Billboard Magazine

Written for music industry professionals and fans. Contents provide news, reviews and statistics for all genres of music, including radio play, music video, related internet activity and retail updates.

Most Wanted: Lady Gaga Launches With ‘Stupid Love’

Billboard US

Concert Industry Faces Cruel, Cruel Summer • As the live business reels, competitors are coming together in an effort to try to make sure their shows will go on

MARKET WATCH

CAN INDIE PROMOTERS SURVIVE THE VIRUS CRISIS? • PROMOTERS WITHOUT LIVE NATION’S LEVERAGE FACE SERIOUS CHALLENGES

U.S. Complicating Touring For Foreign Acts • The visa process is becoming harder for many artists — to the point that some are deciding not to play America

Market Shock Socks Rock Stocks • AS WALL STREET REACTS TO THE CORONAVIRUS, WILL THE MUSIC BUSINESS GET SICK?

In Chile, Concert Promoters Face More Than A Virus As Political Protests Take Toll

Sony’s Bunny Bump • Small hop for Bad Bunny, big leap for foreign-language albums

Green Food And Guitars • When they’re not recording Grammy-winning music, acoustic guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela run vegan restaurants in one of Mexico’s more impoverished states

FROM THE DESK OF CHRIS TAYLOR • Global President, Entertainment One Music

The Scene

THE HOME STRETCH • Jessie Reyez played a strategic waiting game with her debut album — and is now desperate to release it

The Team In Jessie’s Corner

ALMA • LABEL EPIC GERMANY/RCA U.S. and U.K.

Her Show Will Go On • Céline Dion wanted her first arena tour following her Las Vegas residency to feel just as intimate — and production designer Yves Aucoin knew what to do

BIG IN… Venezuela WOST

CHARTBREAKER MAHALIA • How the British singer is reviving old-school R&B for a new era

TAWBOX • CREATIVE DIRECTORS

JACK HARLOW

WHAT MAKES DIPLO RUN • With a tireless team at his side, the insatiably curious multihyphenate seems to have the key to success in the post-EDM era: diversify or die

HIS UNIVERSE • THE CORE MEMBERS OF A GLOBAL TEAM ON WHAT IT’S LIKE TO HAVE DIPLO AS A BOSS

BIRD BRAIN • Aundy Caldwell Crenshaw’s business smarts helped create Dirtybird — one of dance music’s most enduring brands — and its rabidly loyal fan base

WAITING FOR THE DROP • As the EDM explosion of the 2010s cools off, many promoters and managers are bracing for a downturn

CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES • How a Canadian music festival’s drug-testing initiative made the government — and other promoters — take note

WHAT’S NEXT? • At the dawn of a new decade, dance music visionaries share their predictions for the genre’s future

FOLLOW THE MONEY • New technology could help songwriters collect missing public performance royalties from DJ sets

FANTASTIC BEATS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM • Sounds born at DIY warehouse parties are already fueling big-ticket events in dance music’s capitals. But these smaller cities are the underground’s next big scenes, launching inventive artists, DJs and new sounds

BILLBOARD ARTIST 100

EMERGING ARTISTS

BILLBOARD 200

ALBUM SALES

SOCIAL/STREAMING

SONGWRITERS & PRODUCERS

POP/RHYTHMIC/ADULT

COUNTRY

ROCK

R&B/HIP-HOP

LATIN

CHRISTIAN/GOSPEL

DANCE/ELECTRONIC

BOXSCORE

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