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We talked about our CHARTS & RESEARCH right Royalty Judges are simply not qual- Despite outcries by some webcasters good and bad in federal DIRECTOR OF CHARTS /SENIOR ANALYST: GEOFF MAYFIELD ILA experiences ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR: SILVIO PIETROLUONGO ified to set commercially feasible rates who face tough decisions by the judges' (he as a me as a SENIOR CHART MANAGERS: Raphael George -.H 6:5 -HOD). Wade Jessen (Bluegrass, Country. courts judge, trial Christian, Gospel, Nashville) for compulsory licenses. Considering royalty rate decision last year and the cur- lawyer). He told me about his work as a CHART MANAGERS: Bob Allen ( Boxscore. N. tel. Keith Caulfield (Cast. Compilations. Digital Albums. Internet, Pop Catalog, . L Anthony Colombo (Rock Spotlight Recaps. Video). Mary DeCroce (Blues. Kid Audio, Nashv Geoff Mayfield - 200, Heatseekers, L.A.), my feelings about judges in general, the rent move by a royalty -collection com- member of the Alabama State Council Gordon Murray (Comedy. Electronic, I. i. - World). Silvio Pletroluongo (The Billboard Ho' Paul Pomfret (Hits of the World: likelihood is quite remote that I would pany to challenge the constitutionality of the Arts and shared his background London) Jose Promis (Latin. Dance: L - Gary Trust _ .. Adult Top 40, Pop 100). Alex Vitoulis (Classical) ever be one to argue on behalf of the three of the judges' appointment (see Legal in running companies through the ANALYST: Keith Caulfield CHART PRODUCTION MANAGER: Michael Cusson judges who make up the U.S. Copyright Matters, page 14), the abilities of the bankruptcy court. Last year, I formally ASSOCIATE CHART PRODUCTION MANAGER: Alex Vitoulis Royalty Board (CRB). 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LICENSING, EVENTS & REPRINTS watched the three judges listen to testi- These lawyers, whose knowledge and DIRECTOR, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT & LICENSING: ANDREW MIN andrew.min,enrelsen corn visiting the EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CONFERENCES & SPECIAL EVENTS: MICHELE JACANGELO mony and ask questions, I flashed back understanding of copyright issues I re- SPONSORSHIP/BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER Cebele Marquez 646-654 -4648 hearing room, SPONSORSHIP SALES MANAGER: Michelle Fine 646 -654 -4718 to a courtroom in almost spect, sing Roberts' praises. The third SPECIAL EVENTS DIRECTOR: Margaret O'Shea SPECIAL EVENTS MANAGER: Lisa DiAntonio 14 years ago when I was a trial lawyer. judge, Stanley Wisniewski, holds a Ph.D. I believe the EVENT CLIENT SERVICES COORDINATOR: Courtney Marks That moment is etched as clearly in in economics. He has more than 30 EVENT MARKETING DIRECTOR: Lila Gerson ART DIRECTOR, MARKETING & SALES: Melissa Subatch my mind today as if it happened yester- Copyright years' experience as an economist, DIRECTOR, LICENSING & CUSTOM MEDIA: Diane Driscoll 646 -654 -4677 GROUP FINANCIAL DIRECTOR: Barbara Grleninger 646- 654-4675 day. I walked to the front of the court- lawyer and manager. MANAGER, INTERNATIONAL LICENSING & SALES: Angeline Biesheuvel angel:ee biesheuvebä nielsencom 133 Royalty Board MAGAZINE REPRINTS: Doug Kline - 1- 800-290 -5460 Ext or BBco,theYGSgroupcom room in Los Angeles to argue the motion One need only read the entire web - AUDIENCE MARKETING for summary judgment I prepared for Judges are caster rate decision closely and objec- AUDIENCE MARKETING DIRECTOR: FRANCES DAVIS AUDIENCE MARKETING MANAGER (GROUP): Michele Larsen my client. She was suing an indie record tively to recognize that it is well- reasoned AUDIENCE MARKETING MANAGER: Andrew Orlando the right men INTERNATIONAL AUDIENCE MARKETING DIRECTOR: Stephanie McNamara (London) label for breach of contract for failing to and understandable. When the judges SUBSCRIPTIONS: -,18- 487 -4582 (U.S. /Canada) 44 -1858- 438887 (International) pay her $50,000 in license fees. Not only for the job. decided to deny royalties based on a per - PRODUCTION PRODUCTION DIRECTOR: TERRENCE C. SANDERS did I want to win the motion, I wanted centage-of- revenue model, for example, ADVERTISING PRODUCTION MANAGER: Chris Dexter $750,000 and they explained that none of the lawyers EDITORIAL PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR /OPS ADMINISTRATOR: Anthony T. Stallings the court to award her SYSTEMS /TECHNOLOGY SUPERVISOR: Barry Bishin order all master recordings and copy- important function at the CRB. As a had introduced evidence of a fair, work- SENIOR COMPOSITION TECHNICIAN: Susan Chicola COMPOSITION TECHNICIAN: Rodger Leonard right ownership returned to her. former federal judge, he knows how to able model. The reader should not for- ADVERTISING GRAPHIC ARTISTS: Ray Carlson, Ken Diamond But the faith I once felt in the court set up a court -like system to manage get that the judges also based their OPERATIONS VICE PRESIDENT/CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER: ANDY BILBAO system and the decisions of judges had and administer hundreds of thousands decisions on confidential information HUMAN RESOURCES DIRECTOR: BILL FINTON DIRECTOR, MARKET DEVELOPMENT: ERIC WARD long since waned. After arguing cases of pages of pleadings and written evi- that cannot be shared with the public. MANAGER, MARKET DEVELOPMENT: Justin Harris LEGAL COUNSEL: MARK MILLER before federal and state judges nearly dence that will pass through the CRB. I look forward to reading the judges' DISTRIBUTION DIRECTOR: Lou Bradfield BILLING: Liza Perez every week for a dozen years, I could He also knows how to run hearings, decision on publishing rates this fall. VICE PRESIDENT, MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTION: Jennifer Grego VICE PRESIDENT, AUDIENCE MARKETING: Joanne Wheatley count on one hand the number of open - keep lawyers in line during those hear- And if an appellate court decides that BILLBOARD OFFICES minded judges who actually read briefs ings (certainly no easy task) and corn- the judges' appointment was uncon- : 770 Broadway. LOS ANGELES: `,055 WIIshlre LONDON: Endeavour House, New York. NY 10003 Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90036 189 Shaftesbury Ave. and written evidence, considered them ply with myriad other regulatory stitutional, I have but one wish: that Phone: 646 -654 -4500 Phone 323-525-2300 London WC2H BTJ: Edit. Fax 646- 654 -4681 Fax 323 -525- 2394/2395 Phone 011 -44 -207- 420-6003. in a thoughtful way, had the expertise to requirements. A source directly in- Sledge, Roberts and Wisniewski are Adv. Fax 545- 654 -4799 Fax: 011 -44 -207- 420 -6014 MIAMI: 101 Crandon Blvd.. decide technical business matters and volved in interviewing candidates for reappointed. I am happy to report that NASHVILLE: 49 Musrc Square Su,.e 466. Key Biscayne, FL W, Nashville. TN 37203 33149 Phone. 305-361 -5279 I Phone 615- 321 -4290 6a, ì05361-5299 then followed the law closely in making the positions said last year that this abil- can now count on two hands the Fax 615 -320 -0454 their decisions. I had become so disil- ity was an important consideration in number of really good judges I've SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, THE ENTERTAINMENT GROUP lusioned with judges that this was to be deciding to appoint Sledge. come across. GERRY BYRNE The Hollywood Reporter Billboard Back Staoe Film Journal International my last litigation case, and I would in- The Bookseller KIrkus Reviews ShoWest Showgas Expo Internat.onal ClneAS:a stead deal only with contract negotia- PRESIDENT: Greg Farrar; SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, HUMAN nielsen RESOURCES: Michael Alicea; SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, MARKETING: tions and business deals. WRITE US. Share your feedback with Billboard readers Mark Hosbein; SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, FINANCE: Derek Irwin; around the world. Send correspondence to letters @billboard,com. SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, ENTERTAINMENT: Gerry Byrne; SENIOR On that hot spring day of 1994, the Nielsen Business Media MEDIA & VISUAL ARTS: Sabrina Include name, title, address and phone number for verification. VICE PRESIDENT, MARKETING, judge asked me questions that proved Crow; SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, RETAIL: David Loechner, SENIOR Letters should be concise and may be edited. 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>>>`IDOL' FINALE RATINGS MATCH 2007 The "" finale, which saw David Cook beat for the title, averaged 30.6 million viewers for the two -hour show, essentially on par with the 30.7 million that "Idol" attracted for the Jordin Sparks win in 2007. It walloped all other competition ; the second -place show in the 8 p.m. hour BY ANTONY BRUNO was CBS' "The Price Is Right" prime - time special, which n May 20, digital music 50% of subscribers to music services had 7.7 million retailer Napster fulfilled a like Napster said they would buy more viewers, and the made at the 2008 Same As music if it were sold DRM -free, while "Criminal Minds" season finale at 9 Consumer Electronics Show 43% of active à la carte music down- p.m., which drew and converted its entire library of pur- loaders said the same. Of the overall 12.9 million. chased downloads into unprotected adult Internet population, 23% said they MP3 files. It Ever Was would buy more music if it lacked any >LL HEADS The company hopes the move will restrictions, many of whom have never » The Move To MP3 Downloads Isn't Having FOR `EXIT' re- engage music fans who so far have bought music online at all. LL Cool is gearing shunned any digital music service sell- Much Of An Impact -Yet This discrepancy between intent and up to release his ing downloads incompatible with their action can be chalked up to timing. next album, "Exit beloved iPod. But more than a year after only launched its DRM -free 13," July 18 via Def last September and secured its Jam. The album will EMI Music became the first major label service be his last for the to embrace a digital rights manage- last major-label content deal in Janu- label as his contract ment -free strategy, the format ary. The company now offers 5.2 mil- has come to an end, has yet to make a difference. lion tracks. Napster is the only other the rapper told New On a label market -share basis, DRM -free service to go live with all ma- York radio station little has changed since EMI an- jors and indies participating. Wal -Mart WOHT (Hot 97). He nounced its MP3 deal with Apple in started selling MP3s last August from NAPSTER HOME signed with the 2007. Despite striking DRM -free EMI and - label as a teen and licensing deals with Amazon, Apple, shedding any music still containing has released 12 PassAlong, Puretracks, Rhapsody, Sno- DRM from the store in April -and only albums on Def Jam. cap and Wal -Mart, EMI's digital mar- added WMG as a supporting label in Last year, LL Cool J publicly expressed ket share actually shrank from 7.9% at May while still negotiating with Sony his distaste with year -end 2006 to 7.7% year -end 2007, BMG. Rhapsody has expressed inter- how Jay -Z was according to data from Nielsen Sound - est in DRM -free sales but to date only running the label, Scan. Its distribution arm, Caroline, has a deal with UM G. and told Hot 97 he's meanwhile increased market share And there are more DRM -free serv- optimistic about the from almost 10% after 2006 to 10.8% ices still pending. MySpace Music is ex- label's fortunes now at the end of 2007. And year-to -date, pected to go live this summer with Jay -Z has that EMI's digital market share, including DRM -free downloads from all majors departed. Caroline, is 7.72% compared with 8.2% and indies, and free streaming service FLO RIDA owns the top -selling digital single of the year so far with 'Low' at 2 >>>FLOM for the same period last year (before its million -plus downloads, but growing shifts to MP3 like Napster's aren't making has yet to make its download in- `HONORED' DRM -free strategy was under way). much of an impact in the digital space yet. tentions known. The Of course many other factors con- As such, it's far too early to write off "honored" Capitol EMI's ranking, not the least more than 400 million compared with ber of other brands -says sales jumped the impact of DRM -or the lack thereof Music Group of which includes release schedules and 310 million this time last year. 20% after introducing MP3s last March, -as "doesn't really matter," which is chairman /CEO an ongoing restructuring following the And so far, digital retailers have nei- even though the company still lacks the current popular quip. Even iTunes May 21 Terra Firma acquisition. One could ther individually nor collectively put DRM -free licensing deals from Sony took two years to make its impact felt. at a fund -raising argue that EMI's market share may have a dent in iTunes' dominating 70% BMG and (WMG). "It's really early days," WMG execu- roast in New York shrunk even lower had it not been for market share. The is that these individ- tive VP of digital strategy and business for the City of its MP3 To be sure, some individual retailers ual gains are too small to make a no- development Michael Nash says. "Give cancer research strategy. a a and you'll see them center. The event But the DRM -free movement has not have benefited from the strategy. Ama- ticeable difference in market those guys year was hosted by yet affected the overall market, despite zon has not yet disclosed download fig- dominated by iTunes. and other entrants into this space col- comedian Jeffrey the number of digital retailers now em- ures, but analyst firm NPD Group "DRM has not made any kind of im- lectively start to make a dent. If you have Ross and featured bracing it. Digital music sales grew estimates only 10% of its customers are pact," NPD Group's Russ Crupnick says. more people selling music, you're going Epic Records more slowly last year than the year prior also current or former iTunes cus- "Nothing's changed. The volumes don't to have more sales. We just be president Charlie despite seeing the introduction of M P3 tomers, suggesting the service is expand- seem to be accelerating year over year. more patient and let people develop Walk, rapper Fat music services. Year-end digital down- ing the addressable market for digital From a share standpoint, iTunes still their businesses." Joe and Twisted loads in 2007 were up 45 %, while in music. And Dave Jaworski, CEO of Pass - dominates. Nobody else is coming dose." Sister's Dee Snider, MOBILE: For 24/7 news and analysis 2006 they grew 65 %. Year-to -date down- Along -which operates its own music But there is potential. A recent Jupiter on your phone or mobile device, among others. .biz loads are up about 90 million, at slightly service as well as that of f.y.e. and a num- Research survey found that more than go to: mobile.billboard.biz.

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» >JANET PLANS TOUR BUYLIKEAN EAGLE Janet Jackson will hit the road for the first American Eagle time in seven years with marketing officer Kathy Savitt says. Pittsburgh festival rather than a one -off as online marketing and advertising the Rock Witchu arena Outfitters Discounts Tickets for the event went on sale May show for some artists on its bill. For ex- campaigns. In the weeks following the tour through North Tickets To Lure 16. "We're about halfway sold out," says ample, a student -priced ticket to the New event, beginning Aug. 12, perform- America. The outing Festivalgoers Savitt, who expects approximately 10,000 American Music Union festival would ances from the festival will exclusively will open Sept. 7 in concertgoers per day. be cheaper than seeing stream on ae.com. , with Despite a slow economy and soaring gas So how is it being paid for? Savitt de- headline a $40 show in late May at New Meanwhile, American Eagle Outfit- subsequent dates prices, many concertgoers this summer clined to provide specifics about talent York's Terminal 5. Similarly, San Fran- ters has hired Live Nation to help pro- scheduled for Montreal, will spend more than $200 in ticket fees and production costs, but says the New cisco fans would pay the same $25 ticket duce the event at SouthSide Works, a , New York and to attend a multiple -day . American Music Union festival is more price to see Spoon perform at the Fill- mixed -use area comprising restau- , D.C., But in an effort to provide an affordable about "supporting and celebrating our more in September as they would at New rants, retail shops and other busi- according to a spokesman for Live ticket price for its 15- to 25- year -old de- customers. We're not making a profit American Music Union. nesses, including the headquarters of Nation, which is mographic, clothing retailer American on this." Money generated by ticket Keeping in mind that "we're in the American Eagle Outfitters. The loca- organizing the trek. Eagle Outfitters will primarily rely on sales, however, will help offset some of business of selling apparel and acces- tion is also within close proximity of Tickets go on sale June company dollars to underwrite its inau- the production costs, she adds. sories," Savitt says the retail chain will such colleges as Carnegie Mellon Uni- 7. A futl itinerary will be gural New American As for straight use its 900 -plus stores in North Amer- versity, the University of Pittsburgh announced soon. Music Union festi- ticket value, - ica to help promote the festival. New and Duquesne University. val in Pittsburgh. goers would get American Music Union will also be ad- "How unbelievably cheap is this thing » >PEARLMAN American Eagle more bang for their vertised via American Eagle Outfitters' priced? It's great," Live Nation Detroit SENTENCED TO Outfitters has buck attending the and MySpace profiles, as well president Rick Franks says. . 25 YEARS tapped Hot Boy band mogul Lou Pearlman, who Chili Peppers front- launched Backstreet man Anthony Boys and 'N Sync, was Kiedis to help cu- sentenced to 25 years rate the new event, in prison for swindling which will feature performances by investors and major & His Band, the Racon- U.S. banks out of more teurs, Gnarls Barkley, , than $300 million. U.S. Spoon, the Black Keys, Black Moun- Judge G. District tain, the Duke Spirit, NASA and Tiny Kendall Sharp gave Masters of Today, with several more Pearlman the chance to cut his prison time by acts expected to be announced. The offering a one -month festival, set for Aug. 8 -9 at SouthSide reprieve for every $1 Works in Pittsburgh, also will feature million in cash he helps 15 college bands that were selected by a bankruptcy trustee American Eagle Outfitters scouts who recover for his victims. survey college music scenes around His lawyer, Fletcher the country. Peacock, said in a With affordability in mind, admis- plea 25 written that sion to the festival for college students years amounted to a is $25, while non -students will be "sentence to death in prison" for the 53- charged $49.50. As a bonus, ticket pur- year -old. chases include a commemorative fes- tival T- shirt, which is "something that GNARLS BARKLEY (inset) and THE RACONTEURS »BILL would normally cost as much as the are providing big bang for the ticketing buck at the GRAHAM ticket," American Eagle Outfitters chief first New American Music Union festival. FOUNDATION TO HOST N.Y. BENEFIT In memory of the 's burgeoning rock City Showcase is a non- be judged and voted on by legendary , scene will take center stage profit organization launched the public. The most popu- the San Francisco - based Bill Graham 360 DEGREES OF BILLBOARD at the Borderline, with acts in 2003 to expose emerging lar performers would then Memorial Foundation is Hell N Diesel, and creative talent. The likes of compete on TV for a record- holding its first East BILLBOARD HOSTS at the Metro Club, featuring Babylon Bombs booked to , Keane and ing contract. Coast benefit concert INTERNATIONAL South African - perform in association with Razorlight all gained early ex- Associated Talent Manage- May 27 at the Fillmore SHOWCASE winning alternative rockers Swedish indie label Smilodon. posure at the event. ment will consult on the show's New York at Irving Billboard will showcase 11 alongside The wider City Showcase format, production, licensing Plaza. The concert will up- and -coming international compatriot Camagwini. Ris- program will encompass 16 live BILLBOARD, FLUID and distribution. feature performances bands next month through ing Canadian indie rock act music gigs and 13 workshops, TEAM FOR MUSIC "We're thrilled to be work- from Dark Star an expanded association Land of Talk and Cincinnati - including Billboard's "A &R'ing COMPETITION ing with Fluid Music and ATM Orchestra, Moonalice, with London's City Show- based power -pop act Walk for Success" session June 5 at Billboard has signed a nonex- to introduce 'Billboard Next,' , Blues Traveler's John Popper case week of events. the Moon complete the bill. Gibson Studios. clusive development deal with which will give musicians from and Chan Kinchla, and Billboard will host three The same venue will Fluid Music to create "Bill- all backgrounds and genres a others. Tickets are nights of live music under its host a night of music board Next," a reality show chance to gain exposure for available for $65 via "Global Pulse" banner at this from Down Under that would focus on breaking their craft, build a fan base livenation.com. The year's new music and arts fes- June 4, with New Zea- emerging artists. and possibly grab the atten- foundation gives grants tival, to be held June 2 -6 at land /Australasian acts The pitch to TV networks tion of music moguls, taste - in areas of music, arts various venues across the Ragamuffin, Over the is two -pronged: Artists makers and other influencers and education. U.K. capital. Atlantic, Batrider and would submit performances in the music industry," Bill- Billboard's Global Pulse Oloverlys all on the bill. via the "Billboard Next" Web board publisher Howard Ap- night will take place June 2 Finally, on June 5, THE PARLOTONES site, where their work would pelbaum says.

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www.americanradiohistory.com THE LATEST NEWS FROM m BY ANN DONAHUE

» >GRAMMYS Upfronts SET FOR L.A. The 51st annual Grammy Awards will be Feb. 8, ABC's 'Wipegi, t' pushes comedy's `falling held Sunday, And eme. 2009, at the Staples $ns d 3 who Center in Los Angeles - Will host CBS' It r > g,' a and broadcast live to new sho where pups reality ompeton the East Coast by CBS. acid their owns compete for prizes. Center The show is expected to run 8 p.m. -11:30 p.m., according to the Music In Play falling off water slides into the mud-rarely have On The network. Nominations the emotional context for rich music cues. R.I.P. `MEN IN TREES' Fall TV Schedule will be announced Dec. In addition, the ad strategies employed by the (2006 -2008) 4. Ratings for the Each spring in New York, the TV networks unveil networks are meaningful to the music industry Grammys have slipped their upcoming programming slates to advertis- in terms of marketing and promotion. Will the Let's take a moment to mourn the pass- in recent years; the ers in a weeklong presentation circuit known as networks finally make a move to give credit where ing of ABC's "Men in Trees," which the awards show averaged the Upfronts. It's big money for the networks - credit is due in identifying artists used in their network officially canceled at Upfronts. 18.2 million this year, Merrill Lynch analyst Jessica Reif Cohen pins the shows? And what innovative advertising meth- The quirky comedy, starring Anne compared with 20 potential total haul for this year's ad season at $8.8 ods are being developed that could be used to pro- Heche as a recent transplant to Alaska with a radio advice show million in 2007. billion, and that's down 2% from last year -but mote a musician's upcoming CD or tour? for the lovelorn, was a good stop for in- the -know music fans. the impact of the programming schedule extends The 2008 Upfronts were decidedly a mixed bag; Music supervisor Tricia Halloran and her team at HUM Music in » >PEARL JAM, FOOS, LIPS TO far beyond the TV and advertising communities. the specter of the three -months -long strike by the Santa Monica, Calif., used synchs ranging from Sara Bareilles to SALUTE THE WHO Liz Phair. "We weren't afraid to reach back Since TV placement has become a critical Writers Guild of America loomed large over the and , Foo Fighters method of breaking bands, the programming se- proceedings, which were definitely more austere in time," she says. "These characters are in their 30s and 40s, and and the Flaming Lips lected for the upcoming season can affect what and businesslike than they've been in years past. they've listened to music their whole lives." Most important for have signed on to kind of access artists will have to a TV audience (No marching bands this year.) Add to that the connect- the -dots purposes, the tracks from each episode were perform at VH1's third comprising millions ofpeople. For instance, shows contentious back- and -forth between the studios listed in full on HUM's Web site, with a link to the artist's own site, annual Rock Honors, with strong narratives and character development and the Screen Actors Guild over their contract, MySpace page or even performance videos on YouTube. "All which this year will Who. The -ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" is the standout-are which expires June 30, and the mood was defi- along [the network] really professed to like the show, and I salute the ripe with synch potential. On the opposite end of nitely dour. (At the ABC Upfront, host Jimmy think they did," Halloran says. "But it's a serial -you can't come event will be held July 12 at Los Angeles' the are the cheap -to- produce reality Kimmel cracked: "Is this the WGA strike post - in in the middle. It needed a steady time slot for people to get Pauley Pavilion and air shows-like CBS' upcoming "Greatest American party or the SAG strike pre -party ? ") attached to it." In April, "Men in Trees" averaged 5.5 million five days later. The Who viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research. -AD Dog" and ABC's summer program "Wipeout," aside, here's five highlights will also perform during which seems to consist solely of heavyset people from the week that apply to the music industry: the taping, tickets for which go on sale June 6 to members of the group's Wholigans fan club and two days later for the general public. » >POLOW DA DON HONORED Turner Entertainment's ads Cross -platform initiatives: The New shows of note: While re- Back in action: More good and the CW: AT BMI AWARDS in context: Turner Entertain- networks now realize online ality is still the go -to genre for news comes in the form of Most networks eschewed Songwriter /producer ment -which includes TNT, TBS content is a great way to ex- networks in a programming shows that have shown any outside- the -corporate- Polow Da Don earned and TruTV-will roll out a new tend their brand -and this pinch, several scripted pro- strong musical inclinations family form of entertain- his first win as advertising strategy for its means artists now have the grams are in development that and were renewed by the ment during their presen- songwriter of the year prime -time movies starting in means to get more exposure show potential for song place- networks. ABC's "Grey's tation. (Fox did have at the 56th annual BMI fourth -quarter 2008. An exam- thanks to TV's multimedia ini- ment. Of particular interest are Anatomy" (whose sound- dancers from its show "So Pop Awards. Also ple: Take the scene from the tiatives. Of particular note are comedies and comedy -drama tracks for the first three You Think You Can Dance" picking up key awards movie "Hitch" where Will plans already under way by hybrids that move away from seasons have sold 842,000 bound around the stage to at L.A.'s Beverly Wilshire Hotel were Smith's face swells up after an CBS and MTV: CBS saw a spike the traditional, studio -set albums total, according to Madonna's "4 Minutes. ") Hinder, for song of the allergic reaction. Right after that in online viewings of its clips three -camera approach into a Nielsen SoundScan), the Props to the CW for hav- year ( "Lips of an scene, Turner could place an ad and shows after less- staged, naturalistic way CW's "Gossip Girl" (which ing Maroon 5 open its Angel "), and EMI - for an antihistamine. For the past appeared on "How I Met Your of filming. Among the up -and- has ringtones of the show's presentation with a five - Blackwood Music, for 14 months, Turner has employed Mother" twice this spring, and comers are CBS' "The Ex List," music available on Verizon song set. It showed a level publisher of the year. a team of researchers in the network has signed up with in which a woman tracks down Wireless) and "One Tree of insight the other net- Multiple winners also to tag its movies so advertisers Web content provider EQAL her former romantic entangle- Hill" (which introduced singer/ works should take note included , can have a quick link between Studios to create more online - ments, and "Worst Week," a songwriter Kate Voegele in of -in a year when the net- Christina Aguilera, Fall subject matter in the film and specific content related to its remake of BBC1's comedy a multi- episode arc), and work made a move to tar- Out Boy, Snoop Dogg potential product linkage. And shows. (Look for "CSI" to get about the Murphy's Law -style MTV's quasi -reality show get itself entirely at the 18- and Universal Music according to Turner Entertain- its own webisodes on the net- string of disasters that follows "The Hills" (which has seen 34 female audience, it Publishing Group. ment ad sales /marketing GM work's site.) As for MTV, the a groom in the days before his recent placements from the picked a band to open the Compiled by Chris M. Linda Yaccarino, it's only a mat- cable network is going to wedding. The CW, known for Kooks, and proceedings that hits the Walsh. Reporting by ter of time before music is in- blend its shows with its adver- its success in getting audi- Augustana, and linked to sweet spot of that demo- Jonathan Cohen, Hillary cluded in the database, which tisements via a number of ex- ences to download music their videos on the show's graphic. Maroon 5 man- Crosley, Ann Donahue, tracks the details of thousands periments in the wake of a featured in its shows thanks site on .com) will all be ager Jordan Feldstein says Gail Mitchell, Mitchell of movies in their library. study the network commis- to credit cards that appear back in the coming months. the performance will lead Peters, Chris M. Walsh "There's big potential," she says. sioned. In short, viewers had at the end of each episode, to synchs on several CW and Reuters. "Once we get beyond the ex- more emotional investment in will debut a reinvention of shows, including "Gossip plicit placement of ads, we'll shows like "The Hills" when classic teen soap "90210" as Girl" and "90210." For 24/7 news and move into the phase that's more they visited multiple platforms well as "Surviving the Filthy b. analysis on your attributive in nature ... like for the program: TV, online and Rich," an adaptation of Zoey mobile device. go to: mob i le.bil Iboard.biz. soundtracks and music." in the "Virtual Hills" world. Dean's novel.

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www.americanradiohistory.com 4 'Nashville Star' (with, from left, host and judges JEWEL, JOHN RICH and JEFFREY STEELE) and 'Can You Duet' (top) will bolster Nashville's reality show presence this summer. some of the submissions. In September, the finalists will be flown to Nashville to participate in a two -part finale, with

[1 le winner decided by fan voting. "This gives them an opportunity to have a hand in the future of coun- BY KEN TUCKER © pany, which had launched a version of "Can You try music," GAC president Ed Hardy says. "It's an- Duet" in . other way to expand our ability to touch our country "Duets have a long and storied history in coun- fans. Viewer engagement is everything." try music, and Fremantle created 'American The winner will get a with Idol,' " CMT head of development Bob Kusbit an as -yet- unspecified label and a GAC -produced Alternate Reality says. "If anyone could pull it off, they could." video that will air on the network. The network is airing 11 one -hour shows. Experts agree that the exposure produced by Nashville Up Rascal Flatts as examples. "It feels born out of While some contestants arrived at auditions as a weekly TV show, particularly one on which fans To The Plate With New, tradition. It's also a point of differentiation." a duo, others came solo and found a partner in decide who wins, means finalists come with a Returning Shows Meanwhile, "Gone Country," which Rich line. Further separating the show from the pack, built -in fan base. Sony BMG Nashville is home hosted, was a big ratings hit for CMT and a sec- judges have split partners and created new pairings. to Underwood, Pickier and Young, and the label Come this summer and fall, Music Row's already ond season has already been filmed. The show Meanwhile, GAC senior VP of programming group will also sign the winner of "Can You Duet." populous music reality show alumni contingent places unlikely characters in the role ofwannabe Sarah Trahern says having fans involved in the Chairman Joe Galante says reality shows provide will be growing by a few members. "American country stars. However, the first winner of the network's "The Next GAC Star" is "vital. It was "the opportunity to reach a large audience at one Idol" contestants , Kellie Pick- competition, Julio Iglesias Jr., failed to gain trac- part of the decision-making process for us," she time. If you're successful, you're getting constant ier, , Josh Gracin, Phil Stacey tion at country radio. The new season, which will says. "How do we involve the fans early in the exposure for anywhere from eight to 14 weeks, and Carmen Rasmusen; "" partic- include , Irene Cara and Lorenzo process and at the end of the show ?" so you're in the public's mind as opposed to just ipants Miranda Lambert, Chris Young and Jason Lamas, will begin airing in August. Unlike other shows, "GAC Star" allows hope- doing a TV show and walking off." Meadows; "Dancing With the Stars" hoofer Ju- CMT's "Can You Duet," which taped last fall fuls to submit videos via the Internet or record Greg McCarn, VP of marketing at Lyric Street, lianne Hough; and double Diana DeGarmo, and is now airing on the network, will announce at various locations throughout the country that home to Gracin, Covington and Stacey, says re- who is an alumnus of "Idol" and "Gone Coun- its winning duo June 13. The show was produced are visited by the network's promotional bus - search proves "Idol" viewers are also country try," will have a few new neighbors after the lat- by FremantleMedia North America, the corn- there aren't any in- person auditions. radio listeners. "If we go to our radio partners est round of reality shows crown new champions. pany behind "American Idol." Judge /mentors The show, which is a partnership with Music and say, 'This is Bucky Covington and your au- CMT, GAC and NBC have all made new steps include , Brett Manning Nation, is democratic in nature. "Anyone can par- dience knows who he is,' you immediately have into the burgeoning music reality show market, and hit songwriter Aimee Mayo. Rossi Morreale ticipate. There's a lot of great country singers out an advantage," he says. which is increasingly roping in country acts. hosts the show and the winners will get a deal there and the Internet opens a lot of doors," Tra- While ratings and ad revenue are the ultimate "Nashville Star," which has spent five seasons with Sony BMG Nashville. hern says. "All they need is access to the Internet goal for any TV program, those involved agree that on USA Network, will debut June 9 on NBC. The FremantleMedia North America chief creative and a video camera to participate." having a winner and /or finalists that go on to suc- show, which will run nine weeks, is getting a big officer Eugene Young says that while the network Viewers will vote on the channel's Web site cessful careers is a plus. "My job is to produce an push and a bit of a makeover. While the previous was looking for another "American Idol," he con- each week to pick a finalist and a panel of judges incredibly compelling show that gets great ratings incarnation focused on solo acts, the new version vinced it that it needed a show with "a completely will do the same. Starting in June, the network for NBC," Owens says. "If [we've] done our jobs will include duos and trios. Singer /songwriter /pro- different twist." He found it within his own corn- will air a half-hour show dedicated to showing right, the person who wins will have a bona fide ducer John Rich, singer /songwriter Jewel (who chance to become a legitimate music star." hosted last year's show and has launched a coun- When partnering with a show, Galante says try career) and songwriter Jeffrey Steele will serve THE TALENT SEEKERS his label hopes the winner "is exactly what you'd as judge /mentors on the show, and Billy Ray Cyrus While they're not reality shows per se, two Nashville country stars are sponsoring talent con- want to sign. I know in the case of Chris Young, will host. Super -producer Dann Huff (Faith Hill, tests that they hope will help to discover new talent. if he had walked through this door and he had ) will do the for the Kenny Chesney is looking locally to find opening acts for his Poets & Pirates 2008 Tour. sounded that way, we would have signed him." show. Viewers will pick the winner. Dubbed the "Big Star Competition" and named for his 2003 hit "Big Star," the contest seeks Young won "Nashville Star" in 2006 when Sony AEG Live, which also handles the "American out a deserving local band to open Chesney's show when it comes to its hometown. One BMG Nashville was that show's label partner. Idol" tour, is putting together a "Nashville Star" grand -prize winner will be given a tour bus for the final weekend of the tour and open shows Lyric Street senior VP of A&R Doug Howard tour and Warner Bros. will sign the winner to a 360 in St. Louis, Indianapolis and Tulsa, Okla. That act will also receive $25,000 and the opportu- agrees. "It's a brave new world, but it's still about deal and also have right of refusal on the finalists. nity to audition for Sony BMG Nashville executives. being exposed to talented singers." Six thousand people showed up for the audi- Stadium shows will feature a battle of the bands the night before the concert. Arena and Meanwhile, Anastasia Brown, a former tion in Nashville, while another 5,000 stood in auditorium will have similar battles a couple of weeks earlier at a local club. "Nashville Star" judge, has written " a line in Austin. In all, including video submissions, Meanwhile, John Rich is hosting a monthly "Get Rich" talent search at Nashville club 12th & Porter. Star," about how to be successful in the music 45,000 people came for a shot at stardom, up from In addition to reviewing submissions, Rich and associate Charlie Pennachio scour the Internet business, including strategies for competing on 20,000 last year, according to show executives. and other sources to find deserving talent. Each month, 10 acts perform in front of an industry reality shows. Former "Idol" contestants

"Nashville Star" executive producer Howard panel of judges. "Anytime I see an artist out there struggling and I can do something to help and are among the artists who

T. Owens says the bigger crowds are a credit to them, why wouldn't I do that ?" Rich says.'The bigger our business gets, the better it is for every- contribute to the book. the power of NBC and its affiliates. "The magni- body. I take personal satisfaction in knowing that I had a hand in helping other people's careers." Brown says reality shows are just "one path tude of their reach is incredible," he says. "At On a recent April night, the panel of judges included representatives from Warner Bros., down the A&R road. There are so many differ- USA, you don't have affiliate partners." The fact Sony BMG Nashville, ASCAP, the Assn. and Billboard. Rich put together the show ent ways to get your music heard. [But] if you're that Cyrus appeared on NBC's "Today" to pro- using his own money, and while the winner takes home $300 and a slot on the next month's an introverted singer /songwriter like Bob Dylan, mote the show didn't hurt either. show, it's also about exposure. "It dawned on me that there's nowhere in this town that the guy it's probably not the way you want to go." Owens says the decision to include more than that's parking cars at Loew's Vanderbilt Hotel can get up onstage and do two songs in front One thing's clear: Reality shows are here to stay. just solo acts "feels fresh. People haven't seen of people that can change his life. "You've got to remember that for people in their duos and trios on a . It also "It's a real simple concept. I don't know why somebody hasn't done this before," Rich adds. 20s and 30s, reality TV shows are as much of their feels very endemic to country," he says, citing the "I fully intend to see somebody launched out of this thing:' -KT life as Carol Burnett was for me," Kusbit says. 'They Judds, Montgomery Gentry, Brooks & Dunn and don't know a world without reality TV."

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www.americanradiohistory.com hile country superstar It really diminishes the integrity of the he said backstage. "My only thing is that Kenny Chesney won music we're making and the work that it should be fair. I'll take whatever the his fourth straight enter- goes into it. That's what really matters, academy throws at us." tainer of the year honor that's what entertainer of the year really ACM executive director Bob Romeo says May 18 at the 43rd annual is. It's not about flying somebody to see he assured Chesney that the ACM wasn't Academy of Country Music Awards, tying some shows or giving songs away." trying to demean the award. "We're just Garth Brooks' record in the category, he's During the week leading up to the trying to empower the people that every not happy with a new voting procedure show, Rascal Flatts' label, Lyric Street, of- day vote for you. Every day that goes by peo- that the ACM put in place this year. fered a free exclusive MP3 download to ple are taking their money and buying CDs Fans have voted for the video of the fans who would go to the ACM Web site and concert tickets. That's voting." year in the the past, but 2008 was the first and vote. The offer was pulled a day later. The ACM board "definitely had two time that the entertainer award was voted "This isn't anything against the act that different opinions," Romeo says, noting for by fans. "This one is really extra spe- had put out that MP3 offer, because I love that some were for a new, separate fan - cial because long before I had a hit record, them boys," Chesney said, when asked voted award while others supported the the fans came to the shows," Chesney about the Flatts campaign. "And they de- idea of letting fans vote for the entertainer said onstage. "I'm honored to be up here serve to be up here, about it, but prize. "The board said, ' Let's take the shot for the fourth year in a row." this is an example of how they've made and open it to the fans,' " he says. "It was Despite his win, Chesney made it clear us conduct ourselves to stand up here. a lengthy discussion." backstage that he thinks the ACM made "I do think the fans should be a part of Romeo adds that while the award was a mistake by making the award a fan de- this awards show," Chesney said, "but voted on by fans, the finalists were picked cision. Calling the process a "sweep- not the one award every artist sacrifices by ACM members. "They got it down to stakes," he said, "I think it's complete to achieve." what we the industry said are the five peo- disrespect of the artist, what they've low- Rascal Flatts' Gary LeVox had a differ- ple that are the best of the best. It's no ered us to to get entertainer of the year. ent take on fan voting. "It's about time," different than the Democratic Conven- he said backstage. "They're the reason all tion-at some point they're going to put of us have jobs. Hopefully, it continues." forth a candidate. At that point it goes to The band took top group honors and was the vote of the people." named humanitarian of the year. It's hard to argue with the choice of Brad Paisley, who was also up for the Chesney: He had the top country tour of BANNING entertainer award and took home video 2007, grossing more than $71 million of the year and male vocalist honors, from 55 shows, according to Billboard said he was OK with the change. "It's Boxscore. In 2008 he has grossed $11 mil- THE FLAMES really fun to see them participate in this," lion on eight shows in front of more than 150,000 fans. His album "Just Who I Am: Chesney Decries Public Voting At the 2008 Academy of Country Music Poets & Pirates," released last September, Awards, KENNY CHESNEY scored For Major ACM Award has sold 1.2 million copies, according to entertainer of the year, while SUGARLAND won song and record for 'Stay.' Nielsen SoundScan.

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www.americanradiohistory.com BRANDING BY KAMAU HIGH Dragonlicks, the licensing division of Yessian, acted as a label in order to put it up on iTunes; P &G owns all the publishing and master rights, Bartos says. The video, as well as a link to iTunes, ALL WET are on pampers.com. Pampers Campaign Shows McCluskey is a former vocalist for the Wild Colo- Pitfalls Of Song Placement nials (DGC /) and Télépopmusik (Capitol /EMI). Previously signed as a solo artist to It seemed like the perfect placement. On April 7 actress Salma /Blue Note, the Scottish singer Hayek appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" to discuss a part- is currently negotiating a label home for her re- nership between Pampers and UNICEF to give tetanus vaccina- cently completed album "You Could Start a Fight tions to women in Third World countries. in an Empty House." She continues to be published During the show, the duo paused to watch an ad detailing the by EMI . partnership. As Hayek narrates, the ad shows a woman pushing McCluskey donated her services for the ad. She a child in a stroller while walking through a metropolitan city as has been featured in ads for American Express, mothers and their children from Third World countries look ap- Campbell's Soup, Coca -Cola and Cotton, says her preciatively at her purchase of the specially marked Pampers. An- manager Valerie Wilson Morris, owner /president gela McCluskey sings " (Pampers /UNICEF) " -released of Vamnation Entertainment (previously known as a week later on iTunes -in the background. Val's Artist Management). "She's got a voice that is Given that kind of attention-6 million watched Winfrey's very unique and compelling in nature and arrest- show that week, according to Nielsen Media Research -it is sur- ing," Morris says. prising that "Dream" has sold significantly less than 1,000 copies, But the low sales for "Dream" aren't inhibiting according to Nielsen SoundScan. Proceeds from the song (59 P &G's push on the campaign. Several P &G exec- cents from each 99 -cent purchase) are donated to the U.S. Fund utives went to Africa recently as part of an effort for UNICEF, P &G spokesman Bryan McCleary says. (P &G did to shoot a documentary about the company's re- not respond to requests to discuss sales of the song.) lief efforts. And P &G will continue to make a con- While an appearance on " Oprah" should have generated sales Originally composed to fit the 60- second spot by Andy Grush scious effort to put more emphasis on using music as a branding for such an artist as McCluskey, it did not, and several factors for Yessian, a New York music house, the company suggested to element in its advertising. likely contributed to that. One, the song was not available for ad agency Saatchi & Saatchi in New York and P &G that the song "If you look at P &G advertising over the years, many times the sale until a full seven days after the show aired -an eternity to be extended to a full -length track. "It was such a lovely track, and winning ad has been about the rational side of the brand," Mc- ask people to wait in today's on- demand society. Second, while because it was for charity, I suggested perhaps we could create a Cleary says. "For example, the ad says, 'Bounty is the quicker the song and video are featured on P &G's pampers.com, the full -length song and take the proceeds and give them to UNICEF," picker- upper,' and then has a demo of how much it can hold. This main focus of the Web site is on Hayek; the song and video are Yessian executive producer Marlena Bartos says. whole other area of emotion, we've come to believe, is equally not nearly as prominent as she is. Third, there is no chyron iden- Both parties liked the idea, and Grush composed the rest of the powerful. What Saatchi has found is that music can make the tifying the artist and song in the spot. music and lyrics in about two weeks. brand one consumers love and one they identify with."

QLJ ES1IONS rates without dealing with with TIM WESTERGREN [webcaster royalties] first. If I'm a legislator , there's no way I'd give power to this constituency to do to broadcast radio what they're When the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) issued its new statutory rate structure for Internet doing to Internet radio. radio broadcasters last year, one of the leading voices opposing the new system was Pandora They've shown no level of re- founder Tim Westergren. The issue has faded from the forefront in the last few months, but sponsibility with the existing in that time Pandora has continued its efforts to negotiate a compromise, as well as strike new rate that's wrecking Internet partnership deals to expand distribution of the personalized DJ service -the latest with Clear radio. I think they should Channel Radio. show great pause before giv- Billboard checks in with Westergren on where both efforts stand. ing them that power in the context of broadcast radio. What are you doing with All the terrestrial broadcasters Congress pulled together a ClearChannel and why? are very actively beginning to meeting in [Washington] D.C. Are you less aggressive It's a trial that we'll be running implement or planning online of the principal players in this about signing up new on some of their Web sites this extensions. That's all competi- and said, "You need to fix this, members or licensing fewer summer, where they'll be offer- tion for listeners. We pay atten- and ifyou don't, we'll legislate." songs in your catalog in ing personalized Pandora tion to that and need to react to It's now a year later and we've response to the higher rates? playlists. Companies like us are it. The Clear Channel imple- been stuck in this really slow ison. It will be an outreach newlicensing rates? We decided to just keep chas- always wise to look at new distri- mentation is run by them - and unproductive negotiation across the entire congres- Our investors are willing to ing our business, and if we hit bution partners. If we can get they pay the licensing, they where the RIAA has not been sional roster, lobbying to fund a wholehearted defense the wall, we'll do so going 100 Pandora in front of more people, handle the economics of it. The heeding the direction of Con- individual senators and con - and fight to get this issue miles an hour. Pandora plays that's nothing but good. I would only reason it works is because gress. This should have been gresspeople, putting pressure heard, but they're not going to music from more than 50,000 be surprised if Pandora's future it's not their main business - settled six months ago. on all the players on the other fund a business that has no artists now. In a world without doesn't have a fair number of dis- they don't pay royalties on over We are now at the end of our sides like large and small long -term future. So this has statutory rates, that drops by tribution partners like this. 90% of what they broadcast. So tether. We hung on because labels and artists to recognize to be resolved soon. 90% because the bulk of our all this leads to a discussion of there was reason to believe the injustice here. The artists don't have major repre- CBS Radio is offering a royalty payments. there would be a fair solution bombers are being rolled out. Should terrestrial radio sentation. There's not even a similar personalized DJ on the table, and now we doubt stations have to pay the same mailing address for them. You service. Any concern about So on that note, what's that. We're preparing a full - Lacking new investment kinds of fees that Internet and see constant announcements terrestrial radio companies the latest on your scale political campaign to get or a significant partnership, satellite radio are being of direct deals, and that's just negotiations over the CRB The how much longer can asked to pay? one more nail in the coffin of offering more interactive this rectified. previous o features on their Web sites? royalty rates? campaign will pale in compar- Pandora survive under the You can't talk about broadcast the indie artist. .

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www.americanradiohistory.com Crave videogame subsidiary, some- stand next month, when Handleman ThankThe Banks thing that it is required to do as part announces its annual results. But with of the amended loan agreement. the current stock price at $1 (if it keeps Handleman Lives To Face An Uncertain Future like inventory levels and account re- Sources say Crave is having a pretty that up for 30 days, the company will ceivable totals, the nearly $100 million good year, so Handleman likely can get re- enlisted on the New York Stock The Handleman Co. finally scored based rackjobber had only $110 mil- gap between what's drawn down and get the $70 million it paid for this asset. Exchange) and 20.5 million shares out- with its banks, getting the weight of a lion in collateral. It received a waiver the maximum amount of the credit Handleman CEO Al Koch him- standing, how expensive can the com- possible imminent technical default until May 31 to negotiate a "cure" to line is useless information. self admits that the sale of the entire pany be? Don't forget, unless it's on its credit lines off its back. the loan agreement, and during this So where availability stands under company is also a pos- Anderson, there's no Sure, the deal came with a cost - period vendors were sweating whether the credit line remains a concern. sibility, one that he is Retail= guarantee that the buyer higher interest payments and a re- the bank would grant Handleman an And unfortunately, in its filings with considering along with would retain Wal -Mart duced line of credit -but in Retail amendment to the loan or if it would the SEC, Handleman didn't reveal other options. In fact, Trackl as a customer. So given Track's view, that size reduction is pull the line. that amount -because the amount sources suggest that ED CHRISTMANj:; that the current econ- not a concern. Fortunately, it's the former. In its changes daily, a spokesman says. In the discussion to sell omy makes it a buyer's The credit line now stands at $163 May 15 8 -k filing with the Securities March, though, that didn't stop the Handleman is already market and given million, down from the $250 million and Exchange Commission, Handle- company from providing availabil- under way with fellow Handleman's circum- it had prior to its March bank negoti- ity data to Billboard. Now, for an up- Wal -Mart rackjobber stances, most buyers ations. Of that amount, $113.4 mil- dated figure, we will have to wait Anderson Merchan- likely would value the ,.`:, "' lion is supplied by Silver Point Finance until the company files its fourth - disers-a move that company based on the while GE Capital supplies $50 million. With hank quarter results. Until then, we have likely would make the giant dis- above assets, not the book value. Previously, Silver Point had provided the company's word that it has counter happy. Even if a deal to one buyer doesn't $140 million and GE $110 million. hurdles cleared, plenty of liquidity. Another large wholesaler, though, happen, other wholesalers have pri- Prior to receiving a May 15 loan is a Ilanclleman A senior financial executive with wonders why Anderson or anyone else vately admitted to Retail Track a desire amendment that puts the company one of the majors says that the bank would buy Handleman, since he be- to acquire specific assets of Handle- on sound footing, Handleman an- sale in the stars'? deal alleviates his current concerns - lieves the company's business can man. If Anderson walks, the piece- nounced in March -while releasing at least for the short term. It's the long eventually be had without buying the meal approach likely gets a higher second -quarter fiscal results for the man said it had drawn down $63.3 mil- term that he's worried about-the company. But as I pointed out to that valuation. If the company's investment period ending Jan. 31 -that it was in lion from its facility, while sources say company, he predicts, has no future. wholesaler, a Handleman acquisition banker gives me a call, I can tell him violation of a loan covenant. At the it has about $5 million -$7 million in Yet, to Retail Track's view, it's clear that right now likely would have little down- which piece to shop to which whole- end of January, it had drawn down $90 cash on hand. But since the amount the company will be sold, either in side, due to the company's assets - saler -and I won't even take any vig million from its credit line. But Silver that Handleman can actually tap de- pieces or whole. 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the director of the Patent and Trademark Office, Still, Freundlich says the company is inter- who is subordinate to the commerce secretary, ested in right holders and the bigger picture. Challengin has appointed the judges. Duffy argues that ap- " we don't want to do something pointment of judges since 2000 were unconsti- that is going to imperil the industry," he says. tutional, and any cases they decided are likely "But the alternative [with only SoundExchange] The Copyright null and void. is a monopoly, and that's intolerable. To allow The CRB does not fall under any executive the system to be set up in a forum with one col- agency. It was created in 2005 as part of the Li- lective is not good for the artist community." brary of Congress, which includes the Copyright Royalty Judges Office. The Library of Congress is part of the leg- THE STORM A Lawyer Argues CRJs' Appointment Unconstitutional islative branch. Its head, the Librarian of Con- Regardless of the outcome, there is now a shadow gress, appoints the three CRJs. of uncertainty hanging over all CRB proceed- Many lawyers laughed when Royalty Logic, a royalty administration company, filed a motion re- Under case law cited by Duffy, it would ap- ings that will not be resolved for years. cently challenging, as unconstitutional, the appointment of the three Copyright Royalty Judges pear that the CRJs are "inferior officers." But If the appellate court refuses to hear Royalty to the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board (CRB). Litigators appealing adverse decisions often raise it is unclear who could appoint them under Logic's recently filed argument because it was theories that would throw out the baby with the bath water-like arguing that the judges shouldn't current interpretations of the Appointments not filed in a timely manner, there will likely be be there in the first place -and they rarely succeed. But after I stopped laughing and listened Clause since the CRB isn't governed by an ex- some other party, some other time, who will raise to the arguments, I felt a perfect storm brewing. ecutive agency. the question. And it won't be fully resolved un- Royalty Logic wants to compete with SoundExchange as an author- less, or until, the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately ized agent to administer royalties for noninteractive streaming of sound Legal WHY OBJECT? hears it or refuses to hear an appellate court de- recordings. During the webcaster rate proceeding last year, the judges Matters Simply arguing that a law is unconstitutional- cision. So perhaps now is the best time to get the refused the company's request. Among other things, the judges wrote SUSAN or that appointment of the CRJs was uncon- party started. that the company was for -profit rather than nonprofit, and it didn't have BUTLER stitutional -will not change the status quo. If appointment of the judges were found to sufficient label and artist members. Royalty Logic now wants an appel- Although the law is not entirely clear, it's likely be unconstitutional, it could wipe out all CRB late court to find the entire CRJ setup unconstitutional. that only a party that has been "injured" by a decisions. This would intact the laws that The company's attorney, Ken Freundlich with Schleimer Sc Fre- decision and that is directly subject to the au- permit users to license compositions and sound undlich in Beverly Hills, Calif., argues that the appointment of three thority of the agency may challenge the struc- recordings under certain compulsory licenses judges appointed to the CRB, which sets royalty rates for all corn - ture of that agency, such as the CRB. (i.e., without obtaining specific permission from pulsory licenses under federal copyright law, is unconstitutional; the law creating the CRB im- Aside from the law, however, who would copyright holders), but only if they pay the statu- properly gives the Librarian of Congress the authority to appoint the judges. Under the want to challenge their appointment? Proba- tory royalty rates -rates, if set by the CRB, that Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution, he argues, the Librarian of Congress doesn't bly very few companies. After all, the law cre- would no longer exist. have the authority to appoint judges. ating the CRB was hammered out by groups To correct any error by legislation will take The idea for this argument, Freundlich says, came from a recent New York Times article writ- representing copyright holders and those who time, perhaps months or years. Then to reset ten about a law professor who raised the question in connection with judges serving on the use music under compulsory licenses. They rates through additional two -year proceedings Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. wanted permanent judges, rather than part - will also take years and many more millions of While this could be a very strong legal argument, two questions immediately came to mind. time arbitrators, to set royalty rates for corn - dollars. SoundExchange, record labels, publish- What does the company hope to gain by essentially arguing that all of the CRB decisions should pulsory licenses. ers, cable and satellite companies and digital be null and void? And what would happen to the digital music industry if a court agreed with In the CRB proceedings held so far, most of services won't reveal what they've spent so far in that argument? He could answer the first question, but he had to think about the second. And the parties have been either copyright holders the rate proceedings. But attorneys not directly therein lies the rub. or companies who license music. Even though involved in the proceedings estimate legal fees some parties may be disappointed in one result, in the millions of dollars. WHEN LAWYERS COLLIDE trative Patent Law Judges Unconstitutional ?" In it's unlikely they would want all the CRB deci- Meanwhile, uncertainty in rates has been one My personal view is that there are three cate- his article, he argues, very effectively, that the gories of lawyers whose activities are diametri- answer to his question is "yes." The same argu- cally opposed in a business environment: ment may also apply to Trademark Trial and Ap- µr, litigators, business lawyers and law professors. peals Board judges as well as the CRJs. When they all come together in one business sit- The Appointments Clause (article 2, section `Obviously we uation, it can be a mess. 2, clause 2) provides that the president, with the don't Xirant to do Currently, litigators are involved in CRB pro- advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint ceedings over webcaster rates for noninteractive "officers" of the whose appoint- something that is performances (e.g., streams) of sound record- ments are established by law. However, there going to imperil the ings, cable and satellite rates for those same uses may be "inferior officers" of the government and publishing rates for reproducing composi- when Congress passes a law creating their of- industry. But the tions in physical goods (i.e., mechanical rates fices. Inferior officers may be appointed by the alternative with only for CDs) and via digital deliveries (downloads, president alone, by courts of law or by the heads ringtones and others). of departments. SoundExchange As advocates, the litigators want their clients U.S. Supreme Court decisions have inter- is a monopoly, to win and will often appeal unsatisfactory deci- preted this clause in the past. As Duffy points and sions, no matter how long it takes. out, an inferior officer is a person in the gov- that's intolerable.' Business lawyers, on the other hand, either ernment who exercises significant authority -KEN FREUNDLICH, couldn't or wouldn't convince their clients to and is not merely an employee. For example, SCHLEIMER & FREUNDLICH agree on rates. So the parties are going through special trial judges of the tax court were found the rate -setting process rather than offering set- to be inferior officers, rather than employees, tlements for the judges to adopt. even though they often acted only as an aide to sions thrown out. They may have a good result important reason that digital music services have Then there are law professors. They are often the tax court judge who was responsible for de- in another proceeding. yet to flourish to their full potential. Monday- morning quarterbacks with little or no ciding cases. For example, some digital services that offer What's the solution? Well, compulsory rates experience in applying the law to actual busi- According to case law, Duffy wrote, a "head webcasts of recordings believe rates set were can be negotiated. And right about now, ham- ness situations. Those who are truly experts in of department" would mean one who heads an too high, and they are appealing that decision. mering out settlements in rate disputes their fields play an important role in shaping, executive division, like a cabinet -level depart- But many of the same services may ultimately among music and digital services sounds re- and helping everyone adhere to, democratic ment, or at least heads of agencies immediately be satisfied with rates for downloads of ally good. Then, even if CRB decisions are set principles. But they can sure throw a wrench below the president in the structure of the ex- recorded compositions. aside, the parties would still have their agreed into business operations. ecutive branch. Royalty Logic, however, is not arguing over rates to keep doing business. At least until Patents fall under the Department of Com- rates. It's in a unique position to raise this ar- the next professor starts pondering other parts THE LAW merce, which is an executive agency immedi- gument. The CRB already denied its request of the Constitution. . -. George Washington University School of Law ately below the president. The Secretary of to compete with SoundExchange, so it has lit- professor John Duffy, as Commerce heads that department and, until tle to lose directly if all the CRB decisions were For 24/7 legal news and analysis, see billboard.biz /legal. reported, wrote an article called "Are Adminis- 2000, appointed patent law judges. 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www.americanradiohistory.com articles jokingly suggested that past me and whispering about what I might be Massenburg's wine business, like his music wines should start packaging their doing there," he says. "Then I remembered a sta- business, relies on grass -roots marketing. And bottles with CDs, they neglected to tistic about 10% of all wine consumers being they have other things in common as well. "Soul take notice of a fine wine and music African- American, and I knew there was an open- music and wine tend to have similar audiences," pairing that already exists. ing in the market." he says. "I can target my outreach for both prod- Kedar Massenburg wanted Pursuing that opening has paid off for Massen- ucts to a particular demographic." nothing more than a nice glass of burg. "I'd say my time is split between music Nonetheless, "the two businesses are fairly wine after watching one his and the wine business, but in terms of revenue, discrete ventures," he says. "I'm not going to do artists, a soul singer named AI- the wine is bringing in more right now," he says. any sort of crazy cross -promotion with the wine gebra, bring down the house at "I am expecting that to change and the records." NARM. Luckily for the former when we release two more al- Th Not all of Massenburg's ven- exec and current presi- bums in the fall." tures have made him as happy as dent of Kedar Entertainment, he While Massenburg is clearly Indies his wine and music offerings. "I didn't have to look far for a good passionate about wine, music CORTNEY tried to do a shoe line with Jacob HARDING bottle to uncork; in addition to remains a vital interest and part & Co., and I was initially very ex- heading up a label and manage- of his business. Under the Kedar cited about that," he says. "But then ment company, Massenburg also Entertainment umbrella, he has Jacob got in some trouble [owner has his own line of wines, K'orus. recording, management, pub- Jacob Arobo plead guilty to fal- While hardly the first record exec to try his hand lishing and lifestyle branding sifying records and giving false at building other brands, Massenburg may be arms. According to Massenburg, statements to investigators in Oc- the first to try to uncork the vino business. this gives him the flexibility to sign different tober 2007], and that was that. But we did sell Wine "My No. 1 rule is diversification," Massen- artists to individualized deals. 10,000 pairs of shoes before the deal ended." burg says. "When I left Motown, I started to 'With Algebra and Chico DeBarge, I have the While the shoe venture didn't pan out, Massen- look for openings and to find spaces that oth- standard recording deal, but I have a 360 -deal burg is happy with the returns the wine busi- Honse ers were neglecting. Not a lot of other labels with [R &B singer] Joe," he says. "Algebra's record ness has given him. "The thing about wine is Kedar Entertainment's were releasing neo -soul albums, so I decided is out right now, and Joe and Chico both have that it makes money while you sleep," he says. Diversification Strategy to focus on that musically. And while there are records coming out in September." "I was looking at some sales figures, and saw thousands of wine brands, there wasn't one that "After all I spent at Motown, it really that we sold a thousand cases of wine. Each bot- According to a recent survey by Adrian North focused on the African -American community." drove home the point that major labels are like tle is $12.99, the same price as a CD. But a CD of Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh, Scot- Massenburg first learned about the wine busi- tractor -trailers," Massenburg says. "While they is a one -time purchase, whereas people tend to land, the music one listens to while consuming ness while at Motown, but the opportunities in can carry a lot of product, they can't make a quick buy the same bottle of wine over and over." wine can have an effect on how a person per- the space didn't become clear to him until he at- U -turn if they need to. Whereas indies have ceives the taste of the drink. While some experts tended a wine convention and was confronted smaller product lines but much more agility and For 24/7 indies news and analysis, Jai see billboard.biz /indies. quoted in subsequent blog posts and newspaper with a sea of white faces. "People were walking a much lower overheard."

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In a well- conceived matchup of market and pro- off sluggish, but have "skyrocketed" in the last gramming, Alabama real estate developer Ron- few weeks. nie Gilley will roll out the first Bama Jam festival "They're flying out of here now," Gilley says. June 5 -7 in Enterprise, Ala. "Ticket sales are increasing daily. We're in ex-

On the bill are such Southern - fried acts as cess of 10,000 tickets right now a month out, , Jr., ZZ Top. and I think that's pretty incredible for a first - Alabama's Randy Owen, and time event. I'll be happy and ex- the Zac Brown Band. But the On cited at 30,000, but I think we're festival's broader palette includes Thé going to far exceed 30,000." Little Big Town, Ricky Skaggs, Roa Old Crow Medicine Show, Yon- RAY RAINBOWS? The fallout from der Mountain String Band, the WADDELL Radiohead's rain -drenched May Del McCoury Band, Cherry - 11 sellout at Nissan Pavilion in holmes, , the Bristow, Va., and the Internet - Duhks, Miranda Lambert and driven firestorm that followed Keller Williams, and demon- (billboard.biz, May 15) is a case strates a focus on musicianship study of how local word -of-mouth and onstage chops. quickly becomes national in the digital age. Gilley says he "sort of backed into" the music The Washington, D.C., market was faced business about a decade ago. "We built relation- with monsoon -like conditions around the ships, utilized them with real estate projects in show, with an estimated four inches of rain the Southeast and saw some enormous suc- and flooding forcing road closures and mad- cess," he says. dening traffic conditions. Apparently a signif- Those relationships led to the Country Cross- icant number of fans-hundreds or thousands, ings project in County, Ala., which depending on who is estimating -were ex- Gilley describes as "a massive entertainment tremely late or unable to get into the show for community extravaganza, a commercial mixed- a variety of reasons. Bad concert experiences used to evaporate with the rain in a couple of days, but in today's blogosphere, neither the venue, the promoter nor the band are spared the wrath of fans. One area blogger offered this headline: "Radiohead @ Nissan: You Both Suck." Radiohead's Web site acknowledged its dis- appointment that fans weren't happy, but pretty OFFICIAL. much passed the buck to promoter and Nissan as Pavilion owner /operator Live Nation, which of- fered fans that were turned away tickets to an 24" ANNUAL DERBY Aug. 12 show at the Susquehanna Bank Cen- ter in Camden, N.J. (near Philadelphia) or tick- BET WINNERS. ets to a show of their choice at Nissan Pavilion (subject to availability). "While we have no control over Mother Na- ture, we certainly are disappointed that some WHAT DID BIG BROWN used village, [with] a multitude of entertain- fans did not make it to the venue," says Live Na- ment venues, an amphitheater, fairgrounds tion spokesman John Vlautin, who added that and, of course, a retirement /residential com- Live Nation takes customer service "very seri- DO FOR YOU? ponent attached to it." ously." Vlautin says that more than 90% of cus- Of course. Gilley says that when all the ver- tomer complaints have been resolved to tical construction is complete, Country Cross- customer satisfaction. Freedom Hall's 24=h Annual Derby Bet netted four winners ings will be a $1.7 billion development, with Through this, Nissan Pavilion has taken a picking Big Brown, paying $6.8o on the $2 bet. Winners are: phase one targeted at $150 million. beating. One online petition with more than Bama Jam's 600 -acre site in neighboring 350 signers calls for another Radiohead show Barbara Skydel - New York Coffee County boasts three stages, including in the market, with such comments as, "I would Fred Bohlander - an alternative stage (Yonder, Griffith, Keller absolutely want to attend another D.C. /Balti- Williams, etc.), a bluegrass stage (McCoury, more show-as long as it's not at Nissan!" That Marty Diamond - New York Cherryholmes, Skaggs) and a country stage was one of the kinder messages. Gary Lashinsky - Florida (Little Big Town, Tracy Lawrence, Owens, Adding fuel to the fire is Radiohead's self- etc.). Gilley says the site has three natural am- stated intention of making its summer tour as Congratulations to all our winners! See you next year. phitheaters and a capacity anywhere from environmentally friendly as possible. Fans are 150,000 to 200,000. calling the band on this, with one poster cre- Southeast Alabama is a "country music fan atively stating, "If you gave even one tiny llama

paradise," Gilley continues. "And if you look at turd about environmental impact, you would I 1 a 300 -mile radius of this location, we're pulling never have scheduled a show at a venue 40 miles from right at 27 million people." away from downtown D.C., nowhere near pub- NEW LOUISVILLE ARENA Former Nashville music manager Ted lic transportation of any kind." Hacker (Darryl Worley, Mark Wills) is over- To my knowledge, this is the first time I've seeing production and talent buying on -site in ever used "llama turd" in a column. Enterprise. The overall budget of Bama Jam, For 24/7 touring news 1800.6183151 KYID(PO.ORG KtttG including talent, is in the $3 million range, ac- .biz and analysis, see cording to Gilley. He says ticket sales started billboard.biz /touring.

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REUNITED ages for free, in exchange for Urban bachata act Aven- In a move that breaks the mold putting up a click- through tura, whose indie label Pre- of traditional regional Mexican option to purchase music mium Latin presses its own concert promotion, manage- from the IODA client. CDs for Sony BMG to distrib- ment /promotion company Many digital sellers "are ute (as opposed to licensing Nueva Generación Music concentrating on the larger them to the major), opted to Group will bring two marquee names, so you've got lots of go independent for online groups together -Intocable Ricky Martin placements or and mobile. Though Aven - and Los Horoscopos de Du- Shakira or things like that," tura's digital album sales rango -for a 40 -stop tour of Cichowski says. "It's our job make up just a blip of its the United States. The Unidos to educate them." total, four of the group's tour is slated to kick off June Sales history (though ringmasters are among 13 at the Convention Center in there isn't a specific bench- IODA's top 15 sellers across Visalia, Calif., and, as is the case mark) and production qual- all genres. with the traditional regional ity make a difference in se- Single "Mi Corazoncito" Mexican "dance" circuit, will curing IODA distribution, has sold 263,000 combined visit fairgrounds, theaters and Cichowski says. But another mastertones, music video convention centers. crucial factor is "seeing how ringers and mono- and poly- But the tour marks a depar- much they are ready to in- phonic ringtones, according ture from the circuit because vest in this, or if they are just to Nielsen RingScan. IODA it has co- headliners and it is kind of hoping, like a lot of had the song featured in a being marketed as a major Radar people are hoping, [that] Verizon radio pop a UnderThe commercial event, with Web site, Latin Digital Sales Take Baby Steps Forward digital is going to be the sav- that in the western MySpace page and YouTube ior of your business. That United States last year, promotion. It is also being pro- is thought Chao's "La Radiolina" and Erol Cichowski, content doesn't need to be a mone- which also brought in pub- moted as a brand-Unidos- to level the playing field be- Hector Lavoe's "Originals" - manager for Latin /South tary investment, but simply lishing fees and public per- tween major -label and in- are on indies. The rest, in- America at the Independent an investment like, 'Are you formance money, Premium dependent artists in terms cluding ' No.1 digital Online Distribution Alliance. going to be able to supply Latin director of business af- of selling music on a mas- "La Vida ... Es Un Ratico," The company negotiates us with marketing materi- fairs Marti Cuevas says. sive scale. But with Latin are on majors. rates and positioning for als?' " Better still, Cuevas says, music's relatively tiny digi- So far in 2008, Latin digi- about 35 Latin labels via Like other digital distribu- IODA's commission for oit tal sales, one has to look tal albums are up 26.5% from more than 80 partners world- tors, IODA is betting Latin distribution is 15 %, com- LOS =;,1 ROSCO DE '_ ' ' NGO pretty deep to see how where they were at this time wide (including Sprint's digital's more immediate fu- pared with "at least 50 %" things are changing. last year. But in digital as in over -the -air download serv- ture on ringtones and mo- for a major. that is slated to return annu- Among the top 10 Latin physical, sales require a pro- ice). IODA's PromoNet al- bile track downloads. -Ayala Ben -Yehuda ally. In addition, instead of digital albums of 2007, fessional push. "Anybody lows bloggers, podcasters simply rotating groups on- EN ESPAÑOL: All the great Latin music coverage Nielsen - according to Sound can get their music up, but and social networks to put .COm you've come to expect from Billboard -in Spanish! stage, the acts will share pro- Scan, only two -Manu that's half the battle," says up authorized tracks and im- Billboardenespanol.com. duction and warranty costs, as well as a single backline and staging, to ensure lower costs tion of Mu- manager Edgar Andino says. The but higher production value. sic Group by Univer- duo's new album, "Los Extrater- "We will be charging for a sal -which leaves restres," has sold 243,000 copies top -of- the -line production," Glass Half FiÌll product in flux -it is since its release last November, ac- Nueva Generación founder It's Not All Bad News In The Business Of Latin Music a dramatic downturn. cording to Nielsen SoundScan. "If Martin Fabian says. "People But, many say, lost you start to think, `Music is doing can go to the Web page, call -.. ..»;,: ...... :d Salsa star Victor Manuelle was gal- eración Music Group. sales revenue -and the badly, badly, badly,' well, that's what's an 800 number, buy merchan- L atin vanized into doing things on his own "We've seen a decline in possibility of losing going to happen," he adds. "For us, dise and albums. We want largely because of a single phrase. sales and show atten- ;Not even more -should not things couldn't be better." people to say, 'It was worth it.' "You must have heard it a million, dance of between 30% LEILA obliterate the opportu- Wisin & Yandel's immediate plans We don't want to simply fea- 500 times this past year," he says. and 40 %. But that nities at hand. include a deluxe edition of "Los Ex- ture the same old dance." " `The industry is in bad shape.' I got means we need to look Just last week, for ex- traterrestres," due May 27; a current Unidos tickets will fluctuate fed up listening to that." for different strategies ample, Vicente Fernán- arena tour; and a new video with En- between $30 and $50 de- Manuelle is not alone. For the past [see story, right]. And we dez broke attendance rique Iglesias. The duo continues pending on the venue and city. couple of years, the common theme need to concentrate on records at San Fran- to promote relentlessly and recently Guest acts will include El among everyone in the music indus- good songs." cisco's Cow Palace and granted an interview to radio person- Gringo, who will open many try -not just the Latin realm -is a re- This is the reality of the Latin the Stockton (Calif.) Arena. With tick- ality El Piolín, who is most com- of the shows, and Banda Pe- peating litany of woe: are music market. Sales are down. Pre- ets selling for as much as $175, that is monly associated with the regional queños Musical. down. Piracy is rampant. Kids aren't cipitously. According to Nielsen no small feat. Mexican market. Fabian also manages all buying music. SoundScan, for the week ending In the publishing realm, while "This is not cookie-cutter anymore," the groups on the tour, ex- All that is true. But increasingly, March 25, sales of Latin music stood nothing makes up entirely for lost Andino says. "We treat each of our cept Intocable, with which he industry mavens are criticizing the at 6.4 million, a 16.5% drop from the sales, performance and synch rev- records as if we were coming out for has a close relationship. negativism that has permeated the 7.6 million reported for the same pe- enue have risen greatly, Sony /ATV the very first time." "We've always spoken Latin music scene and instead have riod in 2007. Music Publishing Latin America VP "I see many at the end of the about concepts, about joining proactively taken the stance that this According to the RIAA's flash fig- Jorge Mejia says. And digital is tunnel," Mejia adds. "I really think forces and going different is a time of opportunity. ures (which are estimates and aren't poised to take off in the United States we're privileged to live at a time when places," Fabian says. "We are "People are talking about a crisis, audited), shipments of Latin music, and Latin America. the industry is being transformed so already planning for an inter- elections [and] immigration, but we're after returns, have fallen by more There are even bright spots in the completely. At the end of the day, we'll national leg." preparing for whatever may come," than 50% for the first three months sales realm, particularly for those who figure it out." The launch of Unidos will says Martin Fabian, founder of of the year. do not see business as usual. coincide with the release of For 24/7 Latin regional Mexican promotion/ Even taking into news account returns "We are making music. We are .biz and analysis, see albums by Horoscopos and management company Nueva Gen- after the holidays plus the acquisi- selling albums," Wisin & Yandel billboard.biz/latin. Intocable. -LC

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MILAN-Rome's Julius Caesar launched Italy's prices staying stable. In contrast, labels body first invasion of Britain in 55 BC -and two mil- FIMI says music shipments' trade value fell 17% lennia later, here comes another one. to 210 million ($325 million). After recording double -digit growth in 2007 - But with Italy's economy sliding toward re- compared with a fifth consecutive year of declin- cession, Perissinotti says sluggish early sales ing record sales -Italy's live business is eyeing for some upcoming major music events mean U.K. and European expansion. that "a lot of promoters are quite worried about Leading the way is Pordenone -based pro- this summer." moter /agency Virus Concerti, whose founder At- Such domestic uncertainty gives overseas suc- tilio Perissinotti is setting up a London office. cess added attraction. "When a market shrinks, Italian acts and agents "have become far you either change your business model or you

pushier in seeking foreign gigs," Perissinotti try new markets," management company Meta - says. "In the 1980s, Italian acts' main ambition tron GM Pietro Camonchia says. Metatron clients would be to write a catchy song and perform it playing U.K. shows lately include leading Ital- at the Sanremo Festival. But with the local [record] ian pop /rock act plus alternative rock market in crisis, that game plan no longer works." acts Linea 77, the Hormonauts and Casino While domestic artists other than the likes of Royale. And Italian rock legend Vasco Rossi plans Andrea Bocelli or Zucchero have yet to conquer "a major European tour next year," according to Britain, there is a sizable British /Italian com- his label EMI Music Italy. munity to target. The 2001 census recorded Fellow Italian rock giant Ligabue played a 39,000 Italian -born residents in London alone- Virus- organized show April 27 at London's 1,500 - 40% of the U.K. total. Another estimated 300,000 capacity Koko venue. That followed Virus' two U.K citizens are of direct Italian descent. sold -out October 2007 showcases at North Lon- In Italy, concert promoters trade body Asso- don's 200 -capacity Barfly, headlined by the Hor- musica says annual ticket sales increased 15.6% monauts and Casino Royale. to 143 million ($222 million) in 2007 despite Such venues are far smaller than the those

GLOBAL BY GARY SMITH Ibiza Rising Dance Party Island Plots 2008 Comeback It's the 20th Anniversary of Ruthless Records and IBIZA -Coinciding with the 20th anniversary to close between 6 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. and mak- Billboard is celebrating with a special STARS issue! of the island's original explosion, ing unlicensed "villa parties" illegal. Fines for dance music insiders are predicting a return infractions range from 600 ($930) to 600,000 Honor the rich heritage of Ruthless Records as we take to clubbing mecca Ibiza's glory days. ($930,000), while clubs flouting the laws face a look at the legendary independent label, founded by "Based on the numbers coming through the closure for up to three years. door so far, it's going to be the best year ever," "Leading a normal life on some parts of the the late Eric "Eazy -E" Wright. says Danny Whittle, brand director of Pacha, island in the summer is very difficult," says the only club already open for this summer's councillor Paquita Ribas, who helped draft the Collaborate with Billboard to pay tribute to season. "We are getting the sort of volume that legislation. "Noise pollution is a serious prob- we would normally expect in late June." lem for a significant percentage of the local the 20th Anniversary of the Hip -Hop legacy! The Spanish -owned Balearic island, located population and the fact that it could be non- in the Mediterranean, has had a reputation as stop, 24 hours per day, simply had to go." a party haven since the hippie era. Dance music Steve Hulme, international manager of arrived on the island in 1988, leading to more Pacha Recordings, the club's label offshoot, than a decade of booming business, during says the clubbing community is responding which many of the world's biggest clubs -in- positively to the new laws. cluding Privilege, Space, and Amnesia - "Initially people were crying foul," he says. set up on the island. But more recently, it has "But it has had the effect of forcing dubs to pro- been in decline, mirroring the drop in dance music sales experienced in many markets. Figures from Inestur, the Balearic Islands To advertise, please contact: Tourism Authority, show foreign arrivals on Charles Perez Ibiza fell 1.7% annually on average between 2001 and 2007. But, as the 2008 season pre- cperez ©billboard.com \ 646 - 654 -4691 pares to kick off, arrivals by air are up 3.4% year -on -year, with arrivals from the United Kingdom (up 49 %) and Germany (up 13.4 %) leading the way. Whittle says advance bookings at Hotel Pacha are up 15% and reservations for the club's VIP area up 25% year -on -year. Now a wave of optimism is sweeping the is- Billboard, land's clubland, despite tough new legislation EXPERIENCE THE BUZZ aimed at curbing Ibiza's 24 -hour party image.

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www.americanradiohistory.com possela (Feb. 21) and Negramaro. Both sold out and, Warner Italy president /CEO Massimo Giu- liano says, "are looking at larger British venues CONGRATULATIONS TO for 2009." A third Dingwalls show (May 7) featured Mescal Records' folk /rock outfit the Modena City Ramblers. For each date, Messer says, the audi- ences were "at least 70% Italian." BILLY TALENT With Capossela and Negramaro, he adds. "quite a few people came over from Italy, obvi- ously thinking they'd take a couple of days' break YOUR AWARD WIN LINEA 7 and THE HORMONAUTS (below) ON 2008 JUNO are among the Italian bands looking to in London and see them in a tiny venue." build an audience in the United Kingdom. Messer says he hopes for an ongoing relation- FOR MUSIC DVD OF THE YEAR ship with Virus, while Perissinotti adds that he intends taking Italian acts to Belgium, the Nether- lands, Luxembourg and Germany this year. While Italy's live business considers its over- seas potential, some words of caution are offered

by promoter Claudio Trotta, founder of Milan - based Barley Arts, which has organized overseas shows for Rossi and . More re- cently, Barley Arts toured English -language act the Styles (H20 /Sony BMG) in the . There's now "undoubtedly more interest oil that Italian acts can play on home turf. Ligabue the part of international audiences" in Italian acts, and Rossi are each headlining Milan's 86,000 - Trotta says. "But to succeed abroad, you need to capacity San Siro soccer stadium this summer, invest considerable resources and work closeh as is Negramaro, which played a Virus show April with a local promoter who knows the territory.- 8 at 485 -capacity venue Dingwalls. He adds, "Without developing that sort of The club's promotions manager David Messer relationship, you risk just playing to Italian says Perissinotti approached him following the expats." Barfly dates, setting up shows for two Warner Music Italy acts: singer /songwriter Vinicio Ca- Additional reporting by Torn Ferguson in London.

1. ar} gram incredible talent [as] they now have a lim- "I've been doing Ibiza Rocks since it started. I ited time to program. That has meant more pre- he says. "I'd never have thought I'd be playin ALSO AVAILABLE mier- league DJs being locked in for more dates those kinds of [alternative] records to kids on the than ever before." beach who are there to watch Arctic Monkeys. BILLY- TALENT =DELUXE Highlights of te 2008 season include Dutch But it really suits the island." trance icon Tiesto s first Ibiza residency at Priv- Tong's inaugural International Music Sum- ilege; house music A- listers like Paul Oakenfold, mit, held May 28 -30, is another breakthrough Basement Jaxx and at for the island, with panels and showcases aimed Pacha; Pete Tong at Eden; and at reviving the dance music industry. 666 LIVE and We Love at Space. "The event is wholly focused on Ibiza's role as

Superclub Manumission's Ibiza Rocks open - an important hub for new music," Tong says. "It air alternative rock shows also return for a fourth has been for years, but has never really been rec- FOGOLABS WOULD LIKE TO THANK year, featuring the Fratellis and the Enemy, with ognized as such." BBC Radio 1 DJ Rob Da Bank saying the gigs il- BILLY TALENT, PIERRE TREMBLAY, lustrate the island's widening appeal. Additional reporting by Lars Brandie in London. STEVE KANE, STEVE BLAIR, ISLAND ANTHEMS AND ALL AT WARNER CANADA, 'NO DEPUTY' `INCARNATION' `SHOW' AS WELL AS FRED FELDMAN (PACHA RECORDINGS) ( RECORDS) (STEALTH RECORDS) Artist: Richard Grey vs. Bob Artist: DJINXX Artist: Laidback Luke & Tom AND ALL AT ILG Marley Release date: June 23 Stephan Release date: June 16 French producer DJINXX Release date: June (exact The first record to be approved a taste of summer with date TBA) by the Marley estate since Bob this track, reminiscent of hot This track's dirty beats, infec- Marley vs. Funkstar De Luxe's house duo AME's sound. tious synths and massive FOGOLABS "Sun Is Shining " -a No. 3 U.K. "Scores of DJs ask me what breakdowns -released on hit in 1999 -this features the this is every world- renowned DJ Roger SURROUND THE AUDIENCE"' full Marley vocal from "I Shot time I play it," 's Stealth imprint - the Sheriff." Pacha Recordings leading U.K. add up to a sizable summer international manager Steve club /radio DJ anthem. "It was one of the Hulme says the track is "caus- John Dig - biggest tracks for me at the ILG ing a lot of commotion in weed says. Winter Music Conference this fL111g1!111t1.11i11j:[l1J Pacha" as well as bars across "A sure -fire year," says Sanchez, who will wea Ibiza. "It's also getting great hit that will host the Release Yourself night reactions from our partners in be played [at clubs] from at Pacha on Ibiza every Mon- Australia, Scandinavia, Italy, Pacha at night to Mambo day during the summer. "We WWW.FOGOLABS.COM WWW.BILLYTALENT.COM WWW.WARNERMUSIC.CA France, the U.S., Brazil and in the afternoons and early very selectively handed 'Show' South Africa," he adds. evenings, plus at every out when we were in Miami, WWW.NETTWERK.COM Crossover hopes are also high party on the island all thus making it an even more for the Lars F.K. radio edit. summer long." sought -after item." -GS

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EMEILBY ANTONY BRUNO BITS &BRIEFS Game Theory RINGS AROUND THE "Fresh Crops" and "Rock Can Introducing New Music Through Videogames Boost Sales? STARS U." The VOD service is free AT &T Mobility introduced to those subscribing to Games like "Rock Band" and In an age when piracy re- its "Ringtone A- List" pro- the digital cable service, " Hero III" have proved mains the primary method motion, which details called ¡O TV, which has 2.6 their ability to breathe new life of music acquisition, reach- which ringtones various million subscribers -about into popular classic rock sales. ing fans where they are will- celebrities have chosen 85% of Cablevision's total But can they do the same for ing to spend money is the for their phone, with links customer base. new music? primary goal. for fans to buy the same. Last month, Mötley Crüe "We do research on every Music acts participating GOTTA HAVE FAITH decided to find out. The band artist we have, and the re- include Panic at the Rock band Kindred Souls placed its new single, "Saints search said that the people Disco, , Sara is inviting fans to be part of of Los Angeles," for sale as a who bought Mötley Crüe Bareilles and OneRepub- its new music video for the downloadable track on " and tickets play 'Rock lic. The Web site is a new single "Leap of Faith." The Band" well in advance of the Band" and videogames ... [so] page on the AT &T Mobil- group is working with so- album's release date, which it was our inclination to go ity site. Each month, dif- cial network Fotki.com- has now been pushed back to there," he says. "As marketers, ferent stars of TV, film, which is accessible in more June 24. The only other place it's our job to find the audi- music and sports will be than 215 countries -to let to obtain the track was iTunes. ence. our audience tells us featured. fans the single If MOTLEY CRÜE'S new single has sold more than 47,000 download According to data provided they're sitting at Xbox and copies via the Xbox 360 version of 'Rock Band.' for free. Fans are then by the band's management, PlayStation, that's our job to DEMAND NOTES asked to upload a photo Tenth Street Entertainment, do that." catalog titles; the other three via online retailers, compared Cablevision has added the with a explanation of how it the track was downloaded In slightly more than six are more recent, but still a few with an estimated 60,000 MusicChoice On- Demand expresses a "leap of faith" more than 47,000 times via the months, the number of songs years old. Of all the songs downloads via . network to its stable of on their part. Fans will then Xbox 360 version of the game downloaded to the "Rock available for download on And "Rock Band" isn't the free on- demand video be able to vote on their fa- alone in the first week after it Band" game has surpassed 10 "Rock Band," more than 75% only game hawking new programming available to vorite photo submissions, became available. ( "Rock million tracks, according to are catalog tracks. The rest is music. Def Leppard chose to its digital cable sub- and the band will compile Band" publisher MTV Net- MTV Networks, while song primarily music released release its new single "Nine scribers. The MusicChoice the images into was unable to independ- downloads from "Guitar within the last year. Only a Lives" as part of a three -song service offers a catalog of video. The band also will ently verify these figures, and Hero" passed 15 million, ac- handful of songs are previ- bundle on "Guitar Hero III" licensed music videos, as donate $100 to the favorite total downloads that include cording to Activision. With ously unreleased new music on April 24, along with past well as a host of original charity of the person who the PlayStation 3 version of the more than 100 songs avail- or music from unknown acts hits "Photograph" and "Rock programming such as submits the photo with the game were not available.) able for download via the using the game to get noticed. of Ages." "Artist of the Month," most votes. By comparison, the same "Rock Band" platform, that's Yet Alex Rigopulos, CEO of The "Guitar Hero III" track received slightly more an average of 100,000 down- "Rock Band" developer Har- download totals are unavail- HOT RINGMASTERS,. Billb«anl than 10,000 downloads via dig- loads per song sold through monix, believes the game can able, but first -week figures 2ÓÓ8 ital services like iTunes and the game. do more to promote a new re- from SoundScan show that Y V COMPILED BY ITICIACII TITLE Mobile5car. Amazon, according to Nielsen That average, though, is lease from either an estab- it sold about 7,000 down- j '33 3ó ORIGINAL ARTIST LOLLIPOP SoundScan. somewhat skewed: Since new lished or emerging act than loads. The album it was :1 1 8 8W S LIL WAYNE FEATURING STATIC MAJOR That's a pretty big discrep- songs are added to the "Rock months of touring or radio can. meant to promote, "Songs LOVE IN THIS CLUB 2 2 13 r USHER FEATURING YOUNG JEEZY ancy considering that music Band" store weekly, tracks "We have confidence that From the Sparkle Lounge," BLEEDING LOVE 3 12 bought via "Rock Band" can't available for sale since Novem- any effort we put into having did only 55,000 physical and LEONA LEWIS BUST IT BABY PART 2 be transferred to a portable ber have sold more than tracks the right expression to a digital units combined in its 6 9 -4 FEATURING NE -Yo music player or even a com- just added last week. Still, it's marketing approach to any first week. SEXY CAN I 4 13 puter for later enjoyment. It can an impressive figure. individual band will end up But Tenth Street's Kovac 13 RAY J 8 YUNG BERG _. TOUCH MY BODY 6 5 12 only be played via the game. By all accounts, catalog working for us," he says. says "Rock Band" and "Guitar I MARIAN CAREY 1. 7 14 Tenth Street CEO Allen tracks sell best. Seven of the "We can really engage with Hero" sales don't necessarily 7 JORDIN SPARKS DUET WITH Kovac shrugs off the gap in top 10 best -selling songs any label, any publisher and need to convert to album or TAKE A BOW 10 5 RIHANNA formats, point- on any be on a sales between available manager and digital download sales LOW 9 31 ing out that a sale is a sale. "Rock Band" are flexible." one -to -one basis to count as 19 FLD RIDA FEATURING T -PAIN THE BOSS 10 8 13 One such example successful. Today's generation HICK ROSS FEATURING T -PAIN is new metal act Black of music fans, he says, may HERO AWAY Tide. When its "Light only be interested in buying vaults 17 -12 as "Pocketful of Sunshine" records a 19% From Above" album the game version of new increase in downloads. Bedingfield is currently FROM `HERO' dropped Nov. 11, music, enabling an interactive headlining the Verizon VIP tour with Kate Voegele and the Veronicas. So addicted to "Guitar Hero" that you 2007, the single experience that has been even need to jam out while away from "Shockwave" sold sorely lacking lately. SHE GOT IT 11 15 your game console? Then get yer mitts on the Guitar only a few hundred copies "The resurgence of rock has FEATURING T -PAIN 8 TAY DIZM POCKETFUL OF SUNSHINE 12 17 3 Hero Air Rocker -a package of special guitar picks, per week, barely registering happened because of 'Rock NATASHA BEDINGFIELD CRAZY BITCH belt buckle and wearable mini -amp that allows users to on Nielsen SoundScan. The Band' and 'Guitar Hero,' " he 13 13 74 BUCKCHERRA simulate their guitar godness sans an actual guitar. week before being featured says. "And the reason is be- GET SILLY 18 8 Waving the pick in front of the belt buckle causes as a downloadable song on cause of the interaction with AI C DAMAGED 12 9 the amp to play the desired chord, synched to the songs "Rock Band" on March 11, the the audience. The more music i:: SANITY KANE HEAVEN SENT stored in the amp. Players control the tempo by how fast 1,000 marketing people look at inter- 15 5 single sold downloads. 16 they "strum." The set features such songs from the Two weeks later, download action with the audience as op- LOLLI LOLLI (POP THAT BODY) ::17 29 2 THREE 6 MAFIA FEATURING PROJECT PAT, YOUNG O 8 SUPERPOWER "Guitar Hero" game as "Iron Man," "Smoke on the sales doubled. posed to only radio or a video, FOREVER 18 20 4 Water" and "Ace of Spades," among 10 others. An ex- Yet sales on "Rock Band" the more lasting the experience CHRIS BROWN INDEPENDENT is 14 25 pansion pack of new songs coming this summer. were 10 times that of those on will be and the longer the 19 WEBBIE, LIE PRAT 8 LIC BOOGIE by Jada Toys, Hero Air Rocker is iTunes and other stores. In the artists' career will be." TE QUIERO Developed Guitar 19 13 , 20 ILEX available at Target, Wal -Mart and other retailers for six weeks following the "Rock For 24/7 digital news k7A on master ringtones sales data reported by Nielsen $30, batteries included. -AB Band" debut, "Shockwave" and analysis, see bgScan, e service of Nielsen MobileSCan. Cham endorsed by .biz IA - The Wireless Association and Mobile Entertainment Forum sold 6,000 digital downloads billboard.biz /digital.

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www.americanradiohistory.com PPL/VPL CH IRMAN/CEO Fran Nevrkla The U.K. collecting society head battles for copyright extension and a U.S. performance right.

Under the tenacious leadership of Fran Nevrkla, Britain's Phonographic Performance Ltd. be done. PPL should be in a posi- seems to be going from a position of strength to one of power. The international perform- tion to eventually double the pub- ing rights body will unveil record -busting royalty collections well north of £100 million ($196 lic performance revenues even from million) when it hosts its annual general meeting June 4 at the British Museum. the current relatively high level. We But PPL, now in its 74th year of existence, is no dinosaur. Czech -born Nevrkla continues hit about £50 million ($98 million) to build a fitter, stronger, faster and smarter system for collecting revenue for its 47,000 last year, and that could be £100 mil- performer members and 4,000 -plus record company members. The organization now has lion ($196 million) in the next five 41 reciprocal deals for record company broadcasting and public performance rights, and over- or six years. Between PPL and seas collections are topping the £10 million ($19 million) mark; five years ago, there wasn't [Video Performance Ltd.] in 2007, a penny. we collected just short of L130 mil- Nevrkla has also spearheaded a variety of broader campaigns, most notably the British lion ($253 million), which is far and industry's ongoing battle to extend the term of copyright on sound recordings. And it away the biggest income collected would seem the exec now has the attention of Britain's government. The country's new by any collecting society represent- culture secretary, Andy Burnham, will give a keynote address at the meeting, marking ing performers and /or record corn- the first occasion the politician -now almost six months in the role -has held court with panies in the world. We are making the wider U.K. industry. every effort to "plug all the gaps" created by the fast -declining sales What action would you like to vious year. This year it will increase service. Some of of music in physical formats. see from Andy Burnham? above £10 million ($19 million) by my counterparts I would like the British government some margin. But it's not enough, in Europe find it What are some of your daily to pin their colors very firmly to the probably one -third of what it should slightly demeaning, because it smelt next thing is to go out there and challenges? copyright extension issue. I find it be. In some countries there are gen- like being a servant. I have no issue change it. We have to deal with a lot of gen- utterly indefensible, morally objec- uine obstacles; some countries make with that. We are the servants to the uine ignorance and lack of informa- tionable and completely obscene it easier for us. It's not flowing in rest of the industry and I'm proud How long does it take for royal- tion -and outright hostility -in that in today's world, the perform- full, but it's more than encouraging. of that. ties paid outside the United terms of people not wanting to pay ers and record labels who invest in I know that we'll get there. Kingdom to make their way for music. People cheat, lie through that end product get 50 years from How would you expect European through the collecting societies their teeth and deny using music. first release. Take the "Sgt. Pepper's" Are there any particular coun- artists and labels to benefit if back to U.K. artists and labels? In today's environment, particu- album. All the artwork, photo- tries making it difficult for you? U.S. law is changed so that ter- Not that long. There are a few is- larly the performers have relatively graphs, design, logos are protected [Laughs] If everyone was willing restrial radio broadcasters are sues. Firstly, we have some catch- little else to sell other than firstly, for life of all those creators plus a to cooperate at the same level as no longer exempt from paying up to do. Because most of those their talent, and secondly, the prod- further 70 years. But [for] the Bea- SENA in Holland, frankly we royalties to play recordings? countries owe us substantial sums ucts of that talent. When you get to tles' recordings, which were the sole would be on £30 million ($58 mil- All European and British perform- of money, and we refuse to just write old age, the arthritis sets in, the teeth purpose for that package to ever see lion) a year almost overnight. ers would benefit in relatively im- it off. And it's patchy, there's no uni- go ... my God, is that PPL income the light of day, protection stops 50 Sadly, even within the [European mediate terms, depending on how formity. But now the income is be- important! How can it be that, just years after first release. On a bad Union], there are some countries much or how little British and Eu- ginning to flow through quicker. as you enter old age and you can't day, I feel politicians shouldn't need who are extraordinarily difficult ropean music is played on U.S. We generally report it as soon as we play any longer, [that] then it dries quite so much persuasion. For me, about the two -way exchanges of in- radio. PPL is heavily involved in the can, usually within weeks. The key up in terms of the PPL rights? You it's a pretty open and shut case of come and repertoire usage. I've al- U.S. campaign on the basis that you is, don't sit on the money and get it get left high and dry, just as you moral and legal justice. ways said something will give or fight with your brothers and out as soon as possible. could do with a little extra cash. there will be a problem. We will cousins, and I hope conversely they Securing overseas income for make it an immense problem. will come to my aid when I need What is the most lucrative mar- Are you battle -weary from the PPL members and performers them. Our role in [pay -for -play lobby ket right now? many campaigns you've led? has been one of your top prior- Do collecting societies have an group] musicFIRST is a supportive We haven't exploited all the oppor- Battle -weary? Never. The more ob- ities. What do you see as your image problem? role. PPL has collected 6,071 signa- tunities. We still have to do some stades, the more silliness put in my main battles for the year ahead? Yup. Collecting societies have them- tures [ for musicFIRST's petition]. fine-tuning of all the various broad- way and the tougher it gets, the Last year, it was £9 million ($17 mil- selves to blame, historically. We all U.S. politicians really hate seeing cast cable and satellite deals, but we more determined I am to never give lion), another 50% increase from have to do better. There has to be the famous U S of A on the same are almost there. Public perform- up. If anyone thinks they'll tire me the previous year. And before that, less emphasis on the collecting and page as Iran, Iraq and North Korea ance definitely is a huge upside, for out and I'll get fed up with it, oh, it was a 100% increase from the pre- more on the distribution and the in terms of copyright issues. The which there is an awful lot more to boy. Absolutely never. . When you et to old age, the arthritis sets in, t e teeth go ... my God, is that PPL income important!

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www.americanradiohistory.com www.americanradiohistory.com music industry at large seem to MMJ's dark horse status, believing DOLLARS that a band that takes a while to develop is building the solid foundation for a decades -long career. & CENTS And if MMJ seems to hang its hat on the concert stage, it never shortchanges It's My Morning Jacket's top time. you 4 studio ask any artist today they would a.m. "If if rather sell millions of on the last night of South by five Billboard Boxscores: records or millions oftickets, they would choose to sell millions oftickets, and Southwest, and is it seems My Morning Jacket is well on their way to that goal," says Scott Clay- THE FILLMORE, ton, the band's agent at Creative Artists Agency. "Having said that, my feel- belting out 's "You're in SAN FRANCISCO ing is that once the world hears ',' it will be clear that this band is My Heart." A few hours earlier, Dec. 29 -31, 2006 achieving great things artistically both in the studio and on the stage." * Gross: $130,920 the My Morning Jacket frontman Attendance: 3,819 LIVE IS THE THING dazzled an intimate crowd at an (two sellouts) The persistence of MMJ and its team is undeniable; they've kept their eye Tickets: $60, $27 on the ball in an environment that often does not allow for development dur- Austin church with a mostly solo Promoter: Live Nation ing the course of five albums. Throughout this process, the band's reputa- tion has grown steadily. acoustic set, and the full band's ROSELAND BALLROOM, "The press is now regularly tagging My Morning Jacket as 'the greatest three other performances during NEW YORK live band,"'best band in the world' or some version of that," Clayton says. Nov. 30, 2006 "That type of over-the -top hype is usually a concern for any artist, but after the week were some of the most Gross: $90,796 seeing these guys perform as many times as I have, I am very comfortable acclaimed of the industry confab. Attendance: 3,422 (sellout) with their ability to live up to those labels." Tickets: $28 As the group built its live performance legend, MMJ has shown time and =i= But of all the places James could Promoter: Live Nation again that it is more than comfortable on a wide range of concert stages, be right now, it's a cozy terrace whether it's marathon performances at festivals like Bonnaroo or Lolla- WILTERN THEATRE, palooza, headlining theaters and ballrooms, or sharing bills with a diverse suite at Austin's famed Driskill LOS ANGELES range of acts that includes Guided by Voices, Doves, Foo Fighters, Pearl Jam, Hotel, surrounded by a few close Jan. 6, 2007 Bob Dylan and John Prine. Gross: $62,802 "I wouldn't say there was a 'strategy' so much as the band is musically friends, a bucket of Miller Lites and Attendance: 2,595 (sellout) nimble and interested in playing with a variety of artists from different gen- an iPod, and analyzing Tickets: $27 res and generations," Martinovich says. "If there was any one overriding Promoter: Live Nation 'strategy' in the early going, it was to follow up a tour where the band opened songs into the wee hours. As he for someone with a headline run to establish something of their own and says following is RIVIERA THEATRE, not just hope that they were connecting with another audience." the week, "Music CHICAGO Such a philosophy creates options and challenges for the band's agent. everything." That guiding Nov. 24, 2006 "Since January of 2002, Scott Clayton turned on a dime to work with the principle has helped MMJ- James, Gross: $60,000 band and has had, until this day, an 'as long as it takes, no matter what' Attendance: 2,500 (sellout) perspective that has only helped keep things on the right track," Marti - "Two- Tone" Tommy (bass), Patrick Tickets: $24 novich says. Promoter: Jam Productions More than a few promoters could feel something happening with this Hallahan (drums), band and many bought in. The Austin and Dallas markets are good exam- (keyboards) and 9:30 CLUB, ples. Promoter Charles Attal of C3 Presents says prior to 2005, the band WASHINGTON, D.C. played Austin's Parish (425 capacity) and Dallas' Gypsy Tea Room (300 ca- (guitar) -grow from humble roots Nov. 27 -28, 2006 pacity). In 2005, it played Austin's La Zona Rosa (1,200 capacity) and almost in Louisville into the American Gross: $60,000 sold out, and then played Dallas' Gypsy Ballroom (1,200 capacity) and went Attendance: 2,400 clean. By 2006, MMJ sold out Austin's Stubb's Bar -B -Q (2,200 capacity), rock band many feel is most likely (two sellouts) then played Gypsy Ballroom and nearly sold out two nights. On Aug. 24 the to take it to the proverbial next level Tickets: $25 band will play Stubb's again, and Attal predicts it will sell out during the Promoter: I.M.P. on -sale weekend. in the weeks and months to come.

Like so many bands that have managed to achieve staying power in a The run -up to 'Evil Urges' has already included MY MORNING fickle environment, MMJ has developed its touring base and recording ca- JACKET'S first 'Saturday Night reer on separate, parallel paths. Live' appearance on May 10. Still, "Both are important to us," James says. "We treat them both as equals." It is true that the best -laid marketing plans are no substitute for enthu- siastic word -of- mouth, and the buzz around MMJ is at a fever pitch, both internally and among fans. The reason? Beyond MMJ's ever -building rep- utation for epic live performances, there's tremendous excitement sur- rounding the band's fifth album, "Evil Urges," due June 10 via ATO. In Austin, MMJ played more than half of the material on the new set, which the quintet conceptualized during an intense songwriting session last summer in and then recorded in Manhattan last winter with co- producer Joe Chiccarelli. A month later when the band played the Coachella festival in Indio, Calif., five of its 11 songs were off the new album, and another five were from its previous studio album, "Z." And if 2008 is indeed a breakout year for MMJ, it won't be because the band has embarked on a calculated strategy to sacrifice art for com- merce. "We've always felt that whatever commercial success was real- ized would be a residual to appreciation for the music," band manager Mike Martinovich says. "It's never been the band's vision to chase op- portunities; they'd run themselves ragged and fear losing touch with their original motivations. We'll leave the marketing plan to our friends at ATO and [PR firm] Girlie Action." Even with live performances that send fans into orbit and critically acclaimed albums, MMJ has not yet achieved neither widespread arena -headlining sta- tus nor platinum success. But the band's camp and its many supporters in the

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"In the early days, we could really feel that concert promoters were pas- sionate about the music the band played, and they took chances on having them play in larger venues than they could fill just to give the band an op- portunity to play with better production," Martinovich says. "I believe that led to a better experience for the band and ultimately for the fans." Martinovich notes that MMJ has never been a band that judged the qual- ity of a show based on its draw but rather on how well the members felt they played (see Billboard Boxscore chart, page 26). That's not always an easy phi- losophy to take for promoters seeking profits, but the investment has made MMJ a better band, Martinovich believes. Attal agrees. "I've watched MMJ build a bigger 'sound' over the years, all the while maintaining their Southern roots and becoming what I believe is one of the top five rock bands in country," he says. MMJ isn't adding any extra bells and whistles to its 2008 tour, which began May 22 in London and will run through New Year's . But it's clear that demand is higher than ever. A June 20 show at New York's Radio City Music Hall sold out in 22 minutes, and observers are expecting big num- bers for an Aug. 21 gig at Red Rocks outside Denver, with support from the Black Keys. "The greatest thing about live music is that it's something you can't repli- cate," James says. "It's something very communal, and I think society is lacking that. People are so alienated and trapped in their little cubicles with PEARL their computers and texting devices. When you go to a big concert and you're JAM in a room with a bunch of other humans, I think that's really healthy." r7¡ URGE TO RECORD My Morning Jacket excels on the live stage, creating After self-producing its first three studio releases, including its 2003 ATO/ RCA "you had to be there" moments with regularity. Below, . debut, "," the band turned to outside producers for "Z" in 2005 a sampling of the finest MMJ concert craftsmanship. and "Evil Urges," with John Leckie and Joe Chiccarelli, respectively, helming the boards. "It Still Moves" has sold 197,000 copies in the United States, ac- 'ONE BIG 'THE WAY 'GIDEON,' 'A QUICK ONE `CELEBRATION' cording to Nielsen SoundScan, while "Z" has shifted 212,000. HOLIDAY,' ON THAT HE NOV.11, 2005 (WHILE HE'S (KOOL & THE The result has been a true evolution of the band's sound. More adventur- 'LATE NIGHT SINGS,' Find it: My AWAY)' (WHO GANG COVER), ous than anything that has come before, the new songs explore falsetto WITH CONAN SEPT. 19, 2004 Morning Jacket, COVER WITH DEC. 31, 2006 Find it: Archive.org singing ( "Evil Urges "), soft rock with a modern twist ( "Thank You Too"), O'BRIEN' Find it: various "Okonokos" PEARL JAM'S disco beats (first single "Touch Me I'm Going to Scream Part 2 ") and gritty, SEPT. 18, 2003 artists, "Austin (ATO, 2006) EDDIE VEDDER), MMJ indulges its '80s fetish and slays -tinged funk ( "Highly Suspicious"), without skimping on the two -gui- Find it: YouTube City Limits Music Captured in San SEPT. 19, 2006 its Find it: Pearl Jam, this, complete with tar jams ( "Aluminum Park," "Remnants") and mellow balladry ( "Librarian ") The band's late - Festival: 2004" Francisco for of MMJ's past work. night TV debut (Rhino, 2005) first live album, "Immagine in the horn lines, dur- "Joe and John are both two very different people and they work in very finds Jim James' New members Carl MMJ kicks things Cornice" (Monkey - ing a New Year's different ways, but they're both great policemen," James says. "We go into face completely Broemel and Bo into the strato- wrench, 2007) Eve blowout in San the studio with the songs done; they're thought -out and ready to go. Al- obscured by his Koster shine on sphere on this slow - Eddie Vedder took a Francisco. Just as ways some things end up happening to them while you're recording them shoulder -length -his strident, building standout major shine to MMJ tasty are runs that you didn't think would happen to them, but Joe and John, their ears in the midst of -najor -key rocker, from its 2005 when it supported through George are just fantastic." headbanging. given new life from album "Z." Get the Pearl Jam in 2006, Michael's "Careless These outside producers have brought discipline and constructive criticism Conan O'Brien is is studio version DVD for a wacky and by the time the ," Prince's to the recording process. "They'll scold us when we've done bad and they'll visibly wowed as on 2003's "It Still subplot involving trek reached Torino, "I Could Never Take applaud us when we've done good," James says. "And that's what we really he thanks the Moves." ill- tempered forest Italy, that fall, they the Place of Your need. You can get all excited and think you've done a great take, but it could band afterward, creatures. were all jamming out Man" and Lionel be way too fast. Or you could think it was really emotional but it was just kind announcing, on this nine -minute Richie's "All Night from the Long." of slow. It's good to have somebody outside of the band to hear that stuff." "Wow! I am buy- chestnut James says "Evil Urges" "took a lot of work. This record was more constantly ing that record!" Who's early days. -Jonathan Cohen whittling and carving." Drummer Hallahan adds that the more "simple" songs were the most difficult to nail down. "The ones that were more intricate, I found those to be much easier," Hal - ATO head of radio promotions Rick Brewer says the rollout for "Evil a press lahan says, citing "Sec Walkin' " as an example of the opposite. "You had to "The greatest Urges" is the most significant of the band's career, with national remove yourself from any craziness in your head and just focus on this bounc- campaign including major music magazines (Spin, ), TV ing pattern that takes you through the whole journey." thing about ( "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" and "Saturday Night Live," both before street date) and a "sizable" online campaign. BIG BUSINESS live music The band got the ball rolling itself last month, when it made the new ATO has been on a journey of its own, and its transition to a complete indie, album's title track available as a free MP3 download to its mailing list. apart from RCA, has been a positive development in Martinovich's eyes. "At is that it's With a dearth of hit singles in the MMJ canon, Martinovich says non- RCA, there were certainly passionate people who we enjoyed working with, commercial radio stations like KCRW Santa Monica, Calif.; KEXP Seattle; but the band was never really on the 'big- picture radar' there," he says. "With something WFPK Louisville, Ky.; and WXPN Philadelphia have supported MMJ "in a ATO, it's more like asking the band what they're interested in doing musically you can't more long -term, album- oriented way. We hope to continue those relation- and then figuring out a way to bring it to the marketplace versus trying to con- ships while giving ATO Records its greatest shot at exposing the band's vince the band to alter their vision to accommodate the existing appetites of replicate.' music to a broader audience via commercial outlets." the marketplace." ATO is approaching commercial radio with a two -tiered plan: "I'm JAMES, MY Martinovich says ATO co- founder Michael McDonald and GM John Bion- -JIM Amazed" for the triple A format and the eight- minute "Touch Me I'm Going dolillo act as an extension of the band's management team. "Their first reac- MORNING JACKET to Scream Part 2" at modern rock. Brewer says the early response has been tion to any of our 'outside the box' thinking is 'How can we get this done ?' "stellar," with the former jumping 27 -24 this week on Radio & Records' versus 'That'll never work,' " he says. "They're great people and we wish them Triple A tally and the latter inching closer to the band's first appearance on the best of luck pushing the MMJ rock up the mountain." Billboard's Modern Rock chart, thanks to spins at 24 stations. For his part, James has seen enough to know that the music business will But Brewer admits that MMJ is still relatively new to commercial radio. always be evolving, and he, too, seems to relish the label's indie status. "They're "It's crucial to continually educate programmers on their story," he says. at a crossroads in their lives and we're kind of at the same crossroads," he says. "Radio is constantly in need for potential career bands and we have one "We're just really seeing eye to eye on a lot of stuff." right under their noses."

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www.americanradiohistory.com THE GLOBAL VIEW mercial in 2004. "We did [the commercial] and I'm kind of almost glad it hap- Martinovich says that one of the band's biggest supporters at RCA, Steve It's never been pened, because it was a really cool learning experience," James says. "We were Ralbovsky, introduced MMJ's music to Geoff Travis at Rough Trade Records able to use that money toward some positive things. We gave some of it to the about three years ago. Later, ATO and Chrysalis Publishing reached out to the band's Juvenile Diabetes Foundation." Travis to see if he'd be interested in working with the band. Today's music business can present tough choices, James admits. "It's a "With ATO's blessing, we started a dialogue with Rough Trade and imme- vision to chase difficult thing, because I grew up coming from a school of music being used diately knew that they had shared a common head space with ATO in terms in commercials is an evil thing," he says. "It's a really confusing time to be a of their passion for My Morning Jacket and long -term commitment to seeing opportunities. musician, because it's so hard to make your living and so hard to get your things through," Martinovich says. music out there. Sometimes you see music used in creative ways in advertis- Additionally, the band's international booking agent, Mike Greek in Cre- They'd run ing, and at least some kid out there watching TV is hearing a great song." ative Artists Agency's London office, is working to ensure MMJ isn't "sprint- And while constant touring has raised MMJ's profile in all segments of the ing in place" when touring in Europe, Martinovich says. "It's tough. The dollar business and increased awareness where it matters -with music fans -"op- is weak, touring is expensive, and the band has never really been a part of a themselves portunities like being on the cover of Spin magazine or performing on 'Sat- larger 'trend,' which, in my opinion, is a good thing," he adds. "But it does urday Night Live' have helped increase our visibility," Martinovich says. make it harder to connect when you're from so far away." ragged and But these opportunities are also presenting demands on the band's time and As in the United States, MMJ will play a couple of festivals in Europe, then attention that were previously absent. "It's weird, because on one hand, we feel focus on headlining, with a return to Europe in the fall. fear losing lucky we've had so many opportunities to go out and do stuff," James says. Meanwhile, Martinovich says the band has been working with Kenny "There was that period [in 2004] after John [Quaid] and Danny [Cash] left MacPherson, Jamie Cerreta and Scott Cresto at Chrysalis Publishing since touch with the band when we were all going crazy and all melting down," James says. the release of "It Still Moves" in 2003 regarding opportunities for synch li- "We've been through our periods, but we try to talk about it. Everybody's got censes. "These opportunities have been successful to varying degrees, but their significant others and their families. You really have to draw that line in what's most important is that Chrysalis' passion for Jim James' songwriting their original the sand; we'll do this for this month, but then we'll take this month for us. and My Morning Jacket's music has always been the guiding force for what You've got to make time for life. , this is life too. We need more life juice Chrysalis thinks is good for the music," he says. motivations. to bring back to this thing." Asked if he and the band struggle with the perception of commercializing -MIKE MARTINOVICH, "Life juice" might have to wait a bit, and as touring ramps up in earnest, , Martinovich replies, "No opportunity goes unaddressed, but no MMJ MANAGER James says, "We're just all excited about music. We've never wanted to one opportunity has been force -fed to the band, and for that we're very grate- be a rock band or an R &B band or be one kind of band. We just enjoy cel- ful. The shared vision for this is that hopefully someday there will be an op- ebrating music and having fun with it; making it loud, making it sad and portunity where both the publisher and the band deem [it] ideal and worthwhile." making it funny. We feel lucky that peo- VIDEO: For an exclusive The band itself seems to have mixed feelings about its most "commercial" ple are excited about hearing the music ,Cpm video interview with My Morning Jacket, visit endeavor to date, the use of its song "Mahgeetah" in an Aspen Edge beer com- we make." billboard.com /mmj.

a safe haven from most labels, which are increasingly dominated by accountants in- THE `A' TEAM stead of A &R. A "ATO should be a top destination for any Now True Indie, ATO Takes Flight major -label artist that is at the end of their by ED CHRISTMAN deal and looking at working outside the major -label machine," one industry execu- With Radiohead's "" behind it "The way the industry is moving could be tive familiar with the company says. and My Morning Jacket's "Evil Urges" ahead beneficial to a wholly owned, well -funded label," "We run ATO as a from a man- (see story, page 24), ATO Records has McDonald says. "We felt we had agement head space rather than from the quickly become a "must watch" indie label. enough faith in ourselves that traditional label head space," Botwin says. It was already a highly sought -after label we decided to take a chance "We can look at it long term, holistically, and when it decided to end its joint- venture label in today's climate." ask, 'How does a strategy tie in and fit into deal with RCA last year after a seven -year Besides, leaving building a career ?' " That mind -set allows run. At that point, ATO could have went any- RCA has allowed the the label to invest long term in artists "it be- where and received a big advance. label to be more en- lieves in, even when their current project is After all, the label had a great track record trepreneurial, think not hitting on all cylinders." since its first release, David Gray's "White outside the box give us what we have One example of this thinking was ATO's Ladder," cracked the multiplatinum mile- about the digital with RED," Botwin says. recent signing of former indie darling Liz stone, with 2.5 million units sold in the United space and move like "We feel like we are im- Phair. The artist fell on hard times commer- States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. a speedboat, says portant to RED." cially and critically at the tail end of her Since then, the label has broken Spanish duo ATO president Will The divorce from RCA Capitol tenure and will look to recapture Rodrigo & Gabriela (a quarter -million in Botwin, who aspires to also gave Red Light and Mick old fans with a 15th- anniversary of scans), and Patti Griffin, and establish ATO as a "flagship Management extra firepower, in her Matador debut, "Exile in Guyville," due Gomez each have ATO albums that have indie label." that the beefed -up label infrastruc- June 24. A new studio album is planned be- scanned 100,000 -plus units. The new ATO, with John Biondolillo ture can be leveraged to work on behalf of fore year's end. Since its inception, ATO has issued 54 al- as GM, got a major early test in December, managed artists. ATO is also making inroads with rock bums, EPs and videos, scanning some 7.4 when it secured U.S. rights for Radiohead's "We have the mechanism of ATO as the the Whigs, whose 2005 debut, "Give 'Em million units, or an average of nearly 137,000 "In Rainbows" after the band distributed it hub and the boiler room, which has all of All a Big Fat Lip," shifted just 6,000 copies. units per release in the States. exclusively via the Internet as a name -your- these other resources and great people that But the group's latest set, "Mission Control," But rather than signing a new deal with a own -price download (Billboard, Jan. 12). we can draw on," McDonald says. has already more than doubled that, having major label, co- founders Coran Capshaw of ATO created the Phil Costello- steered TBD Costello adds, "You have to look at Red shifted 14,000 since its January release. Red Light Management, Michael McDonald label to house the band and released the Light and ATO sharing each other's services. When talk of the label began, "we felt of Mick Management, Dave Matthews and album in physical form Jan. 1. To date, it has [ATO publicist] Ambrosia Healy may inter- there was a void for a label that could focus Chris Tetzeli dipped into their deep pockets sold more than 492,000 copies. act with Luke Burland at Warner Bros. on a few artists and develop great quality to buy back RCA's share in the complete cat- ATO did stick to familiar territory by cutting Records for the [Red Light- managed] Ala - careers for them," Botwin says. "As the alog, which sources say set them back in the its own distribution deal with RED, which had nis Morissette publicity campaign, but she business goes forward, we think more neighborhood of $5 million. distributed many of its developing acts already. also works at ATO and TBD." artists are going to be like Radiohead and To be sure, ATO's success comes as others "While the other major -label groups were In fact, with its artist -friendly manage- take a chance. We want to be a part of the are scrambling to keep their heads above water. courting us, we didn't feel like they would rial slant, artists are likely to view ATO as revolution."

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www.americanradiohistory.com happened ve uic . íA uil li rg a two -weperiod last summer, companies that wanted to borrow money to acquire music assets found that the availability of funds from lenders had changed dramatically. Potential buyers were then split into two categories: the haves and the have -nots. 9 "If you didn't already have credit committee When all is said and done on the deal- making side approval at the highest level, it got difficult," says Bug Music CEO of things, it results in a buyer's market for deep - John pocketed investors and cash -rich strategic players, Rudolph, who has been involved in many large publishing acquisitions. "If you industry financial executives says. That's why sellers tend not to come to market at times had it already-if you got through that first window as we did- you're OK. But like this. Currently, the only label assets known to be the funds aren't unlimited." 9 Before the credit market tightened there had up for sale are those available through Chapter 11 auc- tions-TVT and Death Row Records. been aggressive lending banks that would take on the entire debt for a deal and then try to get syndicated (find other lenders to share in the debt) or try to find OPERATIONAL I M PACT AT LABELS sponsors (like private equity firms) to share the debt. But some of those banks But the credit crunch can also take its toll operationally, got caught in the credit crunch and couldn't find others to buy or sponsor that as such conditions tend to make companies more con- servative and put them in cost -cutting mode instead debt at a workable price -and they got stuck with the debt, finding themselves of embarking on new growth initiatives. That's because banks tend to get more conserva- without sufficient liquidity. 9 Tight credit markets cut down the velocity of deal - tive with revolving credit facilities, credit lines that making, with fewer deals getting done and seemingly done deals becoming help companies get through slow business periods But a during the year -or in the case of labels, an uneven undone. such market also affects valuations, bringing prices down, yet release schedule. requiring buyers to bring more equity to the table before lenders sign on. Label sources say Berliner Bank's specialist music and media division has had a change of heart and is re- like Stage 3, the Ranch and Crosstown "are all based ducing its commitment to-and investment in -the MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS IMPACT around taking 1 -to -4 equity to debt. And they're going recorded -music businesses. In the past, the Deutsche Whereas 18 months ago deals were getting done with to find it difficult to get the debt." Bank -owned regional financial services institution has as little as 5 % -10% equity, today lenders can require In fact, when classical Boosey & given credit lines to back various local label projects. buyers to put up one -third of the acquisition price in Hawkes was sold in April for about £126 million ($248.3 But the institution is now balking on its support, sources equity before they would lend the other two- thirds of million) to ImagemMusic -the music publishing fund say, and will no longer finance any projects related to the purchase price needed to conclude a transaction, of CP Masters and Dutch pension fund Stichting Pen - recorded music. says Geoffrey Madden, a partner with New York -based sioenfonds ABP -"none of [those] funds were there, Berliner Bank would not talk with Billboard for boutique investment advisory/investment banking firm and a year ago they would have been at the table," says this article. Christman, Peters & Madden. Glick, who was "peripherally" involved in the sale. "It's The volatility oflabels' business models are putting Renowned deal- striker David Glick, founder of Edge probably because they couldn't raise the debt." the toughest of squeezes on the recording companies' Group, a London -based specialist investment and ad- The larger equity requirements for acquisitions hurt credit opportunities. "Because margins are so thin, visory business for the entertainment and media sec- return on investment, making buyers more wary of and there's pressures all around," says Patrick Yau, an- tor, backs that up by noting that publishing buyout funds doing deals, unless a compelling valuation is offered. alyst with media investment specialist Ingenious Se-

Group assets. ..dated -- -about £175 million ($341 million,- What has changed in the publishing mar- wasjust too high for the type of publishing cat- ket is valuations. Prices are coming alog and recorded music the com- down to where most experts say pany owns. `' PUBLISHING IMPACT they should have been in the Despite the tightening lend- first place. ing market, companies that Despite the tightened market, there are still the billions that these hedge funds have to become already have credit or cash buyers actively looking for music publishing work, finding someplace that's safe and annu- perhaps the first music com- are definitely on the prowl. assets and lenders who are willing to back them. ity -like is a good strategy for at least a portion pany to publicly blame the "We and others are ac- "Lenders- whether private lenders or banks of the portfolio." credit crunch for derailing its tively looking at opportuni- -feel much more comfortable with the credit Indeed, the credit crunch didn't prevent plan to be sold. However, seven ties because valuations have quality of publishing vs. recorded music," says ImagemMusic, a venture formed by Dutch sources directly involved at var- clearly come down," Wiesen - Rob Wiesenthal, chief strategy officer of Sony pension fund Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP ious stages with bids for Chrysalis thal says. "These are the times Entertainment and executive VP/CFO of Sony and publisher CP Masters, from acquiring clas- Music -which terminated discussions in which real value- creation wills Corp. of America. In terms of the banks, hedge sical music publisher Boosey & Hawkes last with potential buyers last month -in- WIES ENTHAL take place. If you look back histori-

funds and other types of lenders that I speak month for £126 million ($248.3 million) -just sist that the credit crunch had noth- cally at times of dislocated markets, with, there's clearly an interest on the publish- two months after spending E77 million ($150 ing to do with what they were ready to pay for it is the time in which people make money." ing side. At the end of the day, if you look at million) for some Universal Music Publishing the company. They say the price Chrysalis -Susan Butler

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www.americanradiohistory.com For the last four years EMI's earnings before inter- sale company, which supplies entertainment software est, taxes, depreciation and amortization have been slid- to the U.S. Marine Exchange Service, Allegro Media ing from a high of L284 million ($518.6 million) for Services received a $25 million equity infusion from 2004 to its last publicly announced results of £174 mil- Canterbury Park Capital, in a deal that makes another lion ($341.5 million) for the year ended March 31, 2007. $12 million equity line available for future acquisitions. At that profit level, or should profits continue a down- As part of the refinancing, the Portland, Ore. -based ward trend, EMI would struggle to make debt interest wholesaler also received a new $15 million revolving payments. That's why the company is implementing loan facility from U.S. Bank division USB Capital Re- a restructuring that should yield $200 million in an- sources. While he wouldn't give details, Allegro chair- nual savings, leaving EBITDA at the $540 million level, man Joe Micallef says the new credit line came with From left, opposite if things go according to plan. lower interest rates. Moreover, he says the line is not page: Trans World secured by inventory. "We have a rock -solid balance chairman BOB HIGGINS, Edge Group sheet," Micallef says. founder DAVID GUCK RETAIL AND WHOLESALE OPERATIONS Likewise, a senior executive with another music and Christman, Peters & In the retail sector, the credit crunch is rolling out un- and video wholesaler says his company also is being Madden partner GEOFFREY MADDEN evenly. One deal has been aborted because of it, while wooed to switch lenders. "We are talking to a new are on the front lines of another company is being forced to pay high interest lender and they are more aggressive than our current the credit crunch. rates. Still other accounts claim they have no problem lender," the executive says. "They are willing to give getting new credit lines, and at lower prices, too. us a term loan above and outside our revolver, with a In the second week of May, Trans World Enter- little bit lower interest rates." tainment founder /chairman Bob Higgins aban- doned his November 2007 -initiated plan to take the chain private because the deal got too expen- RADIO ALSO FEELS THE SQUEEZE sive as interest rates rose, according to the chain's The radio sector isn't immune to the crunch. Two executive VP /CFO John Sullivan. major radio deals have been affected by the credit Higgins and Trans World investor Riley Invest- crunch and a third suffers from investor perception ment Management, which between them owned 57% that it will be undone. of the company, offered to pay $5 per share, or about San Antonio -based Clear Channel Communica- $75 million, in a bid to take the chain private. The tions, which announced in November 2006 that it curities, "it makes lenders quite wary of financing deals company planned to finance the deal through its re- was being taken private by equity groups Bain Cap- for music labels. Without a doubt, labels are having volving credit facility, which carries an interest rate ital Partners and Thomas H. Lee Partners, recently greater problems getting the cash." of LIBOR plus 0.75 %. agreed to accept a $36 -per- share, or $17.9 billion, Currently, the biggest topic of conversation on Since the deal meant making adjustments to the buyout offer after getting sideways with six banks. whether labels are getting the cash needed to operate company's revolver, every time the company had a While lawsuits were filed in Texas and New York al- effectively revolves around EMI's debt load. After rais- conversation with the bank about using the loan to leging the banks were improperly trying to forgo ing another $250 million in equity in January, Terra buy back the stock, it got more expensive, according funding the deal, the principals put aside their dif- Firma's $8 billion buyout of the company now has cost to Sullivan. The loan might have cost as much as ferences and settled on the lower price, although it $3 billion in equity and $5 billion in debt. LIBOR plus 2 %, and while the company never re- still has to meet shareholder approval. The latter component has gotten a lot of press re- ceived a final price on the deal, the interest rate in- Under the original deal, THL Partners and Bain cently, thanks to speculation that EMI lender Citibank creases finally made it so the "deal no longer made Capital would have acquired Clear Channel for $39.20 chose not to syndicate the loan when it put together a financial sense," Sullivan says. "There is no question per share, or $19.5 billion, and taken on $7.8 billion $12 billion debt package. Depending on which press you can still borrow money, but at what price ?" of its debt. The banks had agreed to provide more report you read, the EMI debt supposedly can't be syn- The Handleman Co. recently found out the answer than $22 billion in financing. dicated to other lenders because it is now overpriced; to that question. On May 15, the company announced The six banks stood to lose billions of dollars if the or Terra Firma overpaid in general for EMI; or the com- that it had finally negotiated an amendment to the deal closed as scheduled June 12 with the original pany is underperforming financial goals and can't af- terms of its credit line, something that had been needed commitment terms. The acquisition agreement ini- ford to pay for layoffs; or all of the above. Sources in since Jan. 31. In March, Handleman announced that tially was reached in November 2006, and the banks EMI's camp say this speculation is incorrect. it had violated a covenant of its loans with Silver Point, revised their commitment letter to fund the deal in If EMI can't deliver in the immediate future, will it and received a waiver until May 31. May 2007. Since then, the credit -market crunch has have enough cash to grow the business? EMI's $5 bil- While the threat of the line being pulled is no longer made it more difficult for the banks to reduce their lion in debt carries about a 7% interest and is hanging over Handlemari s head, its credit lines were risks by selling the debt in the secondary market. financial covenants, a source familiar with the situa- reduced to $163 million from $250 million. It also is Meanwhile, a deal to buy Atlanta -based Cumulus tion says. Tripping such covenants generally requires a costlier line since the lenders required a 2% rate in- Media for $1.3 billion has fallen apart. The company, a waiver and then an amendment and usually comes crease, according to its filings, but other documenta- which owns more than 300 U.S. stations, announced with a higher cost. EMI may not have to worry about tion suggests that the loan might even come at a higher May 12 that its July 23, 2007, deal to be bought by an in- that, but its loan is likely a variable- interest -rate loan, price than that. Previously, the credit line cost Handle- vestor group led by company chairman /president /CEO meaning that its interest payments will shrink or grow man interest rates of 9 % -11 %, Billboard estimates, but Lew Dickey with an affiliate of Merrill Lynch Global Pri- depending on how interest rates fluctuate. the lines now cost the company a minimum of about vate Equity has been terminated. At 7% interest on $5 billion in debt, EMI's annual 14.5 %, according to the loan documentation. Under the terms of the original agreement, Cu- interest payments will cost $350 million annually. But But while Handleman has to pay a higher interest mulus stockholders would have received $11.75 in if the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) should rate, other accounts either recently refinanced or are in cash for each share of Cumulus common stock, a rise one percentage point, at 8% its annual debt serv- the process of doing so, and say they are having no such 40% premium at the time. The stock price hovered ice would cost $400 million. problem. As part of a deal to acquire the Softland whole- around $4.75 in early afternoon trading May 15. The investor group has agreed to pay Cumulus a deal termination fee of $15 million. "Our business remains fundamentally sound, 'Our business remains fundamentally and we intend to continue to operate it aggressively and explore opportunities to create and deliver value for our shareholders," Dickey said in a statement. sound and we intend to continue to Cumulus said its board intends to explore, in the "very near term," a new stock buyback plan to pro- vide liquidity opportunities to stockholders. ... aggressively.' ,Ew o,<...... u, EO. operateit Additional reporting by Ken Tucker.

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ROCK BY EVIE NAGY Hausman admits it's harder to be as cutting a 32 -page screw -bound book of illustrations edge in the current environment. "We didn't commissioned for each song. go for a radical model like Radiohead did, [with] Mann will also tour through the end of the fans setting their own price," he says. "Aimee year, including her acclaimed Christmas vari- STILL HER needs to sell records and make a profit. Her ety show that features comedy and video in ad- touring is very strong, but it's not superstar dition to music. Mann says that although it's touring. So we need model hard to make money on the road, it may be an- to work." other key to staying ahead of the curve. MANN "Everybody can make a record on Garage OWN work, he says, largely because And it does DIY Model Continues To Pay independence means control. "For example, Band, everybody has a MySpace page," she Dividends For Singer /Songwriter we're now doing Aimeé s records internation- says. "I think maybe people who ally ourselves," through Alternative Dis- play live well are going to raise named her new release things if they're not really good." tribution Alliance Global, he says. "I their heads above the fray. Making a record is more "@ # % &! Smilers" as a tongue -in -cheek Hausman says that Mann's desire for this like [ former international label] V2, and mirrors, but protest of people who constantly prod others level of creative control was a major factor in but now I'm directly hiring the smoke playing live, you really to put on a happy face, even when they don't her decision to leave the major -label system. teams in the different territories, have to know what feel like it. But as Mann herself admits, her "Her decision was based on creative reasons," and I get much more accurate in- you're doing." seventh solo album, due June 3 on her own Hausman says, "and I gave her the confidence formation. The feedback is in- SuperEgo Records, is one of her most "smi- that from a business standpoint, she could stantaneous and we can adjust ley" works to date. make a living." our thinking accordingly." And why shouldn't it be? The singer /song- Boosting this confidence was Mann's suc- To promote "Smilers," Super - writer has enjoyed more than two decades of cess with the 1999 "" film sound- Ego will offer exclusive bonus ongoing success, much of it through her own track, as well as the pair's early grasp of how tracks for different download toil as a pioneer of the now thriving do -it -your- to leverage the then -nascent power of the In- services and hold a make -your- self model of the music business. "Smilers" ternet to reach fans. "We had been collecting own -video contest on YouTube is the former 'Til Tuesday vocalist's fifth re- e -mail addresses since the mid -'90s, as soon for the single "Freeway." On lease on SuperEgo, which she founded with as people started using e- mail," Hausman says. the physical side, a limited manager and longtime collaborator Michael "By the time Aimee went solo, I think we had edition will come with Hausman in 1999 after negotiating a contract 10,000 e- mails." Mann then offered free down- release from Geffen. loads to promote 2000's "Bachelor No. 2 (Or While the themes on "Smilers" aren't uni- the Last Remains of the Dodo)," "which no versally cheerful -Mann masters wistfulness one else was doing then," Hausman says. That and dissatisfaction on songs like the synth - album has sold 230,000 units, according laced "Thirty One Today " -there's a musical to Nielsen SoundScan; 2002 follow - playfulness throughout that culminates in up "Lost in Space" sold 232,000 closer " Ballantines," a -bar romp with and hit No. 35 on the Bill- trombones. The variety is a deliberate depar- board 200. ture from 2005's "The Forgotten Arm," a mu- sical "novella" about a relationship headed for trouble. "I think because the last record was a con- cept album and had a narrative that went through the whole record, I was in the mood to do something completely different and make every song its own thing," Mann says. "So if it needed horns, great. If the next song was just acoustic guitar and sounds like Neil Young, great." Mann praises the versatility of producer , who she says "almost physically can't do certain

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»>MILEY MANIA ROCK BY MICHAEL D. AYERS On her hit show, she's . But on her upcoming album, she's just . The teen Accidental superstar will release the first full -length album under her own name, Harmonies "Breakout," July 22 via . First Hospital Stay Leads To New single "7 Things" was one Spiritualized Albums of the most added at U.S. top 40 radio last week, After battling pneumonia for nearly six months, Spiritualized prin- garnering 255 spins. It is ciple Jason Pierce felt lost. Before he went into the hospital, he'd also enjoying some airplay laid down a good chunk of what would eventually become his sixth at adult top 40. "7 Things" album, but finishing it proved a challenge. "It's very difficult to was produced by John work on something again that you didn't intend to," Pierce says. Fields and written by "It didn't seem contemporary anymore. Not musically, Cyrus with Antonina but where I was in my life." Armato and Tim James. That changed once he met filmmaker Harmony Korine »>NAS SAYS IT ALL ( "Kids," "Julien Donkey-Boy") at a Daniel Johnston show in ' controversially London. Backstage, Pierce and Korine struck up a conversa- named new album, tion -and a friendship -that would lead Pierce back into the "N *gger," has been studio to work on the score for Korine's next film, "Mr. Lonely." changed to an untitled "I was completely lost when I came out, and I had this record project and be will that sounded like a collection of songs that made no sense," Pierce released July 1 via Def says. "By working on his record, which is just about sound and Jam. "It's important to me atmospheres, it put me in a place where it bled into my record." that this album gets to the WORLD BY NIGEL WILLIAMSON Pierce now finds himself with two fans," the rapper says. "It's releases this spring. The score to "Mr. Lonely," recorded under his moniker J. Space- been a long time coming. I want my fans to know that man, was released April 22. Pierce contributes nine cuts, while creatively and lyrically, `War And the rest is filled out by avant -folk trio Sun City Girls. they can expect the same Meanwhile, due May 27 via Fontana /Universal is "Songs in content and the same A &E." (A &E is the abbreviated form of "Accident & Emergency," messages." Remembrance » >IN THE Favorite Jal Makes U.S. Solo Bow SPOTLIGHT Academy Award -winning Sudanese child -soldier- turned -rapper stream hip -hop territory, but he distances actress /former "American PULSE Emmanuel Jal admits that he had to himself Idol" contestant Jennifer from the genre's image. One song EDITED BY TOM FERGUSON tone down the lyrics his Hudson will release her of new album, on the album is called "No Bling," while "Warchild." debut album, a self -titled "" is a direct appeal to the rapper » >JUMPING based Scooter frontman H.P. affair, in September via "If I described everything I've seen and to be a better role model. "Hip -hop artists AGAIN Baxxter says. "Such a success Arista Records. The first done, the record would be too harrowing," have to take responsibility," Jal says. "I After a five -year absence, Ger- in the home country of music single, "Spotlight," will hit the 28- year -old says. wanted to talk to him, but that wasn't pos- man act Scooter has has always been our dream." U.S. radio June 9 and be The autobiographical songs on "War - sible, so I wrote him a song." leaped back onto the U.K. The album- Scooter's 13th available for sale via child"- released internationally through A U.K. resident since 2005, Jal flew to charts. The band's "Jumping All studio set -was released Nov. digital outlets the Sonic360 May 13 in the United States the States on April 27 for promotion in Los Over the World" (All Around 30, 2007, in Germany, and has following day. "Spotlight" (where it's distributed by Fontana /Univer- Angeles and New York, where he attended the World /Universal Music TV) sold more than 100,000 was written by Ne -Yo, who units sal) and a day earlier in the United King- the U.S. premiere a co- produced along with of documentary film topped the Official U.K. Charts there, according to its Edel -dis- dom /Europe a Stargate. Additional -still tell horrific story. about his life, also called "Warchild," at the Co. May 17 album listing -the tributed German label Kontor contributors include By the age of 8, Jal was fighting in the Tribeca Film Festival. band's highest U.K. showing Records, headed by band man- , , Sudan People's Liberation Army, carrying Select live dates, booked worldwide by since "Push the Beat for This ager Jens Thele. "This proves the Underdogs, Diane an AK -47 rifle bigger than he was. After Creative Artists Agency, are being planned Jam" (Sheffield Tunes) hit No. 6 all the experts wrong who say Warren five years as a and Christopher soldier in Sudan's bitter civil and Jal is confirmed to play Nelson Man - in 2002. Its last chart album, Scooter -style techno is out," "Tricky" Stewart. war, he escaped the SPLA in 1993, when a dela's 90th birthday concert June 27 in "The Stadium Techno Experi- Thele says. "This genre is more British aid worker smuggled him into Kenya London's Park, alongside Eminem, ence," reached No. 20 in 2003. current than » >HIGH TIME ever." Thele adds and sent him to school. Songs like "Forced Queen and . "This is insane," Hamburg- that Kontor is negotiating with Diana Ross' 1970 album to Sin" and "Shadow of Death" detail his Although details of the U.S. campaign "Everything Is Everything" experiences so directly and disturbingly are not yet finalized, Sonic360 will be released on CD for founder that one wonders what the uncensored Chris Allison says the first time June 17 via the power of Jal's lyrics Hip -O- Select /Motown. versions might have sounded like. is key to his global appeal. Beyond the album's "Warchild" is Jal's third album but his "It was something we had to get behind," original 11 tracks, the new international solo debut, following Allison says. "His message has the rawness edition includes 2004's "Gua," a gospel /rap set self - and conviction of early hip -hop, mixed with previously unreleased released only in Kenya, and 2005's the charisma of a young Bob Marley." covers of ' "Ceasefire" (Riverboat Records /World "I'm not turning away from the world "Something" and "What Music Network), a collaboration with tra- music audience which has supported me," Are You Doing the Rest of ditional Sudanese Muslim singer Abdel Jal says. "There's still an African influence Your Life ?" from the film Gadir Salim. Distributed in the United in my music. I don't try to sound Ameri- "The Happy Ending," plus

States through I alternate versions of "Ain't Universal, "Ceasefire" at- can. rap like an African, because that's

tracted in I ` I No Sad Song" and "Baby considerable attention world what am. In the song Warchild,' I say

It's Love." music circles and has sold slightly less survived for a reason: to tell my story. I be-

than 4,000 units in the States, accord- lieve that. I feel a responsibility to do these Reporting by Jonathan ing to Nielsen SoundScan. songs and tell the world what is happen- Cohen and Hillary Crosley. "Warchild" moves Jal into more main- ing in my country."

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www.americanradiohistory.com BY CHRISTA TITUS sounding warmth. In the States and the United Kingdom, Spiritualized has gathered a feverish cult following, one that both markets hope to A Little Louder capitalize on this summer, primarily around the act's live show. "Songs in Opeth Makes A Big Move With New Roadrunner Set A &E" will have four releases: the digital and CD versions will hit first, followed Swedish band Opeth's rise on the Billboard -esque opening track "Coil" pairs with by a deluxe CD and a double gatefold vinyl 200 has been a slow one, but its new set, "Wa- singer /guitarist Mikael Akerfeldt drum- version in June. Promotional tie -ins are tershed" (June 3, Roadrunner), could be a turn- mer Martin Axenrot's girlfriend Natalie Lorichs in the works with Last.fm in conjunction ing point in heightening the act's U.S. presence. for a duet. It's an abrupt shift to the next song, with an in -store performance May 26 at The metal group's last Roadrunner album, the darker, intense "Heir Apparent," where Ak- London's Rough Trade East. There is also 2005's "Ghost Reveries," entered and peaked erfeldt drops his vocals into a death metal roar. the possibility of rebranding an out -of- at No. 64 on the Billboard 200-a massive leap Asked to compare "Watershed" with "Ghost use ambulance with album artwork and from 2003's "Damnation" (Koch), which ar- Reveries," Akerfeldt says, "It's a bit more fucked a like an taking it on the festival circuit. rived at No. 192-its highest mark on the chart. up, insane." He feels the record "is lot A hefty U.S. tour is planned for July "Damnation" has sold 72,000 copies in the Eagles album: slicker and more produced." through September, which will be Spir- United States, according to Nielsen Sound - Another vital component of the marketing itualized's first stateside trek this decade. Scan; "Ghost Reveries" has moved 94,000. It campaign is releasing "Watershed" in three a special edition and a vinyl what the United States just refers to as "emer- "There's a real interest from them to spend some has taken until now for Opeth's 2002 album versions: standard, copies limited- edition double -EP. The vinyl format gency rooms. ") time in the U.S.," says Tsunami Label Group "Blackwater Park" to sell almost as many - which contains expanded artwork, a double - "Songs in A &E" contains six melodic bridges managing director Adam Katz, who's been (93,000) as "Reveries." a bonus CD with MP3s of the in between the actual songs, which are overtly tapped to head up marketing in the States. The band's radio play is minimal. However, sided poster and going like hotcakes" dedicated to Korine. Although a majority of the "There's a lot of pent -up demand. He's one of it does get spins on such college stations as album's tracks -"is material was written before his hospital stay, those guys who [ for] those that are into it are re- "Songs in A &E" reflects Pierce in a rather deli- ally into it." cate state. For Pierce, he's just happy that his hospital He's always been a firm believer in ques- stay accidentally led him in a new direction. tioning human relationships, alongside the "It was great to be with someone as crazy and entanglements of love, religion and death. But focused as Harmony, at a time when I had nei- the music reflects a less abrasive Spiritual - ther," Pierce says. "It was hugely liberating to ized- feedback and heavy reverb have been be in the studio where I was working with replaced with softer arrangements, highlight- music, but I didn't have to front it." ing violins and acoustic , ultimately casting Pierce's voice in an almost angelic- Additional reporting by Tom Ferguson.

labels for the U.S. release of the "Till It Breaks" on Capitol /EMI aging director Jim Chancellor. Scooter catalog. Spain, which peaked at No.16 "People have heard their Universal Music TV manag- May 2 on the Promusicae/ music but don't necessarily ing director Brian Berg says U.K. Media Control Gfk chart. know who is playing," he says. shipments of the licensed -in "Working together again "The key [now] is to join the album, which includes a bonus brought out our musical inten- dots and let people know what "greatest hits" CD, have passed sity," Nimri says. "We cried, we they're listening to." 100,000. "We hope to be plat- laughed, we got drunk." Chancellor signed the quar-

inum [300,000 shipments] by Jean adds, "With Najwa I tet after it split from Rough Hall Pirate Radio) South Orange, through a pre -order initiative set up with the [the third quarter]," he adds. find things that I don't reach Trade, which had released its WSOU (Seton Akyuz says. The special edition Scooter, published by by myself. This record is on the first two U.K. top 40 albums, N.J., and metal speciality shows like "Hard At- End Records, and bonus tracks; Warner/Chappell and booked frontier of obscurity, totally "Faded Seaside Glamour" tack" on Sirius, so Roadrunner is servicing lead has a CD /DVD configuration was placed on the packaging, by Boese & Friends in Ham- different to everything I've (2004) and "You See No single "Porcelain Heart" to metal radio. Mainly, strong focus a envelope. The burg, prepped the album's re- done before." Colours" (2006). Opeth's following has spawned from coverage which is designed like sealed are lease with the eight -date U.K. EMI Spain marketing direc- Third album "Everything's in the metal press and by headlining theater special and standard editions enhanced which lets fans arena /theater Clubland Live tor Juana Romero says the the Rush," released May 5, en- tours and joining such metal package outings with the Open Disc feature, exclusive Opeth -related of- tour in March with compatriot album "oozes personality and tered the Official U.K. Charts as 2005's Sounds of the Underground. register to access Cascada and U.K. act Ultrabeat. will be recognized as a classic Co. listing at No. 26. "It's a bril- Touring will again be crucial to pushing "Wa- fers for the next year. la- Roadrunner is taking advantage of the - Wolfgang Spahr within a few years." European liant crossover record, span- tershed," as Opeth is performing alongside releases are planned through ning indie rock to pop," he belmate Dream Theater, 3 and Between the Dream Theater /Opeth synergy by releasing a with »FRESH BLOOD the summer, he adds. says. "We know it won't be Buried and Me on the Progressive Nation tour, viral series of interviews on opeth.com Mike Critical acclaim for Najwajean's Najwajean's publisher is easy to work, but the bull's -eye which began April 29 in Mexico City. The out- Akerfeldt and Dream Theater drummer are also get- 1998 trip -hop debut album Warner/Chappell; live bookings is enormous." ing puts the act in front of a variety of demos in Portnoy. Members of both bands weeks to form a "No Blood" (Subterfuge) are through -based Aire The Delays kicked off a 12- the prog realm: tech- loving, older males (Dream ting together in the coming to record songs from their re- hinted at a promising long- de Música, and the act plans to date U.K. tour booked by Hef- Theater), younger fans of hardcore (Between hybrid group with covers, as term career for the Spanish tour Spain this summer. ter Skelter May 7 and will play the Buried and Me) and more traditional (3). spective catalogs, along some duo of vocalist Najwa Nimri -Howe // Llewellyn summer festivals before head- The musical lineup fits Opeth's style of a special one -off collaboration. appears internationally June and multi -instrumentalist Car- ing to Europe. lengthy songs that mix aggressive, heavy pas- The new album 2, preceded by a May 26 digital release in Europe. los Jean. » >RUSH HOUR Overseas release plans are sages with delicate, melodic parts, making it senior VP of interna- However, after sales failed Despite their tracks regularly not yet finalized, says Chancel- one of the most unique bands straddling the According to Roadrunner van Middendorp, the marketing focus to match the critics' enthusi- turning up on U.K. and U.S. TV lor, who adds, "They have a line between progressive music and metal. tional Wally supported by heavy tour- asm, the pair drifted apart. synchs -from the BBC's soc- good following in Mexico and Suzi Akyuz, product manager for Opeth at "is on print advertising, Following signing sessions at music Both released solo albums, but cer flagship "Match of the Day" the U.S., where they opened for Roadrunner, says one reason "Porcelain Heart" ing activities." (June 3) and the Vir- Nimri largely concentrated on to UPN /CW TV series "Veron- Franz Ferdinand [in 2004]. was chosen as the lead single is because it's "a store Fame in Amsterdam in , Opeth plays the first of 23 her successful film career while ica Mars " -indie -pop outfit the We'll aim to hit those markets, more accessible track to the other audiences and gin Megastore festival shows this summer June 5 at Jean produced leading Span- Delays remains "the best -kept but the U.K. is our first priority." they can sort of turn their heads and they'll real- European Huttwill . ish artists Bebe, Bunbury, Ale- secret in British music." The Delays' publishing is ize it's not just metal; it's much more than metal." Switzerland's 4i, jandro Sanz and Miguel Bosé. So says Universal Music U.K. through Zomba Music. On "Watershed" the quintet pushes the two reporting by Torn Ferguson. Now Najwajean is back, with imprint man- -Steve Adams opposites to even further extremes. Serene, Additional

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www.americanradiohistory.com LATIN BY LEILA COBO n Good Company After Bacilos Breakup, Villamizar Turns To Nev. ound, Strategy

Bacilos gained notoriety as a group that blended and local Colombian acts like Sanalejo. pop and tropical influences into one distinctive, With his solo debut, Villamizar wanted to catchy and often danceable mix. The concept veer away from the Latin identity he estab- struck a chord, with Bacilos' 2002 hits "Caraluna" lished as a Colombian living in the United and "Mi Primer Millón" peaking at No.18 and No. States and opt for a more mainstream sound. 16, respectively, on Billboard's Hot Latin Songs "We want to launch a new platform for him chart. Likewise, album "Caraluna" and 2005's with his new style of music," Warner Music "Sin Verguenza" won in Latino marketing director Albert Ramirez says. the best pop album, duo or group category. "It's a bit of a hybrid between world and pop. But after three studio releases, the trio - We now have to establish a specific genre of lis- POP BY MICHAEL D. AYERS j Jorge Villamizar, André Lopes and José Javier tener that will be his core fan." Freire -split up last year. Warner's early efforts have centered on a Now, lead singer /songwriter Villamizar is steady stream of weekly webisodes that can be Double The launching his solo career by taking a different seen via iTunes, YouTube and Villamizar's My- sonic and commercial direction. Space page. His self -titled debut album, which arrived May The single "Ninguna" has been sent to radio Scheinuran 20 on Warner Music Latina (Bacilos' former and is getting early airplay on Latin pop sta- label), will be largely supported by Internet and tions, particularly in the Southwest and on the New York Jazz Vet Issues Two Albums At Once alternative means rather than a major radio push. West Coast, although it has yet to enter the And Villamizar describes the overall sound of Billboard charts. For nearly a decade, has been a remote part of Northern California. the album, produced by tropical/electronic mu- Starting the first week of July, Warner is a fixture in the downtown New York jazz scene, "Partly, it was done just for fun. As a dare," sician Richard Blair (known for his group Side - planning a promotional / featur- adding her violin and string arrangements to Scheinman says lightheartedly, but utilizing stepper), as that of a "groovy troubadour." ing Villamizar and Warner acts Tommy Torres numerous live gigs and records. But she's more words was a risk she was willing to take. "I don't "Bacilos was a group that always mutated, and Jesse & Joy. The tour comprises 10 stops than that. think I'll be able to get my violin playing to have but its essence was two types of acoustic at nightclubs with capacities of 500 -1,000 in Ifyou picked up Lucinda Williams' 2007 release that connection with an audience. The reaction music," he says. "One was Primer Millón' Texas and Southern California. "West," you've heard Scheinman. Same goes for you get when you sing words to people -the risk and the whole party band thing. The other was For Villamizar, the change from Bacilos to ' 2002 mega -album "Come Away With you take and the payoff you get emotionally -is my facet as a singer/songwriter. On this album, soloist goes beyond sound. Long managed Me" and 's "The Intercontinentals." Yet a very different experience." I clearly took that [latter] route." by RLM, he is now handled by his her success has been mainly in the /con- Koch, which signed Scheinman last year, will Likewise, for Warner the challenge brother, Felipe. And, after his long- tributor realm, which, as composer /contributors release both albums May 27, although "Cross- is to position Villamizar as a solo time publishing deal with Warner/ can testify to, isn't always what the public notices. ing the Field" will be digital -only at first. It will artist with a distinct persona. Baci- Chappell expired, he has chosen Of course, that could all change in the weeks then see a limited vinyl release this summer, los' U.S. sales never reflected the to retain all publishing for this ahead. Following 2005's "12 Songs" (Cryp- with a physical CD due in October. group's critical acclaim or radio album and instead look for an ad- togramophone), "Crossing the Field" is a collec- Scheinman will celebrate the releases with a success, with "Caraluna" selling a ministration deal. tion of newly composed that June 11 show at New York's Joe's Pub, backed by respectable 58,000 copies, ac- Even in making his album, Scheinman wrote mostly in a two -day spurt while an all -star band featuring guitarist Tony Scherr cording to Nielsen SoundScan, but he says, Warner gave him vacationing in . "Field" highlights the in- and drummer . She also performs on "Sin Verguenza" topping off at total artistic freedom. "I'm terplay between Scheinman and her cast -30 camera in the upcoming David Arquette- directed 13,000. very grateful and very players contributed at various points -exempli - film "The Butler's in Love," a release date for Abroad, Bacilos attached to my la- fying her range as a violinist. She's playful with which has yet to be announced. was a driver of the bel," he says. "Artists Jason Moran on the swingy "Hard Sole Shoe" but "Hopefully, the attention Jenny's receiving for movement later often feel pressured remains delicate, almost fragile, on the sweep- her music and this release strategy will create labeled "tropi /pop," to wear what's ing, melodic "Ana Eco." greater awareness of the project a mix of tropical and fashionable. And I But Scheinman has a secret weapon: a killer and set it up more effectively for the physical re- pop whose propo- was basically left voice. "Jenny Scheinman," her vocal debut, will tail launch in the fall," Koch VP of jazz /adult nents include alone but with be released in conjunction with "Crossing the Chuck Mitchell says. "Bottom line, listening to such well -known support: moral Field." Rather than jazzy, the music is pure Jenny is what you'd call `serious fun.' If we can acts as Cabas and financial."

Americana, recalling her rustic upbringing in get that message across, sales will follow." . . . and Fonseca,

ROCK BY CORTNEY HARDING sued him all over the world because I wanted him to sign so badly." When asked about his plan for kicking offhis career, Nozuka answers like an old industry pro. "I did a record on my own about a year- and -a -half ago, Teen Spirit and I knew I didn't want to sign a deal right off the bat, so I got a good lawyer and a manager and toured first," he says sagely. This type of thinking and pa- From Baio To Barnes & Noble, tience would be impressive for a musician at any age, but it's especially note- Bares His Soul worthy because Nozuka was barely out of high school when he assembled his dream team. Don't call Justin Nozuka a typical teen pop star -after all, he talks about pro- "We saw Justin perform at Glass' house, and we were impressed with how motional strategy with the ease most of his peers talk about, well, prom. far beyond his years he was," VH 1 executive VP of talent and music program- In 15 support of his April debut release, "Holly," 19- year -old singer /song- ming Rick Krim says. "We put him in a promo for our Scott Baio show [ "Scott writer Nozuka will be featured as a VH 1 You Oughta Know and a Barnes & Baio Is 46 and Pregnant "], and the response was incredible." Noble "Discover" selection, and is currently Clear Channel's artist of the Glass plans to make re- creating Nozuká s intimate performances a key Month. Released on , the album has sold 8,000 copies, ac- part of the marketing plan. "I want people to see him in small settings, be- cording to Nielsen SoundScan, and rises 29 -27 on Billboard's Heatseekers cause so many of the people who have embraced him this far first saw him chart. His single "After Tonight" has sold 30,000 copies. that way," he says. "I was riveted the first time I saw him perform," Glassnote Records founder For his part, Nozuka doesn't want to stay in front of small crowds for Daniel Glass recalls. "Here was a 17- year-old singing incredibly topical songs, too long. "I'm really interested in bringing quality art to a big audience," and he had these fantastic guitar skills and a soulful, versatile voice. I pur- he says. ....

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Jenny Scheinman ElNot so long ago, it Here I Stand dles their offerings with the NORTH Producer: Tony Scherr looked like the Future - Producers: various grace and style that "Danc- Over and Underneath Koch heads were a thing of the past. Jive ing With the Stars" viewers Producers: , Release Date: May 27 Dropped by Warner after a Release Date: May 27 have come to expect. -KT Rusty Varenkamp, Phillip ©Even though she has disappointing second album, After a four -year break, Usher's fifth LaRue released four instru- "News and Tributes," it looked set is bursting with grown man, true -to -life tales like STEVE AZAR mental albums, Jenny like all their particular future leaving his player ways behind ( "Before I Met You "), Indianola Release Date: May 20 Scheinman is one of those held was a downward spiral. falling in love ( "Something Special," "Lifetime" and the Producer: Steve Azar oGrace is a gift from names known mostly by afi- But this self -released third title track), making love ( "This Ain't Sex ") and having Dang /Ride Records God, but faith is some- cionados who've checked out record sees them right back a child ( "Prayer for You," featuring a weeping Usher Release Date: May 27 times a struggle, and all too the credits on releases by on form. Kicking off with ter- Raymond V, his new baby son). Grown -up relation- 131 Coming onto the coun- often Christian music fails to Norah Jones, Lucinda Wil- rific lead single "The Begin- ships drive "His Mistakes," about a woman who is try scene in 1996, Steve explore that reality. It's eas- liams and others to whom ning of the Twist " -already a scarred by a past fling, the piano- and -drum -laden Azar struggled to break ier to serve up platitudes she's brought her distinctive top 20 hit in the United King- "Best Thing" featuring Jay -Z and "What's a Man to through on major label Mer- than explore pain and con- violin work. Scheinman's self - dom -it's a fast and furious, Do," which finds Usher belting about loving two cury. But listening to his new fusion, but lead vocalist/ titled vocal debut should back -to- basics punk -pop women at once. Still, tracks like the naughty "Love in self -released set one gets the songwriter Mike Donehey certainly up that name recog- record that retools the spirit This Club," the sensual "Trading Places" ( "You get on sense that this is the album doesn't shy away from nition. The 11 -track set -re- of their self -titled debut to top /tonight I'm on the bottom ") and the Danja- he's always wanted to make. wrestling with the complex- leased alongside a new in- 2008 specs. True, there's not produced "Appetite," about his desire for sex, confirm Ultimately listenable, the at- ities of being a Christian. strumental outing, "Crossing much in the way of light and Usher still hasn't times- rocking, at- times- Donehey is not only a revela- VIDEO: For exclusive video the Field" an agreeable, shade, but with great songs lost his young boy bluesy, at- times -country col- tion as a songwriter, but also -has .COm interviews with Usher, visit the lis- as a vocalist with a warm, "Look at everything I can do" like "Radio Heart" and "Broke billboard.com/usher. charm. -MC lection fits Azar and quality, from her high and Up the Time" up their sleeves, tener as comfortably as an old heartfelt delivery that brings lonesome take on Bob they finally possess songs as shoe. Named for the Missis- out the best in every song. Dylan's of the instant as their legendary Americana. Inspired by a live while Grease unconvincingly sippi birthplace of B.B. King, "By Your Side" is a beautiful traditional "I Was Young cover of Kate Bush's "Hounds tour he did last year flanked by rhymes that he's rich. On the set includes "Flatlands," ballad that reminds us God is near, while "Hallelu- When I Left Home" to the re- of Love. " -MS backing singers and a seven - "Lennox Ave Boyz," Grease which with its greasy slide always strained, jazzy look at Tom piece string section, tracks commits to disc his belief that guitar speaks to Azar's Delta jah" is a gorgeous worship Waits' "Johnsburg, Illinois." SPIRITUALIZED from "A &E" orbit just outside he'll "keep on winning" while roots. "Crowded" finds Azar song. The hit single "Love Is The album may be a little too Songs in A &E of gospel (the haunting funeral "the world keeps spinning, bemoaning urban sprawl, Here" is a perfect introduc- pure and stark to bring her a Producer: Jason Pierce march "Death Take Your Fid- these ho's keep grinning and while "The River's Workin'" is tion to this extraordinary Jones -style crossover, but it Spaceman/Fontana dle") and touch on the blues the grams keep selling," but it a 's anthem that project. This potent combi- should certainly make her Release Date: May 27 (the dark and rhythmic "Yeah just doesn't ring true. Maybe conjures John Mellencamp, nation of music and lyrics more than just a support ©Jason Pierce's sixth al- Yeah "). The remaining songs Grease has been selling drugs and Jackson adds up to the year's best player. -GG bum as Spiritualized- are peaceful and pretty, with to keep the lights on, but Browne. "You're My Life," writ- Christian debut. -DEP tows his usual load of strange quiet orchestras floating be- where'd he find the time ? -HC ten with Radney Foster, could melodies and fuzzy feed- hind verses that crash and have been a hit for the Trav- CHRIS SLIGH back, but he pushes those ebb like ocean waves. Pierce COUNTRY eling Wilburys. Comparisons Running Back to You tendencies to the back as he ties the dark to the light with JULIANNE HOUGH aside, this is an album that Producers: Brown Bannister, Producer: Youth dips deep here into gothic poetic folk ballads like closing Julianne Hough only Azar, with his varied in- Will , Stephen Leiweke lullaby "Goodnight Goodnight,' Producer: David Malloy fluences, could make. -KT Brash Records making "A &E" a strange and Mercury Nashville AL GREEN pleasing concoction of old Release Date: May 20 Lay It Down and new. -LJW While "American Idol" Green, has produced its share Bring Ya to the Brink Producers: AI James v- a Poyser, Ahmir "?uestlove" of stars, Julianne Hough is Producers: various Thompson DAME GREASE the first artist to emerge Epic Blue Note Goon Musik from "Dancing With the Release Date: May 27 Mr SINK Release Date: May 27 Producer: Dame Grease Stars," the hit show on During the course of 25 years, At this point, if you're Al Green, messing around with Babygrande which she has made a name Cyndi Lauper has certainly played the singing minstrel, your formula isn't so much unlikely as it is pure mad- Release Date: May 27 for herself as a two -time but also revealed deep lyrical introspection as an ness; it'd be like AC/DC deciding to add bassoons. Producer -cum -rapper Dame champion. Her solid debut observer of society's foibles. On "Brink," she craftily Even the highly touted input of the Roots' ?uestlove Grease's debut solo set is rem- proves she's also capable in meshes the two personas. Melodically, Lauper still just (producing with James Poyser, both in place of iniscent of a lost Diplomats or the recording studio. "That wants to have fun, with jaunty dancefloor jams (she Green's longtime go -to Willie Mitchell) results more in an early Lox album without the Song in My Head" does just traveled the world to work with beat masters Basement decoration than innovation. It's not the new- blood- plausibility. While Grease's what the title implies -it Jaxx, Digital Dog, Peer Astrom, Scum -Frog and Rich fueled revelation some might have hoped for, but who lyrics aren't that breathtaking, sticks in your head, as does Morel), but after a twirl under the disco ball, listeners cares. Green's voice remains lithe magic, and he's his dark and buzzing beats are "You, You, You." While the have the opportunity to explore layers underneath. brought in such contemporary all -stars as Anthony tolerable. On most of the set is mostly G- rated, " "Same 01' Story" is among Lauper's most inviting Hamilton (on the album's two best tracks, "You've Got tracks, Grease is flanked by Your Matches" is filled with melodies ever, as she talks about how folks hold others a values their own. "Raging the Love I Need" and the slinky title song), John several new MCs, including smoking sensuality. On to different set of than Legend and Corinne Bailey Rae for help. ?uestlove's Messiah, Meeno, Bigga and "Hello," she admonishes a Storm" is a thunderous blast, until you observe its drums get a little boost in the mix, and Poyser's B3 Tony Wink. Former Diplomats pal for her bad choices in thoughtful theme of aligning life priorities. There's an lightly brushes each song's cheeks. But when it comes member Max B, of "We Fly men while "Help Me, Help overall retro feel to the production that will no doubt to Green, what more needs to be said? The reverend High" fame, awkwardly sings You" finds her assisting a delight minions, but those same faithful are old enough preaches on. -IV the chorus on "Connecticut friend struggling with alco- to appreciate meaning behind the melodies. -CT Kush," the catchiest song here, hol addiction. Some of

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Release Date: May 6 "Ami Kita Bay" is a combina- POP Writers: B. Freeman, david cook DIAmong the parade of tion of the mbalax style and KAT DeLUNA S. Kingston DAVID COOK "American Idol" con- salsa, while "Aline" is a clas- FEATURING BUSTA Publishers: various Time of My Life (3:34) testants in recent years, sic Congolese rumba. "Ni- RHYMES Rap -A- Lot/Asylum Producer: Steve Lipson Chris Sligh has been a stand- jaay" is a quintessential Or- Run the Show (3:34) As Texas rap duo UGK, Writer: R. Hamm out, not only because of his chestra Baobab groove Producer: RedOne and the late Pimp Publisher: 19 Entertainment vocal talent, but for his quick highlighted by Youssou N'- Writers: K. DeLuna, RedOne, C let everyone know that the 19 wit and abundance of per- Dour and Assane Mboup on J. Sewell - Ulepic South had something to say, Despite its weary template, "American Idol" season seven sonality. Those same quali- vocals and the distinctive Publishers: AOI/Delunatunes/ years before OutKast's Andre managed to peak with a jaw -clencher: Which David will ties make his Brash debut a sound of Issa Cissoko's tenor Sony/ATV BMI; J Sewell, 3000 did. On the first single win? With a comfortable margin of 12 million votes, solid winner. Sligh has an in- sax. Also note the unmistak- ASCAP from sophomore solo set "II America got it right, as rocker David Cook was deemed triguing way of approaching able Cuban feel of the tune Epic Trill," Bun proclaims what being the prize winner May 21. Unfortunately, he is saddled with faith from a fresh viewpoint "Cabral. " -PVV CIKat DeLuna is shaping gangsta means to him: a per- victory anthem "Time of My Life," the same sort of gooey that infuses the songs with up to be two for two son of loyalty, humility and phi- ballad that has beleaguered every Idol, but he delivers it warmth and substance. ELECTRONIC when it comes to summer dance lanthropy. Sean Kingston's ap- with enough gritty panache to at least propel it beyond its "Empty Me" is an autobio- BOOKA SHADE anthems. "Run the Show," the pearance on the chorus seems clichéd thematic and melodic makeup. Despite the show graphical tune that puts the The Sun & the Light second single from debut a bit out of place, but doesn't reminding over and over about how much talent pervad- "Idol" experience in perspec- Producer: Booka Shade album "9 Lives," is a fiery fol- decrease the overall impact. ed this season, most among the top 12 face an uphill climb tive with Sligh's desires and Get Physical low-up to last year's breakout Bun's stern Southern drawl in the real world. Cook is a star, as is earnest runner -up beliefs, and "Vessel" is an Release Date: May 27 "Whine Up." While the track couldn't be more believable, David Archuleta and too -early castoff Michael Johns. The eloquent song about simply Much like Matthew was originally released months and the tireless devotion and real competition begins when we hear what these pag- wanting to be used by God Dear's excellent "Asa ago, it's now gaining fuel fol- sheer skills he puts forth in his eant finalists deliver post -reality series. Time will tell. -CT to make a difference. Fans Breed," German duo Booka lowing its use in promo spots rhymes are second to none. he earned on "Idol" and pre- Shade's second full -length for Fox TV's "So You Think You The legacy of UGK continues. viously as a member of the unexpectedly merges the Can Dance" -with Shaka Dee Pimp C would be proud. -SR The military's loss is country adhesive singalong chorus and band Half Past Forever will minimal electro for which it pulled off and replaced for music's gain as Thomas is an sounds tailor -made for a sum- be happy to see Sligh deliver is best -known with a dusty radio by rapper Busta Rhymes, COUNTRY engaging vocalist and insight- mer day. If any new artist de- on that early promise and kind of song -based acoustic while a Spanish mix adds reg- KENI THOMAS ful songwriter with tons of per- serves a shot at the big time, it's take his career to the next folk. The result is simple and gaetón mainstay . Shreveport 2 LA (3:54) sonality onstage and off. This this talented guy, who has more level with this well- crafted sparse, but more satisfying DeLuna delivers a focused, lay- Producer: Keni Thomas catchy single is a terrific intro- than paid his dues. -DEP collection. -DEP than heavier -handed elec- ered vocal as distinctive as her Writers: B. Montana, M. Plume duction to his finely crafted tronic projects. "Control Me" previous hit, while Busta plays Publishers: various sophomore album "Gunslinger." ROCK and "Psychameleon" feel like off DeLuna's Spanglish jam RMB Records "Shreveport 2 LA" is a Billy Mon- THE ANIX

ORCHESTRA stripped -down Depeche with typical bravado. "Am I 121 A former Army Ranger, tana/Mike Plume- penned num- This Game (3:06) BAOBAB Mode, with vocalist (and Dreaming," slated as the third Keni Thomas was one of ber with a picturesque lyric Producer: Tomas Costanza

Made in Dakar Booka member) Walter single, was snatched back the soldiers who survived the about a man traveling cross - Writers: B. Smith, T. Costanza, Producer: Nick Gold Merziger in a tin can instead when "Show" began to run and battle in Somalia that inspired country to rendezvous with the C. Yarber World Circuit/Nonesuch of a Dave Gahan echo cham- -with executive producer the film "Black Hawk Down." woman he loves. It boasts an Publisher: not listed Release Date: May 20 ber. None of the instrumen- now stripped on -waits Chamberlain Records NEW KOS ©This iconic Senegalese tals reach the dizzy heights in the wings as a worthy con- ©The fondly embraced band last released of 2006 international hit tender. Sounds like it could be BLOCK nostalgia vogue for the "Specialists in All Styles" in "Body Language," which the summer of the Kat. -MM Summertime (3:25) '80s usually better serves 2002, marking a return from convinced dancefloor hold- Producers: Nasri Atweh, Adam bands that launched during an extended hiatus. "Made outs of electro's propensity METRO STATION Messinger that decade than those in- in Dakar" is an 11 -song mix of for beauty. But "Charlotte" (3:02) Writers: H. Abdulbamad, N. Atweh, Ìi/.1C spired by it. Los Angeles - new tunes and previously comes close, pounding an ir- Producers: S A *M, Sluggo D. Wahlberg based Anix is that rare act that recorded songs that the resistible synth riff over Ca- Writer: Metro Station Publishers: various might benefit from the trend, band has retracked in grand siotone keys. The title track Publishers: EMI April/Metro lnterscope given that it's forging another fashion. Several of the tunes might sound like the "boo- Station Music It's not often that a pop reunion draws the consumptive chapter in synth rock. "This have all but vanished, so to gie Hawser" theme song on Red/Columbia mania that New Kids on the Block is. Understandably, Game" is a focus track from find them again here is a PCP, but more often than aDance hipsters and few boy bands have had as much impact on a genera- "Demolition City," an addictive major thrill. The album offers not, Booka proves that even punk -rock indie freaks tion: By 1988, NKOTB was a global phenom, launching record uniting next -gen new a great retrospective on Or- the most tech -nerdy elec- alike are checking in to Metro merchandising to newfound heights, with nine consecu- wavers and devotees. The chestra Baobab and no tronic music has a melodic Station's "Shake It," a song that tive top 10 singles in two years, before momentum effervescent keys of "This shortage of stylistic turns. heritage. -KM sounds like it could play all deflated in 1994. All five original members -Donnie Game" lightly bubble and fizz night at dance -a- thons, sports Wahlberg, Danny Wood, Joey McIntyre, Jordan Knight before tipping their hat to li4-1 arenas, strip clubs or dance - and Jonathan Knight -now in their mid- to late 30s, are "People Are People" -era De- pKl ti a Ill floors. The track is progressive, in the game for a new album and tour. Ironically, first sin- peche Mode, then culminate EDITED BY JONATHAN COHEN CRITICS' CHOICE *: A new adrenaline -pumping fun with gle "Summertime" melodically and thematically sounds in an after -midnight techno (ALBUMS) AND CHUCK TAYLOR release, regardless of chart (SINGLES) potential, highly recommended addicting, anthemic vocals much like "Summer Girls," a top 20 hit in 1999 for rival zenith at the chorus. The Anix's for musical merit. from Trace Cyrus Ray's boy band LFO. It's all right, but enough of a CONTRIBUTORS: Tina Benitez, (Billy youthful advantage of 20 years hind- Mariel Concepcion, Hillary Crosley, All albums commercially available son) and Mason Musso. A hel- reminder for millions of nostalgic (and financially able) sight and improved technol- Gary Graff, Kerri Mason, Michael in the United States are eligible. luva ride. -MM 30- something fans to at least fuel thousands of iTunes ogy also protect it from the Menachem, Deborah Evans Price, Send album review copies to Reed, Mark Sutherland, Jonathan Cohen and singles downloads of the group's "Greatest Hits" (plenty of clunky synth productions that Chuck Taylor, Christa L. Titus, Ken review copies to Chuck Taylor videoclips are also available). Whether or not this par- now heavily date the trio's he- Tucker, Philip Van Vleck, Jeff (both at Billboard, 770 Broadway, BUN B FEATURING ticular song connects at radio, New Kids' return is a pop roes. Don't be surprised if you Vrabel, Lavinia Jones Wright Seventh Floor, New York, N.V. 10003) or to the writers in the SEAN KINGSTON culture event -and certain cash cow. It's also good clean hear this band played along- PICK A new release predicted : appropriate bureaus. fun, never goes fashion. to hit the top half of the chart in That's Gangsta (3:55) and that out of -CT side 30 Seconds to Mars on the corresponding format. Producer: J.R. Rotem late -night top 40. -CLT

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www.americanradiohistory.com BEAUTY AND THE Frank Sinatra is having a very good tional outlets as Nordstrom and Star - week. Buoyed by a cavalcade of mar- bucks (23,000), while digital had a `BEAST' keting and advertising surrounding much smaller share, with 10,000 multiple products tied to the 10th copies sold. Atlanta Rapper Is In anniversary of his death, "Nothing "They're contemporizing a classic The Right Place At but the Best" (Reprise), a collection star and associating him in a modern The Right Time of remastered classics, debuts this context. That revives interest and drives week at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 people to find out more about that When Atlanta rapper V.I.C. took a gig with sales of 99,000 copies, accord- artist," says Dean Crutchfield, a brand- at a local barbershop, he never imag- ing to Nielsen SoundScan. ing expert formerly with Wolff Olins, ined it'd lead him to meet the person The last time Sinatra debuted so a branding company in New York. who'd eventually help him launch his high was in 1993 with the No. 2 hit The avalanche of material stems rap career. "Duets," which went on to sell 3.2 mil- from a partnership between Warner Noted producer Mr. Collipark and his lion copies. Music and the Sinatra family under brother got haircuts at a shop two Sinatra's name and works are all the banner Frank Sinatra Enterprises. doors down from where V.I.C. worked. over the media landscape of late. Announced late last year, the agree- "I always saw them in the neighbor- Warner Home Video is releasing 22 ment gives FSE the sole right to li- hood," the 21- year -old rapper says. "I of his films, including "Ocean's cense Sinatra's likeness and image. would always give them CDs over the

Eleven," "The Man With the Golden And the large amount of content is years, but one day I handed them the Arm" and "Anchors Aweigh." Turner not without its critics. right one at the right time. The next day Classic Movies, backed by a ubiqui- "FSE wanted to commemorate [Collipark] came to my job and said he tous advertising campaign, is show- Sinatra's life and his great body of wanted to manage me, and promised ing Sinatra movies and musical work. There are so many facets to me a deal by the end of the year." specials throughout the month of May Sinatra's body of work it was essen- Collipark kept hosted by his children Nancy, Tina tial for it to be represented in a syn- his word. A few and Frank Jr. And Life Books put out ergistic and comprehensive way. And days later, V.I.C. BY KAMAU HIGH an updated version of "Remember- FSE feels the success of the record signed to Colli- ing Sinatra" titled "Life: Remember- represents that," FSE co- president park's Young ing Sinatra: 10 Years Later." Jimmy Edwards says. "All these part- Mogul Entertain- Sirius Satellite Radio, which has a nerships helped increase his profile, ment label, and STILL channel dedicated to Sinatra, broad- but Frank sells Frank." by August 2007 cast a 90- minute program about the Newbury Comics buyer Natalie he was picked up new album with interviews and com- Waleik predicts the album will be a by Warner Bros. THE mentary. In addition, the U.S. Post steady seller but is disappointed it did V.I.C. is now Office issued a commemorative not come out before Mother's Day. "I prepping the re- stamp bearing the same Sinatra think it would have sold a ton more lease of his debut album, "Beast" ( "Be- image used on the . if it did," she says. cause I'm a beast on the mic, I'm a CHAIRMAN beast on the stage, and I'm a beast in The 22 -track disc had strong sales FSE does have marketing efforts Sinatra Compilation Enjoys in chain retail (27,000), mass mer- tied to Father's Day with retail posi- the sheets," he says of the title), due Huge Debut Week chants (33,000) and such nontradi- tioning through circulars. late August or early September. The set was produced by Collipark and the Package Store. Hurricane Chris, Avant, , E- 40, Bun B, DJ Unk, Big Kuntry, gospel ROAD WARRIORS singer Canton Jones, Polow Da Don, Jermaine Dupri and make Take it from Cab frontman Alex Starship tour, and now they are guest appearances on the project. Deleon: A little chutzpah and loy- out with Metro Station," Fueled The first single, the Soulja Boy - alty to your favorite band can by Ramen president John Jan - produced "Get Silly," entered Billboard's take you a long way. "People ick says. "We plan on having Hot R &B /Hip -Hop Songs chart eight think that we got signed because them on the road for the rest of weeks ago and is now No. 21 on the tally. we were friends with Panic at the the year." Polow and Dupri are set to appear on Disco, but that's not really true," Janick is also working the band the track's remix, which will be serviced he says. "I was a longtime fan of online, with an extensive viral to radio and online sites in the coming The album also features the fe- Panic, and when I gave them our video campaign. As far as an weeks. demo tape after a show, they re- MTV -ready video goes, the band male- appreciation track "Wifey Type "; membered me. Then I got a call is waiting until June to shoot its the religious- driven "My Faith "; and saying we were going to fly out first one. "They did a walk -on at "Bop," pegged as the second single. to California to open a secret Fall `TRL,' but we're not working them Warner Bros. marketing director Out Boy show." over there quite yet," he says. Cassandra Ware saysa national online It's a long way from playing "We've had success with build- marketing campaign will begin this coffee shops and opening secret ing grass -roots support on the month. It includes a "Get Silly" contest shows to the top of Billboard's road first before taking bands to in which fans can submit videos via Heatseekers chart, where the radio and TV, and we're doing the vicgetsilly.com and V.I.C: s MySpace band debuted in the May 17 issue same for ." page to win a personal visit from the and is No. 31 this week, with "We don't want to be one -hit rapper. In addition, a stateside tour 11,000 copies of its debut, "Whis- wonders," Deleon says. "I think alongside Soulja Boy, dubbed the 17 per War," sold, according to it's really good for us to take it and Under tour, is in the works. Nielsen SoundScan. The band's slow and focus on building our "I want the world to see a very hum- label, , is rely- careers. When we signed to Fu- ble, well- rounded person who is able to ing on its tried -and -true formula eled by Ramen, we knew what we succeed without resorting to any ille- of building bands slowly and put- were getting into; everyone told gal means," V.I.C. says. "I want them to ting them on the road nonstop. us to just work hard and tour like see someone that did it with hard work "We had them on the Cobra crazy." -Cortney Harding and faith." -Mariel Concepcion

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Trick Pony's Newfield Shows After signing with Red Light Management, where "I wanted to show people a softer side, but I also Her Softer Side she works with Greg Hill and former Sony Nashville wanted to keep an edge and still rock. I wanted it to `NEED' chief John Grady, her producer search began. be a little more intimate and a little more personal." R &B singer Jazmine Sullivan's latest Heidi Newfield, former lead singer for Trick Pony, Tony Brown (George Strait, Reba McEntire) Newfield's album, "What Am I Waiting For" single, "Need U Bad," is ushering in a is glad she wrote her debut solo single when she topped her list. "He goes in and builds a record (Curb), is tentatively scheduled for late- summer second act for an artist who's only 21. did and not when she first thought about it. "Johnny around that artist, and it sounds like that artist," release. Even though she wrote or co -wrote six of The track jumps 75 -56 on this issue's & June," No. 32 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs she says. "He made Wynonna sound like the 10 cuts, she says her philosophy was to let the Hot R&B /Hip -Hop Songs tally, and her chart, is, as the title suggests, a song about long - Wynonna and he made Lyle Lovett sound like best song win. "I hoped that I could write or co- distinctive, gravelly alto has been an lasting love, like that of the late Johnny Cash and Lyle Lovett." write all of them or some of them, but if I didn't easy sell to radio, especially in her June Carter Cash. But when Grady suggested they approach get to write any of them, then so be it." Philadelphia hometown. While she hadn't co- written with Deanna Bryant Brown, Newfield was skeptical. "He's working Country KRTY San Jose, Calif.. PD Julie Stevens "Jazmine touches the heart and soul and Stephony Smith before, they knew that Cash with Brooks & Dunn and Reba and George Strait. says Newfield has been a favorite at the station since of Philadelphia," urban WPHI PD Colby had appeared on Trick Pony's first album and that There's no way he'd have time for me," she told her Trick Pony days. But she was skeptical when Tyner says. "Her sound is classic. This Newfield had been friends with the couple. And Grady. Yet after an initial meeting, Brown signed she heard Newfield was recording a solo album, city appreciates the realness and she while Newfield and former bandmates Ira Dean on. "I wanted to dig a little deeper musically and since Trick Pony's biggest chart hits, "Pour Me" has a uniquely credible sound." and Keith Burns had an idea for a song about the he loved that," Newfield says. "I felt like we re- and "," came seven years ago. Sullivan initially signed to Jive as a famous couple years earlier, they never wrote it. ally made a connection." "Frankly, we had no hopes for this song," Stevens teen in 2003, where she worked on an "This was meant to be," she told Bryant and Smith While she's proud of her work with Trick Pony, says. "We were not expecting anything." That ill -fated album with producer Missy El- when they proposed the idea to her. Newfield says she wanted to spread her wings. "We changed when she actually heard "Johnny & June." liott. Sullivan was dropped by 2004 After departing Trick Pony in 2006, Newfield set were known for one thing: that rowdy, barroom, "We loved it right off the bat," Stevens says, not- because she didn't fit into Jive's pop - out to find three things: the right manager, the right honky -tonk sound. I love what we did, but we ing that listeners seem to love it too, as it's already leaning roster, but eventually signed producer and the right songs for her solo debut. painted ourselves into a corner musically," she says. one of the station's top -researching songs. to J Records in 2007. Her as -yet- untitled debut is slated for a Sept. 16 bow, and she's working with producers like Salaam Remi and .

"I'd be lying if I said her success was the genius of the marketing and pro- motional department," J VP of urban BRAD HITS BIG marketing Carolyn Williams says. "Pro- Newly awarded Academy of Country Music male vocalist of the year Brad Paisley grammers are naturally gravitating to- achi fourth No.1 from his "5th Gear" album, as "I'm Still a Guy" shifts 2 -1 on ward 'Need U Bad.' People are look- Bill s Hot Country Songs this week. The wry masculine anthem draws 29.4 ing for something new, and Jazmine million audience impressions with spins at each of the 108 stations monitored is perfect." by Nielsen BDS for chart tabulation (up 873,000 impressions). Williams feels Sullivan's music is tai- Paisley's album is just the third country release this decade to lor -made for licensing. "We know that yield that many No. 1s, following Tim McGraw's "Set This Cir- Jazmine's sound is special," she says. cus Down" (2001 -02) and ' "If You're Going "You don't just listen to it -you feel it. Through Hell" (2006 -08). We plan to utilize her music as a cross - The new No.1 is the West Virginia native's 11th to date and marketing opportunity rather than lim- his seventh consecutive - topper (excluding holiday ti- iting her to a hip- hop/soul artist." tles). That's the best N Il Toby Keith launched a vol- While a video for "Need U Bad"

ley of seven No. 1 son ch 2001, a streak that con- takes shape and the song makes its cluded with "Who's Your Daddy" in December 2002. debut at digital retail, J is bolstering So far this year, Paisley is the only artist to claim more Sullivan's online presence by relaunch- than one No.1 on Hot Country Songs. His "Letter to Me" ing her MySpace page and Web site, led for four weeks starting in the Feb. 2 issue. He also jazminesullivanmusic.com. topped the chart three times in 2007 and twice "Jazmine's buzz is definitely starting each year in 2006 and 2005. to happen," Williams says.' We'll have in- -Wade Jessen timate listening sessions for tastemak- 7/ 16 ii P be ers soon. We're keeping her as visible as possible." -Hillary Crosley

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A couple of years ago, when an increas- should be tracked as singles. similar to the chart rules Billboard In fact, the band's "Narrow Stairs" is ing array of digital -only releases became Problematic tracking anomalies have adopted for physical product in the the only album to surpass 100,000 apparent on Top Digital Albums, I been smoothed, and, with feedback from '905. Call it validation. copies this week, a mark just missed polled distribution com- the industry, Billboard's Going forward, Billboard's Hot Sin- by new Frank Sinatra retrospective pany presidents as to charts team and our col- gles Sales chart will include digital sin- "Nothing but the Best" (99,000). whether these titles Oven leagues at Nielsen Sound - gles and physical singles, regardless The band's last album, its first should appear on the Bill- unte Scan have drafted of whether a digital offering is sold in through Atlantic, held prior career board 200. "The market GEOF guidelines that specifi- physical form, and those sales will con- marks for peak position and sales week MAYFIELD cally differentiate singles sequently inform the when "Plans" bowed at No. 4 on the big The entrance of "" isn't ready for that quite at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 yet," one said. and albums. and the Pop 100. chart in 2005 with 89,000 sold. An ear- makes Duffy the third female Welcome to "yet." A detailed list of those lier album, "," peaked British newcomer to have her TAXI RIDE: Can Death Cab for Cutie at No. 97 in 2003, while two sets before chart debut bow in the top 10 Effective next issue, chart rules is available since the beginning of 2007, digital -only albums and from Nielsen SoundScan still be described as an indie rock band that dented Top Heatseekers: "The following Amy Winehouse and EPs will be eligible to ap- or from Billboard Re- with two major -label releases stashed Photo Album" in 2001 and "You Can Leona Lewis. pear on most album sales charts, the search (research @billboard.com), but in its meter? Regardless of how you an- Play These Songs With Chords" in 2002. most noteworthy exception being Top the overriding parameters are simple. swer that question, you can now safely Those three Barsuk releases were sold Warner Music Group and I R &B as our urban Singles are defined as including no describe this Seattle quartet with the by Warner Music Group's independent distributor, WEA, lock the t /Hip -Hop Albums, three on the Billboard 200 f; sales charts continue to be determined more than four songs. (But, in consid- words "chart- topping." arm, Alternative Distribution Alliance. the first time since the Sep t. by a core subset of retail stores that eration of remixes, there is no restric- With 144,000 copies sold in its first 21, 1991, issue. The power 2 x 1 = 3: band 3 Doors trio: Atlantic Group's Death concentrate in those genres. tion on number of tracks.) And, week, 38% of those digital downloads, Cab for Cutie and Jason Mrall Since the Nov. 17, 2007, issue, when generally speaking, a single should be Cutie's second Atlantic -distributed Down appears in line for its fourth top at Nos. 1 and 3, respectively, , a revision in Billboard policy allowed titled the same of the songs it album easily leads the Billboard 200. 10 album, and its second consecutive and at No. 2, a Frank Sinatra 1, Nielsen Sound- set on Reprise. proprietary albums like the Eagles' contains. Bundles that No. given the looks of d Wal- Mart -exclusive "Long Road out of vary from those crite- Scan's Building chart on May 21. Eden" or 's Target -only ria will be tracked as The indicator list, built on un- "Live From Philadelphia" to chart on EPs or albums and will weighted sales from nine leading Billbocí'rcl the Billboard 200, the digital -only re- be eligible for our chains, puts the opening -day total for leases were the only category excluded album charts. self-titled "3 Doors Down" at 45,000. The Hot from most Billboard album lists. An ironic twist in An almost identical Wednesday 100, launched in February by The exclusion wasn't tied to bias or these brave new times Building total for Foo Fighters' Hanshin Contents Link, finds Patience & Grace" led larger audience now with an a lack of awareness that such titles is that the criteria that "Echoes, Silence, English translation of the chart exist, but rather a need to reach con- we will now apply to to a first -week sum of 168,000, while a added to billboard.com and down- Building sum of42,000led Matchbox billboard.biz. Like the original sensus with labels and digital mer- differentiate Hot 100, the list is built on chants on which digital bundles should loaded singles from Twenty's "Exile on Mainstream" to a sales and radio data. be considered albums and which albums are largely DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE full -week total of 131,000.

Sales VAkwitch A Weekly National Music Report are rounded. IVIarlcet For week ending May 18, 2008. Figures nielsen Compiled from a national sample of retail store and rack CHART Weekly Unit Sales Year -To -Date sales reports collected and provided by SoundScan DIGITAL DIGITAL 2001 2008 CHANGE 13EA1 ALBUMS ALBUMS' TRAINS 2001 2008 (NANGE This Week 7,433,000 1,184,000 19,664,000 OVERALL UNIT SALES YEAR -TO -DATE SALES BY ALBUM CATEGORY »Ten years after his death, -11.2% -17.1% Frank Sinatra remains a potent Last Week 8,120,000 1,137,000 19,670,000 Albums 177,147,000 157,374,000 Current 105,721,000 87,608,000 force on the Billboard 200, Digital Tracks 325,099,000 418,851,000 28.8% Catalog 71,426,000 69,766,000 -2.3% where his greatest -hits Change -8.5% 4.1% 0.0% Store Singles 802,000 609,000 -24.1% collection "Nothing but the Deep Catalog 49,669,000 -1.5% Ns Week Last Yew 8,594,000 947,000 15,019,000 50,430,000 Best" (Reprise) bows at No. 2. Total 503,048,000 576,834,000 14.7% Along with "Duets," which spent Change -13.5% 25.0% 30.9% Albums w /TEA' 209,656,900 199,259,100 -5.0% three weeks in the runner -up 'Digital album sales are also counted within album sales. 'Includes track equivalent album sales (TEA) with 10 track downloads equivalent spot in 1993, "Nothing but the to one album sale. ALBUM SALES Best" is the highest- ranking Weekly Album Sales (Million Units) CURRENT Sinatra album since "Strangers in 30 '07 the Night" went to No. 1 in 1966. Billboard started publishing a DIGITAL TRACKS SALES '08 87.6 mi111oh weekly album chart March 24, 25 1956, and the following week, '07 sb for Sinatra's "Songs Swingin' '08 418.9 million CATALOG ALBUM SALES Lovers" debuted, eventually 20 - 2008 peaking at No. 2. While Sinatra '07 had been recording albums prior to the introduction of the survey, 15 '08 69.8 million his span of charted albums is now expanded to 52 years and two SALES BY ALBUM FORMAT months, almost the longest possible CD 158,875,000 132,717,000 -16.5% span any artist could achieve. 7.4M Digital 17,746,000 23,987,000 35.2% Nielsen SoundScan counts as current only sales within the first 18 months of an Read Fred Bronson album's release (12 months for classical and jazz albums). Titles that stay in the a Cassette 150,000 42,000 -72.0% top half of The Billboard 200, however, remain as current Titles older than 18 every week at months are catalog. Deep catalog is a subset of catalog for titles out more than billboard.com /fred. 67.0% 36 months. J FM AM J J A S O N D J Other 376,000 628,000

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_ CI CLAY AIKEN RIHANNA 18 4 On My Way Here 68 67 69 2 5:19 /RCA 28D89 /RMG (18.98) CI SRP/DEF JAM 008968'nDJMG (13.95) SOUNDTRACK ®MAROON 5 19 17 13 20 Juno 69 58 It 1 FOX RHINO 410236'/ÁG (13.98) A8M/OCTONE Won't Be Soon Before Long III( 91 008917/IGA (18.98) CI MUDCRUTCH 20 15 16 U 70 53 Mudcrutch 8 BRUSHFIRE 010580' UMRG (13.98) g REPRISE 455868/WARNER BRBS (18.98) COLBIE CAILLAT STEVE WINWOOD 21 19 19 Coco U 5 71 42 12 Nine Lives 12 UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 009219. UMRG (10.98) W)NCRAFT /COLUMBIA 222501SONY MUSIC (15.98) SOUNDTRACK MARVIN SAPP 22 26 14 S 5 72 56 60 55 FOX 82986 RAZOR 8 TIE (16.98) CI Thirsty If it's a week VERITY 09433'ZOMBA (17.98) CIJORDIN SPARKS THE -DREAM 23 18 23 Jordin Sparks with an increase 85 68® Love /Hate 19:JIVE 18752/ZOMBA (18.98) RADIO KILLA: DEF JAM 009872' IOJMG (13.98) , CARRIE UNDERWOOD for Kate Voegele, R.E.M. 24 25 39 Carnival Ride © 1:$ 74 55 36 Accelerate 2 ARISTA ARISTA NASHVILLE 11221 RMGFSBN (18 98) it must mean she ® WARNER BROS.418620* (18.98) + JAMES OTTO had 21 22 another NICKELBACK 25 Sunset Man 75 70 72 1 RAYBAW: WARNER BROS. (NASHVILLE) 49907 WRN (13.98) ROADRUNNER 618300 +` guest turn on 118.981 SOUNDTRACK `° PANIC AT THE DISCO The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian ld "One Tree Hill" 76 73 63 Pretty.Odd. 2 m® WALDEN MEDIA 000742'WALT DISNEY (18.981 DECAYDANCE /FUELED BY KAMEN 430524/AG (18.981 The album more THE RACONTEURS 27 34 26 10 Trilla 77 78 55 7 SL' _ OFF JAM 009536'/IDJMG (13.98) p THIRD MAN than doubles, 456050': WARNER BROS. (1888) PORTISHEAD KATE VOEGELE 28 24 7 Third up 153 %. Don't Look Away 27 -.4CU9Y 011141'/IDJMG (13.98) ®® MYSPACE /INTERSCOPE 10012. IVA (11.95) GEORGE STRAIT 14 18 a gi FLO RIDA 29 Troubadour S 79 71 49 Mail On Sunday 4 MLA . 912/ Ntr UMGN (13.98) POE BOY ATLANTIC 4: + AS (18.98) DAUGHTRY CrBRYAN 30 27 29 CI ADAMS RCA 18.98) Daughtry i The set, released 11 80 85h_ -'41, RAOL1, PJ ] L KID ROCK exclusively PACE 47 47 SOUNDTRACK Rock N Roll Jesus al 101 7 P.S. I Love You 60 TOP DOG. 90LENTIC -90556-, AG O (18.98) through Wal- SETTER EILANTIC 362748/AG 18 9a) MILEY CYRUS Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: The Best Of Both Worlds Concert / ALISON KRAUSS 32 33 20 10 Mart and Sam's 82 68 67 Raising Sand 2 HDLLYWOOP (.' '_ 110 'DISNEY (18.98 CO/DVD) .8 FL/UNDER 619075` (18.98) NATASHA BEDINGFIELD Club, is his top FOXY BROWN 33 32 24 Pocketful Of Sunshine Brooklyn's Don Diva 83 a PHONOGE', -C. EFL_ 117:E JUYY MUSIC (17.98) charting BLACK ROSES 5030/KOCH (17.98) 4 studio O ® eLUIS MIGUEL album since "18 CARRIE UNDERWOOD 34 10 Complices 84 60 75 ' "' Some Hearts 2 _ WARNER LATINA 503996 (18.98) ARISTA /ARISTA NASHVILLE 71197 RMG 118 981 Til I Die" hit No. 29 32 CI OLD 97'S 35 As I Am 13 31 Blame It On Gravity MBK. J 11513' RMG (18,98) in 1996. NEW WEST 6147 (16.98) FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS BUCKCHERRY 46 17 ® Flight Of The Conchords (Soundtrack) 3 86 76 66 15 O t HBO 71E' - POP (15.98) ELEVEN SEVEN 00001 /ATLANTIC (13.98) INCAREY SIMON SEETHER 37 23 This Kind Of Love 15 87 84 81 Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces 15 HEAR 3 "E I- 'ICORO (18.98) WIND -UP 13127 (18.98) THE ROOTS ONEREPUBLIC 38 28 6 Rising Down 6 73 a DE- . JUG 113.981 MOSLEYiINTERSCOPE 010266/1GA (13.98) TIM MCGRAW PARAMORE 39 20 10 © Greatest Hits: Limited Edition 10 86 79 RIOT) CURB 79086 EX (14.98) m FUELED BY RAMEN 159612'AG (13,98) CHERISH 49 BLAKE SHELTON The Truth 40 Pure BS 8 © D SHONUFF 00806 CAPITOL (18.98) ® WARNER BROS. (NASHVILLE) 44488 /WRN (18.98) CI BRAD PAISLEY FLYLEAF 41 41 83 5th Gear 3 91 87 Flyleaf 57 ARISTA NASHVILLE 07170588 (18.98) ® ARM. OCTANE 650005/IGA (12.96) 43 VARIOUS ARTISTS Starbucks CI The Second Wave 42 92 89 88 One - X 5 O ® RHINO CUSTOM PRODUCTS 8185 /STARBUCKS (13.98) compilation JIVE 83504'ZOMBA (18.98) ALAN JACKSON SNOOP DOGG 43 31 34 Time (13,000) boasts 65 ® ARISTA NASHVILLE Good 93 90 Ego Trippin 3 19943/SBN (18.98) DOGGYSTYLE 'GEFFEN 010835' /I6A (13.98) aTYE TRIBBETT & G.A. such acts as the MIRANDA LAMBERT 44 16 Stand Out 1A1 106 Crazy Ex- 6 INTEGRITY COLUMBIA 16114 / (15 98) Cure (pictured), COLUMBIA (NASHVILLE) 789321SBN (18.98) Girlfriend AMY WINEHOUSE the Ramones, COUNTING CROWS 45 40 40 Ei 95 75 61 Q Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings 3 UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 008428' /UMRG (10.98) DGC GEFFEN 010212/1GÁ (13.98) XT( and MICHAEL BUBLE EAGLES 46 22 35 Call Me Irresponsible 1 Generation X. 96 66 71 Long Road Out Of Eden H 1 a 143/REPRISE 100313 WARNER BROS. (18.98) ERC 4500 EX (14.98) CI KENNY CHESNEY 47 50 62 Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates 3' 103 89 Still Da Baddest 6 BNA 114E7 F911 18.98) SLIP -N -SLIDE 72008 (18.98) MARY J. BLIGE 48 45 46 Growing Pains 1 98 83 76 95/08 I? 18 MATRIAR_ I FEEN 01031301GÁ (13.98)+ UNIVERSAL LATINO 010974 (14.98) (4, KEYSHIA COLE JOHN MAYER 49 54 52 Just Like You 2 99 93 102 Continuum © 2 CO ".FIDE'.- '.I GE's"': 099:9E' IGA (13 98) AWARE /COLUMBIA 27976'. SONY MUSIC (18.98) RADIOHEAD 74 82 21 In Rainbows 1 100 79 31 Nittr win GEFFEN 010231 IGA (13.98) +.

GARTH BROOKS 57 KENNY CHESNEY 47 DAUGHTRY 30 FIVE FINGER DEATH FOXY BROWN 83 LEDISI 180 THE BILLBOARD 200 ARTIST INDEX CHRIS BROWN 52 CINEMATIC SUNRISE ..196 DAY26 165 EAGLES 96 PUNCH 161 KIRK FRANKLIN 184 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS 98 LED ZEPPELIN 116 MICHAEL BUBLE 46 KEYSHIA COLE 49 DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE .1 EMMURE 141 FLEX 118 175 IRON MAIDEN 58 TOBY KEITH 9 LEONA LEWIS 5 10 YEARS 12 RODNEY ATKINS 155 THE BEATLES ...., 158 BUCKCHERRY 86 AND DEF LEPPARD 56 ESTELLE 111 FLIGHT OF THE ALICIA KEYS 35 LIFEHOUSE 144 ATMOSPHERE 65 NATASHA BEDINGFIELD ..33 0 © THE IMPOSTERS ....117 GAVIN DEGRAW 15 CONCHORDS 36 KID ROCK 31 LIL MAMA 142 AUGUSTANA 115 REGINA BELLE 119 COUNTING CROWS ....95 RAHEEM DEVAUGHN 110 FLOBOTS 183 JUAN GABRI ALAN JACKSON KIDS 197 LINKIN PARK 63 ADKINS 62 AVENGED SEVENFOLD 146 DIERKS BENTLEY 14 RYAN CABRÖ 159 NEIL DIAMOND 7 FERGIE FLOGGING MOLLY 195 GABRIEL 174 143 THE KOOKS 170 CLAY AIKEN '8 THE BLACK KEYS 124 COLBIE CAILLAT 21 MILEY CYRUS 32 66 DOKKEN 133 VICENTE FERNANDEZ 54 FLO RIDA 79 GNARLS BARKLEY 104 JANET 152 GARY ALLAN 193 MARY J. BUGE 48 © MARIAN CAREY 6 THE -DREAM 73 LUPE FIASCO 108 FLYLEAF 91 199 LYFE JENNINGS 17 MADONNA APOCALYPTICA '50 ERYKAHERYKA1 ANDREA BOCEW ..157, 198 BAÖ CASTING CROWNS ...122 DUffY 4 FILTER 60 F00 FIGHTERS 167 JOSH GROBAN .16, 121 20 LADY ANTEBELLUM MANA 61 . JACK JOHNSON ...59 ATREYU 178 SARA BAREILLES 55 800800X 113 © CHERISH 40 DANITY KANE 64 FINGER ELEVEN 153 FOREVER THE SICKEST SARA GROVES 105 JONAS BROTHERS 51 MIRANDA LAMBERT ...94 MAROON 5 69 BARENAKED LADIES 112 KIDS 185 0 MATCHBOX TWENTY 179

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BAN & (BELUGAE1DGH1SiEPIC) FOUR TET (DOMINO) CLOSER JORDIN SPARKS DUET WITH CHRIS BROWN, NO AR TOUCH MY BODY 8 2 LOVE IN THIS CLUB, PART II 5 5 3 NE -TO DEE JAM /IDJMG NATASHA POCKETFUL OF SUNSHINE USHER FEAT. BEYONCE & LIL WAYNE (LAFACE / ZOMBA) MARIAN CAREY (ISLAND /IDJMG) BEDINGFIELD 4 MINUTES BUST IT BABY (PART 2) THE LIFE 5 6 3 DOORS DOWN ITS NOT MY TIME Q40 8 6 4 6 MADONNA FEATURING JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE WARNER BROS. PLIES FEAT. NE -YO (BIG -N- PRODIGY (AAS /VOX) GATES/SLIP SLIDE /ATLANTIC) REALIZE USHER FEAT. YOUNG JEEZY, LOVE IN THIS CLUB FEELS LIKE TONIGHT GO SPEED RACER GO 5 37 34 19 1 COLBIE CAILLAI UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC GAVIN DEGRAW, IN LOVE WITH A GIRL DAUGHTRY (RCA/RMG) o ALI DEE AND THE DEEKOMPRESSORS (RAZOR 8 TIE) HEAVEN SENT COLBIE CAILLAT REALIZE KILLA WE FLY 9 5 38 33 16 11 7 KEYSHIA COLE IMANI /GEFFEN/ INTERSCOPE CHERISH FEAT. 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KANYE WEST (HOME SCHOOUATLANTIC) ® MUSICAL CAST (WALT DISNEY) SWIFT, TAKE A BOW HALLELUJAH LET ME SEE SOMETHING 13 23 2 RASCAL FLATTS, EVERY DAY 1 19 62 RIHANNA SRP/DEF JAM /IDJMG - KATE VOEGELE (MYSPACE /INTERSCC, A.G. A WRECKLESS E.N.T. (WRECKLESS ENTERTAINMENT) ® SHE GOT IT TRACE ADKINS, YOU'RE GONNA MISS THIS HOLLYWOOD'S NOT AMERICA KOOL AID 14 10 5 44 13 11 21 91 2 PISTOLS FEAT. T -PAIN A TAY DIZM UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC JEWEL, STRONGER WOMAN FERRAS (CAPITOL) LIE BASS FEAT. JT MONEY (PIPELINE) THE WAY THAT I LOVE YOU BLAKE HOME MOVE SHAKE DROP DONT YOU EVAH 15 17 6 SHELTON, 45 42 2 15 13 6 ASHANTI THE INC. /UNIVERSAL MOTOWN DJ LAZ FEAT. FLO RIBA & CASELY (VIP) SPOON (MERGE) JAMES OTTO, JUST GOT STARTED LOVIN' YOU 2) NEW BUST IT BABY (PART PARTY PEOPLE RINGTONE 16 PHIL VASSAR, LOVE IS A BEAUTIFUL THING 46 14 8 24 5 PLIES FEAT. NE -YO GIG GATES /SLIP -N- SLIDE/ATLANTIC NELLY FEAT. FERGIE (DERRTY /UNIVERSAL MOTOWN) ENVY (55) TRUE LOVE SUGARLAND. STAY INDEPENDENT MACHINE GUN 17 NEW 47 41 20 ANGELS AND AIRWAVES SURETONE /GEFFEN /INTERSCOPE WEBBIE, LIL' PRAT & LIL' B00SIE (TRILUASYLUM/ATLANTIC) e PORTISHEAO (GO, DISCS /MERCURY /IDJMG) GAMES PAIN SUPERSTAR CONQUEST 18 NEW 48 46 24 18 20 15 THE GAME FEATURING KEYSHIA COLE GEFFEN /INTERSCOPE LUPE FIASCO FEAT. MATTHEW SANTOS (1ST & ISTWATLANTIC) (THIRD MAN /WARNER BROS.) I RUN THIS HANDLEBARS LIKE ME 19 NEW 55 6 19 22 2 FEAT. LIL WAYNE CASH MONEY/UNIVERSAL MOTOWN FLOBOTS (UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC) ILA MANDELLA (MAGIC MAN /K.E.S.) DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, I WILL POSSESS YOUR HEART PARTY PEOPLE CLOSER NEVER WANTED TO DANCE 20 LIL WAYNE FEAT. STATIC MAJOR, LOLLIPOP f}© 56 5 20 9 9 NELLY FEATURING FERGIE DERRTY /UNIVERSAL MOTOWN NE-VD 'DEE JAM,IDJMG) MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE (UCR /THE END) W 21 ITS NOT MY TIME RACONTEURS, SALUTE YOUR SOLUTION NOTHING WITHOUT YOU *For a complete listing of the Pop 100, 21 7 2 3 DOORS DOWN UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC CARNEY (THE DAS LABEL / INTERSCOPE) 4 MADONNA FEAT. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE, 4 MINUTES check out www.billboard.biz TAKE YOU DOWN FOUNDATIONS 22 6 3 5 USHER FEAT. YOUNG JEEZY, LOVE IN THIS CLUB 25 36 CHRIS BROWN JIVE / ZOMBA POP 100: The top Pop singles 8 tracks. according to mainstream top 40 (FICTION /GEFFEN / INTERSCOPE) 6.... -' SEAN KINGSTON FEAT, ELAN & JUBZ SANTANA, TM11ES NOTHIN radio audience impressions measured by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems. LAST NAME and sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan POP 100 AIRPLAY: Legend ITS RIGHT HERE 29 15 23z CARRIE UNDERWOOD ARISTA /ARISTA NASHVILLE NELLY FEAT. FERGIE, PARTY PEOPLE located below chart. HOT SINGLES SALES: The top -selling retail- available Q TANIKA TURNER (KOUNTREE BOYZ) physical singles, as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. This data is used to ANOTHER TRY LINKIN PARK, GIVEN UP compile both the Hot 100 and Pop 100. TOP MUSIC VIDEOS: The top - HEY SHAWTY 24 selling retail -available music videos. as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. 24 15 7 JOSH TURNER FEAT. TRISHA YEARWDOD MCA NASHVILLE KING B FEAT. O.S.K. (GET IT HOW U LIVE /GUACAMOLE) AVENGED SEVENFOLD, AFTERLIFE NOT VIDEOCLIPS: Based on audience -weighted plays from MTV. VH1, BET and CMT. and non -weighted plays from eight other channels, as monitored YOU'RE GONNA MISS THIS I GET IT IN PARAMORE, THAT'S WHAT YOU GET by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems. VIDEO MONITOR: Rotating playllsts 31 47 TRACE ADKINS CAPITOL NASHVILLE CHAOS TM COMMUNITY SERVA (FAM FIRST) from 12 channels. All charts ?. 2008. Nielsen Business Media Inc and Nielsen SoundScan, Inc. All r.ghts reserved

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ARTIST Title ARTIST Title IMPRINT & NUMBER / DISTRIBUTING LABEL (PRICE) IMPRINT & NUMBER / DISTRIBUTING LABEL (PRICE) NOT SNOT KEITH MJG SWEAT 33 MJG : Pimp Tight DEBUT Just Me RLA. TALK 48 (17.981 K E I A/ AT C O 106 556 /RHINO 18.9 MARIAN CAREY .* J. HOLIDAY Back My Lac' E = =MC2 48 50 Of ISLAND 010272' /IDJMG (13.98) MUSIC LINE 11805YCAPITOL (12.98) LYFE SOULJA BOY TELL'EM JENNINGS Lyfe Change 1`1 53 51 souljaboytellem.com COLUMBIA 07966/SONY MUSIC (11.9E) COLLIPARK/INTERSCOPE 009962/IGA (13.98) RICK ROSS BBALL AND MJG We Are The South (Greatest Hits) Trilla 41 ,SAVE II (17.98) SLIP -N- SLIDE /DEF JAM 009536' /IDJMG (13.98) ®®'.. HOUSE 5078 /KOCH FOXY BROWN BIRDMAN Brooklyn's Don Diva ICI61 58 5 *Stunna BLACK ROSES 5030 /KOCH (17.98) CASH MONEY /UNIVERSAL MOTOWN 010351/UMRG (13.98) TIFFANY EVANS CHERISH The Truth 54 45 Tiffany Evans SHO'NUFF 00806 /CAPITOL (18.98) OLUMBIA 91004 /SONY MUSIC (12.98) ANGIE STONE KEYSHIA COLE Just Like You 55 62 The Art Of Love & War CONFIDENTIAL/IMANI /GEFFEN 009475`/IGA (13.98) ,TAX 30146 /CONCORD (18.98) J. NE-YO MARY BLIGE Growing Pains 62 41 Because Of You MATRIARCH /GEFFEN 010313`/IGA (13.98) O+ DEF JAM 008697'/IDJMG (13.98) FAT JOE MARVIN SAPP 60 54 The Elephant In The Room Thirsty I TERROR SOUAD 14619 /IMPERIAL (18.981 VERITY 09433/ZOMBA (17.98) JOHN LEGEND THE ROOTS 51 55 Live From Philadelphia Rising Down O MUSIC DEE JAM 011138` /IDJMG (13.98) 0.0.D./COLUMBIA 21265 EX/SONY (14.98) O DEVIN THE DUDE THE -DREAM 5 NEW The Best Of Devin The Dude Love /Hate .I /RAP 4 481660 -A -LOT (12.98) RADIO KILLA/DEF JAM 009872`/IDJMG (13.98) CI PRINCE -A -LOT LIFE /RAP MAX MINELLI TRINA Still Da Baddest NEW The Remedy SLIP -N -SLIDE 72008 (18.98) .DR 5072 /KOCH (13.98) F RAHEEM DEVAUGHN THE JACKA OF THE MOBB FIGAZ AND BERNER Drought Season Love Behind The Melody .. +ERN ONE 4454 (16.98) JIVE 19080'ZOMBA (17.98) . JIM JONES ALICIA KEYS 56 S HARLEMs American Gangster As I Am El 1 -.00H 5073 (17.98) MBK/J 11513'/RMG (18.98) C* It TECH N9NE PRESENTS KRIZZ KALIKO REGINA BELLE Love Forever Shines 15: 50 - Vitiligo PENDULUM 300208500 (14 98) ,1RANGE 45/R8C (18.98) BABY D 57 53 A -Town Secret Weapon 19 23 12 New Amerykah: Part One (4th World War) G (17 98) UNIVERSAL MOTOWN 010800 /UMRG 13.98 it OOMP 5065 /KOCH 9TH WONDER & BUCKSHOT CHRIS BROWN 59 47 The Formula WM 26 Exclusive U IUCK DOWN 2070` (16.98) JIVE 12049 /ZOMBA (18.98) G s SHAWTY LO 21 20 Units In The City 70 71 Back To The Traphouse le D4L 331708/ASYLUM (18.98) ZAR /S0 ICEY /ASYLUM /ATLANTIC 313516/AG (18.98) SEAN KINGSTON MINT CONDITION 65 59 Sean Kingston 8 - E -Lite g. BELUGA HEIGHTS /EPIC MUSIC CAGED BIRD 3636 /IMAGE (18.98) /KOCH 12999/SONY (18.98) JAHEIM ALGEBRA 11111 18 24 The Makings Of A Man 3 111 81 70 Purpose ;yq DIVINE MILL /ATLANTIC 377532/AG (18.98) MAR 00001 (13.98 DANITY KANE Welcome To The Dollhouse 41, lis1 For a complete listing of the Hot R &B /Hip -Hop Albums, check out www.billboard.com ®Ri . BAD BOY 444604/AG (18.98) Prince Of The South 22 REAL TALK 49 (17.98) SNOOP DOGG Ego Trippin 2 TOP DOGGYSTYLE /GEFFEN 010835' /I0A (13.98) LEDISI Lost & Found 10 I31_UE.S ALBUMS ¡: VERVE 008909/VG (10.98) ROCKO Self -Made 34 ROAD /ISLAND URBAN 010773`/IDJMG (11.98) ARTIST Title FLO RIDA IMPRINT 8 NUMBER DISTRIBUTING LABEL ,23 19 9 Mail On Sunday 3 POE BOY /ATLANTIC 442748/AG (18.98) #1 STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN AND DOUBLE TROUBLE 1 The Real Deal: Greatest Hits Vol. 1 sr 18was 51511/SONY BMG ESTELLE 6, 3 Shine 6 HOME SCHOOL/ATLANTIC 412860/AG 13.98 JEFF HEALEY Mess Of Blues 11 VARIOUS ARTISTS 21 10 NOW 27 4 SONY BMG /EMI /UNIVERSAL /ZOMBA 22781 /SONY BMG STRATEGIC MARKETING GROUP (18.98) JOE BONAMASSA Sloe Gin RAY J J & R ADVENTURES 60283 19{ 6 All I Feel DEJA 34 /KNOCKOUT /EPIC 5041 /KOCH 17.98 TAB BENOIT WITH 'S LEROUX Night Train To Nashville .4 TELARC BLUES 83674/TELARC LUPE FIASCO 111128 25'' 22 Lupe Fiasco's The Cool 4 1ST & 15TH /ATLANTIC 368316`/AG (18.98) MARCIA BALL Peace, Love & BBQ WEBBIE ALLIGATOR 4922 3 12 Savage Life 2 TRILL/ASYLUM /ATLANTIC 427836/AG 1818 RAY VAUGHAN & FRIENDS .937 6 STEVIE Solos, Sessions & Encores JANET LEGACY /EPIC 87321/SONY EMS al 22 29 12 Discipline 1 ISLAND 010735`/IDJMG (13.98) O ROBERT CRAY Live At The BBC AMY WINEHOUSE MERCURY 011058/UME 3 62 Back To Black © 4d UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 008428 /UMRG 10.98 NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS .1 0 B 7 17 Hernando RIHANNA rt SONGS OF THE SOUTH 006` 39 59 Good Girl Gone Bad U 3 SRP/DEF JAM 008968 /IDJMG 131 BACK DOOR SLAM 11135 6 16 Roll Away SCARFACE BLIX STREET 10087 2 4 The Best Of Scarface 15 J PRINCE /RAP -A -LOT 4 LIFE 99351 /RAP -A -LOT (12.98 KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD 9 69 10 Days Out: Blues From The Backroads .P REPRISE 49294` /WARNER BROS. GUi DAY26 17 8 1 BAD BOY 444540/AG (18.98) OTIS TAYLOR 13 13 Recapturing The Banjo PRODIGY TELARC BLUES 83667/TELARC H.N.I.C. Pt. 2 3 ig AA040701 /VOX 17.98 O MICHAEL BURKS A 10 6 Iron Man ALLIGATOR 4923 NEW ATL: A-Town Legend 38 SICCNESS.NET 47 (17.98) SOUNDTRACK m 12 64 Black Snake Moan NEW WEST 6105 '; ATMOSPHERE When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold i3' 34. . RHYMESAYERS ENTERTAINMENT 0096' /ILG (14.98) C+; THE LEGENDARY RHYTHM & BLUES REVUE ;, 11:1 14 5 Command Performance JILL SCOTT DELTA GROOVE 121 30 49 The Real Thing: Words And Sounds Vol. 3 2 ..w HIDDEN BEACH 00050 (18.98) C* SEAN COSTELLO it REENTRY We Can Get Together TREY SONGZ DELTA GROOVE 120 m+114 Trey Day 2 SONG BOOK /ATLANTIC 135740/AG 18.98 LIL MAMA 42 5 VYP: Voice Of The Young People 5 FAMILIAR FACES /JIVE 12331/ZOMBA (17.98) C* KIRK FRANKLIN 34 4lP The Fight Of My Life 7 FO YO SOUL /GOSPO CENTRIC 16772 / ZOMBA (18.98) BETWEEN THE BULLETS rgeorge a billboard con, 36 36 A Song For You 28 AFTER PLATINUM 7935 (15.98) CHRISETTE MICHELE NAMES RETURN TO LIST I FAMILIAR 32 44, Am DER JAM 008774/IDJMG 10.98 MARIO A trio of artists make long -awaited returns to first album in seven years. Though it's her 39 37 Go 4 3RD STREET /J 21569 /RMG 18. Top R &B/Hip -Hop Albums, led by Keith Sweat, fourth consecutive top 10, Brown has publicly 47 5& VARIOUS ARTISTS We The Best 33 MTS 29 /RBC (13.98) who crowns the list with "Just Me," the singer's disapproved of the project and plans to revamp GNARLS BARKLEY 48 41 35 The Odd Couple 14 next DOWNTOWN /ATLANTIC 450236`/AG 18.9 first studio album since 2002. and rerelease it month. PLIES 46 43 The Real Testament 2., Sweat last reigned with a self- And Regina Belle makes her BIG GATES /SLIP -N -SLIDE /ATLANTIC 185340/AG 18.98 I CECE WINANS titled album in 1996, the last of first arrival since 2002 with 50 29 38 Thy Kingdom Come 12 PURESPRINGS GOSPEL 84966/EMI GOSPEL 17.9 debut gospel album "Love KANYE WEST five consecutive chart- toppers 42 48 Graduation B 1 ROC -A- FELLA /DEF JAM 009541 /IDJMG 13.98 for him that began in 1988 Forever Shines" at No. 15. JAY Z American Gangster U 1 ROC -A- FELLA /DEF JAM 010229` /IDJMG 13. with "Make It Last Forever." At She also pulls the Hot Shot KIDZ IN THE HALL The In Crowd 53, No. 5, Foxy Debut on Top Gospel Al- MAJOR LABEL 2075 /DUCK DOWN 16.98 Brown celebrates

BRIAN CULBERTSON Bringing Back The Funk 18 her chart homecoming with bums at No. 3. GRP 010927/VG (13.98) "-Brooklyn's Don Diva," her -Raphael George Silverback Gorilla 0-BLOCK 5595 KOCH (17 98)

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USHER Love In This Part I1 ZOMBA (87.2) ¡ Club, 10 5 GET SILLY IllNO AIR V.I.C. (YOUNG MOGUL/WARNER BROS.) DRINA SPARKS DUET WITH CHRIS BROWN (19 /JIVE/ ZOMBA) THE- I Luv Your Girl IDJMG (80.7) 12 LOW r THE BOSS AL Teenage Love Affair RAG (84.4) 15 I FLO RIDA FEAT. T -PAIN (POE BOY /ATLANTIC) RICK ROSS FEAT. T-PAIN (SLIP -N- SLIDE /DEF JAM /IDJMG) 4 Get Silly WARNER BROS. (66.4) 18 INDEPENDENT 8 BUST IT BABY (PART 2) LT Never Never Land COLUMBIA (71.2) 21 WEBBIE, UV PHAT á LIE BOOSIE (TRILL/ASYLUM/ATLANTIC) PLIES FEAT. NE -YO (BIG GATES/SLIP -N -SLIDE /ATLANTIC) M Music For Love RMG (81.7) 29

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I A MILLI BYE BYE 11 14 5 LIL WAYNE (CASH MONEY/UNIVERSAL MOTOWN) MARIAN CAREY (ISLAND /IDJMG)

GAME'S PAIN 1 FINER THINGS 12 1 12 THE GAME FEAT. KEYSHIA COLE (GEFFEN / INTERSCOPE) DJ FEW 1911. FEAT. KANYE WEST, JERMAINE OUPRI, FABOLOUS & NE-Y0 (SO SO DEF/IDJMG)

13 ¡ I KNOW SHE GOT IT 11 18 JAY -Z FEAT. PHARRELL (ROC -A- FELLA /DEF JAM /IDJMG) 2 PISTOLS (UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC) 111 RHYTHMIC AIRPLAY ®DEY KNOW CLOSER 5 Lollipop UNIVERSAL MOTOWN (75.2) 1 SHAWTY LO (D4UASYLUM) NE -Y0 (DEF JAM /IDJMG) -- I What You Got INTERSCOPE (66.8) 3 .FOOLISH LOW 13 36 MA;; Bye Bye )DJMG(74.3) 11 15 SIMWTY LO (D4UASYLUM) FLO RIDA FEAT. T -PAIN (POE BOY /ATLANTIC) 111 NE Closer IDJMG (73.1) 14 ®III THAT'S GANGSTA LOVE IN THIS CLUB, PART II 20 3 16 BUN B FEAT. SEAN KINGSTON (RAP -A -LOT 4 LIFE /ASYLUM) USHER FEAT. BEYONCE B LIL WAYNE (LAFACE /ZOMBA) US Love In This Club. Part It ZOMBA (87.3) 16 LIFE OF DA PARTY TAKE A BOW RIHA Take A Bow IDJMG (73.9) 17 18 5 SNOOP DOGO FEAT. TOO SHORT á MISTAN FA.B. (DOGGYSTYLE/GEFFEN INTERSCOPE) RIHANNA (SRP /DEF JAM / /IDJMG) AS ' The Way That I Love You UNIVERSAL MOTOWN (81.9) 24 PARTY PEOPLE GET LIKE ME Get Silly WARNER BROS. (66.7) 36 19 6 A. NELLY FEAT. FERGIE (DERRTY /UNIVERSAL MOTOWN) DAVID BANNER FEAT. CHRIS BROWN (BIG. F.A.C.E. /SRC /UNIVERSAL MOTOWN) CH Take You Down ZOMBA (77.3) NO MATTER WHAT WITH YOU 1 15 24 * ALICIA ¿' Teenage Love Affair RHO (82.2) ' T.I. (GRAND HUSTLE /ATLANTIC) CHRIS BROWN (JIVE /ZOMBA) KARINA War DiMG(66.1) I LOOKIN BOY INDEPENDENT 20 L20 16 24 LT KEYSHIA Heaven Sent INTERSCOPE (82.6) .._HOT STYLZ FEAT. YUNG JOC (SWAGG TEAM /BLOCK /JIVE /ZOMBA) WEBBIE, LIL' PHAT A Lll' BOOSIE (TRILL/ASYLUM/ATLANTIC) DO ME DANGEROUS .UMMA 21 4 ROCK() (ROCKY ROAD /ISLAND URBAN /IDJMG) KARDINAL OFFISHALL FEAT. AKON (KONLIVE /GEFFEN / INTERSCOPE)

.PUT ON I LUV YOUR GIRL 32 3 22 YOUNG JEEZY FEAT. KANTE WEST (CORPORATE THUGZ/DEF JAM /IDJMG) THE-DREAM (RADIO KILLA/DEF JAM /IDJMG) I LIKE THE WAY SHE DO IT 29 LOLLI LOLLI (POP THAT BODY) 23 ' G UNIT (G UNIT/INTERSCOPE) THREE 6 MARA FEAT. PROJECT PAT, YOUNG D A SUPERPOWER (HYPNOTIZE MINDS /COLUMBIA)

: lid LOLLI LOLLI (POP THAT BODY) 2,1 s THE WAY THAT I LOVE YOU ADULT RAB AND RHYTHMIC AIRPLAY: 72 adult R&B stations and 76 rhythmic stations are electronically monitored by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems. 24 hours a day. 7 days a week. c THREE 6 MAFIA FEAT. PROJECT PAT, YOUNG D á SUPERPOWER (HYPNOTIZE MINDS /COLUMBIA) ASHANTI (THE INC. /UNIVERSAL MOTOWN) 2008 Nielsen Business Media, Inc. and Nielsen SoundScan. Inc. HOT RAP SONGS: 82 R813/Hip -Hop and 76 DON'T STOP AMERICAN BOY rhythmic stations are electronically monitored by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems. 24 hours a day, 7 days a were, 2008 Nielsen Business Media, Inc. and Nielsen SoundScan, Inc. FEAT. KEITH SWEAT (ARISTA/RMG) ESTELLE FEAT. KANTE WEST (HOME SCHOOL/ATLANTIC) HITPREDICTOR:.1 2008. Prornosquad and HitPredictor are trademarks of Think Fast LLC.

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AIRPLAY SALES DATA MONITORED BY COMPILED BY nielsen niclsen 1% MAY BDS SoundScan 31 2008

HOT C.OIJ I I RYM SOiVGS ÿ ¡` W YÚ < yY Artist 5 wÚ TITLE Artist TITLE PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT 8 NUMBER / PROMOTION LAL'<.. i-3 á3 3á 3ö PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT S. NUMBER / PROMOTION LABI_ a á3 3c° 3ó Evans GUY Brad Paisley SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE Sara I'M STILLA 28 27 RCA 13 J.SHANKS ( S. EVANS ,M.EVANS.H.LINDSEY,J.M.SHANKS) O $ ( K.LOVELACE,B.PAISLEY,LT.MILLER) ARISTA NASHVILI wK O Heidi Newfield LOVE IS A BEAUTIFUL THING Phil Vassar JOHNNY & JUNE ® 33 32 O ASYLUM -CURB T.BROWN (H.NEWFIELD,D,BRYANT,S.SMITH) o J. STEELE,C.WISEMAN) oO UNIVERSAL SOU' Phil Stacey JUST GOT STARTED LOVIN' YOU James Otto IF YOU DIDN'T LOVE ME 33 31, 26 LYRIC STREET QQ RAYBAW /WARNER BROS./w1 W. KIRKPATRICK (G LEVOX,W.MOBLEY.J.SELLERS) O ( J.OTTO,J.FEMINO, D.V. WILLIAMG) Luke Bryan EVERY DAY Rascal Flatts COUNTRY MAN NASHVILLE J.STEVENS ( L.BRYAN,J.P.MATTHEWS.G.GRIFFIN) Or CAPITOL II. HUFFRASCAL FLATTS (J.STEELE,A.MORENO) O LYRIC STRE'. tie LeAnn Rimes LOVE DON'T LIVE HERE Lady Antebellum GOOD FRIEND AND A GLASS OF WINE D.HUFF (L.RIMES,D.BROWN.B.DALY) O ASYLUM -CURB PWORLEY,V.SHAW (D.HAYWDOD.C.KELL EY.H. SCOTT) O CAPITOL NASHVILI fish le YOU CAN LET GO Crystal Shawanda I SAW GOD TODAY George Strait er advances S.HENDRICKS )C.BATTEN,K.BLAZY,R.L.FEEK) OQ RCA T. BROWN.G.STRAIT (R.CLAWSON,M.CPISWELL,W.KIRBY) Or MCA NASHVII the top 40 RELENTLESS Jason Aldean LAST NAME Carrie Underwood 7 first country M.KNOX )J.P.WNITE,J.LEBLANC) O BROKEN BOW %BRIGHT (C.UNDERWOOD,L.LAIRD,H.LINDSEY) O ARISTA/ARISTA NASHVILI Kenny Chesney le, drawing MIDNIGHT SUN Garth Brooks BETTER AS A MEMORY 8 B A.REYNOLDS (J. L.NIEMAN.R.BROWN,G.BROOKS) PEARL/BIG MACHINE B. CANNON,K. CHESNEY (S.CARUSOE,LGOODMAN) O million Rucker TO Taylor Swill DON'T THINK I DON'T THINK ABOUT IT Darius PICTURE BURN 3 ressi0ns dI. NASHVILLE F. ROGERS (D.RUCKER,C.MILLS) O CAPITOL N CHAPMAN (T.SWIFT.L.ROSE) o BIG MACHA, monitored I'M DONE Jo Dee Messina BACK WHEN I KNEW IT ALL Montgomery Gentry 10 JFLOWERS,J.D.MESSINA (J.D.MESSINA,J-FLOWERS.M.POWELL) O CURB B CHANCEY ( G.HANNAN,P..O'DONNELL,T.WILLMON) O COLUMB tions. Blake Shelton ALL I EVER WANTED Chuck Wicks (o HOME 11 CO41 44 O RCA 12 12 M. POWELL,D.HUFF (C.WICKS,M.POWELL,A.WILSON) ETROWAN (M.BUBLE,A.CHANG,A.FOSTER GILLES) O WARNER BROS.IWII. Bentley ROCKS IN YOUR SHOES Emily West TRYING TO STOP YOUR LEAVING Dierks 12 42 39 41 J.STOVER (E.WEST,D.BERG,A.TATE) O CAPITOL NASHVIL. o B BEAVERS (J. BEAVERS,B.BEAVERS,D BENTLEY) 0 CAPITOL NASHVIL'.. IN COLOR Jamey Johnson GOOD TIME Alan Jackson 13 45 43 16 19 THE KENT HARDLEY PLAYBOYS (J.JOHNSON.L.T.MILLER,J.OTTS) O ERCU., K STEGALL (A.JACKSON) O ARISTA NASHVII I Keith WHEN IT RAINS Eli Young Band SHE'S A HOTTIE Toby 14 48 49 J.J. LESTER,E.HERBST (J.YOUNG) CO REPUBLIC SOUTH/UNIVERSAL SOLnH T. KEITH (T.KEITH,B.PINSON) O SHOW DOG NASHVILLE INVISIBLY SHAKEN Rodney Atkins STRONGER WOMAN Jewel 13 46 46 15 14 14 T. HEWITT,R.ATKINS (R.ATKINS,B.KIRSCH) Or J. KILCHER,J.RICH (J.KILCHER,M.OREEN) O VALORI < With spins at all HIS KIND OF MONEY (MY KIND OF LOVE) Eric Churd, KRISTOFFERSON Tim McGraw 16 47 48 J.JOYCE (E.CHURCH,C.BEATHARD,S.MINOR) O CAPITOL NASALI B.GALLIMORE,T.MCGRAW.D.SMITH (A SMITH,R.NIELSEN) O CURB but one of the David Nail TRY Josh Turn er Featuring Trisha Yearwood 108 stations I'M ABOUT TO COME ALIVE ANOTHER 17 50 MCA NASHV, FLIDDELL,M.WRUCKE ( PMONAHAN ,J.STAFFORD,S.UNDERWOOD.C.COLIN.R.HOTCHKISS.C.BENNETT) O F ROGERS (C.STAPLETON,J.SPILLMAN) O MCA NASHVII monitored for " Craig Morgan GUNPOWDER & LEAD Miranda Lambert LOVE REMEMBERS this list, sin PO'OONNELL,C MORGAN IC. MORGAN,P.O'DONNELLI ANA F. LIDOELL,M.WRUCKE (M.LAMBERTH.LITTLE) O COLUM, Airpower EVERY OTHER WEEKEND Reba McEntire gets TO LIFE 23 24 J.CLEMENT (D.TYLER,K.LERAY) O RCA o R MCFNTIRF T RAMP IC HARRINGTCNS. EWINGI O MCA NASHVII nod in its 16th Keith Anderson I'LL WALK Bucky Covington AIR I STILL MISS YOU chart week. 0, M.A. MILLER,D.OLIVER (B.A.WILSON.L.LFOWLER) O LYRIC STREET o POWER J.STEELE )K ANDEHSON,TNICHOLS,J_SELLERS) O COLUME.- Kevin Fowler WE WEREN'T CRAZY Josh Graci, I EVER MADE B.CHANCEY (K.FOWLER,B.POUNDS) O EQUITY ii JAMES IJ. GRACIN,T. LOPACINSKI,B. PINSON) O LYRIC STRI. ® Rissi Palmer EEN PUT A GIRL IN IT Brooks & Dunn NO AIR 27 37 4 (J-E.FAUNTLEROY II,E.R- GRIGGS,H.J.MASON. JR..S.L. RUSSELL. D.E.THOMAS) T.BROvvN.R.DUNN,K.BROOKS (R.AKINS,D.DAVIDSON,B.HAYSLIP) O ARISTA NASHVILLE N.CHAPMAN ;4: LET ME LOVE YOU Lonestar LEARNING HOW TO BEND Gary Allan 50 55 24 26 (C. WISEMAN,D.MATKOSKY) O LONESTAR; C05 Q M.WRIGHT,G.ALLAN (G.ALLAN,M.WARREN,J.LEBLANC) 0 MCA NASHVIL e LONESTAR,J.NIEBANK CRAZY DAYS Adam Gregory IT AIN'T NO CRIME Joe Nichols 52 53 24 ( A. .BRICE,K.JACOBS,J.LEATHERS) NSA/MIDAS /NEW REVOLUTION M.WRIGHT,B.ROWAN (T.SHAPIRO.T.MARTIN,M.NESLER) O UNIVERSAL SOLI'. B.ALLEN,K.FOLLESE GREGORY,L Ashley Gearing THIS IS ME YOU'RE TALKING TO Trisha Yearwood OUT THE WINDOW B.GALLIMORE (M. GREEN .A.MAYO.C.LINDSEY,H.LINDSEY) O CURB G.FUNDIS )K.ROCHELLE,T.L.JAMES) @0 BIG MACHT. Up 3.6 million ® SOUNDS SO GOOD Ashton Shepherd I CAN SLEEP WHEN I'M DEAD Jason Michael Carroll Impressions, B.CANNON (A.SHEPERO) e MCA NASHVILLE D. GERMAN ( J. M. CARROLL,J.COLLINS,R.RUTHERFORD) O ARISTA NASHVI. duo's spirited ® NO LOVE SONGS Chris Cagle HOLLER BACK 57 53 29 29 - (G.G.TEREN III.C.WISEMAN) O CAPITOL NASHVILLE co B.BEAVERS (S.NIELSON,TJAMES) OB.. ode to feminine S.HENDRICKS,C.CAGLE Featuring Toby Keith LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN Sugarland Feat. Little Big Town & Jake Owen ilfluence earns THINGS A MAMA DON'T KNOW Mica Roberts 30 32 TKEITH (B.CLARK,L.ROSE,M. NARMORE) O SHOW DOG NASHVILLE NOT LISTED (N.LAIRD.CLOWES,G.GABRIEL) MERCI. Greatest Gainer. Taylor Swift THAT SONG IN MY HEAD Julianne Hough, SHOULD'VE SAID NO 32 31 N.CHAPMAN (T.SWIFT) O BIG MACHINE O. MALLOY )J.COLLINS,W. MOBLEYT. MARTIN) O ERCU' LONG Kid Rock DO YOU BELIEVE ME NOW Jimmy Wayne 60 ALL SUMMER 34 36 G. ROSSINGTON,E. KING.LMARINELL.R.WACHTELWZEVON) TOP DOGUATLANTIL VV J.WESTD.PAHANISH (J.WEST,D.PAHANISH,T.JOHNSON) O VALORY KID ROCK.R CAVALLO (RJ.RITCHIE.M.SHAFER.R.VAw ZANT.

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Chad Rank ARTIST/Title/LABE Chart Rank ARTIST /fine /LAPEL IScore) Chart Rank ARTIST/TitIe4ABEU(Score)

COUNTRY Trying To Stop YOUr Leaving CAPITOL NASHVILLE (88.2) 12 Learning How To Bend MCA NASHVILLE (80.6) 23

14 This Is Me You're Talking To etc MACHINE 185.81 25 Pm Still A Guy ARISTA NASHVILLE (91.8) 1 She's A Rollie SHOW DOG NASHVILLE (85.8) 16 Do You Believe Me Now VALORO (81.5) 30 Love Is A Beautiful Thing UNIVERSAL SOUTH (75.8) 2 Kristofferson CURB (89.0)

Try MCA NASHVILLE (79.2) 17 Some Things Never Change RCA(85.0) 31 Every Day LYRIC STREET (91.4) 4 Another 18 You Can Let Go RCA(83.2) 36 Last Name ARISTA NASHVILLE 193.9) 7 Gunpowder & Lead COLUMBIA (81.5)

MCA NASHVILLE (85 3) 19 Don't Think I Don't Think About It CAPITOL NASHVILLE (88.1) 39 Better As A Memory BRA (84.8) 8 Every Other Weekend CURB 40 I Still Miss You COLUMBIA (75.0) 20 I'm Done (83.3) Back When I Knew It All COLUMBIA (86.2) 10 46 LYRIC STREET (80.5) 21 His Kind Of Money CAPTIOL NASHVILLE (88.11 Home WARNER BROS (81.5) 11 We Weren't Crazy

Don't miss another important BETWEEN THE BULLETS wjessen o billbaard.cor R&R COUNTRY DAILY RADIO EXTENDS ARNOLD'S CHART REACH Country Music Hall of Fame member Eddy Blues Don't Care Who's Got 'Em" in March Arnold returns to Hot Country Songs for the 1983. His country chart history touched the 11J I3I)A' I. first time in 25 years, as "To Life" snares the '905 when a duet with LeAnn Rimes of his Visit www.radioandrecords.com to sign up for your free daily Hot Shot Debut at No. 49. Arnold becomes signature song, "Cattle Call," spent two Country Rad 1s the only country artist in history to bow with weeks on Billboard's Top Country Singles RciclloclnclRe(;orcls.Coil a new track in each of the past seven decades, Sales in December 1999. Intended as a 90th - starting when "Each Minute Seems a Million birthday tribute, label promotion of "To Life"

HOT COUNTRY SONGS: 108 country stations are electronically monitored by Nielsen Broadcast Data Years" peaked at No. 5 in June 1945, on a began the week before Arnold died May 8 at systems. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Airpower awarded to songs appearing in the top 20 on both the BIDS Airplay and Audience charts for the first time with increases in both detections and age 89 (see Mileposts, page 60). Arnold audience. ei 2008 Nielsen Business Media, Inc. All rights reserved. chart then known as Billboard's Most Played HITPREDICTOR:c1 2008, Promosquad and HitPredictor are trademarks of Think Fast LLC. Juke Box Folk Records. Arnold's most recent topped the country singles chart 28 times be- Legend for rules and explanations. ALL CHARTS: see Chart Hot Country Songs ink came with "The tween 1947 and 1968. -Wade Jessen

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www.americanradiohistory.com 108 NOT LATIN SONGS: A panel of stations (27 Latin pop, 17 tropical, 9 Latin rhythm, 55 regional Mexican) are electronically monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 'S: 2008 Nielsen Business Media. Inc. All rights reserved. TOP LATIN ALBUMS: See Charts Legend for rules and explanations. X 2008. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. and Nielsen SoundScan. Inc. All rights reserved. AIRPLAY SALES DATA MONITORED BY COMPILED BY MAY 'Nelsen njelsen BDS SoundScan 1

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TITLE Artist ntS W 3o TITLE Artist If (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT ! PROMOTION LABEL .s.3 3 <3ó (":GWRIIER) IMPRINT / PROMOTION LABEL ú o- IIMTE QUIERO Flex PERMITAME Tony Dize 28 26 26 26 EMI TELEVISA -'10.L.VEGUILLA MALAVE.M E. MASI', WY (MACHETE SI NO TE HUBIERAS IDO Mana TE AMO Los Horoscopos De Durango t9 1 27 19 22 WARNER LAP',(, ;RAZAS (M.A SOLIS) UNIVISION DONDE ESTAN CORAZON Enrique Iglesias 3 3 3 AMIGA POR FAVOR Pedro Fernandez kIN1 1 Singer's fifth Hot 28 28 33 25 I.LESS (G. OLEOS) MACHETE GREATEST PEGADITO Tommy Torres Latin Songs ENREDAME 7 4 29 29 31 Fonseca 29 GAINER LLEVIN (T.TORRES) appearance as FONSECA) LMI TELEVISA HASTA EL DIA DE HOY Dareyes De La Sierra SUFRIRAS 10 8 lead artist 39 46 Palomo D.CASTRO (G RAM,. 30 AIN" (J.R.MARTINEZ.S. SALINAS , DISH becomes his 4 4 Juanes ERES Alejandro Fernandez 6 1 34 35 31 G.SANTAOLALLA,JUANLV (J. EARISTIZAB .. UNIVERSAL LAI''. highest ranked to !NSECAI SONY OMS "- - TE LLORE Conjunto Primavera date. Song sails LA VECINA 7 9 2 35 28 Angel & Khnz C- PRIMAVERA (R. BARBA) 15 O FONO.' OLON.J. SANTANA .J BARROS VI /MA(- on a 33% CADA QUE... LLEGASTE TU 8 6 6 6 audience increase 36 32 Jesse & Joy NOT L' "':11 NOT LISTED) 32 UNIVERSAL LAI © lECKE. TJOV HUERTA ULCKE with adds in NOT SHOT Juanes VIVE Y DEJAME VIVIR Cu Is rl los 9 5 7 1 1 ,,NES (J. E.ARISTIZABAL) UNIVERSAL LFIa DEBUT 34 los Angeles, MUS.44 - AHORA ES Wisin & Yandel San Antonio, AHORA ENTENDI Yurlclia 9 5 5 35 27 20 a .GIRA LUNA. L NEGUILLA MALAVE.EE PADILLA. V. MARTINEZ 16 0 MALLO _ JEh'UN MUNUZURI.VGAXIOLAI SONY AhlB Puerto Rico and LA DERROTA 11 10 Vicente Fernandez COMO YO Juan Luis Guerra Y 4 LI) 8 8 Springfield, Mass. 43 47 36 SONY BMG 1. '- Q 'sJ ERRA SEIJASI EMI TE SOBRE MIS PIES La Arrolladora Banda El Limon RUMBO AL SUR 12 12 16 3 31 _SI'Ir;OZA PAZ) 37 37 13 DISA /EDIM(r. I VALDEZ LEAL,R ORTEGA CONTRERAS) SIN TU AMOR Alacranes Musical SIN PERDON Hector Ace l.i 13 11 30 9 38 33 36 26 r: OVITIA IJ_LUGARDO DEL TORO, O. SANCHEZ) UNIVJ CELEPJie AMANTES ESCONDIDOS German Montero Adds in Texas PER CD21 17 DONO Y OLVIDO Pepe Aguilar 14 50 39 UNIVI and in Chicago 0 ENn ESTOS CELOS Vicente Fernandez send Dareyes De DE QUE ME PRESUMES 15 16 13 3 40 32 40 Lupillo Riven 41 SEBASTIAN) SONY BMG NC.- 32 La Sierra's first TOMAME O 14 DEJAME Banda El Recode DONDE ESTAN ESOS AMIGOS El Chaval 16 14 _. .. 8 hit 10 -5 on a 41 25 27 25 ,. .. NON( FONO`. A PUNTO DE LLORAR Los Rieleros Del NorIa 25% audience EMPEZAR DESDE 18 25 17 CERO RBD FONO'. 42 gain. Song also ® 5. 1I T1' PERDONAME La Fattoria tops Regional YA NO LLORES (LET ME LOVE YOU) Baby Boy 18 12 43 PREDICADOR UNIVERSAL LAI © 1A.GARCIAI ® Mexican Airplay. ® YO NO SE PERDONARTE Victor Manuelle EL DIA DE TU SUERTE (HOY) N Klabe 17 24 17 38 LFOIZ. i. - .;1 1 a C BRANT) KIYAO ' "RAP la PAGAN) NU LIF EL VASO DERRAMA El Potro De = Sinaloa QUIEN DIJO 20 15 15 12 AMIGOS Ana Isabene EL POTRO DE '.:,I05 (I CHAVEZ ( 45 MACHO © ® LA CALLE /UN .1 YO QUIERO Camita Cuisillos' 10th Hot TE AMO Aliados De La Sier, .I 23 21 12 46 38 - 38 r M. DOMM TEMAS (NI DOMM E.GRENCI) SONY BMG Nll1. 4005 DE LA SIERRA IF ONTIVEROS FIRMAN) Latin Songs entry POR QUIEN ME DEJAS Los Creadorez Del Pasito Duranguense De Alfredo Ramirez PALANTE Willy 22 20 18 9 is this week's Chinn 47 A. RAMIREZ CORRAL (C.SANCHEZ) RISA /EDIMOr. _STED CD® .'. JETEOI L,:. I INOLVIDABLE Jenni Rivera highest debutas NO TE VAYAS 24 34 23 49 48 Gilberto Santa Rosa NOT LISTED (.CHAVEZ PAZ) 48 ESPINOZA FONO.. "Vive Y Dejame O SONY BMG NORTE TU ADIOS NO MATA Intocable ME MUERO 30 23 10 Vivir" jumps on Diana Reyes 29 0 R. MUNOZ.R. MARTINEZ (O.VILLARREAL) EMI TELE'; .IErJEZ. A.AVILA) at No. 34. ® SI TU TE ATREVES Luis Miguel TAL VEZ Ponzona Musical 25 22 29 22 35 L. MIGUEL.M.ALEJANDRO (M. ALEJANDRO) WAF_.. ® HAPA,L. F.LEYVO

TOP LATIN AL13LJIVISrc Y < >r . ARTIST Title xs, ARTIST Title Y W$ ARTIST Title á3 3á 31; IMPRINT 8 NUMBER / DISTRIBUTING LABEL (PRICE) / , F3 á : MPRINT 8 NUMBER DISTRIBUTING LABEL (PRICE) 31, IMPRINT 8 NUMBER DISTRIBUTING LABEL (PRICE) 2 LUIS MIGUEL Complices LA ARROLLADORA BANDA EL LIMON Y Que Quede Claro LOS MEADOW DEL PASITO dMNlgl&SEDE ALFREDO RIABEZ LNOS Montados YAmeoo-. 1 36 34 9 65 41 '.. NER LATINA 503996. (18,98) ® i15a 724121; UG (12 98) VICENTE FERNANDEZ Para Siempre AVENTURA K.O.B.: Live 2 2 2 2 32 28 2 VARIOUS ARTISTS 18 Exitos: Sonidero Hits Vol. 3 . a 27 2 63 49 47 WOG NORTE 141 `G. . '1 40560.SONY BMG NORTE (18.98 CO(DVD) G: 1110510 1032 98) MANA Arde El Cielo DIANA REYES Insatisfecha EL TRONO DE MEXICO Fuego Nuevo 3 3 1 1 28 33 24 2 981 + 53 55 46 13 K /LONA 0 INIVERSAL LATINO (11.981 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS 95/08 DUELO Historias De Valientes BELANOVA Fantasia Pop 4 4 3 1 29 29 23 19 66 52 18 UNIVERSAL LATINO 010974 (14.98) + -;IVERSAL IN 009868 (13 98) FLEX Te 4 Quiero EL TRONO DE MEXICO Cruzando Fronteras GRUPO MONTEZ DE DURANGO Agarrese! r. 5 5 1 30 34 26 1 ASTERISCO /SDAD 15221/EMI TELEVISA (13.98) Or® 72411 12 98) MARCO ANTONIO SOLIS La Mejor... Coleccion MJ Mi 7 6 2 Sentimiento JUAN LUIS GUERRA Y 440 La Llave De Mi Corazon 6 31 27 25 25 56 51 73 1 FONOVISA 353133/UG (10.98) ,1. L 011151 (1098, ".I TELEVP

JUAN GABRIEL & ANA GABRIEL Los Gabriel...Cantan A Mexico HOT SNOT JERRY RIVERA Amores Como El Nuestro...Los Exitos LA ARROLLADORA BANDA EL LIMON La Helada De La Arrolladora 7 6 5 3 DEBUT 1 32 64 50 14 SONY BMG NORTE 24734 (14.98) CD CD BMG NORTE 21504 (12.98)5 WISIN & YANDEL Wisin Vs. Yandel: Los Extraterrestres LOS HOROSCOPOS DE DURANGO Ayer Hoy Y Siempre ANDREA BOCELLI Lo Mejor De Andrea Bocelli: Vivere 8 8 7 1 40 31 MACHETE 010293 (16.98) C 8 58 38 56 Q GAR,SIEH-- I VIVERSAL LATINO (18.98) CAMILA Todo Cambio L1 K -PAZ DE LA SIERRA Capaz De Todo Por Ti ALEXIS & FIDO Sobrenatural 9 10 9 1 34 28 27 1 59 54 69 11 SONY BMG NORTE 78272 (14.98) (O - X14.90) VICENTE FERNANDEZ Historia De Un Idolo PEDRO FERNANDEZ Dime Mi Amor PATRULLA 81 A Mi Ley 10 9 8 1 35 17 17 17 72 75 6 605 07405 /SONY BMG NORTE (16.98) 111ACHEIE (111105 I 'lO 0 AVENTURA Kings Of Bachata: Sold OLA At Madison Square Garden CAIFANES /JAGUARES De Caifanes A Jaguares 11 12 11 3 35 30 SIN BANDERA Hasta Ahora L ; xn'. 30 61 49 58 18 PREMIUM LATIN 17634/SONY BMG NORTE 116.98) .r Ir I.1G NORIa (= Soi )ORTE (16 9/6 + JUANES La Vida... Es Un Ratico LOS TUCANES DE TIJUANA 20 Aniversario K -PAZ DE LA SIERRA 15 Autenticos Exitos 12 11 10 1 41 35 12 12 _ 010159 (17.98)4 _. '.1 I>98) ® CUISILLOS Vive Y Dejame Vivir ALACRANES MUSICAL Ahora Y 13 13 13 37 38 Siempre 2 EL POTRO DE SINALOA Los Mejores Corridos 11,981 1 a 68 48 44 GRUPO NUEVA VIDA Mejores Cantos Religiosos VARIOUS ARTISTS 30 Corridos: Muy Perrones GILBERTO SANTA ROSA Contraste 16 16 14 50 36 24 48 12 MULTIMUSIC 11`: NY BMG 16.98) & ANA GABRIEL Los Gabriel... Simplemente Amigos PACE 15 14 13 DAREYES DE LA SIERRA Con Banda XTREME Haciendo Historia -6(0000 ')G 9 59 72 6 40 65 62 62 13 605 17486 NORTE (14.98) SETTER CALLE 340011/UG (13 98) A A QUINTANILLA III PRESENTS KUMBIA ALL STARZ Planeta Kumbia LOS BUKIS 30 Recuerdos Inolvidables RICARDO ARJONA Quien Dijo Ayer: Special Edition 20 14 4 47 43 12 66 61 68 55 e FVISA 'NY BMG NORTE 16225 (14 98) TONY DIZE La Melodia De La Calle MARC ANTHONY El Cantante (Soundtrack) BANDA B. RECODO 30 Pegaditas: Puros Condos Y Ranchers 17 18 12 8 42 44 67 1 67 56 33 22 . _. _2I (16.98) OJ / T E R EO 50587 (6.98)

La Novela ALEJANDRO FERNANDEZ 15 Anos De Exitos VARIOUS ARnSTS 30 eadiatas Pegaditas: Lo Nuevo Y Lo Melor 2007 C 10 43 42 40 7 73 26 ',ISCOS 665 17948'SONY BMG NORTE (Ib 981 + 0 I;0 N ROLL A0201(SONY BMG NORTE 113.98) GREATEST GRUPO MONTEZ DE DURANGO Vida Mafiosa CARDENALES DE NUEVO LEON 25 Aniversario: Edicion Limitada IVY QUEEN Sentimiento 19 53 51 22 69 60 57 r 4 GAINER Q JG (13.98) LA FACTOR IA Nueva Metas TIERRA CALI Grandes Exitos Originales DON OMAR King Of Kings 20 58 47 45 1 UNIVERSAL 0 .: ,,49/UNIVERSAL LATINO (12.9E1 a IE (15.98) K -PAZ DE LA SIERRA En VIVO Desde El a= Auditorio Nac EL CHAPO DE SINALOA 15 Autenticos Exitos LOS TUCANES DE TIJUANA La Mejoro. Coleccion: De Condos 21 26 19 1 70 60 21 71 67 54 9 . - + DISA Z B8 CD ... Q .V4SION 31111000 (10.981 LOS CUATES DE SINALOA Puros Exitos Chacas CONJUNTO PRIMAVERA Que Ganas De Volver JOSE ALFREDO JIMENEZ Tesoros De Coleccion: 30 Grandes Canciones 22 ?2 18 14 47 45 37 1 + 52 61 52 SONY Si.' IRTE 22541 (12 r ONOVISA 35348 112 98) i., NORTE 06009 (10.98) ,,17K2f VARIOUS ARTISTS Bachata # 1s ESPINOZA PAZ El Canta Autor Del Pueblo BRAZEROS MUSICAL DE DURANGO Linea De Oro: La Abeja Miope... 23 25 22 6 Q 57 48 21 LA CAL.'. OSL 730073 /MACHETE (10.98) i7 ® s 98) LUPILLO RIVERA Tiro De Gracia JOSE ALFREDO JIMENEZ Y Sigue Siendo Q Rey... Sus Duetos LA APUESTA 10 Exitos De Oro 24 '''5 32 15 49 43 39 39 74 74 44 44 r4AGHETE (12.98) HISCOS 605 28976 /SONY BMG NORTE (12.98) -RCA _ 6865 (11.98) LOS TIGRES DEL NORTE Raices LOS TEMERARIOS Recuerdos Del Alma EDNITA NAZARIO Real 25 19 15 1 50 46 42 1 75 23 71 1 FONOVISA 353488/UG (12.98) ..FG SIGMA /FONOVISA 352162/UG (12.98) BMG NORTE 11621 (14 98)

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TWISTED DEE HAMMER TE QUIERO ENRIQUE IGLESIAS S DREAM 3 "i 3 3 FLEX (EMI TELEVISA) 95/08 (UNIVERSAL LATINO) LEAVIN' BREAK YOU 7 9 30 15 14 MARCO ANTONIO SOLIS JESSE MCCARTNEY HOLLYWOOD RALPH FALCON FEATURING THE WEATHER GIRLS NERVOUS 4 CADA QUE... 4 4 BELANOVA (UNIVERSAL LATINO) LA MEJOR... COLECCION (FONOVISA /UG) DISCO LIES A &E 9 7 31 28 11 MUTE GOLDFRAPP MUTE PEGADITO 5 CAMILA TODO CAMBIO (SONY BMG NORTE) WANNA BE SOMETHIN' 2008 CRAZY / TOMMY TORRES (WARNER LATINA) STARTIN' O 3 11 37 4 JUANES MICHAEL JACKSON WITH AKON LEGACY /EPIC CHANTAL CHAMANDY NINEMUSE GOTAS DE AGUA DULCE 6 6 JUANES (UNIVERSAL LATINO) LA VIDA... ES UN RATICO (UNIVERSAL LATINO) THIS IS NOT REAL LOVE EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL 11 9 36 5 S MATYA EPIC STATIC REVENGER FEATURING TAJ BELL D- DUB /SOLMATIC ME ENAMORA 8 GRUPO NUEVA VIDA JUANES LATINO) MEJORES CANTOS RELIGIOSOS (MULTIMUSIC) WHAT'S DONE IS DONE SET U FREE (UNIVERSAL O 15 5 41 3 ANA TRACY YOUNG FEATURING CEEVOX FEROSH PLANET SOUL STRICTLY RHYTHM SI TU TE ATREVES 8 , JUAN GABRIEL & GABRIEL LOS GABRIEL... SIMPLEMENTE AMIGOS (DISCOS 605/SONY BMG NORTE) SPICE UP YOUR LIFE 2008 LUIS MIGUEL ( WARNER LATINA) TOUCH MY BODY 43 3 8 9 SPICE GIRLS VIRGIN A.B. QUINTANILLA III PRESBITS IBIMBIA ALL STAR RAVISH CAREY ISLAND /IDJMG ALGUIEN SOY YO 9 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS (INTERSCOPE/UNIVERSAL LATINO) PLANETA KUMBIA (EMI TELEVISA) BLEEDING LOVE GREAT DJ 3 7 45 2 CAIFANES /JAGUARES LEONA LEWIS SYCO /J /RMG THE TING TINOS COLUMBIA YO QUIERO 10 11 '1 CAMILA (SONY BMG NORTE) SE CAIFANES A JAGUARES (SONY BMG NORTE) JUST DANCE LOVE REVOLUTION 17 5 40 4 LEE GENESIS BERGER PLATTERS /MUSIC PLANT ERES ALEJANDRO FERNANDEZ LADY GAGA FEAL COLEY O0@ó SDUAM ANFMISCOPF 1. 14 ALEJANDRO FERNANDEZ (SONY BMG NORTE) 15 ANOS DE EXITOS (DISCOS 605 /SONY BMG NORTE) TURN IT UP HANDLE ME ® 18 7 49 2 BELANOVA MARK PICCHIOTTI PRESENTS BASSTOR BLUEPLATE KONICHIWA/CHERRYTREE/INTERSCOPE LLEGASTE TU 17 41ID FANTASIA POP (UNIVERSAL LATINO) THE LONGEST ROAD I GOT AWAY ® (" JESSE A JOY ( WARNER LATINA) 10 13 4 3 ANDREA BOCELLI MORGAN PAGE FEATURING LISSIE NETTWERK RANDY FREIES HMSP 13 ,0 AHORA ENTENDI 13 12 YURIDIA (SONY BMG NORTE) LO MEJOR DE ANDREA BOCHO MERE (SUGAFVSIMTEANNERSALLATR0) DAYLIGHT KILL 100 6 13 48 2 SIN BANDERA KELLY ROWLAN D FM TRANS MCCOY MUSIC WORWCOWMBIA O PRESS 2 SILVER LABEUTOMMY BOY 14 ENREDAME 14 15 FONSECA TELEVISA) HASTA AHORA (DISCOS 605 /SONY BMG NORTE) SAME OLD FUCKING STORY I FEEL UPSIDE DOWN (EMI 29 2 41 33 7 RICARDO ARJONA CANDI DUPER EPIC THE ONES A TOUCH OF CLASS /PEACE BI50UIT NO PUEDO OLVIDARLA 18 16 15 ODIEN DIJO AYER: SPECIAL EDITION (SONY BMG NORTE) DRUM NATION ( RUN THE SHOW MARCO ANTONIO SOLIS FONOVISA) 014 14 42 32 11 NAT DELUNA FEATURING BUSTA RHYMES EPIC MIDNIGHT SOCIETY FEAT. LOLA SOUNDGROOVE THE RIGHT LIFE FOOL (IF YOU THINK ITS OVER) 19 8 43 39 11 SEAL WARNER BROS. NEMESIS RISING CURB /REPRISE RELAX, TAKE IT EASY WHERE THE MUSIC TAKES YOU TM 19 50 2 R IHYTIH IVI rM R I-IY1 I1 IVI MIKA CASABLANCA/UNIVERSAL REPUBLI. ARI GOLD FEATURING SASHA ALLEN GOLD 18/CENTAUR ME FALL 20 12 10 KIhMBERLEY LOCKE +/PRISE 5 TITLE ARTIST SILVER LABEL /PLUS 1 /IMAGE /TOMMY BOY ARTIST (IMPAIR) r PROMOTION LAU'r TITLE 1PRINT / DISTRIBUTING LABEL) FUNPLEX EVERYBODY UP g 23 7 THE B -52$ /CAPITOL ALTAR FEATURING JEANIE TRACY SILVER LABEL/TOMMY BOY AHORA ES FLEX TE QUIERO (ASTERISCO ' ".I MI TELEVISA) ALL I SEE MY LIFE WISIN 8 YANDEL (MACHETE) 27 6 KYLIE FEATURING MIMS ASTRALWERKS /CAPITOL CHRIS THE GREEK PANAGHI DJG /JRA EL PERDEDOR WISIN & YANDEL 2 2 2 WISIN VS. YANOEL: LOS EXTRATERRESTRES (MACHETE) LOVELIGHT STAMP YOUR FEET AVENTURA (PREMIUM LATIN) 21 14 23 DONNA SUMMER BURGUNDY PERDONAME TONY DIZE BOBBIE WILLIAMS EMI 3 3 3 LA FACTORIA (UNIVERSAL LATINO) LA MELODIA OE LA CALLE (WY /MACHETE) SHAKE IT 31 5 AKWID AHANE FEAT TONY TOUCH & MR. VEGAS SILVER LABEI/TOM Y BPI ASHLEE SIMPSON WITH TOM HIGGENSON GEFFENANTERSCOPE PERMITAME 4 4 I CAN HEAR THE MONEY TONY DIZE (WY/MACHETE) O LA NOVELA (UNIVISION /UG) ROCK WITH U ISLAND /IDJMG LEONA DAUMAN TE LA FACTORIA JANET 5 QUIERO FLEX (EMI TELEVISA) O 5 NUEVA METAS (UNIVERSAL LATINO) EL DIFICIL MJ 6 6 6 OE LA GHETTO (CMG /SRC /UNIVERSAL MOTOWN) MI SENTIMIENTO (MACHETE) ALEXIS & FIDO WHAT YOU GOT 7 7 o COLBY O'DONIS FEAT. AKON (KONLIVE /GEFFEN /INTERSCOPE) SOBRENATURAL (SONY BMG NORTE) LOLLIPOP IVY QUEEN NCE AIRPLAY,: 8 8 8 LIL WAYNE FEAT. STATIC MAJOR (CASH MONEY/UNIVERSAL MOTOWN) SENTIMIENTO (UNIVISION /UG) rn DON OMAR ARTIST TITLE MOVE SHAKE DROP 9 KING OF KINGS (VI /MACHETE) TITLE RENE NUMBER / DISTRIBUTING LABEI a3 ó ARTIST IMPRINT 8 NUMBER / PROMOTION LABEL O DJ LAZ FEATURING FLO RIDA & CASELY (VIP) S3 3ó r3 ANGEL & KHRIZ ElGNARLS BARKLEY VIBLEEDING LOVE YA NO LLORES (LET ME LOVE YOU) 0 I'.: LEONA LEWIS SYCO /J /RMG o BABY BOY (786 /SIENTE) SHOWTIME (VI /MACHETE) THE OUD COUPLE 4502364A6 METRO STATION 4 MINUTES LOW 12 3 2 9 11 2 35 TIMBERLAKE WARNER BROS. FLO RIDA FEATURING T -PAIN (POE BOY /ATLANTIC) EL CARTEL THE BIG BOSS (EL CARTEL /INTERSCOPE /IGA) METRO STATION RED INK 10521 /COLUMBIA MADONNA FEATURING JUSTIN SOBRENATURAL AKWID SANTOGOLD POCKETFUL OF SUNSHINE 12 1 3 3 2 3 3 6 ALEXIS S FIDO (SONY BMG NORTE) GREATEST EXITOS (HEADLINERS /UNIVISION /UG) SANTOGOLD LIZARD KING 70034 /DOWNTOWN NATASHA BEDINGFIELD PHONOGENIC /EPIC SEXY MOVIMIENTO EL CHIVO NINE INCH NAILS DAMAGED 13 I 1 4 4 6 .i 5 WISIN S TANDEL (MACHETE) CICATRICES (AZTEC SOULSNIRUS) GHOSTS I -IV THE NULL CORPORATION 26* SANITY KANE BAD BOY /ATLANTIC DROP IT AND ROCK IT DON OMAR HANNAH MONTANA BREAK THE ICE 14 4 7 16 8 6 MR. CRIMINAL (HI POWER) KING OF KINGS LIVE (VI /MACHETE) HANNAH MOW 5 NONSMPOAINE FORTY WALT MP( ON I BRITNEY SPEARS JIVE/ZOMBA TU TE MIGUELITO M.I.A. 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I DIANA REYES JUSTICE CLOSER POR QUIEN ME DEJAS 11 23 45 23 3 11 10 ifit NE -Y0 DEF JAM/IDJMG CROSS ED BANGER /BECAUSE 224892NICE LDS CRFAOMB2 OE PAM 01I111NOB6E Of ALFREDO RMNEI OLSAEDAKKJ511 INSATISFECHA (DEC) DUELO CASCADA RUN THE SHOW INOLVIDABLE 12 194 17 12 13 75079 KAT DELUNA FEATURING BUSTA RHYMES EPIC JENNI RIVERA ( FONOVISA) HISTORIAS DE VALIENTES (UNIVISION /UG) PERFECT DAY ROBBINS EL DE PAUL OAKENFOLD LEAVIN' 17 TU ADIOS NO MATA , TRONO MEXICO RE-ENTRY NEW e 13 T 23 MCCAflTNEY HOLLYWOOD INTOCABLE (EMI TELEVISA) CRUZANDO FRONTERAS (DOC) GREATEST HITS S REMIXES PERFECTO 1603/ULTRAO+ JESSE LOS HOROSCOPOS DE DURANGO VARIOUS ARTISTS LOLLIPOP 9 TE AMO 24 RE -ENTRY NEW 14 EDITION RAZOR 8 TIE 89179 LL WAYNE FEAT. SBOIC MAJOR CASH MONEYNNNERSAL MOTOWN LOS HOROSCOPOS DE DURANGO (UNIVISION) AYER HOY Y SIEMPRE (UNIVISION /UG) PULSE: PLATINUM D K -PAZ THE BIRTHDAY MASSACRE AMERICAN BOY ESTOS CELOS 15 DE LA SIERRA ® MEW 15 16 ESTELLE FEAT. KANYE WEST HOME VICENTE FERNANDEZ (SONY BMG NORTE) CAPAZ DE TODO POR TI (015A/110) LOOKING GLASS METROPOLIS 80545 SCHOOUATLANTIC

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HIKARU UTADA 1 SCOOTER ICH + ICH 3 3 HEART STATION EMI JUMPING ALL OVER THE WORLD SHEFFIELD TUNES VOM SELBEN STERN POLYDOR 3 (NIELSEN SOUNOSCAN INTERNATIONAL) MAY 31, 2008 TSUYOSHI NAGABUCHI DUFFY MADONNA 4 MINUTES 4 NEW 3 4 1 LOVE FOR LIFE ROCKFERRY ABM HARD CANDY WARNER BROS. MADONNA FT. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE WARNER BROS. MADONNA TAKE A BOW 3 MADONNA UDO LINDENBERG 2 5 4 RIHANNA HARD CANDY WARNER BROS. HARD CANDY WARNER BROS. STARK WIE ZWEI WARNER SRP/DEF JAM VARIOUS ARTISTS JAY SEAN DUFFY THAT'S NOT MY NAME 6 NEW 6 NEW 6 3 N EW MIME TORA BEST AVEX TRAX MY OWN WAY 2POINT9- JAYDED ROCKFERRY ABM THE TING TINOS COLUMBIA YUTAKA MIZUTANI MERCY 7 NEW SCOUTING FOR GIRLS DIE AERZTE 4 7 7 DUFFY TIME CAPSULE (FIRST LTD VERSION CO /OVD) AVER TRAX SCOUTING FOR GIRLS EPIC JAll IST ANDERS HOT ACTION AN PERFUME GABRIELLA CILMI DER W. AMERICAN BOY 8 1 14 5 8 8 7 ESTELLE FT. KANTE WEST HOME SCHOOL GAME TOKUMA ISLAND SCHNELLER, HOEHER, WEIDNER 3 R /ATLANTIC VARIOUS ARTISTS LOVE IN THIS CLUB 10 PLATTERS BEATSTEAKS 9 8 9 USHER DANCE HALL LOVERS SEASON 5 EMI THE VERY BEST OF UMTV KANONEN AUF SPATZEN WARNER FT. YOUNG JEEZY LAFACE /ZOMBA HY FRANK VIOLET HILL 10 5 NEW SINATRA BEFOUR 10 10 11 COLOPLAY HEARTY HIGASHIYAKENA NOTHING BUT THE BEST REPRISE WE STAND UNITED POP'N'ROLL 8 HEARTBREAKER WILLIAM WILL IAM /INTERSCOPE

9 , I-RANC,I_ 1 CANADA SAM SPARROW ISLAND MY ROLEX ALBUMS 10 :/ WEARING ALBUMS WILEY ASYLUM /WARNER LOW FY 11 p FLO RIDA FT. T -PAIN POE BOY /ATLANTIC 3 (SNEP /IFOP/TITELIVE) MAY 20. 2008 '; 3 (ARIA) MAY 12 2008 á3 (NIELSEN BDS'SOUNDSCAN) MAY 31. 2008 12 VIVA LA VIDA (NEW EDIT) SEFYU ANDRE RIEU /MIRUSIA DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE COLDPLAY PARLOPHONE 1 NEW 1 1 EW SUIS -JE LE GARDIEN DE MON FRERE? BECAUSE WALTZING MATILDA UNIVERSAL NARROW STAIRS BARSUK; ATLANTIC. WARNER AAIID1y WARWICK AVENUE FRANCIS CABREL DAMIEN LEITH 13 2 2 2 2 MADONNA DUFFY HAM DES ROSES 2 1 '' ET DES ORTIES COLUMBIA CATCH THE WIND:: SONGS OF A GENERATION SONY BMG HARO CANDY WARNER BROS./WARNER 14 LOVE SONG MADONNA GABRIELLA CILMI DUFFY SARA BAREILLES EPIC 3 1 3 IIEW 3 CIS HARD CANDY WARNER BROS. LESSONS TO BE LEARNED ISLAND ROCKFERRY MERCURY /UNIVERSAL 15 VALERIE DUFFY MADONNA LEONA LEWIS MARK RONSON FT. AMY WINEHOUSE 4 3 3 4 ALLIDO /COLUMBIA ROCKFERRY ABM HARD CANDY WARNER BROS. " SPIRIT SYCO/J /SONY BMG 16 CRY FOR YOU AMY WINEHOUSE LEONA LEWIS 5 T SEPTEMBER CATCHY TUNES /FAMILY TREE 5 5 5 BACK TO BLACK ISLAND SPIRIT SYCO OF MYMIT SOUL COLUMBIA /SONY BMG 17 PROPANE NIGHTMARES PORTISHEAD THE PRESETS SARAH MCLACHLAN PENDULUM WARNER 6 4 7 6 THIRD GO BEATI/ISLAND APOCALYPSO MODULAR RARITIES, B- SIDES, AND OTHER STUFF 2 NETTWERK STOP AND STARE 7 ALAIN BASHUNG CARL 18 7 RISELEY 7 Nev IRON MAIDEN ONEREPUBLIC MOSLEM /INTERSCOPE BLEU PETROLE BARCLAY THE RISE MERCURY SOMEWHERE BACK IN TIME: THE BEST OF 1980 1989 EMI BETTER IN TIME RENAN LUCE KASEY CHAMBERS /SHANE NICHOLSON 19 19 8 8 NEIL DIAMOND LEONA LEWIS SYCO REPENTI BARCLAY 8 RATTLIN' BONES LIBERATION HOME BEFORE DARK COLUMBIA/SONY BMG PARTY PEOPLE 20 18 ` ERA KATE CEBERANO MARIAH CAREY NELLY FT. FERGIE DERRTY/UNIVERSAL MOTOWN 6 9 1 9 REBORN MERCURY SO MUCH BEAUTY MERCURY E =MC2 ISLAND /UNIVERSAL MICHAEL BUBLE ARIANE MOFFATT 10 9 10 10 10 6 ENFANT DE IA VILLE AZ CALL ME IRRESPONSIBLE REPRISE DANS TOUS LES SENS AUDIOGRAM /SELECT

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DANIELE SILVESTRI r. EL CANTO DEL LOCO MADONNA 7 HOMECOMING 7 NEW 7 7 19 MONETINE SONY BMG PERSONAS SONY BMG HARD CANDY WARNER BROS. ,' KANTE WEST FT. CHRIS MARTIN ROC -A- FELLA /DEF JAM CAPAREZZA MONICA NARANJO XIMENA SARINANA DANGEROUS 8 7 8 ö 8 7 8 RE_ LE DIMENSIONI DEL MIO CAOS VIRGIN TARANTULA SONY BMG M. POKORA FT. TIMBALAND 8 MEDIOCRE WARNER . SEBASTIAN CAPITOL LEONA LEWIS FRANK SINATRA EMMANUEL CRUSHCRUSHCRUSH 9 11 9 NEW 9 8 9 SPIRIT SYCO NOTHING BUT THE BEST RHINO RETRO EN VIVO UNIVERSAL PARAMORE FUELED BY RAMER R.E.M. MADONNA ALEJANDRO FERNANDEZ 10 8 10 10 6 10 9 WORK ACCELERATE WARNER BROS. HARD CANDY WARNER BROS. 15 ANOS OE EXITO SONY BMG MUSIC WORLD /COLUMBIA

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)3 á3 (MEDIA CONTROL) MAY 20. 2008 (YLE) MAY 21, 2008 (OLTRATOP /GFK) MAY 21, 2008 ; (MAHASZ) MAY 18, 2008 4 MINUTES 4 MINUTES 4 MINUTES NEGYVEN 1 1 1 1 MADONNA FT. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE WARNER BROS. MADONNA FT. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE WARNER BROS. MADONNA FT. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE WARNER BROS AKOS fEHER SOLYOM MERCY El HASSUMPAA NO STRESS 2 2 2 4 MINUTES LAURENT WOLF FT. ERIC 2 NEW DUFFY A&M RISTO RAPPARIA EMI CARTER COLUMBIA MADONNA FT. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE WARNER BROS. BRING EN HEI LACK OF DIVINE INSPIRATION ALLO LE MONDE 3 3 3 3 2 MINDEN MOST KERDODIK EL BASCHI UNIVERSAL KINETIK CONTROL BONNIER PAULINE CAPITOL AKOS FEHER SOLYOM THIS IS THE LIFE MERCY DANGEROUS 4 4 5 ZAKATOL A SZIVEM M.POKORA 4 10 AMY MACDONALD VERTIGO DUFFY AOM FT. SEBASTIAN/TIMBERLAND CAPITOL JOSH ES JUTTA JOSH /PRIVATE MOON/EMI AMERICAN BOY MISSA MIEHET RATSASTAA IL AVAIT LES MOTS 5 69 ULM a ESTELLE FT. KAYNE WEST HOME SCHOOL/ATLANTIC TERASBETONI WARNER SHANE 54 /DJ JUNIOR FT. MICHELLE WILD CLS ALBUMS ALBUMS ALBUMS ALBUMS MADONNA VON HERTZEN BROTHERS FRANCIS CABREL 2 1 NEW BERECZKI ZOLTAN & SZINETAR DORA HARD CANDY WARNER BROS. LOVE REMAINS THE SAME DYNASTY DES ROSES ET DES ORTIES COLUMBIA MUSICAL DUETT 2 EMI AMY MACDONALD DIABLO MADONNA MADONNA 3 2 NEW 2 2 THIS IS THE LIFE VERTIGO (CAROS FULLSTEAM HARD CANDY WARNER BROS HARD CANDY WARNER BROS. GOELAE DISCO ENSEMBLE 4 RENAN LUCE DEAK BILL GYULA 1 3 1 3 3 TAETTOO - BEST OF BAERNDUETSCH EMI MAGIC RECOVERIES FULLSTEAM REPENTI BARCLAY HATVAN CSAPAS SONY VMS MR. DA -NOS DUFFY GAROU VARADI ROMA CAFE 4 NEW 4 4 4 5 THE ONE AND ONLY TRA ROCKFERRY HEM PIECE OF MY SOUL COLUMBIA ESPRESSO SONY BMG DUFFY STELLA CHRISTOPHE MAE HOOLIGANS 5 4 5 5 NEW ROCKFERRY A8M LOYTAJA GAR PITAR ELEMENTS MON PARADIS WARNER PRIVAT MENNYORSZAG EMI

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ARTIST ARTIST 1 DISTRIBUTING LABEL SINGLE SALES TITLE . PRINT & NUMBER / DISTRIBUTING LABEL ï-3 TITLE IMPRINT 8 NUMBER 'FLYLEAF TOBYMAC 1 2 125 26 26 65 (PORTABLE SOUNDS) FOREFRONT 0379/EMI CMG:+ FLYLEAF - JCTONE 650005/16AÓ NATIONAL SINGLES AND W EUROCHARTS ARE COMPILED BY BILLBOARD FRCM THE NICOLE C. MULLEN ALBUM SALES CHARTS OF 20 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES. MAY 21, 2008 SARA GROVES 3 2 1 18 27 23 33 TELL ME WHAT YOU KNOW SPONGE /INO 84302/PROVIDENT- INTEGRITY SHARECROPPERS SEED: VOLUME 1 WORD -CURB 887144 111 4 MINUTES AT TEMPLE SOURIE (JESSOP/WILBERG) 1 1 CASTING CROWNS MORMON TABERNACLE CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA MADONNA FT. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE WARNER BROS 3 3 38 28 11 9 THE ALTAR AND THE DOOR BEACH STREET /REUNION 10117 /PROVIDENT-INTEGRII CALLED TO SERVE MORMON TABERNACLE CHOIR 5004111 MERCY 2 2 VARIOUS ARTISTS VARIOUS ARTISTS DUFFY ARM 29 3I1 42 4 4 6 IN WORSHIP REUNION 10823 PROVIDENT- INTEGRITY WOW HITS 1 SON' BMG MUSICPROADENTANORD-CURB EMI CAC 10879PROMDENT-INTEGRITY GLORY REVEALED: THE WORD OF GOD AMERICAN BOY P.O.D. PURENRG ESTELLE FT. KAONE WEST HOME SCHOOL /ATLANTIS 5 7 6 30 28 3 WHEN ANGELS 8 SERPENTS DANCE IRO /COLUMBIA 4240. /PROVIDENT- INTEGRI1 E HERE WE GO AGAIN FERVENT 887321 /WORD -CURB LOVE IN THIS CLUB 4 12 VARIOUS ARTISTS PILLAR USHER FT. YOUNG JEZZY LAFACE'ZOMBA 6 6 33 31 29 12 WOW HITS 2008 WORD- CURB /PROVIDENT- INTEGRITY 6677 /EMI CMG FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME ESSENTIAL 10869 /PROVIDENT- INTEGRITY THAT'S NOT MY NAME NEW VARIOUS ARTISTS THE TING TINOS COLUMBIA KIRK FRANKLIN 20 33 7 8 22 32 -INTEGRITY THE FIGHT OF MY LIFE FO YO SOUL/GOSPO CENTRIC 16772/PROVIDENT- INTEGRITY SONGS 4 WORSHIP: COUNTRY TIME LIFE 19523 /PROVIDENT 6 4 CECE WINANS VARIOUS ARTISTS ENRIQUE IGLESIAS INTERSCOPE 8 5 7 33 17 THY KINGDOM COME PURESPRINGS GOSPEL EMI GOSPEL 4966 EMI CMG HOW GREAT )WOUND: GOSPBFAVORTFSFROM IM GRANO OIE OPP WE ARMOR NARHAIE 20330FROVIALAWIEGMN TAKE A BOW NEW JOHN TESH RIHANNA SRP /DEF JAM JOE COCKER RE-ENTRY HYMN FOR MY SOUL FANTASY 30398 /CONCORD ALIVE: MUSICBDANCE: MUSIC FROM THE SHOW GARDEN CITY 4618 SUMMER LOVE J 8 5 HILLSONG GAITHER VOCAL BAND AND ERNIE HAASE & SIGNATURE SOUND MARK MEDLOCK SONY BMG 7 RE-ENTRY 10 10 TOGETHER GAITHER MUSIC GROUP 2729/EMI CMG THE I HEART REVOLUTION: WITH HEARTS AS ONE INTEGRITY 4370 PROVIDENT- INTEGRII% VIOLET HILL AMR 9 27 MARTHA MUNIZZI LEELAND COLDPLAY PARLOPHONE 11 13 7 CHANGE THE WORLD MARTHA MUNIZZI 38610 i +.. OPPOSITE WAY ESSENTIAL 10854 /PROVIDENT -INTEGRITY NO STRESS 10 8 NATALIE GRANT LAURENT WOLF FT. ERIC CARTER COLUMBIA 12 9 14 37 35 13 RELENTLESS CURB 79025/WORD -CURB THE HEAT ATLANTIC 236924/WORD -CURB C'EST CHELOU 9 SKILLET AMY GRANT ZAHO CAPITOL 13 16 85 38 32 31 COMATOSE ARDENT /SRE /LAVA 2546 /PROVIDENT-INTEGRITY GREATEST HITS SPARROW 2797/EMI CMG IH HEARTBREAKER 12 11 MERCYME THIRD DAY WILLIAM FT. CHERYL COLE WILL.I.AM /INTERSCOof 34 41 14 13 26 39 10839/PROVIDENT- INTEGRITY I±) ALL THAT IS WITHIN ME INO /COLUMBIA 12573 /PROVIDENT- INTEGRITY -4 CHRONOLOGY VOLUME TWO: 2001 -2000 ESSENTIAL LOW 13 10 GAITHER VOCAL BAND FIREFLIGHT FLO RIDA FT. T -PAIN POE BOY /ATLANTIC 15 19 -5 40 39 11 LOVIN' LIFE GAITHER MUSIC GROUP 2746/EMI CMG UNBREAKABLE FLICKER 10866 /PROVIDENT-INTEGRITY SO SOLL ES BLEIBEN 14 18 CHRIS SLIGH PASSION WORSHIP BAND ICH + ICH POLYDOR 16 12 2 41 15 RUNNING BACK TO YOU BRASH 0042 /WORD -CURB PASSION: GOD OF THIS CITY SIXSTEPS /SPARROW 5422/EMI CMG WITH YOU 17 RED JARS OF CLAY CHRIS BROWN JIVE /ZOMBA 17 24 94 42 36 7 END OF SILENCE ESSENTIAL 10807 /PROVIDENT -INTEGRITY o GREATEST HITS ESSENTIAL 10880 /PROVIDENT-INTEGRITY VARIOUS ARTISTS SHOWBREAD 25 39 NEW 43 TA + ANOREXIA TOOTH & NAIL 6226 /EMI CMG SONGS 4 WWDHP SHOUTIDTHE LORD SPECIAL EDITW NIEl301VTM' LH 19tA41'ROVIDENT-NIEfä THE AFTERS SHOWBREAD 44 43 11 ALI3UIVIS NERVOSA TOOTH 8 NAIL 1472/EMI CMG NEVER GOING BACK TO OK IRO 4306 /PROVIDENT -INTEGRITY GRUPO NUEVA VIDA CANTON JONES 20 27 19 45 a7 15 MEJORES CANTOS RELIGIOSOS MULTIMUSIC 11533 KINGDOM BUSINESS ARROW /UMCG 4234091/EMI CMG HAWK NELSON 7aq MAY 21, 2008 21 22 7 46 40 HAWK NELSON...IS MY FRIEND! BEC/TOOTH 8 NAIL 5346'EMI CMG THE INVITATION WORD -CURB 887410 MADONNA 1 1 MATT MAHER HARD CANDY WARNER BROS 22 '5 30 THIS MOMENT SPARROW 6393/EMI CMG EMPTY 8 BEAUTIFUL ESSENTIAL 10857 /PROVIDENT-INTEGRITY DUFFY 2 2 POINT OF GRACE VARIOUS ARTISTS ROCKFERRY ABM 23 '4 38 48 41 29 HOW YOU LIVE WORD-CURB 887090 INTEGRITY'S (WORSHIP 24:7 INTEGRITY 4263 /PROVIDENT-INTEGRITY AMY WINEHOUSE 3 DAVID CROWDER BAND TRIN -I -TEE 5:7 BACK TO BLACK ISLAND 24 21 34 REMEDY VXSTEPS SPA -I T57 SPIRIT RISING 0402 /MUSIC WORLD NEIL DIAMOND 4 NEW GREATEST BILL & GLORIA GAITHER WITH THE HOMECOMING FRIENDS THOUSAND FOOT KRUTCH HOME BEFORE DARK COLUMBIA GAINER ROCK BI Al,, . THE FLAME IN ALL OF US TOOTH & NAIL 8247/EMI CMG W PORTISHEAD 4 THIRD ISLAND IN EXTREMO 6 NEW SAENGERKRIEG UNIVERSAL

5 SCOOTER JUMPING ALL OVER THE WORLD SHEFFIELD TUNES PENDULUM 8 NEW IN SILICA WARNER OROS. AMY ARTIST ARTIST MACDONALD á 3 THIS IS THE LIFE VERTIGO TITLE IMPRINT R NUMBER / DISTRIBUTING LABEL 3 3 ó TITLE IMPRINT & NUMBER i DISTRIBUTING LABEL J MOSS ICH + ICH TYE TRIBBETT & G.A. 26 24 59 10 9 PAJAM /ZOMBA VOM SELBEN STERN POLYDOR .- STANO 01I7 ^....:I l: N COLUMBIA 16114/SONY MUSIC /GOSPO CENTRIC 87214 FRANK SINATRA MARVIN SAPP NORMAN HUTCHINS NEW 2 2 46 27 25 10 NOTHING BUT THE BEST REPRISE 11IIR,1Y ;I!MBA SPONTANEOUS PRAISE VOLUME ONE IR 020 LEONA LEWIS REGINA BELLE LEE WILLIAMS AND THE SPIRITUAL DC'S 6 28 23 37 12 SO MUCH TO BE THANKFUL FOR MCG 7056 SPIRIT SYCO © LOVE FOREVER SHINES PENDULUM 300208500 AMY WINEHOUSE VARIOUS ARTISTS YOUTHFUL PRAISE FEATURING JJ HAIRSTON 4 3 14 EVIDENCE FRANK ISLAND WOW GOSPEL 2008 WORD- CURB/EMI CHRISTIAN MUSIC GROUP VERITY 19200/25111 EXALTED...LIVE IN BALTIMORE GOSPEL 6922 /LIGHT R.E.M. KIRK FRANKLIN HAROLD RAYFORD 14 5 5 23 / TASEIS ACCELERATE WARNER BROS. THE FIGHT OF MY LIFE FO YO SOUL /GOSPO CENTRIC 16772 / ZOMBA ALWAYS THERE TYSCOT 984167 DEWAYNE WOODS & WHEN SINGERS MEET FRANCIS CARREL CECE WINANS 26 15 14 6 4 7 31 66 WATERYERITY DES ROSES ET DES ORTIES COLUMBIA THY KINGDOM COME PURESPRINGS GOSPEL 84966 /EMI GOSPEL INTRODUCING DEWAYNE WOODS 8 WHEN SINGERS MEET QUIET 8533320MBA SHEKINAH GLORY MINISTRY FLAME 7 6 34 32 38 11 JESUS KINGDOM 3003'B00KWORLD OUR WORLD: REDEEMED THE SEQUEL CROSS MOVEMENT 30030 MARTHA MUNIZZI BISHOP G.E. PATTERSON 7 33 29 54 nicI.rcn 8 7 HAVING CHURCH WITH THE SAINTS: VOLUME 1 PODIUM 2506 CHANGE THE WORLD MARTHA MUNIZZI SFC I RADIO AIRPLAY Music Control GREATEST VARIOUS ARTISTS DEITRICK HADDON PRESENTS VOICES OF UNITY 11 11 34 41 29 GAINER TOGETHER IN WORSHIP TYSCOT 984160/TASEIS AS MONITORED AND PATTI LABELLE RADIO AIRPLAY INFORMATION FROM 17 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES DORINDA CLARK -COLE 35 27 70 10 8 5 THE TO PATTI LABELLE UMBRELLA 970109 /BUNGALO 3 á3 TABULATED BY NIELSEN MUSIC CONTROL. MAY 21, 2008 TAKE IT BACK GOSPO CENTRIC 10027/ZOMBA GOSPEL ACCORDING 4 MINUTES NICOLE C. MULLEN MARVIN WINANS 1 1 36 34 34 11 9 57 ALONE BUT ALONE PURESPRINGS GOSPEL GOSPEL MADONNA FT. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE WARNER BROS SHARECROPPER'S SEED: VOLUME 1 WORD -CURB 867144; WARNER BROS. NOT 86278/EMI BEVERLY CRAWFORD MERCY ISRAEL & NEW BREED 43 37 2 2 12 10 37 37 1271 DUFFY ARM A DEEPER LEVEL: LIVE INTEGRITY 'COLUMBIA 11905 5065 MUSIC LIVE FROM LOS ANGELES JDI JONATHAN NELSON FEATURING PURPOSE AMERICAN BOY CANTON JONES 28 15 3 4 13 15 15 38 MUSIC ESTELLE FT. KAYNE WEST HOME SCHOOL, ATLANTIC KINGDOM BUSINESS ARROW 4254091 RIGHT NOW PRAISE INTEGRITY /COLUMBIA 20060'SONY LOVE SONG THE CLARK SISTERS JEFF MAJORS 4 3 14 13 58 39 32 16 SARA BAREILLES EPIC LIVE...ONE LAST TIME EMI GOSPEL 81094 O+ SACRED MAJOR 7TH MUSIC ONE 753171 BYRON CAGE WITH YOU RICKY DILLARD & NEW G 40 36 35 5 5 15 20 33 GOSPO CENTRIC 11 114 PROVIDENT- INTEGRITY CHRIS BROWN JIVE /ZOMBA THE 7TH EPISODE: LIVE IN TORONTO NUSPRING 02676 /EMI GOSPEL LIVE AT THE APOLLO: THE PROCLAMATION THE BOYS OF ALABAMA LOVE IN THIS CLUB TRIN -I -TEE 5:7 41 35 16 6 7 1E 22 35 TIME 19548 USHER FT. YOUNG JEEZY LAFACE / ZOMBA T57 SPIRIT RISING 0402 /MUSIC WORLD DOWN IN NEW ORLEANS LIFE STOP AND STARE BISHOP PAUL S. MORTON PRESENTS FGBCF PRAISE AND WORSHIP MYRON WILLIAMS 6 17 16 17 42 39 11 ONEREPOBLIC MOSLEVINTERSCOPE EMBRACING THE NEXT GENERATION TEHILLAH 6951 /LIGHT MADE TO WORSHIP FLOW 8040 VIOLET HILL THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE CHOIR JOE LINDSEY 10 1£ 14 17 HIM LEGACY INTERNATIONAL 25958 COLDPLAY PARLOPHONE I'LL SAY YES INTEGRITY COLUMBIA 21732,0065 MUSIC ® EVERYBODY OUGHTA PRAISE THE CLARK SISTERS BLEEDING LOVE SHIRLEY CAESAR 44 30 14 8 19 12 28 SOUNDS-RHINO CUSTOM PRODUCTS 4194520HINO LEONA LEWIS SYCO AFTER 40 YEARS ... STILL CELEBRATING THROUGH THE CITY SHU -BEL 6930' LIGHT THE BEST OF THE CLARK SISTERS: ENCOREDEXTERITY YOLANDA ADAMS I'LL BE WAITING ®ALVIN SLAUGHTER 40 54 9 45 AG LENNY KRAVITZ VIRGIN OVERCOMER INTEGRITY COLUMBIA 28131/SONY MUSIC THE BEST OF ME ELEKTRA/ATLANTIC 156604 BISHOP NOEL JONES PRESENTS THE CITY OF REFUGE SANCTUARY CHOIR RUN THE SHOW VARIOUS ARTISTS 50 13 2' 19 32 46 35 TYSCOT TASEIS KAT DELUNA FT. BUSTA RHYMES EPIC GOTTA HAVE GOSPEL! 5 INTEGRITY /GOSPO CENTRIC 12755/ZOMBA WELCOME TO THE CITY 984159/ BETTER IN TIME DONNIE MCCLURKIN CLINT BROWN 14 47 33 14 LEONA LEWIS SYCO THE ESSENTIAL DONNIE MCCLURKIN VERITY /LEGACY 15388/SONY BRG FALL LIKE RAIN TRIBE 2008 TOUCH MY BODY VARIOUS ARTISTS FRED HAMMOND 12 48 46 32 MARIAN CAREY ISLAND WOW GOSPEL 2007 VERITY /WORD -CURB /EMI CMG 02499/ZOMBA THE ESSENTIAL FRED HAMMOND VERITY/LEGACY 15385/SONY BMG IN MY ARMS VARIOUS ARTISTS VARIOUS ARTISTS 11 49 42 35 THE VERY BEST OF PRAISE WORSHIP VOWME 2 LEGACYNBVIY!GOSPO CENTRIC 1W9910MBA KYLIE MINOGUE PARLOPHONE WOW GOSPEL 4MS: 30 OF THE GREATEST GOSPEL HITS BARRI EMI CMGNERIIYNARO-CURE 087G420MWA 8 BUBBLY LECRAE TRIN -I -TEE 5:7 15 15 GOSPO 11291 SONY BMG COLBIE CAILLAT UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC. AFTER THE MUSIC STOPS REACH 30021 'CROSS MOVEMENT HOLLA: THE BEST OF TRIN -I -TEE 5:7 LEGACY CENTRIC

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www.americanradiohistory.com See below for complete legend information. SALES DATA C,HA11'S COMPILED BY i11CISCf1 LIE E SoundScan TOP ILI I all 1Y1 L1ti,ì uwi Sales data compiled from a comprehesive pool of U.S. music merchants by Nielsen INDEPENDENT- - SoundScan. Sales data for R &B /hip -hop retail charts is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan from a national subset of core stores that in specialize those genres. ARTIST ARTIST Title Albums with the greatest sales gains this week. 31 TITLE IMPRINT & NUMBER i DISTRIBUTING LABEL (PRICE¡ FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE Narrow Stairs Where included, this award indicates the title 2 4 GREATES VI 3WKS FLIGHT OF THE CONCHOROS (SOUNDTRACK) HBO 715` /SUB POP (15.98) GAINER with the chart's largest unit increase. HOT SHOT VARIOUS ARTISTS JASON MRAZ We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. 3 DEBUT 2 ® THE SECOND WAVE RHINO CUSTOM PRODUCTS 8185 / STARBUCKS (13.98) PACE Where included, this award indicates the title with oGREATEST RADIOHEAD DUFFY Rockferry 4 SETTER the chart's biggest percentage growth. 3 GAINER IN RAINBOWS TBD 21622 /ATO (13.98) MERCUR' GARTH BROOKS FRANK SINATRA Nothing But The Best 2 Indicates album entered top 100 of The Billboard 200 THE ULTIMATE HITS PEARL + o 4 HEATSEEKER 213 (25.98 CD/DVD REPRISE /WARNER OROS. GRADUATE and has been removed from Heatseekers chart. FILTER SOUNDTRACK The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian ANTHEMS FOR THE DAMNED PULSE 5 26 90108 (16.98) .LDEN MEDIA /WALT DISNEY PRICING /CONFIGURATION /AVAILABILITY ATMOSPHERE MADONNA Hard Candy 8 CD /Cassette prices are suggested list or equivalent prices, which are WUFN GIVES YOU LEMONS, YOU PAINT THAT 6 2 :i projected 4 III WIT GOLD RIVWSAYERS DJIENTMAÆM 0036ÁL,, '.ARNER BROS. from wholesale prices. 0 after price indicates album only available on DualDisc. BRYAN ADAMS GAVIN DEGRAW Gavin DeGraw CD /DVD after price indicates CD /DVD combo only available. 11 BADMAN EX 7 1 2 15 l DualDisc available. 4259 (12.98) RMG 0 CD/DVD combo available. indicates vinyl LP is available. Pricing and vinyl LP FOXY BROWN SOUNDTRACK Juno availability are on all charts. is 8 6 21 19 not included EX after catalog number indicates title BROOKLYN'S LION DIVA BLACK ROSES 5030 /KOCH (17.98) 10X/RHINO /AG exclusive to one account or has limited distribution. OLD 97'S LEONA LEWIS Spirit BLAME 9 4 5 IT ON GRAVITY NEW WEST 6147 (16.98) (+ CO /J /RMG M111[0.1 EAGLES SOUNDTRACK P.S. I Love You Mti fi 10 81 LONG ROAR OUT OF EDEN ERC 4500 EX (14.98) -.ILANTIC /AG RADIO AIRPLAY SINGLES CHARTS VAMPIRE WEEKEND 8 RADIOHEAD In Rainbows Compiled a VAMPIRE WEEKEND GROUP 11 51 from national sample of data supplied by Nielsen Broadcast Data XL 318'/BEGGARS (11.98) l BD /ATO Systems. Charts are ranked by number of gross audience impressions, computed by 12 6 YSOUNDTRACK 10 YEARS Division cross-referencing ONCE CANVASBACK /SONY MUSIC SOUNDTRAX 13'j.. 12 12 exact times of airplay with Arbitron listener data. The exceptions ` 105866/COLUMB6, UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC /UMRG are the Rhythmic Airplay, Adult Top 40, Adult Contemporary, Modern Rock and BOONDOX KATE VOEGELE Don't Look Away R KRIMSON CREEK PSYCHOPATHIC 13 78 Adult &8 charts, which are ranked by total detections. 4400 (12.98) 'LkSPACE /INTERSCOPE /IGA Songs showing an increase in audience (or detections) REGINA BELLE FLOBOTS Fight With Tools LOVE 14 182 over the previous week, regardless of chart movement. FOREVER SHINES PENDULUM 300208500 (14.98) REPUBLIC /UMRG SANTOGOLD MARIAN E 10 CAREY =MC2 RECURRENT RULES SANTOGOLD LIZARD KING 70034 /DOWNTOWN (14 98) 15 5 6 I OJMG Songs are removed from The Billboard Hot 100 and Hot 100 Airplay charts RAY J simultaneously if they have been on The Billboard Hot 100 for more than 20 weeks ALL I FEEL DEJA 34 /KNOCKOUT/EPIC 5041 /KOCH (17.98) and rank below No. 50. Songs are removed from the Hot R &B /Hip -Hop Songs and EMMURE Hot R88 /Hip-Hop Airplay charts simultaneously if they have been on the Hot THE RESPECT ISSUE VICTORY 449 (13.98) R &B /Hip-Hop Songs for more than 20 weeks and rank below No. 50. Songs are NINE INCH NAILS 18 14 6 removed from the Pop 100 and Pop 100 Airplay charts simultaneously if they have GHOSTS I -IV THE NULL CORPORATION 26* (16.98) been on the Pop 100 for more than 30 weeks and rank below No. 30. Titles are APOCALYPTICA 19 17 5 removed from Hot Country Songs if they have been on the chart for more than 20 WORLDS COLLIDE 20.20 ENT. 21580 /JIVE (13.98) +I weeks and rank below No. 10 in detections or audience, provided that they are not STORY OF THE YEAR ARTIST 20 13 4 TITLE IMPRINT &NUMBER /DISTRIBUTING still gaining enough audience points to bullet. Songs are removed from Hot Latin THE BLACK SWAN EPITAPH 86928 (16.98) LABEL Songs if they have been on the chart for more than 20 weeks and rank below MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE #1 CELTIC THUNDER 21 3 1 I 11 No. 20. Songs on Latin Airplay charts are removed after 20 weeks if they rank below IF UCR 099 /THE END (15.98) G 9WKS CELTIC THUNDER. THE SHOW CELTIC THUNDER 001 / DECCA No. 20 in both audience and detections. Descending songs are removed from Adult MINT CONDITION CELTIC WOMAN 22 12 2 2 2 68 A NEW JOURNEY MANHATTAN 75110 Contemporary if they have been on the chart for more than 20 weeks and rank E -LIFE CAGED BIRD 3636 /IMAGE (18.98) /BLG below No. 15, if they have been on the chart for more than 26 weeks and rank below SIXX: A.M. 23 18 39 3 12 No. 10, or if they have been on the chart for more than 52 weeks and rank below THE HEROIN DIARIES SOUNDTRACK ELEVEN SEVEN 171 (15.98) THE HIGH KINGS MANHATTAN 21344/BLG No. 5. Songs are removed from the Adult Top 40, Adult R&B, and Hot Dance Airplay SOUNDTRACK SOUNDTRACK 24 16 2 4 4 34 THE DARJEELING LIMITED FOX 9240 /ABKCO charts if they have been on the chart for more than 20 weeks and rank below No. 15 IRON MAN LIONS GATE 20016 (15.98) (No. 20 for Rhythmic Airplay and Modern ISRAEL "IZ" KAMAKAWIWO'OLE Rock) or if they have been on the chart FLOGGING MOLLY 5 5 47 for more than 52 weeks and rank below No. 10. FLOAT SIDEONEDUMMY 1348` (16.98) WONDERFUL WORLD BIG BOY 5911 /MOUNTAIN APPLE VARIOUS ARTISTS CINEMATIC SUNRISE 6 8 7 SINGLES SALES CHARTS A COLORING STORYBOOK AND LONG PLAYING RECORD (EP) EQUAL VISION 147 EX (8.98) IN THE NAME OF LOVE: AFRICA CELEBRATES SHOUT) FACTORY 10608/SONY SMG t1 3 VARIOUS The top selling singles compiled from a national sample of retail store, mass 27 VARIOUS ARTISTS A ARTISTS merchant, and internet sales reports collected, compiled, and provided by Nielsen WE THE BEST MTS 29 /RBC (13.98) PUTUMAYO PRESENTS: AFRICAN PARTY PUTUMAYO 276 THE STARLITE SINGERS SoundScan. For R&B /Hip-Hop Singles Sales, sales data is compiled from a national LIL SCRAPPY 64 IRISH FAVORITES MADACY SPECIAL PRODUCTS 52835 subset panel of core R &B /Hip-Hop stores by Nielsen Soundscan. PRINCE OF THE SOUTH RI TALK 49 (17.98) /MADACY MICHELLE AMATO/ROSALIND MCALLISTER /SARAH MOORE Singles with the greatest sales gains. KIDZ IN THE HALL 7 30 THE IN CROWD 2075 /DUCK DOWN (16.98) CELTIC LADIES: COLLECTOR'S EDITION MADACY 53173 DOLLY PARTON LOREENA MCKENNITT CONFIGURATIONS C 12 75 O CD single available. 0 Digital Download available. O DVD single available. BACKWOODS BARBIE DULLY 925 (13.98) W AN ANCIENT MUSE QUINLAN ROAD /VERVE 007920/VG Maxi WHITESNAKE CHAMBAO O Vinyl -Single available. 0 Vinyl single available. 0 CD Maxi -Single 31 23 4 11 9 8 CON OTRO AIRE SONY BMG NORTE 720220 available. Configurations are not included on all singles charts. G000 TO BE BAD STEAMHAMMER 9813`/SPV (17 -98) THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS MANU CHAO 32 9 2 12 13 31 HITPREDICTOR THE AGE OF THE UNDERSTATEMENT DOMINO 181' (13.98) LR RADIOLINA BECAUSE 68496' /NACIONAL Indicates in BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE LEA HABIB KOITE & BAMADA title earned HitPredictor status that particular format based on 33 31 16 * SCREAM AIM FIRE 20 -20 ENT. /JIVE /ZOMBA AFRIKI UIMRANCHA 5 research data provided by Promosquad. Songs are tested online by Promosquad 21393` (16.98) a using listens and a CHILDREN OF BODOM DENGUE FEVER multiple nationwide sample of carefully profiled music 34 26 5 15 17 BLOODDRUNK SPINEFARM 310/ FONTANA INTERTATIONAL (14 96, + VENUS ON EARTH M80 101' consumers. Songs are rated on a 1 -5 scale; final results are based on weighted INGRID MICHAELSON RUPA & THE APRIL FISHES positives. Songs with a score of 65 or more (75 or more for country) are judged 35 34 34 15 14 2 EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION CUMBANC to have Hit Potential; although that benchmark number can fluctuate per format GIRLS AND BOYS CABIN 24 03 /ORIGINAL SIGNAL (11.98) SHEKINAH GLORY MINISTRY based on the strength of available music. For a complete and updated list of 36 35 29 AIMEE current songs with Hit Potential, commentary, polls and more, please visit JESUS KINGDOM 3003 /BOOKWORLD (17.98) www.hitpredictor.com. PENNYWISE REASON TO BELIEVE MYSPACE 10013` (12 98) TECH N9NE PRESENTS KRIZZ KALIKO DANCE CLUB PLAY 38 19 2 VITILIGO STRANGE 45 /RBC (18.98) Compiled from a national sample of reports from club DJs. SHE & HIM Titles with the greatest club play increase over the previous week. 39 32 9 VOLUME ONE MERGE 324 (15.98) > TITLE ARMIN VAN BUUREN ARTIST (IMPRINT! PROMOTION 40 15 2 á 3 wS IAM1tJ ti AVaMI IMAGINE ARMADA 1668 (17.98) I /ULTRA ®BLEEDING LOVE MARTHA MUNIZZI ALBUM CHARTS 44 7 LEONA 1.10117 Recording Industry Assn. Of America (RIAA) certification for net shipment of CHANGE THE WORLD MARTHA MUNIZZI 38610 (17.98 CD/DVD)'J FOREVER PRODIGY 2 , 500,000 albums (Gold). RIAA certification for net shipment of 1 million units 42 4 CHRIS BROWN I.i.'.E LU:1LAi H. N.I.C. PT. 2 ASO 40701/VOX (17.98) (Platinum). 4> RIAA certification for net shipment of 10 million units (Diamond). O+ VIOLET HILL TANTRIC 3 20 3 Numeral within Platinum or Diamond symbol indicates album's multi- platinum level. 43 2ì 4 COLDPLAY (CAPITOL) THE END BEGINS SILENT MAJORITY 430844/ILG (15.98) For boxed sets, and double albums with a running time of 100 minutes or more, the I WILL POSSESS YOUR HEART THE 4 - 1 RIAA multiplies shipments by the number of discs and/or tapes. Certification for MYRIAD DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE (ATLANTIC) WITH ARROWS, WITH POISE KOCH 4443 (15.98) net shipments of 100,000 units (Oro). Certification of 200,000 units (Platino). TAKE A BOW THE BLACK CROWES 5 14 2 T Certification of 400,000 units (Multi -Platino). 45 K 11 RIHANNA (CRP /DEF JAM /IDJMG) WARPAINT SILVER ARROW O1' /MEGAFORCE (15.98) WITH YOU VARIOUS ARTISTS 6 3 9 SINGLES CHARTS 46 36 6 CHRIS BROWN (JIVE/ZOMBA) PUNK GOES CRUNK FEARLESS 30108 (14 98) RIAA certification for 500,000 paid downloads (Gold). RIAA certification for LOLLIPOP 7 7 7 9TH WONDER & BUCKSHOT LIL WAYNE FEATURING STATIC MAJOR (CASH MONEY MOTOWN) 1 million paid downloads (Platinum). Numeral within platinum symbol indicates song's 47 29 3 /UNIVERSAL THE FORMULA DUCK DOWN 20701 (16.98) multiplatinum level. Ci RIAA certification for net shipment of 500,000 singles (Gold). TOUCH MY BODY CHRIS SLIGH 8 2 9 48 25 2 MARIAN CAREY (ISLANDIDJMG) RUNNING BACK TO YOU BRASH 0042 (13.98) MUSIC VIDEO SALES CHARTS NO SUNLIGHT THRICE 9 1 RIAA gold certification for net shipment of 25,000 units for video singles. 49 42 5 DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE IATLANTIC) THE ALCHEMY INDEX, VOL. 3 A 4: AIR & EARTH VAGRANT 480 (13.981 0 RIAA gold certification for net shipment of 50,000 units for shortform or BIXBY CANYON BRIDGE JASON ALDEAN 10 1 longform videos. RIAA platinum certification for net shipment of 50,000 units for 50 43 51 DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE (ATLANTIC) RELENTLESS BROKEN BOW 7047 (17.98) video singles. RIAA platinum certification for sales of 100,000 units for shortform or CATH 11 1 longform videos. Numeral within platinum symbol indicates song's multiplatinum level. DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE (ATLANTIC) DON'T STOP THE MUSIC TOP INDEPENDENT ALBUMS: Independent Albums are current titles that are sold via Indepe,' +d+: 12 6 9 DVD SALES /VHS SALES /VIDEO RENTALS rl l' ': , ncluding those that are fulfilled via major branch distributors. TOP DIGITAL: Release RIHANNA (SRP /DEF JAM /IDJMG) ;d ,a- a 63.63iete bundle through digital download services_ WORLD: See charts legend for rules RIAA gold certification for net shipment of 50,000 units or $1 million in sales at and explanations. BILLBOARD.BIZ CHART: A weekly spotlight on one of the charts that are updated GRAPEVINE FIRES 13 1 weekly on billboard.biz, including ones that are exclusive to Billboards websites. 1 2008. Nielsen DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE (ATLANTIC) suggested retail price. RIAA platinum certification for sales of 100,000 units or $2 Business Media. Inc. and Nielsen SoundScan. Inc All rights reserved. million in sales at suggested retail price. C) IRMA gold certification for a minimum 14 TALKING BIRD sale of 125,000 units or a dollar volume of $9 million at retail for theatrically released DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE (ATLANTIC) programs; MERCY or of at least 25,000 units and $1 million at suggested retail for 1 21 " DUFFY (MERCURY /IDJMG) non -theatrical titles. IRMA platinum certification for a minimum sale of 250,000 units or a dollar volume of $18 million at retail for theatrically released programs, and of at least 50,000 units and $2 million at suggested retail for non -theatrical titles. 56 Go to www.billboard.biz for complete chart data Data for week of MAY 31, 2008

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ARTIST Title LABEL 8 NUMBER / DISTRIBUTING LABEL (PRICE) Six -time NO AGE BOONDOX Krimson Creek Grammy Award - Nouns PSYCHOPATHIC 4400 (12.98) SUB POP 772' (13.98) wimling valuer METRO STATION JUSTIN NOZUKA Holly 3 26 Metro Station bows with his GLASSNOTE 0102 (11_98) RED INK 10521 /COLUMBIA (12.98) SAVING ABEL second set to CUT /// COPY In Ghost Colours 2 10 Saving Abel MODULAR 050 (10.98) SKIDDCO 06053 /VIRGIN (12 98) dorrt on gj ®EMMURE Tooth Of Crime The Respect Issue Heatseekers, 450300/WARNER BROS. (18.98) VICTORY 449 (13.98) NONESUCH shifting 2,000. MGMT BRYAN SCARY & THE SHREDDING TEARS Flight Of The Knife 4 17 Oracular Spectacular 007 (11.98) COLUMBIA 19512 'SONY MUSIC (11.98) BLACK AND GREENE GREATEST THE CAB Whisper War O10 42 The Way Of The Fist 442364 BY RAMER (13 98) GAINER FIRM 70116 (12.98) DECAYDANCE /FUELED THE SWORD FLOBOTS Fight With Tools Gods Of The Earth FLOBOTS /UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 15179 /UMRG (13.98) Not to be KEMADO 071' (12.98) i CINEMATIC SUNRISE confused with STICK TO YOUR GUNS Comes From The Heart A Coloring Storybook And Long Playing Record (EP) CENTURY MEDIA 147 EX (8.98) 8485 (12.98) EQUAL VISION the similarly JAMES MCMURTRY KIDZ IN THE HALL 35 5 Just Us Kids The In Crowd named comedy ROD 9502 (16.98) MAJOR LABEL 2075 /DUCK DOWN (16.98) LIGHTNING . act, this duo TIFFANY EVANS THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS The 35 22 4 Tiffany Evans 111 The Age Of Understatement . COLUMBIA 91004 /SONY MUSIC (12.98) DOMINO 181' (13.98) also lands at LA FACTORIA rDEICIDE No. 53 on Top 8 Nueva Metas Till Death Do Us Part UNIVERSAL LATINO 008062 (12.98) EARACHE 60358 (16.98) ¡tr. R &B/Hip -Hop LUDO ARMIN VAN BUUREN 34 12 You're Awful, I Love You Imagine 009497/I0JMG 98) ARMADA 1666 /ULTRA (17.98) Albums. REDBIRD /ISLAND (9 BON IVER THE MYRIAD 43 13 For Emma, Forever Ago With Arrows, With Poise (14.98) KOCH 4443 (15.98) JAGJAGUWAR 115' HAYES CARLL 9TH WONDER & BUCKSHOT 16 5 Trouble In Mind The Formula 39 LOST HIGHWAY 010452' (9.98) 111 DUCK DOWN 2070' (16.98) LOS CUATES DE SINALOA SAFETYSUIT 40 24 14 Puros Exitos Chacas NEW NORTE 22541 UNIVERSAL MOTOWN 010978/UMRG (11.98) SONY BMG (12.98) O WE THE KINGS Brain Thrust Mastery 12 25 We The Kings VIRGIN 21322 /ASTRALWERKS (12.98) 3 -CURVE 52001 (8.98) NICK SWARDSON DRAGONFORCE 32 30. Party 14 73 Inhuman Rampage CENTRAL 0056 CD,'DVD) +. SANCTUARY 610034/ROADRUNNER (17 98) Al COMEDY (15.98 BABY D NEW LOCAL H 42 3 A -Town Secret Weapon Twelve Angry Months BIG OOMP 5065 /KOCH SHOUT! FACTORY 31085 (15.981 Companion 1:1) 117.981 albums, FERRAS r. CHRIS SLIGH 38 Aliens & Rainbows 19 Running Back To You CAPITOL 68706 (12.98) {RASH 0042 (13.98) designed to TOKYO POLICE CLUB MINDI ABAIR Stars 20 Elephant Shell be purchased 45 18 2 ;ADDLE CREEK 116' (13.98) 23/PEAK 30637/CONCORD (18.98) together, are JASON NEVINS CUISILLOS 30 6 ThriveMix Presents: Dance Anthems 2 Vive Y Dejame Vivir (18.98) IVIIISART 5050 /BALBOA (15.98) conceptual THRIVEDANCE 90782/THRIVE THE KILLS SHOWBREAD releases tied to 46 9 Midnight Boom Anorexia 164' (13.98) TOOTH 8 NAIL 06226 (13.98) DOMINO a short story ELBOW SHOWBREAD 26 4 The Seldom Seen Kid Nervosa 48 (9.98) TOOTH 8 NAIL 21472 (13.98) included with FICTION /GEFFEN 011063/IGA the sets. JO JO JORGE FALCON GRUPO NUEVA VIDA Mejores Cantos Religiosos 41 13 Los Mejores 99 Chistes Vol. 1 MULTIMUSIC 11533 (6.98) TITANIO 1031 (5.98) PENDULUM M83 Saturdays =Youth . In Silico MUTE 9384 (15.98) ATLANTIC 511089/AG (13.98)

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ARTIST TITLE IMPRINTBNUMBER /DISTRIBUTING _ABEL Krimson Creek Saving Abel The Respect Issue DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE 1 Boondox #1 Saving Emmure Krimson Creek tWK NARROW STAIRS BARSUK /ATLANTIC 452796/AG Boondox Abel PORTISHEAD Emmure 2 THIRD GOI. DISCS /MERCURY 011141'/IDJMG The Respect Issue DUFFY Metro Station ROCKFERRY MERCURY 010822' /IDJMG 3 Metro Station OLD 97'S MGMT BLAME IT ON GRAVITY NEW WEST 6147 4 THE ROOTS Oracular Spectacular RISING DOWN DEE JAM 011138'iIDJMG Deicide JASON MRAZ 5 'Till Death Do Us Part WE SING. WE DANCE. WE STEAL THINGS. ATLANTIC 448508/AG T Bone Burnett ATMOSPHERE 6 5 4 Tooth Of Crime WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU LEMONS, YOU PONT THAT SNIT GOLD RHYMESAYERS ENTERTAINMENT Gv FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS 7 Flobots 8 4 FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS (SOUNDTRACK) HBO 715'/SUB 'OP Fight With Tools MADONNA 8 Local H B 2 3 HARD CANDY WARNER BROS. 421372 Twelve Angry Months THE RACONTEURS 12 8 The Last Shadow Puppets CONSOLERS OF THE LONELY THIRD MAN 456060'!WARNER BROS. 9 The Age Of The Understatement ITHE BLACK KEYS ATTACK 8 RELEASE NONESUCH 292476',WARNER BROS Saving Abel El Saving Abel NEw 10 YEARS DIVISION UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 010979,UMRG FRANK SINATRA ® NEw NOTHING BUT THE BEST REPRISE 438652' WARNER BROS. 1 Boondox ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE IMPOSTERS Krimson Creek III MOMOFUKU LOST HIGHWAY 011109' Local H MUDCRUTCH 2 MUDCRUTCH REPRISE 455868 /WARNER BROS. Twelve Angry Months Abel Mi Sentimiento Saving Abel Oracular Spectacular Saving Saving Abel MGMT Saving Abel MJ Metro Station PACIFIC SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH ATLANTIC Metro Station BREAKING & ENTERING IFive Finger Death Punch Los Angeles -based guitar /drums duo No Age, named after a The Way Of The Fist 1989 SST compilation, helps take punk into the new millennium HEATSEEKERS: The best -selling albums Cinematic Sunrise by new and developing acts. defined as AColorivStorytookAnd L0t PEyingRecord(EP) PROGRESS REPORT those who have never appeared in the top with its debut album, "Nouns," which is 100 of The Billboard 200 or the top 10 of Top Country Albums. Top R8B /H,p -Hop Emmure No. 26 on Top Heatseekers. Find out what Tracy Young Featuring Ceevox, "What's Done Is Done" Albums, Top Chnstan Albums. Top Gospel The Respect Issue Alums or Top Latin Alums. If a Heatseekers title reaches that level. it and these vegan noisemakers will be up to Superstar DJ /remìxer / producer Tracy Young earns her first top the act's subsequent albums are MGMT immediately ineligible to appear on the Oracular Spectacular next at billboard.com/breaking. 10 single as an artist with "What's Done Is Done" rising 15 -9 on Heatseekers chart. TASTEMAKERS: Tastemakers ranks the best selling albums Kidz In The Hall in more 1 an influential subset panel of than Hot Dance Club Play. In the past, she has remixed No. dance 350 stores from independent retailer The In Crowd Go to blllboard.com /breaking to coalitions and smaller regional chains See hits for such artists as Madonna and Rihanna. Chart Legend for rules and explanations. Flobots ,CAM discover developing artists making Inc. 2008. Nielsen Business Media. and Fight With Tools their inaugural chart runs each week. Nielsen Soundhcan. Inc. All rights reserved.

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Chart Codes: CS (Hot Country Songs), H100 (Hot 100 Songs); L7 (Hot Latin Songs), POP (Pop 100 Song and REIH (Hot R &B /HlpHop Songs). , INDEX.. TITLE (Publisher - Licensing Org.) Sheet Music Dist., Chart. Position.

16 @ WAR (Songs Ot Fer. ASCAP/ larch Publish- 9th DIAMOND GIRL .election Publishing. SCAP'Moi- Blackwood, BM, Tlncle Bobby Music. 05111. HLWBM. The Planet, ASCAP/Uncle Buddies Music, ASCAP) RBH Music. BMVSongs Pacific.0MVHead- ASCAP Of Windswept SUMMERTIME Sony /AN Harmony ASCAP/Three Hece mg, /2082 Music Publishing, ASCAPANB Mu:,ic. I A>.PEN Sons. ASCAP) RBH 96 RBH'"' 71 hone Junkie Publishing, ASCAPÆMI April. ASCAP). Publishing ASCAP/DonnieD Publishing, ASCAP). HL. ASCAP WBM, RBH 54 DID YOU WRONG Listed) RBH 84 LET ME LOVE YOU (Mrs Lumpkins Poodle. ASCAP/Big HL/WBM H100 62 POP 46. RBH 66 H10057 POP 31 4 MINUTES (Webo Girl PublishirgASCAPWB Music. DONDE ESTAN COHAZON (Enrique Iglesias Music. Loud Bucks. BMWniversal Music - MGB Songs PEGADRO ïMOstly Songs. ASCAP/WB "..r. tld Music, SUPA SEXXY (Universal Music ' Z Songs. BMVNappy- ASCAPNirrgqinia Beach. ASCAPDan)ahandz .' Muzik. I .,CAPTDoble Acuarela Songs, ASCAP ;ltarles Music. ASCAPXoball Music Publishing. pub Music. BMI. HLWBM, RBH 62 SESAC M/ B M Music SESACTennman Tunes ell SGAE1 HUWVBM. LT -3 I CAN SLEEP WHEN I'M DEAD Universal Mua:. ASCAP). HLWBM, CS 53 PERDONAME 1',isic Corporation. ASCAP) LT SUPERSTAR )Hey Lu Chill Music BMVHeaw As Heaven ASCAPNmversal Music -Z Tunes. ASCAP). HLWBM, DONDE ESTAN ESOSHAMIGOS INOI Listed) LT 41 . Music, BMIrHoLr'', LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN (Warner- Tamerlane Pub - 00 7, POP 6 Music BMVSongs Of Universal, OMV1s1 815th Pub- DONK S:.,rya 'du:,ic. BMVCroomstacular Ms -'d IV Entertainment lishing, WBM. PERDONO Y inn Eno BMI). CS 28 OLVIDO Music, HMI) LT 39 lishing. ASCAP/Mr Lopez Music. ASCAPNniversal 7 THINGS (Antonins Songs, ASCAP-Downtown. Bement 9 Hip Hop, BMI BMITakin' Care 01 Bu' :-. rAP/Memphers- LIFE OF DA PARTY (My Own Chit Music. BMI/EMI PERMITAME "sica Unica. BMII LT 26 "AP /Seven Music Corporation, ASCCAP), HL POP 48 Summits BMI/ln Bocca Al Wpo. BMI RBH 67 Blackwood PICTURE TO BURN A RMIEbjah Molina Pohli-.hingg, SESAC7T N Tree BMLTaylor Swift SWEET AND LOW April, ASCAP /Auguslana Music. T. Ti rn n L ; (Are P.ihir hang, POP 95 BM) DM STOP THE MUSIC (EMI April. ASCAP/Sw w Al V IF I NEVER SEE YOUR FACE AGAIN - FP. . .I 1, Universal Music ;olhl °' -,n F re, Ara ASCAP). HL. Valley ASCAP/Fancisblaze Music ASCAP), POP Tunes, ASCAP:Erankie HL OR Storm BMMVSony'AN Songs, Careers. BMI February Twenty Second BMWalentine i H100H10n 52S2 POP 72 BM)Mlnaac Music. BML''Warner- Tamerlane Publishing, Valentine. ASCAP.Nniversal Music - MGB Songs. LIKE YOU'LL NEVER SEE ME AGAIN .-slow Produc- PIECE OF ME n town Songs Il` Publishing A BMII H1, WBM H100 POP 25: 22 ASCAP . HL/WBM H100 72. POP 40 th key. Au'ucPoblishulgSrandl- ADDICTION .ou ubnsnin ASCAPMottola DONT THINK I DONT THINK ABOUT Ir (Cadaja Pub - IF YOU DIDNT LOVE / in dAE ME (Sony AN Cross Keys. TAKE A 1 BOW iwersal Music Z Songs. BMVFen In I N Songs RBH 88 APMb(C Fur The ASCII) Music. 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DEATHS Wife." She also dueted with Parton John Rutsey, 55, a founding mem- Dottie Rambo, 74, gospel legend, on her 2003 comeback hit "Stand by ber of seminal Canadian rock band died May 11 in a bus accident in Mt. the River." Rush, died May 11. Vernon, Mo., while en route to a con - During the late '80s and early '90s, Rutsey played drums with Rush cert in Texas. Rambo battled a debilitating back in- from 1968 to 1974, as well as on the An icon whose influence extended jury and went through a divorce. But band's self-titled debut album, but far beyond gospel music circles, in recent years, her health had im- departed soon afterward. Rambo is credited with penning proved and she was active again, tour- In an obituary published in the more than 2,500 songs recorded by ing and recording. She had completed Toronto Star, his family said his numerous artists, including Elvis a new project, "Sheltered," which is death was caused by "complications Presley, Barbara Mandrell, Bill Mon- slated for release by Daywind. The from his lifelong affliction with di- roe, Johnny Cash, Whitney Houston, album features the last recording by abetes." Some news reports said and Dolly Parton. Porter Wagoner, and Rambo had Rutsey died from a heart attack in Born Joyce Reba Luttrell, Rambo planned to dedicate the disc to him. his sleep. grew up in Morganfield, Ky. She began Through the years, Rambo earned According to Rush's official bi- writing songs when she was only 8 numerous honors. She was a mem- ography, Rutsey was supposed to years old and by age 10 was singing ber of the Gospel Music Hall of Fame write the lyrics for the band's first on local radio. She became a Christ- as a solo artist and as a member of album, but grew dissatisfied with ian at age 12, a decision that wasn't the Rambos. In 1994, the Christian his attempts and never completed supported by her father. He issued an Country Music Assn. presented her them. He was replaced by Neil Eddy Arnold: ultimatum: Give up Christian music with the Songwriter of the Century Peart, who remains as the band's or leave. So Rambo hit the road and Award, and also gave her the Pio- drummer /lyricist. began performing in churches, form- neer Award in 2003. She received 1918 -2008 ing a group called the Gospel Echoes. the ASCAP Lifetime Achievement Guiseppe Campi, 79, founder of Even early in her career, Rambo's Award in 2000. She was inducted Creazioni Artistiche Musicali, died Country Music Hall of Famer Eddy Arnold died May 8. He was 89. songwriting was a calling card. While into the Kentucky Music Hall of April 18 of complications from a liver Arnold is considered the top country artist ever in terms of overall still in her teens, she signed a pub- Fame in 2006. Last year she was in- condition in Rome. chart performance in Billboard. lishing deal with then -Louisiana gov- ducted into the Nashville Songwrit- Campi founded CAM, an independ- Known as the "Tennessee Plowboy," Arnold enjoyed pop and coun- ernor /recording artist . ers Hall of Fame. ent music publisher /record label based try hits, including "Make the World Go Away," "I Want to Go With You," She got her first big break signing a "Dottie taught me the importance in Rome that specializes in film sound- "Turn the World Around," "I Really Don't Want to Know" and "You deal with Warner Bros. Records. She of really loving people and to really tracks, more than 45 years ago. The Don't Know Me." He notched 1 28 Billboard No. country singles be- later recorded for many years with appreciate the gift of a song and what company is credited with several Acad- tween 1947 and 1968, and had 92 top 10 hits -including 67 in a row, the Nashville -based Benson Co.'s the lyrics really mean to life," says emy Award -nominated and -awarded more than any other artist. Heartwarming label. Dusty Wells, Rambo's previous man- films, such as "La Arnold's 1947 song "I'll Hold You in My Heart" spent 21 weeks No. at In 1968, she won a Grammy Award ager and now Word Distribution sen- Dolce Vita," "Amarcord," "Otto E 1, and "Bouquet of Roses" logged 19 weeks atop the chart in 1948. In the for best soul gospel performance for ior director of national accounts. Mezzo" and "Il Postino." entire year of 1948, only one non -Arnold title topped the country chart. her album "It's the Soul of Me," stir- "Dottie Rambo lived what she sang The company's roster of com- Richard Edward Arnold was born May 15,1918, on a farm in Chester ring controversy as a white artist win- and she sang what she lived. I'm a posers includes , Ennio County, Tenn. After playing on the radio in Jackson, Tenn., he left for ning a category always dominated by better person today because of Dot- Morricone, Nino Oliviero and Riz St. Louis, where he landed a radio job while playing clubs at night. He blacks. That year, Billboard named tie Rambo." Ortolani, Armando Trovaioli and gained his first real radio stardom at WMPS Memphis, where he worked her trendsetter of the year. Rambo is survived by her sister, Carlo Rustichelli. for six years. It was during the period 1940 -43 when, as the lead singer Rambo's appeal knew no racial, Nellie Slaton; two brothers, Jerry and Previous to Campi's involvement for Pee Wee King's Golden West Cowboys, he gained the nickname musical or geographical bounds. In Freddie Luttrell; a daughter; three in the music publishing business, he Tennessee Plowboy. 1999, she netted the Dove Award for grandchildren; and one great- grand- founded Sorrisi e Canzoni TV, a pop- Arnold went solo in 1944. His first chart hit was 1945's "Each best traditional gospel song for "I Go child. A memorial service was held ular Italian TV guide, in 1952. Minute Seems Like a Million Years." He hired Colonel Tom Parker, to the Rock," performed by Houston May 19 at Nashville's Christ Church. Campi is survived by his wife, who would later manage , as his manager in 1948. on the soundtrack to "The Preacher's -Deborah Evans Price Claudia; two daughters, Francesca One of the first country artists to work in Las Vegas, Arnold was and Maria Grazia; a son, Agostino; also a pioneering country TV performer. "Eddy Arnold Time," a se- and two grandchildren. ries made in Chicago, appeared in 1955, and "The Eddy Arnold Show," shot in Springfield, Mo., followed in 1956, according to the En- LonPaul Ellrich, 37, noted cyclopedia of Country Music. musician, died May 7 in Indianapolis. He revitalized his career in the '60s by adding strings to his music, Ellrich played or worked on proj- a controversial move for a country artist at the time. In 1966, at age ects from an array of Indiana acts, in- 48, Arnold was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame. He re- cluding Sardina, the Mysteries of mains the youngest inductee to receive the honor. Life, the United States Three, June Arnold announced his retirement from the stage in 1999, although Panic, , Jorma Whitaker, he continued to record. the Panoply Academy and the Impos- His 100th album, "After All This Time," was released in 2005 on sible Shapes. RCA. A cut from it, "To Life," has been released to country radio to But he's probably best -known for commemorate his 90th birthday, a move that was planned before his his work in Marmoset, one of the death. The song debuts at No. 49 on Hot Country Songs this issue more beloved bands on (and one of with airplay coming from country stations in Chicago, Philadelphia, the earliest signees to) Bloomington, Minneapolis, Seattle, Detroit, and Los Angeles, among other Ind., label Secretly Canadian. The markets. group's most recent album, "Florist Sony BMG Nashville chairman Joe Galante had a long relation- Fired," was released last year. ship with Arnold. "He had a unique influence on the way I thought "Though most knew him as an about what makes an artist and how I can help them," he said. "The amazingly subtle and musical drum- last time I saw him a few weeks ago, he wanted to make another mer, LP was very much a Swiss army record. There was a special kind of happiness about him whenever knife," a tribute on Secretly Cana- he talked about music, and that is how I will remember him." dian's Web site reads. "He could sing, Arnold's wife of 66 years, Sally Gayhart Arnold, died in March. He play guitar, break out a fucked -up key- is survived by their children, Richard Edward Jr. of Nashville and Jo board part, it didn't matter. His pri- Ann Pollard of Brentwood, Tenn. mary instrument was his sheer taste A public funeral service was held May 14 at Nashville's Ryman in music and unending-sometimes Auditorium. -Ken Tucker and Wade Jessen to a fault-need to realize what he was hearing in his brain." ..

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RECORD COMPANIES: Welk Music Group elevates Fred Jasper to senior director of TV/film. He was licensing director. EMI Commercial Development Group names Dominic Pandiscia VP /GM of EMI Global Music Services. He was senior VP of sales at . Provident Label Group ups Brian Dishon to VP of na- tional promotions. He was senior director. Valley Entertainment promotes Brandon Intelligator to VP of corrective institution sales. He will continue to serve as A &R /royalty administrator.

PUBLISHING: BMI promotes Michael Crepezzi to ex- ASCAP LATIN MUSIC AWARDS ecutive director of performing rights. He was senior ASCAP celebrated its 16th annual Latin Music Awards May 16 at the Ritz Carlton in Miami Beach. Stars at the glitzy director. event included Marco Antonio Solis, who won the songwriter of the year award; Vanguard Award winners Black:Guayaba; and recording artists and including Olga Tañón, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Tito Nieves, Tommy Torres and Johnny Pacheco. Salsa star Victor Manuelle was honored with the Golden Globe Award and serenaded with live performances by Omar Alfanno and Sergio George. PHOTOS: COURTESY OF ARNOLD TURNER ABOVE: Four stars, four friends, four awards, from left: Victor Manuelle; Marco Antonio Solis; Olga Taññón, whose song "Flaca o Gordita' was a winner in the tropical category; and salsa singer Tito Nieves, who recorded Solis' songs this year. TOURING: Red Entertainment Group names Robert Row- BELOW: Sony /ATV Music Publishing took home the oublisher of the year award, with 43 tracks on ASCAP's land director of booking for the Northeast territory. He most- played list. From left are ASCAP CEO John previously oversaw all Northeast talent buyers and Mid- LoFrumento, Sony /ATV Music president Danny Strick, Sony/ ATV Music Publishing -U.S. Latin and Latin America VP Jorge west clubs at Talent Consultants International. Mejia, Sony /ATV Music Publishing -U.S. Latin senior director European online ticketing company Seatwave names of creative Claribel Cuevas, ASCAP senior VP of Latin Alexandra Lioutikof and ASCAP executive VP Todd Brabec. CFO. He was CFO of the global busi- Aksel van der Wal RIGHT: The members of Puerto Rican rock band ness development unit at Vodafone. Black:Guayaba were honored with ASCAP's Vanguard Award for their efforts in helping shape the future of The European Arenas Assn., which represents 26 are- Latin music. nas from 19 countries, has elected a new board: Jos van der Vegt (president), Gil Carneiro de Almeida and Aivar Sirelpuu (VPs) and Linda Bull (executive director).

TV /FILM: Video /music network promotes Rick Bergan to senior VP of distribution. He was VP.

RELATED FIELDS: Licensing consulting company Rights - Flow Entertainment Group names Jacob Goldstein chief information and financial officer. He was chief technol- ogy and information officer for ' North American Diversified Agencies Group. Rock Ridge Music names Bobby Capps A &R consult- ant /staff producer. He will continue to serve as key - boardist for rock band 38 Special.

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METALLICA PULLS IN $375,000 FOR MUSIC SCHOOL 's intimate benefit concert May 14 at Los Angeles' 2,300- capacity Wiltern Theatre raised more than $375,000 for the city's Silverlake Conservatory of Music. "We were very pleased and it exceeded our expectations," conserva- tory director of development Bill White says. The benefit was pulled together at the last minute to help raise funds for the nonprofit conservatory, which was co- founded by Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, who joined Metallica onstage for "Fight Fire With Fire." Money raised will go to- ward the conservatory's programs and operations, along with scholarships for low- income students who can't afford instruments and music lessons. "How many people in here have been saved by music ?" Metallica singer /guitarist James Robert Plant and Alison Krauss along with T Bone Burnett pei formed Hetfield asked a packed audience. " Metallica is very proud Jade Jagger, right. poses with May 16 in Stockholru Ttie two artists received pl,itino), .iv1.uds for their to be here for the cause." The band's nearly two -hour set in- DJ Mark Ronson, who spun at the album `R. ;rng Sam:- K produced by Burnett) fmni Unix :'Çal Music Sweden From lest ,'t' Live Nation promoter Thomas Johansson l'I:rit cluded such hits as "For Whom the Bell Tolls," "Fuel," "Mas- launch party for the Belvedere Jagger Dagger at VIP Room at Burnell. Ki.iuss and Intrrnation,il T, dent Booking agent Rod MtfcSween ter of Puppets," "... And Justice for All," "Enter Sandman" the Cannes Film Festival. and "Seek and Destroy."

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www.americanradiohistory.com 2008 ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS year and also won for video of the year ("Online "). Carrie Underwood was named top female The Academy of Country Music held its 43rd annual awards May 18 in vocalist for the second year in a row, and Miranda Lambert was honored with Las Vegas at the MGM Grand Arena (see story, page 11). Among the album of the year for night's big winners were Kenny Chesney (entertainer of the year), "Crazy Ex- Girlfriend." Brooks & Dunn claimed top vocal duo and extended their lead as Miranda Lambert (album of the year for "Crazy Ex- Girlfriend ") and the most -awarded act in ACM history. From Sugarland (single and song left at Sony BMG Nashville's post -show dinner celebration are Sony Nashville favorite Walk the West sold out the Exit /In with its May 9 of the year for "Stay"). The show, which was broadcast CBS, BMG Nashville executive VP Butch Waugh, Ronnie Dunn, reunion show. From left are Pioneer Coach president Doug Rountree, on included eye -popping performances and spe- cial effects. Top new female artist Taylor Swift ended her performance Underwood, Kix Brooks, Lambert, ACM show host Reba McEntire, Walk the West's Paul Kirby, Billboard executive director of content and Paisley, Chesney, BMG by being drenched a Sony Nashville chairman Joe Galante and programming for touring and live entertainment Ray Waddell, and with heavy downpour of water, while Lambert finished Sony BMG Nashville executive VP of A &R Renee Bell. PHOTO: COURTESY Walk the West's John Golemon and Richard Ice. in a flurry of sparks. Sugarland fooled fans by "falling" off the back of the set only to quickly reappear unharmed. Top male and OF TYLER POWELL /CHRISTIE'S PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIOS female vocalists Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood feted the late left, Taylor Swift, president /CEO Scott Eddy Arnold with a touching rendition of "What's Going On in Your OFromBorchetta and top new male vocalist Jack Ingram celebrate after World," while Chesney and George Strait teamed on their hit the 43rd annual ACM Awards. "Shiftwork." Top duo Brooks & Dunn were joined by the show's host, OUniversal Music Group Nashville's after-party celebrated George Reba McEntire, for "Put a Girl in It." Strait's birthday and Sugarland's multiple wins. From left are UMG BMG Nashville was on a roll, receiving seven major awards. Nashville chairman Luke Lewis, Strait and Strait's wife, Norma. OSonyKenny Chesney and Brad Paisley were both double winners, left at the Trailer Choir party at Toby Keith's I Love This with Chesney claiming his fourth consecutive entertainer of the year OFromBar & Grill are Trailer Choir's Crystal Hoyt and Big Vinny, trophy along with vocal event ("Find Out Who Your Friends Are "), Keith, Harrah's Las Vegas president Don Marrandino and Trailer while Paisley walked away with top male vocalist for the second Choir's Butter.

Billboard senior editor Jonathan Cohen, center, is flanked by the Black Keys' Patrick Carney, left, and Dan Auerbach after the band's sold -out May 15 show at New York's Terminal 5. PHOTO COURTESY OF LAVINIA JONES WRIGHT

THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE LEMMY The life ana career of Mötorhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister is being celebrated in a new documentary, tentatively titled "Lemmy." Slated for a 2009 release, the film promises fans more access than ever before to Kilmister's life and includes interviews with past and present bandmates and such peers /admirers as , Dave Grohl, Mick Jones (the Clash), , Steve Vai and wrestling superstar Triple H. Director/producers OUNDATION Greg 011iver and Wes Or- shoski (a Billboard contribu- tor) are shooting the film on a combination of high- defini- tion video and super 16mm film. "If we were in the 17th century, you don't think he'd be a pirate ?" Cooper asks. "Everything he delivers is sin- cere and authentic. Nobody told him to do anything that he wasn't completely natural and comfortable doing," Vai adds. A distribution deal hasn't yet been inked, but a teaser clip, featuring onstage footage and such amus- From left, Recording Acadenily president /CEO and MusiCares Foundation G' president Neil Portnow, MusiCares' From the Heart Award honoree Slash, O1 ing backstage segments as Kilmister testing out a bass Stevie Ray Vaughan Award honoree Ace Cooper and performef

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