WITH TTTTiTITI RADIO UUEEC chart.Singles 25; chart, New 6-7;singles, Album 26; NewRetailing, albums, 8; Classical,17; Disco 9.12; TjiKi I ^ I February 25, 1980 VOLUME TWO Number 49 Arista-Ariola link BPI plays down court setback BPI INVESTIGATORS are playing under NBRC banner rulingdown thelast impactFriday ofwhich an Appeal threatens Court to recordNBRC industry'sLTD is the newest name conglomerate. of the British and the U Klabels development for worldwide of Arista release (US) hamstringIn previous their actions anti-piracy against activities. counter- ItRecord stands Company for the and New it is theBertiesmann umbrella artists.Go-Feet Associated and Albion. labels include I-Spy, feitersbeen able and to obtainbootleggers, 'Anton theFiller' BPI orders has Arista,operation Ariola formed and last their week associated to run hasA beenfinance set and up administration to look after divisionall the carryingclose their an suppliersobligation and on piratescustomers. to dis- labels.The move follows last year's acquisi- beendivisions appointed of NBRC controller.and Liam Dexter He willhas lastThis Friday clause when was Mike thrown Lee, into Sue doubtGom- tion of Arista by Ariola. Appointed to report to the main board of the umbrella WHEN HEAVY band Stonehenge bergKensington and Video were Information allowed their Centre appeal of Blanchflower,the board of the newCharles company Levison,are Robin An Ariola spokesman said: "The new wonBands Radio contest City's in Liverpoolannual Battle recently of the it against orders requiring them to provide Andrew Pryor and Wolfgang Wegmann organisation is a unique structure creat- was not even realised that the group copyrightRank Film holders Distributors with the namesand other and withMonti Ariola Luefmer Records taking Group the chairman's president ing anforce efficient capable and of streamlined providing market-a com- wasRecords in fact immediately not local but stepped Austrian. in andJet addresses of customers for allegedly position. plete range of services to a number of signed Stonehenge to a contract. The pirateillicit filmsfilms sent plus out documents or the whereabouts relating to resultIt is fromthought the some move, redundancies but no details will differentFurther creative details sources."of the new organisa- withband Jetis seenmd Ronniehere clinching Fowles the(second deal of all illicit copy films or masters known were available at press time. tion will be announced shortly. left). The decision was based on the well- as subsidiariesNBRC Ltd willwhich run will Ariola retain and separate Arista established legal principle that 'no-one a&r functions and label identities, but a RTE drops Irish IFPI chart is bound to incriminate himself, and new marketing company will take on questionsmeans that or dealers disclose can documents refuse to relating answer andother promotion. functions like marketing, selling after row over rigging to their suppliers or customers. panyThe will as yetbe oneun-named of four marketing operating com-divi- IRELAND IS once again without a ional companies claimed hadAt not press decided time to Rank go to theFilm House, Distributors but had headedsions of theby newmd conglomerate.Andrew Pryor It and will itsbe amongnational recordsales companieschart following over allega-a row localthat themanagements system was and being artists abused with theby beenSaid given BPI leavespokesman to appeal. Richard Rob- andmain promotionfunction will for be both marketing, Arista salesand tionsAs aof result rigging. RTE, the national broad- Irishresult thatFederation the recent of meetingPhonographic of the affectson; "We records, are hopeful and it this certainly ruling willdoesn't not labels.Ariola, and their respective associated high-ratingcasting system, top has30 showhad toon dropSunday its allIndustries, the companies, the umbrella broke organisationup in disarray. of stillaffect allows the basic investigators Anton Filler to enterorder prem-which forThe organising division manufacturingwill also be responsible and dis- afternoonsmes are unable and toDJs comment on other on program-the prog- of Thecompiling IFPI is a now satisfactory examining chart new and ways a ises and take away evidence of record Polygram.tribution of the labels through Pye and ressThe of newthe quarrellatest singles. hinges on what are meetingthe situation. will be However held this weeka new to chart discuss is has"It taken is very place unfortunate and it is bound that this to ruling make chflowerAriola remainswith a underbrief mdto acquireRobin Blan- UK calledIrish chartartist/management is compiled on sales. wholesale The notthe expectedearliest. before the end of March at anti-piracythings more teamdifficult generally for the BPI,try to but make the chflowertalent and will exploit also beit worldwide.responsible Blan-with allowedfigures tobut buy artists bulk stocksor managers for promo- are hasThe been chart supervised compilation by the itself MCPS. up to nowThe surein a particularthey capture ring all by possible using simultane- operators HansaArista and remains Double with D formd theirCharles releases. Levi- periodtion. These of three sales weeks are builton the in normalover a fortnightonly other from chart retail is compiledenquiries byover the a newous raids,ruling sowill hopefully not be loo the great, effect even of ifthe it sondeveloping who is UKresponsible talent for for Arista finding and and its wholesale figures used to compile the Holpresspaper. magazine, a national rock is allowed to stand by the House of a# vl r- ZS news Discs down, Oord: We need aid from acts tape up in '79 ANTI-PIRACY1FP1 Gerry Oord campaigner is meeting lorrecord the ketA STEADY and a sudden decline downturn in the album <n singles mar- company executives next week in a bid salesby the are BPI's the full-yearmain trends survey highlighted of 1979, towardsIn his firsthis fightingyear, Oord fund. raised between publishedBut cassette last salesweek. remained buoyant industry£50,000 -sources £100,000 - mainly from publishers.non-record withlion unitsan increase against of1978 almost sales, three although mil- theBut amountthe music of businessdonations recession to the fund has and cut justthe valuethree ofpercent the market in 1979 increased - which by GULLIVERS DJ Graham "Fatman" Canter dishes out the silver discs, on newNow sources Oord ofis meetingfinance area&r needed.men in an could indicate rising sales of budget Picturedbehalf of atPye the Records, presentation, to the which Sugarhill took Gang place for at thethe recentsingle "RappersVenue concert, Delight'. are attempt to find a way of convincing priceing sector product of intne the music healthily market. develop- (left to right) Henry Jackson, Canter, Michael Wright and Guy O'Brien. artistsillicit recordthat they trade. are being hurt by the totalsCommenting - down by on 11.5 the million album units sales on smallDonations percentage could anti-piracy come in the clauseform ofa in the previous year's figure of 86 million, Strong RCA catalogue superstars contracts with a reasonable said;BPI director"The continuedgeneral John debilitating Deacon ceiling,fund, orcharity even concertsspecial incompilation aid of the responsibleeffect of home for mosttaping of thisis doubtless loss. now set for mid-price albums with all proceeds going to the increases"It cannot have be seriouslyargued that affected price RCA RECORDS is launching a new scale according to the number of units involving"1980 willartists be ain prioritythe anti-piracy year for album sales since the average price of mid-priceInternational back and catalogue has lined label up called first advertisingordered, plus in browser Radio cardsand TVand Timesmedia field," said Gerry Oord. "Piracy is hurt- yearLPs increasedagainst an by increase 14 percent of 17 during percent the releases in March featuring Elvis Pre- among other publications. resting themof the as much,music ifbusiness, not more, yet than at the in the retail price index." sley,Floyd Harry Cramer Nilsson, - all atMario £2.99. Lanza and salesAlso meeting announced last weekat RCA's was sixthe monthly 'Worth moment they do not make a big con- at The£161.5 trade million value wasof the also album lower market than The label will be overseen by Lee A Mention' campaign offering a dis- mytribution meetings to fighting with a&r the problem.men this I weekhope 1978 when the value was £163.2 mil- force,Simmons, who formerly intends withto cover the RCAas broad sales- a catalogue.count on Asa wellselected as current list RCAof backpro- will go some way to changing the situa- lion.Singles sales were more than three musical range as possible. Forthcoming duct the push will extend to licensed million units down in the last quarter releasesson, Tommy include Dorsey, Sam Cooke, Glen WillieMiller Nel-and ordersLPs like of morefive Nazareththan 25 unitsalbums. dealers On on1978, 1979 although against total the salessimilar for period the year of Waylon Jennings material. receive a five percent discount and on 40 Old soul EPs were very slightly up and showed a singleEach album International packaged release in the will original be a units the discount is ten percent. million.25.5 percent increase in value, at £53.8 sleeve wherever possible and immedi- from Stax This trend is expected by Deacon: atelyRCA's available marketing in cassette campaign form. includes RCA Classical & Atlantic "Aincrease large is proportionprobably due of to this the popu-value special dealer discounts on a sliding scheme revived WEA IS releasing a series of ten pre- whateverlarity of speciallythe cause, packaged the effect 45s, hasbut RCA'Retailers RECORDS Classical is Action're-launching scheme its stigioustracks from EPs theon theAtlantic March and 7 containing Stax soul been to add nearly £11 million to the Vinyl to go up offering three different levels of dis- catalogues of the early and mid-sixties. value"The of sudden the market. downturn in the sing- count up to 15 percent on orders of 150 tersThe and series the isEPs entitled will retail Atlantic at £1.60Mas- les market, though disturbing, might THEby as COSTmuch ofas vinyl eight is percentexpected from to climb the The scheme has now been fully com- each.