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GRAMMYS 2018 ‘You don’t get to un-have this moment’

LORDE on a historic Grammys race, her of the year nod and the #MeToo movement PLUS ’s underground takeover and critics’ predictions for the categories

January 20, 2018 | billboard.com “Finesse” hits a new high after hopped on the track’s , which arrived on Jan. 4. COURTESY OF ATLANTIC OF COURTESY

Bruno Mars And Cardi B

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#1 111 6 WK S Perfect 2 120 Their Way Up W.HICKS,E.SHEERAN (E.C.SHEERAN) ATLANTIC

sic, sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music and streaming activity data by online music sources tracked by Nielsen Music. tracked sic, activity data by online music sources sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music and streaming 2 3 2 2 Havana Feat. 222 (K.C.CABELLO,J.L.WILLIAMS,A.FEENY,B.T.HAZZARD,A.TAMPOSI, The Hot 100 B.LEE,A.WOTMAN,P.L.WILLIAMS,L.BELL,R.L.AYALA RODRIGUEZ,K.GUNESBERK) SYCO/EPIC DG AG SG Finesse & Cardi B - 35 3 32 RUNO MARS AND CARDI B achieve the career-opening feat, SHAMPOO PRESS & CURL,STEREOTYPES (BRUNO MARS,P.M.LAWRENCE II, C.B.BROWN,J.E.FAUNTLEROY II,J.YIP,R.ROMULUS,J.REEVES,R.C.MCCULLOUGH II) ATLANTIC bring new jack swing and the second male; back to the top 10 of the landed at least three from each of his 2 3 4 Rockstar 2 Feat. 117 as their first three solo sets between 1982 and L.BELL,TANK GOD (A.POST,L.BELL,O.AWOSHILEY,S.B.A.JOSEPH) REPUBLIC B Mariah ’90s throwback track, “Finesse,” 1986. , ¡ 45 5 No Limit G-Eazy Feat. A$AP Rocky & Cardi B 418 vaults from its No. 35 debut to No. 3. Carey, Beyoncé and BOI-1DA,A.RITTER (G.GILLUM,M.SAMUELS, ed by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen Mu as measured audience impressions airplay ed by radio First released by Mars solo on his also earned the honor with each of A.RITTER,R.A.MAYERS,E.P.TAYLOR,WASHPOPPIN)HPOPP Y/RVG/BPG/RCA 2016 album, 24K Magic, “Finesse” their first three proper . 54 6 Thunder Imagine Dragons 437 ALEX DA KID,J.DEZUZIO (D.REYNOLDS,W.SERMON, roars onto the Streaming Songs chart “Finesse” follows the 24K Magic B.MCKEE,D.PLATZMAN,A.GRANT,J.DEZUZIO) KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE at No. 1 with 38.3 million U.S. streams title track, which peaked at No. 4, as in the week ending Jan. 11, according well as Hot 100 leader “That’s What 9 6 7 Bad At Love ¡ Halsey 619 to Nielsen Music, after its remix with I Like.” Mars’ debut LP, Doo-Wops R.REED (A.FRANGIPANE,E.FREDERIC,J.D.TRANTER,R.CHAHAYED) /CAPITOL Cardi B arrived on Jan. 4. The single & Hooligans (2010), generated the 8 7 8 ¡ 418 sold 87,000 downloads and drew No. 1s “Just the Way You Are” and ,S.FITZMAURICE,STARGATE (S.SMITH,J.J.NAPIER,T.E.HERMANSEN,M.S.ERIKSEN) CAPITOL The week’s most popular current songs across all genres, rank all genres, songs across most popular current The week’s the first time. See Charts Legend on billboard.com/biz for complete rules and explanations. © 2018, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. Global Media, LLC All rights reserved. © 2018, Prometheus for complete rules and explanations. sales activity for the first time. See Charts on billboard.com/biz Legend and/or airplay widespread songs receiving titles, or newly-released if they are defined as current Songs are 52 million in radio reach. “Grenade” and the No. 4 “The Mars tallies his 15th Hot 100 top 10 Lazy Song.” In 2012, Unorthodox HOT SHOT 9 Filthy 91 DEBUT ,J.TIMBERLAKE,DANJA (J.TIMBERLAKE, and Cardi B collects her fourth. Jukebox yielded the chart-toppers T.V.MOSLEY,F.N.HILLS,J.E.FAUNTLEROY II,L.DOPSON) RCA Notably, Mars has now earned three “Locked Out of Heaven” and “When 0 7810 MotorSport , & Cardi B 611 top 10s from each of his first three I Was Your Man” and the No. 5 hit , (Q.K.MARSHALL,K.CEPHUS,K.K.BALL,O.T.MARAJ, WASHPOPPIN,S.L.LINDSTROM,K.GOMRINGER,T.GOMRINGER) QUALIT CONTRY OL/MOTOWN/CAPITOL

SALES, AIRPLAY & STREAMING & STREAMING SALES, AIRPLAY BY COMPILED DATA LPs, becoming just the sixth act to “Treasure.” —GARY TRUST

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to produce, some say that ... When I first started out I always learned the ropes from producer Bill the studio’s isolating 14-hour days, uncomfortable moments can arise. thought, ‘Ooh, I can’t wait to be in Bottrell. “He sat me down in front of so they choose a different path. “The “There have definitely been that role.’ And the more I learned the console,” she recalls. “I had asked risk in losing the ability to have a times you’ll [suggest] an idea and and the more I began to understand those questions before and people family is too great. They’ll find better the artist will pass over it and the the studio dynamics and the were hush-hush. They didn’t want to things to do. I know it’s an unpopular Dolores O’Riordan guy in the room will say the same responsibilities that come with that give up their secrets.” position, but I’ve always felt that,” idea and they’ll say, ‘I love it,’ and role, I was like, ‘Maybe I’m pretty Whalley, now Concord Music’s says Massy. “I think there will be 1971-2018 you’re like, ‘Oh, my Lord,’ ” says happy where I am.’ ” chief label executive, says the [women] like me that have decided, omission of female producers has ‘I can do without a family because never been by design. “I don’t think the young musicians I work with have “I wouldn’t give direction much, O’Riordan, myself or any other A&R person I been a substitute for family.’ ” onstage with because they wouldn’t take it. Now know would say, ‘We don’t want Others posit that the general lack to use this person because they’re of encouragement for young women in Dublin in 1995, died Jan. 15. they take it seriously.”—WondaGurl female,’ ” he says. “I just know to enter the STEM fields — science, there’s always value to having unique, technology, engineering and math — Hope. “You can’t really show any Many female producers say they talented people making records.” bleeds into the gender gap in music signs of not knowing what you’re were mentored by men. Marks While many male and female production as well. doing. You are at the helm.” studied with noted British producers executives have been supportive, “[Fewer] females go to audio “Sometimes when people are Alan Moulder and , Hope several female producers expressed engineering schools,” says one confused they’re like, ‘Why is this has worked with Bleachers’ dismay that more female artists major-label A&R executive, who girl in the room?’ ” says WondaGurl. , and pioneering don’t seek out female producers. claims to have never seen an artist “Earlier, I would never talk; I’d engineer-producer Sylvia Massy, “It’s interesting that a lot of female request a female producer. Perry just play the beat. I wouldn’t give best-known for producing Tool’s artists have this feminist message suggests any women interested in direction much, because they breakthrough album, Undertow, in and they’ll make their record with all production should offer to produce wouldn’t take it. Now they take 1993, took notes from . men. It seems kind of hypocritical,” a track for free, like she did with it seriously.” Perry praises Interscope co-founder/ says Hope. “This [woman] will Stone Fox. “We cannot wait for Catherine Marks, who has Apple executive Jimmy Iovine and get up to accept an award and be people to find us,” she says. Marks produced Manchester Orchestra former Warner Bros. CEO Tom surrounded by straight, white, agrees: “We need to promote the and Wolf Alice, says the initial leap Whalley as being particularly middle-aged men.” women who are kicking ass so from engineer to producer was “a supportive, and after her rock band Massy thinks it is hard for women the next generation feels like it’s difficult and unexpected transition 4 Non Blondes ended, Perry also to balance the rigors of a family with something they could do too.”

Olympic skier Vonn (left) and snowboarder White (right) in Beats’ latest “Above the Noise” campaign.

olores O’Riordan had hits put a new spin on Kurt Cobain’s solo LPs in 2007 and 2009, showing a an unmistakable voice. loud-quiet-loud dynamism, and rock dedication to pop craft. And while the The Winter Olympics kick off in Pyeongchang, South (“Don’t Tell Me”) for its 2017 holiday ad starring The Cranberries singer, radio responded instantly. act would never again scale the heights Korea, on Feb. 9, but there’s already one winner: Serena Williams and Neymar Jr., or then-little-known D who died of undisclosed She was just 19 when she joined of 1993 debut Everybody Else Is Doing It, Beats Bets G-Eazy, whose song “The Beautiful & Damned” will be X Ambassadors (“The Jungle”) for the 2014 FIFA World Cup featured in Apple’s new ad campaign for its Beats spot. Other ads have helped propel acts such as Hozier causes at age 46 on Jan. 15, was one The Cranberries in 1990, famously So Why Can’t We? and 1994 follow-up headphones during the Games. and Imagine Dragons. Beats also relies on its team’s A&R of the most expressive vocalists of writing the words and melody to , those albums were On G-Eazy In Beats’ latest “Above the Noise” campaign commercial experience to time campaigns to the moments it expects the 1990s, equally convincing on a “Linger” within a week of meeting the more than enough for millions of fans. — which shows elite athletes such as snowboarder Shaun artists to break out: G-Eazy currently has two songs in spiderweb-soft love song like “Linger” band’s other three members (guitarist A month before she died, O’Riordan White, skier Lindsey Vonn and the Nigerian bobsled the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100. team plugging in their headphones to get an edge — The exposure for G-Eazy could be massive, with (a top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 , bassist Mike Hogan and took the stage for her final public Olympic Ads is set to the title track from the Oakland, Calif., Apple buying ads in 30 global markets and deploying in February 1994) or a haute-grunge drummer Fergal Lawler). Getting performance, a three-song set at rapper’s latest album. The song soundtracks five considerable digital assets to spread the clips. NBC rager like “Zombie” (which spent six that famous that young isn’t easy for Billboard’s annual holiday party. How the headphone maker picks the spots highlighting athletic themes such as failure, hopes to repeat the average from the 2016 Summer Games weeks atop the Alternative Songs everyone, and O’Riordan had spoken O’Riordan sang “Linger,” “Zombie” and music it uses to sell its gear to sports redemption and the rigors of training. in Rio de Janeiro of 27.5 million nightly viewers across chart that fall). Fittingly, the Irish band’s honestly in recent years about her “” with grace and fans — even if athletes have to hide “If a song makes someone feel something, that’s platforms and a record 3.3 billion streaming minutes. authentic — you can’t fake that,” says Beats president/ NBC will also air primetime coverage live across all breakthrough in the experiences with bipolar disorder. presence. Hearing that voice didn’t feel the Beats logos on the slopes COO Luke Wood, noting that G-Eazy’s track was chosen time zones for the first time during a Winter Games. roughly coincided with the end of But she went on to write or co-write like mere nostalgia — it felt timeless. after he played the album for the Beats music team last Wood doesn’t yet know if the South Korean —SIMON VOZICK-LEVINSON October. At that meeting, G-Eazy stressed his own risk- International Olympic Committee will force athletes to Nirvana: The Cranberries’ most durable the band’s entire catalog, along with BY GIL KAUFMAN taking persona, similar to that of athletes who speed cover up the Beats logo, as some past IOCs have, since down icy hills on skis at 80 mph. the company doesn’t pay to be a sponsor. But White, Generally, Wood says the “Above the Noise” campaign at least, plans to don his headphones in Korea during looks for acts on the cusp of a breakthrough, picking practice anyway. “I love to have music playing at all

14-year-old Australian singer Ruel’s debut single times when I’m riding,” he says. STILLS: COURTESY OF BEATS BY DRE. O’RIORDAN: INDEPENDENT NEWS AND MEDIA/GETTY IMAGES.

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