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ChuckTaylor (Features), Ray Waddell (Touring, Nashville) In the Senate, the Anti- Counterfeiting Initiative of 2002, intro- for the bill's title caused alarm and was good Senior Writer. Chris Morris (LA.) duced by Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr., D -Del., would give record com- The bill's co- sponsors are Sens. Patrick Leahy, D -Vt.; Orrin G. Special Correspondent/Music Publishing Editor. Jim Bessman Art Director: Jeff Nisbet panies and movie studios the same counterfeiting protections Hatch, R -Utah; Richard J. Durbon, D -Ill.; and Associate Editors: Jill Kipnis (Home Video, L.A.), Brian Garrity (Merchants & Marketing /Music & Money), now afforded to computer software companies. Charles E. Grassley, R -Iowa. Carla Hay (Heatseekers/Music & Showbiz), Gail Mitchell (R &B, L.A.), Wes Orshoski, The bill, S. 2395, would expand law to Hill veterans say political arm Michael Paoletta (Dance), Deborah Evans Price (Country/Christian, Nashville), current that Emma Warby (Copy), ChristaTiitus make illegal the duplication of watermarking, wrestling over Bush administration judicial Staff Writers: Susanne Ault (L.A.), Matthew Benz, Rashaun Hall Assistant Editors: Christopher Walsh (Pro Audio), Chris Woods holograms, and other management technolo- UNITED nominees could get in the way of the passage Art Assistant: Raymond Carlson bills before August recess. Contributors: Bradley Bambarger, Rhonda Baraka, Fred Bronson, Ramiro Burr, Lisa Collins. gies. It also allows copyright owners to sue STATES of the Senate the Steven Graybow, Larry LeBlanc, Moira McCormick, David Nathan, Matthew Robinson, alleged pirates and gives federal prosecutors In the House, a pro- industry bill to be intro- Steve Smith, SteveTraiman SENATE Assistant to the Editor In Chief: Allison Farber authority to prosecute repeat offenders. duced by Rep. Howard Berman, D- Calif., before Editorial Assistant: Margo Whitmire (L.A.) House moves recess Friday (26) has gained INTERNATIONAL (London) In written remarks, Biden said the measure the to International Editor: Tom Ferguson is needed because "in addition to the financial important bipartisan support with the addition News Editor: Gordon Masson Bureau Chiefs: Christie Eliezer (Australasia, Melbourne), Kai R. Lofthus (Nordic, Stockholm), loss to artists and innovators and to entire of co- sponsor Rep. Howard Coble, R -N.C., the Steve McClure (Asia, Tokyo), Wolfgang Spahr (Germany, Hamburg) `The creative talent Contributing Editors: Sam Andrews, Nigel Hunter, Kwaku, Paul Sexton, Nigel Williamson industries, the creative talent of thousands of chairman of the Subcommittee on Courts, the SPECIAL SECTIONS (Los Angeles) Americans is being stolen, and we ought to do Internet and Intellectual Property. (Berman is Director of Special Sections: GENE SCULATTI of thousands of International Editor: Thom Duffy (N.Y.) everything in our power to encourage and sup- the ranking Democrat on the subcommittee.) Associate Diredor. Dalet Brady port American ingenuity and creativity." The The measure would help the music indus- Assistant Editor: Katy Kroll Americans is being Coordinator: Marin Jorgensen measure sailed through the Senate Judiciary try battle abusers of peer-to -peer (P2P) file CHARTS ö RESEARCH 13 stolen, and we ought Director of Charts: GEOFF MAYFIELD (LA.) Committee July 17. The bill currently has sharing by legalizing such so- called "self- help" Chart Managers: Bob Men ( Boxscore, Nashville), Keith Caulfield (Pop Catalog Soundtracks, co- sponsors from both parties. measures as interdiction, file blocking, and Production Credits, LA), Anthony Colombo (Mainstream Rock, Spotlight Recaps), Ricardo Com- to do everything panioni (Dance, Latin), Steven Graybow (Jazz, Blues, Modern Rock), Wade lessen (Bluegrass, Also gaining committee approval last month spoofing that can be used to interfere with and Country, Contemporary Christian, Gospel, Nashville), Geoff Mayfield (The Billboard 200, Heatseekers, LA.), Patrick McGowan (Adult Contemporary, AduitTop 40), Gordon Murray and awaiting a full Senate vote is the Reducing in our power to slow down P2P services. The Berman -Coble (Electronic), Minai Patel (R &B /Hip Hop), Silvio Pietro uongo (The Billboard Hot 100,Top 40 Tracks), Marc Zubatkin (Video, Classical, Kid Audio, World Music, New Age, Reggae) Americans' Vulnerability to Ecstacy (RAVE) Act. bill has safeguards to ensure that industry self - Chart Production Manager: Michael Cusson Associate Chart Production Manager: Alex Vitoulis Another bill that was introduced by Biden, S. encourage and help measures would not rise to the level of Administrative Assistant: Mary DeCroce (Nashville) 2633, expands the current crack -house law, hacking in any destructive form (Billboard, Archive Research: 646 -654 -4633 support American SALES which makes it a felony to provide a space for the July 20). A hearing will be scheduled after Con- Associate Publisher/Worldwide: IRWIN KORNFELD Group Advertising Director (East ä Telemarketing): Pat Jennings purpose of illegal drug use. The measure would gress returns from recess in September. Advertising Directors: Andy Anderson (Urban), Ian Remmer (West) ingenuity and New York: Joe Maimone give federal prosecutors new powers and subject News of the legislation followed published Los Angeles: Aki Kaneko, Michelle Wright reports in the Recording Industry Nashville: Phil Hart, Cynthia Mellow, Lee Ann Photoglo event promoters to $250,000 fines and a year- creativity.' early July that Advertising Coordinator: Eric Vitoulis long jail term if they hosted events for the pur- Assn. of America was considering lawsuits against Advertising Assistants: Julie Crider (Nashville), Loreta Genco (L.A.), Rosa laquez, BIDEN, D -DEL. Kelly Gateson (U.K.) pose of providing an arena for illegal drug use. -SEN. JOSEPH large -scale P2P abusers. Berman says he favors Classified /Directories: Jeff Sarrette Associate Publisher /International: GENE SMITH Opponents -including the American Civil such suits as part of a suite of protection measures. Advertising Director (Europe): Christine Chinetti Northern Europe /U.K.: Frederic Fenucci, +44- 207 -420 -6075 Liberties Union-fear the bill would chill legit- Several other bills await action when Con- Asia- Padfc/Australia: Linda Matich, 612 -9440 -7777, Fax: 612 -9440 -7788 imate from hosting future events and drive rave cul- gress returns, including a measure that would allow recording Japan: Aki Kaneko, 323-525-2299 promoters Latin America /Miami: Marcia Olival, 305-864-7578, Fax: 305 -864-3227 ture underground without adequate health safeguards. artists to exploit their out-of -print recordings and another that Mexico/West Coast Latin: Daisy Ducret, 323 -782 -6250 Caribbean: Betty Ward, 954- 929-5120 Biden's staff released a point -by -point analysis of the bill's pro- seeks to rein in anti -competitive radio consolidation and stem MARKETING ó LICENSING RAVE play- for-pay radio (Billboard, July 6). Associate Publisher: HOWARD APPELBAUM visions, saying the criminal provisions of the bill "have noth- practices at stations Promotion Director: Peggy Altenpohl Director of Rights ó Clearances: Susan Kaplan Associate Art Director: Melissa Subatch Promotion Coordinator: Alexandra Merceron Director of Conferences ó Special Events: Michele Jacangelo Special Events Coordinator: Phyllis Demo Sponsorship Coordinator: Cebele Rodriguez Circulation Director: JEANNE JAMIN California Senate Holds Labels 'Accountable' Group Sales Manager: Katia Ducheine Circulation Manager: Anastasia Wahl Assistant Circulation Manager: Lakesha Artis Practices During Seven -Hour Hearing Circulation Assistant: Jamie DeFour Artists' Reps Challenge industry's Accounting International Circulation Marketing Director: Ben Eva (London) Circulation Marketing: Stephanie Beames, Paul Brigden PRODUCTION BY TAMARA CONNIFF lent practices might prompt the adoption generally tagged on to an artist's bill with- Director of Production & Manufacturing: MARIE R. 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Quoting from a NEW MEDIA fornia Senate Judiciary Committee ommended standards Editorial Director: KEN SCHLAGER hearing July 23 in Sacramento. the object of haggling during the contract - study conducted by an outside economist, Billboard Bulletin: Carolyn Horwitz (Managing Editor), Erik Gruenwedel (News Editor, L.A.), Lars Brandie (International Editor, London), Label reps, on the other hand, main- negotiation process. he said, "Of total revenue from domestic L.A.) Troy Carpenter (Assistant Editor), Todd Martens (Assistant Editor, last 11 years, Billboard.com: Barry Jeckell (Senior Editor), Jonathan Cohen (News /Reviews Editor), tained that audits of royalty rates and Murray has also spearheaded the possi- sales and licensing over the Sam D. 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Kevin Murray, D- Culver City, workers in all other fields cannot be held to artists usually renegotiate their deals for Assistant to the Publisher: Sylvia Sirin and to look into alleged underpayment of artist contracts for more than seven years. higher advances and royalty rates after PRESIDENT & PUBLISHER: HOWARD LANDER royalties by record labels. A number of In addition to Engel and Wolinsky, testi- their first hit album. BILLBOARD OFFICES artists, most recently Dixie Chicks, have fying on the musicians' behalf were artists The label reps did not get the chance to New York Washington, D.C. London 770 Broadway 1700K St. N.W. Endeavour House filed suit against their labels, claiming Sam Moore and Montell Jordan, attorney directly address the issue of alleged fraud- NewYork, NY 10003 Suite 306 189 Shaftesbury Avenue 646- 654 -4400 Washington, DC 20006 London WC2H 8E1 underpayment (Billboard, July 28, 2001). 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ARTIST ALBUM PAGE THE BILLBOARD 200 AUGUST 3, 2002 VOLUME 114, No. 31 52 DAVE MATTHEWS BAND Busted Stuff turn on RCA's Shake It Off. an accurate depiction of life in 27 Top of the News SOUNDTRACK 0 Brother, Where Art Thou? 21 Words & Deeds: Elektra the hip -hop music business. Cl SSÍCAL 8 Central South /Value Music 54 newcomer Knoc-Turn'Al gives CARRERAS-DOMINGO- PAVAROTTI The Best Of The 3Tenors plan merger in an attempt to fans a taste of what's to come on Features negotiate the tough retail market. 6 Market Watch 54 his debut. ANDREA BOCELLI Cieli Di Toscana 23 Beat Box: Alcazar makes 46 Classifieds 26 its U.S. debut with Casino on E- 48 Update /Good Works: DARRYL WORLEY I Miss My Friend Magine Entertainment. Wayne Newton will star in Mar- Country: Arista Nashville's shall Field department store's DIRTY VEGAS Dirty Vegas 24 25 lfi; Phil Vassar follows up his Glamorama, benefiting the Chil- 55 award -winning debut with dren's Cancer Research Fund and American Child. the Art Institute of Chicago. INDEPENDENT Between the Bullets: Dave KHIA FEATURING DSD Thug Misses 55 28 Latin Notas: Columbia/ 51 Legacy celebrates the history Matthews Band's Busted Stuff of Latin music with a bevy of debuts at No. 1 on The Billboard DAVE MATTHEWS BAND Busted Stuff 56 catalog reissues. major overhaul of its European 200, with the second -largest 54 distribution network. sales week in Matthews' career. DIANA KRALL The Look Of Love Artists & Music 31 Nominees for the Latin 7 Executive Turntable: Andy Grammy Awards' major categories. 36 Hits of the World: Red Hot 67 Billboard.com: What's 54 online this week. NORAH JONES Come Away With Me Schuon is named president of 32 Jazz Notes: Drummer Jeff Chili Peppers continue dominat- programming for Infinity Radio. "Tain "Watts' second set, Bar ing the international albums 68 The Billboard BackBeat 54 charts by topping 11 this issue. KIDZ BOP KIDS Kidz Bop 10 U.K. chart newcomer Daniel Talk, is released on Columbia. Bedingfield brings his sound 33 Songwriters & Publishers: 37 Global Music Pulse: Ire- 30 LOS TEMERARIOS Una Lagrima No Basta stateside. John Hichborn's Records on the land's Carly Hennessy makes her MCA debut with Ultimate High. The Beat: Robert Randolph Wall helps artists recover unpaid 54 10 ENYA A Day Without Rain & the Family Band prepare the royalties. follow -up to Live at the Wetlands. 34 Studio Monitor: Profes- Merchants & Marketing BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS Legend 56 12 Soundtracks: Rhino Rec- sionals at Larrabee Sound discuss al Companies showcase their the Solid State Logic XL K series. latest designs in digital -music 22 ords readies two newTV sound- track albums. hardware atTechExpo. International 56 13 The Classical Score: Edi- 42 Declarations of Independents: DISNEY'S LILO & STITCH tor Alison Latham redefines the 35 The second phase of the Vanguard Records' late co- mission of The Oxford Compan- EMI Group redesign will involve a founder Seymour Solomon and ARTIST TITLE PAGE ion to Music in its latest edition. the label's forays into folk. HOT 100 Retail Track: The Virgin 61 14 Touring: CCE and AEG Live 43 again join to present the fall leg Entertainment Group highlights ADULT CONTEMPORARY its recent Best of the British pro- 59 of Paul McCartney's U.S. tour. CELINE DION A New Day Has Come motion with a seminar that dis- 15 Boxscore: Eagles continue cusses British music in America. 59 to soar, grossing nearly $4 mil- lion from four sold -out shows. 44 Home Video: The Jim Hen- son Co. celebrates 25 years of KENNY CHESNEY The Good Stuff 27 16 Reviews & Previews: Bruce The Muppet Show. o. Springsteen, the Topdog/Under- 24 dog and Beth Orton PERPETUOUS DREAMER The Sound Of Goodbye soundtrack, At a Glance are in the spotlight. Programming 24 57 Chart Artist Index DJ SAMMY & YANOU FEATURING DO Heaven 19 R &B: Jarvis Church, one of 49 Music & Showbiz: Actor the producers behind Nelly Furta- Taye Diggs says his latest film, 62 Chart Song Index 29? do's debut album, does a solo Fox Searchlight's Brown Sugar, is

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TM RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS By The Way `RISING' HIGH: Bruce Springsteen has his highest-debuting single in slight- Top Classical Albums. Hailie Jade is only 6 years old (born Dec. 25, 59 AVRIL LAVIGNE Complicated ly more than 10 years, as 'The Rising" (Columbia) hits the ground run- 1995), but that's old enough to be featured on her father's new sin- ning at No. 52 on The Billboard Hot 100. The last Springsteen single with gle. "My Dad's Gone Crazy" (Web /Aftermath/Interscope) by Eminem a higher first -week position was the double -sided "Human Touch"/"Bet- Featuring Hailie Jade opens at No. 74, one of two debuting Eminem ter Days," which opened at No. 29 in March 1992. "Human Touch" is the tracks this issue. ( "Cleanin' Out My Closet" is new at No. 61.) highest- debuting Springsteen single of all time, winning by a hair over At the opposite end of the scale is a man born 122 years and 10 "Hungry Heart," which entered at No. 30 in November 1980. 'The Ris- months before Hailie Jade. The late Italian tenor Enrico Caruso is ing" is his first song to chart in the 21st century and the first to appear on new at No. 14 with Italian Songs (RCA Victor). the Hot 100 since "Secret Garden" peaked at No. 19 in May 1997. If "My Dad's Gone Crazy" makes it to No. 1 on the R &B chart, Only five titles have debuted higher than "The Rising" in 2002. Hailie Jade would be the first artist born in the '90s to top that chart. The year's highest debut is Brandy's "What About Us ?," a new entry ARTIST ALBUM at No. 42 in January. That same month, B2K's "Uh Huh" started POETRY IN MOTION: Look for the artists in the top two of next issue's LUE at No. 43. In May, Eminem's "Without Me" (which slides 2 -6 this Hot 100 to have first names that rhyme. Nelly is almost certain to 1 Reel/Universal) ETTA JAMES & THE ROOTS BAND Burnin' Down The House issue) opened at No. 44. The current No. 1, Nelly's "Hot in Herre," be No. and No. 2, with "Hot in Herre" (Fo' and debuted at No. 49, also in May. Three weeks ago, "A Little Less the follow-up, "Dilemma," which features Kelly Rowland. There's Conversation" by Elvis Presley vs. JXL was a new entry at No. 50. a strong possibility that "Dilemma" will dominate, making Nelly "The Rising" is the 23rd chart single of Springsteen's career, which the sixth artist to have two consecutive No. 1 hits, following Elvis Daddy, and Rule. MARY MARY Incredible spans 26 years and 11 months, dating back to the debut of `Born to Presley, the Beatles, Boyz II Men, Puff Ja Run" in August 1975. That means none of the American Idol con- were first charted on the Hot 100. NOT A BRIT: Thanks to U.K. author Dave McAleer for pointing out OZZY OSBOURNE Live At Budokan testants born when Springsteen that Daniel Bedingfield was born in New Zealand, not Britain, as AGE GAP: What could be the widest -ever difference in ages between mentioned last issue. VARIOUS ARTISTS Reggae Gold 20 artists debuting on Billboard charts exists this issue, thanks to a song entering Hot R&B/Hip -Hop Singles & Tracks and a CD debuting on More Fred Bronson each week at www.billboard.com. ISRAEL KAMAKAWIWO'OLE Alone In Iz World

BILLBOARD AUGUST 3, 2002 www.billboard.com 5 www.americanradiohistory.com u Structural Issues Addressed At AOLTW Curb Named Chairman CEO Dick Parsons Says New Appointments Mark `A True Turning Point' BY MATTHEW BENZ Bewkes, Parsons added, "blends same period last year, in large part as a Of Word Entertainment NEW YORK -With the appointment financial expertise with a deep appreci- result of its January acquisition of Word of former HBO chairman/CEO Jeff ation of the creative process." He began Entertainment. Thanks to cost cuts, BY DEBORAH EVANS PRICE ment, the Christian music label/ Bewkes as chairman of the new enter- at HBO in 1979, becoming chair - earnings before interest, taxes, depre- NASHVILLE- Ending speculation publishing company that Warner tainment and networks group within man/CEO in 1995. Thanks to such pro- ciation, and amortization rose 17.2 %, that Curb Records might take its purchased in January. Curb Records AOL Time Warner (AOLTW), oversight grams as Six Feet Under and Sex and to $102 million. distribution elsewhere, founder and was among the companies compet- of the Warner Music Group (WMG) the City, HBO -which now boasts AOLTW's biggest challenge is flagging chairman Mike Curb has expanded ing to acquire Word but was edged falls to a creative -minded executive. Yet about 38 million subscribers -recent- growth at AOL itself. Yet thanks to film his company's relationship with out by WMG. keeping the creative businesses on revenue, as well as continued strength in Warner Music Group The Word reporting track may be the least of the concerns the publishing and cable divisions, (WMG). WEA will con- structure remains un- for Bewkes and other AOLTW brass, AOLTime Warner AOLTW posted second -quarter revenue tinue to manufacture changed, with Malcolm who continue to grapple with struc- of $10.6 billion, a 14% increase from a and distribute Curb C R Mimms continuing to re- R E C O R D s tural and financial problems. year ago. It had net income of $394 mil- product in the U.S., port to Warner Bros. Nash- Bewkes' appointment was part of a ly garnered 93 Emmy Award nomina- lion, or 9 cents per share, compared to while Warner Music ville president Jim Ed Nor- larger restructuring at AOLTW that tions, more than any other network. a net loss of $734 million, or 17 cents International will continue as Curb's man, who reports to Warner Bros. includes the departure of COO (and for- Through a spokeswoman, Ames per share last year, when it recorded exclusive distributor in Latin Amer- Records chairman Tom Whalley. mer AOL exec) Robert Pittman, to calls Bewkes "a strong operational $1.78 billion in amortization charges. ica, Europe, and parts of Asia (Bill- On the publishing front, Warner/ whom WMG chairman/CEO Roger executive in a creative business. He has But a new headache emerged July board Bulletin, July 24). Chappell will administer Curb Mu- Ames had been reporting since May a tremendous interest in music and 24, when Parsons said the Securities As part of the new agreement, sic's interests outside the U.S., Cana- (Billboard, July 27). Bewkes also gains knowledge of the industry. I look for- & Exchange Commission had begun Mike Curb will become a partner in da, and Japan; Curb will continue to oversight of AOLTW's film and TV ward to his contributions to [WMG] as a fact -finding inquiry into issues raised and chairman of Word Entertain- self-administer domestically. assets. Don Logan, formerly head of we continue to grow our business and by a recent Washington Post report on Time Inc., now chairs a media and com- face the industry's challenges." certain accounting methods at AOL. munications group that includes AOL, Despite an industry -wide sales Parsons called the allegations "with- Time Warner Cable, and Time Inc. decline, WMG had second -quarter rev- out merit" but said AOLTW would In a memo to employees, AOLTW enue of $972 million -up 4% from the cooperate fully. Watch CEO Dick Parsons wrote that achiev- Market ing "unity of vision and execution" A Weekly National Music Sales Report within AOLTW "has proven harder than we first thought," but that "the Carlos Vives Leads Latin 200'. 2002 appointments of Don and Jeff mark a true turning point." Total 405,324,000 353,611,000 (ó12.8 %) Grammy Nominations Albums 384,176,000 346,302,000 (89.9 %) Singles 21,148,000 7,309,000 %) BY LEILA COBO Los Angeles and received news of his (x65.4 MIAMI -Colombian Carlos Vives, nominations in Colombia, the acco- YEAR -TO -DATE SALES BY ALBUM FORMAT whose album De'jame Entrar (EMI lades showered on Déjame Entrar- In The News 2001 2002 Latin) won a Grammy Award in Feb- an album that came in the wake of the Sony's music division had an ruary for best traditional tropical phenomenally successful El Amor de CD 355,685,000 327,507,000 ( 7.9 %) operating loss for the quarter Latin album, has the opportunity to Mi Werra-are particularly sweet: 'We Cassette 27,741, 000 17,953,000 ( 35.3%) ended June 30 of 10.3 billion yen duplicate his feat, thanks to six Latin had to show that this wasn't a question Other 750,000 842,000 ( 12.3 %) ($86 million), as lower music sales Grammy Award nominations. of luck, but that we knew what we hurt both its U.S. and Japanese Vives leads an eclectic pack of nom- were doing, that it's not a fad but a seri- discovers new things." arms. A year ago, it had operating inees that includes veteran salsa queen ous project that This Week 12,053,000 This Week 2001 14,277,000 income of 4.4 billion yen ($36 mil- Celia Cruz (with four nominations for Receptiveness to Vives' tropical/pop lion). Revenue was 137.2 billion the very hip La Negra Tiene 7umbao), fusion has also opened the door to Last Week 11,642,000 Change x15.6% yen ($1.15 billion), down 5.6 %. followed by Spanish pop stylist Miguel acceptance of similar acts, including Change 3.5% Bosé, Miami -based producer Emilio Juanes and Cabas-another Colom- DataPlay has struck a deal with Estefan Jr., Colombian Juanes, Peru- bian nominated for best new artist, RCA Label Group Nashville to re- vian newcomer Gian who plays what he calls This Week 11,836,000 This Week 2001 13,232,000 lease prerecorded titles on the new Marco, and multiple "contemporary Carib- Last Week 11,457,000 Change 810.6% digital -media format this fall. The Latin Grammy winner bean" music. "I'm just Change deal marks the second label- specif- Alejandro Sanz, with happy they put my ic pact between BMG and DataPlay three nominations each. music somewhere," Ca- 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 as part of a broad -based alliance; a In keeping with what bas says. "At least now I This Week 217,000 This Week 2001 1,045,000 as deal with Arista was announced in has quickly become a won't have to give Last Week 185,000 Change x79.2% May. DataPlay has similar alliances Latin Grammy tradition, many explanations." with Universal Music Group and the nominees- announ- Last year's ceremony, Change 17.3% EMI, but no specific label deals ced July 24 at a press slated for Sept. 11, was YEAR-TO -DATE SALES BY STORE TYPE have been announced. DataPlay conference in Beverly postponed and eventu- 2001 2002 also has a deal with Zomba for Hills, Calif. -represent a ally canceled. The third material from Jive. wide variety of countries annual Latin Grammy Chain 209,404,000 179,711,000 (814.2 %) and styles, many of them Awards ceremony is Independent 55,386,000 45,140,000 (818.5 %) A spokesman for Rep. Rick decidedly uncommercial scheduled to take place Mass Merchant 106,683,000 109,820,000 (Q2.9 %) Boucher, D -Va., says the lawmak- outside their places of origin. But this Sept. 18 at the Kodak Center in Los er is "optimistic" that his bill to year's nominee list is particularly note- Angeles and will air live on CBS. Nontraditional 12,702,000 11,631,000 (88.4 %) help small Webcasters defer royal- worthy for the many new artists it con- Awards will be presented in 40 cate- YEAR -TO -DATE ALBUM SALES BY STORE LOCALE ties due labels and artists will be tains, including Mexican pop duo Sin gories, including the newly created 2001 2002 introduced before House members Bandera, Puerto Rican rock band best contemporary tropical album leave for recess. Boucher's bill Circo, and Mexican rock band Elefante, and best Christian album categories. City 90,349,000 80,270,000 (811.2 %) comes amid reports from the Web - which have two nominations each. This marks the first time the Latin Suburb 160,924,000 143,513,000 (810.8 %) casting community that hundreds A newcomer of a different sort, Grammy Awards take place under the Rural 132,902,000 122,519,000 (87.8 %) of small, noncommercial stations newly established label Maverick umbrella of a newly formed board of may go under because of the rate, Música, garnered nods for three artists trustees for the Latin Academy of ROUNDED FIGURES FOR WEEK ENDING 7 /21/02 which was set in June. A hearing (DJ José Padilla, Nicole, and Jorge Recording Arts and Sciences. Compiled from a national sample of retail store and rack sales reports collected, compiled, and provided by N. Nielsen would follow in September. Moreno) in three different categories. For a partial list of nominees, see SounoScan For Vives, who missed his flight to page 31.

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Central South, Value Music Retail Chains To Merge

BY ED CHRISTMAN locations carrying the Spin Street logo. facility, supplied by Fleet Financial. competitors for many years and have NEW YORK-The planned merger be- Also this week (29), the merger be- `When you put these Davidson says the merger will re- mutual respect for one another." tween Central South Music Sales and tween CD World and Streetside to companies together, sult in the adoption of the best busi- Discussing how the merger came Value Music marks the second time create a 19 -store chain with $33 mil- ness practices of both chains. Rob about, Davidson says, "Everyone knows this summer that a marriage between lion in revenue (Billboard Bulletin, one plus one Perkins, president/CEO of Atlanta - the state of the industry. It became nec- two independently financially sound May 9) is expected to close. based Value Music, adds, "When you essary [for] the two companies [to] chains has occurred, as music specialty In the deal announced July 23, Cen- equals three.' put these companies together, one come together to form a much merchants attempt to negotiate the in- tral South will own 60% of the new plus one equals three." Davidson will stronger organization." Similarly, -ROB PERKINS. VALUE MUSIC creasingly tough retail market. company, with Value Music owning the be CEO and Perkins president of the David Lang, who will head the merged The deal, which has a signed letter rest, although the board of directors merged company. CD World/Streetside chain, agrees that of intent with a closing expected in late will be split evenly between the two par- South warehouse and the Value Davidson says that the merger is a the environment is forcing strong summer, will create a new company ties. Central South president Randy Music computer systems, Davidson perfect marriage because both organ- chains to merge in order to remain with 123 stores and about $140 million Davidson says the new entity will in- confirms. The new company will izations have tremendous integrity. competitive with discount department in revenue. Nashville -based Central clude the Central South one -stop oper- have a $25 million revolving credit Perkins adds, "We have been friendly stores and consumer electronic chains. South runs 73 stores under the logos of ation but not the Christian and gospel Sound Shop and Music for Less; Valley music distribution business, which Music operates 50 stores, mainly under Central South will wholly retain. the name Music for a Song, with two The company will use the Central Alan Lomax's Musical Legacy Endures BY CHRIS MORRIS American folk movement of the '40s, LOS ANGELES-In his 1980 biogra- then linked to the political left. His phy of folk singer Woody Guthrie -one championing of performers like Pete of several artists whose art was advanced Seeger and Seeger's group the by Alan Lomax-writer Joe Klein de- Weavers led to Lomax's ostracism dur- scribes Lomax as "a promoter as well as ing the McCarthy era of the early '50s. a collector, someone who found ways to From 1950 to '57, Lomax lived in Eng- bring the music and the message to the land and recorded the folk music of widest possible audience." Spain and Italy. Lomax died July 19 in Safety Har- In later years, the venerable ar- bor, Fla. He was 87. The cause of his chivist continued to collect, record, death was unreported, but the leg- publish, and popularize folk music of endary folklorist's health had declined all stripes. His 1960 book The Folk after two strokes in 1995. Songs of North America is a standard Born Jan. 15, 1915, in Austin, Lomax Alan continued to record for the text. His 1959 -60 Southern field trip was the son of John Lomax, an aca- Library of Congress into the '40s. His resulted in 19 albums issued by At- demic- turned -song collector and 1938 interviews with garrulous New lantic and Prestige. He produced the author of the seminal Cowboy Songs. Orleans jazz pioneer Jelly Roll Morton documentary The Land Where the BROADCASTING: Andy Schuon is Nick Records in Santa Monica, Calif. As a teen, Alan accompanied his father resulted in a 12 -LP set and the book Blues Began (also an award -winning named president of programming She was senior director of talent. on field trips for the Library of Congress Mister Jelly Roll. He secured national book) and PBS' American Patchwork. for Infinity Radio in New York. He Katina Bynum is promoted to in the South and West. On one 1933 radio exposure for Guthrie, whom he In recent years, his work was sampled was president/CEO of Pressplay. senior director of marketing for Uni- trip to record convicts at Angola State recorded for the national archive, and by Moby on the hit album Play and versal Records in New York. She was Prison Farm in Louisiana, the Lomax - he also produced Guthrie's classic 1940 anthologized on the 0 Brother, Where RECORD COMPANIES: Dan Cohen is director of marketing. es discovered Huddie Ledbetter, a con- RCA Victor album Dust Bowl Ballads. Art Thou? soundtrack; Rounder Rec- named head of marketing for Palm Steven Bresalier is promoted to victed murderer known as "Leadbelly"; He found bluesman Muddy Waters on ords has been reissuing Lomax's ar- Pictures in New York. He was head controller, director of finance for after John Lomax helped secure the a Mississippi plantation in 1941 and chival work since 1997. of marketing for Girlie Action. Verve Music Group in New York. He singer and 12 -string guitarist's release became the first to record him. Lomax is survived by two daughters Lillian Matulic is promoted to was manager of financial operations. from prison, the Lomaxes helped bring As both a performer and prosely- and his sister, Bess. Funeral services senior VP of publicity for MCA Rec- Nicole Ehrlich is promoted to his music to international fame. tizer, Lomax was associated with the were held July 23. ords in Santa Monica, Calif. She was manager of video production VP of publicity. MCA Records also and promotion for Extasy Rec- names Michele Smith to director of ords in Los Angeles. She was vi- music video production and broad- deo commissioner. Elton John Producer Gus Dudgeon Remembered cast media in Santa Monica, Calif. She was senior director of market- PUBLISHING: Laurent Hubert is pro- BY PAUL SEXTON began his career as a tea boy at Olympic Studios and by ing for Virgin Records. moted to VP of international for LONDON -Calling him "an incredibly talented pro- his early 20s was an in -house engineer at Decca Records' Robert Koch is promoted to VP BMG Music Publishing Worldwide ducer and a very dear friend," Elton John said in a state- studios in West Hampstead. Early sessions there includ- of international for Koch Enter- in New York. He was senior director ment that he was "devastated" to learn of Gus Dudgeon's ed the Rolling Stones and Marianne Faithfull. tainment in New York. He was of Latin America online develop- death. Dudgeon, 59, was best-known for his 1970s pro- The first album to credit Dudgeon as producer was managing director of Koch Rec- ment and print. duction for John, which yielded such hits U.K. rock act Ten Years After's eponymous ords Germany. Ron Solleveld is named VP of as "Your Song," "Rocket Man," and "Good- 1967 debut on Deram. The following year, The RCA Victor Group names international for BMI in New York. bye Yellow Brick Road." he set up his own production company, Susan Jacobs to VP of worldwide He was VP of international for BMG Dudgeon, a veteran record producer, was becoming one of the U.K.'s earliest free- publicity and David Einstein to VP Music Publishing Worldwide. killed July 21 when his car veered off a road lance producers. In 1969, he was at the desk of promotions in New York. They Trade Verlinde is promoted to in England near Reading, Berkshire. His wife, for David Bowie's first hit, "Space Oddity." were, respectively, an independent senior director of writer/publish- Sheila, was also killed in the accident. They His relationship with John began on the consultant and editor of Gavin. er relations for BMI in Los Ange- were returning home from a 50th birthday artist's eponymous 1970 set, the first of 12 Siegfried H. Dannhausen is pro- les. She was director of writer/ party for Chris Hook, formerly of 1970s band they made together. Dudgeon also oversaw moted to VP of production for BMG publisher relations. Voyager, which Dudgeon produced. albums by, among others, Chris Rea and XTC. in Weaverville, N.C. He was senior Kirsten Wilson is promoted to Dudgeon was a founder of the Music Pro- He had lately been working with British director of central manufacturing senior manager of international ducers Guild (MPG), whose chairman, band Slinky and on a tribute album to erst- for BMG International. finance for Universal Music Publish- Andrew East, says the producer "never lost while musical comedy act the Bonzo Dog Greg McCarn is promoted to VP ing Group in Los Angeles. She was sight that it was the music that was impor- Band, whom Dudgeon produced in the 1960s. of marketing for Lyric Street Rec- manager of international finance. tant and continually supported new talent." Williams' col- The funeral service will be held at St. Andrews Church, ords in Nashville. He was senior di- Oscar Mazzola is promoted to league Robin Millar adds: 'We're being suitably grave about Church Street, Cobham, Surrey, England, at 1:30 p.m. on rector of product development. manager of the film soundtrack divi- Gus' death, but I stayed up 'til 2 last night listening to his Thursday (1). A memorial service is planned for September. Shelly Sumpter is promoted to sion for EMI Music Publishing in Los stuff, and I don't think you can be depressed after that." VP of talent for Nickelodeon and Angeles. He was A &R coordinator. Born in Surrey, England, Sept. 30, 1942, Dudgeon Additional reporting by David Stark in London.

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www.americanradiohistory.com `Everything Is Good' For New -Look GaitherVocal Band

BY DEBORAH EVANS PRICE Michael English left the group, and says the main reason he joined was to lift spirits. "We tried to get out some of the depression of NASHVILLE -Change is inevitable, particularly in the music the group was how much he enjoyed working with Penrod, Phelps, last fall," he says. "We decided to send out some positive mes- business. When longtime Gaither Vocal Band member Mark and Gaither. That camaraderie grew during the studio experience. sages that say, 'I'm not going to moan and groan about it the Lowry announced he was leaving the award -winning Southern "It was uncharted territory for me, being back in a group again, whole time. I'm going to keep singing the message of the gospel Gospel quartet, patriarch Bill Gaither enlisted new member Russ but Bill, Guy, and David allowed me to be me and didn't try to put me and enjoying life even in bad and tough times.' " Taff and forged ahead. The first fruit of the new configuration- in a box. I was thrilled," says Taff, who will continue recording solo Brian Smith, VP of store operations for Marietta, Ga. -based Value which includes David Phelps and Guy Penrod -is Everything Music Concepts, says, "It is terrific. I'm spreading the word." Good (Aug. 13, Spring House). "Losing Mark was a big loss for Everything Good marks the Gaither Vocal Band's first release us, but you don't ever replace anybody -you go someplace dif- on the Spring House label, of which Gaither is the sole owner. ferent," Gaither says. "That's what we are doing." Previous projects were issued on Spring Hill Music Group, a label Long known as the driving force in the Southern gospel music owned by Gaither and several partners. "Spring House has had community, Gaither is responsible not only for penning such clas- so much success with the [Homecoming] videos, and we haven't sic tunes as "He Touched Me" and "Because He Lives" with his done that much audio stuff. Since the Vocal Band is such an wife, Gloria, but also for giving the entire Southern gospel world important part of the video sales, we thought it made sense to a boost with his top -selling series of Homecoming videos. put the Vocal Band with the same marketing people. This fall, we On Everything Good, the Gaither Vocal Band once again serves are also coming out with the two videos that we did at Carnegie up traditional Southern gospel music yet incorporates other styles Hall. We'll get some synergy that way, combining efforts." and influences to create a rich musical stew. "There are three or Let Freedom Ring and God Bless America are the two video four tunes that have a Mills Brothers feel to them," Gaither says. projects taped last spring featuring the regular cast of Home- " `I'm Not Going to Worry' is one of them [as is] `Forgive Me.' It's coming performers and special guests. "They are both patriotic a gentler and friendlier Vocal Band because we know how to belt, and tied into the whole spirit of the country," Gaither says of the but I said, `Let's find some gentler sounds,' and I think we did." video/DVD releases due Sept. 10. Gaither is excited about the dimension Taff brings to the group According to Spring House director of marketing Christine Bai- and says they were careful about integrating his talents. "He's been ley, the label plans to aggressively market the release to both Chris- a free agent, and it was time to put a harness on him but still keep tian and general- market retail. "In [the Christian Booksellers Assn. his energy," Gaither says, praising the "character" in Taff's voice. market], we'll be featuring the new release on the Gaither perma- "When people hear him they say, `He's been through some nent display in 700 stores. It will also be featured on the Chordant pain -you can hear it in his voice.' He's been around for a while and [Spring Hill's distributor] Interactive display," Bailey says, adding already had a major solo career." projects. (Phelps has recorded two sets and this spring received a there will also be visibility in Target, Best Buy, Kmart, and Wal-Mart. Indeed, Taff is one of contemporary Christian music's most ac- Dove nomination for male vocalist of the year for his solo efforts.) According to Bailey, two singles will be issued. "I'm Gonna claimed artists, with five Grammy Awards and eight Dove Awards One of the highlights on Everything Good is Taff's lead vocal on the Sing" will go to Southern gospel radio, and "When the Rains to his credit. He began his career with the legendary Imperials, Larry Gatlin -penned "Heartbreak Ridge and New Hope Road." Taff Come" will be serviced to inspirational stations. then went on to record eight solo albums. He had a brief country says, "It's great. When life has been hard on you, that song so fits." The Gaither Vocal band is managed by Bill Gaither and career, recording for the Warner Bros. country division in the mid - Gaither, who received ASCAP's first Christian songwriter of booked by Spring House. Gaither also owns his own music pub- '90s. Taff filled in on some Vocal Band dates in the mid-'90s, when the century award in 2000, says one of his goals on the project lishing companies.

`Tracks' Leads Kortes To A Deal With Bar None

BY JIM BESSMAN to the disc's initial release. "I sent it to commercial triple -A station WBJB Brad Albetta, keyboardist Andy Burton, it ended up being glorious -one of NEW YORK -Mary Lee Kortes was dylancoveralbums.com; it got a good music director Jeff Raspe agrees that and drummer Diego Voglino was orig- those nights where magic happens," reluctant to tackle Bob Dylan's 1975 review, and it got posted on other sites," covering Dylan is "a pretty petrifying sit- inally eager to perform the album when says Kortes, who had fortuitously given album Blood on the 7)-acks at Soho says Kortes, who also credits notice uation to put yourself into. But she and she learned that the club hadn't found the soundman a cassette for recording club Arlene's Grocery (Words & Music, from Billboard and radio airplay by vet- her band more than pull it off. From anyone to cover it at one of its three -part the show. Billboard, Jan. 26), but the resulting eran New York air personality Vin Scel- `Tangled Up in Blue' to `Buckets of Rain,' "classic album nights" last fall. "It's amazing how she's taken these live album with her band, Mary Lee's sa for spreading the word. "I started "Martin's Folly was going to perform songs and pulled the real cohesive Corvette (originally released on her getting e-mails from Iowa, California, After the Gold Rush, and George melodies out of them," says Fred own Leonora Records earlier this year), Italy, Sweden, and Japan and was pret- Gilmore was doing the Band's [self- Osuna, owner of Laser's Edge Compact has brought her a new record deal - ty astonished that people had gotten to titled] `Brown Album,' " she recalls. "I Discs in Birmingham, Ala., who will not to mention a new manager and my Web site." called Owen Comaskey over at Arlene's promote the album in listening posts booking agent. The disc was even picked up by and naively said, 'I'm your man!' I don't and with Dylan product. Kortes, whose acclaimed previous Dylan's official Web site, bobdylan.com, know if nobody else wanted to do it Bar None is pursuing programs album Rue Lovers ofAdventure came which has it on the home page with an because it was too daunting, because I aggressively at retail, says Morrow, who out on Wild Pitch in 1999, has now upload of "You're a Big Girl Now." then realized just how many of the hopes also for "an NPR story" and signed with Weehawken, NJ.-based Bar Kortes quickly learned the nuts and words I actually knew -which was anticipates great press response. "Peo- None Records, which is rereleasing bolts of Internet marketing, and among fewer than I thought. I started practic- ple have heard Blood on the Tracks a Blood on the Tracks Aug. 13. The the increasing orders that came in was ing and practicing, and I thought, `Who million times," he says, "and suddenly Koch- distributed indie looks to release one from Bar None head Glenn Mor- am I kidding? It's too difficult to mem- you hear it again -but it's new." Kortes' band's next album next year. row. She says, "He called a few weeks orize all the words and sing them in a Having heard four new Mary Lee's Meanwhile, Kortes has also signed later and wanted to license it and hear way that's not an imitation but has Corvette tracks that "sound like hits to with Mike Maska of Big Hassle Man- the next record." emotional impact. "' me," Morrow adds that the Dylan disc agement, and she has a new agent in Morrow notes, "I loved the idea. Overcoming her impulse to back is the first half of a "great one -two Mike Leahy of Concerted Efforts, Hearing the songs sung from a female out, Kortes decided to learn to play punch" for Magda Lane Music (ASCAP) both based in New York. She's prepar- perspective brought a whole new they simply pay homage to one of the harmonica three days before the gig writer Kortes at Bar None. ing a short tour for the end of August, twist to a classic record. The fact that rock era's most classic of `classic' albums and after one full band rehearsal "We'll introduce Mary Lee through and she will also go out in Septem- it's a live recording and so In the by one of history's finest songwriters." went through with it. It was mid- the Dylan record," he says, "but she ber and October. moment' is very much the way Dylan Kortes -a guitarist/vocalist who is night on a rainy Sunday, two hours has a body of work that's very strong Kortes' heightened career activity is makes records." joined on Blood on the Packs by gui- later than scheduled. right now that we'll unleash on the largely due to heavy Internet response Lincroft, N.J., NPR -affiliated non- tarists Andy York and Rod Hohl, bassist "I was afraid it would be horrible, but world next year."

BILLBOARD AUGUST 3, 2002 www.billboard.com 9 www.americanradiohistory.com Bedingfield: An Overnight Hit Island's U.K. Newcomer Finds Success Almost By Accident

BY CHARLES KAREL BOULEY new track. The Beatles had four tracks "The cool thing is people seem to British newcomer Daniel Beding- on tape. They had to make vital deci- be getting my songs without me real- field is shaking up the somewhat over- sions about what to save, what to mix ly having to do much. All I need to analyzed, preformatted, almost cook- down. Sometimes, they'd make mis- help them understand is that I'm not ie- cutter process of releasing a single takes. But that's what's great; that's just a dance artist; I'm more of an Beat TM from a new artist. music. But, nowadays, you've got so R &B artist with lots of dance and gui- His British smash "Gotta Get Thru many choices that it's very important tars chucked in." FAMILY STAND: When Robert Ran- yet on which Universal Music Group - This" (Island in the U.S., Polydor in to keep the feel of music." He continues, "If the next song is dolph & the Family Band take the owned label will release the band in the the U.K.) raced up the U.K. pop charts, just as good and is not dance, you stage, virtually anything can happen. U.S. Also, no word on what this means landing at the No. 1 position, and it's REACTING TO DEMAND won't get labeled as strictly a dance Randolph starts off calmly enough, for Warner Bros., which made a two - now blowing away listeners and pro- While Bedingfield concentrates on artist. I'm pretty damned sure that seated behind his pedal steel guitar, his record deal with Epitaph to release the grammers at top 40 and rhythm - the music, Island has had to shift into most of the singles on my album are nimble fingers flying over the 13 current U.S. album, Veni Vidi Vicious crossover radio in the U.S. It jumps high gear quickly to keep pace with as good or better as `Gotta Get Thru strings. But, eventually, at some point and the band's next release. A Warner 77 -46 on this issue's Hot 100. the song's immediate U.S. appeal. This' because I never thought `Gotta during the night, he's going to kick the representative declined to elaborate. A It all started a little over a year ago, Given that some labels take almost a Get Thru This' was truly exception- chair out from under him and dance Universal Music U.K. spokesman says, when Bedingfield took a rather year to set up a release and Island had al. I like being wrong in this case!" around the stage as if he's a marionette "Universal does not reveal the terms of obscure (and affordable) computer mere weeks, it can present challenges. His performance on Top of the Pops, on strings. "There are times when I'll its artists' contracts" ... Following the program called Making Waves audio "Instead of taking time, we're going where he went acoustic and then look at a videotape after the show is closure of Gold Circle Records, Meredith and crafted "Gotta Get segued into the pop/ over and I won't even remember what Brooks, whose album Bad Bad One had Thru This," as well as dance version "really just been released, has moved over to four other songs, on a helped sell the building Best Buy-affiliated Redline Entertain- walloping £1,000 budget on Daniel," Bergen adds. ment, which is distributed via RED. The (about $1,500). "The demographic is record company has already begun "I make a track. I very broad, but pop working new single "Crazy." Brooks is pitch the vocal up be- and rhythm- crossover also producer and co -writer of Jennifer cause I'm not expecting audiences will be the Love Hewitt's current single, "Bare - to give it to anybody mainstay. We're not in Naked." Redline has also signed the apart from a DJ," Bed- the business of saying Black Crowes' Chris Robinson ... New ingfield recalls. "I gave it who can and cannot Zealand singer /songwriter Greg John- to the world's biggest like our artist." son, who has released a number of al- garage DJ, EZ; he put it Bedingfield is a bun- bums through EMI New Zealand, has on the Pure Garage 4 dle of enthusiasm and formed a worldwide joint venture with compilation and poofl, it energy, and that trans- Los Angeles -based Immergent Records becomes a big dance lates to his music. His (exclusive of New Zealand). track and goes to No. 1. good mood is complete- It's crazy. It's absolutely ly contagious, musically 40 OVER AND OVER AGAIN: The up- crazy." and otherwise. His single I did," he says with a laugh. "I hurt my coming months offer about 40 differ- What's even crazier is is hitting, his album is foot doing that. I'm in pain right now." ent opportunities for Beatles fans to that Bedingfield didn't promising, and he has a Some folks are familiar with Ran- celebrate the formation of the Fab think the infectious, soul - "killer publishing deal" dolph through his appearance on Four. First cause for celebration is inflected single was even with Sony to indulge Arhoolie's 1999 Sacred Steel Live, or this month: On Aug. 18, 1962, drum- the right song to release. to take care in setting this up. We will another of his loves, writing. That deal through his participation in the Word, mer Ringo Starr played his first gig "I was ready for success, but not be fanatical about the detail on this," has already spawned work with Mari - a collective that also includes John with the band, replacing Pete Best. In with that song," he says with a laugh. explains Stu Bergen, executive VP of ah Carey, and others are lining up. Medeski, and members of the North the little- known -fact department: "If I had to pick the first single, know- Island Records. "We believe in him as Mississippi Allstars. "But I'm still basi- Starr took over as drummer only after ing what I know now I would have an artist, not as a song. A single wasn't KISSING BABIES cally new," says the 24- year -old New Johnny Hutchinson of the Big 3 picked `Gotta Get Thru This.' Trying all we were interested in. In fact, we're Bedingfield is currently on an Jersey native, who began playing in the passed on the gig, according to Q to pick another single off the album not releasing a commercial single on American radio promotional tour, Pentecostal church. Rock Stars Encyclopedia. that will be representative of what the this. He's an artist with amazing songs. "kissing babies," as he puts it, and Randolph, whose music sounds like The next obvious anniversary date album is about will be tough. It's like The acoustic version shows what a will be filming a new video for the a jumbled alliance of Stevie Ray Vaugh- is Oct. 5, the 40th birthday of the re- Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, and great song `Gotta Get Thru This' is; he's current single. This one will have a an, Jimi Hendrix, and the Allman lease of the Beatles' first single, "Love Sting stuck in a room together with an artist who can write and produce." larger budget than its U.K. counter- Brothers Band, is beginning work on Me Do," in the U.K. If that doesn't work some jungle beats." Writing and producing was some- part. The next Polydor single, due his Warner Bros. debut, which will be for you, there's always the 40th an- That's an astute observation. Bed - thing Bedingfield had to do in a hurry. out in the U.K. at Christmastime, is the followup to the astounding Live at niversary of the Feb. 25, 1963, U.S. re- ingfield's album, Gotta Get Thru This After the song went to No. 1 in "You're Not the One," and it will dis- the Wetlands, released on his own Dare lease of "Please Please Me /Ask My (due Aug. 27), is filled with soulful Britain, labels were clamoring for pel any belief that Bedingfield is a Records. (Warner has picked up that Why" by the Beattles (misspelled thus- rhythms merged with hook -laden him. But the song wouldn't wait for one -hit wonder. album for a September release.) ly), although it didn't chart. You could lyrics and surprisingly mature vocals him to write an album; it kept build- "Daniel is what keeps this busi- But don't expect Randolph to stray wait until Jan. 18, 2004- that's the for a musical freshman. It's the kind ing a fan base quickly. ness going," Bergen says. "He's not too far from his church upbringing. 40th anniversary of the group's debut of pop musical sophistication that one "The labels seem to trust me. formulaic. There's not one set way "There are things I won't sing about. I on the U.S. singles chart with "I Want would expect from a performer who is They let me write it all, choose the that things have to happen. Truly won't be talking about violence or cuss to Hold Your Hand." as seasoned as Jackson, yet one born producers, even choose what the gifted people make music that con- words," he says. 'We'll try to keep it pos- More important than the actual days out of the sheer, youthful thrill of album sleeve looks like. I'm going to nects to people. However it came itive and uplifting and about how peo- are the presents coming the public's being able to record. try hard to not misplace that trust. I together, it's really about the mu- ple should love each other and not about way: A spokesman for Apple Corps (the can say this: I've spent more than a sic and the connection it makes to how much money we've got now." Beatles -owned label) confirms that it is ENOUGH EXCUSES- CREATE! £1,000 now, that's for sure!" Bed- the audience." working on a number of anniversary "If you are creative nowadays there ingfield says with a chuckle. Bedingfield, who is managed by STUFF: Fred Croshal, GM at Maverick projects but declined to go into detail. is no excuse to not do what you love," Neale Easterby at Empire Manage- Records, has decided to leave his post However, there are several Beatles Bedingfield says with great enthusi- NOT JUST A DANCE ARTIST ment in London, is proof-positive that when his contract is up at the end of the treats already announced, including the asm. "Other than poverty, there's no The first single could easily be hits can still happen spontaneously year. Croshal started at the label six years DVD release of A Hard Day's Night excuse. The big studios are shutting categorized as a dance single -a and without planning, budget meet- ago as head of sales. "I'm just ready to Sept. 24 (Billboard, July 27), as well as down, and the little home studios are genre that doesn't often carry the ings, or marketing strategies. He's explore the next chapter of my life," he the fall DVD releases of The Beatles taking over. It will allow for more credibility of pop or label appeal for proved that talent and a little money says. His position is expected to be filled Anthology (that originally aired on ABC sounds, but it will make people a lot an album commitment. But Bed- can go a long way and can provide the ... Swedish rock band the Hives have in 1995) and a live album and DVD cap- more lazy. A lot of these programs ingfield isn't worried about being fuel to propel a young artist on the signed with Universal Music U.K. for a tured on Sir Paul McCartney's 2002 now just mix up tracks and create a seen as a dance -music artist. adventure of a lifetime. multi -album worldwide deal. No word Driving U.S.A. tour (see story, page 34).

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BY JONATHAN COHEN impact on the lyrics for The Soft Bul- about," says Coalition of Indepen- Scott Booker for Hellfire Enterprises Japan and Europe before returning to Some of the best music is the kind letin, but the untimely passing of a dent Music Stores (CIMS) president in Los Angeles) also played at L.A.'s the States for a fall headlining swing. that can't be described easily-or bet- close friend early in the Yoshimi ses- Don VanCleave. Amoeba Music on street date and As with The Soft Bulletin tour, pre- ter still, can't be described at all. Over sions ultimately empowered Coyne to Coyne also recorded track -by -track appeared on Santa Monica, Calif. -based recorded backing tracks will be em- the past two decades, Oklahoma channel his emotions through words noncommerical KCRWs Morning Be- ployed to do justice to the new songs City's Flaming Lips have produced and music. comes Eclectic and the NPR- distrib- (published by Lovely Sorts of Death/ plenty of it, guided by an offbeat cre- "The idea is that as we become older uted World Café shows that week. EMIBlackwood, BMI) and compen- ative yearning with seemingly and look at what life is really all about, For Warner Bros., the initial focus sate for the lack of a permanent drum- boundless ambition. do we all end up with our face against will be on college radio, where a three - mer. "People seem to be interested in Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, the wall saying, `Life is too hard to look track promo CD led by "Do You Real- Steven playing drums on some which streeted July 16 via Warner at ?,' " he asks. "I wanted it not to be ize?" has quickly cracked the top 10. tracks," Coyne says. "He's an enter- Bros., is the latest superlative sonic that way. I want to be able to say, `Let's "This is definitely the most anticipat- taining drummer, so we're going to salvo fired by a band responsible for look at life and understand it and let's ed record at the college format right try to find a way to let him play drums everything from an enduring alt -rock know what it is.' We have something now," Fritschi says. "But this is a rec- and do other stuff." anthem (1994's top 10 airplay hit to smile about. Our friends are all ord we can take to commercial radio." Despite its lofty themes, Coyne "She Don't Use Jelly ") to 1997's going to die. So what? That means you The Lips unveiled the new material hopes the set stands up as "some- Zaireeka, a single album split onto should live right now." on a U.K. tour earlier this month, thing nice to listen to. At the begin- four separate CDs. It all makes for an uncommonly which served as a warm -up for the ning, our records are made by obses- The album debuts this week at No. affecting album, and beyond giving band's stint on this summer's inaugu- sive guys who think these molecular 50 on The Billboard 200, marking scores of print interviews to explain ral Unlimited Sunshine outing. That details will make all the difference. the group's first appearance on the the intricacies of the project, Coyne trek, also featuring Cake, Modest But before they're released, they go chart since 1995. is helping spread the word in other commentary for a promotional CD to Mouse, and De La Soul, runs from July through the left side of the brain, The new set expands on the glori- ways. "Wayne flew to our convention be played along with the set at listen- 31 to Aug. 31. Afterward, the group which says, `What about something ous, widescreen experiments of 1999's in early May, played the record for us, ing parties, which began June 28 in 20- (booked by Trip Brown at American pleasant ?' If we're lucky, one side The Soft Bulletin, which despite hav- and told us what every song was plus markets. The band (managed by Artists Corporation in L.A.) heads to keeps the other in check." ing sold only 100,000 units in the U.S. (according to Nielsen SoundScan), was hailed by many critics as one of the most compelling albums released Signs Pointing To Success For Wind-Up's Seether in the last decade. Again working in tandem with producer Dave Frid- BY CATHERINE APPLEFELD OLSON and the three headed into a Los can share their own demons, and For Morgan, the more ways to mann, the Lips spent more than a Although, collectively, the song Angeles studio with producer Jay album artwork. bring the band's messages out from year crafting the skewed masterpiece titles on Seether's Wind -up Records Baumgardner to begin recording. In fact, Wind -up will release 10 within, the better. "My hope is that that is Yoshimi. debut, Disclaimer (Aug. 20), sug- "They delivered a very important different album covers-each fea- we get taken seriously based on our Indeed, since the late '90s depar- gest a bleak outlook on life, Shaun record to us," Lerner says. "Now it's turing a different sign person con- songs -that people like what I have ture of guitarist Ronald Jones, Lips Morgan, the rock act's singer /song- up to us to deliver for them." veying a different message-when to say." principals Wayne Coyne, Steven writer/guitarist, admits he actually To heighten awareness on a broad Disclaimer hits retail. Seether is managed by Jeff Han- Drozd, and Michael Ivins have oper- is quite optimistic these days. scale, Seether will hit the road in "There is a depth and intensity to son at Orlando, Fla. -based JHMP. ated less and less like a traditional "I wrote some of the songs on the August with the Ozzfest troupe (sis- Seether that goes beyond hearing The band is booked by Vicky Wenzel band. For one, a song must be fin- album when I was 16, so I've dis- their music on the radio or listen- at New York -based Pinnacle Enter- ished from beginning to end (includ- tanced myself from those experi- ing to the CD," Lerner says. "We tainment. The group's songs are ing recording and mixing) before ences," the now -23- year -old Morgan wanted to come up with a way to published by Seether Publishing and work on another commences. Idea says. "And when I revisit the songs, express the emotion of the album Dwight Frye Music. All rights are fragments are paired with outlandish it is actually quite cathartic." and strike people's fancy." administered by Dwight Frye Music. and complex counterparts, with no Indeed, accounts of a painful regard for the difficulty of eventual- coming of age in his native South ly reproducing them live. Africa in tracks like "Driven Under" "We decided, let's think of us as and "Pig" are interspersed with lat- being a studio creation," Coyne says. ter -day messages of healing and Nan "For or worse, I best redemption, such as first single better think our EXPORT moments are something intangible "Fine Again," which shipped to that comes out of the speakers. It's mainstream and modern rock radio VP R ECO R D S not a performance. In a sense, formats June 25 and has been light- because we work with Dave Frid- ing up the phones at some stations mann and he's our friend, he freed since late spring. ter Wind -up act Drowning Pool will us of worrying about reproducing it. "The single is doing incredibly play the main stage). It is a far cry He said, `Look fellas. Let's make well, and we are not necessarily a from the intimate shows the band ANNIVERSRRY EDITION music. It's your problem to present it radio station where the audience played back home in Johannesburg. to people later.' " reacts instantly to new music," says "Our country is so small that you Like its predecessor, Yoshimi is Gary Schoenwetter, PD at KSJO San could do a tour of every major city crammed with curious details (a Jose, Calif., which started spinning in two or three weeks," Morgan booming announcer's voice, a live "Fine Again" May 28. says. "We mostly played places with audience that repeatedly applauds for "Now, having had the chance to 300 or so people, and we would no apparent reason, the hyperactive listen to the whole record, my belief make friends and see familiar faces chirping of Boredoms drummer is that much stronger that Seether at all the shows." Yoshimi P -we). Yet somehow, the is going to go all the way," he adds. That kind of intimacy is being songs overflow with beautiful "There are multiple songs worthy of cultivated via an unusual marketing melodies, from the gently grooving airplay." campaign Seether conceived while artificial -intelligence rumination "One It was the songs -Morgan's filming the "Fine Again" video with More Robot/Sympathy 3000 -21" to potent lyrics magnified by swelling director Paul Fedore. The concept the heart -heavy "It's Summertime" instrumentation -that landed Mor- of featuring "sign people "- anony- ILP/CO/CTI VP1619 and "In the Morning of the Magicians" gan and bassist/vocalist Dale Stew- mous men and women holding F2EGGAE f and the endearingly playful "Yoshimi art the attention of Wind -up presi- soul- baring signs such as "I Used to L Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1." dent Steve Lerner. After hearing an Be Them," "Guilty," and "I Hate You ALSO CARRYING THE HOTTEST 12" SINGLES CALL TOLL FREE TO PLACE ORDERS Coyne's unique, frank narratives album Seether recorded on South . I Hate Myself" -carried over to wrestle with living in the present and African label Musketeer, Lerner teaser ads currently airing on MTV, 1.800.441.4041/ FAX:118.658.35/3

VP FLORIDA : 6022 S.W. 21ST STREET MAIN BRANCH : 89-05 138TH STREET. ponder the possibilities of the future. brought the band to the States. MTV2, and MuchMusic, a Web site MIRAMAR. FLORIDA 33023 TEL :'9541 966-4744 FAR (9541 966 -8766 JAMAICA. NY 11435 TEL : (718) 291-7058 The death of his father had a major Drummer Nick Oshiro soon joined, (peoplewithsigns.com) where fans

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www.americanradiohistory.com Billboard. Haven Finds Sanctuary In U.S. On Virgin BY CHARLES DAUGHERTY Tracks_ With specialty -radio support and natural cross -market appeal, TV THEMES AND `DEXTER': On Aug. ing Theme," "Dexter (What's His U.K. rock act Haven's Virgin 20, Rhino Records is giving music buy- Name)" from Coolio, "Love According debut, Between the Senses (Aug. ers a double -dose of TV soundtrack to Dexter" from Pfife Diggy, "Man - 27) is virtually guaranteed sanc- music, with two sets on the opposite dark's Plan" from YZ, "Sibling Rival- tuary on stateside shores. ends of the musical spectrum. One is ries" from De La Soul, "Secrets" from The Cornwall -born quartet has an album of songs from past TV shows, the Black Eyed Peas' WiII.LAm, and massed an impressive, well - while the other is a collection of hip - "Back to the Lab" from Prince Paul. earned line of industry support hop music from the Cartoon Network Coolio says that he was happy to since being discovered by original series Dexter's Laboratory. come up with a song for the Dexter's 1 Smiths manager Joe Moss in For junkies of retro TV, there's a Laboratory soundtrack since he's a fan 1998. After moving to the more treasure trove to be found in TV Land of the show. "I watch a lot of cartoons urban Manchester and being Presents Favorite TV Theme Songs. because I have kids. I actually watch mangemeo introduced to ex- Smiths guitarist - The album's 40 tracks are culled more cartoons than movies," he says turned- producer Johnny Marr from several of the most popular with a laugh. "They called me to do a shows from the 1950s to the 1980s: I song for Dexter's Laboratory and I Billboard's inaugurai Artist ?Management Love Lucy, Dragnet, The 71.vilight didn't really know what I wanted to do Zone, Bonanza, The Andy Griffith spotlight focuses on the woad of artist Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, The management and looks at their strategies Addams Family, The Munsters, Gilli- gan's Island, Green Acres, I Dream of n today's competitive climate. We'll Jeannie, Batman, The Monkees, Star Trek, Mannix, Hawaii Five -0, The survey top artist managers around the Brady Bunch, Happy Days, The Par- globe and highlight recent success tridge Family, Maude,All in the Fam- ily, Good Times, The Jefferson, The stores, the work of the Music Managers Rockford Files, S. W.A. T , Laverne & Haven quickly yielded a return on Shirley, Chico and the Man, Welcome Forum, and profile this year's Peter Grant the investment with the set of Back Kotter, What's Happening, Bar- Award winner. songs that became Between the ney Miller, Charlie's Angels, The Love Senses, released in the U.K. Feb. Boat, Taxi, Diff'rent Strokes, The 4 on RadiateNirgin. Lead singer Dukes of Hazzard, Magnum P.I., Hill If you are an artist manager, or want to and song -writer Gary Briggs Street Blues, Dynasty, The Greatest explains, "Everything came to- American Hero, and The Golden Girls. reach the artist management community, gether so quickly; it was clearly Several of the songs make their CD at first, but I knew I wanted it to be take advantage of this opportunity and inspirational. So many ideas were debut with this collection, including positive and lively." born in the studio. It was amaz- the theme from The Brady Bunch, The artist says that when it came reserve your ad today! ing to spend time feeling our way Hawaii Five -O, I Love Lucy, and The time to record the song, he thought it around the music and seeing Golden Girls. was important to consult the opinions where it would take us." "Much of the marketing for the of certain people first: "I had my chil- The collaboration spawned four album will be done on TV, says Warn- dren in the studio with me. They watch ISSUE DATE: Getefflbr 21 well- received singles. "It was only er strategic marketing product man- Dexter's Laboratory and they repre- a short matter of time before ager Komeka Freeman. "There will sent the audience for the show, so it plans were cemented to formally be a direct- response TV campaign, made sense to ask them for their opin- introduce Haven in the U.S.," and the spots will start running in ions. I played them a demo of the AO CLOSE: August 27 notes Jay Schatz, its stateside August on channels like TV Land. songs and they told me what they manager. We've found that direct -response ads thought." Next up for Coolio will be Haven's sound on Between the do well for these kinds of albums. the release of El Cool Magnifico (Oct. Senses is a partnership between This album is the perfect example of 15, D3 Entertainment in the U.S./ the haunting falsetto of Briggs's the world's greatest reissue label join- Canada, ZYX label in Europe). BONUS DESJRUTION voice and a steely, persistent gui- ing forces with the world's greatest There will be three music videos tar presence. The set balances rerun network." released to promote the soundtrack: ìC rock ballads with a folk -like deliv- Freeman adds that unlike other TV "Dexter (What's My Name ?)," "Se- nl ery. Briggs delivers soul- search- theme compilations, Rhino's Favorite crets," and "Back to the Lab." The Car- iers ing questions and angst- ridden TV Theme Songs album "has the toon Network will air the videos begin- FC. regret on standout gems like "Let themes as they were recorded for the ning in August. ww\V.ukrnrrf.n It Live," "Out of Reach," and "Say shows; the songs on the album aren't A commercial for the soundtrack is September 18. 2ß02 Something." rerecordings of the originals." playing before The Powerpuff Girls The U.S. version of the album Such promotional items for the movie, which is currently in theaters. London will feature a remix of "Let It album as refrigerator magnets will be The ad will also be on The Powerpuff Live," the first U.S. single, and distributed to retailers. There will also Girls DVD -Video and VHS home video, two tracks not available on the be cross- promotion for the album on due for release in November. Ads for U.K. pressing. rhino.com and tvland.com the EP will appear in various media, ,,ON1AirT Up next for Haven is a U.S. tour The appeal of the album, says Free- from the Cartoon Network to such Frederic Fenucci 44.207.420.6075 in September, following a run of man, is the same reason why people hip -hop magazines as The Source and 44.207.420.6014fx f.fenucci @eu. "billboard.com U.K. summer festivals. Haven is watch TV Land: "People love it because Urb. Cross- promotions for the sound- managed by Joe Moss internation- it reminds them of their childhood." track will be made with Dexter's Lab- ally and by Jay Schatz at Firsthand The first soundtrack to Dexter's oratory trading cards, books, and Aki Kaneko 323 525 2299 in North America. The band's Laboratory is an EP titled Dexter's Game Boy products. 323 525 2394fx [email protected] booking agent is Jon Pleeter at the Laboratory: Home Boy Genius, The Club DJs and college radio will get a Agency Group. Haven's songs are Hip Hop Experiment. The set's seven limited vinyl edition, adds Rhino senior published by Universal Music U.K. songs are "Dexter's Laboratory Open- marketing manager Pamela Morrison.

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www.americanradiohistory.com Vai Launches Favored Nations Billboard Subsidiary For Acoustic Music

BY CLAY MARSHALL Score.. Five months after winning a Gram- TRUE COMPANION: For nearly seven ing measure, illustrations were my Award, Favored Nations, the indie decades, The Oxford Companion to largely omitted. Even so, her version label founded by guitar virtuoso Steve Music has played an important role of the companion includes more TOURING Vai, has announced it will soon in the lives of countless students and than 8,000 entries covering corn - launch an imprint devoted purely to music lovers worldwide. Created sin- posers, performers, musical styles acoustic music. Like its parent label, gle-handedly in 1938 by British and terminology, instruments, and QUARTERLY 3 Favored Nations Acoustic will be dis- musicologist Percy A. Scholes, the significant compositions, some 70% tributed by RED. project sought to provide a compre- of which are new or completely Since its 1999 inception, Favored hensive overview of music that was rewritten. More extensive articles are Nations has achieved success with pre- intended primarily for the layman. devoted to the most prominent com- dominantly instrumental sets by the Scholes offered entries on an expan- posers and topics, such as Mozart likes of Eric Johnson, Johnny A., and sive range of topics, occasionally and opera. Broader social and his- Billboard's third Touring Quarterly Spotlight touched by a quirky, irreverent wit. torical relationships are also investi- After many updates, in 1983 editor gated, including "Women in Music," of the year features a year -to -date touring Denis Arnold introduced The New "Politics and Music," and "Music on Oxford Companion to Music, a two - the Internet." update and looks at the current trends in volume edition that used multiple Like many classical music re- contributors and included extensive sources that hail from England, The arena, amphitheater, and large event entries on popular music and non - Oxford Companion to Music occa- Western musical traditions. sionally reveals a British slant. security. TQ3 also profiles the latest in This month, a new edition of the Though most of her contributors venerable tome reaches book- were British, Latham employed event production technology. stores, combining aspects of both previous editions. Overseen by crit- ic /editor Alison Latham, the new book reverts to the single -volume Join Billboard and its readership in more format (at 1,400 pages, a little than 100 countries for this special touring more than 600 pages fewer than its predecessor). Like Arnold, Latham report! Steve Lukather & Larry Carlton. The employed numerous contributors. latter pair joined forces on No Substi- In returning to the original scale, tutions, earning a 2001 Grammy for however, Latham had to redefine best pop instrumental album. the book's mission for a new gen- Last year, the label released Intuite, eration that enjoys access to a Also featured in Billboard's an instrumental set by acoustic gui- greater variety of resources, not to Sept. 21 issue: tarist Pierre Bensusan. Vai says that mention the Internet. album served as the catalyst for start- "Oxford wanted me to reuse and A special grand opening ing Favored Nations Acoustic. "There's revise as much of the Arnold edition celebration of an intimacy in listening to someone as possible," Latham says. "But that has a beautiful command over Arnold's edition included an enor- American and Canadian specialists GIANT CENTER their instrument," he says. "That's the mous amount of articles on non - to balance coverage. The guide cov- kind of artistry I want to cultivate with- Western music. I decided it would be ers a wide range of American sub- the newest venue at the in this label." better to give priority to Western art jects, including a useful explanation HERSHEY SPORTS & Favored Nations Acoustic will issue music. This book really could be of minimalism and entries for such its inaugural titles this fall. Sept. 10 called `The Oxford Companion to contemporary artists as Bang on a ENTERTAINMENT COMPLEX sees the release of Invisible Threads, a Western Classical Music.' " Can composers David Lang and collaboration between Andy Summers Latham was able to rein in the Michael Gordon (though curiously, (ex- Police) and jazz guitarist John book's scope due to the availability third partner Julia Wolfe is omitted). Ethridge, as well as Peter Huttlinger's of academic courses and the bodies When it came to covering pop Naked Pop, which sees the famed fin - of literature devoted specifically to music, Latham didn't have to look Issue Date: Sept. 21 gerpicker tackling works by such acts ethnomusicology and popular far for guidance. "I went to people as the Beatles, Sting, and Stevie Won- music that have arisen since the who currently teach those subjects der. livo weeks later, the label will last edition. and asked their advice about updat- Ad Close: Aug. 27 release sets by two internationally "I included those topics inasmuch ing," she says. "But living in [my] renowned acoustic virtuosi: Italy's Pep - as they impinged on the general house is a bit like a Charles Ives -ian pino D'Agostino and Australia's music lover's experience and inter- experience, because I've got three Cynthia Mellow 615.321 .9172 Tommy Emmanuel. est but gave them rather less cover- sons who all listen to different cmellow @billboard.com "An acoustic guitar has a tendency age," she explains. "Instead of a things." Brief entries include basic to touch certain buttons that other lengthy overview of gamelan music working definitions of such genres Lee Ann Photoglo 615.321 .4294 kinds of music don't," Vai explains. that explains modes, scales, and the as salsa, grunge, and rap. "These people are very well- respected differences between Balinese and Also among her priorities was laphotoglo @billboard.com in their communities, and there's an Javanese traditions in minute detail, downplaying technical jargon and audience for it, too. Granted, it's not for example, the new edition pro- emphasizing clarity in the writing, a yet a tremendous audience, but it's vides a concise entry that provides goal Latham achieved admirably. "I great music, and it's something we can basic information and a bibliography was determined that this book build an awareness of." for further investigation-consider- should not be a dictionary as such," David Counter, director of mar- ably more useful to a reader who she says. "Although it obviously has keting for the label, wants to build encounters a passing reference to a lexographical function, I wanted it the new imprint's reputation using gamelan while studying Debussy." to be extremely readable, to make it similar methods applied to its parent. Latham introduced a handy index useful both for students who need a "Once people see that logo, they of significant figures (musical and reference book and also families who know it's quality music by people that otherwise) who were mentioned in go to concerts or have CD collec- Steve Vai picked," he says, adding the text but did not merit an entry of tions. The spirit and tradition of The that the label will likely release titles their own, from Shakespeare to Oxford Companion is that it has a every two months. Eminem. As an additional space-say- wide appeal."

BILLBOARD AUGUST 3, 2002 www.billboard.com 13 www.americanradiohistory.com TOURING McCartney Back In The U.S. ForThe Fall Clear Channel Entertainment, AEG Reunite And Are Joined By House Of Blues Concerts For `Joyful' Tour BY RAY WADDELL was very important that we didn't nailing down more McCartney dates Phillips sees working with Mc- ager Dave Clark were on hand for NASHVILLE -The return of Paul have any sort of point scoring. Every- is a coup. The company will promote Cartney again as a validation of sorts every date. "There was a consistent McCartney to U.S. shores for anoth- one understands that Paul runs the concerts at Xcel Center in St. Paul, for his company's niche in the mar- team of producers out there," Wavra er run of arena dates this fall also tour and his business, and we all Minn. (Sept. 23); Boardwalk Hall in ketplace. "I know for a fact that the says. "This is a complicated show heralds another unlikely collabora- work for him. We leave the egos at Atlantic City, N.J. (28); Raleigh artist, tour director Barry Marshall, artistically and technically. Barry tion between competing promoters home and put our abilities to work." Entertainment & Sports Arena in and his people were blown away by Marshall expected nothing less than Clear Channel Entertainment (CCE) Once again, McCartney's tour will the job we did. At least that's what perfection, and achieving perfection and AEG Live, both of which pro- be weighed toward CCE promotions, was expressed to us," Phillips says. on 27 consecutive dates is hard to moted dates on McCartney's hugely although AEG Live has a propor- "In fact, we have a bigger share [of accomplish. You need the right peo- successful spring tour. tionately larger share this time dates] than last time. There really is ple in the right spots doing their job As expected, McCartney announ- around, with involvement in nine room for another strategic player every day, and Barry put the right ced another round of U.S. arena shows. Also on board is House of like us out there." people in the right spots from the concerts for September /October Blues (HOB) Concerts, which will beginning. And that translated [into] (Billboard, July 6), with the 23 -date promote an Oct. 18 concert at the PERFECT MAGIC magic every night onstage." Back in the U.S. tour set to begin Rose Garden in Portland, Ore. From Marshall's perspective, As well as magic at the box office: Sept. 21 at the Bradley Center in Marshall says he was thrilled that routing and producing the tour was Last spring, McCartney grossed Milwaukee and wrap at the America HOB was involved this time. "I've a matter of combining the right pro- $53.2 million from 27 shows and West Arena in Phoenix Oct. 29. The admired the House of Blues team a moter with the right building in drew 407,183 people. The top- gross- tour will primarily play markets that long time; they're very good. They each market. "To me, it just felt ing stop was a two -night stand at the were missed during McCartney's deserved a date, and we're very right. This business is still about MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las spring Drivin' USA tour; the only pleased to have them," he says. "I'm people, and these are great people Vegas that took in $5.6 million; $4 repeats are Chicago (Sept. 24), also delighted with [CCE touring VPs] who still take a lot of pride in what million doubles were also notched Boston (Oct. 1), Cleveland (4), and Brad Wavra and Craig Evans -they they're doing," he says. "We'd like to at Dallas' Reunion Arena, Madison two Southern California dates (Oct. have been first- class, and they really Raleigh, N.C. (Oct. 7); Sawis Center have had more people involved, but Square Garden in New York, and the 25 and 28). care. Likewise, John Meglen and Paul in St. Louis (9); Schottenstein Cen- the trouble is if you get too many United Center in Chicago. Ticket The tour-promotion model has Gongaware [co- presidents of AEG ter in Columbus, Ohio (10); Ford people, it gets complicated." prices will remain the same this fall, been somewhat unique but ulti- Live subsidiary Concerts West], along Center in Oklahoma City (15); and The touring process has gone mostly in the $50 -$250 range. mately successful. "This has been a with [AEG Live CEO] Randy Phillips, the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Wash. smoothly partly because the cast of Obviously, arena managers were very good collaboration between all took a personal interest." (19), and will co- promote with CCE characters didn't turn over com- happy at a chance for more McCart- rival companies," admits Barry Mar- For AEG Live, a subsidiary of dates at Staples Center in Los Ange- pletely from date to date. For exam- ney dates, even though only Los shall, producer of the tour through sports and entertainment giant les (28) and the Arrowhead Pond in ple, tour production director Jerry Angeles, Anaheim, Chicago, and his London -based Marshall Arts. "It Anschutz Entertainment Group, Anaheim, Calif. (25). Stickells and CCE production man- Boston are repeats from the spring tour. "The truth is, we ended up with 23 shows, but there were easily 40 out there, if we had had the time," Views His U.S. Visit With Some Trepidation Phillips says. "Everybody wanted Geldof these dates. Besides being a huge BY RAY WADDELL see me? The thing I envision is a poster Geldof describes the personal events says, adding that Geldof will cover a lot revenue generator, it's also a pres- NASHVILLE -Bob Geldof will play a on the street saying, `Bob Geldof of the past few years, well- documented of territory in a short period of time. tige date for these buildings." rare slate of North American dates appearing,' and the universal response in the tabloids, as a "grim story that The tour hits major markets in the Still, Marshall says the main reason this fall in support of his intensely being, `Bob Geldof doing what ?' Over ended in Shakespearean levels of Northeast, Midwest, West Coast, and McCartney is returning to the U.S. to personal new release, Sex, Age & here, people have different ideas about tragedy. What happened to me was Northwest. "We only had a certain tour is because he enjoyed himself so Death (Global Music Pulse, Billboard, me. There's the Rats Bob, the Live Aid unsayable," he continues. "Music is a time frame, and we wanted to cover much the first time around. "When an Sept. 8, 2001) on Eagle Records. Bob, and maybe some people who fol- sort of higher language -like poetry the whole country." artist can sing songs [he] wrote 30 While only 10 large club /small -the- lowed my solo stuff." but more so -with many layers of The tour begins Sept. 20 at the years ago, 25 years ago, or yesterday ater concerts are currently booked, Even so, the critical acclaim that has meaning in tones and melodies. For Palais Royale in Toronto and plays and enjoy them all, what more can hopes are that Geldof will return to been heaped on the new album should Boston (22); New York (23); Chicago you ask for? Not one person, building, the continent in early 2003. be gratifying. "The record itself is the (24); Minneapolis (25); Anaheim, Calif. or venue wasn't very accommodating. The North American dates are Geld - end achievement, and everything else (27); Los Angeles (28); San Francisco They were pleased to be there, as we of's first since the early 1990s, is academic and a bonus," he says. (29); and Seattle (30) before wrapping all were." although he tours Europe regularly. "After 27 years of songs, I'm not par- at the Rage in Vancouver Oct. 2. Wavra, too, believes more dates The former Boomtown Rats frontman ticularly flattered or dismayed by good Chad Queirolo, talent buyer for the are out there. "There were a lot more recently wrapped up a successful Euro- or bad reviews at this point." 1,200- capacity Showbox in Seattle, cities that could have been played. pean leg, will play Australia in October, Geldof says he loves playing in North believes Geldof's show has strong And who knows-if Paul McCartney and will then return to Europe for America and whether he returns does potential in the market but isn't a has the same experience, and the Christmas. In total, Geldof will play not depend on how profitable the shows given. "At first I wasn't sure it was a audiences are as responsive and some 120 concerts in 2002. are. "If they break even, I'm cool." big enough play for this room," he enthusiastic, we can only hope that "That's the most in a while, but I Sets on the upcoming shows will admits, adding that after talking to cities that haven't had the chance to play a few most years," Geldof says. "It's span Geldofs entire career. "A lot of local music writers and others, he feels experience this concert of a lifetime rather self-indulgent, because [playing people want to hear songs they know, better about being somewhat of a test will have that opportunity." live] is the thing I love best." but I can only do songs I feel myself- market for the show. "I'll accept that. Marshall hinted that, while U.S. Sex, Age & Death is Geldofs first I won't pantomine," he says. "These Seattle has a great music scene, with touring is likely finished after the record in five years, a hiatus he attrib- particular songs [on the new album] a ton of great bands. When influential fall run, McCartney may sign on for utes to "my life going into a freefall for are so raw and absolutely personal, me, [the record] was not a catharsis, not people like [Geldof] come in, you see more international touring follow- about five years, rather than artistic they have not received the objectivity a release, not a relief, just an attempt to a lot of familiar faces, and a lot of peo- ing Back in the U.S. "This has been laziness." His lack of new product and others have over the years, and I doubt put a shape to the experience." ple come out of the woodwork. I think the most joyful tour I've ever been a stateside touring presence leads they ever will." we'll fill the room." involved in," Marshall says. "In this Geldof to question his box -office Geldof says he is able to perform the BUT CAN IT SELL TICKETS? Tickets range from $15 to $35. Pro- business, there are special moments power in the U.S. new songs live by "internalizing" and Despite Geldoffs trepidation, Bar- moters include House of Blues, Clear you savor forever, and this is the While admitting he may sound indeed opens shows with three straight bara Skydel, the responsible agent for Channel Entertainment, Jam Produc- happiest tour I've ever been involved "woefully pessimistic," Geldof won- from Love, Sex & Death. Audiences Geldof at the Williarr. Morris Agency tions, and in-house promoters at clubs. in, on every level." ders, "Will there be people that want respond enthusiastically, he observes. in New York, says talent buyers were to see me in the South? I'd love to do "I don't know if it's the personal element excited about the opportunity to bring For a complete itinerary, check out For a complete itinerary, check out Texas, Florida, but will people want to or people applying it to their own lives." in Geldof. "We've missed him," she billboard. com /tours. billboard. com /tours.

14 www.billboard.com BILLBOARD AUGUST 3, 2002 www.americanradiohistory.com VENUE/ GROSS/ ATTENDANCE/ .lPIi51,S:, DATE TICKET PRICE(S) CAPACITY PROMOTER EAGLES Mississippi Coast $2,190,740 21,000 Concerts West Coliseum, Biloxi, Miss. $125/$85/$55 two sellouts July 19-20

CHER, CYNDI LAUPER FleetCenter, $1,847,262 27,232 Clear Channel Boston $79.75/535.25 28,750 two shows Entertainment July 8 -9

DAVE MATTHEWS BAND, MARS Music Amphitheatre, $1,419,365 40,193 Clear Channel NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALL STARS West Palm Beach, Fla. 546.50/531.50 41,489 two shows Entertainment July 5 -6

EAGLES Birmingham Jefferson Convention $1,192,930 14,658 Concerts West. Complex, Birmingham, Ala. $95 /575/555 sellout Fa ntasma Prods. July 17

OZZFEST: OZZY OSBOURNE, SYSTEM OF A Tweeter Center at the $1,079,643 24,874 Clear Channel DOWN, ROB ZOMBIE, P.O.D., DROWNING POOL, Waterfront, Camden, N.J. $81.75/$37.75 sellout Entertainment news. ADEMA, ZAKK WYLDE'S BLACK LABEL SOCIETY July 12 MARC ANTHONY Madison Square Garden, $983,893 15,291 Clear Channel New York $95/$39.50 sellout Entertainment STILL IN THE FAST LANE: Having This year's tour was booked by the July 12

drawn more than 400,000 people William Morris Agency and pro- BRITNEY SPEARS, LUIS FONSI Ford Center, $954,881 16,315 Concerts West and grossed about $38 million from duced by Concerts West. Given that Oklahoma City $75/$49.50/$39.50 sellout July 19 a 32 -date tour of secondary markets, most shows sold out quickly, mar- BRITNEY SPEARS, LUIS FONSI American Airlines Center, $897,651 15,421 Concerts West Eagles are poised to return with a keting and promotion was geared to Dallas $75/$49.50/$39.50 sellout vengeance in 2003 with a new hit hard upfront. "We had great ad July 22 album and major arena tour. Ac- materials to work with, and the band BRITNEY SPEARS, LUIS FONSI Nassau Veterans Memorial $853,326 14,784 Concerts West, Coliseum, Uniondale, N.Y. $75/$49.50/$39.50 sellout Metropolitan cording to Eagles manager Irving and management put their faith in July 9 Entertainment Group Azoff, this year's tour was a success us to market aggressively," Concerts MARC ANTHONY Tommy Hilfiger at Jones $815,946 13,900 Clear Channel on every level. "From my point of West director of marketing Amy Beach Theater, Wantagh, N.Y. $91.50/$34 14,029 Entertainment July 7 view, this was the best Eagles tour Morrison says. "We approached it on JOHN MELLENCAMP, Verizon Wireless Music $767,914 24,574 Clear Channel a regional basis, which we wouldn't SHANNON McNALLY Center, Noblesville, Ind. $65/$25 sellout Entertainment in a primary market tour. We went July 12 with radio, TV, and print out into BRITNEY SPEARS, LUIS FONSI National Car Rental Center, $753,593 11,421 Concerts West, Sunrise, Fla. $75/549.50/$39.50 sellout Fantasma Prods. tertiary markets as far as a 200 -mile July 13

radius." A market -specific Internet BRITNEY SPEARS, LUIS FONSI CenturyTel Center, $749.181 12232 Concerts West via Yahoo Bossier City, La. $75/$49.50/$39.50 sellout presale campaign ac- July 18 counted for as much as 35% of sales RUSH Tweeter Center for the Performing $723,355 15,222 Clear Channel and sold out Yahoo's allotment in Arts, Mansfield, Mass. $65/$30 19,800 Entertainment each market. July 12 North American arena managers BRITNEY SPEARS, LUIS FONSI Alltel Arena, $718,214 13,218 Concerts West North Little Rock, Ark. $65/$49.50/$39.50 sellout have reason to rejoice, because Azoff July20 promises that Eagles will hit it hard TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS, PNC Bank Arts Center, $706 ,270 16,607 Clear Channel BRIAN SETZER TRIO Holmdel, N.J. $59.50/$26 sellout Entertainment next year. "Based on the response we July 6 just saw, this band is bigger than DAVE MATTHEWS BAND, Alltel Pavilion at Walnut $702,332 19,541 Clear Channel ever," he says. "This was just a tune - NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALL STARS Creek, Raleigh, N.C. $46.50/$31.50 20,000 Entertainment up tour to get them tight to finish the July 11 a TV There BRITNEY SPEARS, LUIS FONSI MCI Center, $697,175 11,309 Concerts West, album and tape special. Washington, D.C. $75/$49.50/$39.50 sellout Metropolitan ever," Azoff says. "Musically, it was will be a new album and tour, starting July 10 Entertainment Group the best band they've ever put in the spring of next year. We're going DAVE MATTHEWS BAND, Verizon WirelessAmphitheatre, $680,534 18,867 Clear Channel NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALL STARS Charlotte, N.C. $46.50/$31.50 sellout Entertainment together, and the chemistry onstage to do at least 100 shows in major July 12 was just amazing. We're now in our markets. It will be an all -arena tour, TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS, Tweeter Center for thePedonning $666 .578 17,448 Clear Channel third generation of Eagles fans, and except for a few special instances." BRIAN SETZER TRIO Alts, Mansfield, Mass. $54.50/$27.50 19,900 Entertainment in my 30 years in this business I've The heat generated this time out July 11 never seen such a sustained audi- bodes well for next year, but beyond JAM'N 94.5 SUMMER JAM: JA Tweeter Center for the Performing $650,071 19,900 Clear Channel RULE, FAT JOE, ASHANTI, P. DIDDY, Arts, Mansfield, Mass. $57/$20 sellout Entertainment ence response over 30 songs and saying that tour merchandiser Fin - B2K, JERMAINE DUPRI, & OTHERS June 29 three hours, 20 minutes of music." geret will be back on board, Azoff DAVE MATTHEWS BAND, NORTH AmSouth Amphitheatre, $639,629 18,460 Clear Channel MISSISSIPPI ALL STARS Antioch, Tenn. $46.50 /$31.50 18,744 Entertainment Arena managers were equally plays it close to the vest in terms of July 9 thrilled; merchandise per caps aver- players in the 2003 trek. While a new OZZFEST: OZZY OSBOURNE, SYSTEM OF A Montage Mountain $613,302 13,075 Clear Channel aged $12.16 a head, topped by $16.30 label deal is under consideration, who DOWN, ROB ZOMBIE, P.O.D., DROWNING POOL Amphitheater, Scranton, Pa. $79.50/$36.50 17,417 Entertainment ADEMA, ZAKK WYLDE'S BLACK LABEL SOCIETY July 10 at the Ford Center in Oklahoma City. the tour promoter would be has not BRITNEY SPEARS, LUIS FONSI Charlotte Coliseum, $597,854 11,135 Concerts West Others notched similar numbers. "It been disclosed. Charlotte, N.C. $75/$49.50/539.50 sellout was absolutely one of the greatest July 11 shows that we've ever seen," says Bill ROUTEBOOK: The Back to the Few BRITNEY SPEARS, LUIS FONSI TD Waterhouse Centre, $590,200 10,474 Concerts West, Orlando, Fla. 565/$49.50/$39.50 sellout Fantasma Prods. Holmes, director of the Mississippi tour will feature Relient K, Bleach, July 14 Coast Coliseum in Biloxi, Miss., Philmore, The 40 -plus and Holland. EAGLES BancorpSouth Center, $587,515 7,369 Concerts West, where Eagles grossed $2.2 million date tour begins Sept. 21 at Park Tupelo, Miss. $85/$65 sellout Fantasma Prods. July 16 for the tour's only double, July 19- West in Chicago and will play such RUSH PNC Bank Arts Center, $564,820 12,477 Clear Channel 20. Food and beverage did $7.80 a markets as Minneapolis, Seattle, Holmdel, N.J. $72.75/526 16,462 Entertainment head and merch more than $13. Houston, Dallas, Denver, Nashville, July 11 Michael Marion, director of the Atlanta, and Boston before wrapping RUSH Nissan Pavilion at Stone $541,958 12,141 Clear Channel Ridge, Bristow, Va. $75/526 22,556 Entertainment SMG- managed Alltel Arena in North at the Agora Theatre in Cleveland July 9 Nov. 10. Little Rock, Ark., was also high on Venues are all over the map, CREED Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach $530,032 12.864 Clear Channel their July 2 date, which grossed a including high schools, auditoriums, Amphitheater, Virginia Beach, Va. $50 /$35.50 20,000 Entertainment July 11 building record of $1.2 million. clubs, and churches. JOHN MELLENCAMP, DTE Energy Music Center, $521215 13,846 Clear Channel Merch per caps was $13, and food per 30 Seconds to Mars will spend SHANNON McNALLY Clarkston, Mich. $55.50/$25 15,274 Entertainment, Palace caps was $7.39. four weeks this summer opening for July 9 Sports & Entertainment "Everything was big about this Incubus, beginning Aug. 31 at MARC ANTHONY PNC Bank Arts Center, $503,793 8,730 Clear Channel Holmdel, N.J. $89.25/526 16,988 Entertainment show," Marion says. "It generated a Lawlor Arena in Reno. The band July 9

ton of excitement in this market." spent six weeks earlier this year TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS, Hersheypark Stadium, $454,256 10,698 Clear Channel Bruce Fingeret, president of F.E.A. opening for Puddle of Mudd. A BRIAN SETZER TRIO Hershey, Pa. $49.75/$39.75/$35 16,023 Entertainment July 14 Merchandising in Tenafly, N.J., was debut album on ImmortalNirgin is DRQ SUMMER HEAT RAVE: JA RULE, DTE Energy Music Center, $451,116 15,202 Palace Sports & merchandising director for the tour. due Aug. 27. ASHANTI, P. DIDDY, DJ ENCORE, Clarkston, Mich. $49.31/$29.31 sellout Entertainment "It doesn't get any better than this," Sparrow Records act the Elms FAT JOE, MICHELLE BRANCH June 23 he says. "We went into Wichita, Kan., have been tapped to open for Peter DARIUSH, EBI Great Western Forum, $447,070 10,327 Nederlander Inglewood, Calif. $150/$100/$55/$25 17,156 Organization, and did $14.60 a head. We went into Frampton for several of Frampton's July 4 Tapesh Corp.

Las Vegas at the Joint and did $17 a August and September tour dates. RUSH Saratoga Performing Arts $424,169 8,884 Clear Channel head. At Lawlor Events Center in The Elms are booked by the William Center, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. $81/526 25,120 Entertainment July 6 Reno [Nev.], we broke Kiss' record." Morris Agency in Nashville. Copyright VNU Media, Inc. rights reserved. 2002, Business All Bonscores should be submitted to: Bob Allen, Nashville. FOR MORE BOXSCORE RESULTS GO TO BILLBOARD.COM Phone: 615 -321 -9171. Fax 615 -321 -0878. For research Information and pricing, call Bob Allen, 615- 321 -9171. BILLBOARD AUGUST 3. 2002 www.billboard.com 15 www.americanradiohistory.com LZIEVLLYS.7 L_ l' LnL'LLVVST

Sid and Springsteen, between The Last I G H T S Waltz and Alive, between Neil Young and ALBUMS Neil Diamond. That's not to say My Front Pages explodes into Sex Pistols or Edited by Michael Paoletta SOUNDTRACK Kiss- worthy pyrotechnics or wears a silly, Topdog /Underdog '70s -pop hat. Instead, it's perhaps an ex- PRODUCERS: various planation of why this 10 -track set is so POP MCA 2978 wonderfully schizophrenic, leaping from The concept of a soundtrack to a guitar- driven midtempos that feature ex- * RICHIE HAVENS straight stage play may seem odd, but hilarating, Royal Truxian eruptions Wishing Well it makes perfect sense for the ( "Hopped Up Bastard ") to breathy Brit- PRODUCERS: Richie Havens, Randy Crafton Pulitzer Prize -winning Topdog/Un- pop ( "Astronauts in Motion "); harmoni- Stormy Forest/Evangeline GEL4040 derdog. As much about brothers - ca- laden, Dust Bowl balladry (the sweet Although they come few and far be- Lincoln and Booth played by, respec- "Freeway," probably the album's best tween- Wishing Well is his first in tively, Jeffrey Wright and Mos Def track) to bouncy, Bacharachian piano nearly a decade -the release of a new -as it is about the African- American pop ( "Smile When You Frown "). And Richie Havens album has become both experience, Topdog/Underdog is a that is perhaps what sets this group of a genuine treat for his devotees and yet moving piece of artwork that works songs apart from the pack right now. another chance for him to easily win both on the stage and as a recording. While the generation of artists to which lifelong fans. Havens has long been one BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN This collection offers elements of BETH ORTON he belongs was most certainly exposed of that rare breed of troubadour that The Rising Daybreaker and influenced by perhaps the most needs only a single exposure -a con- PRODUCER: Brendan O'Brien PRODUCERS: various diverse group of rock and pop music in cert, a live TV or radio performance, Columbia 86600 Astralwerks 7243 5 39918 the history of rock'n'roll, too few have whatever -to win over a listener /viewer Bruce Springsteen's much -heralded On her third studio release -which the courage to embrace and showcase completely. And his rich baritone, one return to the studio with his E Street features production by Ben Watt and their various influences on disc. Jones' of the most memorable and distinctive Band does not disappoint. "Lonesome William Orbit, among others -Beth courage comes through loud and clear, voices of the past 40 years, and striking- Day" is a gently thrumming, pulsing Orton continues blending organic and and it's that courage that makes the ly unique strumming doesn't disap- gem reminiscent lyrically of Darkness- electronic sounds, mixing them to an album a winning debut. -WO point here, especially on the perfectly era bitterness, while "Into the Fire" is a often entrancing cohesion. The open- Middle Eastern -tinged "The Well" and stylish blend of lilting guitars, synco- ing track, "Paris Train," floods listen- FOZZY his take on "Love Is Alive." With all pated power, and killer Springsteen ers with a mixture of programming Happenstance respect to the artist's self -penned vocals. The record waxes E Street retro bleeps and echoes, warm string PRODUCERS: Rich Ward, Shawn Grove songs-six of the 10 cuts, including with breezy fare like "Waitin' on a arrangements, and dramatic, cryptic Megaforce 1981 "The Well," are his -the most exciting Sunny Day," the cool "Let's Be Friends phrasings. Orton has a flair for pen- Fozzy, the greatest heavy -metal band moment arrives at the end of the disc, (Skin to Skin)," the joyful "Mary's ning languid, spacious songs whose you never heard, returns to the U.S. where Havens delivers a stunning cover Place," and gospel -tinged "My City of forlorn characters seem as adrift as the after being enslaved by a 20 -year of Pink Floyd's "On the Turning Away." Ruins." Elsewhere, "Further on up the music's fleeting acoustic guitar chords recording contract in Japan. (And Havens and Floyd-what a perfect Road" is a balls -out rocker, while "The blues, jazz, R&B, and hip -hop. Actors and absentminded piano tinkles. artists here thought the seven -year match! "Slow Down," ironically the Fuse" smolders with menace. Brendan Mos Def and Wright bookend the set Guests here include Ryan Adams, who statute in California was a crime.) most upbeat track on the disc, is a won- O'Brien's production brings a lot to the with two new tracks that serve as wrote one of the CD's more hushed Mongoose McQueen -who bears a derful change of pace, the type that party, from well -placed strings to con- aural composites of their respective offerings, the moody, cello- accented suspicious resemblance to Worldwide Havens should try more often. However temporary beats and edge, bringing characters. Mos Def's "3- Card" "This One's Gonna Bruise " -a tune Wrestling star Chris Jericho -leads clichéd it may sound, this acoustic soul wall -of-sound power to "Countin' on a embodies both the aggression and that showcases Orton's ghostly pipes. this quintet in its quest to reclaim the giant truly seems to be getting more Miracle" and brisk clarity to the vulner- brazen qualities of his character, "Anywhere" begins with a snatch of an music and subsequent '80s glory that inspiring and graceful with age. -WO able "Empty Sky." Obviously inspired while Wright recreates "Lincoln's old -timey film soundtrack before mov- was "stolen" from it by such icons as by world events, Springsteen's lyrics Blues," which sheds light on his ing into Brazilian- tinged horns and Ronnie James Dio and Judas Priest. * PINA are more yearning, spiritual, and re- character's broken-down spirit. Other lounge vocal stylings. Other standouts Fozzy serves up hits like Scorpions' Quick Look demptive than ever. Impassioned and highlights include Muddy Waters' include "God Song," a somebody- "Big City Nights" and W.A.S.P.'s "Love PRODUCER: Ben Findlay bold, this record is a triumph. The "Got My Mojo Workin' " and Wayne been- done -wrong country ditty featur- Machine" in an entertaining mix of RealWorld 7243 5 37480 future is now. -RW Shorter's "Face of the Deep. " -RH ing Emmylou Harris. -JOT testosterone, theater, and impressive Austrian -born singer /songwriter Pina skill that joyfully embraces the over - Kollars came to the attention of Real - the -top vocals and power chords of World's Peter Gabriel via her duet with voice provides the third facet that * SAM JONES Like many of his peers, Sam Jones the era. The four original tunes, espe- larla Ó Lionáird ( "Go on Through ") makes Quick Look an extraordinary My Front Porches doesn't drive a wedge between the two cially the fantastic "To Kill a Stranger" featured on Afro Celt Sound System's debut. The bruised quality of her PRODUCERS: Sam Jones, Tim Bomba bands, whose influences show up in vary- and the sublime "Crucify Yourself," Volume 3: Further in Time. Her debut voice -most vivid on the elemental NTD 7830 ing degrees on his debut disc, My Front pay homage to progressive acts like for RealWorld is not world music, track "Debt Song " -is so appealing to If you came of age in the '70s or '80s, Porches. Like so many of his singer/ Fates Warning and Dream Theater. however. Pina, who fancies alt -rock the ear that it becomes the mood of chances are good that you don't see the songwriter peers, Jones -who has made Keep an ear out for special guest gui- and a shadowy sort of modern folk - the album. Whether she's delving into divide between the type of sweetly soulful a name for himself as a rock photogra- tar hero Lord Edgar Bayden Powell wrote all 10 songs here. A gifted rock, as on "The Tower," or working Americana practiced by the Jayhawks pher and as the director of the new Wilco (formerly Sir Galahad) who lists "gui- instrumentalist and a writer of com- the gothic -folk feel of "Josephine," and the dramatic, whiskey -bent electrici- documentary 1 Am Dying to Break Your pelling lyrics, Pina's ragged, plaintive Pina's touch is musical magic. -PW ty of the Afghan Whigs to be all that vast. Heart-no doubt blurs the line between (Continued on next page)

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DUKE ELLINGTON /CHARLIE engineer Ron McMaster have revisit- van "), plus an earthy sequence of bie Hancock on electric piano, Joe MINGUS /MAX ROACH ed the session tapes, not only refur- blues. This new, improved Money Henderson on tenor sax, Ron Carter Money Jungle bishing the sound at 24 -bit but Jungle is yet another feather in Cus- on bass, and the 20- year-old Lenny REISSUE PRODUCER: Michael Cuscuna adding two previously unreleased cuna's many -plumed hat. BB White on drums, the widely influen- ORIGINAL PRODUCER: Alan Douglas alternate takes. The original poor - tial Red Clay comprises five tracks of Blue Note 7243 5 38227 2 9 sounding seven -track United Artists FREDDIE HUBBARD funky yet ambitious post -bop jazz. Although long controversial for sev- LP and still- opaque 13 -track CD is Red Clay The 12- minute title track is a soulful eral reasons -such as disappointing- now a sonically bold 15 -track treas- REISSUE PRODUCER: Didier C. Deutsch avant -blues classic, while Hubbard ly woolly sound and rumors of clash- ure. The title tune sets the proceed- ORIGINAL PRODUCER: Creed Taylor and company's sanguine take on es between volatile young "Charlie" ings off right, as Ellington's muscu- Epic /Legacy EK 85216 John Lennon's "Cold Turkey" is one Mingus and the almost- always lar new number gives the leader and By far the best item in Legacy's reis- of the most enterprising jazz covers imperturbable Duke Ellington- the bassist a chance to spar (with sue series devoted to the late -'60s/ ever. Included as a bonus on this Money Jungle still stands as one of Mingus' obsessively agitated lines early -'70s fusion label CTI is the superbly remastered reissue is a 19- the most exciting summits ever still seeming just this side of 1970 Freddie Hubbard disc Red minute jam on "Red Clay" featuring between jazz royalty and young lions. bizarre). Other Ellington tunes new Clay -which is, by the way, also the Hubbard's scorching trumpet juxta- This has never been more true than to the session were the gorgeous bal- "Wig Wise." There are also fresh virtuosic trumpeter's most consis- posed with such fellow CTI stars as with this reissue. Producer Michael lad "Fleurette Africaine," rollicking takes on Ellington standbys (such as tently compelling album by a long guitarist George Benson and sax man Cuscuna and remix/remastering "Very Special," and very Monk -like a weirdly dissonant version of "Cara- shot. Featuring a killer band of Her- Stanley Turrentine.-BB

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(Continued from preceding page) KNOC -TURN'AL his crack outfit rip through 20 real out, even though Rivera has the voice midtempo blues number, animated by a L.A. Confidential Presents Knoc- Turn'AI country songs, including the pining to maneuver styles, he sounds particu- rolling bass line and a sharply phrased tar, Excalibur, and chainmail" as his PRODUCERS: various tip of the hat "Real Country Song" and larly convincing in his salsa turf. Still, Walker guitar solo. Another definitive instrumental credits. All hail Fozzy- Elektra 2817 pulsing "Legends (What If ...)." the title track-which in its original moment comes with his acoustic rendi- the greatest band to ever share a name It's been a minute since a West Coast "Can't Be Satisfied" is a Waylon -esque pop version sports a techno /flamenco tion of the country blues number with a Muppet. -CLT MC seriously hit the charts running. twangfest, and then "Heart of Stone" beat-serves Rivera well; upbeat fare is "Strangers in Our House. " -PIN Knoc -Turn'Al is poised to change that and the gorgeous "I Hate These more his element than sweeping bal- KRISTIAN HOFFMAN with his Elektra debut, L.A. Confiden- Songs" are languid roadhouse lounge. lads, where he sounds OK but doesn't tial Presents Knoc -Turn Al. The Los When Watson steps outside his own transcend. With this in mind, such GOSPEL PRODUCERS: Earle Monkey Angeles native, who made a name for stellar material, he opts for such writ- tracks as "Herida Mortal" are forget- eggBERT 80032 himself via soundtrack work with the ers as Jimmie Rodgers, Merle Hag- table, while "Ella," a hip -hop laced KAREN CLARK SHEARD Add Kristian Hoffman's name to the likes of Dr. Dre and DJ Quik, turns up gard, and John R. Cash, and does salsa, delivers extra punch. The transi- 2nd Chance ever-growing list of tunesmiths set- the heat on this funk -filled set. Knoc- them proud. He shifts into contempo- tion from tropical to pop is a tough PRODUCERS: various ting out to establish themselves as Turn Al opens with the MC's first rary country butt -kickin' mode with one, but Rivera seems to have found a Elektra 2A -62767 recording artists in their own right. Elektra single, "The Knoc." Produced "Nashville Rash" and a pissed -off happy medium here. -LC Five years after her solo departure Hoffman is a quirky Los Angeles by and featuring Dr. Dre, as well as "Country My Ass" (with Hank III) and from gospel's legendary Clark Sisters, writer whose claim to fame is pen- Missy Elliott, this left coast banger is pours more heart into a four -song Sheard returns with a big, bold effort ning the '80s -era cult fave "Total an underrated gem. On the guitar - encore than some acts do into a WORLD MUSIC and all the right pieces in place. One of Eclipse" by Klaus Nomi. Though & is driven "Str8 Westcoast (Remix)," career. Some may think he's caught in the daughters of late gospel pioneer Dr. not Hoffman's first crack at perform- Knoc -Turn'Al is joined by guests War- a time -warp, but he is absolutely one JUSTIN ADAMS Mattie Moss -Clark, Sheard truly gives ing (he's also helmed several avante- ren G, Shade Sheist, Nate Dogg, and bad -ass country singer. -RW Desert Road life and breath to the old adage, "gospel garde bands that include the Mumps Xzibit. Knoc -Turn'Al also proves he PRODUCER: Justin Adams in her blood." A formidable production and Swinging Madisons), it is his best can step up the pace on the Kanye World Village 468009 team mans the boards, including shot at introducing his music to a siz- West -produced "Muzik," which fea- LATIN Justin Adams has been a working musi- PAJAM (Paul Allen and J. Moss). Missy able audience -thanks in large part tures a thrashing sample from Paul cian for 20 years. In that time, he has pro- "Misdemeanor" Elliott, Donald to a plethora of offbeat but engaging McCartney's "Old Sir, Siam" that VOLUMEN CERO duced the French act LoJo and played Lawrence, and Karen herself. The duets with such artists as Rufus works too well with Knoc-Turn'Al's Luces with artists like Jah Wobble, Sinéad material they sink their teeth into is Wainwright, Paul Reubens (yes, Pee aggressive lyrics. -RH PRODUCER: Gustavo Menéndez O'Connor, and Robert Plant (he's touring strong from the first bite to the last. Wee Herman), and Lydia Lunch. Hoff- Warner Music Latina 47517 with Plant now). Busy, indeed, Desert "Brand New Day" is smooth R &B, "Be man's creaky voice is an acquired The major -label debut from Miami Road marks his first solo album. Adams Sure" has a jazzy, orchestral flavor, and taste, but his gift for sticky -sweet COUNTRY alternative pop -rock band Volumen played most of the instruments on the Lawrence's "If I Can't Say a Word" is an melodies and clever lyrics is undeni- Cero arrives after years of toiling in the record, including guitar, bendir, organ, angelic ballad. The album closes with able. In all, a fun and festive breather TOBY KEITH city's remarkably unreceptive local and n'goni; he also did the programming Sheard's stirring pronouncement, "It's from the major -label factory conveyor Unleashed music scene. That Volumen Cero has and wrote the songs. Tuareg guitar music Not Over." One can only heartily agree. belt of wannabes and soundalikes. PRODUCERS: James Stroud, Toby Keith made its bones (so to speak) the old - is a clear influence here, as is Malian 2nd Chance, in fact, sounds like a Contact: 323 -663 -4082. -LF Dreamstreet 50254 fashioned way -by playing, playing, music in general. In doing his own thing, brand new day. -GE Toby Keith's ninth album makes a playing -is apparent in the group's Adams has dramatized the sympathy statement right out of the gate with cohesive sound, a blend of crunchy gui- between certain Western musical styles, RIM/HIP-HOP the gutsy, powerful "Courtesy of the tars and fine melodies that yield good such as the blues and sub -Saharan music. CLASSICAL Red, White and Blue (The Angry Amer- of rock'n'roll with no Latin fusion pre- Adams sings as well, but this album is MARIO ican)." Things lighten up with the lik- tensions. Rather than branch out in mainly an instrumental journey into the * RICHAFORT: Requiem, Motets Mario able country funk of "Who's Your experimental wooziness, Volumen Cero solitude and exoticism of the northeastern Huelgas- Ensemble /Paul van Nevel PRODUCERS: various Daddy" and the jumpin' Mexicali romp sticks to the basics and comes out win- Sahara. The essence of Adams' idea is best PRODUCER: Markus Heiland

1 0026 "Good to Go to Mexico," then "Beer for ning with a collection of hard -hitting, expressed in the tunes "Majnoun & Leila," Harmonia Mundi 901730 With the recent revival in teen R &B, my Horses" is a tough, Western - well -crafted -yet very middle- of-the- the title track, and "Blue Man." -PW Although little is known about his life, it might be easy for an act to get lost themed duet with Willie Nelson. His road- songs, replete with catchy, poppy Franco -Flemish composer Jean in the shuffle. J newcomer Mario has supercharged vibrato is built for a bal- hooks. Particularly strong tracks Richafort was a mainstay of the 16th - nothing to worry about, thanks to an lad, and here he serves up the melan- include "Dime" -with the plaintive BLUES century top 40, not only with his impressive eponymous debut. For choly "Losing My Touch" with world - chorus off -setting the relentless guitar scores in high circulation across starters, the 15- year -old Baltimore weary aplomb. "Huckleberry" is a work-and the more boisterous "Gin- * JOE LOUIS WALKER Europe but with other famous com- native had the guts to cover Biz romantic, big- hearted midtempo, ger Ale." These are better rounded -off In the Morning posers basing works on his themes. His Markie's "Just a Friend" which, as the "Ain't it Just Like You" is a polished tracks than the single, "Hollywood," PRODUCER: Randy Labbe 35- minute, six -voice Requiem -dedi- set's lead single, is a certified radio gem, and the softly percolating "Rock whose promising storyline lyrics even- Telarc 83541 cated to that greatest of late -medieval/ smash. The age- appropriate "Braid You Baby" is a country power ballad. tually lead nowhere. -LC As a guitarist, vocalist and songwriter, Joe early- Renaissance composers, Josquin My Hair" proves that the singer can Toby Keith has developed into a super- Louis Walker forges a distinctive sound Desprez-is regarded as his master- also slow things down; at the same star for a reason, and he keeps getting JERRY RIVERA within theMoming, his debut outing for piece, and it certainly sounds like one time, the love song is a fine showcase better. -RW Vuela Muy Alto Telarc. Walker is a veteran artist whose in the hands of Belgian conductor Paul for his youthful tenor. Mario dabbles PRODUCERS: Rey Neira, Julio Reyes, appeal comes in part from his native feel van Nevel and his Huelgas- Ensemble. in neo -soul on the Alicia Keys -pro- * DALE WATSON Emanuele Ruffinengo, Ramón Sánchez for soul and gospel. The title track, a tune The group sings Richafort's darkly duced, piano- fueled "2 Train." Here, Live in London ... England! BMG U.S. Latin 74321 94877 that instantly summons the infectious melodious, chant -laced polyphony with Mario may remind some listeners of a PRODUCER: Chuck Rhodes In his second stab at pop, salsa star Stax R &B and the pop -gospel sounds of a sound like molten amber. Although young Donnell Jones. Surely the Audium 8157 Jerry Rivera opts for a hipper, more the 1960s, and the cool blend of blues and they don't carry the inspired weight of album's highlight, "2 Train" is what Dale Watson is a fearless Texas singer/ dance -oriented sound than in his more R &B on "Do You Wanna Be With Me ?" the Requiem, several lovely motets and separates Mario from the rest of the songwriter/guitarist with a strong rev- stylized pop outing last year. Perhaps highlight the ease with which Walker chansons balance out the disc, which pack-proving that he is about more erence for retro country and drinkin' more important, he includes five salsa works these genres into one vibe. On the was atmospherically but clearly record- than syrupy sweet hooks and school - songs, blended with a rebel spirit and tracks, which keep him on firm footing blues side, the record opens with "You're ed by the ace engineer Markus Heiland yard crushes. -RH tattooed -rocker mentality. Watson and with his salsa fan base; as it also turns About to Lose Your Clown," a tasty, of Tritonus. BB

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MISTY IN ROOTS The group's social conscience is also beauty, style, and sweet R &B on the Roots Controller on point with the live track "Ghetto appropriately titled All Have. Lead PRODUCER: Misty in Roots of the City" and "Dance Hall Baby- single "Why Don't We Fall in Love" RealWorld 7243 8 12620 lon." It's such a fine experience to has already broken through at radio. This has to be the comeback album hear this veteran reggae ensemble Short and sweet-the track clocks of the year. It's been 12 years since working its in- the -pocket dancehall in at less than three minutes -it is this seminal U.K. roots reggae act sound again. -PW well on its way to becoming a sum- released a studio album. Roots Con- mer anthem. Amerie evokes a bit of troller restores Misty in Roots to the AMERIE Janet Jackson on the sensual "Noth- primacy the act enjoyed in the All I Have ing Like Loving You." With its syn- 1980s. The band was not inactive PRODUCER: Rich Harrison copated bassline, the song is a per- during the previous decade, gigging Rise /Columbia 5959 fect mood -enhancer. Other in Africa and at Peter Gabriel's The recent success stories of Ashan- highlights include "I Just Died" and WOMAD festival, so the superb ti and Tweet may have some won- the Mary J. Blige- inspired "Need musicianship heard on Roots Con- dering if there is room for another You Tonight." Following in the foot- troller should come as no surprise. mentality informs the tune "Cover R &B chanteuse on the charts. Well, charts are surely hers for the taking. steps of Blige, Amerie mixes sensu- Misty in Roots was always a group Up," which deals with the 1993 mur- with an artist like Amerie, who The 22- year -old Washington, D.C., ality and honesty into her own with an activist agenda, and that der of Stephen Lawrence in London. arrives with a powerful debut, the resident offers a combination of brand of hip -hop soul. -RH

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Edited by Chuck Taylor HEATHER HEADLEY He Is (3:46) PRODUCERS: the Family Stand ROCK WRITERS: P. Lord, J. Smith POP PUBLISHER: not listed BREAKING BENJAMIN Polyamorous RCA 0786369376 (CD promo) (3:04) VANESSA CARLTON Ordinary Day Alicia Keys, step aside, girl. It's PRODUCER: Ulrich Wild (4:00) time to make room for Miss WRITER: B. Burnley PRODUCER: Ron Fair Heather Headley, the latest, great- PUBLISHER: Breaking Benjamin Music, WRITER: V. Carlton .ttlYMYl011t MfWOY1V11 10T ' est, -so ASCAP .,7111170..a oh -cool singer of soul. PUBLISHERS: Rosasharn C1mYi Publishing/ Ir Already a good friend of Broad - Hollywood Records 11519 (CD promo) Universal Music, BMI 07147007,070.0, way-as the Tony Award -winning Among the scores of new bands A &M Records (CD promo) originating star of Aida -Headley amping their way onto the top 40 Vanessa Carlton, the innovator of the possesses an extravagantly elegant and active and /or modern -rock current little -girl- rocker revolution that sensuality, and she puts it in a charts, Breaking Benjamin possess- helped launch Avril Lavigne and good headlock on debut single "He es a meaner edge than most, con- Michelle Branch, may, in fact, have the LIFEHOUSE Spin (4:09) Is." Headley's voice is as loose and juring Nitzer Ebb before Nickel - toughest time with a successful follow - PRODUCER: Ron Aniello CYNDI LAUPER Shine (3:44) back. As a result, " Polyamorous" up. Top 5 debut "A Thousand Miles" was WRITERS: Wade, Aniello PRODUCERS: Cyndi Lauper, William sounds almost like a throwback to such a unique song with its strong PUBLISHERS: B. Chills /Songs of Wittman the days when pummeling a per- piano lines, whirling, almost manic DreamWorks /Aniello Music, BMI WRITERS: C. Lauper, W. Wittman formance into tatters was more the melody, and seeming stream- of-con- DreamWorks 13993 (CD promo) PUBLISHERS: Rellla Music /Sony Pub- name of the game than a congenial sciousness lyric. Unfortunately, Carl - Even though it never rang the No. 1 lishing, BMI; Weedy Wet Songs, ASCAP vocal amid a wall of wailing guitars. ton's second single, "Ordinary Day," is bell on The Billboard Hot 100, Life - Rellla Music (CD single) Lead Ben Burnley also handles writ- stamped from the very same mold as house's "Hanging by a Moment" was Those 30 and over likely remember the ing duties for the band, and -so the "Miles," showcasing the prodigious the No. 1 single of 2001, thanks to early '80s pop- culture battle between story goes -band guitarist Aaron piano skills of this talented young sheer staying power -it logged more Cyndi Lauper and Madonna: Almost Fink and bassist Mark James woman and again sporting a stop -and- than a year on the chart, not drop- hands -down, the media agreed, Lauper Klepaski were so convinced by his start sort of melodic structure. True, ping off until this past February. possessed the richer talent and would talent that they fled Universal sign- Carlton has connected with the TRI, Those are some pretty big loafers to be the one to make it for the long haul. ing Lifer to join up (along with crowd, which goes a long way toward fill, but from the sound of the trio's But over time, the masses took more of drummer Jeremy Hummell). The maintaining a high profile, but we new "Spin" -the first single from a shine to the ever-present Madonna, quartet is produced by Ulrich Wild, might have steered toward a different the forthcoming sophomore set and after a decade or so, Lauper was who has worked with Static X and single from the gold Be Not Nobody: Stanley Climbfall-these guys could relegated to the pop annals -even Powerman 5000 -so the sound perhaps the more melancholy "Pretty still be hoofing it in the streets come easy- flowing as silk drapes against though she has never really stopped throughout the forthcoming Satu- Baby" or thoughtful "Paradise." More Christmas and beyond. "Spin" is a a summer breeze, winding and making quality, albeit lower -profile rate is bound to be hard and fast. than 75 top 40 stations are supporting wonderfully constructed rock climbing and oozing in whatever music. Now, some 20 years after her Rock stations are already painting "Ordinary Day" early in the game, so song with a number of different direction she sees fit. Around her, launch with "Girls Just Want to Have the town red with this track, mak- perhaps momentum will carry it for- musical subsections, all of which the Family Stand sets up groovy Fun," Lauper issues her best song in ing the group's name a quickly self - ward. But A &M must be careful to share showcase the potent pipes and song - organ rhythms, a lite hip -hop beat, years with the midtempo ballad fulfilled prophecy. This Benjamin the different sides of its delicate prize, writing skills of lead singer /guitarist gospel -bred instrumentation, and a "Shine," which emanates with all the has broken. -CT who -with proper nurturing -could be Jason Wade (who sounds more than choir of angelic voices as she sings glory of that ardent, God-blessed voice. the Tori Amos of her generation. -CT ever like Creed's Scott Stapp, who, in about the divine gifts put forth by .. Lauper, who wrote and produced the turn, sounds like Pearl Jam's Eddie . either God or one hell of a special song with William Wittman, offers DANCE Vedder). Lifehouse has managed to man. Headley is a one -of -a -kind unconditional support, singing, "You R&B drum up a keen balance between talent who deserves the same sort can shine, I won't deny you/Don't be MAD'HOUSE Like a Prayer (3:16) pure, guitar- fueled rock and hook - of high -profile industry ushering afraid, it'll all be OK." As always, Lau - PRODUCERS: M Bambi Mukendi, Stephane TANK One Man (3:58) sodden, creatively executed pop - as the likes of Erykah Badu several per resonates with both strength and a Durand PRODUCER: Tank and this song deserves a lengthy stay years ago-she is the real thing. shimmer of vulnerability-she packs WRITERS: Madonna, R Leonard WRITER: D. Babbs on the playlists of both formats. Upcoming RCA set This Is Who I more sentiment into just the word PUBLISHERS: Bleu Disque Music/ PUBLISHERS: Tank1176 Music /Black "Spin" is high -quality stuff: passion- Am partners the diva with many of "Shine" than many performers might Johnny Yuma Music /WB Music /Webo Fountain Music /EMI April Music, ASCAP ate, gritty, and relying wholly on the the day's top producers -a hopeful deliver in an entire aria. This is mint, Girl /Orangejello Music Blackground (CD promo) artistry of Wade and comrades Ser- sign that RCA means business with vintage Cyndi Lauper, a song that fans Radikal Records 99125 (CD promo) Tank once again shares his sensitive side gio Andrade and Rick Woolsten- its bold new talent. Mainstream will rank with her best-it's that good. High- energy remakes of hit songs on the lead single from his forthcoming hulme. This Lifehouse looks set to and adult R &B stations should Now, if only those savvy journalists are a dime a dozen among a certain sophomore set, One Man. The title track shine for quite some time. Look for gobble up this high -class new tal- from the '80s could teach radio pro- clutch of indie labels. But every is a sensual, midtempo ditty that follows the new album Sept. 17. -CT ent like sweet candy. -CT grammers a thing or two. -CT once in a while, that dime turns to closely in the footsteps of last year's gold. For one, DJ Sammy & Yanou "Maybe I Deserve," which peaked at No. are proving their mettle as they cat- 7 on the Hot R &B/Hip -Hop Singles & with some of the great traditionalists. though, the song is a lightweight lit- you out of here." It's humorous, and apult up the Hot 100 with their fes- Tracks chart. Tank, who wrote and pro- a lá Merle Haggard and George Jones. tle ditty, not particularly worthy of Watson delivers a wink -in- the -eye tive remix of Bryan Adams' "Heav- duced the single, croons his good -guy These days Watson is sounding better his impressive pipes. On the chorus, performance. Perhaps every song en." Now, from New Jersey -based sentiments with conviction over the than ever, as his recent work on RMG he croons, "There ain't been no trash doesn't have to be the caliber of "I Radikal Records. comes a bouncy, piano- driven track. Preferring the sim- Records demonstrates. In this case, in my trailer since the day I threw Hope You Dance." So for those who bubbly Belgian import of Madonna's pler things in life, the singer is more "Like a Prayer," which has lit up the than willing to give it all up for his charts in Germany, France, and the woman-and they say chivalry is dead! Netherlands -and is now stirring "One Man" should be a perfect fit for NEW at NOTEWORTHY up the airwaves at stations in New both mainstream and adult R &B radio. York and Miami. French producers Tank's proven track record at radio, AMY STUDT Just a Little Girl (3:40) launching into, "You say I'm just a lit- M Bambi Mukendi and Stephane along with his strong female following, PRODUCER: Yak Bondy tle girl/But there's a hell of a lot more Durand are behind the mix, which could make Tank ... the man. -RH WRITERS: A. Studt,Y. Bondy to me/Don't ever underestimate what features 20- year -old Turkish singer PUBLISHERS: 19 Songs /BMG Music/Edel I can do." The chorus here is a brain - Buse Unlu -who sounds so much Universal 20829 (CD promo) tickler, offering great promise from like Madonna here that you're hard - U.K. export Amy Studt (like "stoodt") this talented 16- year-old, who began pressed to know that it's not. The is set to break bad stateside with her writing songs at the age of nine. Reac- result is a light, toe -plinking GENE WATSON No Trash in My Trailer melodic debut "Just a Little Girl." Like tion from radio has been surprisingly anthem -available in three mixes (3:20) many of her stateside contemporaries brisk from the moment of release, on the CD single -that adds a Sat- PRODUCER: not listed in the Avril Lavigne/Michelle Branch including take -off airplay in top 10 urday night party zing to the ubiq- WRITERS: B. Hill, M. Dekle vein, the teenager writes her music, markets. It looks like Studt will be the uitous Madonna classic. With Kelly PUBLISHERS: Warner Bros. Music /Foil plays guitar and piano, and sings latest, greatest Brit (who, by the way, Osbourne's "Papa Don't Preach" Hearted Melodies /Square D Music, ASCAP alongside a pretty aggressive gust of 'ng softly and sweetly with "some- is managed by Pop Idol guru Simon earning some respect out there, RMG Records 8202-3 (CD promo) guitars. Lyrically, Studt tells off those times I feel you're not listening" Fuller) to make good in the States - could we be in for a full -fledged Gene Watson possesses one of coun- who view her youth as a liability, start- before waving her finger in the air and and deservedly so. -CT attack of the Madonna clones? Oh, try music's truly great voices, on par why not ? -CT

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Broadway, 6th floor, NewYork, N.Y. 10003) or to the writers in the appropriate bureaus. 18 www.billboard.com BILLBOARD AUGUST 3, 2002 www.americanradiohistory.com AUGUST 2QQ2 ® T ;_F ® HOT R&B/lfHOP APLAYT í ..t. y .v. W w w w 3 3 4/1 N TITLE TITLE TITLE /PROMOTION LABEL) h- _1 ARTIST (IMPRINT /PROMOTION R ARTIST (IMPRINT LABEL) F- ARTIST (IMPRINT /PROMOTION LABEL) s NUMBE. ?w. Good Man 1 1 Hot In Herre 4 wksAt No. I 22 Anything CD 52 JAHEIM FEAT NEXT (DIVINE MILL/WARNER BROS.) RL IJI NELLY (F0' REEVUNIVERSALI 31 Heaven I Need A Hug 54 If I Could Go! 2 2 I Need A Girl (Part Two) ® (JIVE) ANGIE MARTIN) (ELEKTRA/EEG) P DIDDY 8 GINIIWINE (BAD BOY / ARISTA) R. KELLY Keep Levin' You © 4 Down 4U 39 I Care 4 U 53 51 DAVE HOLLISTER (MCA) IRV GOTTI PRESENTS THE INC. (MURDER INCJUEFJAM/IDJMG AALIYAH IBIACKGROUND) 7 Nothin' 32 Way Of Life 56 Most High CD LIL WAYNE MONEY/UNIVERSAL) o LERZEE MONET (DREAMWORKS/INTERSCOPEI . N O.R.E (DEFJAM/IDJMG) (CASH .Just A Friend 2002 28 What If A Woman ® 60 One On One JOE KEITH SWEAT IELEKTRA/EEG) © 8 MARIO ILO (JIVE) 58 Can U Help Me O9 Happy 29 Gots Ta Be o :: USHER (ARISTA/ ASHANTI MURDER INCJAJM/IDJMG,. B2K (EPIC) Cleanin' Out My Closet 7 3 Ili Oh Boy 34 Burnin' Up ® - BOY /ARISTA) EMINEM (NEB /AFTERMATWINTERSCOPEI CAM'RON (ROC-A-FELLA/OEFJAM /IDJMGI FAITH EVANS (BAD 58 53 In The Morning out to listen to 8 5 halfcrazy 23 Without Me would take the time MARY MAR' (COLUMBIA) oc- Turn'Al has MUSIO (OEFSODUIDJMGI EMINEM IWEB/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPEI he thought he 62 One Man in the something that 14 Dilemma 30 Full Moon ep his fans o TANK (BL& KGROUND) like." o NELLY FEAT KELLY ROWLAND (FO' REEUUNIVERSALI BRANDY (ATLANTIC) for his collabora- wouldn't 67 I Do ( Wanna Get Close To You) n 6 Still Fly 40 Tainted m 10 P OIDOR & LOON( NINE LIVES/EPIC) also be featured on SLUM VILLAGE FEAT. DWELE(BARAK/PRIORITY /CAPITOL( 3LW FEAT DJ Quik, the "Muzik" will BIG TYMERS(CASH MONEY/UNIVERSALI ,,. ore and Connected For Life the forthcom- 11 10 Addictive 37 All Eyez On Me (9 - soundtrack to MACK 10 (CASH MONEY/UNIVERSAL) steps out on his the RAKIM /INTERSCOEL MONICA (J) _.Atgeles native film, TRUTH HURTS FEAT. (AFTERMATH written I A Girl (Part One) 62 57 Whoa Now his Elektra debut, L.A. ing Luc Bresson- 13 Grindin' 35 Need own with D RICH P OIODY FEAT. USHER & LOON (BAD BOR/ARISTAI (ATLANTIC) Al. The Transporter. THE CLIPSE (STARTRACKIARISTA) Presents Knoc -Turn 63 1 61 Guess Who's Back Confidential 15 Move B " " "h 42 Trade It All to have his ® SCARFACE (DER JAM SOUTH /10,W) -Turn'Al expects THA PEACE/DEF JAM SOUTH/IOJMG, FABULOUS (EPIC) Out July 30, the six -track set, Knoc '.'.1DACRIS (DISTURBING Hey Ma debut ready to go by the 12 Why Don't We Fall In Love 36 Rainy Days O - sat- full -length CAM'RON IROC-A- FELLA/DEFJAM/IDJMG) dubbed a "mini- album," should D MARY J. BWGE FEAT JA RULE (MCA AMERIE RISE/COLUMBIA) for fourth quarter. "I'm trying to be Part II 68 Don't Mess With My Man isfy the appetites of fans hungry 15 11 Call Me 38 Pass The Courvoisier O ® '. NIVEA FEAT. BRIAN & BRANDON CASEY (JIVE) BUSTA RHYMES FEAT. P. DIDOR & PHARRELL IJI here for a while," he says. "I'm trying TWEET (THE GOLD MIND/EI.EKTRNEEG) new material from the artist. On My Block 16 18 Someone To Love You 55 Feel It Boy m - SCARFACE JAM SOl1TWIDJMGI - icon. I'm not trying to just BRUNIE MAN FEAT JANET IDEF "The decision [to release a mini to be an RUFF ENDZ (EPIC) IVPNIRGINI 67 59 I'm Back of the get this quick money and leave. I 25 Gangsta Lovin' 45 In Da Wind album] was made because FEAT. EL SHABER IMOTOWNI RVOEflSANTERSCOPEI TRICK DADDY (SLIM-SLIDE/ATLANTIC/ N my love and enjoy music, and I have a EVE FEAT.ADCIA KEYS (RUFF amount of anticipation for 21 Good limes 48 I'd Rather 68 66 We Ready ARCH E EVERSOLE FEAT BUBBASPAFDDC( (THAT BOY/MCA) album," Knoc -Turn'Al says. "I real- passion to do this. This is something STYLES fluffRVOERS /INTERSCOPEI LUTHERVANDROOS IJI 27 Stingy 33 Down A "" Chick 69 64 Don't Say No, Just Say Yes 0P AVANT JOHNSON/MCAI my [full - I've always wanted to do." JA RULE FEAT CHURL) BALTIMORE IMUADERINCNEFJAMADJMGI (MAGIC ly wasn't ready to put f,INUWINE ( EPICI length] album out, because I need- 20 16 Foolish 43 Gimme The Light m 74 Stl lin' FAXA BROWN (DEEJAMROJMG) ASHANTI MURDER INCJAJMIIDJMG SEAN PAUL (BLACK SHADOW/2 HARDNP I did what I'm IS THAT YOUR FINAL ANSWER ?: You ed to make sure that 1 17 U Don't Have To Call 47 Basketball ®72 Rule NA ì FEAT AMERIE TILL WIWSO SO DEF /COLUMBIA( do on my deliv- think you know R &B and hip -hop . USHER IARISTAI LIL BOW WOW ISO SO DEF/COLUMBIA) supposed to end- My Dad's Gone Crazy - You Know That I Love You 50 Po' Folks m - I Poulson E MNEM FEAT HAILIE JADE (WEB /AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE) fans music can music? Well, let Scott NAPPY ROOTS FEAT. ANTHONY HAMILTON (ATLANTIC) er to the the best 19 DONELL JONES (UNTOUCHABLES / ARISTA) Lev U Better give them. Bryant and Smokey D. Fontaine 20 My Neck, My Back 49 Wish I Didn't Miss You ® - LL COOL) you to the test with their new KHIA FEAT. DSO (DIRTYDOWN /ARTEMIS) ANGIE STONE IJI IDEEJAM/IDJMG) put 26 Two Wrongs 41 Makin' Good Love 74 71 I'm Gonna Be Ready Y)LANDA ADAMS (ELEKTRNEEG) book, What's Your Hi -Fi Q? From WVCLEF JEAN FEAT. CLAUDETTE ORTIZ (COLUMBIA) AVANT (MAGIC JOHNSON/MCA) 24 Baby 44 I'm Gonna Be Alright 75 65 Mow Come You Don't Call Me Prince to Puff Daddy: 30 Years of FEAT. NAS ALICIA KEYS IJI ASHANTI (MURDER INC /AJM/IDJMG) / JENNIFER LOPEZ (EPIC) Black Music Trivia (Fireside /Simon supplied by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems' Radio 11, Records with the greatest impressions increase. (.4 2002, VNU Business Medi , Inc All rights reserved. Compiled from a national sample of airplay Arbitron listener data. & Schuster). The founding editor of Track service. 132 stations are electronically monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Songs ranked by gross impressions, computed by cross- referencing exact times of airplay with Vibe and former music editor of This data is used to compile the Hot R &B /Hip -Hop Singles & Tracks chart. The Source, respectively, have com-

piled thousands of R &B /hip -hop- .i based trivia questions to boggle, SINGLES S A baffle, and just plain befuddle AU2 02T 3 Billboard HOT R&B/HIP-HOP music lovers. To celebrate the release of the uJ ux book, the duo will co -host an in- TITLE TITLE i" TITLE Q T S store launch party/book signing Aug. ARTIST (IMPRINT /PROMOTION LABEL) E- ARTIST (IMPRINT /PROMOTION LABEL) f- g ARTIST (IMPRINT /PROMOTION LABEL) ,T 1TUMBER 1 8 at the MTV Store in New York. The 2 Two Wrongs W LLNO. t 36 Guess Who's Back 65 Ova WYCLEFJEANFEAT. CLAUDETTE ORTIZ o SCARFACE (OEF JAM SOUTH/IOJMG) JAZ.0 (KINGZKOUNTY/RANCORE) (COLUMBIA o event will include a special photo 2 Don't Mess With My Man 57 Put It Inside et 58 One Mic exhibit by Ernie Paniciolli, "the dean NIVEA FEAT BRIAN & BRANDON CASEY (JIVE) WON -G FEAT. DA BRAT (TNO /ORPHEUS) NAS IILL WILL/COLUMBIA) "What ended up happening was of hip -hop photography." 3 I Don't Really Know Q) 51 I Do (Wanna Get Close To You) 53 48 Big Poppa/Warning ,... BRANDY MOSS- SCOTT (HEAVENLY TUNES) 3LWFEAT P DIDDY& LOON NINE UVES/EPICI 1HE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. (BAD BOY / ARISTA) that I had 17 songs that were out on 5 Mother - Hyde Ha 54 47 Gots Ta Be the Internet, but only six of them FUBU'S FIRST: With the ink barely RAY CHARLES E- NATE/CROSS OVER) BIG LOGIC GOODINVISIO ORPHEUS 82K (EPIC 4 Hot In Herre m 37 ' Blue Jeans 55 38 In Da Wind were on my album," the MC contin- dry on its recently signed distri- NELLY (FO'REEDUNIVERSALI HUSMEEN (MAGIC JOHNSON/MCA/ TRICK DADDY (SLIP- N- SLIDE/ATLANTICI ues. "So I took them off my album bution pact with Koch Entertain- 1 Day + Night @ 41 Ghetto Millionaire 56 70 Bang My Hit 'SASS FEAT JADAKISS IARISTAI DEM GHETTO PLAYAS (DEEP END) '' ROZELLY PRESENTS DA FAM (BRAINSTORM) and kept the other songs. From the ment (Billboard, July 13), FUBU 15 Move B " **h 32 30 Tainted 57 49 You Know That I Love You remaining songs, I chose the best six Records, a division of FB Enter- 'JJACRIS (DISTURBING THAPEACE/DEF JAM SOUTH/DJMGI SLUME VILLAGE FEAT DWELE 'BARAK/PRIORITY /CAPITOL( DONELL JONES (UNTOUCHABI.ES/ARISTAI 1 My Dogs ® 63 So High 58 26 Line 'Em Up and put [them] on the mini -album. tainment, has signed New Orleans - CHUCK -N- BLOOD (FOREALAH JAMZ DADA INUFF NUFF /PYRAMID /ORPHEUSI FREEWAY FEAT YOUNG CHRIS (ADC-A- FELLNDEFJAAI ,.'.' We also enhanced the CD so that based rap group 54th Platoon as 13 Crawl To Me 34 23 Addictive ea - H! VItg3 Evidence PARK FEAT PIIARBAHE ..!.MI (MACK DAWG) TRUTH HURTS FEAT. RAMM IAFTERMATH/INTERSCOPEI .. : ,KIN PORCH 66J BABUFAT BEATS/WAXER BROS you get live and raw footage from its first act. i0 Just A Friend 2002 35 33 U Don't Have To Call - Let The Good limes Roll ,,IARIO in (J) USHER ARISTA) RJ02 IDEFINITIVEJUXI different cities and tours that I've Although the group was featured ( ca, 1 8 Grindin' 0 - No Panties - Will Destroy been on. You also get an enhanced on the label's previously released '.: THE CLIPSE (STAR TRACK/ARISTA) TRINA FEAT TWEET (SLIP- N- SLIDE/ATLANTICI LIL RU (HOW YOU LOVE THAT( version of the `Knot' video." The Goodlife- distributed by Uni- 12 11 Nothin' 37 32 Welcome To New York City 62 : 45 One More Chance/Stay With Me N.0 R. E. (DEF JAM/ IDJMG) CAM'RON (ROC- A-FELLA/DEFJAM/IDJMG) THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. (BAD BOY/ARIS IA Among the six songs are the versal Records -54th Platoon, 4D 16 Ballin' Boy O - LiI' Buddy 63 39 Rainy Dayz aforementioned "The Knoc," his along with the other acts on the NO GOOD IARTISTDIRECTI OUE BO GOLD (UNIVERSAL) MARY J. BLIGE FEAT. JA RULE IMCAI 14 9 Who Wants This? 39 35 Bigger Than Life - Dream Girl .. debut Elektra single that features album, was never officially signed to SMILEZ& SOUTHSTAR (ARTISTDIRECTI C3.0 (MAMA'S BOY) LIL O (UNIVERSAL) Missy "Misdemeanor" and label. 15 6 Throw It Up O 46 Relax Your Mind ®, - Dansin Wit Wolvez Elliott the ILLICIT BIZNEZ FEAT COO COO CAL (FELONIOUS) BOYZ II MEN FEAT. FAITH EVANS IARISTAI - STRIK SINE IFADE/ECMDI Dr. Dre, as well as "Muzik," which The four-man outfit, consisting Q 19 Happy 41 27 Call Me 66 72 Hush Lil' Lady features a sample of Paul McCart- of JS, Nu Black, Nut, and Ti., are ASHANTI (MURDER INCJAJM/IDJMG) TWEET (THE GOLD MIND/ELEKTRA/EEG) COREY FEAT LIE ROMEO (NOONTIME/MOTOWN'i 17 14 I Need A Girl (Part Two) 42 25 Feels Good (Don't Worry Bout A Thing) #2a# - All Eyez On Me ney's "Old Siam, Sir." hard at work in the studio on their P DIDDY & GINUWINE (BAD BOY'ARISTAI NAUGHTY BY NATURE FEAT 3LW ITVTI MONICA IJI 18 "It must have been a favor from forthcoming debut set, due this 18 Lights, Camera, Action! 43 28 Full Moon (3) - Take You Home WdhMea.k.a. Body/Get This Money MR CHEEKS (UNIVERSAL( BRANDY (ATLANTIC( R KELLY B JAY -Z (ROC -A- FELLAVDEF JAM/IDJMG,'JIVE God," the MC says of how he fall. The album will feature pro- 19 17 Slow Dance CO 52 Good To You fID - Dead Disnee LOU MOSLEY acquired the hard -to -get sample duction from Manny Fresh, Tye IJENSTAR) TAUB KWELI IRAWKUS/MCA) i. L. P (DEFINITIVE JUX) 20 20 Way Of Life 45 44 Pass The Courvoisier Part II Q) - Beat Your Chest!! from McCartney. "He must have Fyffe, Megahertz, Epitome, and LIL WAYNE (CASH MONEY/UNIVERSAL) BUSTA RHYMES FEAT. P DIDDY 8 PHARRELL (J) LIFERS (ALL OUT/STONEY BURKE) liked the song. They told it was many 21 21 Still Fly 46 40 Soldier's Heart 71 53 Round Up him others. BIG TYMERS (CASH MONEY/UNIVERSAL) R. KELLY (JIVE) LADY MAY FEAT. BLU CANTRELL IARISTAI a rap song that the sample needed "Holdin' It Down," produced by 22 22 Who U Rollin Wit? 47 42 Holla At A Playa G - The Left Hand Path III TYKES FEAT. to be cleared for, and he wasn't par- Lil Jon of Lil Jon & the Eastside DON WON (MAMA'S BOY) JIM CROW IORCAJSCARECROW/INTERSCOPEI CAGE (EASTERN CONFERENCE) 45) 24 Oh Boy/The Roc (Just Fire) 48 31 Girlfriend - Fiesta LAM'RON A- FELLWDEFJAM/IDJMG) ticularly fond of a rapper trying to Boyz, will serve as the set's lead sin- (ROC- N SYNC FEAT NELLY (JIVE) R KELLY FEAT JAY-Z IJIVEI 29 Whoa Now 49 I use his music. But A ED 34 If Could Go! CO - Roll Wit Me he was unbiased gle. video for the track has been D RICH (ATLANTIC) ANGIE MARTINEZ IELEKTRA/EEGI PRETTY WILLIE ID2/REPUBLIC/UNIVERSALI enough to listen to it, and it turns shot by director J. Jesse Smith. 56 Live Big m - The Cha Cha Slide PL III Roll Like This 62 It's The Weekend o SACARIO IELEKTRA/EEGI MR. C THE MAN . LIL J ;HOLLYWOOD) out he liked the song. I just appre- Look for both the single and video SUDE IM.O.BJORPHEUS) Records ciate the fact that Paul McCartney to with the greatest sales gains, s: 2002, VNU Business Media. Inc a u Neel. en SoundScan, Inc. All rights reserved. Compiled by Nielsen Soundscan from a national subset panel of core drop in early August. R &B/Hip -Hop stores. This data is used to compile the Hot R &B/Hip -Hop Singles & Track chart.

BILLBOARD AUGUST 3, 2002 www.billboard.com 21 www.americanradiohistory.com AucusT 3 i 0 B TOP R&B/H ' Sales data compiled from a national subset OP ALBUM á panel of core R &B /Hip -Hop stores by C. Nielsen SoundScan ARTIST Title ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL IMPRINT & NUMBER /DISTRIBUTING LABEL NUMBER 1 4 Weeks At Number I 51 58 YOLANDA ADAMS ELEKTRA 62690/EEG (1298/18.981 1 1 NELLY FO' REEL 017747 /UNIVERSAL 11298/18.981 Nellyville 1 42 20 VARIOUS ARTISTS sa SO DEE /COLUMBIA 86689/CRG 18.98 ED Cs) So So Def Presents: Definir. 3 3 EMINEM 44 WEB /AFTERMATH 493290' /INTERSCOPE (12.98/19.98) The Eminem Show 1 62 60 AALIYAH 42 BLACKGROUNG10082.1129818.981

2 86 STYLES RUFF RYOERS 493339 /INTERSCOPE (1898 C0) A Gangster And A Gentleman 2 36 38 NAS A ILL WILL/COLUMBIA 85736'/CRG (1298 E0/18.981

4 2 VARIOUS ARTISTS MURDER INC/DEF JAM063833' /DJMG 1129818,98) Iry Gotti Presents The Inc 48 45 2 RUFF ENDZ EPIC 85691.112 98 E0/12.981 Someone To

7 5 ASHANTI MURDER INCJAJM 586830'/IDJMG (12.98 /1898) 2 Ashanti 1 60 61 ALICIA KEYS 5 J 20002 112.9808.981 Songs In A

5 E-40 SICK WID' IT /JIVE 41808/ZOMBA 11198/1798) The Ballatician: Grit & Grind 5 72 68 MYSTIKAL JIVE 41770/ZOMBA 112.98/18,98) Taran

8 7 DONELL UNTOUCHABLES 14760/ARISTA 112.98 /1898 58 53 DJ D -EVIL 3600/STREET JONES Life Goes On 2 PAUL LEVEL (10.98/17981 [N] Triple 6 Mafia Presents DJ Paul - Underground Vol.16: For Da Summ

6 4 N.O.R.E. DEF JAM 586502' /IDJMG (12.98/18.981 God's Favorite 3 63 44 LAURYN HILL A COLUMBIA 86580 /CRG 116.98 E0/19.981 MTV Unplugged No. 2.0

9,6 VARIOUS ARTISTS BAD BOY 73062/ARISTA 1729819981 P. Diddy & Bad Boy Records Present... We Invented The Bemis 2 52 50 NORMAN BROWN WARNER BROS. 47995(18.98CDI [NI Just Chillin' 5 4/ HOT SHOT DEBUT r 54 64 INDIA.ARIE MOTOWN 013770'/UMRG 112.9818.981 Acoustic Soul 3 MARY MARY COLUMBIA 82273/CRG 112.98E5)7ß.981 Incredible 10 57 55 ANGIE STONE J 20013.112.9818.981 Mahogany Soul 4

SOUNDTRACK NEWLINE/MAVERICK 48310/WARNER BROS (18.98 CDI Austin Powers In Goldmember 62 12 8 TRUTH HURTS AFTERMATH 493331 /INTERSCOPE 112.98 /18981 Truthfully Speaking 4

55 63 USHER A' ARISTA 14715'112.98/18.981 8701 3 11 ONYX OTHER PEOPLES MONEY/IN THE PAINT 8268' /KOCH (12.98/1798) Bacdafucup: Part II

14 13 BIG TYMERS CASH MONEY /UNIVERSAL 860997' /UMRG (18.98 CO) Hood Rich PACESETTER 79 84 BRENT JONES + T.P. MOBB HOLY ROLLER 20323 /EMI GOSPEL 111.9816.981188] beautiful 35 JERZEE MONET DREAMWORKS 4508IWINTERSCOPE 112.98 CO) Love & War

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44 32 NAS ILLWIWCOLUMBIA 88685/CRG 18.98 ES CDI From Illmatic To Stillmatic The Remixes (EP) 32 =$' GREATEST GAINER -+- 19 18 NAPPY ROOTS ATLANTIC 83524'/AG III .9817931 Watermelon, Chicken & Gritz 3 67 72 LUTHER VANDROSS J 200070298/18.981 Luther Vandross 2

71 67 REMY SHAND MOTOWN014481/UMRG nee coi The Way I Feel 15 13 10 SOUNDTRACK SO SO DEF /COLUMBIA 86676 /CRG 6.98 E0/13.98) Like Mike 10

69 62 JENNIFER LOPEZ EPIC 86399'(12.98E0/1ß.981 J To Tha L -0! The Remixes 1 10 9 WYCLEF JEAN COLUMBIA 86542 /CRG 112.98 E5/18.981 Masquerade 2 75 WILSON MEADOWS M.M 9525)ß5R 111.9817.98) Choices 73 22 27 RL J 20012112.98/17.98) RLEments 6 65 54 MC EIHT D39998RIVIERA11898COI Underground Hero 54 26 30 LUDACRIS 2 DISTURBING THA PEACE/DEF JAM SOUTH 586446'/10J85 (1298 /1998) Word Of Mouf 1 73 71 CRAIG DAVID WILDSTAR/ATLANTIC 88081 /ÁG111.9817.98) Born To Dolt 12 21 16 AZ MOTOWN 018074NMRG (129818.98) AZiatic 5 76 79 MAXWELL A COLUMBIA 67136/CRG 11298 EO/18.981 Now 1 23 17 DAZ DILLINGER OCF/FREE006/G.P.G.(17,98CO) This Is The Life I Lead 15 80 65 GLENN LEWIS EPIC 8578r 02.98 E0/17.981 World Outside My Window 2 17 21 MICHELLE WILLIAMS MUSIC WORLD /COLUMBIA 86432/CRG 112.98 E0/18.881 Heart To Yours 17 11 59 69 WILL DOWNING GRP 58961ONG 118.98 CO) (Sensual Journey} 20 15 VARIOUS ARTISTS MCA 112875 (18.98 cD Steve Harvey Compilation: Sign Of Things To Come 12 70 56 R. KELLY & JAY-Z ROC-A- FELLA/DEF JAM586783TJIVE/IDJMG 112.98/19.981 The Best Of Both Worlds 1 25 22 ARCHIE EVERSOLE PHAT BOY 112928 /MCA(14.98CD) Ride Wit Me Dirty South Style 16 Bad Company 11 2 53 33 SOUNDTRACK HOLLYWOOD 182338118,98 CD 24 19 TWEET THE GOLD MIND /ELEKTRA 62746/EEG 11298/78981 Southern Hummingbird In 88 74 GRAVEDIGGAZ EMPIRE MUSICWERKS 39017 (16.98 CDI Nightmare A -Minor 38 27 24 BRANDY ATLANTIC 83493/A5 11298/1898) Full Moon 1 56 49 THE DAYTON FAMILY IN THE PAINT 8318KOCH 1129817.981 Welcome To The Dope House 20 28 26 RAPHAEL SAADIQ UNIVERSAL 016854' /UMRG 112.98 /18.981 Instant Vintage 6 Better Days 3 Gremlinz 21 85 88 JOE JIVE 41786/ZOMBA 11298/18.981 43 25 NATURE CASINO8004 /SEQUENCE 118.98 CD) Wild I MARVIN SAPP VERITY 43192/ZOMBA 111 17.98) [N] Believe 62 Of 1 39 51 KIRK FRANKLIN GOSPO CENTRIC 79637 /ZOMBA 111.98/17.981 The Rebirth Kirk Franklin FROST HIT A LICK 8399/KOCH 11798 CDI Still Up In This S#* +! 30 32 47 ANITA BAKER ATLANTIC 78209/RHINO 11798 CDI The Best Of Anita Baker 29 PASTOR MADD SOCIETY/UNIVERSAL014173 /UMRG 112.98/18.981 Face Off 13 2 TROY 35 42 AVANT MAGIC JOHNSON 112809/MCA 02.9818981 Ecstasy IT'S TIME CHILD 017391/ UNIVERSAL 112.98/18.981 Put It On Paper 8 7 ANN NESBY 34 28 DJ QUIK EUPONIC/LANEWAYBUNGALO970008UMRG118.98CD) Under Tha Influence 15 C- MURDER 039993/RIVIERA 118,98CDI Tru Dawgs III 29 23 CIPHA SOUNDS /MR. CHOC RAWKUS 11291P/MCAIIB.98 CO) Rawkus Records Presents: Soundbombing 8 Meaning 25 50 48 CORM EGA LEGAL HUSTLE 9214/LANDSPEED (11.98 /17.1 [N] The True No Drama 3 40 37 MARY J. BUGE 2 MCA 112808.11298 /18.981 More (2002) Is Dance! 69 74 70 VARIOUS ARTISTS J 21034(12.98/18.981 This Ultimate 18.981 2002 12 31 34 VARIOUS ARTISTS WARNER MUSIC GROUP /BMG 78192 /WARNER STRATEGIC MARKETING 112. Totally Hits Dirty District 78 82 94 SLUM VILLAGE BARAK 8003'/SEQUENCE 118.98 CD) [N] 37 35 NAUGHTY BY NATURE TVr234003.9817.981 )icons 5 MOTOWN016704/UMRG118.98COI [e] Fortunate 44 28 99 87 LATHUN 38 39 SIR CHARLES JONES MARDI GRAS 1060(10.98/16.981 [N] Love Machine Godlike 56 NATAS NUMBER66603OB.98CDI [NI [Ghetto Love] 2 49 46 JAHEIM A DIVINE MILL 47452NVVARNER BROS. 111.981798) I'm Serious 27 98 93 T.I. GHET-O- VISION 14681 /ARISTA 111.9817.981 Pain Is Love 1 33 36 JA RULE 3 MURDER INC/DEF JAM 5860.37 /IDJMG 112981998) Of 1st Entry 7 PABLO JIVE 41723/ZOMBA 1119817.98) Diary A Sinner Still Walkin 44 PETEY COO COO CAL INFINITE 1360110.98/1898) Vanessa 48 87 82 VANESSA WILLIAMS BAJADA 5392/LIGHT 19.98/15.98) Return Of The Ting Yang Twins 8 41 31 YING YANG TWINS COLLIPARK/IN THE PAINT 83756(0CH (1 29817.98) Alley: The Mixtape 21 77 76 MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO MAVERICK 47909/WARNER BROS 11038 CDI Cookie: The Anthropological Born To Reign 13 30 WILL SMITH OVERBRODK/CULUMBIA 86189' /CRG 0298 E0/18.881 20 My Time 41 CHOOBAKKA BIG DADDY 73002 116.98 CD) [N] B2K 1 40 B2K EPIC 85457 11298 E0/111.981 46 Ride 27 86 BONEY JAMES WARNER BROS, 48004117.98C0) In Search Of... 31 47 57 N *E *R *D* VIRGIN 11521 (10.98 CD The Pecan Tree 73 JOE SAMPLE PRANERVE 589508/VG 118.98 CDI Perfect Imperfections 2 45 41 CEE -LO ARISTA 14682' 1129818.981 Cee -Lo... Cee-Lo Green And His

os21 Billboard TOP R &B/HIP -HOP CATALOG ALBUMS. ce re Sales data compiled from a national subset 11,0 :. W , .ú 4y g W panel of core R &B /Hip -Hop stores by +ti Nielsen g 4,c 3 SoundScan H ;' ,J= a ÿ Title & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL H Ci Title 12 5 H=- 5 ARTIST IMPRINT 5 ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL The Chronic 284 96 Weeks At Number 1 DRE A' DEATH ROW 63060' /KOCH (119817.98( " NUMBER 1 )y;i 13 15 DR. 298 Art 400Degroez 184 TUFFGDNG /ISLAND 548881/I0JMG112.8818.881 Legend _ JUVENILE CASH MONEY/UNIVERSAL 153162NMRG(128810.88) 1 BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS '° ' Dr. Dre 2001 127 Greatest Hits 187 15. 16 DR. DRE A8 AFTERMATH 490486 /INTERSCOPE (1298/18.981 - 4 2PAC A9 AMARU/DEATH ROW 490301' /INTERSCOPE (19.98/24.981 What's The 411? 128 All Eyez On Me 328 16 12 MARY J. BLIGE 9 UPTOWN 110681/MCA 16.98/11.96 5 2PAC A9 DEATH ROW 63008'MOCH 1199825.981 Greatest Hits 385 The Marshall Mathers LP 74 17' 13 AL GREEN HI/THE RIGHT STUFF 30N0/CAPITOL00 .981798) 2 EMINEM 6 WEB /AFTERMATH 490629' /INTERSCOPE(12.9618.981 My Life 173 Grammar 108 23 MARY J. BLIGE 3 MCA 111158.(1298/18.98) 157743'NMRG 112.9818.98) Country 18 3 NELLY 8 FO' REEL/UNIVERSAL Vol. 1 88 /EPIC (11.98E0/17.9ß1 [N] Who Is Jill Scott? Words And Sounds Thankful 105 ' JILL SCOTT HIDDEN BEACH 62137 14 MARY MARY C7/COLUMBIA63740/Cß5(7.98 EOf11.98) e - Reasonable Doubt 241 The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory 214 20 17 JAY-Z FREEZE/ROCA FELLA/PRIORITY 50592' /CAPITOL 110.9816381 8 MAKAVELI DEATH ROW 63012 /KOCH (12.9817.98) It's Dark And Hell Is Hot 180 ' Life After Death 243 DMX RUFF RYDERS /DEF JAM 558221 /IOJMG112.98/18.981 6 THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. 10 BAD Boy 73Dr1./ARIOTA119,98/24.961 - ' R. 83 E. 1999 Eternal 232 R. KELLY 41 JIVE 4162YR0MBA119.9824.98) RUTHLESS 69443/EPIC11038E0/15.981 - 10 BONE THUGS-N- HARMONY Of The Temptations: 2! th Century The Millennium Collection Volume2 16 ' THE TEMPTATIONS MOTOWN 153367NMRG1698/11.9) The Best Me Against The World 308 G /JIVE41636/ZOMBA 111.98/1788) - 11 2PAC AMARU Greatest Hits 5 The Slim Shady LP 121 24 18 EARTH, WIND & FIRE LEGACY /COLUMBIA 65779/CRG(1193E0/17.981 WEB/AFTERMATH 49028 1 /INTERSCOPE112.9808.981 Make It Last Forever 313 9 EMINEM VINTERTAINMENT/ELEKTRA 60763/EEG(11.9817.98) ' Read To Die 355 : 25 20 KEITH SWEAT B.I.G. BAD BOY 730.0.0 /Áß151A 111.9818.88) Y 7 THE NOTORIOUS Albums. Recording n usbÌ ' Top R &8 /Hip -Hop Albums and Top R &B/Hip;Hop Çetalog b' d eks title hes a peered on the dou on The Billboard 200 or reissues of o der albums. indicates al ém's mu tl- platinum level. fror boxed sets, and albums are 2 -year old titles that have fallen below No. 100 (Diamond). Numeral following Platinum or Diamond symbol as Alb ms with he g reatest sales ggains this week. Catalog ccertification o shipment817 n . lof 10 million units available. ntslb!. RIM certf d scsn o net of 1 sawn units (Platinum). t Certification Assn. America 100 min net shipment 500m00 plies ups forfo m shipment OuOU HNeatseeker Impactshows lm movedfrom Heat- shipments by the dumbehnumber or discs and/or tapes.equi Latins, which wol increase. Pacesetter s biggest percentag growth. a runningg time of minutes more, stthe fro ale prices.ricer. Greatest Gainershows chartsnlarges albums with prices, are equivalent prices, which areao re projected for BMQ and WEA labels, are su Bested lists. Tape prices marked Ea, and all other CD and CO prices Inc., and Nielsen SoundScan, Inc. All rights reserved. this week. 1H] indicates past or present Heatseeker title. 8 2002, VNU Business Media, BILLBOARD AUGUST 3, 2002 www.billboard.com 22 www.americanradiohistory.com FSOL Resurfaces On Hypnotic

BY TAMARA PALMER heart guitarist Gary Lucas to the curi- Some retailers even believe that SAN FRANCISCO- Future Sound ously modem Electric Gospel Choir. Cleopatra's simultaneous releases of of London (FSOL), consisting of Papua New Guinea Translations Brian Dougans and Gaz Cobain, `FREE HAND TO JAM' (featuring new FSOL remixes of the returns to the recording world for According to Dougans, one of duo's 1992 hit "Papua New Guinea ") the first time in six years with The the most exciting collaborations and a reissue of the act's debut al- fare TM Isness. It arrives Aug. 13 via Hyp- occurred with Donovan. The '60s bum, 1992's Accelerator, could notic /Cleopatra and follows 1996's teen idol does not appear in any better with the dance /electronic recognizable form on the album, contingent than the new album. X: Swedish trio "Sexual Guarantee." Earlier this year, Dead Cities. studio sessions yielded The rerelease of Accelerator in- ..nnikafiore Johansson, the act's full -length Casino surfaced, Since FSOL's relationship with yet their U.K. (Astralwerks in the U.S.) several versions of different songs cludes a bonus CD featuring remix- ., Merkel, and Andreas Lund - followed by a festive cover of Human Virgin the beginning of es of "Papua New Guinea" by stedt-arrives on these shores with League's "Don't You Want Me." officially dissolved last year, The that may prompt at some point, Doug - Satoshi Tomiie, Blue States, Hybrid, a story to tell. Since forming three On Aug. 20, Casino-co -produced Isness marks a new chapter in the a new project Andrew Weatherall. years ago, the dance -pop act has by Alexander Bard, formerly of Swe- duo's history. At the same time, the ans acknowledges. and "When get wind of how watched its debut single, the Sheila den's Army of Lovers -makes its new disc is also a triumph and pro- people is from & B. Devotion -sampling "Crying at U.S. debut via New York -based E- gression for two very different part- different the new album the Discotheque" (originally issued Magine Entertainment. Recently, the ners tempestuously bonded by a previous works, the old stuff might on BMG Sweden in 2000), become a label sent promo -only vinyl copies of very special project. sell a little better," Mike Battaglia certified European hit. "Crying" -with remixes by Illicit, In 1997, Cobain went to India to of Amoeba Music in San Francis- Mindtrap, and Pinocchio -to club explore both the limits of his per- co predicts. "I think a lot of hard - and mix -show DJs. Additionally, the sonality and physiology, attempt- core ambient and techno freaks song's stylishly campy video was ing to find the source of a myste- won't feel the new album, but peo- delivered to numerous outlets, rious ailment that was eventually ple have been waiting for six years, including MTV and VH1. attributed to the mercury fillings so that could be reason enough for The domestic version of Casino in his mouth. it to sell well." differs from its international coun- The more reclusive Dougans, Cleopatra owner Brian Perera terpart in that it features 10 songs who rarely consents to interviews, says the label will market and adver- (instead of 15) from the European remained in London and im- tise The Isness alongside Papua New release, as well as remixes of the proved his studio craft, research- Guinea Translations and Accelera- three European smash singles. ing new software and recording "Musicians came, jammed, and tor. Record- release parties are Unfortunately, the very tired, Latin - techniques. When Cobain re- then left," Dougans offers. "Basical- planned for clubs in New York, splashed "Ritmo del Amor" remains. turned the following year, he ly, all the musicians were given a Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Fran- But we can live with this misstep, shocked Dougans by withdrawing free hand to jam and do what they cisco. The first single to be culled particularly when it is saddled along- from the studio they had created wanted. Improvisation was key. We from The Isness is "The Mello Hippo side such effervescent gems as together to write songs at home then took everything that had been Disco Show," which is scheduled to "Almost Famous," "Paradise," and on his guitar. done and sifted through it like we street in September. " 'Crying at the Discotheque' "Paris in the Rain." Rather than let it discourage him were rummaging around a second- Perera believes the new album proved to be one of those hits to For E- Magine CEO Christoph from the partnership, Dougans hand shop, piecing it all together to has the potential to expand beyond stick around for a long time," notes Rucker, securing Alcazar for the U.S. decided to turn Cobain's songs into create the maddest costume you've the club music realm. "I see it Alex Hall, product manager of Scan- was a no- brainer -as well as non - acoustic and electronic collabora- ever worn. From simple acoustic crossing over to progressive rock dinavian and Benelux repertoire for problematic, given that all labels tions. But, in signature fashion, guitar and vocal tracks, we built the and new -age fans," he notes. Munich -based BMG Europe /GSA within BMG's U.S. family had passed Cobain was thinking along slightly album up to monstrous 80 -track "[FSOL] has only done a few club International. "Nearly all European on bringing Alcazar here. (RCA Vic- different lines. layers of skyscraper sound." tracks; the rest have been more on territories tell the same story: It tor came close last year when it "Gaz had more grandiose ideas, The retro, prog -rock vibe that the chill -out tip. With this in mind, worked at clubs, it worked at TV, and included "Crying" on the Queer as which involved orchestras, drum- pervades The Isness -at times I don't see them losing old fans, nobody could get it off radio." Folk: First Season soundtrack.) mers, bass players, sitar players, and obscuring the intricate modern dig- only gaining new ones." In Hungary, the disco -kissed "The group arrives here with a choirs," Dougans recalls of the new ital production that was involved - FSOL's longtime manager is track went to No. 1. In Germany, proven track record in Europe, Asia, album's genesis. By the time the four - has already drawn criticism from Martyn Barter of London's Free- Italy, and Belgium, the single went and Australia," Rucker explains. "At years-in- the -making set was com- some electronic disciples who were dom Management. The duo's top five and was certified gold. the same time, Alcazar, like Sweden's plete, the contributors were many, hoping for something more in line songs are handled by Skratch According to Lundstedt, the single ABBA and Ace of Base before them, ranging from former Captain Beef- with the pair's earlier material. Music Publishing. first took off in Finland, followed by makes fun pop music. There was no Italy, France, Greece, and Spain. way I could say no to Alcazar." "Only then did it become a hit in Surely, such words bring a collec- Sweden," he says, chuckling. "And tive smile to the members of Alcazar. Layo & Bushwacka!, "Love Machine. Discofied bonus track we've got Napster to thank for the "America has always been a faraway Story" (XL Recordings /Beggars iTi "Club X" is a Fatboy Slim staple. song's early success, because DJs who dream of ours," the blond -tressed Group single). Bluesy piano tin - Various artists, The Soulful couldn't find the single in their own Merkel acknowledges. "For us, it's a klings, congas for days, and a Hot Plate House Experience (Nervous album). markets were downloading the track big deal that the album's coming out leather-smacked, rocky-road bass - Nervous has gathered many winning to play in their clubs. in the U.S. As an artist, you always line merge for one of the most psy- gles ( "Thinking It Over," "Just a Lit- tracks from its catalog for this "It was being heard in all the clubs want to share what you've done with chedelic acid -house trips to emerge tle") and a smash album (Just a Lit- appropriately titled, Christopher in the Mediterranean resort towns," as many people as possible." in quite some time. Expect this tle). Now, Liberty X makes its U.S. "KC" Anderson -mixed disc. Key he continues. "So, you had all these The red -haired Johansson con- anthemic peak-hour slab of house debut with this perky R &B /pop jam. jams include Kim English's new European tourists hearing the track curs, adding, "We take everything music, which samples Captain Beef - Bump & Flex provide a bumpin' 2- "Treat Me Right," E Man's "Caves of while on holiday and then returning one step at a time. You never know heart, to be heard on all dancefloors; step remix that sounds very comfort- Altimira," Viola's "Little Girl," and home demanding their Alcazar." if something's going to find an a track like this knows no bound- able alongside Daniel Bedingfield's Frank Delour Featuring Leslie Neil Tennant of Pet Shop Boys audience. We've been lucky that aries. Blue States deliver a chilled - "Gotta Get Thru This." Carter's "Living for Love." was one such early fan. " `Crying at our first single has had such a long to- perfection soundscape, while Tim Percy X, "Time to Jack" (Soma P.O.D., "Boom" (Atlantic sin- the Discotheque' sums up the Pet survival time. And now, we're head- Deluxe creates progressive mixes for Recordings U.K. single). The retro- gle). P.O.D. and Crystal Method are Shop Boys perfectly," he told Bill- ing to America." extra -large dancefloors. Major. smacked "Time to Jack" is proving to quite the perfect match, as evi- board earlier this year (Beat Box, Bill- Alcazar is confirmed to perform Liberty X, "Just a Little" (V2 sin- be a monster in nü- electro environ- denced by this amped -up re- tweak- board, April 27). We wouldn't be sur- at the closing -night party of the gle). What happens when five rejects ments. Radioactive Man (aka Two ing. The track's in- your -face attitude prised if Tennant is also a fan of the ninth annual Billboard Dance Music from the wildly successful U.K. real- Lone Swordsman's Keith Tennis - is only heightened by Method's act's Web site (alcazarworld.com). Summit, which takes place Sept. 30- ity -based TV show Popstars band wood) provides a meaty remix that's bombastic beats. Last year, Alcazar followed up Oct. 2 in New York. For more info, together to form a group? Hit sin- equal parts Kraftwerk and the Munich MICHAEL PAOLETTA "Crying" with the Chic -borrowing log on to billboardevents.com.

BILLBOARD AUGUST 3, 2002 www.billboard.com 23 www.americanradiohistory.com Maxi- Singles Sales and Sales srsako.,ts nota co. Club Play axi-Singles Sales

TITLE IMPRINT & NUMBER/PROMOTION LABEL Artist TITLE IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL

NUMBER 1 Week At Number 1 1" NUMBER 1 6 Vs 2 4 THE SOUND OF GOODBYE (ROBBIE RIVERA AND ABOVE & BEYOND MIXES) NERVOUS Z612 Perpetuous Dreamer HEAVEN ROBBINS72057 O O DJ Sammy & Ys

5 5 THAT SOUND TOMMY BOY SILVER 'ABEL 23757rOMMY Boy Rosabel DAYS GO BY CREDENCE 71712/CAPITOL O

6 3 SHIFTER KINETIC 54720 limo Maas Featuring MC Chickaboo U DON'T HAVE TO CALL (REMIXES) ARISTA15125 o

1 2 THE NEED BE B002366 TO NAKED row/ Amber SONG FOR THE LONELY (THUNDERPUSS, ILLICIT & ALMIGHTY MIXES) WARNER BAOS. 42422

4 1 LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT CAPITOL 77724 Kylie Minogue SHADOWS IN THE NIGHT WEIR BROTHERS%2/MOOERN VOICES © Michael 7 11 RAINY DAYZ ( THUNDERPUSS REMIX) MCA PROMO Mary J. Blige Featuring Ja Rule RAPTURE (TASTES SO SWEET) UNIVERSAL015677/UMRG O o 3 3 I'LL BE WAITING (BROTHER BROWN REMIXES) TRAFFIC 1001/MINISTRY OF SOUND Full Intention Presents Shena BABY'S GOT A TEMPER XL/MUTE/MAVERICK/REPRISE/WARNER BROS 42456 O Prodig 12 19 I FEEL SO FINE STRICTLY RHYTHM 12624 K.M.C. Featuring Dhany DONT LET ME GET ME (REMIXES) ARISTA15117 O Pink 16 38 A DIFFERENT KIND OF LOVE SONG WARNER BROS PROMO Cher WALKING IN THE SKY MCA019126 © O DJ Encore Featuring Engelina 14 28 FREE YOUR MIND STAR 6912431 Celeda THANK YOU (DEEP DISH REMIX) ARISTA13996 O o Dido 9 13 6 SOUTHERN SUN MAVERICK 42437/REPRISE Oakenfold FULL MOON (ERNIE LAKE & FULL INTENTION MIXES) ATLANTIC 85320/AG O Brandy 8 9 FOLLOW ME (REMIXES) STRICTLY RHYTHM 12673 Aly-Us WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE (THE REMIXES) REPRISE 42444/WARNER BROS © O Filter 9

20 32 AFTER 2 OENNITY016 Pete Moss Featuring Terra Deva SOMETHING ROBBINS72056 O O Lasgo

32 TREAT ME RIGHT (GUIDO OSORIO & JON CUTLER REMIXES) NERVOUS20488 Kim English LOSE CONTROL (DESCONTROLATE) DURMAP PYRAMID902oaORPHEUS © Yohany

10 6 BLAME GROOVILICIOUS 275/STRICTLY RHYTHM Sono THEY-SAY VISION (DANCE REMIXES) MCA155%1 © O Res 9 21 24 BURN FOR YOU GROOVILICIOUS 277/STRICTLY RHYTHM Kreo' YOU CANT GO HOME AGAIN! MCA 582896 o DJ Shadow 19 22 I GOT THE MUSIC IN ME JUNGLE RED 012 Erin Hamilton BY YOUR SIDE (REMIXES) EPIC79544 O o Sade 9

24 39 HAPPY HOUR CUTTINO455 Norty Cotto THE SOUND OF GOODBYE NERVOUS20512 © O Perpetuous Dreamer

26 33 HE LOVES ME (LYZEL IN E FLAT) (ILLEGAL REMIX) HIDDEN BEACHPROMO/EPIC Jill Scott DON'T SAY GOODBYE (REMIXES) UNIVERSAL 015860/UMRG O Paulina Rubio 9

11 7 TRIPPIN' (BROTHER BROWN & AGENT SUMO REMIXES) GRGOVILICIOU5276/STRICTLYRHYTHM Oris J Presents Delsena WILL I? ROBBINS72055 O O Ian Van Dahl 9

18 15 WE ARE ALL MADE OF STARS (DJ TIESTO, TIMO MAAS, & BOB SINCLAIR MIXES) 5227745 Mohy YOU MAKE ME SICK (HQ2 REMIXES) LAFACE 24556/ARISTA © O Pink 9

LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT CAPITOL T7724 O Kylie Minogue 9

36 ALIVE (THUNDERPUSS REMIX) EPIC PROMO WHAT IT FEELS LIKE FOR A GIRL MAVERICK 42372/WARNER BROS O O Madonna 9

27 42'' DON'T SAY GOODBYE (REMIXES) UNIVERSAL 015860 Paulina Rubio 18 14 ONE STEP TOO FAR CHEEKY 15129/ARISTA © O Faithless Featuring Dido

23 29' SECRET (REMIXES) MCA 155955 Luis Fonsi 21 16 EARTH (BEN WATT REMIX) MAVERICK 42453/WARNER BROS. © O MeShell Ndegeocello

29 40 I'M A WOMAN ASTRALWERKS 38831 Cassius And Jocelyn Brown Ti les with the greatest sales or club play increases this week. Power Pick on Club Play is awarded for the largest point increase among singles below the top 20. The Club Play chart is compi ed from a national sample of reports from club DJs. 9 Vidioeclip availability. Catalog number is for vinyl maxi -single, or CD maxi -single if vinyl is 9 8 LAZY SKINT 79754/COLUMBIA X-Press 2 unavailable. On Sales chart: © CD Maxi -Single available. O Vinyl Maxi -Single available. O Cassette Maxi -Single available. 02002, VNU Business Media, Inc. and Nielsen SoundScan, Inc. All rights reserved. 17 12 IN MY MEMORY (REMIXES) NETTWERK36327 DJ Tiesto Featuring Nicola Hitchcock Of Mandalay 3 28 36 BREATHE IN MCA PROMO Frou hou F 34 35 HOW IT'S GONNA BE (REMIXES) DRAGON /DEF SOUL 582915NIOJMG LovHer 9 .2T3 Billboard TOP ELECTRONIC ALBUMS, 38 44 BOOMERANG MOONSHINE 98485 Cirrus 9 Sales data compiled by

40 49 SICK (REMIXES) TOMMY BOY SILVER LABEL 2377/TOMMY BOY Sneaker Pimps 9 Nielsen SoundScan Title 41 YOU GOTTA BELIEVE (SUPERCHUMBO MIX) Tommy Boy SILVER LABEL 7 374/TOMMYBoy Fierce Ruling Diva cn ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER /DISTRIBUTING LABEL 22 18 BACKFIRED MAW 067/TOMMY BOY Masters At Work Featuring India U . NUMBER 1 :' -__ 7 Weeks At Number l 37 37 I SEE THE LIGHT FUTURE GROOVE 69180/MUTE Desert 1 DIRTY VEGAS Dirty Vegas 15 10 15129/ARISTA 9 ONE STEP TOO FAR CHEEKY Faithless Featuring Dido CREDENCE 34986/CAPITOL

18 33 20 THE MUSIC'S NO GOOD WITHOUT YOU WARNER BROS. PROMO Cher 9 3 MOBY V2 27127

44 50 I'VE GOT YOU (CHRIS PANAGHI & ERIC KUPPER MIXES) COLUMBIA79751 Marc Anthony ç' 2 VARIOUS ARTISTS This Is Ultimate Dance! J 20034 49 XL3002IASTRALWERKS BasementJaxx GET ME OFF (SUPERCHUMBO & PEACHES REMIXES) 4 OAKENFOLD Bunkka MAVERICK 48204/WARNER BROS. 25 17 COME WITH US FREESTYLE DUST/ASTRALWERKS 46426NIRGIN The Chemical Brothers n 5 THE HAPPY BOYS Trance Party (Volume Two) ROBBINS 75030 [N] 50 WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE (THE REMIXES) REPRISE 4244/1 Filter SPACE MONKEYZ VS. GORILLAZ Laika Come Home OT DEBUT r' PARLOPHONENIRGIN 40305TAGTRALWERKS 7 DJ E1 NCORE DJ Encore Presents: Ultra.Dance 02 LET YOUR WILL BE DONE (REMIXES) UNIVERSAL PROMO Ann Nesby Featuring Ricky Dillard & New G UL TRA 123 N 6 DJ SHADOW The Private Press 39 31 BRIGHTER DAY ULTRA 1115 R.H. Factor MCA 112937' Louie DeVito's Dance Factory COLUMBIA PROMO Angelique Kidjo 8 LOUIE DEVITO TUMBA DEE VEE 0002/MUSICRAMA

SHOW ME STAR691738 Suzanne Palmer 9 FATBOY SLIM Live On Brighton Beach MINISTRY OF SOUND 695006/MCA Mia WOMAN DREAMWORLD IMPORT 10 VARIOUS ARTISTS Verve//Remixed VERVE 589606'NG ONE DAY IN YOUR LIFE DAYLIGHT PROMO/EPIC Anastacia 9 1i ZERO 7 Simple Things QUANGO /ULTIMATE DILEMMA 5007 /PALM (N] TREMBLE RAOUL 99115 Marc Et Claude 12 DJJGIOWENELOCK Phonosynthesis (N] RUNNING TRIGGER IMPORT/BMG DJ Marc Aurel 13 VARIOUS ARTISTS Pulse WORK IT OUT (VICTOR CALDERONE & MAURICE JOSHUA MIXES) MUSIC WORLD/MAVERICK PROMO/COLUMBIA Beyonce 9 RAZOR B TIE 89041 Ultimate Dance Party Best Df!! MORE THAN A WOMAN (RICHIE SANTANA MIXES) BIACKGROUNDPROMONIRGIN Aaliyah 9 14 VARIOUS ARTISTS -The ARISTA 14778 19 DAFT PUNK Discovery VIRGIN 4%06'

16 JAZZANOVA In Between ROPEADOPE 93121 /AG SEB FONTAINE Horizons PERFECTO 90700/THRIVE

22 BASEMENT JAXXX Rooty xL 10423'/ASTRALWERKS [N] Maxi-Singies es 18 SOUNDTRACK Blade II Club Hay IMMORTAL 12064'NIRGIN

17 APHRODITE Aftershock _3 MTA27129N2 WALKING ON FIRE FIRST KISS (PRIMER BESO) Queer As Folk: The Second Season Featuring Jayn Hanna NETTWERK Noyer zoom 15 SOUNDTRACK Evolution RCA VICTOR 83921

TREMBLE '. 23 VARIOUS ARTISTS Monster Disco SAFE FROM HARM RAZOR & TIE 89052 Narcotic Thrust Featuring Yvonne John Lewis YOSHITOSHI Marc Et Claude RADIKAL 21 VARIOUS ARTISTS Global Hits 2002 UNIVERSAL 017004/UMRG I NEVER KNEW SHOW ME 02/Avalon Remixed Gaynor LOGIC Suzanne Palmer STAR69 20 AVALON Gloria SPARROW 51936

RIAA TAKE ME WHERE YOU ARE TRIPPIN' AIDUms with the g eatest sales gains this week. Recording Industry Assn. Of America IRIAA) certification for net shipment of 500,000 album units (Gold). GROOVILICIOUS for net shipment of 10 million units Numeral following Platinum or Diamond Fiori 24/1 Oris J Presents Delsena e rtifica ion for net shipment of 1 million units (Platinum). RIAA certification (Diamond). symbol indicates album's multi -platinum level. For boxed sets, and double albums with running time of 100 minutes or more, the RIAA multiplies shipments by the num- Platino). Certification of ber of d'scs and/or tapes. RIAA Latin awards: O Certification for net shipment of 100,000 units (Oro) Certification of 200,000 amts ( A' EXPLORATION OF SPACE lists. Tape prices marked EQ, OBJECTION (TANGO) 400,000 units (Multi -Platino(. "Asterisk indicates LP is available. Most tape prices, and CD prices for BMG and WEA labels, are suggested RADIKAL past or present Heatseeker title. ©2002, VNU Business Shakira EPIC Cosmic Gate and all other CD prices, are equivalent prices, which are projected from wholesale prices. LM] indicates Inc. All rights reserved. Media, Inc. and Nielsen SoundScan, Inc. All rights reserved. Breakouts: Tides with future chart potential, based on club play or sales reported this week. ©2002, VNU Business Media, Inc. and Nielsen SoundScan,

BILLBOARD AUGUST 3, 2002 24 www.billboard.com www.americanradiohistory.com ers Help Vassar Birth Clark, Brandt, Johnson Among The Top CCMA Award Nominees BY LARRY LeBLANC lowing is a partial list of nominees: Arista Nashville TORONTO -The nominees for this Female artist: Lisa Brokop, Terri Cd' On year's Canadian Country Music Awards Clark, Patricia Conroy, Carolyn Dawn his artist career, were announced in Toronto July 22 Johnson, Michelle Wright. song that has something of a Match- Before launching through Vassar was already known as one of with five nominations each for veterans Male artist: Paul Brandt, Adam .rd to write a box liventy-ish lyric filtered style. "We Music Row's top songwriters, having Terri Clark, Paul Brandt, and Carolyn Gregory, Jason McCoy, Duane Steele, " Phil Vassar Vassar's own inimitable hits as Jo Dee Messina's Dawn Johnson and five nominations for Rick Tippe. "It's both use a lot of words," Vassar says of penned such ,ese days. Tim Alberta newcomers Emerson Drive. Group or duo: Doc Walker, Emerson Thomas. "That's one of the things I "I'm Alright" and "Bye, Bye," McGraw's "My Next Thirty Years," and The annual awards, presented by Drive, the Ennis Sisters, the Good .,as a lot to smile love [about] writing with him." "Right on the Money." the Canadian Country Music Assn. Brothers, Poverty Plainsmen. eponymous debut CD, Alan Jackson's He was named ASCAP's country song- (CCMA), will be held at Pengrowth Roots artist or group: Scotty Camp- .-u in 2000, was certified gold and writer of the year in 1999 and ASCAP's Saddledome in Calgary, Alberta, bell, Great Big Sea, Natalie MacMaster, . as spawned five hit singles, including in 2001. Sept. 9 and televised live nationally Mike Plume Band, Jimmy Rankin. "Just Another Day in Paradise," "Six - country artist/songwriter artist career in Canada on CBC -TV and in the U.S. Rising Star Award: Doc Walker, Pack Summer," and "That's When I Launching a successful on CMT, a later rebroadcast by Emerson Drive, the Ennis Sisters, Love You." In May, the piano- pound- often takes a toll on a songwriter's pro- with Aaron Lines, Jake Mathews. ing singer /songwriter won the Acade- ductivity, but it hasn't on Vassar. "I CMT Canada. Single: "Cowboy Hats," Chris Cum- my of Country Music's top new male write on the road all the time; that's Also released was the CCMA's Terri Clark; "I Don't vocalist award, and he's been steadily actually when I write now," says Vas- 2002 Fans' Choice category finalists. mings; "Empty," Carolyn Dawn John- adding to his fan base with high -ener- sar, who is signed to EMI Music Pub- The fan -voted finalists are Brandt, Want You to Go," "I Should Be Sleeping," Emerson gy performances on Kenny Chesney's lishing. "It took me about a year or Clark, Johnson, Adam Gregory, and son; No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems tour. eight months to get used to it. Then Jason McCoy. The winner will be Drive; "Small Towns and Big Dreams," On the personal front, he recently once I really got into the routine, to announced during the awards show. Paul Brandt. married longtime girlfriend/frequent me, it's the best place to do it. Craig As of Aug. 1, fans can vote online at Album: Curve, Doc Walker; Emer- co- writer Julie Wood. Wiseman comes out or Tim Nichols ccma.org. son Drive, Emerson Drive; Small "I feel good about everything," Vas- comes out on the road, and we just While a talent lineup has not been Towns and Big Dreams, Paul Brandt; sar says. "I feel I've worked hard for it. Another of Vassar's favorites on the write. Then when I get home I can finalized, the CCMA indicates the show Small World, Steve Fox; Song Dog, I don't feel like anything was just given album is "I Thought I Would Never enjoy that. I can go out and cut my will feature guest appearances by such Jimmy Rankin. to me. It's a great time for me and my Forget." "I wrote [it] with Tim Nich- grass or something." U.S. country acts as Kenny Rogers, Dia- For a complete list of nominees, family. We thank God every day." ols," he says. "It's really a true story. I mond Rio, and Keith Urban. The fol- go to billboard.com/awards. Vassar is riding high as he looks for- started cleaning out my basement and AS VISIBLE AS POSSIBLE ward to the Aug. 6 release of his soph- came across things I forgot or didn't Arista Nashville director of artist omore effort, American Child (Arista even know I had anymore. It was stuff development and marketing Cindy Warner Bros. Revamps Nashville Staff Nashville). Was he nervous or worried from high school and college, and it Mabe says Vassar took a step forward about the sophomore slump? "I don't was interesting how the song came on this album. "He had nothing but BY PHYLLIS STARK The new staffers all arrive with think so," he muses. "I felt really good out of that." hits off that first album," Mabe NASHVILLE-Warner Bros. Records solid résumés. Worley is a veteran about the songs. I cut three of the Seeing memorabilia from times observes, "but he's branching out a lit- in Nashville got a mid -year overhaul record producer and a former A&R songs that were [originally] going to he'd shared with an old girlfriend tle bit further, and it shows his growth with the recent firing of several executive at Sony Music Nashville. go on the first album, so I'm excited struck a nerve. "I remember how as an artist." staffers and the quick installation of Haley previously was senior VP of about getting a chance to cut them when we broke up it was such a big RCA Label Group executive VP a new team of senior executives. promotion at MCA Nashville. Wort- [now]. Some of the stuff is new. It was deal," he recalls. "You think you are Butch Waugh says, "The tour has Joining the company are chief cre- man, who most recently ran Nash- a journey, but it was fun." going to die and it was so devastating, been incredible; to get the reaction ative officer Paul Worley, senior VP ville-based publicity company Wort- and then 10 -15 years later, I can't and the energy from the audience has of publicity Jules Wortman, and sen- man Works, previously was VP of INTERESTING PARTNERS remember. It was all sort of hazy, but given him confidence not just in ior VP of promotion David Haley. publicity and video at MCA Nashville. One of the things that made the at the time I thought I'd never forget himself as a songwriter but as a per- Gator Michaels joins as director of Her Wortman Works clients includ- journey to completing the new album anything about it." former and artist. Now he's going to national promotion. Kurt Willms ed several Warner Bros. artists. so enjoyable for Vassar was the collab- On American Child, Vassar easily be a headliner." comes aboard as a publicist. Michaels was VP of promotion at orative process. He co -wrote all 12 cuts moves from such poignant observa- "Tour exposure has helped out Vas- Out are VP of promotion Jack Pur- Dreamcatcher Records in Nashville onAmerican Child, and in addition to tions to more light-hearted fare, like sar a lot," says Brian Smith, VP of cell, a 17 -year veteran of the compa- until recently. Willms previously composing with successful Nashville the humorous "Athens Grease," about store operations for Marietta, Ga.- ny, along with three members of his worked as public -relations manager tunesmiths Craig Wiseman and Tim an Athens, Ga., mechanic who is based Value Music Concepts, adding team-national promotion director at Wortman Works. Nichols, Vassar also co -wrote with never happier than when his hands that Vassar's first album sold well for Brad Howell and regional promoters Haley and Michaels are already on Miles Zuniga of Fastball and Rob are in grease. There's also the fun his chain. "The timing was right on Jim Dorman and Darlene Starr. Also the job. The other new staffers are Thomas of Matchbox Twenty. country romp "Houston," which that first album. It was upbeat, and it dismissed from the label are market- expected to start in early August. "It's interesting to see what every- offers an interesting take on a rela- was one of those records where every- ing assistant Patsy Wells and creative Chris Palmer remains in place as body is doing," Vassar notes of co -writ- tionship in trouble. thing just clicked." He anticipates the coordinator Paul Pitalo. GM/senior VP of marketing. ing outside the country community. Another song that holds a special second one will follow suit. "You never know what you are going place in his heart is the title track. "It Booked by Creative Artists Agency, to get. Sometimes it works, and some- talks about me growing up and about Vassar will headline a tour of theaters times it totally doesn't work. It really [my daughter] Haley," says Vassar, and small arenas this fall with Carolyn worked this time, and I had fun. I who is managed by Greg Hill of Greg Dawn Johnson joining him on the bill. think it's cool because they bring Hill Management. "I didn't know what In addition to the exposure on the something totally different, a different to write in the bridge of the song. road, Vassar has garnered extra visi- perspective from a different genre. It's Then I started thinking about how my bility via his participation in Wal- neat to do it every once in a while -to dad never met his dad [a soldier who Mart's campaign to promote literacy. step outside the lines. It's fun to see died in battle], and I didn't know how Vassar wrote and performed the sin- what you come up with." to tie it in and solidify the whole song. gle "Words Are Your Wheels" for the Vassar penned "Time's Wastin' " Then it just worked out in the studio." fundraising effort and was joined by with Zuniga. With Thomas, he penned Vassar co- produced the album with special guests Chesney, Brooks & the insightful "Someone You Love," a Byron Gallimore. "I'm lucky to work Dunn, Martina McBride, and Sara with him," Vassar says. "He just gives Evans. The song is available exclu- you enough rope to hang yourself, but sively at Wal-Mart locations. TO OUR READERS he is not going to let anything sound "The main goal is to keep Phil as Lavin' It Up. BMI Nashville recently threw a celebration honoring songwriters Tony penning No. 1 Nashville Scene will return bad. Nothing is going to get past him. visible as possible during the life of Martin, Mark Nesler, and Tom Shapiro for the George Strait hit "Living and Living Well." Pictured. from left, are Nesler, Martin, next week. I just feel confident he won't let me this project," Waugh says. "Phil has so Shapiro, and BMI assistant VP of writer/publisher relations Harry Warner. fall off the cliff." much energy. He's up for anything."

BILLBOARD AUGUST 3, 2002 www.billboard.com 25 www.americanradiohistory.com Sales data compiled by o Nielsen á SoundScan ARTIST Title ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL

1 33 36 NUMBER 1 / HOT SHOT DEBUT Y Week At Number 1 VARIOUS ARTISTS Time- Life's TIME LIFE 18701 (19.98 COI DARRYL WORLEY I Miss My Friend 1 36 33 ELVIS PRESLEY O REAM W ORKS 450351 /INTERSCOPE (11.98/17381 Elvis: Today, Ton RCA 65115/BMG HERITAGE 159.98/69,98)

KENNY CHESNEY No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems 1 39 37 LEANN RIMES BNA67038 /RLG (1198/18.981 CURB 78738111.98/17. 981 SOUNDTRACK A6 0 Brother, Where Art Thou? 38 38 CYNDI THOMSON LOST HIGHWAY 170069/MERCURY 02.98/19.981 CAPITOL 26010 /10.99/17.%) A2 ALAN JACKSON Drive 1 44 31 WAYLON JENNINGS RCA Country Legends: Waylon Je, ARISTA NASHVILLE 67039/R16112.98/18.98) BMG HERITAGE/RCA 99788/RLG 124.98 CD)

MARTINA MCBRIDE Greatest Hits 1 42 44 BRAD MARTIN Wings Of A Honky Tonk A RCA 67012/R1G 112.98/18 98) EPIC 85115/SONY 17.98 ED/I1.98) [H] 4 SHEDAISY Knock On The Sky 3 43 43 PATTY LOVELESS Mountain Sou LYRIC STREET 165015/HOLLYWOOD 112.98/18.981 EPIC 85651/SONY 11198 E0/17.98/

6 BRAD PAISLEY Part II 3 40 40 EMERSON DRIVE Emerson Drive ARISTA NASHVILLE 67008/R18 (1198/17.98) DREAMWORKS 450272/INTERSCOPE 18.98 /14.981 [H] A3 8 TIM MCGRAW Greatest Hits 41 35 CLEDUS T. JUDD Cledus Envy 19 CURB 77978112.98/ 18.981 MONUMENT 85891/SONY (II 98 EO/17.981 [H] DOLLY PARTON Halos & Horns 4 47 49 STEVE HOLY Blue Moon 7 BLUE EYE 3946/SUGAR HILL 110.98/18.98) CURB 77972(1 1.98/17.98) [H] 7 GARY ALLAN Alright Guy 4 46 48 MARK CHESNUTT Mark Chesnutt 23 MCA NASHVILLE 170201111,98/17.981 COLUMBIA 86540 /SONY 111.% EO/17 981

9 TOBY KEITH Pull My Chain 1 48 42 VARIOUS ARTISTS Sharp Dressed Men: A Tribute To ZZ Top 7 DREAMWORKS 450297 / INTERSCOPE (1298/18.98) RCA 67036/ß1G 112,98/18.981 A2 10 TIM MCGRAW Set This Circus Down 1 CURB 78711112.98/18.98) A2 12 KENNY CHESNEY Greatest Hits 57 57 STEVE AZAR Waitin' On Joe 29 BNA 67976 /RLG (12.98/18.98) MERCURY 17026911198/17 981 [HI 14 11 BROOKS & DUNN Steers & Stripes 52 55 REBA MCENTIRE Greatest Hits Volume Ill -I'm A Survivor ARISTA NASHVILLE 67003/ß1G (12.98/18.98) MCA NASHVILLE 170202111.98/18.981 15 13 KELLIE COFFEY When You Lie Next To Me 5 53 53 DIAMOND RIO One More Day 5 BNA 67040/RLG 110.98/16.981 ARISTA NASHVILLE 67999/RLG 111.98/17.981

16 17 15 LONESTAR I'm Already There 1 50 45 HANK WILLIAMS JR. Almeria Club 9 RNA 6701 I /flLG (12.98/ 1898) CURB 7872517.98/17.981 A3 16 14 SOUNDTRACK Coyote Ugly 1 55 52 MONTGOMERY GENTRY Carrying On 6 CURB 78703 01.98/17 981 COLUMBIA 62167 /SONY (11.98 E11/17.98) 49 47 TY HERNDON This Is Ty Herndon: Greatest Hits 32 L'$= GREATEST GAINER $ EPIC 86642/SONY 117.98 EO CDI 18 18 17 BLAKE SHELTON Blake Shelton 3 54 50 TOMMY SHANE STEINER Then Came The Night 6 WARNER BROS. 24731/80ßN 111.98/1718) RCA 67041 /RLG 116.98 CO) 7 - ANDY GRIGGS Freedom 7 51 51, TIFT MERRITT Bramble Rose 47 LOST HIGHWAY 1 70273' /MERCURY CO) RCA 67006 /RLG 111.98/17.981 114.98 20 18 VARIOUS ARTISTS Totally Country 62 59 RODNEY CARRINGTON Morning Wood 18 CAPITOL 24827110.98/17,981 BNA 67043/RLG 02.98/17.981 [HI 19 19 ALISON KRAUSS + UNION STATION New Favorite 58 54 CHRIS LEDOUX After The Storm 14 CAPITOL 34571 110.98/17.981 ROUNDER 610695 /10JMG 111.98/17981 56'. 13 21 16 TRICK PONY Trick Pony 12 56 KASEY CHAMBERS Barricades & Brickwalls WARNER BROS. 48028 (18.98 CDI [H] WARNER BROS. 47927/80RN 111 98/17 981 Collection 35 23 23 SARA EVANS Born To Fly 6 59 60, VARIOUS ARTISTS 0 Sister! The Women's Bluegrass ROUNDER 610499/I0JMG 111.98/17.981 RCA 67964/RLG 111.98/98/17 22 24 THE FLATLANDERS Now Again 19 61 58 ALAN JACKSON When Somebody Loves You ARISTA NASHVILLE 69335/RLG 112.98/18.981 NEW WEST 6040117.98 COI [H] The Storm Still Rages 59 25 27 TRACE ADKINS Chrome RHONDA VINCENT ROUNDER 610474 /IDJMG 110.98/17.981 CAPITOL 30618 (10.98/17.9B1 73 CLINT BLACK Greatest Hits II 8 24 22 JO DEE MESSINA Burn 1 RCA 67005/RLG 112.98/18.981 CURB 77977111.98/17.981 68 TRISHA YEARWOOD Inside Out 26 20 TRAVIS TRITT Down The Road I Go 8 MCA NASHVILLE 170200111.98/17.981 COLUMBIA 62165 /SONY (11.98 E0/17.981 The Best Of America 21 28 30 29 TRACY BYRD Ten Rounds 12 21 VARIOUS ARTISTS CURB 78727 15.98 CDI RCA 67009/RLG 111.98/17.981 Kenny Rogers Love Songs 67 29 25 CHRIS CAGLE Play h Loud 19 67 KENNY ROGERS ONO 8640/MADACY (17.98 COI CAPITOL 34170110.9807.981 [HI The Capitol Collection (1990 -2000) 63 27 28 GEORGE STRAIT The Best Of George Strait 20th Century Masters The Millennium Collection 8 64 CHRIS LEDOUX CAPITOL 38207146. 98 CDI MCA NASHVILLE 170280111 98 CO) The Lavin' Side 48 28 26 WILLIE NELSON The Great Divide 66 TRAVIS TRITT WARNER BROS. 78296/RHINO 111.98 CD) LOST HIGHWAY 186231 /MERCURY 112.98/19881 A3 KEVIN DENNEY Kevin Denney 14 31 30 GARTH BROOKS Scarecrow 63 LYRIC STREET 165020/HOLLYWOOD 112.98 CD) [H] CAPITOL 31330110.98/18.981 Shiver 14 32 32 GEORGE STRAIT The Road Less Traveled 62 JAMIE O'NEAL MERCURY 170132 11 1 98/17,%/ [H] MCA NASHVILLE 170220111 98/18.981 Who I Am 2 45 34 RALPH STANLEY Ralph Stanley 22 70 JESSICA ANDREWS DREAMWORKS 450248/INTERSCOPE 111.98/17.981 DMZ/COLUMBIA 86625/CRG 11898 EG CDI [H] Country Favorites 71 34 39 SOUNDTRACK Down From The Mountain 10 71 VARIOUS ARTISTS MADACY 3654180.98 CDI LOST HIGHWAY 170221 /MERCURY (1198/18981 Lovesick Broke & Drittin' 17 35 46 PAT GREEN Three Days 7 61 HANK WILLIAMS Ill CURB 78728117.% CDI [H] REPUBLIC 018018 /UNIVERSAL 18.9W1438/ A Hillbilly Tribute To Mountain Love 39 37 41 CAROLYN DAWN JOHNSON Room With A View 65 HAYSEED DIXIE DUALTONE 01118117.98 CDI [H] ARISTA NASHVILLE 69336/ß1G (10.98/16.98)

1 net 10 million units (Diamond). Numeral following Platinum or Diamond sym- Albumswi h the grease t sales gains this week. Recording Industry Assn. Of America (RIAA) certification for net shipment of 500,000 album units (Gold). RIAA certificaton for net s pment of million units (Platinum). RIM certification for shipment of of 400,000 bol indicates album's multi -platinum level. For boxed sets, and double albums with a running time of 100 minutes or more, the RIAA multiplies shipments by the umber of discs and /or tapes. RIAA Latin awards: OCertification for net shipment of 100,000 units (Oro). Ls Certification of 200,000 units ( Platino). Certification units Tape E0, and all other CD pric s, are equivalent prices, which are projected from wholesale prices. Greatest Gainer shows chart's largest unit increase. Pacesetter indicates biggest percent- (Multi- Platins)..Asterisk i dicates LP is available. Most tape prices, and CD prices for BMG and WEA labels, are suggested lists. prices marked age growth. Heatseeker Impact shows albums removed fromom HeatseekersHeatseek this week. [H] indicates past or present Heatseeker title. (D 2002, VNU Business Media, Inc., and Nielsen SoundScan, Inc. All rights reserved.

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5 Weeks At Number 1 423 NUMBER i .,, 13 HANK WILLIAMS JR. ` CURB7763815.98/9.98) Greatest Hits, Vol.1 111 1 RASCALFLATTS LYRIC STREET 165011/HOLLYW00D111,9808.981.put Rascal Flatta 14 TOBY KEITH MERCURY 558 %2111.98/17.98) Greatest Hits Volume One 190 7796517.98/11.981 Number One Hits 106 2 DIXIE CHICKS 10 MONUMENT 69678/SONY (12.98 EO/18.98) Flv 151 16 THE JUDDS CURB *II BROS. 46001/80ßN(10.98 /17.98) Greatest Hits From The Beginning 289 3 4 DIXIE CHICKS MONUMENT 68195/SONY /10.98EW17, 98) [H] Wide Open Spaces 234 16 18 TRAVIS TRITT WARNER - 03/11.98) 16BieeestHits 172 4 3 NICKEL CREEK SUGAR HILL 3909i16.98 co) IN] Nickel Creek 85 17 15 JOHNNY CASH LEGACY/COLUMBIA 69739/SONY(198 Everywhere 211 5 SHANIA TWAIN 19 MERCURY 538003(12.98/18.981 Come On Over 246 18 19 TIM MCGRAW ° cuRB779 %v.9en. %I Now That I've Found You: A Collection 279 6 LEE ANN WOMACK 3 MCA NASHVILLE 17009917.9817.98) I Hope You Dance 113 19 21 ALISON KRAUSS 2 ROUNDER610325' /IDJMG 11198/1788)[NI 253 23 BROOKS 1d CAPITOL 97424119.98/26.981 Double Uve 192 7 BROOKS &DUNN 3 ARISTA NASHVILLE 18851 RLG (12. %/78.98) The Greatest Hits Collection 20 GARTH The Best Of John Denver 212 OREAMWORKS450009/ INTERSCOPE 111.98/17 %1 How Do You Like Me Now ?! 131 A 12 JOHN DENVER MADACY47501598 J.981 21 24 TOBY KEITH 141 20 CAPITOL 98568 (11.98 CDI American Patriot 32 9 8 FAITH HILL 7 WARNER BROS. 47373/WRN112.98 /18981 Breathe 22 LEE GREENWOOD In The Dark 137 THE CHARLIE DANIELS BAND A3 EPIC 65694/SONY17.98 E0/11.981 A Decade Of Hits 609 10 9 GARY ALLAN MCA NASHVILLE 170101(11.98/17.981 Smoke Rinqs i) - 16 Hits 352 . GEORGE JONES LEGACY /EPIC69319/SONY 1788ED/1196) Biggest 92 11 11 ALAN JACKSON 45 ARISTA NASHVILLE 18801/RLG 112.98/18.981 The Greatest Hits Collection - Lonely Grill 142 Hits 202 LONESTAR BNA 67762/RLG(10.98/17.981 1 10 WILLIE NELSON LEGACY/COLUMBIA 69322/SONY 17.9B EQ/11.98) 16 Biggest - 3 tor net ship- Of for not shiment of 500000 album units (Gold). RIAA Certilicatia Ch an Weeks column reflects combined weeks We has appeared on TOp C ountry Alh ums an dT op C auntyt Ctalo g Recardin 9 Industry Assn America lRlAAlcanrfication with the greatest salesgains this week. Catalog albums are 2- year -old nee That have fallen below No. 100 on The Billboard 788 or reissues ofolder albums.TUtel toes. R1AA Lean awards, o eniscanan Tor net shipment of 100,000 units Lora). C\ Caruficanonr Albums g mufti-platinum level. For bozad sets, and double albums with ernning time 01100 minutes or more, the RIM muhiplies shipments bby the number of discs and/or nos net shipment uses iseeil.ble. Rape Platinum or Diamond symbolyymm indicates albums Heatseeker htle.O 2002, VNU Business Media. Inc., and Nielsen SoundScan, Inc All rights resery d. ant01 tsIPl I:1'Certifi sn lists. marked EQ and all other CO prices, are equivalent prices, which are projected from wholesale antes. [N] indicates past is Most tape prices, end CD prices for BMG and WEA labels, are suggested Tape prices 200.0110 Jr Is /Plat 8101. _.' Certification p1400,1110 un4sunits IMUlOPISOna1.'Aslerisk'Asterisk indicele5 LP available. Most

BILLBOARD AUGUST 3. 2002 26 www.billboard.com www.americanradiohistory.com ,JárdL' HOT COUN YTM SINGLES & TRACKS Airplay monitored by z i: Nielsen ó o ß'1j Broadcast Data t- 'e.' TITLE Artist Y E Systems Artist Ñ vS w , 3 PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT & LABEL o. ca & NUMBER/PROMOTION LABEL a 2 g r- a p, ZOO R (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT Montgomery Gentry 31 2 Weeks AtNumberl 31 34 MY TOWN 0 H NUMBER = B.CHANCEYIJ.STEELE,R.NIELSEN) COLUMBIA ALBUM CUT 4.00 i 1 Rebecca Lynn Howard c 32 STUFF Kenny Chesney 9 32 32 FORGIVE ty ;e GOOD BNA ALBUM CUT M.WRIGHT,T.BRUCE IR.LHOWARD,TBRUCE O MCA NASHVILLE 172242 ' 7i 1MNON,N WILSON ,K.CHESNEYIJ.COLLINS,C.WISEMANI 34 39 THESE DAYS Rascal Flatts 33 (THE ANGRY AMERICAN) Toby Keith 9 1 ti THE RED, WHITE AND BLUE M.BRIGHT,M.WILLIAMS,RASCAL FLATTS 1.1STEELE,D.WELLS,S.ROBSONI LYRIC STREET ALBUM CUT OURTESY OF O DREAMWORKS 450815 '-"r J.STROUD,T.KEITH IT.KEITHI Sixwire nsr 32 Gary Allan 9 3 33 35 LOOK AT ME NOW WARNER BROS. ALBUM CUT/WRN I THE ONE O MCA NASHVILLE 172232 0 S.MANDILE IS.MANDILE,S.MCCLINTOCKI TBROWN,M. WRIGHT IK.MANNO,B.LEEI Cagle ,sr 35 3 36 36 COUNTRY BY THE GRACE OF GOD Chris Lonestar^' 77696 NOT A DAY GOES BY RWRIGHT, C. CAGLEIC .CAGLE,M.J.GREENE,B.WAYND O CAPITOL O BNA 69134 O. HUFF IS.DIAMONO,M.DERRY Anthony Smith 'N 33 Dixie Chicks 9 5 I0 35 38 IF THAT AIN'T COUNTRY 7 9 LONG TIME GONE O MERCURY 172247 MONUMENT ALBUM CUT B.TEflRV IA.SMITH,J.STEELEI DIXIE LHICKS,LMAINES (O.SCOTT) SheDaisy 9 35 Brooks & Dunn 9 5 37 37 37 MINE ALL MINE 5 7 MY HEART IS LOST TO YOU O.HUFF.SHEOAISY LYRIC STREET ALBUM CUT ARISTA NASHVILLE ALBUM CUT IK.OSBORN,H.POOLEI K. BROOKS,RDUNN,M.WRIGHT (B.BEAVERS,C.HARRINGTONI Tammy Cochran .9 38 2 7 40 40 LIFE HAPPENED I Darryl Worley @ EPIC ALBUM CUT 10 10 MISS MY FRIEND B.J.WALKER,JR. DREAMWORKS 450378 IP.J.MATTHEWS,K.K.PHILLIPSI F.ROGERS,J.STROUD ITMARTIN,M.NESLER,T.SHAPIRO) O Rodney Atkins 39 8 39 41 SING ALONG Tim McGraw CURB ALBUM CUT 12 13 UNBROKEN T.HEWITT,R.ATKINS IRATKINS,T.HEWITTB.GAITSCHI IH.LAMAR,A.ROBOFFI CURB ALBUM CUT 0 B.GALLIMORE,J.STROUD,T.MCGRAW TEARS Kevin Denney 40 George Strait 1 41 42 CADILLAC 8 6 LIVING AND LIVING WELL LREYNOLDS LYRIC STREET ALBUM CUT MCA NASHVILLE 172238 0 (LSATCHER,WVARBLE) T.BROWN,G.STRAIT ITMARTIN,M.NESLER,T.SHAPIROI O 42 43 FALL INTO ME Emerson Drive 9 41 11 12 I BE YOUR MAN Andy Griggs ^' 10 TONIGHT WANNA R.MAR% DREAMWORKS ALBUM CUT RCA 69132 0-$ IO.ORTON,J.STOVERI D.MALLOY(R.RUTHERFORD,TVERGESI O 48 57 STRONG ENOUGH TO BE YOUR MAN TravisTritt 42 14 14 WITH JOSE CUERVO Tracy Byrd 11 CD TEN ROUNDS B.J.WALKER,JR.,T.TRITTITTRITT) COLUMBIA ALBUM CUT B.J.WALKER,JR. IC.BEATHARD,M.HEENEY,M.CANNON -GOODMAN) RCA ALBUM CUT 43 44 TELL ME WHERE IT HURTS Tommy Shane Steiner 43 15 15 I KEEP LOOKING Sara Evans 12 J.RITCHEYFLIODELL ID WARRENI RCA ALBUM CUT S.EVANS,P. WORLEY IS.EVANS,T.SHAPIRO,T.MARTIN) RCA ALBUM CUT 0 46 52 THE LAST MAN COMMITTED Eric Heatherly 44 6 3 I'M GONNA MISS HER (THE FISHIN' SONG) Brad Paisley 9 1 E.HEATHERLY IH.HEATHERLYI DREAMWORKS ALBUM CUT F.ROGERS IB.PAISLEY,F.ROGERSI O ARISTA NASHVILLE 69152 0 44 CHANGES Little Big Town 44 9 8 WHEN YOU LIE NEXT TO ME Kellie Coffey '9 8 CD 56 EVERYTHING B.CHANCEY,LITTLE BIG TOWN IK.FAIRCHILD,J.WESTBROOK.K. ROADS ,PSWEET,T.LJAMES,J.KIMBALLI MONUMENT ALBUM CUT O.HUFF (K.COFFEY,T.HARMON,J.O,MARTINI BNA ALBUM CUT John Michael Montgomery 46 16 17 THE IMPOSSIBLE Joe Nichols 9 15 54 - 'TIL NOTHING COMES BETWEEN US S.HENDRICKS ITMARTY,K.HARVICK,R MARSHALL) WARNER BROS. ALBUM CUT/WRN B.ROWAN IK.LOVELACE,LTMILLER) O UNIVERSAL SOUTH 172241 Cyndi Thomson 9 31 13 11 DRIVE (FOR DADDY GENE) Alan Jackson 9 1 38 33 I'M GONE PWORLEY,TLJAMES IK.RICHEVC.PROPHETI O CAPITOL 77729 K.STEGALL IA JACKSONI O ARISTA NASHVILLE 69129 J. Michael Harter 45 17 18 HELP ME UNDERSTAND Trace Adkins 9 17 0. 45 45 HARD CALL TO MAKE B.MEVIS IM.A.SPRINGER,S.SESKINI BROKENBOW ALBUM CUT ()MUFF IC.FARREN,S.MAC.W.HECTOR) CAPITOL ALBUM CUT Dawn Johnson 49 19 20 OL' RED Blake Shelton .r 18 60 58 ONE DAY CLOSER TO YOU Carolyn ARISTA NASHVILLE ALBUM CUT BROS. 16710/WRN Q P.WORLEY,C.OJOHNSON IC.D JOHNSON,M.OANNAI B.BRADDOCK IM. SHERRILLD.G000MAN,J.BOHANI O WARNER 49 47 MARIA (SHUT UP AND KISS ME) Willie Nelson 9, 46 18 16 I DON'T HAVE TO BE ME ('TIL MONDAY) Steve Azar 9 2 43) M.SERLETIC IR.THOMASI O LOST HIGHWAY 112243 /MERCURY R.VAN HOY IS.AZAR,J.YOUNG,R.C.BANNON) O MERCURY 172230 47 20 22 SHE WAS Mark Chesnutt 9 20 47 53 THAT'S WHY I SING THIS WAY Daryle Singletary G.COLE IM.BARNESI AUDIUM ALBUM CUT B.JWALKER,JR. IN.COTY.J.MELTONI COLUMBIA ALBUM CUT 0

22 24 BEAUTIFUL MESS Diamond Rio c 21 51 51 THE BALL James Otto 51 S.PARKER,P. WORLEY IJ.OTTO,P.J.MATTHEW S.K.K.PHILLIPS) O MERCURY 172244 M.O.CLUTE.OIAMONO RIO IS.LEMAIRE,C.MILLS,S.MINORI ARISTA NASHVILLE ALBUM CUT

53 I DON'T PAINT MYSELF INTO CORNERS Trisha Yearwood 47 21 21 BEFORE I KNEW BETTER Brad Martin 9 21 - M.WRIGHT,TYEARW000 MCA NASHVILLE ALBUM CUT B.J.WALKER,JR (B.SIMPSON,D.LEEI EPIC ALBUM CUT IT.BRUCE,R.L.HOWARDI Alabama 9 48 23 23 AMERICAN CHILD Phil Vassar ^a 23 54 ii 50 50 I'M IN THE MOOD D.CSOK,ALABAMA ANDERSON,R.ROGERSI RCA ALBUM CUT B.GALLIMORE,P.VASSAR IP.VASSAR,C.WISEMANI ARISTA NASHVILLE ALBUM CUT IL Ty Herndon 55 24 25 WHERE WOULD YOU BE Martina McBride 24 58 - A FEW SHORT YEARS B.WATSON,P W ORLEY IS TILLIS,B TOMBERLINI EPIC ALBUM CUT M. MCBRIOE,P.WORLEY IR.PROCTDR,R.FERRELLI RCA ALBUM CUT 56 25 26 THICKER THAN BLOOD Garth Brooks 25 57 - STARS ON THE WATER George Strait T.BROW N,G.STRAIT IR.CRO WELLI MCA NASHVILLE ALBUM CUT &REYNOLDS IJ VATES,G.BROOKSI CAPITOL ALBUM CUT 0

30 31 SOMEBODY LIKE YOU Keith Urban 9, 26 O.HUFF,K.URBAN (K.URBAN,J.SHANKS) CAPITOL ALBUM CUT Kellie Coffey 57 26 27 SOMETHING WORTH LEAVING BEHIND Lee Ann Womack 9, 26 AT THE END OF THE DAY D.HUFF IK.COFFEY,B.JAMES) BNA ALBUM CUT M.WRIGHTLA.WOMACK IB.BEAVERS,T DOUGLASI O MCA NASHVILLE 172245 28 30 WORK IN PROGRESS Alan Jackson 28 BEAUTIFUL GOODBYE Jennifer Hanson 58 CAPITOL ALBUM CUT K.STEGALL IA JACKSONI ARISTA NASHVILLEALBUM CUT 0 J.HANSON.E GORMAN IJ.HANSON,K.PATTON- JOHNSTONI

27 28 DARE TO DREAM Jo Dee Messina 9 27 BEER FOR MY HORSES Toby Keith Duet With Willie Nelson 59 B. GALLIMORET.MCGRAW CURB ALBUMS CUT Q J.STROUD,T.KEITH IT.KEITH,S.EMERICKI DREAMWORKS ALBUM CUT IJ.BACH,A.FOLLESEI 4

29 29 BARBED WIRE AND ROSES Pinmonkey ^;z 28 WAITIN' ON JOE Steve Azar 60 P.WOBLEY IS.LOCKE,M.SELBY,T SILLERSI BNA ALBUM CUT 01 R.VAN HOY IS.AZARI MERCURYALBUM CUT

rim Rec rds sh wing an increase in detections over the previous week, regardless of chart movement Compiled from a national sample of airplay supplied by Nielsen Broadcast Da a Systems' radio track service. 148 Country Stations are electronically monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Songs ranked by number of detections. Air- power awarde to so gs appearing M the top 20 on both the BDS Airplay and Audience charts for the first time with increases in both detections and audience. Trtles below he top 20 are rem ved from the chart her 20 weeks. -9 Videoclip availability. Catalog number is for CD Single, or Vinyl Single if CD Single is unavailable. OCO Single available. OO DVD Sin- gle avail ble. O CO Maxi-Single available. O Cassette Single available. O Vinyl Maxi- Single available. O Vinyl Single mailable. Q Cassette Maxi-Single available ©2002, VNU Bus ness Media, Inc. All rights reserved.

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2 ALISON KRAUSS + UNION STATION ROUNDER 610495/IOJMG New Favorite THE IMPOSSIBLE UNIVERSAL SOUTH172241 /UMRG Joe Nichols 6 RALPH STANLEY DMZ/COLUMBIA86825/CRG [HI Ralph Stanley 2 CAN'T FIGHT THE MOONLIGHT Cline 731t6 LeAnn Rimes 4 SOUNDTRACK LOST HIGHWAY 170221 /MERCURY Down From The Mountain 7 HONEY DO DREAMWORKS 450914/INTERSCOPE Mike Walker 3 VARIOUS ARTISTS TIME LIFE 18701 Time -Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass o 5 PATTY LOVELESS EPIC 85651/SONY Mountain Soul Q 4 I SHOULD BE SLEEPING OREAMWORKS450362/INTERSCOPE Emerson Drive 7 VARIOUS ARTISTS ROUNDER610499/IOJMG O Sister! The Women's Bluegrass Collection 0 8 UNBROKEN BY YOU LYRIC STREET 164048/HOLLYWOOD Kenney Kayle 14 RHONDA VINCENT ROUNDER 610474 /I0JMG The Storm Still Rages 6 3 GOD BLESS THE USA CURB 73128 Lee Greenwood 8 HAYSEED DIXIE DUALTONE °Ilia [HI A Hillbilly Tribute To Mountain Love

THE DEL MCCOURY BAND CEILI/LYRIC STREET 902006/HOLLYWOOD Del And The Boys 7 5 WHERE THE STARS AND STRIPES AND THE EAGLE FLY LYRIC STREET 164059,HOLLYWOOD Aaron Tippin

15 JERRY DOUGLAS SUGAR HILL 3938 Lookout For Hope 8 6 OSAMA -YO' MAMA CURB 73138 Ray Stevens 10 RICKY SKAGGS SKAGGS FAMILY/LYRIC STREET901003/HOLLYWOOD History Of The Future Q 9 HOW DO I LIVE Y CURB73022 LeAnn Rimes 13 VARIOUS ARTISTS BMG HERITAGE 43600 /RCA Bona Fide Bluegrass & Mountain Music LYRIC STREET 164050/HOLLYWOOD McComas 9 VARIOUS ARTISTS ROUNDER610511 /IOJMG Bluegrass Goes To Town: Pop Songs Bluegrass Style - NIGHT DISAPPEAR WITH YOU Brian

Records w th the greatest sales gains this week. Recording Industry Assn. Of America IRIAAI certification for net shipment of 500,000 album units (Gold). A RIAA certification for net shipment of I million units (Platinum), with multimilliontides indicated by a numeral following the symbol. IN) indicates past or present Heatseeker title. ©2002, VNU Business Media, Inc., and Nielsen SoundScan, Inc. All rights reserved.

BILLBOARD AUGUST 3, 2002 www.billboard.com 27 www.americanradiohistory.com BY TERESA AGUILERA Recently, though, the focus of the MEXICO CITYAfter taking its music Mexico 's project shifted from a straightforward around continents as diverse as North Fernández tribute to a collection of es- and South America, Europe, Asia, and tablished ranchera hits. Fonovisa senior Africa, Banda el Recodo is closer to ful- Banda El label manager Sara Eva Perez says, filling Cruz Lizárraga's dream of tak- 'They're songs that have been performed ing banda to the whole world. by Vicente Fernández but that have also Lizárraga is now dead, but his Recodo Goes been performed by other artists." youngest sons, Alfonso and Joel, While Banda el Recodo's last album helmed Banda el Recodo for a tour of included previously unreleased materi- Japan and Australia last month that For More al, in the past the band has covered the Notas.. culminated in the group being rec- hits of such artists as José José and Juan ognized as the official musical repre- Gabriel. This time, though, the band LATIN LEGACY: A veritable history of recorded for Columbia in the '70s sentative of the Mexican soccer team included several dance remixes, designed Latin music in the U.S. is to be found with the intention of crossing over at the World Cup. Territories to highlight how the banda genre can in Columbia/Legacy's releases of cata- into the English -language market. Barely one month later, Banda el giving us total support for the project" work with a variety of musical styles. log material from Machito & His Afro - Rappaport says, "I personally felt the Recodo is readying the release of its lat- Fernández celebrates 35 years in the Perez says, "We basically wanted to Cuban Orchestra ( Machito & His Afro- more disco -ish tunes were somewhat est album on Fonovisa, No Me Sé Rajar business this year and will be honored reach a broader market, because the Cuban Orchestra: Mambo Mucho dated, but if you focused on the more (I Don't Know How to banda genre doesn't Mambo -The Complete Columbia R&B hybrids, those songs stand the test Back Down), due in lend itself to certain Masters), Xavier Cugat (Xavier Cugat: of time." Radically different from the stores July 30. Con- places." She adds that The Original Latin Dance King), and straight-ahead, hard -hitting salsa with ceived as a tribute to Banda el Recodo's the Fania All -Stars (Qué Pasa? The Best which Fania is associated (although that ranchera icon Vicente audience had been ofFaniaAll- Stars), as well as in a Latin can also be found on tracks like "Juan Fernández, the disc requesting that the jazz compilation featuring recordings Pachanga," featuring Ruben Blades on features such Fernán- group do remixes for spanning several decades, Ritmo de la vocals), the disc boasts a strong R &B dez hits as "Volver, a while. The album's Noche (Rhythm of the Night). fusion sound and such guest artists as Volver," "Por Tu Mal - title track is being singers Celia Cruz and Johnny Pacheco, dito Amor," "No Me released in its original along with instrumentalists Steve Win - Sé Rajar," and "Las banda format and as a wood and David Sanborn. All titles were Llaves de Mi Alma." dance remix version. released July 23. "The compilation was very hard to Sept. 17 as the Latin Academy of Record- Lizárraga, who died seven years ago, do, because there were so many songs ing Arts and Sciences' man of the year. was honored June 19 at a massive con- POSSE POST: As expected, Adrian to choose from," says bandleader Alfon- "For me it's an honor that Banda el cert in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, which was Posse has been confirmed as the so Lizárraga, who also produced the al- Recodo thought [enough] about me to attended by more than 16,000 people new managing director for BMG bum. `We went to visit Vicente in his make a tribute like this," Fernández and featured guest performances by ILALEGACY U.S. Latin, based in Miami and re- ranch, and he was very kind with us, says. "I had always admired them." such acts as El Coyote y Su Banda and porting directly to Rodolfo López Pilar Montenegro. During the event, Negrete. Posse was appointed inter- the group received a gold album for The idea of doing compilations is im managing director in May, fol- U.S. sales of its album Contigo Por certainly not new, particularly at a lowing the departure of Gabriel Siempre, which has sold more than 1 time when Latin music is enjoying Alvarez. In addition to his managing million copies in the U.S. and Mexico. renewed interest from the main- director duties, he will continue as It was the latest tribute to a band that stream and catalog releases are BMG VP of A&R for the Latin region. has gained the title of La Madre de Todas more popular than ever. But this col- las Bandas (the mother of all bands) lection concentrates on Latin music CHART NEWS: Rogelio Martínez debuts since it was founded in 1938. Lizárraga, produced in the U.S. and on artists at No. 18 with Atrevete a Olvidarme who lived in the Northern Mexican state whose historical significance is rarely (Fonovisa), while Celia Cruz re- enters of Sinaloa, decided to change the struc- mentioned anymore-even though in at No. 37 with La Negra Tiene 7ùm - ture of the then- traditional groups of their heyday, they were mainstream bao (Sony) after a successful European four or five musicians that he had heard stars, particularly Machito and tour. Los Temerarios hold steady at during his childhood into a huge band Cugat -and musical pioneers. No. 1 with their new studio album, full of instruments, with the aim of con- "My recollection growing up was Una Lágrima No Basta ( Fonovisa), veying a more fun, optimistic sound. He seeing Cugat on The Ed Sullivan while their greatest-hits collection, brought together 10 other adventur- Show with [wife] Charo, and it was a Historia Musical, stays at No. 6. This ers -the ensemble would eventually bit of a joke," series producer Jerry brings to five the number of Univision grow to 16 members- adding to the Rappaport says. "And I think most Music Group albums in the top 10 existing tambora (a big vertical drum) people forgot he had one of the big slots of the Billboard Top Latin Albums more trumpets, trombones, tubas, and Latin jazz bands. After going into this chart, as Jennifer Peña (UMG) is at No. his trademark clarinet. He named the project, I have much more respect for 3, Pilar Montenegro (UMG) is at No. 7, band Banda el Recodo. Xavier Cugat than I did before." and Grupo Bryndis (Disa) is at No. 10. The group traveled the country until Rappaport, who has worked on 1951, when it was signed by RCA and most of the reggae and Caribbean PIRACY COUP: Earlier this month, became the darling of major ranchero reissues for Sony and who last year California law- enforcement agen- stars -from José Alfredo Jiménez to worked on two Mongo Santamaría cies, with assistance from the Re- Juan Gabriel -who sought their projects, went through Cugat's very cording Industry Assn. of America, of raids in Ingle- The new album titled "Perro Malagradecido ". " banda sinaloense" accompaniment. In extensive Columbia repertoire to executed a series the '90s, the band added its own lead come up with a 20 -plus track col- wood, San Mateo, Fresno, and Ala- Is a 12 track album filled with the singer, Julio Preciadoto, to the original lection that includes the original meda County that resulted in the corrido sound that has made instrumental ensemble and signed a version of "Babalú" and features sev- seizure of thousands of counterfeit Los Originales de San Juan infamous successful deal with Fonovisa that has eral of Cugat's big -band vocalists, CDs and numerous arrests. across the country and México. yielded numerous massive hits. Preci- including Miguelito Valdés. Six arrests were made at the Cher- adoto now has a successful solo career. The Machito project, which in- ry Auction and Selma Swap Meets in Lizárraga's at 77, his cludes everything the Cuban -born Fresno for failure to disclose the ori- Í II) Following death \ EYES RECORDS IN C, widow, Maria de Jesús Lizárraga, took singer /arranger/bandleader record- gin of a recording. In San Mateo, 13 over the band's management. She and ed for Columbia Records in the early street vendors were arrested and are CD'S - CASSETTES - DVD'S & MUSICAL VIDEOS her sons, all clarinetists in the band, gave '50s, is priceless as a reminder of the being held without bond pending trial, on charges of failing to disclose 140 N,W, 22 Avenue Miami, Florida 33125 Tel: (305) 541.66861 Fax: (305) 642.2785 the group a new look by adding two birth of Afro -Cuban jazz through young singers with distinct personalities: Machito's work with his brother -in- the origin of a recording and crimi- WEB: reyesrecords.com / reyesrecords @reyesrecords.com Carlos Sambia and Luis Antonio Lopez. law, Mario Bauzá. The more sur- nal conspiracy. Additional charges TODO EN MUSICA *EVERYTHING YOU NEED IN MUSIC After a tour of Japan, the band will prising Fania disc features cuts are pending with the San Mateo MAJOR CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED visit China and India early next year. culled from four albums the group County District Attorney's Office.

BILLBOARD AUGUST 3, 2002 28 www.billboard.com www.americanradiohistory.com AUGUST 3

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9 9 15 MARC ANTHONY Libre 1 58 49 CONJUNTO PRIMAVERA En Vivo Vol. 2 28 COLUMBIA 84617 /SONY DISCOS 111.98 E0/17.981 F0505150 80799113.98/18.981

10 10 10 GRUPO BRYNDIS Hablando De Amor Poemas 10 49 51 LAURA PAUSINI o Lo Mejor De Laura Pausini -Volvere Junto A Ti 9 DISH 728990/U6 (17 98 COI WARNER LATINA 41070(10.98/16981

11 12 9 A.B. QUINTANILLA Y LOS KUMBIA KINGS Shhh! 1 64 63 LOS BUKIS Greatest Hits 39 EMI LATIN 29745 19.98/14.98) FONOVISA 616618.98/12 981

12 8 14 ELVIS CRESPO o Urbano 4 RAMON AYALA Y SUS BRAVOS DEL NORTE 4 En Vivo..EI Hombre Y Su Musica 13 SONY DISCOS 84662 19.98 E0/1598) FREDDIE 7181518.98/14.981

13 11 8 ALEXANDRE PIRES A Alexandre Pires 3 56 56 VARIOUS ARTISTS Siempre Romanticos 37 RCA 87883/BMG LATIN 11498 COI [N] _ DISH 729002/U619.98 CD) 14 15 13 VICENTE FERNANDEZ Historia De Un (dolo Vol.2 2 55 53 VARIOUS ARTISTS 20 Inmortales Pegaditas 10 SONY DISCOS 84282 110.98 E0/15.981 [N] UNIVISION 310051/U619.98/13.981

15 14 11 VARIOUS ARTISTS Las 30 Cumbias Mas Pegadas 1 CONTROL Todo Bajo Control 10 RISA 727015/ÚG (8.98/1398) EMI LATIN 36731 (9.98/13.981

16 13 19 MONCHY & ALEXANDRA Confesiones 8 54 47 CHICOS DE BARRIO En La Esquina 26 J&N 84839 /SONY DISCOS 18.98 Ell/I398) [N] WEAMEX 46533/WARNER LATINA (13.90 CDI

30 32 VARIOUS ARTISTS 15 Postales De Amor 17 63 70 LOS INVASORES DE NUEVO LEON 20 Exitos 37 LIDERES 9504151798/13.98) EMI LATIN 34432 (12.98 CO)

69 60 LOS RIELEROS DEL NORTE Los Mejores Exitos 30 ,f, HOT SHOT DEBUT FONOVISA 8420218.98/12981

ROGELIO MARTINEZ Atrevete A Olvidarme 18 65 52 CHUY VEGA Naci Cadete: 20 Super Cadetazos 21 FONOVISA 86216(8.98/12.98) UNIVISION 310040/U0 00.98/14981 20 31 LA MISSION 3 A Otro Nivel 19 ; 62 58 VARIOUS ARTISTS o Solo Exitos Underground: Only Hits 21 APONTE 60108 17 98/11981 MOCK & ROLL 950322/LIDERES I8.98í 14 98)

VARIOUS ARTISTS Pegaditas De...Ayer Y Hoy 20 57 50 JAY PEREZ Hombre En La Luna 27 DISA 727027/UG (898/13.981 SONY DISCOS 8497816.98/11991 4

21" 17 17 INTOCABLE A Suenos 1 66 73 LALEY O MTV Unplugged 13 EMI LATIN 37745(9.98/15.981 [N] WEA ROCK 40949/WARNER LATINA 110.98/16.981 [N]

22 18 12 EL GRAN COMBO DE PUERTO RICO 40 Aniversario: 1962 -2002 68 72 MARCO ANTONIO SOLIS Mas De Mi Alma 1 RCA 94428/BMG LATIN 124.98 CD) FONOVISA 0527110.98/16.981 [N]

70 61 CARLOS VIVES DejameEntrar 1 ° 'GREATEST GAINER EMI LATIN 3595U 9.98/15.901 IM] 35 33 VARIOUS ARTISTS Puras Cumbias Sonideras 23 67 62 LOS TEMERARIOS Baladas Rancheras 3 o MOCK & ROLL 950410 /LIDERES (698/11.981 FONOVISA 6129110.98/12.981[N] 24 22 18 LOS ORIGINALES DE SAN JUAN 20 Grandes Exitos 18 59 57 LOS REHENES 15 Hits Vol.1 48 UNIVISION 310963 /UG (198/13.98) SISA 720025/ÚG 14.98/7.981

25 22 VICENTE FERNANDEZ A2 Historia De Un Idolo Vol. 1 1 w.A1 ums with the 9 eatest ales gains This week Recording Industry Assn. Of Amedca( RIM) certification for net shipment of 500,000 album unes ( Gold). RIM cedificationfor net shipmmofIMil- Q. SONY DISCOS 84185 (10.98 E0/16.981 [N] lion u its (Platinum). RIM ce7Sfication for net shipment of 10 million units (Diamond). Numeral following Platinum or Diamond symbol indicates album's mulo- platinum level. For boxed sets, and double album with a running time of 1W minutes or more, the RIAAmulliplies shipments by the number of discs and/or t apes. RIM Latin awards: o Certification for net shipment of 100,000 units (Orol4Certifica- 27 40 MANNY MANUEL Manny Manuel 21 ban of 200,000 units (Platino). A' Certification of 400,000 units IMuhi- Platinol'Asterisk indicates LP is available. Most tape prices, and CD prices for BMG and WEA labels, are suggested lists. Tape prices 0 UNIVERSAL LATINO 017029(14.98 CO) mark EO, and all other CD prices, are equivalent prices, which are protected from wholesale prices. Greatest Gainer shows chaffs largest unit increase. Pacesetter indicates biggest percentage growth. HEalseeker Impact shows albums removed from Heatseekers this week [11] indicates past or present Heatseeker tree. ©2002, VNU Business Medra, Inc., and Nielsen SoundScan, Inc. All rights reserved. 27 19 25 SIN BANDERA Sin Bandera 18 SONY DISCOS ß48061I698 ED CDI y¡qp /^ /{ TROPICALJSALSA ALBUMS REGIONAL MEXICAN ALBUMS 28 21 26 RUCIO DURCAL Todo Exitos De Rocío Durcal 21 LIDERES 950382 (13.98 CDI

34 30 ALICIA VILLARREAL A Soy Lo Prohibido 3 CHAYANNE 1 MARC ANTHONY 1 LAS TEMERARIOS GRANDES UNIVERSAL LATINO 01482418 .98/13.981 [N] EXITUS /SONY DISCOS I LIBRE (COLUMBIA /SONY DISCOS( UNA LAGRIMA NO BASTA IFONOVISA1

30 26 20 LOS ANGELES AZULES Historia Musical 2 JUANES 2 ELVIS CRESPO 2 JENNIFER PENA DISA 727014/ÚG 18.98/13.981 IN] ) UN DIA NORMAL (SURCO /UNIVERSAL LATINO) URBANO (SONY DISCOS I LIBRE IUNIVISION /UGI

31 31 27 GRUPO BRYNDIS Historia Musical Romantica 1 ' THAUA 3 MONCHY &ALEXANDRA 3 LOS TEMERARIOS DISA 727012/UG (ß.98/13.98)[N] THALIA (EMI LATIN CONFESIONES (J &N /SONY DISCOS( HISTORIA MUSICAL PISA AO

32 28 24 ; RAMON AYALA Y SUS BRAVOS DEL NORTE El Numero 100 5 PILAR MONTENEGRO 4 EL GRAN COMBO DE PUERTO RICO 4 VARIOUS ARTISTS FREDDIE 181518.9 &14.98) [N] DESAHOGO (UNIVISION /1161 40ANIVERSARIEL 1962 -2002 (RCA /BMA LATIN) LA NORA SONIOERA IDISA /UGl 33 24 21 RICARDO MONTANER Suma 14 WARNER LATINA 46021 I1798 CSI AB. OUINTANILLA Y LOS KUMBIA KINGS 5 wow( MANUEL J GRUPO BRYNDIS SI-1111 (EMI IATINI MANNY MANUEL (UNIVERSAL LATINO) HABLANDO OE AMOR POEMAS (DISA NGI 34 23 23 LOS RAZOS DE SACRAMENTO Y REYNALDO A Corazon De Perico 3 6 CRUZ FERNANDEZ RCA 93084/BMG LATIN 17.98/11.981 [N] ALnANORE PIRES cam 6 VICENTE ALEXANDRE PIRES (RCA /BMG LATIN) LA NEGRA TIENE TUMBAD (SONY DISCOS I HISTORIA DE UN IDOLO VOL 2 (SONY DISCOS I 35 29 37 VARIOUS ARTISTS Solo Exitos: Summer Hits Underground 29 MOCK& ROLL 950406/LIDERES 17.98/13.981 ., LAMISSION3 / CARLOS VIVES I VARIOUS ARTISTS

AOTRO NIVEL (APONTE) DEJAME ENTRAR (EMI LATIN I LAS 30 GUMBOS MAS PEGADAS (DISA NGI 36 34 LOS ORIGINALES /LOS RAZOS Que Buena...La Lucha De Las Estrellas 16 EMI LATIN 37975 (9.98/13.981 SIN BANDERA 8 VARIOUS ARTISTS B VARIOUS ARTISTS

1 SIN BANDERA (SONY DISCOS I CONGO TO CUBA IPUTUMAYO I 15 POSTALES OE AMOR (LIDERES I CELIA CRUZ La Negra Tiene Tumbao 37 SONY DISCOS 84972 EQ/16981 ROCIO 11980 DURCAL 9 VARIOUS ARTISTS 9 ROGEUO MANEZRT1

TODO E%ITOS OE ROCIO DURCAL (LIDERES 1 BACHATAHIT52W2 (AN /SONY DISCOS) ATREVETEOOLVIDARME IFONOVISA I 38 38 35 JOAN SEBASTIAN & MARCO ANTONIO SOLIS Los Grandes 14 MUSART 2540 /BALBOA 17.98/13.981 RICARDO MONTANER 10 BRENDA IL STARR 10 VARIOUS ARTISTS

SUMA LATINA I TEMPTATION (SONY DISCOS I PEGAOITAS DE-AYER Y HOY BSA AV 39 32 29 EL PODER DEL NORTE Imaginate Sin Ellos 13 (WARNER DISA 727021/ÚG 18.98/13.98/ VARIOUSARTISTS 11 VARIOUS ARTISTS 11 INTOCABLE

SOLO EXROS. SUMMER HAS UNDERGROUND (MOCK &ROLL SUENOS 40 33 28 LOS TUCANES DE TIJUANA o Las Romanticas De Los Tucanes De Tijuana 2 NDE9ESI LATIN GROOVE IPUTUMAVO I (EMI LATINI UNIVERSAL LATINO 0170431898/13.981 [N] ALEJANDRO SANZ 12 PROYECTO UNO 12 VARIOUS ARTISTS 41..:- 37 36 PALOMO Fuerza Musical 9 NEW UNPLUGGED (WARNER LATINA( TODO EXITOS DE PROYECTO UNO IUDERESI PURAS CUMBIAS SONIDERAS (MOCK &ROLL AIDERES) DISAim .3/10 981111111 ORISHAS 13 GILBERTO SANTA ROSA 13 LOS ORIGINALES DE SAN JUAN EMIGRANTE 20 SONDES EXITUS 42 42 38 JOAN SEBASTIAN A En Vivo: Desde La Plaza El Progreso De Guadalajara 1 (UNIVERSAL LATINO I INTENSO (SONY DISCOS I 1UNIVISIONNG) MUSART 2524 /BALBOA 1718/13.981 IN] DADDY YANKEE 14 VARIOUS ARTISTS 14 VICENTE FERNANDEZ

TODO IXITOS DE BACHATA VOL 2 (LIDERES HISTORIA IDOLO VOL I I 43 41 39 ALEJANDRO SANZ A MTV Unplugged 1 EL CANGRI.COM (VII I DE UN ISONY DISCOS WARNER LATINA 4154111098/17.981[N] ; MAGNATE & VALENTINO 1J VARIOUS ARTISTS 15 ALICIA VILIARREAL

YMERENGUES SOY LO PROHIBIDO LATINO I 44 39 42 EL PODER DEL NORTE El Autentiko Y Unico En Vivo 7 ROMPIENDO EL HIELO (VI I 2002AN00EIXTOS BACHATAS IUNIVEASAL LATINO) (UNIVERSAL ( SISA 727018/ÚG 19.98/13.98) SOUNDTRACK 16 PUERTO RICAN POWER 16 LOS ANGELES AZULES POWER 45 43 . CARDENALES DE NUEVO LEON Por Las Damas 39 I EL CLON )SONY DISCOS) TODO EXITOS DE PUERTO RICAN ILIDERES I HISTORIA MUSICAL (DU /UGI o DISA 724035/ÚG 17.98/13981 CHARUEZAA 1/ vAR10USARuSTs 1I GRUPO BRYNDIS Emigrante1J 44 HISTORIA MUSICAL ROMANTICA UGI 44 75 ORISHAS ; OE UN SOLO SENTIMIENTO (SONOLUX /SONY DISCOS) BACHATAHITS 2001 1J&N /SONY DISCOS) IDISA

UNIVERSAL LATINO 0184561 [M]:ir._,,. ,.I , o 5 MELODY 18 JUAN LUIS GUERRA 44O 18 RAMON AYALA Y SUS BRAVOS DEL NORTE El Cangri.com 43 47 43 44 DADDY YANKEE , DE PATA NEGRA (SONY DISCOS) COLECCION ROMANTICA (KAREN /UNIVERSAL LATINO) EL NUMERO 1001FREDOIEI VI 50574 17.98/13.98) LAURA PAUSINI 19 vMIDUSARnETS 19 LOS RAZOS DE SACRAMENTO Y REYNALDO El 6i 51 MAGNATE & VALENTINO Rompiendo Hielo 48 OE PERICO /BMG LATIN) - '? LO MEJOR Of LAURA PAUSINI- VOLVOB JUN70AR POMNER IDYNA) LOS MEJORES OE LA BACHATA 2002 IMOCK&AOLL IIIDERE5) CORAZON (RCA o VI 5°576)798/13.981 20 VARIOUS ARTISTS 20 LOS ORIGINALES/LOS RAZOS Las 100 Clasicas Vol. 2 39 VARIOUS ARTISTS 49 46 46 JOSE ALFREDO JIMENEZ PREMIUM 2002 LATIN QUE BUENA...LA LUCHA OE LAS ESTRELLAS (EMI LAI IN SOLOEXITOS UNDERGROUND: ONLY HITS (MOCK &ROLL AIOERES / BACHATA (PREMIUM /J &N) ARIOLA 790e6/BMG LATIN 11898 CD) ,±

BILLBOARD AUGUST 3. 2002 www.billboard.com 29 www.americanradiohistory.com Brauer, Kahne Transferring McCartney Live Magic To Disc

BY CHRISTOPHER WALSH for the acoustic piano, but if he's McCartney's vocal and bass with NEW YORK -Often found in an SSL not, those are four less tracks. hardware from his own racks, pro- Monitor. 9000 J Series -equipped room at Other times, he might be playing cessing two multitracked vocals on Quad Recording Studios in New the guitar and Brian [Ray] plays separate tracks. "The main one was K -CI AND K- SERIES: Solid State about it is familiar. The computer is York, producer/engineer Michael bass. There's basically four tracks through the [Inward Connections] Logic's latest offering, the XL K not very different. The look and feel Brauer has spent most of July in the for Wix [keyboardist Paul Wickens, Vac Rac [TLM -1] limiter/EQ; the sec- Series analog console, has quickly of the board is the same." 9000 -equipped Studio One at Lon- who also plays accordion and gui- ond was either a Decca, [Empirical found a home in audio facilities Engineer Dave Way, who has don's Sarm West. Armed with a sub- tar], then four tracks available for Labs] Distressor, or Dept. of Corn - worldwide, installed-or soon- to -be- mixed recordings for Macy Gray, stantial arsenal of eclectic and vin- Paul on the piano. And there's six merce, an old vocal compressor that installed-in 13 studios. An evolu- Christina Aguilera, and Ronan Keat- tage outboard gear, Brauer and tracks for audience." is vicious! On the bass, I used either tion of the popular 9000 J Series, the ing, among many others, has simi- producer David Kahne are mixing 36 the E.A.R. /Moog EQ and/or the Aval- K Series, designed to fulfill all re- lar observations of the SSL K Series. live tracks from Sir Paul McCartney's on 737 [tube preamplifier/compres- quirements for the DVD -Audio and "As open as the J 9000 was," Way recent Driving USA tour for several sor/EQ]. I put the bass up on two Super Audio CD (SACD) formats says, "this is even more open and upcoming releases. channels; the 737 was put up for fat- including surround mixing, is prov- seems to have more top end and clar- Brauer, who spent several years in ness and the E.A.R. for definition." ing popular with top mix engineers. ity. The automation, obviously, is a the 1980s mixing and producing for Brauer is mixing to half -inch ana- lot faster, which saves a lot of time. London -based labels, is creating a 2- log tape for stereo; for 96kHz reso- It's nice not to have to sit there and channel mix of the live tracks while lution for DVD, the 5.1 mix will go wait while you save. The overall simultaneously preparing for a sub- to Pro Tools HD. His objective, he setup is that much easier to work on. sequent 5.1 mix for a DVD release explains, is to put the listener 10 to If you want to work at lightning documenting the tour. 15 rows from the stage. Along with speed, there's nothing stopping you." "The tour is so good," Brauer en- the concert experience the CD and Way expects to mix Gray's next al- thuses. "It's beyond the imagination DVD will replicate, he adds, mixing bum in surround for possible SACD that he could have written that many decisions are made in no small part release and has a 5.1 mix for Keating August. hits. When I saw him [at Madison by the songs as originally recorded scheduled for West is currently one of Square Garden], I got a rush from by the Beatles. "I grew up with these Larrabee my head down to my toes." songs, and I want to maintain their three Los Angeles -area studios to Concerts were recorded direct to Kahne, who produced McCart- integrity," Brauer says. "David also purchase a K Series, along with Tascam MX -2424 hard -disk rec- ney's Driving Rain (Capitol) at Hen- makes sure that the spirit of the song Pacifique Recording Studios and the orders, Brauer explains, then trans- son Studios in Hollywood, Calif., is again brought out. And Paul is Mix Room. New York's Hit Factory ferred to Steinberg's Nuendo digital does any editing in Nuendo before here to listen to it. I've got all the K- Complete. Mix engineer Rob Chiarelli, officially opened two new, K Series - seated, with producers Gregg Pagani, audio workstation (DAW) platform. giving tracks to Brauer to mix. "Nor- original songs from the show on my equipped studios July 24. Pressure left, and Pete Amato at Larrabee Stu- says of the mally," Brauer says, "everyone's been iPod, so I'll listen to it, asking myself, Point Recorders in Chicago and "It sounds fantastic," he dios in West Hollywood, Calif. (Photo: HD, Nuen- `What were the elements that made new facilities Paragon Studios in MX -2424. "It's probably around 40 doing [Pro Tools] but the David Goggin) tracks: If [McCartney] is playing the do sounds great." it so cool ?' A classic is a classic -you Cool Springs, Tenn., and Angel piano, there might be four tracks Brauer is adding compression to don't want to mess with it." Mountain Productions in Bethle- Los Angeles -based Larrabee Sound hem, Pa., have also announced a K Studios, comprised of seven studios Series purchase. in three locations, was the first facil- One of L.A.'s largest recording now AUGU0S2T3 ity to install a K Series console, fully facilities, Larrabee comprises Bilboard® PRODUCTION CREDITS renovating Studio A at its original the two- studio West location; three location, known as Larrabee West, to SSL J Series -equipped studios col- accommodate the new board. Since lectively known as Larrabee North; BILLBOARD'S NO. 1 SINGLES (JULY 27, 2002) its May installation, engineer Rob and the former Andora Studios, fea- Chiarelli has logged considerable turing two Neve 8078 -equipped CATEGORY HOT 100 R &B COUNTRY RAP MAINSTREAM ROCK time in Studio A, mixing projects for rooms, now known as Larrabee East. TITLE HOT IN HERRE HOT IN HERRE THE GOOD STUFF HOT IN HERRE DRIFT & DIE ArP.stl Nelly/ Nelly/ Kenny Chesney/ Nelly/ Puddle Of Mudd/ K -Ci & JoJo, LeAnn Rimes, interna- "I purchased my first SSL in 1979," Producer The Neptunes The Neptunes B. Cannon, N. Wilson, K. The Neptunes J. Kurzweg tional artist Laura Pausini, and Will explains Larrabee owner Kevin Mills. iLahell (Fó Reel/Universal) (Fó Reel/Universal) Chesney (Fó Reel /Universal) (Flawless /Geffen/ (BNA) Interscope) Smith, including Born to Reign and "I had one of the first E Series SSLs a 5.1 mix for Men in Black II. in L.A. -coincidentally, installed in RECORDINGSTUDIOISI RIGHT TRACK RIGHT TRACK EMERALD RIGHT TRACK NRG (Irgu1,or, (New York) (New York) (Nashville, TN) (New York) THIRD STONE "The best thing about it," Chiarel- the old Studio A -and one of the Engineer(s) Brian Garten Brian Garten Billy Sherrill Brian Garten (N. Hollywood, CA) li says, "is it sounds even better than first J Series SSLs in L.A., which I John Kurzweg the J. The sound of it is a little more purchased in 1995. And now the first CONSOLE(S)/ NeveVX NevaVX SSL4064 NeveVX Neve8068 open than the J, which is cool. The K. The feedback has been terrific. DAW(S) computer is 100% faster. I can work "It goes without saying that SSL RECORDERISI Pro Tools Pro Tools Sony 3348 Pro Tools Studer A827, Pro Tools and save, and compare multiple is a worldwide industry standard,"

RECORDING Pro Tools Pro Tools Quantegy 467 Pro Tools Ampex 456 mixes, or try different things and Mills continues. "There's always MEDIUM compare them a lot easier. The flex- smaller competitors, and they never

MIX DOWN STUDIOIS) HIT FACTORY HIT FACTORY EMERALD HIT FACTORY SOUNDTRACK ibility is better because of that." seem to establish a solid foothold. ,Lo,cáon, New York) (New York) (Nashville, TN) (New York) (New York) While he, like most engineers, has What people like about the SSL is it Engineer(s) Rich Travali Rich Travali Billy Sherrill Rich Travali Andy Wallace been asked for only a modest num- works, it works well, and no matter CONSOLEISUDAWIS) Neve VR Neve VR SSL4064 Neve VR SSL 4072 G-r ber of 5.1 mixes, Chiarelli has uti- where they are working -like if my RECORDER(S) StuderA827 Studer A827 Sony3348 StuderA827 Studer A820 lized the K Series' UltiPan spatial clients suddenly have to go to New panning software, also giving it high York, or Miami, or Tokyo, or Lon- MIX DOWN Quantegy 499 Quantegy 499 Quantegy 467 Quantegy 499 BASF 900 MEDIUM marks. "It's pretty crazy how you can don- they can sit behind an SSL and automate the panning for the 5.1 work. There's something to be said MASTERING HIT FACTORY HIT FACTORY GEORGETOWN HIT FACTORY SONY 'lura'ruu (New York) (New Yark) (Nashville, TN) (New York) (New York) matrix," he says. "The ability to con- for that. The knock against SSL in Engineer Herb Powers Herb Powers Denny Purcell Herb Powers Vlado Meiler nect Pro Tools to the center section the '80s was, `It just doesn't sound CD /CASSETTE UNI UNI BMG UNI UNI monitor is also incredible. I guess good.' But since the J console, people MANUFACTURER the coolest thing is it's not a total can't say that. More than ever, the :002, VNU Business Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Hot 100, R &B & Country appear each week; Mainstream Rode, Modern Rock, Rap, Adult Contemporary, Dance Club Play, and Dance departure from the J, so everything same is true with the K Series." Sales rotate weekly. Please submit material for Production Credits to Keith Caulfeld,Telephone 323 -525 -2297, Fax 323 -525 -2394 or 323 -525-2395, kceulfield @bìllboerd.com.

34 www.billboard.com BILLBOARD AUGUST 3, 2002 www.americanradiohistory.com Asa Pacirc Quarterly Mti 11111=-]..1.. Reaching Out Io North America Online and specialty retailers seek to sell Asian

music to a growing population BY MIKE LEVIN pInong North America's multi - from legitimate sources improved ago, it was Chinese pop making pie ethnic groups, Asians are a dramatically. waves. Then this sort of idol pop marketer's dream: more Today, the Internet is the pri- dropped right off, which cata- affluent, technologically savvy mary avenue for Asian music into pulted J -pop with its hipper, and willing to consume. Yet even North America. Much of the more cosmopolitan style. But it's though the Asian- American pop- Asian music sold online is legiti- still a struggle. The hardest thing ulations in the U.S. and Canada mate, with sites offering an excel- to do is develop a stable customer more than doubled during the lent selection and prices lower base because, if you have a big past 20 years, mainstream retail- than imports. Yet the majority of selection, you end up sitting on ers have rarely dissect- most of it. And the ed, or efficiently target- stores in Chinatowns ed, the tastes of this can really undercut varied group. you with bootlegs." A The music industry in concern heard through- North America has out the industry. largely failed to tap this Expanding Asian market with Asian populations tend to repertoire to any great migrate to specific com- degree. The story of munities in North that failure spotlights a America, and with them Market Downturn And confusing mix of per- comes an incredible ception, priorities and proliferation of local piracy, and whether the retailers catering to local Piracy Take A Toll On plot changes will sensibilities, especially in depend on how well Independent music stores serve New York's Chi natown. cultural industries like retailers learn just who music, movies and food. Retail's Promotional is buying Asian music today and Asian music is acquired online Price sensitivity in these commu- how they want to get it. through file- swapping networks nities is generally higher than in Throughout the '80s and early like AudioGalaxy, which com- the rest of America. Role In Hong Kong '90s, Cantonese -language pop pensate no one. Estimates from The most affluent groups are (Cantopop), produced in Hong record companies and retailers Chinese, Koreans and Japanese. BY WINNIE CHUNG "[Holding showcases] can be Kong, was in huge demand in on both sides of the Pacific put As the U.S. ethnic -Asian popula- difficult," says Mark Lankester, Asian communities on the East the genre's piracy rate at about tion rose from 6.9 million in 1990 HONG KONG-A few years ago, it managing director of Warner and West Coasts. Major-label affil- 50% to 60% of overall sales, with to 10.2 million in 2001, 65% of wasn't uncommon to find the likes Music Hong Kong. "Besides cost, iates in Hong Kong shipped pop the main target for online the newcomers were Chinese. Fil- of Mariah Carey, Ricky Martin there are other considerations as about 10% of their product to pirates because it is the most tran- ipinos were second, followed by and Jennifer Lopez passing well. It depends on how big the New York, Los Angeles and San sient and price -sensitive. Koreans, South Asians (Indians) through Hong Kong and doing a store is and whether it can handle Francisco through independent Asian new -age, world and and Japanese, according to the spot of promotional interviews or the crowds. And, in some cases in distributors. Almost all those traditional crossover music - U.S. Census Bureau. appearances at music retailers. the past, we've had shoplifters use records ended up in mom -and- distributed primarily by inde- California has always been the But the Hong Kong music indus- them as an opportunity to go in pop shops in Chinatowns, pendents -are current examples top destination for Asian immi- try today, battered and bruised by and pilfer CDs." because major retailers and dis- of repertoire that is finding legit- grants. Today, 4.2 million Asian - the combined onslaught of the Space tends to be the biggest tributors didn't see the value in imate sales niches. Yet some Americans live in the state, most- Asian financial crisis and piracy, is problem in cramped Hong Kong. securing sourcing and marketing mainstream pop sellers, like ly in San Francisco and Los facing an alarming shrinkage rate. With Tower Records withdrawing for this musical niche. Tower Records and online retail- Angeles. New York is second, The latest IFPI figures estimate totally from Hong Kong, HMV is By mid- decade, sales of Canto - er YesAsia.com, also believe they with 1.2 million, followed by that the market has dropped the only retailer at the moment pop and its sibling Mandarin pop are well along in understanding Hawaii, with about 700,000. another 15% in the first quarter with the store space to accommo- were decimated by bootleg prod- attitudes among consumers of While these centers are not like- of this year, bringing the total date large numbers of fans. There uct that bumped legitimate Asian music in North America. ly to lose top ranking, they are no shrinkage of the market to almost are only three larger retail chains records out of most retail shops. They may succeed where labels longer the only destinations. Seat- 50% since the 1997 economic cri- in Hong Kong-HK Record, CD Japanese pop U -pop), with its and their distributors failed. tle, Las Vegas, Atlanta, Dallas, sis. This dwindling pie doesn't Warehouse and A &B Sound - sophisticated diversity of styles, "Asian music has always moved Houston and Phoenix are attract- leave much for local promotions, and most of these only operate became the new focus, partly in cycles, with certain areas break- ing new waves. In fact, 7.6% of much less flying in major inter- stores between 1,000 and 2,000 because it appealed to non - ing out," says Paul Kennedy, Seattle residents were ethnic national artists for showcases and square feet in size. Asians, as well as non Japanese, national imports coordinator for Asian in 2001. The Canadian appearances. Continued on page AP Q 2 and partly because its availability Tower Records. "Three years Continued on page APQ- F

BILLBOARD AUGUST 3, 2002 www.billboard.com APQ -1 www.americanradiohistory.com RETAIL'S ROLE channel from a DJ booth in the Continued fhmi page APQ 1 store. All this means it can offer more bang for the buck, as far as Record labels are trying to promotional packages go. work their way around that prob- "The stores are perfectly lem by holding autograph ses- mapped out. The banners and sions or showcases in podium posters are in the right place, and The Specialized Market Of areas of larger shopping malls to that all helps the impulse buyer. benefit all CD retailers in the The radio channel doesn't hurt, Chinese -American Music Buyers mall. Even then, such events but it's written into the package aren't happening as often as anyway," says Warner's Lan - Exporting Chinese repertoire to the U.S is a low priority for Asian labels retailers would like, mainly kester, who cites Josh Groban's because of the lack of interna- eponymous album as a successful BY WINNIE CHUNG for some 10% of the divisions's price of CDs is lower. Taiwan, tional stars passing through and, example of the bundled- promo- sales, mostly through online which has lower prices, also releas- in the case of local repertoire, tion package. HONG KONG -The Chinese music retailer YesAsia.com and the es a lot of albums that aren't because only newer singers are HMV Radio is seen as a better market in Asia is plagued by one World Journal, a mandarin - released elsewhere in Asia," he says. willing to do these showcases. channel to push international inherent problem: the fact that language publication which has repertoire more than local, and, there are so many different Chi- retail shops in 14 U.S. markets. FEW AND FAR BETWEEN BUNDLING SUCCESS although it is on an AM fre- nese dialects. Although Cantonese Warner Music had previously In Asia, sales numbers can be "Not a lot of local artists are quency, it provides a welcome and Mandarin (or Putonghua) are imported Asian repertoire boosted by in -store and television available for such events. A lot of addition to Hong Kong's very the two most common dialects, it through its Canadian affiliate but appearances, movie roles or con- the more popular singers aren't limited English -language broad- means that a market that wasn't found it more economical to deal certs. In the U.S., as Denekamp too keen on these autograph ses- casting channels. quite that big to start with is directly with Asian wholesalers, points out, these promotional sions," says May Wong, adminis- "The radio channel helps, but, already divided in two. who, in turn, work with the spe- avenues are few and far between. tration manager at HK Record, basically, it is the added value that Transplant that scenario to North ciality retailers. Except for the one or two Chinese which has stores in two of the big- customers are after. For instance, America and the numbers of poten- "Mainly, Hong Kong whole- channels on ger shopping malls in Hong we had a great campaign with tial music buyers dwindle to negli- salers will handle distribution for cable -for Kong. Moby where every buyer also got gible figures, record executives in Cantonese products while Tai- which pro- "We're happy to do in -store a free T- shirt. You need that extra Asia say, which is the main reason wanese wholesalers will handle gramming is events," adds Emily Butt, director something to get customers to the why distribution of Asian -or Chi- the Mandarin products, but usually slow- and GM of HMV Hong Kong and check -out counter," says HMV's nese- products to North America they'll both deal directly with the er than its Singapore. "But, from the record Butt. isn't exactly high on the priority list people in the Chinatowns," says Asian coun- companies' point of view, it is too for Asia's record companies. "It's a Calvin Wong, Warner Music terparts - expensive [to bring in foreign PUSHING PRODUCT very specialized market," says Sony Southeast Asia's VP of marketing. there are few artists], and local artists want to The banners and the display Music Asia president Richard "Of course, we also work with other chan- charge an appearance fee once booths are some of the main Denekamp. "The Chinese popula- online retailers like Yesasia.com, nels where they become famous. We're happy attractions that pull the EEG and tion is very small in the U.S." but the numbers are very small." potential buy- Sony's Richard to do it as an added service, but Music Plus labels to HMV, says Chinese (including Taiwanese) Most labels move about 6,000 to ers can be Denekamp we're not going to pay promotion EEG managing director Gordon accounted for 8,000 units from Hong Kong and exposed to Chinese music. fees to help push their sales." Cheng. EEG and Music Plus are only 2.5 mil- Taiwan annually. Of these, the Off and on, Canto -pop singers HK, which has built a reputa- both owned by the Emperor lion of the biggest sellers -such as Sony's Coco will venture across the Pacific to tion for classical repertoire, finds Entertainment Group and have 287 million Lee and Warner's Sammi Cheng- perform in the major cities or casi- that classical artists are easier to the biggest stable of local artists U.S. popula- move only about 2,500 units per nos in Las Vegas and Atlantic City, present than pop stars because of in Hong Kong. tion, according release. "It's really nothing major, but such appearances are the the comparatively more active "These are good avenues of to the 2000 so the American guys aren't really exception to the rule. arts scene. promotion for our stronger U.S. Census, motivated to push much harder," For Sony's Coco Lee, sales were "We cannot afford to pay for singers, such as Joey Yung and and only 0.9 says Warner's Wong. boosted because the L.A. -based these artists to come to Hong Nicholas Tse; we don't need to do million of Can- One music executive who singer has already released an Kong, but quite a few stop by on that much for the idol singers. ada's 31 mil- laments the lack of a distribution English -language album through their way to the bigger markets, The bigger displays attract buy- Warner's Calvin lion people. network is Landow Lee, president Sony in the U.S. Warner's Cheng like Taiwan or Japan. We'll try to ers because it sends a psycholog- Wong Most of the of NMG Entertainment and a and NMG's Lau have benefited work with the suppliers for a mini ical message out that the label is Chinese population is concentrat- principal of music distributor and more from their popular appear- showcase or appearance. Those really putting its resources ed in New York, Los Angeles, San retailer Music Tower. NMG Enter- ances in hit Chinese movies that, have been our most successful cam- behind that particular singer," Francisco, Toronto and Vancouver. tainment owns NMG Records, more often than not, feature sin- paigns so far," says HK's Wong. says Cheng, who estimates that "These statistics illustrate the which represents pop idol Andy gles from their albums. With both record labels and between 10% and 20% of its pro- potential to sell Chinese music in Lau and actor -singer Dicky Che- "It's one of the reasons why retailers trying to make their dol- motion budget goes toward North America is rather small, ung. Music Tower -which has we're very keen on developing lar stretch, price -point campaigns retailer promotion. and that reaching these people - retail outlets in Los Angeles - our Web sites, as they represent have become one of the main The dedicated listening booths who have no [dedicated] radio or handles North American distribu- a very subtle form of publicity for areas in which the two are collab- at the display stands also help TV -is difficult and probably tion for NMG and EEG Records, us," says Wong at Warner, which orating. "Basically, that's one of push product, adds Cheng. expensive," says Denekamp, who which has the biggest stable of recently worked with msn.com on the biggest means of collabora- "With the Joey Yung album, for points out that Sony is seeing Canto -pop artists in Hong Kong. a full Webcast of a concert by new tion between us and the retailers. instance, I think there are about more of a buying trend among "We have a distribution net- sensation Stefanie Sun Yan -zi. Essentially, we look at the kind of five really great singles there. The the older generation of Chinese work with some wholesalers and But one of the biggest problems discounts we can offer to the radio stations will only allow us to who still have a connection to the some going direct to stores. But facing North American distribu- retailers and also at product - plug three singles, but, with the Chinese media. "The younger the distribution network just isn't tion, says NMG's Lee, is the lack of bundling," says Ariel Fung, Sony listening booths, people can sam- generation isn't as connected. in place. Not only are the Chinese vigilance over piracy in urban Chi- Music Hong Kong's managing ple all the songs," he says. They want to know [more about] markets spread out, but each natowns. "No one is really looking director. One of the biggest prod- Still, there are many other what's going on in America with pocket only represents small at the problem, so a lot of retailers uct bundling successes for Sony media outlets battling for a slice the Eminems and Linkin Parks." numbers," says Lee, who esti- unwittingly also stock pirate copies. has been the combined pack of a of the promotion budget these mates that more than 90% of the We have an agreement with our video compact disc of the movie days. Traditional radio and tele- THE INDIE NETWORK North American sales are made in retailers, of course, but the prob- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon vision aside, karaoke houses have Sony Music in the U.S. has a Los Angeles, New York, San Fran- lem is still there with other retail- and an audio CD of its original joint promotions with labels for division, Sony Music Imports, cisco, Toronto and Vancouver. ers. At one time, we used to move soundtrack. joint advertising in return for that works with specialized Lee says Asia's different pricing tens of thousands of units for Andy With international backing, exclusive premieres of karaokes. wholesalers and distributors to systems for music products also Lau. Now, it has dropped to a cou- HMV has the advantage over its New media outlets, such as import and sell repertoire not make it difficult to estimate how ple of thousand," he adds. competitors. Its store in the busy Roadshow and Channel M- directly released by Sony's U.S. many units are moved from Hong While the sale of pirated music Tsim Sha Tsui area takes up five which provide video screens in labels, knowing that these spe- Kong or Taiwan in total. "For first product hampers efforts to boost floors, which allows it to hang almost all the buses in town - cialty companies can better serve orders, the wholesalers would go the legitimate market for Chinese large promotional banners down have also proven to be an effec- the mom -and -pop music shops in to the main suppliers in Hong repertoire in North America, the side of the building. Store tive advertising and promotion the nation's Chinatowns and Kong or Taiwan because they get record executives acknowledge space also allows for more display method. But one thing remains: other ethnic communities. Sony it quicker. But for second orders, that it is a problem the industry sections and light boxes. The As far as promotion goes, it all Music Imports coordinator Will they can be taking their stock from will grapple with for a long time chain also produces a free music boils down to how far the dollar Farnan says Main music accounts Malaysia or China, where the unit to come. magazine and operates a music can stretch in difficult times.

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MTJ:.ALsic Te.visicn". andin are edemarks owned by MTV Networks, a division of Viacom International Inc. L'opyright 2002 MTV www.americanradiohistory.com Asian repertoire remains more don't differentiate between styles, cent of the company's sales is pop miss than hit, as much a victim of Allegro is able to use one market- music; the rest is Chinese tradi- AsiaPacificQuarterly inconsistent supply and market- ing plan for both and split costs. tional and opera. It supplies ing as music quality. HUGO executive VP Josef major customer markets in Cali- "I would like to do more with Bomback calls marketing in the fornia and New York out of a San Asian pop, but the U.S. market is U.S. a "nightmare" because of its Francisco warehouse. Music Retailers so hard to crack. J -pop has more resistance to Asian titles. But this "Our sourcing capabilities are range and is more likely to get a hasn't compromised growth. The much better now, which is why A retailers in six key Asian markets selective guide to noteworthy break," adds Kennedy. "But mar- company has increased titles our growth during the past year keting [Asian music] is difficult steadily, to about 400 on three has been accelerating," says because it's so sporadic and area - labels, since targeting the U.S. Joseph Lam, the company's Hong HONG KONG specific." from a branch office in Cleveland Kong based marketing and prod- A &B Sound In March 2001, Tower bet it uct manager. He declines to give Stores: 3 could tap the market by opening sales -volume figures but puts Top executive: Derek Au Yeung, in manager a dedicated world -music store in annual sales increases "steady New York's East Village -a double digits." CD Warehouse purist's dream, with prices to Lam admits that file- swapping Stores: 5 match. is one of the biggest threats but is Top executive: Louis Lam, owner convinced there's a huge con- Music "A large percentage of our stock Sembawang base that wants authentic Stores: 11 is imports, and the Japanese sumer HK Record which, for many Asian Stores: 2 Top executive: Dave Boo, managing director imports are really expensive," product, Top executive: May Wong, administration Email: sembal @singnet.com.sg says the store's world/Latin buyer releases, means premiums and manager John Coughlan. "Our volume is gifts included with the CD. It's a Email: [email protected] TAIWAN going up slowly because this marketing style that labels in Rose Records & Ta -Chung Records is definitely a word - Hong Kong and Taiwan have Stores: 55 [repertoire] HMV Media of -mouth thing. To make it big, been using for 20 years. Stores: 4 Top executive: Wayne Chen, VP & general YesAsia's Japan GM Bill Haw is Top executive: Emily Butt, director & GM counsel of parent company, GigaMedia Inc. you'd need more in- stores and Email: customerservice @hmv.com.hk Web site: www.giga.net.tw more advertising." Towers' John Coughlan in charge of supplying the compa- Web site: www.hmv.co.hk Coughlan credits the rise of ny's fastest -growing sector: J -pop. THAILAND Japanese animated entertain- in 2000. It has found a customer "We feel that e- commerce is a Warehouse KOREA CD ment (anime) as the main reason base among college- educated, more -efficient channel than phys- Hot Tracks Stores: 6 is finding new fans among over -30 consumers throughout ical retail outlets for servicing this 4 (within Kyobo Bookstores) Top executive: Marcel Jacquat, GM J -pop Stores: is Top executive: Jin Hong -Hyun, VP Email: marcel @cdwarehouse -asia.com non -Asians. Anime movies, games the country. niche market, which spread Web site: www.hottracks.co.kr Web site: www.cdwarehouse -asia.com and soundtracks of videos on across an immense geographic local Public Broadcasting stations FUTURE SALES area," says Haw. "We believe that Shinnara Mangpong are driving North America's first Yeagle says Allegro leaves the the main demographic driving Stores: 3 Stores: 67 real taste of non -idol Asian pop. online sales of its Asian titles to sales of Japanese repertoire in Top executive: Yajai Tri -Akastit, president Top executive: Kang Youn -Shan, VP "It's hot right now, but so was the labels. HUGO has no online North America is Chinese from Web site: www.mangpong.co.th fol- SKC Plaza [Japanese hitmaker] Hikaru English -language presence but is Hong Kong and Taiwan, Stores: 10 MGA (operators of Imagine stores) Utada when she did R &B. Tastes planning one this year. Pacific lowed by Koreans." Top executive: Yeom Ju-Yong, VP Stores: 30 are always shifting, and it's very Moon has an extensive Web site Korean pop now outstrips Chi- Web site: www.skcplaza.co.kr Top executive: Pongthep Siribovornkiat, tough to keep up with specific at www.pacificmoon.com. Inde- nese pop because of its freshness managing director titles," says Coughlan, adding pendent and alternative distribu- and quality, notes Lam. YesAsia MALAYSIA Email: pongthep @mgacybeccom stocks limited Chi- tors estimate that less than 10% bought K -pop retailer Angelpop Salem Cool Planet that the outlet from in 2001 and will open a business - Stores: 6 Power Buy nese and Korean pop. "We use of sales come online, Top executive: Elaine Yap, director of Stores: 38 Asian labels wherever we can for although this is growing rapidly development office in Korea later parent company, Ultimate Vista Top executive: Pravit Anantavrasilpa, that stuff, but bootlegging kills us. among consumers in non -urban this year. Japanese- and Korean - Email: surfbb @pd.jaring.my president So I send [customers] to China- areas who may not have access to language Web sites were added in Web site: www.surfnet.com.my Email: pva @powerbuy.co.th town or Flushing [one of the pri- the repertoire. June. Web site: www.powerbuy.co.th Yet it is Asian communities full "While Asian -pop sales are SINGAPORE mary Korean communities with- bit, I pene- HMV Singapore Email and/or Web site information is in New York]." of young, cash -rich, pop -music dropping a think our Stores: 2 included where available. Listing compiled Yet, if pop music is a continu- fans that offer the best potential tration rate can be increased Top executive: Emily Butt, director & GM by Winnie Chung in Hong Kong, Tim ing headache for Asian -music for future sales. And it's a market through partnerships with Yahoo! Email: customerservice @hmv.com.hk Culpan in Taiwan, Mark Russell in Korea, retailers, those who deal in other e- tailers like YesAsia are going and Chinese magazines," Lam Web site: www.hmv.co.hk Andrew Hiransomboon in Thailand and contemporary repertoire from after full tilt. adds. "The market [in North Steven Patrick in Malaysia. Asia are far more upbeat. The online demographics for America] is there, but do we have Allegro Music has seen a steady Asian- Americans are impressive. the energy to get it right ?" REACHING NORTH AMERICA of Asian MusicSource.com, a rise in the sales of new -age, tra- A SINA.com survey shows that That's the question first asked by in '80s cow/hued/10m pagr,lI'(-1 San Francisco based company ditional and contemporary 97% of Chinese -Americans own a the major labels the early specializing in Asian-American world -fusion music from Asia home computer, 73% use the and a thousand times since by every cities of Toronto and Vancouver entertainment. during the past decade. Allegro Internet and 65% of those go distributor watching as the Asian - also rank high, each with about The HMV chain in the U.S. markets to higher -end, older con- online every day. Figures for eth- American population rises steadily. 500,000 Chinese, Korean and and Canada has, for many years, sumers, those less prone to nic Japanese and Koreans are Solving piracy may seem an insur- Japanese residents. considered importing more Asian searching out pirated CDs and similar. mountable task, but guiding per- American numbers are predict- repertoire at the behest of major tapes. And, as the Asian genre YesAsia, based in San Francis- ceptions and priorities to unleash ed to grow to 14.5 million in 2010 labels. But, as U.S. purchasing grows, Allegro finds close to half co, is arguably the leading sup- the potential of Asian music in and 18.8 million by 2020. The sta- manager Jeff Davidson puts it, its sales going to non- Asians. plier of legitimate Asian pop in America should be far easier. tistics are all the more important "Lots of small independent stores "I think the ever -growing Asian North America. The company when put together with earnings. located in Asian communities are communities helped establish has focused on offering a strong Income in Asian households aver- so good at what they do that I [demand for] this type of music. selection and domestic prices in Mike Levin (mlevin @saltspring. aged about $46,000 in 2001, don't think we would be able to But they also created a greater the $12 -$18 range since starting com) is a former Far East bureau chief ahead of second -place Caucasians, compete." acceptance of things Asian among operations in 1998. Ninety per- jar Billboard. at about $39,000. But high Caucasian- Americans," says Alle- income doesn't always translate FINDING NEW FANS gro's world -music manager, LARGEST ASIAN-AMERICAN GROUPS IN THE U.S. 1.2 million into sales, especially for music. There is, however, a niche for Aaron C. Yeagle. "Let's face it, the Chinese (including Taiwanese): 2.5 million Korean: Vietnamese: 1.1 million The poor selection of legitimate higher- priced imports from hardest part [of any distributor's Filipino: 1.8 million mainstream repertoire meant, Japan, which can also include job] is trying to find good South Asian (Indian): 1.7 million compilations of crossover product, and we've until recently, Asian -music fans reissues and IN THE U.S. aren't readily been fortunate to work with great FASTEST -GROWING ASIAN- AMERICAN GROUPS had to rely on imported CDs and Western artists that 2000 % Change America Asian labels." 1990 tapes, which often cost twice available via North Taiwanese): 1.6 million 2.5 million 56% calls Two of its top suppliers are Chinese (including as much as local product. "For retailers. Tower's Kennedy Filipino: 1.2 million 1.8 million 50% Pacific Moon, a Japanese new - folks in the U.S. who complain the fans of this repertoire the South Asian (Indian): 1.2 million 1.7 million 42% a age /world label, and HUGO 40% about CD prices being $17.99, "purists" who will pay premium Korean: 1 million 1.4 million a Hong Kong con- there's no way they're going to to make sure their collections are Media Group, Japanese: 0.7 million 0.8 million 14% classical and world - dig into their pockets to pay $30 complete. Tower has a solid temporary- Source: U.S. Census to $35," says Kuni Iida, president sourcing pipe from Japan. But fusion outfit. Because consumers

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EMI Faces Distribution Revamp Italian Government Rejects Shareholders Hear Plans For Europe At Annual General Meeting Motion To Lower CD Taxes BY GORDON MASSON lobbying governments that he believes are not LONDON-Phase two of the "new" EMI Group doing enough to help combat piracy. BY MARK WORDEN that his colleagues were unable -or unwill- redesign will include a major overhaul of its Calling EMI Music Publishing chairman MILAN -The Italian record industry, battered ing-to keep, given that the government is European distribution network, chairman Eric Marty Bandier "the best music publisher in the by piracy and slumping sales, has expressed its under pressure both from the European Union Nicoli told shareholders July 19 at the compa- whole world," Nicoli revealed at the meeting disappointment with the decision by the Ital- and the International Monetary Fund to get its ny's annual general meeting in London. that the company would complete the acquisi- ian government to reject a parliamentary financial house in order. Phase one, Nicoli explained, involved restruc- tion of the Jobete song catalog in early 2003 by motion, presented by opposition parties here, The parliamentary motion called for the sales turing EMI Recorded Music to compete effec- purchasing the 50% that it currently does not to lower the current level of VAT (value -added tax on records to be lowered to 4 %, the same tively in today's market- own from Motown founder tax, or sales tax) on CDs from 20 %. level as that for books, another "cultural prod- including shedding 1,800 Berry Gordy. Nicoli noted that The government move came despite assur- uct." That level already applies to the increasing employees and dropping 25% of Jobete contains the "classic stan- ances made to industry representatives in number of (mainly catalog) CDs sold as sup- the record labels' acts. Phase dards of the Motown era." March by culture minister Giuliano Urbani that plements to magazines and papers through the two will focus on ensuring EMI Shareholders also heard that the government would lower the tax to 10% by country's newsstand network. A cut to 4% was E MI the (Billboard Bulletin, March 15). seen as an ambitious target; several industry is shaped to effectively compete Peter Georgescu, chairman emer- summer in the future. This will see the itus of Young & Rubicam, will Urbani made his commitment at a meeting insiders had privately expressed the view that a group reconfiguring informa- become a non -executive director following this year's annual Sanremo Festival, compromise level would be reached. tion technology systems to of EMI Group Sept. 1. He succeeds which the industry used to bring attention to But speaking in parliament July 16, the gov- allow better financial reporting and forecasting, Hugh Jenkins, who is retiring from the board. its problems. But it proved to be one promise ernment's under secretary for economics and developing more efficient marketing and pro- finance, Daniele Molgora, rejected the motion motion campaigns, and rationalizing distribu- as being out of line with EU practice. He cited tion, especially in Europe. the European Commission's VAT directive No. Nicoli pledges the group's strategy will also Korea Under Scrutiny 388/77, which rely on the aggressive exploitation of such new South allows individ- formats as DVD and other revenue channels Prosecutors Probe Corruption In Nation's Music Business ual members to such as the Internet, broadband, and wireless. lower the sales The key goal, according to Nicoli, is to "develop BY MARK RUSSELL not involve just a token slap on the wrist." tax on certain from a record company to a music company." SEOUL -South Korea's music industry Industry insiders claim the investigations products, listed Shareholders used the forum to launch has become the target of a sweeping gov- center on "conflict of interest" stock sales, in Annex H of some blistering attacks on the board and for- ernment investigation into alleged bribery chart fixing, payola, and inappropriate lobby- the document. mer EMI Recorded Music chairman Ken Berry and corruption. ing for talent. Prosecutors have arrested Kim The Internation- and his former wife, Nancy, former vice chair Since July 15, the Seoul District Prosecutors Jong -jin, managing director of M -Net, Korea's al Federation of Virgin. The £6 million ($9.5 million) sever- Office has been issuing summons to officials leading music -video cable channel. They allege of the Phono- ance package for Ken Berry came in for par- from various talent agencies, record labels, and he received more than 50 million won graphic Industry ticular scrutiny, but Nicoli countered criticism TV music programs for questioning about large ($40,000) in bribes from various managers to (IFPI) and Euro- by explaining that the deal, although "un- sums of money moved in dubious transactions. promote their artists. pean independ- palatable," was consistent with the terms and Prosecutors searched four of the nation's At the same time, the Fair Trade Commis- ent labels body conditions of Berry's contract and was below largest entertainment agencies -SM Enter- sion (FTC), a state regulatory body, has Impala are lob- the levels that counterparts elsewhere in the tainment, Sidus, GM Planning, and Doremi- announced that it is investigating SM Enter- bying for re- music industry might expect. Nicoli says that July 12. Eight executives from those compa- tainment and eight other management corn - corded music to the remuneration system for EMI Recorded nies have since been banned from leaving the panies for collusion and anti -competitive prac- be added to Music executives has since been overhauled, country. One prosecutor says the office plans tices. The FTC is looking at the management Annex H (Billboard, July 13), and the Italian gov- with lower base salaries introduced and bonus- a wide -ranging continuing investigation, companies to see whether they bought favors ernment's decision is a blow to their efforts. es tied to performance. Berry's successor, Alain which could take a couple of months. "It will for their clients from the PDs and executives of Molgora did, however, express support for the Levy, has agreed to such terms. be in depth," the prosecutor says, "and will broadcasting companies. motion's call for CDs to receive the same treat- Nicoli also notes that EMI's share -price slide ment as other cultural products, and he did say of 70% from its peak in January 2000 is consis- that the government would support EU plans tent with other publicly traded media compa- to unify the sales tax on CDs. That in itself nies, adding that EMI outperformed rivals AOL should mean a reduction in the case of Italy, Time Warner, Vivendi Universal, and Sony. which has one of the highest levels in Europe. Non- executive director Dominic Cadbury Enzo Mazza, director -general of the IFPI- admits it is now the job of the board of direc- affiliated Italian major-labels body FIMI, tells tors to restore shareholder confidence by Billboard: "The government's rejection of the improving the group's financial results. "It's all motion is obviously very disappointing, given to play for this year," he says. "If [the company] the industry's current crisis -even if its sup- doesn't achieve a turnaround [in results], this port for the EU plan to unify the sales tax has to board has a very dim future." But, he adds, "I be seen in a positive light." Nor is the battle would be pretty confident about the results entirely lost. Mazza says: "The Italian parlia- coming through." ment still has to discuss the [budget], and While not revealing figures, Nicoli says another motion could be introduced." results during the first quarter of EMI's finan- The week in politics wasn't entirely nega- cial year were in line with the group's expecta- tive for Italy's beleaguered record industry. On tions and possibly ahead of what people out- July 11, the country's ruling right -wing coali- side of the company expect: "We are on course tion, led by media magnate prime minister to produce a substantial improvement in oper- Down London 'Way.' Red Hot Chili Peppers played a recent string of European dates to coincide Silvio Berlusconi, passed a tough Immigra- ating performance." with the release of By the Way, which is currently topping album charts across Europe. Leading tion Bill, part of which includes immediate At Recorded Music, the company is target- execs from Warner Music International (WMI) met with the band shortly before it hit the stage at deportation for immigrants arrested for copy- WMI VP international mar- ing operating margin of 11 % -13% within the 12,500- capacity London Arena. Pictured standing, from left, are of right and trademark infringement. As Sene- Warner Music Europe executive VP Gero Caccia, band member Flea, three years. Levy assured shareholders that keting Thomas Starckjohann, galese street vendors play a key role in the dis- Warner Music Europe senior director of marketing Jon Uren, band members Chad Smith and of pira- tribution of pirate CDs, the move was inroads are being made into the issue Europe president Paul-René Albertini. Kneeling in front is Anthony Kiedis, and Warner Music welcomed by anti -piracy group Federazione cy, with new technology being utilized for both band member John Frusciante. physical and online theft, while Levy himself is Contro la Pirateria Musicale.

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36 www.billboard.com BILLBOARD AUGUST 3, 2002 www.americanradiohistory.com THE NETHERLANDS Edited by Nigel Williamson 53 (STICHTING MEGA TOP 100) 07/22/02 I I RMNCHART TRACK) 07/19/02 M,sk SINGLES SINGLES 1 1 A LITTLE LESS CONVERSATION 2CiiC:l. - ELVIS PRESLEY VS. JXL RCA 3 RAMP! THE LOGICAL SONG 2 UNDERNEATH YOUR CLOTHES SCOOTER EDEL SHAKIRA EPIC LET ME BE THE ONE 9 PERDONO SIX RCA Music Pulse.. TIZIANO FERRO EMI 4 HOT IN HERRE 2 ANYONE OF US (STUPID MISTAKE) EUROCHART GATES RCA NELLY UNIVERSAL GARETH HENNESSY'S HIGH: With a successful sal France album. Described as the 3 FEEST 4 HERO Rouvas K3 BMG CHAD III0EGER FEATUINGJOSEY SCOTT ROADRUNNER career as a child actor /model already "Ricky Martin of Greece," Eurocharts are compiled by Music ALBUMS 6 WHEN YOU LOOK AT ME under her belt, Irish teenager Carly has already performed at 20 live CHRISTINA MILIAN DEF SOUL & Media from the national singles 1 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS Hennessy now turns her attention dates in France, and his single "Disco BY THE WAY WARNER BROS. ALBUMS and album sales charts of 18 Euro- 2 SHAKIRA to music. Her MCA debut, Ultimate Girl" is enjoying ample airplay. The 9/(w' LAUNDRY SERVICE EPIC 1 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS pean countries. BY THE WAY WARNER BROS. A in Greece by 3 MARCO BORSATO High, features the -list songwrit- album, distributed - ONDERWEG POLYDOR 2 OASIS Capitol, is viewed as Rouvas' chance 6 NELLY HEATHEN CHEMISTRY BIG BROTHER NELLYVILLE UNIVERSAL 6 SHAKIRA to break internationally. The 30 -year- 5 CELINE DION LAUNDRY SERVICE EPIC A NEW DAY HAS COME COLUMBIA old star struck a deal with Universal 3 EMINEM ( MUSIC & MEDIA) 07/24/02 THE EMINEM SHOW INTERSCOPE France after singer Nana Mouskouri 5 NELLY said she hadn't seen anything like SWEDEN NELLYVILLE UNIVERSAL WITHOUT ME him. Universal France product man- EMINEM INTERSCOPE ager Julien Sicault says, "We were A LITTLE LESS CONVERSATION IGLF107/18/02 ELVIS PRESLEY VS. JXL RCA very impressed by what he did UNDERNEATH YOUR CLOTHES SINGLES AUSTRIA SHAKIRA EPIC/COLUMBIA A LITTLE LESS CONVERSATION onstage -the way he sang and ELVIS PRESLEY VS. JXL RCA J'AI DEMANDÉ LA LUNE /. INDOCHINE COLUMBIA danced." Rouvas was voted singer of NEW KARLEKEN VANTAR AUSTRIAN IFPI /AUSTRIA TOP 40)07/23/02 PERDONO KENT RCA the year at the inaugural Greek TIZIANO FERRO EMI WITHOUT ME SINGLES I'M GONNA BE ALRIGHT EMINEM INTERSCOPE Music Awards in April, and he has JENNIFER LOPEZ FEATURING NAS EPIC ST. MONICA WAS IST MIT DU? ROCKHEAD PROFESSOR KAISER UNIVERSAL seven solo albums under his belt. STACH STACH ULFWNDELL BRATISLA BOYS M61NT ROCK U WITHOUT ME Ola Kala contains three English-lan- ANYONE OF US STUPID MISTAKE) SUPERNATURAL METRONOME EMINEM INTERSCOPE GARETH GATES S/RCA tracks and is produced by ALBUMS UNDERNEATH YOUR CLOTHES guage CUM CUM MANIA SHAKIRA EPIC The disc will be FEUCIEN M6 INT./SONY/BMG NEW RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS Desmond Child. BY THE WAY WARNER BROS. A LITTLE LESS CONVERSATION HOT IN HERRE ELVIS PRESLEY VS. JXL RCA released worldwide later this year. NELLY UNIVERSAL MAGNUS UGGLA KLASSISKA MASTERVERK COLUMBIA PERDONO MARIA PARAVANTES KENT TIZIANO FERRO EMI VAPEN & AMMUNMON RCA ing and production talents of the SHOOTING STAR LEDIN ALBUMS FILL TOMAS 1 FLIP' N' ALL AROUND THE WORLD HELAVAGEN ANDERSON New Radicals' Gregg Alexander and LEE'S DEBUT: Universal Music Sin- RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS WHENEVER, WHEREVER EMINEM SHAKIRA EPIC BY THE WAY WARNER BROS. has signed 19- year-old vio- THE EMINEM SHOW INTERSCOPE Danielle Brisebois. The lead single gapore AU SOLEIL EMINEM is Blow Your Mind." linist Min Lee. Lee was last year's JENIFER ISLAND THE EMINEM SHOW INTERSCOPE "I'm Gonna YOUR SONG SEER The 18- year -old from Dublin recipient of the country's Hong ELTON JOHN & ALESSANDRO SAFINA MERCURY JUNISCHEE COLUMBIA appeared in that city's production of Kong and Shanghai Bank (HSBC) BLACK SUITS COMINNOD YA HEAD) SHAKIRA WILL SMITH FEATURING -KNOX COLUMBIA . - LAUNDRY SERVICE EPIC Les Miserables and then starred Youth Excellence award. Lee recent- g3 IMEDIA CONTROL SWITZERLAND) 0 7/23/02 NO ANGELS opposite Julie Christie and Mary ly performed at HSBC's Anniversary SINGLES NOW... US POLYDOR RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS IN Mastrantonio in the Irish Gala Dinner, which was attended by BY THE WAY WARNER BROS. 1 WITHOUT ME Elizabeth EMINEM INTERSCOPE 2 EMINEM Civil War film Fools of Fortune. the president of Singapore, S.R. THE EMINEM SHOW INTERSCOPE 2 A LITTLE LESS CONVERSATION ELVIS PRESLEY VS. JXL RCA 4 SHAKIRA MCA president Jay Boberg signed Nathan. Universal Music Southeast LAUNDRY EPIC/COLUMBIA 3 UNDERNEATH YOUR CLOTHES BELGIUM /FLANDERS SHAKIRA EPIC her on the spot after hearing her Asia president Harry Hui says, "Min 3 OASIS HEATHEN CHEMISTRY BIG BROTHER/SONY 6 I'M GONNA BE ALRIGHT JENNIFER LOPQ FEATURING NAS EPIC sing in his Los Angeles office. Hen- Lee has the talent and charisma to 5 NELLY IPROMOVII07/24/02 NELLYVILLE UNIVERSAL 5 XDONO nessy says, "I listened to Chrissie make herself seen and heard on a TIZIANO FERRO EMI 6 MORCHEEBA i SINGLES Hynde, Diana Ross, Madonna, truly global scale." Universal Music CHARANGO EAST WEST/WEA ALBUMS UNDERNEATH YOUR CLOTHES I director Gary 7 CELINE DION 1 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS SHAKIRA EPIC Whitney Houston -everyone. Singapore managing A NEW DAY HAS COME COLUMBIA/EPIC BY THE WAY WARNER BROS. ME It was See reports "blue- chip" interest in 22 ASHANTI 2 WITHOUT never took voice lessons. OASIS EMINEM INTERSCOPE ASHANTI DEE JAM HEATHEN CHEMISTRY BIG BROTHER something that came naturally." She Debut, her first album for the label. 31 BRYAN ADAMS 3 EMINEM DE PIZZA DANS SPIRIT (SOUNDTRACK) A&M THE EMINEM SHOW INTERSCOPE DYNAMITE ARS appeared as Bryan Adams' special STEVEN PATRICK 9 NO ANGELS 5 SHAKIRA A LITTLE LESS CONVERSATION -air at NOW... US POLYDOR LAUNDRY SERVICE EPIC ELVIS PRESLEY VS. JXL RCA guest during an open concert 4 MORCHEEBA of last in Dublin. THE SWEDISH INVASION: Sahara CHARANGO WEA DESENCHANTÉE the end month KATE RYAN ANTLER- SUBWAY NICK KELLY Hotnights and Alcazar, both signed ALBUMS to BMG Sweden, are teaming with 3 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS BY THE WAY WARNER BROS. SISTER ACT: Sisters Paola & Chiara independent labels in their separate

1 DREAMLOVERS released their fourth album, Festi- attempts to break into the U.S. mar- COMMON CURRENCY 18 HITS III MOUSE val, 28. Sony Columbia Italy ket. Female rockers Sahara Hot - 2 MARCO BORSATO June ONDERWEG POLYDOR expects it to build on the success of nights will be handled by Jetset 4 EMINEM THE EMINEM SHOW INTERSCOPE the duo's 2000 release, Television, Records for the U.S. and Canada, A weekly scorecard of albums simultaneously attaining top 10 chart status in three or more leading world markets. 5 SAMSON & GERT which sold 100,000 copies in Italy while disco act Alcazar will be asso- OH LA LA LAI IS & G 12) STUDIO 100 hit Festi- ciated with E- Magine Music in the Repertoire owner: B: BMG, E: EMI, I: Independent S: Sony, U: Universal, W: Warner and produced four singles. val was preceded May 24 by a single U.S. Both New York -based labels will of the title track, and its Brazilian start working the bands after the MALAYSI,, dance rhythm helped it top airplay summer. Sahara Hotnights will tour ARTIST charts. Sony Music Italy A &R direc- the U.S. through the fall. The U.S. USA JPN UK GER FRA CAN SPN AUS ITA NTH (RIM) 07/23/02 tor Michele Barrile says: "The album indie deals are part of BMG Sweden's ALBUMS , went platinum in Italy less than A &R strategy for developing global CELINE DION 7 9 5 A New Day Has C SPIDER these two ALADIN NAR three weeks after its release, which artists. "I'm thrilled that 3 SITI NURHALIZA is encouraging." The label's interna- very different but equally talented EMINEM SANGGAR MUSTIKA SUWAH 3 9 4 5 2 3 6 7 tional exploitation manager, Simona artists get a shot in the world's The Eminem Show (U) 2 SHEILA ON 7 07 DES SONY Rivetta, adds: "The international largest market," BMG Sweden man- 4 ELLA campaign, which will concentrate on aging director Björn Lindborg says, 2 5 5 3 2 4 PUTERI ROCK WEA Europe and Latin America, will start adding that the Sahara Hotnights AMY MASTURA AKANDATANG SONY in earnest in September. Overseas track "Alright, Alright" will be fea- OASIS 6 - 2 10 S UNIC audiences are beginning to realize tured in the movie Jackass (Para Heathen Chemistry IS) YOU AND I SEE NUR that Italy has more to offer than mount/MTV). Alcazar's first single VARIOUS ARTISTS 3 OIMENSI KUMPUTAN POP LELAKITERBAIK VOL 2 WEA pizza and mandolins." release in the U.S. is scheduled to be %ED HOT CHILI PEPPERS 4 8 1 1 3 4 3 1 1 1 By the Way VARIOUS ARTISTS MARK WORDEN "Crying at the Discoteque" (see Beat (W) POP NSR Box, page 23). The track has already 12 SPRING /SLAM SENTUHAM SENSASI SPRING/SIAM SONY Europe, SHAKIRA 2 10 4 2 A GREEK IN PARIS: Greek heart- sold 700,000 copies across Laundry Service (S) 10 HADDAD ALWI & SULIS BMG ORCHESTRA -CINTA RASUL NSR throb Sakis Rouvas is in Paris to according to Sweden. promote Ola Kala, his new Univer- KAI R. LOFTHUS

BILLBOARD AUGUST 3, 2002 www.billboard.com 37 www.americanradiohistory.com Netherlands Slump Adds To Sales Fears Europe Wonders Whether Decline Reflects Things To Come Across Continent NEWSLINE... This story was prepared by Emmanuel Legrand in they do dare [to do] it sneakily from the Internet." London and Menno Visser in Amsterdam. Sony Music Benelux president Patrick Decam sees Sony Music dominated Europe's album charts in the first half of 2002, taking two other problems: "DVD is progressing at the an impressive lead over previous market leader Universal Music, according to As disappointing sales figures for the Nether- expense of the CD, and there is also a lack of creativi- statistics compiled by Music & Media based on the Billboard sister publica- lands- traditionally one of Europe's more vibrant ty-I don't hear anything spectacular." Both execu- tion's weekly European Top 100 Albums chart. The chart is compiled each week markets -emerge, one of Europe's most experienced tives are, however, mildly optimistic about the second from the national album sales charts of 18 European countries. Sony took a major -label execs has described the situation facing half of 2002 because of strong fall -release schedules. hefty 31.9% chart share in the albums sector, ahead of Universal's 18.9 %; Sony labels there as "frightening." Roos says his immediate remedy is to market and also came second in a six-month survey based on the Music &Media Eurochart Across the European record industry, executives A &R as aggressively as possible and add value to Hot 100 Singles chart, compiled weekly from a total of 16 national singles list- are anxiously eyeing the Netherlands' dramatic products. He also says it is important to expand the ings across Europe. The major had a singles chart share of 25.4 %, behind Uni- slump in shipments during the first half of this year, distribution of music to nontraditional retail outlets. versal's 26.1 %. Sony's performance was mostly the result of a trio of female wondering whether the pattern there is a sign of Burger notes that the Dutch situation adds to fears artists who topped the chart throughout most of the period: Shakira, Anasta- things to come elsewhere on the Continent. During about the declining market in Spain -hit especially cia, and Celine Dion. "It's always thrilling to have good chart shares," Sony the January-June period hard by piracy in recent Music Europe president Paul Burger comments. "Unfortunately, these are chart according to figures times -and a continuing shares in a shrinking market. A few years ago, a share like this would have been based on shipments from poor performance in Ger- an incredible source of satisfaction." EMMANUEL LEGRAND local trade body NVPI. many. Other parts of Dutch album sales expe- Europe, notably Scandi- The Italian record labels' threat to boycott next rienced a 14% slide in navia, are also struggling. year's Sanremo Festival of Italian Song seems to unit terms. The singles "I am very concerned have disappeared following lengthy, intense market there dropped by with European figures for negotiations about expenses among state broad- 35 %. The market was hit the first six months," caster RAI, the city of Sanremo, International especially hard in June. Burger says. "We are in a Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) with album shipments very difficult period, and affiliate FIMI, and independent labels association down a massive 35% and there are no signs that we AFI. RAI has agreed to reimburse record labels singles dropping 46% in are anywhere near corn- for the transport and accommodation costs of units, compared with ing out from the dark." their participants at Sanremo's annual live -music June 2001. Value figures Another leading Lon- event -a long- running point of contention. are not available. don -based European exec- Industry discontent with Sanremo has grown in Thaf_news followed utive concurs. Warner recent years, in tandem with the festival's decline recent figures from the Music Europe president as a record -selling vehicle. The broadcaster has International Federation Paul -René Albertini says, now agreed to pay a total of 1.35 million euros ($1.34 million) in expenses to of the Phonographic In- "Scandinavia and Ger- record companies for the 2002 event-an increase of 750,000 euros dustry (IFPI), scaled up many are two worrying ($740,000) on the amount originally offered to cover the contest, which took from trade shipments spots. I am particularly place in March. Universal Music Italy president/CEO Piero La Falce tells Bill- reported by its members, concerned by the drop in board that a threat (later rescinded) not to send artists to the festival -along showing that sales in the catalog and compilation with a similar threat by EMI Italy (Billboard, March 9) -has been generally Dutch record market sales in Germany." credited with encouraging RAI and Sanremo to negotiate. "This is a great shrank at retail value by In Berlin, Universal piece of news, even if work still needs to be done on the festival itself," he 1.4% to $435.7 million Music Germany chair - says. "The event has, however, been saved, and now I think we can work in 2001, compared with man/CEO Tim Renner adds together to make it as good as possible." MARK WORDEN the previous year. Unit that the first -half figures sales fell by 8% during the same period. Of the for Germany are "even worse than last year." The Swedish division of Norway's Hysj! Hysj! retail chain has filed for bank- Dutch market, London -based Sony Music Europe ruptcy, sharing the recent fate of its Oslo-based parent company (Billboard, July president Paul Burger says: "What is happening THE BRIGHTER SIDE 13). Hysj! Hysj! owned two Stockholm stores, Mega Skivakademien -the there is absolutely frightening." On a more positive note, the two European mar- Swedish capital's largest music retail outlet-and Hysj! Hysj! Sturegallerian; But Burger cautions that the effects that the kets that bucked the downward trend in 2001 -the both continue to operate throughout the bankruptcy procedures, albeit with recent World Cup soccer championship have had on U.K. and France -look to be repeating the trick. limited liabilities in terms of cash refunds and gift -certificate redemptions. retail should be borne in mind when looking at the While British half -year figures won't be available The extent of the chain's losses could not be determined by deadline, and no latest figures. "I would not draw conclusions too until mid -August, a spokeswoman for U.K. trade local executives could be reached. Meanwhile, Norwegian online music retail- quickly for June, because I would not underestimate body the British Phonographic Industry confirms er Zailor has absorbed the online operations of the bankrupt retail chain. No the impact of the World Cup -although the Dutch that May was "good," after a "slow" April. In France, financial details were announced. KAI R. LOFTHUS team did not qualify." Nonetheless, he concedes, "the according to figures from labels organization SNEP, picture is not good at all." The World Cup syndrome shipments grew 6% in value and 5% in units dur- The organizers of Popkomm, the annual international music fair held in Cologne, even had an effect on the relatively buoyant U.K. ing the first six months of 2002. Singles performed Germany, are anticipating a 13% reduction in the number of exhibiting com- market, where market -leading music merchant HMV extremely well in France, with an 8% increase in panies at this year's Aug. 15 -17 event, down to about 700. Visitor numbers are reported an 11% rise in sales at its HMV Europe divi- both value and units. Even CD album sales grew by also expected to decline to 15,000 from 17,000 last year. Uli Grossmaas, direc- sion- mainly U.K. outlets- during May, followed by 3% in units and 5% in value. Full figures will be dis- tor of Popkomm organizer Music Komm, blames "poor general business con- a fall of almost 3% in June, when the World Cup was closed in August by SNEP. ditions." According to figures from the IFPI, the German music market was at its height (Billboard, July 13). Paris -based SNEP director general Hervé Rony worth $2.13 billion at retail in 2001, down 92% on 2000. But Grossmaas notes acknowledges that those figures are "almost indecent, that despite the predicted overall declines, the number of international compa- WHAT'S TO BLAME? compared to what other countries are going through." nies represented at the conference is expected to rise by 60%. WOLFGANG SPAHR The situation in the Netherlands has taken many In terms of repertoire, domestic artists accounted for executives there by surprise. Universal Music 60.5% of French shipments during that period, and U.K indie label Beggars Banquet will set up an office Netherlands president /CEO Theo Roos points to Rony suggests that the strength of domestic repertoire in France and shift its 20-year -old licensing deal piracy as a major root of the industry's ills. In its is one reason for the market's growth. But mindful of with Virgin France to a new distribution agree- recent 2002 report on music piracy, the IFPI put the the threat of illegal copying, he adds: "I don't see any ment with indie label Naive, Billboard has learned. Netherlands' piracy level in the 10 % -25% range; in drop in sales of blank CD -Rs. It could be that the peo- The Naive deal, effective from October, reunites other leading, well -policed, European music mar- ple who buy records in France are in the age group Beggars Banquet founder and CEO Martin Mills kets -such as the U.K., France, and Germany -that where downloading and CD- burning is not part of con- with Naive co- founder and president Patrick Zel- figure is less than 10 %. sumer habits." nik. "Beggars was one of the first U.K. labels I "We sometimes say Holland is ahead of things, but Burger concludes: "The current crisis forces us to signed [a licensing deal with] when I launched then we're also ahead of bad things as well," Roos rethink the way we do things. There are already sig- Virgin France in the early '80s," Zelnik says. Beg- says. "There is no less love for music -it's just that nificant changes under way in the industry. Clearly, gars will operate in France near Naive's office and it's getting consumed for free. It's also a matter of the old model will not be supported by the declining will be run by a small team including manager morality. I asked a group of students, and they market, and the new model still needs to reveal itself. Laurent Rossi, who joins from indie Atmosphériques. EMMANUEL LEGRAND wouldn't dare to steal physically from a shop, but In the meantime, we have to deal with the old model."

38 www.billboard.com BILLBOARD AUGUST3,2002 www.americanradiohistory.com Tough Times Continue For Laid -Off Music Executives In Canada As Slump In Record Market Persists, Limited Opportunities Force Label Staffers To Re-Evaluate Career Options

BY LARRY LeBLANC spread layoffs in the industry are pany people have marketable skills TORONTO -The concept of "career neatly summed up by Geoff Kulaw- for any other business. My advice to planning" may be virtually un- ick, CEO/president of Toronto -based label employees is to improve your known within Canada's music indie label Linus Entertainment: "I education, get more training, and industry, but with the market con- have more people knocking on my multi -task-or you might find your- tinuing to endure slow music sales, door for work these days than I get self taken out." it's rapidly becoming essential for tapes from bands." Universal Music Canada CEO /presi- major -label executives. With music retail remaining soft, dent Randy Lennox insists that "edu- Hefty industry staff cuts here within neither Canadian -based affiliates of cation and diversity are key to [execu- the past five years-notably at Univer- multinationals nor domestically owned tives] being successful. There are sal Music (following its 1998 merger distributors or labels are readily seeking opportunities within our industry that with PolyGram), Warner Music, Sony to bring personnel-in some cases, are not being exploited. They should be Music, and HMV-are still fresh in the high-caliber execs back into the fold. seeing these opportunities." memories of Canadian music execs. As Sony Music Canada senior VP of Sony former VP of international Other job losses followed last year's sales Don Oates says, "Record compa- A&R and marketing Richard Zucker- bankruptcies of independent music nies aren't hiring. When a position man-who was laid off in 2000 after group Song Corp. (Billboard, May 26, becomes available, it's filled within a 15 years working for Sony in Canada 2001) and retail giant Sam the Record minute. When someone phones asking and the U.K.-agrees. "You've got to Man (Billboard, Nov. 10, 2001). if there's something available, the think out of the box. You then discov- "This is a very small industry, and answer is always, `Not at this time.' " er assets you haven't been using day to when there is a major blood -letting, Former label execs hoping to there is only a small number of appro- day." Zuckerman works as a consult- company MapleCore with financial there are so many people looking for return to the music business face priately sized domestic indie labels. ant to Celine Dion's Feeling Produc- backing from Universal Music Canada. jobs," Warner Music Canada presi- another problem: There are few "The older you are, the more un- tions and U.K. -based management "I didn't expect to work in the music dent /CEO Garry Newman notes. prospective employers in Canada. derstanding you are that the reason for firm Toy Box International. industry again," Cooke confesses. "You're a 50- year -old promo rep - Music distribution here is primarily downsizing was to bring in younger, Sacked last October after 24 years at "There aren't many positions open, where do you go ?" handled by the five multinationals cheaper blood," one unemployed source Warner Music Canada, Kim Cooke (lat- even in the good times. Fortunately, I The ongoing effects of the wide- plus a handful key independents, and comments. "You see yourself as unavail- terly senior VP/managing director of had some strong supporters at Univer- able for positions you once held." the U.S. division) was quickly picked up sal, but I also brought experience in Several industry figures note that it as a top -level representative by Maple - marketing, A &R, promotion, and sen- can be daunting approaching a pro- Music Recordings, launched in Febru- ior management with me. That really INTERNATIONAL EDITOR GREECE -Maria Paravantes, 6 Karyotaki St, helped me in finding a job." Tom Ferguson (terguson @eu.billboard.com) Athens 11141; Phone: 93 266 5432; voudas- spective employer who may be a busi- ary by Toronto -based entertainment out [email protected]. INTERNATIONAL NEWS EDITOR ness friend-or closer. "People take HONG KONG -Winnie Chung, Flat B 2/F Chun Gordon Masson (gmasson @eu.billboard.com) Hing Mansion, 19 -21 King Kwong St., Happy your first call only because they are INTERNATIONAL SPECIAL SECTIONS EDITOR Valley; Phone: 85 2 9275 8275; writestuff @ -pop- curious," recalls PolyGram Group Thom Duffy ([email protected]) mail.com. 25, former VP of finance Garry ICELAND -Birgir Orn Steinarsson, Langahlid Canada Royalty Deal Means More Cash Billboard London, Endeavour House, 5th IS -105 Reykjavik; hì[email protected]. Hubbard, who left the company in Floor, 189 Shaftesbury Ave., London INDIA -Nyay Bhushan, e -2 Greater Kailash Part WC2H 8TJ, United Kingdom. Phone: 44 II, New Delhi, 110048; Phone: 91 11 641 6666; 1991. "You find that you are not a play- 207 420 6003; Fax: 44 207 420 6014. [email protected]. er anymore. People you thought were For New Zealand Songwriters ASIA BUREAU CHIEF IRELAND--Ken Stewart, 75 Sydney Parade Ave., BY JOHN FERGUSON music quota scheme (Billboard, April Steve McClure, 5 -12 -13 Higashi Oizumi. Dublin 4; Phone /Fax: 35 31 283 7695. buddies are business acquaintances." Nerima -Ku, Tokyo, Japan, 178; Phone: Nick Kelly, 4 Cowper Village, Rathmines, Randy Wells, former senior VP of AUCKLAND-A new two- tiered roy- 20), under whose terms commercial 813 3867 0617; novalis @twics.com. Dublin 6; Phone: 35 31 496 0397: A&M Records (Canada), a casualty of alty agreement has finally been stations will aim to achieve 20% local GERMAN BUREAU CHIEF nkelly @indigo.ie. Wolfgang Spahr, P.O. Box 1150, 23795 Bad ISRAEL -Sasha Levy, Naha! Zodar 40/2 St Modin; the Universal /PolyGram merger, hashed out between the Australasian content levels by 2006. Segeberg; Phone: 49 4551 81428; Phone: 972 8 972 0804; chamish@?mail. Performing Rights Assn. (APRA) and Mike Chunn, director of opera- netvision.net.il. agrees: "Once you were on top of the [email protected]. of NORDIC BUREAU CHIEF ITALY -Mark Worden. Via San Michele Del Carso world; then you're not. It's like start- New Zealand's Radio Broadcasters tions for the New Zealand arm Kai R. Lofthus, Vetlandsveien 67C, NO- 5, 20144 Milano; Phone: 39 02 4802 4127; ing all over." Assn (RBA). APRA, says the new two -tier ap- 0685 Oslo, Norway; Phone: 46 733 37 [email protected] 0057; klofthus @musicetc.org. JAMAICA -Elena Oumano, 51 MacDougal St., Herb Forgie, who now works as a Negotiations concerning what roy- proach reflects the fact that a music AUSTRALASIA BUREAU CHIEF Suite 180, New York, N.Y. 10012, USA; Phone: music industry consultant, following alties stations should pay for the right station should pay more than a talk - 1 212 477 0222; Fax: 1 212 533 3862. Christie Eliezer, Ace Media International, Music Canada, says, to broadcast music have been ongoing back station. "The radio industry's 32 Eaglemont Crescent, Eaglemont, Vic- MALAYSIA-Steven Patrick, No. 7, SS 3/26, Petal - 18 years at Warner toria, Australia 3084; Phone: 61 39 459 ing Jaya, Selangor 47300; Phone: 60 37 876 "My advice is to network immediate- for 21/2 years with the voluntary code for play- 100566.3372 @compuserve.com. 9416; steve @thestar.com.my. 3188; ly." left last year, he RBA, which represents ing more New Zealand MEXICO -Teresa Aguilera, Providencia #1111-1, When Forgie there Col. Del Valle, 03100 Mexico D.F;Phone: 011 INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENTS was director of marketing and promo- the country's leading music looks set to in- 525 559 2627; tereaguilera_2000Cayahoo ARGENTINA-Marcelo Fernandez Bitar Charcas the royalty pool .com.mx. tion for its domestic, international, and commercial stations. The crease 3397, 6 "A," Buenos Aires, 1425; Phone: 54 11 NETHERLANDS-Jennifer Dempsey, Korte Leidsed- retain for New Zealand music 4772 9494: [email protected]. classical divisions. "As long as you're RBA had wished to warsstraat 35 -C, Amsterdam; Phone: 0031 20 AUSTRIA-Susan Ladika-Schuhmayer, Leystrasse writers," Chunn says. 421 2065; [email protected]. quick to say you are not looking for the status quo, but the 2- 8/8/73, 1200 Vienna; Phone: 43 1 334 9608; NEW ZEALAND -David McNickel, P.O. Box 10, 266 like two bodies last week an- "Coupled with the new [email protected]. work and would just to spend time Dominion Road, Auckland; Phone: 64 9 634 BELGRIM -Marc Maes, Kapeistraat 41, 2040 Antwerp; people, they will keep in nounced a new agree- tariffs, New Zealand 8969; source @iprolink.co.nz. talking with Phone: 32 3 568 8082; [email protected]. PANAMA-Anastacio Puertas Cafeedo, San Migueli- contact with you. Try to get your ment -with immediate music writers stand to BRAZIL -Tom Comes, Rua Cleide No. 55, Sao to Paraiso, calle h casa 8 -20, Panama; Phone: 50 Paolo, 04616 -010; Phone: 55 11 5531 2155. résumé in front of them, and then see effect-that will see roy- see a greater -and 7 267 19 36; anastaciopuerta @terra.com.ar. CANADA-Larry LeBlanc, 15 Independence Drive, PUERTO RICO -Randy Luna, Calle Cristobal Colon if you fit into their world." alties determined by the many would say more Scarborough, Ontario, MIK 3R7; Phone: 416 #1 Interior Caguas, PR 00725; Phone: 787 -636- 265 3277; LJLE @aolcom. Former Sony Music Canada direc- level of a station's music fair -return on their 7717; [email protected] CHILE -Sergio Fort-olio, Eliodoro Yáñez 1783, SINGAPORE-Nazir Husain, Block 7, Everton Park, tor of artist marketing Amber Mered- content. The tariff for a creative work." Providencia, Santiago de Chile; Phone: 562 737 No. 03 -23. 080007 Singapore; Phone: 65 224 David Innes 880; [email protected]. ith, who left that company after five station with music content between RBA executive director 2217; [email protected]. COLOMBIA--Gustavo Gomez, Calle 105 No. 30 -67, and 49.9% of will now be admits that the deal was the result of SOUTH AFRICA -Diane Coetzer, Suite 217, Post - years in 2001 and now manages Crash 0% airtime Bogota; Phone: 011 57 1 3387045; gomezcd@hot- net X11, Craighall 2024, Gauteng; Phone/Fax: 1% for a a long, drawn -out negotiation. "We mail.com. Test Dummies singer Ellen Reid, says: of gross advertising revenue; 27 11 442 7954; [email protected]. CZECH REPUBLIC -Mark Andress, Londynska 8, lay- station with 50% or more music, the thought there was a strong case for no SOUTH KOREA -Louis Hau, Yongsan -gu, Ichon 1- "There's a grieving process when Praha 2,120 00; Phone: 42 02 22 51 4098; man - dong 300 -10, Junbo Apartments, No. 808, Seoul; will be 2.6% of ad revenue. change at all," he says. "The final out- [email protected]. offs happen, but afterwards, it's rate Phone: 82 2792 1195; touishau0:yahoo.com. DENMARK -Charles Ferro, Hardangergade 4, Ith, important for people to know what Under the old system, the rates come is more than we wanted to pay SPAIN -Howell Llewellyn. Modesto Lafuente 6, 5A, DK 2100 Copenhagen; Phone: 45 3369 0701; Phone/Fax: 2429; how - before they pick up the were 2.3% for FM stations and 2% for and less than APRA wanted to charge, [email protected]. 28010 Madrid; 34 91 593 they want FINLAND-Jonathan Mander, Nylandsgata 33B, 14, [email protected]. phone and make calls." AM broadcasters. When those tariffs so it is probably a reasonable deal." FI -00120 Helsinki; Phone: 35 8 9612 3008; SWEDEN -Jeffrey de Hart, Mörbygárden 63, SE- Most former label executives agree were agreed to in 1984, FM stations The deal only covers RBA mem- jm @paperjam.to. 186 32 Vallentuna; Phone: 46 70 405 1030; FRANCE-Milané Karg52RuedelaVenaie ,75004Pari.* [email protected]. they did little to plan their managerial tended to have a higher music quo- bers; APRA has separate royalty TAIWAN Culpan, 147 -1, IF, Lane 600, Alley Phone: 33 1 48 87 15 99; bourrer@ club-intemetfr. -Tim careers. As Meredith notes, "Because it tient than AM outlets. agreements with state broadcaster 76, Wu-hsing Street, Taipei. Phone: 88 692 218 Joanna Shore, 6 Bd. Jean Mermoz, 9200 Neuilly; is such an all -consuming business, The new agreement provides Radio New Zealand and some small- Phone: 33 6 76 04 54 69: joanna.s@club-intemetfr. 0935; [email protected] GERMANY -Ellie Weinert, Will.-Dull Strasse 9, THAILAND -Andrew Hiransomboon, 904/232 5V many people spend time doing one another broadcasting boost for New er commercial operators. Chunn says 80638 Munich; Phone: 49 89 157 3250; City Rama Ill Road, Yannawa, Bangkok, 10120. thing and doing it as well as they can." Zealand artists; in April, the RBA no other new royalty deals are el I [email protected]. Phone: 66 02 240 3700; [email protected]. Kulawick notes, "Few record com- agreed to apply a voluntary local planned at present.

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BY STEVE TRAIMAN bag and CD -R 10 -pack (retail $7). computers has won high marks for NEW YORK -In -home and auto An array of Dataplay hardware and performance. Now, Mediafour presi- hardware for downloading, re- initial software from Universal Music dent Brian Landwehr reports that his cording, and /or playing digital Group, BMG, and EMI was demon- company has released its XPlay soft- music is becoming available at more strated at Dataplay media supplier ware at $29.95 suggested retail, music and video retailers, which Imation's booth. The launch of the which makes the iPod a tightly inte- continue their transformation into innovative new technology-a quar- grated peripheral for Windows PCs. total entertainment destinations. ter- sized, 500 MB optical disc able Based on the company's MacDrive Many of those devices were on dis- to store four CD- quality albums or technology, which lets PC users open play at the recent TechExpo at Javits up to 11 hours of MP3 files -is set and save files on Mac discs, XPlay Convention Center and at separate for Aug. 26. Included were Dataplay- makes the iPod appear to users as press events around New York. Includ- enabled recorder/players from iRiv- both a portable music player and a ed were Escient Convergence's FireBall er, Evolution/MTV, and Musical for normal hard drive. digital -music system, audible.com's Circuit City, plus drives from Hyon "Integration with Windows Ex- partnership with Roxio to bum down- Won and several other Asian ven- plorer makes it easy to access and loaded audiobooks, Teac's Mini CD/ dors. "It's the only new technology manipulate songs, playlists, and MP3 Player, Casio's Exilim Digital Cam- to bring consumers into stores for albums," marketing manager Megan era with MP3 Player, Kyocera's Smart - the holidays," Imation marketing Keene points out. phone with MP3 player, Olympus' Dig- manager Jane Payfer predicts. "We're Perhaps the biggest impact on the ital Voice Recorder/MP3 Player, Xitel's working on a number of chain -spe- digital music market is provided by Hi -Fi Link, Verbatim's 48x CD -R cific integrated displays." the Verbatim subsidiary of Mitsubishi recordable blanks, and the first Data - Chemical. The firm's patented Super play- enhanced hardware production ARRAY OF NEW SOFTWARE Azo technology was reformulated to prototypes. New audio software runs the produce DataLifePlus 48x- certified The MP3 revolution began less gamut from prosumer to consumer CD -R discs. "Each disc can burn a full than four years ago with the October interest, giving retailers some 700 MB of data -or 80 minutes of 1998 debut of the first Rio player, and broad options for high- margin CD- quality music -in about two this year alone the Consumer Elec- impulse items. minutes," product manager Dean of Their IPod. Mediafour marketing manager Megan Keene shows how tronics Assn. (CEA) is forecasting Apple SmartSound Sonicfire Pro's new Linker says. The new discs already new XPlay software lets Windows PC users access and manipulate Apple iPod by lead- 1 at an versions for both Windows and Mac have been tested and certified sales of nearly million units MP3 player files. (Photo: Steve Traiman) average $118 retail. At the same time, computers allow for the quick and ing 48x computer drive manufactur- the CEA estimates that about 45% of efficient creation of customized ers and are available at street prices of all households have CD- burning listen to CD- quality sound with a relations director Jon Korzen notes. music and sound -effects soundtracks, 99 cents for a single disc or $8.99 for capability, mostly on their PCs. stereo headset and remote. Slightly "Costco will be testing our subscrip- operations director Sharon Morgan a 10 -pack. bigger than a credit card and about a tion program at eight stores later this notes. There are 43 content CDs - "It's a mix -and -match culture," PRODUCTS FOR EVERY BUDGET half -inch wide, Casio's Exilim EX -MI summer." Roxio corporate commu- each $129 suggested list -and the CEA senior industry analyst Sean At the higher end of the market, digital camera has 12 MB of internal nications manager Kathryn Kelly basic software package at $349 Wargo emphasizes. "Consumers Escient's FireBall system ($1,999 sug- memory. "It will be available this adds: "Our new partnership will pro- includes two CDs. "It's all licensed desire and need to interact with their gested retail) identifies, burns, cata- month for $349 [suggested retail] at vide a software solution to Audible - music," she says, "acquired from music, rather than be limited to radio logs, and manages both CDs and dig- Sam's Club and Fry's," business Manager to allow audible.com mem- Music Bakery, Sound Ideas, and airplay or prerecorded media. MP3 ital -music files, with a CD -R/RW drive director Gary Schultz says, "with an bers to burn downloaded audiobooks Nightingale Music, among others, players were just the first stage of a for copies at six -times normal speed. MP3 player, movie player with sound, to most CD -R/RW drives." and it's sold royalty- free." larger trend toward portability of The 40 GB hard drive, with corn - and voice recorder." Olympus DM -1 Australia -based Xitel supplies a Apple's iPod MP3 player for its Mac music content." pression, provides up to 700 hours of Digital Voice Recorder with MP3 range of PC- to-MiniDisc connectivi- music and works with a wide variety Player ($199 suggested retail) ty interfaces to Sony, managing of leading changer brands. Esciant includes WOW software by SRS and a director Barry Davis notes. At a senior VP Cat Fowler says that this 64 MB SmartMedia Card to store and $49.95 estimated street price, HiFi- June, FireBall added free access to 60 play up to an hour of CD- quality MP3 Link is a simple hardware unit that Sirius satellite radio stations, in addi- or WMA audio. plugs into any USB port on a com- tion to the 40 already being carried. The biggest exit from the digital puter and into the RCA inputs of any Toshiba "technical evangelist" music market is a result of the recent stereo system. It then processes dig- Brian Foster demonstrated the Mag- Hewlett -Packard (HP) /Compaq ital audio directly from the USB with- nia SG20 Wireless Media Center, merger. "After careful review during out any signal degradation, allowing which lets users mix and match the integration planning process," an consumers to turn their computers stored albums and digital, WMA, and HP spokesperson says, "the new HP into powerful hi -fi components. MP3 files to create personal playlists. has chosen to discontinue its digital Offered with 15, 30, or 60 GB hard entertainment line. This includes the TWO NEW TECHNOLOGIES drives, it is priced between $1,400 HP Digital Entertainment Center Late last year, Teac introduced its and $2,100. A Voyetra Turtle Beach [introduced one year ago at $999 and proprietary format Mini CD /MP3 Audiotron "discless digital music $1,099], the Compaq iPAQ Music Player, which product development player" ($299 suggested retail) allows Center, portable MP3 audio players, marketing manager Scott Ehrlich the stored music to be played on dig- and CD players." describes as "a new way to deal with ital music systems, home theater On the more affordable side, audi- MP3, with our eight- centimeter Mini setups, or computers. ble.com introduced its Otis digital CD -R offering 200 MB capacity for Kyocera's new 7135 Smartphone audio player. "It's free with an 18- about 210 minutes of MP3 music." ($500 -$600 suggested retail) has month subscription to our audiobook Available at CompUSA, Fry's, and Audible Offerings. Roxio corporate communications manager Kathryn Kelly, 16 MB of download program, $59 with a one - J &R, among others, the player with Palm PDA functions and left, and Audible public- relations director Jon Korzen preview an Otis digital is memory, with an onboard MP3 play- month purchase, or $199 with no Sennheiser earbuds $89.95 sug- audiobook player and Roxio "burning" software. (Photo: Steve Traiman) er that enables users to download and commitment," audible.com public gested retail or $129.95 with a carry

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42 www.billboard.com BILLBOARD AUGUST 3,2002 www.americanradiohistory.com Applause CEO Acquires Djangos Assets

BY MATTHEW BENZ from New York firm Christman Peters & Madden who has NEW YORK-Alan Brown, CEO of St. Paul, Minn., retail been advising Djangos) had said that the combined firm chain Applause Music and a leading investor in CD Ware- would be profitable. (CD Warehouse has 234 separately a house, has acquired for $1 million the assets of bankrupt owned franchise stores that were not part of the deal.) Portland, Ore., retailer Djangos.com. Founded in 1999, Wood has described Djangos as "a small, According to Brown, there were no other bidders for all developmental -stage company" in need of balance -sheet of Djangos' assets, though other parties were said to be repair. Djangos made its initial $1- per -share offer for CD TM interested in parts of the business. Djangos' lawyer con- Warehouse last October (Billboard, Oct 27, 2001). Later that Track or firms the sale; Djangos executives did not return calls. month, the purchase price was raised to $1.50 per share, BOLSTERING THE BRITS: In order to understanding the U.S. market. The purchase, via U.S. Bankruptcy $5.49 million. Following the offer, the highlight its Best of the British pro- There are key differences in mar- Court in Oregon, gives Brown the djan- letter of intent was twice extended to give motion, the Virgin Entertainment keting music here vs. in the U.K. that gos.com Web site, as well as stores Djangos time to secure the financing it Group (VEG) held a seminar for the British bands have to be aware of in under various names in Portland, Seat- agnies needed for the purchase. However, those entertainment media on how British order to attack the American market tle, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Chica- sdjan funds never materialized, and Djangos music has been faring in the U.S. of appropriately, said Bill Diggins, pres- go. Brown, who has eight stores in the filed for bankruptcy, citing the need for late. And as readers know, the British ident of Diggit! Entertainment Man- livin Cities area, says he intends to keep what Wood called "breathing room from aren't doing so well on the Billboard agement. For example, he said that Djangos' Web site and stores running creditors that are applying pressure." charts (Billboard, Sept. 9, 2000). the U.K. only requires a marketing under their current names. CD Warehouse apparently will have a "going concern" Mike Cohen, the director of the U.K. campaign of six weeks, and "you know As of April 1, Brown also owned a roughly 14% stake in warning in its next filing with the Securities and Exchange government trade board, kicked off the by the first day if it will make it. Here CD Warehouse, which recently indicated a need for a "sub- Commission, as the company has issued a statement saying event by announcing that it is opening it takes 30 weeks to a year and a con- stantial capital injection" to stay afloat. He declined to that two situations threaten the chain's longevity (Billboard an office in New York to help facilitate certed effort between [band] manage- comment on CD Warehouse's situation. Bulletin, July 18). CD Warehouse says its lender, GE Capital, U.K. music getting exposure here. ment and the record label" to have a A proposed acquisition of CD Warehouse by Djangos fell amended the loan agreement covenants and reappraised the Virgin is doing its share. For exam- chance of getting a hit. He added, apart earlier this year when Djangos filed for bankruptcy in chain's inventory, reducing the amount available under the ple, senior VP of product and mar- "Usually, the U.K. management team March. At the time, Djangos executives insisted the merg- loan by $1 million and leaving the company maxed out on keting Dave Alder says the chain doesn't understand the U.S." er deal could still be salvaged. Company chairman/CEO its revolver. Also, lawsuits from franchisees seeking to ter- Steve Wood described the bankruptcy filing as "an oppor- minate their agreements are hurting the company finan- tunity to regroup, [which] actually could potentially cially; $175,000 was garnished from its accounts to pay an enhance the opportunity to get a deal done with CD Ware- outstanding judgment; a further $460,000 in royalty pay- house." CD Warehouse chairman/CEO Christopher Salyer ments is to be paid out, pending resolution of another suit. had also expressed interest in seeing the deal completed. In a statement, CD Warehouse says, "The combination of The premise of the merger was that djangos.com's e- these events has intensified the need for a substantial capi- commerce business would complement CD Warehouse's tal injection to meet [our] current debts and obligations." retail presence, which consists of some 47 stores selling new and used CDs. Geoffrey Madden (the investment banker Additional reporting by Ed Christman in New York.

Bringing R.O.C.K. to the U.S.A. Pictured at the VEG seminar, from left, are Diggit! Entertainment Management president Bill Diggins, Andy Cox from the band Crib - abi, Palm Pictures GM Paul DeGooyer, Revolver Records managing director Paul Birch, VEG senior VP of product and marketing Dave Alder, V2 head of sales Jim Are you with Kelly, and Capitol Records VP of field sales Joy Feuer. th, ' r IINF -STOP chose to promote the Doves recently Capitol Records VP of field sales Joy instead of a sure shot like Red Hot Fleur said the importance of under- Chili Peppers. That choice "is invest- standing the U.S. market can't be AEC is the place to be ing in the future," he said. "It's about underestimated. "Radiohead manage- risk-taking. Retail has a big part to ment came out here for a week every The most experienced plies stall in tile II h Istr play in breaking bands." single month to educate themselves And quality music is exactly what the on the U.S." and then educated the Competitive l'ricir)g British offer, V2 head of sales Jim Kelly band on what to expect. says. "There is an incredible resurgence Cover. 245,000 titles on CD alone. in wonderfully compelling music com- GOOD NEWS: Tower Records has ing out of the U.K. that needs to be announced that it has found the final Complete selection of D"D and v'HS heard and seen. [If that can happen], piece needed to refinance the compa- America will embrace it," he said. ny. Tower will get a $26 million loan Largest selection of accessories from any one -stop Paul Birch, managing director of from a syndicate of banks led by JP Revolver Records and chairman of the Morgan Chase, in addition to the $125 Award winning \\ CCkly magazines Wiped and rabusiir British Phonographic Industry Inter- million revolving credit facility from with ottr AMU and online With DDR national Committee, argued that the CIT Group /Business Credit (Retail Electronic orders disc main reason that U.K. bands aren't Track, Billboard, July 6). The loan was Our Turn-Key lentil \Vet:site Solution making it here has nothing to do with needed to close the gap between the understanding the market and every- expected $124 million generated by thing to do with trade barriers. "The the sale of Tower Japan to Tokyo -based Americans have created barriers," he Nikko Principal Investments, which is stated. "First the barriers were against expected to close Aug. 15, and the New Accounts Call: parallel imports, [which lasted for a amount owed on the chain's old re- while before they were disengaged]. volver with a syndicate of banks also 800-635-9082 But now there are new barriers. One led by JP Morgan Chase, which comes Fax: 954-340-7641 year ago, the American State Depart- due after receiving a couple of exten- or visit us on the vNet) at: 12 15. The ment said musicians have to wait sions to Sept. refinancing V % %'.dent.COCTI weeks [to get touring visas] or pay gives Tower time to start generating $1,000 per head. If American bands some serious cash flow, which will U.K., it's free and a eventually be needed because all of its want to tour the AEC locaticns: CD One Stop, Bethel, CT B3ssin Distributors, Coral Springs, FL Abbey Road, LC Atlanta seven -day wait." debt now comes due in April -May Philadelphia Los Angeles (3) Sacrament Thousand Oaks inr Madison San Diego Ctarlotte Chicago Milwaukee Denver Columbus Nashville (2) Tampa/St. Pete Lake Tahoe Wood and, CA This was one of many examples he 2005 -the term loan and the new 4 provided, but the rest of the panelists revolver in April and $110 million in disagreed, saying that it came down to debentures in May.

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BY CATHERINE APPLEFELD OISON variety of appeal to several markets." kids who are just being introduced to Though silver and gold are the col- White notes that the two initial them, college students, and adults. ors most often associated with big releases were selected for their It's a great brand." This.. anniversaries, the entertainment episodic content, as well as the appeal The 27 -song disc contains original industry is seeing green as it em- of their guest stars. Featured episodes songs from The Muppet Show and STAR -STUDDED OPENER: The 21st Sell -through title of the year by a braces the 25th anniversary of The include appearances by Julie An- Muppets feature films, some of which annual Video Software Dealer's Assn. major. Shrek (DreamWorks). Muppet Show. drews, Elton John, Mark Hamill, and have never been released on CD (VSDA) convention at the Rio Hotel & Sell -through title of the year by an Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Paul Simon. and /or have been out of print for Casino in Las Vegas kicked off with the independent: The Sopranos, seasons Fozzie, and company, who first won Columbia thus far has released all almost a decade. The Rhino team is presentation of the inaugural Freedom one and two (HBO). the hearts of U.S. and U.K. TV audi- six of the Muppets feature films, also compiling extensive liner notes, of Expression Award to comedian Special-edition DVD of the year The ences in September 1976, have been including the most recent movie, including a 36 -page booklet written George Carlin. The ceremonies also Godfather DVD Collection (Paramount). the subject of a campaign lasting more Muppets in Space, as well as select by a noted Henson historian. included the presentation of the Ris- Best VHS and DVD packaging: Pearl than a year orchestrated by the Jim Muppets specials. White also says the "It's definitely the most elaborate ing Star of the Year Award to Selma Harbor (Touchstone/Buena Vista). Henson Co. The strategy stretches company will probably bring addi- packaging there's been for a Muppets Blair and the Action Star of the Mil- into the entertainment release," DeGraff says. lennium Award to Sylvester Stallone. SPIDER-MAN SET TO SOAR: Columbia and merchandising "We wanted it to be Carlin told Billboard that he is a TriStar Home Entertainment announ- realms and includes the definitive collec- supporter of home video, likening it to ced at VSDA that the home -video re- the release of new and tion. We wanted to do the early music industry. "When I first lease of box -office smash SpiderMan nostalgic video pro- it right." started making LPs, it was a way of is set for Nov. 1, and the title will be gramming, as well as Grounding the vid- having a semi -permanent [record of backed by the company's largest pro- the development of a eo and audio releases my material]," he says. "[Home video] motional campaign ever. The film will new weekly Muppets is the tremendous fan is just another form of this. It is nice be available on VHS, as a two -disc DVD, TV series. awareness the Mup- to own your stuff." and as a limited- edition DVD gift set. "Our objective with pets have main- During the opening ceremonies, the anniversary pro- tained throughout VSDA president Bo Andersen praised gram is to help plat- the years. "We've had the studios' courage in launching the form the launch for 96% awareness as a DVD format five years ago. He received new [Muppets] con- property all along. The enthusiastic audience response for his tent," says Michael awareness is huge," comment that copyright protection Polis, Jim Henson Co. Polis says. "But there still needs to be switched on. Also gar- senior VP of marketing are so many different nering applause was his statement that worldwide and head of programs running studios need to aggressively price VHS home entertainment. now that will enhance and maintain VHS stock. "The worst -case sce- the brand even more." The future of VHS was discussed nario is that we have a during the panel "DVD & VHS -Bal- fantastic program that STILL RELEVANT ancing the Product Mix." The retailers helps invigorate the Muppet Mania. Jim Henson Co. is celebrating the Muppets' 25th Indeed, Muppet focused on whether they should carry anniversary with such initiatives as VHS/DVD releases and a new TV Muppet brand. And if characters from Miss both widescreen and fullscreen DVDs. series that is currently in development. we achieve what we set Piggy to Pepe the Technicolor Home Entertainment Ser- Swinging Into Action. The VHS/DVD out to do, we end up Shrimp are making vices senior VP of worldwide sales Paul debut of Spider-Man is backed by a $100 million -plus advertising campaign. having a new ongoing television tional Best of the Muppet Show titles advertising appearances for proper- Scott seemed to be the sole VHS sup- series, too." to retail in the future, though no spe- ties from NASCAR to Virgin At- porter, presenting these statistics: cific plans have been made yet. lantic Airlines to Long John Silvers VCRs are in 96% of homes (with 60% The two -disc DVD, available in wide - MUPPETS GO MULTI -MEDIA Adding to its Muppets canon, and Denny's restaurants. As a tes- of those homes having two or more screen or fullscreen with differential While the anniversary campaign Columbia will release the new, direct - tament to the characters' appeal to VCRs), and more VHS cassettes were packaging, will include such extras as has been building for nearly a year, to -VHS ($19.95)/DVD ($27.96) Ker- young adults, whimsical rock band duplicated in the first half of 2002 than pop-on production notes and historical the video and music industries will mit's Swamp Years Sept. 3, a look Weezer invited the Muppets to in the same period last year. facts; director, visual -effects designer, throw their hats into the ring in back at Kermit's childhood that is appear in its new video for the song During the "DVD: The Extras and and producer commentary; music earnest this fall, with VHS and DVD hosted by the seasoned amphibian. "Keep Fishin'." the Future of DVD Programming" videos of "Hero" by Chad Kroeger Fea- releases on tap from Columbia'Il-iStar The DVD contains a bloopers /out- Columbia will do its part to bolster panel, representatives from Artisan, turing Josey Scott and `What We're All and a new commemorative album takes section, audio commentaries, awareness beginning in early October New Line, Fox, and Buena Vista debat- About" by Sum 41; and a DVD -ROM from Rhino Records. and trailers. with a campaign that will promote its ed whether extras were directly relat- comic book to feature comparison and Columbia, which picked up rights "We cut a pretty wide swath in family product- including the Mup- ed to sales. Fox senior VP of market- countdown to Spider -Man 2 feature. to the Henson home entertainment terms of customer-age demograph- pets titles and such other Henson ing Peter Staddon told Billboard that The gift set includes the widescreen ver- library in 1997, will bring two Best ics," says Polis, who served as exec- properties as Bear in the Big Blue VHS "took the theatrical experience sion of the film, a reprint of the first Mar- of the Muppet Show collections to utive producer on the title. "We cre- House -on 8 million General Mills and shrunk it down to fit the television vel comic featuring Spider-Man, and a retail for the first time Sept. 3 ated that piece to appeal to kids cereal boxes. screen. With DVD, you add extras and collectable film cell from the movie. ($14.95 VHS, $24.95 DVD). Until [aged] 7 -11 and parents with young While the nostalgia mill is working features that enhance the experience. Columbia executive VP of worldwide now, the titles -which contain three children who grew up with The overtime, the Jim Henson Co. is also The question that came up is, When is marketing Lexine Wong says that the classic episodes each -have been Muppet Show." looking ahead to new ventures. The enough enough, and when is too title is being released on a Friday to sold only via direct response as part The wide demographic appeal of Muppets' first made -for -TV movie is in much too much? I don't think you can "capitalize on an extra weekend of sell- of a Muppets TV campaign orches- the Muppets -Polis says the target early production and is slated to air in have a hard -and -fast rule on that." ing time. This will also capitalize on trated by Time -Life. audience for the property these days prime time on NBC around the holi- The convention closed with the Halloween and possible midnight -mad- "The direct -response campaign was is "0 to 99 " -is also driving Rhino's days. Additionally, Jim Henson Co. Home Entertainment Awards, deter- ness events that retailers may have." a really successful one for Time -Life, The Muppets 25th Anniversary Cele- and Team Todd Productions are devel- mined by ballots sent to regular VSDA The partners involved in the film's and the videos have had so much bration-Who Let the Frogs Out, set oping a weekly prime -time variety members. Eligible videos had to be re- theatrical campaign (Cingular Wireless, exposure on television. So we thought for release Sept. 17. show in the vein of the original Mup- leased between Dec. 1, 2000, and Dr Pepper, and Carl's JrJHardee's) will it was the right time to bring them to "Our target audience is really pet Show for the Fox Television Net- March 31, 2002. The winners include: renew efforts for the retail release. The retail," Columbia director of market- across the board," says Craig DeGraff, work. Although the creators "don't Rental title of the year by a major company's $100 million -plus campaign ing Suzanne White says. "They really A &R /preproduction manager at have a final concept nor a target date The Fast and the Furious (Universal). includes ads on national TV networks, remind consumers of the great nos- Rhino. "One of the really great things yet," according to Polis, the series will Rental title of the year by an inde- mall kiosks, and bus shelters; special- talgia of the show, and they have a about the Muppets is they appeal to likely hit the airwaves in 2003. pendent Thaffic (USA). ized radio buys; and outdoor billboards.

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A hybrid of and Nelly is enjoying the long, sultry summer of 2002. He is pictured, left, at the fashion York. 212-258-8000. video shoot for the single with comedian Cedric the Entertainer. tion only). entertainment, the event will ben- Nov. 5, Christian Country Music efit the Children's Cancer Re- SEPTEMBER search Fund and the Art Institute Sept. 12 -14, National Assn. of of Chicago. In addition to a fash- Broadcasters Radio Show, Wash- "Just a Little Bit." His music is covers for records by George Jones ion and magic show, the evening ington State Convention and Trade cited as a major influence on and Tammy Wynette and toured will feature live entertainment by Center, Seattle. 800 -342 -2460. Jamaica's early ska musicians. He with Loretta Lynn as her personal new singer /songwriter Kina. The Sept. 12 -14, Third Annual Am- released his last album, Memphis, photographer. Before turning his event can be seen Aug. 2 at the ericana Music Assn. Conference, Tennessee, in 2000 on Canada's lens on musicians, Lawson was Historic State Theatre in Min- Hilton Suites, Nashville. 615- Stony Plain Records. one himself, playing upright bass neapolis and Aug. 9 at the Chica- 340 -9596. with Boots Randolph and on The go Theatre. Contact: Jackie Schut- Sept. 12 -15, Second Annual BIRTHS David R. Carter, 49, of a heart Ralph Emery Show. He is survived ty at 612- 375 -3617. Huntsville South Music Confer- livin boys, Roman and Nyro Shaw attack, July 19 in Northampton, by his son, daughter, brother, and ence, Von Braun Civic Center, Child, to Curtis Shaw and Desmond Mass. Carter was an award -win- two grandchildren. In lieu of flow- CELEBRATE LEARNING: Rapper Huntsville, Ala. 256- 722 -3150. Child, May 8 in Miami Beach. Child ning songwriter /performer. Ad- ers, contributions may be made to Ludacris will visit the Boys & Girls Sept. 18, Third Annual Latin is a Grammy Award -nominated mirers of his songwriting includ- St. Jude Children's Research Hos- Club of Decatur, Ill., Aug. 24 to dis- songwriter /producer. ed Joan Baez, who used several of pital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, cuss the benefits of staying in Solution to this issue's puzzle (page 68) his songs in her act. In 1997, he Tenn. 38105. school. Going to School Is Cool,

G U M P P A S T E D B I B A girl, Sara Michelle Hall, to Michelle joined Tracy Grammer in a musi- sponsored by the Decatur Boys & E S A I E L T O R O E S E and Mark Hall, July 12 in Hender- cal partnership (Grammer was also "Little" Jimmy King, 35, of un- Girls Club and Hope Records, aims L E D Z E P P E L I N T A N sonville, Tenn. Father is CEO of Fame his real -life partner), and the duo known causes, July 21 in Memphis. to discourage students from drop- E Z R A V E E C O A L Music and Muscle Shoals Records. gained international prominence Born Manuel Gales, the blues ping out of high school rate A N O A R L E T S D A N C E -the S U V S A O E R A S E with three recordings on the Sig- singer /guitarist was the brother of for dropouts is currently 65% in A M E R N O B B I E R DEATHS nature Sounds label. In addition to Eric and Eugene Gales of the Eric Decatur-with the back -to- school B R E A K M Y S T R I D E Rosco Gordon, 74, of a heart attack, Grammer, Carter is survived by his Gales Band. As a member of Albert celebration, which includes an E R A S July 11 in Queens, N.Y. R &B pio- father, stepmother, and sister. King's band in the late '80s, he opening parade, basketball tourna- L I T D H L I S A S P neer Gordon recorded during the became the veteran blues guitarist's ment, street -talk discussion, a fash- T H E P O L I C E U N F E D

R I V E A N A S L O T '50s for the Chess, Duke, Modern, Wilmer E. "Slick" Lawson, 65, of protégé and later cut four fiery al- ion show, a car and talent showcase, A L I C L U B N O U V E A U Vee -Jay, and Sun labels, scoring heart failure, June 22 in Nashville. bums for Rounder Records' Bullseye and community organization infor- P I T M A R L O N I R I S hits with "Booted," "No More Dog - A photographer for numerous Blues imprint that updated his men- mation tables. Contact: Michelle S P Y T W E© S O S L O T gin' " and the blues/R &B evergreen, musicians, Lawson shot the album tor's soulful style. "Hope" Tyus at 217 -422 -9616.

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EMINEM, WITHOUT ME I CHAD KROEGER, HERO 1 AMERIE WHY DON'T WE FALL IN LOVE TOBY KEITH. COURTESY OF THE RED, WHITE & BLUE Showbiz.. r- SOAK UP THE SUN NELLY, HOT IN HERRE DIXIE CHICKS, LONG TIME GONE NELLY, HOT IN HERRE SHERYL CROW, 1 NO DOUBT, HELLA GOOD ASHANTI, HAPPY KENNY CHESNEY,THE GOOD STUFF AVRIL LAVIGNE, COMPLICATED SWEET HIP -HOP MOVIE: Occasionally, and I always saw it as music to enjoy. EAT WORLD, THE MIDDLE 4 UL BOW WOW, BASKETBALL DARRYL WORLEY, I MISS MY FRIEND BRITNEY SPEARS, BOYS JIMMY NO SUCH THING a feature film about I never realized until I did this film MARIO, JUST A FRIEND MARTINA MCBRIDE WHERE WOULD YOU BE B21L GOTS TA BE JOHN MAYER, Hollywood makes LUDACRIS. MOVE B^H ALAN JACKSON, DRIVE (FOR DADDY GENET BIG TYMERS, STILL FLY PINK, JUST LIKE A PILL the hip -hop industry in hopes that the that there are people who live and TO YOU MINOGUE LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT DIRTY VEGAS, DAYS GO BY IRV GOm PRESENTS THE INC, DOWN 4 U BROOKS & DUNN, MY HEART IS LOST KYUE fans and crit- breathe hip -hop and take it so seri- KHIA MY NECK, MY BACK 9 LEE ANN WOMACK SOMETHING WORTH LEAVING BEHIND IRV GOT11 PRESENTS THE INC., DOWN 4 U AEROSMITH, GIRLS OF SUMMER movie will connect with BY THE WAY 9 EMINEM, WITHOUT ME 9 TRACE ADKINS, HELP ME UNDERSTAND EVE GANGSTA LOVIN REO HOT CHIU PEPPERS, ics. Sometimes it's an intentional ously that they feel they're nothing TB TRUTH HURTS, ADDICTIVE 10 WIW E NELSON, MARIA (SHUT UP AND KISS ME) MARIO, JUST A FRIEND :0 CREED, ONE LAST BREATH ,1 DADDY WASN'T THERE satire gets mixed reviews (like the without [it]." n MUSIO, HALFCRAZY It KEWE COFFEY. WHEN YOU LIE NEXT TO ME WEEZEB, KEEP FISHIN' MING TEA, that :7 MORISSETTE PRECIOUS ILLUSIONS V FAITH EVANS, BURNIN' UP 12 MONTGOMERY GENTRY, MY TOWN ENRIQUE IGLESIAS, DON'T TURN OFF THE LIGHTS ALAN'S 1993 Chris Rock vehicle CB4), and Supporting actors in Brown Sugar 73 N.O.R.E., NOTHIN 13 BLAKE SHELTON, DL' RED PINK, JUST LIKE A PILL OUR LADY PEACE SOMEWHERE OUT THERE its (who plays a I'M ALIVE sometimes just an embarrassing include Queen Latifah l4 UL WAYNE, WAY OF LIFE l4 PINMONKEY, BARBED WIRE AND ROSES KORN, THOUGHTLESS .4 CEUNE DION,

P. DIDDY& GINUWINE I NEED A GIRL (PART TWO) NORAH JONES, DON'T KNOW WHY 6 USHER. U DON'T HAVE TO CALL 15 LONESTAR, NOT A DAY GOES BY flop, like 1985's Krush Groove featur- friend of Sidney's) and Mos Def, who BAND, WHERE ARE YOU GOING 1G TWEET, CALL ME 18 BRAD PAISLEY I'M GONNA MISS HER AMERIE WHY DON'T WE FALL IN LOVE DAVE MATTHEWS to YOUR ing Run -D.M.C. and the Fat Boys. plays an aspiring rapper trying 17 CURSE GRINDIN 17 GARY ALLAN, THE ONE RED HOT CHID PEPPERS, BY THE WAY ANASTACIA, ONE DAY IN LIFE COUNTING CROWS, AMERICAN GIRLS 18 DAVE HOWSTER, KEEP LOVIN' YOU 16 DIAMOND RIO, BEAUTIFUL MESS VANESSA CARLTON, ORDINARY DAY But Brown Sugar, starring Taye maintain his integrity while seeking a THE CORRS, WHEN THE STARS GO BLUE 19 BEYONCE WORK IT OUT 15 KEITH URBAN, SOMEBODY UKE YOU UL BOW WOW, BASKETBALL Diggs and Sanaa Lathan, gets it right record deal. I ROCK YOU NEVER META MOTHER QUITE LIKE ME 20 WILL SMITH, BLACK SUITS COMIN' IN(10 YA HEAD( 20 REBECCA LYNN HOWARD, FORGIVE 3LW DO MANNA GET CLOSE TO YOU) KID VASSAR, AMERICAN CHILD PAPA ROACH. SHE LOVES ME NOT SHAKIRA. OBJECTION (TANGO) 21 DONELL JONES, YOU KNOW THAT I LOVE YOU 21 PHIL on most levels. The Fox Searchlight To prepare for his role, Diggs says, BEYONCE IT OUT S2 MS. JADE BIG HEAD L JO DEE MESSINA. DARE TO DREAM DIRTY VEGAS, DAYS GO BY WORK romantic drama/comedy, which opens "I watched some friends of mine in the a BRANDY. FULL MOON CYNDI THOMSON. I'M GONE SHAKIRA OBJECTION (TANGO) PINK DON'T LET ME GET ME WEEZER, KEEP FISHIN' P. 24 SURFACE, ON MY BLOCK 2' BRAD MARTIN, BEFORE I KNEW BETTER PAULINA RUBIO, DON'T SAY GOODBYE Oct. 11, is about two best friends since record industry. I even chatted with MCQUEEN 25 STYLES, GOOD TIMES 2' TIM MCGRAW, THE COWBOY IN ME BRANDY, FULL MOON SHERYL CROW. STEVE childhood -Dre (played by Diggs) and Diddy and told him that I wanted to ENRIQUE IGLESIAS, DON'T TURN OFF THE LIGHTS ANGIE MARTINEZ. IF I COULD GO 24 TOBY KEITH, MY LIST ASHANTI. HAPPY BRANDY, FULL MOON But 27 B2K, GOTS TA BE MARTINA MCBRIDE, BLESSED INCUBUS, WARNING Sidney (Lathan) -who share a lifelong follow him around for research. 20 JERZEE MONET MOST HIGH KENNY CHESNEY. YOUNG JENNIFER LOPEZ I'M GONNA BE ALRIGHT TOMMY LEE HOLD ME DOWN love of hip we didn't get the chance because of RAINY DAYZ -hop. 9 WYCLEF JEAN, TWO WRONGS 29 RASCAL FLATTS, I'M MOVIN' ON JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT , BARENAKEO MARY J. BUGS NO UNDERNEATH IT ALL I IN, I BREATHE OUT NOME.. NOTHIN' DOUBT. - scheduling conflicts." 20 P. DIDDY & GINUWINE I NEED A GIRL IPARTTWOI M CHRIS CAGLE. BREATHE Dre is an A &R executive at a hip FATBOY SUM, WEAPON OF CHOICE J1 R.L. A GOOD MAN ANDY GRIGGS. TONIGHT I WANNA BE YOUR MAN VINES, GET FREE hop label, while Sidney is a hip -hop With Diggs' musical background IT STANDING STILL 32 CAM'RON, OH BOY SOGGY BOTTOM BOYS, I AM A MAN OF CONSTANT SORROW NO DOUBT, UNDERNEATH ALL JEWEL TO FLY the 33 B. RICH, WHOA NOW 32 TRAVIS TRITE MODERN DAY BONNIE ANO CLYDE BOX CAR RACER, I FEEL SD FOO FIGHTERS, LEARN (he was part of the original cast of MATTHEWS BAND, EVERYDAY 34 TANK. ONE MAN 34 MONTGOMERY GENTRY, COLD ONE COMIN' ON OUR LADY PEACE SOMEWHERE OUT THERE DAVE Broadway hit Rent), has he ever DOLLS, HERE IS GONE 35 PIA/EA, DON'T MESS WITH MY MAN 39 TOBY KEITH, I WANNA TALK ABOUT ME JOHN MAYER, NO SUCH THING GOO G00 MOMENT "I've 29 SLUM VILLAGE TAINTED ADM KRAUSS& UNION STATION,IETMETDUCH YOU FORAWHIU MOBY, EXTREME WAYS UFEHOUSE HANGING BY A wanted to be a recording artist? 32 THE LIGHTHOUSE'S TALE UNKIN PARK, PTS.OFATHRTY (POINTS OF AUTHORITY( MADONNA DON'T TELL ME 37 P. DIDDY, I NEED A GIRL IPART ONE) NICKEL CREEK, thought about it, and the main rea- 31 ONYX SLAM HARDER 31 JO DEE MESSINA, BRING ON THE RAIN LUDACRIS, MOVE B`H TRAIN, DROPS OF JUPITER AT FIRST SIGHT I'm doing more acting is 39 JERMAINE DUPRI, WELCOME TO ATLANTA MARK CHESNUTT, SHE WAS WYCLEF JEAN, TWO WRONGS KYUE MINOGUE LOVE son why MF DEFAULT, WASTING MY TIME 10 MASTER P ROCK IT « STEVE AZAR, I DON'T HAVE TO BE ME TWEET, CALL because doors opened quicker for me NEW ONS NEW ONS FEEL IT BOY TRINA NO PANTIES KEITH URBAN, SOMEBODY LIKE YOU (LIVE) ANGIE MARTINEZ IF I COULD GO! BEENIE MAN, in this area." MY DONELL JONES, PUT ME DOWN DOLLY PARTON. DAGGER THROUGH THE HEART EMINEM, CLEANIN OUT CLOSET ELVIS PRESLEY VS JXL A LITTLE LESS CONVERSATION AUDIOVENT, THE ENERGY Fans will get to see more of Diggs' IF I FALL IN LOVE BEENIE MAN. FEEL IT BOY LENNY KRAVITZ COULD BEENIE MAN, FEEL IT BOY MUSIO, DONTCHANGE MOBY, EXTREME WAYS MONICA. ALL EYE ON ME musical talent on display when he is LATOIYA WILLIAMS, FALLEN STAR FILTER, WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE MR. BIGC, TRIAL TIME STYLES, GOOD TIMES featured in the Miramax film version

IT ALL 21 NATURE WHAT CHA KNOW EABOLOUS & P. DIDDY, TRADE IPART Dec. 25. TRICK DADDY, IN THE WINO of Chicago, due in theaters A SAMPLING OF PLAYLISTS SUBMITTED BY NATIONAL & LOCAL MUSIC VIDEO OUTLETS PTV: Although Diggs was unable to THE CLIP LIST FOR THE WEEK ENDING AUGUST 3, 2002 journalist. Their often complicated follow around Sean "P. Diddy" TV viewers will get the chance IA relationship is at the center of the film, Combs, WPC but Brown Sugar also addresses such to look into Combs' life as a music EUROPEI MTV reality nR,<1R,M.4d Ufa real -life music -industry issues as art mogul through the new Continuous programming Continuous programming Continuous programming Continuous programming vs. commerce and how greed and cyn- series Making the Band II. The half - 200 Jericho Quadrangle, Jericho, NY 11753 1515 Broadway, New York, NY 10036 Hawley Cressom, London NW16TT 9697 E. Mineral Ave., Englewood, CO90112 development hour weekly program, which pre- EVE. GANGSTA LOVIN' (NEW) RED HOT CHIU PEPPERS, BY THE WAY KELLIE COFFEY, WHEN YOU LIE NEXT TOME icism affect the artist- KYUE MINOGUE, LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT (NEWT EMINEM, WITHOUT ME DIXIE CHICKS, LONG TIME GONE Oct. 12, will follow the forma- NEW ELVIS PRESLEY VS JXL A LITTLE LESS CONVERSATION BROOKS & DUNN, MY HEART IS LOST TO YOU process. Get past the When Harry Met mieres [OVEN FRESH] PINK, DON'T LET ME GET ME GARY ALLAN, THE ONE AVRIL LAVIGNE, COMPUCATED KENNY CHESNEY, THE GOOD STUFF Sally plot, and you'll see that Brown tion of a new R&B /hip -hop group THE STROKES, SOMEDAY N 0 DOUBT, UNDERNEATH IT ALL UNKIN PARK, POINTS OF AUTHORITY TOBY KEITH, COURTESY OF THE RED, WHITE AND BLUE AUDIOVENT THE ENERGY NOT A DAY GOES BY T HE STROKES, SOMEDAY SHAKIRA, UNDERNEATH YOUR CLOTHES LONESTAR, Sugar offers pointed commentary on mentored by Combs. Reps for the STYLES, GOOD TIMES LUDACRIS, MOVE BAH GEORGE MICHAEL SHOOT THE DOG DARRYL WORLEY, I MISS MY FRIEND FABOLOUS, TRADE IT ALL MARC COPELY, SURPRISE FUNK FOR SALE LOCO ALAN JACKSON, DRIVE FOR DADDY GENE) music business is run. show say that although Combs will be TRICK DADDY, IN DA WIND how the OAK ENFOLD, STARRY EYED SURPRISE ROYKSOPP, REMIND ME PHIL VASSAR, AMERICAN CHILD ASH, BURN BABY BURN CAM'RON, HEY MA HOLLY VALLANCE KISS KISS TAMMY COCHRAN, LIFE HAPPENED involved in the new group's career, SEETHER, FINE AGAIN "I think it's a pretty accurate por- S PARTA, CUT YOUR RIBBON COLDPLAY, IN MY PLACE BRAD MARTIN, BEFORE I KNEW BETTER DJ SHADOW, SIX DAYS KYLIE MINOGUE LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT DIAMOND RIO, BEAUTIFUL MESS & READY trayal of the current state of hip-hop," there is no guarantee that he will sign BEN KWELLER, WASTED JENNIFER LOPEZ, l'M GONNA BE ALRIGHT CYNDI THOMSON, I'M GONE OASIS, STOP CRYING YOUR HEART OUT TRACE ADKINS, HELP ME UNDERSTAND Diggs says. "I grew up with hip -hop, the act to his Bad Boy label. WILL SMITH, BLACK SUITS COMIN' (NOD YA HEAD) ANDY GRIGGS, TONIGHT I WANNA BE YOUR MAN NELLY, HOT IN HERRE JOE NICHOLS, THE IMPOSSIBLE PAUUNA RUBIO, DONT SAY GOODBYE CHRIS CAGLE, COUNTRY BY THE GRACE OF GOD CHAD KROEGER, HERO SHEDAISY MINE ALL MINE KELLY OSBOURNE, PAPA DONT PREACH MARK CHESNUTT,SHE WAS

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BILLBOARD AUGUST 3, 2002 www.billboard.com 49 www.americanradiohistory.com WWPR Powers Up Newyork Ratings Battle MTV VMA Noms Announced aear Channel outlet Nips At WQHT's Longtime Hip-Hop Dominance BY CARLA HAY NEW YORK -With six nods each, BY DANA HALL demarcation that you might typically monster in the market like Hot, you are not very obvious -but that are Eminem, P.O.D., and Missy "Misde- Airplay Monitor see at adult R &B. look for what the audience is cur- still very important-that some pro- meanor" Elliott lead the nominees NEW YORK-In its firstArbitron book, Smith: I think the old- school rently associating them with and fig- grammers miss, especially when you for the 2002 MTV Video Music Clear Channel's (CC) WWPR (Power hip -hop is appealing to both young ure out a product with a slight differ- have been on top for so long. It hap- Awards, to be presented Aug. 29 at 105.1) New York moved from No. 14 as and old. ential. For us, the flank position and pens at all stations . .. The connec- New York's Radio City Music Hall. adult R &B WTJM ( Jammin' 105) to No. the angle was to go a little older, and tion with the listeners and the emo- In the video of the year category, 4, taking a sizable chunk out of long- So few radio stations were playing the old school was the way to do it tion that they feel for a station is Eminem's "Without Me" and P.O.D.'s time market dominator WQHT (Hot any hip -hop gold. Why did you decide without feeling too old. what can suffer if you don't pay close "Alive" are up against 'N Sync's 97), which remains No. 2 in the market to add it on Power? attention to it. "Gone," Linkin Park's "In the End," but has dropped 6.1- 4.3 12 -plus. Wynter. The template for most hip - What about balancing adults and Nas' "One Mic," and the White Stripes' Four industry veterans led the hop radio stations today is probably the young adults, presentationally? How Where do you see WBLS in this "Fell in Love With a Girl." charge for WWPR during its first four template that Steve Smith started when "street" can your jocks sound with- baffle? "Without Me" also received nods for months-PD Michael Saunders, CC he created Hot. Most R &B stations out losing the adult demos? Smith: To me, WBLS is not going best male video, best rap video, best VP of urban programming Doc Wyn- before that played hip -hop and R &B Saunders: I've always been an advo- to be able to play in this battle, direction in a video, best editing in a ter, senior VP of programming (and with a little gold, but it was with the cate of reaching the streets but not because they are perceived to be an video, and viewers former Hot 97 PD) Steve Smith, and debut of Hot that we started to see sta- pissing off the so- called "sophisticat- older- targeted radio station by the choice. "Alive" gar- senior VP of programming Tom Pole - tions that played very little or no gold ed" listener. I often refer to it as "going audience. And given the fact that Kiss nered nominations man. We spoke with them about or gold that was from the ghetto has more playing field now, WBLS for best group vid- strategy, the star power of old- school, only two to three to the limo." would be smart to get back into that eo, VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS best direction in and why New York is the ultimate years old. And I want a 29- arena. That's what the audience a video, best special hip -hop market. that's what we've year -old woman expects of them, and there is more effects in a video, and viewers choice; been doing in to be able to lis- room for growth there. another P.O.D. clip, "Youth of the Power launched with a somewhat radio the past ten and not get Nation," is up for best rock video. older target audience than Hot 97, few years, be- turned off or feel Was there any reluctance in the Elliott's "One Minute Man" (featur- with more gold and more R &B. Usu- cause it has uncomfortable. beginning on the part of Clear Chan- ing Ludacris and Trina) earned nomi- ally a station has to launch younger to proved to be very There is a fine nel to flip R &B oldies WTJM, when nations for best hip -hop video, best get its foot in the door. Why did Clear successful. But line that jocks the perception was that it was grow- direction in a video, best special effects Channel choose this approach? when we were must walk. Yet, ing and making money? in a video, best editing in a video, best Smith: I was at Hot for seven years, pondering the at the same Poleman: The reality was we art direction in a video, and best cine- and when I left, the research showed launch of Power CZI time, when you weren't making money. If you look at matography in a video. 1Ï mHip HopñfqaB that Hot owned the young hip -hop and talked about hear Flava Flay our ratings now, with Power 25 -54, The 2002 MTV Video Music Awards position 50 -1. It was locked up. So, we adding all this doing the traffic, it's really not a huge change from will be hosted by Jimmy Fallon. Artists didn't feel that going directly at Hot old school, we I think that is where we were with Jammin'. But scheduled to perform include Bruce would be the right move. But there thought, "This street. now, we're also on top 18 -34, and Springsteen Sr the E Street Band, Pink, was an opportunity to do a radio sta- could be huge." that's on track to be a far more prof- and Eminem. tion that was more female- friendly, But I also want- When you itable radio station. Other multiple nominees include less rap -heavy, and less teen -targeted ed to see some first signed on, Smith: When you have an oppor- Shakira's "Whenever, Wherever" and that played a better mix of hip -hop research to be you directly tar- tunity to make your cluster stronger, the White Stripes' "Fell in Love With and R&B. The old- school hip -hop fell sure that there geted Hot 97 as well as debut a strong radio sta- a Girl," which received four nods each. right into that. was still passion with promos tion on its own, that's good business. "Whenever, Wherever" is up for best for these rec- PIL MAN talking about its [CC's top 40] WHTZ can now do bet- female video, best dance video, best Four months into the station, do ords: There was. commercial ter 18 -34, while [AC] WLTW will stay pop video, and best cinematography you need to choose either the younger Smith: We needed a musical hook load. But not anymore. on top consistently. in a video. In addition to its nomina- or the older demo, or can you satisfy that would differentiate us. New York Wynter: When we signed on, we tion for best video of the year, "Fell in both ends of the spectrum? was and still is the epicenter of hip - were in attack mode. It was our job to Michael, after your second stint as Love With a Girl" received nods for Wynter: I don't think we need to hop. There were so many records point out the competitor's deficiencies. PD of WJLB Detroit, you were out of best special effects in a video, best edit- choose one or the other. The 18- to 24- between '93 and '99 that were huge in After that, we found that the listeners radio for almost a year. Did you gain ing in a video, and breakthrough year -olds, which is the younger seg- New York, but you simply didn't hear were pointing them out to us, so we any insight or new perspective on pro- video. ment of our audience, still grew up them anymore. I think people still no longer had to stress them. gramming and radio? Videoclips eligible for this year's with these songs, and so they still have believe that hip -hop is disposable. Smith: One of the brilliant ideas Saunders: The one thing that I awards show were those that premiered passion for them. There isn't a line of Poleman: Anytime you have a we used in the launch, which was noticed was that listeners were not on MTV between June 9, 2001, and May Doc's idea, was to do "10,000 joints being entertained. Radio was becom- 31, 2002. The viewers choice award is in a row," which was totally a dig at ing more and more like a jukebox. At determined by phone and online vot- Michaels' Exit Sparks CCC Sell-Off Hot. It highlighted how many com- Power, we're giving them so much ing at mtv.com. In addition to `With- mercials they ran. But, after the ini- more. We give them history lessons out Me" and "Alive," videos nominated BY MATTHEW BENZ which he termed a mutual decision. tial impact of being commercial -free, about the music and the artists. My this year in that category are B2K's "Uh NEW YORK-The sudden news of But the next day, CCC shares everyone thought that we would fall daughter is 18, and she and I can Huh," Michelle Branch's "Everywhere," Clear Channel Radio CEO Randy closed down $4.94, or 16.5 %, at $25. off. Instead, in the second and third both listen to Power and get some- Enrique Iglesias' "Hero," and Brandy's Michaels' departure (Airplay Moni- In a research note, Merrill Lynch phase of the book, we actually grew, thing different. "What About Us ?" tor, July 26) sparked a sell -off of the analysts said it was "odd" that CCC and we weren't doing 10,000 joints The MTV2 Award-which debuted shares of parent Clear Channel Com- did not have a permanent replace- in a row at that time. Are you surprised at the success the last year in recognition of videos that munications (CCC). In an effort to ment for Michaels, whom they called Wynter: And I have to add that it station has had so quickly? How do benefited from early MTV2 exposure- calm investors, the company ad- "a very capable radio executive." took [CC market manager] Andy you expect Power to perform in the will again be selected by viewers through vanced by one week the release of its CCC stock stabilized July 24, as Rosen and [former CC Radio CEO] coming year? online voting. This year's nominees are latest financial results. CCC reported second- quarter net Randy Michaels to not flood the sta- Wynter We launched this station Dashboard Confessional's "Screaming CCC said July 22 that Michaels will income of $238 million, or 40 cents tion with commercials right after March 16 at 6:05 a.m. Later that Infidelities," the Hives' "Hate to Say I become CEO of a newly formed new- per share. It had a net loss in the that. They said, "The audience told us night, Steve and I went to get pizza Told You So," Norah Jones' `Don't Know technologies division focusing on same period last year of $237 million, that they like the fact that we are across the street. The radio was on, Why," Musiq's "Halfcrazy," Nappy Roots interactive, wireless broadband, and or 40 cents per share, including playing more music, so let's not playing Faith Evans' "I Love You," featuring Jazze Pha's "Awnaw," and the satellite technologies. CCC president/ $644.9 million in depreciation and change on them now." and I remembered programming Strokes' "Last Nite." COO Mark Mays, who will oversee the amortization expenses. that song for this hour. Steve looked Winners for the rest of the cate- radio unit until a permanent replace- Total revenue was flat at $2.17 bil- Steve, is this the same Hot 97 at me and said, "No way could that be gories are voted on by ballots distrib- ment is found, said in a statement lion. CCCS live-event arm saw revenue that you helped create almost 10 Power on the radio." But then we uted to about 500 music industry pro- "no sudden event or any poor per- decline 11.2% to $619.2 million; radio years ago, or has the station changed heard one of our sweepers. Just eight fessionals and 500 MTV viewers. formance" prompted Michaels' move, revenue rose 5.4% to $991.3 million. significantly? hours after we had launched, people A complete list of nominees can be Smith: There are some things that were already tuning in. found at billboard.com/awards.

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BUSTIN' LOOSE: RCA played expectations for Contemporary Christian, No. 10 on Top RISE AND WRONG: Bruce Springsteen returns to Kenny Chesney's "The Good Stuff," Toby the new Dave Matthews Band (DMB) album R &B/Hip -Hop Albums and No. 20 on the big The Billboard Hot 100 for the first time in five Keith's "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue close to its vest, as published reports stated chart (42,500 years (see Chart Beat, page 5), as "The Rising" is (The Angry American)" rebounds with a triple - the label and the group's management would units). Its 2000 the Hot Shot Debut at No. 52. The title track digit spin increase to bullet at No. 2 on Hot be thrilled if the title beat the half-million outing, Thank- from his latest album-which hits stores July Country Singles & Tracks, with only 66 detec- mark in its first week. Busted Stuff does even ful, did reach 30 -makes its impressive chart entry thanks to tions separating the two titles. "Courtesy" better, breaking through the gate with the top of the the release of a retail CD single, which scans improves 167 spins after dipping 135 detec- 622,000 units, the second -largest Nielsen two religious 13,000 units. While that total would normally tions last issue to claim the biggest increase SoundScan week in Matthews' career. music lists but be enough in the current sales climate to top among the chart's top three titles, which The band's last studio album, 2001's Every- peaked at No. the Hot 100 Singles Sales chart, "The Rising" includes a 4-3 hop ( +113) for Gary Allan's "The day, was the only Matthews title to muster a 22 on R &B/ comes in at No. 2, One," his highest position to date on this chart. larger sum -733,000 in its first week. Stuff is Hip -Hop Al- kept from the top slot Undoubtedly enhanced by a prerelease Matthews' third No. 1 on The Billboard 200 bums and No. by Springsteen's la- media swirl for Keith's Unleashed-which is and the seventh to reach the top five. 59 on The Bill- belmate Wyclef Jean, expected to arrive at No. 1 next issue on Top Beyond the fact that both hit the top rung, board 200. That earlier collection sold 23,500 in who surges 25 -1 with Country Albums- Keith's renewed airplay there is a weird link between the new album its biggest sales week. "lino Wrongs." vigor dovetails with a July 21 CMT special and Everyday: Most of the songs on Stuff were Riding the biggest radio hit of his career (see "Wrongs," which titled Toby Keith -Live, Uncut & Unleashed. on the aborted album that was replaced by last Singles Minded, this page), Worley shows even features Claudette Sources at the network say overwhelming year's Glen Ballard- produced set. The unre- bigger growth, starting at No. 21 on the big Ortiz from City viewer response prompted a second run of leased project, produced by Steve Lillywhite, chart and No. 1 on Top Country Albums High, also had a CD the show July 26. was a hot download among Matthews' fans on (42,000 units). His first album never sold single hit stores to Elsewhere on Hot Country Singles & file- sharing sites, but the songs were newly enough to reach The Billboard 200 and stalled complement its Tracks, Darryl Worley achieves his highest recorded for Stuffby producer Stephen Harris. at No. 33 on the country list in 2000. previously released chart position to date, as "I Miss My Friend" Just as the arrival of a new Red Hot Chili The Flaming Lips hit a high note, too. After 12 -inch vinyl. They gains 186 detections and rises 10 -7. His prior Peppers set stirred last issue's Top Pop Cata- placing three albums on Heatseekers, includ- combine for 13,500 high was "A Good Day to Run," which peaked log Albums chart, Matthews' earlier titles soar ing one that also reached The Billboard 200- pieces. "Wrongs" at No. 12 in February 2001. now, with Greatest Gainer ribbons on both where it peaked at No. 108 -the Lips enter the also tops the Hot The Billboard 200 (120 -67, up 66.5 %) and the big chart at No. 50. Incidentally, a refinement R &B /Hip -Hop Sin- DON'T MESS WITH HER: While Wyclef Jean Fea- catalog list (29 -2, up 100 %). Two more join of our chart graphics brings a new symbol to gles Sales chart and turing Claudette Ortiz earns Greatest Gainer/ Top Pop Cata- our album lists to indicate titles that are, or is the Greatest Gainer/Sales winner on both Sales honors on Hot R&B/Hip -Hop Singles & log at Nos. 10 once were, on the Heatseekers chart. Hot R &B /Hip -Hop Singles & Tracks (21 -16) Tracks with "Two Wrongs," last issue's des- and 16. and the Hot 100 (63 -39). ignee, "Don't Mess With My Man" by Nivea Fea- A second PROGRESS REPORTS: Kylie Minogue contin- With "Wrongs" and "The Rising" taking the turing Brian & Brandon Casey (of Jagged week at No. 1 ues to stage a second act for her Capitol top two slots on the Hot 100 Sales chart, "A Edge), holds a second week at No. 2 on Hot is unlikely. debut. This issue's 80 -66 jump (up 16 %) was Little Less Conversation" by Elvis Presley vs. R &B/Hip -Hop Singles Sales. It retains its bul- Everyday saw aided by her visits to Live With Regis and JXL falls from the No. 1 slot after three con- let with a 36% sales increase, prompting a 51- more than a Kelly and MTV's Total Request Live. Last secutive weeks to No. 3. It scans 12,000 units, 43 advance on Hot R &B/Hip -Hop Singles & 50% decline in issue's 107 -80 leap was juiced by The Tonight a 500 -piece decline from last issue. Tracks. Sales of the 12 -inch, which was recalled week two. A Show and a repeat of her Saturday Night Live This is the first time in three months that by Jive because it included a mix of the track similar erosion stop. It doesn't hurt that "Love at First Sight" the top three retail singles each scan more that had not been cleared, still contribute to its for Busted is gaining traction at radio (33 -28 on Top 40 than 10,000 units. In the May 4 issue, 'N rise, albeit minimally. An approved mix of would enable Tracks), while Minogue and lead single "Can't Sync Featuring Nelly's "Girlfriend" ticked "Don't Mess With My Man" on vinyl is slated to two new releases to pass it by, as Toby Keith's Get You out of My Head" are featured in a fre- 15,500 units, "A Thousand Miles" by Vanes- be reissued July 30. The title also gleans points Unleashed and multi -act hit compilation Now! quently seen Bally Total Fitness TV ad. This sa Carlton hit 14,000, and Mr. Cheeks' from a gain in airplay, reaching an audience of 10 both seem on target to beat 300,000 units. marks the album's fourth straight gain over "Lights, Camera, Action!" did 13,000. 5.3 million at R &B radio. prior-week sales. On the Hot 100, "Conversation" rebounds Nivea first stepped onto the scene in PIERCING THE GLOOM: Album sales still trail A new single, a new movie, and TV reruns 69 -53 after dropping the past two weeks from November 2000 as a featured guest on label - those of 2001 (see Market Watch, page 6), but are the ingredients for a 10% spike by Celine its initial peak of No. 50. The record lost mate Mystikal's "Danger (Been So Long)," The Billboard 200 does offer bright moments Dion (24 -23), her second straight increase fol- ground when sales declined from its first - landing both their first No. 1 on that chart in in the fast starts of rock bands the Vines and lowing eight weeks of decline. Dion's "I'm week splash, with those declines outweigh- the Jan. 27, 2001, issue. It is the third chart- the Flaming Lips, gospel act Mary Mary, and Alive," featured in Stuart Little 2 and includ- ing the gains made on the radio side. With a ing single for the 18- year -old singer, follow- country singer Darryl Worley. ed in that film's soundtrack (No. 17 on Top small decrease in sales and a 6 million gain in ing "Don't Mess With the Radio." Her epony- The Vines are the first big signing during Soundtracks), bullets at No. 16 on Adult Con- airplay -its largest weekly gain to date - mous debut album is due later this year. Andy Slater's tenure as president of Capitol. temporary. Repeats of her appearances on "Less" is able to bounce back. Also on R &B/Hip -Hop Singles Sales, Linkin The band's "Get Free" bullets at No. 10 on Mod- 20/20 and The Rosie O'Donnell Show also ran Elsewhere on the Hot 100 Singles Sales Park makes a surprise appearance as "H! Vltg3 em Rock Tracks and at No. 31 on Mainstream during the tracking week. chart, LeAnn Rimes' "Can't Fight the Moon- Evidence," featuring Pharoahe Monch & DJ Rock Tracks, as their debut album Highly The video release of Mandy Moore's movie light," the all -time record -holder for weeks Babu, debuts at No. 59. The track is from Linkin Evolved opens at No. 11 with 64,000 units. A Walk to Remember brought that soundtrack spent on the chart, hits triple digits: In her Park's forthcoming Reanimation, which places Meanwhile, Mary Mary and Worley both avoid back to The Billboard 200 last issue. It moves 100th week, she drops 22 -27. some of the group's prior work into the hands the dreaded sophomore jinx and, in fact, each 64 -62 with an 11% gain, while the cable bow of of noted producers. The original version of this exceeds their first album's peak, with the former Moulin Rouge on Cinemax brings Pacesetter STAR WARS: After claiming top ink for two song, simply titled "High Voltage," was on the opening at No. 1 on Top Gospel Albums and Top honors to its soundtrack (143 -107, up 44 %). weeks and then stepping aside last issue for band's DVD Frat Party at the Pankake Festival.

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43 29 16 4 TRUTH HURTS Truthfully Speaking 5 1671 NEW 1' JUICY J Triple 6 Mafia Presents Juicy J - Chronicles Of The Juice Man: Underground 93 AFTERMATH 493331 ' / INTERSCOPE (12.98 /18.981 NORTH NORTH 360111098/1798/ 44 34 30 2 SOUNDTRACK Spider -Man 4 94 68 57 7 SOUNDTRACK Scooby -Doo 28 LAVA 83543/AG ROADRUNNER /COLUMBIA 86402/IDJMG/CRG 11298 E0/1898) - /ATLANTIC 11298/1838) 45 33 33 ti g ENRIQUE IGLESIAS 3 Escape 2 95 91 65 10 MOBY 18 4 ..,,,... INTERSCOPE 493148112.98/18.981 V2 27127110.98/18.98)

2 ID 47 48 46- SYSTEM OF A DOWN Toxicity 1 96 81 59 16 "' TWEET Southern Hummingbird 3 AMERICAN/COLUMBIA 62240'/CRG 112.98 E0/I8981 THE GOLD MIND /ELEKTRA 62746/EEG 112.98 /18.98/ 47 37 39 :16 NEW FOUND GLORY Sticks and Stones 4 97 94 100 9 AMY GRANT Legacy...Hymns & Faith 21 DRIVE -THRU 112916 /MCA 118.98 CD) A &M 493318/INTERSCOPE (18.98 CD) - 48 42 36 27 ALAN JACKSON 2 Drive 1 98 103 97 87 TIM MCGRAW 3 Greatest Hits 4 ARISTA NASHVILLE 67039/RLG (12.98/1898) CURB 7797811298/1898/ 99 This Is Ultimate Dance! 61 49 40 41 : :5 OUR LADY PEACE Gravity 9 83 62 4 VARIOUS ARTISTS COLUMBIA 86585/CRG (698 EO/12981 J 2003411298/1898) Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots 50 100 74 58 6 THE WHO The Ultimate Collection 31 Q NEW 1 THE FLAMING LIPS WARNER BROS. 48141 113.98 CDI UN 112877/MCA 124.98 CDI

52 www.billboard.com BILLBOARD AUGUST 3, 2002 www.americanradiohistory.com Wae O Z c' Z 4+ Q Q O 3 ÿ O 3 Y ARTIST Title ÿ N ARTIST Title Y fN = Ñ 3 ,g r 3 1 4r- o-=- S IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL o. :- 5 IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL d 151 77 ANDY GRIGGS Freedom 77 101 99 98 BRITNEY SPEARS ° Britney 1 - RCA (NASHVILLE167006 /RLG 111.98/17.96) JIVE 41776/ZOMBA (12.98/18.98) Under Rug Swept 1 102 105 113 MERCYME Almost There 67 152 149 139 ALANIS MORISSETTE MAVERICK 47988/WARNER BROS. (18.98 CD) INO/WORD 86133/WARNER BROS. (16.90 CDI [NI RLEments 53 103 58 - DOLLY PARTON Halos & Horns 58 153 137 173 RL J 20012(12.98/17.98) 't: -- BLUE EYE 390/SUGAR HILL (10.98/18.98) s4c A Deeper Faith 56 104 101 122 VARIOUS ARTISTS Vans Warped Tour 2002 Compilation 55 CD 168 175 JOHN TESH FAITH MD 34591 /GARDEN CITY 111.98/17.981 SIDE ONE DUMMY 71Zí3(6.98 CD) THE VH1 Music First Presents: The Corm Live In Dublin 52 105 93 67 BARRY MANILOW Ultimate Manilow 3 155 152 148 CORRS - 143, LAVA/ATLANTIC 83533/AG 112 .98/18981 BMG HERITAGE 10600/ARISTA 112.98 118981 SPACE MONKEYZ VS. GORILLAZ Laika Come Home 156 117 109 KIRK FRANKLIN The Rebirth Of Kirk Franklin 4 ® Lc:7 1i PARLOPHONENIRGIN 40362/ASTRALWERK5(17.98 CD) GOSPO CENTRIC 70037/ZOMBA 111.98/17.981 157 159 149 ANITA BAKER The Best Of Anita Baker 118 7r'' PACESETTER 'p AALANTIC78278209/RHINO Ride Wit Me Dirty South Style 83 CD 143 146 SOUNDTRACK .2 Moulin Rouge 3 158 151 137 ARCHIE EVERSOLE PHAT BOY 112928'/MCA 11498 CDI INTERSCOPE 493035112.98/10.981 D 33 108 62 23 OASIS Heathen Chemistry 23 159 147 138 TENACIOUS D Tenacious EPIC 86586 (18.98 ES CD) EPIC 86234' (18 98 ES CD) r DEAD Steppin' Out With The Grateful Dead England '72 160 THE STARTING LINE Say It Like You Mean It 109 182 GRATEFUL 4Lir GRATEFUL DEAD 14984/ARISTA 131.98 CDI DRIVE -THRU 060063/MCA (12.98 CDI [N] Live At Budokan 70 '110 70 27 GREEN DAY Shenanigans 27 161 134 93 OZZY OSBOURNE EPIC (16.98 EG CD) REPRISE 48208/WARNER BROS. (13.98 CO) 86525 154 134 VAN MORRISON Down The Road 25 i T1 106 86. VARIOUS ARTISTS Punk -0- Rama 7 67 162 EXILE/UNIVERSAL 589177/UMRG (1898 CD) EPITAPH 86646 (5.98 CDI Definition Of A Remix (EP) 117 112 97 119. PLAY Play 97 163 145 117 VARIOUS ARTISTS So So Def Presents: . SO SO DEF/COLUMBIA 86689 /CRC (898 ES CO) MUSIC WORLD/COLUMBIA 86601 /CRG 01 98 ES CO) [NI Worship And Tribute 82 i GLASSJAW 113 110 106. SOUNDTRACK Shrek 28 164 82 WARNER BROS. 48286 111.98 CDI 0AEAMWORKS 450305/INTERSCOPE(12.98/18.98) Live From New York City, 1967 165 114 108 95 GARY ALLAN Alright Guy 39 =- SIMON & GARFUNKEL ® LEGACY /COLUMBIA 61513/CRG 118.98 ES CDI MCA NASHVILLE 170201 (11.98/1798) Totally 12 115 76 61 SOUNDTRACK Mr. Deeds 61 166 163 154 24 VARIOUS ARTISTS Country RCA 68118 (18.98 CDI BNA 67043/ßL0 112.98/1798) 7 CHOC Rawkus Records Presents: Soundbombing III 23 116 115 118 MICHAEL W. SMITH Worship 20 167 133 110 CIPHA SOUNDS /MR. RAWKUS 112917' /MCA (18.98 CD) REUNION 10025/ZOMBA 111.98/17.981 168 167 143 6 DAZ DILLINGER This Is The Life I Lead 109 117 111 103 ENYA 6 A Day Without Rain 2 OCF/FREE 006/D.P.G. 117.98 CDI REPRISE 47426/WARNER BROS. 112.98/18.981 35 118 102 87 AZ AZiatic 29 169 162 157 43 ALISON KRAUSS + UNION STATION New Favorite MOTOWN 018074 /UMRG 112.90/18.901 ROUNDER 610495/I0JMG 111.98/1798) Look Of 9 119 109 91 LOS TEMERARIOS Una Lagrima No Basta 79 170 169 158 DIANA KRALL The Love FONOVISA 0529110.98/16.98) ¡°[SY;`ë,_ VERVE 54984698011298/18.981 Songs 4 Worship Shout To The Lord 51 120 118 102 TOBY KEITH Pull My Chain 9 171 73 ç VARIOUS ARTISTS 2 - INTEGRITY 61001/TIME LIFE 11998 CO) OREAMWORKS (NASHVILLE) 450297/INTERSCOPE 112.98/18.961 y. Degradation Trip 33 121 113 96 LAURYN HILL MTV Unplugged No 2.0 3 172 140 128.5 JERRY CANTRELL ,, ROADRUNNER 618451/IDJMG 11898017) - COLUMBIA 86580/Cß0 (16.98EO/19.98I All That You Can't Leave Behind 3 122 119 105 TIM MCGRAW 2 Set This Circus Down 2 173 161 142 1i0 U2 A 3 /18981 CURB 78711(12.98/18.98) INTERSCOPE 524653112.98 Doggy Bag 11 123 112 90 s NAS Stillmatic 5 174 172 166 LIL BOW WOW SO SO DEF /COLUMBIA 86130 /CRG 11298 EO/18.98) ILL WILL/COLUMBIA 05736 /CRG 11298 EN18.981 Believe 42 124 121 121 .1 THE WHITE STRIPES White Blood Cells 61 175 171 170 ;.' YOLANDA ADAMS SYMPATHY FOR THE RECORD INDUSTRY/THIRD MAN 27124'982118.98 CDI [N] ELEKTRA 62690 /EEG 112.98/18.901 Greatest Hits 2 125 98 76 8' SOUNDTRACK Divine Secrets Of The Ya -Ya Sisterhood 40 QM 185 - 88 LENNY KRAVITZ 3 DMZ/COLUMBIA 86534 /CRG 110.98 ED CD) VIRGIN 50316112.98/18.981 177 157 152 13 WILCO Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 13 126 126 120 +f5 KENNY CHESNEY 2 Greatest Hits 13 NONESUCH 79669/AG 111.98 CD) BNA67976/RLG 11298/18.98/ Sinner 14 127 124 104'61 STAIND Break The Cycle 1 178 176 189 48 DROWNING POOL WIND -UP 13065 118.98 CDI FLIP/ELEKTRA 62626/EEG' 112.98/18.98) Camino Palmero 36 139 127 17 AVANT Ecstasy 6 179 160 140 38 THE CALLING RCA 67585 117.98 CDI MAGIC JOHNSON 112809/MCA 112.98 /18.981 [N] Trick Pony 91 129 127 116 66 BROOKS & DUNN Steers & Stripes 4 180 164 144 98 TRICK PONY 47927/WRN ARISTA NASHVILLE 67003/ßL6112.98 /19.981 WARNER BROS. (NASHVILLE) (11.98/17.98) OD 144 108 08 DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most 108 181 178 155 'ó7 JAHEIM [Ghetto Love] 9 VAGRANT 354 11498 CO) [NI DIVINE MILL 41452'/WARNER BROS. 111 98/17.98/ Vapor Trails 6 131 122 111 °1i OAKENFOLD Bunkka 65 182 165 153 'k °i0 RUSH 83531 '/AG 112.98/18 98) MAVERICK 48204/WARNER BROS. 118.98 COI ANTHEM/ATLANTIC UnderTha Influence 27 132 123 101 , 6 RAPHAEL SAADIQ Instant Vintage 25 183 156 130.7 DJ QUIK 970008/UMRG 118.98 CD) UNIVERSAL 510654'/UMRG (12.98118.981 EUPONIC /LANEWAY/BUNGALO

133 107 131 13 MICHELLE WILLIAMS Heart To Yours 57 184 166 161 JENNIFER LOPEZ A3 J.Lo 1 MUSIC WORLO /COLUMBIA 864321Cß0 (12.98 EO/18 98) EPIC 85965/1298 EO/18.981 Mia! 169 134 130 132 °^1 KELLIE COFFEY When You Lie Next To Me 54 185 184 181 I`f1 ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST RECORDING Mamma BNA 67040/RLG (1898/16981 DECCA BROADWAY 543115118.98 CD) 142 141 4 THE HAPPY BOYS Trance Party (Volume Two) 135 CI 196 - 37 TOOL Lateralus 1 ROBBINS 75030 (17.98 CDI [N] TOOL DISSECTIONALNOLCANO 31160/ZOMBA 11298/18.981 -LO Cee -Lo... Cee -Lo Green And His Perfect Imperfections 11 136 141 135 46 LONESTAR I'm Already There 9 187 175 164 13 CEE ARISTA 14682' 11298/18.981 BNA67011 /RLG 11298/18.981 5 12 STONES 12 Stones 154 137 116 94 ° ,5 A *TEENS Pop'Til You Drop! 45 RE -ENTRY C WIND -UP 13069 19.98 CD) [NI STOCKHOLM 018435/MCA (18.98 COI 3 46 138 125 92 ` 6 VARIOUS ARTISTS Steve Harvey Compilation: Sign Of Things To Come 73 189 158 126 4 SOULFLY COI MCA 112875'118.98 CDI ROADRUNNER 618455/I0JMG 118.98

1 439 128 114 '17 YING YANG TWINS Alley The Return Of The Ying Yang Twins 58 190 181 184 58 BLINK -182 2 Take OH Your Pants And Jacket COLLIPARK/IN THE PAINT 8375/KOCH 11298/17.981 MCA 112627112.98/18.98) 140 114 89 6 DAVID BOWIE Heathen 14 191 189 167 37 ANGIE STONE Mahogany Soul 22 ISO/COLUMBIA 86630'/Cß0 16.98 EO/18.981 J now (1298/1898) Living Proof 9 1141 136 133 10 SOUNDTRACK 3 Coyote Ugly 10 192 179 171 ï1 CHER CURB 78703(11.98/17981 WARNER BROS. 47619 112.98/1898) 148 150 20 311 From Chaos 10 193 150 123 3 NAS From Illmatic To Stillmatic The Remixes (EP) 123 ILL 86685 /CRG 19.913 ES CO) VOLCANO 32184/ZOMBA )11.98/17.981 Will/COLUMBIA 143 104 83 6 SOUNDTRACK The Oshourne Family Album 13 194 187 180 3 DJ ENCORE DJ Encore Present& Ultra.Dance 02 180 EPIC 86670 (18.98 CD) ULTRA 1123(21 98 CO) [NI Elva 69 1144 132 115 15 GOO GOO DOLLS Gutterflower 4 421n.ErcrRy 24 UNWRITTEN LAW INTERSCOPE 493139' (13.98 CDI WARNER BROS. 48206118.98 COI 145 135 124 15 BONNIE MITT Silver Lining 13 196 194 191 80 SARA EVANS Barn To Fly 55 CAPITOL 31816112.98/18.981 RCA INASHVILLE) 67964/11L6 111.90)17.981 Kidz Bop 76 146 138 129 41 THE STROKES Is This It 33 RE-ENTRY 25 KIDZ BOP KIDS Ail! RAZOR &TIE 89042 111.98/17981 RCA 68101' (17.98 CD)

1 198 177 163 17 The Scorpion King 5 CD 153 145 53 AALIYAH 2 Aaliyah SOUNDTRACK BLACKGROUND 10082' 11298/18.981 UNIVERSAL 017115/UMRG 119.98 CDI Lost Angel 72 155 151 20 BLAKE SHELTON Blake Shelton 45 CD RE- ENTRY 7 3RD STRIKE WARNER BROS. INASHVILLEI 24731/WRN 11198/17.981 HOLLYWOOD 16234411218 COI a 173 S ISRAEL KAMAKAWIWO'OLE Alone In lz World 135 149 146 125 88 THE BEATLES 1 1 200 - BIG BOY 5907/THE MOUNTAIN APPLE COMPANY 11798 CD) APPLE 29325/CAPITOL (1298118981 150 129 112 0 SOUNDTRACK Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron 40 A &M 493304/INTERSCOPE (15.98 CDI

10 million units Numeral following Platinum or Diamond Albums with the greatest sales gains this week. Recording Industry Assn. Of America (RIAA) certification for net shipment of 500,000 album units (Gold). RIAA certification for net shipment of 1 million units Platinum). RIAA certification for net shipment of (Diamond). 100,000 of 200,000 units ( Platino). Certification of 400,000 symbol indicates album's multi- platinum level. For boxed sets, and double albums with a running time of 100 minutes or more, the RIAA multiplies shipments b the number of discs and /or tapes. RIM Latin awards: o Certification for net shipment of units (Oro). A Certification A' largest Increase. Pacesetter indicates biggest units (Multi -Platino). *Asterisk indicates LP is available. Most tape prices, and CD prices for BMG and WEA labels, are suggested lists. Tape prices marked EQ, and all other CD prices, are equivalent prices, which are projected from wholesale prices. Greatest Gainer shows charts una percentage growth. Heatseeker Impact shows albums removed from Heatseekers this week. [N] indicates past or present Heatseeker title. © 2002, VNU Business Media. hoc and Nielsen SoundScan, Inc. All rights reserved.

BILLBOARD AUGUST 3, 2002 www.billboard.cotn 53 www.americanradiohistory.com Sales data for Classical, A New Age, and Kid Audio AUGU T 3 Nielsen GUS charts compiled by 3 Bilboxd TOP CLASSICAL ALBUMSSM Billboard TOP JAll ALBUMS. SoundScan

Sales data compiled by 11L AUGUST 3 2002 w . w 3 a1 Nielsen Bille ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER /DISTRIBUTING y': SoundScan g LABEL Title á ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL Title - ` NUMBER 1 -:t- 6 Weeks At Number l TOP CLASSICAL BUDGET 1 CARRERAS- DOMINGO-PAVAROTTI The Best Of The 3 Tenors 44 4&-- NUMBER 1 `F - Weeks At Number i OECCA 466999/UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP 20 CLASSICAL FAVORITES VARIOUS ARTISTS MAOACY 1 DIANA KRALL The Look Of Love 0 2 SALVITORE LICITRA The Debut VERVE 549846P/6 SICAL MASTERPIECES: SPANISH GUITAR VARIOUS ARTISTS SONY CLASSICAL 89923 2 RACY 2 2 CASSANDRA WILSON Belly Of The Sun 3 YO -YO MA Classic Yo -Yo IMPERIAL CLASSICS VARIOUS ARTISTS BLUE NOTE 35072/CAPITOL 3 IN] SONY CLASSICAL 89667 NOTED MULTIMEDIA

3 3 HERBIE HANCOCK/MICHAEL BRECKER/ROY HARGROVE Directions In Music (Celebrating Miles Davis &John Coltrane) 5 JOSHUA BELL Mendelssohn/Beethoven Violin Concertos ERSHWIN: AN AMERICAN IN PARIS VARIOUS ARTISTS VERVE 589654/VG 4 SONY CLASSICAL 89505 ADACY LASSxAL MASTERPIECES: rl AccrS 4 5 VARIOUS ARTISTS Verve //Unmixed 4 ANDREA BOCELLI Verdi 5 FOR RElA%ATION YNn0ü5ARm15 VERVE 589620NG ADACY PHILIPS 464600/UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP CASSANDRA WILSON 6 CLASSICAL MASTERPIECES: ROMANTIC PIANO 8M1505 ARTISTS Sings Standards 7 RICHARD JOO Billy Joel: Fantasies & Delusions !ACH o VERVE 589837/VG COLUMBIA 85397/SONY CLASSICAL 7 BEST OF 25 CLASSICAL FAVORITES VARIOUS ARTISTS 6 6 WAYNE SHORTER Footprints Live! 6 LUCIANO PAVAROTTI Romantica ACT VERVE 58%79/VG 6 DECCA/UN470331 /UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP 8 MOZART: SYMPHONY NOS. 40 & 41 VARIOUS ARTISTS 10 TONY BENNETT Playin' With My Friends: Bennett Sings The Blues DACY o 8 VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY Number 1 Classical Album RPM/COLUMBIA 85833 /CRG ROMANTIC DECCA 470933/UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP 9 5 FAVORITES VARIOUS ARTISTS OK /SPJ MUSIC 8 4 SOUNDTRACK Finding Forrester 9 EDGAR MEYER Bottesini Concertos LEGACY /COLUMBIA 85350 /CRG BEETHOVEN: PIANO SONATAS VARIOUS ARTISTS SONY CLASSICAL 60956 10 OACY 9 13 NNENNA FREELON Tales Of Wonder p 11 JOSE CURA Boleros CONCORD 2107 11 ERATO85821 /AG 10 12 HARRY CONNICK, JR. Songs I Heard 7 10 YO -YO MA (WILLIAMS) Yo -Yo Ma Plays The Music Of John Williams 12 COLUMBIA 86077- /CRG SONY CLASSICAL 89670 11 8 MICHAEL FEINSTEIN Michael Feinstein With The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra 13 MOZART: 25 FAVORITES VARIOUS ARTISTS 2 12 VARIOUS ARTISTS Baroque Adagios OK /SPJ MUSIC CONCORD 4987 IN] DECCA 470460 /UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP 12 7 STEVE TYRELL 14 Standard Time ?F3 15 MARIA CALLAS The Very Best Of Maria Callas COLUMBIA 86006/CRG IN] EMI CLASSICS 57230/ANGEL 15 13 11 VARIOUS ARTISTS Jazz Masters - Classic Jazz ENRICO CARUSO Italian Songs TIME LIFE 30174 RCA VICTOR 82569 14 14 HARRY CONNICK, JR. 30 VARIOUS ARTISTS Patriotic Salute To The Military COLUMBIA 69794'/CRG ''. ALTISSIMO 5561 AUGUST 3 15 17 JANE MONHEIT Come Dream With Me 2002 Billboard N -CODED 4219/WARLOCK [N] 16 19 PATTI AUSTIN For Ella . PLAYBOY JAZZ 7503 /CONCORD 3 TOP CLASSICAL MIDLINE 2AUGUST002 ID TOP 17 15 RAMSEY LEWIS & NANCY WILSON Meant To Be CLASSICAL CROSSOVER,. NARADA JAZZ 50774NIRGIN 1 BABY MOZART VARIOUS ARTISTS WALT DISNEY (00 22 JOHN COLTRANE Coltrane For Lovers IMPULSEI 549361NG LASSICAL CHILLOUT VARIOUS ARTISTS MI CLASSICS /ANGEL 19 16 CHET BAKER Deep In A Dream 0 I- HYMNS TRIUMPHANT: VOIS. 182 LONDON PHILIWWONK ONMI% PACIFIC JAZZ 35937 /CAPITOL s SPARROW/CHOROANT ARTIST IMPRINT& NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL Title 20 18 CURTIS STIGERS Secret Heart ROMANTIC PIANO ADAGIOS VARIOUS ARTISTS i.-ii.., A 11 8 ß6 P CONCORD JAZZ 2124/CONCORD 1 *g_ NUMBER 1 = ! 22 Weeks At Number a 21 9 ROSEMARY CLOONEY WITH BIG KAHUNA AND THE COPA CAT PACK SentimentalJourney The Gil Singer And Her New Big Band 2 ANDREA BOCELLI Cieli Di Toscana CONCORD 4952 i'll (LIPS 589341 /UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP EVENING ADAGIOS VARIOUS ARTISTS 22 21 THE UECCAIINIVERSAL CARIBBEAN JAZZ PROJECT The Gathering 1 LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (WILLIAMSI Star Wars Episode II: Attack 0f The Clones CLASSICS GROUP CONCORD PICANTE 2125/CONCORD SONY CLASSICAL 89932 THE 01 OPERA ALBUM VARIOUS ARRSTS BILLIE Ken CD HOLIDAY Burns Jazz - The Definitive Billie Holiday 4 YO -YO MA & THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE Silk Road Journeys: When Strangers Meet VERVE 54908I/VG SONY CLASSICAL 69782 BABY VIVALDI VARIOUS ARTISTS '...'. WALT DISNEY 24 25 LOUIS ARMSTRONG Ken Burns Jazz - The Definitive Louis Armstrong 3 JAMES GALWAY The Very Best Of James Galway LEGACY /COLUMBIA 61440 /CRG BRIDE'S GUIDE TO WEDDING MUSIC VARIOUS ARTISTS .... RCA VICTOR 63950[N] ANGEL 20 BRIAN BROMBERG Wood 5 DANIEL RODRIGUEZ The Spirit Of America 50 GREATEST CLASSICS VARIOUS ARTISTS A4404001 /RVKODISC MANHATTAN 37564 [N] ST CLAIR 7 CHARLOTTE CHURCH Enchantment BABYBACH VARIOUS ARTISTS WALT DISNEY COLUMBIA 89710/CRG ,;.:. 8 VIVALDI: CON MAND VARIOUS ARTISTS SARAH BRIGHTMAN Classics G /UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP AU2 Ú02T 3 TOP CONTEMPORARY MEMO STUD1033257 /ANGEL m HE ONLY CLASSICAL CD YOU NEED VARIOUS ARTISTS 6 SARAH BRIGHTMAN Encore RCA VICTOR REALLY USEFUL/DECCA BROADWAY 58 %50/UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP IN TRIBUTE & CELEBRATION ISAAC STERN 10 RUSSELL WATSON The Voice -." ONY CLASSICAL W Sales data compiled by DECCA 468695/UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP I Nl 15 ERE 5 LOVE VARIOUS ARTISTS k LAec W 411 Nielsen 9 SOUNDTRACK A Beautiful Mind DISCS nave a OECCA41619I /UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP pact wholesale cost oetween SoundScan BOB. and 12.98. CDs with wholesale price lower than 8.98 appear 13 SARAH BRIGHTMAN La Luna on Classical Budget S ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL w Title MEMO STUDIO 56968/ANGEL 12 12 BOND Born :f: NUMBER > ," 21 Weeks At Number 1 t I MBO /OECCA46 7091 /UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP [N] AUGUST 3 1 NORAH JONES Come Away With Me 14 BLUE NOTE 32088/CAPITOL INI 13 VARIOUS ARTISTS Classical Hits 2002 UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP 89702/SONY CLASSICAL Bille 2 3 NORMAN BROWN Just Chillin' ts WARNER BROS. 47995 [N] SASHA LAZARD Myth Of Red HIGHER OCTAVE 11552 TOP KID AUDIO 3 2 WILL DOWNING (Sensual Journey) GRP589610NG KRONOS QUARTET Nuevo NONESUCH 79649/AG KIDZ BOP KIDS KIDZ BOP 4 4 GERALD ALBRIGHT Groovology RAZOR & TIE 8842 GRP 589655NG Di] READ -ALONG DISNEY'S ULO & STITCH 5 5 JOE SAMPLE The Pecan Tree ALT DISNEY 86M7 PRA/VERVE 589508NG ARIOUS ARTISTS PRINCESS FAVORITES AUGUST02 3 3 ALT DISNEY 860746 7 6 1 BONEY JAMES Ride 20 WARNER BROS.48004 Bilboard TOP NEW AGE ALBUM ARIOUS ARTISTS DISNEY'S PRINCESS COLLECTION ALT DISNEY 860897 7 6 VARIOUS ARTISTS Verve //Remixed Y ]= 5 ARIOUS ARTISTS TODDLER FAVORITES VERVE 5896061N72 USIC FOR LITTLE PEOPLE/KID RHINO 75252/RHINO

8 10 CHRIS BOTTI Night Sessions g ARIOUS ARTISTS PLAYHOUSE DISNEY COLUMBIA 857531/CRG [N] va ALT DISNEY 860695 9 9 JONATHAN BUTLER Surrender :,, 5 ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL Title 7 PONGEBOBSOUAREPANTS ORIGINAL THEME NIGHUGHTS ICK/JIVE 49500/ZOMBA WARNER BROS. 48273 NU r. 84 Weeks AO Number i EGGIE TUNES BOB ANI) LARRY'S SUNDAY SCHOOL 0 8 DOWN TO THE BONE Crazy Vibes and Things 8 :IG IDEA/WORD 86202AYRICK STUDIOS GRP 589609/VG [N] A Day ENYA 6 Without Rain EY MIGHT BE GIANTS NO! i 1 12 VARIOUS ARTISTS Streetwize: Smooth Urban Jazz REPRISE 47426/WARNER BROS. OUNDER 618113 SHANACHIE 5069 2 JOHN TESH The Power Of Love E WIGGLES YUMMY YUMMY 0 TRICK STUDIOS 9204 2 11 PAUL HARDCASTLE Hardcastle Ill GARDEN CITY 34593 HARDCASTLE 9051182 THE BUILDER BOB THE BUILDER: THE ALBUM 1 4 JIM BRICKMAN Simple Things OCR 8406 13 13 EUGE GROOVE Play Date WINDHAM HILL 11589/RCA ARIOUS ARTISTS DISNEY'S GREATEST: 1 WARNER BROS. 48007 2 VOL 3 TIM JANIS AThousand Summers ALT DISNEY 116a603 11M 14 18 MIKE PHILLIPS You Have Reached Mike Phillips JANIS ENSEMBLE 1105 ARMJUS ARTISTS KID'S DANCE PARTY HIDDEN BEACH 86009/EPIC [N] :MG 6 SECRET GARDEN Once In A Red Moon SPECIAL PRODUCTS 44570 ' 5 16 CRAIG CHAQUICO Shadow And Light SECCA 548678 4 ASIOUS ARTISTS DISNEY CHILDREN'S FAVORITES VOL 1 HIGHER OCTAVE 12142/VIRGIN ALT DISNEY 88605 5 OTTMAR LIEBERT In The Arms Of Love ARIOUS ARTISTS DISNEY'S GREATEST: VOL 2 14 PETER HIGHER 15 16 WHITE Glow OCTAVE 12559 ALT DISNEY 860894 COLUMBIA 85212/CRG [NI 8 VARIOUS ARTISTS Flamenco: Windham Hill Guitar 6 ARIOUS ARTISTS I COULD SING OF YOUR LOVE FOREVER M0 !;!17 19 '- CHUCK LOEB All There Is WINDHAM 010.11501 /RCA . PARROW RITI SHANACHIE 5090 9 OTTMAR LIEBERT The Best Of Ottmar Liebert 7 ARIOUS ARTISTS SONGS 4 WORSHIP K100 ME UFE 30597 18 21 JEFF GOLUB Do It Again EPIC %362 GRP 089564NG 8 ODDLER TUNES 26 CLASSIC SONGS FOR TODDLERS 7 GOVI Mosaico : ENSON 84056 19 15 VARIOUS ARTISTS Hidden Beach Recordings Presents: Unwrapped Vol.1 HIGHER OCTAVE 11774 ARIOUS ARTISTS DISNEY'S SUPERSTARHITS HIDDEN BEACH 8 56531 /EPIC 19 13 DAVID ARKENSTONE Sketches From An American Journey ALT DISNEY 860711 TOWER OF POWER The Very Best of Tower Of Power - The Warner Years o PARAS 11254/BVKODISC ARIOUS ARTISTS RADIO DISNEY JAMS: VOL 4 RHINO 74345 ALT DISNEY 860737 1i YANNI Very Best Of Yanni Feelin' You GGIE TUNES BOB & LARRY'S SUNDAY MORNING SONGS 23 ANDRE WARD e WINDHAM HILL 11568 /RCA 1 ORPHEUS70579 [N] :IG IDEA/WORD 35007AYRICK STUDIOS 10 2002 Across An Ocean Of Dreams 24 HERB ALPERT Definitive Hits 12 ARGUS ARTISTS DANCE 8 SING! -THE BEST OF NICK JR flEAL MUSIC 8803 2 0 RHINO 7%8/RHINO A &M 490886/INTERSCOPE TUNES 13 12 YANNI If I Could Tell You 3 GLIE JUNIOR'S BEDTIME SONGS 20 MEDESKI MARTIN AND WOOD Uninvisible : IDEA/WORD VIRGIN 79893 S 86201AYRICK STUDIOS BLUE NOTE 35870' /CAPITOL [N] 14 VARIOUS Pure ARIOUS ARTISTS SONGS 4 WORSHIP KIDS: I SING PRAISES 3RD FORCE Gentle Force 14 ARTISTS Moods Ill ME LIFE 3610% VIRGIN 50836 HIGHER OCTAVE 12087NIRGIN EAD -ALONG MONSTERS, INC. ROLAND HANNEMAN Healing Garden Music- Relaxation ALT DISNEY 86067 17 THE BRAXTON BROTHERS Both Sides ea. MADACV SPECIAL PRODUCTS 8118/MADACY PEAK 8507 /CONCORD 1:IVien s recordings: original =bon picture soundtracks excluded

alAlbums with the greatest sales gains this week. Recording Industry Assn. Of America (RIAA) certification for net shipment of 500,000 album units (Gold). RIAA certification for net shipment of 1 million units (Platinum)_ RIAS certification for net shipment of 10 million units (Diamond). Numeral following Platinum or Diamond symbol indicate album's multi -platinum level. For boxed sets, and double albums with a running time of 100 minutes or more, the RIAA multiplies shipmen s by the number of discs and /or tapes. RIAA Latin awards: o Certification for net shipment of 100,000 units (Oro). A Certification of 200,000 units (Platino). A' Certification of 400,000 units (Multi-Platino). `Asterisk indicates LP is available. Heatseeker Impact shows albums removed from Heatseekers this week. [N] indicates past or present Heatseeker title. ©2002, VNU Business Media, Inc., and Nielsen SoundScan, Inc. All rights reserved.

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I Week AtNumberl ZAO Parade Of Chaos Lt` NUMBER 1 /HOT SHOT DEBUT SOLID STATE 39443800TH & NAIL 11198 CD) THE STARTING LINE Say It Like You Mean It LINCOLN BREWSTER Amazed DRIVE-THRU 060063/MCA 11298 CDI VERTICAL/INTEGRITY 82249/EPIC (16.98 CDI Momentum 2 1 DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most 29 41 TOBYMAC 'VAGRANT 354 114.98 CD) FOREFRONT 25294 07.98 CO) For All Time 1 3 THE HAPPY BOYS Trance Party (Volume Two) 22 48 SOLUNA ROBBINS 75038 (17.98 CO) DREAMWORKS 450235/INTERSCOPE 114.98 CO) Talk About It 5 10 P 12 STONES 12 Stones 29 20 20 NICOLE C. MULLEN WIND -UP 0069 1698 CDI WORD 86I27/WARNER BROS. (11.98/17.901 4 4 DJ ENCORE DJ Encore Presents: Ultra.Dance 02 30 18 26 ZOEGIRL Life ULTRA 1123 12198 CD) SPARROW 51828 (16.98 CO) Groovology ,QT. 3 5 THE FLATLANDERS Now Again 31 28 31 GERALD ALBRIGHT NEW WEST 6040 (1798 CD) GRP 589655NG 118.98 CDI Drunken Lullabies ' 10 8 KEITH "WONDERBOY" JOHNSON & THE SPIRITUAL VOICES Send A Revival 32 34 - FLOGGING MOLLY WORLD WIDE GOSPEL 3018110 .98/16.981 SIDE ONE DUMMY 71230. 11398 CD) MORCHEEBA Charango 33 31 43 SUGARCULT Start Static SIRE /REPRISE 48347/WARNER BROS. 118.98 CO) ULTIMATUM 076673/ARTEMIS 11398 CO) 8 7 FLAW Through The Eyes 34 33 29 OTEP Sevas Tra REPUBLIC/UNIVERSAL 014891NMRG (1898 COI CAPITOL 33346 11798 COI Praise Is What I Do 10 13 12 CHAYANNE o Grandes Exitos 35 39 - SHEKINAH GLORY MINISTRY KINGDOM WI SONY DISCOS 84667 (10.98 EO/16.981 - (1198/17181 1 6 14 JENNIFER PENA Libre 36 38 35 THE KATINAS Lifestyles A OTEE 72867 CDI UNIVISION 3I0053/UG 19.98/13.981 (1638 Walking By Faith 12 : 16 32 AUDIOVENT Dirty Sexy Knights In Paris 47 25 THE CANTON SPIRITUALS ATLANTIC 83544/AG CO) Q VERITY 43169/ZOMBA 111.98/17.981 11118 11 9 CHRIS CAGLE Play It Loud 38 30 47 WORDVADOR Into Motion f,APITOLINASHVILLE1341701i890 /17.981 86134/WARNER BROS. (1698 CD) DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL Swiss Army Romance '$: GREATEST GAINER 'S- IIRIVE -THRU 170185/MCA 11898 CDI 32 34 DORINDA CLARK -COLE Dorinda Clark -Cole RALPH STANLEY Ralph Stanley GL1SPO CENTRIC 7003320MBA 111.98/17.981 OMZJCOWMBIA 86825/CRG 11898 EO COI 117 17 JUANES O Un Dia Normal MAD AT GRAVITY Resonance SARCO 017532/UNIVERSAL LATINO 11698 COI ARTISTOIRECT 01034 (1738 COI XX 14 6 NORMAN BROWN Just Chillin' 4ryj 40 - MUSHROOMHEAD WARNER BROS. 47995 (18.98 CD) UNIVERSAL 016430/UMRG 11898 CD) THE FACULTY Group Therapy 43 45 - GOOD CHARLOTTE Good Charlotte Ell/17.981 T AMTAM 1001 (13.98 COI DAYLIGHT 85845/EPIC 11138 7 13 THALIA A Thalia 44 15 15 JAMES GALWAY The Very Best Of James Galway EMI LATIN 39513110.98/17.981 - RCA VICTOR 63950 08.98 CDI In Cheek 9 9 11 DJ PAUL Triple 6 Mafia Presents DJ Paul - Underground Vol. 16: For Da Summa 45 46 - RELIENT K The Anatomy Of The Tongue D, EVIL 3600/STREET LEVEL 110.98/17.98) G OTEE 72842 112.98 COI 20 24 23 RAYVON My Bad 46 37 24 SIR CHARLES JONES Love Machine BIG YARD 112757' /MCA (14.98 CDI MARDI GRAS 1060 11198/1638) 21 26 27 MARVIN SAPP I Believe NORMAN HUTCHINS Nobody But You VERITY 43192/ZOMBA 111.98/17981 - JDI 1263112.98/16.981 !' 2 19 16 PILLAR Fireproof 48 42 46 SOMETHING CORPORATE Leaving Through The Window FLICKER 82606 116.98 COI ._L DRIVE-TARA 112887 /MCA 114.98 CDI 23 25 - HOWIE DAY Australia 49 49 44 KURT CARR & THE KURT CARR SINGERS Awesome Wonder DAZE 86708 /EPIC (11.98 ED CD) GOURD CENTRIC 7001620MBA (10.98/16.981 4 23 33 THURSDAY Full Collapse KACI I'm Not Anybody's Girl : CURB 78716 III 98/16 981 - VICTORY 145' (1598 CD) 0

AUGUST Billboard' INDEPENDE NT ALBUMS.. S Sales data compiled by >< Í W Nielsen t 3 á 3 rn Title r, ARTIST SoundScan Title rn F ARTIST 2 c, IMPRINT NUMBER /DISTRIBUTING LABEL IMPRINT & NUMBER /DISTRIBUTING LABEL FF-- S & AHE FACULLnr[M] Group Therapy - NUMBER 1 /GREATEST GAINER - 4 Weeks AtNumberl ®

1 DJ Paul Underground Vol. 16: For Da Summa 1 KHIA FEATURING DSD Thug Misses 26 20 17 DJ PAUL Triple 6 Mafia Presents - DIRTY DOWN 751132/ARTEMIS 11798 CDI M LI EVIL 3600/STREET LEVEL 110.98/17.981 [N] 2 ONYX Bacdafucup: Part II 27 27 29 THURSDAY Full Collapse - VICTORY M OTHER PEOPLES MONEY/IN THE PAINT 8268'/KOCH 112.98/17.98) 145' (1598 CDI 4 2 DEFAULT The Fallout 28 19 9 CORMEGA The True Meaning 9214/LANOSPEED 111.98/17.981M TAT 2310 01.98 CD) [N] LEGAL HUSTLE 29 17 20 VARIOUS ARTISTS Atticus: ...Dragging The Lake. HOT SHOT DEBUT SIDE.S ONE GUMMY 71132IS CDI JUICY J Triple 6 Mafia Presents Juicy J - Chronicles Of The Juice Man: Underground 10 26 19 THE DAYTON FAMILY Welcome To The Dope House - NORTH NORTH 3601110.98 /17.98) IN THE PAINT 8313/KOCH 11298/17.981 Good Enough To Go On Our Other Records -- 5 3 DOLLY PARTON Halos & Horns 31 28 21 NOFX 45 Or 46 Songs That Weren't FAT BLUE EYE 3946/SUGAR HILL (1038/18.981 WRECK CHORDS 640 118.98 CDI Drunken Lullabies 6 5 7 VARIOUS ARTISTS Vans Warped Tour 2002 Compilation 32 31 31 FLOGGING MOLLY SIDE ONE DUMMY 71233 16.98 CO) SIDE ONE DUMMY 71230 (1398 CDI 181] Static 7 6 3 VARIOUS ARTISTS Punk -O- Rama 7 33 30 33 SUGARCULT Start EPITAPH 86646 (5.98 CD) ULTIMATUM 076673/ARTEMIS (13.98 CDI [N] MINISTRY Praise Is What I Do +- 8 7 4 LOS TEMERARIOS Una Lagrima No Basta 34 33 37 SHEKINAH GLORY FONOVISA 0529 (10.98/Iú.981 KINGDOM 001 (11.98/17.981 [N] II 10 5 DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most VARIOUS ARTISTS D &D Project o VAGRANT 354 (14.98 CDI [N] e DOD 6412344 11698 CDI Hero 10 8 6 YING YANG TWINS Alley: The Return Of The Ying Yang Twins 36 29 23 MC EIHT Underground COLLIPARK/IN THE PAINT 8375/KOCH (12.98/1798) D3 9998/RIVIERA (18.98 CD) '11 11 8 DAZ DILLINGER This Is The Life I Lead 37 32 27 SIR CHARLES JONES Love Machine OCF/FREE (lee /D.PD. 11738 CO) MARDI GRAS 1060 (10.98/16.981[M] 12 14 12 DJ ENCORE DJ Encore Presents: Ultra.Dance 02 42 34 NORMAN HUTCHINS Nobody But You ULTRA 1113 (21.98 CDI (N] 0 JOI 1263 (12.98/16981M :13 13 24 ISRAEL KAMAKAWIWO'OLE Alone In Iz World 39 23 - PIXIES Pixies BIG BOY 5907/THE MOUNTAIN APPLE COMPANY 11798 CD) SMART 80109* 0298 CD) 14 12 16 THE FLATLANDERS Now Again 40 37 38 SOUNDTRACK Bob The Builder: The Album NEW WEST 6040 (17.98 CD) [N] KOCH 8406177.98 CDI gall 24 13 NATURE Wild Gremlinz 41 38 36 SLUM VILLAGE Dirty District CASINO 8004 /SEQUENCE (1838 CDI BARAK 8003' /SEQUENCE 18.98 COI [EE] 16 15 10 NAUGHTY BY NATURE )icons CYNDI LAUPER Shine (EP) TVT 2340' (1398/17981 0 - RELLIA 82D15/OGLIO (8.98 Co) allI 21 30 KEITH "WONDERBOY" JOHNSON & THE SPIRITUAL VOICES Send A Revival 43 40 42 O.A.R. Any Time Now EVERFINE41123 /19.98COI110 WORLD WIDE GOSPEL 3018 (10.98116.981 [N] 18 16 15 LOUIE DEVITO Louie DeVito's Dance Factory 44 36 25 TOM WAITS Blood Money ANTI - CDI OEE VEE 00671MUSICflAMA 118.98 CO) 86629'/EPITAPH (1798 19 18 11 JIMMY BUFFETI Far Side Of The World 45 44 35 THE GET UP KIDS On A Wire MAILBOAT 2005 /1038/18981 HEROES & VILLAINS 370'NAGRANT /1538 COI 20 22 18 VARIOUS ARTISTS Reggae Gold 2002 46 39 28 TOM WAITS Alice VP 1679' (9.98/16.981 ANTI- R6632/EPITAPH /1798 CDI 21 9 - THE MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES Jackknife To A Swan ELVIS PRESLEY Elvis: The Very Best Of Love BIG RIG ONE DUMMY (1198 CDI C BMG/MADACY SPECIAL PRODUCTS 5294/MADACY 110.9800381 71234/SIDE COO COO CAL Still Welkin 0 VARIOUS ARTISTS Ultimate Power Of Love 6372 CO) INFINITE 1380 (10.98/18.981 MADACY /18.98 The Process Of Belief SOUNDTRACK Crank Yankers - The Best Uncensored Crank Calls: Volume 1 BAD RELIGION - EPITAPH CD) e4 COMEDY CENTRAL 30001 (1290 CO) 0 86635' 117.98 24 25 14 VARIOUS ARTISTS Hopelessly Devoted To You Vol. 4 50 47 41 ZERO 7 Simple Things 5007 /PALM CDI SUB CITY 662/HOPELESS 13.98 CD) QUANGO/ULTIMATE DILEMMA 0790 1u1

appear on the Heatseekers chart. Top Independent Albums The Heatseekers chart li is the hest -selling titles by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the top 100 of The Billboard 200 chart. When an album reaches this level, the album end the artists subsequent albums are immediately ineligible to RIAA certification are current tities that are old via independent distribut ion, including those which are fulfilled via major branch distributors.= Albums with the greatest sales gains this week. Greatest Gainer shows chart's largest unit increase. Recording Industry Assn. Of America(RIAA) certification for net shipment of 500,000 album units (Gold). album's multi- platinum level. For boxed sets, and double albums with a running time of 100 minutes or more, the RIAA multiplies shipments by the number of discs and/or tapes. RIM for net shipment of 1 million units (Platinum). RIAA certification for net shipment of 10 million units (Diamond). Numeral following Platinum or Diamond symbol indicates prices marked Ell and most CD prices are equivalent prices, which are projected from wholesale prices. [N] indi- Latin awards: oCertification for net shipment of 100,000 units (Oral. A Certification of 200,000 units ( Platino). A' Certification of 400,000 units (Multi- Platino).'Asterisk indicates vinyl LP is available. Most tape prices are suggested lists. Tape cates past or present Heatseeker title. ©2002, VNU Business Media, Inc., and Nielsen SoundScan, Inc. All rights reserved.

BILLBOARD AUGUST 3, 2002 www.billboard.com 55 www.americanradiohistory.com .AUGUST 3 AUGUST 3 3002 TOP INTERNET ALBUM SALES TM Billboard 200 2 Billboard TOP SOUNDTRACKS.. Sales data and interne sales reports compiled by Er. Nielsen Sales data compiled by k Nielsen 3 SoundScan ó Z I- m ? SoundScan - Q ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL Title S iñ TITLE IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL

1 Week At Number 1 NUMBER 1 i'L 5 Weeks At Number)

DAVE MATTHEWS BAND HLA681v Busted 1 Stuff 1 DISNEY'S LILO & STITCH WALT DISNEY 860734

GRATEFUL DEAD GRATEFUL DEAD 14084 /ARISTA Steppin' Out With The Grateful Dead England 72 160 2 0 BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? A° LOST HIGHWAY /MERCURY 170069 /IDJMG

1 COUNTING CROWS GEFFEN493356 /INTERSCOFI Hard Candy 9 3 LIKE MIKE SO SO DEF/COLUMBIA 866161/CRG

8 JOSH GROBAN 143/REPRISE48154/WARNER BROS . 1141 Josh Groban 10 4 SPIDER -MAN ROADRUNNER/COLUMBIA 86402/IDJMG /CRG

3 BLUE NOTE NORAH JONES* 32N8/CAPITOL [N] Come Away With Me 15 5 AUSTIN POWERS IN GOLDMEMBER MAVERICK 48310/WARNER BROS.

2 RED HOT PEPPERS WARNER BROS. 4814° CHILI By The Way 4 6 5 A WALK TO REMEMBER EPIC86311

115 ISRAEL KAMAKAWIWO'OLE BIG BOY 5907/THE MOUNTAIN APPLE COMPANY Iz Alone In World 200 8 I AM SAM V227119

5 FO' REEL 017747/UNIVERSAL NELLY Nellyville 2 6 SCOOBY-DOD LAVA/ATLANTIC 83543/AG

4 AEROSMITH COLUMBIA86700/CRG 0, Yeah! Ultimate Aerosmith Hits 13 9 14 MOULIN ROUGE A2 NTERSCOPE 493035

ROBERT UNIVERSAL586962/UMRG PLANT Dreamland 40 4 11 SHREK OREAMWORKS 450305/INTERSCOPE

6 EMINEM 4 WEB /AFTERMATH4 %2%' /INTERSCOPE The Eminem Show 3 7 MR. DEEDS RCA68118

7 SOUNDTRACK A6 LOST HIGHWAY /MERCURY 170069 /IDJMG 0 Brother, Where Art Thou? 25 9 DIVINE SECRETS OF THE YA -YA SISTERHOOD DMZ/COLUMBIA 86534/CRG

3 HEM BAR NONE 0131 /KOCH Rabbit Songs - 13 COYOTE UGLY 3 CURB 78703

COLUMBIA 82273/CRG -4 MARY MARY Incredible 20 10 THE OSBOURNE FAMILY ALBUM EPIC86670

- 5 20 JOHN MAYER AWARE COLUMBIA85293' /CRG DI] Room For Squares 16 12 SPIRIT: STALLION OF THE CIMARRON A &M 493304/ INTERSCOPE

10 DMZ/COLUMBIA86534 /CRG "6 SOUNDTRACK Divine Secrets Of The Ya -Ya Sisterhood 125 15 THE SCORPION KING UNIVERSAL 017155/UMRG

'11'7 9 BONNIE RAITT CAPITOL31816 Silver Lining 145 :__ STUART LITTLE 2 EPIC 86719 -18 13 SHERYL CROW ARM 493250 / INTERSCOPE C'mon, C'mon 24 24 THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS HOLLYWOOD 162358

h'i 9 19 JACK JOHNSON ENJOY /UNIVERSAL 860994/UMRG [NJ Brushfire Fairytales 38 19 CRANK YANKERS THE BEST UNCENSORED CRANK CALLS: VOLUME 1 COMEDY CENTRAL 30001 ä - 20 THE FLAMING LIPS WARNER BROS 48141 Yoshimi 2 Battles The Pink Robots 50 20 MOULIN ROUGE 2 INTERSCOPE 493228 '2.1 17 CELINE DION EPIC 86400 A New Day Has Come 23 16 STAR WARS EPISODE II: ATTACK OF THE SONY CLASSICAL 89932 L L CLONES E2 * ' BRUCE HORNSBY RCA68024 Big Swing Face - 22 ROAD TO PERDITION DECCA 017167

23 21 THE FLATLANDERS NEW WEST 6040 [N] Now Again - 20 THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS: MORE FAST AND FURIOUS ISLAND 586631 /IDJMG

11 DOLLY PARTON BLUE EYE 3946 /SUGAR HILL Halos & Horns 103 21 THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS MURDER INCJDEF JAM 54883T /IDJMG

-, THE VINES ENGINEROOM37527' /CAPITOL Highly Evolved 11 18 SAVE THE LAST DANCE AU HOLLYWOOD 162268

Top Internet Album Sales reflects physical albums ordered though Internet merchants, based on data collected by Nielsen SoundScan. Unlike most Billboard album charts, catalog titles are included on the Internet and Soundtrack charts.Albums with the greatest sales gain this week. Recording Industry Assn. Of net America (RIM) certification for shipment of 500,000 album units (Gold). RIPA certification for net shipment of 1 million units (Platinum). RIM certification for net shipment of 10 million units (Diamond). Numeral following Platinum or Diamond symbol indicates album's multi -platinum level. For boxed sets, and double albums with a running time of 1W minutes or more, the RIM multiplies shipments by the number of discs and /or tapes. RIM Latin awards: O Certification for net shipment of 10000W units (Oro.) A Certification of 200,000 units (Platino). A' Certification of 400,000 units (Muti- Platino). "Asterisk indicates vinyl ava labte. [H] indicates past or present Heatseeker title ©2W2, VNU Business Media, Inc. and Nielsen SoundScan, Inc. All rights reserved.

u AUGUST 3 Billboard TOP P CATALOG TM u w ° Sales data compiled by N. >< w ó Nielsen W Q 3 Ñ '' h ARTIST SoundScan Title rn ti N ARTIST Title , 5 c., IMPRINT & NUMBER /DISTRIBUTING LABEL IT 5 IMPRINT & NUMBER /DISTRIBUTING LABEL .y D yy 80 Weeks At Number 1 25 23 21 DIXIE ' -J=lÇ NUMBER 1 ' -)=i E CHICKS Wide Open Spaces MONUMENT 68195/SONY (N(NASHVILLE) 110.98 Ea/17981M :1 1 1 BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS 0 Legend Ark TUFF GONG /ISLAND 548904 /I0JMG 112.98/18.%1 28 25 PHIL COLLINS e Hits FACE VALUE/ATLANTIC 83139/AG 11098/17.981 /$ GREATEST GAINER =$ 27 22 19 MADONNA 10 The Immaculate Collection SIRE 26440'/WARNER BROS. 11198/18.981 29 - DAVE MATTHEWS BAND 7 Crash RCA 66904(11.98/18. %I MII 31 32 CREED My Own Prison e 111.98/18.981IN] .3 3 4 EMINEM The Marshall Mathers LP 29 17 18 WEB /AFTERMATH 490629' / INTERSCOPE 11298/18.981 NICKEL CREEK Nickel Creek 4" SUGAR HILL 3909 116.98 COI IN] 2 _ - 6 5 DISTURBED The Sickness 26 26 EMINEM GIANT 24738/WARNER BROS. (11.98/17981 [NI 30 e The Slim Shadyy LP WEB/AFTERMATH 4 %287' / INTERSCOPE 11298/18.98) f 5 4 2 RASCAL FLATTS Rascal Flatts 31 32 27 TOM PETTY THE HEARTBREAKERS LYRIC STREET 165011/HOLLYWOOD (11.98/1898) IN] AND 9 Greatest Hits MCA 110813 11298/1898I MOP 12 15 CELINE DION 6 All The Way...A Decade Of Song 47 VARIOUS ARTISTS Body + Love 550 MUSIC 63760/EPIC 11298 E0/18.981 - Soul: Serenade ® TIME LIFE 3397 (17.98/19.98) i 7 7 7 CREED 10 Human Clay WINO -UP 13053' 33 27 17 JIMMY BUFFETT 5 Sons You Know By Heart 111.90/18.981 MCA 325633' 112.98/1898) g y

I,I. 11 5 6 DIXIE 33 30 SHANIA TWAIN X19 NC8HIICKSINIHVILLEI 02.98EO 18.98) Fly 34 Come On Over "s MERCURY (NASHVILLE) 536003 112.98/18.98) i`9 9 10 KIID ROCK Devil Without A Cause 0290/18.961114] 35 34 31 MILES DAVIS 3 Kind Of Blue .1. LEGACY /COLUMBIA 64935/CRG 1798 EOM . %1 4 DAVE MATTHEWS BAND 3 Before These Crowded Streets 35 13 X15 RCA 67600' 11198/17.981 36 PINK FLOYD Dark Side Of The Moon CAPITOL 400m 110.98/18.98) 10 3 ,- AC /DC .19 Back In Black 41 42 SYSTEM OF - FASTWEST 92418/EEG 11198/17 %1 ADOWN System Of A Down EOM % [x] 12: 8 9 EAGLES Their Greatest Hits 1971 -1975 .2' 42 LEE WOMACK I ASYLUM/ELEKTRA 105/EEG 01.98/17381 - ANN e Hope You Dance 0 MCA NASHVILLE 1700% 01.98/17981 1-3 11 8 NELLY 6 Country Grammar 38 38 EAGLES FO' REEUUNIVERSAL 157743'/UMRG 112 98/18. 981 39 Hell Freezes Over GEFFEN 424725 / INTERSCOPE 11298/18. 981 i. ' 114 13 12 BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND e Greatest Hits CAPITOL 3033411098/15.981 40 30 36 ABBA 0 Gold - Greatest Hits PULYDOR/UNIVERSAL 517007 /UMRG 112.%/18.981 S 16 20 JAMES TAYLOR .11 Greatest Hits 36 29 FLEETWOOD .< WARNER BROS. 311317, 98/11.981 41 MAC 6 Greatest Hits WARNER BROS. 25801110.98/17981 DAVE MATTHEWS BAND 6 Under The Table And Dreaming 42 37 RCA 66449111.98/17981 33 INCUBUS 2 Make Yourself IMMORTAL 63652/EPIC (12.98 E0/18981 r" HOT SHOT DEBUT 44 40 BROOKS & DUNN 3 The Greatest Hits Collection o ARISraNASUVI Et885LRLG 112.98/18381 17 DAVID BOWIE The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (30th Anniversary Edition) VIRGIN 39826 /22.98 CD/ : 44 40 28 AEROSMITH Aerosmith's Greatest Hits COLUMBIA IH 41" 98) *18 2 39 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS e Californication WARNER BROS. 47386' 110.98/17.981 49 47 QUEEN Greatest Hits HOLLYWOOD 161265111.98/17981 14 23 SUBLIME 19 6 Sublime 39 34 DAVID GRAY - GASOLINE ALLEY 111413/MCA 11298/18.981 46 White Ladder ATO 69351 /RCA 111.98/179811X] MARC %I 4O 18 - 6ANTHON Y Marc Anthony ,47 41 COLUMBIA 43 VAN HALEN 2 Best Of Volume 1 WARNER BROS. 46332 (11.98/179B1 16 '2 d21 20 METALLICA Metallica OM 37 ' ELEKT0A 61113' /EEG 111.98/179981 48 CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL 6 Chronide The 20 Greatest Hits ç; FANTASY 2' 11298/17981 r22 21 24 ENYA 2 Paint The Sky With Stars - The Best Of Enya 25 ISRAEL KAMAKAWIWO'OLE Facing REPRISE 46835/WARNER EROS. 112. % /IB 981 49 - g Future BIG BOY 5901/THE MOUNTAIN APPLE COMPANY (19 98 CD) 24 22 DEF LEPPARD 3 Vault - Greatest Hits 1980 -1995 50 44 2PAC 1. MERCURY 528718/10JMG 11198/18.981 e Greatest Hits AMARU/DEATH ROW 490301' /INTERSCOPE 11998/24981 X24 15 14 THE BEACH BOYS The Greatest Hits Volume 1: 20 Good Vibrations CAPITOL 21860 (10.98/17.981

Atbl.Tns with the greatest sales gains this week. Catalog albums are 2- year -old titles that have fallen below No. 100 on The Billboard 2W or reissues of older albums. Total Weeks column reflects combined weeks title has appeared on The Billboard 200 and Top Pop Catalog Albums. Recording Industry Assn. Of America (RIM) certification for net ship- ment ot500.000 album units (Gold). RIM certification for net shipment of 1 million units (Platinum). RIAA certification for net shipment of 10 million units (Diamond). Numeral following Platinum or Diamond symbol indicates album's multi -platinum level. For boxed sets, and double albums with a mining time of 100 minutes or more, the RIM multiplies shipments by the number of discs and/or tapes. RIM latin awards: o Certification for net shipment of 100,000 units (Oro). A Certification of 200,000 units (Platino). A' Certification of 400,000 units (Multi- Platino). 'Asterisk indicates vinyl LP is available. Most tape prices, and CD prices for BMG and WEA labels, are suggested lists. Tape prices marked E0, and ail other CD prices, are equivalent prices, which are projected from wholesale prices. Greatest Gainer Shows charts largest unit increase. [N] indicates past Heatseeker title. 02002. VNU Business Media, Inc., and Nielsen SoundScan, Inc. All rights reserved.

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MO 7 Avant: Bzoo 128; RBA 35; Hioo 87; RA 49, 69; Craig Chaquico: CJ 15 Rocio Durcal: LA 28; LPA 9 The Hives: Bzoo 72; Hioo 86; Chart Codes: RBH 5o, 68 Ray Charles: HSS 9; RBH 84; RS 4 Dwele: Hioo 90; H55 52; RA 35; RBH 35; RP 24; Billie Holiday: JZ 23 -ALBUMS- Ramon Ayala Y Sus Bravos Del Norte: LA 32, 61; Chayanne: HS lo; LA 2; LPA 1; LPS 1; LT 1; T55 RS 32 Dave Hollister: RA 53; RBH 52 BL 9 The Billboard 200 (8200) RMA i8; LT 19; RMS 3 The Chemical Brothers: DC 39 Rick Holmstrom: Bluegrass (BG) Steve Azar: CA 5o; CS 19, 6o; Hioo 7o; HA 66 Cher: 1320o 192; DC 9, 36; DS 4; HSS 35 E Steve Holy: CA 47 MO 2; RO Blues (BL) AZ: Bzoo 118; RBA 24; RA 67; RBH 67 Kenny Chesney: B200 22, 126; CA 2, 13; CS 1; E -40: Bzoo 28; RBA 6; RBH 85 Hoobastank: Bzoo 69; Rioo 58; HA 6o; ti Classical(CL) Hioo 23; HA 23 Eagles: PCA 12, 39 John Lee Hooker: BL 15 Wind & Fire: RBC 24 Bruce Hornsby: INT 22 Classical Crossover (CX) Mark Chesnutt: CA 48; CS zo Earth, Hioo HA 53; HSS 31; MO 32; RO 24 Earshot: MO 23; RO 6 Whitney Houston: HSS 29 Contemporary Christian (CC) 82K: Bzoo 89; RBA 47; 56; Chevelle: RBH 32 Lynn CS 32 RA 31; RBH 31; RS 54 Chicago: Bzoo 51 Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott: RA 32; Rebecca Howard: Country (CA) Hutchins: CC 33; GA 12; HS IND 38 Bad Religion: IND 49 Chicos De Barrio: LA 65 El -P: RS 69 Norman 47; Country Catalog (CCA) Baha Men: WM 2, 9 The Chieftains: WM 5 El Shaber: RA 67; RBH 67 Electronic (EA) Anita Baker: Bzoo 157; RBA 34 Choobakka: RBA 98 Emerson Drive: CA 45; CS 41; HSS 64 RA RBH Gospel (GA) Chet Baker: JZ 19 Chuck -N- Blood: HSS 11; RBH 90; RS 8 Eminem: B200 3; INT 11; PCA 3, 3o; RBA 2; RBC 4, Ice Cube: 61; 64 HA 6, RA Enrique Iglesias: Bzoo Heatseekers (HS) Chary Baltimore: Hioo 8, 84; HA 8; RA 3, 44; RBH Charlotte Church: CX 6 n; Hioo 6, 54; 5o; MO 29; 33, 57, 45; A40 35; AC 4, 3o RBH 74, RP 11, 15; T4o 5, 32; iio: DS 6; HSS Independent (IND) 3, 44; RP 3,17; T4o 26 Cipha Sounds: Bzoo 167; RBA 37 72; 33, 61, 82; 42 Illicit Binznez: HSS 18; RBH 97; RS 15 Internet (INT) Banda Arkangel R -15: RMS 35 Cirrus: DC 3o TSS 38 The Emmanuels: GA 29 Incubus: B2oo 76; PCA 42; MO 4 jazz OZ) Banda El Recodo: LA 52; LT 22; RMS 5 Dorinda Clark -Cole: CC 15; GA 6; HS 14 Engelina: DS 9; HSS 6o India: DC 33 (C/) Banda Tierra Blanca: LT 18; RMS The Clipse: Hioo 34; HA 33; HSS 24; RA 12; RBH Contemporary Jazz RBA Buju Banton: RE 9 12; RP 8; RS 11 Kim English: DC 14 IndiaArie: 8200 90; 6o Latin Albums (LA) 29; HA 29; HSS 2o; RA 13; Ana Barbara: LT 48; RMS 38 Rosemary Clooney: JZ 21 Enya: Bzoo 117; NA 1; PCA 22; AC 19 Infamous 2.0: H1oo Latin: Latin Pop (LPA) Pancho Barraza: RMS 3o C- Murder: RBA88 Epidemic: RO 36 RBH 11; RP9; RS 7 Mexican (RMA) Latin: Regional Basement Jaxx: EA 19; DC 38 Tammy Cochran: CS 38 Euge Groove: CJ 13 Injected: RO 40 Latin: Tropical/Salsa (TSA) Intocable: LA 21; RMA 11; LT 20, RMS 4, 20 BBMak: A4o 33; T40 39 Kellie Coffey: Bzoo 134; CA 15; CS 14, 57; Hioo Faith Evans: RA 32; RBH 32, 81; RS 40 43; GA 18 Los Invasores de Nuevo Leon: LA 66 New Age (NA) The Beach Boys: PCA 24 78; HA 74 Rev. Clay Evans And The AARC Mass Choir: RP 3; T4o 26 Po at P Beanie Sigel: HSS 46; RA 63; RBH 58; RS 26 Coldplay: A4o 36; MO 28 Sara Evans: B2oo 196; CA 23; CS 12; Hioo 63; HA 59 Iry Gotti: Hioo 8; HA 8; RA 3; RBH 3; The Beatles: Bzoo 149 Phil Collins: PCA 26 Eve: Hioo 21; HA 21; RA 17; RBH 18; RP 1o; T4o 21 Isyss: HSS 6; RBH 75; RS 6 Eversole: Bzoo 158; RBA 28; RA 68; RBH 7o op CïrTWog (RBC) Daniel Bedingfield: Hioo 46; HA 47; T4o 22 John Coltrane: JZ 18 Archie Reggae (RE) Beenie Man: Hioo 65; HA 64; RA 41; RBH 42; RP 22 Commissioned: GA 19 Joshua Bell: CL 4 Conjunto Primavera: LA 58; LT 41; RMS 18, 27 Oris J: DC 20 World Music (WM) Alan Jackson: B200 48; CA 62; CCA 11; CS 16, 28 Tony Bennett: JZ 7 Harry Connick, Jr.: JZ 10,14 Lara Fabian: LPS 36 4, -SINGLES- RP zo Janet Jackson: Hioo 65; HA 64; RA 41; RBH RP 22 Beyonce: DC 49 Control: LA 64; RMS 25 Fabolous: RA 38, 46; RBH 38, 47, 85; 42; Hot wo (Hioo) Michael Jackson: RBH loo Big Boy: Hum 89; RA 42; RBH 41; RP 23; RS 55 Coo Coo Cal: IND 22; RBA 44; HSS 18; RBH 97; RS 15 The Faculty: HS 17; IND 25 (HA) HSS 6; RBH 75; RS 6 Hot zoo Airplay Big Huss: RBH 89 Copa Cat Pack: JZ 21 Faithless: DC 35; DS 24 Jadakiss: RA 38; RP zo Hot loo Singles Soles (HSS) Big Kahuna:JZ 21 Corey: HSS 57; RS 66 Fat Joe: H1oo 27; HA 26; HSS 48; RP 18; RS 25; Jagged Edge: 38; RBH 181; RBA 42; RA 26; RBH 26 Adult Contemporary (AC) Big Logic: RS 29 Cormega: IND 28; RBA 89 140 17 Jaheim: Bzoo Adult Top 4o (A4o) BigTymers: B200 26; RBA 13; Hioo 14; HA 14; The Corrs: B200 155; A40 18 Michael Feinstein: JZ 11 Bishop T.D. Jakes: GA 25 & The Potter's House Mass Country (CS) HSS 51; RA lo; RBH lo; RP 6; RS 21; 140 29 Norty Cotto: DC 18 Vicente Fernandez: LA 14, 25; RMA 6,14 Bishop T.D. Jakes Diva: DC 32 Choir: GA Dance/Club Play (DC) Clint Black: CA 64 Counting Crows: B200 9; I NT 3; A4o 24 Fierce Ruling 34 Jose Manuel Figueroa: LT 35; RMS 19 BoneyJames: Cl 6; RBA99 Dance/Sales (D5) Mary J. Blige: Bzoo 87; RBA 38; RBC 16,18; DC 6; El Coyote Y Su Banda Tierra Santa: LT 31; RM514 Hioo 82; RA 39; RBH 39; RS 63 Creed: B200 41; PCA 7, 28; A40 14; Hioo 36; HA Filter: DC 40; D512; Hioo 98; MO 13; RO 16 Etta James: BL 4 Hot Latin Tracks (LT) Blink -182: Bzoo 190 40; MO 21; RO 15; T4o 3o Bob Fitts: CC 36 Etta James & The Roots Band: BL 1 Latin: Latin Pop (LPS) Tim Janis: NA 4 Andrea Bocelli: CL 5; CX 1 Creedence Clearwater Revival: PCA 48 Five For Fighting: AC 3 Latin: Regional Mexican (RMS) Michael Bolton: AC 17 Elvis Crespo: LA 12; TSA 2; LPS 22; LT 21; TSS 5 The Flaming Lips: Bzoo 5o; INT 20 Jars Of Clay: CC 28 DC 6; 8, 84; Latin: Tropical/Salsa (TSS) Bond: CX 12 Cristian: LPS 8,16; LT 13 The Flatlanders: CA 24; HS 6; IND 14; INT 23 Ja Rule: Bzoo 74; RBA 43; Hioo 82, R HA 8; RA RBH 3, 17; &8 Hip -Hop (RBH) BoneThugs -N- Harmony: RBC 9 Sheryl Crow: Bzoo z4; I NT 18; A4o 2; AC 14; Hioo Flaw: HS9 3, 39, 44; 3, 39, 44; RP R&B Hip -Hop Airplay (RA) Bono: A4o 18 22; HA 22; 140 13 Fleetwood Mac: PCA 41 RS 63; T4o 26 RBC zo; HSS 46, 69; RA 63; RBH R &B Hip -Hop Singles Sales (RS) Chris Botti: Ci 8 Celia Cruz: LA 37; TSA 6; TSS zo Flogging Molly: HS 32; IND 32 Jay -Z: RBA 79; LT 58, 86, 87, 91; RS 26, Rap Tracks (RP) Bounty Killer: RE6,12 Cuisillos De Arturo Macias: LA 55; LT 38; RM516 Luis Fonsi: DC 24; LPS 19, 37; 42 37, 68, 73 Jaz -O: RS 51 Mainstream Rock (RO) David Bowie: Bzoo 140; PCA 17 Jose Cura: CL 10 Seb Fontaine: EA 18 Robben Ford: BL 12 Jazzanova: EA 17 Modern Rock (MO) Box Car Racer: B200 92; MO 12 Boyz II Men: RBH 81, 83; RS 40 Foxy Brown: RA 7o; RBH 72 lazze Pha: RS 47 Top 4o Tracks (T4o) HA 67; Michelle Branch: Bzoo 68; A4o 13, 38; Hioo 32; Da Brat: RS 27 Kirk Franklin: 820o 106; CC 5; GA 2; RBA 33 Wyclef Jean: Bzoo 63; RBA 21; Him 39; HA 3o; T4o 14 Daddy Yankee: LA 47; LPA 14 Freekey Zekey: RA 64; RBH 66 HSS 1; RA 24; RBH 16; RS 1 Rankings from biweekly charts are listed in Brandy: Bzoo 64; RBA 3o; DS 11; Hioo 47; HA 51; Da Fam: RS 56 Nnenna Freelon: JZ 9 Waylon Jennings: CA 42 Jim Crow: RS 47 italics during a chart's unpublished week. RA 34; RBH 34; RS 43; T40 38 Daft Punk: EA 16 Freeway: RS 58 The Braxton Brothers: Cl 25 Michael Damian: DS 5; HSS 40 Frost: RBA 85 Jose Alfredo Jimenez: LA 49, 53 Jimmy Eat B200 37; A40 3; H1oo 12, 79; Breaking Benjamin: RO 35 Damozel: HS5 7o Frou Frou: DC 28 World: MO Michael Brecker: JZ 3 The Charlie Daniels Band: CCA 23 Full Intention: DC 7 HA u, 75; 3;1409 RBH 3o 12 Stones: Bzoo 188; HS 4 Lincoln Brewster: CC 25; HS 26 Dashboard Confessional: B200 130; HS 2, 39; Fundisha: RA 46; RBH 47 Joe: RBA 83; Hioo 88; RA 3o; 2002: NA 12 B Rich: RBA 68; HSS 61; RA 62; RBH 6o; RS 24 IND9 Elton John: AC 23 AC 18; CS 2Pac: PCA 50; RBC 2, 3, 7,10 Jim Brickman: NA 3 Craig David: Bzoo 85; RBA 75; Hioo 67; HA 69; G Carolyn Dawn Johnson: CA 37; 49 311: B200 142; A40 32; MO 17 Sarah Brightman: CX 7, 8,11 140 31 Gada: RS 33 Jack Johnson: Bzoo 38; INT 19; A4o 15; Hioo 75; CX 4; HS HA 72; MO 24 3LW: H100 94, 95; HSS 63, 66; RA 6o; RBH 59; RS The Bright Star Male Chorus: GA 37 Miles Davis: PCA 35 James Galway: 44 Johnson & The Spiritual 28, 42 Brian Bromberg: JZ 25 Howie Day: HS 23 The Get Up Kids: IND 45 Keith "Wonderboy" IND 17 3rd Strike: B200 199 Brooks & Dunn: Bzoo 129; CA 14; CCA 7; PCA 43; The Dayton Family: IND 3o; RBA 82 Ginuwine: Hioo 4, 69; HA 4, 65; H5S 36; RA 2,19; Voices: GA 5; HS 7; 3rd Force: Cl 24 CS 6; Hioo 55; HA 52 Default: Bzoo 81; IND 3; A4o 2o; Hioo 3o; HA 31; RBH 2, 21; RP 2; RS 17; T4o 12 Brent Jones + T.P. Mobb: GA 14; RBA 64 Garth Brooks: CA 32; CCA zo; CS 25 MO 18; RO 8; 140 25 Glassjaw: Bzoo 164 Donell Jones: 8200 42; RBA 7; Hioo 72; HA 71; RA The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir: GA 33 Def Leppard: PCA 23; RO 34 Godsmack: MO 33; RO 4 22; RBH 24; RS 57 Aaliyah: Bzoo 147; RBA 52; DC 5o; RA 28; RBH 29 Jocelyn Brown: DC 25 Delsena: DC zo Jeff Golub: Cl 18 George Jones: CCA 24 HS Norah Jones: Bzoo 15; Cl 1; INT 5; A4o 22 Abba: PCA 40 Norman Brown: CJ 2; HS 16; RBA 59 Dem Ghetto Playa$: RS 31 Good Charlotte: 43 12, HS 46; IND 37; RBA 41 AC /DC: PCA 11 Jimmy Buffett: IND 19; PCA 33 Kevin Denney: CA 70; CS 40 Goo Goo Dolls: B200 144; A4o 3o; Hioo 8o; Sir Charles Jones: Bryan Adams: AC 5 Los Bukis: LA 6o John Denver: CCA 8 T4o 40 Richard joo: CL 6 2; LPS 3; LT 4; TSS 2 Yolanda Adams: Bzoo 175; CC lo; GA 4, 40; RBA Rafy Burgos "El Cupido": TSS 3o Desert: DC 34 Gorillaz: Bzoo 156; EA 6 juanes: HS 15; LA 4; LPA 5o; RA 74: RBH 77 Richard Burton: HSS 58 Franco De Vita: LPS 31; LT 49 Govi: NA 9 Cledus T. Judd: CA 46 Adema: MO 36; RO 28 Busta Rhymes: RA 40; RBH 40; RP 19; RS 45 Louie DeVito: EA9; IND 18 Amy Grant: B200 97; CC 3 The Judds: CCA 15 Trace Adkins: CA 25; CS 17; Hioo 81 Jonathan Butler: CJ 9 Dhany: DC 8 El Gran Combo De Puerto Rico: LA 22; TSA 4; 15512 Juicy I: Bzoo 93; IND 4; RBA 17 INT 2 RBC 14 Aerosmith: B2oo 13; INT 9; PCA 44; HSS 28; RO Tracy Byrd: CA 28; CS 11; Hioo 6o; HA 55 Diamond Rio: CA 52; CS 21 Grateful Dead: Bzoo 16o; Juvenile: 33 Dido: AC 15; DC 35; DS 1o, 24 Gravediggaz: RBA 81 JXL: A4o 29; H100 53; HSS 3 Pepe Aguilar: LPS 32 Ricky Dillard: DC 41 David Gray: PCA 46 .+. Alabama: CS 54 C.3.0: HSS 59; RS 39 Daz Dillinger: Bzoo 168; IND 11; RBA 25 Al Green: RBC 17 K Alberto Y Roberto: LT 3o; RMS 13 Cabas: TSS 28 Celine Dion: B2oo 23; INT 21; PCA 6; AC 1,16; Green Day: Bzoo no Kaci: HS 5o Bzoo 200; IND 13; INT 7; Gerald Albright: CJ 4; HS 31 Cage: RS 72 HSS 45 Lee Greenwood: CCA 22; HSS 75 Israel Kamakawiwo'Ole: PCA 49; WM Gary Allan: Bzoo 114; CA 1o; CCA lo; CS 3; Hioo Chris Cagle: CA 29; HS 13; CS 35 Dirty Vegas: B200 32; EA 1; A4o 21; DS 2; H1oo Pat Green: CA 36 37; HA 32 Maria Callas: CL 13 28; HA 38; HSS 33; T4o zo; T55 39 Andy Griggs: 8200151; CA 19; CS lo; Hioo 57; HA 54 The Katinas: CC 29; HS 36 HSS 73 Herb Alpert: CJ 22 The Calling: B200 179; A40 7, 31; AC 25; Hioo 35; Dishwalla: A40 26 Josh Groban: B2oo 10; INT 4; AC 2 Kortney Kayle: Aly -Us: DC 12 HA 36; HSS 14 Disturbed: PCA 4 Grupo Bryndis: LA 1o, 31; RMA 5,17 Ronan Keating: HSS 38 Amber: DC 4 Jaime Camil: LPS 3o; TSS 33 Dixie Chicks: CCA 2, 3; PCA 8, 25; CS 5; Hioo 40; Grupo Montez De Durango: RMS 37 Toby Keith: Bzoo 120; CA 11; CCA 14, 21; CS 2, 59; HA 24 Amerie: H1oo 38; HA 34; RA 14, 71; RBH 13, 73 Cam'ron: Bzoo 39; RBA 16; Hioo 9; HA 9; HSS 44, HA 35 Juan Luis Guerra 440: TSA 18 Hioo 25; HSS RA 27; RBH 28, AMG: RBH 95 69; RA 7, 64; RBH 7, 66, 91; RP 4; RS 23, 37; DJ Babu: RS 59 Buddy Guy: BL 13 R. Kelly: RBA 79; RBC 22; 32; Anastacia: Bzoo 78; DC 46 T4o 19 DJ Marc Aurel: DC 48 87; RS 46, 68, 73 esse swn RBH 93; RS 9 Jade Anderson: HSS 53 Los Canelos De Durango: LT 34; RMS 15 DJ Encore: B200 194; EA 7; HS 5; IND 12; DS 9; H Kemi: HSS 13; Jessica Andrews: CA 72 The Canton Spirituals: GA 11; HS 37 HSS 6o Hailie Jade: RA 72; RBH 74 Alicia Keys: B200 86; RBA 55; Hioo 21; HA 21; RA RP 1o; 21 Andy Andy: TS510 Blu Cantrell: RS 71 DJ Irene: EA 13 Daryl Hall John Oates: AC 6 17, 75; RBH 18, 80; T4o 47; RBH 45; RP 25 IND 1; RBA 15; H1oo HA 41; RA Los Angeles Azules: LA 3o; RMA 16 Jerry Cantrell: B200 172; RO 23 DJ Paul: HS 19; IND 26; RBA 57 Anthony Hamilton: Hioo 92; RA Khia: Bzoo 33; 42; Los Angeles De Charly: RMS 33 Cardenales De Nuevo Leon: LA 45; LT 29; RM512 DJ Quik: 8200 183; RBA 36; RBH 95 Erin Hamilton: DC 17 23; RBH zo; RP 12 Marc Anthony: 8200 36; LA 9; PCA 20; TSA i; AC The Caribbean Jazz Project: JZ 22 DJ Sammy: DS 1; Hioo 11; HA 13; HSS 4; 140 4 Herbie Hancock: JZ 3 Angelique Kidjo: WM 4; DC 43 PCA 9 7, 27; DC 37; Hioo 93; LT 23; TSS 3, 23 Vanessa Carlton: B2oo 30; A40 4; AC 9; Hioo 13; DJ Shadow: EA 8; D51.6 Roland Hanneman: NA 15 Kid Rock: B2oo 75; Aphrodite: EA 21 HA 12; T40 10 DJ Tuesto: DC 27 Jennifer Hanson: CS 58 Kidz Bop Kids: B200 197 Aracely Arambula: LA 51; LT 45; RMS 23 Kurt Carr & The Kurt Carr Singers: CC 34; GA 13; DMX: RBC 21 The Happy Boys: B200 135; EA 5; HS 3 K.M.C.: DC 8 David Arkenstone: NA 10 HS 49 Do: DS 1; Hioo 11; HA 13; HSS 4; 140 4 Paul Hardcastle: Cl 12 Kodo: WM 13 MO 15, 26; RO 14,19 Louis Armstrong: JZ 24 Jose Carrera: CL 1 Dominic: 15514 Roy Hargrove: JZ 3 Kom: B20018; Hioo too; Aroma: RMS 36 Rodney Carrington: CA 58 Placido Domingo: CL Corey Harris: BL u Diana Krall: B200 170; JZ 1 Ashanti: Bzoo 8; RBA 5; H1oo 8,16,17, 27, 73; HA Enrico Caruso: CL 14 Don Won: H55 41; RS 22 I. Michael Harter: CS 48 Alison Krauss: Bzoo 169; BG 3; CA 21; CCA 19 8,15,18, 26, 70; HSS 37; RA 3, 6, 20, 25; Brandon Casey: HSS 5; RA 65; RBH 43; RS z Jerry Douglas: BG 12 Hayseed Dixie: BG 1o; CA 75 Lenny Kravitz: Bzoo 176 RBH 3, 6, 23, 25; RP 3, 18; RS 16; 140 15, 17, Brian Casey: HSS 5; RA 65; RBH 43; RS 2 Will Downing: CJ 3; RBA 78 Eric Heatherly: CS 44 Kreo': DC 16 5; RO 26, 36 Johnny Cash: CCA 17 Down To The Bone: CJ 10 Hem: INT 13 Chad Kroeger: A4o 5; Hioo 5; HA MO 9; 5; Vladimir Ashkenazy: CL 8 Butch Cassidy: RA 61; RBH 64 Dr. Dre: RBC 13,15 Ty Herndon: CA 55; CS 55 140 3 A*Teens: B200 137 Cassius: DC 25 Dropline: A4o 25 Elder Jimmy Hicks And The Voices Of Integrity: Kronos Quartet: CX 15 Rodney Atkins: CS 39 Cee -Lo: Bzoo 187; RBA 49; Hioo 89; RA 42; RBH Drowning Pool: B200 178; RO 39 GA 23 Kutless: CC35 Los LPS 28 Ben MO 34 Audio Adrenaline: CC 40 41; RP 23; RS 55 DSD: B200 33; IND 1; RBA 15; Hioo 42; HA 41; RA Hidalgo: Kweller: Audiovent: HS 12; MO 19; RO 9 Celeda: DC 10 23; RBH 20; RP 12 Faith Hill: CCA 9 swr Patti Austin: IZ 16 Kasey Chambers: CA 6o Lucky Dube: RE 14 Lauryn Hill: Bzoo 121; RBA 58 id Avalon: EA 25 Steven Curtis Chapman: CC 14 Jermaine Dupri: RA 46; RBH 47 Nicola Hitchcock: DC 27 Lade Bac: RA 55; RBH 56

BILLBOARD AUGUST 3, 2002 www.billboard.com 57 www.americanradiohistory.com AUGUS2D02T3 (continued Billboard ARTIST 1 II DE)(I. Lady May: RS 71 Montgomery Gentry: CA 54; CS 31 Carlos Ponce: LPS 29 Bubba Sparxxx: RA 68; RBH 7o Wilco: B200 177 Rachael 37 Lampa: CC Coco Montoya: BL 3 Donato Poveda: LPS 11; LT 17; TSS 13 Britney Spears: Bzoo 101 Doug Williams: GA 21 Lasgo: DS 13 Morcheeba: HS 8 Elvis Presley: CA 39; IND 47; A4o 29; Hioo 53; Splender: A4o 40 Hank Williams Jr.: CA 53; CCA 13 RBA 92 Lathun: Alan is Morissette: Bzoo 152; A40 17 HSS 3, 56 Bruce Springsteen: A4o 19; Hioo 52; HSS 2; RO 26 Hank Williams Ill: CA 74 Cyndi Lauper: IND 42 Van Morrison: B200 162 Pretty Willie: RS 74 Staind: B200 127; MO 20, 3o; RO 12, 37 John Williams: CL 11 Avril Lavigne: 1; Bzoo 5; A40 Hioo 2; HA 2; T4o 1; Lou Mosley: HSS 22; RBH 99; RS 19 Prodigy: DS 7; HSS 21 Ralph Stanley: BG 4; CA 34; HS 40 John Williams: CX 2 TSS 40 Pete Moss: DC 13 Proyecto Uno: TSA 12 Brenda K. Starr: TSA lo; LT 47; TSS 11, 21 Melvin Williams: GA 21 Donald Lawrence The Tri -City GA 15 & Singers: Brandy Moss -Scott: HSS 7; RBH 79; RS 3 Puddle Of Mudd: 8200 55; A40 11; Hioo 31, 71; The Starting Line: Bzoo 109; HS l Michelle Williams: Bzoo 133; CC 7; GA 3; RBA 26 Sasha Lazard: CX 14 Mr. Cheeks: HSS 16; RS 18 HA 28, 68; MO RO 6; 1,18;140 27 Tommy Shane Steiner: CA 56; CS 43 Pharrell Williams: RA 40; RBH 40; RP 19; RS 45 Chris LeDoux: CA 59, 68 Mr. Choc: 8200 167; RBA 37 Puerto Rican Power: TSA 16; 15516 Curtis Stigers: JZ zo Vanessa Williams: GA 24; RBA 96 Tommy Lee: RO zo Mr. C The Slide Man: RS 50 Bobby Pulido: RMS 4o Rebecca St. James: CC 27 Cassandra Wilson: JZ 2, 5 Glenn Lewis: RBA Nicole C. CC HS 77 Mullen: 23; 29 Angie Stone: Bzoo 191; RBA 61; RA 48; RBH 49 Nancy Wilson: JZ 17 Ramsey Lewis: JZ 17 Samantha Mumba: MSS 5o George Strait: CA 3o, 33; CS 9, 56; Hioo 51; HA 48 BeBe Winans: GA 36 LA 71 LaLey: Shirley Murdock: GA 39 Que Bo Gold: HSS 43; RS 38 Strik 9ine: RS 65 CeCe Winans: GA 26 Liberacion: RMS 34 Mushroomhead: HS 42 Queen: PCA 45 The Strokes: B200146; HSS 55 Mario Winans: H1oo 4; HA 4; HSS 36; RA 2; RBH CL 2 Salvitore Licitra: Musiq: 8200 59; RBA 18; Hioo 26; HA 25; RA 8; A.B. Quintanilla Y Los Kumbia Kings: LA n; LPA Michael Stuart: TSS 25 2; RP 2; RS 17; 14o 12 Ottmar Liebert: NA 6, 8 RBH 8 5; RMS 39 Styles: Bzoo 7; RBA 3; H1oo 68; HA 63; RA 18; The Winans: GA 27 Lifer's: RS 7o MxPx: CC 32 RBH 19, 98; RP 13 Wolverine: HSS 11; RBH 90; RS 8 Lil Bow Wow: Bzoo 174; HSS 67; RA 46; RBH 47 Mystikal: RBA 56; Hioo 29; HA 29; HSS zo; RA Sublime: PCA 19 Lee Ann Womack: CCA 6; PCA 38; AC 12; CS 27 Lil D: RS 64 13; RBH 11; RP 9; RS 7 Rabanes: LPS 33; TSS 29 Sugarcult: HS 33; IND 33 Won -G: RS 27 Lil' J: RS 75 Bonnie Raitt: B200 145; INT 17; AC 28 Keith Sweat: RBC 25; RA 55; RBH 56 Darryl Worley: Bzoo 21; CA 1; CS 7; Hioo 49; HA 45 Lil' Mo: Hioo 83; RA 52; RBH 53; RP 21; RS 49 Rakim: Hioo zo; HA 19; HSS 74; RA 11; RBH 14; Swing: RBH 89 Lit' Romeo: HSS 57; RS 66 Nappy Roots: Bzoo 52; RBA 19; H100 92; RA 47; RS 34; T4o 33 System Of A Down: Bzoo 46; PCA 37; MO 8; RO 7 sMEN Lit Ru: RS 61 RBH 45; RP 25 Rascal Flatts: CCA 1; PCA 5; CS 33 X-Press 2: DC 26 Lit' Tykes: HSS 41; RS 22 Nas: Bzoo 123, 193; RBA 53, 69; Hioo lo; HA lo; Rayvon: HS zo; RBA 65; RE 2; HSS 62 Lil Wayne: Hioo 77; HSS 39; RA 29; RBH 27; RP RA 50, 71; RBH 51, 73; RS 52; T4o 6 Los Razos de Sacramento Y Reynaldo: LA 34, 36; Tabla Beat Science: WM 11 16; RS zo Natas: RBA 93 RMA 19, zo Take 6: GA 31 Yanni: NA 11,13 Linkin Park: Bzoo 61; RS 59 Nature: IND 15; RBA32; RBH 94 Matt Redman: CC 38 Talib Kweli: HSS 65; RS 44 Yanou: DS 1; Hioo 11; HA 13; HSS 4; T4o 4

Little Big Town: CS 45 Naughty By Nature: IND 16; RBA 40; Hioo 94; Red Hot Chili Peppers: Bzoo 4; I NT 6; PCA 18; Tank: RA 59; RBH 63 Yasmeen: HSS 49; RBH 78; RS 3o German LT Lizarraga: 28; RMS 9 HSS 63; RS 42 Hioo 41; HA 37; MO 1; RO 2 James Taylor: PCA 15; AC zo Trisha Yearwood: CA 65; CS 53 LL Cool J: RA 73; RBH 76 McShell Ndegeocello: RBA 97; DS 25 Los Rehenes: LA 75 LosTemerarios: Bzoo 119; IND 8; LA 1, 6, 74; RMA YingYangTwins: 3200 139; IND lo; RBA 45; H1oo Chuck Loeb: CJ 17 Nek: LPS 17; LT 36 Relient K: CC 31; HS 45 1, 3; LPS 40; LT 12; RMS 6 97 London Symphony Orchestra: CX 2 Nelly: Bzoo 2; INT 8; PCA 13; RBA 1; RBC 5; Hioo Res: DS 15 Tempo: LPS 22; LT 21; TSS 5 Yohany: D514 Lonestar: 8200 136; CA 16; CCA 25; AC 11; CS 4; 1, 3; HA 1, 3; HSS 8, 12; RA 1, 9; RBH 1, 9; RP R.H. Factor: DC 42 The Temptations: RBC 23 Young Chris: RS 58 Hioo 5o; HA46 1, 5; RS 5, 48; T4o 2, 7 Riddlin' Kids: MO 40 Tenacious D: B200 159 Loon: Hioo 4, 24, 95; HA 4, 27; HSS 36, 66; RA 2, Willie Nelson: CA 31; CCA 12; CS 50, 59 Los Rieleros Del Norte: LA 67 Terra Deva: DC 13 z 37, 60; RBH 2, 36, 59; RP 2,14; RS 17, 28; N *E *R *D *: Bzoo 73; RBA 48; MO 39 LeAnn Rimes: CA 40; AC 24; HSS 27 John Tesh: 8200 154; CC 8; NA z Charlie Zaa: LA 54; LPA 17 140 12, 23 Ann Nesby: RBA 87; DC 41 Jerry Rivera: LPS 39; LT 15; TSS 4 Jimmy Thackery & The Drivers: BL 8 Zao: CC 21; HS 25 Jennifer Lopez: 8200 79, 184; RBA 72; AC 22; DC New Found Glory: Bzoo 47; MO n Lupillo Rivera: RMS 32 Thalia: HS 18; LA 5; LPA 3; LPS 12; LT 7; RMS 22; Zero 7: EA 12; IND 50 22; Hioo 10; HA lo; RA 5o; RBH 51; T4o 6 New G: DC 41 RJD2: RS 6o 1SS 37 Zoegirt: CC 24; HS 3o Patty Loveless: BG 7; CA 44 Newsboys: CC 17 RL: Bzoo 153; RBA 22; RA 51; RBH 54 Third Day: CC 13 Rob Zombie: RO 22 LovHer: DC 29; RBH 71 Next: RA 26; RBH 26 Woody Rock: GA 35 Cyndi Thomson: CA 41; CS 47 Ludacris: B200 54; RBA 23; H1oo 29; HA 29; HSS Joe Nichols: CS 15; Hioo 61; HA 58; HSS 23 Daniel Rodriguez: CX 5 Thursday: HS 24; IND 27 zo; RA 13; RBH 11; RP 9; RS 7 Sheila Nicholls: A4o 39 Kenny Rogers: CA 67 T.I.: RBA 94 Nickel Creek: CCA 4; PCA 29 Tito Rojas: TSS 32 Los Tigrillos: LT 44; RMS 21 Nickelback: Bzoo 57; A40 9, 34; Hioo 45; HA 44; Rosabel: DC 2 Timbaland: RBH 88 Yo -Yo Ma: CL 3, 11; CX 3 MO 38; RO 13 Joann Rosario: GA 38 tobyMac: CC 22; HS 27 Timo Maas: DC 3 Tito Nieves: LT 47; TSS n Kelly Rowland: Hioo 3; HA 3; RA 9; RBH 9; RP 5; Tonex: GA 16 Mackio: RA61; RBH 64 Nivea: HSS 5; RA 65; RBH 43; RS 2 T4o 7 Tool: Bzoo 186; RO io SOUNDTRACKS.C. S Mad At Gravity: HS 41 No Doubt: Bzoo 53; A40 1o; Hioo HA 18 Rozelly: RS 56 33; 39; 140 Diego Torres: LPS 34; 155 35 Amelie: WM 7 Mad Dreadz: HSS 11; RBH 9o; RS 8 NOFX: IND 31 Paulina Rubio: Bzoo DC 23; 8o; DS 19; Hioo 91; Tower Of Power: CJ zo Austin Powers In Goldmember: Bzoo 56; RBA Madonna: PCA 27; DS 23 No Good: HSS 26; RBH 96; RS 13 LPS 7; LT 5; TSS 8 Toya: RA 64; RBH 66 62; STX 5 Magnate &Valentino: LA 48; LPA 15 RO 38 23 Nonpoint: Rubyhorse: A4o Train: AC 13 Bad Company: RBA 8o Mana: LPS lo; LT 9; TSS 22 N.O.R.E.: Bzoo 27; RBA Hioo 19; HA 16; HSS Ruff Endz: RBA 54; Hioo HA 61; HSS 58; RA 8; 64; Trick Daddy: Hioo 89; RA 42; RBH 41; RP 23; RS A Beautiful Mind: CX 10 Barry Manilow: Bzoo 105 19; RA RBH 4; RP 7; RS 12 16; RBH 17 4; 55 Black Hawk Down: WM 6 Manny Manuel: LA 26; TSA 5; LPS 24; LT 24; TSS 6 Norful: GA 17 Tammy Hioo HA Smokie Ruggeri: 4; 4; HSS 36; RA 2; RBH Trick Pony: Bzoo 180; CA 22 Blade II: EA 20 Victor Manuelle: LT 47; TSS Willie Norwood: GA zo 2; RP 2; RS 17; T4o 12 Trik Turner: MO 37 Bob The Builder: The Album: IND 40 Et Claude: DC 47 No HSS Rush: Bzoo 182; RO Secrets: to 25 Trina: HSS 71; RBH 92; RS 36 El Clon: LA 5o; LPA 16 Mario: Hioo 7; HA 7; H55 25; RA 5; RBH 5; RS lo; The Notorious B.I.G.: RBC 8, 12; RS 53, 62 TrinyY La Leyenda: RMS 28 Coyote Ugly: 0200 141; CA 17; STX 13 140 16 'N Sync: HSS 8; RS 48 Travis Tritt: CA 27, 69; CCA 16; CS 42 CrankYankers - The Best Uncensored Crank Bob Marley: PCA 1; RBC 1; RE 15 Raphael Saadiq: Bzoo 132; RBA 31 Lola Troy: RA 55; RBH 56 Calls: Volume 1: IND 23; STX 19 Bob Marley And The Wailers: RE 4 Sacarlo: Hioo 83; HSS 48; RA 52; RBH 53; RP 21; True Enuff: RBH 89 Disney's Lilo & Stitch: Bzoo 17; STX 1 Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley: RE 7 Paul Oakenfold: Bzoo 131; EA 4; DC RS n 25, 49 TRUSTcompany: MO 14; RO 17 Divine Secrets Of The Ya -Ya Sisterhood: B200 Angie Martinez: Hioo 83; HSS 48; RA 52; RBH OAR.: IND 43 Sade: DS 17 Truth Hurts: Bzoo 43; RBA 11; Hioo 20; HA 19; 125; I NT 16; STX 12 53; RP 21; RS 25, 49 Oasis: Bzoo 108 Salvador: CC 3o; HS 38 HSS 74; RA 11; RBH 14; RS 34;140 33 Down From The Mountain: BG 5; CA 35 Brad Martin: CA 43; CS CA 71 Joe CJ 5; RBA 22 Jamie O'Neal: Sample: loci Los Tucanes De Tijuana: LA 4o; LT 14; RMS 2 The Fast And The Furious: STX 24 Rogelio Martinez: LA 18; RMA 9; RMS 26 Onyx: Bzoo 71; IND 2; RBA 12 Gilberto Santa Rosa: TSA 13; LT 46; TSS 9,15 Shania Twain: CCA 5; PCA 34 The Fast And The Furious: More Fast And Mary Mary: Bzoo 20; CC 1; GA 1; Los Originales De Juan: LA 13, Juelz Santana: HA RA 7, INT 14; RBA lo; San 24, 36; RMA zo Hioo 9; 9; HSS 44, 69; Tweet: B200 96; RBA 29; Hioo 43; HA 42; HSS Furious: STX 23 RBC 6; RA 58; RBH 62 Orishas: LA 46; LPA 13 64; RBH 7, 66, 91; RP 4; RS 23, 37;14019 68, 71; RA 15; RBH 15, 92; RS 36, 41 Finding Forrester: JZ 8 Masters At Work: DC Claudette Ortiz: Hioo 39; HA 67; HSS 1; RA 24; Alejandro Sanz: LA 43; LPA 12; LPS 21; LT 50; TSS 36 Steve Tyrell: JZ 1z 33 I Am Sam: B200 84; STX 7 matchbox twenty: AC 10 RBH 16; RS Marvin Sapp: CC 19; GA 7; HS 21; RBA 84 Like Mike: Bzoo 35; RBA zo; STX 3 Dave Matthews Band: 820o 1, 67; INT 1; PCA 2, 10, Ozzy Bzoo 161 Yoskar T55 27 Osboume: Sarante: u Mamma Mia!: Bzoo 185 16; A4o 8; Hioo 66; HA 62; MO 31; T40 Otep: HS Scarface: HSS 46; RA 63, 66; RBH 58, RS 34 34 69; 26 U2: B200 173 Monsoon Wedding: WM 8 Maxwell: RBA 76 Otto: CS 52 Jill Scott: RBC 19; DC 19 James UB40: RE 3 Moulin Rouge: Bzoo 107; STX 9 John Mayer: Bzoo 16; INT 15; A4o 6; AC 21; Our Lady Peace: B200 49; A40 27; 16; RO 3o Josey Scott: A4o 5; Hioo 5; HA 5; MO 9; RO 5; T40 3 Hioo MO Union Station: Bzoo 169; BG 3; CA 21 Moulin Rouge 2: STX zo 18; HA zo; 14o 11 Peggy Scott- Adams: BL 14 RS Unique: 56 Mr. Deeds: B200 115; STX 11 Martina McBride: 8200 7o; CA 5; CS 24 p- Joan Sebastian: LA 38, 42; LPS 23; LT 27; RMS 29 Unwritten Law: B200 195; MO 25 0 Brother, Where Art Thou ?: Bzoo 25; BG i; MC Chickaboo: DC 3 Petey Pablo: RBA 95 Secret Garden: NA 5 Keith Urban: CS 26 CA 3; INT 12; STX 2 Delbert McClinton: BL 7 Brad Paisley: Bzoo 88; CA 7; CS 13; Hioo 62; HA 57 Seether: RO 32 Usher: 8200 91; RBA 63; DS 3; Hioo 24, 48; HA The Osboume Family Album: 0200 143; STX 14 Donnie McClurkin: CC 26; GA 8 Suzanne Palmer: DC Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band: PCA 14 44 27, 49; HSS 34; RA 21, 37, 56; RBH 22, 36, Queer As Folk: The Second Season: EA 22 The Del BG 11 Palomo: LA 41; LT 45; RMS 8, 23 And McCoury Band: Seven The Sun: A4o 28 57; RP 14; RS 35; T40 23 Road To Perdition: STX 22 MC IND RBA 74 Papa Roach: B200 29; Hioo 76; HA 73; MO 5; RO 3 RBH Eiht: 36; Shade Sheist: 88 The Royal Tenenbaums: STX 18

Reba McEntire: CA 51 Dolly Parton: 13200103; BG 2; CA 9; IND 5; I NT 24 Shaggy: RE 5 Save The Last Dance: STX 25 Tim McGraw: Bzoo 98, 122; CA 8, 12; CCA 18; CS Pastor Troy: RBA 86 Shakira: B2oo LPS 9; LT 16; T4o 37 HSS 3o 34; A40 37; Valeria: Scooby -Doo: Bzoo 94; STX 8 8; Hioo Sean Paul: Hioo 99; RA45; RBH 46; RS 47 Remy Shand: RBA 71 DS 44; HA 43 Ian Van Dahl: 20 The Scorpion King: Bzoo 198; STX 16 MDO: LPS 26; LT 37 Laura Pausini: LA 59; LPA 19; LPS 17; LT 36 SheDaisy: Bzoo 83; CA 6; CS 37 Luther Vandross: RBA 7o; AC 26; RA 43; RBH 48 Shrek: B200 113; SIX lo Wilson Meadows: RBA Luciano Pavarotti: CL 1, 7 Shekinah GA 10; HS 35; IND 73 Glory Ministry: 34 Van Halen: PCA 47 Spider-Man: Bzoo 44; STX 4 Medeski Martin And Wood: C) 23 Pax217: CC Blake Shelton: Bzoo 148; CA 18; CS 18 Sergio Vargas: TSS 31 39 Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron: 8200150; STX 15 Melody: LA 57; LPA 18 R. Diddy: Hioo HA 4, 27; HSS 36, 66; RA Shena: DC 7 Phil Vassar: CS 23 4, 24, 95; Star Wars Episode II: Attack OfThe Clones: STX 21 MercyMe: B200 102; CC4 6o; RBH 2, RP 2, Wayne Shorter: JZ 6 2, 37, 38, 40, 36, 38, 40, 59; Jimmie Vaughan: BL 6 Stuart Little 2: STX 17 Tilt Merritt: CA 57 14, 19, 20; RS 17, 28, 45; T4o 12, 23 The Silk Road Ensemble: CX 3 Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble: BL 5 Tae -Bo Inspirational: Walk By Faith...Not By Jo Dee Messina: CA 26; AC 8; CS 29 Jennifer Pena: HS 11; LA 3; RMA 2; LPS 25; LT lo; Simon & Garfunkel: Bzoo 165 Vega: LA Chuy 68 Sight: GA 28 Metallica: PCA 21 RMS lo; TSS 24 Sin Bandera: LA 27; LPA 8; LPS 6; LT 6 LA RMA Alicia Villarreal: 29; 15; RMS 31 A Walk To Remember: B200 62; STX 6 Tanto Metro & Devonte: Hioo 85 Dottie Peoples: GA 3o Sinch: RO 29 Fernando Villalona: TSS 19 Edgar Meyer: CL 9 Amanda Perez: HSS 72 Daryle Singletary: CS 51 Rhonda Vincent: BG 9; CA 63 VAMOUS ARTISTS Mia: DC 45 Jay Perez: LA 7o Sixwire: CS 34 The Vines: Bzoo 11; INT 25; MO lo; RO 31 on Thai Flitlboonct 200 The Mighty Mighty Bosstones: IND 21 Perpetuous Dreamer: DC l; DS 18 Ricky Skaggs: BG 13 David Visan: WM lo Iry Gotti Presents The Inc: 6 Luis Miguel: LPS Pesado: LT 39; RMS 17 SkubieThaCiko: RS 56 Vita: H1oo 8; HA 8; RA 3; RBH 3; RP 3; 140 26 35 Now 9: 31 Kylie Minogue: 0200 66; DC 5; DS 22; Hioo Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers: PCA 31 Fatboy Slim: EA 10 Vivanativa: LPS 27; TSS 26 59; Off The Hook: 77 HA 56; T4o 28 Pharoahe Monch: RBH 98; RS Slum Village: IND 41; RBA 91; Hioo 9o; HSS 52; Carlos Vives: LA 73; TSA 7; LPS 38; LT 33;15518 59 R Diddy & Bad Boy Records Present... We Misia: WM 12 Mike Phillips: Cl 14 RA 35; RBH 35; RP 24; RS 32 Invented The Remix: 19 La Mission 3: LA 19; LPA 7 Pillar: CC20; HS 22 Smilez & Southstar: HSS 17; RBH 65; RS 14 Punk -0- Rama 7: 111 Mississippi Mass Choir: GA 22 Pink: Bzoo 12; A40 16; DS 8, 21; H1oo 15; HA 17; Anthony Smith: CS 36 The Wailers: PCA 1; RBC 1; RE 15 Songs 4 Worship Shout To The Lord: 171 HSS Esther Smith: GA 32 Tom Waits: IND - Moby: B200 95; EA 2; DC 21 47;140 8, 24 44, 46 So So Def Presents: Definition OfA Remix Monchy & Alexandra: LA 16; TSA 3 Pink Floyd: PCA 36 Michael W. Smith: Bzoo 116; CC6 Mike Walker: HSS 54 (EP): 163 Jerzee 6o; RBA 14; Pinmonkey: CS 3o Will Smith: B200 58; RBA 46 Tamara Walker: AC 29 Monet: Bzoo RA 54; RBH 55 Steve Harvey Compilation: Sign Of Things To Alexandre Pires: LA 13; LPA 6; LPS 5, 13, 18; LT 8, Sneaker Pimps: DC 31 Andre Ward: Ci 21 Jane Monheit: JZ 15 Come: 138 Monica: RA 36; RBH 37; RS 67 32; TSS 17 Marco Antonio Solis: LA 38, 72; LPS 14; LT n; Muddy Waters: BL 15 This Is Ultimate Dance!: 99 Pixies: IND RMS 24 Russell Watson: CX 9 Alejandro Montaner: LPS 15; LT 26 39 Totally Country: 166 LA 33; LPA lo; LPS 2; LT 3; TSS 7 Robert Plant: B200 40; INT lo; RO 27 Soluna: HS 28; Hioo 74; WC: RA 61; RBH 64 Ricardo Montaner: T40 35 Totally Hits 2002: 14 Pablo LPS zo; LT 40 Play: 0200 112; HSS 15 Something Corporate: HS 48 Weezer: B200 82; MO 22 Montero: Vans Warped Tour 2002 Compilation: 104 Pilar Montenegro: LA 7; LPA 4; WM 3; Hioo 96; Plus One: CC 18 Sono: DC 15 Peter White: CJ 16 LPS 4; LT 2; RMS 11; TSS 34 P.O.D.: 8200 65; CC 2; MO 27; RO 21 Soulfly: B200 189 The White Stripes: Bzoo 124; MO 35 John Michael Montgomery: CS 46 El Poder Del Norte: LA 39, 44; LT 25; RMS 7 Space Monkeyz: Bzoo 156; EA 6 The Who: B200 100

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Goo Goo Dolls FOR ALL TIME 27 WHEREVER YOU WILL GO RCA The Calling 9 CD 31 26 ADRIENNE RCA The Calling ç SOLUNA DREAMWORKS 26 22 I'D RATHER J Luther Vandross ® 35 AMBER vuicavo 311 9 111 HAPPY 610 36 OUT OF MY HEART (INTO YOUR HEAD) HOLLYWOOD BBMak (y ® 28 I'VE GOT YOU COLUMBIA Marc Anthony 9 ASHANTI 34 31 TOO BAD ROMRUNNEMOJMG Nickelback 9 MURDER INCJAJM AMMO 28 25 I CAN'T HELP YOU NOW CAPITOL Bonnie Raitt UNDERNEATH YOUR CLOTHES 35 34 ESCAPE INTERSCOPE Enrique Iglesias 9 SHAKIRA I® 29 ANGEL EYES CURB Tamara Walker ®_.,.. IN MY PLACE CAPITOL Coldplay 9 EPIC 30 30 ESCAPE INTERSCOPE Enrique Iglesias 9 37 33 UNDERNEATH YOUR CLOTHES EPIC Shakira 9 FULL MOON BRANDY TO YOU MAVERICKAVARNERBROS. Michelle Branch 106 main- GOODBYE ATLANTIC Compiled tro 11 a national sample of airplay supplied by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems' Radio Track service. di and 77 adult Top 40 stations are electron- 39 ESSExmRL/HOLLYWOOD Sheila Nicholls stream rock stations, 85 modern rock stations, 88 adult contemporary stations 38 FAITH 9 OUT OF MY HEART (INTO YOUR HEAD) 40 , ically monito ed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Top 40 Tracks is compiled from a national sample of Mainstream Top BBMAK a) 40 SAVE IT FOR LATER J Splender Rhythmic Top 40 and Adult Top 40 stations. The 252 Top 40 Tracks stations are electronically monitored 24 hours a day, 7 HOLLYWOOD days a week. Top 40 Tracks awards bullets based on increase in audience impressions. On the remaining detection -based HERE IS GONE charts, tracks with increase in detections over the previous week are bulleted regardless of chart movement. A record which has been on he chart for more than 20 weeks will generally not receive a bullet, even if it registers an increase. Records GOO Goo DOLLS 40) 26 weeks. Airpower awarded to songs appearing in the top 20 on both the Nielsen BDS Airplay and Audience charts for the first time with increases in both detec- below the top 20 (top 15 for AC and Adult Top are removed from the chart after WARNER BARS. tions and audience (Top 40 Tracks excluded). v Videoclip availability. © 2002, VNU Business Media, Inc. All rights reserved.

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"El I Rey" has sole ;more than 45 million albums* with reads 7 5 Don't Really Know 32 23 Soldier's Heart CEO 57 . Hush Lil' Lady BRANDY MOSS- SCOTT (HEAVENLY TUNES) E KELLY WIVE) 4' COREY FEAT. LIL ROMEO INOONRMEAAOTOWNNNIVERSALI 8 4 . " Girlfriend 32 28 Days Go By ® - Baller going goki, platinum and diamond, his concerts remain 'N SYNC FEAT. NELLY (JIVE) DIRTY VEGAS (CREOENCE/CAPITOLI RICHARD BURTON FEAT RUFF ENOZ (MCA) O i1 Mother CD 34 U Don't Have To Call 5e 47 Bigger Than Life RAY CHARLES NATFJCROSS - sold IE- OVER) USHER (ARISTA) C 301 MAMA'S BOY) consistently out and he was recently honored with his 10 8 ' That's What Girls Do 35 27 Song For The Lonely m - Walking In The Sky NO SECRETS (JIVE) CHER (WARNER BROS.) DJ ENCORE FEAT. ENGWNA (MCA) owl star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 11 7 My Dogs 36 32 #`. I Need A Girl (Part Two) CD 73 Whoa Now .:- CHUCK 'N. BLOOD (FOREALAH JAMZ) P DIDOY & GINUWINE (BAD BOY /ARISTA) B RICH( ATLANTIC) 12 9 Hot In Herre m 39 t Happy 62 52 My Bad NELLY WO' REEWNIVERSAU 'Source Sory Music Internatilnal - ASHANTI (MURDER INCIAJM/IDJMG) RAVVON(BIG YARD/MCA) ® 16 Crawl To Me m - Levin' Each Day 63 48 Feels Good (Don't Worry Bout A Thing) KEMI (MACK DAWGI RONAN KEATING (A &MTNTERSCOPE) - NAUGHTY BY NATUREFEAT3LW )TUT) 1 14 10 Wherever You Will Go D 38 ' Way Of Life 64 58 I Should Be Sleeping THE CAWNG (RCA) - LILWAYNE (CASH MONEY/UNIVERSAL) EMERSON DRIVE st (DREAMWORKS (NASHVILLE)) Jon us for th 3 pry special tribute to Latin music superstar 15 13 Us Against The World Co 40 Shadows In The Night 6E 44 Good To You -. PLAY (MUSIC WORLD /COLUMBIA) t' MICHAEL DAMIAN (WEIR BROTHERS/MODERNVOICES) ':ä KWEU (MAXUS/MCA)

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www.americanradiohistory.com our classical section [for example] infrastructure that we have now Similarly, First Look's Bromiley enterprises and distribution -says: Gain to make room for [DVD] product. than they will have in any delivery notes that his company's DVDs are "We do not have gigantic market- Indies We have doubled or tripled inven- system. It brings diversity into the priced at $24.98. "We can't really ing budgets. This is not a studio tory in some instances." market and consumer benefit." afford to be much less than that and model. One of the advantages of Ground At Musicland stores, which in- The challenge has been convincing still make the model work," he says. working with an independent is clude the Sam Goody, Suncoast, and retailers to lend shelf space to special - "However, you get some of the big that you get a certain personalized On -Cue chains, independent titles interest product when major studio mass merchants who have con- attention. The joy [that a retailer In DVD are increasingly stocked. Musicland titles are selling so well. The shelf - sumers coming in who just don't gets from] working with an inde- spokeswoman Dawn Bryant says, space fight is "something that is inher- want to pay $24.98, or even if they pendent is that you're important "We often go out of our way to seek ent in the business," Tahmin says. mark it down to $22 or $21 it's too to [the independent's] business, Marketplace titles from independent home -video "There's always a fight for real estate. much money. They are trying to get and therefore you're going to get companies." For example, Musicland I don't see that going away anytime us to drop the price by $5 here and a customized program you won't Continued from page 1 recently sought out Backyard soon. If anything, I see that becoming there. I can't lower the price just get from a mega- studio." Show - Wrestling titles through Ventura more of a challenge going forward." for them. How we compete is that time is best -known for its release sales have also increased dramati- Distribution, which were originally New Concorde's Jones says, "What people are always looking for some- of Queer as Folk -The Complete cally, particularly in the special - marketed via infomercials. it really boils down to is if a retailer thing new. On the arty, independ- First Season on DVD, and it re- interest categories. Buena Vista DVDs in varying categories are has 80 copies of Harry Potter for ent films, you can [therefore] keep cently signed a deal to distribute Home Entertainment compiled its doing well because the average DVD rental, he has to decide [if] he [is] the price a little higher." home -video product from the own report on the family category consumer is no longer the tech - better off having one, two, three, or Stephen Nadelberg, chairman of newly formed Sundance Home in June, stating that 37% of all oriented early adopter. "The signif- four copies of an independent title Anchor Bay Entertainment -a Entertainment company. DVDs are purchased for the entire icant difference between now and 15 that on a per-disc basis will gener- company known for its variety of family and that parents had pur- months ago was that 15 months ate more revenue on the investment genre films (The Evil Dead: Book of HOOKING THE MASS MERCHANTS chased an average of 6.4 DVDs in ago, everything had to be technolo- than the cumulate 80 copies. They the Dead, Werner Herzog Collec- At this point in time, retailers of the three months leading up to the gy- driven, because that was the still need diversity. They can't live tion), family (Thomas & Friends), all shapes and sizes are taking notice report. The figures also pointed out [DVD] buyer," says Gary Jones, pres- on 10 titles a month, and it has and fitness product (For Dummies -even the mass merchants. "A year that 36% of DVDs were purchased ident of worldwide distribution for always been that way." series) -explains that while DVDs or two ago, the mass merchants had by the male head of the family and New Concorde Home Entertain- do not cost more to make than VHS no interest whatsoever [in niche that an average of 7.5 DVDs were THE PUSH & PULL OVER PRICE product]," says Tom Seaman, presi- bought by non -parent DVD owners In addition to competition for in- dent of music specialist Music Video in the same three -month period. store space, independents are also Distributors. "It's very, very easy for While these numbers bode well constantly battling with retailers a retailer to say no. You've got to for a major like Buena Vista - about pricing. Independent product work for them to say yes. The mar- which distributes family -friendly usually costs more than major stu- ketplace is changing, and they can't Disney product -they also speak dio titles, and many retailers, ac- afford to [say no]." favorably to the many independents cording to independent companies, First Look's Bromiley points out in the family market and in other are pushing for lower asking prices one example that epitomizes the niches trying to gain ground in the in order to move more units. No changing scene. "We've been try- DVD marketplace. Glenn Ross, retailers contacted by Billboard ing since we started the division president of Family Home Enter- would comment on this issue. 21/2 years ago to get into Walmart, tainment (FHE) -a division of the For Steve Sterling, president of which has been very difficult. We independent Artisan Home Enter- Eagle Vision -a predominantly just got in our first two titles. That tainment -and executive VP of music -oriented home -video compa- caught us completely by surprise, Artisan, says: "If you looked at FHE ny -this issue is a constant "push - especially with one of them. One of four years ago and looked at pull" with retailers. "As an inde- them was Asoka, which is an Indi- [Nielsen] VideoScan ratings, we pendent, we pay a lot of money to an- language film. Who would have wouldn't have even shown up. Last get major artists [for our product]," thought that Walmart would bring year, we were rated No. 4 by market he explains. "It costs millions of dol- in an Indian -language film from share after Disney, Warner, and lars to mount the production and us? We've got thrillers, we've got Paramount." FHE's first release in get the rights. On the music side, action films. That was really an its Barbie series, Barbie in the Nut- ment, the Roger Corman -owned you have a lot of obligations, from tapes, it's the added features that eye- opener for us. We thought, `If cracker, has sold more than 3.4 company that releases genre films royalties to publishing. It's very, may ultimately suffer as a result of Walmart can bring this in, there is million total home -video units in the horror (Slumber Party Mas- very arduous to get that all done. pricing concerns. "If prices keep definitely more of a customer base since it debuted last fall. Barbie as sacre) and action (Bloodfist collec- "People sometimes say, `There's a sliding, people are not going to be than we thought.' " Rapunzel will street Oct. 1, and the tion) categories, as well as family $25 million movie selling for $9.99. able to afford to do [special fea- Many independents ultimately company expects at least 40% of its titles. "They are buying as if they tures] anymore. From a retail per- believe that it is the perceived value sales to be on the DVD format. were VHS customers, basically." spective, if a retailer makes X% of their product that will help pull For independent Koch Vision, `An independent margin on a sale, it's far better off them through any potholes in the music and fitness categories in par- SWIFTER TRACKING OF TRENDS making it at $20 than $5. What road. Because these companies put ticular have taken off as the DVD Independents who have estab- studio can turn you're going to do is drive people out fewer films a year than a major, format has grown. "DVD has been lished themselves in the special - on a dime. If it can out. The thing that makes DVD they give each title more personal- a huge boon, particularly in the interest arena are finding that they great for the studio and the retail- ized attention and feel very pas- music arena," Koch Vision director can react more swiftly to these con- recognize some er will go away, because we've driv- sionate about each release. Show - Khris Tahmin says. The company sumer trends than a major studio. en all the value out of it and made time's Fraenkel says, "We love the also delves into family product, "Right now, DVD is in such a growth consumer strength it an unprofitable business. If this films that we distribute. When you genre films, and TV series, includ- spurt that we can react faster than continues, in three or four years, love the films, you put a special ing the upcoming release of Carl they can," says First Look Home En- behind a niche retailers are going to say it is not a touch to [them]. We are not a film Sagan's Cosmos (Sept. 24). "The tertainment senior VP of sales and or genre, it can good business anymore." factory. We don't release 150 titles music stores really embraced DVD distribution Bill Bromiley. The corn - What many retailers are also a year. By doing fewer films and early and quickly. While record pany's current release slate includes leap into it.' looking for, independents say, is really putting a lot into each one, sales have been somewhat stagnant a variety of independent films, such proof that the company will market we do get very invested in them." in the last couple of years, DVD as Nora with Ewan McGregor and -BO ANDERSEN, VSDA its product and help to move it off And by being invested in each sales have been exorbitant. Susan Lynch. "The studios, just by shelves. "We try to tailor each re- film, independents try to maintain "Fitness also lends itself particu- nature of how they are set up, take a tailer differently and try to accom- integrity in the home -video industry. larly well to DVD, because you can lot more time to plan product. We Why is a music title selling for plish what we know to be their Anchor Bay senior VP of acquisitions vary your routine every single day," can beat them to the punch." $24.98 ?' " Sterling continues. "It is goals," Artisan president Steve and product development Jay Dou- Tahmin continues. "Once you've done Being fleet of foot is a common very frustrating for us right now to be Beeks says. "In some cases, the DVD glas says, "People who buy hardback a fitness DVD five times and you've attribute that independent compa- trying to do A -list titles that are very will get wide TV exposure. In many books love to collect. People who still heard the instructor telling you to nies cite as an advantage over their expensive to get under way and to have cases, we try to do a lot of street buy vinyl are collectors. They have a breathe, you don't necessarily need to major competitors. As VSDA presi- the retailers say they want to sell it for advertising. We don't go out with respect that's taught. The [home - hear it every time you do the routine." dent Bo Andersen says, "An inde- $9.99. The reality is that the quality of one advertising plan. That takes video] industry has to teach that and Many retailers are now making pendent studio can turn on a dime. music in the DVD format still has a time and energy and isn't easy." reiterate it over and over. Consumers room for independents by adding If it can recognize some consumer good premium on it with consumers. Most independent studios don't are conditioned to find things col- space to their DVD sections. John strength behind a niche or genre, We have to make sure we can get our have the resources to mount such lectible or disposable. I grew up put- Thrasher, VP of video for Tower, it can leap into it. My view is that money back. In order to do that, you marketing plans. Showtime Enter- ting a priceless value on music and says that "with stagnant music the independent studios stand a have to generate the kind of revenue tainment's Sallie Fraenkel -the movies. Seeing it become like a roll sales, we can move [space] out of better chance with the home -video that a higher price gets you." company's senior VP of program of paper towels is chilling."

BILLBOARD AUGUST 3, 2002 www.billboard.com 63 www.americanradiohistory.com King King in L.A.'s Miracle Mile him, gave him the records, point- The Blue Shadows -who cut a A Chicago native, the son of par- L.A. Acts district. They mix with heavily tat- ed his drum stick and said, `That's live album at the old King King ents who divorced when he was tooed and steeply pompadoured wrong! Wrong!' And he would do with the first lineup, billed as the three, La Botz was a footloose scene neophytes. that for Lester [Butler], the [Shad- Red Devils, for Rick Rubin's Amer- youth. "By 15, I was gone," he says. Foster Between 10:30 p.m. and 11 p.m., ows' late] harp player. I see the ican Recordings in 1992 -are "I was running around the coun- the new -millennium edition of the same thing happening with Jake, shopping a new studio album, try and hanging around the punk Blue Shadows takes the stage, where it's Bill taking the kid under which is an original, forceful rock scene." Blues ornamented with the distinctive his wing. melding of Delta tradition and He was based in Chicago, where red -and -green trim that graced the "To play this kind of music-any modern power. he played on the streets and in old Sixth Street club. The band's kind of roots music -you have to Bateman says, "I've listened to subway tunnels, during his 20s. Traditions setup is unusual: Drummer Bate - have an apprenticeship kind of peri- that music my whole life. I've got (His life during that period is man's kit sits at the lip of the od," Alvin adds. "You can play it enough years in it now where it's in Continued from page 1 chronicled actress Brooke stage, feet away from lead singer/ wrong, as I have done many times. more than second nature. It's what Smith's funny, sometimes harrow- guitarist Jake Matson's mike. John There's a way to learn how to do it." I do. We're just trying to make it a ing 1998 documentary Honky.) blues tradition. Some of these Bazz -Bateman's rhythm- section little more modern . .. We're still There he rubbed elbows with some musicians, like drummer Bill Bate- partner in the recently reunited working on the sound. It's an ongo- legendary bluesmen. man of the Blue Shadows and original lineup of roots -rock unit ing process." "The biggest one was a guy singer /guitarist Jake La Botz, the Blasters- stands over the Matson says his education is also named Maxwell Street Jimmy learned that tradition first -hand drummer's shoulder, thumping an ongoing: "I like learning, and the Davis," La Botz says. "We were from its master practitioners. On acoustic bass. joy of discovery is fantastic -espe- really close ... He was like a win- the other hand, Pasadena, Calif. - "It's Bill's band," Melendez says. cially musical discovery or artistic dow to another world. That guy based bluesman Brother Yusef, a "That's why he's in the front." The discovery. It's a fire under my ass." was so African -sounding, so self- taught performer, is handing proprietor adds, "Bill Bateman is Delta. He learned how to play down the music on the streets and the future of the music. He's the BLUES AND TATTOOS from John Lee Hooker. They were in the schools. last of the hard -working musi- Most Saturday nights, you can best friends. L.A. is the ideal platform for such cians going forward with [that] find Jake La Botz playing in the "I also hung around with [Robert work, notes Allen Larman, head type of music." front room of the Shamrock Social Johnson cohort David] `Honeyboy' buyer at Rhino Records' Westwood Lanky, 32- year -old Matson, who Club, a tattoo parlor on the Sunset Edwards a lot. Mostly I would go store and a longtime observer of the finger picks a 1934 National steel - Strip. He sets up an old bullet mike hang out at his house, and he L.A. roots scene. bodied guitar, runs through covers and his amp opposite a wall lined would request songs and I would "L.A. has always been a blues of Delta blues by Robert Johnson, with laminated specimens of the play 'em ... Those two guys and town, more even than people give Charley Patton, Mississippi John shop's skin art. A small metal tip then also [slide guitarist] Homesick it credit for -going back to the Hurt, and Fred McDowell, as well bucket and copies of La Botz's self- James [Williamson]. I used to hang '50s, with Louis Jordan and all the as self -penned originals like "So released album Used to Be sit on a around with him, 'cause he lived people that lived out here, then the Long," "Pony," and "Cotton." rickety table next to him. right down the street from me, so I '60s, with Lowell Fulson and all The songs are propelled by Bate - He sings and plays a broad reper- would go over to his house all the those people," Larman observes. man's poised combination of power toire of blues, country, gospel, and time. He was the most guitar - "There's always been a blues thing and finesse. A second guitarist sits R&B covers, plus his own streetwise playin' motherfucker I ever met in going on." in most nights; regular players have originals -"Riding the Dog," "Sin- my life." He adds that during the roots - included Texas -bred master Denny cerely Yours A82759," "For the Along the way, La Botz acquired punk era of the early '80s, "the Freeman, versatile local Jeff Ross, Brothers" -from 9:30 in the debilitating heroin and alcohol ad- Blasters and Top Jimmy really and Bateman's old Blasters partner Matson -who bears a tattoo of evening until 2:30 a.m. The buzz of dictions. He moved to L.A. in 1996, sparked people's interest in that Dave Alvin. Keith Wyatt, who per- bluesman Charley Patton on his left a tattoo needle accompanies his per- where he lived the grimy life of the kind of music, and I don't think it forms with singer Phil Alvin in the forearm -was already grounded in formances. Sometimes there's a characters in his songs. ever waned after that. It's the kind latter -day Blasters lineup, is the country blues when he met Bate- smattering of applause from shop He recalls, "I ended up getting of music people always go back to." current second -lead player. man. The son of a Puerto Rican employees shooting pool on the par- a room in the American Hotel [in First -time filmmaker Jennifer Like Bateman, Dave Alvin musician (his real name is Javier lor's bar -sized table. Onlookers on downtown L.A.] in exchange for Lee, who is attempting to pull learned the music from a host of Matos), he began playing at an early the busy Strip peer briefly through playing at Al's Bar. I played once a together a documentary on L.A.'s important black L.A. -based musi- age. Matson says, "I tried very seri- the front window, then move on. week downstairs in the bar, which roots acts, sees these musicians' ously to learn how to play the blues is a hell of a deal for an alco- transmissions of the form as critical when I was around 12, but for some holic -free beer, right around the at this point in blues history. reason I couldn't get it." corner from the welfare office, and "This is the last generation of After dropping out of Bible col- right down the street from the musicians who have been in con- lege, he played on the streets in dope spot." tact with, played with, or learned Minneapolis -St. Paul. He enlisted La Botz, who later served a long from some of the originators," Lee in the Army in 1993, and his tour Blue Monday residency at Holly- says. "If this music doesn't contin- of duty took him to Fort Richard- wood's Lava Lounge, cleaned up his ue, we've lost an entire portion of son, in Anchorage, Alaska. In 1999, act in early 1999. He had already American music history." Matson went AWOL for a one -day cut an album with full -band L.A. recording session that result- accompaniment, The Original ON A BLUE MONDAY ed in the album Comin' Home, Soundtrack to My Nightmare, for There's no front door at the King released in 2000 by the Danish Duluth, Minn. -based Spinout King. To enter the Hollywood club, label Storyville. Records. you go through a back door near Bateman left L.A. in 1996 to La Botz cut Used to Be, which the intersection of Hollywood straighten out his personal life at includes solo versions of gritty, Boulevard and Whitley Avenue. You his sister's home in Anchorage. He gutter -sweeping songs from the walk down an unlit hallway, pay met Matson by chance in '99, earlier album, in 2000. In the your $5 -the cover on a "Blue when he sat down at a table dur- interim, he has developed an Monday" -and enter a large room ing a blues jam at the Whaler, a improbable acting career, thanks with a towering ceiling and exposed local club. to his friend, actor Steve Busce- brick walls. Against one wall, owner Bateman recalls, "He looks up at mi. He took a bit role in Ghost Mario Melendez's vintage jukebox me and, rubbing his face with kind World, which starred Buscemi, spins blues, R &B, hard bop, coun- of a worried look, he says, `Man, you and a larger part in The Animal try, and Afro -Cuban 45s. don't know any drummers around Factory, a prison drama that Some of those mingling at the here, do ya ?' " Bateman -owner of Buscemi directed. central bar-old- school Hollywood cians, including T -Bone Walker, Big one of the most formidable reps in The passersby probably don't lino upcoming independent films types with street handles like Don- Joe Turner, and saxophonist Lee L.A. -grins at the recollection. "I realize that La Botz, 33, learned his will feature La Botz both on the nie Two- Beers, Dirty Ed, and the Allen, who later played with the didn't laugh. I just said, 'I can play craft at the feet of the masters. screen and the soundtrack. He has a Pope -were habitués of Blue Mon- Blasters. He has seen Bateman some drums.' " "Jake's great," says Bruce Brom- large role in The Grey, director days past. You could have seen bring what he learned to other, Bateman and Matson began play- berg, the L.A. -based partner at Oak- Shane Taylor's drama about the them at Top Jimmy & the Rhythm even younger musicians. ing as a duo, and in late '99 the land, Calif., roots label Hightone cockfighting underground in Ken- Pigs' storied early -'80s gigs at Hol- "Bill was like a teacher for musicians relocated to L.A. Their Records. "He's sort of like Phil Alvin tucky. In October, he will star in lywood hellholes like the Cathay De Smokey Hormel," Alvin says, new Shadows set up shop at the on some levels ... He's got that old - writer /director Chris Hickey's Grande and Raji's or at the Blue referring to the '80s Shadows and now -defunct J. Sloane's and subse- timey rag thing going. He writes movie, tentatively titled The Grace Shadows' memorable late -'80s and Blasters guitarist. "Bill was the quently took up residency at the contemporary songs, and he does it of Jake. In the film, set in the Ar- early -'90s shows at the original guy who sat him down and taught new King King in April. good. He's got the groove." (Continued on page 66)

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www.americanradiohistory.com the contestants of American Idol? Tamyra Gray, an R &B- styled more popular interview subject Day says that he wants to be "a of Brit - "I have no doubt that there are singer with a penchant for singing than the others. pop prince, the male version Weds is `Idol' about four or five of these contest- in a powerhouse manner. But there are clear indications ney Spears" and that his dream to ants who will become big stars," Justin Guarini, a curly- haired that Guarini is the front -runner, work with star producers the Nep- says veteran musician /producer entertainer with an extensive back- based on the response of the live tunes. He insists that the American Reality TV Randy Jackson, one of the Ameri- ground in acting and dance. studio audience, the judges' on -air Idol contestants have not been can Idol judges. "The American R.J. Helton, another singer feedback, and viewers' message - treated as puppets and were allowed public will pick someone who has with teen -idol looks. board comments on the official to develop their own individual And Music the whole package: greatness in Nikki McKibbin, whose multi- American Idol Web site (idolon- styles. vocal talent, personality, looks, colored hair and punk- inspired fox.com). As part of the contest, the 10 Continued from page 1 stage presence, and star quality." wardrobe have seen her tagged as Guarini, Gray, and Christian all finalists are required to live togeth- the competition. They winner (Music & Showbiz, Bill- The American Idol search began the rebel of the group. placed first in each of their respective er during board, June 22).TheAmerican Idol in April, as thousands of hopefuls Ryan Starr, a Liv Tyler looka- semi -finalist rounds. (Fox will not receive advice and guidance from and styl- victor will receive a recording con- auditioned in various major U.S. like with a rock tomboy style. reveal to the public how many votes professional vocal coaches Day says: "They never tract with RCA Records. ists, but as According to Nielsen Media told us what to wear. We had our Research, American Idol has aver- own clothes, but there were people [as to] how aged a 5.8 rating, or 6 million U.S. who made suggestions we had." households and 9.7 million viewers. we could improve on what The show frequently garners the Day notes that one of the con- highest ratings in its time slot test's restrictions is that the en- among 18- to 49- year -old viewers. trants have a limited choice of what In addition, the show has been songs they can perform, which may covered by almost every major or may not affect the judging. Sev- media outlet in the U.S., with some eral contestants were criticized by entertainment press featuring the judges, who said they chose the weekly or daily updates. wrong song, resulting in a mis- "I envisioned all along that this match with their singing style. show would be a multimedia phe- Day says he has no regrets about nomenon," says Simon Fuller, cre- being on American Idol. "But if I ator/executive producer of American could change anything about this would be not Idol and the founder of the London - contest," he notes, "it Cowell based 19 Entertainment Group, to have a judge like Simon which includes a management com- who bashes the contestants. It's OK pany, production company, and to give constructive criticism, but record label. "But it's not just about when you insult someone just for TV and the record industry. It's about the sake of entertainment, that's hitting people on all different levels." just wrong."

SPEAK A STAR IS BORN THE JUDGES American Idol will forever be Because of the harsh criticism he linked to the TV show Pop Idol in often directs at contestants, Cowell Nasty" and the U.K., where the series originat- has been dubbed "Mr. ed and became a ratings smash for cities. Contestants had to be legal Jim Verraros, a boy- next -door each contestant receives.) All three "Judge Dread" by some of the his the ITV network. (The Pop Idol sea- U.S. residents between the ages of type whose story about his deaf par- singers have received consistent praise media. He acknowledges that son finale in February drew a 16 and 24, without talent represen- ents made him one of the most from the judges, as has Clarkson. outspoken style has given him and remarkable 43% share of the U.K. tation or a record deal. talked -about contestants. However, Frot -Coutaz says that the show added attention. in "We're just showing people the TV audience.) Three American Idol judges - At press time, three finalists have anything could happen the com- American Idol enters the U.S. Jackson (a former A &R exec for been eliminated so far: Day, Ver- petition and that "sure -bet" pre- reality of the music industry," Cow- market on the heels of two recent MCA and Columbia), singer /chore- raros, and Gil. dictions may be derailed by some ell notes. "A lot of it is brutal, and if reality shows focused on discover- ographer Paula Abdul, and BMG In an effort to maintain impar- surprising twists of fate. "For Pop people can't take this kind of public ing new talent: Popstars and Mak- U.K. executive Simon Cowell -then tiality, those involved with the show Idol in the U.K., most people were criticism, then maybe they don't ing the Band. Ironically, American whittled down the number of con- typically decline to go on the record predicting up until the end that have what it takes to be a star." Idol was initially offered to Fox testants to 30 semifinalists. about who they would like to see Gareth Gates would win, because Jackson adds, "We tell it like it is. before it aired in the U.K. Viewers selected nine finalists via win. Similarly, Fox is being cau- he seemed to be the front- runner. These contestants want to be the "Fox turned us down at first," toll -free phone voting, while the tious about the kind of media expo- I think what happened was that a next Michael Jackson or Mariah says Cecile Frot -Coutaz, COO of judges chose a 10th "wild card" sure the remaining finalists receive lot of teenage girls were voting at Carey. If they want to be like those FremantleMedia Productions' North finalist. The judges remain on the before the end of the competition first, but as the show continued to extraordinary talents, they have to American operation, which helped air throughout the season to give so that no particular finalist can be grow it started to reach wider be judged by the same high stan- bring the Pop Idol concept to the feedback on the contestants' per- singled out by the media as being a demographics, who found Will dards. Still, I think there's a way to U.S. "They were nervous about it, formances. American Idol hosts Young more appealing. Those are give people criticism without because Popstars hadn't been a big Ryan Seacrest and Brian Dunkle- the votes that helped him win, and crushing them emotionally. I'm not ratings success in the U.S." man have the role of providing his victory shocked a lot of people. trying to play God." Frot -Coutaz, along with Fuller moral support to the contestants. American Idol could have the same Jackson and Abdul have at times and FremantleMedia's Simon Voting is only open to U.S. resi- kind of surprises." publicly voiced their dislike for Jones, is one of the executive pro- dents, and a contestant can be American Idol judge Cowell was Cowell's abrasive judging style, and ducers of American Idol. She adds, voted for more than once by the also a judge on Pop Idol. Compar- the three judges have openly bick- "Once the show went on the air in same person. Each week the finalist ing the U.S. and U.K contestants, ered on the show. the U.K, it took a while for the rat- that gets the lowest number of he says, "Of the American contest- Abdul says, "I'm a teacher at ings to build, so Fox still might viewer votes is eliminated, until ants, the ones that were bad were heart, and I've been rejected mil- have had some nervousness that two remain. The American Idol worse than the British, and the lions of times as an artist, so I know this would be a reality -show import winner will be announced in the Americans who were very good what the contestants are going that wouldn't translate to the U.S." Sept. 4 season finale. were better than the Brits. There's through. I probably became more But in the wake of the show's The 10 finalists were the following: probably more passion in America emotionally attached to the con- U.K. ratings success, Fox signed on Christina Christian, a waifish to be famous and less irony among testants than the other judges. This for its U.S. rights at a reported $1 singer with an R &B ingenue aura. the contestants who sang badly." contest is probably the hardest audi- million per episode. Kelly Clarkson, who combines Day, who was eliminated from tion process these contestants will Pop Idol U.K. contestants have youthful exuberance with a down - the contest in the July 17 episode, ever go through, so if they can sur- since gone on to notable success: home Texas style. says that the finalists who don't vive it, they've got a great chance of Pop Idol winner Will Young and EJay Day, an amusement -park As seen on page 1: win still have the potential for suc- making it in this business." Cowell adds, "I don't make the first runner -up Gareth Gates have singer /dancer who became a last - 1.Tamyra Gray; 2. EJay Day; cessful careers because of the TV we had in the music business; the had chart -topping, record -breaking minute replacement semifinalist 3. R.1. Helton; 4. Ai. Gil; invaluable exposure. "If rules If I they singles in the U.K. Three other Pop when another contestant was dis- 5. Kelly Clarkson; 6. Ryan Starr; to vote each other off, I think it public does. tell someone Idol contestants have also landed qualified for lying about his age. 7. Justin Guarini; 8. Nikki McKibbin; would have been more cut -throat. need to lose weight or that they're deals with major labels. A.J. Gil, a relatively reserved 9. Christina Christian; 10. Jim Verraros Amazingly, all the finalists got not attractive enough to be a pop Will the same thing happen for singer with teen -idol looks. along really well." (Continued on next page)

BILLBOARD AUGUST 3, 2002 www.billboard.com 65 www.americanradiohistory.com The WB's Popstars, which debuted tion,' " he says. "We're going to be `Idol' Weds last year, earned an overall 1.9 rating very cautions about what songs they (about 1.9 million U.S. households record and what type of exposure the and 2.7 million viewers per episode), winner gets. If the press wants to turn Realit TV according to Nielsen Media Research. the winner into a big celebrity, that's y Popstars 2 fared slightly worse in out of our control, but we can control the ratings: The show earned an how many interviews and promo- overall 1.8 Nielsen rating (1.8 mil- tional appearances the winner does." And Music lion households, 2.6 million view- In addition to the U.K., the Pop Continued from preceding page ers per episode). Popstars 2 finished Idol concept has become a hit TV No. 149 overall for the 2001 -2002 show in Poland and South Africa. star, it's because the public has season, making it one of the lowest - According to Fuller, there are plans shown they generally like their pop rated broadcast network shows of to bring the show to Germany and stars to be attractive and not over- the season. France. Fox's Darnell says American weight. It's easy to get uptight over In May, the WB canceled Popstars, Idol will return for a second season this, but that's the world we're liv- and there are no forseeable plans for early next year. ing in: Looks are important. People it to be revived in the U.S., although Fuller reveals to Billboard that as see entertainment as an escape, and the Popstars franchise has been a rat- the franchise grows, his ambitions for they generally don't want their ings success in numerous other the program will reach an even larger entertainers to be like their average countries around the world. scale, and he plans to have a show that person next door." The U.S. groups to emerge from will be like the Olympics of Pop Idol. "It's not enough to win this contest Popstars- Eden's Crush and Scene Nov. 26," RCA executive VP /GM ing are already fans of the singers, and "The working title of the show is World by having a great voice," Abdul agrees. 23 -have not been able to hold the Richard Sanders says. On Oct. 8, RCA they're investing in who they want to Idol, and we'll have the winners from "It takes charisma and that `X' factor, public's attention and have disap- will release a compilation album fea- see succeed. We'll treat the winner like different countries around the world which you can't explain." peared from the charts (Billboard, turing all 10 finalists singing mostly any other top -priority new artist on the competing against each other. My Cowell, who is equally outspoken Feb. 23). The Eden's Crush Popstars original material. The top three final- label, but the winner will have the added intention is the whole world will get to with his praise, notes: "The great album peaked at No. 6 on The Bill- ists will record their tracks in late benefit of all these weeks of TV exposure vote, and we'll work out the voting sys- thing about this competition is that- board 200 and has sold 377,000 units August, so that the ultimate winner's before the release of the record." tem so that the population of the coun- aside from the fact that we're looking to date, according to Nielsen Sound - single is ready for commercial release Having a hit record is one thing, try will be fair and proportional to the for extraordinary people -the con- Scan. Scene 23's Popstars 2 peaked at Sept. 24. A single from the runner -up but having career longevity is anoth- votes the contestants receive." testants will stand on their own indi- a lowly No. 146 and has sold 100,000 may also be released. er. Fox's Darnell says, "It's hard for Fuller concludes, "A lot of people viduality. I don't like the aspect of to date. The groups' distributing label, The sheer number of votes re- any artist in the music business to at record companies forget the audi- other reality shows in which part of London -Sire, shut down last year, ceived on the show bodes well for have a long and successful career, so ence, and they make records for winning has to do with how well you although David Foster's 143 imprint, consumer interest in the American the winner ofAmerican Idol will have themselves. Music should be cele- might get along with the other con- which signed the acts, is still affiliat- Idol singers. According to Fox, the the same challenges." brated as something that a lot of testants. This show is more realistic ed with Warner Music Group. number of votes on American Idol Fuller is aware that some may per- people should hear. There's nothing about the `survival of the fittest' part Making the Band-which chroni- jumped from more than 3 million for ceive any winner of a contest like wrong with music for the masses of the music business, and we're more cled the formation and early career of the June 19 episode to more than 8 American Idol as a flash in the pan. and giving people what they want. about finding talent [that] isn't like pop group 0- Town -debuted on ABC million for the July 16 episode. "The overriding word that I have for That's what a show like American everybody else." in 2000, but after two seasons ABC Sanders adds, "People who are vot- guiding the winner's career is 'cau- Idol is about." canceled the show due to low ratings. RISING ABOVE THE PACK Cable network MTV then picked up So why has American Idol captured the series for its third season, which the interest of so many more U.S. TV earned an overall 0.7 rating, which Costa Mesa swap meet and that city's brought over here to the U.S., where viewers than other reality-show tal- translates into about 700,000 house- L.A. Acts large mall, Metro Pointe Center. they were not allowed to use what ent contests of its kind? The first and holds or 949,000 viewers per episode. Yusef, 39, was a late -blooming they had brought over -like a drum most obvious reason is the TV-audi- The third season of 0- Town's Mak- blues performer: Originally a reggae and all that -they took the same ence participation in the voting. Tim- ing the Band was its last, and an MTV fan, he gravitated to the genre in his principles and just used what they ing could also be a reason; the show spokeswoman says the series "just Foster late teens, finding inspiration in the had around the field." premiered during the summer came to a natural end." 0 -Town, which music of two eccentric stylists, Through Hilton, the act drew the months, when networks typically signed to J Records shortly after the Lightnin' Hopkins and John Lee attention of Lilia Hernandez, direc- schedule reruns. group was formed, sold 1.6 million Blues Hooker. He was entranced by slide tor of programs in the community American Idol has another charac- copies of its eponymous debut album. playing. "I just pursued it more and at Armory Center for the Arts, a non- teristic that is key to its success: "With The group's sophomore effort, 02, is more," he says. "Went out and profit center in Pasadena. She says, other shows like Popstars and Mak- due for a North American release Oct. Traditions bought every slide record I could "Robert had been doing some musi- 1. But without the benefit of starring in find. I'd go to the record store and cal instruments for us. We had been Continued from page 64 a weekly TV show, it remains to be seen say, 'Oh, there's Hound Dog Taylor. doing musical instrument work- if 0 -Town can sustain the success it kansas Delta, La Botz will portray an He's got a slide on his finger. Let me shops, but then I saw the possibili- had with its first album. itinerant blues musician. He says of take that home.' " ties for actually bringing this infor- MTV will continue the franchise that role, "It's me, basically." Yousef gave his first performance mation, not even in an academic with Making the Band II, when enter- in 1991 at an open -mike night in setting but in the community." tainment mogul Sean "P. Diddy" DOWNTOWN DISNEY BLUES Pasadena, where he makes his During the past three years, Yusef Combs will discover and mentor a Don't look for Brother Yusef in home. He finally took up playing and Hilton have played and instruct- new R&B /hip -hop group formed the seedier quarters of Southern professionally in 1996. He released ed children in the construction of specifically for the show (see Music & California's blues world. He can Back at the Crossroads Project, an instruments like the sistrum, an Showbiz, page 49). The half -hour usually be found playing in such album of originals, on his own Fatt- ancient Egyptian percussion device, weekly series premieres Oct. 12. locales as Downtown Disney, the Back Unlimited label in 1999. at workshops and performances in glitzy faux -Main Street emporium Yusef's washboard player, Robert Pasadena -area schools and commu- RATINGS TO RECORD SALES near Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif. Hilton, led him to a deeper interest nity centers. What will become of the American The Bakersfield, Calif. -born in the African roots of the blues and "The kids love it," Yusef says. Idol winner? singer /guitarist says, "It's like being into a new career venue. "[Hilton] "They get it like that, even though ing the Band, the audition process Fuller's 19 Management has the a street musician. They give you a makes these really crazy instru- they may listen to hip -hop, rock - was only part of the show, and it option to represent any of the 10 little box thing with your sign on it. ments out of gourds," Yusef says. 'n'roll, whatever. It's a great experi- ended before half of the season was finalists and can exercise that It's really great. The thing about "He'll go get a tree and on the ence. Whether we play for grown over," explains Mike Darnell, Fox option for a period of several playing these venues is you don't get branches he puts strings going every people or for kids, they appreciate it. executive VP of alternative program- months, says Fuller, who has man- bothered by drunks. People are very which -a -way ... He also had a cigar - That's what I love the most." ming, specials, and movies. "With aged such acts as Spice Girls and S receptive. They've got the kids out, box guitar that he made. I said, `Let Yusef, who is releasing a live al- American Idol, the whole show is Club (formerly known as S Club 7). the kids are into it ... They buy the me try that, Robert.' I played it and bum and hopes to tour outside the about the audition process. American Cowell's S Records imprint and CD. It's just better than a club, I've said, `Man, this is cool. We should state soon, sees his teaching role as Idol is also a harder talent contest, Fuller's 19 Records have a joint been finding." put it in the act.' part of a larger mission: "I feel like I because the contestants are being first -look deal with BMG to release The dreadlocked musician has "In our act, we try to talk about was given this gift, I'm responsible judged by millions of people, not just records from finalists. played standard blues venues like the tradition of instrument -making for it, and I need to get it out there. a few, select judges." The winner of American Idol is the Blue Café in Long Beach and in Africa with available materials. In It's not about me -it's about this Fuller is more blunt: "A show like "guaranteed a one -album record deal Harvelle's in Santa Monica, but he Africa, they use a bow that they used thing that I was given that seems to Popstars got less interesting once with [BMG label] RCA, and we've has found the crowds and the pay - for hunting. They use gourds as res- be pretty unique that's catching peo- people saw who won." scheduled the album to be released days best at outdoor venues like the onators. When the Africans were ple's attention."

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L[2 (IL Ly Broadway Barks! pet adopt -athon benefiting Broadway PUFF THE MAGIC SIMPLER by Matt Gaffney Cares and local NewYork pet shelters.The event was held Across 56 Gauche (area 24 Pink Floyd's "Com- last month in NewYork's Shubert Alley. 1 "Weird Al" Yanko- of Paris) fortably _" vic send -up of a .57 Palindromic 25 Stands on 1995 hit woman's name the horizon 5 Hit real hard 58 "Drop the coin 26 "Doe, a_ 11 Lobster eater's right into the _" 29 "Put Your Head on cover (Chuck Berry lyric) My Shoulder" singer 14 Actor Morales of 59 Will Smith role 32 " for Love" (Harry "La Bamba" 60 Group Puff Daddy Convict, Jr. tune) 15 Matador's foe sampled on "Satis- 34 "We don't do drive- 16 Ending for legal fy You" _" (Eminem line) 17 Puff Daddy sam- 64 Orchestra's place 35 It's not expected to pled their "Kash- 65 One of the be a hit mir" on his hit Jackson 5 36 Yearning For veteran talent agent Barbara Skydel, the sky's always been the limit. "Come With Me" 66 Hit Goo Goo 38 Many a member 19 Steal my sunshine? Dolls ballad of the Vienna But she digs the earth, too. 20 Better Than 67 His private Boys' Choir As an avid gardener, the music division senior VP for the William 21 Four Seasons' label eyes may be 39 With "The," they Jay watching Morris Agency maintains 10 vegetable and flower beds covering 300 you hit No. 1 with 22 Loretta Lynn's 68 "Rockin' Robin" "Save the Last square feet on the grounds of her Eastern Long Island, N.Y., home. " Miner's sounds Dance for Me" Skydel's hobby blossomed after she built her house 14 years ago in what Daughter" 69 Stop on many bands' 40 Lack of toughness was a potato field: "There was literally nothing there. Every tree and shrub 23 Put in (meddle) European tours 43 Like the tears of 25 David Bowie hit a clown had to be landscaped and brought in," she says. 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Around the World" New Wavers' videos 45 Sousa's middle 27 Behemoth on 2 The O'Jays' "_ name Raising vegetables in organic fashion is more than a term à la the road Ta Be My Girl" 46 Feature of Bare - Motor 28 Paulo, Brazil 3 Gave a new look to naked Ladies On mode -it is rooted in That's Charlotte Church puttering around the streets of some serious guidelines. 30 Clear the cassette 4 Food mentioned in tunes, often 31 Part of RIAA "That's Amore" 48 She hit No. 1 in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England, the locale of her first "Since there are no pesti- 33 More fashionable, 5 Salt-N- 1967 with "To Sir movie role.The opera star -cum -actress will make her debut cides, you have to do other in Britain 6 Prefix with "horn" With Love" in the romantic comedy The Family Business. 371985 hit sampled 7 Miller of 51 Mike Post wrote things to protect the veg- by Puff Daddy on "Swingtown" its memorable etables," she says. 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