ON THE COVER
Clockwise from top:
Ross MacDonald,
George Daniel, Matty
Healy and Adam Hann of
The 1975 photographed
by Au s t i n H a r g r ave o n
July 20 at Brompton
Cemetery, a Royal Park,
in London.Mitski photographed
July 16 at North Brooklyn
Farms in Brooklyn. Hear
her talk about the first
time she was starstruck
at Billboard.com/videos.FEATURES
36 Here Lies The 1975 The
ambitious pop-rock band
nearly succumbed to Matty
Healy’s heroin addiction.
Now clean, the flamboyant
frontman is taking his group
to new heights.
44 Plunged Into ‘A Circus
Mixed With An Orgy’ In an
excerpt from her memoir
Anything for a Hit, Dorothy
Carvello recalls working for
Atlantic Records in a pre-
#MeToo industry.
48 Hot 100 Turns 60! The gold-
standard songs chart’s 100
most massive smashes
over its six decades — plus,
its 100 biggest artists of
all time.BILLBOARD HOT 100
3 Bebe Rexha and Florida
Georgia Line’s former
top five Hot 100 hit breaks
the record for the most
weeks atop the Hot Country
Songs chart.TOPLINE
15 Four months since Spotify
went public, Wall Street is
embracing the streaming
service while the music
industry drifts further away.
18 Amid the Trump
administration’s border
separation policy and the
families it has affected,
Latin artists speak up about
what can be done.7 DAYS ON THE SCENE
24 Tomorrowland, PanoramaTHE BEAT
29 Mitski’s last album vaulted
her atop critics’ lists and
landed her a spot opening
for Lorde. Her latest set
explores new levels of
her potential.
33 Latin trap star Anuel AA
was on the cusp of stardom
when he began a 30-month
prison sentence. In his first
post-release interview, he
describes how he held on.BACKSTAGE PASS
57 The BOK Center in Tulsa,
Okla., has turned the city
into a touring locale with
big-market concert grosses.CO DA
76 In 1958, Ricky Nelson’s
“Poor Little Fool” hit No. 1 on
the inaugural Hot 100 chart.THIS WEEKVolume 130 / No. 18
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