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

39 37 37 11 57 52 51 73 30 30 NICK JONAS SAFEHOUSE/ISLAND CHARLIE PUTH ARTIST PARTNERS GROUP/ATLANTIC/AG

38 13 5 58 53 74 53 9 RE-ENTRY HILLSONG HILLSONG/SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG HAILEE STEINFELD REPUBLIC

24 42 39 169 - 76 75 67 15 CHRIS BROWN RCA CHRIS YOUNG RCA NASHVILLE/SMN

23 26 40 169 89 70 76 33 68 SAM SMITH CAPITOL ERIC CHURCH EMI NASHVILLE/UMGN Kane 46 44 41 155 44 80 77 269 ZAC BROWN BAND JOHN VARVATOS/SOUTHERN GROUND/BMLG/REPUBLIC WIZ KHALIFA ROSTRUM/ATLANTIC/AG Brown 45 40 42 842 98 79 78 54 58 WALK THE MOON RCA COLE SWINDELL WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE/WMN Bounds 43 49 43 760 79 49 2 RAE SREMMURD EARDRUMA/INTERSCOPE/IGA RE-ENTRY BEACH HOUSE SUB POP Country singer Kane Brown (above) keeps 19 35 44 10 25 building momentum, SILENTO BOLO/CAPITOL surging 93-56 on the 76 47 45 169 Billboard Artist 100. In JASON ALDEAN BROKEN BOW/BBMG his debut week (Oct. 31),

LAUREN DUKOFF. HOUSE: SHAWN BRACKBILL. MCGRAW: COURTESY OF BIG MACHINE. BROWN: DAWN THORTON DAWN BROWN: OF BIG MACHINE. COURTESY MCGRAW: BRACKBILL. HOUSE: SHAWN DUKOFF. LAUREN Brown bowed with 91 34 56 46 11 69 EMINEM WEB/SHADY/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/IGA percent of his activity from album sales as his EP

HILLSONG: COURTESY OF HILLSONG CHURCH. DRAKE: COURTESY OF REPUBLIC RECORDS. CARA: MEREDITH TRUAX. BORNS: CARA: MEREDITH TRUAX. OF REPUBLIC RECORDS. CHURCH. DRAKE: COURTESY OF HILLSONG COURTESY HILLSONG: 63 67 47 145 Closer soared 90-22 on KENDRICK LAMAR TOP DAWG/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/IGA Top Album Sales (8,000 37 45 48 10 69 sold; up 136 percent, BRUNO MARS ATLANTIC/AG according to Nielsen Music). In his second frame 49 49 38 RE-ENTRY ADELE XL/COLUMBIA on the Artist 100 (Nov. 7),

c and digital song sales take 51 41 50 48 the lead, accounting for HALSEY ASTRALWERKS 65 percent of his sum, as 75 77 51 38 32 his track “Used to Love You DJ SNAKE DJ SNAKE/INTERSCOPE/IGA 80 63 80 30 65 Sober” debuts on Country JEREMIH MICK SCHULTZ/DEF JAM Digital Songs at No. 2 and 68 54 52 67 TRAVI$ SCOTT GRAND HUSTLE/EPIC 29 43 81 94 Digital Songs at No. 24 DON HENLEY PAST MASTERS HOLDINGS/CAPITOL with 38,000 first-week 53 53 1 downloads sold. The NEW BORNS REZIDUAL/INTERSCOPE/IGA - 22 82 22 2 JANA KRAMER ELEKTRA NASHVILLE/WMN Chattanooga, Tenn., native, 22, has grown his following 41 71 83 269 online, boasting 2.3 million NICKI MINAJ YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC views from 54,000 67 64 84 18 32 subscribers on his oficial ANDY GRAMMER S-CURVE YouTube channel. Meanwhile, Borns’ - 90 85 85 2 POST MALONE REPUBLIC breakout 2015 adds another milestone as the 23-year- - 72 86 13 22 old singer-songwriter (born CHASE RICE DACK JANIELS Garret Borns, in Michigan) 69 74 87 569 enters the Artist 100 at SIA MONKEY PUZZLE/RCA No. 53. Sparking his arrival, debut LP Dopamine bows 78 65 88 269 KENNY CHESNEY BLUE CHAIR/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE/SMN at No. 18 on Top Album 59 33 54 269 Sales (13,000). The set also IMAGINE DRAGONS KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE/IGA 82 73 89 14 5 begins at No. 2 on Top Rock 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 SHINEDOWN ATLANTIC/AG Albums and Alternative 64 58 55 43 21 MAJOR LAZER MAD DECENT 90 49 3 Albums. In January, Borns’ RE-ENTRY CHRIS TOMLIN SIXSTEPS/SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG EP Candy reached No. 2 on - 93 56 56 2 Heatseekers Albums, No. 15 KANE BROWN KANE BROWN - 87 91 57 3 NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS STAX/CONCORD on Alternative Albums 55 52 57 467 and No. 22 on Top Rock JASON DERULO BELUGA HEIGHTS/WARNER BROS. 71 83 92 53 41 Albums. Both releases RICH HOMIE QUAN RICH HOMIEZ/THINK IT’S A GAME contain the single “Electric 54 50 58 50 9 ILOVEMEMPHIS PALM TREE/RUSH HOUR 47 81 93 669 Love,” which climbed BEYONCE PARKWOOD/COLUMBIA to No. 6 on Triple A and 77 57 59 57 9 No. 15 on Alternative. The CAM ARISTA NASHVILLE/SMN 79 78 94 55 37 KEITH URBAN HIT RED/CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN song “sounds like an instant classic to me,” Taylor Swift 60 60 1 NEW JOE BUDDEN EONE 95 95 1 tweeted on Jan. 19, helping NEW FRONTIERS STRYPER spur the song’s start. 25 39 61 89 GEORGE STRAIT MCA NASHVILLE/UMGN 90 75 96 37 —Gary Trust FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH PROSPECT PARK 95 66 62 62 6 OLD DOMINION RCA NASHVILLE/SMN - 92 97 34 48 VANCE JOY F-STOP/ATLANTIC/AG 81 55 63 55 24 METALLICA BLACKENED/WARNER BROS. 10 55 RE-ENTRY 98 TIM MCGRAW MCGRAW/BIG MACHINE/BMLG 49 60 64 669 KATY PERRY CAPITOL

65 59 65 560 HOZIER RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA fan interaction on social networking sites as compiled by Next Big Sound. See Charts Legend on billboard.com/biz for complete r Big Sound. See Charts on billboard.com/biz on social networking sites as compiled by Next fan interaction Legend 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

91 61 66 25 48 MICHAEL JACKSON MJJ/EPIC

86 95 67 222 A$AP ROCKY A$AP WORLDWIDE/POLO GROUNDS/RCA

56 48 68 926 BRETT ELDREDGE ATLANTIC/WMN

62 62 69 35 4 BRYSON TILLER TRAPSOUL/RCA SOCIAL DATA SOCIAL DATA BY COMPILED 72 82 70 253 BIG SEAN G.O.O.D./DEF JAM

87 69 71 15 55 88 84 99 83 9 JOHN LEGEND G.O.O.D./COLUMBIA ADAM LEVINE 222/INTERSCOPE/IGA

72 72 1 53 91 100 11 65 NEW STATE CHAMPS PURE NOISE RIHANNA WESTBURY ROAD/ROC NATION AIRPLAY/STREAMING & AIRPLAY/STREAMING BY COMPILED SALES DATA

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