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MARCH 16, 2020 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
VOLUME 33 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ISSUE 1289
DENNIS LAVINTHAL
Publisher
LENNY BEER
Editor In Chief ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
KAREN GLAUBER
President, HITS Magazine
TODD HENSLEY
President, HITS Digital Ventures ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SIMON GLICKMAN
Vice President/Managing Editor
BUD SCOPPA
Vice President/Senior Editor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TED VOLK
VP Rock Formats
JAMIE MITCHELL
Charts Editor
JESSE BEER-DIETZ
A&R Editor
MICHAEL DOMINGUEZ
Associate Editor
NICOLE GHAPGHARAN
Associate Editor
JON PIKUS
Associate Editor -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ROBIN GERBER
Ops Director
J.J. GARCIA
Ops Manager
ROBERT MOORE
Technology
JESSE MACMILLAN
Research Editor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
LEISA ST. JOHN
Pop Formats Editor
ANDY ARNOLD
Crossover Editor -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PHIL GALLO
Senior Editor
HOLLY GLEASON
Nashville Editor
RHIAN JONES
London Correspondent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TIM CARNEY
Art Direction
REBECCA BALTUTIS
Creative Director
K MACLEOD
Art Operations
VAN ARNO
Illustration/Animation ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TONI PROFERA
DAVID ADELSON Executive Editors Emeritus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
GRAPHIC VISIONS
Lithography ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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GONE VIRAL
The Coronavirus isn’t a music executive, but
it is guiding pretty much every decision being made in the biz (and everything else) right now, as a cascade of postponements takes the music calendar—and the economy—into uncertain territory. Self-isolation is the order of the day as world leaders try to stop the spread. At least you’ll have plenty of time to be reminded how much this magazine sucks.
WILDCARD
SURFACES
“SUNDAY BEST”
10K PROJECTS
EPICURE
RICK SACKHEIM
TRAILBLAZER
BAD BUNNY
FORCE-FUL
HOWARD KING
SECTIONS
VIBE-RATERS 4 CHART STORY 7 TOP 50 ALBUMS 7 EPIC HANDS OUT EVP STRIPES 12 BAD BUNNY BREAKS RECORDS 14 IGA’S MICHELLE AN UPPED 14 HITS LIST 14 HOWARD KING ON FORCE MAJEURE 16
I.B. BAD
NOISEMAKERS
POST TOASTED
iGEN
iHEART SPINS CHART CROSSOVER
SONG REVENUE CHART STREAMING SONGS CHART RADIOMONITOR MEDIABASE CHARTS
POP MART
HITS LIST JHENÉ AIKO
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ON THE COVER
Warner Records’ Dua Lipa has a monster hit with “Don’t Start Now,” which has given the Brit diva a Pop radio #1 and truly impressive streaming numbers. If only she’d realized that appearing on the cover of our sorry rag is the ultimate “Don’t.”