Innholdsfortegnelse for October 14-20, 2017 i Billboard Magazine

TOM PETTY Photographed by Joe Pugliese on June 26, 2014, at Petty’s home in Malibu, Calif. VIOLENCE IN VEGAS Illustration by Edel Rodriguez ON JULY 2, 2016, BILLBOARD EDITORS WROTE AN open letter to Congress, in response to the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., on June 12, 2016, and the killing of singer Christina Grimmie by a gun-wielding stalker two days earlier. The letter, which was signed by over 200 top music artists and executives, asked Congress to close the deadly loopholes around gun regulation that put so many lives at risk. Fifteen months later, we awoke on the morning of Oct. 2 to news of another mass shooting in a space where music fans had gathered. Fiftynine people are dead and over 500 injured as…

John Rich We played about 90 minutes prior to the shooting [and] had 30,000 fans singing “God Bless America” in unison. We headed to a bar I own in Vegas to play an afterparty when someone told us what was going on. I reached out to [Jason Aldean’s DJ] Dee Jay Silver, and he says, “They threw [us] into pickup trucks, and they’re screeching out of this parking lot. There are bodies everywhere.” He said the bullets were coming through the buses, the instruments; everything was riddled with bullet holes. It was complete panic and fear. It’s a miracle that Jason Aldean was not a casualty. The thought of that just makes your skin crawl. This was nothing short of inhuman. It’s so far out of what any of us…

AFTER JUSTIN BIEBER HOPPED ON A remix of Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s “Despacito” and helped the song become a No. 1 smash on the Billboard Hot 100, now Queen Bey has taken on another Latin hit. On Sept. 28, Beyoncé hopped on the percolating J Balvin-Willy William track “Mi Gente,” all for a good cause. “I am donating my proceeds from this song to hurricane relief charities for Puerto Rico, Mexico and the other affected Caribbean islands,” wrote the superstar in an Instagram post announcing the release of the single, which shot to No. 1 on the iTunes charts and features a bilingual Bey. It’s not the first time she has sung in Spanish either, releasing bilingual editions of her hits “Irreplaceable” and “If I Were a Boy” nearly…

My love for Tom Petty was pure teen-idol love. I can name at least three guys who had shades of Petty going on, and that was a tipping factor in whether I dated them. His voice went right through me. You didn’t expect such a low, deep, authoritative voice to come out of a fair-haired guy. He looked sensitive, but I’ll tell you this — he disturbed me. He got to my sexuality before I really understood my sexuality. He was one of the first pop idols I would have dreams about. It wasn’t like, “Oooh, Luke Skywalker!” where you’d kiss the TV. There were parts about him that were not Prince Charming. Like, “God, this is uncomfortable! I don’t understand your teeth!” You could tell that if you dated…

I did the “Mary Jane’s Last Dance” video [in 1993] for one reason: Tom Petty. I didn’t even care what it was about — I was just blown away when he called. Then I heard the music, and I was so in love with the song. The director [Keir McFarlane] was a gruff guy; it was kind of like, his way or the highway. And I always found Tom to be incredibly sensitive and sort of a backseat guy. He was just very humble, beautifully shy. I’m not the most outgoing human being in the world, and I thought, “I’m shy; he’s shy.” But as the story really unfolded and this director kept saying, “Look, you have got to really play dead — all your weight,” we laughed so hard.…

The Gainesville (Fla.) Sun arts editor, 1982-2002 When I got to The Gainesville Sun, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers’ meteoric rise was happening. They were the coolest thing to ever come out of Gainesville, and I made it my mission to make sure the world knew where they came from. I mean, he was an L.A. rock star for sure. But if you just scratched the surface a little, the good old Florida boy was still there. He was a man without pretension — it’s just the way you grow up down here. At the end of the day, the [speaking manner] never changed; the laconic humor never changed. I can do his voice pretty well at this point: a little bit of a slur, you don’t move your teeth…

4MANCHESTER ARENA, MANCHESTER, ENGLAND $48.1 million James Allen, 44, GM It was the right song from the right artist in the right place. The Oasis hit “Don’t Look Back in Anger,” performed by Oasis co-founder and Manchester native Noel Gallagher, was an emotional highlight of the benefit concert that reopened the Manchester Arena on Sept. 9, nearly four months after a suicide bomber killed 22 people outside the venue during an Ariana Grande show. Like the all-star One Love Manchester benefit concert for the bombing victims, co-headlined by Grande and broadcast worldwide on June 4 from the Old Trafford cricket ground, the September event at the arena promised healing through the power of music. “All the industry has rallied around us to understand what we have gone through,” says…

Lucecita Benitez In her native Puerto Rico, singer Benitez, 75, first gained notice as part of the nueva ola, or new wave, pop style of the 1960s. She went on to win several music competitions including Mexico’s Festival de la Canción Latina in 1969. High-profile bookings followed, such as an appearance in 1970 on The Ed Sullivan Show. She later embraced the musical nueva trova movement with its focus on social issues. Joao Bosco By combining jazz, rock and funk with traditional Brazilian music, Bosco, 71, contributed to the música popular brasileira style that emerged in the mid-’60s. The singer-songwriter with a distinctive guitar sound went on to win a Latin Grammy Award in 2011 for best album in Brazil’s sertaneja style and has continued touring around the world.…

A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie (above) leads the Emerging Artists chart as the rapper climbs 3-1. He’s boosted by Chris Brown’s “Pills and Automobiles,” on which he is featured with Yo Gotti and Kodak Black, as the track reaches new peaks of No. 23 on Hot Rap Songs and No. 75 on the Billboard Hot 100. “Pills” rises by 23 percent to 11 million radio audience impressions and by 7 percent to 8 million U.S. streams in the tracking week, according to Nielsen Music. CHART BEAT A ‘SEXY’ HEADLINE Rod Stewart (above) makes his first appearance on the Adult Top 40 airplay chart in over 16 years as DNCE’s “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy” (featuring Stewart) debuts at No. 36. He last appeared on the list in 2001 with…

Grammy Award winners Macklemore, Lecrae, Fergie, Van Morrison, Steve Martin, Stephen Stills and Judy Collins all have new albums debut on the latest Billboard 200, as the 2017 Grammy Awards eligibility year nears its end. It’s not unusual to see a pileup of A-listers and legends release albums in the last two weeks of September, as a recording must be released by Sept. 30 to be considered for the following year’s ceremony. (The 2017 year began Oct. 1, 2016, and the aforementioned acts all released their albums on Sept. 22.) Four-time Grammy winner Macklemore is back with his second solo album (No. 2, Gemini), while twotime winner Lecrae (No. 11) and eight-time winner Fergie (No. 18) also debut in the top 20. Two-time winner Morrison starts at No. 23 with…

A week after appearing on Streaming Songs for the first time, Lil Pump (above) leaps 50-19 with “Gucci Gang.” The track, which racked up 14.4 million streams in the week ending Sept. 28, according to Nielsen Music, gained by 40 percent. It earned bumps across all reporting services as the song — and artist — continues to gain steam and notoriety among U.S. listeners. On Sept. 25, the rapper announced the release date for his selftitled debut mixtape, out Oct. 6. Camila Cabello’s “Havana” (featuring Young Thug) bows at No. 45 with 11.8 million streams, up 22 percent. It’s Cabello’s third appearance on Streaming Songs but her first as the sole lead artist. Previous hits “I Know What You Did Last Summer” (No. 28, Feb. 20, 2016) and “Bad Things”…

Gemini by Macklemore (above) storms to No. 1 debuts on Top R&B/Hip- Hop Albums and Top Rap Albums. The entrances follow two previous No. 1s for the rapper as one-half of the duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, whose 2012 set, The Heist, and 2016’s This Unruly Mess I’ve Made crowned both lists. Gemini kicks off with 51,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Sept. 28, according to Nielsen Music, and the album’s arrival powers two of its tracks on Hot Rap Songs: “Glorious” (featuring Skylar Grey) charges 21-12 while “Good Old Days” (featuring Kesha) debuts at No. 22. Plus, Kevin Gates’ By Any Means 2 surges 50-3 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums in its first full tracking week, netting 40,000 equivalent album units. (The set arrived on the Sept.…

Rihanna (above) rocks the Dance Club Songs summit for the fifth time in 2017, a new high in a calendar year among all acts, as “Desperado” rises 2-1. She rolls ahead of Lady Gaga, Beyoncé and Katy Perry, who each have scored four No. 1s at least once in a January-December frame; Rihanna has hit that mark four times (2007, 2010, 2011 and 2016). “Desperado” is Rihanna’s 32nd total chart-topper, second only to Madonna (46), in the tally’s 41-year history. (Beyoncé ranks third with 22 leaders.) Remixed by 3LAU, Fairlane and MK, among others, “Desperado” is Rihanna’s seventh No. 1 from her album ANTI, a streak that started in April 2016 with “Work” (featuring Drake). That marks the most No. 1s from a single set since Perry scored seven from…

Paul McCartney (above) made his presence known in the Big Apple during September, playing multiple shows on his One on One Tour at four arenas in the New York metropolitan area. Twoshow stints at Madison Square Garden, Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, Long Island’s Nassau Coliseum and the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., racked up over $20 million at the box office from eight sellouts. Altogether, he lands on the Boxscore chart with shows at seven U.S. venues, including a ninth New York performance upstate at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse. Sold-outs concerts at arenas in Des Moines, Iowa, and Omaha, Neb., also earn a slot on the chart, but the Garden is his top grosser. His concerts on Sept. 15 and 17 in Manhattan logged $6.4 million in sales to take…

IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE PARIS car accident that killed Diana, Princess of Wales, on Aug. 31, 1997, her sister, Lady Sarah McCorquodale, invited her sibling’s friend Elton John to sing at Diana’s Sept. 6 funeral service at London’s Westminster Abbey. With the clock ticking, John, then 50, phoned his longtime lyricist Bernie Taupin in Los Angeles about crafting a new song for him to perform. Two days before the service, Taupin rewrote the lyrics to “Candle in the Wind” after John noted that his 1973 song was receiving renewed airplay in England in honor of Diana. The duo originally wrote “Candle” as an ode to Marilyn Monroe, who, like Diana, died at age 36, but it didn’t become a chart hit until its release as a live single in…

Clive Davis does not need to tell his life story. The industry legend already did so four years ago, with his 586-page memoir, The Soundtrack of My Life, which unpacked the many eureka moments of a five-decade career as a hitmaker. “This is not an ego trip,” says the 85-year-old of the new documentary Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives, which chronicles the path he took to help create some of the biggest records of all time with artists like Whitney Houston, Bruce Springsteen, Janis Joplin and Carlos Santana. Instead, its primary purpose is to further set the record straight — at least, that’s what Davis, spry and eloquent as ever, suggests while in his corner office at Sony Music Entertainment (SME) in downtown Manhattan on a September afternoon.…

I watched the first Tom Petty song I ever heard: 1993’s ”Mary Jane’s Last Dance.” In the music video, a quietly amused guy in a top hat danced with the pretty blonde from Batman who appeared to be dead. He seemed both playful and dangerous, and, to preteen me, a peer of Björk, Kurt, Courtney, PJ and Eddie — this gang of rock’n’roll characters who helped kids like me reframe our insecurity and oddness as freeing, not humiliating. Petty was born in 1950. His childhood was steeped in Elvis and cowboy movies, his adolescence in the era of ’60s rock and radicalism. But the decade of his formative creative galvanization, the 1970s, was about alienation, disenfranchisement and disillusionment. Petty’s wry yet romantic songwriting matched the emotional pitch of his mid-baby…

I opened for Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers in 1999, right after Car Wheels on a Gravel Road was released. People didn’t know who I was much back then, and it was clear his audience was impatiently waiting for Tom Petty to come out. There was a banana peel thrown onstage at one point. It was pretty brutal! But after two or three nights of this, Tom came out and introduced us: “Guys, I want you to listen. This is an important artist, and you need to be respectful of her and pay attention.” That’s what won my heart. I had opened up for Bob Dylan and Van Morrison, and it could feel really disconnected and weird. But going out with Tom was like, “Wow, these guys seem to be…

Jon Fausty A sought-after recording engineer during the salsa heyday of the ’70s, Fausty, 68, worked on sessions for some of the biggest names in the genre, including Ray Barretto, Ruben Blades, Willie Colon, Celia Cruz and Hector Lavoe. After the salsa era, he continued working with the genre’s most innovative artists, producing albums for Los Van Van and Eddie Palmieri. In the late ’80s, he collaborated with producer Steve Lillywhite on David Byrne’s Rei Momo. With six mainstream Grammys and five Latin Grammys, the prolific, New York-based Fausty continues to produce and engineer for top artists. Lalo Schifrin Argentine-born Schifrin, 85, has written over 100 scores for film (including Cool Hand Luke, Coogan’s Bluff and Dirty Harry) and TV, including the iconic theme for the ’60s program…

More than 13 years after The Killers debuted on the Billboard 200, the rock band scores its first No. 1 with its fifth studio album, Wonderful Wonderful. The set debuts atop the chart with 118,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Sept. 28, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 111,000 were traditional album sales. (The sales start benefits from a concert ticket/album bundle sale redemption promotion in association with the act’s 2018 U.S. tour.) The Killers’ previous studio album, Battle Born, launched at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with 113,000 copies sold in 2012 (before the chart transitioned from a pure sales ranking to a consumption-based chart in late 2014). In total, the group has claimed eight chart entries, with five of those reaching the top…

After Foo Fighters debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with Concrete and Gold, the set falls out of the top 10 in its second week (1-17). It’s the ninth album to earn that distinction in 2017. Concrete launched with 127,000 equivalent album units, and erodes by 82 percent to 23,000 units in the week ending Sept. 28, according to Nielsen Music. The large drop was amplified by how the set’s first-week sales were boosted by a direct-to-consumer offer to fans, where those who preordered the album got early access to purchase concert tickets. Comparably, in all of 2016, just six albums premiered at No. 1 and then dropped out of the top 10 in their second week. Elsewhere on the Billboard 200, Lana Del Rey’s Lust for Life…

“All the Pretty Girls” by Kenny Chesney (above) rises 2-1 on Country Airplay, up 7 percent to 47 million audience impressions in the week ending Oct. 1, according to Nielsen Music. Chesney banks his 28th No. 1, a roll that began over 20 years ago with “She’s Got It All” (Aug. 30, 1997). “Few songs have as much summer in them as ‘All the Pretty Girls,’ which is why I wanted to record it,” Chesney tells Billboard of the song (which debuted on the chart just ahead of the start of the summer). “To me, there’s a special excitement that is summer and being young and alive.” Chesney moves to within one of Tim McGraw’s record of 29 No. 1s on the Country Airplay chart. On Top Country Albums, Texas-based…

Fourteen-year-old social media star Malu Trevejo (above) makes her Billboard chart debut as the singer arrives at No. 27 on Hot Latin Songs with “Luna Llena.” The single concurrently opens at No. 8 on Latin Digital Song Sales and No. 3 on Latin Pop Digital Song Sales as the track earned 2,000 downloads in the week ending Sept. 28, according to Nielsen Music. The song’s music video, which was uploaded to YouTube on Sept. 21, has collected over 10 million global views through Oct. 3. Trevejo, who signed with Universal Music Latin’s In-Tu Línea label earlier in 2017, rose to fame through her social media following. The singer has more than 4 million followers on Instagram and 1.7 million followers on musical.ly. Elsewhere on Hot Latin Songs, Calibre 50 notches…

A DAY AFTER THE worst shooting massacre in U.S. history, it was eerily quiet on the always busy Las Vegas Strip. Police had closed off a large portion of Las Vegas Boulevard to traffic as officers continued to pore over the site of the Route 91 Harvest Festival, a country music gathering promoted by Live Nation and held on an adjacent festival site owned by MGM Resorts International. Survivors, still wearing their purple general-admission wristbands from the show, gathered around pools of blood that had caked into the sidewalk under the hot desert sun. They talked about their experiences and tried to make sense of the deafening barrage of bullets that seemed to come out of nowhere, turning the site — surrounded by a chain-link fence — into a killing…

London artist Sakima was first attracted to a boy when he was 6: “I remember very distinctly a group of girls laughing at me and weirded out that I fancied a guy,” says the electro-R&B musician born Isaac Sakima. Though the feelings weren’t reciprocated (“He was straight, as far as I know”), his childhood crush serves as the namesake for the 26-year-old’s Ricky EP (out Oct. 13). Through the seven songs, the singer-producer fetishizes daddies, rejects heteronormative traditions and explores the lexicon of Polari, a coded language used by gay men in Britain in the 1950s and ’60s, when homosexuality was illegal. AS NASTY AS HE WANTS TO BE Rather than cloaking references in innuendo, Sakima is forthright in his lyricism and doesn’t hold back when it comes to being…

LEAH BUBLIS, 25 Manager of creative sync licensing, Roc Nation Bublis grossed over $1 million for Roc Nation, securing prime synch placements for Joseph Angel and The-Dream in Fifty Shades Darker and Canadian rapper Belly in the video game Madden NFL 18. “I started pitching the band Dorothy the day I started,” she says. DAVID DANN, 28 Founder/owner, Mind of a Genius After making his name as a DJproducer, Dann started Mind of a Genius in 2013 and ignited the careers of Grammy nominees ZHU and Gallant. “As an artist, I felt like I was playing chess,” he says. “The second I started working on other people, I was playing checkers — it was that much easier for me.” ARDIE FARHADIEH, 29 Founder, Wick Management; marketing and…

FOR CONCERT VENUE executives, the world changed in 2017 when a suicide bomber killed 22 outside of England’s Manchester Arena on May 22, and when a gunman took at least 59 lives at a festival in Las Vegas on Oct. 1. Venue managers can sum up new security precautions in one word: more. In addition to tighter security, ticketing technology, production complexity, higherend concessions and keen competition for superstar tours have all raised the bar for today’s arena managers. And the stakes are high: The world’s top-grossing concert venues drive a significant part of the touring industry’s estimated $25 billionplus in annual revenue. The Arena Power Players recognized here are chosen for their leadership of the venues that dominate Billboard Boxscore worldwide rankings in two categories: buildings with a capacity…

FOX NEWMAN SCORING STAGE Los Angeles THEN Built in the 1920s on the 20th Century Fox lot in Century City, this soundstage was the domain of Alfred Newman, the first head of music for the studio, who moved to Hollywood from his native Connecticut in the 1930s. Newman (the uncle of pop singer-composer Randy Newman) won nine Academy Awards for the scores to films including The King and I and Camelot. NOW After a renovation and reopening in 1997, the Newman Scoring Stage recently has been used for the recording of the soundtracks to movies such as Deadpool and Star Trek Beyond. BARBRA STREISAND SCORING STAGE Culver City, Calif. THEN A shooting stage for MGM until the late 1920s, this room hosted the recording of scores for films beginning with…

195 STEPHEN ST I L L S & J UDY CO L L INS Everybody Knows The former lovers join together to sing on an album for the first time as Everybody Knows debuts at No. 195. The release earned 5,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Sept. 28, with nearly all of that sum coming from traditional album sales. The set also starts at No. 9 on the Americana/Folk Albums chart. It is Stills’ first entry outside of supergroups Crosby, Stills & Nash and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young since Right By You (No. 75) in 1984. —K.C. 45 LADY GAGA Joanne The album re-enters (11,000 units; up 232 percent) following the Sept. 22 premiere of Lady Gaga’s Netflix documentary Gaga: Five Foot Two and sale pricing for…

Cardi B (below) breaks into the Social 50’s top 10 for the first time, leaping 13-2 with a 107 percent increase in all social media metrics, according to Next Big Sound, in the week ending Sept. 28. Much of the activity surrounds the rapper’s move to No. 1 on the Oct. 7 Billboard Hot 100 with “Bodak Yellow (Money Moves),” earning 506,000 Twitter reactions and a 136 percent boost in Wikipedia views. Cardi tweeted Sept. 25 that getting her first No. 1 on the chart was “the happiest day of my life.” J. Cole re-enters at No. 20 on the Social 50, charting for the first time in 2017. It’s also his highest peak yet, besting the No. 23 rank he achieved on Jan. 3, 2015. Cole, who is generally…

The Hot Rock Songs chart welcomes its first new No. 1 since March as Portugal. The Man (above) earns its first leader with “Feel It Still” (2-1). The new chart champ snaps the 29-week reign of Imagine Dragons’ “Believer,” the secondlongest rule in the ranking’s eight-year history, after Twenty One Pilots’ 30- week reign with “Heathens” (2016-17). Meanwhile, “Still” (atop Rock Airplay for a 10th week, with 13 million in rock audience, according to Nielsen Music) spends a 15th week at No. 1 on the Alternative airplay chart, joining only eight other songs to reach that status. Muse’s “Madness” leads with 19 weeks atop Alternative in 2012 and 2013. Walk the Moon — whose “Shut Up and Dance” led Hot Rock Songs for a third-best 27 weeks in 2015 —…

All Things Work Together by rapper LeCrae (above) roars in at No. 1 on Top Christian Albums, earning 29,000 equivalent album units, with 20,000 in pure sales, during the week ending Sept. 28, according to Nielsen Music. The 14- song set is LeCrae’s seventh Christian Albums No. 1, all of which arrived atop the chart. Concurrently, latest single “I’ll Find You” (featuring Tori Kelly) returns to the Hot Christian Songs summit (2-1) for its fifth week at No. 1. LeCrae’s new release follows Church Clothes 3, which debuted at No. 1 on Feb. 6, 2016 (26,000 sold). His Anomaly retains the mark for his biggest sales week to date, when it opened atop the survey on Sept. 27, 2014, with 88,000 copies sold. Debuting at No. 2 on Top Christian…

LEGEND Bullets indicate titles with greatest weekly gains. Album Charts •Recording Industry Assn. of America (RIAA) certification for physical shipments & digital downloads of 500,000 albums (Gold). ⋄RIAA certification for physical shipments & digital downloads of 1 million units (Platinum). Numeral noted with Platinum symbol indicates album’s multiplatinum level. ▴RIAA certification for physical shipments & digital downloads of 10 million units (Diamond). Numeral noted with Diamond symbol indicates album’s multiplatinum level. ◯Latin albums certification for physical shipments & digital downloads of 30,000 units (Oro). ▵Latin albums certification for physical shipments & digital downloads of 60,000 units (Platino). Numeral noted with Platino symbol indicates album’s multiplatinum level. Digital Songs Charts ▴RIAA certification for 500,000 paid downloads and ondemand streams where 100 streams equal 1 download (Gold). RIAA certification for 1 million…