Indholdsfortegnelse for November 16, 2024 i Billboard Magazine

THE CURE MAKES A striking return to the Billboard charts with Songs of a Lost World, marking the act’s first No. 1 on the 33-year-old Top Album Sales list. It debuts at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 — The Cure’s highest-charting set on the ranking since 1992 — and is No. 1 on Top Rock & Alternative Albums, Top Rock Albums, Top Alternative Albums, Vinyl Albums and Indie Store Album Sales. Songs of a Lost World is the Robert Smith-led group’s first album of new studio material since 2008. The release is the band’s third top 10 on the Billboard 200 following its self-titled album (No. 7 in July 2004) and Wish (No. 2, May 1992). The set debuts with 57,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum,…

ROSÉ AND BRUNO MARS’ “APT.” resides in the penthouse for a third week on the Billboard Global 200. The song, released Oct. 18, drew 162.2 million official streams and sold 14,000 worldwide Nov. 1-7, according to Luminate. The week before, the duet logged 207.5 million streams, a week after it debuted with 224.5 million, becoming the first title since the chart launched in September 2020 to amass at least 200 million global streams in multiple weeks. The song introduces ROSÉ’s album rosie, due Dec. 6. Lady Gaga and Mars’ “Die With a Smile” holds at No. 2 on the Global 200 following eight weeks at No. 1, the most for any song this year. It drew 119.6 million streams worldwide in the tracking week, marking the 10th in a…

THAT WARM, IMPISH smile. Infectious laugh. Eyes that literally twinkled as he talked about music and life. Those were the first things that came to mind after learning of Quincy Delight Jones’ death on Nov. 3. And how lucky I was to get the chance to chat several times with someone who truly personified every sense of the word “legend.” It just so happened that the day before Jones died, I was cleaning out some old files and came across the yellowed pages of the first interview I ever did with him when I was an editor at the trade publication Radio & Records. It was November 1984: two years after Michael Jackson’s seismic success with Thriller in 1982 and a year before pulling an epic all-nighter with Jackson,…

“Quincy Jones was a true giant of music. Whether it was jazz, pop, R&B or rock, no genre of music escaped his genius. Among the greats he collaborated with were Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Miles Davis, Count Basie, Ray Charles and Lesley Gore. Say ‘We Are the World’ and say The Color Purple, and you’ll understand the range of his music. He was the ultimate music renaissance man and a true inspiration to all of us in music.”—CLIVE DAVIS “Words like ‘titan,’ ‘genius,’ ‘GOAT’ will be used today, and he deserves it all. Quincy was a producer, artist, composer and activist, but above all, he was a songwriter. He leaves behind an extraordinarily powerful, diverse body of work that will light the way for future generations.”—GUY MOOT AND CARIANNE…

How did “Disease” come together? CIRKUT I had been working with [co-writer/co-producer] Andrew Watt, and one day, he called me and said, “What do you think about working with Gaga?” We were off to the races as soon as we met. We all wanted to make something that still felt like it was decidedly Gaga, but asking the question of “What does that sound like today?” That’s always a challenge, especially with artists who have established themselves so firmly in pop culture, to figure out that balance. That said, you cannot overthink things too much — ultimately, you just have to get in the sandbox and have fun. You’re also a co-writer and co-producer on ROSÉ and Bruno Mars’ “APT.” We worked three days in a row, and it…

JIMMY FALLON JINGLES onto Top Holiday Albums at No. 2 with Holiday Seasoning — his first seasonal set and first album since 2012. The star-studded collection launches with nearly 13,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending Nov. 7, according to Luminate. Traditional album sales account for nearly 12,000 of that sum. On Comedy Albums, Holiday Seasoning starts at No. 1, marking Fallon’s second leader on the ranking, which launched in October 2004. Holiday Seasoning includes previously released collaborations, such as “It Was A... (Masked Christmas)” featuring Ariana Grande and Megan Thee Stallion and “Almost Too Early for Christmas” with Dolly Parton. Among the new tracks on the set: “Holiday” with the Jonas Brothers, “You’ll Be There” with Justin Timberlake and “New Year’s Eve…

SONY MUSIC PUBLISHING RETURNED to No. 1 on the Hot 100 Songs publishers ranking for the third quarter and held on to the top spot among Top Radio Airplay publishers for the 14th consecutive quarter. The publisher, which had finished a close second to Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) in the second quarter, scored its dual wins with a share of 67 tracks on Hot 100 Songs and 63 songs on Top Radio Airplay, including Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” — the top tune on both charts this quarter and one that benefited the quarter’s top four publishers, which all have shares of the track. The top Hot 100 Songs writer for the quarter was Zach Bryan. He’s represented by Warner Chappell Music, which took second place for a…

LISA LOOKS STUMPED. She raises her eyebrows slightly and purses her lips, staring out from underneath her immaculate, walnut-brown bangs. She is trying to answer a question that for most people qualifies as Small Talk 101, but for her is a Sphinx-level riddle: “Where do you live?” “I can’t really tell where I’m based,” she says, breaking into a giddy giggle. As one-quarter of the record-setting, superlative-defying K-pop girl group Blackpink, she called Seoul home. But now? She’s all over the place: Los Angeles, where we’re meeting and where she’s been spending a lot of time recording new music; her native Thailand, where she also filmed the highly anticipated third season of HBO’s The White Lotus; and Paris, where you can find her front row at fashion shows as…

SOUND ROYALTIES HAS BEEN a resource for the music industry for 10 years, advancing money to artists, songwriters, producers and other entities against their royalty income streams. And if there is one message that the company consistently emphasizes, it’s that Sound Royalties doesn’t use clients’ music rights as collateral, so it can never secure ownership of those rights. In Sound Royalties’ parlance, instead of loans, the company primarily provides advances, and recipients of those funds are collectively referred to as “creatives.” Sound Royalties also makes clear that it doesn’t charge interest; instead, advances come with fixed fees expressed in dollars. The company also doesn’t charge late fees, and a client’s credit rating doesn’t factor into any deals because the advance is repaid from one or more of a client’s…

3 Lil Uzi Vert Eternal Atake 2 The rapper’s fifth set to reach the top three on the Billboard 200 launches with 59,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending Nov. 7, according to Luminate. 20 Cody Johnson Leather Johnson and Ella Langley (at No. 49, with Hungover) get a boost from deluxe reissues of their albums with additional material — up 29% and 96%, respectively — with the latter hitting a new peak. 139 Soundtrack Saltburn The album makes its debut on the chart largely due to nearly 10,000 copies sold of a “bathwater”-filled vinyl album. It also debuts at No. 2 on Vinyl Albums and Soundtracks and No. 8 on Top Album Sales. 1 Tyler, The Creator Chromakopia Tyler, The Creator’s Chromakopia…

MICHAEL JACKSON NEEDED some guidance. “The first time he came to my home, he said to me, ‘I’m getting ready to do my first solo record for Epic Records,’ ” Quincy Jones recalled in Q, his 2001 autobiography. “ ‘Do you think you can help me find a producer?’ ” Jones, a musician of unparalleled range and talent who had already overseen or arranged records for Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan and Aretha Franklin, ended up filling the role himself — over the objections of Jackson’s record label, which deemed the producer “too jazzy.” Jackson insisted, and because of his collaboration with Jones on three landmark albums — Off the Wall (1979), Thriller (1983) and Bad (1987) — the two men are inextricably linked. If there was a downside to…

ANDRE BENZ’S foray into the music business was not like most. He didn’t attend a music business program at a university, toil away at an unpaid internship or manage a local artist. Instead, he built his own YouTube empire at age 15. Working from his childhood bedroom in New Jersey, Benz created the YouTube channel Trap Nation, where he featured a curated selection of dance music and remixes of popular songs. “Originally, it was just a hobby, but I think one of my positive and negative traits is I become obsessive about what I do,” he says. “I just kept doing it and doing it until one of the uploads blew up — a remix of ‘Wrecking Ball’ by Miley Cyrus.” By the time of his high school graduation,…

When girl group KATSEYE released its aptly titled first single, “Debut,” in June, the global pop act kick-started the rollout for its EP, SIS (Soft Is Strong) — but even then, the members could hardly wait for their next release, “Touch.” “It was all of our favorite when we first heard it,” Daniela says. With crisp drum’n’bass production, twinkling electro-pop flourishes and a swirl of pop-R&B harmonies, “Touch” has grown into a global hit that has latched onto U.S. radio. KATSEYE is the result of the ambitious 2023 YouTube series Dream Academy created by HxG — HYBE x Geffen Records, a joint venture between the South Korean entertainment conglomerate and Universal Music Group. Out of a reported 120,000 applicants from around the world, just 20 were invited to Los…