Billboard. AUGUST 15, 1998 X TITLES Billboard. AUGUST 15, 1998 (Continued.' rom page 73) "The only way to be competitive is to carry a broader spectrum of prod- To Music Videos_ TM uct," he adds. "When all the music p Video F- chains were really starting to suffer, = COMPILED FROM A NATIONAL SAMPLE OF RETAIL STORE AND RACK SALES COMPILED FROM A NATIONAL SAMPLE OF RETAIL STORE RENTAL REPORTS. c F- they felt that it was important to give 6 W REPORTS COLLECTED, COMPILED, AND PROVIDED BY SoundScan® v the 3 3 o 1111111 W W zU consumer a compelling reason to . '-' 3' 0 come into the store. So now there's á TITLE, Imprint Principal 1. e1 1 3 Distributing Label, Catalog Number Performers Label Principal it fñJ á TITLE (Rating) much more interest and demand for 1 Distributing Label, Catalog Number Performers mature product in music stores." * * NO. 1 * * Those outlets, though, tread care- 1 1 9 ALL ACCESS VIDEO A' * * * No. 1 * * * Backstreet Boys LF 19.98 fully. Jive/Zomba Video 41589 -3 Miramax Home Entertainment Matt Damon At Hastings, which carries 1 1 3 GOOD WILL HUNTING MP DA LAST DON Buena Vista Home Entertainment 1355903 "hard R" titles, "we're very con- 2 2 7 Master P LF 19.98 No Limit Video Priority Video 53373 New Line Home Video Dustin Hoffman scious of how the inventory is grow- 2 3 5 WAG THE DOG (R) STREETS IS WATCHING Warner Home Video N4642 Robert De Niro ing and how we merchandise it," says 3 4 12 Jay -Z LF 14.95 Def Jam Home Video PolyGram Video 56821 Dustin Hoffman Vinny Losasso, director of video 3 5 2 SPHERE (PG -13) Warner Home Video 15331 GIRL POWER! Sharon Stone LIVE IN ISTANBUL 4 5 27 Spice Girls LF 1998 operations and purchasing. "We Virgin Music Video 92111 Matt Damon 4 2 9 THE RAINMAKER (PG -13) Paramount Home Video 335033 don't put it on the `new release' wall. Danny DeVito SHOCKUMENTARY 5 3 6 Insane Clown Posse LF 19.98 In some stores, we have to place it on PolyGram Video 57595 Anthony Hopkins 5 6 5 AMISTAD (R) Universal Studios Home Video the top shelf with the spine out." Morgan Freeman ONE HOUR OF GIRL POWER 6 6 37 Spice Girls LF 1495 Compact Disc World's Lange adds, Warner Home Video 363553 Columbia TriStar Home Video Jack Nicholson 6 4 11 AS GOOD AS IT GETS (PG -13) 21703 Helen Hunt "We screen the covers carefully to TULSA, TOKYO AND THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE 7 37 Hanson LF 1995 make sure no PolyGram Video 4400479233 Tommy Lee Jones that nudity or sexually 7 NEW U.S. MARSHALS (R) Warner Home Video 15625 Wesley Snipes explicit behavior is shown. Basically, GARTH LIVE FROM CENTRAL PARK 8 Garth Brooks LF 19.95 Orion Home Video 10119 Denzel Washington the covers we carry look like a Play- 8 9 6 FALLEN (R) Warner Home Video 6434 John Goodman THE DANCE boy magazine cover might look. We 9 10 49 Fleetwood Mac LF 19.98 Warner Reprise Video 3 -38486 MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF Kevin Spacey don't hide the product, we make 9 7 9 Warner Home Video 14776 but GOOD AND EVIL (R) John Cusack RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE Rage Against sure it's kept in an area frequented 10 13 36 LF 1998 Epic Music Video Sony Music Video 19 V50160 -3 The Machine Columbia TriStar Home Video Chow Yun -fat l0 11 5 THE REPLACEMENT KILLERS (R) by our older male customers. 21623 Mira Sorvino STRENGTH 7 The New Life Community 11 14 LF 19.98 "The adult videos and DVD are Verity Video 43108 -3 Choir Feat. John P Kee Kevin Spacey 11 10 15 L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (R) Warner Home Video 14913 clearly labeled `Must be 18 to pur- Russell Crowe ROMANZA IN CONCERT 12 8 33 Andrea Bocelli LF :495 chase.' We carry it, but we make PolyGram Video 4400553973 Dimension Home Video 12 8 8 SCREAM 2 (R) sure it's very discreetly done and Buena Vista Home Entertainment 1355303 Courtney Cox 7 TELEVISION COMMERCIALS 13 11 4 Radiohead LF 19.98 that the product is segregated so Capitol Video 5393 Dimension Home Video Ben Affleck 13 15 2 PHANTOMS (R) Buena Vista Home Entertainment 1355503 Peter O'Toole there's no mistaking this for any- RAY OF LIGHT 14 12 6 Madonna VS 598 thing else. We don't want to offend Warner Reprise Video 3938502 14 13 5 THE POSTMAN (R) Warner Home Video 15519 Kevin Costner our female clientele." I'M BOUT ITA' 15 18 61 Master P LF 19.98 No Limit Video Priority Video 53423 Universal Studios Home Video Daniel Day -Lewis Even if the titles are available, 15 17 4 THE BOXER (R) 83303 Emily Watson some HAWAIIAN HOMECOMING chains don't like advertising the 16 15 11 Various Artists LF 29.99 Spring Hill Video 44355 Universal Studios Home Video Bruce Willis 16 12 14 THE JACKAL (R) fact. One vendor tells Billboard that it 83267 Richard Gere DEAD TO THE WORLD got a call from Wherehouse, a major 17 19 25 Marilyn Manson LF 1695 Interscope Video Universal Music Video Dist. 90150 Pie rce Brosnan 17 16 12 TOMORROW NEVER DIES (PG -I3) MGM /UA Home Video M906834 customer, asking not to be identified Michelle Veoh LIVE Fred Hammond & for 18 21 24 LF 1998 this story. Wherehouse said its Verity Video 43108 -3 Radical For Christ Touchstone Home Video Richard Dreyfus 18 NEW KRIPPENDORF'S TRIBE (PG -13) policy forbids it from talking to the Buena Vista Home Entertainment 1357003 Jenna Elfman CLOSURE 19 20 36 Nine Inch Nails LF 2438 press about adult titles. The chain did Interscope Video Trimark Home Video 6734 Woody Harrelson 19 18 3 PALMETTO (R) Warner Home Video 2533 Elisabeth Shue not return calls for comment. STORIES, TALES LIES & EXAGGERATIONS 20 17 8 Sublime LF 27.98 Skunk Records/Cornerstone R.A.S. MVD Columbia TriStar Home Video Casper Van Dien Ever eager to please, porn suppli- Video 38497 20 14 11 STARSHIP TROOPERS (R) 71716 Denise Richards make ers a great effort to tailor their WHO THEN NOW? 21 37 69 Korn LF 1998 Epic Music Video Sony Music Video 50153 Columbia TriStar Home Video Ethan Hawke wares to store needs. Vivid offers 21 19 12 GATTACA (PG -13) 82643 Uma Thurman each of its movies in four distinct LIVE SHIT: BINGE & PURGE'° 22 26 240 Metallica LF 89.E Elektra Entertainment 5194 Bill Pullman versions, with varying levels of ex- 22 27 2 ZERO EFFECT (R) Warner Home Video 2534 plicitness. Metro creates 3 -WATCH IT GO separate 23 28 38 Panters LF 19.98 Elektra Entertainment 40195 New Line Home Video Mark Wahlberg 23 22 17 BOOGIE NIGHTS Ili) "hardcore" covers for the adult book- Warner Home Video N4624 Burt Reynolds TRIBUTE A store market and "softcore" covers 22 41 Yanni LF 24.95 24 Virgin Music Video Danny Glover 77849 24 23 6 SWITCHBACK (R) Paramount Home Video 331203 for music and video stores. Dennis Quaid LIVE FROM NEW YORK Vivid has a list of out -of- bounds 25 32 16 Tori Amos LF 29.95 Morgan Freeman MVD Video 80732 25 20 16 KISS THE GIRLS (R) Paramount Home Video 331883 Ashley states, including Arkansas, Georgia, Judd HOMELESS MAN: THE RESTLESS HEART OF RICH MULLINS Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, 26 16 5 Rich Mullins LF 16.98 Miramax Home Entertainment Helena Bonham Carter Word Video 5351315 26 24 6 THE WINGS OF THE DOVE (R) Buena Vista Home Entertainment 1354803 Missouri, Alison Elliott Nebraska, North Carolina, RIVERS OF JOY 27 23 15 Gaither & LF 2999 Sigourney Weaver Oklahoma, South Carolina, Ten- Spring Hill Video 44354 27 26 13 ALIEN RESURRECTION (R) FoxVideo 0325 Winona Ryder nessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and OUR MUSIC VIDEO Mary -Kate & 28 30 44 LF 12.951 New Line Home Video West Virginia. All are unfriendly to Dualstar Video WamerVislon Entertainment 53357 Ashley Olsen 28 28 10 DECONSTRUCTING HARRY (R) Why Allen Warner Home Video N4653 the genre. DOWN BY THE TABERNACLE 29 24 26 Bill & Gloria Gaither LF 19.98 Robert Carlyle Spring Hill Video 104 29 30 20 THE FULL MONTY (R) FoxVideo 4806 The company goes further, bar- Mark Addy ring releases from certain areas LES MISERABLES: 10TH ANNIV. CONCERT 30 33 6 Various Artists LF 24.95 Universal Studios Home Video Dave Chappelle VCI Columbia TriStar Home Video 88703 30 32 5 HALF BAKED (R) within otherwise "safe" states. New 83586 Harland Williams LIVE FROM AUSTIN, TEXAS Stevie Ray Vaughan York state is fine except for Buffalo 31 29 144 LF 19.98 Carrot Top Epic Music Video Sony Music Video 50130 And Double Trouble 31 NEW CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD (PG -13) Trimark Home Video VM6175 and Syracuse; north Florida doesn't Larry Miller THE BOB MARLEY STORYA Bob Marley get Vivid titles, but south Florida 32 27 193 LF 995 Miramax Home Entertainment Sylvester Stallone Island Video PolyGram Video 4400823733 And The Wailers 32 25 15 COPLAND (R) Buena Vista Home Entertainment 13527 Robert De Niro does. The self -censorship was creat- DAWN OF THE DAY OF THE NIGHT OF THE PENGUIN 33 25 3 Gwar LF 1995 Columbia TriStar Home Video ed "because of local community stan- Metal Blade Home Video 34015 33 21 6 SPICE WORLD (PG) Spice Girls 02018 dards," says James. LIVE IN CONCERT 34 31 9 Backstreet Boys LF 1995 Columbia TriStar Home Video Michael Keaton "Down in the Bible Belt, they feel MVD Video 50028 34 36 10 DESPERATE MEASURES (R) 21753 Andy Garcia our stuff shouldn't be done. Well and IN CONCERT 35 RE -ENTRY Sarah Brightman LF 19.98 Keanu Reeves good won't it Columbia TriStar Home Video 2105 35 29 24 THE DEVILS ADVOCATE (R) Warner Home Video -we send there," he Al Pacino adds. "The last thing we want to do PULSE A' 36 36 161 Pink Floyd LF 24.98 Kevin Kline Columbia Music Video Sony Music Video 50121 36 31 21 IN & OUT (PG -13) Paramount Home Video 329873 is to put our stuff where it's not wel- Joan Cusack come. Feedback tells us what differ- AFTER DARK 37 RE -ENTRY Type 0 Negative LF 19.98 Universal Studios Home Video David Schwimmer Roadrunner Video 987 37 NEW KISSING A FOOL (R) ent communities want to see." Inter- 83715 Jason Lee THE BEST OF THE DOORS estingly, in places where the X -rated 39 39 The Doors LF 14.98 Kevin Kline 38 Universal Studios Home Video 83297 38 38 16 THE ICE STORM (R) FoxVideo 2751 Sigourney Weaver version is unacceptable, "the cable HOME VID CLIFF'EM ALL!° version often sells very well." 39 RE -ENTRY $19.98 Metallica LF 1998 Elektra Entertainment 40106 -3 39 34 9 HOME ALONE 3 (PG) FoxVideo 2763 Alex D. Linz Those sales themselves are help- SELENA REMEMBERED RE -ENTRY Selena LF 19.98 Columbia TriStar Home Video ing porn enter the mainstream. 40 EMI Latin Video 77826 40 39 3 MA VIE EN ROSE (R) Georges Du Fresne 29783 "People see this in the music store, O RIAA gold cert. for sales of 25,000 units for video singles; RIAA gold cert. for sales of 50,000 units fo ITA gold certification for a minimum of 125,000 units or a dollar volume of $9 million at retail and they feel OK about buying it," SF or LF videos; A RIAA platinum cert. for sales of 50,000 units for video singles; RIAA platinum cert. for theatrically released programs, or of at least 25,000 units and $1 million at suggested retail for says Gorman. "It's more acceptable, for sales of 100,000 units for SF or LF videos; O RIAA gold cert. for 25,000 units for SF or LF videos certi nontheatrical titles. O ITA platinum certification for a minimum sale of 250,000 units or a dollar more comfortable than walking into fied prior to April 1, 1991; RIAA platinum cert. for 50,000 units for SF or LF videos certified prior to volume of $18 million at retail for theatrically released programs, and of at least, 50,000 units and April 1, 1991. LF long-form. SF Short -form. VS Video single. ©1998, Billboard /BPI Communications. $2 million at suggested retail for nontheatrical titles. ©1998, Billboard/BPI Communications. a seedy adult store."

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