osric AN C 1 PASE RECORDING STUDIOS: OPERA MUSIC STUDIOS (NORTH HOLLYWOOD), NEVER PANTS RANCH (RANCHO SANTE FE, CALIF.), HENSON MUSIC "In a Hurry." Saxo- OVN THE NIGHT STUDIOS (HOLLYWOOD) Shade of the Cedar Tree" and MOM HI MY NAME IS MARK (ASCAP). BEAT POET MUSIC (ASCAP). Nicholas Payton THERE ARE JOLLY OLD SAINT DICK MUSIC (ASCAP) phonist Steve Wilson, trumpeter BLINK -182 (2003), NO. 3, BILLBOARD 200 and singer Melissa Walker are among the soloists Lady VigfR 2.2 MILLION OTHERS - in the band. CBRIDESWORLD, @MACKAVENUEMUSIC Jntelieli ANDRE AND CHERYL GUESS. GUESSWORKS COLDPLAY, 9 2 11 CAPITOL RECORDS NASHVILLE TED KURLAND ASSOCIATES McBRIDE HAS DATES SCHEDULED WITH HIS BAND. INSIDE COLE WORLD: THE SIDELINE STORY INTO 2012. A FEW BIG -BAND PERFORMANCES IN MAJOR CITIES For those wondering if su- ARE BEING DISCUSSED. SONGWRITERS: CHRISTIAN McBRIDE: BILL BIRD. TEDDY McRAE & HENRI OF COURSE. A perstar country trio Lady WOODE; VI TOR YOUNG & EDWARD HEYMAN; HARRY WARREN & MACK GORDON: AXEL STORDAHL, PAUL WESTON & SAMMY CAHN; BOBBY SCOTT Antebellum can live up to rL & RIC MARLOW Cok PRODUCERS: GRETCHEN C. VALADE (EXECUTIVE); CHRISTIAN McBRIDE 9/27/2011 I ROC NATION /COLUMBIA /SONY CAROLE KING the success of last year's R: JOE FERLA NG STUDIO: AVATAR STUDIOS, NEW YORK "Need You Now" -which In the spring of 2009, J. TONICHRIS MUSIC (BM)) won four Grammy Awards Cole became the first artist ORDY FREED. DL MEDIA HOLIDAY SET. KIND OF BROWN (2009). NO. 12, TOP JAZZ ALBUMS in February-one needn't to sign to Jay -Z's Roc Na- 8.000 LIONEL RICHIE'S look further than the cur- tion. More than two years rent success of the group's later, Cole's debut finally COUNTRY latest single, "Just a Kiss." arrives. Led by the single LADY &CENTIEMEN In the week following the May 5 debut of "Just a Kiss" "Work Out," Cole World: The ALBUM (MORE on "American Idol," the ballad blasted onto the Billboard Sideline Story was produced LfelMhI Rinses1 Hot 100 at No. 7, the highest debut for a country group in primarily by Cole himself, 9/27/2011 I CURB RECORDS ON ALL, SOON) the chart's 52 -year history. (This week it's No. 6 on Hot and featured only one guest Rimes reinterprets clas- Country Songs.) "Everyone keeps asking if we feel pres- appearance at press time, Trey Songz, who appears on sic country songs notably BUT THESE 24 sure after the success of `Need You Now.' We're trying the Brian Kidd -produced "Can't Get Enough." "We're performed by men, among to not even think about the new album or these songs looking to lock in two more features," Cole's manager them songs by Waylon Jen- RELEASES LOOK in those terms," Charles Kelley says. "We're just writing Wayne Barrow says. "But if those don't come in it will nings, George Jones and about what we're going through in our lives, and we hope only be Trey. Cole wants to limit the other voices -it's Merle Haggard. Each song ULTRA READY, that country music fans continue to connect with them." his debut." Cole appeared on "A Star Is Born" from Jay - has been "rearranged and I AI ANTEBELLUM Z's chart -topping 2009 album Blueprint 3, and he has reinterpreted," Rimes says, 3GARY BORMAN, BORMAN ENTERTAINMENT AND WILL SET STAN BARNETT, CREATIVE ARTISTS AGENCY been serving as the sole opening act for Rihanna's Loud from a woman's perspec- ALL 2011 AND ALL OF 2012 DAVE HAYWOOD. CHARLES KELLEY, HILLARY SCOTT tour since Cee Lo Green left the tour in late spring. tive with the intention of PAUL WORLEY, LADY ANTEBELLUM A JCOLENC LARKE SCHLEICHER introducing them to a new audience. She gave her fans THE TONE FOR WAYNE BARROW AND JULIUS GARCIA. BYSTORM WARNER STUDIO, NASHVILLE ENTERTAINMENT a taste of the album last year when she released her EMI, WARNER /CHAPPELL APPEARED IN A POWERADE COMMERICAL WITH NBA MVP WHAT LOOKS MARY HILLIARD HARRINGTON. THE GREEN ROOM D RRI K ROSE OF THE CHICAGO BULLS cover of John Anderson's 1983 hit "Swingin ," a favorite 'UAK /LAST ALBUM: NEED YOU NOW (2010). NO. 1, BILLBOARD 200 BOOKING: DENNIS ASHLEY AND ROB GIBBS, ICM DSCAN /LAST ALBUM: 3.6 MILLION TOURING: LATE -SUMMER RUN IN UNITED STATES AND CANADA. THEN JOINS of her youth. Rimes' one new song, written by Sonya U K. ARTIST TINIE TEMPAH FOR EIGHT -DATE U.K. ARENA TOUR LIKE A VIBRANT Isaacs and Connie Harrington, is the ballad "Give." J. COLE, BRIAN KIDD, DANJA, NO I.D. ALEANNRIMES ,- NEIGHBORHOODS " -' -: JURO "MEZ" DAVIS MANAGERS: MARK HARTLEY, FITZGERALD /HARTLEY ORDING STUDIOS: WAVAFLOW (LOS ANGELES), ROC THE MIC (NEW FALL (SEE ALSO YORK). RE UND (ATLANTA) Tim DEALS: N/A I DREAMVILLAIN /UNIVERSAL SONGS (BMI) `OOKING: ROD ESSIG. CREATIVE ARTISTS AGENCY 'ANA FLEISHMAN ( @JJMONSTER), ROC NATION TOURING: ON TOUR THROUGH DEC e fJiink N/A SONGWRITER: WILLIE NELSON. JOHN ANDERSON, WAYLON JENNINGS. 9/2//2011 (TENTATIVE) GEFFEN I GE E JONES. MERLE HAGGARD, PEEWEE MADDUX, IVY J. BRYANT, MERLE OUR LIST OF 200 - -1N /A TRAVIS. JOHN CONLEE, GEORGE SABER, SONYA ISAACS, CONNIE HARRINGTON. -a SHANE McNALLY. STACEY DILLON. KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, VINCE GILL Two -and -half years after PROOUCERS: VINCE GILL, DARRELL BROWN PLUS SECOND - reuniting onstage at the 51st PUBLICIST: MELISSA MUNAFO, ID PR CHART PEAK LAST FAMILY(2007). NO. 4, BILLBOARD 200; NO. 2. TOP Grammy Awards, Blink -182 THE GOOD FEELING OUNTRY ALBUMS UN A 1401,000 HALF RELEASES returns with Neighborhoods, the band's first studio album CIùistkin ON PAGE 30). in eight years. Led by the sin- gle "Up All Night" (released McBride THE WHOLE LOVE FIRST -HALF July 14 through the group's website), Neighborhoods is jIirrBand ileo REC DBPM RECORDS NUMBERS WERE poised to be another block- 27/2011 MACK AVENUE buster success for the California pop -punk trio Tom The acclaimed bassist's While Wilco was making UP! HERE'S TO DeLonge (vocals /guitars), Mark Hoppus (vocals /bass) second album for inde- its best -selling album (and and Travis Barker (drums). Hoppus told MTV that the pendent, Michigan-based most innovative) album to STAYING ON release of "Up All Night" crashed the band's site several Mack Avenue -his eighth date, 2002's Yankee Hotel times, as well as his own personal Google Plus account. overall as a leader -is his Foxtrot, the Chicago band's TREND. On Aug. 4, Blink -182 will hit the road with My Chemical first with a big band. Ar- major-label deal (Warner/ Romance as part of the Honda Civic tour. The band has rangements and composi- Reprise) deteriorated, and sold more than 13.1 million albums since its inception tions for big band music was fully immortalized in in 1992, according to Nielsen SoundScan. have been part of a 15- the 2002 documentary "I sBLINK182. @TOMDELONGE, @TRAVISBARKER, @MARKHOPPUS year journey for McBride, Am Trying to Break Your MANAGERS: PAUL ROSENBERG. LAWRENCE BAVRA, RICK DeVOE, CHRIS GEORGGIN BIG DEAL HONDA SPONSORING BAND'S 2011 TOUR whose first big -band work was a commission from Heart." The alt- country meets alt -rock act moved on BOOKING: DARRYL EATON, CREATIVE ARTISTS AGENCY (DOMESTIC); MIKE DEWDNEY !TB (INTERNATIONAL) Jazz at Lincoln Center in 1995. The album features with Nonesuch until most recently, when news sur- PRODUCERS: BLINK -182' CO- PRODUCED BY CHRIS HOLMES AND CRITTER even ENGINEERS: CHRIS HOLMES CRITTER, JAMES INGRAM originals and standards plus songs he has recorded faced that Jeff Tweedy and company had gone SONGWRITERS: TOM DELONGE, MARK HOPPUS, TRAVIS BARKER with smaller groups, such as "Science Fiction," "The more indie by forming their own label. The Whole Love 24 BILLBOARD JULY 30, 2011 .