Music Week for Everyone M the Business of Music 19 OCTOBER 1996 £3.25 the New Album
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music week For Everyone m the Business of Music 19 OCTOBER 1996 £3.25 the new album blue is the colour beautiful south is the name Oct 21 st on Go! Dises national TV advertising from week 1 major ad campaign (buses, trains & trams) national press ads (from Smash Hits to Daily Mirror) quality éditorial (****Q Review etc.) massive airplay (A lists nationwide) pubs (guess the place, win a prize...) and more great hits than you can shake a stick at the carry on continues... itmsic we For Everyone in the Business of 19 OCTOBER 1996 £3.: THiSWEEK MTV set for awards bonanza B Virgin goes d the i MTVs I with Peter André for a medley of main tains itsd in profile," Lond he says. 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P successfulgorgeously glesColumbia company, was thanks the second-placed to sales of the sin-two id with 11.0% of the n Fugees singles, and third-placed albums Kulaact's TheShaker's Score asdébut well asalbum initial K. sales WEA of came• Full second détails in nextweekthe albums league. Macdonald label signsupfirstact Andy Macdonald has ail pop, no star MW stages second Breaking Hits event features the two singles no way down & ail pop, no star Oel 17 Londo* Splash with Warm Jait OetNov 30 04 London London Splasb Red Eyewith tfiihTbe HeCraekersMuftoa Birdt Nov 24 Oarby Univartity / No* 25 Edinbarjb Uai*enity NovNe* 29 26 Plymoatb Aberdeao Uaivarsiiy Uaiversity / /Ne* No* 30 27 Warwiek Liverpool Uaivariity Lodix $ H ►BBC SET TOCASH-IN ON MUSIC FROM THE VAULTS-pS^ ► ► ► the début album 21.10.96 cd & cass EAST SEVENTEEN AROUNDOF THE EXTRAORDINARY THE WORLD HIT SUCCESS SINGLES OF THE TH1S JOURNEY UNIQUE SO BAND, FAR IS WHO. A CELEBRATION IN THEIR FIRST FOUR YEARS TOGETHER. MAN1FESTED NO FÉWER THAN FOURTEEN SMASH HIT SINGLES, AND MASSIVE INTERNATIONAL SUCCESS. ALSO INCLUDED IN THIS COMPILATION ARE THE FIRST TWO SINGLES FROM THE NEXT PHASE OF EAST SEVENTEEN'S MUSICAL JOURNEY: THE NEW HIT SINGLE (WITH CABRI ELLE) 'IF YOU EVER RELEASED 21 OCTOBER &THE FORTHCOM1NG SINGLE 'HEY CHILD'. THESUBSTANTIAL CAMPAIGN TV ADVERT1S1NG KICKS OFF ON MTV 28 OCTOBER. FOLLOWED BY NATIONAL VV1LLITV, CHANNEL BE A FULL 4. NATIONAL SKY, G MTV, ROLL-OUT THE NORTH LEAD1NG 1TV & UPHTV TO ON CHRISTMAS. 4 NOVEMBER. OURTV THEREAFTER, ADVERTISING THERE MASSESCAMPAIGN OF OUTDOORVV1LL BE SUPPORTED ADVERTISING BY FULL AS WELL COLOUR AS INSTORE ADS IN THEDISPLAYS MUSIC AND AND CATALOGUES. TEEN PRESS, THE TOUR DECEMBER 1996 7H GALWAYBRIGHTON LEISURELAND. CENTRE. 13 8GLASGOW DUBLIN POINT. SECC. 149 BELFASTNEWCASTLE MAYSFIELD ARENA. LEISURE18 CARD1 CENTRE. FF ARENA. 2319 MANCHESTERLONDON WEMBLEY NYNEX ARENA. ARENA. 20 SHEFFIELD ARENA. 22- BIRMINGHAM NEC. FORMATS AVA1LABLE CASSETTE:COMPACT 828DISC: 850-4 828 850-2 CONTA1NINGLIMITED EDITION 10 SCARCE CD (WHILE M1XES: STOCKS 828 852-2 LAST) WITH FREE CD VIDEO CLIP SELECTION: 043 802-3 (RRP £12.99) OR.DER FROM POLYGRAM: TELEPHONE 0990 310 310 RELEASE DATE: 4 NOVEMBER 1996 STAY ANOTHER DAY. AROUND THE WORLD. LET 1T RA1N. DEER THUNDER. IT'S ALR1GHT. DO U ST1LL? STEAM. HEY CH1LD. HOLD MY BODY T1GHT. HOUSE OF LOVE. IF YOU EVER. SOMEONE TO LOVE. SLOW 1T DOWN. GOLD. WEST END G1RLS Breaking Hits in America has 138611 a great: year Brts 1139,1:13 in tiie 41 IInnp II M USA: Bush have done it, ^Oasis ' have' ' done it, and 11| || U now Kula Shaker are doing it. Breaking the States is never an over-night story or a matter of luck - it takes long term commitment, in-depth knowledge of the US market and access to the people who can make it happen. If you have ambitions to break a band or a hit in the States, you need to be at the Music Week seminar n Breaking Hits in America. It's a one-day seminar drawing on the talents of major players in the US market who could help to make your records a success. Wlarty Diamond from Little Big Man Booking is an agent with two of the hottest UK acts of the moment - • US radio update Kula Shaker and Republica. The stations and the formats which are Jordan Berliant of Left Bank making waves in 1996, Americans into Management will présent unique new dance music? Is alternative finished? And The Music Vlfeek Breaking Hits in America market research on the changing face we're still not sure what Triple A really is. seminar takes place on 7 Alouemher 1996 of the US music buyer. • the US consumer at the Church House Conférence Centre in How do you reach them? What do they UUestminster, London. Mike Halloran returns to the UK for really like? And where do your target Discounted rates are auailahle for multiple his second Breaking Hits seminar. market actually live. It's a big place. bookings and IMF members. Last year Mike was PD at the • the iiue circuit alternative 91X in San Diego. Early in We know you have to tour to break the Registration forms are auailahle novu from 199B he moved to adult album alter- States. But how, where and with whom? Steue Chapman at Music VUeek. Places are native (Triple A) station KUPR. Breaking Hits has the answers. limited so cail novu to auoid disappointment: Egil Aaluik is the PD at Groove Radio • Focus on Top 40 in LA, one of the pioneers of the new The biggest news in US radio is the Steue Chapman dance sound which is taking over US return of pop formats. We tell it how it Music UUeek Euents radio, really is. Tel: 0171 620 3636 • Focus on Alternatiue/Rock radio Fax: 0171 921 5984 Ged Doherty - Columbia. Someone How you can get your records on those from over here who did rather well alternative airwaves. And, by the way, ôver there. how much will it cost? jpi The Bigger Picture NEWSDESK: 0171 921 5990 or e-mail musicweek®dotn NEWSFILE Sony staff tac kle tabloid tearaways TopTOTP OfThe wins Pops viewers'wonlheawardforlopyoungpeople's vote homakeitarcthebiggcstboonto tabloïds was to■d digthe beneathjob of the the press pack by admitting a less programme at the National Télévision flwards al fhe two of the UK's Icadiiig tabloid already heard the album. But lie seriousIt is also indiscrétion. focused on the relation- Albert Hall last Tuesday night. Il was the second year urnalisls. didn't discount covering live music ship which can be forged between Producerrunning that Rie TOTP Blaxill won says, the "It award, goes tovoted show for that by viewers. TOTP is PiersHowever, Morgan Daily and MirrorSun showbi édite depth in the future. "There andthe tabloidssaid trading and couldmusic helpcompanies indus- still fîrmly in the hearts of millions of TV viewers." thecolumnist gossip Andyand scandai Coulson associated say it is moment,"The ini inl session, held at abouttry PRs an engincerartist's work.more "Istories will BMG confirms rôles for ex-London pair with the stars rallier than the Sony'sheadquarters Gi forMarlborough around 140 Street staff Bruce Spriugsteen album if you BMG music division président Jeremy Marsh has interested in. and hosted by vice président of com- executivesconfirmed the Christian recruitment Tattersfield of former and LondonNick Raphaël. Records Sony'sMorgan, succcssful speaking Q&A at the sessions, third of munications Gary Farrow, touched is planning to follow Marsh says former Internai head Tattersfield and ffrr médiainviting and leading entertainment figures frombusiness the coMichael at the Jackson/Jarvis Brits, Freddie Cocker Mcrcury's fias- the press Q&Â with a teli label manager Raphaël are working on individual to explain how their industry • See Dooley, p41. andprojects, I was reporting really chuffed to him. that "They they had chose a number us," he of says. offers Acid Jazz Jazz has madeseeks an applicationnew licences for copyright BBC set to cash in on licences from the MCPS using the name of a recently- month,reactivated the rights company, body Acidissued Jazz a notice Records refusing Ltd.