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I’m not crying, you’re crying. In the case of Celine Dion and Kelly Clarkson, both things can be true. On Tuesday (Oct. 8) Dion posted a tear-stained video of her reaction to Clarkson’s moving Kellyoke cover of Celine’s iconic 1997 Titanic ballad “My Heart Will Go On” on the singer’s daytime talk show last month.
“I just saw you singing ‘My Heart Will Go On,’ and I’m crying again,” the Canadian star said in the clip where she was seen wiping away tears. “You were absolutely incredible, fantastic. I loved it so much. I hope we can see each other in person soon.”
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“So, I got this video sent to me and and it all flooded… I was working with Jason [Halbert] my musical director here at the show… we were actually doing stuff for Kellyokes, and all of a sudden I get this thing from my manager and I cried,” Clarkson said while describing her reaction to Dion’s high praise in a two-minute video posted Tuesday night from what looks like her dressing room.
“Because it was Celine Dion saying that she saw my performance and she knows my name,” Clarkson, 42, explained with a beaming cat-swallowed-the-canary smile while casually swinging her arms and throwing an aw shucks look up at the ceiling. “So that’s cool.” Clarkson then rolled the Dion video and said that it blew her away, adding that there was one thing in particular that made the compliment extra special.
“Twenty-two years ago on American Idol I got laryngitis,” the OG Idol winner recalled, noting that everyone got sick at the time and despite her vocal struggles she had to take the stage to belt Dion’s equally challenging 2002 ballad “I Surrender All.”
“I bawled that night because I’m just mortified that Celine Dion is going to see this performance,” Clarkson, who was 19 at the time, said of her impressive take on the song, delivered while wearing an asymmetrical, one-strap black dress and bejeweled choker. “I could have cared less about votes at that point. I just didn’t want to see Celine Dion see or hear this because it was so bad, because I was so sick.”
Cut to 22 years later, and Clarkson said she finally got the Celine performance she’d always wanted. “And I felt like I sang it all right, you know?” she said. “I got to honor someone who is such a hero to me, vocally, like she is one of my main inspirations of why I’m a singer.” Clarkson said she’ll probably watch the video over-and-over, while also not-so-low-key, inviting Dion to come visit her on her show. “Like, I can quit now in life,” she gushed about checking off the ultimate career bucket list item.
Along with the video posted on X, Clarkson wrote, “@celinedion you have no idea how much you even noticing my existence means to me! Thank you so much for being such an amazing example of true passion and being one of the greatest vocalists of all time that I am still, to this day, inspired by [heart emoji].”
Check out Clarkson’s video below.
.@celinedion you have no idea how much you even noticing my existence means to me! Thank you so much for being such an amazing example of true passion and being one of the greatest vocalists of all time that I am still, to this day, inspired by ❤️ pic.twitter.com/tAqJVkN9JU— Kelly Clarkson 🍷💔☀️ (@kellyclarkson) October 9, 2024
By now you surely have heard or read stories about how Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff are huge vinyl nerds. The Democratic presidential candidate and Second Gentleman have made a habit of popping into local record stores to pick up records in the midst of the harried campaign season. But on Howard Stern’s SiriusXM radio show on Tuesday (Oct. 8), Harris opened up a bit more about her musical obsessions, beginning the chat with a touching story about how she and Emhoff reacted to the news that Prince died back in April 2016.
Stern opened the special afternoon interview by playing his favorite Prince album — the 1989 Batman soundtrack — cueing up “Batdance” because he said he was aware Harris was a big fan of the late singer. Though Stern was adamant the Purple One’s 11th studio album — which sat at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart for six weeks — was his finest work, Harris adamantly, and politely, disagreed.
“No, 1999 I thought was spectacular, you can go back to his early days. Him on the guitar, there was just nothing like it,” said Harris, who also stopped by The View and The Late Show on Tuesday as part of an intensified media schedule in the final month of her still too-close-to-call race with convicted felon former President Donald Trump.
“Even you look at Bruno Mars today, who’s just been influenced by Prince,” she said, before sharing the anecdote about how she and Emhoff honored the “Purple Rain” star after they heard about his death from an accidental fentanyl overdose at age 57. “The night he passed Doug and I were in L.A. and actually just — he and I have very different musical tastes… [he’s into] Depeche Mode, that’s him, I grew up kind of hip-hop — but Prince is the one intersection where we both love and we just played Prince all night long. We dance, we sang his songs, that was our little tribute.”
The hour-long interview, the longest sit-down Harris has done since becoming the surprise, 11th-hour Democratic candidate following President Biden’s unprecedented decision to step down from running for a second term back in July, touched on a number of salient political topics as well. Harris said she was incensed at reports in a new book by legendary political reporter Bob Woodward that Trump sent hard-to-get COVID testing machines to his friend Russian dictator Vladimir Putin in the midst of the pandemic, adding that she thinks the twice impeached Trump is getting played by his autocratic friends.
“I grew up in the neighborhood,” Harris told Stern. “Some would say you’re getting punked if you stand in favor of somebody who’s an adversary over your friends on principles that we all agree on.” While she declined to say who she would put in her cabinet if elected on Nov. 5 when Stern predicted that it would likely include former Wyoming-congresswoman-turned-Trump-antagonist Republican Liz Cheney — who is voting for Harris, along with her father, former VP Dick Cheney — Harris said, “I gotta win, Howard. I gotta win. I gotta win. And listen, but the thing about Liz Cheney, let me just say, she’s remarkable.”
In addition to revealing her obsession with Formula One racing and Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton in particular, and calling Trump a “loser” several times, the friendly chat ended with Harris’ recollection of attending U2’s mind-bending opening run at Las Vegas’ Sphere.
“Oh my God have you been to the Sphere?,” Harris excitedly asked Stern when he mentioned that she was spotted at one of the U2 shows there in January. “Let me just say basically everyone should go in with a clear head,” she laughed after Stern, who wore a three-piece black suit for the in-studio chat, said he was freaked out by the reports of the overwhelming visuals that he feared were “too much.”
“Like don’t be high,” Stern said. “Correct,” Harris responded with one of her signature belly laughs. “Because it’s a lot. Like there’s a lot of visual stimulation… I love U2 and actually it was a surprise for Doug.”
Watch Harris talk U2 and Sphere below.
This Thanksgiving is about to get a whole lot more musical. Republic Records and Verve Records announced on Wednesday (Oct. 8) that Wicked: The Soundtrack, which accompanies the upcoming film, will be released on Nov. 22. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The soundtrack, which features music and […]
Charli XCX could not have planned it better if she tried. After more than 15 years of writing and producing hit songs, the “360” singer was so convinced that fans were not going to like her Brat album that she purposely pinched pennies on the now-iconic cover art in order to shift funds to photo shoots and other promotional efforts.
“Where the actual first idea of doing a text cover came from was to save money,” Charli told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe by way of explaining how the lime green blurry imagery came to be. “I was like, ‘This album is not going to appeal to a lot of people.’” Thinking it didn’t make sense to do an elaborate cover shoot, but instead maybe spend money elsewhere, Charli decided to make the cover as basic as possible, never thinking it would become so influential that fashion houses would cop the color and style for their collections.
“I was like, ‘I think I will do a press shoot and then maybe we just save on the album cover,’” she told Lowe, noting that her manager, creative director and friends all though the lower case cover text was “the stupidest idea ever,” begging her “no! Not the text cover!” Charli being Charli, that only made her more adamant about seeing her vision through, which began with her mocking up the idea on her phone.
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“This actually is really good. It actually feels like it very much embodies the word ‘brat’ to kind of not be there because that is sort of less of the norm, I suppose, for female artists,” she said. “That felt punchy. The pixilation makes it looks like it’s kind of been done in this rush… you didn’t get the proper hi-res file… I knew it would generate this conversation. I knew that a lot of people would be sort of frustrated or disappointed by it. And I think for me, it’s like I would rather have those conversations, which actually in some cases became quite explosive, than a picture where people are like, ‘She looks good.’”
As for the shade, Charli said she and her team went round-and-round on the proper tint, wanting to go for the one that the most people in her inner circle had “the most adverse reaction to.” For the record, manager Brandon Creed weighed in with, “this is really hard to look at,” which made Charli think that she’d definitely nailed the “perfect” shade.
When Lowe described how “obsessed” people have become with the brat visual aesthetic, to the point that some have said she “claimed a color,” the singer laughed. Charli said she was at home when she came up with the concept, thinking that she’d been pictured on the covers of all her albums up to that point — except for her 2016 EP Vroom Vroom. “Actually it kind of punctuates the pattering in quite a nice way, but also, like, handy because it’s going to be a lower spend,” she said. Plus, she’s really enjoyed watching her fans writing think pieces about the cover and the marketing of the project.
The left-field idea has clearly worked, as Charli’s album spawned “Brat Summer,” as well as catching the eye of presidential hopeful Vice President Kamala Harris, who also copped the aesthetic for her social media feeds after the singer proclaimed “kamala IS brat.” She will double-down on success on the upcoming Brat and It’s Completely Different but Also Still Brat (Oct. 11) which features remixes with Robyn, Yung Lean, Ariana Grande, Troye Sivan, Lorde, Tinashe, Billie Eilish and many more.
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Warning: This story contains mentions of suicide.
Lisa Marie Presley was so overcome with grief following the death of her son Benjamin Keough that she kept his body packed in dry ice in her home for two months. According to NBC, the shocking revelation is included in the new memoir, From Here to the Great Unknown, which daughter, Daisy Jones & the Six star Riley Keough, completed after her mother’s death at 54 in January 2023.
“My mom had my brother in the house with us instead of keeping him at the morgue,” Keough wrote in the book. “They told us that if we could tend to the body, we could have him at home, so she kept him in our house for a while on dry ice.”
Keough said that it was important for her mother — the only child of late rock legend Elvis Presley — to have proper time to say goodbye to her son, who died by suicide in 2020. “The same way she’d done with her dad. And I would go and sit there with him,” she said, noting that California doesn’t have any laws that mandate exactly when a body needs to be buried or disposed of. Keough used archival tapes of her mother’s memories to help finish the book.
“My house has a separate casitas bedroom, and I kept Ben Ben in there for two months,” according to Presley, who had begun working on the memoir before her death; Presley died of a small bowel obstruction caused by complications from prior weight loss surgery. “There is no law in the state of California that you have to bury someone immediately. I found a very empathic funeral home owner,” Presley wrote. “I told her that having my dad in the house after he died was incredibly helpful because I could go and spend time with him and talk to him. She said, ‘We’ll bring Ben Ben [her nickname for her son] to you. You can have him there.’”
She added, “I think it would scare the living f—ing p-ss out of anybody else to have their son there like that. But not me.” Lisa Marie was nine-years-old when Elvis died in 1977.
The room where Benjamin’s body was reportedly kept at 55 degrees and Presley and Keough got tattoos that matched Benjamin’s from an artist who came to their home. When asked if they had any photos of the piece they wanted to replicate, Lisa Marie told him, “no, but I can show you,” referring to ink Benjamin had on his collarbone with Keough’s name and another on his hand with Presley’s name; the mother and daughter got Benjamin’s name tattooed on the matching parts of their bodies.
Even by the unusual rules that the Presley’s lived by, Keough said the tattoo incident was one of the most bizarre ones she’d experienced. “Lisa Marie Presley had just asked this poor man to look at the body of her dead son, which happened to be right next to us in the casitas. I’ve had an extremely absurd life, but this moment is in the top five,” she wrote.
Shortly after that, one of Keough’s brothers made it clear he didn’t want the body in the home anymore and Keough, channeling her late sibling, imagined how he might have observed the scene. “‘Guys,’ he seemed to be saying, ‘this is getting weird.’ Even my mom said that she could feel him talking to her, saying, ‘This is insane, Mom, what are you doing? What the f—!,’” Keough said.
According to People, the book details how the family held a funeral service for Benjamin in Malibu and Keough placed a pair of her yellow Nikes that her brother had always loved in the casket. In a previous interview with People prior to the book’s release, Keough revealed, “My mom physically died from the after effects of her surgery, but we all knew she died of a broken heart.”
Both Presley and her son are buried at Graceland, where Elvis is also interred.
Now that we know Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan are both eligible for best new artist at the 2025 Grammy Awards, who will win? Well, on the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are taking a closer look at the hotly contested Big Four category, thanks to Billboard awards editor Paul Grein’s breakdown […]
Justin Timberlake was scheduled to bring his Forget Tomorrow World Tour to New Jersey’s Prudential Center on Tuesday night (Oct. 8). However, shortly before doors at the venue were scheduled to open, the star took to Instagram to announce that the show has been postponed. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest […]
When Olivia Rodrigo floated over the heads of more than 50,000 concertgoers on a crescent-moon lift, suspended from the rafters at Philippine Arena, she couldn’t help but get a little bit choked up.
“Someday I’ll be everything to somebody else,” she sang, her voice wavering as she pushed through the final lines of Sour‘s “Enough for You.”
For the fans in the crowd witnessing her deeply meaningful first-ever performance in the Philippines, the 21-year-old pop star — who is half Filipina — was certainly more than enough. In addition to making the Oct. 5 concert a Silver Star Show, allowing everyone in attendance to purchase seats for less than $30 in U.S. currency, Rodrigo also donated all the net ticket proceeds to Jhpiego, a charity with global reach providing life-saving care to combat cervical cancer, malaria, HIV, complications from pregnancy and childbirth, and more conditions. Plus, the three-time Grammy winner visited the organization’s office in Manila to discuss women’s health and reproductive rights, both of which Rodrigo has championed throughout 2024 with her own Fund 4 Good.
The entire thing was thanks in large part to a crucial partnership between Rodrigo and American Express, which has been working with the “Vampire” musician throughout her eight-month Guts World Tour. Before the run kicked off in February, the bank holding company facilitated the run’s Early Access ticket sale online and, ahead of the Sept. 8 release of Rodrigo’s Billboard 200-topping sophomore LP Guts, sponsored an album-themed pop-up for fans to explore in New York City.
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“We’ve had an incredible year working with Olivia to provide special access and moments to our Card Members,” reflects American Express’ Shiz Suzuki, vp of global brand sponsorships and experiential marketing, in a statement to Billboard. “Now we get to back her as she visits the Philippines for the first time where she has deep family roots, performs for her community and films content of her experience as a Filipina American in Manila to share with her fans worldwide.”
With only a handful of Guts dates left on her schedule and the Philippines concert in the books, Rodrigo has learned a lot since embarking on her first-ever arena tour this year. Below, the star opens up about her time abroad, life on the road, new music and more in a brief conversation with Billboard via email:
This is your first-ever concert in the Philippines. How is that milestone particularly special to you as a Filipino-American musician?
I’m so excited to be teaming up with American Express to bring the GUTS World Tour to Manila. This is such a special milestone for me to not only be visiting the Philippines for the first time but performing here for my fans. As part of this tour, I’ve had the chance to visit so many cool places I’ve never been before and play songs that I’ve been living with for so long, and the energy from the fans has been magical. I’m so proud of my Filipino heritage, so being able to bring this experience to the Philippines means the world to me.
In addition to making your Philippines stop a Silver Star show, you previously implemented Silver Star sales in North America. Why is it important to you to give fans a chance to see you for affordable prices?
It brings me so much joy to perform in front of my fans. We sing, we scream and we dance. I wanted to make this a Silver Star show in honor of my first time visiting the Philippines. All the net ticket sales from the show will go to my Fund 4 Good to help support Jhpiego and the incredible work they’re doing for reproductive healthcare in the Philippines. It’s been a dream to partner with American Express to help make this show possible.
Have you been writing songs while on the road? I know you haven’t even finished the tour yet, but can you give any hints about what your next album/new music will be like?
Writing songs is really therapeutic for me, so I’m always noodling around making stuff even when I’m not in the studio making an album. I’m definitely going to take a little vacation after this tour though! I’m trying not to put too much pressure on anything right now.
I saw you perform at Madison Square Garden in April and was so impressed. I also couldn’t stop thinking about how overwhelming it must be at 21 to have all those people – fellow performers, crew, venue workers, fans – be there just for you. What’s it like to lead such a massive enterprise, and what have you done to stay sane throughout the Guts Tour?
It’s overwhelming — in the best way — to work with such a large, incredible crew and put shows on every night in front of big audiences. Everyone’s energy is really inspiring and makes me want to bring my all every night. That being said, sometimes it can get very overstimulating. I’ve learned so much about how to take care of myself by being on the road. You have to prioritize rest and sleep and alone time, otherwise you start to go a little crazy.
What have you learned on the Guts Tour that you want to apply to your next tour down the line? Is there anything you’ll do differently?
The Guts World Tour was my first-ever arena tour and I learned so much, not only about performing and taking care of myself, but about being a part of a team. It was so much fun to have a little traveling tour family for so many months and I’m going to miss everyone dearly. The only thing I can think to do differently next time is to not overpack. My luggage is bursting at the seams!
It’s twice as nice for Chappell Roan as she charts her first two entries on Billboard’s Pop Airplay ranking in the top 10 simultaneously. “Good Luck, Babe!,” which became her first No. 1, leading the Sept. 21-dated list, places at No. 5 on the Oct. 12-dated chart, while “Hot to Go!” jumps three spots to No. 9.
Both songs were released on KRA/Amusement/Island Records and are being promoted to radio by Republic. The Pop Airplay chart ranks songs by weekly plays on over 150 mainstream top 40 radio stations monitored by Mediabase, with data provided to Billboard by Luminate.
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Roan becomes the first artist to lodge two initial Pop Airplay chart entries in the top 10 at the same time since Iggy Azalea just more than a decade ago. For 11 weeks in June-August 2014, the rapper’s breakthrough singles, both of which hit No. 1, ranked in the top 10 together: “Fancy,” featuring Charli XCX, and Ariana Grande’s “Problem,” featuring Azalea.
No artist until Roan had charted two maiden Pop Airplay hits in lead roles on both songs in the top 10 together since Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. For two weeks in May 2013, their “Thrift Shop,” featuring Wanz, and “Can’t Hold Us,” featuring Ray Dalton, spared space in the tier.
The last artist before Roan to boast two first Pop Airplay hits without any other billed acts in the top 10 simultaneously? Avril Lavigne, 22 years ago, for five weeks in September-October 2002 with “Complicated” and “Sk8er Boi.”
The only other acts to chart two initial Pop Airplay hits without any guests in the top 10 simultaneously did so in the mid-1990s (following the survey’s 1992 start): Hootie & The Blowfish, Real McCoy and Ace of Base.
To date, Alpha Media-owned KBFF Portland, Ore., leads all Pop Airplay reporters with more than 2,000 plays of “Good Luck, Babe!” Bonneville International’s KMVQ San Francisco ranks first with nearly 1,000 spins for “Hot to Go!”
Across genres, a new crop of producers has broken out in recent years (some as recently as this past one). Some have quickly established themselves as go-to hit-makers; others are talented newbies who’ve just gotten their first tastes of success. But regardless of experience level, these producers — selected based on their histories on the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard’s Hot 100 producers chart, along with placements on other charts — are helping to define music’s future.
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Young but already established hit-makers, their big Hot 100 breakthroughs occurred within the past five years
Rob Bisel
The primary producer on SZA’s SOS, he’s charted 13 songs on the Hot 100 (12 by SZA, including “Kill Bill”); he’s also engineered big hits by Doja Cat, Harry Styles, Kendrick Lamar and Tyler, The Creator.
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Nik D
Debuted on the Hot 100 in 2019 with Travis Scott’s No. 1 “Highest in the Room”; returned with hits by Drake and Metro Boomin before co-producing Jack Harlow’s No. 1 “Lovin on Me.”
Jacob Durrett
Produced on seven Hot 100-charting songs — six of them by Morgan Wallen, including Durrett’s debut entry, the top 10 hit “Wasted on You” — all since 2021.
Omer Fedi
Has placed 23 songs on the Hot 100 since his chart debut in June 2020, including four No. 1s: 24kGoldn’s “Mood,” Lil Nas X’s “Montero (Call Me by Your Name),” The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber’s “Stay” and Sam Smith and Kim Petras’ “Unholy.”
The Kid LAROI (left) and Omer Fedi
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Charlie Handsome
Of the 54 Hot 100-charting songs he’s produced or co-produced, 23 are by Post Malone and eight are by Morgan Wallen; seven reached the top 10; and two (Jack Harlow’s “First Class” and Post and Wallen’s “I Had Some Help”) reached No. 1.
Jasper Harris
Since 2019, has charted 17 songs on the Hot 100 as a producer, including his first two top 10s in 2022: Jack Harlow’s “First Class” and Post Malone and Doja Cat’s “I Like You (A Happier Song).”
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Blake Slatkin
Produced on 12 Hot 100-charting songs since 2020, including four No. 1s: “Mood,” “Stay,” “Unholy” and Lizzo’s “About Damn Time.” 2024 credits include Charli XCX, Omar Apollo and Wallows.
Leon Thomas III
Produced on SZA’s “Snooze,” plus Hot 100-charting hits by Drake, Jack Harlow and Ye/Ty Dolla $ign; he’s also worked on songs with Post Malone, Ariana Grande and Giveon.
Ty Dolla $ign (left) and Leon Thomas III attend Affinity Nightlife presents “Music Is Love | Love is Music” Grammys after party at Academy LA on Feb. 04, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.
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After some time in the production world, they recently broke through to the charts’ top tier
Evan Blair
Cracked the Hot 100 with Nessa Barrett’s “I Hope Ur Miserable Until Ur Dead” (2021), then moved up the chart with Dove Cameron’s No. 16-peaking “Boyfriend” (2022); earlier this year, reached No. 2 with Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things.”
BNYX
Charted 13 songs on the Hot 100 as a producer, all since 2022. Four hit the top 10: Drake’s “Search & Rescue” and “IDGAF” and Travis Scott’s “K-Pop” and “Meltdown”; has also worked with Lil Tecca, Lil Uzi Vert and Yeat.
Yeat and BYNX
Jason Renaud
A.G. Cook
His first Hot 100 production credit was on Beyoncé’s “All Up in Your Mind” in 2022; this year, he returned with four Charli XCX tracks — “360,” “Girl, so confusing,” “Apple” and “Talk talk,” with Troye Sivan — which all hit the top 10 of Hot Dance/Electronic Songs.
Ernesto “Neto” Fernandez
One of the biggest current regional Mexican producers. First charted on the Hot 100 in February 2023 with Peso Pluma & Natanael Cano’s “PRC” and followed that with the No. 4-peaking “Ella Baila Sola” (the highest-charting regional Mexican song ever). He’s charted 19 total songs by Peso Pluma on the Hot 100, plus three by Xavi and one by Junior H.
Teo Halm
Has charted three songs on the Hot 100 as producer, all in 2022: Omar Apollo’s “Evergreen” and SZA’s “Notice Me” and “Open Arms.” Co-wrote Drake’s “Fair Trade,” which reached No. 3.
Sean Momberger
Produced on two recent No. 1s — Jack Harlow’s “Lovin on Me” and Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” — after making his first Hot 100 appearance in 2018 with Chris Brown’s “Tempo” and returning with Gunna and Future’s “Too Easy” (2021) and Lil Baby’s “Everything” (2022).
Sean Momberger at the Spotify Best New Artist Party held at Paramount Studios on February 1, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.
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Nova Wav
The veteran female duo produced on Beyoncé’s “Cuff It,” which spent 35 weeks on the Hot 100 (reaching No. 6) and became her longest-charting song as lead artist, as well as on Bey’s “Jolene” from Cowboy Carter, which reached No. 7 earlier this year.
La Paciencia
The close Bad Bunny collaborator has charted 21 songs on the Hot 100 since June 2023, all by the Puerto Rican superstar, including two top 10s: “Where She Goes” (No. 8) and “Monaco” (No. 5).
RIOTUSA
Ice Spice’s right-hand producer charted six songs with her on the Hot 100, all since February 2023, including her two top 10s, “Princess Diana” (No. 4) and “Barbie World” (No. 7).
Austin Shawn
Produced all seven of Bailey Zimmerman’s Hot 100 entries, including the No. 10-peaking “Rock and a Hard Place” in 2023.
Gabe Simon
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Gabe Simon
First charted on the Hot 100 in 2022 with Jessie Murph’s “Pray” (No. 95) — then followed up with seven Noah Kahan hits, including “Stick Season” (No. 9), “Dial Drunk” and “Northern Attitude.” (The latter two made the top 40 and also topped the Triple A radio chart.) Earned two more Hot 100 top 40 entries this year with Koe Wetzel’s “Sweet Dreams” and Wetzel and Jessie Murph’s “High Road.”
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Grant Boutin
Charted for the first time in September 2023 with Tate McRae’s “Greedy” (which went to No. 3 on the Hot 100 and spent eight weeks atop Pop Airplay) and then with her “Run for the Hills.” He’s also worked with Meghan Trainor and Tomorrow X Together.
Sean Cook
Paul Russell’s inescapable “Lil Boo Thang” (No. 14 on the Hot 100) marked his first producer credit on the charts; he made a strong follow-up co-producing Shaboozey’s Hot 100 No. 1 “A Bar Song (Tipsy).”
Sean Cook
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Dave Hamelin
Charted for the first time on the Hot 100 this year with five songs from Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter: “16 Carriages,” “Just for Fun,” “II Hands II Heaven,” “Tyrant” and “Amen.”
Hoskins
Charted for the first time on the Hot 100 with Post Malone and Morgan Wallen’s No. 1 “I Had Some Help” and co-produced Post’s F-1 Trillion single “Guy for That” with Luke Combs (a No. 17 peak); previously had only produced one other charting song, Khalid’s “Present” (which spent a week on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs in 2021).
Gerreaux Katana
Broke onto the charts and reached No. 15 with ascendant rapper Flo Milli’s “Never Lose Me.”
Florian Ongonga
Charted for the first time in July 2023 with three Gunna songs, including the No. 4-peaking “fukumean”; also produced Gunna’s “Prada Dem” featuring Offset, which reached No. 15 on Hot Rap Songs.
Tommy Richman’s Crew (Kavi, Mannyvelli, Jonah Roy, Sparkheem and Max Vossberg)
The breakout star’s creative inner circle all charted for the first time with their work on his Hot 100 topper “Million Dollar Baby;” Kavi, Roy and Vossberg followed that up with “Devil Is a Lie,” which peaked at No. 32.
Frank Rio
The go-to producer for Ivan Cornejo, he has produced on 16 Hot Latin Songs entries (including three top 10s) by the young singer-songwriter.
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Jack Rochon
Three songs from Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter became his Hot 100 entrée: “II Hands II Heaven,” “Protector” and “Jolene.” He’s also worked with 6LACK, H.E.R. and Kehlani.
Nevin Sastry and Shaboozey
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Nevin Sastry
Charted for the first time co-producing Shaboozey’s Hot 100 No. 1 “A Bar Song (Tipsy)”; also worked on the artist’s “My Fault” and “Drink Don’t Need No Mix,” which reached Hot Country Songs’ top 50.
This article appears in the Oct. 5 issue of Billboard.