Billboard Magazine

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A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

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Harry’s Pent-‘House’: Styles Soars In At No. 1 On Billboard 200

Bad Bunny’s Breakout Year • The first half of 2022 shows how the concert business is becoming younger and more diverse

The Trouble With TikTok Teasers • With labels increasingly trying out unreleased songs on the platform, producers, songwriters and even artists say it’s bad for business

Will Price Hikes Scratch Vinyl? • Supply chain problems and rising costs continue to plague pressing plants, labels and retailers — but CDs may be a stopgap

T-Shirt Tipping Point • Merch tables are booming with added revenue — and tension

COPYRIGHT WARS HEAT UP IN CHINA • Streaming service NetEase Cloud Music sues rival Tencent Music Entertainment for unfair competition. TME fires back with allegations of its own

Shav ‘prettyboyshav’ Garg • CEO, INDIFY

In Good Time • In an age of ephemeral pop success, Isaac Dunbar wanted to avoid the rush — and made a major label wait for him

BEHIND THE HIT • “Why Am I Like This?”

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ALLY PANKIW • WRITER-DIRECTOR

THE PROJECTS

Saucy Santana

Good FOR Business • Brandi Carlile bulit a thriving career by melding activism with her art — and she’s determined to leave the industry, and the world she lives in, better than she found it

Music’s Next Queer Game Changers • Meet the fearless creators forging exciting new paths for LGBTQ+ musicians now — and busting through genre lines as they do

Anthony Roth Costanzo • Is Pushing Opera Outside The Box

Dove Cameron • Is Making A Pop — And Personal — Breakthrough

Doechii • Is Bringing Femme-Forward Rhymes To TDE

Tokischa • Is Taking Filter-Free Dembow Far And Wide

Joy Oladokun • Is Writing Her Own Story

MUNA • Is Embracing Indie Empowerment

2022 INDIE POWER PLAYERS • Across every genre, these are the executives at labels and distributors driving the success of the independent music industry, commanding nearly one-quarter of the U.S. recorded-music market

A2IM’S LIBERA AWARDS GO LIVE AGAIN • After two years of virtual shows, the multigenre honors for the independent music community return in pers on, with Japanese Breakfast leading the field of nominees

EM BEIHOLD • How the singer-songwriter’s temporary low led to the high of a breakout hit