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BR H the British Evasion: Can't WILL TAKE YOU TO THE MOON AND BACK WITH LA LUNA BBMAK TRAVIS DIDO MORCHEEBA MELANIE C Tips for Brits Who Want U.S. Success How The U.K. lost Its Grip On The U.S. BY PAUL SEXTON comes from a cross -section of man- BY MELINDA NEWMAN either the Mainstream Rock Tracks and GORDON MASSON agers, label executives, and artists and LARRY FLICK or Modern Rock Tracks charts. LONDON -Quit moaning, make who agreed to diagnose, for Billboard, If America and England are Once the dominant influence on better records, and get back on the Britain's fall from grace as a power- indeed two countries separated by America's pop sound, Britain's musi- tour bus. house talent provider in America. the same language, as British novel- cal stream has slowed to a trickle 7243 5 56968 2 3 Britain's army of underachievers in Most of these industry profes- ist Sir Walter Besant suggested, here, with virtually no acts breaking major suc- * IN STORES NOW! the U.S. market must weigh that brief, sionals simply conclude that too then the gulf has never seemed wid- through or sustaining in recent years. Oasis, which * SHIPPING GOLD! brutal prescription if they have seri- many contemporary U.K. acts do not er than it does right now on U.S. mu- cesses hope, ous ambitions of succeeding on the have, or are not encouraged to devel- sic charts and radio airwaves. many considered the brightest * 40 CITY NORTH AMERICAN acts, BBMak (Continued on page 102) R BEGINS SEP other side of the Atlantic. The advice op, the work ethic that once made the Only two English and Sting, are ECr U.K. such a rich, IN BER 2000 influential artis- currently on The tic source in the Billboard Hot Debuts With UMG, MP3 Court Case (Continued on 100. There are no ClieRRadlo page 100) British acts on Hinges On 'Wolf ulness' Exclusive Snow Tracks /KEEPING SCORE BY MARILYN A. GILLEN CLASSICAL BY JIM BESSMAN NEW YORK -While this week will certainly be a mon- NEW YORK -It wasn't specifically created to promote umental one for MP3.com, which is scheduled to learn Phoebe Snow or any other currently unsigned artist, on from a New York court on Wednesday (6) whether it has Classical Sector new or established. But when ClickRadio debuted music been judged a "willful infringer" and thus is potential- Aug. 28, the New York -based interactive digital material from Snow ly liable to Universal Music Group (UMG) for hundreds Adapts To Web service began programming new of millions of dollars in damages, the impact of the rul- along with its catalog of licensed ing on the overall online music industry is likely to be BY BRADLEY BAMBARGER music selections from major and indie more muted. When the famously technophile labels in 44 pop Unlike in the other conductor Herbert von Karajan music categories. NEWS ANALYSIS high- profile Internet- witnessed a demonstration of the "Breaking new music case wending its way through the court system - nascent com- artists -and old that of the major labels vs. file -swap service Napster- pact disc in the artists -is what or even in the less -splashy fight between the Recording mid -'80s, he we're all about," says Bill Freston, VP of entertain Industry Assn. of America (RIAA) and search -engine reportedly SNOW site MP3Board.com, the more sweeping question at declared, "All ment for ClickRadio, which has added stake here has already been decided: Companies that else is gaslight." The Internet Snow's "I've Been Changed" to its adult hits, soft hits, intend to offer "digital locker services" allowing con- obviously represents an even and eclectic categories. The self-produced track, a sumers to hear streamed-audio copies of their music col- greater leap into the future, even downtempo funk tune that Snow says is about survival, lections must secure licenses from copyright (Continued on page 36) is one of four that came to Freston following (Continued on page 104) (Continued on page 110) T T 1 B O N D, S'M C R E A T O R LO F A L L P U L L M A N ClsiAC)tisic Co rig ratuCatíorts to aCCrrlie Rliítlirri Sr" Bli,<cs `Founclfarínn 2000 9-Conorces 37 SPOTLIGHT BEGINS ON PAGE ä Orr of the O.,dl \ NNICNINE NR - Bowl N ! .. 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