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£2.95 DM8 FFR25 Katrina and the Waves US$5 conquer Eurovision: Media. DFL8.50 story page 8 Capital/Virgin deal createsSony Music sales on rise `new force' in U.K. radio by Emmanuel Legrand by Mike McGeever Spearheaded by Capital managing Virgin will TOKYO - Sony Music Entertainment director Richard Eyre, the acquisition have a 14 per-Richard Eyre posted a substantial growth in sales LONDON - "A new force in British com- was driven by the group's ambition ofcentsharein during the1996/1997fiscalyear, mercial radio" has been created with developing Digital Audio Broadcasting Capital, the despite tough market conditions in the acquisition of U.K national broad- largest single the U.S.A. and poor sales in the com- caster Virgin Radio by rival London - stake in the pany's home country, Japan. based broadcasting giant Capital Radio. CAPITAL RADIO expanded group SME'ssalesincreasedby14 Those were the words used by Vir- with Branson percent to a total of 584.9 billion yen gin owner and founder Richard Bran- joining the Capi- ($4.7 billion) during the 1996/1997 son as the U.K.'s broadcasting industry tal board as a fiscal yearendingMarch 31. consideredtheimplicationsof the (DAB) in the non -executive Altogether, Sony Corporation's £64.7million($106million)deal, independent sec- director. Capital entertainment division, which announced on May 6. torandtogo has the U.K. rights to the Virgin Radio comprises the Music Group and the The deal-hailed head -to -head RADIO brand name for 25 years as part of the Pictures Group, posted sales of $8.4 Richardas the biggest of its against the deal. Under the terms of the deal, Capi- billion, up 24 percent compared to the Bransonkind in the U.K.- BBC's flagship tal will also take on the four year -old previous year, and profits up 20.8 brings national AOR pop network BBC Radio 1 FM. continued on page 20 percent to $534.5 million. outlet Virgin AM and In a statement, the company says London broadcaster operating income increased in the Virgin 105.8 FM entertainmentdivision,thanksto (also AOR) into Capi- Blood eclipsed by HIStory? "strongresults[fromtheMusic tal's stable, making Group] outside Japan." The company itthe largest com-LONDON - With the release of his also points out that "sales in the mercial radio group Blood On The Dance Floor: HIStory In Music Group continued to rise despite in the U.K The Mix album on May 14, the self- theweakretailenvironmentin styled "King of Pop," Michael Jackson, the U.S.A." will test the loyalty of his European Sony Music's sales were fuelled by subjects and the marketing wisdom of the success of acts such as Celine NUMBER ONE his Sony Music courtiers. Dion, whose album Falling Into You The fact that this "king" will move has sold over 21 million units world- European Radio Top 50 among his people is being welcomed by wide since its release in March 1996. MICHAEL JACKSON those who must sell HIStory In The Mix On -going success by Fugees, Mariah Blood On The Dance Floor to them, Europe's music retailers. Jack- Carey and Oasis, as well as new lo=7;7. (Epic) son's 16 -nation European tour kicks off 40M.7211111/ ea" releases from Jamiroquai, Pearl Jam, in Germany on May 31, and five dates .44.4 ma., alikvallr JulioIglesias,Rage Against The Eurochart Hot 100 Singles are already sellouts. MICHAEL JACKSON Machine, Nas, Babyface and Gloria R. KELLY "He's one of those people who can dis- Estefan, "all led fiscal year sales." 1 Believe I Can Fly appear from view, have all this negative sent And Future: Book 1 sold 1.6 million In Japan, Sony Music remains the (Jive) press, and still come back," says Rod copies in the U.K, according to Cather- leading record company but during McLennan, senior product manager at ine Davis, Epic Records marketing direc- the fiscal year, sales fell 10 percent to European Top 100 Albums Virgin Our Price, the major U.K retail- tor there. Europe -wide, the two -CD set $832.6 million and net income was DEPECHE MODE er. He expects HIStory In The Mix to be has been IFPI-certified for sales of 6 mil- down 40.6 percent, to $55.1 million. the chain's top -selling album in its first lion copies. In the U.S., it has sold just "In popular music, there were fewer Ultra week of release. over 2 millioncopiesto consumers, big -selling products [in Japan] than in (Mute) The original 1995 HIStory Past, Pre- continued on page 20 the previous year," the company said.
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AmericanRadioHistory.Com NEWSM Now quota issue hits Austria by Susan L. Schuhmayer recorded music reached OS 4 billionband Bluatschnik (see story, page 10),with pop, rock and dance-still plays ($396 million) in 1996, but the largestis one who has signed the petition. Austrian music that fits its format. VIENNA - Austrian politicians andshare of this money lined the pockets "Very few Austrian musicians wereAmong the most popular domestic musicians are calling for more home- of foreign companies." The MP saysmade famous by 03," says Knittel, artists played are Rainhard Fendrich, grown music on 03, the country's only he would like to see more attention"and I think there should be more."KurtOstbahn,Bluatschinkand nationwide CHR station. paid to domestic talent inlocalKnittel adds that he believes the factAusseer Hardbradler. But he adds 03 is operated by public broadcast- media-especially on state-ownedthat 03 derives income from listeners'that, "The supply of popular Austrian er ORF. The station's programming03-and invited comparison with thelicense fees should allow it to "havemusic that fits our format has dried director Bogdan Roscic has responded 40 percent quota for French -languagemore courage, and not only think with up since the mid -1980s." to the call by saying that there is not songs on radio in France. a commercial perspective in mind." Roscic claims that 03 actively tries a large enough supply of Austrian -pro- According toDerStandard, 03's Roscic admits that the shareto support new local talent. The sta- duced music which fits the station's Krauter's initiative is supported by a of Austrian music played on the sta- tion maintains its own recording stu- format to make such a move practical. number of government members,tion is shrinking. A survey for 1995dio and offers young musicians studio The issue came to the fore at the including cultural spokesman Franzshows that 23.5 percent of the sta- time free of charge. end of April, after an Austrian mem-Morak and the head of the Greention's music, advertisements and jin- Refering to the current fierce com- ber of parliament, Giinter Krauter,party, Christop Chorherr. gleswereproducedinAustria.petition for listeners between radio, launched an initiative to lobby for In the meantime, a petition callingResults for 1996 are due out in latecable and satellite TV and "real-time more Austrian music on 03. for a 25 percent quota for domesticMay, and Roscic says he is sure the radio" on the Internet, Roscic warns: In an interview with Austrianmusic on 03 is being circulatedpercentage has fallen even further. "You cannot spoonfeed people what dailynewspaper DerStandard,among Austrian musicians.Toni He points out that the station-some politician thinks they want Krauter said that, "Sales in pre-Knittel, member of contemporary folk which targets the 14-49 age bracketto hear." Spanish net OCRNorwegian govt. facing break-up?investigates chart by Howell Llewellyn to find a legal way to break a business by Kai Roger Ottesen by GGF, and copyright is held jointly by accord which binds him to OCR until the trade group and VG. It excludes all MADRID - Internal conflicts are threat- January 1999. Uniprex chairmanOno - Norway's Top 40 full -priceproduct with a lower average retail ening to split Spain's third largest pri-Arroyo says, "We are doing every- album chart is under official scrutiny. price than NKR 129 ($18), effectively vate radio network. thing possible for the accord to con- Competition authority Konkurr-removing all Naxos' repertoire. The News/talk formatted Onda Cerotinue and we are sure Herrero will ansetilsynet is investigating a com- store price of full price CDs in Norway Radio (OCR) is facing a potential break- accept our offers." plaint by classical budget label Naxosis between NKR 159 ($22) and NKR away by 60 out of its 180 associated sta- One of the stars Herrero could which argues that the chart is anti- 189 ($27); Naxos' repertoire has retail tions. Blas Herrero, deputy chair- attract is OCR's most popular presen- competitive and that the Norwegianprices ranging from NKR 59 ($8) to man of Uni- ter Luis del Olmo. Del Olmo presents record labels' body, GGF, is refusing to NKR 99 ($14). prex-the com- the morning programme, Protag- enter into normal "business relations" Naxos is also claiming that GGF pany which onistas, which vies with Cadena with the label. "denies business relations" with the operates OCR SER's Hoy Por Hoy as the country's Naxos contends that GGF's mini- company. Wiersholm, Mellbye & Bech on behalf of its most popular radio show. The show is mum price for chart contends that GGF is a owners, Spain's broadcast by his own Barcelona - eligibility is an unfair trade group and does blindpersons' based station Onda Rambla and then restriction of its not sell goods or ser- association, relayed throughout the trade.Most NaxoskvA vices, and therefore it Once-and OCR network. product appears in the IIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIII cannot be denying busi- owner of the 60 stations, OCR is now trying to less well -publicised bud- ness relations. is taking OCR to court broadcast its other main get chart in Norway. Asbjarn Englund, over financial matters. programmes through Responding to senior executive officer at Herrero is refusing to rival Barcelona station Naxos's charges, GGF's AXOS Konkurransetilsynet, approve the network's Radio Salud, which has legal representative, VIII 1,,,, , 1,11, nil, comments, "GGF has financial results for 1995 enraged Del Olmo. In Wiersholm, Mellbye & questionedthelegal and 1996, because he dis- what is being interpreted Bech, states in a letter to the competi-grounds of the complaint, and this has agrees with the way the by some as a veiled threat tion authority that GGF has no controlto be examined by a legal officer." profits are distributed. that he may join over the decision by leading newspaper He continues, "What we want to Herrero has already Herrero's new venture, Verdens Gang (VG) not to publish the investigate is the fact that the chart grouped together his 60 DelOlmocomments, budget chart, understood to be a factordoes not register CDs with a lower stationsunderthe "This pact (with Radio Salud) could behind Naxos' complaint. average retail price than NKR 129, name Cadena Radio Blanca. He hopeshave unforseen consequences." "If Konkurransetilsynet intends to which might be preventing labels from to attract other stations and radio OCR and its CHR sister network interfere with VG's editorial choice ofsetting a lower retail price." stars to join the group in a potentialOnda 10 have been losing listeners a music chart, GGF is not the appro- Englund states that he is keen to new national network. Herrero'ssteadily over the past year, despite priate subject for the complaint," the establish whether the major label -spon- broadcasting group could attractrevamps at both networks. The latest law firm states in the letter, a copy ofsored chart influences consumers buy- some of the 200 new FM licencesEGM survey,covering January - which has been passed to Music & ing decisions. If so, he states, it may be being granted by the developmentMarch, gave OCR 2.4 million listen- Media. The letter adds, "GGF com- distorting competition between prod- ministry in the next few months dur-ers, down from 2.8 million a year ago, piles the charts as a trade group and ucts. "GGF is owned by the internation- ing the first phase of the planned allo- while Onda 10 (formerly Onda Cero has no influence on which charts VGal record companies, and Konkurr- cation of 632 licenses this year. Musica) fell below 200,000 for the wants to print." ansetilsynet wants to investigate the Herrero and Once/Uniprex chair- first time to 194,000 from 301,000 a The letter also argues that the divi- effects of [GGF] compiling this type of man Jose Maria Arroyo have failed to year earlier. OCR sources say that sion of budget price and full price prod-chart," he concludes. bridge the gap between OCR and1996 gross sales were Ptall billion uct is justified, because lower prices Konkurransetilsynet is expected to Herrero after several meetings. It is ($76 million), yielding net profits of create "artificial demand" for a product. make an official pronouncement within understood that Herrero also wants Pta150 million ($1 million). The Top 40 chart is compiled weekly a few weeks.
MUSIC & MEDIA0MA.Y 17, 1997 AmericanRadioHistory.Com NINEWS Midem Asia `Abuse of power' silencesgoes techno by Christian Lorenz
brace of Belgian stations PARIS - The ReedMidem Organisation has placed dance music by Marc Maes and Top Radio VRM to form Antwerp's radius of eight kilometres. The appeal more prominently than before in the biggest commercial network (Music & was turned down by the council earlier promotion of Midem Asia 1997 and in ANTWERP- Belgium's regional media Media, February 15)-was banned fromthis month, clearing the way for the its concert programme. authority Media Service for Flanders broadcasting for the period May 1-11. government to take the commercial The third annual Midem Asia has taken two commercial stations off Radio Contact was found to bebroadcaster off the air. trade fair takes place in Hong Kong air-one permanently. broadcasting with excessive antenna "Since the beginning of the year we from May 21-23. Midem artistic Antwerp -based CHR station Radio power in January. At that time, thehave withdrawn three licenses tem- director Bernard Batzen claims that, Contact, has had its licence revoked,media authority decided to withdraw porarily and revoked one permanently," "This year, we will present a greater with effect from April 21. Media Service thestation'slicencepermanently. says a spokesman for Media Service. diversity of styles while putting a also imposed a 10 -day radio silence on Radio Contact then appealed againstHe justifies the authority'sstrict strong emphasis on techno." Batzen Antwerp's domestic music channelthe decision to the Flemish Stateapproach towards stations illegally describes the music mix at Midem Radio Expres, the city's second biggest Council, claiming it had been forced to boosting their antenna power as being Asia as, "50 percent dance and 50 commercial station. Radio Expres-boost its antenna power in order to necessary because, "It could provoke a percent pop/rock." which recently joined with Nostalgie maintainitsofficialbroadcasting snowball effect." According to the International Federationof thePhonographic Industry (IFPI), sales in Asia totalled U.K. band Jamiroquai ended their $9 billion in 1996. Reed Midem esti- French concert tour on April 28 mates that dance music accounts for with a sold -out concert at the 5 percent of the total Asian market. 15,000 -seater Bercy concert arena. The organisation notes that individ- Backstage, the band were present- ual Asian markets are still dominat- ed with platinum awards, marking ed by local acts, but French sales in excess of 300,000 European artists units of their album, Travelling have made signifi- WithoutMoving,releasedin cant inroads over France by Sony Music's S.M.A.L.L. the past two years. imprint. Jamiroquai frontman Jay Midem Asia's Inter- Kay (second from left-without a national Dance hat), is pictured with the rest of GroovePartyon the band and the whole S.M.A.L.L May 21 will reflect team, along with Sony Music thisdevelopment, Francepresident Paul -Rene presenting artists Albertini (front row, third from such as Austria's left) and S.M.A.L.L. general man- Unique 2, ager Philippe Desindes (front row, Denmark'sAqua fifth from left). and Sweden's Say
and De De. Japanese indepen- any real credibility, in or out of the Robert Jan Hertog. Arcade MD Robin dent label Avex hosts news bites country, as an award marking musical Simonse now indirectly blames Mecado Midem Asia's second major dance merit. Springsteen himself said he wasto have launched a price war by selling event, taking place on May 22. The SWEDEN pleased to travel to Stockholm to,its CDs at a retail price of Dfl 25 show will feature Japanese acts Springsteen collectsPolar Prize "thank my Swedish fans for their sup- ($12.50), compared to the Dfl 40 ($20) Namie Amuro, Globe and TRF. Bruce Springsteen received the 1997 port over the years," although he average price tag for compilations. Avex Asia GM Holly Tan com- Polar Music Prize for popular music revealed he had not known much about "Competition is tightening on the com- ments in a statement, "There is no from Swedish king Carl Gustav at the the actual prize before he was told that pilation market," says Simonse. "Prices proper venue [in Hong Kong] where Berwald Hall in Stockholm on May 5. he had won it.Founded by Stig are going down to an extent that you young people can experience the However, the event drew criticism from Andersson, the creator and manager ofcan hardly make a profit anymore." thrill of big clubs and party places; we local press regarding the prize's rele- ABBA, the Polar Music Prize was setArcade has now decided to undercut would like to use this opportunity to vance. Elements of the Swedish press up to honour great talents in music. Mecado and sell the second volume of introduce this idea to the youth here." queried whether the Polar Prize hasSince its launch five years ago, theits Hollands Hakkuh compilation for Artists representing other pro- prize-which is worth Skr 1 million Hfl 20 ($10). gressive currents in the European ($128,000)-has been shared annually dance scene will perform at Midem between one representative of popular SPAIN Asia's final concert on May 23. The music and one of classical music. RNE recovering audience line-up includes French acts DJ Public broadcaster Radio Nacional de Dimitri from Paris, Charles Schilling HOLLAND Espana (RNE) has stopped its down- and Chris the French Kiss. Price war in gabber land ward slide and is now showing signs of Based on his experience at Midem Volume two of the Dutch gabber (high recovery. In response to a written ques- Asia in 1995 and 1996, Batzen speedtechno)compilationseries tion from a member of parliament, observes, "The Asians tend to attend Hakkuh & Flippuh (Mecado) hasRadio Television Espanola (RTVE) concerts [at Midem] by artists from caused a clash between TV -compila-director general Fernandez Lopez- theirowncountry,whilethe tions market leader Arcade and new-Amor has told a parliamentary com- Europeans go everywhere." This comer Mecado over CD pricing and mission that, "Radio 1 and Radio 5 have year, most performances will take copyrights. Allegedly, Mecado used an increased their audiences, while Radio place in the convention building original vocal by Arcade -signed Gabber Clasica and Radio 3 have stabilized." itself, with only a limited number of Wijffie on a cover version (by ReefThe figures are based on the recent concerts booked into clubs in the R.effie) of the former's Op Een Grote EGM audience survey-the first this vicinity of the building. Paddostoel on the compilation. Arcadeyear-which covers the first quarter of "Some delegates commented last won the case and a new version of the 1997. Lopez-Amor said RNE's flagship, year that it was difficult and time alburti is to be released soon. "We didnews/talkstationRadio 1,had consuming toget around," says not know what was going on," claims increased its daily audience by 175,000 Batzen. "This year we've tried to Mecado MD-and former Arcade VP-to 1.8 million. make it easier to attend the concerts."
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U2 'Pop' past 2 million markStockholm's AC stations LONDON - Nine new albums qualified for Platinum Europe Awards, for sales faring well in first quarter in excess of 1 million units across the continent,ascertifiedbythe been so strong," he comments. "Since we have rock, dance, hot AC and soft AC, all InternationalFederationofthe only play new titles, a situation like that with pretty stable audiences. It's a dif- Phonographic Industry (IFPI) in April. STOCKHOLM - The latest radio audi-can hurt our ratings temporarily." ferent world from barely three years Indeed, U2's Pop (Island), and ence figures in Stockholm, Sweden's Public broadcasting company ago, when everyone was chasing the Tina Turner's Wildest Dreams (EMI) largest and toughest market see com- Sveriges Radio (SR), which operates six same listeners." both moved to double platinum, and mercial hot AC station Energy moving stations in Stockholm, continues to The latest figures for commercial soft Queen's Made In Heaven (EMI) up one notch in the public radio -domi- dominate the market with AC stationAC station Lugna Favoriter 104.7 RTL passed the 5 million units mark. nated top five. P5 Radio Stockholm on first place with would seem to indicate that there is still Seven of the nine new members of For the first time in the past 12 22.5 percent daily reach. SR news/talkroom for private stations to grow. The thePlatinum Europeclubare months, the station has topped public station P1 follows with 16 percent and station can claim the biggest audience albums by European artists. The new CHR broadcaster P3, albeit by a small national music station P4 claims thirdincrease recorded in the first quarter PlatinumEuropewinnersare: margin. The first quarter ratings for place with 10.1 percent daily reach. ratings, having improved its audience Andrea Bocelli's Romanza (Polydor); 1997 -as published by research insti- As well as the six public channels,by 17 percent to 111,000 listeners (7.6 Crowded House's Recurring Dream tute RUAB-show Energy beating P3 Stockholm has ten commercial stations percent) daily reach. (EMI); Gloria Estefan's Abriendo in the race for fourth place, with a 9.8 covering a city with a population of 1.5 Lugna Favoriter MD Peter Waak, Puertas (Sony Music); the Kelly percent daily reach compared to P3's 9.7 million. Market insiders have described celebrating the figures on the first Family's Over the Hump (EMI), Kula percent. However, the result also marksthesituationas"over -saturated." anniversary of the station's launch, says Shaker's K (Sony Music); Laura the first time since 1994 that Energy's However, Carl -Johan Broms, managinghe is pleased with the results. "There Pausini's Le Cose Che Vivi (Warner daily reach has fallen below the 10 per- director of SBS-owned AC station Radio were two other soft AC channels when Music International); Ocean Colour cent mark. City, dismisses that view. we started out. Now one of them has Scene's Moseley Shoals (Universal Energy MD Chuck Maylin says he is "Of course this market can take tenchanged its format and the other is los- Music); Tic Tac Toe's eponymous not worried by the station's falling audi- [commercial] stations," Broms says. "It's ing listeners fast," says Waak, who also album (BMG) and Worlds Apart's ence figures. "The new titles we played developing fast, and you can see that inholds the post of MD at CLT-owned Everybody (EMI). in the first quarter of the year have not the niche -oriented stations. Today we modern rock station Bandit 105.5. European music sales in detail
LONDON - With total sales of $13.4FederationofthePhonographicEuropean territories listed in thenational market shares in the total billion, Europe remains the world's Industry (IFPI) on April 29 (Music &IFPI 1996 report. Cyprus, Lithuania European market. These figures have single largest market, according to Media, May 10). and Slovenia are appearing for the been calculated by comparing local the 1996 world sales figures pub- In this issue Music & Media offersfirst time in this annual survey. market values in $ with the total $ lished by the Internationala detailed breakdown for all the The last column in the table shows market value for Europe. o .--- 3 13 0 IS -.15". o a g' u ,t, O17 4, go, {4,,, 3 *E .0 0 0 110 4 '0 E m" g P g P g P o le 'Os P a.) g' g P F r.., .0Is .00, .0 .-, .0- mss 0 c. ,,J .0 N 0^" Q OS 0 O.,) d 4. U? 3 g 71.- w 11 S 0 e0 X S 0 C.) e o A e e0 X e0 cc - Germany 48.1 9.1 0.4 0.0 30.0 -4.5 181.7 2.7 260.2 2.9 3,179.4 -2.8 23.8 U.K. 78.3 10.7 2.4 -33.3 46.2 -13.5 159.7 14.7 286.6 7.4 2,709.8 5.4 20.2 France 33.3 38.2 0.1 0.0 18.8 -22.3 105.9 4.7 158.1 5.8 2,318.0 -3.1 17.3 Netherlands 7.9 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.8 -33.3 34.4 -1.7 43.3 -2.3 660.1 -7.9 4.9 Italy 1.4 0.0 0.1 0.0 14.3 -5.3 27.7 -0.4 43.5 -2.0 637.5 9.4 4.8 Spain 0.9 0.0 0.1 -66.7 15.1 -15.6 35.4 5.4 51.5 -2.3 584.9 5.0 4.4 Belgium 4.8 20.0 0.6 -33.3 20.4 1.0 25.8 2.8 443.4 -6.6 3.3 Switzerland 2.8 12.0 0.1 0.0 2.1 -25.0 22.1 -3.1 27.1 -3.9 401.3 -10.7 3.0 Austria 2.8 -6.7 0.0 -66.7 1.3 -40.9 19.0 13.1 23.1 5.0 396.7 -3.1 3.0 Sweden 2.5 -10.7 0.0 100.0 2.0 -4.8 19.5 -9.7 24.0 -9.4 340.0 -12.2 2.5 Denmark 0.8 60.0 0.0 -50.0 0.7 -30.0 16.9 19.9 18.4 18.0 306.8 0.2 2.3 Norway 1.8 0.0 - 0.8 -50.0 12.2 -3.2 14.8 -7.5 265.6 -8.7 2.0 Russia - 0.3 -70.0 87.9 15.2 7.0 18.6 95.2 14.4 230.0 2.5 1.7 Portugal 0.1 0.0 5.6 9.8 8.6 30.3 14.3 21.2 157.9 12.6 1.2 Finland 0.4 33.3 0.1 -83.3 3.0 -9.1 8.0 21.2 11.5 9.0 147.0 2.9 1.1 Poland 0.3 20.3 6.8 4.7 38.2 25.3 12.9 134.3 51.4 1.0 Greece - 0.6 -57.1 0.6 -45.5 7.0 18.6 8.2 -2.4 128.7 -1.8 1.0 Czech Rep. 0.1 0.0 -100.0 5.5 27.9 4.6 24.3 10.2 24.4 98.4 31.0 0.7 Ireland 1.3 30.0 0.0 100.0 1.7 0.0 3.1 29.2 6.1 20.0 87.3 13.2 0.7 Hungary 0.2 300.0 0.1 4.3 -8.5 2.9 31.8 7.5 8.0 63.1 -2.2 0.5 Lithuania - - 5.3 0.1 - 5.4 - 18.5 - 0.1 Iceland - 0.0 0.6 20.0 0.6 26.0 15.7 15.4 0.1 Cyprus - - 0.3 - 0.5 0.8 15.0 0.1 Slovenia - 0.5 0.5 1.0 14.1 0.1 Slovakia 0.1 0.0 0.0 -66.7 1.2 20.0 1.0 100.0 2.3 44.4 13.9 95.8 0.1 Latvia 0.03 50.0 - - 3.0 30.4 0.2 100.0 3.2 34.6 13.0 28.7 0.1 Bulgaria - - 1.0 -28.6 0.1 1.1 -25.0 1.6 -33.3 0.0 TOTAL EUROPE 187.93 13.6 4.4 -42.9 272.7 -0.5 703.8 6.7 1,168.8 5.6 13,382.0 0.0 100.0
U.S.A. 113.2 15.4 2.9 31.8 225.3 -17.4 778.9 7.1 1,120.3 1.8 12,297.7 1.6 Japan 145.8 0.6 7.6 -10.6 7.4 -17.8 265.9 2.6 426.7 1.2 6,762.3 -11.6 TOTAL WORLD 461.2 9.4 20.7 -32.6 1,379.8 1.2 2,136.4 9.2 3,998.1 6.0 39,765.7 0.2 - MUSIC& MEDIA0MAY 17, 1997 AmericanRadioHistory.Com M RA 10 OUR M u Is radio revealinga'new
low when they have to-i.e. when the Paco He With talk of a "Federal Europe" and plans for a single record has charted." currency receiving high media exposure, it is perhaps Radio Noordzee's Kaagman, who ironic that the last five years have witnessed a huge has a history as a recording artist in her own right as lead singer of leg- increase in the popularity of domestic -music -only radio endary Dutch pop band Earth & Fire, in continental Europe, a fact reflected in the increased remembers the thinking behind the station's launch in 1992 very clearly. sales of home-grown music product. Music & Media "It had become very evident that profiles some of the leading domestic music radio sta- there was a clear link between airplay tions in Spain, the Netherlands and Italy, and looks at and sales," she recalls. "What people get to hear is, at the end of the day, some of the reasons for their success. what they will buy. The founding of playing a lot of material in theirthe station was an initiative of the Dutch 'Chauvinism' scores mother tongue, we give small villagesIndependent Association of Authors of across the country the idea thatLight Music [PALM], which felt that by Robbert Tilli they're on the map too." public radio didn't pay enough atten- Kaagman adds, "Just look at what's tion to domestic music." With anodtowards on a jukebox in any bar in the country- Pride in a country's own music Marco Borsato's 1995 side, and you instantly spot the dis-always plays an important role in the hit Dromen Zijn Bedrog crepancy with the big cities. And as the success of domestic music, perhaps (Dreams Are Mislead- quality of the product is nowadayseven more so in a "supra -national" ing), a 1996 Dutch gov- good enough, there's no reason not toEurope. "When, in a budgetary debate, ernmental investigation dubbed "Deplay Dutch music next to the interna-the European parliament suggested Meeste Dromen Zijn Bedrog" ("Most tional hits." dropping Dutch in favour of Only four Herrera, who is director of both Dial Dreams Are Misleading") looked into Kaagman also cites much improved `official' languages, it was deemed and Radiole, took the reins of both net- the incredible-almost overnight-suc- marketing strategies for new Dutch unacceptable by the Dutch representa- works at their inception in 1990, and it cess of domestic product on the Dutch music as contributing to the station'stives in Strasbourg," says Kaagman. would have been difficult for SER to music market. strong ratings performance (it is cur- "In such a political climate ofselect a more appropriate person. Born One of the observations of thisrently the Netherlands' second most[European] unification at the expensein the southern Andalucian port of research, conducted by the University popular commercial station after softof individual regional cultures," sheCadiz 48 years ago, he is an expert not of Nijmegen, was the very significant AC outlet Sky Radio). concludes, "preserving your own iden- only on flamenco music, but on the influence of domestic music station "Record companies now spend the tity by keeping your own language and entire range of "Spanish song," which Radio Noordzee Nationaal (launched same amount of money marketingmusic becomes essential. With the help includes copla, bolero and sevillanas, as in 1992), on which 80 percent of domestic acts as they used to of newly -introduced marketing tech- well as Latin American derivations all the records played are do on international stuffniques, this chauvinism is contributing such as the tango, ranchero, Caribbean Dutch product, with some in the past," she notes. greatly to our station's success." salsa and merengue. 62 percent sung in the "A great realisation How does Herrera explain the suc- Dutch language. has developed in the Spanish steps to success cess of his two networks? "There are Noordzee has been industry that you two main reasons," he replies. "The more than happy to can actually earnby Howell Llewellyn fact that there is more and more good use the results of this money from Spanish music, and the fact that prob- and othersimilar Dutch product. Spainpossiblyreflectstheably no more than five percent of research in its ongo- So they[the recent success of domestic -Spaniards understand English. A few ing bidtoobtain record compa- music -onlystationsbetteryears ago, people didn't mind if they more terrestrial fre- nies] work harder at thananyoftheothercouldn't understand the lyrics [of quencies on it, which European countries. records], but that is changing, and lis- Holland's FM comes back However, both of Spain's most suc- teners are getting fed up with the band. When it "A realisation has in the formcessful Spanish -language -only net- same old Anglo-Saxon diet which they was awarded a of increased works both play some Latin American clutch of newdeveloped in the revenues foror U.S. material sung in Spanish as terrestrial fre- themand well as "pure" domestic repertoire. quencies inindustry that you canhigher mar- According to the official Estudio 1994, the sta- ketshareGeneral de Medios (EGM) ratings tionsaw itsactually earn money for us." survey covering January -March 1997, audience MarcoCadena SER's domestic music net- reach leapfrom Dutch product" Borsato's work Cadena Dial is the country's sec- from 2.3 per- consistent ond most popular music network after cent to around -Jerney Kaagman,dominance CHR net Los 40 Principales, with 1.8 10 percent. of the Dutch million weekday listeners. At the Radio Noordzeecharts in the Its even "purer"(in terms of movement, lastcouple domestic music) sister station Radiole Noordzee'sterrestrialfrequencies of years prompted Polydor to set up anis Spain's most popular radio network cover 70 percent of the Netherlands, exclusively Dutch -language division ofoverall on a station -by -station basis- withtheeasternandsouthernits company in the Netherlands. As its Radiole's 15 affiliates recorded an provinces excluded to a greater or product is as typically Dutch as wood-impressive total of 502,000 weekday lesser degree. It does, however, have en shoes and tulips, it has been named listeners during the same EGM sur- complete national coverage via the Cheese Music. vey period. country's cable TV and radio network. "The repertoire we deal with Both Cadena Dial (with 78 stations SaysRadio Noordzeepressverges on what is called `schlager' in in its network) and Radiole are part of spokesperson Jerney Kaagman, "OurGermany, and around seven out of 10the largest commercial radio group in strength is that we understand our records we release are first played onSpain, Cadena SER. But their suc- country is more than just 'greater Radio Noordzee," acknowledges cess, and that of domestic music radio Amsterdam,' where the people hap- Cheeseproductmanager Rick in Spain in general, is largely attrib- pen to speak English excellently. By Gemser. "The other stations only fol-uted to one man-Paco Herrera.
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mat would work," he recalls. Mario Volante "When no one was interested, I decided to set up my own station. We started from the kitchen of my apart- ment with two tape machines and a small transmitter, but because of the 11(41170LE immediate popularity of the format, we rapidly expanded to become the first syndicated network to achieve "Listeners are getting national coverage," says Volante, holding up the very screwdriver fed up with the same 00011" '4which, in 1989, was used to turn on the transmitter which sent the sta- old Anglo-Saxon diet tion'ssignal over the Straits of Messina tohis home islandof which they can't digest" Sicily-enabling the network to fully -Paco Herrera, complete its national coverage. Latest Audiradioratingsgive Cadena Dial/Radiole BDENA Radio Italia SMI an average dailyDeejay played very littleItalian audience of over 3.7 million listeners, music until recently," he says, "but making it the fifth most -listened -to now they are playlisting indie-style cannot digest." the new prod- IAL station in Italy, and the country'srock and rap product from Italian A notable facet of most Spanishuct-they have discovered a sense ofthird most popular commercial sta-artists, especially since the drastic concerts (even those by heavy metal pride that was maybe missing before."tion. In the late '80s, when Radio decline in popularity of dance music bands), is that it seems everybody at Bestard mentions Isabel Pantoja,Italia SMI topped the commercial during the past 18 months." the gig knows every single word ofRosana, Ketama, Marta Sanchez,radio ratings league, imitators sprang Volante says that, while Radio every song. In Spain, song lyrics areJulio Iglesias and new PolyGramup in most regional markets. Italia SMI plays a wide variety of percieved as more important than insigning,singer/songwriterIsmael Two of those, Bologna's Lattemiele Italian -language music genres, the much Anglo-Saxon music. Serrano (whose debut album is cur- (Milk & Honey) and Pisa's Radio Cuorestation leaves the breaking of the Cadena Dial tends to play morerently in the charts), as examples of(Radio Heart) subsequently expandedmore alternative genres to outfits chart material than Radiole, and it s Dial/Radiole success stories. "In some into national syndicated networks, such as Radio Deejay. "The most left - demographic covers a largely middle - cases, they are artists who would not achieving a 1.8 million and 1.9 million field we get is to play an artist like to -lower class otherwise be averagedaily [rock singer/ audience. heardonthereachrespec- songwriter] "Dial is what chart -based sta- tively. Carmen Consoli, Mum will lis- tions, even Both of the ITALIAbecause she ten to with though they arenetworks 1AL, appeared at the hersonor Spanish,"operate auto-SOLO MUSICA ITALIANASanremoSong daughter and he says. mated non- Festival, but an granny, so it Herrera is sostop music for- indierockact attracts a 15- convinced themats with "Eighty percent oflike Litfiba- 60 age span," popularity of hisnews and infor- even though they Herrera says. networks will mation inserts.our listeners only are now an "It plays grow, "providing Like Italiawant to hear Italianestablished national and of course that we S M I , band-won't get Latin are grantedLattemielemusic" on regular American more stationplaysa wide rotation." pop/rock, but licences," that he range of Italian -Mario Volante, Volantesays nothing strident; flamenco; classic is prepared to make a bold prediction. music,whilst Radio Italia Spanish hits, and salsa and merengue." "At the moment, Los 40 Radio Cuore Radio Italia SMISMI'slisteners Radiole is more specialist, and has Principales' audience is nearly a mil-specialises in a - are very loyal, an upper middle class audience with alion more than Dial's," he states. "Imore focused easy -listening style. and are unlikely to tune around for a 60/40 female bias. It plays ballads, seriously think that within 10 years, Volante believes that whilst sta-station which mixes domestic music boleros, tangos, rancheros, coplas,Dial can overtake Los 40 and become tionslikehis own are partiallywith international fare."Internal and sevillanas. "A lot of the audience Spain's most popular music network."responsible for the increased popular- research tells us that 80 percent of our is made up of southern Spaniards ity of domestic music in Italy, thelisteners only want to hear Italian from Andalucia or Extremadura, who quality of local production has also music, which is why they stay tuned to have emigrated tothe northern Italia SMI: 'rags to riches' been a major factor in the genre'sus for long periods," he claims. "Only industrial areas and miss the 'south- new-found success. 20 percent are likely to tune around to ern' sound they associate with home," by Mark Dezzani "Of course, the fact that domestichear other stations playing interna- reveals Herrera. "But I don't want to music can now be heard round the clock tional artists." exaggerate the point-this music is The "kitchen sink" approach has [on radio] is an important element, par- Commenting on the increased level popular in nearly all of Spain." paid off forItaly'sleadingticularly as quality music programming of competition from Lattemiele and PolyGram Spain president and domestic music network Radio on TV is rare in Italy," he says. Radio Cuore (which have both regis- CEO Paco Bestard says he believes ItaliaSolo Musica Italiana "However, the vast improvement intered significant audience gains dur- Herrera has achieved an enormous (Radio Italia SMI). the quality of domestic music produc-ing the past year) Volante notes, "In amount for Spanish music, a fact So says Mario Volante, founder andtion has been most significant inthe past six years many stations have which is reflected not only in the popu- managing director of Radio Italiaincreasing the popularity of localtried to imitate our success. Some larity of Dial and Radiole but also inSMI, reflecting on the station's modest artists in recent years, not just in Italyhave succeeded, but many have the sales charts over the past year. beginnings in February 1982, when hebut around the world." failed. The situation has now sta- "The amount of Spanish talent outpioneered the domestic -music -only Riccardo Usuelli, head of promo-bilised, and there are no new players there is finally dawning on peopleformat in Italy. tion at Universal Music Italy, notescoming onto the market. Despite who thought it [talent] only existed in "I was presenting Italian music that the popularity of domestic musicrecent revamps at both Lattemiele New York or London," Bestard sug-programmes on several different localformats has also influenced otherand Radio Cuore, Radio Italia SMI gests. "Fans are not stupid, and theyMilan stations, trying to convince the music -led networks in Italy. "Apartremains the point of reference for now identify themselves with a lot ofowners that an all -Italian music for -from Italian dance music, Radio Italian music fans."
MUSIC & MEDIA0MAY 17., 1997 AmericanRadioHistory.Com NEWS U.K. win shinesnewlighton Eurovision by Fred Bronson Eurovision victory would damage the For the 1997 contest, five countries band's credibility, Leskanich could experimented with a public vote, con- DUBLIN- On May 3-for the first only laugh and reply, "What credibili-ducted by phone. The U.K, Germany, time in 16 years-a U.K. act won the ty? Our career Austria, Switzerland, and Sweden annual Eurovision Song Contest. has been in the allowed televoting. Iceland The song which claimed victory at toiletfor10 received 16 of its 18 points from the 42nd Eurovision event, held inyears. This is countries which had a public vote, Dublin's Point Theatre, by running a miracle!" and Denmark received 40 percent up the biggest point total in the his- The song of its 25 points this way. tory of the contest was Love Shine A was not writ- Thefirst-timesuccessof Light by Katrina & the Waves. With ten specifically televoting means this method of it, Kansas -bornKatrina for Eurovision. votingislikelyto Leskanich became the firstCooper's broth- spread, depending on American artist to ever winer requested a the technology avail- the competition. song that could able in each country. Runner up was the Irish be usedtobenefitthe Other modern entry Mysterious Woman Samaritans charity. Rew com- entries included by Marc Roberts, with posed Love Shine A Light and Hungary's Miert Kell Latin singer Marcos Llunas. adifferenceof 70 was told it sounded like a song and Croatia's Probudi Love Shine A Light represents points, the biggest gap which could compete in the Me by a Spice Girls - Britain's fifth Eurovision win out of between the top two popular song festival. A last like quartet, E.N.I. 40 attempts (the U.K. did not partici- songs since the con- minute entry in the Great But there were also pate in the first contest in 1956 and test began. The U.K British Song Contest, it was Debbiemore traditionalsat out 1958). Sandie Shaw gave win broke an one of eight semi-finalists and ScerriEurovisionentries,Britain its first victory in 1967 with Irish/Scandinavian won enough votes in a BBC - such as Malta's LetPuppet On A String. Now the leader grip on first place dating conducted telephone vote to representMe Fly, a ballad sung by Maltese TVboard has been put away until 1998, back to1991, whenthe U.K. in Dublin. presenter Debbie Scerri, and Spain'swhen Britain will host the contest for Sweden took top hon- The single was released in Britain Sin Rencor, perforined by popularthe first time since 1982. ours. Ireland won inone week before the contest on the 1992, 1993, 1994, and Eternal/WEA label, which turned last 1996, yielding only toyear's U.K. entry, Gina G's Ooh Norway in 1995, whenAah...Just A Little Bit into an inter- SecretGardenwon national hit, even though it only Anger followsnew with Nocturne. placed eighth in the contest. Katrina & the Waves Two of the bravest entries this are best remembered foryear were Stemmen I Mit Liu, a rap Irish radio proposals their 1985 hit, Walking song by Denmark's Thomas Laegard, On Sunshine. Drummerand Minn Hinsti Dans, a by Mike McGeever Radio Highland,retortedthat AlexCooper,bassisttechno/dance number by Iceland's Higgins had failed to produce a pro- Vmce de la Cruz, gui-Paul Oscar. In a foreshadowing of DUBLIN- Itwasn't justaboutposal which was balanced between tarist Kimberley Rew Eurovision Song Contests to come, Eurovision in Dublin last week. the private sector and public broad- (one-timememberofthose two songs did especially well in Local radio operators in Ireland werecaster RTE, which receives income U.K post -punk band thecountries which tried "televoting" for protesting at proposed broadcasting leg- from licence fees and advertising. Soft Boys, fronted by cult the first time. islation which threatens to step-up the Collins said, "Independent radio and singer/songwriter Robin The much -parodiedtraditional criteria for "public service" program- the advertising industry were both Hitchcock) andlead method of choosing a Eurovision win- ming on commercial radio. ignored by the minister when he was singer Leskanich havener is for each country to have a jury At the Independent Radio anddrawing up his legislative proposal." Paul remained together everof 16 people voting, usually made up Television Commission's (IRTC) con- The independent stations point out since,albeitwithoutof 50 percent music industry profes- ference in Dublin on May 2, Irishthat RTE has more producers and Oscar much chart success. sionals and 50 percent members of broadcasters expressed their anger research staff to enable it to produce the Asked whether thethe general public. over elements in the legislation whichkind of programming propagated by would force commercial operators to Higgins. Commercial radio delegates produce and broadcast a higher per-contended that, if they were to produce centage of documentaries, currentmore "public service" programmes, Norway's P3 fights 'libellous' claims affairsandIrishlanguagepro- which are unattractive to advertisers, grammes, and to schedule them inthen the government should subsidise by Kai Roger Ottesen existence of Infopool puts P3's editorial more prominent parts of the day. private stations. and commercial independence in jeop- During his address to the conference, Higgins responded, "It would be OSLO- An advisorycouncilto ardy. The report quotes the recent the author of the legislation, minister ofmadness to attempt to devise a struc- Norway's ministry of cultural affairs Hyperstate "rave" event as an example. Art, Culture and the Gaeltacht, Michael ture that would seek to compensate has claimed that CHR station P3 is not P3 broadcast live from the event and D. Higgins TD, told the delegates that broadcasters for specific programme adhering to the code of standards for Eva Records released a compilation of Irish media law needs, "A clear state-genres." He added that commercial public broadcasting. the music from it, which in turn was ment that public service broadcasting is radio would be able to meet the criteria P3's parent company, state-owned promoted in Hysj-Hysj stores. an essential and central part of the mix of the proposed media law, "by including broadcaster NRK, has retaliated by call- P3 MD Ibrmod Kjensjord comments, of broadcasting services [commercialboth popular programming which is ing the council statement "libellous" and "Editorial independence is what our rat- and RTE] in Ireland." profitable in commercial terms as well demanding detailed documentationings are based on, it is our credibility. Higgins continued, "This is not toas minority programmes which can be backing the claim. The entire staff is made aware of our deny or denigrate the efforts of indepen- unprofitable, by the provision of a com- According to the advisory council,[values and principles] when agree- dent broadcasters who provide pro- prehensive programme schedule." there are organized links between P3 ments are made with a third party." gramming within their overall sched- Some private broadcastersalso music director Nils Heldal and an infor- NRK does not allow commercials on ules which would fit easily into many accused Higgins of "dragging his feet" mal goup called Infopool, which includes its radio and TV programmes; it is fully peoples understanding of a 'public ser- on the legislation. The proposed broad- P3staff members, Warner Music funded by license fees from viewers and vice programme,' generally perceived as casting legislation has yet to be debated Sweden, music retail chain Hysj-Hysj listeners. NRK radiodirector Tor programming of a minority appeal, usu- in the Dail (Irish parliament). Many pri- and clothing manufacturer Levi's, asFuglevik has publicly announced that ally broadcast outside of prime -time." vate broadcasters fear that this might well as several advertising agencies and he considefs the report to be a libel Charlie Collins, president of the not happen before the general election, print media. against P3, and he will ask the council Association of Independent Radiowhich is likely to be called sometime The council believes that the very to document its allegations. Stations (AIRS) and chief executive oflate this summer or in early autumn.
MUSIC & MEDIA 0 M A Y 1 7, 1 9 9 7 AmericanRadioHistory.Com -A 11 ST & musicmm Back at theParty ofoneDance by Dominic Pride of the '80s and early '90s. Now "real" bands- and fake psychedelia-are back in vogue. One disadvantage of doing everything yourself "Time has been delivered into my lap in rcpc)Nis is that when things go wrong, there's only one terms of what's going on today in music," person to blame. Wallinger notes, adding the caveat, "but I don't by Gary Smith That shouldn't be a problem for Karl think it's gone full circle." The fact that radio can Wallinger, judging by the songs on Egyptology now find a home for his songs is something of an F COMM CALLING (Chrysalis), the fourth album by his one -man - accident, he says: "Radio will do what it will. It's By a happy coincidence, French dance music has grabbed band, World Party. something we have to observe." internationalheadlinesjustasleadinglabel F For a start, the record is rooted in the fer- Wallinger says he is also keen to promote Communications is releasing the most noteworthy records in tilesoil of singer/songwriter material from an openness and honesty which he reckons its short but eventful history. Laurent Garnier's Crispy Bacon which the current crop of bands such as Oasiswent out of the window in the '80s. "People are is a typical F Comm release, whereas Snapshots by Elegia have flourished. The Beatle-ish or Dylan-esqemore guarded about each other and that's to shows a new, softer and altogether more musically accom- tone of the album makes it in keeping with the do with AIDS culture and they've taken this plished side. Rhythmically somewhere between house and current vogue for '60s and '70s nostalgia. aspect of self-consciousness. People won't say uptempo jazzy funk, this second Elegia E.P. packs deft melod- "Yes,I am nostalgic for my own past, `I love you' as they think it's 'sloppy' or un-cool. ic touches alongside snatches of disco vocal and a deep, warm because it reminds me of That makes me want production to produce a lush, semi -instrumental, record. my happy childhood," towrite songs and Contact: Eric Morand, tel (+33) 1 4453 7132; fax (+33) 1 admits Wallinger, in his play devil's advocate 4463 0183 Seaview Studios (over- with the idea of 'cool.' looking London-and People have got DAFT POP FROM DENMARK around 50 miles from the sophisticatedona Because the chorus includes the word "nipple," On & On by coast). "Those times felt superficial level." Cellblock X (Pacific West) will probably be huge with 8-12 good, especially the Wallingerwrites year -oldsor, with its pop/techno approach and shouted cho- music. I'm trying to com- and produces most of rus, it could simply be huge. A big but basic acid groove,eco- municate the warmth I his own material as nomicallyedited for radio, plus a truly "in yer face" delivery get from that music." well as playing most should ensure chart action for this new Danish label. Thatwarmthruns of the instruments. A Contact: David Rowley, (+45) 3315 4100; fax (+45) 3315 through Egyptology, self-confessed control 4101 which is released through freak, he also admits to being a perfectionist, EMI companies on June 16. The first single, which explains the four-year wait since his last SMOOTH AS SILK Beautiful Dream (released May 27), with its opus, Bang!. "The music would not exist if I While the radio edit of You Might Need Somebody by Shola mild Rolling Stones influences, is already at wasn't a control freak," he admits. "It's a way of Ama (WEA U.K) is just fine-if perhaps a touch too close to radio and has been added at London's Virgingetting what I want." the Randy Crawford version-the real fun begins with the Radio and Capital 95.8. Vanity Fair, which One observer describes the over -productive remixes by Mousse T and Basement Jaxx. The skill of Wallinger says is a comment on "sleaze" inWallinger as being "beyond A&R," meaning Peppermint Park' Mousse T's as a remixer is legendary, he Britishpoliticallife,featureschirpingthat he could be left alone to create an album always hits the spot with phat grooves and a melodic sensi- Hammond organs, whilst ballad She's The One"without needing to be locked in a room with- bility often lacking in less musical mixers. Meanwhile, could be out of the John Lennon songbook. out Diane Warren." London's Basement Jaxx have done their reputation no harm Beyond a misty -eyed fondness for the time Once a member of the Waterboys, Wallinger with their deep 'n' sleazy make -over. of his youth, Wallinger argues the music fromwas signed to Ensign, the Chrysalis imprint Contact: Errol Renalls at Peppermint Park, tel (+49) the period stands the tests of time. "That stuffrun by Nigel Grainge and Chris Hill. Since 511 768 600; fax (+49) 511 701 0926 has a richness and a realness to it. It explainsthey left in 1993, he has been almost left to his what it's like to be alive as a human being. The own devices, being A&R-ed by Chrysalis man- K7'S KICKS IN THE MIX songs also lasted a long time," he notes "That's aging director Chris Briggs. "He has a differ- Having boldly gone where no other tech - why you can still listen to Hendrix now-and ent attitude to Nigel and Chris [Hill]. I am the no compilation company had previously they use it to sell jeans." garden and he's the gardener, just moving trod with its audio-visual X -Mix series, For many years Wallinger was-despitethings around, but the stuff keeps growing. Berlin -based Studio K7 has, over the some high chart positions in Europe-cast intoThat's the risk-and the danger-of being last two years, established a reputation in the musical wilderness. His fondness for a [left alone]." for original compilation concepts. dated sound and a laid-back approach to life Wallinger will be touring and doing inter- Surprisingly, with sales per release of clashed with the over -produced dance soundsnational promotional duties in June and July. X -Mix and the DJ Kicks series averaging 40-60,000, founder Horst Wiedenmiiller was frustrated. He comments: "We work closely with an artist until a compilation comes out, do the Wiesbaden goes on the Rekord promotional work and then they're gone. It became frustrat- by Christian Arndt "in the early summer of '94 ing not to be able to build long term relationships." we began to experiment with The answer was simple; he started K7 Records for orig- What does it take to make German lyrics," as well as inal acts, including Impulse. Says Wiedennitiller: "Sales a good album? Sometimes adding a dose of punk. Gone figures are modest compared to compila- it takes four bands and were complex metaphors, tions, but bringing on artists from two producers... says Riedl. "Now Iwrite scratch is our attempt to put something Rekord, from the about things I know, instead back into the industry." German city of Wiesbaden of sitting -Tor hours and hours However, despite the enthusiasm of moves from straight, noisy with a dictionary on my lap." press and TV, radio has not exactly been feedback -laden punkpop tt Whenmostoftheir Horst breathing down K7's neck. Comments rather melancholic ballad album was ready for WiedenmullerWiedenmuller: "Everything we've on their debut album Cur ease, they had an offer from achieved has been wholly without radio. released on April 28 by the inde- Berlin -based producerJ.A. Not that we ignore radio, it's just that we've never had rela- pendent label Tam Tam through BMG. Skutnikwho produced German "Trashpop" tionships with programmers." An 11 -track History Of K7 ret- The band's first incarnation, the post -punk trio, Madonna Hip Hop Massaker. rospective,including a booklet about the label, is out in June. Don't (featuring three of the four current mem- "We had recorded most of the album (with a Contact: Horst Wiedenmiiller, (+49) 30 201 2196; fax bers), was influencedby the U.K.'s previous producer], but it was too smooth," (+49) 30 2044456 "Madchester" scene. Their next band, The says Riedl. So, have they learned their lesson? Wallflower Lads, played more danceable rock, Riedl thinks so: "It's not about creating a new All new releases, biographies and photographs for con- and then moved on to worship "shoegazer"kind of music, it's about our love of beautiful sideration for inclusion in the Dance Grooves column bands like Ride and My Bloody Valentine under melodies and noisy guitars. We keep making should be sent direct to: Gary Smith, c/. Roger de Lluria their new moniker Suneverised. mistakes, but our music still works better 45 -3° -2, 08009 Barcelona, Spain. Then. says slinaer and lv-ririo- 11,,-601
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ARDK.F.D.IRE.INL.N.S.CH.UK UK Don't Speak Sonic Empire 1) ®...... , It's Alright I Feel It 3 3 23 No Doubt- Trauma I Interscope (Warner Chappell I MCA) 76 2 Members Of Mayday- Motor (BMG Ufa) lair Nuyorican Soul - Talkin Loud (Peer I Three) (Un, Dos, Tres) Maria "® Engel AD Ain't That Just The Way NL 4 59Ricky Martin - Tri,ter C,!,1-11,:,:11,7 .,Sony Mundo :Cuero Tartous, 59 3 Rammstein- Motor (BMG) 71 66 3Lutricia McNeal - CNR (MCA) Don't Cry For Me Argentina B.F.D.S.CH Just A Girl A.D.NL ***** SALES BREAKER * * * * *38 2"0 Madonna- Warner Brothers (Evita I MCA) 96 2 No Doubt - Trauma (Knock Yourself Out Music) Star People '97 UK.IRE.NLUK When I Die AB.D.NL.CH Stairway To Heaven F_D.CH ''''2 George Michael- Virgin (Dick Leahy) 39 27 19 No Mercy- MCI I Arista (Gluck /10 77 3 GS Incorporated - EMI (Warner Chappell) Time To Say Goodbye .I.F ILV L.( II Anywhere For You A.B.D.NL.N.S.CH.UK AD.CH 23 Oh Shit - Frau Schmidt 6 4 Sarah Brightman & Andrea Bocelli - East West (Sugar) 40 36 11 Backstreet Boys- Jive (BMG) 74 62 9 Der Wolf- Mercury (Click I BMG) Lovefool DIRE. UK Blond A Quand J'Ai Peur De Tout F 013 3 The Cardigans- Stockholm (PolyGram) 41 37 3 Reinhard Fendrich- Ariola (Not Listed) 75 8 Patricia Kaas - Columbia (Not Listed) Encore Une Fois A.B.DKFIN.F.D.LRE.NL.NS.CH.UK Le Feu ca Brule F Ready Or Not rim mr 8 717 Sash! - Byte Blue (MCA I Copyright Control) 43 2 Top Boys- M6 Int. (Not Listed) 76 40 4 The Course- CNR (Sony) Let A Boy Cry B.RINLCH Please Don't Go A.D.NLCH The -Saint FIN.IRE.UK 9 8 16 Gala- Do It Yourself (Scorpio) 43 34 5 No Mercy- MCI I Arista (FMP) 77 67 4 Orbital- ffrr I London (EMI) Don't Let Go (Love) AB.DK.F.D.IRE.NL.N.S.CH The Theme (Of Progressive Attack) FD.CH Taxioss tar 10 11 18 En Vogue- East West America (Rondor I WC) 44 38 9 Brooklyn Bounce- Edel (Warner Chappell I Rondor) IMP Mansun - Parlophone (PolyGram) Li 10 10Who Do You Think You Are/Mama AlinhILAILN8C11111( @ Nur Getraumt A.D.CH Do You Wanna Be My Baby? S Spice Girls - Virgin (Windswept Pacific/19/BMG/PolyGram) 42 3 Bliimchen- Edel (EMI) 79 68 3 Gessle- Fundamental (Gessle Music) I 12 14 8Du Liebst Mich Nicht AD.CII Bailando FS 0 I Want You RD Sabrina Setlur - Epic (PolyGram) 46 39 24 Paradisio- Dance Development (PolyGram) " 2 Savage Garden - Columbia (Roughcut I EMI) >Abort, Retry, Fail?- Your Woman A.B.DILF.DICH You Might Need Somebody IRE.UK Partir Un Jour B.F 13 12 17 White Town- Brilliant! 'Chrysalis (EMI) 47 33 4 Shola Ama- WEA (EMI) 81 55 26 2 Be 3- EMI (Not Listed) Con Te Partiro F 2 Become 1 FNL.CH Remind Me F 14 15 13 Andrea Bocelli- Sugar/Polydor (Double Marpot) 48 30 21Spice Girls - Virgin (Windswept Pacific I PolyGram) plat 93 8 Tribal Jam - EMI (Not Listed) Warum? "LAG/ 0 Get Ready To Bounce AD 0 ...... La Vache 15 9 10 Tic Tae Toe- RCA (Gluck) 1114P Brooklyn Bounce - Edel (Warner Chappell1Rondor) IMP Milk Incorporated - Hot Tracks (Not Listed) AB.F.D.IRE.NL.S.CH 16 18 11Alone Vivo Per Lei - Ich Lebe Fiir Sie A.D.CH I Need You B.F.CH Bee Gees - Polydor (Gibb Bros I BMG) 50 443 Andrea Bocelli & Judy Weiss- Sugar/Polydor (Sugar) 84 72 233T - MJJ I Epic (Island I MCA ICC) Love Is The Law MEEIK Monkey Wrench IRE.UK Aicha B_D.CH 65 2 The Seahorses- Geffen (Copyright Control) ®882 Foo Fighters- Roswell /Capitol (MJ I 12) 85 82 34 Khaled- Barclay (JRG I EMI Virgin) Should I Leave Free D ®98 Lucie F 18 17 9 David Charvet- RCA (Soso) 0IMP DJ Quicksilver - Dos Or Die (Not Listed) 2 Pascal Obispo - Epic (Not Listed) 12 6 18I Have A Dream/Bellissima(Li F7N.D.IREN.S.CH.UK Cpl...., Young Boy A.D.IRE.NL.N.UK You Showed Me k DJ Quicksilver - Dos Or Die IMP Paul McCartney - Parlophone (MPL) 87 45 3 Lightning Seeds- Epic (TRO-Essex) Un-Break My Heart A.B.F.D.INL.E.S.CH My Love For You / La Dance D'Helene F 20 16 29 Toni Braxton- LaFace I Arista (EMI) 54 47 4 Blackwood- A&D (A&D) 66 80 5 Meli Melo & Miss Helene- Versailles (Not Listed)
A.DKFIN.F.D.IRE.INL.N.S.UK F UK Staring At The Sun Donne - Step Into My World 2421 3 U2- Island (Blue Mountain) 48 4 2 Be 3 -EMI (Not Listed) 1330 Hurricane #1- Creation (Warner Chappell) Fire AFIND.N.S.CH Fired Up! B.F.NL 0 Fire, Water, Burn NLN 22 25 5 Scooter- Edel (Warner Chappell) 56 5 Funky Green Dogs- Twisted (Murk) la, Bloodhound Gang - Geffen (Not Listed) Lucy F I Love You...Stop! UK Gotta Be You F.UK 23 23 7 Alliage- Bax Dance (Bax Dance) IMO Red 5- Zyx (Sony Music) 91 70 6 3T- MJJ 'Epic (Cheiron I Mega I BMG) Love Won't Wait D.IRE.NL.UK Hedonism (Just Because You Feel Good) F.D.NLS C) Dance With Me UK 2358 2 Gary Barlow- RCA (Copyright Control I Shep Songs) 74 4 Skunk Anansie - One Little Indian (Chrysalis) USW Tin Tin Out featuring Tony Hadley - VC Recordings (Notting Hill/CC) It's No Good AB.D.KFIN.F.D.IRE.INL.E.S.CH.UK Drop Dead Gorgeous IRE.UK La Mille De Ton Amour F 25 19 5 Depeche Mode- Mute (EMI) ®51 2 Republica- Deconstruction (BMG I Momentum /WC) 93 71 9 Jane Fostin- Ariola (Grandington /Art & Rhythm Inc) Lonely D B.D.IRENLN.S.CH s 60 41 13Hit 'Em High (The Monsters Anthem) Viinner 2626 32 4 Nana- Motor (Warner Chappell) B Real/B Rhymes/CoolioiLL Cool Method Man -Atlantic( East West (Various) 94 79 11 Together- Mercury (Not Listed) 'Bout Dub B.DK.FINF.D.IV.S.CH So Strung Out A.F7N.D.CH Pony RD.CH 29 13 Apollo1 Four F.or'ty- Stealth Sonic I Epic (Warner Chappell) 61 49 17 C -Block- Warner Brothers (BMG) 95 94 16 Ginuwine- 550 Music I Epic (Various)
B.DKFINF.D.IRE.IVL.N.S re ILDKD Remember Me 62 54 4Ik Zing Dit Lied Voor Jou Alleen Freed From Desire 28 24 15 The BlueBoy - Pharm (EMI) Jantje Smit - Mercury (Not Listed) @el*Gala - Do It Yourself (Scorpio) Bodyshakin' UK BEI F 26 22 2 Da Funk You'll Be Mine (Party Time) . 911 - Virgin (Windswept Pacific I Chrysalis) 63 50 17 Daft Punk- Virgin (Zomba) 97 89 11 Gloria Estefan- Epic (EMI)
Old Before I Die DILD.IRE.I.NL.E.UK r D.IRENL.CH.UK 20 From Disco To Disco If I Never See You Again 30 3 Robbie Williams -Chrysalis (Warner ChappellIPolyGran 1 'EMI) 64 57 9 Whirlpool Productions -Motor (Motor) ®LOPWet Wet Wet - Precious Organization (Chrysalis 'Warner Chappell) A.D.NL.CH F 31 31 12Tearing Up My Heart Ameno Block Rockin' Beats FINIRE.NS.UK 'N Sync - Ariola (BMG) 65 53 3 Era- Mercury (Not Listed) 99 73 7 The Chemical Brothers- Virgin (MCA I Zomba) Around The World FIN.RD.IRE.I.NL . S. UK Say What You Want B.DK.RN.CH UK bo la Texasmercury (EMI) @,...., A Prisoner Of The Past 32 26 3 Daft Punk- Virgin (Zomba) - um" Prefab Sprout - Kitchenware/Columbia (Sony) Don't Leave Me D.IRE.NL.S.UK 2 The Night I A = Austria B = Belgium. CZE =Czedi Rebobk. DE = Denmak. FIN= Fogged F =France. D = Germ, IRL = Ireland, 1 = Italy, HUN= Hungary,NL = Nethedands N =Nonvay,E= Spam, 9 -= Sweden, CH = Switzerland, UK = United Kingdom. 33 35 3 Blackstreet- Interscope (Zomba /EMI) 67 61.5 La Fuertezza- Meet (Copyright Control) a=SALES MOVER 1131)= NEW ENTRY C1101 RE-ENTRY ****** %ALPS BREAKER *** **A indicates the Ingle registering the biggest increase in chart points. The Eurochart Hot 100 Singles is compiled by Music &Med. a and based on the following national singles sales charts: ChartTrack (UK); Ireland; FWl chartservice by Media Contra GmbH 0099-7221-366201 (Germany); SNEWIFOP Tite-Live (France); singles: MusicsEDisdii/Mario De Luigi. albums: Firoi-Nielsen I Italy); Stichting Mega Top 100 (Holland); Stichting Promuvi (Belgium), GLF/IFPI (Sweden); IFPI/Nielsen Marketing Research (Denmark); VG Norway); ALEF MB/AFYVE (Spain); YLE 2 Radioinafia/IFPI (Finland); Austria Top 30 (Austria). Full chart service by Media Control AG 0041-61-2718989 (Switzerland); IPSOS/Mahasz-IFPI (Hungary) IFPI (Czech Republic, bump stemra
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AD.IVL.CH F.GRE.I.NL.E E.UK No Mercy" 50 48 2Julio Iglesias 0 Crowded House My Promise - MCI Arista Tango - Columbia 0 Recurring Dream - The Very Best Of - Capitol 0 Backstreet Boys A.ADILD.G IRE.NL.RE.S.CH Zucchero Fornaciari B.D.INL.RCH 0 Rammstein 18" " Backstreet Boys - Jive 51 43 23 The Best Of Zucchero- Greatest Hits - Polydor - Herzeleid - Motor Era ARCH C. Conscili Smurfene N 19 22 8 Ameno- Mercury Confusa E Felice - PolyGram 0EEO Smurfehits 2 - CNR Skunk Anansie ADAFIND.I.NL.N.S.UK Reinhard Fendrich A Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds A.B.D.N.S.CH.CZE 032 16 Stoosh - One Little Indian 53 53 2 Blond- BMG 57 9 The Boatman's Call - Mute Patricia Kaas A.B.FINF.D.NL.CH Michael Jackson Captain Jack FIN.D.NL.N.CZE 21 21 7 Dans Ma Chair- Columbia 0Lt+HIStory - Past Present & Future Book 1- Epic 0085 4 Operation Dance - EMI Mary J. Blige RD.NL.S.UK Barbra Streisand Litfiba 033 3 Share My World - Uptown MCA 5555,A Collection - Greatest Hits..And More - Columbia 72 17 Mondi Sommersi - CGD Jean-Louis Aubert Extremoduro E Premiata Forneria 0 _h.MP Stockholm - Virgin Iros Todos A Tomar Por Culo - DRO C)LEW Ulisse - RTI Music Tic Tac Toe AD.CH Eros Ramazzotti AD.CH Marco Borsato BNL 24 23 25 Tic Tac Toe- RCA 069 52 Dove C'E Musica - DDD 87 16 De Waarheid - Polydor Pino Daniele LCH Soraya D France Gall F 25 25 8 Dimmi Cosa Succede Sulla Terra- CGD 58 46 11On Nights Like This - Mercury IMP Double Live - CMBM I WEA JEuniroquai B.F.D.IRE.E.UKCZE Nek The Offspring A.B.D.NL.RE.CZE 029 35 Travelling Without Moving- Sony S2 52 7 Gli Amici E Tutto B Resto- WEA 70 14 Ixnay On The Hombre- Epitaph ; Columbia Aerosmith A.ADKFIN.D.NLNE.S.CH.CZE Smurfarna 0 Space UK 27 17 8 Nine Lives- Columbia 49 5 Smurfilita 2 - CNR Oil Spiders - Gut The Charlatans GRE.IRE.S.UK Frans Bauer & Marianne Weber De Smurfen B 28 18 3Tellin' Stories - Beggars Banquet 63 3 Het Duetalbum - That's Entertainment 95" 2Smurfenholiday - EMI 29 Jean, Michel Jarre A.DILF.D.NL.N.E.S.CH Cast UK Tiamat D.S 26 11 Oxygen 7-13- Dreyfus Epic ' Mother Nature Calls - Polydor 0wil- P A Deeper Kind Of Slumber - SPV Roberto Vecchioni Andre Rieu Soundtrack B.D.GRE.NL.E ILL, El Bandolero Stanco - EMI 63 62 19 Strauss & CO.- Mercury 97 54 5 The English Patient- Fantasy 0 1:1 Brand New Heavies RGRE.S.UK George Michael DICGRE.IRE.NL.UKCZE Mango 31, 24 2 Shelter - London 084 52 Older - Virgin IJ 111* Credo - Fonit Cetra "Aft Jovanotti ICH Marillion D./V1,. UK Kaija Koo FIN OA 28 13 Lorenzo 1997 - L'Albero - Soleluna Mercury 654132 This Strange Engine- Raw Power 99 97 2 Unihiekkamyrsky- WEA Beautiful South B.IRE.UK Rosanna Arbelo E *****SALES BREAKER ***** 686 Blue Is The Colour - Go! Discs 1 98 4 Lunas Rotas- MCA F A = Austria,11. Belgium, CM Czech Republic, DK = Denromi, FIN = Pullen& F c Fmnee, GM= Greece, D = Germany, IRL = Ireland, IAM Ella Baila Sola I Italy = Hungary, NL Netheilewda. N. Norway, P = Sweden, CFI = Swimeriand, UR = United )(mem. 457 67 @ L'Ecole Du Micro D'Argent - Delabel 66 17 Ella Baila Sola- Hispavox 0 SALES MOVER = NEW ENTRY =REENTRY tr SALES BREAKER *****; indicates the album registering the biggest increase in chart points. 1 IFPI Platinum Europe certification for sales of 1 million units, with multi -platinum titles indicated by a number in the symbol. The European Top 100 Albums is compiled by Music & Media. All rights reserved. Compiled from the national album sales charts of 18 European territories. MUSIC & MEDIAelMAY 17, 1997
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TW LW SINGLES TW LW SINGLES TW LW SINGLES TW LW SINGLES 1 20 George Michael - Star People '97 (Virgin) 1 2 Nana - Lonely (Motor) 1 1Ricky Martin - (Un, Dos, Tres) Maria (Tristar) 1 1 Blackwood - My Love For You (A&D) 2 3 The Cardigans - Lovefool (Sonet) 2 1Sabrina Setlur - Du Liebst Mich Nicht (Epic) 2 2 Andrea Bocelli - Con Te Partiro (Polydor) 2 2Whirlpool Productions - From Disco To Disco (Motor) 316 The Seahorses - Love Is The Law (MCA) 3 9 Members Of Mayday - Sonic Empire (RCA) 3 3David Charvet - Should I Leave (RCA) 3 3 La Fuertezza - 2 The Night (New Music) 4 1R.Kelly - I Believe I Can Fly (Jive) 4 7Rammstein - Engel (Motor) 4 4Alliage - Lucy (Bax Dance) 4 4 Gala - Let A Boy Cry (Self) 5 4911 - Bodyshakin' (Ginga) 5NE DJ Quicksilver - Free (Arcade) 5 5 White Town - Your Woman (EMI) 5 5Michael Jackson - Blood On The Dance Floor(Epic) 619 Gary Barlow - Love Won't Wait (RCA) 6 NE Brooklyn Bounce - Get Ready To Bounce (Edel) 6NE Mylene Farmer & Khaled - La Poupee Qui... (Polydor) 6 6White Town - Your Woman (EMI) 7 2DJ Quicksilver - I Have A Dream/Bellissima (EMI) 7 6R.Kelly - I Believe I Can Fly(Rough Trade) 7 9 Top Boys - Le Feu Ca Brule (Sony) 7 7Depeche Mode - It's No Good (Mute) 8 6Shola Ama - You Might Need Somebody (Warner) 8 4 Brightman/Bocelli - Time To Say Goodbye (East West) 8 6Gala - Let A Boy Cry (Scorpio) 8 8 U2 - Discotheque (Island) 910 Blackstreet - Don't Leave Me (Interscope) 9 3Tic Tac Toe - Warum? (RCA) 9 7Spice Girls - 2 Become 1 (Virgin) 9 9Jamiroquai - Alright (Sony S2) 10 61 Jamiroquai - Alright (Sony S2) 10 10 Bliimchen - Nur Getrfiumt (Edel) 10 8 No Doubt - Don't Speak (MCA) 10 10 Nek - Laura Non C'E' (WEA) TW LW Ausums TW LW ALBUMS TW LW ALBUMS TW LW ALBUMS 3 4Various - New Hits 1997 (Virgin) 1 1Tic Tac Toe - Klappe Die 2te (RCA) 1 1 Andrea Bocelli - Romanza (Polydor) 1 1Pins Daniele - Dimmi Cosa Succede Sulk Terra (CGD) 3 4Supergrass - In It For The Money (Parlophone) 2 2 Depeche Mode - Ultra (Intercord) 2NE Jean-Louis Aubert - Stockholm (Virgin) 2NE Roberto Vecchioni - El Bandolero Stance(EMI) 3 4Various - In The Mix '97 Vol 2 (Virgin) 34 Andrea Bocelli - Romanza (Polydor) 3 3 Era - Ameno (Mercury) 3 2Jovanotti - Lorenzo 1997 - L'Albero (Mercury) 4 6Texas - White On Blonde (Mercury) 43 Andrea Bocelli - Bocelli (Polydor) 4 7 IAM - L'Ecole Du Micro D'Argent (Virgin) 4 3U2 - Pop (Island) 510 Various - Shine 8 (PolyGram TV) 5 5Bee Gees - Still Waters (Polydor) 5 5Julien Clerc - Julien (Virgin) 5 5 Andrea Bocelli - Romanza (Polydor) 6 3The Charlatans - Tellin' Stories (Beggars Banquet) 610 Spice Girls - Spice (Virgin) 6 4Spice Girls - Spice (Virgin) 6NE C. Conscili - Confusa E Felice (PolyGram) 7 8Spice Girls - Spice (Virgin) 7 6Tic Tac Toe - Tic Tac Toe (RCA) 7 2Depeche Mode - Ultra (Virgin) 7 6 Nek - Gli Amid E Tutto D Resto (WEA) 8 7Various - Now! 36 (EMITVirgin/PolyGram) 8 8Supertramp - Some Things Never Change(EMI) 8RE Michael Jackson - HIStory (Epic) 8NE Riccardo Cocciante - Innamorato(Columbia) 9 5 Brand New Heavies - Shelter (London) 9 7 No Mercy - My Promise (Arista) 9 82 Be 3 - Partir Un Jour (EMI) 9 4 Depeche Mode - Ultra (Mute) 10 12 Various - Kiss Anthems (PolyGram TV) 10 11 Sabrina Setlur - Die Neue S-Klasse (Epic) 10 9Supertramp - Some Things Never Change(EMI) 10 7Patty Pravo - Bye Bye Patty (Epic)
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TW LW SINGLES TW LW SINGLES TW LW SINGLES TW LW SINGLES 1 NE Michael Jackson - Blood On The Dance Floor (Epic) 1 1Jantje Smit lk Zing Dit Lied Veer Jou... (Mercury) 1 1Gala - Let A Boy Cry (Private Life) 1 1Paradisio - Bailando (CNR) 2 1 Robbie Williams - Old Before I Die (EMI) 2 2Lutricia McNeal - Ain't That Just The Way (CNR) 2 2 Funky Green Dogs - Fired Up! (MCA) 2NE Michael Jackson - Blood On The Dance Floor(Epic) 3NE Ana Belen - No Se Porque Te Quiero (Ariola) 3 3 Az Yet - Hard To Say I'm Sorry (BMG) 3 3Ricky Martin - (Un, Dos, Tres) Maria (Sony) 3 2Gessle - Do You Wanna Be My Baby?(EMI) 42 Depeche Mode - It's No Good (RCA) 4 4 Spice Girls Who Do You Think You Are/Mama(Virgin) 4 4 No Doubt - Don't Speak (MCA) 4 3 Together - Viinner (PolyGram) 5 3 Toni Braxton - Un-Break My Heart(BMG) 5 6 Flamman & Abraxas - Ill Be Your Only Friend (Polydor) 5 5 En Vogue - Don't Let Go (Love) (Warner) 5 4Apollo Four Forty - Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Dub (Sony) TW LW Aunts 6 9 Skunk Anansie - Hedonism (Virgin) 6 6Natural Born Deejays - A Good Day (Rhythm) 6 5Dilba - I'm Sorry (Metronome) 1 2Spice Girls - Spice (Virgin) 7 7 Michael Jackson - Blood On The Dance Floor (Epic) 7 7Toni Braxton - Un-Break My Heart(BMG) 7 6Peter aback - Guldet Blev Till Sand (Mono Music) 2 3 Backstreet Boys - Backstreet Boys(Virgin) 823 Hero - Toen Ik Je Zag (Polydor) 8 8R.Kelly - I Believe I Can Fly (Jive) 8 8 The Blue Boy - Remember Me (Mega) 3 NE Extremoduro - Iros Todos A Tomar Por Cub (DRO) 9 5Bauer/Weber - De Regenboog (That's Entertainment) 9 9Spice Girls - Who Do You Think You Are/Mama(Virgin) 9 9Spice Girls - Who Do You Think You Are/Mama (EMI) 4 4Ella Baila Sola - Ella Baila Sola(Hispavox) 10 8The Kelly Family - Fell In Love With An Alien(Kel-Life) 10 10 Sash! - Encore Une Fois (Byte) 10 11 Stephen Simmonds - Tears Never Dry (Superstudio) 5 1Depeche Mode - Ultra (RCA) TW LW ALBUMS TW LW ALBUMS TW LW ALBUMS 6 6Rosanna Arbelo - Lunas Rotas (MCA) 1 1Bauer/Weber - Het Duetalbum (That's Entertainment) 1 1Spice Girls - Spice (Virgin) 1 1 Depeche Mode - Ultra (Mute) 7 5 Camela - Corazon Indomable (Producciones) 2NE Jantje Smit - lk Zing Dit Lied Voor Jou... (Mercury) 2 2 Depeche Mode - Ultra (Mute) 2 2Eric Gadd - The Right Way (Edelpitch) 810 U2 - Pop (PolyGram) 3 2Spice Girls - Spice (EMI) 3 3 De Smurfen - Smurfenholiday (EMI) 3 4 Laura Pausini - La Cose Che Vivi(Warner) 9 7 No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom (MCA) 46 No Mercy - My Promise (BMG) 4 4 No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom (MCA) 4 3Smurfarna - Smurfhits 2 (CNR Music) 10 15 Texas - White On Blonde (Mercury) 5 4 Ruth Jacott - Hartslag (Dino) 5 5 K.LA. - Krapoel In Axe (Sony) 5 7The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole (Virgin) 11 9Soundtrack - Romeo + Juliet (Hispavox) 6 8Total Touch - Total Touch (RCA) 6 6 Marco Borsato - De Waarheid (Polydor) 6 5Spice Girls - Spice (Virgin) 12 11 Supertramp - Some Things Never Change (Hispavox) 7 5 Rowwen Haze - Water, Lucht & Liefde (CNR) 7 7Toni Braxton - Secrets (BMG) 7 NE Erykah Badu - Baduizm (MCA) 13 13 Sacred Spirit 2 - Culture Clash (Virgin) 8 3Soundtrack - Miss Saigon (Endemol) 8 8Patricia Kaas - Dans Ma Chair (Sony) 812 Mary J. Blige - Share My World (Universal) 14 8 Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygen 7-13 (Epic) 9 7 Andrea Bocelli - Romanza (Polydor) 9 9The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole (Virgin) 9 NE Joey Tempest - Azalea Place (Polar) 15 14 Crowded House - Recurring Dream - Best Of (Thspavax) 10 11 Marillion - This Strange Engine (Dureco) 10 10 Lisa Stansfield - Lisa Stansfield (BMG Ariola) 10 23 Stephen Simmonds - Alone (Superstudio)
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TW LW SINGLES TW LW SINGLES TW LW SINGLES TW LW SINGLES 1 11 Michael Jackson - Blood On The Dance Floor(Sony) 1 1 Sway - When Susannah Cries (MCA) 1 1 Klamydia Perseesoon (Kraklund) 1 1R.Kelly - I Believe I Can Fly (Jive) 2 5Tiggy - Simsalabim (Flex) 2 6R.Kelly - I Believe I Can Fly (Jive) 2 2Scooter - Fire (Club Tools) 2 2DJ Quicksilver - I Have A Dream/Bellissima (EMI) 3 1 En Vogue - Don't Let Go (Love) (Warner) 3 3Bloodhound Gang - Fire, Water, Burn (MCA) 3 3Tehosekoitin - C'mon Baby Yeah (Levy) 322 Marc Roberts - Mysterious Woman (Ritz)
4 4R.Kelly - I Believe I Can Fly (Jive) 4 2 Michael Jackson - Blood On The Dance Floor (Epic) 4 41.12 - Staring At The Sun (Island) 4 3Sash! - Encore Une Fois (Multiply) 5 3 The Blue Boy - Remember Me (Mega) 5 4Monstars Of Space Jam - Hit 'Em High (Warner) 5 5Michael Jackson - Blood On The Dance Floor (Epic) 5 4 U2 - Staring At The Sun (Island) 6 2Sash! - Encore Une Fois (Byte) 6 5 Aqua - Roses Are Red (MCA) 6 6 The Blue Boy - Remember Me (Mega) 6NE Gary Barlow - Love Won't Wait (RCA) 7 7No Doubt - Don't Speak (MCA) 7 7 Sash! - Encore Une Fois (Byte) 7 7Sash! - Encore Une Fois (Byte) 7 NE George Michael - Star People '97 (Virgin) 8 6Tiggy - Ring -A -Ling (Flex) 810 Apollo Four Forty - Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Dub (Sony) 8 8Apollo Four Forty - Ain't Bout Dub (Sony) 8 7 No Doubt - Don't Speak (MCA) 910 Apollo Four Forty - Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Dub (Sony) 911 DJ Quicksilver - I Have A Dream/Bellissima (Arcade) 9 9 Depeche Mode - It's No Good (SMD-Musiiki) 9 5Michael Jackson - Blood On The Dance Floor (Epic) 10 16 Gala - Freed From Desire (MIS. Label) 10 12 Team Deep - Morninglight (MCA) 10 10 Suede - Lazy (Sony) 10 6 Spice Girls - Who Do You Think You Are/Mama(Virgin) TW LW ALBUMS TW LW Alamo TW LW ALBUMS TW LW ALBUMS 1 1 Aqua - Aquarium (MCA) 1 1 Barbra Streisand - Collection - Greatest Hits (Sony) 1 1Kaija Koo - Unihiekkamyrsky (Warner) 1 3Soundtrack - Romeo + Juliet (EMI) 2 3Shu-Bi-Dua - Shu-Bi-Dua 16 (CMC) 2 3Soundtrack - Space Jam (Warner) 2 2 Apulanta - Kolme (Levy) 2 1Spice Girls - Spice (Virgin) 3 2Suede - Coming Up (Sony) 3 2Toni Braxton - Secrets (BMG) 3 3 Depeche Mode - Ultra (SMD-Musiiki) 3 7112 - Pop (PolyGram) 4 5Soundtrack - Space Jam (Warner) 4 5Smurfene - Smurfehits 2 (CNR) 4 4 Andrea Bocelli - Romanza (Polydor) 4 2 Various - New Hits '97 (Global) 5 4 Depeche Mode - Ultra (Mute) 5 8 Aqua - Aquarium (MCA) 5 5Jari. Sillanpaii - Auringonnousu (MTV) 5 5 Various Now! 36 (EMI/Virgin/PolyGram) 6 8 No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom (MCA) 6 4 Depeche Mode - Ultra (Mute) 6 6Sir Elwoodin Riljaiset Viirit - Puunukke(Herodes) 6 6 Mary Black - Shine (Dara) 710 Spice Girls - Spice (Virgin) 7 6Secret Garden - White Stones (PolyGram) 7 7X-Perience - Magic Fields (WEA) 7 4The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole (Virgin) 8 7One Two - 12 Hits Fra Den Bedste Tid (EMI) 8 7 Luxus Leverpostei - Bare Rays (Funny Times) 88 Popeda - 500cc (Poko) 8 8Soundtrack - Space Jam (Warner) 9 6Lars Lilholt - Masai (CMC) 911 Soundtrack - Romeo + Juliet (EMI) 99 Aerosmith - Nine Lives (Sony) 9 12 Various - The All Time Greatest Country Songs (Columbia) 10 11 Ostkyst Hustlers - Fuld M Leegn (Sony) 10 10 U2 - Pop (PolyGram) 10 10 Waltari - Space Avenue (EMI) 10 9Supergrass - In It For The Money (Parlophone)
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TW LW SINGLES TW LW SINGLES TW LW ALBUMS TW LW ALBUMS 1 1R.Kelly - I Believe I Can Fly (Jive) 1 1 Reinhard Fendrich - Blond (BMG) 1 1Spice Girls - Spice (Virgin) 1 3 Buty - Rastakayakwanna (BMG) 2 2Brightman/Bocelli - Time To Say Goodbye(Warner) 2 3R.Kelly - I Believe I Can Fly(Rough Trade) 2 2Backstreet Boys - Backstreet Boys (EMI) 2 2Hapka/Horitcek - Citovia Investice (B&M) 3 3Tic Tac Toe - Warum? (BMG) 3 2Brightman/Bocelli - Time To Say Goodbye (Warner) 3 9Vaya Con Dios - The Best Of Vaya Con Dios (BMG) 3 1Depeche Mode - Ultra (Mute) 4 4Bocelli/Weiss - Vivo Per Lei - Ich Lebe...(Polydor) 4 4Tic Tac Toe - Warum? (BMG) 4 5Celine Dion - Falling Into You (Columbia) 4 5Jaromir Nohavica - Divne Stolet1 (EMI) 5 5Michael Jackson - Blood On The Dance Floor(Sony) 5 9 Sabrina Setlur - Du Liebst Mich Nicht (Sony) 5 3Delfins - Saber A Mar (BMG) 5 6 Hruby, Muetill, Prokop, Skoumal Cerny Ovec (Bonton) 6 6 No Doubt - Don't Speak (MCA) 6 8Scooter - Fire (Edel) 6 4Rio Grande - Rio Grande (EMI) 6 4 U2 - Pop (PolyGram) 7 7Sabrina Setlur - Du Liebst Mich Nicht (Sony) 7 5`N Sync - Tearing Up My Heart (BMG) 7 17 The Kelly Family - Almost Heaven (EMI) 7 9 Aerosmith - Nine Lives (Columbia) 8 8 En Vogue - Don't Let Go (Love) (Warner) 8 6No Mercy - When I Die (BMG) 812 Roxette - Baladas En Espanol (EMI) 815 Spice Girls - Spice (EMI) 9 9Brooklyn Bounce - The Theme (Edel) 9 7No Mercy - Please Don't Go (BMG) 9NE Ton Jobin Imedito (RCA) 9 7Captain Jack - Operation Dance (EMI) 10 10 'N Sync - Tearing Up My Heart (BMG) 10 11BBS & DJ Andy B - Pow Chi (PolyGram) 10 NE Luz Casal - Pequeno y Grandes Exitos (EMI) 10 18 Nedvedi - Pastcek Hvezd (BMG) TW LW ALBUMS TW LW ALsums 11 RE Roy Orbison - The Very Best Of (Virgin) 11 12 Hubda Z Muzikalu - Dracula (EMI) 1 1Tic Tac Toe - Klappe Die 2te (BMG) 1 1Reinhard Fendrich - Blond (BMG) 12 6 U2 - Pop (PolyGram) 12 13 The Offspring - Ixnay On The Hombre (Sony) 2 2 Andrea Bocelli-Romanza (PolyGram) 2 2Tic Tac Toe - Klappe Die 2te (BMG) 13 16 Bee Gees - Still Waters (Polydor) 13 28 Smoulove Smouli Super Disko Sou (EMI) 3 3Bee Gees - Still Waters (PolyGram) 3 3 Andrea Bocelli - Romanza (PolyGram) 14 11 Apocalyptica - Plays Metallica(PolyGram) 14 10 Arakain - Arakain 15 Vol 1 (Popron) 4 4 Andrea Bocelli - Bocelli (PolyGram) 4 4 No Mercy - My Promise (BMG) 15 7Depeche Mode - Ultra (BMG) 15 11 Nick Cave - The Boatman's Call (Mute) 5 5 No Mercy - My Promise (BMG) 5 7 Soundtrack - Romeo + Juliet (EMI) 16 10 Bush - Razorblade Suitcase (MCA) 16 14 Soundtrack - Evita (Warner) 6 6Supertramp - Some Things Never Change(EMI) 6 9Tic Tac Toe - Tic Tac Toe (BMG) 17 19 Santos E Pescadores - Love? (BMG) 17 22 Hudba Z Muzikalu - Krysar I+II (EMI) 7 7Soundtrack - Romeo + Juliet (EMI) 7 5 Depeche Mode - Ultra (Echo-Zyx) 18 8 Pedro Abrunhosa - Tempo (PolyGram) 18 21 Lucie - Pohyby (B&M Music) 8 8 Depeche Mode - Ultra (Musikvertrieb) 8 6Spice Girls - Spice (EMI) 19 22 Simon & Garfunkel - The Definitive Collection (Sony) 19 31 Petr Novak - Nahrohni Kamen (Bonton) 9 9Spice Girls - Spice (EMI) 910 Bee Gees - Still Waters (PolyGram) 20 NE Zucchero - Greatest Hits (Polydor) 20 20 Bee Gees - Still Waters (PolyGram) 10 10 Tic Tac Toe - Tic Tac Toe (BMG) 10 8 Andrea Bocelli - Bocelli (Polydor)
Based on the national sales charts from 16 European markets. Information supplied by ChartTrack (Ult); Full chartserviee by Media Control GmbH 00494221-366201 (Germany); SNEP (France);singles( Musics E Dischi/ Mario De Luigi, albums: Fimi-Nielsen (Italy); Stichting Mega Top 100 (Holland); Stichting Promuvi (Belgium); 1PSOS/Mahasz-IFPI (Hungary); GLF/IFPI (Sweden); IFPI/Nielsen Marketing Research (Denmark); VG (Norway); ALEFMB/AFYVE (Spain); YLE 2 RadiomafisAYPI (Finland); Inn (Ireland); AFP (Portugal); Austria Top 30 (Austria); Full chartserviee by Media Control AG 0041-61.2718989 (Switzerland); IFPI CR (Czech Republic). Labelslisted are the national marketing companies. MUSIC & MEDIA MAY 17, 1997 AmericanRadioHistory.Com CHARTSni
Breakin' & Entering Eurochart A/Z Indexes A weekly Eurochart analysis by Bob Macdonald point losses.Thatleaves number -crunching Hot 100 singles HispanicvocalistRickyMartinstillsinging 2 Become 1 48 Just AGirl 72 Older is precisely one year old, and George Michaeloptimisticallyabout (Un,Dos, Tres)Maria 2 The Night 67 La Dance D'Helene 88 A PrisonerOf The Past 100 La Pow& Qui Fait Non 34 is celebrating in style. (Tristar/Columbia), but in reality only climbing from Abort, Retry, Fail? - Your Woman 13 La Taille De Ton Amour 93 The superstar'sfirstVirgin album reboundscinco to quatro on the Eurochart. He does, however, Aicha 85 La Vache 83 eighteen places to number 64 and clocks up its 52ndremain at tres in Belgium and un in France. Ain't Talkin"Bout Dub 27 Le Feu ca Brule 42 Ain't That Just The Way 71 Let A Boy Cry 9 consecutive week on the European Top 100 Albums Strong showings on the French chart also fuel a Alone 16 Lonely 26 chart, while its fifth single rockets from 83 to 5 andnumber of other big achievers this week. La Poupee Alright 35 Love Is The Law 17 earns the Sales Breaker award on the Eurochart HotQui Fait Non (Polydor), a duet by Mylene Farmer Ameno 65 Love Won't Wait 24 Anywhere For You 40 Lovefool 7 100 Singles survey. and Khaled,isthe highest new entry on the Around The World 32 Lucie 86 The re-recorded Star People '97 follows in theEurochart Hot 100 at number 34, while the top Bailando 46 Lucy 23 footsteps of Jesus To A Child (which debut on the albums list, at number Block Rockin' Beats 99 Monkey Wrench 51 Blond 41 My Love For You 54 reached number 2), Fastlove (number 3), 23, is Jean-Louis Aubert's Stockholm Blood On The Dance Floor 2 Nightmare 69 Spinning The Wheel (number 5) and the (Virgin). In addition, a quiet week in Bodyshakin' 29 Nur Getraumt 45 less successful Older EP, which peaked the upper echelons of the album chart Con Te Partiro 14 Oh Shit - Frau Schmidt 74 Da Funk 63 Old Before I Die 30 at 25. The album has an IFPI Platinum meansthattheSalesBreaker Dance With Me 92 Partir Un Jour 81 Europe certification for 3 million sales spotlight shines on the number 33 Do You Wanna Be My Baby? 79 Please Don't Go 43 across the continent and, unlike any of title-yetanother Frenchrelease, Don't Cry For Me Argentina 38 Pony 95 Don't Leave Me 33 Quand Peur De Tout 75 those singles, reached the very top of the L'Ecole Du Micro D'Argent by IAM Don't Let Go (Love) 10 Ready Or Not 76 European chart. (Delabel), jumps twelve places in its Don't Speak 3 Remember Me 28 Also completing a full year on the Top seventh chart week. The album's Donne 55 Remind Me 82 highest position to date is 22, which is Drop Dead Gorgeous 59 Say What You Want 66 100, Eros Ramazzotti climbs back to Du Liebst Mich Nicht 12 Should I Leave 18 number 57 with his 4 million -selling Dove where it debuted in the April 5 issue. Encore Une Fois 8 So Strung Out 61 C'E Musica (DDD). The album spent two A belated U.K release brings Red 5's Engel 37 Sonic Empire 36 weeks at number 2 last June, but was locked out of pop -dancehitI Love You...Stop! back onto the Fire 22 Stairway To Heaven 73 Fire, Water, Burn 90 Star People '97 5 the No.1slotby the very same Mr Michael.Eurochart at number 57 this week. The Zyx-signed Fired 56 Staring At The Sun 21 Meanwhile, the Backstreet Boys' self -titled debutsingle originally reached 52 in the March 1 issue on the FreeUP 52 Step Into My World 89 album (Jive) is already into its second chart year, strength of its success in Germany, Switzerland and Freed From Desire 96 Taxless 78 From Disco To Disco 64 Tearing Up My Heart 31 logging its 53rd appearance on the Top 100 this week. Austria; it's out in Britain on Telstar's Multiply label. Get Ready To Bounce 49 The Saint 77 The Boys' Jive labelmate R. Kelly continues to Back after a somewhat lengthier absence is Gotta Be You 91 The Theme (Of Progressive Attack) 44 lead an all-American top 3 on the singles survey, asonetime Spandau Ballet lead singer Tony Hadley, Hard To SayrmSorry 68 Time To Say Goodbye 6 Hedonism (Just Because You Feel Good) 58 Un-Break My Heart 20 I Believe I Can Fly, Michael Jackson's Blood On Thewhose guest vocal appearance on Dance With Me Hit 'Era High (The Monsters Anthem) 60 (Un, Dos, Tres) Maria 4 Dance Floor (Epic) and No Doubt's Don't Speak(VC Recordings) helps Tin Tin Out claim a new I Believe I Can Fly Vanner 94 (Trauma/Interscope) all hold their positions despiteentry at number 92. I Have A Dream/Bellissima 19 Vivo Per Lei - Ich Lobe Fiir Sie 50 I Love You...Stop! 57 Warum? 15 I Need You 84 When I Die 39 I Want You 80 Who Do You Think You Are/Mama11 If I Never See You Again 98 You Might Need Somebody 47 Bii lk Zing Dit Lied Voor Jou Aileen 62 You Showed Me 87 It's Alright I Feel It 70 You'll Be Mine (Party Time) 97
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Any Way You Look Q 102.9 FM/Londonderry S Playliet Additions: Michelle Gayle Sensational Brightman/Cara- Just Show OTT- Forever Girl CHR 'N Sync- Here We Go Total Touch- Somebody Else's Lover Trevor Thomas Head Of Music (RCA) 14 AKA SWIFT- Light In Me Playtiat Additions: Charlie Dore- Time Go. By KEY 103/Manchester P Paul McCartney Young Boy RADIO SALII/Saarbrueckeri G CHR ABC- Skycraping Gala- Freed From Desire (Parlophone) 14 AC/CHR John Dash - Programme Director Ant & Dec- Falling Monica. For You I Will Brigitte Barthel - Prog Dir Christian Smith - Head Of Music Duran Duran- Out Of Paul Young I Wish You Love Nana- Lonely Heaven 17- We Blame Love Savage Garde. I Want You Playliet Additions: Playlist Additions: (East West) 14 Michael Jackson- Blood Baby Bird- Comershop Monaco- Sweet Lips Soraya- Suddenly Texas Halo No Mercy- Please Don't Go Toni Braxton- I Don't Want To Bush- Greedy Fly North & South- M. Not A Boy (Mercury) 13 Whitney Houston- I Believe RSH/Kiel G Damage- Wonderful Tonight CHR Eternal/Winans- I Wanna Be OTT-Forever Girl Gary Barlow Love Won't Wait Stephan Hampe - Head Of Music Faith No More- Ashes DELTA RADIO/Kiel C (RCA) 12 Power Play: Fluke- Absurd SOUND WAVE 96.4/Swansea AC Candy Dulfer For The Love Of You Adam Hahne Prog Dir Jon Boo Jovi- Midnight Geneva- Tranquilizer CHR Frank Wilkat - Head Of Music Hurricane #1- Step Rob Peudry - Head Of Mimic (Ariola) 11 SDR 1/Stuttgart G Intastella- Skyscraper Playliet Additions: Playliet Additions: Jon Secada Too Late, Too Soon 911- Bodyshakin' Smoke City- Underwater CHR Monaco- Sweet Lips Hans Thomas Producer My Life Story- Strumpet Angel Moraes- I Like It (SBK) 11 HIT RADIO N 1/Nuremberg C Playliet Additions: OTT- Forever Girl Ant & Dec- Falling Puff Johnson Forever More Jennifer Rush- Sweet Thing Placebo- Bruise Pristine Baby Bird- Cornershop Dance (Work/Columbia) 10 Most Added are those songs which received Stefan Meixner Prog Dir AL Paul McCartney World Party- Beautiful Dream Eels- Susan's House Hanson- MMM Hop Republica Drop Dead Gorgeous the highest number of playlist additions Eranie Funderbunk - Music Editor 10 Power Play: KISS 100 FM/London P Hurricane #1- Step (Deconstruction) during the week. In the case of a tie, songs UNITED KINGDOM Dance Jon Bon Jovi- Midnight Gary Barlow- Love Won't Wait Toni Braxton I Don't Want To are listed alphabetically by artist. Lorna Clarke Head Of Prog Kym Moselle. Young Hearts Playliet Additions: 95.8 CAPITAL FM/London P (LaFace) 10 Simon Sadler - Head Of Music Mary J. Bilge. Love Is All Black Attack- Bang Bang CHR Playliet Additions: Monica- For You I Will Cardigans- Lovefool Richard Park - Group programme Allure feat NAS- Head Over Heels No Mercy- Please Don't Go Robbie Williams- Old Before I Die director &eine Man- Yaw Yaw North & South- Man Not A Boy Playliet Additions: D -Influence- Shake Nurrican Soul. It's Alright !Feel It 'TENDERT 6/Berlin C Beek- Sissyneck Kweei- Heavenly Daughter Olive- You're Not Alone Station Reports include all new additions to the playlist. Some reports will also AC Billy & Sara Gaines -1 Found New Horizons- Find The Path Republica- Drop Dead Rainer Gruhn - Music Dir Damage- Wonderful Tonight include 'Power Play" songs, which receive special emphasis during the week. Boni Size/Reprazent- Share The Fall Roollooss- Can't Keep Living This Way Playlist Additions: Eels- Susan's House Ultra Nate Free Monica- For You I Will Hanson- MMM Bop All Power Play songs are printed, whether they are reported for the first time or Wet Wet Wet- Strange Jewel- You Were Meant For Me METRO FM/Newcastle P FRANCE not. Some lists include featured new albums, as indicated by the abbreviation Shand O'Connor. This Is To Mother CHRSean ORB/FRITZ/Potsdam G Bourke/Mielmel- Walt Away Dreaming FRANCE INTER/Paris P Marley Programme Controller "AL." Within each country, stations are grouped by ranking and listed alpha- CHR Toni Braxton- I Don't Want To AC Luis Clark Head of Music Bernd Albrecht, Frank Menzel, Marc Garcia - Music Dir Playliet Additions: betically. Rankings include: platinum (P), Gold (G), Silver (S) and Bronze (B). Jean MoRe - Producers 96.4FM-BRME/Binningham P Playliet Additions: Baby Bird- Cornershop Playlet Addition. CHR Anne Warin- Tu Voloten All playlists must be received by Monday at 13.00 h. CET. Damage- Wonderful Tonight Colours Red. Pure Russ Evans - Head Of Music Art Meng. Parler D'Amour Hanson- MMM Hop Aerosmith- Hole On My Soul Playlist Additions: Escroca- Chmsir Ton Tempo Monaco- Sweet Lipe CUARENTA/ ANTENNA DELLO STRETTO/ Eric Marienthal- Until You Come RADIO SOUND STEREO/ Caught In The Act- Do It Billy & Sara Gaines- I Found John Lee Hooker- Dimples North & South- M. Not A Boy Bologna P Messina S Nana- Darkmm Ferrara S Charlie Dore- Time Goes By Black/Are-et- Don't Leave M. 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Let It Go CHR Core- Je T'Aime Brand New Heavies- You Are The Rashid TRIM- Ya Rayah Michele Menegon Prog Dir Filippo Pedeli - DJ Samtielle Beraani- Coccodrilli Sandro Alberghini Prog Dir Da Brat- Ghetto Love Damage- Wonderful Tonight VIRGIN RADIO/London P Playliet Additions: Power Play: Sunbrother- Tell Me What Power Play: Daft Punk- Around The World Duran Dairen- Out Of FUN RADIO/Paris P AC/Rock Alex Party -Simple Things Lewis Taylor- Bittersweet Spagna- Indivisibli Faith No More- Ashes Jon Bon Jovi- Midnight CHR Ian Grace - Programme Director Alexia- Uh La La Lola MarinrSentimento RADIO MESSINA I SPECIAL/ Spice Girls- Who Do You Think Garbage- #1 Crush Monaco- Sweet Lips Benoit Sillard - GM Trevor White - Head Of Music Carl- Discofever Paul Young- I Wish Messina S Playlist Additions: Kula Shaker- Hush Sandy B- Make The World Carl Watts - Head Of Programming Playliet Additions: Daft Punk -Around The World Riccardo Coeeiarite- Ti Arno CHR Uh La La Live- Freaks Steve Winwood- Spy In The Name Playliet Additions: Robbie Williams. Old Before I Die Georgia Coe- Missin' Joy Playtiat Additions: Alfredo Beni - Head Of Music Audio 2. Alta Le Mani Mutton Birds- Come Around BoorkeMichael- Waltz Away Dreaming Eric Serra- Little Light Of Love Seallorses- Love N The Law Jamiroquai- Alright Alexia- 1.7h La La Playliet Additions: Black Boa- Native Raggadeath- Dance With The Grungerman Forever Sweet. Girls Is Love Object One- Ping Pang Ant & Dec- Shout Blackwood- My Love Brand New Resole.- Sometimes Red 5- LiR Me Up ATLANTIC 252/Dublin P IL Kelly- I Believe CLYDE 1 FM/Glasgow G Regina- Day By Day Chase- Ohs.sion Nomadi- Un' Altra Cattivi Pensieri- Inconquistabile Republica- Drop Dead CHR CHR Chris Rea- Only To Fly Samuelle Bersani- Cocoodrilli Coolio- The Winner Sequential One- I %moo Make U Al Thome Prog Contr NEJ NETWORK/Paris P Ross Maefadgen - Head Of Music RADIO 105/Milan P David Byrne- Mice America Skunk Anansie- Hedonism DC Talk- Colored People Space- Female Of The Species Power Play: CHR Playliet Additions: CHR Dimitri/Paris- Snore Frandaise Depeche Mode- Rs No Good Suede -Lazy Seahorses- Love Is The Law Max Guazzini Dir Beck- Sinsyneek Angelo De Robertis - Head Of Music Texas- Halo Playliet Additions: Playliet Additions: Gary Moore- One Good Reason Playliet Additions: Toni Brasto. I Don't Want To 911- Bodyshaltin' G's Incorporated- Stairway Jon Bon Jovi- Midnight Blue Boy- Remember Me Wild Thing- When She COMPS Beck- Sissyneok Spice Girls- Mama Raf- Malinverno Blackstreet- Don't Leave Warren G- Smokin' Me Out FORTH FM/Edinburgh G Ricky Martin- Mama RADIO ARABELLA/Munich C Brownstone- 5 Miles To Empty CUR Samuelle Bersani- Coccodrilli National Music Delirious- Deeper SKYROCK NETWORK/Paris P Tom Wilson - Music Co-ordinator Matthias Friedrich - Prog Dir Eternal/Winans- I Warma Be CHR Playliet Additions: RTL 103.5 - HIT RADIO/Bergamo P Playliet Additions: Human Nature- Wishes Laurent Boun.0 - Prog Dir Ant & Dec- Falling CHR Andrea Berg- Warum Nur Treumen Kenickie- Nightlife Playliet Additions: Gina 0- Ti Amo Grant Benson - Head Of Music Kim Fisher- Will Ich's Olive- You're Not Alone Doc Gyneco- NS Pizzi Haimon- MMM Bop Paolo Ravasi - Head Of Music Reinhard Fendrid, Macho Foxy Brown- III Be MONKEY WRENCH Mamma- Taxless Playliet Additions: My Life Story- Strumpet Claudio Baglioni- Anima Mia ROC FM/Lille C OTT. Forever Girl Gary Barlow- Love Won't Wait Dance/CHR Repuhli.- Drop Deed Jovanotti- Questa Philippe Schemberg Prog Dir Paola Tung- Sal MOONRAGE Playliet Additions: GALAXY 101 FM/Bristol C Phil Collins- Lorenzo Blackstreet Don't Leave Dance/CHR Spice Girls- Who Do You Think Blue Boy- Remember Me Simon Dennis - Program Controller Timoria- Vole Pimp Brownstone- 5 Miles To Empty Playliet Additions: Wallflowers- One Headlight Da Brat- Ghetto Love "Shaman's song" Allure feat. NAS- Head Over Heels Foxy Brown- Get Me Home Ant & Dec- Falling RADIO BABBOLEO/Genoa C Fugees- Rumble Damage- Wonderful Tonight CHR Gerard Blanc- Si Tu M'Aime Dread Zone- Earth Angel Leroy Rattone DJ/Prog Dir Gloria Estefan- YouTl B Mine Maxwell- Ascension Flavin Vidulich - Head Of Music Michael Jackson -Blood Indian Alternative Monica- For You I Will Power Play: Rome- I Belong To You OTT- Forever Girl Paradisio Boilando Soul Syndicat- Droite Gauche Professionals- Wishes Playliet Additions: Toni Braxton- I Don't Want To Bobby McFerrin- Circle Song Zhane- Saturday Night HALLAM FM/Sheffield G Pad Young- I Wieh CHR VIBRATION/Orleans C Top 50 Radio Dave Shearer - Program Controller RV1 FM/Turin G CHR Chris Straw - Head Of Music CAR 1Waxime Caubel Prog Coord Playliet Additions: Max Derdato - Head Of Manic Playliet Additions: Brownstone- 5 Miles To Empty Power Play: check it out!! 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Sound Lovers- Run -A -Way STATION KIBENHAVN 102,9 FM/ Texas- Halo SVERIGES RADIO P3: MEST Copenhagen S Playlist Additions: SPELADE/ Hot AC/CHR airborne }tart Herman -In Mijn Hoefd Stockholm P Jacob Mondrup - Prod Dir/Head Of Laura Pauaini- Sromisai CHR Music Memo's Jasje- Ale De Dag Van Toen Mats Grimberg Producer Playlist Additions: DAMAGE Nek- Laura Non CT Playlist Additions: Hanson- MMM Bop WONDERFUL Petra- Jij En Ik Daft Punk- Around The World Jon Bon Jovi- Midnight Steve Winwood- Spy In The Name Di Leva- Kungen Ay Kosmos Juice- Best Days TONIGHT Lena Nyman- Damen Tritt Katrina And The Waves. Love Shine Ultra Pop/Big Life BRTN STUDIO BRUSSEL/Brumels Puadisio- Bailando Ophelie Winter- Red Light IL Kelly- I Believe Sandi Laubek. Madoem Sadness Producer: Steve Mac CHB/Rock Spiro Girls- Who Do You Think Publisher: Not Listed Jan Hautekiet - Producer Suede -Lazy VLR/Vejle S Playlist Additions: Texan- Halo CUR Cheek Prophet- Homemade Blood U2- Staring At The Sun Peter Larsen Head Of Music Coma- Per Adua Ad Astra Playlist Additions: Eels- Susan's House RADIO STOCKHOLM/Stockholm G Ant & Dec- Shout Faithless -Reverence CHR McNight/King- Kings Fountains/Wayne- Sink To Robert Sehlberg - Music Director Chris Rea- Only To Fly On the heels of successful and hard to decide whether Golden Green -Al Anis Playlist Additions: Hanson- MUM Hop singles such as Love II Love we should play it or not, Hurricane 111- Step Cassie- I'll Be Alright Henning Kvitnes- Blue Kenickie- In Your CST Geeele- I Want You To Know Hurricane el- Step and Love Guaranteed, this because they are now so close KRS-One- Step Into A World Hanson- MMM Hop Jaki Graham -You And I British R&B quintet now to the border with middle of Live -Freaks Jennifer Brown- In My Garden Jamie Walters- I'd Do Anything Primal Scream- Kowalski Jennifer Brown- Feel That Natural Jon Bon Jovi- Midnight tackle Eric Clapton's 1988the road pop that ititis Propellerheada- Spybreak Katrina And The Waves -Love Shine Yellowbelliea- City Of Joy hit. Without straying too far almost beyond the realm of R.E.M.- How The West Ricky Martin- Maria R.O.C. Cheryl RADIO WCopenhagen B from theoriginal,they've our format." Salder contin- Raggedeath- Dance With The AC turned it into a smooth and ues,'thankstoextensive Seahonses- Love Is The Law DENMARK Hans-Ogge Bisgaard Prog Dim Slacker -Scared Flemming Beck - Manic Curd DANMARKS RADIO PS/Copenhagen pop/R&B Steve Winwood- Spy In The Name Playlist Additions: tasteful tune. research we have a pretty CJ Bolland- Prophet Paul Young- I Wish Third Eye Blind- Semi -Charmed Backstreet Boys- Quit Playing Simon Sadler, head of music good grasp of our audiences' CHR Collective Soul -Forgiveness US 3- I'm Thinking About Bamses Vernier- Si Fik Morten Rindholt - Playlist Co-ord. Dionysos- Wet RADIO LAC/Geneva S at London's leading expectations and if Damage World Party- Beautiful Dream Streisand/Adams- I Finally Power Play: Fatboy Going Out Of My Head CHR Bee Gees- Mone dance/R&B station Kiss 100 develop even further into a Harmon- MMM Bop Fluke- Absurd Jacky Sanders - Prog Dir RADIO 21/Brussels P Blur- Beetlebum Playlist Additions: Nekon- School's Out Playlist Additions: FM says that he likes the poppy direction, we may not CHWRock Dancer Med Drenge-Nu Me Babyface/Wonder. How Come, Bow Long Naked Lunch- Spark Ant & Dec -Falling Christine Goor - Head Of Music Doky Bros- If You Were My Man track personally, but cau- play future material- Eric Gadd- My Personality Raggasonic- La Ramene Pas McNightaing- Kings Marc Francart/Pierre Dubois - HOM Eternal- Don't You Love Me Jon Bon Jovi- Midnight Rocca- Les Jeunes Chris Wayne- Land Down Under tions, "We had to think long although they are still per- Playlist Additions: George Michael- Older 'Fyn Moselle- Young Hearts Sarah Craclroell- Goldin Enigma- TNT For The Brain Brand New Heavies. Sometimes Henning Stark- True Love Randi Laubek- Madness Sadness Seahorses- Love Is The Law Jon Boo Jovi- Midnight Buckshot Lefonque- Mune Evolution Lars Lilholt- Gudenaen it 2 Republica- Drop Dead Mark Morrison- Moan'N'Groan Hanson- MMM Bop Playlist Additions: Paul van der Lugt Coord Lars H.U.G. Please Love Me Catherine- Clover DRS 3/Zurich G Marque- She Walks Jewel- You Were Meant For Me TY Sync- Tearing Up My Heart Power Play: Daybehaviour- Hello Lisa Stansfleld- The Real Thing THE VOICE/Copenhagen P Rock Paul Young- I Wish Jovuotti- Questa Christina Roaenvinge- Solo 2 Brothers 0/T 4th F- One Day Divine Comedy- Everybody Mark Owen- Clementine CHR Christoph Alispmh - Music Co -Ord Princessa- Try To Say I'm Sony Mango- Credo llama Serrano- Cant. Di Sienna Playlist Additions: Eels- Susan's House No Doubt- Don't Speak Elk Frederiksen Prog Dir Playlist Addition. Simla Anna- You Might Need Somebody Riccardo Coeciante- Che Storied Jon Bon Jovi- Midnight Caught In The Act- Do It Fantom- Faithful Paul McCartney- Young Boy Playlist Additions: Amok- Un Apras Midi Simone Jay- Wan. B Like Rosana- El Talisman La Marabunta- Maria Misterio Faithless -Reverence Fountains/Wayne- Sink To Phil Collins -No Matter Who Chris Drente. Bl Hadn't Got You Blackstreet- Don't Leave Seamen° Bement. Coccodrilli Rosario- Mucha Por Vie Funky Green Dogs- Fired Up Gary Christina -Still Come Back To Me Saone Salomonsen- En Drandig hind Des'ree- Kissing You McNight/King- Kings WORLD RADIO GENEVA WRG-FM Smoke City- Underwater Third Eye Blind- Semi -Charmed Hero- Toen Ik Je Zag Garland Jeffreys- Original Lust Seal- Fly Like Dionne Farris- Hopeless Buckshot Lefonque- Music Evolution 88.4/ Sottotono- Dimon Di Shegliato Che Kula Shaker- Hush Gene- Where Are. Sbu-bi-Due- Her Lugter Lidt Grace -Hand Cyrano- New York Geneve B Texas -Halo CADENA DIALAMadrid P Notorious BIG- Hypnotize George Michael- Star People Superiramp- You Win, I Lose Live -Freaks Gun- Cram. You AC National Music Patty Cash- Do You Wanna Fly INKS- Searching Texas- Say What You Want Nuyorican Soul -It's Alright I Feel It Hal/Anderson- Extremis Andrew Pettit - Music Director Francisco Herrera Sanchez Skik- Nie Veer Spek & Bonen Kula Shaker- Hush Thomas Helmig- No Life Paradisio- Bailmdo INKS- Searching Playlist Additions: SPAIN Head Of Mimic AL Michael Jackson Live -Freaks Wet Wet Wet- If I Never See Seale -Ecuador Jenny Lang- Lie To Me George Michael. Star People Power Play: Nuyoricon Soul -Its Alright I Feel It Whitney Houton- Step By Step CADENA 100/Madrid P White Town -Undressed Michelle Gayle- Sensational Jon Secede- Too Late. Too Soon Inma Serrano- Cantos Di Sirens RADIO 538/Bussum P Snoop Doggy Dogg- Vapors Rock/CHR Nuyoricon Soul. It's Aright I Feel It Lightning Seeds- You Showed Me Playlist Addition. CHR Snooze- Your Conscionaneas Rafael Revert - GM ARHUS NAIRRADIO/ Booboo Peterson- Stop By Toni Bruton- I Don't Want To Decode Electrioo- Aires De Alameda Erik de Zwart - MD Voyager- Desire NORWAY Carlos Finely ProgDie RADIO COLOMBO/ Sine- Onkil Kamil Hertuan. Rosario- Ronmecintora Power Play: Power Play: Arhus G NRK PEURFJOslo P Subsonic -Lit Marcos Litman- Son Rencor Bloodhound Gang- Fire Water RADIO CONTACT F/Brussels P J. Perm- La Noche CDR CHR Supergrass- Tonight PORTUGAL Paco Morales- Lagrimas Funky Green Dogs- Fired Up CHR Playlist Additions: Jesper Raab - Music Director Nils Heldal - Head Of Music Texas- Halo Sergio Dolma- Como Me Gusto Playlist Additions: Jean Lou Bertha - Prog Dir ANTENA 3/Lishon P Alison Krause- So Long, So Wrong Power Play: Playlist Additions: Siempre Asi- &ague En Su Bruce Springsteen- Secret Garden Playlist Additions: CUR Bluezeum. Can I Get That Funk Eternal/Winans- I Wanna Be Eels Susan's House RADIO 24/Zurich Daft Punk- Aroma The World Savage Garden- I Want You Jose Marinho - Head Of Music David Bowie- Miss America Playlist Additions: Raga Rockers- Smykke CHR M-80/Madrid Monies- For You I Will Playlist Addition. Dr. Explosion- A Travesti Hanson- MMM Bop Dani Richiger - Head Of Music AC/CHR No Mercy- Please Don't Go BRF/Eupen S Aerosmith- Hole On My Soul Gabrielle- Walk On By Kula Shaker- Hush NITIEDAL RADIO EXTRA/Aneby Power Play: Javier Pons -Music/Prog Mgr Party Animals- Atomic AC Blessid Union- I Wanna Be Gary Moore- I Have Found CHR Bee Gees- Alone Playlist Additions: Guy Janssens - Producer Faith No More- Ashes Hipo- Anyway RADIO ABC/Randers G Morten Bakke - Head Of Music Lisa Stansfleld. The Real Thing David Byrne- Miss America RADIO NOORDZEE Power Play: Hanson- MMM Bop luau- Lo Siento Macho CHR Playlist Additions: Paul McCartney. Young Boy Gary Moore- I Have Found NATIONAAL/Naarden P No Mercy- When I Die Jamie Walters- I'd Do Anything laabel Montero- Bienvenido Amor Kent Kordt Rider Prog Dir Eels- Susan's House PkYlist Addition. U2- Staring At The Sun National Music/AC R. Kelly- I Believe Jon Bon Jovi- Midnight Jon Bon Jovi- Midnight Playlist Additions: Gun -Crary You Cyrano- New York Zucchero- Senza Una Donna Ron Sterrenburg - Head Of Music Soraya- Suddenly Michelle Gayle- Sensational Madera- Querer Er Poder Aqua- Doctor Jones Jon Bon Jovi- Midnight Depeche Made- It's No Good Playlist Additions: Nana- Lonely Paula Cole- Cowboys Medina Amhara- Solos Tu Y Co Faithless- Reverence Pretenders- Coin Back George Michael- Star People Anita De Hoop- Jantje Playlist Additions: Republica- Drop Dead Noirin Ni Main- Thug... Hanson- MMM Hop Speeln- Jane In Purple Jewel- You Were Meant For Me HOLLAND Arne Jansen- lk Hob De Lents Bliimchen- Nur Getraumt Ritual Tejo- Magee Paco Ventura- Sol Navajo Jon Bon Jovi- Midnight Michelle Gayle- Sensational Clouseau- Korn Naar Jou Blur- Song 2 Savage Garden- I Want You Roger Hodgson- Logical Song NPS HORT EN KLIJN/Hilverstun P Juice- Best Dare RADIO 102/Hauguund G De Sjomies- Twee Armen Om Bryan Adams- 18 Til I Die Sergio Godinhn Domingo Roy Orbimn- Mem Woman Blues CHR Mary J. Bilge- Love Is All CHR RADIO BASILISK/Basel Fokko/Bordjes- Dat Is Us Foppe Madonna -Another Suitcase Shola Anna- You Might Need Somebody Savage Garden- I Want You Tom Blomberg - DJ/Producer Republica- Drop Dead Egil Houeland - Head Of Music AC Jeroen Smits- Oma Wat hob Je Torii Michael Jackson- Blood Smoke City- Underwater Silverchair- Abuse Me Coral Klijn - DJ/Producer Sashl- Ecuador Playlist Additions: Nick Schulz - Head Of Music Re. Vershms- Ik Heh Sians No Doubt- Just A Girl Turbo Junkie- Switch On Wallflowers. One Headlight Playliot Additions: Shola Anna- You Might Need Somebody Katrina And The Wave. Love Shine Playlist Additions: AlbertelDave- Ben Echte %amerced Johan -Everybody Norsk Utflukt- Diger Og Gel Anywhen- Movie Leonardo Anntedo- Mi Amer HIT -FM 106.1Hasselt B RFM/Lisbon P CADENA 40 PRINCIPALES/Madrid Mr. S. Oliver- Funkin' Down RADIO VIBORG/Viborg G Spice Girls- Who Do You Think Brand New Heavies- Sometimes Bratm/Van 0Im- Red Balloons CDR N -Trance- ars.c.o. CDR Code 5- Love Is Your Game Moonlights- lk Vind Je Leuk Andre Hemeryck Prog Dir CHR CHR Robbie Williams. Old Before I Die Pout Foged - Head Of Music Fever- Can You Feel It? Rocq-E Harrell- Guitar Man Playlist Additions: Pedro Tojal - Head Of Music Luis Merino - MD/Head Of Music Shole Anna- You Might Need Somebody Playlist Additions: FINLAND Jon Bon Jeri- Midnight Wolter Krona- Bolero Bjirn- Sometimes Playlist Additions: Sandra &Angell Prog Dir Babyface/Wonder Ho Come, Bow Laos Paid Young- I Wish Blur- Song 2 KISS FMBelainki G Erykah Badu- On & On Power Play: RADIO 3/Hilveroum P Blessid Union- I Wanna Be Soul Affair- Anytime & Out There SKY RADIO 100.7FM/Bussum P Bryan Adams -18 Til I Die CUR Gun- Crazy You Texas -Say What You Want CHR Chris Braide- Ill Hadn't Got You Wondertoys- Mr. Robinson AC Cardigans- Leyden' Mage Vainio - Prog Dir Texas- Halo Funky Diamonds- Bad Girls Ton Lathouwers - MD Course- Ain't Nobody Playlist Additions: TOIL Braxton- I Don't Want To Jaki Graham- You And I RADIO ZUERISEE/Rapperawil G Playlist Additions: Daft Punk- Around The World A. Yet- Hard To Say Jon Bon Jovi- Midnight AC Babyface/Wonder. How Come, Row Long Fiasco- AfIlito Gary Barlow -Love Won't Wait Lutricia McNeal- Washington Silvio Miklau - Head Of Music Braxtons- The Boss ICT- Laisse Toi Tenter Garbage- *1 Crush RUSSIA Nek- Tu Sei, Tu Sai Playlist Additions: David Charnel- Should I Leave Gessle- Do Yoy Wanna Kym Maralle. Young Hearts Madonna- Another Suitcase MMADIO/Moscow G Gary Barlow -Love Won't Wait Republica- Drop Dead Lisa Stansfleld- The Real Thing UPTOWN FM/Copenhagen G Mudoki- On And CHBRock Sinead O'Connor -This le To Mother Sashl- Ecuador Orbital- The Saint AC/CHR Monica- For You I Will Roman Vavilov - General Director Toni Braxton- I Don't Wmt To Spice Girls- Mama Hana-Gogge Bisgaard - Prog Dir TROS RADIO 3/MEGA TOP 100/ Sob -Urban Tribe- First Spring Day Flemming Beck - Manic Coord Hilversum P RADIO MOL/Mol B Suede -Lazy Playlist Additions: CHR CUB Denser Med Drenge- Nu Ma Klass Samplonius - Head Of Music Sonja Celen - Producer Depeche Mode -It's No Good Playlist Additions: Playlist Addition. AUSTRIA Get the Fun! Duran Duran- Out Of Daft Punk- Around The World 3T- Gotta Be You George Michael- Stay People 3/Vierum P Fish- Brother 52 Kelly Family- Fell In Love With Gina G- Fresh CHR without the growl George Michael- Star People Puadisio- Vamos A La Discoteca Jon Secede- Too Late, Too Soon Alfred Rosenauer -Head Of Manic Hans Kano Jr.- Altijd Eentje Sashl- Ecuador City -fm, Liverpool Paul McCartney -Young Boy Playlist Additions: Johan- Everybody Toni Braxton- I Don't Want To Pockets- I Won't He There Anymore Jon Bon Jovi- Midnight Hallam fin, Sheffield Jon Secede- Too Late, Too Soon Worlds Apart -You Said Prefab Sprout- A Prisoner Of Nana -Lonely N -Trance- Yasmine- Altijd Choice 102.2, Birmingham Umbrelloa- No Tonga Paula Cole- Cowboys No Mercy- Please Don't Go MIS -FM, Los Angeles Toni Braxton- I Don't Want To Puff Johnson- Forever More RADIO ROYAALBamont-Achel RADIO ROSKILDE/Roskilde S B-96, Chicago .. . 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Kelly- I Believe Playlist Additiona: Seal- Fly Like Bee Gees- Alone Symbol- The Holy River Firehouse- I Live My Life For You Although the Bowie compar- Kibenhavn (Copenhagen/CHR) Wet Wet Wet- If I Never See Lisa Stanfield -The Real Thing Active Rotation isons are still seemingly 102.9FM head of music Jacob Mark Owen- Clementine Brian Kennedy- Message Sheryl Crow -Hard Stand inevitable, Brett Anderson & Mondrup. Explaining his rea- Lewis Taylor- Bittersweet IJ2- Staring At The Sun Pretenders- Goin' Back Co. have increasingly devel- sons for the station adding Zavodi Gabor -Eli Vele Bodlogen U2- Staring At The Sun oped a sound of their own, what he describes as a "very Medium Rotation which has by now crystalized good" track, he says simply, CZECH REPUBLIC Bryan Adams, 18 Til I DM Karim And The Waves- Love Shine intosomething angst -ridden "because we expect it to be well RADIO JOURNALTrague P Kim Richey- I Kum yet lively. This track, the third liked by our audience." He News/AC Michael Jackson -Blood Rene Hailicke - Head Of Music Texas- Halo single from their third album adds, "I think it also might help Playlist Additions: New Recurrent Coming Up, could well help to raise the profile of our sta- Monaco- What Do You Want. Bee Gees -Alone Texas- Halo Bruce Springsteen- Secret Garden increase awareness of the band tion." Mondrup notes: "At last, Bacharach/Costello- God Give outside the U.K and beyond its the Danes are opening up to R11. RADIO CITY 93.7/Prague C Lisa Stansfield- The Real Thing CHR Sheryl Crow- Hard Stand traditional fanbase. One of the new sounds, especially newer Karel Oubrecht - Prog Mgr New Videos first continental devotees of the strains of rock and R&B; I hope David Beck Head Of Music Erie- Deeper Playlist Addition. Prefab Sprout. A Prisoner Of newest Suede fashion is Station the trend continues." Lucie- Ithobouk Ve Krovi Sinead O'Connor -This Is To Mother No Doubt- Just A Girl Paul McCartney -Young Boy THE BOX/London G Hermann Sadchenkov Prog Dir Jon Bon Jovi- Midnight George Michael -Star People Music Television MOM Additions: Playlist Additions: Graze T. W Twoich Liz Laskowski - Dir of Prog No Doubt- Sunday Morning Barry Manilow- I'd Really Love Jon Bon Jovi- Midnight Box Tops Paul McCartney -Young Boy Candy Duffer For The Love Of You Jon Secede- Too Late, Too Soon PROGRAMME SUPPLIERS 911- Bodyshakili Sinead O'Connor. Thu Is To Mother Fiona Apple- Sleep To Dream Krzystof Antkowiak- Eno Az Yet- Hard To Say FM RADIO NETWORK/Germany C Texas -Halo Jon Secede- Too Late, Too Soon Paul Young- I Wish Backstreet Boys- Quit Playing CDR White Town- Undressed Krzystof Antkowiek- Ena Sacred Spirit- Legends Mackstreet- Don't Leave Armin Weis - Prog Dir Michelle Gayle- Sensational Brightmen/Cura- Just Show Cardigans- Lovefool Power Play, RADIO MAXIMUM/Perm G Puff Johnson- Forever More Scooter- The Course -Ready Black Attack- Bang Bang CDR Sacred Spirit- Legends Van Morrison- Rough God Daft Punk- Around The World Savage Garden- I Want You Alexey Glazatov - Prog Dir Silverehair- Abuse Me Wonders- Little Wild One Damage- Wonderful Tonight A List: Playlist Additions: Tricky- Makes Me Wanna Doe DJ Supreme- The Wildstyle Blnekatreet- Don't Leave IT- Gotta Be You Uremia- Bialza Droga RADIO MERKURY/Poznan G Frankie Oliver- Give Her Cardigans- Lovefool Agate Kristi- Moryak Van Morrison- Rough God AC Gary Barlow -Love Won't Wait Cucumber Men- Schlagartig Ant & Dec- Shout Varies Manx. Dom Gdzies Blisko Mnie Ryszard Gloger Head Of Music Louchie boa & Mehie One ammo& Wee Depeche Mode- It's No Good N.Trence- DISCO. Wonders- Little Wild One Power Play: Mr. President- Coco Jumbo Der Wolf- Oh Shit-Frau Schmidt Wallflowers- One Headlight Budka Sutlers- Tokyo Tango No Doubt- Don't Speak Fresh N Funky- Fresh SF Funky RADIO LUBLIN/Lublin G Playlist Additions: Notorious BIG- Hypnotize Funky Diamonds. You Want Me Bock Alina Pszczolkowaka- Wiem IL Kelly. I Believe Gina G- Fresh POLAND Wiktor Jachacz DJ/Producer Cellar Dion -River Deep Mountain High Spice Girls- Mama Grooveminister- Alles Wird Gut Power Play: Foo Fighters- Monkey Wrench Spice Girls- 2 Become I POLSKIE RADIO 3/Warsaw P Lisa Stansfield- The Real Thing Robert Gewlinaki- Nie Stalo F.S.O./London-Explosive Spice Girls- Who Do You Think CHR Michael Jackson- Blood Wonders- Little Wild One Jewel- You Were Meant For Me Toni Braxton -Co -Break My Heart Marek Niedzwiecld - Producer Nene- Lonely Playlist Additions: Kenny Loggias- For The First Time Breakin' Out Of The Box Power Play: No Doubt- Just A Girl 7777- Jak Ja Cie Kocham Medusa- Anna's Dream Aaliyah- One In A Million Jon Ron Jost. Midnight Bobbie Williams Old Before I Die Anna Maria Jopek- Ale Jestem Nannee Coleman -Care About You Foxy Brown- Ill Be Robert Gawlinaki- Nie Stale Sabrina Seder Du Liebst Mich Nicht Ant & Dec- Shout Nek- Laura Non C'E Hanson- MMM Bop Playlist Additions: Tic Tee Tee- Warum Candy Dotter- For The Love Of You Puff Johnson- Forever More Human Nature- Wishes Ant & Dec- Shout U2- Staring At The Sun George Michael- Star People Texas -Halo Ewa %melte- Young Hearts Barry Menilow- Rd Really Love White Town. Your Woman Instant Karma -Silver Whole Tom Petty- Walls Monica- For You I Will Candy Duffer -For The Love Of You Wish- Sundrops Jon Secede- Too Late, Too Soon Wawele- J. Mi W Glowie New Videos George Michael- Star People A Lien Jon Bon Jovi- Midnight Wonders- Little Wild One Ant & Dec- Falling Graze T. W Twoich AD Members Of Mayday -Sonic Empire Krzystof Antkowisk- Eva Brain Bug- Nightmare Jon Secede- Too Late, Teo Soon Paul Young- I Wish RADIO 4 DANCE/Warsaw S Brownstone- 5 Miles To Empty Notorious BIG- Hypnotize Dance Fluke -Absurd Paul Young- I Wish RADIO MANHATTAN/Lodz G Bogdan Fabirmski - DJ/Prod. Gene- Where Are Puff Johnson- Forever More MUSIC TELEVISION CHR/Rock Playliat Additions: James- Tomorrow Sacred Spirit- Legends Marcin Bisiorek Head Of Music Hip HopperefFugees- Bounty Killer MTV EUROPE/London P Jeremy Healy & Amos- Argentina Savage Garden- I Want You Power Play: Jay Jay. Do You Really Love Me Music Television N -Tyco- Hey DJ Smoke City- Underwater Gary Barlow- Love Won't Wait Unique 2- Do What You Please Peter Good Controller Music Olive- You're Not Alone Wonders- Little Wild One De Su- Era Wodnika Programming MTV Networks Paul McCartney- Young Boy Salad- Cmdboy King A Lid: Prefab Sprout- A Prisoner Of RADIO LODZ/Lodz G Savage Garden- I Want You TURKEY Blackstreet- Don't Leave Seahorses- Love Is The Law CHR Silverchair- Abuse Me Brand New Heavies- Sometimes Sinead O'Connor This Ls To Mother Adam Kolacinski - Head Of Music POWER FM/Istanbul P Playlist Additions: Chemical Brothers- Block Rake Bests Sounds Of Blackness- Spirit Power Play: CHR Anna Maria Jopek- Ale Jestem Daft Punk- Around The World Supercharger- We Rock Budka Suflera- Takao Tango Mille Sea - Head Of Music Budka Suflera. Takoe Tango David Bowie- Dead Man Tina Cousins- Time George Michael- Star People Playlist Additions: Depeche Mode- It's No Good Velvet Jones- Worrying About Your Blessid Union- I Wanna Be Erykah Badu- On & On White Town- Undressed Sacred Spirit- Legends Foo Fighters- Monkey Wrench Savage Garden- I Want You Gary Barlow- Love Won't Wait THE MUSIC FACTORY/ Shola Ama- You Might Need Somebody Goodfellaz- Sugar Honey Miasma, Holland B Gus Gus- Behove Music Television RADIO NUMBER ONE FM/bsianbul HM/Anderson- Extremis Erik Kruse - Music Director Hanson- MMM Bop Power Play: CHR Live -Freaks Gary Barlow- Love Won't Wait Emre Tmter Prog Dir Mary J. Blige- Love Is All A Liet: Playlist Additions: Notorious BIG- Hypnotize Az Yet- Hard To Say Daft Punk- Around The World NTM- Affirmative Action Larricie McNeal- Ain't That Just Donna Summer. Carey Orbital- The Saint Michael Jackson -Blood Gary Barlow. Love Won't Wait Robbie Williams- Old Before I Die Republica- Ready To Go George Michael- Star People Smoke City- Underwater &Mil- Encore Une Jamiroquei- Alright Spice Girls- Who Do You Think Skunk Anansie- Hedonism Jewel- You Were Meant For Me Supergrass- Richard HI Soundlovers- Run -A -Way Jill Sobule- Bitter U2- Staring At The Sun Source feat Candy Staton-Yea Gal To lave Jon Bon Jovi- Midnight Wain/Bill.. Hit Spice Girls- Who Do You Think Lightning Seeds- You Showed Me New Videos Spice Girls- Mama Paul McCartney- Young Boy Republica- Drop Dead New Videos Sacred Spirit- Legends Silverehair- Abuse Me Mg./Wonder. How Come, How Long Shale Ama- You Might Reed Somebody Bruce Springeteen Secret Garden Soultans- Every Little Move MCM/Paris P Cardigans- Lovefool Music Television Caught In The Act- Do It GREECE Herve Lemaire - Prog Dir Funky Green Dogs- Fired Up A List: Gerard doling- Without Your Love KISS 909 FM/Athens G Apollo 440. Ain't Talkin' Kula Shake, Hush ALL OVElkEVIkOPE now CHR/Dance Big Soul- Julene Monica- For You I Will Michael Tsaoussopoulos - Prog Dir Chemical Brothers- Block Rod& Beau Notorious BIG -Hypnotize Power Play: tqam/Fam- Rai Derli Savage Garden- I Want You II ,1\I ICI\ Sony Music DJ Quicksilver- Bellissima Dolly- Je NVe. Pas Toni Braxton- I Don't Want To Playlist Additions: Geraldine- Bongo
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U.K.'s Capital acquires Virgin Radio continued from page 1 broadcaster's £22 million ($35.7) debt. Says Branson, "The digital futurehim my views, should he ask for them. lighter guitar -based music policy. Virgin Radio chief executive Davidhas arrived. [The acquisition] creates aWe are taking over a pretty good -going The Capital/Virgin deal was Campbell and finance director Andynew force in British commercial radio ship. All we will be doing in the opening announcedalongsideCapital'ssix- Monett are staying under the with the resources tostages is making an assessment." month financial results to the end of Virgin umbrella, moving into commit to a digital radio In the long term, Park confirms March. The group's pre-tax profits rose similarpositionsatthe future and mount a con- Capital will split Virgin's national AM by 9 percent compared to the same peri- newly -created Virgin Media certed challenge to the and London services into two separate od last year to £17 million ($27.6 mil- group. This will look after BBC's dominance of this entities. Currently, Virgin simulcastslion) with a turnover of £53.9 million Branson's emerging TV inter- new technology." the majority of its AOR output on both ($87.5 million). Last year, Virgin Radio ests, Virgin Radio Interna- Intheimmediate stations. "Splitting the services is some-went into the black for the first time tional (VRI) and Virgin Net. future,thereareno thing we should do," explains Park. with a £1.6 million ($2.6 million) profit. The acquisition is subject plans for restructuring"When you are dealing with the country The acquisition does not drop the to the approval of U.K. regu- Virgin's staffing, accord- as a whole, you are dealing with verycurtain on Branson's radio activity. latorthe Radio Authority ing to Capital's group separate issues [in programming] thanThrough Virgin Media's Virgin Radio which will conduct a "public director of programmeswhen you are dealing with London." International (VRI) division, the com- interest"studyintothe Richard Park. "It's busi- Park would not be drawn on music pany ispursuing commercial radio implicationsof one media ness as usual," he com-programming details, but sources sug-franchises outside British shores.It group owning three stations in the ments, "Virgin has a programmer [Ian gest the new Virgin FM service for Lon- currently has applications lodged for a London market.The government's Grace] and broadcasters who are underdon will adopt a rock format, targetingnational FM AOR serviceinthe Office of Fair Trading will also have to contract and I can't see that changing. young male listeners. Eyre was quoted in Netherlands and one in Athens. give its approval to the deal. In bothIf anything, there could be job creation. the May 7 edition of U.K national news- Virgin has also confirmed that it is cases, rulings are not expected forI've been in touch with Ian Grace andpaper The Guardian, saying the servicecurrentlynegotiatingadealto approximately three months. told him, 'It's your game.' He is inwill be a "balls -out edgy rock station," increase its holding in Paris rock sta- Capital's portfolio already includes charge of programming and I'll givewhile the national service will have a tion Oui FM (see below). London market leader 95.8 Capital FM, Capital Gold AM (London's num- ber two commercial station) and 11 top 40/AC stations across the U.K. The Oui FM set to change hands acquisition of Virgin Radio could push Capital above the radio ownershipby Remi Bouton French broadcasting authority CSAWhat happened proved it was an effi- ceiling permitted by current U.K. has the final say on any. changes incient move, because the station has been broadcasting legislation. If that is the PARIS- The ownership of Paris' only ownership affecting broadcasting com-able to develop and is now profitable case, the group would have to disposerock station is about to change hands. panies. Sources close to the deal sug- with a constant growth in audience. But of some of its local radio interests. The U.K.'s Virgin Media group isgest that the CSA is bound to considerwith only 34 percent of the shares, we Commenting on the purchase, Capi-poised to increase its share in Oui FM,the change in thestation'scapitaldidn't have any real influence on the sta- tal's chairman Ian Irvine says, "Thegivingita majority stakein thestructure as substantial, and therefore tion. So we had to make a choice-either acquisition of Virgin Radio is based onParisianstation.Todate,Virgin will ask for a full review of the situation increase our share, or leave." strongcommerciallogicandfitsMedia owns 47 percent of Oui FM's before giving the green light to the deal. Rebillard declinedtoreveal the superbly into the group's long-termoperating company and has signed a One aspect which could pose a prob-amount offered by Virgin for the stake strategy of building a music entertain-provisional agreement with PolyGramlem is the position of Pradeur. A com-in Oui FM. In 1996, the station posted ment group." Francetoacquire the 34 percentplaint from the Canadian group couldprofits of FFr 1.5 million ($263,000) Richard Branson suggests the dealowned by the record company. Thelead the CSA to force Virgin to acquire and according to estimates, would be heralds the birth of a pre-eminent U.Kremaining 19 percent is owned byPradeur's shares. Virgin is, however,worth FFr 20 million ($3.5 million). radio group, with resources to commitCanadian conglomerate Pradeur. said to be not interested in acquiringThis would put PolyGram's 34 percent to DAB. The U.K's threeexisting Alain Rebillard, CEO of PolyGramPradeur's shares. at a price tag of $1.2 million. national commercial radio broadcastersFrance, says it is "premature" to say PolyGram became a shareholder in According to a source close to the (Virgin Radio AM, Talk Radio and Clas- that Virgin Media has taken over Poly - Oui FM, along with Virgin Records, instation, current Oui FM general man- sic FM) are guaranteed DAB licencesGram's shares in Oui FM, but agrees the late 1980s. Asked why PolyGram is ager Bruno Delport, who has run the from the Radio Authority next year. that, if everything goes according tonow selling its shares in the station,station since 1991, informed the sta- The BBC's five national networks,plan, "PolyGram should be soon 'clisin- Rebillard explained that, "Oui FM was tion's shareholders a few months ago funded by licencefees,are alreadyvesting' its stake in the station." Rebil- not a strategic investment for the group. about his decision to step down and broadcasting on DAB, and most Londonlard added, `We have made a provi-When we invested in the station, ourleave the station on June 30. The commercialstationsareconductingsional agreement [with Virgin Media] goal was to support a station with a rockdeparture, sources say, is not linked to pilot schemes with the new technology. which still needs to be confirmed." format we thought was needed in Paris. the deal.
Jackson's Blood eclipsed by HIStory continued from page 1 according to SoundScan. Patricia Kaas and Julien Clerc, amongis a large fan base who will buy any- hope to sell as many albums as HISto- Many Europeanretailersexpect others. "So it's not thing that [Jackson] puts out." r y ,"saysPierreThiebert, whois HIStory In The Mix to perform well, but the major event of He also points, however, to the responsible for Sony products at the not to outperform the 1995 package. "Inthe year," he com- existence of "a wider public, for hypermarket chain. "The only thing general," says Jean Broeks, buyer at ments. FNAC's pre- whom the new album will not be that troubles me is that there are only Holland's 140 -store Free Record Shop, releaseordersdo as interesting as one with all - five new tracks." "remix albums don't sell that well-but not match those of new material." In neighbouringHolland,the this,of course,is Jackson and theHIStory, he adds. Jackson's highprofileandVroom & Dreesman (V&D) depart- remixes have been executed very well." Nevertheless, broad demographic appeal mean ment store chain is planning a major The Free chain accounted for 10 percent the strong airplay specialist music retailers will not promotion around the latest HIStory. of the 400,000 units which the original reaction to the sin- necessarily be the primary force Buyer Karin Brinkhof says its pre - HIStory sold in Holland. gle release of Blood in selling HIStory In The Mix. In orders were 10,000 units, compared to Wolfgang Orthmayr, managing On The Dance Floor the U.K., the Asda supermarket 5,000 for 1995's original HIStory, and director of Germany's largest specialist augurs well for the chain (205 outlets) is especially to 7,500 for U2's Pop. V&D has 64 out- music chain, World Of Music (WOM), album, as does TV enthusiastic. "We intend to make lets nationwide, and Brinkhof believes approves of the remix release, and says exposure for Jack- it an event in-store in the waythe Jackson remixes will "certainly he expects it to match sales of the 1995 son's 40 -minute wewouldamajorDisney pull in today's kids, who are much set. That sold 1.5 million copies in Ger- Ghosts film. "I feel release," says Steve Gallant, cat- more into dance." many, according to Epic Records product better about this than when HIStoryegory controller for home entertain-This report was prepared by Wolfgang manager Peter Graze. was released," says Victor Guzman,ment. "Jackson fits our customer pro- Spahr (Germany), Paul Sexton (UK), In France, Thierry Hidoux, head of manager of the largest of Madrid Rock's file wonderfully." Howell Llewellyn (Spain), Robbert Tilli records at the market -leading FNAC six stores in the Spanish capital. In France, Carrefour accounts for(Holland), Mark Dezzani (Italy), Ken chain, says the Jackson title faces stiff Virgin Retail Italy marketing direc-an estimated 15 percent of the music Stewart (Ireland), Rerni Bouton (France) competition from current titles by U2, tor Edoardo Zipelli notes that, "Theremarket. Of Jackson's new album, "We and Marc Maes (Belgium).
MUSIC & MEDIA MAY 17, 1997 AmericanRadioHistory.Com AIRPLAY CHARTS Short Takes week 20/97 ©Billboard Musk Group European Radio Top 50 Edited by Dominic Pride STIVELL HARPS ON French label Dreyfus is releasing a double CD pack- age which celebrates 25 years as a recording artist Original Total New by Brittany -born Celtic harp pioneer Alan Stivell. TW LWWOCArtist/Title Label Stations Adds Released in France at the end of April, and with Eu- ropean release dates to follow, Zoom 1970-1995 con- ED 1 5 MICHAEL JACKSON/BLOOD ON THE DANCEFLOOR (EPIC) 121 6 tains 35 tracks which span Stivell's career, from ® 4 7 U2/Staring At The Sun (Island) 98 7 1970's album Reflets to 1995's Brian Boru. Stivell has recorded 18 albums to date, seven of which went 3 2 11 Lisa Stansfieldfrhe Real Thing (Arista) 97 3 gold in France. Meanwhile, he is currently in the 4 3 6 Depeche Mode/It's No Good (Mute) 90 4 studio, recording a new album to be released later ® 5 5 Gary Barlow/Love Won't Wait (RCA) 86 12 this year. Stivell, born Alain Cochevelou, is the son of a luthier from Brittany who built a replica of a ED 7 5 21 George Michael/Star People (Virgin) 77 Celtic harp, which was in use in the Middle Ages. At ,ED 9 4 Paul McCartney/Young Boy (Parlophone) 85 14 a very early age, Stivell learned to play the instru- 8 6 6 Robbie Williams/Old Before I Die (Chrysalis) 74 4 ment. He was in the forefront of the "Celtic music revolution" at the beginning of the '70s and is consid- Ci) 10 9 Spice Girls/Who Do You Think You Are (Virgin) 70 5 ered a founding father of the world music scene. "I CD22 3 Toni Braxton/I Don't Want To (LaFace) 58 10 am a world citizen and what I've tried to express is 11 8 10 INXS/Elegantly Wasted (Mercury) 62 0 the idea of a world without boundaries," says Stivell. EL @ 14 14 R. Kelly/I Believe I Can Fly (Jive) 59 3 #36 3 Texas/Halo (Mercury) 64 13 RADIOHEADS, MOVIE TUNES Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead 17 7 Brand New Heavies/Sometimes (ffrr) 53 3 # have joined REM'sMichael Stipe and former 15 12 11 Wet Wet Wet/If I Never See You Again (Precious/Mercury) 63 1 Suede guitarist Bernard Butler to record Roxy 16 11 15 White Town/Your Woman (Brilliant/Chrysalis) 53 0 Music covers for the soundtrack of forthcoming film, Velvet Goldmine. Guitarist Greenwood says 17 13 13 Bee Gees/Alone (Polydor) 58 2 he and Yorke chose three songs 2HB, Ladytron 18 15 10 Spice Girls/Mama (Virgin) 57 2 and Bittersweet, from Stipe's list of about 40 sug- 020 5 JamiroquailAlright (Sony S2) 43 5 gestions and recorded them in London: "Thom did the singing and it doesn't sound like Thom, which @ 16 11 Blue Boy/Remember Me (Guidance) 49 2 is why it was so much fun to do," recalls Green- ®34 3 Daft Punk/Around The WorldBlefts.., (Virgin) 37 9 wood. The new Radiohead album, O.K. Computer 21 9 Supertramp/You Win, I LoseWet", (EMI) 48 1 will be released ON June 16.It features the # track, Exit Music, which plays over the end cred- 23 24 11 Sash!/Encore Une FoisBtt:Iiiht (Byte Blue) 43 0 its of William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet but 24 19 10 Eternal/Don't You Love Me (EMI) 60 1 was not on the soundtrack album. SS # )=- NESavage Garden/I Want You (Columbia) 49 19 #40 5 Jon Secada/Too Late, Too Soon (SBK) 45 11 KEEP IT IN THE FAMILY 2723 17 No Doubt/Don't Speak (Trauma/Interscope) 42 1 The title of Paul McCartney's new apparently 33 3 Cardigans/Lovefool litght (Trampolene/Stockholm) 33 3 album, Flaming Pie, * came from him while waiting for @ ),- NEHanson/MMM Bop (Mercury) 33 16 wife Linda as she attended a photo - 30 28 8 Monaco/What Do You Want From Me (Polydor) 52 3 shoot for one of her cookery projects. CD NEJon Bon Jovi/Midnight In Chelsea (Mercury) 36 34 To repay the compliment to her - other half, Linda has assembled 32 30 4 Bryan Adams/18 Til I Die (A&M) 44 6 Flaming Pies, a collection of six recipes for such 44 2 Blackstreet/Don't Leave Me (Interscope) 38 4 treats as coconut cream pie, pumpkin pie and, of 0 course, beefless pie. Neatly assembled in a CD tray, .-NEDuran Duran/Out Of My Mind (Virgin) 31 6 4 the recipes are part of the promotional push for the 35 29 4 Blur/Song 2 (Food) 31 2 album which came out May 5. 36 18 17 En Vogue/Don't Let Go (East West) 34 0 Contributorsthis week: SS-SallyStratton, 0 41 3 Prefab Sprout/A Prisoner Of The Past (Columbia) 28 2 EL-Emmanuel Legrand 38 37 14 Skunk Anansie/Hedonism (Just Because You Feel Good) (One Little Indian) 29 1 0>NEShola Ama/You Might Need Somebody (Freak Street/WEA) 31 7 midnight in chelsea 40 26 13 Apollo 440/Ain't Talkin' About Dub (Sony S2) 29 0 the new solo single 41 39 17 Texas/Say What You Want (Mercury) 26 1 42 32 3 Eros Ramazzotti/Dove C'E Musica'Matt (DDD) 38 2 449 2 No Doubt/Just A Girl (Trauma/Interscope) 40 2 043 2 No Mercy/Please Don't Go112iftt (MCl/Arista) 41 5 45 42 8 'N Sync/Tearing Up My Heart Etekt (Ariola) 33 3 0)-NEMonica/For You I Will (Rowdy/Atlantic) 28 7 47 27 12 Aerosmith/Falling In Love (Is Hard On The Knees) (Columbia) 34 0 48 35 8 Sheryl Crow/Hard To Make A Stand (A&M) 36 2 49 25 10 Pet Shop Boys/A Red Letter Day (Parlophone) 36 0 50 38 9 Gina G/Fresh (Eternal/VVEA) 36 2
The European Radio Top 50 chart is based on a weighted -scoring system. Songs score points by achieving airplay on all of M&M's reporting. tations with contemporary music fulltime or during specific dayparts. Stations are weighted by market size and by the nuniber of hours per week. TW = This Week, LW = Last Week NE = New Entry, TS -= Total Stations Indicates singles which previously featured in the Border Breakers chart UHighest new entry Greatest chart points gainer
MUSIC & MEDIA MAY 17, 1997 AmericanRadioHistory.Com CHARTS Off the record week 20/97Border Breakers ©Billboard Music Group Edited by Christian Lorenz scvaistal111111111111111111 Mainland European records breaking out of their country of signing OTR hears that French media giant Havas has put on hold talks about its potential financial support for CountryOf Original Label TS the French "Dreamworks-inspired" project being TW LWWOC Artist/Title Signing masterminded by current Virgin France chairman Patrick Zelnik.Zelnik,teaming with former 1 3 5 CARDIGANS/LOVEFOOL (TRAMPOLENE/STOCKHOLM) SWEDEN 35 Polydor U.K. managing director Marc Lumbroso , and advertising whizz -kid Eric Thong Cong, aims 6 6 Daft Punk/Around The World Ir',7 (Virgin) FRANCE 33 to set up a new French independent company active 0 t in various entertainment sectors-music, multime- dia, book publishing and audio-visual production. 3 1 10 Supertramp/You Win, I Lose (EMI) FRANCE 44 Zelnik is believed to be talking to other major groups in order to secure financial backing for his project. A 4 2 15 Sash!/Encore Une Fois (Byte Blue) BELGIUM 35 source close to the project says, nevertheless, that "Havas has not actually pulled out yet." 7 Eros Ramazzotti/Dove C'E Musica (DDD) ITALY 34 5 4 Swedish promotor Karl-Beril Pettersson 6 5 8 DJ Quicksilver/Bellissima (Dos Or Die) GERMANY 22 struck paydirt when he booked Katrina & The Waves to play at an open-air festival in the small ® 8 3 Gessle/Do You Wanna Be My Baby? (EMI) SWEDEN 34 town of Kisa. OTR hears that Pettersson picked up on the song Love Shine A Light long before the 8 7 13 Gala/Let A Boy Cry (Do It Yourself) ITALY 20 Eurovision Song Contest on May 3 and closed the deal with the band at a cheap price. As freshly 9 9 7 No Mercy/Please Don't Go (MCl/Arista) GERMANY 29 crowned Eurovision champs, the band could pull an extra 3,000 visitors to Kisa on June 28, esti- 10 11 7 Soultans/Every Little Move (Coconut/Ariola) GERMANY 24 mates Pettersson. In August, Katrina & The 11 10 11 Kelly Family/Fell In Love With An Alien (Kel-Life) GERMANY 15 Waves will play further Swedish gigs in ninth, Gothenburg and Stockholm. @12 4 Course/Ready Or Not (Lowland) HOLLAND 10 Former Virgin Radio pro- gramme director Mark Story has 13 13 4 Total Touch/Somebody Else's Lover (RCA) HOLLAND 17 reached a settlement with the company following hisreplace- 14 15 21 No Mercy/When I Die (MCl/Arista) GERMANY 9 ment as programme director on 24 2 Nek/Laura Non C'E (WEA) ITALY 16 April 21 (Music & Media May 3). 0 The amount of the settlement has C 18 7 Lutricia McNeallAin't That Just The Way (Metronome/WEA) SWEDEN 11 not been disclosed, but Story says, 0 "We have reached an amicable ?a' 2024 Gala/Freed From Desire (Do It Yourself) ITALY 10 agreement to terminate our rela- 0 tionship " Story confirms that he 232 Zucchero/Menta E Rosmarino (Polydor) ITALY 5 is part of an unnamed consortium 0 which will bid for the northwest regional commercial ),- Paradisio/Bailando (Dance Development) FRANCE 6 I NE licence soon to be advertised in the U.K. 0 Expect to hear soon that French gold network 20 16 10 Patricia Kaas/Quand J'Ai Peur De Tout (Columbia) FRANCE 12 RFM, owned by Europe 1 Communications, is tak- 21 17 4 Red 5/I Love You...STOP! (House Nation/Dance Street) GERMANY 8 ing over L'Onde Latine, a regional network which was broadcasting in the South of France with music 22 19 14 B.B.E./Flash (Triangle) FRANCE 10 programming dominated by Latin music and French language songs. L'Onde Latine is due to switch to @),-RE Soultans/I Heard It Through The Grapevine (Coconut/Ariola) GERMANY 3 RFM's programming, pending the approval of broad- casting authority CSA. 24 21 3 Ophelie Winter/Living In Me (East West) FRANCE 6 Some 350 commercial radio stations are current- ly licensed in Belgium's northern state of Flanders- 25 14 15 Daft Punk/Da Funk (Virgin) FRANCE 7 OTR hears that a spokesman for the Flemish media authority has claimed that the number is by far too TW = This Week, LW = Last Week, WOC = Weeks On Chart, TS = Total Stations, NE = New Entry, RE = Re -Entry.Titles registering a significant point gain are awarded a bullet. large for the size of the state. 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The most aired songs in Europe's leading radio markets TW=This Week, LW -Last Week, WOC=Weeks On Chart, TS -Total Stations UNITED KINGDOM O GSA FRANCE TW LW WOC Artist/Title Original Label TS TW LW WOC Artist/Title Original Label TS TW LW WOC Artist/Title Local Label
1 1 5 LIGHTNING SEEDS/YOU SHOWED ME (EPIC) 14 1 1 5 MICHAEL JACKSON/BLOOD (EPIC) 23 1 1 WHITE TOWN/YOUR WOMAN (Chysalis) 2 3 6 U2/Staring At The Sun (Island) 13 2 2 8 Lisa Stansfield/The Real Thing (Arista) 20 2 2 Texas/Say What You Want (Mercury) 3 10 4 Texas/Halo 3 3 Ricky Martin/Maria (Tristar) (Mercury) 13 3 3 4 Depeche Mode/It's No Good (Mute) 18 4 4 Tribal Jam/Remind Me (EMI) 4 7 3 Shola Ama/You Might Need Somebody (Freak Street/WEA) 13 4 4 8 Spice Girls/Mama (Virgin) 17 5 5 Supertramp/You Win, I Lose (EMI) 5 2 4 Michael Jackson/Blood (Epic) 13 5 11 3 Gary Barlow/Love Won't Wait (RCA) 14 6 6 Squeegee/Money B. (Mercury) 6 5 2 Gary Barlow/Love Won't Wait (RCA) 13 6 10 4 Paul McCartney/Young Boy (Parlophone) 14 7 7 Bee Gees/Alone (Polydor) 8 8 1 Etienne Daho/Me Manquer (Virgin) 7 4 4 George Michael/Star People (Virgin) 13 7 12 2 Cardigans/Lovefool (frampolene/Stockholm) 14 9 9 Daft Punk/Around The World (Virgin) 8 11 4 Robbie Williams/Old Before I Die (Chrysalis) 12 8 9 12 White 'Town/Your Woman (Brilliant/Chrysalis) 17 10 10 Native/Dans Ce Monde A Part (BM O) 9 8 3 Cardigans/Lovefool (Trampolene/Stockholm) 12 9 8 5 Eros Ramazzotti/Dove C'E Musica (DDD) 13 11 11 En Vogue/Don't Let Go (East West) 10 12 4 Jamiroquai/Alright (Sony S2) 11 10 13 3 U2/Staring At The Sun (Island) 17 12 12 Zucchero/Mentsa E Rosmarino (Polydor) 13 13 U2/Staring At The Sun (Island) 11 13 4 Brand New Heavies/Sometimes (ffrr) 12 11 5 12 R. Kelly/I Believe I Can Fly (Jive) 14 14 142 No Doubt/Don't Speak (MCA) 12 NE911/Bodyshakin' (Virgin) 11 12 m NEToni Braxton/I Don't Want To (LaFace) 13 15 15 1 Sashl/Encore Une Fois (Full Ace) 13 14 5 R. Kelly/I Believe I Can Fly (Jive) 11 13 n NENana/Lonely (Urban/Motor) 12 16 16 1 Opbelie Winter/Keep It On The Red Light (East West) 14 NEBlackstreet/Don't Leave Me (Interscope) 10 14 16 2 Robbie Williams/Old Before I Die (Chrysalis) 12 17 17 Sheryl Crow/Everyday Is A Winding Road (Poirgilydor) 18 18 Doc Gyneco/Vanessa 15 NEOlive/You're Not Alone (RCA) 10 15 7 9 Tic Tac Toe/Warum (Vn) (RCA) 13 19 19 Alanis Morisette/You Oughta Know (WEA) 16 NEAnt & Dec/Falling (Telstar) 11 16 19 9 Supertramp/You Win, I Lose (EMI) 15 20 20 Skunk Anansie/Hedonism (Virgin) 17 NEHanson/MMM Bop (Mercury) 10 17 18 5 No Mercy/Please Don't Go (MCUArista) 12 21 21 Patricia Kaas/Quand J'Ai Peur Du Tout (Columbia) 18 1511 Lisa Stansfield/The Real Thing (Arista) 9 18 n NE DJ Bobo/It's My Life (MetrovyniVEA/VIS) 10 22 22 Michael Jackson/Blood On The Dancefloor (Epic) 23 23 Spice Girls/2 Become One (Virgin) 19 1611 Kula Shaker/Hush 9 19 6 13 (Columbia) `1N Sync/Tearing Up My Heart (Ariola) 13 24 24 Pascal Obispo/Lucie (Epic) 20 NESeahorses/Love Is The Law (Geffen) 8 20 1513 Bee Gees/Alone (Polydor) 12 25 25 Jamiroquai7Alright (Small) Compiled by M&M on the basis of playlist reports, using a weighted -scoring system, Compiled by M&M on the basis of playlist reports, using a weighted -scoring system, Data supplieby SNEP/IPSOS from an electronically monitored panel of national and based on audience size. based on audience size. regionalstations. Songs are ranked by number of plays. J L_ fas 1 1 TW LW WOC Artist/Title Original Label TS TW LW WOC Artist/Pitle Original Label TS TW LW WOC Artiat/Title Original Label TO
1 1 5 MICHAEL JACKSON/BLOOD (EPIC) 19 1 4 4 MICHAEL JACKSON/BLOOD (EPIC) 12 1 2 3 DEPECHE MODE/TPS NO GOOD (MUTE) 7 2 2 5 Depeche Mode/It's No Good (Mute) 16 2 1 8 Blue Boy/Remember Me (Guidance) 12 2 3 4 Michael Jackson/Blood (Epic) 7 3 6 5 U2/Staring At The Sun (Island) 15 3 5 3 Funky Green Dogs/Fired Up (Twisted/MCA) 10 ' 3 13 2 Blackwood/My Love For You (A&D Music) 6 4 9 3 Gary Barlow/Love Won't Wait (RCA) 16 4 1014 IL Kelly/I Believe I Can Fly (Jive) 10 4 4 4 U2/Staring At The Sun (Island) 8 5 8 5 Spice Girls/Who Do You Think (Virgin) 13 5 11 3 Spice Girls/Who Do You Think (Virgin) 9 5 7 12 Aerosmith/Falling In Love (Columbia) 6 6 13 2 George Michael/Star People (Virgin) 14 6 2 12 En Vogue/Don't Let Go (East West) 10 6 18 2 Sottotono/Dimmi Di Sbagliato Che (WEA) 7 7 5 11 Lisa StansfielcVIhe Real Thing (Arista) 15 7 3 9 Spice Girls/Mama (Virgin) 10 7 6 12 White Town/Your Woman (Brilliant/Chrysalis) 5 8 n NE Texas/Halo (Mercury) 12 8 18 2 Gary Barlow/Love Won't Wait (RCA) 8 8 5 3 Bob Marley/Fallin' (Dance" Factory) 5 9 3 4 Brand New Heavies/Sometimes (ffrr) 11 9 6 16 No Mercy/When I Die (MCl/Arista) 7 9 1 12 Lisa Stansfield/The Real Thing (Arista) 7 10 19 2 Paul McCartney/Young Boy (Parlophone) 14 10 n NEU2/Staring At The Sun (Island) 9 10 19 3 Nuyorican Soul/Runaway (Talkin' Loud) 4 11 4 8 Blue Boy/Remember Me (Guidance) 11 11 8 8 Gala/Let A Boy Cry (Do It Yourself) 10 11 nNEPaul McCartney/Young Boy (Parlophone) 6 12 n NEHanson/MMM Bop (Mercury) 10 12 n NE No Doubt/Just A Girl (Trauma/Interscope) 8 12 nNEDuran Duran/Out Of My Mind (Virgin) 6 20 2 Eric Gadd/My Personality (Metronome) 12 13 9 7 Lutricia McNeal/Ain't That Just (Metronome/WEA) 9 13105 Supertramp/You Win, I Lose (EMI) 6 2 14 17 Robbie Williams/Old Before I Die (Chrysalis) 12 14 n NEToni Braxton/1 Don't Want To (LaFace) 9 14 nNEPrefab Sprout/A Prisoner Of (Columbia) 5 15 7 9 INXS/Elegantly Wasted (Mercury) 13 15 n NEDaft Punk/Around The World (Virgin) 8 15 n-NEGessle/Do You Wanna Be My Baby? (EMI) 5 16 15 3 Monaco/What Do You Want From Me 11 (Polydor) 16 1418 No Doubt/Don't Speak (Trauma/Interscope) 7 16 9 5 Marina Rei/Primavera (Virgin) 7 12 17 2 Sheryl Crow/Hard To Make A Stand (A&M) 9 17 12 5 Kelly Family/Fell In Love With (Kel-Life) 8 17 nNERobbie Williams/Old Before I Die (Chrysalis) 7 18 10 9 Eternal/Don't You Love Me (EMI) 11 18 n NE George Michael/Star People (Virgin) 7 18 14 5 La Fuertezza/2 The Night (Meet/New Music) 4 19 m RESashVEncore Une Fois (Byte Blue) 7 19 n NE Brand New Heavies/Sometimes (ffrr) 5 19 nNEGary Barlow/Love Won't Wait (RCA) 4 20 n REThomas Helmig/No Life (RCA) 12 20 7 9 Sash!/Encore Une Fois (Byte Blue) 9 20 -NESpice Girls/Who Do You Think (Virgin) 5
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TW LW WOC Artist/Title Original Label TS TW LW WOC Artist/Title Original Label TS TW LW WOC ArtiaL/Title Original Label
1 1 9 JUAN PERRO/LA NOCHE DE FUEGO (ARIOLA) 3 1 1 3 PAUL MCCARTNEY/YOUNG BOY (PARLOPHONE) 21 1 1 9 BEE GEES/ALONE (POLYDOR) 2 3 2 Pedro Guerra/No Todo Lo Contario (Ariola) 3 2 2 2 Michael Jackson/Blood (Epic) 20 2 2 6 White Town/Your Woman (Brilliant/Chrysalis) 3 2 4 Manolo Tena/Te Deseo (Epic) 3 3 4 3 Gessle/Do You Wanna Be My Baby? (EMI) 18 3 3 13 No Doubt/Don't Speak (Trauma/Interscope) 4 > NEIrma Serrano/Cantos Di Sirens (GA.S.A.) 3 4 3 3 Edyta Bartosiewicz/Jenny (Izabelin) 19 4 4 10 Csazar Elod/Nem Kell Masik (Rozsa Records(WEA) 5 10 8 INKS/Elegantly Wasted (Mercury) 3 5 5 2 Sinead O'Connor/This Is To Mother (Chrysalis) 17 5 5 6 Aerosmith/Falling In Love (Columbia) 6 9 2 Soultans/Grapevine (Coconut/Ariola) 3 6 n NEBudka Suflera/Takoe Tango (New Abra) 14 6 6 9 Streisand/Adams/I Finally (A&M) 7 7 2 Paul McCartney/Young Boy (Parlophone) 3 7 n NEAnna Maria Jopek/Ale Jestem (Polydor) 15 7 7 5 Somlo Tamas/Gondlsz-E Ram (Ariola) 8 6 7 Teo Cardalda/Asi Mueren Las Diosas (RCA) 3 8 n NEWonders/Little Wild One (Epic) 15 8 8 10 Kavana/I Can Make You Feel Good (Virgin) 9 5 4 Michael Jackson/Blood (Epic) 3 9 > NETexas/Halo (Mercury) 16 9 9 8 Gabor/Attilarfaskaradio (Bouvard & Pecuchet) 10 n RETexas/Say What You Want (Mercury) 2 10 14 2 Magma/Aticha (Polydor) 17 10 10 5 Michelle Gayle/Do You Know (RCA) 11 16 2 Mercedes Ferrer/El Arbol De La Magia (DRO) 2 11 > NEGeorge Michael/Star People (Virgin) 15 11 11 5 Akos/Ilyenek Voltunk (Ariola) 12 15 2 Skank/Garota Nacional (Columbia) 2 12 19 2 Golden Life/Zabojcza (Zic Zac) 15 12 12 9 Carpe Diem/Alomhajo (WEA) 13 14 2 Edu/Si Disparas Tu (EMI) 2 13 > NEJon Bon Jovi/Midnight In Chelsea (Mercury) 13 13 13 6 Real McCoy/One More Time (Hansa) 14 13 2 No Doubt/Just A Girl (Trauma/Interscope) 2 14 n NESavage Garden/I Want You (Columbia) 13 14 14 6 New Dreamers/Love Triangle (Columbia) 15 12 2 Revolver/Esta Noche Tengo (WEA) 2 15 m NEVarius Manx/Dom Gdzies Blisko Mnie (Zic Zac) 13 15 15 6 Erasure/In My Arms (Mute) 16 11 2 Toni Braxton/I Don't Want To (LaFace) 2 16 NE7777/Jak Ja Cie Kocham (Pomaton) 13 16 16 6 Lisa Stansfield/The Real Thing (Arista) 17 n REApollo 440/Ain't Talkin' (Sony S2) 2 17 n NEAnt & Dec/Shout (Telstar) 9 17 17 5 Eternal/Don't You Love Me (EMI) 18 n NEBryan Adams/18 Til I Die (A&M) 2 18 n NERobert Gawlinski/Nie Stalo (Starling) 11 18 18 5 V.I.P./Hol Van (Ariola) 19 n NEDepeche Mode/It's No Good (Mute) 2 19 10 4 No Doubt/Just A Girl (Trauma/Interscope) 15 19 19 5 Symbol/The Holy River (NPG/EMI) 20 n NESuhaiUBoabdil (Hispavox) 2 20 7 4 Depeche Mode/It's No Good (Mute) 16 20 20 5 INKS/Elegantly Wasted (Mercury) Compiled by M&M on the basis of playlist reports, using a weighted -scoring system, Compiled by M&M on the basis of playlist reports, using a weighted -scoring system, Compiled by the Hungarian Commercial Radio Association onthe basis of playlist based on audience size. based on audience size. reports, usinga weighted -scoringsystem,based on audiencesize. PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW FAX NUMBER! The Music & Media charts departmentnow has its own number. From now on, please send all charts and station reports to: (+44) 171 631 0439
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