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Bulletin YOUR DAILY ENTERTAINMENT NEWS UPDATE MAY 17, 2021 Page 1 of 27 INSIDE Moneybagg Yo’s ‘A Gangsta’s • Apple Music Pain’ Returns to No. 1 on Billboard Announces Hi-Fi Streaming at No 200 Albums Chart Additional Cost BY KEITH CAULFIELD • Amazon Music Drops HD Tier to $9.99, Shaking Up It’s a quiet week in the top 10 on the Billboard 200 al- A Gangsta’s Pain’s 61,000 units earned are nearly all Hi-Fi Streaming bums chart, as Moneybagg Yo’s A Gangsta’s Pain re- from streaming activity, as SEA units comprise 60,000 Market turns to No. 1 while no albums debut in the top 10 for of its total for the week. Further, the album’s 61,000 • Inside Track: UMG’s the first time in two months. units is the second-lowest total for a weekly No. 1 Executive Pay; Clive A Gangsta’s Pain rises 2-1 in its third week, after album in 2021. Only Taylor Swift’s Evermore has Davis Interviews Joni earning 61,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in posted a smaller week at No. 1 this year, when it Mitchell the week ending May 12 (down 12%), according to returned to the top for a third nonconsecutive week • Coming MRC Data. The album debuted atop the chart dated on the chart dated Jan. 16 with 56,000 units (earned in Subtractions: Film May 8 with 110,000 units. the week ending Jan. 7). Composers Face The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular Zero albums debut in the top 10 on the new Bill- Delayed Pandemic albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric board 200 — the first time that’s happened since the Impact consumption as measured in equivalent album units. March 13-dated chart. • Universal Music’s Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums Morgan Wallen’s former No. 1 Dangerous: The Spotify Stock Could (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each Double Album rises 3-2 with 52,000 equivalent Be Worth $2B unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks album units earned (down 3%), DJ Khaled’s Khaled • ‘Live Trumps sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 Khaled dips 1-3 in its second week with 46,000 units Everything’: ICM’s paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video (down 51%), and Justin Bieber’s former leader Jus- Robert Gibbs on streams generated by songs from an album. The new tice is steady at No. 4 with 38,000 units (down 10%). Future of Touring & May 22-dated chart (where A Gangsta’s Pain returns Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia is next, as it rises 7-5 Industry Diversity to No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard’s website on with 36,000 equivalent album units earned. It’s the May 18. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @ only album in the top 10 that gains in units, and it billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram. 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Leveraging our iconic voices within music and culture, Billboard and Rolling Stone will curate a mix of engaging video and social content featuring thought-provoking panels, heartfelt performances, and glam tutorials – all fostering a community of consumers and influencers in celebration of LGBTQIA+. ISSUE DATE 6/5 | AD CLOSE 5/26 | MATERIALS DUE 5/27 BB House_Pride_06_042421.indd 1 4/21/21 10:00 AM Page 3 of 27 IN BRIEF remains the lone album by a woman in the the rapidly developing high-fidelity space, available on iOS devices for TV and films top 10. (It’s also the only album in the top with Amazon Music HD already on the mar- since last year. The company says “thou- 10 that’s yet to be No. 1. It peaked at No. 3 in ket and Spotify preparing to release its own sands” of tracks will be available in spatial March.) high-fidelity audio tier later this year. audio at launch, with more being added Rod Wave’s SoulFly is a non-mover at Apple Music won’t raise the price of its on a regular basis. Maroon 5’s next album No. 6 with 32,000 equivalent album units service and instead will offer lossless audio JORDI, which arrives on June 11th has earned (down 10%), the Young Thug- for the same price as its current offering been recorded in spatial audio, the group led Slime Language 2 project falls 5-7 with at $9.99 a month and $14.99 a month for tells Billboard. “As a band, we’ve always just over 31,000 units (down 22%), Pop family plans, matching Amazon’s shift to been interested in new technologies and Smoke’s Shoot for the Stars Aim for the remove its price increase for high-fidelity it’s exciting to imagine what the future will Moon is stationary at No. 8 with 31,000 units streaming, which has routinely cost between hold given that the advent of Spatial Audio (down 3%), The Weeknd’s After Hours is $14.99 and $19.99 a month from services like mixing seems akin to the leap music made steady at No. 9 with 29,000 units (down 9%), Amazon, Tidal, Deezer, and Qobuz. when it shifted from Mono to Stereo,” Jesse and Luke Combs’ What You See Is What “Apple Music is making its biggest Carmichael tells Billboard. You Get rises 11-10 with 27,000 units (down advancement ever in sound quality,” Oli- “It’s an entirely new way of experiencing 2%). ver Schusser, Apple’s vice president of our music,” adds Adam Levine. Apple Music and Beats said in a statement. Apple says its Hi-Fi offering will be avail- “Listening to a song in Dolby Atmos is like able next month, and 75 million songs will Apple Music magic. The music comes from all around be available with lossless CD-quality audio you and sounds incredible. Now we are (from 16-bit / 44.1kHz to 24-bit / 48Hz) and Announces Hi-Fi bringing this truly innovative and immersive in Hi-Res Lossless (24-bit / up to 192 kHz, experience to our listeners with music from which will require a digital-to-analog con- Streaming at No their favorite artists like J Balvin, Gustavo verter). Unlike competing services that use Dudamel, Ariana Grande, Maroon 5, Kacey FLAC files for their lossless playback, Apple Additional Cost Musgraves, The Weeknd, and so many more. will use its own proprietary codec, known Subscribers will also be able to listen to as Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) BY MICAH SINGLETON their music in the highest audio quality with to stream its high-fidelity music. When it Lossless Audio. Apple Music as we know it launches in June, Apple Music subscribers pple Music is making high-fidel- is about to change forever.” will need to opt-in to lossless audio due to ity music streaming available to Apple Music is also launching spatial the “large file sizes and bandwidth needed,” its subscribers at no additional audio (with support from Dolby Atmos) for to stream high-fidelity music, Apple says. cost, the company announced music, which will allow artists to record The moves by Amazon and Apple Music MondayA (May 17). 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