Son.writers & Publishers ARTISTS & MUSIC NO_ 7 SONG CRE TI TL E - W R I T E R - P LI B L I A Short -List Of German Global Hits THE HOT 100 CANDLE IN THE WIND 1997 /SOMETHING ABOUT THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT Elton John, Bernie Taupin Songs Of Polygram Int'I /BMI, William A. Bong/PRS, Warner -Tamerlane /BMI, Wretched /ASCAP, WB /ASCAP Country Continues To Contribute To Int'l Pop HOT TRACKS COUNTRY SINGLES & LONGNECK BOTTLE Steve Wariner, Rick Carnes Steve Wariner /BMI, PSO Limited /ASCAP, BY ELLIE WEINERT group Sash! The group, comprising Freudenthaler and Volker Hinkel of the Songs Of Peer /ASCAP dance producer/writers Thomas'Alis- pop act Fool's Garden, who are signed HOT R &B SINGLES MY BODY Darrell Allamby, Lincoln Browder, Antionette Roberson Tonl Robi /ASCAP, MUNICH -Pop songs with origins in son" Lüdke, Ralf "Kappi" Kappmeier, to EMI Music Publishing, have 2000 Watts /ASCAP Germany have been making successful and DJ Sascha Lappessen, struck it achieved enviable success not only in HOT RAP SINGLES trips abroad. really big with its second single, "En- Europe but in Asia -Pacific markets. IT'S ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMINS /BEEN AROUND THE WORLD S. Jacobs, J. Phillips, D. Styles, Christopher Wallace, K. Jones, Sean "Putty" Combs Doric Angelettie, David Bowie Sheek That current success is a continua- core Une Fois" (One More Time) Their song "Lemon Tree" won "song of Louchfon /ASCAP, Jae'wons /ASCAP Panlro's /ASCAP? Big Poppa/ASCAP, EMI April /ASCAP, tion of the nation's past contributions to (Mighty/Polydor), which has been a hit the year" in the annual airplay awards Undeas/BMI, Crazy Cat Catalog /ASCAP the contemporary pop scene. on the U.K. singles chart. Meanwhile, from Hong Kong's Metro Broadcast HOT LATIN TRACKS Y HUBO ALGUIEN Omar Alfanno New Edition EMOA/SESAC To name a few: "Blame It On The the single has sold 1 million units in Corp. Ltd. and has been covered by Tai- Boogie," charted by the Jackson 5, was Europe. It reached No. 2 on the wanese artist Tarcy Su, in addition to written by Mick Jackson; "The Power Eurochart Hot 100 Singles chart in being recorded in Cantonese and Man- Of Love," recorded most recently by Billboard sister publication Music & darin. "We would be even more pleased Celine Dion, was written by the team Media and topped the Billboard Hot about the success of our records in that Oz's Rondor, Sweden's Gazell of Candy de Rouge and Mary Apple- Dance Music /Club Play chart in territory if it were not for bootleg and gate; and "Love You All My Lifetime," August. The most recent international piracy pressings," says Stefan Koch, sung by Chaka Khan, was penned by releases for the group include North the act's manager. Mark Anniversaries As Indies Irmgard Klarmann and Felix Weber. America, Asia, Australia, and South The copyright has generated world- Here are some other recent exam- Africa. wide sales of 1.5 million singles by the H APPY NEW YEAR: For two qvist and Rune Ofwerman, man- ples of how German compositions have Schläbitz, originally a freelance pro- group, not counting cover versions. In independent publishing operations aging director of Gazell, to form the traveled around the world: moter who set up X -IT on the basis of addition, the group's album "Dish Of on opposite sides of the globe, the new company. One of the most unique Cinderella his expertise with club promotion, The Day" has achieved gold status in year is ending with anniversaries. With representation also in the stories for a German copyright in the licensed the worldwide rights for Thailand (25,000 units), platinum in For Rondor Music Australia, Baltic states, Gazell represents international arena belongs to alterna- "Encore Une Fois" to the Hilversum, Singapore (15,000 units), platinum in which lays claim to the title of the such publishers as Alpha, Arequim, tive rock band Rammstein (Motor Netherlands -based Byte International, Taiwan (50,000 units), and double -plat- country's biggest independent, Barton, Budde, Chelsea, Complete, Music /PolyGram) from the former which then sublicensed the track to inum in Malaysia (50,000 units). December is its 30th anniversary. Criterion, Francis Dreyfus, Eye- East Germany. Two songs from the such labels as Multiply (U.K.), Ultra/ Meanwhile, "Lemon Tree" is being In Sweden, January will mark ball, Gallo, Getaway, Global, Gold- group's debut album, "Herzeleid" ffrr/London (U.S.), Full Ace (France), used as an advertising jingle for tea in the fifth anniversary of Gazell en Withers, and Hammer, as well as (Heartache), appealed to film director FMA (Italy), Scandinavian Records Italy, and there is interest in the band's Music AB, whose owner /chair- Paul Simon's catalog. David Lynch. Consequently, the songs, (Scandinavia), Ginger (Spain), and recent single "Where Did She Go" for man is Dag Haeggqvist. In the last few years, Haeggqvist "Rammstein" and "Heirate Mich" Quality (Canada), providing solid proof an automobile commercial. Part of the international publish- reports, Gazell has been building its (Marry Me), published by BMG Music, that independent dance labels can cre- The producer / songwriting team of ing setup owned by Jerry Moss and own original copyrights through a appear on the soundtrack to Lynch's ate worldwide hits. Not only has the Junior Torello and Dee Dee Halligan, Herb Alpert in the U.S., Rondor is number of co- publishing deals and movie "Lost Highway," alongside group's follow -up single, "Ecuador," fol- who previously enjoyed worldwide hits managed by Bob Aird, who notes, has reactivated the Gazell label, tracks from Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn lowed hot on its predecessor's success, with the artist Haddaway, have been "Rondor has always been a champi- first established in 1949. The co- Manson, and David Bowie. with chart positions in Sweden, Den- riding high with "Can't Take My Hands on of domestic songwriters /bands publishing deals include those with Originally, the act had approached mark, Finland, Norway, and Hungary, Off You" (A La Carte Music) as record- and over the years has been Maypole Music, Plumber Music, Lynch to produce a video, which did not but the group's album "It's My Life" ed by the Soultans, a German male involved with such legendary Saxo Music, House of Kicks Music, work out due to the director's busy has reached the top 10 on Music & vocal trio. The group's debut album, groups as Midnight Oil, Cold Sittel Music, and Andromeda. schedule. However, the atmosphere of Media's European Top 100 Albums "Love, Sweat & Tears," which yielded Chisel, the Angels, Sherbet, the One particular point of pride at the songs, written by the band mem- chart on the strength of sales in Ger- three hit singles in Germany, recently Black Sor- the company is bers, worked well for the film. Not only many, France, Belgium, the Nether- was certified gold in Denmark (25,000 rows, Red - that it subpub- did Rammstein's music appeal to lands, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Fin- units) and charted in Sweden and Bel- gum, Richard lishes the Lynch, the first two singles, "Engel" land, and the U.K. gium. A French version of "Can't Take Clapton, and Words &Musìç Swiftwater (Angel) and "Du Hast" (You Have), Kai Matthiesen, producer/writer My Hands Off You" titled "Aucune Fille Russell Mor- catalog, con- have scaled the German singles chart, of the Echo Award -winning trio of Mr. Au Monde," as recorded by teen act G- ris through taining the while the band's album has reached No. President (WEA), is enjoying Euro- Squad (BMG France), was a top 10 hit contemporary works of Dave 6. Since the release of "Engel" and pean-wide success with every single so in France and achieved gold status artists such as Frishberg, in "Herzeleid" in April, both have received far from the group's debut album, "We there (100,000 units). That version is Human Na- by Iry Lichtman a deal with gold status with sales of 250,000 copi- See The Same Sun." However, the also slated for an upcoming release in ture, Graeme David Rosner es, with the album heading for the plat- band's most successful track to date Canada. Connors, War - of the Los inum mark (500,000 copies). The band remains "Coco Jamboo" (published by The songwriting team of Klar- umpi Band, Neil Murray, Red Angeles -based the Bicycle Music has been performing major open -air Warner /Chappell Music), which mann and Weber co -wrote `Anything Rivers, Colin Buchanan, Alex Co., which administers Frishberg's festivals in Sweden, the Netherlands, reached No. 2 on the U.K. singles chart. For Your Love" with Skip Scarborough, Lloyd [ex- Mother Hubbard mem- catalog. Two years ago, Frishberg Belgium, France, and the U.K., with In the U.S., the song reached No. 21 and they have seen the track picked up ber], and Wendy Morrison." was brought to Stockholm to be the album released in Mexico, Spain, on Billboard's Hot 100 in September. for the current album by jazz vocalist Aird also reports new signings in introduced to a private audience of Greece, Sweden, and France. Other markets in which the song has Nancy Wilson (Sony Music). The duo Adam Brand, Sugarmoth, and music industry folks, and recently Publisher /owner Andreas Schläb- been successful include France, Hun- also penned two tracks, "Love Is A Harley Smith. he returned to record an album for itz of Cologne -based Step by Step Mu- gary, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, Wonderful Thing" and "Come Into My And, of course, the company han- the Gazell label (distributed there sic, who runs the independent dance Denmark, Norway, Mexico, Japan, and World," for "Tonight Is The Night," the dles such staple Rondor interna- by Warner Bros.) of his own songs.