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Up-and-coming rapper Sexyy Red shares how she started rapping, the success of her song “Pound Town” and collaborating with Nicki Minaj, going on tour with Drake, hiding her pregnancy while on tour, all the viral success she’s had in the last year and more for Billboard’s future of hip-hop cover. Sexyy RedThey be callin’ me […]
Republic Records has a big week in the Billboard 200 albums chart’s top 10, as the label is home to a whopping eight of the top 10 titles on the list dated Jan. 13. Since Luminate’s electronically monitored music data began powering the chart on May 25, 1991, no label had previously held eight of […]
Odetari and 6arelyhuman talk about their biggest music influences, going viral and finding success on TikTok, how they started working and collaborating together, the future of EDM and more. OdetariDo we feel like we’re underground? I don’t know. The numbers are… 6arelyhumanNot really… OdetariKinda not underground. 6arelyhumanI really started experimenting with a lot of different […]
With climate change having an increasing effect on the music industry, Billboard is partnering with the Music Sustainability Alliance to help foster impactful solutions to this urgent issue.
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Billboard will be the official media partner of the inaugural Music Sustainability Summit, happening Feb. 5 at the USC Campus in Los Angeles. Produced by the Music Sustainability Alliance, the event marks the first music industry climate summit in North America.
“Billboard is delighted to be partnering with the Music Sustainability Alliance to amplify their essential work in educating the music industry about climate action,” says Billboard‘s Chief Brand Officer Dana Droppo. “Dedicating our attention to environmentalism is an investment in future generations of fans and artists alike, and we can’t wait witness the exchange of ideas at this inaugural Summit.”
The Music Sustainability Alliance provides science-based solutions, business case analyses, best practices, and tools for operational change across the music industry. Tickets for the Summit — running 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. — are available on a sliding scale between $25 and $200 and are available now.
“The MSA is thrilled to partner with Billboard to advance meaningful climate action in the music industry,” adds Music Sustainability Alliance President and Co-founder Amy Morrison. “With the support of Billboard, The Summit will become an annual gathering of the tribes, bringing together the MSA team, our diverse group of stakeholders and new advocates.”
The Summit will feature speakers including Lindsay Arell, head of sustainability at ASM, Maggie Baird the founder of Support + Feed, John Fernandez, the director of the Environmental Solutions Initiative at MIT, Adam Gardner, the co-founder and Co-Director of REVERB (and also the guitarist and vocalist for Guster), Garrett Keraga, the senior manager of sustainability, policy & advisory at ClimeCo, Cassie Lee, the CEO of Sound Future, Michael Martin, the CEO and founder of r.World & Effect Partners, Amy Morrison, the president & co-founder of the the Music Sustainability Alliance, Lesley Olenik the vice president of touring at Live Nation and Jake Perry, the director of operations at C3 Presents. See the complete program here.
D4vd reveals five things you didn’t know about him to Billboard! D4vd:Hey everybody, I’m D4vd, and here are five things you may not know about me. D4vd:No. 1: I trained in gymnastics and parkour for six years of my life. I was on a professional — not professional — but I was on a gymnastics […]
Lady A chats with Billboard and shares what artists or songs are on each of their playlists.
Charles Kelley:What’s up, everybody? We are …
Lady A:Lady A …
Hillary Scott:… and this is our playlist.
Dave Haywood:Charles’ road-trip playlist would be Keane and Mindy Smith.
Hillary Scott:Oh, Mindy Smith.
Charles Kelley:Old school, I like it. Keane.
Hillary Scott:Dave’s would be The Eagles.
Charles Kelley:Hillary’s is going to be like old school, like *NSYNC.
Dave Haywood:*NYSNC.
Hillary Scott:Yup, boy bands forever.
Charles Kelley:Boyz II Men.
Hillary Scott:Yes!
Charles Kelley:Maybe throw in a little … what was the thing we were you geeking out on the other day? Craig David.
Hillary Scott:Oh, Craig David. I love Craig David.
Charles Kelley:I love Craig David.
Hillary Scott:Late ’90s, early 2000s R&B or boy bands — that is my go-to on a road trip.
Charles Kelley:“The booty man can …” That’s a deep-cut Craig David there.
My workout playlists I will say varies. It kind of depends on what mood I’m in. I either do, like, Rival Sons, which is kind of this new, really hard rock band. I say “new” — they’ve been out for a little while. Even when I’m, like, lifting hard, I still like chill music, whether it’s like a, you know, soft Coldplay, or something in that world. You know, Mindy Smith.
Hillary Scott:If I’m in a real girlboss mood, it’ll be, like, Beyoncé. And then sometimes, I’ll go, like, Jonas Brothers. I think sometimes tempo … it’s all about the tempo when you’re working out, whether it’s when you’re lifting or you’re running. And then sometimes, it’s the music that is going to help me get out of bed and actually do the workout.Watch the full interview above!
Lola Brooke reveals five things you didn’t know about her to Billboard!
Lola Brooke:Hey! What’s good, ya’ll? It’s your girl, Lola Brooke, and here are five things that you may not know about me.
One of the things I feel people don’t know about me, I love love. I’m a lover girl. I’m very affectionate. I might be loud, but that’s just because my heart is really big, so and I’m small, so I want you to hear me when I’m, like, going crazy, but I love love. I’m a lover girl.
I love to eat. I’m a full girl, but I just don’t gain weight. I don’t know why — it’s in the genes. The abs be sitting. No, I don’t go to the gym. I just work in the studio a lot, but it works out for me, I guess.
I know how to draw. I doodle a lot. If you put a pen and paper on the desk and it’s near me, I’m gonna pick it up, write my name or something, draw just anything that comes to mind.
Oh, fun fact for sure. Another thing about me people don’t know: I love makeup, but I’m not a heavy makeup-wearing type of girl. I like to wear wife beaters, sweats, sneakers, a good gloss, lip liner, maybe some lashes, good brows and call it a day. But you know, Billboard asked me to come through, so I had to, like, put on a little, little something something, look cute for them.
I know when people see me outside and at the spot doing the things that I like to do, they think that I like to do the things that I like to do, but I really like to be home. It’s really hard to tell that I don’t like to go outside because when I go outside, I just can’t help but to bring energy and make everyone laugh and smile. But I like to be home for real, for real. But make sure you invite me, because if you don’t invite me, then I’m gonna be in my feelings and I’m like, I’m not gonna … I’m not jacking that. You got to invite me out even if I don’t want to go, OK? But yeah, I’m a homebody.
And those are five things that you may not know about me.Watch the full video above!
Billboard caught up with a few of your favorite celebs to find out if they had any New Year’s resolutions for 2024.
Jared Leto:Stop making resolutions because we all know you never do them. No, I think I actually like it in a weird way.
Coco Jones:My New Year’s resolution is balance. I don’t want to feel like I’m chasing this fleeting dream. If I have confidence that everything will always be there, then I can be better balanced.
Mckenna Grace:To be the best version of myself.
Ludacris:Put out some more music in 2024. Bam.
Landon Barker:I want to start running. I want to start running every day, 30 minutes a day. I don’t understand why I can’t because I know I can.
Iann Dior:Yeah, I’m actually starting to get into the gym, so I’m gonna try to stick with it actually this year and just really focusing on my health.
Jeannie Mai:To really just take things one day at a time.
BIA:Work out way more. I’ve been working out a lot more so I love the way it’s making me feel.
Fridayy:Tour coming soon. I got a few tours coming soon. And I’m working on my new album so for sure.
Rania Aniftos:Yeah, no shortage of Fridayy in 2024.
Fridayy:Facts. Facts.
Shameik Moore:To be the best version of myself and inspire the world to be its best version of itself, you know, do my part.
Paul Russell:I want to eat healthier, honestly, like I’ve been on the road now. And so I’m always in these random towns, and I just go to whatever’s next to me and I just, you know, I gotta… I can’t.
Harry Jowsey:Learn how to dance.
Rania Aniftos:Okay, okay, that’s a good one to know now after Dancing With The Stars.
Harry Jowsey:Yeah, after the show’s done.
Lele Pons:Trying to figure out… Me and my husband are trying to – we might have one. I might be pregnant actually. Me and my husband are trying to talk about it so you never know.
Rania Aniftos:You never know. That’s what we’re hoping for in 2024, Baby Lele.
Lele Pons:He would kill me but it’s gonna happen.
Rania Aniftos:Alright, fingers crossed.
In the 2023 calendar year, 765 songs appeared on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, by a total of 385 different artists.
Of those 385 acts, 99 achieved their first career entries on the chart in 2023. Billboard has been celebrating all these Hot 100 First-Timers throughout the year, highlighting their first appearances, explaining how they achieved their first entries, and sharing their reactions to the news.
For many of 2023’s 99 Hot 100 first-timers, their first entries led to repeat visits. Peso Pluma, for instance, logged his first Hot 100 hit in February with “AMG,” with Gabito Ballesteros and Natanael Cano. He charted 22 additional songs during the year since then, including the No. 4-peaking “Ella Baila Sola” with Eslabon Armado – the first top 10 and highest-charting regional Mexican song in history. His 23 entries in 2023 mark the second-most among all core Latin-music artists this year, after Bad Bunny’s 28, and the eighth-most among all acts.
Ice Spice also earned her first Hot 100-charting hit in 2023, when “Gangsta Boo” debuted at No. 82, also in February. She charted six additional songs in 2023, including four top 10s: her featured turn on Taylor Swift’s “Karma” (No. 2 peak); “Boy’s a Liar, Pt. 2,” with fellow 2023 first-timer PinkPantheress (No. 3); “Princess Diana,” with Nicki Minaj (No. 4); and “Barbie World,” with Minaj and Aqua (No. 7).
Two 2023 first-timers hold the distinction of attaining not just their first Hot 100 entries, but also their first No. 1s. BTS’ Jimin posted his first solo title on the chart in January, with his feature on TAEYANG’s “Vibe,” and three months later, he banked his first solo No. 1 with “Like Crazy.” Before those solo hits, though, he tallied six No. 1s as a member of BTS. Additionally, Oliver Anthony Music’s first appearance on the chart was at No. 1, when his surprise viral hit “Rich Men North of Richmond” bounded in on top, making him the first artist to debut at No. 1 on the Hot 100 with no prior chart history.
Other notable names who visited the Hot 100 for the first time in 2023 include: best new artist Grammy nominee Noah Kahan, rising K-pop groups NewJeans, FIFTY FIFTY and Stray Kids, and multi-talented actors Jack Black, Dave Chappelle, Lily-Rose Depp, and the Kenergetic Ryan Gosling.
Kahan is one of five acts up for best new artist that made their first Hot 100 visits during the year, along with Ice Spice (“Gangsta Boo”), Gracie Abrams (“Everywhere, Everything” with Kahan), Coco Jones (“ICU”) and The War and Treaty (“Hey Driver” with Zach Bryan). As for the other three best new artist nominees: Victoria Monét earned her first entry in 2019 with her Ariana Grande collaboration, “Monopoly,” but she notched her second entry, and first solo unaccompanied hit, in September with “On My Mama”; Jelly Roll arrived on the chart for the first time in July 2022 with “Son of a Sinner,” but tallied three additional entries in 2023, including his highest-charting hit “Need A Favor” (No. 13); and Fred Again hasn’t yet reached the Hot 100, but has charted 18 tracks on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs.
In chronological order below, here’s a roundup of every artist that earned their first Hot 100 hit in 2023 (encompassing the charts dated Jan. 7-Dec. 30, 2023).
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Conan O’Brien has already had plenty of success in his career, but now he has one more reason to celebrate: he’s officially a Billboard-charting artist for the first time.
His new limited-edition vinyl release Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend: Quinquennial Celebration debuts at No. 3 on the latest Comedy Albums chart (dated Dec. 30) with 1,000 copies sold in the U.S. in the Dec. 15-21 tracking week, according to Luminate, becoming his first-ever Billboard chart entry.
The album is a compendium to his hit podcast Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend. The collection was curated by O’Brien and his trusty co-hosts Matt Gourley and Sona Movsesian in honor of the podcast’s fifth anniversary. According to a press release, the set finds the trio “reflecting on the last five years of recording their hit podcast,” including never-before-heard backstories and original comedy surprises.
SiriusXM, which acquired the podcast and the Team Coco digital media business in May, announced the news of the release on Nov. 7. “This is a historic achievement — listening to a podcast on vinyl will tear a hole in the hipster spacetime continuum,” O’Brien said in a statement. The project was produced by SiriusXM’s Team Coco in collaboration with New England-based comic/music retailer Newbury Comics.
O’Brien launched his Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast in November 2018 after retiring from his Conan late-night show on TBS. In addition to chatting with callers from around the globe on the spin-off Conan O’Brien Needs a Fan, the show has featured a wide variety of guests, including Will Ferrell, Malcolm Gladwell, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Barack and Michelle Obama, Adam Sandler, David Sedaris, Bruce Springsteen, Howard Stern and Neil Young, plus a recent special-event interview with former Nirvana bandmates Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic.
O’Brien, a four-time Primetime Emmy Award winner, hosted NBC’s Late Night With Conan O’Brien from 1993-2009 and The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien from 2009-10. Before that, the Brookline, Mass., native was a writer for Saturday Night Live and The Simpsons.
O’Brien isn’t the first late-night host to chart a song or album on BIllboard. Jimmy Fallon’s Blow Your Pants Off spent three weeks at No. 1 on Comedy Albums in 2012. His album The Bathroom Wall also reached No. 47 on the Billboard 200 in 2002, while his song “Ew!” featuring will.i.am peaked at No. 26 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2014 — his new holiday song with Meghan Trainor, “Wrap Me Up” also rises to No. 2 on the current Adult Contemporary chart (dated Dec. 30). Craig Ferguson has charted two entries on Comedy Albums: A Wee Bit O’ Revolution (No. 6 peak in 2009) and I’m Here To Help (No. 6, 2013). Jimmy Kimmel reached No. 27 on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and No. 83 on the Holiday 100 in 2014, thanks to his featured appearance on the Killers’ holiday song “Joel the Lump of Coal.” Trevor Noah’s African American LP peaked at No. 6 on Comedy Albums in 2015. Arsenio Hall — as alter ego Chunky A — hit No. 26 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and No. 77 on the Hot 100 in 1989 with his novelty rap track “Owww!” His comedy rap album Large and in Charge also reached No. 71 on the Billboard 200 in 1990. And Steve Allen, the inaugural host of The Tonight Show in 1954-57, charted on the Hot 100 in 1963 with his song “Gravy Waltz” (No. 64 peak).