Billboard Magazine

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Future Scores Third Billboard 200 No. 1 In Six Months

32 “It’s ok I’m ok” Tate McRae

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1 “Rollin’ ” BabyChiefDoit

1 CHAPPELL ROAN

ZACH IS BACK AT NO. 1 • Bryan’s The Quittin’ Time Tour transitions to mostly stadiums, yielding his best numbers yet

Leaner, Faster, Nimbler? Warner Music’s Major Transformation • In the wake of 150 layoffs and a C-suite restructuring at Atlantic Music Group, there is a growing realization that the traditional label model is, as one veteran artist manager puts it, “unsustainable”

HOW MUCH DID CHARLI XCX EARN FROM BRAT SUMMER? • The hot-months momentum helped sell 97% of the tickets to the ‘Apple’ singer and Troye Sivan’s fall tour

U.S. ARTISTS ARE DOMINATING THE GLOBAL CHARTS • A strong year for American artists, the surging popularity of country music abroad and labels’ international marketing strategies are fueling the trend

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Jack Steps Out • As Jack Antonoff eyes a historic Grammys four-peat, he’s operating outside of pop’s center

INK • SONGWRITER-PRODUCER

THE COLLABORATORS

BEHIND THE HIT • “Die With A Smile”

ALL THINGS GO NYC 2024

The Dude Abides • As leader of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel has transformed the city’s — and classical music’s — audience. As he prepares to take over the New York Philharmonic in 2026, he’s determined to expand his mission even further

In The Club • It took a decade for Shaboozey to get the industry to truly hear his music. But in his astounding breakthrough year, he has finally become what he always wanted to be: the first Black outlaw country star

‘New’ Rules • The criteria for a best new artist nod have evolved — but as this year’s potential nominee crop shows, the category’s operative word is still up for interpretation

Album Of The Year (Taylor’s Version?) • Swift has won the major Grammy prize more than any artist in history. Will The Tortured Poets Department yield another win — and should she want one?

Will Cowboy Carter Ride High At The Grammys? • Billboard’s experts answer Five Burning Questions about two of the night’s likeliest central characters: Beyoncé and her country-Americana album

Can A Dis Be A Win? • Kendrick Lamar’s savage masterpiece “Not Like Us” could have a big Grammy night — and it wouldn’t be without precedent

POP Goes Amy Allen • The in-demand songwriter rarely listens to new hits — but she’s helping make some of the biggest on the charts today

YOU WANT MUSTARD ON THAT • After more than a decade making radio hits, he reached a career high with “Not Like Us” — and proved yet again that a producer’s evolution doesn’t need to be a straight line

PRODUCING RESULTS • Across genres, a new crop of producers has broken out in recent years (some as recently as this past one). Some have quickly established themselves as go-to hit-makers; others are talented newbies who’ve just gotten their first tastes of success. But regardless of experience level, these producers — selected based on their histories on the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard’s Hot 100 producers chart, along with placements on other charts — are helping to define music’s future.

THE ENCHANTER • Pablo Díaz-Reixa — the producer better known as El Guincho — started out making “very freaky, very strange” music of his own. Now pop’s cool girls rely on his experimental sonic instincts

SOPHIE VOYAGES ON • In her short life, the...