Michael Bolton His Brandnewsinglecan 1Touch You...There? "Taken from the Forthcoming Columbia Release: Michael Bolton Greatest Hits 1985-1995
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MAKING WAVES: Ad Sales For Specialist Formats... see page 8 LUME 12, ISSUE 35 SEPTEMBER 2, 1995 Blur Is Highest New Entry In Eurochart £2.95 DM8 FFR25 US$5 DFL8.50 At No.7 Page 19 Armatrading Meets Mandela PopKomm Bigger Than Ever, Say Industry Insiders by Jeff Clark -Meads In his keynote speech at assuredness on the German PopKomm, ThomasStein, music scene." COLOGNE -The German music chairmanoftheGerman Stein, who is also president industry and the annual trade label's group BPW, stated, "We of BMG Ariola in the German- fair it hosts are growing in in the recorded music industry speaking territories, went on size and confi- are proud ofto say that Germany has now dence together, PopKomm. joined the ranks of the world's according to the That is most importantrepertoire leadersof the becausePop- sources (for detailed story, see country's record POP Komm has page 5). companies. now estab- PopKomm,heldinthe PopKomm, KOMM. lished itself as gigantic Cologne Congress held in Cologne the world's Centre, this year attracted 600 The high point of BMG artist Joan Armatrading's current world tour was from August 17- Die Hesse fiir biggest music exhibiting companies and her meeting with Nelson Mandela. One of her "dreams came true" when 20, is being trade fair and occupied 180.000 square feet she met him while in Pretoria to promote her latest album What's Inside. toutedasthe Popmusik andit takes place of exhibition space-twice as During a one-to-one meeting at his residence, Mandela signed a copy of world'sbiggest Entertainment in Germany. much as last year. Attendance his autobiography with a personal message to Joan. music industry "Thisisa reached11.900thisyear, event, but is also a focus for phenomenon which cannot be according to figures released INSIDE Simon Bates German companies' pride in viewed in isolation. PopKom- by the organisers. SPOTLIGHT their achievement's and new- m's success is an expression of The event, now in its sev- NABRadio Show To Join found stature. a new self-esteem and self - enth year, has been warmly embracedbytheGerman Highlights 13 New -Look industry. Helmut Fest, MD of SPOTLIGHT Bayern Fosters Dialogue Cologne -based EMI Electrola 100Years In Radio 16 Talk Radio and president of EMI in the SPOTLIGHT GSA region, comments, "My German Market Rises 6.2% by Jonathan Heasman With New Chart Show. opinion of the event is very positive. 28 LONDON -Simon Bates, one of by Machgiel Bakker conversation with one of the continues on page 28 the best-known voices on UK participatingstationson NUMBER ONE radio, is joining Talk Radio to MUNICH- ACE private localaffairsandmusic ROSIE GAINES present the weekday breakfast Antenne Bayern has trends. show. launched a weekly airplay Other stations to supply i want u European Hit Radio The change is one of several chart reflecting the playlists airplay playlist information DIANA KING the talk station's management of 15 German private sta- for the chart beside Antenne Shy Guy are making as they seek to tions. Bayern,includeBerliner (Work/Columbia) manoeuvre the station away The countdown pro- Rundfunk,RS2,Antenne from the "shock jock" image gramme, entitled "Top 20 Thuringen, Radio PSR, Eurochart Hot 100 Singles acquiredduringtheearly Radio Charts" offers a mix- Radio Brocken, Radio SAW, DIANA KING weeks of its launch in Febru- ture of chart entries, listen- Radio RPR, Radio NRW, Shy Guy ary. er phone-ins, flashbacks on Radio FFN, Radio Hamburg (Work/Columbia) Bates is the first signing to charting artists and person- and Hit Radio FFH. be made by new programme al tips from the two presen- SaysOffierowski,also European Top 100 Albums director Jerry Thomas, the ex- ters, Stefan Offierowski and deputy head of programmes, Dirk Rohrbach. the show fosters dialogue BON JOVI GMTV producer who succeed- ed launch PD Jeremy Scott In addition, the weekly within the private sector. 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AmericanRadioHistory.Com Stations Can Survive In Industry highlights this week Busy Market, Says Flett by Nicholas George more frequencies are going a few of the 10 commercial BBC To Broadcast CMA in," explains Flett, who adds stations in the capital can SPAIN Awards STOCKHOLM - Radio stations that the extreme competition become profitable. Cadena SER Scores In BBC2, one of the pubcaster's in the highly -competitive has made people in the indus- Klassika Hits has sister July Ratings two television channels, is to Swedish market can survive try dejected. stations in Ireland -98 FM- Cadena SER was the most lis- broadcast a special 90 -minute onlowermarketshares, But such competition has and the Czech Republic, Kiss tened -to news/talk net in July, programme on the 29th Annu- according to the new head of taught him that markets can FM Prague. with an average daily audi- al CMA Awards on October 7, Stockholm'sKlassikaHits sustain stations with a simi- "After six weeks here in ence of 4.076.000, according to three days after the event station. lar format."I've worked in Stockholm I have been very the Estudio General de Audi- takes place in Nashville. Vince In taking over the markets where the AC posi- impressed with theprofes- encias (EGA). 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This Onda Cero's "Protagonistas", 40 Applicants For DAB aged 53, has worked in the would meanstationswith which had a daily audience of Frequencies radio industry in New daily ratings below 10% could 1.830.000. The Swedish Radio and Tele- Zealand, a market even more well be profitable. UNITED KINGDOM: Leo Los 40 Gets Exclusive With vision Board has received deregulated than Sweden's- Flett'sargumentdiffers Divine, acting managing edi- 'I Head You' more than 40 applications for itself the most liberalised in from the commonly -held belief tor at BBC Radio Leicester, Los 40 Principales, the EHR DAB frequencies, with test Europe.