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1 THE POWER 100 LUCIAN GRAINGE CHAIRMAN/CEO, UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP Here's how Universal Music Group chairman/CEO Lucian Grainge sums up 2018: 'It was a very good year for the industry. [...]

The CD-peddling, gatekeeper-guarded record industry is dead. But the meme-crafting, data-mining, spon-con-placing, royalty-chasing, wearable-designing, Chipotle-playlist-making industry is thriving, and to get a piece of the action, you'll need a very [...]

Executive Of The Tear JASON OWEN The president/CEO of Sandbox Entertainment and manager of Faith Hill, Kacey Musgraves, Kelsea Ballerini and Little Big Town has emerged as the leader of [...]

NEARLY 50 YEARS BEFORE JIMMY Fallon and The Roots performed with pop stars and kazoos for The Tonight Show's Classroom Instruments bit, or James Corden strapped chart-topping singers into the [...]

It's Vegas, baby, as the 23rd annual BBMAs get set to rock the MGM Grand (May 17,8 p.m. ET, ABC), and the night's hosts and performers pre-party right here, spilling [...]

Borgore brings his own pole dancers. It's two in the morning in the unofficial dubstep corner of Nocturnal Wonderland Texas, the third installment of the late-April festival staged by Insomniac [...]

Byline: Camille Dodero They were Vine's first celebrity couple. Curtis Lepore was a hammy 30-year-old with tattoo sleeves who posted six-second shaving-cream pranks and mini-skits featuring his Boston-terrier sidekick, Buster [...]

Composer Max Richter (The Leftovers) researched states of slumber while writing his eight-hour classical ode to repose, 2015's SLEEP--which, along with the hourlong From Sleep, earned 37.7 million on-demand streams, [...]

Longtime pals and part-time collaborators Scarlett Johansson, 33, and Pete Yorn, 43, have reunited after nine years with their newly released Apart EP, led by the sultry single 'Bad Dreams.' [...]

Brandi Cariile is traipsing through an airport with her 3-year-old, Evangeline, discussing her latest album, By the Way, I Forgive You (out Feb. 16), over the phone, when there's a [...]

AS LEAD SINGER/GUITARIST of Alabama Shakes, Brittany Howard, 27, has established herself as a mighty live performer--a soul-baring vocalist with the delivery of a cyclone. In April, her Southern-rock band [...]

IN THE VIDEO FOR 'HIGH BY the Beach,' her Billboard Hot too hit from August, Lana Del Rey shoots down a paparazzi helicopter while wearing a nightgown. This is a [...]

Actor Hailee Steinfeld has big movies, an Oscar nod and a cameo in Taylor Swift's 'Bad Blood.' Next up? Pop stardom, thanks to a new hit about self-love (in more [...]

Patty Schemel nearly lost everything to addiction--twice. In 1998, four years after watching heroin's grip claim her close friend Kurt Cobain, the Hole drummer was so strung out on dope [...]

After a decade of multiplatinum sales, two Grammy awards, and the messy departure of band cofounder Ben Moody, Evanescence siren Amy Lee took a hiatus from her painfully earnest public [...]

What is country music? That was something The Recording Academy hadn't needed to explain in nearly 50 years of awarding the genre best album prizes. 'If you heard country and [...]

[FROM] Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn [AGE] Unknown [HOW YOU SAY HER NAME] Leh-kay-lee--or 47 for short [WHO SHE IS] Leikeli47 dons ski masks, raps and produces songs that evoke both Tink's disarming [...]

SOMETIMES AT NIGHT, ALONE in his living room, Will Butler, 32, would drink tea and casually work on music. During those evenings and lapsang souchongs, he nearly finished three or [...]

SHAMIR BAILEY, A 20-YEAR-OLD SINGER from North Las Vegas, is already getting recognized in Brooklyn. 'It's no One Direction attention,' he says, laughing. 'Especially in Williamsburg, I get noticed--it's nerve-rattling.' [...]

JESSIE J STARTED THIS year fearing she had already peaked. The 26-year-old British singer-songwriter's last top 10 U.S. single as a solo artist, the No. 6 hit 'Domino,' was nearly [...]

HAYLEY WILLIAMS turns 26 on Dec. 27, which means she has fronted Paramore for more than a third of her life. Long enough that on her first Warped Tour in [...]

An interview with Jody Gerson, chairman and chief executive officer of Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) and "Billboard" magazine's Executive of the Year in 2020, is presented. She describes the early changes that spurred the revenue growth of UMPG after her appointment in 2015. Gerson explains the work of the She Is the Music group she co-founded in 2018 in supporting women in the music industry. She also discusses the impact of the influx of private equity coming into publishing.

Original Colors ******** THRILL JOCKEY Los Angeles psych-rhythm pals Mary Pearson and Rob Barber used to be the boy-girl duo you could take home to mom: DIY's most adorably inoffensive [...]

Will the Guns Come Out ******* INNOVATIVE LEISURE San Francisco-bred skater Hanni El Khatib identifies the target demo for his garage-soul tantrums as anyone who's 'been shot or hit by [...]

La Liberacion ****** V2/COOPERATIVE/DOWNTOWN This resplendent Brazilian party squad--known for liquor-breath come-ons, electro-trash dance-floor wilding, and the likening of aural pleasure to an erogenous zone in an iPod ad--try to [...]

Most people who hear about Wheelchair Sports Camp assume the band's name is a crude joke. 'Sports camp and wheelchairs, you know?' says 24-year-old MC Kalyn 'T-Minus Katlyn' Heffernan. Diagnosed [...]

An interview with Parkwood Entertainment president and chief operating officer (COO) is presented. Among the issues he discussed include what he thinks are the strengths of superstar Beyoncé as chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Parkwood, how he defines the mission of Beyoncé and Parkwood, and the strategy behind the company's intense secrecy.

The article offers information on music executives who have made significant contributions to Latin music in 2019. They include Cárdenas Marketing Network's (CMN) founder and chief executive officer (CEO) Henry Cárdenas, Franklin Martinez, who co-founded Carbon Fiber Music with Latin urban singer Farruko, and Sebastian Ducamp, senior vice president for artist management and live events at Global Talent Services. INSET: WHAT DO YOUNG LATINX LISTENERS WANT? SPANISH.

The article profiles several executives in the music industry. Some of executives in the music business profiled are Elliot Grainge's establishment of 10K Projects, an independent hip-hop record label, Epic Records senior vice president (VP) promotion Sandra Afloarei, Spotify head of international artist and label marketing Madeleine Bennett, The Orchard senior VP global label management and integration Jaclyn Bertsch and Atlantic Records VP A&R Brandon Davis.

The article presents profiles of the top lawyers in the U.S. music industry in 2019. They include Debbie White, a partner and vice chair at Loeb & Loeb; Jeffrey Harleston, general counsel at Universal Music Group; and Scott McDowell, executive vice president and head of legal and business affairs at Warner Chappell Music. An overview of their educational background is presented, as well as their previous work experience.

The article profiles the recipients of the Masters of Branding award as part of the "2019 Branding Power Players" report of "Billboard." Topics covered include background of Marcie Allen, founder and president of MAC Presents, information on Jennifer Breithaupt, global consumer chief marketing officer at Citi and background of Deborah Curtis, vice president of global brand partnerships and experiences at American Express and Maureen Ford, president of national and festival sales at Live Nation.

The article profiles the individuals included in the Power Generation list of "Billboard" magazine, the 25 disrupters who redefine the music industry. Topics covered include support for diversity by Shawn Holiday, head of urban music at Sony/ATV Music Publishing, projects of Adam Alpert, manager of The Chainsmokers, chief executive officer (CEO) of Disruptor Records and Kick the Habit Productions and role of Noah Assad, co-founder/CEO of Rimas Entertainment in the success of Bad Bunny.

The article presents the honorees of the Executives of the Year award at the 2018 Women In Music event held by the magazine "Billboard," including LaTrice Burnette, executive vice president at Island Records, Nicki Farag, executive vice president at Def Jam Recordings and Ethiopia Habtemariam, president of Motown Records.

The article features Ken Casey, the founder of Boston Celtic-punk band Dropkick Murphys. Topics discussed include Casey's other role as an independent boxing promoter, Dropkick Murphys' single "I'm Shipping Up to Boston," which has sold 2 million digital downloads and has accrued 91 million on-demand U.S. streams, and a baseball museum bar that Casey opened in 2008 called McGreevy's.

The article features 74 executives who helped the digital music stream growth in 2018. They include Charlie Hellman of Spotify, whose focus is on the musicians whose work drives the success of the streaming service, Jim Selby of Concord Music Group, who made a significant investment in internal metadata management, and Peter Brodsky of Sony/ATV Music Publishing who helped convince the Copyright Royalty Board to raise the royalty rate for songwriters on Spotify and other streaming services.

The article announces honorees in the 2018 Top Music Lawyers recognized by "Billboard" magazine, including Jeffrey Harleston of Universal Music Group, Paul Robinson of Warner Music Group, and Danielle Aguirre of the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA).

The article features the annual 40 Under 40 list of young executives in the music industry recognized by "Billboard" magazine. Topics discussed include the working relationship between Steven Victor of record label Def Jam and rapper Pusha T, the significant contributions of Michael Alexander of Universal Music Group to the career of rapper Post Malone, and the accomplishments earned by Erika Alfredson of Columbia Records.

The article examines the need to stop using the term "urban" to refer to hip-hop and rhythm and blues (R&B) music made by African American artists. Several African American executives in the music industry have proposed eliminating the term, as conversations about race and gender have intensified culturewide. According to Sam Taylor, senior vice president creative at Kobalt Music Group, the use of the term is downgrading the impact of R&B, soul and hip-hop on music.

The article discusses the Billboard's Indie Power Players report which recognizes achievement at independently owned record labels, music publishers and distributors and distribution companies owned by three music groups that play a role in bringing indie-owned repertoire to music. These distributors include Symphonic Distribution, Select-O-Hits, and Redeye Worldwide.

The article features Sally Williams, senior vice president of programming and artist relations at Opry Entertainment and general manager of the Grand Ole Opry, who is part of the 2018 Country Power Players list of "Billboard" magazine.

The article focuses on the growth of dubstep music in the U.S. It cites the increasing importance of dubstep or bass music in dance-music festivals and relates an incident wherein Insomniac Events had to create a dubstep stage to respond to the demand of the crowd at the Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas, Nevada. It also notes that the growth of dubstep is disrupting the supremacy of electronic dance music (EDM).

The article relates the author's experience in traveling to Kansas with her boyfriend. Lawrence, about 40 miles west, is a cute college town, home to the University of Kansas's main campus. The author and her boyfriend go to lunch at Jefferson's, a boisterous diner with dollar bills thumbtacked to the walls. Their evening destination is Cottonwood Falls. The 900-person ranching community is in the Flint Hills, a region of rolling hills in the high prairie. They made a reservation at Clover Cliff Ranch Bed & Breakfast, a 146-year-old ranch/inn in Elmdale, seven miles west.

The article lists the nominees for the 59th Annual Grammy Awards, including "Hello" by Adele for Record of the Year, "Lemonade" by Beyonce for Album of the Year, and singer Kelsea Ballerini for Best New Artist.