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1 0 82791 1 9359 s VOL. LVIII, NO. 32 APRIL 22, 1995 NUMBER ONES STAFF POP SINGLE GEORGE ALBERT President and Publisher I Know KEITH ALBERT Dionne Farris Exec. V.PJGeneral Manager (Columbia) RICH NIECIECKI Managing Editor EDITORIAL R&B SINGLE Los Angeles MICHAEL MARTINEZ This Is How We Do It JOHM GOFF Montell Jordan STEVE BALTIN Cover Story HECTOR RESENDEZ, Latin Edtor (PMP/RA/Island) NashMIle RICHARD McVEY, Edtor John Prine, Lost Dogs + Mixed Blessings New York RAP SINGLE TED WILLIAMS CHART RESEARCH Singer/songwriter John Prine has been plugging away for more than 20 years Dear Mama Los Angeles 2Pac now in relative obscurity to the general public but held in high regard by NICKI RAE RONCO BRIAN PARMELLY (Interscope) artists, critics and discriminating music lovers. His last album The Missing ZIV Years released on his own independent label Oh Boy Records, earned him NashMIle , GAIL FRANCESCHI COUNTRY SINGLE increased notoriety, and his just-released Lost Dogs + Mixed Blessings should MARKETING/ADVERTISING continue that trend. Los Angeles The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter GARY YOUNGER Reba McEntire —see page 5 Nashville TED RANDALL (MCA) New York News NOEL ALBERT Latin Consultant EDDIE RODRIGUEZ POP ALBUM The R.I. A. A. reports that first-quarter tallies of Platinum albums are up more (213) 845-9770 Me Against The World than 50% over the same period last year while multi-Platinum albums have CIRCULATION NINA TREGUB, Manager 2Pac doubled something the Atlantic would certainly attest to, as the — Group PASHA SANTOSO (Interscope) industry leader for all of 1994 is #\ to this point in 1995. PRODUCTION SHARON CHAMBLISS-TRAYLOR —see page 3 R&B ALBUM PUBLICATION OFFICES LOS ANGELES Me Against The World 6464 Sunset Blvd. Suite 605 CONTENTS , 2Pac Hollywood, CA 90028 Phone (213) 464-8241 (Interscope) COLUMNS Fax: (213)464-3235 NASHVILLE East/West 4 50 Music Square V\Jest (Sute 804) JAZZALBUM Nashville, TN 37203-3212 Breathless Rhythm/Rhyme 12, 13 Phone (615)329-2898 Fax: (615) 320-5120 Kenny G. Latin Lowdown 16 NEW YORK (Arista) PO Box 2089 CHARTS Oiftside Park, NJ 07010 COUNTRY ALBUM Phone (800)580-6946 John Michael Montgomery Fax: (201)585-9409 Top 100 Pop Singles 6 John Michael Montgomery CHICAGO Top 100 Pop Albums 8 rector, Coin Operations (Atlantic) CAMILLE COMPASIO Top 100 R&B Singles 10 1442 S. 61 St. Ave Cicero, IL 60650 POSITIVE COUNTRY Top 75 R&B Albums 12 Phone (708)863-7440 UNITED KINGDOM He Is Mine Top 25 Singles 13 Rap Director of Operations Del Way Top 25 Jazz Albums 14 DAVID COURTNEY (Gospel Choice) 2 The Chaucers 15 Film Grosses 15 112 New Church Road, Hove, East Top Weekly Sussex Latin Singles 16-17 BN3 4J3 England TROPICAL Phcne/Fax. 44-273-708826 Lo Bonito Lo Fed U.K./Tokyo Top 10s 18,19 BRAZIL Grupo Niche CHRISTOPHER PICKARD Top 100 Country Singles 22 Est da Gavea, 611/BL2/304 (SDI) Ro de Janaro - RJ 22.610 - Brazil Top 75 Country Albums 24 Phone/Fax: (55-21)322-2290 CMT Top 12 Video Countdown 25 ITALY LATIN MARIO DE LUIGI 27 CONTEMPORARY Top 40 Positive Country Singles "Music e Disdii" Via De Amias 47 201233 POP Milan, Italy DEPARTMENTS Phone (902)839-18-37/832-79-37 Todo 0 Nada JAPAN Luis Miguel Industry News 3 SACHIO SAITO (WEA Latin) 2-F Fgishiro-Bldg. Pop Reviews 7, 9 4-Chome, 30-4, Shinbashi Minato-ku R&B Album Reviews 11 Tokyo, Japan 105 TEXAN / TEJANO Phone. 03 (5401) 2065 Lagrimas Rap Reviews 13 Fax 03(5401)2067 CASH BOX (ISSN 0008 7289) is pub- La Tropa F Film Review 15 lished weekly (except Christinas holi- (Manny) Latin Reviews 17 days) by Cash Box, 345 W. 58th Street, Suite 15W, New York, NY 10019 for U.K./Tokyo News 18, 19 $180 first class. Copyright 1995 by MEXICAN REGIONAL George Albert. All rights reserved. Indie Reviews 19 Copyright under Universal Copyright Que No Me Olivida Convention. POSTMASTER: Send ad- Bronco Country Album Reviews 24 dress changes to Cash Box, 345 W. 58th St., Suite I5W, New York, NY 10019. (Fonovisa) Coin Machine News 30 I CASH BOX APRIL 22 1995 3 NEWS RIAA MARCH MINED ORES: The Recording Industry Association of America announced the certification of six Gold and one Platinum single and 15 H 39-year music industry ON Gold, 15 Platinum and21 multi Platinum albums for March 1995. The year’s first veteran Ed Rosenblatt, THE multi-Platinum single and short-form albums were certified. One Gold and one president ofGeffen Records multi -Platinum music video was awarded. since its inception, will take MOVE This year’s first quarter tallies of Platinum albums are up 57.8% from 1994’s over as chairman of the first quarter —60 this year vs. 38 during January thru March last year. multi-Plati- board and chief executive of- num albums have doubled —92 this year vs. 46 last year—and Gold albums are ficer of the label, effective down only slightly. Rosenblatt April 17. Rosenblatt, instrumental in launching and March highlights include: Madonna’s The Immaculate Collection hit the developing WEA Corp. in the ’70s, succeeds departing six-million mark, and Van Halen's Balance LP reached double-Platinum within chairman/CEO David Geffen, who is leaving to devote two months of its release and the - became band’s 11th multi-Platinum album to A - himself full-time to DreamWorks, where he will launch date. * c yet another record company, his fourth (Asylum in Walt Disney Records’ “Lion King Read-Along” provided the first multi- 1970, Geffen in 1980 and DGC in 1990) Vicky Platinum single for 1995; Amv Grant’s House Of Love made double-Platinum; Germaise has been promoted to senior vice president of and Mary J. Blige’s My Life LP is also double-Platinum, as is The Cranberries’ Germaise Atlantic Records. She was most recently vice president No Need To Argue. of product development, a post she had held since Gold was mined by: The Chieftains' The Long Black Veil Brownst one’s From ; October 1993. Also, Jeffrey Levy has been named vice The Bottom Up\ Dave Matthews Band’s Under The Table And Dreaming and ; president of business and legal affairs for Atlantic. He Des’ree’s I Ain 't Movin previously held the same position at Mercury Records. I’he Beastie Boys’ Sabotage music video from Capitol Video went Gold and Geslin has been appointed vice Yanni’s Live At The Acropolis from Private Music made multi-Platinum. Ron president of promotion for Big Beat Records and TAG Recordings tt\ ATLANTIC #1 1994 industry leader Atlantic GROUP AGAIN: The Group He was most recently vice president of promotion for has been named #\ for 1995 thus far, according retail tracking of new and current Levy Chaos Records (a division of Columbia Records). I releases. With a year-high market share of 13.22% for the week ending April 2, William Feeny has been appointed senior vice president The Atlantic Group, a division of Warner Music-U.S., outsold all other labels and chief financial officer, PolyGram Holding, Inc. and several entire distribution networks for the month. For the past four years, Feeny was corporate controller The first quarter of ’95 was the best first quarter ever in Atlantic’s 47-year based in the Netherlands, and prior to PolyGram. he history, paving the path for another record-breaking ride. The Group’s cumulative was finance director for the Albion Group of Publishing market share of new and current product is 10.51 %. and Record Companies in the U.K. Keith Sachs has Atlantic Group president Val Azzoli commented: “As grateful as we all are I Geslin been appointed vice president-controller, services, for last year’s phenomenal success, we have no intention of resting on our staff Sony Music Entertainment He joined Sony Music in proverbial laurels. Everyone at Atlantic is quite intent on making ’95 our best year ever. 1 am thrilled with our first-quarter performance, and I look forward to even 1988 as staff controller. B Warner Music Interna- bigger and better things in the months ahead, as Atlantic’s wide diversity of artists tional has appointed Brian Southall senior corporate and ventures continue to develop and thrive.” communications director and Tess ArC'valo director corporate communications. Also, Lee Tsun Frankie COUNTRY CARES ABOUT CYSTIC FIBROSIS: Country music artists Tracy has been named managing director of Warner Music Lawrence, Toby Keith, Little Texas, David Ball, Bryan White, Woody Lee, Zaca Creek, the Doo-Wah Riders and others are set to perform at “Sizzlin’ Feeny Hong Kong. B Producer Jean-Claude “Poke” Olivier, has Country,” a benefit on Monday, May 8 at the House Of Blues in Los Angeles to who worked with Heavy D. Changing help fight cystic fibrosis. Faces and Soul For Real, among others, has been appointed Uptown Each group or artist will perform several songs to a limited audience. “This Entertainment’s director of A&R. I dick dark productions, inc. has will be a great way to see and hear some of the piost popular country artists in an named Logan Whitchurch director of publicity. She first worked for dick intimate setting,” says Sheri Mount, chairperson of the event with co-chair David dark productions in 1988, and recently she has worked as an independent Mount, chairman and CEO of Warner Media Manufacturing and Distribution producer and personal manager. B Tracy Bagatelle has been named publicist to create fun-filled in setting “We wanted a event a relaxed and help cure CF so for music and special projects at Costa Communications.