Billboard 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.

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Proof Of Concept: BTS Debuts Atop Billboard 200

MACCA’S BILLIONS • WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM THE BIGGEST TOUR OF MAY, PAUL McCARTNEY SURPASSES $1 BILLION IN TOTAL REPORTED CAREER GROSSES

Songwriting Cannot Remain The Same • As the hits-driven streaming economy whittles away at tunesmiths’ royalties, their managers are getting creative to get them paid

Are Big Minifests Better? • Live Nation and AEG are battling for dominance in Los Angeles and Las Vegas over niche lineups that do big ticket sales

From The Desk Of… Brian Volk-Weiss • FOUNDER/CEO, COMEDY DYNAMICS

Stephen Stills Loves The One He’s With • The rock pioneer and founding member of Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills & Nash, among other groups, has partnered with Irving Azoff’s Iconic Artists Group to open his music vault to both longtime fans and the streaming generation

PLAYING FOR PEACE • How Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra turned its Eurovision-winning track into an anti-war anthem

Larger Than Life • ODESZA hopes its most ambitious live show to date will deliver its hard-to-describe dance tunes to the masses

BEHIND THE HIT • Bailey Zimmerman’s “Fall in Love”

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Eyes On The Prize • For Jimmie Allen, stardom didn’t come fast or easy. But with the laser focus he brings to all his passions (even bowling), he has become a one-man industry — and he’s not slowing down

Marion Kraft • With longtime superstar client Miranda Lambert, she has built ShopKeeper Management from the ground up — and suppport ed a new generation of women executives in Nashville along the way

Katie McCartney • GM • Monument Records

COUNTRY POWER PLAYERS 2022

Louis Messina • President/CEO • Messina Touring Group

ASHANTI BEGINS A NEW CHAPTER • On the 20th anniversary of her self-titled debut, Ashanti is busy rerecording it — and taking ownership of her future: “I love what Taylor Swift did”

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