Congress Voted to Savcongress Voted to Save Our Stages, but Indie Venues Are Still Waiting for Help
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BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 13, 2020 | PAGE 4 OF 19 ON THE CHARTS JIM ASKER [email protected] Bulletin SamHunt’s Southside Rules Top Country YOURAlbu DAILYms; BrettENTERTAINMENT Young ‘Catc NEWSh UPDATE’-es Fifth AirplayMARCH 10, 2021 Page 1 of 23 Leader; Travis Denning Makes History INSIDE Congress Voted to SavCongress Sam Hunt’s second studio full-length, and first in over five years, Southside sales (up 21%) in the tracking week. On Country Airplay, it hops 18-15 (11.9 mil- (MCA Nashville/Universal Music GroupVoted Nashville), debuts toat No. 1 onSave Billboard’s lion Our audience impressions, Stages, up 16%). But Indie Top Country• Citing Albums Reforms, chart dated April 18. In its first week (ending April 9), it earnedCISAC 46,000 Readmits equivalent album units, including 16,000 in album sales, ac- TRY TO ‘CATCH’ UP WITH YOUNG Brett Youngachieves his fifth consecutive cordingTroubled to Nielsen Spanish Music/MRC Data. Venues Are Stilland total Country Waiting Airplay No. 1 as “Catch” (Bigfor Machine Help Label Group) ascends SouthsideSociety marks SGAE Hunt’s second No. 1 on the 2-1, increasing 13% to 36.6 million impressions. chart and fourth top 10. It follows freshman LP BY TAYLOR MIMS Young’s first of six chart entries, “Sleep With- Montevallo• Amazon, which Music arrived at the summit in No - out You,” reached No. 2 in December 2016. He Launches In-App vember 2014 and reigned for nineWhen weeks. Congress To date, Passed a COVID-19 relief bill in would take followedseveral withweeks the for multiweek [the SBA] No. to1s “Inget Case their You MontevalloMerch hasIntegration, earned 3.9 million units, with 1.4 Didn’t Know” (two weeks, June 2017), “Like I Loved millionExclusive in album Artist sales. December that included $15 billion in grants for stuff together,”You” (three,says Kinzie.January 2018),But now “Mercy” that it’s (two, gone August far MontevalloCollections has spent 267 weeksindependent on the list, tying music venues, promoters and other past that, he2018) adds, and “There “Here Tonight” are people (two, looking April 2019). at their Luke Bryan’s Crash My Party as theperforming sixth-longest- arts organizations forced to shut down bank account “Catch”saying, completes ‘I can hold his on longest for days, journey but to No.I 1, • Austin Venues running titles in the chart’s 56-year history. having taken 46 weeks to reach the apex. It out- Unite For More during the pandemic, concert business executives don’t have weeks or months.’” On the all-genre Billboard 200, Southside ar- paces the 30-week climb of “Here Tonight.” Safety Protocols as saw it as a lifeline. While the SBA has released several guideline rives at No. 5, awarding Hunt his second top 10 On Hot Country Songs, “Catch” pushes 7-5 for Texas Mask Mandate HUNT YOUNG after the No. 3-peaking MontevalloMore. than 10 weeks later, however, the Small Busi- updates anda anew preliminary high. checklist for qualifying Expires Hunt first released the EPX2C ness, which Administration debuted (SBA) hasn’t even started accept- organizations, Williams, says, “There’s not a sense of and• peakedNine Artists at No. Could 5 on Top Countrying applications Albums in —August which 2014. means Following funds probably COMBS won’t ‘DOES’ urgencyIT AGAIN rightLuke Combsnow” to’ “Does roll out to Me” the (River program. House/Columbia “We’re MontevalloDominate, Between The 2021 the Pines: arriveAcoustic before Mixtape May. started at its No. 7 high in Nashville), featuringgoing Eric to Churchget it done,, ascends but 11-8sometimes on Country you Airplay, finally up get 10% to to NovemberGrammys 2015. Narrative: Indie venues have been in “desperate” need24.7 of million in audience.your destination The song andis Combs’ there’s eighth nobody straight to greet career-opening you.” Montevallo produced five singles, four of which hit the pinnacle of Country top 10, following a record run of seven consecutive out-of-the-gate, properly Here’s What It Would government assistance since July, says Audrey Fix- A lot of this is just classic bureaucracy. “The SBA is Airplay:Mean “Leave If Each the Night of On,” “Take Your Time,” “House Party” and “Make promoted No. 1 singles. Schaefer, head of communications at promoter I.M.P. building the program from the ground up, and that is You MissThem Me.” “Break Did Up in a Small Town” peaked at No. 2. Church adds his 15th Country Airplay top 10. Hunt co-penned all 12 songsand on Southsidea board member, including for “Body the National Like a Back Independent a long process in government,” says Andrea Roebker, Road,”• Who which Will was Win released in in 2017.Venue The Association smash hit ruled (NIVA), Country which Airplay helped for lobbyTHAT for TOOK the QUITEa regional ‘A FEW’ communications MONTHS Travis Denning director shatters at the theSBA. record While for threeGrammys’ weeks and Big the Four airplay-, streaming-venue grant and sales-basedprogram. Venues Hot Country can’t Songspay rent the now, most she weeks theit has SBA taken was to penetrateable to distribute the Country Paycheck Airplay topProtection 10 as “After chart Categories?for a then-record Our 34 frames. It now ranks second only to Bebe Rexha and a Few” (Mercury Nashville) climbs 12-10 in its 57th week, up 4% to 21.4 mil - adds, with “a promise of hope of funding.” Program loans soon after the CARES Act passed FloridaFearless Georgia Predictions Line’s “Meant to Be” (50 weeks atop the latter list in 2017-18). lion in radio reach. “Downtown’s Dead,” which is alsoWhen on the the new venues set, reached grant legislation Nos. 14 and passed,15 TheAustin- song surpassesin March two 2020,tracks thatthose took were 50 weeks handled each by to delegated enter the top 10: on Hot Country Songs and Countrybased Airplay, promoter Walter respectively, in Kinzie, June 2018. founder “Kin- of promotionEaston Corbin ’sbankers, “A Girl Like and You,” the venue which reachedgrants program No. 10 in Jisanuary a “different 2018 be - folks” led Country Airplay on Feb.and 29, production becoming Hunt’scompany seventh Encore No. 1.Live, It hit reached fore peaking out at No.animal,” 6 that February, says Roebker, and Aaron noting Watson that this’s “Outta is the Style,” first which time No.• 3BILLBOARD on Hot Country 200 Songs. to his congressman for more information onachieved tim- its No.the 10 high department in December has 2017. created a grant process focused on LatestCLICK single HERE “Hard to Forget” jumps 17-9 on Hot Country Songs. It’s his “After” is Denning’s second Country Airplay entry. “David Ashley Parker ing. Rep. Roger Williams (R-TX) “warned us that it (continued) eighth top 10, having corralled 8.2 million U.S. streams (up 96%) and 5,000 in From Powder Springs” traveled to No. 32 in September 2018. ETHAN MICHAEL YOUNG: VIA MARTIN/NHLI GETTY HUNT: IMAGES. IMAGES MILLER/GETTY BEST ACTRESS GOLDEN GLOBES WINNER THE UNITED STATES VS. BILLIE HOLIDAY NEW SINGLE “TIGRESS & TWEED” FROM THE MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK: THE UNITED STATES VS. BILLIE HOLIDAY OUT NOW ! BRAND NEW ALBUM COMING SOON! LOVE, YOUR WARNER RECORDS FAMILY Page 3 of 23 IN BRIEF for-profit entities. venue owner who pays $150,000 a month reforms included new elections for its board There’s a lot involved: compliance with in rent, “she’s going to go bankrupt if this of directors, a code of conduct to address the legislation, interagency work with the doesn’t come through fast,” says Fix-Schae- conflicts of interest and a new technology Office of Management and Budget, and the fer. “After a year, there are no other stones project to address “the distortions in royalty creation of systems to prevent fraud and pri- to unturn.” calculations caused by inaudible music in oritize venues in need. (Those that lost 90% A version of this article originally appeared usage reports.” of revenue in 2020 will get priority.) in the March 13, 2021 issue of Billboard. Paris-based CISAC temporarily expelled Over 30,000 entities could be eligible for the Spanish society in May 2019 after the grants, according to the SBA, which will finding it had violated the international need to hire additional staff in order to meet Citing Reforms, confederation’s rules, which included dis- demand. (Currently, about 15 employees criminatory treatment of rights holders and work on the program, receiving expertise CISAC Readmits irregularities in its distribution of royalties. from supplementary staff.) An amendment CISAC set out a list of 17 reforms it required in the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill would pro- Troubled Spanish SGAE to implement to comply with CISAC’s vide an additional $1.25 billion to the grant rules. program with $840,000 allocated to SBA Society SGAE “CISAC has worked for over three years staffing. to monitor, support and evaluate SGAE’s Since the pandemic began, nearly 100 in- BY ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO transformation into a society that is compli- die U.S. music venues have shuttered perma- ant with international standards,” CISAC nently, and the list continues to grow after he long-running saga of troubled director-general Gadi Oron and board a year without touring. Texas has lost 14 Spanish collecting society SGAE chairman Marcelo Castello Branco said in independent venues since the pandemic, may finally be coming to a close. a joint statement. “This has been a complex with more than half of those in Austin. CISAC, the International Con- task of utmost importance both to CISAC “One of the biggest problems is once they Tfederation of Authors’ Societies, has voted members, who depend on the integrity of announce the rules, it’s going to come in to re-admit the troubled Spanish General the collective management system interna- phases,” says Williams.