Innholdsfortegnelse for October 21, 2023 i Billboard Magazine

DRAKE FETCHES his 13th No. 1s on both the Billboard 200 and Billboard Hot 100 charts as For All the Dogs soars in atop the former and the set’s “First Person Shooter” (featuring J. Cole) debuts atop the latter. The new album opens with 402,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States Oct. 6-12, according to Luminate, the fourth-biggest week of the year. It also drew 514 million on-demand official streams for its tracks in its opening week, the fourth-highest single-week sum ever for an album. It trails only the debut weeks of Drake’s own Scorpion (745.9 million, 2018) and Certified Lover Boy (743.7 million, 2021) and Taylor Swift’s Midnights (549.3 million, 2022). Drake’s 13 No. 1 entries on the Billboard 200 are good for the third-most in…

Blink-182 scores two consecutive No. 1s on Alternative Airplay for the first time as “One More Time” reaches the top. The song is the follow-up to “Edging,” which dominated for 13 weeks starting in November 2022. The new No. 1 is the trio’s fifth on the list, as its latest two follow “Bored to Death” (which ruled for five weeks in 2016), “I Miss You” (two, 2004) and “All the Small Things” (eight, 1999-2000). “One More Time” hits No. 1 in its fourth week on the chart, marking the quickest leader on Alternative Airplay since “Edging” needed just three weeks to reach No. 1. The former song also holds at its No. 2 high on the Rock & Alternative Airplay chart, up 10% to 7.6 million audience impressions in…

THIS TIME EVERY YEAR, music’s biggest stars unleash carefully constructed marketing campaigns for new Christmas music, hoping to join Bing Crosby and Mariah Carey on the lucrative list of holiday classics. Duran Duran chose a different direction. After dressing as top-hatted ghouls and covering Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer” and The Specials’ “Ghost Town” at the Wynn Las Vegas casino last Halloween, the veteran U.K. band recorded a themed album, Danse Macabre, which is due Oct. 27. “Funnily enough, I can’t think of many Christmas songs that I like, apart from the few obvious ones,” keyboardist Nick Rhodes says. “But Halloween, I can think of plenty of songs I love. It’s the mood and the chaos and the dark spirit of excitement about it.” For decades, Halloween’s soundtrack has come…

The title of the U.S. version of The Rolling Stones’ first album was England’s Newest Hit Makers — but that was almost 60 years ago. Their latest is Hackney Diamonds, a polished but straightforward return to rock’n’roll from a band that helped define it. In between, the Stones have released 24 albums, gone through three guitarists and have had enough diva arguments to fill several books and documentaries. Leaving no stone unturned, Billboard rolled back the pages to shine a light through the past, darkly. STREET FIGHTING BAND Reviewing the band’s U.S. debut single, “Not Fade Away,” in the April 11, 1964, issue, Billboard hailed “another hot GB group that proves how deep the R&B roots have gone over there.” A June 6, 1964, headline declared “The Redcoats Are…

The Korean pop ensemble returns to the top 10 of the Billboard Artist 100 as Fact Check: The Fifth Album enters the World Albums chart as the group’s seventh No. 1. The set starts with 31,000 equivalent album units earned (with 91% from CD album sales) Oct. 6-12, according to Luminate.…

WHEN THE American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) unveiled its new healthcare plans for working artists in August, the trade association, which represents indie labels, presented it as “a welcome ray of light for the music industry.” The monthly premiums range from $80 to $1,240 and feature benefits such as $15 co-pays for doctor visits and regular screenings for breast cancer, diabetes and depression. Affordable dental, vision and even pet insurance plans are also available. But buried in the descriptions of several plans, which are accessible for those with a $100 annual A2IM membership, are restrictions and costs that could drain indie musicians’ finances. Three of the five plans offered, which cost $80 to $210 per month for individuals and $160 to $510 for families, do not cover emergency…

THOMAS COESFELD says that the next 10 years will be much different for BMG than the last 10. Navigating the onslaught of generative artificial intelligence (AI), diverging streaming economic models and the slowdown in streaming revenue growth is among the challenges “that are keeping me up at night,” says the new CEO of the world’s fourth-largest music company, who sat down with Billboard for his first U.S. interview since succeeding Hartwig Masuch in July. At 33, Coesfeld is the fresh young face of one of Europe’s oldest and most powerful media dynasties. His grandfather was Reinhard Mohn, a legendary CEO of BMG’s German parent company, Bertelsmann. Coesfeld’s predecessor also earned a spot in the media conglomerate’s corporate pantheon. Masuch reinvigorated BMG after serving as an adviser for the company’s…

EARLIER THIS YEAR — on a warm day in May, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month — a septet of young women fought nerves backstage at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens. Just over a year after its official debut, the group XG was in town for Head in the Clouds, a music festival celebrating Asian and Pacific Islander culture, creativity and art organized by record label 88rising. But the gig held broader significance: It was the act’s first international performance outside of Japan, and in New York, no less. Despite its early-afternoon billing, the stadium was packed — and chanting, “XG! XG! XG!” — when the group took the stage in glitter-emblazoned suits. The warm welcome made it difficult to believe that this was XG’s first time in…

Breakout hit “Water” by Tyla (above) rises to No. 1 on Billboard U.S. Afrobeats Songs, giving the South African native her first leader on any chart. Released on FAX Records/Epic, the single ends the 58-week No. 1 run of Rema and Selena Gomez’s “Calm Down.” Tyla’s chart-topper comes from gains in both streaming (up 29% to 8.3 million official U.S. streams) and sales (up 26% to 1,500 sales downloads) in the week ending Oct. 12, according to Luminate. It was also helped by the song’s official music video release on Oct. 6. “Water” continues to make a splash on U.S. radio, racing 39-26 on Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay (up 64% in plays) and debuting at No. 38 on Rhythmic Airplay (up 127%). Plus, while many entries are pushed down the…

Kate Bush In 2022, Bush scored her greatest Billboard Hot 100 success when “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)” reached No. 3, spurred by its synch in the fourth season of Netflix’s Stranger Things. The song reached No. 30 during its original 1985 run. Sheryl Crow Crow boasts seven No. 1s on the Triple A Airplay chart, the most among women in the list’s history. She has also landed nine top 10 albums on the Billboard 200. DJ Kool Herc Fifty years after Herc’s historic party in the Bronx, where he set hip-hop in motion, the genre has gone global and reshaped popular music. According to Luminate, R&B/hip-hop accounted for nearly 27% of all U.S. music consumption in 2022 — more than any other genre. Missy Elliott…

DREW SIMMONS AGE 41COMPANY Foundations MusicKEY CLIENTS Noah Kahan, Dayglow, COIN “There is no off-cycle anymore,” says Simmons, who has had a front-row seat to Noah Kahan’s nonstop year, “and that is taxing on the infrastructure around the artist but also on the artist themselves.” From Kahan’s success with Stick Season and its deluxe edition (the latter debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200) to selling out arenas to raising nearly $2 million for mental health resources through The Busyhead Project, Simmons is “excited about opportunities ahead for artists as the paradigm shifts, placing more and more leverage in [their] hands.” JESSE GASSONGOALEXANDER, PHOEBE GOLD AGES 30, 29COMPANY UpCloseKEY CLIENTS PinkPantheress, Tommy Gold Gassongo-Alexander never planned to become a manager, but he says working with “a generational artist”…

the majors The Big Three music groups have invested in tech platforms tied to fashion, gaming, music creation and even battling dementia — and executives say there’s more to come IN FEBRUARY, on his first quarterly earnings call as the new CEO of Warner Music Group (WMG), Robert Kyncl laid out a future of “meaningful upside” for the music business: “As technology opens up emerging economies, the industry’s addressable market will continue to expand even further,” Kyncl told analysts. On top of that, he added, “innovation is constantly creating new-use cases for music, giving us the opportunity to diversify our revenue sources.” As the major labels navigate a landscape increasingly dominated by streaming platforms and digital creation apps like BandLab and Boomy, it’s not surprising they have eagerly…