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 10 0
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
Volume 131 / No. 20
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