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Most Wanted: Lady Gaga Launches With ‘Stupid Love’
Billboard US
Concert Industry Faces Cruel, Cruel Summer • As the live business reels, competitors are coming together in an effort to try to make sure their shows will go on
MARKET WATCH
CAN INDIE PROMOTERS SURVIVE THE VIRUS CRISIS? • PROMOTERS WITHOUT LIVE NATION’S LEVERAGE FACE SERIOUS CHALLENGES
U.S. Complicating Touring For Foreign Acts • The visa process is becoming harder for many artists — to the point that some are deciding not to play America
Market Shock Socks Rock Stocks • AS WALL STREET REACTS TO THE CORONAVIRUS, WILL THE MUSIC BUSINESS GET SICK?
In Chile, Concert Promoters Face More Than A Virus As Political Protests Take Toll
Sony’s Bunny Bump • Small hop for Bad Bunny, big leap for foreign-language albums
Green Food And Guitars • When they’re not recording Grammy-winning music, acoustic guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela run vegan restaurants in one of Mexico’s more impoverished states
FROM THE DESK OF CHRIS TAYLOR • Global President, Entertainment One Music
The Scene
THE HOME STRETCH • Jessie Reyez played a strategic waiting game with her debut album — and is now desperate to release it
The Team In Jessie’s Corner
ALMA • LABEL EPIC GERMANY/RCA U.S. and U.K.
Her Show Will Go On • Céline Dion wanted her first arena tour following her Las Vegas residency to feel just as intimate — and production designer Yves Aucoin knew what to do
BIG IN… Venezuela WOST
CHARTBREAKER MAHALIA • How the British singer is reviving old-school R&B for a new era
TAWBOX • CREATIVE DIRECTORS
JACK HARLOW
WHAT MAKES DIPLO RUN • With a tireless team at his side, the insatiably curious multihyphenate seems to have the key to success in the post-EDM era: diversify or die
HIS UNIVERSE • THE CORE MEMBERS OF A GLOBAL TEAM ON WHAT IT’S LIKE TO HAVE DIPLO AS A BOSS
BIRD BRAIN • Aundy Caldwell Crenshaw’s business smarts helped create Dirtybird — one of dance music’s most enduring brands — and its rabidly loyal fan base
WAITING FOR THE DROP • As the EDM explosion of the 2010s cools off, many promoters and managers are bracing for a downturn
CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES • How a Canadian music festival’s drug-testing initiative made the government — and other promoters — take note
WHAT’S NEXT? • At the dawn of a new decade, dance music visionaries share their predictions for the genre’s future
FOLLOW THE MONEY • New technology could help songwriters collect missing public performance royalties from DJ sets
FANTASTIC BEATS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM • Sounds born at DIY warehouse parties are already fueling big-ticket events in dance music’s capitals. But these smaller cities are the underground’s next big scenes, launching inventive artists, DJs and new sounds
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EMERGING ARTISTS
BILLBOARD 200
ALBUM SALES
SOCIAL/STREAMING
SONGWRITERS & PRODUCERS
POP/RHYTHMIC/ADULT
COUNTRY
ROCK
R&B/HIP-HOP
LATIN
CHRISTIAN/GOSPEL
DANCE/ELECTRONIC
BOXSCORE
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