Club Play Chart

from DJ Times 2020, Vol 33 No 4

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NATIONAL CROSSOVER POOL CHART 1 Dua Lipa Break My Heart Warner Bros 2 Camilia Cabello f. Da Baby My Oh My Epic 3 Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande Rain On Me Interscope 4 The Weeknd Blinding Lights Republic 5 Doja Cat Say So Kemosabe/RCA 6 Sir Ivan Happy Together Peaceman 7 Meduza F/Shells Born To Love Defected 8 Megan Thee Stallion F/Beyonce Savage 300 9 Lodato Good Spinnin’ 10 Robin Schulz f. Alida In Your Eyes Elektra 11 Dua Lipa Physical Warner Bros 12 Lady Gaga Stupid Love Interscope 13 Katy Perry Daisies Capitol 14 Benee Supalonely Casablanca 15 DJ Regard Ride It Epic 16 Loud Luxury ft. Morgan St. Jean Aftertaste Armada 17 Trevor Daniel Falling Warner Bros. 18 Anabel Englund So Hot Ultra 19 Black Eyed Peas RITMO Epic 20 Harry Styles Adore You Columbia 21 Becky Hill Better Off Without You Interscope 22 Bimbo Jones & Thelma Houston Turn Your World Around Radikal 23 Hilary Roberts Good Man Dauman 24 Molella F/ KT Tunstall Starlight & Gold Radikal 25 Drake Toosie slide Republic 26 Bombs Away You Gotta Be Radikal 27 Powfu Coffee For Your Head Columbia 28 SAINt JHN Roses HitCo 29 Jonas Bros F/Karol X Republic 30 Doja Cat F/ Gucci Mane Like That Kemosabe/RCA 31 Michelle Kash Personal Jesus Love Animal 32 Conro Fighters Monstercat 33 Justin Beiber F/ Quavo Intensions Def Jam 34 Afrojack F/Ally Brooke All Night Spinnin’ 35 Debbie Gibson Girls Night Out Dauman 36 Topic & A7s Breaking Me Capitol 37 Watermelon Sugar Harry Styles Columbia 38 Surfaces Sunday Best Capitol 39 Alan Walker & Ava Max Alone Pt. II RCA 40 Ladi Rosa Ain’t No Taylor Swift Circle 11

Most Added Tracks 1 Yung Bae F/bbno$, Wiz, Max Bad Boy 2 220 Kid & Gracey Don’t Need Love 3 Conro Fighters 4 Molella F/ KT Tunstall Starlight & Gold 5 Gloria Gaynor I Will Survive 2020 6 Man Jolo 7 Hilary Roberts Just Let Go 8 Watermelon Sugar Harry Styles 9 Regard & Raye Secrets 10 Brando Look Into My Eyes Arista Capitol Monstercat Radikal Universal Warner Bros. Red Songbird LLC Columbia Epic Armada NATIONAL LATIN DANCE POOL CHART 1 Tony Succar feat Angel Lopez Mas De Mi Unity Ent. 2 Crocro y su Tumbaka Pa’ San Agustin CO 3 Black Eyes Peas X J Balvin Ritmo (Bad Boy For Life) Epic 4 Static & Ben El ft Pitbull Further Up Saban Music Group LLC 5 Josie Esteban La Maleta JE 6 Kalimente y Fulanito Sueltala (Remix) Sueños 7 Bad Bunny Yo Perreo Sola Rimas 8 Van Lester Ya No Queda Nada Cookita 9 Tito Rojas Los Años No Pasan TR 10 Ricky Martin Cantalo Sony 11 Willie Gonzalez No Te Olvido MZ Artists 12 Sociedad 76 Si Ella Me Quiere JZ Prod. 13 Charlie Cruz La Vida Da Vueltas Get Crazy Note, LLC 14 Circobeat Band Yo La Queria J&N Records 15 Lusito Rosario Belen LR 16 Alfonso Lugo Loca Remix Pulp Music 17 Puerto Rican Power Por Estar Pensando En Ti J&N Records 18 Mambo King Mambo 20 Mr. Street Prod. 19 Gente De Zona & Becky G Muchacha Sony 20 La Resistencia ft. Luisito C Naci

Most Added Tracks 1 Oscarito 2 Zion & Lennox 3 Norbert feat. Elvis Crespo 4 Maffio & Don Miguelo 5 Justin Quiles feat. Daddy Yankee Dime Que Tu Quieres De Mi Mujer Satisfecha Yo No Se (Remix) Carne Pam Flame Warner Norbert Sony Warner

REPORTING LATIN POOLS

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REPORTERS n Gary Canavo

Blake Eckelbarger

The Dance Environment

Manny Esparza

Howard HK Kessler

Brian Stephens

Peter K. Productions

Kidd Leow

DJ Ilan Fong

Randy Schlager

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DVRKO (continued from page 10) the fine carving on the frequencies in the mix. ATC SCM45A monitors, these I use for the overall scope of the mix. Augspurger dual-15s with dual-18 subs, these bad boys are for getting the low-end right along with the overall vocal balance.

DJ Times: “This Is How” has a real hooky, warped bassline. How’d you get that?

DVRKO: Originally, the track was not focused on the bassline. But Rama and Sarah’s topline process di verted and pushed the bassline to go with her vocals, so the chords under the topline were re-harmonized and it came out great.

DJ Times: What’s next for you? Any post-quarantine shows?

DVRKO: After the next single, “Lights Up,” we have several more singles dropping in 2020 and working on a concept album that may come out in 2021. Once the quarantine is over, I’m finally going to dust off and put this face in front of some crowds that won’t get to see it. – Jim Tremayne

Wisternoff (continued from page 22) I had more focus to complete it as a project, even though I actually had less time – as my DJ schedule was packed. Also due to dealing with the illness and death of my dad during the writing process, I felt the focus obtained from being creative really helped my state of mind.

DJ Times: What’s your DJ set-up?

Wisternoff: I’m pretty un-de manding when it comes to my tech rider… just the standard four [Pi oneer DJ] CDJ-2000NXS2 players and a DJM-900NXS2 mixer. Looking forward to checking out the new Pioneer DJM-V10, though! I used to DJ with Ableton Live for a while, but found it way too powerful a tool for such a job.

DJ Times: Any advice for up-andcoming DJs? For up-and-coming pro ducers?

Wisternoff: The most useful advice I can give, I suppose, is… if you hope to make a career out of this, give it all of your time! It has to be your hobby and your passion, your wife, your absolute, favorite thing to do in the world – you need to be dreaming about drum machines [laughs]. But also, on the flip side, maybe just enjoy the process and treat learning how to make music more like playing a video game. The main thing not to do is approach it from the business side of things and try to make music that you think will sell. That way you will always be two steps behind the game. When it comes to DJing, the major skills can only really come through experience – how to read the crowd/ people’s body language and guide the room. Whilst technical skills can be perfected in the bedroom, the true lessons learned come from building confidence in front of a crowd. n

D-Nice (continued from page 17)

D-Nice: I haven’t dealt with any copyright issues – I don’t know if they had to deal with any copyright issues. But, I was getting flagged on March 21 – and I still get flagged. I didn’t play nine hours straight – I was flagged a lot. Even when Mark Zuckerberg’s name popped in, I kept saying, “Please don’t flag me” [laughs].

DJ Times: Let’s revisit the idea of brands trying to get involved with “Club Quarantine.” What’s that ac tion been like?

D-Nice: I’ve received offers from multiple brands. But, I’m not a bill board – that’s not who I am. The only things I’ve done was use foot age on an Apple commercial. I did a Bud piece with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. I did something for ABC, a DJ set for “The Bachelor.” I did a prom. But other than that… I had to sit back and think about what I wanted it to become. It’s a dan gerous line of just becoming “that quarantine guy.”

DJ Times: This wasn’t planned, but you were prepared for the op portunity.

D-Nice: I started doing this be cause I was lonely – I wasn’t with my family. DJing is the one thing I love the most and all of our gigs were being cancelled. I lost gigs at Coachella, Miami Music Week, Es sence Festival… everything was being cancelled. Just to see these opportunities going away had me slightly depressed. What is life going to look like? The market was tank ing, so my investments were tanking. I’m stuck at home. Relationships are hard enough to maintain with a life on the go… and that was the craziest feeling. I did this because I wanted to be connected to people. Also, this is a time when people are suffering, so I don’t want to be perceived as someone who is just monetizing this situation.

DJ Times: But you put your plat form to good use, as well.

D-Nice: Yes, I’ve given a lot of myself. I raised money with Will Smith for the CDC. For healthcare workers, we raised $4 million [for Direct Relief] with Diddy for his Dance-A-Thon. For HBCUs, we raised money for scholarships and books – $300K for that. I did some thing for the teachers, and twice I did something for Michelle Obama to get people to register to vote. So, now I do feel more comfortable entertaining offers. We should get back to some kind of normalcy.

DJ Times: Well, you’ve put your self in a good position going forward.

D-Nice: Right, all the big gigs I had before – whether it was Ve gas, Atlantic City, Miami, whatever – were great, but I wasn’t being 100-percent who I am. Still, they set me up for this. I’m not an over night success – no, I’ve been playing music all my life as a producer, an artist and a DJ. But because of this Instagram Live platform, I was 100-percent me and it resonated with people. I went from 198,000 Instagram followers to 1.1 million, then 2 million. Unbelievable.

DJ Times: Any advice for DJs, in the midst of this?

D-Nice: This digital platform isn’t going away – embrace it and you can build an audience for now and the future.Also, use this time to re-connect with the reasons why you love music. This is the time to learn to play from your heart. If you do, it’ll resonate with people. The landscape is going to be different – no tours ’til next year, probably – so this is the time to be creative. For me, I’ve been so inspired by the music I’m playing, old and new, that I’m looking forward into setting up a studio here and getting creative again. Now’s the time to let the juices flow and let the ideas pop.

DJ Times: So, what’s it going to be like when people can gather again?

D-Nice: I think those first gigs are going to be magical. It’s going to be nuts for a lotta people. It’ll be insane – as long as it’s safe [laughs]. n