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FOLLOWING THE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS, broadcast live Nov. 21 on ABC, several performers translate the spotlight into further chart success. Niall Horan boasts the greatest unit leap on the Digital Song Sales chart as “This Town” soars by 225 percent to 47,000 downloads sold in the week ending Nov. 24, according to Nielsen Music. On the Billboard Hot 100, the single, Horan’s first apart from One Direction, bounds 61-29, its highest rank since it reached No. 25 on Oct. 22. Also basking in post-AMAs buzz is show-opener Bruno Mars, whose new album, 24K Magic, bows at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 (see page 124). Mars hits a new Hot 100 high with the title track, up 6-4 (79,000 sold, up 36 percent). Shawn Mendes vaults into the top 40…

Tony Martell, a veteran label executive and founder of the T.J. Martell Foundation, which has raised more than $270 million for cancer and AIDS research, died Nov. 27 at the age of 90. While he enjoyed a long and successful career — most prominently at CBS Records and Sony Music, where he worked closely with Ozzy Osbourne, Electric Light Orchestra, Joan Jett, The O’Jays and many others — his greatest accomplishment came with the foundation, which Martell launched in 1975 and named for his son T.J., who died at the age of 21 after a battle with leukemia. The foundation has become one of the most prominent and important charities in the music industry. Sony Music chief creative officerClive Daviswas president of Columbia Records when Martell was at CBS, and…

THE PULSE OF MUSIC RIGHT NOW I“THOUGHT I WOULD BE A SUPERSTAR,” SAYS Zara Larsson, recalling the only time her career hit a roadblock: in 2008, at 10 years old, after she won Talang, the Swedish edition of the Got Talent TV franchise, by belting power ballads by Celine Dion and Whitney Houston. The pop singer, now 18 and wearing a short black dress and thick eyeliner, says she was “expecting record deals to rain all over me.” Larsson fidgets in her seat at the Manhattan bistro Dirty Laundry. “They kind of did,” she says of the offers, “but they were shitty ones. So, I just went back to school.” Today, with glam squad and designer clothes in tow, she looks much closer to the near-superstar who has become one…

By this time next year, 31-year-old composer-lyricists Benj Pasek and Justin Paul could be more than halfway to an EGOT. Dear Evan Hansen, the new Broadway musical from the former Smash composers (opening Dec. 4), follows an anxious teenager in the social media age and has inspired Hamilton-esque Tonys buzz. Then there’s La La Land, Damien Chazelle’s Oscar-vying movie musical (in theaters Dec. 15), for which they wrote the lyrics to Justin Hurwitz’s score. The two speak about their pop sensibilities — and what it’s like penning songs for Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. Your style is very pop-influenced — do you listen to a lot of current music? JUSTIN PAUL I love everyone from Sara Bareilles to Taylor Swift, Ingrid Michaelson, Ben Folds — those are the artists I’ve…

“I want nothing more than to see the families that were divided to come together again and for all the years of pain to come to an end.” —CAMILA CABELLO The Fifth Harmony singer, who is Cuban-American, on the death of Fidel Castro, on Twitter. “Yeah, I did keep it.” —THE WEEKND The singer sharing what he did with his dreadlocks after cutting them off, in an interview with Zane Lowe on Beats 1. “standing rock is BLM. standing rock is LGBTQ rights. standing rock is the latino struggle. all this shit is one.” —VIC MENSA The rapper explaining his support of protesters of the Dakota Access Pipeline, on Twitter. “As women we are told that we cannot be multi layered.. we are put in boxes.. we can’t be all…

Billboard’s annual celebration of music’s highest achievers, starring the peerless Madonna, then honoring trailblazers (Kesha), chart-toppers (Meghan) and rule breakers (Alessia) among many, and finally saluting the 100 (!) top execs whose innovation and determination propel the business forward IN THE EARLY DAYSof September 2001, I was driving down Santa Monica Boulevard on my way to a call-back for Guy Ritchie’s adaptation of Swept Away, starring his then-wife Madonna, when it dawned on me: Instead of turning left toward the office buildings, I would be veering into the residential area. I was going to Madonna’s house. Her music had been the soundtrack to my preteen angst, and she was my idol as a feminist and as an artist. Naturally, I pulled the car over, called my sister and had a…

The 24-year-old singer-songwriter has called Shania Twain his first celebrity crush and thanks her for “breaking barriers of genre to allow other people to think outside the box and push the envelope.” Here, his favorite tracks by the woman he calls a “true inspiration” “Don’t Be Stupid (You Know I Love You)” 1997 This is the first Shania song I ever heard. I remember the countrypop feel of the song was unlike anything else out there at the time, and I became a lifelong fan in that moment. “That Don’t Impress Me Much” 1997 Shania was always so incredible at making iconic visuals for her music, as well as being cutting-edge production-wise. This video and song are, in a word, legendary. “You’re Still the One” 1997 I got the chance…

My life has become a lot more ... structured,” says Maren Morris of her whirlwind past year. She laughs, then adds: “In a good way! I probably needed it.” November’s Country Music Association Awards — where Morris performed her roofshaking hit single “My Church,” then won best new artist — felt like the new business-as-usual for the 26-year-old Texan. Her June debut, Hero, bowed at No. 1 on Top Country Albums, thanks in part to the buzz Morris first built on Spotify. Since then, “My Church” has gone platinum, and Morris opened for Keith Urban’s recent arena tour (she’ll headline her own starting in February). And though Morris started out writing for the likes of Tim McGraw and Kelly Clarkson, it’s clear her voice now stands strongly on its own.…

Join Billboard as we wrap up 2016 with exclusive year-end charts, interviews and analysis on the year’s most important artists, albums, publishers and labels in every genre. Plus, the year-end Billboard Boxscore charts will highlight the most successful acts on the road, and the top venues and festivals. This highly anticipated No.1s Issue serves as a compilation of must-have information and is referenced year-round by the most powerful people in music and the entertainment business. Advertise in this signature collector’s issue and position your company, artist or breakthrough achievement in front of authoritative voices in the music industry. BONUS DISTRIBUTION CES 1/5-1/8 COVER DATE: 12/17 ON SALE 12/12 | AD CLOSE 12/6 | MATERIALS DUE 12/8 CONTACT East Coast: Joe Maimone 212.493.4427 | joe.maimone@billboard.com West Coast: Aki Kaneko 323.525.2299 |…

Losing $25 million to $40 million in a legal settlement is a crippling blow for virtually any company. But for satellite radio giant SiriusXM, which cut such a deal in November with pop group The Turtles regarding pre-1972 royalty payments, it could be a triumph. For the past several years, Sirius, along with streaming platform Pandora, have not been paying royalties for music recorded before 1972, the year that the U.S. copyright for master recordings became part of federal law. The Turtles, led by singers Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman, filed a class-action lawsuit against Sirius in 2013 (and Pandora in 2014), asserting that while such songs are not covered by federal law, they are protected by state laws and are entitled to royalty payments. (So far, The Turtles’ suits…

Pia Toscano’s Posh Pre-Wedding Former American Idol contestant Pia Toscano isn’t getting married until Jan. 7 in New York, but on Nov. 30 she and her choreographer fiance, Jimmy Smith, held a “West Coast wedding reception” for friends and family at The District by Hannah An in Los Angeles. Smith, who is Jennifer Lopez’s lead choreographer, performed with four fellow hoofers, then slowdanced with his betrothed as America’s Got Talent contestant Ryan Edgar serenaded the couple with Ed Sheeran’s”Thinking Out Loud.” Guests included Lopez’s ex-beau Casper Smart. YG: F— Trump, Just Don’t F— Up My Video Screen Even anarchists have rules, as California rapper YG demonstrated at his Red Bull Sound Select 30 Days in L.A. concert on Nov. 29. Continuing a tradition initiated for his F— Donald Trump…

Arianne Phillips is the Academy Awardnominated costume designer behind Walk the Line and A Single Man. Yet it is the nearly 20 years she has spent working as a stylist to Madonna, spanning countless TV and red carpet appearances and six tours, including the 2016 Rebel Heart Tour, for which the 53-year-old is best known. Phillips, who cites the 1998 “Frozen” video, the 2000 “Don’t Tell Me” video and the 1998 VH1 Fashion Awards as three of her favorite style moments, says that working with Madonna is both rewarding and challenging: ”She’s an artist who’s seen by the world.” Walk us through the process of putting together Madonna’s tour wardrobe. Madonna and I usually start talking four to five months before a tour. I work with a big crew —…

Asked to rank her year on a scale of one to 10, Meghan Trainor doesn’t hesitate: “This is the year I won a Grammy, right?” says the 2016 best new artist with a laugh. “Ten!” Since the smash success of her “All About That Bass” (a Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 for eight weeks), Trainor has duetted with Harry Styles and John Legend, co-written charting hits for Jennifer Lopez (“Ain’t Your Mama”) and Fifth Harmony (“Sledgehammer”), and, most recently, released her second album, Thank You, which peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 on the strength of brassy lead single “No,” Trainor’s fourth Hot 100 top 10 hit. “Growing up, I remember I always wanted to be 22,” says Trainor. “Now I am. I’ve finished a tour and sold…

During the past year, Andra Day’s voice — a stunning alto recalling her idols Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald — has felt inescapable. Her rousing aria “Rise Up,” the certified gold lead single from her soulful 2015 debut, Cheers to the Fall, peaked at No. 6 on the Adult R&B Songs chart, earned a Grammy nomination and became a de facto anthem for the Black Lives Matter and equal rights movements. “I pray about all the songs I do,” says 31-year-old San Diego native Day, “but with this one in particular, I’ve watched it affect things on both macro and micro levels. I’ve always wanted my music to be honest, and this year I see it truly changing the trajectory of people’s lives.” PERSONAL POWERHOUSE “Michelle Obama’s zeal for women,…

Singer and Academy Awardnominated actress Hailee Steinfeld is set to host and perform at the annual Billboard Women in Music Awards, honoring the standout female stars and executives of 2016. Steinfeld will join Woman of the Year Madonna and Icon honoree Shania Twain at the event, to be held Dec. 9 in New York and airing nationally Dec. 12 on Lifetime. “I’m really honored that Billboard asked me to host and perform at this year’s Women in Music,” says Steinfeld, 19. “The event empowers women in the music industry and spotlights their achievements in a wonderful way. It’s going to be a great show!” Steinfeld’s latest single, “Starving” (with Grey and featuring Zedd), is No. 9 with a bullet on the Mainstream Top 40 airplay chart (dated Dec. 10) and…

T he bullets flew on the night 21 Savage turned 21 years old. Just before midnight on a Tuesday in October 2013, Savage — born Shayaa Joseph — was ambushed on the east side of his hometown Atlanta and shot six times before he could grab the perpetrator’s gun and fire back. His attacker was arrested; Savage was rushed to a hospital with his first gunshot wounds. Savage doesn’t avoid the topic, but he doesn’t give much detail, either. “It just made me slow down in the street,” says the 24-year-old. “I had to find something else to do. So rapping was what I did.” Three years later, 21 Savage — the “21” is taken from his block growing up, the “Savage” from his pre-rapping, gun-toting life — is the…

“If I could be so lucky, my gifts would consist of a Puffco pen, Saint Laurent glitter boots and a sewing machine. I’d love to get my brother a vintage Busato guitar as a thank you for being my lifelong music guru.”LIZZY PLAPINGER VOCALIST, MS MR; CO- FOUNDER, NEON GOLD RECORDS AN $18, 000 ACOUSTIC GEM Musician, guitar expert and broker Matt Umanov has seen some memorable guitars during his 51-year career; he’s the guy who did work for Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton in the ’60s, after all. But the 1944 acoustic created by Bartolo Busato, one of Paris’ best luthiers of the Manouche-style guitar, says Umanov, is “one of the most amazing and fabulous models I’ve ever played.” That declaration alone speaks volumes. BUSATO 1944 rosewood flat-top…

WHEN EILLEEN TWAIN WAS in 12th grade — not yet Shania, not yet a global star — her music teacher asked her to sing an original song at a high school concert in Ottawa, Ontario. Though she had been singing professionally since she was 8, often to help her parents pay the bills, performing made her so nervous, she could feel it in her bladder. When the MC called her name, she was sitting in the trumpet section of her school orchestra and felt a warm trickle down her leg. Thinking fast, she kicked over the glass of water next to her chair and said, “Damn! I spilled my water!” Then she took center stage with her acoustic guitar and knocked ’em dead. Every enduringly successful artist has a survival…

When I first started performing and traveling, everyone said it would get easier, and I was like, ‘No, it’s always going to be hard,’ ” says the 22-year-old electropop supernova Halsey. “But they were right. And it has been a surreal year.” Her scores of fans (3.5 million followers on Twitter) would agree: Halsey’s 2015 debut, Badlands, unleashed the millennial anthem “New Americana,” debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and went platinum within a month. In August, Halsey scored her first Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 with the Chainsmokers collaboration “Closer” (it spent 12 weeks atop the chart); now she’s at work on her second album. “Sometimes I worry: What if I used up all my pixie dust on the first one?” she says. “But I’m proud to…

When you listen to [pop] music, it’s either really happy or really sad,” says Alessia Cara. “No one ever touches on the feeling of ‘Eh, I kind of don’t want to be here.’ ” No one, that is, until Cara herself. The 20-year-old Canadian singer-songwriter’s breakthrough, “Here,” an alt-R&B soliloquy about hating a house party, peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in February. Since then, she has opened for Coldplay’s world tour and landed the lead single from Disney’s Moana soundtrack, “How Far I’ll Go,” all while remaining fiercely herself. At the MTV Video Music Awards preshow in August, she duetted with Troye Sivan on their synthpop collaboration “Wild” and performed her own “Scars to Your Beautiful” wearing no makeup. “I’m not doing it just to be…

Spike DDB SENIOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE (2000-2004) With Pepsi as a client, Saint John turned to Beyoncé for a brand alliance. Even as far back as 2002, “We knew we were looking at someone who is magic forever and has legendary status.” Ashley Stewart VP MARKETING AND E-COMMERCE (2009-2011) Saint John’s stint here reflected her love of fashion: “Why would plus-size clothes not come in the current style? You’re cutting out so much of the population,” she says. PepsiCo HEAD OF MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT MARKETING (2011-2014); SENIOR MARKETING MANAGER (2005-2009) The soda giant provided Saint John with an enormous stage and audience: the Super Bowl halftime show. Apple HEAD OF GLOBAL CONSUMER MARKETING; ITUNES/APPLE MUSIC (2014–PRESENT) “Part of the success of Apple is that people are trusted to do what it…

NO. 1 Bruno Mars As new LP 24K Magic debuts at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and Top Album Sales and No. 1 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (see pages 124 and 142), Mars crowns the Artist 100 for the first time in his 114th week on the chart. He passes Shawn Mendes, who completed the longest prior ascent to No. 1 — 86 weeks — in October. The week’s most popular artists across all genres, ranked by album and track sales as measured by Nielsen Music, radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen Music, streaming activity data from online music sources tracked by Nielsen Music and fan interaction on social networking sites as compiled by Next Big Sound. See Charts Legend on billboard.com/biz for complete rules and explanations.…

REWINDING THE CHARTS “WHENEVER I SEE A FROZEN POND, I take myself to 1967, when us kids did the James Brown ‘I Feel Good’ dance on any patch of ice,” Public Enemy’s Chuck D told Billboard after learning of the Godfather of Soul’s 2006 death. He was referring to Brown’s classic, “I Got You (I Feel Good),” his third No. 1 on the Top Selling Rhythm & Blues Singles chart (forerunner of Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs) dated Dec. 4, 1965. Two weeks later, the song rose to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Brown’s highest-peaking of seven top 10s on the chart. Born in 1933 and raised in Augusta, Ga., the “Hardest Working Man in Show Business,” as he was also called, dominated pop and R&B with a greasy…