advertisement KELLY WATCH THE STARS the new single MAY 9, 1998 out now Music Volume 15, Issue 19 £3.95 DM11 FFR35 US$7 DFL11.50 SOURCE Media.we to ll it4co M&M chart toppers this week French fury over stiffer quotas' of 100 Singles by Renzi Bouton Trautmann's April to discuss the sit- Catherine reportedly INE DION commission uation-is Trautmann proposing to effectively art Will Go On PARIS -The prospect of a strengthen- believessta- ing of domestic French -language radiotions are not put a ceiling on the bia) quota laws-including a limit on rota- respecting numberofrotations tions-has been greeted with dismay bythe "new tal- deployed by individual France's radio community. ent" part of stations by not count- A commission of professionals, setthe quotas- ing plays of a record up earlier this year by minister of cul-to meet the beyond a certain num- ture and communication Catherineregulations,stations haveusually ber of rotations as part of the station's Trautmann to advise and make pro-increased rotations on a small number offrancophone content. It is due to meet posals to the ministry in the musicFrench -language titles. As a result, the the CSA again before the end of June. field, is poised to recommend an exten-commission suggests, the quotas have "Thisistotalnonsense,"says sion of the existing quota regulations. not succeeded in expanding the variety CHRIUrbanSkyrockprogramming The quota law requires stations to of artists played on French radio. manager Laurent Bouneau. "To estab- play 40 percent French -language music; The commission-which met Frenchlish new talent, you need heavy rota - 50 percent of this must be from new acts. radio regulator the CSA at the end of continued on page 24 Inside M&M this week Billie,JohnsonandBeverley Knight, priority acts from-respec- JAll: ON AIR, EN FRANCE tively-Parlophone/EML First Av- France isEurope's most active enue/Higher Ground/Columbia and market for jazz, with domestic InnocentNirgin, played at "A Cele- sales of some 3 million jazz albums bration Of Music Radio" at the last year. This week, Terry Berne Café de Paris in London last week. examines the role of radio in boost- The event, part of the Radio Acade- ing the genre's profile. Pages 9.11 my's annual Music Radio confer- ence, included the presentation of A MESSAGE FROM RUDI the 1998 Radio Academy/Music & Inthewakeof Media award for Outstanding Con- BMG's recent re- tribution to Music Radio. More pic- structuring of its tures, page 5. (Photography: Adam Scott) European opera- tions, BMG Enter- tainment Int- ernational pre s- EMIloses its Gallic accentRadio falls to ident/CE 0 Rudi Gassnertalksto by Adam White nation of EMI Music presi- M&M aboutthe dent/CEO Jim Fifield dark Attack rationale behind LONDON -It's not good to (M&M, May 2). by Christian Lorenz those changes, and have the initials "JF" at EMI Cecillon'ssuccessoras how he sees BMG this month. president/CEO ofEMI's LONDON -Massive evolving. Pages 7/8 Jean -Francois ("JF") Cec- flagship U.K. record division Attack's new, "dark- illon, the controversial is Parlophone Records man- er" sound has HUCKNALL TURNS BLUE Frenchman who has been aging director Tony Wad- opened doors to On the eve of the release of his president/CEO of EMI sworth.Wadsworth (39) radio formats which new album, Blue, Simply Red's Records Group U.K. and Ireland for thejoined EMI in 1982, and in recent years were closedtoits Mick Hucknall offers some forth- past three years, has stepped down. Thehas become closely associated with the previous records. right views about thestateof announcement on Monday (27) of hissuccess of Radiohead, Blur, Supergrass The buzz around European radio. Page 13 departure came 10 days after the resig- continued on page 22 continued on page 24 Switzerland Belgium Sweden GermanyItalySpainFrance Including: confirmed TV appearances t k a os France:Hit Machine Sous Vos Applaudissment La Nuit Des Stars RTL9 casanova Germany:VIVA Interactive No.4 in France, ( Belgium: Miss Belgium RTL VTM over 400,000 singles sold Italy:Roxibar Festivalbar Top 20 in Belgium UK: MTV Top 40 in Switzerland Holland:TMF Showcase Staatslot op lokatie Top 30 in Sweden Sweden: ZTV Launch Already playlisted throughout Germany 4111Ai AmericanRadioHistory.Com Denver, Colorado Independents in the frontier... AHM - The Assocf,ati,ovk, For (K,o(epet/Lotevk,t MI.ic a (forhke,q NA(RD) heo01,1A,0 for the froviti,er Lw TeiA,ver, CoLorak this spri,tA,g. 01,1A,tAs.... May 13-17, 1998 Adam's Mark Hotel Make Plans NOW... the future is in the frontier of independent music! 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Based on last year's fig- Charts8cresecircri chairman/CEO John Kennedy growing, to the dismay ures,parallelimportswould Charts editor: Rani Cairo warned that the flow of trans -ship- of the local industry. account for £75 million ($125m) of Charts researchers: Menno Visser, Siri Stavenes ments from other EU countries into "Believe me," said Kennedy, "it is total U.K retail sales. the U.K. "by the bucket -load" couldimpossible to sustain investment in Gilbert Ohayon, president of EMI Production result in job losses for the U.K. indus- France and Benelux, is fairly unsympa- Production manager: Jonathan Crouch artists, recording costs, video costs, Designer: Dominic Salmon try and limit labels' capacity to sup- tour support, TV campaigns, printthetic to his U.K counterparts' fears. Correspondents: port local repertoire. campaigns and indeed radio cam- 'Welcome to the club," he says. "I am not Austria: Susan L. Schuhmayer - (43) 1 334 9608 Trans -shipments of records within paigns if the effect of all this is that going to wish ill on my U.K colleagues, Belgium: Marc Maes - (32) 3 568 8082 EU borders became legal in 1993. For even when you are successful, thebut it serves as an awakening to a situ- Classical/jazz: Terry Berne -(34)9 3458 3791 Czech Republic: Michele Legge - years, the system had worked to the record sold is not one of yours, but an ation which has affected continental (42) 2 248 75000 benefit of the U.K, which traditionallyimported copy at a much lower pricecountries for years and didn't seem to Dance Grooves: Gary Smith - (34) 9 3488 2180 Denmark: Charles Ferro - (45) 3391 9156 took advantage of the usually low which is not passed on to the consumer, bother them [in the U.K] at all France: Remi Bouton (radio and music business) - (33) 1 4586 8466; Cecile Tesseyre (artist profiles) - (33) 1 4909 0896 Germany: Ed Meza (radio) - (49) 30 611 8866 Triple hit for Anouk at EdisonsM&M boosts Greece: Cosmas Develegas - (30) 935 65641 Italy: Mark Dezzani - (39) 184 292 824 The Netherlands: Robbert 'Filli - (31) 20-672 2566 by Robbert younger consumers, this year's Norway: Kai Lofthus - (47) 918 21 208 Edisons show was very much sales team Spain: Howell Llewellyn - (34) 9 1593 2429; Sweden: Keith Foster - (46) 8 366 228 HILVERSUM -New tal- TV -driven, in contrast to the ent-in the shape of chic gala which it had previ- Music & Media has strengthened its Scales czincl Marketing Director of advertising sales: vocalist Anouk-scooped ously been. The ceremony was sales team with the appointment of Christine Chinetti threeprizesatthe televised at prime time the fol- Christine Chinetti as director of International sales director: Ron Betist (UK, USA) - (31) 299 420274; Netherlands' new -look lowing day by commercial advertisingsales,andIgorE. mobile: (31) 653 194133 Edison Awards in channel RTL 4, presented by Rooselaar as sales executive. Sales executives: Christine Chinetti (G/S/A) - Hilversum on April 22. soap star and MTV VJ Katja (44) 171 323 6686; Igor Rooselaar (Benelux; In her new role, Scandinavia) - (31) 299 420274 The 22year -old Schuurman and TV celebrity Chinetti will supervise Francois Millet (France) - (33) 145 49 29 33 Dino/BMG artists' Carlo Boszhard. all aspects of M&M's Beth Dell'Isola (US Radio) - (1) 770 908 8373; Lidia Bonguardo (Italy, Spain, Greece, haul, for best female Frisian rock band De Kast advertising operations, Portugal) - (39) 362 54 44 24. singer, newcomer and (CNR) picked up the best working alongside Ron Sales & Marketing co-ordinator: Claudia Engel video (Nobody's Wife), Dutch artist/group award, one Betist, who continues International circulation director: bettered that of Dutch of two new prizes voted for by as M&M's internation- Tim Freeman European circulation promotion superstar Marco Borsato (Polydor)the general public which were inaugu- al sales director.