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News Corp., form on this show since I was a little kid." the year. That award went to Green Day's powerful Time Warner, CBS Performing and winning at the Grammys is "Boulevard of Broken Dreams." and Disney. nothing new for U2. The Irish rock band claimed Carey was recognized three times in the R &B five awards, including album of the year for "How category (R &B song, female R &B vocal per- »>XM SIGNS to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" (Interscope) and formance, contemporary R &B album). These WINFREY TO song of the year for "Sometimes You Can't Make awards were handed out pre -telecast, mean- $55M DEAL it on Your Own." ing there were no televised acceptance XM Satellite Radio speeches from Carey. Holdings on Feb. 9 "As songwriters, it really means something," rap field. The pro- revealed it signed a U2's Bono said, referring to the group's Grammy West dominated the three -year, $55 million wins. "As a songwriter, you want to get these ducer- turned -rapper was honored for deal with Oprah songs off; you want to get them into the pop rap album ( "Late Registration," Roc-a - Winfrey to introduce a consciousness." Fella /Def continued on »p8 channel on its radio service, causing shares to spike as much as BY BRIAN GARRITY 10 %. The new channel, called Oprah and Friends, will launch in September and Lack, Schmidt -Holtz will include a weekly program hosted by Winfrey, as well as Switch Sony BMG Roles programs featuring other personalities After months of rhetoric, Bertels- tive currently serving as chair- to reject them later. from her popular mann executives crying for the man, will succeed Lack as CEO. Lack's problems were driven nationally syndicated ouster of Sony BMG boss An- The switcheroo is not just as much by the challenges of serv- TV talk show. drew Lack are about to get their about the ongoing struggle being two corporate cultures - wish-sort of. tween Sony and Bertelsmann to Sony's and Bertelsmanri s -as » >MORE PAYOLA HEARINGS? The embattled CEO, a Sony maintain an equitable balance of they were by his understanding Sen. Russ Feingold, D- Corp. favorite, is getting kicked power inside the recorded -music of the music business. Wis., sent a letter Feb. upstairs to run the joint venture' s giant. It is also a cautionary tale Arguably, his biggest misstep 9 to Commerce board of directors in a nonexec- about the challenge of running a was not grasping Bertelsmann's Committee chairman utive capacity. And in a titanic joint venture and the music in- culture. He failed to appreciate

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Alaska, requesting a GRAMMYS (cont.) hearing on payola. The letter preceded the ABC from »p7 News "Primetime" report that aired the evening of Jam) rap solo performance ( "Gold Digger ") and rap song ( "Diamonds From album win "amazing." She said, "We've always kind of made Feb. 9 on New York Sierra Leone "). He failed to win the album of the year award, although his records for ourselves and sent them in [to the record label] when Attorney General Eliot "Late Registration" topped numerous critics' best -of lists last year. we're done." Spitzer's investigation West said he was not disappointed. "It just gives me another goal to While performances from Gorillaz and Madonna, Clarkson, into the alleged go back in the studio and keep on delivering great albums until they Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney dazzled -as did a participation in payola by finally let a rapper win this award," he said. closing tribute to New Orleans with Allen Toussaint, Dr. nine of the nation's radio Legend, a West protégé, picked up the best new artist award, John and others -perhaps the evening's most fascinating groups. The companies which Carey received 16 years ago, as well as top R &B album performance moment receiving subpoenas from belonged to Sylvester Stewart, honors for "Get Lifted" (G.O.O.D. /Columbia) and the male R &B the attorney general aka Sly Stone. vocal performance award for "Ordinary People." are Clear Channel, CBS Coming out of retirement, Stone made a short, Radio, Entercom, Emmis, While Legend was thrilled with the awards, he was troubling appearance. Sporting a white mohawk Citadel, Cumulus, Cox, most honored by the best new artist win. "I have huge and hunched shoulders, Stone walked offstage Pamal and ABC. respect for those who were nominated," he said. during the tribute to his chart- topping 1960s/1970s Legend is among those best -positioned to enjoy band Sly & the Family Stone. He left in the mid- » >EURO a significant sales boost from his awards -show ex- dle of performing "I Want to Take You Higher," COLLECTING posure. His appropriately titled "Get Lifted" was leaving Will.i.am, Maroon5, Steven Tyler and oth- SOCIETIES released more than a year ago and peaked at No. ers to carry on. INVESTIGATED 4 on The Billboard 200, but had fallen off the The live 8 -11 p.m. coverage The European of the Grammy chart before re- entering this week at No.187. Awards on CBS averaged 17.6 Commission on Feb. 7 million viewers Carey and Clarkson should also enjoy sales confirmed a formal and a 7.3 rating /18 share in the 18-49 demo- investigation into the benefits from their Grammy glories, says Jim graphic in prime time, according to prelimi- manner that collecting Kaminski, Tower Records' event coordinator nary estimates from Nielsen Media Research. for the Northeast region. "Mariah has societies gather royalties solidified It was down by more than 1 million viewers for artists from Internet her R &B audience, while Kelly is now seen as compared with last year's telecast. sites and through satellite a legitimate artist," he says. As for Legend, "his And what trumped the broadcast? The and . cable broadcasting. numerous appearances [on the show] will make mss 4, 8 p.m. edition of "American Idol." Fox's The EC says a preliminary stry's corrkback artist" - him a household name." crown jewel far outdrew the Grammys with probe into the of the : r, MARIAN CAREY, was Commercial success did not seem to be a factor in 28.3 million viewers, agreements among nominated for eigIttyrs, and earning an 11.3 rating /28 Grammy voting in the country category, where bluegrass won three, all in R &B categories. collecting societies share in the key demo. outfit Alison Krauss + Union Station took suggested that the three top honors, in- current rules effectively cluding best album for "Lonely Runs Both Ways" (Rounder). Additional reporting by Gail Mitchell and amounted to a monopoly. Krauss, now the owner of 20 Grammys, called the best country Melinda Newman in Los Angeles. A Statement of Objections has been sent to the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and SONY BMG (cont.) Composers (CISAC) and all its member agencies in from »p7 EU countries that collect BMG's top -ranking officer from royalty payments. CISAC enfold increase from the same scoring on the seesaw of control are trading one record -industry Corp.'s is centralized and has hi- rebutted the EC claims the mix when COO Michael quarter a year ago. Bolstering the shaping the joint venture. outsider with a history in the TV erarchically organized structures. Feb. 8 and now has Smellie announced his departure company's performance was a Not only has the BMG side business for another. Another key difference be- two months to defend last summer. Lack initially toyed $121 million drop in restructur- of the company gained influ- Schmidt -Holtz, 57, is BMG's tween Lack and Schmidt-Holtz is itself in writing. with the idea of eliminating the ing charges, a signal that the ence in the new management former chairman /CEO who en- management style. The latter is COO post altogether upon music giant has finally largely in- alignment, but BMG labels are gineered the label's restructur- considered to be a "great com- » >BILL BOOSTS Smellie's exit -a suggestion that tegrated Sony's and BMG's op- also on a hot streak. BMG ing in 2001. He also played an municator, who can bridge gaps ANTI -PIRACY enraged Bertelsmann executives. erations. Sales declined less than boasts four albums in the top instrumental role in the merger and place the differing corporate EFFORTS "That triggered a governance 1% during the quarter. 10 of this issue's Billboard 200, deal with Sony Music in 2004. The California Senate cultures under a single roof," clause that needed to be ad- But myriad music business induding Barry Manilow at No. But he is best -known for his work passed a bill Feb. 6 that sources at Bertelsmann say. justed," one company insider fa- reduces the felony complications seemed to over- 1, and in the early stages of 2006 with European TV company A formal announcement on threshold for possession miliar with the situation says. shadow the improving finances. it is outpacing Sony in year -to- RTL. He now serves as Bertels- the switch of roles for Lack and or sale of pirated music The Smellie situation turned Lack, who made his name in TV date current market share, mann Group's chief creative of- Schmidt -Holtz, and new multi- from 1,000 units to 100. out to be the hornets' nest. That as president /COO of NBC, is be- 14.2 %to 11.3 %. ficer and sits on the company's year pacts for both, is imminent. On a 28 -2 vote, the Senate fight opened the door to com- lieved to have strained his rela- Intended to provide a degree management board in its Güter- In addition to his duties as nonex- passed the legislation, plaints from Bertelsmann about tionship with Sony Music Label of balance to the new manage- sloh, Germany -based head- ecutive chairman, Lack is ex- sending it to the a number of operational issues Group CEO Don Ienner over ment alignment is Tim Bowen, quarters. Schmidt-Holtz will pected to have a continuing role Assembly for approval in related to the joint venture, most New York Attorney General Eliot a music industry vet who has drop those roles to take over as in the company's government-af- mid -February, where it is notably Sony BMG's drop in mar- Spitzer's payola investigation. served stints with both compa- CEO of Sony BMG. fairs efforts and its new film and widely expected to pass. ket share in 2005. Lack also alienated BMG North nies during his career, most re- Talks It would then go to the concerning Lack's future TV unit, sources say. While Lack ultimately deliv- America chairman /CEO Clive cently B MG, desk of Gov. Arnold and currently heads and the appointment of a new Under the terms of the joint Schwarzenegger, ered on cost -saving goals, Sony Davis in a fight over contractual Sony BMG's operations in the CEO for Sony BMG had stepped venture, Sony has the right to pro- BMG market share slipped from issues surrounding a Davis United Kingdom, Canada, Aus- up in the past few weeks, with who would have 12 days pose the CEO of the company for ó to sign it into law. 28.5% in 2004 to 25.6% last year profit- sharing agreement. And tralia /New Zealand and South Sony Corp. CEO Howard the period covering 2004 -2009. as the company found itself he found himself taking heat for Africa. Billboard has learned rn Stringer and Bertelsmann chair- Sony BMG executives declined É » >NAPSTER bogged down in lingering inte- everything from the company's Bower is in line to be named man /CEO Gunter Thielen in- to comment. Gütersloh -based GROWTH SPURT gration issues in early 2005. CD copy -protection debacle to COO, replacing Smellie. volved. At the end of last year Bertelsmann head of press An- Napster added I 66,000 Sony BMG finally started to his approval ofa pricey new con- Sony's lone pre- merger exec- Thielen acknowledged the dif- dreas Grafemeyer says he could subscribers to its show positive momentum in its tract for Bruce Springsteen. utive still in the day -to -day op- ferences in Sony's and Bertels- not confirm the report. Sony also ó premium music recent most quarter, posting a net Sony and BMG alums and in- erations of the company is CFO mann's philosophies. Thielen declined comment. rn subscription service for á income of $178 million on sales siders are beginning to respec- Kevin Kelleher. the third fiscal quarter, said Bertelsmann's culture em o of $1.49 billion for the three tively fret and revel over winners In the move to Schmidt - phasizes the local independence Additional reporting by Wolfgang continued on »p10 months ended Dec. 31 -a sev- and losers as they readjust their Holtz, Sony and Bertelsmann of its operations, while Sony Spahr in Germany. a.

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which ended Dec. 31, bringing the total base to Good In Royalty more than 500,000. The Best Buy Promo Raises Ire growth rate represents a Indie Retailers Protest Big -Box Store's Loss -Leader Prices Dispute -Maybe 110% year- over -year subscriber increase for Still hobbling from a weak 2005, independent re- chains at the expense of the independent retail- Sean "Diddy" Combs' Bad Boy societies in respective territo- tailers believe they the company, Analysts took an early hit in 2006 from ers that really care about our bands," Cosley says. label has resolved a simmering ries); others never issued a li- say they expect this mega -chain Best Buy. But Best Buy is the largest account for most dispute with a number of pro- cense, in essence, never asked growth rate to fall Long reviled by indie stores for using music independent labels, and many of them view co- ducers who helped make the to be paid. throughout the year. as a loss leader, Best Buy applied the tactic -pric- op deals as a necessity for a CD to break through label a household name in the "We've received no claim ing an album below wholesale cost in an effort to a mainstream audience. mid- to late -'90s- depending letters from >ORPHAN WORKS anyone," says the » to drive store traffic -to a number of top indie Few are as well -positioned to discuss the issue on MAY FIND HOME whom you ask. Bad Boy source. "As far as we titles. Beginning the week of Jan. 23, recent re- as Sayers. A former buyer for Best Buy, he In The continuing effort to now March 2003, North Car- know, there's no dispute. Bad leases from acts including streamline music licensing Cat Power, the Arcade runs his own independent label and retail store olina -based consultant Eric Boy's policy is to pay royalties Fire, Antony &the is currently focusing on Johnsons, Broken Social Scene in Minneapolis. Moore hooked up with pro- and run a business in a profes- so- called orphan works. and Atmosphere were sold for $7.99, about $2 "There are just certain times in the span of a ducer Easy Mo Bee, who said sional way." The U.S. Copyright less than wholesale. release, if it's a bigger release, where you're he had not received royalties Moore, however, says Bad Office released a report The promotion, which included 20 independ- going to have to play the game to be competi- for his contributions to Bad Boy, Boy may have let their ac- Jan. 23 recommending ent titles, lasted one week in stores, and contin- tive and get exposure," Sayers says. "From a re- counting get away from them: legislation to permit ues online until Feb. 11. tail standpoint, it sucks. Independent retail these "How do they explain that roy- individuals and The effect on sales was striking. For the week days has to be creative. You really have to know The label alties statements didn't go out companies to use ending Jan. 29, total sales of Antony & the John - your market." copyrighted works, under for 14 or 15 of these guys for the sons' "I Am a Bird Now" (Secretly Canadian) were But Shake It's Blase bristles when certain conditions, the labels and some last two to three years ?" up 65% to 2,000 units in the States, even though the owners United ac- say they understand the concerns of independ- Bad Boy's payments were cannot be identified or cording to Nielsen SoundScan, and Atmosphere's ent retailers. "I lost a Cat Power sale, which means hitmakers administered by Arista until located. Under the "You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Hav- I lost a sale on a copy of [U.K. music magazine] June 2002, and began to be legislation, ing" (Rhymesayers) shot back onto Billboard's Mojo, and a sale on a can't potential used CD," he says. "By not seem administered by Atlantic Rec- users would first be Top Independent Albums tally at No. 39, a 53% selling 58 CDs, I really lose about 240 sales. For ords in April 2005, when Diddy required to conduct a increase. Likewise, singer /songwriter Cat Power a lot of these stores that are hanging on by their to agree on moved Bad Boy to the Warner "reasonably dilligent" enjoyed her best debut ever, opening at No. 34 on fingernails, they can't take many weeks like that." Music Group. But between search to identify who is The Billboard 200 with 23,000 units. A Best Buy representative did not return calls those times, Bad Boy kept its and locate the Yet some indie stores say they did not share by deadline, but label and retail sources say the own books. copyright owner. owed in the wealth. We bought 60 copies of the new chain is making more inroads into the inde- Moore says he is expecting Cat Power, and we figured that would » >HMV REJECTS last until pendent market. what. the next installment of royalties TAKEOVER BID Friday," says Darren Blase, who runs Cincinnati- They point to Best Buy's recent decision to add on Feb.15, and that, when the London-based HMV based Shake It Records. "We sold two." CD Baby's catalog to its online story (Billboard, dust settles on back payments, Group has turned down a The loudest protest came from Patrick Mon- Nov. 26, 2005), and some West Coast outlets have particularly to Biggie Smalls' the total could be more than $1 takeover bid from private aghan, who runs small label /distributor Car- started adding "indie" sections, which includes "Ready to Die" album, in years. million. "We don't know, be- equity firm Permira rot Top Records in Chicago. He wrote a letter releases from everyone from Bright Eyes to Wilco. As Moore investigated, he cause we haven't seen state- Advisers. In a brief to a number of the labels that paid Best Buy for If Best Buy rolls out an indie section nation- found others who said they ments yet." But Moore says clar- statement issued to the placement and advertising in association with wide, plenty of labels will get in line for a slot. had not been paid. Eventually ity will soon be his: WMG, he London Stock Exchange the promotion. "We want to hit the crowd that buys six CDs Moore and Nevada -based shortly after trading en- says, agreed to an April audit. Monaghan posted the letter on his blog per year," Swanson says, acknowledging that it tertainment attorney John Moore closed Feb. 7, the retail shouldn't spend his (sakistore.blogspot.com), giant concluded: "The and generated re- is "tough to defend" the choice to spend money Mason signed a group of about commission checks just yet, proposal undervalues sponses from Matador co- president Gerard with Best Buy. "We've been selling Antony for a 15 producers, writers and though. Sources at Bad Boy HMV Group." Cosley, Merge founder Mac McCaughan and Se- year, and it gets to the point where we're not going artists who authorized them laugh at the $1 million estimate, cretly Canadian co- founder Chris Swanson. to keep doing marketing programs at mom and to collect royalties, and con- and say that what's already » >SMASHING "The scary part is that I'm hearing this isn't a pops. You're preaching to the converted." tacted Bad Boy. been paid represents the bulk PUMPKINS BEARING one- offthing and Best Buy is committing to indie Since October, somewhere of what's coming. NEW FRUIT music," Monaghan says. "1 can't imagine it being between $200,000 and And they say no audit has According to sources, a long -term business strategy for them, [but if it $300,000 in back royalties been agreed to. "We've volun- Billy Corgan and drummer is] they will put people out of business." have been paid. And, both par- teered Jimmy Chamberlin will to show producers par- Label executives, including Cosley, Swanson ties say they are happy. "We're begin work on a new ticular statements," says the and Rhymesayers founder Siddiq Smashing Pumpkins Sayers say they thrilled these producers are Bad Boy source. "Bad Boy is studio album, the first were unaware that Best Buy would price the CDs being paid," Moore says. "They willing to go back to years that under the group's name at $7.99. All labels interviewed say they believed are ready to produce hits for Bad Boy legally doesn't have since the original lineup's the CDs would be priced at $9.99. Bad Boy again." to go back to for accounting "MACHINA /The Machines "The first I had heard of the price was when I Exactly what they are happy purposes. We're doing that in of God." in 2000. When read Patrick's blog," Swanson says. "We don't do about, however, remains un- good faith." asked for comment, a business in a political vacuum. We'd think longer clear. According to Bad Boy Sources close to Diddy says Corgan representative and harder about our records being used as a loss sources, Moore's group is more he is not so hands on as to be said there was no leader." like eight or nine individuals, aware of such information to report at disputes. "Diddy Cosley says Matador does few co -op deals and most were unpaid for in no way present. It is understood - ad- knew people weren't scenarios in which labels pay record that at this point, original stores ministrative reasons: Some of paid," says Francesca Spero, a for album positioning members James !ha and and promotion - Easy Mo Bee's royalties were publicist and manager in Bad D'arcy Wretzky are not with Best Buy. Distribution sources say held due to a pending sample Boy's New York office. "He participating. a national Best Buy co -op starts at around clearance case, for example. didn't know there were prob- $35,000 for independent labels. That is The source gave a number lems. I put an e-mail from Eric Compiled by Chris M. a substantial gamble for most indies, on of reasons why others have Moore in his face right before Walsh. Reporting by Lars an album not guaranteed to sell not been paid. Some are the holidays, and he said, 'I don't Brendle, Antony Bruno, through. unrecouped artists; some understand. Why aren't people Susan Butler, Jonathan "We've never wanted to saturate the mistakenly believe paid? I thought me and Easy Mo Cohen, Leo Cendrowicz, Bad Boy owes them Bee were friends.' Tom Ferguson, Melinda ``Mß, " Newman, Tony Sanders, Indie stores say they lost sales of the for international o Chuck Taylor, Chris M. new CAT POWER album to low- balling sales (which would Additional reporting by Gail Walsh and Reuters. Best Buy. be paid by collecting Mitchell in Los Angeles. á

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More than two- thirds of DMG's exist- action begins. from artist and song place- Feb. 2 became one the first companies you need to make money now, not just five ing revenue comes from iTunes -which The company is poised to ment in TV shows, commer- to cash in on the hype, raising $38 mil- years down the road." pays an average wholesale rate of 70 cents sign a new distribution deal cials and movies. lion in an initial public offering priced Mike McGuire, an analyst with Gartner per track and $7 per album. DMG execu- and is eyeing more acquisi- Narang says Sheridan at $9.75 per share. Research, refines that sentiment. "They tives declined comment for this story, cit- tions. It may even be rethink- Square will fight hard to re- The Sacramento, Calif. -based digital are playing a bit of the gambler," he says. ing an IPO "quiet period" mandated by ing its deal to merge with sign the White Stripes, the music aggregator, helmed by former Tower "But as search and recommendation tech- federal securities law. Hirsch International. crown jewel in the V2 deal, Records executive Mitchell Koulouris, now nologies get better, it becomes possible to DMG's IPO comes as major labels are Sheridan Square has signed for the United States. The boasts a market capitalization of roughly profit from niche content." starting to monetize their own out -of- a distribution deal with WEA executive notes that the $82 million -a bigger valuation than more DMG controls catalog by many acts in- print material. that will allow the label to WEA deal allows Sheridan established online middlemen like Loud - cluding Billie Holiday, Blue Oyster Cult, Universal Music Group International place artists through the Square to send bigger acts eye ($76 million). On Feb. 6, its stock was Frank Sinatra, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi in January announced that it will make major and its indie distribu- through major -label distri- trading at $9.80, higher than the likes of Hendrix Experience, Jimmy Reed, Luciano more than 100,000 recordings available tion arm, Alternative Distri- bution, and to put such acts RealNetworks ($7.74 per share that day) Pavarotti and Public Enemy. DMG tracks exclusively as digital downloads during bution Alliance, according as Sugarcult through the and Napster ($3.74). from such stars tend to be alternate takes the next four years. to sources. indie distribution arm, while (Full disclosure: Billboard presi- or obscurities. The initiative, which will mine UMGI's Currently, Sheridan Square allowing still others to go dent/publisher John Kilcullen is a mem- To protect this harder -to- track -down catalog of the last 40 years, will revive is distributed by Musicrama, through its current two -step ber of DMG's board of directors.) content, DMG generally tries to lock down music from acts including Marianne Faith - with Koch Entertainment Dis- distribution process of Mus- Such seemingly impossible numbers licensing longer term than do other digi- full, Eddie & the Hot Rods, Fairport Con- tribution doing fulfillment for icrama and Koch. have critics crying "bubble." The company, tal distributors. Most deals are for a year vention, Jacques Brel and Brigitte Bardot. its biggest -selling titles, while With its V2 acquisition, founded on the assets of distributors Dig- or two, but DMG, according to SEC fil- "The Long Tail is certainly bearing out the Long Island City, N.Y. - Sheridan Square has $80 ital Musicworks International and Rio ings, wants to increase its catalog through in the market," Orchard president /CEO based wholesaler does its million in pro forma total Bravo Entertainment, is short on revenue, acquisition or long -term licensing Greg Scholl says. "Digital sales are bene- own fulfillment for slower - sales, making it one of the and profits are so far nonexistent. arrangements of seven to 10 years. DMG fiting indie and international repertoire. moving albums. largest indies. Sean Ryan, the former listen.com and pays content owners 25 % -50% of revenue But the tail isn't long naturally. You have In the Feb. 3 restructuring, That tally is nearly twice the RealNetworks executive and author of the in these arrangements, after publisher to grow it." V2 president Andy Gershon $44.1 million in net sales the blog sharkjumping.com, has called the was named Sheridan Square's company listed in the prospec- valuation "ludicrous," arguing that the chief creative officer, giving tus for its proposed merger company's true worth is actually closer to him oversight of the com- with Hirsch International, a $10 million. DMG's online pany's label group, which publicly traded company that But Wall Street loves the idea that DMG catalog includes includes V2, Artemis, Com- distributes industrial em- may expand the number of tracks avail- tracks by FRANK pendia, Artemis Classics, broidery machines; most able for purchase SINATRA a in digital form. and Light Records and Inter - viewed the merger as a way The IPO was built largely on the prom- wide variety of sound. Compendia other artists. head for Sheridan Square to go ise that DMG is going after music and Michael Olsen was named public, while allowing the video not currently available for sale by tra- COO, and Chris Scully, CFO Hirsch owners to eventually ditional music retailers, including live per- for Artemis, was named CFO cash in on their investment. formances and radio and TV productions. for the entire company. Under terms of that deal, So far the company, which specializes The restructuring elimi- Sheridan Square principals in back -catalog music, out -of-print record- nated 20 positions, includ- would have received 62% of ings, past hits and independent label ing that of Artemis president the shares in the new com- recordings, has only 36,000 tracks avail- Daniel Glass. Glass remains pany, with the Hirsch share- able for sale through digital retailers in- involved in the company as holders getting the remain- cluding iTunes and Rhapsody. But it lays an equity owner and con- ing 38 %. to claim the digital rights to more than sultant, and will start a new As recently as December, 200,000 recordings and seeks to signifi- label, partially backed by Hirsch said the merger was cantly increase that number. Sheridan Square. progressing. But the process Catalog expansion is central to the Long "Now that we have a com- was held up because of the Tail, a theory popularized by Wired mag- plete platform and label in- V2 acquisition. (Both parties azine editor in chief Chris Anderson. The frastructure, the strategy is have declined to reveal the theory contends that infinite choice of to acquire more catalogs and V2 price, but sources say niche entertainment goods will collec- rights, rather than do more Sheridan Square paid about tively drive greater digital consumption. record -label company ac- $15 million.) Right now download and subscription quisitions," Sheridan Square Now that Sheridan Square services have a catalog of about 2 mil- co -CEO Anil Narang says. In has the V2 assets, sources lion tracks. addition to acquiring mas- suggest they may be looking Plenty of other privately held aggrega- ters and making inroads to revise the Hirsch deal, or tors in the music business are trying to into publishing, the corn - considering alternative means expand catalog: The Orchard, IODA, IRIS, pany wants to secure long- of fueling growth plans. Digital Rights Agency and CD Baby all term relationships with Sheridan Square executives pursue that strategy. But so far most have marquee artists. declined to comment, and largely avoided out -of -print and never - The company hopes to ex- Hirsch executives did not rereleased material, in favor of digitizing pand beyond the troubled turn a call requesting com- active content from independent artists record business into the ment. As of Feb. 7, Hirsch and labels. greater music industry, shares were trading at $1.25, "Everyone sees value in back catalog. Narang says. To do that, giving it a market capitaliza- The question is, Can you get the rights, Sheridan Square will try to tion of $10.25 million.

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+ NewYork -All 5 Clear Channel stations are in the Top 10 (P25 -54) % (P AQH Top 25 markets UP 3.1 12+ ) + Dallas -(P25 -54) UP 37.6% Y toY (P12+) UP 29.2% Top 50 3.0% (P25 -54) AQH markets UP Y to Y - 5 great stations! + Atlanta -RockWKLS -FM UP 38% Y toY (P25 -54)

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MUSIC BY RAY WADDELL Bill Graham's Vault Late Promoter's Audio /Video Archives Stream Online; CD, DVD Releases Planned

Some of rock's most intriguing The cache was obtained for cameras, includes the leg- the copyrights associated with content is now in cyberspace more than $5 million in 2003 by endary 1973 San Francisco them; photos from virtually via Wolfgang's Vault, a memo- entrepreneur Bill Sagan who show by the Who at the Cow every performance from Gra- rabilia seller that offers treas- dubbed it in honor of Graham, Palace when Keith Moon fell ham's 30,000 shows; the audio/ ures from the stash of late pro- born Wolfgang Grajonca. into his drum kit; the Sex Pistols video masters; and miscella- A legendary show by moter Bill Graham. Graham died in a 1991 heli- final concert; and a four -camera neous items from Graham's life THE WHO is one of the many discoveries A 75 -song playlist culled copter crash. In 1997, SFX pur- shoot from the Tanglewood and career. in Wolfgang's Vault, from between 7,000 and 8,000 chased Bill Graham Presents for (Mass.) concerts of 1970. Wolfgang's Vault has been the late Bill Graham's vintage audio and video con- $65 million. Clear Channel ac- "The quality is unbelievable," selling the memorabilia since archives. cert recordings made between quired SFX in 2000, creating Sagan says. "I give the BGP peo- 2004. Sagan says he is "damn 1966 and 1999 began stream- Clear Channel Entertainment, ple a lot of credit, they kept [the close" to making back his initial Meanwhile, Sagan is navigat- legally. "Graham, especially with ing on the Wolfgang's Vault which sold the Graham mate- tapes] cold and they kept it at investment. And that is before ing the murky publishing and li- some of those early perform- Web site Feb. 8 (billboard.biz, rial to Sagan. He considered the low humidity." making a dime from what may censing waters, hopeful that CDs ance contracts, got some rights Feb. 7). And the owner of the archive an entry into the world Gregg Perloff, a former exec prove to be the archive's most and DVDs of Graham's shows that other [promoters] might Graham archive is optimistic of music intellectual property. at BGP hired by Graham in 1977, valuable asset, the music. could be on the market by the not have. He was a visionary in that some of the seminal per- "I knew generally what was says that, contrary to some re- Sagan and his team spent end of the year. Sagan says he is how he structured some of formances will make it to re- in [the archive], though there cent press reports, most BGP more than a year transferring in talks with record labels. these agreements." tailers' shelves as CDs and DVDs were close to a thousand boxes employees were knowledge- the recordings to high -end dig- "The chances of having phys- For his part, Perloff is happy by year's end. that we didn't open during due able about the archive. "All of ital format, then mastering vir- ical audio product by mid- that some of these concerts San Francisco -based Wolf - diligence," Sagan says. "I spent this stuff had been archived and tually every song. Sagan says summer are very high," Sagan will see the light of day. "It's gang's Vault sells authentic very little time listening to the inventoried," says Perloff, now they have mastered about 80% says, adding that DVDs could fantastic what they're doing, Graham concert memorabilia audio archive or looking at the president of Another Planet En- of what they intend to use. be available by the fall. in the sense that [the music] from such acts as Johnny Cash, video archive, so a lot of sur- tertainment. "We were well There is no cost to stream the "I had imagined it would be a will get out into the market-

Miles Davis, Santana, Jefferson prises happened after we com- aware of what we had." music at 128k at the Wolfgang's quagmire and now I don't think place and people will get a Airplane, the Rolling Stones, pleted the transaction." The four asset groups, as de- Vault site. Sagan says he hopes it will be," Sagan says of ob- piece of that period," Perloff U2, Tom Petty, Jimi Hendrix and The video footage, much of it scribed by Sagan, included the feature will draw more fans taining the rights to release this says. "People are going to go the Who. expertly shot with multiple posters, handbills, tickets and to the site and sell more merch. content, which was recorded nuts over this stuff."

LABELS BY GAIL MITCHELL Billboard Latin Confab Taps Johnson Steps Up As IGA Daddy Yankee For Q &A Urban Music President A live Q &A with reggaetón star Daddy Yankee Reebok; his syndicated radio show for ABC will be a centerpiece of the Billboard Latin Music Radio; a starring role in an upcoming feature tep Johnson has been Loyola University with a B.A. in Conference, taking place April 24 -27 at the Ritz film; and his support of varied projects, includ- appointed president marketing. He joined A &M Carlton Hotel in Miami Beach. ing a musical based on the life of salsa legend of urban music at Records in 1981 as senior VP of Yankee (real name Raymond Ayala), is No. Celia Cruz.

I nterscope Geffen urban promotion. 1 on Billboard's Top Latin Albums chart for The artist, who keeps a strong hand in all as- A &M. With Inter- Johnson left that Los Angeles the eighth consecutive week with "Barrio Fino pects of his career, is signed to Interscope via scope since 1992, Johnson most post in the mid-'80s when he was En Directo." his own label, El Cartel Records, and to an ad- recently co- headed the corn - named senior VP /GM of urban Yankee will discuss the many facets of his ministration deal with EMI Publishing via his pany's urban music staff with music at Capitol Records. An in- artistic and business enterprises at the confer- publishing company, Los Cangri. Ron Gilyard, who exited the troduction to Iovine through ence. These include his first album for Interscope Yankee's Q &A will be part of a four-day lineup company last year. former A &M executive /pro- Records, due later this year; his clothing line for of panels and showcases dissecting digital and The appointment follows ducer John McClain led to John- mobile issues; a president's round table; a teen news that A &M president Ron son joining Interscope in 1992. focus group; a panel on the identification and Fair is in talks to become chair- Working with Johnson in the promotion of new regional Mexican trends; and man of A &M and Geffen, re- urban department are GM Gar- a discussion on rhythm, rap and reggaetón. porting to IGA chairman Jimmy nett March, promotion execu- Already confirmed for the discussion are pro- Iovine (Billboard, Feb. 4). tive Kevin Black, senior VP of ducers Elias De León, owner of White Lion Calling Johnson a "talented A &R Shawn "Tubby" Holiday, Records; producer Boy Wonder (of "Chosen executive," lovine says John- lnterscope generally shies Ioviné s nephew D.J. lovine and Few" fame); and reggaetón duo Angel & Khrys. son's dedication "has been an away from, Johnson says the rhythmic crossover executive New to the conference is the "We Hear the enormous part of Interscope's title is just a formality. "Most Nino Cucinello. Future /Escuchamos El Futuro" new -artist success from the beginning." people in this business know Johnson predicts R &B and showcase and contest, open to unsigned and in- IGA thrived earlier in John- my name and what I've been hip -hop will evolve in directions dependent artists. Contestants will perform for son's tenure with such artists doing with urban music at In- represented by Usher and Bey- conference attendees and will be critiqued by as Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and terscope," he says. "This ap- oncé. "You can only push the en- a panel of key industry players who will select 2Pac. The label's recent suc- pointment just makes what I velope so far in rap before it has a winner. cess stories include Mary J. do a little more public." to start re- creating itself again," The Billboard Latin Music Conference, now Blige, 50 Cent and his G -Unit Johnson broke into the music he says. "The rap game is never celebrating its 17th year, culminates with the acts, Eminem, Keyshia Cole business in the 1970s as a re- going to go away. But you're Billboard Latin Music Awards, which will air live and the Game. gional promotion executive for going to see more fusion be- April 27 on Telemundo. Acknowledging that execu- ABC Records in New Orleans tween the two. We still have a lot For updated information on the conference, tive titles are something that after graduating from the city's to do at this company." go to billboardevents.com.

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MICHAEL PAOLETTA [email protected] Hilton Campaign Makes Room For Young Artists

ilton Hotels is pour- ( "Hammock "), Vassÿ s "Wanna tion that songs take listeners ing much money Fly" ( "Sandcastle ") and Ben on a journey. into refurbishing Folds' "Landed" ( "Landed "). Without question, this is the and renovating many All spots have launched, ex- type of campaign that wins on i of its properties. It is cept for "Landed," which debuts numerous fronts. doing the same for a new ad in the coming weeks. campaign that is designed to Because Hilton is renewing SUPER BOWL SOUNDS: reinvigorate the hotel chain's its image, it was a good fit for the It was oldies night at Super Bowl strong global brand. creatives at Y &R to partner with XL with the Rolling Stones With its Travel Should Take "emerging artists," Y &R pro- reaching back to their 1965 rock Average Quarte- Ho You Places campaign -created ducer David Fisher says. These classic "(I Can't Get No) Satis- by Young & Rubicam Chicago - artists "match the new look and faction" as the climax of their Hilton wears its new sensibili- feel of Hilton." three -song, Sprint- sponsored ties on its sleeve. In addition to Fisher was assisted on the halftime set during the Feb. 5 refreshing one's spirit, the cam- campaign by copywriter Ken telecast. A version of an even ear- paign stresses that travel should Erke and art director Sonya lier Stones hit, "Time Is on My do more than get a traveler from Grewal. Side," was heard during the big point A to point B. For a new band like Perse- game in a Slim Fast spot.

- More usic The yearlong campaign, phone's Bees -whose major Other golden oldies dusted which launched last month- label debut, "Notes From the off for the huge ABC -TV audi- and which is Hilton's first Underworld" (Columbia), ence included Spandau Ballet's etter7l Environme national TV campaign in 10 arrives in early June -the "True" from 1983 for Taco Bell, years -encompasses TV, print campaign is an important Player's "Baby Come Back" and online advertising. Music opportunity. (1977) for Sprint and covers of plays a major role. "It's one more impression," Cyndi Lauper's "True Colors" More Listeners Hilton senior director of Columbia senior VP of market- (1986) for Dove's self -esteem brand marketing and advertising Barbara Jones says. "In and campaign (which seemed ill - ing Abby Spatz says a conscien- of itself, it's not the magic bul- placed amid pro football's max- Clear Channel Radio Delivers Year to Year tious effort was made to secure let." But it is one more way to get imum macho showcase) and primarily unknown songs from people familiar with the band Mickey & Sylvia's well -traveled younger artists. "We wanted to and its music. Consider it one chestnut "Love Is Strange" Q,QI Sha*es P12+ T to UP 3.5% n T:p 25 Markets leverage music that people don't piece of the 360- degree pie. (1957) for the Hummer H2. have associations with yet, but While the spots are not chy- Last year's Super Bowl half- Sha'ei P12+ to UP 23% n T:p 5Q Markets that are universal sounds." roned with artist /song info, time star Paul McCartney was Hilton VP of brand market- Hilton's accompanying Web site seen again in a Fidelity In- ing Kirk Thompson adds that (hiltonjourneys.com) features vestments spot, but the game's music, like travel, is emotional. music by the artists. The site also big winner was early British In- + Los Aragdes P 6.2% + Pittsburgh So, "music plays a foundational includes short videos of each vasion duo Chad & Jeremy, + Chi tga. . S1/4 +Port and role" in the campaign. "It's mak- artist talking about their re- whose 1964 pop smash "A ing emotional connections" to spective journeys. Summer Song" was heard +San Frarx sc ( y UP 1.1° +Clevelan I' 0+0 loyal customers as well as Additionally, there is a "cre- three times in dream -like spots + Dal as +Salt Lake younger, emerging travelers. ate your memory" area on the for Mobile ESPN. DC Las 'le;;as The five TV spots feature five site, which allows visitors to + Washington f' 8.5' + different pieces of music: James send an e-mail to someone Additional reporting by Ken +Detroit e_ +San Jase Blunt's "High" (in the spot titled with a snippet of featured mu- Schlager in New York. + Atlan UP 20.0% +Orlanco "Sunrise "), Jason Mraz's "Life Is sic attached to it. Inherent in Wonderful" ( "Dancing Couple "), the overall campaign is the no- +Bostoe l P 6.2% +Colum )IS Persephone's Bees' "Nice Day" + Seattle .3'/ +Austin + Mir neapolis P 13% +Green!borc + Sar ENT() 8% +Wes: Palm

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.- Billboard Feature The 2006 BRIT Awards, spon- artist James Blunt. internationally, particularly in sored by MasterCard, take Like Blunt, Parlophone acts the U.S. place Feb. 15 at London's Earls Coldplay and Gorillaz have Todd Interland: The BRITs as Court arena. multiple BRIT nominations an award ceremony means dif- On the eve of the nationally and will perform live at the ferent things in the U.S., to the BILLBOARD STARS: televised show, Billboard in- show. Adding to the discus- industry and the general pub- MAIZ'IK Blondie vited label and management sion (via a prior telephone in- lic. The general public aren't executives to join contributing terview) was another 2006 really aware of it -nor do they AD FEBRUARY 21 ISSUE CLOSE: editor Paul Sexton and BRIT nominee, Dramatico artist really take any interest -only BILLBOARD STARS: Awards organizing committee Katie Melua. because it's not broadcast in chairman Peter Jamieson for a any major way. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame round -table discussion about How do you think the BRIT Katie Melua: America is very AD CLOSE: MARCH 3 the British music industry's Awards are perceived interna- insular, so why try and fight annual showpiece event. tionally? Does it create an ac- them? It is called the BRIT The show will be broadcast curate impression of the U.K. Awards, we're celebrating BILLBOARD STARS: Feb. 16 in the United Kingdom industry? what's successful in the U.K. Tom Petty in an extended, 150- minute Miles Leonard: It creates an ac- The BRITs should really just prime time slot on ITV1. curate impression of British represent whatever the pub- AD FEBRUARY Et1t511E CLOSE: 28 Joining Sexton and BPI music from that particular lic buys. POWER PLAYERS: chairman Jamieson were Par - year. Whether it travels as Peter Jamieson: It's the clas- lophone Records managing di- much as we like to think it does sic brand that doesn't "do what Top 10 Music Publishers rector Miles Leonard and Todd is possibly questionable. it says on the tin." BRITs ac- Plus Genre Leaders Interland of Twenty -First Maybe there's some more work tually stands for British Rec- Artists, manager of Atlantic to be done to push the BRITs ord Industry Trust -it is AD CLOSE: FEBRUARY 28

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www.americanradiohistory.com simply an awards show based cars. Sometimes we don't get acts they wouldn't otherwise. in Britain for a trust. It hope- the very best acts [to attend TI: Do you find, Peter, that fully delivers what has been that] we would like to get be- you might be cutting yourself the most successful music cause we can't guarantee short by not having an R&B, available in Britain during the they've won anything. In my classical or jazz category at previous year. dreams [laughs], I want to do these awards? Have we been weaker as an a fixed show! PJ: We're driving a peak awards show in the past than time slot on a very popular the Grammys? Yes. Do we What effect can a BRIT Award commercial TV station. We have a huge strategy going forward trying to magnify the From left: LEONARD. BRITs overseas? Of course we JAMIESON and do. There's a lot we can do, INTER LAN D possibly in partnership with the Grammys, to develop more international exposure for the BRITs. ML: But it's also Europe. The MTV Awards are Pan - European, and I guess that's one of the big competitors for BetterRadio.net the BRITs across Europe. PJ: The MTV Awards is driven by television for television -it's commercially sup- ewer ported. The BRITs is a very different type of show. It's absolutely genuine voting from Increased Listening an academy, just like the Os- dear Channel Radio Posts or nomination have on an artist's have had the BRITs classical sales and international profile? award [most recently in Levels in TI: You have to take it territory 1992] -[and there was] mas- Best Share by territory. There's resonance sive turnoff and loss of mo- for winning, or being nomi- mentum, and huge difficulty OVER A YEAR nated for this award, in places for television purposes. I like Australia. would love to find a way to fea- a r k ture more specialist awards at 'flames Blunt wins, can you the BRITs, but I don't want to KKCW -FM KDGE-FM KIOZ -FM imagine that being stickered on lose what I've got going forme the album in America? right now. WHTZ -FM Portland Dallas San Diego TI: Yes. Five years ago, prob- New York ably not -but I'm seeing Miles and Todd, if you were in KBPI -FM WBZY-FM KMYI -FM more of an active interest charge -is there one thing you from the record company would bring to the BRITs that it KHYL -FM Denver Atlanta San Diego people over there, who want does not do now? to put into their press re- ML: I don't think there's one Sacramento leases: "Five nominations for key thing that would change KESZ -FM WKQI -FM KFNK -FM James Blunt." the BRITs, because it's gener- Seattle Kt PS -F M Phoenix Detroit ML: In the U.K., [ for] a nom- ally run very well, and it's an ination, a win, a great per- incredible show. If anything, Dallas formance, you tick every box there needs to be much more WMGE -FM WMNS -FM WFUS -FM and of course it has [an] impact of an open mind in terms of Miami Cleveland Tampa on sales. the artists that are invited on. KGB -FM PJ: The performers get enor- I understand people need to San Diego mous sales boosts. This year, make a TV program, but at the WXKS -FM WDAE -FM I would say 95% of artists nom- same time, we need to really make Boston Tampa inated will find that product support British acts and WOVE-FM KI01 -FM stickered, because it means sure that at whatever cost, we Pittsbirgh Retail get them on. San Franciscc something. cooperation can KMXF-FM and co- promotions are signif- TI: I wouldn't change a thing.

icant, and growing every year. For me, with seven years in this 1 I '1 , KM: It would be nice if the country, I just love the way it's Source: A-b uon Fall Ratings B7ok (Fall 20(4 versus Fall 2005) BRITs had one extra category done. It's so different from the dedicated to more alternative American award shows, and artists-maybe world music - such a great time. - so those who are watching, WitLEARCHANNEL, who buy mainstream music, A full version of this discussion get introduced to one or two can be found on billboard.biz.

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www.americanradiohistory.com U BY JOHN FERGUSON NEWSLINE Destra Gets Physical » >VICTOIRES' FRESH FACES Oz Online Company Goes On Indie -Label Buying Spree Emerging talent dominates the nominations for this year's French music industry Victoires De La Musique Awards SYDNEY-Australian online in nurturing new talent, li- Rajon formed in July 2000 Price WaterhouseCoopers show. The contenders were announced Feb. 6. music pioneer Destra aims to censing content and packag- through the amalgamation of Australia director Matthew Lieb- Virgin act Camille led the list with four nominations: strengthen its presence in the ing up that content." three primarily budget and mid - mann, author of PWC's annual best song ( "Ta Douleur"), breakthrough act, best album physical music market while In December 2003, publicly price labels. In 2005, it claimed report "Australian Entertain- by a newcomer ( "Le Fil ") and best live performance by a maintaining the pace its newcomer. Another up- and -coming artist, Capitol of dig- listed Destra was the first Aus- a 2% market share in Australia. ment and Media Outlook," notes singer/songwriter Raphael, picked up three nominations, ital development. tralian company to launch a le- Its primary business is produc- one particular avenue where including best album for his third set, "Caravane." Also Late last year (billboard.biz, gitimate digital music service, ing TV- advertised compilations, Destra could use the combina- nominated three times was Jive /BMG female R &B singer Nov. 29, 2005), Internet and e- offering access to songs from but in 2005 it acquired Australian tion of Rajon's strengths in com- Amel Bent. commerce company Destra indie labels and EMI on its indie Big Records. That imprint's pilations and its own online Established acts picking up multiple nominations completed the acquisition of mp3.com.au site through re- roster includes licensed inter- experience. "Customer usage included veteran singer /songwriters Jean -Louis Aubert independent music /DVD label tail partners Sanity, HMV, JB national acts Melanie C and Han- data may provide an opportunity and Alain Souchon, both signed to Virgin France. Rajon Music & Video Group HiFi and Chaos Music. son and such domestic signings to create compilation albums An academy of 1,000 music industry professionals for $3 million Australian ($2.3 Destra subsequently ex- as pop vocalists Monique based on user tastes and release votes on the 15- category Victoires. The March 4 ceremony million). Now Destra chief expanded mp3.com.aú s catalog Brumby, Melissa Tkautz and them in physical, as well as at Paris' Zénith concert hall will be televised live on public dig- ecutive Domenic Carosa says through deals with Sony BMG Tina channel France 2, with 27 live performances scheduled. Cousins. ital, form," he suggests. -Aymeric Pichevin the company is focusing on and Warner Music. Carosa says The Australian independent However, Watters cautions other indie labels. the company is currently in sector is watching Destra's that the emergence of new » >GLICK EDGES INTO LIVE BIZ "We want to become big "active discussions" with Uni- strategy with interest. Assn. of digital business models London -based media advisory service the Edge Group very quickly," Carosa says, versal to add its repertoire to Independent Record Labels where artists retain much has launched a venture capital trust to invest in the United "and we will do that both the catalog. CEO Stuart Wafters says he can more control over their assets Kingdom's live -music sector. through strong organic The portal hosts more than see some benefits for his mem- will have to be taken into ac- Edge Performance is VCT intended to attract individ- growth and through more 1.3 million tracks, and Destra bers partnering with digital op- count by independent labels uals willing to invest £5,000 -£200,000 ($8,750- media acquisitions." says it generated more than erators. "It is not going to be looking at alliances with dig- $350,000) per person. Edge Group aims to raise up to He adds, "We realize that 18 million downloads and for everyone," he says, "but ital operators. £30 million ($52 million) through the VCT, which is physical distribution is not streams in the 12 end- is available only to U.K. taxpayers. months there room for these kind of On Jan. 18, Destra launched to go Edge Performance will invest in independent promo- going away tomorrow, al- ing June 30, 2005. Destra also joint ventures, and they are a subscription service with na- ters, which it expects will in turn collaborate with leading though we believe that over operates Musicpoint, an on- bound to continue to occur. tional third -generation mobile concert promoters. time it will be replaced by dig- line new -release distribution Rajon is certainly in a pretty phone operator 3 Mobile. It al- Veteran music industry attorney David Glick estab- ital distribution." service for radio stations, and good position to say [to artists], lows 3 Mobile's 500,000 sub- lished the Edge Group in February 2004 as a "one -stop Rajon was an appealing provides clients with Web 'We can deliver this for you into scribers to choose from shop" advisory service for the entertainment, media, first target, Carosa says, be- hosting, data access and voice these areas and to this number 100,000 downloadable tracks sports and fashion industries. cause it offered "experience communications services. of platforms.' " from indie labels. Tracks can Sir Robin Miller, a former chairman of U.K. media group Emap and HMV Group, will chair the VCT board, comprising Glick; Eric Clapton's manager Michael Eaton; Frank Presland, manager of Elton John and James Blunt; and Eagle Rock Entertainment deputy Ilie Publishers' Place chairman Julian Paul. -Lars Brendle SUSAN BUTLER sbutler @billboard.com » >RITTO GOES TO THE MOVIES Danish industry veteran Michael Ritto has stepped down as joint CEO of Music Business Organization, the Copenhagen - based company he co- founded in April 2004. Ritto is now managing director of leading Danish Pubs Show Cannes-Do movie /TV production company Nordisk Film, which has simultaneously acquired an undisclosed minority stake in MBO. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Spirit At MIDEM Ritto says Nordisk has an option to take up to 50% of the company's equity within 12 months. MBO co- founder Benny Bach continues as now -sole Hanging out with many read- ened presence of such in- ROLL THE TAPE: Also at The international umbrella CEO of the group and joins Nordisk's board of directors. ers of Publishers' Place in vestors was mixed. MIDEM, the International Con- trade association, which rep- MBO's record -label operations claimed a 17.2% share of Cannes during MIDEM was On the positive side, some federation of Music Publishers resents such groups as the Na- the Danish albums market in the year ending May 31, great fun. It was especially publishers said that it is nice took advantage of presenting tional Music Publishers' Assn., 2005, IFPI according to Denmark. - Charles Ferro uplifting to hear publishers to know the publishing in- a panel on the value added videotaped the session so it mention what a positive and dustry is no longer in the through music publishing. could later >INDIES UP educate lawmak- » TURN AMPS optimistic atmosphere they shadows of the other media Independent labels lead the shortlist for the inaugural witnessed in Cannes this companies when it comes to usic duo the Boy Least Likely To sent stuffe animals to Australian Music Prize (Billboard, Oct.15, 2005), year compared with recent investment interest. celebrate the signing of its new publishing de I with Stage announced Feb. 6, with only one of the eight nominees Thre- Music's STEVE LEWIS. directly signed to a major label. past gatherings. But for some there was hes- The AMP for album of the year is modeled on the United Most notable at MIDEM to itation regarding the investors' Kingdom's annual Nationwide Mercury Prize. The winner many veteran publishers was intent. Some publishers hope will be chosen by a 61- member music industry /media the presence of so many po- that these investors are inter- panel and announced March 8 at a ceremony at Sydney's tential investors from outside ested in building the publish- Museum of Contemporary Art. the industry. ing companies rather than The shortlist was selected by the judges from 221 "I remember in previous making them part of a three - released nominated Australian albums, all in 2005. The list years meeting business man- to five -year exit strategy. includes singer /songwriter Ben Lee's "Awake Is the New agers, but now we have banks, Still, meeting on a yacht in Sleep" (Five Fingers/Inertia), alt -rock act the Devasta- equity funds, funds, Cannes Harbour tions' "Coal" (In- Fidelity) and pop -rock band the Drones' private has advan- "Wait Long by the River and the Bodies of Our Enemies hedge funds -you name them, tages over searching for an Will Float By" (ATP). they are all here," one pub- empty table to meet in a hotel Rights body the Phonographic Performance Co. of lisher who preferred to remain lobby, even if I did have to Australia donates the AMP's $25,000 Australian ($18,650) anonymous said. take off my shoes to keep the prize money. -Christie Eliezer The response to the height- carpet clean.

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www.americanradiohistory.com TINA COUSINS s one of the domestic artists on Australia's Rajon label, Less is More which has been acquire, by Destra. BetterRadioalli be downloaded to their phone in downloading major acts, though they would have to for a $3 Australian ($2.26) rather than smaller names from carry a premium charge. No monthly subscription. the indie or unsigned sector. deals have yet been struck. Liebmann expresses skepti- "One of the critical success Detailed figures about the cism about the immediate pros- factors for any digital service overall size ofthe Australian dig- pects for the Destra /3 Mobile is access to a deep library of ital market are not yet available, service. He notes that the num- music content," he says. although the Australian Record ber of 3G users in Australia is Carosa says Destra would be Industry Assn. will include dig- small and suggests the major- happy to offer major -label re- ital data in its 2005 market fig- ity would be mainly interested leases through 3 Mobile, al- ures, due in March. Reduced Commercial Load Means 2 I.9% ADvantage fcr Advertisers and Better Radio for Listeners ers as to what publishers ac- to worldwide songwriter son, Ricky Martin, Keke Wyatt, tually do. agreements. They perform as Reign and Link. Panelists were EMI Music the Boy Least Likely To and On the catalog side, BMG Publishing Continental Eu- are signed to the 19 Record- Music Publishing acquired the rope president /CEO Peter ings label. German classical music cata- Clear Channel Industry Ende, BMG Music Publishing The Boy Least Likely To was logs of Rob. Forberg Musik- International president An- a special guest on James verlag and Mannheimer Musik- drew Jenkins, Peermusic Blunt's recent U.K. tour. Stage verlag. They are the long -term Radio Average France managing director Three managing director Steve publishers of key classical Bruno Lion, Nettwerk One Lewis says the band is con- works by Russian composers Music GM Blair McDonald firmed as a special guest on Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and and Jean -Manuel De Scar - Blunt's upcoming U.S. tour Stravinsky. ano, composer and coun- from March 13 to April 6. The acquisition expands selor to the president of TVT Music Publishing signed BMG's classical catalog, which only 9. I 6 classical music at BMG a co- publishing deal with Steve includes works by Italian com- ". Music Publishing. Morales. He has written and pro- posers Verdi, Puccini and Commercial Commercial During the event, ICMP/ duced songs in the pop, urban Rossini; French composers CIEM chairman Ralph Peer Il and Latin genres. Saint -Saens, Ravel and Satie; Minutes Per Hour . Minutes Per Hour handed off the baton to De Morales co -wrote such hits and Hungarian composers Scarano, the group's new as Thalia's "Cerca De Ti" (which Bartók and Kurtàg. chairman. Frans De Witt, sec- reached No. t on the Hot Latin retary general of Dutch pub- Songs chart in January 2004), STEP RIGHT UP: Peter lishers' group VMN, is the as- Enrique Iglesias' "Escape" (No. Brodsky is moving up the lad- 5curce: Media Monitor Year Year sociation's new president. Ion Hot Dance Music /Club Play der at BMG Music Publishing Compartor December I0, 2004 versus December 9, 2005 in 2002) and Voices of The- Worldwide. He was promoted SIGN HERE: Publishers are ory's "Say It" (No. 5 on Rhyth- to senior VP of business and already busy signing song- mic Top 40 in 1998). legal affairs. Brodsky oversees rep writers and artists this year. His songs have also been all legal and business issues CLEARCHANNEL Stage Three Music signed recorded by Christina Aguil- related to the publisher's U.S. RADIO Pete Hobbs and Joff Owen era, Clay Aiken, Jessica Simp- companies. atimisaia

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www.americanradiohistory.com INTERNET BY ANTONY BRUNO Blogs Now A Fertile Field For Research

Word -of-mouth has long been On Oct. 31, computer pro- considered the most power- grammer Mark Russinovich ful influencer of consumer posted on his blog the discovery perceptions, awareness and of a secret " rootkit" that certain purchasing behavior. It has Sony BMG- manufactured, digi- also been the most difficult tal rights management -protected to track. CDs installed on any computer Br's & I3RII=FS No longer. Internet message attempting to play them. The boards and blogs have become rootkit made affected comput- PODCASTS TO GO MP3 players and also deliver the new venue for grass -roots ers vulnerable to hacker attacks Rogers Wireless has become music videos. opinions and recommenda- and interfered with their CD- the first North American car- Those using the Promo Only tions- benefiting consumers writing capabilities. rier to offer subscribers a mo- MPE system will be able to and the corporate world alike. It was a PR disaster, if not a bile podcasting service based view music video previews in The same posts that allow mil- financial one. Within a month, on technology provided by Windows Media, QuickTime lions of strangers to share rec- the backlash quickly grew into Melodeo. The Canadian com- and RealVideo formats. In ad- ommendations once limited a media frenzy that resulted in pany's Mobilcast service al- dition, users can now transfer to family and friends have several class action lawsuits lows wireless users to either the files to iPods or WMA- given birth to a new breed of and a nationwide recall of the stream or download their enabled MP3 players. market research, dedicated to affected CDs. choice of more than 1,500 The system now also sup- tracking, measuring and Conversely, on June 9 the podcasts in such topics as ports high-definition audio, for analyzing the digital trail these then -unknown indie act Clap news, sports, comedy and those stations broadcasting in postings leave behind. Your Hands Say Yeah had a music. Available podcasts are the new format. The companies behind this much more positive experience listed in a menu that is re- research use Web -crawling when music blog saidthe- freshed daily, and users can BANGING CONTENT technologies to target clusters gramophone.com posted one of schedule automatic down- Direct -to- consumer mobile of topic-driven blogs, or, some- its tracks with a positive review. loads of the podcasts they content firm Bango has intro- times, all of the estimated 25 Other music blogs quickly choose. Rogers is offering the duced a system that allows million active blogs on the In- picked it up and added to the service for $5 per month. virtually anyone to create ternet today, collecting any- Internet buzz. Less than their own ringtones, videos thing posted about a given two months later, Clap Your the end of the month, another music recommendation sites PROMO FOR MP3, VIDEO or other content and sell them brand or product. Hands Say Yeah's debut album CGM tracking firm called and services (see story, page Promo Only, which operates a to any other mobile customer. "Companies are starting to landed atop Billboard's Top In- BuzzMetrics is expected to fi- 28), the music industry is con- secure distribution system that Bango handles the billing and recognize that you may not get dependent Albums chart de- nalize its acquisition of com- sidered a prime client for delivers radio stations digital payment element, while part- the same info out of a focus spite the lack of a label deal or petitor Intelliseek in a marriage CGM tracking research. copies of promotional singles ner Peperoni will host the group as you would just over- distribution agreement. The many feel marks the matura- BuzzMetrics VP ofmarket- for radio airplay, has expanded content and handle the deliv- hearing a conversation about band has since signed a dis- tion of the category. ing Max Kalehoff says the the system to support portable ery functions. your product," says Howard tribution deal with Warner VNU -the parent company company counts several music Kaushansky, CEO of Umbria, Music Group's Alternative of Billboard-will be the ma- labels as clients to track what Mary J. Blige F a Boulder, Colo. -based market Distribution Alliance, but still jority shareholder in the new is being said about their pri- makes a big YAI«()()! IVILJSIC. 8g TOP 20 STREAMS 2006 research firm. "Listening to that eschews any label deal. company, to be called Nielsen ority artists. Kalehoff says the debut at No. 4 for the month. conversation will give you a dif- Such cases exemplify the BuzzMetrics. While not a feedback primarily is used to 1 BEYONCÉ An exclusive It ferent view. We offer the ability growing importance of track- wholly owned subsidiary, the determine how to best market Check On COLUMBIA 3,501,539 live perform- 2 CHRIS BROWN to listen in on millions ofthese ing this type of digital word -of- company will work in conjunc- their acts by determining who ance by the Run It, ZOMBA 2.414,455 conversations." known as with hip- hop /soul 3 RAY J mouth activity-also tion VNU's Media Meas- are the most passionate fans One Wish SANCTUARY 2,091.077 artist is avail- "consumer- generated media." urement & Information and of a given artist. It analyzes 4 MARY J. BLIGE able at the 4 Be WI h You GEFFEN 2.082,949 PRO AND CON Although relatively young, Marketing Information groups, what is driving the appeal Live @ Launch 5 KELLY CLARKSON To get a sense of the impact the field of CGM research is which owns the AC Nielsen based on the comments that section of Y! Because Of You RCA 1,857.982 6 THE PUSSYCAT DOLLS word -of-mouth has in the dig- growing at a rapid clip. Before media research service. fans post. Music. Stickwitu INTERSCOPE 1.831,758 ital age, consider two of the "The growth of blogs, Kalehoff says labels may 7 MARIAH CAREY Don't Forget About Us ISLAND 1.699,880 bigger music industry news in context with the ever- begin using word -of-mouth 8 NICKELBACK stories of last year, both of increasing fragmentation tracking to discover un- Photograph ROADRUNNER 1.627.419 9 NELLY which began with a simple of media, has really signed talent creating ex- GAllz UNIVERSAL 1.624,807 blog posting. piqued the interest of our citement online. 10 T-PAIN I'm Sprung JIVE 1,618,343 clients in measuring and "It will be very interesting 11 DaL analyzing this medium," to see how the music industry Latty Taffy ASYLUM 1.590.416 12 JAMIE FOXX says Ron Schneier, GM will tackle this online word -of- Unpreoictable J 1,576,940 for Nielsen Ventures, mouth era," he says. "The in- 13 THE BLACK EYED PEAS My Humps INTERSCOPE 1,576.925 will is NEW PODWEAR who sit on Nielsen dustry still kind of archaic 14 SEAN PAUL Koyono has introduced a BuzzMetrics' board and and has blown every opportu- We Be Bumn' VP/ATLANTIC 1,482.533 new line of outerwear, 15 SHAKIRA act as a liaison between it nity to adapt to the digital age." La Tortara EPIC 1.461.816 all featuring integrated and VNU. The music industry has 16 CARRIE UNDERWOOD connectivity for the iPod Jesus. Take The Wheel ARISTA 1,393,784 and MP3 devices. With their other The industry has even long been accused of not lis- 17 T-PAIN First available is the BlackCoat Work, a light- expanded to the point were tening to its consumers. But second single I'm In Love WA A Shipper JIVE 1.366.205 weight jean and sport coat hybrid with controls for "Dare" ready 18 CHRIS BROWN is a Word Mar- in today's -connected AR (Excuse Me Miss) JIVE 1.330.383 the iPod embedded into special electrically con- there of Mouth Internet to drop, ductive fabric. keting Assn., which has de- society, music buyers are talk- Gorillaz' "Feel 19 GORILLAZ The "Made for iPod" jacket is scheduled to be Feel Good Inc VIRGIN 1,276,183 veloped a code of ethics for ing about artists more than Good Inc" available in March for $180. Other jackets will fol- 20 DEM FRANCHIZE BOYZ Lean Wit It, Rock WA It VIRGIN 1.259,667 low, including a Sport model, a Minimal model and conducting viral marketing they ever have before -or at hangs inside Y! Music's a "surprise" garment being launched this summer. campaigns and organizes least far more publicly. The top The top 20 aunlo and video streams (combined) for me row weeks ending Jan. 29 Prices for the upcoming models range from $150 20 once Source Neisen Broadcast Data Systems to $1,000. -Antony Bruno trade shows and events. question is, Will the music in- again. Given the popularity of dustry hear them?

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www.americanradiohistory.com U Ilie Indies PFIOflt TODD MARTENS tmartens abillboard.com Fontana Offers Win -Win Discounting Indie Distributor Reduces Prices On Last Year's Titles To Keep Them Front And Center In Stores

s Fontana nears its one - far heavier discounts than the CAROLINE HAS A VICE: Guide to Travel" and the "Vice cialist Studio Distribution. The ETC.: Expect to hear more year mark, the inde- typical savings of 5 % -10 %. New York -based Caroline Dis- Guide to Sex, Drugs and Rock - label will release a full -length from Brooklyn, N.Y. -based hip - pendent distribution "Sometimes an independent tribution has added Vice DVD 'ñ Roll." Bull expects the first re- from Voom Voom later this year. hop indie Nature Sounds this arm of Universal Mu- label might run low on funds, to its exclusive distribution ros- lease to hit retail late spring or year. The label has new re- sic & Video Distribu- but if we can corral them into of- ter. The company, which is run early summer, and says details on RED'S VALENTINE: Metal leases on the way from Masta tion has initiated efforts to fering discounts in exchange for separately from the Atlantic - how the company will work with has long been seen as an anti- Killa and Pete Rock, as well as promote its catalog. The launch pricing and positioning, we affiliated Vice Records, is a joint and market the videos through dote to Valentine's Day, and GhostDoom, a collaboration of the campaign -dubbed Phase thought we could keep records venture with MTV. MTV are still being developed. New York -based RED Distrib- between Ghostface and indie- II-is also dedicated to keeping alive," Fontana VP of sales Ken Caroline VP of label relations Caroline has also picked up ution created a campaign to rapper-of- the -moment MF last year's indie releases at the Gullic says. Michael Bull says the company West Berlin -based K7 Records capitalize on just that. High- Doom. The latter has also been front of store shelves once a Retailers are pleased with any- will mainly release such docu- for distribution. The label was lighting its strong stable of hard producing tracks for Ghost - re- label's ability to pay for price - thing that lowers the price on cat- mentary -styled films as the "Vice previously with electronic spe- rock releases, the distributor face's upcoming Def Jam and- positioning programs has alog titles. Those contacted by created 5,000 free six -song lease. Get a preview on the been tapped out. Billboard say Phase II allowed samplers titled "Valentine's 14 -track sampler "Natural The program began rolling them to price Fontana -distributed Day Massacre." The CDs fea- Sounds," available now via out in January with 36 accounts titles for less than $10, as the pro- ture music from Ferret, Victory, Caroline Distribution . . . participating. Essentially, the dis- motion offered retailers as much Trustkill and Metal Blade and Megaforce Records has signed tributor offers retailers a 60 -day as a $5 savings in some cases. includes such acts as Bullets metal act Mushroomhead to a window for heavy discounts on "As soon as Fontana] gets for My Valentine, In Flames, worldwide deal. The RED - select titles in exchange for 30 more titles it'll be a lot more at- Aiden and Bleeding Through. distributed label will issue a days of prime positioning. Phase tractive, because people like RED senior director of in- new album from the group II is modeled after UMVD's cat- cheaper better than more ex- dependent sales Doug Wiley this summer. The act's last, alog discount program XL. pensive," says John Henderson, says Music Monitor Network "XIII," was released in 2003 While distributors regularly run head buyer at Vintage Vinyl in president Michael Kurtz de- on Universal and has sold discounts on catalog titles, this St. Louis. "Other labels need to serves credit for the idea, and 177,000 copies in the United was the first major initiative figure out ways to get their stuff stores in the coalition will take States, according to Nielsen from Fontana, and it featured lower- priced." the lead on the promotion. SoundScan. We're looking for you!

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LOS ANGELES -Barry Manilow went back to may have created a new audience. the '50s to deliver his first No.1 record in almost "Rod brought in some newer fans and now MARCH 15- 1920061 USTIN T three decades. they see that Barry is doing the same thing," she "The Greatest Songs of the Fifties" marks says. "I have no idea if the fans are younger, but Manilow's first No. l since 1977. Incredibly, it is his we may just be bringing in a whole new crowd of SXSW 2005 Keynote: first studio album to top the charts; 30 years ago music buyers who love these vocal albums." THE SXSW MUSIC AND "Barry Manilow/Live" hit the summit. The key to reaching these fans is, first and fore- Neil Young MEDIA CONFERENCE "Here's proof that if you live long enough, any- most, TV. "I've done just about everything to get showcases hundreds of musical thing is possible," Manilow says with a laugh. the word out to show this album is alive and well," Go to sxsw.com acts from around the globe on BMG North America chairman Clive Davis -who Manilow says. fifty in stages downtown Austin. conceived the Manilow project and the similar se- In addition to Manilow's myriad TV appear- By day, conference registrants do for registration info, ries of Rod Stewart albums that limn the great ances, the label also ran a direct -marketing TV business in the SXSW Trade Show American songbook -says the success of these campaign and a national print campaign includ- conference updates in the Austin Convention Center albums is due to a compatible marriage among ing The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Peo- and partake of a full agenda of and a list of the artist, song, arrangement and production. ple and several other magazines. "We even did a informative, provocative panel "I love the fact of the dual association of how street campaign in New York and Los Angeles," showcasing discussions featuring hundreds long an artist can last and reinvent himself and Davis says. And Manilow is happy to put in the of speakers of international artists. with the right copyright and arrangement, how work. "I'm the media slut right now," the singer stature. SXSW Music celebrates many ways a song can be reinvented," Davis says. quips, on his way to perform live on "Dancing its 20th anniversary in 2006. A number www.sxsw.com of other newer artists are finding With the Stars." "Don't be surprised if you find success with the same idea, whether it be an artist me on the Weather Channel." 512/467 -7979 like crooner Michael Bublé or "popera" quartet II These oldies projects usually are not driven by Divo, which debuted at No.1 with "Ancora" in the radio play although standards stations and some Feb.11 issue. AC formats are serviced. Bublé and Josh Groban BLENDER However, pairing an artist with classic mate- have managed to score success at AC. OHRONIOLE MAGAZINE ÏFC rial does not necessarily mean a r tv, uncut. free ride up the Manilow's "Unchained Melody" from the new íl charts. In the wake of the success of Stewart's album is also getting airplay and is bulleted at first standards collection in 2002, dozens of artists No. 25 this issue on Billboard's Adult Contem- cut similar efforts, but few caught attention be- porary chart. His last song to reach higher on that yond the most devoted of fans. chart was 1989's "Keep Each Other Warm," which For the project to succeed, Davis says the peaked at No. 7. Arista also created a radio spe- Billk»ari The Ultimate album has to be tailor -made for the artist. "You cial syndicated by Premiere Radio. have to be careful and pick the artist right, pick the to toL-ing & promotion Resource for Touring material, consider if it's an artist that can still be on the radio or if it's a concept that works." And that the artist believes in. Manilow origi- 10 yeas aher tlw Bea+Je.s. Bands & Musicians Ienr. iil2i NQ Mt Iha nally dismissed the idea of cutting '50s songs lead N ractfltol The new Winter /Spring 2006 edition includes: when Davis presented it to him. "I didn't get it

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Profits Up, Stock Down S During the first nine years of its fuel anticipation that Amazon is Also, Amazon is still trying to history, amazon.com lost money about to open digital storefronts finalize its portable player part- Co -Chair of the Entertainment hand over fist to the tune of $2.95 for music, video and books, but ners. According to press reports, and Media Law Practice billion in cumulative losses, yet the company refuses to talk about the same is happening on the it was the darling of Wall Street. those plans. "You will just have video side, and Amazon ac- During the last two years, to stay tuned to what we are doing knowledges that it is getting ready Amazon produced almost $1 bil- there," Amazon CFO Tom Szku- to sell digital books. lion in net income, but now Wall tak said during a conference call So Amazon is catching spit for in our New York Office Street treats the stock like a dog. with investors on Feb. 2. spending too much on its digi- On Feb. 2, Amazon reported That did not placate Wall Street tal model and coming to the party 425 Park Avenue $359 million in net income, or analysts, some ofwhom triggered late, i.e., two years after Apple. New York, NY 10022 81 cents per diluted share, on the sell -off in Amazon shares. But I would argue that Amazon sales of $8.49 billion, for the year One of those was Martin Pyykko- had no choice about when it 212.836.8000 ended Dec. 31. nen, an analyst with Hoefer & Ar- came out of the box. If it tried to From the close of trading on nett, who was quoted as saying: launch its digital model at the www.kayescholer.com Feb. 1 through the close of trad- "The question investors should same time as Apple, it would ing on Feb. 6, its share price ask is if Amazon is a retailer or have had to push up technology dropped from $43.98 to $37.95, an Internet stock. I would argue wiping out $2.6 billion, or 14 %, that it is a retailer." of the company's market capi- Au contraire. talization. That left Amazon val- Back in Amazon's dot -corn- New York Chicago Los Angeles Washington, DC West Palm Beach Frankfurt London Shanghai ued at $15.7 billion. The market era pricing heyday, the company capitalization that it lost during had stratospheric valuations. It 140/0 those three trading days was stood at $32.5 billion near the Drop in Amazon's market nearly equivalent to the total $2.7 end of 1999, in a year that the capitalization after company reported its 2005 numbers billion valuation that Wall Street company reported heavy losses gave Barnes & Noble on Feb. 6. on $1.6 billion in total sales. In Making matters worse, it was 2005, Amazon had five times the spending. That could have de- ASSISTANT PROFESSOR the second year in a row Wall sales of 1999 -it made $359 mil- railed efforts to break even in Street reacted that way to the lion versus a $719.9 million loss. 2003, and likely would have tried of company's annual results. For And yet its market capitalization Wall Street's patience. fiscal 2004, the company reported is currently half the size. Besides, Amazon does not $588 million, or $1.45 per diluted If that sounds looney, it is be- have the luxury that the iPod af- ENTERTAINMENT share, on sales of $6.92 billion. cause Wall Street spent the first fords Apple. Apple -which re- That was the first year the com- nine years of Amazons existence ported $1.34 billion net income INDUSTRY STUDIES pany had moved beyond break - treating it like an Internet stock, on sales of $13.9 billion in the even to show a healthy profit, and and now it is beginning to treat fiscal year ended Sept. 24, 2005 - Wall Street rewarded the retailer it like a retailer. But just the op- does not break out profit by prod- Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., is seeking with a heavy sell -off that deval- posite is true, or should be. uct lines. But most believe the an Assistant Professor of Entertainment Industry ued Amazon by 15 %. Wall Street gave Amazon an company's profits come from the Wall Street was disappointed unprecedented ride-it needed $4.5 billion in iPod sales the com- Studies for the Mike Curb College of Entertainment then because Amazon did not $5.2 billion in revenue before it pany racked up that year, not the and Music Business. meet its profit expectations. This broke even in 2003 -as it devel- $899 million in sales it gener- year, Amazon is catching hell for oped what is essentially a retail ated from downloads and music - visit spending too much on technol- model. Sure, you could call it a related products and services. For complete job description and qualification requirements, ogy and content. new kind of retail model, but oth- So while Apple deserves the http: / /jobs.belmont.edu. The lower 2005 profits were ers would say it was basically a glory for building the digital mar- Review of applications will begin immediately. Belmont University is an expected because Amazon paid glorified mail-order house, using ketplace, it also absorbed the costs equal opportunity /affirmative action employer under all applicable civil $95 million in taxes this year. But new technology. But now the of that effort. There is plenty of rights laws. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. back out the $233 million in tax company is truly moving to time and room for Amazon to benefits the company enjoyed in transform itself into an Internet cash in nicely on Apple's efforts. 2004, and 2005 actually shows a stock, and Wall Street is having In fact, the majors are praying Located near Nashville's Music Row, the Mike Curb College of slight increase in profits. none of that. for someone to take on Apple, so Entertainment and Music Business at Belmont University enrolls 1200+ Wall view, Part that is Amazon's fault. no longer at the In Street's Amazon of that they are majors and combines classroom experience with real -world applications. Steve Jobs' de- sacrificed 2005 profits because Company executives like to be mercy of pricing Facilities feature state -of-the -art classrooms and recording studios, it spent $451 million for tech- mysterious about their plans, but mands. While some point to mo- including the award -winning Ocean Way Nashville studios, historic RCA a nology and content, versus $283 everyone knows that Amazon is bile carriers, that is likely to be Studio B, and the Robert E. Mulloy Student Studios in the Center for million in the prior year. And the busting its ass to launch its digi- hit-driven business initially, with Music Business. company says it plans to increase tal stores later this year. Amazon sales coming from a small SKU spending in that category this has talked business models for selection. So if Amazon comes MIRE. CURD COLLEGE of ENTERTAINMENT and MUSIC BUSINESS year, too. music with the majors, and it to market with a viable offering, Now analysts want to know looks like it is leaning toward a you can be sure the majors will UNIVERSITY when that investment will pay off. subscription model, with a phys- offer it every chance in the world The increased expenditures ical product tie -in. to succeed. '

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BY MICHAEL PAOLETTA Ryan Schinman latinum Rye Entertainment founder Ryan Schinman con- nects the dots among entertainers, brands and agencies. His ciate himself with a brand. Do New York -based company secures talent and licenses music for I think he's behind the times? such clients as Motorola, Cingular, BBDO and Young & Rubicam. Yeah. Do I think it would hurt In today's hyperactive world of brand marketing, Schinman and his credibility by licensing one his team get the job done -albeit quietly. of his tracks to the perfect cre- "We're not out there in a big way," Schinman says. "We play a part in the deals, but we don't do ative and the perfect brand? anything ourselves and we realize that. We're part of a team, and we like being behind the curtain. Absolutely not. Our credo is, 'Give credit to the corporations and agencies that develop the concept.' " Still, Platinum Rye has played an integral role in licensing numerous songs for use in TV spots, in- Q: Which brand would be a per- cluding Madonna's "Hung Up" (Motorola Rokr) and AC /DC's "Back in Black" (Cingular). Two years fect partnership fitfor Springsteen? ago, Platinum Rye negotiated Metallica's first on- camera appearance in a TV ad. (The client? AOL.) A: Chevy. Like Bruce, Chevy is In 2003, it arranged for Jessica Simpson to appear on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine with the a piece of Americana. Swiffer. Platinum Rye also hires talent for corporate trade shows and private events. Schinman launched his career 13 years ago in the football and marketing division of the Artists Q: Is there still a disconnect be- & Athletes talent agency, negotiating deals for Chris Berman, Bill Walton and Brian Leetch, among tween the music industry and others. In 1995, Schinman, then 24, became chief marketing officer of Worldwide Sports and En- brand marketers? tertainment. His clients included BBDO and Pepsi. A: Yes, and that's why we exist. With the formation of Platinum Rye in 1998, Schinman negotiated his first music licensing deal When we deal with an artist, we for M &M Mars. Now, his company represents more than 20 Fortune 500 companies and works with deal with their whole team -the more than 30 agencies. And with a growing international business, Platinum Rye is spreading its reach, label president and marketing opening offices in South America, Australia, Asia, Europe and other markets. director, their manager and agent, and their publisher. We Q: What types ofdeals do you have artists are taking a 360-degree like 50% for the spot, and the work with the artist's entire team with your clients? approach. How can we make the rest is divided among outdoor, to figure out what's important and how best to make it work. A: For us, it's not about having partnership bigger? And it can collateral, online, mobile ads, SCHINMAN, left, with We'll do the right thing by the big retainer deals. We're service - start off by simply being a song branded entertainment and QUINCY JONES i oriented. You call us when you in a commercial or a promotion. peer -to -peer campaigns. artist, but at the same time, we'll > need us. We have signed deals get the best deal for our client. where we are the exclusive Q: Are you also noticing shifts in Q: From where you sit, how are Q: How do the people you work or a hit song -the deal can be in agency of record for a client. media buys? labels adapting to change? with view the youth market? the seven figures. The best is Q: What is the next big trend in We're not about getting a seven - A: Yes. It used to be that 90% A: They're getting smarter. They A: The youth market is driving when you get an artist to license branded entertainment? figure retainer and then sitting [of a media budget] was used don't want to give away their the trends and setting the strate- a particular piece of music they A: Artists having an equity on our ass. It's deal to deal. for the 30- second spot, and music for free. That's why things gies for most of these brands have never licensed before -or stake in the products they're Otherwise, instead of having 30 10% went to outdoor, collateral, are changing with how music is when it comes to music. When get them to appear in an ad for selling, whether it's U2 and employees around the country, print and online. Now, it's more distributed on MTV, satellite you talk about youth culture, it's the first time. We were the first iPod, 50 Cent and Vitamin we'd need 300. radio, the Internet and iPods. about peer -to -peer and interac- ones to put Metallica in a com- Water or Gwen Stefani and We don't have allegiances to HIGHLIGHTS Labels and artists are realizing tivity. It's not about slapping your mercial. We were the first ones [Hewlett- Packard]. If it's a cool something and hoping to get the Who to license a track product, labels and artists want any labels. We're a free agent - RYAN SCHINMAN all the ways to get paid for their name on unlike some of our competitors music and content. So, while it sticks. Kids today want the for a compilation. We were also a piece of the action. In fact, 1995: Joins V brldwide not sell- newest, hottest, most fun places the first to get Prince to give us often, their compensation is who have ties to certain labels Spots and Entertainment today's artists may be and artists. For us, the bottom as chief marketing ing as many CDs as they did five to go. Whether it's on their cell footage of himself and license a tied to the success of a product. line is our client: getting the job officer years ago, their music is avail- phone or online -or with their piece of music. So, the artist is more apt to play done with the best person at the 1998: Founds Platinum able via several distribution video communication devices. an active role in promoting and best price possible -with the Rye Entertainment in channels. Sure, people may not If you can't make today's youth Q: Why are there still a few hold- marketing the product. least amount of headaches or New York be going to CD stores much, but feel a part of what's going on, outs, like Bruce Springsteen? complications. 2004: Negotiates they're downloading the ring - then you're not with it. A: We approach Bruce at least Q: Who would you say is ripe for licensing deal between tone and buying the album at twice a year. My ultimate goal brand partnerships? Madonna her song Q: With the music industry evolv- (for places like iTunes. Q: When it comes to licensing is to work with Bruce in some A: The comeback of 2005: "Ray of Light' ) and Also, now us music for spots, what kinds ofcosts fashion. He is Mariah Carey. If you look at the ing, what types ofchanges are you Microsoft Windows XP labels contact corporate seeing in your part ofthe business? and say, "Hey, we want to be a are involved? Americana -with a breadth breadth of her catalog and the 2005: Launches lever- part of something." This lets us A: For up- and -coming artists of music. His songs speak to range of her music, it is made A: It's no longer about just Cingular Sourds with aging one thing. It's "How do Coldplay, the band's know who is serious about part- who want to get their music so many people. for corporations -and the cor- we bring this to life on TV, on first corporate deal nering with brands. Labels are heard, you can get a song for Do I admire him for holding porations are taking notice. I the Web, on the road and inter- 2005: Opens Platinum also inviting people like us to $10,000-$20,000. But if you want out? Sure, because he obviously believe you'll see a lot more actively? How can we grow this Rye offices in Paris and artist showcases. Five years ago, a track by the Beatles, Michael doesn't need the money -nor Mariah, with the right adver- and make it bigger ?" Labels and London that would've been taboo. Jackson or another superstar- does he feel the need to asso- tising behind her. -

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www.americanradiohistory.com Cent has a thing for Dom cites a focus group he recently helmed. sales, several of these products, including Cadil- Busta Rhymes featuring P. Diddy `Pérignon, Mercedes-Benz and Hennessy -and When asked how to make a brand popular, lac and Mercedes -Benz, experienced sales in- and Pharrell. he is not afraid to let the world know. participants overwhelmingly said to put its name creases in 2005. It was widely reported Fellow rappers Ludacris and the Game, mean- in a rap song. It is funny, Disend says: "People "Let's face it, hip -hop artists made the Cadil- that worldwide sales of the while, speak well of Cadillac and Cristal. understand the machine, and even though they lac Escalade brand sexy and cool," says Morris cognac increased 10% -20% that year. This trio -with 50 Cent in the lead -were the know they shouldn't buy into it, they do." Reid, managing director of Westin Rinehart, a Ditto for Adidas, after Run -D.M.C. scored a top brand -dropping artists of last year, accord- But only when they are willing participants - Washington, D.C. -based company that special- top five hit with "My Adidas" in 1986. ing to American Brandstand, which tracks when they do not feel duped or manipulated, izes in brand -building partnerships. Similarly, when Sister Sledge sang of "Hal - brands that appear in songs in the top 20 of The Disend adds. Nike, meanwhile, posted sales of $13.7 bil- ston, Gucci, Fiorucci" in its chart- topping disco - Billboard Hot 100. If the product is aspirational to fans, or if the lion in its last fiscal year. era jam "He's the Greatest Dancer," awareness This name -checking threesome is far from brands are a collection of accoutrements that When asked how his clients -which include of those high -end brands skyrocketed. alone. Ciara, Jamie Foxx, Kanye West, Lil Jon and go with an artist's lifestyle, then there is no dis- Louis Vuitton and Hennessy-respond to brand Today, consultants acknowledge that some of Trick Daddy also have no problem dropping well - connect among artist, brand and fan, these an- mentions in lyrics, James declines to talk about their more conservative clients do not want their known consumer brand names into their lyrics. alysts agree. specific companies. But he does say that smart brands being used in this manner. As for poppier acts like Gwen Stefani and This, they say, helps to explain the bulk of the companies know that in a pop culture economy, Still, this does not prevent other clients from the Black Eyed Peas, well, they do not shy away top brand mentions in American Brandstand's fans have a stake in their favorite brands. "So, "happily sending product to rap artists with hopes from it either. annual tally for 2005 spreading the word on understanding their brand in the context of that they will love it enough to put it in a song," a Indeed, in the pop music landscape -par- high -end goods. lyrics is really important." New York -based brand consulting executive says. ticularly the worlds of rap and hip- hop- artists Mercedes -Benz, with 100 mentions, is fol- Reid puts it more succinctly: "Brand marketers Last year, McDonald's hired marketing com- revel in dropping brand -happy lyrics over hip- lowed in the 2005 rankings by Nike (63 nods), don't really pay attention until a song that men- pany Maven Strategies to help with placing shakin' beats. Cadillac (62), Bentley (51), Rolls Royce (46), tions a brand blows up. Then, the brand jumps mentions of the Big Mac in the lyrics of hip - "Contemporary culture defines itself through Hennessy (44), Chevrolet (40) and Louis Vuit- on the urban community to sell its goods." hop artists (Billboard, May 21, 2005). While the brands that we associate with," explains Lu- ton and Cristal (tied at 35 mentions each). To illustrate, Reid points to "Pass the Cour- the strategy went nowhere fast, it indi- cian James, founder of Agenda, the agency that While it is difficult to peg a lyrical mention to voisier Part II," the 2002 smash single by cated the fast food chain's recognition created American Brandstand three years ago.

"It's the way the world is moving to an ultra - capitalist marketing environment," adds Robert Passikoff, president of Brand Keys, a consulting company in New York that specializes in brand and customer loyalty. While most of these mentions appear to be unpaid, many companies actively pursue acts to name -check their products. And in some cases, formal brand -marketing partnerships can result from the initial name -dropping. If the messaging seems overtly commercial, fans do not seem to mind. Jonah Disend, president of New York consulting firm Redscout, V

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www.americanradiohistory.com of hip -hop's influence in pop culture. the associations with violence that keeps it feel- Courvoisier Part II" paved the way to a promo- Unfortunately, pop culture has its dark side ing edgy. [It] intrigues the kids while outraging tional partnership between Busta Rhymes and as well. American Brandstand research also the parents -the classic youth culture formula." the premium liquor. shows a surge in songs mentioning specific Furthermore, James says, certain artists, most One fashion industry executive believes there weapons. In fact, the No. 10 brand in the 2005 notably 50 Cent, are adept at packaging the vi- is compensation for some of the artists. "You rankings is the AK -47, with 33 mentions. olence of hip -hop in a pop culture format. Guns get to a certain level and there is some kind of That is up from No. 14 in 2004 (with 23 are prominent in rap videos, in lyrics and in kickback -whether it's a check, a new wardrobe mentions) and No. 54 in 2003 (seven ref- movie posters. or some new cars." erences). Another weapon getting at- Meanwhile, Smith & Wesson launched a In fact, top artists frequently have their own tention in 2005 was pistol -brand men's fragrance late last year, while Beretta's brands, and some are not shy about mentioning Beretta, which was mentioned by Dem Web site is akin to an online fashion catalog. them in their lyrics. The growing list of brand - Franchize Boyz and the Game. Disend and others find it interesting that weapon owning artists includes Jay -Z (Rocawear and Ar- "Violence has always been a very real brands are infiltrating the lifestyle marketplace. madale Vodka), Gwen Stefani (L.A.M.B.), Pharrell part of hip -hop culture," James says. Still, when it comes to name -checking weapons Williams (Ice Cream), Sean "Diddy" Combs (Sean "However, as hip -hop culture hit the in lyrics, Cherry Lane Music VP of creative serv- Jean) and Beyoncé (House of Dereon). mainstream, it still leverages some of ices and marketing Richard Stumpf says it is a case Songwriter /producer DJ Clark Kent -who has of urban acts trying to gain street credibility -with worked with Carey, 50 Cent, Lil' Kim and others - today's kids treating it solely as a gimmick. says brand marketers definitely take notice when That said, Stumpf adds that "artists need to artists mention their brand in lyrics -especially take responsibility for what message they are if the song is a hit on the radio and in clubs. sending to kids." "Artists make records about what they like or Though mentions of weapons have increased, want," Kent adds. "They're not going to rap fashion, automotive and beverage names still rep- about a Honda Accord. It doesn't reflect suc- resent the main categories of brands referenced. cess; it's not opulent." Mercedes -Benz being in the pole position sur- Justin Kalifowitz, senior A&R director of Spirit prises nobody. In fact, industry observers credit Music Publishing, tells of artists and songwrit- N.W.A. with making Mercedes -Benz the pre- ers coming to him with Mercedes -Benz songs, ferred car brand of choice in hip -hop. In its 1989 hoping to have them licensed for use in the au- track "Fuck Tha Police," the rap group rhymed, tomaker's TV spots. "Ad agencies will say, 'It's "Me and Lorenz -o /Rolling in a Benz -o." too spot -on, too obvious,' " he says. Since then, an eclectic bunch of artists has ref- With the proliferation of brand mentions in erenced the luxury brand, including Pink, Faith lyrics, music publishers cannot help but won- Hill, Jennifer Lopez, Mariah Carey and Mase. der what kind of effect it will have on the future Going back to the '70s, rock acts Janis Joplin publishing potential of such songs. and the Eagles dropped the luxury car These songs are often time- and place -related. brand into the lyrics of their classic songs Future synch license opportunities could be lim- "Mercedes Benz" and "Hotel Califor- ited if the brand has no relevance, or a negative nia," respectively. connotation, in coming years. That said, "pe- Last year, some of the tracks that fea- riod music is often requested, which may make tured Mercedes -Benz included "Disco these songs appealing," Stumpf says. Inferno" by 50 Cent, "Gold Digger" by But it could go either way. Stumpf says he had Kanye West featuring Jamie Foxx, "Good- a recent song that, while "sonically on the money ies" by Ciara featuring Petey Pablo and for a film," lyrically referenced some bands from "Like You" by Bow Wow featuring Ciara. the early '80s, "which killed the use." Marketers, ad agency creatives, artist Either way, dropping brand names into lyrics managers and label execs are acutely aware is here to stay, says Tim Bess, a fashion /retail of the practice of artists mentioning consultant for trend forecaster the Doneger brands, but most will not comment for the Group. "This is one of those co- branding sce- record. For many, product placement in narios where two is better than one," he says. lyrics remains a gray area -wherein nei- Industry insiders predict a musical shift. "For ther the brand nor the artist wants to ruin the past 15 years, hip -hop has been consistently the appearance of spontaneity. influential," Disend says. "What is the next cul- "It's a touchy topic, because product tural shift? That's what I'm wondering." placement usually involves an exchange Reid says it is likely to be rock'n'roll, which of money -or something," one ad has been primarily missing in action on the agency exec says. brand -placement front. Still, the exec acknowledges that he has With acts like the Killers and Linkin Park clients that are interested in "funding" "kicking ass" last year, Reid sees the day in brand placement in songs. For his dients, the near future when they will welcome brand- however, "nothing has resonated - yet." ing opportunities. This is not lost on artists. "Many of the "These bands are not as shrewd in capitaliz- rappers are smart business people," James ing on their success," Reid says. "They might says. "These days, it's impossible to men- see it as selling out. But they have opportuni- tion a brand and not at least wonder ties to make money. In the hip -hop world, you've whether you might get some free product." reached heaven when you connect with the cor- Or a strategic partnership with the porate world. Rock acts must figure out their brand in the future. The success of "Pass the comfort zone -and they will."

From the top, 50 CENT, THE GAME, LUDACRIS and CIARA are among the stars who name - check such luxury items as Dom Pérignon and Cristal champagne and the Cadillac Escalade. 50 Cent, Ludacris and Ciara photos: Kevin Mazur / Wirelmage.com; The Game photo: Theo Wargo /Wirelmage.com

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www.americanradiohistory.com As Internet marketing comes of age, can the majors keep themselves from ruining the cool? BY ANTONY BRUNO

Two years ago, Mark Willett was just another music fan who liked to find army of music analysts who create a profile for each song in its database. This allows the and discuss new music with his friends. service to make recommendations based on the traits of the specific song, rather than its Today, he is a veritable poster child for the growing pains in grass -roots genre or the tastes of other users. marketing's digital coming of age. Music Strands is another technology able to "learn" individuals' tastes and habits through Willett and his friends created the MP3 blog music.for -robots.com, posting the sharing of playlists and match these against others in the service's online recom- commentary and downloadable files for whatever songs interested them on a particular day. mendation community, which will soon extend to mobile phone users. In time, MP3 blogs became a phenomenon. Willett found himself featured in Rolling Stone Unlike music blogs- which, like radio stations, can be easily identified for promo- and Spin and on MTV, along with other music blogs like Tofuhut, Stereogum and Fluxblog. tional opportunities -these more "democratic" music recommendation and sharing serv- Web -savvy music fans found these sites a welcome alternative to corporate radio and ices have no single critic or blogger to target with free promotional samples. mainstream press. Soon Music for Robots was receiving 10,000 hits per day; hundreds Terry McBride, CEO of Nettwerk Music Group, the Vancouver-based label, publishing of other such blogs followed. During the course of the last year, these blogs have been and management firm, says that is the way it should be. credited with launching the careers of such acts as M.I.A., the Arcade Fire, Clap Your "We don't want to be locked into thinking there's only 15 cool bloggers or 15 cool radio Hands Say Yeah, Bloc Party and, most recently, Arctic Monkeys and Morningwood. stations," he says. "That's the traditional paradigm. That's a very short- sighted way of But this coming of age threatens to turn grass -roots outlets like music blogs into a cog doing it. You're only talking about the tip of the iceberg. The bottom is much wider." in the same marketing machine they were meant to circumvent. MP3 blogs were cool be- Nettwerk and several independent labels use file- trading networks as they do radio -leak- cause they presented the illusion, if not the reality, of disintermediation-music fans talking new music into the digital ecosystem to build buzz in advance of an album's release. ing about and distributing tunes to other music fans, with middle men like record labels Hollywood Records is doing exactly that to promote an upcoming release by the band and professional journalists cut from the picture. Now, record labels' ability to use the In- Elefant. It sent one track to blogs in December, another in January and is leaking the en- ternet as an effective viral promotional tool may hinge on their capacity for restraint. tire album to file- sharing sites in February. Music labels have become hip -some might say too hip-to the fact that online rec- "Funny enough, the file-trading generation we're all trying to sue into the ground is ommendations are a powerful tool for promoting music. turning into our marketing force," McBride says. "These artists are not depending on the "This is rapidly becoming the holy grail of album launch campaigns, and a require- old way. They're relying on word -of- mouth. Welcome to the '70s!" ment for marketing both developing and established acts," says Christina Zafiris, senior McBride is so intent on changing the paradigm that his company is providing legal director of new media at TVT Records. support for one file- sharer facing an RIAA- initiated suit in Texas (Billboard, Feb. 11). In the early days, MP3 bloggers posted anything that captured their interest and Industry analysts say there is a fine line between making content available to tastemak- generally had no contact with record labels. Today, record companies flood music bloggers ing outlets like blogs and overly influencing what those outlets say. The music industry with prerelease CDs and promotional MP3s pre -authorized for online posting. Willett says has a well -deserved reputation for trying to artificially create buzz around artists rather he gets so much stuff his apartment manager has asked him to rent a post office box. than let the music speak for itself. Willett bemoans the fact that major labels provide authorized MP3s for only the singles "The challenge for the labels is that they have to let this garden grow," Gartner G2 an- they want posted, turning many such blogs into just another tool for the music industry's alyst Michael McGuire says. "Too much control makes it just another record label tool." agenda. "A lot of the younger blogs are more inclined to put up everything they've been Warner Music Group was infamously stung in August 2004 when it released a track sent," Willet says. "It's all stuff that's been sent to them by publicists. The filter is gone." from the band Secret Machines to a number of blogs, becoming the first label to do so. The fan-to-fan space-which indudes blogs and community sites like myspace.com- Willett was one of the few to post it. The New York Times eventually discovered that a has matured. MySpace has watched its membership grow to 54 million since it went live in number of saccharine comments about the band on the Music for Robots message board - fall 2003. Newcomers like TagWorld and Purevolume are competing for the same Web au- purporting to be from just another fan -came from computers within the WMG offices. dience, and marketers want to use these sites to promote their products. Meanwhile, mon- The exposed ploy quickly became a topic of ridicule in the blog community. itoring the opinions posted in blogs has become a growing business (see story, page 20). The assumption is that bloggers that "sell out" will simply lose their audience. "Ifan MP3 MySpace itself went corporate last summer when it was acquired by News Corp., whose blog gets stale or predictable, I'll just go find another one," McGuire says. "That's the beauty executives have stated their intention to aggressively monetize the brand. Despite early of these online communities. They can be created and become popular in an instant." member concerns, it seems the new parent has done little to scare off traffic and mem- Labels maintain that they are trying to support blogs by giving them the content to prac- bership has more than doubled since the acquisition. tice their passion, not influence what they have to say. As for MP3 blogs, they too have evolved. Some now sell ad space, and at least a few, in- "The smarter ones will maintain their own identity no matter who is petitioning them cluding soul -sides.com and Music for Robots, have released compilation CDs through es- because they know their audience and know their audience trusts them," says Ted Mico, tablished labels. The operator of Fluxblog gets paid to send monthly new music senior VP of strategic marketing at Capitol Records. "It really shouldn't matter what the recommendations to Universal Music Europe. And new sites such as the Hype Machine and source of the music is. What matters is that they maintain their trusted relationship with elbo.ws aggregate music posted on disparate blogs as sort of a one -stop -shopping experience. their audience by having a taste that you subscribe to." At the same time, there is a new generation of decentralized music -discovery tech- As for Willett and Music for Robots, the struggle to retain an independent voice within nologies and services that are less susceptible to label marketing pressures. For example, the harsh glare of the industry has come full circle. By night, he continues to post new Rhapsody and Yahoo Music Unlimited track their customers' listening or buying habits music that speaks to him, and is thinking about adding artist interviews, tour-date in- and then suggest similar tracks using a recommendation engine. They also employ col- formation and maybe even advertising. laborative filtering technology that, like iTunes or amazon.com, lists what other users But he has also taken a day job at the marketing firm Total Assault, which has him con- who buy the same track also bought. Yahoo recently acquired a playlist- sharing applica- ducting Internet marketing campaigns for major music labels. That includes sending tion called WebJay, which it integrated into the latest version of the Yahoo Music Engine, out to other music blogs the same MP3s, photos and other content he rejects. Interest- introduced Feb. 7. ingly enough, Secret Machines is now one of his clients. Newer services have emerged that take this a step further. Pandora.com employs an "I'm part of the problem," he says. "I turn down people like myself every day."

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their business continues to rise. 18 These 1,000- to 3,000 -seat venues are in- 200P, creasingly attracting bigger artists at a time when larger buildings are having a tough S P E C I A time filling their seats. L F E A T U P PAC managers, promoters and booking agents say that business is hot because of less ticket price sensitivity at PACs, more PACs & flexible dealmaking opportunities and more personalized service. Ì I_w On the flip side, though, PACs still must grapple with the unique challenges that set VENUES them apart from other theater -size buildings. Their most significant booking hurdle is Billboard that these mainly state- or city -run venues are expected to offer a range of cul- l'C)IJRIí\iCä tural programming, such as regional dance and music troupes and Broadway tours, which book blocks of dates years in advance. Major concert tours often are not coordinated until about three months before they begin, making it difficult for PACs to schedule them. Despite this issue, industry executives expect PACs to experience a strong uptick in their talent lineups in the years to come. That is mainly because more acts that appeal to the large baby boom generation are finding that PACs are the perfect setting to continue their career. "Basically, you are looking at a demographic shift," says Ran- dall Vogel, assistant director of theaters and operations for the Mesa Arts and Entertainment Center in Mesa, Ariz. "People who grew up in the '60s, '70s and even '80s and used to go to TRISHA YEARWOOD is arena shows enjoy coming to performing arts centers now. among the big artists who Back then, we were experiencing shows. Now, we are listen- include performing arts ing to the shows and [these] artists that transcend the decades." centers on their tours. The Mesa Center -which includes four separate rooms, the largest seating 1,600 -last year hosted such artists as Trisha return for the intimacy anc comfort they provide. Yearwood, Brian Setzer, Dave Koz and Seal, and is bringing in Jim "Ticket prices [for conoerts] keep going up and are much higher than a ballet or opera," Brickman, Chris Botti and Engelbert Humperdinck this year. Bell says. "For Liza, premium prices are $125. Baby boomers will pay [this] when they get a show Lee Bell, senior director of programming for the Raymond in a smaller space with mo-e comfort than arenas." F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach, PACs have to be particularly smart about the shows they bring in at high ticket prices because Fla., also notes that "there's a comfort level in performing arts they have taxpayers to account to. centers that is attractive to a lot of artists -once they perform "In an arena, where you ha%e quantity theoretically, if you sold 4,000 seats at a low price, you are able here, they want to come back." to sell a lot of tickets. At a performing ar center, your break-even point might be 1,300 or 1,400 seats

The 2,200 -seat Kravis Center's schedule this year includes out of 1,588," Vogel says. "If I haven't picked a winning show, my downside could be pretty down." Linda Ronstadt, Liza Minnelli and Michael Feinstein. PACs are also counting on funds generated from these big -name shows because their res- Last year, PACs had a significant presence on Billboard's year- ident programs, which take up the majority of their schedules, do not bring in the same level end top 10 chart for venues with capacities of 5,000 or less. of revenue. The big shows are "more and more critical in sustaining our business," Vogel says. The 2,600 -seat Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center in Tampa, The venues are seen as strong choizes for booking agents seeking to underplay markets to Fla., was No. 3 on that chart, grossing almost $14.9 million. The prepare for high- demand return visit; later on. 3,561 -seat Wang Center for the Performing Arts in Boston was Keith Miller, senior VP at the Wiliam Morris Agency in Nashville, says that Yearwood's tour No. 5, grossing $12.8 million, according to Billboard Boxscore. last year did 95 % -96% of its total potential business by playing a number of PACs. Audiences are willing to pay higher prices for PAC events in "We really captured a goDd model,' Miller says. "Performing [arts] cen- continued on »p32

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www.americanradiohistory.com New Venues Become Major SMALLER VENUES (cont.) Contenders BY RAY WADDELL from »p31 ter audiences really get her. PACs are also very From the heartland to the Big Apple, Canada to Puerto Rico, Paul McCartney and Bon Jovi, the sophisticated tour buyers because they under- a diverse cast of new venues made their debut in 2005. inaugural Stars game and re- stand symphony, theater, adult contemporary, They range in capacity from the 2,100 -seat Nokia Theatre hearsals and tour kickoff shows contemporary country, comedy and more." in New York's Times Square to the 20,000 -seat Charlotte for Bon Jovi and George Strait. (N.C.) Bobcats Arena, but all have quickly assimilated into "Our biggest asset is we're part MORE FOR LESS MONEY their respective markets and become factors among proof the Global Spectrum network PACs' flexibility in making artist deals is a moters and agents. and have access to those con- continued selling point. Billboard takes a look at some of the new venues that debuted nections," Kjeldgaard says.

For example, Dennis Andres, executive di- last year, with progress reports on how their first months of op- Kjeldgaard calls the 2006 date - rector of the 2,500 -seat Morris Performing eration have gone. book "very good" at this point. Arts Center in South Bend, Ind., says that last "Concerts and family show dates JOVI went live to summer he offered free rent to attract shows. NOKIA THEATRE, NEW YORK are filling up," she says, adding BON the world from New York's "They had to pay my out -of- pocket ex- Built by AEG Live as a Times Square showplace, the new $23 million that this year the arena would Nokia Theatre. penses and box -office fees, but I gave [them] Nokia Theatre was unveiled Sept. 19 with a Bon Jovi concert that was host the Iowa state high school the building rent -free, saving people several taken to the world via cutting -edge content provider Network Live. tournaments for basketball and thousand dollars," says Andres, whose venue Since then, the theater has hosted a diverse slate of events that wrestling, projected to draw has hosted a range of artists including Ja Rule make it among the busiest rooms in a busy market. 85,000 people each week. and Pretty Ricky. "Today, I think it's about how "In our first few months we had almost 60 shows and 90,000 creative you can be." paid tickets, which was great to see," says AEG Live Northeast tal- CHEVROLET Promoters also say that PACs can provide ent VP Mark Shulman, who books the theater. "We hosted every- CENTRE, huge marketing opportunities. thing from R &B to jazz, pop to metal, Christian to country." YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO Don Kronberg, president of NiteLite Pro- Shulman says the venue has hosted several multiples for artists, The new Chevrolet Centre ductions in Itasca, Ill., says that shows can often in Youngstown, Ohio, be advertised in PAC mailings, reaching up- opened Oct. 29 with 3 Doors wards of 100,000 people. `In Nokia's first few Down, followed the next "That's something a promoter can't buy," night by Tony Bennett. Kronberg explains. "Try to reach 100,000 peo- months we had almost The venue's primary ten- ple through radio and advertising and posters, ant is the Youngstown Steel but this one piece can reach these captive cus- 60 shows and 90,000 Hounds of the Central tomers who have bought tickets to the venue paid tickets, which was Hockey League. already. That's a huge advantage." The $45 million, publicly Meanwhile, Andres says information on up- great to see.' funded venue has a capacity of coming shows will be sent in e-mail blasts that 7,000, with 5,700 fixed seats fit- reach 5,000 potential patrons, and posters -MARK SHULMAN, AEG LIVE ting into a size that many pro- was will be created for the lobby and outside of moters believe is perfect for a ROD STEWART S` tFoods the venue at no cost to the promoter. a trend that will continue in 2006. wide range of acts. first to play' Centre. Many PACs manage to stay profitable, even "The venue hosted two -night runs with Jamiroquai, Bauhaus, Guster, Events hosted to date include Memorial when offering such marketing services, through Coheed and Cambria, Simple Plan and Disturbed, which were all sold the Australian Pink Floyd Show, concessions and box -office convenience fees. out," he says. "There were also some very special performances, such Lil Jon, Ying Yang Twins, Trans - Andres also sells advertising space on the as a Fiona Apple show which sold out in 90 seconds." Siberian Orchestra and Disney on Morris Center's marquee. "I have local ad- In addition, the theater hosted college football's Heisman Tro- Ice. Director of marketing Matt Hufnagel says 90% of the arena's vertising that companies must purchase for phy presentation, the MTV /CPL gaming world championship and 26 luxury suites and 75% of its 458 club seats have been sold. a year," he says. an MTV shoot with Mary J. Blige, Nickelback, Death Cab for Cutie Hufnagel says 2006 is shaping up well, with dates on the books Date availability will, however, continue to be and Sean Paul. from Larry the Cable Guy, Xtreme Ice Racing, the Harlem Globe- a problem for PACs unless artists announce The new year is shaping up equally strong, Shulman notes. "We trotters, Smuckers Stars on Ice and a monster truck show. concerts further in advance. already have two sold -out nights with Tom Jones, four sold -out To date, Live Nation's Belkin Productions has been the primary "We do want more of the contemporary pop nights of the Pogues and upcoming runs of two shows with Belle promoter in the building. artists, but they tend to book their tours about Sc. Sebastian and two shows with Rob Zombie," he says. "The fu- three months out, making it very difficult for ture of Nokia is ripe with possibilities." SAVE -ON FOODS MEMORIAL CENTRE, VICTORIA, us," Bell says. "If we could get them to com- BRITISH COLUMBIA mit nine months to a year in advance, it would WELLS FARGO ARENA, DES MOINES, IOWA Rod Stewart opened up the $36 million, 7,000 -seat Save -On Foods be easier to get high -end names. We'd love to The $99 million, 17,000- capacity Wells Fargo Arena opened in Des Memorial Centre March 26 of last year. The public /private fa- have a Jason Mraz or John Mayer here." Moines last July as a publicly financed building managed by cility is the home of the Victoria Salmon Kings of the ECHL. To combat this, PACs in the future may in- Philadelphia-based management firm Global Spectrum. "The first year has gone exceedingly well," says Dave Dakers, creasingly bypass promoters to get into the game. Tony Hawk's Boom Boom Huckjam was the first event on July GM of the arena. "Most events have sold out." "If promoters won't bring me the show that 5, while Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers were booked as the first Dakers says the highlight so far for the arena has been hosting

I want, I'll go out and find people to co -pro- concert, one of the few indoor venues on Petty's summer route. the 2005 World Curling Championships, which moved 110,000 mote shows with or I will buy the show my- The arena is home to the Iowa Stars of the American Hockey League. tickets for a week of events. self," Vogel says. "I'm not going to wait for a Assistant GM Holly Kjeldgaard says the first six months for the build- Meanwhile, the arena's 28 suites are sold out, its 500 King Club promoter to come to my door." ing have gone well, with such highlights as back -to -back sellouts from level seats are sold out and 600 regular club continued on »p34

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GOSPEL BY DEBORAH EVANS PRICE JACKSON TAKES GOSPEL TURN » >NELSON, ADAMS RECORD Willie Nelson has been in a New York studio recording an album with Ryan was originally intended as a Christmas gift for NASHVILLE -What Adams producing. The Lost Highway a treat for all of Alan Jackson's fans. his mother will soon become labelmates have recorded about a "Precious Memories," due Feb. 28 on ACR/Arista Nashville, is a dozen tracks and will cut more sides in highly personal effort for the country superstar. March. The album is expected to be out A collection of vintage hymns that the Georgia native grew up in late summer. - Phyllis Stark singing in church, "Precious Memories" features 15 of Jackson's favorite classics in an intimate, acoustic setting. The famously » >CHICAGO COUNTRY? private entertainer even has his wife, Denise, and daughters Rascal Flatts' Jay DeMarcus has produced Chicago's latest album, Mattie and Ali join him on " 'Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus." "Chicago XXX," out March 21. The album (Jackson says daughter Dani chickened out when it came is a partnership between Warner Bros. gets a credit for "assistant background to singing, but Records and Rhino Records. DeMarcus' vocals" for retrieving her dad a bottle of water.) bandmates appear on the album. First "My mother kept asking me, 'When are you single "Feel" goes to radio Feb. 14. going to do a gospel album ?' And I've always -Melinda Newman wanted to do a gospel album," Jackson says, adding that his mother's urg- »> MAURICE MEETS MAURICE ing intensified when he sang a "Hot Feet," a theatrical collaboration hymn at his father -in -law's funeral between Earth, Wind & Fire founder last year. "Everybody was going Maurice White and director/ choreographer Maurice Hines, premieres on about it, so mom started on Broadway April 30 at the Hilton hounding me more." Theatre. Featuring original songs and Jackson finally relented and such EWF hits as "Shining Star" and entered the studio with long- "Boogie Wonderland," the production time producer Keith Stegall. stars dancer Debbie Allen's daughter "We had about 30 songs," Vivian Nixon. "Hot Feet" has its pre - Jackson says. "I picked some I Broadway run March 21 -April 9 at the thought my mom would really Label: ACR /Arista National Theatre in Washington, D.C. Nashville like and some I liked. We went -Gail Mitchell in with piano and acoustic guitar, and Management: Nancy Russell (Nashville), MOVIE overdubbed organ on some of them, » >CABLE GUY Howard Kaufman (Los Jack Records /Warner Bros. artist/ We were just and a couple harmony vocals. Angeles) comedian Larry the Cable Guy will star really loose with it." Booking: Creative in Parallel Entertainment's "Larry the Jackson initially printed around 100 copies Artists Agency Cable Guy: Health Inspector," due for of the project to give to family and friends for theatrical release next year. The E Publishing: EMI Music Christmas, still with no plans of releasing it. Nashville (ASCAP) comedian previously co- starred in two However, RCA Label Group chairman Joe theatrical releases, "Blue Collar Best -selling studio Comedy Tour: the Movie" in 2003 and Galante, who oversees Arista Nashville, had album: "A Lot About "Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides Again" a different idea once a copy fell into his hands. Livin' (And a Little and his "Blue Collar" co- Ñ "It kind of hits you right between the 'Bout Love)" (1992), in 2004. Larry 3.7 million stars Jeff Foxworthy and Bill Engvall c2 eyes," Galante says. "It's really emotional are in production for "Blue Collar and just classic Alan Jackson. The thing that Last studio album: rt Comedy Tour: One for the Road." struck me the most about it was I felt like I was "What I Do" (2004), 822,000 - Phyllis Stark á sitting in church with him. continued on »p42

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www.americanradiohistory.com IVI sic The I3eat JACKSON (cont.) MELINDA NEWMAN [email protected] from »p41 When you listen to the songs, hardcore and older fans will For Love Of Country there's so much inspiration add it to their collections." Norah Jones And Co. Cover Classic Cuts As The Little Willies in them." In the '60s and '70s, coun- Jackson is pleased that try artists frequently recorded When you have snared a tro- ognized the Little Willies think anyone at EMI is focusing are not slated. The label is Galante wanted to release the gospel songs or entire gospel phy case full of Grammy name and the shows were on this for the bottom line," he counting primarily on word - album, but admits he is unsure albums, but then the practice Awards in one sitting, includ- getting too crowded, so they says), and adds, "I heard one of -mouth and strong reviews of its commercial potential. seemed to fall out of favor. In ing ones for album of the year changed to the Well Hungar- rumor that one of the heads of to drive the album. "I thought it turned out recent years, more country and best new artist, it is a little ians," says Zach Hochkeppel, EMI was happy that Norah did EMI is servicing the full set right pretty, but I didn't know acts have returned to singing hard to fly under the radar. VP of marketing for EMI Jazz this record because he was to triple -A and Americana if people would really appre- about their faith. Brad Paisley But that is exactly what and Classics. happy that she got her country radio stations. "When you ciate it if they didn't grow up puts a gospel song on every Norah Jones and her friends Following a few years of kick out [now] so it wouldn't be drop names like Townes Van in a Baptist church or singing album. Charlie Daniels, Billy are trying to do with the self - gigs, the band members de- on her next record." Zandt and Kris Kristofferson, those hymns every Sunday," Ray Cyrus and Anne Murray titled debut from the Little cided to record the songs they Hochkeppel says EMI im- programmers get misty," says Jackson, who will release have released Christian col- Willies, out March 7 on Milk- had worked up, although from mediately understood the Hochkeppel says, citing two a new mainstream country lections, and Randy Travis has ing Bull Records /EMI. the start they were worried that quintet's concerns. songwriters whose material album later this year. "I didn't recorded several Christian al- The album is a loose- limbed their effort might be seen as a "We want to try to get it the Little Willies cover on the know if anybody else would bums for Word Records, one collection of country classics commercial endeavor instead out to as many folks as pos- album. "We'll let the taste - care much for it or feel as close of which spawned the multi - with four originals sprinkled in. of the tiny labor of love it was sible, but we don't want makers pick a track." An in- to it as I or my wife did." award- winning hit "Three For a brief while, the Little intended to be. people to think it's the next terview conducted by WFUV Although Galante says the Wooden Crosses." Willies were able to keep the Or worse, people would Norah Jones record. There New York DJ Rita Houston label will push the album with Most of these efforts, like crowds at bay during their think they were trying to might be people who will also be available to all promotion that indudes a price - Jackson's, project a deeply per- semi -regular gigs at New York's elbow in on the traditionalist bought her past two al- noncommercial stations. and- positioning campaign at sonal feel. That is enhanced Living Room, a small club on movement. "Our love for this bums who don't dig this, Retail plans include in- retail, the release is targeting on "Precious Memories" by Manhattan's Lower East Side. music is authentic, but we're who think she's a country store and listening- station the hardcore Jackson fan. the photographs Jackson him- But as word spread of the not people preserving the tra- artist now. As much as we play. The album will also be "We aren't going to pursue self took for the CD package, band's lineup- Jones, Lee dition. We don't want to take think we could have a lot available at Starbucks start- this with the same effort we using a timer to capture his Alexander, Richard Julian, away from that," Julian says. of fun with this and sell a ing March 14. would a normal Alan Jackson own image in front of a little Jim Campilongo and Dan In fact, at first the group lot of records, we don't As Hochkeppel notes, no record, because we really look country church. Reiser-the lines out the door thought about an Internet - want to sell Norah short in one in the band is adverse to at this as something to give "I just decided that I'd take got longer and longer. only release, "but Norah and I her long -term career." the album finding its own water to the fans and to put out my own dang pictures," he Although the band is are signed artists [to EMI], There will be virtually no level, wherever that may be. there because there's a need says. "So I went over to a lit- named for its devotion to and we didn't think it was fair promotion for the project. "I don't think anyone in the in the marketplace for it," tle church that I go by some- Willie Nelson, its members to do something like that to Jones is shooting a movie, so band or Norah would be Galante says. times, and I took a couple certainly were not beyond EMI," Julian says. even if she had been inclined bummed if this becomes very Additionally, the label is not pictures. I also took [pictures having a little good- natured He says the band and label to promote the record, her large," he says. "They just asking Jackson to promote it of] this old Bible that we had fun with the name. have seen eye to eye on the low - schedule will not allow it. TV don't want it to be pushed out beyond his comfort level. "I'm at the house. I like the old - "After a while, people rec- key promotion tact ( "I don't appearances and tour dates of the box." . not going to sit there and ask looking stuff." him to work a record that he Jackson will perform songs did as a gift and then take that from the album Feb. 27 at the spirit away," Galante says. "It Ryman Auditorium for airing doesn't seem right to do that. this spring on GAC and a DVD I think the greatest thing is that release. In addition to going word -of-mouth will spread to mainstream retailers, "Pre- L pretty rapidly." cious Memories" will be dis- Galante hopes country radio tributed to the Christian stations will play a part in the market via Provident -Integrity album's success, but says, Distribution, Sony BMG's "We've not gotten anywhere Christian distribution arm. close to thinking about a single." But Jackson does not want The label will push the proj- to chase success in the Chris- ect to stations that run Sun- tian market. He simply wanted day- morning country gospel to record a gift for his mom, shows. Arista Nashville also and he is happy to have a plans to hold "win it before chance to expose some of his you can buy it" contests. favorite songs. Brian Smith, VP of store "I love that music. I grew up operations for the Marietta, listening to it in a Baptist Ga. -based Value Music Con- church with a big old pipe cepts chain, says he has not organ. That music affected heard much buzz about Jack- me," he says. "Those songs af- son's record. "With the ex- fected me as a singer and ception of Randy Travis, it has songwriter ... I go to a church been a long time since a coun- now [that is] more contempo- try act of his stature recorded rary and plays more modern a pure gospel album," Smith Christian music. It's good says. "I think the majority of stuff, but it's more like pop his fans will not find this ap- music. These old songs just pealing, but certainly the move me."

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If we can get to them, we are looking at a mul- venturesome new recording. perspective, there is that timeless quality we knew our customers tiplatinum album. Starbucks will help us get to them." "Timeless," set for release Feb. 14, is a joint venture between would enjoy." The Starbucks promotion includes placement in its more than Concord /Hear Music and will.i.am music. Will.i.am of the Black Although a Hear Music /Starbucks push can help many 4,400 North American stores, in -store play, signage and program- Eyed Peas produced the album and is also featured on many of its artists, in Mendes' case it is particularly useful, Concord GM ming on the Hear Music channel that airs on XM Satellite Radio. tracks. Other guests include his Peas bandmates, India.Arie, Q- Gene Rumsey says. Concord is also launching an aggressive and broad marketing ini- Tip, Erykah Badu, John Legend and Justin Timberlake. India.Arie, "Timeless" will be marketed to three distinct segments: Mendes' tiative that includes TV advertising and promotion, Internet mar- Legend and Timberlake all wrote or co -wrote songs for the album. keting, radio promotion and lifestyle marketing, conducted by a "I wanted to do a hip -hop, samba -bossa nova record," Will.i.am number of companies. says, adding that the first music he ever mixed as a kid were Sergio "They're all very segmented and specialized as to who they get to," Mendes albums (Billboard, Jan. 21). Rumsey says. "And since we have identified all segments, we want With that spirit in mind, "Timeless"-which is titled after the to make sure we get to all of them. It's a big effort." new song written by Mendes and India.Arie -features mostly At the radio level, for example, various indie promoters are being older songs revamped and retooled for contemporary appeal used to target different formats, including college and top 40. Like- including classics like "That Heat," written by Henry Mancini wise, various tracks and remixes are being promoted to a broad range and recorded by Mendes and his group, Brasil '66, for their of DJ s, dubs and record pools who are taking advantage ofthe Will.i.am second album. element that defines contemporary cool. Also included, ofcourse, is "Mas Que Nada," the Jorge Ben track "KCRW [Los Angeles] and other NPR stations that added the record covered on the first Brasil '66 album. The international hit was early really helped give this album a lot of exposure to the thirty- [and] many music fans' first glimpse of Brazilian music. The track fortysomethings, and [the album's] guest artists ... definitely help peaked at No. 47 on The Billboard Hot 100 in 1966. this record skew down to a younger demo as well," says Rick Brasil '66's biggest U.S hit was "The Look of Love," which Banales, Latin /world music product manager for Virgin En- reached No. 4, followed by the group's remake ofthe Beatles' "Fool tertainment, citing the factors he thinks will contribute to the on the Hill," which climbed to No. 6 in 1968. album's retail success. "People are ready for more experimen- "I hope those great melodies become popular; that the new kids tation and risk- taking in R &B and hip -hop, as evidenced by the hear the old melodies and enjoy them," Mendes says, speaking on many successful rap /reggaeton collaborations of late." the phone from his Los Angeles home. Although introductory track "That Heat," featuring Badu and He had stopped recording all those years, he says, "because re- A knock on the Will.i.am, was sent to programmers as a warm -up track, the biggest ally, I didn't have any kind of motivation." door from admirer effort will be behind "Mas Que Nada," which will be pushed across That changed when Will.i.am appeared at his doorstep three years WILLIAM, right, led many formats this spring. SERGIO MENDES to ago, armed with Mendes' old vinyl albums, wanting to convince return to the studio Even today, 40 years after Mendes first recorded it, the song should Mendes to play on a cut for the Black Eyed Peas' "Elephunk." for the first time in ring some bells. For many, however, "Timeless" may represent a The result, Mendes says, "felt totally different from before. It eight years. completely new discovery. just felt great, and fresh and unique. And a week later I said, 'You "My kids, I have a 19- year-old and a 12- year -old, they think know, we should make a record together.' " their dad is cool now," Mendes says with a laugh. "For me, that Just as Will.i.am was a fan of Mendes', so was Concord Music co- is the good thermometer. My kids' friends, they come to the owner Hal Gaba. When he heard Mendes was recording with the house, and they ask, 'Who is that ?' And they say, 'It's my dad!' Black Eyed Peas frontman, he signed him. Some of them never heard these songs. For them, it's all new. Concord, in turn, presented the project to Starbucks and its label, That's the beauty of this project." Nashville 5m11@ PHYLLIS STARK pstark @billboard.com Artists Share Their Memorable Radio Moments

Country radio programmers and "It was in between albums for during radio interviews some- got arrested while cutting down Trent Willmon made his own the smoker and got all of the artists benefit from much doser me, so I was able to enjoy my- times," Womack adds. a Sony Music banner. With first radio tour memorable by barbecue cooked so we would relationships than their coun- self a bit more since my sched- On a visit to the syndicated Austin's help, they were able to bringing along a gun- shaped have it prepared for the next terparts at other formats. With ule wasn't as packed as it usually show "After MidNite With Blair convince the police officer that smoker to station visits and three days. I iced down our beer so much bonding time built into is during CRS," she says. "I Garner," Terri Clark recalls, "I the banner had their picture on cooking barbecue for the staff and whiskey and had it stored their schedules, it is no wonder made some new friends at radio, auctioned my bra off im- it, and he finally let them take it on what was billed as his in coolers. acts are often full of amusing caught up with friends that I had promptu." It was for a good with them. Smokin' Gun tour. "My bandmates and I head in stories about their interaction known since the beginning of cause, though. "The money went During a radio tour, Van Zant But one incident almost to do our acoustic show," Will - with radio staffers. my career and was able to enjoy towards the kids of the [astro- was running late on its way to stopped the tour in its tracks. mon continues. "When the show As artists and broadcasters a few drinks. nauts] killed in the space shut- see WTQR Greensboro, N.C., "We headed down to Lake- was over, we discovered that the prepare to descend on Nashville "Unfortunately, the next day tle disaster," she says. And the PD Trey Cooler. As the pair re- land, Fla., to play a little ap- crowd had eaten every piece of for the Feb. 15 -17 Country Radio I was performing at the MCA bra sold for $4,200. calls the story, its rookie bus preciation show for WPCV," he barbecue and drank or carried Seminar, Billboard asked some luncheon in front of a crowd of "A few months later a guy driver swung the bus around the recalls. "The show was sup- off all the beer and whiskey. performers to share anecdotes. radio folks and, feeling a bit came to a meet -and -greet with corner like it was a car. The bus posed to be for about 50 peo- "About that time, this big In a few cases, the artists may under the weather, I completely the bra in hand and asked if I hit a ditch and sunk into the ple, but the word got out, and monster truck pulls up and have longer memories than blanked out on the lyrics of 'I wanted it back. Uh, no thanks." mud. Van Zant was forced to more and more people began these guys yell, 'Y'all wanna go some radio programmers might Hope You Dance,' of all songs. At last year's CRS, in the early haul its equipment a quarter showing up. We had stocked up alligator huntin' ?' At that mo- hope and vice versa. Lucky for me, most of the audi- morning hours, and with Clear mile up a hill in the cold, pour- on beer, whiskey and bought all ment, I was wondering what I Lee Ann Womack will ence was hung over too and had Channel /Jacksonville, Fla., OM ing rain to see Cooler. The bus, the meat for the next three days was going to cook for the next never forget an incident from a good sense of humor about it. Gail Austin aiding and abetting, meanwhile, had to be hauled out of radio visits. three days, and I almost took CRS 2004. "I still get teased about that the members of Van Zant nearly ofthe ditch by a wrecker service. "Before the show, I fired up them up on it." -

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www.americanradiohistory.com IVI Global Pulse Sic; EDITED BY TOM FERGUSON tferguson @eu.billboard.com

Editors Make Headlines IENCE audience Global deadlines are looming so much life in this album." VASSY FLIES IN: Sydney - for Editors, with an interna- -STEVE ADAMS based urban /jazz singer /song- tional touring schedule keep- writer Vassy has already been GROWTH ing the Birmingham, England - MATURING MUSIC: Virgin widely heard stateside -de- based alternative rock act on Italy GM Mario Sala says he is spite not having a U.S. deal. the road throughout spring. confident that Italian singer/ The 26- year -old's debut Kitchenware /Sony BMG re- songwriter Niccolò Fabi's fifth Australian single, "Wanna Fly" leased the band's debut album, album, "Novo Mesto," will out- (Fly Music /Warner Music), was SHARE "The Back Room," in July 2005, perform its predecessor, "La released in August, followed by and it entered the Official U.K. Cura Del Tempo" (2003), the album "My Affection" in Charts Co. albums chart Aug. which shipped 40,000 units September. Although neither 6. However, it did not begin domestically. charted, Vassy picked up club climbing the list until January, Sala's confidence comes play plus airplay on youth -ori- when top 10 single "Munich" from radio's embrace of lead ented national radio network and a reduced -price marketing single "Costruire," released Triple J. campaign helped "The Back Dec. 23. However, the 37 -year- In 2005, Vassy's U.S. -based Room" reach No. 2 Jan. 28. old Fabi admits he finds "the management team struck a Sony BMG has licensed Edi- whole idea of singles a bit un- deal with Los Angeles- and tors for the world outside Eu- comfortable-I want people to New York -based music place- rope and Australasia. Sony listen to all the songs!" ment specialist Zync Music, BMG U.K. international mar- "Novo Mesto," released Feb. which saw "Wanna Fly" placed keting manager Philippa De- 3 in Italy, is largely self -penned in Queen Latifah's new movie, Monte reports rapidly increas- but includes a version of the "Last Holiday," and in a recent ing overseas demand for the 1980 Police hit "So Lonely." Fabi Diet Sprite U.S. TV ad cam- band. "It's gone berserk these is published by EMI Music Pub- paign. It will also be heard in a past few weeks," she says. The lishing /Ovest /Quarto Piano. He forthcoming episode of ABC - label's international efforts are debuted with the Virgin album TV series "Grey's Anatomy" currently focused on the United "II Giardiniere" in 1997 and says and in a 2006 Hilton Hotels Fresno San Francisco where the album streets "Novo Mesto" is "more mature" U.S. TV ad campaign. States, KFSO -FM KSJO -FM March 21 on Fader /RED. A full than his previous work, featur- Los Angeles -based Joe La Preciosa La Presciosa release on Epic will follow. ing "subject matter I wouldn't Berman co- manages Vassy U.K. shows in late February, have approached 10 years ago." with New York -based CEC March and May will follow Edi- According to Sala, " 'II Giar- Management president Alan Tucson tors' current 23 -date European diniere' unfortunately created Wolmark. "We're working KXEW AM tour, with March U.S. dates pre- the impression that Niccolò closely with Hilton," Berman Rated a and it's says, "putting together a non- ceding Australian and Japanese was light, ironic artist, Channel His sank St4tlon Tejano gigs. Bookings are through In- taken a long time to shake off traditional joint- marketing La lsreciosa ternational Talent Booking in- that image. We're [now] look- plan which will help brand Spanish San Diego ternationally; William Morris ing at a more mature, press -ori- Vassy as a Hilton artist, boost- Agency handles U.S. shows. Pub- ented promotional campaign ing her U.S. profile." stations AHULL M , lishing is with Soul Kitchen Music. than before." The self -published Vassy vis- ! ° have seen The band planned to record Sala adds that a Spanish/ ited the United States in early 116% P25-54.: La Preciosa a second album this summer, Latin American version of "Novo February to meet with agents, unpreceden but DeMonte admits, "I can't Mesto" is being considered. publishers and labels. Miami see that happening. There's still -MARK WORDEN -CHRISTIE ELIEZER increases year to year. +88% P25 -54 #1 Rate

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www.americanradiohistory.com BY MARCELO FERNANDEZ BITAR Miranda Revives Argentine Pop N c)WH EARTH I S YOUR GUIDE TO UNSIGNED BANDS BUENOS AIRES -Argentina's it has already been certified In December 2004 he randa had played two sold -out most surprising musical suc- gold. According to Miranda's bought the album's masters concerts at the 3,200 -seat Gran cess story of the past 12 months label, indie Pelo Music, "Sin from the small imprint Secsy Rex Theater that were taped for » >DAVID JAMES HERBERT belongs to Miranda, a coed Restricciones" has sold Discos, which had released a live album and DVD, "En Vivo David James Herbert's full -length album, "Turn Up Your group with a girl's name. 250,000 -plus copies through- "Sin Restricciones" a few Sin Restricciones." Silence," begins with his raspy vocal rising above a In late 2003, critics praised out the region. months earlier. At the same time, second sin- bubbling, primal drum beat. The 22- year -old London - the quintet's second album, Last year, however, Pelo pres- Pelo Music rereleased the gle "Don" was delivered to radio based singer may be at the his /songwriter start of "Sin Restricciones," as a posi- ident Ruben "Pelo" Aprile album, and sales took off and became Miranda's ticket to career, but his songs are already heavy with spirit, tive step forward in Miranda's seemed to be the only person thanks to first single "Yo Te nationwide success: The song emotion and sadness. With folk and rock structures, catchy techno -pop style. But it supporting Miranda. Diré," which was successfully reached the top 10 of Ar- Herbert took a DIY approach to producing his record, barely made a dent retail, By constructing raw songs with a Hammond organ, vocal at pushed to radio. April, Mi- gentina's national airplay chart quirks and scuffling tambourines. "I do most of my selling only 1,200 copies. and remained there for an as-

writing on acoustic guitar, so I feel like approaching my Fast -forward one year, and music with different sounds, more wrong- sounding than the same album is certified your standard acoustic set," Herbert says. Recently platinum in Argentina at rounding out his backing band, Herbert is eager to start 40,000 units, with three hit sin- shows in mid -February in London, bringing with him an gles, a string of sold -out con- arsenal of more than 60 songs. "Turn Up Your Silence" is certs at 8,000 -seat arenas and available for streaming on his Web site, a verse from one of its song be- davidjamesherbert.com. coming a catchphrase. Contact: Elaine Gibson, Hybrid Management, elaine@ davidjamesherbert.com -Katie Hasty Throw in a live album and DVD, and the band's total sales rise to 80,000 units moved in Argentina alone of material associated with "Sin Restric- ciones." Indeed, the album was among the top 20 best sellers of 2005, according to Argentine labels body Capif. Now, "Sin Restricciones" has been released in Latin America and (in December) in the United States, where the single "Don" is No. 29 on Bill- board's Latin Pop Airplay chart. EMI, which distributes A lyric from MIRANDA'S the album, has made Miranda single 'Don' generated a national catchphrase a priority in key territories like that helped the song Mexico and Colombia, where remain in the top 10. i -400 Classical Sccre ANASTASIA TSIOULCAS atsioulcas @billboard.com LANG LANG LOOKS BACK Pianist Revisits Music Of His Childhood On `Memory'

Chinese pianist Lang Lang is "Memory" is material long going badly, and just before I hope again." only 23 years old, but already familiar to Lang Lang, like was supposed to audition for Other pieces bring a he is glancing back at the Schumann's Kinderszenen the top music school in the sweeter recollection. "Liszt's >>>BENYOMEN music of his childhood. His ( "Scenes From Childhood ") country, the Central Conser- Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2- The Los Angeles suburbs are not referenced in many newest release, "Memory" and Chopin's Piano Sonata vatory, my teacher kicked me that was the first piece I ever hip -hop tunes, but Benyomen is not afraid to show his (Deutsche Grammophon), ar- No. 3. "I grew up as a pianist out of her studio. She told me saw 'performed,' if you can Palmdale roots. On his first album, self -released on his rives March 14. with them," he says, "playing that I wasn't meant to be a pi- call it that," Lang Lang says. own LFTB /OPHOTN Records, he finds drama in "All of the music on this them again and again. I lived anist, and was everyday life, from his relationships with his parents to that devastat- "It was on the cartoon 'Tom album made very strong im- with them." ing. I internal conflicts about materialism. He is a rapper who stopped playing. and Jerry.' is more concerned with battling depression than pressions on me as a little kid, Mozart's Piano Sonata No. "At my school," he contin- "Do you remember that surviving life on the streets, and in this way he and have stayed in my mem- 10 in C Major, K. 330 has a ues, "the music teacher asked episode ?" he asks. "Tom plays sometimes comes off as a younger, less- sarcastic Sage ory ever since -well, not that particularly poignant reso- why I wasn't playing anymore. the Rhapsody on the piano, Francis. Behind his slightly nasal delivery and ambitious, I'm all that old now," Lang nance for Lang Lang. At age I started crying and said, ' My and the most amazing thing psychedelic backdrops, the 21- year -old purchasing Lang says with a laugh. OK, so 9, the young musician and teacher told me I had no tal- was that the animators coordinator for a publishing firm is already halfway he may not be, but his pres- his father had already left ent.' The schoolteacher put adopted Vladimir Horowitz's through recording his second album. Now if only the ence on the international their hometown of Shenyang this Mozart sonata on the flat -fingered technique for hip -hop scene in L.A. were more welcoming to a kid scene as a musician and as an so that Lang Lang could piano and said, 'Come on, Tom. Of course, back then I from the 'burbs. "A lot of cats are unaccepting at first," international goodwill am- study in Beijing; his mother play the slow movement.' So didn't know Horowitz; I didn't he says, "but we're very friendly people, and we know how to do it right." bassador for UNICEF has stayed behind. I did, and as I performed I know any pianists. But 'Tom Contact: benyomen @ophotn.com -Todd Martens given him a sense of scope far "It was a very difficult suddenly realized how much and Jerry,' of all things, beyond his years. time," he recalls. "I was trying I loved the instrument. Play- opened my eyes. I thought, 'I EDITED BY TODD MARTENS tmartens @billboard.com Some of the music on hard, but my lessons were ing the K. 330 brought me want to be like that cat!' "

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www.americanradiohistory.com IVI sic: Rhythm & I3Iues GAIL MITCHELL gmitchell @billboard.com tounding eight months. phenomenon and organized a after several years that had been In addition, an ad- libbed line series of radio giveaways dominated by the hard rock by singer Ale Sergi to introduce around the phrase, which fur- bands," says Charly Vazquez, guitarist Lolo Fuentes' brief solo ther fueled album sales. senior director of music and (''jEs la guitarra de Lolo!," which "This is so unusual that I artist relations for MTV Latin Bloodz Bizness means, "It's Lolo's guitar! ") be- cannot think of any other America. Atlanta Rap Duo YoungBloodZ Diversify Their Portfolio came a catchphrase among artist that exploded so fast," "They are successful because teenagers that the media picked Aprile says. teen fans that used to hear' Pop - Though enjoying the success restaurant experience. compasses his entire Nate up to convey myriad meanings. Other artists on Pelo Music's stars' -style bands like Bandana, of their third album, "Ev'ry- "I'd be lying if I said I was Dogg Music (BMI) catalog Aprile quickly took note of the roster include rock Lands Calle- Mambru and Erreway adopted body Know Me," the Young - there every day," Paul says with and future copyrights. The jeros and La 25 and pop act them," Vazquez adds. BloodZ -like many contem- a laugh. "I just rap. But we've rap hook master is back on the Entre Rios. They have all bene- While Miranda's sound can porary acts -are busy getting actually been getting a lot of charts with a featured role on fited from intense airplay often be described as catchy, their side hustles on. younger cats in here trying the Eminem's "Shake That," which thanks to a strategic alliance bubble -gum techno -pop, the "Another younger genera- food because of us being a is No. 9 on The Billboard Hot with Argentine rado and pro- lyrics go deeper, with topics that tion will eventually take over," part of it." 100 this issue. motion company Pop Art. include depressing holidays, the duo's Sean Paul says. "So In fact, Paul says plans are Miranda's story began in tortured souls, magnetic ro- you've got to become more under way for another Cuban - GRAMMYS, TAKE TWO: July 2001 when Sergi met mantic impulses and even business -minded and look to- themed restaurant. Before Grammy Week offi- singer Juliana Ga :tas in an- sexual fantasies. other group. They clicked and "Maybe we give teenagers soon recruited Fuentes, pro- some happiness and fun in a gramming wizard Bruno De stage of life that is somehow Vicenti and bassist Monoto confusing," Sergi says. Grimaldi. Secs? Discos re- Aprile adds, "It is a true band leased Miranda's debut and not a marketing concept album, `Es Mentira," in sold through a television show." mid -2003 to good re- Beyond record sales, Mi- views. The group was randa has also sold 4 million soon playing elec- ringtones in South America, tronic festivals and and the group was invited to YOU NGBLOODZ small 60C -seat the- perform at February's Viña Del aters. MTV invited Mar festival in Chile. Miranda to perform Miranda will begin its North at the local nomina- American promotion with a tion party for the MTV weeklong stay in Puerto Rico. Video Musc Awards Plans call for the release of "Sin Latin America. Restricciones" in Spain and Por- "Miranda renewed the tugal this month, through pop /rock scene ir. Argentina Dro /Warner.

ward the future." The Dirty South duo broke cially winds down, belated Paul (not to be confused onto the charts in 1999 with its kudos to the artists behind the with the dancehall star of the Ghet -O- Vision /LaFace debut songs and albums newly in- same name) and cohort J -Bo CD, "Against Da Grain." The ducted into the Grammy Hall (born Jeffrey Grigsby) are pair's biggest hit so far is the of Fame. R &B inductees in- ramping up two new ventures: 2003 No. 2 R &B single "Damn!" clude Bessie Smith's "Down- MUSICAL ADVENTURES: YBZ Records and GMC Pro- featuring LiI Jon, from its sec- hearted Blues," B.B. King's During last month's Chamber ductions. The first act on the ond album "Drankin Patnaz." "Live at the Regal," the Mira- Music America conference, YBZ roster is GMC (aka Good Their latest LaFace/Zomba cles' "Shop Around" and the ASCAP presented its annual Music Cuz). The group includes album, released late last year, is O'Jays' "Love Train." Adventurous Programming former Jim Crow member Mo- No. 35 on the Top R&B /Hip -Hop The induction of the O'Jays' awards. In the category for or- town and rapper Ben Hated. Albums chart. The act, which av- peace anthem was especially ganizations presenting 10 or First single "White Bronco" erages four performances per poignant for Philadelphia In- more concerts per year, first is already at college radio with week, recently taped a "Soul ternational co- founder Kenny place went to Music at the Los GMC's debut album, "Tha Train" appearance that will air Gamble. The heralded label Angeles County Museum of Art Struggle," anticipated for the Feb.18. Additionally, a tour that recently lost one of its key and second place to Columbia second quarter. YBZ is distrib- could team the act with fellow songwriter /producers, Gene University's Miller Theatre in uted by Malaco. A- towners Young Jeezy and T.I. McFadden (Billboard, Feb.11). New York. Paul adds that he and J -Bo is being discussed. Lamenting the passings of First place winner in the self- are developing other musical Despite collaborating with Lou Rawls, Wilson Pickett, presenting chamber ensem- projects, with more to be re- such in- demand producers as McFadden and, two years ago, bles /new music category was vealed shortly. Paul collabo- Scott Storch on "Ev'rybody," McFadden's partner John Opus 21 (Kalamazoo, Mich.); rated on a song for producer Paul says the YoungBloodZ re- Whitehead, Gamble says, "All Clogs (Lyndonville, Vt.) and So Dallas Austin's Rowdy Records main true to their crunk roots. around me, friends of mine are Percussion (Brooklyn, N.Y.) tied protégé Sammy. "Crunk music ain't going passing away. What we did for second place. The YoungBloodZ are also anywhere," he says. "We still will never be again. But the In the group of self - tending another investment: grind old school but our hearts music we did was special and presenting chamber ensem- Cuban restaurant Mojito. Lo- are young." thankfully, remains a work of bles /mixed repertory, first cated in the Westin Peach- art today." place went to San Francisco's tree Hotel in midtown At- NATE'S REACH: Reach That is something to not Del Sol String Quartet, while lanta, the eatery is operated Global has signed Nate Dogg lose sight of during a time of Los Angeles' Pacific Serenades by Paul's uncle and his wife, to his first worldwide publish- change and uncertainty in took second place. who have 14 years' worth of ing agreement. The deal en- this industry.

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www.americanradiohistory.com 6)QU lESTIONs Latiui Notas with ADRIAN POSSE ^/J LEILA COBO Icobo @billboard.com

When Adrian Posse wants Televisa have its own label made White Lion's Reggaetón Roar someone to listen to music, he all the sense in the world. We pre- does not send over a CD: He sented it to Televisa's [general di- When it comes to reggaetón, the BMG, which also handles mar- cardo Cordero says. "We look for and splits were negotiated. takes the person into his office, rector of artistic development] name White Lion is a Puerto keting and promotion duties for experienced managers, but we This issue, Voltio and Calle 13 pumps up the volume and dis- Alejandro Benitez, and finally Rican institution. White Lion artists. The two la- want that outside point of view are in the top 20 of Billboard's sects the recording -the lyrics, [Televisa group VP of operations] Founded by producer Elias bels split the profits. that comes from them." Top Latin Albums chart. the key changes, the particulars José Bastón and Televisa chair- De León, White Lion is best - White Lion's acts include Cordero, who was most re- The label also plans to re- of an arrangement. The excite- man Emilio Azcárraga approved known as the label that released Voltio, a rapper marketed and cently Robi Rosá s manager, was lease an album by Lisa ment is contagious. Tego Calderón's "El Abayarde" distributed jointly by Sony BMG brought in as president of White M. in the coming Posse, who was most recently in 2002, helping propel the reg- and Epic, and Calle 13, an irrev- Lion a year ago. months. international VP ofA &R for gaetón artist to become a local erent hip- hop /reggaetón group "My objective was to or- BMG's Latin operation, has writ- phenomenon. It then presented that recalls a Spanish Eminem. ganize the company in ten for or produced dozens of him to the mainstream via a pi- Also, White Lion recently every sense of the artists, from Luis Miguel to oneering distribution deal with dosed a co- publishing deal with word," he says. Alexandre Pires, and was in- BMG U.S. Latin. EMI Publishing Latin America. White volved in signing and develop- Much has changed since then. It includes De León's publish- Lion, like ing such talents as Thalia, Reggaetón is part of the main- ing in addition to everything he many reggaetón labels, Belinda and Aleks Syntek. stream, and Calderón has since generates as a producer or label. often functioned solely Now, as senior creative VP for signed a multimillion -dollar All acts signed to White Lion, ex- on friendly handshakes. the newly created partnership contract with Atlantic Records. cept for Calle 13, are also signed Occasionally, as was the between EMI and media con- Major licensing and distribution to publishing deals through case with Calderón,rec- glomerate Televisa, he makes deals are no longer the excep- León Blanco and León Negro. ord deals were not even the creative decisions for a it. After that, we went to negoti- tion but the norm for many suc- Finally, artists signed to White signed. unique hybrid. ate with different music compa- cessful Puerto Rican labels -if, Lion are booked through a part- Now, Cordero says, he nies, because we wanted the that is, they have not been nership negotiated with UTA. can move the company Q: In your new post, you also con- infrastructure of a major. I bought over by majors. Upcoming activities include forward. The deal with tinue to work on your own pro- pushed very hard for EMI. And And yet, White Lion has a White Lion bus tour that will EMI, for example, was ductions. How does that work? of course, [EMI Music Latin managed to stay ahead of the kick off in April and hit some finally signed after A: I continue to produce, but ex- America president /CEO Marco curve thanks to De León's knack 20 markets. every song in the clusively for this deal. It is nor- Bissi] thought it was a good idea. for identifying talent and to a se- The only area that White Lion White Lion catalog mal for A &R directors to have ries of unique arrangements. steers dear of is management. was properly attrib- their own productions. But I al- Q: Can you develop new acts with- On the label end, White Lion "I see it as a conflict of inter- uted to producers ways put on my label T- shirt. out the aid of TV? is now distributed by Sony est," White Lion president Ri- and songwriters Everything I see around me, I A: We go back to the same issue. think about how it can translate It's a fusion, strategic as well as into business for EMI /Televisa. musical. Today, people not only listen. If they see you, they Q: You have always been a big pro- believe. We are selling music 1-ligher GroLind ponent of pop, a genre now in tran- through images. sition. Where areyougoingwith it? There has never been so much DEBORAH EVANS PRICE dprice @billboard.com A: I continue to believe in pop. music listened to as there is I believe in projects like [EMI/ today, and the industry has to Televisa act] RB D, which has sold find a way to channel that. 2 million pop albums in the For example, I am now judg- 4Him's Fond Farewell United States and Mexico alone. ing a Televisa TV reality show in Having said that, at this point Mexico called "Cantando Por Un Several of Christian music's ris says. "It's not that doing and new track "Unity." There strongly in knowing when the you can't release an album that Sueño." The theme song is per- most beloved acts are in the 4Him is a bad thing, it's just are also bonus solo songs from timing was right to say farewell." has no musical fusions. All pop formed by [EMI artist] Thalia, final phases of their careers. that you kind of get to the each member. songs ultimately have the same and it will be included in a new Audio Adrenaline announced point where you are thinking, 'I Harris and Chrisman have al- HISTORIC SERIES: In cele- structure. When you incorporate version of her current album. it was bowing out at the end of know there's more that God ready released solo projects. bration of Black History Month, fusions, you have unique op- this year (Billboard, Feb. 4), and has for me to accomplish.' " Magehee and Sullivan are work- the Gospel Music Channel is pre- portunities, where you can mix Q: Many of the albums you have veteran rock act Petra recently During their 16 years together, ing on their solo debuts. miering two new series hosted our folklore -which all has the released are themed, such as Pilar released a final CD on Inpop Harris, Andy Chrisman, Kirk Sul- "I just heard Marty's first by Dr. Bobby Jones. "Black His- same four-by -four rhythm -with Montenegro singing reggaetón. Records. Also on the road to livan and Marty Magehee re- song, and it's incredible," says tory Moments: Gospel Greats" other styles. I would say that 70% Why? retirement is 4Him, the award - corded 11 albums spawning such Chrisman, who is also a worship features early TV footage of ofwhat I'm doing now is very fu- A: Because at the beginning, winning pop foursome that is hits as "Basics of Life" and "For pastor in Tulsa, Okla. "Mark and such legends as Albertina sion- oriented. It's not a question we need to fortify what we can embarking on a 40 -city fare- Future Generations." They won I have sung the most songs on Walker, the Staple Singers of marketing; it's a need people sell through television. At the well tour this spring. eight Gospel Music Assn. Dove the radio and have had a higher and Andraé Crouch, and "Black have. They like that sound. same time, we're developing "The years pass by, and you Awards, including three group profile than the other two mem- History Moments: Remember- For example, we have a proj- new artists. wake up one day and say, of the year accolades. bers because of that. Kirk and ing Mahalia" focuses on the dis- ect with flamenco dancer Rafael 'What do I want to do the rest Released last month on INO Marty will probably be the most tinguished career of gospel Amargo where we're fusing mu- Q: What is the biggest difference of my life ?' " 4Him's Mark Har- Records, "Encore ... For Fu- successful solo artists out of the singer and civil rights activist sic and dance, Spanish rumba between a traditional major label ture Generations" includes group, because people haven't Mahalia Jackson. General Mills and reggaetón. And pop /fla- and EMI/Televisa? nine 4Him classics, a medley really haven't heard what they is sponsoring both series. menco group Azucar Moreno is A: This is far more agile, fun and can do yet." releasing a 20th -anniversary definitive when it comes to results, The group is proud of what NEWS NOTES: Crystal Bur - album that fuses tropical music, thanks to the resources we have it has accomplished. "The min- chette is exiting her publicity reggaetón, rumba and salsa. at our disposal and the penetra- istry aspect of it has always post at Daywind Music Group tion ofthe media campaigns. I've been the priority," Harris says. for the Crabb Family's new Q: How did the EMI Televisa fis- always believed in taking musical "The art was a form that we imprint, Clear Cool Music (Bill- sion come to be? risks, and now, we have the pos- used to spread the mes- board, Feb. 4). In her new post, A: It's an idea that [EMI /Televisa sibility of taking on projects that sage of Jesus. That was Burchette will work in manage- president] Rodolfo Lopez Ne- go beyond what a `traditional" a priority from the be- ment and publicity. Kasey grete and I came up with. The label might be able to tackle. It's ginning, and that's the Embry will assume Burchette's notion of having a company like about betting on dreams. reason we felt so Daywind duties.

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IN W r POP "Forgetful" scolds his about songs. Yet it is hard ROSANNE CASH unappreciative lady. to argue with the fury of BÉLA FLECK & THE Cool" soundtrack. Mendes and Peas Black Cadillac Though "Fiend" featuring "Bareal's Blade," even if i ) FLECKTONES frontman Will.i.am blend Brazilian poly - Producers: John Leventhal, Styles P. falls into the the lyrics could have been The Hidden Land rhythms, hip -hop beats, contemporary R &B Bill Bottrell love -as -drug cliché, ripped from a Dungeons & Capitol Jaheim still manages to Dragons module. Indeed, `t4 Producer: Béla Fleck and rap for an intriguing change of pace. cFIFfHEF Columbia Artists joining in this syncopation cele- Release Date: Jan. 24 come off genuine, and the Sword can already LFCM10Nt1 Release Date: Feb. 14 bration include Stevie Wonder, Erykah ElDuring the past two with his third consistent stand alongside a con- While the banjo fig- Badu, Justin Timberlake and John Legend. years, death has album in a row, remains temporary like the High ured prominently in The troupe breathes new life into such claimed Cash's step- one of the best at crafting on Fire, as it proves with early jazz history, Béla Fleck revolutionized Brazilian classics as "Mas Que Nada" (a 1966 mother, June Carter Cash; meaty narratives. -CH the complex arrange- its stature as a virtuoso instrument. His hit for Mendes' Brasil '66) and "Let Me." her father, Johnny Cash; ments of "March of the bluegrass- meets -bebop purview was novel However, the original tracks -especially and her mother, Vivian Lor" or "Iron Swan," where and commercially palatable, yet lukewarm Legend's "Please Baby Don't" and "Time- Liberto Cash Distin. This ROCK a Renaissance -fair overall. But after a two -year -plus hiatus, less" with India.Arie -are what boost the album is like reading her THE SUBWAYS opening gives way to Fleck and the Flecktones return with by far album beyond novelty status. -GM private journal, and her Young for Eternity some of the album's most their best album, essentially recorded live pain is nearly palpable on Producer: Ian Broudie lacerating riffs. -TM in the studio. What makes this quartet MARTY STUART & HIS such songs as "The World Sire date -sans the usual guest artists -so FABULOUS Unseen" ( "Now that we Release Date: Feb. 14 HIP-HOP appealing beyond its spontaneity is its SUPERLATONES must live apart I have a ©There was talk of a breadth of repertoire, opening with a jazz Live at the Ryman lock of hair and one -half rock'n'roll revival with VARIOUS ARTISTS spin through two Bach fugues and closing Producers: Marty of my heart "). "House on the debut of the Strokes Run the Road 2 with a bluegrass -y melody. Fleck and Stuart, Harry Stinson the Lake" refers to Johnny and the ensuing "The" Producers: various company put fusion flame into "Labyrinth," Superla tone/Universal and June's Tennessee bands, but most turned Vice go blu -bop on "Kaleidoscope" and cruise South home, while "I Was out to be more flash than Release Date: Feb. 7 through a variety of charged sound - Release Date: Feb. 7 Watching You" speaks to substance. The exceed- "Run the Road 2" does not scapes on the segueing "Weed Wacker" On the third release on his own Superla- the eternal power of love ingly youthful (average live up to its crack and "Couch Potato." Best track: Fleck's tone imprint, Marty Stuart maintains the and the bonds of family. age: 20) coed British trio predecessor, but that lyrical Gershwin -esque original "Who's standard of excellence with this live As personal as the album the Subways buck that observation is neither a Got Three. " -DO bluegrass workout. The liner notes say he is, there is a universal trend. Exceptional surprise nor a slam. Where was unaware the show was being recorded. quality to Cash's song - technical ability, lyrical the original compilation of SERGIO MENDES which likely contributes to these free- writing that will make insight far beyond their British gutter grime was a Timeless wheeling performances. Stuart's own listeners embrace the years and unbridled breath of fresh air, its Producers: Will.i.am, mandolin and his killer Superlatones are intimate feelings here as exuberance merge into follow -up aspires to mere Sergio Mendes, Printz joined by Stuart Duncan on fiddle, Charlie their own. The under- one of the most promising solidity, which is maybe _ l Josh Graves on stated production places rock entrances since the best it can do. On the R Board Cushman on banjo and Concord/Starbucks dobro as they work without a net on a wild the focus where it should Radiohead's "Pablo first album, Dizzie Rascal 881110 MOM Hear Music "Orange Blossom Special," a swingin' "No be: the potent songs and Honey." Anthems like the and Lady Sovereign led Release Date: Feb. 14 Hard Times" and a reverent "The Great Cash's compelling vocals, title track and "Rock & grime's crawl out of the On Sergio Mendes'"Timeless," hip -hop rubs Speckled Bird." Reworkings of Stuart which convey strength Roll Queen," which electroclash club to beats with the samba and bossa nova. His country gems like "The Whiskey Ain't and vulnerability in equal peaked at No. 29 on the infiltration of the first studio album in eight years is an Workin' Anymore" and a sizzling "Hillbilly measure. -DEP Modern Rock chart, will domestic hipster scene: outgrowth of the Latin pioneer's earlier Rock" fit nicely alongside chestnuts like hook the kids but have This volume is not as collaborations with the Black Eyed Peas on "Shuckin' the Corn" and "Sure Wanna Keep enough irresistible edge strong without them. the group's "Elephunk" album and the "Be My Wine." Stuart is on a hell of a roll. -RW R&B to gratify the hipster set. Though tracks like Low JAHEIM Also startling is the Deep's "Get Set (Run the Ghetto Classics breadth of the band's Road Edition)" and Big Producers: various abilities: dreamy acoustic Seac's "Nah Nah" are NMI:Eel *y Warner Bros. ballads, '50s -style schizoid club bangers, Release Date: Feb. 14 bop'n'roll and aggressive Klashnekoff's "Can't You T.I. What You Know THE ISLEY Like Jaheim's grunge workouts, all in a See ?" and Crazy Titch's (4:34) THE ISLEY BROTHERS Just previous titles, mere 35 minutes. -SV "World Is Crazy" rely too Producer: DJ Toomp BROTHERS Came Here to Chill "Ghetto Love" and "Still much on standard Writers: C. Harris, .tC'RJA1D CiFI A N A AN7. MGGS (4:12) Ghetto," "Ghetto Classics" THE SWORD American hip -hop

A. Davis, C. Mayfield, JU51 CAME HFflf f0 CNiC[ Producers: Troy Taylor, paints the raspy- voiced Age of Winters elements. -JV n un I ,.. L. Hutson, D. Hathaway Gordon Chambers singer as a sensitive Producer: JD Cronise Publishers: Crown Club/ Writers: T. Taylor, roughneck, and it is a Kemado/Hollywood COUNTRY Toomp Stone (BMI) G. Chambers fitting contradiction. But Release Date: Feb. 14 Atlantic (CD promo) Publisher: not listed the gem of this old ©The Sword forged a JAMEY JOHNSON With his last album, "Urban Legend," T.I. DefSoul/DefJam (CD promo) school -flavored set is its name for itself at last The Dollar proved to be on his way to becoming a The Isley Brothers return with the fourth low -key grooves that rely year's South by Southwest Producer: Buddy Cannon leading rap figure. This first cut from the installment of Ronald Isley's incarnation as on thought -out storylines gathering, and the BNA Records Atlanta artist's upcoming fourth effort, the suave Mr. Biggs. With an album title like and not just sweet -talking advance hype on the Release Date: Jan. 31 "King," has the same self- assured tone as "Baby Makin' Music," it is pretty clear that jargon. Though Jaheim Austin -based retro metal ©Jamey Johnson's BNA previous singles "Bring Em Out" and "U this is not a collection about shooting finds love on tracks like act would have one believe debut, "The Dollar," Don't Know Me," but with less intensity. tequila and doing the limbo. First single "The Chosen One" and this is the second coming showcases his unique

Alongside a fittingly majestic tune (in- "Just Came Here to Chill" accomplishes lead single "Every Time I of Black Sabbath. Not voice, a barroom -tempered cluding a tuba and shrieking violin), the everything you might hope it to, from Think of Her" featuring quite, but in spite of the Southern drawl put to self -proclaimed "King of the South" coolly Isley's super- smooth vocal and a romantic Jadakiss, alongside those multiple medieval /fantasy good use on such uptempo flaunts the high life ( "50 on the pinky ring lyric about a VIP room just for two, to hip - sugary lyrics are equally references in the lyrics, the tunes as "Ray Ray's Juke just to make my fist glow ") while defending swaying production that conjures timeless soulful cuts that are Sword's debut is full of Joint" and ballads like the his "street cred." His flow is still corn - R &B from the 1970s. All that is needed is endearing yet aggressive. hard -hitting guitar gospel prayer "Lead Me manding, his metaphors crisp and his champagne and a flickering candle. The "Daddy Thing" finds him mastery -so much so that Home." One of Music Row's swagger intact. But now that T.I. is a force, rest will take care of itself. As vital as the embracing his father - at times "Age of Winters" most skilled producers, we expect more than just boasting; we day these guys first got it going on some figure role ( "I'm about you feels like it is more about Buddy Cannon puts the hope the rest of "King" will deliver. -CH 40 years ago. -CT and your little one "), while showboating than it is continued on »p50

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from »p49 emphasis squarely on LATIN Traces of tropicalia are PRINCE Beautiful, Loved & COUNTRY Johnson's weathered GRACIELA BELTRÁN inserted in the Spanish JAMIE FOXX FEATURING Blessed (5:43) HAL KETCHUM Just This vocals. The songs, however, Rancherísimas Con Banda songs, but elegantly so, TWISTA DJ Play a Love Producer: Prince Side of Heaven (Hal - are a mixed bag. A couple Producer: Louis Enrique for an effect that is Song (3:59) Writers: Tamar, Prince Lelujah) (3:56) run -of- the -mill redneck Payán organic and uncontrived. Producers: Po /ow Da Don, Publisher: not listed Producer: Doug Johnson anthems like "Redneck Univision While the Spanish - Sean Garrett, the Practice Universal (CD promo) Writers: D. Johnson, Side of Me" and "Rebel - Release Date: Jan. 31 language tracks are more Team Prince protégé Tamar gets J. McElroy icious" are stale filler, but Graciela Beltrán cele- palatable, Torres is equally Writers: J. Jones, S. Garrett, the royal treatment with her Publishers: various the Johnson original "My brates 20 years in the convincing on his English J. Perry first Universal single. "Beau- Asylum/Curb (CD promo) Saving Grace" is a poignant music business with an all - renditions. Standouts Publishers: various tiful, Loved & Blessed" was ©Hal Ketchum is back portrait of a dysfunctional banda album that is equal include "I Will Always J Records (CD promo) written by the pair and with a shimmering new family. The Alabama parts quality and zest. On Have This Love," sung These days, star power and features a vocal with Prince, effort that boasts a radio - native is at his best on this collection of mostly huskily over bluesy piano. a picture per week in Us who also produced and friendly melody and sing - traditional country fare standards, she is aided by As this album seeks a magazine are often more played all the instruments. along chorus. "Just This Side like "Keeping Up With the good arrangements that home, you can purchase it valuable to a chart act than The neo -soul joint offers a of Heaven (Hal -Lelujah)" is a Jonesin'," which features lend complexity to the at fulanomusic.com. It is any modicum of talent, and new age -y lyric: "When U well- written love song the legendary George genre. "Cariño Nuevo" worth checking out. -LC nobody is enjoying a more found me/Was just a piece riddled with romantic Jones. -DEP starts slow and romantic, robust media ride than of clay/Was 4mless, U gave imagery. The best part of infused with langorous actor- turned -instant -soul- me a new name /With the this delicious treat is clarinet lines. Then it WORLD singer Jamie Foxx. With a breath of life/Now live Ketchum's vocal. He has FOLK breaks into a faster waltz FLOOK No.1 album and single under abundantly." It also has an long had one of the most VARIOUS ARTISTS time before returning to Haven his belt, there is no reason to oddball melody that is at unique voices in the in-

I Am the Resurrection: A the original tempo. And Producers: Flook, Mark believe that "DJ Play a Love times creative and inspired, dustry. He is a stylist in the Tribute to John Fahey "Tus Desprecios" juxta- Tucker Song" will not sustain that at others meandering and best sense of the word, an Producers: M. Ward, poses Beltrán's melody World Village success. The groove here is curiously sparse. Nice artist able to infuse any lyric Stephen Brower line against the band's Release Date: Feb. 14 fine, and the guest touches like an electric with a sense of drama and Vanguard sometimes jazzy ©While there is no appearance from Twista guitar and Tamar's versatile urgency. This should remind Release Date: Feb. 14 counterpoint. For those shortage of fine adds the requisite rap. But vocal style make this programmers why he was Late guitar legend John who are more traditional, Celtic bands, fans should when Foxx sings the chorus, warrant repeated listening. blessed with a string of hits Fahey was nothing if not "Perdón Si Te Molesta" tilts make special note of there are enough fluffed -up But in today's radio world, early on in his career. Here's irreverent, so one won- toward ranchera in Irish /English quartet layers to rob the song of any this is not the song to launch hoping his brethren at ders what he would make interpretation, while the Flook. Flutists Sarah telltale personality. Perhaps a new artist. -CT country radio show him a of this lovingly assembled single "Enséname A Allen and Brian that is best, because on the little more love. -DEP tribute featuring several Olvidar" is a peppy, Finnegan, bodhran/ verses, Foxx's vocals are indie rock notables. Peter straight -ahead banda mandolin player John whiny and thin. The song ROCK Case's version of "When track. Overall, this is a Joe Kelly and guitarist Ed itself is an effective midnight THRICE Red Sky (4:17) the Catfish Is in Bloom" is happy marriage of Boyd are grind. The artist, however, Producer: Steve Osborne PEOPLE IN PLANES If You nearly identical to the tradition and con- virtuosos spoils the mood. -CT Writer: Thrice Talk Too Much (My Head THIS WEEK ON source, and Pelt's temporary flair. -LC known for Publishers: Sceptor of Will Explode) (3:35) "Sunflower River Blues" their in- (X)I1r1 Malice/BMG (ASCAP) Producer: Sam Williams comes close. But the best FULANO novative Island (CD promo) Writer: G. Jones ADDITIONAL moments come when Individual approach to REVIEWS: PRINCE Black Sweat (3:11) One reason Thrice's latest Publishers: Wicked Broth/ these devotees attempt a Producers: Elsten Torres, traditional She Wants Producer: Prince ©album, "Vheissu," is so Viovodes (ASCAP) new twist, such as Howie Brendan Buckley Celtic music Revenge, Writer: Prince impressive is that the Wind -up (CD promo) Gelb retrofitting "My Self -released "Haven " is "She Wants Publisher: listed foursome as Revenge" not rocks just ©Arriving from Cardiff, Grandfather's Clock" for Release Date: Jan. 31 loaded with (Geffen) Universal (CD promo) thoroughly in the deep Wales, newcomer an endearingly out -of- ©Why is Fulano not jigs and Bad Wizard, Prince's "Te Amo Corazon," grooves of its midtempo People in Planes carries a tune piano. Fruit Bats signed to a major -or reels, many "Sky High" the first release from his jams as it does during its cargo of atmospheric post - (Howler) sprinkle wordless vocals, an indie, for that matter? of which are imminent Universal debut, post -hardcore raves. New Radiohead riff -rock, rubbing Califone, weird effects and a light The group is led by Miami - originals. "Roomsound" "3121," was a pleasant single "Red Sky" is one of shoulders with fellow U.K. drumbeat atop the usually based singer /songwriter The two (Thrill Jockey) melodic ballad that restored the former. Instead of acts Snow Patrol and Muse. spartan "Death of the Elsten Torres, who writes forms make faith on the charts in Spain, focusing on the heavens, Their paranoid debut Clayton Peacock," while evocative, heartfelt songs for a sweet contrast: The Canada, Norway, Italy and Dustin Kensrue's elegant anthem boasts a Sufjan Stevens' "Variation that are emotional but jigs are fiery and elsewhere. Follow -up "Black lyric speaks of sailors dying hypnotically soothing on 'Commemorative never sappy. The material technically challenging, Sweat," however, is sure to at sea. "I've seen the flash of chorus, delivered with Transfiguration & Com- is catchy and well- crafted. and the reels are stall whatever momentum teeth /Conspiring with the typical indie under- munion at Magruder It veers from decidedly melodically intricate and Prince may have regained; reef to sink our ship" hints statement. This quintet loves Park' " could have been an commercial fare that could wistful. Recommended one can imagine that that the well -read frontman a good hook, but distrusts outtake from his own play well on radio (the tracks include "Road to Universal and hopeful fans might have been inspired gloss. Gareth Jones' moody "Illinois" album. It is all uptempo, guitar -rich "De Errogie" and "Tir must be gritting their by the myth of Scylla and vocals are raw and rooted as pleasant enough, but in Aquí A Mañana" and the Refartaigh," which collective teeth. This song Charybdis. The song's wave he repeats, "If you talk too no way a substitute for warmly intimate "Olvi- dissolves into one of the sounds like a reluctant B- gathers amid muted knocks much my head will explode," Fahey's trailblazing daré") to English tracks most righteous jigs you side, recorded late one night of percussion, watery slow- burning his one -liner originals. -JC with a harder rock edge. have ever heard. -PVV when inspiration was run- blurbs of guitar and a into a powerful mantra. With ning low. Prince squawks, rumbling bass current that its ambitious arrangement - chants the chorus ( "Work- reflect the muffled audio a soaring bridge launches ing up a black sweat ") and quality heard beneath the late to rebuild the song -"If 11.111:1111 ti 1:11011611 speaks the verses in a mono- ocean. The wall of sound You Talk" transcends tone. As much as we breaks at the chorus, as the formula. It is a first burst of EDITED BY JONATHAN COHEN (ALBUMS) AND CRITICS' CHOICE *: A new release, regardless of chart continue to hope for a real guitars and the crashes of brilliance, beautifully CHUCK TAYLOR (SINGLES) potential, highly recommended for musical merit. CONTRIBUTORS: Leila Cobo, Jonathan Cohen, Clover Prince comeback to help drummer Riley balanced, that will strike a Hope, Todd Martens, Gail Mitchell, Dan Ouellette, Sven All albums commercially available in the United inspire an increasingly Breckenridge's cymbals sensitive nerve with rock Philipp, Deborah Evans Price, Chuck Taylor, Christa L Titus, States are eligible. Send album review copies to stagnant R &B scene, "Black roar like a storm -tossed radio. Its video is directed Van Vleck, Susan Jeff Vrabel, Ray Waddell Jonathan Cohen and singles review copies to Chuck Philip Visakowitz, Sweat" is disappointing, if sea. A richly cultivated by actor Joaquin Phoenix; Taylor (both at Billboard, 770 Broadway, Sixth not irritating. ode to death. -CLT watch out the PICK : A new release predicted to hit the top half of Floor, New York, N.Y. 10003) or to the writers in the -CT for debut the chart in the corresponding format. appropriate bureaus. TAMAR FEATURING album March 28. -SP

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TW1=N1 FY -FIVE >s s his th top 1 'on ' ö ountry Manilow Rules; Waiting For Grammys' Muscle Songs with "Living in Fast Fcrward," which jumps 12 -9 with the Greatest Gainer nod This time he did no: write the songs, but Nos. 3 and 5, respectively. Headley also break between its playoffs and the Super 17.6 million viewers and pulled a 7.3 rat - (25 million impressions). Barry Manilow is pnbably happy to trade enters Top R &B /Hip -Hop Albums at No. Bowl. The NFL moved back to its preferred ing/18 share among adults 18 -49. "Idol," Eight of his top 10 songs have in his composer credits for his first No. 1 (see Between the Bullets, page 61). two -week window last year, prompting the meanwhile, reeled in 28.3 million view- spent time in the No. 1 box. Ct esney first appeared in the 1 album in almost three decades (see Grammys to drop back one week, just one ers and a 11.3/28 in the demo, allowing top 10 when "Fall in Love" story, page 22). THE CHALLENGE: Call it the day before Valentine's Day. Fox to claim the nightly victory in viewers 6 in July 1995. Grammy Awards' Super Bowl shuffle. Squaring off against ABC's then - (20.5 million) and adults 18 -49 (8.1/19). Following the example the Academy breakout hit "Desperate Housewives," Despite the ratings decline, the a fifth Kelly Clarkson earns Awards set a few years earlier, the Record- the Grammys fell from a 15.7 rating and Grammys will in all likelihood still be consecutive top 10 from her "Breakaway" album on Billboard ing Academy moved to a Sunday broad- a 24 share to an 11.6/18 showing. OK, so the year's most -watched music awards Radio Monitor's Mainstream Top cast for the coronation of Norah Jones I understand CBS and the academy shy- show and will absolutely have an im- 4C chart with "Walk Away" (13- the Grammy telecast of 2003. ing away from Sunday, but I have a hard pact on sales. 10e. She is the first artist sinc ...I mean, Usher in 2004 to place five A Sunday show worked particularly time figuring out why the Grammys re- last year, Billboard's charts saw at least sir gles from the same album well the next year, when a move forward turned to its old night, Wednesday, rather 20 albums reach higher ground on that chart's top 10. by the Oscars prompted CBS and the than an alternative. Grammy's shoulders, as well as several Grammys to seek an earlier perch. Wednesday plays host to "Lost," the striking spikes on Hot Digital Songs. The Feb. 8 telecast in 2003 created a other big hit that ABC launched in 2004, Also, that night's big winner, the late Ray tent that had the Grammys hitting air- which generally hovers in or close to the Charles, motored to No. 1 on The Bill- waves the night before the tracking week top 10 of the weekly ratings race. And, board 200, just as Jones, the "O Brother, began, with Valentine's Day parked on a oh, yeah, Wednesday belongs to an Where Art Thou ?" soundtrack and San- Saturday toward the end of the week, with episode of TV's current ratings king, Fox's tana did in recent years. the release of Jones' second Blue Note "American Idol." Although some critics question the album and its million -plus opener sand- Although not viewed as much as the relevance of the Grammys, the impact wiched in the middle. Tuesday "Idol," the Wednesday edition this show delivers at the cash register "The Greatest Sings of the Fifties" Music retailers and this columnist ranked no lower than third for the week each year proves it indeed resonates starts with 156,003 copies, by far his quickly fell in love with the idea of a Sun- and earned no less than an 18.2 rating with consumers. biggest Nielsen SoundScan week. That day Grammys leading into Valentine shop- in either of its first two telecasts of the We are eager to see the telecast's rip- THREE ON TOP 2006 That set up the distinct and ples on next week's charts, as well as the his dusts the 113,000 1.-nits that hits collec- ping, as 17.3 million album units were season. O rank, tion "Ultimate Manilow" sold when it sold, more than in any other week outside disturbing possibility that "music's album volume resulting from the com- but not his best sales week, bowed at No. 3 in 204)2 to become his first of a November or December since Nielsen biggest night" might lose to an amateur bined influence of the Grammys, Valen- as "Amore" enters at No. 3 at the (113,000 copies). This also top 10 album since 1979. SoundScan opened its doors in 1991. hour of singers. tine's Day and the music showcased marks his third straight No. 1 The big chart also sees new peaks for That, however, was one of those rare And lose out it did. According to Nielsen Super Bowl and during the first weekend I on Top Classical Crossover. Research, averaged of Olympics coverage. Could be fun. -' i Andrea Bocelli and Heather Headley at years when the NFLtook only a one -week Media the Grammys

For week ending Feb. 5, 2006. Figures are rounded. A Weekly National Music Sales Report Compiled from a national sample of retail store and Nielsen Watch by SoundScan Market rack sales reports collected and provided WEEKLY UNIT SALES YEAR -TO -DATE STORE DIGITAL ALBUMS SINGLES TRACKS 2005 2006 CHANGE 2005 2006 CHANGE This Week 10,985,000 61,000 10,970,000 OVERALL UNIT SALES YEAR -TO -DATE SALES BY ALBUM CATEGORY READ FRED BRONSON EVERY WEEK AT Last Week 9.932,000 58,000 11,139,000 Albums 51,703,000 51,225,000 -0.9% Current 31,336,000 30,613,000 -2.3% /FRED BILLBOARD.COM Digital Tracks 26,180,000 57,113,000 118.2% Change 10.6% 5.2% -1.5% Catalog 20,367,000 20,612,000 1.2% Store Singles 393,000 313,000 -20.4% »Copenhagen -born musician This Week Last Year 11,439,000 78,000 5,538,000 Deep Catalog 14,074,000 14,224,000 1.1% Be-it Fabric, best -known for Total 78,276,000 108,651.000 38.8% Cat," returns Change -4.0% -21.8% 98.1% his 1962 hit "Alley Albums w/TEA* 54,321,000 56,936.300 4.8% to :he Billboard charts after a Current Album Sales 'Includes track equivalent album sales (TEA) with 10 track downloads 43 -year absence. Now 81 years equivalent to one album sale. , .. _ olc, Fabric's "Jukebox" takes a WEEKLY ALBUM SALES '05 31.3 million 10-point hike to No. 26 on Hot '06 30.6 million Dance Club Play. It is the first 35 million units relaase under the Hidden Beach banner. Tracks Sales International 30 Digital 2005 Catalog Album Sales » =red Bronson also reports 2006 05 26o 1 i 25 05 20.4 million on the latest achievements of '06 57.1 million Arista labelmates Barry and 06 s,...y.r ,kI Ca rie (Manilow and Under- 20 wood, of course). On The Bit board Hot 100, James Blunt 5 is the highest- charting U.K. Nielsen SoundScan counts as current only sales with- art st since Elton John released SALES BY ALBUM FORMAT in the first 18 months of an album's release (12 10 months for classical and jazz albums). Titles that stay "Candle in the Wind 1997" in, CD 50,080,000 48,204,000 -3.7% urr5 1997. Plus, Merle Haggard in the top half of The Billboard 200, however, remain Digital 1,118,000 2,764,000 147.2% 18 har a double presence on Hot as current. Titles older than months are catalog. Co antry Songs, and the Cassette 393,000 161.000 -59.0% Deep catalog is a subset of catalog for titles out more Temptations split from Motown than 36 months. Other 112,000 96,000 -14.3% for the second time. J F M A M J J 'A'S'O'N'D'

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DIPLOMATS DEF JAM 005426' /IDJMG (13.98/8.98) 4- ANDREA BOCELLI D4L Amore 53 52 47 Down For Life 22 UGAR DECCA 006069 UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP (13 98) -?1® OEEMONEY/ASYLUM 83890'AG (18.98) JAMIE FOXX CHAMILLIONAIRE Unpredictable 56 50 The Sound Of Revenge 10 71779': RMG 118.981 U CD ® UNIVERSAL 005423':UMRG (13.98) HEATHER HEADLEY With KENNY ROGERS In My Mind 6,000, 55 24 - 21 Number Ones 24 CA 64492 RMG 118.981 o CAPITOL (NASHVILLE) 40489 /CAPITOL (18,98) band comes ® L DIVO THE ALL -AMERICAN REJECTS Ancora 56 48 43 Move 6 YCO /COLUMBIA 76914/SONY MUSIC (18.98) in at No. 2 N Along DOGHOUSE 004791 INTERSCOPE (13.98) EMINEM on Top Rock BILLY CURRINGTON 7 8 3 Curtain Call: The Hits 57 59 53 Doin' Somethin' Right 11 HADY/AFTERMATH 005881./INTERSCOPE (13.98/8.98) Albums. MERCURY 003712/UMGN (13.98) CARRIE UNDERWOOD BROOKS & DUNN Some Hearts Current single 58 58 60 Hillbilly Deluxe 3 MST/II/ARISTA NASHVILLE 71197/RMG (18.98) ARISTA NASHVILLE 69946/RLG (18.98) JAMES BLUNT "Cab" moves DISTURBED Back To Bedlam 59 53 48 , Ten Thousand Fists 1 USTARD /ATLANTIC 97250!55 (15.98) 16 -14 on REPRISE 49433 /WARNER BROS (18.981 H.: TRAIN MADONNA For Me, Its You 60 40 24 Confessions On A Dance Floor 1 COLUMBIA 94472/SONY MUSIC (18.98) WARNER BROS. 49460 (18.98) JOSH TURNER SYSTEM OF A DOWN Your Man 61 45 28 Hypnotize 1 MCA NASHVILLE 004744!UMGN (13.98) AMERICAN /COLUMBIA 93871. SONY MUSIC (15.98) û) VARIOUS ARTISTS BON JOVI 72 6 - NOW #1's 65 56 Have A Nice Day 2 UNIVERSAL'EMI/SONY BMG'ZOMBA 005959/UME (18.98) ISLAND 005371 /IDJMG (18.98) 6 SOUNDTRACK PANIC! AT THE DISCO 10 58 High School Musical 63 39 52 A Fever You Can't Sweat Out 39 ® WALT DISNEY 861426 (12.98) DECAYDANCE 077 /FUELED BY RAMEN (13 98) MARIAH CAREY LITTLE BIG TOWN 16 10 The Emancipation Of Mimi 64 63 69 The Road To Here 63 ISLAND 005784' /IDJMG (13.98) O EQUITY 3010 (13.98) CHRIS BROWN FAITH HILL 12 7 Chris Brown 65 50 40;; Fireflies I© 1 JIVE 82876/ZOMBA (18.98) WARNER BROS. (NASHVILLE) 48794/WRN (18.98) e CD of lighter- NICKELBACK 13 GREEN DAY 16 6 All The Right Reasons © 1. waving '805 66 55 34 American Idiot 1 ROADRUNNER 618300/IDJMG (18.98) REPRISE 48777` /WARNER BROS (18.98) THE BLACK EYED PEAS and '90s rock JACK JOHNSON 18 11 Monkey Business CD71 64 In Between Dreams 2 A &M 004341' /INTERSCOPE (13.95/8)98) tunes sur- JACK JOHNSON'BRUSHFIRE 004149' /UMRG (13 98) VARIOUS ARTISTS GWEN STEFANI Monster Ballads: Platinum Edition passes peaks e8 66 65 Love. Angel. Music. Baby. 5 'AZOR 8 TIE 89107 (18.98) INTERSCOPE 003469' (13.98) of two previ- JOHNNY CASH BRAD PAISLEY 17 5 15 The Legend Of Johnny Cash 69 75 Time Well Wasted 2 e{ LEGACY' COLUMBIA (NASHVILLE) /AMERICAN /ISLAND 005288 /UME (13.98) ous "Ballads" ARISTA NASHVILLE 69642 RLG (18.98) 1 VARIOUS ARTISTS sets. ANTHONY HAMILTON 1 WOW Gospel 2006 70 61 57 Ain't Nobody Worryin' EMICMG/WORD -CURB 75160 ZOMBA (19.98) SO SO DEF 74278/ZOMBA (18.98) TRACE ADKINS GUNS N' ROSES 20 16 A6 Songs About Me U 71 68 71 Greatest Hits 3 CAPITOL (NASHVILLE) 64512 (18.98) GEFFEN 001714 / INTERSCOPE (16.98) RASCAL FLATTS KIRK FRANKLIN 21 18 71 Feels Like Today 72 64 49 Hero 13 LYRIC STREET 165049/HOLLYWOOD (18.98) FO YO SDULGOSPO CENTRIC 71019/ZOMBA (18.98) KEYSHIA COLE COLDPLAY 26 23 ® TheWayltls 73 73 61 X &Y 1 A &M 003554' INTERSCOPE (13.98) CAPITOL 74786 (18.98) KELLY CLARKSON SOUNDTRACK 24- 19 12 Breakaway O 74 54 30 Get Rich Or Die Tryin' 2 RCA 64491/RMG (18.98) G -UNIT 005605' /INTERSCOPE (13.98/8.98) THE PUSSYCAT DOLLS IL DIVO 22 15 PCD Ironically, the 75 74 144 II Divo 4 A &M 005374/ INTERSCOPE (13.98) SYCO /COLUMBIA 93963iSONY MUSIC 118.98) YELLOWCARD album (the THREE 6 MAFIA 5 Lights And Sounds 5 76 77 74 Most Known Unknown 3 CAPITOL 70960 (18,98) O act's first on HYPNOTIZE MINDS'COLUMBIA 94724/SONY MUSIC (18.98)'.0 THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. DIERKS BENTLEY 27 15 8 7 Duets: The Final Chapter a label other 77 75 73 Modern Day Drifter 6 BAD BOY 83885`/ÁG (19.98) CAPITOL (NASHVILLE) 66475 (18.98)* than Motown) FALL OUT BOY ROSANNE CASH 28 23 14 40 From Under The Cork Tree I© O 84 - Black Cadillac FUELED BY RAMEN/ISLAND 004140' /IDJMG (13.98) is devoted CAPITOL 48738 (18.98) VARIOUS ARTISTS to covers NATASHA BEDINGFIELD 29 25 13 14 Now 20 83 95 Unwritten SONY BMG/ZOMBA'EMI 005740 /UME (18.98) O 5óî of Motown EPIC 77515 SONY MUSIC (11.98) DESTINY'S CHILD THE TEMPTATIONS 30 27 19 15 #1's classics. Reflections COLUMBIA 07765150NY MUSIC (18.98) 119 ® NEW DOOR 005170/UME (13.98) KEITH URBAN REBA MCENTIRE 31 27 72 Be Here IS 81 70 62 Reba: #1's 12 CAPITOL (NASHVILLE) 77489 (18.98) MCA NASHVILLE 005366/UMGN (19.98) U VARIOUS ARTISTS CAT POWER 32 14 - 2006 Grammy Nominees 82 34 The Greatest 34 GRAMMY 74277 SONY BMG STRATEGIC MARKETING GROUP (18 98) MATADOR 626' (15 98) PACE MICHAEL BUBLE DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE 60 66 52 It's Time 7 83 72 39 Plans 4 Cti SETTER 143/REP9ISE 48946/WARNER BROS. (18.980+ p._ BARSUK /ATLANTIC 83834 ^AG (15.98) MATISYAHU VARIOUS ARTISTS 34 32 33 Live At Stubb's WOW Hits 2006 ,R EPIC 96464 SONY MUSIC (13.981 Price tags EMICMG /PROVIDENT -INTEGRITY /WORD -CURB 11247 /SPARROW (22.98) KENNY CHESNEY HILARY DUFF 35 28 The Road And The Radio of $5.99 at 85 78 67 Most Wanted R 1 BNA 72960 /910 (18.98) ©® HOLLYWOOD 162524 (18.98) LIL WAYNE Circuit City YING YANG TWINS 36 29 20 Tha Carter II 88 81 72 U.S.A. Still United CASH MONEY 005124' /UMRG (13.98) and $6.99 COLLIPARK 2790 TVT (11.98 CO DO) H. NELLY JAMEY JOHNSON e36 35 Sweatsuit at Best Buy The Dollar FO' REEL/DERRTY 005825' /UMRG (13.98) CD BNA 726901RLO (11.98) and Target SHE WANTS REVENGE ®® AVENGED SEVENFOLD She Wants Revenge 88 79 63 City Of Evil ®. PERFECTKISS /FLAWLESS'GEFFEN 005587 / INTERSCOPE (9.98) help duo's HOPELESS 48613' /WARNER BROS (15.98) SUGAR LAND debut THE STROKES 37 31 Twice The Speed Of Life First Impressions Of Earth 4 MERCURY 002172/UMGN (13.98) fly high RCA 73177-/RMG (18.98) P.O.D. ASHLEE SIMPSON 4C 9 Testify (26,000). 90 82 I Am Me 1 ATLANTIC 83857/AG (18.98) I GEFFEN 005436/ INTERSCOPE (13.98) T PAIN JUANITA BYNUM 41 46 Rappa Ternt Sanga 91 87 A Piece Of My Passion 55 KONVICT MUZIK,JIVE 73200 / ZOMBA (18.98) I FLOW 9301 (17.98) ENYA NEIL DIAMOND 42 3C 21 Amarantine 11 92 b2 12 Songs 4 REPRISE 49474 /WARNER BROS. (18.98) AMERICAN /COLUMBIA 77508' 1SONY MUSIC (18.98) C3SEAN PAUL BO BICE 4E 41 The Trinity 93 76 The Real Thing 4 VP /ATLANTIC 83788'/AG (18.98) 1 RCA 71196 RMG (18.98) D SOUNDTRACK MARTINA MCBRIDE 44 3E 29 Walk The Line 1 94 85 Timeless 3 FOX 13109 /WIND -UP 118.98) RCA NASHVILLE 72425 /RLG (18.981 Grammy DADDY YANKEE ALICIA KEYS 4° 3E 25 Barrio Fino: En Directo 95 90 Unplugged EL CARTEL 005792 INTERSCOPE (13.98 CD /DVD) l8 opener sees J 67424 /RMG (18.98) A I 19% increase MIRANDA LAMBERT SOUNDTRACK 4E 59 Kerosene 96 80 Brokeback Mountain `ì7 EPIC (NASHVILLE( 92026 /SONY MUSIC (12.98) 9/ (20,000) as FOCUS /VERVE FORECAST 005604,50 (18.98) YOUNG JEEZY JASON ALDEAN 43 4L 42 Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101 111 latest single Jason Aldean 3T CORPORATE THUG2. DEE JAM 004421' /I0JMG (13.98) BROKEN BOW 7657 (12.98) CI KORN "Dare" holds INXS 4E 32, 26 See You On The Other Side 86 Switch 17 VIRGIN 45889 (18.98) 1 its bullet at BURNETT /EPIC 97727/SONY MUSIC (18.98) p GORILLAZ No. 13 on HIM 51 45 Demon Days Dark Light 18 PARLOPHONE 73838' /VIRGIN (18.98) , SIRE 49284' /WARNER BROS. (15.98) Modern KANYE WEST CELTIC WOMAN 5C 43 36 Late Registration Rock. 4; 102 89` Celtic Woman 75 ROC- AFELLA DEE 4410 004813' /.156 (13 981 MANHATTAN 60233 (18.98)

MARY J. BILLYCURRINGTON .. ,57 ROCICLJRCAL 183 FOO FIGHTERS 194 INXS 98 THE KILLERS 125 THE BILLBOARD 200 ARTIST INDEX BLINK-182 138 JUANITA BYNUM 91 CHLAMLLIOVJAIRE 154 JAMIE FI XX 4 ANTHONY HAMILTON KORN 43 JAMES BLUNT ...... 9 KENNY CHESNEY 35 KIRK FRANKLIN 72 HAWTHORNEHEIGHTS ..119 13YEACS ...... 1I4 GARY ALLAN 184 BOX ORCHESTRA ....198 ANDREA BOCELLI 3 CIARA 173 D4L 53 EMIN E4 . 7 THE FRAY 191 HEATHER HEADLEY 5 LYFE JENNINGS 130 5) CM! .. 1C7 ALY & AJ 171 BAD BOY JOE & JOHNNY BONE THUGS -N- CHRIS CAGLE .....156 KAPE4CLAPo(- SHEAAD .179 DADDY YANKEE 45 ENPA . 42 IMOGEN HEAP 196 JACK JOHNSON 67 MIRANDA LAMBERT _45 172 BUTZ 162 FIONA APPLE HARMONY 163 MARIAH CAREY 14 KELLY :LACKSOA .....24 DEATH CAB FOR CUTTE 83 SARA =VANS 116 FAITH HILL 65 JAMEY JOHNSON 87 JOHN LEGEND 18' AQUALUNG 190 NATASHA BEDINGFIELD ..79 Y)LANCAÖ . BON JOVI 62 0MARTY CASEY & COLDFLAY 73 0REPECHE MODE ... 186 GAMIER VOCAL BAND ..148 HIM 99 JUANES 164 JENNY LEWIS WITH THE TRAC L1 AUDIOSLAVE 168 BEE GEES 197 CHRIS BOTTI ...... ,182 LOVEHAMMERS ... .140 KEYSt4A COLE . 23 DESTINY'S CHILD .... 30 GORILLAZ .... 49 HINDER 200 WATSON TWINS .. 17 ) ALAFUTA 120 AVENGEDSEVENFOLD ...88 DIERKS BENTLEY 77 © BOW WOW 136 JOHNNY CASH 19 DANE 300K ...... 104 NEIL DIAMOND 92 FALL C77BO© GREEN DAY 66,189 LIFEHOUSE 175 JA5C4 SLDEAN .... ?7 BO BICE 93 BROOKS & DUNN 58 ROSANNE CASH 78 CREEL. 105 DISTURBED 59 FLOETR' ...... _ 142 GUNS N' ROSES .. 71 TORYTOBY KEITH LIL WAYNE 33 BIG & RICH 112, 178 TiE .L AMERICAN IIMEIMIDINIMIE CHRIS BROWN 15 CASTING CROWNS ...165 SHER', CFOW 144 HILARY DUFF 85 JOHN TJGERTY 121 IL DIVO KEYS 95 LITTLE BIG TOWN .. .64 THE BABY EINSTEIN MUSIC THE BLACK EYED PEAS . 17 REJ'Cr5 56 MICHAEL RUBLE ..33. 151 CAT POWER 82 KIDZ BOP KIDS 117

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xW xcs ARTIST Title x .-W ARTIST Title'' IMPRINT 8 NUMBER / DISTRIBUTING LABEL (PRICE) IMPRINT & NUMBER / DISTRIBUTING LABEL (PRICE) TOBY KEITH 4 aMICHAEL BUBLE n Greatest Hits 2 RE-ENTRY Caught In The Act DREAMWORKS (NASHVILLE) 002323, UMGN 113.981 143. REPRISE 49444 WARNER BROS (32.98 CD/DVD) .+ STAIND SYSTEM OF A DOWN Chapter V p152 136 121 Mezmerize 1" `EI' FLIP/ATLANTIC 62982/AG (18.98) AMERICAN /COLUMBIA 90648, SONY MUSIC (18.98) BUN -B MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE 109 100 Trill 135 102 Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge 28 RAP-A -LOT 4 LIFE 68539 /ASYLUM (18.98) REPRISE 48615ï WARNER BROS (18.98) DANE COOK After 'Today' NINE INCH NAILS 104 104 92 Retaliation 154 148 117.rn With Teeth 1 COMEDY CENTRAL 0034 (18.98 CD/DVD) NOTHING 004553 / INTERSCOPE (13.98) Qí7 and "Ellen" CREED PURPLE RIBBON ALL-STARS 105 112 138 Greatest Hits 147 137 10 Big Boi Presents...Got Purp? Vol. ll 49 WINO -UP 13103 (18.98 CD /DVD) performances PURPLE RIBBON 12207 /VIRGIN (18.98) PAUL WALL during CHRIS CAGLE 106 107 99 The Peoples Champ Ike 138 159: Anywhere But Here SWISHAHOUSE/ATLANTIC 83808 /ASYLUM (18.98) tracking CAPITOL (NASHVILLE) 77380 (18.98) 11 SANTANA MARY MARY 107 92 85 All That I Am week, his 0111:191 Mary Mary ARISTA 59773/RMG (18.981 MY BLOCK; COLUMBIA 77733/SONY MUSIC (18.98) ROB THOMAS collected TREY SONGZ 133 127 ...Something To Be 169 165 I Gotta Make It 44iß ® MELISMA/ATLANTIC 83723/AG (18.98 DD) albums jump SONG BOOK/ATLANTIC 83721/AG (15.98) DON OMAR 62% in sales. VARIOUS ARTISTS 109 97 94 Q Da Hitman Presents Reggaeton Latino 145 109;, Now 19 © 1 VI /MACHETE 005850/UMRG (13.98) THE EMI GROUP UNIVERSAL/SONY BMG /ZOMBA 12133 /CAPITOL (18.98) GRETCHEN WILSON SOUNDTRACK 110 99 93 CI All Jacked Up 128 82 8 The Chronicles Of Namia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe EPIC (NASHVILLE) 94169 /SONY MUSIC (18.98) ® Ili WALT DISNEY 861374 (18.98) O VARIOUS ARTISTS SHINEDOWN I Can Only Imagine 143 1 Us And Them 1140 19223/TIME LIFE (19.98) ATLANTIC 83817/AG (18.98) Ca BIG & RICH BAD BOY JOE & JOHNNY BUDZ 112 91 79 Comin' To Your City 62 98 UltraDance.07 WARNER BROS (NASHVILLE) 49470/WRN (18.98) 3 ULTRA 1358 (19.98) SOUNDTRACK BONE THUGS -N- HARMONY 113 111 113 The Gospel Greatest Hits VERITY 71620/ZOMBA (18.98) RUTHLESS 25423 (18.98) GRETCHEN WILSON JUANES 126 126 Here For The Party 0 Boxec Mi Sangre ID EPIC (NASHVILLE) 90903 /SONY MUSIC (18.98) O set SURCO 003475 /UNIVERSAL LATINO (17.98) O containing CASTING CROWNS 115 100 76 CI WEEZER Make Believe 111 Lifesong GEFFEN 004520/ INTERSCOPE (13.98) 51 tracks is BEACH STREET 10770 /REUNION (17.98) SARA EVANS CHARLIE WILSON 116 114 103 Real Fine Place band's fifth Charlie, Last Name Wilson D RCA NASHVILLE 69486 /RIG (18.98) JIVE 69429 /ZOMBA (18.98) KIDZ BOP KIDS anthology USHER 117 106 107 Kidz Bop 8 {ti Confessions D ® RAZOR 8 TIE 89104 (18.98) release since LAFACE 63982/ZOMBA (18.98/12.98) THIRD DAY I: AUDIOSLAVE 118 117 110 Wherever You Are 2001. 168 152 143 Out Of Exile ESSENTIAL 10795 EPIC 004603'INTERSCOPE (17.98) debuts at (13.98) HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS VARIOUS ARTISTS 119 93 122 The Silence In Black And White Crunk Hits VICTORY 220 (13.98) No. 28 on TVT 2505 (18.98) O ALABAMA Country JENNY LEWIS WITH THE WATSON TWINS Livin' Lovin' Rockin' Rollin': The 25th Anniversary Collection 170 88 Rabbit Fur Coat ©` RCA NASHVILLE /LEGACY 71918/RMG (36.98) Albums. TEAM LOVE 08 (13.98) JOHN FOGERIY ALY & AJ 121 108 The Long Road Home: The Ultimate John Fogerty- (keedence Collection 171 165 1 Into The Rush 36 FANTASY 9686/CONCORD (18.98) HOLLYWOOD 162505 (18.98) MONTGOMERY GENTRY To FIONA APPLE 122 103 a- Something Be Proud Of: The Best Of 1999 -2005 172 149 101 Extraordinary Machine 7 'LUMBIA (NASHVILLE) 77512/SONY MUSIC (18.98) CLEAN SLATE 86683 /EPIC (18.98) SHAKIRA CIARA 123 96 77 Oral Fixation Vol. 2 Goodies © 3 IC 97708 /SONY MUSIC (18.98) SHO'NUFF /MUSICLINE /LAFACE 62819 / ZOMBA (18.98/12.98) 10 YEARS TWISTA 124 125 1 The Autumn Effect 174 161 156 The Day After 2 E PUBLIC /UNIVERSAL 005018/UMRG (9.98) ATLANTIC 83820/AG (18.98) JOE NICHOLS GEORGE STRAIT 1% 122 125 III 175 167 16 50 Number Ones D NIVERSAL SOUTH 004796 (13.98) MCA NASHVILLE 000459/UMGN (25.98) YOLANDA ADAMS LIFEHOUSE 150 155 Day By Day Latest single 176 166 14 Lifehouse 10 ATLANTIC 83789/AG (18.98) GEFFEN 004308 / INTERSCOPE (13.98) "SOS' is fea- 50 CENT REGGAETON NINOS 141 131 The Massacre D 155 Reggaeton Ninos Vol. 1 146 SHADY /AFTERMATH 004092 / INTERSCOPE (13.98/8.98) O+ tured it a AFUEGO URBAN BOX OFFICE 46957 /EMI LATIN (13.98) THE KILLERS Nike ac BIG & RICH 128 121 96 Q Hot Fuss Ill 178 92 Horse Of A Different Color 1© 6 ISLAND 002468 /IDJMG (13.98) campa gn and WARNER BROS. (NASHVILLE) 48520/WRN (18.98) SOUNDTRACK KAREN CLARK-SHEARD 129 131 115 Hustle & Flow is the lead 179 2 It's Not Over 124 13 GRAND HUSTLE/ATLANTIC 83822/AG (18.98) WORD -CURB 86379/WARNER BROS. (17.98) LYFE JENNINGS track fr-Im her WISIN & YANDEL 144 139 CI Lyfe 268 -192 180 12 Pal Mundo 30 COLUMBIA 90946 /SONY MUSIC (12.98) O® new album, MACHETE 561402 (15.98) RBD RIHANNA 131 119 128 Nuestro Amor i-_' due April 11. 23 Music Of The Sun 10 13 EMI LATIN 35902 (14.98) SAP /DEF JAM 004937/IDJMG (13.98) RICKY NELSON CHRIS BOTTI 132 110 81 Greatest Hits 182 16 To Love Again: The Duets 18 CI CAPITOL 12262 (18.98) COLUMBIA 77505/SONY MUSIC (18.98) ROD STEWART ROCIO DURCAL 133 127 111 1:1 Thanks For The Memory... The Great American Songbook Vol. IV 1 Amor Eterno 183 J 69286 /RMG (18.98) SONY BMG NORTE 77124 (15.98) OO SOUNDTRACK GARY ALLAN 134 116 98 Underworld: Evolution 184 175 164 17 Tough All Over 3 a LAKESHORE 33846 (18.98) MCA NASHVILLE 003711 /UMGN (13.98) DAMIAN "JR. GONG" MARLEY THE WHITE STRIPES 135 12090® Welcome To Jamrock 185 156 106 31 Get Behind Me Satan 3 GHETTO YOUTHS/TUFF GONG 005416" /UMRG (13.98) Album re- THIRD MAN 27256/V2 (18.98) BOW WOW DEPECHE MODE 139 133 Wanted enters :up 186 153 132 16 Playing The Angel e COLUMBIA 93505"/SONY MUSIC (18.98) O+ SIRE /REPRISE 49348 /WARNER BROS. (18.98) O+ PITBULL 40 %) in JOHN LEGEND 142 129 CI Money Is Still A Major Issue RE-ENTRY 46 Get Lifted DIAZ BROTHERS 2750/TVT (11.98 CD /DVD) O advarce of G.0.0.0./COLUMBIA 92776 "/SONY MUSIC (18.98) O® BLINK -182 NEIL YOUNG 138 115 91 Greatest Hits his Grammy 188 154 15 19 Prairie Wind GEFFEN 005607/INTERSCOPE (13.98) REPRISE 49593 /WARNER BROS. (18.98) O Awards per- YOUNGBLOODZ GREEN DAY 139 130 112 Ev'rybody Know Me 189 159 1 12 Bullet In A Bible LAFACE 73175 " /ZOMBA (18.981 formance, REPRISE 49466 /WARNER BROS, (25.98 CD/DVD) O MARTY CASEY & LOVEHAMMERS whicr is AQUALUNG 140 67 Marty Casey & Lovehammers 67 190 108 157 9 Strange And Beautiful a BURNETT /EPIC 76873/SONY MUSIC (15.98) sure to spur COLUMBIA 93671 " /SONY MUSIC (16.98) RBD THE FRAY 141 134 114 Rebelde El bigger spike 191 186 19) ) 5 How To Save A Life 0 EMI LATIN 75852 EPIC 93931/SONY MUSIC (11.98) (14.98) FLOETRY next week. TOBY KEITH 157 146 Flo' Ology 7 192 178 149 38 Honkytonk University a ERVINGWONOER/GEFFEN 005609 / INTERSCOPE (13.98) DREAMWORKS (NASHVILLE) 004300/UMGN (13.98) VARIOUS ARTISTS RELIENT K 143 123 51 Open The Eyes Of My Heart 511: 193 48 MMHMM INO /EPIC 83649 /SONY MUSIC (19.98) Cast GOTEE 72953 /CAPITOL (14.98) SHERYL CROW recording to F00 FIGHTERS 144 140 119 Wildflower 2 194 34 In Your Honor ARM 005229 /INTERSCOPE (13.98) O Broadway ROSWELL/RCA 68038 " /RMG (19.98) ® TIM MCGRAW VARIOUS ARTISTS Boy Wonder & Chencho Records Present: El Draft 2005 146 167 Live Like You Were Dying El 1 revival of 195 10 © CURB CHENCHO /CHOSEN FEW EMERALD 1056 /URBAN BOX OFFICE (9.98) 78858 (18.98) RAY J "Sweeney IMOGEN HEAP 146 137 135 5.11 Raydiation 196 7 Speak For Yourself KNOCKOUT 87521 /SANCTUARY (18.98) Todd" misses RCA VICTOR 72532 (11.98) JOHN MAYER TRIO 100 BEE GEES 147 113 83 1111 Try! Live in Concert chart by RE-ENTRY i 2 Love Songs AWARE/COLUMBIA 95115/SONY MUSIC (18.98) YI/r POLYDOR /UNIVERSAL 005561 /UME (13.98) units. Debuts GAITHER VOCAL BAND THE BABY EINSTEIN MUSIC BOX ORCHESTRA -148 129 - Give It Away 198 180 1781 12 Baby Einstein: Lullaby Classics IN GAITHER MUSIC GROUP 42648 (17.98) at No 3 on BUENA VISTA 861085/WALT DISNEY (7.98) STEVIE WONDER Top Cast TRINA 149 132 118 A Time To Love 199 187 1791 18 Glamorest Life 11 El MOTOWN 002402/UMRG (13.98) Albums at SLIP -N -SLIDE /ATLANTIC 83710"/AG (18.98) ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST RECORDING HINDER 158 - The Color Purple 15e' billboard.biz. 200 192 3 Extreme Behavior 16- `r/ ANGEL 42954 (18 98) UNIVERSAL 005390 /UMRG (9.98)

K THE OF TWISTA 174 THE OF MV LIAPCRS ANC DTP . .5- TIM MCGRAW 145 NINE INCH NAILS 154 PITBULL 137 RELIENT 193 STAVO' ....102 CHRCNICLES BOY WONDER & CHENCHO OPEN EYES GRETCHEN

MONTGOMERY THE NOTORIOUS B I . 27 P.O.D. 40 RIHANNA 181 GWEN STEFAN( 68 NARNIA: THE LION, TH3 THE TEMPTATIONS 80 RECORDS PRESENT: EL HEART 143 WILSON 11C 114 GENTRY 122 PURPLE RIBBON KENNY ROGERS 55 ROD STEWART 133 WITCH AID THE THIRD DAY 118 DRAFT 2005 195 WOW GOSPEL 2006 20 WISIN & YANDEL 180

MAD7NTA 60 MY CHEMICAL ALL -STARS 155 GEORGE STRAIT 175 WARDROE 160 ROB THOMAS .. 108 CARRIE UNDERWOOD ...8 CRUNK HITS ... 169 WOW HITS 2006 84 STEVIE WONDER . . 149 BARRY IEANILCW ROMANCE 153 DON OMAR 109 THE PUSSYCAT DOLLS ...25 THE STROKES .- 89 GET RICH ER DIE TRYIN ..74 THREE 6 MAFIA 76 KEITH URBAN 31 I CAN ONLY IMAGINE 111 DAM AN JR. G JNG" JUELZ SANTANA 52 SUGAR LAND 39 THE GOSFL 113 T-PAIN 41 aUSHER 167 MONSTER BALLADS: MARLE' 135 E:=Z3ELUilli SANTANA 107 SYSTEM OF A HIGH SCHOL MUSICAL .13 TRAIN 10 PLATINUM EDITION 18 PAUL WALL 106 YELLOWCARD 2fi MARY MARY 15' NELLY 37 THE COLOR PURPLE ..150 RASCAL FLATTS 22 0SEAN PAUL 43 DOWN ...... _ .61, 152 HUSTLE &"FLOW 129 TREY SONGZ 158 NOW 19 159 WEEZER 115 YING YANG TWINS 86 MATSYAJU 34 RICKY NELSON 132 RAYJ ...... 146 SHAKIRA 123 UNDERWORLD: TRINA 199 Q i^!'E NOW #15 12 KANYE WEST 50 0NEIL YOUNG 188 M YER RIO 14' JOE NICHOLS 125 131, 141 SHE WANTS REVENGE ..38 EVOLUTI.N .134 JOSH TURNER 11 2006 GRAMMY NOW 20 29 THE WHITE STRIPES 185 YOUNG JEEZY 47 JOIN . 0 RED MARTIN- MC8R10E _ .91 NICKELBACK 16 BRAD PAISLEY 69 REGGAETON NINOS ...177 SHINEDOWN 161 BROKE3ACKMIXRTAM ..96 WALK THE UNE 44 NOMINEES 32 CHARLIE WILSON ....166 YOUNG8L000Z 139 REBA M:ENTIFE 81 PANIC, AT THE DISCO ....63 ASHLEE SIMPSON 90

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WALK AWAY YOU AND ME 25 WINDOW HEART 7 6 25 43 4 7 6 53 O 7 bt JON SECADA CHRIS BROWN (JIVE ZOMBA) KELLY CLARKSON (RCA /RMG) LIFEHOUSE (GEFFEN) (BI53) HONKY TONK BADONKADONK PRETTY VEGAS MAKING MEMORIES OF US STICKWITU O8 14 10 6 8 8 18 33 29 14 i*J KEITH URBAN (CAPITOL )NASHVILLE) /EMC) THE PUSSYCAT DOLLS (A &M/INTERSCOPE) TRACE ADKINS (CAPITOL (NASHVILLE)) INKS ¡BARNET¡ EPIC) o ONE WISH FRESH AZIMIZ RIGHT HERE ONE LOVE 42 9 11 25 9 8 27 9 11 20 (COLUMBIA) STAIND IFLII' ATLANTIC) HOOTIE & THE BLOWFISH (SNEAKY LONGNANGUARr:, RAY J (KNOCKOUT /SANCTUARY) CD BOW WOW FEAT. J -KWON A JERMAINE OUPRI 0 LIKE WE NEVER LOVED AT ALL ME UP WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDS BEAUTIFUL DON'T FORGET ABOUT US 10 9 22 WAKE 10 9 21 10 7 18 35 33 18 JIM BRICKMAN FEAT WAYNE BRADY DISNEY /'. .. MARIAN CAREY (ISLAND /IDJMG) FAITH HILL )WARNER- CURB/WRN/WARNER BROS.) 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(THE WHISTLE SONG) RODEO 15 16 4 15 13 18 4C 35 11 20 LEARN RIMES JUELZ SANTANA (DIPLOMATS /DEF JAM /IDJMG) JUVENILE (UTP/ATLANTIC) DANIEL POWTER (WARNER BROS.) (CURB) OH YES HOW DO YOU LOVE? AMARANTINE LEAN WIT IT, ROCK WIT IT (AKA 'POSTMAN') 18 18 14 14 21 5 66 2 16 11 ENPA O OEM FRANCHISE BOYS (SO SO DEF; VIRGIN) JUELZ SANTANA (DIPLOMATS DEF JAM /IDJMG) COLLECTIVE SOUL (EL) (REPRISE) MS. NEW BOOTY TALK !!Lf BETTER DAYS SHAKE THAT 21 5 17 11 20 7 61 3 GOO GOO DOLLS (WARNER BROS,) CD EMINEM FEAT. 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I IF IT'S LOVIN' THAT YOU WANT CRAZY COOL THINK THEY LIKE ME 16 17 17 25 19 24 14 21 49 37 24 GWEN STEFAN! (INTERSCOPE) DEM FRANCHIZE BOYS ISO SO DEF VIRGIN) RIHANNA (SRP DEE JAM(IDJMG) ALANIS MORISSETTE (MAVERICK /REPRISE) YOU AND ME EVERYTIME WE TOUCH BLIND UNCHAINED MELODY 28 22 40 62 4 24 16 27 3 LIFEHOUSE (GEFFEN) CD CASCADA (ROBBINS) LIFEHOUSE (GEFFEN) BARRY MANILOW (ARISTA/RMG) 1,028 stations, comprised of top 40, adult contemporary, R8B /hip -hop, country, rock, gospel, Latin, and Christian formats, are electronically monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This data is Wsed to compile The Billboard Hot 100. (HOT I)ItaI1Al_ SONGS.. t MODERN ROCK..

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FOR YOU I TEAR YOU APART YO (EXCUSE ME MISS) HUNG UP WILL (CONFIDENCE) LE/!L1 21 9 30 4 44 42 16 WANTS (PERFECTKISS/FLAWLESS CHRIS BROWN (JIVE/ZOMBA) MADONNA (WARNER BROS.) e TEDDY GEIGER (CRED. /COLUMBIA) {¡/ SHE REVENGE

ONE WISH I THINK THEY LIKE ME FEEL GOOD INC RUN IT! 63 17 20 lB 42 20 21 20 45 50 13 70 GORILLAZ (PARLOPHONENIRGIN) CHRIS BROWN (JIVE/ZOMBA) RAY J (KNOCKOUT'SANCTUARY) OEM FRANCHISE BOYS (SO SO DEF / VIRGINI SINCE U BEEN GONE MR. BRIGHTSIDE CASH MACHINE PHOTOGRAPH 71 65 59 El 25 7 21 22 22 © 46 49 62 HARD -FI (NECESSARY /ATLANTIC) NICKELBACK (ROADRUNNER /IDJMG) KELLY CLARKSON (RCA /RMG) THE KILLERS (ISLAND /IDJMG) LOSE YOURSELF SPEAK EASY WHAT I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THESE WORDS 70 27 22 23 10 22 11 2 53 24 72 311,U'OLCANO /ZOMBA) LUCAS GRABEEL A ASHLEY TISDALE (WALT DISNEY) w NATASHA BEDINGFIELD (EPIC) EMINEM (SHADY / INTERSCOPE) BOP TO THE TOP BOONDOCKS FALLING WHEN I'M GONE 29 73 71 5 23 22 15 23 27 11 48 2 STAIND (FLIP/ATLANTIC) EMINEM (SHADY /AFTERMATH / INTERSCOPE) LUCAS GRABEEL & ASHLEY TISDALE (WALT DISNEY) LITTLE BIG TOWN (EQUITY) BEVERLY HILLS YOUR MAN THE GHOST OF YOU STICKWITU 47 1 24 20 18 24 28 16 49 45 MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE (REPRISE) THE PUSSYCAT DOLLS (AAM /INTERSCOPE) WEEDER (GEFFEN) JOSH TURNER (MCA NASHVILLE)

I I'VE BEEN DON'T FORGET ABOUT US NO WAY BACK START OF SOMETHING NEW WHO AM HATES WHO 66 40 2 7 2 58 5 75 8 -1 25 RELIENT K MARIAM CAREY i!' I Ar,T FAO FIGHTERS :P RCA/RMG) LAC EFBDN. ANDREW SEELEY A VANESSA ANNE HUDGENS .+,,I o (GOTE/

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TITLE TITLE TITLE ARTIST (IMPRINT; PROMOTION LABEL) ;3 3ó ARTIST (IMPRINT) PROMOTION LABEL) 5 ARTIST (IMPRINT / PROMOTION LABEL) PRINT/ PROMOTION LABE CHECK ON IT WAKE ME UP WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDS CHECK ON IT 7 RIGHT HERE O1 15 p51 19 27 1 1 15 30 IIKS BEYONCE FEAT. SUM THUG (COLUMBIA) GREEN DAY (REPRISE) 2#/KS BEYONCE FEAT. SUM THUG SCOLUMBIA) STAIN (FLIP/ATLANTIC) YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL FOR YOU I WILL (CONFIDENCE) SO SICK WE BE BURNIN' 8 15 39 3 4 9 27 25 20 0 JAMES BLUNT (CUSTARD /ATLANTIC) TEDDY GEIGER (CRED. /COLUMBIA) NE -Y0 (DEE JAM /IDJMG) SEAN PAUL (VP /ATLANTIC) GRILLI PERFECT SITUATION STICKWITU SOS 3 11 37 10 3 2 14 42 2 0 NELLY FEAT. PAUL WALL, ALI 8 GIPP (DERRTY/FO' REEWMRG) WEEZER (GEFFEN) THE PUSSYCAT DOLLS (ABM / INTERSCOPE) RIRANNA (SRP/DEF JAM / IDJMG) STICKWITU HONKY TONK BADONKADONK RUN IT! I'M GONE 4 2 19 58 15 4 3 21 29 28 13 WHEN THE PUSSYCAT DOLLS (ABM / INTERSCOPE) TRACE ADKINS (CAPITOL (NASHVILLE)) CHRIS BROWN (JIVE/ZOMBA) EMINEM (SHADY/A= TERMA- H/INTERSCOPE) DIRTY LITTLE SECRET HERE WE GO BECAUSE OF YOU 7 BEEP 3 5 30 45 18 5 27 34 THE ALL -AMERICAN REJECTS (DOGHOUSE/INTERSCOPE) TRINA FEAT. KELLY ROWLAND (SLIP -N- SLIDE /ATLANTIC) KELLY CLARKSON (RCA/RMG THE PUSSYCAT DOLLS FEAT. VRLLJAM (ABIMNTERSCOPE) UNWRITTEN BETTER DAYS DIRTY LITTLE SECRET L.O.V.E. 7 15 34 20 6 18 33 NATASHA BEDINGFIELD (EPIC) GOO GOO DOLLS (WARNER BROS.) THE ALL -AMERICAN REJECTS (DOGHOUSE/INTERSCOPE) ASHLEE SIMPSON GEFFEN)(

RUN IT! ROMPE GRILLZ WHO I AM HATES WHO IVE BEEN 7 4 23 7 5 11 9 32 9 CHRIS BROWN ( JIVE/ZOMBA) DADDY YANKEE (EL CARTEL/INTERSCOPE) NELLY PEAL PAIL WALL AIJ & OPP (OEARIYJTOREEIAAAG) RELIENT K ( GOTEE,CAPITOL) DANCE, DANCE SOS DANCE, DANCE I'M N LUV (WIT A STRIPPER) 8 9 17 97 2 7 12 F416. 40 3 FALL OUT BOY (FUELED BY RAMEN /ISLAND /IDJMG) L:fD RIHANNA (SRP /DEF JAM /IDJMG) FALL OUT BOY (FUELED BY RAMEN /ISLAND /IDJMG) T -PAIN FEAT. MIKE JONES (KCNMCT MUZIK/JIVE/ZOMBA) BECAUSE OF YOU STICK TO THE STATUS QUO ONE WISH HERE WE GO 9 10 28 37 2 10 12 34 26 14 KELLY CLARKSON (RCA/RMG) HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL CAST (WALT DISNEY) RAY J (KNOCKOUT /SANCTUARY) TRINA FEAT. KELLY ROMANI (SLIP- N- SLIDE/ATLANTIC) SO SICK TURN IT UP WALK AWAY I'M SPRUNG 12 9 65 12 13 8 35 29 20 NE -YO (DEF JAM /IDJMG) 4 CHAMILLIONAIRE FEAT. 1.11: FLIP (UNIVERSAUUMRG) KELLY CLARKSON (RCA/RMG) T-PAIN (KONVICT MUZIK/JRE/ZOMBA) SHAKE THAT GOODBYE FOR NOW UNWRITTEN 7 GIRL NEXT DOOR 16 9 42 2 15 13 36 EMINEM FEAT. NATE DOGG (SHADY /AFTERMATHINTERSCOPE) 1 P.O.D. (ATLANTIC) NATASHA BEDINGFIELD (EPIC) U7 SAVING JANE ( ALERT/TOUCAN COVE) PUMP IT LUXURIOUS PUMP IT YO (EXCUSE ME MISS) 15 33 82 52 16 17 10 39 3 THE BLACK EYED PEAS (ABM / INTERSCOPE) GWEN STEFANI (INTERSCOPE) THE BLACK EYED PEAS (ABM /INTERSCOPE) CHRIS BROWN (JIVE/ZOMBA I'M N LUV (WIT A STRIPPER) FIREMAN PHOTOGRAPH LUXURIOUS 27 6 63 63 16 13 8 24 38 31 18 T -PAIN FEAT. MIKE JONES (KONVICT MUZIK/JIVE/ZOMBA) LIL WAYNE (CASH MONEY /UMRG) NICKELBACK (ROADRUNNER/IDJMG) 141 GWEN STEFANI ( INTERSCOFE) L, EVERYTIME WE TOUCH UPSIDE DOWN BE WITHOUT YOU LAFFY TAFFY 20 11 68 4 23 3 39 35 13 ') CASCADA (ROBBINS) JACK JOHNSON (BRUSHFIRE/UMRG) MARY J. BLIGE (GEFFEN) Dal (DEEMONEY/ASYLUM/.TLANTIC)

THERE IT (THE WHISTLE SONG) I THINK THEY LIKE ME SUGAR, WERE GOIN' DOWN TEMPERATURE 15 14 18 GO! 61 16 14 24 46 2 JUELZ SANTANA (DIPLOMATS /DEF JAM/IDJMG) DEM FRANCHIZE BOYZ (SO SO OEF/VIRGIN) FALL OUT BOY (FUELED BY RAMEN/ISLAND /IDJMG) SEAN PAUL (VP /ATLANTIC) GOLD DIGGER BOP TO THE TOP IF IT'S LOVIN' THAT YOU WANT STAY FLY 16 13 24 FIS8 46 2 1B 12 19 41 37 12 KANYE WEST FEAT. JAMIE FOSS (ROC- A- FELLA/DEF JAMADJMG) LUCAS GRABEEL 8 ASHLEY TISDALE (WALT DISNEY) MANNA (SRP /DEF JAM /IDJMG) THREE 6 MAFIA (HYPNOTIZI MINDS /COLUMBIA/SUM) PHOTOGRAPH MOVE ALONG DON'T FORGET ABOUT US SOUL SURVIVOR 17 11 25 72 2 9 19 42 38 18 NICKELBACK (ROADRUNNER /IDJMG) THE ALL -AMERICAN REJECTS (DOGHOUSE/INTERSCOPE) so MARIAN CAREY (ISLAND /IDJMG) ter YOUNG MEIN FEAL MON (CORPORME TMXiDDEFJAAAMG) ONE WISH KING WITHOUT A CROWN THERE IT GO! (THE WHISTLE SONG) YOUR BODY 18 17 74 3 18 10 43 43 25 RAY J (KNOCKOUT /SANCTUARY) MATISYAHU (JDUB /OR/EPIC) JUELZ SANTANA (DIPLOMATS /DEF JAM /IDJMG) PRETTY RICKY (ATLANTIC)

BE WITHOUT YOU GOODBYE MY LOVER EVERYTIME WE TOUCH 1 STUPID GIRLS 31 9 2 20 10 m MARY J. BLUE (GEFFEN) JAMES BLUNT (CUSTARD /ATLANTIC) CASCADA (ROBBINS) itr PINK ( LAFACE/ZOMBA) SUGAR, WERE GOIN' DOWN YOUR BODY GOLD DIGGER UNPREDICTABLE 20 19 35 70 71 27 20 16 23 1 FALL OUT BOY (FUELED BY RAMEN/ISLAND /IDJMG) PRETTY RICKY (ATLANTIC) KANNE WEST FEAT DAME FOO( (ROC- A4ELLAD6 JWADUMG) JAMIE FOKX FEAT. LUDACRIS (J /RMG) MY HUMPS FRESH AZIMIZ SHAKE THAT FOR YOU I WILL (CONFIDENCE) 21 17 29 75 7 21 8 47 2 THE BLACK EYED PEAS (ABM / INTERSCOPE) BOW WOW FEAT. J -KWON 8 JERMAINE DUPRI (COLUMBIA) EMINEM FEAT. KATE DOGS (SHADY /AFTERMATFVWIERSCOPE) TEDDY GEIGER (CRED. / COLUMBIA) WALK AWAY WHEN I GET WHERE I'M GOING FEEL GOOD INC ME UP WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDS 26 8 82 9 22 27 47 44 25 WAKE Q KELLY CLARKSON (RCA/RMG) BRAD PAISLEY FEAT. DOLLY PARTON (ARISTA NASHVILLE) GORILLAZ (PARLOPHONENIRGIN) GREEN DAY (REPRISE) L.O.V.E. BOYFRIEND CRASH SHAKE CD22 13 73 70 22 24 4 48 17 ASHLEE SIMPSON (GEFFEN) ASHLEE SIMPSON (GEFFEN) GWEN STEFANI ( INTERSCOPE) TING YANG TWINS FEAT. PIUULL (COLLIPARK/TVT) BREAKING FREE BOONDOCKS MY HUMPS GONE 24 6 3 74 73 13 24 19 2E 49 45 4 ZAC EROM NORM SEELEY 8 VANESSA MBE MOMS (WALT OGNEY) LITTLE BIG TOWN (EQUITY) THE BLACK EYED PEAS (ABM / INTERSCOPE) KELLY CLARKSON 81CA/RM3) DON'T FORGET ABOUT US TOUCH IT YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL i NASTY GIRL 23 21 18 90 8 27 4 MARIAN CAREY (ISLAND /IDJMG) NM BUSTA RHYMES (AFTERMATWINTERSCOPE) JAMES BLUNT (CUSTARD /ATLANTI THE NOTORIOUS BIG. BAC BOY /ATLANTI FEEL GOOD INC YOUR MAN 117 mainstream top 40 stations are elector nonit 44 88 2 28 0 JOSH TURNER days a week This data is used to compile the Pop 100 Q (MCA NASHVILLE) GORILLAI (PARLOPHONENIRGIN) IF IT'S LOVIN' THAT YOU WANT YOU'LL THINK OF ME 27 25 19 77 79 29 RIRANNA (SRP /DEF JAM /IDJMG) KEITH URBAN (CAPITOL (NASHVILLE)) LAFFY TAFFY WHEN THERE WAS ME AND YOU 28 24 17 78 56 2 OIL (DEEMONEY /ASYLUM/ATLANTIC) VANESSA ANNE HUDGENS (WALT DISNEY) ,j)IC 1(R TEMPERATURE WHAT IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR (REPRISE) CD 33 5 79 54 2 DATA PROVIDED BY Q SEAN PAUL (VP/ATLANTIC) ANDREW SEELEY 8 VANESSA ANNE HUDGENS (WALT DISNEY) WHEN IM GONE KRYPTONITE (I'M ON IT) TITLE 30 29 13 83 10 ARTIST (IMPRINT PROMOTION LABEL) :tart legend for rules and exylanatir ns. Yellow indicates EMINEM (SHADY /AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE) PURPLE RIBBON ALL -STARS (PURPLE RIBBONNIRGIN) tested title, indicates VeW Release. MUST BE DOIN' SOMETHIN' RIGHT #1 HEARTBREAK HOTEL YO (EXCUSE ME MISS) 81 16 1 36 7 81 410Ks ELVIS PRESLEY r.,r. I,If ,.. MARKETNO DAMP) CHRIS BROWN (JIVE /ZOMBA) BILLY CURRINGTON (MERCURY) b - 1RTIST/Title;LABEL Score) Char, R WE BE BURNIN' GEORGIA GOTTA GET TO MY BABY 35 82 76 8 7 3 32 24 JOVAN OATS IA.NU I HA DAIS, SEAN PAUL (VP/ATLANTIC) LUOACRIS 8 FIELD MOB FEAT. JAMIE FOXX (DTP/IDJMG) *OP 100 AIRPLAY CRASH KEROSENE HUNG UP 44 4 86 7 2 12 O MIRANDA LAMBERT (EPIC (NASHVILLE)) MADONNA (WARNER BROS.) 4eVEr WARNER BROS. ( GWEN STEFANI ( INTERSCOPE) 0 GET'CHA HEAD IN THE GAME EVER THE SAME HEAD LIKE A HOLE 34 23 3 - NINE INCH NAILS (RYKODISC) So Sick IDJMG (65.0) 2 ANDREW SEELEY (WALT DISNEY) 9E 7 ROB THOMAS (MELISMA/ATLANTIC) ®

I TE AMO CORAZON WHO I AM HATES WHO I'VE BEEN WRITE SINS NOT TRAGEDIES 3 7 39 12 - 1 PRINCE (UNIVERSAUUMRG) Little Secret INTERSCOPE (76.1) 6 RELIENT K (GOTEE/CAPITOL) PANIC! AT THE DISCO (DECAYDANCE/FUELED BY RAMER) )irt I'M GONE ONE WISH Dance, Dance IDJMG (82.5) 8 SPRUNG 86 84 10 O 6 1' 36 33 22 RAY /SANCTUARY) T-PAIN (KONVICT MUZIK/JIVE/ZOMBA) KELLY CLARKSON (RCA/RMG) J (KNOCKOUT One Wish SANCTUARY (65.0) 9 SOUL MEETS BODY CHECK ON IT Walk Away Rkc (83.8) 10 RIGHT HERE 87 77 25 32 7 47 27 DEATH BEYONCE FEAT. SLIM THUG (COLUMBIA) o STAIND (FLIP /ATLANTIC) CAB FOR CUTTE (ATLANTIC) Unwritten EPIC (70.2) 11 STAY FLY SHAKE BABY GIRL TOBCh RUNBINS 19 38 40 20 15 8 5 13 Everytime We (70.0) THREE 6 MAFIA (HYPNOTIZE MINDS /COLUMBIA) TING YANG TWINS FEAT. PRBULL (COLLIPARK/TVT) TRE (SELSUM) Crash INTERSCOPE 168.9) 23 HEARD 'EM SAY I THINK THEY LIKE ME BEEP 76 1(3 11 19 You're Beautiful ATLANTIC (65.2) 25 50 8 59 OEM FRANCHIZE BOYZ (SO SO DEFNIRGIN) O THE PUSSYCAT DOLLS FEAT. WILLIAM (ABM / INTERSCOPE) KANYE WEST FEAT. ADAM LEVINE (ROC- A- FELLA/DEE JAMBONS) o L.O.V.E. SEMI (67.8) 31 STUPID GIRLS TOP NOTCH DIVA UNPREDICTABLE _ 1 12 4 53 7 OUTARRE LEE FEAT. TRINA 8 TRICK DADDY (KEY MONEY GRIP) Who I Am Hates Who I've Been cAPTroL (71.6) 32 Q JAMIE FOKX FEAT. LUDACRIS (J /RMG) PINK (LAFACE/ZOMBA) m BAT LONELY Girl Next Door ALER- (65.4) 36 WHAT IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR 15 COUNTRY 11 8 34 41 34 3 91 89 AKON (SRC LUCAS GRABEEL 8 ASHLEY TISDALE (WALT DISNEY) AVENGED SEVENFOLD (HOPELESS /WARNER BROS.) /UNIVERSAUUMRG) Count On Me TVT (68.1) OVER MY HEAD (CABLE CAR) I AM NOT MY HAIR SOUL SURVIVOR 1 18 9 42 41 20 INDIA ARIE (MOTOWN /UMRG) ADULT TOP 40 YOUNG JEEZY FEAT. AXON (CORPORATE THUGZ/DEF JAMADJMG) THE FRAY (EPIC) HYPNOTIZE INSIDE YOUR HEAVEN/VEHICLE START OF SOMETHING NEW 93 15 k3- 13 34 Ever The Same ATLANTIC (84.5) 3 43 30 2 93 BO BICE (RCA/RMG) O ZAC EFION, WORM SEELEY 8 VANESSA WINE RUMENS (WAU DSNEY) SYSTEM OF A DOWN (AMERICAN /COLUMBIA) Better Days WARNER BROS. (B6.2) 5 DARE EVERYTIME WE TOUCH LEAN WIT IT, ROCK WIT IT 15 24 5 She Says EPIC 6 6C 4 95 CASCADA (ROBBINS) (70.4) © DEM FRANCHIZE BOYS (SO SO DEFNIRGIN) GORILLAZ FEAT. SHAUN RYDER (PARLOPHONENIRGIN) Pretty EPIC WE BELONG TOGETHER DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR Vegas (65.9) 8 LIGHTS AND SOUNDS 5 29 IC 46 43 7 96 59 THE J PROJECT FEAT. LASALLE (SLR) Sugar, We're Going Down ISJMG(71.1) 11 YELLOWCARD (CAPITOL) GAVIN DEGRAW (J /RMG) o GABRIEL LIKE YOU GO CRAZY How Do You Love, EL (71.9) 16 WERE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER 98 23 20 22 46 32 2 96 YOUNG JEEZY FEAT. JAY -Z (CORPORATE JAMADJMG) HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL CAST (WALT DISNEY) BOW WOW FEAT. CWLA (COLUMBIA) THUGL)EF Unwrilen EPIC (65.9) 19 LIKE WE NEVER LOVED AT ALL TEAR YOU APART Who Says You Can't Go Rome IDJMG (73.6) 21 JESUS, TAKE THE WHEEL 97 15 17 4 1E 47 51 14 97 SHE WANTS REVENGE (PERFECTKISS /FLAWLESS /GEFFENI CARRIE UNDERWOOD (ARISTA/ARISTA NASHVILLE) FAITH HILL (WARNER- CURB/WRN/WARNER BROS.) Walk Away RMG (68.3) 23 ITS YOU GIRL NEXT DOOR MY HOOD 30 12 62 1C 1 YOUNG JEEZY (CORPORATE THUGZ/DEF JAM /IDJMG) e URBAN MYSTIC (SOBE/WARNER BROS.) SAVING JANE (ALERT/TOUCAN COVE) ADULT CONTEMPORARY PRETTY VEGAS WE WLL BECOME SILHOUETTES/BE STILL MY HEMT HUNG UP 1? 19 10 52 49 4E 16 99 96 THE POSTAL SERVICE (SUB POP) MADONNA (WARNER BROS.) INNS (BURNETT /EPIC) TOUCH IT I'm Feeling You RMG (66.7) 6 NASTY GIRL TEQUILA MAKES HER CLOTHES FALL OFF 9 4 5E 8 10C 9- 1)5 20 Q JOE NICHOLS (UNIVERSAL SOUTH) BUSTA RHYMES (AFTERMATH / INTERSCOPE) Window To My Heart BIGA (89.4) 7 THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. (BAD BOY/ATLANTIC SEASONS OF LOVE gm 22 2 CAST OF RENT (WARNER BROS.) Beautiful HOLLYWOOD (88.8) 10 SOP 100: The top Pop singles & tracks, according to mainstream top40 r3-io auáVnce impressions measured by Nielsen INSIDE YOUR HEAVEN/INDEPENDENCE DAY Amarantine REPRISE (72 4) 16 22 15 3_ 3roadcasl Data Systems, and sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. See Chart Legend for rules and explanations. © 2006, VNU CARRIE UNDERWOOD (ARISTA/RMG) O vledia, Inc. and Nielsen SoundScan, Inc. All rights reserved_ POP 100 AIRPLAY: Legend located below chart. SINGLES 3usiness NUMBER 1 ;MODERN ROCK This is used to compile both the Billboard Hot 100 and Pop CC. E se Chart Legend for rules and explanations. © 2006, 23 16 1' SALES: cata GOLDFRAPP (MUTE) /NU Business Media, Inc. All rights reserved. HITPREDICTOR: See Chart Lagamd br rules and explanations. CO 2006, Promosquad No Way Bac, RMG (67.5) 25 and H(tPredictor are trademarks of Think Fast LLC. NASTY GIRL 24 14 2 THE NOTORIOUS B.I.O. (BAD BOY/ATLANTIC) Dance, Dance IDJMG (71.1) 5 THERE IT GO! (THE WHISTLE SONG) 27 21 Pa EMR(66.6) e JUELZ SANTANA (DIPLOMATS /DEF JAM /IDJMG) 1

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ARTIST ARTIST tle IMPRINT 8 NUMBER / DISTRIBUTING LABEL (PRICE) IMPRINT & NUMBER / DISTRIBUTING LABEL (PRICE), HOTSHOT HEATHER HEADLEY 50 CENT The Massacre DEBUT In My Mind /AFTERMATH 004092' /INTERSCOPE (13.98/8.98) O+ RCA 64492/RMG (18.98) 4 SHADY R. KELLY MARY J. BLIGE The Breakthrough TP.3 Reloaded MATRIARCH /GEFFEN 005722' / INTERSCOPE (13.98/8.98) JIVE 70214 /ZOMBA (18.98/12.98) CO

JAMIE FOXX PRETTY RICKY Bluestars 5 Unpredictable ATLANTIC 83786/AG (18.98) J 71779/RMG (18 98) CO GREATEST KEYSHIA COLE MARQUES HOUSTON Naked 4 5 M The Way It Is GAINER ABM 003554*/INTERSCOPE (13.98) T.U.G./UNIVERSAL 004696/UMRG (13.98) R. KELLY CHRIS BROWN Remix City Volume 1 Chris Brown JIVE 74688/ZOMBA (18.98) JIVE 82876/ZOMBA (18.98) 09 MARIAH CAREY LEELA JAMES A Change Is Gonna Come The Emancipation Of Mimi WARNER BROS. 48027 (13.98) ISLAND 005784 /IDJMG (13.98) C+ THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. DAVID BANNER Certified Duets: The Final Chapter /UNIVERSAL /UMRG (13.98) BAD BOY 83885 /AG (19.98) SRC 004975 a USHER LIL WAYNE 76 77' Confessions Tha Carter II LAFACE 63982/ZOMBA (18.98/12.98) CASH MONEY 005124 /UMRG (13.98) EMINEM LIL' KIM The Naked Truth Curtain Call: The Hits BEE (18.98) SHADY /AFTERMATH 005881 /INTERSCOPE (13.98/8.98) QUEEN /ATLANTIC 83818/AG T PAIN GOAPELE Change It All Rappa Ternt Sanga a MUSIC KONVICT MUZIK/JIVE 73200 /ZOMBA (18.98) SKYBLAZE /COLUMBIA 92910/SONY (11.98) JUELZ SANTANA KINDRED THE FAMILY SOUL In This Life Together What The Game's Been Missing! 1 HIDDEN BEACH /EPIC 96512/SONY MUSIC (18.98) DIPLOMATS /DEF JAM 005426 /IDJMG (13.98/8.98) C+ ANTHONY HAMILTON ERIC BENET Hurricane Ain't Nobody Worryin' 4 FRIDAY/REPRISE /WARNER BROS. SO SO DEF 74278/ZOMBA (18.98) 47970 (18.98) RIHANNA t2 YOUNG JEEZY Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101 t8ö'''' 63 Music Of The Sun 6 CORPORATE THUGZ/DEF JAM 004421' /IDJMG (13.98) SRP/DEF JAM 004937/ISJMG (13.98) THE TEMPTATIONS VARIOUS ARTISTS 32 14 NEW Reflections 75 Crunk Hits NEW DOOR 005170/UME (13.98) TVT 2505 (18 98) O DESTINY'S CHILD CIARA Goodies #1's 1 70 66 COLUMBIA 97765/SONY MUSIC (18.98) SHO'NUFF /MUSICLINE/LAFACE 62819 / ZOMBA (18.98/12.98) MIKE JONES LUDACRIS AND DTP 61 -:2 Who Is Mike Jones? Ludacris Presents...Disturbing Tha Peace 1 71 49340/WARNER BROS.(18.98) DTP /DEF JAM 005786' /IDJMG (13.98) O SWISHAHOUSE/ASYLUM SEAN PAUL YING YANG TWINS U.S.A.: United State Of Atlanta The Trinity /TVT (17.98/11.98) VP /ATLANTIC 83788/A0 (18.98) COLLIPARK 2520' THE BLACK EYED PEAS BABYFACE & 19 22 Monkey Business 77 Grown Sexy A8M 004341' / INTERSCOPE (13.98/8.98) ARISTA 70568 /RMG (18.98) KIRK FRANKLIN T.I. PRESENTS THE P$C 25 To Life 15 Hero M. 86 B GRAND HUSTLE /ATLANTIC (18.98) FO YO SOUL /G03PO CENTRIC 71019/ZOMBA (18.98) 83797/A6 CHAMILLIONAIRE 75 CECE WINANS Purified 18 18 The Sound Of Revenge 2 PURESPRINGS 93997/SONY MUSIC (18.98) UNIVERSAL 005423 /UMRG (13.98) GOSPEL/INO NELLY 16 Sweatsuit IH FOR A CO 1aLETE LISTING OF THE HOT R &8 HIP -HOP ALBUMS. CHECK OUT WWW. BILLBOARD. COM FO' REEL /DERRTY 005825 /UMRG (13.98) THREE 6 MAFIA 20 2!1 Most Known Unknown HYPNOTIZE MINDS /COLUMBIA 94724/SONY MUSIC (18.98 BUN -B 25 Trill RAP -A -LOT 4 LIFE 68539/ASYLUM (18.98) KANYE WEST 21 2 Late Registration ROC -A- FELLA /DEF JAM 004813 /IDJMG (13.98) D4L ',24 Down For Life DEEMONEY /ASYLUM 83890/AG (18.98) ARTIST Title YING YANG TWINS MPRINT 8 NUMBER / DISTRIBUTING LABEL 23 U.S.A. Still United COLLIPARK 2790/TVT (11.98 CD/DVD) C+ MATISYAHU O1 42 Live At Stubb's OR /EPIC 96464 /SONY MUSIC SOUNDTRACK Get Rich Or Die Tryin' G -UNIT 005605 /INTERSCOPE (13.98/8.98) 111II 1,1 SEAN PAUL The Trinity U ..P1ATLANTIC 83788/AG FLOETRY Flo' Ology ERVINGWONDER /GEFFEN 005609 /INTERSCOPE (13.98) C'AMIAN "JR. GONG" MARLEY 2 Welcome To Jamrock It C IETTO YOUTHS /TUFF GONG 005416 /UMRG TREY SONGZ I Gotta Make It Mr SONG BOOK/ATLANTIC 83721/AG (15.98) 13] EOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS Africa Unite: The Singles Collection PURPLE RIBBON ALL -STARS 13AND/TUFF GONG 005723 /UME /IDJMG Big Boi Presents...Got Purp? Vol. II 5 PURPLE RIBBON 12207' /VIRGIN (18.98) E OB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS Gold 11FF GONG /ISLAND /CHRONICLES 004008 /UME ALICIA KEYS Unplugged J 67424/RMG (18.98) C+ uB40 Who You Fighting For? CHARLIE WILSON I NO 73305 Charlie, Last Name Wilson 3 JIVE 69429/ZOMBA (18.98) SINEAD O'CONNOR Es Throw Down Your Arms LYFE -,,Ts WHY THERE'S CHOCOLATE AND VANILLA 001 JENNINGS Lyfe 268 -192 7 COLUMBIA 90946 /SONY MUSIC (12.98) O® - O.K. Unknown Language PAUL WALL 8 1711` The Peoples Champ 111 1 SWISHAHOUSE /ATLANTIC 83808/ASYLUM (18.98) WILLIE NELSON Countryman 1 D)T HIGHWAY 004706 /UMGN YOUNGBLOODZ Ev'rybody Know Me LAFACE 73175*/ZOMBA (18.98) OPP eARIOUS ARTISTS 10 3 Reggae Gold 2005 YOLANDA ADAMS ilk a 1729 Day By Day 4 ELEKTRA/ATLANTIC 83789/AG (18.98) WARIOUS ARTISTS 1 1, Strictly The Best 33 w 1739 SOUNDTRACK The Gospel VERITY 71620/ ZOMBA (18.98) 2d SHAGGY 12 Clothes Drop B 3 YARD /GEFFEN 004180' /INTERSCOPE RAY J Raydiation KNOCKOUT 87521 /SANCTUARY (18.98) l'ARIOUS ARTISTS 14 1l Strictly The Best 34 KEM 1740 Album II MOTOWN 004232/UMRG (13.98) N 5 WINTRY OB MARLEY Bob Marley Collection h AJACY SPECIAL PRODUCTS 50501 /MADACY BOW WOW Wanted COLUMBIA 93505 /SONY MUSIC (18.98) O® SOB MARLEY 20 Best Of Bob Marley h AJACY SPECIAL PRODUCTS 50541 /MADACY MARY MARY Mary Mary Mir MY BLOCK/COLUMBIA 77733/SONY MUSIC (18.98) PITBULL 35 34 Money Is Still A Major Issue nIA7 RRnTHFRS 27511/TVT 111 9A C/DVn1 PACE BONE THUGS -N- HARMONY 55 57 64 Greatest Hits 30 SETTER RUTHLESS 25423 (18.98) 0 BETWEEN HE BULLETS rgeorge ä billboard.com GINUWINE 47 45 Back II Da Basics EPIC 93455/SONY MUSIC 18.98 SOUNDTRACK Hustle & Flow HEADLEY HEADS THE LIST 1 GRAND HUSTLE /ATLANTIC 83822/AG 18.98 I Heather Hadley scores her first No. 1 on Top R &B /Hip -Hop Songs, and the video is enjoy- TONI BRAXTON 42 48 Libra BLACKGROUND 005441/UMRG (13.98j ing top five rotation at VH1 Sou :I R &B /Hip -Hop Albums and her 46 ¡ ,' TRINA Glamorest Life SLIP -N- SLIDE /ATLANTIC 83710 /AG (18.98) best Nielsen SoundScan week with 36 plays. TWISTA 43 44 4 The Day After ATLANTIC 83820/AG (18.98j as ` In My Mind" rings 95,000 Leading up to its release

DAMIAN "JR. GONG" MARLEY Welcome To Jamrock copies to enter The Billboard Headley stopped by The Tonigh- 43 GHETTO YOUTHS /TUFF GONG 005416 /UMRG (13.98) WARREN G 200 at No. 5. Her first solo al- Show With Jay Leno" (Jan. 20; 5] 43 44 In The Mid -Nite Hour HAWING /G -FUNK 54707*/LIGHTYEAR (18.98) bum ?eand at No. 14 on the and "The Ellen DeGeneres DWELE Some Kinda... VIRGIN 71410 (17.98) R &3 list aLd No. 38 on the big Show" (Jan. 27). She also made STEVIE WONDER 57 A Time To Love MOTOWN 002402/UMRG (13.98) chart in 2002, moving 26,000 in the rounds at radio, hitting sta- JOHN LEGEND ß2 Get Lifted its fattest week. tions in Los Angeles, New York 6.0.0.5. /COLUMBIA 92776/SONY MUSIC (18.98) co COMMON '74 7 Be The albim's title cut gains Atlanta, Chicago and Washing- G.O.O.D. /GEFFEN 004670 /INTERSCOPE (13.98/8.98) C+ TOO SHORT more thar 18 million on Hot ton, D.C. -Raphael George 39 Pimpin' Incorporated UP ALL BITE 0011 (14.98 CD /DVD) VI

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2 UNPREDICTABLE MS. NEW BOOTY 2 ,1 Ëp UNPREDICTABLE JAMIE FOKK FEAT. LUDACRIS (J /RMG) Il BUBBA SPARXXX NEW SOUTH /PURPLE RIBBONNIRGIN t JAMIE FOSS FEAT. LUDACRIS (J /RMG) 3 SO SICK TRU LOVE UNBREAKABLE ME -YO DEF JAM/IDJMG FAITH EVANS CAPITOL AUCIA KEYS (.I/RMG) CHECK ON IT TOUCH THE SKY IN MY MIND I BEYONCE FEAT. SLIM THUG ( COLUMBIA/SUM) W¿ KANTE WEST FEAT. LUPE FIASCO (ROC- A- FELLA/DEF JAM /IDJMG) f HEATHER HEADLEY (RCA/RMG) GRILLZ THERE IT GO! (THE WHISTLE SONG) i MAGIC -. NELLY FEAT PAUL WALL, ALI 8 GIPP (DERRTY /FO' REEUUMRG) JUELZ SANTANA DIPLOMATS /DEF JAM/IDJMG CHARLIE WILSON (JIVE /ZOMBA) 6 YO (EXCUSE ME MISS) 31 FIREMAN 6 LOOKING FOR YOU CHRIS BROWN ( JIVE/ZOMBA) il J LIL WAYNE CASH MONEY /UMRG KIRK FRANKLIN (FO YO SOUL/GOSPO CENTRIC /ZOMBA) 7 i LOVE MUST BE NICE I WANNA BE LOVED 32 r KEYSHIA COLE A &M /INTERSCOPE) LYFE JENNINGS ( COLUMBIA/SUM) ERIC BENET (RIDAY /REPRISE/Wl41NER BROS.)

B TOUCH IT NASTY GIRL B CAN'T LET GO BUSTA RHYMES (AFTERMATH /INTERSCOPE) I 33 THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. (BAD BOY /ATLANTIC) ANTHONY HAMILTON (SO SO DEF/ZOMBA)

g I LEAN WIT IT, ROCK WIT IT MAGIC GROWN & SEXY 1' OEM FRANCHISE BOYS FUT. LIL PEANUT 8 CHARLAY (SO SO DEFNIRGIN) . CHARLIE WILSON ( JIVE/ZOMBA) BABYFACE (ARISTA/RMG) I-34 DON'T FORGET ABOUT US MY HOOD FIND YOUR WAY (BACK IN MY LIFE)

MARIAN CAREY (ISLAND/IDJMG) ` YOUNG JEEZY (CORPORATE THUGZDEF JAM /IDJMG) I KEM (MOTOWN /UMRG)

I'M N LUV (WIT A STRIPPER) GEORGIA 1 TRU LOVE 11 ® 12 T -PAIN FEAT. MIKE JONES (KONVICT MUZIK/JIVE/ZOMBA) LUDACRIS 8 FIELD MOB DTP /IDJMG FAITH EVANS (CAPITOL) KRYPTONITE (I'M ON IT) ! LAFFY TAFFY JUST CAME HERE TO CHILL 37 27 2 ' PURPLE RIBBON ALL -STARS (PURPLE RIBBON /VIRGIN) DAL (DEEMONEY/ASYLUM /ATLANTIC) - THE ISLET BROTHERS FEAT. RONAI D ISLET (DEF SOUL /DEE JAM/IDJMG) I THINK THEY LIKE ME 35 STAY FLY DON'T FORGET ABOUT US DEM FRANCHISE BOYS SO SO DEFNIRGIN ma THREE B MAFIA (HYPNOTIZE MINDS /COLUMBIA /SUM) MARIAN CAREY (ISLAND /IDJMG) GOTTA GO 39 CONCEITED (THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT REMY) TREY SONGS (SONG BOOK /ATLANTIC) REMY MA TERROR SQUAD /SRC /UMRG KINDRED THE FAMILY SOUL (EPIC.H"DDEN BEACH) 15 FRESH AZIMIZ 40 STILL IN LOVE GOTTA GO GOTTA LEAVE (TIRED) BOW WOW FEAT. J -KWON 8 JERMAINE DUPRI COLUMBIA/SUM) 1111 TYRA (GG&L) VIVIAN GREEN (COLUMBIA/SUM) 16 OH YES (AKA 'POSTMAN') 41 GETTIN' SOME FIND MYSELF IN YOU - -° JUELZ SANTANA (DIPLOMATS /DEF JAM /IDJMG) 4 SHAWNNA (DTP/DEF JAM /IDJMG) BRIAN MCKNIGHT (MOTOWN /UMPO) LOOKING FOR YOU HERE WE GO I AM NOT MY HAIR 17 , 2l KIRK FRANKLIN (F0 YO SODUGOSPO CENTRIC/ZOMBAI 1 TRINA FEAT. KELLY ROWLAND SLIP -N- SLIDE/ATLANTI INDIA.ARIE (MOTOWN /UMRG) 14 RODEO 43 JUST CAME HERE TO CHILL TO YOU JUVENILE (UTP/ATLANTIC) THE ISLET BROTHERS DEF SOUL/DEF JAM /IDJMG EARTH, WIND B FIRE FEAT. BRIAN MCKNIGHT (SANCTUARY)

UNBREAKABLE 4 4 MINUTES EVERYTIME I THINK ABOUT HER 44 j ALICIA KEYS (J/RMG AVANT MAGIC JOHNSON /GEFFEN / INTERSCOPE JAHEIM FEAT. JADAKISS (DIVINE MILL/WARNER BROS.)

ONE WISH SHAKE IT OFF I REMEMBER 24 2C RAY J (KNOCKOUT /SANCTUARY) MARIAN CAREY ISLAND /IDJMG MELISA MORGAN (LU ANNiORPHEUS) HYPOTHETICALLY 21 IN MY MIND GOLD DIGGER 21 " HUTHER HEADLEY RCA/RMG KANTE WEST. FEAT. JAMIE FOXX ROC -A- FELLA/DEF JAM /IDJM LYFE JENNINGS FEAT. FANTASIA ( COLUMBIA/SUM) 22 TEMPERATURE SOUL SURVIVOR INTO YOU SEAN PAUL (VP /ATLANTIC) YOUNG JEEZY FEAT. AKON CORPORATE THUGUDEF JAM /IDJMG KEN (MOTOWN /UMRG) I SHOULD HAVE CHEATED 48 HYPOTHETICALLY SO SICK KEYSHIA COLE A &M /INTERSCOPE LYFE JENNINGS COLUMBIA/SUM NE -Y0 (DEF JAM /IDJMG) LOVE 2.1 CAN'T LET GO WE BELONG TOGETHER WEEKEND ANTHONY HAMILTON (SO SO DEF/ZOMBA) 1 MARIAN CAREY ISLAND /IDJMG OWELE (VIRGIN) 25 B ETCHA CAN'T DO IT LIKE ME 50 POPPIN' MY COLLAR INDECENT PROPOSAL D AL (DEEMONEY/ASYLUM /ATLANTIC) THREE 8 MAFIA (HYPNOTIZE MINDS /COLUMBIA/SUM) JAVIER (CAPITOL)

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TOUCH IT UNPREDICTABLE Love IFTERSCOPE (89.6) 7 BUSTA RHYMES (AFTERMATH / INTERSCOPE) JAMIE FOSO FEAT. LUDACRIS (J /RMG) TUuCI ItINTERSCCPE(64.3) 7 ALWAYS YO (EXCUSE ME MISS) 13° . Lean Wit It, lock Wit R VIRGIN Bi6.8) 9 s SPANK R.I.P.P.E.R. (HASSLE LIFE) CHRIS BROWN (JIVE/ZOMBA) I'm N Lu- :Wit A Stripper) .oMBA (77.6) 11 GOTTA LOVE SHAKE THAT 1 AARON KANE (INVIGORATOR RECORDZ) EMINEM FEAT. NATE DOGG (SHADY /AFTERMATH/ INTERSCOPE) Fresh AZink SUm (82.1) 15 RUN IT! TURN IT UP Oh Ys (aka 'Postman') IDJMG (93.8) 15 29 CHRIS BROWN (JIVE/ZOMBA) CHAMILLIONAIRE FEAT. LIL' FLIP (UNIVERSAUUMR Temperatura ATLANTIC (79.6; 22

I AM NOT MY HAIR MS. NEW BOOTY Latch' Can't DO It Lile Me ATLANTIC (71 4) 25 INDIAAR IE (MOTOWN /UMRG) BUBBA SPARXXX (NEW SOUTH /PURPLE RIBBONNIRGIN) Tre Love CAPITOL (84.8) 23

GET LOOSE RUN IT! Touch The 10_MG 29 6 3 11 Sky (89.0) BLU CRUSH (BLU CRUSH) CHRIS BROWN (JIVE /ZOMBA) Conceited (Ttrre's Somethin, About Remy) UMIG (71.6) 39 ONE WISH STICKWITU 12 11 12 19 Stillo Love UMRG (65.3) 40 RAY J (KNOCKOUT /SANCTUARY) THE PUSSYCAT DOLLS (A &M/INTERSCOPE)

7 ONE WISH 13 TE AMO CORAZON 13 l4 25 PRINCE (UNIVERSAL/UMRG) RAY J (KNOCKOUT /SANCTUARY THERE IT GO! (THE WHISTLE SONG) Control Myself IDJMG (68.8) 22 14 7 WHAT YOU GOT 14 17, VIRGINIA'S FRONTLINE FEAT. PORSHCA (CNI ENTERTAINMENT) ëäi¢ JUELZ SANTANA (DIPLOMATS /DEF JAM /IDJMG) Best Friend INERSCOPE(73.1) RAIN'S FALLIN' DON'T FORGET ABOUT US 6 w 15 STORMTROOPERZ (IMPERIAL ENTERTAINMENT) MARIAN CAREY (ISLAND /IDJMG) &D-Sick IDJMG (88. ) 2 5 LEAN WIT IT, ROCK WIT IT BRING OUT THE FREAK IN YOU B? .._ Check On It sum (91.6) 3 LIL ROB (UPSTAIRS) DEM FRANCHISE BOYS FEAT. LIL PEANUT 8 CHARLAY (SO SO DEF/VIRGIN) Mk`RY 3L Be Wielout You INrERSa'E(94.2) 4

+' THE HOOCHIE SONG LAFFY TAFFY T-=,FIN AT I'm N (Wit A 5 5 Lus Stripper) 10MeA(68.2) D4K (HAVING YOURS /SOWELL ENTERTAINMENT) D4L (DEEMONEY /ASYLUM /ATLANTIC) JA V IE Unp-edictable rim (94 7) 6 TEMPERATURE 13 GRILLS 21 8 C tF FS ' Yo (Excuse Me Miss) DMBA (88.5) 7 NELLY FEAT. PAUL WALL, AU 8 DIPP (DERRTY /FO' REEUUMRG) SUN PAUL (VP /ATLANTIC) S:4iV Temperature ATLANTIC p3.0t 18 CHECK ON IT I THINK THEY LIKE ME 7 y18 B ZS./ Fresh {VIM! sum (77.0, 21 BEYONCE FEAT. SLIM THUG (COLUMBIA/SUM) DEM FRANCHISE BOYS (SO SO DEFNIRGIN) Y R rJG`- My Hood IDJMG (65.7) 25 3 ` LEAN WIT IT, ROCK WIT IT SO SICK 344 2 NE -YO (DEE JAM /IDJMG) DEM FRANCHISE BOYS FEAT. LIL PEANUTS CHARLAY (SO SO DEFNIRGIN) J'J3Z ;AN Oh Yes (aka `PcstmJrl') IDJMG(95.0) 31 FRESH AZIMIZ JACK EVE PJmp It INTE1scORE(80.7) GO CRAZY 22 10 YOUNG JEEZY FUT. JAY -S (CORPORATE THUGZDEF JAM /IDJMG) BOW WOW FEAT. J -KWON 8 JERMAINE DUPRI (COLUMBIA/SUM) WEN 3-E. i Crash INTERSCOPE (66.31 38 CONTROL MYSELF K Touct The Sky IDAMG (84.1) - _ NO STRINGS 28 3 --- BROS.) LL COOL J FEAT. JENNIFER LOPEZ (DEE JAM /IDJMG) LOLA (SOBE/WARNER B' tetcle Can't Do It Lite Me ATLANTIC (;5.3) RODEO 23 3 ,! NASTY GIRL 12 THE NOTORIOUS B.I.O. (BAD BOY /ATLANTIC) JUVENILE (UTP /ATLANTIC) MS. NEW BOOTY 0 NASTY GIRL ADULT R &B AND RHYTHMIC AIRPLAY: 60 adult R&B stations and 66 rhythmic stations we BUBBA SPARXIOL (NEW SOUTH /PURPLE RIBBON/VIRGIN) THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. (BAD BOY /ATLANTIC) elecfmr cal!y monitored by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. ABOUT REMY) MY HOOD ©© 2006 VNU Business Media, Inc. and Nielsen SoundScan, Inc. HOT R&B/HIPI CONCEITED (THERE'S SOMETHING SINGLES SALES: this data is used to compie Hot R&B/Hi! -Hop Singles & Tracks. © 2006 REMY MA (TERROR SQUAD /SRC /UMRG) YOUNG JEEZY (CORPORATE THUGUDEF JAM/IDJMG) VNU Business Media, Inc. and Nielsen SoundScan, Inc. HITPREDI : © 2006, Prorm:mqua I and HRPredictor are trademarks of Think Fast LLC.

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TITLE Artist GR ;o TITLE Artist IMPRINT 8 NUMBER ( PROMOTION LAEE. ge Ñ,c gó PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT 8 NUMBER / PROMOTION LABEL 3 s 3gzA, PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) LIPSTICK Rookie Lynne JESUS, TAKE THE WHEEL Carrie Underwood 3 33 31 I I 16 T BROWN,K.LAW,B.CHANCEY (R.LYNNE,M.PRENTICE) e UNIVERSAL SO: , M.BRIGHT (B.JAMES,H. LINDSEY,G.SAMPSONI Q ARISTA/ARISTA NASHVILLE CD Keith Anderson WHEN I GET WHERE I'M GOING Brad Paisley Featuring Dolly Parton EVERY TIME I HEAR YOUR NAME 32 2 35 38 Q ARISTA NASHVIL. EROGERS (R.RUTHERFORD.G. TEREN) e ARISTA NASHVILLE J STEELE ( K .ANDERSON.T.HAMBRIDGE,J.STEELE) TWENTY YEARS AND TWO HUSBANDS AGO Lee Ann Womacn HONKY TONK BADONKADONK Trace Adkins Lead single 32 34 32 2 2 2 B.GALLIMORE (L.A.WOMACK,D.DODSON,D.DILLON) e MCA NASHVII D.HUFF (R.HOUSER,D.DAVIDSON,J.JOHNSON) e CAPITOL logs a fifth Morgan I GOT YOU Craig 33 YOUR MAN Josh Turner 4 33 37 8 10 week at No. MORGAN,RO'DONNELL (C.MORGAN,P.O'DONNELL,T.OWENS) Q BROKEN E F.ROGERS ( C.STAPLETON,C.DUBOIS,J.EVERETT) Q MCA NASHVILLE Jo Dee Messina LIKE WE NEVER LOVED AT ALL Faith Hill 1; radio gets NOT GOING DOWN 34 5 34 35 C', 6 7 B GALLIMORE,T.MCGRAW (K.SAVIGAR,S.BOLTON) O D.HUFF,F.HILL (J.RICH,S.SAX,V.MCGEHE) OO WARNER- CURB/WRN follow -up in I DON'T FEEL LIKE LOVING YOU TODAY Gretchen Wilson TONIGHT I WANNA CRY Keith Urban 25 25 22 10 9 6 late March 36 WILSON,J.RICH,M.WRIGHT (M.BERG,J.COLLINS) 03 D.HUFF,K.URBAN (M.POWELL,K.URBAN) Q CAPITOL titled "Don't SIZE MATTERS (SOMEDAY) Joe Nichol, JUST MIGHT (MAKE ME BELIEVE) Sugarland 38 46 37 9 8 CANNON (B.HILL,M.DEKLE) UNIVERSAL SOU G.FUNDIS (K.HALL) Q MERCURY Forget to 00

I LOVE MY LIFE Jamie O'Nea MY OLD FRIEND Tim McGraw Remember 4 4U 38 6 6 -. STEGALL (J.ONEAL,S.SMITH,T.NICHOLS) Q CAPI B. GALLIMORE.T.MCGRAW,D. SMITH (C WISEMAN,S A' . -;1 EI CURB Me." Kenny Roger, I CAN'T UNLOVE YOU GREATEST LIVING IN FAST FORWARD Kenny Chesney 39 41 39 HUFF (W.KIRBYW.ROBINSON) e CAPI GAINER B.CANNON,K.CH I HERFORD) Q BNA Gary Allan MUST BE DOIN' SOMETHIN' RIGHT Billy Currington LIFE AIN'T ALWAYS BEAUTIFUL 40 1 42 43 MCA NASHVI_ .1 WRIGHT,G.ALLAN (C.G00DMAN,T.L.JAMES) Q C.CHAMBERLAIN (P.J.MATTHEWS,M.DOOSON) Q MERCURY yÌí7 EVEN Rodney Atkin,. Rascal Flatts IF YOU'RE GOING THROUGH HELL (BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS) 41 WHAT HURTS THE MOST 11 40 44 HEWITT (S.TATE,A.TATE,D.BERG) Q Cu D.HUFF,RASCAL FLATTS (J.STEELE,S.ROBSON) LYRIC STREET NEVER MIND ME Big & Rica SHE LET HERSELF GO George Strait 45 53 42 12 4 3 1 KENNY,J.RICH,PWORLEY (B.KENNYJ.RICH,E.CLAWSON) Q WARNER BROSJW T.BROWN,G.STRAIT (K.K.PHILLIPS,D.DILLON) 0 MCA NASHVILLE I'LL DIE TRYIN' Lonesta 43 SHE DON'T TELL ME TO Montgomery Gentry 11 46 47 11 13 NIEBANK (S.BOGARD,J.STOVER) O, R.RUTHERFORD,M.WRIGHT ( B. DIPIERO,T.SHAPIRO,R.RUTHERFORD) 0 COLUMBIA cr) LAST DAY OF MY LIFE Phil Vass.» 44 GET DRUNK AND BE SOMEBODY Toby Keith 14 47 56 C) 14 171 ROGERS (BVASSAR,T.RYAN) ARISTA NASHVI - L.WHITE,TKEITH (T.KEITH,S.EMERICK) Q SHOW DOG NASHVILLE Duet with Tracy Lawrence Evans IF I DON'T MAKE IT BACK 42 CHEATIN' Sara 15 SugadaTld's 45 4E 42 15 10 STROUD,T.LAWRENCE (B.PINSON,B.JONES) e MERC S.EVANS,M.BRIGHT (B.JAMES.D.SCHLITZ) e RCA Nettles gets Hob, Blake Shelton BRAND NEW GIRLFRIEND 46 NOBODY BUT ME 16 CD52 54 Ci) 17 20 MILLER (S. MINOR.B.ALLMAND,J.STEELE) B.BRADDOCK (P.B.WHITE,S.CAMP) Q WARNER BROS./WRN Airpower Little Big Tow' KEROSENE Miranda Lambert slnpes, makes BRING IT ON HOME 47 16 EOI 10 16 181. KIRKPA' ITI E BIG TOWN (W KiRKPATRICK G BIECK T_H_BIECK) O M.WRUCKE,F.LIDDELL (M.LAMBERT) Q EPIC 16.2 Piton MEXICO George Strait BELIEVE Brooks & Dunn THE SEASHORES OF OLD 18 18 21 18 impressions 1 Q MCA NASHVILLE T. BROWN,R.DUNN,K.BROOKS (R.DUNN,C.WISEMAN) 0 ARISTA NASHVILLE Q Jamey Johnson during NO SHAME Jeff Bate: 49 THE DOLLAR 19 49 50 50 19 23 it EARD,B.CHANCEY (J.BATES,K.BEARD,J.YEARY) Q " : B.CANNON (J.JOHNSON) O BNA tracking AIR Nettles POLITICALLY UNCORRECT Gretchen Wilson Featuring Merle Haggard WHO SAYS YOU CANT GO HOME Bon Jovi Duet With Jennifer 20 week. 50 20 24 12 WILSON,J.RICH,M.WRIGHT ( L .SATCHER,D.STEAGAL.B.HENDERSON) O EPIC:I POWER J.SHANKS,J.BON JOVI,R.SAMBORA (J.BON JOV,,R.SAMBORA) Q ISLAND /IDJMG GOOD TO GO John Corbett NOBODY GONNA TELL ME WHAT TO DO Van Zant 48 48 23 26 21 51 Q FUN BONE IC M.WRIGHT,J.SCAIFE (T.MULLINS,T.NICHOLS,C.WISEMAN) 0 COLUMBIA S.MILLER,T.NOVICK (T.NICHOLS,R.CLAWSON) Neal McCoy Garth Brooks THE LAST OF A DYING BREED 52 GOOD RIDE COWBOY 3 22 21 19 SILVER ( T.CONNERS,D.ROLLINS,D.WILLIAMS) Q 903 MUSIC A.REYNOLDS ( B. KENNEOYJ .L.NIEMAN,R- BROWN,B.DOYLE) PEARL/LYRIC STREET 0) I:1 I STILL MISS SOMEONE Martina McBride With Dolly Patton WHEREVER YOU ARE Jack Ingram 23 53 24 27 ' nE (J.CASH,R.CASH, JR.) e J.STOVER (J.STOVER,S.BOGARD) Q BIG MACHINE/SHOW DOG NASHVILLE ® 1aM/' DRINKIN' IN MY SUNDAY DRESS Susan Haynes DRUNKER THAN ME Trent Tomlinson 51 51 51 26 28 24 54 HUFF,M.WRIGHT (M.MCKEE) e T. TOMLINSON,HILLBILLY (T. TOMLINSON,A.UNDERWOOD) Q LYRIC STREET ON AGAIN TONIGHT Trent Willmor WHY Jason Aldean C) 60 59 55 27 29 25 ROGERS Q COLUM- M.KNOX (J.RICH,V.MCGEHE,R.CLAWSON) Q BROKEN BOW (M.GREEN,J.MELTON,P.B.WHITE) DRINKIN' SONGS & OTHER LOGIC Clint Black SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE LeAnn Rimes 5'- 54 28 32 26 at 10 ,:..BLACK (C.BLACK,H.NICHOLAS,S.WARINER) Q ECU D.HUFF (C.WISEMAN,T.MULLINS) 0 ASYLUM -CURB Spins (:) Canadian Ragweed LOVE WILL ALWAYS WIN Garth Brooks & Trisha Yearwood stations give THIS TIME AROUND Cross 57 27 CD ; 5f 3 6 3 CH M. MCCLURE,CROSS RAGWEED (C.CANADA,R.ROGERS) Q UNIVERSAL SO', A.REYNOLDS (G.KENNEDYW.KIRKPATRICK) PEARL/LYRIC STREET newcomer CANADIAN DOWN AND OUT Randy Rogers Band I DON'T Danielle Peck 58 49 49 48íi 29 30 28 first national H. FOSTER SMITH MUSIC GROUP/SMITH ENTERTAINhu -Z. B.GALLIMORE (D.PECK,C.MILLS,B.COLLINS) Q BIG MACHINE/SHOW DOG NASHVILLE (R.ROGERS) a chart action I'M TAKING THE WHEEL SheDaisy BEFORE HE CHEATS Carrie Underwood 59 30 31 29 Id. Q ARISTA/ARISTA NASHVII J.SHANKS (K.OSBORN,J.SHANKS) LYRIC STREET exclusively BRIGHT (C.TOMPKINS,J.KEAR) Eric Church SETTLE FOR A SLOWDOWN Dierks Bentley in Billboard. HOW 'BOUT YOU 37 45 CAPITO, B.BEAVERS (T.MARTIN,B.BEAVERS,D.BENTLEY) Q CAPITOL J.JOYCE (E.CHURCH,E.CHRUCH,B.BEAVERS)

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MCA NASHVILLE (78.0) 33 COUNTRY Chealin' RCA (87.3) 15 Twenty Years And Two Husbands Ago 34 Nobody But Me WARNER BROS. (85.5) 16 I Got You BROKEN BOW (83.3) UNIVERSAL SOUTH (92.2) 7 When Get Where I'm Going ARISTA NASHVILLE (83.8) 2 Kerosene EPIC (75.0) 17 Size Matters (Someday) I (80.3) w8 Your Man MCA NASHVILLE (76.7) 4 BeliEVe ARISTA NASHVILLE (78.8) 18 Love My Lite CAPITOL 19 I Can't Unlove You CAPITOL (90.3) v9 Tonight I Wanna Cry CAPITOL (92.8) 6 The Dollar BNA (86.6) (75.0) 41 Just Might (Make Me Believe) MERCURY (84.2) 7 If You're 3oing Through Hell CURB IcJMG 20 BNA (86.2) My Old Friend CURB (80.2) 8 Who Says You Can't Go Home (81.7) I'll Die Tryin' 21 Living In Fast Forward BNA 04.7) 9 Nobody Gonna Tell Me What To Do COLUMBIA (71.8) 25 What Hurts The Most LYRIC STREET (87.3) 11 Why BROKEN BOW (76.9) 26 She Don't Tell Me To COLUMBIA (91.7) 13 Somethirg's Gotta Give ASYLUM-CURB (75.C) 30 Get Drunk And Be Somebody snow SAG (83.2) 14 Settle For A Slowdown cAPTOL(07.8)

'Don't miss another important JLLETS wj . COUNTRY IVIl1SIC; STRAIT PUTS HAGGARD BACK ON THE MAP Country kingpin George Strait takes the Hot Shot Debut at 30th Album" in the fall of 1974. No. 48 with "The Seashores of Old Mexico," which starts with Strait, who recently celebrated his 40th No. 1 single, has an en- UPI)AI`' E 798,000 audience impressions on spins at 36 viable record covering songs others have made A/aít wt w,BillboardRadíoMonitor.com to sign up to register for monitored stations. famous. Eight of his 72 top 10 singles were up- Jour free Country Radio Blast. , The third single from Strait's "Somewhere dated versions of country classics from the I3ill1)oarclRacliolVlonitorcom Down in Texas" album, "Seashores" was writ- likes of Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys, Hank ten by Country Music Hall of Fame member Williams, George Jones, Faron Young and Vern HOT COUNTRY SONGS: 123 country stations are electronically monitored by Merle Haggard, and has been patiently waiting Gosdin. Two of those top 10 covers reached Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Airpower award- ed to songs appearing in the top 20 on both the BDS Airplay and Audience charts to become a hit for more than 30 years. It was No. 1, including Wills' "Right or Wrong" for the first time with increases in both detections and audience. W2006 VNU Business Media, Inc. All rights reserved. never a single for its venerated composer, first (1984) and Young's "If You Ain't Lovin' (You HITPREDICTOR: m 2006, Promosquad and HitPredictor are trademarks of Think Fast LLC. appearing on "Merle Haggard Presents His Ain't Livin )" (1988). -Wade Jessen ALL CHARTS: See Chart Legend for rules and explanations.

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BAD BOY/ATLANTIC 4 4 3 2 1, AT CARNEGIE HALL THELONIOUS 35173' /BLUE NOTE THE ESSENTIAL KENNY G LEGACY / ARISTA 75487/flMG HUNG UP 3 1 2 INCOGNITO MADONNA WARNER BROS. ;w 5 VARIOUS ARTISTS NEW ORLEANS 2005: A BENEFIT ALBUM NONESUCH 79934/WARNER BROS. ELEVEN NARADA JAll 31897 /NARADA LOVE GENERATION OUR 3 BOTTI KIRK WHALUM BOB SINCLAR FT. GARY PINE YELLOW PRODUCTION CHRIS 6 1 7 SONGBOOK 5112 WHEN I FALL IN LOVE COLUMBIA 92872/SONY MUSIC IV KIRK WHALUM PERFORMS THE BABYFACE RENDEZVOUS I BELONG TO YOU 5 88 VARIOUS ARTISTS EROS RAMAllOTTUANASTACIA ARIOLA 7 MADELEINE PEYROUX WE GET A K14K OUT OF JAll VERVE 004202NG J'VOULAIS CARELESS LOVE ROUNDER 613192 6 1'3 AMINE VIRGIN DIANNE REEVES STREETWISE 10 11 12 2 NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK. (SOUNDTRACK) CONCORD JAll 2307 /CONCORD STREETWISE 00ES ORE SHANACHIE 5134 BIG CITY LIFE GOOD 7 DIANA KRALL BRIAN CULBERTSON MATTAFIX BUDDHIST PUNK 11 ' THE GIRL IN THE OTHER ROOM VERVE 001826/VG IT'S ON TONI HT GRP 004535NG NOLWENN OHWOI 4l NOLWENN LEROY MERCURY STEVE TYRELL JAMIE ULLUM 1 OF SINATRA HOLLYWOOD 162550 TWENTYSOM1fT.HING UNIVERSAL/VERVE 002273NG GOODBYE MY LOVER SONGS KENNY JAMES BLUNT ATLANTIC 11íw CHRIS POTTER 14 P SUNNYSIDE 3034 AT LAST... TH5 DUETS ALBUM ARISTA 62470 /RMG CHECK ON IT UNDERGROUND 10 NAJ E HEYONCE FT. SLIM THUG COLUMBIA JOHN COLTRANE 15 NOTE IMPULSE! 002380/VG MY POINTES VIEW HEADS UP AIMER JUSQU'A L'IMPOSSIBLE ONE DOWN, ONE UP: LIVE AT THE HALF 11 1' ELLIOT TINA ARENA COLUMBIA LOUIS ARMSTRONG RICHARD THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION HIP -0 /VERVE /CHRONICLES 004893/UME 20 4 METRO BLUE.ARTIZEN 10010 BOYS WILL BE BOYS . 12 42 LIZZ W IGHT ORDINARY BOYS B UNIQUE TONY BENNETT TONY BENNETT SINGS FOR LOVERS CONCORD 6023 DREAMING IDE AWAKE VERVE FORECAST 004069NG MY HUMPS RICK B ° AUN THE BLACK EYED PEAS A&M/INTERSCOPE ,4. PAUL MOTIAN BAND GARDEN OF EDEN ECM 006065/ UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP YOURS TRUL ARTIZEN 10011 SAY SAY SAY (WAITING 4 U) 14 9 DIZZY GILLESPIE / CHARLIE PARKER VARIOUS ARTISTS HI -TACK GUT 25 1 TOWN HALL, NEW YORK CITY, JUNE 22, 1945 UPTOWN 2751 NO. 1 SMOOTH JAll HITS' SHANACHIE 5135 UN ANGE FRAPPE A MA PORTE 15 16 KIM WATERS NATASHA ST -PIER COLUMBIA VARIOUS ARTISTS 18 P7 ALL FOR LOVE SHANACHIE 5133 16 4 HIGHER GROUND: HURRICANE RELIEF BENEFIT CONCERT BLUE NOTE 45238 PAUL ANKA EUGE GROOVE G18 17 35 17 ROCK SWINGS VERVE 004751NG - JUST FEELS RIGHT NARADA JAll 60499 /NARADA HARRY CONNICK, JR. VARIOUS ARTISTS P9 20 3 21 ALBUMS OCCASION MARSALIS 613313 /ROUNDER DEF JAll GRP 004890/VG SOULT!V WYNTON MARSALIS 11 CD LIVE AT THE HOUSE OF TRIBES BLUE NOTE 77132 171 BREAN IONCORD 2302 HIROMI NORMAN BROWN FEBRUARY 8, 2006 21 15 19 SPIRAL TELARC JAll 83631/TELARC O+ THE VERY BEST OF NORMAN BROWN GRP 005630NG JAMES BLUNT 01 PAUL HARDCASTLE BACK TO BEDLAM ATLANTIC DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER 23 23, HARDCASTLE 4 TRIPPIN 'N' RHYTHM 90517/V2 MADONNA J'AI DEUX AMOURS SOVEREIGN ARTISTS 1962 2 2 NINA SIMONE RAMSEY LEWIS CONFESSIONS ON A DANCE FLOOR WARNER BROS. 23 21 22 19! FOREVER YOUNG, GIFTED 8 BLACK SONGS OF FREEDOM 8 SPIRIT LEGACY/FICA 744130MG WITH ONE VOICE NARADA JAll 60699/NARADA ARCTIC MONKEYS 3 5 RENEE OLSTEAD EARL KLUGH WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY I AM, THAT'S WHAT IN NOT DOMINO 24 23 143 48704/WARNER BROS. NAKED GUIT R 861 9949/KOCH ROBBIE WILLIAMS RENEE GESTEAD /REPRISE 4 3 BRUCEOCKBURNC INTENSIVE CARE CHRYSALIS ERIN BODE 24 1, SPEECHLESS ROUNDER 613250 OVER AND OVER MAX JAll 121 a RICHARD ASHCROFT 5 4 KEYS TO THE WORLD PARLOPHONE EMINEM 6 9 CURTAIN CALL - THE HITS INTERSCOPE . TOP KATIE MELUA OP 7 8 PIECE BY PIECE DRAMATICS IL DIVO CLASSICA C'.LASSIC.AL CROSSOVER 8 7 ANCORA SYCO /SONY BMG ENYA ARTIST ARTIST 9 6 TITLE IMPRINT & NUMBER DISTRIBUTING LABEL AMARANTINE WARNER BROS. TITLE IMPRINT & NUMBER / DISTRIBUTING LABEL L 3 ó I JANINE JANSEN ANDREA BOCELLI DEPECHE MODE 14 13 10 29 AMORE SUGAR/DECCA 006069/UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP PLAYING THE ANGEL MUTE VIVALDI: THE FOUR SEASONS DECCA 005507 /UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP o ©® RIEU IL DIVO XAVIER NAIDOO ANDRE 2 3 11 10 ANCORA MUSIC TELEGRAMM FUER X NAIDOO RECORDS THE FLYING DUTCHMAN DENON 17570 SYCO /COLUMBIA 76914/SONY IL DIVO COLDPLAY SOUNDTRACK 2 42 12 11 MUSIC X8Y PARLOPHONE CASANOVA HOLLYWOOD 162575 IL DIVO SYCO /COLUMBIA 93963/SONY OP KELLY CLARKSON DAWN UPSHAW & ANDALUCIAN DOGS JOHN WILLIAMS/YO -YO MA/ITZHAK PERLMAN 13 12 1 4 /4 74706/SONY BMG MASTERWORKS BREAKAWAY RCA GOLIJOV: ATRE, BERIO: FOLKSONGS DG 004782/UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA (SOUNDTRACK) SONY CLASSICAL EROS RAMAZZOTTI RENEE FLEMING ANDREA BOCELLI 14 22 CALMA APPARENTE ARIOLA SACRED SONGS DECCA 005193/UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP ANDREA PHILIPS 003513 /UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP 111 ANASTACIA JOSHUA BELL /BERLIN PHILHARMONIC (THOMAS) 6 SOUNDTRACK 21 CLASSICAL 9422OY8« BMG MASTERW RKSo ., PIECES OF A DREAM EPIC TCHAIKOVSKY: VIOLIN CONCERTOSONY CLASSICAL 94832/SONY BMG MASTERWORKS STAN WARS EPISODE It REYBMF OF THE NTH SONN SOUNDTRACK SOUNDTRACK 7 6 1 MATCH POINT MILAN 36145 PRIDE 8 PREJUDICE DECCA 005620/UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP CECILIA BARTOLI HAYLEY WESTENRA 5 8 7 1 RAI)I() AIRPLAY 18 OPERA PROIBITA DECCA 005151 /UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP ODYSSEY DECCA 005440 /UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP ANDRE RIEU SARAH 6RIGHTMAN 1 9 1 IN lOYE O WKFS IÑRYIII@ MOM WM REM =RUN VOL 2 CE1TA 006981AF9ü1l US=WOLF RADIO AIRPLAY INFORMATION FROM 17 EUROPEAN COUNTRI S AS MONITORED AND IC) NEW YEARS VIENNA DENON 17572 If TABLATED BY NIELSEN MUSIC CONTROL THE 5 BROWNS THE EAST VILLAGE OPERA COMPANY rr10 8 1 53 FEBRUARY 0, 2006 6 THE 5 BROWNS RED SEAL 66007 /SONY BMG MASTERWORKS THE EAST VILLAGE OPERA COMPANY DECCA 005181 /UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP ANDRE RIEU CHLOE ADVERTISING SPACE TO 10 1 1 11 ROBBIE WILLIAMS CHRYSALIS TUSCANY DENON 7431 WALKING IN THE AIR MANHATTAN 42961 TALK BRYN TERFEL/LONDON SYMPHONY (WORDSWORTH) MORMON TABERNACLE CHOIR 2 2 Fi12 12 1 2 COLOPLAY PARLOPHONE SIMPLE GIFTS DG 004772/UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP LOVE IS SPOKEN HERE MORMON TABERNACLE CHOIR 0017 SORRY HILARY HAHN /NATALIE ZHU IL DIVO 3 5 9 13 1 MADONNA WARNER BROS 113 MOZART: VIOLIN SONATAS DG 004771 /UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP THE CHRISTMAS COLLECTION SYCO /COLUMBIA 97715/SONY MUSIC YO -YO MA WITH ROMA SINFONIETTA ORCHESTRA (MORRICONE) BOND RUN IT 13 14 4 6 114 MBO GROUP CHRIS BROWN JIVE /ZOMBA YO-TO MA PLAYS ENNIO MORRICONE SONY CLASSICAL 93456/SONY BMG MASTERWORKS EXPLOSIVE: THE BEST OF BOND /DECCA 004748/UNIVERSAL CLASSICS YO -YO MA /THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE THE IRISH TENORS DON'T BOTHER 16 16 5 4 15 TIE SHAKIRA EPIC SIX ROAD JOURNEYS: BEYOND THE IKImON SON' CLASSICAL 93967/SONY BRAG MASTERWORKS SACRED: A S'IRITUAL JOURNEY RAZOR 8 82929 STICKWITU MORMON TABERNACLE CHOIR RUSSELL WATSON 6 7 GROUP THE PUSSYCAT DOLLS A&M/INTERSCOPE PEACE LIKE A RIVER MORMON TABERNACLE CHOIR 6188 AMORE MUS CA SECCA 004439 /UNIVERSAL CLASSICS ( FOREVER BE WITHOUT YOU THE SIXTEEN CHRISTOPHERS) 12 AMICI 7 1 MARY J. ELIGE GEFFEN RENAISSANCE: MUSIC FOR INNER PEACE DECCA 004531/UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP DEFINED RCA VICTOR 68883/RMG :11 UGLY LONDON PHILHARMONIC /ANNE- SOPHIE MUTTER NIGEL HESS FEATURING JOSHUA BELL 8 8 18 92689/SONY BMG MASTERWORKS M SUGABABES ISLAND MOZART: VIOLIN CONCERTOS 1 -5 DG 005078/UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP LADIES IN LAVENDER (SOUNDTRACK) SONY CLASSICAL HUNG UP JOSHUA BELL VARIOUS ARTISTS 9 3 19 17 19 MADONNA WARNER BROS. THE ESSENTIAL JOSHUA BELL DECCA 005185/UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP STRING QUARTET TRIBUTE TO FALL OUT BOY VITAMIN 9085 1M1 NASTY GIRL 20 YO-YO MA WITH AMSTERDAM BAROQUE ORCHESTRA (KOOPMAN) THE TEN TENORS 10 17 LARGER THAN LIFE RHINO STRATEGIC MARKETING THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. BAD BOY /ATLANTIC VIVALDI'S CELLO SONY CLASSICAL 90916 /SONY BMG MASTERWORKS 76525/WARNER BREAK THE NIGHT WITH COLOUR THE ENGLISH CONCERT (MANZE) ANDRE RIEU 11 21 1 21 18 92 RICHARD ASHCROFT PARLOPHONE MOZART: VIOLIN CONCERTOS 216, 218, 8 219 HARMONIA MUNDI 907385 AT THE NOV S DENON 17348 GOODBYE MY LOVER THE HILLIARD ENSEMBLE SARAH BRIGHTMAN 9 22 20 71 !12 JAMES BLUNT ATLANTIC GOMBERT: MISSA MEDIA VITA ECM 005917/UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP LIVE FROM VEGAS NEMO STUDIO 57801 /ANGEL PIOTR ANDERSZEWSKI HAYLE WESTENRA 3 PUSH THE BUTTON SUGABABES ISLAND SZYMANOWSKI: PIANO SONATA NO. 3 VIRGIN CLASSICS 45730/ANGEL PURE DECC 001866/UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP DON'T LOVE YOU NO MORE (I'M SORRY) LEIF OVE ANDSNES/BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA (PAPPANO) MARIO RANGOULIS t14 13 BE-ENTRY CRAIG DAVID WARNER BROS. RACHMANINOV: PIANO CONCERTOS 1 8 2 EMI CLASSICS 74813 /ANGEL FOLLOW YOUR HEART SONY CLASSICAL 93803/SONY BMG MASTERWORKS BRYN TERFEL /PAUL GROVES/YING HUANG RONAN TYNAN CHECK ON IT 21 1 BEYONCE FT. SLIM THUG COLUMBIA ROGER WATERS: CA IRA SONY CLASSICAL 96439/SONY BMG MASTERWORKS RONAN DEC A 003863/UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP

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I :1111'J[1C/11r` Sales data compiled from a comprehesíve pool of U.S. music merchants by Nielsen SoundScan. Sales data for R &B /hip -hop retail charts is compiled by Nielsen 1015 SoundScan from a national subset of core stores that specialize in those genres. ARTIST ARTIST Title TITLE IMPRINT t NUMBER / DISTRIBUTING LABEL (PRICE) IMPRINT / DISTRIBUTING LABEL GREATEST Albums with the greatest sales gains this week MICHAEL BUBLE 3 SOUNDTRACK High School Musical -1 86 #1 13 GAINER MICHAEL RUBLE 143 REPRISE 48376/WARNER BROS. (18.98 2wxs WALT DISNEY

AC /DC To GREATEST ®Where included, this award indicates the title 2 1 71$ JAMES BLUNT Back Bedlam BACK IN BLACK LEGACY /EPIC 80207* /SONY MUSIC (18.98) 01 GAINER with the chart's largest unit increase. CUSTARD /ATLANTIC /AG TIM MCGRAW 3 26$ WYNTON MARSAIJS Tunes Session (Live EP) (Fron s Exclusive) o GREATEST HITS CURB 77978 (18.98/12.98) JAll AT LINCOLN CENTER Where included, this award indicates the title with BON JOVI the chart's biggest percentage growth. 6 176 ANDREA BOCELLI Amore CROSS ROAD MERCURY 526013/UME (18.98/11.98) SUGAR / DECCA /UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP JOHNNY CASH 5 2 119 YELLOWCARD Lights And Sounds 8 Indicates album entered top 100 of The Billboard 200 16 BIGGEST HITS LEGACY /COLUMBIA (NASHVILLE) 69739/SONY MUSIC (11.98/7.98) HEATSEEKER CAPITOL O+ GRADUATE and has been removed from Heatseekers chart. DANE COOK MATISYAHU Live At Stubb's E 5 19 6 10 4 HARMFUL IF SWALLOWED COMEDY CENTRAL 0017 (16.98 CO /DVD) O OR/EPIC /SONY MUSIC ?RICING'CONFIGURATION SHERYL CROW 8 90 PANIC! AT THE DISCO A Fever You Can't Sweat Out THE VERY BEST OF SHERYL CROW HEM 001521 / INTERSCOPE (16.98) 7 '63 CD'Cassette prices are suggested list or equivalent prices, which are projected o DECAYDANCE /FUELED BY RAMER from wholesale prices. D after price indicates album only available on DualDisc. PINK FLOYD E 7 1488 8 HEATHER HEADLEY In My Mire _ CD.DVD after price indicates CD /DVD combo only available. P DualDisc avail- DARK SIDE OF THE MOON CAPITOL 46001' (18.98/10.98) RCA /RMG .5 +. CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL able. CD /DVD combo available. * indicates vinyl LP is available. Pricing and 14 478 P.O.D. Testify CHRONICLE THE 20 GREATEST HITS FANTASY 2./CONCORD (17.98/12 98) 9 ,, vinyl LP availability are not included on all charts. ATLANTIC /AG KEITH URBAN 10 174. 1C MARY J. BLIGE The Breakthroug 1 , g GOLDEN ROAD CAPITOL (NASHVILLE) 32936 (18.98/10.98) MATRIARCWGEFFEN / INTERSCOPE 14.11 JOURNEY CAT POWER The Creates' RI Wei I *VI CM 11 10 646 11 7 2 JOURNEY'S GREATEST HITS COLUMBIA 44493/SONY MUSIC (18.98/12.98) MATADOR RADIO AIRPLAY SINGLES CHARTS STEVIE WONDER JACK JOHNSON In Between Dreams iv Compiled from a national sample of data supplied by Nielsen Broadcast Data 12 11 110 12 13 a 67 THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION MOTOWN /UTV 066164/UME (18.98) '1- JACK JOHNSON /BRUSHFIRE /UMRG Systems. Charts are ranked by numbe, of gross audience impressions, comput- BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND 13 15 585 13 BARRY MANILOW The Greatest Songs Of The Fifties ri e by cross -referencing exact times of airplay with Arbitron listener data. The GREATEST HITS CAPITOL 30334 (16.98) ARISTA /RMG exceptions am the Rhythmic Top 40, Adult Top 40, Adult Contemporary, Modern 110 QUEEN COOK Harmful If Swallowed 14 12 624 14 7DANE Rock and Adult R &B charts, which are ranked by total detections. GREATEST HITS HOLLYWOOD 161265 (18.98/11.98) 23 COMEDY CENTRAL 81 THE BEATLES 16 DANE COOK Retaliation a 13 273 18 1 8 b4 Songs showing an increase in audience (or detections) 1 APPLE 29325 /CAPITOL (18.98/12.98) m COMEDY CENTRAL O over the previous week, rega-dless of chart movement. NORAH JONES 16 17 206 COME AWAY WITH ME BLUE NOTE 32088` (17.98) LYNYRD SKYNYRD RECURRENT RULES 22 66 ALL TIME GREATEST HITS MCA 112229/UME (18.98/12.98) Songs are removed from the Hot 100 and Hot 100 Airplay charts simultaneously ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST RECORDING 4 they have been on the Hot 100 for more than 20 weeks and rank below 50. Songs la 13 43 WICKED DECCA BROADWAY 001682/UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP (18.98) are removed from the Hot R &B /Hip -Hop Songs and Hot R &B /Hip-Hop Airplay charts COLDPLAY simultaneously if they have been on the Hot R &B'Hip -Hop Singles & Tracks for more 19 18 174 A RUSH OF BLOOD TO THE HEAD CAPITOL 40504* (18.98/11.98) than 20 weeks and rank below 50. Songs are removed from the Pop 100 and Pop KELLY CLARKSON mW ,uzVs ARTIST Title g2 20 21 89 IMPRINT & NUMBER / DISTRIBUTING 100 Airplay charts simultaneously if they have been on the Pop100 for more than 30 THANKFUL RCA 68159/RMG (18.98) ;o LABEL s IA weeks and rank below 30. Titles are removed from Hot Country Songs if they have BARRY MANILOW The Greatest Songs Cl The Fifties THE O'NEILL BROTHERS 1 5 2 #1 IIEdRrrr 1 WM ARISTA 745119 n1,1., o been on the chart for more than 20 weeks and rank below 15 in detections or audi- RIOM TIE HEART: A ROMANTIC CO COLLECTION THE O?ELL BROOIERS 1401/SHVAHOCI(4J4CLL (29981 ence. provided that they are not still gaining enough audience points to bullet. Songs IL DIVO Ancora GREEN DAY 2 1 2 24 96 SYCO /COLUMBIA 769'.: .99 MUSIC are removed from the Adult Top 40, Adult Contemporary. Adult R &B, and Hot Dance INTERNATIONAL SUPERHITSI REPRISE 48145/WARNER BROS. (18.98) Airplay charts if they have been on the chart for more than 20 weeks and rank below METALLICA 3 ANDREA BOCELLI Amore 28 736 SUGAR / DECCA 006069/UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP 15 (20 for Modem Rock and Latin) or if they have been on the chart for more than 52 o METALLICA ELEKTRA 61113 * /AG (18.98/11.98) SOUNDTRACK High School Musical weeks and below 10. JOHNNY CASH 4 17 2 }3 24 20 22 WALT DISNEY 861426 THE ESSENTIAL JOHNNY CASH LEGACY/COLUMBIA (NASHVILLE) 8629050NY MUSIC (24.96/17 )181 BARRY MANILOW 5 TRAIN For Me, It's You '.10 SINGLES SALES CHARTS COLUMBIA MUSIC ULTIMATE MANILOW BMG HERITAGE 10600 (18.98/12.98) 94472/SONY The top selling singles compiled from a national sample of retail store, mass JAMES BLUNT Back To Bedlam JOSH GROBAN 6 12 5 9 ir merchant, and internet sales reports collected, compiled, and provided by 35 107 0 CUSTARD /ATLANTIC 97250/AG CLOSER 143 /REPRISE 48450 /WARNER BROS. (18.98) O Nielsen SoundScan. For R &B /Hip -Hop Singles Sales, sales data is compiled SOUNDTRACK Brokeback Mountain JOHNNY CASH 7 6 5 `rom a national subset panel of core R&13/1ip -Hop 27 16 FOCUSNERVE FORECAST stores by Nielsen Soundscan. SUPER HITS LEGACY /COLUMBIA (NASHVILLE) 66773/SONY MUSIC (9.98/5.98) Il 005604NG Singles with the greatest sales gains. ROSANNE CASH Black Cadilla: TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS 78 19 533 CAPITOL 48738 GREATEST HITS MCA 110813/UME (18.98/12.98) CONFIGURATIONS 50 CENT MARY J. BLIGE The Breakthroual 37 125 In MATRIARCWGEFFEN 005722 * / INTERSCOPE CD single available. 0 Digital Download available. O DVD single available. GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN' SHADY/AFTERMATH 493544* / INTERSCOPE (13.98/8.98) O Vinyl Maxi -Single available. O Vinyl Single available. O CD Maxi -Single RASCAL FLATTS THE NEW BROADWAY CAST RECORDING Sweeney Tod'; 34 155 El NONESUCH 79946/WARNER BROS. available. Configurations are not included on all singles charts. MELT LYRIC STREET 165031 /HOLLYWOOD (18.98/12.98) JOHNNY CASH SHE WANTS REVENGE She Wants Reven',I' 31 26 132 o PERFECTKISS /FLAWLESS /GEFFEN 005587 * / INTERSCOPE -nTPREDICTOR JOHNNY CASH AT FOLSOM PRISON LEGACY/COLUMBIA (NAStMLE) 6596GSONY MUSIC (I 1 987,x, JAMIE FOXX Unpredictahi. Indicates title earned HitPredictor status in that particular format based on JACK JOHNSON dt, 32 30 88 IN J 71779* /RMG (10 research data provided by Promosquad. Songs are blind tested online by ON AND ON JACK JOHNSON 075012* /UMRG (18.98) ENYA Amarantin' BEYONCE 42 II:': Promosquad using multiple listens and a nationwide sample of carefully profiled 44 103 El REPRISE 49474/WARNER BROS. DANGEROUSLY IN LOVE COLUMBIA 86386* /SONY MUSIC (18.98/12.98) 1 -5 o music consumers. Songs are rated on a scale; final results are based on IL DIVO II Dr, NICKELBACK 14 75 a weighted positives. Songs with a score of 65 or more (75 or more for country) are 34 32 95 El SYCO/COLUMBIA 93963/SONY MUSIC THE LONG ROAD ROADRUNNER 618400/I0JMG (18.98/12.98) judged to have Hit Potential: although Mat benchmark number can fluctuate per THE BEACH BOYS JOSH TURNER Your Man 25 139 15 4 `ormat based on the strength of available music. For a complete and updated list 3$ 0 MCA NASHVILLE 004744 /UMGN 1 THE VERY BEST OF THE BEACH BOYS: SOUNDS OF SUMMER CAPITOL 82710 (18981 g of current songs with Hit Potential, commentary, polls and more. please visit ROB ZOMBIE 36 38 29 www. h it p red i cto r co m. PAST. PRESENT d FUTURE GEFFEN 001041 /UME (12.98 CD /DVD) .+ JIMI HENDRIX 37 23 155 DANCE CLUB PLAY EXPERIENCE Imo(: TIE BEST DF JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE HENDRIX 111671 *AAB (188602% Compiled from a national sample of reports from club DJs. LINKIN PARK 38 36 127 Titles with the greatest club play increase over the previous week. METEORO WARNER BROS. 48186* (19.98) JACK JOHNSON 39 41 149 QUUt\r1MZ1l Ill alValCI- BRUSHFIRE FAIRYTALES ENJOY 860994 " /UMRG (18.98) TITLE ABBA ARTIST (IMPRINT / PROMOTION LABEL) 40 43 427 GOLD -- GREATEST HITS POLYDOR /A &M 517007/UME (18.98/12.98) ALBUM CI-ARTS 1CHECK ON IT COLDPLAY Recording Industry Assn. Of America (RIRA) certification for net shipment of 41 49 185 o t4 BEYONCE FEATURING SLIM THUG PARACHUTES NETTWERK 30162/CAPITOL (18.98) RIAA certification fer net STICKWITU 500,000 albums (Gold). shipment 2 2 19 EAGLES THE PUSSYCAT DOLLS 19 o',' . II for 1 million units (Platinum). RIRA certification for net shipment of 10 million 4i 33 77 THE VERY BEST OF WARNER STRATEGIC MARKETING 73971 (25 98) units (Diamo-id). Numeral within Platinum or Diamond symbol indicates album's SO SICK GREEN DAY NE-Y0 ïE= JAM/IDJMG) multi-platinum level. For boxed sets, and double albums with a running time of 43 40 175 DOOKIE REPRISE 45529T/WARNER BROS. (12.98/7.98) RUN IT! 100 minutes or more. the RIAA multiplies shipments by the number of discs and/ U2 44 31 176 CHRIS BROWN (JIVE/ZOMBA) or tapes. Certification for net shipments of 100,000 units (Oro). Certification THE BEST OF 1980 -1990 ISLAND 524613/IDJMG (18.98/12.98) DIRTY LITTLE SECRET of 200.000 units (Platino). S Certification of 400.000 units (Multi -Platino). FALL OUT BOY 6 17 44 29 20 o THE ALL. AMERICAN REJECTS (DOGHOUSE / INTERSCOPE) TAKE THIS TO YOUR GRAVE FUELED BY RAMER (12.98) 061 BECAUSE OF YOU SINGLES CHARTS DISTURBED 6 5 25 46 42 217 KELLY CLARKSON (RCA/RMG) RIAA certification for 100.000 paid downloads (Gold). RIAA certification for THE SICKNESS GIANT 24738 /WARNER BROS. (11.98/17.98) DANCE, DANCE LED ZEPPELIN 7 12 200.000 paid downloads (Platinum). Numeral within platinum symbol indicates song's 4'7 39 127 FALL OUT BOY (FUELED BY RAMEN/ISLAND/IDJMG) multiplatinum level. RIRA certification for net shipment of 500,000 singles (Gold). EARLY DAYS 8 LATTER OATS) 711E BEST OF LID ZE'PE.IN VOLUMES ONE AID TWO ATINRiC 83619/AG (1998) GRILLZ 10 7 SADE NELLY FEATURING PAUL WALL, ALI A GIPP (DERRTY /FO' REEUUMRG) MUSIC VIDEO SALES CHARTS THE BEST OF SADE EPIC 85287/SONY MUSIC (18.98/12.98) UNWRITTEN EVANESCENCE 11 13 RIAA gold certification for net shipment of 25,000 units for video singles. 49 50 135 NATASHA BEDINGFIELD (EPIC) FALLEN WIND -UP 13063 (18.98) 0 RIRA gold certification for net shipment of 50.000 units for shortform or WALK AWAY MAROON5 _ 15 6 longform videos. RIAA platinum certification for net shipment of 50,000 units 60 48 133 e KELLY CLARKSON (RCA/RMG) SONGS ABOUT JANE OCTONE /J 50001* /RMG (18.98) PHOTOGRAPH for video singles. RIRA platinum certification for sales of 100.000 units for 11 9 23 NICKELBACK (ROADRUNNEWIDJMG) shortform or longform videos. PUMP IT TOP POP CATALOG: Catalog Albums are 2 -year old titles that have fallen below No. 12 8 it THE BLACK EYED PEAS (A &M /INTERSCOPE) DVD SALES /VHS SALESNIDEO RENTALS 100 on The Billboard 200 or re- issues of older albums. Total Weeks column reflects combined weeks title has appeared on The Billboard 200 and Top Pop Catalog THERE IT GO! (THE WHISTLE SONG) RIAA gold certification for net shipment of 50.000 units or $1 million in sales at 10 13. 10 Alb:rms. TOP INTERNET: Reflects physical albums ordered through Internet mer- JUELZ SANTANA (DIPLOMATS /DEB JAM /IDJMG) for sales of 100,000 units or $2 chants, based on data by Nielsen SoundScan. Catalog titles are included. suggested retail price. RIAA platinum certification collected DON'T FORGET ABOUT US TOP DIGITAL: Release sold as a complete album bundle through digital download 8 17 million in sales at suggested retail price. IRMA gold certification for a minimum MARIAH CAREY (ISLAND /IDJMG) services. 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THOMAS MEAN BMW HOORAY FOR THOMAS IW TOY) PS2: GUN "Nothing Left to Lose" by singer /songwriter Mat Kearney enters Billboard Radio RE-ENTRY NR 8 10 9 HIT 08992 (12.98) VCTIVISION Moiitor's Triple -A audience chart at No. 19. Discover developing artists making their E RUSH HOUR 2 PS2: 50 CENT: BULLETPROOF nauçural Billboard chart runs each week in Breaking & Entering on billboard.com. RE-ENTRY PG-13 9 7 10 NEW LINE /WARNER 5402 (9.98) UNIVERSAL GAMES MUPPETS FROM SPACE XBOX: STAR WARS BATTLEFRONT II Tie best -52 ling albums by new and developing acts, defined as those who have never appeared in the top 100 of The Billboard 25 22 a H3atseekers reaches SONY PICTURES 04251 (9.98) LUCASARTS ENTERTAINMENT 2X. f title that level, it and the act's subsequent albums are immediately ineligible to appear on the ieatseeke s chart. See Chart Legend for rules and explanations. © 2006, VNU Business Media, Inc. and Nielsen SoundScan, Ix. AI -Vim reserved.

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www.americanradiohistory.com SINGLES & TRAcKs FEB 18 Chart Codes: CS (Hot Country Songs); H100 (Hot 100 Songs); LT (Hot Latin Songs); POP (Pop 100 Song and RBH (Hot R &B /Hip -Hop Songs). TITLE (Publisher - Licensing Org.) Sheet Music Dist., Chart, Position. 2006 SONG INDEX.

4 MINUTES (Grindtime, BMVFirst Avenue PRS/BMG wood, BMV (linaire Music, BMI LT46 POP 55' RBH 42 LIKE YOU (Universal, ASCAP/EMI April, ASCAP/Sha- POP 12 Princess Music, BMVTrick N' Rick, BMI) RBH 76 Songs. ASCAP/Demis Hot Songs ASCAP/Antonio DIRTY L SECRET (Smells Like Phys Ed HONEY CONK BADONKADONK (Music Of niah Cymone Music, ASCAP/Chrysalìs Music, TOUCHING (Bubba Gee, BMVNoontime South Dixon's Muzik ASCAP/Keriokeyy Music, ASCAP/BMG Songs, ASCAP), HL, H10013; POP 5 Windswept, ASCAP/Big Borassa Music, BMVfhird ASCAP/Naked Under My Clothes ASCAP/fhe Kid SESAC/Crump Tight Publishing, ASCAP) RBH 63 TOUCH Music, ASCAP /Christopher Mathew. BMUHdco Music, BMI) THE DOLLAR (EMT Blackwood, BMVBig Gassed Hit - Tier Music BMVE I Brookwood, BMI), HL CS 3; Slim Music. ASCAP/Jump And Shoot. ASCAP), HL, IT (Marys Music, BMUtnsign RBH 44 ties, BMI)) HL CS 19 H10032 POP54 POP 96 QUE VIDA LA MIA (KikoMaMan. BMI/EMI Blackwood. BMI/Sonos Of Universal, BMVMonza Ronza. DONT FORGET ABOUT US (Rye Songs,, BMVSongs THE HOOCHIE SONG (Having Yours Entertainment, UPSTICK Blue Sky Music, BMVCareers- BMI )LT 43 SESAC/Universal Tunes, SESAC). HL, H100 31: POP Of Universal. BMVShaniah Cymone Music, ASCAP) RBH 98 BMG BM),(Carolina HL CS 31 QUE VOY A HACER CON MI AMOR (Red Wine, 75- RBH 8 A ASCAP/EMI April, ASCAPBabyboys Little HOW 'BOUT YOU (Sony/AN Tree, BMVCopyright LWING IN EAST FORWARD (Old Desperados, BMVMaximo Aguirre, BMVSony/AN Discos. TOUCH THE SKY (Please Gimme My Publishing. BMVEMI Blackwood. BMVN.Q.C., ASCAP/F.0E.. ACOMPANAME A ESTAR SOW 1ArLona Musical, SESAC/Noontime South SE C ASCAP/Naked Control) HL CS 60 ASCAP/N2D ASCAP/Universal, ASCAP/Memphers- ASCAP/Universal Musica. ASCAP) LT 47 ASCAP]` 75 ASCAP/Heavy As Heaven Music. BMVWamer-Tamer- ASCAP/Sony/ATV Discos, ASCAP) LT 30 Under My ASCAP/Chrysalissalis1Music, HUNG UP (WB, ASCA/Webo Girl ASCAP/Univer- field HL CS 9; H100 PA' VERTE (Universal- Musica Unica, BMI) LT lane BMI), HUWBM. RBH 29 ALGO DE MI (Ser -Ca BMI) LT 15 HVAIBM, H100 20; POP 25; RBH 10 sal-PolyGram International, ASCAP/Universal, LLAME ASCAP/Union Songs Music Forlagsaktiebolag, 6 TO YOU Cancelled Lunch. ASCAP/Universal-Poly- ALIADO DEL TIEMPO (Not Usted) LT 50 DOWN 0OUT Motel, (DAY SS (Little Dwa, BMI) AB/EMI Waterford, ASCAP/Polar Music International, WOKING FOR YOU (Zomba Songs. BM illy Mack Gram International, ASCAP) RBH 84 ALWAYS (Joey Hawthorne Publishing, ASCAP) RBH Berson .¡acts, ABAJniversal Music Sweden AB/Warner Chappell, BMVBabyFingers, ASCAP/Mims, ASCAP /Shown TRAP STAR (Young Jeery Music BMVCollrPark CS 54 RAKATA (Brown role, ASCAP/EMI Blackwood, DRINKIN' SONGS & OTHER LOGIC (Blackened, PRS/Darkdancer PRS), HLANBM, H100 64; POP 49 Breree, ASCAP/Freddie Dee, BMI), WBM, H100 82; Music BMIÆMI Blackwood, BM1) HL ASH 66 AMOR ETERNO (LOB ASCAP/Wamer Chappell Ed- BMVBIue Kraft, BMI), HL LT 5 BMVSteve Wariner, BMI CS 56 HUSTLER MUSIK (Young Money Publishing RBH 18 TRU LOVE (Babyboys Little, SE South, _ Musicais) LT 24 RIDIN' (Chamillitary Camp Music, ASCAP/Play N- Publishing ASCAP/Naked R N R THAN ME Ho e -N -Cal BMI/Trent Tom-T Tamerlane, BMVMoney Mack, BMI), LO QUE ME GUSTA A MI (Camaleon, BMVPeermu- SESAC/Faith Evans Under ANDA Y VE (BMG Songs ASCAP) LT 27 BMVWarer- Skillz, ASCAP/EMI April, ASCAP/teathatace Music, linson Songs. BMI/Geormac Publishing, SAC) CS WBM. RBH 96 sic Ill BMI) LT 13 My Clothes, ASCAP/Chrysalis Music. ASCAP/Shani- ASCAP) HL RBH B5 ah Music, ASCAP/EMIMI April. ASCAP/WBM, 24 HYPNOTIZE (Sony Songs, BMVMalakian Pub - /(((BHBigg A Nikki ASCAP/EMIMMAqpprrJil,April, /AN RIGHT HERE (Greenland, ASCAP /.m.nobáy, lishing, BMVStunning Suppository Sounds, BMI), Cymone 2g ASCAP/My Blue Car. ASCAP/pimpYug, ASCAP/WB, NO ESTAS ASCAP LT HL, H100 92; POP 93 Musc, ASCAP/WB, ASCAP] HLIWBM nH100 28; TU (Maler, 36 BABY GIRL (SimplyProductions, ASCAP) RB- ASCAP), WBM, POP 37 TURN IT UP (Scott Storch. ASCAP/IVT E HYPOTHETICALLY (Lyle In, ASCAP) RBH 48 POP 23 BACK UKE THAT (nich Nd. BMVStarks, RODEO (EMI Blackwood, BMVBre e Music, ASCAP /Chamillitary Camp Music, ASCAP /Clover G, ELLA Y YO '' -- r ,at ASCAP P, BMI) LT LOVE (Cardraygee, SESAC/BMG Songs. ASCAP/She BMVNiahlist, BMUSuppeer Sayin Publishing, /Crown BMVDade Co. Project Music, BMVZomba Songs, BMI H100 45- POP 60 Wrote It ASCAP H100 33: RBH 7 BMI/Zomba Songs BMI/Stone Diamond Music, BMVR.Kelly, SMI),,HLAWBM, H100 58; RBH 17 LOVE WILL ALWAYS WIN (Universal- PolyGram TWEED YEARS AND TWO HUSBANDS AGO BMI), WBM, RBH 80 ENSENAME A OLVIDAR (EMI Blackwood, BMI) LT ROMPE Los Congris, ASCAP/Eddie Dee, (Drip Rock Creek. ASCAP /Sony/AN Cross Keys, 42 I AM NOT MY HAIR i0.1arner-Tamerlane, BMbWang International,International ASCAP/Sondance Kid, ASCAP/Wamer- BAILANDO (Univision. ASCAP) LT 25 ASCAP lue Kraft, BMI) H100_38 LT 1 POP 57 ASCAP /Sony/AN Acuff Rose, BMVUnwound, BMI). (Wild LT Windswept Tamerlane The Cow, BMI), WBM CS 27 BANDOLEROS (Crown P, BMVEMI April, ASCAP) LT ESO EHH._!! Dogz. BMI) 22 Out BMVCombustion, BMVSongs Of RUN RI (Scott Storch ASCA/I`, ASCAP/Team S HL CS 33 LUXURIOUS (Harajuku Lover Music, ASCAP/Brate 18 EVER THE SAME (U Rule Music. ASACP/EMI April, Pacific, BMI . WBM RBH 55 Dot Pub fishing. BMVtlitco Music BMVSongsOf Ship Music. ASCAPÆMI April. ASCAPBovina BAT COUNTRY (Darkness Coats Us Publish( ASCAP) HL H100 80: POP 84 I CANT UNLRVE YOU (LOB ASCAP/Scott And Soda, Windswept Pacific, BMI), HL. H1ó011; POP 7; RBH Music. ASCAP). HL, H100 86: POP 62. RBH 54 ASCAP/EMI April, ASCAP), HL H100 96; POP 91 EVERY TIME I HEAR YOUR NAME (E-MI April, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane, AMVWriters Extreme, 24 (EMI April. ASCAP/Romeo Cowboy Music ASCAP/Tom Ham- BMVWaming Danger, BMI) WBM, CS 39 BECAUSE OF YOU ASCAP/Smelly UN BESO (Premium Latin, ASCAP) LT 26 bridge Tunes, ASCAP /Songs O) Windswept Pacific, I DONT (MXC Music, ASCAP/Still Working For The Songs. ASCAP/12:06 Publishing ASCAP/Smells UNBREAKABLE (Lellow Productions, ASCAPÆMI BMI /Gottahaveable BMI) HL CS 32 Woman, ASCABelladiva Music, BMVSÓII Working Like Metal SOCAN/Dwight Frye.13MI), HLNVBM, April ASCAP/Please Gimme My Publishing, EVERYTIME I THINK ABOUT HER (E- Ballad Music, For The Man, BM CMX Songs, BMVBurton B. MACHUCANDO (Los Cans, ASCAP/Eddie Dee. H100 15; GOP 9 THE SEASHORES OF OLD MEXICO ;Sony AN BMI/EMI Blackwood, BMVUncle Bobby's Music. ASCAP/Jasane Drama Music, ASCAP/Jaewons Pub - Collins, SESAC CS 28 ASCAP LT 45 BEDROOM BOOM (ColliPark Music, BMVEMI Black- Tree BMI HL, CS 48 BMVFuII Force ASCAP), HL RBH 20 lishing, ASCAP/Justin Combs, ASCAP/EMI April, I DONT FEEL LIKE LOVING YOU TODAY (Songs Of MAGIC Zomba Songs, BMVR.Kelty, BMI), WBM, wood BMVEWC Music, BMVDa Cnp ler Music, SENSUAL (Universal, ASCAP/Culbertson Music, UNPREDICTABLE (Uncle Bobby's Music, BMVEMI ASCAP /One Shot Deal Muzak, SESACNnichappell Universal, BMVHanna BMIAWamerTamerlane, RBH 3 BMVGrindtime, BMVPersevere, BMVDrive -in, BMI), ASCAP/Fourth Of Four Music, ASCAP/MiTi Music. Blackwood, BMI/Black Boy Hatchet Music. RBH 71 BMVMakeshift, BMI) H M. CS MALO (EMI cil ASCAP) LT 32 HL RBH 50 Music BMIMIB ASCAP), HUWBM, 36 SESAC), HL RBH 68 BMI/Ludacris Music Publishing, ASCAPMitlwerk EVERYTIME WE TOUCH (Mambo Musikverlags-nu. 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BMI/WSRJ Music, ASCAP), FHL, 1110010; POP 6 Tunes, ASCAP/Janice Combs Publishing, BMVEMI Songs ASCAP H100 85; POP 67 Keys ASCAP), HL, CS 5 BMVGo,ld Watch, BMVSony /A Cross Keys, UPSIDE DOWN (Bubble Toes ASCAP/Universal, Blackwood, BMVYoga Flames Music, MS. NEW BO (Soar Loser Music, BMVEMI BEUEVE (Sony/AN Tree BMVShowbilly BMVBíg CS 30 H 1 0 73; POP 64 BMVAlaxsander Mosely ASCAP omba Enterprises, Blackwood BMVColliPark Music BMI/Da Crippler Loud Shirt Industires. ASCAP/ICG, ASCAP), HL GS FEEL GOOD INC , 2iau:. _ J .:.'i Bus Kid"i mis (First PRS/BMG Songs, 18, H100 78 Music. BMI/Underground Animals, ASCAP/Chrysalis ASCAP), HL/WBM, H100 60' POP 27 Music, BMVEWC Music, BMI), HL, H100 61; RBH Sono, Music. IF YOU'R GOING THROUGH HELL (BEFORE THE 25 BEST FRIEND (50 Cent Music, ASCAP/Universal, ASCAP/EMI AprHrl ASCAPNnderdogs Songs V DEVIL EVEN KNOWS) (Gravitron SESAC/Whad- MUST BE DOIN' SOMETHIN' RIGHT (EMI April. ASCAP/DJ Hi -Tek. 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Notice is hereby given that Fortress Credit Opportunities I LP, a Delaware limited partnership, as a lender and as agent on behalf of the lenders (the "Agent ") under that certain Loan Agreement, dated as of March 1, 2004, as amended (the "Loan Agreement "), among The Songwriter Collective, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as borrower (the "Debtor "), the Manager Louise Scruggs, 78 Agent and the lenders, having postponed the public sales scheduled for November 4, 2005, December 14, 2005 and January 31, 2006, intends to sell at public sale in accordance with the provisions of the New York Uniform Commercial Code, certain per- Louise Certain Scruggs, manager and wife of Country Music Hall of Fame Earl Feb. 2 at the Baptist Hospital in Nashville. The sonal property assets of the Debtor, generally described as all of the Debtor's right, title and interest of every kind and nature banjoist Scruggs, died 78- year -old suffered from respiratory disease. in and to all accounts, chattel paper, deposit accounts, documents, electronic chattel paper, equipment, general intangibles, Scruggs was widely hailed as country's first female music manager in a instruments, inventory, investment property, payment intangibles and software belonging to the Debtor, in each case goods, male- dominated business. Born Louise Certain in 1927, the music pioneer whether tangible or intangible, wherever located or situated, including all rights to a portfolio of musical compositions, includ- met Earl Scruggs in 1946 at the Grand Ole ing, in some instances, copyrights of the musical compositions, the right to and interest in any and all revenues and licenses Opry in Nashville, where he was playing with derived from such musical compositions, and all claims and causes of action related to the musical compositions accruing at Bill Monroé s Blue Grass Boys. She was in the any time and all other rights of the Debtor of any nature whatsoever in the musical compositions (the "Collateral "). A more audience as she watched Earl display his sig- detailed description of the Collateral will be provided to you upon execution of a confidentiality agreement. The public sale will nature three -finger banjo -playing technique. take place at the office of Sidley Austin LLP at 787 Seventh Avenue, New York, New York 10019, on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 at The couple met after the show and married two years later, in 1948. 11:00 a.m., New York time. The Agent reserves the right to cancel the sale, without notice, in its entirety, or to adjourn the sale Scruggs was the pillar supporting her hus- to a future date. The Agent may further adjourn the sale herein described to another date from time to time, before, during or band and his many musical incarnations, in- after commencement of bidding, without written notice, by announcement at the time and place appointed for such auction, cluding the legendary duo Flatt & Scruggs and or any adjournment thereof, and, without further notice, such auction may be made at the time and place to which the auction his later family group, the Earl Scruggs Revue. may have been so adjourned. Guiding her husband's career, she helped ex- Interested persons should take notice that the Collateral will be sold on the following terms and conditions: pand his audience and pushed bluegrass into 1. All bids must be given orally at the public sale. the mainstream. Through her efforts, Flatt & Scruggs provided the theme song for the 1972 movie 2. The Agent reserves the right to bid for and purchase the Collateral and to credit the purchase price against the expenses Efor TV's "The Beverly Hillbillies" and the background music Breakdown" was also of sale and principal, interest and any and all other amounts due and payable to the Agent pursuant to the terms of any and all "Deliverance." Earl Scruggs' "Foggy Mountain used on the soundtrack to the 1967 film "Bonnie and Clyde." indebtedness secured by the security interest in the Collateral. She is survived by her husband and their renowned musician sons, Gary 3. The Agent has sole discretion to determine which offer is the highest or best offer, and to reject any offer which it deems and Randy Scruggs. -Sarah Han to be insufficient. 4. Concurrently with the acceptance of any bid, the prospective purchaser shall be required to execute and deliver to the Agent the Asset Purchase Agreement, a copy of which may be obtained by contacting the one of the person's identified in the final paragraph of this notice, containing terms of sale and conditions precedent to the Agent's obligation to sell, in each case, in BIRTHS BOY: Jett Francis, to GIRL: Lacey Mariah, to Angie and addition to those set forth herein, including, without limitation, the requirement that the sale of the Collateral pursuant to the Brandi and Scott Kirkland, Jan. 24 Guy Penrod, Jan. 24 in Tennessee. Asset Purchase Agreement be consummated no earlier than 30 days following execution thereof. in Glendale, Calif. Father is a Father is lead singer for the Gaither member of the Crystal Method. Vocal Band. 5. Upon acceptance of any bid, the prospective purchaser shall be required to deposit (the "Deposit ") with the Agent earnest money in an amount equal to ten percent of the purchase price. Such Deposit shall only be refunded to such prospective purchaser as, and to the extent, provided in the Asset Purchase Agreement. In all other cases, the Agent shall have the right to retain such Deposit. If such sale of the Collateral is consummated with such prospective purchaser, the full amount of such Deposit shall be applied to the purchase price. If such sale is not consummated, the Agent shall have the right, but shall have FEI3. 15-17 Country Radio Semi- ference, Wyndham Miami Beach no obligation, to reoffer the Collateral for sale, without further notice. The prospective purchaser shall not be entitled to any nar, Nashville Convention Center. 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The bid of any prospective purchaser who fails to tender proper payment may be rejected and the Agent may, APRIL 4 Billboard MECCA, Los subject to the other terms hereof, (i) accept any alternative bid made at the sale, in which case the Agent shall have no obliga- MARCH 2 Billboard Music & Money Angeles Convention Center. 646- notify any other bidders of the acceptance of such bid, or (ii) reoffer the tion to reconvene the sale, accept additional bids, or Symposium, St. Regis Hotel, New 654 -4660. billboardevents.com. herein to the Collateral for sale without further notice, in each case, at the Agent's option. Notwithstanding anything contained York. 646 -654 -4660. billboard - APRIL 5 contrary, the Agent shall not be obligated to make any sale of the Collateral pursuant to this notice. events.com. 37th annual Dove 8. In the event the Agent is unable to consummate any sale and deliver the Collateral to a purchaser, then the sole liability of Awards, Grand Ole Opry House, IVIARCH 4 the Agent to such purchaser shall be to refund the purchase price, if any, previously paid to the Agent. 20th annual Soul Train Nashville. 615 -242 -0303. gmamusic- awards.com. 9. The Collateral will only be sold in its entirety unless the Agent announces otherwise at the outset of the public sale. Music Awards, Pasadena (Calif.) Civic Auditorium. 310- 858 -8232. 10. Subject to satisfaction of all of the conditions precedent to the Agent's obligation to sell the Collateral pursuant to the Asset APRIL 7 soultrain.com. 13th annual BMI Latin Purchase Agreement and the terms and conditions hereof, consummation of the sale of the Collateral will be made immedi- Awards, Metropolitan Pavilion, New the Agent of the purchase price and shall be evidenced by delivery of the Collateral to the purchaser there- ately upon receipt by IVIARCH 10-19 South by Southwest York. bmilatin.com. PAYMENT of, BUT WITHOUT DELIVERY OF A BILL OF SALE, WITHOUT GUARANTEE OF SIGNATURES, WITHOUT Music and Media Conference, Austin TAX, REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY BY THE AGENT, AND SUB- APRIL 20 -22 OF ANY TRANSFER OR OTHER AND WITHOUT Convention Center. 512- 467 -7979. ASCAP I Create JECT TO ALL DEFENSES. sxsw.com. Music Expo, Hollywood Renaissance 11. The above terms and conditions of sale may be subject to additional or amended terms and conditions to be announced at Hotel, Los Angeles. 800- 278 -1287. MARCH 24 -28 the time of sale. Winter Music Con- ascap.com /expo. 12, If any dispute arises between two or more bidders, the Agent may decide the same or put the Collateral up for sale again FOR THE RECORD Music Group. Further, the and resell to the purchaser submitting the best bid, as determined by the Agent. In all cases, the Agent's decision shall be final. Contrary to a story in the Feb. 4 Nettwerk artist mentioned in the 13. All bidders and other persons attending this auction agree that they have full knowledge of the terms set forth above and issue, the Spanish -language version story is MC Lars; his track is titled Purchase Agreement and agree to be bound by the terms hereof and thereof. contained in the Asset of Andrea Bocelli s new album, "Download This Song." 14. The Debtor shall have the right to redeem the Collateral in accordance with, and only to the extent provided for, under "Amor," will be released Feb. 28 in applicable law. Persons desiring further information as to the public sale of the Collateral, and the terms and condition relat- the United States and Feb. 24 in A story on mobile ticketing in the ing thereto, and /or desiring to obtain copies of the confidentiality agreement or the Asset Purchase Agreement, may contact other territories. Feb. 11 issue should have identified either Martin Jackson (212/839-6726) of Sidley Austin LLP, 787 Seventh Avenue, New York, New York 10019 or Colleen Yellowcard's latest album as the McDonald (415/772 -1207) of Sidley Austin LLP, 555 California Street, San Francisco, California 94104, counsel for the Agent. In the Feb. 11 issue, a story on peer- group's second release. 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Time," Burt Bacharach (Columbia Records). Bobby Boyd, Jeff Hanna and Marcus Hummon, song- Sy . No. 13," Mariss Jansons, conductor (Sergei BEST POP VOCAL ALBUM: "Breakaway," Kelly writers (Rascal Flatts), Lyric Street Records. Publishers: POLKA Aleksashkin; Chor Des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Clarkson (RCA Records). Careers -BMG Music, Floyd's Dream Music, Jeff Diggs BEST POLKA ALBUM: "Shake, Rattle and Polka!," Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks) (EMI Music. Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra (Rounder). Classics). DANCE BEST COUNTRY ALBUM: "Lonely Runs Both BEST OPERA RECORDING: "Verdi: Falstaff," Sir BEST DANCE RECORDING: "Galvanize," the Chemical Ways," Alison Krauss + Union Station (Rounder). CHILDREN'S Coln Davis, conductor; Carlos Alvarez, Billent Bezdüz, Brothers Featuring Q -Tip. The Chemical Brothers, pro- BEST BLUEGRASS ALBUM: "The Company We BEST MUSICAL ALBUM FOR CHILDREN: "Songs Marina Domashenko, Jane Henschel, Ana Ibarra, Maria ducers. The Chemical Brothers and Steve Dub, mixers Keep," the Del McCoury Band (McCoury Music /Sugar From the Neighborhood-The Music of Mister Rogers," Josè Moreno & Michele Pertusi; James Mallinson, pro- (Astralwerks). Hill Records). various artists (Memory Lane Syndications). ducer (London Symphony Chorus; London Symphony BEST ELECTRONIC /DANCE ALBUM: "Push the BEST SPOKEN WORD ALBUM FOR CHILDREN: Orchestra) (LSO Live). Button," the Chemical Brothers (Astralwerks). NEW AGE "Mario Thomas and Friends: Thanks and Giving All Year BEST CHORAL PERFORMANCE: "Bolcom: Songs BEST NEW AGE ALBUM: "Silver Solstice, "Paul Winter Long," various artists (Warner Strategic Marketing). of Innocence and of Experience," Leonard Slatkin, con - TRADITIONAL POP Consort (Living Music). dudtor; Jerry Blackstone, William Hammer, Jason BEST TRADITIONAL POP VOCAL ALBUM: "The Art SPOKEN WORD Harris, Christopher Kiver, Carole Ott & Mary Alice of Romance," Tony Bennett (RPM Records /Columbia JAZZ BEST SPOKEN WORD ALBUM: "Dreams From My Stollak, choir directors (Christine Brewer, Measha Records). BEST CONTEMPORARY JAZZ ALBUM: "The Way Father," Senator Barack Obama (Random House Audio). B ggergosman, Ilan Davidson, Nmon Ford, Linda Up," Pat Metheny Group (Nonesuch). Ho enfeld, Joan Morris, Carmen Pelton, Marietta BEST JAZZ VOCAL ALBUM: "Good Night, and COMEDY Si son & Thomas Young; Michigan State University Good Luck," Dianne Reeves (Concord Jazz). BEST COMEDY ALBUM: "Never Scared," Chris Rock Ch' dren's Choir, University of Michigan Chamber BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL SOLO: "Why Was I (Geffen). Ch ir, University of Michigan Orpheus Singers, Born ?," Sonny Rollins, soloist (Milestone). Un versity of Michigan University Choir Sc. University BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM, INDIVIDUAL MUSICAL SHOW Mu ical Society Choral Union; University of Michigan OR GROUP: "Beyond the Sound Barrier," Wayne Shorter BEST MUSICAL SHOW ALBUM: "Monty Python's S of of Music Symphony Orchestra) Naxos). Quartet (Verve). Spamalot," John Du Prez and Eric Idle, producers. John EST INSTRUMENTAL SOLOIST(S) PERFORMANCE BEST LARGE JAZZ ENSEMBLE ALBUM: "Overtime," Du Prez, composer. Eric Idle, composer/lyricist. (W TH ORCHESTRAI: "Beethoven: Piano Cons. Nos. 2 Dave Holland Big Band (Sunnyside /Dare2). Original Broadway Cast Including David Hyde Pierce, & " Claudio Abbado, conductor; Martha Argerich BEST LATIN JAZZ ALBUM: "Listen Here!," Eddie Tim Curry, Hank Azaria and Sara Ramirez (Decca (M hier Chamber Orchestra) (Deutsche Grammophon). Palmieri (Concord Picante(. Broadway). EST INSTRUMENTAL SOLOIST PERFORMANCE (W THOUT ORCHESTRA): "Scriabin, Medtner, GOSPEL FILM /TV/VISUAL MEDIA Str vinsky," Evgeny Kissin (BMG Classics RCA Red BEST GOSPEL PERFORMANCE: "Pray," CeCe Winans BEST COMPILATION SOUNDTRACK ALBUM FOR Sea ). (Puresprings Gospel /INO /Sony Urban Music /Epic). MOTION PICTURE, TELEVISION OR OTHER BEST CHAMBER MUSIC PERFORMANCE: BEST ROCK GOSPEL SONG: "Be Blessed," Yolanda VISUAL MEDIA: "Ray," Ray Charles (Atlantic /Rhino/ "Mendelssohn: The Complete String Quartets," Adams, james Harris III, Terry Lewis and James Q. WMG Soundtracks). Emerson String Quartet (Deutsche Grammophon). Wright, songwriters (Yolanda Adams), Elektra /Atlantic. BEST SCORE SOUNDTRACK ALBUM FOR BEST SMALL ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE (WITH Publishers: EMI April Music, Flyte Tyme Tunes, MOTION PICTURE, TELEVISION OR OTHER OR WITHOUT CONDUCTOR): "Boulez: Le Marteau Jibranda Music Works, Minneapolis Guys Music, Jamyo VISUAL MEDIA: "Ray," Craig Armstrong, composer Sans Maitre, Dérive 1 & 2," Pierre Boulez, conductor; Music. (Atlantic /Rhino /WMG Soundtracks). Hilary Summers; Ensemble Intercontemporain ROCK BEST ROCK GOSPEL ALBUM: "Until My Heart BEST SONG WRITTEN FOR MOTION PICTURE, (De tsche Grammophon). BEST SOLO ROCK VOCAL PERFORMANCE: "Devils Caves In," Audio Adrenaline (ForeFront Records). TELEVISION OR OTHER VISUAL MEDIA: "Believe" and Dust," Bruce Springsteen (Columbia Records). BEST POP/CONTEMPORARY GOSPEL ALBUM: (from "The Polar Express "), Glen Ballard and Alan Silvestri, BEST ROCK PERFORMANCE BY A DU OR "Lifesong," Casting Crowns (Beach Street /Reunion songwriters (Josh Groban), Warner Sunset /Reprise. GROUP WITH VOCAL: "Sometimes You Can't Make It Records). Publishers: Wamer Olive Music, Aerostation, Universal- on Your Own," U2 (Interscope Records). BEST SOUTHERN, COUNTRY, OR BLUEGRASS MCA Music Publishing, Jobanala Music. BEST HARD ROCK PERFORMANCE: "B.Y.O.B.," GOSPEL ALBUM: "Rock of Ages ... Hymns and Faith," o System of a Down (Columbia Records). Amy Grant (Word Records). COMPOSING /ARRANGING BEST METAL PERFORMANCE: "Before I Forget," BEST TRADITIONAL SOUL GOSPEL ALBUM: BEST INSTRUMENTAL COMPOSITION: "Into the i5 Slipknot (Roadrunner Records). "Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs," Donnie Light," Billy Childs, composer (Billy Childs Ensemble) BEST ROCK INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE: McClurkin (Verity Records). (Lunacy Music /Artistshare). d "69 Freedom Special," Les Paul and Friends (Capitol BEST CONTEMPORARY SOUL GOSPEL ALBUM: BEST INSTRUMENTAL ARRANGEMENT: "The 3 Records). "Purified," CeCe Winans (Puresprings Gospel/INO/ Incredits," Gordon Goodwin, arranger (various artists) BEST ROCK SONG: "City of Blinding Lights," U2, Sony Urban Music /Epic). (Walt Disney Records). songwriter (U2), Interscope Records; Publisher: BEST GOSPEL CHOIR OR CHORUS ALBUM: "One BEST INSTRUMENTAL ARRANGEMENT Universal Music Publishing. Voice," Gladys Knight, choir director. Saints Unified ACCOMPANYING VOCALIST(S): "What Are You BEST ROCK ALBUM: "How to Dismantle an Atomic Voices (Many Roads Records). Doing for the Rest of Your Life?," Billy Childs, Gil Bomb," U2 (Interscope Records). Goldstein & Heitor Pereira, arrangers (Chris Botti & LATIN Sting) (Columbia Records). ó ALTERNATIVE BEST LATIN POP ALBUM: " Escucha," Laura Pausini BEST ALTERNATIVE MUSIC ALBUM: "Get Behind Me (Warner Music Latina). PACKAGE a Satan," the White Stripes (Third Man/V2 Records). BEST LATIN ROCK/ALTERNATIVE ALBUM: BEST RECORDING PACKAGE: "The Forgotten Arm," N " Fijación Oral, Vol. 1," Shakira (Sony). Aimee Mann and Gail Marowitz, art directors (Aimee R &B BEST TRADITIONAL TROPICAL LATIN ALBUM: Mann), SuperEgo Records. ' BEST FEMALE R&B VOCAL PERFORMANCE: "We "Bebo De Cuba," Bebo Valdés (Calle 54 Records). BEST BOXED OR SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION Island Records). m Belong Together," Mariah Carey BEST SALSA /MERENGUE ALBUM: "Son Del PACKAGE: "The Legend," Ian Cuttler, art director EST CLASSICAL VOCAL PERFORMANCE: "Bach: u BEST MALE R&B VOCAL PERFORMANCE: Alma," Willy Chirino ( Latinum Music). (Johnny Cash), Columbia Records /Legacy Recordings. Cantatas," Thomas Quasthoff (Rainer Kussmaul; , "Ordinary People," John Legend (Getting Out Our BEST MEXICAN /MEXICAN -AMERICAN ALBUM: Members of the RIAS Chamber Choir; Berlin Baroque ú Dreams /Sony Urban Music/Columbia). "México En La Piel," Luis Miguel (Warner Music Latina). ALBUM NOTES Soloists) Deutsche Grammophon). BEST R&B PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP BEST TEJANO ALBUM: Chicanisimo," Little Joe Y BEST ALBUM NOTES: "The Complete Library of BEST CLASSICAL CONTEMPORARY COMPOSITION: WITH VOCALS: "So Amazing," Beyoncé and Stevie La Familia (TDI Records). Congress Recordings by Alan Lomax," John Szwed, "Bolcom: Songs of Innocence and of Experience," o Wonder (J Records)). album notes writer (Jelly Roll Morton), Rounder William Bolcom (Leonard Slatkin) (Naxos). o BEST TRADITIONAL R&B VOCAL PERFORMANCE: BLUES Records. BEST CLASSICAL CROSSOVER ALBUM: "4 + á "A House Is Not a Home," Aretha Franklin (J Records). BEST TRADITIONAL BLUES ALBUM: "80," B.B. King Four," Turtle Island String Quartet & Ying Quartet -ó BEST URBAN /ALTERNATIVE PERFORMANCE: & Friends (Geffen). HISTORICAL (Telarc). "Welcome to Jamrock," Damian Marley (Tuff Gong/ BEST CONTEMPORARY BLUES ALBUM: "Cost of BEST HISTORICAL ALBUM: "The Complete Library of u Universal)._ Living," Delbert McClinton (New West Records). Congress Recordings by Alan Lomax," Jeffrey Greenberg MUSIC VIDEO BEST R&B SONG: "We Belong Together," J. Austin, and Anna Lomax Wood, compilation producers. Adam BEST SHORT FORM MUSIC VIDEO: "Lose Control," ED M. Carey, J. Dupri, M. Seal, D. Bristol, K. Edmonds, S. FOLK Ayan and Steve Rosenthal, mastering engineers (Jelly Missy Elliott Featuring Ciara & Fat Man Scoop (Missy Johnson, P. Moten, S. Sully and B. Womack, songwriters BEST TRADITIONAL FOLK ALBUM: "Fiddler's Roll Morton), Rounder Records. Elliott & Dave Meyers, video directors; Joseph Sasson, ( Mariah Carey), Island. Publishers: Rye Songs, Shaniah Green," Tim O'Brien (Sugar Hill Records). video producer) (Goldmind /Atlantic). Cymone Music, EMI April, Seal Music, BMG Songs, BEST CONTEMPORARY FOLK ALBUM: "Fair and PRODUCTION, NON -CLASSICAL BEST LONG FORM MUSIC VIDEO: "No Direction Naked Under My Clothes, Ballads by Design, Chrysalis Square," John Prine (Oh Boy Records). BEST ENGINEERED ALBUM, NON -CLASSICAL: Home," Bob Dylan (Martin Scorsese, video director, á Music, Sony/ATV Songs, Hip Chic Music, Mister BEST NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC ALBUM: "Back Home," Alan Douglas and Mick Guzauski, engi- Margaret Bodde, Susan Lacy, Jeff Rosen, Martin m Johnson's Jams, Warner- Tamerlane, ABKCO Music. "Sacred Ground -A Tribute to Mother Earth," various neers Eric Clapton , Reprise /Duck Records. Sco sese, Nigel Sinclair & Anthony Wall, video produc- i BEST R &B ALBUM: "Get Lifted," John Legend artists (Silverwave Records). PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, NON -CLASSICAL: ers ((Columbia Legacy/Paramount Home Video).

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s Jamie Foxx, lef-, and Kanye West- winner of three Grammys, including best rap album Attending Universal Music (Roc -a- Fella/Def Jam's "Lete Registrat on") Group's post -Grammy party at the and best rap song ( "Diamonds From Serra in owntown L.A., from left, were UMG - Leone ") -colorfully commandtheir own marching Dotg Morris. Mary J. Bilge. Vivendi Universal bands during a performance of "Gold Diggar," which chairmae/CEO Jean-Bernard Levy. Interscope Geffen also earned West a best rap sob performance award. A &Mchairman Jimmy lovine and Sheryl Crow.

The 48th annual Grammy Awards, held Feb. 8 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, featured performances by Madonna and Gorillaz, Mariah Carey, Coldplay, Bruce Springsteen, U2 and Mary J. Blige, Kanye West and Jamie Foxx, Faith Hill and Keith Urban, Christina Aguilera and Herbie Hancock, and all -star tributes to Sly & the Family Stone and the city of New Orleans. The major 13bels all hosted Grammy -night parties at locations across the city. Othe- Grammy Week festivities included the Feb. 6 MusiCares Person of the Year extant honoring James Taylor at the L.A. Convention Center and Clive Davis' annual pre- Grammy bash Feb. 7 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, which inc uded performances from Barry Manilow, Rod Stewart, Kelly Clarkson, Carlos Saltana and Rob Thomas, Jamie Foxx, Fantasia Barrino and Heather Headley. (Photos: Wirelmage's Larry Busacca, Michael Caulfield, Lester Cohen, Gregg DeGu re, Jeffrey Mayer, Kevin Mazur and Steve Granitz.) M stn pose in the show-opening performance of "Hung Up," which also included the Gorillaz through some technical trickery.

At his pre -Grammy Sly Stone party, mus-c biz commands legend Clive Davis the stage rising introduces during an star Heather Headley all-star tribute to an A -list crowd of performance to industry eecutives, the Family Stone. movie star, and artists.

Sony BMG executives come together at their Grammy after-paty at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood. From left are Sony Music Label Group U.S. president/COO Michele Anthony, The Beatles classic BMG Label Group U.S. resident/COO Charles "Yesterday" gets a whole new spin Goldstuck Sony BMG chairmarRolf Schmidt -Holtz, BMG Label with a performance by, from left, rap star/ Group U.S. chairman /CEO Clive Davis, Sony BMG Music Entertainment label chief Jay -Z, Paul McCartney and CEO Andrew Lack and Sony Music Label Group U.S. CEO Don lenner. Linkin Park's Chester Bennington.

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www.americanradiohistory.com ik Backstage With Billboard Billboard staffers Jonathan Cohen, pop vocal album, said it was an news, the group confirmed it has Todd Martens, Gail Mitchell and honest mistake. "I forgot! I enlisted the services of producer Melinda Newman offer a behind - didn't thank my dad either. I Rick Rubin for its new album,

the- scenes look at the Grammy didn't thank a lot of people. I the follow -up to 2003's "Mete - Awards, held Feb. 8 at the Staples have like 30 [messages] in my ora." Linkin Park has resolved its Center in Los Angeles, and sur- BlackBerry yelling It me ... I differences with Warner Bros., rounding events. was shaking so badl I couldn't with which it was at one point at- stop crying. Your 12- ar--old self tempting to sever all ties. U2, who were the night's big is kicking yourself going, 'What

winners with five statues for in the hell is going on?' I wanted AUDIO ADRENALINE, which "How to Dismantle an Atomic to talk to my mom. I was against is disbanding after 15 years be- Bomb," feel a rock'n'roll resur- a Beatle, for crying out loud." cause of lead singer Mark Stu - gence is afoot. "Rock'n'roll at its art's vocal problems, took home ci--.,i best is four kids who commit to IT TOOK 12 YEARS FOR best a Grammy for best rock gospel ...-.f forming a gang and go out west country song winner "Bless the album. The band's Ben Cissell and want to win," Bono said. Broken Road" to find its path. said the group "toyed with [re- "Not just robbing the bank, Co- writer Jeff Hanna says the placing Mark by] getting some which is nice, but stealing tune was written and first of our friends who we'd met to hearts, which is always better. recorded for his group the Nitty be singers, but Mark's the best JamesThylor, right, Kelly Clarkson leaves her You have cer_ainly has a friend in "American Idol" days behnd with this opportunity to Gritty Dirt Band in 1994. The frontman in Christian music. Recording Academy president Grammy wins for best female pop votes make rage into a chorus or hurt song's co- writer, Marcus Hum - For us to go on would be wrong." Neil Portnoy as he accepts -he oaformance ( "Since U Been Gcne) and bes: nisiCares Pe -9n of the Year award. pop vocal album (RCA's "Breakaway "). into a verse. Sorrow is always so mon, also recorded the song in much sweeter when it rhymes." 1995. Rascal Flats considered BURT BACHARACH, who From left, Warner Brc. Records :hairman /CEO Tom Whalley, Greer Day's Mike Dint and BIIIIE Joe Armstrong, and Warner cutting it for several albums be- won for best pop instrumental Music Group clairman/CEC Edgar Bronfman Jr CALLING U2 "my boys," Kanye fore finally doing so. "It's a per- album, was outspoken about the celebrate Green Day's Gummy wins for retort of the yea and best ock album during West said he figured the group fect case oftiming is everything," Bush administration. "I never WMCs post-Grammy bash at the Pacific Deign Center. would win album ofthe year be- Hanna said. "They did a great like to be lied to by a girlfriend cause of vote -splitting between version, sang their butts off and or an agent and certainly not the his and Mariah Carey's albums. people responded." president," he said. He ex- "I understand the politics of it. pressed similar sentiments on

[ "Late Registration "] didn't win GORILLAZ, who won best pop the winning album, "At This it by a technicality and not be- collaboration by a duo or group Time." (Qualifying albums cause I didn't deserve it," said the with vocals for "Feel Good Inc," must contain at least 51% in- self-confident West, who took kicked off the broadcast by shar- strumental playing time.) home three trophies. "[Producer] ing the stage with Madonna. Jon Brion really put it down [on During rehearsals, group mem- ALISON KRAUSS and her band, the album] with the strings and ber Murdoc said he was in no Union Station, took home three the cinematic sound. We broke way star -struck by thie Material trophies, bringing Krauss' total a lot of boundaries, things not Girl. "I can honestly say that to 22 Grammys. Although the done in hip -hop before." since jamming with us at the group won for best country Grammys, Madonna can really album, she remains a little fazed A HIGHLIGHT of the evening say to herself, ' I've arrived.' She that country radio continues to was reclusive funk pioneer Sly should be very proud of herself." all but ignore the group. "We Stone's first performance in 13 But once it came time for the know the radio programmers years. Joining Sly's brother, real thing, Murdoc found him- don't really see us," Krauss said. guitarist Freddy Stone, and self severely distracted by his "We don't spend a lot of time [try- drummer Gregg Errico back - collaborator. "I was right in the ing to] figure it out." stage-sans Sly -were original middle of a really tricky bass part Family Stone members Cynthia when I saw her coming towards BEST MALE COUNTRY vocal Robinson, Jerry Martini and me," he said. "I immediately performance winner Keith Sly's sister Rose Banks. (Bassist thought, 'Uh, oh! Stage inva- Urban is working on the follow- Larry Graham was ill.) Freddy sion.' I almost swung my bass - up to his triple- platinum album, stated that Sly is healthy -and axe at her. That frisky Ms. "Be Here." He expects to be back writing new music: "He's Madonna was all over me like a in the studio with producer jazzed and very much inter- virulent case ofthrusl I tell you, Dann Huff in April or May, and Alison ested in letting fans hear the though, close up, she's a real sheepishly answered, when Krauss E nd her Union Station band members Jeri, new material." There is even cracker. I mean, she even looks asked, that no, there will not be Douglas, left, and Dan Tyminekl talk ofa Family Stone tour with good when you squint." any songs dedicated to his girl- recel in their the Grammy wirs for country collaboration with vocals Sly: "It is conceivable that we friend Nicole Kidman. ( "3reathless ";, :ountry instrumental would" go without him, Freddy ONCE THE TARGET of possi- ( "Unionhouse Brar ch ") and countr,, album (Ramder's "Lonely Runs Both Ways"). said. "But it would be better and ble lawsuit, Danger Mouse's JAMES TAYLOR was a man more complete with him." mash -up of Jay -Z's "The Black of few words when honored Feb. At their Fist Crammy Album" and the Beatles' "White 6 as the 2006 MusiCares Person party A Par ' unt Studios, Elul Music DON'T TELL best new artist re- Album" is now inspiring per- of the Year at the Los Angeles chairman /CEO Alan Levy, cipient John Legend that there is left, and EM MLEb North formances at the Grammy Convention Center. "It's strange America ctairnanrCEO a curse on the winner of that Awards. Linkin Park's Chester to be at an event like this and still David Murs, ight, congratu ate Cr Iaz's award. "I don't believe in new - Bennington said Danger Mouse be alive," he quipped following Damon Plbarr on the artist jinxes. The Beatles won best was the only one missing from a an evening when the likes of group's will or best pop :ollatoration new artist. Mariah Carey is one performance with Jay-Z and Paul Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, wi r iccals. of the top -selling female artist of McCartney. "We thought we'd try Sting and the Dixie Chicks per- all times. And then there's Alicia to tie all those things together, formed his songs. Sheryl Crow Keys? If that's a jinx, I'll take it." and Sir Paul McCartney was gra- recalled that the first time she cious enough to cooperate," he smelled pot was at a JT concert, KELLY CLARKSON was grilled said. Playing with McCartney was while Springsteen playfully rec- on why she omitted "American "the most surreal, awesome ex- ommended that everyone rent Idol" from her acceptance perience ofmy life ankl probably Taylor's one and only film role,

speech. The winner of two tro- of everyone onstage with me," he 1971's road racer flick "Two - phies, including one for best added. In other Lipkin Park Lane Blacktop." ...

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www.americanradiohistory.com NEVER MIND For months, rumors flew on the Web that a number of high - ExecLitive profile acts were signing on for the 2006 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Calif. First it was Roxy Music 1_ire it was 'l'U reuniting, even including Brian Eno. Then Smash- EDITED BY SARAH HAN ing Pumpkins. Then it was My Bloody Valentine, which dropped off the face of the musical earth in the mid -'90s. Not RECORD COMPANIES: Sony Music Label Group U.S. surprisingly, none of those groups wound up as part of the in New York names Michael Caplan senior VP of A &R. In lineup, which will be headlined by Depeche Mode and Tool. addition, he will also serve as president of NuHaven Music EDITED BY MICHAEL PAOLETTA Track can now slay another Coachella rumor: A well -placed source in New York. He was president of Or Music. tells us that Madonna will not drop by the festival, either to per- Columbia Records in New York names Samantha DJ. Punk, Sisters, Saturn VP of digital media marketing. She was VP of sales For more INSIDE TRACK go tob'7 form or But fear not: With artists like Daft Scissor www.billboard Carl Cox and Coldcut on the bill, there will be plenty to dance about. and marketing at Zingy Inc. Koch Records in New York ups Chuck Oliner to VP of radio and video promotion. He was VP of radio promotion. 3.1 Music in Cool Springs, Tenn., names Troy Collins VP JERKINS JOINS DEE TEAM of sales and marketing. He was VP /GM at BHT Hanging out 3t Island Def Jam's pre- Grammy lunch -and- Entertainment. listen soiree at Cherokee Studios in Los Angeles, Track Razor & Tie Entertainment in New York promotes learned that Grammy- nominated producer Rodney Jerkins Sandi Hemmerlein to senior director of marketing. She has joined the label's ranks as VP of A &R. At the event, was director of marketing. IDJ honchos Antonio "L.A." Reid, Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter Waxploitation Inc. in Los Angeles names Ayiko Carmichael GM. She was assistant to the film soundtrack and Steve Bartels played tracks from a variety of up- division at EMI Music Publishing. Waxploitation also coming projects, including songs by Rihanna (new sin- names Dawn Englehart director of artist operations. She gle "SOS "), Christina Milian (new album "So Amazing," was merchandise director and head of artist management due in April), Hoobastank (new single "If I Were You ") at Okayplayer. and newcomer Megan Rochell, for whom Jerkins has produced several tracks. PUBLISHING: Warner /Chappell Music in New York names Jim Rondinelli senior VP of digital strategy and MUSIC MAN MOVES ON business development. He was portfolio adviser at Neil Gillis has been with Warner /Chappell Music for nearly BOXERS OR BRIEFS Avalon LLC. 16 years. But Track hears that come Feb. 24, he will wave While football fanatics were trying to pick the winner Famous Music Publishing in New York ups John Pires goodbye to WC and his post as senior VP of Creative Music of the big game, celebrities touching down in Detroit to VP of business development. He was director of spe- Solutions, ar d say hello to a senior position at Concord for Super Bowl XL had more important things to pon- cial projects. Music Publishing Nashville's former director Music Group, likely as East Coast GM. der -like boxers or briefs. For three days (Feb. 2 -4), Sony /ATV Marc Wood returns to the company as senior men's fashion brand 2(x)ist, which specializes in oh- of licensing director of film and TV licensing and advertising. so- stylish undergarments (that the ladies like wearing, too), set up shop at On 3 Productions' NFL Superbowl Celebrity Gift Lounge at the Motor City's Marriott Re- naissance Center. According to sources, John Legend stopped by and walked away with several tank tops, one of which he may have been wearing under his outfit at the Grammys. Joss Stone and Patti LaBelle picked up some tanks too. Detroit native Teairra Mari picked up a couple of 2(x)ist Luxe T- shirts -apparently for her label boss, Jay -Z. 'N Sync boys Joey Fatone and Chris DISTRIBUTION: WEA Corp. in New York names Allan Kirkpatrick opted for boxers, as did André "3000" Ben- Golden VP of video sales. He was the founder of Proficio. jamin of OutKast. MEDIA: MTV in New York ups Dave Sirulnick to execu- ANOTHER DISC, ANOTHER DECADE tive VP of MTV multiplatform production, news and He was executive VP of news and production. With his new album "The Greatest Songs of the Fifties" de- music. VH1 in New York promotes Jim Ackerman to senior VP buting this week at No. 1, Barry Manilow has already of development and production. He was VP of develop- America chair- planned his next move with BMG North ment production and programming. man Clive Davis (see story, page 22). When asked if shancccbillboard.com. Manilow's "Fifties" disc could be the first in a series, Davis, Send submissions to who masterminded and co- produced the set, tells Track, "Yes, plain and simple. But not so much for the '50s. We've [already] begun the '60s." Expect the same drill: Davis will pull together a list of hit songs appropriate for Manilow and the singer /arranger will have final say on what makes the cut. 0001)W() R (S

A PIANO IN EVERY ROOM Singer/songwriter Jack Ingram will begin a series of dates Hilton Hotels has partnered with the Recording Academy opening for Sheryl Crow Feb. 28 at Bass Performance for the Hilton Harmony Tour to raise funds and awareness Hall in Austin. He will open for Crow through the end of for the Grammy Foundation and its many programs. The March, performing a 40- minute set with his full band. In- focus of the H HT is a grand piano that is on a yearlong cross - gram is touring in support of his debut for Big Machine country tour -collecting signatures from artists and musi- Records, "Live Wherever You Are." cians along the way. For every celebrity that signs the piano- donated by Gibson /Baldwin- Hilton will donate CATEGORY 5 SEES RED $1,000 to the Grammy Foundation. The HHT launched Feb. New Nashville indie Category 5 Records has signed with 6 at the 2006 MusiCares Person of the Year soiree. The piano Sony BMG's RED for distribution. As first tipped in Bill- then spent time backstage at the 48th annual Grammy board's Jan. 28 issue, Travis Tritt has been inked as the Awards. James Taylor, Mariah Carey, the Dixie Chicks, Sheryl label's flagship artist. Tritt scored 20 top 10 singles on Crow, Keith Urban, Nancy Wilson and others have already Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart while on Warner put pen to piano. The piano will be auctioned off after the Bros. and Sony Nashville. Grammy Awards in 2007.

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