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And, because it is expected to be about the ot Reed'sChrysalis Perfect is releasing Day, recorded the multi-artist as the soundtrack version of toLou the S BBC licence fee ad. The single, due out on November Fisher,Chris Smiththe group or artswill haveminister the earMark of lowsThe last formation week's appointment of the think oftank former fol- would She" help also head believes off unwelcome the think goi 17, will include three versions of the song. primeThe ministerdozen members Tony Blair, of the think tank BPI director of légal aiTairs Sara John thement music intervention. business "Aare lot cynical of people of gov- in MD quits Primary Talent towill the brainstorm music business, issues directlywhose cultural related createemment, a climate but X think where the the think industry tank willcan Primary Talent International joint owner and joint MD might ht oently be prosper, Govemment knows that it Steveinterests. Hedges Hedges has willquit continuethe group to to representThe pursue other Mutton candoesn't help need in areas to be such interventionist, as éducation, but lég- it Birds as agent and manager. nnelled into the islation and trade issues," she says. Bjork and IL Cool J join MTV line up ColsonandHedges MTV has added to its line-up of performers for its StadiumNovember in 6Rotterdam. European MusicBjork and flwards LL Cool atthe J will Ahoy perform landtopIMFprizes alongside another half dozen acts including U2, Spice screenedGirls, Aerosmith acrossthe and ITVBackstreet network Boys. on November The event 8. will be weekCeltus when ined she John was Peel nar on theis IMFthe orav YoungGailforce Manager Management's of the Year. Gail Colson, who was pre- Columbia in Joël radio exclusive sented with the Peter Grant Award for outstanding IIIColumbia paejeage is to promoting up to 10m Billy régional Joel's radio Greatest listeners Hits thisVolume wonmanager the firstof the Re-Pro year, andInternational producer MikeRecording Hedges, Award who week with an exclusive broadeast of a Q&A session Preachers,for his work Texas with and bandsThe Beautiful such as South, Manie were Street also withat London's the singer/songwriter. Whitfield Street The Studios session last wasThursday recorded (16) honouredRuth Sandler, at Thursday's managing (14) dinner. director of Albemarle, for broadeast by the Emap Radio Group and Heatt FM. InIdlewild The City Live clinch Unsigned Worldwide runners-up Idlewild deal have In an emotional speech Benson said, 'Tve been work- signed a worldwide deal with EMI Music Publishing ing on Celtus for years and it's great to have my Tierceand Deceptive Panda in Music. November The bandand a will mini-album release aon single on involvementOn learning recognised." that his présentation was being broad- Deceptive in January. suchcast live as Muff to the Winwood, Hilton diners Peter Peel, Grant, who Rob joins Dickîns luminaries and John Kennedy on the Roll of Honour, quipped the IMF A 2,000-strong crowd watched Sir Paul McCartney relaunch HM SimonGoffe Goffe, quits senior MCA A&R to manager focus at on MCA Boni Music, Size has hadThe just ceremony doubled endedhis audience with a livefigures. performance by The flagship Oxford Circus store iastThursday. Macca, whose class left after 18 months to concentrate on steering his workunveiled Standing a new Stone six-foot was model due toof makeNipper its and Top phonograph 75 début yesterday at the fron (19), Heavyweight Management charge and Mercury Prize fully kept under manager, Gail theEBm revamped store. MCAwinner will Roni continue Size, who to handle he has Size's handled publishing. for four years. Wildstar Entertainment Rights row empts at conférence andConner not ReevesWildstar is Management managed by Wildstar as incorrectly Entertainment reported American music publishers'een and Anglo- c in last week's Talent pages. nentalinto a war collection of words societies at a London boiled co:onfer- danuaryThe Cannes between Agreement the major publisimade tions" which allow continental socie Spice Girls score platinum in first week eneeIn lasthis week. keynt David theand societies'the collection commission societies rateto red fi includingto deduct thoseup to of10% Anglo-American of royalties - 1 Spice Girls' Spice Up Your Life was certified Hockman, Worldwide heâd of PolyGrai 8.09% to 6% by 1 July 2000 has b writers - to benefit purely domestic lastit )'week. 11 pjatinumjn Other platinum its first awards week went of release to Elton bythe John's BPI nentalMusic Publishing,societies as "overblowlambasted the cont At Wednesdays cc interests.use of other "It people's is an incredibly money. To arrogant deduct Candie In The Wind 1997 (x9LIhe Best Of UB10 Vol 1 ciplebutargued that badin "Societi prac monies from US and UK writers with- winners(x6) and Radiohead'sThewere Meredith Brooks' Bends (x2),Blurring while The gold Edges, chiefProfessor légal adviser Dr Jiirgen of German Becker, vpSociety and Bjork's Homogenic, Elton John's The Big Picture, Jimmy Gema launched into French to dub andNail's Dario The G'sNail Sunchyme. File, Roni SizeThe Full& Reprazenfs Monty OST, New The FormsBest HockmanThe background an "horrible to simplificateur".the conférence, Indie Anthems In The World...Everi and Club Cuts 97 Vol runningorganised battle by Hawksmere, by the owners is ofthe Anglo- long- linated, period,of the Frenchpresumably Society life Sacem- a its monopoly over royalty collecli 3 picked up silvers. American repertoire, who provide the .dotmusic ^ ^ > IFPI WORLD REPORT SHOWS UK LOW ON GROWTH LEAGUE - p4 ► ► ► > FromhttPi//www-dlotmuslc-com Music Week. 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MUSIC WEEK 25 0CT0BER1997 COMMENT UK publishers could learn from Europe OneBecker, couldn't vice-president help bulfeel of Germansorry (or collection Professor societyDr Jûrgen conférenceGema. when on he European took the stageCollection in London Societies. at last week s thenIl euerthere this was was it. a case of Daniel and the lions den, : : ^fl continentalBecker and societieshis pals at are Gema, the anti-ChristSacem and as the far other as many inBut the hc UK acquitted publishing himself community well with are a concerned. cogent description ofdifférent a system to thosewhose in basic the UK assumptions and US. are radically Thepublishers-which single-minded approachhas ignored of thethose Anglo-American cultural différenceseffective so infar, pursuit but il should of hard not cash blind - has them been to thevery deficienciesadvantages of in the the continental Anglo-American system, régimes. nor to the succeededOne clear advantage in achieving of the high German revenues. system Social is that and it has OKgrowBTatsfâncIslill, haveculturel succeeded déductions in creating may take a abigger slice, cake.but the Germans theContrastfhat US - rates with which the are pitifully routinely low mechanicaleut further by rates the in appallingmention the controlled negligible composition amounts collected clause - for not live to performances.It is interesting to contrast the harsh words from Anglo- by Robert Ashton American publishers about the continental societies 1 BIGGESTWINNERS B1GGEST LOSERS n INTERIM MUSIC SALES IN with their quite extraordinary silence on the subject of Thewith world's the UK music among market the poorest has stood growth still Country Growth Country ' ® CountryTHE BIG FIVE MARKETS1997(1996) ■ the US. Rememher too that PRS and MCPS are only now performers in the past six months, 21 PortugalBoliva +28%+21% 21 Peruladonesia -43*-21% belatedlycomparable getting to that to ofthe their position continental where peers.they have By ailclout salesaccording report. to the IFPI's latest global 3 Venezuela +19% 3 Uruguay -16% (S5,398.9ml means let us pursue deficiencies on the continent, but Intérim figures for the six months 4- ArqentinaMexico +17% 45 AustraliaHongkong -10%-9% ($3161.4iti) dont let's prétend that it is only on the continent that totalfrom valueJanuary growth to June of the 1997 41 showcountries the 6= Finland +15% 6= UK -6% GERMANY (SIS1,336.7m ,441.1m) there are deficiencies to be found. Steve Redmond surveyed, representing $15,3bn sales, 6= MalaysiaCentral America +15% 6=8= GreeceUSA -6%-5% UK SI ,079.6m worseamounted - they to fellzéro by with i%. unit sales faring 9 Spain +12% 8= NewZealand -5% FRANCE (SI,077.3mlS935.1m WEBBO theThe 6% mostdécliné disappointing in the value statisticof the UK is lQ=Philiooines +9% 10= Belgium -4% ($1,025.2m) Smiths: time for a fresh start marketGreece andover worsethe period than - thethe 5%same drop as Year-on year change in intérim music sales by value IJan-June JS97/SW. Source. IFPI. Poor old Richard Handover. He finally gets the top job at experiencedThe UK performance, by the US music which market. includes growth. However, Germany managed to auch better. There's quite a lot of big WH Smith to find himself in a maelstrom. I don'tthink a 7% décliné in unit growth, signais a emulate its 1996 performance, posting a vhichJbums should like Spice reverse Girls that coming décliné." through, directors,anyone, from would City disagree analysts thatto record something company radical sales needs tumingindustry, pointwhich forhas recordedthe British four music years 5%IFPI increase senior in value,économie analyst Tina Poyser also points to the 19.1% to happen to WH Smith. Ils retailing format, under ofsame consistently half year period high ingrowth 1996 the(for value the bePoyser read doesn'tinto the believe figures too and much that ashould fuller pressuremegastores. from needs both supermarketsa complété overhaul. and ils Theown only of the market was up 4%). and rosier picture will be revealed at the «That re potentiel question is what needs to be done. Tim Waterstone has theThe UK bleak and few picture mature wasn't European confined mar- to yeaFsof growth end. so "The I think UK wehas should had four expect years a launched a takeover bid which would resuit in kets performed well over the six bit of a breather," she says. "When sales catchat an incrediblehold, but now rate," it shehas says.it is growingThe UK everything being sold off leaving a chain selling books, months.4% in value Denmark and France,and Belgium Switzerland slipped ofwere the released Oasis and in Prodigythe third albums, quarter, which work singles market was also buoyant - up newspapersSmith management and periodicals have rejected and stationery. this but are The now WH and Sweden could only manage sub-2% through the full-year picture will be proposing selling off Virgin Dur Price, presumably to M&Sto sell music in Digital TV channels will offer manyRichard ways Branson's that's the Virgin easy who part. own The 25% real ofquestion it already. is In PolyGram album deal whetherretailing thereat ail. isaOne placefor thing is clear WH Smith - it can't in record go on as it is. Marks & Spencer is to start selling CDs home shopping at US prices It should conduct a thorough review, then either follow exclusive link-up with PolyGram. nels are to be launchedtelevis in the UK tion10-station being launchedhome shopping by Wow. opéra- thewith supermarkets aggressive marketing in creaming (which off the doesn't top-selling mean itemseut the of around 20 MOR, classical and jazz next year offering music fans the Gregory Adams-Tait, European price of the Top 10) or just get out completely. compilationsively by the albums,mqjor, in compiledail 300 of itsexclu- UK homeschance at to American buy CDs prices. from their viceporate président which isof Capitalmanaging And Wow's Cor- placePersonally for WH I think Smith it shouldselling berecords the former. and with There their is still a branchesmove follows at thethe introduction end of October. in June The of American-basedThe services are broadeast being started consor- by UKchannels opérations, will be says presenter-based both music customer profile 1 think we, as the record industry, need several similarly-compiled. limited number of PolyGram branches. tiumin a Wowlink-up Télévision with InternationalUS s ,J— and will feature video clips, with them on the high streel. 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'Throw OnceYo Handz again, Up' the Foxyrhythmical or Lil Kimbombardment there is no as real only hardcore they know lyrical how. edge, Unlike but theytune!»®©© are nonetheless the Queens of Party Hip Hop. GreatRH s S V) < <2 ë o < 00 C3 1 CN co <3- LO m 00 r> o> r—© r- CM V—co 2 E^ les œ < En £2 oo Eoa _ ■ [commentary] by alan jones [upfront house] As tight a three-way battle as; hasof theever Club been Chart fought resulted at the top| t8s 32 HAPPINESSIBELIEVE (ROGER (ERIC KUPPERSANCHEZ/SHARP/SASH! MIXES) Kamasulra M1XES) leal JoceiynHappv DlappereBrown two-polnt wln for the HAPPY CUPPERS' T 26 2 ICAN'Î HELP MYSELFILUCIO/BOYFOY MIXES) lucid Believe',week, vrhich against registered 457 for 459KAMASUTRA's points this i Help'Happiness', Myself. The and latter 456 fortille LUCID's was the 'I one Can't in wasthe Itselfascendancy In danger at theof beingend of swept the week, aside but by 'S ? 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