Billboard Magazine

Billboard Magazine

13 22 Marley’s Legend hits No. 5 on the Billboard 200 dated Sept. 20 — his highest peak on the chart. THIIDPIPLUKADH° DOME@ OUP One Direction NUMBERS: ONE DIRECTION’S FREE ‘FIREPROOF’ On Sept. 8, One Direction announced the release of its fourth album, Four (due Nov. 17 on Columbia Records), by making its free new song, “Fireproof,” available on its website for only 24 hours. The group’s always-fervent fans went nuts, stirring big social gains for the pop quintet. Columbia says that 1.1 million downloads were generated worldwide. It’s unusual for an A-list act to give away a track in this way, so there @PP 40 LS, '@@@Er MAU are few comparables, though sources say iTunes’ free single of the week averages around 300,000 U.S. downloads in a week. Twitter reports there were 1.7 million tweets about “Fireproof” on Sept. 8 through 6 p.m. At its peak, the song generated 5,369 tweets per minute, driving it to No. 1 on the real-time Billboard Twitter Trending 140 chart, which it topped for eight hours. TOMORROW’S HITS ‘UNBREAKABLE’ BREAKS OUT OFF TO A ‘GOOD’ START Scott After scaling pop and rock charts Native Run ( Rachel Beauregard in 2012 with Graffiti6 (now on and Bryan Dawley) is bubbling hiatus), British singer-songwriter under Country Airplay with its Jamie Scott parlays co-writing debut single, “Good on You” (Show There were 1.5 million mentions credits on One Direction’s chart- Dog-Universal). The Virginia duo of One Direction on Twitter (up topping Midnight Memories into first met while singing in the 220 percent) in the week ending his solo single “Unbreakable,” same church, then began writing Sept. 8, according to Next Big Sound. which has more than 150,000 clicks and performing together in The group’s traction on Facebook also across numerous YouTube clips. The coffeehouses in the Northeast. increased, with 260,000 new likes 30-year-old will release his U.S. The pair is working with Grammy- registered (up 26 percent). solo debut album, My Hurricane, winning writer-producer Luke Laird —KEITH CAULFIELD Oct. 7. on Virgin/Capitol. (Kacey Musgraves, Blake Shelton). 80 BILLBOARD | SEPTEMBER 20, 2014.

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