Bulletin YOUR DAILY ENTERTAINMENT NEWS UPDATE JUNE 15, 2020 Page 1 of 39 INSIDE Lil Baby’s ‘My Turn’ Album • Revealed: Returns to No. 1 on Billboard 200 Billboard’s 2020 Indie Power Players Chart After Three Months • Twitch Users Are BY KEITH CAULFIELD Getting Takedown Notices En Masse for the First Time: Lil Baby’s My Turn returns to No. 1 on the Billboard notched its third and final week atop the list, when it Here’s Why 200 albums chart after three months, as the set rises rose from No. 3 to No. 1 with 62,000 units. from No. 3 with 65,000 equivalent album units earned My Turn climbs back to No. 1 thanks in part to its • Virgin EMI Boss (up 5 percent) in the U.S. in the week ending June 11, steady performance since its debut, and because of a Ted Cockle Exits the Universal according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. It’s the second lack of big new albums being released on June 5. How UK Label week at No. 1 for the album, following its debut atop the sparse was the June 5 release schedule? No albums chart dated March 14. The album then spent the next debut inside the top 40 of the new chart. • Maria Egan 13 straight weeks lodged in the top six positions of the My Turn’s 13-week wait to return to No. 1 marks Joins Splice as Chief Music Officer chart, between the charts dated March 21 and June 13. the longest gap between weeks at No. 1 for an album Following Pulse Exit The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular since Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric soundtrack took a 17-week hiatus from the top slot • Grammys First- consumption as measured in equivalent album units. between its first three weeks at No. 1 (Oct. 20, Oct. 27 Look: The Most- Likely Big Four Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums and Nov. 3, 2018) and its fourth and final week at No. Contenders (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The 1 (March 9, 2019). The album scored its fourth week new June 20-dated chart (where My Turn comes at No. 1 in the wake of the film’s showcase on the 2019 • 2020 BET Awards: back to No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard’s Academy Awards, where the soundtrack’s Oscar- Drake, Megan Thee Stallion & website on June 16. winning song “Shallow” was performed by Gaga and Roddy Ricch Lead With My Turn collecting 65,000 units for the week Cooper. Nominees, CBS at No. 1, it tallies the smallest sum for a No. 1 album Back on the new Billboard 200, Lady Gaga’s Chro- Airing Show For in over a year. The last time the No. 1 posted a smaller matica slips from No. 1 to No. 2 in its second week, First Time frame was on the June 8, 2019-dated list, when Billie with 64,000 equivalent album units (down 77 percent Eilish’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (continued) Page 3 of 39 IN BRIEF from its opener of 274,000). defined as independent by their ownership Two more former No. 1s follow at Nos. Revealed: through entities other than the three major 3 and 4, as Gunna’s Wunna rises 4-3 with music groups. Distributors, regardless of a little more than 39,000 equivalent album Billboard’s 2020 their corporate ownership, qualify as inde- units (down 20 percent) and Future’s High pendent through the repertoire they market. Off Life climbs 5-4 with 39,000 units (down Indie Power Many in the indie music industry will 11 percent). convene online June 15-18 for the American Drake’s Dark Lane Demo Tapes shifts 6-5 Players Association of Independent Music’s first with nearly 39,000 units (down 6 percent). virtual Indie Music Week and the Libera DaBaby’s former chart-topper Blame It BY BILLBOARD STAFF Awards, which will conclude A2IM’s confer- on Baby rises 9-6 with 38,500 equivalent ence. Ahead of Indie Music Week, Billboard album units (down 1 percent), Polo G’s The uring the past year, independent recognizes the successes of those thriving Goat is steady at No. 7 with 37,000 (down music executives have faced on their own maverick terms. 10 percent) and Post Malone’s former No. chaos in physical sales chan- Patrick Amory, 54 1 Hollywood’s Bleeding rebounds 12-8 with nels, questions about how data Co-owner/president, Matador Records 36,000 units (up 1 percent). Dflows from social media platforms, disap- Gerard Cosloy, 55 Two previous leaders close out the new pearing brick-and-mortar stores and other Co-founder/co-owner, Matador Records top 10, as Lil Uzi Vert’s Eternal Atake as- challenges. Then the coronavirus pandemic Chris Lombardi, 53 cends 13-9 with just over 35,000 equivalent struck, followed by the worst social unrest Co-Founder/co-owner, Matador Records album units (down less than 1 percent) and the United States has seen in a generation. In the past year, Matador renewed deals The Weeknd’s After Hours is up 11-10 with In response, the indie music community with three of its signature acts — Pavement, 35,000 units (down 3 percent). has shown the strength of its autonomy. Spoon and Interpol — and expanded its re- Music associations and companies profiled lationships with each to include worldwide here stepped up to help amid the economic rights for their catalogs. “This was our pri- hit of the pandemic. On June 2, multiple mary mission for the year,” says Lombardi, labels and distributors participated in Black- “and we accomplished it.” out Tuesday to support the fight for racial How He Works Now: “We’re finding new justice. ways to [market] albums from King Krule, Indie labels and artists account for nearly Car Seat Headrest, Perfume Genius and one-third of the global music market, and, Muzz without promo trips, TV appearances, according to research by MIDiA, they’ve etcetera. We’re discussing ways to care for achieved a faster rate of streaming growth our bands that have lost income streams on Spotify in 2019 than the majors. during this crisis.” - Lombardi For Indie Power Players, labels are Noah Assad, 30 Page 5 of 39 IN BRIEF CEO, Rimas Entertainment creatively and operationally,” he says. “Our and Anuel AA’s label its name. “Topping Assad’s marquee artist Bad Bunny made results are our boss.” Among the major the charts is something I dreamed of as a history when his YHLQMDLG, released on results over the past year: Lady Antebellum child, and it’s what excites Emmanuel and Rimas, scored the highest debut for an all- scoring its first No. 1 in five-plus years on me above all else,” says Carrión. In May, Spanish-language album on the Billboard Country Airplay with the trio’s debut release Anuel AA’s Emmanuel, featuring collabora- 200, entering the chart at No. 2, just behind for the label, “What If I Never Get Over tions with Travis Barker, Lil Wayne, Enrique Lil Baby’s My Turn. “Had we released it on You”; Thomas Rhett earning his 15th No. 1 Iglesias and Tego Calderón, debuted at No. 8 Friday instead of [Saturday] Feb. 29, it would on that chart; and Tim McGraw reuniting on The Billboard 200. have been No. 1,” says Assad. (Bad Bunny with Big Machine Records. Advice for a Young Indie Artist: “Be- insisted on the leap day release.) Rimas now How They’re Working Now: After the come good friends with lawyers and learn has over 100 artists, producers and song- pandemic started, the Big Machine Vodka the law every day. In this business, you have writers, including Arcangel, Lyanno and distillery division converted its operations to be half artist and half businessman.” Tito El Bambino. to make hand sanitizer, which the company Margi Cheske How He Works Now: “You just have to donated to first responders. President, Fantasy Records/Concord figure out ways to keep releasing music. Ken Bunt John Strohm Now I’m home all the time. I get to play President, Disney Music Group President, Rounder Records/Concord with my daughter every day. That’s the bad David Abdo Andy Serrao and the good.” Senior vp global business operations and President/chief talent officer, Fearless Bang Si-Hyuk, 47 distribution, Disney Music Group Records/Concord CEO/executive producer, Big Hit Enter- Karen Lieberman Sig Sigworth tainment VP sales and digital, Disney Music Group Chief catalog executive, Concord; president, Multiplatinum albums, a global stadium Chip McLean Craft Recordings/Concord tour, an army of fans — BTS has achieved it Senior vp/head of business affairs and de- Tanya Tucker’s double win at the 2020 all with Bang’s independent Big Hit Enter- velopment/gm, Disney Concerts Worldwide/ Grammys for her Fantasy album, While I’m tainment. The K-pop supergroup’s Map of Disney Music Group Livin’, as well as wins by another half- the Soul: 7 debuted atop the Billboard 200 The record company that shows how non- dozen Concord artists highlight the critical in March, two months after BTS performed major ownership, rather than size, defines and commercial success of the company’s — in Korean — at the 62nd annual Grammy independence (it’s a division of the Walt recorded-music division. The results reflect Awards, an evening Bang called “truly Disney Company), Disney Music Group Concord’s “significant acquisitions and astonishing.” Big Hit reports $507.9 million kept the music playing during the pandemic integrations across our recorded-music, in revenue in 2019, a 95% increase over its through such global branded playlists as publishing and theatrical companies,” says (as yet unaudited) 2018 numbers, and Bang Disney Hits, Disney Piano and Best of Star Sigworth, plus its ability to develop new tal- is now expanding beyond music.