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EDITORIAL 646-654 -4680 EDITORIALS , COMMENTARY LETTERS DEPUTY EDITOR: Bill Werde OP1NION SENIOR EDITORS: Jonathan Cohen 646- 654 -5582. Chuck Eddy 646 -654 -4708 INTERNATIONAL BUREAU CHIEF: Mark Sutherland 011 -44- 207 -420 -6155 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF CONTENT AND PROGRAMMING FOR AND ENTERTAINMENT: Leila Cobo (Miami) 305- 361 -5279 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF CONTENT AND PROGRAMMING FOR TOURING AND LIVE ENTERTAINMENT: Ray Waddell (Nashville) 615- 321 -4245 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF CONTENT AND PROGRAMMING FOR DIGITAL/MOBILE: Antony Bruno ) 303 -771 -1342 : SPECIAL FEATURES EDITOR: Thom Duffy I -.1716 SENIOR CORRESPONDENTS: Susan Butler & Publishing) 646 -654 -4646: Ed Christman (Retail) 646 -654 -4723. Brian Garrity (Business) 646 -654 -4721. Paul Heine (Radio) 646- 654 -4669: Gail Mitchell (k&l' ' '5 -2289: Michael Paoletta (Brand Marketing) 6 -r: -: -4726 Chuck Taylor (Pop) 646- 654-4729', Tom Ferguson (Deputy Global Editor) ` 207 -42 CORRESPONDENTS: Ayala Ben-Yehuda it in) 3- .'.243. Mike Boyle (Rock) 646-654 -4727: Hillary Crosley (R &B /Hip-Hop) 646 -65- Todd Martens (Indes) 323-525 -2292: Snippety Mitchell Peters 323 -525- 2322', Ken Tucker - .edio) é -4286 Getting INTERNATIONAL: Christie Ellezer .t Larry LeBlanc 'Brada), Steve McClure (Aso). Wolfgang Spahr L -Many) Create A License For Sample Artists And The Whole Biz Wins BILLBOARD.BIZ NEWS EDITOR: Chris M. Walsh 64i GLOBAL NEWS EDITOR: Lars Brandie 011 -44- 207 -420 -6068 ONLINE EDITORS: Marie) Concepcion (Billboard.com) 646 -654 -4780: , «0 Susan -4730 al- Katie Hasty .< 646- 654 -4650. Visakowitz (Radio) 646 -654 BY PHILO T. FARNSWORTH managed mixes, when he has already With the budgets that are regularly MULTIMEDIA PRODUCER: Rich Kaplinksl created a full -length masterpiece unen- located to market and create new trends, COPY CHIEF: Chris Woods COPY EDITOR: Molly Brown The label that I manage, , spe- cumbered by the restrictions of pre - it seems absurd that when or SENIOR COPY EDITOR, SPECIAL FEATURES: Wayne Robins 646- 654 -4713 ASSOCIATE EDITOR, SPECIAL FEATURES: Evie Nagy 646- 654 -4709 cializes in releasing works that rely heav- authorization? While I love the authorized "The Payoff Mix" achieves popular mo- CONTRIBUTORS: Sam Andrews, Jim Bessman, Fred Bronson, Ramiro Burr, Juliana Koranteng, Kerrl Mason, Dan Ouellette, Deborah Evans Price, Paul Sexton, Christa Titus, Steve Traiman, ily on sampling pre- existing recordings. , Girl Talk's genius and most mentum, that the industry wouldn't go Anastasia Tsioulcas Since our inception in 1998 we have held thrilling work often rests on combining out of its way to make these types of work DESIGN & PHOTOGRAPHY CREATIVE DIRECTOR: JOSH KLENERT to the philosophy that the music our sources that traditionally wouldn't be legitimate in the market. How often does ASSOCIATE ART DIRECTOR: Christine Bower SENIOR DESIGNER: Greg Grabowy artists create are new works, and while mixed. As artists and labels recognize the a new style of music emerge? How can ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR: Amelia Halverson composed of fragments of other music, benefits of allowing "official" Girl Talk the music industry afford to not promote CHARTS 8 RESEARCH DIRECTOR OF CHARTS /SENIOR ANALYST: GEOFF MAYFIELD (L AJ are incredibly transformative. The proj- mixes of their material, could the bene- a type of music that has already proved ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR: SILVIO PIETROLUONGO SENIOR CHART MANAGERS: Raphael George (R &Bi Hip -Hop), Wade Jessen (Bluegrass. Country, ects we release are distinct enough from fits not also be realized of allowing such its mass appeal? If rereleasing works on Christian. Gospel: Nashville) or in newly remastered edi- CHART MANAGERS: Bob Allen ( Boxscore. Nashville). Keith Caulfield (Cast. Compilations. Digital the sampled sources that it would be ab- as "Night Ripper" to reach full new formats Albums. Internet, Pop Catalog. Soundtracks: L A.), Anthony Colombo (Rock, Spotlight Recaps, Video). Mary DeCroce (Bl_ues. Kid Audio: Nashville). Geoff Mayfield (The Billboard 200. surd to consider such content a threat to market potential? tions causes even a small percentage of Heatseekers. '_ Gordon Murray (Comedy, Electronic. Jazz. New Age. Reggae, World), Silvio Pietroluongo ,rd Hot 100. Pop 100, Hot Digital Songs). Paul Pomfret (Hits of the the markets of the originals. Going back 24 years, Double Dee & fans to repurchase music, how much World. Lend,- Jose Promis i afin. Dance. L.A.), Gary Trust (Adult Contemporary. Adult Top 401 music ANALYST: Keith Caulfield The common perception of sampling Steinski entered a contest held by could authorizing sample-based CHART PRODUCTION MANAGER: Michael Cusson is that something has been stolen or that Tommy Boy Records. Their entry unan- increase the ability to resell bits of popu- ASSOCIATE CHART PRODUCTION MANAGER: Alex Vitoulis BILLBOARD RESEARCH MANAGER: Gordon Murray 646 -654 -4633 an artist has unjustly profited from an- imously won with a mix that used a wide lar songs? The mechanisms that allow INTEGRATED SALES, EVENTS 8 BRAND MARKETING other's work. Often overlooked, though, variety of samples from other sources. covers have mutual benefits for the per- VICE PRESIDENT, INTEGRATED SALES /ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER: BRIAN C. KENNEDY 646- 654 -4627 be While the track, known as "The Payoff former and the , so why not cre- NATIONAL SALES DIRECTOR /DIGITAL & CONSUMER: Derek Sentner 646 -654 -4616 are the potential benefits that might WEST COAST ADVERTISING DIRECTORS: Aki Kaneko 323 -525 -2299: Diane Johnson 323 - 525 -2237 gained from having one's work sampled Mix," became an underground hit, it was ate a similar system for sampling? EAST COAST ADVERTISING DIRECTORS: Cindy Mata 646 -654 -4710: Ryan Bleich 646- 654 -4635 NASHVILLE: Lee Ann Photoglo 615 -383 -1573 (Labels); Cynthia Mellow 615- 352 -0265 (Touring) and recontextualized into a new work. never officially released because of sam- Whether or not the music industry ADVERTISING DIRECTOR : Nancy Cole 313 -510 -2425 a sampling li- ADVERTISING DIRECTOR EUROPE/U.K.: Frederic Fenucci 011 -44- 207 -420 -6075 The immediate black- and -white rules of pling issues. Not only did the artists ever supports reasonable INSIDE SALES MANAGER: Arkady Frldman 646 -654 -4636 infringement in the '90s were such that make nothing from their brilliant work cense that allows monetary benefits on INSIDE ACCOUNT REP: Jett Serrette 646 -654 -4697 MANAGING DIRECTOR/LATIN: Gene Smith 973 -746 -2520 almost all unauthorized sampling was (besides the $100 for winning the con- both sides, it is at least becoming more LATIN AMERICA /MIAMI: Marcia 011val 305- 864.7578. Fax: 305- 864 -3227 sampling is far from harm- ASIA- PACIFIC /AUSTRALIA: Linda Matich 612- 9440 -7777, Fax: 612 -9440 -7788 perceived as harmful and therefore had evident that JAPAN: Aki Kaneko 323 -525 -2299 to be litigated without question. While ful and actually promotes the artists ADVERTISING COORDINATORS: Mime Gomez 646 -654 -4695: Amy Gavelek 646- 654 -4617 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CONFERENCES & SPECIAL EVENTS: MICHELE JACANGELO such attitudes are well -entrenched, there sampled. Such artists as Girl Talk not SPONSORSHIP SALES DIRECTOR: Karl Vontz 415- 738 -0745 `How can the and expo- SPONSORSHIP SALES MANAGERS: Michelle Fine 646- 654 -4718. David Moser 646 -654 -4653 are hopeful signs that new attitudes to- only increase the awareness SPECIAL EVENTS DIRECTOR: Margaret O'Shea ward appropriation may be emerging. sure to the sampled material, but also REGISTRATION SALES MANAGER: Erin Parker music industry EVENT CLIENT SERVICES COORDINATOR: Courtney Marks In the last year, one of our artists, Girl popularize collecting music from a ART DIRECTOR, MARKETING & SALES: Melissa Subatch MARKETING MANAGER: Stephanie Horst 646- 654 -4622 afford to not. range of genres, years, labels and ASSOCIATE Talk, has risen significantly in popular- wider MARKETING DESIGN MANAGER: Melissa Biever 646 -654 -4658 ity. the industry still cultures. It's difficult to see how encour- The cautiousness of promote music LICENSING & REPRINTS persists, though, and prevents such an aging such obsessive musical interest VICE PRESIDENT, LICENSING & EVENTS: HOWARD APPELBAUM SPONSORSHIP/BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER: Cebele Marquez artist from selling the number of units that has already could damage the market. The day may BUSINESS MANAGER, LICENSING & EVENTS: Barbara Grieninger 646- 654 -4675 come when the only thing worse than MANAGER, LICENSING, SALES & REPRINTS: Angeline Blesheuvel 646- 654 -4677 that the market may demand. But while 1- - proved its FOSTER REPRINTS: Nancy M. Rothman - 866 -879-9144 Ext 34 nrothrnael8fostereprivtscom manufacturers and distributors have cur- being sampled without permission is AUDIENCE MARKETING tailed the project at various phases, it is mass appeal ?' that no one is sampling your work. With ASSOCIATE AUDIENCE MARKETING DIRECTOR: Frances Davis AUDIENCE MARKETING MANAGER (GROUP): Michele Larsen interesting that not one artist has issued the advent of YouTube, MySpace and INTERNATIONAL AUDIENCE MARKETING DIRECTOR: Stephanie McNamara ) -PHILO T. FARNSWORTH SUBSCRIPTIONS: 818-487 -4582 (US /Canada) 44-1858-438887 (International) a complaint about being sampled on Girl what is being labeled Web 2.0, the trend industry also failed to make toward more participatory forms of en- PRODUCTION Talk's "Night Ripper." With hundreds of test), but the PRODUCTION DIRECTOR: TERRENCE C. SANDERS articles and reviews, and inclusion on the one cent from music that was instanta- tertainment is firmly in place. Sampling ADVERTISING PRODUCTION MANAGER: Chris Dexter EDITORIAL PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR/OPS ADMINISTRATOR: Anthony T. Stallings "best albums of 2006" lists of Rolling neously resonating with urban audi- is definitely an important aspect of that SYSTEMS /TECHNOLOGY SUPERVISOR: Barry Bishin oth- ences. What would have happened if the participatory culture, and whether Web SENIOR COMPOSITION TECHNICIAN: Susan Chicota Stone, Spin, Blender, and COMPOSITION TECHNICIAN: Rodger Leonard ers, it certainly isn't because of a lack of sampled artists /labels had combined ef- 2.0 is embraced as a form of viral mar- ADVERTISING GRAPHIC ARTISTS: Ray Carlson, Ken Diamond publicity or knowledge that there is a forts and allowed the record to reach its keting or becomes a critical business PUBLISHING 6 OPERATIONS is facilitating creative PUBLISHER: JOHN KILCULLEN scarcity of complaints. market potential? If reasonable and au- model, technology SPECIAL PROJECTS MANAGER: Kristin Tunzi In 1998, within days of releasing our tomatic fees existed for such sampling, appropriations. VICE PRESIDENT/GENERAL MANAGER: ANDY BILBAO HUMAN RESOURCES DIRECTOR: BILL FINTON "Deconstructing " compilation, we most sampling artists would be happy While Illegal Art has a fair -use legal de- DIGITAL BRAND MANAGER: ERIC WARD LEGAL COUNSEL: ERIC RUBENSTEIN received legal threats from Beck's pub- to pay royalties in the same fashion that fense for its releases, we would love to DISTRIBUTION DIRECTOR: Lou Bradfield lawyer. While mechanical licenses exist for covering a discuss the possibilities of opening up BILLING: Liza Perez. CREDIT: Shawn Norton lisher, label and personal VICE PRESIDENT, DIGITAL STRATEGY: John Lemer the case never went to court, it is inter- song. Simultaneously the sampled and things further with anyone in the larger VICE PRESIDENT, MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTION: Jennifer Grego VICE PRESIDENT, AUDIENCE MARKETING: Joanne Wheatley - esting to note how quickly a response the sampling artists could reach a larger music industry. . VICE PRESIDENT, MARKETING SERVICES: Drew DeSade came from one artist sampled in 1998 and audience, and both would receive com- BILLBOARD OFFICES to NEW YORK: 770 Broadway. LOS ANGELES: 5055 Wilshire LONDON: Endeavour House, how differently 150 -plus acts have re- pensation for copies sold. In the end Philo T Farnsworth uses a pseudonym New York. NY 10003 Blvd_ Los Angeles, CA 90036 189 Shaftesbury Ave . London Phone: b46- 654 -4500 Phone: 323 -525 -2300 WC2H 8TJ: sponded in the last year to Girl Talk's "The Payoff Mix" only reached the boot- protect his identity. He has run Illegal Art, Edit. Fax. 646- 654 -4681 Fax. 323 -525- 2394/2395 Phone: 011 -44- 207 -420 -6003: Fax: -4799 Fax: 011 -44 -207- 420 -6014 a focused on sample -based Adv. 646- 654 "Night Ripper." Oddly there has been leg market, and only the bootleggers WASHINGTON, D.C.: 910 17th MIAMI: 101 Crandon Blvd , NASHVILLE: 49 Music Square Suite 466. Key Biscayne. FL W. Nashville, TN 37203 St. NW, Suite 215. Wash. DC. 20006 the larger achieved minimal benefit from this crit- compositions, since 1998. He can be Phone: 33149 Phone: 305- 361 -5279 some communication from Phone. 615 -321 -4290 202-833-8692 Fax 202-833 -8672 Fax: 305 -361 -5299 music industry, but it has taken a differ- ically acclaimed track. reached through the illegalart.net Web site. Fax'. 615- 320 -0454 ent tone. In the last six months, several CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER: Greg Farrar, CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER: Kirk Miller, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, HUMAN nielsen RESOURCES: Michael Alicea; SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, major and independent artists have so- TRAVEL, PERFORMANCE & MARKETING SERVICES: William J. WRITE US. Share your feedback with Billboard readers around the world. Cooke; SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, FILM & PERFORMING licited Girl Talk for remixes. Similarly, Nielsen Business Media ARTS/MUSIC 8 LITERARY: John Klicullen; SENIOR VICE Send correspondence to [email protected]. Include name, title, address and PRESIDENT, CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT & PLANNING: multiple major labels have proposed a may be edited. All Thomas Kuczynski; SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, RETAIL: David Loechnr, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, phone number for verification. Letters should be concise and EMEDIA STRATEGY & TECHNOLOGY: Linda McCutcheon; SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, MARKETING giant mash -up of their back catalogs. But become the sole property of Billboard, which shall own & MEDIA: Michael E. Parker, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, BUILDING DESIGN: Joe Randall; SENIOR submissions published shall VICE PRESIDENT, CENTRAL SERVICES: Mary Kay Sustek; VICE PRESIDENT, LICENSING & why does stop there? Why does the copyright in whole or part, for publication. EVENTS: Howard Appelbaum; VICE PRESIDENT/GENERAL MANAGER, BURRILL LIFE everyone SCIENCES MEDIA GROUP, LLC: Zachary Dicker, MANAGING DIRECTOR, BURRILL LIFE SCIENCES Girl Talk have to create contrived and pre- MEDIA GROUP, LLC: Jeff Miller

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The service sells full albums only, not ed the sale of individual tracks. files by a few for management teams at both com- "AnywhereCD is ted ists such as JESSE ARTNEY in the past. panies are unwilling to em- selling Warner brace selling their catalogs Music Group in the MP3 format. content in a manner that flagrantly But whether or not the ma- violates the terms jors will be involved with Ama- of our agreement," zon or iTunes unprotected plays, a WMG they all say they are waiting to find out representative says. if the MP3 model will expand digital "Accordingly, we sales -and conversely, if it will fuel have sent them a unauthorized file- sharing or cannibal- notice of ization of other digital formats such termination and as ringtones. they are re quired to As first reported in Billboard, Ama- immediately re- move all of our con- zon abandoned its initial plans to tent from their site." launch a digital music subscription service and its own branded MP3 » >VIRGIN player (based on Microsoft's Window PLANS Media Audio software technology) RETAIL BY ED CHRISTMAN EXPANSION when Microsoft undermined its DRM by using a dosed Virgin digital music system for its Zune device (Billboard, Entertainment Nov. 25, 2006). Group North At the time, executives at two of the four majors pri- America is once MP3 Market Multiplies vately told Billboard they were disappointed that Ama- again in expansion mode. VEGNA Universal And Amazon Beef Up The Unprotected Online Sales Space zon had switched to an MP3 model, because they felt chairman Simon the giant online merchant could successfully mount Wright, who While EM I will boldly go where no major has gone be- zon declines comment) Meanwhile, sources familiar a challenge to iTunes, and were hoping that it would presided over a fore and sell its catalog as unprotected digital files, with the situation say plans do so under the banner of DRM. three -year other forces are coming into play that should bolster to test the sale of unprotected digital music files, in- In December, a senior executive at a major label told restructuring that the potential for a commercial MP3 marketplace. cluding some of its classical music catalog conceiv- Billboard, "Amazon underestimates the power of their saw the chain close Amazon, which is considered the best bet to chal- ably including titles by Andrea Bocelli, at the new brand" with consumers who shop by computer. 10 stores to get lenge iTunes' supremacy in the digital world, is shoot- Amazon store and other outlets. In moving to an MP3 a la carte download model, down to its current ing to launch its MP3 digital download store in May, UMG has previously tested the sale of some iso- Amazon initially was pushing for lower wholesale pric- total of 13, says the a target date it has yet w publicly acknowledge. (Ama- lated digital rights management chain will limit its -free music, from Jesse ing than the current marketplace provides -70 cents new store search to McCartney in the United States and French acts per track or 70% of retail price -but pushback the New York and Superbus and Emilie Simon in Europe. But from indie labels has merchants talking about Los Angeles TRANS WORLD now UMG plans to significantly expand that what those labels consider more realistic markets. JOINS MP3 RACE initiative by selling classical selections models, if not yet at that pricing level. through download stores and subscription One indie player says his company is »APPLE In yet another or line retail initiative, Trans services, in the DRM -free format of the re- close to signing a deal, but is hung up on CORPS, EMI World Entertainment has opened an MP3 store tailers' choice. UMG is planning tests in other what kind of pricing should be applied to SETTLE with 2 million traciKs, ail from independent la- genres as well, sources say. what kind of file. That company is willing to sell BEATLES bels. Tie offering is powered ROYALTY ROW by PassAlong It's unclear so far whether iTunes is included among Amazon 128 byte -rate files at its conventional digital Networks, the digital technology company stores slated to sell unprotected UMG music, and price points, wants a higher price -qual- Apple Corps, the but for better Beatles' company, that also runs its own download store. UMG could not be reached to comment. ity 256 byte -rate files. Another says that, in fear of being has settled its £30 While conventional brick-and-mortar retail- Until recently, eMusic, which served up its 1 mil- shortchanged, his label has decided to sit on the side- million ($59.2 ers have yet to become a factor in the digital lionth download in December, has been the dominant lines until a major sets the wholesale floor price for a million) royalties world, or even in onïli ie CD sales, they have player selling MP3s. A month ago, UMG's plans would hit song in the MP3 format. Still other independent dispute with the been clamoring for the majors to go the MP3 have been big news. But the label's move was upstaged labels say that since Amazon changed its mind last band's label EMI. route, jest so the retailers would have a chance by EMI chairman Eric Nicoli's joint announcement time, they are waiting to see if the May date sticks and EMI would not to compete. Until now, the iPod's dominance with Apple CEO Steve Jobs that in May the major would for Amazon to actually launch the store before begin- disclose details of and Apple's closed system have largely pre- release its catalog in unprotected digital files (bill - ning negotiations. the settlement, cluded other onliie stores from becoming a board.biz, April 2). which was reached factor in digital sales. -EC Meanwhile, executives within Sony BMG Music MOBILE: For 24/7 news and analysis on your cell last month. phone or mobile device, go tc. mobile.billboard.biz. Entertainment and Warner Music Group say sen- s

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»,DAFT PUNK, STOOGES, MMJ JOIN PEARL JAM Class(room) AT LOLLA Daft Punk, the Stooges, My Morning Jacket, Action Muse, Modest Mouse, Interpol, the Yeah Yeah One University Refuses To Pass On RIAA Yeahs, Ben Harper and File- Sharing Letters, But The Rest Play Ball Snow Patrol are among the top acts joining Hundreds of students are days keep their names out of pub- previously announced away from being sued by lic records, RIAA general headliner Pearl Jam at major labels for illegally shar- counsel Steven Marks says. this year's Lollapalooza, ing music over university com- The letters, identifying only to be held Aug. 3 -5 in Internet Protocol (IP) Chicago's Grant Park. puter networks. They are the specific The Roots, Patti Smith, first among nearly 1,200 stu- addresses on university net- , the Black dents who could settle claims works, offer a discount to set- Keys and Spoon are also under the RIAA's latest an- tle out of court within 20 days on the bill. Lollapalooza tipiracy initiative, which asks if the individuals come for- comes near the end of university administrators to ward. The RIAA is sending let- the busy festival season, forward the RIAA's pre - ters in "waves." On Feb. 28, following Coachella and lawsuit letters proposing set- 400 letters were sent to 13 uni- Of universities and colleges tors see the letters as a way to which received 16 letters, there Bonnaroo. It is also tlements. But these students versities; March 21, 405 letters receiving letters in the first two help the students. is an Internet port at each bed. being held the same either chose not to settle or to 23 universities; and April 10, waves, only the University of "We have two professional There are singles, doubles and weekend as the V receive the letters. 403 letters to 21 universities. Wisconsin has defied the RIAA schools [in health care]," says suites -the last of which holds Festival in Baltimore. didn't The RIAA developed its lat- In the first group, 198 individ- request so far (see sidebar). Miles Postema, general coun- four students -and the uni- » >ANALYSTS: est strategy after hearing that uals settled, and the RIAA is Dave Giroux, spokesman for sel for Ferris State Univer- versity does not know which APPLE POISED some illegal file sharers preparing lawsuits against the the University of Wisconsin sity in Big Rapids, Mich., student has which bed port, FOR MOBILE wanted the chance to settle others. Figures aren't yet avail- system of campuses , says it has which received 17 letters. university spokesman Mark GROWTH claims before being sued -to able for the second wave. fully complied with subpoenas "Many students will be in li- Owczarski says. Research group in the past. `But this latest wrin- censed professions, and The University of Nebraska - Strategy Analytics says kle-to pass along nonlegal cor- there are background checks Lincoln (51 letters) and North recent that EMI's CAMPUS RESPONSE respondence for a settlement for the applicants' fitness. Dakota State University (20) decision to sell music Billboard contacted representatives for the 36 uni- offer a different animal, The question [of lawsuits] passed along letters to individ- without digital rights -is first two waves one where we don't see the uni- comes up on nearly every ap- uals they could identify, but management on iTunes versities and colleges receiving the to said they could position Apple to of letters. versity, as a public institution plication. We didn't want representatives be- take a leadership role in Boston University and 25 other universities for- of higher education, having a deprive students the oppor- couldn't identify others the emerging mobile warded the letters to all or most of the individuals role," he says. "It's not appro- tunity to settle." cause they no longer had the music space. The group (students, faculty or staff). Of those, University of priate to be a middle man." The labels plan to file "John network logs. The Electronic notes that 60% of the Nebraska -Lincoln asked for $150 reimbursement for "Some say it's a fishing expe- Doe" lawsuits against those Frontier Foundation, which music -capable phones costs to determine identities. The RIAA refused, say- dition," says Brian Rust, who don't settle, Marks says. has opposed RIAA- initiated introduced last year ing that subpoenas would require the same work with- spokesman for the University They will then secure court - lawsuits, says on its Web site support the AAC format out payment, and the university should do more to of Wisconsin -Madison. "How approved subpoenas to obtain that universities can protect used by iTunes. How- prevent piracy in the first place. do the individuals know for sure the individuals' identities from their students' rights by review- ever in the past, these its letters to individu- that the RIAA has the proof ?" the universities, which act as ing "their data retention poli- phones couldn't play University of Maine sent own for cies to consider whether they iTunes files due to als letting them know the RIAA letters were available Marks says the RIAA would Internet service providers Apple's Fairplay DRM to pick up if they chose to do so. not have sent the letters with- their systems. are unwittingly aiding the technology. With Seven of eight University of Wisconsin campuses out first having evidence of in- Targeting the right individ- RIAA's lawsuit campaign by re- Fairplay removed -at opted not to forward the letters. However, the Eau fringement, which the labels ual will not be without chal- taining IP address logs (which least from EMI tracks - Claire campus notified the individuals, met with them will prove in court. lenges. In the residence hall can be used to help identify al- users will now be able and offered the RIAA letters to them in person. The universities aren't rooms at Virginia Polytechnic leged file sharers) for longer to transfer iTunes- Ithaca College contracted Internet service from legally required to locate the Institute and State University, than necessary." purchased music to Apogee, which received letters but refused to forward user connected to the IP ad- their mobile phones. them. The college obtained the letters from Apogee dress and forward the RIAA Congressional leaders criticize university responses .btZ to piracy. For an update, go to: billboard.biz /legal. »,CLEAR and sent them to the individuals. -SB letters. Still, most administra- CHANNEL TO FEED BIGCHAMPAGNE Clear Channel Radio will begin providing ville director of operations play Monitor in 1999, a title Top Pop Catalog Albums and traffic data to digital 360 DEGREES OF BILLBOARD for sister magazine Radio & that moved to the Radio & Top Digital Albums, and is ed- media tracking firm Records. Records masthead last year itor of Billboard Chart Alert. BigChampagne. CHANGES IN CHART In their new roles, George George, who has guided when the latter was acquired "Silvio has been a pivotal BigChampagne will DEPARTMENT and Jessen are charged with Billboard's R &B and hip -hop by Nielsen Co. Also in 1999, manager in the charts depart- collect data from Clear Silvio Pietroluongo becomes seeking new opportunities to charts since 2005, quickly es- Pietroluongo took the reins ment for the past eight years, Channel's streaming, himself as a leader of The Billboard Hot 100, a so I'm pleased that his new download and associate director of charts serve readers of the genres tablished broadcast Internet for Billboard, while three oth- and formats they cover. in the department, taking an chart he still manages today. title better reflects his sta- programming to create ers in the charts department Jessen, a 12 -year Billboard active role in the develop- Caulfield's new title for- ture," Billboard director of a branded Clear also assume new roles. veteran, oversees the coun- ment of Billboard's R &B /Hip- malizes a role he has filled for charts Geoff Mayfield says. Channel Online music Chart managers Wade Jes- try, Christian and gospel Hop Conference & Awards. several years, adding context "Likewise, the profile and re- chart that measures all sen and Raphael George are charts in Billboard's Nash- Pietroluongo joined the to the data that drives Bill- sponsibilities of Wade, Raph- music activity promoted to senior chart ville bureau. He remains di- Billboard team 18 years ago. board's charts. The nine -year ael and Keith are more appro- nationwide, as well as managers, while Keith Caul- rector of country, Christian He became director of charts staffer continues to manage priately identified by their by market. market field becomes analyst. and gospel charts and Nash- for what was then called Air- several album lists, including new titles."

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China Syndrome Mercury » >AUSSIE BIZ GROWS IN 2006 Surging digital sales WTO Action Gets Cautious rights field. In a statement released April 10, and a banner year for Welcome In Asia the Chinese Ministry of Commerce expressed Rising local repertoire "deep regret and strong dissatisfaction" with David Massey Aims To Rebuild Imprint underpinned massive The United States' decision to file actions the two complaints. volume growth in the against China with the World Trade Organiza- "The Chinese government has always been Add veteran exec- him the perfect choice to Australian record tion (WTO) has been well- received by the Asian firm in protecting intellectual property rights utive David Massey to Doug pilot Mercury," IDJ chair- market in 2006. The biz -but many remain skeptical about its im- and has attained well -known achievements," Morris' collection ofA&R stars man /CEO Antonio "L.A." Australian wholesale pact at street level. the statement said. "It will seriously undermine at Universal Music Group. Reid says. music market grew in The actions -over intellectual property (IP) the cooperative relations the two nations have Island Def Jam (IDJ) is In opting to jump to IDJ volume by 27.12% to more than 80 million rights and market access issues (billboard.biz, established in the field and will adversely af- making room for Massey, Massey is leaving the Day- units last year April 9) -have also brought protests from the fect bilateral economic and trade ties." former executive VP ofA &R light name and the core compared with the 63 Chinese government. Tian Lipu, commissioner of the Chinese gov- for Sony Music Label of its roster at Sony. million units in 2005, Warner Music Asia Pacific president Lachie ernment's Intellectual Property Office, also re- Group U.S.,byreviv- Coming with the Australian Rutherford echoes the sentiments of many in leased a statement castigating the U.S. action. ingtheMercury Rec- him are his two Recording Industry the local biz when he describes the WTO actions "It's not a sensible move for the U.S. govern- ords imprint in the Daylight A &R Assn. says.. But heavy as part of a continuing "dialogue" with Beijing. ment to file such complaints," Tian said, citing United States and directors, David discounting saw the "The Chinese have approached the IP issue a recent Chinese Supreme Court decision that naming him presi- :.;,, Gray and Evan value of sales drop as an administrative issue rather than a criminal lowered the threshold for prosecuting manufac- dent of the division. I Lipschutz, and one by 3.11% to $511.7 Australian issue," he says. "Until we get people to under- turers and vendors of counterfeit IP products Mercury-which through recent signing, singer/ million ($419.6 million), from stand that piracy is theft, we will make no from 1,000 copies to 500. The new threshold the years has served as the songwriter George Simon $528.2 million was cited by U.S. trade representative Susan U.S. home to such acts as Stanford. Australian ($435.7 Schwab as providing a "safe harbor" for pirates Bon Jovi, John Mellencamp, The only other act con - million) in the when she launched the WTO action. Def Leppard, Kiss and Rush firmed llor the Mercury ros- previous year. One Beijing -based industry source antici- -ceased operating as a front- ter so far is Duffy, a female pates that China's IP rights efforts "will step up line label in North America act initially signed by Univer- >>>BELL a little after this action." But he adds that Bei- in 1999 in thewakeoftheSea- sal Music International. AWARDED AVERY

jing is unlikely to totally accede to the United gram - PolyGram merger. There is no word yet on Mer- FISHER PRIZE States' demands. Talks between Massey and cury picking up acts from Is- Grammy Award- winning "If the Chinese authorities were chasing after IDJ heated up in January as land or Def Jam. violinist Joshua Bell was presented the 2007 every small -time vendor selling 50 CDs /DVDs Massey was negotiating a new While Mercury has been Avery Fisher Prize, in order to protect the livelihoods of the Tom contract with Sony Music -a in mothballs in the States for awarded for Cruises and of this world, then that's deal that was to include trans- years, it has remained an ac- outstanding all they would be able to do, instead of running forming his Daylight Records tive imprint overseas serving achievement and the country more efficiently in other more press- imprint from a wholly owned as the international home for excellence in music on progress in China." ing areas," the source says. subsidiary distributed through many IDJ acts as well as in- April 10 at New YorIK's One Hong Kong -based industry source says But the Chinese government could face into a joint ven- ternational signings. Lincoln Center. The the move is long overdue. "Things seem just as mounting pressure if Japan accepts the United ture with offices outside the "It's a very exciting chal- violin virtuoso received tough as they have been for a decade -pirate States' reported request that Tokyo join the Sony building. lenge to rebuild a label that a $75,000 honorarium DVDs and CDs are everywhere. There are peri- U.S. action. According to Japanese media re- Sony execs did not return froma global perspective has and had his name added to the list of odic crackdowns, but all that's accomplished ports, the government will make a decision after calls seeking comment. quite a brand," Massey says. past winners on a is that it drives the business underground for a Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's state visit to Massey founded Daylight Just how many releases marble plaque installed short period of time." Japan ends April 13 -but while many in the in late 2000 as an A &R cen- come out this year under the at Avery Fisher Hall. IFPI chairman /CEO John Kennedy offered Japanese biz would welcome such a move, few ter for all labels within Sony Mercury banner remains to Bell was previously full support for the WTO move. "China is a hugely see it as inevitable. Music Label Group. His sign- be seen, but the number fig - honored with an Avery exciting potential market, but it is also the source "I don't think the Japanese government will ings for Daylight included ures to be around a handful. Fisher Career Grant of the world's biggest piracy problem," Kennedy join the U.S.- especially in the new mood of Anastacia, , Massey says the plan is to in 1986. said in a statement, adding that record com- cordiality" between Japan and China, one label Phantom Planet, Cheyenne build the imprint slowly. pany investment is "impossible until China does exec says. "But they should -until China gets Kimball and . Massey will assume his »APPLE SELLS more to improve the legal landscape on which its shit together copyright -wise, we're not going "The track record of trust Mercury post April 16. He is 100 MILLION the music industry depends to do its business." to sell any music there." and inspiration he has won based in New York and will IPODS Apple has revealed that The Chinese government, however, main- from the artists he's worked report to Reid and IDJ presi- it has sold 100 million tains that it has made in IP . strong progress the Additional reporting by Jessie Ho in Taipei. with over the years ... makes dent Steve Bartels. iPods since launching the digital media player in November 2001. BY KEN TUCKER Apple says its iTunes online music store has Graw and Faith Hill. sold more than 2.5 Meanwhile, McEntire and billion songs, 50 million COUNTRY CARD TV shows anc more Clarkson, who sang with Ras- than 1.3 miliicn movies. Superstar Lineup Set For ACM Awards Show cal Flatts on last year's show, will perform a song from McEntire's Compiled by Chris M. Country music superstars Billboard's Hot Country Songs ing entertainer, top vocal duo upcoming album, "Duets." Walsh. Reporting by Brooks & Dunn, Kenny Ches- chart in 1981, leads the pack with and album of the year. They The sold -out show, which Antony Bruna, Ed ney, George Strait and Reba eight nominations, including have previously won 21 ACM McEntire will host for an un- Christman, Christie McEntire, with special guest entertainer of the year and top awards, and are the 2007 re- precedented ninth time, will Eliezer, Andre Paine. and rising star male vocalist. He last took home cipients of the ACM /Home be broadcast live at 8 p.m. Chris M. Walsh and Sugarland, will perform May 15 an ACM trophy in 1997. In 2003 Depot Humanitarian Award. ET/PT on CBS. 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six other Chinese cities. Handling the Beijing office's day -to -day and SUM -the latter with media company Shanghai Media Group. duties are Universal Music China GM Cat Leung and Hung Tik, Universal's current top sellers in China include Wilbur Pan, Jacky Back To The managing director of Universal Music Hong Kong and China. "If Cheung and Alan Tam-who, according to Universal, has sold 7.5 international music does well [in China], we'll do well at that, be- million ringback tones of his song "The Wolf That Wears a Sheep's cause we already have a well- organized setup to sell ," Skin Outside" in the burgeoning Chinese mobile market. The com- Hole says. "But the game will be selling Mandarin . At pany says its biggest artist from mainland China is Dao Lang, who Old School You" the moment a lot of Chinese pop comes from Taiwan or Hong has sold a combined 350,000 copies of his "Thank and "Dao New Universal Office In Kong, but I believe that will change. And we're trying to encour- Lang 3" albums, on his Universal- distributed Gau Yu label. Beijing Focuses On A &R age mainland Chinese musicians, writers and artists to use our Hole hopes to unearth similar superstars among the six artists expertise to make better records." the Beijing office is likely to sign in 2007. But he warns against LONDON -In a bid to crack the Chi- According to the IFPI, domestic repertoire accounted for 90% Western companies thinking there are immediate rich pickings nese market, Universal is going back of Chinese sales in 2005, the latest figures available. Independent to be made. "This won't pay off in 2008," he says. "It's a five- to to basics in Beijing. figures are not available, but Universal estimates its total 2006 10- to 15 -year bet. We're hampered by the lack of an enforced copy- Aiming to boost its Chinese Chinese market share at 17.7 %, up from 15.7% right law, piracy, censorship, the low price of CDs [around $2] and repertoire market share, the corn - in 2005, when it started its own direct mar- the fact that things are still so ." pany is investing in a new `creative keting and selling in China. Universal All the other majors are active in China. Warner is the only one hub" in the city-named one claims that, together, the four majors headquartered in Beijing, although its office does not feature an of Billboard's five global hot represent around 33% of the total audio in -house studio. Nor does EMI's Beijing office. Sony BMG's Bei- spots for 2007 (Billboard, Jan. 6). and video market in China. jing setup does have a studio, which Billboard understands is The new office will primarily be an Universal already boasts a roster of around used mainly for demos. A&R center, with an in -house recording 50 Chinese -language acts, signed to its la- Hole says Universal's Beijing operation is inspired by Chinese studio and writing rooms. bels in Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China. indie Modern Sky, which releases alternative acts including the "It's an old- school concept," says Max It also has joint -venture labels Tian Yu Re -TROS and Sober. Modern Sky's second -in- command, Meng Hole, president ofthe Asia- Pacific region and Jin Hui, has visited the Universal office and describes it as "more executive VP of marketing and A&R at Lon- similar to [ours] than the other majors, but still not an all- inclu- don -based Universal Music Group Interna- sive in -house operation." Modern Sky's Beijing headquarters tional, as he reveals details of the new setup also feature video production and digital design facilities. "A exclusively to Billboard. "But you need to be old - recording studio is a good idea for any record company," he school in terms of where you develop music in adds, "as it lowers recording costs for artists." China -there isn't much of a music scene there And Hole is convinced the '60s -style Beijing office will pay off yet." in the 21st century. Universal's Chinese headquarters will remain in "We want to be No. 1 in China," he says, "but we've got to do the Shanghai, with a distribution center in Guangzhou, basics right -and the basics are all about having the music." but Hole believes Beijing's status as China's cultural capital makes it the best location for targeting the Additional reporting by Will Freeman in Beijing. Mandarin -language repertoire essential for market leadership. The label also employs A &R scouts in

got used. We were lucky to find ternet that they share and send Fame. There's also going to be

anything [ for the reissues]. to one another like wildfire. an exhibit at the Hall of Fame at the end of May. QIJI °_S'l'IUNS There seems to be a new What would you say is the generation of Doors devo- Doors' legacy? Do you hear echoes of the with THE DOORS tees around. Where have Krieger: The songs. That's Doors in any current bands? they come from? what we will be remembered Manzarek: Not really, but as Manzarek: A new generation for 100 years from now. The a keyboard player, electronica comes along to find the Doors "Morrison Myth" did a lot to is my favorite - The Doors are celebrating their 40th anniversary with the reissue of their back catalog via Rhino. every seven to 10 years. They raise consciousness among I love the [electronica] remixes. Expanded editions of the band's five studio albums have been augmented with a new, non - are the people with triple -digit young people about 20 years Krieger: I can hear the influ- U.S. (one- disc/20 -track or two -disc/34- track) compilation, "The Very Best of the Doors." IQs, the new poets, the new ago. Today, it's more to do ence of Jim in groups like The studio albums were remixed from the original tapes, supervised by original Doors pro- seekers of enlightenment. Oth- with the music. Stone Temple Pilots, Echo & ducer Bruce Botnick and surviving band members Ray Manzarek, and John Dens- ers have discovered our music Manzarek: Proof of our con- the Bunnymen and the Cult. more. Downloadable versions of the international compilation add a contemporary edge from older brothers or friends tribution is that the 40th an- But I don't see much of that in- with remixes by various electronica acts, including Paul Oakenfold, the Crystal Method and who have downloaded some- niversary has been filled with fluence in today's artists. Manzarek's own 2Manzarek2. thing from the Internet. awards, such as the Grammys' Keyboardist Manzarek and guitarist Krieger, who perform Doors material in their touring Krieger: Today's kids rerecord Lifetime Achievement and the What else does 2007 have in band Riders on the Storm, visited London to launch the reissues and talked to Billboard about stuff they discover on the In- star on the Hollywood Walk of store for you? the band's enduring legacy. We shall be per- forming [as] Riders on the Decades later, how did it feel Krieger: It was fun to go back augment things we selected Storm, starting in May across revisiting those albums? and listen to little things like in the 1960s, and I love the Canada and the East Coast of Listening to the guitar parts we didn't use and clarity of the sounds, as if we the United States, followed by multitracks opened a whole dramas we hadn't heard be- had invited you into the stu- Europe in June and July, then new window on the Doors for fore, including funny things dios to listen to the Doors South America and Japan. me. We heard things we had Jim said to the producer. recording. Krieger: Brett Scallions, who not put in, including Jim Mor- Krieger: In those days, we broke up with Fuel last year, rison background vocals. The Did you ever imagine that un- threw away a lot of stuff. When [recently] won the audition to new stuff did not alter the used material would one day we made master recordings on be Riders on the Storm's new songs' basic conceptions and find new commercial life? four -track and eight -track tapes, singer. He looks nothing like added extra whipped cream to Manzarek: Never. But new they would let other bands Jim -which might not be a the American apple pie. technology has enabled us to record on the parts that never bad thing after all. -

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»>U.K. ALBUM SALES FALL IN 01 U.K. consumers bought 31,972,380 albums in Q12007 Mushroom Group of companies, to launch the PIAS Aus- The U.K. albums market shrank by 6% in first -quarter 2007 compared with 33,859,669 for Q12006. Downloads helped tralia label. The new venture will license PIAS' signings for compared with the same period in 2006, according to over - drive the singles market to 40% growth, despite the phys- Australia and New Zealand, and handle those recordings the- counter sales data collated by the Official U.K. Charts ical singles format declining by 34 %. distributed by its European arm. Co. (OCC). The OCC collects sales data from 6,200 retailers, includ- Liberator will appoint a label manager to work specif- Although compilation albums managed a year -on -year ing all significant online stores. It is jointly owned by the ically on PIAS acts. PIAS first entered the Australian and increase of 10.1% during the period, a 9% shortfall in artist BPI and U.K. retail trade body ERA. -Andre Paine New Zealand markets in 1991 through the now- termi- album sales pulled overall album sales down to their low- nated distribution -only deal with Shock, one of the est Q1 result since 2002. Amy Winehouse's "Back to Biack" »>LAURIOT- PREVOST JOINS WMI largest independent label and distribution companies in (Island) was the biggest -selling artist album of 2007's first Matthieu Lauriot- Prevost has made a swift return to the those territories. -Christie Eliezer three months, moving 467,820 units in 13 weeks. record business. The former EMI marketing executive has joined Warner » >U.K. ANTI -PIRACY POWERS EXPAND Music International as senior VP of marketing. Based in U.K. trade officials have been given new powers to seize London, Lauriot- Prevost will be responsible for all as- physical copies of pirated recordings. Effective April 6, the pects of marketing and promotions across the interna- country's Copyright, Designs and Patents Act (1988) has tional companies and their affiliates, reporting to John been updated to give the United Kingdom's trading stan- Reid, vice chairman of WMI and president of Warner dard officers confiscation clout similar to the police. Music Europe. The legislation previously allowed trading standard of- Lauriot -Prevost joins WMI after a five -year stint with EMI, ficials the power to seize pirated consumer brands, but did where he served most recently as senior VP of global mar- not apply to physical copies of copyrighted works such as keting in London. He recently split with EMI as part of a re- music and movies. structuring of the company's global marketing team. Until now, only piracy raids backed by police authorities -Lars Brandie could seize illegal recordings. The move had been recommended by the 2006 Gowers »PIAS SETS UP DOWN UNDER Review, an independent report that re- examined U.K. copy- Brussels -based independent label and distributor Play It right law, conducted by former Financial Times editor An- Again Sam is establishing a base for the Australian and d rew Gowers. -Juliana Koranteng New Zealand markets. PIAS has signed a 50/50 joint- venture deal with Libera- For 24/7 global news and analysis, see billboard.biz /global. tor Music, part of Michael Gudinski's Melbourne -based .Z Nobody walks in LA

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Don't you love British people? The British In- lead guitarist Dave Davies asked. Sharing vasion of 1964 made me an Anglophile forever, The Kaiser Chiefs have turned down an in- but they continue to keep a smile on my face, vitation to play the Diana: Princess of Wales seemingly oblivious to the imminent music Memorial Concert, saying it would be hypocrit- us with their ical to play it, and that anyone who does is doing The business armageddon, distracting Wealth wit and wisdom. First up is Pete Townshend, it purely to sell records. "Elton John knew her, New Label Using Common Resources one of my all -time favorite people in the world let him play it," they matter of factly said. In Tough Retail Climate who while on classic rock WAXQ (Q104.3) New And finally, hard as it is to imagine, the ex- York said, The Police 'classic rock'? I don't ecutives at Disney are having some sort of prob- Overseeing a small but re- gars Banquet, Matador and XL, think so. This is just music. It's not classic any- lem with one of their actors snorting up his spected indie label, Phil Wal- among others, have been able thing." And then added he was looking forward father's ashes mixed with cocaine. They seem dorf was overwhelmed. Yet, to share resources. But it's also to the band's reunion tour. to think Keith Richards' family values might the first thing he did after a way for indie labels with min- The assault on rock's most historic sites con- adversely affect ticket sales for "Pirates of the stepping down from his gig imal sales to stay afloat in a tinues as London prepares to demolish the Clis- Caribbean III." Silly boys, au contraire. It is be- managing the day -to -day op- tough retail climate and spend sold Arms Pub where the Kinks played their first cause of Richards' pre -publicity favor that the erations of Misra was form a less money outsourcing pub- show in 1963 and has served as their mini -mu- film's opening will be the biggest in history. new label and sign four bands. licity and promotion. Bracy, who is also the policy seum ever since. "Why on earth can't they have Relax, baby. Come to think of it, are we sure An- This time Waldorf has help. The move to join Secretly director for the nonprofit Fu- their posh gastro grub and still keep a part of it drew Loog Oldham wasn't behind this? His recently launched Dead Canadian has allowed Wal- ture of Music Coalition, says, for tourists, Kinks fans and the curious ?" Kinks See you on the radio. Oceans, which this summer dorf to run a label full time, "If you're speaking about the will release the second album something he wasn't able to opportunity for bands on in- from New York -based buzz achieve while heading Misra. dependent labels to break band Bishop Allen, is a part- "It's not a new model, but it's through to a new level of sta- nership with Secretly Cana- one that-in some ways -is tus, that has absolutely coa- COOLEST dian and Jagjaguwar, giving making more sense," Waldorf lesced in the last three or four SONG IN THE Waldorf access to a boutique says. "If you're not releasing years. It tracks exactly with the WORLD WEAPON OF CHOICE BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB 1 THIS WEEK Sony distributor with its own man- records that sell large quan- institutionalization of [indie- MY HEART IS BEATING MARY WEISS ufacturing, sales and promo- tities, like 20,000 copies, it's focused Web site] Pitchfork, 2 Norton tion staff. Oddly enough, hard to maintain a staff." with the emergence of music FREE AND FREAKY THE STOOGES Misra went a similar route, And with indie label heads blogs and Web -based radio." 3 Virgin partnering with Northern Cal- feeling empowered by the In- Misra, founded in 1999, has DANCING ON THE LIP OF A NEW YORK DOLLS ifornia's Absolutely Kosher to ternet, such partnerships may released albums from De- 4 Roadrunner share a staff of four. become more common, as stroyer, the Mendoza Line Lake IN THE MODERN WORLD JESSE MALIN Based in Austin, Waldorf small labels are eager to take and Great Swimmers. 5 Adeline cites Beggars Group as inspi- advantage of new promo- More recently, Misra act Shear - OPEN EYES ration for his move, pointing tional tools. water inked a deal with Mata- 6 Simian to the way such labels as Beg- Misra co- founder Michael dor, which will rerelease last BECAUSE I'M AWESOME THE DOLLYROTS 7 Blackheart RUBY KAISER CHIEFS 8 Universal GLOBAL BY LARRY LeBLANC INTERVENTION ARCADE FIRE 9 Merge GOODBYE ROCK AND ROLL BAND THE NOVAKS 10 Indie Music Fight ForYour Rights Canadian Online Royalty Ruling Fails To Satisfy Cá R ACa I_ L I3 lJ IVI COOLEST A A S TORONTO -A long- awaited decision on on- The new rates cover only Jan.1, 2005 -Dec. line rights payments in Canada has left music 31, 2007. McCarty says publishers "will be back THE WEIRDNESS THE STOOGES publishers and the digital sector feeling in future rounds to convince the board" to 1 Virgin short -changed. raise rates. STATE OF EMERGENCY THE LIVING END Ruling on a tariff proposal by collecting so- Although all parties have until April 16 to 2 Adeline ciety CSI, the Copyright Board of Canada lodge appeals, Billboard understands ROCK AND ROLL BACKLASH THE WOGGLES has provided the country with its first none have done so. 3 Wicked Cool formalized online royalty rates. CSI president David Basskin says CBGB FOREVER VARIOUS ARTISTS CSI had sought a mechanical rate an appeal is unlikely. "We still have 4 CBGB of 15% of a track's retail price with a a solid rate," he notes, while adding, ONE DAY IT WILL PLEASE US TO REMEMBER EVEN THIS NEW YORK DOLLS minimum per -track fee of 10 cents "I would have liked a higher one." 5 Roadrunner Canadian (8.6 cents). The regulator set CSI is a joint venture between the NEW MAGNETIC WONDER THE APPLES IN STEREO those at only 7.9% and 5.9 cents Canadian Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights 6 Simian (5.1 cents), respectively. Agency and the Society for Reproduction Publishers GLITTER IN THE GUTTER JESSE MALIN The board also cut CSI's proposed subscrip- Rights of Authors, and 7 Adeline tion -based download rate from 10% of a ser- in Canada. It represents 1.1 million works and the BECAUSE I'M AWESOME THE DOLLYROTS vice's monthly subscription to 5.9 %. vast majority of Canada's publishers. 8 Blackheart Initial anger at the rates in the publishing Opposing the proposal were the Canadian replaced by relief that Recording Industry Assn.'s (CRIA) four "Class JOE MEEK THE EP COLLECTION community was quickly 9 Castle fees are finally formalized, while other conces- A" members (the national affiliates of Univer- sal Music, EMI, Sony BMG and Warner Music), DANGEROUS GAME MARY WEISS sions sought by the online sector were rejected. 10 Norton "Whenever you go to the Copyright Board, the Canadian Assn. of Broadcasters, Apple Jmn is produced exclusively for Billboard. For more informal go to you can't count on a home run," EMI Music Pub- Canada and telecoms Bell Canada and Rogers magazine UNDERGROUNDGARAGE.COM - opinions expressed are his own, and not necessarily those of the lishing Canada president Michael McCarty says. 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n Shepherc lit tour for Rrtt ed F =ces Entertainme it i Southwest Asia Misra act SHEARWATER recently signed with Matador, which will release an expanded edition of the band's 'Palo Santo' album this summer. year's "Palo Santo" this sum- gressively tracking Internet bit nerve -wrecking." mer in an expanded edition. buzz, Waldorf wonders if a But where there's anxiety, With the with small label -one without the there's also opportunity. Absolutely Kosher, Bracy resources of a Secretly Cana- "The time is right, and the hopes Misra will no longer be dian or Fontana -distributed industry has matured to a a jumping -off point to some- Absolutely Kosher -will be point that if you do have thing larger (Destroyer went taxed to keep pace. enough resources and infra- on to work with Merge, and "There was a crazy, unprece- structure behind you, you can a

Great Lake Swimmers are dented bidding war for Shear - control your destiny," Bracy now signed to Nettwerk). "It's water," Waldorf says. "It was says. "Part of it is a roulette our job as a label to get our- strange for a band that hadn't wheel, but part of it is to make selves to a point where a band even sunned 3,000 records. sure you've done everything would never want to leave to It's more competitive today, you can to maximize things. a larger label," he says. and bands are savvier than they Bands that critics love and "That's our responsibility." were two or three years ago. have a good live show have the Waldorfsays that Shearwa- Once a band is a blogger's fa- potential today to scale at a ter, with its majestic vorite, _here will be 10 A &R much higher level than was crests and Jeff Buckley - guys in their inbox. I just hope possible five years ago." inspired vocals, was courted labels don't have to start over - For 24/7 indies news by more than one indie. With budgeting to compensate for .biz and analysis, see majors and larger indies ag- this. It could start to become a billboard.biz/indies.

"Responsibilìs. Thá's w-1at you fee when a soldie- tell; you a song you N-or it spired Those objecting also wanted authors' rights cizes the "bundled" rate, saying, "Downloads him to j)i-i tie n lit lry. And wt En that same sc Hier : ays "Can I get a piciorc ?" sublicensed to labels, allowing them to offer are going to become cheaper, and here we are and you not the LC) display on t is digital cane a is shattered because it ;tapped a "one- stop" online rights clearance. However, tied to penny rate." the bullet if g- ore tin ugh his Ma-;c jacket, it rfaliy hits home. And whe- tha soldier the board ruled that services must continue Nielsen SoundScan Canada says 14.9 mil- sincerely thank: you fo being there and singing fo- a couple hours, and our lank him dealing separately with labels and publishers. lion digital tracks were purchased in Canada in back for being rile ui rime, puttri his life on :he line and to be carefL I in E aghdad, "We're pleased that labels are not entitled 2006, up 122% from 2005. The Copyright it puts ttingg it pelsn -ive. Performing for Arrrec = orces Entertainmr r i; are of the to deliver our licenses," McCarty says. Board says paid downloads were worth $28.6 most rcvardirg tliaçs I've e done. And c icy you do a tour, and rr aet =lose Most objectors declined to million Canadian ($24.7 mil- outstartir g pe:pic, you want ID do it agaie. Mat's why I've been trr sever in Figures comment, although others lion) at retail 2005. AFE touts. Anc out I'll keep cchg them as long as can." Thom Sit3p lard within the online community for 2006 are not yet available. Thom Siephe -C s a Nashvil a -based singer/soegriter L.fio wrote Craig Molly is The was were more forthcoming. Copyright Board i- single, 'RE cnsck Yacht C .u' and David 3c11'r 'RldIgg with Private Ma one " "It's frustrating," says David asked to set rates by CSI in Neale, VP of enhanced serv- 2% March 2004, after four years of * * * Percentage inc rease in ices at Telus, one of Canada's digital tacks s old in Canada, fruitless negotiation with labels leading telecommunications from 2005 to 2006 and online services. To date, companies. "It's difficult deal- CSI has issued individual short - ing with an industry where you can't buy the term licenses to music services. product from [one] person." Hostilities resume April 17, when the Copy- The CRIA and its allies also opposed a min- right Board opens public hearings on an on- imum per -track fee for album downloads. How- line performing right tariff proposed by the ever, the board set a "bundled" rate of 4.5 cents Society of Composers, Authors and Music Pub- Canadian (3.9 cents) per track. lishers of Canada (SOCAN). A R M E C "A minimum fee isn't understandable," says "The jury is out on the lay of the Internet FORCES E.NTERTAINNEN ra Alistair Mitchell, CEO of Bell Canada -owned landscape," McCarty says, "until the SOCAN download service Puretracks. "It removes the tariff comes down." WHERE STARS EARN THEIR STRIPES ability to do a stand -alone deal with a pub- "A significant number of parties still want FING OUT IF YOU HAVE WHAT iT TAKES TO TOUR lisher for a lower price point." quite a large share" of Internet music revenue, GO 10 fPRMEDFORCESENTEFTAINNI ENT.COM Vancouver -based Nettwerk Entertainment Neale adds. "If we add up all the costs, we could label division president Ric Arboit also criti- end up subsidizing online music."

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Venezuelan singer/songwriter Group Growth is best -known as one of Latin America's top Mean U.S. Latin A Univision Sale Would singer/. Marketplace Dominance He is also the recipient of this With the recently completed still a hefty 31.64% (see chart). Detractors love to say that year's Billboard Spirit of Hope sale of Univision Communi- Univision comprises Uni- this has happened only because Award, for his tireless altruistic cations to private investors, the vision Records, Fonovisa Univision artists benefit from 2005 2006 2007' work and his foundation La sale of Univision Music Group Records, and TV campaigns on the Univi- PERCENTAGE SHARE OF U.S. Ventana de los Cielo (Window becomes a real possibility. urban /tropical label La Calle, sion- owned TV networks. to the Sky), which provides free Some media analysts have all labels with separate man- Six years of growth later, LATIN MARKET BY YEAR services for children who suf- SOURCE Nielsen SoundScan '2007 year to date. through April 1 speculated that the new own- agement, culture and iden- though, that explanation is fer from Down syndrome, cere- ers may parcel and sell Univi- tity, but all overseen by ridiculously simplistic -espe- When Univision acquired major Latin labels), and with bral palsy and autism. sion's valuable assets to Univision president /CEO cially in recent years, when these two companies, it didn't far more autonomy than most Montaner will receive his different buyers. If they do so, José Behar. There are no other labels with Univision al- simply absorb them. Behar re- Latin labels that need to report award April 26 at the Billboard whoever ends up with the plans to divide Univision. liances have competed for the tained the label's superstars, to corporate headquarters. Un- Latin Music Awards. music company -whether the Behar says that ifthe music same airtime. including Marco Antonio like other majors that import current owners, unknown bid- group is acquired, it would not "If any of these deals had Solis, Conjunto Primavera most acts from their territo- What does this award mean ders or a major label -will de- be sold offin pieces. "There is been less than good, we prob- and Los Tigres del Norte, all ries, Univision- because it to you? cidedly control the Latin no cherry- picking." ably wouldn't be here today," of whom were aggressively has no territories -generates It has such transcendence at a music marketplace in the Univision started from Behar says. "We bought Fono- courted by other labels. At the nearly 100% of its A &R from personal level. I've been work- United States. scratch in 2001, as Univision visa, we took the risk, we paid same time, he developed new the United States. ing for Latin -American children Unlike most major Latin la- Records, helmed from the top dollar because we analyzed talent, like Jennifer Peña, Throughout the sale of for 17 years, and it's the first bels, Univision is no minnow onset by Behar, who was pre- it. We know our business. Akwid and Anais. Univision Communications, time my efforts are recognized. in a big pond. For the first viously chairman of EMI Latin, Once we own an asset we Did TV help? Of course it the label has continued to op- But above quarter of 2007, it had a 36.5% a label he also launched. know how to make money did. When Univision acquired erate normally. everything, share of the U.S. Latin market- By 2004, helped by the ac- with it. If it was just TV, I'd 50% of Disa and afforded its "Our philosophy is work it's very im- place, according to Nielsen quisition of regional Mexican have a very easy job." artists TV campaigns, for ex- hard, work smart and make portant for SoundScan. That is almost powerhouse Fonovisa, Univi- Univision's business cov- ample, the spike in sales was yourselfindispensable," Behar my founda- double the 19.35% market sion became the top -selling ers all Latin genres. But its noticeable. says. "And that's been our phi- tion. It's very share of its nearest competi- Latin label in the country. bread and butter is regional But TV campaigns alone do losophy since the company important to tor, Sony BMG. But the fact is Univision Mexican music, which not explain continued success. went up for sale a year and a reach out to people, because Those numbers are not an has not only purchased com- makes up the bulk of Latin Instead, Univision has bene- half ago." - these are rejected children. aberration. For 2005, Univi- panies, it has steadily in- music sales in the United fited greatly from operating on Most people prefer to collabo- For 24/7 Latin news for States, and also, the bulk of the West Coast (as opposed to rate with [the fight against] sion's market share was 35.6 %. creased the market share biz and analysis, see For 2006, its worst year, it was all of them. Fonovisa and Disa. Miami, home to all other billboard.biz /latin. hunger or drugs, but they're ret- icent to help children with Down's or autism because clin- ically there is no cure for that.

As a successful star and public Sponsorship En Español figure, is it your obligation to Dodge, Target, iTunes Latino, Heineken Zero In On Bilingual Branding give back? That would be paying for suc- Brands looking to align with Through mobile /broad- World" in an English - cess. I don't see it that way. I see Latin music are rolling out band partner Barrio 305, new language commercial. it as a kind of ministry, of need. some of their most innova- artists can enter to win a Target's Latin music cus- God puts us into the world with tive sponsorships at the Bill- Miami performance at the tomer "is watching her Span- a purpose. And he put me in board Latin Music Confer- Dodge- sponsored DUB Cus- ish novela with her mom and this world to entertain, but ence April 23 -26 in Miami. tom Auto Show & Concert. grandmom, but she's also more than that, to do good onto Dodge is using the event GlobalHue director of na- watching 'American Idol,' " others. Our main job in God's to position itself as a pro- tional events and promo- Cunningham says. service is this ministry, and my moter of new talent. Multi- tions Griselle Colon says, DODGE Newcomer iTunes Latino family all works there. It's a marketing agency "Whoever wins that show- AVENGER is launching its first sponsor- commitment. cultural KEYCHAIN GlobalHue has fashioned a case concert will be an in- ship, distributing to each con- Dodge Avenger "keychain" fluencer that we'll work with ference and after -party at- Your new album, "Las Mejores that is actually a flash drive in the future. Maybe it's the munities with a concert dur- for the first time last winter a tendee a card with a code Canciones del Mundo" (Emi loaded with tracks by next Daddy Yankee or the ing the conference week. Nuestra Navidad concert redeemable for downloads Televisa), is a covers album mostly indie Latin artists next ." As Latin consumers shift with Emilio Estefan that of 10 tracks by Billboard Latin and the first that doesn't in- like Houston's Karina Nistal. Heineken is also scouting in greater numbers from aired on Univision, featuring Music Awards finalists. The clude your own songs. Her music was used in a talent, bringing winners of mom -and -pop to major re- such artists as Belinda and tracks will also be available I took out the interpreter and Dodge Caliber commercial its three -city Heineken Es- tailers, Target is upping its Hector "El Father." for download at billboard put away the author. I had last year. trella singing competition profile with a CD compilation Target group marketing .com /itunes. In addition, never thought about that pos- Nistal has two tracks on to perform at the confer- of Billboard Latin Music manager Greg Cunningham iTunes Latino programmer sibility. Because, in a way, a the flash drive, one with ence's "We Hear the Future" Awards finalists on sale for says bilingual branding is Chelina Vargas will be a judge songwriter is a prisoner of his video footage of a Dodge contest, to be held during six weeks. The awards broad- also key, as it used a Spanish at the conference's "We Hear own work, isn't he? It's hard Avenger being customized the beer company's happy cast on Telemundo will cut version by of the Future" talent showcase. for me to sing songs that aren't for auction to benefit Youth - hour. The company is also away to a Target- branded the '70s hit "Joy to the -Ayala Ben -Yehuda mine. This is an exception, AIDS, an organization for continuing its Green Ribbon backstage VIP area for artist where I pay homage in a way to EN LA RED: For 24/7 coverage of the Latin music world, which keynote Q &A Juanes charity drive to benefit mu- interviews. .COm Billboard has partnered with MSN. For a complete roundup all the authors that inspired me in Spanish, go to Billboard.Latino.MSN.com. is a spokesman. sic education in Latin com- The retailer also produced to be an author. -Leila Cobo

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Over o 00 CD titles 0 Over o O titles Big-Box B a 1 e Accessories, Adult, and Other High Margin Items Best Buiids As Circuit City Slips As label executives are well aware, they now margin. Meanwhile, Best Buy's gross profit Great Prices live in a world where the vast majority of all margin was a meager 13.6 %, while its SG &A music sales -85 %, I estimate -occur in stores stood at 12.9% of revenue, leaving a 0.7% in Deepest Catalog in the Industry where the category is only a small part of the net profit margin. overall inventory. Consequently, label execu- But that year was the turning point in the tives are nervous that the big -box merchants fates of the two chains. Since then Best Buy Personalized Service (sales reps across the U.S.) will reduce their presence in music if CD sales managed to increase its net profit margin even keep falling. as Circuit City's has shrunk. By 2001, Best Best B2B Real -Time Ordering Site in the Business Who knows if this will turn into reality, but Buy's business had grown to $15.3 billion in Retail Track predicts that as long as music per- annual revenue, while its profit margin had Same Day Shipping forms its main role of driv- grown to 20% of ing traffic to big -box stores, total sales and its it will remain a part of their expenses were Free Display Materials inventory mix. 16% of revenue, In April's first week, Z3. 1 i leaving a net Free ace Database big -box mechants margin of 4 %. Net loss reported by Best Buy and Cir- Circuit City for the most During the Weekly Award Winning sped Magazine cuit City reported recent fiscal year last decade, the their year -end fi- Best Buy model nancials, and their seems to yield New accounts call 800- 635.9082 results couldn't be another percentage point in net margin every Or E -mail us at: domesticsaies @aent.com more different. In last three or four years. By 2004, the company's Visit our web site: www.aent.com week's column I men- net margin was 5.3 %, a ratio that stood over tioned Best Buy's profitability, but only as it until last year when that margin grew to 5.6 %, relates to music. Since Best Buy uses music thanks to a 24.4% profit margin and expenses to drive traffic to its stores, that merchant meas- totaling 18.8% of revenue. ures music profitability in the context of the The net margin growth at Best Buy is a overall basket brought to the checkout counter. thing of beauty to watch. I wouldn't be sur- In fact, Best Buy's overall profitability is cur- prised to see net margin grow to 6% at the rently the envy of the retail industry. The com- end of this year. pany, which appears to be at the top of its game, According to a copy of a transcript of Best reported net income of $1.38 billion for the Buy's conference call with analysts, Best Buy fiscal year ended March 3, or $2.79 cents per senior VP of finance Jim Muehlbauer said, diluted share, on revenue of $35.9 billion. Sales "We continue to see opportunities next year were up an astounding 16.4% over the previ- to leverage the capabilities that we've built ous year, driven by a 5% increase in compara- around improving our productivity." ble -store sales, 231 new stores, significant On the other hand, Circuit City's annual fi- growth from the company's online stores and nancial results tell a tale of diminishing re- The nation's foremost a 53 -week year. In contrast, Circuit City, Best turns. In the last decade, Best Buy managed mechanical licensing, Buy's main competitor, reported a net loss of to grow to triple the size of Circuit City, allow- collections, and $13.7 million, or 7 cents per diluted share on ing it to gain considerable economies of scale, distribution agency $12.43 billion in revenue. while Circuit City's weak growth has squeezed for music publishers. Best Buy has been more consistent in gen- its margins. Its best net profit margin was the erating same-store growth, and its ability to 4.2% it produced in 2000. Circuit City's net achieve higher sales per square foot also en- margin subsequently shrunk to a razor -thin hances the leverage it gains from economies 0.1% in 2004 before growing back to 1.9% last of scale. Best Buy is considered superior at vi- year, when gross profit was 24.4% and expenses sual merchandising, has stronger supply -chain were 22.5 %. management, employs better information sys- As a result of its troubles, Circuit City an- tems and enjoys superior in -store execution. nounced that it would reduce expenses by let- The Harry Fox Agency, Inc It Since 1927 Meanwhile, Circuit City's investment to catch ting go thousands of employees whose salaries up by upgrading its systems and store formats had grown beyond the market value for their has been costing it margin. positions in order to hire less expensive em- Ready for the next But it wasn't always this way. A look back ployees. Talk about a morale killer. over the last decade shows quite a tale for the "We are continuing to challenge all aspects generation...Now. two electronic superstore chains. In 1997, Cir- of our SG &A expense," Circuit City chairman cuit City and Best Buy were roughly the same Philip J. Schoonover said in a statement. The Licensing solutions for size, with the latter reporting $7.8 billion in company also announced that it had entered all kinds of business - total sales at that time, while the former was into an agreement to outsource its informa- Even ones that haven't at $7.2 billion. tion technology infrastructure to IBM. Those been thought of yet. At that time, however, Circuit City was the announcements leave label executives anxious more efficient chain. That year it reported a about the chain's future in music. gross profit margin of 24% of revenue, while or 24/7 retail news (212) 834-0100 [email protected] www.harry'x.com selling, general and administrative expenses biz and analysis, see totaled 20.4 %, giving the chain a 3.6% net billboard.biz/retail.

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V l L; c ld V is a supplier of music AZUREUS content to China Unicorn, Hiking The Rates Azureus, a peer -to -peer China's second -largest Do Higher Digital Music Prices Deliver The Value They Promise? application based on Bit - wireless carrier with more Torrent technology, has than 146 million subscribers. Four years ago when Apple available for sale without fends the higher price by not- been built through the years launched a new broadband The agreement between launched the iTunes Music DRM, and where some tracks ing that in the five years since by such services as Rhapsody entertainment service called Sony BMG and Global Store, the company preached cost more than others. Rhapsody launched, its con- and eMusic. Vuze that features content Music International covers the good news of an easy -to- Apple justifies the move by tent selection has increased Subscription retailers cer- from BBC Worldwide (in- ringtones, ringback tones understand pricing structure focusing on the increased tenfold, and that it is now ac- tainly aren't picking a great cluding BBC HD), Showtime as well as music video and for consumers: all tracks at 99 value it is providing to the cessible through a variety of time to test consumer loyalty Networks, A &E Networks audio content. cents, most albums for $9.99. consumer in the form of in- platforms including Web with higher prices. (including A &E, the History Since then, the notion of The rate increases come as Channel and Biography), DMG, AMAZON simple low price has been a concerns are growing about Bennett Media Worldwide, PARTNER FOR VIDEO mantra for digital music re- the rate of consumer adop- G4 TV, National Geographic Digital Music Group, a tail. Even those in the sub- tion of digital music even in and Starz Media. Formerly Sacramento, Calif. -based scription business pursued a the healthiest areas of the code -named Zudeo, the digital distributor, will offer similar tack, with many offer- market -nevermind the dis- service focuses on long - TV and film content ing their services for about the appointing subscription busi- form content in high defini- through Amazon's video price of a CD per month. ness, which claims less than tion or DVD quality over the download service, Unbox, But suddenly, many of the 5 million total customers Internet. Azureus claims the starting later this summer. offers aren't as cheap, or combined. 2- month -old site attracts The Amazon service sometimes as simple, as they Apple and subscription re- more than 2 million unique launched in September used to be. tailers need look no further monthly visitors. 2006 and offers movies, TV Leading the trend are Apple than the mobile music space shows and other videos for and EMI, which in May will to find a disconnect between SONY BMG RINGS download to PCs and debut a new premium -priced how services and consumers CHINA Windows Media Video - digital rights management - define value. Sony BMG Music Entertain- compatible portable de- free tier of near CD- quality Sprint, which at one time ment will further ramp up vices. DMG has similar downloads featuring music was attempting to charge its distribution of mobile deals with YouTube, iTunes, from the likes of the Good, the teroperability and improved browsers and digital living customers as much as $2.50 music content in China via a Google Video and In2TV. Bad & the Queen. audio quality. room devices like Sonos and for an over-the -air download, new licensing agreement It controls the digital dis- But the introduction of Increased value is a popu- Squeezebox. recently cut its rate to 99 cents with Global Music Interna- tribution rights to more these downloads is coming at lar idea in digital music cir- Likewise, independent mu- after selling only around 15 tional. Bethel, Conn. -based than 4,000 hours of video the expense of the initial clar- cles these days, especially sic retailer eMusic has raised million tracks since Novem- Global Music International content. ity of the iTunes message. In among retailers looking to in- its per -track rate on down- ber 2005. (By contrast, Apple fact, Apple is creating new troduce higher-priced prod- loads from 25 cents a song to sells that many in a matter HOT RIH(aT()NESTM 2ó; Billbearal marketing and messaging ucts and services -or even to a scaling rate starting at a high of days.) challenges for itself. raise their basic rates. of 33 cents. The company There is nothing inherently COMPILED BY Nielsen TITLE i..iab:_ DRM -free songs cost $1.29 In May, RealNetworks' cited an improved Web site wrong with services raising s-3 3 3ó filtiGP,AI Aan6T #1 WHAT HURTS THE MOST 99 Rhapsody will hike the rate of and a better selection of music prices, of course. The lowest - 1 2 54 versus cents for existing 1 W RASCAL FLATTS downloads. And so far EMI its basic subscription offering, as the reasons behind the priced offering doesn't neces- POPPIN' 2 1 17 the cost on its PC- switch. The eMusic catalog sarily win. And the desire of FEATURING JAY BIZ is the only label offering boosting CRAZY BITCH 3 3 29 DRM -free music, meaning listening -only experience has grown from 250,000 digital retailers to generate BUCKCHERRY CUPID'S CHOKEHOLD 4 9 that iTunes will be a mixed - from $9.99 to tracks in 2003 to more than better margins from their GYM CLASS HEROES FEATURING PATRICK STUMP $12.99 2 million tracks today. products is understandable. CANDY SHOP rights environment where per month. 5 5 113 But are re- But digital music from the 50 CENT FEATURING OLIVIA some but not all tracks are The company de- consumers ROCKSTAR 6 6 25 ally receiving better value? outset has been a volume NICKELBACK SUPER MARIO BROTHERS THEME 7 9 130 In Apple's case, critics game, not a margin business. KOJI KONDO Eckersley of the And many of the new pricing MY HUMPS SKY'S THE LIMIT like Peter 8 7 82 THE MP3 players are great for storing music, but Electronic Frontier Foun- strategies from digital retail- BECAUSE I GOT HIGH 9 8 100 there has not been a breakthrough device that dation contend that con- ers seem as focused on ex- AFROMAN BEST FRIEND ;10 10 55 enables consumers to acquire music on the fly. sumers actually are getting tracting more from the 50 CENT 8 OLIVIA SanDisk is attempting to change that with the a raw deal by being subset of customers who al- new Sansa Connect, a Wi -Fi- enabled MP3 player charged a 30% premium to ready have demonstrated a After more than a year on the chart, Rascal Flatts'"What Hurts the Most" moves into the that allows users to connect to music and online photos effectively buy back their willingness to pay for music, top spot edging out Chris Brown and through any open wireless "hot spot" Internet connec- rights. And while audio qual- as they do on appealing to Buckcherry. Fewer than 100 units separate the top three titles for the first time in chart history. tion. The device, which hits stores in April, costs $249.99 ity is improved, it still doesn't new customers. and is optimized for use with the Yahoo Music Unlimited match CD quality. What's more, should cus- SWEET HOME ALABAMA 27 digital subscription service. It also works with other serv- In fact, analysts like David tomers have to pay more for LYNYRD SKYNYRD MISSION -IMPOSSIBLE 12 15 116 ices, including Napster and Rhapsody. Card at Jupiter Research say it's products that simply offer LALO SCHIFRIN IRREPLACEABLE -Fi are an area increased experimen- - the basic functionality they 13 11 17 Wi capabilities of "unlikely" that premium BEYONCE tation among MP3 player manufacturers. But with the priced DRM -free music will were, arguably, always sup- DON'T CHA 14 12 69 FEATURING lack of a clear -cut leader and a market share second only jump -start a new surge in com- posed to have? PINK PANTHER 15 23 128 to Apple among MP3 player makers, SanDisk sees op- mercial downloading, since For an industry that needs HENRY MANCINI BUY U A DRANK (SHAWTY SNAPPIN') in A flash -based player, the Con- most don't place a its digital business to offset a 16 1 portunity the category. consumers T -PAIN FEATURING YUNG JOC nect, has an internal memory of 4 GB and comes with value on DRM freedom. slumping CD market, down NUTHIN' BUT A 'G' THANG 17 14 56 OR ORE an expandable slot for micro SD memory cards. The Mike McGuire, an analyst 20% year to date, it's hard to CH ANGES 18 17 36 Connect is the follow -up to SanDisk's e200 line of dig- with Gartner Research, is reason that higher -priced dig- 2PAC STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN - 18 22 ital players, which was optimized for use with Real among the digital music ital offers will help accelerate '19 LED ZEPPELIN Rhapsody. The new device improves on that who consumer adoption. LOCKED UP Networks' watchers think it's R 20 20 85 AKON FEATURING STYLES P series with a bigger color screen at 2.2 inches and an doubtful that consumers will For 24/7 digital news d on polyphonic ringtones sales data reported by NI Nielsen Mobile. endorsed improved scroll wheel. -Brian Garrity necessarily recognize the in- and analysis, see Chart by. I MEF ' - , lation and Mob,ie Enterta.nmen cremental value that has billboard.biz /digital.

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www.americanradiohistory.com J IV!aIap«ï rhe 13rand MICHAEL PAOLETTA mpaolettaCarbillboard.com PB&J+TV Brandin g Bonanza Imagery In AT &T Spot Boosts Swedish Band Most music -referencing TV comes to fantastical life, with In the United States, the set has commercials feature one musical instruments skipping sold 31,000 copies, according music -oriented element -a li- down the street and angelic birds to Nielsen SoundScan. censed piece of a song, for ex- fluttering about. It's no wonder "Sure, the spot promotes Having downloaded Peter Bjorn and John's song, a girl passes by their poster in an AT&T TV ad. ample. But a new TV spot for the spot is called "Posters." AT &T's new Napster service, AT &T goes beyond all that - Imagery, as well as the mu- but our band is showcased was created by designers at ing, not saying,- Fowler adds. Of "heard" elsewhere, including demonstrating, in fact, how an sic, of PB &J remains effort - 100 %," says Kenny Ochoa, VP Brand New School, which was course, the featured band needed episodes of "Grey's Anatomy" ad can work as a full -on promo- lessl} omnipresent all the way of music licensing at Sony tapped by AT &T's agency to be available at Napster. and "How I Met Your Mother.' tional tool for a band and its through. So, while the memo- BMG Music Entertainment. GSD &M in Austin. It was also important for the On the horizon is a partnership respective label. rable spot certainly plugs AT &T "That increases the value to us. Travagliante says the band band to be young, hip and with Abercrombie & Fitch, Bubbly, effervescent, kalei- and Napster, it also fully inte- "And we got paid," Ochoa wants to use the poster for its fresh, three qualities requested which will see the band mak- doscopic and groovy, the new grates PB &J, who are identified adds. "A good chunk of change." headlining U.S. trek, commenc- by AT &T. As luck (and timing) ing appearances on the retail- ad features a girl who down- throughout. The label is now in the ingApril 30. "It's one way to bring would have it, PB &J were re- ers' in -store TV network. loads, via high -speed Internet, "Young Folks" is the lead sin- process of putting together a the ad to people's lives," she says. cently in Austin for South by In the meantime, and while Peter Bjorn and John's gle from the trio's album marketing campaign, encom- "It also connects people back to Southwest and several GSD &M no one will confirm or deny, we "Young Folks" to her mobile "Wrk er's Block," which was re- passing digital platforms and the spot. All parties win." creatives and producers caught can imagine discussions now handset. Walking down the leased in February in the outdoor advertising, to best According to Brandon their shows. One thing led to being had among the label. street, she listens to the whis- United States by Columbia af- leverage the power of "Posters." Fowler, AT &T account supervi- another, the deal was done and management, AT &T and Nap - tle -happy song on her Napster- filiate and RED -distributed Al- In fact, Columbia marketing sor at GSD &M, the agency's di- weeks later the ad made its na- ster that focus on additional enhanced Samsung mobile most Gold Recordings. Almost manager Valeri Travagliante rective from the client was tional debat during the April ways to incorporate PB &l into phone from AT&T. Gold licensed the disc for North confirms the company is secur- straight-forward enough: Totally 4 episode of NBC's "Friday the branding mix. As the girl passes a seemingly America from V2 Music Scan- ing permission to use the poster immerse someone in the "music Night Lights." For 24/7 branding rews innocent poster of the Swedish dinavia, while Wichita has the featured in the spot for an up- world" ofthe AT &T/Napster uni- For those keeping track, .biz and analysis, sae indie rock band, the colorful spot album for the United Kingdom. coming campaign. The poster verse. "We had to do this by show- PB &J's "Young Folks" has been billboard.biz /branding. THE , EOF THE N CAMERAS. STEREO MUSIC DLAYERS. BIG COLOR SCREENS.

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resa GROSS/ ARTIST(S) Attendance FOR MORE BOXSCORES GO TO: Venue, Date Capacity Promoter BILLBOARD.BIZ NANA Coliseo de Puerto Rico, Hato Rey, 30,379 Puerto Rico, March 30 -April 1, 3 33.866 bur shows Gianfi Communications DAVE MATTHEWS BAND, THE FRAY On hie Roadl $1,997,157 169.30 MGM Grand Garden, La,: Vegan, 28,927 Live Nation, in- house, Andrew Hewitt Co. March 23-24 two sel n r. RAY WADDELL rwaddell @billboard.com $1,434,762 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE, PINK $92/$56 Continental Airlines Arena, East 19,766 Concerts West /AEG Live Rutherford, N.J., March 29 se lout 1997 is one of the first acts to be JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE, PINK booked by Victory Records' new Wachovia Center, Philadelo'hia, 18,611 Concerts West /AEG Live touring division. March 27 senout $1,087,853 ROD STEWART 515750/552.50 MGM Grand Garden, Las Vegas, 9,831 Concerts West /AEG Live March 17 sellout $1.063,599 ;JOSH GROBAN, ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO Air Canada Centre, Toronto, 13,995 Live Nation March 5 se,lout $1.003,993 JOSH GROBAN, ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO ples Center, Los Angeles, 14,211 Live Nation MStarcha 31 sellout $991,770 ROD STEWART HP Pavilion, San Jose, Calif., 12,277 Concerts West/AEG Live, Another Planet March 15 sellout Entertainment

$895,182 CIRQUE DU SOLEIL'S'DELIRIUM' New Orleans Arena, New 10,399 Live Nation, Cirque du Soleil Orleans, March 29 -30 11.354 tees shows ERIC CLAPTON, ROBERT CRAY BAND The Mark of the Quad Cities, 10,485 Beaver Moline, Ill., April 3 sellout Productions $796,104 _JOSH GROBAN, ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO $5:-$E52 Dunkin' Donuts Center, 9,422 Live Nation, In- house Providence, R.I., March 7 sellout JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE, PINK Verizon Wireless Arena, 10,127 Concerts West /AEG Live Manchester, N.H., March 26 sellast

$739,417 JOSH GROBAN, ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO /$50.25 ARCO Arena, Sacramento, Calif, 10,903 Live Nation March 27 sellout The A ency That Isn't $713,850 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE', PINK $350/$75 Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, 9,737 Victory Records Brings Bookings In -House Conn., March 24 Live Nation -JOSH GROBAN, ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO Victory Records has created an in -house book- halls, coffee shops, people's basements, that HP Pavilion, San Jose, Calif., 10,885 Live Nation March 28 sellout ing division for its bands, but let's be clear: level of touring. We feel that level of tour- ROD STEWART Tony Brummel and Victory are not in the ing is very important. In fact, all of the top -

KeyArena, Seattle, March 12 10,291 Concerts West /AEG Live agency business. in Victory's history sellout selling bands started Or are they? "It's a booking division of touring at that level." $682,559 -ERIC CLAPTON, ROBERT CRAY BAND the company," Brummel says. "I think some With virtually unknown bands, "maybe the Fargodome, Fargo, N.D., March 30 1,i0,0170 Beaver Productions, Jam Productions l 00 people have misconstrued this to think, bigger agencies don't want to deal with [them] MANA $670,325 `OK, Victory's starting an agency, they're or it's not worth their time to book shows for Arena at Gwinnett Center, 9,865 Cardenas Marketing Network Duluth, Ga., March 25 sellout just trying to find another way to make $100 -$150 a night," Brummel says. "The pa- $664,674 CIRQUE DU SOLEILS 'DELIRIUM' money off their bands,' which is kind of a perwork's just not worth it because they have Charlotte Bobcats Arena. 8,924 Live Nation, Cirque du Soleil Charlotte, N.C., March 21. 22 12,146 two shows juvenile comment and not very well- thought a much larger overhead. For us it's worth it $656,703 out to begin with." because the bands are on the road." 20 BLUE MAN GROUP Palace of Auburn Hills, Auburn - 11 283 Palace Sports & Entertainment So what is this about? "It's about making So for Victory, booking dates seems to be a Halls, Mich., March 24 13,,966 sure that our bands are out on the road and means to an end, not the absolute endgame. $647,071 -CELTIC WOMAN $7050/5505'x," not waiting for somebody to take interest," "I never said we were starting a booking Radio City Music Hall, New York, 11,247 MSG $40 50 March 16 -17 Entertainment, Madstone Productions 11,921 two shows Brummel says. "When somebody takes inter- agency. All the agencies that book our bands $643,870 JOSH GROBAN, ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO est that makes sense and really believes in the are still our partners, and they understand AT&T Center, San Antonio, March 22 11,165 Live Nation, in-house sell out band, then the band is free to go. Because our that Victory is getting bands out there at that $632,974 JOSH GROBAN, ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO pipeline of new artists that are undiscovered very base level," Brummel says. ($745.702 Canadian) Bell Centre, Montreal, March 4 9, 564 Live Nation is never going to stop." So while essentially the booking division m $106.10/$42.02 sellout With this move (billboard.biz, March 29), move isn't revenue -driven, "we see a lot of SI$622,450 - MACHEL MONTANO, DAVID RUDDER, COLLIE BUDDZ $125/$100/1.. Theatre at Madison Square 9,292 Devonish Promotions Brummel wants Victory baby bands to con- value in touring that very grass -roots, first - $50 Garden, New York, March 23 -24 10870 two shows trol their own destiny when it comes to tour- base level," Brummel says. "Anything and HOT 92 JAMZ PRESENTS ART LABOE LIVE $539,639 more Gibson Amphitheatre, Universal ing. "We depend on no one but ourselves," he everything to get exposure for our bands 9,429 Live Nation ® City, Calif., March 30 -31 11.940 two shows says. "We take matters into our own hands to on the road." $490,534 MEAT LOAF, MARION RAVEN expose our artists. If people decide to jump Driver Side Impact, 1997 and On the ($577894 Canadian) Rexall Place, Edmonton, Alberta, 8,133 House of Blues Canada m $75.97/538.62 March 4 3,500 onboard from time to time, that's great. But Last Day are the first acts Victory is booking, $485,109 BLUE MAN GROUP if they don't, we can't have the artists sitting and Brummel says Lacey is already finding $85/545 BankAtlantic Center, Sunrise, 7,822 Emery Entertainment at home waiting for something to happen." dates for them. He adds that Victory definitely m Fla., Feb. 23 11.872 It's not at all unusual for a label, particu- plans on expanding the division. $473,048 :MEAT LOAF, MARION RAVEN ($556,593 Canadian) larly an indie label, to be proactive in its bands' "We're not going to leave it a one-man thing. Pengrowth Saddledome, 7,975 House of Blues Canada 1111 $76.07/$38.67 Calgary, Alberta, March 8 8,500 touring opportunities. But Brummel seems I see this quickly developing into two or three AMOR A LA MUSICA: & OTHERS 29 $448,675 kind of, shall we say, obsessed with touring. more people by summer," he says. "We've got- $135/$110/565 Theatre at Madison Square 5,423 Ralph Mercado Presents Garden, New York, March 30 5,425 "Touring is the only thing that matters," ten a ton of résumés, and we've already done $429,160 MODERATTO he says. about 15 interviews in the past two weeks." 4, 783,863 pesos) Auditorio Nacional, City, 15,429 CIE Victory has tapped former Lucky Booking Basically, Victory wants to be immersed in 1::11 $62.80/514.35 March 8-9 19,110 two shows and Face the Music agent Josh Lacey to over- a band's touring activity and see that it works $408,219 STRING CHEESE INCIDENT, POLYPHONIC SPREE $37.75 Denver, 22 10,80610,420 three Live Nation see the new touring department, which he be- the road ... hard. "To me it's exciting because The Fillmore, March -24 shows two sellouts III lieves fills a need. it's absolutely pure. You put the band in front $407,758 NELLY FURTADO 15473,147 Canadian) "I think a lot of the agencies are pretty of people, you create that opportunity, then General Motors Place, 8, 529 Live Nation MI $5128/534 04 Vancouver, March 22 13.754 saturated right now with artists and they're people can decide if it's credible," Brummel PATROL, OK GO, SILVERSUN PICKUPS $387,408 SNOW not taking on a lot of younger bands, which says. "To me touring is the No. 1 way to sell Theatre at Madison Square 11,189 Live Nation Garden, New York, March 26 -27 two sellouts in a lot of cases is probably appropriate," rock records." 111 3 $378,835 HEAVEN AND HELL, MEGaADETH, DOWN Brummel says. "A lot of the agencies don't ($439.586 For 24/7 touring news á Air Canada Centre, Toronto, 7,695 House of Blues Canada see the value or don't have the time. They CI Canadian) $51.28 March 22 9.200 .biz and analysis, see can't justify these very small tours of VFW billboard.biz/touring. gi$377,886 WILLIE NELSON, MERLE HAGGARD, RAY PRICE T77/362/552/542 Radio City Music Hall, New York, 5,961 MSG Entertainment, The Bowery Presents March 22 sellout

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Legal IViatters WHO IS PROTECTING YOUR RIGHTS? SUSAN BUTLER sbutler @billboard.com Where Laws Collide Labels Stuck Between Antitrust And Copyright Laws?

The European Commission's competition unit a digital service might be unlawfully (and un- has stuck a thorn in the side of major labels. intentionally) discriminating against con- The EC claims labels' contractual terms for sumers in certain member states if the serv- iTunes restrict where consumers may buy ice was not also offered in those countries. music within the European Union and vio- Leaving the legal complexities and nuances lates antitrust laws. But copyright lawyers of copyright law to the lawyers now combing must be wondering: Does the unit's staff not through the objections, there are also basic get copyright law and the challenges of sell- business practices that make it difficult for la- ing music in different territories, even after bels- majors and indies -to treat every EU they have been poring over record industry country the same. documents for the Sony -BMG merger and For example, three years ago an artist's man- for Universal Music Group's acquisition of ager boasted to me about her EU business BMG Music Publishing? strategy. She would never agree to a Euro- This is where antitrust law, which targets pean -wide record deal for the artist. She The National Music Publishers' Association. monopolistic behavior, collides with copyright wanted separate deals with labels in each country since the French are best at selling We are your voice. M /l records in France, the Germans are the best at

selling in Germany and so on. When I asked _,, Éc Then is strength in numbers. competition how she would deal with Internet distribution, commissioner she said she would figure that out later, CDs Together we will fight to paint your 011111. NEELIE Naticnal were more important. most _ mportant asset - your song". KROES Publishers' in battle. Visit our Music Today those deals are still in place, but none Join us this Association of the labels could grant Apple an unrestricted weblike or call our Washington . right to sell in every EU country. None hold healçuarters (202) 7- 12--13:5. www.nmpa.ortg rights for every country. In fact, most indie label deals -and some major label deals -have certain EU territories carved out so separate deals can be made for those countries. Another complication involves distribution rights for physical goods versus digital files. Normally artists or labels grant exclusive dis- tribution rights to companies for physical goods, and they grant nonexclusive rights to digital music services. But many contracts for exclusive rights to distribute physical goods don't clearly state whether they also cover dig- law, which creates a monopoly for copyright ital distribution. A label granting a digital serv- holders. Labels don't always have the right to ice nonexclusive rights to distribute music a :ourses grant distribution in every EU country. could be violating an exclusive deal with a nlir>éyltaicucaes orwar3- thinking The probe seems to have record compa- physical distributor for a particular territory. With the Continuing music, nies and digital music services very con- As labels' lawyers try to ensure that rights n to adapt tee Berk of Music. cerned. Lawyers I contacted would not dis- granted in one contract don't result in the label L1d programs from College g66 $ERK`EE of Berktee cuss the issues -even privately. Nevertheless, breaching territory provisions in another con- pig ¡lion it's clear that it could be very tough for record tract, how can they make sure that territorial re- companies to avoid writing restrictions into strictions are clear? Drafting perfect contract erkee1nu51Ccom their contracts for digital distribution with- language for every contingency is never easy.

out violating copyright laws or other con- When I was practicing law myself, I drafted tractual terms. contracts for indie labels granting rights to dis- In an April 3 memo, the EC competition unit, tribute CDs and digital files in a specific EU

under the watch of commissioner Neelie Kroes, territory. I wrote language that permitted only in The Ultimate Resource for said: "The European Commission ... sent a digital distribution from a server that coun- Music Guide Statement of Objections to major record corn - try and for purchasers located in that country. án'TOT .L.8 PROMOTION panies and Apple in relation to agreements It seems that the majors' contracts under re- BE6IN Touring Bands & Musicians between each record company and Apple that view defined the territories by using the con- MOVIE restrict music sales: consumers can only buy sumers' country of residence as identified by BEGIN The new Winter/Spring 2007 edition includes: music from the iTunes' online store in their their credit cards. Will all these deals restrict- ALBUM country of residence. Consumers are thus re- ing territories now be anti -competitive? Will NEXT City by city club directory A&R directory MOVIE Music services directory Music industry websites stricted in their choice of where to buy music, other contractual obligations or copyright re- 1KE and consequently what music is available, and strictions come into play? VACATION PLUS Special Features: o at what price. The Commission alleges ... that The companies have two months to "de- - FIRST Beyoncé's to do list these agreements violate the EC Treaty's rules fend themselves in writing," the EC's memo NEW 'SINGLE And much more prohibiting restrictive business practices." states. If the EC finds an antitrust violation, 27th Edition 7. SHOOT Two sources say that the unit began an "in- companies can be fined up to 10% of their . VIDEO Order Now! CALL 800.562.2706 818.487.4582 quiry" last year to determine why Apple wasn't "worldwide annual turnover." A7MGA18 offering iTunes in EU member states, which For 24/7 legal news now total 27. The sources, close to companies .biz and analysis, see that provided information to the EC, say that billboard.biz/legal. ORDER NOW! www.orderbillboardacom

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Y THIRD DA LEAD Mac VOCALIST T1 owe ll frontman Mac Powell talks about his band, his `Glory Revealed -The Word of God in Worship' side project and what it means to be a Gomer.

It has been more than a decade since Third Day rose from 's fertile music scene, landed a major label deal and began dominating Billboard's Christian music charts. The band's discography includes such acclaimed albums as "Conspiracy No. 5," "Offerings," "Time," "Come Together," "Wire" and "Wherever You Are." Culled from these albums are numerous singles, which have become signatures of the Christian music landscape, in- cluding "King of Glory," "Consuming Fire," "My Hope Is You" and "Cry Out to Jesus." In the course of their career, the talented rockers have earned three Grammy Awards and 21 Gospel Music Assn. Dove Awards. In 2002, lead vocalist Mac Powell, in an un- usual feat for a group member, was singled out and collected the Dove Award for top male vocalist. In addition to Powell, Third Day is bassist Tai Anderson, drummer David Carr and gui- tarists Mark Lee and Brad Avery. Essential Records has declared 2007 as the "Year of Third Day," with new product and promotional efforts to commemorate the band's achievements. On March 27, the label released "Chronology, Volume One (1996- 2000)," a retrospective that features 17 audio tracks as well as never before seen DVD footage of the band's early days. "Chronology, Volume Two (2001 -2006)" is slated for release this fall. On the eve of Gospel Music Week (April 21 -25), culminating in the 38th annual Dove Awards, Powell spoke with Billboard about the band's legacy and its future.

When you reflect on the band's played with us. I've been work- What is Third Day doing to cap- Revealed," on which you history, what are some of the ing hard for years to get rid of italize on opportunities in the worked with evangelist David landmark moments? these videos, and now the record digital realm? Nasser, Michael W. Smith, Mark When the first album [1996's company has put them out in We have ringtones available on our Hall, Shane & Shane, Brian Lit - "Third Day "] sold 200,000- 250,000 front of everybody [laughs]. We Web site [thirdday.com]. With the trell and others. What appealed units, I don't think we realized at also went in and remixed most of digital revolution, people have eas- to you about the project? the time how much of a big deal the songs from those first five ier access to our music-not only is three First, we got a majority of the that was. If someone does that years. They sound much better our music, but the brand that is from scripture. Musically, it's a lot now, it's a big deal, but back then now. And we recut "My Hope Is Third Day. We have Third Day chords and different than anything I've ever when the market wasn't that big, You" and "Thief." Radio on our site where people can agood worked on. It's an acoustic, very it was even more than a big deal. stream songs from "Chronology." organic record, almost bluegrassy You don't see a lot of new artists What was the reason for re- We have a great fan base that's very melody. in a sense. It uses a lot of fiddle, come out and sell that much. It's recording those classics? involved online -the Gomers. banjo and acoustic guitars. It was a rare thing. The success of the [Producer] Monroe Jones was a They not only listen to and share Because great as a musician to be able to first album helped us build our huge part of the success of Third music with each other, but they step out of the comfort zone of a fan base. Day. It was great to get back into reach out to other people about we do that, rock band and to do something dif- In 2001, we won five Dove the studio with him and work on Third Day. The Gomers are kind ferent musically. We thought it Awards. That was a big validation songs that we've been playing in of a grass -roots marketing team. we reach a would be so great to go on a tour. for us. We'd won a few Doves be- concert for years. It gave us the op- We called up some of the artists fore, but that was when we won portunity to approach them in a Why do they call themselves broad fan who sang on the album and said, artist and group of the year for the different way. We wanted to see "Gomers "? base in "What do you think about April ?" first time. Then, having our first what they would be like if we did They got that from our second They agreed. So, as of April 9, we'll AC No. 1 -"I've Always Loved them today. record, "Conspiracy No. 5." There's age and be on the road. You" -from the "Time" album, a song called "Gomer's Theme" was a landmark for us. Of course, Third Day recently left Creative and it comes from the book of Isa- back round. To what do you attribute Third the release of "Offerings," which Trust to sign with Red Light iah in the Old Testament. It's a Day's longevity and success? went platinum, is also a huge land- Management. Why? story about the prophet Isaiah. God We've been very blessed. But be- mark for us. We had been with them for about asked him to marry a prostitute yond that, there are a couple of rea- 10 years and felt that we needed a named Gomer and so it's kind of sons. Rock music is three chords What makes "Chronology" change. It's not like they were an analogy ... Isaiah loved Gomer. and a good melody. Because we do different from other greatest - doing something wrong. It's hard God loves us with an amazing that, we reach a broad fan base in hits packages? to complain when you've had the grace and mercy, despite our sins. age and background. Also, I think It features a lot of video content, success that we've had. Which That's where they get the name. people realize that we're normal including footage from one of the made it a hard decision to make. One of our fans started it on the guys and not rock stars. We're very early shows where it's just me and But we felt like we needed some- message boards. humbled to be able to do this. I Mark playing. Also included is thing to help us not only sustain think people see that we're gen- the first time David played with what we've been doing, but to You recently stepped outside uine guys who want to share our us as well as the first time Tai hopefully do more than that. Third Day and recorded "Glory faith through our music.

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COMFORT After Conquering ZO Addiction And Label Drama, JEFF TWEEDY Takes Solace In His Bandmates On WILCO'S BY JONATHAN COHEN Intimate New Album PHOTOGRAPH BY FRANK OCKENFELS 3

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www.americanradiohistory.com The Wilco loft takes up a full floor of a nondescript building in Chicago's Irving Park. This expansive place could use a paint job and some new rugs, but it's cozy in a way that makes you feel like you're in a grown -up's clubhouse. Several sets of bunk beds double as office space underneath, while large road cases on wheels and shelves full of gear occupy their own corner of the site. Loud, unexplained banging noises come from the floor above, while the band's road manager excitedly divulges that an employee at the local Jewel grocery store has just set aside multiple cases of the lime soda "Somehow it has organized itself into a one -mind gotten better at writing as a group,' says Kotche, who Wilco's members like to drink at the loft. Meanwhile, kind of thing," Tweedy says of Wilco's modus operandi joined during the early stages of "Yankee." "A lot of frontman Jeff Tweedy gets comfortable on a couch in the studio. "We sit in a circle over there without these ideas still come in as seeds from Jeff; a chord pro- headphones for up to six hours at a time, just work- gression or riffs. But working together in this way, it's surrounded by old Wilco concert posters. ing on one part. For six guys to stay focused on some- due to where Jeff's at now, compared to when we were Tweedy has slept on the futon here when he's been thing like that is pretty remarkable. This is the first writing `Ghost.' He's in a different place mentally. He's too immersed in band work to drive home to his wife time in my life I've ever been part of a band that can a lot more confident and able to trust us around him. and two preteen kids. He recorded an album with his really mine something that deep and have that kind He can take a lot of suggestions and ideas and have the side project Loose Fur here in late 2005, and he liked of stamina and attention." confidence to know they're a good or a bad idea." to the The band's newfound internal harmony is a far cry "Yankee" and "Ghost" offered significantly more the experience so much that he decided track from the near -implosion that occurred during the experimental music than Wilco's prior albums, which next Wilco record -"Sky Blue Sky," due May 15 via making of 2002's "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot." That trou- were rooted in the tried -and -true song forms of the Nonesuch -here, too, even though it required the bled period is chronicled in the 2003 documentary "I Beatles, the Beach Boys and . Yet band's six members to squeeze into a cramped alcove Am Trying to Break Your Heart," which showed how they brought the band to a new level of commercial no more than 30 feet wide. at odds Tweedy had grown with multi -instrumentalist and critical acclaim. "Yankee" has sold 590,000 copies It may sound like forced intimacy, but it's in this Jay Bennett (Tweedy hired Jim O'Rourke to remix the in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan, album, despite strong protests from Bennett). while "Ghost" debuted at a career -best No. 8 on The environment that Tweedy feels most comfortable right In a devastating one -two punch to the band's stabil- Billboard 200 and has shifted 348,000 to date. now. And it's this close -knit vibe that permeates the ity, Bennett was booted from Wilco once "Yankee" was In contrast to its postproduction -enhanced prede- beautiful, soulful "Sky Blue Sky," the follow -up to finished, and the album itself was unceremoniously re- cessors, "Sky Blue Sky" is startling in its simplicity: 2004's "A Ghost Is Born." Tweedy, bassist John jected by Reprise, which then severed ties with the band. an album recorded straight to tape with hardly any Stirratt, drummer Glenn Kotche, keyboardist Mikael On top of everything else, Tweedy conquered an ad- overdubs, and Tweedy singing live in the same room Jorgensen and the newest members, guitarist Nels diction to painkillers that forced a brief postponement with the musicians. The singer estimates at least half in the release of "A Ghost Is Born" as well as tour dates the songs feature vocals captured on the first take. Cline and multi -instrumentalist Pat Sansone, worked in support of that album. The inscrutable turns of phrase (i.e. "I am an Amer- on one song at a time, crafting together To be sure, Wilco's current lineup has Tweedy feel- ican aquarium drinker ") that marked the last two al- in a way Wilco has never done before. ing more confident in his abilities than ever. "We've bums have been largely dispensed with. Instead, Tweedy's narrators clearly struggle to be heard, to be loved and to be worthy of love on poignant songs like "Leave Me (Like You Found Me)," the drumless "Please CHARTING WILCO'S COURSE Be Patient With Me," "Either Way" and the goose - Wilco's 1995 debut, "A.M.," didn't even dent The Billboard 200. But the group has found significant chart success with its last bump-inducing closer, "On and On and On," which two studio sets; "A Ghost Is Born" debuted at a career -best No. 8 in 2004. Tweedy wrote for his dad after his mother passed away. The album also evinces the band's more light- hearted side on the ZZ Top -worthy rocker "Walken," while "Impossible Germany" indulges Tweedy's love taro of the harmonized guitar leads patented by Televi- sion and Thin Lizzy. Elsewhere, the strummy first single, "What Light," sounds airlifted from "Mermaid Avenue," the first of Wilco's 1998 and 2000 collabo- BILLBOARD PEAK WEEKS SALES TO YEAR OF TITLE 200 PEAK DATE ON CHART DATE' RELEASE rations with Billy Bragg that brought to life unre- _ . A.M. N/A N/A N/A 217,000 1995 leased Woody Guthrie songs. Being There 73 Nov.16,1996 3 398,000 1996 Tweedy insists he didn't plan to tone down the ex- 11, 1998 7 330,000 1998 Mermaid Avenue (with Billy Bragg) 90 July perimentation of Wilco's recent albums, although Summerteeth 78 March 27,1999 3 279,000 1999 Mermaid Avenue Volume 2 he admits when he thought to himself, "What record 17, 4 156,000 2000 (with Billy Bragg) 88 June 2000 do I want to hear right now ?," the answer was, "I want 13 May 11, 2002 19 590,000 2002 Yankee Hotel Foxtrot to hear somebody just sing me some songs. Stirratt A Ghost Is Born 8 July 10, 2004 9 348,000 2004 Kicking Television: Live in Chicago 47 Dec. 3, 2005 2 114,000 2005 adds, "We had rockers that existed with these songs 'Still charting as of April 21 chart. SOURCE Nielsen SoundScan for a while, but this sort of mood took over with tunes

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www.americanradiohistory.com Clockwise frcm left:1) JEFF TWEEDY and Wilco have thrived onstage in DOWN THE recen- years, a GENTLY development Tweedy attributes to the virtuosity STREAM of the cu-rent lineup. 2) Band members Wilco's Web Strategy Puts Fans First squeezed intc this narrow alcove to track the new Wilco wants far s to hear its albums pretty much as soon as they are mastered, material live. which explains why the band has taken the unconventional step of stream- 3) Wilco posters line the t its last threE studio releases on its Web site (wilcoworld.com) months be- back of the f-on. door of ing the band's Chigo loft, fore street date. where the new 'Sky Blue The fact that MP3s of the songs were all over the Internet within hours is Sky' was recorded. of no great concern to the group, according to manager Tony Margherita. "We knew the minute it went to two people, it was going to leak," he says, adding that promos of the upcoming "Sky Blue Sky" were serviced to the media without any digital lights management or encryption. "The streaming is a way for people to hear the record without having to go hunting around or feel like they're doing something on the sly." "Sky Blue Sky" has been activated for streaming five times since early March, and traffic to the site traditionally doubles each time, according to Ken Waagner, who heads tre band's online operation. A fivefold traffic increase like You Are My was seen when the stream was included in Apple's Quicktime player. Face,' " he says. When Wilco first streamed "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" in 2001, Wilcoworld was "We had roughs in hosted by "one of those $29.95- per -month services," Waagner recalls. "The

this sequence next morning, II had 4D e -mails from the hosting company that said, 'We early on, and it felt don't know what you're doing, but you need to stop it now.' " so much like a In the weeks ahead, Wilco is beefing up the amount of live content that will record even at that be available on the site. "We're planning to try and do one live event every point. It was like, month that the bard its on the road," Waagner says. 'God, this is t1-.e record that is trying to present In addition, the bared is working with developers of the new Quicktime itself to us.' " software to include special Wilco video content when the application When it came time to write lyrics, Tweedy launches in the coming months. pushed himself to keep things personal. "I've writ- Margherita says he hasn't ruled out taking the plunge into digital con- ten a lot of stuff in the past that has been very, very cert releases a la Pearl Jam or Phish, a move that would be welcomed by uncomfortable for my wife to listen to, and un- Wilco devotees. "We're never really had the time, frankly, although I think comfortable for us both to live with in the context of Wilco also takes its relationship with its fans very it's something we'd consider doing at some point," he says. -JC people reading into it in a really autobiographical way," seriously, going so far as to stream "Yankee," "Ghost" he says. "There's a part of me that was very conscious and "Sky Blue Sky" on its Web site months before their on this record of writing directly to my wife a little bit retail release (see story, right). Of course, this resulted will be Wilco's first album to be carried at Starbucks. e more; some things where I can say, 'This is how I feel.' in fans ripping MP3s from the streams and posting Tweedy, who says Wilco has so much unreleased "I have to stay focused on what's really going on in them online, where they spread quickly. material that he often can't identify those tracks when my world, or I'm not writing about anything," he adds. But Wilco devotees apparently do not take without they come up on his iPod, is already thinking ahead "I feel like I've gotten through a lot, and I feel a lot giving back. When "Ghost" leaked in 2004, one fan to the band's next album. better about my life. I feel like I'm able to contribute site began soliciting donations from listeners who just "We'd like to try and get something out fairly soon," a lot more to my family. I don't think any of that is sad, could not wait until street date without downloading he says. "By fairly soon, I mean within a year- and -a- silly or embarrassing to talk about." it. The result was a $15,000 check for Doctors With- half or something. The general scheme of things these Surprisingly, Wilco pulled off "Sky Blue Sky" with out Borders, a charity the band had specified when I feel like days is that Wilco spends so much time touring, and much less of an assist from O'Rourke, who is also contacted about the initiative. I've the record industry doesn't seem to be geared toward Tweedy and Kotché s partner in Loose Fur. O'Rourke "This has been a part of their pact with their audi- gotten putting out a lot of records by any one artist quickly. penned string arrangements for "Either Way" and "On ence," says Nonesuch senior VP David Bither, who through a lot, So, we're battling against things like that. But it'd be and On and On," but his mix was ultimately scrapped signed off on the early streamings. "The audience and I feel a nice to do it before three years pass." in favor of a second attempt by Jim Scott that was more wants to be involved with them, and that has been ev- lot better But first, the band is returning to the road. A run in keeping with the intimacy of the recording sessions. ident to us." Tweedy adds, "I think most people will of Australian shows got things moving in mid -April, "Compared to the demos it just didn't feel quite the do the right thing and support us and buy the record, about my life. to be followed by a three -week European tour. North same or like the record we, as a band, had made," even if they have downloaded it." I don't think American dates get under way June 13 in Daven- Tweedy says. "The mixes we did with Jim Scott put Fans will get an insider's peek into Wilco's creative any of that is port, Iowa, and include a June 17 appearance at the you in this room a lot more than the ones we did [with process via the documentary "Shake It Off," which sad silly or Bonnaroo festival. O'Rourke], which sounded much more like a 'record.' will be included as a DVD with the deluxe edition of Afterward, the band will visit Europe for a handful The room was gone." the new album. "A lot of it is the band rehearsing in embarrassing of festivals. Beginning in mid -August and stretching the loft, before some dates they did in November," to talk about. into September, Wilco will embark on a more exten- Margherita says. "They're playing through the songs -Jeff Tweed sive tour of the United States and Canada, according The bulk of `Sky Blue S start to finish, and there's a lot of behind -the -scenes to Margherita. was tested on the road, where Wilco has thrived since footage and interviews." Rarely are any two Wilco shows the same, and con- the start of the decade. The group, which permits fans Further honing in on the hardcore fan, Nonesuch cert minutia is parsed in a variety of ways on fan sites to tape its shows and frequently streams concerts for is releasing "Sky Blue Sky" on 180 -gram, audiophile like Wilcobase.org. "I actually ran into a guy who put free on its Web site, has grossed nearly $8 million vinyl with a CD of the album included. "This is fairly together a compilation of the live Wilco stuff from 'A from 117 shows reported to Billboard Boxscore since unusual," Bither says. "A lot of people give you down- Ghost Is Born' and it was like 105 songs or something 2000. A 2005 live album, "Kicking Television," has load cards, but we wanted to do something of even crazy," Stirratt says. "I couldn't believe it." sold 114,000 copies in the United States, according higher quality." As "Sky Blue Sky" prepares to hit the marketplace, to Nielsen SoundScan. The iTunes version of the album will include the Tweedy marvels at the turnaround in his outlook since "The thing that separates Wilco from a lot of bands outtake "Let's Not Get Carried Away," while indie coali- 2.004. To his ears, the sound of the new album is the is that they can play in a lot of markets and do good tions will receive a bonus disc with the non -album ultimate proof how all the upheaval had positive con- business," manager Tony Margherita says. "They can song "One True Vine" and a previously unreleased live sequences that seemed impossible at the time. go to Little Rock, Ark., Indianapolis, you name it. take of "Theologians" from the same Chicago shows "After a lot of complexity and a lot of reflection on They have played in a lot of places that other people that yielded "Kicking Television." a lot of difficult topics, allowing ourselves to relish don't go to, and many of them repeatedly. That's And even though Tweedy's beverage of choice is being in a band and having the ability to make things something we've really concentrated on in the last Diet Coke (he claimed to drink 30 of them a day on really musical was soothing," he says. "I think we were few years." his 2006 solo DVD "Sunken Treasure "), "Sky Blue Sky" wanting to make something beautiful."

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www.americanradiohistory.com www.americanradiohistory.com From Oprah To Ellen, Today To Good Morning America, Music Executives Ani! Fans Alike Are Tuning In To Daytime TV Keith Urban is shivering in his deans. Literally. Its b:45 on a trigici cola t-r ivay morning anu tl It sarily listen to the radio, it opened doors at radio." country singer is doing a soundcheck for his fast -approaching live performance on NBC's Tunstall's camp along with NBC put an iTunes "Today." Indeed, even in such inclement weather, "Today" performances are done outside promo in place so that, immediately following her performance on the plaza, fans could download her an the plaza where, already, hundreds of Urban fans are standing. 41 In addition to singing three songs live, Urban is using his appearance on the show as a coming out of sorts. He has "Today" set. In the week following the performance, granted his first post -rehab interview in tt'e United States to "Today" co -host Matt Lauer. 14,000 fans downloaded the stand -alone free set. After that, it was bundled with purchase of the album, Still, between his on -air interview, to be conducted in the warmth of the studio, and the which has sold 107,000 digital copies. Approximately subzero temperatures he's experiencing outside, Urban remains calm, collected and jazzed. 85% of that number comes from iTunes sales, yield- When the cameras start rolling, hundreds of "Today" wildly seen and heard," Curry says during a station ing an additional 91,000 bundled videos. and Urban fans become visibly excited -not even 10- break. "Maybe it's the time of day we're on, but people "That one -two combination worked wonders in degree weather dampens this crowd's collective spirit. are more open and vulnerable to receiving new infor- launching her,' Capitol Music Group president Lee Trink The same is true of "Today" co -hosts Lauer, Ann Curry, mation, new ideas, new sounds -while the classic says. (A similar iTunes promotion supported a recent Al Roker and Meredith Vieira -who, during Urbari s recording acts comfort people." John Mayer performance on "Today.") Tunstall followed powerful performance, can't help but tap their toes and -Today" executive producer Lim Bell adds, "You're her "Today" appearance with visits to "Live With Regis shake their hips. So what if one or two of them have a talking about a time of day when people are consider- and Kelly" and "The Ellen DeGeneres Show " as well as suspect sense of rhythm? ing making a lot of their purchasing decisions ... The late -night TV shows. First -week sales of Tunstall's Re- "Keith Urban raised the temperature in New York people who make up our audience go to movies, read lentless /Virgin disc, "Eye to the Telescope," which City today," Curry says. "Look at the energy out here books and listen to music." streeted Feb. 7. 2006, were 28,000, according to Nielsen on the plaza. There's a buzz in the air. It positively af- Female viewership certainly dominates morning SoundScan. To date, the album has sold 986,000 copies. fects all of us here." and daytime TV. On average, "Oprah" attracts 6.2 mil - It didn't hurt that many stars had aligned at the same It also affects music sales -a lot. Like other record- lion females 18+ per day, and other top shows gener- time. Tunstall had a song at radio ( "Black Horse & the ing artists, Urban knows the power of nonmusic- ate 2 million -plus in daily female viewership. Male 'Today" exéeuìiV Cherry Tree "), support from VH 1 and was on tour. "For producer JIM BELL, top, TV shows like "Today." viewership is generally in the 1 million -2 million per TV appearances. it helps when you have other things driven morning and daytime and senior producer Along with ABC's "Good Morning America," CBS' day range for each show. MELISSA LONNER, happening at the same time," Banks says. "The Early Show," the syndicated "Oprah Winfrey 'But there is a difference between who's watching above, in the control Josh Groban's manager Brian Avnet says its crucial to room. Show" and others, "Today" creates sales momentum these shows and what kind of artists have the most im- have a record to promote when you appear on daytime for music and helps break new acts (see "Daytime pact," Warner Bros. Records executive VP Diarmuid shows. "Otherwise, it's a wasted opportunity," he says. Delivers," page 26). Quinn says. "When artists like Michael Bublé and Josh 143 /Reprise /Warner Bros. artist Groban has day- Daytime TV reaches millions of viewers. Between Groban appear, we see tangible and readable results, time TV to thank for introducing him to a mass au- Jan. 1 and March 25, "Today" reached, on average, with an immediate impact on sales. The female audi- dience. Nearly five years ago, on July 11, 2002, Groban 5.8 million viewers per day, according to Nielsen ence is more reactive than the male demo." made his first appearance on "Oprah." For the week Media. In the same time period, "The Oprah Win- Taking full advantage of this exposure requires ending July 7, 2002, "Josh Groban" sold 37,000 units. frey Show" came out on top, with a total viewer aver- some strategy. SB Management's Simon Banks ex- The following week, it sold 78,000, an increase of age of 8.7 million per show. Other top daytime shows plains how "Today" was an important part oflaunch- 112 %. "That show helped break Josh," says Avnet. (see "Oprah Moments," page 27) easily eclipse the 3 ing the career of his client KT Tunstall. She appeared Groban has since appeared on "Oprah" a handful of million mark for viewers. When the right artist plays on the show Jan. 20, 2006 -her first U.S. TV gig - times, as well as on "Good Morning America," "Today" the right show at the right time, spikes of 50% -150% and he says, "It put her in the public's consciousness. and "The View." in sales can be typical. The exposure was incredible. While that one per - Of course, a little luck and timing helps, too. "This broadcast gives opportunities for voices to be formance reached an audience that does not neces- Newcomer Corinne Bailey Rae taped her segment of

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www.americanradiohistory.com "Oprah" in December, just days after she received three Grammy Award nominations. The show was broad- cast the following month, a couple of weeks ahead of the awards. "With the media focused on the Grammys, it was a double bubble for us," says the artist's man- ager Bob Miller of Running Media Group in Isle of Man. Bailey Rae's self-titled CD went to No. 4 on The Billboard 200 and stayed around the top 10 through the Grammys. Post -awards, the disc returned to No. 4. Daytime TV was an intrinsic part of Bailey Rae's launch, says Sharon Lord, senior VP of strategic mar- keting at Capitol Records. Early bookings on "Good Morning America," "Regis and Kelly" and others paved the way for a No. 17 bow on The Billboard 200, with more than 40,000 CDs sold the first week. "This was without the support of radio," Lord says.

GETTING IN THE DOOR While the music must speak for itself, like in many business transactions, trust and relationships are just as important when it comes to securing an artist for a daytime TV show. Tunstall's appearance on "Today" resulted from a private performance she gave in Bell's office. On hand for this intimate "concert" were, in addition to Bell, "Today" senior producer Melissa Lonner (responsi- ble for all talent /entertainment bookings), Capitol Music Group honchos Jason Flom and Trink and a couple of others. Two days later, Tunstall was appear- ing on the show. Trink recalls the day Tunstall performed in Bell's of- It may be cold outside, fice as if it was yesterday. "We knew we could accom- but that doesn't stop "Almost the entire Harpo production team-around The support appears to be across the board-with plish a lot by having KT perform in Jim's office," Trink the fa is or Today' 1g people -came to the Chicago show," Miller says. newcomers, veterans and those flying under the main- execs LONNER and says. "Jim and Melissa are music people. We knew KT "Thai was in August. Months later, we did ` Oprah.' " stream radar. On Feb. 8, banjo master Tony Trischka BELL, above right, from could blow people away with her voice and guitar." enjoying KEITH TV shows like these, Miller says, reach people in the joined fellow five -stringer, actor /comedian Steve Mar- Similarly, Capitol's publicity department made cer- URBAN'S performance mainstream who are not going straight to the Internet tin, on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show." In the days that on Rockefeller Plaza. tain that key people at Winfreÿ s production company, to steal an artist's music. "They are more likely to look followed, Trischká s new Rounder album, "Double Harpo, were aware of Bailey Rae. They were sent ad- for the artist the next time they're in Best Buy, Barnes Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular," experienced a 50% sales vances of the artist's album along with international & Noble, Kmart or Starbucks." spike. At Amazon, the disc jumped from No. 497 to press clippings. By the time Bailey Rae's tour hit Thai said, the Firm's Jon Leshay, who oversees the No. 34 during the course of Feb. 8. One week later, Chicago in the summer, the artist had a genuine Harpo careers of Mandy Moore and Taylor Hicks, believes the Amazon sales were up 59 %, with the CD charting at fan base, Miller says. To be sure, a label publicist's daytime TV audience does not comprise aggressive No. 90 for the week. pitch to talent bookers is key here (see "Do's and music iuyers. "But if they like what they see and hear, For the week ending Feb. 11, the album sold slightly Don'ts," page 27). they support the artist by buying the CD." less than 1,000 copies, which was a 50% increase over

JAN 30 newcomer PAOLO NUTINI ap- DEC. 2. 2006 "AMERICA'S GOT TALENT" winner BIANCA RYAN DAYTIME DELIVERS peared on "TODAY." the samme day as the release of his debut appeared on "OPRAH," which paved the way for a healthy A Year Of Associated Sales Bumps album, "THESE STREETS." In the Feb. 17 issue, the album debut, No. 57, of her self- titled Syco /Octagon /Columbia album debuted at No. 48 on The Billboard 200 with 18,000 sold. on The Billboard 200. MARCH 9 Epic act AUGUSTANA stopped by "TODAY" for a one -song in- studio performance. Daily album sales of the DEC. 23, 2006 After the g ',oup's appearance on "OPRAH," II FOLLOWING HER JUNE 8, 2006 appearance on "TODAY, "and act's 2005 album "ALL THE STARS AND BOULEVARDS" at DIVO'S Syco /Columbia album "ANCORA" experienced gains with 10,000 discs sold, KATIE MELUA'S Dramatico /Universal iTunes jumped 141% that day, according to the label. Over- on several charts, including The Billboard 200, where it Motown CD "Piece by Piece" debuted at No.108 and No. 3 on all sales for the album remained at slightly less than 8,000 climbed 74 positions to No. 87. The Billboard 200 and Top Jazz Albums charts, respectively. for the weeks ending March 4 and March 11, according to Nielsen SoundScan. DEC.16, 200E In one December week, ANDREA BOCELLI per- Ij!4F I 2006 After an appearance on "TODAY," during KATIE formed on "TODAY "THE: VIEW" and "MARTHA STEWART." COURIC'S farewell week, JAMES BLUNT'S Custard /Atlantic After a week's worth of TV appearances The singer's Sugar /Decca CD, "BACK TO BEDLAM," leaped to No. 9 on The Billboard 200, on "TODAY," "THE VIEW" and other shows, JOSH GROBAN, left, and 'The, View' disc "UNDER THE DESERT marking a 53% gain. It was the British singer's second of three JOSH GROBAN'S "AWAKE" (143 /Reprise/ co -host ELISABETH HASSELBECK SKY" experienced a 20% appearances on the show. Each time resulted in sales bumps. share smiles and a thumbs up for Warner Bros.) ascended 16 positions to No.17 on daytime TV viewers. jump and pole -vaulted into To date, "Back to Bedlam" has sold 2.5 million units. In the same The Billboard 200. That marks a 65% gain from the No. 25 spot of The Bill- issue (June 17, 2006), thanks to an "OPRAH" May 31 rerun, the previous week. board 200. JOHN LEGEND'S "GET LIFTED" (G.O.O.D. /Columbia) garnered a 78% increase, jumping 171 -106. It was the album's best rank- CORINNE BAILEY RAE'S self -titled Capi- DEC. 9, 200b No stranger to ing since March. Similarly, a rerun of Blunt's "Oprah" perform- tol debut jumped 155% to No. 4 on The Billboard TV appearances, BEYONCÉ ance sparked a 166% gain for his album at !No.17 on The Bill- 200 in the wake of an "OPRAH WINFREY" per- parlayed visits to "OPRAH" board 200 in the Sept.16, 2006, issue. formance and sub -$10 sale pricing ($9.99 at Cir- and the American Music cuit City and Kmart and $7.99 at Best Buy). One Awards telecast -along with IN THE APRIL 8, 2006, issue TEDDY GEIGER'S Cred. /Columbia month earlier, after a number of TV appearances a Black Friday $6.99 Best Buy disc "UNDERAGE THINKING" debuted at No. 8 on The Bill- (including "THE EARLY SHOW ") the album expe- price -into a 155% jump (No. board 200 with 56,000 scans. During release week, Geiger vis- rienced an 89% jump, moving 13 positions ) on The Billboard 200 with ited "GOOD MORNING AMERICA," "THE EARLY SHOW" and chart to No. 39. her Columbia set "B'DAY." "LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN" -MP

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www.americanradiohistory.com OPRAH MOMENTS The Daytime Show That Delivers The Most Many in music refer to "" as hits at AC and adult top 40 made 10 million - the holy grail of American daytime TV. Its power ex- 18 million per week. tends beyond the United States, where -and because Still, there remains a major difference it airs more than once in some markets -"Oprah" between radio and TV exposure. "A per- reaches 18 million unique viewers each day and 48 formance on 'Oprah' travels around the million each week, based on Nielsen Media Research. world and has a massive impact," says Bob While Harpo Productions and CBS were unable to Miller of Running Media Group, who man- supply statistics for global viewership of the show. it ages Corinne Bailey Rae. The singer's per- was noted that "Oprah" airs in 127 countries. formance on "Oprah" aired in January, and In comparison, in recent months, a top five hit at sales spiked that week f -om 21,650 to top 40 radio resulted in around 50 million impres- 55,189 -a 138% increase. But that's just in sions per week, according to Nielsen BDS. R &B /hip- the States. hop and country radio followed with approximately 45 Bailey Rae recently played in Tokyo and million and 33 million impressions, respectively. Adult Amsterdam, Miller says. "The talk was all

R &B averaged between 12 million and 23 million, while about her performance on ` Oprah: " -MP

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Time Period: Jan. 1 -March 25 SHOW AVERAGE TOTAL VIEWERS FEMALES 18+ MALES 18+ "The Oprah Winfrey Show" 1._ "Today" 5.8 million 3.6 million 1.9 million "Good Morning America" 5 million 3.2 million 1.5 million "Live With Regis and Kelly" 4.6 million 3 million 1.2 million "The Early Show" 3.5 million 2 million 1.2 million "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" 3.1 million 2 million .66 million

the following week. For a bluegrass album, this is a but then he checked himself into rehab," Lonner says. across different platforms." noteworthy jump. "We weren't sure what to do, and then we heard that But make no mistake. Though the marketing and Karen Rhee, entertainment producer of "Good Morn- he was getting offers from prime -time shows for his promotion platforms increase, it still comes down to ing America," which delivered the first American TV first post -rehab TV appearance." Lonner knows she the artist and the music. appearances by and Bailey Rae, can't compete with one of those shows that might "Shows like this are great for hitting everyone at says she doesn't necessarily think about potential music give him an entire hour. In the end, Lonner says it once," says Urban, minutes after his performance sales when booking an act. But if an artist experiences came down to "relationships and trust. He honored in front of millions of TV viewers. "Even in arctic a sales spike following a "GMA' performance, she says, his commitment to us." conditions, where I could barely feel my fingers "It's great for the artist and a good indication that our With Urban's performance rescheduled, a segment halfway through the first song, and where tears viewers are responding in a positive manner to the producer was again assigned to handle all logistics, were streaming down my face due to the cold, it's artist's music. Our job is to entertain viewers." from sound equipment to ensuring all band members an opportunity to play for some people." And sell had the proper paperwork. NBC also put a radio promo Just another day at the some music. BEHIND THE SCENES campaign in place. The pieces of the puzzle had come office for executive For the week ending Feb. 18 -two days after his producer BELL, who Those watching daytime TV shows from the comfort together. No wonder Lonner and Bell are heartily smil- couldn't help but smile gig-Urban's latest Capitol Nashville album, "Love, of their homes may take these live performances for ing during Urban's performance on the plaza. "By the and laugh at a Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing," sold 37,000 units, a granted, but they shouldn't. There's more to it than day of the show, my work is basically done," Lonner colleague's cheap 54% increase from the previous week, according to attempt at humor. meets the eye -much more. says. "I talk to the talent, go over interview questions Nielsen SoundScan. That far outpaced overall album At "Today," Bell spends the bulk of his time in the and make sure everyone is comfortable." sales in the post- Grammy and -Valentine's Day week, control room -"the brains of the show"-but happily Still, Lonner and Bell realize they cannot rest on past which were up 12.7 %. treks outside for Urban's live performance on the plaza. successes. Which is why they are exploring new ways "We were hoping that, post -rehab, Keith would be- When in the control room, Bell sits in a chair smack to expand the show. come more visible again-and reach as many people dab in the middle of the monitor -filled room. It's as if "We will do more things digitally this year with as possible," Capitol Nashville VP of sales Bill Kennedy he's the conductor of an orchestra. "Welcome to my iTunes, Amazon and iVillage," Lonner says. "We want says. "Not to dismiss late -night TV, but this was an im- world," Bell says with a chuckle. "It's very alive in here." to incorporate backstage, behind -the -scenes footage portant show for Keith to do. The core country music Indeed, Bell is surrounded by producers, technicians, onto our own Web site. You know, these artists get here consumer is 25- to 54- year -old females ... For us, this sound engineers, directors, graphic designers, assis- at 6 in the morning. There is a lot we can do with them was a bull's -eye." tants and others. During the live performances, Bell and his team NNW try to convey the festive atmosphere of the plaza. This involves "looking for great shots of the per- former and the crowd," he says. For Bell, the biggest challenge of the live per- THE DO'S AND DON'TS OF PITCHING formances is usually the complex audio setup Quick Tips From `Today' Senior Producer Melissa Lonner that must balance the needs of the live plaza i crowd and the TV audience. "But we figure it Keep your pitches Send a CD of Say why the artist Follow up on out," he says with a laugh. And Bell "just knows" short over the phone music with selective should be on "Today." pitches via e -mail or

when a performance is great. "The plaza comes and /or e-mail. press clippings. TIP: ovide the music . phone. alive and the energy comes right through the TIP: ".now/watch the TIP: Send an e -mail tais and the facts -not TIP: ne [TV] set." N you're pitching to follow up and hype. s- °sï hon= That was certainly the case on the day of Urban's to. You need to know i` recommend a track. nrl1'T performance. But if truth be told, the singer was your artist would be a DON'T Say that the Stalk, threaten originally scheduled for the show around the time good fit. DONT Send the artist is the next or demand. 4 of his new album's November release. According deluxe press clipp'ngs to Lonner, conversations with Urban's manager DON'T Pitch on a collection.

and label began last summer. "He was booked . . . voicemail.

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As Plans For The 07 -07 -07 Worldwide Live Earth Concert To Stem Global Warming Heat Up, Billboard Checks In With Two Of The Event's Key Orchestrators BY RAY WADDELL

First there was Live Aid, then Live 8, now Live Earth. The common thread here is historic live music events for a good cause ... and Kevin Wall. If After executive -producing Live 8 two years ago, Wall launched a company called Network Live, which has since produced and digitally distributed more than 100 concerts by such acts as Bon Jovi, , the Rolling Stones, Green Day, Elton John and, most recently, Kings of Leon. Along the way, Wall changed the name of the company to Control Room and shifted his online partner from AOL to MSN. Wall has been the owner from day one. ¶ With Control Room thriving and digital distribution of live events taking hold in broad ways, Wall has been on a focused mission since Live 8. His focus shifted, however, when he saw Al Gore's now -famous slide show. Gore really put the global warming issue on his radar. When he saw the Academy Award -winning film "An Inconvenient Truth," Wall says, "I was very deeply moved. This is not about the haves and the have -nots, this is about all of us. And I left that screening and decided that I would take time out from my Control Room activities, and I would underwrite and put together a global media event around the world." If Wall put a staff together, Why does the concept of concerts and live Pearl Tower in Shanghai, Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, met with the networks and spent three months constructing the music as a platform to deliver this mes- Olympic Stadium in Sydney, Copacabana framework of Live Earth: The Concert for a Climate in Crisis. ¶ sage appeal to you? Beach in Rio de Janeiro -where we expect a Apparently, the former Vice President embraced the concept. "I told AG: Music engages people in a way that noth- million people-and in Johannesburg we have ing else does. These acts are fantastic. The mu- an amphitheater called the Cradle of Human him, `Fantastic, because it was your movie that lit me up anyway,' " sicians who are involved in this cause are ones Kindness, which is outside of [ Johannesburg]. Wall recalls. "So last at the end of year we decided to work together, that have tremendous reach in their ability to and that resulted in our announcement in February that we had engage people and to get them to focus on is- What about talk of a concert in Antarctica? plans to do this global show." If Here, Wall and the former Vice sues that they care about. It gives a momentum KW: We're doing a small show from Antarc- President embrace a chance to fill Billboard readers in on what is to the effort to solve the dimate crisis that would tica from the British Scientific Station, and it's shaping up to be an unprecedented day of music and message. be hard to generate in any other way. It's im- a surprise what we're doing. portant that the concert be connected to an on- You describe Live Earth as a "media event." about it each time that we talked. He had been going campaign that is launched on July 7, so So you've got your framework in place, Was this initially designed as a music event? very open to a partnership on this, which both it's not a one-time event. A one -time event would you've formed your alliance with Mr. Gore, KEVIN WALL: Yes. I felt that my expertise of us have enjoyed. I'm very excited about it. be great in and of itself, but it can be the begin- you've got your networks. What are the is these global events where you can get all ning of something even better. And to use this next steps in the progression of produc- w these networks in sync to hopefully enable When you say a partnership, that would attention -getting, consciousness -raising event inái such an event? change or get to the tipping point for the be with SOS and Alliance for Climate as an opportunity to beget longer -term conver- KW: You have to put your sites in place, you cause. This was a very effective thing in Live Protection. sations, that's what we're hoping to do. Because have to -at the same time -have interested 8, Live Aid, Amnesty International, the Fred- AG: Yeah, I'm not using it as a legal term. We're this is the challenge of our lives and having the bands because the promoters you use in cer- die Mercury AIDS Day show, to name a few working together in every way. chance to get everybody focused on it to a greater tain territories want to know who's on [the that I've been involved in. So I decided to do degree is really a wonderful opportunity. bill] because they want to know how much this on a personal basis, but I wanted to give Where in this process did you hit upon time they should devote to even taking meet- to charities or NGLS [nongovernmental liai- 07 -07 -07 and the seven concerts on Can you give a ballpark budget to even ings with you. The television networks won't N son services] involved, any profits, and give seven continents? undertake such a project? even give you time unless they think there's them a messaging platform so that they could KW: That was early on. One, it was easy to KW: Well, certainly I am at risk for millions of really going to be a project. Now the fortu- speak to the world at one time. remember; two, it was a Saturday in July at a dollars. In the end we are not taking fees or a nate thing is I have a lot of credibility in this time when a lot of artists are touring who I profit on this. We are giving all of the money area. [President /CEO] Jeff Zucker at NBC What was your first reaction when Kevin felt we could engage in this project to play on in all of the names collected, and any ofthe [in- said, "I'm in, and we'll give you NBC and our

Wall came to you with the proposal for the that day. So those things were together . . . tellectual property] goes to the charity. cable networks," and I was able to get the Live Earth project? Separately from the Control Room deal, Mi- same thing from BBC very early on. AL GORE: My first reaction was that this was crosoft Network came in as a massive under- Where are you at this stage in terms of a great idea, but I wanted to know more about writer, and the NBC, BBC and NHK [Japan cities, venues, artists, etc.? How would you define your role in putting how it was going to develop. And we had so Broadcasting Corp.] deal were all together KW: We're doing Wimbledon Stadium in Lon- these Live Earth concerts together? many conversations that I got more excited prior to me going to Al. don, Giants Stadium in [East Rutherford, N.J.], AG :: Carefully [laughs]. I have done a lot of con- 1

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one that buys the vehicle. We're going to an- ities, in a coalition for the show, and eight divide up the packages based on the differ- nounce a wireless handset manufacturer that days later they went back to their respe ctNe ent networks, and we'll customize them. will announce a global initiative around this. businesses. We've got to get these people in We're going to be announcing two big online lock step, and they have to stay in lock step, What would be your best hopes for what efforts outside of Microsoft, two of the biggest and we have tc continue to drive :his mes- comes from Live Earth? sites in the world that will be driving messag- sage over the next several years. This pro- KW: That we see effects in how people shop ing off their front pages. ect, Live Earth, is the beginning, the launch in the next six months coming out of it. That So what you're seeing with this is not just of the change, it's not the end. This a very we see an effect in government continuing seven concerts. It's going to be very solution- complicated, difficult issue to translate and to push this issue forward. That we see change based, and these major corporations and media connect the dots, but we're taking it or.. I've in the Wal- Marts, the Office Depots, etc. companies are giving us a massive amount of got about 100 people working on this full You're going to see a land rush because space to drive the message. time around the world that I've been under- "green" is going to be good for business. We also have commissioned 50 new short writing, and sçonsor money is now startirg You're going to see consumers who are em- films that are between four minutes and 10 to come in and pick up the slack for me. powered, they're going to vote teat empow- minutes in length by everyone from Acad- We're doing it because I'm worried about erment. This is going to be a de_îning issue emy Award -winning filmmakers to big com- our children and our grandchildren. I'm af- of the next election, I think. mercial and music video makers. Forty -four fected by this in a major way. AG: I want people to first of all really enjoy of these are already in production now. We the performances, and I want them to enjoy commissioned 30 new PSAs with major stars Any similarities between interactiig n the music in the context of really feeling deeply which will run across the NBC networks, music business circles and political circles? the purpose of it all. I hope this will be a very about 150 networks around the world, show- AG: Yeah. On the surface, there are a lot of sim- successful launch of a multiyear campaign ing solutions and actions that people can take. ilarities when you're asking people to come :o that, together with the concerts: really does In America, the lineup is NBC prime time, an event, play an event, support an event. Bat change the sense of urgency tha- people fee- but also MSNBC, CNBC, Bravo, Telemundo, it's a lot different because this is a cause that about the climate crisis. And helps to move Mun2, Sundance Channel, HDNet. It's also everybody really cares about and once they re- the world across a political tipping point, es- XM and Sirius, five channels each, Premier alize that it's really well put together and i-'s pecially in our country, so that the majority o: Radio's 2,503 channels across the country. going to be very effective, they want to bea part the political leaders in both parties will be We have a major book that's corning out with of it. So I guess the similarities with political competing with each other to offer the mos- versations and telephone calls and meetings one of the biggest publishers in the world. events are only on the surface. effective real solutions to it. I think we've go - with some great entertainers and mLsicians It's not like Live 8, a concert where eight days a real good chance of the concerts coming of- to ask them to be a part of this. So I guess you later we have a change. This is the beginning What's your potential audience? that way. would call me a recruiter in that sense. 've also of hopefully a change that's happening around KW: We have :old people that we will reach done a lot of outreach to different groups, in- the world anyway, the tipping point of behav- comfortably 2 billion eyeballs for some sig- This will be a massive stage with an audi- cluding environmental groups, to get :hem to ior to get government, corporations and con- nificant time, more than 30 minutes. This ence of more than a billion people, an un- be supportive, and of course they all are. I've sumers to change the way they live and treat whole show is being designed as 24 hours of precedented opportunity in many ways to also done a lot to contact business leacers and the environment. We have a fucking disaster broadcast around the world, and we're mak- communicate a message. Is there a chance other leaders to get them to be suppc rtive of here. We have a red alert. ing sure that anyone who watches for 1 min- you might use this stage to make some it. It's not a hard sell, because people want to utes will with a message. Each other sort of announcement? be part of it, and I'm getting a lot of ye ses. What did you learn from Live 8 that will show starts about 2 p.m. local time, so as ve AG: Well, there would be plenty of bands to cu: make a difference in Live Earth? start each show we will go around the world me off in a hurry. Do you feel like you have the kind of star KW: I learned that this had to be a launch and at any point in time, two or three shows power you had for Live 8? of a bigger long -term change. We needed will be running at the same time over a 24- So can you be a little more vague about that' KW: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. the NGOs [nongovernmental organizations] hour period. All of that will be put into a Blot al AG: [Laughs] Well, I don't intend to be a to be with us over the next several years. On high -def feed, a global TV feed and a global candidate again, this is a different kind o` Where will you be on July 7? Live 8, we really had all the NGOs, the char- radio feed, live as we're doing it. Ther_ we'll campaign. .. AG: I haven't decided yet.

That's a tough call, I guess. AG: Kevin and I have talked about it from time World Pa Supersta to time. I'm going to be wherever I can co the acts gore's invite to live earth most good and add the most value. accept When Al Gore asks you to play Live Earth, you say yes. So the music community has em3raced Hence, the star -studded lineup for the New York -area and this in a big way? London editions of the event, which will featurethe Police, KW: Huge. And we're going to announce five Smashing Pumpkins, Madonna, Genesis, the Beastie Boys, major sponsors who are doing messaging fcr the and dozens more. the next two years. We have a mass -ve deal "I recruited the Red Hot Chili Peppers -they blc me yes with a soft drink company that is going to be when they came ons:age at the Grammys," Gore says. "I've giving 2 billion of their cans for messaging, talked to a lot of them, and I haven't gotten to -ned down it's a huge recycling program. We lave an yet." At Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.,the bill will E auto company that's not only introCucing a be rounded out by , Bon Jovi and Fall Out Boy, MIK6D4 of the` fuel -efficient car, they're buying [emissions - while at London's Wembley Stadium, Duran Durai, Snow Pa- -0-- BEASTIE BOYS reducing] carbon offsets globally fcr every- trol and Keane are also confirmed. -Jcnathaw Cohen

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www.americanradiohistory.com from »p31 Networks (Munich). Kessler says, "We help cus- tomers in their search for a suitable location, provide finance and funding programs and assist with staff recruiting and the establish- ment of contacts with key political and administrative bodies." The only major with headquarters in Berlin is Universal Music, which moved from Hamburg in 2002. It lost 40% of its staff in the process, with many unwilling to relocate. As a result, the company was forced to recruit locally and was thus able to capture the special atmosphere of the city very quickly. Universal's market share of Ger- man recorded -music sales has increased from 28.4% in 2002 to 33% in 2006. The company's A &R has a local focus too, with 24 Berlin acts on its roster, ranging from internationally successful hard rock Six Acts To Watch From The German Capital band and hip -hop act to dance specialist Paul Van Dyk and current Pan - European pop phenomenon Tokio Hotel. ne mark of a great international city is the variety and vitality of the Frank Briegmann, Universal Music Germany president /CEO since music it produces. By that measure, Berlin has reason to be proud. 2004, considers the multicultural scene as offering the perfect base for finding German repertoire. "Berlin is definitely the leading Ger- This sample of just six Berlin acts, chosen by Billboard correspon- man music center and where the key trends are forged," he says. dent Wolfgang Spahr, highlights the diversity of styles on the city's music Alongside Universal, Sony BMG and EMI have smaller offices scene and the impact of its artists beyond their native market. in Berlin. They are joined by such independent labels as !K7, Bun- galow, Jack White Productions, Kitty-Yo and Ministry of Sound. "The main reason for the success of Berlin musicians is the con- JOY DENALANE DIE ARZTE sistently creative environment," says Stefanie Marcus, managing di- Six years after entering the music business and This hard -rocking punk band has been a near-per- 1 rector of Berlin's Traumton Records, which features Berlin acts, from after huge German success, Afro- German soul manent resident on the Ge:man charts since its band Beat 'N Blow to jazz threesome the Carsten Daerr Trio. singer Joy Denalane is going international with breakthrough in the '80s. According to its label, Hot IFPI Germany also moved to Berlin in 2003. President Michael her English -language album "Born & Raised" Action Records (distributed by Universal), Die Ärzte Haentjes, also CEO of Edel Music, says, "We have to be where the (Nesola /Four Music /Sony BMG). Released in Ger- has career sales of 13 million albums, with its lat- laws of the future are being written." Berlin was made the capital of many, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, Holland, est album "Bäst of Die Ärzte going straigh: to No. the reunited Germany in 1991 and the German parliament, the , South Africa, Japan and Greece last year, 2 in Germany, and staying in the charts for 20 weeks. Bundestag, moved there in 1999. France, , Norway, Eastern Europe, Fin- The band tours regularly across Europe, South Amer- Berlin is also one of Europe's dance centers, with a multifaceted land and Denmark followed suit in March. Hartwig ica and Japan and has become strongly linked with club culture focusing on techno, electro and hip -hop. Olaf Masuch, Berlin -based managing director of her Germany's anti -fascist movement, although band Kretschmar, manager of Oxymoron, one of 250 clubs in publisher BMG Music Publishing, says, "Joy De- member Bela B stresses they' fe not too serious. "We the city, says, "The music city reinvents itself each day," nalane is the queen of soul and hip -hop and will do Funk as fun party music, wit-i absurd topi :s such he says. "The clubs are homes away from home for soon have an international presence in the charts as e'ccessive alcohol consum?t'on or cynical- ironic an urban scene aged between 18 and 40." with this great album." social criticism," he says. Wolf says the Berlin music industry gener- continu,,d on »p34 ated 1.5 billion ($1.98 billion) in revenue in 2006, a 72% increase since 1998. The music industry -including record companies, pub- lishers, studios, concert promoters and music retailers -employs more than 6,200 people. Between 1991 and 2004, the Berlin govern- ment provided investment grants in excess of 20 million ($26.4 million) to encourage the establishment of new music companies. "With its above -average growth potential, the music in- dustry is one of the top sectors of the future for Berlin," Wolf says. Berlin hosts more than 100 music publishers, from BMG, Universal and Sony ATV, to midsize operators like Budde, Meisel and Bosworth Publishing. The concert scene in Berlin is one of the most diverse in Europe, notes Peter Schwenkow, Berlin -based president /CEO of top German promoter DEAG AG, which claims to account for 30% of the revenue by live in generated music JOY Berlin. He says that up to DENALANE 2,000 pop concerts are of- fered each year and, while ticket prices are 10% below nationwide levels, the city re- mains a key stop for top international stars. Berlin has more than 250 venues, from small, 300 -capacity clubs like Knaack -Club and Volksbühne to arenas like Wuhlheide (18,000 people) and Waldbühne (22,000). Encouraged by such diversity, U.S. com- pany Anschutz Entertainment Group is investing 500 million ($659 million) in a new 16,000 -seat auditorium to be known as 02 -World when it opens in September. AEG will co- manage the venue with DEAG. Berlin mayor sums up the city's unique appeal. "With its energy, vibrancy and flair, Berlin attracts young and creative minds from around the globe," he says. "Trends that orig- inate here end up traveling around the world, and the world in turn comes back to Berlin."

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Bittner attributes Popkomm's continued success to its strong international outlook, the enormous appeal of Berlin as a venue following German reunification and the decision to focus on trade visitors. Twenty -six nations took their own "country pavilions" in 2006, providing a platform for local companies. Italy, Croa- tia, Latvia, Lithuania, Scotland and Slovenia all took their first pavilions last year, with following the likes of France and as the trade fair's partner country. "The Brazilian companies were able to generate considerable business at Popkomm last year," says Michel Nicolau, coordinator of the Música do Brasil export office. The trade booths covered a floor area of more than 52,800 MAX RAABE square feet. Bittner says, "Seventy -two percent With his nostalgic '20s swing sound, Max Raabe has had major of the exhibitors and 41% of the [individual] success in Germany with his Palast Orchester since 1986, but trade visitors reported that they had new has also made inroads internationally, with rapturously re- business in 2006." ceived concerts in New York (where he sold out Carnegie Hall), Philippa McEvoy is an international Shanghai, Tokyo, Paris, Moscow, Rome and Los Angeles. "Ini- strategy manager of music and pub- tially the [American] fans were emigrants from Germany who lishing with the creative and media had had to leave their home country under the Nazis and re- exports unit of the United King- lived old memories in New York," Raabe says. "But today, dom's London -based economic de- when we appear in the U.S., our fans are ordinary Ameri- velopment agency, U.K. Trade & In- cans." Latest album "Komm, Lass Uns Einen Kleinen Rumba vestment. "It's possible to gain an Tanzen" (WSM /Warner Music) was released in Germany, excellent overview of the global mar- Switzerland, Austria and Hungary last year, with a Japanese ketplace here," McEvoy says, "some- release scheduled for April. thing which explains the high share of new U.K. exhibitors." TOKIO HOTEL The majors in Germany also recognize Popkomm's This boy band is one of the most successful German -language European chart performance in the coming years," says Wal- promotional power. Hamburg -based Warner Music Group, Berlin - acts of recent years, with four No. 1 singles in Germany, Aus- ter Holzbaur, managing director of Wintrup, the band's pub- based Universal Music and Munich -based Sony BMG all use Pop - tria and Poland. Since 2005, Tokio Hotel has sold more than lisher. The act has already recorded Japanese and French komm as a venue for international meetings. Last year, WMG in- 2 million albums in Germany, Switzerland and Austria corn - versions of its songs, played two sold -out shows last year at vited retailers and distributors to product presentationsfeaturing bined, and became the first German -language act to make the Garage in London and has a new album slated for release such acts as James Blunt, Melanie C, My Chemical Romance and the French top 20 with its debut album "Schrei" (Universal). in May. Pat Metheny. Warner Music Germany/Switzerland /Austria chair- The follow-up, "Zimmer 483," was released in February and man /CEO Bernd Dopp says, "Ninety -eight percent of the retail- has sold more than 700,000 units across Germany, Switzer- SEEED ers of relevance for us accepted our invitation." land and Austria in its first eight weeks, according to the label. This 11- member- strong reggae band was founded in 1998 Universal Music Germany president/CEO Frank Briegmann Tom Bohne, managing director of Universal's domestic de- and owes its breakthrough to Berlin: Its first hit, "Dickes B," says, "Popkomm has further reinforced its reputation as a top - partment in Berlin, says, "Tokio Hotel is a German phenom- was a declaration of love for the German capital. Since then, class international communications platform for the music and enon and will conquer Europe after the big success in France." Seeed has become a regular on the German charts, picking entertainment industry." Plans are now afoot for the band to record in English, although up four consecutive gold records (100,000 units) and three Independent labels are also well- represented. "Small and in- Bohne says no timetable has yet been decided. Echo Awards along the way. The band performed at the open- dependent companies account for the largest shares of Pop - ing ceremony of the 2006 soccer World Cup in Munich, ap- komm exhibitors," Bittner says. WIR SIND HELDEN pearing in front of a worldwide TV audience of 1.4 billion. For the first time, Popkomm 2007 will host a business forum Now one of the most successful German groups, Wir Sind Seeed has also toured Africa, regularly records English ver- for the live entertainment industry, while the Popkomm pro- Helden (We Are Heroes) was named after David Bowie's hom- sions of its songs and even gained a hit single, "Water - gram of evening live events has also continued to thrive. In 2006, age to Berlin, "Heroes." Its first two albums, "Die Reklama- pumpee," in 2002 in Jamaica. But bassist Tobsen Cordes says more than 2,000 artists from all over the world appeared, pro- tion" and "Von Hier An Blind" (EMI), are both certified Seeed will remain true to its roots. 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Though retail sales in the Christian /gospel music industry rose last year while other genres declined, industry leaders know the faith -based music market is not immune to the problems plaguing their mainstream counterparts. As the prepares LARRY BLACKWELL demand for concerts is up, but it is incumbent upon the con- community EMI Gospel VP/GM cert promoter and artist to do all they can to utilize true grass- to convene April 21 -25 Most pressing issue: "The continual process of understanding roots marketing efforts to turn out a crowd. in Nashville for the the consumer. Consumer is king. As sales of physical CDs continue "One pragmatic challenge that faces CCM [contemporary to slide, labels and retailers are challenged to address reality. Our Christian music] oriented tours is that the concert ticket price Gospel Music Assn.'s music is available in the digital space, but the economics have yet lags way behind a similar tour in any other genre of music. How- annual GMA Music to level physical erosion. ever, the costs for touring and promoting is virtually the same, Week and Dove "People still love great music and are willing to pay for it. In thereby giving CCM promoters far less gross income to work this ever -changing environment we have to meet them where they with than their secular counterparts. If a quality CCM show Awards, Billboard live -tap into focus groups, talk to the churches, ask your kids, plays in a theater or arena, there should be a corresponding abil- asked several industry ask yourself, hang out online. We must stay in tune with how con- ity to have a ticket price that will cover the overhead. The CCM leaders to share their sumers find out about our artists, their ministry and their music. consumer will pay the same rate for a CCM CD as for any sec- It's easy to say, 'Make better music,' and I believe we are, but we ular CD but typically expects to see the CCM concert at 50% thoughts on the most and the artists must maximize their likeability factor directly with lower ticket prices, even in the same arena or theater." pressing issue facing the consumer. 'American Idol' has proven repeatedly the fans love Artist to watch: "Outside of the U.S.A. many of our Christian /gospel their idols and prove it by voting and purchasing product." Christian /gospel artists are viewed as simply great live artists Artist to watch: " -I call him 'the pied piper.' His and not given 'second -class citizen' status as they often are here music in 2007. We also message is universal, and his energy should be felt globally." in the U.S.A. Though they are our artists, I must say that News- asked them to identify boys continue to tour dozens of shows internationally each year. CHARLES DORRIS They have recently toured China, played a rock festival in an act (in whom they William Morris Agency senior VP Jerusalem and heavily tour Europe annually, as well as perform- do not have a business Most pressing issue: "As more and more artists tour each year, ing annually in Australia!New Zealand. interest) that should the impact of any individual show or tour can become diluted. "[Also], in the last three years Michael W. Smith has focused Fifteen years ago it was news if a Christian show was coming to heavily on building his fan base in Europe via touring. This is now garner wider attention town. Now, however, there are 50 -100 advertised, ticketed Chris- paying off handsomely, as he can sell thousands of concert tick- in the year ahead. tian /gospel shows in most major cities on an annual basis. The ets in many major European cities." continued on »p38

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And since most radio , Brian Littrell and Donnie McClurkin lifts interest and sales of existing artists and catalog. airplay is on noncommercial stations, collections from the [per- will host the 38th annual awards presentation "We need to open up new radio formats so that we can impact forming rights organizations] on behalf of songwriters and pub- April 25 at Nashville's House. a broader audience in terms of demographic, geographic and so- lishers are dramatically less than other genres. Part of the GMA's leads the field of nominees with ciographic profile. It's very difficult to break through when we role as the industry's trade association is to do all we can to miti- nods in nine categories, including male vocalist are essentially a single format, with so much trying to get through gate these issues on behalf of our 4,000 members." and artist of the year. earned six nom- the pipeline." Artist to watch: "It would be inappropriate for GMA to corn - inations, among them group and artist of the year. Artist to watch: "I think we could see a major movement glob- ment on this." received five nominations, as ally in the worship category. Chris Tomlin is the artist, outside did newcomer Aaron Shust. , Stel- of our business realm, who I believe could be a part of leading MICHAEL TURNER lar Kart, Houghton and Leeland each re- this. Worship has become more of a mainstream CCM thing in Daywind Music Group director of marketing and promotions ceived four nominations. the U.S., but it is also the universal sound of Christian music, Most pressing issue: "Even though it's been said a thousand "This year's nominees reflect a continuing more readily accepted around the world." times, you've got to think out of the box. You never want to lose 'changing of the guard,' " GMA president John your core audience, but you have to use different avenues to Styli says. "Fewer and fewer 'legacy' SUSAN RILEY reach that audience. Expand your market through radio, artists are receiving nominations as Word Entertainment senior VP of A &R and publishing Internet and other media outlets. a new generation of artists has Most pressing issue: "As cliché as it sounds, the most pressing "For example, at Daywind we have two new groups, quickly leaped to the forefront. issue that demands attention is still figuring out how to get our Austin's Bridge and Hope's Call, and with these groups, We plan to produce a show artists paid for their music. Along with that, for us as a label to we are releasing radio singles to different formats. that will reflect the amazing continue to think creatively on how to adjust the business model Just recently we have had feature articles in Country talent and diversity that exists as the times change." Weekly on two other artists, Kenny Bishop and Bar- in the Christian /gospel music Artist to watch: "Among the artists that we don't currently work bara Fairchild. community." with, I personally think Ayiesha Woods deserves more attention "Do not be afraid to try new things. You never know. The seven acts competing in in 2007. She seems to have the whole package as a Christian artist." There is no formula to selling music. Take that freedom the artist of the year category re- and go with it. The three fundamentals to successful market- flect the industry's diversity. Nomi- JOHN STYLL ing are being first, best or different. Being first has been done. nees range from the Southern gospel com- Gospel Music Assn. president Being the best is a matter of opinion. But being different can be munity's Crabb Family to rockers like Third Most pressing issue: "The Christian /gospel industry faces is- reinvented time and time again." Day and Jars of Clay to worship leader Tom- sues that are similar to the rest of the industry: the changing busi- Artist to watch: "Everlife. They never changed their values, be- lin. Casting Crowns, tobyMac and ness model at the labels, effectively monetizing the digital sector, liefs or music: They just tried different paths that have taken round out the category. them to a whole new level." Produced by Steve Gilreath Television, the Doves will air in syndication during May. Central CINDY WILT City Productions of Chicago is handling first -run True Artist Management; manages syndication. Chicago, Philadelphia, San Fran- Most pressing issue: "Even with all the changes in technology, I be- cisco, Atlanta, Cleveland, New Orleans, Nashville lieve that content, the song, still drives people to buy. So my opinion and Washington, D.C., are among the cities that is that artist and writer development needs to be the pressing agenda have already signed on to broadcast the awards. for 2007. Following syndication, the Gospel Music Channel "This process often takes more time than record -release sched- will host the show's cable premiere. ules allow. The challenge is even greater as younger artists are being -Deborah Evans Price signed who don't have the life experience to draw inspiration from, and yet often their message must resonate with audiences well be- yond their years. A greater focus on creative development will hope- fully result in increased sales and artist longevity." Artist to watch: "On a road trip with my teenage nieces I first heard Leeland's 'Sound of Melodies.' We listened to the CD over and over. Song after song brought me to a place of worship that no other music had done in a long time. I took my nieces to see Leeland play a youth conference, and they loved seeing their peers onstage sharing their journey of faith. Leeland has a mes- sage that transcends their peer group, which I attribute in part to their years of artist development. 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NASHVILLE -For the last few months, there's been a buzz around Music Row that Bon Jovi s next album would be a coun- try record. Some folks were skeptical and others ready to cele- brate. After all, Bon Jovi made history last year when "Who Says You Can't Go Home" with Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles soared to No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart, making them the first non -country act to hit that summit in decades. Will history repeat itself? The new single, `Make a Memory," which previews the band's June 19 Island /Mercury Nashville release "Lost Highway," debuted at No. 39 and was the Hot Shot Debut on Hot Country Songs in the April 7 issue. It was also re- leased to adult top 40 and will later go to mainstream top 40. have expected them to run me out of Dodge." which is featured in the John Travolta motorcycle comedy "Wild The week of March 19, there were 185,000 streams of the sin- Bon Jovi has been visiting Nashville regularly since in 1991 Hogs." "We Got It Going On" is a duet with Big & Rich :hat is gle from the band's Web site. There's obviously a lot of interest and says the city's creative community inspires him. "If you serving as the theme song for the Arena Football League season in the band's latest artistic direction, yet Jon Bon Jovi is quick to would have asked me at the end of the tour last August to do a on ESPN, while the catchy "I Love This Town" celebrates the clarify that "Lost Highway" is not a country album but a "Bon record in September, I would have said, 'Not for all the tea in frontman's enthusiasm for Nashville. Jovi record influenced by Nashville." China. I don't have anything to say,' " he says. "I didn't like what "A lot of the songs on this record fit our format," Universal "History has proven that country radio is loyal to artists who I heard on the top 40. I had nothing in common with any of that Music Group Nashville chairman Luke Lewis says of the album, have success and stay with them," president /Is- stuff. But when I listened to Keith Urban, Gary Allen and Big & which will be worked by Universal's Nashville and New York of- land DefJam Music Group COO Steve Bartels says. "To have last Rich, I heard the same kind of stories I'd been writing for 25 fices. "There's no question that a lot of the country audience coun- year's historic No. 1 was an amazing achievement, however, Jon years. I thought, 'I get it: Write a record, go back to your story- grew up on Bon Jovi. It feels like a pretty natural fit. If the and the band have shown that they had no intention of that being telling days and say something about yourself.' " try audience is leaning towards females in [the] 25 -54 [age bracket], a one -off. The song is already off to a solid start at the format." As a result, much of "Lost Highway" reflects some of the tur- there's a whole lot of them that grew up on Bon Jovi music." Six of the tracks were produced by John Shanks, and six by moil band members were facing. "I was watching my friend Island DefJam senior VP of marketing Adam Lowenberg says Nashville's Dann Huff, known for his work with Rascal Flatts going through a very painful divorce and his father had stage the new album's visibility will be boosted by key TV appearances: and Keith Urban. Bon Jovi also tapped further into the Nashville four cancer," Bon Jovi says of guitarist /songwriting partner April 16 in Nashville at the CMT Awards, May 1 on "American creative community, co- writing with Hillary Lindsey, Gordie Richie Sambora. "We were dealing with a lot. Dave [Bryan], my Idol" and June 19 on "Today." Bon Jovi says there are also plans Sampson and Brett James and recording duets with Big & Rich keyboard player, was going through a terrible divorce at the same for the band to tape an "MTV Unplugged" that will air simulta- and LeAnn Rimes. The result is a collection of songs that strike time. So it was all around me. That's how I got the idea for "Whole neously on CMT, MTV and VH1. a perfect balance -rock enough to appeal to longtime Bon Jovi Lot of Leavin'." Though there aren't any plans for a major tour. Bon Jovi says fans, yet with a Nashville flavor that should satisfy country fans "Until We're Not Strangers" is a sultry duet with Rimes. "I the band will play select dates, among them the Frontier Days who loved "Who Says You Can't Go Home." wanted somebody with a strong voice who could pull it off dra- festival in Cheyenne, Wyo., and the new 02 arena in London. "The line is so blurred between new country and [adult matically because I knew it was a dramatic lyric," Bon Jovi says. Already, Bon Jovi served as keynote speaker for this year's top 40], it wasn't a difficult leap," Bon Jovi says. "We had to "I didn't want a young girl that couldn't provide the sexuality in Country Radio Seminar in Nashville and the band played a just make sure we weren't patronizing the true country for- the lyric. She has seasoned voice. She may be a young woman, special show to give country programmers a taste of the new mat. Could you have imagined me walking into an award but she's been around for a long time and she knows how to music. "We're very respectful of it," Bon Jovi says of the coun- show where 15 or 25 other artists are and saying, 'Howdy, translate a lyric." try format. "All I can ask for is, 'Give us a chance and don't " y'all,' with straw in my teeth and a cowboy hat on? I would Among the more upbeat fare on the record is the title track, judge the book by its cover.'

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www.americanradiohistory.com I3eatbox » >`DADDY' KERRI MASON kmason @billboard.com KNOWS BEST Country superstar Toby Keith will release his second album for his own Show Dog Nashville Diamonds label, "Big Dog Daddy," June 12. First single "High Maintenance Woman" is already No. 8 Are Forever on Billboard's Hot Dance Tour's Unlikely Country Songs chart. In a first, Keith produced Pairing Hits The Right Notes "Big Dog Daddy" himself. The album will It was an unlikely pairing, but But that's precisely what "For us, jazz and Latin and city, those guys were actually funky) and indie act Hot Chip include such songs as it won the support of an un- Urge, MTV's young download electronic are as important as on the back of the bus ?' " (mod, pianoless and pared - "Love Me If You Can," likely new dance music ally. service and an official Dia- rock, pop and hip -hop. We're Urge will continue to back down). In the United King- "Get My Drink On" the DJ John Digweed and pro- monds sponsor, liked about showing love to a genre that's dance events, including an dom, Steve Mac of produc- title cut and the Fred duction /performance duo it. "There are not a lot of tours not in a sweet spot of what upcoming performance by tion team Rhythm Masters Eaglesmith- penned Mstrkrft hit the road together that hit relatively big venues music services usually do." U.K. rave band Klaxons. The turned in a fittingly dark re- "White Rose." in March for a 19 -city North in this genre," says Michael With Urge's media and service also has exclusive dig- vamp of the album's title >NEW American tour. For insiders, it Bloom, VP of digital music for monetary support, Diamonds ital distribution deals with Ed track that's already being » made sense. NATASHA They're both MTV Networks' Music Group kicked off March 1 in Portland, Banger and Carl Craig's trumpeted by tastemaking U.K. pop vocalist booked by New York-based and Urge GM. "Plus, these two Ore., and finished March 31 at Planet E, two tiny hipster - BBC radio DJ Pete Tong. It's Natasha Bedingfield will agency TCA. artists really hit two different New York's Pacha. And ac- favorite electronic labels. aggressive, club -ready and return in August with But for fans, the combo audiences." cording to Keeler, the cou- ready for release in America. her second Epic album, was a bit odd. Digweed is a True, if you're a subcate- pling wasn't so odd after all. WINEHOUSE, DANCEFLOOR: And at designer Patricia "N.B." The set, due April traditional DJ who pioneered gory- obsessed true electronic " Digweed played way harder She's an unlikely disco diva, Field's February birthday 16 internationally, is led the progressive house sound; believer, not a wide -scope po- than any of us expected," he but newcomer Amy Wine - bash at New York club Cielo, by first single "I Wanna Mstrkrft makes punky electro tential iTunes competitor. But says. "He made me a CD- house has already captivated JoJo America of the Ones Have Your Babies." with a cheeky hip -hop aes- Urge would like to think it fits `Some tracks I thought you the dance world with her Among the album's (the trio that cracked the Hot thetic. Leader Jesse F. Keeler both classifications. "We've might like, Jesse' the honeyed rasp contributors are -and and down -in -it Dance Club Play top five in (who also fronted indie a producer Mike Elizondo, band got lot of fantastic brands last track was by Guns `N' lyrics. "Rehab," off her uni- 2002 with "Flawless ") per- Maroon5 vocalist Adam Death From Above 1979) across MTV, but we decided to Bombs [a hard -tech Los An- versally lauded stateside formed "Rehab" in drag for Levine (on "Say It even named the tour Dia- launch a new parent brand that geles duo whose MySpace debut "Back to Black" (Uni- Field and her fabulous follow- Again "), rapper Eve (on monds '07, and picked a could carry the demo load of a tag line is "all bangers, no versal Republic), got subtle ers. With such a tribute, can "No More What Ifs ") and growling, bling- grilled mouth broader sweep and could mash "]. I said to him, Did you remixes from Desert Eagle iconic dance status for Wine - such producers as Nate as its logo. cross all genres," Bloom says. know when we were in this (uptempo, shuffling and house be far behind? .. "Danja" Hills ( "Not Giving Up ").

»>IT'S SO `EASY' DANCE BY KERRI MASON Veteran trio Buffalo Tom will break a nine -year hiatus from the studio with the July 10 release of "Three Easy Trance DJ Pieces." The 13- Branches Out track set will be released Tiesto Building Diverse Audience With New Ultra Album on Danny Goldberg's new label, Ammal, A wax statue at Madame Tussaud's. A a gangly teenager, is breaking the usual approached us." live Tiesto experience, which is "like through New West. It's memorabilia case at the Hard Rock rules of dance music, which dictate ob- The partnership included a Vista ap- being hit with a steamroller," Moxey also Buffalo Tom's first Hotel in Las Vegas. Playing for a crowd scurity at the worst a new album since 1998's and career spent plication built especially for Tiesto, says. "It puts you into a zone and takes "Smitten." of 200,000 on a beach in Brazil. Closing bubbling just beneath the mainstream which was downloaded from his Web you to another place." this year's Coachella festival after the surface at the best. Because in addition site more than a thousand times a day With polished collaborators, simple »CLASSICAL Red Hot Chili Peppers. Selling out two to moving units, packing venues and during its first week of availability. A but hooky melodies and velvety synth JAZZ 25,000 -ticket Amsterdam shows in less maintaining fan loyalty, he's become a Tiesto toolbar of sorts, the plug -in al- sounds, "Elements" is like a rock opera Wilco drummer Glenn than two hours. sellable commodity. The trance DJ has lows fans to keep up with the DJ in real - without guitars. There are pretty pop Kotche has completed It sounds like the résumé ofa classic his own line of Reebok RBK shoes and time and get live alerts on gigs, moments ( "Everything" featuring Mo- "Anomaly," a 23- minute rock band or a red -hot pop star. But it was recently tapped by Microsoft to launch appearances and new music. Tiesto in- torcycle singer Jes), freight train instru- piece for the Kronos actually belongs to a DJ /producer: Dutch its new Vista operating system for the troduced the application at the Jan. 29 mentals ( "Carpe Noctum "), quirky Quartet that will phenomenon Tiesto. Dutch market, placing him on par with Vista launch event in Amsterdam. ballads ( "In the Dark") and emotive cries premiere in October in The 38- year -old, who looks more like Robbie Williams, who performed a sim- ( San Francisco. The While Tiesto is at his biggest outside for help "Break My Fall" with popular seven -movement ilar duty in the United Kingdom. America, he's still the most successful producer and underrated singer BT on composition came to life "I think my music is accessible to all dance artist in the United States. "I vocals), all of which could find favor with when Kronos member kinds of music lovers," the personable think his music is almost hypnotic," nondance fans. David Harrington jock says. "It's easy to blend into all kinds says Patrick Moxey, president of Tiësto's Which is, of course, the goal. "Elec- approached Kotche of events, and I flirt with different styles, U.S. label, Ultra Records. "He strikes a tronic music isn't that big yet in after the 2006 release such as rock and classical." chord with middle America, college kids America," Verschueren says with a sense the latest of latter's solo It's that accessibility and willingness and frat boys, as well as the usual urban of inevitability. "It's hard for a DJ to break album, "Mobile." "I to shape -shift that has won Tiesto fans cool clubgoer." ground and become familiar in the really dug in and spent a worldwide and that call from Microsoft. His last three full -length releases mainstream music circuit." lot of time, because I've "Since music is an important feature of cracked the -unit never written outside of 70,000 mark, and 2003 But if anyone can do it, it's Tiesto. percussion before," Vista, Microsoft was looking for a Dutch double -CD compilation "Nyana" (Nett- "1 don't think [other dance artists] Kotche says. artist with international status to launch werk) recently hit 87,000, according to music grabs quite like Tiesto's does," it in the ," says Maurice Ver- Nielsen SoundScan. Moxey says. "There's something schueren of Prime Time Management, The new "Elements of Life," out April about him that inspires people to buy Written by Jonathan Cohen. who represents Tiesto globally. "They 10 via Ultra, captures the drama of the his albums." .

www.americanradiohistory.com BY GARY GRAFF SUNNY 'WEATHER' TOM FERGUSON [email protected] Fountains Of Wayne Follows Breakthrough Hit With Hook -Heavy New Disc Superstar Friends

Thanks to "Stacy's Mom," Fountains of Wayne fic and Weather" promotions to the Hugh had it goin' on in 2003 and 2004. Grant /Drew Barrymore film "Music and Bring Bosé That's still the case in 2007, as the New York - Lyrics," for which Schlesinger wrote and pro- based group's fifth album, "Traffic and duced three songs. A video for the first single, Weather" (Virgin), debuts at No. 97 this week "Someone to Love," is being shot this month. Breakthrough on The Billboard 200. The group begins a slate of shows this month, We don't really think about that too much," which will include performances at the Veteran Spanish Artist Gets Lift From Stipe, says , who formed Fountains Coachella and Bonnaroo festivals. In addition, in Europe and the U.S." of Wayne in 1996 with former college classmate the band will perform April 20 at the Apple re- Warner Music Spain international exploitation ing to do something will initially focus . "Obviously whenever you're tail store in New York's SoHo district, which manager Adriana González reckons Miguel Lascelles says marketing /word -of- mouth, before signed to a major label, they're hoping you can will be filmed, recorded and distributed. Bosé's long-awaited U.S. breakthrough album on press positioning in. will be for this give them something they're going to make "I think this is going to keep us pretty busy is "possibly the most ambitious project iin the live work kicks "It difficult without putting together a some money off of. for a while," says Schlesinger, who produced history of Spanish music." record to work live Adams "But we just approached it the same way that "" after releasing an album The album is "Papito," on which the Warner/ big production," he says. -Steve we always have, which is trying to write stuff with his first band, Ivy, and producing Big City Chappell-published singer/songwriter reworks internation- we like. That's really all you can do." Rock's self-titled debut. highlights from his 30 -year recording career as ILLEGAL SMILE: Universal labels The success of the cheery and cheeky Schlesinger and Collingwood began work- duets with 15 fellow Latin artists plus R.E.M.'s ally are lining up to release Belgian jazz pianist "Stacy's Mom" certainly hangs over "Traffic ing on new songs in December 2005 and spent Michael Stipe. Jef Neve's major label debut. and Weather," however. The song, from the most of the first half of 2006 recording "Traffic The Spanish -language set appeared March band's "Welcome Interstate Managers" album, and Weather." "Rather than just blocking out 20 in Spain, followed by a March 21 U.S. /Latin- soared high on the top 40 and adult top 40 a couple months to make a record, we do it in American release. It shot to No. 6 on Billboard's charts, peaking at No. 21 on The Billboard Hot little spurts and work on a couple songs at a Top Latin Albums chart, entering at No. 1 on 100. It also led to two Grammy Award nomi- time," Schlesinger says. "That way it maybe Spain's Media Control chart and Mexico's Am- nations- including an inexplicable best new doesn't seem so daunting." profon sales listing. artist nod. The album's 14 songs maintain the polished, Gonzalez says Bosé travelled 50,000 miles Capitol Records Group senior VP of market- hook -heavy songcraft of its predecessors, with while recording "Papito" in four countries with ing Amani Duncan says the band and Virgin plenty of humor, pop culture references and a partners including Shakira, , Laura realize it will be hard to repeat the unexpected loose theme of travel and transportation-re - Pausini and Alejandro Sanz. breakthrough. flected by such song titles as " '92 Subaru," In Spain Bosé is regularly compared to "They superseded their core with that "Michael and Heather at the Baggage Claim," David Bowie -albeit more because of a sexu- record," Duncan says. "You can't assume that "I -95" and "Seatbacks and Tray Tables." "Traf- ally ambiguous image than because of any audience will still be there. The consumer is a fic and Weather" features guest appearances shared musical style. very fickle person, especially in this climate by former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James He begins a Spanish tour May 5, running today. There are no guarantees." Iha (Schlesinger's partner in a New York record- through September. The singer's international With that in mind, Duncan says Virgin plans ing studio), former Hole and Smashing Pump- booking agent Sebastian Ducamp at Madrid - to superserve the band's fan base but not nec- kins bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur and the based management /booking firm RLM says well - essarily give up the "Stacy's Mom" converts. Candy Butchers' Mike Viola. Latin America and U.S. dates wall follow in Oc- "The album has been extremely managing The label is using the song to open TV com- "We wanted to keep it focused on the sound tober. Ducamp declares himself "thrilled at received," Universal Music Belgium mercials advertising "Traffic and Weather" as of a band sort of playing together" Schlesinger this breakthrough in the U.S., after many years director Dirk De Clippeleir says, "even in coun- where, Belgian artists are a way to hook fans' attention for the new music. says. "I think [guitarist] Jody [Porter's] and of success in Mexico and elsewhere." tries traditionally, The TV ads will air on a broad spectrum of [drummer] Brian [Young's] contributions on -Howell Llewellyn hard to release. That's exceptional." outlets, ranging from MTV and VH1 to Bravo, this album are really important. When we The 30- year -old musician's trio attracted acclaim Spike TV, Fuse and even network daytime started, it was just a duo. But now that we've all KITE FLIES: It was déjà vu last year when Scot- domestic and international critical for Belgian independent Con- schedules. Duncan says the label will also de- been playing together for 10 years, I think the tish singer/songwriter Steven Lindsay signed with two albums ploy an intensive Internet campaign, with ag- sound of the band has increasingly become de- to Chrysalis Group's Echo imprint. Handing tour, "Blue Saga "(2003) and "It's Gone" gressive bannering on appropriate sites and fined by all four of us, which has been a really him the pen was Chrysalis Music CEO Jeremy (2004). Universal released third album "No- third -party marketing. The label is tying in "Traf- nice part of our evolution." Lascelles -who 20 years earlier gave (Lindsay's body Is Illegal" last November in Belgium. It former band the Big Dish its first record deal. has shipped more than 4,000 units domesti- the 1,500 ex- FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE Back then, Lascelles was Virgin's U.K. A &R cally, the label says, well above manager, although the rock /pop bard's only pected for leading jazz titles. The set also spent U.K. success came after moving to East West 11 weeks on Flanders' chart. for its top 50 third album, "Satellites" (1991). A March 19 U.K. release preceded the al- Shortly after, the band broke up. Frontman bum's appearance April 10 in Canada. A U.S. re- Lindsay performed only sporadically for the lease is planned for May 15 and De Clippeleir next decade but returned in 2005 with his solo says a total of 14 international affiliates are is- debut, "Exit Music," on indie Seminal ,Records, suing the album. drawing glowing U.K. press reviews. He suggests that Neve's musical skills and "I've known Steven for a long time, but hadn't winning personality helped swing those heard anything from him until 'Exit Music,' " commitments. Lascelles says. "I loved it and immediately got "We never planned to sign a jazz artist in in contact to sign his publishing. When he Belgium," he says, "because we receive a

started on the follow -up, I signed him tor Echo." steady flow of Verve /Impulse releases -but New album "Kite" gets a U.K. release May [Neve] knows how to convey his message." 28, as does the lead single, a cover of the Pix- Neve wrote or co-wrote all of the album's ies'"Monkey Gone to Heaven" Internationally, 11 tracks, but is as yet self -published. He is Lascelles says he wants "to buüld the story coun- booked and managed by Brussels -based try by country. Over the summer, l'III be look- Jazztronaut. -Marc Maas

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www.americanradiohistory.com IRhythn & 13Iues GAIL MITCHELL with MELISSA ETHERIDGE gmitchell @billboard.com R&B Is In The `House' In- Demand Writer Launches Production Company

Having written for , reer -building slowly and credit on his own was Jennifer Faith Evans, Joe and Chris steadily into a force people Lopez's "Walking on Sun- Brown, among others, Ado- should keep their ears on. That shine," which resulted in his nis Shropshire finds himself MO echoes the progression of signing with Bad Boy. Other in the big house. Shropshire's frequent writing Shropshire credits include P.

Big House Entertainment, muse and mentor Bryan - Diddy ( "I Need a Girl, Parts that is. It's the moniker of the Michael Cox (Mary J. Blige's One and Two "), Beyoncé

songwriter /producer's Atlanta - "The Breakthrough "). ( "Summertime "), Usher ( "My

based production company. It's The pair's creative relation- Boo") and ( "And I "). also the home of Melrose, a fe- ship dates back to 1999, when Another Shropshire credit male R &B trio that Shropshire they collaborated on songs for is coming soon: LiI' Wayne is grooming. Though he says former Motown artist Latif. and with It has been quite a year for singer /songwriter Melissa Etheridge. At the behest of for- the group has a couple of of- Since 2004, the two have "Push." mer VP Al Gore, she wrote the song "I Need to Wake Up" for his film "An Inconvenient fers on the table, he and the racked up co- writing credits Shropshire is also eyeing Truth." At the time, Etheridge said she wrote the song with no other purpose than to ex- ladies, who hail from Atlanta, on albums by Brown, Danity more movie music projects, press her fear of and heartache about global warming -and how it does and will affect Los Angeles and Indiana, aren't Kane, Lloyd, Marques Hous- having worked on the sound- the earth. Her song has now become an anthem of change. Etheridge took home an ready to make a deal just yet. ton, Sammie and Nicole tracks to "The Fighting Temp- Academy Award for best original song in a motion picture, while "An Inconvenient "We're taking our time to Scherzinger from the Pussy- tations," "Step Up" and "Bad Truth" took top honors in the best documentary feature category. Come July 7, Etheridge make sure we do the best we cat Dolls. Futurewise, the Boys II." In the midst of will lend her voice to Live Earth, Gore's seven -continent concert to raise awareness for can," says Shropshire, who duo's docket lists Brown's up- recording with Brown, Shrop- what he has coined SOS, Save Our Selves: A Campaign for a Climate in Crisis. also goes by the handle A.D. coming sophomore set, Usher, shire and Cox did two songs Etheridge has also kept busy in her personal life. She and partner Tammy Lynne are "This will be the first act I put (with Teddy for "This Christmas." Due proud new parents of twins. In her spare time, Etheridge is putting the finishing touches out under my moniker. I don't Riley) and Celine Dion. later this year, the film fea- on her first studio album in three years, which is scheduled for a fourth -quarter re- want it to be wack." Shropshire, who grew up in tures Brown, Regina King lease. She hopes to tour next summer -yes, with the whole family in tow. Which is how Shropshire Chattanooga, Tenn., began and Mekhi Phifer. On April 18, Etheridge will be honored with the prestigious ASCAP Founders Award has been approaching his ca- writing at 15. His first formal Whatever the project, it's during the 24th annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Los Ange- les. The award ceremony is part of ASCAP's "I Create Music Week" to celebrate song- writers and music -makers. Other festivities surrounding this event include the 22nd annual ASCAP Film & Television Music Awards honoring composer Marc Shaiman, and R&B BY GAIL MITCHELL the second annual ASCAP "I Create Music" Expo, a three -day national conference ded- icated to songwriting and composing, at the Hollywood Renaissance Hotel. Etheridge recently caught up with Billboard to talk about her post -Oscar life. How has winning an Oscar affected your work? journey. When I was on chemotherapy, I TANK'S FOR I was recording my new album in between re- listened to all my albums back to back. It hearsing for the Oscars. So I would record for was therapy for me. I realized what I had seven hours, go and rehearse for the Oscars, been saying to myself in my music -the and then come back and record. When I won things that I would put down that I wouldn't LISTENING the Oscar, it was a huge honor. It was like a think consciously, but I would think sub- sign saying, "You're doing the right thing." consciously. When I started creating this New Hit Revives Interest Though it peaked at No. 4 on Top R &B /Hip- album I asked myself, "What [would hap- In R &B Artist Hop Albums and No. 20 on The Billboard 200, In the 1960s and early '70s, artists were not pen] if I create from a subconscious level sales fell off to 246,000 units. Tank's highest - afraid to speak their political mind in their consciously ?" There are very personal Shooting up out of nowhere, Tank's single ranking R &B single from that project was the music. Might this become the norm again? things on the album, including one of the "Please Don't Go" is his first major R &B hit in title track at No. 25. I think we are done making music just for greatest love songs I have ever written. six years. It's also shaping up to be the commerce sake. I think the days of bringing These songs are 100% truthful about me biggest single of his career. a consciousness back to the music business and how I am feeling. Needless to say, Tank is excited. On the is upon us now. phone from Atlanta during his run in the When did you start writing the songs? stage play "Men, Money and Gold Diggers," Did surviving breast cancer change your I started writing at the beginning of 2006. I he summed up his feelings in eight words, woridview? went out to Malibu [Calif.] with my band, and "I'm like a kid in a candy store." Yes. It's like I have nothing to lose, so why not we lived out there and recorded the album. Tank initially bulldozed his way into the R &B have amazing positive things to think? top 10 in 2001 with the sensual ballad "Maybe

What does the ASCAP Founders Award I Deserve." Peaking at No. 7 on the Hot How does the new album differ from mean to you? R &B /Hip -Hop Songs chart and No. 38 on The past releases? I have never had an honor like this where folks Billboard Hot 100, the song propelled Tank's It's the same as my other albums, in that get up and pay tribute. It makes me feel like first album, "Force of Nature," to a No.1 debut all my albums have been a biographical I'm old, but as long as everyone knows I'm at on Top R&B /Hip -Hop Albums. The set has sold stamp of my life at that time -my thoughts, a halfway point, then it's good. I have been on 775,000 units in the United States, according my memories, my hopes, dreams, plans and the other side. I have paid tribute to many to Nielsen SoundScan. pains in my life. Each album was a little artists, so it is a big honor. "One Man" arrived the following year.

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www.americanradiohistory.com Jazz Notes 1Ì DAN OUELLETTE [email protected] TheVaffitls Open Monterey Jazz Fest Launches Label With Vintage Live Sets

Kevin Harewood who by day Festivals are ripe venues for live recordings. recently by a digitizing project partially funded we real- heads the Brooklyn, N.Y. - Cases in point: Norman Granz's full slate of by the Grammy Foundation. "Once based production /marketing/ albums recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festi- ized what we had," Jackson says, "we wanted distribution company EDclec- val in 1977 and 1979 for his Pablo label, and to get it out to the public." TicEntertainment. Verve's series of Charlie Haden concerts at Monterey never intended to jump -start a the 1989 Montreal Jazz Festival. label on its own. "We know how to produce a BATTER UP: Can baseballer But in a recording industry first, the Mon- jazz festival, but not sell records," Jackson Jimmy Rollins duplicate his terey Jazz Festival in California -the setting says. Concord was approached because it's long- running hitting streak of such classics as John Handy's "Live at based on the West Coast and "because they're within the music arena? The Monterey" (1965) and Charles Lloyd's 'Tor- a very progressive label," he adds. Philadelphia Phillies shortstop est Flower" (1966) -has fashioned itself a label Jackson broached the topic with Concord is betting he can with the as well as a marquee event. For starters, the president /CEO Glen Barros while they served launch of Rollins Entertain- festival is excavating its 1,600 -hour tape on the Jazz Alliance International board. "Con- ment and the label Bay archives housed at Stanford University's cord's philosophy is to give consumers infi- Slugga's Inc. Braun Music Center to release historic live nite choices," Barros says. "If we do our job The label -a nod to Rollins' concerts. To complement the old, Monterey right, we'll make Monterey, which has a hip Oakland, Calif., roots-is also Jazz Festival Records will also record new fes- factor, known around the globe. This imprint in partnership with Bigg tival- spawned projects. gives us a new opportunity to make jazz work Swoop and Bright Riley of Eye- Under the ever -expanding Concord Music in this changing industry." con Music Group and will be Group umbrella, MJFR will roll out ils debut Jason Olaine, director of A &R at Verve all about connecting for urban adult soul arsenal. distributed by Universal Music five -CD batch July 31: Louis Armstrong & from 1999 to 2004, is MJFR's GM. He calls releases as well as Shropshire. "What I love Designed to strengthen the Group via Fontana /Eyecon. His All -Stars (recorded in '5g), Miles Davis the shots on the historic most about songwriting is networking relationship Initial releases by R &B Quintet (63), Thelonious Monk Quartet special projects to be recorded at the festival being able to touch the per- among indie labels, indie artists artist Sergio and rap group ('64), Shirley Horn Trio and George Wash- each year. "We don't want to get stuck in a '50- son in Arkansas and Japan in and indie retailers, Orange Soul the League are due in the ington Jr. (both in '94). More archival CDs '60s time ," he says. "We want to show is a the same way," he says. Sheet (orangesoul@earth - second and third quarters of will street in late summer in time to help Mon- that jazz also music of the present." link.net) comes out the first and 2007. Working the boards terey, the world's oldest, continuously run- For this year's fest, Olaine assembled a SOULFUL BOOST: Should a the 15th each month. The mix behind the League will be ning jazz festival, celebrate its silver supergroup of Dave Holland, Gonzalo bright orange newsletter pop of commentary, retailer pro- veteran producer Mannie anniversary (Sept. 21 -23). Rubalcaba, Chris Potter and Eric Har- across your desk, pay atten- files, news and artist spotlights Fresh and mixologist Leslie "We'll have a captive crowd, in the best land, whose performances will be issued tion. It's a new tool in the indie is the brainchild of publisher Braithwaite. sense of the word, for selling these CDs," Mon- by MJFR. Another unique ensemble -in- terey GM Tim Jackson says, adding that the cluding Benny Green, Terence Blan- festival has an annual attendance of 45,000. chard, James Moody and Nnenna "Three years ago we started thinking about Freelon -will also be documented for a how to celebrate the 50th as well as leverage MJFR CD to be sold on its 50 -date national the festival's assets and brand, not just for a tour of 1,000- to 2,000 -seat venues from Jan- That is, until now. "Please Don't Go," a bal- her she did me dirty' ... This album goes back one -time event, but for something that could uary to March 2008. lad about love, trust and stepping out on a re- to what R &B is supposed to talk about." be ongoing." "At 50, we figure it's good to pause and re- lationship," comes in this week at No.12 on the Given the album's traditional R &B slant and The archives that document most of the flect back," Jackson says, noting that the im- Hot R &B /Hip -Hop Songs chart. Tank's long chart absence, Blackground exec- artists who played the main stage were largely print breaks the mold with its variegated As for why the song is clicking, Tank says it's utive VP Jomo Hankerson says the label opted inaccessible except to researchers. Plus, the potential revenue streams. "But we also want contribute to the jazz future. just a "typical Tank record" that relates to both to start the record at adult R &B despite the tapes were deteriorating, a problem rectified to creatively " sexes. "It's not strictly a woman's song where singer's young age. The strategy is paying off, the guys have to catch on," the Milwaukee - as the cut is No. 4 on that chart. It debuted at born singer/songwriter says. Laughing when No. 95 four weeks ago on the Hot 100 and has asked what personal experience triggered the since risen to No. 92. song, he says only, "I took a situation and went "That's why we took that approach," Han - general with it. The song says what guys wish kerscn says. "He's basically a new artist again they could say or had said, while women are who has to get out there and hit every radio saying, 'That's right, listen to him' " station possible." At R &B /hip -hop WKKV Milwaukee, where Tank has been doing just that, piggybacking "Please Don't Go" has been in power rotation station visits and performances onto his nearly since before Christmas, PD Bailey Coleman two -month -long stint in "Men, Money and Gold underscores Tank's assessment. "Listeners Diggers," which closed April 1. Also starring love it. Men are telling their wives to listen and Robi i Givens and singer Ginuwine (with whom vice versa. The song speaks to real -life situa- Tank got his start as a background vocalist), tions that happen all the time." the play has traveled to such markets as Cleve- The single's popularity bodes well for Tank's land and Detroit. third album, the aptly titled "Sex, Love & Pain." Having stayed busy between albums pen- The Good Game /Blackground/Universal Mo- ning songs for Jamie Foxx, , Fanta- town release is slated for mid -May. A small sia, Chris Brown and Kelly Rowland's upcom- group of fellow producers, including the Un- ing sophomore set, Tank says, "R &B is derdogs and , lent their skills. Crooning re- emerging with something people want snippets of Motown songs, Tank describes the to be part of again. How about ending a night THELONIOUS MONK, left, and DIZZY GILLESPIE album as the "R &B I remember with Marvin at the club by dancing to a couple of slow backstage at the Monterey [Gaye] and Smokey [Robinson]. 'Let me cel- jams and getting to know someone that way Jazz Festival, circa 1964. ebrate my woman, lei's cruise, I'm sorry, tell versus hollering at her over an 808 ?"

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is common knowledge that have also done an awesome job hop and crafting pop beats es- artists. There are a lot ofhot writ- producers make themselves reinventing themselves for pecially for Jive princess Brit - ers in the game. But only the famous by creating a sound 2007. The pair have been grow- ney Spears. And this year, writers that someone already and sticking to it over the ing their production company, they've made good on their knows can come in and be i years. Beatbox -ish drum- Trac -N -Field Entertainment, claims, by producing for thought of as a hitmaker. A lot ming sounds like Timba- and plan to release a single Spears, Chris Brown, Mariah of times it's political." land (Justin Timberlake's "My from their artist, Bali, some- Carey and the go- getter him- Love"), bombastic beats are Just time this year. But first, let's talk self, R. Kelly. POP, LOCK & DROP IT: Jive Blaze (Jay-Z's "Show Me What about their recent chameleon - "R. Kelly's amazing because is winning with its latest teenage You Got ") and speedy looped like album placements. he taught us not to live in a box installment, 19- year-old St. soul samples are In the last few months, I've or be afraid to be creative," Jack- Louis native Huey. His single (Nas' "Still Dreaming"). heard a few joints by the duo, son says. "He literally builds his "Pop, Lock & Drop It" climbs to But in this climate, unless including Young Jeezy's studio around the song he's cre- No. 13 on the Hot R &B /Hip- you're a super producer like "Dreamin' " featuring Key - ating. We gave him this song Hop Songs chart, and he's not Timbaland or Scott Storch, shia Cole and a few tracks called 'The Inspiration,' and he surprised at all. you have to vary your sound or on T.I.'s "TI. vs. T.I.P.° ( "You made his microphone into a pul- "It's natural to me -it's a we, the public, become bored Ain't Ready ") that each sound pit. He broke down and cried gift," Huey says. "I have fun be- pretty fast. different. when he heard it. He said it was cause it's a dream that I had re- For example, Polow Da Don "We have to blame the music his life story. He really gets in gardless of whether hip -hop has seven tracks on Billboard's industry right now," the Run- tune with a record." sales are shaky. As far as mak- Hot R &B /Hip -Hop Songs ners' Jermaine "Mayne" Jack- These days, the guys say that ing these songs, I do it because chart, and only two, the tuba - son says. "With 'Hustlin',' powerful beats aside, talented I want to." driven "Looka Here" by Rich people ran with our sound, and writers are really the key to the I also have to admit I've fi-

Boy and "Get Buck" by Young it became too familiar. So switch- pop charts. nally warmed up to Huey label - Buck, sound alike. And Or- ing it up was the only way to "We worked with Sean Gar- mate T- Pain's hit "Buy You a lando, Fla., duo the Runners, maintain and stay in the game rett for our songs for Chris Drank." Seriously, he's ab- who made a name for them- for 10 -20 years." Brown," Dru says. "We also solutely this generation's selves last year with Rick Ross' Last year the pair said they worked with R. Kelly and Roger and Zapp, and I'm not THE RUNNERS ubiquitous single "Hustlin'," weren't opposed to ditching hip- Johnta Austin for the other fighting it anymore. .

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ting guys straight in songs TELLIN' IT LIKE IT IS peppered with shouts of "Are you listening, idiot ?" Rivera Mines Real -Life Travails On New Album But Rivera, born and raised in the United States, is appeal- Jenni Rivera has released a Life), out April 3 on Fonovisa "If he doesn't know it hap- ing to a younger generation string of albums that brand her Records, details the artist's tra- pened, then it didn't," Rivera whose issues and realities are a new banda diva who brings vails as an abused wife, single says with a laugh, when asked if different from those embodied freshness to the traditional Mex- mom and ordinary girl from the the song refers to real events. by an older generation of Mex- ican genre. hood growing up in Long However, she stresses, shar- ican -born singers. But her sales track record Beach, Calif. The album marries ing such intimate details with Fonovisa also expects to was relatively modest (never contemporary lyrics to her audience defines her rela- capitalize on Rivera's increas- breaking the 100,000 mark) traditional brass banda arrange- tionship with them. ingly visible brand and name. until she played to the tilt her ments, interlacing Rivera's nar- "They see me as a real The singer, whose siblings image as a sensual, yet as- rative between songs that woman," she says. "More than are regional Mexican singers

sured woman who speaks her range from romantic to dance- anything, I live these recordings Lupillo and Juan Rivera, has a mind on the 2005 release able (including a cover of "I Will onstage. They want to see what cosmetics line, Divina, a real es- "Parrandera, Rebelde y Atre- Survive") to risqué. I'm singing about, they want to tate agency ( "It's what took me vida" ( "Party- Loving, Rebel- Rivera talks about her body know very important details in out of food stamps," she says) lious and Daring "). image and liposuction, love my life. What I'm singing sounds and is developing a reality TV The album has sold upwards with a younger man and having true to them. Yes, it's entertain- series around her daily life. Most

of 125,000 copies in the United almost been aborted. On the ment . .. but I want them to be- recently, she launched her own States, according to Nielsen chorus to the deceptively titled lieve and know that it's not just label, Divina Discos, whose first SoundScan, and has solidified single "La Sopa del Bebé" ( "The my story, but that it could be CD is "Pa' La Raza del Barrio," Rivera's status as one of re- Baby's Soup "), she sings about the story of many women." by her brother Juan. gional Mexican music's few getting even with her philan- Rivera is not the only female "It's a very important title to leading women. dering husband, who, after nar- regional Mexican singer to me," says David Massry, presi- As daring as "Parrandera" rowly misses finding another tackle thorny subjects and dent of retail chain Ritmo was, it pales next to Rivera's man in his bed, is told, "If you lambast men in her songs. Vet- Latino. "I think she's at the top new set. find the mattress wet, it's the eran Paquita la del Barrio, in of her career, and this album is "Mi Vida Loca" (My Crazy soup the baby spilled." particular, is notorious for set- looking very, very strong."

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The makeup of a rich Release Date: April 17 how much things have Release Date: April 77 a playground of shapes, tem- the ensemble makes for ®The former Phish keys changed -and stayed the The audio component of the dystopian back story pos, layers, weaves and waves. sound, imparting an almost feel to the 10 tunes. tickler makes a steady, same. Songs so intimate that that frames the record and its attendant Web angle/ It is journey music replete with cinematic sweet and honest solo debut, they sound like singer Margo publicity stunt, "Year Zero" is reportedly set 15 years comic harmonic excursions, "Noir" is a big -band record, besting the unfocused and Timmins could be whispering into the future in a world controlled by a violent off -balance meandering, quirky but it has a distinctive, by- overly slick recent efforts of them in your ear remain the theocracy, where, in keeping with Orwellian law, citi- curiosity, elliptical eeriness and gone -era vibe. -PVV better -known compatriot Trey group's hallmark, but the de- zens are regularly drugged and a God -hand has been seesawing dissonance. On the Anastasio. Though he, like hvery continues to grow more known to reach down from the sky. None of that one hand, the music is abstract, Anastasio, mixes singer/song- sophisticated and, in the case strays terribly far from NIN's usual lyrical stomping but on the other, deeply emo- ONITSHA writer -style confessionals with of a track such as the biting grounds, but it's fun to hear Trent Reznor play other tional with different hues of ur- Church Girl longer, jammed -out numbers, "Cutting Board Blues," consid- roles and fire holes into the technology he's been so gency, fear, lightheartedness Producer: Shep Crawford McConnell doesn't forget to erably louder. Guitarist/ vital in employing. Ironically, Reznor marries this story and timidity-DO Still Waters balance his introspective lyrical producer Michael Timmins' with some of NIN's least -busy and funkiest industrial Release Date: April 17 tendencies with playful ar- musings on the complexities of accompaniment to date. Though there's plenty of the ANAT COHEN & THE After backing a bevy of rangements, deploying Stevie familial relationships get a industrial scratch -and -fuzz that he's all but patented ANZIC ORCHESTRA big -name acts (Mary Wonder -esque clay grooves, broad airing on thesell songs, ( "My Violent Heart "), there are more rewards buried Noir Mary, Destiny's Child), Onitsha twittering synth beats and jazzy from the folky gaits of "Still in tracks like the blackly sexy "The Good Soldier," the Producers: Anat Cohen, emerges as an artist of true star piano runs to surprising effect. Lost" to the dark noir tone of morbidly funky "Capital G" and the requisite piano - Oded Lev -Ari caliber all her own. Veteran hit There are missteps, like his sen- "It Doesn't Really Matter Any- based denouement ( "Zero Sum" -three guesses if this Anzic Records man Crawford (Whitney Hous- timental ode to the "Runaway more." Throughout, Canadian story ends happily). -JV Release Date: April 3 ton, Yolanda Adams) is a per- Bride" and the muddled "Com- composer Henry Kucharzyk's ©Reed virtuoso Anat fect creative foil, co- writing plex Wind," which suffers from string arrangements bring a Cohen has teamed with most of the material with his strained vocals. But much of the welcome new dimension to Astronauts. It's quite a cell phone) and swayed to longtime compadre Oded Lev - young diva and casting her in album is a pleasantly unfolding Timmins' tunes. -GG makeover for Peter Gabriel's such REO mega hits as "Can't Ari (arranger /conductor for one -in -a- million voice diverse examination of the self doubt protégé, who is known for his Fight This Feeling" or "Keep "Noir ") and 18 players to cook musical settings, each a com- that follows any difficult & labyrinthine vocal harmonies On Loving You" will find much up a fine large ensemble jazz pelling, custom fit. A smooth, breakup and the redemptive THE LONELY and dark, introspective, to enjoy here. "Smilin' in the disc. "Noir" features Cohen on retro -soul groove ( "He Is ") powers of music -making. ASTRONAUTS acoustic -based songs. More End" is an upbeat survivor's clarinet and tenor, alto and so- slides into sassy hip -hop She scored ( "Don't Give Up ") and feel - "Rules I Don't Know," a twang - Let's Just Be outgoing than ever, he now anthem, while "I Needed to prano saxophones. infused, Elton John -style bal- Producers: Joseph Arthur & screams and shouts in a throaty Fall" is a gorgeous power bal- some major help from Billy good funk ( "My Life"), all con- lad, is a knockout. -SV the Lonely Astronauts falsetto, fronting a band fluent lad. "Lost on the Road of Love" Drewes (tenor sax /clarinet), Al veyed with the presence and Lonely Astronaut in classic rock, glam and punk. has a greasy, swampy vibe that Jackson Jr. (drums), Tanya poise of a master. "Search Me" 11777711 Release Date: April 17 Opener "Diamond Ring" is a gets under your skin, while the Darby ( /flugelhorn) treads dangerous turf, as Craw- COWBOY JUNKIES Fewer than seven months after bright and bouncy retro- rocker, title track is a compelling look and percussionist Duduka Da ford re- engineers Mahalia Jack- At the End of Paths Taken his album "Nuclear Daydream," and the Bowie -esque standout at a relationship in turmoil. Fonseca. Lev -Ari's arrange - son's original recording into the Producer: Michael Timmins singer/songwriter Arthur is "Spaceman" sends Arthur's Throughout, lead vocalist ments are outstanding. Check 21st century, with Onitsha dar- Latent/Zoe /Rounder back with a collection of rough - trademark harmonies over and his cohorts the blending of rhythm and ing to duet with the Queen of Release Date: April 17 edged rock songs, recorded heavy power chords. The demonstrate that years of re- melody on the Cape Verdean continued on »p48 with his new band, the Lonely record has the rawness and im- lentless touring have kept their mediacy of a live performance, musical chops intact. -DEP and no doubt Arthur and his PAM TILLIS RYAN SHAW band are enjoying themselves Rhinestoned This Is Ryan Shaw (how else to explain the 20- ANTHONY BRAXTON Producers: Pam Tiflis, Gary Producers: Jimmy Bralower, minute "Lonely Astronaut " ?). 9 Compositions (Iridium) Nicholson, Matt Spicher Johnny Gale There are fewer memorable 2006 Stellar Cat One Haven/RED moments here than on his solo Producers: Anthony Braxton, Release Date: April 17 Release Date: April 17 albums, but it's still nice to hear Taylor Ho Bynum, Nick Lloyd Tillis' first indie CD (on her own Stellar Cat Records) Those who stumble upon "This Is Ryan Shaw" will him taking risks. -SP Firehouse 12 is as impressive a collection as anything she assume they've heard it before -and that's a good Release Date: April 10 released on a major -perhaps better. From start to thing. Shaw's debut so authentically captures the REO SPEEDWAGON ©Inarguably this year's finish, every track shines. With loves- gone -by as the spirit, sound and euphoric joy of vintage soul music Find Your Own Way Home most expansive and cre- pervasive theme, the album is realistic without that songs like the testimonial "I Am Your Man" and Producers: Joe Vanelli, ative improvisational perform- being fatalistic- there's always hope. "Train Without the jumpy, Booker T. & the MG's- worthy "Lookin for a Kevin Cronin ance, the "9 Compositions (Irid- a Whistle" is a cautionary tale of a fly -by -night lover, Love" feel excitingly familiar, as if they've been nes- Mailboat ium) 2006" nine -CD boxed set while "The Hard Way," written by Tillis with her tled among Eddie Floyd and William Bell 45s for Release Date: April 3 chronicles iconic alto -saxo- brother, Mel Tillis Jr., is an honest look at the failure years. Recalling '70s, pre- cheese Stevie Wonder, the ©This finely crafted album phonist Braxton on a four -night to learn from past mistakes. The Tillis /Nicholson- Georgia native establishes himself as a massive talent is the first collection of engagement with his 12 +1tet at penned "Life Has Sure Changed Us Around," a duet with a huge voice, straught out of the gate. "This Is new songs since REO's 1996 New York's Iridium. Recorded with John Anderson, is an entertaining romp Ryan Shaw" resuscitates soul in an electrifying way. release "," in March 2006, the collection through a couple's memories of their wilder days Indeed, while fusing the mannered style of Motown and it's a wonderful return to comprises nine large- scale, ( "Our sins were not original, but we gave them our with the sexy, sweaty grit of Stax, Shaw displays a form from the veteran rock world -premiere Braxton corn - own twist "). The album's spiritual closer, "Over My complete command of the medium. -WO band. 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Gospel herself. She pulls it derstated gem of a record that POP impacting adult R &B radio, off-gloriously--on an album marries stirring melodies to SNOW PATROL her upcoming tour with Brian DAUGHTRY that suggests great things still thought -provoking lyrics. The Signal Fire 3:57 McKnight and Joe should Home (4:11) to come. -GE album's beautiful title track Producer: Jackknife Lee return luminescence to this Producer: sets the tone for this quiet -yet- Writers: G. Lightbody, great talent. -CP Writer: C. Daughtry joyful collection. Moore serves N. Connolly, J. Quinn, Publishers: Surface Pretty Deep LUMIDEE up a compelling cover of the T. Simpson, P Wilson 1221 Ugly/Careers -BMG, BMI Unexpected Brad Paisley /Dolly Parton Publishers: various LISA PALLESCHI PCA

Producers: various country hit "When I Get Record Collection I Wanna See You Cry Among the million or so "American Idol" finalists to TVT Where I'm Going" with Christy With enduring radio hit (4:02) score on various charts, season five's Chris Daughtry is Release Date: April 17 Nockels adding her lovely "Chasing Cars" still Producers: Jeff Franzel, the only one to be embraced by so many formats with On her sophomore album, Lu- voice. Among the album's ringing in our ears, U.K. quin- Dana Calitri, Mike Shimshack first single "It's Not Over," including rock, for the first midee attempts to showcase many highlights are "Every tet Snow Patrol hands over a Writers: L. Palleschl, time. The band's follow -up, "Home," fires up another her capacity, but falls Single One," "Captured" and new track from the "Spider - J. Franzel, D. Calitri anthemic rock power ballad, with a lyric dedicated to short of the mark. Fortunately, "He Knows My a Name," Man 3" soundtrack. Under- Publishers: Cauddly/Bird U.S. troops overseas, a la, "I'm going home to a place I her singing efforts have con- poignant duet with Kendall standing that with great Wins, ASCAP; Dana Calitri, BM! belong /Where your love has always been enough for siderably improved on this set. Payne. Moore's textured, res- power comes great sensitiv- Lightyear me." Considering his sure -shot, flame- throwing vocal, On the Patrick Swayze - onant voice imbues each song ity, "Signal Fire" reveals Budding AC artist Lisa Palleschi name -brand cachet and mass appeal via a No. 1 sampling "She's Like the Wind," with a sense of authority and Spidey's vulnerable side, and is a bit of a paradox. While "I album -not to mention the song's use as the exit the Spanish Harlem native jad- conviction that demands at- all the humanity hidden be- Wanna See You Cry" is a pene- theme each week on "A.I "- "Home" is undeniably edly rhymes, "Always with the tention-a welcome addition hind the mask. A powerful trating, keenly produced pro- where America's heart is. At this juncture, it's beside best, put them other dudes to to his already impressive mu- love song written in the first totypical power ballad, there the point that Daughtry should have won last season's rest, so you ain't gotta stress." sical résumé. -DEP person, it features a super - are occasional glitches in the "Idol," as talent wins out. Rock on, brother. -CT Even when assisted by re- hero's confessions: "I felt quality of her vocal-moments nowned producers like Scott NEW & NOTEWORTHY every ounce in me screaming where she simply misses her Storch ( "Could Be Anything "), out /But the sound was mark. Repeated listens endear Robbins no- brainer. Europe is already a Lumidee's verses are too often trapped in me." It would be it to the ear, particularly given Cascada, which scored world ahead in 2007 with a col- bland and elementary ( "I could Producer: Moe Berg easy to over -sing the dra- its melodic comeliness ... but last year with top 10 lective of acts bringing bite be your miss, you could be my Silver Label/Tommy Boy matic, arena -seeking chorus, her greatest talent may be in dance anthem "Everytime We back to FM radio. Listen up, man, walking through the Release Date: April24 but frontman Gary Lightbody songwriting. Palleschi's ulti- Touch," has all intention of re- America. -CT hood, hand in hand "). Still, airy, Viewers of "The L Word" delivers starry -eyed vocals like mate fame may come from of- minding top 40 of its charms. fresh tracks like the reggae - are aware of Canadian someone wholly unimpressed fering such songs to Celine This time, it's a cover of Savage NEW & NOTEWORTHY "Feel Like Makin' shaded Love" trio the Cliks, whose ferocious with special effects. All he Dion, whose fourth -quarter Garden's 1997 No. 1 "Truly NICOLA featuring Shaggy, and the sen- "Complicated" was recently cares about is the power of a 2007 album would take it to Madly Deeply," already a colos- Lighthouse (4:05) sual "Stuck on You" ( "I wish featured in an episode of the simple melody, one that will another level. -CT sal Euro smash. On the album, Producer: Jimmy Wilgus that I could be your lucky Showtime TV show. These keep adult top 40 listeners the song is cast as a tranquil Writer: Nicola charm "), demonstrates Lu- days the video for the amped- tangled in his web. -SP DANCE ballad (ideal for AC), but here it Publisher: NicSongs, BMI midee's growth. -MC up, angst -filled love song "Oh CASCADA is remixed as a techno -beat Hot Cherry Yeah" is a mainstay on the Truly Madly Deeply (2:58) bevy, reminiscent of vocalist ©Rock quartet Nicola, a CHRISTIAN Logo network. Sure, the Cliks SUNSHINE Producers: Manuel "Manian" Natalie Horler's "Touch." The recent Billboard Under- GEOFF MOORE are being championed by the ANDERSON Reuter, Tann "Yanou" Peifer CD single offers no fewer than ground headliner, could make Speak to Me gay and lesbian community, Force of Nature (3:31) Writers: D. Jones, D. Hayes 10 rerubs to seduce dance - Evanescence bow in rever- Producers: Dwayne Larring, but don't be surprised when Producer: Alanzo Jackson Publishers: Rough Cut/WB, floors, while the song's inher- ence, given the grit and gri- Geoff Moore they cross over into other com- Writers: S. Anderson, ASCAP ent familiarity offers top 40 a mace of lead singer and band Rocketown Records munities. Obviously influenced T Jackson namesake Nicola. Despite fist - Release Date: April 3 by the Pretenders, Hole and Publishers: Tru Luv/ASCAP; waving bravado, she offers a ©In recent years, veteran Pink, the Cliks create music Soul Finga/Nottinghill/ JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE distinguished brag sheet. singer/songwriter Moore that rocks hard, with melodies Intersect, BMI Summer Love (4:11) After graduating from New has branched out into other and hooks that linger long CISoulful songstress Sun- Producers: Timbaland, Justin York's Fiorello LaGuardia areas, becoming a partner in after the last note has played. shine Anderson had Timberlake, Nate Hills School of Performing Artists, Overflow Management and de- Here, the band cleverly re- early success with 2001 gold Writers: J. Timberlake, T. Mosley, Nicola worked in Nashville and voting time to such charitable works Justin Timberlake's "Cry debut "Your Woman," but has N. Hills as frontwoman, endeavors as Compassion. He Me a River" into a reggae - not matched sales with sec- Publishers: various guitarist-for -hire and Broad- returns to the studio here for splashed rock jam. And ond effort "Sunshine at Mid- Jive way performer. "Lighthouse" his 17th album and debut for throughout "Snakehouse," night." New single "Force of Previous "What Goes Around ... Comes Around" at trades between a canvas of Rocketown. The result is an un- emotions run deep. -MP Nature" exposes Anderson's last lived up to Justin Timberlake's reputation as inky melodic goth featuring masterful songwriting, as she rhythmic -pop's main man, and "Summer Love" is no the impetuous clamor of high - I C1 117a0]t1ai]Ï1 muses over love for a man doubt destined to be fourth in line from "FutureSex/ octane guitars, against pas- who doesn't match the stan- LoveSounds" to ride to the crest of top 40. However, sages of plucky acoustic EDITED BY JONATHAN COHEN corresponding format. (ALBUMS) AND CHUCK TAYLOR dards of her overachieving while the track offers cunning instrumentation, strumming, as she vocally (SINGLES) CRITICS' CHOICE *: A new release, parents. Listeners can relate Timbaland's heavy production hand is so overwhelm- segues from vocal roar to re- regardless of chart potential, highly to placing happiness and ing that the singer is pushed to the back of the track, fined rustle. It's an all -in -one CONTRIBUTORS: Mariel recommended for musical merit. Concepcion, Gordon Ely, Gary Graff, compatibility over parental with so much vocal layering that it could be any Tom, track offering unadulterated Wes Orshoski, Dan Ouellette, Michael All albums commercially available in consent. Following in the suc- Dick or Harry at the mic. The hook is lusti- pop /rock mastery, alongside Paoletta, Charles Perez, Sven Philipp, the United States are eligible. Send cessful paths of Corrine Bai- ly catchy -but who's headlining here, producer or the hearty intelligence 11- Deborah Evans Price, Chuck Taylor, album review copies to Jonathan of Ken Tucker, Jeff Vrabel, Philip Van Cohen and singles review copies to ley Ray and Jennifer Hudson, artist? It doesn't matter. Artistic achievement or not, track, radio -ready "Don't Take Vleck Susan Visakowitz Chuck Taylor (both at Billboard, 770 Anderson should make an im- anything with J -Tim's name attached is solid gold, as It Personally." Visit nicolani- Broadway, Sixth Floor, New York, pact as a renewed "Force of his heroic stature inches ever upward. -CT cola.com for more on this PICK : A new release predicted to N.Y. 10003) or to the writers in the hit the top half of the chart in the appropriate bureaus. Nature" for R &B soul. Already adroit new presence. -CT

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130X A WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF NOTABLE CHART ACHIEVEMENTS Over the (unter GEO =F MAYFIELD gmayfield @billboard.com

Linkin Park's "What I've Done" is not only tie third Too Much Ado About Sanjaya; Easter Lays An Egg single to debut at No. 1 on

Modern Rock chart, but also ' TV with fans more earnest : andidates laugh, I imagine Clive Davis' team the Warner Bros. bend's sixth "Geoff, what does this say about the tial election, I recall another show ofthe consecutive chart -topper. In 'American Idol' voting process ?" from my youth. seizing the day. mimics a low- calorie version of a the nearly 19 -year iistory of The question was posed in as urgent Like several cities, Cincinnati pro- Full disdosure: I rarely vatcz the show. Michael Bu blé album that will at least the chart, only twc other acts a a question - I don't need to be a regular :iever to know go gold. And, if one of the other final- have m 3naged a N 3. 1 debut: a tone of voi :e as ,you can imagine, not duced local edition of Warner Bros.' R.E.H. and Red by a young fn of the show or one of the and- answer game show called "It's the impact "Idol' has on the music in- ists looks to have the stuff of a Daugh- Hot Chili Peppers. innumerably local newspaper colum- Academic," which pitted brainy teams dustry. The cumula:ive 25 6 million try or a Clay Aiken -each also -rans who nists who write capsules abou: the top - from three high schools against each album units registerec at N ielzen Sound - have outsold a season winner -expect Timberland notches his rated series each week, but rather a other. Being children of the '60s, and Scan in the careers of sever firalists from RCA to exercise its option on that per- highest -charting album and his studio audience being the series' first five years tells me most son. End of story and next topic, please. best sales week ever, as his star - bright and savvy business reporter from each of us in the studded "Shock Value" set bo . friends of our school's three contest- of what a guy in my shies needs to know. As for the opinions of voteforthe- at No. 5 on The Billt oard 200 ants, the class of'71 thought it would When I heard all the clam 3r that this worst.com, the site's previous poster with 135,000. His previous high Academy Award came when "Indecent Proposal" be amusing if stone silence ensued Malakar fellow might take the wheels children included (with Magoo) bowed at No. 29 in when Aiken Senior High School's off the show's race car, I iisited amen- winner Jennifer Hudson and "Idol" 2001 w th 79,000. team was announced. canidol.com to check out his perform- winners Hicks and Carrie Under- Indeed, the director was floored when ances and learn what *he flsswas about. wood. Hicks might be the first series our school was first announced, but the Got to tell you, I was disappointed, not champ whose debut will fall shy of 1 joke didn't turn out as well as we'd because the kid was s3 bad, hit because million copies, but Underwood's tro- hoped. Kids from the other schools fig- he wasn't bad enough to entertain, like, phy cabinet, which includes Grammy ured our guys arrived with no cheering you know, William Hung. and Country Music Assn. Awards, plus section, so they started to applaud when Does Malakar have the p.pes or the a five- times -platinum album, suggests In a year when album sales lag by al- Aiken was mentioned later. career potential of a Keay 2larkson? she really wasn't "the worst." most 16 %, trre topic was potential flaws That memory brings to mind the fer- No. Are other contestants more worthy? We now return you to your regularly in the show's pclling. The Times' in- vent hubbub over the weighty topic o- More than likely, but if a national prac- scheduled programming. quiry came because fourth -place fin- "What happens if Sanjaya wins ?' tical joke finds him d :enclec in confetti isher Chris Daughtry is outselling Think I'm exaggerating? I even got a on the season finale, so what? ROTTEN EGGS: Even with a lift from IJN'P fifth- season winner Taylor Hicks, but call about this from CNN. The show's rules only stpulate the Easter shopping, album sales are down music naturally I felt like I'd been lured into a "Candid I'm aware that the Vote for the Wors: winner will record an album What hap- from the comparable 2006 week (see len ` _ to Easter gift -givi Watch, below). What's worse, and this year is no exception. Camera" prank. Web site endorses Malakar, and Howard pens after that depends in part on the Market Every title on the ; 5- position Now that the Fublic seems more fix- Stern stumps for him on Sirius Satel- A &R skills of RCA Music Group, but ul- this frame competes with a nonholiday Top Kid Audio chat posts an But, like our senior class timately rests on the -vinner s talent and week, because Easter came a week later increase, with the `Jump Inl" ated on how deep Sanjaya Malakar lite Radio. soundtrack (up 13- %) notching will go on 'Idol' than who might be- prank at "It's Academic," I suspect this ability to deliver. last year, April 16. Lined against that the thid- largest gain. come candidates for the next presiden- joke will unravel before the season ends, So, if Malakar's vJtera have the last week, Easter 2007 trails by 10 %. - fai -' °Mass

I A Weekly National Music Sales Report Vi a riee ` Watch`ch week ending Apnl 8. 2007 Figures are rounded. :onpiled from a national sample of retail store and rack Nielsen I-I reports by C A RI Weekly Unit Sales Year -To -Date ales collected and presided So JndScan DIGITAL DIGITAL TRACKS 2106 2007 CHANGE Share: 13 E AT ALBUMS ALBUMS' Distributors' Market This Week 10,582,000 957,000 16,148,000 OVERALL UNIT SALES 02/26/07 -04/01/07 »It's better to give, especially if you're Timbaland and you've just last Week 9,151,000 875,000 14,597,000 Albums 151,599.000 127,693,000 -15.8% up Billboard Hot 100 shaker Digital Tracks 154,192 000 234,748,000 52.2% UMG Sony BMG F% WMG Indies EMI history. After sitting below No. 40 Orange 15.6% 9.4% 10.6% It Store Singles 956,000 602,000 -37.0% for eight weeks, "Give to Me" TlisWeeklasnea 11,155,3C0 574,000 10,242,000 catapt. Its 42 -1, giving him and Total 306,747,000 363,048,000 18.4% featured guests Melly Furtado and Change -5.1% 66.7% 57.7% Ablmsvi/IFA 167,018,200 151,172,800 -9.5% Justin Timberlake the second - 'Digital album sales are ,Iso counted within album sales. 'Includes track equivalent album sales (TEA) with 10 track downloads equiunlent biggest jump to pole position in to one album sale. Total Albums the chart's almost 49 -year history. Weekly Album Sales (Million Units) As a producer/songwriter, this is Timberland's seven:h No.1. 35 ALBUM SALES »Also on the Hot 100, Linkin 30 Park has the third -highest debut '06 of 2007 with "What I've Done," a 25 - 2007 '07 127.7 million new e itry at No. 7

»Fred Bronson also reports on 20 the 119th No.1 for the "American Idol" franchise. Ca-rie Under - 15 wood's "Wasted" s the third song SALES BY ALBUM FORMAT Current Albums from f er debut album, "Some (D 142,954,000 114,831,000 -19.7% Hearts," to occupy the penthouse. Digital 7,962,000 12,492,000 56.9% Read Fred Bronson l every week at Cassette 417,000 112,000 -73.1% billboard.com /fred. Other 266,000 258,000 -9.4t 0 J F M A M J J A S O N D J

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ó ARTIST Y Title W V ARTIST Title srsrO 3¢ I.1FRINT 8 NUMBER / DISTRIBUTING LABEL (PRICE) :3 á3 3ó ái 3 á3 3c 3é IMPRINT 8 NUMBER f DISTRIBUTING LABEL (PRICE) VARIOUS ARTISTS 2 2 NOW 1 .,,, -.ONY 24 59 49 ! Back To Basics O BMG'UNIVERSAL ZOMBA 88505 /CAPITOL 118.981 CD RCA 82639 RMG (22,98) ir' TIM MCGRAW 2 1 - STEVIE NICKS Let It Go 52 21 - Crystal Visions... The Very Best Of Stevie Nicks 21 REPRISE 100363 /WARNER BROS. (18.98) NOTSNOT 1 HILARY DUFF ASHLEY TISDALE DEBUT HOLLYWOOD Dignity 3 Following the CD 95 82 Headstrong , O 162668 (18 981. + WARNER BROS. 44425 (18.98) MARTINA MCBRIDE reissue of the BLACK SABBATH RCA NASHVILLE Waking Up Laughing The Dio Years 54 O ® 036 album with six m® WARNER BROS. 116668 RHINO (18.98) TIMBALAND new songs plus VARIOUS ARTISTS .)FRSCOPE113981 Timbaland Presents Shock Value 67 56 Radio Disney Jams 9 S$ o WALT DISNEY 000118 (18.98 CD /DVD) + ® a handful of GREATEST BEYONCE 69 51 31 THE FRAY B'Day © 1 remixes, How To Save A 14 O GAINER COLUMBIA 90920' SONY MUSIC 18.98 the set EPIC 93931/SONY MUSIC (18.98) + Life © DAUGHTRY vaults 903 %. LIL' FLIP 6 4 Daughtry 1 RCA 88660 /RMG (18.98) © 57 I Need Mine $$ O ASYLUM 43269 /WARNER BROS. (18.98) PAUL WALL NEIL YOUNG SWISHAHOUSE Get Money Stay True 58 Live At Massey Hall 1971 O ®0 /ASYLUM /ATLANTIC 101555. AG (18 98) REPRISE 43328 /WARNER BROS. (18,98) + AKON A O5 2 THE RED JUMPSUIT APPARATUS KONVICT UPFRONT/SRC UNIVERSAL MOTOWN UMRG Konvicted © Don't You Fake It 0079681 (13.98) CD VIRGIN 62829 (12 98) 5) II ALISON KRAUSS A Hundred 10 CIARA ROUNDER Miles Or More: A Collection Ciara: The Evolution m® 610555 (17.98) LAFACE 03336ZOMBA (18.98) I. ALAN JACKSON /GEORGE STRAIT/JIMMY BUFFETT DIXIE Live At Texas 11 CHICKS MCA NASHVILLE /UMGN Stadium 61 Taking The Long Way El m®.. 005894 (18.98) COLUMBIA 80739/SONY MUSIC (18.98) i II CHEVELLE Vena 12 JACK INGRAM EPIC Sera 62 34 - 2 This Is It ® ® 02698 /SONY MUSIC (18.98) The set's 42% BIG MACHINE 13060 (11.98) GWEN STEFAN! I 16 increase can be SOUNDTRACK 25 The Sweet Escape 3. 104 108 65 High School Musical O INTERSCOPE 008099 (13.98) Q WALT DISNEY 861426 (12.98) a SOUNDTRACK attributed to 24 21 Hannah 47 YOUNG JEEZY WALT DISNEY 861698 Montana the bow a 64 37 17 The Inspiration (18.98)+ of CORPORATE THUGZ .'OEF JAM 007227./10JMS (13.98) VARIOUS ARTISTS /DVD 14 deluxe (D RELIENT K - SNEY Disneymania 5: Music Stars Sing Disney... Their Way! 62 5 . / 000244 (18.981 O 395 Five Score And Seven Years Ago edition released GOTEE 70592 /CAPITOL (18.98) J LARRY THE CABLE GUY w REDMAN Morning Constitutions last week. 66 13 - 2 Red Gone Wild O ® BROS. (NASHVILLE) 73273 WAN (18.98) DEE JAM 003309 /IDJMG (13.98) YOUNG BUCK 17 3 - Buck The CELTIC WOMAN 008030' INTERSCOPE World 67 46 23'á 10 A New Journey (13.98) MANHATTAN 75110 BLG (18-98) a CARRIE 17 UNDERWOOD MARQUES HOUSTON 15 Some Hearts 68 38 5 3 Veteran O - ARISTA NASHVILLE 71197 /RMG (18,98) TU.G. /UNIVERSAL MOTOWN 007925'UMRG (13.98) JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE 18 11 n d s 17 GYM CLASS HEROES JIVE 88062' ZOMBA (18.98) FutureSex/LoveSou 69 48 4 As Cruel As School Children e OECAYOANCE 086 /FUELED BY RAMEN (13.98) JOSS STONE Introducing ARCADE FIRE VIRGIN 76268` Joss Stone 70 Neon Bible (18.98) MERGE 285 (14.98) VANESSA HUDGENS Music Is My Savior 107 101 CAPITOL 84824 (12.98) ED V . HOLLYWOOD 162638 (13.98) AMY WINEHOUSE PINK Back To Black 72 63 I'm Not Dead UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 008428/UMRG (10.98) LAFACE 80320 /ZOMBA (18.98) 40 FERGIE LILY ALLEN ® 19 13 The Dutchess 73 58 41 10 WILL. I. AM /A8M 007490 INTERSCOPE (13.98) CAPITOL 75486 (12.98) Alright, Still NICKELBACK Sale pricing at RODNEY ATKINS CID23 17 All The Right Reasons 80 75í,m If You're Going Through Hell ROADRUNNER 18300 (18.98) CURB 78945 II Target and KINGS OF LEON THE KILLERS Best Buy help 76 71 114 Town CID RCA 037 ' = 981 ''ID 007015 MS (13.98) Sam's FALL OUT BOY Easter-friendly BRANDI CARLILE 27 16 Infinity On High The Story '1,1G 113.981 package nab CD COLUMBIA OOH 'INY MUSIC (11.98) PACE ® BOP I KIDZ KIDS RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS jjj`V 5G 48 7 Kidz Bop 11 chart's biggest 78 63 Stadium Arcadium SETTER H.4z &TIE89141 !13.1e WARNER BROS. 49996. (22.98) + percentage O LLOYD TOBYMAC 28 22 Street Love 91 79 (portable T ', EERSAL MOTOWN 008554'UMRG (13.98) gain (162 %). FOREFRONT 70379 (17.98) sounds) -i MODEST MOUSE KEITH URBAN 29 11 1 We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank cD 81 61 Love, Pain & The Whole Crazy Thing © -ONY BMG (18.98) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 77087 (18 98) NELLY FURTADO 30 SECONDS TO MARS 30 30 Loose 70 58 IU1 í / 80 A Beautiful Lie Al 18 m GEFFEN 006300' / INTERSCOPE (13.98) IMMORTAL 90992 /VIRGIN (12.98) + SOUNDTRACK MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE 55 55 Jump In! 81 75 62 The Black Parade i! REPRISE 44427 /WARNER BROS. (18.98) THE ACADEMY IS... JOSH TURNER Santi 82 74 70 Your Man f3 2 121 DECAYDANCE FUELED BY RAMEN /ATLANTIC 94667 AG (15 98) MCA NASHVILLE 004744 /UMGN (13 98) ROBIN TRICKE 26 12 THREE DAYS GRACE 33 The Evolution Of Robin Thicke 86 73 One - X 5 STAR TRAK 006146': INTERSCOPE (9.981 JIVE 83504 / ZOMBA (18,98) TAYLOR SWIFT J MOSS CD 40 34 Taylor Swift 1 V2... 54 m BIG MACHINE 120702 (18.98) © PAJA M /GOSPO CENTRIC 87214/ZOMBA (18,98) RICH BOY 35 25 9 Rich Boy 82 SUGARLAND ZONE 4 69 ® Enjoy The Ride a 008556 /INTERSCOPE (10.98) 1,189 MERCURY 00 - (13.98) STATIC -X SOUNDTRACK Cannibal 3 Indie album 85 Happy Feet O C11111 REPRISE 101710 /WARNER BROS. (15.98) FOX/WARNER ATLANTIC 83998/AG (18.98) RASCAL FLATTS consists of BABY BOY DA 41 32 Me And My Gang 60 26 3 LYRIC STREET 165075/ /HOLLYWOOD D 87 Across The Water ® (18.98) songs recorded EXTREME/TAM UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 007808 /UMRG (13.98) + HINDER VARIOUS ARTISTS 38 37 33 $2 Extreme Behavior © in 2002, 88 73 43 Grammy Nominees 2007 UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 005390/UMRG (9.98) GRAMMY 038.:: )LV HMG CMG (18.98) THE ALMOST. previous to his EVANESCENCE TOOTH Southern Weather 89 79 57 The Open Door m® 8 NAIL 52481 /VIRGIN (12.98) major label deal WINDUP 13120 (18.98) MUSIQ SOULCHILD 40 20 8 Luvanmusiq with So So Def. ANTHONY HAMILTON a ATLANTIC 105404/AG (18.98) Southern Comfort © ® MEROVINGIAN 002 /IMPERIAL (17.98) NORAH JONES 41 31 14 10 VARIOUS ARTISTS BLUE NOTE 74516 6''' Not Too Late El 91 87 44 NOW 23 /BLG (18.98) SONY BMS STRATEGIC MARKETING GROUP EMI/UNIVERSAL/ZOMBA 017500 /SONY MUSIC (18,98) GOOD CHARLOTTE BENNETT 42 7 Good Morning Revival CD 138 94 Duets: An American Classic ` DAYLIGHT 'EPIC 76940/SONY MUSIC (18.98) "American Idol" R RPM/COLUMBIA 00979/00NY MUSIC (18.98) CORINNE BAILEY RAE THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. 43 35 22 42 Corinne Bailey Rae guest turn yields 93 49 29 Greatest Hits CAPITOL 66361 (12.98) BAD BOY 101830/AG (18.981 1 82% increase; MIKA THE SHINS 44 29 - a Life In Cartoon Motion 94 72 51 Wincing The Night Away CASABLANCA/UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 008352/UMRG (10.98) 24 show also SUB POP 705' (15.98) hosted Michael KATHARINE MCPHEE 45 10 - a Como Ama Una Mujer 95 93 74 Katharine McPhee EPIC 78149/SONY MUSIC (18.98) RCA 87983/RMG (18.98) Bublé (Nos. I JOSH GROBAN Threads Of Lite and 32 on Pop 115 86 ®® ATLANTIC 115516/AG (15.98) 143/REPRISE 44435 /WARNER BROS. (18.98) .4) y ELTON JOHN Catalog, both up FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE 47 Rocket Man: Number Ones 9 Traffic And Weather CHRONICLES /ROCKET /ISLAND /MERCURY 008661; UME (13.98) more than 55 %). m® VIRGIN 74420 (15.98) JOHN MAYER PRETTY RICKY 43 26 30 Continuum is 2 98 84 59 Late Night Special AWARE /COLUMBIA 79019' /SONY MUSIC (18.98) BLUESTAR ATLANTIC 94603/AG (18.98) ELLIOTT YAMIN BROOKS & DUNN 49 28 3 Elliott Yamin 3 O 124 103 Hillbilly Deluxe III HICKORY 90019 (18.98) ARISTA NASHVILLE 69946/SBN (18.981 111 GARY ALLAN THIRD DAY 50 42 27 Greatest Hits 5 100 61 - Chronology: Volume One MCA NASHVILLE 008196 I1MGN 113.98 ESSENTIAL 10838 (18.98 CD/OVD) ;Ai

BLACK SABBATH 54 THE CHARIOT 169 DIEM 125 FINGER ELEVEN 180 JUAN LUIS TRACY LAWRENCE ...133 THE BILLBOARD 200 ARTIST INDEX MARY J. BLIGE ..135, 172 BRAND' CARLILE 76 KENNY CHESNEY 188 DIXIE CHICKS Al FLYLEAF 189 GUERRAY440 ,,..,165 INCUBUS 144 KAISER CHIEFS ...123 LCD SOUNOSYSTEv1 ..134 BLUE OCTOBER ...... 112 MARY CHAPIN CHEVELLE 12 HILARY DUFF...... _ _3 FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE ...97 GYM CLASS HEROES ..69 JACK INGRAM 62 MAT KEARNEY , .196 JOHN LEGEND 155 30 SECONDSTO MARS ..80 JIMMY BUFFETT 11 AUGUSTANA 141 BOW WOW 139 CARPENTER 175 CIARA 60 THEFRATELLIS 126 INSANE CLOWN POSSE 168 KIDZ BOP KIDS 27 GERALD LEVERT 106 BB LLL & MJG 108 JASON ALDEAN 157 0 0 BOYS LIKE GIRLS 179 RODNEY CARRINGTON _140 CLUTCH 170 THE FRAY 56 IVY QUEEN 152 THE KILLERS 75 LIL' FLIP +7 THE ALL -AMERICAN BREAKING BENJAMIN 119 JASON MICHAEL CRIME MOB 115 EVANESCENCE 89 NELLYFURTADO 30 ANTHONY HAMILTON KINGS OF LEON 25 LLOYD . , . . . THE AC/ DE REJECTS 138 BITOMAN&BIRDMAN &U '8 BROOKS & DUNN 99 CARROLL 162 BILLY CURRINGTON ...173 HELLOG00DBYE 1 ._ 124 KORN 118 JENNIFER LOPEZ -5 TRACE ADKINS1 134 GARY ALLAN 50 BABY BOY DA PRINCE ..87 © CHRIS BROWN 192 JOHNNY CASH 182 HINDER 36 ALAN JACKSON ..148, 178 ALISON KRAUSS 10 LUDACRIS 1 -9 CHRISTINA AGUILERA 51 LILY ALLEN 73 129 BUCKCHERRY 122 . CASTING CROWNS , 193 FALL OUT BOY 26 GOOD CHARLOTTE 42 MARQUES HOUSTON 68 ELTON JOHN 47 AKON 9 THE ALMOST 39 TONY BENNETT 92 BULLET FOR MY CELTIC WOMAN 67 DAUGHTRY 7 FANTASIA 187 MACY GRAY 107 VANESSA HUDGENS 71 NORAH 41 ALAN JACKSON/GEORGE ARCADE FIRE 70 DIERKS BENTLEY 104 aN JONES VALENTINE 190 CEU 146 PAULA DEANDA 184 FERGIE 23 JOSH GR08AN .. , 96 LARRY THE MACHINE HEAD S RAID ROONEY ATKINS 74 BEYONCE 6 JUANITA BYNUM 191 DEVIN THE DUDE 132 VICENTE FERNANDEZ 117 GRUPO BRYNDIS 136 . ©MANA 1 4 50 Go to www.billboard.biz for complete chart data Data for week of APRIL 21, 2007 CHARTS LEGEND on Page 64

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This is u - o compile both BELOW CHART. HOT DIGITAL SONGS: Top selling paid download songs compiled from Internet sales -eports collected aird proviced by Nielsen SoundScan. data LEGEND FOR HOT 100 AIRPLAY LOCATED e 24 hours a day, 100. TOP /ADULT CONTEMPORARY/MODERN ROCK: 79 adult top 40 stations, 97 adult contemporary stations afin 72 modern rock stations are electronically monit. The Billboard Hot 100 and Pop ADULT 40 Inc. All rights reserved- 7 days a week. See Chart Legend for additional rules and et planadons. ._. 2007, VF& Business Media, Inc. and Nielsen SoundScan. AIRPLAY SALES DATA MONITORED BY COMPILED BY APR Nielsen Nielsen 21 Broadcast Data SoundScan System=_ ADULT Har 100 AIRPLAY. ADULI' TOP 4OTM CON7'EIVIPURARY..

TITLE TITLE TITLE -ITLE t HTIST (IMPRINT / PROMOTION LABEL) ARTIST 1,I V1 PROMOTION LAHI.L) ARTIST IvLL'RITT / PROMOTION LABEL) ARTIST (IMPRINT i PROMOTION LABEL) 3 3 a3 3c HOW TO SAVE A LIFE ®ITS NOT OVER 25 DON'T MATTER 5 31 DAUGHTRY Lar THE FRAY SINKS SOON (KONVICT/UPFRONT/SRCNNIVERSAL MOTOWN) BEYONCE & SHAKIRA (MUSIC WORLD: COLUMBIA) o 2 STEP IF EVERYONE CARED CHASING CARS THIS IS WHY I'M HOT 8 2 16 3 26 27 NICKELBACK (ROBARAN'.' ANTIC 1J SNOW PATROL If-S PE) MIMS (CAPITOL) UNK (BIG OOMPIKOCHI WASTED SAY IT RIGHT WAITING ON THE WORLD TO CHANGE LOST WITHOUT U 33 10 3 17 3 1 32 HELLY FURTADO (MOSL(' L'r JOHN MAYER (Al's " ROBIN THICKE (STAR TRAK INTERSCOPE) CARRIE UNDERWOOD (ARISTA/ARISTA NASHVILLE) --EN) ESCAPE WHAT HURTS THE MOST GLAMOROUS ROCK YO HIPS THE SWEET 4 4 50 7 . 13 I L1 29 7 I , 29 GWEN FEAT. AKON (INTERSCOPE) RASCAL PLAITS ,L (ILLY('/ FERME (WILL.)AM /A&M /INTERSCOPE) CRIME MOB FEAT. LIL SCRAPPY (CRUNK/BME /REPRISE) O STEFANI o STREETCORNER SYMPHONY GO GETTA LITTLE WONDERS 7 27 LAST NIGHT 21 13 8 10 ISMA ATLANTIC) Utz 5 4 12 30 THUGUDEF JAMIDJMGI (N,.1 'I NEY'MELISMA/ATL:ANT ROB THOMAS (MEL BIDDY FEAT. (BAD BOY/ATLANTIC) YOUNG JEEZY FEAT. R. KELLY ):GRPORATE O o THE RIDDLE THE SWEET ESCAPE WAITING ON THE WORLD TO CHANGE KEEP HOLDING ON E 47 31 26 29 6 4 20 FIVE FOR FIGHTING (AWARE /COLUMBIA Cr 6 5 16 II _ A'RMG! GWEN STEFANI FEAT AEON (INTERSCOPE) JOHN MAYER (AWARE COLUMBIA) CHASING CARS HURT GIVE IT TO ME LAST DOLLAR (FLY AWAY) 7 44 8 26 12 10 32 30 11 5 I, :n INTER5 LU I'LI CHRISTINA AGUILERA o TIMBALAND (MOSLEY /BLACKGROUND /INTERSCOPE, TIM MCGRAW (CURB) SNOW PATROL o A PUT YOUR RECORDS ON IT GET IT SHAWTY HOW TO SAVE LIFE 6 42 SAY RIGHT 37 3 8 6 43 6 HILT 8 8 20 THE FRAY IEPICI L7 CORINNE BAILEY RAE AP. NELLY FURTADO (MOSLEY /GEFFEN) o LLOYD THE INC. /UNIVERSAL MOTOWN) IT TONIGHT FAR AWAY CUPID'S CHOKEHOLD POP, LOCK & DROP IT ENDS 9 32 49 4 9 9 22 . Ltr NICKELBACK (ROADRUNNER 13 8 HUEY (HITZ COMMITTEE JIVE ZOMBA) HE ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS IDOL, "' C. P'+ O GYM CLASS HEROES iOECAYDANCE'FUELED BY RAMEN: ATLANTIC o BLACK HORSE & THE CHERRY TREE ITS NOT OVER STAND BEFORE HE CHEATS i'Ll 10 49 7 39 8 13 17 Úr KT LESS 10 16 / 1 . TUNSTALL (RELENT DAUGHTRY (RCA /RMG) RASCAL FLATTS (LYRIC STREET) CARRIE UNDERWOOD (ARISTA%ARISI SETTLIN' MAKES ME WONDER SUDDENLY I SEE RA 14 8 BECAUSE OF YOU O 40 9 21 2 11 14 1*r MAROONS (A&M /OCTANEIINTERSCOPE KT TONSTALL RELENTLESS VIRGIN) NE -TO (DEF JAM /IDJMG) SUGARLANG(MERCURY) ME WONDER GRAVITY CHANGE WHAT GOES AROUND...COMES AROUND bTi MAKES 15 11 13 12 12 1; 18 53 2 ® KIMBERLEY LOCKE (CURB /REPRISE) (AWAPF COLUMBIA) JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE (JIVE/ZOMBA) MAROONS (A&M;'OCTONE /INTERSCOPE JOHN MAYER WAITING ON THE WORLD TO CHANGE EVERYTHING BUY U A DRANK (SHAWTY SNAPPIN') ON THE HOTLINE 10 42 17 2 16 38 25 18 13 ' MICHAEL BUBLE 1143; REPRISE, LJ 1 PRETTY RICKY /ATL ANT -' JOHN MAYER OLUMBIA) 1r T -PAIN FEAT. YUNG JOC (KONVICT NAPPY BOY'JIVE ZOMBA) (BLUESTAR I'.. BEER IN MEXICO INTO THE OCEAN RAINCOAT I'M A FLIRT 35 12 14 11 24 14 11 15 9 39 BLUE OCTOBER ._REAL MOTOWN) KELLY SWEET (RAZOR & 1IE R. KELLY OR BOW WOW (FRAI T.I. & T -PAIN) (COLUMBIA /JIVE -ZOMBA, KENNY CHESNEY (BNA) LOOK AFTER YOU IRREPLACEABLE LIKE A BOY POPPIN' 12 11 15 12 13 18 6 40 32 20 O Ttr BEYONCE COLUMBIA) lJ !EPIC) CIARA (LAFACE / ZOMBA) CHRIS BROWN FEAT. JAY BIZ (JIVE /ZOMBA) THE FRAY AROUND NEVER ALONE ICE BOX ANYWAY WHAT GOES AROUND...COMES 19 6 19 41 41 16 17 12 LADY ANTEBELLUM 16 11 MARTINA MCBRIDE (RCA NASHVILLE) JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE (JIVE ZOMBA) FEAT. OMARION (T. U. G ,COLUMBIA) O PLEASE DON'T GO U + UR HAND FOOLED AROUND AND FELL IN LOVE YOU 42 16 21 15 7 17 10 24 42 Tnï PINK (LAFACE / ZOMBA) ROD STEWART 1J RMG) LLOYD FEAT. LIE WAYNE (THE INC /UNIVERSAL MOTOWN) TANK (GOOD SAME,BLACKGROUND (UNIVERSAL MOTOWN) CD RAE MY LITTLE GIRL I TRIED THIS AIN'T A SCENE, IT'S AN ARMS BUDDY 51 20 15 16 10 tUr 18 17 13 3 BY RAMEN /ISLAND)9.'L' TIM MCGRAW (CURB /REPRISE) MUSIO SOULCHILD (ATLANTIC) Q BONE THUGS -N- HARMONY FEAT. 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LIE WAYNE (TERROR SO(IAO/IMPERIALNIRGIIJ THE KILLERS (ISLAND /IDJMG) o DIG POP, LOCK & DROP IT OO1 GET IT SHANTY GLAMOROUS 38 5 4 13 5 3 10 IL) -. LLOYD (THE INC UNIVERSAL MOTOWN) INCUBUS (IMMORTAL. EPIC) FERGIE FEAT. LUOACRIS (WILL.) AM /A &M/1NTERSC(IP O HUEY (HITZ COMMIT o FROM YESTERDAY DON'T MATTER ICE BOX HOW TO SAVE A LIFE 6 2 25 6 4 11 31 27 15 56 54 52 30 SECONDS TO MARS (IMMORTALLVIRGIN) BASH IKONVICT /UPFRONT /SRC /UNIVERSAL MOTOWN. OMARION (T. U. G. /COLUMBIA) THE FRAY (EPIC) LAZY EYE BEAUTIFUL LIAR HOME WASTED g 13 7 6 3 29 6 57 50 5 NASHVILL' SILVERSUN PICKUPS (DANGERBIRD) BEYONCE A SHAKIRA (MUSIC WORLD /COLUMBIA) O DAUGHTRY (PL: !. CARRIE UNDERWOOD ARISTA ARISTA ) o BREAK IT OFF DASHBOARD 7 THIS IS WHY I'M HOT LIKE A BOY 8 6 14 8 5 33 4 58 49 7 MODEST MOUSE (EPIC) MIMS (CAPITOL) O CIARA ILAFACI & SEAN PAUL ARP 'TEE JAM.IDJ".AGI READ MY MIND CUPID'S CHOKEHOLD BETTER THAN ME SHE'S LIKE THE WIND 9 a 14 7 12 39 3 59 48 8 9 HINDER (UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC) LUMIDEE FEAT. TONY SUNSHINE THE KILLERS (ISLANDIIDJMG) GYM CUSS NEODES (DECAYDANCE FUELED BY RAMEWATLANTIC lAVAI O (TVT) 2 STEP OUTTA MY SYSTEM PRAYER OF THE REFUGEE -1 WITH LOVE 1 19 36 5 63 5 RISE AGAINST (GEFFEN) UNK (BIG OOMP /KOCH) o BOW WOW FEAT. T -PAIN & JOHNTA AUSTIN HALW:BIAS ¡ HILARY DUFF (HOLLYWOOD) m WALK IT OUT SNOW ((HEY OH)) PAIN LAST DOLLAR (FLY AWAY) 19 11 7 24 9 -_ 30 26 61 52 DAYS IJPJ E 11 UNK )(3IG 00MP -KOCH) RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS (WARNER BROS.i THREE GRACE ' I1'.1 MCGRAW (CURB) O FAMOUS LAST WORDS BUY U A DRANK (SHAWTY SNAPPIN') FERGALICIOUS ROCKSTAR 12 11) 18 6 6 37 32 29 62 2 MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE FERGIE I AM /A&M /INTERSCOPE) NICKELBACK ( ROADRUNNER) T-PAIN FEAT. YON G JOC (KONVICT/NAPPY BOYJIVE/ZOMBA) '- )WILL. O PARADE FACE DOWN U + UR HAND DOE BOY FRESH WELCOME TO THE BLACK 13 12 38 11 7 46 3 63 57 29 THE RED JUMPSUIT APPARATUS (VIRGIN) m PINK (LAFACE,iZOMBA) THREE 6 MAFIA FEAT. CNAMILLDNMRE ,HYPNOTIZE MINDS MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE (REPRISE) HEY THERE DEULAH GO GETTA SMACK THAT TOP BACK 16 6 14 8 39 31 28 64 59 13 PLAIN WHITE T'S (HOLLYWOOD) PA, AKON FEAT MINER WNW T r,1 SRCVNIVERSA. '. T.I. (GRAND HUSTLE /ATLANTIC) e YOUNG JEEZY FEAT. R. KELLY (CORPORATE THUGZ/DEA JAMA() 7 STARLIGHT THE WAY I LIVE BOSTON LOOK AFTER YOU 15 13 24 16 11 44 27 65 58 4 1"r AUAUSTANA (EPIC) THE FRAY MUSE (WARNER BROS.I BABY BOY DA PRINCE FEAT. UL800SIE (UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC) O'lYY/ (EPIC) WELL ENOUGH ALONE IF EVERYONE CARED I WANNA LOVE YOU YOU 15 10 19 12 41 41 21 66 51 14 CHEVELLE (EPIC) NICKELBACK(ROADRUNNER /ATLANTIC /LAVA) NON FEAt. SNOOP OOGG (K'' .:I, LLOYD FEAT. UC WAYNE (THE INC. / UNIVERSA, MOTOWN SNOW ((HEY OH)) WI1AT GOES AROUND...COMES AROUND HERE (IN YOUR ARMS) INTO THE OCEAN 14 17 42 3r' 24 67 55 16 17 24 17 12 HELLOGOODBYE(ORIVE III, .. BLUE OCTOBER (UNIVERSAL MOTOWN RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS (WARNER BROS.) JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE (JIVE: ZOMBA) RUBY IT'S NOT OVER 43 GRACE KELLY KISS THE GIRL 13 10 18 3 Al 40 8 1 KAISER CHIEFS B- UNIOUE UNIVERSAL MOTOWN, DAUGHTRY )ACA'RMO) MIKA ,i: ASABLANCA /UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC) O ASHLEY TISDALE (WALT PIANI THROW D'S ROCK YO HIPS PAIN IT'S NOT OVER SOME 44 43 3 69 66 14 19 17 16 8 0 ) 19 FEAT. /BME /REPRISE THREE DAYS GRACE (JIVE ZOMBA) DAUGHTRY (RCA I III BOY FEAT. POLOW DA DON (ZONE 4 /INTERSCrn'I CRIME MOB LIL SCRAPPY ICRUNK THE MISSING FRAME FACE DOWN WE FLY HIGH WE TAKIN' OVER 9 6 23 29 45 45 26 1 AFI (TINY EVIL WEI `i3 THE RED JUMPSUIT APPARATUS (VIRGINI JIM JONES (KOCH) DJ DIALED (TERROR SQUAD KOCH) BEFORE HE CHEATS KEEP HOLDING ON IN THE END TIME WON'T LET ME GO 46 42 19 4 22 4 ",. 25 30 AVRIL LAVIGNE (FOX/RCA /RMG) LINKIN PARK (WARNER BROS.1 THE BRAVERY SIS_ MG, CARRIE UNDERWOOD ( ARISTA CD A SCENE, AN RACE AN ARMS RACE SEXYBACK CHASING CARS THIS AIN'T IT'S ARMS THIS AIN'T A SCENE, ITS 47 47 33 El 72 67 47 22 23 20 L4., 22 10 12 PATROL (POLYDORNA&M, INTERSCOPE) FALL OUT BOY -J 31 RAMEN; ISLAND /ID -'.- FALL OUT BOY (FUELED BY I' I. '. IL LANDIIDJMG1 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE (JIVE /ZOMBA) SNOW I'M A FLIRT TICKS WAITING ON THE WORLD TO CHANGE ALL THE SAME 48 34 2 73 64 39 23 8 23 17 5 BRAD PAISLEY JOHN MAYER (AWARE/COLUMBIA) SICK PUPPIES '.IR ; VIRGIN) R KELLY DR BOW WOW (FEAT. 'Eta T -RANI )COLUMBIA (ARISTA O TEARDROPS ON MY GUITAR YEAR 3000 PARALYZER CANDYMAN 4 74 9 24 8 18 7 61 ' 24 o TAYLOR SWIFT (BIG MACHINE (DAYLIGHT /COLUMBIA) FINGER ELEVEN CHRISTINA AGUILERA (RCA/RMG) O O 10 PHANTOM LIMB LAST NIGHT LOST WITHOUT U MY LOVE 25 21 18 21 7 53 75 65 30 THE SHINS (SUB POP) 1*l O DIBOY FEAT. KEYSHIA COLE (BAD BOY /ATLANTIC) ROBIN THICKE (STAR TRAK/INIERSLL JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE FEAT. T,I. )JIVE /ZOMEA)

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POLOW DA DON (ZONE 4/INTERSCOPE) MAKE IT RAIN SMILE LET'S FALL IN LOVE AGAIN 1ir JUSTIN rl Summer Lave zoneA (87.0) 39 32 23' E8 82 11 FAT JOE FEAT. UL WAYNE (TERROR SOUADAMPERIALMRGIN. LILY ALLEN (CAPITOL) RACHEL BROWN (URBAN MUSIC GROUP/FACE2FACE) t:l ELLIOTT VA Wait For You HICKORY (705) 48 LIKE A BOY STUPID BOY PRETENDER The Kill (Bury Me) VIRGIN (65.0) - 45 & E-9 80 14 3 CIARA ( LAFACE/ZOMBA) KEITH URBAN (CAPITOL NASHVILLE) T. SMITH (VIRANT /FACE2FACE) t'.r LINKIN P What I've Done WARNER BROE. (67.9) - POP, LOCK & DROP IT LOST IN THIS MOMENT SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW/MY DESTINY Ver GEFFEN (70.3) 53 7 SO 88 3 14 41 HUEY (HITZ BIG RICH le KATHARINE MCPHEE (RCA /RMG) COMMITTEE /JIVE /ZOMBA) d (WARNER BROS. (NASHVILLE)/WRN) Pain ZOMBA (72.5) SMACK THAT REHAB THE WAY I LIVE 35 2 76 4i! 10 Thnks Fr Th Mmrs IDJMG (B7.2) AKON FEAT. BMNBM (NOJIICTAIPFRONT/SRCNNNERSALMOTOWN) 1 AMY WINEHOUSE (UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC) BABY BOY DA PRINCE FEAT. LIL BOOSIE (UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC) WALK IT OUT THNKS FR TH MMRS LET ME SEE SOMETHING ADULT TOP 40 43 2 UNK (BIG OOMP /KOCH) FALL OUT BOY (FUELED BY RAMEN /ISLAND /IDJMG) A.G. 8 WRECKLESS E.N.T. (WRECKLESS ENTERTAINMENT) Look After You EPIC (68.4) 15 WALK AWAY (REMEMBER ME) WIND IT UP COUNTRY BOYZ 43 42 29 81 24 PAULA DEANDA FEAT. THE BEY (ARISTA/RMG) GWEN STEFAN/ ( INTERSCOPE) BIG WYNN FEAT. GET COOL (WYNN) What Goes Armnd_.Comes Around ZOMBA(75.7) 16 2 STEP YOU KNOW I'M NO GOOD TONIGHT (TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT) 87 4 21 UNK (BIG OOMP /KOCH) AMY WBáH0U5E FEAT. GHBSTFACE MAN (UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC) SILVA JAGUAR (SILVA JAGUAR /RPM CONSULTING) U + Ur Hani ZOMBA(79.8) 17 YOU FIDELITY GOT BUMP IN DA TRUNK 23 90 16 ` 15 : LLOYD FEAT. LIL' WAYNE (THE INC. /UNIVERSAL MOTOWN) REGINA SPEETOR (SIRE /WARNER BROS.) SHELBY ST. JAMES FEATURING THE TRUTH (SHUGA SHACK) Ain't A Sc toe. Its An Arms Race IDJMG (65.8) 18 KOOL AID Belt! Than Me UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC (78.i) 20 STOLEN LADIES & GENTLEMEN 22 35 DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL (VAGRANT /INTERSCOPE) C:D SALIVA (ISLAND /IDJMG) LIL' BASS FEAT. JT MONEY (PIPELINE) Read My Mind IDJMG (69.5) 25 DOE BOY FRESH WHITE & NERDY INSIDE OUT Home FM (74.2) 30 P 27 '= 20 TMEí 6 MART FEAT.OIAABlLN11WIE (HYPNOTIZE M6JDS/COI1.8IA) WEIRD AL YANKOVIC (WAY MOBY /VOLCANO /ZOMBA) TEMAR UNDERWOOD (KINGS MOUNTAIN) CD t'sou Want To) Make A Memory IDJME (72.6) 32 HERE (IN YOUR ARMS) I TRIED WE WILL BECOME SIUIOUETIES/BE STia MY HEART 48 46 30 19 13 HELLOGBODBYE (DRIVE -THRU /SANCTUARY) BONE TWIGS- tPIIARMONY FEN( AKON (ROL SURFACEAMFRSCOPE) THE POSTAL SERVICE (SUB POP) ADULT COPITEMPORARY WE FLY HIGH HURT BUSSA MOVE 9B 89 29,; 19 11 : y11CHAE_ BU Everything REPRISE (65.6) 13 JIM JONES (KOCH) CHRISTINA AGUILERA (RCA /RMG) STEVE AUSTIN FEAT. TUM TUM (YMC) RUNAWAY LOVE GOOD DIRECTIONS COME CLOSE 50 36 19 18 1 ) Alone 51; (71.7) 16 LUDACRIS FEAT. MARY J. BLIGE (DTP /DEF JAM/IDJMG) BILLY CURRINGTON (MERCURY) 3D (BODY HEAD) TO GO HOME My Little Girl CURB /REPRISE (82.6. 18 12 E M. WARD (MERGE) Just To Feel That Way OMS (71 8) 20 POP 100: The =p top singles & tracks. according to mainstream top 40 radio audace impresions measured by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems. and HURT February Song REPRISE (7t8) 21 sa es compilec oy Sieben SoundScan. See Chart Legend for rules and explanation_. P' 2007. VLU Eusiness Media, Inc. and Nielsen SoundScan, Inc. All 43 15 richts reservec POP 100 AIRPLAY: Legend located below chart. SINGLES SALES: Ills data is red to compile both the Billboard Hot 100 and Pop 100. CHRISTINA AGUILERA (RCA/RMG) MODERN FOCK See Chart Legand =r rules and explanations. z. 2007, VNU Business Media. Inc. All rights reserr_d. NITPREDICTOR: See Chart Legend for rules and (- THIS IS WHY I'M HOT .....-_v...,.....: ,... elolanations. C 2057. 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SALES GATA COMPILED BY APR 21 3- 2007 o Top mr 13&13/HIP-HOP AI_13U !VI S,,. Title It' RTIST ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER / DISTRI3UTINÇLABEL (PRGE). UPRINT B NUMBER / OISTRIBUTIN3 LABEL (PRICE) GREATEST SNOOP DOGG Treatment] BEYONCE 1 Tha Blue Carpet 32 25 32 B'Day El DOGGYSTYLE /GEFFEN 008023 / INTERSCOPE (13-S8) o WKS GAINER COLUMBIA 90920" /SONY MUSIC (18.98) HOT SHOT MARY J. BLIGE The Breakthrough 1 PAUL WALL Gel Money Stay True 2 53 46 DEBUT 12 MATRIARCH /GEFFEN 005722' /INTERSCOPE (13.98/8.98) i1rISHAHOUSE/ASYLUM /ATLANTIC 101555/AG 1B.9 BRIAN MCKNIGHT Ten -IMBALAND 3 57 53 -imbaland Presents Shock Value WARNER BROS. 44468 (18.93) ,OSLEY/BLACKGROUND 008594`/ NTERSCOPE (13.98) ® TRICK DADDY YOUNG BUCK 52 4`_ Back By Thug Demand Buck The World 1 III SLIP -N- SLIDE /ATLANTIC 838.5`/AG 118.98; ( -UNIT 008030' /INTERSCOPE (13.98) JIM JONES Of My Environment) 'VARIOUS ARTISTS NOW 24 3 56 52 Hustler's P.O.M -E. (Product ® KOCH 5964 (17.98) EMI /SONY BMG /UNIVERSAL /ZOMBA 88505 /CAPITOL (18.98) LIL' BOOSIE Bad _LOYD Love 2 59 50 Au _. Street III TRILL 68587 /ASYLUM (18.96) HE INC. /UNIVERSAL MOTOWN 003554 /UMRG (13.98) KIRK FRANKLIN Hero 'KON Konvicted El 2 64 60 m FO YO SOUL/G0SPO CENTRIC 7101' /ZOMBA (-L98) :ONVICT/UPFRONT /SRC/UNIVERSE.L MOTOWN 007968` /UMRG (13.98) T.I. King MUSK) SOULCHILD Luvanmusiq 1 58 in RAND HUSTLE /ATLANTIC 83800 /.G (1898) O ATLANTIC 105404/AG (18.98) YOUNG JEEZY 101 MIMS Music Is My Savior 2 69 64 Let's Get It: Thug Motivation m RPORATE THUGZ/DEF JAM 0044:T./RING ( 3.98) CAPITOL 84824 (12.98) LIL SCRAPPY - 2 RICH BOY 3 63 51 Bred 2 Die Born Live Rich Boy BME /REPRISE 48568 /WARNER BRG. (1898) ?ONE 4 008556` / INTERSCOPE (1(.98) B.G. AND THE CHOPPER on BOYZ We Got This ROBIN THICKE 1 66 5- 40 The Evolution Of Robin Thicke CHOPPA CITY 5700 /KOCH ('7.98) STAR IRAK 006146/INTERSCOPE (9.98) ; RICK ROSS Port Of Miami JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE n s 1 Futu reSex /LoveSou d © SLIP -N- SLIDE /DEF JAM 006984' /ICJMG (13.96 .115E 88062*/ZOMBA (18.98) SUNSHINE ANDERSON ANTHONY HAMILTON 13 68 53 49 Sunshine At Midnight Southern Comfort MUSIC WORLD 010 (15.98) MEROVINGIAN 002 /IMPERIAL (17 98) MONICA The Makings Of Me MARQUES HOUSTON Veteran 1 69 63 :6 J 78960' /RMG (18.98) T.U.G. /UNIVERSAL MOTOWN 007925/UMRG (13.98) SLIM THUG PRESENTS BOSS HOGG OUTLAWZ REDMAN 4 70 60 52 Serve & Collect Red Gone Wild BOSS HOGG OUTLAWZ 5525 /KOCI- (17.98) DEF JAM 003309/IDJMG (13.98) I LIL' FLIP HAYSTAK Crackavelli I Need Mine $S STREET FLAVOR/40 WEST 7920/S. REET LEVEI (15.98) ASYLUM 43269 /WARNER BROS. ;18.98) PROJECT PAT J MOSS E8 67 Crook By Da Book: The Fed Story 17 HYPNOTIZE MINDS /COLUMBIA 90010 /50ÁY MUSIC (18.98) PAJAM /GOSPO CENTRIC 87214/ZOMBA (18.98) VARIOUS ARTISTS AMY WINEHOUSE To Black 65 NOW 23 21 Back SONY BMG STRATEGIC MARKETING GROUP /El. I /UNIVERSALJZOMBA 01750 /SONY MUSIC (18.98) UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 008428 /UMRG (10.98) N E -YO Words GERALD LEVERT 1 74 67 36 In My Own 16 13 In My Songs DEF JAM 004934' /IDJMG 13.98) it ATLANTIC 100341/AG (18.98) ELISABETH WITHERS JOSS STONE 4 75 It Can Happen To Anyone 17 4 Introducing Joss Stone BLUE NOTE 68171 /BLG (1'.98) VIRGIN 76268 (18.98) O i.; & MJG I 13 8BALL Ridin High 4 For a complete listing of the Hot R&13,1íp -Hop Albums, check out www.billboard.com ¡if 8 N BAD BOY SOUTH /BAD BOY 8397)`/AG (18.98) CORINNE BAILEY RAE 23 16 Corinne Bailey Rae 3 CAPITOL 66361 (12.98)

110. YOUNG JEEZY 22 17 The Inspiration 1 Topp CORPORATE THUGZ/DEF JAM 007227' /IDJMG (13.98) jft CIARA 25 21 Ciara: The Evolution 1 131_UES AI_I3UIVIS ." LAFACE 03336 (18.98)' /ZOMBA .vom,._,..,_., :..;. DEVIN THE DUDE 15 9 Waitin' To Inhale 9 Titla J PRINCE /RAP -A -LOT 4 LIFE 68563 /ASYLUM (17.98) ARTT U!!!3 3a IMPRINT O NUMBERER PISTO I UTI'/1 I ROIL CRIME MOB 26 18 10 Hated On Mostly 10 CRUNK/G'S UP/REPRISE 44298.WARNER BROS. (18.98) #1 KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD 10 Days Out: Blues From The Backroads S WKS PRODIGY Of The Mac 9 9¡ Return THE INFAMOUS 5534/KOCH (17.98) STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN AND DO JBLE TROUBLE 2 15 The Real Deal: 3reatest Hits Vol. 1 LEGACY N'.. 'IC THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. 1 20 1 Greatest Hits BAD BOY 101830'/AG (18.98) © NEW KOKO TAYLOR Old School PRETTY RICKY ALLIGATOR 4915 26 20 Late Night Special 1 BLUESTAR /ATLANTIC 94603/AC (18.98) KEG' MO' Suitcase MACY GRAY ONE HAVEN/EPIC 77621/RED INK 14 BIG 14 WILLIAM/GEFFEN 008576 /INTERSCOPE (13.98) SOUNDTRACK Black Snake Moon BABY BOY DA PRINCE NEW WEST 6105 27 14 Across The Water 14 a EXTREME/TAKE FO/UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 007608/UMRG (13.98)0+ TOMMY CASTRO Painkiller FANTASIA BLIND PIG 5111 30 26 Fantasia 3 J 78962/RMG (18.98) THE DEREK TRUCKS BAND Songlinas ELLIOTT YAMIN COLUMBIA 92844/SONY MUSIC 29 17ç; Elliott Yamin 11 HICKORY 90019 (18.98) THE ROBERT CRAY BAND Live From Across The Poad BIRDMAN & LIL WAYNE NOZZLE /VANGUARD 79815/WELK 33 23 Like Father, Like Son 1 CASH MONEY/UNIVERSAL MO -OWN 007563 /UMRG (13.98) Forever Gold: Ray Charles: Liie DIDDY 34 24° Press Play 1 BAD BOY 63864/AG (18.98) ETTA JAMES The Definitive Collection SOUNDTRACK 10 HIP-0 /CHRONICLES 004010 /UME Dreamgirls 1 Er 31 22 MUSIC WORLD /COLUMBIA 88953 /SONY MUSIC (18.98) CHRIS WHITLEY & JEFF LANG Dis vocation-- Blues ROUNDER 612191 37.,29.11 MARY J. BLIGE Reflections (A Retrospective) MATRIARCH /GEFFEN 008112' / INTERSCOPE (11981 COCO MONTOYA Dirty Deal PACE CHRISTINA AGUILERA ALLIGATOR 4913 o54 48 31 Back To Basics 2 SETTER RCA 82639/RMG (22.98) 13 JOHN HAMMOND Push Comes To Shave 'IUCK PORCH 64741/BLG OMARION 21 1 T.U.G. /EPIC /COLUMBIA 81038' /SONY MUSIC (18.98) 14 RUTHIE FOSTER The Phenomena Ruthie Fo%er DV; GLUE CORN 70602 NAS 1 CI38 :0 ¡ Hip Hop Is Dead DEF JAM /COLUMBIA 007229'/IOJMG (13.98) SUSAN TEDESCHI 14 Hope And Dedre TAMIA VERVE FORECAST 005111/VG I Between Friends 9 33 PLUS 1 3784 /IMAGE (15.98) BOW WOW rif42 31 The Price Of Fame 2 COLUMBIA 87932/SONY MUSC (18.98)

43 UNK Beat'n Down Yo Block 21 (17.91) ®r BIG OOMP 5973/KOCH BETWFFN THE BUl LETS rgeo-gec bi Ihoa'd.con- SOUNDTRACK Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls 4 -P ATLANTIC 94676/AG (18.98) STEPHEN MARLEY EDITION LIFTS BEYONCE 18 SPECIAL 18 Mind Control - GHETTO YOUTHS/TUFF GONG /UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 008354;UMRG (13.98) The deluxe edition of "B'Day" g'ides Beyoncé from Beyoncë s video anthology. JAY -Z 1 MIF44 32 Kingdom Come ROC- A- FELLA/DEF JAM 008645 /IDJMG (19.98) O to No. I on Top R &B /Hip -Hop A_bums as sales Paul Wall earns the Hot Shot Debut at No. 2 VARIOUS ARTISTS Interpretations: Celebrating The Music Of Earth, Wind & Fire 28 11111d8 STAR 2294 /CONCORD (1819) increase more than tenfold at com stores (32 -1). on the chart with "Get Money, Stay True.' The TYRESE (AKA BLACK-TY) 34 Alter Ego 4 with remixes rapper's second major r° giro J Recharged and 78963/RMG (18.98) JILL SCOTT No. 1 or- Top 43 3) Jill Scott Collaborations 3 six new songs, it's the album's lease enters at HIDDEN BEACH 00019 (18..S.8) JOHN LEGEND second week atop the list fol- Rap Albums and No. 8 en 3E Once Again is 1 1111L° G.O.O.D. /COLUMBIA 80323/30NY MUSIC (18.98) lowing its initial September re- The Billboard 200 with LUDACRIS 3 Release Therapy U 2 DTP /DEF JAM 007224/IDJM3 (13.98) lease. Beyoncé pushed the re- 92,000 sold. His last album, THA DOGG POUND Dogg Chit 24 GANGSTA ADVISORY 5539 /KOCH (17.98) isst a with stops at NBC's "The People's Champ," sta_-t- CHRIS BROWN 4 =r 71 Chris Brown © 1 "Today" and CBS' "The Early ed at Ne. 1 on the big chart JIVE 82876 /ZOMBA (18.98) It VARIOUS ARTISTS with a heartier 176,000 un -ts 4' 18 Eminem Presents: The Re -Up R 2 Show." VH1 Soul jumped in SHADY 007885 / INTERSCOPE (13.98) THE GAME with several airings of clips in 2005. -Raphael George 3 21 Doctor's Advocate 1' GEFFEN 007933` / INTERSCOPE (13.98)

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TITLE TITLE ARTIST TI ST IgLOST WITHOUT U PROMISE #1 LOST WITHOUT U RUBIN ThIi KL CIARA (LAFACE/20MBA) 'EWES RUBIN MILKE - BUDDY 20Y CAN'T GET ENOUGH I::IN MY SONGS MUS10 SOULCHILD (ATLANTIC) TAMIA (PLUS 1 /IMAGE) GERALD LEVERT (ATLANTIC) I'M A FLIRT 28 TOP BACK BUDDY R. KELLY OR BOW WOW (FEAT. T.I. 8 T -PAIN) (COLUMBIA/JIVE /ZOMBA) T.I. (GRAND HUSTLE /ATLANTIC) MUSID SOULCHILD (ATLANTIC) BUY U A DRANK ( SHAWTY SNAPPIN') TAKE ME AS I AM PLEASE DON'T GO T-PAIN FEAT. YUNG JOC (KONVICT /NAPPY BOY / JIVE/ZOMBA) MARY J. ELIGE (MATRIARCH /GEFFEN/ INTERSCOPE) 11111 TANK (GOOD GAME /BLACKGROUND /UNIVERSAL MOTOWN) DON'T MATTER IIWIPE ME DOWN TAKE ME AS I AM AEON (KONVICT/UPFRONT /SRC /UNIVERSAL MOTOWN) LIL' BOOSIE FEAT. FOX% A WEBBIE (TRILL/ASYLUM /ATLANTIC) I.. MARY J. ELIGE (MATRIARCH /GEFFEN/ INTERSCOPE) THIS fS WHY I'M HOT iAND I AM TELLING YOU I'M NOT GOING . . I ' AND AM TELLING YOU I'M NOT GOING MIMS (CAPITOL) JENNIFER HUDSON (MUSIC WORLD /COLUMBIA) JENNIFER HUDSON (MUSIC WORLD/COLUMBIA) LIKE A BOY IFI WAS YOUR MAN STRUGGLE NO MORE (THE MAIN EVENT) CIARA (LAFACE / ZOMBA) JOE (JIVE /ZOMBA) . ANTHONY HAMILTON, JAHEIM 8 MUSID SOULCHILD (ATLANTIC) ROCK YO HIPS ONE IF I WAS YOUR MAN CRIME MOB FEAT. LIL SCRAPPY (CRUNK/BME/REPRISE/WARNER BROS.) TYRESE (J /RMG) ® ® JOE ( JIVE/ZOMBA) BECAUSE OF YOU IILIKE THIS CAN'T GET ENOUGH NE -YO (DEF JAM /IDJMG) KELLY ROWLAND FEAT. EVE (MUSIC WORLD/COLUMBIA) ó= TAMIA (PLUS 1 /IMAGE) 2 STEP WE TAKIN' OVER MAKE YA FEEL BEAUTIFUL UNK (BIG OOMP /KOCH) 10 I11 DJ KHALED (TERROR SOUAO/KOCH) RUBEN STODDARD (J/RMG) LAST NIGHT COME WITH ME MIWHAT'S MY NAME DIDDY FEAT. KEYSHIA COLE (BAD BOY/ATLANTIC) SAMMIE (ROWDY /UNIVERSAL MOTOWN) BRIAN MC KNIGHT (WARNER BROS.) PLEASE DON'T GO no.IT'S ME SNITCHES CHANGE ME TANK (GOOD GAME /BLACKGROUND /UNIVERSAL MOTOWN) 8W172 BEAR (UNIVERSAL MOTOWN) RUBEN STODDARD (J/RMG) POP, LOCK & DROP IT IRREPLACB LE SHOO BE DOO (NO WORDS) HUEY (RITZ COMMITTEE /JIVE/ZOMBA) El BEYONCE (COLUMEABIA) i MACY GRAY (WILL. I.AM/GEFFEN) YOU lu ON THE HOTLINE 22` mums WHEN I SEE U LLOYD FEAT. LIL' WAYNE (THE INC. /UNIVERSAL MOTOWN) PRETTY RICKY (BLUESTAR /ATLANTIC) FANTASIA (J/RMG) POPPIN' WALK IT OUT Sí,- FREDIRREPLACEABLE CHRIS BROWN FEAT. JAY BIZ (JIVE /ZOMBA) 1 UNK (BIG OOMP /KOCH) BEYONCE (COLUMBIA) THROW SOME D'S 8 ` STRUGGLE NO MORE (THE MAIN EVENT) MORE THAN FRIENDS RICH BOY FEAT. POLOW DA DON (ZONE 4 /INTERSCOPE) P ANTHONY HAMILTON, JAHEIM 8 MUSID SOULCHILD (ATLANTIC) DIE JACKSON (ORPHEUS) ICE BOX 9 ( GIVE IT TO ME SIMPLE THINGS OMARION (T. U.G. /COLUMBIA) TIMBALAND (MOSLEM/BLACKGROUND /INTERSCOPE) ELISABETH WITHERS (BLUE NOTE/VIRGIN) OUTTA MY SYSTEM 19 WE RIDE ((I SEE THE FUTURE)) FISTEN BOW WOW (COLUMBIA) MARY J. ELIGE (MATRIARCH /GEFFEN) BEYONCE (MUSIC WORLD /COLUMBIA) GET IT SHAWTY 3n MAKE YA FEEL BEAUTIFUL FORCE OF NATURE LLOYD (THE INC. /UNIVERSAL MOTOWN) 9 I RUBEN STODDARD (J/RMG) SUNSHINE ANDERSON (MUSIC WORLD) WHEN I SEE U 20 36', CHANGE ME IllDEEPER STILL FANTASIA (J /RMG) 4If 20 .I RUBEN STODDARD (J/RMG) RICK JAMES (STONE CITY) 1ST TIME 14r CIRCLE ME WHAT WE(VIRGIN'RE GONNA DO NOW YUNG JOC FEAT. MARQUES HOUSTON 8 (BLOCK/BAD BOY SOUTH/ATLANTIC) IIIIIMARQUES HOUSTON (T.U.G./UNIVERSAL MOTOWN) r JOSS STONE FEAT. COMMON ) GO GETTA STRAIGHT TO THE BANK 1 BECAUSE OF YOU YOUNG JEEZY FEAT. R. KELLY (CORPORATE THUGZ/OEF JAM/IDJMG) 50 CENT (G- UNIT/ INTERSCOPE) ® NE -YO (DEF JAM/IDJMG) UPGRADE U I WANNA LOVE YOU SEPTEMBER BEYONCE FEAT. JAY -Z (COLUMBIA) AEON FEAT. SNOOP DOGG (KONVICT/UPFRONT /SRC /UNIVERSAL MOTOWN) I11111 KIRK FRANKLIN (STAX/CONCORO)

IN MY SONGS rimGLAMOROUS . I APOLOGIZE GERALD LEVERT (ATLANTIC) FERGIE FEAT. LUDACRIS (WILL.LAM /A&WINTERSCOPE) 111 K- CI PARTY LIKE A ROCK STAR I'M THROWED SHOP BOYZ (ONDECIVUNIVERSAL REPUBLIC) PAUL WALL FEAT. JERMAINE DUPRI (SWISHAHOUSE /ASYLUM /ATLANTIC) UNGALO)

o +a Pliovi B BY TITLE O ARTIST (IMPRINT ' PROMOTION LABEL), ARTIST (IMPRINT / PROMOTION LABEL) See chart legend for rules and explanations. Yellow indicates recently tesed title. LET'S FALL IN LOVE AGAIN DON'T MATTER indicates New Release. t 14 # RACHEL BROWN (URBAN MUSIC GROUP/FACE2FACE) 3 A AKON (KONVICT/UPFRONT /SRC /UNIVERSAL MOTOWN) ARTIST'T d' /LABEL (Score I Chart Rank THIS IS WHY I'M HOT 2 20 CRYSTAL DOVE STARRING D CE GAMBLE (KINGS MOUNTAIN) MIMS (CAPITOL) R8B /HIP -BOP AIRPLAY 3 TONIGHT (TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT) LAST NIGHT 13 Buy SILVA JAGUAR (SILVA JAGUAR /RPM CONSULTING) BIDDY FEAT. KEYSHIA COLE (BAD BOY /ATLANTIC) You A Drank (Shawty Snappin) ZOMBA (84D) 4 COUNTRY BOYZ GLAMOROUS Like A Boy ZOMBA (73.1) 7 -4 11 BIG WYNN FEAT. GET COOL (WYNN) FERGIE FEAT. LUDACRIS (WILL.LAM /ABM / INTERSCOPE) Rock Yo Hips WARNER BROS. (73.8) 8 THROW SOME D'S n ICE BOX Betake 01 You IDJMG (77.1) 9 5 i 21 RICH BOY FEAT. POLOW DA DON (ZONE 4 /INTERSCOPE) OMARION (T.U.G. /COLUMBIA) 2 Stec LOCH (74.5) 10 6 WHAT BOYZ LIKE IGIVE IT TO ME PIT 8 CROW (BLACK 8) TIMBALAND (MOSLEM/BLACKGROUND /INTERSCOPE) Dotta My SystEm COLUMBIA(69.3) 18 7 GOT BUMP IN DA TRUNK BUY U A DRANK ( SHAWTY SNAPPIN') I Let It Shawty UNIVERSAL MOTOWN (85.3) 19 SHELBY ST. JAMES FEAT. THE TRUTH (SHUGA SHACK) T -PAIN FEAT. YUNG JOC (KONVICT /NAPPY BOY /JIVE /ZOMBA) IF (Phen I See You HMG (82.3) 20 .BUSSA MOVE YOU STEVE AUSTIN FEAT. TUM TOM (YMC) LLOYD FEAT. LIU WAYNE (THE INC. /UNIVERSAL MOTOWN) 1st Time ALAN -IC (87.4) COME CLOSE 21 Can t Set Enough IMAGE (79.8) 27 3D (BODY HEAD) . -YO (DEF JAM /IDJMG) LISTEN III10 OUTTA MY SYSTEM We Takn' Over KOCH (79.3) 35 BEYONCE (MUSIC WORLD/COLUMBIA) BOW WOW (COLUMBIA) , , GET TO THE MONEY TRIED COR e With Me UNIVERSAL MOTOWN (82.8) 36 REEC (BULLS EYE/FACE2FACE) BONE THUGS -N- HARMONY FEAT. AEON (FULL SURFACE/ INTERSCOPE) dr } -t BOSSMAN CIAO It To Me IIERSCOPE (83.2) 42 I ON THE 12 . HOTLINE DL (TRIPLEBEAM) PRETTY RICKY (BLUESTAR /ATLANTIC) alit Anonymous IDJMG (80.3) 56 THIS IS Diamonds IDJMG (84.5) 1 WHY I'M HOT SAY IT RIGHT 60 MIMS (CAPITOL) NELLY FURTADO (MOSLEY/GEFFEN / INTERSCOPE) . Beautiful Liar COLUMBIA (87.0) 69 INSIDE OUT GO GETTA 1 4 'Ii TEMAR UNDERWOOD (KINGS MOUNTAIN) YOUNG JEEZY FEAT. R. KELLY (CORPORATE THUGZ/DEF JAM /IDJMG) RHYTHMIC AIRPLAY I REMEMBER... THE WAY I LIVE I MELI'SA MORGAN (LU ANN /ORPHEUS) BABY BOY DA PRINCE FEAT. LIL B00SIE (UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC) . DIVA It To Me IN- ERSCOPE (80.3) 6 MII'M ON IT THROW SOME D'S Buy You A Drank (Shawty Snappin') ZOMBA(72.E) 7 16 LENARD FEAT. PAPA REU (CLEARVISION) RICH BOY FEAT. POLOW DA DON (ZONE 4/INTERSCOPE) . Be:a)se Of You IOJMD(77.1) KOOL AID MAKE IT RAIN 9 LIL' BASS FEAT. JT MONEY (PIPELINE) FAT JOE FEAT. LIL WAYNE (TERROR SOUAD /IMPERIAL/VIRGIN) I Tried INTERSCOPE (70.3) 11 BOY LOOKA HERE LIKE A BOY Go Getta IDJMG (65.5) 14 6 RICH BOY (ZONE 4/INTERSCOPE) CIARA (LAFACE /ZOMBA) . Lill( A Boy ZOMBA (72.8) 18 BUY U A DRANK (SHAWTY SNAPPIN') 8 LOST WITHOUT U Beautiful Liar COLUMBIA (76.0) 22 T-PAIN FEAT. YUNG JOC (KONVICT /NAPPY BOY /JIVE /ZOMBA) ROBIN THICKE (STAR TRAK/INTERSCOPE) 2 Ste) KOCH (74.5) 23 20 DIAMONDS GET IT SHAWTY When It Was Me HMG (70.9) 26 FEAT. YOUNG JEEZY (DESERT STORM /DEF JAM/IDJMG) LLOYD (THE INC. /UNIVERSAL MOTOWN) Hock Yo Hips WARNER BROS. (67.7) 31 I I'M A FLIRT WHAT GOES AROUND...COMES AROUND R. KELLY FEAT. T.I.8 T-PAIN (COLUMBIA/JIVE /ZOMBA) JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE (JIVE /ZOMBA) We Takin' Oie- LOCH (73.0) 35 I'M THROWED BEAUTIFUL LIAR 22 i Anonymous IDJMG (75.6) 37 PAUL WALL FEAT. JERMAINE DUPRI (SWISHAHOUSE /ASYLUM /ATLANTIC) BEYONCE 8 SHAKIRA (MUSIC WORLD /COLUMBIA) . Too Lime Too Late UNIVERSAL MOTO 76.7 GIVE IT TO ME 2 STEP TIMBAIAND (MOSLEY /BLACKGROUND/INTERSCOPE) UNK (BIG OOMP /KOCH) . BUDDY I'M A FLIRT ADULT RIB AND RHYTHMIC AIRPLAY: 72 adult RUB stations and 68 rhythmic stations are electronically monitored by Nielsen - RUBIO SOULCHILD (ATLANTIC) R. KELLY OR BOW WOW (FEAT. T.I. 8 T-PAIN) (COLUMBIA/JIVE/ZOMBA) . Broadcast Data Systems. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. © 2007 - VNU Business Media, Inc. and Nielsen SoundScan, Inc. HOT R &B/HIP -HOP SINGLES SALES, this data ILIKE THIS CUPID'S CHOKEHOLD is used to compile Not RUB /Hip -Hop Songs. © 2007 VNU Business Media. Inc. and Nielsen SoundScan, Inc. HITPREDICTOR: KELLY ROWLAND FEAT. EVE (MUSIC WORLD/COLUMBIA) 2007, Promosquad and HitPredictor are trademarks of GYM CUSS HEROES FEAT. PATRICK STUMP (DECAYDANCE/FUELED BY RAMEWATLANTIC/LAVA) Think Fast LLC.

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AIRPLAY SALES DATA MONITOREC BY COMPILED BY APR Nielsen Nielsen 21 Broadcast Data SbundScan Systems

IHC)1- A COUNTRY. SONGS Tottr TITLE Artist tt Ntÿ oW Y5 TITLE Artist ÑV PRODUCER (SC NSWRITEE) IMPRINT & NUMBER / PFOMOTION LABEL a ;á PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT 4 NUMBER i PROMOTION LABL_ u Carolina Fain WASTED Carrie Underwood ISN'T SHE 1 2 3 20 C,BLACK,CAROJNA MAIM (R.BO'ERB*_DIIGLAS,R.HARBIN) OO EQIIT( M.BRIGHT (T.VERGES,M,GFEEN,H.LINDSEY) O ARISTA/ARISTA NASHVILLE° O Cole Deggs And The Lonescme LAST DOLLAR (FLY A1PAY) Tim McGraw I GOT MCRE 2 1 COLUMBIA CIF M.WRIGHT,R.R !THET FOID (J.CCILPbn.RUTHERFORD) 2 B. GALLIMORE,T.MCGRAW,DSMITH W.K.ALPHIN) O Luke Brean BEER IN MEXICO Kenny Chesney ALL MY FRIENDS SAY -0 1 NASHVILLE 3 3 1 J STEVENS (L.:RVAMJ.S- EVENEL.V _30N) O CAPITOL B. CANNON,K.CHESNEY (K,CHESNEY OF. Big Town Rascal Flatts A LITTLE MOREYOL Little 34 STAND 4 4 4 W.KIRKPATRIC :,LRT_E aG TOM NWT

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Dart Rank ARTIST ve.YC,iïS Chart Rank ARTIST/Titie, LABEL(SCOIgi Chart Rath AFTI£T/TidNLPs, -',Score)

19 COUNTRY GJOd l lreCti0ns MERCURY (90.7) 9 Don't Make Me WARNER BROS. (87.7)

21 A A RIE TA NASHVILLE (18.4) 10 : artin' With Me RCA (88.2) Wasted ARIETE NASHVILLE (81.91 1 Won an's _ove

CAPITOL NASHVILLE 11 A Different World LYRIC STREET (76.7) 25 Last Dollar (Fly Away) CI RB (82.7) 2 Loor Trip 41one (82.6)

12 I Wonder BRA (84.8) 26 Stand LYRIC STREET (81_9) 4 A Feel r' Like That ract. NASHVILLE (81.8) 13 Tough BROKEN BOW 08.31 29 Setttin' MERCURY (89.6) 5 Ticks AR STA NA AF RILL E 185.1) 36 M n DAS (11.8) 14 Say Yes BIG MACHINE (84.0) Anyway RCA (80.4 6 rents Q4Sn A.. 38 d Are ROCKY .:OMFORT ( 38.4) 15 Dirty Girl BRA (79.9) III Walt For YOU UNIVERSAL SOUTH (91.5) 7 Fir Ou' Who 'fo lr Friends 52 17 I Wanna Feel Something CAPITOL NASHVILLE (85.2) High Maintenance Woman SHOW Don NASHVILLE 178,7) 8 La,ky Mar. COLUMBIA (94.7)

Don't miss another important BETWEEN THE BL LLETS wjessen ä billboard.co R&R COUNTRY DAI IY UNDERWOOD REIGNS OVER CHART AGAIN Carrie Underwcod continues to draw ap- artist to hit the summit with thr °e songs plause on Hot Country Songs as "Wasted" be- from a major label debut album since t1-2 1= Dixie Chicks did it in 1998 -99 with "There's UPI)A'' ' comes her third No. 1. Up 1.5 million audi- Vis t www.radioandrecords.corn tc sign up for your free daily ence impressions, `Wasted" amasses 35.2 Your Trouble," "Wide Open Spaces" ani CoJntry Radio Blast. million impressions during the tracking w`ek "You Were Mine," all from the "W de Ope-i RnclioanclRec;orCls.c;oi1 (2 -1), and follows previous chart-toppers 'Je- Spaces" set. She's now just one chart- topper sus, Take the Wheel" (six weeks at ND. I) and shy of matching the four No. is ky Brooll

1101 e OUNTHY SONGS: 123 country sfanons are electon'ically mon,tored by Nielsen Broadcast Drte "Before He Chea:s" (five weeks at No. 1). Jn- & Dunn from their debut, "Brand New Syste no.:rs a day, 7 days a week. Airpower awa ded to songs appearing in the top 20 on both with increases in detections and 2 the E TS Airplay and Audience charts for the first time both The duo is the only act in th 17 -yea:- audie.ce. S 2007 VNU Business Media, Inc. All -Ights reserved, derwood's "Don't Forget to Remember Me" Man.' HITPFEDICTOR: © 2007 Promosquad and HitP-edicto are trademarks of Think Fast LLC. peaked at No. 2. old Nielsen BDS era to rake in foir No. Is ALL CHARTS: See Chart Legend for rules and ettplanaions. The new No. 1 makes Underwood the first from a debut album. -Wade Jesseat

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www.americanradiohistory.com HO- LATIN SONGS: A panel of 101 stations (26 . 12 tropical, 13 Latin rhythm, 50 regional Mexican) are electronically monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 2007 VNU Business Med.a, Inc. AI -fights reserved TOP LATIN ALBUMS: See Charts Legend for rules and explanations. x, 200Z VNU Business Media. Inc. and Nielsen SoundScan. Inc. All rights reserved. AIRPLAY SALES DATA MONITORED BY COMPILED BY RPR 21 Nielsen Nielsen Broadcast Data SoundScan 1 Systems HOT LAPIN SONGS. x5 0 3Q TITLE Artist u Ñ TITLE Artist PRODUCER á3 3ó (SONGWRITER' IMPRINT / PROMOTION I. L: ,HoDUCER dd 3 53 .5 3ó (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT / PROMOTION LABEL ET. 1E1! LA LLAVE DE MI CORAZON Juan Luis Guerra Y 440 TUS PALABRAS Banda El Recodo 26 38 26 1.s ENTERTAINMENT GROUP (L. L.DIAZI F5900155 ESE Conjunto Primavera ESO Y MAS r_ 2 3 j 41 47 Joan Sebastian 27 EN It, FONO''. '(F AASTIP'. r555115N1 HUBART 'BALBOA IGUAL QUE AYER Rakim & Ken -Y PÉGATE 3 5 28 23 39 Ricky Martin 4IAGNIFICOS (KAASOUEZ.J. NIEVES,R. PINA) UNIVERSAL LAN After a slight slip 23

SOLA NOT SNOT 10 9 Hector "El Father last week, 1 TE QUIERO ASI Bettaida DEBUT (hayanne revers- O GREATEST SI NOS QUEDARA POCO TIEMPO MI CORAZONCITO Aventura GAINER es trajectory and 48 37 26 O ,NTOS,L.SANTO., PREMIUM LATIN ERES PARA MI soars into the top 13 16 Julieta Venegas DAME UN BESO Intocable LOPEZ (J.VENEGAS.A.TIJOL?. O35 31 SONY BMG idI five with an EMI TELEVISA DETALLES Los Tigres Del Norte SI TU ME QUISIERAS 7 6 4 impressive 32% 39 41 DEL NORTE (N. HERNANDEZ) FONUI ® 32 OCHOA ,UOVAL) WARNER LATINA SHORTY SHORTY audience gain. 14 12 Xtrem. DON'T MATTER Akon EJADA) 37 33 LA CALLE /UNIVI THIAM,A.LAWSON) KONVICT/UPFRONT/SRC /UNIVERSAL MOTOWN BENDITA TU LUZ Mann DON'T CRY Toby Love 3 11 8 45 31 13 GONZALEZ (F.OLVL IA.S . :rLL1 WARNER LAt. .-EL (MBE JE-,s _5 PINEDA RAMOS,E.PEREZ,NEW WRITER) After an absence SONY BMG NORTE PEGAO Wisin & Yandel Featuring Los Vaquero, COMO YO NADIE TE HA lo 9 10 9 35 28 AMADO Yuridia JJ19', .. -I S rSTY (J .L. MORERA. VEGUI_L a of more than 32 16 L WY /MAL, SONY BMG NORTE LA NOCHE PERFECTA El Chapo De Sinaloa two years, LOBO DOMESTICADO 12 14 32 33 Valentin Elizalde E. PEREZ ER RUBID) L Q 21 Betzaida makes UNIVERSAL LATINO MANDA UNA SENAL 12 7 2 Man an impressive TODO CAMBIO Camila EOLVERA,A.GONZALEZ (F.OLVERA) WARNER L- ILGAI 37 O SONY BMG NORTE debut at No. 29 ® QUE HICISTE Jennifer Lopez Y AQUI ESTOY 15 15 13 44 K -Paz De La Sierra Duet With Ana Gabriel M.ANTHONY.J.REYES (J.JEYES.J.ROMERO M.ANTHONY) 38 31 31 EPIC /SONY BMG Nh1 with its second - SIERRA (r, GABRIEL) DISH /EDIMONSA ME MUERO La 5A Estacion charting Hot TAL VEZ 24 211 30 Los Primos De Durango A.AVILA 39 30 34 29 (N.JIMENEZ) SONY BMG -:. SAPID (5 VILLARREAL) Latin single. MAR INTERNACIONAL TU RECUERDO Ricky Martin Featuring La Mari De Chambao Y COMO ENTENDER 15 5 7 40 36 Jennifer Pena T. TORRES (T.TORRES) SONY BMG NI - Q 23 555,J .PENA (J.PENA,O. BERMUDEZ) ONISISIOIl AMAR ES LO QUE QUIERO David Bisbal HOY 1E 8 11 6 TENGO GANAS DE TI Ricardo Montaner S.KRYS (D.DE MARIA) 41 36 23 23 UNIVERSAL Lo.I'r. /SSE (M GALLARDO) EMI TELEVISA LA OTRA Ilegales Featuring Monchy Y Alexandro Y 17 17 22 17 SI VOLVIERA A NACER Alegres De La Sierra V.00TEL +.r 43 46 33 (V.DOTEL.J. C. CAMPOS) UNIVERSAL I NSTED IPSOSAI EDIMAL VIVA BEAUTIFUL LIAR /BELLO EMBUSTERO Beyonce & Shaklir MIL HERIDAS 20 29 18 50 Cuisillos STARGATEB.KNOWLES.SNRBFWAl(R (B.KNOWEES.MSERIKSENTE.HERMANSENA GMDSTI DENCH) MUSIC WORLD/CO AMBIP SUS- Q - 43 MUSART 185! 55: TE LO AGRADEZCO, PERO NO Alejandro 19 4 6 Sanz Featuring Shake., ME DUELE ESCUCHAR TU NOMBRE Grupo Montez De Durane,, A. SANZ,L. PEREZ (A -SALAZ) WARNER LAI.'.- 44 In her second O Ivy Queen A LA PRIMERA 25 20 15 RE-ENTRY PERSONA Alejandro Sanz M. PESANTE (M.I. PESANTE) week on this O WARNER LATINA SIENTE EL BOOM Tito "El Bambino" Featuring Randy chart, Fanny ES 21 28 21 COSA DE EL Graciela Beltran DEKTER,OJ GIANN (TITO EL BAMBINO,R. ORTIZDE LA GHETTO,JOWELL.DJ GIANN) 46 O EMI TELE, lu's "No Te Pido m ® LISTED (C.D AL .151 ANP! IDIOTA 16 UN COMO YO Duelo FLACA O GORDITA Olga Tanon 22 19 Flores" zooms 47 44 35 34 O. I. TREVINO A . -L JR. (M. A.PEREZ,R.TREVIZO) ANIMO - 0 TANON,J.L. MORIN,V.DOS SANTOS) ANI'. 38 -24 with a CADA VEZ CUE PIENSO EN TI Los Creadorez Del Pasito Duraguense De Alfredo Ramirez EL HOMBRE DE NEGRO Los Huracanes Del Norte 23 16 18 3 48 46 40 40 L ASSANTE) DISH EDIMO'. 48% increase s HURACANES DEL NORTE (M.RUVALCABA) UNIVISION NO TE PIDO FLORES Fanny Lu TODO SE DERRUMBO 38 24 49 29 24 Pepe Aguilar .I. GAVIRIA (J.GAVIRIA) 23 UNIVERSAL LAIII. 1M.ALEJANDRO,A.MAGDALENA) EMI TELEVISA CHICA VIRTUAL DJ Nelson Featuring Artangel ENAMORADO 25 22 27 22 Gustavo Laureano '.E _SON 10 49 50 49 (N.DIAZ.A. SANTOS) UMS /UNIVERSAL LA- : RTEEN.G. LAUREANO (G.LAUREANO,MARTEEN) UNIVERSAL LATINO

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I\111 1IP.] Ch1ti ..n R .. Sales data compiled from a comprehesive pool of U.S. music merchants by Nielsen tM_ SoundScan. Sales data for R &B /hip -hop retail charts is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan from a national subset of core stores that specialize in those genres. ARTIST ARTIST Albums with the greatest sales gains TITLE IMPRINT 8 NUMBER this week. / DISTRIBUTING LABEL (PRICE) 3 3ó TITLE IMPRINT &NUMBER /DISTRIBUTING LABEL #1 ELLIOTT YAMIN 1 3 KINGS OF LEON OR mWhere included, this 3WKS ELLIOTT YAMIN HICKORY MIST award indicates the title 900191818L BECAUSE OF THE TIMES RCA 03776/RMG GAINER with the chart's largest unit increase. ARCADE FIRE 3 5 MODEST MOUSE NEON BIBLE '.1ERGE 485 114 981 WE WERE DEAD BEFORE THE SHIP EVEN SANK EPIC 66135° /SONY BMG PACE Where included, this award indicates the title with NOT NOT ANTHONY HAMILTON AMY WINEHOUSE SETTER SOUTHERN 1IEROVI',UTAN 117.95 the chart's biggest percentage growth. COMFORT 002 IMPERIAL BACK TO BLACK UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 008428/UMRG THE SHINS 5 11 TIMBALAND WINCING HEATSEEKER Indicates album entered top 100 of The Billboard 200 THE NIGHT AWAY SUB POP 705` (15.98) TIMBALAND PRESENTSSHOCK VALUE MOS LEY/BLACKGROUND 008594 *7NTERSCOPE GRADUATE and has been removed from Heatseekers chart. PRODIGY 2 2 PAUL WALL RETURN THE MAC THE OF INFAMOUS 5534/KOCH (17.98) GET MONEY STAY TRUE SWISHAHOUSE /ASYLUM /ATLANTIC 101555/AG PRICING /CONFIGURATION GREATEST HELLOGOODBYE 8 35 YOUNG BUCK ZOMBIES! ALIENS, VAMPIRESI DINOSAURS' :r41V, 'lIR1; 6 2 2 CD /Cassette prices are suggested list or equivalent prices, which are projected from GAINER BUCK THE WORLD G -UNIT 008030' /INTERSCOPE wholesale prices. 'd after price indicates album only available on DualDisc. CD/DVD CEU ® SHADOWS FALL qi RCA-' + after price indicates CD /DVD combo only available. DualDisc available. + CEU URBAN .TUNE._ ARBUCKS ENTERTAINMENT 361129/SIX DE.: ;LL THREADS OF LIFE ATLANTIC 115516/AG CD /DVD combo available. indicates vinyl LP is available. Pricing and vinyl LP POISON THE WELL NEW BLACK SABBATH availability are not included on all charts. VERSIONS FERRET 080 (13.98) THE DIO YEARS WARNER BROS. 116668 /RHINO SILVERSUN PICKUPS 10 16 ARCADE FIRE CARNAVAS DANGERBIRD 009' (11.98) NEON BIBLE MERGE 285 M aNE0i JASON ALDEAN 13 89 CHEVELLE ti, JASON ALDEAN BROKEN BOW 7657 (12.981 RADIO AIRPLAY SINGLES CHARTS 0 VENA SERA EPIC 02698 /SONY MUSIC Compiled from a national sample of data supplied by Nielsen Broadcast Data TRACY LAWRENCE 12 10 STATIC -X Systems. Charts are ranked by number of gross audience impressions, computed by 40 FOR THE LOVE ROCKY COMFORT 90012 (12.98) CANNIBAL REPRISE 101710/WARNER BROS. cross -referencing exact times of airplay with Arbitron listener data. The exceptions INSANE CLOWN POSSE 12 7 3 NEIL YOUNG THE TEMPEST PSYCHOPATHIC 4063 (15.98) 12 5 4 are the Rhythmic Airplay, Adult Top 40, Adult Contemporary, Modern Rock and LIVE AT MASSEY HALL 1971 REPRISE 43328 /WARNER BRCS. O+ Adult R &B charts, which are ranked by total detections. CLUTCH 13 4 2 FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE Songs showing an increase in audience (or detections) FROM BEALE STREET TO OBLIVION ISSACHAR 00449/DRT (15.98) CI TRAFFIC AND WEATHER VIRGIN 74420 over the previous week, regardless of chart movement. UNK 14 9 27 BEYONCE BEAT'N DOWN YO BLOCK BIG OOMP 5973/KOCH (17 98) ® B DAY i(ILEUM/1 90920'/SONY MUSIC RECURRENT RULES BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE 10 17 53 ©BRANDI CARLILE Songs are removed from The Billboard Hot 100 and Hot 100 Airplay charts THE POISON TRUSTKILL 74 (13.98) THE STORY COLUMBIA 00802 /SONY MUSIC simultaneously if they have been on The Billboard Hot 100 for more than 20 weeks JUANITA BYNUM 16 11 51 and rank below No. 50. Songs are removed from the Hot R &B /Hip -Hop Songs and A PIECE OF MY PASSION FLOW 9301 (17.98 Hot R &B /Hip-Hop Airplay charts simultaneously if they have been on the Hot MARTIN SEXTON R &B /Hip-Hop Songs for more than 20 weeks and rank below No. 50. Songs are 110 SEEDS KITCHEN TABLE 005 (15.98) removed from the Pop 100 and Pop 100 Airplay charts simultaneously if they have 18 14 3 been on the Pop 100 for more than 30 weeks and rank below No. 30. Titles are ARMCHAIR APOCRYPHA FAT POSSUM 1058' (16.98 removed from Hot Country Songs if they have been on the chart for more than 20 LITTLE BIG TOWN C) 26 79 weeks and rank below No. 10 in detections or audience, provided that they are not THE ROAD TO HERE EQUITY 3010 (13.98) still gaining enough audience points to bullet. Songs are removed from Hot Latin DANE COOK ARTIST CD 28 89 El TITLE IMPRINT &NUMBER: DISTRIBUTING LABEL Songs if they have been on the chart for more than 20 weeks and rank below RETALIATION COMEDY CENTRAL 0034 (18.98 CD /DVD) No. TYPE O NEGATIVE CELTIC WOMAN 20. Songs on Latin Airplay charts are removed if rank 1 #1 after 20 weeks they below 21 15 4 1 10 tOWKS A NEW JOURNEY MANHATTAN 751',C BLG No. 20 in both audience and detections. Descending songs are removed from Adult DEAD AGAIN STEAMHAMMER 9919/SPV (17.98) Contemporary if they have been on the chart for more than 20 weeks and rank UMPHREY'S MCGEE ® CEU CEU URBAN JUNGLE /HEAR / STARRUCKS ENTERTAINMENT 261129/SIX DEGREES below No. 15. if they have been on the chart for more than 26 weeks and rank below THE BOTTOM HALF SCI FIDELITY 1056 (16.98) No. 10, if THA DOGG POUND LOREENA MCKENNITT or they have been on the chart for more than 52 weeks and rank below 23 6 2 3 2 20 DOGS CHIT GANGSTA ADVISORY 5539 (17.98) AN ANCIENT MUSE QUINLAN ROADNERVE 007920/VG No. 5. Songs are removed from the Adult Top 40, Adult R &B, and Hot Dance Airplay /KOCH charts if they have been the for 15 PETER BJORN AND JOHN VARIOUS ARTISTS on chart more than 20 weeks and rank below No. 29 5 4 5 23 CELTIC FAVORITES MADACY SPECIAL PRODUCTS 52247 /MADACY (No. 20 for Rhythmic Airplay and Modern Rock) or if they have been on the chart WRITERS BLOCK ALMOSTGOLD 002 (12.98) JIM JONES HAYLEY WESTENRA for more than 52 weeks and rank below No. 10. 25 19 22 5 3 4 HUSTLERS NIKE. (PRODUCT OF MY ENVIRONMENT) KOCH 5964 (17.98) CELTIC TREASURE DECCA 008560/UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP TAMIA RODRIGO Y GABRIELA SINGLES SALES CHARTS 20 21 6 4 27 26 RODRIGO Y GABRIELA ATO 21557 BETWEEN FRIEREIS P_US I ,TH.: 1`.1A GE '5- 98) The top selling singles compiled from a national sample of retail store, mass MORMON TABERNACLE CHOIR/ORCHESTRA ATTEMPLE SQUARE (JESSOP) GIPSY KINGS merchant, and internet sales reports collected, compiled, and provided by Nielsen 31 6 6 11 SHOWRME! MUSIC OF BROADWAY AND HOLLYWOOD r,1 lOMON TABERNACLE CHOIR 4973811 (17.98) PASAJERO NONESUCH 79959 /WARNER BROS. SoundScan. For R &B /Hip-Hop Singles Sales, sales data is compiled from a national DU subset panel of core R &B -Hop stores by Nielsen SHAW- BLADES CIRQUE SOLEIL /Hip Soundscan. 28 23 5 11 18 INFLUENCE VH1 CLASSIC 00106 (13.98) Q CORTEO CIRQUE DU SOLEIL 25 a Singles with the greatest sales gains. PATTY GRIFFIN THE STARLITE SINGERS 29 21 9 9 7 6 CONFIGURATIONS CHILDREN RUNNING THROUGH ATO 0036 (15.98) IRISH FAVORITES MADACY SPECIAL PRODUCTS 52835, MADACY AIR VARIOUS ARTISTS CD single available. O Digital Download available. (u1 DVD single available. 30 22 5 9 6 POCKET SYMPHONY AIRCHEOLOGY 83761' /ASTRALWERKS IRISH TENORS MADACY SPECIAL PRODUCTS 52839 /MADACY O Vinyl Maxi -Single available. 0 Vinyl single available. 0 CD Maxi -Single (17.96 EMERSON DRIVE VARIOUS ARTISTS available. Configurations are not included on all singles charts. 31 33 9 11 8 19 COUNTRIFIED MONTAGE 90088 /MIDAS (13.98) RHYTHMS DEL MUNDO: APE VISION/UNIVERSAL MUSIC WHIP-0 007891/UME BLOC PARTY PATRIZIO HITPREDICTOR 32 24 9 13 32 A WEEKEND IN THE CITY VICE 94598' (15.981 THE ITALIAN NEXT PLATEAU /UNIVERSAL MOTOWN 006240 /UMRG Indicates title earned HitPredictor status in that particular format based on CHIMAIRA 3 SOUNDTRACK research data provided by Promosquad. Songs are tested online by Promosquad 33 27 5 13 15 RESURRECTION FERRET 078 (13.98) a THE LOST CITY UNIVISION 310968/UG using multiple listens and a nationwide sample of carefully profiled music JARVIS COCKER VARIOUS ARTISTS consumers. Songs are rated on a 1 -5 scale; final results are based on weighted DREAMS JARVIS ROUGH TRADE 1 (15.98) CELTIC RCI 41674 positives. Songs with a score of 65 or more (75 or more for country) are judged EL -P FIJI to have Hit Potential; although that benchmark number can fluctuate per format 35 16 3 5 12 5 I'LL SLEEP WHEN YOU'RE DEAD DEFINITIVE JUS 137' /15 9' XPERIENCE BLIND MAN ADUNO 62007 /PUNAHELE based on the strength of available music. For a complete and updated list of TED LEO AND THE PHARMACISTS current songs with Hit Potential, commentary, polls and more, please visit 36 25 3 LIVING WITH THE LIVING TOUCH AND GO 302` (15 - www. h itp red i ctor.com. SHERWOOD NE -ENTRY DANCE CLUB PLAY CD A DIFFERENT LIGHT '.IYSPACE 10001 (11.98) JOHNNY CASH Compiled from a national sample of reports from club DJs. 50 6 JC: JOHNNY CASH SUN /MADACY SPECIAL PRODUCTS 52550 /MADACY (1318 CD/DVD) s Titles with the greatest club play increase over the s previous week. VARIOUS ARTISTS 39 35 15 FOREVER SOUL RUB MADACY SPECIAL PRODUCTS 52253/MADACY (13.98) ARTIST ATREYU TITLE (IMPRINT / /AMI ti ti 11411- 40 38 11 Q33á DISTRIBUTING LABEL) THE BEST OF ATREYU VICTORY 345 (16 98 CD'DVD)'D ALBUM CHARTS HANNAH MONTANA CRAIG MORGAN 2= #1 Recording Industry Assn. Of America (RIAA) certification for net shipment of 14WKS TV SOUNDTRACK ,WALT Dlti';. r, LITTLE BIT OF LIFE BROKEN BOW 7797 (18.98) 500,000 albums (Gold). RIAA certification for net shipment of 1 million units DISNEYMANIA 5: MUSIC STARS SING DISNEY... THEIR WAY! J DILLA 2 1 2 (Platinum). itr> RIAA certification for net shipment of 10 million units (Diamond). 42 30 3 VARIOUS ARTISTS (WALT DISNEY) RUFF DRAFT STONES THROW 2153` (15.98) Numeral within Platinum or Diamond symbol indicates album's multi -platinum level. KIDZ BOP 11 VARIOUS ARTISTS 3 4 7 For boxed sets, and double albums with a running time of 100 minutes or more, the 43 41 11 KIDZ BOP KIDS !RAZOR U TIE) CELTIC FAVORITES MADACY SPECIAL PRODUCTS 52247 /MADACY (13.981 RIAA multiplies shipments by the number of discs and /or tapes. Certification for JUMP IN! a 3 13 EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY TV SOUNDTRACK (WALT DISNEY net shipments of 100,000 units (Oro).. 1 Certification of 200,000 units (Platino). 44 32 7 ALL OF A SUDDEN I MISS EVERYONE TEMPORARY RESIDENCE 099* (15.98) Certification of 400,000 units (Multi -Platino). RADIO DISNEY JAMS 9 PITBULL 5 5 4 45 43 22 VARIOUS ARTISTS (WALT DISNEY EL MARIOL FAMOUS ARTISTS 2820 * /TVT (18.98) SINGLES CHARTS HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL MANOWAR 8 6 65 RIAA certification for 500,000 paid downloads (Gold). RIAA certification for TV SOUNDTRACK (WALT DISNEY) NOS OF WAR MAGIC CIRCLE 85602 /SPY (17.98) 1 million paid downloads (Platinum). Numeral within platinum symbol indicates song's THE CHEETAH GIRLS 2 VAR US ARTIS S 7 8 34 multiplatinum level. i RIAA certification for net shipment of 500,000 singles (Gold). IOT SOUNDTRACK (WALT DISNEY) a1 HITS OF THE SOS ANO 605 MADACY SPECIAL PRODUCTS 52251/MADACY (13.98) RADIO DISNEY: PARTY JAMS RODRIGO Y GABRIELA 8 9 26 MUSIC VIDEO SALES CHARTS 48 36 17 VARIOUS ARTISTS (WALT DISNEY) RODRIGO Y GABRIELA ATO 21557 (13.98) RIAA gold certification for net shipment of 25,000 units for video singles. BABY EINSTEIN: LULLABY CLASSICS COLD WAR KIDS 9 7 152 RIAA gold certification for net shipment of 50,000 units for shortform or 46 48 13 THE BABY EINSTEIN MUSIC BO% ORCHESTRA (BUENA VISTA/WALT DISNEY) ROBBERS & COWARDS DOWNTOWN 70009 (13.98) longform videos. RIAA platinum certification for net shipment of 50,000 units for DISNEYMANIA 4: MUSIC STARS SING DISNEY .. .THEIR WAY! B.G. AND THE CHOPPER CITY BOYZ lo 11 53 video singles. RIAA platinum certification for sales of 100,000 units for shortform 50 34 6 VARIOUS ARTISTS (WALT DISNEY) °.'. WE GOT THIS CHOPPA CITY 5700/KOCH (17.98) or longform videos. KIDZ BOP 10 1 14 36 KIDZ BOP KIDS (RAZOR & TIE)

TOP POP CATALOG: Catalog Albums 2 -year old titles have fallen below No. 100 The EASTER FAVORITES DVD SALES /VHS SALES/VIDEO RENTALS are that on 12 10 9 Billboard 200 or re- issues of older albums. Total Weeks column reflects combined weeks title has CEDARMONT KIDS (CEDARMONT KIDS/SONY MUSIC RIAA gold certification for net shipment of 50,000 units or $1 million in sales at appeared on The Billboard 200 and Top Pop Catalog Albums. TOP INTERNET: Reflects physical albums ordered through Internet merchants, based on data collected by Nielsen SoundScan. Catalog DISNEY'S: MICKEY MOUSE suggested retail price. RIAA platinum certification for sales of 100,000 units or $2 13 12 24 CLUBHOUSE titles are included. TOP DIGITAL: Release sold as a complete album bundle through digital download TV SOUNDTRACK (WALT DISNEY) million in sales at suggested retail price. IRMA gold certification for a minimum services. BILLBOARD.BIZ CHART: See Chart Legend for rules and explanations. 2007, VNU Business Media, inc. and Nielsen SoundScan, Inc. All rights reserved. sale of 125,000 units or a dollar volume of $9 million at retail for theatrically released BIG IDEA'S VEGGIETALES: A VERY VEGGIE EASTER 14 15 5 VEGGIETALES IDEA) programs; or of at least 25,000 units and $1 million at suggested retail for (BIG RADIO DISNEY JAMS 8 non -theatrical titles. IRMA platinum certification for a minimum sale of 250,000 15 48. VARIOUS ARTISTS units or a dollar volume of $18 million at retail for theatrically released programs, and (WALT DISNEY) of at least 50,000 units and $2 million at suggested retail for non -theatrical titles.

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MgrTITLE Principal Performers 1711.TIST 8EL 8 NUMBER / DISTRIBUTING LABEL (PRICE) LABEL / DISTRIBUTING LABEL & NUMBER (PRICE) NUT SHOT ROCKET MAN: NUMBER ONES Elton John CEU CeU 1 DEBUT 1 2 - /STARRUCKE ENTE:TAINAENT 361129/SIX DEGREES (16.98) CHRONICLES /ROCKET /ISLAND /MERCURY/UME /UNIVERSAL MSC A VIDEO DIST 008660 (13.98 CD /DVD) URBAN JUNGLE/HEAR LIVE! THE LIGHT IT UP TOUR UNK Beat'n Down Yo Block 2 c R. Kelly 7 JIVE, IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT 3616 (19.98 DVDI &G OOMP 5973 /KOCH (17.98) GREATEST LIKE GIRLS 2 CRYSTAL VISION... THE VERY BEST OF STEVE :TICKS Stevie Nicks BOYS Boys Like Girls 2 05572 /SCNY MUSIC (1 -.98. REPRISE MUSIC VIDEO/WARNER MUSIC V SION 101885 (25.98 CD /DVD) GAINER COLUMBIA FAREWELL I TOUR: UVE FROM MELBOURNE Eagles SICK PUPPIES Dressed Up As Life 4 E 95 RHINO HOME VIDEO 70423 (29.9E DVD) FMR 89752NIRGIN (12.98) FOR MY VALENTINE GREATEST HITS Creed BULLET The Poison a 12, 74 (13.98) WIND -UP VIDEO /SONY BMG VIDEO 13103 (13.98 CD/DVD) ©.. 1RUSTKILL LIVE AT MASSEY HALL 1971 Neil Young MARTIN SEXTON Seeds e 4 REPRISE MUSIC VIDEO/WARNER MUSIC VISION 43327 (25.98 CD/DVDI its FITCHEN TABLE 005 (15.98) A NEW JOURNEY: LIVE AT SLANE CASTLE, IRELAND UMPHREY'S MCGEE The Bottom Half 7 1C Celtic Woman II MANHATTAN /EMM MUSIC VIDEO 75106 (-9.98 DVD) 0 CI FIDELITY 1056 (16.98) PETER BJORN AND JOHN ELVIS LIVES: THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT 9 Writer's Block 8 5 .LMOSTGOLD 002 (12.98) SPRING HOUSE VIDEO/EMM MUSIC VISEC 44759 (19.98 DVD) ® 8 LED ZEPPELIN MADINA LAKE From Them, Through Us, To You 9 1418. Led Zeppelin 2 ATLANTIC VIDEO /WARNER MUSIC VISION 70198 (29.98 OVER .`3 ROADRUNNER 18085 (11.98) THE JOHN BUTLER TRIO BESIDE YOU IN TIME Nine Inch Nails 1 2 Grand National 10 1 6 ARRAH 101649/AG (13981 INTERSCOPE VIDEO /UNIVERSAL MUSIC A VIDEO DIST. 838409 (19.98 Fr DI ® /ATLANTIC (TREME CELTIC WOMAN Celtic Woman 11 Haciendo Historia 11 2 5C ®''9 .A (13.98) ` CALLE 340011/ÚG MANHATTAN /EMM MUSIC VIDEO 44604 (19.98 DVD) PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE EMERSON DRIVE Countrified 12 "3 17) Rob Zombie 10 14 GEFFEN HOME VIDEO/UNIVERSAL MUSIC 8 VIDEO DIST. 001041 (18.98 SD(EVO) BONTAGE 90088 /MIDAS (13.98) . JARVIS COCKER Jarvis UNDER THE DESERT SKY Andrea Bocelli , 13 2: SOUGH 1 (15.98) SUGAR /DECCA/UNIVERSAL MUST 8 VIDEO DIST. 007831 (25.98 CD/D1/1) ®1:11 TRADE 6 DE GET READY: THE DEFINITIVE PERFORMANCES 1965 -1972 The Temptations ®E LOS CUATES SINALOA Puro Sierreno Bravo 14 :0 15 HIP -0 VIDEO/UNIVERSAL MUSIC 5 VIDEC DIST. 007422 (14.98 DVD) SONY BMG NORTE 04734 (11.98) SAY ANYTHING VENCEDOR Valentin Elizalde 29 ...Is A Real Boy 15 6 1 1111[11 UNIVERSAL LATINO /UNIVERSAL MUSIC 8 VIDEO DIST. 006611 (9.98 COW: I )OGHOUSE /J 7t805/BMG (11.98) EVERLIFE LIVE AT THE GREEK II Divo 13 7 Everlife 5 24 f BUENA VISTA 861590/WALT DISNEY (11.98) COLUMBIA MUSIC VIDEO /SONY EMG VIDEO 02290 (14.98 DVD) PHARPJACETE THE CONFESSIONS TOUR Madonna Ills 7 TED LEO AND THE Living With The Living 17 3 11 3 WARNER BROS./WARNER MUSIC VISION 44489 (25.98 COMM TOUCH AND GO 302 (15.98) LOVE CAN TURN THE WORLD: LIVE FROM SOUTH AFRIIA SHERWOOD Light ) Bill & G oria Gaither With The Homecoming Friends 4 A Different GAITHER MUSIC VIDEO/EMM MUSIC VIDEO 44740 (19.98 DVD) MYSPACE 10001 (11.98) IMOGEN HEAP SOUTH AFRICAN HOMECOMING Bill & G oria Gaither With The Homecoming Friends 75 Speak For Yourself 19 1 GAITHER MUSIC VIDEO/EMM MUSIC VIDEO 44738 (19.98 DVD) RCA VICTOR 72532 (11.98) MANOWAR 20 WE ARE... THE LAURIE BERKNER BAND The Laurie Berkner Band ©: 20 Gods Of War HEAR /RAZOR & TIE/SONY BMG VIDEO 86009 (16.98 OVO) MAGIC CIRCLE 85602 /SPY (17.98: THE VIDEOS: 1989 - 2004 Metallica RODRIGO Y GABRIELA Rodrigo Y Gabriela 21 ?4 13 ELEKTRA/WARNER GROS. /WARNER HOME VIDEO 38696 (19.98 DVD) ATO 21557 (13.98) THE BEST OF PANTERA: FAR BEYOND THE GREAT SOLTIERN COWBOYS' VULGAR HITS Pantera DRAGONFORCE Inhuman Rampage 22 ?1 1k3 ELEKTRA/RHINO HOME VIDEO /WARNER MUSIC VISION 73932 (18.98 C 1 /0.0) SANCTUARY 618034/ROADRUNNER (17.18) O* 10 DAYS OUT: BLUES FROM THE BACKROADS COLD WAR KIDS Robbers & Cowards 23 28 FI Kenny Wayne Shepherd REPRISE MUSIC VIDEO/WARNEF. MUSIC VISION 49294 (25.98 CD /DVDI DOWNTOWN 70009 (13.98) PULSE JONATHA BROOKE Careful What You Wish For 24 ';3 2 5 0 COLUMBIA MUSIC VIDEO/SONY BMG VIDEO 54171 (24.98 OVO) BAD DOG 60307 (17.98) THE INFORMATION FAMILY FORCE 5 Front/Party In The Back 25 22 7, Beck Business Up INTERSCOPE VIDEO/UNIVERSAL MUSIC 8 VIDEO DIST. 007576 (13.95 =0 /_VD) MAVERICK /MONO VS STEREO/GO -EE 49.62/WARNEF BROS. (13.98) & THE BURCEN ROCCO DELUCA I Trust You To Kill Me IRONWORKS 165 (12.98) CHIODOS All's Well That Ends Well HOT EQUAL VISION 136 (14.98 CD/DV)) C HILLSONG Mighty To Save: Live VICIEnC1_InS-, HILLSONG AUSTRALIA/COLUMBIA 8831R50NYMUSC (1798) )± TRACEY THORN Out Of The Woods ASTRALWERKS 83901' (16.98) TITLE GIRL AUTHORITY ARTIST (IMPRINT / PROMOTION LABEL) 33 1 6E -ENTRY Road Trip ZOE 431109/ROUNDER (14.98) ED 1 GO GETTA I 1 8 AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE 3 WKS YARN! HEN RAT. R KELLY CORPORATE MODES JAMMING 31 NEW Can't Stop The Machine NITROS 00030 (17.98 CD /DVD) O THIS IS WHY I'M HOT 6 1 RED MIRAS CAPITOL _,,,,..- End Of Silence ESSENTIAL 10807 (12.98) I'M A FLIRT 1' HIM, RIGHT HERE IN MY ARMS 3 7 2 LOS TERRIBLES DEL NORTE R. KELLY FEAT. T.I. A T-PAIN JIVE /ZOMBA 30 Corridos: Historias Nortenas 2 YOUNG JEEZY, GO GETTA I REDDIE 1969 (9.98) BEAUTIFUL LIAR 4 0 5 CHRISTINA AGUILERA, CANDYMAN MAYLENE AND THE SONS OF DISASTER BEYONCE A SHAKIRA MUSIC WORLD /COLUMBIA 3 I I ERBET 079 (13.98) RIGHT HERE IN MY ARMS 4 MAROONS, MAKES ME WONDER SEVENTH DAY SLUMBER HIM JIMMY FRANKS /UNIVERSAL REPU3LIC 5 AKON, DON'T MATTER Finally Awake IIEC 52705 (17.98) O LIKE A BOY 8 4 6 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE, WHAT GOES AROUND.. .COMES AROUND CIABA LAFACE /ZOMBA THE STOOGES The Weirdness AMY WINEHOUSE, You KNOW I'M NO 6000 VIRGIN 64848 (12.98) BECAUSE OF YOU T 7 11 3 YURIDIA NE -YO DEF JAM /IDJMG 8' DIDDY, LAST NIGHT Habla El Corazon SONY BMG NORTE 02496 (14.9E) READ MY MIND MADINA LAKE, HOUSE OF CARDS 8 16 5 THE KILLERS ISLAND /IDJMG KURT ELLING Nightmoves ..i. MIMS, THIS IS WHY I'M HOT CONCORD JAll 30138/CONCORD (18.99) DON'T MATTER 9 4 4 ARON KONVICT /UPFRONT /SRC:UNIVERSAL MOTOWN ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. Yours To Keep SCRATCHIE 3908 /NEW LINE (13.98) 2 STEP 3 CHRIS KNIGHT UNK BIG OOMP /KOCH 40 The Trailer Tapes DRIFTERS CHURCH PRODUCTIONS 0010 (16.48) POP, LOCK & DROP IT 11 15 4 GO GETTA IIUEV RITZ COMMITTEE /JIVE/ZOMBA YOUNG JEEZY, HAYSTAK Crackavelli STREET FLAVOR /40 WEST 7920'STREEE LEVE (1568) CANDYMAN R. KELLY OR BOW WOW, l'M A FLIRT 6 RCA/RMS THE KOOKS In Out CHRISTINA AGUILERA LIKE A BOY Inside / inside CIARA, VIRGIN 50723 /ASTRALWERKS (- 4.98) ITS NOT OVER 13 18 SAMMIE, COME WITH ME VS. LA MIGRA DAUGHTRY RCA/RMG LOS HUMILDES Los Humildes Vs. La Migra NEYO, BECAUSE OF YOU BCI LATINO 41593/BCI (6.98) ITS ME SNITCHES LEELAND SWIZZ BEATI UNIVERSAL MOIOWN HUEY, POP, LOCK A DROP IT 44 NE-ENTE' Sound Of Melodies ESSENTIAL 10812 (13.98) LOST WITHOUT U UNK, 2 STEP 16 23 TIM WILSON ROBIN TRICKE STAR TRAK/INTERSCOFE But I Could Be Wrong LLOYD, GET IT SHAWTY CAPITOL NASHVILLE 58526 (12.98) NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE 2 THIS IS WHY I'M HOT MAT KEARNEY AWARE /COLUMBIA MIMS, JOHNNY VICIOUS ThriveMix Presents: Electro THRIVEDANCE 90761 /THRIVE (19.98) COME WITH ME , ITS ME SNITCHES 17 19 5 SAMMIE ROWDY/UNIVERSAL MOTOWN KIM WATERS You Are My Lady SHANACHIE 5147 (18.98) 18 MAKES ME WONDER MAROON5 A&M /OCTONE/INTERSCOPE TITO NIEVES Canciones Clasicas De Marco Antonio Solis LA CALLE 330022/UG (13.98) GLAMOROUS 19 2 8 LORDI FERGIE FEAT. LUDACRIS WILL I. AM /AeM /INTERSCOPE The Arockalypse MARTINA MCBRIDE, ANYWAY THE END 080 (15.98) 7 WHAT GOES AROUND -..COMES AROUND SUGARLAND, SETTLIN' JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE JIVE/ZOMBA PANDA BEAR Person Pitch PAW TRACKS 14 (13.98) THE SWEET ESCAPE JOE NICHOLS, I'LL WAIT FOR YOU 21 22 12 GWEN STEFANI FEATURING ANON INTERSCOPE TIM MCGRAW, LAST DOLLAR (FLY AWAY)

GET IT SHAWTY WOMAN BREA.KIN3 & EN-ER NG Y _ _ N TOBY KEITH, HIGH MAINTENANCE LLOYD THE INC. /UNIVERSAL V10TOW4 samba beats. Enough ALAN JACKSON, A WOMAN'S LOVE Brazilian singer CéU makes people move -o her sultry /afro/soul la COLORFUL moved to buy her albLm, earning her chart ink for the first time at 23 24 2 people also were ROCCO DELUCA A THE BURDEN IRONWORKS CARRIE UNDERWOOD, WASTED No. ton the Heatseekers and Top Worlc Albums charts. Discover developing artists UPGRADE U TRACE ADKINS, LADIES LOVE COUNTRY BOYS making their inaugural chart runs each week in Breaking & Entering on Billboard.com. 3 BEYONCE FEATURING JAY -2 COLUMBIA EMERSON DRIVE, MOMENTS The best -selling albums by new and developing acts. defined as those who have never appeared in the too 100 of The Billboard 200. If a Heatseekers title GET BUCK reaches that level. it and the act's subsequent albums ate imedáely ireligible to appear on the Heatseekers chart. See Chart Legend for rules and 25 DIERKS BENTLEY, LONG TRIP ALONE YOUNG BUCK G- UNIT / INTERSCOPE e, pla rations. 7007. VNU Business Media, Inc. and Nielsen DnurtcEcan, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Chart Codes: CS (Hot Country Songs); HMO (Hot 100 Songs); LT (Hot Latin Songs); POP (Pop 100 Song and RBH (Hot R&B/Hip -Hop Songs). ESONG INDEX.. TITLE (Publisher - Licensing Org.) Sheet Music Dist., Chart, Position.

1 ST TIME 'Cranny Man bhing.lisk BMVMaI-ekMMus..hi :C ííl The Wheel, ASCAP. HL. Cm -1 CS 20:H'W75. POP 90 BMVSony /Al5 Cross neys. ASCAP:SIege Three Music, Music ASCAP/Wamer- Tamerlane Publishing, BMVYoung Basement FuPun, Sauik ASCAPMot ce DAME UN BESO Ser-Ca BMI) LT 31 LOST (I WITHOUT U Like Em Thicke, ASCAP/Dos- BMVCherry Lane. ASCAP), CLMML CS 36 JeeHlliWry MusicM. Inc BMVEMI Blackwood. BMI1), HUWBM, 21 DETALLES (Once Rios S.A. de C,V.,TN Ediciones. BMI) LT IMO DuettesMusic, ASCAP) H100 19. POP 37, RBH 1 SETTLIN' (Jennifer Nettles ASCAP./Dirkpit. BMVSongs Of S ' PCI- 7200H 28 ICE BOX 1. -: MUSIC. SESACNirginia LUCKY MAN (Careers-BMG Music Publishing. BMVNer- Bud Dog. ASCAP /Cfamaland, ASCAP/Music 01 TOUGH ASCAP EMI Aura, ASCAP/W8 Music, '.'reels BMVCurb Songs. ASCAP), WBM, DIAMONDS (J. Brasco. ASCAP/Little Deven, BMVNT vous BMVEMI April, P Worm Music ASCAPMew Sea Windswept. ASCAP) HL. CS 5. H100 58 nys BMVSarom Songs, ASCAP/Maddie ROyal Court Music ASCAP/ Chrstopher Mathew, Janes Gayle, ASCAP), HL/WBM, CS 17 SHE RANT RIGHT (Major Bob. ASCAP /Sweet Summer. TU 15 A . , Hico RECUERDO 1- ',n1IT ongs ASCAP/Young Music Music. BMVEzeke International Music. Jeezy Inc , BMVEMI April, ASCAP/Circle C. ASCAP/Full Circle, ASCAP/Warner- TUS PALABRAS ALL T NEED BMI /Keriokey Music. ASCAP/Universal Music Corpora- ASCAP/EMI Blackwood, BMVNo Question Entertainment. Tamerlane Publishing, BMVtee's Palm Tree Music. BMI) tion, ASCAP/Foray Music, SESAC), HVWBM, H100 23; ASCAPI HL H1(10 83 POP 87. RBH 59 WBM. CS 42 POP 20, RBH 17 A DIFFERENT WORLD '. BMVNEZ. MAKE R RAIN /loseph Cartagena. ASCAP/Reach Global, SHE'S UKE THE WIND (Plainview Diner, BMINery Tony ALL MY FRIENDS SAY rah Music Corporation. IF EVERYONE CARED Warner-Tamerlane Publishing, BMI " 1i'Cha Lynn, ASCA :arch Music, ASCAP/IVT Music Music. BMI) H100 53. OP 33 UMBRELLA MI Tull Circle, BMVBIack In BMVArm Your Dino. SOCAN2ero -G, SOCANBlack BLI I Watch. BMI). HL, CS 25 ASC lonev Publishin , BMVJOey 8 Ryan SHOO BE 000 (NO WORDS) (Happy Mel Boopys 'ippy Music, ASCAP) CS Diesel, SOCAWBIack Adder Music, SOCAN), WBM, DIRTY GIRL - Corporation ASCAP/Mem- Mus imerlane Publishing, BMI), WBM, Cocktail Lounge And Music, BMVZomba Songs. H100 20, POP 14 ping SOAP) r'Ur'77, iwood, BMVflano Wire H10Ú BMVStrangge Science Music. ASCAP/Some Wmie IF I WAS AMAR ES LO QUE OSIERS Mi Trocito De Mi Vida YOUR MAN (Sony; AN Tunes, ASCAP/EMI ME WONDER MAKES ",freers -BMG Music Publishing. Music, BM /Justin's Polite Music, ASCAP/EMI April, UN Io10TA COMO YO ' Ca, 13M1) LT 22 ...:.o uppers, S.LAaala Music, AS 1rC' P Stellar Songs ASCAP/Water Music Pub- DIXIE LULLABY akwood, BMVGreenhorse BMI/F- BMI), WBM, HI0084, ASCAP/Printz Polar. BMVSongs 01 Universal, BMVMs. UNTIL THE ENO OF TIME :Tennman Tunes, ' t,P) HL. RBH 32 sis. BMVDrum Groove, POP Marys. ASCAP /Jessyca Wilson Publishing. BMI(, ASCAPNirginia Beach, THE AMERICANS :mont Mail Pohlishing. I GOT MORE -ne -N-Cal. BMLSexy Tractor, BMVCaI IV MAKE YA FEEL BEAUTIFUL JN SE 22nd Publishing, HI/WBM, RBH 55 .: liner- Tamerlane Publish - A° Hl CS 55 ,n versai Music Corpporation, DOE BOY FRESH ASCAP."Ch,i, sr Super Sayin Publishing, ( SHORTIE LIKE MINE Shaniah Cymone Music. m chu ' - 'C/WBM Music, AND I AM TELLING YOU I M NOT GOING - lreamgiris. d. ASCAP), HL, CS 32 Re, BMVZomba L' .' HUWBM, RBH 44 ASCAP/EMI April, ASCAP/Babyboys Little Publishing SESAC' - 4H 52 ieamettes, IGUAL QUE AYER ./i i ASCAP/Sony/AN Discos, MANDA UNA SEPAL ,Jam ASCAP/WB Music, Company. SESACMoonlime South, SESAC/WBM UNTIL YOU COME BACK TO ME FBH31 iSawandi Music. ASCAP) LT 12 Music. SESAC/Naked Under My Clothes. r aonete Music. ANONYMOUS u. BM4litco ILL WAR FOR YOU (Coburn. BMVHarley Allen Music. (Sony DONT CRY ASCAP/Scarlito. ASCAP LT 34 ME AND GOD /AN Cross Keys, ASCAP/Drivers Ed, ASCAP/Chlysalis Music. ASCAP/Thown Tantrums, ri RBH BMVSony Tree, AMI), HL'WBM, 7, Music. ASCAP) 82 Jahgae Joints. /AN CS H100 77 ASCAP), HL, DON'T MAKE ME ,.,,. N. ASCAPBergBrain, SCAP/Uni- CS 18 ASCAP/Air Control Music, ASCAP HBM, POP 81 UPGRADE U it Tot ASACP/Music World. ASCAP -Yoga olleeggggers Slop, I'M A FLIRT (Shaggo. SESAC/Einrror. ASCAP/R.KeIIy, versa use orporanon. ASCAPBi Orange Dog, ME DUES ESCUCHAR TU SOMBRE (Not Listed) LT 44 SHORTY SHORTY (Univision, ASCAP) LT 8 Porno, ausic BJanice Combs Publishing BMVEMI i. c Lorporaton ASCAPNirginia 8Ml/NappyPuó ASCAP/Sony/ATV Cross Keys. ASCAP/Dimensional ME MUERO EMI April, ASCAP) LT 14 SIDELINE HO (First Avenue Music, PRS/BMG Songs, ASCAP/Royal BMVCmw Club Publishing, Blackwood. BMVTeam S Dot Publishing, BMitco Music. Coon Music. BMI), MI Latin, Music ch ' 09! ASCAP CS 19 CORAZONCITO (Premium ASCAP) LT 30 ASCAP/Demis Hot Songs ASCAP/EMI April. Music, BMVSongs Of Windswept Pacific. BMI/Solange ,rmon Productions. BMI) RBH 57 WBM H100 15 POP 30, ROH 3 DONT MATTER - ."aa11 Music. ASCAP/Famous MIL HERIDAS (Arpa, BMI) LT 43 ASCAP/Antonio Dixorrs Muzik, ASCAP/Anthony Nance MWPASCAP /Aeoela Be ANYWAY (Delemmava. BMVL'ile Des Autuers, PM THROWED (Paul Wall, ASCAP /2 Kingpins Publishing, Ince, ASCAP/EMI Longitude. AS( '- ',Iii HLH1002.1T33.POP3 MISSING YEARS (Songs 01 O'Brian, ASCAP /Big Loud Muzik ASCAP/E D Duz II BMWnderdogs Songs. BMVEMI April. ASCAP /(yader Boys Publishing. ASCAP), CAPBuckyMdClyde ASCAP) CS 6. H100 52. POP ASCAP/WB Music, ASCAP/Shaniah Cymone Music, Ri Bucks, ASCAPNolunleer Jam. ASCAP /Go -To -Del, AC 1P 1, p. BMVStrange Motel Music, ASCAP/Almo H'^ r uBH23 ASCAPEMI April, ASCAPBasa amba Music. ASCAP/Air ASCAPI CS 45 .r Tank 1176 Music, ASCAP/Black Fountain U + i APOLOGIZE (Virgin - ',SCAPAWB Music. Control Music ASCAP). HL/WBM, RBH 47 UR HAND MI Blackwood BMI/Pink Inside Pub- MISSING YOU 2007 (Alley Music Corporation, BMI/Car P), HLWBM, RBH 84 Fane AB STIM4(nball Music. AP/Midnight ' ASCAP/Sony /ATV I NEED YOU (Careers-BMG Music Publishing, BMVNer- " E lin America, BMVOuarlei ASCAP/Music Of Windswept SIENTE EL BOOM (T Bambino Music Publishing, vous Worm Music, BMVFamous ASCAP/Ed And Lucille ENAMORADO :amena ie IUU,shmgg BMI) LI 50 ASCAP/Markeem Music, ASCAP) CS 39 ASL i fV Discos ASCAP/Leon Blanco, S 50 MOMENTS (Graviton Music, SESAC , ERES PARA MI . ;ano, BMIÆmi MusicalS.A. de /Carnival Music BMVB, rlu Publishing. ASCAP ) LT 21 IN SW SONGS (D viddeVd,, BMI/Ramal, BMVNayr Publish- Gai ,.,p, Edicoes Musicals) LT 6 Group, SESAC/WB Music, ASCAP), WBM, CS 14: H100 SIMPLE THINGS ASCAP /Cherry Lane, ing Company, 666MVWarner-Tamerlane Publishing d 82 1 CI M, RBH 73 w ES COSA DE EL .sied) LT 46 BEAUTIFUL LIAR BELLO EMBUSTERO BMVSongs Of Universal, BMI), HLAVBM, RBH 24 ESE .ride Music, ASCAP)) IT MORE THAN FRIENDS (Lyric Masters 911 Publishing. SI NOS QUEDARA POCO TIEMPO (Unique Hits Too, WAIT FOR YOU 2 IN THA HOOD (Losing Composure, BMVStiII -N -The ESO Y MAS :: Musical, ASCAP/Edimusa, ASCAP) SESAC/Universal Lingo, ASCAP /Notting Hill. LAP Famous, ASCAP) LT 5 -LA' Anita J hh. wcr. ad,. -" (ICU Water, BMVGranny Man Publishing, BMI) BH 92 Ll ASCAP/Bocar, ASCAP) RBH 78 SI TU ME QUISIERAS : Music. ASCAP LT32 BMVIan Dench Music BMVSony /AN Music UK, PRS), /i INTO THE OCEAN (Paris On Paper Publishing, ASCAP) GP 85 MR. Is L Publishing. JONES (Who Mike Jones Music, BMV2 Playas SLAP ASCAP/Trac-N- WAITING ON THE WORLD TO CHANGE -ony HL, H100 9 LT 18 POP 9: RBH 71 H100 69: POP 71 /AN Publishing, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing, BMI/Myke Fiul +r -'16Mollings Music, ASCAP/Nol- BECAUSE YOU (Super Publishing, IRREPLACEABLE (Stellar H19041 OF Sayin BMVZomba Songs, ASCAP/EMI April, Diesel, ASCAPM ASCAP) WBM. RBH -The Water, 100 ' ; HL, RBH 61 /ANTunes. ASCAPB- Day. ASACP WALK AWAY (REMEMBER ME) (Super Sayin Publish- Songs BMVSon ASCAP/EMI A rit, /Sonyy/AN Tunes, ASCAP/Super MY BUBBLE GUM (GOT THAT GOOD) (Shedogs, SMACK THAT

Tull -EnuA, HL, H100 1 ; The BMVEM1Blackwood, BMI), HLANBM. RBH 74 ASCAP/EMI April, ASCAP/2590 Music Publishing, 87 poradon, ASCAPLil Vidal Music. ASCAP/Naked Under 53 Super Kid Music. CANDYMAN (Xlina Music, BMVCareers-BMG LA LLAVE DE MI (El Conoco, BMVRedomi, Music ASCAP/Universal Music Corporation ASCAP/will.i.am CORAZON Myy Clothes, ASCAP/Chrysalis Music. ASCAP). HL. TEARDROPS ON MY GUITAR (¡Sony/ AN Timber, 20 Publishing BMVSIOck In The Throat, ASCAP/Famous. BMI LT 1 WHERE DA CASH AT :ey Mack, BMVYoung Money Music 8MVCherry River, BMVEIvis Lee Music. AIDS 72, RBH 1ryN5 SESAC /Hillsboro Valley. SESAC/Sony /AN Tree, ASCAP HL/WBM, H100 35. POP 29 LA ROCHE PERFECTA (TN Ediciones. BMI) LT 11 ai pall, BMlwdacris Universal Publishing. ASCAP/EMI Black- PROMISEration g ASCAP/Universal BMVTaylor Swih Music, BMI). HL. CS 23.0100 60; POP BMVRemynisce CANT GET ENOUGH (Rodney Jerkins Productions LA OTRA (BMG Songs, ASCAP) LT 17 M ..caf. ASCAP,Trac -N -Field wood, BMVShowdy Pimp. ASCAP). CLMuHL, H100 4; /OsltaISongs BM Univer- 64

BMVEMI Blackwood BMVEnsign Music. BMVTred A LA PRIMERA PERSONA (Gaze!. ASCAP/WB Music. Er n 1 ngs Music, ASCAP/Notting POP 4. RBH 50 sal, BMVIvisAALee Music. BMVEMI Blackwood BMI), HL. TELL ME (Justin Combs Publishing, ASCAPÆMI April, III, BMLAaShawn Daniels Productions. ASCAP) LT 45 Dale 'I. WBM. RBH GOD DONT MAKE MISTAKES (Universal- Polytram ACH 26 ASCAP2 Dal4hters Music. SESAC /Christian Combs Soo 91 JerkinsASCAP/EMI April, ASCAP), HL RBH 27 LAST DOLLAR (FLY AWAY) (BigBi Love Music, MI )CS WHERE THEY AT (Regina's International. ASCAP/Green Wagon Music. ASCAP4ay- nl PUSH R BABY (Diamond Blue Smith Publishing, Publishing. SESAC/Foray Music. SESAC /Anita Nicole Son Music ASCAP/EMI CAN U BELIEVE I Like Em Thicke, ASCAP) RBH 76 2- H100 17, POP 24 April, ASCA' ,,own Club Publishing, BMI/Grand Hustle lene Music ASCAPBPJ Administration ASCAP) CS 47 BMVBIue Star Publishing, BMVBIeu Carrot Diamond Publishing, BMVJanice Combs Publishing. BMVEMI CHANGE ME (BMG Songs, ASCAP/Demis Hot Songs. LAST GOOD TIME Bigg Loud Shirt Industries, ASCAP/Big Bean. BMI Wiener- Tamerlane Publishing, BMVSlide That GO GETTA (EMI Blackwood, BMVYoung Jeezy Music Inc.. Publishing, BMVThe Nickel Publishing, BMLSilverplat- Blackwood. BMVShai Jones Music, BMVSongs Of Uni- ASCAP/EMI April. ASCAP/Strange Motel Music. Loud Bucks ASCAP/Warer- Tamerlane Publishing. BMI), Music, ASCAP). HUWBM, RBH 75 BMVEMI April. ASCAP/No Question Entertainment, inumy2k Publishing, BMVMusic Royale, BMI) RBH 63 versal, BMVZXs Pub. BMVWamer Chappell. ASCAP/Underdogs Songs. ASCAP /Almo Music, WBM, CS 48 WHITE & NERDY (Chamillitary Camp Music. ASCAP/First N' Gold. OMAN Kelly, BMVZomba Songs. BMVChristopher Garrettis Publishing. ASCAP/Sony/ATV ASCAP/Tank 1176 Music, ASCAP/Black Fountain Pub- LAST NIGHT (Justin Combs Publishing, ASCAP/EMI ASCAPNnwersal Music Corporation, ASCAP,PIay For BMVGolden Fleece, BMVWarner- Tamerlane Publishing, BMI.N.O. C.. ASCAPÆ O.B., ASCAP), HI/WBM, lishing, ASCAP/Antonio Dixons Muzik. ASCAP/Anthony April. ASCAP/2 Daughters Music, SESAC/Christian Play-N- killz ASCAP/EMI A ri I, ASC A P /Lealhaace BMI/Notting Dale Songs ASCAP/J. Brasco, ASCAP), POP 52 Nance Muzik, ASCAP/EMI Blackwood, BMVIar It Up Combs Publishing, SESAC/Foray Music, SESAC/Marsky QUE HICISTE (Blue Platinum Publishing, ASCAP/Julio Music. ASCAPSkdlz For Skiliz And Play Musik, ASCAP). HL/WBM. F110018; POP 26. RBH 22 TE LO AGRADEZCO, PERO NO (Gazul, ASCAP/WB Music BMVCopyr, hl Control). HUWBM. RBH 45 Music, BMVJanice Combs Publishing, BMVEMI Black- HL POP 97 GOOD DIRECTIONS Corporation. Reyes Music, BMVSonyY/AN Discos. ASCAP), HL, LT 13 Music, ASCAP) LT 19 VIRTUAL (Premium Latin, ASCAP) (Munch Music CHICA LT 25 wood, BMI) H10011; POP 15: RBH 10 QUE LLOREN (10 Pubishing, BMI) LT 20 TENNESSEE (Rarefool And Starry Eyed Music, WIND IT UP (Harajuku Lover Music, ASCAP/The Waters Michael BM VCastle Street Music. ASCAP/Large Opportunity CIRCLE (Bryan- Cox. SESAC/WBM Music, LETS FALL IN LOVE AGAIN (lz Live Muzik, BMI) RBH BMVSonyy/ANTree, BMI), HL. CS 37 Of Nazareth. BMVEMI Blackwood, BM/Williamson Music, ASCAP ) CS 9; H1D0 68. P00100 SESAC/Songs In The Key B Flat. Of SESAC/Noontime 77 TE QUI ASI (Irving. BMI LT 29 Music, ASCAP), HL. POP 93 GOOD KIND OF CRAZY (Music Of Stage Three, South. SESAC/Notting Hill It Songs. SESAC/Put Down LIKE A BOY (Universal Music Corporation, ASCAP/Royal- THAT KIND OF DAY (We're Going To Maui, BMVHits And WIPE ME DOWN (Trill Productions ASCAPBoosie Bad BMVHOId Jack, BMVSape Three Music. BMI) CS 60 Music. SESAC/Adonis Shropashire, ASCAP/Phoenix ty Riggings, ASCAP/Bootleggers Stop ASCAP/Univer- READ MY MIND (The Killers, ASCAP/Universal-Poly- Smashes Music, AS Music, Azz, ASCAP/Mouse On The Track. ASCAP RBH 30 GOT BUMP IN DA TRUNK (Suga Shack Entertainment BMVZomba Ave. Music Publishing, ASCAP'Justin Combs Publish- sal-PolyGram International Tunes. SESAC/Jahqae Joints, Gram International, ASCAP), HL, H100 62. POP 62 Enterprises. ASCAP/Good Country Mornies, WITH LOVE (K'Stu8, BMVAdHouse, BMLFIilary Duff Publishing, BMI ) ROH 97 ing ASCAPIEMI April. ASCAP/Kendrick Dean Publishing SESAC/Christopher Mathew, BMA -Moo Music, REALLY WANNA KNOW YOU (J Brasco. ASCAPM1r. ASCAP /Green City. SESAC /Green Wilderness, Music, ASCAPNNM Publishing, ASCAP/Kohall Music. .. The GRACE KELLY (MIKA Punch, BMVfrvingg, BMVSony /AN De I' ' Ali Deanis List. SESAC/December BMVEzeke International Music, BMVRevolutionaly Jazz Mani. BMVDesert Storm, BMVDuro, BMVEMI Black- SESACBPJ. BMI1, WBM, CS 30 ASCAP/Divine Minds Music Publishing, BMVAMP Group Tunes, ASCAP /Jodi Marr Music. ASCAP/Rill Me While Fu i i. SESAC/Dot 2 Dol Music, Giant, BMVGrOness, BMq, HL, H100 25; POP 39, RBH 1 BMVEMI April, ASCAP /Street Tuff, ASCAP/No THESE ARE MY PEOPLE (Universal Music Corporation, Publishing, BMI, WBM. H100 24 POP 17 !'m Happy Songs, ASCAP/Daniel L Warner Music Pub- ASC ! ei), HL/WBM. RBH 46 LIKE A STAR (Global Talenl Publishing, PRS) RBH 93 wood,Question Entertainment, ASCAP), HL RBH 80 ASCAP/Mem hersfield, ASCAP/Cal N, ASCAP/Berg- A WOMANS LOVE (WB Music. ASCAP/Yee Haw, lishing, ASCAP) HL, H100 59, POP 53 COME AROUND : r bigilal Publishing, SOCAN/Ms. UKE THIS (Kelendria. ASCAP/Blondie Rockwell. REHAB (EMI Blackwood, BMI), HL H100 100, POP 91 Brain, ASCA HL, CS 28 ASCAP), WBM. CS 10, H100 88 GUYS UKE ME (Sony /AN Tree, BMLSony/ATA Cross .,m Music. ASCAP/STB Music ASCAP /2590 Music Publishing, ASCAP/Universal Music RELEASE (Virginia Beach. ASCAP/WB Music. THIS AIN'T A ENE ITS AN ARMS RACE (Chicago X WOULDN'T GET FAR (BabyGame BMV7ico Pride Pub- Keys. ASCAP), HL, CS 27 ' CAP/ZAP Pow. ASCA /Fairwesi Corporation ASCAP/Team S Dot Publishing. BMVHilco ASCAP/Genacide Publishing Company, BMI/Tennnan Sohcore, BMVSony /AN Songs, BMI), HL. HI DO 29. lishing. BMVGimme Back My Publishing. ASCAP/EMI uni Music. BMI) RBH 68 Music, BMVSongs Of Windswept Pacific. BMq, HL, Tunes. ASCAP/Zumba Enterprises, ASCAP), WBM, H100 POP 22 Blackwood. BMVJobete Music, ASCAP). AL, RBH 83 COME CLOSE ont Publishing. BMVShona Music, H100 89, RBH 33 91: POP 82 THIS IS WHY PM HOT (Shawn Mims, BMVThe Blackout WRAPPED il BM m u Robison, BMVCamval UP GLOSS (181h And Vine. ASCAP) RBH 56 THE RIVER (EMI Blackwood BMI/The Madden Brothers Legacy ASCAP/Muzikil Slate Of Mindz, Musc Group SEhirlSACI CS IS HERE (IN YOUR ARMS) (Gordie s A Pnnce, COME WITH ME -'M Music, SESAC/Songs In The Key LISTEN (B-Day, ASACP/Miroku Music, Publishing BMI). HL, H100 71: POP 67 ASCAP/Scho!ield's.ASCAPBMG- Careens, BMIBMG ASCAP/Notting Dale Songs, ASCAP) POP 48 01 B Flab SE '...intime South, SESACMIassic Lee ASCAP/Williamson Music, ASCAP /ScottaRock Music, ROCK YO HIPS (JJ Werks Publishing, ASCAP/Royel Songs, ASCAP/Heavy HEY THERE DELILAH (So Happy Publishing, ASCAP) Y Music. SESAr Ave. Music Publishing, ASCAP /KOEall Music, ASCAP/SKG. ASCAP/Cherry Lane. Throne Publishing, ASCAP/Dime Rece Collection, Vil iel Music Publishing.n WI/Songs Of H100 66. POP 65 ASCAP rublishing, ASCAP/EMI April, ASCAP /Shigshag Music, BMVSongs 0l SKG. BMVCher- M BMI/Lil Jon 00017 Music BMI7Wamer Chappell. Y AQUI ESTOP . -C,;i ,1I io HIGH MAINTENANCE WOMAN (SKS3 Music, BMI/Tim- AS( EH 36 ry River BMVEMI April, ASCAP), CLM/HL, RBH 66 EEnnteIrtÁnment Music, ASCAP/EMI PR$Mcak Da Sneak Publishing Designee, BMVCpurwin YEAR 3000 - `iAlmo Music ASCAP/EMI Black - othy Wilson BMVDAnny BM)) CS 8. H10080 COMO ENTENDER -FM Tunes ASCAP/EMI April, Simpson. A LITRE MORE YOU (Warner- Tamerlane Publishing, April, HSCAP/Joc POPne5 Music, BMI/Irving, BMI), WBM( H100 5, POP 7, RBH 6 i10085 POP 76 AF T HOLLYWOOD (Carter Boys Publishing, ASCAP/Reggie ASC ., 10 BMLBell The Cow. BMVTower One, BMVWB Music, RUNAWAY LOVE (Ludawis Universal Publishing, THNKS FR TH MMRS (Sony/ATV Songs. BMVChicago X YOU r ,g Music, ASCAP/NT Music, Perry Music, ASCAP/Super Sayin Publishing, COMO YO NADIE TE HA AMADO :ressive, ASCAP/Tower Two, ASCAPBLA, ASCAP), WBM. CS 34 ASCAP/Unìversal Music Corporation, ASCAP /2590 SoYcore, BMI) OP 92 ASCA Osai Songs, BMVSoundtron Tunes BMVYoung BM/Zomba Songs, BMI(, HL, RBH 90 ASC sai. ASCAP/Uni- LITTLE WONDERS (U Rule Music, ASACP/EMI April. Musc Pohl shing ASCAPMeriokey Music, ASCAP/Slick THROW SOMEDS JobeteMusic ASCAP/Songs Of Money Publishing, BMVWarner- Tamerlane Publishing, EL HOMBRE DE NEGRO (Gana, BMI) LT 48 versvl , Sic IDesrnobile. ASCAP), HL HI W 73; POP 83 k. H^.^ G,I °iainin I. HMHSongs 01 Universal. BMI), Universal, BMVIeam S Dot Publishing,ing, BMIMitc Music, BM/Reformation Publishing, PRS), WBM. H100 33. HOME ( Pretty ASCAP E'c1 l3/,,P) LT 35 Surate Deep Ugly Music, BMVCareers- LIVID OUR LOVE SONG (Careers -BMG Music Publish- BMVSongs Of Windswept Pacific, BMI), HL. H100 21, POP 45- RBH 14 BMA Music WBM. H100 43, POP COUNTRY BOYZ ' Music Publishing, ASCAP) RBH Publishing, 8MI), 32 ing. BMVMore Than Rhymes Music, BMI/Lil' Nina Time - POP 28; RBH 16 YOU KNOW rM NO GOOD (EMI Blackwood. BMI), HL. HOUSE UKE THAT (Mike Curb Music, BM/Sweet Radi- Mae, ASCAP /Ameribrit ASCAP) CS 41 TICKS (EMI April, ASCAP/New Sea Gayle, ASCAP/Didn't H100 98; POP 94; RBH 99 cal Music. BMI) WBM. CASCAPHOKEHOLD (Epileptic CS 59 WBO DOMESTICADO (Edimonsa, ASCAP) LT 36 Have To Be Music, ASCAP/Chamaland. ASCAP/So s YOU'RE GONNA LOVE ME (Songs O( Combustion HOW TO SAVE A LIFE (Aaron Edwards Malone. Publishing, LONG TRIP ALONE Ensign Music. BMVRancho Papa 01 Bud Do 9 ASAPC /3 Aing Music, ASCAP/Music 0DI Music. ASCAP/Music 01 Windswept, ASCAP/Me Noise. 'gal ASCAP/EMI April, ASCAP), AL, H100 37 scAr ;tt,G ASCAP/Dimen Music Of 1 091, ASCAP/Reptilian Music, BMVHome Wilh The Armadillo, BMI/White B,ac ASCA(U:na Hann ; Munk. osweo' ASCAP), HL. CS 13. H100 50. POP 63 BMVEncore Entertainment BMI CS 53 HOY TENGO DE 11 (Screen Gems -EMI, Music BMVEMI Blackwood, BMVAImo Music, GANAS Tracks, ASCAP/Flood, Bumstead. McCready 6 SESAC/EMI April ASCAP). HL/WBM. tí10016, POP 13 TODO CAMBIO 11101 Listed) LT 37 (YOU WANT TO) MAKE A MEMORY (Bon Jou( ASCARDelicale, ASCAP), F. F1100 8; POP 6 BMVSGAE. BMI) LT 41 McCarthy, ASCAP) CS 11; H100 79 SAY OK (Maralone AR, STIobalt Music. ASCAP/EMI TODD SE DERRUMBO (BMG Songs. ASCAP/SGAE, ASCAPNniversal-PolyGram International, HURT (Xtina Music, BMVCareers -BMG Music Publishingg, LOOK AFTER YOU (Aaron Edwards Publishing, Blackwood. BMI/Oh Suki Music, BMI). HL. H1 D0 A6; ,T49 ASCAP/Sony/AN Tunes. ASCAP /Aggressive, April. BMVSluck In The Throat, ASCAP/Famous, ASCAP/Mark ASCAP/EMI ASCAP). HL, H100 64. POP 57 POP 78 TONIGHT (TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT) (EMI Longitude, ASCAP/Kobalt Music, ASCAP), HL. CS 35 Ronson, BMVEMI Blackwood, BM/Inouye. BMI). HL. LOST IN THIS MOMENT (EMI April, ASCAP/Romeo SAY YES (Cal N. ASCAP/Dimensional Music Of 1091, MI Full Keel Music. ASCAP). HL, RBH 89 Y SI VOLVIERA A NACER (Cultura Urbana Publishing. POP DAISY (EMI Blackwood BMI/TolliverMountain, BMNrv- 99 Cowboy Music, ASCAP/WB Music, ASCAP), HL/WBM. ASCAP/Drivers Ed, ASCABPick Them Taters, TOP BACK (Club Crown Publishing, BMVChubby Boy ASCAP) LT 42

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Stevie Wonder was the recipient of the first ASCAP American Troubadour , Lot29 recently Award at a musical tribute hosted by ASCAP president Marilyn Bergman participated in before members of Congress on Capitol Hill March 13 in Washington, D.C. Ole hosted a VIF event April 5 at Boulevard 3 in Hollywood in honor of its Miami's own the artists taking part in the all -star salute were W clef Jean, Smokey Green Issue and :he launch of the Stop Global Warming Bus created by Funkshion, Among India.Arie, Wynonna and Joan Osborne. Pictured, from left, are guest editor Laurie David and Sheryl Crornr. From left are David, Crow. fashion week with endorser Robinson, the show. and tribute partic,pant Tony Bennett actress Eva Longoria and Elle editor -in -chief Roberta Myers. Juelz Santana opening Wonder, Bergman ill 11311

BMI LATIN MUSIC AWARDS HMI's 14th anneal Latin Awards - eatured rr usic well ABOVE: From left are Los Tigres del Norte's Oscar Fast midnight, courtesy of rssrteño groJa _os Tigres Lara End Luis Hernández, BMI president /CEO Del nel Norte, honored with the BM Icon award. The Bryant, Los Tigres del Norte's Jorge Hernández, BM evening honorad the writers and publisiers of BMI's 50 assstant VP of Latin music Delia Orjuela and Les most-performed Latin songs or U.S. raio and TV. The igEer de Norte's Henan Hernández and Eduardo songwriter of the year award was E triVla -ie among -lemindez. il e Malave .Lan Luis Morera Luna and Llaridel Vect %BOVE RIGHT: From left are Luis Fernando Ochoa, K 1andel), (oetter-knowr as reggaetór duo Wisir 3M prescient /CEO Del Bryant, puny Tunes' Victor of duo angwriter/producer Francisco Saldans _Luny `Tunes" 2abrera, BMI senior VP of writer/ publisher Luny Tunes) aid corrido mEster Manuel Eduardo -elaiions Phil Graham, BMI assistant VP of Latin music ïoscano. "," written by Shakiie End Luis Dela Orjrele, Maruel Eduardo Toscano and Luny Fernando Ochoa was song of the year. EMI - Turee' Francisco `Luny" Saidana. Blackwood Music took the publisher prize for the first t me, with nine songs among the top K.. Another RIGHT: From left are BMI senior VP of writer/publisher Sandout of the evening was BMI presi in /CEC Del -eletibns Phil Graham, EMI -Blackwood Music Bryant, who gave an inspired operng saeech in oriden: /CEO Roger Faxon, BMI assistant VP of Latin Spanish and introduced ass stant VP Eia Orjuela fir mi.si_ Delia Orjuela, EMI Music Publishing regional her inaugural awards presentation as h-d of BMI's ma-raging director Nestor Casoru and BMI Latin music di. isiOn. PHOTOS_COL'RTESY OE LES -ER CONE J oriden_ /CEO Del Bryant.

The Make-a- Foo Fighters Wish Foundation re- signed with RCA presented Good Records and will return Charlotte with the Chris to the studio to work on Grecius Celebrity Award. their sixth album. Pictured which honors the recipient's standing, from left, are Foo passion and dedication to the Fighters manager John Silva, Foo foundatiar's mission through wish - Fighters' Nate Mendel and Chris grantinc, giving and volunteering. Shiflett, RCA Records executive VP of From left are Good Charlotte's Dean A &R Ashley Newton, Foo Fighters' Butterworth, Paul Thomas and Joel Taylor Hawkins and RCA GM Richard Madden; New York chapter representative Sanders. Sitting, from left, are BMG Jay Patrick; and Good Charlotte's Billy president /COO Charles Goldstuck, BMG Martin and Beni Madden. PHOTO COURTESY chairman /CEO Clive Davis and Foo Fighters' DF PAUL HAWTHORNE /STAR PIX Dave Grchl. PHOTO: COURTESY OF LARRY BUSACC4

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www.americanradiohistory.com COMMA OFFERS FIX TO BANDS AND BRANDS Earlier this year, Chicago -based music production house Comma Music tapped Leo Burnett VP Bonny Dolan to join its team as executive producer /artist liaison. Track now hears that the musically savvy Dolan will also head up Comma's new di- vision, Fix, which focuses on bringing the music and advertis- ing industries closer together. Dolan will report to Comma Executive co- owners Larry Pecorella and Bryan Rheude. Pecorella likens today's branded entertainment landscape to TU RIA "IAßI_I the Wild, Wild West. "A lot of people want to work with EDITED BY MICHAEL PAOLETTA each EDITED BY MITCHELL PETERS other -labels, artists, managers, publishers, agencies -but there are many agendas involved," Pecorella tells Track. "It's good to have RECORD COMPANIES: Capitol Music Group names Ronnie one person in the middle to coordinate everything. And it helps if that Johnson executive VP. He was executive VP at Atlantic Records. person knows music and advertising." Zomba Label Group appoints Ken Lucek VP of pop promo- Rheude concurs and adds, "Bonny has deep relationships on both sides tion and Michael Newman VP of business and legal affairs. of the fence. She is also a tastemaker." Lucek held the same title at Capitol Records, and Newman Indeed, Dolan effortlessly manages both sides of the fence. She was, after all, one was senior director. of the architects of Leo Burnett's successful Artist-in- Residence music program. "We offer a one - Universal Music Netherlands appoints Norbert Plantinga stop shop for campaigns," says. she These days, Dolan is on the lookout for a handful of primarily unknown bands for a multi - managing director. He was GM at EMI Music Netherlands. platform campaign for a major ad agency and one of its global clients. "The opportunities are many today," she says. "It's Dirty Sony BMG Entertainment's Creative Group names Adam Vegas all over again." Owett executive VP. He was senior VP of creative services.

PUPPETS RISE TO OCCASION TOURING: Global Spectrum appoints Barry Strafacci GM of Seminal alt -rock outfit the will release a new album the Harborview Center in Clearwater, Fla. He continues to this summer, but the big news is that Cris Kirkwood has rejoined serve as regional VP. his brother Curt in the group after a decade of drug addiction and a prison stint for assault. Now clean and sober, Cris' contribu- tions on "Rise to Your Knees" (July 17, Anodyne Records) are his first on a Meat Puppets record since 1995's "No Joke!" The recording process was documented for a film by the Kirkwoods' longtime friend Joseph Cultice. "He shot the entire recording and practice sessions," Curt tells Track. "They're in my house taking pictures of me. It's going to be embarrass- ing, is what I figure, first and foremost, but we're letting them." PUBLISHING: Sony/ATV Music Publishing Latin America

Rather I than delve into the band's history ( "Cris and don't promotes Jorge Mejía to VP. He was director of new busi- have a lot of the old stuff anyway," Curt says), the film is fo- ness for Latin America. cused on Cris' re -entry into the band. "Cris has completely BMI promotes Edward Oshanani to VP of international op- held hands 10 with demons for years, and he's still swinging. erations and technology. He was assistant VR. He's not a total nut. He's a really sensitive guy. He's just been Cherry Lane Music Publishing in New York ups Joe Mondry From left are Comma Music co -owner BRYAN RHEUDE, through hell. That's worth a documentary [in] itself. Cris is executive producer/artist liaison BONNY DOLAN and to coordinator of film /TV and music. He was creative and back and he's in fine form." co -owner LARRY PECORELLA. marketing assistant. ASCAP promotes Randall Grimmett to senior VP of its 20 YEARS OLD membership group. He was VR New York band the Second Step celebrates its 20th anniver- sary with a May 3 gig at the Canal Room in New York. The RELATED FIELDS: Paramount Pictures ups Randy Spendlove date -no coincidence here -coincides with the Tribeca Film to president of music. He was executive VP of music and cre- Festival. Scratching your head? Don't. Second Step mem- ative affairs. bers include Josh Rabinowitz, senior VP/director of music Village Roadshow Music Group names Burt Berman CEO. at Grey Worldwide; Hugh Elliot, a freelance TV news film ed- He was president of the music division at Paramount Pictures. itor in Los Angeles; and Tim Champeau, a voice -over artist for Handleman Co. promotes Jeff Skipton to group VP of the ads and TV promos. Americas. He was VP of new business development. For the uninitiated, the Second Step won the Brooklyn Send submissions to exec álbillboard.com. Lager Battle of the Unsigned Bands in 1988. The act was also part of the Third Wave of Ska scene at New York's legendary CBGB during that time. Fast forward to now and the perennial funk band has played more than 2,000 shows in the United States and Japan. Throughout, the Second Step has remained GOOl) Wo R I(S unsigned. To which Rabinowitz, pointing to a turbulent music industry, says, "Thank goodness." LAVERTY'S NIGHT TO REMEMBER The Kristen Ann Carr Fund will hold its annual fund- raiser, A DEATH OF A PARTY ON THE CALENDAR Night to Remember, April 21 at the Tribeca Grill in New York. Blur drummer David Rowntree has announced his modest bid Track hears M.I.A.'s second album has been bumped from a This year's event honors Marilyn Laverty, president of inde- for public office via the Internet with a two -minute film on June release to August for reasons unknown. In other release pendent public relations firm Shore Fire Media. Bruce Spring- YouTube. While Blur frontman Damon Albarn has been in- news, Nelly's newest is penciled in for Aug. 28, while Dido, steen's co- manager Barbara Carr -a partner in Jon Landau volved in various side projects, including Gorillaz and the Good, Annie Lennox, Barry Manilow and Reba McEntire have albums Management-and her husband, rock journalist Dave Marsh, the Bad & the Queen, the Britpop band itself has been on an due Sept. 18. Looking a bit further out, Santana will return Oct. founded the KACF after sarcoma daimed the life oftheir daugh- extended hiatus. This may have prompted Rowntree to offer 16 with his latest project, while Carrie Underwood's sophomore ter 14 years ago. The KACF raises funds and awareness for sar- himself to the voters of Westminster in London on May 3 in a album is tipped to arrive Nov. 13. coma research fellowships, patient support groups, a sarcoma council by- election. laboratory at Memorial Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center and Rowntree, who has been active in local Labour Party politics RHETT ROCKS MORRISON other cancer-related causes. For more info, visit sarcoma.com. for some years, admits he faces an uphill battle. "It's a very strong Producer/songwriter Rhett Lawrence, who just signed a Conservative area," Rowntree says. But he believes "there are a co- publishing deal with Crosstown Songs, is now work- FOOD FOR THOUGHT lot of people quite angry" with the Conservative -run council. ing with James Morrison on tracks for the artist's new The Food Bank for New York's annual Can -Do Awards Gala Although Rowntree is something of a celebrity in local pol- album. "The new songs are inspired by the Faces," Dinner touches down April 23 at Abigail Kirsch's Pier 60 at itics, it is not unique for a British rock star to stand as a candi- Lawrence tells Track. "This new sound ties into my first á Chelsea Piers. The Edge and others will be honored at this date. Peter Wishart, a former member of Big Country and love of rock and gospel music from back in the day when event, which recognizes that everyone "can do" something to Runrig, is now a Scottish Nationalist MP for the constituency I was a studio musician working with Van Halen and end hunger. Former President Bill Clinton is honorary din- of Perth and North Perthshire. Andraé Crouch." ner chairman. For additional info, go to foodbanknyc.org.

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