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$5.95 (U.S.), $6.95 (CAN.), £4.95 (U.K.), Y2,500 (JAPAN) 11.1..11...1..1.11...1...1..11..1..111 I II...II #BXNCCVR 3-DIGIT 908 #90807GEE374EM002# BLBD 748 A06 B0090 001 033002 2 MONTY GREENLY 3740 ELM AVE # A LONG BEACH CA 90807 -3402 THE INTERNATIONAL NEWSWEEKLY OF MUSIC, VIDEO, AND HOME ENTERTAINMENT r AUGUST 26, 2000 Supertracks To Do UMG Profit Tops $1 DII. Boyz Stress R &B EMusic Downloads Vocal Balladry PolyGram Merger Drives Record fiscal Results BY ED CHRISTMAN BY RASHAUN HALL NEW YORK -In a move to reach BY BRIAN GARRITY tom line, the world's largest music NEW YORK -The advertisements more customers through broadened and ADAM WHITE company has indicated that it is in major music magazines read, "The 18 of today's hottest dance tracks distribution and varied digital for- NEW YORK and LONDON-In a turning its attention to maintaining originals return." And indeed they You mixed by MTV's DJ Skribble mats, EMusic has signed a deal with record -setting period of financial those gains and growing at a more do. With their single "Pass By" digital service provider Super - growth -one that can be viewed as organic pace, via business perfor- at No. 27 on this issue's Billboard Hot featuring the dance hit tracks to make its the zenith of the cost -saving mance and digital distribution R &B /Hip -Hop Singles & Tracks BILLBOARD - "Toca's Miracle" ay Fragma music available to opportunities created by the including opportunities pro- chart, Universal Records act Boyz II EXCLUSIVE retailers. merger with PolyGram- vided by the pending Men prepare to return to the R &B Beginning in Universal Music Group merger with Vivendi. scene with their trademark ballads October, EMusic -which currently (UMG) reports that for the U Ni V" E R S À L Edgar Bronfman Jr., and a little something extra on their sells titles on its site in the MP3 for- fiscal year that ended June president/CEO of Universal fourth set, "Nathan Michael Shawn mat -will make about 100 of its 30, it became the first major parent Seagram, says that Wanya," due Sept. 12. 125,000 tracks available through label to post more than $1 bil- while he expects the overall "Over the last three years, we have Supertracks in the Windows Media lion in earnings before interest, music market to grow, and while noticed a very big absence in R &B format. After that, it expects to add taxes, depreciation, and amortization he expects UMG to increase its mar- music," says member Nathan Morris. about 50 titles per week and to have (ebitda). ket share, he doesn't imagine that it "We've noticed that over the last about 500 albums available for down- With the synergies of the Poly - will happen at the rate experienced three or four years, R &B has load by year's end. EMusic allows Gram deal now realized on the bot- (Continued on page 97) become the `soul of hip -hop.' " customers to buy albums in their The transformation of the genre is entirety or to select individual something the group members feel tracks, although certain albums, like strongly about, and they hope that those in the Elvis Costello catalog, their new set will help turn things (Continued on page 97) Atlantic's Corrs Eye U.S. around. "Five or six years ago, you'd (Continued on page 96) Global Stars Aim for Stateside Success With `In Blue' Confab Boosts BY PAUL SEXTON gotten" and 1997's "Talk On Cor- MUSIC TO MY EARS IN STORES SEPTEMBER 12 and CHUCK TAYLOR ners." While both reached gold LONDON- Ireland's first family status in the U.S., that pales com- Latin Alternative of roots /pop, the Corrs, have one pared with the quartet's global 18 dance hits from BY LEILA COBO major worldwide conquest left to achievements. NEW YORK -Latin alternative make -and it's in Even before "In Bob Marley vs. Funkstar De Luxe, music took a significant step forward the country where Blue," worldwide Vengaboys, Amtier, Cher, in its quest for commercial viability they were signed. rilriP*1 sales of the Corrs' Moby, Fragma, Olive with the first Latin With their latest catalog, including last NEWS Alternative Music international smash year's "Unplugged" plus many more ANALYSIS Conference (LAMC), album, "In Blue," set, were estimated held here Aug. 12-15. arriving on U.S. by Atlantic at 14 The event brought together tradi- shores Sept. 12 on million. tional, Spanish -speaking supporters 143 /Lava /Atlantic, "In Blue," released (Continued on page 96) the Corrs hope to at THE CORRS internationally July last beat down the door to multi - 17, hit No. 1 in its first sales week `A Free Man In Philly': platinum success in the States. in the U.K., Ireland, Australia, i v It's a conquest the group from Germany, Switzerland, and Aus- On The `Good Samaritan ww w. atla ntic-records.com PaCk Dundalk in Southern Ireland tria; climbed to the top in week two www.essential. us. com Lain :G Tour' With Mellencamp sought with its previous studio in Sweden and Spain; and had No. Focus On Regional Mexican Music ® BIG IOW; releases, 1995's "Forgiven Not For- (Continued on page 95) See page 5 FOLLOWS PAGE 6 4 M_. .. .. 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Editor in Chief: TIMOTHY WHITE real good for free,'" said John Mellencamp, making a sandwich in the I got kicked out of Cub Scouts after one week! And the one time I remem- EDITORIAL kitchenette of his tour bus as it pulled away from Philadelphia's Ritten- ber camping with my family as a kid in Bloomington, Ind., my mom got so Managing Editor: DON JEFFREY house Square. The song in question was Joni Mitchell's classic 1970 "Ladies mad at me for general mischief that she left and walked all the way home!" Deputy Editor: Iry Lichtman Executive Editor -New Media: Marilyn A. Gillen Of The Canyon" track "For Free," and the bus Mellencamp stood in belongs The occasion for this current atypical road trip was Mellencamp's late - News Editor: Carolyn Horwitz Director of Special Issues: Gene Sculatti; Dalet Brady, Associate Director; to colleague Don Henley, but the sandwich was for John's young son Hud. summer hiatus between the recent wrap of location filming in Rochester, Katy Kroll, Assistant Editor; Marin Jorgensen, Special Issues Coordinator Bureau Chiefs: Leila Cobo (Caribbean and Latin America), Bill Holland The child was hungry after spending 70 minutes sitting placidly on an N.Y., for "After Image," a murder mystery (in which he stars in the role of (Washington), Melinda Newman (L.A.), Phyllis Stark (Nashville) Art Director: Jeff Nisbet; Assistant: Raymond Carlson equipment case in the center of the park, watching and listening as his dad a crime -scene photographer) expected to premiere at the next Sundance Copy Chief: Bruce Janicke strummed more than a dozen familiar songs and obscure favorites for a Film Festival, and the completion of his next album, which he's been cutting Copy Editors: Andrew Boorstyn, Marlaina Gray, Carl Rosen Senior Editor: Ed Christman, Retail (N.Y.) stunned lunchtime throng of 400 fans.