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THE EXEC WHO SWEPT THE GRAMMYS Kanye? ‘Needs a therapist,’ says Capitol’s CEO, the force behind Sam Smith and Beck CHRIS MARTIN’S PLAN Be the next Bono HOW DRAKE HIT NO. 1 and the February 28, 2015 | billboard.com The old cliche of singers wanting to act (and vice versa) z gets a new revamp as the Oscar winner and 10 Display until March 6,/S. 2015 other superstars show how they’ve perfected both crafts — without ever being anyone’s punchline _ O Also Featuring ANDY SAMBERG, ANNA KENDRICK, JACK BLACK and JENNIFER HUDSON UK £5.50 BARCLAYSWorldMags.net CENTER CONGRATULATES the Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment Advisory Board members named to Billboard’s 2015 Power 100 List. - BARCLAYS CENTER:- (LRAPINGMEMORIES - ONE E';ENT AT A I NE ...dig.* I We are excited to continue working with these talented industry leaders as we bring the best entertainment to Brooklyn and beyond. SCOTT BORCHETTA RICH LEHRFELD President/CEO, Big Machine Label Group VP, Global Sponsorship, Marketing & Access, American Express SCOOTER BRAUN Founder, SB Projects MONTE LIPMAN Chairman/CEO, Republic Records JAY BROWN Co-founder/CEO, Roc Nation CHRIS OLIVIERO Executive VP Programming, CBS Radio JOHN DICKEY Executive VP Content & Programming, PETER SHAPIRO Cumulus Media Founder, DayGlo Ventures STEPHEN HILL CHARLIE WALK President of Programming, BET Networks Executive VP, Republic Records BROOKLYN SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT ADVISORY BOARD WorldMags.net WorldMags.net Swift’s blockbuster album 1989 makes yet another chart splash thanks to a new video. SWIFT: BIG MACHINE BIG SWIFT: I LC and Nielsen Music, Inc.LC All rights reserved. om/biz for complete rules and explanations. © 2015, Prometheus Global Media, L © 2015, Prometheus om/biz for complete rules and explanations. Taylor Swift’s Title CERTIFICATION Artist ‘Style’ Gets 2 Weeks Ago Last Week This Week PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL Peak Position Weeks On Chart #1 Uptown Funk! Mark Ronson Feat. Bruno Mars 7 WK S M.RONSON,J.BHASKER,BRUNO MARS (BRUNO MARS, 114 P.LAWRENCE II,M.RONSON,J.BHASKER,D.GALLASPY,N.WILLIAMS) RCA sic, sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music and streaming activity data by online music sources tracked by Nielsen Music. tracked sic, activity data by online music sources sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music and streaming An Upgrade the first time. See Charts on billboard.c Legend Thinking Out Loud Ed Sheeran 219 J.GOSLING (E.C.SHEERAN,A.WADGE) ATLANTIC AYLOR SWIFT MAKES Hot 100 top 10 hit, tying her with Take Me To Church 2 Hozier 227 I:smog'sa fashionable entrance Aretha Franklin for sixth place A.HOZIER-BYRNE (A.HOZIER-BYRNE) RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA into a familiar place among women with the most top 10 — the top 10 — with titles in the chart’s 56-year history. DG FourFiveSeconds Rihanna & Kanye West & Paul McCartney K.WEST,P.MCCARTNEY,M.DEAN (K.O.WEST,P.MCCARTNEY,K.DOCKERY, WESTBURY ROAD/ 44 T“Style,” the third single from her Madonna is the leader among M.G.DEAN,T.GRIFFIN JR,D.LONGSTRETH,D.L.AUSTIN,E.RUTBERG,N.GOLDSTEIN) ROC NATION Disnw album 1989. Following the Feb. 13 women (and among all acts) with 38 tospiu Sugar Maroon 5 45 songs receiving widespread airplay and/or sales activity for and/or airplay widespread songs receiving arrival of its official video, the top 10s, followed by Mariah Carey, AMMO,CIRKUT (A.LEVINE,J.COLEMAN, ed by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen Mu as measured audience impressions airplay ed by radio synth-heavy, new wave-inspired Janet Jackson (27 each), Rihanna L.GOTTWALD,JAHMAL HOUSE,M.POSNER,H.R.WALTER) 222/INTERSCOPE track blasts 18-10 on the Billboard (26) and Whitney Houston (23). Love Me Like You Do Ellie Goulding 66 MAX MARTIN,A.PAYAMI (MAX MARTIN, UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/ Hot 100 and enters the Streaming Meanwhile, Rihanna, Kanye S.KOTECHA,I.SALMANZADEH,A.PAYAMI,T.LO) REPUBLIC/INTERSCOPE Songs chart at No. 37 with West and Paul McCartney’s 3.7 million streams, according “Four Five Seconds” ticks 6-4 on Blank Space 3 Taylor Swift 116 to Nielsen Music, with nearly all the Hot 100. After their standout MAX MARTIN,SHELLBACK (T.SWIFT,MAX MARTIN,SHELLBACK) BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC its streaming activity from Vevo performance during the Grammy ¡ I’m Not The Only One Sam Smith 524 on YouTube clicks for the clip. Awards telecast (Feb. 8), the J.NAPES,S.FITZMAURICE (J.NAPIER,S.SMITH) CAPITOL Songs are defined as current if they are newly-released titles, or newly-released if they are defined as current Songs are The week’s most popular current songs across all genres, rank all genres, songs across most popular current The week’s “Style” also surges by 25 percent ballad vaults by 44 percent to to 115,000 downloads sold in the 261,000 sold. McCartney now Lips Are Movin 2 Meghan Trainor 417 week ending Feb. 15 and bounds ranks in the top five for the first K.KADISH (M.TRAINOR,K.KADISH) EPIC by 24 percent to 85 million in radio time in 31 years, one month and AG SG Style Taylor Swift 10 10 audience. one week, ending a record gap MAX MARTIN,SHELLBACK (T.SWIFT, MAX MARTIN,SHELLBACK,A.PAYAMI) BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC SALES, AIRPLAY & STREAMING & STREAMING SALES, AIRPLAY BY COMPILED DATA The song becomes Swift’s 17th between top five hits. —GARY TRUST WorldMags.net FEBRUARY 28, 2015 | WWW.BILLBOARD.COM 1 Billboard Hot 100 WorldMags.net CERTIFICATION The Dutch singer, Title Artist 2 Weeks Ago Last Week This Week PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL Peak Position Weeks On Chart 24, taps Jeremih for her breakout I Don’t F**k With You ¡ Big Sean Feat. E-40 37 21 11 21 single on Flo Rida’s 18 19 DJ MUSTARD,K.WEST,M.ADAM,DJ DAHI (S.M.ANDERSON,D.MCFARLANE,K.O.WEST, M.ADAM,D.NATCHE,D.M.WEIR II,W.HANSBRO,E.T.STEVENS,D.J.ROGERS SR.) G.O.O.D./DEF JAM I.M.G. imprint and Republic Records. Truffle Butter Nicki Minaj Feat. Drake & Lil Wayne 22 4 ®0 NINETEEN85,M.J.COLES (O.T.MARAJ, YOUNG MONEY/ 0 A.GRAHAM,D.CARTER,P.JEFFERIES,M.J.COLES) CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC NATALIE LA ROSE 0 FEATURING 7/11 Beyonce 13 12 22 ® 23 B.KNOWLES,B.JOHNSON,DETAIL,S.SWIFT JEREMIH (B.JOHNSON,N.C.FISHER,B.KNOWLES) PARKWOOD/COLUMBIA Somebody She Knows Ne-Yo Feat. Juicy J 23 13 DR. LUKE,CIRKUT (S.C.SMITH, COMPOUND ENTERTAINMENT/ ®®0 J.HOUSTON,L.GOTTWALD,H.R.WALTER) MOTOWN/CAPITOL DRAKE: COURTESY OF REPUBLIC RECORDS. LENNOX: LISETTE M. AZAR/CBS VIA GETTY IMAGES LA ROSE: SPLASH NEWS/SPLASH NEWS/CORBIS. LEVINE: KEVIN WINTER/ PMA2014/GETTY IMAGES FOR SHEERAN: DCP. KEVIN WINTER/WIREIMAGE. 0 Ghost Ella Henderson 22 16 26 00 R.B.TEDDER,N.ZANCANELLA (E.HENDERSON,R.B.TEDDER,N.ZANCANELLA) SYCO/COLUMBIA 22 26 CoCo O.T. Genasis 20 13 0 O.FLORES (O.FLORES,S.THOMAS) CONGLOMERATE/ATLANTIC ¡ Love Me Harder Ariana Grande & The Weeknd 719 16 21 27 A.PAYAMI,P.SVENSSON (MAX MARTIN,S.KOTECHA, P.SVENSSON,A.PAYAMI,A.TESFAYE,A.BALSHE) REPUBLIC G.D.F.R. Flo Rida Feat. Sage The Gemini & Lookas 28 14 DJ FRANK E,A.CEDAR,M.BEARD (T.DILLARD,J.FRANKS,A.CEDAR,D.W.WOODS,P.RODRIGUEZ,M.CAREN, POE BOY/ ®t/0 C.W.MILLER,G.GOLDSTEIN,H.BROWN,H.E.SCOTT,L.OSKAR,L.L.JORDAN,M.DICKERSON,S.ALLEN) ATLANTIC Prayer In C Lillywood & Robin Schulz 29 11 R.SCHULZ,P.GUIMARD CHOKE INDUSTRY/TONSPIEL/ 010 0 (N.HADIDA,B.COTTO) CINQ 7/WARGRAM/ATLANTIC/RRP ¡ No Type Rae Sremmurd 16 21 24 27 30 MIKE WILL MADE-IT,S.LEE (M.L.WILLIAMS,A.BROWN,K.U.BROWN) EARDRUMA/INTERSCOPE Animals Maroon 5 “Somebody” is partly based on Whitney Are there any other Houston songs that 23 28 31 326 SHELLBACK (A.N.LEVINE,SHELLBACK,B.LEVIN) 222/INTERSCOPE and Nielsen Music, Inc.LC All rights reserved. Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody.” you wouldn’t have dared to revisit? ¡ What attracted you to that song? “I Will Always Love You.” She just poured Riptide Vance Joy 30 34 033 0 J.CASTLE,J.KEOGH,E.WHITE (VANCE JOY) F-STOP/ATLANTIC I’m a huge fan of ’80s music and grew up her heart into that song, and it sounds listening to that. I heard this beat and told Flo exactly the way that it should sound. Ayo Chris Brown & Tyga 33 6 ® NIC NAC,M.L.KRAGEN (C.M.BROWN,M.R.NGUYEN- Rida we should write to it. He came up with If you touch a song, you should do it 0 0 STEVENSON,N.BALDING,M.L.KRAGEN,J.JACKSON) RCA ¡ “I wanna dance with somebody,” and we tastefully. I tried to use Whitney’s song in 19 24 34 The Heart Wants What It Wants Selena Gomez 615 ROCKMAFIA (S.GOMEZ,A.ARMATO,D.JOST,T.JAMES) HOLLYWOOD switched up the lyrics a little to make it more a subtle way. nowadays. But eventually we found out the Elastic Heart Sia 17 6 36 beat wasn’t available, so we had to create a How do you plan to follow up “Somebody”? 39 0 DIPLO,G.KURSTIN (S.K.I.FURLER,T.W.PENTZ,A.SWANSON) MONKEY PUZZLE/RCA new one. It took nine different versions — we I’m working on an EP — I’m recording as Take Your Time Sam Hunt 36 7 were so married to the other beat, so it was we speak.