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.

Billboard US

Doja Cat Colors Charts ‘Red’ With Scarlet

63  “Strangers” Kenya Grace

1 ROD WAVE Nostalgia

1  “Wassup Gwayy” FamousSally & YB

4  MORGAN WALLEN WEEKS ON CHART 238

Lil Tecca Returns

The Rose Blooms

RECORD, REPEATED • The Renaissance world tour accomplishes the biggest one-month gross in Boxscore history again

Republic Continues To Dominate The Year • Morgan Wallen and Taylor Swift drive the label to a lead of almost four percentage points over No. 2 Interscope Geffen A&M

Shakedown Streak • The Grateful Dead has been selling merch since the late 1960s and setting licensing and marketing standards for the now $4.4 billion business

From The Desk Of... Rick Mueller • PRESIDENT OF NORTH AMERICA AEG PRESENTS

NOW PRESENTING... • A long-awaited reunion, a superproducer’s latest Hollywood stint and one of music’s most dissected love stories told from the other side — the coming months will see a surplus of movies that put music at the forefront

AN APPETITE FOR AUTHENTICITY • Dave Cobb on what sold him to produce the Hunger Games prequel soundtrack — and how he made it as real as possible

Burning Love • How Priscilla director Sofia Coppola used surprising songs — and silence — to tell Priscilla Presley’s side of her love story with Elvis

BEHIND THE HIT • *NSYNC’s “Better Place”

SUPERPRODUCER • Metro Boomin spun a web of collaborators to become one of hip-hop’s greatest heroes. With his biggest album yet and a Spider-Verse soundtrack to his name, can he use his creative powers to swing into pop’s stratosphere?

4 (MORE) LESSONS FROM (ANOTHER) HUGE YEAR FOR JACK ANTONOFF • The hyperprolific superproducer goes behind the sc enes on success with Taylor Swif t, Lana Del Rey, The 1975 and more

TEAM PLAYERS • How producers Carter Lang, ThankGod4Cody and Rob Bisel worked together to help SZA craft her seismic second album, SOS

DEAN OF PRODUCTION • He insists he doesn’t “work much.” But Mike Dean’s detail-oriented stoicism and multitasking talents have made him one of hip-hop’s busiest producers — and, as one artist puts it, the music industry’s equivalent of Tony Montana

A GUIDE TO PAYING THE MODERN PRODUCER

A LITTLE BIT COUNTRY... • The artists topping the genre’s charts — and climbing the Hot 100 — this past year did so with the help of producers encouraging influences from way outside Nashville

HEART BEATS • With his close collaborator Karol G, Ovy on the Drums worked his way up from the local Colombian music scene to the top of the Billboard charts. Now he dreams of a mainstream, multihyphenate legacy

THE GOAT WHISPERER • Grammy-winning producer Andrew Watt has helped define today’s pop airwaves. Now he has become a trusted collaborator for rock stars twice his age — including The Rolling Stones

PRODUCING 101 • The studio is your classroom at some of the country’s best audio engineering programs — and their professors your best introduction to the music business

PINKPANTHERESS, IRL • She blew up on TikTok — but with a surprise Hot 100 hit, Grammy buzz and a sound all her own, the British singer-songwriter is transcending internet stardom

‘More Global Than We’ve Ever Been’ • A new award category for African music performance reflects its exploding cultural and commercial appeal in the United States and beyond

When Gracie Met Aaron • For magnetic young singer-songwriter Abrams and in-demand producer Dessner, a creative partnership was immediate. Now the album they...