Innholdsfortegnelse for August 24, 2024 i Billboard Magazine

SHABOOZEY HOISTS “A BAR Song (Tipsy)” to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for a sixth week. The singer-songwriter’s first leader on the list ties for 2024’s longest domination, equaling the run of Post Malone’s “I Had Some Help” (featuring Morgan Wallen) in May-July. “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” likewise matches the longest command this year on the multimetric Hot Country Songs chart, logging a 10th week at No. 1 and tying Beyoncé’s “Texas Hold ’Em,” which led in February-April. Shaboozey’s chart-topper concurrently crowns Country Airplay for a fourth week, after becoming his first entry on the ranking in May. It’s rare for an act’s debut entry on the chart (or first song promoted to country radio) to reign for that long — though it’s the second among the…

BILLIE EILISH’S “BIRDS OF A FEATHER” perches atop both the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts for a second week. A week earlier, the song became her first No. 1 on each ranking. The single drew 85.5 million streams (up 9%) and sold 16,000 downloads (up 129%) worldwide Aug. 9-15, according to Luminate. Helping boost its profile, Eilish performed the song at the Summer Olympics’ closing ceremony on Aug. 11 in Los Angeles (home to the next Summer Games in 2028). Elsewhere, Hanumankind and Kalmi’s breakthrough hit, “Big Dawgs,” blasts 17-9 on the Global 200, as well as 13-8 on Global Excl. U.S. It garnered 59.3 million streams (up 15%) and sold 5,000 (up 7%) worldwide in the tracking week, with 45.3 million streams and 2,000…

FROM California, Mo. AGE 30 LABEL Universal Music Group Nashville (UMGN)/ Interscope Records FOUNDATION Singer-songwriter Ashton is a study in contrasts: a motorcycle enthusiast who designs and crafts many of her stage and red-carpet outfits from scratch (including for this year’s Academy of Country Music Awards, where she was nominated for new female artist of the year). As a child, she competed in pageants mostly as a vessel for showcasing her music. Even then, her vocal prowess was apparent, thanks to influence from vocalists including Adele, Aretha Franklin and (later) the country-soul of Chris Stapleton. Ashton soon started writing original songs, enrolling at Nashville’s Belmont University to study commercial voice and music business. DISCOVERY In 2016, as college graduation neared, Ashton signed a management and publishing deal with Nashville-based…

IN THE BACK ROOM o f an industrial art space in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood, A$AP Rocky is venting. Not about the muddled reaction his first official AWGE clothing collection garnered at Paris Fashion Week. Not about the devoted fans who keep asking what’s going on with A$AP Mob, the long-dormant hip-hop collective he co-founded nearly two decades ago. And, surprisingly, not even about the potshots Drake sent his way during the Rap Civil War that took place earlier this year. Nah, tonight Rocky is venting about children’s TV shows — Cocomelon, to be specific. “That shit is driving me nuts! Don’t tell my girl I said that,” he says before flashing his million-dollar smile, tonight speckled with platinum and diamonds, and letting out a laugh. “I’m totally joking, I…

CLIVE DAVIS WAS feeling proud. In early April, the chief creative officer of Sony Music Entertainment addressed a gathering of more than 500 members of the New York University community and music industry who had gathered in Brooklyn to celebrate the 20th anniversary of NYU’s Clive Davis Institute for Recorded Music, the school that the legendary music executive had endowed. “It’s really incredible to see how far the program has come and how successful the students have been,” Davis told the crowd in a video message (noting he had a schedule conflict with a friend’s wedding). “There are students winning Grammy Awards in major categories, actually dominating the Billboard charts and occupying major positions at record labels, agencies and management companies. “It’s great to see how my original concept…

SINCE BILLBOARD’S Americana/Folk Albums chart began with the issue dated Dec. 5, 2009, genre icon Bob Dylan leads all acts with eight No. 1s. Brandi Carlile, John Mayer, Chris Stapleton and Neil Young share second place with five chart-toppers each. In the 2020s, Stapleton, Leon Bridges, Sturgill Simpson and Zach Bryan boast a leading three No. 1s each on the chart, with Bryan’s The Great American Bar Scene, released July 4, currently on top for a sixth week. The set earned 48,000 equivalent album units in the United States Aug. 9-15, according to Luminate. Meanwhile, two acts have scored their first Americana/Folk Albums No. 1s in 2024: Shaboozey, with Where I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m Going, which sits at No. 4 on the Aug. 24-dated list, and Beyoncé (above),…

2013 TAKE BOSTON While enrolled at Northeastern University, Grainge kick-started his career by co-founding nightlife promotion company Take Boston and later forming Strainge Sessions, through which he promoted shows by Berklee College of Music students at local clubs. 2016 10K PROJECTS LAUNCH Grainge relocated to Los Angeles, where Strainge Sessions morphed into the label Strainge Entertainment. It later became 10K Projects after rapper Tech N9ne sued for alleged infringement upon the trademark of his indie label, Strange Music. (The two sides settled.) Launched under the Universal Music Group-owned Capitol Music Group, 10K’s roster grew to include such successful acts as XXXTentacion, 6ix9ine, Trippie Redd and Ice Spice. 2019 HOMEMADE PROJECTS INVESTMENT With Create Music Group, 10K made a strategic investment in management and marketing company Homemade Projects. Under that…

JOE JONAS’ UPCOMING album is not technically his solo debut: Back in 2011 during a Jonas Brothers hiatus, the middle JoBro released Fastlife, a club-aimed rhythmic pop foray featuring contributions from Lil Wayne and Chris Brown that couldn’t quite turn the then-22-year-old into a radio star. “I have so much love for those songs — they actually aged pretty well!” Jonas says today with a wide smile. “But it feels like a different person.” Fastlife might as well be a lifetime ago for Jonas, now 35. Since then, he found his radio hit with 2015’s “Cake by the Ocean” as the leader of pop collective DNCE, then reunited with his siblings Nick and Kevin in 2019, for a Jonas Brothers comeback that produced the No. 1 smash “Sucker” and…

Over the Influence: A Memoir by Joanna “JoJo” Levesque After breaking through in the mid-2000s with rhythmic pop hits like “Leave (Get Out)” and “Too Little Too Late” — which hit the Billboard Hot 100 at Nos. 12 and 3, respectively — JoJo retreated from the spotlight. Years later, she detailed an extended lawsuit with her record label, along with her own personal challenges. Now, with her memoir due Sept. 17, she discloses what happened during those years, illuminating exactly what kept her away — and what brought her back. Life in the Key of G by Kenny G and Philip Lerman Grammy-winning saxophonist Kenny G has long been a jazz icon — known just as much for his skillful playing as his tight curls — but he has…

24 The Kid LAROI The First Time The 2023 set bests its initial peak (No. 26) following its Aug. 9 reissue with eight bonus tracks. It reenters with 22,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending Aug. 15, according to Luminate (up 176%). 34 beabadoobee This Is How Tomorrow Moves The artist lands her first top 40-charting album on the Billboard 200, and best week by units earned (18,000), with the arrival of her third studio set. 120 The Smashing Pumpkins {Rotten Apples}: The Smashing Pumpkins Greatest Hits The album returns to the chart for the first time since 2002, largely thanks to the release of its first vinyl pressing on Aug. 9. By selling a little over 4,000 copies in the format, it…

UNIVERSAL MUSIC PUBLISHING GROUP earned the top spot on the Hot 100 Songs publishers ranking for 2024’s second quarter with 27.97% of the market, in large part thanks to Taylor Swift and the 19 songs she landed on the chart. It didn’t hurt that her writing partner Jack Antonoff is also on UMPG’s roster. (He moved there from Sony Music Publishing in August 2023.) Swift’s work accounted for a little over one-third of the 56 songs the publisher had on the Hot 100 during the quarter, up significantly from its 43-song count in the first quarter of the year. Sony Music Publishing, which typically places first on the Hot 100 publishers ranking, finished a close second with a 27.13% market share and 57 tracks on the chart, including the…

WHEN RAUW ALEJANDRO performed at the Governors Ball music festival in New York in June, he wore a burnt yellow and beige pinstripe suit with skinny pants, reminiscent of 1970s hipster New York — and previewing what to expect from his next studio album, due out on Sony Music US Latin. “My dad is from Brooklyn and I have lots of family in New York, and obviously, there’s a lot of Puerto Rican culture there,” Alejandro says, speaking from Rosarito Beach, Mexico, where he headlined the Baja Beach Fest in August. “It’s a little inspired in the ’70s, the Fania All-Stars, all that. It’s a whole character, and I call it a ‘character’ because I see it as an overall concept. Music goes hand in hand with the visuals,…

Cash Cobain is exhausted when he arrives at Billboard’s Manhattan office in late July. But that’s to be expected following his breakout hit, “Fisherrr.” The track, driven by him and Bay Swag trading easy-to-remember one-liners over an intoxicating loop, has been a staple on hip-hop radio this summer and made him busier than ever. The 26-year-old (born Cashmere Small) grew up in the Bronx listening to his grandparents’ Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder CDs, alongside Biggie Smalls and 50 Cent, and developed an interest in music production. His mother bought him drum pads and Yamaha keyboards, while he taught himself how to incorporate samples into his trap- and drill-inspired beats on a jailbroken version of FL Studio. Over time, Cash created a style best known as sample drill —…