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isiy WEEKLY No. 1 HIT 11.1 HITS TO WATCH $3.00 THE TIME OF DAY Volume 52 No. 24 Gino Vannelli October 27, 1990 MIRACLE Jon Bon Jovi IMPULSIVE Wilson Phillips I'M YOUR BABY TONIGHT PRAYING FOR TIME AC/DC Whitney Houston George Michael Razors Edge SHOW ME HEAVEN Columbia INSIDE MY HEART INXS Maria McKee No. 1 ALBUM The Box X UNBELIEVABLE WHEN A HEART BREAKS GHOST Bob Dylan Rik Emmett Soundtrack CHERRY PIE ROCK AND BIRD :142Aa THE VAUGHAN BROTHERS Warrant Cowboy Junkies1,4fc` FamilyStyle CELEBRATE LOVE EVERYBODY EVERYBODY V IRON MAIDEN Myles Hunter Black Box No Prayer For The Dying LOVE THING STILL BEATING DEEE-LITE Sue Medley World On Edge World Clique TEAR IT UP RHYTHM OF THE RAIN JUDAS PRIEST Michael McDonald Dan Fogelberg Painkiller ICE ICE BABY Vanilla Ice PRAY HAYWIRE AC/DC MC Hammer Nuthouse The Razors Edge LYIN' TO MYSELF BETTE MIDLER ALBUMS Atco - 79-14134-P David Cassidy Some People's Lives TO WATCH SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN Crime Against Love, thefirst Poison BOB DYLAN single from the newBarney WHERE DOES MY HEART COUNTRY Under The Red Sky Bentall and The Legendary m watch, Heartsalbum, Lonely Avenue, BEAT NOW THE ROBERT CRAY BAND Celine Dion is a hit. But that shouldn't phase Midnight Stroll the band; they've been around FROM A DISTANCE SOMEONE ELSE'S TROUBLE Highway 101 MEGADETH long enough to put success in Bette Midler Rust In Peace perspective. - Page 7 HEART LIKE A WHEEL HARDIN COUNTY LINE Human League Mark Collie SOUL INSPIRATION TURN IT ON, TURN IT Anita Baker UP, TURN ME LOOSE Dwight Yoakam RAIN ON ME Corey Hart IT'S MY FIRST SECOND TIME AROUND LOST BROTHERHOOD Audie Henry Gowan YOU GAVE ME YOUR LOVIN' HIT PICK Charlie Clements DANCE A LITTLE CLOSER The Stoker Brothers ALBUM PICK HEAVEN CAN WAIT VANILLA ICE Paul Young To The Extreme Columbia SBK Records - K2 -95325-F 2 - RPM - October 27, 1990 Capitol enjoys 16 percentof retail market share Attic to release cancon Rita Coolidge album As the industry enters its most crucial buying year, "and it's our goal to equal that percen- period of the year, there is a positive note tage for the month of October." He con- Attic Records, one of Canada's great indie among the doom and gloom reports of a sup- success stories, has recently signed American tinues, "We staked our claim this summer... singer/songwriter Rita Coolidge to the label, posedlydeflatedrecordretailmarket. and we have to work very hard with radio and Capitol -EMI, which worked its way up to a retail to maintain that share." and will be releasing her latest album, Fire 12 percent market share last year, now has a Touching onthe doom and gloom Me Back, on October 29. market share of close to 16 percent. The deal was secured earlier this year reports, Scott stresses, "For us, we have to after Coolidge's contract with A&M expired. "We've just had the most successful think extremely positively, because if you let Attic, which is distributed by A&M, was one fiscal month in the history of the company," the headlines rule your way of doing business saysRon Michael -Scott,Director of various labels expressing interest in the ar- of then your business could very well take a tist, but Lindsay Gillespie, Vice President of Marketing for Capitol -EMI Canada. He is back-seat in importance." He goes on to sug- referring to September, which he reports is Attic's Sales and Marketing department, says gest that "peoples' fears turn to flights of that the "smaller independent environment" "up 30 percent" over the same period last fancy . movies and records . when the may have played a role in Coolidge's decision dollars get tight.I think over the next sixty to go with Attic. days, we have to be very aggressive and we New Houston album gets The new album was recorded in Toronto need to assure that we have a very high pro- and produced by Eddie Schwartz, who also boost with Toronto visit file with the consumer to attract them into the record stores." wrote seven ofitseleven songs.Shirley Whitney Houston came to Toronto Oct. 12 to One of the high -profile attention -getters Eikhard also penned one of the tracks.Fire talk to the press about her new album. I'm for Capitol -EMI will be a number Me Back features many guest musicians, of box some of them Canadian. Gillespie points out Your Baby Tonight, her first record in three sets, some of which have already been releas- that the album is seventy percent cancon. years, is set for an Oct. 22 release. The first ed. These include a four CD -only Lennon set single, the title track, was released Oct 8 and The album is expected to appeal to "a which carries a suggested list of $87.98, a younger than traditional Rita Coolidge au- debuts on RPM's Hit Tracks chart this week threeCD/cassette FrankSinatra setat dience,"andto at No. 85. $49.98, and an eight CD/cassette, nine vinyl furtherreinforcethe targetingofayounger BMG, distributor of the Arista album, is album set from Kate Bush at $155.00. There demographic. Gillespie says that the first single, I Stand In pulling out all the stops on this release, hop- will also be a double live Paul McCartney Bir- ing to match the phenomenal success of thday album. Wonder, will be accompanied by a high- Houston's first two albums. Her self -titled Scott admits that the box sets are not energy video directed by Deboi-ah Samuel of Alannah Myles fame. Lt: 1985 debut sold 8.5 million copies in the U.S. cheap and that there has been some concern and over a million in Canada. Whitney, the as to whether the expensive box sets will Gillespie goes on to say that the slight follow-up, became only the fourth album by shift in image was a "natural progression" erode the dollars the consumers bring into the for Coolidge, and that "in using the people a solo artist, and the first by a woman, to stores.It'sScott'scontentionthatthe LOS wedid,musicianandproducer -wise, debut at No. 1 on the American charts. availability of the box sets will attract con- Houston racked up seven consecutive No. 1 we came up with an album which is very sumers to the stores and, hopefully, they contemporary." Lown hits in the U.S., the only performer ever to might even have some change left to buy new accomplish this, and had three No.1 singles in product. RPM. I'm Your Baby Tonight features the August stats paint ILA work of a handful of high -profile producers, including Narada Michael Walden, the team gloomy industry picture of L.A. Reid and Babyface, Michael Masser, CRIA stats for August show that net sales THE SIZZLIN Luther Vandross and Stevie Wonder, who declined 10 percent from the same month in duets with Houston on We Didn't Know 1989. The stats come as a disappointment Houston makes her production debut on the after July's figures showed the industry in a album,co -producing I'm Knockin'with rosier light. Rickey Minor. CD sales are still leading the way for in- "It was fun," Houston says of her pro- creased sales value with a 28 percent increase ducing experience. "It was challenging." She for the year-to-date, and a tepid 10 percent says itisinevitable that she will one day increase from August 1989. return to her musical roots and record a The boom in cassette singles seems to gospel album. At 27, Houston says she is not have lost some of its momentum, but is still Andres del Castillo and Frank Levin of Eight afraid that, after five years at the top, she will - solid, with a combined increase in sales and Seconds visitRPM's offices with Warner fall from favour with a fickle public. "I think shipments of 589 percent. Music's Nigel Best (r) where they met Jill Lawless and Alison Mercer. singers will be here to the day we die. Ella, Most worrying is the August decrease in Dionne, Gladys...all those ladies have been net sales value for cassettes of 15 percent, in- here a long time." ching cassette sales up to a 2 percent increase Capitol to introduce for the year-to-date.In Canada, healthy Home Video sell -through cassette sales are crucial because they are counted on to generate revenue once provid- Capitol -EMI will introduce Home Video sell - ed by vinyl sales. CDs have not filled the gap through in November. Rob Brooks, Product left by plummeting vinyl sales as expected. Manager for Video, is responsible for the Overall, net shipments are down 16 per- division, which will ship fifteen titles initially. cent.Despite this, there is optimism among Includedaresomeofthelabel's record companies that Fall 1990 will be a superstars, including Tina Turner, Richard strong period, with a lot of solid product due Marx and Roxette. Also set for release is to hit the market in the coming weeks. Queensryche's Operation Mind Crime, a full- length video which mirrors the band's last studio album. This release is Capitol -EMI's most successfulsell -through video in the AVAILABLE NO\ 4C7 U.S., which supports the claim that heavy Leslie Spit Treeo's Laura Hubert, Pat Langner metal not only commands an important part and Jack Nicholslen, manager Joe Bamford (I), ciic,RECYCLABLE Capitol's Roger Bartel at RPM's offices with of the buying pattern with records, but with Jill Lawless, Alison Mercer and Tim Evans.