Heatseekers Explode on Billboard 200 Youth Movement Newcomers Push Established Acts from Top Curb's Boy Howdy Hits Brings New Life by CRAIG ROSEN on the Billboard 200
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BY CARRIE BORZILLO While the previous decade's super- To Brit Awards LOS ANGELES -Reflecting dra- stars still can occasionally reach plati- LOS ANGELES -A specially priced num -level sales, they can no longer six -song album and out-of-the-box ex- BY THOM DUFFY be counted on for a surefire hit, and 0.-4144111r.ft, are finding themselves squeezed out LONDON -The victories of cut- of the upper regions of the chart by ting-edge art- newcomers. ists including Cocteau Twins The growing importance of new SEEKERS the Stereo Four -Calendar Café artists is illustrated by several fac- MC's and Features the new single tors: JEFFREY STEELE OF Björk at the BOY HOWDY and video 'Bluebeard. LAYNE STALEY OF Eight albums in the top 10 on The 1994 Brit ALICE IN CHAINS CARROLL Now on tour. BRAXTON Billboard 200 this week are by acts posure from CMT and TNN have Awards whose debut efforts were released in helped newcomers Boy Howdy be- brought a shot of cre- matic changes in recent years, artists the '90s. The only pre -'90s acts are come one of the strongest -selling (Continued on page 51) of the '90s have risen to the forefront (Continued on page 84) (Continued on page 93) Tour Circuit Awaits Hot Summer On-Line Archive Offers Music Streisand Reunions Lead Concert Slate BY KRISTIN LIEB cumvent the traditional record -label All songs written and produced by road to stardom. Cocteau Twins BY MELINDA NEWMAN Traffic touring for the first time in A pair of computer science majors Robert Lord and Jeff Patterson are decades. The Eagles also are expect- at the University of California at San- the founders of the Internet Under- NEW YORK- Already off to a ed to reunite for at least one show. ta Cruz think they have the answer ground Music Archive (IUMA), which strong start, the 1994 concert slate (Continued on page 92) for recording artists who wish to cir- since November has invited artists to COME i0 WHERE will only get hotter this spring and place music, graphics, and text on the LOVE AND MADNESS FIND summer, with Barbra Streisand and Internet, the network of networks that links computer users around the A MUTUAL GROOVE. To Regain world. Premier Works The Internet already is a hotbed of information about music. Of the 4,000 Its Historic Place In Biz (Continued on page 91) THE EAGLES BY ERIC BOEHLERT ized their contract with Giant. And although they had just met him that Limp /EMI Brings Imago's Rollins Busy NEW YORK- Twenty -four months night, the band decided to pass on of- ago, following a sold-out concert at fers from other agencies and sign Joi To The World With Diverse Projects the Vic The- with Barsa- BY CHRIS MORRIS ater in Chica- lona, the god- BY HAVELOCK NELSON go, members father of LOS ANGELES -Henry Rollins' of Big Head rock'n'roll tal- NEW YORK -Using an extended JJJJ`t_'1' many careers are in overdrive, even Todd & the ent booking. grass-roots market- by his ordinarily Monsters met For an agen- ing and promotion "ESSEX" compulsive stan- for dinner with cy whose ros- campaign, Limp/ stars for things ilke y dards. their manag- ter during the EMI /ERG has be- ' volume knob on you The punk -bred, ers, Giant Rec- last 30 years gun its attempt to L.A.-based singer ords president +k ï could double bring Joi to the Whispering Your Name is anticipating the Irving Azoff, 13 EN GINES as a future world. On March 1, CD5 in-store: 3/1* April 12 release on and Frank guide to the it ships the single Album in-store: 3/22* Imago Records of Barsalona, head of Premier Talent Rock And Roll Hall of Fame "Sunshine & The worldwide 'Simultaneous release dates. ROLLINS "Weight," the sev- Agency. There, band members final- (Continued on page 51) Rain" to retailers. Jol (Continued on page 83) (Continued on page 92) -B lack and blue songs, sleepy songs, real songs. Slow and . THE BILLBOARD SPOTLIGHT gorgeous." SEE PAGE 63 BewiTCHeD -The Village Voice "Tiger Lily" 09 The new album, featuring Produced by Victor Van Vugt WIII l i u Irr with the Cocteau Twins March 16 - April 6. i 111 A Time Warner Company. Management Renee Lehman 4.,.:ris Productions. o 71486 02552 s 4. On Elektra compact discs and a Entertainment. a Division of Warner Communications Inc. 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NELSON AND TONY BROWN MCA www.americanradiohistory.com "The Torpedo Twins" RUDI DOLEZAL & HANNES ROSSACHER Directors oo INTERNATIONAL D0R0 PRODUCTIONS would also like to thank our partners in this project: Jim BEACH, Louise VELAZQUEZ, Michel FERLA, Gavin TAYLOR. very special thanks to: QUINCY JONES & CLAUDE NOBS WARNER L/oRo MUSIC INTERNATIONAL VISION Phone: Vienna 43 -1- 8120081 Los Angeles (213) 413 0725 Cologne 49-221-956 825.3 www.americanradiohistory.com U.K. Industry Value Grew 13.5% In 1993 1 Strong Releases, New Stores Fueled Market's Surge Noll 1 LIJOA111) 1 PG. BY DOMINIC PRIDE mainly at the expense of mid -price titles, markets and gas stations also have started VOLUME 106 NO. 9 now representing 11% as opposed to 15% retailing CDs and tapes, increasing the LONDON -After searching in vain for the last year. number of points of sale. THE BILLBOARD 200 green shoots of recovery for several years, Virgin Records U.K. managing director At the retail level, dealers say the net * TONI BRAXTON TONI BRAXTON LAFACE 88 the U.K. record industry found them in Paul Conroy reports that 1993 was the com- market increase is closer to 6 %-7 %, and 1993, when market value rose 13.5 %, ac- pany's best year ever, propelled by the last- that the figures also reflect significant THE BILLBOARD CLASSICAL 50 o cording to figures from the British Phono- quarter albums and singles success of price increases this year. P * THE PIANO 35 MICHAEL NYMAN VIRGIN graphic Industry. Meat Loaf and Phil Collins. "Apart from Philip Ames, managing director of 4- Factors that helped swell the coffers last being pleased with our own performance, play, a 36-store independent nationwide COUNTRY A * KICKIN' IT UP 30 year included a strong lineup of releases by there's an extremely buoyant air in the chain, says, "On balance, there's been very JOHN MICHAEL MONTGOMERY ATLANTIC well -known artists, new retail outlets, and whole industry," says Conroy, "and it's little real growth. Some areas have done L a more favorable economic climate. Spac- carried over. We're now expecting a push well: Scotland is performing well, as they B HEATSEEKERS 18 ing out releases throughout the year, and from the Brits Awards." haven't been hit by [mortgage] interest * MIRROR BLUE RICHARD THOMPSON CAPITOL the lack of "blank spots" in the retail calen- The release schedule has been full rates so much." Ames reports that busi- U dar, helped bring home the numbers, deal- throughout the year, with albums such as ness in the two weeks before Christmas ers say. U2's "Zooropa" even being released at the was up 16% over the same period in 1992, M JAZZ 36 S * STEPPIN' OUT TONY BENNETT COLUMBIA Key statistics from the BPI's figures in- height of summer. compensating for a poor November. clude: Major retail chains also started expand- Dealers and record companies alike are Market value was up 13.5% to 785.7 mil- ing in 1993, taking advantage of lower hoping that tax increases -due to be imple- JAZZ / CONTEMPORARY 36 * BREATHLESS KENNY G ARISTA lion pounds ($1.178 billion), while total unit rents on high streets and in malls.