[|^WSDESKj£l71-^5990 or e-mail musicweek®dotmu NEWSFILE Smiths starts music sell-off Prodigy steal the show Tho break-up of the WH Smith Group has got undor way withretail the business announced The WalMo salé df CamelotitsTBÏbhain Music US for£28m. music Thejust sale,a forlnight due to afler be completïdwTflîîn Smith's chief executive 30 days, Richard cornes at MTV Europe Awards includingHandover sellingannounced its 75% a réorganisation share of Virgin of Dur the Price. group, byMar THOSE 1997 MTV AWARD inshow 20 countriesto be broadcast including on theterrestrial UK, where TV BPI wins court battle with bootleggers HansenMTV Europe bas dismissed chief executivegrowing spécula- Brent WINNERS IN FULL the ITV network relayed the shot The BPI has won a three-year légal battle against five tion that last week's MTV Europe Best femalemaie act' act Jon Janet Bon Jackson Jovi (Mercurvl (Virgin) SaturdayThe addition night (8).of 4,000 paying fans on fairbootleggers at Birmingham's over 13,000 NEC bootleg in July CDs1934. seized Ail five at a record thebestyet.Awards would be the last - declaring it Best group: Spice Girls (Virgin) top of the 2,000 industry guests défendants have consenfed to court orders for the Talking immediately aller the show, Best song:breakthrough MMMBop act: by Hanson Hanson (Mercury) (Mercury) Hansen. "These awards show just wha recordings to be destroyed and have given permanent centralHansen partsaid ofthe the event MTV has calendar become and a Best rap act Will Smith (Columbia) undertakings notto sell bootleg recordings in the future. the European industr/s biggest awards Best liverock act act U2(lsland) Oasis (Création) Best alternative act The Prodigy (XL According to Hansen, future showi UnderscoringtheSpain calls in international Brits team standing for awards of the Brits, BestRccordings) R&B act Blackstreet (Interscope) servicescould include MTV splitUK, MTVfeeds Central,allowing MTVloca Spain isturning tolhe UK event to help stage its own tîve âct amThest video for the Walter Recordings)Best video: Breathe by The Prodigy (XL Northern and MTV Southern to feature équivalent of the BPI ceremony. AFYVE, the Stem-directed Breathe. Best dance act: The Prodigy (XL theirwould own be led éléments. by the localBut channels.any changes No recruitedreprésentative Brits executivebody of Spanish producer record Lisa companies, Andersen to has The only other multiple award— win- Recordings) host city or venue has been finalised for take the same rôle for the first Premios Amigo, which is egories TSTaTnght that"saw AngTo- LoveMTV SelectMe by BackstreetMT Award; BoysAs Long (Jive) As You Rotterdamnext year, althoughshow - staged the success at the 10,000of the taking place atthe Palacio Municipal De Congressos in Americanartists won acts seven share awards the while spoils. British US Shortened by about 45 minutes com- capacity Ahoy Stadium - suggests it Madrid on November20. The team includes Later and Irish acts won six. pared to last year's event to finish afler Hansen says MTV made a particular producer,director Janet while Fraser M JK ProductionsCrook and Helen has takenTerry asthe same RotterdamDismissing show spéculation might be MTVs that last the - two hours, the show was aired last effort to showcase pop acts. Highlights stage production rôle it has occupied atthe Brits for the in line with the company's moves Thursdayand New byZealand. MTV servicesIndia, Asia,in the andUS leyof the of nightMofo includedand M's U2'sPop opentngMuzik, Spicemed- past four years. Spice Girls, The Corrs, Ricky Martin and committedtowards local to feedsthe Awards, - Hansen which says hepro- is itAustralia will be aired transmitted later this it month on Friday on MTV and Life,Girls' Bjork's performance performance of Spice of Bachalor-Up Your Eros Ramazzotti are among those due to periorm. vides an annual showcase for the broad Latin America (13). MTV Mandarin (15), ette, which was backed by a 16-piece Dolphin to name new music venue acrossspread the of continent.music supported by MTV MTVDeals Brazil have (19) also and been MTV struck Japan for (27). the leystring by USsection, boy band and aBackstreet show-closing Boys. med- Central Hall Trust, the group behind the development appointedof a new £16m design music consultants venue in Dolphineast London, to propose has a Preston and Marsh name and croate a logo. The 1,880-capacity Hackney whichvenue iscreated scheduled the logo ta apen for Liverpool's in October Cream 1999. Dolphin, in Big Apple summit anightclub, name for isthe about venue to inlaunch Mare a Street. compétition Funding to forhelp the find appeared immii a Friday as chairman John Project is in place following a £9.85m lottery award MarshPreston were and precalled teit of the mitmusic meeting division with Jercmy BMG and £em from the government's régénération budget. in New York. président Rudi Gassner torBMG or A&R is currently director without at its RCA either label, a managing and confusion direc- i European link-up triggers piracy raid surroundsMeanwhile, the musicstatus division of Arista président MD Martin Marsh Heath. is in the IFPI anti-piracy director lain Grant has hailed the middle of a course at Harvard Business School, which £200,000benefits ofworth international of bootiegs co-operalion were seized after at a nearlyBarcelona it that Pre:ter Marsh's appointmen record fair last weekend. Seven people, including two rced to take charge of day-to-day opérât tting itself (o £200,000 worth of TV advertising as pan bootleggers from the UK, were arresled and charged. îlesObservers of Preston have and detected Marsh and confusion suggest tlb —— | seof a massivetted debut two-month TV, press and poster campaign for Ali Saints' They are due to appear in court again this week. Their ' be clarified before a successor to forme RCA man- { ^'i' Jl album. The marketing outlay on a group which has arrests followed an investigation involving the IFPI in agii Hugh Goldsmith can be hir —' " 'ngles-NeverEveris issuedtoday(Monday)- nationalGermany group and Poland, of the IFPI.the BPI and AFYVE, the Spanish Meanwhile, a further vacancy in BMG's European makesthemlondon'spriorityLaUrie COkel1 act:001 forb Christmas.U, UniVerSal Generali,,,ase mewMI eX,end ment^that IrnoW senior'vpof j lhe albums ^ ^ ' ' ' tral European région is to become ceo of the ; ' Wewoll into 1998. 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