LUIS E NSI SILICON VALLEY RIDES BRANDS & BICULTURALISM STREET CRED to the TOP Or the CHARTS
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APRIL 30, 2011 www.billboard.com www.billboard.biz THE LATIfIgUE. TOO LEGIT MC HAMMER'S LUIS E NSI SILICON VALLEY RIDES BRANDS & BICULTURALISM STREET CRED TO THE TOP or THE CHARTS. A NATION Of U.S.-BORN SPANISH /POP LIFE SPEAKERS SINGS ALONG k E SPRINGS PLUS I DATES ON HOW WRIGLEY, LOS ANGELES DR PEPPER, AT&T AND OTHERS LEARNED TO THE GENRE - FOO FIGHT FINALLY GET A Na I ALBUM 24-PAGE ak PROGRAM GUIDE TO THE 2011 a LATIN MUSIC CONFERENCE THE MAYOR or NASHVILLE, SOULJA ' S AGAIN, NARM GO FLEET FOXES REVIEWED, LAURA STORY BRE KS OUT AT CHRISTIAN, A HE NUMBER ONE ALBUM IN THE WORLD! I L. WASTING LIGHT "ROCK IS NOT DEAD" - US WEEKLY i CAREER DEFINING "...(WASTING) LIGHT IS A RETURN MUSCULAR ROCK AND ROLL THROWDOWN...A -" _Q - ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY "UNDIMINISHED INTENSITY.. "F00 FIGHTERS BLAZE LIKE * * * *° NEVER BEFORE - PEOPLE * * * - ROLLING STONE SVI ALBUM U.S. U.K. GERMANY CANADA AUSTRALIA SWEDEN NEW ZEALAND FINLAND NORWAY AUSTRIA SWITZERLAND SINGAPORE PRODUCED BY BUTCH VIG MIXED BY ALAN MOULDER °` fooFighters.com facebook.com /foofighters twitter.com /foofighters rcarecords.com poß0 02011 RCA Records, a unit of Sony Music Entertainment. Billboard 1 () I ON THE CHARTS -A IS ALBUMS PAGE ARTIST / TITLE THE BILLBOARD 38 F00 FIGHTERS / 200 WASTING LIGHT HEATSEEKERS ELBOW / 41 BUILD A ROCKET BOYSI TOP 45 ALISON KRAUSS + UNION STATION / COUNTRY PAPER AIRPLANE 45 ALISON KRAUSS + UNION STATION / BLUEGRASS PAPER AIRPLANE WIZ KHAUFA/ TOP R &B /HIP-HOP 46 ROLLING PAPERS CASTING CROWNS / CHRISTIAN 48 UNTIL THE WHOLE WORLD HEARS GOSPEL 48 KIRK FRANKLIN! HELLO FEAR DANCE /ELECTRONIC DAFT PUNK / 49 TRAN: LEGACY (SOUNDTRACK) TRADITIONAL JAZZ 49 WILLIE NELSON & WYNTON MANSALIS / HERE WE GO AGAIN KELLY PRICE BONEY 20 CONTEMPORARY JAMES / JAZZ 49 CONTACT MORMON TABERNACLE CHOIR / TRADITIONAL CLASSICAL 49 MEN OFF THE MORMON TABERNACLE CHOIR DAVID CLASSICAL CROSSOVER 49 GAHRETTI ROCK SYMPHONIES LTPFIIO rt, FEAT ['RES CELTIC WOMAN / WORLD 49 7 STREAM DREAMS SONGS FROM THE HEART COVER STOR' MAMA/ TOP LATIN Online music videos 50 DRAMA Y LUZ 16 Lía î l s still aren't generating ARTISTS Are bicultural artists like Luis Fonsi 0 PAGE ARTIST big returns for rights the key to reviving to 'n revenue? holders. SOCIAL 50 40 JUSTIN BIEBER 12 Digital Entertainment 20 1 E VCICE Aft r r ea Ing a UNCHARTED 40 DJ B13ND 13 The Indies, 6 gospel album, Kelly Price is going SONGS Questions: Karl Dean to PAGE ARTIST / TITLE back to he R &B roots with elly." 14 On The Road THE BILLBOARD HOT 100 42 soRIHANNA FEATURING BRITNEY SPEARS I 15 Q &A: Bill Wilson 22 IGITIZ1NG THE C HOT 100 AIRPLAY 43 RIHANNA/Om Inspired by dance music retailer HOT DIGITAL 43 RIHANNA FEATURING BRITNEY SPEARS / MUSIC Beatport, Sony's Aroma builds an online sales hub for classical music. HEATSEEKERS LMFAO/ 29 HER OWN MUSE 41 PARTY ROCK ANTHEM Olga Tañón comes MAINSTREAM TOP 40 44 KATY PERRY FEATURING KANYE WEST / 26 INSTRUMENTAL E.T. into her own on "Ni ADULT CONTEMPORARY BRUNO MARS / BUSINESS Fresh off its first 44 JUST THE WAY YOU ARE Una Lagrima Mas." headlining gig at Radio City Music PINK / ADULT TOP 40 44 31 6 Questions: PKIN'PERFECT Hall, Explosions in the Sky stay hot FOO FIGHTERS / Joe Jackson ROCK 44 with commercial, TV and feature - ROPE 32 Reviews SEETHER / film synchs. ACTIVE ROCK 44 COUNTRY SONG 34 Happening Now PROGRAM GUIDE HERITAGE ROCK 44 F00 FIGHTERS ROPE DARIUS ROCKER / AHEAD OF THE CUIRVE HOT COUNTRY 45 IN EVERY The 22nd annual Billboard Látigik MAINSTREAM R &B /HIP-HOP 46 C ISSUE Music Conference & AwarctsMW LOOK AT E NOW I 36 Marketplace RHYTHMIC 46 JEREMIH FEATURING 50 CENT / presented ay State Farm in DOWN ON ME 37 Over The Counter associatior with AT &T, honors MARSHA AMBROSIUS / ADULT R &B 46 37 Market Watch FAR AWAY the genre's top players. CHRIS BROWN / 38 Charts RAP 46 LOOK AT ME NOW 53 Executive Turntable, CHRIS BROWN / HOT R &B /HIP -HOP 47 LOOK AT ME NOW Good Works, Backbeat CHRISTIAN CASTING CROWNS / 48 GLORIOUS DAY CHRISTIAN 48 CASTING CROWNS / AC GLORIOUS DAY RED ON THE COVER: Illustration by CHRISTIAN CHR 48 / We hope you enjoy this week's double FACELESS issue of Billboard. We'll be back with Hellovon. Photograph by Raul Higuera GOSPEL 48 KIRK FRANKLIN I I SMILE issue No. 16 on May 7. Please be sure ALEXIS JORDAN / DANCE CLUB 49 GOOD GIRL to check Billboard.biz for 24/7 music KATY PERRY FEATURING KANYE WEST business coverage. DANCE AIRPLAY 49 / JOE JACKSON NILS / SMOOTH JAZZ 49 JUMP START 360 CEGREES OF BILLBOARD MAMA/ HOT LATIN 50 LLUVIA AL CORAZON CDMI ttORNI RINGTONES 12 KATY PERRY FEATURING KANYE WEST / E.T. 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KATY PERRY shooting her video for "ET." » >U.K. Generating Big While labels and such sites COURT NIXES Returns For as Vevo can and do sell big DIGITAL ACT Rights Holders sponsorships, that's often just APPEAL one component of a more elab- The British High Unless you're an artist with the orate partnership between the Court rejected an star wattage of Lady Gaga or artist and the brand, and isn't appeal from U.K. Bieber, each Internet service Justin of whose considered the norm when cal- providers BT and videos generated more than 1 culating music video stream- TalkTalk that billion views last year, chances ing payments. challenged the are the big money from online Although rates are trending legality of the United music video streams isn't flow- upward, video streaming pay- Kingdom's Digital ing in just yet. ments are all over the map. Each Economy Act. Of the Exactly how much money is video's payout depends on the ISPs' five objections, pouring in is impossible to say, kind and amount of advertising the only point upheld given the huge discrepancies in it carries, and each type ofadver- by the High Court everything from advertising tising vehide carries varying rates. related to a draft provision, which buys and sponsorship packages Popularity also plays a big role originally stated that to accounting practices and in determining the payout. The ISPs would have to artist contracts. rates that advertisers pay for on- pay 25% of the But by most accounts, it ap- line video ads are based on the administrative fees in pears the real money is still at cost per one thousand impres- .'6,****,i establishing an least a few years away. So while sions, or CPM. Although a non- appeals body. This Katy Perry's video for "ET" has superstar video may deliver a clause will now be generated north of 32 million low CPM rate shortly after re- removed from the views on YouTube and Rihanna's lease, as its popularity grows, act.