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Thicke (left) and Williams outside the Roybal Federal Building in Los Angeles on March 4 and 5.

THE 'BLURRED LINES' THE OVER UNDER PRECEDENT? NOT SO FAST AGGRIEVED SONGWRITERS SEEKING A PAYDAY LIKE THE MARVIN GAYE FAMILY’S $7.4 MILLION VERDICT AGAINST ROBIN THICKE AND PHARRELL WILLIAMS STILL FACE AN UPHILL BATTLE

BY ERIQ GARDNER It’s a rough start to 2015 for Iggy Azalea as a rescheduled arena tour follows a Grammys shutout.

from “ridiculously problematic” an effort to demonstrate how one GES. MILLER: ROBIN MARCHANT/GETTY IMAGES MARCHANT/GETTY ROBIN MILLER: GES. to cheers of “no more plagiarism.” song can influence another — the The attitudes are perhaps reflective five women and three men on the of larger ones — confirmation that “Blurred Lines” jury hardly are the expansive scope of copyright is Supreme Court justices. There’s I eating the young, comeuppance for not much legal precedent from the IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS, FEW artist exploitation, a sign that the jury’s decision, and every reason Lyor Cohen’s 300 Entertainment things are as sacrosanct as credit law trails modernity. to believe it will be a rare one. scores its first hit song with and compensation. Inevitably, Yet for all the controversy that Some things do figure to change Fetty Wap’s “Trap Queen,” which many aggrieved songwriters will the “Blurred Lines” case has thanks to the highly publicized jumps 16-12 on the Hot 100 . hear news of the nearly $7.4 million generated, the verdict is itself victory for Gaye’s family. But first, verdict against Robin Thicke and hollow. Make no mistake: It will be and perhaps more significantly, Pharrell Williams for lifting from talked about decades from now, as several things won’t. For every Marvin Gaye’s “Got to Give It the industry does about the 1976 “Blurred Lines” verdict, there are Up” to create “Blurred Lines” and ruling determining that George hundreds of unsuccessful lawsuits consider it to be a sign that fi ling a Harrison made a “subconscious” alleging song theft. Ask Kanye copyright lawsuit makes sense. infringement on “He’s So Fine” to West, Coldplay and Elton John, In the days since the jury read create “My Sweet Lord.” But even all of whom have killed lawsuits in the verdict — which Howard after hearing musicologists break recent years without ever having Randall Miller, director of Gregg King, Thicke and Williams’ down the songs in question — not to take a witness stand. Federal Allman biopic Midnight Rider, attorney, says he will appeal — to mention Thicke playing a piano judges won’t tolerate allegations pleads guilty to involuntary

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unprotected, generic ideas — and any attorney not warning clients HOW I WON THE believed the Gayes didn’t We were handicapped: The “Yes, we may have copied, of the long odds is committing ‘BLURRED LINES’ have resources and the judge decided not to allow but don’t find us liable borderline malpractice. wherewithal to fight. the full Gaye recording because it’s not a perfect TRIAL It was our opinion that to be played to the match.” Anyone seeking a reason why the By Richard Busch, Gaye Williams and his lawyer, jury. But that may have The key to victory for “Blurred Lines” verdict was different family attorney (as told Howard King, wanted to contributed to the other us was the music. We had should start with Gaye’s popularity: to Eriq Gardner) litigate this in the press side’s biggest mistake, two great musicologists There was never any doubt that by continually saying in my view. They focused who broke down the songs When Robin Thicke and that all they did was take heavily on allegedly and showed that there was Williams had access to “Got to Give Pharrell Williams decided a “feeling.” And if they specific note-for-note copying. Also, Thicke and It Up” — indeed, he and Thicke to launch a lawsuit did any copying, it was differences between Williams were not able admitted they were influenced by claiming that “Blurred only a genre. We believed the lead sheets and the to keep their stories Lines” wasn’t a copyright this was a straight-up recording, arguing there straight. the song. Under what’s known as the infringement of Marvin copyright claim over was no identicality. I We didn’t start this “inverse ratio rule,” plaintiffs have a Gaye’s “Got to Give It compositional elements don’t think it’s a good case, but we made sure to lower standard of proof of similarity Up,” I thought they that had been taken. idea to tell the jury, finish it. when a high degree of access is shown, and while the “Blurred Lines” judge didn’t cite the rule in artistic freedom. for an equal share — with a nod to experts now feel was a mistake. It’s allowing a trial, it’s easy to imagine Time will tell. If anything does “Blurred Lines” — may become the one thing to shrug off an alleged that he respected Gaye’s name shift as a result of the “Blurred new standard. infringement as nothing more than enough to let a jury decide the issue Lines” verdict, it could be tactics. Songwriters, publishers and the lifting of feeling. It’s quite some- of copyright infringement. Once the Major artists from years past may record companies on the defensive thing else to invite a long and nasty case got into the hands of laymen, all feel encouraged by the verdict to still have wind at their backs. As legal battle — with the possibility of bets were off. attempt to wrangle a piece of profits mentioned, most plaintiffs won’t a jury’s unpredictability. Now, dozens in the music industry through settlement, as Tom Petty have Gaye’s stature and will still be are expressing concern. Veteran did against Sam Smith over “Stay burdened by a trail of unsuccessful publisher Richard Stumpf, chief With Me.” Some might even try suits demonstrating that proof of executive of Atlas Music Group, lawsuits. When they do angle for a similarity doesn’t come easy. says that a musician’s subconscious percentage, they’ll have a nice round And once legal letters come, influences now present a “scary number to shoot for: 50 percent. In they’ll be dealt with accordingly. Just situation.” Attorney Larry Iser awarding damages, the “Blurred don’t expect those on the receiving believes it might “inspire other Lines” jury came to $4 million, end to make a rush to the court- lawyers to sue on genre and feel which was half of the publishing house like the one that Thicke and instead of the song itself.” Glen income, according to testimony at Williams made by pre-emptively

Rothstein, another lawyer, says the trial. (An additional $3.4 million suing the Gaye family in the sum- Gaye’s daughter Nona (with attorney Busch, it could be a “game-changer” for was awarded in profits.) Asking mer of 2013, which some legal right) after the verdict on March 10.

Apple’s forthcoming streaming service may not be revenue and reduce piracy. Now, with dozens of ready for primetime, but conversations about pricing streaming services with licensed content, different for what is looking like a June launch seem to have attitudes are forming. landed on the industry standard: $9.99 per month. Indeed, Apple’s pay-only service could be a According to sources, Apple will forgo the turning point. If the mega-company is successful “freemium” model entirely for a paid-only in attracting large numbers of subscribers without subscription — an approach that Beats Music co- having to provide unlimited free listening, Spotify’s founder Jimmy Iovine, a still title-less executive business model could fall under further scrutiny. As it at Apple since the May 2014 acquisition of Beats is, some labels feel Spotify should have more than 15 Electronics, has consistently favored. million subscribers. “Spotify is good at giving away Two industry insiders tell Billboard that in the [music] but bad at getting people to pay,” says a label wake of negotiations with the majors, Apple has source. (The Stockholm-based company claims a 25 backed down from its effort to percent conversion rate.) lower monthly pricing to $7.99, APPLE’S STREAMING RUN-UP Factor in loud complaints as such a price point would from artists and the enticement require the company to absorb $3b 800m of exclusive releases, which Apple, Labels the loss if it sets a price lower 308COm Iovine is said to be pushing, and than the standard $9.99. Amount Apple Number of a weakened Spotify could help Close In On Pricing Industry sentiment about free paid for Beats in credit cards Apple create an even more powerful May 2014 has on file music is years in the making. Apple subscription service. Signs point to $9.99 as the Global revenue fell by a third between 2004 and Still, few specifics about Apple’s plans are known, magic number for a monthly 2014, reshaping the entire structure of the music and at a March 9 event to announce new products music subscription service business. ITunes provided a helpful transition like the Apple Watch and latest MacBook, Apple to digital formats. Five years later, services like senior vp Internet software and services Eddy Cue BY GLENN PEOPLES Spotify won over labels with a pitch to generate declined to discuss the company’s music plans.

8 BILLBOARD | MARCH 21, 2015 TV’s Music Bookers Make The Rounds Julie Gurovitsch jumps from Today to Tonight as Colbert and Corden look to staff up

Music booker Jonathan Cohen’s Feb. 20 exit from NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon has sparked a round of musical chairs at the top daytime and late-night talk shows. Julie Gurovitsch, former music talent coordinator at Today, will step into the music-booking role at The Tonight Show starting March 30, which means a search for her The 2015 Post-Doritos SXSW replacement at Today is on. Free agent Cohen would appear to Tragedy and branding excess in 2014 put music’s biggest conference at a crossroads be a logical fit for the inaugural music — it returns March 13, slightly quieter and with fewer events, but still booming booker slot at CBS’ Late Show With Stephen Colbert when it debuts in September, but a representative for BY ANDREW HAMPP Colbert says no hires have been made (and Cohen declined to comment). OUTH BY SOUTHWEST’S 2014 EDITION marketing dollars,” says Alan Sartirana, founder- Sheryl Zelikson, current music booker marked a turning point for the Austin publisher of Flood magazine, which will host its for Late Show With David Letterman, conference — and indeed, for large-scale inaugural FloodFest at SXSW featuring Spoon, Run however, is expected to be involved music confabs as a whole. Safety concerns the Jewels and Twin Shadow — hardly newcom- S in some capacity with Colbert after (a March 13 car accident caused four fatalities and ers but not Jay and Kanye-level either. Letterman goes off the air on May 20. more than 20 injuries) coupled with criticism of As SXSW reopens its many hotels to an esti- Elsewhere at CBS, The Late Late Show its shamelessly corporate stages (iTunes, Doritos mated 72,000 registrants — the festival does not With James Corden, premiering March and Subway were just three of the many sponsored release attendance figures until after the event 23, has hired Diana Miller (herself showcases) could have foretold a mass exodus — there are few signs beyond the slashed permits a veteran of Late Night With Jimmy — and, based on the departure of several major that would indicate a major dent in its economic Fallon) as its main talent booker. sponsors, there almost was. But on the eve of the impact on the city of Austin, which in 2014 was The intra-NBC Today-Tonight 29th annual conference, which runs March 13-22, $315 million (up a whopping $97 million from switch is notable in a field that often it’s looking like big business as usual — albeit with 2013). Scott McNearney, SXSW’s sponsorships looks outside — Cohen was an editor a slightly quieter tone. chief, anticipates more than 5,000 official show- at Billboard prior to his TV gig, while For starters, SXSW is scaling back. In January, cases during the 10-day conference, and attributes Jimmy Kimmel Live!’s Scott Igoe was the Austin Center for Events announced a 25 this year’s brand departures to typical promotion- an assistant to Jimmy Iovine — and percent reduction in permits for the 2015 festival, cycle turnover (Subway and Pennzoil signed on as with MTV and VH1 moving away estimated by sources to be roughly 100 fewer one-year partners tied to product launches, while from music, signals a shrinking official events, with earlier submission deadlines Doritos was at the end of a three-year contract). pool for bookers. Cautions a TV to allow for more streamlined safety, sound and Perhaps most significantly, even though there executive: “Networks are looking for traffic requirements. By February, the list of are fewer sponsors overall, the revenue is higher. programmers, not music people.” 0 returning sponsors had dwindled: 2014 partners SXSW 2015 has a record nine Super Sponsors Chevrolet, Subway, Apple, Pennzoil and Doritos all (Miller Lite, Esurance, AT&T, IFC, Mazda, declined to renew their activations — and indeed, Monster Energy, McDonald’s, Capital One and some felt the activations had reached a comical PepsiCo), paying upwards of $1 million each, peak with Doritos’ six-story vending machine that will support the entirety of the conference’s stage, which towered over Sixth Street and made Interactive, Film and Music portions — compared some artists (including indie-rock act Diiv) feel like with seven in 2014 — with nary an oversized unwitting spokespeople for the snack food. vending machine in sight. Even longtime SXSW party planners started to feel Still, this year’s festival already has had a brush the effect when up-and-coming bands looking for a with controversy after McDonald’s was called out big break were dwarfed by showcasing A-listers like in a March 5 Facebook post by indie-pop duo Ex Lady Gaga, Coldplay, Jay Z and Kanye West in Cops for inviting bands to play an unpaid showcase. 2014. “We were approached by brands [who wanted] But the company revised its approach on March Blake Shelton to play. Why have him play SXSW? If 10, saying through a representative, “All bands Gurovitsch

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“When we were young, Rob and I were very outspoken and passionate about music,” says Cohen (right), photographed with Stone at Cornerstone’s New York headquarters on Feb. 6. “I was willing to put it all on the line for Blur when [the label] was all about Vanilla Ice, and later Rob did the same thing with [The Notorious] B.I.G.”

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Cornerstone/The Fader, now a COHEN’S CV Jon Cohen & Rob Stone 105-plus-person mini-empire that has projected revenue of $100 million The music-and-branding pioneers on riding with The Notorious B.I.G., in 2015, comprises a label, a music 1990-1994 what brands get wrong about millennials and how much bigger publisher and a film division; there DIRECTOR OF their companies’ SXSW presence can get also is an ongoing expansion for the ALTERNATIVE PROMOTION bimonthly magazine, which will pub- SBK RECORDS 8O@;C7IM7:šF>EJE=H7F>;:8O:KIJ?D9E>;D lish its 100th issue in the fall. Recently — Cornerstone planted a flag on its third 1995-1997 continent by adding a Sao Paulo office VP ALTERNATIVE PROMOTION F ONE THING REFLECTS THE positioning as a bridge between brands to its bases in New York, Los Angeles COLUMBIA RECORDS exponential growth of the and music, and between the hip-hop and and London. Plans for a music festival Cornerstone agency and its sibling alternative-rock genres. Founders Jon and a traveling version of the Fader Fort company, magazine The Fader, it’s Cohen and Rob Stone, both 46, got their are ongoing — as are rumors of outside STONE’S CV theirI presence at South by Southwest. start in major-label promotion before tak- investment. The pair acknowledge The first Fader Fort, in 2002, was a party ing the plunge with Cornerstone in 1996 “interest” but say, “It would have to be in a room at Austin’s Hilton Hotel, with and 1997, respectively. In short order, under the right terms — and if not, we’ll 1990-1994 free beer provided by Levi’s. Since then, the company grew into a brand-strategy just keep growing the company.” DIRECTOR/VP it has grown into a two-plus-acre custom- agency and then launched music and PROMOTION SBK RECORDS built outdoor venue with state-of-the-art fashion magazine The Fader in 1999. The The Fader Fort at SXSW is like a small — lighting and sound, multiple activations, companies have leveraged the magazine- city. How much bigger can your 1994-1996 bountiful swag and all-day performances as-agency model to ease many brands into presence there get? VP PROMOTION by artists that include Kanye West, The the music space — the aforementioned Jon Cohen Honestly, it’s really about ARISTA RECORDS Black Keys, Amy Winehouse, Sam as well as Sprite, Bushmills, Converse, getting better. We’ve always had unique — 1996-1997 Smith and FKA Twigs. Key sponsors for Coca-Cola, Diageo, Reebok and oth- events, whether it’s Kanye bringing out VP 2015 include Converse (for the fourth year) ers — fostering a template that has been his whole [label] family in one show, LOUD RECORDS/SRC and Mazda (for the second), along with followed, and rivaled, by Vice, Complex or getting Damon Albarn to perform MARKETING Jack Daniel’s, Vitaminwater and more, with and Conde Nast, among others. It also with the original Gorillaz lineup for Dell providing a live stream. recently branched out into a different kind the first time ever, or The Black Keys or The Fader Fort is the most vivid of big league by signing on as the creative M.I.A. or Macklemore before anybody example of the companies’ prescient agency for the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks. knew who they were.

10 BILLBOARD | MARCH 21, 2015 How did you first meet? caution and question the integrity of it, despite the Cohen We’ve been best friends since seventh fact that a messed-up music industry has almost grade — we were born nine days apart. required a lot of artists to do brand deals in order Rob Stone Jon’s house was where everybody to have income. There is a negativity to it: Plenty would hang out. of brands, and I’m not going to name names but Cohen We discovered hip-hop together — I’ll you probably read about one this week, still bas- never forget listening to Run-D.M.C. for the tardize the concept of artistry and marketing — I fi rst time in Rob’s car. We grew up on Long think some feel the need to check off the “music” Island right near Hollis, Queens, where a lot of box in their marketing checklist, and they don’t that music was coming from. I started at [EMI fi nd the right partners or advisers when they’re subsidiary SBK Records] as soon as I got out engineering that strategy. Every time one of those of school, and then shortly after, Rob came negative situations occurs, it makes it harder. onboard as well. It was a great time at that label: We were working for Charles Koppelman, Jon, you’re the father of two teenagers. Marty Bandier, Daniel Glass, Monte Lipman. I What do most marketers get wrong about even met my wife there. millennials? Stone [Cornerstone] really started in that fi rst Cohen I think there’s a real blanket assumption year at SBK, because we would talk about our that millennials live and die by social media frustrations with major labels, like, “Why don’t and that they think collectively a certain way, we have our own company? We could do this.” and I would say they’re more individual than 1 any generation in the past. The Internet and Rob, how did you develop such a strong social media are the tools they use to commu- relationship with The Notorious B.I.G.? nicate, but they don’t defi ne them — they’ve Stone When I was at Arista, we spent a lot of enabled them to be individuals. time in cars going to hip-hop mix shows at two in the morning, just me and him. Actually, the fi rst You were heavily involved in teaming day I was with him, it was him, [B.I.G. associate] Pharrell Williams with Diageo for the high- Lil Cease, the road end liquor Qream in manager and me — 2011, which ended with the label guy — and “Plenty of brands him suing the company it’s awkward, right? for $5 million for failing There’s nothing to still bastardize the to distribute the drink 2 really talk about, according to their so I said to him, “I concept of artistry contract. What did you 3 4 saw you perform at take away from that the trotorims —COHEN 111 V._ _ the Muse on 12th and marketing.” experience? Street; I’ll never Stone Well, for one forget it.” He looked at me like, “What were you thing, timing is very important: Pharrell hit his doing there?” — it was a raw scene and there infl ection point about eight months after the was a gunfi ght in the club that night. I was there deal went away. But it’s hard bringing creative because I was a fan, and right there it was a dif- together with businesspeople, even when the ferent level of respect. businesspeople understand the creative process. 916 EADY To DIE' We did a lot to make it work, but there was When did Cornerstone start officially? probably more we could have done on the com- COMING SOON Stone I left Arista in June of ’96 and started it munication side. with Steve Rifkind, [founder] of Loud Records. 1 Cohen, an avid runner, has participated,,,,;,,1,1114 in 14 marathons.marathon s I was a vp at Loud and also a vp for SRC, his mar- Vice has been valued at more than $2.5 bil- 2 For Gorillaz’ 10-year anniversary, Cornerstone client keting company; he was a partner in Cornerstone lion, while you’ve remained independent. Converse created limited-edition Chuckhuck Taylor All Stars designed by bandmember Jamie Hewlett.milett.3 3 Autographed for a year-and-a-half. I left Loud when Jon said, Do you feel like that company took a lot from poster from The Notorious B.I.G.: “Tofo Rob Stone:Stone: “Let’s do Cornerstone together.” your playbook? No. 1 cool white man!” 4 Memento givenliven to Stone, a cancer survivor, by MyMusicRx, which'hich Cohen We’re really impressed with what those delivers music to critically ill young How did you go from being a promotion guys have built — they’ve done a really good job people. “Cornerstone and Fader are company to an agency? of not compromising, and they’ve helped open proud partners with MyMusicRx,” he says. 5 Cohen (left) and Stone at their Stone We were working [several labels’] projects up the market to make people realize that there’s graduation from Lawrence High School 6 to radio, so we had all these indie and alternative a new media world out there. But we’re focused in Cedarhurst, N.Y., in 1986. MTV Video 6 Music Award for Fader label act Matt & acts and this hip-hop roster. We started talking: on being the best we can be in music. We don’t Kim’s 2009 “Lessons Learned” video. “How do we grow the business?” And we stum- really think about where they are. bled upon music and brands with Sprite. The lightbulb went off : There was a lot of marketing A lot of friends in business partnerships end that could be done around music and brands. up losing both. How do you keep it together? Cohen We have a really good partnership — we Are most acts anxious to get into bed with don’t agree on everything, but we have so much brands these days? respect and hear each other out — and we have 5

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Songs from BOW WOW GOES CYBER Fox’s hit show are gaining The former host of BET’s 106 & Park segues to traction on the charts. CBS’ CSI and readies a new single for Cash Money

Bow Wow has graduated from Is new music in the cable to network, joining pipeline, and will Cash CBS’ latest CSI spinoff: Money release it? I’m Cyber, alongside Oscar focusing on music while on winner Patricia Arquette. hiatus from Cyber and have The 28-year-old rapper been in the studio with born Shad Moss also has new Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa, music on the way. Big Krit, Migos and Musiq Soulchild. Contractually, Does your character Brody I’m still on Cash Money. “Baby Face” Nelson embody I’ve spoken to [label any personal traits? co-founder] Birdman and Swagger and colorfulness. we’ve worked things out. Nelson actually did a Everything is good on that little rap in the first side. —GAIL MITCHELL episode when he cracked a Empire’s Secret Weapon code, saying it in rhyme. What do you think the show accomplishes for racial Asked to make Fox’s hit series “sound like a movie,” composer diversity? There are plenty of young African- Fil Eisler (and a 50-piece orchestra) takes cues from The Godfather Americans intelligent enough to work at the FBI. BY PHIL GALLO Hopefully, I can help start James Van Der a new wave of young black Beek (left) and actors who don’t want to Moss in Cyber. anessa Freebairn-Smith is dream sequences that “allowed me to get stereotype themselves. arguably as integral to the into some weird dissonant stuff .” sound of Empire as executive Empire has been the surprise hit of the V music producer Timbaland. season, growing its audience weekly until The fi rst-chair cellist is the primary March 4 when it hit a high of 14.3 million soloist on the 15 or so orchestral cues that viewers, 7.4 million of whom are in the 18-49 composer Fil Eisler writes for each episode, demo, according to Nielsen. It also is fi nally Blues Bros. Label To Launch some as long as fi ve minutes and others as seeing some of its songs gain chart traction. Dan Akyroyd and John Belushi’s widow partner short as a fi ve-note motif. And while each “Conqueror,” featuring Estelle and Jussie with Blue Note in search for new talent episode of Fox’s hit hip-hop soap Smollett, and “You’re So Beautiful,” opera unveils three or four new with Smollett and Yazz, have Thirty-five years after The Blues Brothers hit screens, R&B or rap songs, the show has sold 94,000 and 127,000 copies Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi’s widow Judy are looking found its other musical side in an (according to Nielsen Music) to develop the kind of artists that would have made orchestra that is at times as large and reach Nos. 42 and 47 on the dancing duo proud.p Blues Brothers as 50 pieces, a rarity in series TV. the March 21 Billboard Hott 100,too, Records, distributeddistrib through Capitol When Eisler was hired, execu- Eisler respectively. (A soundtrack album Music Group’sGroup's Blue Note label, will serve tive producer Lee Daniels gave him arrived March 10.) as “a"a refugerefuge ffor blues musicians,” says instructions to push the score toward the In its fi nal three episodes, the showw Eric GardnerGardne , who will run the label’s 1980s drama Dynasty. They also discussed features a litany of music stars — Snoopoop administratadministrative side. Aykroyd, 62, a mobster movies like The Godfather. Dogg, Mary J. Blige, Rita Ora, Jennifermiter lifelonglifelong devotedevotee of the genre who has “Lee said, ‘I want the score to be bold Hudson, Juicy J and Patti LaBelle — hosted a syndicatedsyndic blues radio show and operatic — I want it to be antithesis of along with another dozen or so new songs for 22 yyears, and Blue Note the hip-hop stuff : People will expect wall- produced by Timbaland. presidentpn Don Was will

to-wall beats and I don’t want that. I want “We wanted to populate the world1 of handle1 A&R duties; Judy this to feel like a movie,’ ” recalls Eisler, 41, Empire with real artists,” says Geoff Belushi will be creative a former keyboardist for Robbie Williams Bywater, Fox Television’s head of director. The label plans whose scoring career took off fi ve years ago music. And while star power was partrt to book revue-style with ABC’s Revenge. “All of the episodes of the plan, Eisler “really brings the shows at Live Nation’s have their own fl avor,” he continues. “[The music to a diff erent place,” adds House of Blues venues. March 11 installment] is basically ‘Empire Bywater. “There are a lot of diff erent (Aykroyd was a founder goes to war,’ and they wanted it to sound masters to serve on this one — the of the restaurant/live like a war movie,” whereas the fi rst half showrunners, the creators, Fox — Aykroyd in music chain). A launch The Blues of the two-hour March 18 fi nale involves and I love his instincts.” 0 Brothers. date hasn’t been set. —P.G.

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03-10 Gospel artist and Fix My Choir star Deitrick Haddon partnered with eOne Music to launch a record label, DHVisions. Haddon also will develop and produce projects for TV and film. Haddon

Interlude appointed Brian Harris Frank to the newly created position of president of Interlude Music. Frank previously held roles at Warner Bros., Beats Music and Interscope.

03-11 MTV and VH1 underwent layoffs as part of a restructuring that Philippe Dauman, CEO of parent company Viacom, says will NOTED save $250 million. Confirmed departures include senior vp production Jonathan Kraftwerk Mussman 03-04 Verve Music Group promoted 03-09 co-founder/ , senior vp MTV Mike Rittberg to GM. frontman Ralf Hutter filed News & Docs Marshall Eisen, a trademark infringement senior vp series development Maysles lawsuit against the German Tony DiBari, vp MTV music company eZelleron, and talent Frank Ho and whose product, an longtime executive vp energy-supply unit for news and documentaries mobile electronic devices, Dave Sirulnick. uses the name “Kraftwerk.” Island Records appointed The Orchard acquired the Sophia Chang senior vp A&R master recording catalog of operations. Chang indie blues label Blind Pig

03-05 Director-cinematographer Records, which includes BMI promoted Tracie and Oscar nominee Albert albums by Muddy Waters Verlinde to assistant vp Maysles, whose documentary and Magic Slim. writer/publisher relations, Gimme Shelter famously Los Angeles. chronicled The Rolling Stones’ Tanya Tucker signed with APA U.S. tour in 1969, died of Nashville. Andre Guerette joined The DARRAH/GETTY IMAGES. STONE: COURTESY OF DEKALB SHERIFF’S OFFICE OFFICE SHERIFF’S DEKALB OF COURTESY STONE: IMAGES. DARRAH/GETTY

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Manhattan. He was 88. Stone 03-12 Smirnoff inked a deal with Grammy-winning songwriter- Live Nation/Insomniac to producer Luke Laird extended be the official liquor sponsor his exclusive worldwide for more than 25ii festivals deal with Universal Music worldwide this year, beginning Publishing Group. i with the three Electric Daisy Carnival events.

03-06 Six people were stabbed during a Migos concert at BIRTHDAYS the Washington Avenue Police confirmed that Armory in Albany, N.Y. The Grammy Award-nominated March 15 March 17 Angie Stone victims’ injuries were not R&B singer Young Buck (34) Billy Corgan (48) life-threatening. A police was arrested in Dekalb Will.i.am (40) March 18 investigation is ongoing. County, Ga. and accused Mark Hoppus (43) Adam Levine (36) of aggravated assault after Mark McGrath (47) Queen Latifah (45) Sly Stone (72) Vanessa Williams (52) Migos punching her 30-year-old Phil Lesh (75) March 19 . The daughter, Diamond March 16 Gary Jules (46) blow knocked out several of Patty Griffin (51) March 20 EMPIRE: CHUCK HODES/FOX. EISLER: ARNOLD TURNER/INVISION/AP IMAGES. CSI CYBER: MICHAEL YARISH/CBS. AYKROYD: UNIVERSAL PICTURES/P KRAFTWERK: COURTESY OF EZELLERON INC. CHANG: COURTESY OF UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP. MIGOS: MIKE PONT/FILMMAGIC. MAYSLES: FRED W. MC W. FRED MAYSLES: PONT/FILMMAGIC. MIKE MIGOS: GROUP. MUSIC UNIVERSAL OF COURTESY CHANG: INC. EZELLERON OF KRAFTWERK: COURTESY Diamond’s front teeth. Flavor Flav (56) Spike Lee (58)

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1 From left: Deborah Harry, The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne and Miley Cyrus at the 25th annual Tibet House Benefit Concert held March 5 at Carnegie Hall in New York. 2 Bjork performed the first of seven New York concerts on March 7 at Carnegie Hall. 3 Artist Kehinde Wiley (left) and Swizz Beatz at the 17th Armory Show held at Pier 92 and 94 in New York on March 4. 4 First Aid Kit’s Johanna (left) and Klara Soderberg backstage at the Golden Plains Festival in Victoria, Australia, on March 7. 5 ASCAP Golden Note Award honoree Mario Domm (left) and Voice of Music Award recipient David Bisbal at the 23rd annual ASCAP Latin Music Awards held March 11 at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. 6 ASCAP president/chairman Paul Williams (left) and film director Michael Mann (right) honored composer Elliot Goldenthal with the Founders Award during the 30th annual ASCAP Film & Television Music Awards held March 9 at The Beverly Hilton Hotel.

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KIM KARDASHIAN AND JARED LETO SHOCKED WITH PLATINUM locks, but it was Solange Knowles who owned the scene at the fall/winter 2015 ready-to-wear shows this season. From Carven to Vivienne Westwood, an Estee Lauder dinner party and the ad cam- paign she launched with ElevenParis — the Saint Records maven was indisputably the most about-town musician in Paris. “I’m moving here!” she told U.S. Ambassador to France Jane Hartley backstage at Andrew Gn. Like Knowles, Kanye West hit the fashion circuit in full force — Dior, Givenchy, Balmain and Lanvin shows — all while performing a four-night residency at the recently opened Fondation Louis Vuitton. Aside from platinum, the major trend to permeate the runways was commissioned soundtracks; Hedi Slimane selected Copenhagen trio The Felines to make music for Saint Laurent while London-based band Saint Etienne set the backdrop for the Kenzo show. Musician-heavy turnouts also highlighted the Chloe show, where Kelly Rowland, Lorde and Heloise Letissier of Atlantic/ . "7, Neon Gold’s Christine & The Queens mingled with creative direc- tor Claire Waight Keller backstage, and Jeremy Scott’s Moschino party at The VIP Room, where he danced with pals Rihanna and Katy Perry into the early hours. —ERIN WEINGER

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WEIRDO THE PULSE Is network TV ready for Reggie Watts, OF MUSIC RIGHT NOW the “abstract, nonsensical” bandleader of James Corden’s The Late Late Show?

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REGGIE WATTS SET — PART MUSIC, part comedy, part performance art — can be a confounding experience. AHis hair and beard create a dandelion- puff halo effect around his head. He randomly jumps between voices and vernaculars, from a British accent to American street-corner slang to unintelligible garbles. Using a guitar pedal and a four-track looper, he creates tunes with beat- boxed drums and guttural humming, then croons over them. Sometimes he taps quizzically at the microphone, as if he were an oversize Pomeranian pawing at an iPad. “This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen in my life,” was one typical comment on a YouTube video of Watts’ 2012 TED Talk. “Does anybody know wtf this dude is talking about?” was another response to a performance video. “I love those kinds of reactions,” says Watts, 42, sitting in a booth at Baby’s All Right, a music venue in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg section. “I don’t do weird stuff “Confusion is the highest compliment. Then you to turn people off have the other side, where people ascribe a lot of — I want the audience to be excited,” says Watts, meaning to it. They’re both valid.” photographed Feb. 9 at Baby’s All Right in Brooklyn. GROOMING BY MEGAN LANOUX EXCLUSIVE AT ARTISTS MANAGEMENT USING BAXTER OF CA

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4 BRITNEY SPEARS WAS BARELY 21 WHEN $1 billion in revenue, according to AEG Live. — that becomes the majority of the people the idea of a Las Vegas residency fi rst Las Vegas was transformed by the time who come to our show,” says Larry Rudolph, crossed her mind. It was 2003, shortly after Spears launched Piece of Me on New Year’s Spears’ longtime manager, who relocated to wrapping Dream Within a Dream, her fi rst Eve 2013 at Planet Hollywood Las Vegas. Vegas to work as a producer on Piece of Me. full-blown U.S. arena run, when she and a (Caesars Entertainment Corp. owns Planet That target audience would be someone in friend stayed at Celine Dion’s palatial estate Hollywood.) In 2003, Vegas’ economy was off the Strip to see how the French-Canadian just beginning to wean itself off gaming star lived away from the touring circuit. revenue, which accounted for 43 percent of “I remember how beautiful it was — really total revenue on the Las Vegas Strip in that cool, low-key — and her dressing room was fi scal year ($4.5 billion from July 2002 to great,” Spears, now a 33-year-old mother of June 2003); hotels and entertainment made “PEOPLE YOU WOULDN’T two, tells Billboard from her family’s resi- up the remaining 57 percent ($5.9 billion), dential suite in Vegas, not far from her own according to the Nevada Gaming Control BELIEVE, AT THE TOP dressing room at Planet Hollywood. “I was Board. Today, entertainment has hit an all- OF THE CHARTS, ARE actually jealous, like, ‘Oh, my gosh, she gets time high ($2.3 billion in fi scal year 2014), POKING AROUND VEGAS.” to be in one place all the time.’ Everything with non-gaming revenue accounting for clicked: To have your children and your fam- 63 percent of the Strip’s earnings. —SPEARS’ MANAGER LARRY RUDOLPH ily and that way of life, it just makes sense to The electronic-dance boom of the have everything in one place.” late 2000s hastened the shift. A-list DJs Dion’s Caesars Palace residency was attracted a younger, livelier demo than the the demo of Miley Cyrus, 22, who attended a pioneering one. It was the fi rst time an middle-aged couples who might see a Dion opening night with Rudolph and returned in in-her-prime superstar (Dion, like Spears, or Cher show, hit the tables for an hour and late 2014. “Afterward she said, ‘It’s not over, was 33 when she fi rst embarked) had set up call it a night. Spears, who has amassed 17 is it? I loved every minute. I know every shop in the desert at the peak of her touring top 20 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 (includ- word to every song,’ ” Rudolph recalls. powers, debunking the notion that Vegas ing four No. 1s), was already on her fourth Spears reportedly earns $15 million per was a pop-star retirement community. Her album when many of Vegas’ fun-seekers year (an average of $310,000 per show) 4,100-capacity shows at The Colosseum were in middle school. as part of the initial two-year deal, a fi gure pulled in $493.7 million in Billboard “My thought was, if you bring Britney neither Caesars nor Rudolph would con- Boxscore receipts in the fi rst 10 years, and Spears to this town and create what is in fi rm. The total run of shows through Feb. 21 helped lure Elton John, Cher, Bette Midler essence a pre-game show for that audience has grossed more than $42 million in ticket and Shania Twain to the same venue for a — where they go to the pool, take a nap, pre- sales, according to Caesars Entertainment, rotation of residencies totaling more than game with Britney, then hit the nightclub with four nights of near-sellouts around New Year’s pulling in almost twice the amount that Spears grossed from one sold- out arena show on her Femme Fatale Tour in 2011 ($2.8 million vs. $1.5 million at the Staples Center in Los Angeles). Discussions are already underway to renew through 2017 with a substantial raise for Spears. (This despite fi nancial setbacks at Caesars

From left: Rehearsing at Planet Hollywood in 2013; with boyfriend Ebersol and sons Sean (left) and Jayden in February.

CELINE DION ELTON JOHN BETTE MIDLER A New Day... The Red Piano The Showgirl Must SHOWS 717 (2003-07) SHOWS 242 (2004-09) Go On HIGHLIGHTS Nearly HIGHLIGHTS SHOWS 170 (2008-10) 3 million people saw this Conceived with David HIGHLIGHTS The game-changing show, LaChapelle, John’s Divine Miss M brought a spectacle of Cirque five-year spectacular dirty jokes and her du Soleil theatrics and led to an international backup singers to . dramatic rendition that led tour, an NBC special this revue (which CAESARS PALACE'S to a 210-show sequel and a second cost $10 million to (Celine) and a new residency, The Million produce) . “I survived!” HIGHEST -WATTAGE paradigm for pop Dollar Piano, which cheered Midler on P OP-STA RRESIDENCIES career arcs. closes April 15. closing night. “The whole environment here, it just oozes family and fun,” says Spears. From far left: Spears wears a Givenchy jacket and Effy Jewelry rings; with Steven Tyler on the set of Britney: Piece of Me on Feb. 27.

MEANWHILE, VEGAS HAS ENABLED another kind of comeback for Spears in her personal life. Having weathered a much-publicized meltdown and a string of breakups since her tumultuous divorce from ex-husband Kevin Federline in 2006, Spears has regained primary custody of sons Jayden James, 8, and Sean Preston, 9, and recently found new romance with boyfriend Charlie Ebersol, 32, son of Olympics producer Dick Ebersol. “Our passion for life is on the same page,” says Spears of Ebersol. It has been 16 years since “...Baby One More Time” hit No. 1 on the Hot 100. (Spears’ advice for her 17-year-old self? “Stay strong.”) The Vegas routine seems to suit her well. On show nights, she’ll spend an hour . CAREY: DIMITRIOS KAMBOURIS/GETTY IMAGES F @BRITNEYSPEARS/INSTAGRAM. DION, CHER, TWAIN: DENISE TRUSCELLO/COURTESY OF AEG LIVE LAS getting her hair and makeup done while rock- ing out to Taylor Swift’s 1989 (“It’s so much fun — ‘Out of the Woods’ is a good one”) STATS before heading downstairs for a prayer with her team. Afterward, she’ll do a meet-and- greet for 30 to 40 fans and any celebrities Entertainment Operating Company, which to be associated with creating this next- who might be in town; Lady Gaga dropped voluntarily fi led for Chapter 11 bankruptcy generation type of show.” in last March, and Arnold Schwarzenegger protection on Jan. 15.) Indeed, Mariah Carey has announced visited during New Year’s. “That was kind of Rascal Flatts manager Clarence Spalding plans for her own residency, Mariah Carey weird,” says Spears with a giggle. $42M says Spears’ residency helped inspire his #1’s, to start May 6 at The Colosseum, and During the weeks she’s performing, Jennifer Lopez is rumored to be next. “I’ve Spears splits her time between Los Angeles Total ticket revenue act’s mini-residency at Hard Rock Hotel for Britney: Piece of Me & Casino’s Joint venue this spring. “When probably gotten calls from 10 major manag- and Vegas. Jayden and Sean come every through Feb. 21 Larry fi rst told me about Britney playing her ers asking me advice on their artists,” says other weekend, and Ebersol fl ies in room, I couldn’t even sleep that night. The Rudolph. “People you wouldn’t believe, who regularly. Beyond Vegas, Spears is still work- next day I called him and said, ‘Is this some- right now are at the top of the charts, are ing: on a lingerie line and “slowly but surely” 17 thing for any of my acts to do?’ She really poking around Las Vegas. But unless you recording her ninth album. But “there’s a lot Number of Spears’ top 20 stepped up everyone’s game.” have a deep catalog, where that 65-year-old going on with my kids and schools and add- hits on the Hot 100 “The show is something everyone has couple can enjoy it as well as the millennial ing new sports,” she says. “I’m going to try to embraced and considers one of the great nightclub-goer, you can’t make it work. do my best to do an amazing album. But it’s $310K HAIR AND MAKEUP BY GLENN NUTLEY AT CLOUTIER REMIX. LIVE: DAVID BECKER/CAESARS ENTERTAINMENT/AP PHOTO. FAMILY, TYLER: COURTESY O COURTESY TYLER: FAMILY, PHOTO. ENTERTAINMENT/AP BECKER/CAESARS DAVID LIVE: REMIX. CLOUTIER AT NUTLEY GLENN BY MAKEUP AND HAIR VEGAS. MIDLER: ETHAN MILLER/GETTY IMAGES/COURTESY OF AEG LIVE. JOHN: M. CAULFIELD/WIREIMAGE. STEWART: ETHAN MILLER/GETTY IMAGES milestones in Las Vegas,” says Jason You’re playing to those people and super- not my full priority right now.” With the resi- Spears’ estimated Gastwirth, senior vp marketing and fans at the same time. There are very few dency powering her career, Spears can more average per-show entertainment for Caesars. “She’s going artists who have that ability to please both.” easily aff ord to realign those priorities.0 paycheck

CHER ROD STEWART SHANIA TWAIN MARIAH CAREY Cher at the Colosseum Rod Stewart: The Hits Shania: Still the One Mariah Carey #1’s SHOWS 192 (2008-11) SHOWS 100-plus SHOWS 105 (2012-14) BEGINS May 6 HIGHLIGHTS (2010-present) HIGHLIGHTS In two t HIGHLIGHTS Mimi Her three-year HIGHLIGHTS Feb. 6 years, 337,500 guests has 18 No. 1 Hot 100 extravaganza marked the 100th witnessed the country singles and promises featured 17 costume performance of superstar serenade a to sing them all at her changes (courtesy of Stewart’s best-of white horse with her inaugural residency, legendary designer showcase, which mega-ballad, “You’re starting this spring. Bob Mackie), four features lots of pink Still the One.” There “It’s going to be really aerialists, a golden and occasional also was a campfire cool having her here chariot and its star’s cameos from his singalong and a flying — like real girl power,” bare bottom. daughter Ruby. motorcycle. Spears tells Billboard.

MARCH 21, 2015 | WWW.BILLBOARD.COM 31 When he was a kid, Flowers’ brother scaled one of Newton’s exterior walls and snuck a peek at his helicopter. “We talked about it for weeks at school,” recalls Flowers (left). Newton, who has performed in Vegas since 1959, and Flowers were photographed Feb. 24 standing on Newton’s Fokker F-28 airplane at Casa de Shenandoah. For an exclusive interview and behind-the- scenes video of Newton happily recalling his most amorous female fans, go to Billboard.com or Billboard.com/ipad. 40 PHOTOGRAPHED BY AUSTIN HARGRAVE ## * tlia 404, a*ift 4040 4040 40Willo ler 40 404040 0* 40- al"4* aftift Oan CMGS) BRANDON FLOWERS & WAYNE NEWTON

MR. LAS VEGAS, 72, AND THE KILLERS’ HOMETOWN-BOY-MADE-GOOD FRONTMAN, 33, MET UP AT NEWTON’S LEGENDARY ESTATE, CASA DE SHENANDOAH, TO TALK ABOUT LIFE ON AND OFF THE STRIP N s BRANDON FLOWERS Wayne and I met when The Killers ° asked him to appear in our video for “Battle Born” [in 2012]. We wanted to get in all the quintessential Las Vegas. We had a white tiger and Andre Agassi. Wayne was pretending to direct the band in the control room. The couches in the studio are still ripped up from the tiger. WAYNE NEWTON I had a ball. Brandon said, “I want you to take my band, don’t be nice to them, give them hell like you would onstage if they’d screwed up your show.” FLOWERS We always talk about how we bring a little bit of Vegas wherever we go. I grew up with people like Wayne on billboards. You go to the 7-Eleven and there’s a line of slot machines with a Rat Pack picture. I didn’t realize how much it was ingrained in me. When I was a kid, I listened to Depeche Mode and New Order, but when I went home I would put on Frank Sinatra’s Main Event. And I played golf. I secretly had this older persona for myself of, like, driving an El Dorado, smoking cigars and listening to Sinatra. NEWTON The guy who first brought me here to do six shows a night was an agent from L.A., Lucky Levin. I had no idea what you were supposed to wear. And Lucky said, “A tux, of course.” I’ve worn tuxes ever since. FLOWERS I like wearing tuxedos. My aunt cleaned Dean Martin’s room at the MGM. She snuck around and said he only had tuxedos, pajamas and a lot of pills. NEWTON What mood were you in when you wrote “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” [from 2010’s Flamingo, Flowers’ first solo album]? FLOWERS I have a love-hate relationship with this town. And it came out. Usually I’m the ambassador for this place, but in this song I showed another side. I was sick of people handing out cards for hookers on the Strip, and had the idea to use that iconic sign and slogan and turn it on its head a little bit. NEWTON All of us here — regardless of what genre you might be recognized in — push the envelope a little bit to see where it will take us, because if there is one city that would allow that, it’s this one. (Strolls among his fleet of vintage Rolls-Royces.) I really love Rolls. That has been my favorite car since I was this high to a grasshopper. This one was Liberace’s; this was Johnny Cash’s. What are you driving? FLOWERS (Gestures out window.) That brown truck — I’ve got three boys. NEWTON Trust me, I understand. —MICHAEL WALKER

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FOR THIS ROCKER, THE VATICAN HAS NOTHING ON THE ENTERTAINMENT CAPITAL OF THE WORLD

During the past seven years, the legendary bandleader, 67, has become a Las Vegas staple, most recently with multiple strings of dates at Mandalay Bay’s House of Blues (next up: May 22-31). He has been able to capitalize on the city’s skyrocketing appetite for entertainment — tickets at the 1,800-capacity venue include $375 table seats and $750 VIP packages — while still leaving time to finish recordingSantana IV, which he will do in April. Santana has a few words of advice for entertainers (and others) heading into the desert.

1. AVOID GAMBLING “I don’t have any desire for that sensation, temptation or stimulation. I don’t believe in luck, chance or fortune; I believe in grace. I’d rather invest my emotions into something that is a sure shot, which is music.”

2. GET OFF THE STRIP “My wife, Cindy, just got me a bicycle. I’m leery about trying that after what happened to brother Bono, but she said that was different because it happened in Central Park. In the desert you might hit a coyote, but that’s it.”

3. SEE CIRQUE “I don’t see many shows, but the one I’d like to go to over and over again is Cirque du Soleil’s Michael Jackson: One. I’ve seen it three times because every person in there excels with it.”

4. HIT THE HOUSE OF BLUES “The first time I came here, I said, ‘Oh, they love Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters’ — everything that I love; the first music that I loved from America. So when I come to a place and the first thing I see is the pictures of these beloved people, I’m like, ‘I want to be here.’ I’d rather be here than the Vatican.” —STEVEN J. HOROWITZ

“It’s a good time to be in Las Vegas, because it’s extremely productive financially and even spiritually,” says Santana, photographed Feb. 12 at Foundation Room.

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w 4S+4. -11611/44.t.4**41AL When pioneering French DJ David Guetta first performed on the Vegas Strip in 2009, the crowds didn’t get it. “It felt like they’d seen the world’s best magician the day before, and now they were seeing the fancy, fun DJ,” says Guetta, 47. “There was no scene.” Flash forward six years, and the scene has exploded. DJ-centric venues have opened all over the city, each bigger and more lavish than the last, culminating most recently in the 2013 opening of Hakkasan at the MGM Grand, an 80,000-square-foot nightclub and restaurant that cost a rumored $200 million. By 2014, seven of the country’s 10 highest-grossing properties were in Vegas, according to Nightclub and Bar maga- zine. The publication estimates that XS, the ultra-luxe nightclub owned by The Wynn (and where Guetta has a residency), earned more than $100 million in 2014. To maintain momentum, it underwent a $10 million technology revamp in December. It’s the DJs, though, and not the high-end light shows that attract the big spenders willing to drop thousands of dollars on VIP bottle service. Afrojack was the first DJ to sign an exclusivity agreement with a hotel, when he paired with The Wynn in 2010. Now, residency con- tracts are common, as are the high fees that accompany them. Insiders say it’s not unusual for a DJ to earn up to $300,000 per gig. (In his new three-year residency with Hakkasan, Calvin Harris is rumored to be making $400,000 per gig.) For these artists, the benefits of playing Las Vegas extend beyond the paycheck. “If we spin in Vegas, we get billboards in L.A.,” says Alain Macklovitch, 32, better-known as A-Trak, who is a regular at the club Light. “It’s insane marketing. I can’t think of anywhere else that has that kind of trickle-down effect. You want to see how big Vegas EDM has become? Drive down Sunset Boulevard.” —M.B.

Initially wary about playing the Strip, Guetta now commends the intensity of Vegas crowds. “When American audiences go, they go hard,” he says. Guetta (left) and A-Trak photographed March 1 at XS Nightclub. For an exclusive interview and behind-the-scenes video of the two DJs putting to rest Vegas rumors, go to Billboard.com or Billboard.com/ipad.

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7 ‘ELVIS AIN’T NEVER LEFT THE BUILDING’

Presley backstage at the International Hotel WEDDINGS, A RESIDENCY, DEBAUCHERY: HOW VEGAS on Aug. 1, 1969. CHANGED PRESLEY AND VICE VERSA

BY MIKE SAGER

T HE FIRST TIME ELVIS PRESLEY PLAYED guitar, he shakes and shivers like he is suf- big shows, big packed houses. More than Las Vegas, the critics hated him. fering from itchy underwear and hot shoes,” any other performer, Elvis set the tone.” Appearing in the Venus Room at the wrote Ralph Pearl in the Las Vegas Sun. Inspired in part by Elvis’ quickie mar- New Frontier Hotel in the spring of 1956, “For the average Vegas spender or show- riage to Ann-Margret in the 1964 schmaltz the 21-year-old hillbilly crooner with the goer, [Elvis is] a bore,” wrote another of the classic Viva Las Vegas, there are at least a dreamy eyes and well-lubricated hips was Sun’s critics, Bill Willard. half dozen chapels off ering Elvis weddings. billed as “America’s only atomic-powered (The title song from the movie is the city’s singer.” Two years earlier, he had been TODAY, A TRIP TO VEGAS CONFIRMS unoffi cial theme.) At Planet Hollywood, driving a truck in Memphis for $45 a Elvis’ enduring infl uence. Elvis imper- an Elvis will offi ciate and sing up to three week. Now he had a contract with RCA sonators perform at the Flamingo Hotel, songs. (The property that Planet Hollywood Victor Recordings and a movie deal with Harrah’s Hotel and Planet Hollywood. occupies today was once the Aladdin Hotel, Paramount Studios. Costumed Elvises distribute broadsheets where Presley, then 32, married the 21-year- At the time, Vegas was known for its for escort services. There’s an Elvis Suite old Priscilla Ann Beaulieu, in 1967, the fi rst mobbed-up glamour — bent-nose guys in at the Las Vegas Hotel, and an annual Elvis marriage for both.) Tfedoras, ladies in white gloves. It was the festival and parade — former Mayor Oscar Recently, the Westgate Las Vegas era of The Rat Pack. The furniture was Goodman and his wife, the current mayor, Resort — formerly the International Hotel, mid-century modern, the patrons were well- Carolyn Goodman, traditionally ride in a where Elvis posted a record 837 consecu- dressed, the food and drink were expensive, pink Cadillac with an Elvis impersonator. tive sold-out performances over seven and the nightclubs were ruled by hepcats At the Hard Rock Cafe are gold records, years, in front of 2.5 million total people — like Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. belts, a smashed guitar and a telegram from announced plans to cooperate with Elvis’ The audiences packing the venues, Elvis and his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, Graceland estate to bring a permanent however, were somewhat old by today’s to The Beatles. exhibit to the hotel. standards, mostly in their 50s and 60s. “Elvis signaled an important change in “Basically, Elvis never died,” says Travis After World War II, veterans had gotten a Las Vegas,” says Oscar Goodman. During Allen, a former electrician who appears late start on life. The youth culture pio- his 12-year administration, the city became nightly at Planet Hollywood as Elvis. Allen neered by their children, the baby boomers, known for its risque slogan: “What happens points out that he is the only solo Elvis was still in its embryonic stage. And still in Vegas stays in Vegas.” “Elvis bridged the with a live band playing a major hotel misunderstood. gap between the Frank Sinatra/Rat Pack venue. His material spans all of the Elvis “As he stands up there clutching his years and what you see today — big names, periods, from young and handsome to the

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bloated version in the spangled jumpsuit. As the years passed, and Elvis morphed set a whole new standard of debauchery. 1 Fremont Street in “People come up to me every night and — from hunky to husky to grossly obese Toward the end of his career, Elvis was 1956. 2 With Priscilla Presley, following the say, ‘Thank you for keeping the memory — so too evolved the culture of Vegas and said to be addicted to a variety of prescrip- couple’s wedding at alive,’ ” says Allen. “No other entertainer the nation, though not entirely in the same tion drugs from fi ve diff erent doctors. the Aladdin Resort and Casino on May 1, 1967. ever had his hold on an audience.” direction. In a sense, Elvis represented an His frequent crash diets also took a toll, 3 The International innocent era, when the nation’s youth were as did his endless schedule, the death of Hotel advertises Elvis’ ON JULY 31, 1969 — A YEAR AFTER HIS BIG residency in the summer fi rst beginning to separate from the culture his beloved mother and the breakup of of 1969. 4 With Sammy comeback special on TV re-energized his of their elders — what would come to be his marriage to Priscilla in 1972. Oscar Davis Jr. (left) backstage career — Elvis performed his fi rst sold-out known as the generation gap. When the Goodman came to know Elvis during at the Showroom at the International in 1970. show at the International. war in Vietnam upped the ante, with the visits to the town’s leading physician, Dr. 5 The Strip in 1971. This time the reviews were breathless: mandatory draft and 58,220 dead, Elvis’ Elias Ghanem (“I had a severe case of 6 Presley (left) with Bobby Darin at the Hotel “Elvis got a constant, roaring approval innocent love ballads and catchy dance gout and Elvis was always being treated Sahara in 1960. 7 Movie from his fans who all but threw themselves tunes would give way to the anger and pas- for various maladies”). poster for 1964’s Viva into the aisles and out of the balcony as the sion of the Woodstock generation’s rockers, According to Jody Ghanem, the doctor’s Las Vegas. 8 Onstage at the International in Pelvis sang his many rock’n’roll hits while who took their form from R&B but added widow, Elvis stayed for weeks at a time 1969. 9 Performing in fi ercely, almost savagely turning himself new and more powerful content. at the Ghanem home, as the doctor 1975 at age 40. outside in,” wrote Pearl at the Sun. But Vegas was not Altamont or even the attempted to wean him from his medica- “His aura was incredible. It made you Fillmore; the city of sin that the mob had tions. Elvis gifted the doctor a 1971 Stutz kind of goose-pimply,” says Carolyn built in the desert was isolated, well-policed Bearcat and several rings, one a big horse- Goodman, who attended his shows and met and pricey. Although Elvis brought in shoe with diamonds. “One time, Elias The King several times. younger audiences with money to spend, took Elvis’ medicines and emptied them The next day, Parker negotiated a he didn’t bring hippies or rock bands. More out and replaced them with sugar cap- fi ve-year contract for Elvis to play each than anything, what he did was make it cool sules,” says Ghanem, a former Radio City February and August, at an annual salary for fading superstar performers to fi nd a Rockette. “Elvis was superstitious. He had of $1 million. second (or even third) act of their career in this premonition that he was going to pass During the next seven years, Elvis ruled Vegas. In that way, Elvis paved the way for away in his 40s, the same age as his mom.” the Strip. Tickets to his dinner show were the likes of Britney Spears. Elvis’ last performances in Vegas were $17.50 and included lobster or steak. The Dec. 2 through 12 in 1976. After returning to RQUE DU SOLEIL/GETTY IMAGES. BASKETBALL: LARRY SMITH/EPA/CORBIS. W. GETTY IMAGES. 4, 9: MICHAEL OCHS ARCHIVES/GETTY IMAGES. MANUEL 5: LITRAN/PARIS MATCH/GETTY IMAGES. 6: © BETTMANN/CORBIS. midnight show included drinks and cost a THE KING’S WELL-DOCUMENTED TASTE Graceland in Memphis, he died on Aug. 16, bit less. In one 29-day period, Elvis played for the good life also helped set another 1977, at the age of 42. for 101,509 guests. Over seven years, he is kind of tone in Vegas: as an oasis of over- “Elvis might be gone, but he ain’t never said to have sold $43.7 million in tickets, an indulgence. Dean Martin and the Rat left the building,” says Elvis impersonator estimated $171 million in 2015 dollars. Packers were playful drunks; sweaty Elvis Allen, putting on his best Memphis drawl.

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Awolnation, Run Madonna Rebel Heart (Interscope) ANDWICHED BETWEEN HITS ON THE ROCK too. “Hollow Moon (Bad Wolf)” welds ’80s dance pop to throb- radio stations it dominated from 2011 to 2013, Awol- bing industrial skronk, like OMD getting a piggyback ride from Sheppard nation’s blockbuster “Sail” sounds like Nine Inch Skinny Puppy. “Fat Face,” with its soft-shoe beat and winsome Bombs Away (School Boy/Republic) Nails covering Nickelback. It’s dark, with crashing pianos, could be mistaken for Electric Light Orchestra if Bruno synths, scary violins and lyrics about ADD. If you weren’t screaming its chorus. And the charming acoustic ballad Fences never listened to its parent LP, 2011’s Megalithic “Headrest for My Soul” is as unassuming as its title. Lesser Oceans Symphony, it’s easy to imagine Awolnation as the If there’s another “Sail” here, it’s grinding rocker “Windows,” (Atlantic) latest active rock project out of Manitoba or Oklahoma City. But but even that features Pet Sounds-esque arrangements and cascad- Empire Cast nothing could be further from the truth: The act ing pop vocals. Like the rest of the LP, the song Empire: Season 1 is, in fact, the one-man band of 36-year-old Los LINER NOTES brims with textures and moods that go in multiple Soundtrack Angeles-based singer-songwriter-producer Aaron directions at once. Listening to Bruno try to pull it (Columbia) Bruno, and Megalithic is an ebullient orchestral pop off is fascinating, though not particularly moving. Luke Bryan record. “Sail,” which briefly held the record as the It’s like watching someone juggle chain saws. Spring Break… Checkin’ Out longest-charting song on the Billboard Hot 100 As evidenced by Bruno’s forebears — those (Capitol Nashville) (79 weeks) until Imagine Dragons’ “Radioactive” aforementioned pop visionaries — there’s a surpassed it, sounds like nothing else on it. long and storied line of geniuses/nutjobs who Olly Murs Never Been Better Bruno, then, faced a quandary with follow- can anchor their orchestral ambitions with real (Columbia) up Run: Deliver 12 new versions of “Sail,” or emotion. Bruno’s not there yet, and it’s possible keep Awolnation weird. He does the latter, and he never will be; his rightful place may just be Kevin “K.O.” Olusola that’s a good thing. On Run, Bruno acts like a behind the boards rather than in the spotlight. The Renegade EP (RCA) short-order cook serving up a menu of diverse Emo lyrics aside — “Last night I fell apart/Broke sounds as fast as possible: the Ryan Tedder hook- from my swollen heart,” he sings over the slinger special, the Jeff Lynne and Brian Wilson delicious synth pop of “Woman Woman” — Run instrument-drenched combo, the Trent Reznor PRODUCER Aaron Bruno is more of a technical accomplishment than an with a side of schmaltz. His stamina alone is LABEL Red Bull Records artistic one. Bruno the pop star is not nearly as

KARI ROWE KARI worth applauding; a number of his songs are RELEASE DATE March 17 appealing as Bruno the juggler. —GARRETT KAMPS

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From left: Wilkin, Roche, Morgan and Bass Parts And Beekeeping With... Bagnall MODEST MOUSE Eight years since its last studio LP and 11 since its breakout hit “Float On,” Modest Mouse finally returns with Strangers to Ourselves (March 17, Epic), a rollicking alt-rock power trip filled with saloon pianos and existential doubt. Frontman Isaac Brock, 39, explains the long wait and his issues with Portlandia. ALBUM Strangers to Ourselves has been in the works I don’t think they’ve ever known what to do with for almost five years. What took so long? us. I don’t think they know why the f— it works. Rixton, Let I had all sorts of f—ing schemes — I canned a lot We’re not a pop band. I’m not sure what kind of of ideas. I was going to make a record that was band we are, and I like it that way. really boring, like a rock’n’roll version of [1938 the Road Thornton Wilder play] Our Town where songs But in the end, do you have a good just plodded along with mundane daily stories. relationship with the label? I got like five songs into that and said, “All right, I actually really like being on Epic. I would bad-

enough.” Then I just wanted to play a hard f—ing mouth them if I wanted to. That’s just the kind of PRODUCERS Benny Blanco, Stargate, others rock record with no overdubs. guy I am — a little bit of a dick. It has been good LABEL School Boy/ most of the time, more than I can say with most Interscope You initially set out to produce the LP yourself, independent labels. RELEASE DATE March 3 but you eventually recruited Andrew Weiss, Tucker Martine and others for help. Why? Epic’s website still has a band picture with NGLISH FOURSOME RIXTON I fired myself. Then we kept having people guitarist Johnny Marr, who left in 2009. was toiling in relative obscurity on come in to work on the record, but everyone had Yeah, that picture has three to four people who YouTube when impresario Scooter other shit scheduled after x amount of days, so aren’t in the band anymore. Every time we show Braun (Justin Bieber’s manager) no one wanted to hang out while we took three up to a town to play a show the picture still has Ecaught wind of the group’s jokey cover vid- years rerecording bass parts and putting mics Johnny. All my ideas for photo shoots for this eos and signed the act in 2012. Shortly after, in jugs of water to see how it sounds. It doesn’t album didn’t involve really seeing us. I mean, Daft he connected Rixton with super-producer sound great. There’s a reason they’re not selling Punk found a way around it. Benny Blanco (Katy Perry, Rihanna) to the jug-of-water mic. helm its breakout hit, “Me and My Broken You cameoed on Portlandia in 2012. You’re from Heart,” mining the same harmless reggae- Did Epic Records pressure you to finish Portland, Ore. What do you think of the show? pop terrain that vaulted Magic’s “Rude” to recording the album sooner? Sometimes it makes fun of things that are, the top of the charts. To be frank, one of the things that we’ve done like, that’s just what we do. Like, I keep bees. The group’s debut album, Let the Road, pretty much the entire time on Epic is not let Portland hardly got to have an identity before seeks to duplicate the success of “Heart” by them know when we’re recording a record. We that identity became a joke — I live in a joke. banking on a similar sound, but the brand- largely just pay for it out of pocket. Like this one Seattle at least got to wear out its identity name connections do little to distinguish — I was nearly homeless by the end of the record. before it became a joke. —CHRIS PAYNE Rixton. Executive-produced by Blanco and featuring contributions from Ed Sheeran, the LP has roots in funk, R&B and soul as well “I’m not sure what kind of band we as reggae but codes as pop due to its vocals are, and I like it that and texture; when given the choice between way,” says Brock. polish and grit, the band almost always opts for the former. On the tropical “Wait on Me” and elsewhere, lead singer Jake Roche sounds uncannily like Maroon 5’s Adam Levine. When that familiar timbre shimmies up to Blanco’s bouncy production, the results are catchy, but fail to leave a deeper impres- sion; boilerplate lyrics about relationship pablum don’t help, either. It’s when the members of Rixton (Roche, Charley Bagnall, Danny Wilkin and Lewi Morgan) handle the songwriting that they hint at a unique identity. The tracks are still derivative of the group’s pop-soul forbears (“Speakerphone” plays like a store-brand version of M5’s “Payphone”), but they smartly push the act’s bright harmonies to the forefront. Focusing on that strength may help to separate Rixton from peers, like 5 Seconds of Summer, with similar infl u- ences but bigger successes. —JAMIESON COX

42 BILLBOARD | MARCH 21, 2015 Twin Shadow clears the LATE-NIGHT TUNES: electronic fog on his major- THE HITS AND MISSES label debut. Billboard picks the best and worst live TV performances from March 2 through 7

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GZA AND TOM MORELLO, THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON (MARCH 3) To paraphrase Bill Hader’s Saturday Night Live character Stefon, this performance of GZA’s recent cover of “The Mexican,” an Ennio Morricone- inspired 1972 song by Babe Ruth, had everything: the Wu- Tang rapper’s rhymes, newcomer Kara Lane’s fiery vocals, The Roots, break dancers and Tom Morello’s guitar virtuosity.

ALBUM JOYWAVE, JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE! (MARCH 2) This geeky Rochester, N.Y., quintet dressed like a wedding band in a “Weird Al” Yankovic Twin Shadow, Eclipse video: pink pants, white shirts and matching necklaces. Lead singer Daniel Armbruster’s N HIS THIRD ALBUM, TWIN SHADOW mustache and oversize glasses pivots away from the past — both pop recalled Napoleon Dynamite’s brother Kip, but he sounded like a powered-up Bono-Rivers music’s and his own. But what has been Cuomo hybrid, taking the electro-rock band’s already kinetic R. RAELYNN: TERRY WYATT/FILMMAGIC sacrifi ced in the name of progress? PRODUCER Twin Shadow performance of “Somebody New” up several notches. OIn recent interviews, George Lewis Jr., the LABEL Warner Bros. 31-year-old singer/producer/multi- instrumentalist RELEASE DATE March 17 BRANDI CARLILE, CONAN (MARCH 3) behind Twin Shadow, has criticized his earlier Carlile’s take on “Wherever Is Your work — fi lled with foggy layers of synths and drum Heart” was as straightforward machines that drew comparisons to Depeche an impression, which yields movie-anthem-scale as they come: Flanked by her Mode and Simple Minds — for speaking in “code,” dogged pleading that can recall Imagine Dragons, longtime guitarist and bassist, the Hanseroth twins, she looked a “specifi c language” that tends to exclude. particularly on the irksome single “To the Top.” appropriately folksy in her fringe Eclipse is his fi rst full-length since shifting from A few tracks, such as “Turn Me Up” or “Watch jacket and Amish hat. But her the boutique-label ambience of 4AD to the Me Go,” are nearer to his past practice of leaning voice — a high, sweet instrument fl uorescent exposure of Warner Music. And now, emotionally intense vocals against tangle-footed that she embellishes with a sexy trill — is seriously special, and it he says, coincidentally or not, that his music is beats, like a more gregarious version of many bed- was in full force here. no longer “elitist.” Yet the “specifi c language” an room-laptop artists late last decade. Other tunes artist uses is not only a strategic defense system (“I’m Ready,” “Flatliners”) fall in between, like MISS

— it’s an aesthetic, not to be discarded blithely. optical puzzles that fl ip between two dimensions PURITY RING, LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS It’s true that Eclipse unveils itself less coyly than and three depending on how one squints. (MARCH 4) previous Twin Shadow albums, and sounds more It’s not a matter of so-called indie versus main- Vocalist Megan James’ brashly contemporary. But it hazards turning stream, distinctions Lewis is likely well-aware have mushroom-cloud coif was generic in the process. become petty. It’s a question of what a polished-up fascinating, and Corin Roddick’s synthesizer kit, In some places, Lewis’ conscious uncluttering of Twin Shadow has to add to a world already bursting which was connected to a RTESY OF ABC. CARLILE: COURTESY OF TBS. PURITY RING: LLOYD BISHOP/NBC. MUMFORD: M. DAVID BENETT/GETTY IMAGES FOR HARPER’S BAZAA his production style reinforces his knack for piling with compelling egomaniacs and inspired auteurs, series of geometric lights, up sentiments and hooks, as on the clubby single from Kanye West to Perfume Genius or FKA Twigs. looked kind of cool. But the “Old Love/New Love” or the ballad “Alone,” a Lewis may have cracked his own code, but if the Canadian duo’s performance of “Begin Again” gave off little of duet with The Voice alumna Lily Elise. But subtlety decryption yielded any message of urgency, Eclipse the heat that its parent album, Another Eternity, is showing often seems secondary to Lewis’ craving to make doesn’t quite illuminate it. —CARL WILSONVrE on the Billboard 200. —FRANK DIGIACOMO

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MUMFORD & SONS JENNY HVAL WALE FEATURING RAELYNN “BELIEVE” “THAT BATTLE IS OVER” USHER -FOR“FOR AA garBOY” GLASSNOTE SACRED BONES “THE MATRIMONY” 8IGAAACHINBIG MACHINE MAYBACH MUSIC GROUP/ Following the busy acoustic Her voice veering from sweet ATLANTIC Channeling the lovesick lyrics, stomp of past singles like murmuring to all-out wailing, st,oky-swersticky-sweet pop melodies and “Little Lion Man,” Mumford & experimental pop provocateur “I’ll admit it, all being pathetic/ RaeLynn M+gerpidufi nger-picked acoustics of early Sons’ “Believe” does away with Jenny Hval’s dreamy new track is I’m in my late 20s/Still never Taylor Swift,Swil RaeLynn follows the the band’s beloved banjos in driven by musings about biology, been to a wedding,” admits polarizing'polarizing “God Made Girls” with Mumford favor of Coldplay-ish stadium- divine punishment and feminism. Wale on this surprisingly raw 'For“For aa Boy,Boy,” an all-inclusive bid rock. The song starts with Mar- The oddball lyricism goes down ballad. With Usher providing for proper stardom. The tune, co- cus Mumford’s vocals stripped smoother with the addition of live an emotional hook, “The written by Laura Veltz (Eli Young bare over synths — yes, synths instruments — far-away drums, Matrimony” is Wale at his most Band, ChrChris Young), inoff ensively — before crescendoing to a toasty organs — a welcoming vulnerable — a refreshing rarity hums alaialong, but doesn’t do much big hook that hits its singalong shift from her computer-loop for a rapper more known for to distinguishdating RaeLynn from her mark. —JASON LIPSHUTZ sound. —HARLEY BROWN showing off . —DAN HYMAN Countrycountry ppeers. —J.L. RIXTON: LINDSEY BYRNES. MODEST MOUSE: JENNIFER BANISZEWSKI. TWIN SHADOW: MILAN ZRNIC. GZA: DOUGLAS GORENSTEIN/NBC. JOYWAVE: COU Smollett

NUMBERS: EMPIRE’S EVER- GROWING SALES All things Empire are red- hot. The Lee Daniels-helmed Fox TV show continues to make an impact on the charts and has its sights set on No. 1 on the March 28 Billboard 200. Meanwhile, the show’s latest single, “Conqueror,” prevails on the March 21 lists.

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The Empire soundtrack, which arrived March 10, is battling Madonna’s Rebel Heart for No. 1 on the next Billboard 200. Industry sources forecast both sets will bow with roughly 125,000 equivalent album units in the week ending March 15. cNi K Clarkson ties fellow Idol Carrie Underwood as Empire’s songs have sold the show’s winner PJDocimq944,000 downloads through the with the most week ending March 1 (according No. 1 albums. to Nielsen Music). Its single- biggest sales frame is logged by “Conqueror” (featuring Estelle and Jussie Smollett) with 94,000 (through March 8).

TOMORROW’S HITS

HELLO ‘GOODBYE’ MILLER TIME A still from the video Who is Who Is Fancy? The act’s Tor Miller’s piano-painted picture for Who Is Fancy’s identity is intentionally shrouded “Goodbye.” of New York, “Midnight” (Glassnote), in mystery, but debut hit “Goodbye,” rises 26-25 on Triple A. The a joint Big Machine/Scooter Braun 20-year-old Brooklyn singer- “Conqueror” is the second-highest Projects/Republic Records release, songwriter dropped out of New York debut on the March 21 Billboard rises 37-31 in its second week on University’s Clive Davis School of Hot 100 (No. 42) and Hot R&B/Hip- Mainstream Top 40. Braun unveiled Music to release debut EP Headlights Hop Songs (No. 15), becoming the catchy pop track at the in early February. In January, a the highest-charting Empire iHeartMedia Music Summit in Burbank, month before Zane Lowe left BBC track on both lists. The show has Calif., in January, while Meghan Radio, the DJ honored “Midnight” racked six entries on Hot R&B/ Trainor and Kacey Musgraves have in his “Hottest Record in the World Hip-Hop Songs. —KEITH CAULFIELD tweeted endorsements of the tune. Right Now” feature.

44 BILLBOARD | MARCH 21, 2015 45 2015 2014 TRACKS DIGITAL DIGITAL

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236 536 SOCIAL DATA BY COMPILED IMAGINE DRAGONS KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE/IGA SIA MONKEY PUZZLE/RCA

10 36 727 BRUNO MARS ATLANTIC/AG RAE SREMMURD EARDRUMA/INTERSCOPE/IGA = U 12 21 136 THE WEEKND XO/REPUBLIC BLAKE SHELTON WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE/WMN AIRPLAY/STREAMING & AIRPLAY/STREAMING BY COMPILED SALES DATA

46 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data Data for week of 03.21.2015 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 11POS. CHART 13937 136 615 31 JASON ALDEAN BROKEN BOW/BBMG AC/DC COLUMBIA 36 22 73 2 50 54 ZAC BROWN BAND SOUTHERN GROUND/VARVATOS/REPUBLIC G UNIT G UNIT 936 41 44 CALVIN HARRIS FLY EYE/COLUMBIA 10 34 39 43 TOVE LO ISLAND 10 23 37 36 41 SELENA GOMEZ HOLLYWOOD Goulding 42 3 - 900 JUSSIE SMOLLETT 20TH CENTURY FOX TV/COLUMBIA Keeps 19 16 - 21 43 LED ZEPPELIN SWAN SONG/ATLANTIC/RHINO Going 44 4 Powered by two hit singles, 68 50 RGF/300 GALLAGHER: TRACEY WELCH/REX USA. GOULDING: NEIL MOCKFORD/ALEX HUCKLE/GC IMAGES HUCKLE/GC USA. GOULDING: NEIL MOCKFORD/ALEX WELCH/REX TRACEY GALLAGHER: 0 FETTY WAP o Ellie Goulding (above) 35 34 continues her rise up the 46 45 A 36 USHER RCA t Billboard Artist 100, again lifting to a new peak (10-7). 636 66 9 34 45 46 Nearly half of her overall IHEARTMEDIA. ONE DIRECTION: RJ SHAUGHNESSY. CHURCH: JOHN PEETS. G UNIT: SHAREIF ZIYADAT/GETTY IMAGES. IMAGES. SHAREIF ZIYADAT/GETTY G UNIT: CHURCH: JOHN PEETS. RJ SHAUGHNESSY. ONE DIRECTION: IHEARTMEDIA. ONEREPUBLIC MOSLEY/INTERSCOPE/IGA 74 0 0 BRETT ELDREDGE ATLANTIC/WMN activity is from digital song GRANDE: ANDREW FRANCIS WALLACE/TORONTO STAR VIA GETTY IMAGES. MAROON 5: KEVIN KANE/GETTY IMAGES FOR IMAGES KANE/GETTY KEVIN MAROON 5: VIA GETTY IMAGES. STAR GRANDE: ANDREW FRANCIS WALLACE/TORONTO 236 236 sales, as “Love Me Like You 35 47 47 TURN FIRST/HUSTLE GANG/DEF JAM 53 75 0 ROSTRUM/ATLANTIC/AG IGGY AZALEA WIZ KHALIFA Do,” from the Fifty Shades 34 27 23 16 of Grey soundtrack, holds 43 34 48 VANCE JOY F-STOP/ATLANTIC/AG RE-ENTRY 0 CHILDISH GAMBINO MC DJ/GLASSNOTE at No. 4 on Digital Songs (155,000 downloads sold, 37 6 77 1 45 51 Q PAUL MCCARTNEY MPL/HEAR/CONCORD NEW 0 PURITY RING 4AD down 8 percent, according to Nielsen Music) and 50 1 78 1 Calvin Harris’ “Outside,” THIRD DAY ESSENTIAL/PLG CASTING CROWNS BEACH STREET/REUNION/PLG NEW 0 NEW 0 on which she’s featured,

c and 17 3 34 35 lifts 41-37 (35,000; up 85 RE-ENTRY 0 BECK FONOGRAF RECORDS/CAPITOL 81 0 JUSTIN BIEBER SCHOOLBOY/RAYMOND BRAUN/DEF JAM 10 percent). Radio airplay 52 9 47 11 marks the next greatest 57 59 0 WALK THE MOON RCA 47 66 80 THOMAS RHETT VALORY/BMLG slice of Goulding’s Artist 100 points (24 percent) as 39 35 35 24 49 58 ERIC CHURCH EMI NASHVILLE/UMGN 79 77 0 DIERKS BENTLEY CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN “Love” jumps 12-7 on Radio Songs (77 million all-format 63 9 audience impressions, up 63 70 82 ROMEO SANTOS SONY MUSIC LATIN 22 percent) and “Outside” 26 24 climbs 22-17 (49 million, - 93 0 ECHOSMITH WARNER BROS. up 6 percent). The tracks 60 29 also concurrently reach 70 79 84 ADELE XL/COLUMBIA the top 10 on Mainstream Top 40 (see page 55). 17 12 Kelly Clarkson rides the - 73 85 LITTLE BIG TOWN CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN debut of new album Piece 10 35 by Piece to a 48-5 blast 73 80 86 BIG MACHINE/BMLG TIM MCGRAW on the Artist 100 (where 77 5 she previously ranked as RE-ENTRY 0 RIXTON SCHOOLBOY/GIANT LITTLE MAN/MAD LOVE/INTERSCOPE/IGA high as No. 45). As the set starts atop the Billboard ,,. 88 1 NEW 0 MEEK MILL MAYBACH/ATLANTIC/AG 200 (97,000 units) and Top Album Sales (83,000), 18 16 27 16 traditional album sales 38 49 54 ELLA HENDERSON SYCO/COLUMBIA 67 KID INK THA ALUMNI GROUP/88 CLASSIC/RCA 85 0 account for 72 percent of 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 136 90 1 her Artist 100 standing. 52 52 0 TREY SONGZ SONGBOOK/ATLANTIC/AG NEW 0 SHANIA TWAIN MERCURY NASHVILLE/UMGN Another pop diva, Carly 56 1 21 35 Rae Jepsen, makes her NEW 0 DAFT PUNK DAFT LIFE/COLUMBIA 5 0 0 LORDE LAVA/REPUBLIC Artist 100 debut at No. 69. Digital song sales (38,000) 57 7 30 12 58 62 0 FLO RIDA POE BOY/ATLANTIC/AG RE-ENTRY 0 KENDRICK LAMAR TOP DAWG/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/IGA and streaming (3.9 million U.S. streams) for new single 18 26 16 30 “I Really Like You” lead the 72 64 0 MIRANDA LAMBERT RCA NASHVILLE/SMN 88 82 93 LANA DEL REY POLYDOR/INTERSCOPE/IGA way. The song also enters 927 51 13 the Billboard Hot 100 at 48 61 Q CARRIE UNDERWOOD 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE/SMN 91 95 Q DARIUS RUCKER CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN No. 48 (see page 1). —Gary Trust 54 28 236 60 63 COLE SWINDELL WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE/WMN 87 89 Q KENNY CHESNEY BLUE CHAIR/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE/SMN Big Sound. See Charts Legend on billboard.com/biz for complete r Big Sound. See Charts on billboard.com/biz Legend Q 15 36 75 7 42 38 61 JOHN LEGEND G.O.O.D./COLUMBIA 94 88 Q CHRIS YOUNG RCA NASHVILLE/SMN 20 34 55 16 59 60 Q JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE RCA 75 86 97 LIL WAYNE YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC 27 6 98 1 54 27 63 TYGA YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS SOUR MASH/KOBALT 42 14 - 42 64 ZEDD INTERSCOPE/IGA 46 11 46 57 65 JUICY J KEMOSABE/COLUMBIA 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 fan interaction on social networking sites as compiled by Next on social networking sites as compiled by Next fan interaction 936 61 56 66 PHARRELL WILLIAMS I AM OTHER/COLUMBIA 15 36 62 67 Q LEE BRICE CURB 66 4 66 69 Q NATALIE LA ROSE I.M.G./REPUBLIC

SOCIAL DATA SOCIAL DATA BY COMPILED 69 1 NEW 0 CARLY RAE JEPSEN 604/SCHOOLBOY/INTERSCOPE/IGA 12 15 50 32 55 71 0 FIFTH HARMONY SYCO/EPIC AVICII PRMD/ISLAND 30 32 100 1 64 65 71 JEREMIH MICK SCHULTZ/DEF JAM ESTELLE ESTABLISHED 1980/BMG AIRPLAY/STREAMING & AIRPLAY/STREAMING BY COMPILED SALES DATA

Data for week of 03.21.2015 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data 47 2 WKS. LAST THIS PEAK WKS. ON 2 WKS. LAST THIS PEAK WKS. ON ARTIST CERTIFICATION TITLE ARTIST CERTIFICATION TITLE AGO WEEK WEEK POS. CHART AGO WEEK WEEK POS. CHART IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL II III #1 72 HOT SHOT gi 1 WK KELLY CLARKSON Piece By Piece 11 CHRIS BROWN & TYGA Fan Of A Fan: The Album - 0 24 DEBUT I 19/RCA RCA 24 0 113 3 3 2 SOUNDTRACK Fifty Shades Of Grey 16 22 25 J. COLE 2014 Forest Hills Drive UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC DREAMVILLE/ROC NATION/COLUMBIA

119 26 1 TAYLOR SWIFT 4 1989 PURITY RING Another Eternity 4 5 3 NEW 0 BIG MACHINE/BMLG 4AD

14 27 1 2 4 4 DRAKE If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late NEW G UNIT The Beast (EP) YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC G UNIT

137 617 ED SHEERAN ¡ x NICK JONAS Nick Jonas 5 6 5 24 28 0 ATLANTIC/AG SAFEHOUSE/ISLAND

12 ¡ 191 6 BIG SEAN Dark Sky Paradise RE-ENTRY 0 DRAKE Thank Me Later G.O.O.D./DEF JAM YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC

127 59 MAROON 5 V RAE SREMMURD SremmLife 7 10 7 29 36 0 222/INTERSCOPE/IGA EARDRUMA/INTERSCOPE/IGA

¡ 238 g 144 6 8 8 SAM SMITH In The Lonely Hour 31 LED ZEPPELIN Physical Graffiti CAPITOL SWAN SONG/ATLANTIC/RHINO

91 32 1 BRANDI CARLILE The Firewatcher’s Daughter RIXTON Let The Road NEW 0 NEW ATO SCHOOLBOY/GIANT LITTLE MAN/MAD LOVE/INTERSCOPE/IGA

18 56 8 13 10 MEGHAN TRAINOR Title 21 30 33 NE-YO Non-Fiction EPIC COMPOUND ENTERTAINMENT/MOTOWN/CAPITOL

22 18 15 - 2 11 KID ROCK First Kiss 25 29 34 PITBULL Globalization TOP DOG/WARNER BROS. MR. 305/POLO GROUNDS/RCA

0 222 NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS 35 1 10 15 HOZIER Hozier NEW Chasing Yesterday RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA SOUR MASH/KOBALT

The album hits a half-million in 132 19 32 36 SIA 1000 Forms Of Fear sales (509,000 total; 19,000 in the MONKEY PUZZLE/RCA week ending March 8), marking SKRILLEX & DIPLO 26 2 the first debut set to cross the 26 37 Skrillex & Diplo Present Jack U MAD DECENT/OWSLA/AG threshold since the week ending Billboard 200 Billboard Oct. 19, 2014, when 5 Seconds of SOUNDTRACK 132 22 33 38 ¡ Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 Summer reached the milestone. MARVEL/HOLLYWOOD

212 39 1 9 12 13 NICKI MINAJ 0 The Pinkprint STEVEN WILSON Hand Cannot Erase

YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC KSCOPE for complete rules and explanations. on billboard.com/biz ts Legend 2015 13 Wilson debuts with his highest- 1 9 14 IMAGINE DRAGONS Smoke + Mirrors KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE/IGA charting album, bowing with March 21 March 12,000 units. It trumps the No. 57 FALL OUT BOY 17 13 18 15 American Beauty / American Psycho debut and peak of his last release, DCD2/ISLAND 2013’s The Raven That Refused to 58 Sing and Other Stories. 12 16 16 MARK RONSON Uptown Special RCA

319 CARRIE UNDERWOOD 413 albums, according to Nielsen Music. from See Char f tracks 15 19 17 SAM HUNT Montevallo 0 Greatest Hits: Decade #1 MCA NASHVILLE/UMGN 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE/SMN

25 116 11 17 18 VARIOUS ARTISTS NOW 53 ONE DIRECTION ¡ FOUR UNIVERSAL/SONY MUSIC/LEGACY SYCO/COLUMBIA

55 GG BECK Morning Phase 332 FIFTH HARMONY Reflection FONOGRAF RECORDS/CAPITOL SYCO/EPIC

20 1 THIRD DAY Lead Us Back: Songs Of Worship PS CHILDISH GAMBINO Because The Internet 762 ESSENTIAL/PLG GLASSNOTE

128 An iTunes hip-hop music sale aids ARIANA GRANDE ¡ My Everything REPUBLIC the album’s 243 percent sales gain, while 99-cent pricing at Google 22 1 SOUNDTRACK Empire: Music From Unto The Breach (EP) Play lifts Beck (No. 19, up 243 20TH CENTURY FOX TV/COLUMBIA percent) and Drake (No. 29, up 23 27 1,366 percent). DAFT PUNK 0 Discovery VIRGIN/CAPITOL

The 2001 release hits its highest 122 JASON ALDEAN ¡ Old Boots, New Dirt chart position thanks to a 99-cent The week’s most popular albums across all genres, ranked by album sales, audio on-demand streaming activity and digital sales o by album sales, audio on-demand streaming ranked all genres, most popular albums across The week’s BROKEN BOW/BBMG and Nielsen SoundScan, Inc. reserved. All rights Global Media, LLC © 2015, Prometheus deal at Google Play, surpassing 38 its initial peak of No. 44 upon its KIDZ BOP KIDS Kidz Bop 27 RAZOR & TIE release. It re-enters the chart with nearly 22,000 copies sold (up 2 131 IMAGINE DRAGONS 2 Night Visions 2,795 percent). KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE/IGA SALES DATA COMPILED BY COMPILED SALES DATA

48 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data Data for week of 03.21.2015 2 WKS. LAST THIS PEAK WKS. ON 2 WKS. LAST THIS PEAK WKS. ON ARTIST CERTIFICATION TITLE ARTIST CERTIFICATION TITLE AGO WEEK WEEK POS. CHART AGO WEEK WEEK POS. CHART IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL III 97 II123 17 27 47 VARIOUS ARTISTS 2015 Grammy Nominees BLAKE SHELTON 0 BRINGING BACK THE SUNSHINE GRAMMY/RCA WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE/WMN

121 10 5 34 41 48 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE 0 Anything Goes DIANA KRALL Wallflower T5. VI 111 REPUBLIC NASHVILLE/BMLG VERVE/VG 26 14 SOUNDTRACK 18 16 53 54 0 WALK THE MOON TALKING IS HARD The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part I 1989 Sales RCA LIONS GATE/REPUBLIC

167 The film’s home video release on March 6 Streak 35 42 SOUNDTRACK 4 Frozen 50 assists the soundtrack’s overall 32 percent WALT DISNEY Continues unit lift and 53 percent hike in sales. 518 After just 19 weeks of 46 47 51 CALVIN HARRIS Motion release, Taylor Swift’s FLY EYE/COLUMBIA I. 1989 has now outsold both CASTING CROWNS 52 1 198 of her last two albums. NEW Glorious Day: Hymns Of Faith 87 98 0 FALL OUT BOY Save Rock And Roll It would seem her that CRACKER BARREL/BEACH STREET/REUNION/PLG DECAYDANCE/ISLAND pop-music move is working out just fine for Swift. 182 173 1989 sold another 44,000 30 45 53 LUKE BRYAN 2 Crash My Party 64 78 80 DRAKE ¡ Nothing Was The Same CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC copies in the week ending March 8, according to 0 5134 225 Nielsen Music, lifting 37 46 54 ED SHEERAN + 55 70 81 CHRIS BROWN X the title’s total sales to ELEKTRA/AG RCA 4.505 million. The album 14 23 170 surpassed the sales of 2 Swift’s last release, 2012’s 491' 50 55 TOVE LO Queen Of The Clouds 77 83 82 EMINEM The Marshall Mathers LP 2 ISLAND WEB/SHADY/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/IGA Red (4.2 million after 124 weeks), a few weeks ago, 17 26 126 and blows by 2010’s Speak 47 0 56 VANCE JOY Dream Your Life Away LECRAE Anomaly F-STOP/ATLANTIC/AG REACH Now (4.480 million after 228 weeks) this week. 156 The album earns the fifth-largest Selling millions of albums 52 60 ERIC CHURCH ¡ The Outsiders is nothing new for Swift — EMI NASHVILLE/UMGN percentage gain on the list (up 60 percent) the new twist to her story courtesy of an iTunes sale price (which is 1989’s sales rate. In 19 SHANIA TWAIN 58 1 Lecrae touted on Twitter). NEW 0 Still The One: Live From Las Vegas weeks it has surpassed MERCURY NASHVILLE/UMGN the sales of what was her third-biggest seller, which ¡ 4102 ¡ 2123 has been on sale for 228 38 52 59 ONEREPUBLIC Native 84 95 84 KENDRICK LAMAR good kid, m.A.A.d city MOSLEY/INTERSCOPE/IGA TOP DAWG/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/IGA weeks. Next up on Swift’s 2 165 10 19 personal hit list: her 36 49 60 BEYONCE Beyonce 59 81 85 JESSIE J Sweet Talker self-titled 2006 debut PARKWOOD/COLUMBIA LAVA/REPUBLIC (5.492 million) and her 327 477 top seller, 2008’s Fearless 61 59 61 CHASE RICE Ignite The Night 58 64 86 JOHN LEGEND 0 Love In The Future (6.9 million). COLUMBIA NASHVILLE/DACK JANIELS G.O.O.D./COLUMBIA And for those keeping score, Swift’s cumulative 171 720 album sales (counting 43 53 62 KATY PERRY PRISM 125 62 87 LITTLE BIG TOWN Pain Killer

ts Legend on billboard.com/biz for complete rules and explanations. for complete rules and explanations. on billboard.com/biz ts Legend CAPITOL CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN her five studio albums, Beautiful Eyes EP, live set 14 2 0 678 Speak Now: World Tour Live - 0 63 RED Of Beauty And Rage 66 80 88 ARCTIC MONKEYS AM ESSENTIAL DOMINO and Holiday Collection EP) now stand at 27.7 million. 20 17 4 6 139 She is the seventh-largest- 83 93 0 ZAC BROWN BAND Greatest Hits So Far... 122 108 0 MAROON 5 Songs About Jane selling female artist, in ROAR/SOUTHERN GROUND/ATLANTIC/AG A&M/OCTONE/UME terms of album sales, since Nielsen began tracking 14 5 146 51 76 0 KID INK Full Speed 164 178 0 SCHOOLBOY Q Oxymoron such data in 1991. THA ALUMNI GROUP/88 CLASSIC/RCA TOP DAWG/INTERSCOPE/IGA —Keith Caulfield f tracks from albums, according to Nielsen Music. from See Char f tracks 140 1110 54 66 66 MIRANDA LAMBERT 0 Platinum 76 86 91 BRUNO MARS 2 Unorthodox Jukebox RCA NASHVILLE/SMN ATLANTIC/AG

2 162 25 4 65 71 67 LANA DEL REY ¡ Born To Die 50 90 92 JUAN GABRIEL Los Duo POLYDOR/INTERSCOPE/IGA FONOVISA/UMLE

2 3216 ¡ 453 94 101 0 BRUNO MARS Doo-Wops & Hooligans 70 84 93 THE WEEKND Trilogy ELEKTRA/AG XO/REPUBLIC

a 1287 a 1 205 134 167 0 NIRVANA Nevermind 82 91 94 EMINEM The Eminem Show SUB POP/DGC/GEFFEN/UME WEB/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/UME 75 BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS 5354 44 58 70 BOB DYLAN Shadows In The Night 79 107 0 f Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers COLUMBIA TUFF GONG/ISLAND/UME

21 2 334 - 21 71 FALLING IN REVERSE Just Like You 93 104 96 G-EAZY These Things Happen EPITAPH G-EAZY/RVG/BPG

353 13 201 81 88 COLE SWINDELL Cole Swindell RE-ENTRY 0 MICHAEL JACKSON 4 Number Ones WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE/WMN MJJ/EPIC/LEGACY

8 14 75 f 10 346 74 94 0 FLEETWOOD MAC Greatest Hits 69 67 98 JOURNEY Journey’s Greatest Hits WARNER BROS. COLUMBIA/LEGACY The week’s most popular albums across all genres, ranked by album sales, audio on-demand streaming activity and digital sales o by album sales, audio on-demand streaming ranked all genres, most popular albums across The week’s © 2015, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen SoundScan, Inc. reserved. All rights Global Media, LLC © 2015, Prometheus

11 8 1231 41 63 74 ELLA HENDERSON Chapter One 112 113 0 EMINEM 2 Curtain Call: The Hits SYCO/COLUMBIA SHADY/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/IGA

FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE 2 4118 ¡ 1105 73 74 75 Here’s To The Good Times 62 85 100 DRAKE Take Care REPUBLIC NASHVILLE/BMLG YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC SALES DATA COMPILED BY COMPILED SALES DATA

Data for week of 03.21.2015 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data 49 2 WKS. LAST THIS PEAK WKS. ON 2 WKS. LAST THIS PEAK WKS. ON ARTIST CERTIFICATION TITLE ARTIST CERTIFICATION TITLE AGO WEEK WEEK POS. CHART AGO WEEK WEEK POS. CHART IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL III IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL II 19 6 17 20 116 112 0 GEORGE EZRA Wanted On Voyage 105 124 128 MILKY CHANCE Sadnecessary COLUMBIA LICHTDICHT/NEON/REPUBLIC

0 251 651 110 87 102 PHARRELL WILLIAMS G I R L 129 123 129 DIERKS BENTLEY Riser I AM OTHER/COLUMBIA CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN

103 22 272 4 142 134 0 ECHOSMITH Talking Dreams RE-ENTRY 0 SHANIA TWAIN Greatest Hits Rixton WARNER BROS. MERCURY NASHVILLE/UMGN 20 2 325 - Reaches 20 104 MAT KEARNEY Just Kids 124 122 131 TIM MCGRAW Sundown Heaven Town Top 40 AWARE/REPUBLIC MCGRAW/BIG MACHINE/BMLG b 1 211 TONY BENNETT & LADY GAGA 0 123 91 99 105 ADELE 21 115 51 132 Cheek To Cheek British band Rixton arrives XL/COLUMBIA RPM/COLUMBIA/STREAMLINE/INTERSCOPE/IGA at No. 32 on the Billboard 200 with its debut album, 2 375 644 Let the Road. The set 104 125 0 LORDE Pure Heroine 88 97 133 THOMAS RHETT It Goes Like This shifted 15,000 units in LAVA/REPUBLIC VALORY/BMLG the week ending March 8, according to Nielsen Music. 129 42 13 86 100 107 WIZ KHALIFA Blacc Hollywood 71 61 134 ROBIN SCHULZ Prayer Of that sum, nearly 13,000 ROSTRUM/ATLANTIC/AG TONSPIEL/ATLANTIC/AG were traditional album sales, which places the 342 24 15 release at No. 28 on the Top RE-ENTRY 0 IGGY AZALEA The New Classic 80 106 135 SELENA GOMEZ For You TURN FIRST/HUSTLE GANG/DEF JAM HOLLYWOOD Album Sales chart. The quartet is another 12 6 613 quasi-boy band in the mold 60 132 0 BETHEL MUSIC We Will Not Be Shaken 118 131 136 K. MICHELLE Anybody Wanna Buy A Heart? of other recently charting BETHEL/PLG ATLANTIC/AG acts like 5 Seconds of Summer and The Vamps, 0 314 0 242 56 82 110 AC/DC Rock Or Bust 120 128 137 BRANTLEY GILBERT Just As I Am where their members just COLUMBIA VALORY/BMLG happen to be young, male and photogenic ... but 25 5 a 386 they also play instruments. 68 75 111 JEREMY CAMP I Will Follow 113 89 2PAC Greatest Hits (This differs from the STOLEN PRIDE/SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG AMARU/DEATH ROW/INTERSCOPE/UME more traditional boy-band At 5.1 million, the sturdy model, currently defined 42 32 106 120 112 QUEEN Greatest Hits: We Will Rock You by One Direction, whose HOLLYWOOD seller continues to rank as members sing but seldom the top-selling rap greatest- play instruments.) 416 hits album ever. It’s the Rixton has logged two 109 110 113 NICKELBACK No Fixed Address REPUBLIC hits on the Mainstream Top 20th-best-selling rap set 40 airplay chart: “Me and 526 overall in the Nielsen era My Broken Heart” (No. 6 101 114 114 LEE BRICE I Dont Dance peak on June 14, 2014) CURB (1991 to the present). and “Wait On Me” (No. 33; Oct. 25, 2014). Current 14 3 14 48 115 AARON WATSON The Underdog single “Hotel Ceiling” BIG LABEL/THIRTY TIGERS is bubbling under the threshold of the chart, with 133 b 4 101 89 117 116 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER 5 Seconds Of Summer 157 72 139 KID ROCK Devil Without A Cause spins garnered at 49 top TOP DOG/LAVA/ATLANTIC/AG HEY OR HI/CAPITOL for complete rules and explanations. on billboard.com/biz ts Legend 40 outlets for the week (earning a 20 percent rise 219 5 3 305 in spins). 114 140 0 VARIOUS ARTISTS NOW 52 RE-ENTRY 0 GUNS N’ ROSES Greatest Hits SONY MUSIC/UNIVERSAL/UME GEFFEN/UME The group is opening for Ariana Grande on her tour, 12 74 31 2 which launched Feb. 25 RE-ENTRY 0 ELTON JOHN 5 Greatest Hits 1970-2002 - 0 141 MISTERWIVES Our Own House in Independence, Mo. The ROCKET/UTV/UME PHOTO FINISH/REPUBLIC foursome will continue with the trek through April 14 2 5 208 ¡ 3102 97 92 119 JOHNNY CASH The Legend Of Johnny Cash 188 0 142 BLAKE SHELTON Based On A True Story ... before switching gears to LEGACY/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE/AMERICAN/ISLAND/UME WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE/WMN support Ed Sheeran on his arena/amphitheater tour 136 143 1 albums, according to Nielsen Music. from See Char f tracks

(June 7-July 3). 95 105 120 TREY SONGZ Trigga NEW 0 SEVEN LIONS The Throes Of Winter (EP) SONGBOOK/ATLANTIC/AG CASABLANCA/REPUBLIC —Keith Caulfield 25 2 27 5 ANDY GRAMMER Magazines Or Novels _ G 121 ALL THAT REMAINS The Order Of Things 175 162 0 RAZOR & TIE S-CURVE

11 55 814 0 RE-ENTRY 0 KELLY CLARKSON Greatest Hits: Chapter One - 130 145 CHRIS TOMLIN Love Ran Red 19/RCA SIXSTEPS/SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG 17 6 GEORGE STRAIT 424 75 68 123 CHARLIE WILSON Forever Charlie The Cowboy Rides Away: Live From AT&T Stadium P MUSIC/RCA - 00 MCA NASHVILLE/UMGN

m 4168 KEVIN GATES 38 12 98 111 124 AC/DC Back In Black 131 142 147 Luca Brasi 2: A Gangsta Grillz Special Edition COLUMBIA/LEGACY BREAD WINNERS’ ASSOCIATION/GANGSTA GRILLZ/ATLANTIC/AG

1201 224 90 126 125 KATY PERRY 2 Teenage Dream 140 147 148 KENNY CHESNEY The Big Revival CAPITOL BLUE CHAIR/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE/SMN

0 984 2 15 30 103 116 126 ELLIE GOULDING Halcyon RE-ENTRY 0 BILLY JOEL The Essential Billy Joel CHERRYTREE/INTERSCOPE/IGA COLUMBIA/LEGACY

3108 ¡ 5 101 111 144 SOUNDTRACK ¡ Pitch Perfect P!NK Greatest Hits... So Far!!! UME LAFACE/JIVE/RCA The week’s most popular albums across all genres, ranked by album sales, audio on-demand streaming activity and digital sales o by album sales, audio on-demand streaming ranked all genres, most popular albums across The week’s 0 ' 0 0 and Nielsen SoundScan, Inc. reserved. All rights Global Media, LLC © 2015, Prometheus One more week and it’ll beat High School 87 99 135 151 MARILYN MANSON The Pale Emperor Musical (108 weeks, 2006-08) to be the HELL, ETC./COOKING VINYL/SEVEN FOUR/LOMA VISTA/CONCORD longest-charting soundtrack since O 290 Brother, Where Art Thou? hit 112 (2001-14). 191 158 152 MAROON 5 ¡ Overexposed A&M/OCTONE/IGA

.... BY COMPILED SALES DATA

50 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data Data for week of 03.21.2015 2 WKS. LAST THIS PEAK WKS. ON 2 WKS. LAST THIS PEAK WKS. ON ARTIST CERTIFICATION TITLE ARTIST CERTIFICATION TITLE AGO WEEK WEEK POS. CHART AGO WEEK WEEK POS. CHART IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL

11 79 2 197 RING: RENATA RAKSHA RING: RENATA BASTILLE Bad Blood MUMFORD & SONS Babel 126 151 153 RE-ENTRY Q VIRGIN/CAPITOL GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD/GLASSNOTE

154 1 6 198 NEW DMX The Best Of RE-ENTRY Q 50 CENT Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ X-RAY/CLEOPATRA SHADY/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/UME

199 417 TAYLOR SWIFT 4 Red LOGIC Under Pressure 119 143 155 173 160 180 Q&A BIG MACHINE/BMLG VISIONARY/DEF JAM

11 21 1897 Purity RE-ENTRY 0 CHILDISH GAMBINO Camp RE-ENTRY 0 PINK FLOYD f The Dark Side Of The Moon GLASSNOTE PARLOPHONE/RHINO Ring’s 15 25 154 22

RE-ENTRY NEIL DIAMOND All-Time Greatest Hits RE-ENTRY 0 LYNYRD SKYNYRD Family Megan CAPITOL/UME GEFFEN/HIP-O/UME James ¡ 35 56 64 5 40 129 158 STEVIE WONDER The Definitive Collection 123 139 183 VARIOUS ARTISTS WOW Gospel 2015 MOTOWN/UTV/UME MOTOWN GOSPEL/WORD-CURB/RCA INSPIRATION/RCA Your sophomore album, Another Eternity, debuts 13 14 1147 at No. 26 on the Billboard FOR KING & COUNTRY ¡ 108 138 159 RUN WILD. LIVE FREE. LOVE STRONG. BLAKE SHELTON Red River Blue 200. Did collaborating FERVENT/WARNER BROS. WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE/WMN with rappers like Danny Brown and Angel Haze 2 2180 Shelton’s Loaded becomes his third 183 189 0 LUKE BRYAN Tailgates & Tanlines take your sound in a CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN album to sell a million copies, as it different direction? shifts another 3,000. Its total sales We’ve definitely evolved as 445 a band and how we work 128 150 161 JASON DERULO Talk Dirty edge just past the million mark. It BELUGA HEIGHTS/WARNER BROS. alone and together. We joins his previous million-sellers became more confident 17 4 Based on a True Story... (1.5 million) as artists and feel more

63 115 162 FATHER JOHN MISTY I Love You, Honeybear capable for whatever we do SUB POP and Red River Blue (1.2 million). want to make. But it’s about what we want to do rather n 2285 654 - 0 163 LED ZEPPELIN Led Zeppelin IV CASTING CROWNS Thrive than whom we’re working ATLANTIC BEACH STREET/REUNION/PLG with. Collaborations — that’s one of the funnest FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH 257 3 2217 things. 136 145 164 The Wrong Side Of Heaven...Volume 1 MUMFORD & SONS Sigh No More PROSPECT PARK GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD/GLASSNOTE This was the first album 120 ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL 187 1 you recorded entirely in 156 166 165 SLIPKNOT .5: The Gray Chapter Still The King: Celebrating The Music Of Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys the studio with bandmate ROADRUNNER/AG BISMEAUX/MAILBOAT Corin Roddick. How did 124 12 Asleep at the Wheel charts its that affect the recording 144 149 166 TRAVIS TRITT The Very Best Of Travis Tritt process? WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE/RHINO third tribute to Bob Wills as this It was like starting from set debuts with 4,000 and enters ,c)0V.K14. scratch. The learning curve 1180 was really slow at first, 137' 154 167 EMINEM 3 Recovery Top Country Albums at No. 14. like, “Do we have to talk WEB/SHADY/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/IGA Emil,y The act sent previous Wills about what we’re making?” 2158 tributes onto the latter list in The first week we did get 163 3 175 168 NICKELBACK Dark Horse together to record, it was

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__EP WHEEL-, so slow. It took us four days to record anything. We just BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND ¡ 19 90 325 102 Q 169 Ultimate Hits 167 176 188 CHRIS YOUNG A.M. moved to Los Angeles to HIDEOUT/CAPITOL/UME RCA NASHVILLE/SMN finish the record and get ready for the tour, and we 0 672 0 138 get to skip winter — it’s RE-ENTRY 0 ALABAMA SHAKES Boys & Girls 152 161 189 LANA DEL REY Ultraviolence ATO POLYDOR/INTERSCOPE/IGA sweet.

28 63 220 Many bands tend to shy RE-ENTRY 0 THE 1975 The 1975 135 156 190 T.I. Paperwork away from being pegged DIRTY HIT/VAGRANT/INTERSCOPE/IGA GRAND HUSTLE/COLUMBIA to one genre, but you’ve

f tracks from albums, according to Nielsen Music. from See Char f tracks embraced the term 27 96 417 ¡ ¡ “future pop.” Why? 139 155 172 TIM MCGRAW Number One Hits 159 186 191 GARTH BROOKS Man Against Machine CURB PEARL/RCA NASHVILLE/SMN It feels a little bit safer, even though it doesn’t mean 52 29 29 73 anything. We’re not trying to JOHN DENVER The Best Of John Denver Live RE-ENTRY 0 METALLICA 6 Master Of Puppets COLUMBIA/LEGACY BLACKENED/WARNER BROS. make a genre by any means. It’s a means of trying The title continues to be 22 14 not to put ourselves into RE-ENTRY Q DAVID GUETTA Listen categories, regardless of a hot seller with big-box WHAT A MUSIC/PARLOPHONE/ATLANTIC/AG whether other people are. retailers as it spends a 291 —Harley Brown 29th week on the chart. It’s RE-ENTRY 0 MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS ¡ The Heist MACKLEMORE Denver’s longest run on the list since 1982’s Seasons 1 337 199 199 195 METALLICA g Metallica of the Heart charted for BLACKENED/WARNER BROS. 33 weeks that year. 157 RE-ENTRY 0 KANYE WEST 2 Graduation ROC-A-FELLA/DEF JAM/IDJMG

22 218 53 125 CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL 8 Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits 117 MICHAEL JACKSON 3 The Essential Michael Jackson 77 197 FANTASY/CONCORD EPIC/LEGACY

424 ¡ 166 ALT-J This Is All Yours 149 180 198 ONE DIRECTION Midnight Memories INFECTIOUS/CANVASBACK/ATLANTIC/AG SYCO/COLUMBIA The week’s most popular albums across all genres, ranked by album sales, audio on-demand streaming activity and digital sales o by album sales, audio on-demand streaming ranked all genres, most popular albums across The week’s © 2015, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen SoundScan, Inc. reserved. All rights Global Media, LLC © 2015, Prometheus

11 17 512 BRETT ELDREDGE Bring You Back 121 174 199 D’ANGELO AND THE VANGUARD Black Messiah ATLANTIC/WMN RCA THE DECEMBERISTS 77 242 What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World 172 181 200 AUGUST ALSINA Testimony CAPITOL NNTME MUCO./DEF JAM SALES DATA COMPILED BY COMPILED SALES DATA

Data for week of 03.21.2015 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data 51 Sister Act TOP ALBUM SALES ™ HEATSEEKERS ALBUMS™ LAST THIS ARTIST CERTIFICATION Title WKS. ON LAST THIS ARTIST CERTIFICATION Title WKS. ON WEEK WEEK CHART WEEK WEEK CHART Strikes IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL HOT #1 #1 SHOT 1 WK KELLY CLARKSON Piece By Piece 1 1 WK SEVEN LIONS The Throes Of Winter (EP) 1 Again DEBUT 19/RCA CASABLANCA/REPUBLIC SOUNDTRACK Fifty Shades Of Grey TUXEDO Tuxedo 1 3 2 4 STONES THROW Benedictines of Mary, UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC Queen of Apostles TAYLOR SWIFT 4 1989 JAMES MCMURTRY Complicated Game 2 6 3 19 COMPLIATED GAME **000 claim their fourth No. 1 BIG MACHINE/BMLG ESHON BURGUNDY The Fear Of God 1 on Traditional Classical BRANDI CARLILE The Firewatcher’s Daughter 1 HUMBLE BEAST. NEW 0 ATO Albums with Easter at SONS OF TEXAS Baptized In The Rio Grande 1 Ephesus, which also starts 5 DRAKE If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late 4 RAZOR & TIE 4 YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC A ‘Cool’ at No. 1 on the overall ECHOSMITH Talking Dreams 40 Classical Albums chart BIG SEAN Dark Sky Paradise 2 GG WARNER BROS. 06 G.O.O.D./DEF JAM Debut (which blends traditional JEFF ROSENSTOCK We Cool? 1 and crossover classical KID ROCK First Kiss 2 SIDEONEDUMMY 0 7 TOP DOG/WARNER BROS. Jeff Rosenstock, who titles; see chart, below LADY LAMB THE BEEKEEPER After 1 previously led such indie ¡ MOM + POP right). Easter follows the 8 ED SHEERAN x 37 9 ATLANTIC/AG rock bands at Bomb THE JANOSKIANS Would U Love Me (EP) 1 monastic order of singing REPUBLIC the Music Industry and SAM SMITH ¡ In The Lonely Hour 38 nuns’ earlier No. 1s: Advent 10 9 CAPITOL Arrogant Sons of Bitches, GLASS ANIMALS Zaba 35 at Ephesus (2012), Angels WOLF TONE/HARVEST makes his chart debut on and Saints at Ephesus 12 10 VARIOUS ARTISTS NOW 53 5 UNIVERSAL/SONY MUSIC/LEGACY MOON DUO Shadow Of The Sun 1 Heatseekers Albums with (2013) and Lent at Ephesus SACRED BONES his new solo album, We (2014). (The nuns are based BECK Morning Phase 32 380 FONOGRAF RECORDS/CAPITOL CANNIBAL OX Blade Of The Ronin 1 Cool? It enters at No. 7 IHIPHOP just north of Kansas City, with 2,000 sold in the IMAGINE DRAGONS Smoke + Mirrors 3 Mo., at the Priory of Our 7 12 KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE/IGA SWERVEDRIVER I Wasn’t Born To Lose You 1 week ending March 8, COBRASIDE Lady of Ephesus.) according to Nielsen Music. NEW THIRD DAY Lead Us Back: Songs Of Worship 1 With four charting efforts ESSENTIAL/PLG BLACK STAR RIDERS Killer Instinct 2 NUCLEAR BLAST Rosenstock has been a on Traditional Classical MEGHAN TRAINOR Title member of numerous 15 14 8 JD MCPHERSON Let The Good Times Roll 4 Albums (see Billboard. EPIC ROUNDER/CONCORD bands whose releases date com/biz), the sister act is back to the late 1990s, RE 0 DAFT PUNK 0 Discovery 27 REVOLUTION SAINTS Revolution Saints 2 just one entry away from DAFT LIFE/PARLOPHONE/RHINO FRONTIERS though none of them has matching the number of MAROON 5 V 27 VERIDIA Inseparable (EP) 11 ever charted. hit albums racked up by 17Q 222/INTERSCOPE/IGA WORD-CURB/WARNER BROS. Farther down the list, fellow holy hitmakers The HOZIER Hozier TORCHE Restarter 2 brother trio AJR enters 18 0 22 RELAPSE Benedictine Monks RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA at No. 20 with its debut of Santo Domingo de LEVIATHAN Scar Sighted G UNIT The Beast (EP) 1 1 full-length release, Living NEW 0 G UNIT PROFOUND LORE Silos. The Spanish group Room (1,000 sold). The visited the chart five times AJR Living Room 1 DRAKE ¡ Thank Me Later 91 AJR/WARNER BROS. group (Adam, Ryan and RE 0 Country Albums, Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, Top ard 200 or the top 10 of Top between 1994 and 1996, YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC Jack Met) previously with two of those sets also ABOUT A MILE About A Mile 11 PURITY RING Another Eternity 1 WORD-CURB/WARNER BROS. dented the tally with two hitting No. 1 (Chant and NEW Q 4AD COLE TAYLOR Cole Taylor (EP) 1 EPs: I’m Ready (peaking at by sales data as compiled Nielsen classical albums, ranked current top-selling The week’s Chant II). SAM HUNT Montevallo COLE TAYLOR 21 21 19 No. 32) and Infinity (No. 36). Chant found massive MCA NASHVILLE/UMGN LIKE A STORM Awaken The Fire 2 The band recorded and success on both Traditional LED ZEPPELIN g Physical Graffiti 3 ANOTHER CENTURY/CENTURY MEDIA 022 SWAN SONG/ATLANTIC/RHINO produced the new album in Classical Albums and WORSHIP MOB Carry The Fire 1 CLASSICAL ALBUMS: CLASSICAL ALBUMS:

Album Sales the living room of its New the Billboard 200. On FALL OUT BOY INTEGRITY/PLG 24 23 American Beauty / American Psycho 7 DCD2/ISLAND York apartment — hence the former, it racked up IBEYI Ibeyi 3 XL the set’s title. 34 weeks at No. 1 — the NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS Chasing Yesterday 1 NEW Q SOUR MASH/KOBALT longest run atop the list Country singer-songwriter Cole Taylor — who is by a group, and the sixth- J. COLE 0 2014 Forest Hills Drive 13 20 25 DREAMVILLE/ROC NATION/COLUMBIA longest No. 1 rule by any one of the writers behind 2015 SOUNDTRACK ¡ CLASSICAL ALBUMS™ Florida Georgia Line’s album. (The longest was 26 Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 32 23 MARVEL/HOLLYWOOD Andrea Bocelli’s Aria — LAST THIS ARTIST CERTIFICATION Title WKS. ON top 10 Hot Country Songs WEEK WEEK CHART CHRIS BROWN & TYGA Fan Of A Fan: The Album IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL hit “Sippin’ On Fire” — sees The Opera Album, with 71 21 March 2 027 RCA #1 BENEDICTINES OF MARY, QUEEN OF APOSTLES his self-titled EP debut on chart-topping weeks in NEW 0 1 WK Easter At Ephesus 1 BENEDICTINES OF MARY/DE MONTFORT/DECCA/UNIVERSAL MUSIC CLASSICS 1998 and 1999.) Chant also NEW 0 RIXTON Let The Road 1 Heatseekers Albums at in the top 100 of Billbo appeared never acts, defined as those who have developing SCHOOLBOY/GIANT LITTLE MAN/MAD LOVE/INTERSCOPE/IGA became a surprise hit on 1 2 LINDSEY STIRLING Shatter Me 45 No. 22 and at No. 39 on LINDSEYSTOMP the Billboard 200, where STEVEN WILSON Hand Cannot Erase 1 Top Country Albums (1,000). NEW Q KSCOPE it peaked at No. 3, and has 2CELLOS Celloverse 6 Taylor also co-wrote Chase 0 0 3 PORTRAIT/SONY MASTERWORKS 30 NICKI MINAJ The Pinkprint 12 sold 2.7 million copies. It’s 22 YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC Rice’s “Look at My Truck” 4 THE PIANO GUYS Wonders 22 the seventh-biggest-selling 3 PORTRAIT/SONY MASTERWORKS from his Ready Set Roll, VARIOUS ARTISTS 2015 Grammy Nominees 7 classical album of the 19 31 GRAMMY/RCA ANDREA BOCELLI which hit No. 1 on Top 5 5 Opera: The Ultimate Collection 20 Nielsen era (1991-present). SUGAR/DECCA/UNIVERSAL MUSIC CLASSICS Country Albums. KIDZ BOP KIDS Kidz Bop 27 —Keith Caulfield 30 32 8 DISTANT WORLDS PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA RAZOR & TIE NEW 0 Distant Worlds III 1 —Keith Caulfield top-selling albums by new or The week’s AWR CASTING CROWNS Glorious Day: Hymns Of Faith 1 NEW 0 CRACKER BARREL/BEACH STREET/REUNION/PLG BENEDICTINES OF MARY, QUEEN OF APOSTLES Lent At Ephesus BENEDICTINES OF MARY/DE MONTFORT/DECCA/UNIVERSAL MUSIC CLASSICS 25 00 lsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved. SHANIA TWAIN Shania: Still The One: Live From Las Vegas 1 NEW 0 MERCURY NASHVILLE/UMGN NEW 0 LIBERA Angels Sing: Libera In America 1 by sales data as compiled Nielsen Music. ranked are Albums. Titles then ineligible to appear on Heatseekers WARNER CLASSICS CHILDISH GAMBINO Because The Internet ALBUMS: HEATSEEKERS RE 0 49 7 9 JACKIE EVANCHO Awakening 24 GLASSNOTE PORTRAIT/SONY MASTERWORKS

RAE SREMMURD SremmLife 9 LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Final Symphony 2 79Q EARDRUMA/INTERSCOPE/IGA 0 10 MERREGNON STUDIOS/X5

JASON ALDEAN ¡ Old Boots, New Dirt 22 AVI AVITAL Vivaldi 2 34 37 BROKEN BOW/BBMG 0 11 DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON/UNIVERSAL MUSIC CLASSICS VARIOUS ARTISTS RED Of Beauty And Rage 2 NEW 0 Classical Treasures: Spanish Guitar 1 0 38 ESSENTIAL SONOMA VARIOUS ARTISTS Classical Treasures: Classics For Relaxation 21 BOB DYLAN Shadows In The Night 5 13 13 SONOMA 33 39 COLUMBIA ANDRE RIEU AND HIS JOHANN STRAUSS ORCHESTRA 15 14 Love In Venice 18 40 NE-YO Non-Fiction 6 ANDRE RIEU/POLYDOR/UME 36 COMPOUND ENTERTAINMENT/MOTOWN/CAPITOL THE TEXAS TENORS You Should Dream 47 SKRILLEX & DIPLO Skrillex & Diplo Present Jack U 2 THE TEXAS TENORS 0 41 MAD DECENT/OWSLA/AG 00 BALA BROTHERS Bala Brothers 1 NEW Q WARNER CLASSICS 37 42 SOUNDTRACK 4 Frozen 67 WALT DISNEY VARIOUS ARTISTS 14 17 Classical Treasures: Romantic Piano 22 SONOMA 40 43 DIANA KRALL Wallflower 5 VERVE/VG VARIOUS ARTISTS 17 18 Classical Treasures: Best Of The Classics 21 SONOMA 44 ARIANA GRANDE ¡ My Everything 28 45 REPUBLIC VARIOUS ARTISTS 12 19 Classical Treasures: Classical Favorites 22 SONOMA

Q45 FALLING IN REVERSE Just Like You 2 by sales data as compiled Nielsen Music. ranked all genres, top-selling albums across The week’s EPITAPH S. DINNERSTEIN/MDR LEIPZIG RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Broadway - Lafayette: Ravel 2 SONY CLASSICAL/SONY MASTERWORKS 46 JUAN GABRIEL Los Duo 4 48 FONOVISA/UMLE 0 21 PETER HOLLENS Peter Hollens 19 20 ONE VOICE/PORTRAIT/SONY MASTERWORKS TOP ALBUM SALES: TOP subsequent albums are it and the act’s of those levels, any Latin Albums, Christian Albums or Gospel Albums. If a title reaches 0 and Nie Global Media, LLC © 2015, Prometheus Music. for complete rules and explanations. See Charts on billboard.com/biz Legend 47 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE Anything Goes 21 43 REPUBLIC NASHVILLE/BMLG Q22 ANDREA BOCELLI Love In Portofino 72 SUGAR/ALMUD/VERVE/VG

48 SIA 1000 Forms Of Fear 27 MAKI NAMEKAWA 49 MONKEY PUZZLE/RCA Philip Glass: The Complete Piano Etudes 2 RE 0 ORANGE MOUNTAIN CARRIE UNDERWOOD 0 49 Greatest Hits: Decade #1 13 VARIOUS ARTISTS 47 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE/SMN 18 24 Classical Treasures: Classical Moods 19 SONOMA LECRAE Anomaly RE 0 16 Q25 THE TEXAS TENORS The First 5 Years 8 REACH THE TEXAS TENORS AIRPLAY/STREAMING & AIRPLAY/STREAMING BY COMPILED SALES DATA

52 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data Data for week of 03.21.2015 RADIO SONGS™ DIGITAL SONGS™ STREAMING SONGS™

LAST THIS TITLE Artist WKS. ON LAST THIS TITLE CERTIFICATION Artist WKS. ON LAST THIS TITLE Artist WKS. ON WEEK WEEK IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL CHART WEEK WEEK IMPRINT/LABEL CHART WEEK WEEK IMPRINT/LABEL CHART

#1 UPTOWN FUNK! #1 UPTOWN FUNK! #1 UPTOWN FUNK! 7 WKS Mark Ronson Feat. Bruno Mars 15 10 WKS Mark Ronson Feat. Bruno Mars 17 8 WKS Mark Ronson Feat. Bruno Mars 15 0 RCA 11111111 RCA RCA THINKING OUT LOUD Ed Sheeran THINKING OUT LOUD Ed Sheeran 2 13 SUGAR Maroon 5 8 18 ATLANTIC 0 2 222/INTERSCOPE/IGA 0 2 ATLANTIC STYLE Taylor Swift LOVE ME LIKE YOU DO Ellie Goulding 7 2 3 THINKING OUT LOUD Ed Sheeran 18 7 3 0 BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC ATLANTIC/AG 00 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC/INTERSCOPE

SUGAR Maroon 5 7 4 4 LOVE ME LIKE YOU DO Ellie Goulding 9 SUGAR Maroon 5 8 50 222/INTERSCOPE INTERSCOPE/UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/IGA/REPUBLIC 0 222/INTERSCOPE FOURFIVESECONDS EARNED IT (FIFTY SHADES OF GREY) TIME OF OUR LIVES Pitbull & Ne-Yo 9 5 5 Rihanna & Kanye West & Paul McCartney 7 The Weeknd 7 6 0 MR. 305/POLO GROUNDS/RCA WESTBURY ROAD/ROC NATION UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC ALL DAY 4 6 BLANK SPACE Taylor Swift 18 NEW 0 Kanye West Feat. Theophilus London, Allan Kingdom & Paul McCartney 1 TRAP QUEEN Fetty Wap 5 BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC G.O.O.D./ROC-A-FELLA/DEF JAM 0 RGF/300 EARNED IT (FIFTY SHADES OF GREY) FOURFIVESECONDS LOVE ME LIKE YOU DO Ellie Goulding 5 6 7 The Weeknd 8 Rihanna & Kanye West & Paul McCartney 5 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC/INTERSCOPE UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC 010 WESTBURY ROAD/ROC NATION FOURFIVESECONDS CONQUEROR Rihanna & Kanye West & Paul McCartney 6 NEW 0 Empire Cast Feat. Estelle & Jussie Smollett 1 6 8 TAKE ME TO CHURCH Hozier 21 Ea)8,0 WESTBURY ROAD/ROC NATION 20TH CENTURY FOX TV/COLUMBIA RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA 0 7 9 TAKE ME TO CHURCH Hozier 19 8 9 STYLE Taylor Swift 15 BLESSINGS Big Sean Feat. Drake 2 RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA BIG MACHINE/BMLG 00 G.O.O.D./DEF JAM ONLY I DON’T MIND Usher Feat. Juicy J 14 G.D.F.R. 0 Flo Rida Feat. Sage The Gemini & Lookas 12 Nicki Minaj Feat. Drake, Lil Wayne & Chris Brown 17 0 10 RCA 0 0 POE BOY/ATLANTIC/AG 0 10 YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC TRUFFLE BUTTER Nicki Minaj Feat. Drake & Lil Wayne TAKE ME TO CHURCH 3 Hozier ALL ABOUT THAT BASS Meghan Trainor 5 10 11 24 13 0 32 00 YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA EPIC

9 12 LIPS ARE MOVIN Meghan Trainor 15 TIME OF OUR LIVES Pitbull & Ne-Yo 11 11 12 NO TYPE Rae Sremmurd 23 EPIC 0 12 MR. 305/POLO GROUNDS/RCA EARDRUMA/INTERSCOPE YOU’RE SO BEAUTIFUL 13 PRAYER IN C Lillywood & Robin Schulz 11 18 Empire Cast Feat. Jussie Smollett & Yazz 2 12 13 I DON’T F**K WITH YOU Big Sean Feat. E-40 21 0 CHOKE INDUSTRY/TONSPIEL/CINQ 7/WARGRAM/ATLANTIC/RRP 20TH CENTURY FOX TV/COLUMBIA G.O.O.D./DEF JAM

14 I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE Sam Smith 21 CHAINS Nick Jonas 4 14 14 HOT BOY Bobby Shmurda 31 , adult, rock, country, R&B/ , adult, rock, country, 11 CAPITOL 14 0 SAFEHOUSE/ISLAND GS9/EPIC TRUFFLE BUTTER SOMEBODY Natalie La Rose Feat. Jeremih 4 Nicki Minaj Feat. Drake & Lil Wayne 7 15 15 LIPS ARE MOVIN Meghan Trainor 16 00 I.M.G./REPUBLIC 0 5 YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC EPIC 16 SHE KNOWS Ne-Yo Feat. Juicy J 9 NEW 0 NEW ROMANTICS Taylor Swift 1 9 16 BLANK SPACE Taylor Swift 17 el COMPOUND ENTERTAINMENT/MOTOWN/CAPITOL BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC

OUTSIDE Calvin Harris Feat. Ellie Goulding 7/11 Beyonce 5 TRAP QUEEN Fetty Wap 3 16 17 15 00 FLY EYE/COLUMBIA 00 RGF/300 PARKWOOD/COLUMBIA JUST GETTIN’ STARTED Jason Aldean CHANDELIER Sia 11 TAKE YOUR TIME Sam Hunt 9 18 18 43 00 BROKEN BOW 0 18 MCA NASHVILLE/UMGN MONKEY PUZZLE/RCA

The week’s top streamed radio songs and on-demand videos on radio top streamed The week’s MEAN TO ME Brett Eldredge SHAKE IT OFF Taylor Swift 12 SHE KNOWS Ne-Yo Feat. Juicy J 7 19 19 29 ATLANTIC/WMN 26 0 COMPOUND ENTERTAINMENT/MOTOWN/CAPITOL BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC for the first time. 1,240 stations, encompassing pop 00 14 20 JEALOUS Nick Jonas 22 SHUT UP AND DANCE WALK THE MOON 3 I DON’T MIND Usher Feat. Juicy J 10 SAFEHOUSE/ISLAND/REPUBLIC 0 0 RCA RCA LC and Nielsen SoundScan, Inc. All rights reserved. LC 00 LONELY TONIGHT STREAMING SONGS: STREAMING 18 21 Blake Shelton Feat. Ashley Monroe 10 HEARTBEAT SONG Kelly Clarkson 7 ONE LAST TIME Ariana Grande 3 WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE/WMN 00 19/RCA CA n REPUBLIC GHOST Ella Henderson 5 I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE Sam Smith 17 22 11 16 22 BLANK SPACE Taylor Swift 19 17 22 24 SYCO/COLUMBIA BIG MACHINE/BMLG CAPITOL AIN’T WORTH THE WHISKEY Cole Swindell CENTURIES ¡ Fall Out Boy G.D.F.R. Flo Rida Feat. Sage The Gemini & Lookas 29 0 6 17 23 26 9 WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE/WMN DCD2/ISLAND al 0 POE BOY/ATLANTIC CENTURIES Fall Out Boy COCO O.T. Genasis 19 24 16 19 24 SOMEBODY Natalie La Rose Feat. Jeremih 5 20 24 15 DCD2/ISLAND/REPUBLIC I.M.G./REPUBLIC CONGLOMERATE/ATLANTIC I WANT YOU TO KNOW 28 AYO Chris Brown & Tyga 5 7 25 Zedd Feat. Selena Gomez 2 24 25 ELASTIC HEART Sia 9 RCA INTERSCOPE/IGA MONKEY PUZZLE/RCA RIPTIDE Vance Joy I DON’T MIND Usher Feat. Juicy J POST TO BE Omarion Feat. Chris Brown & Jhene Aiko titles, or songs receiving widespread airplay and/or sales activity and/or airplay widespread titles, or songs receiving 27 26 17 21 26 15 3 F-STOP/ATLANTIC RCA 0 26 MAYBACH/ATLANTIC 2 31 HEARTBEAT SONG Kelly Clarkson 6 22 27 LIPS ARE MOVIN Meghan Trainor 20 0,1 27 LET IT GO Idina Menzel 61 Q 19/RCA EPIC WALT DISNEY

30 LONELY EYES Chris Young 7 ONE LAST TIME Ariana Grande 3 27 28 CENTURIES Fall Out Boy 20 0 RCA NASHVILLE REPUBLIC DCD2/ISLAND/REPUBLIC 00 STAY WITH ME Sam Smith GHOST ¡ Ella Henderson TIME OF OUR LIVES Pitbull & Ne-Yo 25 29 42 27 29 18 32) 0 7 CAPITOL SYCO/COLUMBIA MR. 305/POLO GROUNDS/RCA 6 33 HOMEGROWN HONEY Darius Rucker 10 30 30 SHAKE IT OFF Taylor Swift 28 25 30 GANGNAM STYLE PSY 98 0 CAPITOL NASHVILLE BIG MACHINE/BMLG SCHOOLBOY/REPUBLIC

39 HOMEGROWN Zac Brown Band 5 NEW 0 I REALLY LIKE YOU Carly Rae Jepsen 1 LEGEND Drake 3 0 VARVATOS/REPUBLIC/BMLG/SOUTHERN GROUND 604/INTERSCOPE/SCHOOLBOY/IGA 29 0 YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC

Hot 100 Breakout Hot

41 ONE LAST TIME Ariana Grande 2 HOMEGROWN Zac Brown Band 3 AYO Chris Brown & Tyga 5 The week’s top-downloaded songs across all genres, ranked by sales data as compiled Nielsen SoundScan. ranked all genres, songs across top-downloaded The week’s DS. Songs are defined as current if they are newly-released newly-released if they are defined as current Songs are DS. 0 REPUBLIC 49 0 VARVATOS/SOUTHERN GROUND/BMLG/REPUBLIC 31 0 RCA

THE HANGING TREE ¡ 38 TAKE YOUR TIME Sam Hunt 4 47 James Newton Howard Feat. Jennifer Lawrence 14 NEW I REALLY LIKE YOU Carly Rae Jepsen 1 0 MCA NASHVILLE LIONS GATE/REPUBLIC 604/SCHOOLBOY/INTERSCOPE 0 DIGITAL SONGS: DIGITAL 100. See Charts Legend on billboard.com/biz for complete rules and explanations. All charts for complete rules and explanations. Global Media, L 100. See Charts on billboard.com/biz © 2015, Prometheus Legend EARNED IT (FIFTY SHADES OF GREY) BANG BANG

k. k. The Weeknd TALKING BODY Tove Lo Jessie J, Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj 2015 45 2 3 33 34 32 0 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC 40 0 ISLAND LAVA/REPUBLIC

ANIMALS Maroon 5 RIPTIDE ¡ Vance Joy STAY WITH ME Sam Smith 32 35 23 33 35 26 30 35 40 222/INTERSCOPE F-STOP/ATLANTIC/AG CAPITOL March 21 21 March

23 36 MAKE ME WANNA Thomas Rhett 12 IMMORTALS Fall Out Boy 3 36 36 ENERGY Drake 3 VALORY 38 0 WALT DISNEY/DCD2/ISLAND YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC OUTSIDE TRUFFLE BUTTER CHAINS Nick Jonas 2 0 Calvin Harris Feat. Ellie Goulding 7 40 Nicki Minaj Feat. Drake & Lil Wayne 4 SAFEHOUSE/ISLAND/REPUBLIC 41 0 FLY EYE/COLUMBIA 0 YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC 00 ¡ SAY YOU DO Dierks Bentley 3 28 38 I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE Sam Smith 24 HAPPY Pharrell Williams 58 00 CAPITOL NASHVILLE CAPITOL ®0 BACK LOT/COLUMBIA

ed by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen B as measured audience impressions airplay ed by radio SHAKE IT OFF Taylor Swift 30 BLESSINGS Big Sean Feat. Drake 5 SOMEBODY Natalie La Rose Feat. Jeremih 2 tronically monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a wee 7 days 24 hours a day, monitored tronically 34 39 45 BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC 0 G.O.O.D./DEF JAM 00 I.M.G./REPUBLIC Streaming Songs data is used to compile the Billboard Hot Streaming I WANT YOU TO KNOW Zedd Feat. Selena Gomez 1 NEW MONSTER Meek Mill 1 40 DARK HORSE Katy Perry Feat. Juicy J 72 NEW 0 INTERSCOPE 0 MAYBACH/ATLANTIC/AG CAPITOL 0 ONLY LOVE ME HARDER 35 41 Nicki Minaj Feat. Drake, Lil Wayne & Chris Brown 13 23 41 ENERGY Drake 4 34 41 Ariana Grande & The Weeknd 20 YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC REPUBLIC 2 NIGHT CHANGES One Direction 2 35 42 JEALOUS Nick Jonas 24 JEALOUS Nick Jonas 20 48 0 SYCO/COLUMBIA SAFEHOUSE/ISLAND 0 42 SAFEHOUSE/ISLAND/REPUBLIC 6 37 43 7/11 Beyonce 10 42 43 ALL ABOUT THAT BASS Meghan Trainor 35 KNOW YOURSELF Drake 3 PARKWOOD/COLUMBIA EPIC 43 0 YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC

SHUT UP AND DANCE WALK THE MOON 2 46 AYO Chris Brown & Tyga 7 42 44 ALL OF ME John Legend 61 00 RCA 0 RCA G.O.O.D./COLUMBIA ONLY ¡ 45 I DON’T F**K WITH YOU Big Sean Feat. E-40 18 37 45 Nicki Minaj Feat. Drake, Lil Wayne & Chris Brown 19 47 RUDE MAGIC! 42 40 G.O.O.D./DEF JAM YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC LATIUM/RCA

The week’s most popular current songs across all genres, rank all genres, songs across most popular current The week’s

26 46 LIKE A COWBOY Randy Houser 15 NEW Q ADORE Cashmere Cat Feat. Ariana Grande 1 10 BANDS Drake 3 STONEY CREEK FRIENDS KEEP SECRETS/INTERSCOPE/IGA 44 0 YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC leading online music services. Hot 100 Airplay, Hot Digital Songs and leading online music services. Hot 100 Airplay, hip-hop, Christian, gospel, dance/electronic, jazz and Latin formats, are elec jazz and Latin formats, are Christian, gospel, dance/electronic, hip-hop, RADIO SONGS: LIFESTYLE NEW Q RAISE ‘EM UP Keith Urban Feat. Eric Church 1 RE 0 HONEY, I’M GOOD. Andy Grammer 2 Rich Gang Feat. Young Thug & Rich Homie Quan 32 HIT RED/CAPITOL NASHVILLE S-CURVE 46 0 YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC

42 48 I SEE YOU Luke Bryan 14 RE 0 GERONIMO Sheppard 2 49 SHE KNOWS Ne-Yo Feat. Juicy J 5 CAPITOL NASHVILLE EMPIRE OF SONG/SCHOOLBOY/REPUBLIC 0 COMPOUND ENTERTAINMENT/MOTOWN/CAPITOL

I BET MY LIFE Imagine Dragons 2 NEW 0 B BOY Meek Mill Feat. Big Sean & A$AP Ferg 1 45 49 TUESDAY I LOVE MAKONNEN Feat. Drake 20 RE 0 KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE MAYBACH/ATLANTIC/AG OVO SOUND/WARNER BROS. 4 47 50 ALL ABOUT THAT BASS Meghan Trainor 31 36 50 STAY WITH ME Sam Smith 48 NEW WATCH ME Silento 1 EPIC CAPITOL BOLO SALES DATA COMPILED BY COMPILED SALES DATA 0

Data for week of 03.21.2015 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data 53 PRESENTED PRESENTED Funny billboard TOP TOP TRACKS TRACKS™™ BY m billboard + EMERGING ARTISTS™ BY mekkippl LAST THIS TITLE Artist WKS. ON LAST THIS TITLE Artist WKS. ON Business WEEK WEEK CHART WEEK WEEK CHART #1 #1 NEW 0 1 WK I REALLY LIKE YOU Carly Rae Jepsen 1 NEW 0 1 WK ADORE Cashmere Cat Feat. Ariana Grande 1

On Top RIHANNA: MICHAEL MULLER Tracks 00 ALL DAY Kanye West Feat. Theophilus London, Allan Kingdom & Paul McCartney 3 NEW 0 COLD STARES Nosaj Thing Feat. Chance the Rapper 1 WHERE ARE U NOW Skrillex & Diplo Feat. Justin Bieber 2 KING Years & Years 8 Australian comedy/music 0 3 0 3 group The Janoskians 6 4 LOVE ME LIKE YOU DO Ellie Goulding 9 NEW 0 BUFFALO Toro y Moi 1 enters at No. 6 on Billboard + Twitter Top Tracks with NEW 0 NEW ROMANTICS Taylor Swift 1 RE 0 MY JAM Bobby Brackins Feat. Zendaya & Jeremih 2 West Hits “LA Girl.” The song scores the lofty arrival following NEW 0 LA GIRL The Janoskians 1 3 6 HOLD BACK THE RIVER James Bay 18 Social 50 the release of the quintet’s parent EP, Would U Love 5 7 THINKING OUT LOUD Ed Sheeran 30 5 7 RUNAWAY (U & I) Galantis 21 Me, on March 2 and its Top 10 music video premiere NEW 0 ADORE Cashmere Cat Feat. Ariana Grande 1 NEW 0 DEPRESTON Courtney Barnett 1 Kanye West finally hits the next day. The EP, the top 10 of the Social released through Republic NEW 0 LOVE. Kid Cudi 1 NEW 0 TECHNICOLOUR BEAT Oh Wonder 1 50 chart, thanks to a Records, arrives at No. 9 media blitz during the

on Heatseekers Albums, Social 11 10 SUGAR Maroon 5 8 16 0 GERONIMO Sheppard 28 tracking week that included selling 2,000 copies in revealing the name of his the week ending March 8, 42 0 NIGHT CHANGES One Direction 19 NEW 0 A MESSAGE Kelela 1 upcoming album: So Help according to Nielsen Music. Me God. West has been The video collected RE 0 BLESSINGS Big Sean Feat. Drake 4 NEW 0 FOURFIVESECONDS James Bay 1 on the Social 50 tally for more than 428,000 global 44 weeks, never previously

2015 FOR EVERYBODY views on YouTube (through NEW 0 Juicy J Feat. Wiz Kalifah & R. City 1 NEW 0 DIAMONDS Thaiboy Digital Feat. Yung Lean 1 rising above No. 18. March 11). With its debut, UPTOWN FUNK! The tweet, which received “Girl” becomes the second 9 14 Mark Ronson Feat. Bruno Mars 17 NEW Q TOO YOUNG TO REMEMBER Florrie 1 March 21 21 March more than 90,000 retweets track from Would U Love and 77,000 favorites NEW BABY BLUE Action Bronson Feat. Chance The Rapper 1 WALK Kwabs 25 Me to reach a Billboard 13 0 (through March 11), led to songs chart: “Real Girls Eat yet another surge in activity Cake” spent a week on Pop 19 0 STYLE Taylor Swift 14 NEW 0 HOT BOY Bankroll Fresh 1 for West on March 3. That Digital Songs in May 2014. TO U Skrillex & Diplo Feat. AlunaGeorge ST. PATRICK PVRIS day he debuted a video for Elsewhere on Top Tracks, 2 NEW 0 1 also not as a lead artistr followers who have 00 his latest single, “All Day.” Cashmere Cat also I WANT YOU TO KNOW The bow led to a spike of achieves a top 10 debut 0 18 Zedd Feat. Selena Gomez 2 24 0 FREAKS Timmy Trumpet And Savage 19 more than 1.4 million views with “Adore,” at No. 8. The 19 BLANK SPACE Taylor Swift HOLD MY HAND Jess Glynne to West’s Wikipedia page Ariana Grande-assisted 14 19 0 18 2 for the week. cut jumps onto the survey WORTH IT Fifth Harmony Feat. Kid Ink LET IT GO James Bay Rihanna (above) also thanks to 817,000 streams NEW Q 1 18 0 18 returns to the top 10 (20-10)

for the week, which sparks tists with fewer than 50,000 Twitte 16 21 FOURFIVESECONDS Rihanna & Kanye West & Paul McCartney NEW 0 RIVA (RESTART THE GAME) Klingande Feat. Broken Back due to activity following the song’s debut at No. 93 7 1 the arrival of her song on the Billboard Hot TOWARDS THE SUN Rihanna 2 NEW 0 LOSING YOU Aquilo 1 “Dancing in the Dark” on 100. The pair previously 0 22 March 4; the tune is from collaborated on Grande’s NEW 0 SOMEONE NEW Hozier 1 6 23 GOLD DUST Galantis 3 the film Home. The diva My Everything album, and also teased another new the Norwegian DJ serves NEW Q LEAN ON Major Lazer X DJ Snake Feat. M0 1 NEW Q SORRY Meg Myers 1 track, “American Oxygen,” as an opening act on as part of a promotional up-and-coming artists (defined as ar Grande’s Honeymoon Tour. 15 25 ONE LAST TIME Ariana Grande 6 NEW 0 CHOLOS Lucki Eck$ 1 campaign for the NCAA’s As “Adore” arrives, Grande March Madness. The earns her eighth top 10 EARNED IT (FIFTY SHADES OF GREY) 18 26 The Weeknd 11 14 26 MINE Phoebe Ryan 3 Instagram post on March 5 on Top Tracks, surpassing that announced the latter Nicki Minaj for the most RE FROOT Marina And The Diamonds 5 23 27 WISH YOU WERE MINE Philip George 5 song has since garnered among solo artists in the 255,000 likes, spurring chart’s short history. She DECISIONS Wiz Khalifa BLUE HUNNIDS Kool John Feat. P-LO RE 0 2 NEW 0 1 140,000 new followers for ties One Direction for the the week. —William Gruger highest sum among all acts NEW Q CONQUEROR Estelle 1 RE 0 COMING HOME Leon Bridges 2 since the tally launched nine months ago. NEW 0 THE MATRIMONY Wale Feat. Usher PEDESTRIAN AT BEST Courtney Barnett 1 0 30 6 in the U.S. by songs on Twitter most shared The week’s —Trevor Anderson 00 HEARTBEAT SONG Kelly Clarkson 8 RE 0 LIGHTHOUSE G.R.L. 3 NEW 0 AMERICAN OXYGEN Rihanna 1 NEW 0 OUR EYES Lucy Rose 1 0 " LOVE ME HARDER Ariana Grande & The Weeknd 25 NEW 0 MONSTER Papoose 1 0 34 TROUBLE Iggy Azalea Feat. Jennifer Hudson 2 RE 0 WHEN THE BEAT DROPS OUT Marlon Roudette 5 BILLBOARD TWITTER EMERGING ARTISTS: BILLBOARD 0 35 ANIMALS Maroon 5 26 17 35 SAY SOMETHING Karen Harding 17

RE 0 CHAINS Nick Jonas 4 NEW 0 WITHOUT YOU Tobias Jesso Jr. 1

33 37 SHAKE IT OFF Taylor Swift 29 0 37 TREASURED SOUL Michael Calfan 4 0 38 DARK SKY (SKYSCRAPERS) Big Sean 2 00 MIND RIGHT TK-N-Cash 2 0 39 AYO Chris Brown & Tyga 10 NEW Q OH ALLEN The Relationship 1

NEW Q ROAD TO PERDITION Jay Electronica Feat. JAY Z 1 NEW 0 PUSH IT iSHi. Feat. Pusha T 1

37 41 ALL ABOUT THAT BASS Meghan Trainor 30 40 0 BLANK SPACE I Prevail 9

0 42 TRAP QUEEN Fetty Wap 2 34 42 NOBODY TO LOVE Sigma 27

COOL Alesso Feat. Roy English 2 GOLD Chet Faker 19 Hot 100), ranked by the number of shares. All charts All rights reserved. by the number of shares. Global Media, LLC. © 2015, Prometheus Hot 100), ranked 0 43 49 0 of shares. by the volume in the U.S., ranked songs on Twitter most shared The week’s HEROES (WE COULD BE) Alesso Feat. Tove Lo CORRECT Charles Hamilton RE 0 17 RE 0 2 Billboard

32 45 OUTSIDE Calvin Harris Feat. Ellie Goulding 14 36 45 SURRENDER Cash Cash 5

28 46 LIVING FOR LOVE Madonna 6 NEW 0 COUNT ON US Beedie 1 in the top 50 songs on 26 47 SLEDGEHAMMER Fifth Harmony 18 0 47 DESIRE Years & Years 13 TRACKS: TWITTER TOP BILLBOARD

NEW 0 WHIPPIN’ MY WRIST Soulja Boy 1 0 48 WAIT FOR LIFE Emile Haynie 3

NEW Q HIGHER Rihanna 1 NEW 0 JADA Paloma Ford 1

NEW 0 COLD STARES Nosaj Thing Feat. Chance the Rapper 1 NEW 0 SOMEBODY NEW Joywave 1

54 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data Data for week of 03.21.2015 SOCIAL 50™ MAINSTREAM TOP 40™ RHYTHMIC™ LAST THIS WKS. ON LAST THIS TITLE Artist WKS. ON LAST THIS TITLE Artist WKS. ON ARTIST WEEK WEEK CHART WEEK WEEK CHART WEEK WEEK IMPRINT/LABEL CHART IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL

14#1 WKS TAYLOR SWIFT 224 #11 WK THINKING OUT LOUD Ed Sheeran 13 #11 WK TIME OF OUR LIVES Pitbull & Ne-Yo 13 BIG MACHINE/BMLG 00 ATLANTIC 00 MR. 305/POLO GROUNDS/RCA UPTOWN FUNK! Mark Ronson Feat. Bruno Mars TRUFFLE BUTTER Nicki Minaj Feat. Drake & Lil Wayne ARIANA GRANDE 120 1 2 17 9 00 REPUBLIC RCA 00 YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC STYLE Taylor Swift UPTOWN FUNK! Mark Ronson Feat. Bruno Mars JUSTIN BIEBER 224 GG 9 1 3 15 60 SCHOOLBOY/RAYMOND BRAUN/DEF JAM BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC RCA TIME OF OUR LIVES Pitbull & Ne-Yo 13 AYO Chris Brown & Tyga 9 SELENA GOMEZ 222 MR. 305/POLO GROUNDS/RCA RCA 0 HOLLYWOOD 0 00 SUGAR Maroon 5 8 SOMEBODY Natalie La Rose Feat. Jeremih 9 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE 195 222/INTERSCOPE GG I.M.G./REPUBLIC RCA 0 0 0 00 FOURFIVESECONDS Rihanna & Kanye West & Paul McCartney 7 4 6 SHE KNOWS Ne-Yo Feat. Juicy J 21 KANYE WEST 44 WESTBURY ROAD/ROC NATION COMPOUND ENTERTAINMENT/MOTOWN/CAPITOL G.O.O.D./ROC-A-FELLA/DEF JAM 00 PRAYER IN C Lillywood & Robin Schulz FOURFIVESECONDS Rihanna & Kanye West & Paul McCartney 16 6 KATY PERRY 224 10 : CHOKE INDUSTRY/TONSPIEL/CINQ 7/WARGRAM/ATLANTIC/RRP 00 WESTBURY ROAD/ROC NATION 0 7 CAPITOL LOVE ME LIKE YOU DO Ellie Goulding 8 7 8 I DON’T MIND Usher Feat. Juicy J 19 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC/INTERSCOPE RCA ED SHEERAN 62 00 ATLANTIC/AG 00 9 BLANK SPACE Taylor Swift 19 NOT FOR LONG B.o.B Feat. Trey Songz 16 10 BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC REBELROCK/GRAND HUSTLE/ATLANTIC BEYONCE 222 0 9 9 9 PARKWOOD/COLUMBIA OUTSIDE Calvin Harris Feat. Ellie Goulding 9 APPARENTLY J. Cole 12 FLY EYE/COLUMBIA DREAMVILLE/ROC NATION/COLUMBIA RIHANNA 00 00 213 200 WESTBURY ROAD/ROC NATION TAKE ME TO CHURCH Hozier G.D.F.R. Flo Rida Feat. Sage The Gemini & Lookas 6 11 21 17 RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA 00 POE BOY/ATLANTIC JENNIFER LOPEZ 210 CAPITOL EARNED IT (FIFTY SHADES OF GREY) 11 9 12 LIPS ARE MOVIN Meghan Trainor 19 The Weeknd 6 0 EPIC 00 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC

14 12 NICKI MINAJ 223 YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC SOMEBODY Natalie La Rose Feat. Jeremih 8 10 13 7/11 Beyonce 14 QO I.M.G./REPUBLIC PARKWOOD/COLUMBIA 16 DRAKE 199 13 YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC ONE LAST TIME Ariana Grande 4 14 14 THINKING OUT LOUD Ed Sheeran 8 REPUBLIC ATLANTIC MILEY CYRUS 152 NIGHT CHANGES One Direction ONLY Nicki Minaj Feat. Drake, Lil Wayne & Chris Brown 17 14 RCA 15 16 15 17 SYCO/COLUMBIA YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC DEMI LOVATO 15 15 214 CHAINS Nick Jonas 7 ONE LAST TIME Ariana Grande 4 HOLLYWOOD 10: SAFEHOUSE/ISLAND/REPUBLIC 00 REPUBLIC GHOST Ella Henderson JEALOUS Nick Jonas SAM SMITH 29 13 17 18 13 17 18 ly-released titles, or songs ly-released 0 16 CAPITOL SYCO/COLUMBIA SAFEHOUSE/ISLAND/REPUBLIC I DON’T MIND Usher Feat. Juicy J THROW SUM MO Rae Sremmurd Feat. Nicki Minaj & Young Thug ELLIE GOULDING 79 12 3 CHERRYTREE/INTERSCOPE/IGA RCA EARDRUMA/INTERSCOPE age, as measured by Next Big Sound. by Next age, as measured 00 17 0 010 SHE KNOWS Ne-Yo Feat. Juicy J HOTEL Kid Ink Feat. Chris Brown WIZ KHALIFA 211 9 6 18 18 ROSTRUM/ATLANTIC/AG 010 COMPOUND ENTERTAINMENT/MOTOWN/CAPITOL 010 THA ALUMNI GROUP/88 CLASSIC/RCA I WANT YOU TO KNOW edia, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc.edia, LLC All rights reserved. Zedd Feat. Selena Gomez 2 TRAMPOLINE Kalin And Myles 5 ROMEO SANTOS 74 INTERSCOPE REPUBLIC 0 19 SONY MUSIC LATIN 010 010 HEARTBEAT SONG Kelly Clarkson 8 BLESSINGS Big Sean Feat. Drake 4 LUCY HALE 36 19/RCA G.O.O.D./DEF JAM DMG NASHVILLE 00 00 00 RIPTIDE Vance Joy STYLE Taylor Swift 15 5 LADY GAGA F-STOP/ATLANTIC BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC 12 21 222 010 21 0 STREAMLINE/INTERSCOPE/IGA G.D.F.R. Flo Rida Feat. Sage The Gemini & Lookas 5 OPEN WIDE Calvin Harris Feat. Big Sean 4 POE BOY/ATLANTIC FLY EYE/COLUMBIA BIG SEAN 11 010 00 0 22 G.O.O.D./DEF JAM NOBODY LOVE Tori Kelly 4 GOOD LOVIN Ludacris Feat. Miguel 6 CAPITOL DTP/DEF JAM ONE DIRECTION 173 010 00 25 23 SYCO/COLUMBIA TRUFFLE BUTTER Nicki Minaj Feat. Drake & Lil Wayne 5 SUGAR Maroon 5 5 MAROON 5 Alo YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC 00 222/INTERSCOPE 136 29 0 222/INTERSCOPE/IGA

Q25 CHRIS BROWN 197 RCA ADULT CONTEMPORARY™ ADULT TOP 40™ BLAKE SHELTON 12 WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE/WMN LAST THIS TITLE Artist WKS. ON LAST THIS TITLE Artist WKS. ON for complete rules and explanations. All chartsfor complete rules and explanations. Global M © 2015, Prometheus 00 WEEK WEEK CHART WEEK WEEK CHART IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL 27 27 BRUNO MARS 210 ATLANTIC/AG #1 THINKING OUT LOUD Ed Sheeran #1 THINKING OUT LOUD Ed Sheeran 1 WK GG 10 2 4 WKS 17 IGGY AZALEA 00 ATLANTIC 0 ATLANTIC 28 28 46 U. TURN FIRST/HUSTLE GANG/DEF JAM UPTOWN FUNK! BLANK SPACE Taylor Swift 15 Mark Ronson Feat. Bruno Mars 16 02 BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC 02 RCA y, ranked by radio airplay detections, as measured by Nielsen Music. Songs are defined as current if they are relatively recent relatively if they are by Nielsen Music. defined as current detections, as measured Songs are airplay by radio ranked y, BECKY G 22 RE 0 KEMOSABE/RCA SUGAR Maroon 5 3 3 STAY WITH ME Sam Smith 39 8 CAPITOL 00 222/INTERSCOPE AUSTIN MAHONE 88 40Q CHASE/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC 4 4 AM I WRONG Nico & Vinz 37 STYLE Taylor Swift 8 nd Instagram; reactions and conversations across Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook; and views to an artist’s Wikipedia p Wikipedia to an artist’s and views and Facebook; Instagram YouTube, Twitter, across and conversations reactions nd Instagram; GG WARNER BROS. 00 BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC THALIA 20 37 0 SONY MUSIC LATIN I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE Sam Smith 20 GHOST Ella Henderson 26 00 CAPITOL 00 SYCO/COLUMBIA MARTIN GARRIX days a week. days See Charts on billboard.com/biz Legend 44 SCHOOLBOY/SPINNIN’/SILENT/CASABLANCA/REPUBLIC 7 6 SHAKE IT OFF Taylor Swift 29 3 6 LIPS ARE MOVIN Meghan Trainor 17 00 BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC EPIC PHARRELL WILLIAMS 38 MAPS Maroon 5 TAKE ME TO CHURCH Hozier 42Q I AM OTHER/COLUMBIA 6 7 36 6 7 25 222/INTERSCOPE RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA CLAUDIA LEITTE BLANK SPACE Taylor Swift 32 34 19 8 8 TRY Colbie Caillat 29 5 8 19 SOM LIVRE REPUBLIC BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC LANA DEL REY 84 HEARTBEAT SONG Kelly Clarkson 8 CENTURIES Fall Out Boy 22 45Q POLYDOR/INTERSCOPE/IGA 9 19/RCA DCD2/ISLAND/REPUBLIC

ythmic, adult contemporary and adult top 40 formats, respectivel 0 00 RUDE MAGIC! HEARTBEAT SONG Kelly Clarkson MEGHAN TRAINOR 15 10 10 37 8 50 0 EPIC LATIUM/RCA 00 19/RCA weekly additions of fans across Facebook, Twitter, YouTube a YouTube Twitter, Facebook, weekly additions of fans across LIPS ARE MOVIN Meghan Trainor 9 LOVE ME LIKE YOU DO Ellie Goulding 8 SHAWN MENDES 14 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC/INTERSCOPE 37 ISLAND 00 EPIC 00 I LIVED OneRepublic 12 12 ANIMALS Maroon 5 19 11 12 23 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER 50 222/INTERSCOPE MOSLEY/INTERSCOPE HEY OR HI/CAPITOL time. Stations are electronically monitored 24 hours a day, 7 24 hours a day, monitored electronically time. Stations are 0 38 UPTOWN FUNK! 14 0 Mark Ronson Feat. Bruno Mars 10 I BET MY LIFE Imagine Dragons 18 ZENDAYA 33 RCA KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE Q39 HOLLYWOOD Pop/Rhythmic/Adult 00 TAKE ME TO CHURCH Hozier RIPTIDE Vance Joy 1 15 0 10 12 14 26 MEEK MILL 17 RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA F-STOP/ATLANTIC RE 0 MAYBACH/ATLANTIC/AG SUGAR Maroon 5 I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE Sam Smith 1, 5 14 15 24 16 0 CAPITOL PRINCE ROYCE 63 222/INTERSCOPE 0 41 RCA/SONY MUSIC LATIN I LIVED OneRepublic 10 SHUT UP AND DANCE WALK THE MOON 9 2015 010 MOSLEY/INTERSCOPE RCA AVRIL LAVIGNE 204 17 0 The week’s most popular current songs at mainstream top 40, rh songs at mainstream most popular current The week’s 43 42 EPIC 20 0 STYLE Taylor Swift 4 GERONIMO Sheppard 15 BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC EMPIRE OF SONG/SCHOOLBOY/REPUBLIC MADONNA 26 21 March 010 Q43 LIVE NATION/INTERSCOPE/IGA FOURFIVESECONDS The week’s most active artists most active on social networking sites based The week’s RIPTIDE Vance Joy 10 Rihanna & Kanye West & Paul McCartney 6 " 0 F-STOP/ATLANTIC 00 WESTBURY ROAD/ROC NATION SNOOP DOGG 190 46 44 DOGGYSTYLE/COLUMBIA GHOST Ella Henderson 8 16 19 JEALOUS Nick Jonas 19 receiving widespread airplay and/or sales activity for the first and/or airplay widespread receiving POP/RHYTHMIC/ADULT: SOCIAL 50: 00 SYCO/COLUMBIA SAFEHOUSE/ISLAND/REPUBLIC RE 0 HILARY DUFF 2 RCA 18 20 JEALOUS Nick Jonas 9 BUDAPEST George Ezra 15 SAFEHOUSE/ISLAND/REPUBLIC 00 COLUMBIA ENRIQUE IGLESIAS 162 RE 0 UNIVERSAL MUSIC LATINO/REPUBLIC/UMLE LOVE ME LIKE YOU DO Ellie Goulding 4 PRAYER IN C Lillywood & Robin Schulz 8 220 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC/INTERSCOPE 00 CHOKE INDUSTRY/TONSPIEL/CINQ 7/WARGRAM/ATLANTIC/RRP

SOCIAL DATA SOCIAL DATA BY COMPILED CARRIE UNDERWOOD 1 THE HEART WANTS WHAT IT WANTS Selena Gomez LAY ME DOWN Sam Smith NEW 0 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE/SMN 27 0 5 4 HOLLYWOOD 00 CAPITOL CHRISTINA AGUILERA 80 CHANDELIER Sia HONEY, I’M GOOD. Andy Grammer RCA 23 0 19 5 0 48 MONKEY PUZZLE/RCA 010 S-CURVE/HOLLYWOOD U TYGA RATHER BE Clean Bandit Feat. Jess Glynne NIGHT CHANGES One Direction 39 49 20 26Q 17 11 YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC ATLANTIC/RRP 010 SYCO/COLUMBIA 3) BRIGHT Echosmith SIA 2 25 25 DON’T Ed Sheeran 17 5 RE 0 MONKEY PUZZLE/RCA ATLANTIC WARNER BROS. BY COMPILED DATA AIRPLAY Q0

Data for week of 03.21.2015 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data 55 HOT COUNTRY SONGS™ TOP COUNTRY ALBUMS™ 2 WKS. LAST THIS TITLE CERTIFICATION Artist PEAK WKS. ON LAST THIS ARTIST CERTIFICATION Title WKS. ON AGO WEEK WEEK PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL POS. CHART WEEK WEEK IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL CHART #1 5 WKS TAKE YOUR TIME Sam Hunt 119 7#1 WKS SAM HUNT Montevallo 19 Z.CROWELL,S.MCANALLY (S.HUNT,J.OSBORNE,S.MCANALLY) MCA NASHVILLE MCA NASHVILLE/UMGN SHANIA TWAIN HOMEGROWN Zac Brown Band 29 Shania: Still The One: Live From Las Vegas 2 DG J.JOYCE,Z.BROWN (Z.BROWN,W.DURRETTE,N.MOON) VARVATOS/REPUBLIC/BMLG/SOUTHERN GROUND GG MERCURY/UMGN

¡ 3 3 JASON ALDEAN Old Boots, New Dirt 22 LONELY TONIGHT Blake Shelton Featuring Ashley Monroe 219 BROKEN BOW/BBMG 0 3 S.HENDRICKS (B.ANDERSON,R.HURD) WARNER BROS./WMN FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE 0 Anything Goes AIN’T WORTH THE WHISKEY Cole Swindell 4 4 21 SG 423 REPUBLIC NASHVILLE/BMLG 00 M.CARTER (C.SWINDELL,A.SANDERS,J.MARTIN) WARNER BROS./WMN CARRIE UNDERWOOD 5 5 0 Greatest Hits: Decade #1 13 MEAN TO ME Brett Eldredge 528 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE/SMN Viva 0 L.LAIRD (B.ELDREDGE,SCOOTER CARUSOE) ATLANTIC/WMN ERIC CHURCH ¡ The Outsiders 56 JUST GETTIN’ STARTED Jason Aldean 520 0 EMI NASHVILLE/UMGN M.KNOX (C. DESTEFANO,R.AKINS,A.GORLEY) BROKEN BOW Shania! 8 5 0 CHASE RICE Ignite The Night 29 DRINKING CLASS Lee Brice 0 7 COLUMBIA NASHVILLE/DACK JANIELS Shania Twain scores her 11 628 8 0 M.MCCLURE,K.JACOBS,L.BRICE (J.KEAR,D.FRASIER,E.M.HILL) CURB 2 8 AARON WATSON The Underdog 3 highest rank in more than BIG LABEL/THIRTY TIGERS LONELY EYES Chris Young 825 a decade on Top Country 12 90 J.STROUD (J.BULFORD,J.MATTHEWS,L.VELTZ) RCA NASHVILLE 9 9 MIRANDA LAMBERT 0 Platinum 40 Albums as Shania: Still the 0 RCA NASHVILLE/SMN 2 3 9 MAKE ME WANNA Thomas Rhett 228 One: Live From Las Vegas J.JOYCE (THOMAS RHETT,B.BUTLER,L.MCCOY) VALORY 7 10 LUKE BRYAN 2 Crash My Party 83 CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN rockets 31-2 in its second HOMEGROWN HONEY Darius Rucker 10 28 chart week (9,000 sold; F.ROGERS (D.RUCKER,C.KELLEY,N.CHAPMAN) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 19 ZAC BROWN BAND Greatest Hits So Far... 17 13 0 0 0 ROAR/SOUTHERN GROUND/ATLANTIC/AG up 622 percent, according SAY YOU DO Dierks Bentley 14 0 0 11 21 ¡ to Nielsen Music). The set R. COPPERMAN (M.RAMSEY,S.MCANALLY,T. ROSEN) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 13 12 GARTH BROOKS Man Against Machine 17 PEARL/RCA NASHVILLE/SMN serves as a souvenir of her

4 11 12 I SEE YOU Luke Bryan 119 GEORGE STRAIT two-year residency at The J.STEVENS (L.BRYAN,L.LAIRD,A.GORLEY) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 18 The Cowboy Rides Away: Live From AT&T Stadium 25 0 MCA NASHVILLE/UMGN Colosseum at Caesars A GUY WALKS INTO A BAR Tyler Farr 13 24 SHOT 0 ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL Still The King: Celebrating The Music Of Bob Wills... 1 Palace and features six 17 00 J.CATINO,J.KING (M.PEIRCE,J.SINGLETON,B.TURSI) COLUMBIA NASHVILLE BISMEAUX/MAILBOAT 1101111 of her seven Hot Country 0 5 12 14 SUN DAZE Florida Georgia Line 325 20 COLE SWINDELL Cole Swindell 55 Songs No. 1s (earned Country J.MOI (C.R.BARLOWE,J.FRASURE,S.BUXTON,T.HUBBARD,B.KELLEY) REPUBLIC NASHVILLE 0 WARNER BROS./WMN

between 1995 and 1998). most popular country The week’s SMOKE A Thousand Horses VARIOUS ARTISTS The Average Joes DJ’s Present: Mud In The Club, Volume 1 15 9 NEW 0 1 Twain last ranked as high 22 00 D.COBB (M.HOBBY,J.M.NITE,R.COPPERMAN) REPUBLIC NASHVILLE AVERAGE JOES as No. 2 on Top Country widespread eleased titles, or songs receiving RAISE ‘EM UP Keith Urban Featuring Eric Church 17 LITTLE BIG TOWN Pain Killer 20 16 7 CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN 23 el 0 N.CHAPMAN,K.URBAN (J.JOHNSTON,J.STEELE,T.DOUGLAS) HIT RED/CAPITOL NASHVILLE 0 Albums with her previous

BLAKE SHELTON 0 entry, 2004’s Greatest Hits, AIRPLAY: COUNTRY LITTLE RED WAGON Miranda Lambert 18 BRINGING BACK THE SUNSHINE 23

2015 14 9 WARNER BROS./WMN 2100 F.LIDDELL,C.AINLAY,G.WORF (A.MAE,GINSBERG J.) RCA NASHVILLE 0 which held the runner-up

16 19 BRANTLEY GILBERT 0 Just As I Am 42 spot on the chart dated GIRL CRUSH Little Big Town 16 14 VALORY/BMLG 24 0 18 J.JOYCE (L.ROSE,L.MCKENNA,H.LINDSEY) CAPITOL NASHVILLE Feb. 19, 2005 after 11 March 21 21 March 10 20 THE MAVERICKS Mono 3 weeks at No. 1. Her smash

VALORY/BMLG newly-r if they are ined as current 15 17 19 TALLADEGA Eric Church 225 J.JOYCE (E.CHURCH,L.LAIRD) EMI NASHVILLE 1997 album, Come On KENNY CHESNEY The Big Revival 21 21 24 Over, is the second-best- DON’T IT Billy Currington 20 16 BLUE CHAIR/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE/SMN 26 0 0 D.HUFF (J.JOHNSTON,A.GORLEY,R.COPPERMAN) MERCURY selling set in the United 24 LEE BRICE I Dont Dance 26 0 CURB States (15.6 million) since SHE DON’T LOVE YOU Eric Paslay 21 18 and Nielsen Music, Inc.edia, LLC All rights reserved. 25 0 0 M.ALTMAN (E.PASLAY,J.WAYNE) EMI NASHVILLE Nielsen began tracking 14 23 STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES Terraplane 3 0 NEW WEST sales in 1991; it trails only 19 20 22 SHOTGUN RIDER Tim McGraw 125 B.GALLIMORE,T.MCGRAW (H.LINDSEY,M.GREEN,T.VERGES) MCGRAW/BIG MACHINE Metallica’s self-titled 1991 22 24 TIM MCGRAW Sundown Heaven Town 25 MCGRAW/BIG MACHINE/BMLG release (16.1 million). 18 22 23 SOMETHING IN THE WATER ¡ Carrie Underwood 124 M.BRIGHT (C.UNDERWOOD,C. DESTEFANO,BRETT JAMES) 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE STURGILL SIMPSON 23 25 Metamodern Sounds In Country Music 43 On Country Airplay, HIGH TOP MOUNTAIN/THIRTY TIGERS WILD CHILD Kenny Chesney With Grace Potter Jason Aldean notches his 30 26 0 24 5 B.CANNON,K.CHESNEY (K.CHESNEY,S.MCANALLY,J.OSBORNE) BLUE CHAIR/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE fourth consecutive, and 13th DIAMOND RINGS AND OLD BARSTOOLS Tim McGraw With Catherine Dunn total, No. 1 as “Just Gettin’ 34 28 0 25 6 B.GALLIMORE,T.MCGRAW (L.LAIRD,B.DEAN,J.SINGLETON) MCGRAW/BIG MACHINE COUNTRY AIRPLAY™ Started” lifts 3-1. With the LITTLE TOY GUNS Carrie Underwood coronation, Aldean breaks 33 310 26 7 M.BRIGHT (C.UNDERWOOD,C. DESTEFANO,H.LINDSEY) 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE LAST THIS TITLE Artist WKS. ON out of a tie with Luke WEEK WEEK CHART IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL LOVE ME LIKE YOU MEAN IT Kelsea Ballerini Bryan for the second-best

27 15 top 100. in the Billboard 200’s less than 18 months old or older but still residing ey are 2900 F.G.WHITEHEAD (K.BALLERINI,J.KERR,F.G.WHITEHEAD,L.CARPENTER) BLACK RIVER

#11 WK JUST GETTIN’ STARTED Jason Aldean 20 active No. 1 streak (counting BROKEN BOW LOVE YOU LIKE THAT Canaan Smith 27 23 00 nonseasonal, promoted .28 00 B.BEAVERS,J.ROBBINS (C.SMITH,B.BEAVERS,J.BEAVERS) MERCURY

MEAN TO ME Brett Eldredge 35 singles). Blake Shelton ATLANTIC/WMN GAMES Luke Bryan 00 boasts the longest current 25 2 - 29 J.STEVENS (L.BRYAN,A.GORLEY) CAPITOL NASHVILLE LONELY TONIGHT Blake Shelton Feat. Ashley Monroe 0 1 3 17 Global M © 2015, Prometheus for complete rules and explanations. billboard.com/biz WARNER BROS./WMN — and overall — streak: 14 32 0 BABY BE MY LOVE SONG Easton Corbin 30 18 in a row, a mark he padded 0 C.CHAMBERLAIN (J.COLLINS,BRETT JAMES) MERCURY AIN’T WORTH THE WHISKEY Cole Swindell 22 70 WARNER BROS./WMN on the March 14 chart with LIKE A WRECKING BALL Eric Church 31 3 “Lonely Tonight” (featuring 44 00 J.JOYCE (E.CHURCH,C.BEATHARD) EMI NASHVILLE 61 LONELY EYES Chris Young 30 RCA NASHVILLE Ashley Monroe). 0 by Nielsen Music. def Songs are tracked activity data by online music sources s data as compiled by Nielsen Music and streaming SIPPIN’ ON FIRE Florida Georgia Line 10 6 Meanwhile, Darius 50 00 AG J.MOI (R.CLAWSON,M.DRAGSTREM,C.TAYLOR) REPUBLIC NASHVILLE HOMEGROWN HONEY Darius Rucker 30 00 CAPITOL NASHVILLE Rucker logs his eighth CRUSHIN’ IT Brad Paisley 33 5 Hot Country Songs top 10 40 00 L.WOOTEN,B.PAISLEY (B.PAISLEY,K.LOVELACE,L.T.MILLER) ARISTA NASHVILLE 2 7 MAKE ME WANNA Thomas Rhett 32 VALORY with “Homegrown Honey” if th as compiled by Nielsen Music. defined as current Albums are

LAY LOW Josh Turner a week. 7 days See Chartson Legend s a day, 29 16 DRINKING CLASS Lee Brice 28 (13-10). He last reached the 35 0 F.ROGERS (R.COPPERMAN,T.MARTIN,M.NESLER) MCA NASHVILLE CURB 0 00 region with “Wagon Wheel,”

ONE HELL OF AN AMEN Brantley Gilbert 35 10 HOMEGROWN Zac Brown Band 8 which became his sixth No. 36 00 D.HUFF (B.GILBERT,M.DEKLE,B.DAVIS) VALORY 00 VARVATOS/REPUBLIC/BMLG/SOUTHERN GROUND 1 in April 2013. —Gary Trust 42 0 HARD TO BE COOL Joe Nichols 36 13 TAKE YOUR TIME Sam Hunt 17 0 M.J.CONES (R.HATCH,J.SELLERS) RED BOW 0 0 MCA NASHVILLE SPRING BREAKDOWN Luke Bryan SAY YOU DO Dierks Bentley 23 37 2 CAPITOL NASHVILLE - J.STEVENS (L.BRYAN,A.GORLEY,Z.CROWELL) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 00 m0 RAISE ‘EM UP I’M TO BLAME Kip Moore Keith Urban Feat. Eric Church 8 39 0 31 5 HIT RED/CAPITOL NASHVILLE 0 B.JAMES (K.MOORE,J.WEAVER,W.DAVIS) MCA NASHVILLE 00 A GUY WALKS INTO A BAR Tyler Farr 32 RIOT Rascal Flatts 39 9 COLUMBIA NASHVILLE by Nielsen Music, as measured sale audience impressions airplay by radio 41 00 J.DEMARCUS,RASCAL FLATTS (J.BOYER,S.HAZE) BIG MACHINE 00 WHAT WE AIN’T GOT Jake Owen 33 RIDE Chase Rice 40 3 RCA NASHVILLE most popular country by sales data albums, ranked The week’s 48 00 C. DESTEFANO (J.SOMERS-MORALES,D.C.TARPLEY JR.) DACK JANIELS/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 15 0

SMOKE A Thousand Horses 9 GOING OUT LIKE THAT Reba 28 9 REPUBLIC NASHVILLE 46 00 T.BROWN (B.HAYSLIP,R.AKINS,J.SELLERS) NASH ICON/VALORY 00

LITTLE RED WAGON Miranda Lambert 11 RCA NASHVILLE 43 49 HELL OF A NIGHT Dustin Lynch 42 9 00 M.J.CONES (Z.CROWELL,A.SANDERS,J.BOYER) BROKEN BOW

0 ALBUMS: COUNTRY TOP

DON’T IT Billy Currington 20 YOUNG & CRAZY Frankie Ballard MERCURY - 43 2 00 50 0 M.ALTMAN,S.HENDRICKS (A.GORLEY,S.MCANALLY,R.AKINS) WARNER BROS./WAR WILD CHILD Kenny Chesney With Grace Potter 7 TROUBLE Gloriana 0 0 BLUE CHAIR/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 47 47 0 42 10 M.SERLETIC (R.REINERT,M.GOSSIN,R.COPPERMAN,J.M.NITE) EMBLEM/WARNER BROS./WAR SHE DON’T LOVE YOU Eric Paslay 21

EMI NASHVILLE country most popular current songs, ranked The week’s MAKE YOU MISS ME Sam Hunt 00 45 48 0 32 19 Z.CROWELL,S.MCANALLY (S.HUNT,J.OSBORNE,M.RAMSEY) MCA NASHVILLE DIAMOND RINGS AND OLD BARSTOOLS Tim McGraw With Catherine Dunn 7 22 0 MCGRAW/BIG MACHINE 27 38 46 TRAILER HITCH Kristian Bush 25 20 K.BUSH,T.TAPLEY (K.BUSH,B.BUSH,T.OWENS) STREAMSOUND BABY BE MY LOVE SONG Easton Corbin 26 21 0 MERCURY HOT COUNTRY SONGS: COUNTRY HOT airplay and/or sales activity for the first time. sales activity for the first time. and/or airplay RE-ENTRY 0 I GOT THE BOY Jana Kramer 33 3 24 hour monitored by Nielsen Music. electronically as measured Stations are audience impressions airplay by radio songs, ranked S.HENDRICKS (T.NICHOLS,C.HARRINGTON,J.L.SPEARS) ELEKTRA NASHVILLE/WAR CRUSHIN’ IT Brad Paisley 7 0© ARISTA NASHVILLE RE-ENTRY 0 GONNA WANNA TONIGHT Chase Rice 34 10 C. DESTEFANO (S.MCANALLY,J.M.NITE,J.ROBBINS) DACK JANIELS/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE LITTLE TOY GUNS Carrie Underwood 5 27o 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE HOT SHOT 0 HANGOVER TONIGHT Gary Allan 49 1 LOVE ME LIKE YOU MEAN IT Kelsea Ballerini 23 DEBUT G.ALLAN,G.DROMAN (G.ALLAN,J.FRASURE,C.STAPLETON,C.R.BARLOWE) MCA NASHVILLE 00 BLACK RIVER RE-ENTRY 0 FLY Maddie & Tae 49 3 HARD TO BE COOL Joe Nichols 28 D.HUFF (M.MARLOW,T.DYE,T.VARTANYAN) DOT RED BOW & STREAMING SALES, AIRPLAY 00 BY COMPILED DATA

56 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data Data for week of 03.21.2015 HOT ROCK SONGS™ TOP ROCK ALBUMS™ 2 WKS. LAST THIS TITLE CERTIFICATION Artist PEAK WKS. ON LAST THIS ARTIST CERTIFICATION Title WKS. ON AGO WEEK WEEK PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL POS. CHART WEEK WEEK IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL CHART #1 3 HOT #1 BRANDI CARLILE S TAKE ME TO CHURCH Hozier 145 SHOT 1 WK The Firewatcher’s Daughter 1 21 WK ATO A.HOZIER-BYRNE (A.HOZIER-BYRNE) RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA DEBUT CENTURIES 2 Fall Out Boy 226 KID ROCK First Kiss 2 2 2 2 J.R.ROTEM,OMEGA (J.R.ROTEM,P.V.STUMP,P.WENTZ,J.TROHMAN,A.HURLEY,M.J.FONSECA,R.KUMARI,J.TRANTNER,S.VEGA) DCD2/ISLAND/REPUBLIC 0 TOP DOG/WARNER BROS.

BECK Morning Phase SHUT UP AND DANCE WALK THE MOON 326 34 5 DG AG SG T.PAGNOTTA (N.PETRICCA,E.MAIMAN,K.RAY,S.WAUGAMAN,B.BERGER,R.MCMAHON) RCA GG FONOGRAF RECORDS/CAPITOL 0 0 M. ¡ IMAGINE DRAGONS Smoke + Mirrors 3 0 4 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 255 KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE/IGA J.CASTLE,J.KEOGH,E.WHITE (VANCE JOY) F-STOP/ATLANTIC THIRD DAY Lead Us Back: Songs Of Worship 1 I BET MY LIFE Imagine Dragons ESSENTIAL/PLG 3 5 5 319 Brandi IMAGINE DRAGONS (IMAGINE DRAGONS) KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE HOZIER 0 Hozier 22 IMMORTALS Fall Out Boy 621 RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA 1100 B.WALKER (A.HURLEY,J.TROHMAN,P.V.STUMP,P.WENTZ) WALT DISNEY/DCD2/ISLAND Carlile FALL OUT BOY American Beauty / American Psycho 7 DCD2/ISLAND BUDAPEST 0 George Ezra 731 BLACKWOOD C. (G. EZRA,J.POTT) COLUMBIA 00 NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS Chasing Yesterday 1 Ignites ¡ SOUR MASH/KOBALT STOLEN DANCE Milky Chance 440 Brandi Carlile earns her Rock 680 P.DAUSCH (C.REHBEIN) LICHTDICHT/NEON/REPUBLIC SOUNDTRACK ¡ Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 32 MARVEL/HOLLYWOOD first No. 1 on Top Rock UMA THURMAN Fall Out Boy 68 10 10 0 J.SINCLAIR,YOUNG WOLF HATCHLINGS (FALL OUT BOY,W.HASHMI,J.YOUNG,L.O’DONNELL,J.SINCLAIR,J.MARSHALL,R.MOSHER) DCD2/ISLAND/REPUBLIC Albums, her highest peak STEVEN WILSON Hand Cannot Erase 1 KSCOPE on the Billboard 200 (No. 9)

12 13 10 CIGARETTE DAYDREAMS Cage The Elephant 926 J.JOYCE (CAGE THE ELEPHANT) DSP/RCA RED Of Beauty And Rage 2 and her highest first-week ESSENTIAL sales as The Firewatcher’s

2015 11 FIRST KISS Kid Rock 69 KID ROCK,D.HUFF (R.J.RITCHIE,M.YOUNG) TOP DOG/WARNER BROS. BOB DYLAN Shadows In The Night 5 Daughter starts with 13 COLUMBIA WHAT KIND OF MAN Florence + The Machine 42,000 sold, according to 7 12 12 74 FALLING IN REVERSE Just Like You 2 March 21 21 March M.DRAVS,J.HILL (F.WELCH,T.HULL,J.HILL) REPUBLIC EPITAPH Nielsen Music. The set is the folk singer-songwriter’s HOT SHOT THROUGH THE FIRE AND FLAMES 0 DragonForce 13 1 AC/DC 0 Rock Or Bust DEBUT S.TOTMAN,H.LI,V.PRUZHANOV (S.TOTMAN,ZP THEART) SANCTUARY/ROADRUNNER/RRP 14 fifth studio album and The week’s most The week’s COLUMBIA first on an independent RE-ENTRY 0 SOMEONE NEW Hozier 14 3 NICKELBACK No Fixed Address 16 A.HOZIER-BYRNE,R.KIRWAN (A.HOZIER-BYRNE,S.M.GARNETT) RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA REPUBLIC label (ATO Records), and arrives as her first No. 1 LAMPSHADES ON FIRE Modest Mouse 14 12 ALL THAT REMAINS The Order Of Things 2 1800 I.BROCK,C.JONES,T.MARTINE (I.BROCK) EPIC RAZOR & TIE on Independent Albums. MAINSTREAM ROCK: MAINSTREAM

-released titles, or songs receiving titles, or songs receiving -released MARILYN MANSON The Pale Emperor 7 Carlile reached prior chart NOTHING WITHOUT LOVE Nate Ruess 11 2 HELL, ETC./COOKING VINYL/SEVEN FOUR/LOMA VISTA/CONCORD -016 J.BHASKER,E.HAYNIE (N.RUESS,J.BHASKER,E.HAYNIE,J.KLINGHOFFER) FUELED BY RAMEN/RRP highs with her last release, VANCE JOY Dream Your Life Away 26 2012’s Bear Creek, which HOLLOW MOON (BAD WOLF) AWOLNATION 17 6 F-STOP/ATLANTIC/AG 2800 A.BRUNO (A.BRUNO) RED BULL opened on Top Rock 0 ARCTIC MONKEYS AM 78 Albums at No. 3 and the 8 14 18 SHOTS Imagine Dragons 76 DOMINO IMAGINE DRAGONS (IMAGINE DRAGONS) KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE Billboard 200 at No. 10 with d as current if they are newly if they are d as current FATHER JOHN MISTY I Love You, Honeybear 4 MESS IS MINE Vance Joy 18 25 SUB POP 27,000 sold. 2300 R.HADLOCK (VANCE JOY) F-STOP/ATLANTIC On Hot Rock Songs, THE DECEMBERISTS What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World 7 REFLECTIONS MisterWives 13 25 CAPITOL 15-year-old guitarist Tina S. 26 0 20 FREQUENCY (M.LEE) PHOTO FINISH/REPUBLIC 015, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. Global Media, LLC All rights reserved.015, Prometheus SLIPKNOT .5: The Gray Chapter 20 spurs an 8-year-old song ROADRUNNER/AG IRRESISTIBLE Fall Out Boy 79 to a No. 13 start thanks 16 0 21 B.WALKER,J.SINCLAIR (FALL OUT BOY) DCD2/ISLAND/REPUBLIC OF MONTREAL Aureate Gloom 1 to her YouTube cover in POLYVINYL NEW HEAVY IS THE HEAD Zac Brown Band Feat. Chris Cornell 22 1 which she plays along to 0 Z.BROWN (Z.BROWN,N.MOON,J.DE MARTINI,J.D.HOPKINS,D.SCOTT) VARVATOS/SOUTHERN GROUND/BMLG/REPUBLIC WALK THE MOON TALKING IS HARD 14 RCA the track’s original audio 24 0 23 ROLLERCOASTER Bleachers 19 18 by British metal group G.KURSTIN,J.HILL,J.ANTONOFF (J.ANTONOFF,J.HILL) RCA GEORGE EZRA Wanted On Voyage 6 PS COLUMBIA DragonForce. The band’s BLANK SPACE I Prevail 99 fast and technically difficult 15 18 24 B.J.PERRY (T.SWIFT,MAX MARTIN,SHELLBACK,S.D.MENOIAN,B.A.BURKHEISER,L.J.RUNESTAD,B.J.PERRY,R.J.VANLERBERGHE) I PREVAIL to play “Through the Fire 29 23 BLACK SUN Death Cab For Cutie 16 6 and Flames” debuts with 0 R.COSTEY (B.GIBBARD) BARSUK/ATLANTIC

MAINSTREAM ROCK™ a 616 percent increase in are less than 18 months old or older than 18 months but still residing in the Billboard 200’s top 100. in the Billboard 200’s less than 18 months old or older but still residing are - 26 DON’T WANNA FIGHT Alabama Shakes 21 3 streaming (led by 1.7 million 0 B.MILLS,ALABAMA SHAKES (ALABAMA SHAKES) ATO LAST THIS TITLE Artist WKS. ON WEEK WEEK IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL CHART U.S. YouTube plays). The HOLD BACK THE RIVER James Bay 27 3 song is perhaps best-known I.ARCHER (J.BAY,I.ARCHER) REPUBLIC #1 FACE EVERYTHING AND RISE 49 00 1 WK Papa Roach 18 for its appearance in the CECILIA AND THE SATELLITE Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness 00 ELEVEN SEVEN 28 8 harts Legend on billboard.com/biz for complete rules and explanations. © 2 for complete rules and explanations. harts on billboard.com/biz Legend 2007 video game Guitar - 00 M.VIOLA,J.FLANNIGAN,A.GRAHN (A.MCMAHON,J.FLANNIGAN,A.GRAHN) VANGUARD APOCALYPTIC Halestorm 8 ATLANTIC Hero III: Legends of Rock, CONGREGATION Foo Fighters 0 50 0 29 5 and has sold 1.1 million 0 B.VIG,FOO FIGHTERS (FOO FIGHTERS) ROSWELL/RCA FOLLOW ME DOWN The Pretty Reckless 16 00 GOIN’ DOWN/RAZOR & TIE downloads since its release. ANGEL OF SMALL DEATH AND THE CODEINE SCENE Hozier 30 21 A.HOZIER-BYRNE,R.KIRWAN (A.HOZIER-BYRNE) RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA CONGREGATION Foo Fighters It peaked at No. 86 on the - 00 6 00 ROSWELL/RCA Billboard Hot 100 in 2008. ELECTRIC LOVE BORNS 34 0 31 13 8 T.ENGLISH (G.BORNS,T.SCHLEITER,N.LONG,J.MORAN) INTERSCOPE 1 5 I AM MACHINE Three Days Grace 23 Meanwhile, Papa Roach RCA scores its second No. 1 ata as compiled by Nielsen Music and streaming activity data by online music sources tracked by Nielsen Music. define Songs are tracked activity data by online music sources ata as compiled by Nielsen Music and streaming CHERRY WINE Hozier 32 14 COMING FOR YOU The Offspring 5 - A.HOZIER-BYRNE (A.HOZIER-BYRNE) RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA GG on Mainstream Rock with 00 00 TIME BOMB “Face Everything and Rise” WEIGHT OF LOVE The Black Keys 24 4 STARS Sixx: A.M. DANGER MOUSE,THE BLACK KEYS (B.BURTON,P.CARNEY,B.BURTON) NONESUCH/WARNER BROS. 20 (2-1). Despite an impressive - 00 ELEVEN SEVEN ically monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 7 days See C 24 hours a day, ically monitored 00 22 hits tallied on the chart, APOCALYPTIC Halestorm 34 3 DEEP SIX Marilyn Manson 12 - 0 0 J.JOYCE (L.HALE,S.C.STEVENS,N.CAMPANY) ATLANTIC 00 HELL, ETC./COOKING VINYL/SEVEN FOUR/LOMA VISTA/CMG including 13 top 10s, the FACE EVERYTHING AND RISE Papa Roach ROCK OR BUST AC/DC alt-metal band previously 35 37 0 15 8 15 K.CHURKO (J.SHADDIX,T.ESPERANCE,A.ESPERANCE,K.CHURKO) ELEVEN SEVEN 00 COLUMBIA led only with “Lifeline” for BENT TO FLY six weeks in 2009. DROWN Bring Me The Horizon 11 18 Slash Feat. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators 15 4000 J.FISH (J.FISH,L.MALIA,O.SYKES) EPITAPH 00 DIK HAYD/CAPITOL —Emily White WRONG SIDE OF HEAVEN 11 11 Five Finger Death Punch 28 31 LIFTED UP (1985) Passion Pit 31 3 PROSPECT PARK 38 0 M.ANGELAKOS (M.ANGELAKOS,B.LEVIN) COLUMBIA SAME DAMN LIFE Seether 10 12 25 30 COMING FOR YOU The Offspring30 3 THE BICYCLE MUSIC COMPANY/CMG 40 0 NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) TIME BOMB THIS PROBABLY WON’T END WELL All That Remains 9

The week’s most popular rock albums, ranked by sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music. Albums are defined as current if they by sales data as compiled Nielsen Music. defined as current Albums are albums, ranked most popular rock The week’s NEW GIMME ALL YOUR LOVE Alabama Shakes 39 1 RAZOR & TIE radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen Music, as measured sales d audience impressions airplay radio B.MILLS,ALABAMA SHAKES (ALABAMA SHAKES) ATO 00 Q ABSOLUTION CALLING Incubus 4 RE-ENTRY 0 BROTHER NEEDTOBREATHE Featuring Gavin DeGraw 12 3 00 ISLAND/REPUBLIC E.CASH,D.TOZER,NEEDTOBREATHE (N.RINEHART,W.RINEHART,G.DEGRAW) ATLANTIC DROWN Bring Me The Horizon 12 EPITAPH TOP ROCK ALBUMS: TOP OUR OWN HOUSE MisterWives 25 2 00 - 0 41 NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) PHOTO FINISH/REPUBLIC CARNIVORE Starset 18 20Q TRUE ANOMALY/RAZOR & TIE FLASHED JUNK MIND Milky Chance 39 15 C.REHBEIN,P.DAUSCH (C.REHBEIN) LICHTDICHT/NEON/REPUBLIC 4200 FIRST KISS Kid Rock 8 MY TYPE Saint Motel 00 TOP DOG/WARNER BROS. 43 2 J.NAPOLITANO,S.MOTEL (A.L.JACKSON,A.D.MOORE SHARP,G.S.ERWIN,C.LERDAMORNPONG) PARLOPHONE/ELEKTRA/RRP 00 ANGEL Theory Of A Deadman 3 00 604/ROADRUNNER/RRP 20 27 ONE LAST NIGHT Vaults 20 5 44 B.FREEMAN,B.VELLA,B.PEPINO (B.FREEMAN,B.PEPINO,B.VELLA) UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC 14 19 MILLION MILES AN HOUR Nickelback 16 REPUBLIC

The week’s most popular current rock songs, ranked by songs, ranked rock most popular current The week’s 14 24 45 I’M SO SORRY Imagine Dragons 14 3 IMAGINE DRAGONS (NOT LISTED) KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE TAKE IT BACK Temperance Movement 3 00 FANTASY/CMG RE-ENTRY 0 JACKIE AND WILSON Hozier 18 8 A.HOZIER-BYRNE,R.KIRWAN (A.HOZIER-BYRNE) RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA CIGARETTE DAYDREAMS Cage The Elephant 7 0 21 DSP/RCA HOT ROCK SONGS: HOT widespread airplay and/or sales activity for the first time. and/or airplay widespread by Nielsen Music. electron as measured Stations are impressions audience airplay by radio songs, ranked rock popular mainstream 22 29 47 POLAROID Imagine Dragons 22 3 IMAGINE DRAGONS (IMAGINE DRAGONS) KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE NEW WAVE Islander 8 00 VICTORY

17 31 GOLD Imagine Dragons 12 12 DANCIN’ ON NAILS WeAreHarlot 48 ALEX DA KID (IMAGINE DRAGONS,A.GRANT) KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE 5 00 ROADRUNNER/RRP

37 41 49 SAME DAMN LIFE Seether 30 16 WEIGHT OF LOVE The Black Keys 7 B.O’BRIEN (S.MORGAN,P.MAURIAT,F.POURCEL,J.PLANTE,R.LEFEBVRE) THE BICYCLE MUSIC COMPANY/CMG 00 NONESUCH/WARNER BROS. ABSOLUTION CALLING Incubus 41 4 HOLLOW MOON (BAD WOLF) AWOLNATION 5 M.EINZIGER,B.BOYD (B.BOYD,M.EINZIGER,J.PASILLAS II,C.KILMORE,B.KENNEDY) ISLAND/REPUBLIC RED BULL SALES, AIRPLAY & STREAMING & STREAMING SALES, AIRPLAY BY COMPILED DATA 00 00

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2 WKS. LAST THIS TITLE CERTIFICATION PEAK WKS. ON LAST THIS ARTIST CERTIFICATION Title WKS. ON Artist WEEK WEEK CHART AGO WEEK WEEK PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL POS. CHART IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL WEST: NICK KNIGHT WEST: DRAKE #1 FOURFIVESECONDS Rihanna & Kanye West & Paul McCartney 3#1 WKS If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late 4 1 5 WKS K.WEST,P.MCCARTNEY,M.DEAN (K.O.WEST,P.MCCARTNEY,K.DOCKERY,M.G.DEAN,T.GRIFFIN JR,D.LONGSTRETH,D.L.AUSTIN,E.RUTBERG,N.GOLDSTEIN) WESTBURY ROAD/ROC NATION 17 YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC

EARNED IT (FIFTY SHADES OF GREY) The Weeknd BIG SEAN Dark Sky Paradise 2 2 1 2 AG S.MOCCIO,J.QUENNEVILLE (A.TESFAYE,S.MOCCIO,J.QUENNEVILLE,A.BALSHE) UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC 211 G.O.O.D./DEF JAM

I DON’T MIND Usher Featuring Juicy J G UNIT The Beast (EP) 1 3 118 G UNIT 3 DR. LUKE,CIRKUT (J.HOUSTON,L.GOTTWALD,JAHMAL HOUSE,T.THOMAS,T.THOMAS,H.R.WALTER) RCA J. COLE 0 2014 Forest Hills Drive TRAP QUEEN Fetty Wap 13 13 48 DREAMVILLE/ROC NATION/COLUMBIA 5j T.FADD (W.J.MAXWELL,T.FADD) RGF/300 CHRIS BROWN & TYGA Fan Of A Fan: The Album 2 TRUFFLE BUTTER Nicki Minaj Featuring Drake & Lil Wayne RCA 5 49 West’s NINETEEN85,M.J.COLES (O.T.MARAJ,A.GRAHAM,D.CARTER,P.JEFFERIES,M.J.COLES) YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC

NICKI MINAJ 0 The Pinkprint 12 HOT SHOT ALL DAY Kanye West Feat. Theophilus London, Allan Kingdom & Paul McCartney 61 YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC DEBUT NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) G.O.O.D./ROC-A-FELLA/DEF JAM ‘Day’ CHILDISH GAMBINO Because The Internet 65 0 GG GLASSNOTE 11 G.D.F.R. Flo Rida Featuring Sage The Gemini & Lookas 720 ''' 0 DJ FRANK E,A.CEDAR,M.BEARD (T.DILLARD,J.FRANKS,A.CEDAR,D.W.WOODS,P.RODRIGUEZ,M.CAREN,C.W.MILLER,G.GOLDSTEIN,H.BROWN . . .) POE BOY/ATLANTIC Dawns 10 0 RAE SREMMURD SremmLife 9 SOMEBODY Natalie La Rose Featuring Jeremih EARDRUMA/INTERSCOPE/IGA 10 , COOK CLASSICS,THE FUTURISTICS (W.LOBBAN-BEAN,A.SCHWARTZ,J.KHAJADOURIAN,G.MERRILL,S.RUBICAM) I.M.G./REPUBLIC 89 Kanye West bows at ._.., 6 9 NE-YO Non-Fiction 6 COMPOUND ENTERTAINMENT/MOTOWN/CAPITOL No. 6 on Hot R&B/Hip- SHE KNOWS Ne-Yo Featuring Juicy J 622 6 j 9 DR. LUKE,CIRKUT (S.C.SMITH,J.HOUSTON,L.GOTTWALD,H.R.WALTER) COMPOUND ENTERTAINMENT/MOTOWN/CAPITOL Hop Songs with “All Day,” CHARLIE WILSON Forever Charlie 6 0 10 P MUSIC/RCA featuring Theophilus ONLY ¡ Nicki Minaj Feat. Drake, Lil Wayne & Chris Brown 119 4 6 10 DR. LUKE,CIRKUT,JMIKE (O.T.MARAJ,A.GRAHAM,D.CARTER,J.M.COLEMAN,L.GOTTWALD,T.THOMAS,T.THOMAS,H.R.WALTER) YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC London, Allan Kingdom KID INK Full Speed 5 14 0 THA ALUMNI GROUP/88 CLASSIC/RCA and Paul McCartney. It’s AYO Chris Brown & Tyga 12 :'11 11 10 9 SOUNDTRACK the latest single from his NIC NAC,M.L.KRAGEN (C.M.BROWN,M.R.NGUYEN-STEVENSON,N.BALDING,M.L.KRAGEN,J.JACKSON) RCA NEW 0 Empire: Music From Unto The Breach (EP) 1 20TH CENTURY FOX TV/COLUMBIA forthcoming So Help Me I DON’T F**K WITH YOU ¡ Big Sean Featuring E-40 124 RAP 7 8 12 DJ MUSTARD,K.WEST,M.ADAM,DJ DAHI (S.M.ANDERSON,D.MCFARLANE,K.O.WEST,M.ADAM,D.NATCHE,D.M.WEIR II,W.HANSBRO,E.T.STEVENS,D.J.ROGERS SR.) G.O.O.D./DEF JAM K. MICHELLE Anybody Wanna Buy A Heart? 13 God. The Hot Shot Debut ATLANTIC/AG 0© arrives with 140,000 BLESSINGS Big Sean Featuring Drake 22 13 0MISG 13 6 SCHOOLBOY Q Oxymoron 54 downloads sold in the week VINYLZ,A.RITTER (S.M.ANDERSON,A.HERNANDEZ,A.RITTER,A.GRAHAM) G.O.O.D./DEF JAM PS TOP DAWG/INTERSCOPE/IGA ending March 8, according 7/11 0 Beyonce 8 12 14 115 8 RAHEEM DEVAUGHN Love Sex Passion 3 B.KNOWLES,B.JOHNSON,DETAIL,S.SWIFT (B.JOHNSON,N.C.FISHER,B.KNOWLES) PARKWOOD/COLUMBIA 15 368/EONE to Nielsen Music, and the tune also tops Rap Digital CONQUEROR Empire Cast Feat. Estelle & Jussie Smollett TUXEDO Tuxedo NEW J.LARDIERI,REEFA (A.C.KING,O.K.H.BAILEY,A.HIGGS,J.DANIELS,C.KELLY,E.SWARAY) 20TH CENTURY FOX TV/COLUMBIA 15 1 NEW 0 1 STONES THROW Songs. It’s West’s first No. 1 ¡ BEYONCE 2 Beyonce debut on the 5-year-old 15 14 16 NO TYPE Rae Sremmurd 324 12 17 65 MIKE WILL MADE-IT,S.LEE (M.L.WILLIAMS,A.BROWN,K.U.BROWN) EARDRUMA/INTERSCOPE PARKWOOD/COLUMBIA digital list, and second No. 1 , D’ANGELO AND THE VANGUARD POST TO BE Omarion Featuring Chris Brown & Jhene Aiko Black Messiah 12 overall, following “Clique” 18 17 0 DJ MUSTARD,M.ADAM (O.GRANDBERRY,D.MCFARLANE,M.ADAM,M.POWELL,S.JEAN,C.M.BROWN,J.A.E. CHILOMBO,E.BONNER,L.DUNBAR,J.TAYLOR,L.WILLIS) MAYBACH/ATLANTIC 17 14 18 0 RCA .,, in 2012.

titles, or songs newly-released if they are defined as current YOU’RE SO BEAUTIFUL 17 19 MARY J. BLIGE The London Sessions 14 “All Day” racked up 03 Empire Cast Feat. Jussie Smollett & Yazz 18 2 MATRIARCH/CAPITOL top 100. in the Billboard 200’s 18 months but still residing 2' DG J.BEANZ (J.D.WASHINGTON,J.SMOLLETT,J.BOSTWICK) 20TH CENTURY FOX TV/COLUMBIA 1.9 million U.S. streams 0 JOHN LEGEND Love In The Future 79 during the tracking week, © for complete rules and explanations. rts on billboard.com/biz Legend 9 15 19 ENERGY Drake 94 0 20 G.O.O.D./COLUMBIA BOI-1DA (A.GRAHAM,M.SAMUELS) YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC with the bulk of them RICK ROSS Hood Billionaire 15 COCO O.T. Genasis MAYBACH/SLIP-N-SLIDE/DEF JAM (87 percent) through 14 16 20 516 00 O.FLORES (O.FLORES,S.THOMAS) CONGLOMERATE/ATLANTIC Spotify. 22 JAZMINE SULLIVAN Reality Show 8 LEGEND Drake 15 RCA Also debuting on Hot 17 19 21 PARTYNEXTDOOR (A.GRAHAM,J.A.BRATHWAITE,Q.MILLER,B.BUSH,T.V.MOSLEY) YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC 17 4 R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, EMINEM 2 The Marshall Mathers LP 2 71 WEB/SHADY/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/IGA rapper Meek Mill arrives 20 ?0 j 22 APPARENTLY J. Cole 17 13 00 J.L.COLE (J.COLE,F.TRECCA) DREAMVILLE/ROC NATION/COLUMBIA G-EAZY These Things Happen 37 with two newly released THROW SUM MO Rae Sremmurd Feat. Nicki Minaj & Young Thug 0© G-EAZY/RVG/BPG tracks: “Monster” (No. 30) 25 24 S O U N D Z (A.BROWN,K.U.BROWN,K.COBY,M.L.WILLIAMS,J.P.FELTON,O.T.MARAJ,J.WILLIAMS) EARDRUMA/INTERSCOPE 18 13 ,..._ KEM Promise To Love: Album IV 27 and “B Boy,” featuring

0 25 KEMISTRY/MOTOWN/CAPITOL less than 18 months old or older if they are urrent KNOW YOURSELF Drake 23 3 Big Sean and Asap Ferg 23 26 0 BOI-1DA,VINYLZ,SKY SENSE (A.GRAHAM,Q.MILLER,M.SAMUELS,A.HERNANDEZ,J.SCRUGGS) YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC (No. 39). Both are assumed ,,--- 21 22 25 FEELING MYSELF Nicki Minaj Featuring Beyonce 12 12 to be on his upcoming HIT-BOY,B.KNOWLES (O.T.MARAJ,B.KNOWLES,S.ROWE,C.HOLLIS) YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC RAP DIGITAL SONGS™ studio album. Digital sales

33 SLOW MOTION Trey Songz 26 7 aid in spurring the tracks (27 0 C.PUTH,GEOFFRO CAUSE (T.NEVERSON,C.PUTH,G.EARLEY,JAHMAL HOUSE) SONGBOOK/ATLANTIC R&B/Hip-Hop LAST THIS TITLE Artist WKS. ON onto the chart as “Monster” WEEK WEEK IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL CHART 10 BANDS Drake 19 4 shifts 32,000 while “B Boy” 19 25 0 BOI-1DA,FRANK DUKES (A.GRAHAM,Q.MILLER,M.SAMUELS,A.FEENY,R.THOMAS III) YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC #1 ALL DAY 1 WK Kanye West Feat. Theophilus London, Allan Kingdom & Paul McCartney 1 enters with 28,000. Of WATCH ME Silento G.O.O.D./ROC-A-FELLA/DEF JAM 3 28 2 his 21 total charted titles, BOLO DA PRODUCER (T.B.MINGO,R.L.HAWK) BOLO G.D.F.R. Flo Rida Feat. Sage The Gemini & Lookas 20 POE BOY/ATLANTIC/AG “Monster” marks Mill’s

2015 I BET Ciara 00 41 Q 27 6 highest debut on the H-MONEY (H.D.SAMUELS,T.THOMAS,T.THOMAS,C.P.HARRIS) EPIC TIME OF OUR LIVES Pitbull & Ne-Yo 16 MR. 305/POLO GROUNDS/RCA ranking as a lead act. MONSTER Meek Mill 0 3 NEW 30 1 TRUFFLE BUTTER Meanwhile, Wale’s “The March 21 21 March 0 NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) MAYBACH/ATLANTIC Nicki Minaj Feat. Drake & Lil Wayne 4 4 8 YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC Matrimony” (featuring NOT FOR LONG B.o.B Featuring Trey Songz 26 17 by Nielsen Music. Songs are tracked activity data by online music sources sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music and streaming 35 30 31 P LO,M.NILAN, JR. (B.R.SIMMONS, JR.,P.RODRIGUEZ,M.NILAN, JR.,P.A.JONES,A.IZQUIERDO,T.NEVERSON) REBELROCK/GRAND HUSTLE/ATLANTIC TRAP QUEEN Fetty Wap Usher) comes in at No. 41 8 070 RGF/300 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop RE-ENTRY 0 THE BLACKER THE BERRY Kendrick Lamar 32 2 and Nielsen Music, Inc. Global Media, LLC All rights r eserved. © 2015, Prometheus for complete rules and explanations. See Cha NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) TOP DAWG/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE BLESSINGS Big Sean Feat. Drake 6 Songs powered, in part, 0 G.O.O.D./DEF JAM by 19,000 downloads. The NO TELLIN’ Drake 26 4 26 35 33 BOI-1DA,FRANK DUKES (A.GRAHAM,Q.MILLER,K.SAMIR,M.SAMUELS,A.FEENY) YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC NEW 0 MONSTER Meek Mill 1 track also has a strong MAYBACH/ATLANTIC/AG start at radio, entering ONLY ONE Kanye West Featuring Paul McCartney 11 10 ENERGY Drake 24 29 34 6 8 4 Rap Airplay at No. 20 K.WEST,P.MCCARTNEY (K.O.WEST,P.MCCARTNEY,KIRBY LAURYEN) G.O.O.D./ROC-A-FELLA/DEF JAM YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC with 5.9 million audience ALL YOUR FAULT Big Sean Featuring Kanye West ONLY Nicki Minaj Feat. Drake, Lil Wayne & Chris Brown - 28j 35 K.WEST,OGWEBBIE (S.M.ANDERSON,K.O.WEST,W.MORRIS JR.,N.MYRICK,E.NICKERSON,N.GOLDSTEIN,T.NASH,D.PACK) G.O.O.D./DEF JAM 28 2 7 9 19 YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC impressions at the format. THE BODY Wale Featuring Jeremih B BOY Meek Mill Feat. Big Sean & A$AP Ferg —Amaya Mendizabal 31 36 36 26 19 NEW 0 1 K.COBY (O.AKINTIMEHIN,J.P.FELTON,C.GRAND,R.S.KELLY) EBM MUSIC/MAYBACH/ATLANTIC MAYBACH/ATLANTIC/AG 6 GOD Drake I DON’T F**K WITH YOU Big Sean Feat. E-40 25 28 38 37 28 3 20 0 by sales data as compiled Nielsen Music. defined as c Albums are R&B/hip-hop albums, ranked most popular current The week’s BOI-1DA (A.GRAHAM,M.SAMUELS,J.SCRUGGS) YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC G.O.O.D./DEF JAM

THROW SUM MO by Nielsen Music, as measured audience impressions airplay radio I DON’T GET TIRED (#IDGT) Kevin Gates Feat. August Alsina 10 Rae Sremmurd Feat. Nicki Minaj & Young Thug 13 NIC NAC,M.L.KRAGEN (K.GILYARD,E.T.HAMILTON,N.BALDING,M.L.KRAGEN,A.ALSINA, JR.) BREAD WINNERS’ ASSOCIATION/GANGSTA GRILLZ/ATLANTIC 33 11 EARDRUMA/INTERSCOPE/IGA 0 KNOW YOURSELF Drake 4 NEW B BOY Meek Mill Featuring Big Sean & A$AP Ferg 39 1 15 0 YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC 0 NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) MAYBACH/ATLANTIC

LEGEND Drake - ONE MAN CAN CHANGE THE WORLD 11 14 4 Big Sean Feat. Kanye West & John Legend YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC ALBUMS: R&B/HIP-HOP TOP 44 3 40 A.JOHNSON (S.M.ANDERSON,A.JOHNSON,K.O.WEST,JOHN LEGEND,M.G.DEAN,D.MCFARLANE,W.L.ROBERTS II) G.O.O.D./DEF JAM 32 3 H NEW 0 THE MATRIMONY Wale Feat. Usher 1 MAYBACH/ATLANTIC/AG NEW THE MATRIMONY Wale Featuring Usher 41 1 0 JAKE ONE,DJ KHALIL (O.AKINTIMEHIN,J.DUTTON,S.DEW) MAYBACH/ATLANTIC

36 0 THE BLACKER THE BERRY Kendrick Lamar 3 TROUBLE Iggy Azalea Featuring Jennifer Hudson 42 1 TOP DAWG/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/IGA NEW 0 THE INVISIBLE MEN,SALT WIVES (A.A.KELLY,J.HILL,J.A.PEBWORTH,G.ASTASIO,J.SHAVE,SALT WIVES,J.TURNER) TURN FIRST/HUSTLE GANG/DEF JAM

12 17 FEELING MYSELF Nicki Minaj Feat. Beyonce 13 YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC 34 43 PARADISE Big Sean 34 2 MIKE WILL MADE-IT (S.M.ANDERSON,M.L.WILLIAMS) G.O.O.D./DEF JAM sales activity for the first time. 16 18 NO TYPE Rae Sremmurd 25 EARDRUMA/INTERSCOPE/IGA GOOD LOVIN Ludacris Featuring Miguel 40 7 The week’s most popular current R&B/hip-hop songs, ranked by R&B/hip-hop songs, ranked most popular current The week’s - DA INTERNZ,A.M.COX (C.B.BRIDGES,M.J.PIMENTEL,M.PALACIOS,E.CLARK,A.M.COX) DTP/DEF JAM m© 19 10 BANDS Drake 4 18 YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC 47 45 45 NO ROLE MODELZ J. Cole 27 13 D.BARNES (J.COLE,D.BARNES,M.WHITEMON,P.BEAUREGARD,J.HOUSTON,T.STEVENS,E.T.STEVENS,D.STEVENS,B.JONES) DREAMVILLE/ROC NATION/COLUMBIA by sales data as compiled Nielsen Music. See Charts on billboard.com/biz ranked songs, rap top-downloaded Legend The week’s GLORY Common & John Legend 8 0 20 PATHE/PARAMOUNT PICTURES/G.O.O.D./COLUMBIA/ARTIUM/DEF JAM GLORY Common & John Legend 36 18 46 JOHN LEGEND (JOHN LEGEND,L.R.LYNN,C.SMITH) PATHE/PARAMOUNT PICTURES/G.O.O.D./COLUMBIA/ARTIUM/DEF JAM 18 7 BILLS Lunchmoney Lewis 2 00 KEMOSABE/COLUMBIA HOT R&B/HIP-HOP SONGS: HOT DIGITAL SONGS: DIGITAL and Nielsen Music, Inc. Global Media, LLC All rights reserved.2015, Prometheus and/or airplay widespread receiving 29 42 47 USED TO Drake Featuring Lil Wayne 29 4 WONDAGURL (Q.MILLER,K.SAMIR,E.OSHUNRINDE,M.GIOMBINI) YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC 22 22 FIREBALL Pitbull Feat. John Ryan 33 MR. 305/POLO GROUNDS/RCA

27 40 48 PREACH Drake Featuring PARTYNEXTDOOR 25 4 PARTYNEXTDOOR (A.GRAHAM,J.A.BRATHWAITE,ALICIA KEYS,K.BROTHERS, JR.,E.JANTUNEN,N.J.SHEBIB) YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC 21 23 COCO O.T. Genasis 17 CONGLOMERATE/ATLANTIC/AG

- HOTEL Kid Ink Featuring Chris Brown 30 7 TRAMPOLINE Kalin And Myles 50 0 THE FEATHERSTONES (B.T.COLLINS,M.FEATHERSTONE,C.FEATHERSTONE,J.FEATHERSTONE,W.FEATHERSTONE,C.M.BROWN,B.R.SIMMONS, JR.,T.GRIFFIN, JR.,D.MCFARLANE,C.MONTGOMERY III) THA ALUMNI GROUP/88 CLASSIC/RCA 3 32 0 REPUBLIC 6 MAN Drake DRIP DROP 31 9 1 50 34 4 28 25 Empire Cast Feat. Yazz & Serayah McNeill 5 N.SHEBIB,DAXZ (A.GRAHAM,Q.MILLER,N.J.SHEBIB) YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC 20TH CENTURY FOX TV/COLUMBIA & STREAMING SALES, AIRPLAY BY COMPILED DATA

58 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data Data for week of 03.21.2015 HOT LATIN SONGS™ TOP LATIN ALBUMS™

2 WKS. LAST THIS TITLE CERTIFICATION PEAK WKS. ON LAST THIS ARTIST CERTIFICATION Title WKS. ON Artist WEEK WEEK CHART AGO WEEK WEEK PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL POS. CHART IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL

#1 EL PERDON Nicky Jam & Enrique Iglesias 3#1 WKS JUAN GABRIEL Los Duo 4 8 6 1 WK DG SAGA WHITEBLACK (N.RIVERA CAMINERO,E.M.IGLESIAS) LA INDUSTRIA/SONY MUSIC LATIN 15 GG FONOVISA/UMLE 0 RICKY MARTIN A Quien Quiera Escuchar 4 4 4 2 PROPUESTA INDECENTE Romeo Santos 185 SONY MUSIC LATIN A.SANTOS (A.SANTOS) SONY MUSIC LATIN @ AY VAMOS J Balvin ROMEO SANTOS Formula: Vol. 2 54 1 3 3 128 SONY MUSIC LATIN A.RAMIREZ (J.A.OSORIO BALVIN,R.CANO,A.RAMIREZ,A.PATINO) CAPITOL LATIN/UMLE JUAN GABRIEL Mis Numero 1... 40 Aniversario 31 BAILANDO ¡ Enrique Iglesias Feat. Descemer Bueno & Gente de Zona 151 SONY MUSIC LATIN 2 2 4 C.PAUCAR (E.M.IGLESIAS,D.KAMBAIAH,D.MARTINEZ BUENO,A.DELGADO,R. M.MARTINEZ) REPUBLIC/UNIVERSAL MUSIC LATINO/UMLE

SOLIDO Sentimientos 1 MI VERDAD Mana Featuring Shakira M MUSIC & ENTERTAINMENT GROUP/FREDDIE 3 5 5 14 Nicky Jam G.NORIEGA,F.OLVERA (F.OLVERA,G.NORIEGA) WARNER LATINA 5 6 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS @ Sex And Love 51 HABLAME DE TI Banda Sinaloense MS de Sergio Lizarraga 620 REPUBLIC/UMLE S.LIZARRAGA (H.PALENCIA CISNEROS) REMEX Jells At 9 8.0 NEW Q MIEL SAN MARCOS Como En El Cielo: En Vivo Desde La Arena Ciudad de Mexico 1 UNCION PRODUCCIONES 7 9 7 TRAVESURAS Nicky Jam 438 Latin D.WAY (N.RIVERA CAMINERO) LA INDUSTRIA VARIOUS ARTISTS No. 1 7 8 Las Bandas Romanticas de America 2015 7 FONOVISA/UMLE 5 7 YO TAMBIEN Romeo Santos Featuring Marc Anthony 434 Nicky Jam earns his first 8 C.PENA,A.SANTOS (A.SANTOS) SONY MUSIC LATIN GILBERTO SANTA ROSA Necesito Un Bolero 7 0 9 SONY MUSIC LATIN No. 1 on Hot Latin Songs 20 14, CONTIGO Calibre 50 96 with “El Perdon,” featuring 0 J.TIRADO CASTANEDA (E.MUNOZ,J.L.ROMA) DISA/UMLE LA ARROLLADORA BANDA EL LIMON DE RENE CAMACHO 8 10 Ojos En Blanco 5 DISA/UMLE Enrique Iglesias (who

2015 EL KARMA Ariel Camacho y Los Plebes del Rancho 122 - 1 10 J.GONZALEZ (E.DIEZ) DEL/SONY MUSIC LATIN scores his record-extending 10 11 INTOCABLE XX: 20 Aniversario 6 GOOD I/UMLE 26th No. 1). The track leaps PIENSAS (DILE LA VERDAD) Pitbull Featuring Gente de Zona 11 15 14 17 AG DJ CHINO,J.GOMEZ,AJ JUNIOR,B.HAJJI,J.TRUGMAN (A.C.PEREZ,J.C.GARCIA,J.GOMEZ MARTINEZ,A.DELGADO,R. M.MARTINEZ,M.CALDERON,AJ JUNIOR,B.HAJJI,J.TRUGMAN) MR. 305/SONY MUSIC LATIN 6-1 and takes Digital Gainer March 21 21 March CALIBRE 50 Lo Mejor de 5 0 0© DISA/UMLE honors (up 64 percent LEJOS DE AQUI Farruko s 12 14 ARIEL CAMACHO Y LOS PLEBES DEL RANCHO 13 13j DJ LUIAN,NOIZE (C.E.REYES-ROSADO,V.V.MOORE) CARBON FIBER/SIENTE El Karma 9 to 6,000 downloads, 0 DEL/SONY MUSIC LATIN 0 " according to Nielsen HILITO Romeo Santos 17 13 12 MARCO ANTONIO SOLIS 15 Inolvidables 17 Music) in its fifth week on 15 0 A.SANTOS,I.CHEVERE (A.SANTOS) SONY MUSIC LATIN 14 0 FONOVISA/UMLE JAVIER ROSAS Y SU ARTILLERIA PESADA the chart. An urban music 10 16 14 ERES UNA NINA Gerardo Ortiz 623 Otro Golpe 1 G.ORITZ (G.ORTIZ) BAD SIN/DEL/SONY MUSIC LATIN NEW 0 FONOVISA/UMLE fixture, Jam has posted six other tracks on Hot Latin The week’s most popular current The week’s VARIOUS ARTISTS 23 22 FANATICA SENSUAL Plan B 15 10 NEW 0 Invasion del Corrido 2015: Sold Out 1 0 HAZE,D.DURAN (O.J.VALLE VEGA,E.F.VAZQUEZ,E.ROSA CINTRON,D.DURAN) PINA/SONY MUSIC LATIN FONOVISA/UMLE Songs since 2005. “El DISPARO AL CORAZON Ricky Martin RICARDO ARJONA ) Viaje Perdon” is his first single to 11 12 16 98 42 eleased titles, or songs receiving widespread eleased titles, or songs receiving J.REYES COPELLO (P.CAPO,Y.HENRIQUEZ,R.ESPARZA-RUIZ,R.MARTIN) SONY MUSIC LATIN 00 METAMORFOSIS/SONY MUSIC LATIN be released through Sony LATIN AIPRLAY: AIPRLAY: LATIN Music Latin after signing 12 18 VARIOUS ARTISTS 20 Corridos Bien Vol 2. 5 12 18 17 DIME Julion Alvarez y Su Norteno Banda 11 13 FONOVISA/UMLE J.ALVAREZ (D.TOMAS,C.J.FRANCO,H.LEON) FONOVISA/UMLE with the label in February. YANDEL Legacy: de Lider A Leyenda Tour 5 On Latin Airplay, Pitbull JUNTOS (TOGETHER) Juanes SONY MUSIC LATIN 15 11 18 J.L.GUERRA SEIJAS (J.E.ARISTIZABAL,D.MARTINEZ BUENO,J.F.FONSECA) WALT DISNEY/UNIVERSAL MUSIC LATINO/UMLE 11 7 0 19 logs his fifth No. 1 as J BALVIN La Familia 47 “Piensas (Dile la Verdad)” SOLTERO DISPONIBLE Regulo Caro 22 0 CAPITOL LATIN/UMLE 18 19 19 13 19 L.LUNA DIAZ (R.CARO,L.L.DIAZ,O.TARAZON) DEL/SONY MUSIC LATIN

ed as current if they are newly-r if they are ed as current featuring Gente de Zona NEW ELVIS CRESPO Tatuaje 1 FLASH/VENEMUSIC/UNIVERSAL MUSIC LATINO/UMLE rises 4-1. The rapper last 22 23 ME VUELVO UN COBARDE Christian Daniel 19 12 Q A.CASTRO (CHRISTIAN DANIEL,A.CASTRO,E. BARRERA,O.ALFANNO) SUMMA topped the list in 2012 22 VICENTE FERNANDEZ Tesoros de Coleccion 4 13 SONY DISCOS/SONY MUSIC LATIN as a featured artist on 21 21 21 QUE TIENE DE MALO Calibre 50 Featuring El Komander 920 J.TIRADO CASTANEDA (E.MUNOZ,A.RIOS) DISA/UMLE Gusttavo Lima’s “Balada CALIBRE 50 ) Contigo 30 17 23 DISA/UMLE LO HICISTE OTRA VEZ La Arrolladora Banda el Limon de Rene Camacho 18 14 (Tche Tcherere Tche Tche).” months but still residing in the Billboard 200’s top 100. in the Billboard 200’s months but still residing 19 24 22 F.CAMACHO TIRADO (T.NORIEGA) DISA/UMLE ALEJANDRO FERNANDEZ His new track scores 19 24 Confidencias Reales 13 UNIVERSAL MUSIC LATINO/UMLE 16 20 23 LEVANTANDO POLVADERA Voz de Mando 10 20 Greatest Gainer honors J.A.GAXIOLA (O.TARAZON,K.CERVANTES) AFINARTE/SONY MUSIC LATIN 21 25 VOZ DE MANDO Lo Mejor de... 5 as it surges 41 percent DISA/UMLE 50 TE METISTE Ariel Camacho y Los Plebes del Rancho 24 2 (to 10 million audience 0 SG J.GONZALEZ (S.MERCADO) DEL impressions). Pitbull also 26 28 EL QUE SE ENAMORA PIERDE Banda Carnaval 25 13 makes chart-topping news 0 J.TIRADO CASTANEDA (E.MUNOZ,L.L.DIAZ) DISA/UMLE on the English-language LATIN AIRPLAY™ 33 30 PIERDO LA CABEZA Zion & Lennox 26 6 airplay charts as “Time of 0 DJ URBA,ROME (F.G.ORTIZ TORRES,G.E.PIZARRO,G.A.CRUZ-PADILLA,M.CEDENO URBANI,L.J.ROMERO) BABY LAST THIS TITLE Artist WKS. ON Our Lives” featuring Ne-Yo WEEK WEEK CHART IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL 24 25 27 MI PRINCESA Remmy Valenzuela 13 20 steps 2-1 on Rhythmic. J.GONZALEZ (R.VALENZUELA,T.P.VALENZUELA) TONS REKORDZ/FONOVISA/UMLE if they are less than 18 months old or older if they are #1 PIENSAS (DILE LA VERDAD) 4 1 WK Pitbull Feat. Gente de Zona 14 Prince Royce hops 4-1 0 GG MR. 305 29 32 SOLEDAD Don Omar 11 19 to crown Tropical Airplay Q DON OMAR (W.O.LANDRON RIVERA,X.SEMPER,W.SEMPER,C.MONTALVO,R.PINA) MACHETE/UMLE MI VERDAD Mana Feat. Shakira 4 with “Solita” (up 33 percent NOTA DE AMOR Wisin + Carlos Vives Feat. Daddy Yankee WARNER LATINA 32 29 Q 29 4 0 in plays), netting the singer LOS LEGENDARIOS (J.L.MORERA LUNA,C.VIVES,A.CASTRO,R.L.AYALA) SONY MUSIC LATIN DISPARO AL CORAZON Ricky Martin 8 SONY MUSIC LATIN his 10th chart-topping ME SOBRABAS TU Banda Los Recoditos 0 3 37 30 5 song. Royce has notched A.LIZARRAGA (L.L.DIAZ,J.A.INZUNZA FABELA) DISA/UMLE EL PERDON Nicky Jam & Enrique Iglesias 4 00 LA INDUSTRIA/SONY MUSIC LATIN his 10 No. 1s in less than 00 25 26 31 ERES TU Proyecto X 24 13 five years (four years, seven PROYECTO X (C.A.ZAMORA,M.I.NUNEZ) FONOVISA/UMLE LEJOS DE AQUI Farruko 14 CARBON FIBER/SIENTE months and one week) — a 0© 27 31 32 NO TE VAYAS Fidel Rueda 27 9 data as compiled by Nielsen Music and streaming activity data by online music sources tracked by Nielsen Music. defin Songs are tracked activity data by online music sources data as compiled by Nielsen Music and streaming NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) RUEDA/ABBA CONTIGO Calibre 50 4 time frame solely bested 00 DISA/UMLE by overall leader Marc INOCENTE Romeo Santos 33 8 BAILANDO 36 A.SANTOS,I.CHEVERE (A.SANTOS) SONY MUSIC LATIN 6 7 Enrique Iglesias Feat. Descemer Bueno & Gente de Zona 48 Anthony (25), who scored 00 REPUBLIC/UNIVERSAL MUSIC LATINO/UMLE his first 10 chart-toppers

te rules and explanations. © 2015, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. Global Media, LLC All rights reserved. © 2015, Prometheus te rules and explanations. MADRE TIERRA (OYE) Chayanne 30 35 30 6 PIERDO LA CABEZA Zion & Lennox 8 within three years, three 0 Y.ROMERO,A.RAYO GIBO (R.TOUZET,Y.ROMERO,B.LUENGO,A.RAYO GIBO) SONY MUSIC LATIN 00 BABY months and one week HOT SHOT TATUAJE Elvis Crespo Featuring Bachata Heightz 35 1 LEVANTANDO POLVADERA Voz de Mando 21 DEBUT E.CRESPO,J.GARCIA (E.CRESPO,M.VEGA,J.GARCIA) FLASH/VENEMUSIC 0 9 AFINARTE/SONY MUSIC LATIN (between 1995 and 1998). —Amaya Mendizabal 28 33 36 QUEDATE CON ELLA Natalia Jimenez 17 19 SOLTERO DISPONIBLE Regulo Caro 16 MOTIFF (N.JIMENEZ,C.BRANT) SONY MUSIC LATIN 0 DEL JUNTOS (TOGETHER) Juanes 35 37 37 LIBRE SOY Carmen Sarahi 23 17 7 K.ANDERSON-LOPEZ,R.LOPEZ (K.ANDERSON-LOPEZ,R.LOPEZ,D.FILIO,R.ALDANA) WALT DISNEY 00 WALT DISNEY/UNIVERSAL MUSIC LATINO/UMLE 8 12 AY VAMOS J Balvin 27 NEW UN ZOMBIE A LA INTEMPERIE Alejandro Sanz 38 1 CAPITOL LATIN/UMLE Q A.SANZ (A.SANZ) UNIVERSAL MUSIC LATINO/UMLE LO HICISTE OTRA VEZ La Arrolladora Banda el Limon de Rene Camacho 13 TODO TUYO Banda El Recodo de Cruz Lizarraga DISA/UMLE

See Charts Legend on billboard.com/biz for comple See Charts on billboard.com/biz Legend 39 4 43 48 Q A.LIZARRAGA (E. BARRERA,J.E.MURGUIA PEDRAZA,M.L.ARRIAGA) FONOVISA/UMLE

radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen Music, as measured sales audience impressions airplay radio ME VUELVO UN COBARDE Christian Daniel 13 45 AUNQUE AHORA ESTAS CON EL Calibre 50 40 5 16 0 SUMMA The week’s most popular current Latin albums, ranked by sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music. by sales data as compiled defined as current Albums are Latin albums, ranked most popular current The week’s 00 J.TIRADO CASTANEDA (J.E.MURGUIA PEDRAZA,M.L.ARRIAGA) DISA/UMLE YO TAMBIEN Nielsen Music. Nielsen 13 15 Romeo Santos Feat. Marc Anthony 22 SONY MUSIC LATIN 41 44 NO TE CREAS TAN IMPORTANTE El Bebeto 34 8 0 J.SERRANO MONTOYA (R.ORRANTIA) ASL/DISA/UMLE STUCK ON A FEELING 14 16 Prince Royce Feat. Snoop Dogg Or J Balvin 5 AMIGO Romeo Santos 41 8 RCA/SONY MUSIC LATIN 47 A.SANTOS,I.CHEVERE (A.SANTOS) SONY MUSIC LATIN TOP LATIN ALBUMS: LATIN TOP 00 DIME Julion Alvarez y Su Norteno Banda 12 15 17 FONOVISA/UMLE 7 DIAS Romeo Santos 36 9 A.SANTOS,I.CHEVERE (A.SANTOS) SONY MUSIC LATIN 00 HABLAME DE TI Banda Sinaloense MS de Sergio Lizarraga 6 REMEX NOCHE Y DE DIA Enrique Iglesias Feat. Yandel & Juan Magan 42 2 0 0 - 044 C.PAUCAR (C.RAMOS LOPEZ,E.M.IGLESIAS,W.O.LANDRON RIVERA,R.CASILLAS) REPUBLIC/UNIVERSAL MUSIC LATINO/UMLE EL QUE SE ENAMORA PIERDE 19 0 Banda Carnaval 13 DISA/UMLE

The week’s most popular current Latin songs, ranked by Latin songs, ranked most popular current The week’s ENTONCES QUE SOMOS Banda El Recodo de Cruz Lizarraga 31 38 45 25 14 J.LIZARRAGA,L.A.LIZARRAGA (L.L.DIAZ) FONOVISA/UMLE SOLEDAD Don Omar 19 23 0 MACHETE/UMLE EL TORO ENCARTADO Ariel Camacho y Los Plebes del Rancho - 46 27 2 0 J.GONZALEZ (G.FUENTES) DEL NO TE VAYAS Fidel Rueda 12 18 RUEDA/ABBA airplay and/or sales activity for the first time. sales activity for the first time. and/or airplay HOT LATIN SONGS: LATIN HOT Latin songs, ranked by radio airplay detections as measured by measured detections as airplay radio by ranked Latin songs, SI TU NO ESTAS Nicky Jam 34 11 40 47 47 DE LA GHETTO,DJ BLASS,NICKY JAM,SAGA WHITEBLACK (N.RIVERA CAMINERO) CODISCOS/LATIN NATION/LA INDUSTRIA HILITO Romeo Santos 6 0 22 SONY MUSIC LATIN 45 RULETA RUSA Tony Dize 31 10 42 48 R.PINA,E.SEMPER,X.SEMPER (R.PINA) PINA/SONY MUSIC LATIN 11 ERES TU Proyecto X 14 23 FONOVISA/UMLE MI PRIMERA VEZ Jonatan Sanchez 39 3 UPTOWN FUNK! Mark Ronson Feat. Bruno Mars 48Q49 J.INZUNZA FAVELA (L.DEL VILLAR,J.INZUNZA FAVELA) GERENCIA360 11 0 0 RCA QUIEREME Johnny Sky 39 50 39 6 22 25 MADRE TIERRA (OYE) Chayanne 7 0 G.GOMEZ,E.DAVILA JR. (G.GOMEZ,L.E.MEJIA LOPEZ) PREMIUM LATIN/LATIN HITS SONY MUSIC LATIN SALES, AIRPLAY & STREAMING & STREAMING SALES, AIRPLAY BY COMPILED DATA

Data for week of 03.21.2015 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data 59 HOT CHRISTIAN SONGS™ TOP CHRISTIAN ALBUMS™ 2 WKS. LAST THIS TITLE CERTIFICATION Artist PEAK WKS. ON LAST THIS ARTIST Title WKS. ON AGO WEEK WEEK PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL POS. CHART WEEK WEEK IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL CHART #1 ¡ #1 THIRD DAY Lead Us Back: Songs Of Worship 1 1 1 23 WKS SOMETHING IN THE WATER Carrie Underwood 123 1 WK 1 M.BRIGHT (C.UNDERWOOD,C. DESTEFANO,BRETT JAMES) 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE/PLG ESSENTIAL/PLG ¡ CASTING CROWNS 2 2 2 OCEANS (WHERE FEET MAY FAIL) Hillsong UNITED 177 Glorious Day: Hymns Of Faith 1 M.G.CHISLETT (M.CROCKER,J.HOUSTON,S.LIGTHELM) HILLSONG/SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG CRACKER BARREL/BEACH STREET/REUNION/PLG COME AS YOU ARE Crowder 330 RED Of Beauty And Rage 2 0 0 G.SCOTT,N.NOCKELS (D.CROWDER,M.MAHER,B.GLOVER) SIXSTEPS/SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG ESSENTIAL/PLG BECAUSE HE LIVES (AMEN) Matt Maher 418 GG LECRAE Anomaly 26 800 E.CASH,J.INGRAM (B.GAITHER,G.GAITHER,M.MAHER,J.INGRAM,E.CASH,D.CARSON,C.TOMLIN) ESSENTIAL/PLG REACH GREATER MercyMe 240 BETHEL MUSIC We Will Not Be Shaken 7 3 4 5 B.GLOVER,D.GARCIA (B.MILLARD,M.SCHEUCHZER,N.COCHRAN,R.SHAFFER,B.GRAUL,D.A.GARCIA,B.GLOVER) FAIR TRADE 0 BETHEL/PLG Third Day, HOW CAN IT BE Lauren Daigle 513 3 6 JEREMY CAMP I Will Follow 5 0 0 P.MABURY (P.MABURY,J.INGRAM,J.JOHNSON) CENTRICITY STOLEN PRIDE/SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG Crowder SOUL ON FIRE Third Day 712 MAT KEARNEY Just Kids 2 13 0 0 THE SOUND KIDS (B.BROWN,M.POWELL,T.ANDERSON,M.LEE,D.CARR,M.MAHER) ESSENTIAL/PLG 0 7 AWARE/REPUBLIC/INPOP/CAPITOL CMG Lead Lists HE KNOWS Jeremy Camp 423 CHRIS TOMLIN Love Ran Red 19 S.MOSLEY (J.CAMP,S.MOSLEY) STOLEN PRIDE/SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG SIXSTEPS/SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG 0 8 0 8 Christian rock group Third BENEDICTINES OF MARY, QUEEN OF APOSTLES 6 7 9 HE KNOWS MY NAME Francesca Battistelli 335 NEW 0 Easter At Ephesus 1 Day earns its seventh No. 1 I.ESKELIN (F.BATTISTELLI,M.FIELDES,S.MOSLEY) FERVENT/WORD-CURB BENEDICTINES OF MARY/DE MONTFORT/DECCA/UNIVERSAL MUSIC CLASSICS on Top Christian Albums

7 10 10 JESUS LOVES ME Chris Tomlin 628 VARIOUS ARTISTS WOW Hits 2015 23 E.CASH (C.TOMLIN,R.T.MORGAN,B.GLOVER) SIXSTEPS/SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG 0 10 PROVIDENT/WORD-CURB/CAPITOL CMG as Lead Us Back: Songs of FOR KING & COUNTRY Worship starts with 23,000 BROKEN TOGETHER Casting Crowns 11 18 6 11 RUN WILD. LIVE FREE. LOVE STRONG. 25 12 00 M.A.MILLER (M.HALL,B.HERMS) BEACH STREET/REUNION/PLG FERVENT/WORD-CURB sold in the week ending I AM NOT ALONE Kari Jobe 12 17 CASTING CROWNS Thrive 59 March 8, according to 15 0 J.EDWARDSON (K.JOBE,M.SAMPSON,M.FIELDES,B.DAVIS,G.PITTMAN,D.SAUDER,A.DAVIS) SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG 00 BEACH STREET/REUNION/PLG Nielsen Music. The band SHOULDERS for KING & COUNTRY 13 13 MERCYME Welcome To The New 48 has charted 16 titles on the 1600 TEDD T. (L.SMALLBONE,J.SMALLBONE,B.GLOVER,T.TJORNHOM) FERVENT/WORD-CURB 0 13 FAIR TRADE/PLG list, including all 12 of its 14 BEYOND ME tobyMac 510 NEW 0 VARIOUS ARTISTS 12 Songs Of Worship 1 studio albums, dating back 14 0 D.GARCIA,T.MCKEEHAN (T.MCKEEHAN,D.A.GARCIA) FOREFRONT/CAPITOL CMG MARDEL/BENSON/PLG to its 1996 self-titled debut.

18 17 DROPS IN THE OCEAN Hawk Nelson 15 9 NEW 0 ESHON BURGUNDY The Fear Of God 1 0 HUMBLE BEAST. The new set also starts C.WEDGEWORTH (J.STEINGARD,J.INGRAM,M.BRONLEEWE) FAIR TRADE

at No. 20 on the Billboard gospel albums, top-selling current The week’s DAY ONE Matthew West 15 10 CROWDER Neon Steeple 41 17 00 P.KIPLEY (M.WEST,P.KIPLEY) SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG 0 16 SIXSTEPS/SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG 200 and No. 5 on Top Rock

GAITHER VOCAL BAND Albums. A track from the BROTHER NEEDTOBREATHE Featuring Gavin DeGraw 212 RE 0 Sometimes It Takes A Mountain 17 20 00 E.CASH,D.TOZER,NEEDTOBREATHE (N.RINEHART,W.RINEHART,G.DEGRAW) ATLANTIC/WORD-CURB GAITHER/CAPITOL CMG new album, “Soul On Fire,”

KARI JOBE Majestic rises 9-7 on Hot Christian by sales data as Christian albums, ranked current top-selling The week’s 18 NO TURNING BACK Brandon Heath 16 20 12 18 50 19 0 E.CASH (B.HEATH,L.JORDAN,D.LEONARD) MONOMODE/REUNION/PLG SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG Songs, where the band GOSPEL ALBUMS: TOP SAVE MY LIFE Sidewalk Prophets 18 20 FRANCESCA BATTISTELLI If We’re Honest 46 holds six previous leaders. 22 0 19 0 19 FERVENT/WORD-CURB I.ESKELIN (D.FREY,B.MCDONALD,B.GLOVER) FERVENT/WORD-CURB Lead Us Back is the GOOD FIGHT Unspoken 20 10 SKILLET Rise 81 group’s third worship album 26 00 S.MOSLEY (J.LOWRY,C.MATTSON,T.MORGAN) CENTRICITY 0 20 ATLANTIC/WORD-CURB

following 2000’s Offerings: ALBUMS: CHRISTIAN TOP MORE THAN YOU THINK I AM Danny Gokey 21 14 REND COLLECTIVE The Art Of Celebration 50 A Worship Album and 25 0® B.HERMS (D.GOKEY,B.HERMS,T.NICHOLS) BMG 0 21 REND COLLECTIVE/INTEGRITY/PLG 2003’s Offerings II: All I THIS IS LIVING Hillsong Young & Free Featuring Lecrae 16 8 TENTH AVENUE NORTH Cathedrals 17

23 0© M.G.CHISLETT,B.TAN,M.FATKIN,A.KING (A.KING,J.DAVIES,L.MOORE) HILLSONG/SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG 0 22 REUNION/PLG Have to Give. Third Day’s and Nielsen Music, Inc. Global Media, LLC All rights reserved. © 2015, Prometheus explanations. BETHEL MUSIC previous studio set, 2012’s EVIDENCE Citizen Way 23 5 20 23 You Make Me Brave: Live At The Civic 46 27 0© C.WEDGEWORTH,S.MOSLEY (B.CALHOUN,J.PARDO) FAIR TRADE BETHEL Miracle, also debuted atop HOLY SPIRIT Francesca Battistelli 24 2 FAMILY FORCE 5 Time Stands Still 15 Christian Albums, starting 00 I.ESKELIN (B.TORWALT,K.TORWALT) FERVENT/WORD-CURB 00 WORD-CURB with 29,000. THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE CHOIR 29 0 GLORY Phil Wickham 25 5 RE 0 Pray: Live 3 Meanwhile, on Christian P.KIPLEY (P.WICKHAM,P.KIPLEY) FAIR TRADE THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE/PLG Airplay, Crowder (the stage name and solo project of David Crowder) scores HOT GOSPEL SONGS™ TOP GOSPEL ALBUMS™ his first leader as “Come As You Are” rises 2-1 with 2 WKS. LAST THIS TITLE CERTIFICATION Artist PEAK WKS. ON LAST THIS ARTIST Title WKS. ON a 6 percent increase in AGO WEEK WEEK POS. CHART WEEK WEEK CHART PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL audience impressions

#1 #1 for complete rules and See Charts on billboard.com/biz Legend 2 7 WKS FOR YOUR GLORY Tasha Cobbs 147 5 WKS VARIOUS ARTISTS WOW Gospel 2015 5 (10 million). The song takes 00 V.MITCHELL (M.BOOKER) MOTOWN GOSPEL MOTOWN GOSPEL/WORD-CURB/RCA INSPIRATION/RCA the top slot in its 29th week, I THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE CHOIR FILL ME UP Casey J 122 Pray: Live 4 the slowest climb to No. 1 M.BOONE,C.CARTER (W.REGAN) MARQUIS BOONE/TYSCOT GG THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE/PLG by Nielsen Music. tracked activity data by online music sources data as compiled by Nielsen Music and streaming 00 since May 10, 2014, when

I AM Jason Nelson 321 VARIOUS ARTISTS WOW Gospel 2014 58 Hillsong United’s “Oceans 0 3 D.T.SOREY (J.NELSON,D.T.SOREY) RCA INSPIRATION 0 3 MOTOWN GOSPEL/WORD-CURB/RCA INSPIRATION/RCA (Where Feet May Fail)” hit 5 AMAZING Ricky Dillard & New G 159 4 4 TASHA COBBS Grace (EP) 109 0 R.ROBINSON,R.DILLARD,M.TAYLOR (T.MCGHEE) LIGHT MOTOWN GOSPEL/CAPITOL CMG the top in its 32nd frame.

Crowder also holds at No. 3 by Nielsen Music. tracked activity data by online music sources es data as compiled by Nielsen Music and streaming I WILL TRUST Fred Hammond Feat. BreeAnn Hammond 426 VARIOUS ARTISTS Billboard #1 Gospel Hits 8 0 5 F.HAMMOND (F.HAMMOND,C.RODGERS,P.FEASTER) F HAMMOND/RCA INSPIRATION 0 5 EONE on Hot Christian Songs for NO GREATER LOVE Smokie Norful 651 FRED HAMMOND I Will Trust 16 a second week. Christian/Gospel 5 6 7 9 0 A.W.LINDSEY (A.W.LINDSEY,S.NORFUL) TREMYLES/MOTOWN GOSPEL F HAMMOND/RCA INSPIRATION/RCA Crowder’s former act, WAR Charles Jenkins & Fellowship Chicago 718 JASON NELSON Jesus Revealed 7 David Crowder Band, C.JENKINS,R.EAST (C.JENKINS) INSPIRED PEOPLE 0 RCA INSPIRATION/RCA 8 8 0 logged 16 entries on top 100. in the Billboard 200’s han 18 months but still residing 10 7 8 YOUR DESTINY Kevin LeVar And One Sound 721 3 8 DORINDA CLARK-COLE Living It 3 Christian Airplay between H-MONEY (K.LEVAR) ONE SOUND LIGHT/EONE 2003 and 2012, but never GOD MY GOD VaShawn Mitchell J MOSS Grown Folks Gospel 9 10 9 917 9 9 15 led the list. —Emily White V.MITCHELL,D.WEATHERSPOON (V.MITCHELL) VMAN/MOTOWN GOSPEL PMG GOSPEL/PAJAM 2015 DR. LARRY D. REID & THE BREAKTHROUGH SINGERS THIS PLACE Tamela Mann The Set (EP) by Nielsen Music, as measured sales audience impressions airplay radio 12 11 10 9 NEW 0 1 0 M.BUTLER (D.W.BLAIR) TILLYMANN LDRENTERPRISES

HOW AWESOME IS OUR GOD March 21 21 March 14 16 Israel & New Breed Feat. Yolanda Adams 11 6 3 WINANS BROTHERS Foreign Land 23 0 I.HOUGHTON (I.HOUGHTON,N.DIEDERICKS,M.HOUGHTON) RGM NEW BREED/RCA/RCA INSPIRATION 0 11 REGIMEN/BMG/EONE

15 15 YES YOU CAN Marvin Sapp 12 4 11 12 DEWAYNE WOODS Life Lessons 5 0 A.W.LINDSEY (C.DIXSON,M.L.SAPP) RCA INSPIRATION SOUL THERAPY by Nielsen Music, as measured sal audience impressions airplay radio

16 14 13 WORTH FIGHTING FOR Brian Courtney Wilson 13 5 WESS MORGAN Livin’ 36 A.W.LINDSEY (B.C.WILSON,A.LINES) MOTOWN GOSPEL 00 BOWTIE

13 13 14 BLESS THIS HOUSE Dorinda Clark-Cole 13 9 ERICA CAMPBELL Help 51 R.CLICHE (D.CLARK-COLE,S.D.BEREAL,R.CLICHE,S.RENAUD,F.BLANCHARD) LIGHT 18 0 MY BLOCK/EONE J.J. HAIRSTON & YOUTHFUL PRAISE 11 12 15 BLESS ME J.J. Hairston & Youthful Praise Feat. Donnie McClurkin 922 I See Victory 20 J.J.HAIRSTON,E.DAVIS (J.J.HAIRSTON,E.DAVIS) LIGHT 0 15 LIGHT/EONE

17 17 16 GOD CAN Andrea McClurkin-Mellini 13 14 WILLIAM MCDOWELL Withholding Nothing 67 D.MCCLURKIN (A.MCCLURKIN MELINI) CAMDON 0 16 DELIVERY ROOM/EONE by gospel songs, ranked most popular current The week’s

20 19 I BELIEVE Mali Music 17 12 VARIOUS ARTISTS Icon: Gospel Icons 15 0 MALI MUSIC (K.J.POLLARD) BYSTORM/RCA/RCA INSPIRATION 0 17 MOTOWN GOSPEL/CAPITOL CMG

FRIEND OF MINE DeWayne Woods Feat. Dave Hollister & Anthony Hamilton 13 15 JESSICA REEDY Transparent 19 18 14 18 17 GOSPEL SONGS:

18 E.E.BULLOCK,R.BLACK (E.E.BULLOCK,A.HAMILTON,R.BLACK) SOUL THERAPY PURITY VARIOUS ARTISTS HOT WHAT CAN I DO Tye Tribbett Great Gospel Classics: Songs Of Praise & Worship, Vol. 1 by Christian songs, ranked most popular current The week’s 21 21 0 17 16 NEW 0 1 T.TRIBBETT II,B.JONES (K.J.SCRIVEN) MOTOWN GOSPEL SONOROUS

22 22 INDESCRIBABLE Kierra Sheard 15 18 13 20 VASHAWN MITCHELL Unstoppable 17 0 J.D.SHEARD II (L.STORY) KAREW VMAN/MOTOWN GOSPEL/CAPITOL CMG

23 23 A LIL’ LOUDER (CLAP YOUR HANDS) The Rance Allen Group 19 13 THE RANCE ALLEN GROUP Celebrate 17 0 F.THOMAS,S.L.SCOTT (F.THOMAS,R.L.ALLEN,C.BYRD) TYSCOT 0 21 TYSCOT/TASEIS

ranked by sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music. Albums are defined as current if they are less than 18 months old or older t if they are by sales data as compiled Nielsen Music. defined as current Albums are ranked compiled by Nielsen Music. HOT CHRISTIAN SONGS: CHRISTIAN HOT 18 20 22 IT’S GONNA HAPPEN Jekalyn Carr 15 17 BEN TANKARD Full Tank: 2.0 4 A.CARR (A.J.CARR) LUNJEAL/MALACO 22 0 BEN-JAMIN’ UNIVERSAL DANCE 3 Winans Brothers 23 1 NEW 0 VARIOUS ARTISTS Great Gospel Classics: Songs Of Praise & Worship, Vol. 2 1 NEW 0 D.WEATHERSPOON (B.WINANS,D.WEATHERSPOON) REGIMEN/BMG/EONE SONOROUS

NEW SAME GOD Richard Smallwood 24 1 20 24 SMOKIE NORFUL Forever Yours 31 0 S.FORD (R.SMALLWOOD) RCA INSPIRATION TREMYLES/MOTOWN GOSPEL/CAPITOL CMG

DEITRICK HADDON 24 24 25 FLAWS Kierra Sheard 24 3 RE 0 The Best Of Deitrick Haddon 25 A.W.LINDSEY (D.E.WARREN) KAREW RCA INSPIRATION/RCA SALES, AIRPLAY & STREAMING & STREAMING SALES, AIRPLAY BY COMPILED DATA

60 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data Data for week of 03.21.2015 HOT DANCE/ELECTRONIC SONGS™ TOP DANCE/ELECTRONIC ALBUMS™

2 WKS. LAST THIS TITLE CERTIFICATION PEAK WKS. ON LAST THIS ARTIST CERTIFICATION Title WKS. ON Artist WEEK WEEK CHART AGO WEEK WEEK PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL POS. CHART IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL #1 #1 PRAYER IN C Lillywood & Robin Schulz 1 WK PURITY RING Another Eternity 1 BIEBER: DARREN TIESTE BIEBER: DARREN 1 2 1 5 WKS R.SCHULZ,P.GUIMARD (N.HADIDA,B.COTTO) CHOKE INDUSTRY/TONSPIEL/CINQ 7/WARGRAM/ATLANTIC/RRP 135 4AD

SKRILLEX & DIPLO Skrillex & Diplo Present Jack U 2 OUTSIDE 0 Calvin Harris Feat. Ellie Goulding 220 2 MAD DECENT/OWSLA/AG DG SG CALVIN HARRIS (CALVIN HARRIS,E.GOULDING) FLY EYE/COLUMBIA 0

NEW SEVEN LIONS The Throes Of Winter (EP) 1 I WANT YOU TO KNOW Zedd Feat. Selena Gomez 13 CASABLANCA/REPUBLIC AG ZEDD (A.ZASLAVSKI,R.B.TEDDER,K.N.DREW) INTERSCOPE LINDSEY STIRLING Shatter Me 45 2 LINDSEYSTOMP 4 5 RATHER BE Clean Bandit Featuring Jess Glynne 157 4 J.PATTERSON,G.CHATTO (J.NAPIER,J.PATTERSON,N.MARSHALL) ATLANTIC/RRP 0

3 5 ODESZA In Return 27 WAVES ¡ Mr. Probz FOREIGN FAMILY COLLECTIVE/COUNTER 3 4 5 134 Bieber MR. PROBZ (D.P.STEHR,J.RAHMOUNI) LEFT LANE/ULTRA/RCA NEW 0 RUPAUL Realness 1 0 RUCO 5 6 6 HEROES (WE COULD BE) Alesso Featuring Tove Lo 228 ALESSO (A.LINDBLAD,T.LO,D.BOWIE,B.ENO) REFUNE/DEF JAM Helps ‘U’ 5 7 CALVIN HARRIS Motion 18 ¡ FLY EYE/COLUMBIA 7 7 7 BLAME Calvin Harris Featuring John Newman 127 CALVIN HARRIS (CALVIN HARRIS,J.J.NEWMAN) FLY EYE/COLUMBIA NEW 0 VARIOUS ARTISTS Common Culture: A Compilation By Connor Franta 1 To Top 10 2 OPUS LABEL 6 8 8 BREAK FREE Ariana Grande Featuring Zedd 136 Skrillex and Diplo each ZEDD,MAX MARTIN (A.ZASLAVSKI,MAX MARTIN,S.KOTECHA) REPUBLIC 9 9 FKA TWIGS LP1 30 YOUNG TURKS celebrate their first top 10 WHERE ARE U NOW Skrillex & Diplo Featuring Justin Bieber 92 on Hot Dance/Electronic - 13 NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) MAD DECENT/OWSLA/ATLANTIC ROBIN SCHULZ Prayer 0 8 10 23 0 TONSPIEL/ATLANTIC/AG Songs with their song 8 9 10 A SKY FULL OF STARS Coldplay 336 AVICII,COLDPLAY,P.EPWORTH,D.GREEN,R.SIMPSON (G.R.BERRYMAN,J.M.BUCKLAND,W.CHAMPION,C.A.J.MARTIN,T.BERGLING) PARLOPHONE/ATLANTIC VARIOUS ARTISTS NOW That’s What I Call Party Anthems 2 31 “Where Are U Now” (13-9), 11 UNIVERSAL/SONY MUSIC/LEGACY 0 featuring Justin Bieber 10 11 THE NIGHTS Avicii 10 14 0 AVICII (N.FURLONG,G.BENJAMIN,J.SUECOF,J.FELDMANN,T.BERGLING,A.POURNOURI) PRMD/ISLAND/REPUBLIC DAVID GUETTA Listen (above). Although the track 15 12 WHAT A MUSIC/PARLOPHONE/ATLANTIC/AG has minimal radio support HOT SHOT LEAN ON Major Lazer X DJ Snake Featuring M0 12 1 DEBUT DJ SNAKE,DIPLO,P.MECKSEPER (K.M.ORSTED,W.S.E.GRIGAHCINE,T.W.PENTZ,P.MECKSEPER) MAD DECENT 13 DAN DEACON Gliss Riffer2 thus far, it registered 0 DOMINO I’M AN ALBATRAOZ AronChupa second-week sales of 12 10 13 10 8 14 VARIOUS ARTISTS Ultra Dance 16 2 A.EKBERG (A.EKBERG,R.SAHLBERG,N.SAVVOLAINEN,M.HARVIDSSON) ULTRA 0 ULTRA 17,000 units in the week ending March 8 (according 23 15 TAKE U THERE Skrillex & Diplo Featuring Kiesza 14 23 DEADMAU5 5 Years Of mau5 13 0 SKRILLEX,DIPLO (S.MOORE,T.W.PENTZ,K.R.ELLESTAD) MAD DECENT/OWSLA/ATLANTIC 00 MAU5TRAP/ULTRA to Nielsen Music) while VARIOUS ARTISTS capturing 1.5 million U.S. NEW FIVE MORE HOURS Deorro X Chris Brown 15 1 15 Power Music: 55 Smash Hits!: Running Remixes 30 DEORRO (E.ORROSQUIETA,J.RYAN,J.BUNETTA,C.M.BROWN) B1/PANDA FUNK/PRMD/ULTRA/RCA 0 POWER MUSIC streams (with 80 percent stemming from Spotify). FIRESTONE Kygo Featuring Conrad RE CARIBOU Our Love 21 14 14 16 12 14 0 MERGE KYGO (KYGO,C.SEWELL) ULTRA/RCA The track’s vocalist, Bieber,

13 18 ABOVE & BEYOND We Are All We Need 7 is one of eight acts featured rts from a national sample of club DJs. Songs are defined Songs are rts a national sample of club DJs. from NEW NOTHING REALLY MATTERS Mr. Probz 17 1 ANJUNABEATS/ULTRA 0 MR. PROBZ,G.H.TUINFORT (G.H.TUINFORT,D.P.STEHR,A.THIAM,J.GOSLING) LEFT LANE/ULTRA on the album Skrillex & as current if they are less than 18 months old or older if they are as current RE DIE ANTWOORD Donker Mag 7 YOU KNOW YOU LIKE IT DJ Snake & AlunaGeorge 0 ZEF RECORDZ/KOBALT Diplo Present Jack U, which 21 20 14 12 0 DJ SNAKE (A.FRANCIS,G.REID) INTERSCOPE debuted at No. 1 on the SYLVAN ESSO Sylvan Esso 43 DANGEROUS David Guetta Featuring Sam Martin 17 20 PARTISAN March 14 Top Dance/ 13 16 19 D.GUETTA,G.H.TUINFORT,S.D.MARTIN,J.EVIGAN (D.GUETTA,G.H.TUINFORT,S.D.MARTIN,J.EVIGAN,L.ROBBINS) WHAT A MUSIC/PARLOPHONE/ATLANTIC 623 Electronic Albums chart. 18 JOHN CARPENTER Lost Themes 5 SOMETHING NEW Axwell & Ingrosso SACRED BONES In addition to “Where Are 15 17 14 15 0 S.INGROSSO,AXWELL (S.INGROSSO,AXWELL,V.PONTARE,S.A.FAKIR) AXWELL/REFUNE/DEF JAM U Now,” Skrillex and Diplo RE YEARS & YEARS Y & Y EP 3 LIVING FOR LOVE Madonna POLYDOR/INTERSCOPE/IGA score six other tracks on 11 12 21 NOT LISTED (M.CICCONE,T.W.PENTZ,M. MCDONALD,T.GAD,A.RECHTSHAID,U.OSISIOMA EMENIKE) LIVE NATION/INTERSCOPE 912

CHET FAKER Built On Glass 19 Hot Dance/Electronic 20 DOWNTOWN 16 191 22 RUNAWAY (U & I) Galantis 15 22 Songs, including three GALANTIS,SVIDDEN (C.KARLSSON,C.DENNIS,A.RUNDBERG,L.EKLOW,J.KOITZSCH) BIG BEAT/RRP 24 SKRILLEX Recess 51 debuts. Thus, Skrillex 0 BIG BEAT/OWSLA/ATLANTIC/AG 17 ''18' 23 OPEN WIDE Calvin Harris Featuring Big Sean 12 19 increases his lead as the CALVIN HARRIS (CALVIN HARRIS,S.M.ANDERSON) FLY EYE/COLUMBIA APHEX TWIN 25 Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments Pt 2 (EP) 7 act with the most charted 0 WARP COOL Alesso Featuring Roy English 24 3 songs since the chart’s 24 24 0 ALESSO (A.LINDBLAD,B.WRONSKI,M.H.HANSEN,L.SECON,DAMON SHARPE,P.WALLEVIK,D.DAVIDSEN) REFUNE/DEF JAM launch on Jan. 26, 2013 (21). am top 40 and select rhythmic stations that have submitted their hours of mix show programming, as monitored by Nielsen BDS, as monitored submitted their hours of mix show programming, am top 40 and select rhythmic stations that have REAL LOVE Clean Bandit & Jess Glynne 20 23 J.PATTERSON (J.PATTERSON,G.CHATTO,J.GLYNNE,R.HARVEY,R.BOARDMAN,C.TIGHE,S.BLANCHARD,J.BENNETT) ATLANTIC/RRP 18 19 Meanwhile, Deorro . 0 DANCE/MIX SHOW AIRPLAY™ returns to Hot Dance/ HEY MAMA David Guetta Featuring Nicki Minaj & Afrojack 15 15 Electronic Songs with “Five 27 27 0 D.GUETTA,AFROJACK,G.H.TUINFORT,E.DEAN (D.GUETTA,G.H.TUINFORT,N.VAN DE WALL,E.DEAN,B.REXHA,S.DOUGLAS,O.T.MARAJ) WHAT A MUSIC/PARLOPHONE/ATLANTIC LAST THIS TITLE Artist WKS. ON WEEK WEEK CHART More Hours” (No. 15), a IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL 34 FEBREZE Skrillex & Diplo Featuring 2 Chainz 27 2 new version of his hit “Five 0 NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) MAD DECENT/OWSLA/ATLANTIC OUTSIDE 3#1 WKS Calvin Harris Feat. Ellie Goulding 13 Hours,” which peaked at TO U Skrillex & Diplo Featuring AlunaGeorge FLY EYE/COLUMBIA - 50 28 2 No. 14 last September. 0 NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) MAD DECENT/OWSLA/ATLANTIC TIME OF OUR LIVES Pitbull & Ne-Yo 12 Formerly a Le7els/PMRD MR. 305/POLO GROUNDS/RCA 26 2 RAINDROPS SNBRN Featuring Kerli 25 6 0 SNBRN (K.A.CHAPMAN) ULTRA release and containing a UPTOWN FUNK! Mark Ronson Feat. Bruno Mars 15 RCA vocal by DyCy, the new

sic, sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music, streaming activity data by online music sources tracked by Nielsen Music and repo sic, tracked sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music, activity data by online music sources streaming 34 29 I’M GONNA GET YOU Dave Aude Featuring Jessica Sutta 29 4 0 D.AUDE (A.COLANDREO,A.MEECHAM,D.J.MEREDITH,D.AUDE,L.PERGOLIZZI) AUDACIOUS version is out on Ultra and 4 SOMETHING NEW Axwell & Ingrosso 14 AXWELL/REFUNE/DEF JAM features Chris Brown.

The week’s most popular current dance/electronic albums, ranked by sales data as compiled Nielsen Music. defined Albums are albums, ranked dance/electronic most popular current The week’s GOLD DUST Galantis - 31 26 2 0 GALANTIS,SVIDDEN (L.EKLOW,C.KARLSSON,C.DENNIS,V.PONTARE,J.KOITZSCH) BIG BEAT/ATLANTIC PRAYER IN C Lillywood & Robin Schulz The song sold 9,000 units, 5 5 23 CHOKE INDUSTRY/TONSPIEL/CINQ 7/WARGRAM/ATLANTIC/RRP prompting a No. 10 entry on Dance/Electronic 22 28 32 PRAY TO GOD Calvin Harris Featuring HAIM 17 18 eekly plays on 6 dance-formatted stations and mix show plays on mainstre stations and mix show plays on 6 dance-formatted eekly plays CALVIN HARRIS (CALVIN HARRIS,A.HAIM,D.HAIM,E.HAIM,A.RECHTSHAID) FLY EYE/COLUMBIA SUGAR Maroon 5 5 Dance/Electronic Digital 222/INTERSCOPE FORBIDDEN VOICES Martin Garrix 0 Songs — both new highs NEW 33 1 0 MARTIN GARRIX (MARTIN GARRIX,M.SORBARA,J.VAN DER VOORT) SPINNIN’ THINKING OUT LOUD Ed Sheeran 7 for Deorro. ATLANTIC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved.

21 21 0 SUN GOES DOWN Robin Schulz Feat. Jasmine Thompson In another teaming 30 32 21 16 I WANT YOU TO KNOW Zedd Feat. Selena Gomez 2 0 T.BAXTER (T.R.HAVELOCK) TONSPIEL/ATLANTIC/RRP 21 GG of solo acts, Axwell & 2015 INTERSCOPE

TOP DANCE/ELECTRONIC ALBUMS: DANCE/ELECTRONIC TOP 0 FOURFIVESECONDS Ingrosso ignite Dance NEW BEATS KNOCKIN Skrillex & Diplo Featuring Fly Boi Keno 35 1 Rihanna & Kanye West & Paul McCartney 5 0 NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) MAD DECENT/OWSLA/ATLANTIC WESTBURY ROAD/ROC NATION 0 Club Songs with their first

March No. 1 as a duo, “Something TILL IT HURTS Yellow Claw Featuring Ayden STYLE Taylor Swift 5 YELLOW CLAW (N.RONDHULUS,J.TAIHUTTU,J.TITAWANO,M.O.WEERNINK,L.ROELANDSCHAP,B.FOURADI,D.QUINONES) SPINNIN’/4TH & BROADWAY/ISLAND/REPUBLIC 31 12 13 37 00 0 BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC New” (3-1). The DJs previously topped the chart ed by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen Mu as measured audience impressions airplay ed by radio JUNGLE BAE Skrillex & Diplo Featuring Bunji Garlin TAKE ME TO CHURCH Hozier 14 NEW 37 1 6 11 0 NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) MAD DECENT/OWSLA/ATLANTIC RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA three times as members

11 THE NIGHTS Avicii 8 of Swedish House Mafia,

The week’s most popular current songs ranked by total w songs ranked most popular current The week’s PAY NO MIND Madeon Featuring Passion Pit 38 29 4 PRMD/ISLAND/REPUBLIC 36 0 H.P.LECLERCQ (H.P.LECLERCQ,M.ANGELAKOS) POPCULTUR/COLUMBIA while Axwell hit the top LOVE ME LIKE YOU DO Ellie Goulding 4 once with other artists. RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW Giorgio Moroder Feat. Kylie Minogue 39 3 19 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC/INTERSCOPE - 00 G.MORODER,R.LUTH (G.MORODER,P.PATRIKIOS,K.POOLE,D.ETHERINGTON) GIORGIO MORODER/RCA —Gordon Murray

10 14 RUNAWAY (U & I) Galantis 16 NEW MIND Skrillex & Diplo Featuring Kai 40 1 BIG BEAT/RRP 0 NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) MAD DECENT/OWSLA/ATLANTIC

LOVE AGAIN Cedric Gervais Feat. Ali Tamposi 2 34 POLYDOR/INTERSCOPE DANCE/MIX SHOW AIRPLAY: AIRPLAY: SHOW DANCE/MIX DJ FAV Joe Bermudez Featuring Amanda Brigham eiving widespread airplay and/or sales activity for the first time. and/or airplay eiving widespread NEW 41 1 or complete rules and explanations. © 2015, Prometheus Global Media, LLC Global Media, LLC © 2015, Prometheus or complete rules and explanations. 0 J.BERMUDEZ (J.BERMUDEZ,V.PREZIOSO) 617

15 16 BLANK SPACE Taylor Swift 16 BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC NEW INTOXICATED Martin Solveig & GTA 42 1 0 MARTIN SOLVEIG,M.VAN TOTH,J.MEJIA (M.PICANDET,M.VON TOTH,J.MEJIA) SPINNIN’ DEEP/SPINNIN’

FIRESTONE Kygo Feat. Conrad 3 28 0 ULTRA/RCA 50 I WISH YOU WERE MINE Philip George 43 3 The week’s most popular current dance/electronic songs, rank dance/electronic most popular current The week’s 00 P.GEORGE (S.H.MORRIS,H.COSBY,S.MOY) 3BEAT/ALL AROUND THE WORLD/MOTOWN/CAPITOL SURRENDER Cash Cash 16 19 18 BIG BEAT/RRP 48 0 FREAKS Timmy Trumpet And Savage 32 14 TIMMY TRUMPET,I.GOUGH,JEBU (T.J.SMITH,I.GOUGH,D.SAVELIO,J.BUNAWAN) MINISTRY OF SOUND/HUSSLE SHE KNOWS Ne-Yo Feat. Juicy J 5 24 0 COMPOUND ENTERTAINMENT/MOTOWN/CAPITOL DESIRE Years & Years 45 1 NEW 0 M.RALPH,TWO INCH PUNCH (O.ALEXANDER,E.TURKMEN,M.GOLDSWORTHY,K.HARPOON) POLYDOR/INTERSCOPE SOMEBODY Natalie La Rose Feat. Jeremih 4 23 0 I.M.G./REPUBLIC

38 k 046 VIRUS (HOW ABOUT NOW) Martin Garrix & MOTi 33 17 MARTIN GARRIX,MOTI (MARTIN GARRIX,T.ROMME,L.PALMEN,N.LUNDIN,J.WAHLSTROM) SPINNIN’ LOVE ME HARDER Ariana Grande & The Weeknd 17 14 21 REPUBLIC HOT DANCE/ELECTRONIC SONGS: DANCE/ELECTRONIC HOT as current if they are newly-released titles, or songs rec titles, or songs newly-released if they are as current months but still residing in the Billboard 200’s top 100. in the Billboard 200’s months but still residing f to Billboard. See Charts on billboard.com/biz Legend 47 ARE YOU WITH ME Lost Frequencies 34 7 42 0 FELIX DE LAET (T.L.JAMES,T.MCBRIDE,S.MCANALLY) ARMADA/ULTRA JEALOUS Nick Jonas 17 18 22 SAFEHOUSE/ISLAND/REPUBLIC DIVINE SORROW Wyclef Featuring Avicii 12 16 43 41 48 M.LIDEHALL,V.PONTARE,S.A.FAKIR,AVICII,A.POURNOURI (W.JEAN,M.LIDEHALL,V.PONTARE,S.A.FAKIR,T.BERGLING,A.POURNOURI) HEADS/PRMD CHAINS Nick Jonas 2 00 SAFEHOUSE/ISLAND/REPUBLIC

28 35 49 YOU’RE ON Madeon Featuring Kyan 25 10 REAL LOVE Clean Bandit & Jess Glynne 8 H.P.LECLERCQ (H.P.LECLERCQ,J.NAPIER) POPCULTUR/COLUMBIA 20 24 ATLANTIC/RRP RE-ENTRY 0 OUT THE SPEAKERS A-Trak + Milo & Otis Feat. Rich Kidz 10 5 LIVING FOR LOVE Madonna 3 A-TRAK,MILO & OTIS (A.MACKLOVITCH,K.DENSON,K.FOWLER,G.MURON,M.NEMETHY) FOOL’S GOLD 33 0 LIVE NATION/INTERSCOPE SALES, AIRPLAY & STREAMING & STREAMING SALES, AIRPLAY BY COMPILED DATA

Data for week of 03.21.2015 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data 61 DANCE CLUB SONGS™ EURO 0 JAPAN 0 LAST THIS TITLE Artist WKS. ON DIGITAL SONGS COMPILED BY NIELSEN SOUNDSCAN INTERNATIONAL JAPAN HOT 100 COMPILED BY HANSHIN/SOUNDSCAN JAPAN/PLANTECH WEEK WEEK CHART IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL LAST THIS TITLE Artist LAST THIS TITLE Artist WEEK WEEK WEEK WEEK IMPRINT/LABEL IMPRINT/LABEL #11 WK SOMETHING NEW Axwell & Ingrosso 10 AXWELL/REFUNE/DEF JAM IN LOVE ME LIKE YOU DO Ellie Goulding GREEN FLASH AKB48 1 1 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC/POLYDOR KING WRONG CLUB The Ting Tings 9 PIAS 2 KING Years & Years SAKURA Arashi 9 POLYDOR J-STORM I’M GONNA GET YOU Dave Aude Feat. Jessica Sutta 6 AUDACIOUS FOURFIVESECONDS 2 3 Rihanna & Kanye West & Paul McCartney KISEKI Kobukuro WESTBURY ROAD/ROC NATION WARNER YOUNG BLOOD Bea Miller 9 SYCO/HOLLYWOOD 3 TAKE ME TO CHURCH Hozier NEW JONETSU NO HANA EXILE 4 RUBYWORKS/ISLAND 4 RHYTHMZONE GG ELASTIC HEART Sia 5 MONKEY PUZZLE/RCA 4 5 UPTOWN FUNK! Mark Ronson Feat. Bruno Mars NEW 5 MY ONE Lead COLUMBIA PONY 2 6 LIVING FOR LOVE Madonna 9 LIVE NATION/INTERSCOPE 5 6 EARNED IT (FIFTY SHADES OF GREY) The Weeknd NEW 6 YACCHATTA!! Busaiku UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC CANYON TIME OF OUR LIVES Pitbull & Ne-Yo 9 0i 7 MR. 305/POLO GROUNDS/RCA 7 7 HOLD BACK THE RIVER James Bay 7 SAKURAMICHI Toho Shinki REPUBLIC/VIRGIN AVEX-J-MORE OUTSIDE Calvin Harris Feat. Ellie Goulding 8 WHAT I DID FOR LOVE David Guetta Feat. Emeli Sande KITTO Choushinsei 0 0 FLY EYE/COLUMBIA 6 8 NEW 8 WHAT A MUSIC/PARLOPHONE/WARNER AVEX-J-MORE THE NIGHTS Avicii 6 PRMD/ISLAND/REPUBLIC 8 9 HEARTBEAT SONG Kelly Clarkson NEW 9 R.O.S.E. WOOYOUNG (From 2PM) 00 19/RCA UNIVERSAL CRAZY Erika Jayne Feat. Maino 5 CHEERLEADER OMI SASURAI BOJO Kiyoshi Hikawa PRETTY MESS 11 10 NEW 10 e a LOUDER THAN LIFE/ULTRA EPIC 8 it RIGHT NOW Mary J. Blige 13 MATRIARCH/CAPITOL

DJ FAV Joe Bermudez Feat. Amanda Brigham 6 00 617 UNITED KINGDOM 4"P GERMANY RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW Giorgio Moroder Feat. Kylie Minogue 3 ALBUMS COMPILED BY THE OFFICIAL UK CHART CO. ALBUMS COMPILED BY MEDIA CONTROL GRP INTERNATIONAL GMBH GIORGIO MORODER/RCA a LAST THIS TITLE Artist LAST THIS TITLE Artist WEEK WEEK WEEK WEEK 10 14 BEG FOR IT Iggy Azalea Feat. M0 13 IMPRINT/LABEL IMPRINT/LABEL TURN FIRST/HUSTLE GANG/DEF JAM IN MN CHASING YESTERDAY Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds NEW 1 BRANDNEU Wolfgang Petry IF YOU LET ME GO Salt Ashes 6 SOUR MASH NAKLAR!/SONY MUSIC 20 0 RADIKAL IN THE LONELY HOUR Sam Smith 2 FIFTY SHADES OF GREY Soundtrack SPELL Noelia Feat. Timbaland 5 CAPITOL/UNIVERSAL UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC/UNIVERSAL 23 0 PINK STAR X Ed Sheeran NEW 3 HAND.CANNOT.ERASE Steven Wilson FREE PEOPLE Tony Moran Feat. Martha Wash 4 ASYLUM/ATLANTIC/WARNER KSCOPE/SNAPPER/EDEL SUGAR HOUSE/RADIKAL WANTED ON VOYAGE George Ezra NEW 4 OLDSCHOOL Nena COLUMBIA/SONY MUSIC LAUGH+PEAS/ENTERTAINMENT+LIFESTYLE/SONY MUSIC 15 is MOVE Jenevieve X 9 MONITOR SOUND CHASING YESTERDAY ROYAL BLOOD Royal Blood NEW 5 Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds IMPERIAL GALACTIC/BLACK MAMMOTH/WARNER BROS./WARNER SOUR MASH 14 19 UNHOLY Wolfgang Gartner Feat. Bobby Saint 11 KINDERGARTEN NEW 6 PIECE BY PIECE Kelly Clarkson X Ed Sheeran 19/RCA/SONY MUSIC ASYLUM/ATLANTIC/WARNER REAL LOVE Clean Bandit & Jess Glynne 6 0 0 ATLANTIC/RRP 1989 Taylor Swift RETURN TO FOREVER Scorpions 7 BIG MACHINE/VIRGIN/EMI/UNIVERSAL SONY MUSIC TALKING BODY Tove Lo 2 ISLAND/REPUBLIC

010 NEW 8 SWEET SOUL MUSIC The Overtones DAUERND JETZT Herbert Gronemeyer reports a national sample of club DJs. in dance clubs, compiled from from played most popular songs The week’s WARNER GRONLAND/VERTIGO/CAPITOL/UNIVERSAL WISH YOU WERE MINE Philip George 3 3BEAT/ALL AROUND THE WORLD/MOTOWN/CAPITOL 010 9 A PERFECT CONTRADICTION Paloma Faith FARBENSPIEL Helene Fischer RCA/SONY MUSIC POLYDOR/ISLAND/UNIVERSAL 17 23 WHEN THE BEAT DROPS OUT Marlon Roudette 7 MATTER FIXED/COLUMBIA NEW 10 BRAVE The Shires NIVEAU WESHALB WARUM Deichkind

DECCA NASHVILLE/DECCA/UNIVERSAL SULTAN GUNTHER/UNIVERSAL SONGS: CLUB DANCE FIESTA IN SAN JUAN Assia Ahhatt Feat. Wisin 3 0,0 SEIZE THE DAY WHAT I NEED (RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW) Dasco Feat. Justina Maria 4 141 0 PHONETIC/RADIKAL FRANCE CANADA 0 18 26 ALL I FEEL IS YOU Natalia Safran 9 DIGITAL SONGS COMPILED BY NIELSENI MUSIC ALBUMS COMPILED BY NIELSEN MUSIC SUPERSONIC SOUL MACHINE LOVE IS INDEPENDENT LAST THIS TITLE Artist LAST THIS TITLE Artist D.O.N.S. Feat. Polina Griffith 4 WEEK WEEK WEEK WEEK 00 CARRILLO IMPRINT/LABEL IMPRINT/LABEL UPTOWN FUNK! Mark Ronson Feat. Bruno Mars 13 AVENIR Louane FIFTY SHADES OF GREY Soundtrack 21 28 MERCURY UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC/UNIVERSAL RCA

7 UPTOWN FUNK! Mark Ronson Feat. Bruno Mars IN THE LONELY HOUR Sam Smith 25 29 BACK TO YOU Natasha Ashworth COLUMBIA CAPITOL/UNIVERSAL GLOBAL GROOVE

2 EARNED IT (FIFTY SHADES OF GREY) The Weeknd SMOKE + MIRRORS Imagine Dragons ONE HOT MESS Malea UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE/UNIVERSAL 61 0 MALEA ARE YOU WITH ME Lost Frequencies PIECE BY PIECE Kelly Clarkson

WILDJOY Temporary Hero & Jason Walker 2 ARMADA/PLAY-ON 19/RCA/SONY MUSIC 00 ANTICODON FOURFIVESECONDS Hits of the World of Hits Rihanna & Kanye West & Paul McCartney X Ed Sheeran 32 32 TAKE ME TO CHURCH Hozier 5 WESTBURY ROAD/ROC NATION ATLANTIC/WARNER RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA TAKE ME TO CHURCH Hozier 1989 Taylor Swift 19 33 7/11 Beyonce 12 RUBYWORKS/ISLAND BIG MACHINE/UNIVERSAL PARKWOOD/COLUMBIA CHRISTINE Christine And The Queens A PARADIS CITY Jean Leloup DON’T SAY IT Amoray 3 BECAUSE GROSSE BOITE/SELECT 0 0 KNOCKOUT FASHION

2015 SHANIA: STILL THE ONE: LIVE FROM LAS VEGAS LOVE ME LIKE YOU DO Ellie Goulding Shania Twain UNIVERSE Mohombi 2 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC/POLYDOR MERCURY NASHVILLE/UNIVERSAL should be submitted to Bob Allen at [email protected]. nues, managers and booking agents. Boxcsores 00 LA CLIQUE FLASHBACK REWIND SAINT CLAUDE Christine And The Queens IF YOU’RE READING THIS IT’S TOO LATE Drake 35 36 Aneesh Gera & Lisa Williams 9 21 March BECAUSE YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC/UNIVERSAL CARRILLO JE VOLE Louane HOZIER Hozier

AWAKE Eddie Amador Feat. Lisa Williams 2 MARS FILMS/JERICO RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA/SONY MUSIC sic, Inc. All rights reserved. 000 CARRILLO BISCUIT Ivy Levan 1 CHERRYTREE/INTERSCOPE

HOME Naughty Boy Feat. Sam Romans 8 AUSTRALIA MEXICO DEF JAM ALBUMS COMPILED BY ARIA AIRPLAY COMPILED BY NIELSEN MUSIC SPARK THE FIRE Gwen Stefani 7 LAST THIS LAST THIS MAD LOVE/INTERSCOPE TITLE Artist TITLE Artist WEEK WEEK IMPRINT/LABEL WEEK WEEK IMPRINT/LABEL

: The top grossing concerts: The top grossing as reported ve by promoters, AWARE ALIVE AWAKE Sariah 9 REIGNING HEARTS FIFTY SHADES OF GREY Soundtrack 1 UPTOWN FUNK! Mark Ronson Feat. Bruno Mars UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC/UNIVERSAL COLUMBIA/SONY MUSIC HEARTBEAT SONG Kelly Clarkson 1 19/RCA 1989 Taylor Swift 17 2 A LO MEJOR Banda Sinaloense MS de Sergio Lizarraga BIG MACHINE/VIRGIN/EMI/UNIVERSAL REMEX FLY ALONE Breanna Rubio Feat. Fat Joe 9 FAN OF A FAN: THE ALBUM Chris Brown & Tyga SUGAR Maroon 5 UPSCALE/DAUMAN 2 3 RCA/SONY MUSIC 222/INTERSCOPE/UNIVERSAL ALL OF YOU Betty Who 15 IN THE LONELY HOUR Sam Smith 3 DIME Julion Alvarez y Su Norteno Banda RCA CAPITOL/UNIVERSAL 4 FONOVISA/UNIVERSAL LOVE ME HARDER Ariana Grande & The Weeknd 12 PIECE BY PIECE Kelly Clarkson 8 5 THINKING OUT LOUD Ed Sheeran REPUBLIC 19/RCA/SONY MUSIC ATLANTIC/WARNER S.A.X. Laidback Luke & Tujamo 1 X Ed Sheeran 5 6 I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE Sam Smith MIXMASH ASYLUM/ATLANTIC/WARNER CAPITOL/UNIVERSAL GO ALL NIGHT Gorgon City Feat. Jennifer Hudson 15 38 TITLE Meghan Trainor 39 7 EL PERDON Nicky Jam & Enrique Iglesias PRIORITY/CAPITOL EPIC/SONY MUSIC LA INDUSTRIA/SONY MUSIC

1 INTOXICATED Martin Solveig & GTA GREATEST HITS Foo Fighters 9 8 AMORE MIO Thalia SPINNIN’ ROSWELL/RCA/SONY MUSIC SONY MUSIC most popular music outside the U.S. BOXSCORE An overview of the week’s TAKE CARE OF MY HEART Eddie Amador & Ultra Nate 1 SONIC HIGHWAYS (SOUNDTRACK) Foo Fighters 9 QUE TAL SI ERES TU Los Tigres del Norte BLUFIRE/CITRUSONIC STEREOPHONIC ROSWELL/RCA/SONY MUSIC 20 FONOVISA/UNIVERSAL

DROPDATBITCH JimiJames 6 IF YOU’RE READING THIS IT’S TOO LATE Drake 12 10 LO APRENDI DE TI Ha*Ash BOSS ACADEMY/BROWN RIBBON YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC/UNIVERSAL SONY MUSIC HITS OF THE WORLD: See Charts Legend on billboard.com/biz for complete rules and explanations. © 2015, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Mu Global Media, LLC © 2015, Prometheus for complete rules and explanations. See Charts on billboard.com/biz Legend

62 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data Data for week of 03.21.2015 ITALY CONCERT GROSSES ALBUMS COMPILED BY GFK GROSS ARTIST LAST THIS TITLE Artist PER TICKET PRICE(S) VENUE ATTENDANCE PROMOTER WEEK WEEK IMPRINT/LABEL DATE CAPACITY

LORENZO: 2015 CC. Jovanotti 1 $3,776,829 ELECTRIC DAISY CARNIVAL: TIËSTO, DAVID GUETTA, JACK Ü & OTHERS UNIVERSAL (56,483,613 PESOS) AUTÓDROMO HERMANOS RODRÍGUEZ, MEXICO CITY 92,866 INSOMNIAC, OCESA-CIE $240.72/$55.43 FEB. 28-MARCH 1 100,000 TWO DAYS SANREMO GRANDE AMORE (EP) Il Volo COLUMBIA/SONY MUSIC 2 $2,689,090 CHAYANNE (40,220,200 PESOS) AUDITORIO BANAMEX, MONTERREY, MEXICO 26,859 OCESA-CIE TZN: THE BEST OF TIZIANO FERRO Tiziano Ferro $167.13/$33.43 FEB. 19-20, 27-28 27,044 FOUR SHOWS TWO SELLOUTS CAPITOL/UNIVERSAL DOMANI E UN ALTRO FILM: SECONDA PARTE 3 $1,663,940 FLEETWOOD MAC Dear Jack BARAONDA EDIZIONI MUSICALI $179.50/$49.50 FRANK ERWIN CENTER, AUSTIN, TEXAS 13,468 LIVE NATION MARCH 1 13,749 EDC Rules IL BELLO D’ESSER BRUTTI J-AX NEWTOPIA/SONY MUSIC 4 $1,382,695 CHAYANNE (20,700,600 PESOS) AUDITORIO TELMEX, GUADALAJARA, MEXICO 15,330 OCESA-CIE PAROLE IN CIRCOLO Marco Mengoni $166.99/$33.40 FEB. 24-25 16,318 TWO SHOWS In Mexico

RCA/SONY MUSIC 5 $918,064 JOURNEY & STEVE MILLER BAND, TOWER OF POWER The Electric Daisy Carnival, ANDRA TUTTO BENE Nesli $91.50/$51.50 SMOOTHIE KING CENTER, NEW ORLEANS 13,583 BEAVER PRODUCTIONS UNIVERSAL produced in Mexico for MARCH 8 SELLOUT the second consecutive SPLENDE Annalisa WARNER 6 $774,303 DOCTOR WHO SYMPHONIC SPECTACULAR year by EDM festival ($996,478 AUSTRALIAN) PERTH ARENA, PERTH, AUSTRALIA 8,712 ANDREW KAY MANAGEMENT $139.09/$108.01 JAN. 31 11,042 TWO SHOWS promoter Isomniac Events, HITALIA Gianna Nannini Z-MUSIC/RCA/SONY MUSIC takes the No. 1 slot on the 7 $636,528 RASCAL FLATTS weekly Boxscore chart NAIF Malika Ayane $250/$175/ THE JOINT, HARD ROCK HOTEL, LAS VEGAS 6,378 AEG LIVE SUGAR/WARNER $129.50/$39.50 MARCH 4, 6-7 7,965 THREE SHOWS with $3.7 million in ticket 8 $620,777 JOHN MELLENCAMP, CARLENE CARTER sales. Electronic dance $129.50/$42.50 CHICAGO THEATRE, CHICAGO 6,614 AEG LIVE music heavyweights Tiesto, GREECE FEB. 17-18 TWO SELLOUTS David Guetta, Jack 9 $598,258 ROXETTE, BOOM CRASH OPERA U (Skrillex and Diplo), ALBUMS COMPILED BY CYTA ($771,399 AUSTRALIAN) PERTH ARENA, PERTH, AUSTRALIA 8,951 LIVE NATION Dillon Francis, Laidback LAST THIS TITLE Artist $79.61 FEB. 14 9,235 WEEK WEEK Luke, R3hab and a host of MN IMPRINT/LABEL 10 $562,798 BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND other DJs drew more than $87/$67 INTRUST BANK ARENA, WICHITA, KAN. 6,565 LIVE NATION 1 HILIA KALOS ESMIXAME: LIVE Giannis Haroulis 92,000 fans to Autodromo MINOS/EMI/UNIVERSAL FEB. 17 12,095 Hermanos Rodriguez 11 $520,233 MIRANDA LAMBERT, JUSTIN MOORE, SUNNY SWEENEY 2 O ANTHROPOS SOU Giannis Ploutarhos in Mexico’s capital city MINOS/EMI/UNIVERSAL $54.75/$39.75 INTRUST BANK ARENA, WICHITA, KAN. 9,908 LIVE NATION BRIGHT SIDE OF THE ROAD, VOLUME III MARCH 7 10,342 for the two-day event Giorgos Mouchtardis

3 Boxscore (Feb. 28-March 1). FEELGOOD 12 $427,969 JOHN MELLENCAMP, CARLENE CARTER EN LA MAR AY UNA TORRE... $128.50/$42.50 NORTHROP MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM, MINNEAPOLIS 4,557 AEG LIVE The festival featured NEW 4 Horodia Israilitikis Koinotitas Thessalonikis... FEB. 11-12 4,837 TWO SHOWS ONE SELLOUT MINOS/EMI/UNIVERSAL more than 70 artists on 13 $406,227 ERIC CHURCH, DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS four stages. This year’s NEW 5 RETURN TO FOREVER Scorpions SONY MUSIC $61.50/$47/$22.50 FRANK ERWIN CENTER, AUSTIN, TEXAS 9,319 THE MESSINA GROUP/AEG LIVE event easily surpassed MARCH 4 SELLOUT the attendance of 2014’s PHYSICAL GRAFFITI Led Zeppelin

2015 6 SWAN SONG/ATLANTIC/RHINO/WARNER 14 $405,148 JOHN MELLENCAMP, CARLENE CARTER inaugural festival, which $129.50/$39.50 INDIANA UNIVERSITY AUDITORIUM, BLOOMINGTON, IND. 4,604 AEG LIVE logged $2.7 million in box- 7 WALLFLOWER Diana Krall FEB. 3-4 5,570 TWO SHOWS VERVE/EMI/MINOS/UNIVERSAL office sales from 57,099 March 21 21 March 15 $333,981 THE AVETT BROTHERS sold tickets last March. FIFTY SHADES OF GREY Soundtrack $49.50/$39.50 TOWNSHIP AUDITORIUM, COLUMBIA, S.C. 7,197 NS2 8 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC/EMI/MINOS/UNIVERSAL MARCH 5-7 8,508 THREE SHOWS Insomniac’s upcoming 50 APOHROSEIS TOU EROTA Various Artists EDC-branded festivals will 9 1 COBALT $311,200 NICKELBACK, THE PRETTY RECKLESS 1 $80/$25 VAN ANDEL ARENA, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 5,438 LIVE NATION hit the New York, Las Vegas FEB. 24 7,873 RE 10 TA ONIRA GINONTE PALI Haris Alexiou and London markets later HEAVEN MIMI 11 17 $285,321 AZIZ ANSARI this year. EDC New York $55.50/$39.50 VALLEY VIEW CASINO CENTER, SAN DIEGO 5,890 GOLDENVOICE/AEG LIVE will take place at MetLife FEB. 6 6,040 .0 Stadium in East Rutherford, FINLAND 18 $284,484 ALAN JACKSON, JON PARDI, BRANDY CLARK N.J., on May 23 and 24, and O $69.50/$25 GERMAIN ARENA, ESTERO, FLA. 5,159 AEG LIVE the Vegas event will be a DIGITAL SONGS COMPILED BY NIELSEN SOUNDSCAN INTERNATIONAL JAN. 8 5,831 three-day fest during the LAST THIS TITLE Artist 19 $284,098 SAM SMITH, GEORGE EZRA third weekend of June. The WEEK WEEK IMPRINT/LABEL $82/$42 FOX THEATRE, ATLANTA 4,479 LIVE NATION JAN. 9 4,627 National Bowl in Milton 2080-LUVULLA Sanni Keynes, England, will be WARNER 20 $278,144 PAQUITA LA DEL BARRIO, EL DASA LEGEND $200/$25 NOKIA THEATRE L.A. LIVE, LOS ANGELES 4,264 GOLDENVOICE/AEG LIVE the site for EDC United LOVE ME LIKE YOU DO Ellie Goulding FEB. 28 4,318 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC/POLYDOR Bullets indicate titles with Kingdom on July 11. 0 greatest weekly gains. 21 $274,685 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE, THOMAS RHETT, FRANKIE BALLARD Latin star Chayanne ETEEN JA YLOS Elastinen RAHINA ($342,745 CANADIAN) ROGERS K-ROCK CENTRE, KINGSTON, ONTARIO 4,995 LIVE NATION claims two slots in the Album Charts $63.71/$47.69 FEB. 20 SELLOUT top four of the Boxscore LEAN ON Major Lazer X DJ Snake Feat. M0 0 Recording Industry Assn. of MAD DECENT/BECAUSE America (RIAA) certification 22 $256,276 LE SHOW HARLEY: DEE SNIDER, THE DAMN TRUTH, EAGLE TEARS roundup with shows in for physical shipments & ($317,823 CANADIAN) BELL CENTRE, MONTREAL 3,771 EVENKO Mexico, while Fleetwood SAMSARA Tungevaag & Raaban digital downloads of 500,000 $201.59/$32.21 JAN. 24 4,543 TUNGEVAAG/SONY MUSIC albums (Gold). Mac is No. 3 with a date RIAA certification for 23 $256,154 THE O’JAYS, THE WHISPERS, MINT CONDITION from its continuing reunion PETO ON IRTI Antti Tuisku ¡ $99.50/$35 NOKIA THEATRE L.A. LIVE, LOS ANGELES 5,006 GOLDENVOICE/AEG LIVE HELSINKI/WARNER physical shipments & digital tour with Christine McVie. downloads of 1 million JAN. 17 5,734 TAKE ME TO CHURCH Hozier units (Platinum). Numeral —Bob Allen RUBYWORKS/ISLAND noted with Platinum symbol 24 $248,515 SAM SMITH, GEORGE EZRA indicates album’s multi- $85/$45 GRAND OLE OPRY HOUSE, NASHVILLE 4,263 AC ENTERTAINMENT KIITOS EI OLE KIROSANA Haloo Helsinki! JAN. 10 SELLOUT RATAS platinum level. ™ RIAA certification for ALL DAY 25 $240,930 AMY SCHUMER Kanye West Feat. Theophilus London, Allan Kingdom & Paul McCartney physical shipments & digital $45 MOHEGAN SUN ARENA, UNCASVILLE, CONN. 5,354 IN-HOUSE G.O.O.D./ROC-A-FELLA/DEF JAM downloads of 10 million DEC. 31 7,192 units (Diamond). Numeral VIIMEISEN KERRAN Mikael Gabriel Feat. Diandra noted with Diamond symbol 26 $239,535 TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND UNIVERSAL indicates album’s multi- $65/$35 RYMAN AUDITORIUM, NASHVILLE 4,427 NS2, SHERPA CONCERTS, platinum level. FEB. 12-13 TWO SELLOUTS SQUARE PEG CONCERTS ) Latin albums certification for physical shipments & digital 27 $237,101 ANDRÉ RIEU downloads of 50,000 units (€200,775) ARENA TRIER, TRIER, GERMANY 2,850 ANDRÉ RIEU PRODUCTIONS, RTK BELGIUM (Oro). $89.75/$70.86 JAN. 10 4,015 ROLAND TEMME KONZERTS I Latin albums certification for DIGITAL SONGS COMPILED BY NIELSEN SOUNDSCAN INTERNATIONAL ¢ physical shipments & digital 28 $236,818 JOHN MELLENCAMP, CARLENE CARTER LAST THIS downloads of 100,000 units $129.50/$42 LOUISVILLE PALACE, LOUISVILLE, KY. 2,534 AEG LIVE TITLE Artist JAN. 23 SELLOUT WEEK WEEK IMPRINT/LABEL (Platino). Numeral noted with Platinum symbol indicates 29 $235,681 AZIZ ANSARI CHEERLEADER OMI album’s multi-platinum level. LOUDER THAN LIFE/ULTRA $49.50/$29.50 SLEEP TRAIN ARENA, SACRAMENTO, CALIF. 6,300 GOLDENVOICE/AEG LIVE FEB. 7 SELLOUT YOU’RE MINE Digital Songs Charts Raving George Feat. Oscar And The Wolf DEBONAIR/PIAS 0 RIAA certification for 500,000 30 $232,650 TONY BENNETT, ANTONIA BENNETT paid downloads (Gold). $175/$65 ADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER, KNIGHT CONCERT HALL, MIAMI 1,830 IN-HOUSE CHRISTINE Christine And The Queens ¡ RIAA certification for 1 million FEB. 13 1,843 BECAUSE paid downloads (Platinum). Numeral noted with platinum 31 $230,683 DAVE KOZ & FRIENDS CHRISTMAS TOUR UPTOWN FUNK! Mark Ronson Feat. Bruno Mars $95/$50 CERRITOS CENTER, CERRITOS, CALIF. 2,873 IN-HOUSE COLUMBIA symbol indicates song’s multiplatinum level. DEC. 19-20 3,432 TWO SHOWS LOVE ME LIKE YOU DO Ellie Goulding UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC/POLYDOR 32 $226,194 CHET FAKER, ROLAND TINGS, GL Awards ($294,029 AUSTRALIAN) HORDERN PAVILION, SYDNEY 5,375 FRONTIER TOURING CO. PS (PaceSetter for largest % $48.70 WILD EYES Broiler Feat. RAVVEL FEB. 13 SELLOUT SKY MUSIC/SMASH THE HOUSE album sales gain) GG (Greatest Gainer for largest BANAAN [BIGGER BETTER ANTHEM] 33 $224,910 HARRY CONNICK JR. Jebroer Feat. Stepherd & Skinto & Jayh volume gain) $99.50/$39.50 LOUISVILLE PALACE, LOUISVILLE, KY. 2,592 NS2 NOUVEAU RICHE/BIP DG (Digital Sales Gainer) FEB. 28 SELLOUT AG (Airplay Gainer) FIRESTONE Kygo Feat. Conrad SG (Streaming Gainer) $224,517 JOHN MELLENCAMP, CARLENE CARTER ULTRA/RCA 34 $128.50/$42.50 MORRIS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, SOUTH BEND, IND. 2,469 AEG LIVE JAN. 21 SELLOUT RUNAWAY (U & I) Galantis Publishing song index available BIG BEAT/ATLANTIC on billboard.com/biz. 35 $224,153 KENNY ROGERS A SIMPLE LIFE Stan Van Samang ($282,526 AUSTRALIAN) ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE, NEWCASTLE, AUSTRALIA 2,224 ROCK CITY, BLUEHAWK CNR Visit billboard.com/biz for $157.89/$70.61 JAN. 28 4,303 complete rules and explanations.

Data for week of 03.21.2015 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data 63 CODA “Tortured Man” (with The Dust Brothers), 18 Years Ago which now serve, respectively, as his radio show’s opening and closing theme songs. In 2005, Stern left terrestrial radio HOWARD STERN WAS THE to join what is now SiriusXM satellite radio. Its initial 400,000 subscribers KING OF MOST MEDIA have since grown to more than 27 million, In March 1997, the shock jock’s Private Parts topped both in large part because of his appeal, and in the U.S. movie box office and the Billboard 200 2010, Stern re-signed with SiriusXM for an estimated $80 million per year. In his BY 1997, RADIO REBEL HOWARD STERN, (and $41.2 million to date, according to most family-friendly turn yet, he became then 43, was already the self-proclaimed Box Offi ce Mojo). Its dominance quickly a judge on NBC’s America’s Got Talent “King of All Media.” Paramount Pictures’ extended to the Billboard 200, as the TV competition in 2012 for a reported release of Pri vate Parts, a biopic in which movie’s soundtrack debuted at No. 1 on $15 million a season. he starred, made the boast closer to the chart dated March 15, 1997. It sold Stern’s contract with SiriusXM ex pires the truth and pushed Stern from pop 178,000 copies in week one and 562,000 at the end of 2015, but in 2014 he told culture’s fringe to its mainstream. to date, according to Nielsen Music. Billboard, “There’s no reason to [leave]. Based on Stern’s best-selling 1993 The album includes AC/DC, Cheap This is my dream. I feel like we’ve memoir , Private Parts fi nished atop the Trick and Van Halen, along with Stern’s created a new home for broadcasters. U.S. box offi ce in its opening weekend, performances of “The Great American I’m doing radio the way I wanted to as a March 7-9, 1997, earning $14.6 million Nightmare” (with Rob Zombie) and little kid.” —GARY TRUST

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