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Billboard Magazine

Dec 05 2020
Magazine

Written for music industry professionals and fans. Contents provide news, reviews and statistics for all genres of music, including radio play, music video, related internet activity and retail updates.

‘Life Goes On’ Launches As Historic No. 1

Billboard

Tough Tickets • Ticketmaster’s vaccine verification system uses some of the same technology as its anti-scalping software. What does that mean for the secondary market?

MARKET WATCH

Rainy Days And Money • MAKING IT THROUGH THE PANDEMIC REQUIRES MORE THAN SOUND STRATEGY — IT ALSO TAKES DEEP POCKETS

Social Media With Chinese Characteristics • China offers plenty of opportunity for Western artists — if they can adapt to the country’s unique online ecosystem

IHEART’S CUTS • COVID-19 has hurt advertising, but the radio giant also faces long-term issues

Livestream Aid • Charities with close ties to the music business are moving their big events online — and thriving

Where Does Viagogo Go From Here? • U.K. competition authority raises doubts about the company’s big-ticket deal to buy StubHub, which it could be forced to sell

SHE’LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS • How the legendary Darlene Love adapted her annual holiday tour at a time when people need it most

VERY MERRY STREAMS • Of 2020’s many already-released holiday songs, these four quickly surpassed the 1 million mark in total on-demand, year-to-date streams, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data.

Good For The ‘Soul’ • Why Jon Batiste feels he has been practicing his whole life to compose for Disney Pixar’s most thought-provoking film to date

Arlo Parks

Paris Jackson

“ILY (I LOVE YOU BABY)”

ALI TAMPOSI • SONGWRITER

KELVYN BOY

WOMAN OF THE YEAR Cardi B • Whether mobilizing voters, raising up fellow women artists or praising the power of “WAP,” her unapologetic voice resonated far and wide when the world needed it most

Jennifer Lopez

Chloe x Halle

Dua Lipa • Amid a pandemic, the pop dynamo took the world to the dancefloor and reimagined the album campaign — all just part of her plan for “global domination”

Jessie Reyez

Dolly Parton

Brianna Agyemang & Jamila Thomas CO-FOUNDERS, #THESHOWMUSTBEPAUSED • Putting the industry on notice for one day, they started a movement with lasting impact that has led the way in “trailblazing a new path for our generation”

Billboard’s Women In Music Hall Of Fame • Chosen by Billboard as first among their peers in prior years, these former Executive of the Year honorees reflect on the achievements, activism and unprecedented challenges of 2020

Getting Better All The Time… • …OR IS IT? SIX EXECUTIVES ON SIGNS OF GENDER EQUITY PROGRESS — AND WHAT THE INDUSTRY STILL NEEDS TO FIX

Farm Aid’s Backstage Force • WHY WILLIE NELSON CALLS CAROLYN MUGAR ‘THE BRAINS’ BEHIND HIS CHARITABLE CONCERT’S DECADESLONG SUCCESS

Interscope’s Year Of Chart — Toppers — And Influence

Raised In Space’s Problem Solver • SHARA SENDEROFF FINDS SOLUTIONS THROUGH TECH INVESTMENTS

The A&R Equation • WOMEN ARE FINALLY RISING TO THE TOP OF THE RANKS. IT’S STILL AN UPHILL CLIMB

Stayin’ Alive • HOW THE UNITED KINGDOM’S LEADING LIVE-SECTOR GENDER-EQUITY INITIATIVES ARE COPING AMID A PANDEMIC

IFPI’s Global Master • FRANCES MOORE LEADS THE TRADE GROUP THROUGH EXPANSION DESPITE A PANDEMIC

She Is The Music Stays The Course

BTS, Mendes & Bieber Make ‘Monster’ Starts

Carey’s ‘Christmas’ Classic Keeps At No. 1

BILLBOARD ARTIST 100

EMERGING ARTISTS

BILLBOARD 200

ALBUM SALES

SOCIAL/STREAMING

SONGWRITERS &...


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Frequency: Monthly Pages: 132 Publisher: Penske Media Corporation Edition: Dec 05 2020

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Written for music industry professionals and fans. Contents provide news, reviews and statistics for all genres of music, including radio play, music video, related internet activity and retail updates.

‘Life Goes On’ Launches As Historic No. 1

Billboard

Tough Tickets • Ticketmaster’s vaccine verification system uses some of the same technology as its anti-scalping software. What does that mean for the secondary market?

MARKET WATCH

Rainy Days And Money • MAKING IT THROUGH THE PANDEMIC REQUIRES MORE THAN SOUND STRATEGY — IT ALSO TAKES DEEP POCKETS

Social Media With Chinese Characteristics • China offers plenty of opportunity for Western artists — if they can adapt to the country’s unique online ecosystem

IHEART’S CUTS • COVID-19 has hurt advertising, but the radio giant also faces long-term issues

Livestream Aid • Charities with close ties to the music business are moving their big events online — and thriving

Where Does Viagogo Go From Here? • U.K. competition authority raises doubts about the company’s big-ticket deal to buy StubHub, which it could be forced to sell

SHE’LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS • How the legendary Darlene Love adapted her annual holiday tour at a time when people need it most

VERY MERRY STREAMS • Of 2020’s many already-released holiday songs, these four quickly surpassed the 1 million mark in total on-demand, year-to-date streams, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data.

Good For The ‘Soul’ • Why Jon Batiste feels he has been practicing his whole life to compose for Disney Pixar’s most thought-provoking film to date

Arlo Parks

Paris Jackson

“ILY (I LOVE YOU BABY)”

ALI TAMPOSI • SONGWRITER

KELVYN BOY

WOMAN OF THE YEAR Cardi B • Whether mobilizing voters, raising up fellow women artists or praising the power of “WAP,” her unapologetic voice resonated far and wide when the world needed it most

Jennifer Lopez

Chloe x Halle

Dua Lipa • Amid a pandemic, the pop dynamo took the world to the dancefloor and reimagined the album campaign — all just part of her plan for “global domination”

Jessie Reyez

Dolly Parton

Brianna Agyemang & Jamila Thomas CO-FOUNDERS, #THESHOWMUSTBEPAUSED • Putting the industry on notice for one day, they started a movement with lasting impact that has led the way in “trailblazing a new path for our generation”

Billboard’s Women In Music Hall Of Fame • Chosen by Billboard as first among their peers in prior years, these former Executive of the Year honorees reflect on the achievements, activism and unprecedented challenges of 2020

Getting Better All The Time… • …OR IS IT? SIX EXECUTIVES ON SIGNS OF GENDER EQUITY PROGRESS — AND WHAT THE INDUSTRY STILL NEEDS TO FIX

Farm Aid’s Backstage Force • WHY WILLIE NELSON CALLS CAROLYN MUGAR ‘THE BRAINS’ BEHIND HIS CHARITABLE CONCERT’S DECADESLONG SUCCESS

Interscope’s Year Of Chart — Toppers — And Influence

Raised In Space’s Problem Solver • SHARA SENDEROFF FINDS SOLUTIONS THROUGH TECH INVESTMENTS

The A&R Equation • WOMEN ARE FINALLY RISING TO THE TOP OF THE RANKS. IT’S STILL AN UPHILL CLIMB

Stayin’ Alive • HOW THE UNITED KINGDOM’S LEADING LIVE-SECTOR GENDER-EQUITY INITIATIVES ARE COPING AMID A PANDEMIC

IFPI’s Global Master • FRANCES MOORE LEADS THE TRADE GROUP THROUGH EXPANSION DESPITE A PANDEMIC

She Is The Music Stays The Course

BTS, Mendes & Bieber Make ‘Monster’ Starts

Carey’s ‘Christmas’ Classic Keeps At No. 1

BILLBOARD ARTIST 100

EMERGING ARTISTS

BILLBOARD 200

ALBUM SALES

SOCIAL/STREAMING

SONGWRITERS &...


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