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IMS IBIZA MAY 20-22 HARD ROCK HOTEL IBIZA IMS ASIA-PACIFI DECEMBER 9-10 W SINGAPORE-SENTOSA COVE 0 D INTERNATIONALMUSICSUMMIT IMSIBIZA INTERNATIONALMUSICSUMMIT.COM IMS WAS CREATED BY BEN TURNER, DANNY WHITTLE, MARK NETTO, PETE TONG AND SIMEON FRIEND 131coneet- Dj HOTELS - WORLDWIDE 'piaAINTER' I/ C us 4 r.- 2! Ir piDocium 10 Weeks At No. 1: ‘Uptown Funk!’ CHRIS FLOYD Stays ‘Too Hot’ ARK RONSON’S BRUNO MARS-FEATURING smash “Uptown Funk!” hits hallowed ground on the Billboard Hot 100: The retro-R&B collaboration tops the chart for a 10th week, joining an exclusive Mclub of historic hits. “Uptown Funk!” is just the 29th Hot 100 No. 1 to rule for at least 10 weeks. If 29 seems like a high number, remember: that’s out of 1,041 leaders dating to the chart’s 1958 debut. In other words, only 3 percent of all Hot 100 No. 1s, now including “Funk!,” have logged such reigns. The record? Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men’s “One Sweet Day” led LC and Nielsen Music, Inc.LC All rights reserved. for 16 frames in 1995 and 1996. “Funk!” once again blocks Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud,” which has been stuck at No. 2 behind Ronson and Mars for eight weeks. But “Loud” earns an impressive consolation: crowning both the Mainstream Top 40 and Adult Contemporary airplay charts and returning for a fourth week at No. 1 on Adult Top 40. It’s only the fourth song in the nearly 20 years that the three radio-based charts have co- existed to have led all three simultaneously. The others: Celine Dion’s “Because You Loved Me,” for five weeks in 1996;Adele ’s “Rolling in the Deep” (for two in 2011); and Sam Smith’s “Stay With Me” (Sept. 6, 2014). —GARY TRUST om/biz for complete rules and explanations. © 2015, Prometheus Global Media, L © 2015, Prometheus om/biz for complete rules and explanations. Title CERTIFICATION Artist 2 Weeks Ago Last Week This Week PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL Peak Position Weeks On Chart . #1 Uptown Funk! Mark Ronson Feat. Bruno Mars 10 WKS M.RONSON,J.BHASKER,BRUNO MARS (BRUNO MARS, 117 P.LAWRENCE II,M.RONSON,J.BHASKER,D.GALLASPY,N.WILLIAMS) RCA sic, sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music and streaming activity data by online music sources tracked by Nielsen Music. tracked sic, activity data by online music sources sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music and streaming CNI the first time. See Charts on billboard.c Legend Thinking Out Loud Ed Sheeran 222 J.GOSLING (E.C.SHEERAN,A.WADGE) ATLANTIC 0 Sugar Maroon 5 38 AMMO,CIRKUT (A.LEVINE,J.COLEMAN,L.GOTTWALD, JAHMAL HOUSE,M.POSNER,H.R.WALTER) 222/INTERSCOPE 0 AG Love Me Like You Do Ellie Goulding MAX MARTIN,A.PAYAMI (MAX MARTIN, UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/ 39 S.KOTECHA,I.SALMANZADEH,A.PAYAMI,T.LO) REPUBLIC/INTERSCOPE 0 FourFiveSeconds Rihanna & Kanye West & Paul McCartney 47 K.WEST,P.MCCARTNEY,M.DEAN (K.O.WEST,P.MCCARTNEY,K.DOCKERY, WESTBURY ROAD/ songs receiving widespread airplay and/or sales activity for and/or airplay widespread songs receiving M.G.DEAN,T.GRIFFIN JR,D.LONGSTRETH,D.L.AUSTIN,E.RUTBERG,N.GOLDSTEIN) ROC NATION ed by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen Mu as measured audience impressions airplay ed by radio /..--',, , 0 Style 0 Taylor Swift 613 MAX MARTIN,SHELLBACK (T.SWIFT,MAX MARTIN,SHELLBACK,A.PAYAMI) BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC I 0 0c Earned It (Fifty Shades Of Grey) The Weeknd 711 S.MOCCIO,J.QUENNEVILLE (A.TESFAYE, S.MOCCIO,J.QUENNEVILLE,A.BALSHE) UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC in co Take Me To Church 3 Hozier 230 A.HOZIER-BYRNE (A.HOZIER-BYRNE) RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA Songs are defined as current if they are newly-released titles, or newly-released if they are defined as current Songs are The week’s most popular current songs across all genres, rank all genres, songs across most popular current The week’s Time Of Our Lives Pitbull & Ne-Yo 913 DR. LUKE,CIRKUT (A.C.PEREZ,L.GOTTWALD, Ronson S.TAFT,H.R.WALTER,A.BURNA,S.C.SMITH) MR. 305/POLO GROUNDS/RCA joins an Disno; :asimu elite club ...._ on the Blank Space 5 Taylor Swift 119 Hot 100. MAX MARTIN,SHELLBACK (T.SWIFT,MAX MARTIN,SHELLBACK) BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC SALES, AIRPLAY & STREAMING & STREAMING SALES, AIRPLAY BY COMPILED DATA MARCH 21, 2015 | WWW.BILLBOARD.COM 1 Billboard Hot 100 Title CERTIFICATION Artist From left: Sean 2 Weeks Ago Last Week This Week PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL Peak Position Weeks On Chart Waugaman, Petricca, Kevin Ray and Eli Maiman Heartbeat Song Kelly Clarkson 2 1 8 of Walk the Moon. G.KURSTIN ( K.DIOGUARDI,J.EVIGAN,A.MAE,M.ALLAN ) 19/RCA 000 0 0 00 One Last Time Ariana Grande 2 2 4 NOT LISTED ( NOT LISTED ) REPUBLIC ¡ Feat. Drake, Lil 00 0 0 00 Only Nicki Minaj Wayne & Chris Brown 1 2 1 9 DR. LUKE,CIRKUT,JMIKE ( O.T.MARAJ,A.GRAHAM,D.CARTER, YOUNG MONEY/CASH J.M.COLEMAN,L.GOTTWALD,T.THOMAS,T.THOMAS,H.R.WALTER ) MONEY/REPUBLIC 6 Shake It Off Taylor Swift 1 2 9 MAX MARTIN,SHELLBACK ( T.SWIFT,MAX MARTIN,SHELLBACK ) BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC WALK THE MOON: RCA RECORDS. JEPSEN: RANDY HOLMES/ABC. FLO RIDA: COPPOLA/NBCU MIKE BANK/GETTYALEX KIRZHNER. SWIFT: PHOTO IMAGES. MINAJ: STEPHEN LOVEKIN/BUD LIGHT/GETTY IMAGES. Chains Nick Jonas 2 5 6 J.EVIGAN ( J.EVIGAN,A.MALIK, D.PARKER,D.FERGUSON, JR ) SAFEHOUSE/ISLAND/REPUBLIC All About That Bass 6 Meghan Trainor 1 3 5 K.KADISH ( M.TRAINOR,K.KADISH ) EPIC Ayo Chris Brown & Tyga 2 5 9 NIC NAC,M.L.KRAGEN ( C.M.BROWN,M.R.NGUYEN- STEVENSON,N.BALDING,M.L.KRAGEN,J.JACKSON ) RCA 2 Jealous Nick Jonas 7 2 6 SIR NOLAN ( N.JONAS, SAFEHOUSE/ N.LAMBROZA,S.WILCOX ) ISLAND/REPUBLIC WALK THE ¡ MOON I Don’t F**k With You Big Sean Feat. E-40 1 1 2 4 36 Shut Up 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 and Dance SG Blessings Big Sean Feat. Drake 3 0 5 VINYLZ,A.RITTER ( S.M.ANDERSON, A.HERNANDEZ,A.RITTER,A.GRAHAM ) G.O.O.D./DEF JAM Take Your Time Sam Hunt 3 1 1 0 The lyrical references in “Shut Up and People of our generation are scared to Z.CROWELL,S.MCANALLY ( S.HUNT, J.OSBORNE,S.MCANALLY ) MCA NASHVILLE and Nielsen Music, Inc.LC All rights reserved. Dance” are very specific. Were they express ourselves. We’re stuck on our Prayer In C Lillywood & Robin Schulz 2 3 1 4 inspired by a particular person or memory? phones communicating with people on the R.SCHULZ,P.GUIMARD CHOKE INDUSTRY/TONSPIEL/ ( N.HADIDA,B.COTTO ) CINQ 7/WARGRAM/ATLANTIC/RRP NICHOLAS PETRICCA We were in Los Angeles, other side of the world, but find it hard to rip 0 0 0 00 0 0 wi 0 (7, 0 trying to write songs, and I was stuck. For a hold a conversation with people across the Stay With Me 4 Sam Smith 2 4 8 J.NAPES,S.FITZMAURICE,R.JERKINS ( S.SMITH,J.NAPIER,W.PHILLIPSNa ) CAPITOL N, Obreather I went out with my girlfriend to the table. It’s about getting out of your head.O 01 ND O 0 0 0 0 0 ¡ Echo; they have this awesome party where Ghost Ella Henderson 2 1 1 9 R.B.TEDDER,N.ZANCANELLA they play Motown and funk. We were at the You guys are based in Cincinnati. How’s ( E.HENDERSON,R.B.TEDDER,N.ZANCANELLA ) SYCO/COLUMBIA 0 bar, and it was taking forever to get a drink. the music scene there? 7/11 Beyonce 1 3 1 5 B.KNOWLES,B.JOHNSON,DETAIL,S.SWIFTa I was frustrated becausea there was great It’s great — a lot of weird music. We rehearse ( B.JOHNSON,N.C.FISHER,B.KNOWLES ) PARKWOOD/COLUMBIA music playing and I wanted to be out there. in a Masonic lodge in Kentucky across the Shut Up And Dance WALK THE MOON 3 6 1 7 T.PAGNOTTA ( N.PETRICCA,E.MAIMAN,K.RAY, She was like, “Shut up and dance with me!” river. 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