Platinum Blonde - more than just a pretty -faced rock trio (Page 5) Volume 39 No. 23 February 11, 1984 $1.00 :1;1; iyAWEEKLY . Virgin Canada becomes hotti Toronto: Virgin Records Canada, headed Canac by Bob Muir as President, moves into the You I fifth month flying its own banner and has become one of the hottest labels in the Cultu country. action THE PROMISE CONTINUES.... Contributing to the success of the label by th has been Culture Club with their albums of th4 Basil', Kissing To Be Clever and Colour By Num- bers. Also a major contributor is the break- W. out of the UB40 album, Labour Of Love, first ; boosted by the reggae group's cover of the forth Watch for: old Neil Diamond '60s hit, Red Red Wine. sampl "Over100,000 Colour By Numbers also t albums were shipped in the first ten days band' -the new Images In Vogue video of 1984 alone," said Muir. "The last Ulle40 Tt album only did about 13,000 here. Now, The' albun ... with Labour Of Love, we have the first gold Lust for Love album outside of Europe, and the success ships here is opening doors in the U.S. The record and c; broke in Calgary and Edmonton and started Al -Darkroom's tour (with the Payola$) spreading." Colour By Numbers has just surpassed quintuple platinum status in Canada which Ca] ...Feb. 17-29 represents 500,000 units sold, which took Va. about 16 weeks. The album was boosted and a new remixed 7" and 12" of San Paku by the hit singles Church Of The Poison Toros Mind, now well over gold, and the latest based single, Karma Chameleon, now well over of Ca the platinum mark in less than ten weeks prom This - a newsingle by Ann Mortifee of release. The success of the Numbers album has Said also prolonged the life of the Kissing release, of which has just attained double platinum in latest -Cherie Camp's new album Pr son, CBS AOR sampler mark ("Radio" is on the air now!) keeps Quiet Riot hot T1 provi clude Toronto: CBS Records Canada continues to -Eddie Schwartz's new album make the heavy metal group Quiet. Riot a Verne priority with the recent release of a four - (22), track, radio only 12" EP spotlighting three bridg Public Life (early Feb.) live tracks never before released. Winn Also released is Bang Your Head (Metal Bay Health) as the follow-up single to Cum On Kitcit Feel The Noize. The latteris now well Ottai - a newMessenjah album (17), over the gold mark in Canada. Metal Health, the debut from the group Mom produced by Spencer Proffer, recently sur- (26), passed the triple platinum mark (300,000) (29 - onDuke Street Records in Canada while worldwide the album is quickly approaching five million. M4 ...Brian Plummer's new album "When the album was released in Canada it was met with a very mediocre reception Cu. atall levels," said Peter Budge of CBS. "And after eight very trying months, the Toro: belief,persistence(and/orharassment) releas PLUS Walk. finallypaidoff and Metal Health was certified Canadian gold. Marti "Even more amazing is that after struggl- Tl ... who ; much news about HONEYMOON SUITE ing for eight months to sell 50,000 albums, a mere 45 days later Quiet Riot has sold well over 200,000 copies in Canada and 150,000 Marti LPs in 45 days." were Budge noted that the limited edition Yogi Tr sampler is for those who haven't yet had the opportunity to "Bang Their Heads" or Static WeeMUSIC OF CANADA, LTD. were unable to "Feel The Noize". And In Th The AOR sampler containsthelive tracks Metal Health, Slick Black Cadillac, TI Let's Go Crazy and a studio edit of Metal Powe in Ha Health. Quiet Riot's follow-up LP, Condition Cl RCA. 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