Billboard - September 17, 2016

MEET THE
BEATLES...AGAIN
Paul and Ringo talk

surviving Fab 4 with doc
director Ron Howard
1950-2016
Juan G abriel
Remembered
SPOTIFYS
TWO-FRONT WAR
Haggling with labels

and fending off
Apple as IPO looms
Fashions
Model Sofia Richie

flanked by Rae
Sremmurds Slim
Jxmmi (left) and
Swae Lee
September 17, 2016 | billboard.com
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DATA COMPILED BY
MTV Video Music

Awards, broadcast live on
the network on Aug. 28,
reverberate on the Billboard Hot
100 (dated Sept. 17), as multiple
performers and honorees surge
despite the shows record-low ratings.
Britney Spears Make Me...,
featuring G-Eazy who performed
the song with her at the VMAs
jumps 58-17 on the Hot 100. The
track re-enters Digital Songs at
No. 3, up by 387 percent to 71,000
downloads sold in the week ending
Sept. 1, according to Nielsen Music.
(Also aiding the songs sales: its
discount to 69 cents in the iTunes
Store.) Make Me... is from Spears
new album, Glory, which debuts
at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 (see
pages 56 and 58).

The Chainsmokers Closer
(featuring Halsey) soars 45 percent
to 208,000 sold following their VMAs
performance of the song, which
tops the Hot 100 for a third week.
Bookending the top 10, Rihannas
Needed Me (11-10) gains by
14 percent to 30,000 sold after she
sang it as part of a medley of hits (and
collected a few Moonmen).
Meanwhile, Ariana Grande and
featured artist Nicki Minaj pedal
onto the Hot 100 at No. 31 with Side
to Side, following their cardiointensive performance of the tune
at the VMAs and the premiere of its
similarly themed video. The track
also debuts on Digital Songs at No. 26
with 29,000 sold, vaulting from
1,000 the week before. GARY TRUST
Artist
#1
3 WKS
AG SG
IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL
Closer
The Chainsmokers Feat. Halsey
Heathens
Cheap Thrills
Dont Let Me Down 2
This Is What You Came For
Ride
12
10
Treat You Better
One Dance
10
twenty one pilots
11
Sia Feat. Sean Paul
29
The Chainsmokers Feat. Daya
29
Calvin Harris Feat. Rihanna
18
twenty one pilots
25
Shawn Mendes
13
Drake Feat. WizKid & Kyla
22
31
DISRUPTOR/COLUMBIA
Major Lazer Feat. Justin Bieber & MO
11
DIPLO,BENNY BLANCO,JR. BLENDER,KING HENRY (E.C.SHEERAN,B.J.LEVIN,

J.SCOTT,T.W.PENTZ,P.MECKSEPER,H.ALLEN,J.D.BIEBER,K.M.ORSTED)
11
THE CHAINSMOKERS,S.FRANK,F.KENNETT (A.TAGGART,S.FRANK,

F.KENNETT,A.FRANGIPANE,I.SLADE,J.KING)
Cold Water
M.ELIZONDO,T.JOSEPH (T.JOSEPH)
MAD DECENT/DEF JAM
DC/ATLAS/WATERTOWER/ATLANTIC/FUELED BY RAMEN/RRP
G.KURSTIN (S.K.I.FURLER,G.KURSTIN,S.P.HENRIQUES)
MONKEY PUZZLE/RCA
THE CHAINSMOKERS (A.TAGGART,E.W.SCHWARTZ,S.HARRIS)
CALVIN HARRIS (CALVIN HARRIS,NILS SJOBERG)
DISRUPTOR/COLUMBIA
WESTBURY ROAD/ROC NATION/FLY EYE/COLUMBIA
R.REED (T.JOSEPH)
FUELED BY RAMEN/RRP
J.T.GEIGER II,D.ROMER (S.MENDES,J.T.GEIGER II,S.HARRIS)
NINETEEN85,WIZKID,N.SHEBIB (A.GRAHAM,P. JEFFERIES,

N.J.SHEBIB,A.I.BALOGUN,K.R.SMITH)
Needed Me 2
Weeks
On Chart
Title CERTIFICATION
PRODUCER (SONGWRITER)
Peak
Position
This
Week
HE SOUNDS OF THE
Last
Week
Britney Spears,
Rihanna And More
Ride VMA Victories
2
Weeks
Ago
The weeks most popular current songs across all genres, ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen Music, sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music and streaming activity data by online music sources tracked by Nielsen Music.
Songs are defined as current if they are newly-released titles, or songs receiving widespread airplay and/or sales activity for the first time. See Charts Legend on billboard.com/biz for complete rules and explanations. 2016, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved.
SPEARS: D DIPASUPIL/WIREIMAGE
The Hot 100s top40 is full of

songs riding VMAs-fueled
sales spikes, including
Make Me... by Spears
(center). who performed
with G-Eazy on the show.
ISLAND/REPUBLIC
YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC
DJ MUSTARD (D.MCFARLANE,R.FENTY,N.AUDINO,L.HUGHES,K.ROHAIM,
T.WARBRICK,A.FEENEY,B.E.HAZARD,C.HINSHAW JR.,D.RACHEL)
Rihanna
WESTBURY ROAD/ROC NATION
S E P T E M B E R 1 7, 2 0 1 6 | W W W. B I L L B OA R D.CO M 3
Send My Love (To Your New Lover)
18
13
12
We Dont Talk Anymore
19
16
13
12
14
13
15
14
15
16
51
58
17
21
19
18
16
17
19
20
20
Adele
MAX MARTIN,SHELLBACK (A.L.B.ADKINS,MAX MARTIN,SHELLBACK) XL/COLUMBIA
C.PUTH (C.PUTH,J.K.HINDLIN,S.GOMEZ)
Let Me Love You
Charlie Puth Feat. Selena Gomez
ARTIST PARTNERS GROUP/ATLANTIC
DJ Snake Feat. Justin Bieber
DJ SNAKE,ANDREW WATT (W.S.E.GRIGAHCINE,J.D.BIEBER,

A.WOTMAN,A.TAMPOSI,B.LEE,L.BELL,A.ROSER)
DJ SNAKE/INTERSCOPE
Cant Stop The Feeling! Justin Timberlake

J.TIMBERLAKE,MAX MARTIN,SHELLBACK (J.TIMBERLAKE,MAX MARTIN,SHELLBACK)
Into You
DREAMWORKS/RCA
Ariana Grande
MAX MARTIN,ILYA (MAX MARTIN,S.KOTECHA,A.KRONLUND,I.SALMANZADEH,A.GRANDE)
Too Good
REPUBLIC
Drake Feat. Rihanna
NINETEEN85 (A.GRAHAM,R.FENTY,P. JEFFERIES,M.BIDAYE,

D.CHIN-QUEE,A.MARTIN,A.SUTHERLAND,A.HERSHEY) YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC
DG Make Me... Britney Spears Feat. G-Eazy

BURNS (B.J.SPEARS,BURNS,J.JANIAK,G.GILLUM)
Broccoli
JGRAMM,K.R.BRUTUS,R.CHAHAYED
(S.MASSENBURG-SMITH,M.MCCOLLUM)
RCA
D.R.A.M. Feat. Lil Yachty

#1EPICCHECK/EMPIRE RECORDINGS
Sucker For Pain Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa & Imagine Dragons With Logic & Ty Dolla $ign Feat. X Ambassadors
ALEX DA KID (A.GRANT,D.CARTER,C.J.THOMAZ,D.SERMON,D.REYNOLDS,
B.MCKEE,D.PLATZMAN,R.B.HALL II,T.GRIFFIN JR,S.N.HARRIS)
Gold 0
F.SNOW (D.SINGER-VINE,K.SAULTERS)
DC/ATLAS/WATERTOWER/ATLANTIC/RRP
Kiiara
ATLANTIC
22
28
25
20
MAD LOVE/INTERSCOPE
21
10
13
13
For Free
DJ Khaled Feat. Drake
23
I Hate U I Love U 0
gnash Feat. Olivia OBrien
23
20
23
24
Never Be Like You
Flume Feat. Kai
20
22
17
22
25
Panda
28
22
24
26
16
18
35
28
27
27
14
36
29
28
Sit Still, Look Pretty 0
Daya
28
14
26
26
29
Work From Home 2
AMMO,DALLAS K (J.COLEMAN,J.DEMOREST,T.GRIFFIN JR,A.IZQUIERDO,D.KOEHLKE,B.LEE)
Fifth Harmony Feat. Ty Dolla $ign
SYCO/EPIC
27
24
27
30
Just Like Fire
P!nk
10
20
HOT SHOT
DEBUT
31
Side To Side
31
42
35
32
32
33
36
33
33
10
29
30
34
14
18
38
39
35
32
55
47
36
36
34
37
37
Stressed Out 4
50
32
33
38
I Took A Pill In Ibiza 2
Mike Posner
33
25
32
39
Me Too 0
Meghan Trainor
13
16
31
40
24
11
Desiigner
34
NINETEEN85,MAJID JORDAN (A.GRAHAM,K.M.KHALED,P. JEFFERIES,J.ULLMAN,A.ADAMS,

F.MALAVE,K.D.GRANT,K.L.BROOKS,L.JEFFERSON,C.DAVID,J.PHILLIPS,T.SHAW,J.H.SMITH)
G.NASH (G.NASH,O.OBRIEN)
YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/

REPUBLIC/WE THE BEST/EPIC
:):/ATLANTIC
FLUME,KAI,G.P.EARLEY (H.E.STRETEN,A.DE GASPERIS-BRIGANTE,G.P.EARLEY)
FUTURE CLASSIC/MOM + POP
Desiigner
MENACE (S.SELBY, III,A.KHAN)
G.O.O.D./DEF JAM
Controlla
Drake
BOI-1DA,D.CHIN-QUEE,A.RITTER (A.GRAHAM,M.SAMUELS,D.CHIN-QUEE,A.RITTER,
S.MCGREGOR,AQUAMAN,M.DAVIS,D.DENNIS,G.JACKSON,P.ROBERTS,A.THOMAS)
YOUNG MONEY/CASH
MONEY/REPUBLIC
Hymn For The Weekend 0
Coldplay
STARGATE,R.SIMPSON (G.R.BERRYMAN,J.M.BUCKLAND,W.CHAMPION,
C.A.J.MARTIN,M.S.ERIKSEN,T.E.HERMANSEN,M.J.TOVAR,V.T.YARD,S.ZANT)
PARLOPHONE/ATLANTIC
NOISECASTLE III (G.BARLETTA,B.NEWBILL,M.CAMPBELL,S.BRUZENAK)
MAX MARTIN,SHELLBACK,O.HOLTER (P!NK,MAX MARTIN,SHELLBACK,O.HOLTER)
ARTBEATZ
WALT DISNEY/RCA
Ariana Grande Feat. Nicki Minaj
MAX MARTIN,ILYA (I.SALMANZADEH,MAX MARTIN,

O.T.MARAJ,A.KRONLUND,S.KOTECHA,A.GRANDE)
This Girl
REPUBLIC
Kungs vs Cookin On 3 Burners
KUNGS (L.FERGUSON,
I.KHATCHOYAN,J.MASON)
KUNGS/SOUND OF BARCLAY/
BARCLAY/CASABLANCA/REPUBLIC
No Limit
Usher Feat. Young Thug
B.ALEXANDER,C.PERRY (U.RAYMOND IV,B.A.M.,

C.PERRY,T.THOMAS,T.THOMAS,K.THOMAS,J.L.WILLIAMS)
H.O.L.Y.
RCA
Florida Georgia Line
J.MOI (BUSBEE,N.CYPHERT,W.W.LARSEN)
BMLG/REPUBLIC
Work 3
Rihanna Feat. Drake
BOI-1DA (J.A.BRATHWAITE,M.SAMUELS,A.RITTER,
R.THOMAS, JR.,A.GRAHAM,R.FENTY,M.S.MOIR)
Mama Said
Lukas Graham
FUTURE ANIMALS,PILO (L.G.FORCHHAMMER,

S.FORREST,M.RISTORP,M.PILEGAARD)
WARNER BROS.
twenty one pilots
M.ELIZONDO (T.JOSEPH)
FUELED BY RAMEN/RRP
M.POSNER,M.TEREFE (M.POSNER)
ISLAND/REPUBLIC
R.REED (M.TRAINOR,E.FREDERIC,J.K.HINDLIN,J.DESROULEAUX,P.SVENSSON)
All In My Head (Flex)
EPIC
Fifth Harmony Feat. Fetty Wap
27
16
37
34
41
Tiimmy Turner
12
13
45
40
42
Unsteady
X Ambassadors
39
16
12
48
42
43
Peter Pan
Kelsea Ballerini
42
14
17
41
43
44
18
30
31
38
45
18
40
46
46
33
DNCE
46
Dierks Bentley Feat. Elle King
48
13
49
45
14
13
14
16
18
STARGATE,PEOPLES,PLAY PICASSO (T.E.HERMANSEN,M.S.ERIKSEN,B.J.LEVIN,B.GARCIA,D.PETERSON,N.LAMBROZA,

J.MICHAELS,W.J.MAXWELL II,D.GONZALEZ,A.B.HERNENDEZ,D.J.HANSEN,K.C.CABELLO,L.JAUREGU)
M.G.DEAN,DESIIGNER (S.SELBY, III,M.G.DEAN)
G.O.O.D./DEF JAM
ALEX DA KID (A.GRANT,S.N.HARRIS,N.FELDSHUH,C.HARRIS,A.LEVIN)
A-1/FREEBANDZ/EPIC
Dont Mind 0
Kent Jones
K.JONES (D.K.JONES,M.VALENZANO,K.M.KHALED,
A.C.LYONS,G.LEVERT,E.T.NICHOLAS,B.WHITE)
EPIDEMIC/WE THE BEST/EPIC
7 Years 3
Lukas Graham
FUTURE ANIMALS,PILO (L.G.FORCHHAMMER,

S.FORREST,M.RISTORP,M.PILEGAARD)
47
49
47
Cake By The Ocean 2
18
12
53
51
48
Different For Girls
15
10
62
53
49
50
45
50
15
BLACK RIVER
Future Feat. The Weeknd
BEN BILLION$,DAHEALA,THE WEEKND,METRO BOOMIN

(N.D.WILBURN,A.TESFAYE,B.DIEHL,D.MCKINNEY,J.QUENNEVILLE)
17
20
KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE
F.G.WHITEHEAD,J.MASSEY (K.BALLERINI,F.G.WHITEHEAD,J.LEE)
Low Life
SYCO/EPIC
WARNER BROS.
M.LARSSON,R.FREDRIKSSON (R.FREDRIKSSON,M.LARSSON,J.TRANTER,J.JONAS)
R. COPPERMAN (S.MCANALLY,J.T.HARDING)
REPUBLIC
CAPITOL NASHVILLE
Starving Hailee Steinfeld & Grey Feat. Zedd

M.TREWARTHA,K.TREWARTHA,ZEDD (M.TREWARTHA,
K.TREWARTHA,R.MCCURDY,C.PETROSINO,A.WHITEACRE)
Make You Miss Me
Z.CROWELL,S.MCANALLY (S.HUNT,J.OSBORNE,M.RAMSEY)
REPUBLIC
Sam Hunt
MCA NASHVILLE
FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE: J. KEMPIN/GETTY IMAGES. PUTH: KEVIN MAZUR/GETTY

IMAGES. GRAHAM: DANNY CLINCH. WEST: JEFF KRAVITZ/FILMMAGIC. CARA:
GILBERT CARRASQUILLO/GC IMAGES.
18
Tory Lanez
CASHMERE CAT,BENNY BLANCO (M.A.HOIBERG,B.J.LEVIN,

D.PETERSON,A.S.A.KELLY,W.B.J.PASSLEY,M.A.WOLFE,S.J.MARSDEN)
Weeks
On
Chart
15
Luv
Peak
Position
21
11
21
Artist
Weeks
On Chart
23
4 B I L L B OA R D | S E P T E M B E R 1 7, 2 0 1 6
Artist
10
14
Puth matches his highest
Hot 100 rank as a lead artist;
previous single One Call Away
hit No. 12 in March. Nine Track
Mind, featuring both songs, has
sold 159,000 copies.
Title CERTIFICATION
This
Week
12
CHARLIE PUTH
F E AT. S E L E N A
GOMEZ
We Dont Talk
Anymore
What do you say to the critics who have

derided your music?
KELLEY I dont think we say anything to
them but we are very aware of it. How
could you not be? We go in the studio
and let it motivate us. As a true artist
as a true man you want to grow, and
you have to grow. We just want to be
NATALIE WEINER
friends with everybody.
Last
Week
2
Weeks
Ago
Its a love song, but its also spiritual. For

you, is it more one than the other?
TYLER HUBBARD It can be interpreted
however the listener wants whether its

a love song to your wife or to God. Even for
us, it has a different meaning each time we
sing it, depending on the night. It could be
played in churches, 100 percent.
Peak
Position
Like Cruise, H.O.L.Y. has hit both

the pop and adult airplay charts. Did
youconsiderits crossover potential in
thestudio?
BRIAN KELLEY We were aware of it, but that
cant really be forced its the cherry on
top. Hearing it for the first time, it was
like, Hey, this one might have a chance
to break down some barriers, get us into
different markets and let us push ourselves
in a different way.
30
Title CERTIFICATION

DATA COMPILED BY
F LO R I DA
G E O RG I A
LINE
H.O.L.Y.
This
Week
Hubbard (left) and

Kelleys new album,
Dig Your Roots,
debuts at No. 2 on
the Billboard 200
(see page 56), while
H.O.L.Y. tops Hot
Country Songs for an
18th week.
Last
Week
34
2
Weeks
Ago
Billboard Hot 100
Peak
Position
Weeks
On
Chart
30
10
11
41
Jake Owen
55
15
Florida Georgia Line Feat. Tim McGraw
56
57
58
12
40
13
48
15
Last
Week
This
Week
Peak
Position
Weeks
On
Chart
33
65
78
81
Come And See Me
PARTYNEXTDOOR Feat. Drake
65
11
19
94
82
Too Much Sauce
DJ ESCO Feat. Future & Lil Uzi Vert
82
63
79
81
83
You Look Like I Need A Drink
79
54
12
94
87
84
84
65
Young M.a.
85
62
11
Future
41
20
Dae Dae
66
Miranda Lambert
47
37
17
61
10
RE-ENTRY
90
Chris Brown
71
64
74
91
Record Year
Cole Swindell
65
92
97
92
You Was Right
73
91
89
93
36
95
93
94
This
Week
54
51
44
52
52
39
44
53
43
41
54
61
59
55
American Country Love Song
56
May We All
Setting The World On Fire
Kenny Chesney Feat. P!nk
B.CANNON,K.CHESNEY (R.COPPERMAN,M.JENKINS,J.OSBORNE)
I Got The Keys
BLUE CHAIR/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE
DJ Khaled Feat. Jay Z & Future
J.LUELLEN,DJ KHALED,JAKE ONE,G KOOP (K.M.KHALED,J.H.LUELLEN,

J.DUTTON,R.MANDELL,N.D.WILBURN,S.C.CARTER)
Rise
Katy Perry
MAX MARTIN,A.PAYAMI (MAX MARTIN,S.KOTECHA,A.PAYAMI,KATY PERRY)
Gangsta
CAPITOL
Kehlani
JMIKE,DJEMBA DJEMBA (SKYLAR GREY,J.M.COLEMAN,

J.EVIGAN,J.E.LUTTRELL,K.A.PARRISH,A.SWANSON)
DC/ATLAS/WATERTOWER/ATLANTIC
S.MCANALLY,R. COPPERMAN (R.COPPERMAN,A.GORLEY,J.JOHNSTON)
RCA NASHVILLE
J.MOI (R.CLAWSON,J.MOORE)
BMLG
In The Name Of Love
Martin Garrix & Bebe Rexha
93
70
57
63
60
58
54
56
59
49
50
60
52
55
61
60
68
62
72
69
63
56
57
64
80
76
65
71
62
66
66
66
67
Wat U Mean (Aye, Aye, Aye)
69
67
68
Vice
74
71
69
70
61
70
Shes Got A Way With Words
71
Grass Aint Greener
Middle Of A Memory
NEW
WE THE BEST/EPIC
MARTIN GARRIX,MAT RAD,STEVE JAMES (MARTIN GARRIX,M.SMITH RADOSEVICH,

R.CUNNINGHAM,S.PHILIBIN,I.JUBER,Y.NAHAR,B.REXHA)
Money Longer
Lil Uzi Vert
D.CANNON,M.RAW (S.WOODS,D.CANNON,J.HENRY)
THat Part
STMPD RCRDS/RCA
GENERATION NOW/ATLANTIC
ScHoolboy Q Feat. Kanye West
CARDO ON THE BEAT,YEX,CUBEATZ (Q.M.HANLEY,R.LATOUR,

D.JACKSON,K.GOMRINGER,T.GOMRINGER,M.SPEARS,K.O.WEST)
TOP DAWG/INTERSCOPE
From The Ground Up
Dan + Shay
D.SMYERS,S.HENDRICKS (D.SMYERS,S.MOONEY,C. DESTEFANO)
WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE/WAR
Purple Lamborghini Skrillex & Rick Ross

SKRILLEX,BEAT BILLIONAIRE (S.MOORE,
W.L.ROBERTS II,S.COOKE)
Sorry
Beyonce
MELO-X,B.KNOWLES,WYNTER GORDON,HIT-BOY
(D.GORDON,S.RHODEN,B.KNOWLES,C.HOLLIS)
PARKWOOD/COLUMBIA
You & Me
Marc E. Bassy Feat. G-Eazy
J.OLOFSSON,J.A.HAU,W.MOSGROVE,R.DAWOD (M.GRIFFIN,
J.A.HAU,W.MOSGROVE,J.OLOFSSON,R.DAWOD,G.GILLUM,S.SLOAN)
REPUBLIC
My PYT
Wale
THE DOPE BOYZ (O.AKINTIMEHIN,A.SANON,J.W.NELSON,

J.INGRAM,Q.JONES III,M.GAYE,D.RITZ,O.BROWN)
Chill Bill
MAYBACH/ATLANTIC
Rob $tone Feat. J. Davi$ & Spooks
PURPDOGG (J.ROBINSON,J.DAVIS,A.CARRILLO,B.HERRMANN)
Why You Always Hatin?
YG Feat. Drake & Kamaiyah
CT BEATS (K.D.R.JACKSON,C.E.THOMAS,K.JOHNSON,
A.GRAHAM,A.MOON,T.W.TYRONE)
PUSHAZ INK/CTE/DEF JAM
MERCY,D.E.PEREZ (M.GOOLSBY,M.GIVENS,C.ALLEN)
NITTI BEATZ/PLAYMAKER/300
F.LIDDELL,E.MASSE,G.WORF (M.LAMBERT,S.MCANALLY,J.OSBORNE)
Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1
K.WEST,M.G.DEAN,R.RUBIN,METRO BOOMIN (K.O.WEST,S.R.S.MESCUDI,R.RUBIN,M.G.DEAN,

N.GOLDSTEIN,L.T.WAYNE,C.C.YOUNG,A.RITTER,J.POTTER,S.GRIESEMER,C.J.BENNETT,T.L.BARRETT)
S.HENDRICKS (W.EARP,A.ALBERT,M.BEESON)
RCA
RCA NASHVILLE
Kanye West
G.O.O.D./DEF JAM
Blake Shelton
WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE/WMN
N.SEETHARAM (C.M.BROWN,N.SEETHARAM,F.BENTLEY,C.DOTSON,L.ANDERSON,B.J.TURNER, JR.)
RCA
Lukas Graham logs its second

top 40 Billboard Hot 100 hit as
Mama Said jumps 47-36 after
the band performed the song
during the MTV Video Music
Awards preshow on Aug. 28. The
track bounds 20-10 on Digital
Songs, up by 24 percent to 42,000
sold in the week ending Sept. 1,
according to Nielsen Music. (It
was also boosted by a 69-cent
sale tag in the iTunes Store.) The
Danish pop group reached No. 2
on the Hot 100 for four weeks in
April and May with its debut hit,
7 Years. See page 3 for more on
G.T.
VMAs-sparked gains.
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LUK AS
GRAHAM
Mama Said
2
Weeks
Ago
Artist
58
NEW

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Title CERTIFICATION
Last
Week
2
Weeks
Ago
DATA FO R W E E K O F 0 9 . 1 7. 2 0 1 6
1 Night
86
Wicked
87
Wyclef Jean
Young Thug
87
99
88
I Met A Girl William Michael Morgan
88
100
89
Move
89
34
13
Eric Church
44
20
Lil Uzi Vert
89
89
93
64
NEW
M.A. MUSIC/3D
J.LUELLEN (N.D.WILBURN,L.T.WAYNE,J.H.LUELLEN,D.OZCAN)
Famous
Kanye West
J.JOYCE (E.CHURCH,J.HYDE)
63
75
You Dont Own Me 0 Grace Feat. G-Eazy
57
15
75
73
76
It Dont Hurt Like It Used To
73
73
75
77
73
15
98
83
78
Rock On
78
88
92
98
68
77
79
Kill Em With Kindness
39
14
78
85
99
Church Bells
87
86
80
80
15
88
100
Cool Girl
Q.JONES II,P.IGHILE (J.MADARA,D.WHITE)
REGIME MUSIC SOCIETE/RCA
D.HUFF (B.CURRINGTON,C.R.BARLOWE,S.CARTER)
Billy Currington
MERCURY NASHVILLE
With You Tonight / Hasta El Amanecer Nicky Jam

SAGA WHITEBLACK (N.RIVERA CAMINERO,
C.MENA,J.D.MEDINA VELEZ,T.THOMAS,T.THOMAS)
LA INDUSTRIA/RCA/SONY MUSIC LATIN
Tucker Beathard
A.PETRAGLIA (T.BEATHARD,C.BEATHARD,M.CANNON-GOODMAN)
Selena Gomez
ROCKMAFIA,BENNY BLANCO (A.ARMATO,TIM JAMES,B.J.LEVIN,D.AUDE,S.GOMEZ)
No Problem
DOT
INTERSCOPE
Chance The Rapper Feat. Lil Wayne & 2 Chainz
I.JACKSON,BRASSTRACKS (C.J.BENNETT,T.EPPS,D.CARTER,
IAN JACKSON,C.RAYNE SZYMANSKI,C.OSTEEN)
CHANCE THE RAPPER
NEW
83
90
NEW
Luke Bryan
CAPITOL NASHVILLE
K.WEST,HAVOC,N.GOLDSTEIN,CHARLIE HEAT,A.DAWSON (K.O.WEST,C.C.YOUNG,K.MUCHITA,N.GOLDSTEIN,A.DAWSON,

M.G.DEAN,C.J.BENNETT,K.DEAN,E.BROWN,R.BIRCHARD,P.REYNOLDS,J.WEBB,W. RILEY,L.E.BACALOV,E.VITA,S.BARDO)
57
COKE BOYS/BAD BOY/EPIC
J.STEVENS,J.STEVENS (L.BRYAN,M.CARTER,J.CLEMENTI)
74
French Montana Feat. Drake
300/ATLANTIC
J.RITCHEY,S.HENDRICKS (T. ROSEN,S.HUNT,S.MCANALLY)
72
MURDA BEATZ,CUEBEATZ (S.LINDSTROM,T.GOMRINGER,

K.GOMRINGER,K.KHARBOUCH,A.GRAHAM)
A-1/FREEBANDZ/EPIC
()
67
No Shopping
LIL BOAT SAILING TEAM/QUALITY

CONTROL/MOTOWN/CAPITOL
NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED)
73
300/ATLANTIC/GRAND HUSTLE/EPIC
VALORY
Ooouuu
82
Young Thug And Travis Scott Feat. Quavo
Justin Moore
Lil Yachty
BURBERRY PERRY (P.MOISE,

M.MCCOLLUM)
90
VINYLZ,F.DUKES (TRAVIS $COTT,A.FEENEY,A.HERNANDEZ,

J.L.WILLIAMS,Q.K.MARSHALL,B.T.HAZZARD,A.RITTER,M.G.DEAN)
EPIC
J.S.STOVER,J.RAYMOND,S.BORCHETTA (R.CLAWSON,M.DRAGSTREM,N.HEMBY)
72
Pick Up The Phone
OVO SOUND/WARNER BROS.
DJ ESCO (W.MOORE,X.DOTSON,N.D.WILBURN,S.WOODS)
65
N.SHEBIB (J.A.BRATHWAITE,A.GRAHAM,N.J.SHEBIB)
84
M.CARTER (C.SWINDELL,A.GORLEY,Z.CROWELL)
Artist
85
NEW
59
Title CERTIFICATION
EMI NASHVILLE
METRO BOOMIN (S.WOODS,L.T.WAYNE)
Do You Mind
G.O.O.D./DEF JAM
DJ Khaled Feat. Nicki Minaj, Chris Brown & August Alsina
DJ KHALED,DJ NASTY,LVM (K.M.KHALED,O.T.MARAJ,C.M.BROWN,A.ALSINA, JR.,J.P.FELTON,

N.D.WILBURN,W.L.ROBERTS II,K.COSSOM,J.MOLLINGS,L.MOLLINGS,A.L.NORRIS,M.T.JOHNSON)
WE THE BEST/EPIC
Wishing DJ Drama Feat. Chris Brown, Skeme & Lyquin

J NAT (T.SIMMONS,C.M.BROWN,L.KIMBLE,
B.MURRAY,D.MCALLISTER,J.JOSEPH,L.MORRISON)
GENERATION NOW/EONE
95
Scars To Your Beautiful
Alessia Cara
95
96
Lockjaw French Montana Feat. Kodak Black
73
97
I Know Somebody
97
82
Carrie Underwood
43
17
Tove Lo
84
POP,OAKWUD,S.KOLE (A.CARACCIOLO,A.WANSEL,W.FELDER,C.TILLMAN)
BEN BILLION$ (B.DIEHL,K.M.KHALED,D.OCTAVE,K.KHARBOUCH)
L.RIMES (R.AKINS,R.COPPERMAN,J.S.STOVER)
Duele El Corazon
EP/DEF JAM
LoCash
REVIVER
Enrique Iglesias Feat. Wisin or Tinashe & Javada
C.PAUCAR,LUNY TUNES (S.M.PRIMERA MUSSETT,E.M.IGLESIAS,F.SALDANA,

J.L.MORERA LUNA,H.RAHMAN,P.A.INGUNZA,S.LOZADA,N.LAMBROZA,S.WILCOX)
M.BRIGHT (Z.CROWELL,BRETT JAMES,H.LINDSEY)
THE STRUTS (TOVE LO,L.SODERBERG,J.JERLSTROM)
RCA/SONY MUSIC LATIN
19/ARISTA NASHVILLE
ISLAND/REPUBLIC
69
K ANYE WEST
Father Stretch
My Hands Pt. 1
Streaming continues to be the

songs greatest driver on the
Hot 100, though this issue it
makes an airplay breakthrough,
entering the Radio Songs chart
at No. 49 (24 million in audience).
95
ALESSIA
CARA
Scars to Your
Beautiful
After Cara performed the

song on the MTV Video Music
Awards preshow on Aug. 28,
it bows on the Hot 100, up
by 29percent in sales and
15percent in streams.
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Contents
TH IS WEEK
Volume 128 / No. 23
F E AT U RE S
36
The 25 Most Powerful

People In Music And
Fashion Who pumps up the
volume on an artist? The
image-makers named here,
as money today flows fast
and furious between the
two intertwined industries
with Kanye cashing
in onpop-ups, Bieber
bringing bank at Barneys,
Beyonc launching her own
brands and an I never give
a f what people think
attitude at work both on
and off the runways.
T H E B I L L B OA RD H OT 1 0 0
3
Britney Spears Make Me...

highlights a host of songs
that make gains following
MTVs Video Music Awards.
TO P L I N E
Inside Spotifys long-rumored

IPO and its ongoing contract
negotiations with the three
major labels.
24 In memoriam: A look at the
business, recording output
and universal appeal of
the late Juan Gabriel, with
a remembrance from pop
singer Paulina Rubio.
15
7 DAYS O N T H E SCE N E
26
Parties Budweisers Made

in America festival, BMI
R&B/Hip-Hop Awards
T H E B E AT
Whether blasting bro

country or causing
controversy in a Halloween
costume, Jason Aldean
balances fame with family
at the top.
33 Hip-hops Gen XX: five
buzzy female MCs busting
up rap radios boys club.
31
ON THE COVER
Marc Jacobs and St.Vincent photographed by

DavidNeedleman on Aug.24 at ROOT NYC in New York.
St. Vincent wears a Marc Jacobs dress and Wendy Yue
and Dana Rebecca Designs rings.
Rae Sremmurd and SofiaRichie photographed by
Eric Ray Davidson on Aug.22 in Sunland, Calif. Rae
Sremmurd styling by Olori Swank. Slim Jxmmi (left)
wears a Gucci jacket, belt, goggles and sneakers;
Hudson pants; and Puma boxers. Swae Lee (right)
wears a Gucci coat, D-Squared pants, Versace shoes
and Cartier sunglasses. Richie styling by Jordan
Grossman. Richie wears a Bryan Hearns top, pants and
choker; Giuseppe Zanotti shoes; Cartier bracelets; Sara
Weinstock Jewelry; and Amanda Marmer rings.
For exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes video
from the Fashion Power List shoots, go to Billboard.com
or Billboard.com/ipad.
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CO DA
68
In 1981, Journey earned

its only No. 1 album with
Escape, thanks to mega-hit
Dont Stop Believin.
Marc Jacobs
photographed
Aug.24 at ROOT
NYC in New York.
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AS SPOTIFY BEGINS TO PREPARE
for an IPO, which sources say

the company is planning for late
2017, the relationship between the
Swedish streaming giant and its
trifecta of major-label frenemies
(Universal Music Group, Sony
Music Entertainment and Warner
Music Group) is going through
some drama.
Spotifys licensing contracts with
the majors which typically have
terms of two to three years have
expired, and, although it continues
to offer the service under monthto-month deals that roll over,
negotiations over new long-term
agreements have been contentious.
I LLU STR ATI O N BY Y U - M I N G H UA N G
BY ROBERT LEVINE
Spotify wants to pay less for music

than it currently does, according
to label insiders, and it already
pays less than Apple Music a rate
thats said to be about 55 percent
of its revenue, as compared to
Apples 57.5 percent, although
those numbers are simplifications
of complex deals. (Streaming
companies also pay publishers.)
The service is now asking to pay
less than 50 percent, according to
two major-label sources. It also
wants to keep intact its adsupported free tier, which promotes
subscriptions but brings in relatively
little revenue.
Finding compromise is more
important than ever for both sides.
Spotify needs the majors vast
catalogs and without long-term
deals in place, it would be hard for
the company to go public which
it essentially has to do in order to
satisfy the terms of a financing deal.
For the three label groups,

however, Spotify may be too big to
fail. Streaming now accounts for
more than half of the majors digital
revenue, and Spotify dominates
the streaming market with more
than 100 million monthly users.
Apple Music, which hasnt been
around as long, announced it had
17 million subscribers on Sept. 7.
And both Amazon and Pandora are
expected to enter the market this
fall. Each boasts enough reach with
consumers to become significant
competitors relatively quickly.
Spotify is thought to have paid
rights-holders $5 billion so far a
figure that implies its now paying
out almost $2 billion a year.
Spotifys growth hasnt given it
a clear path to profitability. The
Stockholm-based startup, which
in 2015 was valued at $8 billion,
had 2 billion euros ($2.2 billion) of
revenue that year up more than
Barbra Streisand extends her

record for most No. 1 albums on
the Billboard 200 by a woman to
11 with new release Encore.
Chris Brown claims that he was

set up after police are called to
his home, resulting in his arrest
on suspicion of assault.
On Comedy Centrals Roast of

RobLowe, Jewel wins the night with
a savage parody of her own song
and jokes aimed at Ann Coulter.
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From left: Calvin

Harris, Sia, The
Chainsmokers,
Timberlake and Drake
made the biggest
splashes on the
summer songs chart.
Who Owned Summer 2016? Drake

Brushing off Timberlake and Chainsmokers, the Toronto MC dominated the season
BY GARY TRUST
ummer 16 officially belonged to Drake.

With the tally complete, the artists
One Dance, featuring Wizkid and
Kyla, is tops on Billboards Songs of the
Summer chart, which tracks the most popular
hits based oncumulative performance on the
weekly BillboardHot 100 from Memorial Day
throughLaborDay.
Dance led Songs of the Summer for all 14 of
the surveys weeks this year a feat also reached
by Iggy Azaleas Fancy in 2014 and Katy Perrys
California Gurls in 2010. It was the most-heard
song on U.S. terrestrial airwaves during the charts
tracking period, accumulating a monstrous 2 billion
in radio audience in that span, according to Nielsen
Music, although the No. 2 song on the chart, Justin
Timberlakes Cant Stop the Feeling! was the
top-selling song of the summer, with 1.3million
downloads sold (of 2 million total to date). And,
in a telling sign of the times, on-demand streams
are up 28.8 percent from summer 2015, reaching
114.1billion over last years 88.6 billion.
SONGS OF THE SUMMER

RANK/TITLE/ARTIST
1
ONE DANCE Drake featuring Wizkid and Kyla
CANT STOP THE FEELING! Justin Timberlake
DONT LET ME DOWN The Chainsmokers featuring Daya
CHEAP THRILLS Sia featuring Sean Paul
THIS IS WHAT YOU CAME FOR Calvin Harris featuring Rihanna
PANDA Desiigner
NEEDED ME Rihanna
RIDE Twenty One Pilots
WORK FROM HOME Fifth Harmony featuring Ty Dolla Sign
10
SEND MY LOVE (TO YOUR NEW LOVER) Adele
11
DONT MIND Kent Jones
12
JUST LIKE FIRE Pink
13
I TOOK A PILL IN IBIZA Mike Posner
14
HEATHENS Twenty One Pilots
15
TOO GOOD Drake featuring Rihanna
16
H.O.L.Y. Florida Georgia Line
17
CONTROLLA Drake
18
7 YEARS Lukas Graham
19
ME TOO Meghan Trainor
20
FOR FREE DJ Khaled featuring Drake
STREAMING CONTINUES TO SOAR

The publics embrace of streaming is on the rise, but Drake shows that all formats still matter: One
Dance wasnt the top-selling or top-streaming song of the season, but his combined numbers made him No.1,
and his streaming numbers on Views dwarf Beyoncs for Lemonade, putting him into the lead for albums.
Most-Streamed On-Demand Songs

Includes audio and video
1. Desiigner Panda
302,683,000
2. Drake featuring Wizkid and Kyla,
One Dance
247,446,000
217,908,000
3. Rihanna Needed Me
4. The Chainsmokers featuring Daya,
Dont Let Me Down
200,256,000
5. Calvin Harris featuring Rihanna,
This Is What You Came For
189,605,000
6. Fifth Harmony featuring Ty Dolla Sign,
Work From Home
173,145,000
168,311,000
7. Rihanna featuring Drake, Work
8. Sia featuring Sean Paul, Cheap Thrills 159,383,000
9. Twenty One Pilots Heathens
153,276,000
10. Kent Jones Dont Mind
152,125,000
Total On-Demand
Streams
Summer 2016 vs.
Summer 2015
88.6 114.1
billion billion
2015
2016
Top 10 Albums Of Summer 2016
Based on overall equivalent album units:

traditional sales, track equivalent albums (TEA)
and streaming equivalent albums (SEA)
1. Drake Views
2. Beyonc Lemonade
3. Soundtrack Suicide Squad: The Album
4. Twenty One Pilots Blurryface
5. Rihanna Anti
6. Original Broadway Cast Recording
Hamilton: An American Musical
7. Adele 25
8. Blake Shelton If Im Honest
9. Frank Ocean Blonde
10. Ariana Grande Dangerous Woman
1,384,000
540,000
520,000
496,000
466,000
434,000
409,000
362,000
345,000
337,000
Source: Nielsen Music, May 27-Sept. 1, 2016 and May 25-Sept. 3, 2015
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80 percent from 2014 but also a net

loss of 173.1 million euros ($206 million). Its under pressure to go public
because in March it raised $1 billion
in convertible debt, which can be
exchanged to equity, under terms that
grow less favorable as time passes.
The convertible debt is essentially
a ticking clock, says MIDiA Research
analyst Mark Mulligan. They have
geared everything to a window and
they need to have a certain narrative
for Wall Street before that time.
Could Spotify go public without
new deals with the majors? I dont
think theres a definitive answer, says
Mulligan, adding it could be easier for
Spotify to do so with its current monthto-month arrangements than with new
deals that would make it hard to build
a profitable business. Indeed, adds an
industry insider: The labels sort of
have Spotify by the balls.
Both sides are maneuvering to get
more negotiating leverage. Besides
pointing to Spotifys approaching IPO,
the majors are trying to encourage
competition in the streaming market,
so it doesnt end up controlled by
one company the way Apples iTunes
Store dominated download sales.
They helped boost Apple Music with
exclusives, until Universal Music
Group chairman/CEO Lucian
Grainge said his company would
no longer do so on a one-service,
global level.
For Spotifys part, CEO Daniel Ek
in June hired former Lady Gaga
manager Troy Carter to strengthen its
relationships within the industry. Also,
the company is said to be softening its
stance on offering music and content
exclusively on the paid tier (famously
challenged by Taylor Swift who
declined to offer her album 1989 on
the service when it came out in 2014)
as competing services have success
with such windowing.
The deals will get done, says
Russ Crupnick, managing partner
of MusicWatch, a consultancy that
has worked for both Spotify and some
of the majors. Its in everyones
interest. The labels have a stake in
Spotify, both in terms of equity and
wanting it to succeed.
But Mavericks Adam Leber,
whose management roster includes
Miley Cyrus and Britney Spears,
adds that its important to note that
as these juggernauts are negotiating,
I hope theyre not forgetting the most
important group of all: the artists.
T O P L I N E / Sounds of Holly wood
The Beatles backstage

in Coventry, England, in
November 1963, from
left: George Harrison,
John Lennon, McCartney
and Starr.
was exciting about taking on the

project: what could now be done
digitally to enhance the experience
for the audience. I knew we
could improve the images, bring
more detail. I wanted to make
the concerts as watchable and as
exciting as possible.
Director Ron Howard, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr dug deep into the bands career
canon for the ultimate rarity: untold stories of life on the road in a doc premiering Sept. 16
BY MELINDA SHECKELLS
S THE 50TH
STARR We thought we could be in it!

HOWARD Everything stopped and
the end you kind of become a fan

Bloody hell, theyre great! Then
you sit back and realize thats you.
Its hard to take in.
What surprised you most while

making the film?
McCARTNEY Some things that came
out of it, like ... We loved black
music and black artists, and [we
would only perform] if there was no
segregation [which still existed at
concerts in the South in the 1960s].
But I was surprised to see that it was
in the contract.
anniversaries of various
Are there plans to continue the
events from The Beatles
the assistant director tried to keep
history with other projects?
career roll on, finding a
rehearsal going, but [co-star] Henry
fresh take is a formidable challenge.
Winkler and I said [to the AD],
McCARTNEY We didnt know this
Whats it like to watch from the
But for The Beatles: Eight Days
Get the f out of here! Well
project was coming. Thats the
outside versus living it?
a Week The Touring Years
catch up later! [Then to Starr
great thing: We love that things
which combines archival
and Moon]: Anyway, how are
keep happening. Once, we were
STARR Well, youre looking at a
footage, fan-generated clips
you guys?
going from London to Liverpool in
movie, arent you? A movie of the life
and the band members
a terrible snowstorm you couldnt
we
led.
Its
great
to
look
at
it
because
STARR Actually, we were lost.
Howard
personal reels spanning from
you can relax now. Theres a lot of life see the road. The van skidded down
1962 to the groups last concert in
the embankment, and there was
gone by and a lot of memories.
Is there anything in the new film
1966 Oscar-winning director Ron
no way to back up. Were standing
that you truly cannot remember?
Howard (A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13
around, the four of us. Somebody
The
film
often
mentions
the
poor
McCARTNEY Quite a bit of it.
and a star of 70s sitcom Happy Days) STARR And thats just from last week.
said, Something will happen.
sound quality of the concerts.
found an unexpected angle as he dug
That is now my mantra. Sure
How
did
you
handle
that?
McCARTNEY One of the things was
into the project.
enough, we got a lift.
seeing yourself as The Beatles. In
HOWARD Thats part of what
I began to see this time frame
was a brilliant idea: It could be an
adventure-ensemble survival story,
FORGET STREAMING: HERES A BIG-SCREEN EXCLUSIVE
says Howard. I could put my Apollo
13 narrative mind-set to work.
A film of The Beatles 1965 Shea Stadium concert will be available
Billboard spoke with Howard and
only at theater viewings of Eight Days a Week
former Beatles Paul McCartney and
The Beatles: Eight Days a
concert in 1965 at Shea
Stadium concert aired on
Ringo Starr about the film, which
Week The Touring Years
Stadium in New York
ABC in 1967, but otherwise
opens wide in theaters Sept. 16 and
will be available to
that is unavailable
has been unavailable
stream on Hulu on Sept.
anywhere else. Abramorama
(legally, anyway) except
streams on Hulu the following day.
When did you all first meet?

STARR I met Ron in the 70s, when he
was a lad and I was a lad.
HOWARD He and [Who drummer]
Keith Moon wandered onto the
Happy Days set. Im not kidding.
17, but fans who catch it
Entertainment founder
for snippets in such
on the big screen will
Richard Abramowitz, who
sanctioned projects as
get a theater-only bonus:
has placed specialty
The Beatles Anthology
In what is believed to
films in theaters since
in 1995. No one has
be a marketing first,
1984, says this is the
heard [the Shea concert]
the documentary will be
first time he has handled
sound like this, says
accompanied by 30 minutes
a movie with extras
Abramowitz. Its an
of rare footage from
tagged for the theatrical
unmatchable asset.
The Beatles historic
release only. The Shea
MELINDA NEWMAN
The audio track of The Beatles Shea Stadium

concert has been meticulously remastered.
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Mining The Beatles (Again)
TO P LI N E
FROM THE DESK OF
PA R T N E R , M A D I S O N H O U S E P R E S E N T S
Mike
Luba
The multifaceted promoter on

his faith in Chance the Rapper
and building an empire around
jamband String Cheese Incident
BY R AY WA D D E L L
PHOTOGR APH E D BY MATT FU RMAN
HEN MIKE LUBA DECIDED
in 1994 to forgo law school for

a job booking fraternity shows
at Cellar Door Concerts in
Virginia Beach, Va., he set out on a career
that would link him with some of the most
influential names in live music, including
former Rolling Stones promoter Michael
Cohl, Red Light Management founder
Coran Capshaw and Live Nation CEO
Michael Rapino. Today, as one of five
original partners in multifaceted producerpromoter Madison House Presents and
with a rsum that ranges from The
Grateful Deads Fare Thee Well dates
and Yo Gabba Gabba Live to Chance
the Rappers Magnificent Coloring Day
festival on Sept. 24 and the revival of Forest
Hills Stadium in Queens as a concert venue
Luba can take his place in their ranks.
Born and raised on Long Island, Luba,
46, booked music for Emory University in
Atlanta as a student. Following his twoyear stint at Cellar Door, Luba moved to
Athens, Ga., to launch Madison House,
later relocating it near flagship client String
Cheese Incident in Boulder, Colo. (He
now lives in the Chelsea neighborhood
of Manhattan with his wife, fashion
executive Lalena, and their two young
children.) In 2007 he joined forces with
Cohl, first at Live Nation and then at
S2BN, before rejoining Madison House
in 2010. Today, Madison House has
about 30 employees in Boulder, Chicago
and New York, and separated from the
parent company after it was acquired by
AEG Live in 2014. But Luba continues to
manage String Cheese Incident with the
original Madison House team, which is a
major point of pride for him. The bandmembers and the managers have stuck
together for almost 20 years now.
How did Chance the Rappers festival

come about?
We have huge faith in Chance and his
team we think hes the future of music
in a lot of ways. He has an association
with the [Chicago] White Sox [Chance is
essentially the teams artist ambassador]
and somehow he and his manager Pat
Corcoran got it in their heads to take a
whack at bringing a show to the Comiskey
Park [now U.S. Cellular Field] baseball
stadium, where there hasnt been a show
in 15 years. His last hard-ticket shows
here were at the [2,300-capacity] Riviera
Theatre, and most people were like, You
sold out two theaters last time and now
were talking about 45,000 tickets?! But
Pat said, Chance and I are willing to put
our money where our mouths are. Sure
enough, it broke the attendance record for
any event at the stadium.
What was your vision in launching

Madison House?
We started it as a boutique booking agency,
and then one day one of our clients handed
me a cassette of a band at the Telluride
Bluegrass Festival playing a bluegrass
version of Aerosmiths Walk This Way.
You could hear 10,000 people gasping
in horror, so I was like, Who the f are
those guys? It turned out to be String
Cheese Incident, and they became our first
management client.
You sued Ticketmaster in 2003. What
was at the core of the conflict?
We had hit a level where we were going
to 5,000- to 6,000-seaters and we just
couldnt figure out a viable way to tour
without having to play Ticketmaster rooms.
Our issue wasnt necessarily the service
they provided or what they stood for,
Luba photographed
Aug.22 at his office in
Forest Hills, Queens (the
companys main New
York office is located in
AEG Lives Manhattan
base). It was hand-built
by a bunch of Amish
guys who drove in from
Pennsylvania two years
ago, he says.
Reviving the 93-year-old Forest Hills

Stadium as a 13,600-capacity concert
venue was a monumental project.
Hows it going?
The first year [2013] we did one show,
Mumford & Sons. This year were up to
14, and theyre dream shows for us. Paul
Simon who went to Forest Hills High
in the world to produce the show. That

sort of unified us, and I went to [AEG Live
CEO] Jay [Marciano] and said, Theres
a real shot this could happen. I may need
a really big check really soon. He told me
he called around and got a 50-50 response:
The bean counters thought it would be
a disaster and the music guys would
When artists have crazy ideas, we try to

figure out how to make it all happen.
1
because they did a great job. But we would

try to keep our ticket prices at around $20,
and by the time the service charges and
everything was added on they were $32.
Plus, we couldnt get any of the data for
our fans, which was a critical thing for us.
So we went through this whole thing and
basically at the end they said, OK, were
going to give you everything you want, so if
you continue this lawsuit youre doing it as
a publicity stunt and youre disingenuous
dicks. So we settled.
How did you end up working with
Michael Cohl?
One day out of the blue I got a cold call
from him and [Pink Floyd/Alice Cooper
producer] Bob Ezrin. Michael said, Weve
been watching your company. Im about
to take over as chairman of Live Nation.
I have a ton of money and were going to
change the world. Move to Florida! I said,
Sounds good. That lasted a year, but
in that year we built Roc Nation, signed
Madonna. Thats where I met Zac
Brown, U2 and Shakira.
School came back for the first time in

46 years; he had played there with Art
Garfunkel, and The Doors opened for
them. The next weekend we had Bob
Dylan; he hadnt played there in 51 years.
Its where Arthur Ashe became the first
African-American to win a pro sporting
event; The Beatles landed a helicopter on
the grass court; Alfred Hitchcock filmed
[scenes from the 1951 movie] Strangers on a
Train there. Its a really weird, special place
the fans feel it and the bands feel it.
How did you become involved with
The Grateful Deads $52 milliongrossing Fare Thee Well shows?
Co-producer Pete Shapiro and I have
been friends for years: At The Deads 40th
anniversary we were scheming about what
to do on the 50th. We zeroed in on Chicago,
and I said, My partner Don Sullivan
produced the last Dead show at Soldier
Field [in 1995]. Hes the biggest Deadhead
on the planet, and theres no one better
mortgage their houses on it. He said, Im

going with the music guys tell me where
to send the money.
Are projects like that and Chances
festival the kinds of things you would
like to do going forward?
Yeah. Our dream was to be a small, nimble,
ninja team that when artists have crazy
ideas that most people cant figure out how
to do, or that common sense would say,
Dont do it, well try to figure out how to
make it all happen.
Youve been a promoter, producer,
manager, agent, venue operator
and business manager. How do you
describe what you do?
Its kind of a jack of all trades and I
have really good partners. Im smart
enough to know what needs to get done,
but also smart enough to know that there
are people who are way better than me at
doing those things.
2
1 A composite of posters
designed by artist Bill
Sullivan for Forest Hills
Stadiums 2015 season.
2Luba with the GD50
old-school home team,
including Shapiro
(crouching, fourth from
left), at Fare Thee Well in
2015. 3Stuff my wife wont
let me keep in the house,
including a Grammy for
the 2014 Big Easy Express
documentary, which Luba
produced. 4Gift box for
Mumford & Sons Forest
Hills Stadium shows in June.
TO P LI N E
Crash Avenue
director of
publicity Spencer
Scanlon and wife
Turner Harte
Floyd Scanlon, an
executive director
at Make Up For
Ever, welcomed
daughter Vivian
Blair Scanlon.
J E R RY H E L L E R
1 9 4 0 -2 0 1 6
Jerry Heller, the early manager for N.W.A

who worked with Eazy-E throughout
the late rappers career and was an
instrumental figure in the rise of Eazys
Ruthless Records, died on Sept. 2 at the
age of 75. Here, Irving Azoff, CEO of
Madison Square Garden Entertainment,
remembers the man he knew for 45 years.
Ive known Jerry Heller since 1971,
when I first bought a Lee Michaels
show from him in Des Moines, Iowa. In
those days, there were some big name

agents around him, Frank Barsalona,
Danny Weiner, Herb Spar and he was
great. He respected artists and their
talent and would kill for them. Thats
what I learned from him.
He was a very volatile guy even
crazy but the HellerFischel Agency was
very successful in its
day. Thats where I
worked for about a year,
and Jerry, through his
extreme behavior, fed
it up. It did not surprise
Azoff
me at all when he resurfaced in the
rapworld.
I think he was unfairly portrayed
[inthe 2015 film Straight Outta
Compton, which followed the career of
N.W.A]. He was a confidant of Eazy-E,
and if they had to take positions that
were contrary to what [Dr.] Dre and Ice
Cube wanted, thats the way the
business works. The manager takes a
lot of heat for the client when its
necessary. I know he made a great
contribution, he was a passionate guy, a
visionary, and he bounced back many,
many times. He loved the business until
the day he died.
09-02
08-28
08-30
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek wed

Sofia Levander at Lake Como
in Italy. Guests included Chris
Rock, Facebook head Mark
Zuckerberg and wedding
singer Bruno Mars.
08-31
09-03
Orlando-based DJ-producer
and Mad Decent Records
signee Big Makk, aka
Samisoni Koroitamudu,
died in a car crash. He
was 25.
Viceland announced
a new show
with Tyler, The
Creator and a
foray into the
late-night talk
show circuit with
Bronx-born duo
Desus & Mero.
09-01
Capitol Music Group

appointed Greg Marella from
Kemosabe Records to take
over as the labels executive
vp promotion.
Tyler
SoundCloud hired Google

veteran Holly Lim as its firstever chief financial officer.
Pandora-owned Ticketfly
signed a deal with Z2
Entertainment to become the
exclusive ticketer for Boulder,
Colo.s two biggest music
venues, the Boulder Theater
and the Fox Theatre.
Jessie J
Faction Managements Robb

McDaniels and Maryann Cox
wed at the Santa Barbara Zoo
in Santa Barbara, Calif.
The Australian Recording
Industry Association
announced that it will induct
rock group Crowded House
into its ARIA Hall of Fame
this November, 30 years after
the bands debut album was
released.
09-06
Grammy Award-winning
songwriter-producer
Philip Lawrence
(Uptown Funk) signed
with Paradigm.
Jessie J and Universal Music

Group won a copyright
lawsuit brought by songwriter
Will Loomis that alleged her
hit song Domino had lifted
its melody from his song,
Bright Red Chords.
The White House announced
a one-day music, film and
tech conference, South by
South Lawn, set for Oct. 3.
NOTED
08-27
Vivian Blair
Scanlon
Lawrence
Better Than Ezras Kevin

Griffin was named an artistin-residence at New York
Universitys Tisch School of
the Arts Clive Davis Institute
of Recorded Music.
One Direction alum Zayn
and TV producer Dick Wolf
and his wife, Noelle Wolf,
announced the development of
an hourlong boy-band drama,
Boys, set for NBC.
Zayn
BIRTHDAYS
Sept. 8
Pink (37)
Aimee Mann (56)
Sept. 9
Michael Buble (41)
Sept. 10
Joe Perry (66)
Sept. 11
Ludacris (39)
Harry Connick Jr. (49)
Sept. 12
Jennifer Hudson (35)

Jennifer Nettles (42)
Ben Folds (50)
Hans Zimmer (59)
Sept. 13
Niall Horan (23)

Fiona Apple (39)
Sept. 16
Nick Jonas (24)
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Heller in New
Yorks Central
Park on Aug.
14, 2006.
TO P LI N E
Gabriel at The Forum

in Inglewood, Calif.,
on Aug. 26 his
last concert. Inset:
Onstage in Mexico in
the early 1970s.
The Biggest Latin Artist

Of The Last 40 Years
As a singer, songwriter and live performer, Juan Gabriel was
one of the genres greats and all-time earners
BY LEILA COBO
HEN JUAN GABRIEL DIED
from a heart attack on

Aug. 28, the Mexican singersongwriter was enjoying a
level of commercial success rare for an
artist in the prime of his career, let alone a
66-year-old legend.
His last thee studio albums debuted
at No. 1 on Billboards Top Latin Albums
chart, with his 2015 release Los Duo
moving 138,000 units and becoming the
top-selling Latin album of 2015, according
to Nielsen Music. An active live performer,
he had notched the highest-grossing U.S.
Latin tour of 2015 close to $40 million,
according to Billboard Boxscore, plus
nearly $10 million more from 12 dates at
Mexico Citys Auditorio Nacional alone
all of which brought him to No. 18

8 on
Billboards 2015 Money Makers list. At
the time of his death, Gabriel had just
launched a 30-city U.S. tour; he performed
at The Forum in Inglewood, Calif., on
Aug. 26, the night before he suffered a
fatal heart attack as he prepared to fly to El
Paso, Texas, for the next show.
Yet those numbers only scratch the
surface of his worth.
Dogged by poor business deals with
previous managers and by tax problems
in both the United States and Mexico,
Gabriel saw his career stabilize after
signing a global agreement with Universal
in 2008 that included recordings and
publishing. According to sources close to
the negotiations, Gabriels advance for the
publishing alone approached $7 million

and was recouped in less than five years.
In 2010, Ivan Aguilera, the oldest of his
five children, took over as his manager.
(Aguilera has said publicly that his father
had established how his inheritance would
be divided, but had not provided more
details at press time.) This allowed Gabriel
to focus on his music. The artist knows
how to sing, not how to count, Gabriel said
in a 2002 interview with Univision.
Beyond the Los Duo album and its
2016 follow-up, Gabriel released two
other albums on Universal in the past two
years, including Vestido de Etiqueta, which
debuted at No. 1 on the Top Latin Albums
chart in August. Those albums combined
have sold 2 million copies globally,
In Memoriam / T O P L I N E
according to Universal; he also produced

albums for other artists (La India and
Isabel Pantoja) covering his songs.
In terms of audio and video streams
during the last two years, Gabriel has
accumulated 485 million and 326 million,
respectively, according to Universal, of
which just 14 percent and 8 percent have
come from the United States. While his
total U.S. album sales stand at 3.4 million,
that number does not include sales from
the nontraditional retail outlets that
dominated the U.S. Latin-music market
until around a decade ago.
Publishers tell Billboard that the
numerous covers of Gabriels songs make it
difficult to estimate the value of his catalog.
Yadira Moreno, managing director
of Universal Music Publishing Mexico,
which administers the entirety of Gabriels
catalog, says, He is one of the top five
Latin-American composers [in history],
His work has a rare

capacity to be adapted
into other languages.
Yadira Moreno, Universal Music
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Publishing Mexico
because of the capacity that his work has
to be exported and adapted into other
languages thats not common. This is a
very active, very lucrative writer.
Of Gabriels 660 registered compositions
with Universal, 23 have been adapted to
other languages including Japanese
and Afrikaans with his 1971 hit No
Tengo Dinero adapted to five languages.
Through the years artists ranging from
Marc Anthony to Man to Luis Miguel
have scored hits with his songs.
And while the singer had long been
reticent to license his music for advertising,
in recent years he opened the door,
including a 2015 campaign for Mexican
juice brand Jumex that used a cover of
his song Buenos Das Seor Sol. Most
recently, he had a big synch payday with
music used in Hasta Que Te Conoc, the TV
series based on his life that aired earlier
this year on TV Azteca in Mexico, and will
begin airing stateside on Telemundo on
Sept. 11. Gabriel also received a fee for
the rights to his life story, the script and
production for which he approved.
With all due respect to other big
stars, says Jesus Lopez, chairman/CEO
of Universal Music Latin America
& Iberian Peninsula, he has been the
biggest Latin artist of the past 40 years
in all aspects.
Left: Gabriels funeral

procession in Ciudad
Juarez, Mexico, on
Sept.3. Right: A
memorial gathering in
Mexico City on Sept.5.
J UA N
GA B R I E L
BY THE
NUMBERS
(Changes in sales and

chart positions in the
weeks after his death)
3,045%
Increase in digital
songs sold, from
2,000 to 54,000
52.9M
On-demand audio
and video streams,
up 1,099 percent
from 4.4 million
846%
Increase in albums
sold, from 4,000 to
37,000 units
566%
Increase in radio
plays, from 2,000 to
13,000
1-9
Gabriel occupies
the top nine spots
on the Latin Catalog
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$45M
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He Was My Mentor, My Everything

Mexican singer Paulina Rubio remembers her lifelong family friend
ve known Juan Gabriel for as long as

piece mariachi he got up with them
I can remember. He was a confidant
and he sang for three hours!
of my mother [Mexican actress
I remember one time we were
Susana Dosamantes], one of her great
in Spain and we hosted a party at
friends, and he was also friends with
[Spanish architect] Ricardo Bofills
my grandmother, who died in 1998. He
house. Juan Gabriel came with my
became my friend, my mentor, my
momand, we introduced him to Cher
fairy godmother, my everything.
and they spoke for a long time. I
One of my earliest
think they bonded because of
memories of Juan Gabriel
their glamour and extroverted
was seeing him sing in my
nature onstage.
mothers house. He would
I always had a close
touch my hair, my outfits.
friendship with him, but I also
I always called him Don
admired him deeply. I admired
Rubio
Alberto, and he called me mi nia
his lyrics, his songs, his personality.
or mi nia adorada [my little
I sang with him several times and also
girl or my adored girl]. He always
recorded a song he wrote for Quintana
empowered me.
Roo in the Mayan Rivera, Cancun y Yo.
I remember as a little girl, one time
He always gave me much love and
I peeked through the balcony and my
advice, and music. We spoke often
mother was there with [singers] Lupita
andhe was happy to see me in love
Dalessio, Angelica Maria and Camilo
again. In fact, my husband [Gerardo
Sesto, and Juan Gabriel was singing
Baza] opened up his concert in the
with Jos Jos. This was in the late
Tijuana Plaza.
1970s. They used to have big bohemian
The last time I saw him, he told me,
nights at home. He was always very
Enjoy me, because Im getting old. Im
special with my family.
tired. Visit me, call me, dont get lost.
I have many memories of him, but
I would tell him not to get depressed,
perhaps my most cherished one is
that he wasnt alone.
my wedding day in 2007 [Rubio wed
His legacy is his art, his music. He was
Nicolas Colate in Xtaret; they have
very eclectic and created melodieseven
since divorced]. I knew he was coming
in his sleep. He would wake up in the
to the reception because he was one of
middle of the night with a melody and
the guests of honor and a witness at the
grab his cellphone or his recorder.
ceremony. We had already sat down for
But he felt most complete when he
dinner when someone said, We have
was in front of his audience. He loved
a surprise for you, and this mariachi
to work, and he never wanted to leave
walked into the dining room. We
the stage because it was important for
werent supposed to have a mariachi
him that everyone be happy. Thats my
play at that moment because it was a
lasting impression.
sit-down dinner with classical music.
For me, he was invincible.
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1Clive Davis (center) hosted a private dinner, with

guests such as Barry Manilow (left) and LLCool J, in
the Terrace Room at the Sunset Tower Hotel in Los
Angeles to preview his upcoming documentary,
The Soundtrack of Our Lives, on Aug.25.
2Anderson Paak at the Bumbershoot Festival
in Seattle on Sept. 2. 3Drake (left) surprised the
crowd during his new OVO Sound signee Dvsns
sold-out show at Warehouse Live in Houston on
Sept. 5. 4Borgore at Electric Zoo on Randalls
Island in New York on Sept. 4. 5Sean Diddy
Combs and Faith Evans at the opening of the Bad
Boy Family Reunion Tour at Chicagos United
Center on Sept. 1. 6Tinashe (left) and CharliXCX
backstage at the SoBe 21st birthday party at
Foxtail Pool at SLS in Las Vegas on Sept. 3.
Kanye West returned to

New Yorks Madison Square
Garden on his Saint Pablo
Tour, thrilling fans by
performing atop a moving
stage that was suspended
from the ceiling on Sept. 5.
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In America
P H I L A D E L P H I A , S E P T. 3 - 4
IM NOT ACTUALLY MADE IN AMERICA, WHICH ALSO MEANS I
cant vote. If you have a cellphone in your hand, you dont have an excuse
not to be registered, Barbadian-born singer Rihanna told the crowd
at Budweisers fifth annual Made in America festival, before assuring
fans, Hillary [Clinton] didnt pay me to say that, I promise. Political
overtones were felt throughout the Labor Day weekend event, as artists
expertly threw shade at Donald Trump see SZAs red F Donald
tee and former President Bill Clinton did his part to persuade the
46,000 attendees at the Benjamin Franklin Parkway to register. But
politics couldnt overshadow the weekends stacked lineup, with the
hip-hop artists coming out on top: Schoolboy Q surprised fans with
an impromptu performance of That Part; Jay Electronica invited a
1,000-person crowd onstage; and ColleGrove cohorts Lil Wayne and
2Chainz took turns spitting their biggest hits. But it was Travis Scott
two days after his surprise release of sophomore album Birds in the
Trap Sing McKnight who owned the weekend. I was fighting for a
night set, but they wouldnt give it to me, he said, before climbing into
a tree for an elevated run through 2015s 3500.
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AT L A N TA , S E P T. 1
Toni Braxton, See You Again producer Metro Boomin and

Universal Music Publishing Group earned top honors
1
2
1Chris Martin of
Coldplay during the
bands festival-closing
set on Sept.4, which
featured a light show
and fireworks display.
2Rihanna on Sept.3.
3RZA (left) and Paul
Banks of Banks & Steelz
backstage on Sept.4.
4FKA Twigs on Sept.4.
5Chance the Rapper on
Sept.4. 6Clinton caught
Chances set. He later
was seen chatting with
Beyonc and Jay Z in the
Duss lounge. 7SZA on
Sept.3. 8Jay Electronica
on Sept.3.
1From left: Ludacis, BMI vp writer/publisher

relations Catherine Brewton, host Chris Tucker
and BMI president Mike ONeill at Woodruff Arts
Center. 2DJ Khaled kicked off the proceedings
with a performance of All I Do Is Win, featuring
Ludacris. 3Bryan Birdman Williams (left) and
Epic Records CEO L.A. Reid. 4Tamar Braxton
(left) with sister and the evenings top honoree
Toni Braxton, whose 25-year career was feted
with tribute performances from Yolanda Adams,
Ledisi and sisters Towanda, Traci and Trina.
4
8
the beat
I never want to back myself

into a corner, says Aldean,
photographed Aug. 22 at
Urban Cowboy in Nashville.
THE PULSE
OF MUSIC
RIGHT NOW
GROOMING BY ALYSSA KRAUS AT AMAX TALENT
PEOPLE ARE
SO SENSITIVE
Jason Aldean returns from controversy (and blasts

bro country) ahead of his aptly titled new album, They Dont
Know: Media tends to make a big deal out of things
BY RICHARD L. ELDREDGE
PHOTOGRAPHED BY JOSEPH LLANES
the beat
TAKING OFF HIS COWBOY HAT AND RUNNING
a hand through his hair, Jason Aldean is agitated.

The country superstar sits on a vintage velvet couch
in a suite at a Nashville bed-and-breakfast, bristling
at the notion that hes bro country. Its a fing
ridiculous term, says Aldean of the hard-partying,
clich-ridden designation. His new album, They
Dont Know, may be full of heartbreak, 18-wheelers
and suds-guzzling escapades, but he considers
his music far beyond the label. Its incredibly
insulting to me. Its meant to describe guys whose
songs are all about pickup trucks, drinking beer
and girls. Its meant to talk down to us me, Luke
Bryan, Florida Georgia Line, all of us. They
havent bothered to listen to the body of work Ive
recorded over the years. At least take time to do
your homework.
Gearing up to hit the road this fall on his Six
String Circus arena tour to introduce fans to his
seventh studio album, Aldean is learning the
hard way that life at the top of the charts comes
with its own set of obstacles. Hes now at a point
in his career where he can easily send a single to
No. 1 (Lights Come On, the first offering from
They Dont Know, became his 15th chart-topper on
Billboards Country Airplay tally in July), but fames
increased visibility has come with drawbacks.
After creating a catalog of chart-topping hits,
including Dirt Road Anthem, Shes Country
and Burnin It Down, and building a devoted fan
base to become one of the biggest arena artists in
country today, Aldean, 39, has had to learn how to
navigate an increasingly intrusive media. The first
clear signal of his fame came in 2012 when TMZ
published photos of him making out in a Sunset
Strip bar with American Idol contestant Brittany
Kerr. Seven months after the story broke, Aldean
filed for divorce from his high-school sweetheart
Jessica Ussery. He and Kerr married in 2015.
Perhaps as a result, Aldean has tightened his
inner circle. This summer, Kerr and his daughters
Keeley, 13, and Kendyl, 9, went on tour with him.
It has been good having Britt out on the road, he
reflects. It gives her a chance to see the stuff I go
through. Were on the road, and we play music for
a living. Its hard on me. Its a lot of traveling, not
A teenage
Aldean (righ
t) onstage
hometown
in his
of Macon,
Ga., in 1997
.
sleeping, working day after day without a day off.

She gets to see that. Its nice to have my partner with
me out there. It makes it a lot easier.
Controversy reared its head once again during
Halloween 2015 when photos of Aldean dressed in
blackface as rapper Lil Wayne circulated online.
The singer, publicly addressing the situation for
the first time, says he just wanted to hang out with
friends, found the costume in a store and Kerr,
a makeup artist, painted his face so he could go
unrecognized in public.
In this day and age people are so sensitive that
no matter what you do, somebody is going to make
a big deal out of it, he says. Me doing that had zero
malicious intent ... I get that race is a touchy subject,
but not everybody is that way. Media tends to make
a big deal out of things. If that was disrespectful to
anyone, I by all means apologize. That was never my
intention. It never crossed my mind.
Even with the fame, in many regards Aldean is
still as untamed as the kid his longtime producer
Michael Knox first encountered when he
discovered him in 1998 at a showcase in Smyrna,
Ga., with his cowboy hat slung low, like a bull rider.
As an investor in the Jay Z-owned streaming
service Tidal, he has vacillated between listening
to fans who want to stream music for free and
INSI DE R
BEHIND
BURNS HITS
Spears and
Burns in the
studio in 2015.
After years on the road with

Deadmau5 and Calvin Harris ,
British producer Burns , 30,
scores his biggest credit yet
with Britney Spears Make
Me, off the pop icons new
album Glory, which debuts at
No. 3 on the Billboard 200. The
Los Angeles-based DJ breaks
down his most notable works
Britney Spears
featuring
G-Eazy, Make
Me (2016)
Burns recorded the
demo for Make Me
in a friends kitchen
in 2015, plugging a
guitar into his laptop
to lay down the song.
After it made its way
to Spears camp, he hit
the studio with her for
two days to record the
vocals. You think that
there might be this
diva-ish personality
with somebody of
that level, he says,
but she was just so
normal, its crazy.
supporting the Nashville songwriters who count on

royalty checks to pay the bills. To compromise, for
the first month of its release, They Dont Know will
not be offered on any streaming service only as a
digital download and CD.
This isnt about me making more money, he
says. Its about wanting to stand up for not only
myself but for an entire genre of music and an
entire town Nashville. Its about the writers,
publishers, producers, everybody whos getting the
short end of the stick on this deal.
Sticking up for and representing the little guy is
part of what has made Aldean a superstar. Its why
Lights Come On, an ode to blue-collar Joes letting
loose on a Friday night, including those doing the
back-breaking work of putting on a Jason Aldean
show nightly, still resonates with fans.
Its about honoring the guys who get to the
stadium at six in the morning setting up the show
and waiting on the fans to get there, explains
Aldean. Its what we live to do. The new albums
title track, meanwhile, pays respect to small-town
Americans, whom the singer grew up admiring on
the outskirts of Macon, Ga. For Aldean, the songs
message is simple: Dont talk down about things
youve never experienced. Ive traveled the world,
and you go to a place like Los Angeles and people
assume you just sit around on a hay bale and live in a
trailer. Whenever the South is portrayed in a movie,
its seldom flattering. Its a song I could relate to.
Knox says its the singers knack for picking
songs that personify him, along with his stadiumready swirl of rock and country, that slots him a cut
above the rest. Ive never worked with anyone so
diverse, says Knox. He takes you on a journey
of attitude and emotion. He sells it. Hes a freak of
nature. Thats why his shows are so exciting.
Taking risks is just one of the luxuries that everrising stardom affords. When Dirt Road Anthem
came out, there were a lot of people at the record
company and at management who were scared
to death of that song, says Aldean. Burnin It
Down made people nervous because it was so pop.
But every time weve shaken things up like that,
it has worked in a big way. I never want to back
myself into a corner.
Burns, When
Im Around U
Pitbull featuring
Inna, All the
Things (2013)
Ellie Goulding x
Burns, Midas
Touch (2013)
With 1.1 million listens

on SoundCloud,
Burns explosive solo
single has proved to
be his most turn-upfriendly at recent gigs,
including Lollapalooza
and the Hellow
Festival. I made that
song at the same time
I made the Britney
thing, he says. I was
using this cheap-ass
guitar that I bought
from Guitar Center.
Its not the best guitar
sound, but it has this
mood to it.
[Calvin Harris andI]

go to each other for
advice on songs that
were working on,
says Burns, who has
been best friends
with the DJ for a
decade. Pitbull was
looking for tracks for
his Meltdown EP, and
turned to Harris, who
handed over Burns
All the Things.
The pair go back to

the halcyon days
of MySpace. After
she struck stardom,
they connected for
a digitalduet: She
recorded it a cappella,
and the beat [I had
done] was the same
key and tempo as
Midas Touch. It was
fate that it worked.
(2015)
STEVEN J. HOROWITZ
Pitbull
OVERHEARD
FIVE TO WATCH
HIP-HOPS GEN XX
BY SELMA FONSECA
For the past decade, rap radio has been a boys club (barring, of course, Nicki and Iggy) but
thanks to the creativity and swagger of these buzzy MCs, thats all about to change
BY K ATHY IAN DOLI
5
3
Leikeli47
Lady Leshurr
Young M.A
Age unknown,
from Brooklyn
27, from Birmingham,

England
24, from
Brooklyn
BREAKTHROUGH
An assist from fellow

Windy City native
Jeremih boosted 2016
single Body onto the
Billboard Hot
100, peaking
at No. 62.
The mysterious skimasked crusader

came on the scene in
2014 with seasonal
jam F the Summer
Up, and has since
signed to RCA.
Leshurrs spitfire
Queens Speech
Ep. 4 freestyle went
viral in 2015, earning
32million YouTube
views and placement
in a Samsung spot.
Ooouuu, M.As
second single with
Duck Down Music,
is pushing 7 million
plays on Spotify and is
No. 17 on Billboards
Rap Airplay chart.
CO-SIGNS
Most recently, J. Cole:

He told me he liked
my album [No Hard
Feelings, released in
July], says Dreezy.
Plus, he gave me
some good feedback.
Besides Drizzy and

YG, Bay Area legend
E-40 and hitmaker
Travis Scott (inset)
are both
Kamaiyah
advocates.
Jay Z added
Summer to his first
Tidal playlist, while
Diplo and Skrillex
invited the rapper
onstage at Electric
Daisy Carnival.
Everyone from Erykah

Badu (Ill, she wrote
on Facebook) to
Timbaland to Akon
have declared
themselves
fans.
While Jadakiss and

Swizz Beatz have
been supportive of
M.As work, it was
50 Cent who put the
MC on his infamous
Instagram twice.
PEOPLE DONT KNOW...
If I tell you, then

everybodys going
to know! says the
rapper though she
does offer her biggest
influences: Lil Wayne
and Kanye West.
Im afraid of the
dark, says the MC,
despite her mixtapes
nocturnal title and the
fact she used to work
around the clock as a
security guard.
Red Hot Chili Peppers

are one of my favorite
bands, she says. Of
her age, 47 adds, Its
only relevant at
the bar, and I
dont drink.
I absolutely love
salmon I need
people to know, jokes
Leshurr, whos more
likely to rap about fish
than fs. The grime
star doesnt curse.
I played on a football
team, says M.A,
who grew up in BedStuy (best known for
producing The
Notorious B.I.G.
and Jay Z).
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Dreezy
Kamaiyah
22, from
Chicago
24, from
Oakland, Calif.
Following buzzy debut
A Good Night in the
Ghetto, Kamaiyah is
rising on the Hot 100
as a guest (alongside
Drake) on YGs Why
You Always Hatin?
The Interscope signee

is already in the studio
with Atlanta producer
Southside to
work on her
upcoming
album.
While opening for YG

this fall, Kamaiyah
(whos on Interscope)
also is readying her
follow-up mixtape.
Im still figuring it
out, she says.
Work is always next,

says Leikeli47, whos
planning her debut
full-length for this
winter after releasing
singles Money and
Girl Gang.
Her debut, Queen of

the Scene, is due in
early 2017 on RCA,
where she signed this
spring. Its going to
show people what Im
about, says the MC.
While M.As debut

album, Herstory (to be
distributed by Duck
Down), is in the works,
expect both an EP and
her first national tour
in the meantime.
Eric Benets Boomerang Moment

R&B singer-songwriter Eric
Benet and his current wife
Manuela Testolini had an awkward Benet
encounter of the cinematic kind
with his ex Halle Berry at the Black Movie
Soundtrack II concert at the Hollywood
Bowl in Los Angeles on Aug. 31. The event
paired scenes from classic movies that
featured black casts with songs from their
soundtracks. Benet whom Berry divorced
in 2005 following his admission that he had
cheated on her and Testolini sat through a
clip from the 1992 picture Boomerang in which
Berry accuses her co-star, Eddie Murphy,
of infidelity. The real action was taking
place onstage, though, as a roster of artists
including Kenneth Babyface Edmonds, Lalah
Hathaway (daughter of late soul legend Donny
Hathaway) and Charlie Wilson performed
songs from Shaft, Super Fly and Come Back,
Charleston Blue. Highlights included a tribute
to Prince; Gladys Knights performance of
Make Yours a Happy Home and two other
songs from the soundtrack to the 1974
movie Claudine; and Commons emotional
performance of Glory, the Oscar-winning
song from 2014s Selma.
Blues Man In The Hamptons
Austin blues guitarist Gary Clark Jr. attracted
a very Hamptons crowd to Montauks Surf
Lodge on Sept. 3 for the close of hotelier
Jayma Cardosos summer concert series.
Performing for a crowd that included rocker
(and Hamptonite) Roger Waters; tabloid
fixture Peter Brant Jr.; Diana Vreelands
great-granddaughter, Caroline Vreeland; and
billionaire George Soros son, Alex, Clarks
set included Bright Lights, Dont Owe You
a Thang and Church. Along for the ride
was his wife, Australian model
Trunfio.
Nicole Trunfio
Clark
Big Sean: Ixnay On Jay

Jay Zs
Z involvement in Big
Seans upcoming album
Sean
will remain a mystery,
for now. On Aug. 27, the
rapper Instagrammed a
photo of himself with Hova
(the two worked on Kanye
Wests 2012 song Clique) that
read: Going thru my 4th album
with one of the masters. But Big
Sean declined to discuss the photo
or his album when Overheard talked
to him at the State Bags backpack
donation rally in Los Angeles on
Aug. 29. Its all positive, he said.
I just dont want to spill too many
beans before Im ready.
Got gossip? Send to tips@billboard.com.
the beat
HEAR SAY
That guy is selling

inflammatory things
that I have never in
my whole entire life
heard except from,
you know, Hitler.
Lauper
A LOOK AT WHOS
SAYING WHAT IN
N MUSIC
COM PI LE D BY NATALI E WE I N E R
CYNDI LAUPE R
The Celebrity Apprentice alum talking

Donald Trump during an interview
with San Diegos Morning News.
Saving PANDAs!
My character is
being defaced, and
who I am as a person
and my integrity.
DESIIGNE R
The Panda rapper on Twitter after

the World Wildlife Fund announced
that giant pandas are no longer
classified as an endangered species.
Desiigner
CHRIS BROWN
The singer speaking to

Good Morning America via video
message regarding his arrest on
Aug. 30 on suspicion of assault
with a deadly weapon.
But, you know what, I

dont remember at all.
I have no recollection.
I couldnt tell you
anything about it.
Brown
BRITNEY SPEARS
PEARS
The diva speaking about her first

performance at MTVs Video Music
Awards, in 1999, during an interview
on Elvis Duran and the Morning Show.
I feel I am making
progress but I have
today acknowledged
that I do not feel
sufficiently confident
to move forward.
ZAYN
People thought
he was mental.
It aint about no
strip-club shit.
STEVE VAN ZAN DT
DR AKE
The E Street Band guitarist

describing a teenage Bruce
Springsteen for a Vanity Fair
cover story on the rocker.
The rapper revealing plans to open a

nightclub in Houston while onstage
at his second Houston Appreciation
Weekend on Sept. 5.
Spears
TOU R ESSE NTIALS
TOYS & TUNES
Rinehart (second
from left) with
Needtobreathe
After debuting at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with Hard Love (July 15), South Carolinas
Needtobreathe (Taylor Swift is a fan) is embarking on a 53-date U.S. tour. Frontman
BearRinehart, 35, shares some musts and why he buys a wooden toy in every city
1I have probably
2Sports equipment
3This tour, we
4As long as I have
5At every stop, I
10 cellphone
is important for
actually have a
my pillow, I can
find a wooden animal
chargers in
me anything I
record player in
sleep by a dumpster
for my son and write
different places:
can beat the other
the dressing room.
and be OK. It makes
the date and city
the bus, the
guys at, Im into!
We like to play soul
me feel at home
on the bottom. When
dressing room, the
But football is my
and gospel before
anywhere. I got it
hes old enough,
stage. If youre not
favorite sport. I
we go onstage, along
as a gift its
hell have about
connected to home,
was a receiver in
with everything
supposed to keep you
3,000 animals
it can get very
college.
from Elvis to
cool. Its a real
telling him where
The Black Keys.
fancy pillow.
Dad has been.
weird out here.
N.W.
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The star citing extreme anxiety in

a statement following his second
show cancellation this summer.
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25
THE
MOST
POWERFUL
PEOPLE IN
MUSIC +
FASHION
Who pumps up the volume on an
artist? The imagemakers named
here, as money today flows fast and
furious between the two intertwined
industries with Kanye cashing in
on pop-ups, Bieber bringing bank
at Barneys, Beyonc launching her
own brands and an I never give
a f what people think attitude at
work both on and off the runways
For exclusive interviews

andbehind-the-scenes
video from the Fashion
Power List shoots,
go to Billboard.com or
Billboard.com/ipad.
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Marc Jacobs with St. Vincent

and Hype Williams
The legendary downtown designer continues his
decades-long embrace of music with more stars and
his own video
Photographed by David Needleman on Aug.24 at ROOT NYC
in New York. St. Vincent wears a Marc Jacobs dress,
stockings and shoes, and Wendy Yue and Dana Rebecca Designs rings.
WO WEEKS BEFORE THE START
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of New York Fashion Week, a

time when most designers go into
lockdown with their teams, Marc
Jacobs arrives at a photo-shoot
studio in New Yorks Chelsea
neighborhood looking relaxed and
buff in a black tee and jeans. He
heads back to greet Annie Clark, the indie-rock star better
known by her stage name, St. Vincent, whos getting
makeup done for Billboards cover shoot. Did you like
your picture? the 53-year-old designer asks the singer,
referring to the photo of Clark in his fall 2016 ad campaign.
In it, the Tulsa, Okla.-born, Dallas-raised Clark looks like a
cross between Blade Runners Pris and Pippi Longstocking
in a white doily-collared sweater, striped stockings and
layers of tulle. I did, and so did my mom, says Clark, 33,
with a nod, her short black hair a pleasing halo of frizz. I
think it was my favorite, says Jacobs, which, considering
the other stars involved musicians like Missy Elliott,
Courtney Love and Marilyn Manson, and such actors as
Susan Sarandon and Sissy Spacek is high praise.
Though Jacobs and Clark didnt know each other
before the shoot, the designer is on a first-name basis
with most of the others. In my mind, there is some kind
of nonlinear connection between all of these people,
says Jacobs. Theyre not one thing. Theyre connected
because you felt within a certain moment that all these
things belong together. There is no rule like, That
doesnt make sense with that. It does if you say so.
As one of the major players in the fashion world for
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THE DESIGNERS
THE
MUSIC
VIDEO
WAS
LIKE AN
ACID-TRIP
FELLINI
FILM.
shift and a return to the spotlight this year.

The clothes had a rhythm that
reminded me of Limelight, says Williams,
referencing a bygone New York club that
had its heyday in the early 90s. The music
we picked represents that era and Larry
Levan, [a DJ who] was a genius at what he
did; he shaped club culture.
For Clark, the video shoot with Williams
was like an acid-trip Fellini film, 8
or Satyricon, she says. [Transgressive
industrial-music pioneer] Genesis
P-Orridge was on one side of me, Susan
Sarandon on the other, and all these
gorgeous, statuesque redheads milling
round. It was lovely to be in the company of
real artists and genuine, beautiful freaks.
Ever the consummate producer, Williams
understood how to get the best out
of the chic motley group Jacobs
assembled by intuiting how people might respond to music. While
shooting the video, he blasted The
Prodigy for Clark. For Keiji Haino,
the Japanese artist? No music,
says Williams. I had to use that,
his silence. Love only wanted to
listen to her own songs; Manson
brought it with Jay Z, even
though he only listened to Justin
Timberlake while prepping. All of
the hair and makeup ladies [said
they] were fanning themselves,
like, That is the sexiest guy Ive
ever met, says Clark of Manson.
[Hes] extraordinarily intelligent
and quite flirtatious; he will
definitely say shit to provoke you,
adds Jacobs, spoken like someone
who knows how to do that, too.
DONNA BULSECO
Showstoppers then
and now: Christy
Turlington (left)
at the Perry Ellis
spring show in 1992;
Lady Gaga (right)
walked the runway
for Jacobs fall 2016
show in New York in
February.
CHRISTOPHER BAILEY
CEO/chief creative officer, Burberry
WHY HE MATTERS No other
designer is more dedicated

to spotlighting British artists,
from Elton John to James Bay.
TECH - FORWARD APPROACH
Since joining the British

fashion house from Gucci
in 2001, Bailey, 45, has
defined it as a leader in
music and technology.
From the live soundtracks
to our runway shows to
Burberry Acoustic [which
promotes artists across
Burberry channels], working
with musicians makes our
brand about more than the
product, says the designer.
TOUR SCORE In March,
Burberry signed on to sponsor
and dress Adele (her first and
only brand partnership) for
her sold-out world tour in
support of 25, which spent 10
weeks atop the Billboard 200.
Instead of quick changes, the
show is defined by a single
sequined gown. LAUREN INDVIK
ALESSANDRO MICHELE
Creative director, Gucci
WHY HE MATTERS Stars love
him, and revenue is expected

to top $4 billion this year.
BREATHING NEW LIFE INTO

A LABEL Plucked from the
Guccis accessories team

not quite two years ago,
Michele, 43, says music
and fashion are alike in
their ability to allow people
to express themselves, to
be part of a movement.
The approach has reversed
Guccis long-running sales
slump, with revenue up
5.4 percent to $2.1 billion in
the first half of 2016.
TOP LOOKS Beyonc and
Blue Ivy have stirred a social
media frenzy with their
Mommy-and-me ensembles;
brand ambassador Florence
Welchs iridescent, wolfemblazoned Met Gala gown
wasnt just breathtaking, it
complimented the tuxedo
worn by Michelle, whose
listening preferences range
from Gregorian chants to
The Cure.
L.I.
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SPREAD: HAIR BY TED GIBSON AT JED ROOT. MAKEUP BY TINA TURNBOW AT TRACEY MATTINGLY. ON-SET STYLING BY SHANNON ADDUCCI.
close to 30 years, Jacobs has always flouted

convention. From the beginning, he aligned
himself with the musical elite, mining
grunge, rock, rap, house and hip-hop in the
soundtracks of his runway shows. He has
embraced the edgiest artists and seems
happiest stirring up a little controversy: His
infamous spring 1993 grunge collection at
Perry Ellis which outraged store buyers,
fashion critics and indie bands alike with
its flannel shirts and sloppy silhouettes
got him fired, but it also cemented his
reputation for heralding the shift away from
the excesses of the 1980s.
Jacobs, who launched his eponymous
company in 1994 (annual revenue is
estimated at $950 million), has long drawn
ST. VINCENT
inspiration from musics most iconic women,
often enlisting them for his
advertisements. While at Louis
Vuitton, where he served as
creative director for 16 years,
Madonna fronted a 2008
campaign. Cher, one of fall 2015s
stars, walked arm in arm with him
to that years Met Gala. And while
she hasnt been in one of his ads,
Lady Gaga walked his show last
February in a fur-embellished
coat, having hit the Grammy
carpet a week before in a custommade, Ziggy Stardust-inspired
coat dress. The collection, says
Clark, was pretty fantastic
thematic and theatrical.
In August, the native New
Yorker fortified his connection
with music, doing an exclusive
capsule collection with MTV.
He also kicked off the Music
Marc Concert Series at his
Melrose Avenue boutique in
I remember wanting to wear a tuxedo when
Los Angeles. Marc has always
I was 5, and Imade one out of paper, says
represented the progression of
St.Vincent, dressed in a look from Jacobs
youth culture, Logan Eze from
fall collection, of her early fashion interests.
BC Kingdom, which performed,
told Billboard. The Los Angeles-based group premiered
tracks from its debut EP, BuckWildNite, including the
song Hype Williams, a nod to legendary music video
director Harold Hype Williams, who, perhaps not
coincidentally, directed Jacobs first-ever musical video,
a three-minute-long, star-studded companion to the fall
print ads that is set to Man Fridays Love Honey, Love
Heartache (Larry Levan Mix).
Jacobs and Williams first met at New Yorks Mercer Hotel
in the early 2000s. Ive always thought his visual voice is
incredible, says Jacobs, who, along with his muses, stars
in the video. In the 90s, Williams revolutionized hip-hop
videos with his artistic eye and large-scale production
values for such artists as LL Cool J, Tupac Shakur, Nas
and Elliott, whom he met when she was 16. He was close
with Prince (Sonically, all of us are a derivative of him in
some capacity) and worked with Kanye West extensively.
But Williams video for Jacobs represents both a genre
John Varvatos with

Amos Lee
The godfather of music-fronted ad campaigns
isfocused on a booming record label
Varvatos (right) photographed by Eric Ryan Anderson with
signee Lee on Aug.23 at John Varvatos in New York.
Lee and Varvatos bothwear John Varvatos Collection.
A PIONEER OF TURNING
rock stars into campaign

models, John Varvatos
continued his namesake
labels deep association
with music by releasing a
buzzed-about Guns N Roses
merchandise collection this
year in addition to opening his
22nd store. But if the 62-yearold once operated adjacent
to the music world, 2016
has proved him to be firmly
entrenched. Since launching
John Varvatos Records with
Republic in 2014, the designer
has co-signed Zac Brown
Band, whose 2015 album
Jekyll + Hyde debuted at No. 1
on the Billboard 200, and
signed Hollywood Vampires
(a venture involving Joe Perry,
Alice Cooper and Johnny
Depp) and folk-soul artist
Amos Lee, who describes
wearing Varvatos clothing
in much the same way as
working with him: A good
fit. Never like, Im trying too
hard or doing something that
doesnt feel right. While new
store openings in Asia and
the Middle East are part of
the Detroit natives forecast
for the upcoming year, so is a
focus on bringing artists like
Lee, who released the album
Spirit in August, further into
the spotlight. I feel very
blessed that I get to have my
two biggest passions in life
intertwined every day, says
Varvatos of doing double duty.
Every day I get to wake up
and do something completely
unique.
ADRIENNE GAFFNEY
THE DESIGNERS
THE ARBITERS
JEREMY SCOTT
GIUSEPPE ZANOTTI
VIRGIL ABLOH
Creative director, Off-White; DJ
SOLANGE KNOWLES
Owner/designer, Giuseppe Zanotti

Design
WHY HE MATTERS Best friends/
WHY HE MATTERS His sky-high
WHY HE MATTERS The designer
and longtime creative director

to Kanye funnels youth
culture into fashion.
To the modern generation,

music and fashion are not
seen as separate works of art,
says Abloh, 35. As founder
of Milan-based luxury/
streetwear brand Off-White,
a sought-after DJ and Kanye
Wests creative director of 14
years, Abloh revolves around
the nexus of the two.
EXPANSION Fans of his mens
and womenswear lines, both
of which made Paris runway
debuts in 2016 and were
nominated for the prestigious
LVMH Prize in 2015, include
Karlie Kloss, Celine Dion and
the ASAP Mob. But despite
the accolades, Abloh says hes
driven by younger generations
and the shared creativity
thats happening Ive been
fortunate to spur that along
and be part of it. RAY ROGERS
WHY SHE MATTERS While

cultivating a strong aesthetic,
Knowles has made a point of
giving lesser-known creators
their big break.
FASHION WORLD FANS She
has her own point of view,
in fashion and in life, says
designer Michael Kors, who
chose Knowles, 30, to star in
his fall street-style-influenced
handbag campaign. She
has a keen eye and an ability
to mix and match various
trends in a way that no one
else can. Among her standout moments of the year: an
architectural look by David
LaPort at this years Met Gala.
RETAIL VISION After helping to
open Exodus Goods, a New
Orleans boutique, in 2014,
Knowles launched the online
shop of her creative collective
Saint Heron this year, telling
Billboard that its purpose is
supporting young emerging
designers and designers of
color.
CHUCK ARNOLD
BEYONC
PHARRELL WILLIAMS
muses like Miley Cyrus make

their stages his runway.
ITALIAN JOB On top of running
his eponymous label (which
marks its 20th year in 2017),
Scott has revived Moschino
since taking over in 2013:
Parent company Aeffe
reported a 20 percent rise in
sales in the last year.
2016 HIGHLIGHT Katy Perry,
whom Scott famously dressed
for her 2015 Super Bowl
performance, made one of
his dreams come true when
she introduced him to Dolly
Parton at the Academy of
Country Music Awards in
April. Says Scott, 41: She is
the closest thing to God.
ULTIMATE COLLABOR ATOR
I participate with musicians

in all aspects, not just
clothes, says Scott. Wale
asked me to record with him;
Kanye West has played music
for me thats not yet out. A.G.
heels are crafted with

comfort in mind, so Selena
and Rihanna can perform
nightly without the pain.
MUSIC ROOTS Before
launching his luxury shoe
line in 1994, the designer was
a popular DJ. My first fans
were music artists, says the
59-year-old who counts
Beyonc among his many
star fans. They tell me that
my shoes have a wow factor
that they cant easily find.
TOUR SCORES Onstage looks
this year included mirrored
booties and ankle-strap
pumps for Selena Gomezs
Revival Tour and a sexy
pair of belted hip boots that
have become a hallmark of
Rihannas Anti World Tour.
UP NEXT Zanotti, who has
100 boutiques worldwide,
has collections with Zayn
and Jennifer Lopez expected
in January.
L.I.
MUSICS FASHION WHISPERER
MUSICIANS
ARE
MEANT TO
BE THEMSELVES.
AS THE
DESIGNER,
YOURE
TURNING
UP THE
VOLUME
ON WHO
THEY ARE.
SCOTT
DONATELLA VERSACE
Chief designer/vice president, Versace
WHY SHE MATTERS For the

ultimate dose of sex appeal,
pop stars opt for Versace.
AN INSTITUTION Versace
is part of pop culture, says
Donatella of the fashion
house, which in 2015 had
revenue of $720 million.
I love to hear hip-hop stars
rap about Versace, adds the
61-year-old, who has crafted
some of the most daring looks
of all time for Jennifer Lopez
and Madonna (one of the
most famous Versace icons)
and more recently for Taylor
Swift, who accepted the 2016
Grammy for best album in a
color-blocked bandeau and
floor-length silk skirt.
HONORING A LEGEND A
friend of Prince, the designer
played never-before-heard
songs from him at her
menswear show this year,
telling Billboard it was a way
to share incredible music
from a dear and much missed
friend.
CARSON GRIFFITH
Artist-designer
Fashions Hottest
Music Spots
GR AMERCY PARK ROSE BAR
New York
Rose Bar
Zoe Kravitz, Jaden Smith and Soko have flocked to this intimate hotel
lounge in recent months, thanks to the now-monthly series of invite-only
concerts. Acts from The Dandy Warhols to CRX (Strokes guitarist Nick
Valensis new band) perform amid a backdrop crafted by Julian Schnabel
and artworks by Damien Hirst. gramercyparkhotel.com
THE STORE AT 180 THE STR AND

London
This month, English designer Alex Eagle launches the latest of her everevolving concept shops (frequented by It Brits like Lily Donaldson and
Quentin Jones). In collaboration with The Vinyl Factory, which helps
curate The Stores music, it will host immersive installations while selling
limited-edition clothing and records. thestores.com
R ADIO ROOFTOP BAR AT ME MILAN IL DUCA

Milan
The Aldo Rossi-designed space recently opened near the fashion district,
with mod interiors featuring Alberto Van Stokkums portraits of music
icons. At aperitivo time, the likes of Lapo Elkann (Fiat heir and eyewear
designer) head to the roof for DJ sets. radiorooftop.com/milan
NUITS FAUVES
Paris
In June, the team behind the David Lynch members club Silencio
unveiled a 7,500-square-foot boite for electronic music beneath Les
Docks, the contemporary fashion/design/art space on the Seine. A-Trak
has played the venue, with Georgia Jagger and rapper Joeystarr among
CHRISTINE AJUDUA
the fans. nuitsfauves.com
WHY SHE MATTERS Shes

hailed as Queen for a reason:
Every single fashion and
music decision Bey makes
sparks a conversation for her
more than 83.9 million social
media followers.
GAME- CHANGING YEAR
With the help of her team

of star stylists including
Marni Senofonte and
B. kerlund, the diverse
and sexy outfits depicted
in her Lemonade visual
album werent simply eye
candy, they played a direct
role in shaping Beyoncs
empowering feminist
message. Sharing screen
space were labels like Gucci
and Roberto Cavalli and
newer names like Maria Lucia
Hohan and Yousef Al-Jasmi.
GROWING (ST YLE) EMPIRE
This year the 35-year-old

launched Ivy Park, her
activewear line with Topshop
and received the CFDA
Fashion Icon Award.
C.A.
Artist-entrepreneur
Co-owner/head of imagination, G-Star

Raw; artist-entrepreneur
WHY HE MATTERS From hats
to kicks, Williams self-styled

looks have a way of going viral.
MIDAS TOUCH The 11-time
Grammy winners fashion
rsum spans more than
a decade, including
collaborations with Louis
Vuitton and Chanel and a
long-term partnership with
Adidas, for which his Superstar
Supercolor 50-hue collection
sold out in a weekend.
G -STARS NEW STAR In
February, G-Star Raw named
the 43-year-old co-owner/
head of imagination a role
that requires his oversight on
collections, advertising and
business strategy. When
hes working on a project,
he doesnt get distracted by
his phone, computer or even
time, says chief marketing
officer Thecla Schaeffer.
The fruits of his labor for the
denim brand will be available
in stores this fall.
C.G.
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Creative director; Jeremy Scott,

Moschino
ON THE COVER OF HIS
Young Thug
Whether wearing a couture dress or a
throwback tracksuit, the chameleonic rapper
writes his own style rules
Photographed by Ramona Rosales on Aug.28
at Lightbox Studio in Los Angeles. Styling by Michael Nash.
Young Thug wears a Tripp NYC top,
Unconditional blazer and Claudio Cutuli scarf.
new mixtape, Jeffery which

recently debuted at No. 8 on
the Billboard 200 Young
Thug wears a ruffled
periwinkle gown, an image
that sums up the inventive
rappers approach to fashion:
When it comes to swag, he
says, theres no gender
involved. He has worn a
frock with trousers for Calvin
Kleins 2016 global campaign,
a skinny tracksuit for Pumas
Classics collection, and, soon,
hell don another statement
gown, for his wedding to
swimwear designer Jerrika
Karlae (There will be two
brides, he says). While his
Jeffery look geisha couture
meets Mortal Kombats
Raiden isnt exactly the
get-up youd expect on a
face-tattooed Atlanta MC, it
works on the 25-year-old
rapper whos known for
barking and squawking
between spitting lines about
guns, sex and drugs. When I
seen that dress, he says, I
felt like God gave it to me.
Sitting in a Los Angeles studio
in tight jeans and chains
wrapped around his neck like
pearls, Young Thug recalls the
seeds of his sartorial rebellion. When I was 12, my feet
were so small I wore my
sisters glitter shoes. My dad
would whoop me: Youre not
going to school now, youll
embarrass us! But I never
gave a f what people think.
Now, he has more fans than
critics (People like, Man,
you changed my life ), plus
collaborators who understand
his nonconformist vision
like Jeffery gown creator
Alessandro Trincone.
Whoever he is, he aint
regular, says Young Thug of
the designer. The na
reminds me of me.
CHRIS MARTINS
Jennifer Sey with

AliciaKeys
The Levis chief marketing officer mines music
legacy for the bigger picture
Photographed by Jean-Francois Campos on Aug.23 at
the Universal Studios lot in Universal City. Sey (left)
wears a Levis top and jeans. Keys wears a Levis top and jeans,
vintage Cach jacket and Alaia shoes.
LVIS SWIVELED HIS HIPS IN
them. The Ramones rocked

them on the cover of their
landmark debut. Bruce
Springsteen showed off his
patriotic backside in them on the
front of Born in the U.S.A. From
Bing Crosby to Blake Shelton,
the list of musicians who have been Levis lovers
through the decades spans generations and genres.
Music chose us, says Levis chief marketing officer
Jennifer Sey, explaining her decision to strengthening
the brands relationship with the music world since
she stepped into her current role three years ago, after
14 years at the company. Every type of musician
that you can imagine has chosen Levis without us
seeding the product to them. She had the bright
idea to capitalize on this legacy. Under her tenure as
CMO, the $4.5 billion brand purchased the naming
rights of Levis Stadium (at a cost of $220 million)
in San Francisco (where brand headquarters are)
and aligned with music artists for the Live in Levis
marketing campaign. Rule No. 1? They had to be
authentic Levis fans, says Sey, 47, who is expecting
her fourth child. Haim, Kurt Vile, Ryn Weaver, Twin
Shadow and Benjamin Booker, among many others,
signed on. Sey picked a strong brand partner in Alicia
Keys, who launched the Levis womens collection in
2015 the biggest push the 143-year-old company
has done in marketing to women in 80 years and
the brands latest music activation, The Levis Music
Project, kicking off Sept. 9, which enlists musicians
to institute Levis-funded music education and
community programs. Shes there to continue to
grow the brand, but its not just about the brand, Keys
says of Seys efforts. Its about people relating to each
other what builds us, what breaks us, what makes us
start again. Thats what made us such great partners.
Were very similar in that way. Keys, 35, a co-founder
of Keep a Child Alive (which provides support to
HIV and AIDS patients in Africa), helmed the pilot
program, creating a music technology program for
Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn.
R.R.
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THE DEALMAKERS
MELISA GOLDIE
R ACHEL MUSCAT
WHY SHE MATTERS Calvin

Klein underwear is no longer
merely synonymous with
Marky Mark.
UNDRESS TO SUCCESS The
brands chief marketing officer
was the brains behind springs
provocative and ubiquitous
#mycalvins campaign,
featuring a stripped-down
Justin Bieber along with
striking portraits of vanguard
artists like FKA Twigs,
Kendrick Lamar, Joey Badass
and Young Thug. Instead of
associating the brand with
their parents, Goldies efforts
have cemented the boxers,
briefs and bras (which are
worn to be seen) as part of
millennial culture.
NEXT BET Raf Simons, Diors
former creative director and
a fashion visionary admired
by music artists, is in place
to helm the brand, which
reported sales of $8.2 billion
in 2015 with goals of
$10 billion.
C.G.
WHY SHE MATTERS The

companys star collaborations
yield instant sellouts.
RECORD BREAKERS 2016 is set
to be another banner year for
Adidas (the brand brought in
$15.3 billion in gross revenue
in 2015), thanks in large
part to the continuation of
industry-defining ties with
Pharrell Williams, Kanye West
and Rita Ora, which helped
drive up sales 25 percent to
$8.6 billion in the first half.
Working out of the companys
German headquarters for
more than six years, Muscat,
34, brings music partnerships
to market and ultimately off
the shelves in a blink of the
eye. Case in point: Wests
Yeezy Boost 750s, which were
gone in 60 seconds when they
went on preorder in June.
MORE , PLEASE In June the
brand announced a new
Adidas/West line, expected
in dedicated storefronts
in 2017.
L.I.
BJRN GULDEN
MAT VLASIC
WHY HE MATTERS He gave
WHY HE MATTERS Selena

Gomez, Justin Bieber and
Kanye West dont sell merch
without his blessing.
Chief marketing officer, Calvin Klein
CEO, Puma
Rihanna her own line, now

sneaker sales have spiked
40 percent stateside.
A GLAM GAMBLE When
RiRi, who has no formal
design training, was named
womens creative director
in 2014 in a deal reportedly
worth seven figures, there
were skeptics. But the
German sportswear brands
bet, orchestrated by Gulden,
51, has more than paid off:
Not only has the pop artist
elevated Pumas image with
a street-goth-centric Fenty
x Puma runway show in
February, sales reached about
$1.8 billion in the first half of
the year, driven in part by the
artists kicks and furry slides.
NEXT BET Gulden has more
music ties lined up with
Rae Sremmurd appearing
in ads this fall. Says the
duos Slim Jxmmi, We rock
Puma, [everyones] going to
rock Puma.
L.I.
Director of icon collaborations, Adidas
CEO, Bravado
FASHIONISTAS NEW FAVE
Joining music merchandiser

Bravado from Sony in March,
Vlasic, 37, has been a driving
force in bringing fashionforward concert merch to
the masses. Justin Biebers
Purpose Tour inspired a
Barneys New York capsule
collection (with a 64 percent
sell-through in its first week),
while 21 simultaneous global
pop-ups peddling Wests Life
of Pablo line were launched by
the Universal Music Groupowned company in August.
Theyre all different people,
so we want to find the product,
the connection to fans and
provide that, says Vlasic.
INDUSTRY ROOTS Vlasics
mom is Marsha Vlasic,
music agent for Neil Young
and Iggy Pop, who attended
Vlasics bar mitzvah.
A.G.
THE CURATORS
MEL OTTENBERG
Stylist; fashion director, 032c magazine
From cheeky (cowgirl couture, yall!) to grunge to glamorous, Billboard presents

sartorial highlights of the last year thanks to these artists and their bold choices
WHY HE MATTERS
RIHANNA
HAS A
RAVENOUS
APPETITE
FOR
FASHION.
OTTENBERG
RIHANNA
G iuseppe Zanot ti
The style icon in the boots that were

three months in the making
ADELE
Burberry
A single tour gown (10 versions are

rotated) evolved from a pre-fall look
He helps Rihanna live on

fashions edge.
THE ULTIMATE TRENDSETTER
A style icon can, with a single

photograph, move a labels
entire inventory as Rihanna
did when she donned a pair
of $8,895 Dolce & Gabbana
headphones this year. No
wonder, then, that brands
from Dior to MAC Cosmetics
to Puma want to work with
the 28-year-old singer and
her stylist of five years, whose
biggest challenge is delivering
new ideas. Rihanna has
a ravenous appetite for
fashion, says Ottenberg, 40,
who counts her crystal Adam
Selman dress from the 2014
CFDA Fashion Awards and
her looks at the MTV Video
Music Awards in August as
favorite style moments.
GOOD PROBLEM I try to push
things forward, because this
girl has already worn a million
amazing outfits.
L.I.
JULIE ANNE QUAY

Founder, VFiles
RIHANNA
Alexandre Vauthier
ZAYN
Versace
K AT Y PERRY
Jeremy Scot t
Stylist Mel Ottenberg chose this

couture gown for her VMAs finale
For his first Met Gala, the former

1D-er donned a custom Versace look
The star rocked Scotts western-chic

fall collection at the ACM Awards
CELINE DION
Of f-White
FLORENCE WELCH
G ucci
JUSTIN BIEBER
Fear of G od
In Paris, Dion wowed in a dramatic

leather trench by Virgil Abloh
The Met Gala sequined gown

featured a howling wolf on the back
For Biebers tour, stylist Karla Welch

selected designs by Jerry Lorenzo
WHY SHE MATTERS Editorturned-entrepreneur who

knows what music stars
and the kids want.
STARTS WITH MUSIC For the
founder of millennial-favorite
multichannel fashion-retail
platform VFiles, music has
been a central tenet since the
beginning, when ASAP Rocky
performed at her companys
launch in 2012. Initially an
online hub, VFiles now has
a brick-and-mortar store in
Manhattan and opened a
showroom-meets-incubator
space in 2015. Quay, a
former magazine editor, has
brought designs by Melitta
Baumeister and Hyein Seo
first to artists like Rihanna
and Katy Perry (our biggest
customer, she says).
FULL CIRCLE This fall, Quay
launches a record label. The
more we can enable kids to
create music and fashion, to
connect with each other
thats our goal.
C.G.
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Music Stars 2016 Fashion Statements
ARGUABLY ONE OF THE
Karla Welch
More than a stylist, the Bieber collaborator
helped oversee one of the retail worlds most
buzzed-about high-end capsules
Photographed by Austin Hargrave on Aug.24 at her studio
in Los Angeles. Welch wears an Isabel Marant sweater,
Celine pants and Dior earrings.
years biggest comebacks,

Justin Biebers return to music
was complemented by a new
look carefully constructed by
Welch. The stylist also took
his aesthetic (think long tees
and copious flannel) directly to
consumers through blockbuster
deals with Barneys New York
and Forever 21, brokered by
Biebers manager Scooter
Braun and Bravados Mat Vlasic
(see story, page 43).
Working with Fear of God
designer Jerry Lorenzo, Welch
helped cultivate Biebers
30-piece capsule collection
a direct reflection of his
Purpose Tour wardrobe for
Barneys in July. Signatures
including tees emblazoned
with Marilyn Mansons face
($195) and drawstring-waist
kilts ($840) marked the
retailers first foray into music
merchandise, and Welch sees
it as an innovation not just in
music style but in outreach
to fans. Jerry and I worked
on all the tour clothes, and
as a natural extension Justin
wanted everything to trickle
down to the show experience,
says Welch, 41. A more
modestly priced Forever 21
line followed in August.
Despite having worked
with an enviable roster of
Hollywood talents (Olivia
Wilde and Amy Poehler among
them), the Laurel Canyonbased stylist maintains a
steady presence in music: She
dressed Lorde in Valentino for
the Met Gala in May, Pink for
her Just Like Fire video and
co-directed Little Big Town for
its Girl Crush clip with her
husband, Matthew Welch.
But with Bieber, a fellow
Canadian with whom Welch
has worked for four years,
she has found a real, true
muse, she says. Hes a real
collaborator.
A.G.
NEXT WAVE
OFIA RICHIE MODEL, ASPIRING
designer and singer, and 17-year-old

daughter of Lionel is 36 hours away
from adulthood. Freedom! she
exclaims. To celebrate, there will be
a birthday party at a club and she will
be embarking on a romantic trip to
Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, with Justin
Bieber. Post-festivities, shes moving out of her dads
Beverly Hills home Its time to go! She has plenty
of ideas about the direction she is headed, though
that hasnt stopped her dad from slyly trying to help
steer. One night he intercoms me, like, Come have
dinner in the studio, recalls Sofia, whose mother
is Diane Alexander, a former dancer and fashion
designer (she and Richie divorced in 2004). So I go
down and its my dad and Pharrell Williams. Im like,
I cant just sit here and casually have a dinner with
you two! Im so sorry, Ive got to go back upstairs.
Curled up in a Rolls-Royce on a steamy day in
Los Angeles, Sofia looks more like a laid-back teen
than budding multihyphenate. But as a quick scan
of the youngest Richies rsum reveals, her father
neednt worry about her career drive. As a model,
Sofia already has appeared in the pages of Elle,
Vogue China and Vanity Fair Italy, and in 2015 she
was the face of Madonnas teen line, Material Girl.
Sofia dreams of debuting her own collection of
ready-to-wear, an extension of my personal style:
trenches, high-waisted pants, pantsuits, silks, she
says. I love modeling because I get to see everything that inspires me. Then I go home and sketch.
Growing up in the Richie household, creativity
was a way of life: Her dad began teaching her to sing
at 5 and play piano at 7 (We both play by ear, says
Sofia), even bringing her onstage for the occasional
duet. At 14, she started daily lessons with Beyonc
vocal coach Tim Carter and logged studio time with
her brother-in-law, Good Charlottes Joel Madden.
It was the best I could have asked for, but there was
too much pressure, she says. Everyone had their
own idea of what my music should sound like, and I
just wanted to be an individual. I stepped back and
said, I need to re-evaluate this.
Thats a perspective Richie can appreciate. Sofia
is an old soul, says Lionel. When she starts talking about her life, her music, her style, its definite
she has been here before. She is very clear about
who she is and what she wants. That confidence,
and older sister Nicoles example, has helped her
navigate the less glamorous aspects of fame, like the
online bullying that recently drove Bieber to close his
Instagram account. I remember the paparazzi and
the shit people would say to Nicole, and she wouldnt
respond, says Sofia. Im going to be real with you: It.
Doesnt. Bother. Me. As long as Im happy.
At the moment, she is. Richie is elated that shes
gracing the pages of Billboard like her pops has (I look
up to him, so that means a lot). Of Bieber, she says,
We have a special relationship. Justin is very easy
to talk to, and thats hard to find with people in Los
Angeles. Meanwhile, her expertise is needed at home.
My dad can leave the house looking a little crazy, she
says with a laugh. I have to tell him to change. C.M.
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Sofia Richie
Major modeling gigs are just the beginning for the
ambitious daughter of Lionel (and Bieber flame)
Photographed by Eric Ray Davidson on Aug.22 in Sunland, Calif.

Styling by Jordan Grossman. Richie wears a Sergio Hudson top and
pants, Charlotte Olympia shoes and Cartier bracelets.
NEXT WAVE
Rae Sremmurd
For hip-hops hardest-partying duo
(and Pumas newest ambassador), true swagger
means modeling positivity
Photographed by Eric Ray Davidson on Aug.22 in Sunland, Calif.
Styling by Olori Swank. Swae Lee (left) wears a Gucci shirt and shoes
and Hudson Jeans. Slim Jxmmi wears a KTZ sweatshirt and pants,
Givenchy sandals, Puma socks and Gucci goggles.
4 8 B I LLBOARD | DATE X X , 201 6
NEXT WAVE
1
chanting, cartoon-voiced proteges of producer Mike

Will Made It attaining anything like a grown-man sound,
sweltering Wednesday, Rae
they have taken a big step in that direction with second
Sremmurds rented Encino,
album SremmLife 2, which debuted at No. 7 on the
Calif., home is still. A large
Billboard 200 in September. Coolly sophisticated songs
breakfast takeout order
like Do Yoga and Black Beatles suggest the party is
remains mostly untouched
not over it just moved to the penthouse. Along with
on the dining room table.
Swaes writing credit this year on the highest-debuting
Empty Hennessy bottles
single of Beyoncs career, Formation, it should hush
line one side of the kitchen sink, while on the other, fresh
the rap purists who dismissed the brothers music as
pineapples wait to be hurled from the stage, one of the
junk food. People were saying, Oh, they only make
groups trademarks. Eventually, Swae Lee, 23, and his
party music, says Swae. So we gave them this to show
brother, Slim Jxmmi (pronounced Jimmy), 24, emerge
them we can do everything.
from within the house, their eyes sleepy from morning
Because their mother was in the army, Jxmmi and Swae
weed-smoking sessions and their demeanors polite, in
(born Aaquil and Khalif Brown, respectively) lived all over
keeping with their Mississippi upbringing.
before settling in Tupelo, Miss. They brought the dance
Rae Sremmurd Pumas latest brand ambassador and
style known as jigging with them from a stint in Texas,
hip-hops leading party-starter since 2014, when No
and choreographed routines as Dem Outta St8 Boyz.
Flex Zone reached No. 36 on the Billboard Hot 100
While Swae was cool with
everybody, Jxmmi says he
was introverted. Still, he burst
to life when it came to music.
In sixth grade, he picked
up the baritone saxophone,
joined the marching band and
learned to read music. He says
it kept him out of trouble, and
both boys excelled in school.
They worked restaurant jobs
and never smoked or drank
until they were 18. Jxmmi
even enrolled in college.
Still, their drive ultimately
meant disobeying their
mother to play gigs in other
cities, and they finally left
home to live in an abandoned
house. It had electricity,
so they could cook, but no
heat. I had to deal with a
lot of shit, and I didnt let it
stop me, says Jxmmi. Their
Rae Sremmurd worked, says Jxmmi (right). I didnt think it would. Swae (left)
success, he adds, sounds
wears a Gucci coat and belt, D-Squared pants, Versace shoes and Cartier sunglasses.
like a fairy tale. It is a fairy
Jxmmi wears a Gucci jacket and belt, Hudson pants and Puma boxers.
tale. According to Swae: We
never put our heads down like, Who can we turn to?
was also raised with an instinct for practicality. Or so
If Rae Sremmurd wanted to answer its critics by
Jxmmis attitude toward dressing fashionably suggests:
making lyrical rap full of hard-knock stories, it could
Im a straight country boy, he says, sinking back into a
have. But the duo chose optimism. It even says in the
sofa. I put the Balmains on Monday, Im going to wear
Bible [that] what you say is what you bring onto you in
them till the next Monday. They cost $500 they was
your life. Were talking about positive stuff or things we
meant to be worn!
want. Not, Oh, Im the hardest out, bang bang, says
Thats how you know you fresh, adds Swae. Save
Jxmmi. Nobody expecting guns they just expect to
on water dont have to wash so much.
have a good time and see girls shaking their butts.
They may not be fitted in hat-to-loafer designer pieces
A performance in Memphis led the brothers to BETs
like Future or dripping in futuristic rags like Kanye West,
amateur competition Wild-Out Wednesday, which
but, today at least, Rae Sremmurd is sporting a more
snagged them label meetings in New York. Eventually, they
mature look than the flight goggles and cotton candymet Mike Will in Atlanta and he signed them to his imprint,
colored furs the pair is known for: slim pants in sensible
Ear Drummers, in early 2014. Since then, even naysayers,
material and a T-shirt for Jxmmi, accented with flowery
like WQHT (Hot 97) New York morning-show co-host Ebro
Gucci slides, and a white tank top for Swae, paired with a
Darden, cant deny they have been on a winning streak. A
Gucci lion belt buckle. One day Ill be wearing vintage,
lot of artists are scared to say, I like to do regular stuff,
looking Will Smith, says Swae. But I might just come one
says Jxmmi. They want to be hard, be the alpha male. Not
day in YSL boots and a D&G shirt. Whatever feels good.
us. We just want to have a good life.
Meanwhile, though it may be hard to imagine the
REBECCA HAITHCOAT
ELL PAST NOON ON A
8Inside the Soho store. 9He has

made fashion more accessible for
young people and those who wouldnt
be considered as sophisticated, said
Alexandre dAquino, 14, a student and
Brooklyn native. 10Tarnue Seepah,
14, a student from Staten Island,
called West a genius. He waited an
hour with the hopes of buying a black
cap. 11Tara Gupta, 21, a Minneapolis
native who cites The College Dropout
as her favorite West album, had her
eyes on the white
NEW YORK Pablo crewneck.
THE GAME-CHANGER
5
Kanye West
West (center) at his New York show

and album premiere in February.
LONDON
1Shoppers posed in
front of the stores
signage. 2His music and fashion
go hand in hand, said Jenny
Betchley, 22, a fashion design
student. His brand is so strong, its
going to be in the history books.
3Student Hessa Aldeghaither, 18,
said, I like his music, but I like his
fashion more. His use of colors
you dont see anyone using greens
and whites the way he does.
SCENES
FROM
3 PABLO
POP-UPS
On the weekend of Aug. 20, Billboard

visited a trio of swag-stuffed shops for a firsthand look at how West is shaping youth culture
Photographed by Jessica Chou in Los Angeles,

Meron Menghistab in New York and Josphine Oeding in London.
LOS ANGELES
10
11
HE HAS
MADE
FASHION
MORE
ACCESSIBLE FOR
YOUNG
PEOPLE.
DAQUINO,
KANYE WEST
FAN
4Hiroto
Hiroto Yoshinaga, 24, a drummer
from Japan, waited in line
overnight to enter the pop-up. 5Benjamin
Benjamin Teitell, 14, got
in line at 5:40 a.m. I didnt really come for Kanyes gear,
he said. I came for the experience to see the store and
whats going on. 6Kanye
Kanye is the number one guy when
it comes to fashion; he sets trends, said Jessica Rich,
28, a clothing designer from Michigan. 7Rashad
Rashad Hall,
28, waited for seven hours to purchase a Pablo hat.
F YOURE GOING TO BE AN ARTIST, YOU GOT TO DO WHATS IN YOUR
heart: Fight for your dream, declared Kanye West in February to an audience
of 20,000 that included editors, fans, celebrities and a Balmain-clad row
of Kardashians at Madison Square Garden in New York. The occasion was
two-fold: part listening party for the 39-year-olds seventh studio album,
The Life of Pablo, and part fashion show for his Yeezy Season 3 collection for
Adidas. The production not only proved to be one of Fashion Weekss largestscale events (Season 4 debuted Sept. 7),
), it marked the first
time laypeople, and not just industry insiders, could buy tickets
for a fashion show (they started at $50). Music and fashion have
always had a symbiotic relationship for West, and his success in
bringing fans into the equation led Adidas to double down on its
investment, launching a new partnership in July called Adidas/
West that the company says is the most significant partnership
ever created between an athletic brand and a nonathlete. Adidas
Adidas Yeezy Boost
plans to open new stores dedicated solely to the line, building on
750 in light gray
the success of cult-favorite shoe the Yeezy Boost 750, which continues
to garner four figures on secondary markets. He really is a needle-mover at this point,
says Allison Kaye of Scooter Braun Projects, the management company that brokered the
Adidas/West deal. And while some might call Wests claim as the most impactful artist
of our generation arrogant, lines for the 21 international Life of Pablo merch pop-ups
where the photos on this page were taken made the impact of his creative vision
overwhelmingly apparent.
A.G.
Additional reporting by Dahvi Shira and Sam Rubenstein.
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ARTIST
114
24
19
19
18
CHARLIE PUTH
COLUMBIA
16
10
14
19
MEGHAN TRAINOR
114
36
36
17
17
20
COLDPLAY
FUELED BY RAMEN/AG
72
19
19
21
21
21
MAJOR LAZER
RCA
21
21
20
20
22
DAYA
110
16
15
23
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
REPUBLIC NASHVILLE/BMLG
PEAK WKS. ON
POS. CHART
10
75
EPIC
112
PARLOPHONE/ATLANTIC/AG
78
MAD DECENT/DEF JAM
12
30
ARTBEATZ
20
42
RCA
68
WARNER BROS.
31
WE THE BEST/EPIC
14
MAD LOVE/INTERSCOPE/IGA
32
G.O.O.D./DEF JAM
64
ARTIST PARTNERS GROUP/ATLANTIC/AG
11
22
DRAKE
TWENTY ONE PILOTS
79
79
BRITNEY SPEARS
RIHANNA
55
55
THE CHAINSMOKERS
DISRUPTOR/COLUMBIA
40
33
33
29
29
24
LUKAS GRAHAM
13
13
13
BEYONCE
PARKWOOD/COLUMBIA
112
12
16
25
DJ KHALED
66
ARIANA GRANDE
REPUBLIC
112
57
57
99
26
TORY LANEZ
44
10
ADELE
XL/COLUMBIA
83
30
41
27
KANYE WEST
11
11
FRANK OCEAN
BOYS DONT CRY
38
42
28
G-EAZY
G-EAZY/RVG/BPG/RCA
44
10
12
JUSTIN BIEBER
SCHOOLBOY/RAYMOND BRAUN/DEF JAM
113
32
34
29
FUTURE
A-1/FREEBANDZ/EPIC
59
77
88
13
SHAWN MENDES
ISLAND
82
RE-ENTRY
14
YOUNG THUG
300/ATLANTIC/AG
14
42
RE-ENTRY
15
JUAN GABRIEL
FONOVISA/UMLE
15
MONKEY PUZZLE/RCA
114
ASTRALWERKS
41
17
17
25
30
SELENA GOMEZ
INTERSCOPE/IGA
101
23
23
28
31
CALVIN HARRIS
FLY EYE/COLUMBIA
81
26
24
32
P!NK
RCA
16
38
44
40
40
33
DJ SNAKE
DJ SNAKE/INTERSCOPE/IGA
16
68
28
26
34
TAYLOR SWIFT
110
14
12
12
16
SIA
29
23
17
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Beyonc returns to the top 10 of the

Artist 100, sparked by gains of 158
and 99percent in digital song and
album sales, respectively, following
her performance and eight wins at the
MTV Video Music Awards on Aug.28
upping her to a record 24 career
Moonmen. See page 3 for more VMAsrelated chart jumps.
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2016
NO. 8
Beyonc
PROMOTION
THE PATCH CORNER

#HOLLYWOODPATCH
By Nick Williams
Photographed by Amelia Halverson
Nathan Sykes, 23, has risen from the

ashes of boy band fame to propel himself
as one of this years buzziest new artists.
Formerly one-fifth of the defunct U.K. act
The Wanted, hes now a certified solo pop
upstart all his own, and on the heels
of massive collaborations alongside his
former flame Ariana Grande (Over and
Over Again) and of-the-moment mc
G-Eazy (Give It Up) hes readying the
release of his aptly titled solo debut LP,
Unfinished Business , set to arrive No. 4 on
Global Entertainment.
I didnt want to just be known as that
guy from the band that took a break
at the age of 20 and no one ever saw
again, he tells Billboard of his solo
ambitions during his stay at The Patch in
Brooklyn one of two houses developed
by SOUR PATCH KIDS to support touring
artists. I had more to do, I had more to
say, I had more songs to write, and I had
more to give as an artist.
Linking up with executive producer
Harmony Samuels, the duo worked
together to hone Sykes brassy modern
pop sound, fused with elements of funk,
blues and soul. When I got into the
studio, for the first time Im asking myself,
Who am I as an artist? Not Who is

Nathan from The Wanted? he said.
It was an amazing process. We wrote
songs that really gave me an identity
as an artist, and being able to drive
that was an experience Ill never be
able to forget.
But The Wanteds nosedive wasnt the
young singers only obstacle in his
pursuit of solo pop stardom. In 2013,
Sykes suffered a near career-ending
vocal hemorrhage, forcing him to
undergo emergency vocal cord surgery
a situation that has also plagued
fellow chart-toppers Adele, John Mayer
and Meghan Trainor. And as if the
experience wasnt traumatic enough
it was also documented on The
Wanteds E! reality series The Wanted
Life. [The surgery] was on my 19th
birthday, and it was a really scary time,
he recalls. I had to be sat down and
told, If this doesnt go well, you wont
sing again. This was before we even
decided to take a break, so Im being
looked at like, If it doesnt go well, hes
going to be out of the band, hes going
to be dropped by the label.
After the groups split in early 2014, he
stayed positive and continued on his
path to recovery with a back-to-basics
approach, teaching himself through
vocal rehabilitation how to use his

voice to its full capacity. Im a big
believer that everything happens for
a reason and if that surgery didnt
happen, I wouldnt be onstage today
singing the way that I sing. I wouldnt
have written the album that Ive written
and I wouldnt be able to sing the notes
that I sing. The control, the technique
it wasnt there, he says. Its really
intense the way that I sing now, and
I use the whole range of my voice. Its
allowed me to develop that.
Today, Sykes is flourishing he
performed at Billboards second
Hot 100 Music Festival at the Nikon at
Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, N.Y.
on Aug. 20, sponsored by The Patch,
and has dates supporting fellow

buzz kid Alessia Cara set for the fall.
The biggest difference between
doing shows as a solo artist and
doing shows as a band is when I
was in The Wanted youre singing
one out of five lines but now the
focus is all on me, he tells Billboard .
If I do a bad show, people are
going to walk away and go, Nathan
Sykes just did a bad show! With the
journey that Ive been on, Im very
fortunate. I have crazy goals and
things that I want to achieve, so Im
not going to stop until Ive achieved
them. And when I do achieve them,
Im going to keep going.
FGL Flies
To No. 1
leaps 18-1 on the Billboard
Artist 100, sparked by the
arrival of third LP Dig Your
Roots. The set launches
atop the Top Country
Albums chart (see page 61),
selling 126,000 copies in
its first week, according to
Nielsen Music.
The release is the third
leader on Top Country
Albums for the duo of Tyler
Hubbard and Brian Kelley,
and second to debut at
the summit. FGLs second
full-length, Anything Goes,
entered at No. 1 (Nov. 1,
2014) with 197,000 sold,
the pairs strongest sales
week to date, and spent
two weeks on top. First LP
Heres to the Good Times
bowed at No. 3 on Dec.
22, 2012 (63,000) and led
for 10 weeks beginning
June 29, 2013. It feels
so amazing to have the
No. 1 album, Hubbard
tells Billboard. Weve
poured our heart into this
project and to see the fans
react the way they have is
unbelievable.
FGL rules the Artist 100
(with 76 percent of its rank
from album sales) for the
first time in nearly two
years since the debut
chart week of Anything
Goes. The Artist 100
began in July 2014; since,
Zac Brown Band (May
16, 2015) is the only other
country duo or group to top
the tally.
On Hot Country Songs,
lead Dig Your Roots single
H.O.L.Y. reigns for an 18th
week (see pages 4 and
61) while follow-up May
We All (featuring Tim
McGraw) blasts 29-7. The
latter is FGLs 12th top 10
on the chart and McGraws
53rd.
Jim Asker
and Gary Trust
ARTIST
45
45
38
38
35
KIIARA
27
31
36
FIFTH HARMONY
15
22
37
BLAKE SHELTON
31
36
38
LUKE BRYAN
39
39
39
39
THE WEEKND
37
35
35
40
SAM HUNT
34
33
33
41
DESIIGNER
20
27
42
KATY PERRY
56
56
58
43
JASON ALDEAN
18
32
44
EMINEM
43
37
37
45
FETTY WAP
48
43
46
BRYSON TILLER
51
51
44
44
47
X AMBASSADORS
47
47
48
THOMAS RHETT
49
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99
56
71
JUSTIN MOORE
SYCO/EPIC
76
71
86
72
PRINCE
114
98
98
82
82
73
GNASH
CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN
114
91
91
74
74
74
D.R.A.M.
XO/REPUBLIC
99
35
35
52
75
ERIC CHURCH
MCA NASHVILLE/UMGN
112
11
11
76
LINDSEY STIRLING
G.O.O.D./DEF JAM
25
76
76
77
JAKE OWEN
CAPITOL
114
90
78
TIM MCGRAW
BROKEN BOW/BBMG
106
WEB/SHADY/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/IGA
11
114
RGF/300/AG
82
TRAPSOUL/RCA
10
49
KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE/IGA
21
62
VALORY/BMLG
83
AOI/KOBALT
49
77
70
70
79
ED SHEERAN
BLACKENED/WARNER BROS.
22
64
67
66
80
IMAGINE DRAGONS
10
100
93
93
77
77
81
USHER
RCA
114
22
22
64
82
RAE SREMMURD
BREAD WINNERS ASSOCIATION/ATLANTIC/AG
36
85
69
69
83
MIRANDA LAMBERT
MERCURY NASHVILLE/UMGN
45
62
62
60
60
84
DAN + SHAY
61
74
63
63
85
MIKE POSNER
34
14
73
72
86
MAROON 5
222/INTERSCOPE/IGA
84
81
81
87
SEAN PAUL
88
GLASS ANIMALS
89
JAMES BAY
RE-ENTRY
90
NICK JONAS
46
46
91
DOLLY PARTON
85
85
92
LIL YACHTY
RE-ENTRY
93
DEMI LOVATO
90
90
94
KEHLANI
95
CNCO
30
30
50
METALLICA
64
64
48
48
51
COLE SWINDELL
70
70
95
52
CHRIS BROWN
41
41
45
53
KEVIN GATES
52
52
49
49
54
CHRIS STAPLETON
49
49
50
55
DIERKS BENTLEY
54
54
53
56
FLUME
60
60
51
51
57
KELSEA BALLERINI
BLACK RIVER
51
33
63
75
58
MICHAEL JACKSON
MJJ/EPIC
25
88
NEW
82
83
78
78
NPG/WARNER BROS.
22
:):/AG
73
74
EMI NASHVILLE/UMGN
113
LINDSEYSTOMP
11
RCA NASHVILLE/SMN
13
17
MCGRAW/BIG MACHINE/BMLG
10
91
ATLANTIC/AG
114
98
35
47
78
RCA NASHVILLE/SMN
18
44
17
19
ISLAND
15
31
114
VP/ATLANTIC/AG
60
10
WOLF TONE/HARVEST
88
REPUBLIC
34
32
81
DOLLY/RCA NASHVILLE/SMN
46
LIL BOAT SAILING TEAM/QUALITY CONTROL/MOTOWN/CAPITOL
85
81
TSUNAMI MOB/ATLANTIC/AG
78
SONY MUSIC LATIN
95
RCA NASHVILLE/SMN
29
44
22
10
105
POLYDOR/INTERSCOPE/IGA
89
POE BOY/ATLANTIC/AG
11
75
RCA
111
REPUBLIC
21
38
96
96
96
OLD DOMINION
HIT RED/CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN
75
86
86
97
97
THE LUMINEERS
104
RE-ENTRY
98
BRUNO MARS
63
13
87
55
101
ATLANTIC/AG
36
27
EP/DEF JAM
15
52
DCD2/FUELED BY RAMEN/AG
45
68
68
99
ELLIE GOULDING
JOHN VARVATOS/SOUTHERN GROUND/BMLG/REPUBLIC
100
RE-ENTRY
100
FLO RIDA
59
WIZ KHALIFA
55
57
60
DNCE
58
58
62
61
KEITH URBAN
RE-ENTRY
62
NICKI MINAJ
RE-ENTRY
63
INGRID MICHAELSON
80
80
67
67
64
KENNY CHESNEY
61
61
55
55
65
LIL UZI VERT
66
61
61
66
CARRIE UNDERWOOD
67
TY DOLLA $IGN
CABIN 24
BLUE CHAIR/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE/SMN
GENERATION NOW/ATLANTIC/AG
93
93
68
ALESSIA CARA
46
59
69
PANIC! AT THE DISCO
75
75
65
65
70
ZAC BROWN BAND
19/ARISTA NASHVILLE/SMN
NEW
EARDRUMMER/INTERSCOPE/IGA
SAFEHOUSE/ISLAND
54
54
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VALORY/BMLG
ROSTRUM/ATLANTIC/AG
59
59
ATLANTIC/AG
40
40
RE-ENTRY
ARTIST
SAFEHOUSE/ISLAND/HOLLYWOOD
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ATLANTIC/AG
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Dig Your Roots
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BLINK-182
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BRITNEY SPEARS
Glory
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53
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BMLG
RCA
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BEYONCE
Lemonade
PARKWOOD/COLUMBIA
88
YOUNG THUG
99
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10
TWENTY ONE PILOTS
11
ADELE 8
NEW
NEW
8
JEFFERY
300/ATLANTIC/AG
ANTI
1
8
1
19
1
32
29
43
25
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POS.
WKS. ON
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Cry Baby
55
California
Everybody Looking
THOMAS RHETT
Tangled Up
49
55
COLE SWINDELL
You Should Be Here
17
56
56
JUAN GABRIEL
Los Duo 2
56
57
JUSTIN MOORE
Kinda Dont Care
58
SCHOOLBOY Q
Blank Face LP
59
PARTYNEXTDOOR PARTYNEXTDOOR 3 (P3)
91
ATLANTIC/AG
VIKING WIZARD EYES/BMG
GUWOP/ATLANTIC/AG
VALORY/BMLG
FONOVISA/UMLE
VALORY/BMLG
TOP DAWG/INTERSCOPE/IGA
Blurryface
68
55
60
J. COLE
25
41
51
61
PANIC! AT THE DISCO 0
Death Of A Bachelor
33
12
12
DE LA SOUL and the ANONYMOUS NOBODY
12
NEW
62
62
CARLY RAE JEPSEN
E*MO*TION: Side B
62
13
DJ KHALED
Major Key
64
63
DRAKE & FUTURE What A Time To Be Alive

A-1/FREEBANDZ/YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/EPIC/REPUBLIC
50
15
14
14
ARIANA GRANDE Dangerous Woman
15
62
64
LUKE BRYAN
Kill The Lights
56
10
15
ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST Hamilton: An American Musical
49
73
65
65
DRAKE 4
Take Care
183
16
TORY LANEZ
66
DRAKE 2 If Youre Reading This Its Too Late
82
17
CHRIS STAPLETON
67
FUTURE
EVOL
30
18
DJ SNAKE
68
DAYA
Daya (EP)
61
43
NEW
19
19
INGRID MICHAELSON It Doesnt Have To Make Sense

CABIN 24
19
74
69
GNASH
us
58
20
NEW
20
20
GLASS ANIMALS How To Be A Human Being
20
71
70
VARIOUS ARTISTS
Epic AF
11
24
21
21
KANYE WEST
The Life Of Pablo
22
60
71
EMINEM a
The Eminem Show
283
16
22
SIA
This Is Acting
31
67
72
X AMBASSADORS 0
VHS
62
20
23
COLDPLAY 0
A Head Full Of Dreams
39
66
73
FETTY WAP
Fetty Wap
49
19
24
BRYSON TILLER
74
DIERKS BENTLEY
Black
14
25
VARIOUS ARTISTS
NOW 59
75
SELENA GOMEZ 0
Revival
47
26
CHARLIE PUTH 0
Nine Track Mind
76
EAGLES t
Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975
206
27
MEGHAN TRAINOR
77
77
MICHAEL SWEET
One Sided War
77
NEW
28
28
JUAN GABRIEL Mis Numero 1... 40 Aniversario
28
90
78
78
ALESSIA CARA 0
Know-It-All
42
23
29
KEVIN GATES 0
Islah
31
46
79
SKILLET
Unleashed
33
30
30
CHANCE THE RAPPER
Coloring Book
16
68
80
THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G.
Greatest Hits
66
48
31
31
LUKAS GRAHAM
Lukas Graham
22
54
81
LOGIC
Bobby Tarantino
12
37
32
32
G-EAZY
When Its Dark Out
39
79
82
THE LUMINEERS
Cleopatra
21
26
33
JUSTIN BIEBER 3
83
HILLARY SCOTT & THE SCOTT FAMILY
Love Remains
34
DOLLY PARTON
84
84
PROPHETS OF RAGE
35
VARIOUS ARTISTS
85
ED SHEERAN 4
36
36
HALSEY 0
22
37
BLAKE SHELTON
31
38
TWENTY ONE PILOTS
NEW
39
39
CNCO
39
40
FLUME
38
41
SAM HUNT 2
42
THE WEEKND 3 Beauty Behind The Madness
43
FIFTH HARMONY
44
LINDSEY STIRLING
45
45
FUTURE
28
46
RAE SREMMURD
47
47
KIIARA
53
48
KEITH URBAN
50
NEW
4
14
17
12
18
11
36
42
41
32
5
56
FUELED BY RAMEN/AG
XL/COLUMBIA
AOI/KOBALT
WE THE BEST/EPIC
PS
REPUBLIC
HAMILTON UPTOWN/ATLANTIC/AG
I Told You
Traveller
Encore
WOLF TONE/HARVEST
G.O.O.D./DEF JAM
MONKEY PUZZLE/RCA
TRAPSOUL
TRAPSOUL/RCA
UNIVERSAL/SONY MUSIC/LEGACY
Thank You
EPIC
SONY MUSIC LATIN
CHANCE THE RAPPER
WARNER BROS.
G-EAZY/RVG/BPG/RCA
Pure & Simple
The RCA-List
RCA
ASTRALWERKS
FUELED BY RAMEN/AG
SONY MUSIC LATIN
MCA NASHVILLE/UMGN
Purpose
LINDSEYSTOMP
1
8
8
5
6
3
1
11
35
2
51
4
49
4
31
16
42
2
3
65
72
61
59
70
35
NEW
76
NEW
81
DREAMVILLE/ROC NATION/COLUMBIA
604/SCHOOLBOY/INTERSCOPE/IGA
A-1/FREEBANDZ/EPIC
ARTBEATZ
:):/AG
EPIC
WEB/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/UME
RGF/300/AG
INTERSCOPE/IGA
ASYLUM/ELEKTRA/RHINO
RAT PAK
EP/DEF JAM
HEAR IT LOUD/ATLANTIC/AG
BAD BOY/RHINO
DEF JAM
DUALTONE
HST/EMI NASHVILLE/UMGN
PROPHETS OF RAGE
47
21
289
Los Duo
25
The Perfect LUV Tape
68
The First Time
31
59
Nothing Was The Same
27
86
15
84
87
ADELE b
Vessel
21
107
RE
88
88
JUAN GABRIEL
Primera Cita
39
78
89
LIL UZI VERT
Skin
14
75
90
KELSEA BALLERINI
Montevallo
97
89
91
DRAKE 3
92
CARRIE UNDERWOOD 0
93
93
BEYONCE 2
94
21 SAVAGE & METRO BOOMIN
7/27
Brave Enough
1
4
5
53
14
2
88
106
DEF JAM
XL/COLUMBIA
FONOVISA/UMLE
BLACK RIVER
PARKWOOD/COLUMBIA
45
Beyonce
138
Savage Mode
44
394
Meat And Candy
16
43
97
KENDRICK LAMAR good kid, m.A.A.d city
201
86
98
KIDZ BOP KIDS
Kidz Bop 32
83
99
DISTURBED
Immortalized
54
87
100
QUEEN 2 Greatest Hits I II & III: The Platinum Collection
48
53
SLAUGHTER GANG
94
96
OLD DOMINION
Low Kii Savage (EP)
47
21
96
Ripcord
17
49
D.R.A.M. Google Play: Live At The Milk Jamroom (EP)
49
50
50
VINCE STAPLES
50
Prima Donna (EP)
151
Metallica
93
95
W.A.V.E. RECORDINGS/ATLANTIC/AG
Storyteller
82
53
59
ARTIUM/DEF JAM
115
Channel Orange
If Im Honest
Sremmlife 2
ATLANTIC/AG
FRANK OCEAN 0
METALLICA g
84
ATLANTIC/AG
DS2
A-1/FREEBANDZ/EPIC
The Partys Over (EP)
Badlands
XO/REPUBLIC
SYCO/EPIC
2014 Forest Hills Drive
RCA NASHVILLE/SMN
TOP DAWG/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/IGA
KIDZ BOP/RAZOR & TIE/CONCORD
REPRISE/WARNER BROS.
HOLLYWOOD
Babs 11th
No. 1
Barbra Streisand
achieves her 11th No. 1
album on the Billboard
200 as her latest release,
Encore: Movie Partners
Sing Broadway, enters atop
the list. Her newest charttopper extends her record
for the most No. 1 albums
among women, and ties her
with Bruce Springsteen
for the third-most among
all acts. The only artists
with more No. 1s are The
Beatles, with a record 19
leaders, and Jay Z, with 13.
Among women, Streisand
outpaces Madonna, the
runner-up with eight No. 1s.
Encore arrived Aug.26
on Columbia Records
and starts with 149,000
equivalent album units
earned in the week ending
Sept. 1, according to
Nielsen Music. Thats a
stronger-than-expected
launch, as industry sources
forecast the album to start
at No. 2, behind Florida
Georgia Lines new Dig
Your Roots. Instead, the
latter enters at No. 2, with
145,000 units.
Streisand surpasses her
own record for the longest
span between No. 1s (set in
2014 with Partners). Encore
arrives 51 years, 10 months
and 17 days after her first
chart-topper, People, spent
its initial week at No. 1
(Oct.31, 1964). People ruled
the tally for five consecutive
weeks.
Nearly all of Encores firstweek unit total comprises
traditional album sales:
148,000. Of that figure,
physical album sales
(CDs and vinyl LPs) tallied
126,000 the largest sales
week for a physical album
in 2016. Physical sales
were bolstered by a deluxe
edition of the set sold at
Target, and a promotion
tied to the divas recent
concert tour in which
tickets purchased online
were bundled with an offer
for a CD copy of Encore.
Keith Caulfield
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2016
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124
101
DNCE
91
102
SHAWN MENDES
118
103
G-EAZY 0
NEW
104
JOSEPH
RE
105
PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION d
80
106
JOURNEY f
107
NICK JONAS
108
ERIC CHURCH
109
NIRVANA a
97
110
MAREN MORRIS
102
111
BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS f
101
112
EMINEM 2
99
113
TAYLOR SWIFT 5
85
114
FLEETWOOD MAC 8
109
115
132
77
92
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WEEK
THIS
WEEK
39
38
170
151
Handwritten
73
145
These Things Happen
112
104
Purple Rain (Soundtrack)
Journeys Greatest Hits
Swaay (EP)
REPUBLIC
ISLAND
G-EAZY/RVG/BPG/RCA
Im Alone, No Youre Not
ATO
NPG/WARNER BROS./RHINO
COLUMBIA/LEGACY
SAFEHOUSE/ISLAND
Last Year Was Complicated

Mr. Misunderstood
EMI NASHVILLE/UMGN
Nevermind
SUB POP/DGC/GEFFEN/UME
Title
PEAK
POS.
WKS. ON
CHART
FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE Anything Goes
99
152
EMINEM 3
Recovery
248
150
153
RAE SREMMURD
SremmLife
87
149
154
CARRIE UNDERWOOD
Greatest Hits: Decade #1
91
115
162
155
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL a
Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits
22
284
10
424
RE
156
FLEETWOOD MAC The Very Best Of Fleetwood Mac
12
64
157
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS 2
Greatest Hits
18
99
158
BLINK-182
Greatest Hits
39
159
ZAYN 0
Mind Of Mine
23
Damn Country Music
39
Dark Sky Paradise
80
Royalty
37
California Sunrise
11
11
2
2
1
12
44
334
156
159
146
BMLG
FANTASY/CONCORD
WARNER BROS.
GEFFEN/INTERSCOPE/UME
RCA
13
161
160
TIM MCGRAW
Legend: The Best Of...
433
166
161
BIG SEAN
Curtain Call: The Hits
305
171
162
CHRIS BROWN 0
1989
97
133
163
JON PARDI
Greatest Hits
14
134
153
164
MAJOR LAZER
Peace Is The Mission
12
65
LIL UZI VERT
Lil Uzi Vert Vs. The World
81
14
154
165
CHRIS YOUNG
Im Comin Over
42
116
FUTURISTIC
As Seen On The Internet
166
ONE DIRECTION
Made In The A.M.
42
117
TROYE SIVAN
167
KANYE WEST 2
Graduation
95
118
FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE 2 Heres To The Good Times
168
FLO RIDA
My House (EP)
14
74
108
119
BLAKE SHELTON
Groovy People (EP)
148
95
120
IMAGINE DRAGONS 2
126
121
111
140
130
127
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PEAK
POS.
Hero
NEW
Title
LAST
WEEK
COLUMBIA NASHVILLE/SMN
TUFF GONG/ISLAND/UME
SHADY/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/IGA
BIG MACHINE/BMLG
WARNER BROS.
WERE THE FUTURE RECORDS/THE R MUSIC GROUP
Blue Neighbourhood
CAPITOL
BMLG
116
7
4
1
39
192
151
184
167
MCGRAW/BIG MACHINE/BMLG
G.O.O.D./DEF JAM
RCA
MAD DECENT
RCA NASHVILLE/SMN
SYCO/COLUMBIA
ROC-A-FELLA/DEF JAM
POE BOY/ATLANTIC/AG
Reloaded: 20 #1 Hits
45
190
169
MARC E. BASSY
Night Visions
209
168
170
FALL OUT BOY American Beauty / American Psycho
85
NEEDTOBREATHE
HARD LOVE
185
171
BEYONCE 2
I Am...Sasha Fierce
125
122
DESIIGNER
New English
22
191
172
KANYE WEST My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
73
123
THE CHAINSMOKERS
Bouquet (EP)
31
43
194
173
A$AP ROCKY 0
AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP
65
124
LAUREN DAIGLE
How Can It Be
174
KYGO
Cloud Nine
11
15
125
SAM SMITH 2
175
THE WEEKND
Trilogy
131
126
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
176
SIMON & GARFUNKEL e
Simon And Garfunkels Greatest Hits
144
127
JEREMIH 0
177
LIL DICKY
Professional Rapper
44
NEW
128
JUAN GABRIEL Vestido de Etiqueta: Por Eduardo Magallanes
Ten
261
113
129
YG
The Very Best Of Prince
59
121
130
MEGHAN TRAINOR 2
113
107
131
GUNS N ROSES 5
Under Pressure
41
NEW
132
YOUNG DOLPH
Born Sinner
79
133
ZAC BROWN BAND
Unapologetic
66
134
ZAC BROWN BAND 0
1000 Forms Of Fear
108
135
THE 1975 I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It
Number Ones
67
129
136
THE BEATLES b
186
134
137
The Incredible True Story
42
135
American Love
114
119
100
116
112
105
128
ATLANTIC/AG
G.O.O.D./DEF JAM
DISRUPTOR/COLUMBIA
CENTRICITY/CAPITOL CMG
In The Lonely Hour
CAPITOL
WARNER BROS.
The Getaway
Late Nights: The Album
MICK SCHULTZ/DEF JAM
42
11
39
169
172
173
ROC-A-FELLA/DEF JAM
A$AP WORLDWIDE/POLO GROUNDS/RCA
ULTRA/RCA
XO/REPUBLIC
COLUMBIA/LEGACY
CMSN
192
178
Still Brazy
11
138
179
PRINCE
Title
86
196
180
LIL YACHTY
Greatest Hits
368
179
181
LOGIC
132
176
182
J. COLE
88
RE
183
RIHANNA 2
184
SIA 0
185
BEE GEES 0
Rich Crack Baby
PAPER ROUTE EMPIRE
116
98
MUSIC WORLD/COLUMBIA
128
EPIC
GEFFEN/UME
69
DCD2/ISLAND
PEARL JAM d
FONOVISA/UMLE
30
REPUBLIC
Greatest Hits So Far...
ROAR/SOUTHERN GROUND/ATLANTIC/AG
JEKYLL + HYDE
SOUTHERN GROUND/JOHN VARVATOS/BMLG/REPUBLIC
DIRTY HIT/INTERSCOPE/IGA
20
1
1
71
27
175
RE
EPIC/LEGACY
Lil Boat
VISIONARY/DEF JAM
ROC NATION/COLUMBIA
SRP/DEF JAM
MONKEY PUZZLE/RCA
REPRISE/WARNER STRATEGIC MARKETING/RHINO
240
NEW
186
BANKS & STEELZ
2PAC a
Greatest Hits
157
180
187
LOGIC
138
NICKI MINAJ 2
The Pinkprint
90
158
188
JAKE OWEN
178
139
JASON DERULO
Platinum Hits
83
188
189
MAROON 5
105
103
140
MICHAEL JACKSON 3 The Essential Michael Jackson
46
171
RE
190
JOHNNY CASH 2 The Legend Of Johnny Cash
237
131
141
JAMES BAY 0
15
76
187
191
TWENTY ONE PILOTS
141
13
142
KENDRICK LAMAR
192
RACHEL PLATTEN 0
Wildfire
35
143
BUTCH WALKER
Stay Gold
193
TY DOLLA $IGN
Free TC
14
37
144
LUKE BRYAN 2
Crash My Party
194
BRITNEY SPEARS
Greatest Hits: My Prerogative
34
137
145
EMINEM 2
Doo-Wops & Hooligans
290
120
146
MIKE POSNER
Back In Black
277
110
147
DAN + SHAY
Because The Internet
105
143
148
HOZIER
The Definition Of...
142
149
KALEO
Long.Live.A$AP
79
141
150
LANA DEL REY
Home Of The Strange
12
139
NEW
144
APPLE/CAPITOL/UME
AMARU/DEATH ROW/INTERSCOPE/UME
BELUGA HEIGHTS/WARNER BROS.
EPIC/LEGACY
Chaos And The Calm
REPUBLIC
To Pimp A Butterfly
DANGERBIRD
1
143
1
77
1
160
164
RE
RE
Anything But Words
WARNER BROS.
DEF JAM
RCA NASHVILLE/SMN
222/INTERSCOPE/IGA
COLUMBIA NASHVILLE/LEGACY/AMERICAN/ISLAND/UME
COLUMBIA
ATLANTIC/AG
JIVE/LEGACY
The Marshall Mathers LP 2
144
RE
195
BRUNO MARS 5
At Night, Alone.
12
17
RE
196
AC/DC
Obsessed
13
RE
197
CHILDISH GAMBINO 0
Hozier
100
147
198
FANTASIA
A/B
16
12
RE
199
A$AP ROCKY 0
Born To Die
240
157
200
YOUNG THE GIANT
ISLAND
RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA
ELEKTRA/ATLANTIC/AG
D a t a f o r w e e k o f 0 9 . 1 7. 2 0 1 6
twenty one pilots
TWENTY ONE PILOTS
ELEKTRA/AG
COLUMBIA/LEGACY
GLASSNOTE
19/RCA
A$AP WORLDWIDE/POLO GROUNDS/RCA
FUELED BY RAMEN/AG
62
C A R LY R A E
JEPSEN
E*MO*TION:
Side B
Jepsens E*MO*TION, which arrived a year

ago (on the Sept.12 chart) at No. 16, spawns
a second set as E*MO*TION: Side B debuts
at No. 62. The new nine-song effort features
tracks that didnt make the first album. SideB
bows with 9,000 equivalent album units
earned in the week ending Sept.1, according
to Nielsen Music, and enters mostly off the
strength of traditional album sales (slightly
K.C.
more than 7,000 copies sold).
19
INGRID
MICHAELSON
It Doesnt Have
To Make Sense
The artist collects her sixth

entry on the Billboard 200 with
her latest album. It starts with
17,000 units (14,000 in pure
album sales). Her last album,
Lights Out, debuted and peaked
at No. 5 (37,000 sold first week).
186
BANKS &
STEELZ
Anything But
Words
Interpols Paul Banks and rapper

RZA pair up for this alt-rockmeets-hip-hop set, which bows
with 4,000 units (mostly from
pure album sales). It also debuts
at No. 15 on Alternative Albums
and No. 11 on Rap Albums.
G o to B I L L B OA R D.CO M/ B I Z fo r co m p l e te c h a r t d a t a 57
HEATSEEKERS ALBUMS
Title
LAST
WEEK
THIS
WEEK
#1 BARBRA STREISAND Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway

1 WK
NEW
22
FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE Dig Your Roots
NEW
22
BUTCH WALKER
33
BRITNEY SPEARS
NEW
33
TWELVE FOOT NINJA
THIS
WEEK
HOT
SHOT
DEBUT
NEW
NEW
1
Title
WKS. ON
CHART
LAST
WEEK
COLUMBIA
BMLG
Glory
RCA
FRANK OCEAN
Blonde
BOYS DONT CRY
#1 JOSEPH
1 WK
ATO
Stay Gold
DANGERBIRD
Outlier
Anything But Words
Moonbathers
The Cure
Bad Behavior (EP)
HELP!
Shottaz Reloaded
12
Rockingham
Handmade Cities (EP)
Covers With Friends
VOLKANIK
44
BANKS & STEELZ
NEW
55
DELAIN
16
66
DARNAA
88
SYLAR
11
99
MO3
10
BJ BARHAM
NEW
11
11
PLINI
NEW
12
12
JASON MANNS
NEW
WARNER BROS.
SOUNDTRACK
Suicide Squad: The Album
66
BEYONCE
Lemonade
19
NEW
77
DRAKE 2
99
YOUNG THUG
JEFFERY
10
VARIOUS ARTISTS
NOW 59
NEW
11
11
INGRID MICHAELSON
It Doesnt Have To Make Sense
12
ADELE 8
25
41
13
13
BIG GIGANTIC
13
DOLLY PARTON
Pure & Simple
RE
14
14
ALINA BARAZ & GALIMATIAS
NEW
14
14
NEW
15
15
CASS MCCOMBS
15
CHRIS STAPLETON
52
NEW
16
16
LIGHTSHOW
16
TWENTY ONE PILOTS
17
17
CNCO
18
3
10
NEW
11
9
NEW
14
2
NEW
RE
NEW
19
20
20
21
21
22
22
PARKWOOD/COLUMBIA
AOI/KOBALT
Views

300/ATLANTIC/AG
UNIVERSAL/SONY MUSIC/LEGACY
CABIN 24
XL/COLUMBIA
WOLF TONE/HARVEST
Traveller
Blurryface
FUELED BY RAMEN/AG
Primera Cita
SONY MUSIC LATIN

LINDSEY STIRLING
Brave Enough
LINDSEYSTOMP
JUAN GABRIEL Mis Numero 1... 40 Aniversario

SONY MUSIC LATIN
JUAN GABRIEL
Los Duo 2
FONOVISA/UMLE
MICHAEL SWEET
One Sided War
RAT PAK
18
23
BLAKE SHELTON
NEW
24
24
17
NEW
18
LYDIA LOVELESS
Real
21
21
SUBROSA For This We Fought The Battle Of Ages
1
3
1
28
TORY LANEZ
I Told You
16
29
EAGLES Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975
53
23
30
BLINK-182
California
41
31
31
RIHANNA 2
ANTI
31
19
32
SKILLET
Unleashed
RE
33
33
JUAN GABRIEL 8
Los Duo
26
34
Love Remains
27
35
MEGHAN TRAINOR
Thank You
16
28
36
KEITH URBAN
Ripcord
17
42
37
37
COLE SWINDELL
You Should Be Here
25
38
KIDZ BOP KIDS
Kidz Bop 32
PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION d Purple Rain (Soundtrack)

35
40
COLDPLAY 0
NEW
41
41
JOSEPH
NEW
42
42
JUAN GABRIEL
24
43
DJ KHALED
30
44
METALLICA g
Metallica
NEW
25
25
SODOM
Decision Day
STEAMHAMMER/SPV
VINYL ALBUMS
Title
LAST
WEEK
THIS
WEEK
NEW
#1 DE LA SOUL and the ANONYMOUS NOBODY

1 WK
NEW
22
BARBRA STREISAND Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway
NEW
33
NEEDTOBREATHE
HARD LOVE
1
1
1
AOI/KOBALT
COLUMBIA
ATLANTIC/AG
WKS. ON
CHART
88
99
AMY WINEHOUSE 2
10
TWENTY ONE PILOTS
17
10
11
BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS
NEW
12
12
BUTCH WALKER
46
30
NEW
NEW
Stay Gold
58
48
48
HALSEY 0
Badlands
51
49
49
FUTURISTIC
50
50
NEEDTOBREATHE
1
7
Kind Of Blue
COLUMBIA/LEGACY
ATO
POLYVINYL
REPUBLIC
Back To Black
82
Blurryface
49
Legend
98
FUELED BY RAMEN/AG
TUFF GONG/ISLAND/UME
DANGERBIRD
95
Stay Gold
Vessel
37
1
13
14
14
SOUNDGARDEN Down On The Upside
11
15
THE BEATLES c
15
16
PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION d Purple Rain (Soundtrack)
11
17
17
BJ BARHAM
12
FUELED BY RAMEN/AG
A&M/UME
Abbey Road
APPLE/CAPITOL/UME
Rockingham
BJ BARHAM
RE
18
18
22
19
THE BEACH BOYS
Pet Sounds
12
18
20
KANYE WEST My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
10
19
21
ADELE 8
LISASAWYER63/COLUMBIA
CAPITOL/UME
36
25
31
Thriller
12
Freetown Sound
A Moon Shaped Pool
11
XL/COLUMBIA
22
22
MICHAEL JACKSON u
23
BLOOD ORANGE
24
RADIOHEAD
16
25
LANA DEL REY
RE
Coming Home
ROC-A-FELLA/DEF JAM
EPIC/LEGACY
DOMINO
XL
Born To Die
Blue Is
Red Hot
On Vinyl
Miles Davis landmark
Kind of Blue album
continues to find new fans
but in an old-fashioned
way. The set jumps 13-6 on
the Vinyl Albums chart with
1,000 LPs sold in the week
ending Sept. 1, according
to Nielsen Music up
30percent.
The album, which arrived
in 1959 and was inducted
into the Grammy Hall of
Fame in 1992, is the 11th
biggest-selling vinyl album
of 2016, selling 25,000 vinyl
LPs. The years best-selling
vinyl is David Bowies
Blackstar, with 59,000 sold.
Kind of Blues solid
vinyl sales arent a 2016
phenomenon, either. In
2015, the set finished as
the No. 5 vinyl best-seller
(49,000), while in 2014
it was No. 9 (32,000). In
total, since Nielsen started
tracking sales in 1991, the
album has sold 140,000
vinyl LPs.
Overall, Kind of Blue
has sold 3.6 million
copies in the Nielsen era,
which makes it the No. 7
top-selling jazz album
in that span of time. The
best-selling jazz set of the
Nielsen era is Norah Jones
2002 Come Away With Me,
at 11.1million.
At No. 1 on the latest
Vinyl Albums chart is De
La Souls new effort, And
the Anonymous Nobody,
with 2,000 LPs sold. The
group staged a Kickstarter
campaign to fund the
album, which drew more
than 11,000 backers and
raised $601,000. The
bulk of the LPs sales for
the week were driven by
customers who bought it
through Kickstarter. K.C.
203
LEON BRIDGES
366
38
ULTRA/MOM + POP
Urban Flora
NEW
NEW
Greatest Hits
WOLF TONE/HARVEST
TWENTY ONE PILOTS
BUTCH WALKER
Phase Zero
SUB POP
47
47
ATLANTIC/AG
MORGAN DELT
POLYVINYL
NEW
67
24
24
XIU XIU Xiu Xiu Plays The Music Of Twin Peaks
THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G.
HARD LOVE
NEW
JOSEPH
89
77
46
NEW
NEW
Vessel
23
23
XIU XIU Xiu Xiu Plays The Music Of Twin Peaks
RELAPSE
MILES DAVIS 5
31
ASTRALWERKS
RE
NEW
Between Waves
66
TWENTY ONE PILOTS
DANGERBIRD
22
22
THE ALBUM LEAF
13
45
BAD BOY/RHINO
PROFOUND LORE
55
33
FUELED BY RAMEN/AG
BLOODSHOT
ANOTHER CENTURY/CENTURY MEDIA
44
Vestido de Etiqueta: Por Eduardo Magallanes

Major Key
SEASON OF MIST
NEW
WE THE BEST/EPIC
NEW
RISE
ATO
FONOVISA/UMLE
The Partys Over (EP)
39
39
Narrative
20
PROPHETS OF RAGE
RE
Life Sentence 3
27
27
KIDZ BOP/RAZOR & TIE/CONCORD
EIGHTYSIX AMERICA
49
NEW
Mangy Love
ANTI-/EPITAPH
E*MO*TION: Side B
EPIC
ULTRA/MOM + POP
1
46
Memento Mori
CARLY RAE JEPSEN
Urban Flora (EP)
GEMINI SYNDROME
26
26
FONOVISA/UMLE
BIG GIGANTIC
19
NEW
Brighter Future
18
18
JASON MANNS
Kinda Dont Care
PLINI
JUSTIN MOORE
ASYLUM/ELEKTRA/RHINO
BJ BARHAM
INQUISITION Bloodshed Across The Empyrean Alter Beyond The Celestial Zenith
25
MO3 MEDIA
17
17
PROPHETS OF RAGE
HOPELESS
NEW
Prima Donna (EP)
604/SCHOOLBOY/INTERSCOPE/IGA
DARNAA
NEW
VINCE STAPLES
VALORY/BMLG
BIZZY BOY
68
15
ARTIUM/DEF JAM
SQUARE BIZZY
FIRE FROM THE GODS
If Im Honest
NEW
NAPALM
GG
WKS. ON
CHART
105
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10 of Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, Top Country Albums, Top Latin Albums, Christian Albums or Gospel Albums. If a title reaches any of those levels, it and the acts subsequent albums are then ineligible to appear on Heatseekers Albums. Titles are ranked by sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music.
VINYL ALBUMS: The weeks top-selling vinyl albums, ranked by sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music.. See Charts Legend on billboard.com/biz for complete rules and explanations. 2016, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved.
TOP ALBUM SALES
AIRPLAY/STREAMING &
Album Sales
Pop diva Britney Spears

collects her 10th top five
Billboard 200 album as
her ninth studio effort,
Glory, enters at No. 3
(111,000 units in the week
ending Sept. 1; 88,000 in
traditional album sales,
according to Nielsen
Music). Spears last studio
set, 2013s Britney Jean,
debuted and peaked at
No. 4 with 107,000 sold.
The new album was led
by the single Make Me
(featuring G-Eazy), which
has so far peaked at No. 17
on the Billboard Hot 100
and No. 20 on the Pop
Songs Airplay chart.
Glory marks Spears first
studio album to launch
with fewer than 100,000
copies sold, dipping below
her previous low, registered
when Britney Jean arrived
with 107,000.
Unlike Britney Jean
which was released without
the support of any live TV
performances Glory
launched three days
before Spears returned
to the MTV Video Music
Awards stage on Aug. 28
to perform Make Me.
She then performed twice
(in pretaped segments) on
NBCs Today on Sept.1.
And before the VMAs and
Today, Spears took a ride
with Late Late Show host
James Corden for his
Carpool Karaoke bit on
Aug.25. Through Sept.6,
the nearly 10-minute
segment has tallied
21million views globally on
YouTube.
While a tour in support
of Glory has not been
announced, Spears
continues her Las Vegas
residency, Britney: Piece of
Me, until 2017. The show
launched Dec. 27, 2013.
She completed her last
touring show, The Femme
Fatale Tour, on Dec. 20,
2011.
Keith Caulfield
September 17
2016
Spears
Glory
Arrives In
Top Three
Social
Kanye West (below)

rockets to his 12th top 10
on the Billboard + Twitter
Top Tracks chart as Fade
debuts at No. 6. The lofty
arrival comes following
the first full tracking week
(Aug.29-Sept. 4) after
the rapper premiered the
songs music video during
the MTV Video Music
Awards on Aug. 28. The clip
set in a gym and starring
a sultry Teyana Taylor, a
signee to Wests G.O.O.D.
Music label subsequently
became a Tidal exclusive
for a week. It then was
widely available through
YouTube on Sept. 6. The
videos impact helps West
gain 23-21 on the Social 50
chart, while Taylor debuts
at No. 34.
Meanwhile, M.I.A. scores
her first Top Tracks top
10 with a No. 4 start for
Freedun (featuring Zayn).
The track gives the former
One Direction member
his seventh top 10 on the
Top Tracks chart. The
single arrived Sept.2, and
its official audio clip has
racked more than 573,000
global plays on YouTube
through Sept.6. Freedun
appears on M.I.A.s fifth
studio album, AIM, released
Sept. 9.
Zara Larsson collects
her best debut as a lead
artist with Aint My Fault
opening at No. 24. Among
her four charted titles, only
This Ones for You (her
collaboration with David
Guetta, on which Larsson
is featured) started higher,
at No. 18. Fault continues
her breakout 2016 in
addition to You, Larsson
hit the chart with her
maiden release, Lush Life
(No. 35), and Never Forget
You with MNEK (No. 32).
Trevor Anderson
D a t a f o r w e e k o f 0 9 . 1 7. 2 0 1 6
September 17
2016
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artist in the top 50 songs on the Billboard Hot 100), ranked by the number of shares. All charts 2016, Prometheus Global Media, LLC. All rights reserved.
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TITLE
Artist
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CHART
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WEEK
THIS
WEEK
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The Chainsmokers Feat. Halsey
SING ME TO SLEEP
COLD WATER Major Lazer Feat. Justin Bieber & MO
NEW
44
FREEDUN
M.I.A. Feat. Zayn
18
55
PERFECT ILLUSION
Lady Gaga
NEW
66
FADE
10
#1 SIDE TO SIDE Ariana Grande Feat. Nicki Minaj
PRESENTED
BY
#1 CRUEL
WKS. ON
CHART
Snakehips Feat. Zayn
Alan Walker
14
33
PERFECT STRANGERS Jonas Blue Feat. JP Cooper
14
BLOW YOUR MIND (MWAH)
Dua Lipa
55
MILLIONAIRE Cash Cash & Digital Farm Animals Feat. Nelly
10
Kanye West
NEW
66
TE DIRAN La Adictiva Banda San Jose de Mesillas
ALL IN MY HEAD (FLEX) Fifth Harmony Feat. Fetty Wap
14
DANCING ON MY OWN
NEW
88
LAST TIME
Gucci Mane & Travis Scott
CAROLINE
15
99
MAKE ME... Britney Spears Feat. G-Eazy
YOU
11
10
WE DONT TALK ANYMORE Charlie Puth Feat. Selena Gomez
19
10
10
BONBON
11
HEATHENS
twenty one pilots
12
11
HOW TO LOVE
31
12
12
WORK
Rihanna Feat. Drake
32
16
26
13
13
SORRY
Justin Bieber
46
13
14
INTO YOU
Ariana Grande
12
15
TREAT YOU BETTER
22
Calum Scott
24
Amine
14
Belly Feat. Kehlani
Era Istrefi
11
Cash Cash Feat. Sofia Reyes
19
12
12
YOU AND ME Marc E. Bassy Feat. G-Eazy
18
14
13
13
BE THE ONE
Dua Lipa
44
18
15
14
14
WAT U MEAN (AYE, AYE, AYE) Dae Dae
15
Shawn Mendes
14
11
15
SPIRITS
The Strumbellas
32
16
16
DONT LET ME DOWN The Chainsmokers Feat. Daya
26
28
16
16
YOUTH
Glass Animals
17
SECRET LOVE SONG Little Mix Feat. Jason Derulo
43
13
17
HOTTER THAN HELL
Dua Lipa
18
RE
18
18
BACON
Nick Jonas Feat. Ty Dolla $ign
20
18
18
CAPSIZE
Frenship & Emily Warren
11
RE
19
19
HOLD UP
Beyonce
NEW
19
19
SIGNAL
SOHN
29
20
CHEAP THRILLS
Sia Feat. Sean Paul
26
RE
20
20
THE BUZZ Hermitude Feat. Big K.R.I.T., Mataya & Young Tapz
33
21
21
ALONE
36
21
21
GIANT
Banks & Steelz
22
IN THE NAME OF LOVE Martin Garrix & Bebe Rexha
NEW
22
22
NOTHING TO LOSE
Vassy
NEW
23
23
WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
17
23
HEY
Fais Feat. Afrojack
21
NEW
24
24
AINT MY FAULT
19
24
PERMISSION
Ro James
31
NEW
25
25
SAN FRANCISCO 5 Seconds Of Summer
RE
25
25
SMOKE FILLED ROOM
Mako
40
26
26
CRUEL
18
26
MOOLAH
Young Greatness
23
23
27
STILL FALLING FOR YOU Ellie Goulding
22
27
CLOSE TO YOU
Dreezy Feat. T-Pain
NEW
28
28
TAKE COVER
All Time Low
RE
28
28
11 BLOCKS
Wrabel
30
29
NEEDED ME
Rihanna
21
NEW
29
29
WORK FOR IT
Kayla Brianna Feat. YFN Lucci
RE
30
30
FORMATION
Beyonce
17
12
30
REALITY Lost Frequencies Feat. Janieck Devy
34
RE
31
31
KILL EM WITH KINDNESS
Selena Gomez
16
31
31
EASY LOVE
Sigala
17
14
32
LOVE ON THE BRAIN
Rihanna
24
32
BODY
Dreezy Feat. Jeremih
31
25
33
ONE DANCE
22
27
33
GIVE ME YOUR LOVE Sigala Feat. John Newman & Nile Rodgers
17
39
34
HELLO
Adele
46
26
34
ALL MY FRIENDS Snakehips Feat. Tinashe & Chance The Rapper
46
RE
35
35
HAIR
Little Mix Feat. Sean Paul
22
38
35
35
LIFE ITSELF
Glass Animals
NEW
36
36
STARVING
Hailee Steinfeld & Grey Feat. Zedd
32
36
THE GIRL IS MINE
99 Souls Feat. Destinys Child & Brandy
27
36
37
RIDE
twenty one pilots
11
23
37
DRUGS
EDEN
NEW
38
38
QUISIERA
CNCO
RE
38
38
OUT OF MY SYSTEM
Youngr
28
39
LOVE YOURSELF
Justin Bieber
42
49
39
39
MY SH*T
A Boogie Wit da Hoodie
RE
40
40
HANDS TO MYSELF
Selena Gomez
23
NEW
40
40
OTW
DJ Luke Nasty
42
41
WORK FROM HOME Fifth Harmony Feat. Ty Dolla $ign
28
NEW
41
41
SWEDISH GUNS
The Radio Dept.
RE
42
42
FIRE
BTS
14
NEW
42
42
HOUSE WORK Jax Jones Feat. Mike Dunn & MNEK
NEW
43
43
3 WAYZ
Ty Dolla $ign Feat. Travis Scott
29
43
MIGHT NOT
Belly Feat. The Weeknd
37
41
44
STRESSED OUT
twenty one pilots
37
30
44
RIVER
Bishop Briggs
15
32
45
PANDA
Desiigner
17
NEW
45
45
GET LOW
James Vincent McMorrow
19
46
YES GIRL
Bea Miller
42
46
INTENTIONAL
Travis Greene
19
NEW
47
47
STICK TALK
Future
43
47
HURTS SO GOOD
Astrid S
15
38
48
WHAT DO YOU MEAN?
Justin Bieber
47
33
48
POR FIN TE ENCONTRE Cali y El Dandee Feat. Juan Magan & Sebastian Yatra
48
49
SORRY
Beyonce
11
35
49
MADE A WAY
Travis Greene
50
HARDWIRED
Metallica
NEW
50
50
A-LIST
WSTRN
Marshmello
Chris Brown
Zara Larsson
Snakehips Feat. Zayn
Browns
PostArrest
Gain
After a highly publicized
arrest on Aug. 31, following
accusations he pointed
a gun at a guest in his
Los Angeles home, Chris
Brown (above) climbs 5010 on the Social 50 chart.
He made gains across all
of the charts monitored
metrics, including a 366
percent gain in Instagram
reactions, according to
Next Big Sound, in the
week ending Sept. 4.
Many of Browns
Instagram posts during
the week, including one
where he called law
enforcement the worst
gang in the world, have
since been deleted. Aside
from the Social50gain,
Brown jumped 15percent
in both album sales and ondemand U.S. streams in the
tracking week ending Sept.
1, according to Nielsen
Music.
Elsewhere on the
Social50, Nicki Minaj
rises 29-4 after a fairly big
week for the rapper-singer.
It began with the premiere
of Ariana Grandes Side
to Side music video, in
which she guest-stars, and
culminated with the release
of her The Pinkprint
Freestyle track on Sept.4.
Minaj earns gains of 3,472
percent and 151 percent
in Instagram and Twitter
reactions, respectively
enough to represent her
highest chart peak since
she placed at No. 4 on the
Feb.6 chart.
Lastly, Travis Scotts
surprise album release,
Birds in the Trap Sing
McKnight, on Sept. 2 helps
him re-enter at No. 32 on
the Social 50 his highest
position since Jan. 16
(No.32 as well). The rapper
announced on Instagram
on Aug. 31 that the record
was done, followed by a
tracklist reveal on Sept.2
that led into its premiere on
Beats 1 that evening.
Kevin Rutherford
G o to B I L L B OA R D.CO M/ B I Z fo r co m p l e te c h a r t d a t a 5 9
#1 ARIANA GRANDE
11 WKS
REPUBLIC
LAST
WEEK
THIS
WEEK
198
BEYONCE
JUSTIN BIEBER
302
29
NICKI MINAJ
300
PARKWOOD/COLUMBIA
LALI
SONY MUSIC ARGENTINA
299
12
RIHANNA
291
12
DEMI LOVATO
292
19
ZENDAYA
108
DRAKE
277
50
10
CHRIS BROWN
273
11
JACOB SARTORIUS
13
18
12
LUCY HALE
114
11
13
SELENA GOMEZ
300
14
MILEY CYRUS
230
15
SHAWN MENDES
89
21
16
5 SECONDS OF SUMMER
128
17
15
17
18

SAFEHOUSE/ISLAND/HOLLYWOOD
HOLLYWOOD

RCA
T3
DMG NASHVILLE
INTERSCOPE/IGA
RCA
ISLAND
HI OR HEY/CAPITOL
WIZ KHALIFA
ROSTRUM/ATLANTIC/AG
BRITNEY SPEARS
RCA
289
261
14
19
CAMILA CABELLO
13
20
TAYLOR SWIFT
23
21
KANYE WEST
16
22
MARTIN GARRIX
25
23
KATY PERRY
26
24
FIFTH HARMONY
67
47
25
JENNIFER LOPEZ
288
20
26
SNOOP DOGG
267
NEW
27
JUAN GABRIEL
10
28
MARIO BAUTISTA
13
32
29
TROYE SIVAN
67
28
30
COLDPLAY
169
RE
31
CHANCE THE RAPPER
11
RE
32
TRAVI$ SCOTT
40
33
ZAYN
32
34
TEYANA TAYLOR
35
LIL WAYNE
NEW
RE
SYCO/EPIC
BIG MACHINE/BMLG
G.O.O.D./DEF JAM
SCHOOLBOY/SPINNIN/SILENT/CASABLANCA/REPUBLIC
CAPITOL
SYCO/EPIC
NUYORICAN/EPIC
DOGGYSTYLE/EONE
FONOVISA/UMLE
KASST AGENCY/WARNER LATINA

CAPITOL
UNSIGNED
GRAND HUSTLE/EPIC
RCA
G.O.O.D./DEF JAM
32
302
88
112
302
1
201
36
NICK JONAS
30
37
G-EAZY
32
31
38
TWENTY ONE PILOTS
25
RE
RE
42
SAFEHOUSE/ISLAND
G-EAZY/RVG/BPG/RCA
FUELED BY RAMEN/AG
39
ALICIA KEYS
40
CHARLIE PUTH
RCA
31
107
13
44
44
NO LIMIT
Usher Feat. Young Thug
12
THIS IS WHAT YOU CAME FOR
19
CONTROLLA
Drake
16
66
TREAT YOU BETTER
Shawn Mendes
13
NEEDED ME
Rihanna
21
10
77
CLOSER The Chainsmokers Feat. Halsey
CHEAP THRILLS
Sia Feat. Sean Paul
11
88
INTO YOU
11
10
88
99
YOU & ME
Marc E. Bassy Feat. G-Eazy
14
10
ONE DANCE
10
ONE DANCE
22
12
11
NEVER BE LIKE YOU
13
12
12
TOO GOOD
14
7
9

ISLAND/REPUBLIC
DISRUPTOR/COLUMBIA
Ariana Grande
REPUBLIC
DISRUPTOR/COLUMBIA
25
21
12
11
RCA

MONKEY PUZZLE/RCA
MAD DECENT/DEF JAM

REPUBLIC
Flume Feat. Kai
23
11
Drake Feat. Rihanna
12
12
MY PYT
13
13
14
16
13
13

18
Wale
13
ALL EYEZ
The Game Feat. Jeremih
14
INTO YOU
Ariana Grande
10
4

MAYBACH/ATLANTIC
FIFTH ADMENDMENT/BLOOD MONEY/EONE
15
11
15
18
20
15
15
16
16
16
SIT STILL, LOOK PRETTY
Daya
21
18
16
16
FATHER STRETCH MY HANDS PT. 1 Kanye West
12
17
17
17
NEEDED ME
Rihanna
13
21
17
17
BROCCOLI
18
18
THIS GIRL Kungs vs Cookin On 3 Burners
18
18
SUCKER FOR PAIN
18
ATLANTIC
DREAMWORKS/RCA
ARTBEATZ
KUNGS/SOUND OF BARCLAY/BARCLAY/CASABLANCA/REPUBLIC
22
DISRUPTOR/COLUMBIA
G.O.O.D./DEF JAM
D.R.A.M. Feat. Lil Yachty
Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa & Imagine Dragons
Kent Jones
19
YG Feat. Drake & Kamaiyah
13
13
Kehlani
Nicky Jam
11
19
19
19
19
23
20
20
LET ME LOVE YOU DJ Snake Feat. Justin Bieber
17
20
WHY YOU ALWAYS HATIN?
22
21
21
MAMA SAID
13
21
ALL IN MY HEAD (FLEX)
22
MAKE ME
22
22
CRZY
23
23
I HATE U I LOVE U gnash Feat. Olivia OBrien
11
23
23
WITH YOU TONIGHT
28
24
24
HYMN FOR THE WEEKEND
Coldplay
12
27
24
24
DO YOU MIND DJ Khaled Feat. Nicki Minaj, Chris Brown & August Alsina
27
25
25
STARVING Hailee Steinfeld & Grey Feat. Zedd
24
25
25
26
GG
twenty one pilots
REPUBLIC
24
21
HEATHENS
14
DONT MIND
DJ SNAKE/INTERSCOPE
Lukas Graham
WARNER BROS.
RCA
Britney Spears Feat. G-Eazy
:):/ATLANTIC
PARLOPHONE/ATLANTIC
REPUBLIC
ADULT CONTEMPORARY
TITLE
LAST
WEEK
THIS
WEEK
18
P!nk
20
Justin Bieber
32
11 WK S
JUST LIKE FIRE
LOVE YOURSELF
SEND MY LOVE (TO YOUR NEW LOVER)
STITCHES
ONE CALL AWAY
CAKE BY THE OCEAN
EXS & OHS
7 YEARS
4
5
#1 CANT STOP THE FEELING! Justin Timberlake

DREAMWORKS/RCA
WALT DISNEY/RCA
XL/COLUMBIA
ISLAND/REPUBLIC
23
WKS. ON
CHART
THIS
WEEK
25
Adele
17
Shawn Mendes
46
Charlie Puth
33
DNCE
27
Elle King
51

REPUBLIC
RCA
Lukas Graham
29
Sia Feat. Sean Paul
11
WARNER BROS.

SYCO/EPIC
TSUNAMI MOB/ATLANTIC
LA INDUSTRIA/RCA
WE THE BEST/EPIC
ADULT TOP 40
Artist
LAST
WEEK
10
TITLE
Artist
WKS. ON
CHART
#1 CHEAP THRILLS Sia Feat. Sean Paul
18
18
Adele
20
RIDE
twenty one pilots
19
3 WK S
MONKEY PUZZLE/RCA
DREAMWORKS/RCA
XL/COLUMBIA
FUELED BY RAMEN/RRP
JUST LIKE FIRE
P!nk
21
66
18
UNSTEADY
X Ambassadors
25
88
15
99
WALT DISNEY/RCA
DISRUPTOR/COLUMBIA
GG
TREAT YOU BETTER
Shawn Mendes
11
14
Coldplay
17
Lukas Graham
10
Wrabel
ISLAND/REPUBLIC
11
10
10
CHEAP THRILLS
10
10
12
11
BRAND NEW
Ben Rector
23
11
11
11
HYMN FOR THE WEEKEND
14
12
12
RISE
Katy Perry
12
12
12
MAMA SAID
13
13
11 BLOCKS
Katy Perry
Fitz And The Tantrums
Ingrid Michaelson
18
22
13
13
MONKEY PUZZLE/RCA
APTLY NAMED/ROAR/CAROLINE/CAPITOL
CAPITOL
GG
THIS HOUSE IS NOT FOR SALE

CAPTAIN KID/ISLAND/REPUBLIC
Bon Jovi
14

PARLOPHONE/ATLANTIC
WARNER BROS.
EPIC
14
14
PIECES
Rob Thomas
16
14
14
15
15
HUMBLE AND KIND
Tim McGraw
18
13
15
RISE
18
16
SLEDGEHAMMER
Rihanna
10
18
16
16
HANDCLAP
17
HELL NO
18
18
SHE SETS THE CITY ON FIRE
45
JACOB WHITESIDES
45
46
VICTORIA JUSTICE
47
ONE DIRECTION
48
FUTURE
36
19
RE
49
SOFIA CARSON
25
44
50
MAJOR LAZER
30
MAD DECENT/DEF JAM
YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC/WE THE BEST/EPIC
14
14
15
RE
MAD DECENT/DEF JAM
XL/COLUMBIA
MAD LOVE/INTERSCOPE
Kiiara
296
HOLLYWOOD
MONKEY PUZZLE/RCA
GOLD
SHAKIRA
A-1/FREEBANDZ/EPIC
10
DJ Khaled Feat. Drake
44
RE
12
Tory Lanez
FOR FREE
37
250
TOO GOOD Drake Feat. Rihanna
55
SYCO/COLUMBIA
GG
22
CALVIN HARRIS
RE
22
1 WK
43
24
Sia Feat. Sean Paul
#1
15
46
UNSIGNED
Adele
48
WKS. ON
CHART
THE CHAINSMOKERS
DOUBLE U/BMG
20
FUELED BY RAMEN/RRP
Artist
33
42
SONY MUSIC LATIN/RCA
twenty one pilots
#1 RIDE
2 WK S
TITLE
22
FLY EYE/COLUMBIA
THIS
WEEK
SKRILLEX
DISRUPTOR/COLUMBIA
LAST
WEEK
41
186
WKS. ON
CHART
LUV
33
BIG BEAT/OWSLA/ATLANTIC/AG
Artist
CHEAP THRILLS
17
19
RHYTHMIC
TITLE
23
20
EMBLEM/ATLANTIC
MCGRAW/BIG MACHINE
17
17
RIDE
18
18
twenty one pilots
10
FUELED BY RAMEN/RRP
15
19
MAD DECENT/DEF JAM

CAPITOL
DANGERBIRD/ELEKTRA/ATLANTIC
CABIN 24/RED
RCA
27
19
19
H.O.L.Y.
17
19
HOLD BACK THE RIVER
24
20
20
TREAT YOU BETTER
Shawn Mendes
22
20
20
FRESH EYES
16
21
OVER AND OVER AGAIN Nathan Sykes Feat. Ariana Grande
16
24
21
21
INTO YOU
22
UNSTEADY
22
22
HEATHENS
23
LOST BOY
24
24
25
25
EVERYTHING
21
BMLG/REPUBLIC
ISLAND/REPUBLIC
GLOBAL MUSIC RECORDINGS
X Ambassadors
26
S-CURVE/BMG/HOLLYWOOD
REPUBLIC
James Bay
28
Andy Grammer
Ariana Grande
twenty one pilots
The 1975
11
Ruth B
16
23
23
23
THE SOUND
21
24
H.O.L.Y.
Brian McKnight
28
25
25
COLUMBIA

SONO
10
REPUBLIC
Gavin DeGraw
DIRTY HIT/INTERSCOPE
BMLG/REPUBLIC
DISRUPTOR/COLUMBIA
D a t a f o r w e e k o f 0 9 . 1 7. 2 0 1 6
SOCIAL 50: The weeks most active artists on social networking sites based on weekly additions of fans across Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram; reactions and conversations across Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook; and views to an artists Wikipedia page, as measured by Next Big Sound.
POP/RHYTHMIC/ADULT: The weeks 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 2016, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved.
IMPRINT/LABEL
MAINSTREAM TOP 40
WKS. ON
CHART
SOCIAL DATA
COMPILED BY
ARTIST
AIRPLAY DATA COMPILED BY
THIS
WEEK
September 17
2016
LAST
WEEK
Pop/Rhythmic/Adult
SOCIAL 50
Country
JOSEPH LLANES
LAST
WEEK
THIS
WEEK
18 WK S
PETER PAN
DIFFERENT FOR GIRLS
5
6
#1 H.O.L.Y.
Artist
TITLE CERTIFICATION
R. COPPERMAN (S.MCANALLY,J.T.HARDING)
MAKE YOU MISS ME
AG
SETTING THE WORLD ON FIRE
DG SG
MAY WE ALL
VICE
11
10
SHES GOT A WAY WITH WORDS
15
11
MIDDLE OF A MEMORY
12
11
12
IT DONT HURT LIKE IT USED TO
18
13
13
ROCK ON
14
12
14
YOU LOOK LIKE I NEED A DRINK
S.HENDRICKS (W.EARP,A.ALBERT,M.BEESON)
J.RITCHEY,S.HENDRICKS (T. ROSEN,S.HUNT,S.MCANALLY)
17
I KNOW SOMEBODY
13
14
18
CHURCH BELLS
20
LIGHTS COME ON
20
CASTAWAY
21
CHRIS STAPLETON
BLAKE SHELTON
JUSTIN MOORE
77
KEITH URBAN
14
37
6
26
15
Cole Swindell
17
Billy Currington
11
22
Tucker Beathard
13
22
Justin Moore
12
36
DOT
VALORY
Luke Bryan
15
16
36
8
17
14
Carrie Underwood
23
19/ARISTA NASHVILLE
Jason Aldean
M.KNOX (B.KELLEY,T.HUBBARD,J.M.SCHMIDT,J.ROBBINS,B.WARREN,B.WARREN)
BROKEN BOW
Zac Brown Band
SOUTHERN GROUND/JOHN VARVATOS/REPUBLIC/DOT
SLEEP WITHOUT YOU
Brett Young
D.HUFF (B.YOUNG,K.ARCHER,J.EBACH)
BMLG
33
32
22
BLUE AINT YOUR COLOR
19
21
23
WASTED TIME
28
27
24
A LITTLE MORE SUMMERTIME

M.KNOX (W.MOBLEY,T.MARTIN,J.FLOWERS)
MACON/BROKEN BOW
26
24
25
SONG FOR ANOTHER TIME
27
25
26
80S MERCEDES
BUSBEE,M.MORRIS (M.MORRIS,BUSBEE)
COLUMBIA NASHVILLE
30
23
27
23
26
31
23
17
19
20
22
Keith Urban
23
Jason Aldean
16
Old Dominion
22
12
Maren Morris
25
13
WANNA BE THAT SONG
Brett Eldredge
23
15
28
VACATION
Thomas Rhett
19
17
30
29
THY WILL
Hillary Scott & The Scott Family
28
19
36
33
30
HOW ILL ALWAYS BE
Tim McGraw
30
35
35
31
PARACHUTE
Chris Stapleton
31
21
32
34
32
LOVIN LATELY
Big & Rich Featuring Tim McGraw
32
27
33
LIVIN THE DREAM
34
21 SUMMER
35
THE WAY A NIGHT SHOULD FEEL
34
31
38
36
HOT SHOT
DEBUT
G.WELLS,K.URBAN (K.URBAN,G.WELLS,J.ABRAHART)
R.SKAGGS,B.HERMS (H.SCOTT,E.L.WEISBAND,B.HERMS)
D.COBB,C.STAPLETON (C.STAPLETON,J.BEAVERS)
38
DIG YOUR ROOTS
38
42
41
40
41
MY GIRL
NEW
44
GROW OLD
NEW
45
ROAD LESS TRAVELED
Ripcord
17
You Should Be Here
17
COLE SWINDELL
GG
WARNER BROS./WMN
99
13
10
LUKE BRYAN
11
11
DIERKS BENTLEY
12
12
VARIOUS ARTISTS
16
13
SAM HUNT 2
15
14
JOEY + RORY
12
15
KELSEA BALLERINI
16
ERIC CHURCH
20
19
21
22
Storyteller
45
Kill The Lights
56
Black
14
NOW Thats What I Call Country, Volume 9
12
SONY MUSIC/UNIVERSAL/UME
MCA NASHVILLE/UMGN
68
44
17
THOMAS RHETT
Tangled Up
49
18
MAREN MORRIS
Hero
13
19
19
OLD DOMINION
Meat And Candy
43
20
JAKE OWEN
American Love
EMI NASHVILLE/UMGN
VALORY/BMLG
COLUMBIA NASHVILLE/SMN
RCA NASHVILLE/SMN
RCA NASHVILLE/SMN
17
21
22
ZAC BROWN BAND 0
23
Were All Somebody From Somewhere
DOT/BMLG
71
DRAKE WHITE
Spark
24
24
JACK INGRAM
Midnight Motel
25
JON PARDI
California Sunrise
11
SOUTHERN GROUND/JOHN VARVATOS/BMLG/REPUBLIC

DOT/BMLG
ROUNDER/CONCORD
COUNTRY AIRPLAY
Artist
TITLE
LAST
WEEK
THIS
WEEK
PETER PAN
MAKE YOU MISS ME
DIFFERENT FOR GIRLS
#1
1 WK
GG
27
Kelsea Ballerini
25
Sam Hunt
28
Dierks Bentley Feat. Elle King
15
RCA NASHVILLE
BLACK RIVER
MCA NASHVILLE
CAPITOL NASHVILLE
YOU LOOK LIKE I NEED A DRINK
SETTING THE WORLD ON FIRE
Justin Moore
44
Kenny Chesney Feat. P!nk
William Michael Morgan
48
Tucker Beathard
26
VALORY
31
20
10
I MET A GIRL
34
23
ROCK ON
SHES GOT A WAY WITH WORDS
Blake Shelton
14
Billy Currington
31
LoCash
30
Luke Bryan
Cole Swindell
18
35
WARNER BROS./WMN
DOT
WARNER BROS./WMN
I KNOW SOMEBODY
38
13
12
MOVE
13
MIDDLE OF A MEMORY
RaeLynn
High Valley
ATLANTIC/WEA
Dustin Lynch
BROKEN BOW
39
38
31
2
10
10
14
15
SLEEP WITHOUT YOU
Brett Young
28
17
16
A LITTLE MORE SUMMERTIME
Jason Aldean
18
17
VICE
Miranda Lambert
18
LOVIN LATELY Big & Rich Feat. Tim McGraw
35
20
19
HOW ILL ALWAYS BE
Tim McGraw
21
20
LIVIN THE DREAM
Drake White
39
22
21
SONG FOR ANOTHER TIME
Old Dominion
13
22
80S MERCEDES
40
44
Lauren Alaina
45
Brett Young
42
Brad Paisley Featuring Demi Lovato
23
17
Eli Young Band
47
24
Brantley Gilbert
23
25
50
26
BMLG
BUSBEE (LAUREN ALAINA,J.FRASURE,M.TRAINOR)
43
42
46
IN CASE YOU DIDNT KNOW
29
37
47
WITHOUT A FIGHT
49
47
48
SALTWATER GOSPEL
46
46
49
THE WEEKEND
50
GOOD GIRL, BAD BOY
D.HUFF (B.YOUNG,T.REEVE,K.SCHILENGER,T.TOMLINSON)
B.PAISLEY,L.WOOTEN (B.PAISLEY,K.LOVELACE,L.T.MILLER)
19/INTERSCOPE/MERCURY
BMLG
ARISTA NASHVILLE
R. COPPERMAN,J.S.STOVER,ELI YOUNG BAND (R.COPPERMAN,N.GALYON,A.GORLEY)
VALORY
VALORY
BMLG
WARNER BROS./WMN
14
Dylan Scott
J.MOI (Z.KALE,C.SMITH)
CAPITOL NASHVILLE
15
12
CURB
REVIVER
16
33
M.ALDERMAN,J.E.NORMAN (D.SCOTT,J.KERR)
MERCURY
CASTAWAY
Chris Young Feat. Vince Gill
RCA NASHVILLE
WKS. ON
CHART
AMERICAN COUNTRY LOVE SONG Jake Owen
11
WARNER BROS./WMN
JEKYLL + HYDE
12
BMLG
29
The First Time
23
24
97
Hymns
Mr. Misunderstood
BLACK RIVER
STEVEN TYLER
NEW
Montevallo
FARMHOUSE/GAITHER/CAPITOL CMG
C.CROWDER,C.YOUNG (C.YOUNG,B.WARREN,B.WARREN)
J.MOI (R.CLAWSON,Z.CROWELL,M.JENKINS)
Love Remains
28
WHEELHOUSE
BMLG
D.HUFF (B.GILBERT,A.DEROBERTS)
VALORY/BMLG
Florida Georgia Line Feat. Backstreet Boys
M.J.CONES (T.KENNEDY,K.ALLISON,S.BOGARD,J.SEVER)
43
15
Kinda Dont Care
WARNER BROS./WMN
10
SEEIN RED
40
70
11
S.MOSLEY (B.REMPEL,S.MOSLEY,B.STENNIS)
40
Traveller
14
If Im Honest
CARRIE UNDERWOOD 0
18
Pure & Simple
MERCURY/UMGN
MAKE YOU MINE
SOBER SATURDAY NIGHT
WKS. ON
CHART
Dig Your Roots
BMLG
36
N.GALYON,J.ROBBINS (N.GALYON,J.ROBBINS,RAELYNN)
42
#1 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE

1 WK
IT DONT HURT LIKE IT USED TO
LOVE TRIANGLE
43
D a t a f o r w e e k o f 0 9 . 1 7. 2 0 1 6
MACON/BROKEN BOW
Granger Smith
J.MOI (T.HUBBARD,B.KELLEY,J.FLOWERS,BRETT JAMES,E.K.SMITH,W.WITHERS, JR.)
45
NEW
EMI NASHVILLE
G.SMITH,F.ROGERS (J.M.SCHMIDT,A.ALBERT,M.TENPENNY)
J.MOI (J.KEAR,H.LINDSEY,G.SAMPSON)
DOT
Jason Aldean
M.KNOX (BRETT JAMES,N.BROPHY)
GOD, YOUR MAMA, AND ME
Drake White
Brothers Osborne
J.JOYCE (J. OSBORNE,T.J. OSBORNE,C.WISEMAN)
37
39
B$R/NEW REVOLUTION
R. COPPERMAN,J.S.STOVER (T.DOUGLAS,J.JOHNSTON,L.LAIRD)
28
MCGRAW/BIG MACHINE
MERCURY
B.KENNY,J.D.RICH (W.K.ALPHIN,J.D.RICH,T.MCGRAW)
VALORY
HST/EMI NASHVILLE
B.GALLIMORE,T.MCGRAW (J.S.STOVER,C.JANSON,J.PAULIN)
36
39
ATLANTIC/WMN
D.HUFF,J.FRASURE (THOMAS RHETT,T.ALLEN,H.BROWN,M.DICKERSON,S.M.DOUGLAS,G.GOLDSTEIN,L.L.JORDAN . . .)
39
44
RCA NASHVILLE
R. COPPERMAN,B.ELDREDGE (B.ELDREDGE,R.COPPERMAN,SCOOTER CARUSOE)
41
HIT RED/CAPITOL NASHVILLE
S.MCANALLY (M.RAMSEY,T. ROSEN,B.TURSI,M.JENKINS)
IF THE BOOT FITS
NEW
HIT RED/CAPITOL NASHVILLE
88
19
Keith Urban
D.HUFF,K.URBAN (S.L.OLSEN,H.LINDSEY,C.LAGERBERG)
10
LoCash
REVIVER
Z.BROWN (Z.BROWN,N.MOON,W.DURRETTE,C.BOWLES,J.D.HOPKINS)
L.RIMES (R.AKINS,R.COPPERMAN,J.S.STOVER)
19
DOLLY PARTON
Blake Shelton
CAPITOL NASHVILLE
M.BRIGHT (Z.CROWELL,BRETT JAMES,H.LINDSEY)
WARNER BROS./WMN
J.STEVENS,J.STEVENS (L.BRYAN,M.CARTER,J.CLEMENTI)
24
RCA NASHVILLE
William Michael Morgan
MOVE
Miranda Lambert
J.S.STOVER,J.RAYMOND,S.BORCHETTA (R.CLAWSON,M.DRAGSTREM,N.HEMBY)
I MET A GIRL
19
30
MERCURY
A.PETRAGLIA (T.BEATHARD,C.BEATHARD,M.CANNON-GOODMAN)
THIS
WEEK
HOT
SHOT
DEBUT
WARNER BROS./WMN
D.HUFF (B.CURRINGTON,C.R.BARLOWE,S.CARTER)
LAST
WEEK
Dan + Shay
WARNER BROS./WMN
M.CARTER (C.SWINDELL,A.GORLEY,Z.CROWELL)
Title
WKS. ON
CHART
WARNER BROS./WAR
F.LIDDELL,E.MASSE,G.WORF (M.LAMBERT,S.MCANALLY,J.OSBORNE)
PEAK
POS.
BMLG
D.SMYERS,S.HENDRICKS (D.SMYERS,S.MOONEY,C. DESTEFANO)
19
24
RCA NASHVILLE
J.MOI (R.CLAWSON,J.MOORE)
25
17
Jake Owen
Florida Georgia Line Feat. Tim McGraw
10
17
S.MCANALLY,R. COPPERMAN (R.COPPERMAN,A.GORLEY,J.JOHNSTON)
10
18
Kenny Chesney Featuring P!nk
AMERICAN COUNTRY LOVE SONG
FROM THE GROUND UP
16
MCA NASHVILLE
B.CANNON,K.CHESNEY (R.COPPERMAN,M.JENKINS,J.OSBORNE)
16
Sam Hunt
Z.CROWELL,S.MCANALLY (S.HUNT,J.OSBORNE,M.RAMSEY)
16
BLACK RIVER
CAPITOL NASHVILLE
22
Kelsea Ballerini
Dierks Bentley Featuring Elle King
15
BMLG
F.G.WHITEHEAD,J.MASSEY (K.BALLERINI,F.G.WHITEHEAD,J.LEE)
29
15
J.MOI (BUSBEE,N.CYPHERT,W.W.LARSEN)
37
21
September 17
2016
HOT COUNTRY SONGS: The weeks most popular current country songs, ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen Music, sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music and streaming activity data by online music sources tracked by Nielsen Music. Songs are defined as current if they are newly-released titles, or songs receiving
widespread airplay and/or sales activity for the first time. TOP COUNTRY ALBUMS: The weeks most popular country albums, ranked by sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music. Albums are defined as current if they are less than 18 months old or older than 18 months but still residing in the Billboard 200s top 100. COUNTRY AIRPLAY: The weeks
most popular country songs, ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen Music. Stations are electronically monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. See Charts Legend on billboard.com/biz for complete rules and explanations. 2016, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved.

DATA COMPILED BY
TOP COUNTRY ALBUMS
HOT COUNTRY SONGS

2 WKS.
AGO
19
23
Zac Brown Band
23
SOUTHERN GROUND/JOHN VARVATOS/REPUBLIC/DOT

BMLG
MACON/BROKEN BOW
RCA NASHVILLE
B$R/NEW REVOLUTION
MCGRAW/BIG MACHINE
DOT
RCA NASHVILLE
Maren Morris
11
23
IF THE BOOT FITS
Granger Smith
27
24
MAY WE ALL Florida Georgia Line Feat. Tim McGraw
25
WANNA BE THAT SONG
16
COLUMBIA NASHVILLE
WHEELHOUSE
BMLG
ATLANTIC/WMN
Brett Eldredge
Owen
Has
Radios
Top
Song
Jake Owen (above)
achieves his sixth No. 1
on Country Airplay as
American Country Love
Song rises 2-1, increasing
by 10 percent to 48 million
impressions, according
to Nielsen Music. Owen
earns his first leader since
Beachin in July 2014.
Written by Ross
Copperman, Ashley
Gorley and Jaren
Johnston, Love Song is
the first single from Owens
fifth studio LP, American
Love, which bowed atop
the Aug.20 Top Country
Albums chart. Im so
pumped [to be] sitting in
the No.1 spot this week,
Owen tells Billboard. Im
stoked for the songwriters,
and I have to say a huge
thanks to country radio
for supporting me and my
music all these years.
Billy Curringtons It
Dont Hurt Like It Used To
climbs into the Country
Airplay charts upper
tier (11-10; 26 million, up
10 percent). The song is
Curringtons 14th top 10 and
first since Dont It, which
became his ninth No. 1 in
June 2015.
Meanwhile, as Florida
Georgia Lines Dig Your
Roots debuts at No. 1 on
Top Country Albums (see
page 54), its beginning
to look at least a little
like Christmas: Reba
McEntires My Kind of
Christmas marks the first
holiday fare to decorate
Top Country Albums this
season, dashing in at No.27
(2,000 sold). The new LP
was released exclusively
through Cracker Barrel
physically and digitally.
Its her third Christmas
album, following 1987s
Merry Christmas to You and
1999s Secret of Giving: A
Christmas Collection.
Jim Asker
Artist
TITLE CERTIFICATION
#1
4 WK S
AG
HEATHENS
M.ELIZONDO,T.JOSEPH (T.JOSEPH)
twenty one pilots
RIDE
SUCKER FOR PAIN Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa & Imagine Dragons With Logic & Ty Dolla $ign Feat. X Ambassadors
7
8
R.REED (T.JOSEPH)
THE SOUND OF SILENCE
OPHELIA
ALEX DA KID (A.GRANT,S.N.HARRIS,N.FELDSHUH,C.HARRIS,A.LEVIN)
10
13
11
10
WAY DOWN WE GO
16
12
11
RIVER
14
13
12
DARK NECESSITIES
15
15
13
BORED TO DEATH
11
14
14
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY
15
HARDWIRED
16
19
19
18
GOOD GRIEF
26
23
19
ALL WE EVER KNEW
20
22
20
14
Panic! At The Disco
Metallica
BLACKENED/Q PRIME
Green Day
21
Bastille
14
11
The Head And The Heart
19
13
VIRGIN/CAPITOL
WARNER BROS.
Skillet
HEAR IT LOUD/ATLANTIC
10
Beck
12
13
The 1975
13
26
Phantogram
24
10
Young The Giant
24
18
Empire Of The Sun
26
Action Bronson, Mark Ronson & Dan Auerbach
20
NEEDTOBREATHE
18
11
Glass Animals
29
Korn
20
24
26
25
SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN
HOT SHOT
DEBUT
26
HIGH AND LOW
20
24
27
STANDING IN THE RAIN
31
28
28
HAPPINESS
RE-ENTRY
29
YOUTH
38
30
ROTTING IN VAIN
31
CLEOPATRA
32
UP&UP
STARGATE,R.SIMPSON (G.R.BERRYMAN,J.M.BUCKLAND,W.CHAMPLIN,C.A.J.MARTIN,M.S.ERIKSEN,T.E.HERMANSEN)
PARLOPHONE/ATLANTIC
33
WELCOME TO YOUR LIFE
Grouplove
34
TAKE ME DOWN
35
WISH THAT YOU WERE HERE
36
TAKE IT ALL BACK
37
INSANE
A.SALIBIAN (S.GADHIA,J.TILLEY,E.CANNATA,F.COMTOIS,P.DOOSTZADEH,A.SALINAS)
WOLF TONE/HARVEST
ROADRUNNER/RRP
The Lumineers
S.FELICE (W.SCHULTZ,J.C.FRAITES,S.FELICE)
DUALTONE
CAPTAIN CUTS (GROUPLOVE)
CANVASBACK/ATLANTIC
GOIN DOWN/RAZOR & TIE
Florence + The Machine

REPUBLIC
D.COBB (J.L.AKERS,N.E.ZUERCHER,B.V.MACDONALD,S.M.CROSS)
PROSPECT PARK
45
39
44
THATS ALL I NEED
NEW
45
THE OTHER SIDE OF PARADISE
NEW
46
NEW PERSON, SAME OLD MISTAKES
J.GRAY (J.WATSON,D.BUSHNELL,J.GRAY)
49
47
BLACK HONEY
48
48
TAKE IT ALL
49
FIRE
50
ASHES OF EDEN
A.KASPER (L.P.KAKATY,D.BASSETT)
K.MCINTOSH,B.JONES (B.COURTNEY,D.JACKSON)
B.BURNLEY (B.BURNLEY)
TWELVE FOOT NINJA
Outlier
NEW
16
16
BANKS & STEELZ
Anything But Words
WARNER BROS.
17
DISTURBED
18
AMOS LEE
10
19
WEEZER
NEW
20
20
DELAIN
Moonbathers
A/B
12
Mechanical Resonance, Live!
16
Immortalized
54
Spirit
Weezer (White Album)
15
JOHN VARVATOS/REPUBLIC
WEEZER/CRUSH MUSIC/AG
NAPALM
21
KALEO
NEW
22
22
TESLA
21
23
RADIOHEAD
24
24
YOUNG THE GIANT
25
X AMBASSADORS 0
23
27
ELEKTRA/ATLANTIC/AG
TESLA ELECTRIC CO./MAILBOAT
XL
A Moon Shaped Pool
17
Home Of The Strange
VHS
57
FUELED BY RAMEN/AG
ROCK AIRPLAY
Artist
TITLE
LAST
WEEK
THIS
WEEK
#1 HEATHENS
1 WK
WAY DOWN WE GO
Green Day
Blink-182
19
Cage The Elephant
19
Bishop Briggs
23
11
Kaleo
28
18
ELEKTRA/ATLANTIC
BANG BANG
BORED TO DEATH
TROUBLE
RIVER
WARNER BROS.
DSP/RCA
WKS. ON
CHART
twenty one pilots
DARK NECESSITIES Red Hot Chili Peppers
TELEPORT/ISLAND/REPUBLIC
12
11
Metallica
The Pretty Reckless
24
Beck
14
Glass Animals
45
Tame Impala
46
Thrice
45
Pop Evil
48
49
1
7
DUALTONE
The Lumineers
31
WARNER BROS.
FUELED BY RAMEN/RRP
VIRGIN/CAPITOL
12
12
YOU DONT GET ME HIGH ANYMORE
13
13
13
HARDWIRED
15
14
14
TAKE ME DOWN
17
15
HANDCLAP
16
WOW
18
Judah & The Lion
Weezer
20
Volbeat
22
12
14
36
VOLKANIK
Bastille
32
HOLLYWOOD
15
15
Phantogram
The Dirty Heads
VIRGIN/CAPITOL
NEW
GOOD GRIEF
Breaking Benjamin
11
WARNER BROS.
11
11
24
G&G/EONE
14
The Getaway
11
Grimes
Barns Courtney
21
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
DUALTONE
34
VAGRANT/BMG/ADA
13
Cleopatra
twenty one pilots
42
E.PALMQUIST (J.BRECKENRIDGE,E.BRECKENRIDGE,T.TERANISHI,D.KENSRUE)
33
THE LUMINEERS
RIDE
Glass Animals
MODULAR/INTERSCOPE
PANIC! AT THE DISCO 0 Death Of A Bachelor
10
12
39
WOLF TONE/HARVEST
ATLANTIC/AG
Switchfoot
D.BAYLEY (D.BAYLEY)
HARD LOVE
NEEDTOBREATHE
GG
14
FIVE SEVEN
DANGERBIRD
ALL WE EVER KNEW The Head And The Heart
30
Stay Gold
Prophets Of Rage
WOLF TONE/HARVEST
ATO
16
D.BAYLEY (D.BAYLEY,B.MCFADDEN)
Pilots In
Flight
27
PROPHETS OF RAGE/CAROLINE
10
Shinedown
LOWERCASE PEOPLE/VANGUARD/CONCORD
GRIMES (C.BOUCHER)
34
68
ATLANTIC
MEDIEVAL WARFARE
35
PROPHETS OF RAGE
WKS. ON
CHART
OPHELIA
37
D.BASSETT (B.SMITH,D.BASSETT)
43
34
Korn
ROADRUNNER/RRP
Five Finger Death Punch
34
33
15
K.CHURKO (IVAN MOODY,Z.BATHORY,J.HOOK,JEREMY HEYDE,C.KAEL)
30
30
22
36
CLETUS THE VAN/CAROLINE
B.OBRIEN (T.MORELLO,T.COMMERFORD,B.WILK,CHUCK D,L.FREESE,H.SHOCKLEE,E.SADLER)
11
Judah & The Lion
N.RASKULINECZ (J.D.BUCK,J.SHAFFER,B.WELCH,R.ARVIZU,R.LUZIER)
SWITCHFOOT,J.FIELDS (J.FOREMAN,T.FOREMAN)
Coldplay
The Pretty Reckless
K.KHANDWALA (T.MOMSEN,B.PHILLIPS)
SEASON 2 EPISODE 3
44
ATLANTIC
N.RASKULINECZ (KORN)
42
47
FUELED BY RAMEN/RRP
D.BAYLEY (D.BAYLEY)
LIVE IT WELL
REPUBLIC
IDOVSTHEWORLD (W.RINEHART,N.RINEHART,I.ZMISHLANY,W.PHILLIPS)
41
NEW
DIRTY HIT/INTERSCOPE
THE SLEEPY JACKSON/ASTRALWERKS/CAPITOL
M.RONSON (V.F.BELL,A.ARSLANI,M.D.RONSON,D.AUERBACH)
43
NEW
FONOGRAF RECORDS/CAPITOL
R.REED,J.CARTER,S.BARTHEL,D.WILSON (E.FREDERIC,J.CARTER,S.BARTHEL,D.WILSON,E.BOCAGE,A.SCRAMUZZA)
48
15
21
G.DANIEL,M.CROSSEY,M.HEALY (M.HEALY,G.DANIEL,A.HANN,R.S.MACDONALD)
PROPHETS OF RAGE
16
Glass Animals
WOLF TONE/HARVEST
B.HANSEN (B.HANSEN)
40
17
DSP/RCA
D.BAYLEY (D.BAYLEY,T.TAFO)
42
Cage The Elephant
LIFE ITSELF
41
12
18
B.HOWES (J.L.COOPER,S.MOSLEY)
ASKING FOR IT
11
11
19
FEEL INVINCIBLE
39
20
WARNER BROS.
M.CREW,D.SMITH (D.SMITH,M.CREW)
35
10
10
BUTCH WALKER
Blink-182
D.AUERBACH (CAGE THE ELEPHANT,D.AUERBACH)
36
NEW
18
I APOLOGIZE
JOSEPH
TELEPORT/ISLAND/REPUBLIC
YOU DONT GET ME HIGH ANYMORE
38
99
Red Hot Chili Peppers
24
38
NEW
23
27
42
COLDPLAY 0
11
28
NEW
Bishop Briggs
SOMEBODY ELSE
47
30
23
SKILLET
10
Kaleo
ELEKTRA/ATLANTIC
23
25
NEW
39
One Sided War
RAT PAK
27
36
Blurryface
FUELED BY RAMEN/AG
BLINK-182
30
WOW
40
WOLF TONE/HARVEST
55
22
33
Unleashed
NEW
22
34
PROPHETS OF RAGE The Partys Over (EP)
The Lumineers
21
32
California
71
41
SG
39
MICHAEL SWEET
21
31
44
48
37
35
NEW
46
29
TWENTY ONE PILOTS
Disturbed
DUALTONE
J.JOYCE (THE HEAD AND THE HEART)
GREEN DAY (B.J.ARMSTRONG,GREEN DAY)
TROUBLE
G.FIDELMAN,J.HETFIELD,L.ULRICH (J.HETFIELD,L.ULRICH)
17
X Ambassadors
J.FELDMANN (M.HOPPUS,T.L.BARKER,J.FELDMANN,M.SKIBA)
18
22
twenty one pilots
DANGER MOUSE (A.KIEDIS,FLEA,C.SMITH,J.KLINGHOFFER,B.BURTON)
18
36
I.SCOTT,M.JACKSON (S.MCLAUGHLIN,I.SCOTT,M.JACKSON)
BANG BANG
#1 SOUNDTRACK Suicide Squad: The Album
KALEO,M.CROSSEY (J.JULIUSSON)
16
4 WK S
PARLOPHONE/ATLANTIC
R.REED (M.FITZPATRICK,S.HOLLANDER,N.SCAGGS,J.M.KING,J.KARNES,J.M.WICKS,J.RUZUMNA,E.FREDERIC)
B.WALKER (F. MERCURY)
Coldplay
THE LUMINEERS,S.FELICE (W.SCHULTZ,J.C.FRAITES)
10
1
HOT
SHOT
DEBUT
10
K.CHURKO (P.SIMON)
HANDCLAP
11
FUELED BY RAMEN/RRP
THIS
WEEK
STARGATE,R.SIMPSON (G.R.BERRYMAN,J.M.BUCKLAND,W.CHAMPION,C.A.J.MARTIN,M.S.ERIKSEN,T.E.HERMANSEN,M.J.TOVAR,V.T.YARD,S.ZANT)
UNSTEADY
Title
LAST
WEEK
59
HYMN FOR THE WEEKEND 0
M.ELIZONDO (T.JOSEPH)
WKS. ON
CHART
FUELED BY RAMEN/RRP
STRESSED OUT 4
PEAK
POS.
twenty one pilots
ALEX DA KID (A.GRANT,D.CARTER,C.J.THOMAZ,D.SERMON,D.REYNOLDS,B.MCKEE,D.PLATZMAN,R.B.HALL II,T.GRIFFIN JR,S.N.HARRIS)
DG
JABARI JACOBS
THIS
WEEK
REPUBLIC
BLACKENED/Q PRIME
GOIN DOWN/RAZOR & TIE
FONOGRAF RECORDS/CAPITOL
16
17
SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN Young The Giant
22
18
18
TAKE IT ALL BACK
25
19
19
KING OF THE WORLD
19
20
THE DEVILS BLEEDING CROWN
21
WELCOME TO YOUR LIFE
24
22
22
TAKE IT ALL
23
23
CASUAL PARTY
27
24
THATS ALL I NEED
25
PROPHETS OF RAGE
20
26
FUELED BY RAMEN/RRP
CLETUS THE VAN/CAROLINE

WEEZER/CRUSH MUSIC
REPUBLIC
CANVASBACK/ATLANTIC
G&G/EONE
AMERICAN/INTERSCOPE
FIVE SEVEN
PROPHETS OF RAGE/CAROLINE
Grouplove
Pop Evil
15
Band Of Horses
15
The Dirty Heads
16
Prophets Of Rage
Twenty One Pilots (above)

lead the Rock Airplay
chart for a second time as
Heathens rises 2-1 with a 7
percent bump to 13million
rock radio audience
impressions, according to
Nielsen Music. Previously,
Stressed Out led for seven
weeks (beginning Dec. 12,
2015). Heathens leads the
Alternative Airplay chart for
a second week, while the
Pilots Ride does the same
on Mainstream Top 40;
never before has an act led
the two lists simultaneously
with different songs.
Glass Animals roar
in at No. 2 on Top Rock
Albums and Alternative
Albums as sophomore
effort How to Be a Human
Being bows with 12,000
sold, the English rockers
best sales week. The acts
first album, Zaba, peaked at
Nos. 27 and 21, respectively,
on the charts (dated July
11, 2015, more than a year
after the albums June 2014
release; it sold as many
as 3,000 in a week). The
group slots four tracks on
Hot Rock Songs, with the
new sets lead single, Life
Itself, leaping 37-21, up by
128percent to 946,000 U.S.
streams.
After Jimmy Eat Worlds
2001 hit The Middle
landed a synch in one
of Taylor Swifts Apple
commercials earlier this
year, the group returns to
the Alternative and Rock
Airplay charts with new
single Sure and Certain,
debuting at Nos. 31 and
43, respectively (1.2 million
impressions on the latter
list). The quartet charts
its first title on Alternative
since 2013 and its highest
debut since 2010. New
album Integrity Blues
arrives Oct. 21.
Kevin Rutherford
D a t a f o r w e e k o f 0 9 . 1 7. 2 0 1 6
HOT ROCK SONGS: The weeks most popular current rock songs, ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen Music, sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music and streaming activity data by online music sources tracked by Nielsen Music. Songs are defined as current if they are newly-released titles, or songs receiving
widespread airplay and/or sales activity for the first time. TOP ROCK ALBUMS: The weeks most popular rock albums, ranked by sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music. Albums are defined as current if they are less than 18 months old or older than 18 months but still residing in the Billboard 200s top 100. ROCK AIRPLAY: The weeks most popular
rock songs, ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen Music. Stations are electronically monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. See Charts Legend on billboard.com/biz for complete rules and explanations. 2016, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved.
LAST
WEEK

DATA COMPILED BY
Rock
September 17
2016
TOP ROCK ALBUMS
HOT ROCK SONGS

2 WKS.
AGO
September 17
2016
R&B/Hip-Hop
RICHARD MARTIN
HOT R&B/HIP-HOP SONGS: The weeks most popular current R&B/hip-hop songs, ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen Music, sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music and streaming activity data by online music sources tracked by Nielsen Music. Songs are defined as current
if they are newly-released titles, or songs receiving widespread airplay and/or sales activity for the first time. TOP R&B/HIP-HOP ALBUMS: The weeks most popular current R&B/hip-hop albums, ranked by sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music. Albums are defined as current if they are less than 18
months old or older than 18 months but still residing in the Billboard 200s top 100. RAP ALBUMS: The weeks top-selling current rap albums, ranked by sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music. Stations are electronically monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. See Charts Legend on billboard.com/biz
for complete rules and explanations. 2016, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights r eserved. See Charts Legend on billboard.com/biz for complete rules and explanations. 2016, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved.
DATA COMPILED BY
D a t a f o r w e e k o f 0 9 . 1 7. 2 0 1 6
TOP R&B/HIP-HOP ALBUMS
HOT R&B/HIP-HOP SONGS

LAST
WEEK
THIS
WEEK
18 WK S
NEEDED ME 2
Artist
TITLE CERTIFICATION
2 WKS.
AGO
#1 ONE DANCE
Drake Featuring WizKid & Kyla
NINETEEN85,WIZKID,N.SHEBIB (A.GRAHAM,P. JEFFERIES,N.J.SHEBIB,A.I.BALOGUN,K.R.SMITH)
Rihanna
DJ MUSTARD (D.MCFARLANE,R.FENTY,N.AUDINO,L.HUGHES,K.ROHAIM,T.WARBRICK,A.FEENEY,B.E.HAZARD,C.HINSHAW JR.,D.RACHEL)
BROCCOLI
D.R.A.M. Featuring Lil Yachty
12
LUV
10
11
M.G.DEAN,DESIIGNER (S.SELBY, III,M.G.DEAN)
Desiigner
G.O.O.D./DEF JAM
10
DONT MIND 0
Kent Jones
19
DJ Khaled Featuring Jay Z & Future
10
NEW
Kehlani
13
CONTROLLA
11
11
10
NO LIMIT
12
10
11
TIIMMY TURNER
10
12
12
14
14
13
I GOT THE KEYS
13
13
14
GANGSTA
20
17
15
MONEY LONGER
15
15
16
THAT PART
CASHMERE CAT,BENNY BLANCO (M.A.HOIBERG,B.J.LEVIN,D.PETERSON,A.S.A.KELLY,W.B.J.PASSLEY,M.A.WOLFE,S.J.MARSDEN)
NINETEEN85,MAJID JORDAN (A.GRAHAM,K.M.KHALED,P. JEFFERIES,J.ULLMAN,A.ADAMS . . .)
MAD LOVE/INTERSCOPE
YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC/WE THE BEST/EPIC
MENACE (S.SELBY, III,A.KHAN)
G.O.O.D./DEF JAM
BOI-1DA,D.CHIN-QUEE,A.RITTER (A.GRAHAM,M.SAMUELS,D.CHIN-QUEE,A.RITTER,S.MCGREGOR,AQUAMAN . . .)
B.ALEXANDER,C.PERRY (U.RAYMOND IV,B.A.M.,C.PERRY,T.THOMAS,T.THOMAS,K.THOMAS,J.L.WILLIAMS)
K.JONES (D.K.JONES,M.VALENZANO,K.M.KHALED,A.C.LYONS,G.LEVERT,E.T.NICHOLAS,B.WHITE)
JMIKE,DJEMBA DJEMBA (SKYLAR GREY,J.M.COLEMAN,J.EVIGAN,J.E.LUTTRELL,K.A.PARRISH,A.SWANSON)
WE THE BEST/EPIC
MY PYT
Wale
THE DOPE BOYZ (O.AKINTIMEHIN,A.SANON,J.W.NELSON,J.INGRAM,Q.JONES III,M.GAYE,D.RITZ,O.BROWN)
CHILL BILL
MAYBACH/ATLANTIC
Rob $tone Featuring J. Davi$ & Spooks
PURPDOGG (J.ROBINSON,J.DAVIS,A.CARRILLO,B.HERRMANN)
18
20
WHY YOU ALWAYS HATIN?
22
20
21
WAT U MEAN (AYE, AYE, AYE)
25
23
22
FATHER STRETCH MY HANDS PT. 1
RCA
YG Featuring Drake & Kamaiyah
CT BEATS (K.D.R.JACKSON,C.E.THOMAS,K.JOHNSON,A.GRAHAM,A.MOON,T.W.TYRONE)
Dae Dae
MERCY,D.E.PEREZ (M.GOOLSBY,M.GIVENS,C.ALLEN)
NITTI BEATZ/PLAYMAKER/300
Kanye West
K.WEST,M.G.DEAN,R.RUBIN,METRO BOOMIN (K.O.WEST,S.R.S.MESCUDI,R.RUBIN,M.G.DEAN,N.GOLDSTEIN . . .)
SG
G.O.O.D./ROC-A-FELLA/DEF JAM
GRASS AINT GREENER
Chris Brown
4
16
19
19
15
6
18
14
20
12
14
22
9
Young Thug And Travis Scott Feat. Quavo
24
10
French Montana Featuring Drake
12
Chance The Rapper Feat. Lil Wayne & 2 Chainz
26
16
31
29
24
PICK UP THE PHONE
23
24
25
NO SHOPPING
VINYLZ,F.DUKES (TRAVIS $COTT,A.FEENEY,A.HERNANDEZ,J.L.WILLIAMS,Q.K.MARSHALL,B.T.HAZZARD,A.RITTER,M.G.DEAN)
RCA
300/ATLANTIC/GRAND HUSTLE/EPIC
MURDA BEATZ,CUEBEATZ (S.LINDSTROM,T.GOMRINGER,K.GOMRINGER,K.KHARBOUCH,A.GRAHAM)
30
31
26
NO PROBLEM
21
26
27
COME AND SEE ME
PARTYNEXTDOOR Featuring Drake
21
14
37
28
TOO MUCH SAUCE
DJ ESCO Featuring Future & Lil Uzi Vert
28
I.JACKSON,BRASSTRACKS (C.J.BENNETT,T.EPPS,D.CARTER,IAN JACKSON,C.RAYNE SZYMANSKI,C.OSTEEN)

N.SHEBIB (J.A.BRATHWAITE,A.GRAHAM,N.J.SHEBIB)
32
29
1 NIGHT
45
44
30
OOOUUU
17
19
31
WICKED
HOT SHOT
DEBUT
32
33
39
32
33
34
ARTIUM/DEF JAM
I Told You
11
GUCCI MANE
Everybody Looking
10
12
KEVIN GATES 0
Islah
31
18
13
13
G-EAZY
When Its Dark Out
39
14
14
YOUNG DOLPH
Rich Crack Baby
15
SCHOOLBOY Q
Blank Face LP
16
FANTASIA
The Definition Of...
17
MAXWELL
blackSUMMERSnight
18
BRYSON TILLER
14

WE THE BEST/EPIC

GUWOP/ATLANTIC/AG

G-EAZY/RVG/BPG/RCA
PAPER ROUTE EMPIRE
19/RCA
COLUMBIA
TRAPSOUL
TRAPSOUL/RCA
15
19
RAE SREMMURD
16
20
KEITH SWEAT
40
21
21
17
22
DARNAA
Dress To Impress
The Cure
Bad Behavior (EP)
BASELINE/KDS/RED ASSOCIATED LABELS
SQUARE BIZZY
PS
BIZZY BOY
DARNAA
49
Sremmlife 2
23
LOGIC
22
24
THE WEEKND 3 Beauty Behind The Madness
53
23
25
KENDRICK LAMAR To Pimp A Butterfly
77
DEF JAM
Bobby Tarantino
XO/REPUBLIC
RAP ALBUMS
LAST
WEEK
THIS
WEEK
NEW
Title
#1 DE LA SOUL and the ANONYMOUS NOBODY

1 WK
AOI/KOBALT
WKS. ON
CHART
DRAKE 2
NEW
33
YOUNG THUG
55
VINCE STAPLES
I Told You
Major Key
Views
18
JEFFERY
11
Young M.a.
30
Future
13
20
WYCLEF JEAN
Young Thug
32
TORY LANEZ
33
YOU WAS RIGHT
Lil Uzi Vert
27
12
DJ KHALED
34
DO YOU MIND
DJ Khaled Feat. Nicki Minaj, Chris Brown & August Alsina
32
NEW
88
FUTURISTIC
35
WISHING
DJ Drama Featuring Chris Brown, Skeme & Lyquin
35
GUCCI MANE
Everybody Looking
36
LOCKJAW
French Montana Featuring Kodak Black
10
KEVIN GATES 0
Islah
31
Anything But Words
When Its Dark Out
39
M.A. MUSIC/3D
J.LUELLEN (N.D.WILBURN,L.T.WAYNE,J.H.LUELLEN,D.OZCAN)
A-1/FREEBANDZ/EPIC
300/ATLANTIC
METRO BOOMIN (S.WOODS,L.T.WAYNE)
DJ KHALED,DJ NASTY,LVM (K.M.KHALED,O.T.MARAJ,C.M.BROWN,A.ALSINA, JR.,J.P.FELTON,N.D.WILBURN,W.L.ROBERTS II,K.COSSOM . . .)
J NAT (T.SIMMONS,C.M.BROWN,L.KIMBLE,B.MURRAY,D.MCALLISTER,J.JOSEPH,L.MORRISON)
BEN BILLION$ (B.DIEHL,K.M.KHALED,D.OCTAVE,K.KHARBOUCH)
37
36
43
38
SEX WITH ME
43
45
39
CAROLINE
40
41
WE THE BEST/EPIC
GENERATION NOW/EONE
23
11
NEW
300/ATLANTIC/AG
Prima Donna (EP)
ARTIUM/DEF JAM
WE THE BEST/EPIC

GUWOP/ATLANTIC/AG
49
1
21 Savage & Metro Boomin Featuring Future
37
NEW
11
11
BANKS & STEELZ
Rihanna
32
21
11
12
12
G-EAZY
Amine
39
NEW
13
13
YOUNG DOLPH
Rich Crack Baby
14
SCHOOLBOY Q
Blank Face LP
10
15
RAE SREMMURD
Sremmlife 2
NEW
16
16
SQUARE BIZZY
The Cure
17
LOGIC
Bobby Tarantino
18
KENDRICK LAMAR To Pimp A Butterfly
77
METRO BOOMIN (S.JOSEPH,L.T.WAYNE,N.D.WILBURN)
SLAUGHTER GANG
BOI-1DA,FRANK DUKES (J.A.BRATHWAITE,M.SAMUELS,A.FEENEY,A.HERNANDEZ,C.HANSEN,R.FENTY)
AMINE,I.P.MEJIA (A.A.DANIEL)
REPUBLIC
LOOK ALIVE
SHOD,MIKE WILL MADE-IT (A.I.S.BROWN,K.U.BROWN,M.L.WILLIAMS)
Rae Sremmurd
EARDRUMMER/INTERSCOPE
NEW
41
FLOYD MAYWEATHER
RE-ENTRY
42
HOLD UP
44
43
KEY TO THE STREETS
J.JAMES (R.L.BENNETT,Q.K.MARSHALL,K.K.BALL,M.ORR,J.JAMES)
THINK ITS A GAME
NEW
44
HARAMBE
NEW
45
GUWOP
NEW
46
ALL EYEZ
RE-ENTRY
47
LOVE ON THE BRAIN
42
48
48
BLACK BEATLES
37
46
49
WAKE UP
RE-ENTRY
50
CHILDS PLAY
47
Prima Donna (EP)
300/ATLANTIC/AG
29
38
35
EPIC
Lil Yachty
BURBERRY PERRY (P.MOISE,M.MCCOLLUM)
26
DJ ESCO (W.MOORE,X.DOTSON,N.D.WILBURN,S.WOODS)
34
28
CHANCE THE RAPPER
18
13
23
N.SEETHARAM (C.M.BROWN,N.SEETHARAM,F.BENTLEY,C.DOTSON,L.ANDERSON,B.J.TURNER, JR.)
Views
JEFFERY
12
Beyonce
AOI/KOBALT
10
10
14
PARKWOOD/COLUMBIA
PARKWOOD/COLUMBIA
13
MELO-X,B.KNOWLES,WYNTER GORDON,HIT-BOY (D.GORDON,S.RHODEN,B.KNOWLES,C.HOLLIS)
GG
ScHoolboy Q Featuring Kanye West
SORRY
BEYONCE
FUTURISTIC
13
TOP DAWG/INTERSCOPE
BOYS DONT CRY
31
15
CARDO ON THE BEAT,YEX,CUBEATZ (Q.M.HANLEY,R.LATOUR,D.JACKSON,K.GOMRINGER,T.GOMRINGER,M.SPEARS,K.O.WEST)
2 WK S
WKS. ON
CHART
ANTI
11
Major Key
Lil Uzi Vert
D.CANNON,M.RAW (S.WOODS,D.CANNON,J.HENRY)
DG
RCA
J.LUELLEN,DJ KHALED,JAKE ONE,G KOOP (K.M.KHALED,J.H.LUELLEN,J.DUTTON,R.MANDELL,N.D.WILBURN,S.C.CARTER)
24
36
NEW
Usher Featuring Young Thug
35
DJ KHALED
18
23
RIHANNA 2
PANDA
49
88
Drake
39
28
19
TORY LANEZ
25
Desiigner
FOR FREE
27
13
18
66
16
NEW
VINCE STAPLES
NEW
DJ Khaled Featuring Drake
16
7
10
17
3
6
21
55
YOUNG THUG
Tory Lanez
AG
18
DRAKE 2
Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa & Imagine Dragons With Logic & Ty Dolla $ign Feat. X Ambassadors
22
HOT
SHOT
DEBUT
ALEX DA KID (A.GRANT,D.CARTER,C.J.THOMAZ,D.SERMON,D.REYNOLDS,B.MCKEE,D.PLATZMAN . . .)
31
SUCKER FOR PAIN
18
33
19
22
Drake Featuring Rihanna
Lemonade
TOO GOOD
Blonde
THIS
WEEK
JGRAMM,K.R.BRUTUS,R.CHAHAYED (S.MASSENBURG-SMITH,M.MCCOLLUM)
#1 FRANK OCEAN
LAST
WEEK
Title
WKS. ON
CHART
NINETEEN85 (A.GRAHAM,R.FENTY,P. JEFFERIES,M.BIDAYE,D.CHIN-QUEE,A.MARTIN,A.SUTHERLAND,A.HERSHEY)
PEAK
POS.
26
13
Young Thug Feat. Travis Scott, Gucci Mane & Gunna
41
Beyonce
YFN Lucci Featuring Migos & Trouble
43
Young Thug
44
Young Thug Feat. Quavo, Offset & Young Scooter
45
46
Rihanna
30
Rae Sremmurd Featuring Gucci Mane
42
Fetty Wap
15
17
20
17
300/ATLANTIC
DIPLO,B.KNOWLES,E.KOENIG (T.W.PENTZ,E.KOENIG,B.KNOWLES,E.HAYNIE,J.TILLMAN,U.OSISIOMA EMENIKE . . .)
PARKWOOD/COLUMBIA
300/ATLANTIC
300/ATLANTIC
The Game Featuring Jeremih
S.STORCH (J.TAYLOR,J.P.FELTON,C.JONES,S.S.STORCH,D.AVENDANO)
FIFTH ADMENDMENT/BLOOD MONEY/EONE
F.BALL (F.BALL,J.ANGEL,R.FENTY)
MIKE WILL MADE-IT (A.I.S.BROWN,K.U.BROWN,M.L.WILLIAMS,R.DAVIS)

FRENZY BEATZ (W.J.MAXWELL II,K.HICKS)
N.SHEBIB (A.GRAHAM,N.J.SHEBIB,L.T.WAYNE,M.MORALES,D.ROBINSON,D.WIMBLEY)
EARDRUMMER/INTERSCOPE
RGF/300
Drake
13
WARNER BROS.
G-EAZY/RVG/BPG/RCA
PAPER ROUTE EMPIRE
BIZZY BOY
DEF JAM
19
19
MO3
17
20
20
FUTURE
14
21
YG
Still Brazy
11
18
22
NF
Therapy Session
19
23
SNOOP DOGG
Coolaid
12
24
ATMOSPHERE
Fishing Blues
NEW
25
25
LIGHTSHOW
Life Sentence 3
16
19
MO3 MEDIA
A-1/FREEBANDZ/EPIC
CAPITOL CMG
DOGGYSTYLE/EONE
RHYMESAYERS
EIGHTYSIX AMERICA
Shottaz Reloaded
12
DS2
59
Thugs
Trio Of
Top Five
Debuts
Young Thug (above)
becomes the first artist to
notch three top five debuts
on Rap Albums in 2016 as
his latest release, Jeffery,
enters at No. 3 with 18,000
copies sold in the week
ending Sept.1, according to
Nielsen Music.
Jeffery follows Im Up,
which debuted at No. 6 on
the Feb. 27 chart and sold
15,000 in its first week,
and Slime Season 3, which
bowed at No. 3 on April 16
with 22,000 sold.
The prolific Young Thug
(real name: Jeffery Lamar
Williams, hence the
albums title) charts four
Jeffery tracks on Hot R&B/
Hip-Hop Songs. The arrivals
are led by Wyclef Jean, at
No. 32, which enters with
the highest weekly U.S.
streams of any of the Jeffery
tracks (5.3 million).
Elsewhere, as a featured
act, Young Thug earns his
second top 10 on Hot R&B/
Hip-Hop Songs on Ushers
No Limit, which rises
11-10 in its 10th charting
week. The climb marks
Ushers 28th career top 10,
coming 21 years after his
first (Think of You reached
No.8 in 1995).
The highest debut on Top
R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is
De La Souls Kickstarterbacked album And the
Anonymous Nobody,
bowing at No. 3 with 21,000
copies sold (and at No. 1
on Top Rap Albums). Its
the veteran hip-hop acts
best showing on the Top
R&B/Hip-Hop Albums
list since 2000 when Art
Official Intelligence: Mosaic
Thump also landed at No. 3
(81,000).
While Anonymous
takes the top entry on the
sales-based charts, Young
Thugs Jeffery tops the rap
debuts on the all-genre,
multimetric Billboard 200,
opening at No. 8 with
37,000 equivalent units. De
La Souls set starts at No. 12
with 23,000.
Amaya Mendizabal
Artist
TITLE CERTIFICATION
#1 DUELE EL CORAZON
12 WK S
HASTA EL AMANECER
HOT SHOT
DEBUT
5
4
9
3
4
5
6
QUERIDA
Daddy Yankee
DJ URBA,ROME (R.L.AYALA RODRIGUEZ)
EL CARTEL
Farruko Featuring Ky-Mani Marley
MAFFIO,S.TORRES (C.E.REYES-ROSADO,C.PERALTA,K.MARLEY,R.FERNANDEZ,M.G.PEREZ)
14
RE-ENTRY
ARIOLA/SONY MUSIC LATIN
SHAKY SHAKY
HASTA QUE TE CONOCI
12
SONY MUSIC LATIN
Juan Gabriel
C.ANDERSON (JUAN GABRIEL,C.ANDERSON)
SONY MUSIC LATIN
J Balvin
A.RAMIREZ SUAREZ (J.A.OSORIO BALVIN,C.A.PATINO GOMEZ,R.D.CANO RIOS,R.RAMIREZ SUAREZ)
AY MI DIOS
CAPITOL LATIN/UMLE
Juan Gabriel
JUAN GABRIEL,C.ANDERSON (JUAN GABRIEL,C.ANDERSON)
AG
IAmChino Feat. Pitbull, Yandel & Chacal
DVLP,IAMCHINO,J.GOMEZ MARTINEZ (R.LAVADO MARTINEZ,L.VEGUILLA MALAVE,A.C.PEREZ...)
10
ASI FUE
#1 CNCO
1 WK
22
GG
JUAN GABRIEL
Los Duo 2
38
PS
JUAN GABRIEL Vestido de Etiqueta: Por Eduardo Magallanes
34
Carlos Vives & Shakira
RE-ENTRY
LA INDUSTRIA/SONY MUSIC LATIN
A.CASTRO,C.VIVES,SHAKIRA,L.F.OCHOA (C.VIVES,A.CASTRO,SHAKIRA)
BOBO
THIS
WEEK
HOT
SHOT
DEBUT
Nicky Jam
LA BICICLETA
LAST
WEEK
20
SONY MUSIC LATIN
MR. 305/SONY MUSIC LATIN
2
4
4
6
Title
WKS. ON
CHART
SAGA WHITEBLACK (N.RIVERA CAMINERO,C.MENA,J.D.MEDINA VELEZ,T.THOMAS,T.THOMAS)
CHILLAX
PEAK
POS.
Enrique Iglesias Featuring Wisin
C.PAUCAR,LUNY TUNES (S.M.PRIMERA MUSSETT,E.M.IGLESIAS,F.SALDANA,J.L.MORERA LUNA...)
14
1
18
33
17
46
20
Primera Cita
SONY MUSIC LATIN

FONOVISA/UMLE
FONOVISA/UMLE
44
RE
55
JUAN GABRIEL & VARIOUS
LA MAQUINARIA NORTENA
Generacion Maquinaria Est. 2006.
RE
77
JUAN GABRIEL & VARIOUS
Juan Gabriel... El Diablo y Sus Divas
25
NEW
Juan Gabriel: Duos & Interpretaciones
16
EGC
SONY MUSIC LATIN
AZTECA/FONOVISA/UMLE
SONY MUSIC LATIN
LOS PLEBES DEL RANCHO DE ARIEL CAMACHO
J BALVIN
10
10
10
JOAN SEBASTIAN Mis Numero 1... Gracias Por Tanto Amor
NEW
11
11
LOS PALOMINOS
Piensalo
12
12
SELENA
Lo Mejor de...
75
Lecciones Para El Corazon
57
Recuerdame Bonito
DEL/SONY MUSIC LATIN
36
18
Maluma Featuring Yandel
26
12
13
13
JULION ALVAREZ Y SU NORTENO BANDA
Juan Gabriel
45
11
14
JOAN SEBASTIAN
11
12
EL PERDEDOR
RE-ENTRY
13
ABRAZAME MUY FUERTE
10
10
14
LA CARRETERA
Prince Royce
15
15
BANDA LOS SEBASTIANES DE MAZATLAN, SINALOA.
15
YA ME ENTERE
Reik & Nicky Jam
18
35
16
16
ROCIO DURCAL
17
16
43
KEVIN ADG,CHAN EL GENIO (J.L.LONDONO ARIAS,B.SNAIDER LEZCANO CHAVERRA,K.MAURICIO JIMENEZ,M.LA SENSA)

E.MAGALLANES (JUAN GABRIEL)
17
AMOR DEL BUENO
18
RE-ENTRY
19
FONOVISA/UMLE
DG SG
A.C. (M.RODRIGUEZ VINCENTE,S.A.CASTILLO VASQUEZ,S.DOMINGUEZ,R.M.GOMEZ)
AMOR ETERNO
JUAN GABRIEL (JUAN GABRIEL)
ME ESTA GUSTANDO
18
17
21
NUNCA ME OLVIDES
NEW
ANDALUZ/DISA/UMLE
SOLA
20
22
Calibre 50
J.TIRADO CASTANEDA (A.RAMOS,J.O.TARAZON,K.CERVANTES)
14
18
SONY MUSIC LATIN
Juan Gabriel Featuring Marc Anthony
G.FARIAS (JUAN GABRIEL)
13
23
SONY MUSIC LATIN
K.CIBRIAN,SAGA (J.RAMIREZ,PAMBO,N.RIVERA CAMINERO)
YO TE RECUERDO
43
D.LORA,L.CASTANEDA (G.R.ROJAS,D.SANTACRUZ)
16
SONY MUSIC LATIN
OTRA VEZ
18
Juan Gabriel
19
Banda Los Recoditos

DISA/UMLE
Yandel
V.V.MOORE (L.VEGUILLA MALAVE,V.V.MOORE)
16
Becky G
KEMOSABE/RCA/SONY MUSIC LATIN
A.LIZARRAGA (S.APONTE,D.E.PEREZ,C.VALDIVIA)
16
SONY MUSIC LATIN
Zion & Lennox Featuring J Balvin
A.RAMIREZ SUAREZ (R.RAMIREZ SUAREZ,F.G.ORTIZ TORRES,G.E.PIZARRO,J.A.OSORIO BALVIN,R.D.CANO RIOS)
WARNER LATINA
13
18
17
18
EL NOA NOA
Juan Gabriel
23
12
15
24
ME VA A PESAR La Arrolladora Banda el Limon de Rene Camacho
19
19
13
25
DE PIES A CABEZA
Mana & Nicky Jam
13
22
21
26
SAFARI
J Balvin Featuring Pharrell Williams, BIA & Sky
21
26
19
27
TE DIRAN
La Adictiva Banda San Jose de Mesillas
19
11
24
23
28
DEJA QUE TE BESE
Alejandro Sanz Featuring Marc Anthony
23
28
26
29
SI NO TE QUIERE
Ozuna Featuring Arcangel & Farruko
26
29
28
30
QUISIERA
CNCO
27
32
25
31
YO SI ME ENAMORE
La Septima Banda
25
32
LA FRONTERA
Juan Gabriel Feat. Julion Alvarez & J. Balvin
32
33
ALGO CONTIGO
28
15
34
IMAGINAR
35
DESDE CUANDO NO ME QUIERES?
Banda Carnaval
36
QUIEN TE ENTIENDE
Crecer German
NEW
30
34
31
30
27
31
34
39
F.CAMACHO TIRADO (H.PALENCIA CISNEROS,G.CABRERA INZUNZA)
SAGA,F.OLVERA,G.NORIEGA (N.RIVERA CAMINERO,A.GONZALEZ TRUJILLO,J.F.E.OLVERA SIERRA)

P.L.WILLIAMS (J.A.OSORIO BALVIN,BIA,P.L.WILLIAMS,R.RAMIREZ SUAREZ,J.EDUARDO HUERTA UECKE)
A.VALDES (I.CHAVEZ ESPINOZA)
L.LUNA DIAZ (L.L.DIAZ)
Gente de Zona
MAGNUS/SONY MUSIC LATIN
Victor Manuelle + Yandel
R.SANCHEZ (L.VEGUILLA MALAVE,V.M.RUIZ,V.V.MOORE)
KIYAVI
J.TIRADO CASTANEDA (I.CHAVEZ ESPINOZA)
DISA/UMLE
C.GERMAN (Y.MEDINA BELTRAN,J.ALEDJANDRE)
35
38
SI ELLA QUISIERA
40
BRAVA/FONOVISA/UMLE
MOTIFF (A.HERNANDEZ DELGADO,R. M.MARTINEZ AMEY,M.CORAO,A.GONZALEZ ARROYO)
35
44
SONY MUSIC LATIN
FONOVISA/UMLE
37
40
UNIVERSAL MUSIC LATINO/UMLE
LOS LEGENDARIOS,WISIN,D.CABRERA (J.L.LONDONO ARIAS,V.DELGADO,J.L.MORERA LUNA)
29
39
CAPITOL LATIN/UMLE
RIMAS/VP ENTERTAINMENT
27
32
WARNER LATINA
ANVAL/SONY MUSIC LATIN
A.SANZ,MARC ANTHONY (A.SANZ,MARC ANTHONY,O.E.HERNANDEZ VILLEGAS,G.H.VILLEGAS)
TODO O NADA
33
DISA/UMLE
FONOVISA/UMLE
A.OLIVAS (A.OLIVAS)
Alfredo Olivas
Justin Quiles
SAHUARO/SONY MUSIC LATIN
IAMCHINO,DEVELOP (J.R.QUILES)
RICH/CINQ
A DONDE VOY
Cosculluela Featuring Daddy Yankee
MONTANA,FRANK FUSSION (A.LOZADA-ALGARIN,E.F.VAZQUEZ,E.ROSA CINTRON,F.COLLAZO CASIANO,J.L.OQUENDO,J.COSCULLUELA,J.GOMEZ)
AG
BAILAR
WARNER LATINA
Deorro Featuring Elvis Crespo
Apague La Luz y Escuche
21
VARIOUS ARTISTS Las Bandas Romanticas de America 2016
32
METAMORFOSIS/SONY MUSIC LATIN

FONOVISA/UMLE
21
22
22
REIK
24
23
23
ANA GABRIEL Mi Regalo, Mis Numero 1...
68
16
24
CHALINO SANCHEZ Mis Numero 1... El Rey Del Corrido
15
25
BANDA SINALOENSE MS DE SERGIO LIZARRAGA
30
SONY MUSIC LATIN
Des / Amor
SONY MUSIC LATIN

SONY MUSIC LATIN
LIZOS
Que Bendicion
LATIN DIGITAL SONGS

Artist
TITLE
LAST
WEEK
THIS
WEEK
9 WK S
Nicky Jam
33
DUELE EL CORAZON Enrique Iglesias Feat. Wisin
20
LA BICICLETA
14
NEW
#1 HASTA EL AMANECER
LA INDUSTRIA/SONY MUSIC LATIN
SONY MUSIC LATIN
Carlos Vives & Shakira
SONY MUSIC LATIN
Juan Gabriel
1
3
RE
YO TE RECUERDO Juan Gabriel Feat. Marc Anthony
NEW
ABRAZAME MUY FUERTE
Juan Gabriel
NEW
HASTA QUE TE CONOCI
Juan Gabriel
SAFARI
J Balvin Feat. Pharrell Williams, BIA & Sky
4
NEW
FONOVISA/UMLE

CAPITOL LATIN/UMLE
ASI FUE
Juan Gabriel
1
19
12
10
AY MI DIOS IAmChino Feat. Pitbull, Yandel & Chacal
21
16
11
SHAKY SHAKY
Daddy Yankee
19
35
12
EL PERDON Nicky Jam & Enrique Iglesias
84
13
BAILANDO
Enrique Iglesias Feat. Descemer Bueno & Gente de Zona
129
14
ANDAS EN MI CABEZA Chino & Nacho Feat. Daddy Yankee
28
15
DANZA KUDURO
316
NEW
16
POR QUE ME HACES LLORAR?
Juan Gabriel
17
EL NOA NOA
Juan Gabriel
18
AMOR ETERNO
Juan Gabriel
10
19
GINZA
13
20
VIVIR MI VIDA
NEW
21
RCA/SONY MUSIC LATIN
22
BAILAR
CHILLAX
34
27
14
MR. 305/SONY MUSIC LATIN

EL CARTEL
CODISCOS/LA INDUSTRIA/SONY MUSIC LATIN

REPUBLIC/UMLE
MACHETE/UMLE
39
16
23
CARBON FIBER/SONY MUSIC LATIN
38
NEW
24
NO TENGO DINERO
A.B. Quintanilla III & Kumbia Kings
50
14
25
HIPS DONT LIE
Shakira Feat. Wyclef Jean
45
ELLA Y YO Pepe Quintana Feat. Farruko x Anuel Aa x Tempo x Bryant Myers x Almighty
46
TE QUISE OLVIDAR
LIZOS
MAMBO KINGZ (C.E.REYES-ROSADO,A.MOSQUEDA,D.SANCHEZ BADILLO,B.ROHENA SOSA,E.GAZMEY SANTIAGO)
UNA VISION QUINTANA
Juan Gabriel Featuring Alejandro Fernandez

FONOVISA/UMLE
F.RUIZ ISLAS (J.C.BRACAMONTESRODRIGUEZ,J.A.DEL VILLAR)

DEL
FRANK REYES Y ASSOCIADOS
Intocable
R.MUNOZ (L.G.PADILLA)
GOOD I/UMLE
Christian Daniel Featuring Jerry Rivera
NOT LISTED (CHRISTIAN DANIEL,A.CASTRO,E. BARRERA)
CDF/SUMMA
WKS. ON
CHART
QUERIDA
Frank Reyes
36
RICARDO ARJONA
36
WARNER LATINA
Banda Sinaloense MS de Sergio Lizarraga
50
20
42
TENGO QUE COLGAR
NEW
Ulices Chaidez y Sus Plebes
44
VINE A DECIR
19
De La Ghetto
C.A.PATINO,A.RAMIREZ SUAREZ (R.CASTILLO)
49
Visualizate
MAGNUS/SONY MUSIC LATIN
46
37
40
GENTE DE ZONA
SONY MUSIC LATIN
17
41
38
19
34
ACERCATE
QUIEREME (AMAME)
13
17
43
COMO SANAR
14
REMEX
37
39
48
18
18
JUAN GABRIEL Te Acuerdas: 20 Nostalgicas
SONY MUSIC LATIN
42
17
RE
39
A.CASTRO,E.BARRERA (J.L.LONDONO ARIAS,A.CASTRO,E. BARRERA)
50
Yo Te Esperare
SIN CONTRATO
ANDAMOS EN EL RUEDO
Duetos
SONY MUSIC LATIN
42
42
Maluma Featuring Fifth Harmony
NEW
47
Luces Camara y Accion
ULTRA
CRITERIA/FUTURO SONICO/CONCORD PICANTE/CONCORD/UNIVERSAL
45
PLATA/FONOVISA/UMLE
41
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE RAIN? (GRACIAS AL SOL)
42
MUSART/BALBOA/SONY MUSIC LATIN
Juan Gabriel
41
NEW
12
DISA/UMLE
NEW
S.LIZARRAGA (E.MUNOZ)
27
14
CAPITOL LATIN/UMLE
40
DEORRO,J.ORROSQUIETA,M.THEANNE,E.BEGAZO (E.ORROSQUIETA,E.CRESPO,R.FERNANDEZ)
G.FARIAS (J.FOGERTY)
27
30
SIGGNO
23
E.MAGALLANES,D.PERSHING (JUAN GABRIEL,D.PERSHING)
10
M MUSIC & ENTERTAINMENT GROUP/FREDDIE
LIZOS
26
Energia
MUSART/BALBOA/SONY MUSIC LATIN
S.LIZARRAGA (H.PALENCIA CISNEROS)
Recuerden Mi Estilo
CAPITOL LATIN/UMLE
Banda Sinaloense MS de Sergio Lizarraga
Alunizando
Juan Gabriel
JUAN GABRIEL (JUAN GABRIEL)
WKS. ON
CHART
EL GRAN COMBO DE PUERTO RICO
10
ME VAS A EXTRANAR
RE-ENTRY
COURTESY OF SONY MUSIC LATIN
THIS
WEEK
NEW
NEW
15
Don Omar & Lucenzo
YANIS/ORFANATO/MACHETE/UMLE
FONOVISA/UMLE

CAPITOL LATIN/UMLE
SONY MUSIC LATIN
SIEMPRE EN MI MENTE
EPIC
58
Marc Anthony
176
Juan Gabriel
1
19
Farruko Feat. Ky-Mani Marley
CAPITOL LATIN/UMLE
CNCO (above), the boy

band formed on the 2015
reality competition show
La Banda, crashes in at
No. 1 on the Top Latin
Albums chart with debut
effort Primera Cita. It bows
with 11,000 copies sold in
the week ending Sept. 1,
according to Nielsen Music,
the largest sales week for
a Latin album in more than
a year.
The last time an album
scored a bigger sales frame
was on June 6, 2015, when
Gerardo Ortizs Hoy Mas
Fuerte bowed atop the
chart with 20,000 sold.
Meanwhile, Juan
Gabriels death on Aug.27
caused a spike in sales and
streams of the Mexican
singer-songwriters
repertoire. His U.S. album
sales jumped to 37,000 in
the week ending Sept. 1,
up 846 percent from the
previous week. Five of his
albums dot the Top Latin
Albums chart, with four in
the tallys top 10. Los Duo 2
ranks the highest, hopping
5-2 (up 1,412 percent
to 9,000 copies). He
concurrently holds the top
nine spots on Latin Catalog
Albums (led by his former
Top Latin Albums No. 1, Mis
Numero 1 ... 40 Aniversario,
with 9,000 copies, up
1,370percent).
On Hot Latin Songs,
Gabriels classic 1984 track
Querida debuts at No. 4.
(Hot Latin Songs launched
in 1986, and its first No. 1
was Gabriels Yo No Se
Que Me Paso.) Its his
highest-charting song since
2001s Abrazame Muy
Fuerte reached No. 1.
In total for the week,
Gabriels on-demand
audio and video streams
jumped 1,099 percent
to 52.9 million, while his
digital song sales surged
3,045percent to 54,000.
For more on Gabriel, see
page 24.
Amaya Mendizabal
J Balvin
Deorro Feat. Elvis Crespo
ULTRA
CNCO
Sizzles;
Gabriel
Gains
1
348
D a t a f o r w e e k o f 0 9 . 1 7. 2 0 1 6
HOT LATIN SONGS: The weeks most popular current Latin songs, ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen Music, sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music and streaming activity data by online music sources tracked by Nielsen Music. Songs are defined as current if they are newly-released titles, or songs receiving widespread
airplay and/or sales activity for the first time. TOP LATIN ALBUMS: The weeks most popular current Latin albums, ranked by sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music. Albums are defined as current if they are less than 18 months old or older than 18 months but still residing in the Billboard 200s top 100. LATIN DIGITAL SONGS: The weeks top-downloaded
Latin songs, ranked by sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music. See Charts Legend on billboard.com/biz for complete rules and explanations. 2016, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved.
LAST
WEEK

DATA COMPILED BY
Latin
September 17
2016
TOP LATIN ALBUMS
HOT LATIN SONGS

2 WKS.
AGO
Christian/Gospel
September 17
2016
PEDRO BLANCO
HOT CHRISTIAN SONGS: The weeks most popular current Christian songs, ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen Music, sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music and streaming activity data by online music sources tracked by Nielsen Music. TOP CHRISTIAN ALBUMS: The weeks top-selling current Christian albums, ranked by sales data as
compiled by Nielsen Music. HOT GOSPEL SONGS: The weeks most popular current gospel songs, ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen Music, sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music and streaming activity data by online music sources tracked by Nielsen Music. TOP GOSPEL ALBUMS: The weeks top-selling current gospel albums,
ranked by sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music. Albums are defined as current if they are less than 18 months old or older than 18 months but still residing in the Billboard 200s top 100. See Charts Legend on billboard.com/biz for complete rules and explanations. 2016, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved.
HOT CHRISTIAN SONGS

2 WKS.
AGO
THIS
WEEK
TOP CHRISTIAN ALBUMS

Artist
TITLE CERTIFICATION
25
SKILLET
155
EYE OF THE STORM
OCEANS (WHERE FEET MAY FAIL)
Lauren Daigle
CENTRICITY
for KING & COUNTRY
TEDD T.,S.MOSLEY,FOR KING & COUNTRY (L.SMALLBONE,J.SMALLBONE,S.MOSLEY,T.TJORNHOM,B.BACKUS)
FEEL INVINCIBLE
19
15
CHAIN BREAKER
BREATHE
Hillsong UNITED
HILLSONG/SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG
P.MABURY (L.DAIGLE,P.MABURY,M.R.FARREN)
DEAR YOUNGER ME
GOTEE
M.G.CHISLETT (M.CROCKER,J.HOUSTON,S.LIGTHELM)
PRICELESS
HST/EMI NASHVILLE/CAPITOL CMG
FERVENT/WORD-CURB
MercyMe
FAIR TRADE
Skillet
Zach Williams
B.GLOVER,D.GARCIA (B.MILLARD,M.SCHEUCHZER,N.COCHRAN,R.SHAFFER,B.GRAUL,D.A.GARCIA,B.GLOVER)
B.HOWES (J.L.COOPER,S.MOSLEY)
HEAR IT LOUD/ATLANTIC/WORD-CURB
J.L.SMITH (J.L.SMITH,M.L.C.FIELDES,Z.WILLIAMS)
ESSENTIAL/PLG
Jonny Diaz
C.COPELIN (J.DIAZ,J.L.SMITH,T.WOOD)
CENTRICITY
55
Title
TRUST IN YOU
ARTIST
Ryan Stevenson Featuring GabeReal
R.SKAGGS,B.HERMS (H.SCOTT,E.L.WEISBAND,B.HERMS)
THIS
WEEK
19
7 WK S
LAST
WEEK
WKS. ON
CHART
Hillary Scott & The Scott Family
#1 THY WILL
B.FOWLER (R.STEVENSON,B.FOWLER)
PEAK
POS.
HOT
SHOT
DEBUT
#1 MICHAEL SWEET
1 WK
Unleashed
HILLARY SCOTT & THE SCOTT FAMILY Love Remains
44
NEEDTOBREATHE
HEAR IT LOUD/ATLANTIC/WORD-CURB
HST/EMI NASHVILLE/CAPITOL CMG
HARD LOVE
ATLANTIC/WORD-CURB
23
LAUREN DAIGLE
17
JOEY + RORY
15
NEW
77
UNSPOKEN
12
NEW
88
SELAH
99
GAITHER VOCAL BAND Better Together
FOR KING & COUNTRY RUN WILD. LIVE FREE. LOVE STRONG.
103
42
NEW
CURB/WORD-CURB
Greatest Hymns, Vol. 2
GAITHER/CAPITOL CMG
11
CHRIST IN ME
B.HERMS (J.CAMP,B.HERMS)
STOLEN PRIDE/SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG
Jeremy Camp
30
36
11
11
13
11
12
THE GOD I KNOW
Love & The Outcome
11
20
12
12
MERCYME
13
13
UNITED PURSUIT Looking For A Savior (EP)
13
THE LION AND THE LAMB
14
JESUS
15
18
18
16
ONE STEP AWAY
12
14
17
NEVER TOO FAR GONE
18
MENDED
25
19
20
21
20
SPARROWS
17
19
21
WHAT YOU WANT
22
MY VICTORY
23
LIVE IT WELL
27
24
23
22
56
Casting Crowns
16
12
16
HILLSONG UNITED Of Dirt And Grace: Live From The Land
Jordan Feliz
12
24
14
17
17
NF
25
MAGNIFY
5 WK S
MADE A WAY
BETTER
19
25
Jason Gray
20
22
13
20
SWITCHFOOT Where The Light Shines Through
Tenth Avenue North
17
15
23
21
21
JEREMY CAMP
I Will Follow
82
22
JORDAN FELIZ
The River
19
Children Of God
16
Here As In Heaven
30
Mansion
75
REUNION/PLG
Crowder
SIXSTEPS/SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG
22
23
23
14
25
ELEVATION WORSHIP
25
25
25
25
NF
PEAK
POS.
WKS. ON
CHART
LAST
WEEK
THIS
WEEK
41
NEW
Travis Greene
38
NEW
Hezekiah Walker
26
We Are Messengers
WORD-CURB
18
MOTOWN GOSPEL
RCA INSPIRATION
D.LAWRENCE,H.WALKER (J.CLAYBORN,H.WALKER,G.HATCHER)
AZUSA/EONE
Jekalyn Carr
A.CARR (A.J.CARR)
LUNJEAL
25
RE
Jermaine Dolly
30
VARIOUS ARTISTS
31
BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY
LIGHT
D.MCCLURKIN (D.MCCLURKIN)
RCA INSPIRATION
10
TRAVIS GREENE
11
11
WILLIAM MURPHY
12
KIRK FRANKLIN
13
TASHA COBBS
2
14
10
11
JUST TO KNOW HIM Charles Jenkins & Fellowship Chicago Feat. Byron Cage
11
18
10
12
11
12
BLESS THE LORD Anthony Brown & group therAPy Feat. Doretha Dodi Sampson
10
23
C.JENKINS,R.EAST (C.JENKINS,R.EAST)
A.J.BROWN,J.SAVAGE (A.J.BROWN)
KEY OF A/VMAN/TYSCOT
Brian Courtney Wilson
A.W.LINDSEY (B.C.WILSON,A.W.LINDSEY)
MOTOWN GOSPEL
Damon Little
D.K.LITTLE (D.K.LITTLE)
20
19
17
#YDIA
18
FATHER JESUS SPIRIT
NEW
INSPIRED PEOPLE
LITTLE WORLD/BLACKSMOKE/WORLDWIDE
13
L.B.HOSKINS (L.B.HOSKINS,I.JENKINS,F.SANDERS)
BLACKSMOKE/WORLDWIDE
F.HAMMOND,C.RODGERS (F.HAMMOND,D.CLARK,S.SUMMONS)
Fred Hammond
F HAMMOND/RCA INSPIRATION
19
WINNING
Charles Jenkins
INSPIRED PEOPLE
15
13
16
16
ANTHONY BROWN & GROUP THERAPY
21
11
17
TODD DULANEY
CHARLES BUTLER & TRINITY
24
21
21
22
RE-ENTRY
23
YOU DESERVE IT
J.J. Hairston & Youthful Praise
21
RE-ENTRY
25
-
24
JOY
VaShawn Mitchell
24
21
25
OVERFLOW (LET YOUR SPIRIT)
Bryan Andrew Wilson Feat. Roderick Giles & Grace
20
D a t a f o r w e e k o f 0 9 . 1 7. 2 0 1 6
32
19
19
21
BRYANS SONGS/CE
20
Troy Sneed
B.A.WILSON,B.R.BROWN (B.A.WILSON)
A Worshippers Heart
19
MOVE FORWARD
22
EONE WORSHIP/EONE
GI
ROYALTY
VMAN/MOTOWN GOSPEL
59
18
21
V.MITCHELL (P.BARRETT,T.BROWN)
Everyday Jesus
KEY OF A/VMAN/TYSCOT/TASEIS
14
21
JAMESTOWN/EONE
LIGHT/EONE
NEW
22
J.J.HAIRSTON (D.BLOOM,C.VAUGHN,P.D.REED,J.J.HAIRSTON)
Fill This House
18
20
20
EMTRO GOSPEL
MINNESOTA STATE BAPTIST CONVENTION
WILLIAM MCDOWELL Sounds Of Revival: Live
RE
H.J.JOHNSON, JR. (H.J.JOHNSON, JR.)
54
16
13
23
MOTOWN GOSPEL/CAPITOL CMG
15
17
SOUNDS OF BLACKNESS/ATOMIC K
43
One Place: Live
14
SPEAK THE WORD Tina Campbell Featuring Teddy Campbell
Sounds Of Blackness Feat. High School For Recording Arts
Losing My Religion
SHIRLEY CAESAR
20
G.D.HINES (G.D.HINES,I.WILSON)
FO YO SOUL/RCA
15
15
18
GEETREE
10
RCA INSPIRATION/RCA
14
18
W.CAMPBELL (T.E.ATKINS-CAMPBELL,W.CAMPBELL)
Demonstrate
RCA INSPIRATION/RCA
INTERFACE
44
12
Zacardi Cortez
M.STAMPLEY,J.WILLIAMS (H.STAMPLEY)
The Hill
17
12
Micah Stampley
RGM NEW BREED/RCA INSPIRATION
18
LUNJEAL/EONE
The Life Project
MINNESOTA STATE BAPTIST CONVENTION CHOIR We Are Better Together
Israel & New Breed Feat. Tye Tribbett
A.W.LINDSEY,I.HOUGHTON (I.HOUGHTON,A.W.LINDSEY,M.HOUGHTON)
WOW Gospel 2016
MOTOWN GOSPEL/WORD-CURB/RCA INSPIRATION/RCA
13
10
TLMUSIC GROUP
12
RCA INSPIRATION
HARPOSTUDIOS/PINE CITY/LIONS GATE/OWN/MALACO
21
11
A.W.LINDSEY (W.H.MURPHY III,D.MURPHY)
AZUSA/EONE
JEKALYN CARR
13
NEW
William Murphy
ARISE (YOU ARE GOOD)
BE LIFTED
SYREETA THOMPSON TRUMPETLADY Winner (EP)
Donnie McClurkin
15
65
RCA INSPIRATION/RCA
77
I NEED YOU
16
44
You Shall Live
NEW
J.DOLLY,J.W.BOYD (J.DOLLY,J.W.BOYD)
16
MARVIN SAPP
RCA INSPIRATION/RCA
29
YOU
20
DONNIE MCCLURKIN The Journey (Live)
19
Shirley Caesar Feat. Anthony Hamilton
16
SOUNDSHED
CHASING ME DOWN
VARIOUS ARTISTS sonFLO Presents: Bring Back The Hymns
66
ITS ALRIGHT, ITS OK
14
22
42
14
I WONT BE DEFEATED
Grace
DEXTERITY SOUNDS/DREAM GOSPEL/DREAM/CAPITOL CMG
SOUNDTRACK Greenleaf: The Gospel Companion Soundtrack, Volume 1
FO YO SOUL/RCA/RCA INSPIRATION
ILL JUST SAY YES
#1 GRACE
1 WK
WKS. ON
CHART
K.FRANKLIN,S.MARTIN,P.L.WILLIAMS (K.FRANKLIN,L.PARKER,P.L.WILLIAMS,RETCHY P.)
13
Title
Kirk Franklin Featuring Pharrell Williams
S.BROWN (C.A.RUMBLE,S.BROWN)
ARTIST
NEW
DELIVERY ROOM/EONE
14
CAPITOL CMG
33
W.D.MCDOWELL,C.BOGAN III (B.BRYANT,L.HELLEBRONTH,M.DHILLON,T.HUGHES)
17
ELEVATION CHURCH/ESSENTIAL WORSHIP/PLG
HEZEKIAH WALKER Better: Azusa - The Next Generation 2
William McDowell Feat. Trinity Anderson
17
FAIR TRADE/PLG
TOP GOSPEL ALBUMS

Artist
10
24
123 VICTORY
10
STOLEN PRIDE/SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG
RE
T.GREENE,V.NAVEJAR (T.GREENE)
LOWERCASE PEOPLE/VANGUARD/CONCORD/CAPITOL CMG
17
V.MITCHELL,T.COBBS (T.COBBS)
SPIRIT BREAK OUT
BETHEL/PLG
16
Phil Wickham
#1 PUT A PRAISE ON IT Tasha Cobbs Featuring Kierra Sheard
YOURE BIGGER
15
BMG/PLG
PHIL WICKHAM
FAIR TRADE
95
10
CENTRICITY
TITLE CERTIFICATION
THIS
WEEK
19
19
18
HOT GOSPEL SONGS

LAST
WEEK
Therapy Session
Hope In Front Of Me
CAPITOL CMG
BETHEL MUSIC Have It All: Live At Bethel Church
P.KIPLEY (P.WICKHAM,C.QUILALA)
2 WKS.
AGO
18
CENTRICITY
J.L.SMITH,C.BROWN (D.MULLIGAN,C.BROWN,J.L.SMITH)
FOREFRONT/CAPITOL CMG
49
11
LOWERCASE PEOPLE/VANGUARD/CONCORD/CAPITOL CMG
26
PLG/WORD-CURB/CAPITOL CMG
10
Unspoken
Switchfoot
27
14
14
J.INGRAM,C.WEDGEWORTH (M.DONEHEY,J.INGRAM,C.WEDGEWORTH)
24
WOW Hits 2016
DANNY GOKEY
J.L.SMITH (J.GRAY,M.L.C.FIELDES,J.L.SMITH)
22
UNITED PURSUIT
This Is Not A Test
CENTRICITY
S.MOSLEY,M.OCONNOR (C.MATTSON,S.MOSLEY,J.LOWRY)
22
107
TOBYMAC
SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG
YOUR LOVE AWAKENS ME
Welcome To The New
15
Matthew West
SWITCHFOOT,J.FIELDS (J.FOREMAN,T.FOREMAN)
FAIR TRADE/PLG
14
BEACH STREET/REUNION/PLG
E.CASH (D.CROWDER,E.CASH,H.BENTLEY,D.MULLIGAN)
67
ATLANTIC/WORD-CURB
P.KIPLEY (M.WEST)
26
NEW
Empires
NEEDTOBREATHE
C.WEDGEWORTH (J.FELIZ,J.INGRAM,C.WEDGEWORTH)
15
HILLSONG UNITED
GG
SIXSTEPS/SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG
M.A.MILLER (M.A.MILLER,B.HERMS,M.WEST)
13
FERVENT/WORD-CURB
VARIOUS ARTISTS
Chris Tomlin
IDOVSTHEWORLD (W.RINEHART,N.RINEHART,I.ZMISHLANY,W.PHILLIPS)
HIGHER
34
FERVENT/WORD-CURB
J.EDWARDSON,E.CASH (C.TOMLIN,E.CASH)
13
WORD-CURB
Big Daddy Weave
J.REDMON (L.D.MOORING,B.BROWN,B.JOHNSON)
15
20
BMG
S.MOSLEY,C.MUNROE,M.OCONNOR (J.KING,C.RADEMAKER,S.MOSLEY,C.MUNROE)
HAPPINESS
21
10
10
Follow Through
10
17
FARMHOUSE/GAITHER/CAPITOL CMG
10
23
39
30
10
16
74
Hymns
16
Danny Gokey
How Can It Be
B.HERMS (B.HERMS,M.WEST,R.PHILLIPS)
WKS. ON
CHART
One Sided War
RAT PAK
TELL YOUR HEART TO BEAT AGAIN
25
DATA COMPILED BY
LAST
WEEK
22
DELIVERY ROOM/EONE
Pray & Dont Worry (EP)
BGA
ANOINTED SOUNDS/EONE
Make It
CHARLES JENKINS & FELLOWSHIP CHICAGO Any Given Sunday
75
22
22
VARIOUS ARTISTS Marantha! Music: Top 25 Gospel Praise Songs
38
21
23
23
JOVONTA PATTON
Finally Living
RE
24
24
THE MIGHTY CLOUDS OF JOY
The Very Best Of Volume 2
15
12
NEW
25
25
PAPA SAN
Journey
25
GG
INSPIRED PEOPLE/MOTOWN GOSPEL/CAPITOL CMG
MARANATHA!/CAPITOL CMG
JOVONTA PATTON MINISTRIES

MOTOWN GOSPEL/CAPITOL CMG
BELOVED/VP
Sweet,
Grace
Bow At
No. 1
Michael Sweet (above),
guitarist, vocalist and cofounder of Christian metal
band Stryper, scores his
first No. 1 on Top Christian
Albums as One Sided War,
his seventh solo studio
set, opens with 8,000
copies sold, according to
Nielsen Music, marking
his strongest solo sales
week. Sweet last charted
with Strypers 11th studio
LP, Fallen, which debuted
at No. 2 (the groups best
rank, tying 2009s Murder
by Pride) on Nov. 7, 2015
(10,000 sold). One Sided
War is Sweets first album
on his own since 2014s Im
Not Your Suicide (No. 14).
Pop-rock outfit
Unspokens sophomore
full-length, Follow Through,
enters Top Christian
Albums at No. 7 with 3,000
sold, both career bests. The
groups self-titled first LP
peaked at No. 9 in 2014.
The act first charted with
the EP The World Is Waking
(No. 42, 2013).
All-female group Grace
makes its inaugural Top
Gospel Albums appearance,
bounding in at No. 1
with its self-titled first
release (2,000). The five
women Candy West,
DeeDee, April Nevels,
Ruby Cavazos and Shana
Saint are all members of
Bishop T.D. Jakes Potters
House choir in Dallas.
Finally, Greenleaf:
The Gospel Companion
Soundtrack, Volume 1,
born from the Oprah
Winfrey Network drama
Greenleaf, begins at No.6
on Top Gospel Albums
(1,000). Artists featured
on the 14-song set include
Mavis Staples, Deborah
Joy Winans and Shirley
Caesar.
Jim Asker
LAST
WEEK
THIS
WEEK
CLOSER The Chainsmokers Featuring Halsey
Major Lazer Featuring Justin Bieber & MO
NEW
22
BIG GIGANTIC
30
13
33
Urban Flora (EP)
68
44
THE CHAINSMOKERS
Bouquet (EP)
45
DJ SNAKE
Encore
FLUME
Skin
14
NEW
77
SOUNDTRACK XOXO: Music From The Netflix Original Series
88
VARIOUS ARTISTS
COLD WATER
DONT LET ME DOWN 2
3
5
5
6
#1
DG AG SG
THE CHAINSMOKERS,S.FRANK,F.KENNETT (A.TAGGART,S.FRANK...)
DISRUPTOR/COLUMBIA
DIPLO,BENNY BLANCO,JR. BLENDER,KING HENRY (E.C.SHEERAN,B.J.LEVIN,J.SCOTT,T.W.PENTZ,P.MECKSEPER,H.ALLEN,J.D.BIEBER,K.M.ORSTED)
LET ME LOVE YOU
NEVER BE LIKE YOU
DISRUPTOR/COLUMBIA
Calvin Harris Featuring Rihanna
CALVIN HARRIS (CALVIN HARRIS,NILS SJOBERG)
MAD DECENT/DEF JAM
The Chainsmokers Featuring Daya
THE CHAINSMOKERS (A.TAGGART,E.W.SCHWARTZ,S.HARRIS)
DJ Snake Featuring Justin Bieber
DJ SNAKE,ANDREW WATT (W.S.E.GRIGAHCINE,J.D.BIEBER,A.WOTMAN,A.TAMPOSI,B.LEE,L.BELL,A.ROSER)
DJ SNAKE/INTERSCOPE
1
5
19
4
32
11
Skrillex & Rick Ross
Zara Larsson & MNEK
49
Galantis
22
Jonas Blue Featuring JP Cooper
12
12
10
Mike Perry Featuring Shy Martin
11
13
RE
THIS GIRL
12
IN THE NAME OF LOVE
PURPLE LAMBORGHINI
10
10
NEVER FORGET YOU
11
11
11
NO MONEY
14
13
12
PERFECT STRANGERS
13
12
13
THE OCEAN
16
15
14
ALONE
Marshmello
14
16
15
14
15
LET ME HOLD YOU (TURN ME ON) Cheat Codes & Dante Klein
14
10
17
17
19
18
16
17
MARTIN GARRIX,MAT RAD,STEVE JAMES (MARTIN GARRIX,M.SMITH RADOSEVICH,R.CUNNINGHAM...)

SKRILLEX,BEAT BILLIONAIRE (S.MOORE,W.L.ROBERTS II,S.COOKE)
BIG BEAT/ATLANTIC/RRP
JONAS BLUE/CAPITOL
MIKE PERRY (M.PERSSON,S.F.HELLSTROM,N.ISLAM)
DF
MARSHMELLO (MARSHMELLO)
MONSTERCAT
D.KLEIN (A.HENNINGS,D.T.JONES,K.LYTTLE,M.SCANDRICK,M.KEITH,Q.PARKER,R.PRIMUS,C.D.SILLS)
THIS ONES FOR YOU
WHAT A MUSIC/PARLOPHONE/ATLANTIC
BONBON
Era Istrefi
E.ISTREFI,BIG BANG (E.ISTREFI)
FALSE ALARM
20
20
19
KINGS OF SUMMER
SPINNIN
David Guetta Featuring Zara Larsson
D.GUETTA,G.H.TUINFORT,AFROJACK (D.GUETTA,G.H.TUINFORT,N.VAN DE WALL,E.DEAN,T.TROELSEN)
18
20
RECORD COMPANY TEN/EPIC
GALANTIS,SVIDDEN,H.N.JONBACK (C.KARLSSON,L.EKLOW,J.KOITZSCH,H.N.JONBACK,A.BULLIMORE)
27
22
STMPD RCRDS/RCA
MNEK,ASTRONOMYY (U.OSISIOMA EMENIKE,A.DAVEY,Z.M.LAWSON)
28
26
JONAS BLUE (G.J.ROBIN,J.P.COOPER,A.SMITH)
B1/ULTRA/RCA
AYOKAY (M.TEMROWSKI,A.ONEILL)
11
13
16
10
Matoma & Becky Hill
18
10
ayokay Featuring Quinn XCII
19
16
MATOMA,CUTFATHER,P.WALLEVIK,D.DAVIDSEN (S.STRAETE LAGERGREN,D.DAVIDSEN,M.H.HANSEN...)
FFRR/PARLOPHONE/ATLANTIC
AYOKAY
INSIDE OUT
The Chainsmokers Featuring Charlee
THE CHAINSMOKERS (A.TAGGART,C.S.NYMAN)
DISRUPTOR/COLUMBIA
Empire Of The Sun
13
22
21
HOT SHOT
DEBUT
21
HIGH AND LOW
THE SLEEPY JACKSON/ASTRALWERKS/CAPITOL
NEW
22
WHOLE HEART
Gryffin And Bipolar Sunshine
22
Clean Bandit Featuring Louisa Johnson
17
14
Charly Black
18
14
DJ Snake Feat. Jeremih, Young Thug & Swizz Beatz
DARKROOM/INTERSCOPE
21
21
23
TEARS
23
23
24
GYAL YOU A PARTY ANIMAL
22
25
25
THE HALF
25
26
26
SING ME TO SLEEP
24
27
16
28
24
28
29
G.CHATTO,M.RALPH,J.PATTERSON (J.PATTERSON,ROMANS)
K.RILEY (D.MENDIZE,K.RILEY,C.HOUCHAT)
ATLANTIC
TECHNIQUES/JAMBER CHEM EMPIRE/ALLEZGO/AFTERCLUV/CASABLANCA/REPUBLIC
22
Alan Walker
18
13
ALL OF ME
Big Gigantic Featuring Logic & ROZES
24
CARRY ME
Kygo Featuring Julia Michaels
16
14
DJ SNAKE (W.S.E.GRIGAHCINE,J.P.FELTON,J.L.WILLIAMS,K.DEAN,B.T.HAZZARD)
DJ SNAKE/INTERSCOPE
A.O.WALKER,MOOD MELODIES,J.BORGEN (A.O.WALKER,J.BORGEN,A.FROEN,G.GREVE,T.LA VERDI,M.BERTELSEN,I.SOLHEIM)
MER MUSIKK/RCA
BIG GIGANTIC (D.LALLI,R.B.HALL II,E.MENCEL)
BIG GIGANTIC
KYGO (KYGO,J.MICHAELS,J.TRANTER)
ULTRA/RCA
CRUEL
SNAKEHIPS,C.LOWE (O.M.DICKINSON,J.A.DAVID,C.LOWE,E.HASSLE,Z.MALIK)
Snakehips Featuring Zayn
HOFFMAN WEST/OLIVER DICKINSON AND JAMES DAVID/RCA
17
39
42
30
BAILAR
Deorro Featuring Elvis Crespo
30
12
31
30
31
MIND
Skrillex & Diplo Featuring Kai
24
30
31
32
GONE
Afrojack Featuring Ty Dolla $ign
24
44
40
33
BOSS
Disclosure
33
35
33
34
BRING BACK THE SUMMER
Rain Man Featuring OLY
20
35
HOW TO LOVE
Cash Cash Featuring Sofia Reyes
36
MILLIONAIRE
Cash Cash & Digital Farm Animals Feat. Nelly
41
42
43
37
DEORRO,J.ORROSQUIETA,M.THEANNE,E.BEGAZO (E.ORROSQUIETA,E.CRESPO,R.FERNANDEZ)
SKRILLEX,DIPLO (S.MOORE,T.W.PENTZ,A.DE GASPERIS-BRIGANTE)
34
38
TALK
37
38
27
32
36
36
40
41
42
BIG BEAT/RRP
CASH CASH,DIGITAL FARM ANIMALS (J.P.MAKHLOUF,S.W.FRISCH,A.L.MAKHLOUF,N.GALE,C.HAYNES, JR.,E.DEBARGE...)
29
39
DIM MAK
CASH CASH (J.P.MAKHLOUF,S.W.FRISCH,A.L.MAKHLOUF,J.DECILVEO)
37
39
METHOD/PMR/CAPITOL
RAIN MAN (K.TRINDL,L.SYLVAN,M.DEVINE)
35
WALL/LATIUM/RCA
DISCLOSURE (G.LAWRENCE,H.LAWRENCE)
41
DJ Snake Featuring George Maple
FLY AGAIN
DJ SNAKE (W.S.E.GRIGAHCINE,H.E.STRETEN,J.HIGGS,A.BURNETT,J.DAVID,O.M.DICKINSON)
AUDIEN (N.B.RATHBUN,F.RICHARD,P.HANNA)
INVITATION
BIG BEAT/ATLANTIC
Kristine W
KRISTINE W (K.WEITZ,N.HEIBLING,S.RAMIREZ)
CRAZY LOVE
ULTRA
MAD DECENT/OWSLA/ATLANTIC
AFROJACK (N.VAN DE WALL,MARTY JAMES,T.GRIFFIN JR)
OUT THERE
DJ SNAKE/INTERSCOPE
Audien Featuring Debs Daughter

ASTRALWERKS/CAPITOL
Yellow Claw Featuring Yade Lauren
N.RONDHUIS,J.TAIHUTTU,J.TITAWANO,T.R.DIAZ (N.RONDHUIS,J.TAIHUTTU,J.TITAWANO,T.R.DIAZ)
SHELTER
MAD DECENT
Porter Robinson & Madeon
H.P.LECLERCQ,P.ROBINSON (H.P.LECLERCQ,P.ROBINSON)
BACK 2 U
POPCULTUR
Steve Aoki & Boehm Featuring WALK THE MOON
S.AOKI,BOEHM (S.HIROYUKI AOKI,A.C.CRACIUN,A.MANISCALCO,M.MALOUF,N.PETRICCA,N.FURLONG,C.CUNNINGHAM)
ULTRA
45
44
43
GOLDEN LIGHT
Madden Featuring 6AM
48
46
44
THINKING ABOUT YOU
33
43
45
BROKEN
NEW
46
WEEKEND Mr. Mig & Gino Caporale Featuring Angela Devine

418
NEW
47
BANANA BRAIN
SWEET DREAMS
49
49
49
SUNRISE
RE-ENTRY
50
SUNSET LOVER
37
12
KYGO
Cloud Nine
16
13
CAPITAL KINGS
II
36
14
14
HERMITUDE
Dark Night Sweet Light
15
TOBACCO
Sweatbox Dynasty
14
16
KAYTRANADA
99.9%
17
17
17
CASSIUS
NEW
LIQUID AMBER/MASS APPEAL
SONY MUSIC/UNIVERSAL/UME
ULTRA/RCA
GOTEE/PLG
ELEFANT TRAKS
GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL
XL
ED BANGER/BECAUSE/POLYDOR/INTERSCOPE/IGA
Ibifornia
19
18
18
19
19
VARIOUS ARTISTS Armada Trice: Miami 2016
12
20
ARMIN VAN BUUREN
A State Of Trance, Ibiza 2016
21
APHEX TWIN
Cheetah (EP)
22
JAMES BLAKE
The Colour In Anything
17
17
23
BASSNECTAR
Unlimited
11
RE
24
24
GAWVI
Lost In Hue (EP)
23
25
25
ZHU
Generationwhy
18
16
Peace Is The Mission
MAD DECENT
ARMADA
ARMADA
WARP
POLYDOR/REPUBLIC
AMORPHOUS
REACH
MIND OF A GENIUS/COLUMBIA
LAST
WEEK
THIS
WEEK
2
3
4
Artist
TITLE
#1 CLOSER The Chainsmokers Feat. Halsey
2 WK S
DISRUPTOR/COLUMBIA
19
ALONE
Marshmello
13
9
MAD DECENT/DEF JAM

MONSTERCAT
5
6
IN THE NAME OF LOVE
NO MONEY
18
BRING BACK THE SUMMER
STMPD RCRDS/RCA
Galantis
15
Rain Man Feat. OLY
17
RIDE
twenty one pilots
15
27
Sia Feat. Sean Paul
14
DIM MAK
FUELED BY RAMEN/RRP
13
10
10
35
11
11
CHEAP THRILLS
13
13
20
12
THIEF
13
INTO YOU
39
37
27
23
2
6
3
18
WKS. ON
CHART
22
66
DANCE/MIX SHOW AIRPLAY
18
NEW
DISRUPTOR/COLUMBIA
MONKEY PUZZLE/RCA
Ookay
Ariana Grande
Krewella
12
OOKAY
REPUBLIC
14
BROKEN RECORD
22
15
CHASE YOU DOWN
12
16
ONE DANCE
20
15
17
BACK 2 U Steve Aoki & Boehm Feat. WALK THE MOON
14
18
SAFE TILL TOMORROW Morgan Page Feat. Angelika Vee
10
25
19
17
20
NEED YOU
26
21
CLOSER
13
15
JX Riders Featuring Skylar Stecker
29
NEW
Joe Bermudez Featuring Louise Carver
31
29
Petit Biscuit
44
28
25
PETIT BISCUIT
FICTION/CASABLANCA/REPUBLIC
Amnesty (I)
MAJOR LAZER
PETIT BISCUIT (M.BENJELLOUN)
HEARD WELL
VARIOUS ARTISTS Now Thats What I Call A Workout 2016
47
617
Andrea Russett: Mind Medicine
11
Die Antwoord
617 (J.BERMUDEZ,V.PREZIOSO,L.CARVER)
NETFLIX/BIG BEAT/AG
AUDACIOUS/CHERRYTREE
10
46
JX RIDERS (D.A.STEWART,A.LENNOX)
The Mountain Will Fall
ZEF RECORDZ/KOBALT
DISRUPTOR/COLUMBIA
DJ SHADOW
33
48
ULTRA/MOM + POP
Tritonal & Jenaux Featuring Adam Lambert

ENHANCED
Brighter Future
BIG GIGANTIC
10
C.CISNEROS,D.REED,E.VELTMAN (C.CISNEROS,D.REED,E.VELTMAN,A.LEFF,M.LOVE)
LINDSEYSTOMP
44
AXWELL/REFUNE/PRMD/DEF JAM
#1 LINDSEY STIRLING Brave Enough
2 WK S
WKS. ON
CHART
Axwell & Ingrosso
WARNER NORWAY/ADA
CRYSTAL CASTLES
15
AXWELL,S.INGROSSO (AXWELL,S.INGROSSO,R.ARCHER,S.FURRER,J.TILLBERG)
29
16
NEW
24
MADDEN (M.NJOLSTAD,A.GARMARK,H.RAUGLAND)
34
Flume Featuring Kai
FLUME,KAI,G.P.EARLEY (H.E.STRETEN,A.DE GASPERIS-BRIGANTE,G.P.EARLEY)

KUNGS (L.FERGUSON,I.KHATCHOYAN,J.MASON)
JOE PAPEO/REX SHUTTERSTOCK
WKS. ON
CHART
3 WK S
Title
PEAK
POS.
THIS
WEEK
21
23
KREWELLA/COLUMBIA
ROBBINS
Runaground
ULTRA
NETTWERK
Dillon Francis & NGHTMRE
12
Elephante Feat. Bishop
10
22
18
23
LET ME LOVE YOU DJ Snake Feat. Justin Bieber
24
TREAT YOU BETTER
MAD DECENT
HARBOR ROAD
DREAMWORKS/RCA
DJ SNAKE/INTERSCOPE
Shawn Mendes
Gareth Emery Feat. Wayward Daughter
ISLAND/REPUBLIC
RECKLESS
GARUDA/ARMADA
Enrique Iglesias (above)

breaks out of a tie for
the most No. 1s among
solo males in the 40-year
history of the Dance Club
Songs list, earning his 14th
chart-topper with Duele el
Corazon, featuring Wisin,
who earns his first leader
(2-1). Iglesias passes Dave
Aude and Pitbull (13 each),
while, among all artists, he
ties Lady Gaga for 10th
place; Madonna leads with
46 No. 1s.
Iglesias new No. 1,
remixed in Spanish and
English by Aude, C-Rod
and Tracy Young, among
others (with added vocals
by Tinashe and Javada),
is the first leader with
a foreign-language title
since Deja Vu, by Giorgio
Moroder featuring Sia
(Aug. 1, 2015). Duele is
the first Spanish-language
No. 1 since Iglesias last
leader, Bailando, featuring
Descemer Bueno and
Gente de Zona (Oct. 18,
2014).
On Top Dance/Electronic
Albums, Big Gigantic
barges in at No. 2 with
Brighter Future, selling a
career-best 1,000 copies,
according to Nielsen Music.
On Dance/Mix
Show Airplay, The
Chainsmokers spend
a second week at No. 1
with their third career
leader, Closer, featuring
Halsey (who is charting
her first No.1 on the list).
Meanwhile, for a second
week, Closer and Major
Lazers Cold Water
(featuring Justin Bieber
and M) rank at Nos. 1 and
2, respectively, on both the
Billboard Hot 100 and Hot
Dance/Electronic Songs.
Previously, the top two on
the charts had never before
synced up, dating to the
latter lists launch in January
2013.
Gordon Murray
Adele
XL/COLUMBIA
Enrique
Iglesias,
Leading
Man
D a t a f o r w e e k o f 0 9 . 1 7. 2 0 1 6
HOT DANCE/ELECTRONIC SONGS: The weeks most popular current dance/electronic songs, ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen Music, sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music, streaming activity data by online music sources tracked by Nielsen Music and reports from a national sample of club DJs. Songs are defined
as current if they are newly-released titles, or songs receiving widespread airplay and/or sales activity for the first time. TOP DANCE/ELECTRONIC ALBUMS: The weeks most popular current dance/electronic albums, ranked by sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music. Albums are defined as current if they are less than 18 months old or older than 18
months but still residing in the Billboard 200s top 100. DANCE/MIX SHOW AIRPLAY: The weeks most popular current songs ranked by total weekly plays on 6 dance-formatted stations and mix show plays on 89 mainstream top 40 and select rhythmic stations that have submitted their hours of mix show programming, as monitored by Nielsen Music.
See Charts Legend on billboard.com/biz for complete rules and explanations. 2016, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved.
Artist
TITLE CERTIFICATION
LAST
WEEK

DATA COMPILED BY
Dance/Electronic
September 17
2016
TOP DANCE/ELECTRONIC ALBUMS
HOT DANCE/ELECTRONIC SONGS

2 WKS.
AGO
22
GG
OUT THERE
Kristine W
44
BOSS
Disclosure
55
IN COMMON
Alicia Keys
66
WEEKEND Mr. Mig & Gino Caporale Feat. Angela Devine
SWEET DREAMS
11
13
10
11
1
#1 DUELE EL CORAZON Enrique Iglesias Feat. Wisin

1 WK
SONY MUSIC LATIN

MAD DECENT/DEF JAM
FLY AGAIN
METHOD/PMR/CAPITOL
RCA
418
JX Riders Feat. Skylar Stecker
AUDACIOUS/CHERRYTREE
WKS. ON
CHART
11
5
88
THINKING ABOUT YOU
Axwell & Ingrosso
16
99
MAKE ME... Britney Spears Feat. G-Eazy
10
SUNRISE
14
11
LIKE I WOULD
12
PIECES
18
13
13
WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW IS LOVE
19
14
14
F*CK YOUR BOYFRIEND
AXWELL/REFUNE/PRMD/DEF JAM
RCA
617
Joe Bermudez Feat. Louise Carver

Zayn
11
Rob Thomas
Broadway For Orlando
Ralphi Rosario & Frankie Catalano
RCA
ATLANTIC
BROADWAY RECORDS
CARRILLO
17
15
SLIP AWAY
Sanjoy
16
HOLIDAY
DJ Antoine Feat. Akon
10
15
17
TELL ME WERE OK
DJ Hardwerk Feat. Akon
12
14
18
INTO YOU
Ariana Grande
10
20
19
ALL ABOUT TONIGHT
Fourever1
31
20
20
RISE
Katy Perry
21
21
BODY HIGH
Mike Taylor
13
26
22
22
VICTORY
Karine Hannah
22
23
TOMORROW (ONE LAST TIME)
Extasia Feat. Amannda
25
24
GOLDEN LIGHT
Madden Feat. 6AM
32
25
25
TEARDROPS
37
26
26
THIS GIRL
24
27
COLORS
36
28
28
I LOVE YOU ALWAYS FOREVER
12
29
NEEDED ME
23
30
27
PORT 22
HOUSEWORKS/GLOBAL PRODUCTION
THE ALLIANCE
REPUBLIC
FRIENDSHIP COLLECTIVE
CAPITOL
ROSTRUM
CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC
SWEET RAIN
WARNER NORWAY/ADA
Boxscore
Artist
THIS
WEEK
BOXSCORE: The top grossing concerts as reported by promoters, venues, managers and booking agents. Boxcsores should be submitted to Bob Allen at bob.allen@billboard.com. DANCE CLUB SONGS: The weeks most popular songs played
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TITLE
LAST
WEEK
September 17
2016
KATARINA BENZOVA
DANCE CLUB SONGS
CONCERT GROSSES
GROSS
PER TICKET PRICE(S)
1
2
3
4
$18,239,039
ARTIST
VENUE
DATE
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E STREET BAND
$150/$105/$75/$45
METLIFE STADIUM, EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.

AUG. 23, 25, 30
$16,121,027
CELINE DION
($21,727,920 CANADIAN)
$146.72/$48.23
$11,687,391
BELL CENTRE, MONTREAL

JULY 31, AUG. 1, 4-5, 8-9, 12-13, 16-17
GUNS N ROSES, LENNY KRAVITZ
GILLETTE STADIUM, FOXBOROUGH, MASS.

AUG. 26-27
$250/$44.50
SOLDIER FIELD, CHICAGO

JULY 1, 3
$8,568,865
CELINE DION
$8,302,575
13
14
15
$275/$45.50
($11,549,116 CANADIAN)
$148.09/$48.23
$280/$50.50
$6,166,657
$252/$41.50
$5,852,060
$253.50/$63.50
$5,736,232
$262/$54
$5,597,843
$275/$55
$5,370,460
($6,935,198 CANADIAN)
$195.72/$40.46
$5,337,634
$225/$45.50
$5,237,966
$254/$49
GUNS N ROSES, THE CULT
DODGER STADIUM, LOS ANGELES

AUG. 18-19
GUNS N ROSES, ALICE IN CHAINS
CENTRE VIDOTRON, QUEBEC CITY

AUG. 20-21, 24-25, 27
GUNS N ROSES, LENNY KRAVITZ
GILLETTE STADIUM, FOXBOROUGH, MASS.

JULY 19-20
GUNS N ROSES, SKRILLEX
NRG STADIUM, HOUSTON

AUG. 5
CAMPING WORLD STADIUM, ORLANDO

JULY 29
GUNS N ROSES, THE STRUTS
AT&T PARK, SAN FRANCISCO

AUG. 9
GUNS N ROSES, BILLY TALENT
ROGERS CENTRE, TORONTO

JULY 16
QUALCOMM STADIUM, SAN DIEGO

AUG. 22
CENTURYLINK FIELD, SEATTLE

AUG. 12
$4,876,038
$129.50/$49.50
WRIGLEY FIELD, CHICAGO

AUG. 26
17
21
$4,786,948
31
RUNNING (OUT OF TIME)
Danny G Italy Feat. Droze
38
32
32
BEAUTIFUL LIFE DJ Gozzi & The Extraordinary Gentlemen Feat. Jaclyn Walker
40
33
33
TRACE OF YOU
Nadia Patric Feat. Cory Gunz
28
34
FREE
Ali Fox
35
TOO GOOD
Drake Feat. Rihanna
46
36
36
WE CAN MAKE IT
Offer Nissim Feat. Dana International
39
37
CHEAP THRILLS
Album Charts
Recording Industry Assn. of
0 America
(RIAA) certification
for physical shipments &
digital downloads of 500,000
albums (Gold).
certification for
RIAA
physical shipments & digital
downloads of 1 million
units (Platinum). Numeral
noted with Platinum symbol
indicates albums multiplatinum level.
certification for
RIAA
downloads of 10 million
units (Diamond). Numeral
noted with Diamond symbol
indicates albums multiplatinum level.
albums certification for
) Latin
downloads of 30,000 units
(Oro).
albums certification for
Latin
downloads of 60,000 units
(Platino). Numeral noted
with Platino symbol indicates
albums multiplatinum level.
20
12
OFFER NISSIM
38
38
FABULOUS
35
39
NO MONEY
HOT
SHOT
DEBUT
40
40
30
49
Sia Feat. Sean Paul
19
Dirty Disco Feat. Jeanie Tracy
Galantis
MONKEY PUZZLE/RCA
DIRTY DISCO/CHA CHA HEELS

12
18
Digital Songs Charts

certification for 500,000
0 RIAA
paid downloads and ondemand streams where 100
streams equal 1 download
(Gold).
certification for 1
RIAA
million paid downloads
and on-demand streams
where 100 streams equal
1 download (Platinum).
Numeral noted with Platinum
symbol indicates songs
multiplatinum level.
41
CANT STOP THE FEELING!
16
51
NEW
42
42
PUT EM HIGH (2016) Stonebridge Feat. Therese
48
43
43
IT AINT OVER The Bello Boys Feat. Seri
41
44
ALL IN THE NAME
Bright Light Bright Light Feat. Elton John
45
45
PERFECT STRANGERS Jonas Blue Feat. JP Cooper
50
46
ALL IN MY HEAD (FLEX)
44
47
LOVE RIGHT NEXT TO YOU
48
GOOD THINGS
52
NEW
49
49
THE GIRL FROM IPANEMA Ana Paula Feat. Deborah Cox
Publishing song index available

on Billboard.com/biz.
34
50
DO IT RIGHT
Visit Billboard.com/biz for

complete rules and explanations.
NEW
29
DREAMWORKS/RCA
Justin Timberlake
STONEY BOY
RADIKAL
SELF RAISING/MEGAFORCE
JONAS BLUE/CAPITOL
SYCO/EPIC
JOOMBAS/UNIVERSAL MUSIC CLASSICS

AMUSE/4 SOUND
Karina
After Romeo
10
PUMP
KOPG/SPINNIN
D a t a f o r w e e k o f 0 9 . 1 7. 2 0 1 6
Martin Solveig
$412/$214/$164/$54
LEGEND
DISRUPTOR/COLUMBIA
Awards
PS (PaceSetter for largest %
album sales gain)
GG (Greatest Gainer for largest
volume gain)
DG (Digital Sales Gainer)
AG (Airplay Gainer)
SG (Streaming Gainer)
65,472
71,099 TWO SHOWS
LIVE NATION
49,778
SELLOUT
LIVE NATION
40,702
SELLOUT
LIVE NATION
56,292
SELLOUT
MESSINA TOURING GROUP/

AEG LIVE
38,173
SELLOUT
LIVE NATION
48,016
SELLOUT
LIVE NATION
49,458
SELLOUT
LIVE NATION
42,697
SELLOUT
LIVE NATION
JENNIFER LOPEZ
Rihanna
CONCERTS WEST/AEG LIVE
$4,940,117
33
67,368
FIVE SELLOUTS
22
23
24
$254/$49
$250/$45.50
$4,776,767
$253.50/$49.50
$4,765,878
$253/$48
$4,544,620
36,728
SELLOUT
U.S. BANK STADIUM, MINNEAPOLIS

AUG. 20
Betty Who
CHRIS YOUNG
LIVE NATION
METALLICA, AVENGED SEVENFOLD, VOLBEAT
$149.50/$49.50
$4,883,474
418
82,172
96,088 TWO SHOWS
$5,158,790
19
OVERDRIVE
LIVE NATION
17
Bullets indicate titles with

greatest weekly gains.
GONNA BE MUSIC
84,634
87,917 TWO SHOWS
MESSINA TOURING GROUP/

AEG LIVE
STADION LETZIGRUND, ZRICH

JULY 31
Michael Blume
121,399
TWO SELLOUTS
(4,971,000 FRANCS)
$177.08/$108.33
RCA
LIVE NATION
$5,178,033
S-CURVE
100,177
TWO SELLOUTS
16
CONCERTS WEST/AEG LIVE
KENNY CHESNEY, MIRANDA LAMBERT, OLD DOMINION, SAM HUNT

AUG. 20
Dawn Tallman
SLAAG
138,164
TEN SELLOUTS
KENNY CHESNEY, MIRANDA LAMBERT, OLD DOMINION, SAM HUNT
$8,843,684
12
NEW MEADOWLANDS
STADIUM
$11,455,368
$275/$69.50
11
153,930
THREE SELLOUTS

JULY 23-24
$8,917,758
10
PROMOTER
$280/$45.50
ATTENDANCE
CAPACITY
THE AXIS AT PLANET HOLLYWOOD, LAS VEGAS

AUG. 3, 5-6, 10, 12-13
GUNS N ROSES, WOLFMOTHER
LINCOLN FINANCIAL FIELD, PHILADELPHIA

JULY 14
BILLY JOEL
AT&T STADIUM, ARLINGTON, TEXAS

AUG. 3
FORD FIELD, DETROIT

JUNE 23
GUNS N ROSES, CHRIS STAPLETON
NISSAN STADIUM, NASHVILLE

JULY 9
ABC PRODUCTION
48,492
SELLOUT
FRANK PRODUCTIONS, AEG LIVE
25,598, 26,894 SIX

SHOWS FOUR SELLOUTS
CAESARS ENTERTAINMENT,
LIVE NATION
49,328
SELLOUT
LIVE NATION
41,997
SELLOUT
LIVE NATION
39,015
43,449
LIVE NATION
44,439
SELLOUT
LIVE NATION
42,824
SELLOUT
LIVE NATION
41,508
SELLOUT
LIVE NATION
$254/$49.50
GEORGIA DOME, ATLANTA

JULY 27
25
$4,257,189
GUNS N ROSES, ZAKK WYLDE, TYLER BRYANT & THE SHAKEDOWN
26
$4,107,027
27
$3,995,381
$139.50/$49.50
FENWAY PARK, BOSTON

AUG. 18
28
$3,897,365
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
$256.75/$52.25
$255/$50.50
(32,292,090 KRONER)
$150.26/$103.19
$3,858,353
(31,742,730 KRONER)
$103.93
$3,810,026
UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX STADIUM, GLENDALE, ARIZ.

AUG. 15
FEDEXFIELD, LANDOVER, MD.

JUNE 26
BILLY JOEL
GRANSEN ARENA, TRONDHEIM, NORWAY

JULY 25
GUNS N ROSES, WOLFMOTHER
$3,806,180
BARBRA STREISAND
$3,780,492
BARBRA STREISAND
$3,663,178
BARBRA STREISAND
$3,535,905
BARBRA STREISAND
$3,529,637
BARBRA STREISAND
$510/$99
$510/$99
$510/$99
41,208
48,186
LIVE NATION
36,771
SELLOUT
LIVE NATION
HEINZ FIELD, PITTSBURGH

JULY 12
$510/$99
LIVE NATION
36,994
SELLOUT
FROGNERPARKEN, OSLO
JULY 28
$229/$53.50
$510/$99
44,110
48,914
STAPLES CENTER, LOS ANGELES

AUG. 1
UNITED CENTER, CHICAGO

AUG. 9
TD GARDEN, BOSTON
AUG. 16
T-MOBILE ARENA, LAS VEGAS

AUG. 6
WELLS FARGO CENTER, PHILADELPHIA

AUG. 20
GNRs
Return
Rocks
Chart
The return of Guns N
Roses (above) to the
road swamps the latest
Boxscore chart, as the rock
band scores half of the
slots on the list, led by a
pair of sellouts at MetLife
Stadium in East Rutherford,
N.J., at No. 3.
The stand on July 23 and
24 drew 100,177 fans with
ticket sales adding up to
more than $11.6 million,
easily crushing any of the
bands earlier gross records
in the Boxscore archives.
(Note: Not every GNR
show has been reported
to Billboard through the
years.)
The top earner prior
to the summer tour was
reported earlier this year at
the T-Mobile Arena in Las
Vegas with a $6.2 million
take from two sold-out
shows.
GNRs Not in This
Lifetime... Tour included
21 stadiums on its
summertime trek through
North America that began
June 23 and wrapped
Aug.22. Ticket sales
topped $116.8 million
during the nine-week
jaunt attended by more
than 1million fans at 25
performances. The tour
heads to Latin America
next, with concerts booked
in 11 cities during the fall.
Asian and Australian dates
are on tap for early 2017.
Before the summer run,
the Rock and Roll Hall of
Famers played a string of
dates in the United States
in April, including the
Vegas shows as well as
headlining stints during
both weekends of the
Coachella festival.
Bob Allen
LIVE NATION
37,126
SELLOUT
LIVE NATION
39,109
42,109
LIVE NATION
13,557
SELLOUT
LIVE NATION, S2BN ENTERTAINMENT
13,748
SELLOUT
13,493
SELLOUT
12,946
SELLOUT
13,963
SELLOUT
G o to B I L L B OA R D.CO M/ B I Z fo r co m p l e te c h a r t d a t a 67
JOURNEY SCORED ITS

ONLY NO. 1 ALBUM
The 1981 LP Escape featured Dont Stop Believin, which since

has become the biggest-selling digital song recorded in the 80s
FEW SONGS HAVE RESONATED MORE
in recent pop culture than Journeys

1981 hit single, Dont Stop Believin.
The Chicago White Sox adopted it as an
anthem during the teams 2005 march to
the World Series. The song served as the
closing number for both the Broadway
and film versions of the musical Rock
of Ages, was covered by the cast of Glee
and, most famously, played on a jukebox
during the controversial final scene of the
Sopranos series finale in 2007.
Twenty-six years earlier, the track
R EW I N D I N G
THE
C H A RT S
which was co-written by lead singer

Steve Perry, keyboardist Jonathan Cain
and guitarist Neal Schon enjoyed its
first run of success when it became one
of four hit singles from the San Francisco
bands first and only No. 1 album, Escape,
which topped the Billboard 200 on
Sept. 12, 1981. Cain, who was 31 at the
time (Perry and Schon were 32 and 27,
respectively), tells Billboard that the
tune was inspired by a dare-to-dream
idea that theres a destination in your
life greater than you can imagine, on
a midnight train going anywhere, a

reference to a line from the songs lyrics.
Dont Stop Believin would peak
at No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 that
December, and though it wasnt the
albums highest-charting single
Open Arms hit No. 2 in early 1982 it
has since become the biggest-selling
digital track recorded in the 1980s, with
6.8 million downloads sold, according
to Nielsen Music.
Although Perry left Journey in 1998
and the group has undergone numerous
personnel changes, Dont Stop
Believin remains a concert staple.
The band wrapped its latest tour on
Sept. 4, but the chances of it releasing
a new album with Perry or reuniting
with him are slim, Cain told Billboard
in May. Weve got an open chair for
him if he wants to sing a song [or] whatever he wants.
KEITH CAULFIELD
From left: Cain, Schon,
Perry, drummer
Steve Smith and
bassist Ross Valory of
Journeyin 1981.
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