Innholdsfortegnelse for April 21, 2018 i Billboard Magazine

No. 14 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart BAZZI After the meteoric rise of “Mine,” the singer figures out how to follow up a viral hit Lots to offer When 20-year-old Andrew Bazzi (pronounced Bahzee) dropped his sensual, uplifting R&B single “Mine” last October, it soon became a streaming behemoth, thanks in part to an internet meme where Snapchat users remixed the line “You so fucking precious when you smile” with a Snapchat Lens filter. It then stormed the Billboard Hot 100 (it’s No. 14 on the April 21 chart), but he still can’t help but laugh when fans are surprised he has other songs. “I’m getting, like, a thousand tweets a day,” he says. “Like, ‘Holy fuck! [You have] other music!’” Spotlight seeker “I’ve always been obsessed with entertaining…

Alongside a parade of drummers and performers on stilts, Ricky Martin transformed the 1999 Grammy Awards into a Carnaval extravaganza when he performed his vibrant “The Cup of Life”/“La Copa de la Vida.” It was a historic moment for both Latin artists and the FIFA World Cup: The previous year, the single was the official song of the tournament in France, kicking off Martin’s international career and giving Latin music unprecedented exposure. “‘Cup of Life’ changed my life,” says Martin now. “The fact that a song in Spanish was No. 1 in more than 72 countries in the ’90s was something major. It opened the door to a whole new world of opportunities.” Or more to the point: “It put Latin music on the map.” Martin isn’t exaggerating. “Every…

Over a three-decade career, Mexican rock group Maná has scored 30-plus hits on the Hot Latin Songs chart, 15 entries on Top Latin Albums and 24 Billboard Latin Music Awards — and counting: This year, the band is up for Latin pop songs artist of the year, duo or group. Ahead of the 2018 awards, where the members will receive the Lifetime Achievement honor and give a special performance, frontman Fher Olvera and drummer Alex González spoke about Maná’s extraordinary longevity and philanthropy. Throughout such a long career, what has been your proudest achievement thus far? González Maná became huge in the United States singing in Spanish. We never did anything in English or any crossover. The U.S. is the most difficult country in the world as far as…

John & Taupin Tributes Arrive Twenty-six years after Elton John and Bernie Taupin received the tribute album treatment with Two Rooms: Celebrating the Songs of Elton John & Bernie Taupin, the songwriting team is being feted again with two star-studded sets: Revamp and Restoration. Both albums carry the subtitle Reimagining the Songs of Elton John & Bernie Taupin. The pop-and rock-leaning Revamp, which features P!nk and Ed Sheeran covering John & Taupin tunes, bows at No. 13 on the Billboard 200 (25,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending April 12, according to Nielsen Music). The country-flavored Restoration — boasting Little Big Town and Chris Stapleton, among others — starts at No. 36 (15,000 units). Revamp and Restoration also arrive at Nos. 2 and 4 on the Top…

Davis ‘Up’ To No. 1 The debut hit by singer-songwriter Jordan Davis (above), “Singles You Up,” climbs 2-1 on Country Airplay, increasing 6 percent to 42.4 million audience impressions in the week ending April 15, according to Nielsen Music. Co-penned by Davis, “Singles” is from his first full-length, Home State, which started at No. 6 on the Top Country Albums chart dated April 7 (11,000). “Singles” is the first career-opening Country Airplay No. 1 since Russell Dickerson’s “Yours” (Jan. 27). On Hot Country Songs, Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line’s “Meant to Be” extends its reign to 20 weeks and now stands alone in third place among the longest-leading hits in the chart’s 59-year history, passing Leroy Van Dyke’s “Walk On By” (19 weeks at No. 1 in 1961…

CNCO Debuts At No. 1 CNCO (above) earns its second No. 1 on Top Latin Albums as the group’s self-titled sophomore studio set bows with 16,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending April 12, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 13,000 were in traditional album sales — the largest sales week for any Latin album since Romeo Santos’ Golden launched with 26,000 in the week ending July 27, 2017. CNCO also logs the quintet its biggest week in terms of overall units and in traditional album sales. The act’s previous high-water mark was earned by its first album’s debut frame, when Primera Cita tallied 12,000 units and 11,000 sold in 2016. Though none of the new album’s tracks are on the Hot Latin Songs chart, three…

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LIZ PHAIR KNOWS EXACTLY HOW she’d like to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Exile in Guyville, her iconic track-for-track riposte to The Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main St.: “Getting stoned and listening to them back to back,” says the singer-songwriter. Perhaps then, she adds, she can recall precisely how her starkly detailed “Divorce Song” snaps back at the group’s swaggering “Ventilator Blues.” At the moment, though, Phair, 51, is sipping water at a Beverly Hills coffee shop on an overcast March afternoon. Despite having steadily enjoyed an outpouring of affection over the years for her gutsy, ingenious 1993 debut, she says today “is not the same old day at the office.” That’s because she’s spending it steeped in nostalgia: On May 4, Matador will release Girly-Sound to Guyville, a…

Working with Bad Bunny, Ozuna and a slew of rising regional Mexican acts, respectively, the executives on the conference’s “New Starmakers” panel — Rimas Entertainment founder/co-owner Noah Assad, Dimelo Vi vp entertainment Vicente Saavedra and Gerencia 360 founder/CEO Luis Del Villar — have learned what it takes to launch nontraditional Latin talent. In advance of their April 24 conversation in Las Vegas, the power trio reflect on their success thus far. HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR STYLE OF MANAGEMENT? SAAVEDRA I’m a warrior, I’m a psychologist; they are artists, [and] they think differently. I’m like a doctor who understands them and enters their mind. DEL VILLAR We start from scratch, where sometimes there’s only a mom and dad behind the artist. At Gerencia, we’re like a university, and education…

Ella Mai Elevates British R&B singer Ella Mai (above) enters the top 10 of the Emerging Artists chart (15-7) on the strength of her breakout single, “Boo’d Up,” which rises 78-72 on the Billboard Hot 100. The track climbs with 16 million audience impressions (up 14 percent), 8.2 million U.S. streams (up 22 percent) and 5,000 downloads sold (up 7 percent), according to Nielsen Music. It concurrently soars to the top 10 of the Hot R&B Songs tally (14-8). Plus, Bishop Briggs re-enters Emerging Artists at No. 15, sparked by her performance of her breakthrough single, “River,” on ABC’s American Idol (April 9) with contestant Trevor McBane. The original re-enters Hot Rock Songs at No. 11, nearly matching its No. 10 peak in 2016. Allen Stone also receives an…

Gaga’s 10th ‘Dance’ Party It is a week of 10s for Lady Gaga (below), who jumps 32-10 on the Social 50 after celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the release of her debut single, “Just Dance,” on April 8. “It’s very emotional, and I am so grateful to Little Monsters for sticking by me all these years,” tweeted the singer. “Cheers to many more, filled with love and bravery to be yourself.” Gaga, who last reached the Social 50 top 10 last December (No. 8, Dec. 30, 2017), earned a 73 percent boost in Twitter mentions (61,000 overall in the week ending April 12, according to Next Big Sound) as fans congratulated her. Arctic Monkeys become a rare rock band to make the Social 50, debuting at No. 41 thanks…

Mars’ Mission To No. 1 Thirty Seconds to Mars (above) rules Top Rock Albums and Alternative Albums for the first time as its fifth studio set, America, bows with 62,000 equivalent album units (54,000 in traditional album sales), according to Nielsen Music. Previously, the Jared Leto-led act reached highs of No. 3 on Top Rock Albums with Love Lust Faith + Dreams (2013) and No. 2 on Alternative Albums with This Is War (2009). Another veteran rock act earns an initial leader: Underoath notches its first Hard Rock Albums No. 1 with the debut of Erase Me (23,000), the metalcore band’s first album since 2010. Concurrently, “Rapture,” the six-piece’s first entry on the Mainstream Rock airplay chart and the new set’s lead single, rises 32-30. Lovelytheband leads the Alternative…

Hillsong Worship Back For ‘More’ There Is More, the new live album from Hillsong Worship (above), arrives at No. 2 on Top Christian Albums, earning 17,000 equivalent album units (11,000 in traditional album sales), according to Nielsen Music. The 17-song set (including its six bonus tracks) is the praise-and-worship collective’s 12th top 10 on the chart, a total that includes six No. 1s. Hillsong Worship — the musical arm of Hillsong Church, which also includes sister acts Hillsong United and Hillsong Young & Free — recorded the album live in concert at Hillsong’s flagship church in Sydney. The three Hillsong units are separate bands, but their various members sometimes participate in multiple iterations. They also share songs: For instance, There Is More features a version of “So Will I…

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 0 RIAA certification for 500,000 paid downloads and on-demand streams where 100 streams equal 1 download (Gold). ¡ RIAA certification…

CHRIS BROKAW Musician “The original version of ‘Girls, Girls, Girls’ is seven minutes long and, like, 20 verses. It has power that comes from accumulation. It was like a Bob Dylan epic. By the sixth minute, you’re devastated by the lyrics. There’s intimacy to the four tracks.” BEN GIBBARD Death Cab for Cutie “Nobody has captured the feeling of being on an airplane so eloquently as ‘Stratford-on-Guy’ does: the vulnerability, the imagery of the earth looking like ‘a poorly assembled electrical ball.’ It inspired me to write [The Postal Service’s] ‘Recycled Air.’” MIKE HADREAS Perfume Genius “I heard ‘Flower’ when I was 13. I was scandalized. She was singing about things I hadn’t already experienced yet, but had developed massive amounts of shame around. There is…

Nicki Minaj hasn’t been in a hurry to follow up 2014’s The Pinkprint. Speaking to Zane Lowe on Beats 1, the Queens-bred rapper revealed she only began putting together a new album last December while taking a break from social media. Now, in the midst of her longest-ever stretch between albums, she returned with two new songs on April 12 — “Barbie Tingz” and “Chun-Li” — the latter of which references the revenge-seeking cop of the same name from the Street Fighter video games. Minaj tapped Atlanta producer J. Reid to helm the tracks and chose the beats from a folder of 15 he created specifically for her. Here, he shares how “Chun-Li” came together. The Production Minaj was on the hunt for a boom-bap-style beat that would…

A Singular Woman In 1995, Shakira broke through in the United States and Latin America simultaneously with Pies Descalzos, her major-label debut, which peaked at No. 5 on Billboard’s Top Latin Albums chart. Today, she holds the record for most No. 1s among women on Latin Airplay, has scored 40 hits on Hot Latin Songs and has placed 10 albums on Top Latin Albums, three of which debuted at No. 1. She also has 12 nominations heading into the 2018 Billboard Latin Music Awards. Colombian Roots, Global Presence At just 18, the native of Barranquilla, Colombia, launched the Pies Descalzos Foundation, which promotes quality public education for children in Colombia, immediately after the release of her first album. She has served as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 2003, and…

WISIN From… Cayey, Puerto Rico Known for… Collaborators ranging from pop stars to urban up-and-comers: He produced boy band CNCO’s 2016 debut, Primera Cita, and has also worked with Jennifer Lopez (2017’s “Amor, Amor, Amor”), Ozuna (“Escápate Conmigo”) and Chayanne. Sounds like… Explosive reggaetón, exemplified by his own star duo, Wisin & Yandel. CHRIS JEDAY From… Carolina, Puerto Rico; now lives in San Juan Known for… The 28-year-old dynamo arrived on the urban Latin scene six years ago, producing, writing and arranging for Wisin & Yandel. Since then, he has racked up credits on tracks by Ozuna and Daddy Yankee. Sounds like… Sensual Latin trap, exemplified on his J Balvin, Ozuna and Arcángel collaboration “Ahora Dice,” a Hot Latin Songs top 10 hit. MAURICIO RENGIFO &…

Cardi B Invades Chart Summit Cardi B becomes just the fifth female rapper to top the Billboard 200 as her debut studio effort, Invasion of Privacy, arrives atop the list. The set starts with 255,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending April 12, according to Nielsen Music. That sum also grants her the second-biggest week of the year for any album — trailing only Justin Timberlake’s arrival with Man of the Woods (293,000 units on the Feb. 17 chart). Cardi B joins an elite group of women rappers with a No. 1 album. She follows Nicki Minaj, Eve, Foxy Brown and Lauryn Hill. Invasion racked up impressive streaming numbers: It clocked the biggest streaming week ever for an album by a woman. Of its 255,000-unit start, 135,000…

RADIO SONGS: The week’s most popular songs, ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen Music. Stations are electronically monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. DIGITAL SONG SALES: The week’s top-downloaded songs, ranked by sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music. POP/RHYTHMIC/ADULT: The week’s most popular current songs at mainstream top 40, rhythmic, adult contemporary and adult top 40 formats, respectively, ranked by radio airplay detections, as measured by Nielsen Music. Songs are defined as current if they are relatively recently-released titles, or songs receiving widespread airplay and/or sales activity for the first time. Stations are electronically monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. See Charts Legend on billboard.com/biz for complete rules and explanations. All charts © 2018, Prometheus Global Media, LLC…

Lil Xan’s X-cellent Debut Lil Xan (above) earns his first top 10 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums as Total Xanarchy debuts at No. 8 with 27,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending April 12, according to Nielsen Music. The figure includes 14,000 in traditional album sales, making Xanarchy the second-best-selling R&B/hip-hop album of the week (trailing Cardi B’s Invasion of Privacy; see page 74). Xanarchy contains the single “Betrayed,” a No. 28 hit on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs in December 2017. Speaking of Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, the chart welcomes a new No. 1 as Drake’s “Nice for What” debuts on top. The song is the superstar’s 18th leader on the list. He now has the second-most No. 1s, passing James Brown’s 17. Only Aretha Franklin and Stevie Wonder are…

Alison Wonderland’s Awake Arrives Alison Wonderland (above) debuts at No. 1 on Top Dance/Electronic Albums with Awake. Of the set’s 7,000 equivalent album units, 4,000 were in traditional album sales, according to Nielsen Music. Awake earns the Australian DJ her career-best sales week and second leader following Run (which debuted with 3,000 sold) in April 2015. Wonderland is the first solo female to reign since Feb. 25, 2017, when Lady Gaga led with The Fame, the record-extending 107th week at No. 1 for the 2008 set. Before Wonderland, Lindsey Stirling was the last woman to debut atop the chart, with her 2016 release, Brave Enough, that September. Calvin Harris and Dua Lipa leap 14-2 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs with “One Kiss,” which debuted a week earlier from three days…

IN JULY 1972, WHEN ALICE COOPER was the name of a California rock band led by Vince Furnier, the group scored its first top 10 single on the Billboard Hot 100 with “School’s Out,” a guitar-driven middle finger to education that became a summer-vacation anthem. After five albums and just one previous top 40 hit, “Eighteen,” Furnier, who soon began calling himself Alice Cooper and, in 1975, legally adopted the name, was stunned by his group’s newfound success. “How could we, this band that two years ago was living in [soul band] The Chambers Brothers’ basement in Watts [Calif.], be the No. 1 band in the world, with people throwing money at us?” he recalled in a 2008 interview with the Houston Chronicle. The group’s 1973 follow-up would build…