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R&B Ti li AIRPLAY OCTOBER 4, 2002 WBLS Brings Back Harper, Kid Capri Out ID- 3 Ed, Lisa, & Dre On Returning To New York Mornings p. 4 • We Listen To Radio VOLUME 10 • NO. 40 6 .95 R&B/HIP-HOP: - 'IMPACTING _ NELLY FEATURING KELLY ROWLAND FIRST, THERE WA DRU HILL! 10/1 fi 10/8 Dilemma (F0 REEL/UNIVERSAL/UMRG) NEXT, THERE WA ENTER THE DRU! ADULT R&B: RUFF ENDZ NOW, GET READY FOR DRU WORLD DOMINATION! Someone To Love You (EPIC) RAP: NELLY FEATURING KELLY ROWLAND Dilemma (F0' REEL/UNIVERSALIUMRG) T40, R&B Overlap j[1[11,,F7 Nearly 50% IN by Sean Ross Last fall, mainstream top 40 was ratcheting down the amount of music it took from the rhythmic and R&B world (at least slightly) and "1 SHOULD BE..." reaching out for more rock titles, particularly as acts like Linkin Park, Nickelback, and Staind her- alded aresurgence . of guitar rock. WZNIX 42x WPEG 24x KPRS 16x WBOT 12x WVEE 10x But that was before rock acts began making it WERO 38x WGCI 21x WPWX 15x WHXT 11x WIZF 10x clear that they didn't want to play top 40 station shows or even be interviewed on top 40 stations. WCHH 30x WJKS 20x WEDR 15x WDKX 10x WPGC 8x So this fall, Airplay Monitor's latest look at musical WXYV 32x WJNIZ 18x KRWP 15x WPHR 10x WDTJ 8x sharing between formats shows that the amount WJHRII 32x WBLK 17x WWPR 14x WKYS 10x WJLB 8x of music coming from rock is leveling, but the percentage of rhythmic top 40 and R&B hits that KDKS 12x eventually show up at top 40 has skyrocketed, more than doubling in the case of R&B/hip-hop "Dru Hill is back! Top 5phones out da box! Do the Dru!" Dion Summers PD WERO radio. Monitor looked at eight major current-based "Good early phones. It sounds better the more you hear it!" Tiffany Green APO/MO WGCI formats to see how many of their hits eventually made it to mainstream top 40. We did so by tal- lying the percent- "Dru Hill is untouchable! 'I Should Be' is asmash!" Cedric Hollywood PD WEDR age of songs on those formats' "We're aheavy rap station but 'I Should Be' is aballad we can & will Play!" Steve Murray PD WEUP May 31 chart that ruicLusivE had made it to "It's aHit! 'I Should Be' was on-air as soon as Igot the CD!" KJ Holiday PD WJLB mainstream top 40 by Sept. 27. Monitor "I Should Be is aHit! Good to have Dru Hill back together. Early phones to start!" Skip Dillard PD WBLK The four-month lag was meant to ANALYSIS j "Instant Phones! ILove this record!!" Terry Avery PD/ WPEG . give songs time to cross over; we weren't necessarily measuring the amount of songs that are on both formats at any given time as top 40 PDs' willingness to acknowl- THE NEW SINGLE FROM THE FORTHCOMING ALBUM edge the major records on their competitors at some point. And, boy, were top 40 PDs willing to acknowl- DRU -WORLD ORDER edge hits from R&B—a major change from past years. In 1997, the first year for which we've com- pared the numbers, only 15% of the 40 most- IN STORES NOV. 26TH played songs at R&B could count on ever getting , soul to mainstream top 40. Now, an incredible 43% WWW.DRU H I LL. NET / WWVV.DE FSOU L.COM UN ISLAND MI JRNI NIEINC GROUP of the songs on R&B/hip-hop radio in May had A UNIVERSAL MUSIC COMPANY en 2002 THE ISLAND DEF JAM MUSIC GINILIP PIN shown up at mainstream top 40 by summer's end. That's easily the highest percent of musical PARENTAL EDITED sharing in the Monitor era, although that era ADVISORY DECIDE ALSO EVARABLE began in late '92/early '93, just as an R&B back- EXPLICIT CONTENT lash was taking hold at mainstream top 40; the www.parentalgulde.org Continued on page 4 WorldRadioHistory Produced by Eddie Hustle for The Hustle lndustry/Bystorm Entertainment Executive Producers: Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas, lionne "T•Boz" Watkins IS Antonio "LA" Reid Co•Executive Producer: Bill Biggins WorldRadioHistory RADIOACTIVE BY DANA HALT!» 646 -654 -4711 •[email protected] BY MINAL PATEL 646-654-4623 •mpatel@airplaymonitorcom Flex/Lova Spat Spurs Legal Action Plenty Of Change On Charts For Musiq The altercation reported last week between Dave Labrozzi; CC/Clc eland regional director It's a big week for Musiq at various Re:.9'B Airplay Monitor formats, as "dontchange" (Def WQHT (Hot 97) New York's Funkmaster Flex of programming operations Kevin Metheney; Soul/IDJMG) and rival WWPR (Power 105.1) 's Steph Lova has and WNCI Columbus, Ohio, PD Jimmy Steele. •Moves 15-10 on the R&B/hip-hop chart, bringing his tally there to four top 10 hits. escalated to more legal action. New York's Daily KRPW (Power 97.5) Houston takes amore •Earns Greatest Gainer honors on the adult R&B chart with an increase of 105 spins. It's now News reports that Hot 97 plans to seek an order adult R&B stance, dropping most current rap No. 5, right behind its predecessor, "halfcrazy." of protection against Lova, charging that "many but keeping aspecialty show focusing on old- •Gains 225 crossover spins, cracking the top 20 in both audience and detections on that chart, of our staff have witnessed her lingering in front school hip-hop every weeknight hosted by Cut thus qualifying for Airpower status. of the Hot 97 offices at all hours of the night and Creator. The Power 97.5 staff stays intact. Late- day. Her repeated, uninvited presence has made nighter UP G. picks up production director INDUSTRY 411: Hollywood Records VP of urban promotions Marvyn Mack exits. For now, he our employees extremely uncomfortable." duties as well. may be reached at the office at 818-560-7600 or via his two-way pager at [email protected]. Lova has in turn filed alawsuit against Flex, WKQB Fayetteville, N.C., PD/p.m. driver Bill Virgin Records VP of urban promotion Mark Boyd moves over to Universal-Motown Records charging that she suffered emotional and physi- Black returns to WHXT (Hot 103) Columbia, to work with the urban promotion department. He'll remain based in Los Angeles. cal pain when he allegedly attacked her outside S.C. (where he was previously MD/afternoon As reported in Billboard Bit hell ,Jermaine Dupri's So So Def imprint will not renew its deal with the Hot 97 offices. Flex, who was released from host) for nights. Columbia after almost 10 years. Bow Wow, Jagged Edge, Da Brat, and Dupri are among the acts police custody after turning himself in after the KTCX Beaumont, Texas, hires Kim Stevens as on the So So Def roster. incident, had earlier denied to the News that he PD, replacing Chris Clay, who exited during the attacked Lova. summer. Stevens was most recently production director at WVEE (V103) Atlanta. M Street Format Monitor MMTC BREAKS IT DOWN FOR FCC It generated tons of publicity and attracted 'lue Minority Media and lelecommunications the attention of Canada's broadcast regulator. Council (MMTC) has sent aletter to the FCC Now market observers say the uncensored rap Adult R&B Falls Below 200-Station Mark documenting a1999 study that outlines discrim- records have stopped airing on new crossover ination by broadcasters and cable companies R&B outlet CKEY (Wild 101) Buffalo, N.Y. RANK (iD STATION COUNT against minorities and women. The MMTC rep- Locals say the unedited titles—thought to be The (( ()ÏFORMAT resents civil rights and religious organizations and airable under Canada's different broadcast MONITOR , educational institutions in the FCC's EEO rule- rules—only lasted about aweek. Phil Becker, PD = MStred GAIN ,z , D , LOSS making proceedings. The study found that 20% of WJFX Fort Wayne, Ind., is the new PD at M Street Corp. 2002 NET THISMONTH OR MONTH Copyright THIS 3 FORMATS u).9 <cP vtP I of broadcasters intentionally discriminate against CKEY. Rob Grey remains OM for owner Niagara I 0 African-Americans and 15% intentionally do so Broadcasting, which is in asales arrangement ,, 1 Country 2,124 2,124 2,179 2 News/Talk 1,198 1,198 1,135 0 against women. The letter to the FCC said, "The with U.S. broadcaster Citadel. Also, Citadel's 3 Oldies 805 803 797 NJ study examined minority and female employ- Scott Mahalick says that the station is not, as 4 Religion (Music) 703 698 722 (31 ment patterns of companies ... and identified widely believed, being consulted by Jerry 5 Adult Contemporary 688 696 720 to Clifton, although the veteran programmer was firms' departures from these employment pat- 6 Classic Rock/Hits 656 650 610 a) terns that were so extreme that intentional dis- involved in the sign-on. 7 Spanish 614 614 574 o crimination is legally presumed." KTBT (the Beat) Tulsa, Olda., staffs up, under 8 Adult Standards 535 539 571 ), newly official PD/middayer Steve Fisk. Via voice- 9 Top 40 480 477 470 L...) BUSINESS: SUPERADIO SOLD tracking, Krazy Kidd and Ruben will handle 10 Top 40 Adult 404 397 373 -4 Syndicator SupeRadio has been sold to Access mornings (they're based at sister K772 Phoenix), 11 Sports 392 394 360 lñ.) I ...«) 12 Soft AC/Easy Listening 363 366 387 ( 1Communications—a minority-owned broad- and Deja Vu will do afternoons from WWPR.

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