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IFP1, fromment différentand média areas industries," of the entertaln- he says. thefrom day's6am to schedule lOam with the trackingrecording of industry, pirate CD asslsted trade routes in the FitzgeraldFollowing will the handle reorganisation, Coalition's betweenSimmons six adds and ninethat monthsit ma) média and games division, includ- R&B ar identifying"He has also and played developing a key rôle new in whilelng the Acton MTV takesUK & responsibllityIreland account, for wantSimmons to bring sayson new the artists." format will whichits event includes management the Sony division, Radio evolveincreases as theand take-up concédés of digital that,sets Awards and Technlcs Mercury 69%although of the Life UK has population, a reach audiencesof around MusicMUSIC Prize WEEK accounts. 5 FEBRUARY 2000 NEWS m\N C 0 M M E N T launcnes'newx.j.! nlabelnniiinr toworked spin with recordoff company c part- Channel 4 Is launchlng its own drama, whicha statlon's will be releasedpopular gay on „ Unlversal, Virgin, pityCITY institutions MISSES and MERGER'Smusic companles TRUEhave never VALUE been Q ing the potential of suc- February 14. Accordlng to Lesbirel, OUlIJfSonyaudlo OIIUandproduct. Telstar Last to year's uaucis Music spin-off of Vide;idéal bedfellows, but events of the past week have cessful films and sériés ln-house. therebefore will the be end a furtherof the year,10 'eleases includ- the Millennium compilation, which the breadth of the gulf that separates sldeChannel the existing 4 Music VHS, will runDVD along- and ing a number of Film Four sound- cameUnlversal, out wasthrough particularly Virgin suc-and Some of the latter have rushed to invest in unproven book opérations in the channel's "The Channel 4 brand seems to cessful,Lesbirel going says twice there platinum. will still be a dotcoms with ludicrous business models. Now they are j ,..musicc.it. Releasesmanager wlllLiz beEdmunds, overseen who by whobe attractive buy records," to the says kind Lesbirel. of people "If need for such collaborations on investingshowing their in a trueproven motivation business whenwith elearit cornes value. to report directly to commercial we Invest heavlly In marketing a workinglarger releases. with other "We record will still labels go on - The first complaint from some EMI învestors is that Lesbirel. show,heip us the ro awarenrsecondary products, so 's not an exclusive arrange- they have been cheated of the windfall profit they had The label's first offering is Que, this is another way of leveraging for releasesChannel ol 4 Music is largely expected from a sale; instead they are being offered a fromAs Folk and 2, inspired a CD ofby musicthe secor take theIn marketing the past, budget." Channel 4 has potential"merger" ofthat an actuallyestablished improves business. the longer-term earnings I Secondly,Certainly boardmany controlseem to is be important hung up -on not the least control to issue. Warner and EMI employées fearful about their jobs (although Monsey goes global ofBerry being and even-handed Ames appear in totheir be approachkeenly aware to the of merger).the importance WarnerBut if in versus fact there EMI isas a Warner control and issue EMI It isversus not so AOL much And Time in this context the new deal is particularly interesting. as DeyJJn joins Point Music Isio important it benefits to is the still new unclear. AOL TimeIf, for Warner , combine, AOL Time but Wamer declded to use music as a loss leader to drive its GlobalFulfillment.comby Paul Williams has appointed internet business then AOL would benefit and Warner Music Vinceformer Monsey Box Télévision as UK managing chief executive c wouldlarger combine.lose, but ItBut could if the do same llttle happenedabout it as after part the of aEMI much deal, then EMI shareholders could rightly complain because their Point ,Group - parent andcompany Hallmark of ofcontent the other was benefitsbeing devalued slnce they and have yet theyno stake were inreceiving AOL Time none aMusic iime andof expansion Entertainment at the - business,cornes at Wamer. In short, the deal offers a protection mechanism. whichcompilation handles releases back cataloguebut iras nowand andIt is promotestill early music's days, but rôle the in Warner-EMIthe bigger picture deal seems in more to protectways détails of a deal with Granada Media signed its first aot, Midem perform- than one. And that could benefit some of those doubtful tointernet supply service and handle G-Wizz. product for Its Monsey: Joining ers Vioious Cirole. "We neededgroup investors yet. AJax Scott lie GlobalFullfillment.comGilreath says Monsey, CEO who Char- has takenDevlin overwho thehas rôlejoined from the JimmyPoint ibalFulfillment.comThe Box to handle during sales hisfoi HACKERS HORROR STORY SHOCKS NET bringGroup a asnew chief ievel operating of organisation officer, andwill Well - I managed to survive the Midem melee once again. The média content to the opération. 'I could go on to seli tickets, T-shirts frightening.number ofI chatted digital music/internetto a fèw of them companies and it was down apparent there that was believe the future will be about the and other merchandise rather than the one thing a lot of them have in common, apart from being relationship between média and justMonsey simply sellingadds ,"his immédiate he says. computer "geeks", is a lack of knowledge about music or the Monsey, who wlll be working along- requirement for the company - which musicail jump business. on and, hopefully,It is a case make of the millions bandwagon before rolling, the bubble so let's side his partner Liz Laskowski, says plans to inmove the ne to bigger London lishing division and signing more ac he is already ins talksand withmédia a numbercompa- tohas the huge company, potential. whi Thecourse, internet but news révolution of the is AOL/Wamer/EMI not confined to the merger record led business, to a of mountain of press about the end of the CD, MP3 downloading TopShoii in plan to inlroiiuce and so forth because of the linking of a computer giant with a to Music Week Awards major record company. In contrast, a story which deserved more sw catégories have been in-store digital music kiosks détailsexposure of thanmore itthan had 300,000was that créditof the cards Russian from hackers a leadlng who music stole Awardsadded to andthis othersyear's Musichave Weekbeen retail website. They have gone on to sell this data to fellow rejlgged as part of a reorganisation TopShop/TopMandigital music kiosks is flagship fraudsters, and set up frctitlous "online" shops making bogus of theThe annualnewly-created event. company of the spring,Uxtoro allowingurcus store < in London thepurchases site appeared using the to stolenhave the data. necessary It is ail thesecurity more in disturblng place to as year prize aims to recognise the major their own compilation CDs. give people confidence that it was safe to use their cards. hasor indépendant performed corporate strongest group overall which availableAround from250 theto 500Chemistry titles willkiosk, be No doubt by next year's Midem things wlll have shaken down, marketing,across a range promotion of criteria and A&Rincluding suc- whichand wiil uses cost Liquid users Audioaround technology £12-£13 bumtso to speak,and the with public more making than a cholcefew investors - sometimes getting to their buy Angersover for a 10-track album, if successful. the web, and sometimes over the counter. Hopefully, the best of the UKcompany breakthrough or organisation award will which go to the kiosks - which will each have two both the traditional outlets and the web will survive to the has made the biggest breakthrough sets of headphones - are likely to be Kiosks: alming at TopShop benefit of both customers and record business. salesin its sectorforce awardduring will1999, highlight The new an stores nationwide. commitments from a number of the Talking of the press latching on to a story, Alan McGee's area of actlvity that has not previous- managerTopShop/TopMan's Alan Thornton marketingsays the more significant labels with very support of Malcolm McLaren for London Mayor seems to have ly beenSeveral recognised. other awards at the event, iecrédible group, productWe are foralso this getting démograph- signifi- stancefired the against Imagination. his beloved I have Labour nothing Party but admirationin this instance. for his The venorwhich Housetakes placeHôtel aton London'sMarch 23, Gros- wlll majors,"cant interest says Cubefrom managingthree of direc- the élection of London Mayor should not be party based, and time,appear including in a différent the best form retail for the chaln, first 18-year-olc ertor isFi enteringRyder, who Into stresses the scheme the retail-on a Sexpossibly Pistols the manager,only more would colourfiil be McGee choice himself.of candidate Only troublethan the is, ex- 3 that," he says. long-term basis. now he's departed from Création and he's promised to surprise best labelIndependent promotions promotions teams. and Music marketing consultant Cube, Sheacconstantly s the updated tri rather than us with new internet businesses he won't have the time. At The closlng dates for entries for otherwhich hasmusic-related worked with thetie-ups, retailer will ori Simply adding to the overall number knowsleast this about Is one the newly-arrivedmusic business, computer too. "geek" who certainly arethe PRFebruary and two 4 marketingand February awards 10 source and select content which will ona back-catalogueoffer. "This is notmachine intended in to any be Tllly Rutherford's column Is a Personal vlew respectlvely. Contact Ann Jones on cacksbe biased from labelstowards including contemporary Ministry shape or form," she says. "We would 0207 940 8570 for more détails. Of Sound. We already have flrm 10,000prefer to which have aren't250 great quite tracks so good." than MUSIC WEEK 5 FEBRUARY 2000 ÎET^MUSIC digitized sheet music / midi files / information / éducation

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4 m u s / c MIDEM NEWS news/7/6? IMF IOIHS 6100.11 FORUM Midem bunes os brisk business équivalentManagers Forumorganisations and Its from six Mondayother countries to form metan umbrella at Mldem group last calledManagers the ForumInternational (IMMF). Musio The continues umid merger full-oul Canada,managers Finland, groups France,from , Norway gatesand cowboy were particularlyboots." Some cheered UK dele- by synergiesand the US, between aims to the exploit individual the therepertoire quality onof someoffer. of"Everyone's the dance communicationsorganisations and between improve Microsoftving files half the size of MP3 being a bit coy, but everyone knows members. It will be chaired for the i Cannes last week attracted but better sonic quality. That's amaz- whatManifesta everyone A&R's else Luke is doing," Nevllle saysand Michaeifirst two McMartin.yeats by IMF Australia's manya record reported number briskerof delegates business and ing."Willms Buhse, senior marketing than usual. And, for once, with the director at Bertelsmann division r David WoodI, Faith - set & MCPS-PRSCOUECTION AllianceBODIES TOLD chief TO executive •RETHINK' ing,proposed one ofEMI-Warner the rumours deai thatemerg- fly hasDigital proved World whatServices we've adds, realised "Midem in 3 first Top 20 hit with Johnsocleties Hutchinson to Vethink. urged reshape, collection re- aroundEMI/Caroline everyyear exportproved tomanager be true. takingthe past off three in months,more ways the marketthan we is (Sunday)-said,Mint Royale's Don't "It's Falter been yesterdayfantastic. theyequip v/ant and tore-invent survive themselves" when he if Riker Griffiths says, "We came in on anticipated." Some delegates admit- l'm getting people from Taiwan and addressed an International Music weMonday were andWarner's everyone now was and telling we were us themted to Nude technology managing fatigue, director among Saul weAustralia have 30 who deai want offers to seeand me.that's I bet no JointMidem Venture last Monday. (IMJV) présentationHutchinson at like: 'What?', so I phoned my boss in Gaipern, who admitted to being "dot- told the IMJV, a project involving commed out", while producer Wayne us look even better," says Beggars moreBPI's indies partnership on the British with Aim At Midemmeant MCPS-PRSAscap, Buma/Stemra Alliance, that and the the Brown observed, "One thing you Banquet chairman Martin Mills, workingsocieties partnerships, must form alliances and leam and to "1 Gutohspent my ;s adds, thebreaking. atmosphère A&R butconsultant not the Marideai aroundanywhere out near of our the bagnumber and ofnot meet- had cooperatehave to do inthe areas same "where things theyin the ail attemptsavoid everyone to make 'e'. appointmentsWe had 26 Jolleymore says,business "It's andbeen less more ponytailt relaxed ownerings," Rupertsays ciassic Withers. rock label A3 co- same way". Parlophone's Tina Tumer OnlineMUIE SIGNS entertainment ONLINE DEALS data supplier Bono,(plctured), Mercury, Unlversal-lsland's signlngs Texas and Smith highlights EuropeanMuze Europe, base which In London set up last its year, quartetSony S2 ofs winsJamiroquai for UK-signed made it a UK failure in US dealsannounced wlth BOL,at the conférence and . talentAwards at which the inaugural took place NRJ during Music Culture secretary Chris Smith has Boxman to utilise Muze's music the Saturday night of the Midem questioneding so badly why in the UK USacts at are the perform- Urne of sales information. hisFestival. contribution Bono was to thehonoured Jubilee for their worst chart showing Stateside Popwire.com,POPWIRE TARGETS a music ASR STAFFsite for 2000 campaign and Turner in moreIn his than keynote 30 years. speech to the unsigned artists, unveiled a new award.recelved The a lifetimeceremony, achievement which British délégation at Midem last exclusivelyonline forum at atA&R Midem staff. aimed The forum included a mixture of French and aroundMonday, 15% the to minister16% of ail notedmusic soidthat will showcase only the best of beinginternational named awards,best international saw Texas around the world currently has some selectedpopwire.com's by visitors unsigned to the acts site as and group and Jamiroquai taking the hekind added, of British 'Why component, is it, for example,although popwire's own A&R team. night'sbest music biggest website winners, prize. however, The British music has done so poorly In NEAT CELEBRATES MIDEM RETURN were Polydor France's Mylene thenot ailUS to in do the with past the 12 nature months? of music It's Records,Rock and taking heavy amétal stand label at Midem Neat Paris musical, whose English and there's much to think about how for the first time since the early language version was launched at Speaking on the day the proposed dealsEighties, during finalised the festival, a number Including of Segara,the festival part last of theTuesday. original Helene French Warner-EMI merger was officially licenslng deals in the States with production, was named French upannounced, would be Smithgood newssuggested for the the inde- tie- Arenanewcomer - who of willthe staryear, in while the Tina pendent sector. "If what we are forthcoming English-language fewseeing major is a conglomerateplayers in the of Justglobal a . TheONLINE iGroup, CHARGE a division SYSTEM ofLAUNCHED e- theversion équivalent openlng international in London - won scene, I believe potentially that business company Computacenter, openspendents," up more he said. space for small inde- launchedn. The MaximumVolume.net internet music at hosting service allows music Microsoft leads new média presence owners to charge track by Microsoft has developed a device through its network of e-tailers and Midem discovers crucial track for music it distributes other partners. DMX, which con- new technology of DRM MTV.COM TAKES TOP AWARD tionalfirmed thatbase it isin toLondon, locate itshas interna- also ...- of the Palais des tares within their formats, v. .. siteMTV.com at the was first named Midemnet best Awardsmédia a frequency selected by the user. teamedbusiness updigital with musicUS buslness-to- distributor Festivals Start-upswere heaving offering with musictheir thereing offering are also more other spécifie players services. emerg- site,on January which 22was at launched the festival. last The berThe oï Sonic.BoxLwas miisic" applications one of a num- of panlesampiified.com, in Europe allowing and the record US to com- pro- wares to' the rted delegates, Dominating the field is Intertrust. November and includes streaming Microsoft's Windows Media plat- mote their music digitally on both havebut the the companies greatest that effect are likely'"^ly. the ta offerAmong services the companies running inlooking tandem to consumer vote through thesen in a addressform demonstrated at the Midemnet In a keynoteconfér- sidesof the Atlantic. " : few years with it or other companies were UK- Midem website midem.com. The ence by Microsoft's Anthony Bay. ist US-basedCustom Révolutions customised confirmed CD special- at but crucial field of digital rights n based Magex, which is tied closely otherRecords winners (best were:label site);Atlantic Dave nltyHe also to announceused Midem a stratégieas an opportu- part- inMidem Europe that by it the is preparingend of the to summer, launch agement (DRM). with Rioport, maker of the Rio MP3 Amazon.comMatthews Band (best (best artist site); openlng a head office in elther the tpjKspssœ. offering digi- player.Reciprocal, Another which hasis alsoUS workedrival shopping/); ny,UK orwhich Germany. has already The internet struck compa- deals îl idownloads k ,û r c widespread withwun companies includingmclu Microsoft. WoodstockRIAA (best organisation);(best festival/ with more than 200 independent lis by the6 fourtha quarter ru h t0of slgnthis Reciprocal, which oins iisen as a event); and ARTISTdirect (best labels to use repertoire for its ilsIle with companies™ I offering« sys- transactionalhas" processing " house■ and services). German Internet service provider T- CustomDisc.comly announce Its service,first deai will with short- a hich tracks are made ; years, announced an ail ailOnllne Its isstreaming to use Windows and downloads, Media for major label. "It's a big deai," says ie amount they .. ma lner• withcom AudioSoft under which th digital dlstrlbutor DX3 Is to CustomDavid Gould. Révolutions' "The record chalrman/CEO company n which they are "® [ "* gratePanies AudioSoft's wiil develop copyright and manage- themake preferred Microsoft digital Windows média platform Media for the média products It distributes ano Liquid Audio offer key DRM fea- DRM Systems. 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It's not just mass to be able to take any advan- thatmarket the to market,greatest it isproblems in publishing are white - there are lots of shades of the consolidation process - there's tage of it," says one UK company MD. expected. grey.says oneThis senior Is a complexpublishing process," source. 14 MUSIC WEEK FEBRUARY 5 2000 MERGER merger talk Question marks hang over lire "Whatever the PR spln put on thisthls by'merger' Time Warner1s clearly and a EMI, thesedéfensive once move great by music both of mnnutucturing/distribulion mix companies" - Zomba founder doubt the largest areas of In the US,everything Warner has in Germany.its main "Right now anyone could tell overlapare in manaufacturing between Warner and anddistribu- EMI PK CD and DVD manufacturing opera- me anything and it could be true"ofthe - major European record head companies of one could"The timingnot be of better this agreementas our Industryrévolution" embraces - EMI Group the digital and perhaps t' ' plants chalrman/Warnern Eric Nlcoll EMI Music youmain have plant two to keythe facilities,west coast one so serv- t ing the eastem part of the US and the delighted'I wasn't surprised,it wasn't Cable but l'm & otherservingtlthough the west," says Snape. Wireless they did the deal with" aroundinto account the world the longerwill have terni to shifttake merger il -David Robbie Enthoven Williams' at IEmanager Music towards digital distribution and cre- dépendHow rationalisation on how well each plant particularlyDVD opération vulnérable in Holland since could it cou I labels,made there to limit is more changes room atfor record merg- soating on, régional rather distributionthan just looking hubs and for I market; Universal easily be transferred to Germany to ing the baokroom activities of their "TheGwen more Pearce, the MD merrier" of the - short-term savings in each territory. and Bertelsmann, for example, create a central European DVD man- twoMusic publishing Publishing companies, and Warner EMI Sony/Warner joint venture Thissays oneis asenior complicated Warner source. process," whileoperate Sony several European plants, ufacturingClearly, thebase. new company will be Chappell Music. Both companies Ten, when asked if EMI would Manufacturing is also complex. turing opération in Au' taking a hard look at plants optionin the employées,are understood with to Warnerhave around Chappell 600 joln Its distribution network Warner(in Germany), only has while one plantEMI inhas Europe one ly Caripublished A Snape, Worldwide editoi CD Manu- employing an < ■ — ■ "Time Warner and EMI UK, Holland and Italy. facturing Guide, suggests EMI'! togethercompany isbecause a fabuious you're record • combiningmusic. EMI the has history the most of pop Managers shrug off glamorousartists such history as The of-UK Beatles Neiland PinkYoung, Floyd REM, and Warner has talk of roster pruning andWarner The UK Eagles" chairman, - former now DicklnsInstant Karma chairman, Rob as two become one "Ames will be good for us. whichThe super-roster is being created of some through 2,500 acts the merged and is unlikely to see any But, I guess trying to get EMI Warner Music merger appears real axing of groups, at least not dur- behold doubly of him difficult" now is going- London to sleeplessnot to be nightscausing thatmanagers might thebe theing thedeal next is put six under months the to spotlight a year, asby ation of i _ also believes MD Laurte Cokell expected. anti-trust bodies. majors have to be challenged to or nising band. is likely "WeTe to change talking for about himself a "Ifs been like a birth of a baby artists'Most careersof those are paid sanguine to steer about their place"Like in theindies, market majors and ithave looks their like makeSimply it interesting," Red's hemanager adds. lan very large ship changing course. Ifs really. We knew the gestation the deal and refuse to be ruffled by Grenfell says it wouid be naive to goingany changes to be slow yet," and he says.I don't foresee period and everyone knew EMI suggestions" int roster that pruning, it could although lead to they sig- tel," Il nkin itthe shows old apho-there thinkbloodletting there wouldand it willnot bebe tougha bit forof However, a note of caution was probablyone of these do a days deal wouldwith tainly be signrism to'you companies'." do deals with people, but couldsmaller benefit acts, frombut believes the strengthened his group struckEast West. by Chris In a letterRea, who to Music records Week. for Chris Morrison, head of CMO Similarly, David Enthoven at IE expectsinternational to resuit set from up the which merger. he "I themerger rock would guitarist not said throw he uphoped a mass the Food/Parlophone'sManagement and the Blur, man says behind he is RobbieMusic, whoWilliams, steers believes EMIiChrysalis the réduc- act also think it is complété rubbish that of middle-ranking managers with no "if there's such a thing as a tionmake in it the harder number for smaller of majors artists could to bandsing either will labelnow findbecause a way inout my of expe- leav- puise for talent and music who perfect fit, Warner EMI Music break through. But, he believes, big depthis it. Whether of their cataloguein terms of or the talentthe breadth and musical of their genres, recording How staff heard the news - from top to bottom and EMI Ames and EMI's V e-mailstaff to Q&A pose site questions was opened about for anythe -Warner Time WarnerEMI Music président/ thespeed AOL-Tin with which it was announced on AnWarner e-i staffs desktops on co-chairman Richard Parsons that Warner Music Group chairman Monday morning, which had to VirginBerry Records also visited early senior last Tuesday staff at "Choice is important because Rogerphone Amesnumbers did notof hishave key the execu-home languagebe translated for some into outposts. the Timelocal evening for a half-hour Q&A session we need new talent and new tives to be able to inform them in Warner's Gerald Levin then sent out inhappen which beforehe told the them end nothing of the year. would music to corne through and weeksadvance. later No regardingthe risks were takenannounce- two 26)a message to ail Warner on Wednesday companies (January giving This followed a briefing for key thisSimon isn't Wright, going Virginto help . it" - ment of the Warner-EMI merger. further détails of the new group's Conroy'sexecutives office in atUK 8.30am président the previ-Paul Megastores CEO around"In LA to last get week the phone they were numbers calling of prospects and the reasoning behind ous day.and a général company "To me the most excltlng everyone on the planet. Roger's cer- Over at EMI, et m Eric Nicoli briefingroom a couplefor staff of hoursin the laterconférence when a thing is being with a company talnlygotone senior those US Warner numbers source. now," says -as on their desktops by Sam film was shown of Eric Nicoli explain- which is really in at the start Certainly, informing Warner i morning. 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