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everyone in the world,” Martin said 52, takes on a similar role for the with a laugh, having consciously Kids and Family Group. On Feb. recoupled with the media this year 18, ’s stock was down after a press-free campaign for 2014’s O 19.2 percent from the same date Toffler at Viacom’s Times Square Ghost Stories. “Our group will show headquarters in August 2014. in 2014. up and play if nobody else says yes, Toffler, 56, who joined MTV in but my hope is that we don’t have to 1987, is the last departure of the play at all. My strength is to call up original team of top executives my friends, and to work out which Van Toffler’s Era Ends; that shaped the network’s German pop star will sound most con- music identity, including co- vincing in ending extreme poverty, Doug Herzog’s Begins founders Bob Pittman, John or bringing sanitation to Kenya or Sykes, Tom Freston and Judy O whatever it might be. I love playing, of The broadcast vet, who leaves in April to launch his own McGrath. He also is believed course, but it’s not like we have to.” by many in the industry to be company, is seen by many as MTV’s last music honcho Instead, Coldplay’s farewell trek MTV’s last passionate top music will be the band’s first proper world programmer, having played a key BY ANDREW HAMPP outing since its Tour, role in VMA moments like 2003’s which grossed $186.9 million from Britney Spears/Madonna/ 77 shows in 2011 and 2012, accord- N FEB. 17, VAN TOFFLER, Christina Aguilera kiss and ing to Billboard Boxscore. Though a 28-year MTV veteran Miley Cyrus’ controversial collaborators for the new album O and key booker of the twerk-fest in 2013. “A lot of have been kept secret, the project Video Music Awards, announced amazing moments in the history is expected to have a more upbeat, he is stepping down in April as of that network would not have anthemic feel compared with the head of Viacom’s Music and Zarghami Herzog happened if not for Van,” says more intimate, - Logo Group to launch Below the Maverick’s Larry Rudolph, who helmed Ghost Stories. Radar, his own content company. Entertainment Group, oversee- manages Spears and Cyrus. Still, Martin’s work with Global Two days later, MTV/Comedy ing MTV, MTV2, Logo, VH1, However, Herzog inspires Citizen will differ crucially from that Central vet Doug Herzog, 55, Comedy Central, Spike and their confidence. Says Rudolph, “He’s of Bob Geldof and Bono — rockers was named head of the newly accompanying digital properties. not some young slinger who’s who have spearheaded cause-based formed Viacom Music and Nickelodeon’s Cyma Zarghami, going to fix what’s not broken.” organizations Live Aid and (RED), respectively. In lieu of charitable donations, Global Citizen focuses on unlocking government funds (the World Bank dedicates more than $65 billion a year to poverty SILICON ALLEY’S MUSIC TECH BOOM relief). Evans says Martin will be tasked with orchestrating pairings A pack of young, music-focused companies has joined Spotify, Pandora, Songza and like No Doubt’s announcement others in Manhattan’s Flatiron District, bringing a new beat to the neighborhood of Norwegian Prime Minister Irma Solberg’s $1 billion pledge at the DUBSET Tiesto, AM Only, William Morris concert in 2014. “It shows the power 34TH ST. Endeavor, Steve Angello of pop and policy coming together in 440 Ninth Ave. Mission statement Staff size 6 Cloud-based platform through PARK AVE. the last few years,” Evans says. “With Move-in date 2013 (company AVE.7TH which musicians can collaborate the advent of Global Citizen, we’ve launched in 2009) Funding raised Undisclosed JUKELY 6TH AVE.6TH had the ability to gamify [activism] Investor Rhapsody through social media. If social media Mission statement Identifies 36 E. 20th St. existed before Live Aid, they would samples and distributes Staff size 12 royalties to rights holders Move-in date 2013 have gamified it as well.” 23RD ST. Funding raised $3.3 million NEXT BIG SOUND Investors Lyor Cohen, Pandora shareholder Larry Marcus, Alex 9TH AVE.9TH Bono (left) and Martin 133 W. 19th St. Zubillaga at the (RED) Auction in Staff size 22 Mission statement Concert New York in 2013. Move-in date 2012 (company subscription service through a launched in 2010) social app and monthly fee Funding raised $7.5 million Investors Foundry Group, SEATGEEK IA Ventures, TechStars; The Funding raised Undisclosed Funding raised Undisclosed Orchard’s Brad Navin is on the Investors Undisclosed Investors Undisclosed 235 Park Ave. South board of directors Mission statement A song Mission statement Facilitates Staff size 21 Mission statement Analyzes promotion platform through direct-to-fan access and Move-in date 2014 (company artists’ popularity through which artists can place songs as participation for artists and labels launched in 2009) listener activity on social media, ads within streaming services Funding raised $41 million streaming services and radio SPLICE Investors Nas, Peyton and Eli PLEDGEMUSIC Manning FEATURE.FM 36 E. 20th St. Mission statement Scans 134 Fifth Ave. Staff size 8 secondary markets seeking 19 W. 21st St. Staff size 16 Move-in date 2013 the best time to buy cheap Staff size 8 Move-in date 2014 (company Funding raised $7.3 million tickets for sports and music Move-in date 2013 launched in 2009) Investors Scooter Braun, events —HARLEY BROWN

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CAPITOL MUSIC GROUP CHAIRMAN/CEO Steve Barnett Victory lap! With his artists Sam Smith and Beck sweeping the Grammys, the on-fire exec talks Kanye (“needs a therapist”) and UMG (“Lucian’s got your back”) vs. Sony (“zero support”)

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“Within this system, you have to stand up for yourself. You can’t be a wallflower,” says Barnett, photographed Feb. 11 at his office in Hollywood’s Tower.

OU WON’T FIND ANY work out for some: Ron Fair, brought on 1 corner offices in Capitol Music to run Virgin, was let go after 18 months Group’s Los Angeles headquar- (says Barnett: “I probably should have ters, but at the top of the iconic done a better job to help him more”), and, circularY tower sits a sharp chief executive. in at least one case, an entire department Chairman/CEO Steve Barnett, 62, has turned over. But there was also an undeni- only logged two years on the job, fol- able confidence to the new leader, a trait lowing a 15-year stint at Sony Music, but Barnett, who started in the business as a his impact on the music business — and manager to such acts as AC/DC, attributes certainly Universal Music Group — has to UMG chairman Lucian Grainge and his been felt globally thanks to out-the-gate support of the Capitol experiment. It’s that successes by Sam Smith and Bastille; faith, says the native Brit, that was miss- critically acclaimed revivals by Ryan ing for him at Sony. Now boasting market Adams, Beck and Mary J. Blige; and, share that puts him at a dead heat with most recently, winning an impressive 13 former employer Columbia, and revenue Grammy Awards, including honors in all estimated at $500 million, Barnett takes a 2 four major categories (three for Smith; victory lap. Beck’s won best album). To hear Barnett tell it, the road to indus- First, about the Grammy wins: What try respect was methodical and involved did Lucian say to you that night? significant risk. Resuscitating Capitol, “Mazel tov.” He was very happy — as I which was the crown jewel (albeit scuffed) was for him and the team. He the of EMI’s recorded-music empire when house when everybody said it was impos- UMG bought it for $1.9 billion in 2012, sible. There were a lot of tears shed. required uprooting some 30 East Coasters (450 employees are under Barnett’s How confident were you going in, and supervision) to Hollywood — including to what do you credit that success? Barnett himself, a married father of four From the beginning, we thought: Be prag- grown sons. In addition, there was a hiring matic. Our focus was: “We’d like to win a frenzy to fill the new CMG ranks that didn’t Grammy. Can we win two?” We worked

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7 very hard in diff erent areas to put Sam in Sony, I had a fantastic relationship the best position to be successful. And ev- with Rob, and I’ll always be proud of erything that we asked Sam to do, he did. everything that we accomplished there, I think we got the timing of the campaign but I felt zero support corporately after perfectly, and the stats on the record are [Sony Music CEO] Doug Morris got very broad: It was a very unusual record— there. None. like it was No. 1 on urban for 10 weeks. What are the challenges ahead? How much closer is the manager-label BARNETT’S CV Beck was another big win for Capitol. We want to be the best label in America. relationship today than it was when What was your take on Kanye West’s And with the competition [within UMG] you were working with AC/DC? 0 “mock” interruption? from John Janick at Interscope and We’ve been through a couple of diff er- 1980-1996 I think he needs a therapist ... We live Monte Lipman at Republic, that’s really ent eras where managers thought they PARTNER in America [where] there’s freedom of a diffi cult thing to do. Frankly, they’re a could change the course of the busi- PART ROCK/ speech. If you want to act like a buff oon, long way ahead of us. It’s very competi- ness and obviously that’s not the case, HARD TO HANDLE you can act like a buff oon. tive, but respectful. because managers don’t actually own or MANAGEMENT — 1996 Your most successful new acts, Smith “We live in America ... If [Kanye] wants to act SENIOR VP and Bastille, were both signed by INTERNATIONAL Universal Music U.K. How would you like a buff oon, [he] can act like a buff oon.” EPIC RECORDS respond to criticism that your strength — 1997-2001 in A&R is based in England? SENIOR VP I can understand that, and I think we feel When manager John Silva was looking control anything. They’re managers; they WORLDWIDE a tremendous pressure to do better with for a new deal for Beck, he met with all represent clients. But I think the smart MARKETING our domestic A&R. This year, we sold 6.6 the labels. What drew him to Capitol? managers are very involved. Certainly EPIC RECORDS million TEAs [track equivalent albums] He liked the team and he defi nitely bond- Sam’s managers are — they’ve been in — 2001-2004 Michelle Jubelirer — they’re all Universal artists. So I would ed with executive vp , every serious planning meeting since the EXECUTIVE VP/GM defend that you work the best records. And which really helped because it was a com- day I introduced him to the company. EPIC RECORDS certainly if you look at the success that Rob plicated deal — it didn’t end brilliantly for — [Stringer, Columbia chairman] and I had, him within the Universal system [previ- Before released Prism in 2004-2005 we picked the best records. It didn’t matter ously], and we had to overcome that. 2013, she joked that her next album PRESIDENT EPIC RECORDS might be a “self-sabotaging” acoustic if it was Beyoncé or One Direction or — . We have a similar philosophy. In retrospect, hiring Jubelirer, a sea- LP. Does she have your blessing? 2005-2012 soned attorney, seems inspired... That’s fi ne. She can do whatever she wants. CO-CHAIRMAN/COO You spent so much of your career She’s really done a brilliant job. And to She’s earned that right, and we’re there to COLUMBIA RECORDS at Sony. What are the biggest many, she was a surprising appointment, support her. Katy is a special person. And — 2012-PRESENT differences culturally between the but EMI had such a horrifi c reputation super-smart with great natural instincts — CHAIRMAN/CEO two companies? in that category. They were just tough to she’s really the brains of that whole opera- CAPITOL MUSIC Lucian. You just feel that he and his deal with, so she was the fi rst person I tion. If she ever wanted to retire, she could GROUP senior team have your back every day. At seriously thought about for the job. come and have my job.

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1 “ ‘The year of Sam’ — I love the tone of that 5 campaign,“ says Barnett of this commemorative plaque. “Sometimes you get it right, and it fits the artist and the music perfectly.” 2 Barnett’s father-in- law is former Rams coach Dick Vermeil, who won the Super Bowl in 1981. “He taught me integrity; honesty; teamwork; when things go wrong, take the blame; when there are successes, pass it around.” 3 Guitars signed by Shakira, , Angus Young and Jeff Beck. 4 A jersey signed by the Wolverhampton Wolves, the football team from Barnett’s hometown. 5 Cracks Barnett of the decorative longboard: “Doesn’t everybody that comes to California get a surfboard?” 6 A photo of , with whom Barnett worked at

GROOMING BY NIKKI DEROEST CELESTINE AT AGENCY Columbia. 7 Bronze dog Stacy was a gift from Smith.

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IT WAS THE WEEK OF KANYE. THE RAPPER kicked off the fall/winter 2015 season by debuting his $350 pair of haute couture street shoes, the “Yeezy Boost,” at his Kanye West x Adidas show on Feb. 12. Beyoncé, Sean “Diddy” Combs and sat front row alongside West’s wife, , and 1-year-old daughter North West, who made headlines with an age-appropriate tantrum. Hours later, West performed at the fi rst Roc City Classic in Manhattan’s Madison Square Park, featuring appearances by Travis Scott and Pusha T. “, remember the night when you all saw me perform. Remember that anything is possible. I love you,” West yelled to 1 the crowd of 10,000 who stood in 12 degree temps to catch the hourlong show. Yeezy went on to hit other of-the-moment shows, 5 including Alexander Wang (joined by Nicki Minaj) and Public School. Other musicians who turned out for Fashion Week festivities included Nile 3 Rodgers, who danced onstage with Karlie Kloss at V magazine’s Thursday night bash at Pacha, and also played with Chic. Downtown, ILoveMakonnen performed his hit song “Tuesday” at Up & Down, with guests including album collaborators Drake and Rihanna, as well as Justin Bieber — who was spotted holding hands with Naomi Campbell backstage at her Fashion for Relief charity show on 4 6 5 Valentine’s Day. —CARSON GRIFFITH

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N THE DARK BASEMENT DINING ROOM at TaiPan Fusion, a Chinese restaurant located near the Long Island Expressway Iin Queens, Ariyan Arslani, the 31-year-old rapper known as Action Bronson, pauses mid- sentence, wrinkles his nose and wiggles his legs uncomfortably in his red leather seat. “Excuse me,” he says, raising his tattooed hand to his face and fanning the air away. “That... really stinks.” Yes, Action Bronson, rapper, former profes- sional cook and online TV personality, just “This isn’t the Philharmonic farted. Maybe it’s TaiPan’s food: chicken with — I keep it loose,” says Bronson, photographed honey and chilis, Szechuan chicken and fried Jan. 29 at TaiPan Halal Fusion rice, among other delicacies. Or maybe it’s just in Fresh Meadows, Queens. by design. Bronson, whose major-label debut, For an exclusive interview and behind-the-scenes Mr. Wonderful, is due for release on March video, go to Billboard.com or 24 through Vice/Atlantic Records, has spent Billboard.com/ipad. GROOMING BY SPRING SUPER AT ENNIS INC. ENNIS AT SUPER SPRING BY GROOMING

WorldMags.net FEBRUARY 28, 2015 | WWW.BILLBOARD.COM 21 the beat WorldMags.net the past few years revealing his eccentricities on overweight, white, lumberjack-bearded rapper with of power moves. He brought on ’s manager, , EPs, independent albums and his online a nasally voice that drew comparisons to Wu-Tang Paul Rosenberg, and after being courted by Vice Vice food show F—, That’s Delicious. At this point, Clan’s Ghostface Killah was an odd spectacle, and Media co-founder Suroosh Alvi signed a deal with his slovenly, disgustingly lovable rap everyman Bronson’s music soon started making noise online. the company’s in-house record label. With access shtick is one of the main reasons his growing fan But he was content with his cooking career — until to Vice’s creative resources and its sizable online base loves him. a fall in his father’s restaurant’s kitchen in 2011 left footprint, his popularity jumped — without him “People feel like they know me — I’m the laid- him with an injury to his left leg. “I couldn’t cook, making the kind of concessions a major-label deal back guy you want to smoke with,” he says in his and that’s all I knew for eight, nine years,” he says, sometimes requires. thick outer-borough accent, looking like an 1980s between burps. “I was just sitting there, healing, “We wanted to let him be himself,” Alvi says. “He wrestler, wearing a green jacket over an orange making no money. I couldn’t sue the owner — has really taken advantage of Vice has to shirt and black shorts. because it’s my pops! So I was on my own.” off er: the TV side, fi lm side and the label.” That Bronson has done anything at all with music Fortunately, cash was starting to trickle in from “Sony wanted to sign me. It was one of the most is still a wonder to him. He was raised an only child paid features and occasional shows, so Bronson, awkward meetings ever,” Bronson recalls. “Vice by a Muslim Albanian father, a restaurateur, and a who has two kids with an ex-girlfriend, changed is more up my alley. They do fun shit that means Jewish “free spirit hippie” mother (both also ama- focus. He released a well-received independent something. I took a little less money but it worked teur musicians) in the diverse, working-class Queens album (Dr. Lecter) and a collaboration LP with out in the long run.” neighborhood of Flushing. After their divorce, he DJ-producer Statik Selektah (Well Done). Then, in Late last summer, between stops in New Zealand, worked in his father’s restaurants and played foot- 2012, on the heels of a Reebok-sponsored, critically Australia and Africa with Eminem on his Rapture ball at Bayside High School. But he says he lacked acclaimed mixtape, Blue Chips, he made a handful Tour, Bronson released “Easy Rider,” the fi rst discipline, dropping out of school and falling in love single from Mr. Wonderful. The song’s pulp- fi ction- with hip-hop and graffi ti. “I’d never really completed Bronson, in all his inspired video features Bronson dropping acid, anything in my life until now. I went out, bombed, glory, in the video motorcycle-riding through the Southwest, cavorting for “Easy Rider.” rolled around smoking weed, listened to rap music, with a witch doctor and playing electric guitar on a stole paint and did ill art on walls,” he says. mountaintop. Such idiosyncrasies, including his live Under pressure from his father, Bronson briefl y performances — where he often fl ips cartwheels, enrolled in the Art Institute of New York City’s tosses steak dinners into the crowd and suplexes culinary program. He spent his early 20s bouncing unruly fans who jump onstage — have made him around New York eateries, including a stint cooking one of the rap world’s favorite weirdos. “This isn’t for the Mets at Citi Field, and quietly recorded and the Philharmonic,” he says about his antics. “Not released ’90s-inspired rap music in his free time. An everything is scripted. I keep it loose.” Bronson is taking the same approach heading into the release of Mr. Wonderful, but also fl irting with broadening his scope. 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WorldMags.net O YOU MIND IF I EAT A LITTLE?” ASKS. “I’M TRYING WorldMags.netto gain a lot of weight. It means I have to eat every couple of hours — and I’m terrible at eating a lot.” Leto, 43, is sitting on a battered circular couch in a cavernous white room on the ground floor of his Hollywood Hills home. A takeout container filled with vegan tacos sits beforehim. Leto’s accessorized with red-and-purple socks, a woolly ski hat and a red fanny pack, for a look that is more Phish parking lot than red carpet. His beard and hair extend to Old Testament length. Leto’s packing on the pounds because he has been cast as the Joker in the all-star comic-book supervillain movie Suicide Squad, which starts filming in April for a 2016 release. He gained more than 60 pounds to play Mark David Chapman (assassin of ) Din 2007’s Chapter 27 and starved himself to play a junkie in 2000’s Requiem for a Dream. “It can be an incredibly rewarding, but also destructive, thing to do,” he says of yo-yoing between weight classes for a role. “Your body changes forever.” He has had a lot of actors call him for advice on extreme weight regimens, he says, “and I always try to talk people out of it.” Actors and musicians have long coveted each other’s careers. But today, when they leverage their brands to break into the other field, these hopeful hyphenates do better than one might assume they have any right to: Jennifer Hudson has an Oscar, Jack Black’s Tenacious D won a Grammy, and Carrie Brownstein might be the funniest person in the history of . Leto, however, is arguably the leading double threat. He won a best supporting actor Oscar in 2014 for portraying the transgender, HIV-positive Rayon in Dallas Buyers Club. As a musician, he has led rock band 30 Seconds to Mars to 2.4 million albums sold in the United States, according to Nielsen Music. (The act, which has yet to re-sign with a label after breaking away from Virgin in 2014, is spending March playing 14 shows in Russia. “We do the same thing in Germany, Italy, ,” says Leto. “We play 20 dates in 20 different cities.”) He’s also a director and a film editor, not to mention a tech entrepreneur who founded the video platform Vyrt and was an early investor in Nest, which Google bought for $3.2 bil- lion in 2014. “Many, many actors have tried to cross over into

“I’m quite comfortable saying that any money I have had I’ve made from music.” Leto wears a Kelly Cole vintage leather jacket, his own shirt and hat, Acne jeans and Diesel boots.

LIVE: GV CRUZ/GETTY IMAGES. DALLAS BUYERS CLUB: FOCUS FEATURES/ PHOTOFEST. FAMILY: MICHAEL BUCKNER/GETTY IMAGES. SINATRA: REX USA. WorldMags.netJOLSON: UNIVERSAL HISTORY ARCHIVE/UIG VIA GETTY IMAGES. PRESLEY: 20TH CENTURY-FOX FILM CORP/ EVERETT COLLECTION music-land,” says , Leto’s manager and chairman/CEO of Azoff WorldMags.netMSG Entertainment. “The reason Jared succeeded was he actually gave up When Music his movie career. He’s a rock star moonlighting as an actor. And he’s got a Met Movies work ethic unlike anybody I’ve ever seen.” Says Leto, with a grin: “I’m termi- nally dissatisfi ed. That’s probably part of being an artist.” 20 great (and a couple of LETO WAS BORN IN BOSSIER CITY, LA., IN 1971. HE AND HIS OLDER not-so-great) moments brother Shannon — now the drummer for 30 Seconds to Mars — were raised in double-threat history by their divorced hippie mother, who trotted the family around the globe, By Garrett Kamps including Haiti, where they operated a free medical clinic. After a stint at the School of Visual Arts in New York to study fi lmmaking, Leto moved to Los Angeles at age 21, and soon won a role on the TV show My So-Called Life as Jordan Catalano, the bad boy beloved by Angela Chase, played by Claire Danes. A few years later, Shannon joined him in Los Angeles. Leto’s epiph- any: “No one has to give you permission to make music or make art.” Leto believes he has more skill as a musician, just because “I’ve been onstage more hours than I’ve been in front of a camera.” And music has proved more lucrative than movies. “I’ve never made money from fi lms,” he declares. “It’s a challenge to make money from music these days — that’s one of the reasons I’ve been really entrepreneurial.” 1927 JOLSON BREAKS THE He takes pride in 30 Seconds to Mars being self-suffi cient, making SOUND BARRIER and even issuing tickets with its own team. “All our digital marketing and Both controversial and historic, social media was done in-house before people even knew what those terms The Jazz Singer is remembered as much for its star, Al Jolson, were,” he says. The band’s fan group, which calls itself “The Echelon,” performing in blackface as it is holds an annual international convention (Echelon Conference: The for being the first “talkie.” Though Gathering) and has raised funds for disaster relief in Haiti and Japan. (Fans blackface’s legacy remains understandably controversial, also mobilized in 2014 to vote more than 3 million times in Billboard’s “Fan Jolson popularized sounds like Army Face-Off ,” in which the band ultimately placed second.) jazz and blues among white Leto is guarded about his personal life, and his last long-term relationship, audiences of his era. with Cameron Diaz, ended in 2003. In the last few months alone, gossips From top: Leto onstage with 30 Seconds to Mars have linked him with the actress Lupita Nyong’o, Dutch model Dimphy Janse 1944 BING MEETS OSCAR in 2014; as Rayon in Dallas Buyers Club, with and Miley Cyrus, but he brought his mother as his date to the 2014 Oscars Bing Crosby’s Academy Matthew McConaughey (right) as Ron Woodroof; ceremony. He says he has never seen Claire Danes’ CIA drama Homeland, Award for best actor in the musical with brother and 30 Seconds to Mars drummer Going My Way fills out an inventory Shannon (left) and mother Constance in 2014. but only because he watches almost no TV. Still, he’s open to returning to TV of accolades that includes three as an actor: “I understand now the pleasure in consum- Guinness World Records, three ing a story that doesn’t end after 90 minutes and the stars on the Hollywood Walk ability to work on a character that long.” He has, how- of Fame and the first Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. ever, consistently declined off ers to star in rock biopics LETO FACTS and turned down roles in movies that promised to put his music on the soundtrack, because he doesn’t want 1954 SINATRA IS ETERNAL 30 Seconds to Mars to promote one career on the basis of the other. “When Pegged as has sold 1.4 million a bobby-soxer idol, copies of 2005’s we fi rst signed a record deal in ’98, it was like break- saw in the ing a commandment,” he says, explaining that he was his career stall as he United States wary of how people were judged for trying to cross entered adulthood. His best supporting He won best over. “Now, if you can talk, you put an album out.” actor win for From Here to Eternity supporting actor What drew him to the Joker for just his second fi lm changed all that. for his role in Dallas role in seven years? “The opportunity to take on this Buyers Club nearly Shakespearean character — that’s what graphic AMMO EGAN DEBRA PAGET j. He finally discovered novels and comic books are becoming, right?” Leto 4 ELVIS PIESLET Lost in 2014 never actually says the words “the Joker” out loud, as if the very name might summon the ghosts of Heath Ledger and Cesar Romero. “This beautiful disaster of a character — what a big challenge,” he muses. Leto is known for seeking out dark material and immersing himself in his roles. Dallas Buyers Club director Jean-Marc Vallee says, “At the beginning, 1956 ELVIS HITS THE MOVIES I was scared of him and Matthew [McConaughey, After his screen debut with Love Me Tender, Elvis Presley Leto’s co-star]. I’m from the less-is-more school, went on to make a whopping 31 and these guys were doing more-is-more. But I was feature films, including hits like using their more-is-more takes.” 1957’s Jailhouse Rock and 1964’s During his conversation with Billboard, Leto Viva Las Vegas. quotes everyone from Mahatma Gandhi to Milton Berle. The theme across the quotations: persis- 1968 CAPTAIN KIRK FINDS GOD tence. Ruminating on the skepticism that greeted 30 William Shatner’s spoken- Seconds to Mars, Leto drops one more: “Oscar Wilde word album The said, ‘The greatest revenge is massive success.’ ” Transformed Man Wilde didn’t say that, actually; Frank Sinatra, one of is a psych-’60s the all-time great double threats, apparently did. But oddity. “I touched the face of God!” he with massive enough success, you can make Oscar shrieks on the title track, released Wilde say whatever you like. —GAVIN EDWARDS two years into his Star Trek run.

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“I consider it all comedy — the difference is just, am I rapping, singing or saying it?” says Samberg, photographed by Ramona Rosales on Jan. 27 at Milk Studios in Los Angeles. Styling by Jen Pinkston at Aim Artists. Samberg wears a Saturdays shirt.

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O40 LUDACRIS LUDACRIS FACTS THE SCENE STEALER He has won three Grammys, including best rap album OR CHRISTOPHER “LUDACRIS” for Bridges, all it took to crack in 2006. FHollywood was a quick audition His 11 films have tape shot backstage while on tour grossed $916.6 million. with Eminem. Director John Singleton, Ludacris first broke into known for plucking talent from hip-hop showbiz as Chris for films likePoetic Justice and Boyz N the Lova Lova, a DJ- Hood, gave him a shot for 2002’s 2 Fast 2 personality on radio station WHTA. Furious, the second installment of what would become a billion-dollar franchise. Since then, Ludacris, 37, has excelled in both fields: As a rapper, he has released eight studio LPs and broadened his acting range to include comedies (New Year’s Eve) and Oscar-winning dramas (Crash). This year, with his ninth album, , out March 31 (days before his latest film,Furious 7, opens on April 3), Luda is playing both sides of the fence better than ever. —STEVEN J. HOROWITZ

EXPRESSING YOURSELF “All rappers act to a degree; we’re acting out our own thoughts. But acting is a craft, and it’s not as easy as everyone thinks it is. When you’re acting, it’s someone else’s script, so you’re only taking on a role. It’s more challenging to be in someone else’s shoes. When you’re doing music, it’s easy to be yourself: You have a blank canvas to do whatever you want.”

HITMAKING VS. HOLLYWOOD “I make sacrifices all the time for music or movies, just because I’m focusing on one. I was supposed to be in [2007 film]American Gangster with Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe, but I turned it down so I could finish recording [2006 album]Release Therapy. And I actually won a Grammy 2 for that album, so that’s something I don’t ...OR AT LEAST regret. I set out to win best rap album that TWEAK IT year, and that’s what I did. I can guarantee I “Singers should take on roles that play would not have the album turned in on time to their persona, if I took a month to do that movie.” but also might screw it up a little bit A FELLOW DOUBLE-THREAT’S ADVICE or show a silly underside,”says “Ice Cube sat me down one day and said, ‘Be “All rappers act director Alison patient and pick the right roles, as opposed to a degree,” Anders, who gave to taking whatever comes to you.’ He said says Ludacris, punk band X’s John photographed by that over time, it’s going to pay off. That’s Doe his first film Chris Mcpherson on role, as Dean, in exactly the path that I’m on: I’m strategic Jan. 17 in Los Angeles. 1987’s Border Radio. and selective about everything I do.”

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CE CUBE’S CLASSIC RAP songs, whether solo or with Ipioneering gangsta rap crew N.W.A., are as cinematic as any film. In 1986, he wrote Eazy-E’s hit “Boyz N the Hood,” which later supplied the title and subtext for John Singleton’s Oscar-nominated 1991 saga, which also featured Cube’s first acting role. O’ Shea Jackson, 44, later sneered his way to stardom in comedies (21 Jump Street) and dramas (Three Kings), but he also added writing and producing to his résumé,with film franchises Friday and Barbershop. His latest project as producer, the N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton, takes him back to his roots, documenting the revolu- tionary rise of the world’s most dangerous rap group. —JEFF WEISS

DIVISION OF LABOR “It was hard earlier in my career, so I decided not to balance [films and music]. When I’m working on a movie, I’m fully engulfed in it and not thinking about music. When I’m working on music, I’m not thinking about movies. I realized this after I made a few records that I didn’t like and a few movies that I wasn’t into. I was halfway in both worlds, constantly leaving the set to make music. You end up cheating both if you don’t separate them.”

WHICH IS HARDER? “With acting, you never feel like you’re good enough. There are always ways to better communicate your character to the audience. You can’t get comfortable.”

OSCAR OR GRAMMY: PICK ONE “Neither. Because I ain’t got one, and I still feel good about myself. Some artists play the game how it’s supposed to be played, and some artists don’t care and do what they want to do. Hollywood punishes maverick thinking. The people who

“Hollywood punishes don’t schmooze at the parties end maverick thinking,” says up getting overlooked. That stuff is Cube, photographed by corny to me. I’m not showing up to Ramona Rosales on Feb. 5 at Page 71 in Los Angeles. these events just to take a picture.” WorldMags.net WorldMags.net

“I want people to see me grow,” says Ora, photographed by 0 Joe Pugliese on Feb. 7 ORA FACTS at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. She’s credited with four hits on the Mainstream Top 40 chart, including Iggy Azalea’s recent 1984 PRINCE MAKES IT RAIN No. 1, “Black Widow.” Prince rode the success of his landmark album 1999 Her U.S. debut, due in directly into 1984’s Purple Rain, early summer, along with a soundtrack that’s will feature beats from consistently ranked among the Dr. Luke and Diplo. best rock albums of all time. He then directed and starred in Born in Kosovo, she two more features (1986’s was named after Rita Under the Cherry Moon, 1990’s Hayworth, a favorite Graffiti Bridge) before putting of her late grandfather, his movie career on ice. film director Besim Sahatci. 1987 CHER IS OVER THE MOON Though she’s the only woman to notch a No. 1 single in each of the last six decades, the longtime pop goddess CUBE FACTS is every bit as much of a powerhouse He has nabbed five actress. Her run No. 1s on the Top R&B/ of critically and Hip-Hop Albums chart. commercially successful films from He has appeared in 28 1982 to 1992 includes Silkwood, films that have grossed Mask and Moonstruck, for which $1.3 billion total, she won the Oscar for best actress. according to figures compiled by Box Office Mojo. 1990 WILL GETS FRESH Before he struck box- He turned down roles office gold with 1996’s Indepen- in Poetic Justice dence Day and 1997’s Men in and Menace II Society. Black, Will Smith starred in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, an NBC sitcom based on his early rap persona — the one whom Jaden and Willow’s grandparents just didn’t understand. RITA ORA THE FRESHMAN C/PHOTOFEST. HOUSTON: © WARNER BROS./COURTESY OF THE EVERETT COLLECTION. LOPEZ: © UNIVERSAL/COURTESY OF THE EVERETT COLLECTION ITA ORA’S ACTING DEBUT MAY MASTER MULTITASKER just be four lines long but it’s quite “After I shoot [a fi lm], I’ll go to the studio and WHITNEY NEEDS A R a launch pad: As Christian Grey’s record. Like when I was making Southpaw, 1992 BODYGUARD sister in Fifty Shades of Grey, the I did ‘Black Widow’ with Iggy Azalea and For a crossover star, The Bodyguard 24-year-old’s cameo was seen by millions ‘Doing It’ with Charli XCX. The only thing I was a meta moment: Not only (generating $94.4 million in fi rst-weekend sacrifi ce is my sleep.” did Whitney Houston play an box offi ce, according to Box Offi ce Mojo). internationally famous pop singer, 3 but her character also wins “Make sure you don’t blink or you’ll miss ALL ABOUT THAT IMPROV an Oscar. Of course, Houston CONSOLIDATE YOUR me,” she jokes. That exposure precedes the “I’m more comfortable in music because I’ve delivered a breakout performance MANAGEMENT Brit’s debut U.S. album and another role, been doing it my whole life. But the more and the highest-selling soundtrack “When you’ve got of all time — 45 million copies. people looking a meatier part as a drug-addicted mother success you have in a specifi c area, you get after only a part alongside Jake Gyllenhaal in the gritty box- more confi dent — I want people to see me grow. J-LO IS OUT OF SIGHT of your career and ing drama Southpaw. She also is performing And the one thing I’ve learned from music with 1998 competing for your at the Academy Awards, where her recording my acting is you’ve got to know how to be on Acclaimed for 1997’s time, there’s always Selena, Jennifer Lopez became a a collision, and of ’s “Grateful” from Beyond the the spot, how to jump and land on your feet.” bona fide movie star you don’t get the Lights is up for best original song. Classically opposite George results as an actor trained (at London’s Sylvia Young Theatre HELLO, DOLLY! Clooney in Steven Soderbergh’s Out or a musician,”says School) and with model-worthy looks (she’s the “I’d love to play Dolly Parton some day. Just Bernie Cahill, who of Sight. Her debut manages singer-actor face of Roberto Cavalli), Ora is fi nally ready for don’t ask me to do the accent — that might album, On the 6, arrived a year later. ICE CUBE: HAIR BY BRETT GROOMING MAYO. BY DEBRA DENSON ITALENT AT COMPANY. PRINCE: COURTESY OF THE EVERETT COLLECTION. CHER: AB Dwight Yoakam. a diff erent kind of close-up. —ANDREW HAMPP take a bit of rehearsing!”

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KENDRICK FACTS

“Cups” has sold 3 million downloads, according to Nielsen Music.

The 15 films she has appeared in have grossed $488 million total.

At age 12, she was nominated for a Tony for her role in Broadway musical High Society. 0 GLOVER FACTS

He has sold 800,000 LPs as Childish Gambino, according to Nielsen Music. TIER REMIX. MAKEUP BY BY MAKEUP REMIX. TIER He has won three Writers Guild of America awards for his work on 30 Rock.

Marvel recently announced it would release new Spider- Man films, fueling a fan campaign to cast Glover as the lead.

ANNA KENDRICK THE NATURAL

“I’d call myself very competent for an actor who sings, but I don’t know what I’m doing,” says Kendrick, photographed by Austin Hargrave CLARY/AFP/GETTY IMAGES. TIMBERLAKE: © COLUMBIA PICTURES/COURTESY OF THE EVERETT COLLECTION. GOMEZ: @A24/PHOTOFEST on Feb. 11 in Los Angeles. CELESTINE AGENCY USING JACK BLACK. FOLLOWING SPREAD: HUDSON: ON-SITE PRODUCER: AUDREY LANDRETH. HAIR BY LAWRENCE CLOU AT DAVIS Styling by Christina Ehrlich. Kendrick wears a Carven dress and Jacquie Aiche jewelry. 4

SET YOUR PRIORITIES “When artists NNA KENDRICK WILL BE THE persona: the acerbic underdog, constantly actor who sings, but I really don’t know what focus on acting,” fi rst to tell you she’s not really downplaying her talents — on the musical I’m doing. When I’m in a recording studio, Medina says, “the opportunity to Aa musician; she just plays side, at least: “It’s so striking that I am an I feel like a kid on the fi rst day of school.” connect with fans one on the big screen. Her amateur among pros.” —JEFF WEISS on tour suffers.” humility belies the mezzo-soprano belt HAS ONE SKILL HELPED THE OTHER? His client Jennifer HER FIRST LOVE Lopez started that drove the actress’ cover of “Cups” “Absolutely. Cinderella in Into the Woods recording 14 years from Pitch Perfect, the 2012 hit movie “I started with music before acting. — I know how many girls wanted , ago — and didn’t get about a cappella competitions, to No. 6 Because when you’re 6, you’re singing, girls who are frankly more famous than to a headlining tour on the Hot 100. That success has helped watching Janet Jackson on TV, performing me. But that’s a hard role, one you can’t until 2012. But, Medina says, “if anoint the 29-year-old this generation’s in a mirror. I would try to get my friends fake your way through. Without singing, I you offered Beyoncé Julie Andrews — the go-to belle for every into Bette Midler CDs, which is something wouldn’t have gotten that.” three months of female musical lead, including in Pitch no 8-year-old should be doing.” touring versus three Perfect 2 (out May 15), The Last 5 Years and DOUBLE-THREAT HERO months of doing a movie, I dare say BUT SHE’S BETTER AT... Into the Woods (both out now). Off -camera, “There’s really no argument: Bette Midler. her touring is more she’s not far removed from her theatrical “Acting. I’d call myself very competent for an She’s the Wayne Gretzky of double threats.” lucrative.” KENDRICK: HAIR BY CRAIG GANGI EXCLUSIVE AT ARTISTS MANAGEMENT. MAKEUP BY VANESSA SCALI. GLOVER: GROOMING BY CHRISTINA GUERRA AT YOLONDA FREDERICK GOLDFINGER AT CREATIVE. CAREY: © 20TH CENTURY FOX FILM/COURTESY OF THE EVERETT COLLECTION. EMINEM: TIMOTHY A.

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IP-HOP STARS HAVE long beat a path to HHollywood, from Ice Cube to Ice-T and even Vanilla Ice (what, you never saw Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze?). Donald Glover, however, may be the only star to make the trip in reverse. DONALD GLOVER In 2009, after three years writing for 30 Rock, Glover broke out as an actor THE OUTSIDER on cult-favorite sitcom Community. But off-set, he began living an unlikely double life as rapper Childish Gambino, going from mixtape curiosity to Glassnote signee with two Grammy nods for 2013’s Because the Internet — which was, fittingly, accompanied by a short film and a screenplay. “I don’t separate things,” the 31-year- old explains. “All my ideas bleed into each other.” After he quit Community in 2013, Glover’s life has been even more of a multitasking blur. This year, while working on his third LP, he’ll star in three films — The Lazarus Effect (in theaters Feb. 27), Magic Mike XXL (July 1) and Ridley Scott’s The Martian (Nov. 25) — while also executive-producing, writing and starring in Atlanta, the FX comedy named after his home- town (no release date). —ALEX GALE

HOW I WORK “In my house, I have an empty room: I have my studio there, a whiteboard with the Atlanta scripts, a canvas for painting and all my albums and DJ equipment. I wake up every morning and I start grabbing things — spray- painting the walls, recording, writing. They’re all connected for me. It’s all about trying to get to the bottom of what being a human is.”

MY MULTIHYPHENATE HERO “Once for spring break I went to St. Petersburg [Fla.], which is wack, but I wanted to be around old people. (Laughs.) And there’s a Salvador Dali museum there. I wrote a postcard to myself that said, ‘Never forget Dali.’ He would paint, do sculpture, architecture, film, photography.”

CREATIVE HIGH “When I really dive into an acting role, I lose myself. And onstage, I “When I really dive into an acting role, black out — I know it’s a good show I lose myself,” says when I don’t remember it. I feel Glover, photographed like that’s the closest you can be to by Brooke Nipar on Feb. 4 in Los Angeles. whatever you want to call God.” WorldMags.net WorldMags.net

GIVE 100 PERCENT, WHETHER it’s singing or acting,” says IJennifer Hudson. “I hope I never have to choose between the two.” Fortunately, it’s doubtful she’ll ever have to: After a stint as an American Idol fi nalist in 2004, the Chicago native’s biggest asset 2001 MIMI FAILS TO SHINE — her canyon-size voice — helped Glitter was a critical and her leap onto the big screen. In her commercial disaster for Mariah Carey, grossing a mere $5.2 million debut fi lm role, as singer Effi e White only other acting experience that I had in its initial worldwide release in 2006’s Dreamgirls, she stole was [when I performed] on the Disney and triggering an emotional the spotlight from fellow double Wonder cruise ship .” breakdown. Fortunately, the singer redeemed her acting skills with threats Beyoncé and Jamie Foxx and supporting roles in 2009’s Precious nabbed an Oscar for best supporting SHE KNOWS HER ROOTS and 2013’s Lee Daniels’ The Butler. actress. Now, after three albums “Music is in every element of what I (including last year’s JHUD), more do. Even if I’m not singing, music is EMINEM ESCAPES THE big-screen gets (Sex and the City, what’s guiding my emotions.” 2002 TRAILER PARK The Secret Life of Bees), a new single Helmed by director Curtis Hanson with Iggy Azalea (“Trouble” ) and a ONE THING AT A TIME (1997’s L.A. Confidential, 2000’s recent appearance on hit Fox show “I don’t want to have too many Wonder Boys), Marshall Mathers’ star turn in Empire, Hudson, 33, ventures into irons in the fi re because something 8 Mile is a hip-hop new territory this fall: her Broadway suff ers. I like to focus on whatever Karate Kid that works. debut, as Shug Avery in a revival of it is I’m doing at the time. If it’s The first rap act to win an Oscar, Eminem won The Color Purple. —GAIL MITCHELL fi lm, I don’t want to sing at all. If it’s best original song for the singing, I don’t want to do fi lm at all. rap-battle track “.” NAILED IT ON THE FIRST TRY Music was always fi rst for me, it’s my “I had never even thought of acting, love and passion. But I’m a tree with to be honest. It was actually my mom many branches, and there’s so much 2005 ACTORS BAND TOGETHER Russell Crowe & The who was like, ‘Jenny, I think you could more to express.” Ordinary Fear of God’s full-length act.’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, whatever, Mama.’ My Hand My Heart — released Then I turned around and won an THE ROAD TO EGOT STARTS WITH independently after the Kiwi actor’s other band, 30 Odd Foot Academy Award on my fi rst fi lm. The A PUPPY of Grunts, dissolved — represents “I have three dogs named Dream, the nadir of actors’ vanity-rock Oscar and Grammy. I got Oscar projects. Kevin has The Bacon Brothers, Gary Sinise co-stars in before my Oscar; I got the Lt. Dan Band — and who could Grammy before I won my Grammy. forget Keanu’s Dogstar? So I want to get a dog and name it Emmy and name another one Tony, J.T. SHOWS WHAT’S then hopefully ...” 2010 COOLER THAN $1 MILLION Though he had already appeared in 2006’s Alpha Dog and 2008’s The Love Guru, Justin Timberlake’s turn as slimeball Zuck-whis- perer Sean Parker in David Fincher’s The Social Network was proof the former Mouseketeer had serious acting chops.

DISNEY DIVAS GO ON 2012 SPRING BREAK The A-list of pop princesses who trace stardom back to the Disney music ecosystem seems endless (Miley Cyrus, Ashley Tisdale, ). But Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens co- starring as criminal party girls in Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers? Surreal, dark and unforgettable.

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JENNIFER HUDSON

THE DREAM GIRL HUDSON FACTS

She has landed 10 hits on the Hot R&B/Hip- Hop Songs chart.

In 2006, Hudson won a best supporting actress Oscar for her role in Dreamgirls.

She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2013.

“I’m a tree with many branches,” says Hudson, photographed by Miller Mobley on Feb. 10 at Hudson Loft in Los Angeles. For behind-the-scenes video and interviews with Samberg, Ludacris, Ice Cube and WorldMags.net Hudson, go to Billboard.com or Billboard.com/ipad. WorldMags.netPROMOTION

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From left: Imagine Dragons’ co) Dan Platzman, Daniel Wayne Sermon, Ben McKee and Reynolds ALBUM Imagine Dragons, Smoke + Mirrors OUT NOW OULD ANYONE DESIGN A BAND creative vision, but applying it to a stock “epic” image, Elle King more impervious to criticism than as if to say: “Imagine, you know, big imaginary stuff.” Love Stuff Imagine Dragons? Formed at This knack for radiating ambition, but not for anything (RCA) Utah’s Brigham Young University in particular, renders ID ideal for TV, movie and ad Glen Campbell before dropping out to become synchs, including a Target-sponsored $8 million live I’ll Be Me (Soundtrack) Las Vegas, and then global, broadcast in the middle of this year’s Grammys. (Big Machine) sweethearts, the group combines One could go on in this vein, and many critics have. heartland earnestness with show- But none of that jeering will block Imagine Dragons’ The Mavericks Mono biz sheen at such a shameless pitch second album, Smoke + Mirrors, (Valory Music) it’s almost innovative. Their sound from scoring a slew of hits, just as is a ruthlessly competent concoction 2012’s blockbuster Night Visions The Juliana Hatfield Three of styles: Coldplay-replay mellow did. And in many ways it will earn Whatever, My Love (American Laundromat) melodies, Mumford-y hey-hos, them. Five Seconds of Summer and

EDM-inflected bass or beats, guitars Justin Bieber treat the history of Jose Gonzalez courtesy of , filtered through alt- power pop and R&B, respectively, Vestiges & Claws rock precursors such as Vegas’s own as a vast vault of R&D for reliably (Mute) Killers. Finally, add some novelty ingratiating moves; Imagine Estelle effects — whistling, mandolins, Dragons does the same with a wider True Romance anything — and wallops on Arcade palette, with bits of dance, classic (Established 1980/BMG) Fire floor drums whenever they need rock and even Nashville. Note ‘“I’m to refocus the listener’s attention So Sorry,” which breaks up Kid Rock (which is often). PRODUCERS Imagine Dragons, country-rock with a wispy Snow The band’s name sums up its Alex Da Kid LABEL Kidinakorner/ Patrol-ling bridge, or the South

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ALBUM plucks on “Friction.” The band’s skillful cherry-picking will make fans of teen-pop listeners ready to get more sophisticated, impressive Sour Soul, the Canadian trio that as well as older ears looking to settle down. Ghostface Killah & built its profile through Odd Future and Gucci It’s not as if there are so many dazzlingly Mane covers bangs out rich blaxploitation- original bands among their current BadBadNotGood, invoking live instrumentals, providing a modern-rock-format competition. perfect canvas for the Wu-Tang Clan vet’s But the bombast of Night Visions hits like Sour Soul vivid rhymes about dodging police, jewelry “Radioactive” has been tamped down. and, oddly enough, yoga. “Shots” and “I Bet My Life” — with a But it makes sense: As an aging rap sage, chorus that resembles The Kinks’ “Days” Ghost, 44, boldly confronts mortality and — might convince skeptics that frontman maturity and balances them with his signature Dan Reynolds’ voice can have charm when street grit and goofiness. Fresh off 2014’s it’s used lightly (or at least when he’s not superhero concept LP 36 Seasons, Ghost affecting an irksome calypso cadence, as continues pandering to Marvel geeks with the on “Polaroid”). The intermittent restraint rousing “Ray Gun,” a DOOM-featured stream- reflects themes that are less imaginary of-consciousness speckled with comic motifs. and dragon-y than before. In interviews, Yet thug motivation pervades throughout the Reynolds has said he struggled with LP, and old habits die hard. “Street Knowledge” depression as the band’s career took off. lays down block survival dos and don’ts, Smoke + Mirrors begins with the words while the title track finds Ghost pounding his “I’m sorry for... everything I’ve done,” and chest (“I’ma murder you, son,” he threatens). the regrets carry on through other tracks, Elsewhere, on “Tone’s Rap,” he protests the lint including “It Comes Back to You,” a song clinging to one of his infamously gaudy robes: for his wife that refers to “things... I think I “I can’t pimp in these clothes,” he sighs before learned in therapy.” giving way to spastic drums. The serious moments are often swamped PRODUCER Frank Dukes Then, grown-man reality sets in: The by the group’s anthemic-compulsive LABEL Lex Records RELEASE DATE Feb. 24 healthy-lifestyle PSA “Food” promotes disorder, but they’re still a relief from ID’s exercise and meditation, while “Nuggets usual grandiosity. Smoke + Mirrors may Ghostface Killah’s full-length collaborative of Wisdom” preaches positivity. Age seem too recycled and belabored to album with jazz troupe BadBadNotGood isn’t can wear you down, but Ghost remains entice the unconverted, but the hints of your standard wine-and-cheese affair. On the as strong as ever. —JOHN KENNEDY hidden depths are a pleasant surprise. Li Many doubted Imagine Dragons even had hidden shallows. —CARL WILSON

has in a long time. latest fad” on “Drinking Beer With Kid Rock mosies into ALBUM middle age on his best This is the self-proclaimed Bullgod Dad,” his advice is merely to, as the album in years. proudly showing off his blue-collar, title instructs, pop open a cold one everyman side. He indulges his with the old man. Kid Rock, “red-blooded white-boy blues” First Kiss recalls the sound and First Kiss on “Ain’t Enough Whiskey” and spirit of 2010’s breezy, Rick Rubin- warmly reminisces about his first helmed Born Free. But whereas that crush on the pop-rocking title track. record’s presentation of a gentler, Bump-and-grind rave-up “Good more ripened Rock occasionally Times, Cheap Wine” proudly came across as calculated, here the PRODUCERS Kid Rock, Dann Huff writes off modern-world trappings singer — who also produced most of LABEL Warner Bros. like Facebook, Twitter and, um, this album — fits comfortably into RELEASE DATE Feb. 24 Coldplay (it also is one of several a modern country-rock landscape songs on which Rock is backed by that seems practically tailor-made N HIS 10TH STUDIO members of the Austin roots-rockers for him: a God-fearing good old effort Kid Rock is, to Band of Heathens). boy with a hard-rock heart and an borrow the title of his At 44 years old, Rock is finally outlaw-country spirit. annual sea cruise, chillin’ growing up, or at least toning down. First Kiss’ penultimate track, theO most. His first album since In 2012, on “Cucci Galore,” a track “Jesus and Bocephus,” lays out this departing longtime label Atlantic from Rebel Soul, a Kid Rock party persona in absurd but appealing for Warner Bros., First Kiss is hardly meant edible bikinis and chocolate fashion, with Rock, over a bed of his most adventurous project, but martinis; now, on First Kiss’ “Good solemn church organ and keening it is perhaps his most easygoing, Time Lookin’ for Me,” Rock’s idea fiddle, finding salvation in the twin tuneful one. The production is crisp of fun is hanging out at “a juke joint shadows of the son of God and the and clean, the guitars are sparkling, jumping with whiskey flowing like a son of Hank Williams Sr. — “two the vibe is rollicking but relaxed. river.” But when he does get worked sets of footprints in the sand.” The And surprisingly, kicking back suits up, lamenting the absence of God in American Bad Ass, grown up and Rock: He sounds better here than he schools and that “toting guns is the giving thanks. —RICHARD BIENSTOCK

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LATE-NIGHT TUNES: THE HITS AND MISSES Billboard rates TV’s best and worst musical performances from Feb. 9 to 15

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MILEY CYRUS, SNL 40 SPECIAL (FEB. 14)

Cyrus showed off her range (instead of her tongue) with a nuanced performance of Paul The band Simon’s 1975 hit “50 Ways matches big to Leave Your Lover” that ambition with progressed from a sexy growl an even bigger to a torchy climax. She finished sound on with a Karate Kid crane kick that its debut . said, “I nailed it.”

THE BOTS, LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS (FEB. 9) Babyfaced brothers Mikaiah Lei, 21 (guitar), and Anaiah Lei, 17 (drums), from Glendale, Calif., aced their TV debut with a raw performance of their single “Blinded” that evoked The Black ALBUM Keys and Jimi Hendrix. They get extra points for rocking the blues while dressed in pink — a nod to MisterWives, Our Own House their latest album, Pink Palms. SHEPPARD, THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY known for his work with Eminem, MisterWives bor- FALLON (FEB. 9) row EDM’s bombast and wed it to randy ska, agile This Aussie act (named after funk and sugary R&B. “Our Own House” begins the siblings who formed it) looked ready for bigger stages PRODUCER Frequency like a Calvin Harris song before bursting into disco during its late-night TV debut. LABEL Photo Finish/ funk, complete with -style guitars. “Geronimo,” which sounds like a Republic Records “Refl ections” sounds like a heavenly mash-up of poppier, co-ed Mumford & Sons, RELEASE DATE Feb. 24 Weezer and the Bee Gees, the kind of track you might is already a hit overseas, and, judging from the way vocalist Ed fi nd yourself making pistols with your hands to and Sheppard connected with the ITH HOLLYWOOD ALREADY GOING pointing them at strangers. “Coffi ns” is a ballad wor- crowd, it has a shot here, too. full comic book, music might as well thy of Adele. This is a high bar, one the band can’t live follow suit. Audiences are primed for up to on the relatively inert tunes in between, like MISS explosive, larger-than-life content. “Oceans” and “Imagination Infatuation.” But these WWhy not give them what they want? MisterWives moments are excusable alongside a track like “Best I THE BAND PERRY, JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE! (FEB. 11) are embracing this strategy, and it’s working. The Can Do,” the chorus of which is best accompanied by New York-based fi ve-piece — led by the operatically a mental image of Bugs Bunny doing a jig (seriously). Despite having just won a Grammy, this family band inclined, Queens-born songwriting powerhouse Do MisterWives sound a little bit pre-fab, like a sounded muted while covering BERG/GETTY IMAGES V.

MAGES. SHEPPARD: DOUGLAS Mandy Lee Duff y, who either wrote or co-wrote all of blockbuster subjected to one too many focus groups? Glen Campbell’s “Gentle these tunes — has released a debut whose panels are Are those guitars just a little too Chic chic? The bass On My Mind.” The uptempo bursting with rock ’em, sock ’em action. It’s the pop- kicks just a bit too concussive? Well, yeah, but that’s arrangement (and muddy sonics) also didn’t do justice to rock answer to Iron Man we didn’t know we needed. like saying The Avengers has too many explosions. the song’s wistful, melancholy Teaming improbabl y with producer Frequency, Relax and enjoy the show. —GARRETT KAMPS spirit. —FRANK DIGIACOMO

SINGLES

FLORENCE & THE ALABAMA SHAKES FEATURING JAMEY JOHNSON MACHINE “DON’T WANNA FIGHT” MEGHAN TRAINOR “YOU CAN” “WHAT KIND OF MAN” ATO RECORDS “MARVIN GAYE” BIG GASSED RECORDS REPUBLIC ATLANTIC Puth (left) Alabama Shakes’ Brittany An upright bass strut morphs and Florence Welch usually Welch Howard makes raw pain feel Charlie Puth plays a game of into big-band brassiness before fl uctuates between indie-pop sensual, and “Don’t Wanna “spot the Marvin reference” on Trainor nuggets of honky-tonk wisdom siren and art-rock weirdo, Fight” is their sauciest off ering his debut single, repackaging give way to a vaudevillian hook but on this head-spinning yet. “Why can’t I catch my lines from a number of soul on “You Can,” which precedes ambient-R&B single, she’s breath? I’m gonna work myself classics in the not-so-subtly Jamey Johnson’s new album. both. “With one kiss, you to death,” she bellows over titled tune. Trainor lends Puth It’s an unexpectedly frisky inspired a fi re of devotion,” reverbed guitar, which evokes some of her doo-wop swagger, ping-pong of musical styles for she sings, proving few dusty, Daptone-school retro- but the track seems more academic a veteran trad-country singer- singers do widescreen melo- funk rather than the band’s usu- exercise than an attempt at songwriter, and that’s a drama better. —RYAN REED al Dixie rock. —DAN HYMAN seduction. —ELIAS LEIGHT good thing. —JASON LIPSHUTZ GORENSTEIN/NBC/NBCU PHOTO BANK/GETTY IMAGES. THE BAND PERRY: RANDY HOLMES/ABC. WELCH: GREGORY PACE/BEIMAGES. PUTH: MICHAEL TULL KID ROCK: CLAY PATRICK MCBRIDE MISTERWIVES: DEVIN DOYLE. CYRUS: DANA EDELSON/NBC. LEI: LLOYD BISHOP/NBC/NBCU PHOTO BANK/GETTY I WorldMags.net MARKETPLACEbillboard WorldMags.net

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NUMBERS: FIFTY SHADES SOUNDTRACK SIZZLES The multi-artist soundtrack ties down the No. 2 slot on the Billboard 200 and bows with 258,000 album equivalent units (of which 210,000 are pure album sales) earned in the week ending Feb. 15, according to Nielsen Music.

210DK The album’s 210,000 sales start is the largest debut for a soundtrack since ’s This Is It danced in at No. 1 with 373,000 in the week ending Nov. 1, 2009. Fifty Shades owns the biggest bow for a multi-act soundtrack since 2005’s Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (317,000).

K Drake’s If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late leapt to No. 1 after just three days of sales. The soundtrack’s36b tunes available as a la carte purchases are red hot too, selling a combined 361,000 downloads for the week. Ellie Goulding’s “Love Me Like You Do” leads the pack with 172,000 (up 50 percent; her best sales week ever). TOMORROW’S HITS

FAR FROM A ‘NOBODY’ WATERLOO REVIVAL RISES After turning 5 Seconds of Summer Austin-based Waterloo Revival and Sam Smith into superstars makes its Billboard chart debut M in 2014, Capitol reaps rewards with the banjo-heavy “Hit the with its first notable newcomer Road” (Big Machine), which bows on 93D of 2015, as Tori Kelly’s “Nobody Country Airplay at No. 60. Fronted The film itself was a blockbuster in Love,” co-written by Max Martin, by George Birge, the quartet, U.S. and Canadian theaters, earning enters Mainstream Top 40 at No. which also includes Cody Cooper, $93 million during its four-day 33. The 22-year-old, managed by Matt Wiley and Ken Tondre, used holiday weekend debut (Feb. 13-16), Scooter Braun, has been a YouTube Kickstarter to fund an EP two according to Box Office Mojo — a star since 2007 (when she was 16) years ago and showcased it for Big record haul for the Presidents Day and boasts 1.1 million subscribers Kelly Machine executives, who signed weekend. —KEITH CAULFIELD to her official account. them almost a year later.

52 BILLBOARD | FEBRUARY 28, 2015 WorldMags.net CHART BEAT WorldMags.net New “Marvin Gaye” Music Charlie Puth debuts on Billboard’s Pop Digital Songs chart at No. 42 with “Marvin Gaye.” The retro doo-wop single features 121 131°d a notable revivalist of a similar sound: Meghan Trainor. Puth was previously 31% THIS WEEK THIS WEEK signed to the eleveneleven label, co-founded by Ellen DeGeneres, and has THIS WEEK appeared on her TV show. Now he’s on Atlantic, at work on his debut album CHARLI XCX'S ARRIE UNDERWOOD'S TOVE LO'S for the label. As the ode to Gaye arrives, the late legend’s 1973 classic Let’s "DOING IT" "LITTLE TOY GUNS" "TALKING BODY" Get It On re-enters the Billboard 200 at No. 52. The set returns, up from a STREAMS AUDIENCE SALES negligible amount to 12,000 copies, according to Nielsen Music, thanks to 369,000 32.9 MILLION 24,000 99 cent Google Play sale price. —GARY TRUST Puth

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Weekly Unit Sales

ALBUMS DIGITAL DIGITAL Drake Scores Yet Another ALBUMS* TRACKS This Week 5,925,000 2,845,000 23,072,000 No. 1 (No Surprise There) Last Week 4,559,000 2,050,000 21,473,000 Change 30.0% 38.8% 7.4%

His out-of-the-blue If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late zooms in atop the This Week Last Year 5,392,000 2,203,000 25,348,000

Billboard 200 with the second-largest sales week of the past year Change 9.9% 29.1% -9.0%

*Digital album sales are also counted within album sales. BY KEITH CAULFIELD Weekly Album Sales (Million Units) 2015 A physical release for the Young Money/Cash 2014 Money/Republic album on CD or vinyl has 15 10 not been announced. If You’re Reading This It’s 5 6.0M Too Late makes Drake four for four with No. 1 0

album debuts, following Thank Me Later (released J F M A M J J A S O N D J in 2010), Take Care (2011) and Nothing Was the YEAR-TO-DATE T Same (2013). Drake and DMX are the only hip-hop artists to have their first four full- Overall Unit Sales E LO: CHARLES SYKES/BRAVO/NBCU PHOTO BANK/GETTY IMAGES 2014 2015 CHANGE THE SURPRISE RELEASE OF DRAKE’S NEW ALBUM, length sets debut atop the chart. Drake’s If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, is the closest fourth studio album, Views From the 6, is due Albums 32,893,000 32,965,000 0.2% the music biz has come to properly “pulling a later this year. Digital Tracks 176,736,000 156,212,000 -11.6% Beyoncé” since the diva herself put out her If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late marks Store Singles 278,000 521,000 87.4% sneak-attack self- titled album in December 2013. the largest sales frame for an R&B/hip-hop Total 209,907,000 189,698,000 -9.6% The hip-hop star’s new eff ort arrived album since Beyoncé blasted in with Album w/TEA* 50,566,600 48,586,200 -3.9% without warning exclusively at digital 617,000 after just three days of *Includes track equivalent album sales (TEA) with 10 track downloads equivalent to Y4(W one album sale. retailers on the evening of Thursday, R4D(NG sales (it arrived at 12 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 12 and debuts at No. 1 on the Dec. 13). But Drake’s start could be Album Sales THIS Billboard 200 with 535,000 copies sold I rs considered as impressive as Beyoncé’s. 2014 32.9 Million GABRIEL GRAMS/FILMMAGIC. UNDERWOOD: JON KOPALOFF/FILMMAGIC. TOV in the week ending Feb. 15, according to Poo t_illsk Unlike Beyoncé, Drake’s set had all 2015 33.0 Million Nielsen Music. Pure album sales make 4 of its tracks initially available for up 495,000 units of that fi gure — the purchase a la carte, which could second-largest sales week of the past year (behind have diminished his album sales. Beyoncé was Sales by Album Format only Taylor Swift’s arrival with 1.3 million copies bolstered by music videos for each of its songs; 2014 2015 CHANGE sold of 1989). Drake’s start is even more remark- Drake didn’t have any visual component. Plus, CD 16,564,000 15,591,000 -5.9% able considering the set arrived without any notice, Drake’s album is ostensibly a commercially Digital 15,343,000 15,819,000 3.1% was a digital-only release, is referred to as a “mix- unfriendly mixtape, with no singles yet to be Vinyl 946,000 1,480,000 56.4% tape” (rather than a proper studio album by Drake) promoted to radio, whereas Beyoncé was a studio Other 41,000 76,000 85.4% and only had a little more than three days of sales set primed for the airwaves with future hit sin- VEGGIES: SHANIQWA JARVIS/EPIC. WATERLOO: JEREMY COWART FOR BIG MACHINE. KELLY: CAPITOL KELLY: MACHINE. BIG FOR COWART JEREMY WATERLOO: JARVIS/EPIC. SHANIQWA VEGGIES: DRAKE: SAYRE BERMAN/CORBIS. PUTH: ELISABETH CAREN. CHARLIE XCX: XCX: CAREN. ELISABETH CHARLIE PUTH: BERMAN/CORBIS. DRAKE: SAYRE powering its debut. gles like “.” 0 Sales by Album Category

2014 2015 CHANGE

Current 16,115,000 16,225,000 0.7%

Catalog 16,778,000 16,740,000 -0.2%

Deep Catalog 13,685,000 13,877,000 1.4%

Current AlbumAlbum Sales

YE©©[112.0.VEGGIES ON©b 4111] THE MENU 2014 16.1 Million (real name Casey 2015 16.2 Million Jones) sprouts onto the Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop airplay chart at No. 40 with “Backflip” (featuring YG and Catalog Album Sales IamSu). With five mixtapes since 2007, the Los Angeles rapper, 21, 2014 16.8 Million preps his debut studio LP for 2015 2015 16.7 Million through Vested in Culture, a label partnered with Epic Records (and Nielsen Music counts as current only sales within the first 18 months of an album’s release (12 months for classical and jazz albums). Titles that stay in the top half of the Billboard 200, founded by veteran executive Sylvia however, remain as current. Titles older than 18 months are catalog. Deep catalog is a subset of catalog for titles out more than 36 months. Rhone). —GARY TRUST, WADE JESSEN Waterloo Revival Veggies For week ending Feb. 15, 2015. Figures are rounded. Compiled from a national radial and AMAYA MENDIZABAL sample of retail store and rack sales reports collected by Nielsen Music. MUSIC

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NO. 17 Beck c and Following his Grammy win for album of the year for Morning Phase, Beck blasts onto the chart at No. 17. Album sales account for more than two- thirds of his overall Artist 100 activity, which soars by 397 percent.

2 WKS. LAST THIS PEAK WKS. ON 2 WKS. LAST THIS PEAK WKS. ON AGO WEEK WEEK ARTIST IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL POS. CHART AGO WEEK WEEK ARTIST IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL POS. CHART

23 21 1 #1 133 19 7 1 WK DRAKE YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC KANYE WEST G.O.O.D./ROC-A-FELLA/DEF JAM 129 20 29 1 1 2 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE/BMLG RIHANNA WESTBURY ROAD/ROC NATION 233 11 21 2 2 ED SHEERAN ATLANTIC/AG NICK JONAS SAFEHOUSE/ISLAND

4 133 14 33 0 SAM SMITH CAPITOL IMAGINE DRAGONS KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE/IGA 133 5 0 MAROON 5 222/INTERSCOPE/IGA 131 3 5 6 MEGHAN TRAINOR EPIC ules and explanations. © 2015, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. Global Media, LLC All rights reserved. © 2015, Prometheus ules and explanations. audience impressions as measured by Nielsen Music, streaming activity data from online music sources tracked by Nielsen Musi tracked online music sources by Nielsen Music, activity data from as measured streaming audience impressions 524 11 r90 HOZIER RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA 513 6 8 8 MARK RONSON RCA 233 8 7 9 NICKI MINAJ YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC 633 BEYONCE PARKWOOD/COLUMBIA 98 9 16 23 NE-YO COMPOUND ENTERTAINMENT/MOTOWN/CAPITOL

Billboard Artist 100 Artist Billboard 531 22 23 24 SAM HUNT MCA NASHVILLE/UMGN for complete r Big Sound. See Charts on billboard.com/biz Legend 433 25 25 25 LUKE BRYAN CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN

19 26 26 210 2015 J. COLE DREAMVILLE/ROC NATION/COLUMBIA

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10 11 10 33 29 233 it BRUNO MARS ATLANTIC/AG 20 24 ONE DIRECTION SYCO/COLUMBIA The week’s most popular artists across all genres, ranked by album and track sales as measured by Nielsen Music, airplay sales as measured radio by album and track most popular artists ranked all genres, across The week’s fan interaction on social networking sites as compiled by Next on social networking sites as compiled by Next fan interaction

223 21 34 30 133 7 10 12 FALL OUT BOY DCD2/ISLAND JASON ALDEAN BROKEN BOW/BBMG

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AIRPLAY/STREAMING & AIRPLAY/STREAMING BY COMPILED SALES DATA C WorldMags.net 54 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data Data for week of 02.28.2015 2 WKS. LAST THIS PEAK WKS. ON 2 WKS. LAST THIS PEAK WKS. ON AGO WEEK WEEK ARTIST IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL 11POS. CHART AGO WEEK WEEK ARTIST IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL POS. CHART 37 3 933 WorldMags.net80 72 72 6800 PAUL MCCARTNEY MPL/HEAR/CONCORD JASON DERULO BELUGA HEIGHTS/WARNER BROS.

10 20 78 73 5 24 33 38 SELENA GOMEZ HOLLYWOOD 80 0 RANDY HOUSER STONEY CREEK/BBMG 133 12 33 28 41 39 BLAKE SHELTON WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE/WMN 70 70 74 CHARLI XCX GOLD/ATLANTIC/AG 233 30 2 35 37 40 IGGY AZALEA TURN FIRST/HUSTLE GANG/DEF JAM - 0 75 DIANA KRALL VERVE/VG

42 44 41 10 31 76 1 TOVE LO ISLAND NEW 0 JUSSIE SMOLLETT 20TH CENTURY FOX TV/COLUMBIA

42 15 33 66 71 77 66 6 55 45 G.O.O.D./COLUMBIA PRINCE ROYCE RCA/SONY MUSIC LATIN 18 13 78 1 43 47 0 ELLA HENDERSON SYCO/COLUMBIA NEW 0 JUAN GABRIEL FONOVISA/UMLE Empire

46 933 . ' GABRIEL: DANIEL KNIGHTON/WIREIMAGE. SMOLLETT: MICHAEL LAVINE/FOX. WAP: CLIVE SRAIL WAP: MICHAEL LAVINE/FOX. SMOLLETT: KNIGHTON/WIREIMAGE. GABRIEL: DANIEL 51 0 CALVIN HARRIS FLY EYE/COLUMBIA Grows;

48 40 24 53 0 F-STOP/ATLANTIC/AG BECK: PETER HAPAK. BEYONCÉ: MASON POOLE. IMAGINE DRAGONS: REID ROLLS. AC/DC: JAMES MINCHIN. JAMES AC/DC: REID ROLLS. DRAGONS: MASON POOLE. IMAGINE BEYONCÉ: PETER HAPAK. BECK: VANCE JOY Drake . -

46 39 32 45 46 ERIC CHURCH EMI NASHVILLE/UMGN ....41, Dominates Jussie Smollett (above), 612 10.4V7 AC/DC COLUMBIA . , who plays Jamal Lyon on Fox’s new music-biz serial Empire, enters the Billboard IP ) Artist 100 at No. 76. All of his chart points stem

. am from digital song sales, led c and 44 2 by the single “Keep Your RE-ENTRY 0 ANNIE LENNOX LA LENNOXA/BLUE NOTE Money,” which becomes 23 33 the series cast’s first entry 73 0 80 COLDPLAY PARLOPHONE/ATLANTIC/AG on the Billboard Hot 100, where it debuts at No. 99. 35 21 (The track is credited to 89 Q 81 DIERKS BENTLEY CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN Empire Cast featuring 10 32 Jussie Smollett.) With 69 74 82 TIM MCGRAW BIG MACHINE/BMLG 27,000 downloads sold in 55 13 the week ending Feb. 15, - 0 0 LIL WAYNE YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC according to Nielsen Music, the tune also rises 34-32 on 54 48 8 83 66 6 00 JUICY J KEMOSABE/COLUMBIA 83 Q ROMEO SANTOS SONY MUSIC LATIN Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs,

, marking the cast’s best 57 49 49 49 8 633 rank among four charted THOMAS RHETT VALORY/BMLG 86 81 85 LADY ANTEBELLUM CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN titles on the tally. (Fun fact: 12 12 233 Smollett, 31, had a role, as a 53 12 50 58 62 86 FIFTH HARMONY SYCO/EPIC ROSTRUM/ATLANTIC/AG preteen, in the 1992 hit film The Mighty Ducks.) 38 50 51 924 34 32 CARRIE UNDERWOOD 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE/SMN 85 86 0 JUSTIN BIEBER SCHOOLBOY/RAYMOND BRAUN/ISLAND Atop the Artist 100, Drake rockets 21-1 (up 52 1 88 1 850 percent in activity) NEW RICKY MARTIN COLUMBIA/SONY MUSIC LATIN NEW 0 AWOLNATION RED BULL for his first week at No. 1, 60 933 89 50 29 notably becoming the first 67 0 PHARRELL WILLIAMS I AM OTHER/COLUMBIA 84 88 PRMD/ISLAND

ules and explanations. © 2015, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. Global Media, LLC All rights reserved. © 2015, Prometheus ules and explanations. rapper to crown the chart. audience impressions as measured by Nielsen Music, streaming activity data from online music sources tracked by Nielsen Musi tracked online music sources by Nielsen Music, activity data from as measured streaming audience impressions (He previously rose as high 82 67 18 23 88 87 90 82 15 0 MIRANDA LAMBERT RCA NASHVILLE/SMN P!NK RCA as No. 13.) The arrival of his If You’re Reading This 64 48 55 45 5 91 233 KELLY CLARKSON 19/RCA 61 79 KENNY CHESNEY BLUE CHAIR/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE/SMN It’s Too Late is largely responsible for the vault, 56 57 56 36 19 25 30 as the set starts at No. 1 ZAC BROWN BAND SOUTHERN GROUND/VARVATOS/REPUBLIC 98 0 MILEY CYRUS RCA on Top Album Sales with 133 23 22 495,000 copies sold; 60 58 57 65 77 93 TREY SONGZ SONGBOOK/ATLANTIC/AG MR. PROBZ LEFT LANE/ULTRA/RCA album sales account for 58 1 94 1 73 percent of his Artist 100 NEW 0 FATHER JOHN MISTY SUB POP FETTY WAP RGF/300 points. While Drake is the first

Big Sound. See Charts Legend on billboard.com/biz for complete r Big Sound. See Charts on billboard.com/biz Legend 50 20 31 73 Q JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE RCA rapper to lead the Artist 100, he also is just the third 63 60 26 R&B/hip-hop act (of 13 64 Q ADELE XL/COLUMBIA total leaders so far) to reign. He joins Trey Songz, who 76 61 4 78 0 FLO RIDA POE BOY/ATLANTIC/AG led the first list on July 19, 15 33 2014, and Chris Brown 62 61 62 LEE BRICE CURB (Oct. 4). —Gary Trust

63 59 12 59 63 O.T. GENASIS CONGLOMERATE/ATLANTIC/AG

74 54 25 69 0 COLE SWINDELL WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE/WMN The week’s most popular artists across all genres, ranked by album and track sales as measured by Nielsen Music, airplay sales as measured radio by album and track most popular artists ranked all genres, across The week’s fan interaction on social networking sites as compiled by Next on social networking sites as compiled by Next fan interaction

27 65 27 13 THA ALUMNI GROUP/88 CLASSIC/RCA 66 6 95 1 75 76 0 BRETT ELDREDGE ATLANTIC/WMN NATALIE LA ROSE I.M.G./REPUBLIC 30 29 51 10 81 75 0 JEREMIH MICK SCHULTZ/DEF JAM DARIUS RUCKER CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN

91 68 6 93 2 89 Q WALK THE MOON RCA ROBIN SCHULZ TONSPIEL/ATLANTIC/AG SOCIAL DATA SOCIAL DATA BY COMPILED 69 911 62 9 37 56 KIDZ BOP KIDS RAZOR & TIE SNOOP DOGG DOGGYSTYLE/PRIORITY/CAPITOL

- 18 18 2 17 29 70 BOB DYLAN COLUMBIA JESSIE J LAVA/REPUBLIC 71 3 3 30 93 85 0 TYGA YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC MAGIC! LATIUM/RCA AIRPLAY/STREAMING & AIRPLAY/STREAMING BY COMPILED SALES DATA WorldMags.net Data for week of 02.28.2015 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data 55 2 WKS. LAST THIS PEAK WKS. ON 2 WKS. LAST THIS PEAK WKS. ON ARTIST CERTIFICATION TITLE ARTIST CERTIFICATION TITLE AGO WEEK WEEK POS. CHART AGO WEEK WEEK POS. CHART IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL

HOT SHOT n #1 WorldMags.net 1 1 SOUNDTRACK ¡ 129 1 WK DRAKE If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late 18 24 26 Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 DEBUT v'w YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC MARVEL/HOLLYWOOD 21 52 NEW 0 SOUNDTRACK Fifty Shades Of Grey 27 FIFTH HARMONY Reflection UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC SYCO/EPIC

¡ 235 0 5 131 GG SAM SMITH In The Lonely Hour 48 47 ED SHEERAN + 4001 CAPITOL ELEKTRA/AG 134 Courtesy of his performances ED SHEERAN ¡ x 00 ATLANTIC/AG on the Grammys, his first album notches its best sales week (14,000 4 116 1 1 5 TAYLOR SWIFT 1989 in traditional sales; up 161 percent) BIG MACHINE/BMLG since March 2013. The album also 15 spends a third nonconsecutive week 3 6 MEGHAN TRAINOR Title 0 EPIC at No. 1 on Top Catalog Albums. 22 29 1 VARIOUS ARTISTS NOW 53 NEW 0 Holding All The Roses - 0 7 UNIVERSAL/SONY MUSIC/LEGACY 3 LEGGED RECORDS/ROUNDER/CONCORD

PS 329 ¡ 119 BECK Morning Phase 34 30 co JASON ALDEAN Old Boots, New Dirt - 00 FONOGRAF RECORDS/CAPITOL BROKEN BOW/BBMG 94 113 VARIOUS ARTISTS 2015 Grammy Nominees ONE DIRECTION ¡ FOUR 10 15 0 21 26 31 GRAMMY/RCA SYCO/COLUMBIA

The compilation steps 15-9 with a 92 percent 499 A1441!-1)- ¡ 39 45 0 ONEREPUBLIC Native sales gain (jumping to 65,000 copies sold MOSLEY/INTERSCOPE/IGA

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2 151101111H5 614 wake of the Feb. 8 Grammy Awards. 30 34 0 NICK JONAS Nick Jonas SAFEHOUSE/ISLAND

124 2 162 MAROON 5 V 50 33 34 BEYONCE Beyonce 00 222/INTERSCOPE/IGA PARKWOOD/COLUMBIA 219 0 410 11 12 0 HOZIER Hozier 24 27 35 CARRIE UNDERWOOD Greatest Hits: Decade #1 RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE/SMN

29 168 8 NICKI MINAJ The Pinkprint 28 17 36 KATY PERRY PRISM YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC CAPITOL

Billboard 200 Billboard With another 22,000 copies sold, the album’s 2 179 42 36 0 LUKE BRYAN Crash My Party total sales exceed 500,000 (509,000, to be CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN more precise). All three of Minaj’s albums 0 118 have sold more than a half-million each. 40 37 0 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE Anything Goes REPUBLIC NASHVILLE/BMLG ts Legend on billboard.com/biz for complete rules and explanations. for complete rules and explanations. on billboard.com/biz ts Legend 2015 55 56 7 11 13 MARK RONSON Uptown Special 27 31 39 RAE SREMMURD SremmLife RCA EARDRUMA/INTERSCOPE/IGA

14 10 8 February 28 FALL OUT BOY 6 13 14 American Beauty / American Psycho RE-ENTRY 0 ANNIE LENNOX Nostalgia DCD2/ISLAND LA LENNOXA/BLUE NOTE

129 18 12 SIA 1000 Forms Of Fear PITBULL Globalization 23 23 0 26 28 41 MONKEY PUZZLE/RCA MR. 305/POLO GROUNDS/RCA

0 110 0 137 albums, according to Nielsen Music. from See Char f tracks 14 19 16 J. COLE 99 51 0 MIRANDA LAMBERT Platinum DREAMVILLE/ROC NATION/COLUMBIA RCA NASHVILLE/SMN

17 1 0 311 NEW FATHER JOHN MISTY I Love You, Honeybear 65 54 Q AC/DC Rock Or Bust Q SUB POP COLUMBIA

316 164 SAM HUNT Montevallo SOUNDTRACK 4 Frozen 16 18 18 35 044 MCA NASHVILLE/UMGN WALT DISNEY

¡ 125 14 2 20 2 0 ARIANA GRANDE My Everything - 14 45 KID INK Full Speed REPUBLIC THA ALUMNI GROUP/88 CLASSIC/RCA

20 1 2 2128 NEW RICKY MARTIN A Quien Quiera Escuchar 52;Q 46 IMAGINE DRAGONS Night Visions Q SONY MUSIC LATIN KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE/IGA

10 2 17 3 - 10 21 DIANA KRALL Wallflower 17 41 47 CHARLIE WILSON Forever Charlie VERVE/VG P MUSIC/RCA

72 0 474 7 22 BOB DYLAN Shadows In The Night 87 ii 48 JOHN LEGEND Love In The Future COLUMBIA G.O.O.D./COLUMBIA

35 153 KIDZ BOP KIDS Kidz Bop 27 ERIC CHURCH ¡ The Outsiders 13 21 23 58 ii49 RAZOR & TIE EMI NASHVILLE/UMGN The week’s most popular albums across all genres, ranked by album sales, audio on-demand streaming activity and digital sales o by album sales, audio on-demand streaming ranked all genres, most popular albums across The week’s © 2015, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen SoundScan, Inc. reserved. All rights Global Media, LLC © 2015, Prometheus

53 50 1 5 16 24 NE-YO Non-Fiction NEW 0 SOUNDTRACK The Last Five Years COMPOUND ENTERTAINMENT/MOTOWN/CAPITOL SH-K-BOOM/RAZOR & TIE

25 1 17 23 JUAN GABRIEL Los Duo VANCE JOY Dream Your Life Away NEW 0 45 48 51 FONOVISA/UMLE F-STOP/ATLANTIC/AG SALES DATA COMPILED BY COMPILED SALES DATA WorldMags.net 56 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data Data for week of 02.28.2015 2 WKS. LAST THIS PEAK WKS. ON 2 WKS. LAST THIS PEAK WKS. ON ARTIST CERTIFICATION TITLE ARTIST CERTIFICATION TITLE AGO WEEK WEEK POS. CHART AGO WEEK WEEK POS. CHART IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL III 262 II248 WorldMags.net0 MARVIN GAYE Let’s Get It On 140 PHARRELL WILLIAMS G I R L MOTOWN/UME I AM OTHER/COLUMBIA

The album was sale-priced for Williams’ retooled take on the rock-bottom price of just 99 cents the album’s “Happy” at the during the week in the Google Play Grammy Awards (with Lang Lang SMITH: COURTESY OF UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP SMITH: COURTESY store, sparking the and Hans Zimmer) assists the set’s bulk of its 11,000 sales for the overall 39 percent unit gain (to Grammy week (up from basically no sales 8,000 for the week). the previous week). Gainers

53 1 4 115 Get To FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE 2 NEW RHIANNON GIDDENS Tomorrow Is My Turn 77 79 79 Here’s To The Good Times NONESUCH/WARNER BROS. REPUBLIC NASHVILLE/BMLG Movin’ 515 84 Following the first full week

49 46 54 CALVIN HARRIS Motion 36 55 80 MARILYN MANSON The Pale Emperor of impact following the FLY EYE/COLUMBIA HELL, ETC./COOKING VINYL/SEVEN FOUR/LOMA VISTA/CONCORD Grammys (Feb. 8), a bevy 25 2 89 of titles post eye-popping gains on the Billboard - G 55 JEREMY CAMP I Will Follow 63 126 Q SOUNDTRACK Into The Woods STOLEN PRIDE/SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG WALT DISNEY charts. In the Lonely Hour by 11 5 24 12 Sam Smith (above) rises 43 49 56 ELLA HENDERSON Chapter One 51 60 82 SELENA GOMEZ For You SYCO/COLUMBIA HOLLYWOOD 4-3 on the Billboard 200 with 164,000 units earned 26 11 10 16 (up 91 percent in the week 71 83 WALK THE MOON TALKING IS HARD 69 68 83 JESSIE J Sweet Talker ending Feb. 15) in the RCA LAVA/REPUBLIC wake of his four Grammy wins. The set sold 124,000 120 216 copies in the week after 183 & LADY GAGA Cheek To Cheek 62 63 84 VARIOUS ARTISTS NOW 52 124 Q RPM/COLUMBIA/STREAMLINE/INTERSCOPE/IGA SONY MUSIC/UNIVERSAL/UME the show, earning a gain of 118 percent and tallying 222 85 1 the album’s biggest sales

61 58 59 CHRIS BROWN X NEW STICK TO YOUR GUNS Disobedient week since its debut frame RCA Q SUMERIAN (166,000 in the week ending June 22, 2014). 0 675 610 56 61 60 ARCTIC MONKEYS AM 88 92 86 K. MICHELLE Anybody Wanna Buy A Heart? Smith’s four wins DOMINO ATLANTIC/AG included record of the year, song of the year and best 42 10 m 4165 new artist — but not the 53 81 ROBIN SCHULZ Prayer 93 AC/DC Back In Black Q TONSPIEL/ATLANTIC/AG COLUMBIA/LEGACY coveted album of the year trophy. That went to Beck’s 14 20 While the band opened the Morning Phase, which 60 62 62 TOVE LO Queen Of The Clouds vaults 39-8 with 71,000 ISLAND Grammys with a two-song medley, units (up 483 percent). neither of the tunes are from Back Of that figure, 64,000 \ .2 BLAKE SHELTON 0 120 01°J \90:1)) were traditional album 32 57 63 BRINGING BACK THE SUNSHINE in Black. Still, the afterglow from WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE/WMN sales (grabbing a gain of the performance encourages a BACK IN BLACK 466 percent). Like Smith, 1107 4 percent jump in units (to 8,000 Beck’s album earns its BRUNO MARS 2 Unorthodox Jukebox 68 064 largest sales week since its ATLANTIC/AG for the week). ts Legend on billboard.com/biz for complete rules and explanations. for complete rules and explanations. on billboard.com/biz ts Legend D debut, when it arrived with 59 ¡ 2 120 87,000 in the week ending 46 56 65 D’ANGELO AND THE VANGUARD Black Messiah 100 120 0 KENDRICK LAMAR good kid, m.A.A.d city March 2, 2014. RCA TOP DAWG/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/IGA Combined, the 26 songs performed on the show f 10 343 b 1 208 earned a 78 percent gain 105 72 66 JOURNEY Journey’s Greatest Hits 104 99 89 ADELE 21 COLUMBIA/LEGACY XL/COLUMBIA in download sales in the two weeks ending Feb. 15. 2 1198 2 3 213 During that span (which 33 22 67 KATY PERRY Teenage Dream 74 76 90 BRUNO MARS Doo-Wops & Hooligans CAPITOL ELEKTRA/AG includes sales made on the night of the show in the f tracks from albums, according to Nielsen Music. from See Char f tracks 20 14 641 week ending Feb. 8, plus 85 068 ZAC BROWN BAND Greatest Hits So Far... 102 106 0 THOMAS RHETT It Goes Like This the following week), they ROAR/SOUTHERN GROUND/ATLANTIC/AG VALORY/BMLG moved more than 2 million downloads (up from 167 42 29 EMINEM 2 The Marshall Mathers LP 2 QUEEN Greatest Hits: We Will Rock You 1.1 million in the previous 94 CI0 116 Q 92 WEB/SHADY/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/IGA HOLLYWOOD two-week span that ended Feb. 1. (These sales ¡ 170 64 2 figures include popular, 82 87 0 DRAKE - Q93 VARIOUS ARTISTS WOW Gospel 2015 YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC MOTOWN GOSPEL/WORD-CURB/RCA INSPIRATION/RCA earlier-released versions of some songs performed ¡ 414 BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS f 5 351 on the show that are not 79 GARTH BROOKS Man Against Machine 114 Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers commercially available, 102 Q PEARL/RCA NASHVILLE/SMN Q 94 TUFF GONG/ISLAND/UME like Beyoncé’s rendition of “Take My Hand, Precious ¡ 2159 350 57 70 72 LANA DEL REY Born To Die 101 111 95 COLE SWINDELL Cole Swindell Lord.”) —Keith Caulfield POLYDOR/INTERSCOPE/IGA WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE/WMN

¡ 450 523 91 THE WEEKND Trilogy 84 88 96 LEE BRICE I Dont Dance 97 Q XO/REPUBLIC CURB

8 14 72 12 5 73 65 74 FLEETWOOD MAC Greatest Hits 59 85 97 JAZMINE SULLIVAN Reality Show WARNER BROS. RCA

75 1 413

JACOB WHITESIDES A Piece Of Me (EP) 115 118 Q No Fixed Address NEW Q JW REPUBLIC The week’s most popular albums across all genres, ranked by album sales, audio on-demand streaming activity and digital sales o by album sales, audio on-demand streaming ranked all genres, most popular albums across The week’s © 2015, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen SoundScan, Inc. reserved. All rights Global Media, LLC © 2015, Prometheus

¡ 1102 a 1202 129 0 0 DRAKE Take Care 98 95 99 EMINEM The Eminem Show YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC WEB/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/UME

340 130 66 71 77 IGGY AZALEA The New Classic 76 91 100 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER 5 Seconds Of Summer TURN FIRST/HUSTLE GANG/DEF JAM HEY OR HI/CAPITOL SALES DATA COMPILED BY COMPILED SALES DATA WorldMags.net Data for week of 02.28.2015 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data 57 2 WKS. LAST THIS PEAK WKS. ON 2 WKS. LAST THIS PEAK WKS. ON ARTIST CERTIFICATION TITLE ARTIST CERTIFICATION TITLE AGO WEEK WEEK POS. CHART AGO WEEK WEEK POS. CHART IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL 11 WorldMags.net126 717 80 90 101 WIZ KHALIFA 110 105 126 LITTLE BIG TOWN Pain Killer ROSTRUM/ATLANTIC/AG CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN

122 17 17 WHITESIDES: WILLIAM HEREFORD ¡ Partners MILKY CHANCE Sadnecessary 67 123 0 81 101 127 COLUMBIA LICHTDICHT/NEON/REPUBLIC

74 128 1 THE DECEMBERISTS What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE CHOIR Pray: Live 31 59 103 NEW 0 A Place CAPITOL THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE/PLG 104 1 19 87 Piece SOUNDTRACK Outlander: Original Television Soundtrack, Vol. 1 BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND ¡ Ultimate Hits For NEW 0 160 113 129 MADISON GATE HIDEOUT/CAPITOL/UME YouTube star Jacob Whitesides (above) claims 759 442 his second entry on the 122 100 105 CHILDISH GAMBINO Because The Internet 103 121 130 JASON DERULO Talk Dirty GLASSNOTE BELUGA HEIGHTS/WARNER BROS. Billboard 200 as new EP A Piece of Me debuts at 12 12 23 14 No. 75 with 8,000 units 64 115 106 SOUNDTRACK Annie 92 93 131 THE NEW BASEMENT TAPES Lost On The River sold in the week ending COLUMBIA PICTURES/ROC NATION/OVERBROOK/MADISON GATE/RCA ELECTROMAGNETIC SOUNDS/HARVEST Feb. 15, according to Nielsen Music. Of that 314 12 8 - 173 BETTE MIDLER It’s The Girls! 132 169 The Young OG Project figure, nearly the entire C WARNER BROS. DESERT STORM/DEF JAM sum comprised traditional album sales. The Divine Miss M’s album ¡ 3105 The start is particularly 196 141 SOUNDTRACK Pitch Perfect logs its best sales week BETTE MIDLER UME handsome, as the EP — his first of original songs — (nearly 7,000; up 57 percent) 221 arrived Feb. 14, giving the since the week ending KENNY CHESNEY The Big Revival 137 142 0 independently released set BLUE CHAIR/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE/SMN Dec. 28, 2014 thanks to just two days of sales in its initial tracking frame. It the set’s advertisement 217 T.I. Paperwork also launches at No. 3 on 121 125 135 in Target and GRAND HUSTLE/COLUMBIA Independent Albums. Whitesides — who has circulars and in-store .,\ 16 20 1.4 million Twitter followers Alb - I SOUNDTRACK Frozen: The Songs promotion at Walmart. 40 4 162 165 0 and 276,000 subscribers WALT DISNEY to his YouTube channel — launched a tour on 2 5 205 ¡ 27 93 118 116 108 JOHNNY CASH The Legend Of Johnny Cash RE-ENTRY TIM MCGRAW Number One Hits Feb. 15 in his hometown LEGACY/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE/AMERICAN/ISLAND/UME CURB of Knoxville, Tenn. He’ll open for Fifth Harmony ROBERT EARL KEEN 109 1 ¡ 263 NEW 0 Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions RE-ENTRY 0 MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE The Black Parade beginning Feb. 27 at The DUALTONE REPRISE/WARNER BROS. Regency Ballroom in San Francisco. 331 117 Perhaps it’s no surprise 75 89 110 G-EAZY These Things Happen 152. 0 139 SLIPKNOT .5: The Gray Chapter G-EAZY/RVG/BPG ROADRUNNER/AG that his EP is greatly overperforming in Knoxville: 195 2 1 228 The city leads the album’s 72 98 111 FALL OUT BOY Save Rock And Roll 141 135 140 EMINEM Curtain Call: The Hits DMA (designated market DECAYDANCE/ISLAND SHADY/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/IGA area) Index for the week. The 17-year-old singer- 0 239 5 3303 123 122 112 BRANTLEY GILBERT Just As I Am 155 134 141 GUNS N’ ROSES Greatest Hits songwriter previously VALORY/BMLG GEFFEN/UME ts Legend on billboard.com/biz for complete rules and explanations. for complete rules and explanations. on billboard.com/biz ts Legend visited the Billboard 200 with 3 AM: The EP, which 322 142 1 TIM MCGRAW Sundown Heaven Town JD MCPHERSON Let The Good Times Roll debuted and peaked at 126 128 NEW 0 MCGRAW/BIG MACHINE/BMLG ROUNDER/CONCORD No. 26 with 10,000 sold in its first week on the July 26, 133 3 193 2014 chart. —Keith Caulfield 117 119 114 TREY SONGZ Trigga - 146 143 SYSTEM OF A DOWN Toxicity SONGBOOK/ATLANTIC/AG AMERICAN/COLUMBIA/LEGACY 648 FOR KING & COUNTRY 13 11 133 82 115 DIERKS BENTLEY Riser RUN WILD. LIVE FREE. LOVE STRONG. CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN FERVENT/WARNER BROS.

324 Sales of the album albums, according to Nielsen Music. from See Char f tracks 112 112 116 CHASE RICE Ignite The Night COLUMBIA NASHVILLE/DACK JANIELS generated at shows in the Southeast during 54 41 74 117 JOEY BADA$$ B4.Da.$$ stops along the Winter Jam PRO ERA/CINEMATIC Tour help pump the album 422 to a 43 percent unit gain 174 li 0 GEORGE STRAIT The Cowboy Rides Away: Live From AT&T Stadium MCA NASHVILLE/UMGN (and a 55 percent leap in pure album sales). 4 196 127 127 119 TAYLOR SWIFT Red BIG MACHINE/BMLG

0 139 38 9 134 108 120 COLDPLAY Ghost Stories 135 133 145 Luca Brasi 2: A Gangsta Grillz Special Edition PARLOPHONE/ATLANTIC/AG BREAD WINNERS’ ASSOCIATION/GANGSTA GRILLZ/ATLANTIC/AG

12 3 23 20 12 53 121 BETHEL MUSIC We Will Not Be Shaken 147 154 146 VARIOUS ARTISTS WOW Hits 2015 BETHEL/PLG PROVIDENT/WORD-CURB/CAPITOL CMG

372 123 LORDE 2 Pure Heroine LECRAE Anomaly 97 109 122 173 192 0 LAVA/REPUBLIC REACH 11 76 SOUNDTRACK 18 13 106 114 123 BASTILLE Bad Blood 55 96 148 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part I VIRGIN/CAPITOL LIONS GATE/REPUBLIC The week’s most popular albums across all genres, ranked by album sales, audio on-demand streaming activity and digital sales o by album sales, audio on-demand streaming ranked all genres, most popular albums across The week’s © 2015, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen SoundScan, Inc. reserved. All rights Global Media, LLC © 2015, Prometheus

19 3 0 312 19 80 124 GEORGE EZRA Wanted On Voyage 138 152 149 VARIOUS ARTISTS ShadyXV COLUMBIA SHADY/INTERSCOPE/IGA

911 11 15 108 110 125 MARY J. BLIGE The London Sessions 109 143 150 BRETT ELDREDGE Bring You Back MATRIARCH/CAPITOL ATLANTIC/WMN SALES DATA COMPILED BY COMPILED SALES DATA WorldMags.net 58 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data Data for week of 02.28.2015 2 WKS. LAST THIS PEAK WKS. ON 2 WKS. LAST THIS PEAK WKS. ON ARTIST CERTIFICATION TITLE ARTIST CERTIFICATION TITLE AGO WEEK WEEK POS. CHART AGO WEEK WEEK POS. CHART IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL III II1164 III 14 4 a WorldMags.net Come Away With Me 38 107 175 Tetsuo & Youth BLUE NOTE 1ST & 15TH/ATLANTIC/AG

The album was promoted by iTunes as 15 3 PAPA ROACH F.E.A.R.

LOVE AND THEFT: CHELSEA ROCHELLE CHELSEA AND THEFT: LOVE 15 67 176 a Valentine’s Day essential, and for a ELEVEN SEVEN discounted price. In turn, its sales rise by 1177 181 percent to 4,000. 3 161 171 in EMINEM Recovery WEB/SHADY/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/IGA Q&A FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH 254 ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA 128 3 Love And 145 145 152 The Wrong Side Of Heaven...Volume 1 - 147 178 All Over The World: The Very Best Of Electric Light Orchestra PROSPECT PARK EPIC/LEGACY Theft 0 981 ¡ 441 Your third album, Whiskey 136 172 153 ELLIE GOULDING Halcyon - 190, 179 KORN Greatest Hits Vol. I CHERRYTREE/INTERSCOPE/IGA IMMORTAL/EPIC/SONY MUSIC on My Breath, debuts at No. 16 on Independent 1191 27 32 Albums and No. 26 on THE BEATLES b 1 NEIL YOUNG 0 Greatest Hits 187 00 - 84 180 Country Albums, but APPLE/CAPITOL/UME REPRISE/WARNER BROS. you rerecorded it after RCA dropped you in 421 CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL 8 22 215 143 138 155 ALT-J This Is All Yours 179 174 181 Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits September. What was the INFECTIOUS/CANVASBACK/ATLANTIC/AG FANTASY/CONCORD reason for that? Eric Gunderson We were 3 2 155 2 277 thinking, “If they’re dropping 156 140 156 NICKELBACK Dark Horse RE-ENTRY 0 KANYE WEST ROADRUNNER/AG ROC-A-FELLA/DEF JAM/IDJMG us, they’re going to give us the music back and we can 5 12 73 k 1 194 shop it to another label.” It - 166 157 Greatest Hits 1970-2002 195 160 183 FLEETWOOD MAC Rumours turns out that they wanted ROCKET/UTV/UME WARNER BROS./RHINO to hold onto that record for whatever reason. We could 2 15 28 18 4 - 137 158 BILLY JOEL The Essential Billy Joel 83 148 184 SLEATER-KINNEY No Cities To Love purchase some of the music COLUMBIA/LEGACY SUB POP back for a good sum of money, but we don’t exactly 214 414 have hundreds of thousands 146 176 159 FOO FIGHTERS Sonic Highways (Soundtrack) 149 168 185 Under Pressure ROSWELL/RCA VISIONARY/DEF JAM of dollars floating around. Stephen Barker Liles 13 200 653 We’re still hoping they 4 90 170 160 MICHAEL JACKSON Number Ones RE-ENTRY 0 CASTING CROWNS Thrive might do the right thing MJJ/EPIC/LEGACY BEACH STREET/REUNION/PLG and work something out ¡ 163 6 196 with us that’s a little more 148 153 161 ONE DIRECTION Midnight Memories - C) 187 Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ reasonable. Or else the SYCO/COLUMBIA SHADY/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/UME music will be lost. 1236 383 MICHAEL JACKSON t Thriller 2PAC a Greatest Hits Do the new songs that - 0 162 163 180 188 EPIC/LEGACY AMARU/DEATH ROW/INTERSCOPE/UME you wrote have the same feel as the ones that were 6 136 2118 withheld, or is it a totally 4 6 153 159 163 MAROON 5 Songs About Jane RE-ENTRY Q DR. DRE Dr. Dre -- 2001 different direction? A&M/OCTONE/UME AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/UME Gunderson A lot of them are similar. I think Stephen’s TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS a 5198 2 2177 119 155 164 Greatest Hits - LUKE BRYAN Tailgates & Tanlines and my writing style were MCA/UME 0 190 CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN ts Legend on billboard.com/biz for complete rules and explanations. for complete rules and explanations. on billboard.com/biz ts Legend showcased on the record that we made for Sony 567 50 2 0 VARIOUS ARTISTS [2012’s Love and Theft] and - 165 BON JOVI Greatest Hits - Q191 NOW That’s What I Call Movies ISLAND/UME UNIVERSAL/SONY MUSIC/LEGACY on this new one. We think we’ve developed and grown 27 2 220 as songwriters since our

ANDY GRAMMER Magazines Or Novels 189 198 192 LADY ANTEBELLUM 747 first album [World Wide S-CURVE CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN Open] in 2009. There’s a lot of similarities — a His performance of “Honey, I’m Gpla .,-,...... -...... ¡ 164 - 197 193 JAY Z KANYE WEST few songs that are kind of Good” (No. 96 on the Billboard ROC-A-FELLA/ROC NATION/DEF JAM/IDJMG reminiscent of the songs that got held back by RCA. f tracks from albums, according to Nielsen Music. from See Char f tracks Hot 100) on ABC’s The View 22 12 prompts a 69 percent unit gain 124 144 194 DAVID GUETTA Listen WHAT A MUSIC/PARLOPHONE/ATLANTIC/AG Did getting dropped allow # for more creative freedom for the album (up to 5,000). The this time around? set’s track equivalent album figure 131 RE-ENTRY 0 THE BLACK KEYS Turn Blue Gunderson Yeah. It was NONESUCH/WARNER BROS. soared 75 percent to 3,000 units. especially more creative 124 9 166 2 without all the other crap TRAVIS TRITT The Very Best Of Travis Tritt ROB ZOMBIE The Best Of Rob Zombie: 20th Century Masters The Millenium Collection hanging over your head, 181 0 167 WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE/RHINO CHRONICLES/GEFFEN/UME wondering “what if” and worrying about the approval iTunes sale-priced and positioned 135 you’re going to get from 142 163 168 LANA DEL REY Ultraviolence POLYDOR/INTERSCOPE/IGA the rocker’s budget best-of executives at a company. compilation, which boosts its Liles Now, we’ve just got to 399 find someone who wants to ¡ weekly sales by 82 percent (to 144 151 169 BLAKE SHELTON Based On A True Story ... be a partner who believes WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE/WMN 3,000 — its best sales frame since in our music as much as we 2 155 2012). This is the album’s first week do. It’s a fun place to be, and - 189 0 KANYE WEST Graduation we’ve had a lot of people ROC-A-FELLA/DEF JAM/IDJMG on the chart since 2006. help us along the way. —Elias Leight 239 109 19 159 156 171 Testimony ECHOSMITH Talking Dreams NNTME MUCO./DEF JAM WARNER BROS.

143 174 150 162 in SCHOOLBOY Q Oxymoron PARAMORE Paramore TOP DAWG/INTERSCOPE/IGA FUELED BY RAMEN/AG The week’s most popular albums across all genres, ranked by album sales, audio on-demand streaming activity and digital sales o by album sales, audio on-demand streaming ranked all genres, most popular albums across The week’s © 2015, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen SoundScan, Inc. reserved. All rights Global Media, LLC © 2015, Prometheus

1145 11 86 BLAKE SHELTON ¡ Red River Blue FOO FIGHTERS Greatest Hits -0113 WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE/WMN ROSWELL/RCA

812 1 228 CHRIS TOMLIN Love Ran Red TAYLOR SWIFT 6 Fearless . 0 174 SIXSTEPS/SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG BIG MACHINE/BMLG SALES DATA COMPILED BY COMPILED SALES DATA WorldMags.net Data for week of 02.28.2015 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data 59 Fifty, Five TOP ALBUM SALES ™ HEATSEEKERS ALBUMS™ LAST THIS ARTIST CERTIFICATION Title WKS. ON LAST THIS ARTIST CERTIFICATION Title WKS. ON WEEK WEEK CHART WEEK WEEK CHART And An IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL WorldMags.net DRAKE #1 JD MCPHERSON #1 If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late 1 1 WK Let The Good Times Roll 1 1 WK ROUNDER/CONCORD Outlander YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC FARBER RYAN DISTRICTS:

NEW 0 SOUNDTRACK Fifty Shades Of Grey 1 GG BRANDY CLARK 12 Stories 24 As the Fifty Shades of UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC SLATE CREEK/WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE/WMN Grey soundtrack secures SAM SMITH ¡ In The Lonely Hour LIL SNUPE R.N.I.C. 2 “Jonesboro” 1 35 THEREZMORE2C/MILLENNIUM ERA an easy No. 1 debut on 00 CAPITOL the Soundtracks chart, TAYLOR SWIFT 4 1989 BLACKBEAR Deadroses 1 2 4 16 BEARTRAP two other significant new BIG MACHINE/BMLG ¡ CHADWICK STOKES Horse Comanche 2 soundtracks arrive in the ED SHEERAN x 34 RUFF SHOD ATLANTIC/AG Districts top 10. 00 RALPH STANLEY Ralph Stanley & Friends: Man Of Constant Sorrow 4 The Last Five Years VARIOUS ARTISTS NOW 53 2 CB MUSIC/CRACKER BARREL 06 UNIVERSAL/SONY MUSIC/LEGACY (led by its stars Anna Drive Into THE DISTRICTS A Flourish And A Spoil 1 Kendrick and Jeremy VARIOUS ARTISTS 2015 Grammy Nominees 4 FAT POSSUM GRAMMY/RCA Jordan) launches at No. 0 Top 10 BLIND GUARDIAN Beyond The Red Mirror 2 3 with 11,000 sold in the BECK Morning Phase 29 NUCLEAR BLAST FONOGRAF RECORDS/CAPITOL Rock band The Districts week ending Feb. 15, while 00 STEVE TYRELL That Lovin’ Feeling 1 (above) sees its second full- the companion album to MEGHAN TRAINOR Title 5 NEW ESIGN/CONCORD 80 EPIC length release, A Flourish the TV series Outlander JOHN CARPENTER Lost Themes 2 and a Spoil, start at No. 7 on arrives at No. 6 (7,000). Fifty HOZIER Hozier 19 SACRED BONES 00 RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA Heatseekers Albums. Shades, meanwhile, blows ONE OK ROCK 35XXXV 1 The set sold 2,000 copies in with 210,000 (see story, MAROON 5 V 24 A-SKETCH 19 0 222/INTERSCOPE/IGA in the week ending Feb. 15, page 52). THE GOLDEN HIPPIE Flowers On The Sun (EP) 1 HUNDRED HANDED according to Nielsen Music, The Last Five Years, based NEW 0 FATHER JOHN MISTY I Love You, Honeybear 1 SUB POP and gives the group its on the musical stage show ECHOSMITH Talking Dreams 37 WARNER BROS. first entry on any Billboard NEW RICKY MARTIN A Quien Quiera Escuchar 1 of the same name, opened SONY MUSIC LATIN MEIKO Lovers & Fighters (EP) 1 chart. After just one week, in theaters on Feb. 13 FANTASY/CONCORD DIANA KRALL Wallflower 2 the album nearly outsold and was simultaneously VERVE/VG 14 GLASS ANIMALS Zaba the band’s debut full-length, 32 released to video on WOLF TONE/HARVEST BOB DYLAN Shadows In The Night 2 Telephone, which arrived demand. Kendrick has COLUMBIA 0 15 ABOUT A MILE About A Mile 8 in 2012 and has sold a few been heard on such smash WORD-CURB/WARNER BROS. 16 KIDZ BOP KIDS Kidz Bop 27 5 hundred more copies than Soundtrack Albums entries 12 RAZOR & TIE VIJAY IYER TRIO Break Stuff 1 as Pitch Perfect (No. 1 for ECM/UNIVERSAL MUSIC CLASSICS Flourish. FALL OUT BOY American Beauty / American Psycho 4 20 weeks) and Into the 11 17 DCD2/ISLAND The new album’s debut BLACKLISTED When People Grow, People Go 1 DEATHWISH is powered in part by the Woods (No. 2). Jordan is J. COLE 0 2014 Forest Hills Drive 18Q 10 band’s late-night TV debut familiar to listeners of DREAMVILLE/ROC NATION/COLUMBIA AMBER Beautiful: The 1st Mini Album (EP) 1 Joyful Noise, which spent S.M. on NBC’s Late Night With Country Albums, R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, Top ard 200 or the top 10 of Top NEW 0 JUAN GABRIEL Los Duo 1 three weeks at No. 1 in 2012. FONOVISA/UMLE YAZAIRA Yazaira 1 Seth Meyers (Feb. 11) WARNER LATINA Another adaptation and the set’s inclusion in 20 NICKI MINAJ The Pinkprint 9 14 by sales data as artist various top-selling albums, ranked soundtrack The week’s debuts a few steps down YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC THE DREAMING Rise Again 1 National Public Radio’s METROPOLIS the Soundtracks list, thanks SOUNDTRACK ¡ First Listen (Feb. 1). 21 Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 29 to Outlander. The show’s 15 MARVEL/HOLLYWOOD VERIDIA Inseparable (EP) 8 WORD-CURB/WARNER BROS. The Districts started their

first season aired its initial SOUNDTRACKS: SIA 1000 Forms Of Fear 24 U.S. tour on Feb. 10 at the 300 MONKEY PUZZLE/RCA BLANCA Who I Am (EP) 6 eight episodes last August WORD-CURB/WARNER BROS. Bowery Ballroom in New and September. The second Album Sales BLACKBERRY SMOKE Holding All The Roses 1 York and will play a couple NEW 0 3 LEGGED RECORDS/ROUNDER/CONCORD CATFISH AND THE BOTTLEMEN The Balcony 5 half of the season will COMMUNION of key festivals this summer. resume April 4. The show 20 24 SAM HUNT Montevallo 16 They’ll visit the Hangout MCA NASHVILLE/UMGN 25 MARDUK Frontschwein 1 is based on the hit series CENTURY MEDIA Music Festival (on May 15), of novels and stories that NE-YO Non-Fiction 3 Governors Ball (June 5) and 16 75 COMPOUND ENTERTAINMENT/MOTOWN/CAPITOL launched in 1991. Bonnaroo (June 11). 2015 —Keith Caulfield AC/DC 0 Rock Or Bust 11 SOUNDTRACKS™ in the top 100 of Billbo appeared never defined as those who have COLUMBIA Elsewhere on Heatseekers 00 LAST THIS ARTIST CERTIFICATION WKS. ON Title Albums, Brandy Clark’s WEEK WEEK CHART JASON ALDEAN ¡ Old Boots, New Dirt 19 IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL 28Q BROKEN BOW/BBMG Grammy-nominated 12

#11 WK SOUNDTRACK Fifty Shades Of Grey 1 Stories continues to profit ED SHEERAN 0 + NEW . UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC February 28 61 0 127 ELEKTRA/AG SOUNDTRACK ¡ from her performance on 1 Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 29 2 MARVEL/HOLLYWOOD the awards telecast (Feb. 8) ANNIE LENNOX Nostalgia 6 RE 0 LA LENNOXA/BLUE NOTE as the set vaults 7-2 with NEW 0 SOUNDTRACK The Last Five Years 1 SH-K-BOOM/RAZOR & TIE 3,000 copies sold. —K.C. 26 30 CHARLIE WILSON Forever Charlie 3 P MUSIC/RCA 4 2 4 SOUNDTRACK Frozen 64 WALT DISNEY ARIANA GRANDE ¡ My Everything 25 71,VT 00 REPUBLIC SOUNDTRACK Into The Woods 9 4 0 WALT DISNEY 11i acts, albums by new or developing top-selling The week’s NEW 0 SOUNDTRACK The Last Five Years 1 SH-K-BOOM/RAZOR & TIE NEW 0 SOUNDTRACK Outlander: Original Television Soundtrack, Vol. 1 1 MADISON GATE MARVIN GAYE Let’s Get It On 1 NEW 0 MOTOWN/UME SOUNDTRACK Annie 13 3 0 COLUMBIA PICTURES/ROC NATION/OVERBROOK/MADISON GATE/RCA and Nielsen SoundScan, Inc. All rights reserved. lobal Media, LLC FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE 0 Anything Goes 18 by sales data as compiled Nielsen SoundScan. ranked are Albums. Titles then ineligible to appear on Heatseekers are 40Q REPUBLIC NASHVILLE/BMLG SOUNDTRACK Frozen: The Songs 20 ALBUMS: HEATSEEKERS 00 WALT DISNEY

NEW 0 RHIANNON GIDDENS Tomorrow Is My Turn 1 SOUNDTRACK ¡ Pitch Perfect 125 NONESUCH/WARNER BROS. 00 UME 0 MIRANDA LAMBERT Platinum 37 SOUNDTRACK Sonic Highways (Foo Fighters) 11 00 RCA NASHVILLE/SMN 6Q ROSWELL/RCA SOUNDTRACK CARRIE UNDERWOOD 0 Greatest Hits: Decade #1 10 d Purple Rain (Prince And The Revolution) 183 32 37 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE/SMN 0 li WARNER BROS. SOUNDTRACK SOUNDTRACK 4 Frozen 64 NEW 0 Glee: Season Six: Transitioning (EP) 1 038 WALT DISNEY 20TH CENTURY FOX TV/COLUMBIA

10 13 SOUNDTRACK The Best Of Me 8 39 JEREMY CAMP I Will Follow 2 RELATIVITY/EMI NASHVILLE/UMGN 0 STOLEN PRIDE/SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG 14 14 SOUNDTRACK Begin Again 33 FIFTH HARMONY Reflection 2 ALXNDR/222/POLYDOR/INTERSCOPE/IGA O° SYCO/EPIC G © 2015, Prometheus com/biz for complete rules and explanations. TONY BENNETT & LADY GAGA SOUNDTRACK Chef 33 Cheek To Cheek 21 0 . ALDAMISA/MILAN RPM/COLUMBIA/STREAMLINE/INTERSCOPE/IGA 00 SOUNDTRACK Empire: Music From The Pilot (EP) 6 ONEREPUBLIC ¡ Native 97 0 16 20TH CENTURY FOX TV/COLUMBIA RE 0 MOSLEY/INTERSCOPE/IGA 13 SOUNDTRACK The Book Of Life 8 17 20TH CENTURY FOX/MASTERWORKS/SONY MASTERWORKS ONE DIRECTION ¡ FOUR 13 36 43 SYCO/COLUMBIA SOUNDTRACK Jersey Boys 34 17 0 RHINO LUKE BRYAN 2 Crash My Party 79 CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN SOUNDTRACK 00 RE 0 Selma: Music From The Motion Picture 4 ¡ PATHE/PARAMOUNT PICTURES GARTH BROOKS Man Against Machine 14 by sales data as compiled Nielsen SoundScan. ranked all genres, top-selling albums across The week’s 45Q PEARL/RCA NASHVILLE/SMN SOUNDTRACK John Wick 2 RE 0 SUMMIT/VARESE SARABANDE JACOB WHITESIDES A Piece Of Me (EP) 1 NEW Q JW SOUNDTRACK Nashville: The Music Of, Season 3 : Volume 1 8 0 21 ABC STUDIOS/LIONS GATE/BIG MACHINE/BMLG compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. See Charts on billboard. Legend KID INK Full Speed 2 ALBUM SALES: TOP albums subsequent it and the act’s of those levels, any Latin Albums, Christian Albums or Gospel Albums. If a title reaches Top 0 47 THA ALUMNI GROUP/88 CLASSIC/RCA NEW 0 SOUNDTRACK Whiplash 1 VARESE SARABANDE

48 VARIOUS ARTISTS NOW 52 16 8 34 SONY MUSIC/UNIVERSAL/UME SOUNDTRACK O Brother, Where Art Thou? 517 RE 0 LOST HIGHWAY/MERCURY/UME BEYONCE 2 Beyonce 62 SOUNDTRACK PARKWOOD/COLUMBIA Q24 Empire: Music From The Outspoken King (EP) 5 00 20TH CENTURY FOX TV/COLUMBIA D’ANGELO AND THE VANGUARD Black Messiah SOUNDTRACK 39 50 9 19 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part I 13 RCA 25 LIONS GATE/REPUBLIC AIRPLAY/STREAMING & AIRPLAY/STREAMING BY COMPILED SALES DATA WorldMags.net 60 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data Data for week of 02.28.2015 RADIO SONGS™ DIGITAL SONGS™ STREAMING SONGS™

LAST THIS TITLE Artist WKS. ON LAST THIS TITLE CERTIFICATION Artist WKS. ON LAST THIS TITLE Artist WKS. ON WEEK WEEK CHART WEEK WEEK CHART WEEK WEEK CHART IMPRINT/PROMOTIONWorldMags.net LABEL IMPRINT/LABEL IMPRINT/LABEL #1 UPTOWN FUNK! #1 #1 UPTOWN FUNK! 4 WKS Mark Ronson Feat. Bruno Mars 12 1 WK THINKING OUT LOUD Ed Sheeran 15 5 WKS Mark Ronson Feat. Bruno Mars 12 RCA ATLANTIC/AG RCA 00 U THINKING OUT LOUD Ed Sheeran UPTOWN FUNK! Mark Ronson Feat. Bruno Mars THINKING OUT LOUD Ed Sheeran 10 1 2 14 15 00 ATLANTIC RCA 0 ATLANTIC BLANK SPACE Taylor Swift FOURFIVESECONDS Rihanna & Kanye West & Paul McCartney TAKE ME TO CHURCH Hozier 3 3 15 4 18 BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC WESTBURY ROAD/ROC NATION 3 0 RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA 0 TAKE ME TO CHURCH Hozier 16 SUGAR Maroon 5 5 SUGAR Maroon 5 5 0 4 RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA 0 222/INTERSCOPE/IGA 222/INTERSCOPE LIPS ARE MOVIN Meghan Trainor 12 LOVE ME LIKE YOU DO Ellie Goulding 6 4 5 COCO O.T. Genasis 12 0 5 EPIC 6 0 INTERSCOPE/UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/IGA/REPUBLIC CONGLOMERATE/ATLANTIC STYLE Taylor Swift 4 TAKE ME TO CHURCH 2 Hozier 21 LOVE ME LIKE YOU DO Ellie Goulding 4 5 0 RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA 00 BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC 00 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC/INTERSCOPE I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE Sam Smith STAY WITH ME 4 Sam Smith CHANDELIER Sia 6 7 18 11 0 45 40 CAPITOL CAPITOL 0 0 MONKEY PUZZLE/RCA SUGAR Maroon 5 4 STYLE Taylor Swift 12 I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE Sam Smith 21 00 222/INTERSCOPE 7 0 BIG MACHINE/BMLG 010 CAPITOL EARNED IT (FIFTY SHADES OF GREY) 7 9 JEALOUS Nick Jonas 19 The Weeknd 5 ALL ABOUT THAT BASS Meghan Trainor 29 SAFEHOUSE/ISLAND/REPUBLIC 00 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC 80 EPIC ¡ TIME OF OUR LIVES Pitbull & Ne-Yo 6 I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE Sam Smith 21 6 10 BLANK SPACE Taylor Swift 14 00 MR. 305/POLO GROUNDS/RCA 00 CAPITOL BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC I DON’T MIND Usher Feat. Juicy J 3 SHAKE IT OFF Taylor Swift 11 8 11 BLANK SPACE Taylor Swift 16 7 11 26 00 RCA BIG MACHINE/BMLG BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC PRAYER IN C Lillywood & Robin Schulz LIPS ARE MOVIN Meghan Trainor 8 12 12 TIME OF OUR LIVES Pitbull & Ne-Yo 8 9 12 13 0 CHOKE INDUSTRY/TONSPIEL/CINQ 7/WARGRAM/ATLANTIC/RRP MR. 305/POLO GROUNDS/RCA EPIC FOURFIVESECONDS 2 Rihanna & Kanye West & Paul McCartney 3 10 13 LIPS ARE MOVIN Meghan Trainor 17 12 13 NO TYPE Rae Sremmurd 20 0 WESTBURY ROAD/ROC NATION EPIC EARDRUMA/INTERSCOPE SHE KNOWS Ne-Yo Feat. Juicy J 6 CENTURIES ¡ Fall Out Boy 23 ONLY Nicki Minaj Feat. Drake, Lil Wayne & Chris Brown 14 , adult, rock, country, R&B/ , adult, rock, country, COMPOUND ENTERTAINMENT/MOTOWN/CAPITOL 15Q DCD2/ISLAND 0 14 YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC 10 TRUFFLE BUTTER CENTURIES Fall Out Boy 13 16 Nicki Minaj Feat. Drake & Lil Wayne 4 STAY WITH ME Sam Smith 37 DCD2/ISLAND/REPUBLIC 0 YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC 25 0 CAPITOL GHOST Ella Henderson 8 I DON’T MIND Usher Feat. Juicy J 12 7/11 Beyonce 12 SYCO/COLUMBIA Co RCA 0 16 PARKWOOD/COLUMBIA G.D.F.R. MAKE ME WANNA Thomas Rhett 9 24 0 Flo Rida Feat. Sage The Gemini & Lookas 9 HOT BOY Bobby Shmurda 28 0 VALORY POE BOY/ATLANTIC/AG 0 17 GS9/EPIC EARNED IT (FIFTY SHADES OF GREY) SUN DAZE Florida Georgia Line 13 NEW 0 ENERGY Drake 1 The Weeknd 4 0 REPUBLIC NASHVILLE YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC 00 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC

The week’s top streamed radio songs and on-demand videos on radio top streamed The week’s LONELY TONIGHT 5 Blake Shelton Feat. Ashley Monroe 7 7 19 SHAKE IT OFF Taylor Swift 25 I DON’T F**K WITH YOU Big Sean Feat. E-40 18 WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE/WMN BIG MACHINE/BMLG 0 19 G.O.O.D./DEF JAM for the first time. 1,237 stations, encompassing pop 0 0 14 20 I SEE YOU Luke Bryan 11 GHOST Ella Henderson 15 ELASTIC HEART Sia 6 CAPITOL NASHVILLE 23Q SYCO/COLUMBIA 21Q MONKEY PUZZLE/RCA LC and Nielsen SoundScan, Inc. All rights reserved. LC

STREAMING SONGS: STREAMING STAY WITH ME Sam Smith 39 lE,1 0 TAKE YOUR TIME Sam Hunt 6 I DON’T MIND Usher Feat. Juicy J 7 00 CAPITOL MCA NASHVILLE/UMGN 00 RCA ANIMALS Maroon 5 GANGNAM STYLE PSY 20 22 20 SHE KNOWS Ne-Yo Feat. Juicy J 4 18 22 95 222/INTERSCOPE 26 0 COMPOUND ENTERTAINMENT/MOTOWN/CAPITOL SCHOOLBOY/REPUBLIC TRUFFLE BUTTER ¡ Nicki Minaj Feat. Drake & Lil Wayne 2 CHANDELIER Sia 30 22 23 CENTURIES Fall Out Boy 17 00 YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC 01 0 MONKEY PUZZLE/RCA DCD2/ISLAND/REPUBLIC 6 LOVE ME HARDER LIKE A COWBOY Randy Houser 12 25 24 ALL ABOUT THAT BASS Meghan Trainor 32 20 24 Ariana Grande & The Weeknd 17 00 STONEY CREEK EPIC REPUBLIC LOVE ME HARDER 12 25 Ariana Grande & The Weeknd 17 47) SOMEBODY Natalie La Rose Feat. Jeremih 2 23 25 Idina Menzel 58 REPUBLIC 0 I.M.G./REPUBLIC WALT DISNEY

JUST GETTIN’ STARTED Jason Aldean ONLY ¡ Nicki Minaj Feat. Drake, Lil Wayne & Chris Brown FOURFIVESECONDS Rihanna & Kanye West & Paul McCartney titles, or songs receiving widespread airplay and/or sales activity and/or airplay widespread titles, or songs receiving 8 29 0 16 2 00 BROKEN BOW YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC 0 0 WESTBURY ROAD/ROC NATION ONLY I DON’T F**K WITH YOU ¡ Nicki Minaj Feat. Drake, Lil Wayne & Chris Brown 10 35 0 Big Sean Feat. E-40 21 45Ø TRAP QUEEN Fetty Wap 2 00 YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC G.O.O.D./DEF JAM RGF/300 BANG BANG LOVE ME LIKE YOU DO Ellie Goulding 2 RE 0 ONLY ONE Kanye West Feat. Paul McCartney 3 30 28 Jessie J, Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj 29 00 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC/INTERSCOPE G.O.O.D./ROC-A-FELLA/DEF JAM LAVA/REPUBLIC 2 THE HEART WANTS WHAT IT WANTS MEAN TO ME Brett Eldredge 9 28 29 JEALOUS Nick Jonas 21 28 29 Selena Gomez 15 00 ATLANTIC/WMN SAFEHOUSE/ISLAND HOLLYWOOD G.D.F.R. 7/11 Beyonce 7 44Q AYO Chris Brown & Tyga 4 32 0 Flo Rida Feat. Sage The Gemini & Lookas 6 00 PARKWOOD/COLUMBIA RCA POE BOY/ATLANTIC STUCK ON A FEELING RIPTIDE Vance Joy 14 Prince Royce Feat. Snoop Dogg 4 26 31 TUESDAY I LOVE MAKONNEN Feat. Drake 17 F-STOP/ATLANTIC RCA OVO SOUND/WARNER BROS. Hot 100 Breakout Hot 33 0 00 SHAKE IT OFF Taylor Swift 27 RIPTIDE ¡ Vance Joy 23 JEALOUS Nick Jonas 17

The week’s top-downloaded songs across all genres, ranked by sales data as compiled Nielsen SoundScan. ranked all genres, songs across top-downloaded The week’s DS. Songs are defined as current if they are newly-released newly-released if they are defined as current Songs are DS. 26 32 31 32 BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC 36 0 F-STOP/ATLANTIC/AG SAFEHOUSE/ISLAND/REPUBLIC I DON’T F**K WITH YOU Big Sean Feat. E-40 CHAINS Nick Jonas ALL OF ME John Legend 27 33 15 NEW 0 1 58 G.O.O.D./DEF JAM SAFEHOUSE/ISLAND 35 0 G.O.O.D./COLUMBIA DIGITAL SONGS: DIGITAL

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k. k. OUTSIDE Calvin Harris Feat. Ellie Goulding ALL OF ME John Legend 48 HAPPY Pharrell Williams 2015 47Q 2 55 FLY EYE/COLUMBIA 0 34 G.O.O.D./COLUMBIA 41Q BACK LOT/COLUMBIA LONELY EYES Chris Young 4 HEARTBEAT SONG Kelly Clarkson 4 TIME OF OUR LIVES Pitbull & Ne-Yo 4 RCA NASHVILLE 0 35 19/RCA MR. 305/POLO GROUNDS/RCA 39 0 0,0

38 HEARTBEAT SONG Kelly Clarkson 3 36 BLESSINGS Big Sean Feat. Drake 2 0j36 DARK HORSE Katy Perry Feat. Juicy J 69 0 19/RCA 0 i G.O.O.D./DEF JAM CAPITOL

February 28

41 HOMEGROWN HONEY Darius Rucker 7 PRAYER IN C Lillywood & Robin Schulz 5 STYLE Taylor Swift 1 0 CAPITOL NASHVILLE Q37 CHOKE INDUSTRY/TONSPIEL/CINQ 7/WARGRAM/ATLANTIC/AG NEW 0 BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC

DRINKING CLASS Lee Brice 5 RE 0 I BET MY LIFE Imagine Dragons 11 FANCY Iggy Azalea Feat. Charli XCX 45 43Q CURB KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE/IGA 42Q TURN FIRST/HUSTLE GANG/DEF JAM BLANK SPACE/STYLE ed by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen B as measured audience impressions airplay ed by radio AIN’T WORTH THE WHISKEY Cole Swindell 3 NEW 0 Louisa Wendorff With Devin Dawson 1 RUDE MAGIC! 40

tronically monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a wee 7 days 24 hours a day, monitored tronically 46Q WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE/WMN CEO//ARROW 43Q LATIUM/RCA Streaming Songs data is used to compile the Billboard Hot Streaming TAKE IT ON BACK Chase Bryant 7 ELASTIC HEART Sia 6 4 8 0 OFTEN The Weeknd 6 40Q RED BOW 40Q MONKEY PUZZLE/RCA XO/REPUBLIC DON’T Ed Sheeran 48 AYO Chris Brown & Tyga 2 41 0 29 39 41 ANACONDA Nicki Minaj 27 0 RCA ..__ ATLANTIC/AG YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC

WHAT KIND OF MAN 36 42 ALL ABOUT THAT BASS Meghan Trainor 28 NEW 0 Florence + The Machine 1 38 42 ANIMALS Maroon 5 24 EPIC REPUBLIC 222/INTERSCOPE

NEW 0 SOMEBODY Natalie La Rose Feat. Jeremih 1 39 43 NIGHT CHANGES One Direction 13 DON’T Ed Sheeran 26 I.M.G./REPUBLIC SYCO/COLUMBIA 49Q ATLANTIC THE HEART WANTS WHAT IT WANTS OUTSIDE Calvin Harris Feat. Ellie Goulding 23 44 Selena Gomez 12 49Q 4 ROAR Katy Perry 38 HOLLYWOOD FLY EYE/COLUMBIA 0 44 CAPITOL HOMEGROWN Zac Brown Band 2 NEW 0 HONEY, I’M GOOD. Andy Grammer 1 OR NAH Ty Dolla $ign Feat. Wiz Khalifa & DJ Mustard 47 VARVATOS/REPUBLIC/BMLG/SOUTHERN GROUND S-CURVE ATLANTIC/RRP The week’s most popular current songs across all genres, rank all genres, songs across most popular current The week’s 00 010 LITTLE RED WAGON Miranda Lambert 45 46 HABITS (STAY HIGH) Tove Lo 25 1 0j46 AYO Chris Brown & Tyga 2 ISLAND/REPUBLIC NEW Q RCA NASHVILLE/SMN RCA leading online music services. Hot 100 Airplay, Hot Digital Songs and leading online music services. Hot 100 Airplay, hip-hop, Christian, gospel, dance/electronic, jazz and Latin formats, are elec jazz and Latin formats, are Christian, gospel, dance/electronic, hip-hop, RADIO SONGS: 37 47 I LIVED OneRepublic 6 NEW 0 WHERE YOU BELONG The Weeknd 1 36 47 HABITS (STAY HIGH) Tove Lo 38 MOSLEY/INTERSCOPE UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC ISLAND/REPUBLIC TRUFFLE BUTTER 34 48 TALLADEGA Eric Church 14 38 48 ANIMALS Maroon 5 25 NEW 0 Nicki Minaj Feat. Drake & Lil Wayne 1 EMI NASHVILLE 222/INTERSCOPE/IGA YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC APPARENTLY J. Cole 2 43Q I LIVED OneRepublic 9 NEW 0 LAY ME DOWN Sam Smith 1 00 DREAMVILLE/ROC NATION/COLUMBIA MOSLEY/INTERSCOPE/IGA CAPITOL LOVE ME HARDER ¡ TAKE YOUR TIME Sam Hunt 1 Ariana Grande & The Weeknd 18 46 50 SHE KNOWS Ne-Yo Feat. Juicy J 3 NEW Q MCA NASHVILLE 45Q REPUBLIC COMPOUND ENTERTAINMENT/MOTOWN/CAPITOL SALES DATA COMPILED BY COMPILED SALES DATA WorldMags.net Data for week of 02.28.2015 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data 61 PRESENTED PRESENTED Lamar, billboard TOP TOP TRACKS TRACKS™™ BY billboard EMERGING ARTISTS™ BY Hamm LAST THIS TITLE Artist WKS. ON LAST THIS TITLE Artist WKS. ON Perry WEEK WEEK CHART WEEK WEEK CHART WorldMags.net #1 STYLE Taylor Swift #1 TRAP QUEEN Fetty Wap Debut In 22 1 WK 11 4 0 1 WK 6 Top 10 NEW THE BLACKER THE BERRY Kendrick Lamar 1 NEW 0 BROKELAND Kirk Knight 1 THINKING OUT LOUD Ed Sheeran 27 NEW 0 MY JAM Bobby Brackins Feat. Zendaya & Jeremih 1 Fresh off a pair of Grammy 6p wins on Feb. 8, Kendrick 3 4 FOURFIVESECONDS Rihanna & Kanye West & Paul McCartney 4 7 4 RUNAWAY (U & I) Galantis 18 Lamar (below) squeezes into the runner-up slot on RI DRUNK IN LOVE Beyonce Feat. Jay Z RE QUICK FAST & Wale

3 6 OF PRETTYPUKE/RCA MONICK. SIA: COURTESY LAMAR: DAN the Billboard + Twitter Top Tracks chart with the debut Smith, Sia, 8 0 LOVE ME LIKE YOU DO Ellie Goulding 6 5 6 HOLD BACK THE RIVER James Bay 15 of “The Blacker the Berry.” Twitter chatter about the BY THE GRACE OF GOD Katy Perry 1 FADED ZHU 21 Beck Get song’s premiere on YouTube NEW 0 0 7 (Feb. 9) enables the debut. 9 0 GIVE YOU WHAT YOU LIKE Avril Lavigne 2 20 0 GERONIMO Sheppard 25 Social The track’s audio has earned

more than 3.8 million views 7 9 SUGAR Maroon 5 5 13 9 MULTI-LOVE Unknown Mortal Orchestra 2 Boost on the network through UPTOWN FUNK! Thanks to the Grammys, Feb. 18. With the debut, Social 10 10 Mark Ronson Feat. Bruno Mars 14 15 10 WALK Kwabs 22 Lamar instantly scores Sam Smith finally hits the his second-highest peak 14 0 BLANK SPACE Taylor Swift 16 SOMEBODY Natalie La Rose Feat. Jeremih 4 top 10 on the Social 50, among seven chart entries. 0 while Beck and Sia (above) 18 12 debut. The song that won the 0112 LIVING FOR LOVE Madonna 3 WISH YOU WERE MINE Philip George 2 rapper his two Grammys, “I,” Smith steps into the top led the survey dated Oct. 11, 2015 EE 0 OFTEN The Weeknd 9 21 KING Years & Years 5 10 (18-7) with a 120 percent 2014. rise in overall chart EARNED IT (FIFTY SHADES OF GREY) ALL ABOUT THE MONEY Lamar’s bid for a No. 1 18 0 The Weeknd 8 RE 0 Troy Ave Feat. Yung Lito & Manolo Rose 11 points, fueled by a gain of debut is blocked by Taylor 243 percent in views to Swift, whose “Style” vaults 15 15 SHAKE IT OFF Taylor Swift 26 NEW 0 SPOIL YOU ROTTEN Father 1 his Wikipedia page and a February 28 22-1 on the heels of its 315 percent climb in new

release on NEW 0 WOLVES Kanye West Feat. Vic Mensa & Sia 1 22 16 SAY SOMETHING Karen Harding 14 followers on Instagram. Feb. 13 (see story, page 1). After Beck’s surprise win 7/11 Beyonce THE RHYTHM MNEK

13 RE 0 2 also not as a lead artistr followers who have As “Style” ascends to the 3° 0 for album of the year (for penthouse, Swift earns a Morning Phase), he jumps SHOTS Imagine Dragons 2 NEW 0 GUN-FU Manolo Rose 1 hat-trick of No. 1s from her RE 0 onto the list at No. 25 1989 album. Prior singles with a 1,262 percent gain NEW 0 WHAT KIND OF MAN Florence + The Machine 1 ICE RINK & DJ Mustard 2 “Shake It Off” and “Blank 0 19 in chart points. Beck was Space” ruled for one and essentially off the social 20 FLOWER Cody Simpson 2 25 20 BLANK SPACE I Prevail 6 three weeks, respectively. radar in the week leading

Grammy fortune also tists with fewer than 50,000 Twitte BITCHES N MARIJUANA Chris Brown & Tyga Feat. ScHoolboy Q NEW 0 COME FIND ME Emile Haynie Feat. Lykke Li & Romy up to the show, until more shines on Katy Perry, who 2 1 00 than 427,000 people visited shepherds “By the Grace RE COCO O.T. Genasis 11 NEW 0 FIFA J.R. Donato 1 his Wikipedia page post- of God” to a No. 7 arrival. Grammys. Comparably, Perry sang the track, which NEW LORD PRETTY FLACKO JODYE 2 A$AP Rocky 1 RE ELECTRIC LOVE BORNS 2 the week’s No. 1 Social she described on Twitter 50 artist, Taylor Swift, as “her most personal song,” RE 0 DOING IT Charli XCX Feat. Rita Ora 3 NEW Q TIME Mick Jenkins 1 garnered 212,000 visitors. during the Feb. 8 ceremony, Farther down the chart, up-and-coming artists (defined as ar two days after its audio 0 25 ONE LAST TIME Ariana Grande 3 33 I DONT MIND Troy Ave 2 Sia finally makes her Social quietly arrived on her Vevo 50 debut at No. 42. The channel. The buzzworthy ONLY ONE 30 29 0 Kanye West Feat. Paul McCartney 5 26 FREAKS Timmy Trumpet And Savage 16 mysterious songstress’ performance lifted “Grace” “Chandelier” performance to No. 1 on the Billboard + 17 27 BLESSINGS Big Sean Feat. Drake 3 8 27 PEDESTRIAN AT BEST Courtney Barnett 3 featured actress-comedian Twitter Trending 140 chart. Kristen Wiig, which —Trevor Anderson NEW 0 PRAY TO GOD Calvin Harris Feat. HAIM 1 NEW Q MOVE LIKE THIS Alex Angelo 1 helped Sia gain more than 176,000 new followers 26 ALL ABOUT THAT BASS Meghan Trainor DNF P Reign Feat. Drake & Future 29 27 36 0 25 across Facebook and Twitter. Wikipedia also had LIKE ME Joey Bada$$ Feat. BJ The Chicago Kid METROPOLIS Metro Boomin

NEW 0 NEW 0 in the U.S. by songs on Twitter most shared The week’s 1 1 a sizable amount of traction, with more than 64,000 RE 0 GLORY Common & John Legend 2 NEW 0 NOT OK Kay Cola Feat. French Montana 1 visitors to her Wiki page (a 39 percent increase over 9 32 LIKE THAT Jack & Jack Feat. Skate 4 NEW Q RAISING THE SKATE Speedy Ortiz 1 the previous week). —William Gruger RE 0 BANG BANG Jessie J, Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj 27 NEW Q AYAYAY! 1 0 34 AYO Chris Brown & Tyga 7 NEW 0 SHE WIT IT Rich The Kid Feat. iAMSU! 1 BILLBOARD TWITTER EMERGING ARTISTS: BILLBOARD 0 35 FROOT Marina And The Diamonds 4 NEW Q THEY KNOW Icewear VeZZO Feat. DeJ Loaf & Shanell 1 NIGHT CHANGES One Direction OCEANS Seafret 25 36 16 0 36 2

NEW 0 CHEEK TO CHEEK Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga 1 NEW AERIAL LOVE Daniel Johns 1

24 38 LOVE ME HARDER Ariana Grande & The Weeknd 22 NEW 0 EMOTIONAL Snoh Aalegra 1 NEW 0 DECISIONS Wiz Khalifa 1 0 39 LET IT GO James Bay 15 ® 40 WHERE YOU BELONG The Weeknd 2 NEW 0 HOLD MY HAND Brandy Clark 1

0 41 STEAL MY GIRL One Direction 22 RE 0 DOWN ON MY LUCK Vic Mensa 2

NEW Q USED TO Big Sean 1 43 42 U GUESSED IT OG Maco Feat. 2 Chainz 22

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0 45 LIFE OF THE PARTY Shawn Mendes 12 0 45 DON’T Bryson Tiller 4

0 46 HEARTBEAT SONG Kelly Clarkson 6 NEW Q TONE’S RAP BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghosface Killah 1 in the top 50 songs on BILLBOARD TWITTER TOP TRACKS: TWITTER TOP BILLBOARD 28 47 ANIMALS Maroon 5 23 RE 0 I LOVED YOU Blonde Feat. Melissa Steel 8

0 48 REBEL HEART Madonna 4 NEW Q GUESS WHO’S BACK Fashawn 1

RE 0 DON’T KILL THE FUN Sevyn Streeter Feat. Chris Brown 2 RE 0 SLEEPLESS Cazzette Feat. The High 2

NEW 0 WHAT’S BEST FOR YOU Trey Songz 1 39 50 NOBODY TO LOVE Sigma 24 WorldMags.net 62 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data Data for week of 02.28.2015 SOCIAL 50™ MAINSTREAM TOP 40™ RHYTHMIC™ LAST THIS WKS. ON LAST THIS TITLE Artist WKS. ON LAST THIS TITLE Artist WKS. ON ARTIST WEEK WEEK CHART WEEK WEEK CHART WEEK WEEK IMPRINT/LABEL CHART IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL WorldMags.net UPTOWN FUNK! UPTOWN FUNK! 11#1 WKS TAYLOR SWIFT 221 4#1 WKS Mark Ronson Feat. Bruno Mars 14 3#1 WKS Mark Ronson Feat. Bruno Mars 12 BIG MACHINE/BMLG 00 RCA RCA ARIANA GRANDE 117 THINKING OUT LOUD Ed Sheeran 10 SHE KNOWS Ne-Yo Feat. Juicy J 18 02 REPUBLIC 00 ATLANTIC Or 2 COMPOUND ENTERTAINMENT/MOTOWN/CAPITOL TAKE ME TO CHURCH Hozier TIME OF OUR LIVES Pitbull & Ne-Yo BEYONCE 219 18 10 00 PARKWOOD/COLUMBIA 0J3 RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA 0.0 MR. 305/POLO GROUNDS/RCA LIPS ARE MOVIN Meghan Trainor 16 2 4 I DON’T MIND Usher Feat. Juicy J 16 RIHANNA 210 EPIC RCA 00 WESTBURY ROAD/ROC NATION . 0 5 5 BLANK SPACE Taylor Swift 16 5 5 JEALOUS Nick Jonas 15 JUSTIN BIEBER 221 BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC SAFEHOUSE/ISLAND/REPUBLIC SCHOOLBOY/RAYMOND BRAUN/ISLAND 0 5 TRUFFLE BUTTER STYLE Taylor Swift 6 Nicki Minaj Feat. Drake & Lil Wayne 6 KATY PERRY GG BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC GG YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC 3 6 221 ci 0 CAPITOL 00 TIME OF OUR LIVES Pitbull & Ne-Yo 10 7/11 Beyonce 11 SAM SMITH MR. 305/POLO GROUNDS/RCA PARKWOOD/COLUMBIA 18 26 010 00 0 CAPITOL PRAYER IN C Lillywood & Robin Schulz 13 AYO Chris Brown & Tyga 6 CHOKE INDUSTRY/TONSPIEL/CINQ 7/WARGRAM/ATLANTIC/RRP RCA SELENA GOMEZ 219 ad0 olo 5 8 HOLLYWOOD SUGAR Maroon 5 SOMEBODY Natalie La Rose Feat. Jeremih 11 , 5 6 0 222/INTERSCOPE I.M.G./REPUBLIC

NICKI MINAJ 220 00 9 YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE Sam Smith ONLY Nicki Minaj Feat. Drake, Lil Wayne & Chris Brown 0 6 10 20 6 10 14 CAPITOL YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE 192 11 0 RCA JEALOUS Nick Jonas NOT FOR LONG B.o.B Feat. Trey Songz 7 11 23 13 SAFEHOUSE/ISLAND/REPUBLIC REBELROCK/GRAND HUSTLE/ATLANTIC 00 9 MILEY CYRUS 149 0 RCA GHOST Ella Henderson 15 APPARENTLY J. Cole 9 SYCO/COLUMBIA 00 DREAMVILLE/ROC NATION/COLUMBIA ED SHEERAN 59 FOURFIVESECONDS LOVE ME HARDER 16Q ATLANTIC/AG Rihanna & Kanye West & Paul McCartney 4 7 13 Ariana Grande & The Weeknd 19 WESTBURY ROAD/ROC NATION REPUBLIC g0o 23 DRAKE 196 CENTURIES Fall Out Boy FOURFIVESECONDS Rihanna & Kanye West & Paul McCartney 0 YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC 21 3 0 DCD2/ISLAND/REPUBLIC 04) WESTBURY ROAD/ROC NATION JENNIFER LOPEZ 207 OUTSIDE Calvin Harris Feat. Ellie Goulding THINKING OUT LOUD Ed Sheeran 13 14 CAPITOL 6 5 FLY EYE/COLUMBIA 00 ATLANTIC STUCK ON A FEELING 27Q CHRIS BROWN 194 LOVE ME LIKE YOU DO Ellie Goulding 5 Prince Royce Feat. Snoop Dogg 10 RCA 10 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC/INTERSCOPE 01 . RCA LOVE ME HARDER DEMI LOVATO 211 15 17 Ariana Grande & The Weeknd 19 13 17 I DON’T F**K WITH YOU Big Sean Feat. E-40 20 ly-released titles, or songs ly-released 14 16 HOLLYWOOD REPUBLIC G.O.O.D./DEF JAM NIGHT CHANGES One Direction 12 G.D.F.R. Flo Rida Feat. Sage The Gemini & Lookas 14 17 SHAKIRA 220 20Q 10 SONY MUSIC LATIN/RCA SYCO/COLUMBIA POE BOY/ATLANTIC age, as measured by Next Big Sound. by Next age, as measured I DON’T MIND Usher Feat. Juicy J TUESDAY I LOVE MAKONNEN Feat. Drake LADY GAGA 219 9 14 19 19 18 STREAMLINE/INTERSCOPE/IGA 400 RCA OVO SOUND/WARNER BROS. 0 THE HEART WANTS WHAT IT WANTS EARNED IT (FIFTY SHADES OF GREY) edia, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc.edia, LLC All rights reserved. 13 20 Selena Gomez 14 The Weeknd 3 WIZ KHALIFA 208 HOLLYWOOD 24Q UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC 20 19 ROSTRUM/ATLANTIC/AG STUCK ON A FEELING 17 21 Prince Royce Feat. Snoop Dogg 9 18 21 I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE Sam Smith 17 BRUNO MARS 207 RCA CAPITOL 22 20 ATLANTIC/AG

19 22 I LIVED OneRepublic 13 21 22 BLANK SPACE Taylor Swift 14 ONE DIRECTION 170 MOSLEY/INTERSCOPE BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC 0 21 SYCO/COLUMBIA 24 SHE KNOWS Ne-Yo Feat. Juicy J 6 ONLY ONE Kanye West Feat. Paul McCartney 5 0 COMPOUND ENTERTAINMENT/MOTOWN/CAPITOL G.O.O.D./ROC-A-FELLA/DEF JAM IGGY AZALEA 43 0] 4 0 22 TURN FIRST/HUSTLE GANG/DEF JAM 25Q HEARTBEAT SONG Kelly Clarkson 5 PRAYER IN C Lillywood & Robin Schulz 5 19/RCA CHOKE INDUSTRY/TONSPIEL/CINQ 7/WARGRAM/ATLANTIC/RRP ROMEO SANTOS 71 0]0 29 0 SONY MUSIC LATIN SOMEBODY Natalie La Rose Feat. Jeremih 5 STYLE Taylor Swift 2 26 0 I.M.G./REPUBLIC 31Q BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC BIG SEAN 8 00 G.O.O.D./DEF JAM

NEW BECK 1 0 FONOGRAF RECORDS/CAPITOL ADULT CONTEMPORARY™ ™ 26 SNOOP DOGG 187 0 DOGGYSTYLE/PRIORITY/CAPITOL LAST THIS TITLE Artist WKS. ON LAST THIS TITLE Artist WKS. ON for complete rules and explanations. All chartsfor complete rules and explanations. Global M © 2015, Prometheus WEEK WEEK CHART WEEK WEEK CHART IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL RE LUCY HALE 33 0 DMG NASHVILLE #1 2#1 WKS BLANK SPACE Taylor Swift 12 2 WKS THINKING OUT LOUD Ed Sheeran 14 BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC ATLANTIC AVRIL LAVIGNE 201 OU EPIC UPTOWN FUNK! Mark Ronson Feat. Bruno Mars 3 2 AM I WRONG Nico & Vinz 34 13 00 RCA WARNER BROS. y, ranked by radio airplay detections, as measured by Nielsen Music. Songs are defined as current if they are relatively recent relatively if they are by Nielsen Music. defined as current detections, as measured Songs are airplay by radio ranked y, 0 29 MAROON 5 133 26 222/INTERSCOPE/IGA TAKE ME TO CHURCH Hozier 2 3 STAY WITH ME Sam Smith 36 2 3 22 CAPITOL RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA EMINEM 214 30 WEB/SHADY/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/IGA BLANK SPACE Taylor Swift 0 TRY Colbie Caillat 26 4 4 16 nd Instagram; reactions and conversations across Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook; and views to an artist’s Wikipedia p Wikipedia to an artist’s and views and Facebook; Instagram YouTube, Twitter, across and conversations reactions nd Instagram; 60 REPUBLIC BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC RICKY MARTIN 6 RE COLUMBIA/SONY MUSIC LATIN SHAKE IT OFF Taylor Swift LIPS ARE MOVIN Meghan Trainor 0 5 5 26 14 BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC Gjo EPIC & days a week. days See Charts on billboard.com/biz Legend RE 40 MAPS Maroon 5 GHOST Ella Henderson 0 MACKLEMORE 4 6 33 23 222/INTERSCOPE ao SYCO/COLUMBIA

40 CLAUDIA LEITTE 16 THINKING OUT LOUD Ed Sheeran 7 SUGAR Maroon 5 5 0 SOM LIVRE GG ATLANTIC GG 222/INTERSCOPE 00

34 BOB MARLEY 162 I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE Sam Smith 17 7 8 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 23 0 TUFF GONG/ISLAND/UME QA 8 CAPITOL F-STOP/ATLANTIC I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE Sam Smith MADONNA 24 8 9 RUDE MAGIC! 34 6 9 21 RE 0 LIVE NATION/INTERSCOPE/IGA LATIUM/RCA CAPITOL ythmic, adult contemporary and adult top 40 formats, respectivel ALL ABOUT THAT BASS Meghan Trainor JEALOUS Nick Jonas 16 36 PRINCE ROYCE 60 7 10 24 30 RCA/SONY MUSIC LATIN EPIC 00 SAFEHOUSE/ISLAND/REPUBLIC weekly additions of fans across Facebook, Twitter, YouTube a YouTube Twitter, Facebook, weekly additions of fans across ANIMALS Maroon 5 16 HEARTBEAT SONG Kelly Clarkson 5 RE AUSTIN MAHONE 85 19/RCA 0 CHASE/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC 0 222/INTERSCOPE 010 I LIVED OneRepublic 11 COOL KIDS Echosmith 25 20 MEGHAN TRAINOR 12 0 WARNER BROS. MOSLEY/INTERSCOPE EPIC time. Stations are electronically monitored 24 hours a day, 7 24 hours a day, monitored electronically time. Stations are 00 00 HEARTBEAT SONG Kelly Clarkson STYLE Taylor Swift 5 5 ZENDAYA 30 120 19/RCA BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC 35 39 HOLLYWOOD Pop/Rhythmic/Adult 00 TAKE ME TO CHURCH Hozier 7 CENTURIES Fall Out Boy 19 14 0 RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA DCD2/ISLAND/REPUBLIC 33 40 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS 160 00 UNIVERSAL MUSIC LATINO/REPUBLIC/UMLE LIPS ARE MOVIN Meghan Trainor 6 13 15 ANIMALS Maroon 5 21 PITBULL EPIC 222/INTERSCOPE 34 41 217 00 MR. 305/FAMOUS ARTIST/POLO GROUNDS/SONY MUSIC LATIN/RCA UPTOWN FUNK! Mark Ronson Feat. Bruno Mars 7 I BET MY LIFE Imagine Dragons 15 SIA 2015 0'O RCA 010 KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE NEW 1 The week’s most popular current songs at mainstream top 40, rh songs at mainstream most popular current The week’s 0 MONKEY PUZZLE/RCA 19 I LIVED OneRepublic 7 GERONIMO Sheppard 12 0 EMPIRE OF SONG/SCHOOLBOY/REPUBLIC MOSLEY/INTERSCOPE LIL WAYNE 192 010 43 43 YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC The week’s most active artists most active on social networking sites based The week’s 21 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 7 LOVE ME LIKE YOU DO Ellie Goulding 5 0 F-STOP/ATLANTIC UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC/INTERSCOPE

PHARRELL WILLIAMS February 28 00 36 RE 0 I AM OTHER/COLUMBIA JEALOUS Nick Jonas THE HEART WANTS WHAT IT WANTS Selena Gomez 15 19 6 Q19 10 receiving widespread airplay and/or sales activity for the first and/or airplay widespread receiving POP/RHYTHMIC/ADULT: SOCIAL 50: SAFEHOUSE/ISLAND/REPUBLIC HOLLYWOOD 15 THE HEART WANTS WHAT IT WANTS LOVE ME HARDER 46Q MAYBACH/ATLANTIC/AG Selena Gomez 2 21 20 Ariana Grande & The Weeknd 12 180 HOLLYWOOD REPUBLIC

JOHN LEGEND 3 GHOST Ella Henderson WAVES Mr. Probz G.O.O.D./COLUMBIA 23 0 5 20 21 17 00 SYCO/COLUMBIA LEFT LANE/ULTRA/RCA

SOCIAL DATA SOCIAL DATA BY COMPILED 47 ELLIE GOULDING 76 CHANDELIER Sia BUDAPEST George Ezra 32 CHERRYTREE/INTERSCOPE/IGA 20 0 16 12 MONKEY PUZZLE/RCA 0..o COLUMBIA LANA DEL REY 81 SUGAR Maroon 5 SHUT UP AND DANCE WALK THE MOON Q48 POLYDOR/INTERSCOPE/IGA 26 0 2 6 222/INTERSCOPE 010 RCA IMAGINE DRAGONS RATHER BE Clean Bandit Feat. Jess Glynne DANGEROUS Big Data Feat. Joywave 19 RE 25 22 0 14 0 KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE/IGA ATLANTIC/RRP 010 CRUSH MUSIC/WILCASSETTES/WARNER BROS. FOURFIVESECONDS JESSIE J 41 NEW 0 STYLE Taylor Swift 1 Rihanna & Kanye West & Paul McCartney 3 50 LAVA/REPUBLIC BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC WESTBURY ROAD/ROC NATION BY COMPILED DATA AIRPLAY 0 60 WorldMags.net Data for week of 02.28.2015 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data 63 HOT COUNTRY SONGS™ TOP COUNTRY ALBUMS™ 2 WKS. LAST THIS TITLE CERTIFICATION Artist PEAK WKS. ON LAST THIS ARTIST CERTIFICATION Title WKS. ON AGO WEEK WEEK POS. CHART WEEK WEEK CHART PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL MN IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL WorldMags.net #1 #1 BLACKBERRY SMOKE Holding All The Roses 2 WKS AG TAKE YOUR TIME Sam Hunt 116 0 III1 WK 1 Z.CROWELL,S.MCANALLY (S.HUNT,J.OSBORNE,S.MCANALLY) MCA NASHVILLE DEBUTDEB 3 LEGGED RECORDS/ROUNDER/CONCORD MAKE ME WANNA Thomas Rhett SAM HUNT Montevallo 16 225 MCA NASHVILLE/UMGN J.JOYCE (THOMAS RHETT,B.BUTLER,L.MCCOY) VALORY 00 0 ¡ I SEE YOU Luke Bryan JASON ALDEAN Old Boots, New Dirt 19 1 2 3 116 BROKEN BOW/BBMG J.STEVENS (L.BRYAN,L.LAIRD,A.GORLEY) CAPITOL NASHVILLE FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE 0 Anything Goes 18 SUN DAZE 0 Florida Georgia Line 322 REPUBLIC NASHVILLE/BMLG J.MOI (C.R.BARLOWE,J.FRASURE,S.BUXTON,T.HUBBARD,B.KELLEY) REPUBLIC NASHVILLE 0 00 0 GG MIRANDA LAMBERT Platinum 37 LONELY TONIGHT Blake Shelton Featuring Ashley Monroe 416 410 RCA NASHVILLE/SMN Blackberry 00 S.HENDRICKS (B.ANDERSON,R.HURD) WARNER BROS./WMN CARRIE UNDERWOOD 0 Greatest Hits: Decade #1 10 MEAN TO ME Brett Eldredge 625 0 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE/SMN Smoke’s 11 L.LAIRD (B.ELDREDGE,SCOOTER CARUSOE) ATLANTIC/WMN 00 LUKE BRYAN 2 Crash My Party 80 CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN JUST GETTIN’ STARTED Jason Aldean 717 00 Roses M.KNOX (C. DESTEFANO,R.AKINS,A.GORLEY) BROKEN BOW 00 GARTH BROOKS ¡ Man Against Machine 14 PEARL/RCA NASHVILLE/SMN DRINKING CLASS Lee Brice 625 0 M.MCCLURE,K.JACOBS,L.BRICE (J.KEAR,D.FRASIER,E.M.HILL) CURB ¡ 00 ERIC CHURCH The Outsiders 53 Blooms EMI NASHVILLE/UMGN LIKE A COWBOY Randy Houser 00 936 D.GEORGE (R.HOUSER,B.LONG) STONEY CREEK ROBERT EARL KEEN Blackberry Smoke nabs 10 11 0 NEW Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions 1 0 DUALTONE its first No. 1 and biggest AIN’T WORTH THE WHISKEY Cole Swindell 10 20 GEORGE STRAIT sales week on Top Country 12 M.CARTER (C.SWINDELL,A.SANDERS,J.MARTIN) WARNER BROS./WMN The Cowboy Rides Away: Live From AT&T Stadium 22 00 MCA NASHVILLE/UMGN Albums with Holding All ®Q 2 6 11 TALLADEGA Eric Church 222 J.JOYCE (E.CHURCH,L.LAIRD) EMI NASHVILLE ZAC BROWN BAND Greatest Hits So Far... 14 the Roses. The group’s ROAR/SOUTHERN GROUND/ATLANTIC/AG 00 fourth studio album bows HOMEGROWN Zac Brown Band 46 BLAKE SHELTON 0 J.JOYCE,Z.BROWN (Z.BROWN,W.DURRETTE,N.MOON) VARVATOS/REPUBLIC/BMLG/SOUTHERN GROUND 9 13 BRINGING BACK THE SUNSHINE 20 with 19,000 copies sold, '400 WARNER BROS./WMN according to Nielsen Music. LONELY EYES Chris Young 0 13 22 BRANTLEY GILBERT Just As I Am 39 (The set also starts at No. 7 .00 J.STROUD (J.BULFORD,J.MATTHEWS,L.VELTZ) RCA NASHVILLE 00 VALORY/BMLG LITTLE RED WAGON Miranda Lambert on Top Rock Albums.) The 28 DG SG 14 6 11 CHASE RICE Ignite The Night 26 Country 00 F.LIDDELL,C.AINLAY,G.WORF (A.MAE,GINSBERG J.) RCA NASHVILLE COLUMBIA NASHVILLE/DACK JANIELS Atlanta-based quintet had risen as high as No. 8 on most popular country The week’s HOMEGROWN HONEY Darius Rucker 15 25 17 KENNY CHESNEY The Big Revival 21 0 BLUE CHAIR/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE/SMN 16 00 F.ROGERS (D.RUCKER,C.KELLEY,N.CHAPMAN) CAPITOL NASHVILLE Top Country Albums with its third studio effort, The widespread eleased titles, or songs receiving 0 21 TIM MCGRAW Sundown Heaven Town 22 7 15 16 SOMETHING IN THE WATER Carrie Underwood 121 0 MCGRAW/BIG MACHINE/BMLG M.BRIGHT (C.UNDERWOOD,C. DESTEFANO,BRETT JAMES) 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE Whippoorwill, which arrived

AIRPLAY: COUNTRY SAY YOU DO Dierks Bentley 16 LEE BRICE I Dont Dance 23 with the band’s prior best

2015 17 18 0 CURB 18 L17 0 R. COPPERMAN (MATT THOMAS,S.MCANALLY,T. ROSEN) CAPITOL NASHVILLE weekly sum (9,000; Sept. 1, 20 COLE SWINDELL Cole Swindell 52 TAKE IT ON BACK Chase Bryant 0 WARNER BROS./WMN 2012). The latter yielded 17 17 27 19 0 D.GEORGE,C.BRYANT (C.BRYANT,T.L.JAMES,D.ALTMAN) RED BOW the group’s lone entry on LITTLE BIG TOWN Pain Killer 15 20 17 Country Airplay: “Pretty 0 CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN newly-r if they are ined as current 15 18 19 SHOTGUN RIDER Tim McGraw 122 B.GALLIMORE,T.MCGRAW (H.LINDSEY,M.GREEN,T.VERGES) MCGRAW/BIG MACHINE February 28 STURGILL SIMPSON Little Lie” reached No. 46 18 0 Metamodern Sounds In Country Music 40 A GUY WALKS INTO A BAR Tyler Farr 20 21 HIGH TOP MOUNTAIN/THIRTY TIGERS in 2013. 21 00 J.CATINO,J.KING (M.PEIRCE,J.SINGLETON,B.TURSI) COLUMBIA NASHVILLE Robert Earl Keen DIERKS BENTLEY Riser 51 claims 0 22 CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN his second top 10 and WHAT WE AIN’T GOT Jake Owen 20 27 and Nielsen Music, Inc.edia, LLC All rights reserved. 2000 J.MOI (T.J.GOFF,T.MEADOWS) RCA NASHVILLE THOMAS RHETT It Goes Like This 68 ties his best Top Country VALORY/BMLG SMOKE A Thousand Horses 00 Albums rank with Happy 22 6 2500 D.COBB (M.HOBBY,J.M.NITE,R.COPPERMAN) REPUBLIC NASHVILLE BRANDY CLARK 12 Stories 9 Prisoner: The Bluegrass 29 0 PS SLATE CREEK/WARNER BROS./WMN 23 0 23 GIRL CRUSH Little Big Town 22 11 Sessions, which starts J.JOYCE (L.ROSE,L.MCKENNA,H.LINDSEY) CAPITOL NASHVILLE LADY ANTEBELLUM 747 20 22 0 CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN at No. 10 (7,000). He first

22 25 24 PERFECT STORM Brad Paisley 426 reached the upper region L.WOOTEN,B.PAISLEY (B.PAISLEY,L.T.MILLER) ARISTA NASHVILLE with Gravitational Forces 26 SHE DON’T LOVE YOU Eric Paslay 25 15 (No. 10 in 2001). He last 28 0 M.ALTMAN (E.PASLAY,J.WAYNE) EMI NASHVILLE COUNTRY AIRPLAY™ charted with Ready for RAISE ‘EM UP Keith Urban Featuring Eric Church 31 32 0 26 4 Confetti, which peaked at - N.CHAPMAN,K.URBAN (J.JOHNSTON,J.STEELE,T.DOUGLAS) HIT RED/CAPITOL NASHVILLE LAST THIS TITLE Artist WKS. ON WEEK WEEK CHART No. 21 in 2011. The new title TRAILER HITCH Kristian Bush IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL 27 30 0 25 17 also opens atop Bluegrass top 100. in the Billboard 200’s less than 18 months old or older but still residing ey are K.BUSH,T.TAPLEY (K.BUSH,B.BUSH,T.OWENS) STREAMSOUND #11 WK SUN DAZE Florida Georgia Line 19 Albums, where he makes REPUBLIC NASHVILLE 19 TIL IT’S GONE Kenny Chesney 820 0011 23 28 his first appearance. B.CANNON,K.CHESNEY (R.CLAWSON,D.L.MURPHY,J.YEARY) BLUE CHAIR/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE MAKE ME WANNA Thomas Rhett 29 VALORY Florida Georgia Line FREESTYLE Lady Antebellum 24 16 00 24 29 29 claims its sixth No. 1 on N.CHAPMAN,LADY ANTEBELLUM (D.HAYWOOD,C.KELLEY,H.SCOTT,S.MCANALLY) CAPITOL NASHVILLE I SEE YOU Luke Bryan 15 Country Airplay with “Sun Global M © 2015, Prometheus for complete rules and explanations. billboard.com/biz 0 3 CAPITOL NASHVILLE DON’T IT Billy Currington 30 13 Daze” (2-1). Dating to the 3200 D.HUFF (J.JOHNSTON,A.GORLEY,R.COPPERMAN) MERCURY LONELY TONIGHT Blake Shelton Feat. Ashley Monroe 14 WARNER BROS./WMN chart’s launch 25 years 00 29 35 LOVE YOU LIKE THAT Canaan Smith 28 20 B.BEAVERS,J.ROBBINS (C.SMITH,B.BEAVERS,J.BEAVERS) MERCURY LIKE A COWBOY Randy Houser 39 ago, the twosome breaks STONEY CREEK 00 out of a three-way tie and by Nielsen Music. def Songs are tracked activity data by online music sources s data as compiled by Nielsen Music and streaming LOVE ME LIKE YOU MEAN IT Kelsea Ballerini 32 12 37 0 0 F.G.WHITEHEAD (K.BALLERINI,J.KERR,F.G.WHITEHEAD,L.CARPENTER) BLACK RIVER JUST GETTIN’ STARTED Jason Aldean 17 takes sole possession of BROKEN BOW 0 0 the second-most leaders HOT SHOT I GOT THE BOY Jana Kramer 33 1 DEBUT S.HENDRICKS (T.NICHOLS, C.HARRINGTON, J.L.SPEARS) ELEKTRA NASHVILLE/WAR MEAN TO ME Brett Eldredge 32 among duos. Brooks & ATLANTIC/WMN 00 if th as compiled by Nielsen Music. defined as current Albums are Dunn lead with 20 No. 1s. LAY LOW Josh Turner 29 13 a week. 7 days See Chartson Legend s a day, LONELY EYES Chris Young 27 Montgomery 3400 F.ROGERS (R.COPPERMAN,T.MARTIN,M.NESLER) MCA NASHVILLE 00 RCA NASHVILLE Below FGL, Gentry and Sugarland WILD CHILD Kenny Chesney With Grace Potter 35 2 HOMEGROWN HONEY Darius Rucker 27 - 00 B.CANNON,K.CHESNEY (K.CHESNEY,S.MCANALLY,J.OSBORNE) BLUE CHAIR/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 00 CAPITOL NASHVILLE boast five apiece, followed by Thompson Square 33 38 BABY BE MY LOVE SONG Easton Corbin 32 15 TAKE IT ON BACK Chase Bryant 31 C.CHAMBERLAIN (J.COLLINS,BRETT JAMES) MERCURY 00 RED BOW (two). —Wade Jessen LITTLE TOY GUNS Carrie Underwood 30 4 DRINKING CLASS Lee Brice 25 30 0 37 CURB M.BRIGHT (C.UNDERWOOD,C. DESTEFANO,H.LINDSEY) 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE 00 ONE HELL OF AN AMEN Brantley Gilbert AIN’T WORTH THE WHISKEY Cole Swindell 19 35 0 38 35 7 WARNER BROS./WMN D.HUFF (B.GILBERT,M.DEKLE,B.DAVIS) VALORY 00 DIAMOND RINGS AND OLD BARSTOOLS HOMEGROWN Zac Brown Band 5 Tim McGraw With Catherine Dunn 39 3 GG VARVATOS/REPUBLIC/BMLG/SOUTHERN GROUND 480© B.GALLIMORE,T.MCGRAW (L.LAIRD,B.DEAN,J.SINGLETON) MCGRAW/BIG MACHINE 00 TAKE YOUR TIME Sam Hunt 14 DRUNK AMERICANS Toby Keith 33 18 MCA NASHVILLE most popular country by sales data albums, ranked The week’s 36 400 T.KEITH,B.PINSON (B.CLARK,B.DIPIERO,S.MCANALLY) SHOW DOG NASHVILLE 00

SAY YOU DO Dierks Bentley 20 by Nielsen Music, as measured sale audience impressions airplay by radio songs, ranked MAKE YOU MISS ME Sam Hunt 32 16 00 CAPITOL NASHVILLE 38 00 Z.CROWELL,S.MCANALLY (S.HUNT,J.OSBORNE,MATT THOMAS) MCA NASHVILLE WHAT WE AIN’T GOT Jake Owen 30 I’M TO BLAME Kip Moore 31 2 0 - RCA NASHVILLE B.JAMES (K.MOORE,J.WEAVER,W.DAVIS) MCA NASHVILLE - 0 42 ALBUMS: COUNTRY TOP FREESTYLE Lady Antebellum 18 CAPITOL NASHVILLE RIOT Rascal Flatts 40 6 0 17 J.DEMARCUS,RASCAL FLATTS (J.BOYER,S.HAZE) BIG MACHINE 000 A GUY WALKS INTO A BAR Tyler Farr 29 COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 40 460 HARD TO BE COOL Joe Nichols 37 10 00 M.J.CONES (R.HATCH,J.SELLERS) RED BOW SMOKE A Thousand Horses 6

REPUBLIC NASHVILLE country most popular current The week’s WHEN I WAS YOUR MAN Thomas Rhett 00 _ 0 45 27 2 THOMAS RHETT (BRUNO MARS,P.LAWRENCE II,A.LEVINE,A. WYATT) VALORY RAISE ‘EM UP Keith Urban Feat. Eric Church 5 00 HIT RED/CAPITOL NASHVILLE HELL OF A NIGHT Dustin Lynch 45 6 M.J.CONES (Z.CROWELL,A.SANDERS,J.BOYER) BROKEN BOW TRAILER HITCH Kristian Bush 34 45 0 0 STREAMSOUND

00 SONGS: COUNTRY HOT sales activity for the first time. and/or airplay 24 hour monitored by Nielsen Music. electronically as measured Stations are audience impressions airplay by radio songs, ranked

GOING OUT LIKE THAT Reba 28 6 43 0 0 T.BROWN (B.HAYSLIP,R.AKINS,J.SELLERS) NASH ICON/VALORY LITTLE RED WAGON Miranda Lambert 8 00 RCA NASHVILLE EX TO SEE Sam Hunt 37 21 42 470 Z.CROWELL,S.MCANALLY (S.HUNT,J.OSBORNE,MATT THOMAS) MCA NASHVILLE SHE DON’T LOVE YOU Eric Paslay 18 00 EMI NASHVILLE

RE-ENTRY CRUSHIN’ IT Brad Paisley 46 2 DON’T IT Billy Currington 0 L.WOOTEN,B.PAISLEY (B.PAISLEY,K.LOVELACE,L.T.MILLER) ARISTA NASHVILLE 17 00 MERCURY

44'50 50 TROUBLE Gloriana 42 7 BABY BE MY LOVE SONG Easton Corbin 23 M.SERLETIC (R.REINERT,M.GOSSIN,R.COPPERMAN,J.M.NITE) EMBLEM/WARNER BROS./WAR MERCURY & STREAMING SALES, AIRPLAY GO BY COMPILED DATA WorldMags.net 64 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data Data for week of 02.28.2015 HOT ROCK SONGS™ TOP ROCK ALBUMS™ 2 WKS. LAST THIS TITLE CERTIFICATION Artist PEAK WKS. ON LAST THIS ARTIST CERTIFICATION Title WKS. ON AGO WEEK WEEK PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL POS. CHART WEEK WEEK IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL CHART WorldMags.net 2 18#1 WKS TAKE ME TO CHURCH Hozier 142 #1 BECK Morning Phase 31 1 DG SG 3 WKS GG 0 A.HOZIER-BYRNE (A.HOZIER-BYRNE) RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA O 0 FONOGRAF RECORDS/CAPITOL CENTURIES ¡ Fall Out Boy 223 HOZIER Hozier 19 2 2 J.R.ROTEM,OMEGA (J.R.ROTEM,P.V.STUMP,P.WENTZ,J.TROHMAN,A.HURLEY,M.J.FONSECA,R.KUMARI,J.TRANTNER,S.VEGA) DCD2/ISLAND/REPUBLIC RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA 0 O 0 HOT FATHER JOHN MISTY I Love You, Honeybear RIPTIDE ¡ Vance Joy 252 SHOT 1 3 3 DEBUT SUB POP WALK THE MOON 0 J.CASTLE,J.KEOGH,E.WHITE (VANCE JOY) F-STOP/ATLANTIC BOB DYLAN Shadows In The Night 2 4 4 I BET MY LIFE Imagine Dragons 416 0 4 COLUMBIA IMAGINE DRAGONS (IMAGINE DRAGONS) KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE 0 FALL OUT BOY American Beauty / American Psycho 2 5 4 6 5 SHUT UP AND DANCE WALK THE MOON 523 DCD2/ISLAND AG T.PAGNOTTA (N.PETRICCA,E.MAIMAN,K.RAY,S.WAUGAMAN,B.BERGER,R.MCMAHON) RCA Moon 0 SOUNDTRACK ¡ 4 6 Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 29 ¡ MARVEL/HOLLYWOOD 5 6 6 STOLEN DANCE Milky Chance 437 P.DAUSCH (C.REHBEIN) LICHTDICHT/NEON/REPUBLIC ‘Dance’ NEW 0 BLACKBERRY SMOKE Holding All The Rose 1 3 LEGGED RECORDS/ROUNDER/CONCORD BUDAPEST 0 George Ezra 728 Walk the Moon’s “Shut 8 7 BLACKWOOD C. (G. EZRA,J.POTT) COLUMBIA 0 AC/DC 0 Rock Or Bust 11 Up and Dance” rises 2-1 on COLUMBIA UMA THURMAN Fall Out Boy 65 00 J.SINCLAIR,YOUNG WOLF HATCHLINGS (FALL OUT BOY,W.HASHMI,J.YOUNG,L.O’DONNELL,J.SINCLAIR,J.MARSHALL,R.MOSHER) DCD2/ISLAND/REPUBLIC , marking Rock 9 8 0 RHIANNON GIDDENS Tomorrow Is My Turn 1 NEW 0 a feat for not only the band NONESUCH/WARNER BROS. 7 11 SHOTS Imagine Dragons 73 0 IMAGINE DRAGONS (IMAGINE DRAGONS) KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE but also RCA Records: The NEW 0 STICK TO YOUR GUNS Disobedient 1 SUMERIAN label is just the second to HOT SHOT 0 WHAT KIND OF MAN Florence + The Machine 10 1 DEBUT NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) REPUBLIC score three consecutive 9 11 MARILYN MANSON The Pale Emperor 4 HELL, ETC./COOKING VINYL/SEVEN FOUR/LOMA VISTA/CONCORD No. 1s at the format and

2015 11 IMMORTALS Fall Out Boy 918 B.WALKER (A.HURLEY,J.TROHMAN,P.V.STUMP,P.WENTZ) WALT DISNEY/DCD2/ISLAND NICKELBACK No Fixed Address 13 the first to do so in nearly 0 00 REPUBLIC 23 years. “Dance” follows RE-ENTRY 0 BLUE MOON Beck 12 10 THE DECEMBERISTS B.HANSEN (B.HANSEN) FONOGRAF RECORDS/CAPITOL 8 13 What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World 4 CAPITOL two fellow RCA acts to I’M ON FIRE AWOLNATION 13 1 0 No. 1, dethroning Cage NEW 15 14 ARCTIC MONKEYS AM 75 February 28 0 NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC DOMINO the Elephant’s “Cigarette

The week’s most popular The week’s CIGARETTE DAYDREAMS Cage The Elephant Daydreams,” which led for 10 10 14 923 21 0 VANCE JOY Dream Your Life Away 23 J.JOYCE (CAGE THE ELEPHANT) DSP/RCA F-STOP/ATLANTIC/AG four weeks, and, previously,

NEW HEART IS A DRUM Beck 15 1 WALK THE MOON TALKING IS HARD 11 Foo Fighters’ “Something B.HANSEN (B.HANSEN) FONOGRAF RECORDS/CAPITOL PS RCA ALTERNATIVE: 0 From Nothing” (eight -released titles, or songs receiving titles, or songs receiving -released JD MCPHERSON Let The Good Times Roll NEW MORNING Beck 16 1 1 weeks). 0 B.HANSEN (B.HANSEN) FONOGRAF RECORDS/CAPITOL ROUNDER/CONCORD

THE NEW BASEMENT TAPES The last time a label sent Lost On The River 14 WORK SONG Hozier 15 25 ELECTROMAGNETIC SOUNDS/HARVEST three consecutive singles 1800 A.HOZIER-BYRNE,R.KIRWAN (A.HOZIER-BYRNE) RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA to No. 1 on Alternative? SLIPKNOT .5: The Gray Chapter 17 FROM EDEN Hozier 15 25 ROADRUNNER/AG The summer of 1992, when 2400 A.HOZIER-BYRNE,R.KIRWAN (A.HOZIER-BYRNE) RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA Reprise tripled up with The d as current if they are newly if they are d as current FOO FIGHTERS Sonic Highways (Soundtrack) 14 ROSWELL/RCA LAMPSHADES ON FIRE Modest Mouse 14 9 B-52s’ “Good Stuff” (four 19 0 19 I.BROCK,C.JONES,T.MARTINE (I.BROCK) EPIC SLEATER-KINNEY No Cities To Love 4 weeks), Faith No More’s BLANK SPACE I Prevail 96 SUB POP 22 24 0 B.J.PERRY (T.SWIFT,MAX MARTIN,SHELLBACK,S.D.MENOIAN,B.A.BURKHEISER,L.J.RUNESTAD,B.J.PERRY,R.J.VANLERBERGHE) I PREVAIL “Midlife Crisis” (one) and

eus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc.eus Global Media, LLC All rights reserved. PAPA ROACH F.E.A.R. 3 ELEVEN SEVEN ’s “Tomorrow” ONE LAST NIGHT Vaults 21 2 B.FREEMAN,B.VELLA,B.PEPINO (B.FREEMAN,B.PEPINO,B.VELLA) UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC (six). - 0 0 PINK FLOYD 0 The Endless River 14 COLUMBIA Walk the Moon previously REFLECTIONS MisterWives 13 22 23 0 22 FREQUENCY (M.LEE) PHOTO FINISH/REPUBLIC peaked as high as No. 10 THE BLACK KEYS Turn Blue 40 NONESUCH/WARNER BROS. on Alternative with its 2012 20 19 23 MESS IS MINE Vance Joy 18 22 R.HADLOCK (VANCE JOY) F-STOP/ATLANTIC GEORGE EZRA Wanted On Voyage 3 debut, “Anna Sun.” “Dance” COLUMBIA concurrently becomes the 24 I AM MACHINE Three Days Grace 20 20 27 0 G.BROWN (J.L.ANDREWS,B.WALST,M.WALST,N.SANDERSON,B.STOCK,G.BROWN) RCA band’s first No. 1 on Rock Airplay, where it rises 3-1. 25 23 FIRST KISS Kid Rock 13 6 0 KID ROCK,D.HUFF (R.J.RITCHIE,M.YOUNG) TOP DOG/WARNER BROS. ALTERNATIVE™ On Triple A (see Billboard.

are less than 18 months old or older than 18 months but still residing in the Billboard 200’s top 100. in the Billboard 200’s less than 18 months old or older but still residing are biz/charts), Modest Mouse ROLLERCOASTER Bleachers 19 15 2900 G.KURSTIN,J.HILL,J.ANTONOFF (J.ANTONOFF,J.HILL) RCA LAST THIS TITLE Artist WKS. ON scores its first leader as WEEK WEEK IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL CHART “Lampshades on Fire” rises HOLLOW MOON (BAD WOLF) AWOLNATION 27 3 33 O0 A.BRUNO (A.BRUNO) RED BULL SHUT UP AND DANCE 3-1. The song precedes #11 WK WALK THE MOON 21 O 0 RCA the act’s first album in 13 21 28 IRRESISTIBLE Fall Out Boy 76 B.WALKER,J.SINCLAIR (FALL OUT BOY) DCD2/ISLAND/REPUBLIC CIGARETTE DAYDREAMS Cage The Elephant eight years, Strangers 02 25 DSP/RCA to Ourselves (March 3). 16 BLACK SUN Death Cab For Cutie 16 3 R.COSTEY (B.GIBBARD) BARSUK/ATLANTIC 27 Q 3 3 I BET MY LIFE Imagine Dragons 16 Modest Mouse previously KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE charted as high as No. 4 21 26 30 YELLOW FLICKER BEAT Lorde 320 P.EPWORTH,J.LITTLE (E.Y.O’CONNOR,J.LITTLE) LAVA/LIONS GATE/REPUBLIC LAMPSHADES ON FIRE Modest Mouse 9 on Triple A with 2004’s 00 EPIC “Float On” (a No. 1 hit on 30 28 0 GOOEY Glass Animals 26 21 D.BAYLEY (D.BAYLEY) WOLF TONE/HARVEST/CAPITOL 4 5 R U MINE? Arctic Monkeys 23 DOMINO/ADA Alternative). ata as compiled by Nielsen Music and streaming activity data by online music sources tracked by Nielsen Music. define Songs are tracked activity data by online music sources ata as compiled by Nielsen Music and streaming SOMETHING FROM NOTHING Foo Fighters On Hot Rock Songs, 17 22 32 818 ROLLERCOASTER Bleachers B.VIG,FOO FIGHTERS (FOO FIGHTERS) ROSWELL/RCA 23 06 RCA Florence & The Machine’s

14 18 FOURTH OF JULY Fall Out Boy 14 4 STOLEN DANCE Milky Chance “What Kind of Man” debuts 33 J.SINCLAIR (FALL OUT BOY,R.LOTT,J.SINCLAIR) DCD2/ISLAND/REPUBLIC 7 7 37 LICHTDICHT/NEON/REPUBLIC at No. 10, fueled by 32,000

ored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. See Charts Legend on billboard.com/biz for complete rules and explanations. © 2015, Prometh for complete rules and explanations. a week. 7 days See Charts on billboard.com/biz Legend 24 hours a day, ored CYCLE Beck first-week downloads sold, NEW 34 1 8 8 TAKE ME TO CHURCH Hozier 35 0 B.HANSEN (B.HANSEN) FONOGRAF RECORDS/CAPITOL RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA according to Nielsen Music.

ELECTRIC LOVE BORNS 13 5 11 9 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 42 The Florence Welch-led 34 35 0 T.ENGLISH (G.BORNS,T.SCHLEITER,N.LONG,J.MORAN) INTERSCOPE F-STOP/ATLANTIC act’s How Big, How Blue, ANGEL OF SMALL DEATH AND THE CODEINE SCENE Hozier 31 19 LONG WAY DOWN Robert DeLong 14 How Beautiful arrives A.HOZIER-BYRNE,R.KIRWAN (A.HOZIER-BYRNE) RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA 0 10 ATG/GLASSNOTE 43 00 May 29. —Emily White FIGURE IT OUT Royal Blood HOLLOW MOON (BAD WOLF) AWOLNATION 3 31 29 37 18 19 RED BULL ROYAL BLOOD,T.DALGETY (M.KERR,B.THATCHER) IMPERIAL GALACTIC/BLACK MAMMOTH/WARNER BROS. 00 BLACK SUN Death Cab For Cutie 3 40 DROWN 11 15 BARSUK/ATLANTIC 36 0 J.FISH (J.FISH,L.MALIA,O.SYKES) EPITAPH 00 14 13 DANGEROUS Big Data Feat. Joywave 49

The week’s most popular rock albums, ranked by sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music. Albums are defined as current if they by sales data as compiled Nielsen Music. defined as current Albums are albums, ranked most popular rock The week’s 38 039 SAME DAMN LIFE Seether 30 13 CRUSH MUSIC/WILCASSETTES/WARNER BROS. radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen Music, as measured sales d audience impressions airplay radio B.O’BRIEN (S.MORGAN,P.MAURIAT,F.POURCEL,J.PLANTE,R.LEFEBVRE) THE BICYCLE MUSIC COMPANY/CMG BUDAPEST George Ezra 20 FACE EVERYTHING AND RISE Papa Roach COLUMBIA 15 32 40 15 5 00 K.CHURKO (J.SHADDIX,T.ESPERANCE,A.ESPERANCE,K.CHURKO) ELEVEN SEVEN BEGGIN FOR THREAD Banks 21 0 15 HARVEST/CAPITOL

TOP ROCK ALBUMS: TOP NEW DON’T WANNA FIGHT Alabama Shakes 41 1 0 B. MILLS,ALABAMA SHAKES (ALABAMA SHAKES) ATO

10 16 FIGURE IT OUT Royal Blood 20 IMPERIAL GALACTIC/BLACK MAMMOTH/WARNER BROS. 26 33 42 THE KIDS AREN’T ALRIGHT Fall Out Boy 10 9 J.SINCLAIR (FALL OUT BOY) DCD2/ISLAND/REPUBLIC 9 17 SOMETHING FROM NOTHING Foo Fighters 18 ROSWELL/RCA 39 45 0 GOLD Imagine Dragons 12 9 ALEX DA KID (IMAGINE DRAGONS,A.GRANT) KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE MESS IS MINE Vance Joy 10 00 F-STOP/ATLANTIC NEW THE BEST ROOM Modest Mouse 44 1 0 I.BROCK,T.MARTINE,B.DECK (I.BROCK,J.GREEN) EPIC CECILIA AND THE SATELLITE Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness 18 20Q VANGUARD

The week’s most popular current rock songs, ranked by songs, ranked rock most popular current The week’s NEW UNDISCOVERED Laura Welsh 45 1 NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC KATHLEEN Catfish And The Bottlemen 0 19 20 17 COMMUNION/RED BROTHER NEEDTOBREATHE Featuring Gavin DeGraw 12 2 -046 E.CASH,D.TOZER,NEEDTOBREATHE (N.RINEHART,W.RINEHART,G.DEGRAW) ATLANTIC SOMEBODY NEW Joywave 10 00 CULTCO/HOLLYWOOD HOT ROCK SONGS: HOT widespread airplay and/or sales activity for the first time. and/or airplay widespread alternative songs, ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen Music. Stations are electronically monit by Nielsen Music. electronically as measured Stations are audience impressions airplay by radio ranked songs, alternative - 47 ABSOLUTION CALLING Incubus 41 2 0 M.EINZIGER,B.BOYD (B.BOYD,M.EINZIGER,J.PASILLAS II,C.KILMORE,B.KENNEDY) ISLAND/REPUBLIC WEIGHT OF LOVE The Black Keys 6

0 22 NONESUCH/WARNER BROS. JACKIE AND WILSON Hozier 18 7 GOOEY Glass Animals A.HOZIER-BYRNE,R.KIRWAN (A.HOZIER-BYRNE) RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA 23Q 18 - 00 WOLF TONE/HARVEST/CAPITOL 49 FLASHED JUNK MIND Milky Chance 40 12 EVERY OTHER FRECKLE alt-J 11 0 C.REHBEIN,P.DAUSCH (C.REHBEIN) LICHTDICHT/NEON/REPUBLIC 0 24 INFECTIOUS/CANVASBACK/ATLANTIC

50 EVERY BREAKING WAVE U2 38 8 BAD HABIT The Kooks 18 47 0 ,R.B.TEDDER (BONO,,L.MULLEN, JR.,A.CLAYTON) ISLAND/INTERSCOPE ASTRALWERKS/CAPITOL SALES, AIRPLAY & STREAMING & STREAMING SALES, AIRPLAY BY COMPILED DATA 00 WorldMags.net Data for week of 02.28.2015 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data 65 HOT R&B/HIP-HOP SONGS™ TOP R&B/HIP-HOP ALBUMS™

2 WKS. LAST THIS TITLE CERTIFICATION PEAK WKS. ON LAST THIS ARTIST CERTIFICATION Title WKS. ON Artist WEEK WEEK CHART AGO WEEK WEEK PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL POS. CHART IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL WorldMags.net DRAKE FOURFIVESECONDS #1 2#1 WKS Rihanna & Kanye West & Paul McCartney 14 1 WK If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late 1 DG AG K.WEST,P.MCCARTNEY,M.DEAN (K.O.WEST,P.MCCARTNEY,K.DOCKERY,M.G.DEAN,T.GRIFFIN JR,D.LONGSTRETH . . .) WESTBURY ROAD/ROC NATION YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC J. COLE 0 2014 Forest Hills Drive 10 EARNED IT (FIFTY SHADES OF GREY) The Weeknd ALLEYNE THE WEEKND: HYGHLY SG S.R.MOCCIO,J.QUENNEVILLE (A.TESFAYE,S.MOCCIO,J.QUENNEVILLE,A.BALSHE) UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC 28 GG DREAMVILLE/ROC NATION/COLUMBIA

NICKI MINAJ The Pinkprint I DON’T MIND Usher Featuring Juicy J 2 3 9 ,1, 115 YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC ' 00 DR. LUKE,CIRKUT (J.HOUSTON,L.GOTTWALD,JAHMAL HOUSE,T.THOMAS,T.THOMAS,H.R.WALTER) RCA ¡ NE-YO Non-Fiction 3 ONLY Nicki Minaj Feat. Drake, Lil Wayne & Chris Brown 116 3 4 COMPOUND ENTERTAINMENT/MOTOWN/CAPITOL 3 DR. LUKE,CIRKUT,JMIKE (O.T.MARAJ,A.GRAHAM,D.CARTER,J.M.COLEMAN,L.GOTTWALD,T.THOMAS,T.THOMAS,H.R.WALTER) YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC ' 00 CHARLIE WILSON Forever Charlie ¡ 5 3 4 4 5 I DON’T F**K WITH YOU Big Sean Featuring E-40 121 P MUSIC/RCA Drake, 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

KID INK Full Speed 2 TRUFFLE BUTTER Nicki Minaj Feat. Drake & Lil Wayne 66 0 6 THA ALUMNI GROUP/88 CLASSIC/RCA NINETEEN85,M.J.COLES (O.T.MARAJ,A.GRAHAM,D.CARTER,P.JEFFERIES,M.J.COLES) YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC Weeknd 00 2 0 BEYONCE Beyonce 62 7/11 Beyonce 112 00 PARKWOOD/COLUMBIA 0 7 B.KNOWLES,B.JOHNSON,DETAIL,S.SWIFT (B.JOHNSON,N.C.FISHER,B.KNOWLES) PARKWOOD/COLUMBIA D’ANGELO AND THE VANGUARD Make 7 8 Black Messiah 9 SHE KNOWS Ne-Yo Featuring Juicy J 719 RCA 8 P DR. LUKE,CIRKUT (S.C.SMITH,J.HOUSTON,L.GOTTWALD,H.R.WALTER) COMPOUND ENTERTAINMENT/MOTOWN/CAPITOL ..'' 00 Waves K. MICHELLE Anybody Wanna Buy A Heart? 10 COCO O.T. Genasis 12 4) ATLANTIC/AG ~5`l 6 9 513 Drake enters at No. 1 on O.FLORES (O.FLORES,S.THOMAS) CONGLOMERATE/ATLANTIC 0 JOHN LEGEND Love In The Future 76 Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums G.D.F.R. Flo Rida Featuring Sage The Gemini & Lookas 00 G.O.O.D./COLUMBIA 11 I, 917 (along with a Billboard 200 - 00 DJ FRANK E,A.CEDAR,M.BEARD (T.DILLARD,J.FRANKS,A.CEDAR,D.W.WOODS,P.RODRIGUEZ,M.CAREN,C.W.MILLER,G.GOLDSTEIN,H.BROWN . . .) POE BOY/ATLANTIC 10 11 JAZMINE SULLIVAN Reality Show 5 ¡ RCA No. 1; see story, page 52) 7 9 11 NO TYPE Rae Sremmurd 321 MIKE WILL MADE-IT,S.LEE (M.L.WILLIAMS,A.BROWN,K.U.BROWN) EARDRUMA/INTERSCOPE with his surprise release If MARY J. BLIGE The London Sessions 11 12 MATRIARCH/CAPITOL You’re Reading This It’s Too AYO Chris Brown & Tyga 10 6 (13 00 NIC NAC,M.L.KRAGEN (C.M.BROWN,M.R.NGUYEN-STEVENSON,N.BALDING,M.L.KRAGEN,J.JACKSON) RCA Late. The entrance spurs 14 13 RAE SREMMURD SremmLife 6 SOMEBODY Natalie La Rose Featuring Jeremih EARDRUMA/INTERSCOPE/IGA 10 of the album’s tracks 23 I, COOK CLASSICS,THE FUTURISTICS (W.LOBBAN-BEAN,A.SCHWARTZ,J.KHAJADOURIAN,G.MERRILL,S.RUBICAM) I.M.G./REPUBLIC 13 6 onto Hot R&B/Hip-Hop c 00 9 14 JOEY BADA$$ B4.Da.$$ 4 PRO ERA/CINEMATIC Songs, led by “Energy,” 10 14 14 TUESDAY I LOVE MAKONNEN Featuring Drake 223 M.SHERAN,L.WAYNE,SONNY DIGITAL (M.SHERAN,O.ALEEM,A.GRAHAM) OVO SOUND/WARNER BROS. FABOLOUS The Young OG Project 8 which takes the Hot Shot 26 0 DESERT STORM/DEF JAM TRAP QUEEN Fetty Wap debut at No. 17. The song II 22 15 5 T.FADD (W.J.MAXWELL,T.FADD) RGF/300 '.... 0 CHRIS BROWN X 22 sold 63,000 downloads in 0 16 RCA ONLY ONE Kanye West Featuring Paul McCartney the week ending Feb. 15, 21 ): 11 7 ',._ 'CD 0 K.WEST,P.MCCARTNEY (K.O.WEST,P.MCCARTNEY,KIRBY LAURYEN) G.O.O.D./ROC-A-FELLA/DEF JAM PHARRELL WILLIAMS 0 G I R L 50 according to Nielsen Music, 00 I AM OTHER/COLUMBIA HOT SHOT 0 ENERGY Drake 17 1 more than double the next- DEBUT NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC EMINEM 2 The Marshall Mathers LP 2 68 WEB/SHADY/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/IGA biggest song from the new 00 titles, or songs newly-released if they are defined as current set (“Preach,” with 30,000).

top 100. in the Billboard 200’s 18 months but still residing ,42 BLESSINGS Big Sean Featuring Drake 16 3 .. , VINYLZ,A.RITTER (S.M.ANDERSON,A.HERNANDEZ,A.RITTER,A.GRAHAM) G.O.O.D./DEF JAM KEM Promise To Love: Album IV 24 .0 0 0 19 KEMISTRY/MOTOWN/CAPITOL Also debuting on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs is APPARENTLY J. Cole 17 10 0 and Nielsen Music, Inc. Global Media, LLC All rights © 2015, Prometheus J.L.COLE (J.COLE,F.TRECCA) DREAMVILLE/ROC NATION/COLUMBIA 19 20 VARIOUS ARTISTS ShadyXV 12 C) CD SHADY/INTERSCOPE/IGA The Weeknd (above). FEELING MYSELF Nicki Minaj Featuring Beyonce 12 9 He enters at No. 31 with 14 0 0 HIT-BOY,B.KNOWLES (O.T.MARAJ,B.KNOWLES,S.ROWE,C.HOLLIS) YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC 21 LUPE FIASCO Tetsuo & Youth 4 13 1ST & 15TH/ATLANTIC/AG “Where You Belong” from OFTEN 0 The Weeknd 15 27 the Fifty Shades of Grey 16 0 21 BEN BILLION$,THE WEEKND,J.QUENNEVILLE (A.TESFAYE,B.DIEHL,J.QUENNEVILLE,A.BALSHE,D.SCHOFIELD,A.KOCATEPE,S.ALI,O.ISMEN) XO/REPUBLIC CHILDISH GAMBINO Because The Internet 62 0 22 GLASSNOTE soundtrack. Spotify plays THROW SUM MO Rae Sremmurd Feat. Nicki Minaj & Young Thug accounted for 83 percent of ,, 18 i11 75 S O U N D Z (A.BROWN,K.U.BROWN,K.COBY,M.L.WILLIAMS,J.P.FELTON,O.T.MARAJ,J.WILLIAMS) EARDRUMA/INTERSCOPE 18 10 TREY SONGZ Trigga 33 ,--, 4) CD SONGBOOK/ATLANTIC/AG the track’s overall 416,000

15 24 23 TRY ME DeJ Loaf 12 18 T.I. Paperwork 17 domestic weekly streams, DDS (D.M.TRIMBLE,D.D.SMITH) IBGM/COLUMBIA 0 24 GRAND HUSTLE/COLUMBIA while downloads for the urrent if they are less than 18 months old or older if they are urrent POST TO BE Omarion Featuring Chris Brown & Jhene Aiko 24 11 DRAKE ¡ Nothing Was The Same 74 song surpassed 30,000 c NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) MAYBACH/ATLANTIC 33 0 YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC '-2 0 0 — grabbing a No. 9 debut

NEW PREACH Drake Featuring PARTYNEXTDOOR 25 1 on R&B Digital Songs. 0 NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC

The singer also takes the RAP AIRPLAY™ NEW LEGEND Drake 26 1 NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC Streaming Gainer tag for

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LAST THIS TITLE Artist WKS. ON another Fifty Shades album

WEEK WEEK IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL CHART for complete rules and explanations. See Charts on billboard.com/biz Legend NEW 10 BANDS Drake 27 1 0 NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC cut: “Earned It (Fifty Shades

ONLY 2#1 WKS Nicki Minaj Feat. Drake, Lil Wayne & Chris Brown 16 of Grey),” leaps 10-2 on the THE BODY Wale Featuring Jeremih YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC 26=0 28 26 16 1 0 chart. K.COBY (O.AKINTIMEHIN,J.P.FELTON,C.GRAND,R.S.KELLY) EBM MUSIC/MAYBACH/ATLANTIC TRUFFLE BUTTER GG Nicki Minaj Feat. Drake & Lil Wayne 8 On Rap Airplay, Nicki 2015 NOT FOR LONG B.o.B Featuring Trey Songz 26 14 00 YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC 28 0 29 P LO,M.NILAN, JR. (B.R.SIMMONS, JR.,P.RODRIGUEZ,M.NILAN, JR.,P.A.JONES,A.IZQUIERDO,T.NEVERSON) REBELROCK/GRAND HUSTLE/ATLANTIC Minaj becomes the first I DON’T F**K WITH YOU Big Sean Feat. E-40 2 3 21 female lead act to hold the G.O.O.D./DEF JAM NEW USED TO Drake Featuring Lil Wayne 30 1 0 NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC top two spots as “Truffle APPARENTLY J. Cole 10

Butter” steps 3-2 (up by Nielsen Music. Songs are tracked activity data by online music sources sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music and streaming WHERE YOU BELONG The Weeknd 00 DREAMVILLE/ROC NATION/COLUMBIA NEW 31 1 February 28 0 NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC 24 percent to 32.3 million THE BODY Wale Feat. Jeremih 20 KEEP YOUR MONEY Empire Cast Featuring Jussie Smollett 0 ' EBM MUSIC/MAYBACH/ATLANTIC audience impressions) - 4 32 2 T 3 0 a week. 7 days 24 hours a day, monitored tronically J.BEANZ,TIMBALAND (T.V.MOSLEY,J.D.WASHINGTON) 20TH CENTURY FOX TV/COLUMBIA NOT FOR LONG B.o.B Feat. Trey Songz 17 while “Only” holds at No. 1. REBELROCK/GRAND HUSTLE/ATLANTIC 0 The last woman to reside NEW BITCHES N MARIJUANA Chris Brown & Tyga Feat. ScHoolboy Q 33 1 0 NIC NAC (C.M.BROWN,M.R.NGUYEN-STEVENSON,N.BALDING,P.A.JONES,Q.M.HANLEY,M.L.KRAGEN) RCA TIME OF OUR LIVES Pitbull & Ne-Yo 10 in the top two was Ashanti 00 MR. 305/POLO GROUNDS/RCA on April 6, 2002. However, Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved.

NEW NO TELLIN’ Drake 34 1 0 NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC 7 NO TYPE Rae Sremmurd 20 she was the featured artist 8 EARDRUMA/INTERSCOPE 0 on both tracks in the top 25 29 35 BEG FOR IT Iggy Azalea Featuring M0 817 THE INVISIBLE MEN,THE ARCADE (A.A.KELLY,C.AITCHISON,J.A.PEBWORTH,G.ASTASIO,K.MCKENZIE,J.TURNER) TURN FIRST/HUSTLE GANG/DEF JAM HOW ABOUT NOW Drake 15 two that week: Fat Joe’s 4) 9 YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC “What’s Luv?” was No. 1 NO ROLE MODELZ J. Cole 27 10 29 32 0 D.BARNES (J.COLE,D.BARNES,M.WHITEMON,P.BEAUREGARD,J.HOUSTON,T.STEVENS,E.T.STEVENS,D.STEVENS,B.JONES) DREAMVILLE/ROC NATION/COLUMBIA COCO O.T. Genasis 14 CD . CONGLOMERATE/ATLANTIC while Ja Rule’s “Always On I BET Ciara THROW SUM MO Rae Sremmurd Feat. Nicki Minaj & Young Thug Time” was No. 2. 27 33 0 27 3 6 by sales data as compiled Nielsen Music. defined as c Albums are R&B/hip-hop albums, ranked most popular current The week’s H-MONEY (H.D.SAMUELS,T.THOMAS,T.THOMAS,C.P.HARRIS) EPIC EARDRUMA/INTERSCOPE —Amaya Mendizabal

00 by Nielsen Music, as measured audience impressions airplay radio FEELING MYSELF Nicki Minaj Feat. Beyonce NEW JUNGLE Drake 38 1 9 0 NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC 00 YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC TRY ME DeJ Loaf I DON’T GET TIRED (#IDGT) Kevin Gates Feat. August Alsina 33 9 11 13 19 33 00 NIC NAC,M.L.KRAGEN (K.GILYARD,E.T.HAMILTON,N.BALDING,M.L.KRAGEN,A.ALSINA, JR.) BREAD WINNERS’ ASSOCIATION/GANGSTA GRILLZ/ATLANTIC IBGM/COLUMBIA

y audience impressions as measured by Nielsen Music. elec as measured Stations are y audience impressions 12 14 ABOUT THE MONEY T.I. Feat. Young Thug 33 41 SLOW MOTION Trey Songz 29 4 GRAND HUSTLE/COLUMBIA ALBUMS: R&B/HIP-HOP TOP C.PUTH,GEOFFRO CAUSE (T.NEVERSON,C.PUTH,G.EARLEY,JAHMAL HOUSE) SONGBOOK/ATLANTIC GOOD LOVIN Ludacris Feat. Miguel 9 BE REAL Kid Ink Featuring DeJ Loaf 4)CD DTP/DEF JAM 39 0 41 DJ MUSTARD,JGRAMM (B.T.COLLINS,D.MCFARLANE,J.GRAMMA,N.AUDINO,L.HUGES,D.LEONARD,B.T.HAZZARD,D.M.TRIMBLE) THA ALUMNI GROUP/88 CLASSIC/RCA 31 3

TRAP QUEEN Fetty Wap 3 DRIP DROP Empire Cast Feat. Yazz & Serayah McNeill 37 2 00 RGF/300 00 J.BEANZ (J.D.WASHINGTON,J.BOSTWICK) 20TH CENTURY FOX TV/COLUMBIA G.D.F.R. Flo Rida Feat. Sage The Gemini & Lookas 6 GLORY Common & John Legend 25 4 4)CD POE BOY/ATLANTIC

JOHN LEGEND (JOHN LEGEND,L.R.LYNN,C.SMITH) PATHE/PARAMOUNT PICTURES/G.O.O.D./COLUMBIA/ARTIUM/DEF JAM sales activity for the first time. 00 BLESSINGS Big Sean Feat. Drake 2 4)CD G.O.O.D./DEF JAM NEW 6PM IN NEW YORK Drake 44 1 0 NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC by R&B/hip-hop songs, ranked most popular current The week’s

BAD B*TCH French Montana Feat. Jeremih 5 CDCD COKE BOYS/BAD BOY/INTERSCOPE NEW NOW & FOREVER Drake 45 1 0 NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC

MIND RIGHT TK-N-Cash 5 airpla by radio songs, ranked most popular rap The week’s 00 NOBILITY/BANQ BOI/COLUMBIA NEW 6 MAN Drake 46 1 0 NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC HOTEL Kid Ink Feat. Chris Brown 3 4)CD THA ALUMNI GROUP/88 CLASSIC/RCA reserved. See Charts Legend on billboard.com/biz for complete rules and explanations. © 2015, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Global Media, LLC © 2015, Prometheus for complete rules and explanations. reserved. See Charts on billboard.com/biz Legend HOT R&B/HIP-HOP SONGS: HOT RAP AIRPLAY: RAP AIRPLAY: HOTEL Kid Ink Featuring Chris Brown 30 5 and/or airplay widespread receiving 36 [' 0 47 THE FEATHERSTONES (B.T.COLLINS,M.FEATHERSTONE,C.FEATHERSTONE,J.FEATHERSTONE,W.FEATHERSTONE,C.M.BROWN,B.R.SIMMONS . . .) THA ALUMNI GROUP/88 CLASSIC/RCA ... . PRIVATE SHOW T.I. Feat. Chris Brown 2 00 GRAND HUSTLE/COLUMBIA WET DREAMZ J. Cole 20 10 .!, 34 39 0 J.L.COLE (J.COLE,C.SIMMONS,R.HAMMOND) DREAMVILLE/ROC NATION/COLUMBIA PREACH Young Dolph 2 ,.. - COCD PAPER ROUTE EMPIRE LOVE ‘EM ALL K. Michelle ',..35. 35 11 F**K UP SOME COMMAS Future I' 0 49 R.S.TAYLOR,R.JACKSON,B.ALEXANDER (K.PATE,B.ATTERBERRY,R.S.TAYLOR,R.JACKSON,B.A.M.) ATLANTIC 1 NEW 0 A-1/FREEBANDZ/EPIC GOOD LOVIN Ludacris Featuring Miguel 40 5 BACKFLIP Casey Veggies Feat. YG & iAMSU! 40 DA INTERNZ,A.M.COX (C.B.BRIDGES,M.J.PIMENTEL,M.PALACIOS,E.CLARK,A.M.COX) DTP/DEF JAM 2 ....__,'. o25 VESTED IN CULTURE/EPIC & STREAMING SALES, AIRPLAY ID 0 BY COMPILED DATA WorldMags.net 66 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data Data for week of 02.28.2015 Li61,--SHAKIRA HOT LATIN SONGS™ TOP LATIN ALBUMS™ Af4/t/'t_ZILeizeip CREDIT TK 2 WKS. LAST THIS TITLE CERTIFICATION PEAK WKS. ON LAST THIS ARTIST CERTIFICATION Title WKS. ON Artist WEEK WEEK CHART AGO WEEK WEEK PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL POS. CHART IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL WorldMags.net#1 RICKY MARTIN

HOT SHOT 0 #11 WK MI VERDAD Mana Featuring Shakira 11 SHOT 1 WK A Quien Quiera Escuchar 1 DEBUT G.NORIEGA,F.OLVERA (F.OLVERA,G.NORIEGA) WARNER LATINA DEBUT SONY MUSIC LATIN JUAN GABRIEL Los Duo BAILANDO ¡ Enrique Iglesias Feat. Descemer Bueno & Gente de Zona 148 NEW 0 1 1 1 2 C.PAUCAR (E.M.IGLESIAS,D.KAMBAIAH,D.MARTINEZ BUENO,A.DELGADO,R. M.MARTINEZ) REPUBLIC/UNIVERSAL MUSIC LATINO/UMLE FONOVISA/UMLE

GILBERTO SANTA ROSA Necesito Un Bolero 4 3 3 3 PROPUESTA INDECENTE Romeo Santos 182 GG SONY MUSIC LATIN A.SANTOS (A.SANTOS) SONY MUSIC LATIN 0o ROMEO SANTOS @ Formula: Vol. 2 51 AY VAMOS J Balvin SONY MUSIC LATIN 2 2 4 225 60 A.RAMIREZ (J.A.OSORIO BALVIN,R.CANO,A.RAMIREZ,A.PATINO) CAPITOL LATIN/UMLE YANDEL Legacy: de Lider A Leyenda Tour 2 ERES MIA Romeo Santos SONY MUSIC LATIN 5 6 5 249 00 Mana’s A.SANTOS (A.SANTOS) SONY MUSIC LATIN LA ARROLLADORA BANDA EL LIMON DE RENE CAMACHO Ojos En Blanco 2 0 6 DISA/UMLE 7 TRAVESURAS Nicky Jam 435 0 D.WAY (N.RIVERA CAMINERO) LA INDUSTRIA VARIOUS ARTISTS No. 1 3 7 Las Bandas Romanticas de America 2015 4 FONOVISA/UMLE 4 4 7 YO TAMBIEN Romeo Santos Featuring Marc Anthony 431 C.PENA,A.SANTOS (A.SANTOS) SONY MUSIC LATIN Latin ENRIQUE IGLESIAS @ Sex And Love 48 Debut HABLAME DE TI Banda Sinaloense MS de Sergio Lizarraga 0 REPUBLIC/UMLE 8 817 Mana blasts in at No. 1 on S.LIZARRAGA (H.PALENCIA CISNEROS) REMEX 4 9 INTOCABLE XX: 20 Aniversario 3 GOOD I/UMLE Hot Latin Songs with “Mi DISPARO AL CORAZON Ricky Martin 21 12 0 95 Verdad,” becoming the only J.REYES COPELLO (P.CAPO,Y.HENRIQUEZ,R.ESPARZA-RUIZ,R.MARTIN) SONY MUSIC LATIN MARCO ANTONIO SOLIS 15 Inolvidables 14 14Q FONOVISA/UMLE act with three No. 1 debuts

2015 ERES UNA NINA Gerardo Ortiz 6 7 10 620 in the 28-year history of the G.ORITZ (G.ORTIZ) BAD SIN/DEL/SONY MUSIC LATIN JUAN GABRIEL Mis Numero 1... 40 Aniversario 28 00 SONY MUSIC LATIN chart. Further, the song — 171 0 DIME Julion Alvarez y Su Norteno Banda 11 10 15 J.ALVAREZ (D.TOMAS,C.J.FRANCO,H.LEON) FONOVISA/UMLE NEW 0 YAZAIRA Yazaira 1 which features Shakira — is WARNER LATINA only the 13th track to bow EL PERDON Nicky Jam & Enrique Iglesias SG 12 2 ALEJANDRO FERNANDEZ Confidencias Reales at No. 1 and the first to do February 28 SAGA WHITEBLACK (N.RIVERA CAMINERO,E.M.IGLESIAS) LA INDUSTRIA/SONY MUSIC LATIN 10 11 0 UNIVERSAL MUSIC LATINO/UMLE so since the list became a HILITO Romeo Santos 17 13 9 VARIOUS ARTISTS 20 Corridos Bien Vol 2. 2 A.SANTOS,I.CHEVERE (A.SANTOS) SONY MUSIC LATIN 0 14 FONOVISA/UMLE hybrid tally blending airplay, sales and streaming data in 30 JUNTOS (TOGETHER) Juanes 14 4 TEGO CALDERON El Que Sabe Sabe 2 22 Q J.L.GUERRA SEIJAS (J.E.ARISTIZABAL,D.MARTINEZ BUENO,F.BUENO) WALT DISNEY/UNIVERSAL MUSIC LATINO/UMLE JIGGRI/SIENTE/UNIVERSAL MUSIC LATINO/UMLE October 2012. The last song The week’s most popular current The week’s O' PIENSAS (DILE LA VERDAD) Pitbull Feat. Gente de Zona JUAN LUIS GUERRA 4.40 0 Todo Tiene Su Hora to enter at No. 1 was Carlos 16 13 DJ CHINO,J.GOMEZ (A.C.PEREZ,J.C.GARCIA,J.GOMEZ MARTINEZ,A.DELGADO,R. M.MARTINEZ,M.CALDERON,AJ JUNIOR,B.HAJJI,J.TRUGMAN) MR. 305/SONY MUSIC LATIN 13 12 14 120 CAPITOL LATIN/UMLE Vives’ “Volvi a Nacer,” which started atop the LEVANTANDO POLVADERA Voz de Mando VICENTE FERNANDEZ Tesoros de Coleccion 1 12 10 16 10 17 NEW 0 SONY DISCOS/SONY MUSIC LATIN eleased titles, or songs receiving widespread eleased titles, or songs receiving J.A.GAXIOLA (O.TARAZON,K.CERVANTES) AFINARTE/SONY MUSIC LATIN then-airplay-only list dated LATIN POP AIRPLAY: POP AIRPLAY: LATIN LEJOS DE AQUI Farruko CHAYANNE En Todo Estare 26 Oct. 13, 2012. 13 18 0 13 11 SONY MUSIC LATIN DJ LUIAN,NOIZE (C.E.REYES-ROSADO,V.V.MOORE) CARBON FIBER/SIENTE 00 “Mi Verdad” is Mana’s NEW 0 EMMANUEL Inedito 1 10th No. 1 overall (extending 14 14 18 SOLTERO DISPONIBLE Regulo Caro 13 16 UNIVERSAL MUSIC LATINO/UMLE L.LUNA DIAZ (R.CARO,L.L.DIAZ,O.TARAZON) DEL/SONY MUSIC LATIN its record for the most

13 20 SIGGNO Zodiacal 9 leaders by a group) and the LO HICISTE OTRA VEZ La Arrolladora Banda el Limon de Rene Camacho 18 11 FREDDIE F.CAMACHO TIRADO (T.NORIEGA) DISA/UMLE

ed as current if they are newly-r if they are ed as current 2400 first single from the band’s VARIOUS ARTISTS Radio Exitos: El Disco del Ano 2014 18 QUE TIENE DE MALO Calibre 50 Featuring El Komander 917 250 FONOVISA/UMLE upcoming album. (Its title 0 20 J.TIRADO CASTANEDA (E.MUNOZ,A.RIOS) DISA/UMLE and release date are to be ALFREDO OLIVAS Privilegio 4 ADIOS Ricky Martin 380 SAHUARO/SONY MUSIC LATIN announced.) The new song’s 45 DG Y.ROMERO,A.RAYO GIBO,J.SHATKIN (Y.ROMERO,A.RAYO GIBO,R.MARTIN,K.DAHLIA) SONY MUSIC LATIN 921 debut was powered by its JENNI RIVERA 1 Vida - 3 Historias: Metamorfosis 11 24 23 FONOVISA/UMLE FANATICA SENSUAL Plan B 17 7 launch at No. 1 on both months but still residing in the Billboard 200’s top 100. in the Billboard 200’s months but still residing 22 22 HAZE,D.DURAN (O.J.VALLE VEGA,E.F.VAZQUEZ,E.ROSA CINTRON,D.DURAN) PINA/SONY MUSIC LATIN ¡ 28Q PRINCE ROYCE Soy El Mismo 71 Latin Airplay (10 million SONY MUSIC LATIN 18 23 MI PRINCESA Remmy Valenzuela 13 17 in audience for the week J.GONZALEZ (R.VALENZUELA,T.P.VALENZUELA) TONS REKORDZ/FONOVISA/UMLE of LOS RIELEROS DEL NORTE Lo Mejor de... 2 ending Feb. 15, according 0 25 FONOVISA/UMLE 19 ME VUELVO UN COBARDE Christian Daniel 19 9 to Nielsen Music) and Latin A.CASTRO (CHRISTIAN DANIEL,A.CASTRO,E. BARRERA,O.ALFANNO) SUMMA 00 Digital Songs (14,000 sold). 44 CONTIGO Calibre 50 25 3 With the arrival, Mana AG J.TIRADO CASTANEDA (E.MUNOZ,J.L.ROMA) DISA/UMLE 00 LATIN POP AIRPLAY™ bumps Enrique Iglesias’ ERES TU Proyecto X 24 10 “Bailando” out of the top 28 0 0 PROYECTO X (C.A.ZAMORA,M.I.NUNEZ) FONOVISA/UMLE LAST THIS TITLE Artist WKS. ON slot (1-2) after a record WEEK WEEK CHART SOLEDAD Don Omar IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL 11 21 27 11 16 41 weeks at No. 1. DON OMAR (W.O.LANDRON RIVERA,X.SEMPER,W.SEMPER,C.MONTALVO,R.PINA) MACHETE/UMLE if they are less than 18 months old or older if they are #11 WK DISPARO AL CORAZON Ricky Martin 5 On Top Latin Albums, SONY MUSIC LATIN MUEVELO Sofia Reyes Featuring Wisin 25 4 Ricky Martin debuts 2700 SLIKK,T.GAD (E.SERRANO,E.LAUES,J.L.MORERA LUNA,M.JACK,SLIKK,S.REYES,T.GAD) WARNER LATINA ME VUELVO UN COBARDE Christian Daniel 12 SUMMA at No. 1 with his latest EL QUE SE ENAMORA PIERDE Banda Carnaval 29 10 studio set, A Quien Quiera 3200 J.TIRADO CASTANEDA (E.MUNOZ,L.L.DIAZ) DISA/UMLE PIENSAS (DILE LA VERDAD) Pitbull Feat. Gente de Zona 12 Escuchar, opening with MR. 305 20 23 30 EL KARMA Ariel Camacho y Los Plebes del Rancho 16 20 25,000 units and earning J.GONZALEZ (E.DIEZ) DEL/SONY MUSIC LATIN MI VERDAD Mana Feat. Shakira 1 GG WARNER LATINA the singer his sixth chart- QUEDATE CON ELLA Natalia Jimenez 23 26 31 17 16 topping set. The album’s MOTIFF (N.JIMENEZ,C.BRANT) SONY MUSIC LATIN JUNTOS (TOGETHER) Juanes 4 00 WALT DISNEY/UNIVERSAL MUSIC LATINO/UMLE second single, “Disparo al NO TE VAYAS Fidel Rueda 32 6 data as compiled by Nielsen Music and streaming activity data by online music sources tracked by Nielsen Music. defin Songs are tracked activity data by online music sources data as compiled by Nielsen Music and streaming 35 0 0 NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) RUEDA/ABBA 4 6 AY VAMOS J Balvin 28 Corazon,” rises 2-1 to crown CAPITOL LATIN/UMLE Latin Pop Airplay (up 19 ENTONCES QUE SOMOS Banda El Recodo de Cruz Lizarraga 25 11 BAILANDO 25 28 33 J.LIZARRAGA,L.A.LIZARRAGA (L.L.DIAZ) FONOVISA/UMLE Enrique Iglesias Feat. Descemer Bueno & Gente de Zona 46 percent in spins), marking 5 7 REPUBLIC/UNIVERSAL MUSIC LATINO/UMLE his ninth No. 1 and first mplete rules and explanations. © 2015, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. Global Media, LLC All rights reserved. © 2015, Prometheus mplete rules and explanations. INOCENTE Romeo Santos 33 36 0 33 5 MADRE TIERRA (OYE) Chayanne 5 A.SANTOS,I.CHEVERE (A.SANTOS) SONY MUSIC LATIN 08 SONY MUSIC LATIN since “Lo Mejor de Mi Vida LIBRE SOY Carmen Sarahi Eres Tu” in 2010. 23 14 9 9 QUEDATE CON ELLA Natalia Jimenez 17 29 0 35 K.ANDERSON-LOPEZ,R.LOPEZ (K.ANDERSON-LOPEZ,R.LOPEZ,D.FILIO,R.ALDANA) WALT DISNEY SONY MUSIC LATIN Lastly, Mexican legend YO TAMBIEN Juan Gabriel arrives 39 37 36 PIERDO LA CABEZA Zion & Lennox 36 3 Romeo Santos Feat. Marc Anthony 18 DJ URBA,ROME (F.G.ORTIZ TORRES,G.E.PIZARRO,G.A.CRUZ-PADILLA,M.CEDENO URBANI,L.J.ROMERO) BABY 00 SONY MUSIC LATIN at No. 2 on Top Latin Albums as Los Duo shifts MADRE TIERRA (OYE) Chayanne 37 3 8 11 SOLEDAD Don Omar 15 3800 Y.ROMERO,A.RAYO GIBO (R.TOUZET,Y.ROMERO,B.LUENGO,A.RAYO GIBO) SONY MUSIC LATIN MACHETE/UMLE 22,000 units. The album, NOTA DE AMOR Wisin + Carlos Vives Feat. Daddy Yankee QUIEREME Johnny Sky 8 a collection of his hits NEW 38 1 PREMIUM LATIN/LATIN HITS 0 LOS LEGENDARIOS (J.L.MORERA LUNA,C.VIVES,A.CASTRO,R.L.AYALA) SONY MUSIC LATIN 00 performed as duets with See Charts Legend on billboard.com/biz for co See Charts on billboard.com/biz Legend TUS BESOS Juan Luis Guerra 4.40 25 an array of Latin music’s RULETA RUSA Tony Dize 31 7 10 13 CAPITOL LATIN/UMLE 31 0 39 R.PINA,E.SEMPER,X.SEMPER (R.PINA) PINA/SONY MUSIC LATIN radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen Music, as measured sales audience impressions airplay radio biggest stars, is the best

12 14 ERES MIA Romeo Santos 38 opening week for the pop 34 39 NO TE CREAS TAN IMPORTANTE El Bebeto 34 5 SONY MUSIC LATIN 40 J.SERRANO MONTOYA (R.ORRANTIA) ASL/DISA/UMLE The week’s most popular current Latin albums, ranked by sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music. by sales data as compiled defined as current Albums are Latin albums, ranked most popular current The week’s icon. It also gives him LEJOS DE AQUI Farruko ed by Nielsen Music. Nielsen ed by 14 0 7 AMIGO Romeo Santos 41 5 CARBON FIBER/SIENTE his first top 40 hit on the A.SANTOS,I.CHEVERE (A.SANTOS) SONY MUSIC LATIN 43 00 Billboard 200 (No. 25). 13 16 QUEDATE Camila 9 7 DIAS Romeo Santos 36 6 SONY MUSIC LATIN —Amaya Mendizabal 36 42 0 A.SANTOS,I.CHEVERE (A.SANTOS) SONY MUSIC LATIN

TOP LATIN ALBUMS: LATIN TOP RULETA RUSA Tony Dize 11 17 0 PINA ME SOBRABAS TU Banda Los Recoditos 43 2 - 0 0 A.LIZARRAGA (L.L.DIAZ,J.A.INZUNZA FABELA) DISA/UMLE QUE SUENEN LOS TAMBORES Victor Manuelle 15 18 19 KIYAVI/SONY MUSIC LATIN NEW TODO TUYO Banda El Recodo de Cruz Lizarraga 44 1 0 A.LIZARRAGA (E. BARRERA,J.E.MURGUIA PEDRAZA,M.L.ARRIAGA) FONOVISA/UMLE MUEVELO Sofia Reyes Feat. Wisin 19 18Q WARNER LATINA AUNQUE AHORA ESTAS CON EL Calibre 50 The week’s most popular current Latin songs, ranked by Latin songs, ranked most popular current The week’s 40 2 J.TIRADO CASTANEDA (J.E.MURGUIA PEDRAZA,M.L.ARRIAGA) DISA/UMLE UPTOWN FUNK! Mark Ronson Feat. Bruno Mars 8 RCA 00 NEW QUERIDA Juan Gabriel Featuring Juanes 46 1 0 G.FARIAS (A.AGUILERA VALADEZ) FONOVISA/UMLE STUCK ON A FEELING Prince Royce Feat. Snoop Dogg Or J Balvin 3 RCA/SONY MUSIC LATIN Latin pop songs, ranked by radio airplay detections as measur detections airplay radio by ranked songs, Latin pop airplay and/or sales activity for the first time. sales activity for the first time. and/or airplay HOT LATIN SONGS: LATIN HOT 00 41 41 47 LA INDICADA Kevin Ortiz 33 17 G.ORITZ (L.L.DIAZ,O.TARRAZON) BAD SIN HILITO Romeo Santos 2 00 SONY MUSIC LATIN SI TU NO ESTAS Nicky Jam 34 8 40 0 48 DE LA GHETTO,DJ BLASS,NICKY JAM,SAGA WHITEBLACK (N.RIVERA CAMINERO) CODISCOS/LATIN NATION/LA INDUSTRIA CAVERNICOLAS Ricardo Arjona 1 RE 0 METAMORFOSIS

NEW SABADO REBELDE Daddy Yankee Featuring Plan B 49 1 ELLA ES MI FIESTA Carlos Vives 0 HAZE (O.J.VALLE VEGA,E.VEGA) EL CARTEL/CAPITOL LATIN/UMLE 12 00 GAIRA/WK/SONY MUSIC LATIN

QUEDATE Camila 39 5 QUE QUIERES DE MI Luis Fonsi 4 46 0 50 MARIO DOMM (MARIO DOMM,M.VELEZ) SONY MUSIC LATIN UNIVERSAL MUSIC LATINO/UMLE SALES, AIRPLAY & STREAMING & STREAMING SALES, AIRPLAY BY COMPILED DATA 00 WorldMags.net Data for week of 02.28.2015 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data 67 HOT CHRISTIAN SONGS™ TOP CHRISTIAN ALBUMS™ 2 WKS. LAST THIS TITLE CERTIFICATION Artist PEAK WKS. ON LAST THIS ARTIST Title WKS. ON AGO WEEK WEEK PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL POS. CHART WEEK WEEK IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL CHART WorldMags.net #1 SOMETHING IN THE WATER 0 Carrie Underwood #1 JEREMY CAMP I Will Follow 1 1 1 20 WKS 120 2 WKS 2 M.BRIGHT (C.UNDERWOOD,C. DESTEFANO,BRETT JAMES) 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE/PLG STOLEN PRIDE/SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG ¡ HOT THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE CHOIR 2 3 2 OCEANS (WHERE FEET MAY FAIL) Hillsong UNITED 174 SHOT Pray: Live 1 M.G.CHISLETT (M.CROCKER,J.HOUSTON,S.LIGTHELM) HILLSONG/SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG DEBUT THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE/PLG GREATER MercyMe 237 BETHEL MUSIC We Will Not Be Shaken 4 4 5 3 B.GLOVER,D.GARCIA (B.MILLARD,M.SCHEUCHZER,N.COCHRAN,R.SHAFFER,B.GRAUL,D.A.GARCIA,B.GLOVER) FAIR TRADE 2 3 BETHEL/PLG

6 4 4 HE KNOWS Jeremy Camp 420 VARIOUS ARTISTS WOW Hits 2015 20 S.MOSLEY (J.CAMP,S.MOSLEY) STOLEN PRIDE/SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG 00 PROVIDENT/WORD-CURB/CAPITOL CMG FOR KING & COUNTRY 3 6 5 HE KNOWS MY NAME Francesca Battistelli 332 RUN WILD. LIVE FREE. LOVE STRONG. 22 I.ESKELIN (F.BATTISTELLI,M.FIELDES,S.MOSLEY) FERVENT/WORD-CURB 0 FERVENT/WORD-CURB Choir COME AS YOU ARE Crowder 627 CHRIS TOMLIN Love Ran Red 16 0 G.SCOTT,N.NOCKELS (D.CROWDER,M.MAHER,B.GLOVER) SIXSTEPS/SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG 0 0 SIXSTEPS/SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG Sounds " JESUS LOVES ME Chris Tomlin 625 LECRAE Anomaly 8 9 23 0 E.CASH (C.TOMLIN,R.T.MORGAN,B.GLOVER) SIXSTEPS/SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG 00 REACH VARIOUS ARTISTS At No. 1 5 8 8 HOW CAN IT BE Lauren Daigle 510 Top 25 Praise Songs: 2015 Edition 21 P.MABURY (P.MABURY,J.INGRAM,J.JOHNSON) CENTRICITY GG MARANATHA!/CAPITOL CMG 0 0 The Brooklyn Tabernacle 9 10 OVERWHELMED Big Daddy Weave 535 NEW 0 BRANDON HEATH No Turning Back 1 Choir scores its best rank 0 J.REDMON (M.WEAVER,P.WICKHAM) FERVENT/WORD-CURB MONOMODE/REUNION/PLG

in 12 years on Top Gospel BECAUSE HE LIVES (AMEN) Matt Maher CASTING CROWNS Thrive 11 10 15 56 Albums and its highest 00 E.CASH,J.INGRAM (B.GAITHER,G.GAITHER,M.MAHER,J.INGRAM,E.CASH,D.CARSON,C.TOMLIN) ESSENTIAL/PLG 0 BEACH STREET/REUNION/PLG perch in seven years on BROKEN TOGETHER Casting Crowns 11 15 VARIOUS ARTISTS Positively Hits: Hits, Rarities & Remixes 9 13 0© M.A.MILLER (M.HALL,B.HERMS) BEACH STREET/REUNION/PLG 00 WORD-CURB Top Christian Albums as LORD I’M READY NOW Plumb DAVE BARNES Hymns For Her (EP) Pray: Live arrives at No. 2 10 12 ' 10 23 NEW 0 1 0 M.BRONLEEWE (T.A.LEE,L.SHEETS) CURB 50 YEAR PLAN/GOOD TIME on both charts with 6,000

16 16 SOUL ON FIRE Third Day 13 9 Overcomer 75 copies sold, according to 0 THE SOUND KIDS (B.BROWN,M.POWELL,T.ANDERSON,M.LEE,D.CARR,M.MAHER) ESSENTIAL/PLG SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG 0© Nielsen Music. That’s the

14 14 BEYOND ME tobyMac 57 11 14 VARIOUS ARTISTS Positively Christmas 2014 15 multicultural choir’s highest 0 D.GARCIA,T.MCKEEHAN (T.MCKEEHAN,D.A.GARCIA) FOREFRONT/CAPITOL CMG PROVIDENT/PLG rank on the gospel list since

12 15 I AM NOT ALONE Kari Jobe 12 14 18 FRANCESCA BATTISTELLI If We’re Honest 43 Live... This Is Your House 0 J.EDWARDSON (K.JOBE,M.SAMPSON,M.FIELDES,B.DAVIS,G.PITTMAN,D.SAUDER,A.DAVIS) SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG FERVENT/WORD-CURB

crowned the Dec. 6, 2003 gospel albums, top-selling current The week’s BROTHER NEEDTOBREATHE Featuring Gavin DeGraw MERCYME Welcome To The New 29 45 chart. It hadn’t ranked 30 00 E.CASH,D.TOZER,NEEDTOBREATHE (N.RINEHART,W.RINEHART,G.DEGRAW) ATLANTIC/WORD-CURB Q0 FAIR TRADE/PLG as high as No. 2 on the 17 0 SHOULDERS for KING & COUNTRY 17 10 MICHAEL W. SMITH Sovereign 36 0 TEDD T. (L.SMALLBONE,J.SMALLBONE,B.GLOVER,T.TJORNHOM) FERVENT/WORD-CURB 00 MWS/SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG Christian tally since I’ll Say

Yes debuted and peaked at by sales data as Christian albums, ranked current top-selling The week’s 15 17 DAY ONE Matthew West 15 7 KARI JOBE Majestic 47 0 P.KIPLEY (M.WEST,P.KIPLEY) SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG 20 0 SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG GOSPEL ALBUMS: TOP No. 2 on Feb. 16, 2008. The 280-voice choir is based 21 19 DROPS IN THE OCEAN Hawk Nelson 19 6 12 19 SWEET & LYNCH Only To Rise 3 0 C.WEDGEWORTH (J.STEINGARD,J.INGRAM,M.BRONLEEWE) FAIR TRADE FRONTIERS at the nondenominational BETHEL MUSIC 18 20 NO TURNING BACK Brandon Heath 16 17 13 20 You Make Me Brave: Live At The Civic 43 Brooklyn Tabernacle church 0 E.CASH (B.HEATH,L.JORDAN,D.LEONARD) MONOMODE/REUNION/PLG BETHEL

in Brooklyn. ALBUMS: CHRISTIAN TOP STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN 20 21 YOU’RE NOT ALONE Owl City Featuring Britt Nicole 519 42 The Glorious Unfolding 57 Late gospel singer/civil 0 A.YOUNG (A.YOUNG) REPUBLIC/CAPITOL CMG REUNION/PLG

rights activist Mahalia SAVE MY LIFE Sidewalk Prophets CROWDER Neon Steeple 18 17 38 Jackson 19 0© I.ESKELIN (D.FREY,B.MCDONALD,B.GLOVER) FERVENT/WORD-CURB 0 22 SIXSTEPS/SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG makes a rare and Nielsen Music, Inc. Global Media, LLC All rights reserved. © 2015, Prometheus explanations. chart appearance as her 25 24 ALL I NEED IS YOU Lecrae 228 NEEDTOBREATHE Rivers In The Wasteland 44 0 DIRTY RICE,J.PRIELOZNY (L.MOORE,D. BOWIE,L.WILLIAMS,K.C.MACKEY,J.PRIELOZNY) REACH 0 23 ATLANTIC/WORD-CURB 1956 recording of “Take

VARIOUS ARTISTS My Hand, Precious Lord” 27 26 MESSENGERS Lecrae Featuring for KING & COUNTRY 20 23 Heart Of Worship: 10,000 Reasons (Bless The Lord) 3 0 DIRTY RICE,J.PRIELOZNY,S.SYMPHONY (L.MOORE,J.SMALLBONE,R.JACKSON,R.JACKSON,K.C.MACKEY,J.PRIELOZNY,T.ESMOND) REACH MARANATHA!/CAPITOL CMG 0 0 enters Gospel Digital Songs 24 25 THIS IS LIVING Hillsong Young & Free Featuring Lecrae 16 5 NEWSBOYS Restart 75 at No. 16 (1,000 sold; up M.G.CHISLETT,B.TAN,M.FATKIN,A.KING (A.KING,J.DAVIES,L.MOORE) HILLSONG/SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG 00 SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG 147 percent), following Beyoncé’s performance of the gospel standard HOT GOSPEL SONGS™ TOP GOSPEL ALBUMS™ at the Grammys (Feb. 8). Jackson, who died in 1972, 2 WKS. LAST THIS TITLE CERTIFICATION Artist PEAK WKS. ON LAST THIS ARTIST Title WKS. ON had never appeared on AGO WEEK WEEK POS. CHART WEEK WEEK CHART NMI PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL Billboard’s gospel singles

IN for complete rules and See Charts on billboard.com/biz Legend #1 #1 1 1 6 WKS FOR YOUR GLORY Tasha Cobbs 144 2 WKS VARIOUS ARTISTS WOW Gospel 2015 2 charts (the oldest of which V.MITCHELL (M.BOOKER) MOTOWN GOSPEL MOTOWN GOSPEL/WORD-CURB/RCA INSPIRATION/RCA 0 is Gospel Airplay, which FILL ME UP Casey J 219 THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE CHOIR Pray: Live 1 dates to 2005), and most M.BOONE,C.CARTER (W.REGAN) MARQUIS BOONE/TYSCOT THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE/PLG by Nielsen Music. tracked activity data by online music sources data as compiled by Nielsen Music and streaming 2 0 0 recently ranked on Top

4 4 3 EVERY PRAISE Hezekiah Walker 1100 TASHA COBBS Grace (EP) 106 Gospel Albums with Classic D.LAWRENCE (D.BRATTON) RCA INSPIRATION GG MOTOWN GOSPEL/CAPITOL CMG American Voices: Mahalia AMAZING Ricky Dillard & New G 156 VARIOUS ARTISTS WOW Gospel 2014 55 0 4 R.ROBINSON,R.DILLARD,M.TAYLOR (T.MCGHEE) LIGHT MOTOWN GOSPEL/WORD-CURB/RCA INSPIRATION/RCA Jackson, which debuted and

peaked at No. 32 in May by Nielsen Music. tracked activity data by online music sources es data as compiled by Nielsen Music and streaming 5 5 5 I AM Jason Nelson 518 FRED HAMMOND I Will Trust 13 D.T.SOREY (J.NELSON,D.T.SOREY) RCA INSPIRATION F HAMMOND/RCA INSPIRATION/RCA 2004. Jackson performed I WILL TRUST Fred Hammond Feat. BreeAnn Hammond 423 VARIOUS ARTISTS Billboard #1 Gospel Hits 5 “Take My Hand, Precious Christian/Gospel 6 6 0 F.HAMMOND (F.HAMMOND,C.RODGERS,P.FEASTER) F HAMMOND/RCA INSPIRATION EONE Lord” at the funeral of LYNDA RANDLE 10 NO GREATER LOVE Smokie Norful 748 NEW 0 Ageless Hymns: Songs Of Peace 1 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 10 0 A.W.LINDSEY (A.W.LINDSEY,S.NORFUL) TREMYLES/MOTOWN GOSPEL GAITHER/CAPITOL CMG in 1968; Aretha Franklin top 100. in the Billboard 200’s han 18 months but still residing WAR Charles Jenkins & Fellowship Chicago 815 6 8 JASON NELSON Jesus Revealed 4 sang the song at Jackson’s C.JENKINS,R.EAST (C.JENKINS) INSPIRED PEOPLE RCA INSPIRATION/RCA 0 funeral four years later. SAY YES Michelle Williams Feat. Beyonce And Kelly Rowland J MOSS Grown Folks Gospel 7 7 9 138 12 —Wade Jessen H-MONEY (H.D.SAMUELS,B.KNOWLES,H.CULVER,A.S.LAMBERT) EONE 0 9 PMG GOSPEL/PAJAM 2015

by Nielsen Music, as measured sales audience impressions airplay radio 9 9 10 GOD MY GOD VaShawn Mitchell 914 ERICA CAMPBELL Help 48 V.MITCHELL,D.WEATHERSPOON (V.MITCHELL) VMAN/MOTOWN GOSPEL 00 MY BLOCK/EONE

11 11 11 YOUR DESTINY Kevin LeVar And One Sound 10 18 3 WINANS BROTHERS Foreign Land 20 H-MONEY (K.LEVAR) ONE SOUND 0 REGIMEN/BMG/EONE

February 28 BLESS ME J.J. Hairston & Youthful Praise Feat. Donnie McClurkin 919 12 CRYSTAL AIKIN All I Need (EP) 2 12 0 12 J.J.HAIRSTON,E.DAVIS (J.J.HAIRSTON,E.DAVIS) LIGHT RCA INSPIRATION/RCA

Qii by Nielsen Music, as measured sal audience impressions airplay radio THIS PLACE Tamela Mann 13 6 NEW 0 BEN TANKARD Full Tank: 2.0 1 22 0 M.BUTLER (D.W.BLAIR) TILLYMANN BEN-JAMIN’ UNIVERSAL HOW AWESOME IS OUR GOD Israel & New Breed Feat. Yolanda Adams 14 3 JESSICA REEDY Transparent 14 I.HOUGHTON (I.HOUGHTON,N.DIEDERICKS,M.HOUGHTON) RGM NEW BREED/RCA/RCA INSPIRATION 0 14 PURITY 00 J.J. HAIRSTON & YOUTHFUL PRAISE NEW YES YOU CAN Marvin Sapp 15 1 I See Victory 17 0 A.W.LINDSEY (C.DIXON,M.SAPP) RCA INSPIRATION 0 15 LIGHT/EONE

WORTH FIGHTING FOR Brian Courtney Wilson 16 2 THE RANCE ALLEN GROUP Celebrate 14 A.W.LINDSEY (B.C.WILSON,A.LINES) MOTOWN GOSPEL 15 0 TYSCOT/TASEIS by gospel songs, ranked most popular current The week’s BLESS THIS HOUSE Dorinda Clark-Cole VARIOUS ARTISTS Icon: Gospel Icons 16 31 : 16 6 16 17 12 R.CLICHE (D.CLARK-COLE,S.D.BEREAL,R.CLICHE,S.RENAUD,F.BLANCHARD) LIGHT MOTOWN GOSPEL/CAPITOL CMG FRIEND OF MINE DeWayne Woods Feat. Dave Hollister & Anthony Hamilton 13 12 VASHAWN MITCHELL Unstoppable 20 13 18 14 GOSPEL SONGS: 18 E.E.BULLOCK,R.BLACK (E.E.BULLOCK,A.HAMILTON,R.BLACK) SOUL THERAPY 0 VMAN/MOTOWN GOSPEL/CAPITOL CMG HOT

by Christian songs, ranked most popular current The week’s 13 14 19 GOD CAN Andrea McClurkin-Mellini 13 11 19 SMOKIE NORFUL Forever Yours 28 D.MCCLURKIN (A.MCCLURKIN MELINI) CAMDON 0 TREMYLES/MOTOWN GOSPEL/CAPITOL CMG DEITRICK HADDON 15 18 20 INDESCRIBABLE Kierra Sheard 15 15 The Best Of Deitrick Haddon 23 J.D.SHEARD II (L.STORY) KAREW Q0 RCA INSPIRATION/RCA

14 20 21 ALRIGHT OK J Moss 12 22 DEWAYNE WOODS Life Lessons 2 PAJAM (J.L.MOSS,P.D.ALLEN) PMG GOSPEL/PAJAM 0- SOUL THERAPY ranked by sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music. Albums are defined as current if they are less than 18 months old or older t if they are by sales data as compiled Nielsen Music. defined as current Albums are ranked compiled by Nielsen Music. SONGS: CHRISTIAN HOT 21 21 22 I BELIEVE Mali Music 18 9 22 MICHELLE WILLIAMS Journey To Freedom 24 MALI MUSIC (K.J.POLLARD) BYSTORM/RCA/RCA INSPIRATION 0 EONE

18 15 23 IT’S GONNA HAPPEN Jekalyn Carr 15 14 24 WILLIAM MCDOWELL Withholding Nothing 64 A.CARR (A.J.CARR) LUNJEAL/MALACO DELIVERY ROOM/EONE

19 23 24 WHAT CAN I DO Tye Tribbett 17 13 22 24 WESS MORGAN Livin’ 34 T.TRIBBETT II,B.JONES (K.J.SCRIVEN) MOTOWN GOSPEL BOWTIE

REENTRY A LIL’ LOUDER (CLAP YOUR HANDS) The Rance Allen Group 19 10 25 25 RICKY DILLARD & NEW G Amazing 35 F.THOMAS,S.L.SCOTT (F.THOMAS,R.L.ALLEN,C.BYRD) TYSCOT LIGHT/EONE SALES, AIRPLAY & STREAMING & STREAMING SALES, AIRPLAY BY COMPILED DATA WorldMags.net 68 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data Data for week of 02.28.2015 HOT DANCE/ELECTRONIC SONGS™ TOP DANCE/ELECTRONIC ALBUMS™

2 WKS. LAST THIS TITLE CERTIFICATION PEAK WKS. ON LAST THIS ARTIST CERTIFICATION Title WKS. ON Artist WEEK WEEK CHART AGO WEEK WEEK PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL POS. CHART IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL WorldMags.net

#1 PRAYER IN C Lillywood & Robin Schulz 15#1 WKS LINDSEY STIRLING Shatter Me 42 3 WKS SG R.SCHULZ,P.GUIMARD (N.HADIDA,B.COTTO) CHOKE INDUSTRY/TONSPIEL/CINQ 7/WARGRAM/ATLANTIC/RRP 132 LINDSEYSTOMP O MADONNA: MERT & MARCUS MADONNA: MERT CALVIN HARRIS Motion 15 OUTSIDE Calvin Harris Featuring Ellie Goulding 217 FLY EYE/COLUMBIA AG CALVIN HARRIS (CALVIN HARRIS,E.GOULDING) FLY EYE/COLUMBIA

¡ 5 3 ROBIN SCHULZ Prayer 20 2 2 3 WAVES Mr. Probz 131 TONSPIEL/ATLANTIC/AG MR. PROBZ (D.P.STEHR,J.RAHMOUNI) LEFT LANE/ULTRA/RCA ,- JOHN CARPENTER Lost Themes 2 4 2 5 5 RATHER BE Clean Bandit Featuring Jess Glynne 154 SACRED BONES 0 J.PATTERSON,G.CHATTO (J.NAPIER,J.PATTERSON,N.MARSHALL) ATLANTIC/RRP FKA TWIGS LP1 27 HEROES (WE COULD BE) 0 Alesso Featuring Tove Lo YOUNG TURKS 3 4 5 225 Madonna ALESSO (A.LINDBLAD,T.LO,D.BOWIE,B.ENO) REFUNE/DEF JAM VARIOUS ARTISTS 13 NOW That’s What I Call Party Anthems 2 28 ¡ 0 UNIVERSAL/SONY MUSIC/LEGACY 6 6 6 BLAME Calvin Harris Featuring John Newman 124 CALVIN HARRIS (CALVIN HARRIS,J.J.NEWMAN) FLY EYE/COLUMBIA Hits The APHEX TWIN Syro 21 2 19.11 WARP 7 7 7 BREAK FREE Ariana Grande Featuring Zedd 133 ZEDD,MAX MARTIN (A.ZASLAVSKI,MAX MARTIN,S.KOTECHA) REPUBLIC ODESZA In Return 24 Top 10 12 0 FOREIGN FAMILY COLLECTIVE/COUNTER 0 Coldplay 333 9 8 8 AVICII,COLDPLAY,P.EPWORTH,D.GREEN,R.SIMPSON (G.R.BERRYMAN,J.M.BUCKLAND,W.CHAMPION,C.A.J.MARTIN,T.BERGLING) PARLOPHONE/ATLANTIC Madonna (above) marches 10 9 DAVID GUETTA Listen 12 WHAT A MUSIC/PARLOPHONE/ATLANTIC/AG into the Hot Dance/ LIVING FOR LOVE Madonna 99 21 13 DG NOT LISTED (M.CICCONE,T.W.PENTZ,M. MCDONALD,T.GAD,A.RECHTSHAID,U.OSISIOMA EMENIKE) LIVE NATION/INTERSCOPE Electronic Songs top 10 for 6 10 ABOVE & BEYOND We Are All We Need 4 ANJUNABEATS/ULTRA the first time as “Living for THE NIGHTS Avicii 10 11 11 11 AVICII (N.FURLONG,G.BENJAMIN,J.SUECOF,J.FELDMANN,T.BERGLING,A.POURNOURI) PRMD/ISLAND/REPUBLIC Love” jumps 13-9. While Q 23 CARIBOU Our Love 19 MERGE the song has appeared on DANGEROUS David Guetta Featuring Sam Martin 620 8 9 11 D.GUETTA,G.H.TUINFORT,S.D.MARTIN,J.EVIGAN (D.GUETTA,G.H.TUINFORT,S.D.MARTIN,J.EVIGAN,L.ROBBINS) WHAT A MUSIC/PARLOPHONE/ATLANTIC APHEX TWIN the chart (which launched 7 12 Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments Pt 2 (EP) 4

ved. WARP I’M AN ALBATRAOZ AronChupa in January 2013) for nine 12 12 11 5 0 A.EKBERG (A.EKBERG,R.SAHLBERG,N.SAVVOLAINEN,M.HARVIDSSON) ULTRA 15 SYLVAN ESSO Sylvan Esso 40 weeks, its rank is buoyed 0 PARTISAN by her performance of it on 13 14 FIRESTONE Featuring Conrad 12 11 VARIOUS ARTISTS Power Music: 55 Smash Hits!: Running Remixes 0 KYGO (KYGO,C.SEWELL) ULTRA 14 27 the Feb. 8 Grammy telecast. 0 POWER MUSIC OUT THE SPEAKERS A-Trak + Milo & Otis Featuring Rich Kidz “Living” leaps by 64 percent 14 10 14 10 3 9 15 United We Are 4 A-TRAK,MILO & OTIS (A.MACKLOVITCH,K.DENSON,K.FOWLER,G.MURON,M.NEMETHY) FOOL’S GOLD REVEALED/CLOUD 9/ULTRA to 587,000 U.S. streams in the week ending Feb. 15, 18 16 SOMETHING NEW Axwell & Ingrosso 14 12 20 FLYING LOTUS You’re Dead! 19 S.INGROSSO,AXWELL (S.INGROSSO,AXWELL,V.PONTARE,S.A.FAKIR) AXWELL/REFUNE/DEF JAM 0 WARP according to Nielsen Music, EXCISION Codename X with 58 percent stemming 15 15 RUNAWAY (U & I) Galantis 15 19 17 2 Q GALANTIS,SVIDDEN (C.KARLSSON,C.DENNIS,A.RUNDBERG,L.EKLOW,J.KOITZSCH) BIG BEAT/RRP 0 ROTTUN from Vevo views (which CHET FAKER Built On Glass include the song’s official rts from a national sample of club DJs. Songs are defined as Songs are rts a national sample of club DJs. from PRAY TO GOD Calvin Harris Featuring HAIM 16 40 31 17 15 18 DOWNTOWN Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc.Global Media, LLC All rights reser 0 CALVIN HARRIS (CALVIN HARRIS,A.HAIM,D.HAIM,E.HAIM,A.RECHTSHAID) FLY EYE/COLUMBIA 0 video and the Grammy SKRILLEX Recess as current if they are less than 18 months old or older if they are as current OPEN WIDE Calvin Harris Featuring Big Sean 19 48 performance). The first 23 '! 19 12 16 BIG BEAT/OWSLA/ATLANTIC/AG Q CALVIN HARRIS (CALVIN HARRIS,S.M.ANDERSON) FLY EYE/COLUMBIA 0 single from Rebel Heart VARIOUS ARTISTS Grammy Tribute Workout Mix 2015 2 REAL LOVE Clean Bandit & Jess Glynne 18 16 POWER MUSIC (due March 10) similarly 19 18 J.PATTERSON (J.PATTERSON,G.CHATTO,J.GLYNNE,R.HARVEY,R.BOARDMAN,C.TIGHE,S.BLANCHARD,J.BENNETT) ATLANTIC/RRP 00 Q surges by 72 percent to 24 AVICII True 72 SAY MY NAME ODESZA Featuring Zyra 0 PRMD/ISLAND 17,000 downloads sold 16 17 16 24 0 ODESZA (H.G.MILLS,C.J.KNIGHT,A.C.F.CHEATLE) FOREIGN FAMILY COLLECTIVE/COUNTER and soars 11-5 on Dance/ RE CLEAN BANDIT New Eyes 34 SURRENDER Cash Cash 0 ATLANTIC/AG Electronic Digital Songs. 27 21 CASH CASH (J.P.MAKHLOUF,A.L.MAKHLOUF,S.W.FRISCH,J.MICHAELS,L.ROBBINS,L.WIKLUND,T.MELTZER,P.PATTERSON) BIG BEAT/RRP 21 22 Madonna also moves to RE LADY GAGA ARTPOP 56 0 STREAMLINE/INTERSCOPE/IGA 17 20 22 THE DAYS Avicii 820 within one notch of her AVICII,S.A.FAKIR,V.PONTARE (B.FLOWERS,T.BERGLING,S.A.FAKIR,V.PONTARE) PRMD/ISLAND/REPUBLIC 24 YEARS & YEARS Y & Y EP 2 record-extending 44th POLYDOR/INTERSCOPE/IGA 31',241 YOU KNOW YOU LIKE IT DJ Snake & AlunaGeorge 14 9 0 No. 1 on Dance Club Songs, Q W.GRIGAHCINE (A.FRANCIS,G.REID) INTERSCOPE VARIOUS ARTISTS RE NOW That’s What I Call A Workout 5 6 where “Love” rises 4-2. UNIVERSAL/SONY MUSIC/UME BLIND HEART Cazzette Featuring Terri B! Avicii earns his fifth 20 22 24 A.BJORKLUND,S.FURRER,A.POURNOURI (A.BJORKLUND,S.FURRER,A.POURNOURI,J.WALLIN,T.BJERRE,T.WRIGHT,I.MORNING) ICONS/PRMD 14 17 top 10 on Hot Dance/ oard.com/biz for complete rules and explanations. © 2015, Prometheus © 2015, Prometheus for complete rules and explanations. oard.com/biz 30 28 YOU’RE ON Madeon Featuring Kyan 25 7 Electronic Songs with 0 H.P.LECLERCQ (H.P.LECLERCQ,J.NAPIER) POPCULTUR/COLUMBIA “The Nights” (11-10), tying DANCE/ELECTRONIC DIGITAL SONGS™ 32 27 UNHOLY Wolfgang Gartner Featuring Bobby Saint 26 5 David Guetta and Zedd for Q WOLFGANG GARTNER (WOLFGANG GARTNER,H.LINTON) KINDERGARTEN LAST THIS TITLE Artist WKS. ON WEEK WEEK CHART the second-most top 10s. IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL 26 23 27 TAKE U THERE Jack U Featuring Kiesza 18 20 Calvin Harris leads with six. SKRILLEX,DIPLO (S.MOORE,T.W.PENTZ,K.R.ELLESTAD) MAD DECENT/OWSLA/BIG BEAT/ATLANTIC #1 PRAYER IN C Lillywood & Robin Schulz 3 WKS CHOKE INDUSTRY/TONSPIEL/CINQ 7/WARGRAM/ATLANTIC/AG 29 Aphex Twin returns to 29 38 RAINDROPS SNBRN Featuring Kerli 28 3 Q SNBRN (K.A.CHAPMAN) ULTRA the Top Dance/Electronic OUTSIDE Calvin Harris Feat. Ellie Goulding 17 FLY EYE/COLUMBIA Albums top 10 with Syro HOT SHOT 0 Madeon Featuring Passion Pit 29 1 ©© DEBUT H.P.LECLERCQ (H.P.LECLERCQ,M.ANGELAKOS) POPCULTUR/COLUMBIA (19-7; 1,000 units, up 3 HEROES (WE COULD BE) Alesso Feat. Tove Lo 22 3 REFUNE/DEF JAM 101 percent). The release, sic, sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music, streaming activity data by online music sources tracked by Nielsen Music and repo sic, tracked sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music, activity data by online music sources streaming SUN GOES DOWN Robin Schulz Featuring Jasmine Thompson 21 13 35 29 T.BAXTER (T.R.HAVELOCK) TONSPIEL/ATLANTIC/RRP which debuted at No. 1 4 WAVES Mr. Probz 31 4 LEFT LANE/ULTRA/RCA on Oct. 11, 2014 and has 24 25 31 GO ALL NIGHT Gorgon City Featuring Jennifer Hudson 15 12 The week’s most popular current dance/electronic albums, ranked by sales data as compiled Nielsen Music. defined Albums are albums, ranked dance/electronic most popular current The week’s M.ROBSON-SCOTT,K.GIBBON (R.ROBSON-SCOTT,K.GIBBONS,K.R.ELLESTAD) PRIORITY/CAPITOL LIVING FOR LOVE Madonna 5 sold 54,000 units, won the LIVE NATION/INTERSCOPE/IGA Grammy for best dance/ Dance/Electronic 00 HEY MAMA David Guetta Featuring Nicki Minaj & Afrojack 15 12 34 30 32 D.GUETTA,AFROJACK,G.H.TUINFORT,E.DEAN (D.GUETTA,G.H.TUINFORT,N.VAN DE WALL,E.DEAN,B.REXHA,S.DOUGLAS,O.T.MARAJ) WHAT A MUSIC/PARLOPHONE/ATLANTIC TURN DOWN FOR WHAT DJ Snake & Lil Jon 61 electronic album. 5 6 COLUMBIA Meanwhile, Mary J. Blige MOVE Jenevieve X 33 2 3 GIUSEPPE D. (J.CAMPO,G.DICACCAMO JR.) MONITOR SOUND RATHER BE Clean Bandit Feat. Jess Glynne 49 notches her eighth No. 1 7Q ATLANTIC/AG on Dance Club Songs with

28 28 33 32 34 DIRTY VIBE Skrillex With Diplo, G-Dragon From BIGBANG & CL From 2NE1 15 16 A SKY FULL OF STARS Coldplay 33 SKRILLEX,DIPLO (S.MOORE,T.W.PENTZ,J.Y.KWONG,T.H.JUN PARK,R.L.CHO) BIG BEAT/OWSLA/ATLANTIC/RRP the Disclosure-produced 2015 0 8 PARLOPHONE/ATLANTIC/AG TOP DANCE/ELECTRONIC ALBUMS: DANCE/ELECTRONIC TOP .,- VIRUS (HOW ABOUT NOW) Martin Garrix & MOTi “Right Now” (2-1). Remixes 42 35 1! 33 14 9 I’M AN ALBATRAOZ AronChupa 5 MARTIN GARRIX,MOTI (MARTIN GARRIX,T.ROMME,L.PALMEN,N.LUNDIN,J.WAHLSTROM) SPINNIN’ 9 ULTRA from Basement Jaxx, Manufactured Superstars DIVINE SORROW Wyclef Featuring Avicii BREAK FREE Ariana Grande Feat. Zedd 33 25 26 36 M.LIDEHALL,V.PONTARE,S.A.FAKIR,AVICII,A.POURNOURI (W.JEAN,M.LIDEHALL,V.PONTARE,S.A.FAKIR,T.BERGLING,A.POURNOURI) HEADS/PRMD 12 13 10 10 REPUBLIC and Zed Bias, among

February others, fueled the song’s ed by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen Mu as measured audience impressions airplay ed by radio TILL IT HURTS Yellow Claw Featuring Ayden LATCH Disclosure Feat. Sam Smith 75 36 33 YELLOW CLAW (N.RONDHULUS,J.TAIHUTTU,J.TITAWANO,M.O.WEERNINK,L.ROELANDSCHAP,B.FOURADI,D.QUINONES) SPINNIN’/4TH & BROADWAY/ISLAND/REPUBLIC 33 9 METHOD/PMR/CHERRYTREE/INTERSCOPE/IGA 0 00 coronation. THE NIGHTS Avicii —Gordon Murray The week’s top-downloaded dance/electronic songs, ranked by sales data as compiled Nielsen Music. See Charts on billb songs, ranked Legend dance/electronic top-downloaded The week’s ARE YOU WITH ME Lost Frequencies 11 45 34 4 15 0 PRMD/ISLAND

/or sales activity for the first time. /or 0 FELIX DE LAET (T.L.JAMES,T.MCBRIDE,S.MCANALLY) ARMADA/ULTRA

8 13 BLAME Calvin Harris Feat. John Newman 24 37 39 GHOST Mystery Skulls 15 16 FLY EYE/COLUMBIA 0 MYSTERY SKULLS (L.DUBUC) WARNER BROS. All, OUT THE SPEAKERS WHEN WE WERE YOUNG A-Trak + Milo & Otis Feat. Rich Kidz 2 38 36 40 Dillon Francis & Sultan & Ned Shepard Feat. The Chain Gang of 1974 25 19 0 14 FOOL’S GOLD D.H.FRANCIS,N.SHEPARD (D.H.FRANCIS,N.SHEPARD,O.A.SARRAF,K.MOHAGER) MAD DECENT/COLUMBIA

13 15 DANGEROUS David Guetta Feat. Sam Martin 19 28 34 41 I LIKE YOU Tony Moran Featuring Debby Holiday 28 8 WHAT A MUSIC/PARLOPHONE/ATLANTIC/AG T.MORAN (P.NELSON) HOUSE OF SUGAR TITANIUM David Guetta Feat. Sia 165 DANCE/ELECTRONIC DIGITAL SONGS: DIGITAL DANCE/ELECTRONIC WHAT A MUSIC/PARLOPHONE/WARNER BROS. 46 45 FREAKS Timmy Trumpet And Savage 32 11 0 0 0 TIMMY TRUMPET,I.GOUGH,JEBU (T.J.SMITH,I.GOUGH,D.SAVELIO,J.BUNAWAN) MINISTRY OF SOUND/HUSSLE

or songs receiving widespread airplay and airplay widespread or songs receiving RUNAWAY (U & I) Galantis 18 I’M GONNA GET YOU Dave Aude Featuring Jessica Sutta BIG BEAT/AG NEW 43 1 00 The week’s most popular current dance/electronic songs, rank dance/electronic most popular current The week’s 0 D.AUDE (A.COLANDREO,A.MEECHAM,D.J.MEREDITH,D.AUDE,L.PERGOLIZZI) AUDACIOUS WAKE ME UP! Avicii 86 0 18 PRMD/ISLAND BITCH I’M MADONNA Madonna Featuring Nicki Minaj - 48 11 7 0 NOT LISTED (M.CICCONE,T.W.PENTZ,A.RECHTSHAID,M. MCDONALD,T.GAD) LIVE NATION/INTERSCOPE S&M Rihanna 79 SRP/DEF JAM SUN MODELS ODESZA Featuring Madelyn Grant 00 48 49 40 9 Q ODESZA (H.G.MILLS,C.J.KNIGHT) FOREIGN FAMILY COLLECTIVE/COUNTER REAL LOVE Clean Bandit & Jess Glynne 10 24 0 ATLANTIC/AG

NEW IT FEELS NERVO 46 1 0 NERVO,A.LUX (M.NERVO,O.M.NERVO,P.A.JOHANNES HYNNE,C.BERNARDO) ULTRA FEEL GOOD INC Gorillaz 93 PARLOPHONE/VIRGIN/CAPITOL HOT DANCE/ELECTRONIC SONGS: DANCE/ELECTRONIC HOT current if they are newly-released titles, newly-released if they are current but still residing in the Billboard 200’s top 100. in the Billboard 200’s but still residing ©0 41 47 47 EVERYWHERE MYNC & Mario Fischetti Featuring Deborah Cox 29 7 M.BROWN,L.HOLCOMBE,M.FISCHETTI (M.BROWN,L.HOLCOMBE,M.FISCHETTI) CR2 GET LOW Dillon Francis & DJ Snake 47 20 22 WEDGEWOOD/DJ SNAKE/MAD DECENT/COLUMBIA 42 NEW THANG RedFoo 42 10 44 48 PLAY-N-SKILLZ (S.K.GORDY,D.MACIAS) PARTY ROCK LONG WAY DOWN Robert DeLong 7 0 23 ATG/GLASSNOTE

46 49 TURN UP THE SPEAKERS Afrojack & Martin Garrix 20 10 WHAT IS LOVE Haddaway 65 AFROJACK,MARTIN GARRIX (N.VAN DE WALL,MARTIN GARRIX) WALL/SPINNIN’ 17 24 ARISTA/RAZOR & TIE

43 43 50 REASON Erasure 31 6 PRAY TO GOD Calvin Harris Feat. HAIM 2 ERASURE,RICHARD X (V.CLARKE,A.BELL,RICHARD X) MUTE RE 0 FLY EYE/COLUMBIA SALES, AIRPLAY & STREAMING & STREAMING SALES, AIRPLAY BY COMPILED DATA WorldMags.net Data for week of 02.28.2015 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data 69 DANCE CLUB SONGS™ EURO JAPAN O LAST THIS TITLE Artist WKS. ON DIGITAL SONGS COMPILED BY NIELSEN MUSIC INTERNATIONAL JAPAN HOT 100 COMPILED BY HANSHIN/SOUNDSCAN JAPAN/PLANTECH WEEK WEEK CHART IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL LAST THIS TITLE Artist LAST THIS TITLE Artist WEEK WEEK WEEK WEEK WorldMags.netIMPRINT/LABEL IMPRINT/LABEL #1 1 WK RIGHT NOW Mary J. Blige 10 MN MATRIARCH/CAPITOL LOVE ME LIKE YOU DO Ellie Goulding KIOKU Subaru Shibuya UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC/POLYDOR LIVING FOR LOVE Madonna 6 LIVE NATION/INTERSCOPE FOURFIVESECONDS Rihanna & Kanye West & Paul McCartney SEVEN DEADLY SINS Man With A Mission WESTBURY ROAD/ROC NATION BEG FOR IT Iggy Azalea Feat. M0 10 TURN FIRST/HUSTLE GANG/DEF JAM TAKE ME TO CHURCH Hozier ATTAKAINDAKARA Kumamushi RUBYWORKS/ISLAND GG TIME OF OUR LIVES Pitbull & Ne-Yo 6 MR. 305/POLO GROUNDS/RCA UPTOWN FUNK! Mark Ronson Feat. Bruno Mars MISS YOU Reo Ieiri COLUMBIA SOMETHING NEW Axwell & Ingrosso 7 0 AXWELL/REFUNE/DEF JAM GRAVITY DJ Fresh Feat. Ella Eyre STAY WITH ME Sam Smith MINISTRY OF SOUND WRONG CLUB 6 00 PIAS THINKING OUT LOUD Ed Sheeran HEROINE back number ASYLUM/ATLANTIC UNHOLY Wolfgang Gartner Feat. Bobby Saint 8 0, 7 KINDERGARTEN EARNED IT (FIFTY SHADES OF GREY) The Weeknd KAREINARU GYAKUSHU SMAP UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC 6 8 7/11 Beyonce 9 PARKWOOD/COLUMBIA AYO Chris Brown & Tyga DRAGON NIGHT SEKAI NO OWARI RCA TOY’S FACTORY YOUNG BLOOD Bea Miller 6 SYCO/HOLLYWOOD THE NIGHTS Avicii IGUGISUTO Angela e o POSITIVA/PRMD/ISLAND 10 10 BLIND HEART Cazzette Feat. Terri B! 11 ICONS/PRMD BLANK SPACE Taylor Swift NEVER SAY NEVER Afilia Saga BIG MACHINE/VIRGIN/EMI

11 ALL OF YOU Betty Who 12 0 RCA MOVE Jenevieve X 6 00 MONITOR SOUND UNITED KINGDOM 41 GERMANY 5 13 UPTOWN FUNK! Mark Ronson Feat. Bruno Mars 10 ALBUMS COMPILED BY THE OFFICIAL UK CHART CO. ALBUMS COMPILED BY MEDIA CONTROL GRP INTERNATIONAL GMBH RCA LAST THIS TITLE Artist LAST THIS TITLE Artist WEEK WEEK WEEK WEEK 12 14 I LIKE YOU Tony Moran Feat. Debby Holiday 11 IMPRINT/LABEL IMPRINT/LABEL HOUSE OF SUGAR NM UN IN THE LONELY HOUR Sam Smith KEINER KOMMT KLAR MIT MIR Frank White I’M GONNA GET YOU Dave Aude Feat. Jessica Sutta 3 CAPITOL/UNIVERSAL MASKULIN AUDACIOUS 00 X Ed Sheeran AUS DEM SCHATTEN INS LICHT Kontra K

EVERYWHERE ASYLUM/ATLANTIC/WARNER FOUR/SONY MUSIC 17 16 MYNC & Mario Fischetti Feat. Deborah Cox 11 CR2 IF YOU’RE READING THIS IT’S TOO LATE Drake NIVEAU WESHALB WARUM Deichkind YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC/UNIVERSAL SULTAN GUNTHER/UNIVERSAL 15 17 REASON Erasure 10 MUTE COMING UP FOR AIR Kodaline FARBENSPIEL Helene Fischer B-UNIQUE/RCA/SONY MUSIC POLYDOR/ISLAND/UNIVERSAL 16 18 CHASING TIME Azealia Banks 10 PROSPECT PARK WANTED ON VOYAGE George Ezra FIFTY SHADES OF GREY Soundtrack COLUMBIA/SONY MUSIC UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC/UNIVERSAL 24 OUTSIDE Calvin Harris Feat. Ellie Goulding 5 0 FLY EYE/COLUMBIA HOZIER Hozier ALLES BRENNT RUBYWORKS/ISLAND/UNIVERSAL SONY MUSIC 33 ELASTIC HEART Sia 2 0 MONKEY PUZZLE/RCA TITLE Meghan Trainor GIPFELSTUERMER EPIC/SONY MUSIC VERTIGO/CAPITOL/UNIVERSAL 26 ALL I FEEL IS YOU Natalia Safran 6 SUPERSONIC SOUL MACHINE

1989 Taylor Swift ROCK OR BUST AC/DC reports a national sample of club DJs. in dance clubs, compiled from from played most popular songs The week’s BIG MACHINE/VIRGIN/EMI/UNIVERSAL COLUMBIA/SONY MUSIC 22 n FLY ALONE Breanna Rubio Feat. Fat Joe 6 UPSCALE/DAUMAN SHADOWS IN THE NIGHT Bob Dylan X Ed Sheeran COLUMBIA/SONY MUSIC ASYLUM/ATLANTIC/WARNER 29 THE NIGHTS Avicii 3 PRMD/ISLAND/REPUBLIC LIQUID SPIRIT Gregory Porter SCHOCK FLASHBACK REWIND BLUE NOTE/UNIVERSAL CLASSICS & JAZZ/UNIVERSAL SONY MUSIC SONGS: CLUB DANCE 25 24 Aneesh Gera & Lisa Williams 6 CARRILLO

20 25 LOVE ME HARDER Ariana Grande & The Weeknd 9 REPUBLIC FRANCE CANADA GO ALL NIGHT 0 18 26 Gorgon City Feat. Jennifer Hudson 12 DIGITAL SONGS COMPILED BY NIELSEN MUSIC INTERNATIONALI ALBUMS COMPILED BY NIELSEN MUSIC PRIORITY/CAPITOL LAST THIS TITLE Artist LAST THIS TITLE Artist 34 CRAZY Erika Jayne Feat. Maino 2 WEEK WEEK WEEK WEEK PRETTY MESS IMPRINT/LABEL MN IMPRINT/LABEL HOME Naughty Boy Feat. Sam 5 UPTOWN FUNK! Mark Ronson Feat. Bruno Mars IF YOU’RE READING THIS IT’S TOO LATE Drake 28 28 COLUMBIA YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC/UNIVERSAL DEF JAM

6 TAKE ME TO CHURCH Hozier FIFTY SHADES OF GREY Soundtrack 23 29 AWARE ALIVE AWAKE Sariah RUBYWORKS/ISLAND UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC/UNIVERSAL REIGNING HEARTS

WHEN THE BEAT DROPS OUT 4 CHRISTINE Christine And The Queens WALLFLOWER Diana Krall 32 Marlon Roudette BECAUSE VERVE/UNIVERSAL 0 COLUMBIA SAINT CLAUDE Christine And The Queens IN THE LONELY HOUR Sam Smith

30 31 SPARK THE FIRE Gwen Stefani 4 BECAUSE CAPITOL/UNIVERSAL MAD LOVE/INTERSCOPE FOURFIVESECONDS Hits of the World of Hits Rihanna & Kanye West & Paul McCartney X Ed Sheeran 38 DJ FAV Joe Bermudez Feat. Amanda Brigham 3 WESTBURY ROAD/ROC NATION ATLANTIC/WARNER 617 EARNED IT (FIFTY SHADES OF GREY) The Weeknd A PARADIS CITY Jean Leloup 27 33 BLANK SPACE Taylor Swift 9 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC GROSSE BOITE/SELECT BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC ARE YOU WITH ME Lost Frequencies 2015 GRAMMY NOMINEES Various Artists 37 BACK TO YOU Natasha Ashworth 4 ARMADA/PLAY-ON GRAMMY/RCA/SONY MUSIC 0 GLOBAL GROOVE

2015 STAY WITH ME Sam Smith 1989 Taylor Swift 31 35 BE MINE Meiko 8 CAPITOL BIG MACHINE/UNIVERSAL should be submitted to Bob Allen at [email protected]. nues, managers and booking agents. Boxcsores FANTASY/CONCORD THINKING OUT LOUD Ed Sheeran PARIS TRISTESSE Pierre LaPointe 41 IF YOU LET ME GO Salt Ashes 3 ASYLUM/ATLANTIC AUDIOGRAM 0 RADIKAL FADE OUT LINES The Avener HOZIER Hozier

THE HEART WANTS WHAT IT WANTS sic, Inc. All rights reserved. 36 37 Selena Gomez 5 February 28 96 MUSIQUE/CAPITOL RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA/SONY MUSIC HOLLYWOOD 44 REAL LOVE Clean Bandit & Jess Glynne 3 0 ATLANTIC/RRP

42 39 DROPDATBITCH JimiJames 3 AUSTRALIA MEXICO BOSS ACADEMY/BROWN RIBBON ALBUMS COMPILED BY ARIA AIRPLAY COMPILED BY NIELSEN MUSIC 19 40 ZERO Nikkole 13 LAST THIS LAST THIS GLOBAL INFINITY TITLE Artist TITLE Artist WEEK WEEK IMPRINT/LABEL WEEK WEEK IMPRINT/LABEL : The top grossing concerts: The top grossing as reported ve by promoters, 48 SPELL Noelia Feat. Timbaland 2 0 FIFTY SHADES OF GREY Soundtrack UPTOWN FUNK! Mark Ronson Feat. Bruno Mars PINK STAR 1 1 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC/UNIVERSAL COLUMBIA/SONY MUSIC 50 TAKE ME TO CHURCH Hozier 2 0 1989 Taylor Swift DIME Julion Alvarez y Su Norteno Banda RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA 8 2 BIG MACHINE/VIRGIN/EMI/UNIVERSAL FONOVISA/UNIVERSAL FREE PEOPLE Tony Moran Feat. Martha Wash 1 IN THE LONELY HOUR Sam Smith BLANK SPACE Taylor Swift RADIKAL 2 3 CAPITOL/UNIVERSAL BIG MACHINE/UNIVERSAL TAKE U THERE Jack U Feat. Kiesza 7 X Ed Sheeran 17 A LO MEJOR Banda Sinaloense MS de Sergio Lizarraga MAD DECENT/OWSLA/BIG BEAT/ATLANTIC ASYLUM/ATLANTIC/WARNER 4 REMEX PRAYER IN C Lillywood & Robin Schulz 11 TITLE Meghan Trainor 5 MI VERDAD Mana Feat. Shakira CHOKE INDUSTRY/TONSPIEL/CINQ 7/WARGRAM/ATLANTIC/RRP EPIC/SONY MUSIC WARNER HEROES (WE COULD BE) Alesso Feat. Tove Lo 19 UPTOWN SPECIAL Mark Ronson 9 6 AMORE MIO Thalia REFUNE/DEF JAM COLUMBIA/SONY MUSIC SONY MUSIC LOVE IS INDEPENDENT D.O.N.S. Feat. Polina Griffith 1 WALLFLOWER Diana Krall 7 7 OUTSIDE Calvin Harris Feat. Ellie Goulding CARRILLO VERVE/UNIVERSAL FLY EYE/COLUMBIA/SONY MUSIC

WHAT I NEED (RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW) 1 Dasco Feat. Justina Maria SHADOWS IN THE NIGHT Bob Dylan 4 8 I’M AN ALBATRAOZ AronChupa RADIKAL COLUMBIA/SONY MUSIC ULTRA most popular music outside the U.S. BOXSCORE An overview of the week’s

10 AROUND THE WORLD Carmen Electra HOZIER Hozier 5 9 HEROES (WE COULD BE) Alesso Feat. Tove Lo GLOBAL GROOVE/CITRUSONIC STEREOPHONIC RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA/SONY MUSIC REFUNE/DEF JAM/UNIVERSAL

SUGAR Five Knives 14 BUILT ON GLASS Chet Faker 3 10 THINKING OUT LOUD Ed Sheeran RED BULL FUTURE CLASSIC/OPULENT/WARNER ATLANTIC/WARNER HITS OF THE WORLD: See Charts Legend on billboard.com/biz for complete rules and explanations. © 2015, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Mu Global Media, LLC © 2015, Prometheus for complete rules and explanations. See Charts on billboard.com/biz Legend WorldMags.net 70 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data Data for week of 02.28.2015 DENMARK CONCERT GROSSES DIGITAL SONGS COMPILED BY NIELSEN MUSIC INTERNATIONAL GROSS ARTIST LAST THIS TITLE Artist PER TICKET PRICE(S) VENUE ATTENDANCE PROMOTER WEEK WEEK DATE CAPACITY IMPRINT/LABEL WorldMags.net

LOVE ME LIKE YOU DO Ellie Goulding 1 $3,717,740 , EUGENE KOHN, HEATHER HEADLEY, ANA MARÍA MARTÍNEZ UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC/POLYDOR $554/$204 SEMINOLE HARD ROCK LIVE, HOLLYWOOD, FLA. 12,644 CLASSIC ENTERPRISES FOURFIVESECONDS FEB. 12, 14-15 15,000 THREE SHOWS Rihanna & Kanye West & Paul McCartney WESTBURY ROAD/ROC NATION BOCELLI: CHRIS PIZZELLO/INVISION/AP 2 $3,199,700 MICHAEL BUBLÉ, NATURALLY 7 (£2,040,220) ODYSSEY ARENA, BELFAST 23,485 MCD TAKE ME TO CHURCH Hozier $148.21/$101.16 DEC. 11-13 THREE SELLOUTS RUBYWORKS/ISLAND 3 $1,563,695 LA ARROLLADORA BANDA EL LIMÓN UPTOWN FUNK! Mark Ronson Feat. Bruno Mars COLUMBIA (20,328,040 PESOS) AUDITORIO NACIONAL, MEXICO CITY 28,560 PROMO MZT $54.75 JAN. 15-17 THREE SELLOUTS Bocelli’s VI TO DATID NU Cisilia UNIVERSAL 4 $1,412,547 BRITNEY SPEARS $495/$174/$94/$54 THE AXIS AT PLANET HOLLYWOOD, LAS VEGAS 9,822 CAESARS ENTERTAINMENT, THINKING OUT LOUD Ed Sheeran JAN. 28, 30-31 13,173 THREE SHOWS LIVE NATION Boffo

ASYLUM/ATLANTIC 5 $1,409,578 FLEETWOOD MAC CHEERLEADER OMI $179.50/$49.50 VAN ANDEL ARENA, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 10,204 LIVE NATION Boxscore LOUDER THAN LIFE/ULTRA JAN. 20 SELLOUT With $3.7 million in ticket EARNED IT (FIFTY SHADES OF GREY) The Weeknd UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC 6 $1,377,570 FLEETWOOD MAC $195/$125 MOHEGAN SUN ARENA, UNCASVILLE, CONN. 7,542 IN-HOUSE sales from a three-night FEB. 7 SELLOUT THE WAY YOU ARE Anti Social Media engagement in Hollywood, RE:A:CH Fla., Andrea Bocelli 7 $1,072,662 LUIS FONSI WE ARE HERE Alicia Keys $100/$15 COLISEO DE PUERTO RICO, SAN JUAN 21,169 TONY MOJENA ENTERTAINMENT (above) notches his seventh RCA FEB. 14-15 23,875 TWO SHOWS No. 1 on the Boxscore chart, 8 $1,041,360 FLEETWOOD MAC the most of any operatic ($1,298,002 CANADIAN) BELL CENTRE, MONTREAL 10,376 LIVE NATION, EVENKO tenor in a solo headlining $144/$39.71 FEB. 5 12,065 SWEDEN + performance. 9 $1,002,815 EMMANUEL & MIJARES The Italian singer DIGITAL SONGS COMPILED BY NIELSEN MUSIC INTERNATIONAL (14,944,347 PESOS) AUDITORIO NACIONAL, MEXICO CITY 19,117 OCESA-CIE made his first Boxscore LAST THIS $147.63/$20.13 FEB. 7-8 19,149 TWO SHOWS TITLE Artist appearance in the Aug. 1, WEEK WEEK IMPRINT/LABEL MN 10 $980,808 ZION & LENNOX 1998 issue, ranking FOURFIVESECONDS $150/$15 COLISEO DE PUERTO RICO, SAN JUAN 18,255 JOSE DUEÑO ENTERTAINMENT Rihanna & Kanye West & Paul McCartney WESTBURY ROAD/ROC NATION FEB. 7-8 19,141 TWO SHOWS fourth overall based on a July performance in LOVE ME LIKE YOU DO Ellie Goulding 11 $885,657 RICARDO ARJONA UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC/POLYDOR (13,067,689 PESOS) AUDITORIO NACIONAL, MEXICO CITY 17,925 OCESA-CIE Philadelphia. His first $162.32/$30.50 FEB. 5-6 19,149 TWO SHOWS No. 1 came the following BLANK SPACE Taylor Swift BIG MACHINE/VIRGIN/EMI Boxscore 12 $854,218 MARC ANTHONY year when he grossed $176/$36 BOARDWALK HALL, ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. 8,178 LIVE NATION, CARDENAS $2.2 million from an April I’LL FIND MY WAY HOME Jon And Vangelis FEB. 13 10,662 MARKETING NETWORK UNIVERSAL concert at the Hollywood 13 $842,799 GLORIA TREVI Bowl in Los Angeles, TAKE ME TO CHURCH Hozier RUBYWORKS/ISLAND (10,956,393 PESOS) AUDITORIO NACIONAL, MEXICO CITY 19,040 CORPORATIVO JANIK $44.26 JAN. 23-24 TWO SELLOUTS earning him the top slot I’LL BE FINE Molly Pettersson Hammar on May 8, 1999. He topped

2015 WARNER 14 $680,209 CHARLIE WILSON, KEM, JOE the chart for a second $95/$35 BOARDWALK HALL, ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. 9,292 LIVE NATION HELLO HI Dolly Style FEB. 14 10,056 time that year on Nov. 27 CAPITOL with revenue reported 15 $490,687 LOS AUTENTICOS DECADENTES CHEERLEADER OMI (7,312,410 PESOS) PALACIO DE LOS DEPORTES, MEXICO CITY 20,536 OCESA-CIE from a sold-out Chicago LOUDER THAN LIFE/ULTRA $23.89 February 28 FEB. 7 SELLOUT concert. With 94 Boxscore UPTOWN FUNK! Mark Ronson Feat. Bruno Mars 1 appearances since 1998, COLUMBIA $399,700 STEVIE WONDER $395/$150/$85/$25 NOKIA THEATRE L.A. LIVE, LOS ANGELES 5,851 AEG EHRLICH VENTURES Bocelli claimed the No. 1 FEB. 10 6,882 FIRESTONE Kygo Feat. Conrad ranking five more times: ULTRA/SONY MUSIC 11 17 $398,643 JOWELL & RANDY May 5, 2001; April 18, 2009; $125/$15 COLISEO DE PUERTO RICO, SAN JUAN 7,690 BEA MUSIC Dec. 8, 2012; Feb. 23, 2013; JAN. 30 8,540 .0 and Feb. 28, 2015. 18 $395,586 MORRISSEY Late opera legend GREECE (€350,330) 3ARENA, DUBLIN 6,082 MCD DIGITAL SONGS COMPILED BY NIELSEN MUSIC INTERNATIONAL $82.99/$72.32/$61.03 DEC. 1 6,500 Luciano Pavarotti follows Bocelli with five LAST THIS TITLE Artist 19 $393,280 KASABIAN, THE MACCABEES WEEK WEEK IMPRINT/LABEL (€320,190) 3ARENA, DUBLIN 7,644 MCD No. 1 Boxscores as a $52.20/$39.92 DEC. 8 8,000 solo headliner between TAKE ME TO CHURCH Hozier 1 1995 and 2000 and two RUBYWORKS/ISLAND/MINOS/EMI/UNIVERSAL LEGEND 20 $384,996 CHRIS BROWN, AUGUST ALSINA, SEVYN STREETER $150/$39.50 VETERANS MEMORIAL ARENA, JACKSONVILLE, FLA. 5,459 CLAY JOHNSON FOUNDATION more with The Three NEW 2 LOVE ME LIKE YOU DO Ellie Goulding DEC. 19 10,910 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC/POLYDOR Bullets indicate titles with Tenors, who performed greatest weekly gains. 21 $384,578 KODALINE, JAMES VINCENT McMORROW together from 1990 to 3 CHANDELIER Sia MONKEY PUZZLE/RCA (€316,400) $27.47 COLLEGE GREEN, DUBLIN 14,000 MCD 2003. That trio of opera Album Charts DEC. 31 SELLOUT greats — Pavarotti, Placido 4 UPTOWN FUNK! Mark Ronson Feat. Bruno Mars 0 Recording Industry Assn. of COLUMBIA America (RIAA) certification 22 $383,963 DONNY & MARIE Domingo and Jose $286/$137.50/ THE SHOWROOM AT THE FLAMINGO, LAS VEGAS 4,190 CAESARS ENTERTAINMENT for physical shipments & Carreras — topped the 5 DANGEROUS David Guetta Feat. Sam Martin digital downloads of 500,000 $119.90/$104.50 JAN. 20-24, 27-31 6,829 TEN SHOWS WHAT A MUSIC/PARLOPHONE/WARNER albums (Gold). chart twice in January 1997 ¡ RIAA certification for 23 $383,194 WALK Kwabs $75/$35 SAP CENTER, SAN JOSE, CALIF. 8,312 GOLDENVOICE/AEG LIVE during their world tour ATLANTIC physical shipments & digital FEB. 8 SELLOUT in 1996 and 1997. Both FOURFIVESECONDS downloads of 1 million 7 Rihanna & Kanye West & Paul McCartney units (Platinum). Numeral Domingo and Carreras have WESTBURY ROAD/ROC NATION noted with Platinum symbol 24 $382,318 SAM SMITH, GEORGE EZRA $75/$45 AGGANIS ARENA, BOSTON 6,026 LIVE NATION charted numerous times as indicates album’s multi- JAN. 17 SELLOUT NEW 8 EARNED IT (FIFTY SHADES OF GREY) The Weeknd solo performers, but neither UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC/EMI/MINOS/UNIVERSAL platinum level. ™ RIAA certification for 25 $376,592 BRUNO E MARRONE has reached No. 1 on his physical shipments & digital NEW 9 STAY WITH ME Sam Smith (967,844 REAIS) CITIBANK HALL, SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL 8,123 T4F-TIME FOR FUN own. —Bob Allen CAPITOL/EMI/MINOS/UNIVERSAL downloads of 10 million $101.17/$13.62 DEC. 5-7 9,279 THREE SHOWS units (Diamond). Numeral NEW 10 WHAT KIND OF MAN Florence + The Machine noted with Diamond symbol 26 $374,473 CARLOS VIVES ISLAND/EMI/MINOS/UNIVERSAL indicates album’s multi- $99/$21 COLISEO DE PUERTO RICO, SAN JUAN 6,378 SBS ENTERTAINMENT platinum level. NOV. 29 7,000 ) Latin albums certification for physical shipments & digital 27 $372,561 ANDRÉ RIEU downloads of 50,000 units (€317,991) $86.70/$35.15 OLYMPIAHALLE, MUNICH 4,616 ANDRÉ RIEU PRODUCTIONS, RTK SWITZERLAND (Oro). JAN. 16 5,383 ROLAND TEMME KONZERTS Latin albums certification for DIGITAL SONGS COMPILED BY NIELSEN MUSIC INTERNATIONAL ¢ physical shipments & digital 28 $368,990 JAMES TAYLOR LAST THIS downloads of 100,000 units $85/$65 MOHEGAN SUN ARENA AT CASEY PLAZA, WILKES-BARRE, PA. 5,592 BEAVER PRODUCTIONS TITLE Artist DEC. 1 6,000 WEEK WEEK IMPRINT/LABEL (Platino). Numeral noted with Platinum symbol indicates 29 $366,766 ERIC CHURCH, HALESTORM LOVE ME LIKE YOU DO Ellie Goulding album’s multi-platinum level. UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC/POLYDOR $55/$39 BANCORPSOUTH CENTER, TUPELO, MISS. 8,770 THE MESSINA GROUP/AEG LIVE JAN. 9 SELLOUT FOURFIVESECONDS Digital Songs Charts Rihanna & Kanye West & Paul McCartney WESTBURY ROAD/ROC NATION 0 RIAA certification for 500,000 30 $364,826 ERIC CHURCH, HALESTORM paid downloads (Gold). $59.50/$45/$35/$25 VALLEY VIEW CASINO CENTER, SAN DIEGO, CALIF. 7,858 THE MESSINA GROUP/AEG LIVE TAKE ME TO CHURCH Hozier ¡ RIAA certification for 1 million JAN. 18 8,417 RUBYWORKS/ISLAND paid downloads (Platinum). Numeral noted with platinum 31 $363,825 WE ARE NRG: DJ SNAKE, DEORRO, SALVA, BARE, WHYEL UPTOWN FUNK! Mark Ronson Feat. Bruno Mars $70/$45 BILL GRAHAM CIVIC AUDITORIUM, SAN FRANCISCO 6,558 ANOTHER PLANET ENTERTAIN- COLUMBIA symbol indicates song’s multiplatinum level. DEC. 12 SELLOUT MENT, INSOMNIAC JUNG VERDAMMT Lo & Leduc BAKARA 32 $360,449 JEFF FOXWORTHY & LARRY THE CABLE GUY Awards $120/$90/$70/$50 THE AXIS AT PLANET HOLLYWOOD, LAS VEGAS 4,962 CAESARS ENTERTAINMENT, PS (PaceSetter for largest % THINKING OUT LOUD Ed Sheeran DEC. 12-13 12,797 TWO SHOWS LIVE NATION ASYLUM/ATLANTIC album sales gain) GG (Greatest Gainer for largest 33 $356,923 OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN STAY WITH ME Sam Smith volume gain) $350/$150/$110/$70 THE SHOWROOM AT THE FLAMINGO, LAS VEGAS 3,429 CAESARS ENTERTAINMENT CAPITOL DG (Digital Sales Gainer) DEC. 2-6, 9-13 7,082 TEN SHOWS AG (Airplay Gainer) OUTSIDE Calvin Harris Feat. Ellie Goulding SG (Streaming Gainer) $352,713 MARIO BARTH FLY EYE/COLUMBIA 34 (€283,879) $33.52 O2 WORLD, HAMBURG 11,567 P-PROMOTION DEC. 13 12,742 FADE OUT LINES The Avener Publishing song index available 96 MUSIQUE/CAPITOL on billboard.com/biz. 35 $348,859 OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN WALK Kwabs $375/$165/$120/$80 THE SHOWROOM AT THE FLAMINGO, LAS VEGAS 2,564 CAESARS ENTERTAINMENT ATLANTIC Visit billboard.com/biz for DEC. 30-JAN. 3 3,638 FIVE SHOWS complete rules and explanations. WorldMags.net Data for week of 02.28.2015 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data 71 CODA

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“IT WAS SUCH A GREAT GROOVE, EVEN IN THE DEMO,” says Sheena Easton, now 55, of her double-entendre- laden hit “Sugar Walls.” The Scottish singer, who resides near Las Vegas, says she didn’t “think about image” when recording the sultry drum- and key- board-driven cut, which was written by Prince. “I was just focused on the music.” With lyrics that included “come spend the night inside my sugar walls,” the song, released in 1984, REWINDING was a far cry from Easton’s comparably innocent 1981 THE debut , the Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 “Morning Train CHARTS (Nine to Five).” But audiences didn’t mind her stylistic shift: “Sugar Walls” became her sixth top 10 Hot 100 hit and her fi rst No. 1 on the Dance Club Songs chart on Feb. 23, 1985. A few months later, the song drew attention for a diff erent reason when it came under fi re from the Parents Music Resource Center , a group co- founded by Tipper Gore, the wife of future Vice President Al Gore. The PMRC charged that had Easton in February 1983, become “pornographic” and proposed obscen- in a promotional photo ity guidelines for recordings. In the wake of for her NBC special Sheena Easton... Act One, congressional hearings (featuring testi- which aired that March. mony from Frank Zappa and John Denver), the RIAA agreed to a parental-advisory sticker system that continues today. “My feelings were then, and remain now, that every parent has the right to fi lter the content that their children are exposed to,” says the mother of two adopted children (both grown), who released her last studio album in 2004 and continues to per- form live. “I believe the track found its intended audience.” —KEITH CAULFIELD

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