$3.00 $2.80 plus .20 GST Volume 59 No. 14 April 25, 1994 100 TOP HITS 100 TOP CDs 100 COUNTRY HITS ALBUM PICK No. 1 ALBUM ROXETTE Crash! Boom! Bang! PRAIRIE OYSTER Only One Moon TIM McGRAW Not A Moment Too Soon THREESOME SOUNDTRACK . Various Artists . VILLAGE PEOPLE Greatest Hits PINK FLOYD The Division Bell HOLE Columbia - CK 64200-H Live Through This NIRVANA In Utero NAPOLEON BONNIE RAITT Canadian Cast Recording - Broadway Angel/EMI - CDQ 29428-F Longing In Their Hearts CANTO GREGORIANO . HIT PICK The Best Of Gregorian Chant YANNI KWIC* Live At The Acropolis %Po ,011 THE PROCLAIMERS SINCE I DON'T HAVE YOU Hit The Highway Guns N' Roses LOVE SNEAKIN' UP DREAMS ON YOU COUNTRY The Cranberries cecodo Bonnie Raitt - Capitol ADDS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL THAT AIN'T NO WAY TO GO : IN THE WORLD Brooks & Dunn Prince YOU MEAN THE WORLD FOOLISH PRIDE Travis Tritt TO ME IF YOU GO Toni Braxton Jon Secada LOOKIN' IN THE SAME LEAVING LAS VEGAS SBK Records/ERG ROUND HERE DIRECTION Counting Crows Ken Mellons Sheryl Crow THE WOMAN IN ME SOUL'S ROAD IF I HAD US The Johner Brothers Heart DREAM ON DREAMER Lawrence Gowan The Brand New Heavies ALL AMERICAN GIRL CHANGE COWBOYS DON'T CRY Daron Norwood Melissa Etheridge IN THE WINK OF AN EYE Blind Melon The Barra MacNeils BEAUTIFUL IN MY EYES BREAKAWAY ZZ Top The Joshua Kadison THE MORE YOU IGNORE ME THE CLOSER I GET SANCTUARY BORDERS AND TIME Morrissey The Rankin Family Annette Ducharme 113111PrietGOIEI4 OS I'LL WAIT I'LL TAKE YOU THERE WE WAIT & WONDER AVIA° Taylor Dayne May 29th General Public Phil Collins 2 RPM CHART WEEKLY Monday April 25, 1994 New vinyl pressing plant targets 12" dance market As well, the plant expects the majority of PART ONE: Music For All It's Worth - by 12( indie houses which specialize in smaller 12" Acme Vinyl Corporation, an independent 12" including the Stickmen and John Acquaviva runs of club music to utilize its services. Has the record business kept up vinyl pressing plant, has been setup in Toronto of +8 Records, have set up the plant located in The plant is now operational. Daryl It has been well over a dozen years since the units Markham, Ontario. to assist Cancon dance acts in getting their Wynecka at Acme Vinyl can be contacted for record industry waved goodbye to vinyl, with from product to the streets quicker than at the import For the most part, the managers indicate pressing information. the promise that compact discs would level. that the major labels will still rely on outside stubt sources for the majority of promotional revolutionize the industry. Vinyl is the most important tool used by Quality releases Urban CDs were said to offer superior sound, a accer club DJs to play music, even though it has product. However, the owners also note that say,( the plant will be useful for Cancon dance Cookie Collective set longer life span and improved manageability. essentially been phased out at the major label The other big factor was the capability to hold and level and at radio stations. product and special four -to -six track double - Wrapped up in a 'cookie' box, replete with a Audi sided vinyl used to promote compilation CDs. a great deal more music than records. Most A number of indie businessmen, small package of cookies, came the new Urban albums contained 8-10 tracks, while today's steril Vancouver's Moist signs to EMI Music Canada Cookie Collective full-length release entitled CDs often contain 12-15 songs, which could the st High On A Happy Vibe. contain more than 60 minutes of music. The group Moist has signed a multi -album, condition. The dance group has had enormous Record companies indicate that business consi worldwide deal with EMI Music Canada. EMI Canada has secured a strong success in the UK, where it scored a number has never been better. Virtually every major boos Moist, currently riding a major industry commitment from its sister company, ERG, one single for The Key, The Secret, which reported that 1993 was their best year ever. year; buzz that saw a number ofbidders in contention based in New York, for a US release. also reached #3 on RPM's Dance Chart. PolyGram International, as an example, ad ca for its signing, has seen the video for Push in "The development curve for Moist Quality is currently working the third reported a net sales increase of 12% from '92 All I heavy rotation at MuchMusic. In addition, the happened quickly," says Trombley, "and that's single, Feels Like Heaven. Laura Ferguson to '93, with CDs representing 82% of the rem group has pushed sales of its debut independent a result of the intensity of the group. There's reports that the single is a feature at both Z95 company's recorded music sales for last year, in Vancouver and AM640 in Toronto, and has cassette, Silver, over the 4,000 mark, has a real synergy with these five guys. They've a 19% increase. toured across Canada, and recently played a grown greatly in the past year." been added to the playlist of Energy108. Indeed, according to CRIA stats, total tl highly regarded showcase at SxSW in Austin. "The five people in the group are very Panagaea and CessPool set to go on-line for industry focused, insightful and intelligent in terms of PEI's AIM becomes all sides of the business," notes Tim Trombley, Panagaea Music House, under the guidance of aspects of theentertainment business in affiliate with FACTOR vice-president of A&R at EMI. He also points president Tony Tobias, and Ron Proulx, Canada. The founders of the service are out that EMI has been following the group for president of CessPool of Lust Music, have encouraging members from all aspects of the The Association of Island Music (AIM), based why more than a year, after it hooked itself up with announced the introduction of Canada's first entertainment industry, from vice-presidents in Prince Edward Island, has become the sales Michael McCarty and EMI Music Publishing. CompuServe based computer entertainment to managers to artists, to join the on-line seventh association to become a FACTOR "We think they're incredible," he adds, news report called The Canada E -Report. service. regional affiliate. in th and feels that four singles deep is a possibility The service is directed at users of The Canada E -Report will be served up AIM was founded two years ago by the decli for the album which EMI will run in its identical electronic mail and media, and will expose all on CompuServe, the world's largest privately Music Industry Study group. Its aim is to the C owned on-line facilityin the world. assist in the evaluation of sound recording (CRI Warner acquires rights to triple tenor reunion CompuServe serves nearly 1.8 million applications to and provide information about subscribers worldwide, and accesses FACTOR as well as application forms to the little The Warner Music Group has announced the expected to be in the one billion range, one of entertainment reports from major hubs around PEI music industry. grow acquisition of the rights to the concert reunion the largest in the history of music, TV and the world including Tokyo, Johannesburg, PEI is part of the fledgling Maritime tapin of Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo, and radio. The three tenors are reuniting for the London, and New York City. music scene, which is garnering national corn' Luciano Pavarotti. The concert will take place first time since their historic performance in Tobais and Proulx issued a joint prominence for its combination of traditional the day before the World Cup Final (July 16) 1990 at the Baths of Caracella in Rome. statement, saying that "we believe The Canada style of music and contemporary and Poly at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. The stadium will be set up in such a way E -Report will inform CompuServe members alternative sounds. they' The Warner group has also acquired acoustically that every member of the audience around the world about the Canadian AIM is headed up by president Campbell They worldwide TV and radio broadcast rights to will experience the show as if in a small, entertainment scene. There are over 1 -million Webster, who also manages Lennie Gallant recoi the Encore! The Three Tenors concert in intimate setting. Fourteen cameras and the ex -patriot Canadians working in LA alone, and Nancy White. It boasts close to 125 you addition to album and home video rights. An highest quality digital equipment will be used. and we believe many of them will welcome members, including Bob Jensen, who mak] agreement with Collins Publishers San The album will be released through the opportunity to get closer to home." organized the initial conference when the idea Francisco for a seven -language multi -edition Atlantic in the US, and through German -based The serviceisset to appear in of a PEI music industry association was at th( concert program was also announced. Teldec internationally, one of Warner Music's Entertainment Drive, an on-line forum devoted initiated. with The televised audience for the show is international classic labels. to the international entertainment industry. Stentor announces home video s The Stentor consortium has announced an $8 - poin billion plan that would bring all broadband rece capabilities within 10 years and a national TV. network within six years, enabling video part, signals to be routed directly into the home rece over telephone wires.