Innholdsfortegnelse for May 13-19, 2017 i Billboard Magazine

BRUNO MARS EXPANDS HIS REIGN AS THE MALE artist with the most No. 1s on the Billboard Hot 100 — seven — in the 2010s as “That’s What I Like” lifts 3-1. Dating to his first chart-topper on B.o.B’s “Nothin’ on You” (May 1, 2010), Mars has achieved more than twice as many No. 1s this decade as the next-closest males: Justin Bieber, Drake, Eminem and The Weeknd have each notched three in that span. Among all acts in the 2010s, Mars trails Rihanna (nine chart-toppers during the decade) and Katy Perry (eight). “That’s What I Like” ranks at No. 2 on both Radio Songs (165 million in airplay audience, up 3 percent, according to Nielsen Music) and Digital Song Sales (78,000 sold, down 3 percent). At No. 5 on…

DEBBIE HARRY IS ABOUT TO release her first album with Blondie since she entered her 70s in 2015 — and the list of collaborators on Pollinator reads like the credits of a Carly Rae Jepsen album instead of a project by members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. For Blondie’s 11th fulllength (out May 5 on BMG), Harry and Co. recruited stars like Sia, Charli XCX and Blood Orange’s Dev Hynes for an upbeat pop-rock album that Harry denies is a strategic play for a younger audience. “It wasn’t really a concept for the album — it just developed that way,” says Harry, who helped form Blondie in 1975. She reached out to Sia, who wrote the sticky-sweet “Best Day Ever” with The Strokes’ Nick Valensi, since the…

3 Three song titles with “horse” or “pony” hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100: Chubby Checker’s “Pony Time,” America’s “A Horse With No Name” and Katy Perry’s “Dark Horse.” 31 The words “horse” and “pony” appear in 31 song titles that have charted on the Hot 100, including Big & Rich’s 2004 hit “Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy).” 100 Trigger, the famous horse born in the early 1930s, starred in all 100 episodes of The Roy Rogers Show alongside actorsinger Roy Rogers — more commonly referred to as King of the Cowboys. 2, 028, 201, 322 View count of Taylor Swift’s 2014 video for “Blank Space,” the most-watched video on YouTube to feature a horse (two, actually: Chico and Paco).…

HANNAH MONTANA SOUND Spunky guitar pop SAMPLE LYRIC “He’s lightning/Sparks are flyin’ ” (“He Could Be the One”) STATS The franchise produced three Billboard 200 No. 1s, with the 2006 selftitled first album moving 3.7 million copies in the United States, per Nielsen Music. “He Could Be the One” reached No. 10 on the Hot 100 in 2009. MILEY SAYS ”At 13, 14 years old, I had to sing ‘Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree.’ I realized I didn’t want to make records like that again.” ‘BANGERZ’ BAD GIRL SOUND House-party hip-hop SAMPLE LYRIC “I’m a Southern belle, crazier than hell” (“Do My Thang”) STATS The 2013 album was her second Billboard 200 No. 1 as herself, selling 1.1 million copies. “Wrecking Ball” held at No. 1 on the Hot 100…

Cash Money founders and brothers Bryan “Birdman” and Ronald “Slim” Williams have had a two-decadeslong partnership with another pair of brothers: Monte and Avery Lipman, respectively the chairman/CEO and president/ COO of Republic Records, which releases Cash Money recordings. The Williamses have “a great relationship” with the Lipmans and Universal Music Group chairman Lucian Grainge, says Birdman. “All the big heads over there.” The admiration is mutual, according to the Lipmans. “When I first met Birdman and Slim, and you’re talking more than 20 years ago, it was an incredibly competitive marketplace,” says Monte. “Clearly, from the part of the country they were from, they were surrounded by icons of our industry. To their credit, there was always a work ethic, a focus, a drive and determination to compete at…

WITHIN A LUSH, FLORA-FILLED CUL-DE-SAC in a gated community of Tarzana, Calif., Logic is skateboarding on the half pipe he recently had built outside of his white two-story home. The sizable property, which overlooks a golf course, also includes a basketball court, pool, hot tub and a rec room with a downstairs recording studio. It’s the home that the 27-year-old rapper referenced with the line “Dropped 2 million on my new crib, now nobody but God can stop us” on his 2016 track “Super Mario World.” “I just paid a million in taxes because of the year that I had,” says Logic (born Sir Robert Bryson Hall II), slumped into the corner of a black leather couch in his studio beneath a blown-up cutout of Donald Glover’s face. “Financially, it…

Decades after being given his first horse at the age of 2, which was kept on his grandparents’ farm in Klein, Texas, Lyle Lovett purchased that house, and took to the sport of reining horses, which he describes as “a series of maneuvers based on the kind of athleticism a horse needs” to work cattle. These days, the 59-year-old attends two or three reining shows per year and keeps his horses-intraining at McQuay Stables in Tioga, Texas — “the birthplace of Gene Autry,” he’s quick to point out. He sang the line “Home is where my horse is” on the title track to his 2009 album, Natural Forces; the lyrics were far more than just cowboy posturing. What has been your most memorable horse-riding experience? A lot of times in…

After featuring his headshot on his 2014 album Too Bright, Perfume Genius mastermind Mike Hadreas decided on a more mysterious angle for No Shape (left), out May 5. When putting together a mood board for fashion photographers Inez and Vinoodh, the indie songwriter included a photo of Queen Elizabeth II as a teenager and the album art to Patti Smith’s Horses. Hadreas also found inspiration in Googling words like “ancient” and “witch.” “I wanted the art to be supernatural, but not horror, necessarily,” he explains. With the help of stylist Mel Ottenberg (Dior, Nike), Hadreas stood in a white shirt and leather pants with one of the legs split open — an accident Hadreas found “very naughty” and decided to leave in. The contrast between the genderless outfit and the…

America’s original art form is officially turning 100, but it was 58 years ago that jazz made its most spectacular leap, as legends from Miles Davis to Charles Mingus converged in New York City amid a whirlwind of social upheaval and creative competition. Now, as the lions of the scene hit their 90s, they tell it like it really was back in 1959: “There was a militancy that there isn’t now” ROY HAYNES, 92 Drums THEN AND NOW A master drummer with Lester Young and Miles Davis, Haynes played on Randy Weston’s Live at the Five Spot — and, later, with Thelonious Monk, Stan Getz and John Coltrane. He has performed for the past decade with his Fountain of Youth Band and will play the DC Jazz Festival in June.…

Shawn Gee, a founding member of management consortium Maverick and lead manager for The Roots and Jill Scott, is partnering with Live Nation in a new venture, Live Nation Urban. Its goal: to develop urban-focused events, festivals and strategic partnerships for emerging and established hip-hop, R&B and gospel artists. Hip-hop and R&B led all genres with 28 percent of ondemand streaming in 2016, according to Nielsen Music. But when it comes to live performance opportunities, those acts often come up short. “If you’re an altrock or EDM act, you can set up 20 to 30 festivals to play,” says Gee, 45, who will serve as president of LNU and report to chief strategy officer Jordan Zachary. “But you can name the number of [urban-centric] festivals on one hand.” Prior to…

In recognition of more than 30 years as a chart-topping songwriter for artists as diverse as Beyoncé, Aerosmith, Snoop Dogg and Justin Bieber, ASCAP will present Diane Warren with its highest honor, the Founders Award, on May 18 at the 34th annual Pop Music Awards. A six-time ASCAP songwriter of the year, Warren will join the likes of John Mellencamp, Paul McCartney and Joni Mitchell as a recipient of the award. Warren, who was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2001, had a landmark 2016 with her song “Til It Happens to You,” written for the 2015 documentary The Hunting Ground and sung by Lady Gaga. It became the first song ever nominated for a Grammy, an Oscar and an Emmy in the same year. Also being recognized…

FAMILY Like Star-Lord (Chris Pratt, above), Bates lost his mother, who “was the No. 1 proponent of my dream to become a musician,” when he was a teen. That loss inspired “Dad,” a sweeping theme on which Bates’ 15-year-old daughter Lola plays piano. ‘FATHER & SON’ The Cat Stevens 1970 hit plays during a tear-jerking sequence. “Even though I’d worked on the music, I was very emotional [when the song played] at the premiere,” says Bates. THE HOFF The actor and German popmusic sensation plays small but key roles in the movie and on its soundtrack — he handles vocals on “Guardians Inferno.” Says Bates: “David seems like he’s enjoying every day of his life.” MECO Gunn wanted a disco-fied Guardians theme — akin to Meco’s 1977 version of the…

WELL ABOVE CALIFORNIA’S PACIFIC Coast Highway, just off a canyon road, sits a small house with a wooden porch painted in the colors of the Pride flag. The outside is decorated with frog planters, butterfly chairs, a hot-pink pig-shaped grill, sunflowers and daisies. This is Rainbow Land, the boho recording studio whose owner, Miley Cyrus, is on this sunny April afternoon sitting cross-legged in a swivel chair before a sound board, dressed way down with unruly long hair, cutoffs and a vintage tee that reads “Malibu” on the front. Cyrus — who’s about to play me 10 songs off a new album that promises to (yet again) transform one of the most inimitable, unpredictable careers in recent pop history — is somehow animated and serene at the same time. It’s…