishing and other industry verticals who have had great success in the past year. Take this opportunity to congratulate the 2023 Billboard Power List honorees. Your ad will reach an influential and affluent audience of decision-makers in the global music industry. CONTACT East Coast/Midwest: JoeMaimone | 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 ISSUE DATE 2/4 AD CLOSE 1/24 MATERIALS DUE 1/26…

THE BAND HAS LONG taken vinyl seriously, and their fans have always coveted their music on wax. This is not a band capitalizing on a trend — they’ve developed a large, loyal fan base that likes vinyl. They worked with individual retailers and platforms to reach their fans and vinyl enthusiasts with special versions of their new album. Moreover, they strike the right balance between what they’re offering — special vinyl color, illustrated booklet — and what price they’re offering it for. It was important that we keep their standard vinyl affordable, $25 or less, so that fans across the spectrum of age and income could participate if they wanted to. People hear about things and purchase music across a wide spectrum of retailers and experiences, so you have…

BEING THAT I HAD no expectations, everything I received was hyper-special. The tour was completely sold out, which was wild, and the audiences were right there with me. I feel like I made thousands of friends in the span of a month. Nothing was expected, so everything was gifted. The first Los Angeles show [at The Roxy in November] blew — there were so many suits in the building standing in VIP, just staring and analyzing, seeing how they could commodify the energy in the front, where the audience was at full throttle. I hated it. That show stood out because I could clearly see the disparity between love and greed. The true VIP was the pit where people were feeling the push and pull of what we do…

DESPITE PREVIOUSLY WORKING with Drake, Halsey and Calvin Harris, the Grammy Award-nominated songwriter-producer had a banner year in 2022. In addition to co-producing Doja Cat’s “Vegas” and the BTS track “For Youth,” the Los Angeles native worked extensively with Jack Harlow, most notably on the Fergie-sampling “First Class,” which spent three weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100. How did the idea to sample Fergie’s “Glamorous” come about? Around April 2021, Jack presented us a list of songs and was like, “I want to find ways to chop these songs up and put them [on his album Come Home the Kids Miss You],” because they’re a big reflection of the stuff he grew up listening to. We basically just had the sample and some drums to start, and…

MUSICALS, W HETHER ONSTAGE or onscreen, take time — lots of time — to develop. For Lin-Manuel Miranda, the story of 2022’s Encanto really began six years ago, on opening weekend for a different Disney animated musical, Moana. Miranda was a late addition to that film’s three-person musical team, and he had seen “how seriously and faithfully [Disney] took the responsibility of representing a culture we don’t see onscreen a lot” — in Moana’s case, that of the Polynesian islands — and “making sure that part of the world would be proud,” he recalls. So, he told Tom MacDougall, then executive vp of music for Disney Animation and Pixar, “Listen, I know you guys have some Latin-themed things up your sleeve. If there’s going to be a Disney Latina…

BOOMY This app gives users with no musical training or experience the tools to create a song in minutes by selecting the style of beat or music genre — rap or lo-fi, for instance — and then building and mixing the song from there. Boomy users can also upload their finished songs to over 40 streaming and social media platforms and earn royalties from them, according to the company. ENDEL The Berlin-based company’s app creates personalized ambient music, which founder/CEO Oleg Stavitsky calls “functional sound,” by analyzing user biometrics — like heart rate, age and even the weather — to generate custom soundscapes that promote relaxation, productivity, focus and other cognitive states. “This is where AI should be and is being used in a way that can benefit millions,”…

MUSIC CO MPANIES’ quarterly results in October and November were a bright spot amid a mostly bleak earnings season. High inflation, rising interest rates and the chance of a recession presented a triple-whammy to most sectors — particularly tech and retail — but in the music industry, those macroeconomic threats weren’t enough to dampen consumer demand and investors’ confidence. “While the broader economy is facing challenges, the music industry as a whole remains healthy,” says Golnar Khosrowshahi, founder and CEO of Reservoir Media, which raised its full-fiscal-year forecast by 11% for both revenue and adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA). So what worked in music companies’ favor? In short, more people are going to concerts and buying streaming subscriptions, and revenues from those sectors helped bolster…

ELTON JOHN’S FAREWELL stadium run was one of the biggest touring stories of the year, selling 2.07 million tickets and grossing $334.4 million, according to Billboard Boxscore. But even he felt the pain of being on the road in 2022. The singer, 75, postponed two shows early on when he caught COVID-19. John and his entourage of security and hairdressers had to travel in one bubble while his longtime band was in a separate one. And gas prices were astronomical. “It’s emotionally and spiritually healthy for people to get back out and see shows again,” says David Furnish, John’s husband and manager, calling from the family’s Los Angeles home ahead of the tour’s Nov. 20 finale at the city’s Dodger Stadium. “We just eat the extra cost. You just…

In an increasingly diffuse, streaming-dominated pop landscape, it’s harder than ever to cut through with a smash single that captures everyone’s attention. But one method proved a fairly effective shortcut to success in 2022: lifting an instantly recognizable chorus, hook or beat — and sometimes all three — from a proven older hit. “Familiarity always is a bonus,” WBBM-FM Chic ago music director/assistant program director Erik Bradley told Billboard in August of the glut of second-hand hits. Here are five songs that went big with their samples and interpolations this year and were rewarded with big results. “FIRST CLASS” Jack Harlow LIFTED “GLAMOROUS” Fergie Harlow scored his first-ever solo No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 — and the year’s biggest first-week streaming total, until Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero” passed…

IN JANUARY, the success story of Encanto and its hit single “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” kicked off a banner year for music from movies: Five songs written for films reached the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 in 2022 — the most since 2018, when four original songs from movies reached the upper echelon. Encanto was a true phenomenon, becoming the first soundtrack with a corresponding song (“Bruno”) to simultaneously top the Billboard 200 and Hot 100 for at least four weeks in 29 years since The Bodyguard and Whitney Houston’s version of “I Will Always Love You.” “Bruno” spent five weeks at No. 1, the most for any song from a Disney movie in the chart’s history. The animated film’s “Surface Pressure,” sung by Jessica Darrow,…

IT WAS the year of Bad Bunny in 2022. The Puerto Rican superstar rules Billboard’s year-end Top Artists chart for the first time, and his blockbuster release Un Verano Sin Ti is the year-end No. 1 on the Billboard 200 Albums recap. It’s both the first time that an act that primarily records in Spanish is the year’s top artist and the first time a mostly non-English-language set is the biggest album of the year. (Billboard began compiling the year-end Top Artists category in 1981 and the albums recap in 1956.) The 28-year-old (born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio) crowns the year-end Top Artists chart largely thanks to the extraordinary success of the all-Spanish language Un Verano Sin Ti, his second No. 1 on the Billboard 200, and the album’s…

Three years ago, Rosa Linn was dreaming of a career in music, but she never expected that a local village festival in her native Armenia would be her ticket to stardom. Yet her standout performance of an original rock song floored talent scouts in the crowd from record label Nvak Collective, and soon after, the team invited her to attend the company’s upcoming songwriting camp for women. “We really recognize the fact that talent is equally distributed — but opportunity isn’t,” says Tamar Kaprelian, Nvak Collective co-founder and Rosa Linn’s manager since July 2021, when the rising singer-songwriter also signed to the label. At the camp, Rosa Linn presented the first verse of a folksy pop song about hopelessly ruminating over a romantic interest. It ultimately became “Snap,” the…