Billboard - 24.08.2019

ON THE COVER

Lana Del Rey

photographed by

Melodie McDaniel on

Aug. 8 at The Beckett

Mansion in Los Angeles.

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FEATURES

46 Fall Preview 2019 With her new album

Norman Fucking Rockwell, Lana Del Rey

makes her most adventurous and candid

music yet — and leads the list of 38 most

anticipated things about music this fall,

including London producer Labrinth’s

second album, Chairlift frontwoman

Caroline Polachek’s solo debut and more.

BILLBOARD HOT 100

7 Billie Eilish earns her first No. 1 with “Bad

Guy,” which halts the record 19-week run

of Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road.”

TOPLINE

19 Fox’s All-American Summer Concert

Series is an attractive destination for

country and Christian acts — but some

artists are steering clear.

22 Live Nation’s purchase of Latin music

promotion giant OCESA gave it

ownership of the No. 3 promoter in the

world and could shake up the North

American ticketing business.

7 DAYS ON THE SCENE

30 Billboard & The Hollywood Reporter’s

Pride Summit 2019

THE BEAT

35 Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy talks to indie rockers

Whitney about their shared scene, trying

to be timeless and how playlists killed the

album review.

38 Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris, Amanda

Shires and Natalie Hemby didn’t need

to form a supergroup — they did it for

everyone else.

BACKSTAGE PASS

63 Billboard’s annual list of top music

lawyers highlights 113 attorneys on the

front lines of the industry’s legal battles

and deals.

MY BILLBOARD MOMENT

116 Songwriter Diane Warren reflects

on when LeAnn Rimes’ recording

of her 1997 smash “How Do I Live”

spent 69 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100.

THIS WEEK

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