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TESTED TUNES CAN HELP CLASSIC ROCK Industry Bands Together At NAB Radio Show R &R Classic Rock guru Adam Jacobson Economic future, Stern presents results of an exclusive study by RateTheMusic.com that reveals that many hot topics in San Diego classic rock songs that test well are not By Joe Howard being played at the format. Get the story in R &R Washington Bureau jhoward®radioandrecords. com this week's Classic Rock column. Page 19 SAN DIEGO - Radio-industry leaders banded together at the an- nual NAB Radio Show, held here last week at the Manchester Grand Hyatt hotel, and insisted that radio can overcome new competition NUMBER ONES from digital media, continued CHR/POP Marconi Award MAROON 5 She Will Be Loved (Octone/J/RMG) winners: Page 8 CHR/RHYTHMIC

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www.americanradiohistory.com JR NEWS October 15, 2004 R &R 3 FCC Fines Fox TV Stations NEWS & $1.2 Million For Indecency FEATURES Radio Business 4 Reality show results in $7k fine per affiliate, 0 &O Management/ Marketing/Sales 6 Howard Hy Joe pixilated, straddling a man "in a Technology 7 :on Bureau /,owardaradioanddw.ordt.mo sexually suggestive manner "; a Street Talk 14 The FCC on Tuesday fined 169 male stripper about to put a Publisher's Profile 84 Fox Television affiliates and owned- woman's hand down the front of and- operated stations $7,000 each his pants; and a man in his under Opportunities 80 wear on all fours being spanked by ror airing an April 2003 episode of Marketplace 81 the reality show Married by America two topless strippers. Also shown that featured sexual content the were two women licking whipped BLOWN AWAY BY JOSH Last week Infinity Country WSOC/Chadotte held a concert to raise funds for western North Carolina storm victims. The commission deemed was in viola- cream off a stripper's stomach and show, held at local venue Coyote Joe's in conjunction with the American Red FORMAT tion of indecency regulations. The bare chest while the stripper held Cross, raised over $6,000 in donations and featured MCA Nashville artist Josh fine totals $1.183 million. her own breasts. SECTIONS Turner. Seen here are (l -r) MCA Records' Louie Newman; WSOC Promotion The FCC said the episode fea- "Although the nudity was pixi- Director Chele Fassig; Turner; and WSOC programming staffer Stacey Canady, 13 tured footage from bachelor and lated, even a child would have News/Talk/Sports PD Jeff Roper and MD Rick McCracken. 19 bachelorette parties that included a Classic Rock topless woman, with her breasts FOX See Page 5 A&R Worldwide 20 CHR/Pop 21 CHR/Rhythmic 27 KFME /Kansas City Knows `Jack' MacCourtney Named GM Urban 31 Country 36 Susquehanna Hot AC KFME/ 2003 across many formats and tar- At Salem's WDTK /Detroit Adult Contemporary 44 Kansas City flipped formats last gets persons 25-54. Other Jack -FM Smooth 52 week to "105.1 Jack -FM, playing stations in the U.S. include KJAC/ Salem Communications has ap- prove to be a tremendous asset as Rock 57 what we want." The Denver; KRNB /Dallas; and WWJK/ pointed veteran Michigan TV we build our News /Tal( platform Alternative 61 station is currently 01511 Jackson, MS. broadcaster Christian MacCourt- in Detroit." Triple A 64 running jockless KFME PD Mike ney GM for the company's recently MacCourtney was most recently Americana 68 acquired Motor City News /Talker Director /Sales, Midwest Region for with production be- playing whet we want O'Reilly told R&R, Christian 70 WDTK/DetroiL MacCourtney joins cable TV network CNBC. He spent tween such songs as This format is conta- Latin Formats 75 Elton John's "Little Jeannie," Shania gious; it's all about attitude. Jack's the company following a successful the previous seven years as Regional career in television sales and sales Sales Manager for WXYZ -TV/ Twain's "That Don't Impress Me out of the box and on the air." Tlhe Back Pages - Much," 3 Doors Down's "Super- O'Reilly, who will be working with management that spanned nearly Southfield, MI, a station he joined as man," The Bee Gees' "Night Fever" Jack -FM architect Garry Wall, is cur- 20 years. an AE in 1993. MacCourtney's re- and Def Leppard's "Photograph." rently re-evaluating the airstaff and "We are fortunate to have some- sume also indudes stints as an AE Originating in Canada, the Jack- making minor changes that will be one with the unique experience and for the TV rep firm Petry Television, FM format plays recunents up to announced shortly. talent of Chris MacCourtney, who based in Troy, MI, and as an AE at MTV Realigns understands the Michigan market WJRT TV /Flint, MI. so well," said Salem VP /Opera- MacCourtney said, "I am excited Top Exec. Tier Editors tality. Thanks to [R&R Publisher/ tions David Ruleman. "His proven about this opportunity for my pro- MTV Networks has announced Continued from Page 1 CEO] Erica Farber and Cyndee ability to sell and to build sales fessional growth and, more impor- several new executive appoint- well Based in San Diego, Stapleford Maxwell for the opportunity and to teams, as as his understanding tant, the opportunity to work with ments at the company: needs, professionals most recently served as an inde- [R &R CHR /Pop Editor] Kevin of client has already been es- dedicated in a grow- Van Toffler, formerly President pendent consultant for radio Carter for the free cup of coffee on tablished. We believe his broad - ing, dynamic company like Salem of MTV, MTV2 and MTV Films, has stations, record companies, ad- my first day." based experience in television will Communications." been promoted to MTV Group vertising agencies and Internet Peterson said, "Christian music is President, overseeing MTV; MTV2; companies. my passion, and this is a tremen- VIII; CMT; and LOGO, the corn - Peterson, meanwhile, is cur- dous opportunity. I'm really look- Dorman Now KREL/Sacramento PD pany's soon- to -be- launched gay - ing forward to working with Erica, and lesbian-oriented channel. rently PD /MD /morning host at Former KTOM /Monterey PD /morning personality and veteran record Cyndee and the great staff at R&R MTV & VH1 President/Enter- AC WMEZ /Pensacola, FL and will promoter Jim Dorman has been named PD of Country KREUSacramento. and being part of the continued tainment Brian Graden has been join R &R on Nov. 1. He worked Steve Garland, PD of First Broadcasting '80s clustermate KXCL (Flash growth of Christian music. I'd also appointed MTV Networks Music at KDWB /Minneapolis from 1992- 103.9), had been programming KREL. like to thank WMEZ GM Dave Group President /Entertainment, as 94 and WSTR (Star 94) /Atlanta Before joining KTOM two years ago Dorman spent more than seven Cobb and owner Jim Morell for the well as President of LOGO. from 1994-97 but began a side ca- years in the record business, including stints at Epic, Warner Bros. and At- opportunities they've given me Former Microsoft executive reer in Christian music in 1994, lantic. Before that he spent 15 years in Country radio, working at KNCl/ with Pamal Broadcasting during Denmark West has joined the com- when he founded the Contempo- Sacramento; KMIX /Modesto, CA; and KUBB /Merced, CA. rary Christian show Sonrise, which the last seven years." pany as Exec. VP /Strategy & Busi- is syndicated by United Stations ness Development Radio Networks on more than 90 Former Comedy Central Presi- mainstream stations. Peterson will dent Larry Divney has returned to divide his time between R &R's MTV as COO/Ad Sales. Nashville office and his home in Toffler joined MTV Networks in Pensacola. 1987 in business affairs for VH1 and "I'm delighted to welcome both Nickelodeon. Among other posi- Kevin Stapleford and Kevin Peter- tions, he's served as MTV GM, son into the R &R fold," R&R VP/ MTV Productions Exec. VP and Editorial & Music Operations MTV VP /Business Management. Cyndee Maxwell said. "Each brings During his tenure he oversaw the a unique set of skills and the apti- launch of MTV.com and MTV2, as tude that will serve their respective well as the rebranding of CTN into formats very well. I'm confident in mtvU. their abilities and look forward to "Van Toffler is one of the few ex- the contributions they will make." ecutives who lives successfully and Stapleford said, "I'm really ex- DOUBLE HOOBA Island Def Jam's Hoobastank were recently presented with double -platinum certification for their comfortably in the music, televi- cited to join Team R&R, especially sophomore album, The Reason. Seen here right before a mass dumping of Gatorade are (I-r) Hoobastank drummer Chris sion, film and business worlds," now that the Alternative format is Hesse; Island Def Jam rep Eric Wong; Hoobastank bassist Markku, manager Bret Bair and guitarist Dan Estrin; Island said MW Networks Chairman/CEO showing some serious signs of vi- Records President Steve Bartels; Hoobastank vocalist Doug Robb; and Island Records Exec. VP/A &R Paul Pontius. MTV See Page 18

www.americanradiohistory.com 4 R &R October 15, 2004 RADIO BUSINESS Senators Still Want BUSINESS BRIEFS Analyst Gives Emmis High Marks For Bonneville Deal Indecency Legislation Merrill Lynch analyst Laraine Mancini said last week that Emmis recent agreement to trade KKLT, KMVP & KTAR/Phoenix to Bonneville for WLUP /Chicago and $70 million in cash was a "posi- Media provisions stripped from Defense bill tive strategic move" for Emmis. She said Classic Rock WLUP "forms a strong complement with (Alternative clustermate] WKQX (C1101) it targets 25 a 11 provisions related to the media industry were removed lated to the media be removed. On since the adults -54 demographic, affording Emmis wider audience reach." from the Department of Defense Authorization Bill late last Oct. 5, however, Ensign said he'd ne- gotiated new provisions that includ- Mancini said the Phoenix trio is expected to generate $10.2 mil- week by the joint House -Senate conference committee ne- ed the increased fines and a strict time- lion in broadcast cash flow for Emmis in fiscal year 2005. The com- gotiating on the legislation. line for the FCC to handle indecency pany acquired the stations in 2000 and has since doubled their BCE. complaints, and the new standards But she said valuing WLUP is "a bit more tricky," because its BCF The move put on hold any congres- lion applied the $3 million maximum had been agreed to by House negoti- for calendar year 2004 "appears depressed" She added, however, sional measure to raise the maximum only to individual stations. ators. that, in her view, Emmis could double the station's BCF over the FCC indecency fine to $500,000 and The bill proposed by the quartet of According to a spokeswoman in next four years, as it did for KZLA/, also acquired from for the first time make individual per- senators also does not include earlier Ensign's office, the media -industry Bonneville. Mancini observed, "Since Bonneville is owned by the formers liable for indecent broadcasts. language that would have required provisions were ultimately dropped Mormon church, WLUP was forbidden to take liquor and gaming However, Sens. Sam Brownback, By- the FCC to hold a license- revocation because Dorgan insisted that media - ads. Under Emmis' management, the influx of these ads should be ron Dorgan, John Ensign and Conrad hearing for any station that racked up ownership limits be returned to the an immediate boon to both revenue and EBITDA." Bums are drafting new, weaker legis- three indecency fines. bill and would not agree to the inde- lation that would nonetheless raise the "I'm pleased it has bipartisan sup- cency provisions unless the owner- Westwood One Adds Moonves To Board maximum fines. port, and I'm hopeful that we can get ship rules were also included. Westwood One has added Viacom co-President/co-COO Les According to Reuters, the new bill any holds lifted off this particular The bill's chances of becoming law Moonves to its board of directors. The move should come retains the previous legislation's bill," Brownback said. "The public is this year are slim. It will have to be as no surprise: Westwood One Networks is managed by Infinity $500,000 maximum fine per violation fed up with the amount of indecent approved by both the House and the Broadcasting, which is part of the Viacom portfolio Moonves is re- but changes the $3 million per-day material put out." Senate when Congress returns from sponsible for. Westwood One President/CEO Shane Coppola said maximum to cover either an individ- The indecency provisions were part recess in November, and President he's glad to have someone with Moonves' experience and record ual station or an owner of multiple of the defense bill until the end of Sep- Bush would then need to sign the of success on the board. Moonves said, "I am looking forward to stations that aired the offending ma- tember, when Ensign sent a letter to working closely with the other board members and further strength- terial. Earlier versions of the legisla- colleagues asking that all material re- INDECENCY See Page 5 ening the company's relationship with Infinity Broadcasting."

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TRANSACTIONS AT A GLANCE BUSINESS BRIEFS Continued from Page 4 Al! transaction information provided by BIA's MEDIA Access Pro, Chantilly, VA. portion of its operating revenue or devote a significant portion of its revenue to technology research and development. Candidates must also have had operating revenue of at least $50,000 in 1999 and $1 mil- WYRS- FM/Manahawkin (Monmouth -Ocean), NJ $1 lion in 2003. iBiquity President/CEO Bob Struble said, "iBiquity is proud of this prestigious recognition. It reflects the tremendous long -term effort of our employees and our partners. It also highlights the great Full transaction listings, posted daily, can be found at momentum that HD Radio technology has established in the marketplace." www.radioandrecords.com XM, Journal Declare Dividends M Satellite Radio has declared a dividend on its 8.25% series B convertible preferred stock, payable DEAL OF THE WEEK in shares of the company's class A common stock. The dividend is payable at a rate of $1.03 per share of series B stock owned, with fractional shares to be paid in cash. The value of the class A stock to FM CP/Dripping Springs (Austin), TX be issued will be 95% of the stock's average daily price for the 10 consecutive trading days ending Oct. 18, and the dividend will be payable Nov. 1 to series stockholders of record as of Oct. 22. PRICE: $50,000 Meanwhile, Journal Communications' board of directors has declared a quarterly dividend of 65 cents TERMS: Asset sale for cash and note per share on the company's class A and B shares. The dividend will be paid on Dec. 10 to shareholders BUYER: Legacy Austin Broadcasting Foundation Inc., of record as of the close of business on Nov. 30. headed by President Robert Hand. Phone: 512- 608 -0486. It owns one other station. This represents its entry into Study: NFL Play -By -Play Attracts Affluent Listeners this market. According to a new study by Scarborough Research, advertisers that want to reach affluent radio SELLER: Media for the Holy Family Foundation, headed by listeners can find those listeners tuned in to NFL play -by -play coverage. "Local NFL radio broad- Chairman J.A. Martinez. Phone: 512- 306-1719 casts attract consumers who are making high -end purchases in travel, telecom and other categories," Scarborough Sr. VP/Radio & Sports Marketing Howard Goldberg said. 'Those same listeners tend also 2004 DEALS TO DATE to be top consumers in the more established sports advertising categories, including fast food and beer" The survey also identified the top cities for NFL radio listening: Milwaukee, Kansas City and Buffalo.

Sioux Falls Station Sued Over ASCAP Fees Dollars to Date: $1,556,611,484 Twelve song owners have sued Country KWSF- FM/Sioux Falls, SD for copyright infringement related (Last Year: $2,324,227,267) to nonpayment of ASCAP fees, saying the station's ASCAP license expired on Jan. 18, 2002. Ac- Dollars This Quarter: $73,700,001 cording to AP, the suit lists 12 songs played after that date and asks for $750 to $150,000 per count of infringement. Station co -owner Lee Axdahl told AP he hadn't seen the suit and didn't have documents on (Last Year: $847.001.456) hand to discuss the action. Axdahl's L.A. Radio sold KWSF and clustermates KSQB -AM & FM to Feller Stations Traded This Year: 683 Broadcasting in July for $100.000 and assumption of debt, but the sale has not yet closed. (Last Year: 880) Stations Traded This Quarter: 18 (Last Year: 300) ARBITRON

Indecency pressed unhappiness after the media - Continued from Page4 related language was removed from legislation. The Parents Television the DOD bill. He said, "The issue of media ownership is a poison pill Council, which campaigned heavily I when it is attached to indecency, be- 'With PD Advantage, Walk for the FCC to fine 169 Fox -affiliated cause the House has refused to even TV stations for airing material consider any bill that has media own- deemed indecent (see story, Page 3), into My GM's Office will likely be lobbying Congress on ership attached to it." the watered -down legislation. -Adam Jacobson and Brida Con- PTC President Brent Bozell ex- nolly. Confident That I Know What I'm Talking About." FCC ACTIONS

"PD Advantage® helps me get a deeper NAB Advocates Reinstatement Of Tax Certificate understanding of my listeners. It gives me in a filing submitted Tuesday, the NAB urged the FCC to bring back the tax certificate, which, until its elimination in 1995, gave a leg up on my competition, too-I see companies tax credits or other benefits when they sold assets to where they're weak, where our best minority -owned businesses. Submitting comments in a commission opportunities exist, and then develop a proceeding seeking input on how to increase minority ownership in

the communications industry, the group said, "The NAB regards the plan of attack. I use the PI ZIP code tools commission's previous tax -certificate program as one of the most to zero in on where to focus my marketing effective policies in promoting minority ownership of broadcast sta- tions. Reinstatement of a similar program should also prove to be and events. The Diary Comments have successful" The group also endorsed Sen. John McCain's proposed been incredibly useful. They're like a focus Rod Arquette legislation to reinstate a tax certificate for companies that sell to VP News and Programming group a lot less "socially and economically disadvantaged small businesses." -with work!" KSL Newsradio 1 160 Salt Lake City, UT

Find out what PD Advantage insight can do for your station-contact your Arbitron representative or drop affiliates liable in this case since they Fox could have pre -empted the taped an email to bob.michaels @arbitron.com. Continued from Page 3 broadcast. In fact, the commission noted that e 2004 Arbikon Inc. PD Advantage. is a registered mark of Arbitron Inc. known that the strippers were topless WRAZ-TV /Raleigh decided a month and that sexual activity was being before the cited broadcast that it shown," the commission said. wouldn't air any episodes of the pro- While the FCC fined only CBS gram, which station owner Capitol D ad vantage O&Os and didn't penalize affiliates Broadcasting believed "did not reflect When You Know More, You Program Better for the infamous Janet Jackson breast - prevailing standards of good taste and www.ArbilronRadio.com baring Super Bowl performance -a was clearly demeaning to the institu- live event - the agency found the Fox tion of marriage."

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DOT MAKES A POINT Ad- industry execs urge radio operators to embrace Arbitron PPM technology during a panel at the NAB Radio Show Seen RAB's Fries: Radio Is here are (I -rJ OMD DirJStrategic Research 8 Analysis Beth Uyenco, Davis Elen EVP/Media Services Director Dot DiLorenzo, Initiative Media EVP/Local Broadcast Strategy Janice Finkel- Greene, WBEB -FM President Jerry Lee and Its Own Worst Enemy Arbitron SVP/PPM MarketingJay Guyther. Elen in Los Angeles, believes the Communications Corp., concurred. Call for industry unity reverberates through NAB Radio Show PPM can give radio the tools to show She said that now that radio has real why the medium "should not be con- - or perceived - new competition, It was billed as the RAB's "State of the Industry 2005" Arbitror. hosted an informational tent to get the leftovers of a buy," but "we should stop putting other radio report card, but RAB President /CEO Gary Fries panel to unveil a new study using the should be part of an overall plan. But companies down and support the Philadelphia data that several key she was quick to add that that won't cause." sounded more like a parent scolding quarreling sib- agency executives touted as ammu- happen if you've not penetrated the Part of that strategy, according to lings than a business -association chief assessing the nition for radio sales. OMD Director/ highest levels of an agency or if you Entercom President /CEO David industry's revenue strengths, weaknesses and threats. Strategic Research & Analysis Beth wait for the buy to be availed. Field, should be to accentuate the Uyenco said an analysis of one buy Another technology hitting soon positive, particularly regarding the During a presentation at the Judy Ellis said, 'There is nothing fun- aimed at men 18-34 during the test will be coming from RCS's Media new formats that have come to NAB Radio Show last week, Fries damentally wrong with radio. We still period showed that an all-radio cam- Monitors subsidiary. The next genera- over- the-air radio recently, such as conceded that it's been reach 95% of the listeners paign world have delivered the tar- tion of RCS's ad-monitoring software Air America, the Classic Rock more difficult to find each week. What we have get better than an all-TV buy of iden- will reach beyond the radio stations in "Dave" and Classic Hits "Jack" and success stories in radio is a revenue problem" tical cost. In an environment where a given market to include newspaper All Comedy Radio. "It's time to go this year. Total revenue young male and teen demos are be- advertising. The goal, according to from rebuttal to offense," Field Get A Checkup through August is just coming more difficult to reach Media Monitors-AK:heck President said. 2% ahead of last year's Fries called on radio through television, PPM data could Philippe Garerali, is to give radio sell- One broadcaster did sound a note first eight months. But operators to look closely become ar.other arrow in radio's ers the ability to show newspaper -only of caution about tooting the horn too Fries downplayed sug- at their stations, saying, sales quiver. advertisers how to extend a campaign's loudly about stations' service to their gestions that radio is bro- "It's time for broadcasters Jerzy Lee, owner of WBEB-FM/Phil- reach in a way that will not significantly communities. Many broadcasters did ken, saying managers to turn the spotlight on adelphia and a member of the board reduce the size of print ads. valiant work this summer covering need to do a better job of and analyze the Radio Ad Effectiveness Lab, impact the hurricanes in Flori- Gary Fries themselves of Boon Or Bane the of telling radio's story. their own product and said it's a matter of differentiating ra- da and adjacent states, but it's not Fries didn't mince words. The time presentation." Examine spotloads, he dio. 'TV is a mass medium," he said. But new technology is also prov- that way everywhere, KHWY Inc. has come, he said, to abandon the said, put a premium on creativity and "Radio is a targeted medium. This ing a threat to the industry. Howard President Howard Anderson told "peddler's mentality" and commit to embrace such new technologies as technology helps document the link Stem's announcement that he's leav- R&R. "In many small markets, after a tactical sales plan. "Make room for electronic invoicing, digital radio and between the listener and the station, ing Infinity for Sirius Satellite Radio loam and on weekends there is no the strategists," he advised. "Get rid electronic ratings measurement. and thus between the listener and the registered about a six on the Richter live radio," he said. He believes one of the whiners." Arbitron's Portable People Meter advertiser." scale, with aftershocks felt from the of radio's big problems is that it has The topic of industry unity got has been a hot topic for several years. Janice Finkel -Greene, Exec. VP/ time the news hit Wednesday morn- "forgotten the principle of localism." plenty of attention at other Radio The PPM, which has been tested in I Aral Broadcast Strategy at Initiative ing to the closing sessions Friday af- At his talk, Fries summed up ra- Show sessions as well. At the "Group Philadelphia, is scheduled for a sec- Media in New York said, "Viewing ternoon. dio's challenge: "We have to realize Executives Super Session," Greater ond round of tests next year in Hous- erosion on the TV side is well publi- In the view of Clear Channel Pres- that things are changing more than Media President /CEO Peter Smyth ton - but not everyone is on board. cized. Radio is more stable and mix- ident /COO Mark Mays, a panelist at the average operator knows. We can't said there is a need for a new tactical Opponents suggest the PPM technol- es better with other media, such as the group heads' session, "We've just talk cost per point, we have to approach. "We have not, as an indus- ogy is flawed and say they don't the Internet. Radio is an important been de- positioned by satellite radio talk about a total picture that is mea- try, spoken with one voice to talk want to commit until they know part of the media puzzle." as 'an industry of the past.' It's up to sured by return on investment." He about the strengths of radio," he said. what it will cost. Proponents, how- Where does the PPM fit in that us to do a better job in the PR arena" contends that radio is taking a bun- "This is a very powerful force." ever, say the PPM is a new sales tool puzzle? Doi DiLorenzo, Exec. VP/ Chesley Maddox -Dorsey, Presi- ker mentality instead of aggressive- At the same panel Citadel COO that could underscore radio's value. Media Services Director at Davis dent /COO of 15-station Access.l ly seeking solutions. Ella es... Radiovisa The new BRAND in f r Spanish Talk Radio The voice of today's woman Affiliation contact: Ana Salcido (917) 689 -7143

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RIAA Appeals Grokster- StreamCast Decision The RIAA and the Motion Picture Association of Amer- ica have decided to try once more to get the ruling that legalized peer-to-peer networks overturned. The Ninth Cir- PART ONE OF A TWO-PART SERIES cuit Court of Appeals in August upheld last year's District Court decision that because Grokster and StreamCast parent Morpheus cannot control the way their P2Ps are used, the companies are not liable for copyright infringe- Online, It's Independents' Day ment committed by their software's end users. The RIAA and MPAA's joint petition to the court said, This is one of Digital distribution lets indies move in next to the big kids the most important copyright cases ever to reach this court. Resolution of the question presented here will largely determine the value, indeed the very significance, of copyright in the digital era." It may be a few weeks before the Supreme Court decides whether to hear the case. Major-label music was dragged into the digital hying to convince all these indepen- AOI, live365, Napster Announce Microsoft Deals age, clawing the ground and protesting all the way, dent labels to bring our entire cata- 2005 logs up to iTunes to get them up and Microsoft debuted the Windows XP Media Center Edition back in the late '90s. But after a long time and a lot of operating system and a line of PCs designed to work with it on selling there. I created our digital lawsuits, the majors have seen the potential of digi- Tuesday, and Live365 says it has designed a version of its service that distribution program as our way of is "optimized for access" through the new package. The deal makes tal music distribution with the iTunes Music Store, saying, "Sure. Glad to." Live365's thousands of streams accessible by remote control from a Musicmatch, Rhapsody and dozens of other legal The interesting thing about CD Media Center Edition 2005- equipped PC.Meanwhile, AOL released a Baby is that we've been an online sites. The independent world, meanwhile, has been preview version of AOL Music on Demand for PCs running Windows we moving on without the big guys. Indies have been record store for 61 /2 years, and XP Media Center Edition 2005 and the Media Center Extenders selling CDs and - by way of pioneering services like were already digitizing every CD package. The service, part of AOL for Broadband, gives users on- eMusic digital music on the 'Net since before the that came in the door to make the demand access to popular video and music content including AOL - audio clips for the website. We were outlaw Napster was born. Music Sessions performances and selected performances from the already scanning every album cov- AOL Music Live concert series. er for use at the website, we were Now the high- profile legal servic- Napster also jumped in with a partnership announcement of its already collecting all the metadata own: It has launched the Napster Media Room Edition, which works es that put the majors online are for every album and every song, and with Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 PCs and Digital Media reaching out to independent artists we Extenders. This version of Napster can be viewed through a and labels, offering them for the "Pretty much every were already paying the musi- - cians every single week. television or home entertainment center and works with a wireless first time - access to a platform and All was left to in to remote control. The newest Microsoft Media Center OS is designed to potential exposure equal to what the company that's doing that do order serve as a home digital -media hub, and the Digital Media Extenders majors get. Independents, natural- launch our digital distribution pro- in gram was, step one, get the musi- push content to TV sets. The Napster Media Room Edition will also ly, jumped right in, and these something days feature the Napster to Go portable subscription service, expected every brand -name digital service cians' permission and, step two, en- legitimate music later this year. from iTunes on down has unsigned code the audio into the format that Apple needed it to be in for deliv- and tiny -label artists for sale side - download sales has by -side with Eminem and Usher. ery to them. We get a bulk payment from Apple once a month, divvy it R&R:Are there any production stan- they want to put out into the world, CD Baby is an online store that more than 300,000 has been offering independent art- up according to the activity of the dards for the digital services? we can get them onto dozens and involved, pay it DS: We've found that, luckily, the dozens of internationally ists' CDs since 1998. But another tracks from artists and on the available thing it does for its member artists artists' checks the following week. download services also aren't real- outlets. I think it's amazing. It's a is get their music onto iTunes, Mu- independent artists For all that work we keep just a 9% ly judging. They're taking every- great time to be an independent sicmatch, Rhapsody, Sony Connect cut of the sale price, and that's it. No thing they can, everything we give musician. The doors are wide open. no R I see the artists to 70 and a boatload of other legal digi- out there." upfront costs and hidden costs. them. They reserve the right to &R get 60 R &R This is available to any of your refuse it, but they generally don't. cents a track, less CD Baby's 9% cut. tal services. I spoke with Derek Sivers, who heads up CD Baby, member artists or labels? It's an assembly line. It gets put up DS: Yeah. It's really taking advan- about how this side of the business DS: Exactly. Anybody who has an for sale, and they let the public de- tage of the fact that our entire infra- came about. really encouraged the independent album they want to put out into the cide. structure was in place already and labels and aggregators like CD Baby world can go towww.cdbaby.com and R &R It's not a bad time to be an in- already profitable from selling CDs. We DS: It started just a few weeks to get them everything, because, sign it up. don't judge. If some- dependent artist. So 9% is all we really needed to add after Apple launched the iTunes they said, "There's some amazing body wants to sell it, we'd be glad DS: I think it's amazing. We did on top of that to do the additional it for them. Of course, it has all kind at for Music Store. They called an invita- music that's out of print or hard to to sell this of Apple's request, step the digital distribution. tion-only private meeting up in their find, and in this world of digital, to be somewhat retail-ready, but launching this thing, but shortly af- iTunes is doing a pretty nice split office in Cupertino, CA and invited there's no reason for you not to we've never really had a problem terward we were contacted by by paying out a full 65 to 70 cents CD Baby to come. They said, "We make that music available." with that. Rhapsody, then Musicmatch and per 99 -cent download. I think it's like Luckily, it want iTunes to have available every It was actually Steve Jobs himself At MP3.com or something then the rest. Pretty much every pretty generous. became piece of music ever made," and giving this presentation and kind of that, you could fart into a mike and company that's doing something in the standard as well. upload an MP3, but it's a little dif- legitimate music download sales ferent when you're talking about a has - let's see, our catalog's over Next week: A conversation with Dean physical CD. It's $35 to sign up to 300,000 songs now, so every one of Sciarra, head of all- online label CD Baby, and people have to have these services has more than 300,000 ltsAboutMusic.com. "Apple called an invitation -only private their acts together enough to sign up tracks from independent artists out and mail a box of CDs to our Port- there. It's pretty amazing. TALK meeting up in their office in Cupertino, CA BACK TO R &R! land, OR warehouse. R &R There's a PR side to it too. It We do need the physical CD sounds great to say, "We havea million Do you have questions, comments and invited CD Baby to come. They said, `We - it's not an upload thing. That tends songs." or feedback regarding this column or other issues? want iTunes to have available every piece of to weed out the unserious ones. DS: Of course, and I love taking And, honestly, who are we to judge? advantage of that. If you think about Call me at 310-788-1650 music ever made. "' Even the ones that come in and seem it, it's really kind of beautiful that or e-mail: laughably bad to us sometimes be- anybody who feels they've got [email protected] come top sellers, so you can't judge. something valid to say and music

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And The Marconi Award Winners Are.... EXECUTIVE ACTION

WOR /New York took home the prize for Legendary Sta- Sabo, Mason Open International Consultancy tion and WBEB/Philadelphia won Major Market Station of the Year when the Marconi Radio Awards were handed Saying the timing is right to jump into the global -consulting market- place, respected industry experts Waiter Sabo and Dan Mason have out at the NAB Radio Show in San Diego last week. Bob formed Sabo-Mason International Initiatives. Their mission is to ad- Kevoian and Tom Griswold from Premiere Radio Networks' vise intemational radio, television and print operators on growing their syndicated morning program The Bob & Tom Show host- businesses in an increasingly deregulated environment. Mason told R &R, "All indicators are pointing to more consolidation, not ed the event. Here's a complete list of winners. less. There are certainly some lessons to share from our learning curve

here that will be helpful to international broadcasters. Walter and I can Legendary Station: WOR/New York offer what to do and what not to do - and speak from firsthand experi- Network/Syndicated Personality of the Year: Tom Joyner, KPWR/Los Angeles morning host Big Boy ence." Reach Media wins the Marconi Radio Award for Major Sabo has operated his own business for 20 years following successful Major Market Station of the Year: WBEB /Philadelphia Market Personality of the Year. runs with ABC and NBC Radio. Mason's resume includes stints as Pres- Large Market Station of the Year: KYGO /Denver ident of Cook Inlet, Group W Radio, CBS Radio and Infinity Broadcasting before venturing out on his own two years ago. He now consults several Medium Market Station of the Year: WTMJ /Milwaukee U.S. broadcasting companies. The duo will continue to operate their in- Small Market Station of the Year: KIHR -AM /Hood River, OR dependent domestic businesses. Major Market Personality of the Year: Big Boy, KPWR/Los Angeles Large Market Personality of the Year: Scott Slade, WSB -AM/ Atlanta Feniger Adds Interep EVP/Network Ops Duties Medium Market Personality of the Year: Jim Turner, WDBO/ Bruce Feniger has added Exec. VP/Network Operations duties at Orlando Jefferson-Pilot/Dower's Bob Call accepts Interep. He will continue as Regional Sales Executive for the com- Small Market Personality of the Year: Terry Cavanaugh, the award when KGO/Denver wins the pany's New York office, a position he assumed in 2002. WGIL -AM /Galesburg, IL Marconi Radio Award for Large Market In his new role Feniger will manage the day -to -day sales activities and Station of the Year AC Station of the Year: WLEN -FM/Adrian, MI monitor the performance of the Interep Network Division, working closely Adult Standards Station of the Year: KABUSan Francisco with all Interep offices in each city to develop network goals and sales CHR Station of the Year: KPWR/Los Angeles strategies for specific agencies, as well as new business for the network Classical Station of the Year: WGMS/Washington division. "During his tenure with Interep Bruce has excelled in developing new Country Station of the Year: KYGO /Denver business for our client radio stations and has generated millions of dol- NAC/Jazz Station of the Year: WNUA/Chicago lars in unwired business," said Phil Brown, President of Interep's Net- News/Talk/Sports Station of the Year: WGN -AM /Chicago work Division. "His understanding and competencies in this area are sec- Oldies Station of the Year: WMJI /Cleveland ond to none." Religious Station of the Year: WNNURaleigh Rock Station of the Year: KFOG /San Francisco Spanish Station of the Year: KLQV /San Diego Premiere Radio Networks- syndicated hosts Urban Station of the Year: KPRS-FM /Kansas City Bob & Tom serve as MCs for the NAB view television events, has had two restrial radio and the Stem affiliates Marconi Radio Awards Dinner Show and best -selling books and has even ultimately may suffer - unless his topped the U.S. box office with the ratings deteriorate as a result of this cinematic adaptation of his book Pri- announcement." vate Parts. In making the half-billion- Emmis Radio President Rick Stern the top story in the Oct. 7 edition of ity execs told R &R that a station that dollar deal with Stern, Sirius said it Cummings said, "I hate to see Continued from Page 1 the Los Angeles Daily News, while carries Stem's daily show may de- would need to attract 1 million sub- Howard leave broadcast. I hated to newspapers coast to coast gave the rive as much as 50% of its annual scribers to cover the cost of the con- see Opie & Anthony leave. I hate to and marketing costs directly associ- story major play. National Public revenue from its relationship with tract. see radio lose any outstanding talent ated with The Howard Stern Show. Radio's Air Talk program, based at the program. "Anyone who knows Howard to another medium, whether it's Stem will program three channels in KPCC /Pasadena, CA, even devoted `Potential For Growth' and who understands how loyal his Howard to satellite or Jimmy Kim- addition to hosting his daily morning 30 minutes of airtime to the topic of fan base is will not have a hard time mel to television. radio show on a channel available to satellite radio and the impact Stem's What to dc following Stern's exit seeing the incredible potential for "Content is and always will be all Sirius subscribers, as the satcaster move will have not only on Sirius from Infinity is certainly a top con- growth that he will represent for king. Content is the thing, not tech- does not have "premium" offerings. and XM, but also AM and FM cern for the company's execs, but Sirius," Clayton said. nology. And to the degree that con- After reaching what the satcaster broadcasters. Merrill Lynch analyst Jessica Reif tent drives use of technology, this is Industry Reaction called an "epic agreement" with Stem played up his move when Cohen downplayed the impact the the smartest of a very few intelligent Stern, Sirius CEO Joe Clayton said speaking with reporters after leaving disappearance of The Howard Stern Stem has 15 months remaining on moves satellite has made. Having signing the controversial multimedia the airwaves Oct. 6. "This marks the Show will have on Viacom's bottom his contract with Infinity, and he told said that, no one is big enough to star "is, without a doubt, the most ex- death of AM and FM radio, I guar- line. In a report issued last week, listeners that he will honor his deal bring free, broadcast radio to its citing and transformational event in antee it," he said. "I put my money Cohen said Viacom can "easily re- with Viacom's radio arm. Whether knees." the history of radio." Clayton contin- where my mouth is. I have one of the place" the $10 million -$15 million in Infinity will let him remain on the air Emmis VP /Programming and ued, "Howard Stem is an entertain- largest radio shows in the world. cash flow directly related to the pro- through December 2005 generated a KPWR (Power 106) /Los Angeles PD ment force of unprecedented recogni- Whenever I go on my radio show, if gram. She said Stem's show gener- flurry of comments from broadcast Jimmy Steal told R &R, "I am a huge tion and popularity in the broadcast I have to sell a book, sell a movie, do ates annual revenue of $80 million - executives. Stern fan and always have been. As world, who is capable of changing anything like that, I could instantly $90 million for Infinity's parent com- Former WXRK PD Steve King- we all know, Howard is a superstar the face of satellite radio and gener- go on and reach millions of people. pany and yields roughly $50 million ston, currently President of HIGHQ and his departure is a very big loss ating huge numbers of subscribers for I'm walking away from that, and the in cash flow. Media and Empire Broadcasting, told to our medium. But here's some per- Sirius." reason I'm walking away from that Cohen explained, however, R&R, 'With Infinity and others, the spective: According to RADAR, ter- Greenstein said, "Howard is an in- is I believe the future is with satel- "Stem's departure is less material to bottom line is the bottom line. The restrial radio reaches 96% of 18-49 - credible creative and comedic icon, lite radio." Viacom's valuation than to share- previous regime did not have strate- year- olds in America every week. and we are thrilled that he chose Meanwhile, Infinity and parent holder sentiment. Conservatively as- gic thinkers, and because of this there Both satellite companies together Sirius to broadcast what everyone be- Viacom remained relatively mum on suming none of the $50 million is re- is no succession plan. There are very reach only about 3 million people to- lieves will be the most exciting part the loss of their superstar, saying in placed and applying the company's few Howard affiliates that own any tal. Power 106 and WQHT (Hot 97)/ of his career. There is absolutely no a prepared statement, "We at Infin- current trading multiple, there could position in their respective markets New York together reach more than one like Howard Stern, and I'm ex- ity have enjoyed our years with be a $500 million loss of market outside of being 'the Howard station' satellite radio's entire industry. Sirius cited that, for the first time, his show Howard. We wish him well in his value, equal to 30 cents per share." because of the enormity of his success has lost $1 billion in the last five will be heard across the entire coun- new foray into the world of pay sub- As a result, Cohen reduced her 12- and the station images he controls be- years, while radio continues to show try as it was always meant to be scription radio, beginning in 2006." month price objective on Viacom by cause of it." a profit even in these challenging heard." An internal memo from Infinity $1, to $52. Kingston believes Infinity will not economic times." To say that Stern's decision to leave President /COO Joel Hollander re- Meanwhile, Sirius is taking a he- "purposely impose a catastrophic traditional radio for Sirius sent shock garding the future of stations that mendous financial gamble by bet- short-term financial loss on itself by More reaction to Stern's moue: "In- waves across the industry is an un- carry Stem's program was also sent ting its future on Stern, who has removing Howard in order to stem dustry Bands Together at NAB Radio derstatement. News of the deal was to Infinity employees. Several Infm- been highly successful with pay -per- the hemorrhaging of audience of ter- Show," Page 1.

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dium has the same kind of connec- said Field, whose company airs The the audience should take prece- said most of the listener complaints Continued from Page 1 tion as radio. We relate to listeners Howard Stern Show on KISW /Se- dence over tackling the competi- he receives nowadays are about re- in a personal way. This is still a attle. tion. "We have a tendency to talk marks on religion, race and other great business, we're still having a "We'll do fine," said Smulyan, about the market when we should hot -button topics that don't nor- breaking the rules. I think we are great time, and radio is still the whose KPNT /St. Louis carries be talking about the listeners," he mally run afoul of the FCC's inde- going to create a dynamic wave of most effective and efficient medium Stem. Smulyan also believes that said. "As long as there is a connec- cency regulations. new content for consumers." around. while Stem's jump to Sirius is a big tion with the listeners, I don't think WKQX /Chicago VP /GM Chuck Cumulus Chairman/CEO Lew "Humility is a virtue, but it's sure boost for the satellite radio com- there is anything to fear." DuCoty, whose station employs the Dickey said he believes HD Radio not much of a marketing tool. So pany, the radio industry will sur- Radio One COO Mary Catherine controversial Mancow Muller, said will help radio level the playing get the word out. Radio is forever." vive. "Do I believe this is going to Sneed said, "Product has to come that talent who are scared to push field. Noting that HD Radio tech- have a major impact on the radio first. I see PDs following each other, the indecency limits are now turn- nology is reverse -compatible, Surviving Stern's Departure industry? No, I don't," he said. "We and that kind of behavior will put ing their attention to politically in- meaning analog radios will still While both men's companies will still reach 290 million people per our industry to sleep." correct subjects, and he's afraid work after the industry transitions have to find a substitute for week. Whether the math works out John Dickey said that while it's jocks are going to once again get to digital, Dickey said, "HD Radio Howard Stern on one of their sta- for Sirius is something only they his job to make sure the air talent into hot water as they try to main- is not going to be disruptive to our tions, Field and Emmis Chairman/ can figure out." on his company's stations are main- tain credibility with fans by talking medium. It will be a tremendous CEO Jeff Smulyan told R&R they Dickey also believes that XM taining Cumulus' standards and about taboo subjects. "My concern boost. I think there is an incredibly will be able to easily replace the subscribers may defect to Sirius to protecting the stations' brands, it's is that they will push the line in a exciting future for our industry WXRK /New York morning host's hear Stem when he takes his pro- up to the local staff to connect with way that will push back a lot over the next five years." show after he defects to Sirius Sat- gram to the New York-based satel- listeners. "You need people to ex- harder," DuCoty said. Accepting the NAB's annual Na- ellite Radio, a move Stern an- lite radio service in 2006. Dickey ecute on a local level," he said. tional Radio Award on Oct. 8, nounced on the Radio Show's first Iraq Veterans Honored says Sirius' signing of Stem, along "Creativity starts with us and ends Jefferson-Pilot Communications day. Speaking at the Oct. 8 Radio with its contract to carry NFL with us, so we try to have disci- President /Radio Division Clarke "We would have preferred that Show Luncheon, Fox News Radio games, has put it in position to bet- pline, but with a strategy." Brown urged the industry to speak he stay in radio, but this industry is syndicated host Tony Snow pro- ter compete with front -runner XM. Clear Channel Sr. VP /Program- out in support of radio. "We're too growing a ton of talent and is still moted the Wounded Warrior "This threatens XM's growth rate," ming Tom Owens said that indus- humble," he said. "No other me- a vibrant and dynamic medium," Project, which raises funds and pro- he told R &R. try critics who allege playlists are vides items like laptop computers Further, Dickey noted that created on the corporate level don't and phone cards to soldiers who are Stem's move to Sirius will actually understand the nuances of the ra- wounded and recovering in Iraq. benefit his company, as Cumulus dio business. "With our size, we business for the Nordic Region. He Snow also promoted the Soldier doesn't carry Stem on any of its sta- could not possibly do that," he said. Records most recently held the Managing Di- Ride, a cross -country bicycle trip rector position for Sony Music Nordic. tions, but competes with Citadel - "We are there to support what our that raised funds for wounded sol- SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAIN- owned WTPA /Harrisburg, which local people are doing and stay out diers, and he introduced three sol- MENT announces the following ap- HENRIK DALDORPH is promoted does carry Stem. "This is going to of their way. Our objective is to help to Managing Director at Sony BMG diers who had been seriously in- pointments: destroy that station's revenue," he them achieve their goals and our Denmark. He most recently served as jured in the Iraqi war, prompting a said. own." Managing Director for BMG Denmark. long standing ovation from the If Citadel COO Judy Ellis has her Speedier Indecency crowd. KIMMO VALTANEN is elevated to way, Stem's constant on -air chatter Enforcement? Snow said one of the reasons he Managing Director at Sony BMG Fin- about Sirius will cost him. Stem has land. He was promoted from Market- FCC Commissioner Jonathan chose to pursue radio after launch- spent a lot of time on his show talk- ing Manager at BMG Finland. Adel -stein said during the Oct. 7 ing his career on television was ing about his move, and Ellis said FCC Breakfast that the agency's radio's ability to "play a role in TRACY NURSE is named during the Oct. 7 Group Executive Sr. VP/ proposal to require broadcasters to making life better." International Marketing at Sony Music Super Session that she's treating all retain copies of all programming As for his other reasons for com- Label Group. She previously served as of those discussions as advertising. Midtveit Sundin would allow the FCC to more ing to radio, Snow said, "I get to use Sr. VP /Marketing at Sony Music Inter- "I'm going back over all of the min- quickly rule on the merits of inde- my brain cells, connect with listen- national. utes he's spent outside of his allot- cency complaints. ers and have more fun." ted ad time talking about Sirius, "If these recordings were avail- and I am going to charge Stern for More on Tony Snow: Page 12. National Radio able, we could more quickly get to all of that time," she said. the bottom of some of the com- Ellis believes that the host's long SALEM RADIO NETWORKS syn- plaints and clear them out," dicates Bill Gaither's Homecoming battle with the FCC over broadcast Adelstein said. "We could find out Gallagher Radio, a one -hour program featuring indecency is what drove him away the truth, dismiss some of them and Continued from Page 1 performances recorded live at various and that increased FCC scrutiny of Homecoming televised concerts. For move forward." next 14 years Gallagher moved up the radio industry is one of the Uatdorph Valtanen more information, contact Denise However, fellow Commissioner through the sales ranks at WJR, most important issues facing broad- Davis at 805- 384-4508. Kevin Martin noted that the rule where he held positions as NSM casters today. LENA MIDTVEIT rises to Managing could be a significant burden for and GSM prior to his most recent Director at Sony BMG Norway. She Making Radio `Hip' Again broadcasters that have never been job as Director /Sales for ABC Ra- most recently held the same position Industry R for BMG Norway. Responding to &R Publisher/ the subject of an indecency investi- dio/Detroit. HARRIS CORP. signs an agreement CEO and session moderator Erica gation. "John Gallagher brings to WLS PER SUNDIN moves to Managing to acquire ENCODA SYSTEM HOLD- Farber's question about how to As for expanding indecency en- and Radio Disney an impressive Director at Sony BMG Sweden. He will INGS, a supplier of software and ser- make radio iiip" again, panelists at forcement to satellite radio, Martin track record in local broadcast-sta- also oversee artist marketing coordi- vice solutions for the broadcast -media the Oct. 6 Programming Executive noted that there are specific First tion management, which he devel- nation, strategic marketing and new industry. Super Session said radio must do a Amendment hurdles because con- oped moving up within the ranks at better job of promoting itself to sumers must elect to receive con- the legendary WJR," Said ABC Connaughton joins the company younger demographic groups. "We tent via satellite and on cable, while Radio Station Group President Changes as East Regional Director. Con - don't by to be trendsetters," said broadcast content can be received Mitch Dolan, to whom Gallagher naughton was most recently Exec. Entercom Sr. VP /Programming Pat for free and is accessible to anyone. will report. Records: Hollywood Records en- Director of the Henry Mancini In- Paxton. "Somehow MTV and oth- Adelstein said that while the "All of us at ABC Radio con- ters an exclusive and unique distri- stitute. ers are doing well reaching younger courts have so far ruled that sub- gratulate John on this promotion, bution deal with Kemado Records. demos. We need to point our busi- scription services aren't subject to and we're confident that he will Their first release will be Elefant's Industry: Gospel Music Channel ness model in that direction." the same rules as broadcasters, continue to build upon the WLS debut album, Sunlight Makes Me names Sonya DeRose Director /Af- Cumulus Exec. VP John Dickey Congress could pass legislation to and Radio Disney tradition of Paranoid, on Oct. 26 ... The Record- filiate Sales, Western Region. She said the world and the way people expand indecency standards to bringing great programming and ing Academy announces the fol- was formerly Director /Affiliate Re- use media are changing and that those services. If it did, Adelstein service to listeners and clients lowing appointments: Megan lations, Southwest Region for E! radio must change as well. "Hip - said, he'd enforce those rules. throughout the Chicago area." Clarke is promoted from Chief of Entertainment and Style Network ... ness can and will be driven by mu- Interestingly, WFYV /Jackson- Gallagher will work side -by-side Technology to Sr. Director /Infor- Hayley Sumner joins Fleishman- sic, so the way we market to people ville PD David Moore said during at ABC/Chicago's cluster with mation Technology, David Kon- Hillard as Sr. VP. Sumner founded must change," he said. "Radio the "Where Is the Line and How Do James Pastor, who was previously joyan rises to Sr. Director /Creative and directed the Hayley Sumner needs to be a leader." You Manage It?" panel that it's is- named to manage the company's Services, Tim Whalen is upped to Co., a public relations and manage- Univision Radio Exec. VP David sues other than indecency that are ESPN Radio outlet WMVP and Ac- Director /Facilities, and Kelly ment firm. Gleason noted that reaching out to drawing listener complaints. He tive Rocker WZZN.

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CROSSFADE So Far Away RYAN CABRERA True KILLERS Somebody Told Me The Pulse EARSHOT Someone Top Country U2 Venigo Haneen Arafat Lawrence Kay Adult Contemporary INGRAM HILL Will I Ever Make It Home Spectrum ALAN JACKSON Monday Mowing Church Rick Brady MODEST MOUSE Float On DARRYL WORLEY Awful Beautiful Life Gary Schoer,wetter ELTON JOHN Answer In The Sky Sirius Hits 1 TOM WAITS Make It Rain Top Jams U.S. Country Travis Storch 866-365 -HITS Kid Kelly Davey D Top Pop Penny Mitchell LENNY KRAVITZ Lady JADAKISS I/MARIAH CAREY U Make Me Wanna Universo Latino ALAN JACKSON Monday Morning Church MAROON 5 She Will Be Loved AKON The NELLY f/TIM McGRAW Over And Over Ghetto AVRIL LAVIGNE My Happy Ending Gino Reyes JAMIE O'NEAL Trying To Find Atlantis XZIBIT Hey Now BLACK EYED PEAS Let's Get It Started Hot Jamz SHAILA Perdonami KELLY CLARKSON Breakaway Smooth Jazz GREAT AMERICAN COUNTRY Geronimo BACILOS Pasos De Gigante RYAN CABRERA On The Way Down Stan Dunn Jim Murphy 303 - 784 -8700 USHER 1 /JADAKISS Throwback GREG ADAMS Firefly Top Christian REBA McENTIRE He Gets That From Me JUVENILE I/WACKO S SKIP Nola Clap Sirius Blues KUTLESS Sea Of Faces T. TRITT f/J. MELLENCAMP What Say You President Pat St. John SWITCHFOOT Dare You To Move :RADIO NETWORKS GLENN CUMMINGS Big JA RULE f/R. KELLY S Wonderful DELIRIOUS? Rain Down ASHANTI NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS Bad Bad Pain RUPEE Tempted To Touch MERCYME I Can Only Imagine NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS Never In All My Days Phil Hall 972 -991 -9200 STARFIELD Filled With Your Glory ABC AC (WESTWOOD ONE) Top Folk Peter Stewart Charlie Cook 661 -294-9900 CATIE CURTIS Its The Way You Are No Adds JASON MRAZ You And I Both Classic Rock Sott AC SARAH HARMER Pendulums ALTERNATIVE Andy Fuller DAR WILLIAMS Mercy Of The Fallen Chris Miller Dave Sloan TIM MCGRAW Live Like You Were Dying ANNIE LENNOX Into The West No Adds ELEFANT Misfit Hot AC Bright AC MUSIC Breakio MU Steve Nichols Jim Hays D DANCE No Adds GOO GOO DOLLS Give A Little Bit MUSIC Randy Schlager Touch DURAN DURAN (Reach Up For The) Sunrise Rick Gillette 800 -494 -8863 CHOICE 3 SPEAKER HIGH Have A Good Time Stan Boston Mainstream Country 10 million homes 180.000 businesses GEORGIE FORME P's Alright 30 million homes No Adds David Felker NADIA Its Gonna Take Time (Transelucent Edit) Rejoice J. BUFFETT t/M. McBRIDE Trip Around The Sun 27, 000 businesses DMX Inflight MADISON PARK Ocian Drive (Source's Trance Mix) Williemae McIver Hot Country Available on digital cable and DirecTV Stephen Lama MIS -TEED One Night Stand (Mr. Mig Edit) No Adds Damon Williams 646- 459 -3300 TAMIA Still (Mr. Mig Club Edit) Jim Hays The hottest tracks in the air on 31 airlines ROBBIE RIVERA Wtich Way You're Going Doug Banks Morning Show ALAN JACKSON Monday Morning Church HIT LIST worldwide, targeted at 25 -54 adults. JENTINA French Kisses (E-Smoove Remix) Stan Boston Young & Verna Seth Neiman In Praise Of Dreams GIRLS ALOUD Love Machine (Gravitaz "Disco" Mix) No Adds David Felker RYAN CABRERA True TRAVIS TRITTI/JOHN MELLENCAMP What Say You RACHEL STEVENS More. More. More Tom Joyner Morning Show PAT GREEN Don't Break My Heart Again G00 G00 DOLLS A Give Little Bit FAITHLESS In The End BRAD CARTER Morning Always Comes To Soon Vern Catron KORN word Up JACKIE t/DISCOMIN3 CHRISTIE Beautiful Day RILO KELLY A Man/Me/Then Jim No Adds rto LL COOL J Headsprung ior-ac LYLE LOVETT In My Own Mind RU PAUL Looking Good, Feeling Gorgeous ñ 'T Country Coast To Coast MEDESKI, MARTIN S WOOD Reflector LASCO Surrender (Feter Lutz Remix) SOFT ROCK Dave Nicholson After Midnite YO -YO MA Suite From The Mission KAT PEOPLE Free Fa ling (Radio Edit) Seth Neiman No Adds Sam Thompson JUANES Nada Sin Tu Amor PAUL I /EGA 4 VAN OYK Connected (MOtoMixl TIM McGRAW Live Like You Were Dying Real Country LEANN RIMES Nothie 'Bout Love Makes Sense ZUTONS Pressure Point METTE I Don't Wann3 Sleep Alone

ALTERNATIVE BACILOS Pasos De Gigante METTE I Found Love Again Richard Lee Gary Susalis RADIO 4 Transmission BLACK ROCK Bluewzter No Adds TYLER (/MISS RUNTY DURDEN Cause I Know LAZY BOY Underwear Goes Inside The Pants WR/V 4TUNE 500 Dancing n The Dark LIVE we Deal In Dreams

NICK KAMEN I Prom sed Myself 2004 Country Today V M SCISSOR SISTERS Laura This section features this week's new adds I) on DMX MUSIC channels available via digi- DESPINA VANDI Opa Opa (Chippe Remix) John Glenn TODAY'S COUNTRY tal cable and direct broadcast satellite. BELLEFIRE Spin The Wheel (Groovefinder Edit ALAN JACKSON Monday Morning Chu«It Liz Opoka JAM) Dream Ken Moultrie 800-426 -9082 DAVID LEE MURPHY Inspiration CHR/POP JAMIE O'NEAL Trying To Find Atlantis ADULT CONTEMPORARY Active Rock AC Active Jack Patterson PROGRESSIVE Steve Young/Kristopher Jones Dave Hunter NELLY I/TIM McGRAW Over And Over Jason Shiff HabiloDie Hard A PERFECT CIRCLE Imagine GOO G00 DOLLS Give A Linie Bit Liz Opoka JOHN MEYER Daughters M. JAGGER & D. STEWJ.RTVS. CROW Old JOHN MELLENCAMP Walk Tall SEVENDUST Face To Face U2 Vertigo GWEN STEFANI What You Waiting For Alternative Now! For Hot AC GOO GOO DOLLS Give A Little Bit GWEN STEFANI Whaf You Waiting Chris Reeves 402- 952 -7600 HOT JAMZ GOO G00 DOLLS Give A Little Bit John Fowlkes SMOOTH JAll JET Look What You've Done SWITCHFOOT Dare Val, To Move Mark "In The Dark" Shands LENNY KRAVITZ Lady THREE DAYS GRACE Home Gary Susalis USHER MIL JON S LUDACRIS Red Light INTERNATIONAL HITS CHR MUSIC Breakin' JUEWETT BOSTICK It Ain't So Easy LUDACRIS Get Back Steve Young Fowlkes Mark In The Dark" Shands /John AMERICANA URBAN NELLY fnlM McGRAW Over And Over the john testy 2RAUMWOHNUNG Ica Weib Warum Liz Opoka Jack Patterson GAVIN DeGRAW Dont Want To Be radio showw' RAP/HIP -HOP TRICK DADDY 1/LIL JON S TWISTA Let's Go red M I yo .. TRES CHICAS Take The Devil Out Of Me R. KELLY & JAY -Z Big Chips CROSS CANADIAN RAGWEED Alabama AVANT Cant Wait Mark In The Dark" Shands Rhythmic CNR Scott Meyers 888-548 -8637 PETER ROWAN Shirt Off My Back You OMARION I/BIG BOI Never Gonna Let Go SNOOP DOGG Drop It Like It's Hot Steve Young /John Fowlkes Nightly Tesh Show WATSON Fox The Run DALE On NELLY I/TIM McGRAW Over And Over ELTON JOHN Answer In The Sky

GAVIN DeGRAW I Don't Want To Be PHIL COLLINS Don't Let Him Steal Your Heart Away TRICK DADDY VLIL JON S TWISTA Let's Go 866. MVTUNES Soft AC Mike Bettelli/Teresa Cook LAUNCH 114Y1E swsic PHIL COLLINS Don't Let Him Steal Your Heart Away t u M l s 21.000 movie (heaters Jay Frank 310- 526 -4247 Mainstream AC Audio Artist,Tdle Total Plays Mike Bettelli/Teresa Cook CHEVELLE Vitamin R WEST RAVEN SYMONE Backflip 77 PHIL COLLINS Don't Let Him Steal Your Heart Away DIANA ANAID Last Thing

1 HILARY DUFF Fly JOJO Baby Its You 76 Marie And Friends FIERY FURNACES My Dog Was Lost 2 KELLY CLARKSON Breakaway Mike Bettelli/Teresa Cook HOUSTON Ain't Nothing Wrong 3 JESSE McCARTNEY Beautiful Soul KELLY CLARKSON Breakaway 74 PHIL COLLINS Don't Let Him Steal Your Hean Away JET Look What You've Done 4 KIMBERLEY LOCKE Wrong ASHLEE SIMPSON Pieces Of Me 72 y RAVEN SYMONE Backflip The Alan Kabel Show- Mainstream AC MARC BROUSSARD Where You Are JOJO Leave (Get Out) 71 MIDWEST Steve Young/Teresa Cook MIDNIGHT MOVIES Persimmon Tree HILARY DUFF Fly 65 SHELLY FAIRCHILD You Don't Lie Here Anymore 1. HILARY DUFF Fly MAROONS She Will Be Loved 2 JESSE McCARTNEY Beautiful Soul JESSE McCARTNEY Beautiful Soul 61 The Alan Kabel Show - Hot AC Video 3 RAVEN SYMONE Backflip AVRIL LAVIGNE My Happy Ending 60 DIANA ANAID Last Thing 4 Young /John Fowlkes KIMBERLEY LOCKE Wrong Steve EMINEM Just Lose It 5 KEANE Somewhere Only We Know HILARY & HAYLIE DUFF Our Lips Are Sealed 52 Up For The) DURAN DURAN (Reach Sunrise LINDSAY LORAN Rumors SOUTHWEST JESSE McCARTNEY Good Life 40 Mainstream Country MARC BROUSSARD Where You Are MIDNIGHT MOVIES Mirage ' HILARY DUFF Fly BLACK EYED PEAS Let's Get It Started 40 Hank Aaron 2 KIMBERLEY LOCKE Wrong Me MUSE Hysteria HILARY DUFF Come Clean 40 REBA McENTIRE He Gets That From 3 JESSE McCARTNEY Beautiful Soul NELLY Tilt Ya Head Back T. TRITT f /J. MELLENCAMPWhat Say You 4 RAVEN SYMONE Backflip HILARY DUFF Why Not 38 DOGS Drop It Like Its Hot Holy Water SNOOP " BURKE RONEY Wendy BIG & RICH LINDSAY LOHAN Drama Queen (That Girl) 29 NORTHEAST ALAN JACKSON Monday Morning Church SKYE SWEETNAM Tangled Up In Me 28 New Country «musicsnippet.com» 1 HILARY DUFF Fly 28 2 KELLY CLARKSON Breakaway YELLOWCARD Ocean Avenue Hank Aaron Tony Lamptey 866 -552 -9118 3 JESSE McCARTNEY Beautiful Soul AVRIL LAVIGNE Skßer Boi 28 REBA McENTIRE He Gets That From Me 4 RAVEN SYMONE Backflip Hip -Hop BIG & RICH Holy Water 5 REBA McENTIRE Somebody ASHLEE SIMPSON Shadow 28 VALID KWELI I Try BRAD PAISLEY Mud On The Tires SMASH MOUTH I'm A Believer 22 LLOYD BANKS Karma SOUTHEAST JOSH GRACIN Nothis To Lose 1 HILARY DUFF Fly STEVIE BROCK All For Love 21 Lia R&B 2 KELLY CLARKSON Breakaway I For A Wmle 3 KIMBERLEY LOCKE Wrong POWERED Ken Moultrie/Hank Aaron ANGIE STONE /A. HAMILTON Stay 4 BURKE RONEY Wendy Playlist for the week of Oct. 4 -10. LEANN RIMES Nothin 'Bout Love Makes Sense JILL SCOTT Whatever Whenever 5 DE SOL Chica De Miami tIEDI:IHiSE

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72 million households TEL Lon Parkerson CMT 207380 -4475 COUNTRY MUSIC TELEVISION Daly. Plays 20 On 20 (XM 20) 75.1 million households Friday, 10/15 Nelly, Carson Brian Philips. Sr VP /GM Michelle Boros Tears For Fears, The Ellen De- Tuesday, 10/19 Parr VP/Music & Talent II 43 Chris EMINEM Just Lose GWEN STEFANI What You Waiting For (check local listings Generes Show Queen Latitah, Ellen DeGen- USHER I /ALICIA KEYS My Boo 21 TRICK DADDY Lets Go ADDS for time and channel). BRITNEY SPEARS My Prerogative 20 eres. GEORGE CANYON Ill Never Do Better Than You NELLY I/TIM McGRAW Over And Over Chevelle, The Tonight Show GREEN DAY American Idiot 20 REBA McENTIRE He Gets That From Me Rod Stewart, The View. With Jay Leno (NBC, check local list- CIARA I/PETEY PABLO Goodies 19 T. TRITT I /J. MELLENCAMP What Say You Duran Duran. Jay Leno. ings for time). Predictable 18 BPM (XM 81) Puys Bowling For Soup. Jimmy 1W LW KAANE WEST New Workout Plan 18 DIRTY VEGAS Via* Into The Sun TOP 20 Kimmel.

16 S. TWAIN 1 /B. CURRINGTON Party For Two 45 48 SIMPLE PLAN Welcome To My Ede MADISON PARK Ocean Drive The Black Keys. Conan O'Brien. RASCAL PLATES My Worst Fear 34 34 MAROON 5 She IN,II Be Loved 16 ULTRABEAT Beter Than Life KEITH URBAN Days Go By 30 38 Drive By Truckers, Late Late The 13 KAT PEOPLE Free Falling RYAN CABRERA On Way Down TOBY KEITH Slays In Mexico 30 30 JAMEY B I /SATTA Heartanack Show SECRET MACHINES Nowhere Again 9 SARA EVANS Suas In The Bucket 30 28 GRETCHEN WILSON Here For The Party 30 28 The Shore. Carson Daly. JOHN LEGEND Used To Love You 8 ALAN JACKSON Too Much Of A Good Thing... 28 29 TALIB KWELI I/MARY J. BLIGE I Try 8 SQUI72 (XM 48) BROOKS 8 DUNN That's What It's All About 28 26 Wednesday, 10/20 JIMMY EAT WORLD Pain 7 Charlie Logan B. PAISLEY I /A. KRAUSS Whiskey Lullaby 28 26 TIM McGRAW Live Like You Were Dying 24 30 INTERPOL Slow Hands 7 CROSSFADE So Far Away TRACE ADKINS Rough 8 Ready 24 28 Sum 41, Late Night With Conan SALIVA Razors Edge ASHLEE SIMPSON Shadow 6 LEANN RIMES Nothid'Bout Love Makes Sense 24 26 O'Brien (NBC, check local listings for JOSS STONE You Had Me 6 KENNY CHESNEY I Go Back 23 27 JULIE ROBERTS The Chance 23 11 time). CHINGY Balla Baby U -POP (XM 29) LONESTAR Mr. Mom 19 12 Taking Back Sunday, The Late LL COOL J Headsprung J. BUFFETT I /C. BLACK Hey Good Lookiri 17 29 Zach Overking Late Show (CBS, check local listings JOJO Baby Its You 6 WARREN BROTHERS Sell A Lot Of Beer 17 15 ROBBIE WILLIAMS Radio JOE NICHOLS If Nobody Believed In You 15 13 for time). BRIAN McFAODEN Real To Me TRICK PONY The Bride 15 13 Video playlrst for the week of Oct. 4.10 Joseph Arthur, Last Call With I See You GROOVE ARMADA Baby DIERES BENTLEY How Am I Dois 15 12 HIVES Two-Timing Touch And Broken Bones Carson Daly (NBC, check local list- INGRID Only Lies Airplay as monitored by Mediabase 24/7 ings for time). between Oct 4-10 Chaka Khan, The Tony Danza

David Cohn THE LOFT (XM 50) Show (check local listings for time General Manager Mike Marrone and channel). BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN My Ride's Here GREAT Monday, 10/18 CARY BROTHERS Blue Eyes Elvis Costello DON HENLEY Searching For A Heart FRANZ FERDINAND This Fire 12 * AMERICAN Celine Dion. Live With Regis & DONOVAN Love Floats NEW FOUND GLORY All Downhill From Here 11 local listings for time Kelly (check and Elvis Costello. Jay Leno. J. BROWNE I/B. RAITT Poor Poor Pitiful Me COUNTRY. SNOW PATROL Run 10 channel). JOHN CALE Reading My Mind Ben Folds and Joe Jackson. JOHN LEGEND Used To Love You 10 Stone. The View (ABC. JORDAN ZEVON Studebaker Joss Jimmy Kimmel. N.O. R.E. I/NINA SKY... Dye Mr Canto 10 PAUL WESTERBERG What About Mine check local listings for time). Jun Murphy. VP. Programming Mavis Staples. Conan O'Brien. MAROON Will 9 5 She Be Loved PAUL WESTERBERG Lookiri Up In Heaven 26.5 million households Amy Grant. Jay Leno. SWITCHFOOT Dare You To Move 9 Sum 41. Carson Daly. PETE YORN Splendid Isolation John Mellencamp. Late Show RYAN CABRERA On The Way Down 9 R.E.M. Boy In The Well ADDS With David Letterman (CBS, check Thursday, 10/21 EMINEM Without Me 9 R.E.M. I Wanted To Be Wrong GLENN CUMMINGS Big Ellen DeGeneres. R.E.M. Make It All Okay REBA McENTIRE He Gets That From Me local listings 'or time). Duran Duran, SIMPLE PLAN Welcome To My Life 8 RICHARD BUCKNER Invitation T. TR ITT I /J. MELLENCAMP What Say You Simple Plan. Jay Leno. ANON tiSTYLES P Locked Up 7 Tears For Fears, Jimmy Kimmel RICHARD BUCKNER A Chance Counsel KILLERS Somebody Told Me 7 Live (ABC, check local listings for Bjork. David Letterman. TARMAC ADAM Swim TOP 20 EMINEM Lose Yourself 7 time). Elvis Costello. Jimmy Kimmel. TEARS FOR FEARS Who You Are SARA EVANS Suds In The Bucket CRIME MOB Knuck If You Buck 6 The Explosion. Conan O'Brien. TEARS FOR FEARS Call Me Mellow BLAKE SHELTON Some Beach Ambulance Ltd., Conan O'Brien. JIM JONES Certified Gangstas 5 TOBY KEITH Stays In Mexico Pussycat Dolls and Mya, Late Duran Duran. Carson Daly. KEITH URBAN Days Go By MASE Breathe. Stretch. Shake 5 Late Show. Julie Gidlow RAW (XM66) TRACE ADKINS Rough 8 Ready - LIL JON 8 THE EASTSIDE BOYZ Get Low 5 SHEDAISY Come Home Soon Leo G PAPA ROACH Geeing Away With Murder 5i RASCAL ELATES Feels Like Today XZIBIT Hey Now TRICK PONY The Bride AIR Swirl On A Rocket 5 FLAMBEY I/PETEY PABLO Go Hard LONESTAR Mr. Mom GUERILLA BLACK WEENIE MAN Compton WEEBIE Bad Chick DIERKS BENTLEY How Am I Doin MONTGOMERY GENTRY You Do Your Thing WYCLEF President Video playlist for the week of Oct. 4 -10 BLUE COUNTY That's Cool AJ Down Here ALAN JACKSON Too Much Of A Good Thing EMERSON DRIVE November The iTunes Music Store Top 10 S. TWAIN I/B. CURRINGTON Parry For Two REAL JAZZ (XM70) BROOKS 8 DUNN That's What Its All About Maxx Myrick LEANN RIMES Nothin 'Bout Love Makes Sense Apple's iTunes Music Store is the leading digital -music service in 75 million households TRENT WILLMON Dixie Rose Deluee's... SHERYL BARILEY 3 Bull's Eye! JOE NICHOLS If Nobody Believed In You the U.S, offering a catalog of more than 1 million songs from all five Hick Krim DAVID SANCHEZ Coral PHIL VASSAR Ill Take That As A Yes Exec. VP RENE MARIE Serene Renegade major lab9l groups and hundreds of independents. Here's a

PHIL WOODS This Is How I Feel About Quincy Information Current as of Oct 15 snapshot of the top -selling downloads on Tuesday. Oct. 12. 2004. ADDS ELVIN JONES JAll MACHINE The Truth Heard Live... FRANK AND JOE SHOW 331x3 Top 10 Songs SARAH McLACHLAN World On Fire MAURICE BROWN Hip To Bop KORN Word Up 1. DESTINY'S CHILD Lose My Breath NELLY I /CHRISTINA AGUILERA Tilt Ya Head Back PZLLSTAR. 2. USHER f/ALICIA KEYS My Boo NORAH JONES Those Sweet Words WATERCOLORS (XM71) CONCERT PULSE 3. EMINEM Just Lose It PUSSYCAT DOLLS Sway Trinity 4. U2 Vertigo DOC POWELL Cool Like That Avg. Gross Pos. Artist (in 000s) 5. NELLY f/TIM McGRAW Over And Over VELVET REVOLVER Fall To Preces 1 PRINCE 51.621.6 6. KELLY CLARKSON Breakaway BLACK EYED PEAS Lets Get It Started 2 DAVE MATTHEWS BAND 51.157.5 X COUNTRY (XM12) 7. Breaking The Habit 3 ERIC CLAPTON 51,127.8 SIMDLE PLAN Welcome To My Life Jessie Scott 4 PHIL COLLINS 5971.2 MAROON 5 She Will Be Loved 8. BLACK EYED PEAS Let's Get Is Started (Spike Mix) SPLIT LIP RAYFIELD A Little More Cocaine Please 5 VAN HALEN $887.2 BOWLING FOR SOUP 1985 9. MAROON 5 She Will Be Loved JASON BOLAND 8 STRAGGLERS Somewhere In The Middle 6 OZZFEST2004 $806.2 GREEN DAY American Idiot NATHAN Gasoline 7 STING $7903 10. TRICK DADDY Let's Go KEANE Somewhere Only We Know 8 USHER $748.6 JAKE BRENNAN I/CONFIDENCE Believe Me 9 KENNY CHESNEY 5720.1 Top O NELLY 1 /JAHEIM My Place i KINNEY In The Plenty KEVN Land Of 10 METALLICA $719.8 SWITCHFOOT Dare You To Move 11 DEAD $718.0 1. R.E M. Around The Sun

GAVIN OeGRAW I Don't Want To Be 12 TIM MCGRAW $637.7 2. GREEN DAY American Idiot DURAN DURAN (Reach Up For The) Sunrise XM CAFÉ (XM45) 13 RUSH $569.1 14 PROJEKT REVOLUTIONNNKIN PARK $5468 3. CAKE Pressure Chief FINGER ELEVEN One Thing Bill Evans 15 CHER 5533.2 4. VARIOUS ARTISTS Garden State ST KILLERS Somebody Told Me ELLIOT SMITH Front A Basement On The Hill COMMON ROTATION The Big Fear 5. MOS DEF The New Danger SARAH McLACHLAN World On Fire Among this week's new tours: VARIOUS ARTISTS Enjoy Every Sandwich SEETHER I / Broken 6. ELLIOTT SMITH From A Basement On The Hill HOTHOUSE FLOWERS Into Your Heart AUTHORITY ZERO JOSS STONE You Had Me 7. WILSON BOB DYLAN BRIAN Smile BRITNEY SPEARS My Prerogative GEORGE STRAIT 8. USHER Confessions K -OS USHER 1 /ALICIA KEYS My Boo XMLM (XM42) 9. DURAN DURAN Astronaut PAM TILLIS RYAN CABRERA On The Way Down Ward Cleaver 10. FATBOY SLIM Palookaville CROSSFADE Cold 3 INCHES OF BLOOD Advance And Vanquish The CONCEPT PULSE is courtesy of Pollstar. a publication of Promoters' YOUR Your Tracks BURY DEAD Cover On -Line Listings. 800-344 -7383: Video playlist for Ne week of Oct. I t -18 HAUNTED Revolver 209-271-7900

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oPA Let It Snow, Let It Snow.... Fox News' Tony Snow loves radio it's been just over six months since Fox News Radio for yourself what you are going to launched The Tony Snow Show into syndication. Snow make of the program. When you are sitting in someone else's chair, in a is familiar to millions as the host of Fox News funny way it's almost easier, because Channel's Weekend Live and as past host of the there's a structure already in place. AL FRANKER AND COMPANY DO SAN DIEGO The Air America network's weekly news and public -affairs show Fox You have to find your own show, Radio host made a stop in San Diego recently for a live broadcast in support of News Sunday, which he anchored for nearly a decade. so to speak. Even though I had new Clear Channel progressive Talker and AAR affiliate KLSD. Pictured at the subbed for Rush Limbaugh a num- live broadcast from the campus of the University of California, San Diego are Snow came to his success in I caught up with Snow fresh off ber of times, and also for Sean Han- (l-r) AAR co -host Katherine Lanpher, actress Meg Ryan, Franken and KLSD & broadcast media via a newspaper his luncheon keynote address at last nity, finding my own voice has been KOGO/San Diego programmer Cliff Albert. career that began in 1979 week's NAB Radio Show a unique experience. I think the and included stints at the in San Diego to fmd out show has good pacing and a good Greensboro Record; the Nor- how he likes doing radio sense of humor. It's not table - folk Virginian -Pilot; New- every day and to get his pounding angry like some shows. I R &R Tell us a little about a project port News, VA's Daily insider's perspective on think that if I can do the show with you have gotten behind on your show, Press; the Detroit News; and the upcoming presiden- a smile and people can listen with a the Soldier Ride. the Washington Times. He tial race and other current smile, we're probably headed in the "Trust is the glue of TS: In short, Chris Carney is a took a two -year break issues. right direction. guy who set out to bicycle 4,200 from journalism to serve R &R What will I hear when listen- democracy, and if miles across the country - from in the administration of Tony Snow R &R With a fetv months ing to The Tony Snow Show? New York to San Diego - to raise President George H.W. under your belt, how's the TS: What you will hear is some- you persuade voters money for wounded veterans, and Bush, where he held the post of daily radio show feeling to you? one who not only has a passion for we followed his journey every day White House Speechwriting Direc- TS: It feels great. At the beginning the issues, but somebody who also they cannot trust on our show. tor and later served as a deputy as- you have this sort of projectile - loves talking to people. In fact, one Chris was a bartender on Long Is- sistant to the president for media sweating phase where you're con- of the things I like most is the inter- anybody, the system, land, and one of his friends intro- affairs. cerned about every little thing, but action with he audience. It's a show duced him to a group called the Among some of the more color- now it's gotten to be fun. Now when built on a fcundation of optimism. ultimately, will not Wounded Warriors Project. It was ful life experiences Snow brings to I wake up in the morning, instead It's not a show that's always scream- formed by a group of guys who had his daily radio show are teaching of praying that nothing goes wrong, ing, "Look out, the bad guys are hold up." been wounded in action and want- physics and East African geography I getup excited and thinking, "What coming over the wall, so grab your ed to help fix problems they saw in Kenya and substitute teaching do I get to do, and what am I going guns and let's get 'em." It's not an and experienced during their own just about everything from calculus to talk about today ?" alarmist program. We do live in recoveries. They employ a very to seventh-grade art class. He's also R &R You'd done some radio before challenging times, and we have big affirm people's belief that we are all common-sense approach to prob- an avid musician who plays sax, the launch of The Tony Snow Show. issues to deal with, but I'm pretty mostly decent, prosperous and lems that are experienced by those flute and guitar and is an active What's been different about this experi- optimistic about people and about good people. And, finally, because who come home wounded, and member of Beats Workin', a DC- ence sofar? our country. I'm an old news guy, I always want they focus on how we can help to based band that features some of TS: It's not the first time I've done Another important point of the to beat everybody else to the story make them as whole as possible, as Snow's fellow Washington profes- radio, but it's the first time I've done show is that we try to capture sto- so we can make it ours before every- soon as possible. sionals. my own show. 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have had big injuries - losing a at students, because, as you point don't know is going to be on a test limb, paralysis, brain damage, that out, that's not really the audience. tomorrow and where all the good kind of stuff. They provide services But most people are interested in parties are going to be. You do have from the moment a soldier enters what's going on at college campus- a small group of policy junkies who the hospital. For example, they put es across America, and just about are paying attention to the presiden- "I have plenty of friends on both sides of the together backpacks for both men everyone wants to know what stu- tial race and global events, but that's and women that contain what they dents are being told and taught. pretty much the same as you see in aisle, and I think it's nonsense that if call "comfort items" for patients as I have also tried to set an exam- society at large. soon as they're admitted. Then they ple to students of how you can have R&R Let's tap in to your political somebody disagrees with you, they have track these folks throughout their a political debate the right way. I experience a bit. Is this, as some would be That's convalescence as they work on get- have plenty of friends on both sides have us believe, the dirtiest political cam- to your sworn mortal enemy. insane, ting back into society. aisle, and I think it's nonsense paign ever? of the and everybody knows This is a low-overhead charity that that if somebody disagrees with TS: No, not at all. American poli- it." does things in absolutely the right you, they have to be your sworn tics used to be a lot bloodier and way. When a volunteer -a Medal more bare- knuckled than it is today. of Honor winner who is paralyzed You actually had people dueling from the shoulders down - shows with each other, for heaven's sake. up in a soldier's hospital room and So, no, it's not the dirtiest in history says, "I know what it's like," you can "Another important and, to my mind, not even the dirt- Sister Souljah speech. He sort of in their fellow Americans. Trust is tet the reaction is, "Gee, I guess you iest in recent vintages. Remember, picked a fight with Jesse Jackson the glue of democracy, and if you point of the show is do." It's a charity that deals with Lyndon Johnson had the famous and others in his party to say to the persuade voters they cannot trust problems of heart, soul, body and that we try to "Daisy" ad back in 1964, accusing voters, "I can stand up to these anybody, the system, ultimately, will personal needs that is trying to help Barry Goldwater of trying to blow guys and be my own man." In my not hold up. bring the blessings of freedom to the capture stories from up the entire world. opinion Kerry has to show voters R &R After a long career as a print men and women who have fought Today we have an awful lot of he is his own man. journalist, a TV anchor and, now, a syn- and paid a really high price trying to around the nation people who are very eager to make Bush, on the other hand, has to dicated radio host, are you having the keep all of us free. themselves victims while trying to avoid being cocky. The Bush team most fun now? It's kind of an easy one -liner to that reaffirm write off the other side as a bunch blew it in 2000 when on the Thurs- TS: Yes, absolutely. Being on ra- say, "Yes, I support the soldiers," but of dirty, lowdown scoundrels. But I day before the election they stopped dio is very liberating. You're al- it's another thing to actually do that, people's belief that kind of like that. I like it when peo- polling and started interviewing lowed to have fun and be funny, and and I think that this group is one ple are taking shots at each other people for cabinet positions. Al Gore you can talk about things you want good way to do it. Even though the we are all mostly and clarifying the issues. For all the flat out -hustled them in those last to talk about. I'm writing again and Soldier Ride promotion is over, complaining there has been, this has five days. The challenge for the Bush posting essays on our website Wounded Warrior Project will be decent, prosperous finally become a clear election over team is to maintain a strong sprint (www.tonysnowshow.com), and I'm one of the charities I stay involved who will do what in Iraq - and all the way to the finish. also looking at doing a syndicated with. I have seen what they do. I've and good people." that's a good thing. If some feathers Then there is another issue, and newspaper column again. From a walked through the hospital wards get ruffled, that's too bad. That's that's this whole notion of voter creative standpoint, doing the radio with these guys, and I believe in why it's called a democracy, and fraud. Although I think the Demo- show has been great. We're like our what they do profoundly. I have that's how things work. crats have done more of it than the own little news -gathering unit, and seen for myself the kind of stuff they R &R What do you see as the biggest Republicans, there are a lot of alle- it's really a lot of fun for me every can do and the successes they have mortal enemy. That's insane, and challenge facing each of the presidential gations being made by both sides single day. We're now even reach- had. everybody knows it. We all have candidates this year? that the other side is going to cheat. ing the stage where people are hear- R &R: College campuses are not ex- friends we disagree with, so if I can TS: We're still a considerable They are poisoning the well, and ing about the show and coming to actly thought to befertile groundfor con- set a positive tone in front of these way out from Election Day, but that's a really dangerous precedent, us with news. servative talk shows, yet you have been kids and for the people listening, I John Kerry is still walking a deli- because what it sets up is an argu- There is nothing more fun than doinga tour and broadcasting the show think that helps. cate balance with his Democratic ment that cannot be refuted by fact. starting something that is your own. live from a number of universities in re- R &R Have you encountered any- base, about half of which wants us If you believe in your heart that We have a small staff that's highly cent weeks. Why? thing on campus that has particularly to stay in Iraq while the other half it's a fraudulent election and that motivated and that has great morale TS: If you do it right, you can surprised you? wants us to leave. That's why he people are going to be cheated no - we laugh around here every day. plant some seeds of enthusiasm in TS: What I have found is pretty has been generally so cautious. It's matter the result, you have effective- We drag home exhausted some people who are going to be future much what you find on campuses my sense that he should learn from ly undermined faith in democracy. nights, but we come right back at it Talk radio listeners. When we go to everywhere. Most people are think- Bill Clinton and take a side. Clin- Democracy relies on people having the next morning refreshed and a college we don't do a show aimed ing about whether something they ton did that, for example, with the faith in the system and having trust ready to go. I love it.

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Pandemonium, Anarchy Make Canada More Interesting lifflebinge Rule No. I : Your promotion is successful if you've caused at the annual Bayliss Radio Roast, sponsored by the John mass chaos. "I'm just trying to stay out of jail right now!" says Bayliss Broadcast Foundation. The 2005 Roast will be held j.,. YEAR AGO CIHT (Hot 89.9)/Ottawa PD Rob Mise, who had the city in March 16 at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York. Smokey Rivers becomes PD of WNEW, the icy grip of near -hysteria with the "Hot 89.9 $25,000 Fu- New York. gitive" promotion, courtesy of the ever -twisted Paige Crys Quimby named PD and Tim Label Love Nienaber, VP /Fun -N -Games for CPR. The object? Approach Scheid named News Director at WCBS- Noted Triple A Promotion Princess Lisa Michelson - the person you suspect is the "Hot 89.9 Fugitive" and use AM /New York. Sonkin, last seen at Elektra, has been inked to head up Epic's Nate Bell promoted to Regional VP /Pro these exact words: 'Are you the Hot 89.9 $25,000 Fugitive?" gramming for Clear Channel. Smckey Ritas Triple A promotional empire. Epic Exec. VP Joel Klaiman says, If the answer is yes, you score the $25,000. Mise says, "Ca- "I had the good fortune to work with Lisa at Elektra years r nadians are naturally curious, problem -solving people, and YEARS AGO ago and know her to be one of the most passionate and dedi- J money is a good motivator, but I think they really want the

cated promotion people I know, as well as being highly re- Lionel Ridenour promoted to Exec. VP /Black Music for challenge. Besides, in the absence of hockey right now, there's Arista Records. nothing to do. We're bored!" spected among her peers." Ms. M -S starts her new gig on Lon Bason named GM of KLIF -AM & KPLX -FM /Dallas. Oct. 25. That boredom translated into cash- starved listeners run- Kathy Brown becomes OM /Baltimore for Radio One. ning amok throughout the city asking complete strangers the phrase- that -pays. Hilarity was Leap O'The WeekTM 1J YEARS AGO scheduled to ensue: however, Let's meet Candicate No. I: KWWV /San Luis Obispo, when a recent due was announced CA PD /morning talent Eric Sean, who gets the big call and Tony Novia named R &R CHR Editor. Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss return to the record busi- that the Fugitive was going to "pick is named Asst. PD/MD at Styles Media's recently launched ness with Almo Sounds. up a buddy," listeners descended CHR/Rhythmic outlet KZAB (93.5 K- Day) /Los Angeles. Steve Hegwood becomes OM of WJLB -FM and WMXD- on the airport en masse. "People Please welcome candidate No. 2: Just plain Emily, who FM /Detroit. were really pissed off at us because risks market -size whiplash by moving from middays at KFRX/ they missed their flights!" says Mise. Lincoln, NE to middays at WIOQ (Q102) /Philadelphia. She ,J YEARS AGO "Travelers taking cabs to the airport replaces Lisa Paige, who slides into the Chio in the Morning had to get out and walk the last co -host position recently vacated by Angi Taylor. But wait - Steve Perun named PD of WBSB/Balti- 'How 'dya like to make S14 more. the hard way ?' mile, dragging their luggage, be- there's more! WAKS /Cleveland Asst. PD/MD /afternoon jock - Steve Rivers becomes PD of WZOU/ cause traffic was so backed up!" Kasper transfers to Q 02 for afternoons, replacing Logan, Boston. Another clue that the Fugitive would be playing golf resulted who runs. Carey Curelop named PD of KLOS/Los Steve Rivers in a near -riot at a local golf course. "They had to shut the Taking over afternoons at WAKS is WKSS /Hartford night Angeles. course down because people were driving carts all over the jock Stick, a veteran of QI02, WBLI /Nassau -Suffolk and place, just like in Caddyshack!" Mise reports. KZQZ/San Francisco. S -ick is no stranger to WAKS, having YEARS AGO Hot 89.9 jocks continued to inflame the market by airing voicetracked weekends there for over a year. Look for him Jerry Lyman nammed President of RKO bizarre "Fugitive"- related calls - like to voicetrack his show tack to Hartford at least through the Radio Division. the one from the prostitute who com- fall book. WAKS PD Dal Mason is now seeking a new night Mark Driscoll named Group PD for Hef- tel. plained that the question was hurting jock. Doyle Rose becomes VP /Regional her business, or the one from the Manager. Los Angeles for Emmis. Mark Driscoll woman whose car had just been rear - The Programming Dept. ended. When the guy who hit her ap- Former WWMX/Baltimore PD Steve Monz has resur- YEARS AGO proached her car, the first thing he faced in exotic Dover, DE as OM of Delmarva Broadcasting's At the NRBA Convention, Sen. Barry Goldwater reiter- asked her was not, 'Are you okay ?" Hot AC WAFL (Eagle 97 -7), Classic Hits WNCL (Cool 101.3) ates his support of deregulation but predicts no action but, 'Are you the Hot 89.9 $25,000 Fu- 'ram not. how you say. will take place in 1980. and Spanish -language WYUS -AM (La Exitosa 930). Monz will gitive?" zis Fugitive.' also take over middays of Cool 101.3. At press time the Hot 89.9 Fugitive YEARS AGO KTOZ/Springfield, MO PD Tony Matteo doubles his JJ had finally been caught: 47- year-old window salesman Rob pleasure by annexing PD duties for Clear Channel AC KGBS -AM & FM /Los Angeles flips to Country. had kept his secret everyone including Collins, who from - WIXY /Cleveland PD and GM Dick Kemp clusterbuddy KGBX and being proclaimed Asst. OM for the Terry Stevens his wife! Health Canada employee Kalpesh Patel scored the resign. group. He replaces Paul Kelley, who remains OM for the $25,000. (Ed. note: The preceding Canadian- scented item more whole darn shootiñ match. than fulfills this week's minimum CanCon comedy requirement.] PD "Crazy Ray" Styles exits Midwest Active Rocker KRBR/Duluth, MN. The station will undergo some slight ad- Michael Todd, PD of Alternative KQRX /Midland- Clarke Brown's TV Legacy Revealed justments but will remain Rock, says GM Alicia Ridley, who Odessa, TX, is upped to Encore's Re- During the recent NAB Radio Show, a video retrospective names Mark Fleischer interim PD. gional Director /Programming, Contem- of Jefferson -Pilot Radio President Clarke Brown, the recipi- PD Melody Lee exits Emmis Alternative KROX/Austin. porary Formats. Todd hangs on to his ent of this year's NAB National Radio Award, revealed that For now, all programming calls are being routed to MD Toby KQRX gig and picks up oversight on AC r. Brown was the inspiration for the Herb Ryan. KELI /San Angelo, TX. Whipp ng out his uncanny impersonation of Thurston Tarlek character on the classic '70s Clear Channel CHRRhythmic KPRR/EI Paso noon-4pm Í,A sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati. Back in talent Slomotion adds MD stripes, much to the delight of i Howell Ill, Todd juts out his ower jaw those days Brown, who was an ac- the entire Motion family. Seconds later 4 -8pm jock Boy Loco How are the poor and tells ST, 'As I was telling Lovey, 1 people doing? count exec at WQXI /Atlanta, was is named Asst. MD. won't have as much time to work my his pineapple plantation in Hawaii or to prepare my boat to com- known for flashy style of dress. A I Fox Feltman, OM/PD of Qantum Hot AC WMXZ and TV producer who visited WQXI seek- Classic Hits WWAV/Ft. Walton Beach, FL, keeps his Florida pete for the America's Cup, but we all have to sacrfice!" ing inspiration for what later became plates as the newly named Asst. PD /MD /afternoon talent at the TV series noticed Brown's style and WYKS /Gainesville. He replaces Mike Forte, who's headed Formats Yoú ll Flip Over later used it to create the colorful char- home to New Jersey. Citadel Active Rocker WKLQ/Grand Rapids, MI moved Herb? Or Clarke? acter. During his acceptance speech, In a solemn rose -garden ceremony, WKXJ /Chattanooga, up the dial from 94.5 to 107.3, displacing Oldies WODJ. Fill -

however, Brown insisted that all of his colleagues at WQXI TN midday talent Heather Backman received MD stripes, i ing the vacant lot is "Thunder Country 94.5," which takes aim at longtime CC market leader WBCT, which pulled dressed just as wildly as he did - it was the '70s, after all. i while night jock Mike Michonski was the beaming recipient dead

Brown has been tapped to become the next "dis- honoree" of equally lovely Asst. PD stripes. an I 1.8 12+ in the spring book. New calls are on oder.

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from "Just Plain- Promotion Director to the far superior Pro- 18. Down the hall host AI Rantel inks a representation deal motion & Marketing Director. with International Creative Management (ICM) VP /News & Rolodex Update While WPHH /Hartford and WUSL/Philadelphia morning Broadcasting Babette Perry. Effective Oct. 22, all six of Clear Channel's St. Louis sta- personalities Star & Buc Wild sit out their New York Celebrity chef Rocco DiSpirito, host of the NBC real- tions - CHR/Pop KSLZ (Z107.7). Country KSD (93 -7 The noncompete, they're adding to their burgeoning syndication ity show The Restaurant, joins WOR/New York to helm the Urban (100.3 The Beat), Urban AC KMJM Bull), KATZ empire. Please welcome Clear Channel Urban WPRW long- running Food Talk from I I am -noon weekdays. DiSpirito 104.9), Oldies and Gospel KATZ -AM will (Majic KLOU - (Power I 07)/Augusta, GA, where they displace market icons replaces Arthur Schwartz, who recently exited. move into a new broadcast palace, complete with a sandwich- Fattz and Cher, who cross the hall to Urban AC WKSP. Veteran newsman Rob Milford has departed KTRH/ vending machine. The new address is 1001 Highlands Plaza Scott Tyler trades the Windy City for a return ticket to Houston. He can be reached at 713- 339 -4867 or milford Drive West, Suite 100, St. Louis, MO the Twin Cities. Tyler, who did afternoons at CC's WKSC/Chi- news @hotmail.com. 63110. The new phone number is cago, is headed back to KDWB /Minneapolis as the new The Salem- syndicated Mike Gallagher Show crosses the 314- 333 -8000; the fax number is 314- owner /operator of the night shift. street from WBAP /Dallas to rival KRLD, where it will air from 333 -8312. PD Brian Kelly has finally solidified the airstaff at Entercom 9am -noon. While the first hour of Gallagher's show will not

CHR/Pop WXSS ( I 03.7 Kiss -FM), starting with the return of I air on KRLD, he'll do a special local -only hour of the program, Quick Hits several old friends. Former Kiss afternoon jock Wes McKane allowing the station to broadcast a three -hour show. with Congrats to 26 -year WPLJ /New returns from KDWB /Minneapolis to anchor mornings Kiss who crosses the hall York vet Theresa Angela, whose former personality Rahny Taylor, Condolences from Hot AC WMYX. Van McNeil and Tony Zamboni, who title has been deservedly adjusted Promotion princess Northwest broadcasting legend Phil Harper died Oct. 12 promoted. had been covering mornings, are reassigned: McNeil slides at age 64. At the time of his passing Harper had been jug- into afternoons, while Zamboni resumes production duties. gling afternoons as "Buffalo Phil" on Classic Country KYCW- Jamie White & Danny Bonaduce of KYSR (Star 98.7)/ FILMS AM, serving as the promotional voice of Jazz outlet KPLU and I Los Angeles bring their subtle comedic stylings back to the performing the role of Harry Nile on The K1RO Mystery Play- bustling metropolis of Bakersfield as they kick off a simulcast BOX OFFICE TOTALS house. "For the past 21 years Phil also worked here as a voice October 8 -10 on Buckley Hot AC KLLY, replacing Desiree Vanderwal. The Title Distributor $ Weekend S To Date talent at Jones Radio Networks," says Jones Director/AC Pro- duo used to be heard at crosstown KKXX, but that honey- gramming Mike Bettelli. "He was an incredible guy who was 1 Shark Tale (DreamWorks) $31.33 $87.35 moon ended in February 2003. 2 Friday Night Lights (Universal)' $20.26 $20.26 irreverent and funny right up to his last days." To view a trib- 3 Ladder 49 (Buena Vista) S13.10 $41.02 ute to Harper, go to www.kplu.org /about /harper.html. 4 Taxi IFoxr $12.02 $12.65 Dept. Of Wedded Bliss 5 The Forgotten (Sony) 57.60 S48.72 Congrats to WRKR/Kalamazoo, MI PD Jay Deacon, who 6 Raise Your Voice (New Line) 54.02 $4.02 gave in to temptation and married fellow Cumulus employee 7 Sky Captain... (Paramount) $2.34 $33.93 TELEVISION AE Mandi Snyder last Saturday. "We've been working to- 8 Shaun Of The Dead (Focus) $1.70 $9.45 9 The Motorcycle Diaries (Focus) $1.51 $3.29 gether for 3 I/2 years and trying to fight it, but about 12 TOP TEN SHOWS Oct. 4 -10 10 Resident Evil: Apocalypse (Sony) $1.25 S49.01 months ago we said, 'To hell with work,' and went for it," Total Audience Adults 18-49 'First week in release. All figures in millions. Deacon tells ST. "I'm still waiting for a gift from Lew Dickey." (105.5 million households) Source' ACNielsen EDI 1 CSI 1 CSI COMING ATTRACTIONS: This week's openers include 2 Desperate Housewives Baby Poop 2 Without A Trace Shall We Dance. starring recording artists Jennifer Lopez, 3 E.R. 3 CSI: Miami Nick Cannon and Mya. the last of whom contributes "Let's Best wishes to Triad Dir. /Programming Jay Taylor and his 4 The Apprentice 2 Dance" to the film's Casablanca soundtrack. The ST also wife, Heidi, on the birth of their third son. Shane Parker 4 Desperate Housewives 5 CSI: Miami Vanuatu contains Pussycat Dolls' "Sway." Peter Gabriel's 'Book 5 Survivor: Vanuatu 6 Survivor. arrived Oct. 8 at the ungodly time of 3:40am. He weighed in of Love,' Jamie Cullum's "I Could Have Danced All Night." 7 NFL Monday Night Football 6 Everybody Loves Raymond Rachel Fuller's "Wonderland" and more. at 8 lbs., 2 oz. (Chiefs vs. Ravens) Also opening this week is Team America: World Police, 7 E.R. (fie) Without A Trace

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1 GEORGE STRAIT 50111's MCA 345,926 - 27 2 USHER Confessions Laface/Zomba 343,877 +765 - 3 GOOD CHARLOTTE Chronicles Of Life & Death Epic 197,863 - 4 KORN Greatest Hits Vol.1 Epic 141,329 - 5 5 NELLY Suit Derrty/Fo' Reel/Universal 121,470 +1% 2 6 HILARY DUFF Hilary Duff Buena Vista /Hollywood 95,500 -51% 4 7 GREEN DAY American Idiot Reprise 86,219 -31%

1 8 Feels Like Today Lyric Street 81,587 -60% 8 9 RAY CHARLES Genius Loves Company Concord 68,651 -14% 10 10 TIM MCGRAW Live Like You Were Dying Curb 65,170 15% 3 11 CIARA Goodies Laface/Zomba 65,116 -48% 7 12 NELLY Sweat Derrty /Fo' Reel/Universal 62,608 22% 12 13 NOW VOL. 16 Various UTV 57,520 -18% 14 R.E.M. Around The Sun Warner Bros. 56,770 - 18 15 MAROON 5 Songs About Jane Octone/J /RMG 49,689 -12% 19 16 ASHLEE SIMPSON Autobiography Geffen 47,239 -15% 9 17 MARILYN MANSON Lest We Forget: The Best 0f... Interscope 43,369 -45% 14 18 The Dana Owens Album Vector 43,050 31% 19 TOTALLY HITS 2004 V.2 Various WSM 42,376 - 11 20 JOSS STONE Mind, Body & Soul S- Curve/EMC 41,382 -44%

6 21 USED In Love And Death Reprise 41,135 -59%

24 22 YOUNG BUCK Straight Outta CaShville G- Unit/lnterscope 40,341 -5% 23 CAKE Pressure Chief Epic 39,741 - 16 24 KEITH URBAN Be Here Capitol 39,070 -36% 17 25 BRIAN WILSON Smile Nonesuch/Atlantic 37,982 -36% 25 26 AVRIL LAVIGNE Under My Arista /RMG 37,469 11%

22 27 GRETCHEN WILSON Here For The Party Epic 37,336 -19% 13 28 TALIB KWELI The Beautiful Struggle Geffen 36,151 -43% 20 29 CHEVELLE This Type Of Thinking Could Do.. Epic 36,121 -23% 30 TOM WAITS Real Gone Anti 35,893 - 26 31 LL COOL J Definition DefJam /IDJMG 35,540 -13%

28 32 BIG & RICH Horse Of A Different Color Warner Bros 33,931 -14°/u 42 33 SHARK TALE Soundtrack Geffen 33,169 +20%

31 34 ANITA BAKER My Everything Blue Note /Virgin 32,614 -12% - 35 1.20 Self Explanatory Capitol 32,007 - 15 36 INTERPOL Antics Matador 31,033 50% 36 37 VELVET REVOLVER Contraband RCA /RMG 30,625 -7% 30 38 JILL SCOTT Beautifully Human...Vol.2 Hidden Beach/Epic 30,358 -21%

35 39 LOS LONELY BOYS Los Lonely Boys Epic 29,745 -13% 33 40 BLACK EYED PEAS Elephunk A &M/lnterscope 29,618 -17%

32 41 R. KELLY Happy People/U Saved Me Jive /Zomba 29,503 -19% 39 42 KILLERS Hot Fuss Island/IDJMG 29,122 +2%

38 43 ALAN JACKSON What I Do Arista 26,783 -8% 45 44 SWITCHFOOT Beautiful Letdown Columbia 27,028 0% 23 45 SHAWNNA Worth Tha Weight DefJam/IDJMG 26,100 -43% 40 46 GUNS N'ROSES Greatest Hits Geffen 26,017 -8%

21 47 GUERILLA BLACK Guerilla City Virgin 24,977 -46% 43 48 JOJO Jojo BlackGround /Universal 24,876 -10% 34 49 GARDEN STATE Soundtrack Epic 24,545 -29% 50 JIMMY BUFFETT License To Chill RCA 24,033 - © HITS Magazine Inc.

which features four new songs, including Derrty/Fo' Reel /Universal rap crossover week's total of u LI ALBUMS the smash remix duet with Alicia Keys, phenom Nelly's Suit (No. 5), Buena Vista/ 344,000. Geffen's "My Boa" Hollywood teen popper Hilary Duff (No. 6), Shark Tale Strait Edges Usher Epic punk Reprise's Green Day (No. 7), Lyric Street/ soundtrack (No. Country comfort bests soul redux this rockers Hollywood's Rascal Hafts (No. 8), Concord's 42 -33), riding the week. Good Char- Ray Charles (No. 9) and Curb's Tim fish tales of the In a race that Usher lotte's con- McGraw (No. 10). No. 1 box -office went down to the VA DE cept album a With that, country and po-mo rock each hit, sees a 20% boost. wire, MCA Nash- hold down three places in the top 10. Other gainers include Island /ID- Chronicles of r . ville C &W croon- Life and Death Good Charlotte Other debuts are scored by WB's R.E.M. JMG's The Killers (No. 42, +2 %) and er George Strait's bows at No. (No. 14), WSM's Totally Hits 2004 Vol. 2 Nelly's Suit ( +1 %). 50 Number Ones 3, with a healthy total just shy of 200,000. La- (No. 19), Columbia's Cake (No. 23), Anti's ends up at No. 1, George Strait belmates Korrí s Greatest Hits Vol. 1, a com- Tom Waits (No. 30) and Capitol's I -20 (No. Next week: Look for Epic's Celine squeaking by La- bination of their own smashes and covers of 35). Dion, Island /IDJMG's Sum 41 and Raw- Face /Zomba soul other people's, lands at No. 4. The reconfigured Usher album is up a kus/Geffen's Mos Def to be the top chart superstar Usher's repackaged Confessions, The rest of the top 10 features holdovers huge 765 %, from around 40,000 to this entrants.

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dq' GoingrovAdds Bridging The Gap Week Of 10/18/04 Nas returns to the fold next week as he goes for adds at Rhyth- mic and Urban with "Bridging the Gap," taken from his forthcom- ing double album, Street's Disciple. In a sense the cut bridges the gap between generations: It features jazz musician Olu Dara, who CHR /POP also happens to be Nas' father. This isn't the first time the two have HOT AC worked together on a project. On Nas' HOOBASTANK Disappear llsland/IDJMG) HOOBASTANK Disappear (lsland'IDJMG) classic debut, lllmatic, Dara lent his for- LLOYD Hey Young Girl (Murder Inc. /De1Jam/LDJMG) LIVE We Deal In Dreams (Geffen) midable trumpet chops to the track "Life's a Bitch." When Nas went on to VELVET REVOLVER Fall To Pieces /RCA /RMG) SISTER HAZEL All About The Love (Sixth Man) star in Belly, it was his father who scored the film. Now the two appear on the screen together in the video for SMOOTH JAZZ "Bridging the Gap," which was filmed CHR/RHYTHMIC last month by director Dianne Martel. Nas It's been a busy month for Nas. He was ADANI & WOLF Daylight (Rendezvous) featured in VH1's History of Hip -Hop special earlier this month, MAYSA Hypnotic Love (N-Coded) where he performed "Bridging the Gap." He also helped honor MARIO Let Me Love You (JIRMG) 2Pac's memory on a VH1 program this past Tuesday. Street's Dis- RAMSEY LEWIS TRIO Midnight At The Oasis (Narada) NAS Bridging The Gap (Columbia) ciple reaches stores Nov. 30. RAY CHARLES fIDIANA KRALL You Don't Know Me (Concord) Birmingham's Velvet Teddy Bear, otherwise known as Ameri- can Idol: Season 2 winner Ruben Studdard, is getting set to unveil his sophomore album. Next week we get our first peek at the project as Studdard goes for adds at Urban AC with the title track, URBAN ROCK "I Need an Angel." The single has some huge star power going for it: R. Kelly wrote and produced the cut. Studdard is touting the new CD as an inspirational album. SALIVA Razor's Edge (Island/IDJMG) ASHANTI Only U (Murder Inc. /LDJMG) Look for it to drop on Nov 2. As for (Interscope) Studdard himself, look for him to drop EMINEM Just Lose It (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope) in to Atlanta on Oct. 20 and Atlantic NAS Bridging The Gap (Columbia) ACTIVE ROCK City, NJ on Nov 26-27 to give live au- SILKK THE SHOCKER Be There (New No (imit /Koch) diences a taste of his latest material. Speaking of angels, Ashanti is corn-

ing to Urban next week, delivering HOOBASTANK Disappear (Island/IDJMG) Ashanti "Only U" to radio. The single serves as SALIVA Razor's Edge (island/IDJMG) the lead cut from her forthcoming CD, URBAN AC SPIDERBAIT Black Betty (Interscope) Concrete Rose, which is slated for release just in time to get it into your loved ones' Christmas stockings. In other Ashanti news, the R &B singer has been tapped to play the lead role of Dorothy in QUEEN LATIFAH Simply Beautiful (Vector) the upcoming made -for -TV Muppets version of the classic film The ALTERNATIVE

Wizard of Oz. Queen Latifah will be playing Auntie Em, while Ker- RUBEN STUDDARD I Need An Angel (J/RMG) mit, Gonzo, Fozzie and Miss Piggy fill the roles of Dorothy's four BEASTIE BOYS Right Right Now Now (Capitol) famous cohorts on her magical journey down the Yellow Brick ELEFANT Misfit (Kemado/Hollywood) Road. Quentin Tarantino will be making a cameo appearance in HOOBASTANK the movie. Disappear (Island /IDJMG) Australians Damian "Whitt" Whittey (guitar, vocals), Janet En- INSTRUCTION Breakdown (Geffen) glish (bass) and Mark "Kram" Maher (drums, vocals) are ready COUNTRY LAZYBOY Underwear Goes Inside The Pants (Universal) to introduce their band Spiderbait to American audiences. What better way to do so than to add a little familiarity to the mix? Next week Spiderbait go for adds at Rock and Active Rock with "Black BRAD & SHELLY He Only Talks About Her When He Drinks (Cupi!) Betty" their updated version of the famous song by I eadbelly. "It's TRIPLE A one of my favorite songs of all time," BRAD COTTER I Miss Me (Epic) says Maher. "But everyone wasn't real- LEE ANN WOMACK I May Hate Myself In The Morning (MCA) ly 100% me until they heard it. RANDY TRAVIS Four Walls (Word/Warner Bros.) behind ROCKFOUR Next Monroe (Rainbow 0uartz) Then they understood why I was into WAIFS Bridal Train (Jarrah /Compass) it." The band's version of "Black Betty" was featured in the film Without n Pad- WILCO Theologians (Nonesuch) dle and is also being used in a current AC JESSE COLIN YOUNG Living In Paradise (Artemis) commercial campaign for Nintendo. VARIOUS ARTISTS Enjoy Every Sandwich:

Most important, the cut can be heard Spiderbait NICHOLAS JONAS Dear God (IND /Colombia) The Songs Of Warren Zevon (Artemis) on the band's album Tonight Alright, produced by Shivy (Tool, Red Hot Chili Peppers,

?rince). "At first we were stressed out about going to America to R &R's Going For Adds features the complete list of songs impacting radio for the coming week. Going For Adds record," says Maher, who is also Spiderbait's frontman. "You hear is e- mailed each week to participating radio and record executives. For more info, contact John Fagot at Ifagotr radioandrecords.com. about bands punching each other out, spending all their money and going home broke."

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FLEETWOOD MAC Rumours (1977) RIAA sales: 19 million

awl.. Sa lons Playing Tal 12554 Iota12154 Total 25-54 F 2551 F 2554 F 25.51 11 2551 M 2554 M 25-51 Song In last hm111M* Mira hmilianry Mre Familianll Bum Senn Days "The Chain" 85 4.25 96 18 4.42 93 14 4.16 97 20 "Go Your Own Way" 82 4.23 99 26 4.29 99 24 4.20 99 26 "Dreams" 64 4.15 98 22 4.39 97 17 4.02 98 25 "Gold Oust Woman" 78 4.15 91 16 4.29 90 10 4.08 92 19 "Second Hand News" 25 4.03 91 15 4.10 90 13 3.98 91 16 "You Make Loving Fun" 45 3.98 96 25 4.05 97 25 3.94 95 25 Can We Test It? "Never Going Back Again" 17 3.96 80 14 4.02 77 11 3.94 81 16 "Don't Stop" 54 3.90 99 36 4.03 99 33 3.83 99 38 Yes, we can, says RateTheMusic.com "I Don't Want To Know" 8 3.85 76 16 3.98 74 14 3.78 78 17 "Songbird" 2 3.64 66 17 3.91 65 13 149 67 19 "Oh Daddy" 2 3.34 56 18 3.42 52 15 3.30 59 20

Do you own this album? Yes: 54% (Total) 54% (F) 54% (M) K, your station is lucky enough to have an auditorium -style mu- No: 46% (Total) 46% (F) 46% (M) sic test once every quarter. But do Classic Rock programmers ever BOSTON Boston (1976) have the ability to test every song on the most popular classic rock RIAA sales: 17 million albums? Not likely, given the massive musical universe being cov- Say UM Staliom Playing Mal 25-54 101.12551 Mal 25.54 F2551 F2S51 F254 M2554 M2551 11 2554 Boy In last FamÌIMMF Bum hmlltarlry Bum Familiarity km ered. Senn Dm "Long Time" 96 4.39 95 18 4.41 94 13 4.38 95 21 But RateTheMusic.com Director /Radio Client er." In this study, 76% of the songs tested scored "More Than A Feeling" 92 4.38 99 25 4.45 98 19 4.34 100 28 "Peace Of Mind" 92 4.33 94 21 4.39 90 14 4.29 95 24 Services Axl Nemetz says that every song on a in that range. "Rock And Roll Band" 73 4.26 95 21 4.28 93 17 4.24 96 23 top -selling album can indeed be tested. "The "Obviously, each station has its own specific cri- "Smokin"' 80 4.26 93 20 4.24 91 19 4.27 95 21 Classic Rock format is built in part on embrac- teria for songs to make it onto the ait" Nemet7. says. "Foreplay" 90 4.25 90 18 4.17 84 16 4.30 93 20 ing in entirety" "The this was identity -test- artists' carvers and albums their goal of study to strong "Let Me Take You Home..." 46 4.15 92 21 4.26 88 18 4.09 95 23 he says. "Are programmers failing to tap the ing classic rock songs that aren't being played. "Something About You" 56 4.13 88 18 4.21 86 14 4.09 90 21 potential of underplayed album tracks simply RateTheMusic.com hopes that these results will "Hitch A Ride" 57 4.07 90 20 4.07 86 18 4.07 93 21 fresh because they lack the ability to test these tracks ?" give programmers some songs to test and Do you own this album? After noticing the lack of airplay for many play increasing the strength and broadening the Yes: 58% (Total pop.) 51% (F) 62% (M) songs on hugely successful classic rock albums, variety of music heard on Classic Rock radio." No: 42% (Total) 49% (F) 38% (M) Nemetz and RateTheMusic.com decided to dig While we can only show some of the results Should "Foreplay" and "Long Time" always be played together on the radio? (Note. 90 stations reported deeper and test these unplayed and under- in this week's column, the study yielded some playing the songs together.) played tracks. The big question: Are songs not interesting data. The first seven of the nine tracks Yes 64% (Total) 55% (F) 69% (M) being played because they genuinely do not test, on The Eagles' Hotel California received scores No: 20% (Total) 24% (F) 18% (M) or have they simply not been tested? higher than 4.0 on the popularity scale. Also, a Don't know /No opinion: 16% (Total) 20% (F) 13% (M) wide majority of those polled believe that Clas- BEATLES Abbey Road (1969) Surprise Results sic Rock stations should play "Speak to Me" and RIAA sales: 12 million In with R &R, RateTheMusic.com as well as conjunction "Breathe" together, "Brain Damage SeM UM Mallon. Plasm Real 25- Total Mal 2554 F2531 F2554 F2551 M2554 M2554 II 25-54 of Dark Say Mtnl FamiII. B.m Fam.MMry km FamliWkg km selected some the biggest -selling and most and "Eclipse" together, from Pink Floyd's Seven Dan popular classic rock albums of all time. Every Side of the Moon. "Here Comes The Sun" 43 4.42 98 13 4.40 98 13 4.43 99 14 song on these albums was tested. Additionally, The study suggests that the title track from "Come Together" 83 4.38 100 20 4.39 99 17 4.37 100 21 album- ownership and song -specific perceptual Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell could be played more. "Something" 29 4.38 93 13 4.44 90 10 4.35 95 14 questions were asked. R also confirmed that, after 30 years, while more "She Came In Through The 0 4.25 87 12 4.17 80 9 4.29 90 13 "The results are surprising and revealing," than half of the songs on Elton John's Goodbye Bathroom Window" "Carry That Weight" 0 4.22 88 13 4.16 85 12 4.25 89 13 Nemetz says. "Every album yielded some great - Yellow Brick Road don't test well with Classic "Oh! Darling" 19 4.21 90 11 4.30 88 7 4.16 91 13 testing songs that aren't being played. Rock listeners, the title track, "Saturday Night's "The End" 1 4.16 80 10 4.15 72 8 4.17 84 10 RateTheMusic.com would recommend consid- Alright for Fighting," "Funeral for a Friend/ "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" 9 4.11 84 14 4.04 79 13 4.14 87 14 ering airplay for any song scoring 3.80 or high- Love Lies Bleeding" and "Candle in the Wind" "Golden Slumbers" 0 4.11 77 13 4.13 68 10 4.10 82 15 "You Never Give Me..." 8 4.09 84 13 4.04 77 10 4.11 88 14 LED ZEPPELIN Led Zeppelin IV (1971) "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" 9 4.07 82 14 4.05 76 12 4.07 86 15 RIAA sales: 22 million "Octopus's Garden" 3 3.92 87 18 3.92 83 15 3.92 89 20 "Mean Mr. Mustard" 0 3.87 76 13 3.78 67 12 3.92 81 14 Stakes M M Total 25-54 Nil 2551 101612554 F i551 F 2554 2554 Y 25. M 255. 25.54 "Because" 2 3.84 75 16 3.85 68 13 3.84 79 17 Bey la lM hml!larllg Mira Famlltam lue FWIMnIF Bu. Sm. Darn "Polythene Pam" 0 3.83 70 15 3.68 59 14 3.91 76 15

"Stairway To Heaven" 82 4.58 99 27 4.57 99 23 4.58 99 29 "Sun King" 1 3.78 69 14 3.71 57 13 3.82 75 15

"Black Dog" 85 4.57 96 16 4.51 94 15 4.60 98 16 "Her Majesty" 1 3.76 68 13 3.75 57 10 3.77 74 14 "Rock And Roll" 84 4.55 97 16 4.49 94 15 4.58 99 17 "Golden Slumbers Medley" 27 "Going To California" 79 4.39 93 15 4.32 87 11 4.43 96 17 "Sun King Medley" 7 "When The Levee Breaks" 45 4.34 86 11 4.16 75 12 4.43 92 11 Do you own this album? "Misty Mountain Hop" 57 4.32 94 15 4.19 91 16 4.40 96 14 Yes: 52% (Total) 47% (F) 56% (M) "The Battle Of Evermore" 15 4.26 83 12 4.16 72 9 4.31 89 13 No: 48% (Total) 53% (F) 44% (M) "Four Sticks" 14 4.18 80 12 4.02 67 9 4.25 87 13 The songs on side two of Abbey Road are often played in groupings, with several songs being played one Do you own this album? right after the other. Should these songs always be played together on the radio? Yes: 66% (Total), 56% (F), 72% (M) Yes: 62% (Total) 50% (F) 69% (M) No: 34% (Total) 44% (F) 28% (M) No: 18% (Total) 24% (F) 15% (M) AC /DC Back In Black (1980) Don't know /No opinion: 20% (Total) 26% (F) 16% (M) RIAA sales. 19 million Axl Nemetz can be reached at 212 -896-5210 oraxl @ratethemusic.com.

Stallog Playing TMa12554 75141 25-54 7.125- F 1554 F F2551 2551 M 25.54 112554 Say in tut Pomutarip Bum B.m FamBMrM, Bum Denn D. "You Shook Me All Night Long" 76 4.49 98 22 4.51 97 19 4.48 98 24 remain the most preferred songs on the double ed is the same information broken out for 25-54 "Back In Black" 68 4.42 96 19 4.36 93 19 4.45 97 20 album. women and 25 -54 men. Popularity-score esti- "Hells Bells" 51 4.23 95 17 4.19 91 18 4.25 97 16 On this page is song -by -song information for mates are based on a scale of 1 -5, with 1 meaning "Shoot To Thrill" 43 4.13 86 16 4.04 81 15 4.17 90 17 the four best -selling classic rock albums in histo- "dislike a lot" and 5 meaning "like a lot." "Have A Drink On Me" 32 4.12 85 15 4.06 80 14 4.15 88 16 ry, along with The Beatles' Abbey Road, that band's To conduct the research, Mediabase screened "Rock & Roll Ain't Noise..." 30 4.12 81 15 4.12 75 14 4.11 15 85 top -selling effort. The first column lists the song all respondents via the Internet. Once selected, "What Do You Do For..." 10 3.96 79 16 3.89 72 14 3.99 83 17 title. The second indicates how many of the 96 sta- each respondent took a music test based on his "Given The Dog A Bone" 7 3.95 78 16 3.85 70 14 3.99 83 17 tions in Mediabase's Classic Rock panel have or her format or music preferences. Respondents "Shake A Leg" 3 3.80 72 15 3.69 65 15 3.85 75 15 played fol- "Let Me Put My Love Into You" 3 3.78 69 16 3.76 61 14 3.78 74 17 the song in the last seven days. That's with classic rock as their preferred music style lowed by the song's callout score for the 850 re- were selected at random from the RateThe- Do you own this album? spondents (all of whom were 25-54 years of age) Music.com national database. Airplay data is Yes: 54% (Total) 48% (F) 58% (M) No: 46% (Total) 52% (F) 42% (M) polled by Mediabase, as well as the familiarity provided by Mediabase Research and reflects percentage and burn score for each song. Also list- monitored airplay from Sept. 23-29, 2004.

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ognized by his peers as being the best. ever." He goes on, 'They played all This year he won Song of the Year the big festivals this year in Germany, honors at the annual Australian Pub- like Rock lin Park, Rock Am Ring, lishing awards for 'Zebra,' a hooky Southside and With Full Force. The piece of motsy guitar and vocal. new album, Smack Smash, debuted in "Something else to look out for the German top 10. All the singles are are the very laid -back sounds of Pete club hits and stayed at No. 1 on the Murray [featured in this column on trend charts for weeks. 9/10], whose sales are nearing 3.5 "Their first hit single, 'Hand in Tomorrow's Music, From million. This man can warm your Hand,' was in heavy rotation on Ger- heart and make you feel like you're man MTV, and they're playing the with your favorite person in a beach MTV Icon Show with The Cure, The shack a long way from the office. Deftones and Blink -182. And, by the And there's Eskimo Australia To Deutschland Joe. I've heard way, The just played a sold - rumours that their record company out show at Popkomm with over The next stops on our `worldwind tour' didn't like the initial mix on the al- 5,000 punters attending." bum. When the company sent it to Schober is also fond of The Donots a very well- respected producer, he ( "due-nots "), whose recent tour in he U.S. market is embracing a steady influx of for- chose to return it untouched, saying Germany was nearly sold out and the eign repertoire, and artists from outside our borders are he couldn't do any better. The al- whose new album, Noize, just entered bum, A Song Is a City, has now gone infiltrating this market in a manner unseen in almost the top 20. Their previous album, on to sell platinum and has set this Amplify the Good Times, was a huge a decade. The U.K. has a been steady source of quality band up for a terrific future." success in Japan, and the band toured artists who translate well stateside, but there are many Way Below The Radar there with Anti-Hag and 3 Colours other countries (and not just English -speaking ones) Red. The Donots have also had their Scott delves into the murkier re- music selected fora forthcoming high - developing high -grade, exportable talents who could gions of the crystal ball with these pre- profile EA video game and are part of well dictions: for play in the U.S. territory. Markets such as Canada, "Watch young Daniel an EA- and MTV Europe-sponsored Merriweather. His rhythmic sounds Sweden, France, Denmark, Mexico, Japan, India, Nor- Missy Higgins G /S /A (Germany /Switzerland /Aus- are very slick, thanks to his strong way, Italy, Finland and New Zealand have had success tria) promotional tour. musical ideas and his ability to hook in exporting their domestically nurtured acts. course, Perth's Eskimo Joe, Australia's answertoColdplay. There's a lot of en- up with some very good people, in- ergy boiling over down under, and, duding producer Mark Ronson on his The markets featured in this edition ry, things couldn't be better. Accord- though overaL industry numbers may most recent single, 'She's Got Me.' of our "worldwind tour" are Australia ing to John O'Donnell, CEO of EMI/ be down, Australian artists are selling Think D'Angelo meets Nelly and and Germany. Both countries have de- Virgin, in the 12 months through July by the truddcad." you've got the picture. livered a steady flow of multiplatinum 2004 there have been only five weeks "A young act only just getting some acts over the years, indud- when an Australian artist Future Oz Exports? recognition from Alternative radio is ingAC/DC, Men At Work, wasn't No. 1 on either the Peering into his reliable crystal ball Cockfight Shootout. Their powerful Savage Ganien, Jet and The single or album chart. for us, Scott arswers the obvious ques- guitar licks and vocal Living End from Australia, "In the past year John tion "So what should we be looking presence suggest they are a band to and Nena, Modem Talking, Butler Trio became the first out for in the US. from Australia ?" He watch. Sasha and Rammstein from independent, unpublished replies, "Well; not any of the Idol acts, "Finally, there's the all-girl trio The H-Blockx Germany. artist ever to debut at No. for starters you've got your own. Spazzys. These girls were brought up - And then there's Rammstein, leg- We spoke with two tal- 1 on the album chart, going But these acts should see more atten- on The Ramones from an early age endary Rammstein. Schober tells us, ent execs who are well on to achieve triple -plati- tion in the U.S. in the coming year." and now have the gift of writing two- 'The brand -new album by Germany's versed in their respective num status. In the last few minute songs that leave you begging super rockers Rammstein, Reise Reise, markets: radio and records Rob Scott weeks that feat has been for more. Embraced by Triple J, their is now released and will certainly earn veteran Rob Scott from equaled by Missy Higgins, recent album has been heavily fea- the No. 1 chart position. The present Sydney and Deville Schober of Ger- who debuted at No. 1 for the indepen- tured, and, with airplay, their songs single, 'America,' is in position No. 2 many. dent label Eleven Music." have grown in stature. The heavy, the charts. Rammstein's Of course, the Australian populace guitar -laden hooks and layered vo- on German Upside Down Under well also took to its newly minted Austra- cals put them in the same fun league German tour is already sold out in Rob Scott is currently A &R Man- lian Idol music stars. Scott says, "Many as The Donnas, but with their own advance, and they're playing the halls ager for Fly Music. He also advises in the industry look at the success of unique spin." biggest in Germany. A planned John Butler world tour will start at the end of Feb- the Australian Broadcasting Corp. on the TV show Australian Idol as deliv- Rob really knows his Ozzie stuff, ruary 2005." digital issues and consults national ering high -profile and, consequently, Extraordinarily talented singer- and now we all know the same Ozzie German workaholics H-Blockx just youth network Triple J, where he high-selling artists over the last year. songwriter Missy Higgins has hit the stuff that he knows! Let's scoot 10,149 released their fifth album, No Excus- spent five years as a programming Huge sales by Idol headliners Guy Se- A&R Worldwide radar already, and miles (or 16,334 kilometers, if you pre- es. Schober tells us, 'The videos 'Cel- executive, on commercial crossover bastian, Shannon Noll and Paulini Scott tells us, "Missy's first single, fer) from Sydney to Germany for a ebrate Youth' and 'Leave Me Alone' between radio and records and on may be taken for granted, but while 'Scar,' is still at the top of the Austra- decidedly edgier view. the digital future. During his time at those artists have been topping the lian radio charts after five weeks, no got massive airplay on German mu- Triple J he served as Exec. Producer/ charts, so have other Australian artists mean feat for a debut artist. She has Schober On Deutsch Rock sic channels MTV, Viva and Onyx. After playing all the major festivals, Live Music and was ultimately re- from a variety of musical back- been at the No. 1 spot in the album Deville Schober is co-founder and sponsible for the successful national grounds. charts for the past two weeks and has President of the Germany -based pro- like Rock Am Ring, Rock Im Park and Unearthed competition. "Bands like Jet and Spiderbait have already sold platinum on the strength motion and marketing company Aerodrome, H- Blockx start a Europe- Scott observes that Australia's mu- had a good year, as has Pete Murray, of one single. Brainstorm, founded 10 years ago an headlining tour on Oct. 31. This sic is on a serious upswing in its home- the five-times-platinum-selling Sony "And then there is soaring vocalist and headquartered in the Alpine ambitious tour will bring the band to the stage more than 50 times to rock land. "It's been a very healthy year for artist. Murray is a mots-style surfing Delta Good---em -a true phenome- land of Heidi, Bavaria. Schober is a local repertoire in the Australian troubadour who takes a huge page non in Australia. With David Holmes well- regarded, streetwise authority the kids of Europe." record industry so far," he says. "For from the book of Jack Johnson, and [Coldplay] managing her in the US., on music trends and development As different as their markets are, Australian artists in their own territo- he'll be going a lot further in his home anything is possible. She is enormous- for the German and European mar- Scott and Schober agree on one thing: territory. Then there is the ly talented.' kets and was an artist manager and They're both sure their local music continued success of the One act beginning to establish an tour promoter before launching repertoire will not only drive sales in- phenomenon that is Delta early beachhead in the States is The Brainstorm. ternally, but that some of the best will Goodrem. Over 14 -times John Butler Trio, who, Scott says, "are The German music market has had reach the U.S. shores with dramatic platinum in Australia currently testing the waters in the a most difficult recent past, with mu- impact. counts as extraordinary US." He goes on, "John reached his sic sales declining as muchas50%. But success in any language. now -legendary status in Australia Schober is a man who always looks Send your unsigned or signed "While we're at it, not to from relentless touring and an impres- forward, and he has a truly expert releases to: be ignored are two other sive work ethic. He writes songs that view of the European music scene. Sat Bisla A&R Worldwide No. 1 acts, multiplatinum tell stories that are political and very Schober is a big fan of The Beat- 449 S. Beverly Drive, Suite 300 with The Cat Empire, their meaningful. steaks, saying they are "one of the best Beverly Hills, CA 90212, U.S.A. Rammstein quirky Latin jazz, and, of "He also writes songs that are rec- selling Epitaph bands in Germany

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"A major label has to line up stuff like at JFK

Airport, but at a smaller label you're able to take more time setting things up." Six Imprints, No Waiting Dennis Reese `Super Indie' EMI Music Collective a major playa

side. Reese finds that his days go guy out there can make you yearn smoother and his for rapid advances in he ominously named EMI Music Collective was Lion Dennis Reese, who says that projects can go farther D cloning. Reese some- born a little less than two years ago, but it's already EMC thinks big despite its size - with fewer people times finds that not hav- cannonballed into our pool of consciousness, making kind of like the midget robbers in around. "Less meet- ing a staff that is capable Time Bandits. "It's still a big label, ings, less meetings, of doing thousands of waves that have been felt in the far corners of the in- in that the mind -set is that we're less meetings," he things a minute can be dustry. Its unique stripped -down, "super indie label" going to operate, we're going to says. "Because there frustrating. concept is a model of efficiency that future labels may play like, a major," he says. "But, are so few people, you D "If you're one person emulate. because of the size of the compa- don't need to have a trying to do it, you can't ny, people look at it like a smaller meeting to get everybody togeth- get to everybody," he says. "You With runaway successes like No- Who Are You independent label. er. You just walk into someone's don't have the people power to rah Jones, Joss Stone and Fountains Carroll continues, "The other part "The reality of it is that pretty office and say, 'Hey, can you an- reach out and make sure that every- Of Wayne under its belt, EMC has of it was that after Blue Note had a much everybody who's swer this question ?' or, one has updated information and already proven itself a force to be huge record like Norah Jones, they working at this company 'Hey, can we discuss knows what's going on with Sound - reckoned with. This lean, saw what a little bit of care has worked at a major la- this in five minutes?' Scan on Wednesday. And did they mean record-promotion and feeding for one of bel - some people more "You don't need to call see the debut on our artist ?" machine operates under these records could lead to. than once. We also under- 14 people together be- What's next for the Collective? the all- encompassing "We just put together stand the intricacies of cause there aren't 14 peo- Total world domination and assim- EMC umbrella, which the resources of promo- dealing with radio sta- ple who are going to ilation? Carroll says he's got some covers Blue Note, Angel, tion people we had inside tions and marketing op- make that decision. It's great records ready to hop out of the Manhattan, Astralwerks, the labels, with myself portunities and manag- only going to be you and gate: "Currently, we have Richard S-Curve and the Chris- and Dan Connolly and Ja- ers and a distribution that person making the Marx; Joss Stone's 'You Had Me'; Kevin Carroll tian Music Group - it- son Greenberg and Dayna company, which is very decision. We can get Low Millions at Triple A and Hot self a goulashlike con- Talley from Astralwerks strong within EMI. All of those something done in a way that it AC; and another Norah Jones track, glomerate of several dif- Dennis Reese and Cheryl Broz things are really the same doesn't get lost in translation. The 'Those Sweet Words,' which is al- ferent sub-labels, includ- from the Chris- as at any other record corn- message you need to get across gets ready making its roll on the Triple ing Tooth And Nail, Gotee and BEC. tian Music Group. That pany, there are just fewer across because you're directly telling A front. VH1 just added the video "It's a weird situation we have," was pretty much the nucle- people." them what it is. says EMC Sr. VP Kevin Carroll. us. Pretty much it was me "We've been doing this "Since I only have to "We're actually an outlet for the and Dan trying to figure for more than a few min- deal with S -Curve, it's ba- - 111llf' "J111 SINCE 1111 independently run labels inside out where to go with Liam utes, but I can't recall any - sically six employees and BLUE NOTE the EMI family, but we're run by Lynch, and then we quick- thing happening quite like myself. The fact is, be- every label that works for us. ly hired Mitch Mills from this," says Carroll. "In the cause it's a smaller label, Artemis. past, during the fat times, every la- you tend to commit to --\ "I report to Phil Quartararo and bel broke off of another label. How things a lot longer and have the for that, and we're going to cue it up Ivan Gavin, and I am the guy who many times has Atlantic broken off luxury of time to develop stories. for Hot AC. (:l -'_f_/ runs this mania. Then we have Dave 15 pieces? But it was always people "It's not about racing something "We also have a couple of records RECORDS 'Duke' Sholin and Mitch Mills as our building a staff and waiting for the up a chart or out to radio premature- that we're just getting set up. From West and East Coast Directors /Pop, records. ly because you've got the next thing Astralwerks we have a great record, and Dan Connolly for all things rock "I remember when Dream Works right behind it. Labels like Astral - Everything Is Everything, by a group We're essentially the third pop - anything that would once upon started. It was like, 'OK, you've got werks have never relied on radio. called Phoenix. They've also got a promotion staff within the EMI a time have been construed as a big VPs of every format, you've got a They've gone and built the story be- band called Radio 4. They're from family. Virgin and Capitol are record - so that ends up being Al- field staff of 10 - and no records.' fore radio even came to the party. Brooklyn, but they're almost like standalones, so [Virgin Sr. VP] Hi- ternative, Active Rock and It's kind of like dropping Echo Sr The Bunnymen. We're lary Shaev and [Capitol Sr. VP] Triple A. Dave Lombardi is a Milk-Bone in front of 14 in the process of getting that John Boulos have their rosters and now at Astralwerks, and hungry dogs. We're the rolling at college and special- their product. We were built to be we've got Dennis Reese at tug IJI complete antithesis of ty and really setting it up so the 'et al.' - we're EMI et al. Any- S -Curve, which is great. that. ASTRALVVERKS- we're ready to tear into it at one who's in the EMI system can "One of the things that EN "We already had rec- www.astralwerks.com Alternative at the beginning use some of our resources if nec- was really tough in the RECORDS ords; they just didn't of the year. essary. first year was trying to have anyone to work "We have a great album "EMC was put together because make all the rounds, being them. Astralwerks had a "A major label has to line up stuff from Under Oath on the Christian we had labels that had needs. Astral - the in-house radio team, doing the Caesars record that was ready to fly, like at JFK Airport, but at a smaller Music Group. It's also going to be an werks had an awful lot of records marketing meetings every week and and there was the aforementioned label, you're able to take more time Alternative record, but it's at metal that weren't always be- doing the budgets. This Liam Lynch, and S-Curve was ready setting things up. There's a slower college right now, and this thing is ing picked up by Virgin, has taken a lot of the to drop Fountains Of Wayne and build, and at the end of the day a hit selling." and both Virgin and pressure off. It facilitates Joss Stone. That's the coolest thing is a hit, whether it takes six weeks to Reese, on the other hand, is con- Capitol had a lot of the whole operation be- we have going for us right now: get up and running or six months. sumed by Joss Stone. "For me, it's records that, in the past, cause it allows us to We've already been able to gather a You have the luxury of time. Again, Joss Stone from now until when ev- might have been as- recor dings concentrate on putting lot of respect because people are you're one person, and the expecta- erybody plays her," he says. "That's sumed by those labels, records into the system pretty seriously interested in what tions are manageable, in the sense of my new line: 'Play it now or play it but they weren't finding the ability and then working them." we have to listen to." 'Hey, I'm one guy out there trying to later, but you will play it.' The new to do that anymore. There were op- do it. "" Fountains Wayne will Break 'Em Off A Piece No Messy Takeoff Delays Of come out portunity records in -house that next year, along with a couple of ex- In The Pipeline probably would be better served It's all about the mind -set, ac- Apparently "less is more" citing new signings who are in the elsewhere." cording to S -Curve Sr. VP/Promo- works just as well on the record On the downside, being the only studio right now."

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LAST TOTAL TOTAL WEEKS TOTAL STATIONS. WEEK WEEK ARTIST TITLE ;A3EL.S. PLAYS AUDIENCE 1OUI Most Added® 1 1 MAROON 5 She Will Be Loved (Octane/J /RMG/ 7732 -137 618482 16 12110 www rradds.corn 2 2 AVRIL LAVIGNE My Happy Ending (Arista /RMG) 7727 -137 596287 16 12110 " ARTIST -.. - __L S ADDS 4 0 CIARA fIPETEY PABLO Goodies (Laface/Zomba/ 6615 +399 513135 12 11110 RYAN CABRERA True (EV.L.A. /Atlantic) 38 3 RYAN CABRERA On The Way Down (EVL.A. /Atlantic) 6500 +250 524637 18 12011 0 NELLY ffT. MCGRAW Over And Over (Derrty/fo'ReelCurb /Universal) 25 7 0 KELLY CLARKSON Breakaway (Hollywood) 6028 +696 480911 12 11617 LENNY KRAVITZ Lady (VÜgin) 25 CHINGY Balla Baby (DIP /Capitol) 19 8 0 DESTINY'S CHILD Lose My Breath (Columbia) 5757 +597 437906 5 11910 GAVIN DEGRAW I Don't Want To Be (J/RMG) 14 6 7 BLACK EYED PEAS Let's Get It Started (A &M/lnterscope/ 5599 -458 402804 17 11710 LL COOL J Hush (DelJam/IOJMG) 12 5 8 ASHLEE Pieces SIMPSON Of Me (Geffen) 5139 1035 407409 21 12010 RUPEE Tempted To Touch (At/antic) 11 13 0 EMINEM Just Lose It (Shady /Aftermath/lnterscope/ 4925 +721 398168 3 116)1 10 0 FINGER ELEVEN One Thing (Wind -up) 4532 +13 301516 21 10912 16 m SEETHER f1AMY LEE Broken (Windup) 4235 +487 295117 10 10613 18 ® USHER & ALICIA KEYS My Boo (Laface/Zomba/ 4232 +749 348023 6 11312 15 ® BOWLING FOR SOUP 1985 (Silvertone /Jive/Zomba/ 4215 +356 285281 11 11612 9 14 LIL' FLIP Sunshine (SuckaFree/Loud /Columbia) 4095 743 259070 14 10810 11 15 JOJO Leave (Get Out) (BlackGround/Universal) 3940 350 292938 27 11810 Most 12 16 ALICIA KEYS If I Ain't Got You (J/RMG) 3878 402 309226 23 11110 Increased Plays 21 m ASHLEE SIMPSON Shadow (Geffen) 3659 +336 264972 7 11811 TOTAL 20 SWITCHFOOT Dare You To Move (RedInk/Columbia) 3603 +233 244245 11 11212 PLAY 0 ARTIST TITLE LABEL(S) INCREASE 14 19 TERROR SQUAD Lean Back (Universal) 3540 478 266090 11 8610 NELLYtIT.MCGRAW Ove And Over (Dariy/fo'Re'CudUriuersa9 +1749 39 0 NELLY f /TIM MCGRAW Over And Over (Derry /Fo'Reel/Curb /Universal) 3007 +1749 250818 2 83125 GWEN STEFANI What You Waiting For? (lnterscope) +920 USHER & ALICIA KEYS My Boo (Laface /Zomba) +749 17 21 HOUSTON fICHINGY & NATE DOGG I Like That (Capitol) 2975 579 196291 14 10810 EMINEM Just Lose It (ShadylAltermath/lnterscope) +721 25 BRITNEY SPEARS My Prerogative (Jive/Zomba) 2773 +262 176756 4 11410 ® KELLY CLARKSON Breakaway (Hollywood) +696 23 23 NINA SKY Move Ya Body (Next Plateau/Universal) 2513 .301 198833 20 10710 DESTINY'S CHILD Lose My Breath (Columbia) +597 22 24 LINKIN PARK Breaking The Habit (Warner Bros.) 2436 -826 176574 12 11210 SEETHER f /AMY LEE Broken (Wind -up) +487 TRICK DADDY Let's Go (SIipN-Slide/Atlantic( +414 26 25 NELLY fICHRISTINA AGUILERA Tilt Ya Head Back (Derry /Fo'Reel/Universal) 2369 66 153079 6 9010 CIARA IIPETEY PABLO Goodies (Laface/Zomba) +399 28 JOJO Baby It's You (BlackGround/Universal) 2343 +366 184214 5 10016 CD JOJO Baby It's You (BlackGround/Universal) +366 30 ® NITTY Nasty Girl (Rostrum /Universal) 2003 +121 114230 9 6212 33 0 SIMPLE PLAN Welcome To My Life (Lava) 1972 +335 150000 4 10519 36 a TRICK DADDY Let's Go (Slip.N.S/ide/Atlantic) 1882 +414 111338 4 7716 31 a VANESSA CARLTON White Houses (A &M/lnterscope) 1826 +61 101750 8 9611 27 31 NELLY My Place (Derry /fo'Reel/Universal) 1803 419 105651 13 10910

32 FRANZ FERDINAND Take Me Out (Domino /Epic) 1768 +53 79564 10 8411 35 ® GOOD CHARLOTTE Predictable (Day light/Epic) 1705 +216 81434 5 9315 New &Active 29 34 JUVENILE Slow Motion (Cash Money /Universal) 1683 275 116478 16 8410 LL COOL J Hush (Del Jam,NOJMG) 34 e KILLERS Somebody Told Me (/s/and / IDJMG) 1680 +113 63448 8 9213 Total Plays: 502, Total Stations: 47, Adds: 12 49 ED GWEN STEFANI What You Waiting For? (lnterscope) 1540 +920 128467 2 103110 JESSE MCCARTNEY Beautiful Soul (Hollywood) 37 ® SKYE SWEETNAM Tangled Up In Me (Capitol) 1494 +47 44887 9 8410 Total Plays: 502, Total Stations: 45, Adds: 4 THREE DAYS GRACE Just Like You (Jive/Zomba) 42 CD GAVIN DEGRAW I Don't Want To Be (J/RMG) 1464 +323 83708 5 87114 Total Plays: 501, Total Stations: 52, Adds: 3 38 0 AKON f /STYLES P. Locked Up (SRC/Universal) 1450 +179 94081 5 4615 CROSSFADE Cold (Columbia) 43 CHRISTINA MILIAN fIJOE BUDDEN Whatever U Want (island/ IDJMG) 1248 +121 57266 3 8713 a Total Plays: 492, Total Stations: 42, Adds: O 45 a YELLOWCARD Only One (Capitol) 1045 +152 37309 4 6713 KEVIN LYTTLE Drive Me Crazy (Atlantic) 44 0 MISTEEQ One Night Stand (Reprise) 1029 +40 31911 5 6610 Total Plays: 335, Total Stations: 33, Adds: 1 MASE Breathe, Stretch, Shake (Bad Boy/Universal) 48 LINDSAY LOHAN Rumors (Casablanca/Universal) 994 +361 62966 2 7913 0 Total Plays: 295, Total Stations: 17, Adds: 10

Debuu] N.O.R.E. fININA SKY & DADDY YANKEE Oye Mi Canto (Roc- AFella /IDJMG) 800 +242 112809 1 36110 CHINGY Balla Baby /DTP /Capitol/ 47 45 NICKELBACK Feelin' Way Too Damn Good (Roadrunner/IDJMGI 683 89 29846 20 2310 Total Plays: 275, Total Stations: 35, Adds: 19 50 0 LI COOL J Headsprung (Del Jam/ IDJMG) 676 +87 30454 2 710 LENNY KRAVITZ Lady (Virgin) Total Plays: 131, Total Stations: 32, Adds: 25 46 47 DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL Vindicated (Vagrant/lnterscope) 611 -177 27229 11 6010 DIRTY VEGAS Walk Into The Sun (Capitol) HILARY DUFF Fly (Buena Vista 581 -616 31127 9 8410 40 48 /Hollywood) Total Plays: 109, Total Stations: 13, Adds: 0

[Debut> JOSS STONE You Had Me (S- Curve /EMC) 522 +58 14172 1 4713 RYAN CABRERA True /EV.L.A. /Atlantic) Total Plays: 99, Total Stations: 43, Adds: 38 loebut> 0 JOHN MAYER Daughters (Aware/Columbia) 505 +128 21892 1 38110

121 CHR /Poo reporters. Monitored airplay data supplied by Mediabase Research, adivision of Premiere Radio NetwDrks. Songs ranked by total plays for the airplay week of 10/3 -10/9. Bullets appear on songs gaining plays or remaining flat from previous week. If two songs are tied in tctal plays. the song with the larger increase in plays is Station playlists for all R &R reporters placed first. Songs below No. 20 are moved to recurrent after 20 weeks on the chart. Most Added is the total number of new adds officially reported to R &R by each are available on the web at reporting station. Songs unreported as adds do not count toward overall total stations playing a song. Most Increased Plays lists the songs with the greatest week -to -week increases in :otal plays. Total Audience equals Average Quarter Hour Persons times number of plays (times 100). Each daypart on each station is assigned an AQH number. www.radioandrecords.com. Average Quarter Hour Persons used herein with permission from Arbitron Inc. (© 2004. Arbitron Inc.). © 2004, F.&R, Inc.

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ST THI TOTAL .I- TOTAL WEEKS ON TOTAL STATIONS! WEEK WEEK ARTIST TITLE LABEL S PLAYS PLAYS AUDIENCE CHART ADDS Most Added tool www-rrindicafor-com 1 1 MAROON 5 She Will Be Loved (Octane/J /RMG) 3455 -132 65404 16 5810

3 © RYAN CABRERA On The Way Down (E. V.L.A. /Atlantic) 3408 +93 64208 15 57)0 ARTIST TITLE LABELIS. ADDS NELLY ffT. MCGRAW Over And Over (Derry/Fo'ReeFCurb/Universall 13 2 3 AVRIL LAVIGNE My Happy Ending (Arista /RMG) 3375 -93 63993 17 5510 RYAN CABRERA True (E.V.L.A./Atlantic) 13 4 4 BLACK EYED PEAS Let's Get It Started (A &M/lnterscope) 3015 179 56340 17 5410 GWEN STEFANI What You Waiting For? (lnterscopel 11

B KELLY CLARKSON Breakaway (Hollywood) 2691 +331 51086 12 5211 SHIFTY Turning Me On (Maverick/WarnerBros.) B

10 O DESTINY'S CHILD Lose My Breath (Columbia) 2616 +388 49080 5 5711 GAVIN DEGRAW I Don't Want To Be (J/RMG) 7 CHINGY Balla Baby (DTP/Capitol) 7 6 O CIARA UIPETEY PABLO Goodies (CO-ace /Zomba) 2533 +61 47808 11 5011 GOOD CHARLOTTE Predictable (Day /ight /Epic) 6

5 8 ASHLEE SIMPSON Pieces Of Me ( Geffen) 2471 335 46112 20 5210 SIMPLE PLAN Welcome To My Life (lava) 5 12 O FINGER ELEVEN One Thing /Windup) 2378 +215 45231 20 5110 N.O.R.E. fININA SKY & DADDY... Oye Mi Canto (Roc-A-FeNa/IDJMG) 5 JOHN MAYER Daughters (Aware /Columbia) 5 11 BOWLING FOR SOUP 1985 (S,ivertone /Jive/Zomba) 2356 +150 43255 11 5512 TRICK DADDY Let's Go (Slip-N-SlidelAt/antic) 4 +62 12 5512 9 SEETHER fIAMY LEE Broken (Windup) 2325 42592 TREE THIRTEEN Stupid Little Games (Out The Box/Uninhibited) 4

7 12 LIL' FLIP Sunshine (Such free/Loud /Columbia) 2093 -333 37346 12 4610 LENNY KRAVITZ Lady (Virgin) 4 HOOBASTANK Disappear ( lslandllDJMG) 4 14 USHER & ALICIA KEYS My Boo (Laface/Zomba) 1979 +309 35824 6 5111 BRITNEY SPEARS My Prerogative (JivelZomba) 3 19 EMINEM Just Lose It (Shady /Aftermath/lnterscopel 1968 +685 36877 3 5411 GOO GOO DOLLS Give A Little Bit (Warner Bros.) 3 17 ASHLEE SIMPSON Shadow (Geffen) 1748 +236 31676 6 5311

18 (11) SWITCHFOOT Dare You To Move (Red Ink /Columbia) 1621 +183 29333 10 51.11

13 17 JOJO Leave (Get Out) (BlackGround/Universal) 1510 -424 28283 26 43;0

15 18 HOUSTON fICHINGY & NATE DOGG I Like That (Capitol) 1398 -271 23504 13 40;1

24 BRITNEY SPEARS My Prerogative (Jive/Zomba) 1314 +248 22076 3 49;3

22 20 TERROR SQUAD Lean Back (Universal) 1196 .46 22372 9 43)0

26 JOJO Baby It's You (BlackGround/Universal) 1195 +244 22477 5 4512

20 22 ALICIA KEYS If I Ain't Got You (J/RMG) 1118 .146 18944 22 3110

23 23 NELLY fICHRISTINA AGUILERA Tilt Ya Head Back (Derrty/fo'Reel /Universal) 1077 -34 20644 5 4210

16 24 LINKIN PARK Breaking The Habit (Warner Bros) 1033 .544 17879 11 3110

29 ® NITTY Nasty Girl (Rostrum/Universal) 946 +77 15903 6 3612 fDebut, Most NELLY fITIM MCGRAW Over And Over (Derrty/Fo'Reel /Curb /Universal) 914 +744 15981 1 44113 Plays 36 ® SIMPLE PLAN Welcome To My Life (Laval 835 +267 16951 3 3915 Increased TOTAL 30 VANESSA CARLTON White Houses (A &M/lnterscopel 817 +87 17081 8 3610 PLAY ARTIST TEE. S INCREASE 45 GWEN STEFANI What You Waiting For? (Interscope) 739 +398 15427 2 48111 NELLY ffT. MCGRAW Over And Over (Derry/Fa'ReelCurb /Universal/ +744 28 30 NINA SKY Move Ya Body (Next Plateau/Universal) 725 -156 13298 18 2511 EMINEM Just Lose It /Shady/Aftermathllnterscopel +685 GWEN STEFANI What You Waiting For? (lnterscopel +398 25 31 NELLY My Place (Derrty/Fo'Reel /Universal) 689 331 13534 13 2410 DESTINY'S CHILD Lose My Breath (Columbia) +388 32 KILLERS Somebody Told Me (Is /and//DJMG) 656 +45 12248 5 3210 ® KELLY CLARKSON Breakaway (Hollywood) +331 33 FEEL She Makes Makeup Look Good (Curb) 592 +19 9638 11 16)0 USHER & ALICIA KEYS My Boo (1aface /Zomba) +309

37 GOOD CHARLOTTE Predictable (Daylight/Epic) 556 +97 11232 5 3316 SIMPLE PLAN Welcome To My Life (Lava) +267 BRITNEY SPEARS My Prerogative /Jive/Zomba) +248 38 TRICK DADDY Let's Go (Shp-Al-Slide/Atlantic) 554 +112 9979 4 3414 JOJO Baby Its You (BlackGround/Universal) +244 39 CHRISTINA MILIAN fIJOE BUDDEN Whatever U Want (island/IDJMG) 525 +100 10817 3 2810 ASHLEE SIMPSON Shadow (Geffen) +236 47 ® LINDSAY LOHAN Rumors (Casablanca/Universal) 506 +194 9999 2 3111 FINGER ELEVEN One Thing (Wind-up) +215 LINDSAY LOHAN Rumors (Casablanca /Universal) + 194 41 BURKE RONEY Wendy (RWorld /Ryko) 451 +34 6705 8 1310 SWITCHFOOT Dare You To Move (Red Ink/Columbia) +183 43 AKON TISTYLES P. Locked Up (SRC/Universal) 439 +80 9023 4 1911 ED BOWLING FOR SOUP 1985 (Silvertone /Jive/Zomba) +150

31 40 C. AGUILERA TIM. ELLIOTT Car Wash (Dream Works/Geffen /lnterscopel 401 .309 7397 7 18(0 GAVIN DEGRAW I Don't Want To Be (J/RMG) +139

N.O.R.E. fININA SKY & DADDY_ Oye Mi Canto (RocA-FeWIILUMG) +120 Leb I CD GAVIN DEGRAW Don't Want To Be (J/RMG) 387 +139 6281 1 2417 TRICK DADDY Let's Go (Shp-N-Slide/Atlantic) +112 44 CD FRANZ FERDINAND Take Me Out (Domino /Epic) 365 +6 5810 7 1810 JOHN MAYER Daughters (Aware/Columbia) +107

40 43 FRICKIN' A Trend (Toucan Cove /Alert) 352 -66 7396 14 1010 C. MILIAN f(J. BUDDEN Whatever U Want (lslandllDJMG) +100

42 44 NICKELBACK Feelin' Way Too Damn Good (Roadrunner /IDJMG) 349 -26 6275 20 1010 GOOD CHARLOTTE Predictable /Day light /Epic) +97 RYAN CABRERA On The Way Down (EV.L.A. /Atlantic) +93 34 45 JUVENILE Slow Motion (Cash Money /Universal/ 348 -222 8227 14 1310 LL COOL J Hush (DelJam/IDJMG) +93 49 SKYE SWEETNAM Tangled Up In Me (Capitol) 321 +29 5116 8 1811 VANESSA CARLTON White Houses (A &M//nterscope) +87

46 47 DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL Vindicated (Vagrant/lnterscopel 282 -33 4600 11 1211 AKON fISTYLES P. Locked Up (SRC/Universal) +80 NITTY Nasty Girl (Rostrum /Universal) +77 Lebut YELLOWCARO Only One (Capitol) 276 +76 4669 1 1912 YELLOWCARO Only One (Capitol) +76 50 49 MIS-TEEQ One Night Stand (Reprise) 251 -20 5532 3 1812 TREE THIRTEEN Stupid Little Games (Out The Box /Uninhibited) +75

35 50 HILARY DUFF Fly (Buena Vista /Hollywood) 241 -329 4797 8 1510 DAVID MARTIN Chillid (Independent) +68 LENNY KRAVITZ Lady (Virgin) +65 59 CHR/Pop reporters. Songs ranked by total plays for the airplay week of Sunday 10/3 - Saturday 10/9. SEETHER TIAMY LEE Broken (Wind-up) +62 © 2004 Radio & Records.

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The Billings, MT market is a very in- teresting one. We are so isolated, ,OM and there is no large market influence whatsoever. We are seven hours from Denver and eight hours from RECORD Spokane. * KRSQ (Hot 101.9) is a Met Pop station leaning Rhythmic, and Kyle McCoy the records that we are getting the ( ARTIST: Simple Plan PD, KRSQ (Hot 101.9)/ biggest feedback on are our rhythmic Billings, MT records. The phones are blowin' up LABEL: Lava for Nelly and Tim McGraw's "Over and Over," which is great to hear, be- By CARRIE HAYWARD /ASSOCIATE EDITOR cause when you think of Montana, you think "country." A couple more huge records for us are Simple Plan's formula for success is Ciara's "Goodies," Maroon 5's "She Will Be Loved," about as basic as their name implies: Black Eyed Peas'"Let's Get It Started" and Usher and Assemble a band with Mends and mem- Alicia Keys' "My Boo" - all great records. Ë Since bers of your popular high school punk ist, why limit yourself to just doing cer- I arrived in March, I've changed the station voice guy, band, tour incessantly (bonus points: play tain things? It's like being a painter: Do kicked the imaging up a couple notches from where the Vans Warped Tour), record debut, you decide to only use seven or eight col- it was, put The Playhouse out of Portland, OR on in tour some more, sell 1.7 million albums. ors, or blend the colors together and make the morning and put on a mix show every day during the 5pm hour, There was some other stuff in there - the most beautiful painting possible?" which is really exciting, because it's never been done here before, like hard work, four hit singles and head- To write Still Not Getting Any... and the response is huge. Montana is a great place to live: The lining two more Warped tours - but you Comeau and Bouvier holed up in a people love us, the sheep love us (baaaaah), and we can still smoke get the idea. Vancouver studio for three months. As- in the bars. Around the time that Simple Plan's sisting Simple Plan with their vision was 2002 Lava debut, No Pads, No Helmets ... famed producer Bob Rock, who's worked Just Balls, began to take off, the band's on the biggest records by Metallica, Mot- Maroon 5 (Octone /J /RMG) and Chuck Comeau said, "We just want to ley Crue and Bon Jovi. Avril Lavigne (Arista /RMG) play every day. We don't need any days After a month of false starts the songs hang on to Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, off; just book us. It's like the name, began to flow and a new direction while Ciara f /Petey Pablo (LaFace/ Simple Plan. We just have this simple emerged. This is apparent in the first Zomba) inch up 4 -3* ... Eminem's plan to go on the road and meet people single, "Welcome to My Life," on which (Shady /Aftermath /Interscope) latest and make new friends and see who likes Bouvier reveals the darker side of suc- cracks the top 10, moving 13 -9* ... our band." Looks like the plan worked! cess "There is definitely a big misconcep- Seether f /Amy Lee (Wind -up) vault Now, after 48 hours' rest, the Montreal- tion," he says in a recent MTV.com inter- 16-11*, followed by Usher & Alicia based quintet is back with the followup view. "When you have a band and you Keys (LaFace /Zomba) with an 18 -12* to No Pads, No Helmets ... Just Balls. have some MTV airplay and you get With Still Not Getting Any... played on the radio, people automatically hike ... Ashlee Simpson (Geffen) climbs 21 -17* ... Nelly f/Tim guitarist McGraw (Derrty /Fo' Reel /Curb /Universal) rocket 39 -20* and snag Sebastian Lefebvre (favorite food: tuna think you're loaded - which is so not true sandwich), singer (favor- and you're happy. Most Increased Plays this week an amazing +1,749 plays! ... - - ite color: black and blue), drummer "Being in a successful band or having Britney Spears (Jive /Zomba) rises 28 -26* ... Trick Daddy (Slip -N- Comeau (favorite TV show: Making the a little money doesn't bring you anything Slide /Atlantic) charges up 36 -29 *, followed by Simple Plan (Lava) Band), bassist David Desrosiers (favorite more than what it is. We have our issues with a 33 -28* jump ... Good Charlotte (Daylight/Epic) go up 35 -33* boy band: Backstreet Boys) and lead gui- like everybody else. The song says, 'Take ... (Interscope) rockets 49 -36* ... DeGraw (J/ Gwen Stefani Gavin tarist Jeff Stinco (favorite superhero: a look inside/It's not so beautiful for ev- RMG) rides up 42 -38* ... Christina Milian f /Joe Budden (Island/ Wolverine) deliver a new twist on their erybody" IDJMG) go 43 -40 *. Yellowcard (Capitol) are right on their heels, trademark pairing of catchy riffs and Things will be looking beautiful for cranking it up 45 -41 * ... Lindsay Lohan (Casablanca/Universal) brooding lyrics. Simple Plan fans this fall, as the band climbs 48 -43* ... LL Cool J (Def Jam /IDJMG) rises 50 -46* ... Chart "For us, songwriting is a craft we really makes tour stops across the U.K. and debuts this week: N.O.R.E. f /Nina Sky & Daddy Yankee (Roc -A- have to work hard at," Comeau says. "I North America. Says Desrosiers, "The Fella/IDJMG) at No. 44 *, Joss Stone (S -Curve /EMC) at No. 49 *, think on the first record we just wanted connection between us and our fans is the and John Mayer (Aware /Columbia) at No. 50* ... Ryan Cabrera to write a pure pop punk record, and on most important thing we have. They'll (E.V.L.A. /Atlantic) picks up the Most Added crown this week with 38 this one we didn't care. We just wanted ultimately make or break our album. adds. - Keith Berman, Associate Radio Editor to write good songs." Without them, I would probably be work- Bouvier explains it like this: "As an art- ing a 9 -to -5 job that I hate."

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America's Best Testing CHR /Pop Songs POWERED liateTheMusic.cum 12 + For The Week Ending 10/15/04 i'.YI11111\1 RN CHRIPOP TOP3O CANADA MEDIABASE W W W Artist Title (Label) TW LW ami/. Burn 12-17 18-24 25-34 LAST THIS TOTAL 1- WEEKS ON TOTAL WEEK WEEK ARTIST TITLE LABEL(S) PLAYS PLAYS CHART STATIONS

DESTINY'S CHILD Lose My Breath (Columbia/ 485 +2 4 410 KELLY CLARKSON Breakaway (Hollywood) 4.23 4.35 92% 16% 4.32 430 4.10 1 0 It -1 2 MAROON 5 She Will Be Loved (Octane/J /RMG) 4.16 4.22 98 % 33% 4.07 4.29 4.14 2 2 EMINEM Just Lose (Shady/Aftermath /lnterscope) 457 511

BOWLING FOR SOUP 1985 LSi/vertanelJive /Zomba) 4.10 4.05 89% 18% 4.35 3.91 3.85 4 © K -OS Crabbuckit (Astralwerks/Virgin) 454 +14 10 610 MAROON 5 She Will Be Loved (Octane /J/RMGI 432 +18 11 310 AVRIL LAVIGNE My Happy Ending (Arista /RMG) 4.02 4.20 98% 34% 3.84 4.09 4.13 6 0 RYAN CABRERA On The Way Down (EV.L.A. /Atlantic/ 4.00 4.21 94% 27% 4.06 4.15 3.80 7 5 e AVRIL LAVIGNE My Happy Ending (Arista/BMW 399 -6 18 510

SEETHER fIAMY LEE Broken (Windup) 3.92 4.12 88% 22% 3.69 406 4.16 5 6 LINKIN PARK Breaking The Habit (Warner Bros.) 372 48 10 310

SWITCHFOOT Dare You To Move (Red Ink/Columbia) 3.90 4.03 85% 21% 3.82 4.07 3.80 3 7 BLACK EYED PEAS Let's Get It Started (A &M/lnterscope) 369 -73 16 410

NELLY... Tilt Ya Head Back (Derrty/fo'Reel /Universal) 3.89 3.74 74% 14% 3.88 3.87 3.87 8 8 CIARA fIPETEY PABLO Goodies (LaFace/Zomba) 362 8 9 410 +19 410 ASHLEE SIMPSON Pieces Of Me (Geffen) 3.88 4.05 98% 50% 3.69 4.01 4.00 9 o USHER & ALICIA KEYS My Boo (LaFace /Zomba) 357 6 +24 ASHLEE SIMPSON Shadow (Gellert) 3.84 3.98 90% 21% 3.91 3.89 3.70 12 e SIMPLE PLAN Welcome To My Life (Laval 343 4 510 11 -28 6 410 JOJO Leave (Get Out) (BlackGround/Universal) 337 3.80 97% 48% 3.40 3.70 4.30 10 RYAN CABRERA On The Way Down (F..V.L.AAtlantic) 299

DESTINY'S CHILD Lose My Breath (Columbia/ 3.76 3.72 78% 16% 3.80 3.48 3.69 11 12 BOWLING FOR SOUP 1985 (Silvertone /Jive/Zomba) 297 .22 8 110

KELLY CLARKSON Breakaway (Hollywood) 268 +36 6 310 BLACK EYED PEAS Let's Get It Started (A &M/Interscope) 3.71 3.86 98% 43% 3.33 3.71 4.07 19 ® LINKIN PARK Breaking The Habit (WarnerBros.) 3.71 3.93 94% 32% 3.45 3.77 3.91 15 TERROR SQUAD Lean Back (Universal) 264 +17 13 410 +37 FINGER ELEVEN One Thing (Windup) 3.67 3.90 86% 31% 3.25 338 3.75 22 ® SEETHER fIAMY LEE Broken (Wind-up) 250 20 210

C. AGUILERA... Car Wash (DreamWorks/Geflenllnterscope) 3.55 3.43 89% 21% 3.44 3.64 3.62 17 16 KEVIN LYTTLE Turn Me On (Atlanticl 229 -8 14 510 +32 USHER & ALICIA KEYS My Boo (laface/Zomba/ 3.53 3.52 76% 22% 3.78 3.56 3.33 23 m KILLERS Somebody Told Me (/sland/IDJMG) 222 4 410 HILARY DUFF Fly (Buena VistalHollywoodl 3.47 3.64 82% 22% 3.15 3.51 3.68 18 18 i KESHIA CHANTE Does He... (Vik /BMG Music Canada) 222 13 15 410 14 19 ASHLEE SIMPSON Pieces Of Me (Geffen) 218 -43 14 310 ALICIA KEYS If I Ain't Got You (J/RMG) 3M 3.59 97% 48% 3.17 3.58 3.60

NELLY My Place (Derrty/Fo'Ree/ /Universa /) 3.41 3.64 88% 31% 3.33 127 3.46 13 20 LIL' FLIP Sunshine (Sucka Free/loud/Columbia) 216 -47 11 210 21 JOJO Leave Out) (BlackGround/Universal) 206 -23 18 410 HOUSTON fICHINGY & NATE DOGG I Like That (Capitol) 3.34 344 89% 40% 3.44 3.17 3.47 20 (Get

CIARA fIPETEY PABLO Goodies (LafacelZomba) 3.33 3.46 86% 36% 3.41 3.22 137 21 22 HOUSTON fICHINGY & NATE DOGG I Like That (Capitol) 196 .29 14 310 CHRISTINA MILIAN Dip It Low (/sland /IDJMG) 3.29 3.45 94% 54% 3.07 145 138 30 e BRITNEY SPEARS My Prerogative (Jive/Zomba) 187 +43 2 411 BRITNEY SPEARS My Prerogative (JivelZomba) 3.27 - 87% 25% 3.59 3.28 239 26 NELLY... Tilt Ya Head Back (Derrty /Fo'Reel/Universal) 183 +29 2 410

LIL' FLIP Sunshine (Sucka Free /Loud/Columbia) 3.26 3.33 88% 40% 3.24 3.21 3.35 28 U2 Vertigo (lnterscopel 180 +33 2 311 TERROR SQUAD Lean Back (Universal) 3.24 3.41 85% 38% 3.36 3.21 3.26 24 0, SARAH SLEAN Lucky Me (Warner Music Canada) 178 +14 3 310 NITTY Nasty Girl (Rostrum /Universal) 3.21 - 68% 25% 3.28 3.04 2.96 16 27 NELLY My Place (Derrty /Fo'ReeffUniversal) 176 -66 11 410

NINA SKY Move Ya Body (Next PlateaulUniversal) 3.20 3.41 94% 54% 2.87 3.13 3.55 29 ASHLEE SIMPSON Shadow (Geffen) 174 +27 2 511

KEVIN LYTTLE Turn Me On (Atlantic) 3.13 3.37 92% 54% 2.73 3.23 3.48 25 CC)e KYPRIOS Never Say Goodbye (Sony Music Canada) 166 +3 3 310 27 AKON f /STYLES P. Locked Up (SRC/Universal) 160 +8 2 010 Total sample size is 414 respondents. Total average lavorability estimates are based on a scale of 1 -5. (l=dislike very much. 5 = Lke very much). familiarity represents Total the percentage of respondents who recognized the song. Total bum represents the number of 14 Canadian CHR reporters. Monitored airplay data supplied by Mediabase Research. a division of Premiere Radio Networks. respondents whosaid they are tired of hearing the song. Songs must have 40% familiarity toappear on survey. Samplecomposition is based Songs ranked by total plays for the airplay week of 10/3 -10/9. Bullets appear on songs gaining plays or remaining flat from on persons 12,. Persons are screened via the Internet Once passed. they can take the music test based on the formaVmusic prelarence. previous week. If two songs are tied in total plays. the song with the larger increase in plays is placed first. Songs below No. RateTheMusic.com results are not meant to replace research. The results intended callout are to show opinions of participants on the the 15 are moved to recurrent after 20 weeks on the chart. Most Added is the total number of new adds officially reported to R &R Internet RateTheMusic is registered trademark only. a of PateTheMusic.com. The RTM system. is available for local radio statans by by each reporting station. Songs unreported as adds do not count toward overall total stations playing a song. Indicates `calling 818 -377 -5300. RateTheMusic.com data is provided by Mediabase Research, a division of Premiere Radio Networks. Cancon. © 2004. R &R. Inc.

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"We don't waste dollars on making the record, we don't waste dollars on videos, and we don't waste dollars on marketing and promotion, so at the end of the day these Sanctuary Urban artists don't have to sell a million records to Comes Full Circle break even." Matthew Knowles heads new division at indie label ing, we see what you are doing, and cause often you go into a situation we want to be a part of it."' and you're not given that autonomy," Knowles points out that Sanctu- he says. "And, again, we're partners. ary's worldwide reach and staffs in I'm their partner in the ." and Berlin will allow the sanctuary Records Group, one of the top indepen- Destiny's Child and, individually, London The Legacy dent record companies based in Britain, has formed a Michelle, Beyoncé and Kelly, we company's artists to extend their range. "We want these artists to con- Now that Sanctuary Urban has es- new division that focuses on urban music. The New talked about my maybe running that division. I looked at the challenge centrate not just on America, but on tablished itself by signing artists, York division of the label, Sanctuary Urban, is headed and said, 'Yeah, that's something I the world, to build and establish their bringing in the right management by none other than Matthew Knowles. The father of would be very interested in doing. - careers outside of America," he says. teams and hiring the right people to Sanctuary Urban drive the label, recording star Beyoncé played a role in the success of Sharing Knowles' vision, Taylor also has some of the Knowles' focus has Destiny's Child, as well as in the solo careers of the quickly made him a partner at the la- bel and put him in place as head of industry's top man- shifted to produc- girls in the group, through his Houston -based label Sanctuary Urban. "I ended up selling agement execs, ing great music to Music World Music, which is distributed through my management company to Sanc- having brought in build the compa- Sony. tuary," says Knowles. "Of the four the team of Troy ny's legacy. "Our Carter and Jay Irv- model is, first and ing, whose clients foremost, making a Knowles says, "I've been very keeping the label, management, mer- include Eve, Floet- great record, be- blessed to have such a gifted group chandising and booking agency un- ry, Angie Stone, cause it starts at the as Destiny's Child and such a gifted der one roof. It's an approach not Jadakiss and Sleepy Brown. "They're music and it ends at the music," he artist as Beyoncé and to have had the many other record companies are "I came from a part of Sanctuary Urban Manage- says. successes of Destiny's Child and their using, but one that reaps sizable re- ment," says Knowles. Knowles also hopes to continue to successes individually, with Michelle wards for the artists on the label. corporate "And we recently brought in Tony build the legacy of Sanctuary Urban Williams playing the lead role in Aida The New Division I Davis, who has Nelly and the St. Lu- by focusing on building careers for and having a No. 1 gospel record and America, so had natics. We also have MJB Manage- the label's artists and making them Kelly Rowland winning a Grammy After traveling to London quite a a strategic long- ment -- that's Mary J. Blige - and profitable under the company's busi- with Nelly and having a No. 1 album bit to manage the careers of Destiny's we also manage Xzibit." ness model. "We do it in such a way outside of America. Child and support their we don't compromise the mu- "What most folks don't albums in that region, term plan. I wasn't The Team that says Knowles. know is that with all of Knowles began to develop sic," Knowles says that one of the big- "We don't waste dollars on mak- those projects- Destiny's a relationship with Sanc- going to sit back he has faced ing the record, we waste dol- Child, Beyoncé, Kelly, tuary CEO Andy Taylor. gest challenges since don't and just be a building the Sanctuary Urban brand lars on videos, and we don't waste Michelle - we've sold Intrigued by the compa- more records outside of ny's business model, has been putting together the right dollars on marketing and promotion, manager. I wanted a America than we have in Knowles discussed with team. He now has staff of about 50 so at the end of the day these artists employees, based in Houston, New don't have to sell a million records to America." Taylor the possibility of to Not bad for this one- Sanctuary's forming an build York and Los Angeles. "I believe in break even. They only have to sell the team approach, and we have a 200,000 -300,000 to break even. time white -collar worker urban division with a sim- companies." who took on the role of Matthew Knowles ilar structure. great team of people," he says. 'Were not making bad decisions manager for young Beyoncé and Known for its dominance in the "Demmefte Guidry is the GM. He because we're not profitable. You spent 10 years at Sony. I worked with don't see an artist have one single eventually aspired to head a record rock world, Sanctuary had yet to test him Destiny's project. then the label not label. "She certainly was my inspira- the urban waters, and Knowles, with on the Child and put out a sec- tion to get into management," says his success at Music World Music, He was there with Wydef and The ond single because somebody looks Fugees; he was there with Nas. Then at the P &L and says, 'You know, Knowles. "But I came from corporate was just the dude to get things pop- companies, I'm their partner in the he left Sony and headed up black we've lost money on this artist. Let's America, so I had a strategic long- pin'. "My initial discussion with record label and in the merchandise music at Warner Bros. drop them.' We're building careers term plan. I wasn't going to sit back Sanctuary and Andy Taylor about company, which is called Urbane. "We brought in Stephanie Gale, and developing artists." and just be a manager. I wanted to how we might merge took place al- We're doing tour merchandising for who was a product manager for Des- With the relationships and reputa- build companies." most two years ago," Knowles says. the R Kelly and Jay-Z tour that's out tiny's Child at Columbia. We brought tion that Knowles has established, he As head of Sanctuary Urban, "We started to have a dialogue about right now." in Cathy Moore, who was in promo- hopes that radio programmers will building and branding companies is the possibility of an urban division The Artists & Management just what Knowles is doing, using a with the same 360 -degree model as tion at Epic. We brought in Tyrone listen to Sanctuary Urban releases 360- degree business model some- the rest of Sanctuary. Knowles created a buzz about Murray, who was Product Manager when they cross their desks. "You can - at Columbia. In Los Angeles we have build those relationships, at the thing originated by parent Sanctuary "Since I already had a 240 -degree the vision of Sanctuary Urban, and but Records Group. This model is fo- model at Music World Music and the company quickly attracted Paula Tuggey from DreamWorks, end of the day the music has to speak cused on benefiting the artists by I've been blessed with success by many talented artists, ranging from and in Houston we have Leslie for itself," he says. "We hope to con- Ray J., De La Soul, Glenn Lewis, Wyatt, who was in promotion at Co- tinue to develop and build that rep- Keith Sweat and Jon B. to veteran lumbia. We'll continue to build that utation of having great songs. acts such as The O'Jays; Earth, staff." "I'm not trying to grow the com- "I'm not trying to grow the company into Wind & Fire; and Chaka Khan. Another challenge for Knowles pany into the biggest company, I am "That's been the most overwhelm- has been working inside a culture trying to grow it into the best. That ing thing for me," says Knowles. "I that doesn't have a tremendous has to come through a quality-driv- the biggest company, I am trying to grow would never have thought there amount of urban experience. On the en process in which our staff takes it into the best." would be this many artists calling to flip side, though, the company has pride in what we do, we continue to say they want to a part of this. I feel given him the autonomy he needs to let it be about the artist and not about honored, because we've had a lot of do what he does best. us, and we continue to strive world- artists say, 'We hear what you are do- "That's really a great thing, be- wide to have wonderful music."

www.americanradiohistory.com ftik CHR/RHYTHM /C TOP 5O POWERED 28 e October 15, 2004 MEDIABASE THIS LAST TOTAL I- TOTAL WEEKS ON TOTAL STATIONS/ WEEK REEK ARTIST TITLE LABELS PLAYS PUYS AUDIENCE CHART ADDS Most Added® COI 3 0 USHER & MICIA KEYS My Boo (Laface /Zomba) 6420 +302 698768 8 8510 www.rradds.com - 1 2 CIARA fIPETEY PABLO Goodies (Laface 6266 -316 /Zomba) 705573 19 8710 ARTIST "lí ...... ADDS 2 TERROR 3 SQUAD Lean Back (Universal) 5821 -324 576168 18 8310 LLOYD BANKS Karma (lnterscope/ 34 4 4 AKON fISTYLES P. Locked Up (SRC /Universal) 4944 -46 432789 25 7210 HOUSTON Ain't Nothing Wrong (Capitol) 25 GUERILLA BLACK fIMARIO WINANS You're The One ( VÜgin' 24 5 5 NELLY My Place (Derrty/fo'Reel /Universal) 4299 -676 381613 13 8310 KANYE WEST The New Workout Plan (RocAFella /IDJMG) 21 7 EMINEM Just Lose It (Shady/Aftermath /lnterscope) 4156 +443 367646 3 7910 0 LIL' JON & THE EASTSIDE BOYZ fILIL SCRAPPY What U... (`VT) 18 8 TRICK DADDY Let's Go (Slip N- Slide/Atlantic) 3820 +227 291991 7 8311 0 LIL' WAYNE Go DJ (Cash MoneylIniversall 13 9 0 DESTINY'S CHILD Lose My Breath (Columbia) 3723 +268 364293 5 8310 NELLY fIT. MCGRAW Over And Over (Derrty/fo'Reel/Curb/Unnersa/) 13 JUVENILE fIWACKO & SKIP Nolia Clap (Rap-A-Lot /Asylum) 12 11 0 N.O.R.E. fININA SKY & DADDY YANKEE Oye Mi Canto (Roc-4-fella /I0JMG) 3419 +390 341624 9 6911 CIARA fIMISSY ELLIOTT 1, 2 Step (Laface/Zomba) 8 6 10 LIL' FLIP Sunshine (SuckaFree /Loud/Columbia) 3291 -668 342172 21 7910 JA RULE f /R. KELLY & ASHANTI Wonderful (MurderInc. /IDJMG) 7 14 t1 SNOOP DOGG f!PHARRELL Drop It Like It's Hot (Doggy Style/Geffen) 3037 +720 316002 6 8015 10 12 LL COOL J Headsprung (DefJam /IDJMG) 2767 -530 286497 15 8210

12 13 JUVENILE Slow Motion (Cash Money/Universal) 2556 -331 273624 26 8110 17 Q LL COOL J Hush (DefJam /IDJMG) 2468 +203 180793 5 7513 20 ® CHINGY Balla Baby (DTP/Capitol) 2438 +359 187464 7 7510 Most 13 16 CHRISTINA MILIAN Dip It Low (island/IDJMG) 2316 -391 215350 30 7110 Increased Plays 25 NELLY fITIM MCGRAW Over And Over (Derrty /Fo'Reel/Curb /Universal) 2277 +1074 3 29113 157372 TOTAL PLAY 16 18 ALICIA KEYS fITONY, TONI, TONE & JERMAINE PAUL Diary (J/RMG) 2160 -115 266215 13 7710 ARTIST -_E _ALE S INCREASE 19 19 MASE Breathe, Stretch, Shake (Bad Boy/Universal) 1937 -230 235149 10 6610 NELLY f/T. MCGRAW Over Ard Over Illatylfo'ReeiCurbVm sag +1074 23 FABULOUS Breathe (Atlantic) 1887 +272 196454 6 7514 SNOOP DOGG fIPHARRELL Drop It Like... (DoggyStylelGeffeni +720

R. KELLY & JAY-Z Big Chips (JivelRoc-A- FellallOJMG) +557 22 ® LIL SCRAPPY No Problem (ME/Reprise) 1753 +42 184645 14 5911 EMINEM Just Lose It (ShadylAftermathllnterscope) +443 15 22 J KWON You & Me (So So Del/Zomba) 1748 -540 127111 12 6210 JA RULE fIR. KELLY & ASHANTI Wonderful (MurderInc. //LUMG) +442 18 23 JADAKISS fIANTHONY HAMILTON Why (RuffRyders 1502 15 /lnterscope) -689 203130 6010 N.O.R.E.fININA SKY & DADDY_ Oye Mi Canto (RocAfella/ILUMC) +390

36 JA RULE fIR. KELLY & ASHANTI Wonderful (MurderInc. /IDJMG) 1135 +442 135515 2 5917 CIARA MISSY ELLIOTT 1, 2 Step (La face/Zomba) +384

R. -Z +379 27 25 SHAWNNA fILUDACRIS Shake That Sht (DTP/DefJam /IDJMG) 1097 -95 84581 13 3910 KELLY & JAY Don't Let Me Die IJivelRoc-A-FellalIDJMG) CHINGY Balla Baby (DTP/Capitol) +359 29 ED JOJO Baby Its You (BlackGround/Universal) 1068 +141 91866 5 3710 USHER & ALICIA KEYS My Boo (La face /Zomba) +302 28 27 GAME f150 CENT Westside Story (Aftermath/G- Unit /lnterscope) 1032 -10 118190 6 2710

33 YOUNG BUCK Shorty Wanna Ride (lnterscope) 975 +172 97614 4 4613

37 LIL' WAYNE Go DJ (Cash Money/Universal) 963 +285 125130 3 46113

24 30 T.I. Let's Get Away (Grand Hustle /Atlantic) 932 -303 77651 17 5010 30 ® RUPEE Tempted To Touch (Atlantic) 920 +84 139356 8 4813 New &Active

¡Debut> R. KELLY & JAY-Z Big Chips (Jive/RocA -fella/IDJMG) 908 +557 134795 1 7314 NELLY TIC. AGUILERA Tilt Ya Head Back (Derrty/fo'Ree //UniLersal) 26 33 213 Groupie Luv (TVT) 892 -310 88931 12 3710 Total Plays: 398, Total Stations: 25, Adds: 1 JUVENILE fIWACKO Nolia Clap (Rap -A-Lot 852 +43 14 32 & SKIP /Asylum) 142708 35112 LLOYD Hey Young Girl (Murder Inc. /Def Jam /IDJMG)

48 ® CIARA fIMISSY ELLIOTT 1, 2 Step (Laface/Zomba) 844 +384 107064 2 1218 Total Plays: 370, Total Stations: 25, Adds: 1

40 JOHN LEGEND Used To Love You (Columbia) 750 +142 68380 4 3811 PLAY-NSKILLZ Call Me (Universal)

Total Plays: 343, Total Stations: 22, Adds: 1 31 37 NELLY Flap Your Wings (Derrty/Fo'Reel /Universal) 747 -67 80677 8 4410 KANYE WEST The New Workout Plan (Roc-A-Fef /a/IDJMG) 39 NB RIDAZ Pretty Girl (Upstairs) 734 +101 39359 4 2410 Total Plays: 330, Total Stations: 31, Adds: 21 45 PITBULL Dammit Man (TVT) 699 +156 3 3413 65629 ANTHONY HAMILTON Charlene (So So Del/Zomba)

35 LO MONICA U Should've Known Better (J/RMG) 677 -89 75545 18 3210 Total Plays: 321, Total Stations: 10, Adds: 2 41 a CHRISTINA MILIAN fIJOE BUDDEN Whatever U Want (island/IDJMG) 621 +26 43009 3 3510 LADY SAW I've Got Your Man (VP) Total Plays: 283, Total Stations: 15, Adds: 3 'Debut> TERROR SQUAD Take Me Home (Universal) 603 +278 59420 1 4715 King Of The (Virgin) 'Debut> R. KELLY & JAY-Z Don't Let Me Die (Jive /RocA -fella/IDJMG) 534 +379 36917 1 7113 Total Plays: 283, Total Stations: 11, Adds: 0

¡Debut> LIL' JON & THE EASTSIDE BOYZ What U Gon' Do (TVT) 516 +179 1 46118 f /LIL SCRAPPY 62823 YUNG WUN fIDAVID BANNER Walk It, Talk It (J/RMG)

49 TWISTA fIR. KELLY So Sexy Chapter II (Never Like This) (Atlantic) 480 +38 15670 2 4112 Total Plays: 239, Total Stations: 23, Adds: 1

38 <6 LLOYD BANKS I'm So Fly (lnterscope) 464 -202 55983 9 4610 MR. CAPONE-EfINATE DOGG I Like It (Independent)

Total Plays: 238, Total Stations: 13, Adds: 1 fOebut> DEM FRANCHISE BOYZ White Teez (Universal) 438 +37 50468 1 810 K YOUNG That Girl (Treacherous) 50 48 BODY HEADBANGERS f /YOUNGBL00DZ I Smoke, I Drink (Universal) 430 .7 63732 5 710 Total Plays: 227, Total Stations: 20, Adds: 1 47 49 TWISTA fIR. KELLY So Sexy (Atlantic) 418 -86 42973 17 2210 by 34 50 YONNIE fIYING YANG TWINS In Da Club (Universal) 405 -372 14780 8 40/0 Songs ranked total plays

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1 CIARA fIPETEY PABLO Goodies /laface /Zomba)

2 TERROR SQUAD fIFAT JOE Lean Back (Universal)

3 SNOOP DOGG Drop It Like It's Hot (Star Trek) 4 USHER fIALICIA KEYS My Boo (Laface/Zomba)

5 AKON fISTYLES P Locked Up (SRC/Universal)

6 N.O.R.E. fl NINA SKY & TEGO Oye Mi Canto (Del.lam/IDJMG)

7 LL COOL J Headsprung (Del Jam/ IDJMG) 8 CHINGY Balla Baby (DTP/Capito /l

9 MASE Breathe, Stretch, Shake (Bad Boy/Universal) 10 EMINEM Just Lose It (Shady/lnterscope)

11 TRICK DADDY Let's Go (Slip -N- Slide/Atlantic) 12 FABOLOUS Breathe (Atlantic) 13 LIL' FLIP Sunshine (Sucka Free /Loud/Columbia)

14 JUVENILE MACK() & SLIP Nolia Clap (Rap -A -Lot) 15 LIL SCRAPPY No Problem (BME/Reprise)

16 CIARA fIMISSY ELLIOTT 1, 2 Step (LaFace/Zombal 17 YOUNG BUCK Shorty Wanna Ride (lnterscope) 18 GAME fI50 CENT Westside Story (lnterscopel 19 LL COOL J Hush (Del Jam/ IDJMG)

20 LIL' WAYNE Go DJ (Cash Money/Universal) THIS IS HOW WE DO IT With his new single "How We Do It," featuring 50 Cent creating a burr 21 DESTINY'S CHILD Lose My Breath (Columbia) - - at Rhythmic, it appears that The Game's debut album, Ni a Witta Attitude, is going to be filled with bangers. 22 LIL' JON & EASTSIDE BOYZ fILIL SCRAPPY What U Gon' Do (TVT) Pictured here on a promo tour is The Game (r) with KSFM/Sacramento Asst. PD/MD Tony Tecate. 23 JUVENILE Slow Motion (Cash Money/Universal)

24 R. KELLY & JAY Z Big Chips (Jive/Roc -A- Fella/IDJMG) 25 JADAKISS NA. HAMILTON Why (Interscope) 26 NELLY fIJAHEIM My Place (Derrty/Fo' Reel/Universal) 27 XZIBIT Muthaf''ka (Loud/Columbia) 28 CHRISTINA MILIAN Dip It Low (Island/IDJMG) 29 RUPEE Tempted To Touch (Atlantic)

30 LLOYD BANKS I'm So Fly (G Unit/Interscopel

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HOUSTON fICHINGY & NATE DOGG I Like That (Capitol) 4.22 4.09 97% 30% 4.28 4.10 4.20 ARTIST: Eminem DESTINY'S CHILD Lose My Breath (Columbia) 4.16 4.13 85% 9% 4.23 4.18 4.12 LABEL: Shady/Aftermath/ USHER & ALICIA KEYS My Boo (LaFace /Zomba) 4.15 4.17 93% 12% 4.35 4.14 3.91 Interscope CIARA fIPETEY PABLO Goodies (Laface/Zomba) 4.14 4.12 96% 26% 4.34 3.90 4.09 By MINE TRIOS/Associate Editor TERROR SQUAD Lean Back (Universal) 4.11 4.20 97% 33% 3.96 3.99 4.46 NELLY My Place (Derrty/fo'Reel /Universal) 4.10 4.08 96% 22% 4.24 3.92 3.98 Ihave to admit that the first time I EMINEM Just Lose It (Shady/Aftermath /Interscope) 4.05 - 79% 12% 4.17 4.16 4.00 heard Eminem's "Just Lose It" I SHAWNNA QLUDACRIS Shake That Sht (DTP/Del am /DMG) 4.05 4.02 72% 11% 4.12 4.22 4.07 / thought the controversial MC had finally lost it. It seemed that TRICK DADDY Let's Go (Slip-NSlide/Atlantic) 4.03 3.76 60% 9% 4.32 4.09 3.72 Em had taken the concepts of "Without Me" and D12's "My CHINGY Balla Baby (DTP/Capitol) 4.03 3.95 53% 6% 4.19 4.14 3.88 Band" and embellished them to a ridiculous level. Then an even LIL' FLIP Sunshine (SuckaFree/Loud /Columbia) 4.00 3.97 96% 34% 4.10 3.81 4.03 stranger tidbit came to my attention: Dr. Dre produced "Just LL COOL J Headsprung (Del Jam/ /DMG) 3.96 3.89 84% 21% 3.86 3.92 4.10 Lose It."

CHRISTINA MILIAN Dip It Low (/stand/IDJMG) 3.95 3.80 97% 43% 3.86 3.83 4.07 I didn't know what to think. I mean, the track certainly MASE Breathe, Stretch, Shake (Bad Boy/Universal) 3.94 3.85 80% 13% 4.09 3.96 4.00 grabbed my attention, which is good (and the Pee Wee Herman -

T.I. Let's Get Away (Grand Hustle/Atlantic) 3.90 3.91 76% 16% 4.15 3.72 3.67 esque "Aah! aah! aah! aah!" kept me awake while I drove). As

LL COOL J Hush (DelJam/IDJMG) 3.88 4.01 50% 8% 3.74 3.88 4.00 I sat there, bewildered, I began to pay closer attention to the

J.KWON You & Me (So So Del/Zomba) 3.87 3.87 65% 13% 4.22 3.61 334 lyrics. I chuckled a bit.

FABULOUS Breathe (Atlantic) 3.83 3.82 58% 10% 4.04 3.76 3.90 Although I am a fan of Eminem's more urban -flavored songs,

I decided to give "Just Lose It" another chance. After all, I was JUVENILE Slow Motion (Cash Money/Universal) 3.80 3.80 98% 47% 338 3.63 3.96 beginning to be amused by the extreme tongue -in -cheek na- N.O.R.E. IININA SKY & DADDY YANKEE Oye Mi Canto (Roc-A-fella /I0JMG) 3.78 3.94 60% 14% 3.89 3.70 3.88 ture of the song. As he took obvious (and not-so- obvious) MONICA U Should've Known Better (J/RMG) 3.73 3.78 84% 26% 3.81 3.69 3.66

shots at other artists with ridiculous lyrics, I began to enjoy the AKON IISTYLES P. Locked Up (SRC/Universal) 3.73 3.72 84% 27% 3.87 3.66 3.58 track. LIL SCRAPPY No Problem(BME/Reprise) 3.67 3.56 70% 20% 3.90 3.75 3.33 While it took me a minute to appreciate the song for what it JADAKISS f /ANTHONY HAMILTON Why (RuffRyders /lnterscopel 3.65 3.68 81% 24% 3.73 3.57 3.63 is. radio took a liking to it immediately - "Just Lose It" al- LLOYD BANKS I'm So Fly (lnterscopel 3.64 3.63 70% 18% 3.78 3.63 3.66 ready sits at No. 6` at Rhythmic and No. 9* at Pop. Urban SNOOP DOGG fIPHARRELL Drop It Like It's Hot (Doggy Style /Geffen) 3.63 52% 11% 3.59 3.53 3.91 - audiences are beginning to warm up to the track, too, as it ALICIA KEYS fITONY, TONI, TONE & JERMAINE PAUL Diary (J/RMG) 3.60 3.66 79% 28% 3.59 3.59 3.59 debuts at No. 46w at Urban this week. 213 Groupie Luv 17-VT) 3.52 3.47 64% 17% 3.64 3.37 3.68 The upcoming video for the song is already stirring up con- YONNIE VYING YANG TWINS In Da Club (Universal) 3.48 - 43% 11% 3.76 3.46 3.16 troversy. Reports say that Eminem dresses up as Michael Jack-

Total sample size is 407 respondents. Total average tavorability estimates are based on a scale of 1 -5. (1= dislike very much, 5 = like very much). Total familiarity son in the video, and there are scenes in which his hair catches represents the percentage of respondents who recognized the song. Total burn represents the number of respondents who said they are tired of hearing the song. Songs on fire and his nose falls off. There's even one with little boys must have 40% familiarityto appear on survey. Sample composition is based on persons 12 +. Persons are screened via the Internet. Once passed, theycan take the music test based on the formaVmusic preference. RateTheMusic.comresults are not meant to replace callout research. The results ere intended to show opinions of participants jumping on a bed that Eminem/Jacko is sitting on. Reportedly, on the the Internet only. RateTheMusic is registered trademark of RateTheMusic.com. The RTM system, is available for local radio stations by calling 818 -377 -5300. Jackson's camp is asking video outlets to pull the clip. RateTheMusic. com data is provided by Mediabase Research, a division of Premiere Radio Networks. r Reporters Stations and their adds listed alphabetically by market

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"The advantages of being an independent label outweigh the challenges."

Maurice Dixon

at radio, you have the same chal- imaging, marketing, the total pack- Independent a would. You still have age. As an artist, you don't have to The lenges major to get the PD on the phone, and you answer to anyone else's vision but have to get them to listen to the your own. It's an experience I'd nev- song. That really comes down to er had at a major label. Revolution it re- there are benefits as who you have working and the "Financially, lationships they have at radio. well. The obvious one is that you Executives and artists speak out on "The advantages of be- own your masters. And freedom from the majors ing an independent label while you maybe making outweigh the challenges. less money overall in We have more creative comparison to the major control -not only for the labels, you are also spend- artist, but for myself as an ing less. I can also sell my he independent -label business appears to be thriv- independent-label business thrive. executive as well. From albums at my concerts, as ing in the urban arena. With more than 100 companies We can now pick up some of the ar- an executive standpoint, well as merchandising, tistic talent and executive talent that on the scene and success stories from larger indepen- I have more say in the and I get 100% of the prof- have been downsized from the la- strategy and marketing its. You can take your time dents like TVT, Koch, SoBe and DKG, some might bels. The independent labels with plan for the artist than I Stephan ie Mills promoting an album. even say independents are the new lifeblood of the mu- the greatest resources in not only fi- might have at a major. We Since it's out there for a sic industry. nances, but also in executive talent also have the luxury of time. We're longer period of time, you have the and product, will be the ones that not on as strict a timetable as the ma- opportunity to sell more records. But a few success stories don't video unless they get radio airplay rise to the top." jors. Of course, we have our own "There is something very reward- make it easy for everyone else. Small first. The Urban Mystic video is al- timetable and goals, but we have ing about the experience that only independents - often formed and ready on BET. more flexibility within those timeta- an artist who has been signed to a run by artists themselves - still face "We don't have 50 acts coming bles. major can really understand. At the major hurdles at radio and retail. out in one year. We might have "I also think the majors today are same time, it forces you, as an art- They're finding their way, though, only five to seven projects to work "Consolidation at missing an entire portion of the ist, to get involved in all aspects of according to the independent artists in a single year. This way we can music -buying population by ignor- your career. As the executive at the and executives we spoke with. use our resources to develop the the majors may ing the adult urban consumer. The label, I also have to learn about and This week we take a look at a artists. We're not just looking for hit majors don't see high monetary re- understand how radio works. It's range of independent setups, from singles. We want to put together a actually help the turns fast enough with these types very educational. "mini major" SoBe Entertainment to complete project with an entire al- of artists, so they choose to ignore "With radio, I understand the street-savvy, hip-hop-culture-driven bum's worth of good material. independent-label them. What this has created is a new way to promote records is changing Legal Hustle Records. Consumers have been unsatisfied of who has the time. When I first came business thrive." kind artist -entrepreneur all out with much of what the major labels a long history of selling records but in the '80s programmers were all - Michelle Campbell are putting out in recent years be- Michelle Campbell can no longer get a major record powerful. Today radio is much more cause albums only have one or two GM & VP /Promotion, deal. So they do it for themselves." corporate, and some PDs have to SoBe Entertainment songs they like. answer to people above them when "There are hurdles we must get Stephanie Mills it comes to music decisions. There's SoBe Entertainment, based in over. Not only are we trying to also more emphasis on research. South Beach Miami, secured distri- break a new act, we're a new com- Recording artist and CEO, JM Records "One of the things I've tried to do bution through Warner Bros. three pany that not everyone is familiar Maurice Dixon is to make sure that I meet and know months after it launched. It is an all - with. One of our advantages, An internationally known singer the owners of some of the broadcast inclusive label with its own promo- though, is the fact that our entire VP /Sales & Marketing, who has been making music since Magnatar Records companies. I'm not trying to go over tion, marketing, A &R and sales staff comprises folks who have the age of 15, when she starred on anyone's head, but, as a busi- staffs. The roster includes current worked at the majors. They not New York -based Magnatar is Broadway as Dorothy in The Wiz, nessperson, I have to make sure I am charters Urban Mystic and 4mulal, only have excellent experience, but home to Carlton Blount (currently Mills had a lengthy recording career meeting everyone I need to meet to as well as soon-to-be- released pro- each person who works for SoBe on the charts) and The Main Ingre- with MCA that included 10 No. 1 make my business successful. jects by rapper Stack$ and pop rock also has strong contacts within the dient, as well as new artists Natasha singles and a Grammy. Her current "I'm not afraid to call a PD and artist Lola. industry and at radio. C. Coward, Jeffrey Spence and Nec- album is Bornfor This on JM Records. talk to him about the single or the "What we're doing is what the "Overall, there is a challenge for ca. The label's distribution is "It had been 10 years since I last album. I'm open to constructive crit- major labels used to do," Campbell independent labels today that hasn't through 33rd Street /Bay- recorded an album, and I icism. I was talking to one PD who says. "We work our artists before the been there before. The bar has been side Entertainment. was initially looking to didn't want to play the single, yet he single ever hits radio. We had raised. Even though you are inde- "The main challenge sign with a major about was playing all of my old songs. He 4mulal on a promo tour performing pendent, you have to act and think for any independent label three years ago," Mills said he didn't feel they needed to across the country for the Russ Parr like a major. The way an indepen- is that we do have limit- says. "I met with a num- play any new material. I was really Bus Tour. We see the importance of dent label used to be, an artist and a ed resources," Dixon ber of folks, and everyone taken aback. If a listener is a fan of getting the group in front of pro- producer would make some tracks says. "Most independent had a different idea as to me or Aretha Franklin or Patti La- grammers and listeners so that in their home studio, press them up labels don't have the what they wanted to do Belle, I contend that they want to when we do put the record out, peo- and then sell CDs out of the trunk same kind of budgets a with me. Some seemed hear our new material just as much ple already know them. of their car. Today independent la- major label would have very interested, while as our old songs." "We also utilize new marketing bels are full- fledged corporations. to break a new artist. That Mauric e Dixon others were not interested streams like the Internet. Radio "As we move forward in this new can affect everything from how at all. That's when I decided to cre- SL George play should be the result of a strong decade, the independent labels that many people we can hire to work a ate my own label. street presence and buzz. Our goal are proving to be most successful are project to marketing. The thing is, "I looked at what people like Sean Artist and Exec. VP/ is to create a fan base even before the ones that are run as mini majors, we tend to use the resources we do Combs and Jay -Z had accomplished Operations, Unity Records we hit radio. We also see the visual that have that framework without have in ways that get the most bang on their own and decided that I St. George is the second artist to as an important aspect of that mar- all the layers of people. for our buck rather than showboat- wanted the same kind of creative have a release on the Chicago-based keting. At many majors, because of "At the same time, consolidation ing like a major might. control - not only creative control budget cutbacks, artists don't get a at the majors may actually help the "Working an independent record musically, but in all aspects, like Continued on Page 34

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LAST THIS TOTAL I - TOTAL WEEKS ON TOTAL STATIONS, WEEK EEK ARTIST TITLE LABELIS: PLAYS PLAYS AUDIENCE CHART ADDS Most Added 100) 3 0 USHER & ALICIA KEYS My Boo (Laface /Zomba) 3892 +379 540546 6 7210 www.rradds. corn

1 2 CIARA f!PETEY PABLO Goodies (Laface/Zombal 3753 -245 500944 16 7210 ARTIST TITLE LABELS, ADDS 2 3 NELLY My Place (Derrty/fo'Reel /Universal) 3522 16 428523 12 7210 LLOYD BANKS Karma !lnterscopel 48 4 4 TERROR SQUAD Lean Back (Universal) 2666 .325 317936 17 6210 ill' JON & THE EASTSIDE BOYZfILIL SCRAPPY What U... (UT/ 47 8 0 ANTHONY HAMILTON Charlene (So Soie1/Zomba) 2636 +187 340968 13 6311 KANYE WEST The New Workout Plan (Roc.A.fe//a/ /DJMGI 43 7 6 AKON fISTYLES P. Locked Up (SRC/Universal) 2597 -21 282415 14 3710 GUERILLA BLACK MARIO WINANS You're The One (Virgin) 37 JILL SCOTT Whatever, Whenever (HiddenBeachlEpicl 36 10 LIL' WAYNE Go DJ (Cash Money/Universal) 2580 +404 261698 6 6411 ANGIE STONE f /ANTHONY HAMILTON Stay For Awhile (J /RMG) 25 6 8 ALICIA KEYS fITONY, TONI, TONE & JERMAINE PAUL Diary (J/RMG) 2560 -116 404818 20 6910 R. KELLY & JAY.Z Don't Let Me Die (Jive/Roc-A'fellalIDJMG) 1

14 SNOOP DOGG fIPHARRELL Drop It Like Its Hot (Doggy Style/Geffen) 2372 +584 319286 4 6710 MARIO Let Me Love You (J/RMG) 6

11 DESTINY'S CHILD Lose My Breath (Columbia) 2282 +318 262184 3 6910 TWISTA fIR. KELLY So Sexy Chapter II (Never Like This) (At /antic) 4

5 11 JADAKISS f /ANTHONY HAMILTON Why (Ruff Ryders/lnterscopel 2242 468 262834 16 6910

9 12 LIL SCRAPPY No Problem (ME/Reprise) 2177 .191 184536 19 6510

12 JUVENILE 1!WACKO & SKIP Nolia Clap (Rap.A Lot /Asylum) 2134 +207 252469 13 6110

13 14 MASE Breathe, Stretch, Shake (Bad Boy/Universal) 1748 .84 198830 8 5810 Most 17 ® LL COOL J Hush (DefJam /IDJMG) 1717 +89 198747 4 6510 Increased Plays

15 16 NELLY Flap Your Wings (Derrty/fo'Reel /Universal) 1658 -115 183726 8 6410 TOTAL PLAY

19 YOUNG BUCK Shorty Wanna Ride (lnterscope) 1618 +268 162521 4 6011 ARTIST _ r_.,, INCREASE 20 0 FABULOUS Breathe (Atlantic) 1600 +269 171238 5 6813 SNOOP DOGO f(PHARRELL Drop It Like.. (Doggy Style/Geflea) +584 16 19 LL COOL J Headsprung (DefJam /IDJMG) 1512 234 183600 14 6710 R. KELLY & JAY-Z Big Chips (Jive /Roc-A-Fellal/DJMG) +454 LIL' WAYNE Go DJ (Cash Money/Universal) +404 23 CHINGY Balla Baby (DTP /Capitol) 1337 +131 129216 3 6110 e USHER & ALICIA KEYS My Boo (Laface/Zomba) +379 18 21 LIL' FLIP Sunshine (Suckafree/Loud /Columbia) 1277 -330 122428 18 5310 JA RULE fIR. KELLY & ASHANTI Wonderful (Murder lnc. //DJik'G) +319 22 ® DEM FRANCHISE BOYZ White Teet (Universal) 1236 +21 120200 10 3911 DESTINY'S CHILD Lose My Breath (Columbia) +318 +318 26 TRICK DADDY Let's Go (SlipNShide/Atlantic) 1182 +103 112364 3 6211 LLOYD BANKS Karma (lnterscope) FABOLOUS Breathe (Atlantic) +269 24 JOHN LEGEND Used To Love You (Columbia) 1179 +81 97533 5 4812 YOUNG BUCK Shorty Wanna Ride (lnterscopel +268

25 25 BODY HEADBANGERS fIYOUNGBLOODZ I Smoke, I Drink (Universal) 1089 .1 77614 4 3710 TERROR SQUAD Take Me Home (Universal) +220 36 JA RULE fIR. KELLY & ASHANTI Wonderful (MurderInc. /IDJMG) 1059 +319 142298 2 6012 31 ® R. KELLY Red Carpet (Jive /Zomba) 1035 +114 131337 2 5611 28 28 CRIME MOB Knuck If You Buck (BME/Warner Bros. /Reprise) 994 -41 82807 15 4110 42 0 R. KELLY & JAY.Z Big Chips (Jive /Roc-A- fella/IOJMGI 972 +454 151357 2 6512 New &Active 21 30 GUERILLA BLACK fIBEENIE MAN Compton (Virgin) 917 .347 66591 11 4810

32 MANNIE FRESH Real Big (Cash Money/Universal) 908 +3 74983 5 4511 ® 4MULA1 Gotta Roll (Sobel

30 32 LLOYD Hey Young Girl (Murder Inc./Def Jam/IDJMG) 908 -35 58407 6 4910 Total Plays: 394, Total Stations: 34, Adds: 0

34 TWISTA fIR. KELLY So Sexy Chapter II Like This( (Atlantic) 842 +72 73473 2 4614 ® (Never J.KWON You & Me (So So Def/Zomba) 29 34 T.I. Let's Get Away (Grand Hustle /Atlantic) 831 -178 84935 19 5710 Total Plays: 386, Total Stations: 32, Adds: 1

27 35 TWISTA fIR. KELLY So Sexy (Atlantic) 751 -310 88266 19 5510 LIL' ROMEO fINICK CANNON My Cinderella (New No Limb Total Plays: 338, Total Stations: 30, Adds: 0 35 36 NEW EDITION Hot 2 Nite (Bad Boy/Universal) 747 -7 88958 13 3411 LIL' & THE EASTSIDE BOYZ fILIL SCRAPPY What U... (TVTI 33 37 LLOYD BANKS I'm So Fly (lnterscope) 628 -223 55494 9 5510 JON Total Plays: 323, Total Stations: 49, Adds: 47

41 KEYSHIA COLE I Changed My Mind (A &M/lnterscope) 595 +39 62123 4 3710 LLOYD BANKS Karma /lnterscopel 38 39 SHAWNNA fILUDACRIS Shake That Sht (DTP/DefJam /IDJMG) 567 -129 98680 10 3110 Total Plays: 318, Total Stations: 48, Adds: 48

(Debut> TERROR SQUAD Take Me Home (Universal) 550 +220 79309 1 4012 N.O.R.E. fININA SKY & DADDY... Oye Mi Canto (Roc- AfellalIDJMG) 43 HOUSTON Ain't Nothing Wrong (Capitol) 549 +48 40969 3 4013 0 Total Plays: 306, Total Stations: 15, Adds: 0 40 42 R. KELLY U Saved Me (Jive /Zomba/ 548 -41 78841 17 4510 PING YANG TWINS Whats Happnin! (TVTI 44 CD URBAN MYSTIC Where Were You? (Sobel 545 +71 41835 9 2511 Total Plays: 284, Total Stations: 21, Adds: 0

(Debut> MARIO Let Me Love You (J/RMG) 531 +200 72291 1 5416 LYFE JENNINGS Stick Up Kid (Columbia)

Total Plays: 272, Total Stations: 30, Adds: 1 37 45 YOUNG BUCK Let Me In (lnterscope) 48C -223 58788 16 5610 AVANT Can't Wait (Geffen) (Debut> cr) EMINEM Just Lose It (Shady/Aftermath /lnterscope) 47E +164 39509 1 510 Total Plays: 231, Total Stations: 39, Adds: 3 (Debut> (1) R. KELLY & JAY.Z Don't Let Me Die (Jive /Roc-Afella//DJMG) 471 +197 39305 1 5217

B.G. I Want It (Choppa City /Koch/ 48 OUTKAST Prototype (Laface/Zomba) 466 +99 26985 2 3811 Total Plays: 223, Total Stations: 8, Adds: 0 39 49 CHRISTINA MILIAN Dip It Low (island/IDJMG) 453 -222 46543 14 2110

45 50 BEENIE MAN King Of The Dancehall (Virgin) 414 -41 121310 7 2310 Songs ranked by total plays

ranked for of 72 Urban reporters. Monitored airplay data supplied by Mediabase Research, a division of Premiere Radio Networrs. Songs by total plays the airplay week Station playlists for all R &R reporters 10/3 -10/9. Bullets appear on songs gaining plays or remaining flat from previous week. If two songs are tied in total plays, the song with the larger increase in plays is placed first. Songs below No. 20 are moved to recurrent after 20 weeks on the chart. Most Added is the total number of Teva adds officially reported to R &R by each reporting are available on the web at station. Songs unreported as adds do not count toward overall total stations playing a song. Most Increased Plays lists the songs with the greatest week -to -week increases www.radioandrecords.com. in total plays. Total Audience equals Average Quarter Hour Persons times number of plays (times 100). Each daypart on each station is assigned an AQH number. Average Quarter Hour Persons used herein with permission from Arbitron Inc. (0 2004, Arbitron Inc.). © 2004, R &R, Inc.

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Pers. Pers. Pers. LAST THIS TOTAL 4I- WEEKS ON TOTAL Artist Title (Label) TW LW Famil. Burn 12 -17 18 -24 25 -34 WEEK WEEK ARTIST -_ PLAYS PLAYS CHART STATIONS

1 KIERRA SHEARO You Don't Know (EMI Gospel) 653 +22 13 2511 USHER & ALICIA KEYS My Boo (Laface /Zomba/ 4.29 4.18 90% 14% 4.17 4.19 4.08 2 FRED HAMMOND Celebrate(HeLives) (Verity) 524 +17 13 2211 TERROR SQUAD Lean Back (Universal) 4.22 4.15 97% 36% 4.26 4.25 4.28 3 JIMMY HICKS... Blessed Like That (World Wide Gospel) 445 +13 13 1911 CIARA f(PETEY PABLO Goodies (Laface /Zomba) 4.13 4.19 98% 30% 4.11 4.12 4.05 4 J MOSS We Must Praise (Gospo Centric) 439 +21 8 2211 NELLY My Place (Derrty/fo'Reel/Universa/) 4.07 4.18 97% 25% 3.95 4.09 3.45 7 DEITRICK HADDON God Is Good (Verity) 437 +46 10 2313 LL COOL J Hush (Bel JamIIDJMG) 4.07 3.88 56% 7% 4.12 4.16 3.96 6 KEITH WONDERBOY... Let Go And Let God (Verity) 435 +35 13 1811 LL COOL J Headsprung (Bet Jam/IDJMGI 4.06 3.97 88% 20% 4.13 4.14 4.12 5 7 NEW BIRTH TOTAL... Suddenly (EM /Gospel) 393 .7 13 2011 TRICK DADDY Let's Go /Slip- NSlide/Atlantic) 4.00 60% 10% 3.95 3.94 4.00 9 R. KELLY U Saved Me (Jive/Zomba) 392 +15 13 1210 FABOLOUS Breathe (Atlantic) 3.98 3.92 65% 9% 4.04 4.07 3.92 0

10 9 ISRAEL... Again I Say Rejoice (Integrity/Vert/cal) 354 -12 13 1610 MASE Breathe, Stretch, Shake (Bad Boy /Universal) 3.96 3.90 81% 16% 3.82 3.87 3.64 8 10 BROTHERS Still Here 344 38 13 1710 T.I. Let's Get Away (Grand Hustle/At /antic) 3.95 3.96 76% 20% 3.96 3.98 3.89 WILLIAMS (Blackberry) .9 1_1 NORWOOD Praise In The Temple (Malaco) 332 13 2012 AKON fISTYLES P. Locked Up (SRC /Universal) 3.92 3.99 85% 28% 3.76 3.74 3.85 11 DOROTHY

DESTINY'S CHILD Lose My Breath (Columbia) 3.92 3.86 81% 14% 3.84 3.86 3.76 12 DONALD LAWRENCE Healed (Verity) 323 +10 5 1712 ALICIA KEYS... Diary (J/RMG) 3.90 3.82 86% 26% 3.97 4.01 3.78 13 NEW DIRECTION I'm Gonna Wave... (Gospo Centric) 321 +8 13 1510 LIE' FLIP Sunshine (Sucka Free /Loud/Columbia) 3.89 4.00 97% 38% 3.89 3.93 3.77 17 TYE TRIBBETT No Way... (Sony Gospel/Columbia) 310 +24 8 1210

LLOYD BANKS I'm So Fly (/nterscope) 3.86 3.89 78% 18% 3.79 3.76 3.86 14 15 ISRAEL... Another Breakthrough (lntegrky/Vertical/ 295 -6 13 1310 JADAKISS fIA. HAMILTON Why (Ruff Rydersllnterscope) 3.80 3.86 83% 32% 3.80 3.78 3.89 15 16 DEANDRE PATTERSON Give Him Glory (Tyscot) 293 6 12 1410 YOUNG BUCK Shorty Wanna Ride (Interscope) 3.77 57% 9% 3.70 3.76 3.52 TONEX fIKIRK FRANKLIN Since Jesus Carne (Verity) 292 +10 13 1110

TWISTA fIR. KELLY So Sexy (Atlantic) 3.75 3.65 87% 32% 3.87 3.94 3.61 2018 L. SPENCER SMITH & TESTAMENT God Will (Emtro) 278 +40 7 1311 JUVENILE fIWACKO & SKIP Nalia Clap (Rap-Alot/Asylum) 3.74 3.69 54% 12% 3.78 3.74 3.88 16 19 STEPHEN HURD Undignified Praise... (Integrity) 276 .20 13 1410

CHINGY Balla Baby (DTP/Capitol) 3.71 53% 11% 3.67 3.79 3.23 21 7 SONS OF SOUL Run On (Verity) 273 +45 10 1211 LIL SCRAPPY No Problem 3.78 78% 23% 3.62 3.50 (BMf/Reprise) 3.69 3.59 22 SMOKIE NORFUL Can't Nobody (EMI Gospel) 248 +21 3 1310 SNOOP DOGO... Drop lt Like It's Hot (Doggy Style/Geffen) 3.69 58% 12% 3.70 3.76 3.48 19 22 JEFF MAJORS Pray (Music One) 238 -11 8 1010 KANYE WEST Jesus Walks (Roc- A-Fe/ /a,%DJMG/ 3.68 3.90 93% 43% 3.59 3.51 3.88 28 JOE PACE We've Come To Praise Him (Integrity) 220 +23 2 1612 NELLY Flap Your Wings (DeMylfo'Reel/Universal) 3.65 3.64 87% 25% 3.54 3.65 3.15 ioebut> GMWA MASS CHOIR Only A Test (GospoCentric) 219 +24 1 1311 LIL' WAYNE Go OJ (Cash Money/Universal) 3.55 3.64 51% 13% 3.59 3.69 3.25 TONEX Make Me Over (Verity) 217 +26 12 1010 ANTHONY HAMILTON Charlene (So So Del/Zomba) 3.54 3.69 54% 16% 3.82 3.86 3.67 23 26 RICKY DILLARD Take Me Back (Crystal Rose) 214 11 12 1210

BODY HEAOBANGERS... I Smoke, I Drink (Universal) 3.50 3.67 42% 9% 3.62 3.57 3.87 BISHOP TDJAKES Take My Life (Dexterity/EM /Gospep 210 +15 3 1512 GUERILLA BLACK fIBEENIE MAN Compton 3.47 3.40 55% 13% 3.53 3.60 3.33 e (Virgin) 26 28 KAREN CLARK -SHEARD I Owe (Atlantic) 208 1 8 910 CRIME MOB Knuck If You Buck (BME/Warner Bros./Reprise) 3.41 3.52 44% 14% 3.41 3.42 3.39 24 29 DOTTIE PEOPLES Still Running (Air Gospel) 208 -16 8 910

Total sample size is 381 respondents. Total average lavorabilily estimates are based on a scale of 1 -5 11= dislike very much. 5= like very 30 JOE PACE... Hallelujah Anyhow (Integrity) 194 -1 7 910 much/. Total familiarity represents the percentage of respondents Who recognized the song. Total bur represents the number of respondents who said they are tired oiearing the song. Songs must have 40% familiarity fo appear on survey. Sample composition is based 33 Gospel reporters. Songs ranked by total plays for the airplay week of Sunday 10/3 - Saturday 10/9. on persons 12.. Persons are screened via the Internet. Once passed. they can take the music test based on the format/music preference. 2004 Radio & Records. RateTheMusic.com results are not meant to replace callout research. The results are intended to show opinions of participants on the the Internet only. RateTheMusic is a registered trademark of RateTheMusic.com. The RTM system, is available for local radio stations by Station playlists for all R &R reporters are available on the web at www.radioandrecords.com. calling 818-377 -5300. RateTheMusic.com data is provided by Mediabase Research. a division of Premiere Radio Networks. Reporters Stations and their adds listed alphabetically by market

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The Independent Revolution come out at that time, you get pushed back. R &R radio DJs for the hottest asks records jumping off. And pushed It Continued from Page 31 back. could take as long as two years for your stuff to come out. tha independent label Unity Records, owned by "What a lot of artists don't realize is that Sanchez Tolliver. The album, Nuthin' on TV, you can have a hit record and still not be mak- has spawned a single, "Let's Get Together." ing any money personally. Most labels are off "Originally, I was spending a million dollars on marketing alone looking to get signed to - that doesn't even factor in recording costs. elif a major label," St. The label has to make all that back before you DJ Phantom DJ Phantom George says. "I was get a penny for yourself. Mix -Show DJ, WGCI /Chicago rV working with a pro- "The major labels are in the business of hip- ReII's "Real Love" ReII (Roc- A- Fella/IDJMG): It's a real nice groove. ducer out of the Prince hop only for the money. The culture of hip - The industry needs more R&B that has a smooth hip -hop sound. It's camp who had a pro- hop, which artists like myself are trying to hella soulful. The old- school flava with the old Tribe Called Quest beat duction deal with grow, is not the focus of the music industry. really makes this one work. a Slum Village f /Kanye West and Arista. But in 2001 I So we serve a very specific hip -hop fan. Common's "Selfish (Remix)" (Capitol): Soul is in, but hip -hop is on ev- chose to sign with "The music industry is more concerned ery corner. So when you can find soul that doesn't lose the hip -hop St. George Unity instead. I made with putting out the same thing over and over whatever is hot at the moment so heads, you've got a hit. It's good to break up all the gangsta and hard - that decision because I - - that core vibes. This is a Kanye breakthrough -a great radio hit. Fat wanted to be able to do what I wanted with- they can capitalize on a trend and benefit fi- Joe & Notorious B.I.G.'s "Lean Back (Remix)" (SRC /Universal): This out a label trying to fit me into a box. A lot of nancially. I'd like to stay true to what is great one is a no- braider, no explanation necessary. It's great to hear a fresh times the artistry is secondary at a major. about hip -hop, and, hopefully, the result of song with Biggie. It sounds like Biggie laid down these lyrics just for "Radio is still a challenge, understandably. will allow me to this song. Diszwone's "Serrous" (Beatman): This is my second time I find that even if a PD loves the music, they that benefit financially. mentioning this one, because this song continues to be a street hit and may not run to put your track in because "Would I consider a a club banger. With a video coming soon, this song just keeps on you're a new artist and you're unfamiliar. But label deal today for my bangin'. Produced by Naki The Beatman of WGCI (107.5) /Chicago, this I'm encouraged that people believe we have company? That's diffi- song is a party starter. It's a bounce song with a catchy hook, and the a good product. We're on in New Orleans and cult to say, because you ladies love it. Naki and Diszwone are doing big things in Chicago. Look Charlotte, which are significant markets. have to look at what's out for them to be the next big names out of the Chi. "I think the industry has lost sight of good musicianship. With hip -hop, labels learned happening there. Most Cormega they could have it produced very cheaply and labels are consolidating then make a lot of money on it. But with R &B, or restructuring, so it may not be the wisest a little more investment is called for. So what move. has happened is that R &B artists have been 'That's why so many independent labels forced to carve out their own little niche and are thriving. At the same time, artists have to really superserve that niche with good, qual- understand that it's different with an indie. ity music. What I would like programmers to You have to work harder. The success of your know is that I am committed to that niche. I'm career falls more on your own shoulders. You dedicated to my music." have to grind. You're the player and the coach." Cormega Founder, Legal Hustle Records TALK BACK TO R &R! Originally signed to Def Jam, Cormega made the decision to become an entrepreneur Do you have questions, comments and debut his own label so he could be in con- or feedback regarding this column trol of his own destiny. or other issues? "I learned a great deal while I was on Def Jam," Cormega says. "I learned a lot about Call me at 201 -656 -3431 THE PERFECT FORMULA SoBe Entertainment's 4mulal are four young men with a formula how the business works and how it's not al- or e-mail: for success. They recently performed at Club R &R in Los Angeles. Pictured here (l -r) are 4mulal 's ways in the best interest of the artist. G1000 and Al, R &R's Maria Parker and 4mulai s Chaos and Emaze. "For example, if your project is scheduled [email protected] to come out and the label's top artist wants to

Urban AC Reporters Stations and their adds fisted alphabetically by market

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www.americanradiohistory.com 35 POWERED ( URBAN AC TOP 30,, 4EDIABASE w October 15, 2004 TOTAL ./- TOTAL WEEKS ON TOTAL STATIONS Most Added WEEK WEEK ARTIST TITLE LABEL(S PLAYS PLAYS AUDIENCE CHART ADDS too) www rradds.com 1 O ALICIA KEYS fITONY, TONI, TONE & JERMAINE PAUL Diary (J/RMG) 1547 +63 157122 19 4310

2 2 PRINCE Call My Name (Columbia) 1272 -14 137709 22 4610 ARTIST TITLE LABEL(S) ADDS 3 0 ANITA BAKER You're My Everything (Blue Note/EMC) 1250 +78 144164 16 4810 GERALD LEVERT One Million Times (Atlantic) 27 EARTH, WIND & FIRE fIR. SAADIQ Show Me... (Sanctuary/SRG) 18 4 0 BRIAN MCKNIGHT What We Do Here (Motown) 1086 +42 112449 16 4810 AVANT Can't Wait (Geffen) 12 5 5 LUTHER VANDROSS Think About You (J/RMG) 985 .13 121928 47 4810 O'JAYS Make Up (Music World/SRG) 6 7 6 TEENA MARIE Still In Love (Cash Money 929 '5 93584 34 4710 /Universal) ANITA BAKER Flow Does It Feel (BlueNote/Virgin) 5 18 4410 6 7 JILL SCOTT Golden (Hidden Beach /Epic) 902 .67 91469 NORMAN BROWN I Might (Warner Bros.) 3 8 0 PATTI LABELLE & RONALD ISLEY Gotta Go Solo (Del Soul/IDJMG) 893 +9 95841 11 4710 JOSS STONE Spoiled (SCmve /EMC) 3 URBAN MYSTIC Where Were You? (Sobel 2 9 9 R. KELLY U Saved Me (Jive/Zomba) 824 -29 74235 17 4110 TOSHI Breaking Through (Epic) 2

10 10 ALICIA KEYS If I Ain't Got You (J/RMG) 703 -37 105415 33 4010 JILL SCOTT Whatever, Whenever (Hidden Beach/Epicl 2 13 Q T. MARIE fIG. LEVERT A Rose By Any Other Name (Cash Money/Universal) 609 +27 69903 6 4411 12 12 KEM Love Calls (Motown /Universal) 599 -5 57035 88 3710

11 13 BOYZ II MEN What You Won't Do For Love 014,5714/Koch/ 570 -65 48516 14 3610 16 0 TAMYRA GRAY Raindrops Will Fall (19/Sobel 508 +46 35478 12 3610 Most 15 15 R. KELLY Happy People (Jive/Zomba) 507 5 67382 30 2110 Increased Plays 17 D VAN HUNT Down Here In Hell iWith You) (Capitol) 433 +17 37586 14 3511 TOTAL 19 NORMAN BROWN I Might (Warner Bros.) 391 +20 28760 6 3313 PLAY TITLE LABELS) INCREASE 24 0 O'JAYS Make Up (Music World/SRG) 371 +127 31053 2 3116 ARTIST ANITA BAKER How Does It Feel (Blue Note/Vngin) +128 20 19 ANGIESTONE U -Haul (J/RMG) 360 -7 42386 9 3110 O'JAYS Make Up (Music World/SRG) +127 22 NELLY My Place (0errty /.Fo'Reel/Universa /) 353 +72 28424 6 910 OMARION fIBIG BOl Never Gonna Let You Go... (Epic) +79 26 ANITA BAKER How Does It Feel (Blue Note /VÜginl 342 +128 28528 2 3815 a ANITA BAKER You're My Everything (Blue Note/EMCI +78 18 22 BONEY JAMES fIBILAL Better With Time (Warner Bros.) 341 -64 24424 15 2810 NELLY My Place (Derry/fo'Ree//Universal) +72

21 23 LALAH HATHAWAY Forever, For Always, For Love (GRP/VMG) 317 -2 26633 6 3011 JOSS STONE Spoiled (S-Curve/EMC) +64 A. KEYS fITONY, TONI, TONE & J. PAUL Diary (J/RMG) +63 27 ED JOSS STONE Spoiled (SCurve/EMC) 262 +64 15006 4 2313 MARVIN GAYE Let's Get It On, Let's Step... (Independent) +60 23 25 AMEL LARRIEUX For Real (Bliss life) 220 -26 36013 8 710 KINDRED THE FAMILY SOUL Stars (Hidden Beach) +48 28 USHER & ALICIA KEYS My Boo dab-ace/Zomba) 212 +27 15627 3 1910 TAMYRA GRAY Raindrops Will Fall (19/Sobe) +46 25 27 TAMIA Still (Atlantic) 187 -37 12828 9 1810

30 URBAN MYSTIC Where Were You? (Sobel 172 +10 3792 3 1412

USHER Confessions Part 2 (Lai-ace /Zomba) 163 +42 21288 7 210 R. KELLY Red Carpet (Jive/Zomba) 163 +29 31394 2 110 Most

51 Urban AC reporters. Monitored airplay data sLpplied by Mediabase Research, a division of Premiere Radio Networks. Songs ranked by total plays for the airplay week Played Recurrents of 10/3 -10/9. Bullets appear on songs gaining plays or remaining flat from previous week. If two songs are tied in total plays, the song with the larger increase in plays is TOTAL placed first. Songs below No. 15 are moved to recurrent after 20 weeks on the chart. Most Added is the total number of new adds officially reported to R &R by each ARTIST TITLE LABELIS) PLAYS reporting station. Songs unreported as adds do not count toward overall total stations playing a song. Most Increased Plays lists the songs with the greatest week-to -week increases in total plays. Total Audience equals Average Quarter Hour Persons times number of plays (times 100). Each daypart on each station is assigned an AOH number. ANTHONY HAMILTON Charlene (So So Del/Zomba) 487 Average Quarter Hour Persons used herein with permission from Arbitron Inc. (© 2004, Arbitron Inc.). © 2004, R &R, Inc. PATTI LABELLE New Day (DelSoul/IDJMG) 470 New &Active MONICA U Should've Known Better (J /RMG) 329 SMOKIE NORFUL I Need You Now (EM/Gaspe/) 296 USHER Burn (LaFace /Zomba) 256 FANTASIA I Believe (J/RMG) ST. GEORGE let's Get Together (Unity)

Total Plays: 128, Total Stations: 10, Adds: 0 Total Plays: 76, Total Stations: 9, Adds: 0 HEATHER HEADLEY I Wish I Wasn't (RCA/RMG) 247 RAPHAEL SAADIO Rifle Love (Pookie/Navarre) BILLY MILES Sunshine (Aezra/EMI) LUTHER VANDROSS Dance With My Father (J/RMG) 233

Total Plays: 126, Total Stations: 12, Adds: 0 Total Plays: 59, Total Stations: 8, Adds: 0 L. VANDROSS WI BEYONCE' The Closer I Get To You (J/RMG) 233

REGINA BELLE For The Love Of You (Peak) QUE & MALAIKA P In The Funk /EGO MUSIQ Whaknovrs (DelSouf/IDMG) 232

Total Plays: 110, Total Stations: 15, Adds: 0 Total Plays: 56, Total Stations: 5, Adds: 13 ALICIA KEYS You Don't Know My Name (J/RMG) 222 EARTH, WIND & FIRE RAPHAEL SAADID Show Me The Way (Sanctuary/NW GERALD LEVERT One Million Times (Atlantic) Total Plays: 84, Total Stations: 18, Adds: 18 Total Plays: 41, Total Stations: 29, Adds: 27 Station playlists for all R &R reporters JANET JACKSON R &B Junkie (Virgin) TOSHI Breaking Through (Epic) are available on the web at Total Plays: 81, Total Stations: 7, Adds: 0 Total Plays: 19, Total Stations: 5, Adds: 2 www.radioandrecords.com. Songs ranked by total plays EXPOSE YOURSELF EventTape" BunchaBanners' FlashBags' BumperStickers Ponchos FirstFlash! KeyTags L I N E StadiumCups 6528 Constitution Drive Fort Wayne, Indiana 46804 Fax: [260) 436 -6739 www.firstflash.com 1- 800 -21 FLASH 1-800 -213 -5274

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"Indies are going to have to be much more careful and pick and choose their mainstream shots more carefully as the cost of doing business in that arena continues to rise." A Tale Of Two Indies Nick Hunter The business models of Koch and Equity

el unlike any previously attempted in every year you're down, it's seven Doing business as an independent country label has chart. Third is Dolly Parton, at 3,365 Nashville. President Mike Kraski years of your life. never been easy. More than at any other format, major units and No. 377 overall. explains: "Ours is a partnership- "We're motivated by our own self- labels have dominated Country radio airplay, country "My point is, those were the only based model. The artists own their ish best interest to stay invested in independent country records selling an artist's career even when she sales and charts. the national country more than 2,2.6 units that week. doesn't have a current project be- That doesn't mean a record can't cause we get those back sides. Recent years have seen a number to dictate much more what the small come on there and stay there, but on They're not significant back sides, of independent labels open their markets would play. Other second- the whole it's hard to stay in business but they're enough to make it worth doors and compete head -to-head aries changed formats. in the mainstream world selling so our while." with the big boys with varying de- "At about that same time CMT few copies while having to spend grees of success. Much of an indie la- changed from a music -video -based $100,000 to promote a record. The Jury Is Still Out bel's viability depends on its busi- format to a long- form -program- "If you're spending that much to Equity also began as a main- ness model. Recently we have seen ming -based format. When all of that promote a record and X amount to masters and get paid on a dollar-per- stream label, in that it planned from some radical approaches to the indie happened, we had no choice but to market it, and you end up selling unit basis for every unit scanned in- the beginning to take its artists to label business. This week we take an change." 40,0000 units o: so over the course stead of on a royalty-based system major stations and to target the na- in -depth look at a couple of labels, The Model Changes of a number of weeks and then it using shipments and returns and tional charts with its music. That Koch and Equity, that have taken falls off the indie sales chart and isn't holdbacks and reserves. meant starting out with a fully two different paths. The changes forced on Koch's selling 2,200 units a week anymore, "It's a much more straightfor- staffed promotion department. business From Secondaries model by the shifting radio it becomes a tough business to justi- ward, transparent contractual rela- Asked where Equity is today vis and CMT landscape centered To Mainstream fr,, tionship. In addition, very few a vis its original plan, Kraski says, around the promotion department. Partnering Up things are recoupable in comparison "That's the way we're still doing Koch /Nashville opened its doors "To make this work in light of chang- to major labels, and they get 100% on business; nothing's changed." over five years ago with a es around us, we knew A number of indies, including the controlled composition, which is a And how does he assess that far different business we had to get more main- two profiled here, have business big issue, from an artist's viewpoint. model's success thus far? "From an model than it operates stream," says Hunter. models that make the artist a part- "Creatively, we're different from outside -looking -in vantage point, I'd under today. The original "That's when we ner in publishing, touring, merchan- a lot of major labels. Our head of is still we're _i say the jury out, because plan, according to label brought in [VP /Promo- dise, etc. Is that an option for Koch? A &R [Tim Wipperman] isn't permit- still too young," he says. "We President and co-founder tion] Jack Purcell and ex- "Not for me, it isn't," says Hunter. ted to produce any acts on our ros- haven't had enough product in the Nick Hunter, was to pat- panded to a full promo- "Unless the record is big, you're not ter and doesn't get points on artists marketplace or had it out long tern a country label after tion team. Over the last going to make any money anyway. he's signed, so that eliminates agen- enough to prove the model. We're Atlanta -based CMC Rec- couple of years we've "I've always felt that publishing das. Artists aren't allowed to use ser- just getting started. The first year is ords gone more mainstream, and personal appearances are some- vices or facilities in which we have more about building an organization "They were signing old Nick Hunter targeting the major sta- thing the artist has earned, and we an interest unless they represent a than product flow. It takes years to rock bands and getting tions with music from have no right to it and no business cost savings. build a roster. airplay on fringe CHR stations and David Lee Murphy and Restless trying to take it. That's my "If we have a financial "We're getting a lot of top -shelf Oldies stations, and they were sell- Heart, among others." personal belief, and that's stake in a song being artists coming here because they've ing a lot of records," he says. "[Co- Koch has found mainstream radio why we wouldn't do it. If pitched, it needs to be di- heard about - and applaud - the founder and artist manager] Simon and chart success with its new mod- they want to work out a vulged to recognize that business model. There are also a lot Renshaw [who is no longer with the el, notching a top five hit with Mur- publishing deal where we there's a conflict of inter- of managers of name acts who have label] and I wondered why that phy's "Loco" and charting Restless have their publishing and est. It's about the music come and talked to us, but they want model wouldn't work for country. Heart's debut Koch single. But going do the administration, I being pure and honest. to see the model developed a little We started this label in 1999 and be- more mainstream also means spend- would do that, but I It's about signing an art- more, so the jury is still out for them. gan to put records out in 2000. ing more money. Can an indie make wouldn't ask for it, and I ist because you believe in "On the inside, watching this "Our plan was to deal primarily money in today's environment? wouldn't demand it. his creative vision. Our thing develop, I know we're on the with secondary Country stations "That said, however, I Mike Kraski job is to help them artic- right track, and I know it's going to and CMT, which was then music - know some of the majors ulate that creative vision, work and that it's going to be a spec- video-based without as much long - are starting tc think along those not to dictate it to them. tacular success. But we're still too form programming as it has today. lines. That will probably be done in '7n exchange for what is generous young to have proven the model fi- And it worked. We've sold almost records the next generation of this business on one side from a business, finan- nancially. 85,000 Kentucky Headhunter units, as the costs of getting a record played cial and relationship vantage point, "Take Carolina Rain. It'll be anoth- which, based on our business mod- do nothing but increase in the corn- it's important that we get something er five months before we get an al- el, made everybody some money. "I'm not sure they can," says Hun- ing years." in return on the back side. So, we get burn in the marketplace. It'll be an- "Our Loretta Lynn record sold ter. "To run a record up the charts to- As the radio and record environ- a piece of touring, merchandising, other year of building subsequent over 100,000 units, and a Charlie day costs over $100,000 - more, in ment continues to change, Hunter is sponsorships and what have you singles and selling albums before Daniels live record was also over many cases. A small label has to sell once again questioning the efficacy that this company has a stake in with they generate a touring base where 100,000. None of those were main - enough records to make it worth- of the indie business model. "Indies the artists we've signed to the label. we benefit on the back side of things. stream-radio-based records. We got while. are going to have to be much more What that does is change us from That's what I mean by the jury is still airplay on secondary stations, and "Take a look at the Soundscan in- careful and pick and choose their being a record company into being out." CMT embraced the videos. And, we dependent sales chart. There are mainstream shots more carefully as a career -development company. made money." three country records in the top 50: the cost of doing business in that are- "Typically, what you see at major Disappearing Advantages "Then consolidation began to eat Cledus T. Judd at No. 16, with 5,389 na continues to rise," he says. labels is that the minute a project is That begs the question of whether would up lots of those secondary stations, units sold. That be No. 225 on Staying The Course deemed over, they stop working an there's enough money coming in to which changed what they played. the overall Soundscan sales chart. act until there's a new recording. keep things going until everything Many tightened their playlists a Next is Mark Chesnutt, at 4,448 units The Equity Music Group launched There can be a lot of downtime. To whole lot. The national charts began and No. 271 on the overall sales in August 2003 with a business mod- an artist, it's like dog years - for Continued on Page 41

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Label: Mercury Single: "Baby Girl" Album: Twice the Speed of Life From The Artist's Producer: Garth Fundis Release Date: Oct. 26, 2004 Meet Sugarland: Jennifer Nettles, lead vocals; Kristen Hall, acoustic guitar, harmony vocals; Kristian Bush, mandolin, harmony Perspective vocals Hometown: Jennifer - Douglas, GA, now Atlanta; Kristen - Atlanta; Kristian - Sevierville, TN, now Decatur, GA A look at labels from both sides of the major /indie fence Favorite Sports Team: Jennifer, Atlanta Braves; Kristen, Los Angeles Lakers; Kristian, Tennessee Vols çrfc` . Birthday: Jennifer, Sept. 12; Kristen, Oct. 26; Kristian, March 14 ith a few exceptions, aspiring artists don't grow talked, then he slammed his book shut Influences: Jennifer- Juice Newton, Linda Ronstadt, James up dreaming of being "Small Indie Records recording and said, 'Why am I going to give you Taylor, The Eagles, Emmylou Harris, traditional gospel; Kristen - The a record deal? You'll never be able to artist John Doe." A little experience teaches them, how- Beatles, Jackson Browne, Neil Young, Carole King; Kristian - The pay back all the money we'll have to Police, The Replacements, Steve Earl, R.E.M. ever, that while majors have the name recognition and spend on you. Let me call Michael The Day Music Changed Your Life: Jennifer says, "I was about 6 power, they aren't for everyone. Their model, like any Koch. You makea record yourself and the first time I stepped on a stage to sing in our church Christmas let them distribute it. You'll make pageant. I was hooked on the exchange of music and spirit and energy other, has its limitations, creating a space in which in- with an audience from that moment." money from sale one.' Kristen says, "Music changes dependent record companies can thrive. "I told him that was great but that I my life every day. A song can didn't have the kind of money it would While some independent -label I've got a better grip on making other create a subtle shift of emotions, advantages are obvious - smaller people laugh than any label VP." take to make an album. He said, 'I'll and suddenly I'm seeing the whole rosters, more interaction and lower Judd turned to another indepen- give you the money myself.' That was world differently." operating costs - others are unex- dent, Koch, when Sony released him. one of the nicest, most thoughtful Kristian says, "I was 4 years pected. Comedian Cledus T. Judd, "Sony's John Grady dropped me for things I've ever heard in this town. old. My mom asked if I wanted to speaking about his early days on an Gretchen Wilson," he quips. "I'll nev- Luke cared enough not to sign me. I play the violin. I answered, 'Yes, independent, says, "It's important to er understand that." ended up not doing what he suggest- sure.' She told me that I had to wait until the next day to make my suffer and struggle. You have to drive ed, but how great a thing is that?" decision because learning to play 600 miles in your own car to do a Nicest No was going to take a lot of work, and morning show, only to get there and Judd says that his new label has Pointy-Boot Alert that I should think about it while I have them tell you they changed trusted him "They Like Judd, David Lee Murphy sees creatively. said, slept. Hard concept for a 4 -year- Sugarland their mind and don't want you on." 'Here's the money. Enjoy yourself, and both sides of the indie /major question. old. That was my last day not being bring us a funny record,'" Judd says. "I had no complaints at MCA," he says. a musician. Kinda cool." Cledus T. & "You'd think after seven years I'd be "Everybody from Tony Brown and Five -Minute Life Story: Jennifer says, 'Virgo, oldest of three, The Smiling Suits on the way down, but this is the fast- Bruce Hinton on down was always started performing at 6 in church and school and for years was in a 4 -H Though comedy is in many ways a est- selling album I've ever great to work with. And I performing arts troupe. Got my first guitar at 17 and began writing much different business from music, had, bigger than anything had a lot of creative free- songs. Went to Agnes Scott College for a degree in anthropology with a Spanish minor. Studied in Mexico and traveled extensively in Central Judd's journey from independent to I ever had at Razor & Tie or dom. The positive aspect of America. My first college band was called Soul Minor's Daughter, major and back has lessons for every- Sony. It's all about having being with a smaller indie second was The Jennifer Nettles Band. My husband is a West Point one. His first four records were released the right record deal. Just is that there aren't as many graduate who owns Eddie's Attic in Decatur, GA." York -based acts. You have a closer re- on New Razor & Tie. "I because you're signed to Kristen says, "Born in Detroit, the youngest of three. Honed my sold a little over a million records on Sony doesn't mean it's the lationship, as far as person- musical chops on the family's player piano - my big number was 'The al attention." an independent that never thought right deal." Bells of St. Mary.' I started playing electric guitar when I was 12, and at

about having a country act," Judd says. As much as the indepen- Now on Koch, Murphy 16 I waited tables until I could afford my first acoustic guitar. Then I saw

"I never had a charted single and still dent scene fits him, Judd likes the increased weight Foster & Lloyd on Austin City Limits and decided I wanted to perform. sold a million records. knows that majors have Cledus T. Judd his opinion carries. "Major Started writing songs, got a publishing deal, got a record deal, lost a "When my time was up with Razor their positive aspects as labels like to have a lot of record deal, wrote a hit, moved to Los Angeles, lost a publishing deal, moved back to Atlanta, decided to focus more on writing country music Sr Tie, I was so excited to have a shot at well. "[Former Sony exec] Mike Kras- control over everything from pictures to and enjoyed it so much that I decided to put a band together and called a deal with a major. I did three records ki single -handedly saved my career," songs to production. I can get things it Sugarland." with Sony and didn't have near the he says. "CMT wasn't going to play more the way I like them here simply Kristian says, "Oldest of two, raised in the shadow of the Smoky success had at independent. comedy went because there aren't as many people as I'd an anymore, and Mike to Mountains and the family business, Bush Brothers Cannery, makers of Combined units at Sony bat for me. So the majors you get with a big corporation Bush's Baked Beans. Although next in line by birth to run the company, "The here wanted were close to 400,000, which do have a little more pow- guys over me to I instead became one of the first children to participate in the pilot is still a lot of records." er to act on your behalf like bring the best record I could bring. program for the Suzuki method of musical training in the early '70s as a Judd attributes his that. It's just a matter of They trusted my judgment on the al- violinist. Signed my first major -label recording contract with Atlantic as struggles at Sony to the la- whether they'll do it or bum I wanted to make, so that's what half of the folk rock duo Billy Pilgrim. Left the label and came off the bel's heavy-handedness. not." I gave them. And then I didn't have road in 1996, got married in 1998 and had a son in 2002. Signed with UMG/Nashville in 2003." "They would not allow me Judd also cites a major to worry about 'Is he going to wear a Best Thing So Far: Jennifer says, "Being able to write and perform to be funny," he says. label's refusal to give him cowboy hat? His sideburns are too my music for the past 10 years and sustain that career while supporting "They kind of watch over a deal as one of the better long. His jeans are too faded. Uhoh, my family as a musician." you. 'No, you can't say twists of his career. "When he's wearing pointy-toed cowboy Kristen says, "Opening for Vince Gill." that. No, you can't do this. Davi d Lee I was shopping I met with boots.' You get more of that on a ma- Kristian says, "That my career is still going. I am really lucky to have This isn't politically cor- Mur phy Luke Lewis about getting jor. There are so many different opin- lightning strike twice in my life and, strangely enough, in two completely red.' I'm not smarter than a deal at Universal," he ions to contend with." different musical circles." record executives, but I am funnier. says. "I played him a few things, we Murphy has felt the absence of ma- Worst Thing: Jennifer says, "As in any business, I've come across jor -label muscle, however. "You miss some difficult and dishonest people. The disappointment of learning the deeper pockets, that huge finan- that not everyone is kind and truthful has been hardest for me." cial capability, especially in the mar- Kristen says, "Airports." Kristian says, "Getting used to being away from my 2- year-old son." ketplace," he says. "There's a big dif- "I'm not smarter than record executives, but I Album You're Embarrassed To Own: Jennifer says, "ABBA." ference in terms of competing at retail. Kristen says, "I'm sure someone could be embarrassed by a We had a top five record. Radio was am funnier. I've got a better grip on making couple, but I'm not." right there with us, but at retail you Kristian says, "William Shatner." other people laugh than any label VP." see a difference." Album You Wore Out: Jennifer says, "James Taylor's Sweet Baby Those disappointments are tem- James and Tori Amos' Little Earthquakes." Cledus T. Judd pered, however, by something that Kristen says, "Most recently, Flutterby by Butterfly Boucher." rarely happens at a major. "I own my Kristian says, "U2's Joshua Tree? masters," Murphy says.

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LAST TOTAL 6 TOTAL 4.1. TOTOAU O. ,I. AUD. WEEKS TOTAL WEEK ARTIST TITLE LABEL(S POINTS POINTS PLAYS PLAYS A E ADDS Most Added® 1 0 SARA EVANS Suds In The Bucket (RCA) 12593 291 4550 +168 424003 7492 25 11310 www.rradds. corn 3 GEORGE STRAIT I Hate Everything (MCA) 12124 915 4429 +348 400593 27031 15 11210 0 ARTIST TITLE L4BELIS ADDS 2 3 KEITH URBAN Days Go By (Capitol) 11049 1077 3981 -380 376737 -43085 17 11310 ALAN JACKSON Monday Morning Church (Arista) 40 4 4 GRETCHEN WILSON Here For The Party (Epic) 10397 -255 3808 -47 345044 15823 19 11310 ANDY GRIGGS If Heaven (RCA) 21

BRAD PAISLEY Mud On The Tires 5 © PHIL VASSAR In A Real Love (Arista) 9567 619 3390 +254 321384 10959 24 11210 (Arista/ 12 MIRANDA LAMBERT Me And Charlie Talking (Epic) 12 8 0 TOBY KEITH Stays In Mexico (DreamWorks) 9535 824 3417 +300 317977 13997 11 11310 TIM MCGRAW Back When (Curb) 11 9 BROOKS & DUNN That's What It's All About (Arista) 8790 256 3193 +96 301388 12495 16 11310 O BIG & RICH Holy Water (Warner Bros.) 11 7 8 RASCAL FLATTS Feels Like Today (Lyric Street) 8574 .318 3010 108 291755 12246 18 11310 JAMIE O'NEAL Trying To Find Atlantis (Capitol) I1 MARK CHESNUTT 11 Q LONESTAR Mr. Mom (BNA) 8351 597 2938 +222 282699 23594 14 11010 I'm A Saint (Vivatanl 11 JULIE ROBERTS The Chance (Mercury) 11 10 0 GARY ALLAN Nothing On But The Radio (MCA) 8129 326 2949 +143 273498 15835 18 111/0 12 0 JOE NICHOLS If Nobody Believed In You (Universal South) 7191 72 2800 +35 241226 5174 29 112/0 13 ® KENNY CHESNEY The Woman With You (BNA/ 7014 822 2520 +257 235139 34575 7 11312 6 13 A. JACKSON Too Much Of A Good Thing Is A Good Thing (Arista) 6546 -2375 2405 .863 200469 83178 18 11110 Most 15 0 DIERKS BENTLEY How Am I Doin' (Capitol) 6359 515 2420 +153 201022 20042 22 10912 Increased Points 14 TRACE Rough Ready 0 ADKINS & (Capitol) 6336 252 2298 +46 203228 14384 25 10710 TOTAL POINT 16 0 BLAKE SHELTON Some Beach (Warner Bros.) 5942 938 2080 +292 181696 24384 11 10914 ARTIST TITLE LABEL(S) INCREASE +1833 21 0 TIM MCGRAW Back When (Curb) 5575 1833 1901 +580 191351 51700 7 104111 TIM MCGRAW Back When (Curb) BLAKE SHELTON Some Beach (Warner Bros.) +938 19 0 DARRYL WORLEY Awful, Beautiful Life (DreamWorks) 4891 340 1693 +101 147558 9859 15 10211 GEORGE STRAIT I Hate Everything (MCA) +915 18 S. TWAIN WI B. CURRINGTON Party For Two (Mercury) 4871 251 1767 +151 148705 4709 6 10114 0 TOBY KEITH Stays In Mexico (DreamWorks) +824 20 SHEDAISY Come Home Soon (Lyric Street) 4728 261 1719 +106 147061 12324 15 10210 KENNY CHESNEY The Woman With You (BNA) +822 25 ® J. BUFFETT W. MCBRIDE Trip Around The Sun (RCA /Mailboat) 3695 769 1172 +228 110868 15384 8 9016 J. BUFFETT FN. MCBRIDE Trip Around The Sun (RCA/Mailboat) +769 ALAN JACKSON Monday Morning Church (Arista) +732 17 22 JIMMY WAYNE You Are (DreamWorks) 3550 -1314 1295 -478 115061 -40588 26 10410 REBA MCENTIRE He Gets That From Me (MCA) +631 23 LEANN RIMES Nothin' 'Bout Love Makes Sense (Asylum/Curb) 3478 372 1280 +170 114221 16290 7 10119 ® PHIL VASSAR In A Real Love (Arista) +619 22 0 MONTGOMERY GENTRY You Do Your Thing (Columbia) 3469 233 1351 +59 96519 280 13 10112 LONESTAR Mr. Mom (BNA) +597 26 e REBA MCENTIRE He Gets That From Me (MCA) 3104 631 1139 +190 94443 17502 8 9213 24 26 BLUE COUNTY That's Cool (Asylum/Curb) 2852 -81 1160 -35 76794 1424 20 9311

27 T. TRITT flJ. MELLENCAMP What Say You (Columbia) 2390 177 841 +64 75957 9242 7 8218 +196 Most 34 0 BRAD PAISLEY Mud On The Tires (Arista) 2235 563 802 68193 16144 5 82112 32 e BIG & RICH Holy Water (Warner Bros.) 2106 285 737 +78 68494 15375 3 79111 Increased Plays TOTAL 28 30 TRICK PONY The Bride (Asylum /Curb) 2094 -8 840 -7 54937 .656 16 7610 PLAY ARTIST INCREASE 33 ® PAT GREEN Don't Break My... (Universal/Republic /Mercury) 2011 197 678 +93 60520 2558 9 6418 TIM MCGRAW Back When (Curb) +580 31 KATRINA ELAM No End In Sight (Universal South) 1846 10 732 +17 49564 2415 13 8016

GEORGE STRAIT I Hate Everything (MCA) +348 Breaker Baby Girl 1845 186 726 +61 53967 12 6811 SUGARLAND (Mercury) 5192 TOBY KEITH Stays In Mexico (DreamWorks) +300 Breaker 0 JOSH GRACIN Nothin' To Lose (Lyric Street) 1842 291 700 +143 51329 12472 6 7418 BLAKE SHELTON Some Beach (Warner Bros.) +292 +272 29 35 RESTLESS HEART Feel My Way To You (Koch) 1629 375 654 -100 44128 -12294 13 6610 ALAN JACKSON Monday Morning Church (Arista) KENNY CHESNEY The Woman With You (BNA) +257 38 0 BILLY DEAN Let Them Be Little (Curb) 1305 216 570 +82 33473 1445 6 6115 PHIL VASSAR In A Real Love (Arista) +254 TRENT -13 10 5911 37 37 WILLMON Dixie Rose Deluxe's... (Columbia) 1135 33 482 24773 -313 J. BUFFETT VM. MCBRIDE Trip Around The Sun (RCA/Mailboat) +228 50 0 ALAN JACKSON Monday Morning Church (Arista) 1121 732 380 +272 37050 25811 2 62140 LONESTAR Mr. Mom (BNA) +222 Mud The +196 48 0 JAMIE O'NEAL Trying To Find Atlantis (Capitol) 810 375 334 +180 22548 9636 2 48111 BRAD PAISLEY On Tires (Arista) toeb t> 0 MIRANDA LAMBERT Me And Charlie Talking (Epic) 805 519 254 +192 19284 10642 1 40112 40 41 CATHERINE BRITT The Upside Of Being Down (RCA) 755 -1 323 .3 17195 654 8 5613 39 42 JENKINS Getaway Car (Capitol) 741 -128 296 -36 17614 3347 9 4510 Breakers IDebut> a SHELLY FAIRCHILD You Don't Lie Here Anymore (Columbia) 597 334 252 +140 9938 3726 1 4018 SUGARLAND 44 0 RACHEL PROCTOR Where I Belong (BNA) 597 77 282 +32 9609 334 4 4013 Baby Girl (Mercury) 43 0 DUSTY DRAKE I Am The Working Man (Warner Bros.) 553 1 253 -8 12233 1956 3 4110 1 Adds Moves 3533 47 0 JEFF BATES Long, Slow Kisses (RCA) 523 85 213 +36 12107 1314 2 2913 JOSH GRACIN 49 0 TRENT WILLMON The Good Life (Columbia) 502 79 88 +29 16639 927 11 010 Nothin' To Lose (Lyric Street) 46 48 CAROLINA RAIN I Ain't Scared (Equity Music Group) 479 -3 225 .1 12016 .101 3 3614 8 Adds Moves 3634 45 49 KEVIN FOWLER Ain't Drinkin' Anymore (Equity Music Group) 424 -58 103 -9 12981 -2233 5 810

(Debut> TRACY BYRD Revenge Of A Middle -Aged Woman (BNA) 415 235 156 +89 11229 6521 1 3019 0 Songs ranked by total plays 113 Country reporters. Monitored airplay data supplied by Mediabase Research, a division of Premiere Radio Networks. Songs ranked by total points for the airplay week of 10/3 -10/9. Bullets appear on songs gaining points and /or plays or remaining flat from previous week. If two songs are tied in total points. the song with the larger Station playlists for all R &R reporters increase in points is placed first. Songs below No. 1 and down in points and plays for three consecutive weeks are moved to recurrent. Most Added is the total number of new adds officially reported to R &R by each reporting station. Songs unreported as adds do not count toward overall total stations playing a song. Most Increased Points are available on the web at lists the songs with the greatest week -to -week increases in total points.Station Weight = AQH Persons + (Market rank X 10) divided by 4180. Total Audience equals Average www.radioandrecords.com. Quarter Hour Persons times number of plays (times 100). Each daypart on each station is assigned an AQH number. Average Quarter Hour Persons used herein with permission from Arbitran Inc. (0 2004, Arbitron Inc.). 02004, R&R, Inc. Own Your Events If no one can see your signs, do they know who staged the event? Make sure you claim ownership at all your events with cost -effective, disposable plastic banners. We print your logo using up to four spot colors. e Perfect for concerts, events and giveaways. 4 Packaged on a roll and easy to use. e Weather- resistant P.O. Box 750250 Houston, Texas 77275 -0250 Upp to 3' Highg 6' Wide Durable 713/507 -4200 713/507 -4295 FAX ri @reefindustries.com www.reefindustries.com 1-800-231-6074

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LAST THIS TOTAL J. TOTAL .l. TOTAUD. .b AUD. WEEKS TOTAL WEEK WEEK ARTIST TITLE LABEL(S) POINTS POINTS PLAYS PLAYS IW) (To) ON ADDS Most Added 11310 2 0 GEORGE STRAIT I Hate Everything (MCA) 5906 272 4525 +208 141725 7556 15 www.rrindicator com

1 2 SARA EVANS Suds In The Bucket (RCA) 5614 -49 4304 -15 134338 211 25 11210 ARTIST TITLE LABELIS) ADDS

6 © TOBY KEITH Stays In Mexico (Dream Works) 4948 315 3810 +239 115948 8074 11 11310 ALAN JACKSON Monday Morning Church (Arista) 43 JAMIE O'NEAL Trying TD Find Atlantis (Capitol) 18 9 O PHIL VASSAR In A Real Love (Arista) 4808 616 3677 +447 113809 14958 25 11110 JULIE ROBERTS The Chance (Mercury) 17 3 5 KEITH URBAN Days Go By (Capitol) 4772 681 3573 559 116813 14449 17 10710 TRAVIS TRITT fWJOHN MELLENCAMP What Say You (Columbia) 14

5 6 GRETCHEN WILSON Here For The Party (Epic) 4694 448 3674 -333 111918 8846 1B 10910 MIRANDA LAMBERT Me And Charlie Talking (Epic) 13

ANDY GRIGGS If Heaven (RCA) 12 7 O RASCAL FLATTS Feels Like Today (Lyric Street) 4556 248 3518 +189 105977 5363 18 11310 BIG & RICH Holy Water (Warner Bras.) 11 8 BROOKS & DUNN That's What Its All About (Arista) 4512 234 3503 +184 106561 5432 16 11010 Q MARK CHESNUTT I'm A Saint (Vivaton) 11 10 O GARY ALLAN Nothing On But The Radio (MCA) 4233 231 3246 +179 98805 4660 18 11310

11 LONESTAR Mr. Mom (BNA) 4218 329 3248 +256 99094 6699 14 11112

4 1 1 ALAN JACKSON Too Much Of A Good Thing Is A Good Thing (Arista) 4015 1153 3051 -958 98745 24979 18 10210

15 ® KENNY CHESNEY The Woman With You (BNA) 3550 329 2729 +220 83091 8009 8 11111 16 ® BLAKE SHELTON Some Beach (Warner Bros.) 3488 390 2655 +291 83326 10979 11 10910

14 DIERKS BENTLEY How Am I Doin' (Capitol) 3385 89 2625 +69 78612 1592 23 11011

12 15 TRACE ADKINS Rough & Ready (Capitol/ 3297 142 2498 .134 79414 3092 28 10310

20 SHANIA TWAIN WI BILLY CURRINGTON Party For Two (Mercury) 2957 339 2286 +275 67798 7967 6 10811

17 SHEDAISY Come Home Soon (Lyric Street) 2859 30 2197 +38 68206 578 15 10711

19 DARRYL WORLEY Awful, Beautiful Life (Dream Works) 2838 215 2166 +164 66420 5867 15 10712 22 TIM MCGRAW Back When (Curb) 2697 814 2122 +609 61550 19462 5 104110 Most 21 e MONTGOMERY GENTRY You Do Your Thing (Columbia) 2244 167 1736 +112 52652 4308 14 9010 Increased Points 24 ® LEANN RIMES Nothin "Bout Love Makes Sense (Asylum/Curb) 1951 420 1520 +346 45238 9982 7 96110 TOTAL POINT 23 REBA MCENTIRE He Gets That From Me (MCA) 1866 245 1476 +209 41832 5173 8 9415 ARTIST TITLE LABEL(S) INCREASE 25 ® J. BUFFETT 11M. MCBRIDE Trip Around The Sun (RCA /Mailboat/ 1843 368 1447 +292 42675 7781 8 8614 TIM MCGRAW Back When (Curb) +814 ALAN JACKSON Monday Morning Church (Arista) +651 18 24 JIMMY WAYNE You Are (DreamWorks) 1817 990 1330 -771 45741 21952 30 7310 PHIL VASSAR In A Real Love (Arista) +616 28 BRAD PAISLEY Mud On The Tires (Arista) 1480 297 1180 +232 34124 7207 6 8517 ® LEANN RIMES Nothin' 'Bout Love Makes Sense (Asylum/Curb) +420

32 BIG & RICH Holy Water (Warner Bros.) 1310 340 1055 +284 28999 6492 4 84111 BLAKE SHELTON Some Beach (Warner Bros.) +390

26 27 BLUE COUNTY That's Cool (Asylum/Curb) 1273 137 980 .137 29739 2320 20 6210 J. BUFFETT UM. MCBRIDE Trip Around The Sun (RCA /Mailboat) +368 BIG & RICH Holy Water (Warner Bros.) +340 30 CD TRAVIS TRITT ((JOHN MELLENCAMP What Say You (Columbia) 1261 231 967 +172 30894 5628 6 81114 S. TWAIN WI 8. CURRINGTON Party For Two (Mercury) +339 27 29 TRICK PONY The Bride (Asylum/Curb) 1209 80 926 -75 27354 1926 16 6510 LONESTAR Mr. Mom (BNA) +329 33 e JOSH GRACIN Nothin' To Lose (Lyric Street) 1104 172 B60 +126 25031 4065 7 7214 KENNY CHESNEY The Woman With You (BNA) +329 41 ® ALAN JACKSON Monday Morning Church (Arista) 1093 651 B67 +538 24131 14211 2 83143 31 SUGARLAND Baby Girl (Mercury) 1027 23 792 +16 21077 454 13 5411

34 ® PAT GREEN Don't Break My Heart Again (Universal /Republic /Mercury) 1000 83 784 +75 20588 2584 8 5913 36 KATRINA ELAM No End In Sight (Universal South) 916 147 759 +131 19112 2194 12 6219

29 35 RESTLESS HEART Feel My Way To You (Koch) 888 163 688 -122 20405 3841 14 4912

47 JAMIE O'NEAL Trying To Find Atlantis (Capitol) 577 319 455 +242 12191 6912 2 45118

38 37 KEITH BRYANT Ridin' With The Legend (Lo /ton Creek) 513 -8 431 -2 10447 -574 15 2410

45 JEFF BATES Long, Slow Kisses (RCA) 481 112 411 +99 1029G 2297 4 3818

42 CATHERINE BRITT The Upside Of Being Down (RCA) 467 52 349 +35 10932 1010 9 3210

40 40 TRENT WILLMON Dixie Rose Deluxe's... (Columbia) 434 10 332 -11 11197 154 9 2811 39 41 JENKINS Getaway Car (Capitol) 404 113 348 -76 9493 1997 9 3510 Most 46 m BILLY DEAN Let Them Be Little (Curb) 397 91 263 +66 10334 2324 4 2613 Increased Plays Loebxt> ANDY GRIGGS If Heaven (RCA) 373 183 284 +133 8705 4305 1 26112 TOTAL PLAY 50 TRACY LAWRENCE Sawdust On Her Halo (DreamWorks) 354 146 298 +122 8604 3944 2 3016 ARTIST TITLE LA6ELIS) INCREASE (Debutj 13:) TRACY BYRD Revenge Of A Middle Aged Woman (BNA) 345 164 289 +134 7423 3562 1 29110 TIM MCGRAW Back When (Curb) +609 ALAN JACKSON Monday Morning Church (Arista) +538 37 46 EMERSON DRIVE November (DreamWorks) 288 271 226 222 6883 6110 9 2310 PHIL VASSAR In A Real Lave (Arista) +447 49 RACHEL PROCTOR Where I Belong (BNA) 267 37 202 +27 6634 738 3 1611 LEANN RIMES Nothir 'Bout Love Makes Sense (Asylum /Curb) +346 (Debut> CD SHELLY FAIRCHILD You Don't Lie Here Anymore (Columbia) 263 116 230 +95 5942 2690 1 2317 J. BUFFETT 11M. MCBRIDE Trip Around The Sun (RCA/Mailboat) +292 (Debut> CD KERRY HARVICK Cowgirls (Lyric Street) 250 135 207 +120 5454 2949 1 2116 BLAKE SHELTON Some Beach (Warner Bros.) +291 (Debut> 1a) BIG & RICH Holy Water (Warner Bros.) +284 MIRANDA LAMBERT Me And Charlie Talking (Epic) 201 143 172 +124 4622 3142 1 18113 S. TWAIN WI B. CURRINGTON Party For Twa (Mercury) +275 LONESTAR Mr. Mom (BNA) +256 113 Country reporters. Songs ranked by total plays for the airplay week of Sunday 10/3 - Saturday 10/9. © 2004 Radio & Records. JAMIE O'NEAL Trying To Find Atlantis (Capitol) +242

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e EXCLUSIVE NATIONAL MUSIC RESEARCH ESTIMATES October 15, 2004

Callout America s song selection is based on the top 35 titles from the R &R Country chart for the airplay week of October 6 -12.

TOTAL ARTIST Title (Label) LIKE A LOT POS TIVE NEUTRAL FAMILIARITY DISLIKE BURN CALLOUT AMERICA..

ALAN JACKSON Too Much Of A Good Thing Is A Good Thing (Arista) 42.0% 79.0% 16.5% 99.8% 3.8% 0.5% HOT SCORES GARY ALLAN Nothing On But The Radio (MCA) 39.0% 72.5% 17.3% 97.5% 5.8% 2.0%

SARA EVANS Suds In The Bucket (RCA) 36.8% 74.3% 17.3% 98.8% 6.5% 0.8% 1 assword of the Week: Zarling. JOE NICHOLS If Nobody Believed In You (Universal South) 36.5% 71.8% 20.0% 99.0% 4.8% 2.5% Question of the Week: In the morning, while in an automobile or other transpor- KEITH URBAN Days Go By (Capitol) 30.5% 63.8% 22.8% 98.0% 5.5% 1.0% tation, do you listen to the radio? At home, TRACE ADKINS Rough & Ready (Capitol) 30.0% 64.5% 22.0% 97.8% 8.5% 2.8% when you are getting ready to start your GRETCHEN WILSON Here For The Party (Epic) 27.5% 61.5% 20.0% 97.3% 10.5% 5.3% day, what do you listen to? Total

GEORGE STRAIT I Hate Everything (MCA) 27.3% 69.3% 21.3% 96.5% 5.0% 1.0% Yes: 90% PHIL VASSAR In A Real Love (Arista) 27.3% 71.3% 21.3% 99.0% 4.8% 1.8% Listen to the radio: 38% Watch TV morning shows: 35% TOBY KEITH Stays In Mexico (DreamWorks) 26.0% 64.5% 24.0% 97.5% 6.5% 2.5% Watch /listen to music video channels: 6% DIERKS BENTLEY How Am I [loin' (Capitol) 25.8% 62.8% 26.8% 97.3% 5.5% 2.3% Listen to CDs or tapes: 4% JIMMY WAYNE You Are (DreamWorks) 25.5% 64.5% 23.8% 97.0% 7.3% 1.5% Are you kidding? I'm too busy for any of those: 17% BLAKE SHELTON Some Beach (Warner Bros.) 24.5% 61.8% 22.0% 92.8% 7.5% 1.5% P1 LONESTAR Mr. Mom BNA) 24.3% 6).3% 24.5% 97.3% 10.0% 2.5% Yes: 90% Listen to the radio: 40% BROOKS & DUNN That's What It's All About (Arista) 20.8% 63.3% 23.5% 97.5% 5.0% 0.8% Watch TV morning shows: 36% SHEDAISY Come Home Soon (Lyric Street) 18.8% 55.5% 23.0% 90.8% 9.5% 2.8% Watch /listen to music video channels: 6% RASCAL FLATTS Feels Like Today (Lyric Street) 18.5% 55.5% 28.8% 96.8% 10.0% 2.5% Listen to CDs or tapes: 3% Are you kidding? I'm too busy KENNY CHESNEY The Woman With You (BNA) 17.0% 54.3% 26.0% 89.8% 7.5% 2.0% for any of those: 15% REBA MCENTIRE He Gets That From Me (MCA) 16.0% 52.0% 25.3% 90.0% 9.3% 3.5% P2 Yes: 88% MONTGOMERY GENTRY You Do Your Thing (Columbia) 15.0% 55.0% 24.8% 92.8% 11.3% 1.8% Listen to the radio: 29% BRAD PAISLEY Mud On The Tires (Arista) 15.0% 54.3% 19.3% 80.5% 5.8% 1.3% Watch TV morning shows: 33% BLUE COUNTY That's Cool (Asylum/Curb) 14.5% 54.8% 28.3% 91.3% 6.8% 1.5% Watch /listen to music video channels: 7% Listen to CDs or tapes: 6% PAT GREEN Don't Break My Heart Again (Universal/Republic 14.0% 47.5% 29.3% 87.3% 7.8% 2.8% /Mercury) Are you kidding? I'm too busy DARRYL WORLEY Awful, Beautiful Life (DreamWorks) 13.3% 54.8% 25.3% 88.5% 6.3% 2.3% for any of those: 25% Male JIMMY BUFFETT fIMARTINA MCBRIDE Trip Around The Sun (RCA/Mailboat) 13.0% 48.3% 29.8% 86.8% 7.3% 1.5% Yes: 89% SUGARLAND Baby Girl (Mercury) 11.3% 44.0% 28.3% 84.3% 9.0% 3.0% Listen to the radio: 35% LEANN RIMES Nothin "Bout Love Makes Sense (Asylum/Curb) 11.0% 44.8% 29.3% 84.8% 8.5% 2.3% Watch TV morning shows: 36% Watch/listen to music video channels: 6% KATRINA ELAM No End In Sight (Universal South) 10.5% 47.5% 30.5% 88.5% 8.8% 1.8% Listen to CDs or tapes: 4% STEVE HOLY Put Your Best Dress On (Curb) 9.8% 46.5% 27.8% 88.0% 12.0% 1.8% Are you kidding? I'm too busy for any of those: 19% TRICK PONY The Bride (Asylum/Curb) 9.3% 39.8% 32.5% 91.5% 15.5% 3.8% Female TRAVIS TRITT fIJOHN MELLENCAMP What Say You (Columbia) 8.5% 42.3% 31.3% 84.0% 8.0% 2.5% Yes: 90% TIM MCGRAW Back When (Curb) 8.0% 36.8% 26.3% 71.5% 6.5% 2.0% Listen to the radio: 41% Watch TV morning shows: 34% BIG & RICH Holy Water (Warner Bros.) 7.5% 18.5% 28.5% 63.5% 12.0% 4.5% Watch /listen to music video channels: 6% RESTLESS HEART Feel My Way To You (Koch) 7.3% 42.8% 33.0% 87.0% 9.8% 1.5% Listen to CDs or tapes: 3% Are you kidding? I'm too busy SHANIA TWAIN WI BILLY CURRINGTON Party For Two (Mercury) 5.3% 30.8% 27.0% 76.5% 14.5% 4.3% for any of those: 16%

Total sample size is 400 persons weekly with a +1- 5% margin of error. Scoring is done each week using live interviewers conducting the interview with each respondent. Scores are: a) I Like It A Lot, In Fact RS One Of My

Favorites b) I Like It c) It's Okay.Just So -So d) I Don't Like It e) I'm Tired Of Hearing It On The Radio f) I Don't Recognize It . To be included in the weekly callout songs mus enter the top 40 positions on R &R's Country airplay chart. The sample is composed of 400 25 -54-year -old persons who identify Country as their favorite masic and who listen daily to competitive country radio in the sample markets. The sample is 50% male/female ... 1/3ro each in the 25 -34, 35 -44, and 45 -54 demos. The sample is balanced by region, and markets within that region. Bullseye Callout is conducted in these regions and markets. Market se ection is determined by Bullseye. NORTHEAST: Washington, DC., Harrisburg, PA., Providence, Rochester, NY, Springfield, MA, Hartford, Portland, ME, Portsmouth, NH. SOUTHEAST: Charlotte, Atlanta, Tampa, Nashville, Chattanooga, Mobile, AL, Charleston, SC, Jackson, MS. MIDWEST: Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Kansas City, Lansing, MI, Ft Wayne, IN, Rockford, IL, Indianapolis. SOUTHWEST: Dallas -Ft. Worth, Tucson, Albuquerque, Oklahoma City, Houston -Galveston, Phoenix, Lafayette, LA, San Antonio. WEST: Portland, OR, Salt Lake City, Fresno, Bakersfield, Spokane, WA, Riverside -San Bernardino, Boise, Denver, Monterey -Salinas. © 2003 R &R Inc. © 2003 Bullseye Marketing Research Inc..

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America's Best Testing Country Songs 12+ POWERED RlateTheMusic.cnm For The Week Ending 10/15/04 RR COUNTRYTOP3O R nn uui CANADA ME111:IBASE Per W M LAST THIS TOTAL .I- WEEKS ON TOTAL Artist Title (Label) TW LW Famil Burn 25 -54 25 -54 25 -54 WEEK WEEK ARTIST ' '_E PLAYS PLAYS CHART STATIONS

1 1 KEITH URBAN Days Go By (Capitol) 585 -23 15 810 DIERKS BENTLEY How Am I Doir (Capitol) 423 4.07 89% 13% 4.20 4.21 4.20

KEITH URBAN Days Go By (Capitol) 4.21 4.23 97% 20% 4.21 4.38 4.09 2 2 GRETCHEN WILSON Here For The Party (Epic) 544 1 13 710

TIM MCGRAW Back When (Garb/ 4.20 74% 8% 4.16 4.18 4.16 3 3 SARA EVANS Suds In The Bucket (RCA) 534 -5 17 1010 +41 TRACE ADKINS Rough & Ready (Capitol/ 4.18 4.00 93% 21% 4.25 4.18 4.29 6 O LONESTAR Mr. Mom (BNA) 529 9 910 Its All About 528 +7 12 710 GARY ALLAN Nothing On But The Radio (MCA) 4.18 4.21 92% 11% 4.17 4.26 4.12 5 0 BROOKS & DUNN That's What (Arista) BLAKE SHELTON Same Beach (Warner Bros.) 4.17 4.11 84% 9% 4.22 4.19 4.24 4 6 ALAN JACKSON Too Much Of A Good... (Arista) 497 40 16 1010

KEITH In Mexico (DreacoWorks) 472 0 8 810 SARA EVANS Suds In The Bucket (RCA) 4.15 4.26 97% 22% 4.20 4.33 4.12 7 0 TOBY Stays

I +5 13 KENNY CHESNEY The Woman With You (BNA) 4.12 4.13 78% 9% 4.04 4.06 4.03 8 0 GEORGE STRAIT Hate Everything (MCA) 460 710 +41 4 ANDY GRIGGS She Thinks She Needs Me (RCA) 4.10 4.15 95% 25% 4.06 4.14 4.01 11 0 S. TWAIN WI B. CURRINGTON Party For Two (Memory) 452 910

JOE NICHOLS If Nobody Believed In You (Universal South) 4.09 4.07 94% 24% 4.16 4.10 4.20 10 10 RASCAL FLATTS Feels Like Today (Lyric Street) 430 5 11 610

LONESTAR Mr. Mom (BNA) 4.09 4.09 92% 17% 4.16 4.33 4.05 9 11 i PAUL BRANDT Convoy (Orange/Universal) 420 -16 6 810

+54 5 1010 BROOKS & DUNN That's What It's All About (Arista) 4.06 4.04 94% 17"/ 4.11 4.22 4.03 13 Q e GEORGE CANYON I'Il Never Do... (Universal South) 418

JIMMY WAYNE You Are (DreamWorks) 4.02 3.98 86% 16% 3.94 4.14 3.82 14 ® e CAROLYN D. JOHNSON Head Over High Heels (Arista) 398 +57 2 1210

12 14 GARY ALLAN Nothing On But The Radio (MCA) 390 -12 10 610 GEORGE STRAIT I Hate Everything (MCA) 3.98 4.06 97% 24% 4.05 3.95 4.11

RASCAL FLATTS Feels Like Today (Lyric Street) 3.97 3.98 95% 26% 3.89 4.06 3.77 15 15 4 GIL GRAND Never Comm r Down (Spin) 331 -7 9 911 DARRYL WORLEY Awful, Beautiful Life (DreamWorks) 3.95 4.01 63% 8% 4.01 4.07 3.98 19 0 KENNY CHESNEY The Woman With You (RNA) 324 +14 5 810 REBA MCENTIRE He Gets That From Me (MCA) 3.94 3.90 63% 7% 4.01 4.08 3.97 16 e e SEAN HOGAN Catalina Sunrise (Barnstorm) 322 +1 7 810 SHEDAISY Come Home Soon (Lyric Street) 3.93 3.94 79% 15% 3.93 4.00 3.89 20 D PHIL VASSAR In A Real Love (Arista) 321 +13 7 611 JIMMY BUFFETT... Trip Around The Sun (RCA/Madboat) 3.91 3.85 50% 7% 3.94 4.31 3.72 23 D JOHNNY REID You Still Own Me lûpenRoad/Universal) 294 +11 5 1011

GRETCHEN WILSON Here For The Party (Epici 3.90 3.99 98% 36% 4.02 3.96 4.06 18 20 DERIC RUTTAN I Saved Everything (Lyric Street) 267 -49 13 1910

PHIL VASSAR In A Real Love (Arista) 3.90 3.98 91% 22% 3.84 4.01 3.73 !Debut> TIM MCGRAW Back When (Curb) 262 +69 1 610

BLUE COUNTY That's Cool (Asylum/Curb) 3.89 3.74 63% 7% 3.84 4.06 3.72 21 22 TIM MCGRAW Live Like You Were Dying (Curb) 258 -47 19 1010

ALAN JACKSON Too Much Of A Good... (Arista) 3.88 3.90 91% 31% 4.00 3.95 403 26 ® J. BUFFETT... Trip Around The Sun (RCA/Mailboat) 257 +9 3 1111

TOBY KEITH Stays In Mexico (DreamWorks) 3.85 3.82 97% 25% 3.84 3.72 3.92 22 24 GORD BAMFORD Heroes (Independent) 253 42 16 410 MONTGOMERY GENTRY You Do Your Thing ;Columbia,' 3.84 3.90 78% 14% 3.90 3.87 3.92 30 e LEANN RIMES Nothin "Bout Love... (Asylum/Curb) 250 +54 2 1013

JULIE ROBERTS Break Down Here (Mercury) 3.78 3.82 92% 31% 3.72 3.69 3.74 24 26 DIERKS BENTLEY How Am I Doi (Capitol) 249 -17 5 510

TRICK PONY The Bride (Asylum/Curb) 3.78 3.74 75% 17% 3.83 3.84 3.83 25 27 M1 ANDY GRIGGS She Thinks She Needs Me (RCA) 238 -27 11 610

STEVE HOLY Put Your Best Dress On (Curb) 3.63 3.64 50% 9% 3.67 3.89 3.56 27 28 é DOC WALKER North Dakota Boy (Open Road/Universal/ 224 -21 18 810 'Debut> LEANN RIMES Nothin 'Bout Love... (Asylum/Curb) 3.61 - 48% 7% 3.63 3.67 3.60 e* STEVE FOX Please (Independent) 196 +19 1 310

/Debut> BRAD PAISLEY Mud On The Tires (Arista) 190 +15 1 711 Total sample size is 407 respondents. Total average favorabilityeslimates are based on a scale of 1 -5 (1 =dislike very much. 5. like very much). Total familiarity represents the percentage of respondents who recognized the song. Total bum represents the number of 20 Canadian Cou reporters. Monitored airplay data supphed by Mediabase Research. a division of Premiere Radio Networks. respondents who said theyare tired of hearing the song. Songs must have 40% familiarity to appearon survey. Sample composition is based Songs ranked by total plays for the airplay week of 10/3 -1019. Bullets appear on songs gaining plays or remaining flat from on persons I2.. Persons are screened via the Internet. Once passed. they can take the music test based on the format/music preference. previous week. If two songs are tied in total plays, the song with the larger increase in plays is placed first. Songs below No. RateTheMusiccom results are not meant to replace callout research. The results are intended to show opinions of participants on the the 15 are moved to recurrent after 20 weeks on the chart. Most Added is the total number of new adds officially reported toR &R Internet only. RateiheMusic is a registered trademark of.RateTheMusic com. The RTM system. is available for local radio stations by by each reporting station. Songs unreported as adds do not count toward overall total stations playing a song. Indicates calling 818-377 -5300. RateTheMusic.com data Is provided by Mediabase Research, a division of Premiere Radio Networks. ancon. © 2004. R &R. Inc.

A Tale Of Two Indies advantage with regard to quality of personnel. Continued from Page 36 But that's changed, because they've had to let New &Active so many quality professionals go over the last can be realized. "The fast answer is yes," few years. Many of them are now working in says BRET MICHAELS f /JESSICA ANDREWS All I Ever Needed (B.MB.IPoorBoy) the independent field. Kraski. "For any independent, money is al- Total Plays: 173, Total Stations: 11, Adds: 1 ways a challenge, because you're not dealing with the same advantages a major has: a huge TRACY LAWRENCE Sawdust On Her Halo (DreamWorks) sum of money and a huge catalog that you can Total Plays: 126, Total Stations: 21, Adds: 5 rely on while you build acts. You only gener- "We're getting a lot of top - ate income from acts you develop. CHAD BROCK That Changed Me /BBR) "Is it a challenge? Absolutely. It will always shelf artists coming here Total Plays: 118, Total Stations: 23, Adds: 4 be a challenge until you get over the hump and KERRY HARVICK Cowgirls (Lyric Street) develop a catalog. Once again, that's a func- because they've heard tion of time. Total Plays: 114, Total Stations: 29, Adds: 7 about and applaud "Speaking specifically to Equity, we're not - - DAVID LEE MURPHY Inspiration (Aodium) in a problem financial situation. It's a very ex- Total Plays: 105, Total Stations: 22, Adds: 2 citing time to be on the independent side of the business model." things. With more consolidation, more cut- Mike Kraski JULIE ROBERTS The Chance (Mercury) backs and more and more strain on fewer peo- Total Plays: 94, Total Stations: 11, Adds: 11 ple with less resources, as time goes by, the advantages the majors have had are going "And because the labels can't hold on to as WARREN BROTHERS Sell A Lot Of Beer (429) away. many developing artists as they did before, Total Plays: 77, Total Stations: 14, Adds: 2 "That doesn't mean they are going to dis- some high -quality talent that would have come appear; they're formidable. In the past the through the major -label system is now coming UNCLE KRACKER Writing It Down (Lava/Warner Bros, majors could spend money hand over fist through the independent system. The few ma- Total Plays: 67, Total Stations: 12, Adds: 2 without regard to getting it back in the short jors left cannot supply our format with all mu- run. But that thinking is going away. They're sic that it needs. It's not possible any longer. MARK CHESNUTT I'm A Saint (Uivaton) Total Plays: Total now being held to the same kind of financial "So, all the playing fields are leveling. I don't 61, Stations: 12, Adds: 11 pressures independents are. You have to build take lightly the competition with the majors - an artist's career, but you have to be financial- they' re powerhouses - but that doesn't mean WILLIE NELSON Midnight Rider (Lost Highway/MCA) Total Plays: Total 11, 1 ly responsible with every action you take. we can't succeed in the independent field play- 59, Stations: Adds: "The majors also always used to have an ing the same game. It is possible."

www.americanradiohistory.com 42 R &R October 15, 2004 - .COUNTRY REPORTERS

Stations and their adds fisted alphabetically by market

KEAN /Abilene, TX WZIOOBiloxi, MS KCCY/Colorado Springs. NC CO' WKMLFaye0eville. WDRMBuntunv /Ie. AL WtXXl.eeingten, KY WCTYBew London. CT KOUT/Rapid City, SD KMPS/Seame, WA' WIBW/Topeka, KS OM:James Cameron PD: Bryan Rhodes P0: Travis Daily PD Paul Johnson Todd OMPD: Berry OM. Robed Lindsey PDRAD: Jimmy Lehn PO/MO: Mark Houston PD: Belly Brenner OM: Ed O'Donnell PD/MD: Rudy Fernandez MD: Gwen Wilson MD: Valerie Hart MD: Dan McClain PO C.C. Matthews APO: Dave Elder MD: Tony Thomas P0: Rich Bowers APD:Shay,Hill HAN MD: Karl Shannon APDRAD;Stephanie Lynn IO ev.., KAFF/Flagstaf. AZ WFMSRndianapolis, IN' WNOEBew Orleans, LA' KBULBeno, NV 7.'SrO r inni.,Fva»P WHWKBinghamton. NY P0: Chris Halstead OMPD: Tom OM: David Wood OM: Jim Owen Jordan PDíAMD: Ed WaIker APO/MD,Hugh James KKCS/Volorado Springs. CO' KZKX/Lincoln, NE APD: PO: Bah Richards PD: Ron Broda JJ Christy WOMX/Akmn, OH' PD: Cody Carlson OM: Jim Steel KRMOBhreveporl. LA MD: J.O. Cannon MO: Chuck Reeves WTCM/Traverse City, MI OM/PD: Kevin Mason PD: Brian Jennings PD: Les Acree AAN DMPO:Jack O'Malley AP D: Ken SteeI APD/MD: Carol Turner APOMD, James Anthony WGHBodolk. VA' APDRAO: Ryan Dobry WCOS SC' OM/PD. John Shomby WOXBBirmingham. AL' /Columbia. WMSUJackson, MS P0: U Smith MD. Mark McKay WGNNAlbany, NY' PD: Tom Hanahan WFBE/FIint PD: Rick Adana KIIM/Tucson. MD: Glen Garrett MI KFRGBiverside. CA' KXKS/Shrevepod, IA AZ' Po: Bun Brindle MD: Marshall Stewart MD: Jay Croce P0: Coyote Collins KSSN/Little Rock. AR' 0M: Herb Crowe OM: Lee Douglas OM: Gary McCoy MD :Bill Earley AFORAD: Dave Geronimo PD TAD_ Chad Heritaoe PDRAD:BuzzJackson KHKX/Odessa, TX POND: Don Jeffrey PD: Russ Winton n`L en WZZK/Birmingham, AL' PD: Mike Lawrence WCOL/Columbus, WUSJ /Jackson. MS PO/MD: Brian Driver OH' APORAD: Kelley Peterson KBOVMbuguei ue, NM' PO: Tom Freeman PD:JOhn Crenshaw KZLNLOs Angeles, CA' KSUXBious City. IA APO/MD: Sammy Cmàe WXFLFlorence. AL WSLCBoanoke, VA APD/MD: Dan E. Zuko OMPD: R.J. Curtis PO: Bob Rounds PD MD. Gary Murdock PD: Brett Sharp KVOO/TUlsa. WPSKBIacksburg, VA APO/MD: Tanya Campos APO/MD:Tony Michaels OK' MO: Robynr Jaymes OMPD. Scoff Stevens POND: Moon Mullins WGSQ/Cookeville. TN KRST/Albuquerque. NM' AFORAD:Sean Sumner KNFM/Odessa, TX OMPO: Eddie Haskell OM: Marty Mcfly WAMZ/Louisville. KY' OM/PD: John Month WYYDBoanoke, VA PD: Caler Hanson KSKS Fresno, CA' WWZO/Tupelo, MS MD: Paul Bailey WROO /Jacksonville. FL' PO/MD, Coyote Calhoun WBYT/South Bend. IN PO: Steve Pleshe APDND: Boomer Kingston POMO: Joel Dearing OM: Rick Stevens APD: Philip Gibbons OM: Gail Austin WBWNBloominglon, IL DMPO: Clint Marsh PD: Bi It Hughes MD. Stewart Janos PD: OMPD:Oan Westhoff Casey Carter APO/MD: Lisa Kosry KRRV /Aleeandna LA APD/MD:BuckStevens KLLL/Lubbock. TX KIST /Oklahoma City. OK' OM. Scott Bryant OMPO: Jell Scott KUADFt. Collins. CO WXBQ/JOhnson City' PO: Anthony Allen WBEEBochester, NY' KRYS Christi, TX KORK/Spokane. WA' Po /AMD: Steve Casey /Coryus Mark APDND. Kelly Greene GM: Dave Po Callaghan PO/MD: Bill Hagy Symonds KNUE/Tyler. TX PD FrankEdwards OM: 11m Con er MD. Brian Gary PD: Kidd Croise WHIODaluefield, WV Billy PD: Jay Danels OMPD: Michael POND: Fred Persinger M0: Nildi Landry WCTO PA' APO: Bob Castle /Allentown, WMTZ/Johnstown. PA PD: Bobby Knight KXXYBklahoma City. OK' Ma Tony Trovato OMPD: Steve Walker KPLXBallas. TX' WFRGBhca. NY APO/MD: Sam Malone KIZNBoise. ID OM: Tom Travis MD. Lam Mosby WWOMMadison, WI' OM/PO: Tom Jacobsen PD Paul Williams WCKT/Ft. Myers. FL' APDND: Bill Reed OMPD: Rich Summers PD'. Mark Gmmin VA/OLD/Rockford, IL APD: Smokey Rivers OMPO: Steve Aman APO,TAO: Spencer Burke MO'. Mel McKenzie PD Steve Summers KIXZBpokane. MO Cody Alan AFD/M0: Dave Logan WA' KGNC /Amarillo, TX KIXOiJoplin, MO APURAD: Kathy Hess OM:Robed Harder OM: Dan Gorman KXKT /Omaha. NE' áúsü;iásp'aec. PD: Steve Kelly PD/TAD: Paul Coyote' Neumann KJUGNtsalia. CA Po: Tim Baller PD: Tom Goodwin KOFCBoise. ID APD. Jay McRae APO: Lyn Daniels APDRAO: Patrick Clark KSCSlDaIIas. TX' KIAITAason City. IA MDDCraig Allen PDRAD: Dave Daniels PD: Lacce Tidwell KNCIBacamento. CA' OMPO: Lomn Palagi WWGR/Fl. Myers, FL' PO MD: J. Brooks APDND Jim Miller OM/PO: Mark Evans ODIC: Chris Him PD Mark Phillips KBRJ /Anchorage, AK APD: Greg Cole WPKXBpnngfield. MA' MD. Steve Had WNWN/Kalamazoo. MI KHAYBxnard, CA OM: Dennis Bookey MD. Jennifer Wood PO: R1 McKay WKLBBoston. MA' PD: P.J. Lacey PD/MD: Mark Hill PD: Matt Valley P0: Mike Brephey WGNEBaylona Beach. FL' APO: Nick Damon WIRKIW. Palm Beach, FL' APORRO: Phil O'Reilly OM: B.J. Nielsen MD: Jessica Tyler MD. Billy Hatcher APO/MD: tinny Rogers 10-EX/McAllen. TX' PD: Mitch Mahan PD/MD: Jeff Davis OM:Billy Santiago WCEN/Saginaw. MI MD: J.R. Jackson WYZB -Ft. Walton Beach. FL PD. Jalo Cerda KPLMPaIm Springs, CA PD: Joby Phillips OM: Scratch Malone APD: Frankie Dee PD: AI MD; Keith Allen KAGGBryan,TX KBEQMansas City. MO' Gordon WACO/Waco. TX PD/MD Todd Núon PD. Mike Kennedy MO: Patches wovSmmes KTTS/Springlield, MO PDMD:JennAerAllen OMPO: Zack Owen WWWW /Ann Arbor. MI MD. T.J. McEntire OM/PD: Brad Hansen OMPD: Rob Walker WKCOBaginaw. MI 19 Hrrnrov APO: Cody Clark MD. Tom Baker DMPO: Rick Walker WYRKBuffalo. NY' WMZONAashington, KYGO/Denver. CO' WOHKPI. Wayne. IN KRWO/MedIvrd, OR WPAPPanama City. FL DC' PD: John Paul OM:Jeff Wyatt MAD: Joel Burke OMPO Rob Kelley KFKF/Xansas City. MO' PD: Larry Neal PD. Todd Berry APONO: Wendy Lynn WICO/Salisbury, MD P0: George King WNCY,1Applelon, WI OMPD: Dale Carter MD: Scoff Schuler APDRAO: Shane Collins KSDBL Louis. MO' OM: Joe Edwards OM: Jeff McCarthy APDRAD:Tony Stevens OM: Mike Wheeler POJAMO EJ Fou PO: Randy Shannon KHKIBes Moines, IA' WOGK/Gainesville. FL' PO: Steve Deaneries WOKOBudington WXBMPensacola. FL WDEZ/Wausau. WI OM. Jack O'Bnen PD: Mr Bob MD: Billy Greenwood PD: Steve Pelkey PO,MO. Lynn West PD: Bob Jung PO/M0: Jimmy Olsen MD: Big Red WOAJBansas City. MO' WGIOL/Memphis, TN' MD: Margot StJohn APO/MD: Vanesa Ryan PD: Wes McShay PD: Chip Miller KSOPBall Lake City. UT' WKSF /Asheville, NC APDMD: Jesse Garcia MP Trapper John APO/MO:Debby Turpin WILBt. Louis. MO' OMPO: Jeff Davis WXCLPeoria. IL PO: Greg Modngo APO: Sharon Green KHAK/Cedar Rapids, IA úiwsrwäa, DM: Rick Hirschmann MD: Dannomana WBCT /Grand Rapids. WOVKAVheeling, WV MD: Brian Hatfield OM: Dick Sladlen MI' PDRAD: &I Slone POND: Jim Elliott OMPD: Doug Montgomery WIVKTLnoxville, TN' ii úPsx PO: Bob James WYCOBeboil, MI' Y1wW.IMAM M0: Dave Tag OMPD: Mike Hammond MAMMON MD: Dawn Johnson APD/MD: Ron Clatman WOKKlMeridian MS COME Mr MD:ColleenAddair ME Mk WKHX/Allanta. GA' PDRAD: Scotty Ray KLURAVichila Falls, TX MN' MD OMPU: Brent Warner OMPD: Mark Richards WXTUPhiladelphia , PA' KATMBtodnon. CA' MD: Johnny Gray PO: Bob McKay WIXY/Champaign IL WDJRBethan. AL OM: Richard Perry WTORIGreensboro. NC' APDRAO: OM: Jerry Broadway Cadillac Jack [APO: P.W. Smith Tim Sahedield WKOAT.afayette. IN WKIS/Miami, FL' PD Randy Black KFDI/Wichia, KS' POND: Brett Mason pa Bill Dotson PD: Mark Allen Po: Bob Baureff AMMO: Maone Roberts OMPO Beverlee Brannigan WPURJAllanlic City. NJ APD/MD: Angie Ward MO: Bob V® MD: Darlene Evans uvJucez... POND: Joe Kelly KMLEPhoenix. AZ' AllER WEZL/Charleslon, SC' PD. Jay McCarthy IIMCKSWIT PDRAD: Trey Cooler KZSN/WlchBa,KS' APDND: Dave Collins WRNS/Greenville, NC' WMIL/Milwaukee, WI' PO:ChuckGeiger Angelo. KMOLLaayette, LA PO:Kerry Woke KGKL/San TX WBBSByracuse. NY' MD: Pal Moyer WKXC/Augusta, GA PO: Wayne Carlyle rwmur KKCBBuluth PDRAD: Mike James APO:Scott Dolphin OMAMD: Keith Montgomery PD: Rich Lauber PD. TGentry MD: Boomer Lee s. 2 OM/PO: Johnny Lee Walker MO. Mitch Morgan c ICJeiarns Skip Clark I Lear 10,..F..-.:. APD,MD Zach Taylor LAAEei 2 WNKT/Charleslon. SC' MD Jim Dandy KNIXPhoentx, AZ' ..a VIDY wAhO n5 WESC/Greenville, SC' AV: PD. Bob McNeill PD: Shaun Holly 0MP0: ScoeJohnson KEEYRAinneapolis. MN' WGGYAWIkes Barre, PA' MO. Tyler On The Radio MO: Gwen Foster KAIA/San Antonio. TX' KASEJAustin, TX' AP ONO:Joho Landrum KXKCAaayette, LA OMPD: Gregg Swedberg WTNT/Tallahassee. FL PD: Mike Krinik WAXX/Eau Claim, WI P0/MD: Clayton Allen 0MPD: Jason Kane AVOT Pa Renee Raven APD/MO:: Travis Moon OM: Save Cannon MD: Camlyn Grosey PORAD: Georye House APo,RAD: Bob Pickett MO: Sean Riley xesen WDSYPittsburgh, PA' PDRAD:_Big" Woody Hayes WSSLGreenville. SC' gYEk P0: Keith Clark APO/MO: Stoney Richards WOBE/Charleston. WV OMPO: Scoff Johnson KSONBan Diego. CA' WWOON/ilmington, NC OM:Jell Whitehead AFORAD: Kin Layton OMPO: John Dimick WOYK/Tampa, FL' KUZZBakersfield. CA' kets OM: Perry Stone WPCWLakeland. FL' DM:PO'. Mike Culotta Po: Evan Britlwell PD: Ed Roberts KHEY/EI Paso, TX' 0M: Steve Howard WKS /Mobile, AL' APo/M0: Brigitt Banta MD: Bill Hagy APO Beecher Martin MO:MamJeffries PO: Sleet Grammy WOGIPillsburgh, PA' WAYZAlagerslown MD:Jeni Taylor OM: Kit Carson KUSSBan Diego, CA' MD: Jay Roberts ? SHELLY 4,1 MD. Bobby Gutierrez PDRAD: Bill Black 0M: Frank Bell 1uauuv Po: Chris Carmichael Po: Mark Lindow PD: Mike O'Brian WKKT/Charloffe M0: Don Brake KXDD/Yakima WA MD: Gwen Fetter OM: Brace Logan 'r Sot pxss'' PD: Dewey Boynton WPOC/Baltimore, MD' WRSF/Elirahem City, NC PO/MD: John Roberts WYUU/Tampa. FL' APORAD: Joel Baker PO: Ken Bowen OM:PO: Tom Charily WPORPorlland, ME WIOV/Lancaster. PA KILO/Monroe. LA OM/PD, Mike Culotta MD: Michael J. PD: Rickiordan KZBRBan Francisco, CA' WCAT/Hanisburg. PA' POND: Dick Raymond PO John Reynolds APO: Will Robinson MD: Clon Marie PU. Ray Massie WGTY/York. PA WSOC/Charlotte' PO Sam McGuire MO:JayROberts POMD: Brad Austin OMPO: Jell Roper WXTABrie, PA WYNKBaton Rouge. LA' APo/MD: Rick McCracken OM: Adam Reese KTOM/Monterey. CA' KRTYBan Jose. CA' OM: Bob Murphy WITULansing, MI PO.Julie Stevens IN PI) MD Fred Horton PO Dennis Martinez WTHI/Terre Haute. WOXK/Youngstown, OH PD: Paul On PD: JayJ. McCrae : WRBT/Hamisburg. PA' KUPLPomland. OR' OM/PD Barry Kent PD: Dave Steele APO/MD: Austin James WUSYChattanooga, TN APDRAO: Chris Tyler MO :Marly Party OM: Chns Tyler PD: Cary Rolfe APD: Doug James PD. Kns Van Dyke KKJGBan Luis Obispo, CA POND: Shelly Easton M0: Risk Taylor MD: Budan Lee WLWL/Montgomery. AL Pepper MD. Bill Poinderter PD/MD: Daniels KKNU Eugene. OR APO'. Newman OM/PD: Bill Jones PO .MO Jim Dam KY/NFL/Las Vegas, NV' MD. Dartene Dixon WYPYBaton Rouge, LA' PD. Brooks O'Bran KWJJPortland. OR' OM/PD: Randy Chase WUSNJChicago. IL' MD. Jeff Jay P0: Mike Peterson PO: Mike Moore POWERED M0: Jimmy Bmola WWYZHamorn. CT' KRAZBana Barbara, CA MO: Marti Braun M0: Savannah Jones 1.1D Thomas PO/M0: Rick Barker Jay FA 91, 11EDIABASE WBBNILaaret. MS IVKDQ4vansville, IN WKDFBashville. TN' OMPD: Larry Blakeney KYKILBeaumont,TX WUBE/Cincinnati. OH' POND: Jon PreII OM/PD: Dave Kelly 'Monitored Reporters KILT Houston. TX' APDND: Altyson Scott 0M: Trey Poston MD: Kim Leslie KSNI/Sanla Maria. CA P0: im Closson PO. Jell Garrison POyMD:Mickey Munk PU: Kooky O Corno, PDNO: Tan Brown AMD. Greg Frey WCTKProvidence. RI' 226 Total Reporters wra OEWJrt M0: Duke Hamilton M0: Sam Stevens

WSIXBashville, TN' KVOX/Fargo 113 Total WYGY/Cincinnali, OH' KKBO/Houston. TX' OM: Clay Hunnicutt WCTOBarasola, FL' Monitored WOKQLewiston, ME 0M -. Janice W irlimore WLLR/Ouad Cities. IA OM: TJ Holland PO Johnny Chiang PU/MD. Keith Kaufman OM/PD: Mark Wilson OM'. Mark Emton PD -. Ens Heyer PO.Stephen Giullari Po: Jim O'Hara APO: Heidi Decker MO. Christ Brooks P0: MarkJennings APDND: Dawn Michaels MO Scoff Winston MD:Ron Evans 113 Total Indicator APDND: Dan Lonnie

WTCRBunlington Did Not Report, Playlist Frozen (2): WGAFUCIeveland, OH' WSMBashville, TN' GA Po : Judy Eaton WJCLSavanoah, PO:John Sebastian WDDRBaleigh, NC' PV Meg Stevens MD: Dave Poole OM:John Thomas WDEN /Macon, GA WKNNBiloxi, MS KKIXFayeheville, AR WBUL/Lexington. KY MD: Chuck Collier MD: frank Seres Po: Lisa Mckay PD: Bill West OM: Walter Brown PD: Dave ASAcral PO/MD: Ric Larson WGTR/Myrtle Beach, SC OA, NM APo/&D: Mike Maddawg'Biddle PD: Epp Greggory APDND: Jake McBride tivns 7511 uaaur wLCw- M ARM. A0N3rw4AL10E l

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1 0 LOS LONELY BOYS Heaven (Or/Epic) 449 +1 13 610 JOSH GROBAN You Raise Me Up (143/Reprise) 3.83 3.77 98% 48% 3.84 3.56 3.93 2 2 CELINE DION You And I (Epic) 378 -9 19 810

3 3 GEORGE MICHAEL Amazing (Epic) 364 -14 19 810 MARTINA MCBRIDE In My Daughter's Eyes (RCA) 3.77 3.94 68% 15°/D 3.82 3.80 3.83 4 4 MAROON 5 This Love (Octane/J /RMG) 319 30 24 1010 KEITH URBAN You'll Think Of Me (Capitol) 3.75 3.78 82% 23% 3.81 3.65 3.87 7 SEAL Love's Divine (Warner Bros.) 311 +11 27 1110 +1 MAROON 5 This Love (Ottone/J /RM6) 3.74 3.83 97% 51% 3.78 3.69 3.81 6 HOOBASTANK The Reason (Island/IDJMG) 307 12 510 5 7 SARAH MCLACHLAN World On Fire (Arista/RMG) 307 22 10 610 KIMBERLEY LOCKE 8th World Wonder (Curb) 3.74 3.77 94% 38% 3.73 3.63 3.77 8 e SHANIA TWAIN... Party For Two (Mercuryl/DJMG) 285 +22 4 711 HOOBASTANK The Reason (ls/and/IDJMG) 3.72 - 87% 37% 3.78 3.73 3.80 10 FJ BRYAN ADAMS Open Road (Universal) 262 +2 6 1010

16 ®®i1 4t KALAN PORTER Awake In A Dream (BMG Music Canada) 261 +68 3 611 ELTON JOHN Answer In The Sky (Universal) 3.72 3.88 57% 12°/D 3.83 3.58 3.91 9 11 JACKSOUL Shady Day (Vik/BMG Music Canada) 258 -5 11 BIO Here You (RepubliclUniversal) 3.75 3.89 3 DOORS DOWN Without 3.71 3.77 95% 43% 3.71 12 ® FIVE FOR FIGHTING 100 Years (AwarelColumbia) 241 +6 27 1210 15 ELTON JOHN Answer In The Sky (Universal) 220 +12 4 710 PHIL COLLINS Don't Let Him Steal Your Heart Away (Atlantic) 3.69 - 54% 10% 3.73 3.47 3.81 ® 11 14 SHAPE Beauty (EMI Music Canada) 219 .21 11 610 LOS LONELY BOYS Heaven (Or/Epic) 3.64 3.79 92% 35% 3.68 3.43 3.76 13 15 LIONEL RICHIE Just For You (island/IDJMG) 217 -15 27 1010

MERCYME Here With Me (INO,Curbl 3.64 3.62 78% 27% 3.66 3.73 3.64 18 KIMBERLEY LOCKE 8th World Wonder (Curb) 146 +3 5 310

24 HALL & OATES I'll Be Around (II-Watch) 143 +32 2 410 o MARTINA MCBRIDE This One's For The Girls (RCA) 3.62 3.74 95% 46% 3.60 3.55 3.61 17 18 COUNTING CROWS Accidentally... (OreamWorks/Geflen) 140 -18 6 410

JOSH GROBAN Remember When It Rained (143 /Reprise) 3.58 3.76 79% 24% 3.64 3.35 3.74 19 19 é K.D. LANG Helpless (Nonesuch) 128 10 7 510

26 e ANDY KIM I Forgot To Mention (Independent) 121 +18 4 410 FIVE FOR FIGHTING 100 Years (Aware /Columbia/ 3.55 3.69 93% 49% 3.54 3.70 3.48 C 21 21 NELLY FURTADO Try (DreamWorks/lnterscope) 119 1 5 310 L. RIMES OR. KEATING Last Thing On My Mind (Curb) 3.55 3.63 69% 17% 3.55 3.34 3.62 25 PHIL COLLINS Don't Let Him Steal Your... (At/antic) 114 +8 2 310

SEAL Love's Divine (Warner Bros.) 3.49 3.72 88% 42% 3.56 3.43 3.60 27 L. RIMES fIR. KEATING Last Thing On My Mind (Curb) 106 +3 5 410

¡Debut> MAROON 5 She Will Be Loved (Octone/J/RMG) 104 +37 1 411

ALICIA KEYS If I Ain't Got You (J /RMG) 3.38 3.38 Bi°/D 32% 3.46 3.27 3.52 22 25 DELTA 0000REM Born To Try (Sony Music Australia) 103 .13 13 310 ¡Debut> DIDO White Flag (Ansia/RMG) 3.34 3.30 94% 56% 3.28 3.28 3.29 ALICIA KEYS If I Ain't Got You (J/RMG) 96 +23 1 410

¡Debut> LIONEL RICHIE Long Long Way To Go (lslandlIOJMG) 94 +37 1 510 MICHAEL MCDONALD Ain't No Mountain... (Motown) 3.32 3.38 98% 54% 3.28 3.10 3.34 ¡Debut> MARTINA MCBRIDE In My Daughter's Eyes (RCA) 93 +12 1 410

SHERYL CROW The First Cut Is... (A &Mllnterscope) 2.97 3.22 99% 69% 2.87 2.83 2.88 JESSE COOK Early On Tuesday (Uada) 92 +1 7 610

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Friends Of Independent Artists And Labels THE BEGINNING OFA BEAUTIFUL RELATIONSHIP Pictured And what they're doing to help here (I -r) are KRSK (The Buzz)/Portland, OR midday personality/Asst. PD/MD Sheryl Stewart, independent artist Geoff Byrd, and KRSK PD Dan Persigehl.

. . can't tell you how many times I've heard "There just lighted when they open the package ing field has been leveled. Indie art- is currently championing local amis isn't any good music out there." In my opinion, there from TAXI and find that it contains ists and labels now have ways to more Megan Slankard's single "Too Bad." some truly exceptional talent. The efficiently market and distribute their is always great music out there, but sometimes you bands and artists are thrilled when goods. Remember This Name have to look for it. Hits are not always delivered on a they get airplay on the radio stations. 'The public has more avenues than One independent artist who seems major-label silver platter. Everybody wins." ever to seek out new music," he says. to be making headway on his own is There are some real "And the reality is that in- Portland, OR singer- songwriter With the advent of consolidation expertise and persistence to make that gems among the 10,000 - die and unsigned artists Geoff Byrd. This former schoolteach- there are fewer majors, more indepen- happen." plus TAXI artists. Some now have the same elec- er has released a new record, Candy dent labels and a whole lot of inde- Industry Experts who come to mind are tronic means to get their Shell, and the single "Silver Plated" pendent artists. The way we look for Gabriel Mann, Susanna product to the public as is getting significant airplay on KRSK hit music must change, and radio That is where Laskow and his team Benn (who received top the majors. Platforms like (The Buzz) /Portland. More radio must be open to taking a chance on an of industry experts pitch in to help. scores at the AC /Hot AC iTunes allow indie labels support has followed, with WMYX/ unknown every now and again. For- "We work hard to open up unconven- "Survivor Rate -a- Record" to be marketed side -by- Milwaukee; KRSH (95.9 FM The tunately, there are individ- tional avenues for artists so panel at the R &F. Conven- side with the big boys, so, Crush) /Santa Rosa, CA; KINK /Port- uals out there who are they can get exposure tion in June) and Cleveland at the end of the day, the land, OR; and KPLZ /Seattle getting helping these unknown without going through a artist Kate Voegele. Jimi Jamm public will decide what on board. Labels are knocking, and artists make their way on- major label," he says. "Some "Voegele is currently in music will emerge." the buzz is spreading through the ra- to our radar screen and examples are: We send un- the studio with producer Marshall Jamm's Decent Exposure show plays dio community. perhaps on to our air- signed artists to XM Radio Altman and has already opened for music from up- and -coming artists, The person partly responsible for waves. for their unsigned shows, several major acts at Clear Channel indie artists and smaller-label artists. the attention Byrd has received is Michael Laskow, Pres- we supply music to DMX shows," Laskow says. "She is a clas- "The show is all about awareness," he KRSK midday personality/Asst. PD/ ident & CEO of the inde- for in-store play, and most sic case of a new, young artist who not says. "All songs are front- and back- MD Sheryl Stewart, who happened pendent A &R company of the world's top produc- only knows how to take care of the sold with website and retail informa- upon Byrd while judging a local TAXI, works with 10,000 tion music libraries and Michael Laskow artistic side of her career, but under- tion. The show's playlist is posted American Idol -type contest called unsigned artists, who, in source music companies on our website [www.933Star.com] "Gimme the Mic. " According to Stew- the changing landscape of the music use TAXI as a primary resource to ford with links. art, "Geoff, who ended up winning, industry, are acting as their own inde- unsigned talent for film and TV place- "We work hard to "We've solicited bands all over the performed on a different level from all pendent labels rather than chasing the ments." country to send their stuff, and we pick the other contestants." dream of getting signed to a major. With the help of TAXI's radio con- the best to be on the show. Stewart explains the open up "Many artists have been so turned nections, some of the company's art- We also have a feature called chain of events that fol- off by the difficulties of getting a ma- ists are even getting specialty show unconventional 'CD Scan,' where we play a lowed Byrd's victory: "Af- jor -label deal that they've decided to airplay. "There are many specialty whole album by an artist in ter the judging was over, create indie labels of their own to mar- shows that use TAXI as a primary re- avenues for our four minutes -a sort of'lis- he gave me a CD, and I felt ket their product," Laskow says. source to find emerging bands and tening station' on the radio. at that point I could accept "Unfortunately, what many of the art- artists. The program directors call artists so they can These features allow us to it, since the contest was ists fail to realize is that you can't run TAXI and tell us what they're looking show our audience that over. I brought it into the an indie record label as a hobby. for. We put the word out to our 10,000 get exposure without we're as passionate about music meeting with my "In order to have true success, you members without identifying the sta- music as they are." PD, Dan Persigehl, and lis- need to run it like a business. That tion, the PD or the DJ. The bands and Jamm's indie pick is tened to 'Silver Plated,' going through a Donna Miller means working 12 hours a day, six or artists respond by sending their mu- Nicole McKenna, who has which we believed had air- seven days a week, at a minimum. sic to TAXI, and our A &R department major label." moved 1,000 units of her CD Stay play potential. Product doesn't magically get itself filters it and finds the very best for the Awhile in Poughkeepsie alone. "We suggested that Geoff add more into stores and fly off shelves. It takes specialty show. Michael Laskow KOSO /Modesto, CA midday host/ guitars to 'Silver Plated,' and the next a tremendous amount of marketing "The DJs and PDs are always de- MD Donna Miller reveals the reason day we had a new mix in our hands. for KOSO's support of independent We put it on the air, and it instantly stands that there's a business side as artists: "We decided in the early days became one of our most requested well. I have no doubt that she'll be on that live performances would be a songs. We've since had Geoff open up everybody's radar very soon." very important aspect of our station. for The Calling at our Cheap Date If your station is interested in tap- At the time there were almost no live show. He and his band are on par with ping into TAXI's artist bank for mate- music events in Modesto, and we any national band out there." rial for specialty shows, call TAXI would have to drive to the Bay Area So, good music is indeed out there, head of A &R Cathy Genovese at 800- or Sacramento to enjoy a concert. but you've got to be willing to track it 458 -2111. "The call will take about "We felt that if we could bring the down. "Radio is going to have to look three minutes, and a few weeks later artists to our listeners, we'd be repaid for sources of new music," Stewart we send out some incredibly strong with passion and loyalty. We found says. "There are many artists who music," Laskow says. "And the best that the new artists or indie artists were formerly on major labels who part is, it doesn't cost the radio station were much easier to book for shows have been dropped due to consolida- a dime. It's kind of like having your in a market of our size. And if we tion, and radio needs to be more open own A &R research team for free." wanted our listeners to be excited to and adventurous in finding and sup- see these artists, we had to make sure porting these artists. Radio Hit Seekers they were stars in our area. We did so "The reason we have these jobs is Hot AC WBWZ (Star 93.3)/ Pough- by giving them meaningful airplay." because we love music. Great music TAXI HOPEFUL Kate Voegele performs at Farm Aid last September keepsie, NY PD Jmi Jamm points out KOSO also features indie music on is great music regardless of where it that with today's technology, the play- its B93 Unwound specialty show and comes from."

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2 4 MARTINA MCBRIDE This One's For The Girls (RCA) 1685 143 143617 39 10510 LIONEL RICHIE Long Long Way To Go (Island)/OJMG) 17 6 t© MAROON 5 This Love (Octane /J/RMG) 1676 +32 182245 25 8611 MICHAEL MCDONALD Reach Out, I'll Be There (Motown /Universal/ 12

5 6 MICHAEL MCDONALD Ain't No Mountain High Enough (Motown) 1456 -189 138874 49 9810 CELINE DION Beautiful Boy (Epic) 10 TIM MCGRAW Live Like You Were Dying (Curb) 9 7 7 KIMBERLEY LOCKE 8th World Wonder (Curb) 1446 -37 87440 28 9610 JOHN MAYER Daughters (Aware/Columbia) 7 8 8 SEAL Love's Divine (Warner Bros.) 1362 .57 133667 37 9910 MARTINA MCBRIDE In My Daughter's Eyes (RCA) 6 9 KEITH URBAN You'll Think Of Me (Capitol) 1303 +12 105042 21 9710 0 SIMPLY RED Home /simplyred.com) 5 10 10 MERCYME Here With Me ((NO/Curb) 1116 8 56945 26 8110 MAROON 5 She Will Be Loved (Octane/J /RMG) 5 12 m ELTON JOHN Answer In The Sky (Universal) 1043 +129 70810 6 9212 QUEEN LATIFAH (Vector) 5 11 12 JOSH GROBAN You Raise Me Up (143/Reprise) 896 166 86387 50 10010 13 13 3 DOORS DOWN Here Without You (Republic /Universal) 884 -26 94498 42 6210 Most 16 0 PHIL COLLINS Don't Let Him Steal Your Heart Away (Atlantic) 880 +124 81336 5 8914 17 ® MARTINA MCBRIDE In My Daughter's Eyes (RCA) 832 +94 97437 7 7516 Increased Plays TOTAL 14 16 JOSH GROBAN Remember When It Rained (143/Reprise) 826 76 81698 12 8210 PLAY ARTIST INCREASE 18 HALL & OATES I'll Be Around (II Watch) 740 +63 87351 6 8014 PHIL COLLINS Can't Stop Loving You (Atlantic/ +162 19 0 ALICIA KEYS If I Ain't Got You (J/RMG) 646 +5 59958 9 6712 LONESTAR l'm Already There (BNA) +152 20 HOOBASTANK The Reason (Island/(DJMG) 626 +2 67756 17 4011 D CHRISTINA AGUILERA Beautiful (RCA/RMGI +135 20 LEANN RIMES On -150 24521 18 7710 15 fIRONAN KEATING Last Thing My Mind (Curb) 614 ELTON JOHN Answer In The Sky (Universal) +129 23 ® NEWSONG When God Made You (Reunion/PLO 374 +93 9673 7 4311 PHIL COLLINS Don't Let Him Steal Your Heart Away (Atlantic,' +124 27 ® TIM MCGRAW Live Like You Were Dying (Curb) 340 +72 14739 3 5519 MARTINA MCBRIDE In My Daughter's Eyes (RCA) +94 MICHAEL MCDONALD Reach Out, I'll Be There (Motowo/Universal) +93 25 ® KELLY CLARKSON Breakaway (Hollywood) 314 +34 77983 4 2613 NEWSONG When God Made You (Reunion /PLG) +93 30 MICHAEL MCDONALD Reach Out, I'll Be There (Motown/Universal) 289 +93 21257 2 52112 S. TWAIN It Only Hurts When I'm Breathing (Mercury//DJMG) +92

22 25 CLAY AIKEN I Will Carry You (RCA /RMG) 273 -26 11704 9 4210 MERCYME I Can Only Imagine ( /NO/Curb) +86

IDebu> MAROON 5 She Will Be Loved (Octane/J /RMG) 260 +71 65238 1 1915 24 27 SEALS & CROFTS Summer Breeze'04 (Warner Bros.) 255 25 33046 18 2310 21 28 CHERIE Older Than My Years (Lava) 243 124 12622 13 4610 Most 28 29 COUNTING CROWS Accidentally In Love (DreamWorks/Geffen) 212 6 21612 12 1310 Played Recurrents

IDebu > KATRINA CARLSON Drive (Kataphonic) 205 +25 13507 1 3612 TOTAL PLAYS 115 AC reporters. Monitored airplay data supplied by Mediabase Research, a division of Premiere Radio Networks. Songs ranked by total plays for the airplay week of ARTIST TITLE LABEL(S) 10/3-10/9. Bullets appear on songs gaining plays or remaining flat from previous week. If two songs are tied in total plays, the song with the larger increase in plays is SHERYL CROW The First Cut Is The Deepest (A &M/lnterscope) 1444 placed first. Songs below No. 15 are moved to recurrent atter 20 weeks on the chart. Songs below No. 5 are moved to recurrent after 50 weeks on the chart. Most Added TRAIN Calling All Angels (Columbia) 1138 is the total number of new adds officially reported to R &R by each reporting station. Songs unreported as adds do not count toward overall total stations playing a song. 1126 Total Audience equals Average Quarter Hour Persons times number of plays (times 100). Each daypart on each station is assigned an AOH number. Average Quarter Hour UNCLE KRACKER fIDOBIE GRAY Drift Away (Lava) Persons used herein with permission from Arbitron Inc. (© 2004, Arbitron Inc.). © 2004, R &R, Inc. MATCHBOX TWENTY Unwell (At/antic) 1048 New &Active SHANIA TWAIN Forever And For Always (Mercuryl /LUMG/ 963 LUTHER VANDROSS Dance With My Father (J /RMC) 890 JOHN MELLENCAMP Walk Tall (/s /and//DJMG) CELINE DION Beautiful Boy (Epic) COUNTING CROWS Big Yellow Taxi (Geffen/lnterscope) 831

Total Plays: 163, Total Stations: 21, Adds: 2 Total Plays: 106, Total Station;: 26, Adds: 10 SANTANA fIMICHELLE BRANCH The Game Of love (Arista/RM'G) 806 SIMPLY RED Home (simplyred.com) ANGEL Love Is (Midas /ADA /WMG) CHRISTINA AGUILERA Beautiful (RCA/RMG) 803

Total Plays: 155, Total Stations: 33, Adds: 5 Total Plays: 79, Total Stations: 18, Adds: 2 LONESTAR I'm Already There (BHA) 758

JOHN MAYER Daughters (Aware/Columbia) ANITA BAKER You're My Everything (Blue Note /EMC) SHERYL CROW Soak Up The Sun (A &M/lnterscope) 753 Total Plays: 152, Total Stations: 25, Adds: 7 Total Plays: 74, Total Stations: 17, Adds: 1 VANESSA CARLTON A Thousand Miles (A &M/lnterscope) 703 BRUCE HORNSBY Gonna Be Some Changes Made (Columbia) AMY GRANT fIKEB' MO' Come Be With Me (UMe) Total Plays: 151, Total Stations: 22, Adds: 0 Total Plays: 73, Total Stations: 13, Adds: 1 Station playlists for all R &R reporters MCVIE Friend (Koch) ROD STEWART What A Wonderful World (J/RMGI CHRISTINE are available on the web at Total Plays: 142, Total Stations: 33, Adds: 1 Total Plays: 47, Total Stations: 38, Adds: 34 www.radioandrecords.com.

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1 MAROON 5 She Will Be Loved /Octane /J/RMGI 3840 +134 248090 16 9710 www.rradds.com

2 2 FINGER ELEVEN One Thing (Wind -up) 3366 -38 228273 23 9310 ASTIS - -. ADDS

4 3 LOS LONELY BOYS Heaven (Or/Epic) 3212 50 227022 30 9210 G00 GOO DOLLS Give A Little Bit (Warner Bros.) 39

3 4 HOOBASTANK The Reason Ifs/and/IOJMG) 3101 -176 207218 34 9510 LOS LONELY BOYS More Than Love (Or/Epic) 9 U2 Vertigo (lnterscope) 8 5 lp ASHLEE SIMPSON Pieces Of Me (Geffen) 3073 +68 207543 11 8610 SWITCHFOOT Dare You To Move (Redtnk/Columbia) 6 6 Q AVRIL LAVIGNE My Happy Ending (Arista /RMG) 2857 +173 181221 12 9110 DURAN DURAN (Reach Up For The) Sunrise (Epic) 5

7 7 COUNTING CROWS Accidentally In Love (DreamWorks/Geffen) 2541 -125 174523 23 9110 CALLING Anything (RCA/RMGI 5

8 8 MAROON 5 This Love (Octone/J/RMG) 2395 -161 182267 40 9410 GWEN STEFANI What You Waiting For? (lnterscope) 5 DIRTY VEGAS Walk Into The Sun (Capitol) 5 9 0 JOHN MAYER Daughters (Aware/Columbia) 2377 +149 148141 8 9012 JET Look What You've Done (At/antic) 5 11 BOWLING FOR SOUP 1985 (Silvertone /Jive/Zomba) 1964 +155 116588 11 7511

13 RYAN CABRERA On The Way Down (E. V.L.A./Atlantic) 1916 +256 112312 11 7913 10 12 GAVIN DEGRAW I Don't Want To Be (J/RMG) 1777 -51 106348 30 7111 Most 15 ® SARAH MCLACHLAN World On Fire (Arista /RMG) 1691 +53 84869 12 7813 Increased Plays 17 KELLY CLARKSON Breakaway (Hollywood) 1655 +242 123554 10 6414 TOTAL PLAY 12 15 3 DOORS DOWN Away From The Sun (Republic /Universal) 1603 190 6910 79790 35 ARTIST - ...- - INCREASE 16 0 SEETHER fIAMY LEE Broken (Windup) 1543 +97 67685 13 6613 G00 G00 DOLLS Give A Little Bit (Warner Bros.) +386 RYAN CABRERA On The Way Down (E. V.C.A./Atlantic) +256 19 DURAN DURAN (Reach Up For The) Sunrise (Epic) 1260 +97 71389 6 7215 KELLY CLARKSON Breakaway (Hollywood) +242 20 LENNY KRAVITZ Lady (Virgin) 1257 +207 82063 6 6514 U2 Vertigo (lnterscope) +230 18 19 NICKELBACK Feelin' Way Too Damn (Roadrunner/IOJMG) 1022 -230 54822 19 Good 5110 SWITCHFOOT Dare You To Move (Redtnk/Columbia) +215 23 e U2 Vertigo (lnterscope) 1015 +230 84104 3 5718 LENNY KRAVITZ Lady (Virgin) +207 22 SWITCHFOOT Dare You To Move (Red Ink/Columbia) 1009 +215 45320 4 6016 AVRIL LAVIGNE My Happy Ending (Arista/RMG) +173 BOWLING FOR SOUP 1985 (Silvertone/Jive /Zomba) +155 21 e KILLERS Somebody Told Me (/s/and /IDJMG) 856 +52 37085 9 4213 JOHN MAYER Daughters (Aware/Columbia) + 149 26 HOWIE DAY Collide (Epic) 739 +40 30793 9 3913 ® GWEN STEFANI What You Waiting For? (lnterscope) + 143 29 DIDO Sand In My Shoes (Arista/RMG) 646 +29 15458 5 5213

28 VANESSA CARLTON White Houses (A &M/lnterscope) 633 +2 21592 5 4010

25 26 ALANIS MORISSETTE Eight Easy Steps (Maverick/Reprise) 617 .115 18021 9 4710 New &Active

30 27 LINKIN PARK Breaking The Habit (Warner Bros.) 600 -12 29892 6 2311 KEANE Somewhere Only We Know (Interscope) 24 28 AVION Seven Days Without You (Columbia) 580 -175 18614 19 3510 Total Plays: 269, Total Stations: 26, Adds: 4 MARC Where You Are ()Stand 33 LOS LONELY BOYS More Than Love (Or /Epic) 535 +70 21889 4 4519 BROUSSARD /IDJMG) Total Plays: 159, Total Stations: 20, Adds: 2 32 TEARS FOR FEARS Call Me Mellow (UniversalMusic) 504 +16 17151 7 3811 e LOW MILLIONS Eleanor (Manhattan/EMC) 'Debut ® GOO G00 DOLLS Give A Little Bit (Warner Bros.) 499 +386 35809 1 64139 Total Plays: 159, Total Stations: 17, Adds: 2 FRDU FROU Let Go (Geffen) 31 32 TRAIN Ordinary (Columbia) 467 72 19201 19 3610 Total Plays: 126, Total Stations: 14, Adds:4 FIVE FOR The Devil In The Wishing Well Says) 456 -207 16100 10 3710 27 33 FIGHTING (Jane (Aware /Columbia! UNCLE KRACKER Writing It Down (Lava/Warner Bros.) 34 34 DIANA ANAID Last Thing (Five Crowns Music) 443 19 11621 10 2910 Total Plays: 118, Total Stations: 15, Adds: 3 DIRTY VEGAS Walk Into The Sun (Capitol) 36 35 MARTINA MCBRIDE This One's For The Girls (RCA) 436 -11 31878 18 1710 Total Plays: 95, Total Stations: 14, Adds: 5

37 36 INGRAM HILL Will I Ever Make It Home (Hollywood) 409 -6 11786 7 3112 311 Amber (VolcanolZombal 35 37 JOJO Leave (Get Out) (BlackGround/Universal) 389 -67 13792 8 1210 Total Plays: 83, Total Stations: 12, Adds: 2 ¡Debut> MINDY SMITH Corne To Jesus (Vanguard) CD GWEN STEFANI What You Waiting For? (Interscope) 338 +143 18326 1 2115 Total Plays: 66, Total Stations: 14, Adds:4 38 e JOHN MELLENCAMP Walk Tall (/s/and /IOJMG) 334 +42 14921 2 2912 JET Look What You've Dane (Atlantic) Total Plays: 64, Total Stations: 12, Adds: 5 (Debut> CALLING Anything (RCA/RMG) 303 +76 6134 1 3315

97 Hot AC reporters. Monitored airplay data supplied by Mediabase Research, a division of Premiere Radio Networks. Songs ranked by total plays for the airplay week Station playlists for all R &R reporters of 10/3 -10/9. Bullets appear on songs gaining plays or remaining flat from previous week. If two songs are tied in total plays, the song with the larger increase in plays is placed first. Songs below No. 15 are moved to recurrent atter 20 weeks on the chart. Most Added is the total number of new adds officially reported to R &R by each are available on the web at reporting station. Songs unreported as adds do not count toward overall total stations playing a song. Total Audierce equals Average Quarter Hour Persons times www.radioandrecords.com. number of plays (times 100). Each daypart on each station is assigned an AQH number. Average Quarter Hour Persons used herein with permission from Arbitron Inc. (© 2004, Arbitron Inc.). © 2004, R &R, Inc.

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for a couple of years, I have great sup- port from my airstaff, and the folks in promotions, production, sales and man- RECORD agement are among the most profes- artist t1Vlty sional around. No team is truly perfect, Peter Naughton but ours seems pretty darn close. PD /afternoons, I'm honored to be here as WLZW ARTIST: Mae efits of being out on her own. "Strangely, WLZW (Lite 98.7)/Utica, NY (Lite 98.7) approaches a major mile- Moore L- since becoming an independent artist, I stone - the station celebrates its 15th LABEL: Independent have been making more money than when anniversary on Nov. 20. You know what would make a great I was signed to a major label," Moore tells By JULIE KERTES /AC/HOTAC EDITOR present? Custom liners from many of the AC artists we've R &R. "I have freedom to choose when and supported and helped make famous over the years. A few where I will record my next project, and labels have pledged support, but most say, "It'll be tough," Irecently found the solution to dealing that translates into a better lifestyle for me. with Los Angeles traffic. Her name is "I'm finding that my writing has taken or that there isn't any chance. Hey, I realize many artists Mae Moore. I became a fan about 12 years on a natural rhythm, since I don't have to are busy touring and some aren't even recording anymore, but what if ago when I heard Moore's Bohemia CD produce a new crop of songs according to the "Z" in my call letters was actually a 'T" and I was about 230 miles (Epic/Sony). I was taken with her vocals, someone else's schedule. Any pressure southeast of here? I can't help but wonder if I'd still be brushed off as so warm and smooth, and the songs, so in- that I might feel is self- imposed." easily, or if getting liners would suddenly be possible. Are labels and credibly timeless. I still listen to the album But as Moore can attest, it's a lot of hard artists saying Utica doesn't matter just because we're way down in today. And when I'm trapped in work for the independent artist market 159? Feel free to prove me wrong at peterd?lite987.com. the canyons of Los Angeles, when the competition is so stiff. overcome by road rage, listen- "There are so many artists out ing to Moore's music centers me there, independent and other- AC's top three this week are Los and brings me back to a good wise, who are all vying for the Lonely Boys' "Heaven" (Or /Epic) place. same audience," she says, "It at No. 1; Five For Fighting's "100 I recently learned that Moore can be daunting to try and grab has a new CD she released in- Years" (Aware /Columbia) back up to promoters', record buyers' dependently with her husband, or the media's attention with a No. 2; and Dido's "White Flag" (Arista/ blues singer-songwriter Lester minimal marketing budget. No. 3 ... RMG) at Elton John's "An- Quitzau, called Oh My! The Canadian "I'm fortunate that while I was on Sony swer in the Sky" (Universal) gets Most couple recorded and produced the CD in from 1990 until 1995 I had some decent Increased Plays with +129, and Phil the comfort of their home, and it is a won- radio airplay and toured a fair bit. That Collins' "Don't Let Him Steal Your derful collection of soothing, melodic, has certainly helped keep doors open. Heart Away" (Atlantic) is close behind with +124 ... Maroon 5's "She acoustic songs. Some may classify their Some days are still a struggle though. It's Will Be Loved" (Octone /J /RMG) debuts at No. 26, and Katrina music as Triple A, but several tracks on next to impossible to cover the same Carlson's "Drive" (Kataphonic) debuts at 30 ... Most Added this week Oh My! are AC- appropriate, like the title amount of ground as a major." track, which showcases the couple's beau- Having had the experience of being on are Rod Stewart's "What a Wonderful World" (J /RMG) with 34 adds, tiful harmonies. "Tell Me" and "Stepping a major, Moore is grateful for the artistic and Lionel Richie's "Long Long Way to Go" (Island /IDJMG) with 17 Through Fire" are also strong tracks that freedom she now has. She says, "The ... Over at Hot AC, Maroon 5's "She Will Be Loved" (Octone /J /RMG) are emotionally engaging. Moore's past greatest thing, I think, about being an in- remains at No. 1 ... Finger Eleven's "One Thing" (Wind -up) also stays albums, including It's a Funny World dependent artist is being able to follow put at No. 2, while Los Lonely Boys pop back up to No. 3 ... Great (2002), are more elaborately produced and through on your vision, whatever that may week for the folks at Warner Bros., with Goo Goo Dolls'"Give a Little are similar to the music of Norah Jones be, without someone else interfering in the Bit" debuting at 31 on the Hot AC chart with Most Increased Plays and Sheryl Crow. If you haven't treated creative process. I feel that for the first ( +386). The Goos are also Most Added with 38 ... Ryan Cabrera's yourself to a listen, please do. time in my career I am able to represent "On the Way Down" (E.V.L.A. /Atlantic) shows more steady growth, Moore and Quitzau have built a very myself honestly. I feel that it's a healthier lucrative indie music business, attaining choice for me not living under someone moving 13 to 11 with +256 plays ... Kelly Clarkson's "Breakaway" distribution through Festival in Canada else's preconception of who I am." (Hollywood) goes 17 -14 with +242 plays ... Debuts this week include and Burnside in the U.S. Their websites, Moore and Quitzau will be touring Eu- Gwen Stefani's "What You Waiting For ?" (Interscope) at No. 38 and www.maemoore.com and www.lesterq. rope before year's end promoting Oh My!, The Calling's "Anything" (RCA/RMG) at No. 40. corn, have also been valuable tools for mar- as well as writing and working on a docu- - Julie lrertes, AC/Hot AC Editor keting their music to the masses. mentary for Bravo! TV. Learn more about Certainly, Moore has enjoyed the ben- Mae at www.maemoore.com.

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.7 1 Be 13 410 1 MAROON 5 She Will Loved (Octane //RMG! 654 MAROON 5 She Will Be Loved (Octane/J /RMG) 4.22 4.39 99% 30% 4.19 4.18 4.20 2 2 i AVRIL LAVIGNE My Happy Ending /Arista /RMG) 541 9 16 510 SWITCHFOOT Dare You To Move (Red Ink/Columbia) 4.20 - 74% 9% 4.26 4.40 4.11 3 3 BRYAN ADAMS Open Road (Universal) 530 -18 10 610 MAROON 5 This Love (Octone/J /RMG! 4.07 4.25 99% 48% 4.08 4.07 4.10 4 4 ASHLEE SIMPSON Pieces Of Me (Geffen) 515 -26 14 410 FINGER ELEVEN One Thing (Wind-up) 4.01 4.01 92% 29% 3.91 3.87 3.95 5 BOWLING FOR SOUP 1985 (Silvertone/Jive / tombal 503 +26 8 910 RYAN CABRERA On The Way Down (EV.L.A.IAtlantic) 4.00 4.07 88% 18% 4.12 4.19 4.06 10 KELLY CLARKSON Breakaway (Hollywood) 491 +72 5 610 SWITCHFOOT Meant To Live/Red/Pk/Columbia) 3.99 4.03 93% 34% 3.91 3.96 3.87 6 + SARAH MCLACHLAN World On Fire (Arista/RMG) 480 +9 15 410 COUNTING CROWS Accidat yInLoveNremnWorkstGefen/ 3.98 4.09 93% 28% 3.87 4.06 3.72 9 i K-OS Crabbuckit (Astralwerks/Virgin) 434 +1 6 610 KELLY CLARKSON Breakaway (Hollywood) 3.98 4.06 87% 16% 4.18 4.22 4.15 7 9 COUNTING CROWS Accidentally... (DreamWorks/Gefen) 405 -49 21 610 GAVIN DEGRAW I Don't Want To Be (J/RMG) 3.97 4.07 87% 23% 4.15 4.27 4.05 11 STABILO Everybody (Virgin Music Canada) 398 +4 14 310 HOWIE DAY Collide (Epic/ 3.97 3.83 47% 7% 4.15 4.31 4.00 + 8 11 HOOBASTANK The Reason (Islandl/DJMGJ 383 .66 27 1110 HOOBASTANK The Reason (lslandllDJMG) 3.96 3.99 99% 52% 3.85 3.68 3.98 14 SHANIA TWAIN... Party For Two(Mercuryl/DJMG) 355 +16 4 810 SEETHER fIAMY LEE Broken (Wind -upl 3.93 3.92 86% 24% 3.92 3.91 3.93 ®+ 13 LEE Broken .4 18 510 BOWLING FOR SOUP 1985 (Silvenone /Jive/Zomba) 3.92 3.84 88% 20% 3.86 3.94 3.80 13 SEETHER fIAMY (Windup/ 343 RYAN On The Down +33 5 611 3 DOORS DOWN Away From The Sun (Republic/Universal/ 3.88 3.88 93% 36% 3.88 4.03 3.75 17 CABRERA Way (E.V.L.A./Atlantic) 340 TRAIN Ordinary /Columbia/ 3.88 3.98 81% 18% 3.84 3.72 3.93 19 BLACK EYED PEAS Let's Get It Started (A &M/lnterscope) 333 +35 5 510 LINKIN PARK Breaking The Habit (Warner Bros.) 3.85 - 77% 19% 3.84 3.75 3.92 26 DURAN DURAN (Reach Up For The) Sunrise (Epic) 326 + 102 2 610 KILLERS Somebody Told Me (Island/IDJMG) 3.85 3.90 64% 12% 3.87 4.04 3.72 12 17 TRAIN Ordinary (Columbia) 318 -68 17 610

SARAH MCLACHLAN World On Fire (Arista/RMGi 3.78 3.74 71% 14% 3.94 3.96 3.93 16 18 a DEFAULT All She Wrote (WTI 294 20 12 310

AVAIL LAVIGNE My Happy Ending (Arista/RMG/ 3.76 3.86 97% 35% 3.77 3.67 3.84 20 19 VANESSA CARLTON White Houses (A &M/lnterscope! 289 -4 3 610

AVION Seven Days Without You (Columbia) 3.69 3.58 52% 10% 3.74 3.79 3.69 28 1 DESTINY'S CHILD Lose My Breath (Columbia) 281 +78 2 510

NICKELBACK Feelin' Way Too... (Roadrunner/IDJMG) 3.65 3.69 85% 29% 3.64 3.71 3.58 23 e NELLY FURTADO Forca (DreamWorksllnterscope) 269 +6 10 510

JOHN MAYER Daughters (Aware/Columbia/ 3.63 3.77 74% 20% 3.77 3.98 3.60 Cbut U2 Vertigo (lnterscope) 258 +104 1 410

DURAN DURAN (Reach Up For The) Sunrise (Epic) 3.63 3.66 52% 9% 3.60 3.13 3.88 24 GORDIE SAMPSON Sunburn (Independent) 257 +3 5 410

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LOS LONELY BOYS Heaven (Or/Epic) 3.58 3.72 97% 52% 3.41 3.53 3.32 18 25 JOJO Leave (Get Out) (BlackGround/Universal) 242 -58 10 410 FIVE FOR FIGHTING The Devil In The... (Aware /Co/umbrál 3.54 3.46 58% 12% 3.64 3.82 3.50 25 e ALANIS MORISSETTE Eight... (MavencklReprisel 238 +13 4 310 ASHLEE SIMPSON Pieces Of Me (Geffen) 3.46 3.58 97% 44% 3.54 3.31 3.72 22 27 a JACKSOUL Shady Day (Vik /BMG Musk Canada/ 235 -32 8 510 VANESSA CARLTON White Houses (A &Mllnterscope) 3.43 3.70 56% 15% 3.41 3.49 3.33 29 8. ANDY KIM I Forgot To Mention (Independent) 194 +5 2 210 loebut> Total sample size is 423 respondents. Total average lavorablll y estimates are based on a scale of 1 -5. (1= dislike very LINKIN PARK Breaking The Habit (Warner Bros.) 178 +19 1 211

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TRUE LOVE Congratulations to KTWV (The Wave)/Los Angeles Asst. PD/ n an increasingly corporate, consolidated world, MD Samantha Weidman and Ruel Pascal, who were married in Marina Del Rey, smooth jazz artists on independent labels still com- CA, on Aug. 28. The happy couple honeymooned in the idyllic Maldives in the manded almost the identical chart share on R &R's "We owe our artists Indian Ocean and made a stop in Jakarta, Indonesia on their way home. year -end SJ charts in 2003 that they did in 1990 about - more than thinking 35 %. What makes independent labels tick? This week thinking about their marketing as a we explore their turf with the heads of A440, Peak, about their line item. It takes more to develop Rendezvous, Shanachie and 215. artists than allocating a budget for marketing as a line three months to spend at retail and "We believe in the to work a single at radio. That's not the kind of resolve that artists who cy is set up to bring corporate Ameri- item." Smooth Jazz format A440 have entrusted their careers to us de- ca and music together. What's innova- serve or that the audience and fans Label head Suzy LeClair. "I see all tive is that we want to use our music Hyman Katz and also that it deserve. independent labels, including A440, to help companies move their brands. "That's why being independent is as entrepreneurs. We're "For example, our artist needs to grow to so important to Rendezvous, and trying to be innovative in Machan played for Jaguar Peak that is why having an independent a field when all the odds at their auto show in Chi- remain vital." President Andi Howard: "This is distribution partner like RED is so are against us. It's the en- cago. Jaguar bought 2,000 an exciting time for Peak Records. critical to trepreneurial spirit that units from us; Machan oursuccess- because they Randall Grass Our partner, Concord Records, has also get it. Although we certainly moves us in the right di- performed at Jaguar's VIP entered into a new distribution deal look rection. Look at someone party and their public closely at the bottom line - af- with Universal. We have great new ter all, we are a business we also like Frank Cody, who is a event. Every time some- - releases next year from such artists look deeply at what really matters: genius in his own right, or one in Chicago buys a Jag- as The Rippingtons, David Benoit, touching people's lives with one of "We believe in the Smooth Jazz David Chadder, who is a uar from a dealer, they get Paul Taylor, 02L, David Pack, Eric the world's most miraculous gifts format and also that it needs to grow great explorer. These are Suzy LeClair an A440sampler and a let- - Marienthal and Cassandra Reed. In music. And we have a great time do- to remain vital. We're doing our best people who go against the ter saying that we've part- addition, we will be announcing ing it." to bring some fresh sounds, and if the grain, and I share that spirit. nered with our friends and that we some incredible new sign- format stretches just a little bit, it will "I want every independent label to hope they enjoy the ride, Skanackle ings over the next few be in everyone's best inter- succeed certainly and foremost and we direct them to our - months. Our mission is to GM Randall Grass: est. There are a lot of peo- A440 Music Group. There are a lot of website. continue making the great "Our mission is to put out ple who realize that need, obstacles. Everyone knows that I no "These are the kind of music the smooth jazz lis- quality music by quality but it takes a little bit of a longer have the partner I started this corporate partnerships tener has come to expect artists, no matter what leap of faith to do it. Our company with. A440 is visionary in that, if it's an ideal deal, from Peak Records and genre. We're into every- intention is to provide entrepreneurial spirit, and we'll con- work for both sides, and our artists." thing from contemporary music to Smooth Jazz that tinue to improve it with the same the agency side promotes jazz to some straight- will enable the format to thought we've always had that our studio's music. In Rendezvous - ahead; blues; world, in- do that." we'll have quality music and that moving forward and us- President Hyman Katz: duding , and Irish we'll learn from our mistakes. ing all our experience, Andi H oward 215 "Rendezvous is truly a traditional, which we Randal I Grass "Much the way Frank Cody can A440 is set up to work with creative, special place to be. I have never started with; folk; singer- David Chackler, Presi- produce a chill show, we can run an innovative partners, including art- worked with such passionate, cre- songwriters; groove bands, such as dent of 215 Entertainment: "This is a agency on the corporate side. The agen- ists, vendors and corporate clients." ative, dedicated professionals. Every Groove Collective; and neo -soul, music company and publishing com- day is an opportunity to with Hil St. Soul and our pany that is aggressively focused on discover new things about Soul Satisfaction compila- branding itself as a world-class adult our artists, our industry, tion. music and smooth jazz mecca. When even ourselves - an op- "We're trying to be a we founded 215 we wanted it to be a portunity to be an advo- home for artists who have place for adult music - especially cate for quality music and significant sales or fan smooth jazz, which is the cornerstone to conduct the best busi- bases but either don't of the adult genre. ness practices possible. want to be part of the ma- "Smooth Jazz is a melody-based "We are a team of like - jor system or can't find a format that loves great hooks. Down minded individuals who place within it, To The Bone pushed the believe that producing Hyma n Katz although they envelope and deepened and marketing music is not just a job, are great artists. With us the format's groove. We but a responsibility. Of course, it helps they don't have to be tied are serious about music: that we approach this responsibility to the latest trend or have We've signed Greg Ad- with a sense of fun and adventure. a Pop radio record. ams, Soul Ballet, The Alan "We know firsthand the passion, "And we're a place Hewitt Project, Torcuato commitment and hard work in- where an artist can devel- Mariano -a fabulous tal- PERSONAL TRANSFORMATIONS This shot was taken during volved in creating quality music. Art- op. This is a time when ent - and Blake Aaron, Waco (CD 101.9)/New York's Summer Jazz Festival in Central Park You no ists deserve that same level of passion it's harder than ever to and we've re-signed Gene doubt recognize Shanachie saxophonist Kim Waters (I), but you will just have from us. It's the least we can do to develop artists, so we David C hackler Dunlop. I'm also very to take my word that the other two people in the photo are Broadcast give back to our artists, who dig so pick our shots extremely proud that we have Architecture PD Rosalyn Joseph Wand Shanachie's Bill Cason, whose deep and make so many personal carefully, and if the economics are signed E.S.T., which expands our combined weight loss probably exceeds 100 pounds. Aren't they gorgeous? sacrifices to create their music. right - that is, modest - we want base beyond the norm -a great ad- "We owe our artists more than to do that too. dition to our roster."

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1 0 GERALD ALBRIGHT To The Max (GRP/VMGI 850 +3 107542 22 3910 www.rradds. corn 2 2 BONEY JAMES Here She Comes (Warner Bros.) 814 16 97626 18 3810 ARTIST TITLE LABEL(SI ADDS 5 0 WAYMAN TISDALE Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now (Rendezvous) 715 +5 75710 17 3410 QUEEN LATIFAH California Dreamin' (Vector) 13 3 4 GEORGE BENSON Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise (GRP/VMG) 699 .7 96026 20 3610 MICHAEL MCDONALD Tracks Of My Tears (Motown/Universal) 5 DAVE KOZ Let It Free (Capitol) 4 4 5 MICHAEL LINGTON Show Me (Rendezvous) 641 53 70774 27 3710 EUGE GROOVE XXL (Narada) 3 7 0 RICHARD ELLIOT Your Secret Love (GRP/VMG) 620 +84 80613 12 3610 RAY CHARLES fIDIANA KRALL You Don't Know Me (Concord) 3 6 0 ANITA BAKER You're My Everything (Blue Note/EMC) 567 +10 67794 15 3710 9 0 CHRIS BOTTI Back Into My Heart (Columbia) 539 +30 71244 23 3810 8 9 MARC ANTOINE Mediterraneo (Rendezvous) 442 -63 55331 34 3410 12 0 TIM BOWMAN Summer Groove (Liquid B) 432 +3 52342 10 3411 13 MARION MEADOWS Sweet Grapes (Heads Up) 431 +25 51236 15 3210 Most 15 NORMAN BROWN Up 'N' At 'Em (Warner Bros.) 413 +14 33727 11 3410

16 MINDI ABAIR Come As You Are (GRP/VMG) 405 +8 52166 7 3711 Increased Plays TOTAL 14 PAUL JACKSON, JR. Welkin' (Blue Note/EMC) 400 0 44819 23 3410 PLAY ARTIST TITLE LABELS, INCREASE 11 15 SEAL Love's Divine (Warner Bros.) 394 .53 39002 22 3110 MICHAEL MCDONALD Tracks Of My Tears /Motown /Universal,- +111 17 0 SOUL BALLET Cream (215) 388 +8 59242 8 34(1 QUEEN LATIFAH California Dreamir (Vector) +86 18 17 NICK COLIONNE It's Been Too Long (3 Keys Music) 359 .5 48554 16 3211 RICHARD ELLIOT Your Secret Love (GRPIVMG) +84 19 KIM WATERS In Deep +17 14 3010 (Shanachie) 346 43318 EUGE GROOVE XXL (Narada) +52 21 0 HALL & OATES Love TKO (UWatch) 307 +20 23205 5 2110 GREG ADAMS Firefly (215) +31 22 PETER WHITE How Does It Feel (Columbia) 297 +12 36239 7 2912 CHRIS BOTTI Back Into My Heart (Columbia) +30 DAVE KOZ Let It Free (Capitol) +30 23 21 RENEE OLSTEAD A Love That Will Last (143/Reprise) 259 -15 14119 12 1810 MARION MEADOWS Sweet Grapes (Heads Up) +25 20 22 RAMSEY LEWIS TRIO The In Crowd (Narada) 258 -25 39285 20 2210 JEFF GOLUB Cut The Cake (GRP/VMG) +23 24 23 PATTI LABELLE New Day (Bel Soul/IÛJMG) 249 6 21374 17 1811

25 24 STEVE OLIVER Chips & Salsa (Koch) 216 .6 10632 8 1910 26 ® PIECES OF A DREAM It's Go Time (Heads Up) 192 +7 17046 6 1912

/Debut> ED MICHAEL MCDONALD Tracks Of My Tears (Motown /Universal) 187 +111 19751 1 2315 Most 27 CRAIG CHAQUICO Her Boyfriend's Wedding (Narada) 185 +14 8882 6 1712 Played Recurrents 30 GREG ADAMS Firefly (215) 161 +31 32717 3 1512 TOTAL ARTIST TITLE LABELIS) PLAYS 29 29 PAUL BROWN Moment By Moment /GRP/VMGI 161 -1 34820 3 1611 DAVE KOZ All I See Is You (Capitol/ 388 Feelin' Good (Vacilan) (Pyramid) 151 -19 6715 18 1410 28 30 GLADYS KNIGHT fIEDESIO ALEJANDRO JOYCE COOLING Expression (Narada) 349

PAUL TAYLOR Steppin' Out (Peak) 343 39 Smooth Jazz reporters. Monitored airplay data supplied by Mediabase Research, a division of Premiere Radio Ne-works. Songs ranked by total plays for the airplay 292 week of 10/3 -10/9. Bullets appear on songs gaining plays or remaining flat from previous week. If two songs are tied in total plays, the song with the larger increase PAUL BROWN 2417 (GRPIVMG/ in plays is placed first. Songs below No. 15 are moved to recurrent after 20 weeks on the chart. Most Added is the total number of new adds officially reported to R &R RICK BRAUN Daddy-0 (Warner Bros.) 265 reporting station. unreported as adds do not count toward overall total stations playing a song. Total Audience equals Average Quarter Hour Persons by each Songs DAN SIEGEL In Your Eyes (Native Language) 246 times number of plays (times 100). Each daypart on each station is assigned an AQH number. Average Quarter Hour Persons used herein with permission from EDGE GROOVE Livin' Large (Narada) 237 Arbitron Inc. (© 2004. Arbitron Inc.). © 2004. R &R, Inc. PRAFUL Sigh (Rendezvous) 230 New& Active PETER WHITE Talkin Bout Love (Columbia) 223 RICHARD SMITH Sing A Song (4440) 210 XXL RAY CHARLES fIDIANA KRALL You Don't Know Me (Concord) EUGE GROOVE (Narada) NICK COLIONNE High Flyin' (3 Keys Music) 216 Total Plays: 150, Total Stations: 17, Adds: 3 Total Plays: 110, Total Stations: 11, Adds: 3 KIM WATERS The Ride (Shanachiel 208 DAVE KOZ Let It Free (Capitol) FOURPLAY Fields Of Gold (RCA Victor) DIANA KRALL Temptation (GRP/VMG) 190 Total Plays: 148, Total Stations: 19, Adds: 4 Total Plays: 93, Total Stations: 11, Adds: 0 STEVE COLE Everyday (WarnerBros.) 183 QUEEN LATIFAH California Oreamid (Vector) RAFE GOMEZ Icy (Tommy Boy) JAllMASTERS Puerto Banus (Trippin' N' Rhythm) 182 Total Plays: 126, Total Stations: 23, Adds: 13 Total Plays: 73, Total Stations: 8, Adds: 1 EVERETTE HARP Can You Hear Me (4440) FOURPLAY Play Around It (RCA Victor) Total Plays: 125, Total Stations: 13, Adds: 0 Total Plays: 70, Total Stations: 7, Adds: 0 Station playlists for all R &R reporters THA' HOT CLUB I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More Baby (Shanachie/ DAVID LANZ Big Sur (Decca /Lnivesal) are available on the web at 10, Adds: 0 Total Plays: 123, Total Stations: 10, Adds: 1 Total Plays: 69, Total Stations: www.radioandrecords.com.

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3 5 WAYMAN TISDALE Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now (Rendezvous) 167 .3 1144 15 1411 ERIC DARIUS Joy Ride (Higher Octave /Narada) 3 13 o SOUL BALLET Cream (215) 145 +18 803 9 1512 Most 10 7 STEVE OLIVER Chips & Salsa (Koch) 145 1 706 12 1310 Increased Plays 9 8 MICHAEL LINGTON Show Me (Rendezvous) 145 6 481 25 1110 TOTAL PLAY 4 9 MIND/ ABAIR Come As You Are (GRP/VMG) 145 -16 748 6 1411 ARTIST TITLE LABEL(S) INCREASE

12 KIM WATERS In Deep (Shanachie) 140 +1 712 17 1510 DAN SIEGEL Inside Out (Native Language) +36

GEORGE BENSON Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise (GRP/VMG) +33 14 RICHARD ELLIOT Your Secret Love (GRP/VMG) 137 +10 661 11 1210 MAYSA Hypnotic Love IN-Coded) +24 11 12 EVERETTE HARP Can You Hear Me (A440) 135 784 18 1410 6 BONEY JAMES Pure (Warner Bros.) +24 17 ® EDGE GROOVE XXL (Narada) 132 +17 713 2 1412 EVERETTE HARP Hey Yeh 014410 Music Group) +22 QUEEN LATIFAH California Dreamin (Vector) +21 8 14 TIM BOWMAN Summer Groove (Liquid 8) 131 -21 434 9 1210 WAYMAN TISDALE Ready To Hang (Rendezvous) +21 6 15 GERALD ALBRIGHT To The Max (GRP/VMG) 131 -24 388 22 1010 JEFF KASHIWA Peace Of Mind (Native Language) +20

18 GRADY NICHOLS Tuesday Morning (Compendia) 117 +9 808 5 1011 UNWRAPPED VOL. 3 The Way You Move (Hidden Beach) +20 MARION MEADOWS After 6:00 (Heads Up) +20 27 m FATTBURGER Work To Do (Shanachie) 104 +17 418 2 1012 21 FOURPLAY Fields Of Gold (RCA Victor) 103 +6 648 4 1112 Most 28 m GARRY GOIN Don't Ask My Neighbors (Compendia) 101 +14 730 2 911 Played Recurrents TOTAL 23 CHRIS BOTTI Back Into My Heart (Columbia) 99 +6 585 24 911 ARTIST TITLE LABEL(S) PLAYS

20 21 RAFE GOMEZ Icy (Tommy Boy) 99 1 505 6 1011 JOYCE COOLING Expression (Narada) 80

1Debut> DAVE KOZ All I See Is You (Capitol) 61 ® JEFF KASHIWA Peace Of Mind (Native Language) 97 +20 651 1 1112 EUGE GROOVE Livio Large (Narada) 49 15 23 FOURPLAY Play Around It (RCA Victor) 97 -27 467 17 810 PAUL BROWN 2417 (GRP/VMG/ 48 22 24 SHADES OF SOUL fIJEFF LORBER WI CHRIS BOTTI Gazpacho (Narada) 94 -1 521 11 910 PETE BELASCO Deeper (Compendia) 44 16 25 MARION MEADOWS Sweet Grapes (Heads Up) 93 -25 698 15 1010 NAJEE Eye 2 Eye (NCoded) 41 HIL ST. SOUL For The Love Of You (Shanachie) 38 26 GREG ADAMS Firefly (215) 92 +3 576 3 1213 RICHARD SMITH Sing A Song (A440) 34 25 CRAIG CHAQUICO Her Boyfriend's Wedding (Narada) 91 +1 480 3 910 KIM WATERS The Ride (Shanachie) 29

DAVE KOZ Let It Free (Capitol) 88 +1 231 2 1011 STEVE COLE Everyday (Warner Bros.) 27 GRADY NICHOLS Allright (Compendia) 27 NOVECENTO f /STANLEY JORDAN Easy Love (Favored Nations) 86 +3 434 2 811 RICHARD ELLIOT Sly (GOP/VMG) 26 PAUL BROWN Moment By Moment (GRP/VMS) 84 +3 569 4 711 PAUL TAYLOR Steppin' Out (Peak) 25

ALKEMX Time To Lounge (Rendezvous) 24 17 Smooth Jazz reporters. Songs ranked by total plays for the airplay week of Sunday 10i3 - Saturday 10/9. © 2004 Radio & Records. PAUL TAYLOR On The Move (Peak) 24 Reporters Stations and their adds listed alphabetically by market

WZMR /Albany. NY' WSMJ Baltimore. MD' KEZL/Tresno, CA' KUARLittle Rork. AR WVAS /Montgomery. AL XM Watercolors /Network KJZY /Santa Rosa. CA' DM/PO: Kevin Callahan Po. MD LAn Lewis OM: E Ennis Johnson PO MD' Michael S ellums MO. Eugenia Ricks PO/MD: SNllldta Colon PD: Gordon Zlol MD: Julie Feiner PDIMD: J. Weidenheimer APORAD'. Rob Singleton

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WFSK/Nashville. TN Angees, CA WOCD/Mew York, NY' KM/Albuquerque. NM' WZJZ/Ft. Myers, FL' KSBR /LOS MO Chris Nochowicz KWJZ/Seanle. WA' WVSU/Birmingham. AL OM. Steve Amari OMIPO. Terry Wesel PD: Blake Lawrence OM: Jim Wallon Po: Carol Handley POMD'. Any Parrish PO. Joe Turner MD Susan Koshbny FN6 MOO POND. Paul Lavoie PE BLASCO MO: Dianna Rose MO'. Rande Bachman RAY GNARL VOWS SIAL L OMEN 'AMAX RENAY RLLES EULE GROOVE PAUL BROWN WLOO/Orlando, FL' DAVID BENOIT e HUSS FREEMAN KTWV/LOS Angeles, CA' AMCEMEL MCDONALD WJZZ/Atlanta, GA' PDMO: Brian Morgan WSBZ/Ft. Walton Beach. FL PD: Paul Goldstein AOI SWIM POMO. Dave Kash OMS Jazz Vocal Blend/Network WNLINChicae0, IL' PO: Malt Caner AROMO': Samanti a Pascual POMO: KenCi Johnson OM: Bob Kaake MO: Mark Edwards DAVE SOL TIM BOWMAN SNIP d ALL' PO: Steve Stiles WSSMrst. Louis. Mo' vEPCiS CAPUTO MD Michael La Crosse WJJZ/Philadelphia. PA' no David Myers AVID BENOIT d PUSS 'PM MA MIND 99, P EJTANKARD PD: Michael Toni ITCHWE STUD WOJZJAtlantic City. NJ' asEV LEWIS TRIO WJZULouisvill:. ICY' MD' Frank Childs OCBALLET PO/MD: Galor Ola RICK IN URGIAT IO1 URBAN J0./ CCssi DO, GREG ADAMS APO'. Ron Fisher ALFONSO EI. DOC POWELL CHRIS KSMJ/Bakerslield, CA' BRENDA RUSSELL FL' WNWV /Cleveland, OH' FETE BLASCO WSJT/Tarnpa. OM/PD'. Chris Townshend MICHAELL MCDONALD OM/PD, Bernie Kimble MARION MEADOWS KYOT/Phoenio. AZ' PO'. Ross Block APO. Nick Novak THEO BISHOP PD: Shaun Holly MO'. Kathy Curbs MASSA DAN SHGEL AMMO: Angie Honda NESTOR TORRES WJZNIMemphis, TN' DAW KO: PD/MO. Norm Miller GEORGE BENSON WOTOj lartlord. CT WEAA/Baltimore. MO CO' JAMIE KSKX/Colorado Springs. PDIMD: Stewart Stone WNE EliAS OM/PO: Maxie Jackson EC PD'. Steve Hibbard BEN !KARO JONATHAN AH KJZS/Reno, NV' MD: Kayona Brown NO Laurie Cobb ü JARRE A OM. Rob Brooks WJZW/Washington, DC' I BONEVJAMLSrPnAL 11RRIECF INrtA BAKER POMO': Robert Odes OM: Kenny King 12 PAY a 5E GBD0W COEN.ro PO can Anderson PIECES A waE.4 a Of 0RFAM RAT CHARLES I NORSI JONES WIVE/Miami. FL' MO'. Renee OePuy 12 GRADY VMAN TISDALE oAVIOIAN--` OM: Rob Roberts 9 RO'. BONES JAMES 9 POMO' Rich McMillan JOEKJSHnvA EDURPI.AT KSSJ/Sacramento. CA' 2 GREG ADO., 9 GARRYGO:.N TX' RENEE OL51EAD WJZNColumbus. 0H' KHJZMouston, PD/MD: Lee Hansen WEE OMAHA Po'. Maxine Todd LANCE LO'SN'OUR 9 ADTAOAAERJILL SCOTT PO MO -. Bill Harman ERIC ESSia IOURPLAr UPS -MO. Greg Morgan 9 RHONDA SMITH 9 WAYMANTLSDALF WJZI/Milwaukse. WI' TIBURGER 9 RAMSEY LEWIS TRIO PO. Stan Atkinson [HMG MADULCO POWERED 9 PAUL BROWN ABCHü- BROM, KBZN/Salt Lake City. UT' RICHARD SMITH MD. Steve Scott OM PO Dan 10550p MEDIABASE WYJZ /Indianapolis. 1N OMX Smooth Jazz/Network 6 ',BMW BROWN KOAI /Dallas. TX' OM /PD: Carl Frye d ROSS "S11.1.179. 0M/PD: Kun Johnson PO /MO. Jeanne Destro 'Monitored Reporters 6 SAL PALLE T MO. Mark Sanford 6 SWF GROOVE KJZI/Minneapolis. MN' I CHRIS BONE 56 Total Reporters G ADAMS PD. Bob Wood 6 DOCPOAdtll MD- Mike WOO KIFM /San Diego. CA' 6 DuEENIATIEAR Music Choice Smooth Jazz/Network OM: John Dimick 39 Total Monitored 6 E.NTSA KJLU/Jetters00 City. MO APO. Will Kinnally 6 FERTILE GNOMIC KJCD /Denver. CO' PO. Mike Vasquez PD MO Dan Turner MO: Gary Susalis 6 MraNAaAM POND: Michael Fischer AOOMO Kelly Cole 17 Total Indicator J PATNntvNMDELL u MAYSA J MUFF. MARTIN 3 IATIMNMER Did Not Report. Playlist Frozen (3) GrrRE W. TANK WHIInlD d W RNpN NILI, KRVR /ModeSto. CA' Sirius Jazz Cale /Network KNIK/Anchorage. AK BRENDARUBMII KKSF/San Francisco. CA' 3 OM/AID: Doug Wu',II PD: Teresa Kincaid KPVUMouston. TX 3 SENBOCAMJTD WVMV/Detroit. MI' PO'. Michael Erickson KOAS /Las Vegas. NV' PD'. Jim Bryan MO: Rick Laboy J NIKOGMro OM. PO. Tom Sleeker MD: Ken AMPS WJAB/Huntsville. AL PO MD Fora J UNWRAPPEDVUI a MD Sandy Kovach EAk 3 NOVECENTD MANI r: ':. 17 PIECES " SOUIBAIUET 3 MEE NMI

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Collective Soul's A -Team Here's a list of the people and companies working with Collective Soul on their debut independent release, Youth. Management: Fred Croshal and Scott Welch with Mark Boning Promotion: CO5 Music - Todd Sievers and Tracy Brown with Danny Buch (East region) and Bob Divney (West region) Tour Manager: Tony Caporales Sales & Retail: Kevin Day (Rocket Science) Distribution: ADA Distribution A Collective Effort Artwork & Creative: Brian Porizek (I Design) New Media: Stephanie Watanabe (I.E. Marketing) A new Publicity: Jean Sievers (Lippin Group) solid team propels Collective Soul's Music Placement: Northstar Media independent label Third -Party Sponsorships: Blue Moon Group

Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas and should always dictate the success. It After releasing five studio albums on Atlantic nancing and finishing the record Atlanta. was also a testament to the team- wondered why work of everyone involved with this Records with varying degrees of success between 1993 themselves, Dean Synergy In The Name and 2000, the members of Collective Soul found them- they would turn ownership of the project." project over to a major label when The name El Music Group origi- Croshal notes that, while the selves at a crossroads. When their deal with Atlantic they had done all the work. "So nated from a simple concept that downsizing of the record business ended in 2001 they had thought they would go imme- much of a major label's responsi- ultimately provided significant syn- has left many major labels flailing diately to another major, but the music business was bility these days is to act like a ergy for the band, and Ed in partic- without significant middle manage- changing drastically. bank that has some sort of rela- ment, the new tionships within the industry," he business model of Being an established band, Col- own. The risk involved there was says. independents like lective Soul had plenty of good of- that it would be their money." These relationships were another COLLECTIVE El Music Group fers to move to other traditional la- There were other risks as well. thing that Welch and Croshal could allows them to ex- bels, but the advent of new media "When you're on a major label for bring to the table for Collective Soul. ecute their plans technology and the way so long there's a tendency A quality team was hired to handle ular. The band loved the idea of be- with fewer moving parts. the business was being to believe that there's key areas like promotion, retail, dis- ing "the" music company or "the" "We have more time for execu- run prompted them to some sort of security tribution, publicity, creative and music group because they didn't tion, instead of five- or six -hour seek other options. there," says the band's new media (see the "A- Team" box want to call what they had a record budget and marketing meetings," "We started looking guitarist (and Ed's broth- on this page). 'The vision was to or- company. They eventually settled he says. "All we do is execute. Pic- into doing the whole er), Dean Roland. chestrate these people so they were on "El," the Spanish word for the. ture this business model as a Lear record thing ourselves, "'There's a mental tran- basically interacting with one anoth- The letters were also the first letters jet that can turn on a dime vs. a 747 completely financing it sition that you have to er as though they were on the same in the names of Ed and his son Lind- that takes a long time to make the and the whole nine make at some point sey. turn." yards" says Ed Roland, in time when you're Such synergy and team- The Future Of El the band's principal Fred C roshal thinking of step- work has spread to every as- songwriter and lead singer. ping out on your own." pect of the band's label. Collective Soul and El Music "We spent quite a bit of time look- The fact that one of their "This is very much a work- Group's first independently re- ing into this concept by going to in- managers had run a record ing partnership," says leased album, Youth, will be in stores dependent record companies and company was a deciding fac- Croshal. "The band is in- Nov 16. While the band is excited looking at their models. Once we tor in the band's decision to volved in every decision. about the release, they're also aware figured out we wanted to go in that start their own label. "I could Their ideas are not only of the challenges their independent direction, we looked for manage- help them put the right team heard, but executed. The ways will create. ment that had the same mind -set." together and help manage short -term goal was to try "First and foremost, you have to The Management Team that team and orchestrate the this different option where, get the perception out there to the release of this new record," financially, they could cer- public that when you say 'indepen- The band's search led them to says Croshal. tainly make more money, dent,' you're not cheating them on Scott Welch and Fred Croshal. A Different Model but, more important, they quality" says Ed. "While my con- Welch, an established manager of would Collective Soul also have more free- cern is mainly the perception, at the many successful artists, including Ed and Dean also realized dom. same time there's merit in being the Alanis Morissette, had worked with that a different label model "For years record compa- underdog too." Croshal, the former GM of Mods- was possible because of new ad- floor in the same building," says nies have created this underlying The other major challenge is get- sette's label, Maverick Records. vances in technology. "All this new Croshal. thought that you can't get commer- ting word to the public that some- Welch and Croshal were looking for technology, like the Internet, has Ed was confident that the pro- cial radio airplay, you can't get on thing new from Collective Soul is opportunities to work together on broken down so many barriers and motion team working their new in- Apple iTunes, and you can't get on available. "We're doing everything some sort of new business model. is allowing all types of artists new dependent release would get the that endcap at Walmart without we can," says Ed. "We're going around Collective Soul had been record- avenues to connect to new audienc- job done because it was basically them. That's not ing their own album when they es," says Dean. the same people who worked their true anymore. The brought in Welch and Croshal to "Once we studied and educated records at Atlantic. "Danny Buch barriers have been m u s i c g r o u p manage them. "The band had four ourselves on what we could do, the gave us our career at radio, and all broken down." or five good offers to go back toa tra- option that we felt was best suited to of a sudden he became a free A couple weeks ditional record company," says us was doing it ourselves," says Ed. agent," he says. "Record companies back the barriers Croshal. "We gave them the option "It became a no-brainer in a sense." outsource most of their business really came down when Collective to radio stations and letting them of releasing the new record on their As the band went further into fi- anyway, and that's basically what Soul's first single from the new al- know what we're doing while edu- we do." bum, "Counting the Days," was cating the public that we are releas- Buch is part of a new promotion Most Added at Active Rock and ing a new record." team called C05 Music that was Rock. The El Music Group went up Collective Soul and their new "So much of a major label's responsibility hired by Welch, Croshal and the against the major record labels and team will continue to work the band to get their music played on their resources and won. This was record while these days is to act like a bank that has some to radio preparing for the radio. This collective was start- quite an accomplishment for the a tour in 2005. "We're a hard -work- sort of relationships within the industry." ed by Todd Sievers and Tracy band, the label and the entire team. ing band and always have been," Brown, and, besides national reps "We were excited about this for says Ed. "We can't wait to get out Dean Roland like Buch in the East and Bob Div - several reasons," says Croshal. there and do it." ney in the West, it has six region- "Number one, the strength, always Independently speaking, they al- als, in New York, Los Angeles, and forever, is the music. The music ready have.

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® October 15, 2004 11E1H 1BASE LAST T!+'S TOTAL I- TOTAL WEEKS ON TOTAL STATIONS WEEK G . ARTIST ":_E _451 PLAYS PLAYS AUDIENCE CHART ADDS Most Added ID 1001 1 VELVET REVOLVER Fall To Pieces (RCA /RMG) 791 +20 36788 11 3011 www.rradds.com 2 2 THREE DAYS GRACE Just Like You (Jive /Zomba) 676 -13 30851 25 3010 ARTIST TITLE LABEL(S) ADDS 3 3 ALTER BRIDGE Open Your Eyes (Wind -up) 634 -5 25387 16 2810 SHINEDOWN Burning Bright (Atlantic) 8 Vertigo 4 U2 (lnterscope) 560 +39 30726 3 2512 JET Look What You've Done (Atlantic) 4 6 0 SILVERTIDE Ain't Comin' Home (J/RMG) 527 +92 19833 9 2910 CROSSFADE So Far Away (Columbia) 4 5 LINKIN PARK Breaking The Habit (Warner Bros.) 491 +11 22659 17 2311 U2 Vertigo (lnterscope) 2 COLLECTIVE SOUL Counting The Days (fl Music Group) 2 9 PAPA ROACH Getting Away With Murder (Geffen) 438 +41 18217 13 2310 SALIVA Razor's Edge (/s/and/IDJMG) 2 12 0 GREEN DAY American Idiot (Reprise) 431 +54 22023 9 2310 11 Q KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD Alive (Reprise) 418 +26 15413 8 2511 7 10 GODSMACK fIDROPBOX Touche (Republic /Universal) 417 -6 13709 12 2510

14 NICKELBACK Because Of You (Roadrunner/IDJMG) 405 +64 17454 5 2911

10 12 VELVET REVOLVER Slither (RCA /RMG) 367 .26 20901 26 2610

8 13 CROSSFADE Cold (Columbia) 366 -34 13087 23 2310 13 BREAKING BENJAMIN So Cold (Hollywood) 361 +7 13753 19 1710 Most 15 ® CHEVELLE Vitamin R (Leading Us Along) (Epic) 339 +6 11996 10 2111 Increased Plays TOTAL 3 17 COLLECTIVE SOUL Counting The Days (El Music Group) 326 +55 13571 2412 PLAY ARTIST' "S E. INCREASE 16 17 SHINEDOWN Simple Man (At/antic) 267 -61 10430 18 2310

18 18 FUTURE LEADERS OF THE WORLD Let Me Out (Epic) 188 -6 5814 13 1510 SILVERTIDE Ain't Comm n' Home (J/RMG) +92 NICKELBACK Because Of You (Roadrunner//BJMG) +64 19 19 KORN Word Up (Epic) 172 -19 3569 6 1310 SHINEDOWN Burning Bright (At/antic) +58 22 MEGADETH Oie Dead Enough (Sanctuary/SRG) 167 +14 3035 6 1611 COLLECTIVE SOUL Counting The Days (El Music Group) +55 A 8 21 21 LOSTPROPHETS Wake Up )Make Move) (Columbia) 131 -22 3569 1010 GREEN DAY American Idiot (Reprise) +54 25 DROWNING POOL Love And War (Windup) 119 +3 2556 5 1310 PAPA ROACH Getting Away With Murder (Geffen) +41

27 THORNLEY Easy Comes (Roadrunner /IDJMG) 109 +11 2935 6 1310 THREE DAYS GRACE Home (Jive /Zomba) +40 U2 Vertigo (lnterscope) +39 20 24 SALIVA Survival Of The Sickest (Is/and /IDJMG) 101 -56 3080 17 1310 JET Are You Gonna Be My Girl (At/antic) +33 24 25 TESLA Words Can't Explain (Sanctuary/SRG) 90 -29 3557 14 810 JET Look What You've Done (Atlantic) +31 26 26 A PERFECT CIRCLE Blue (Virgin) 86 -29 2284 8 810 ® SWITCHFOOT Meant To Live (Red Ink/Columbia) 83 +3 3611 10 310 29 28 DAMAGEPLAN Pride (Elektra/Atlantic) 83 -3 1452 2 610

28 29 SPIDERBAIT Black Betty (lnterscope) 83 -6 1300 2 811 23 30 JET Rollover D.J. (Atlantic) 73 -56 2568 15 910 Most 31 Rock reporters. Monitored airplay data supplied by Mediabase Research, a division of Premiere Radio Networks. Songs ranked by total plays for the airplay week of Played Recurrents 10/3 -10/9. Bullets appear on songs gaining plays or remaining flat from previous week. If two songs are tied in total plays, the song with the larger increase in plays is TOTAL placed first. Songs below No. 15 are moved to recurrent after 20 weeks on the chart. Most Added is the total number of new adds officially reported to R &R by each ARTIST TITLE LABEL(S) PLAYS reporting station. Songs unreported as adds do not count toward overall total stations playing a song. Most Increased Plays lists the songs with the greatest week -to- week increases in total plays. Total Audience equals Average Quarter Hour Persons times number of plays (times 100). Each daypart on each station is assigned an AOH JET Cold Hard Bitch (Atlantic) 306 number. Average Ouarter Hour Persons used herein with permission from Arbitron Inc. (© 2004, Arbitron Inc.). © 2004, R &R, Inc. NICKELBACK Feelin' Way Too Damn Good (Roadrunner/10MGI 303 New &Active JET Are You Gonna Be My Girl (At/antic/ 226 NICKELBACK Figured You Out (Roadrunner)/OJMG) 224

AUDIOSLAVE I Am The Highway /Epic) 221 SHINEDOWN Burning Bright (Atlantic) HELMET See You Dead (lnterscope) (lnterscope Total Plays: 64, Total Stations: 13, Adds: 8 Total Plays: 42, Total Stations: 4, Adds: 0 SLIPKNOT Duality (Roadrunner/IDJMG) 181 TRAPT Headstrong (WarnerBros.) 179 THREE DAYS GRACE Home (Jive/Zomba) SUBMERSED Hollow (Windup) AUDIOSLAVE Like A Stone (lnterscope /Epic) 176 Total Plays: 64, Total Stations: 11, Adds: 1 Total Plays: 35, Total Stations: 5, Adds: 1 SHINEDOWN 45 (Atlantic) 152 JET Look What You've Done (Atlantic) TESLA Into The Now (Sancruary/SRG) THREE DAYS GRACE (I Hate) Everything About You (Jive/Zomba/ 141 Total Plays: 57, Total Stations: 12, Adds: 4 Total Plays: 34, Total Stations: 4, Adds: 1 A PERFECT CIRCLE Imagine (Virgin) KILLSWITCH ENGAGE The End Of Heartache (Road runner/IDJMG) R Total Plays: 53, Total Stations: 4, Adds: 0 Total Plays: 33, Total Stations: 3, Adds: 0 Station playlists for all &R reporters BURDEN BROTHERS Shadow (Kirtland) BLACK LABEL SOCIETY House Of Doom (Spitfire) are available on the web at Total Plays: 44, Total Stations: 5, Adds: O Total Plays: 32, Total Stations: 4, Adds: 0 www.radioandrecords.com.

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KZRAlbuquerque, NM* WROK/Canton, OH W ImIra, NY WDHAMIorristown. NJ' KUFO,Porlland. OR' KRXO/Sacramento, CA' KM00/Tulsa, OK WMZKausau, WI T1a.(MM POOP Ism n .7.373 Daa.rm unE 01.0%11 %rrrrr WAW Maar.r ßqIkea YOr wau 777f ECAOSOWE MVÉ 717,0i5frix KRTO/Tulsa, OK' KFLY/Eugene. OR WHEB/Portsmouth, NH' Derwr KBZS/Wichita Falls, TX KBER/SaR Lake City, UT* WPXC/Cape Cod, MA 011i°.m°"Wye WXMM/Nortolk, VA' WZZO/Allentown, PA 97-37 Y. Ga. Ws OM OM 73, On Olt Móar Tr Ohl.. .Mnñ°°rm N D Mu RIM ,rD.o wore_. r a trq. IOW NOME 15(10110 wuD'

7 39 WRCU/Fayedeville. NC- WHJY/Providence. RI- KBRO/Waco,TX C. Per,. 5,21 Loan WTO//gusta, ME FZIq/Odssa, TX ;M°°`, WWFX/Worcester. MA' ORA WKLC/Chadeston, WV Kt AI ee KSRX/San Antonio, TX* WO aMaaraa e RAM aa11. we é :WC GVSU.::é s+vE[MV 2 Halle WBBB/Raleigh, NC' KCLB/Palm Springs, CA WHIT/Greenville, SC' POW arwr ÿAusOn,TX WEBN/Cincinnati, OH* Daaaa= NM MM. ro-m10m KZOZ/8an Luis Obispo, CA POWERED d Pote. DM Mae 9.117O1. KCAL/Riverside, CA* ' ,K71111.97ura ,c. va.wr.. MEDIABASE wen a.xrn M,Mo WMMS/Cleveland. OH WWCT/Peoria, IL r.sóusc.ó: WRVC/Huntington sMm7eur KTUXBhmveport,LA 'Monitored Reporters KOOJATaton Rouge, LA WM.,irrréw eM.nrwWr MO rwW Wr ON ra,MP WM Perms Item MEa. 717- ror MO MO= PA' WROV/Roanoke. VA' 49 Total Reporters WMMR/Philadelphia. P9 79 BA 177037 OA.ímí wsu..o.rr mmm su3..3s;. KNCN/Corpus Christi. TX' ñ .170 MOW rwr 31 Total MOO WRKR/Kalamazoo. MI rota' WWOG/Syracuse. NY' Monitored KIOCATeaumont. TX 0.77 MO Ibroe 179.33 b(1(LLF oM L3.1 r°Yn.ú`..LLnMy 03,337 MAO YdDJ,. IX113G156 Gr4STEWWr YSNArt EIa 70 5377.37 MY OM Dm WXRockford, IL 18 Total Indicator nro.a KLAO/EI Paso, TX' KZZEedford, OR w1a,.. WBUFBuffaio. NY' KRIM/Phoenix,OKBÁ hoenis, AZ R(SY.v Did Not Report. Playlist Frozer (1): arrr b Ga MO ...MO. w.o-Wow w MC fte New WKLT/Traverse City. MI KWHLJAnchorage, AK PO 77,7 773,73

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TOTAL TOTAL WEEKS ON TOTAL STATIONS' PLAYS PLAYS AUDIENCE CHART ADDS WEEK ARIST Most Added (DO (Geffen) 1858 +11 98968 14 5810 1 o PAPA ROACH Getting Away With Murder www.rradds.com 2 2 VELVET REVOLVER Fall To Pieces (RCA /RMG) 1799 -14 87953 12 5910 ARTIST TITLE LABELS ADDS So Cold 1690 -78 81818 25 5910 3 3 BREAKING BENJAMIN (Hollywood) CROSSFADE So Far Away (Columbia) 29 +48 11 5910 4 o CHEVELLE Vitamin R (Leading Us Along) (Epic) 1498 67122 SHINEDOWN Burning Bright (Atlantic) 18 Razor's Edge (Island 14 9 © GREEN DAY American Idiot ( Repuse) 1284 +41 55475 10 5610 SALIVA /IDJMG) ATOMSHIP Withered (Wind-up) 9 6 0 LINKIN PARK Breaking The Habit (Warner Bros.) 1214 105 59410 18 5410 EARSHOT Someone (Warner Bros.) 8 OF THE WORLD Let Me Out (Epic) 1196 +25 46333 19 5610 11 Q FUTURE LEADERS SLIPKNOT Vermilion (Roadrunner//DJMG) 6

7 8 CROSSFADE Cold (Co / umbra/ 1189 61 57160 37 5510 EXIES Ugly (Virgin) 6 THREE DAYS GRACE Home 5 8 9 THREE DAYS GRACE Just Like You (Jive/Zomba) 1170 -74 62922 28 5510 (Jive/Zomba) SUBMERSED Hollow (Wind-up) 5 10 10 GODSMACK fIDROPBOX Touche (Republic/Universal) 1157 -16 51837 13 5310

5 11 ALTER BRIDGE Open Your Eyes (Windup) 1135 -204 52176 17 5410 12 ® KORN Word Up (Epic) 1093 +50 39023 9 5610 Most 13 ® SLIPKNOT Duality (Roadrunner/IDJMG) 1057 +17 55964 26 5610 Increased Plays Ain't Home (J/RMG) 918 +13 37068 11 5510 TOTAL 14 SILVERTIDE Comin' PLAY ARTIST TITLE LABEL /S, INCREASE 20 U2 Vertigo (lnterscope) 898 +217 40431 3 4311 U2 Vertigo (lnterscopel +217 16 NICKELBACK Because Of You (Roadrunner //DJMG) 834 +98 30005 6 5011 SLIPKNOT Vermilion (Roadrunner/IDJMG) +210 749 +65 23079 7 5013 19 ID MARILYN MANSON Personal Jesus (Nothing //nterscope) THREE DAYS GRACE Home (Jive /Zomba) +208 18 KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD Alive (Reprise) 748 +49 34051 8 4910 A PERFECT CIRCLE Imagine (Virgin) +130 EARSHOT Someone (Warner Bros.) +128 15 19 LOSTPROPHETS Wake Up (Make A Move) (Columbia) 693 -173 23362 20 4810 SEVENDUST Face To Face (TVTI) +110 21 SKINDREO Nobody (Laval 672 +24 18579 12 5011 JET Look What You've Done (Atlantic) +107 POOL Love And War (Wind -up) 620 +17 18407 8 4811 23 ® DROWNING NICKELBACK Because Of You (RoadrunnerlIDJMG) +98 24 MEGADETH Die Dead Enough (Sanctuary /SRG) 518 +18 21352 11 3810 KORN Another Brick In The Wall (Epic) +95 +87 29 ® COLLECTIVE SOUL Counting The Days (El Music Group) 495 +77 22509 4 3813 SHINEDOWN Burning Bright (Atlantic) 17 24 SALIVA Survival Of The Sickest (Is/and // OJMGI 474 -260 19178 18 3910 33 ® A PERFECT CIRCLE Imagine (Virgin) 454 +130 17266 2 3312 Most 27 26 HELMET See You Dead (lnterscope) 446 -25 11910 9 4110 Played Recurrents

26 27 THORNLEY Easy Comes (Roadrunner//DJMG) 446 50 13295 10 4010 TOTAL ARTIST - LE LABELS' PLAYS 22 28 A PERFECT CIRCLE Blue (Virgin) 436 -193 15172 11 4010 VELVET REVOLVER Slither (RCA /RMG) 630 29 DAMAGEPLAN Pride (Elektra /Atlantic) 399 -14 10405 14 3110 30 JET Cold Hard Bitch (Atlantic) 484

32 KILLSWITCH ENGAGE The End Of Heartache (Roadrunner //DJMG) 348 +20 8479 9 3511 THREE DAYS GRACE (I Hate) Everything About You (Jive /Zombal 452

36 SUM 41 We're All To Blame (/s /and/(DJMG) 343 +50 6500 5 2513 LINKIN PARK Lying From You (Warner Bros.) 452 NICKELBACK Figured You Out ( RoadrunnerlIDJMG) 433 34 INSTRUCTION Breakdown (Geffen) 342 +25 7472 9 3813 SHINEDOWN 45 (At /antic) 416 Simple Man -101 14696 20 3610 28 33 SHINEDOWN (Atlantic) 336 GODSMACK Re-Align (Republic /Universal) 372 48 Q THREE DAYS GRACE Home (Jive /Zomba) 335 +208 10333 2 4815 LINKIN PARK Numb (Warner Bros.) 350 39 ® SEVENDUST Face To Face (TVTI/ 335 +110 12426 2 3414 AUDIOSLAVE Show Me How To Live (lnterscope /Epic) 321 TRAPT Headstrong (Warner Bros.) 313 25 36 NONPOINT The Truth (lava) 300 200 8020 17 3210 IDebur, SLIPKNOT Vermilion (Roadrunner /IDJMG) 296 +210 10832 1 3916 New & Active 37 12 STONES Far Away (Windup) 280 +1 5873 11 2610

35 39 MUSIC Freedom Fighters (Capitol) 274 -24 4739 7 3110 JET Look What You've Done (Atlantic)

Total Plays: 136, Total Stations: 17, Adds: 3 38 USED Take It Away (Reprise) 271 +35 4689 6 2410 RAMMSTEIN Amerika (RepubliclUniversal) 41 1a MAGNA-FI Down In It (Aezra) 240 +21 9453 4 2110 Total Plays: 126, Total Stations: 14, Adds: 0 31 42 PILLAR Bring Me Down (flicker/EMI CMG/Virgin) 234 157 11489 16 2610 LAMB OF GOD Laid To Rest (Prosthetic /Epic)

Total Plays: 94, Total Stations: 13, Adds: 1 47 SHINEDOWN Burning Bright (Atlantic) 216 +87 10554 2 32118 EXIES Ugly (Virgin)

45 CD SUBMERSED Hollow (Wind-up) 205 +39 3489 3 3115 Total Plays: 93, Total Stations: 21, Adds: 6 Fall Behind Me (Debut> EARSHOT Someone (Warner Bros.) 195 +128 4363 1 3318 DONNAS (Lookout/ /At /antic) Total Plays: 74, Total Stations: 8, Adds: 0 42 SPIDERBAIT Black Betty (lnterscope) 195 +6 10023 6 1110 CROSSFADE So Far Away (Columbia) 43 47 SKILLET Open Wounds (Ardent/Laval 172 -2 4563 3 2111 Total Plays: 57, Total Stations: 32, Adds: 29 (Debut ATOMSHIP Withered (Windup) e KORN Another Brick In The Wall /Epic) 171 +95 14481 1 814 Total Plays: 55, Total Stations: 11, Adds: 9 44 49 KILLERS Somebody Told Me (/s /and /DJMG) 163 6 3946 6 410 / CANDIRIA Down (Type Al [Debut> SALIVA Razor's Edge (Island//DJMG) 147 +82 7290 1 24114 Total Plays: 52, Total Stations: 10, Adds: 2

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1 O U2 Vertigo (lnterscope) 711 +48 3 1010 BREAKING BENJAMIN So Cold ¡Hollywood) 4.55 4.44 94% 11% 4.64 4.71 4.46 2 0 VELVET REVOLVER Fall To Pieces (RCA /RMG) 638 +22 8 1010 CROSSFADE Cold (Columbia) 4.38 4.22 84% 10% 4.44 4.57 4.26 5 0 ALTER BRIDGE Open Your Eyes (Wind-up) 478 +7 12 510 PAPA ROACH Getting Away With Murder (Geffen) 4.33 4.35 91% 10e/á 4.30 4.32 4.28 4 4 e TEA PARTY The Writings... (EMI Music Canada) 477 -29 11 710

THREE DAYS GRACE Just Like You (Jive/Zomba) 4.31 4.26 98% 27% 4.23 4.20 4.26 3 5 KILLERS Somebody Told Me (Island//DMGI 456 -54 19 810

SLIPKNOT Duality (Roadrunner/ IBJMG) 4.27 4.24 91% 15% 4.37 4.23 4.56 6 6 GREEN DAY American Idiot (Reprise) 441 -15 10 610 CHEVELLE Vitamin R (Leading Us Along) (Epic) 4.18 4.13 81% 7% 4.20 4.09 4.34 9 O + THORNLEY Come Again (Roadrunner/IDJMG) 381 +13 8 910 LINKIN PARK Breaking The Habit (Warner Bros.) 4.13 4.22 99% 35% 4.19 4.13 4.29 8 8 LINKIN PARK Breaking The Habit (Warner Bros.) 379 -13 16 810

LOSTPROPHETS Wake Up (Make A Move) (Columbia) 4.12 4.21 92% 15% 3.99 3.92 4.08 7 9 JET Rollover D.J. (At/antic) 374 -47 12 810 CODSMACK f!DROPBOX Touche (Republic /Universal) 4.06 3.89 77% 12% 4.18 3.95 4.46 17 e 4 BOY Same Old Song (Maple Music /Universal) 289 +59 4 810 NONPOINT The Truth (Lava) 4.05 3.95 54% 6% 3.96 4.18 3.67 26 a COLLECTIVE SOUL Counting... (El Music Group) 286 +122 2 711 12 Road +2 VELVET REVOLVER Slither (RCA/RMG) 4.03 3.93 91% 30% 3.99 3.76 4.30 ® i' BRYAN ADAMS Open (Universal) 276 9 510

A PERFECT CIRCLE Blue (Virgin) 4.02 4.04 58% 8% 4.23 4.09 4.42 10 13 FRANZ FERDINAND Take Me Out (DominolEpic) 275 -46 15 710 14 PAPA ROACH Getting Away With Murder (Geffen) 258 0 6 710 DROWNING POOL Love And War (Windup) 3.96 4.00 62% 7% 3.69 3.76 3.61 Q 20 JIMMY EAT WORLD Pain (lnterscope) 255 +51 5 410 KORN Word Up (Epic) 3.93 3.86 87% 14% 3.85 4.00 3.63 ® 13 16 e WAKING EYES Watch Your... (Warner Music Canada) 245 -26 17 710 PILLAR Bring Me Down (Flicker /EM/CMG /Virgin) 3.93 4.02 54% 5% 3.71 3.93 3.46 16 TRAGICALLY HIP It Can't Be... (Zoe /Rounder) 244 +1 8 510 VELVET REVOLVER Fall To Pieces (RCA /RMGI 3.92 3.89 86% 19% 3.88 3.63 4.22 e. 15 18 a BILLY TALENT River Below (Atlantic/ 229 -15 17 1010 FUTURE LEADERS OF THE WORLD Let Me Out (Epic) 3.92 3.84 64% 10% 3.71 3.53 3.93 21 +' NICKELBACK Because Of You (Roadrunner/IDJMG/ 222 +29 3 410 GREEN DAY American Idiot (Reprise) 3.87 3.91 94% 22% 3.47 3.48 3.46 a 19 e ' SUM 41 Were All To Blame (its /and/IDJMG) 218 +12 6 610 THORNLEY Easy Comes (Roadrunner/IBJMG) 3.82 42% 5% 3.70 3.68 3.74 22 ®4' STABILO Everybody (Virgin Music Canada) 199 +7 15 510 ALTER BRIDGE Open Your Eyes (Wind-up) 3.79 3.60 82% 19% 3.76 3.76 3.76 23 ® BREAKING BENJAMIN So Cold (Hollywood) 191 +12 5 610 NICKELBACK Because Of You (Roadrunner/IDJMG) 3.78 3.77 74% 17% 3.75 3.73 3.79 24 a CHEVELLE Vitamin R (Leading Us Along) (Epic) 190 +13 5 310 MEGADETH Oie Dead Enough (Sanctuary/SRGI 3.74 43% 7% 3.65 3.50 3.86 28 GODSMACKf!DROPBOX Touche (Republic/Universall 167 +16 6 410 SALIVA Survival Of The Sickest (Island/IDJMG) 3.72 3.72 82% 20% 3.52 3.43 3.63 18 25 + TREWS Tired Of Waiting (Sony Music Canada) 166 -52 17 210 MARILYN MANSON Personal Jesus (Nothing /lnterscope) 3.71 3.59 12% 17% 3.51 3.38 3.67 29 JOHN MELLENCAMP Walk Tall (/s /and/IDJMG) 154 +18 4 310 SHINEDOWN Simple Man (Atlantic) 3.69 3.73 81% 27% 3.74 3.87 3.56 (Debur ®i PROJET ORANGE Tell All... (Vik /BMG Music Canada) 144 +22 1 310 SHEPHERD Alive 3.51 45% 9% 3.31 2.93 3.86 KENNY WAYNE (Reprise) - 25 28 TRAIN Ordinary (Columbia) 131 -38 11 510

Total sample size is 370 respondents. Total average lavorability estimates are based on a scale of 1 -5. (1 =dislike very much, 5 = like 27 29 R.E.M. Leaving New York (WarnerBros.) 125 .35 6 410 very much). Total familiarity represents the percentage of respondents who recognized the song. Total bum represents the number of 30 30 DASHBOARD... Vindicated /Vagrant/lnterscope) 121 -11 14 310 respondents who said they are tired of hearing the song. Songs must have 40% familiarity to appear on survey. Sample composition is 25 Canadian Rock reporters. Monitored airplay data supplied by Mediabase Research, a division of Premiere Radio based on persons 12+. Persons are screened via the Internet. Once passed, they can take the music test based on the format/music Networks. Songs ranked by total plays for the airplay week of 10/3 -10/9. Bullets appear on songs gaining plays or remaining preference. RateTheMusic.com results are not meant to replace callout research. The results are intended to show opinions of flat from previous week. If two songs are tied in total plays, the song with the larger increase in plays is placed first. Songs participants on the the Internet only. RateTheMusic is a registered trademark of RateTheMusic.com. The RTMsystem, is available for below No. 15 are moved to recurrent after 20 weeks on the chart. Most Added is the total number of new adds officially local radio stations by calling 818-377-5300. RateTheMusic.com data is provided by Mediabase Research. a division of Premiere reported to R&R by each reporting station. Songs unreported as adds do not count toward overall total stations playing a Radio Networks, `song. f Indicates Cancon. © 2004, R&R, Inc. Reporters Stations and their adds fisted alphabetically brr market

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I told Gary Gersh about it. I said, control, where I'm not subject to a "We gotta get in there." Gary signed multinational company that might them, but I was, I believe, an enor- decide to exit the music business mous part of it. More important, I next week, etc?" was learning how to do A &R. I had I went to work at Grand Royal, no interest in it or ambition to do it, but then, eventually, my contract but it was happening to me. After was running out and things were we signed Sonic Youth, Kim Gor- changing there. Once we merged don, the bass player, said to me, with what was then the DEN Mu- "The next band you should sign is sic Group, I knew I was going to Fenway: The Little Nirvana." have to find another situation. I de- KST: And Gary signed them, but, cided I wanted to leave Los Ange- once again, you were kind of in the mix. les. There was a really big job that I MK: I was in the mix, but, more was up for in New York that I think Label That Could important, the reason that we got I would have gotten, but I didn't Nirvana was that we had Sonic think I'd be happy in it. I started to Youth, and Sonic Youth were happy. think about coming back here to What kind of person starts an independent label today? KST: When you shifted over to the Boston. My family and I decided A &R department, what was the first that this was ultimately where we band that you actually signed? wanted to live and that if we could think we can all agree that it's hard to overstate the MK: I'll tell you what happened. do it now and it would work, we'd was making a lot of be really happy. of not only on the Alternative format, Gary Gersh impact Nirvana noise about leaving. Artists started it to but on rock in general. One song was all took "The first artist coming to me - people like Kim change everything about rock at the dawn of the '90s. Gordon - saying, "Are you going signed was Beck, to take over if Gary goes ?" To which Imagine being at ground zero this group called The Individuals I said, "Sure." Bill Bennett, who was "After we signed when Nirvana was breaking. Imag- From Hoboken. I spent about six whom Tony Berg had pretty much my boss from the time ine being at their label, Geffen months trying to get Mission Of of Nevermind on, had been pushing Sonic Youth, Kim most Burma and the label Ace actually been trying me to do A &R because it was the Records, when the Gordon, the bass profound change in rock Of Hearts to hire me, only place to go for somebody like to sign. Without since The Beatles was re- which they eventually me. All I could think was, "I don't player, said to me, shaping American radio. did. I had the official title want to go to bad showcases and lis- going into too much Imagine being Nirvana's of Media Coordinator, ten to bad demos." Little did I know `The next band you A &R guy. That honor but most of what I did that the job really had very little to detail, I was kind of went to Mark Kates, was press. That led to a do with that. should sign is who is now entering the gig at Big Time Records pressed into action." Anyway, he had been pushing me next phase of his rock 'n' in Los Angeles. Big Time, for a long time. Finally, we had some Nirvana." roll lifestyle with his in- when I got there, was The Mark Kates kind of party at our house one day, St. dependent label, Fenway Kurt Thomas Lime Spiders and Alex and that's when I had the conversa- Mark Kates Recordings. Chilton and Dumptruck tion with Kim. I went into Ed Rosen - I thought it might be interesting -a lot of Boston stuff. Shortly there- blatt's office the next day and said, to have Mark interviewed by Kurt after we got The Hoodoo Gurus' The Sundays, which was the biggest "If Gary leaves, I want to do A &R St. Thomas, former PD of WFNX/ second album, and I was immedi- thing I'd been involved with as a full- time." It was like he'd been sit- Coinciding with this, I was Boston and former A &R guy for ately in the throes of doing record promotion person to that point, in ting there waiting for a month in his finding all kinds of music that I Arista and Tommy Boy. He's also promotion, dealing with WBCN vs. terms of really being in charge. In office for me to walk in and say that. thought was really good and that the man who wrote a book about WFNX, Oedipus vs. Tom Lane. 1989 we signed Sonic Youth. The first thing that happened was deserved to be heard. I've got Nirvana called Nirvana: The Chosen I got to know people along the KST: Did you have something to do that Gary walked into my office artists on Fenway whom I really Rejects, which was published by St. way. At some point people at Gef- with that? with Kurt Cobain and the tape of In believe in. I've put a lot of time, Martin's Press this spring (and ex- fen started noticing our stuff and MK That would be like '88, and I Utero, which wasn't quite done but money and energy into Read Yel- cerpted in R &R). What follows is a couldn't understand why some of it was at CMJ. The band was playing was just about done. I don't think low. It seems to be happening a casual conversation between two was more visible than their stuff. the Ritz, and Daydream Nation was the Scott Litt remixes had happened little faster for them in the U.K. friends about how Kates came to There was no one involved in mar- out. I had seen them before - gone yet. He sort of handed the tape over. than here, but that doesn't both- start his own label. keting there who understood the to meet them, you know. I had a few He was leaving, and I was taking the er me, because you look back on alternative world, which probably different connections there, but main- band over. That was clearly the first the last few years, and a lot of KST: Explain how you got into the wasn't even known as that then. ly I was just a fan. The important thing to hap- things have worked that way. music business. This was 1987, and the A &R people show blew my mind, and pen. The first artist I There's a great climate in the U.K. MK: When I graduated from col- decided that they needed me. They I thought to myself, "If I signed was Beck, whom for American bands right now. lege my first job was tour -managing didn't feel that the marketing or, could sign any band in Tony Berg had actually I'm really excited about the debut more specifically, the promotion the world, it would be been trying to sign. With- album by The Love Scene, which people there knew what to do with Sonic Youth, because de- out going into too much will be coming early in the new year. these bands or understood the spite their noise, there's so detail, I was kind of They are kind of a straight -ahead "All I could think world we came from. much charisma going pressed into action. band from New Jersey. We did an EP KST: Who were the artists on Geffen on." It just floored me. KST: After you left Gef- with them last year. They've shown was, `I don't want to at the time? This one show, I'll never fen you went on to another a lot of growth. I'm also excited MK: The big alternative artists forget. Mark Kates pretty incredible job, Presi- about doing Robbers On High go to bad showcases were Siouxsie Sr The Banshees, XTC KST: But you were still dent of Grand Royal Rec- Street's mini-album in the U.K. and Lloyd Cole. Eventually, they in promotion. ords, which was the Beastie Boys' label. They're a new young band from and listen to bad hired me, and I was in this big-time MK: The thing that was weird is MK I thought it was an amazing New York, mostly keyboard -bass promotion department. I went from that from the beginning of the time opportunity. My deal was up at Gef- music. They have great pop songs, demos.' Little did a very indie career and lifestyle to that I was in promotion I was doing fen, and I didn't think there was any but it's cool, and I have really high going to Cher's house to hear her A &R and didn't even realize it. The way I would stay. I realize that the hopes for them. They're on New know that the job new record. That happened two first day I was there I had dinner whole concept of being secure in the Line in America. And I'll probably weeks I I with is really had very little after started there, and fig- the Banshees. Their A&R guy music business far out of date, and do more stuff in the U.K. That's the ured these guys probably did it all left two months later, and I got their it probably was even then. I got into way it looks today. the 12 -inch released, which was a this with D. to do with that." time. huge dialog Mike based on We had this great run that start- deal for them at the time, because it licensing a song from him for a com- Next week Kevin Stapleford takes the Mark Kates ed with the next Banshees' record, was a U.K. -only single. I was hav- pilation. He was looking for some- Alternative reins. Tell him what you're which had a top 25 single. XTC had ing these amazing experiences. body, and I had been thinking, thinkingat 314788-1673 or kttapleford@ a gold record. Then it was stuff like So I went to the Sonic Youth show. "What can I do where I have more radioandrecords.com.

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LATS TOTAL TOTAL WEEKS ON TOTAL STATIONS' WEEK w1 ARTIST TITLE LABEL(S) FLAYS PLAYS AUDIENCE CHART ADDS Most Added® 1001 1 0 GREEN DAY American Idiot (Reprise) 2468 +71 184368 10 7310 www.rradds.com ARTIST TITLE LABELS) ADDS 4 0 U2 Vertigo (Interscope) 2116 +206 178481 3 7110 KILLERS Mr. Brightside (ls/and/ /DJMG) 25 3 3 BREAKING BENJAMIN So Cold (Hollywood) 1977 .18 120271 24 6010 SWITCHFOOT This Is Your Life (Sparrow/EMI CMG) 19 5 0 VELVET REVOLVER Fall To Pieces (RCA /RMG) 1943 +68 125755 13 6710 MUSIC Breakin (Capitol) 14

7 JIMMY EAT WORLD Pain (Interscope) 1880 +143 120231 7 7010 FRANZ FERDINAND This Fire (Domino/Epic/ 13 RISE AGAINST 2 6 LINKIN PARK Breaking The Habit (Warner Bros.) 1879 157 134298 19 6610 Give It All (Geffen) 11 GREEN DAY Boulevard Of Broken Dreams (Reprise) 8 6 7 CHEVELLE Vitamin R (Leading Us Along) (Epic) 1761 -32 103054 11 6510 JET Look What You've Done (Atlantic) 7 9 PAPA ROACH Getting Away With Murder (Geffen) 1750 +84 92158 13 5910 0 THREE DAYS GRACE Home (Jive /Zomba) 6

B 9 THREE DAYS GRACE Just Like You (Jive /Zomba) 1520 192 102881 28 5910 MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE I'm Not Okay II Promise) (Reprise) 5

10 10 KILLERS Somebody Told Me (island//DJMG) 1459 .79 110849 23 5710 SLIPKNOT Vermilion (Roadrunner //DJMG) 5 13 (1) CROSSFADE Cold (Columbia) 1286 +52 54144 21 5110 Most 11 12 LOSTPROPHETS Wake Up (Make A Move) (Columbia) 1219 -207 54757 19 5110 Increased Plays 16 ® SUM 41 Were All To Blame (Island//DJMG) 1095 +80 56269 7 6512 TOTAL PLAY 12 14 SLIPKNOT Duality (Roadrunner//DJMG) 1070 -166 56262 26 4710 INCREASE

19 MODEST MOUSE Ocean Breathes Salty (Epic) 1063 +136 57881 9 5310 THREE DAYS GRACE Home (JivelZomba) +208 U2 Vertigo (Interscope) +206 14 16 FRANZ FERDINAND Take Me Out (Domino/Epic) 1053 121 97816 25 5210 SLIPKNOT Vermilion (Roadrunner/ /DJMG) + 158 15 17 COHEED AND CAMBRIA A Favor House Atlantic (Columbia) 1045 -89 39571 16 5610 JET Look What You've Done (Atlantic) +156 +85 5011 20 0 SNOW PATROL Run (A &M/Interscope) 1003 63063 12 JIMMY EAT WORLD Pain (Inter-scope) + 143 17 USED Take It Away (Reprise) 996 +21 46962 7 6012 GREEN DAY Boulevard Of Broken Dreams (Reprise) +141 MODEST MOUSE Ocean Breathes Salty (Epic) + 136 23 CAKE No Phone (Columbia) 963 +123 39110 7 5011 FRANZ FERDINAND This Fire (DominolEpic) + 132 22 KORN Word Up (Epic) 940 +47 73033 10 4814 CAKE No Phone (Columbia) + 123

18 22 TAKING BACK SUNDAY A Decade Under the Influence (Victory) 856 89 51883 16 5110 KILLERS Mr. Brightside (island/ /DJMG) +122 26 ® SKINDRED Nobody (Laval 740 +46 27079 11 4310 Most 27 INTERPOL Slow Hands (Matador) 716 +26 66839 8 3913 Played Recurrents 28 MUSE Hysteria (EastWest/WarnerBros.) 669 +6 21069 8 4510 ® TOTAL ARTIST TITLE LABEL,S,, PLAYS 30 SOCIAL DISTORTION Reach For The Sky (Time Bomb) 668 +95 58042 6 3110 MODEST MOUSE Float On (Epic) 806 24 27 YELLOWCARD Only One (Capitol/ 664 -106 35427 16 3810 JET Cold Hard Bitch (At/antic) 660 31 MARILYN MANSON Personal Jesus (Nothing /Interscope) 579 +13 32495 6 3211 VELVET REVOLVER Slither (RCA /RMG) 656 37 e GREEN DAY Boulevard Of Broken Dreams (Reprise) 573 +141 77836 3 2218 DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL Vindicated (Vagrant/Interscope) 641 33 0 GOOD CHARLOTTE Predictable (Daylight/Epic) 564 +18 44141 7 3210 LINKIN PARK Lying From You (Warner Bros) 615 SEETHER fIAMY LEE Broken (Windup) 598 32 31 FUTURE LEADERS OF THE WORLD Let Me Out (Epic/ 523 -23 16155 14 2912 WHITE STRIPES Seven Nation Army (ThirdMan/V2) 531 38 KILLERS Mr. Brightside (island//DJMG) 504 +122 55061 3 40125 SWITCHFOOT Meant To Live (Redlnk/Columbia/ 512 36 DONNAS Fall Behind Me (Lookoutr/At /antic) 503 +66 18226 4 3812 INCUBUS Megalomaniac (Epic) 509 41 A PERFECT CIRCLE Imagine (Virgin) 450 +106 26375 2 3414 New 43 ® MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE I'm Not Okay II Promise) (Reprise) 420 +115 38216 2 3415 &Active 390 241 17400 11 3010 29 36 A PERFECT CIRCLE Blue (Virgin) HIVES Two-Timing Touch And Broken Bones (Interscope/

45 KEANE Somewhere Only We Know (Interscope/ 366 +73 27173 3 2012 Total Plays: 251, Total Stations: 20, Adds: 1

DOGS DIE IN HOT CARS I Love You 'Cause I Have To (1/2) 46 NICKELBACK Because Of You (Roadrunner//DJMG) 337 +50 11547 3 2211 e Total Plays: 247, Total Stations: 24, Adds: 2 44 0 DENVER HARBOR Picture Perfect Wannabe (Universal) 334 +32 5727 7 2210 SLIPKNOT Vermilion (Roadrunner/ /DJMG) Total Plays: 231, Total Stations: 28, Adds: 5 42 EXPLOSION Here I Am (Tarantula/Virgin) 333 +16 10135 5 2810 SEVENDUST Face To Face (TVT) 40 41 SHINEDOWN Simple Man (Atlantic) 333 30 15557 6 1810 Total Plays: 196, Total Stations: 15, Adds: 3

IDebut> JET Look What You've Done (Atlantic) 312 +156 25055 1 3317 INSTRUCTION Breakdown (Geffen) Total Plays: 156, Total Stations: 15, Adds: 3 50 SECRET MACHINES Nowhere Again (Reprise) 310 +39 10412 6 2411 MUSIC Breakin' (Capitol) 15 2110 35 44 ALTER BRIDGE Open Your Eyes (Windup) 305 140 11243 Total Plays: 151, Total Stations: 26, Adds: 14

)oebut THREE DAYS GRACE Home (Jive /Zomba/ 299 +208 9442 1 3616 COLLECTIVE SOUL Counting The Days (El Music Group) Total Plays: 147, Total Stations: 8, Adds: 0 34 46 HOOBASTANK Same Direction (Island//DJMG) 287 215 22660 14 3310 BURDEN BROTHERS Shadow (Kirtland) 47 47 GODSMACK fIDROPBOX Touche (Republic/Universal) 275 .3 13237 13 1410 Total Plays: 133, Total Stations: 8, Adds: 0 BEASTIE BOYS Right Right Now Now (Capitol) [Debut> FRANZ FERDINAND This Fire (Domino /Epic) 267 +132 20673 1 38113 Total Plays: 125, Total Stations: 8, Adds: 3 STREETS Dry Your Eyes (Atlantic) 265 10 14598 4 1310 48 49 BLINK -182 Down (Geffen) - RIDDLIN' KIDS Stop The World (Aware/Columbia) 263 +33 9050 2 1910 Total Plays: 113, Total Stations: 10, Adds: 0 74 Alternative reporters. Monitored airplay data supplied by Mediabase Research, a division of Premiere Radio Netw rks. Songs ranked by total plays for the airplay week Station playlists for all R &R reporters of 10/3 -10/9. Bullets appear on songs gaining plays or remaining flat from previous week. If two songs are tied in tctal plays, the song with the larger increase in plays is placed first. Songs below No. 20 are moved to recurrent after 20 weeks on the chart. Most Added is the total number of new adds officially reported to R&R by each reporting are available on the web at station. Songs unreported as adds do not count toward overall total stations playing a song. Total Audience equals Average Quarter Hour Persons times number of plays www.radioandrecords.com. (times 100). Each daypart on each station is assigned an AQH number. Average Quarter Hour Persons used herein with permission from Arbitron Inc. (© 2004, Arbitron Inc.). © 2004, R &R. Inc.

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America's Best Testing Alternative Songs 12 + How do I feel about the format? I 61aleTheMuSÍC.cOm For The Week Ending 10/15/04 don't care about the format one little bit. rl MIOIUbi ®Ml THE. Sure, I pay attention to the pandemic music offerings, but this isn't about be- Persons Men Women ing first or different; this is about attract- Artist Title (Label) TW LW Familiarity Burn 18 -34 18 -34 18-34 RECORD ing listeners with interesting music and content. The charts are good for JIMMY EAT WORLD Pain (lnrerscope) 4.14 4.17 75% 5% 4.00 3.99 4.01 Sean Demery seeing what your colleagues are gravi- KILLERS Somebody Told Me (/s /and/ /DJMGI 4.12 4.06 92% 24% 3.99 3.76 4.21 tating toward in general, but the titles we PD. KITS (Live105)/ play at KITS (Live105) /San Francisco GREEN DAY American Idiot (Reprise) 4.09 4.14 97% 18% 3.92 3.78 4.05 San Francisco are simply catchy little commercials for TAKING BACK SUNDAY A Decade Under... (Victory) 4.00 4.02 75% 12% 3.73 3.69 3.78 music product that the consumer might

SUM 41 We're All To Blame (island//DJMGI 3.95 3.94 67% 8% 3.71 3.68 3.74 purchase or download. I am not directly in the music -sales busi-

ness; I -of- listeners I YELLOWCARD Only One (Capito /l 3.87 4.01 89% 21% 3.77 3.68 3.87 am in the gathering business. Overall, am interested in putting together musical and cerebral items that might CHEVELLE Vitamin R (Leading Us Along) (Epic) 3.87 3.94 77% 11% 3.75 3.77 3.73 attract a populace that Live105 can call its own. Playing the abso- DASHBOARD... Vindicated (Vagrant /lnrerscope) 3.84 4.03 94% 32% 3.75 3.54 3.95 lute right alternative music is less important to me than creating a FRANZ FERDINAND Take Me Out /Domino /Epic) 3.83 3.84 96% 35% 3.89 3.83 3.93 world that's interesting to listen to. e The music is the admission ticket that gets people into our venue. How we entertain them with topics, fea- BREAKING BENJAMIN So Cold (Hollywood) 3.79 3.99 85% 26% 3.70 3.71 3.68 tures and moments is how we get them to stick around for the sport. USED Take It Away (Reprise) 3.79 3.79 54% 8% 3.57 3.55 3.59

COHEED AND CAMBRIA A Favor House Atlantic (Columbia) 3.78 3.94 68% 15% 3.69 3.78 3.57 ou've got to hand it to Green Day LOSTPROPHETS Wake Up (Make A Move) (Columbia! 3.75 4.00 91% 25% 3.55 3.51 3.59 - they might be old, but they're not CAKE No Phone (Columbia) 3.74 3.53 55% 10% 3.74 3.73 3.74 Alternative afraid of anybody. This week they fend off VELVET REVOLVER Fall To Pieces (RCA/RMG) 3.73 3.73 76% 18% 3.58 3.35 3.81 a huge surge from a bunch of guys who MODEST MOUSE Float On (Epic) 3.72 3.74 92% 41% 3.81 3.72 3.90 are actually older than them (heck, they're even older than me) U2 who are left ONITIH.E CROSSFADE Cold (Columbia) 3.72 3.83 66% 14% 3.56 3.42 3.73 - - to console themselves with a No. 2 show- A PERFECT CIRCLE Blue (Virgin) 3.71 3.69 52% 8% 3.63 3.72 3.52 ing for "Vertigo" This means that "Ameri- MODEST MOUSE Ocean Breathes Salty (Epic/ 3.68 3.74 58% 9% 3.72 3.78 3.67 can Idiot" logs its fifth consecutive week in RADI.O SNOW PATROL Run (A &M/lnrerscope) 3.66 3.86 50% 9% 3.64 3.43 3.85 the top slot. As if that weren't impressive enough, Green Day also manage to THREE DAYS GRACE Just like You (Jive /Zomba) 3.63 3.91 93% 41% 3.5t 3.32 3.70 squeeze a second track into the top 30. "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (No. 29) PAPA ROACH Getting Away With Murder (Geffen) 3.62 3.79 83% 20% 3.48 3.55 3.41 continues to grow, so who says the Alt people don't know what an album is? ... HOOBASTANK Same Direction (island//DJMGI 3.59 3.72 88% 29% 3.48 3.54 3.42 Speaking of being album- oriented, how about those nutty Killers? Even as "Somebody Told Me" lingers in the top 10, they pull the Most Added track of U2 Vertigo (Inte/scope) 3.51 - 60% 11% 3.47 3.66 3.29 the week right off of Hot Fuss in the form of "Mr. Brightside" (No. 32). Those limey SLIPKNOT Duality (Roadrunner/ IDJMG) 3.46 3.58 82% 28% 3.50 3.64 3.35 know -it-alls at NMEsay, "Right now, few bands are a safer bet than The Killers" ALTER BRIDGE Open Your Eyes (Wind -up) 3.46 3.54 74% 25% 3.32 3.31 3.34 The Alt Nation seems to agree.... More artist -driven love? Three words for you: LINKIN PARK Breaking The Habit (Warner Bros.) 3.45 3.77 98% 55% 3.41 3.54 3.28 Three Days Grace. "Home" (No. 45) becomes the third track from their self -ti- tled debut to chart, with the biggest increases of the week. Way to go, Toronto KORN Word Up (Epic) 3.42 3.33 82% 25% 3.41 3.30 3.54 ... And then there's Jet. It's a veritable thrill to see the Alternative format not blow Total sample size is 375 respondents. Total average lavorabiltly estimates are based on a scale of 1 -5. (1 =dislike very much. 5 = like very much). off a band simply because they were good enough to cross over into such far- Tolal familiarity represents the percentage of respondents who recognized the song. Total bum represents the number of respondents who said they away places as Hot AC. "Look What You've are tired of hearing the song. Songs must have 40% familiarity to appear on survey Sample composition is based on persons 12e. Persons are Done" (No. 42) is just lovely, and it

screened via the Internet Once passed. they can take the music test based on the formab'music preference. RateTheMusic.com results are not meant scores the highest debut of the week. Well done, everybody. I don't care what to replace callout research. The results are intended to show opinions of participants on the the Internet only. RateTheMusic is a registered trademark anybody says, you seem to know what you're doing. of RateTheMusic.com. The RTM system, is available for local radio stations by calling 818 -377 -5300. RateTheMusic.com dala is provided by Kevin Staplelord, Alternative Editor Mediabase Research. a division of Premiere Radio Networks. -

Reporters Stations and their adds listed alphabetically by market

WHRLJAIhany. NY WAVF /Charleston. SC' CIMX/DetroiI, MI' KTBZMOUStan, TX' WMAD/Madisan, WI' WRRY/Newhurgh. NY KNRK/Ponland, OR' KITS/San Francisco. CA' WSUNITampa. FL' Cooper OM: John PD Dave Rassi PO Murray Brooksnaw PD. Vince Richards 0M: Mike Ferris Po: Mores Boris PD Mart Hamilton PO Sean Descry OM'. Paul Cilia,o PD: Olerlo MD lisa Suzy Boa APD. Vince Canova MD: Don Jantren PD. Curti BmM HOORASTA',K APO Jaime Cooley AMMO: Aaron Aselsen PD: Spart MD Mall Franklin No 4 Adds LAZYBOY FRANZ FERDINAND No Adds No Adds 1 KORN GUERILLA BLACK I,MARIO WINANS PAPA ROACH GREEN DAY KIM/Albuquerque, NM' MUSIC KCNIJSan Jose, CA' JET RISE AGAINST WBRU/Providence. KILLERS PO: Scott Sauntada KHROiEI Paso, TX' WRZXAndianapolis, IN' WROX/NOrlolk, VA' RI' POMO: John Atlas EARSHOT P0: Resler LDSTPROPERETS 110: Don Kelley OM. Mike Preston PD. Lenny Diana Poi Michele Dúwoed UM 5 A PERFECT CIRCLE LE TIGRE 7 WEND/Charlotte MD: IERS PDRAD: Jalo Garcia PD Scan Jameson MD: Mike Powers J SWITCHFOOT OM Bruce Logan JEFF BUCKLEY 4 INTERPOL 3 MUSC MD'. Michael Young SWITCHFOOT MA! MAO JackDaniel 1 KILLERS 2 MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE AICe KFMNfucson, AZ' IN >,roni A PERFECT CIRCLE KJEE/Santa Barbara, CA SJBI.IERSED WMFS/Memphis, TN' MUSIC MO: Dan Hanacek PO: Man Spry WNNX/Allanta, GA' _ "50l LEADERS OF THE WORLD S':'-.E PLAN PD: Roe Cressman 1 HANDSOME BOY MODELING APDMD: Stephen Callao OMA') : Leslie ham KRZO/Reno, NV' SWITCHFO DT NO. Sydney Nabors 36 KILLERS M0. Jay Harren DM: Bob Brooks JET WPLA/Jacksonville. FL' 2 SUM 41 KORX/Odessa, TX 10 MARILYN MANSON No Adds SEVEYDUST MUSIC OM Gall Austin PO: Michael Todd PO' Jemmy Smith WKOX/Chicago. IL' KILLERS 1 USED APO,1AD. AMMO: Mat Diablo PD Mike Stern SCISSOR SISTERS Chad Cnc mley JET APO: ore 'ARE113A3S 31A 1 BEASTIE BOYS KNDO/Seatlle, WA' APO MD: decent Jackson RISE AGAINST 7 MUSE WJSE/Allantic City. NJ' IN HOT PD: Phil Manning KMYZ/Tulsa, OK' 7 PARIS. IEKAS DOGS DIE CARS PO Al Patine lia WLUMMilwaukee, WI' GREEN DAY APD Jim Keller PO: Lynn Barstow 7 SLIPKNOT APD'. Soon Reilly PD Tommy Wilde 4 GREEN DAY MO: Corbin Pierce KXNA/Fayetteville, AR WRZK/JOhnson City' 7 PAIES JET MD: Steven Rappoport POND MD'. Kenny Neumann FE'DINAND 2 MOONEY SUZUKI No Adds Dave Jackson s mERS ì A PER F:G'0a -_. .T._ 29 SPIDE FBA 1 SECRET MACHINES WAOZ/Cincinnali. 0H wlurs 1 S'JA141 ._..... r.l,llRs PO,MU. len Nagel Di.1 PS KHBZ/Oklahoma City, OK' WDYLBIChmand. VA' N, Adds KPNT/St. Louis. MO. 0M: Bill Henley PO' Mike Murphy WHFSAVashinglon. KFRR/Fresno. CA' PD: Tommy Mattem DC' PO Jimm Barreda MO: Dustin Matthews MD: PD Lisa Warden WHTG Monmouth, NJ' Y Jell Friste Po: Chris Squire ...- 7 KILLERS WXTM/Cleveland, OH' KRBZ/Xansas City, MO' SWITCIIF3AT APD. Libby Carslensen MO: Reverend s PO Mike Gavin PO' Kim Monroe 4 THREE DAYS GRACE MO: Pal Ferrise PO Greg Bergen APO MD Brian Phillips STORY GE THE YEAR APD Nardella RISE AGAINST Dar APD'. Lazlo KILLERS 2 BEASTIE BOAS MO. Tim Slats- FRANZ FERDINAND MUSIC KROX/AusIm. TX' MD Jason Ulmer '- u. "l'IA - WJBX/FI. Myers, FL' FRANZ FERDINAND OM. Jell Carral IRA_.. i. SIC OM PO John Aaaa MO. TOhy Ryan WRXLJRichmand. VA' WM/Syracuse. NY' APD Fill Madrid OM Bill Cahill PO: SOON Pelihone MD'. Jell Zito WAR/Orlando. FL' Adam PD/MO: Casey Krukawski APD/MO: Tim Noble WWOC/Washingtan. DC' WAFIQ/Columbia. SC' KMBY/Alanlerey. CA' OM: Cook 1 PO'. PD'. Pal Lynch INSTRUCTION RISE AGAINST Joe Stalag a PO Dave Stewart WNFZ/Knasville. TN' POMO Benny Allen APD' Rick Everett SWITCHFOOT MO: Danielle Flynn MO. Dare Farra PD Anthony Proffitt SALIVA MO. Brian Dickerman KILLERS WRAXBirmingham. AL' DOwS KCXX/Riverside. CA' Na Adds Po: Susan Groves DMPD Kell. Clique WXTW/Ft. Wayne, IN' WXSR/Tallahassee, FL MO Mark Lindsey DAY APOMO. Daryl OM -. JJ F,bini James 5YI ILIIVJ01 ,ANS* OM. Steve Cannon WSFM/Wilmington, NC PD'. KFTE;Lalayelle. LA' Don Walker WOCLJOMande, PO. Dale FlinI PD: Brim Burns PO Scan Perrin FL' APO: Haft Jericbo PD' Bobby Smith AMMO: Mike Kennedy MO Rager Pride WWCD /Columbus. OH' MO Greg Travis WBUZ/Nashville, TN' 1e PATROL THREE DAYS GRACE KWOD /Sacramento, CA' 1 KL_ERS SNOW OM Randy Malta/ 7 EARSHOT OM Jim Patrick FILERS DM Curtiss Johnson -.F., DA S GRACE KOXR /Boise. ID' PD Mdy Davis I RISE AGAINST POND. Russ Schenck 1.15 CHEMICAL RONLANCI PD Ron Ounce ON Oan McColl! MD. Jack devon AT ONrSFEIP STR,1_,_IGHT RUN Ir,S I SCUT ION APO Violet PD: Krnlensen SWITCHFOOT MUSIC Si SSOR SISTERS Eric MD Marco Collins HIVES RISE AGAINST WPLY/Philadelphia. PA' MO: Jeremy Smith A,: FERDINAND THREE HAYS GRACE JEFF BUCKLEY AT OVSHIP Po' Jim NoGuina 'Monitored Reporters WGBO /Grand Rapids. MI' KXTE71.as Vegas. NV' ASE AGAINST MUSIC BLACK KEYS AiBME ASEED MD: Dan Fein Po: Bobby Ouncan PO- Chris Ripley MUSIC USED JEFF BUCKLEY No Adds MD: Kevin Curnow MD Carly Brawn FIFOOT WBCN/Boston, MA' No Adds POWERED KOGE/Ballas, TX KXRK/SaR Lake City, UT' PD Dave Wellington KEDJ/Phoen1c PD. Duane Doherty RS AZ' OM: Alan Hague POND Steven Sl rick OM: Laura Havre APDMD: Alan Ayo WXNR /Greenville. NC' Po. Todd Halter 1 I .... APO: Dead Air Dave MEDIABASE P0. Jan Sanders KR00/Las Angeles, CA XKND/New Orleans, LA' MO: M e FUM1 n DONNAS APO MD M0: Robin Nash Charlie Shaw PD Kevin Weather! OM Tony Florentine 3 KILLERS No Adds WXECmayyttan. OH' APP. Gene Sandras om PD Sig 2 FRAAZ FERDINAND 82 Total Reporters SYf. T C.S bO,1' WEDG/Buttalo. NY' OM' Tony pillory MO Man Smith APO. Nick Perniciaro Po Steve Kramer FRANZ FERDIILAN!, KZON/Phaenio. AZ' KBZTBan Diego, CA' MD Boomer DOGS DIE IN em CARE SHINS Jilt on 74 Total Monitored SLIPKNOT SLIPKNOT MD: Midis Lewis APDMOM Ie Halloran WEE0tHagerslown WBTZ/BurlingtoT KILLERS No Adds EM/PD. Matt Grasso KTCLDenver, CO' OM/PO: Oan Murren WXRK/New York, NY' MUSIC 15 KEANE WLRS/Louisville, KY' 8 Total Indicator APDMD. Kevin Mays PO: Mike O'Connor PO Robert PO: Amuse Fittgenld Cross IT K'i.LIRS APO: Rich Rubin MD. Mike Peer MD. Dane Hill WXOX/Pìasburgh, PA' XTRABan Diego, CA' K14111 MO: Hill Joram PERFECT CIRCLE KUCD/Honolulu, HI' t INTERPOL Po: Jim Richards 16 PD. Meschina GREEN DAY Po: MIMI t KILLERS Jamie 1 KORN M0: Marly Milne,' Did Not Report, Playlist Frozen (1): LOVE 45 MD. F 40 KILLERS FRANZ FERDINAND SWILsii COT MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE Na Adds FRAY RISE AGAINST KEANE WCYY/Portland, ME

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A concert featuring the soulful and inspirational music of Totó La Momposina Bela Velloso Mariana Montalvo (Colombia) (Brazil) (Chile) Expanding Latinas: Women Of Latin Its Reach America Tour Dates Putumayo World Music sponsors a branded tour package This 28 -city tour features legendary Colombian singer and dancer Totó La Momposina; political activist and singer Mariana Montalvo, who offers fresh interpretations of the traditional music of Chile; and Brazil's Belô Velloso, niece utumayo World Music 1993 tries have never had the opportunity was launched in to in- of Caetano Veloso and Maria Bethania, who creates music to be properly introduced in America. troduce people to the music of the world's different cul- heavily influenced by the Bahia region of Brazil. tures. It all began when founder Dan Storper started Through our connections and the Pu- tumayo brand, we hope to change Oct. 8 Wilmington, DE Grand Opera House importing artifacts and art from around the world in that. Oct. 9 Schenectady, NY Proctor's Theatre the early '70s. This grew into a successful clothing com- For example, this Latinas tour Oct.10 Westhampton Beach, NY Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center pany, Putumayo, which began in 1975 and was sold in features Totó La Momposina as the headliner. She has been legendary Oct. 12 New York Symphony Space 1997 so Storper could concentrate his efforts on music. since the '80s in her country and Oct.13 Englewood, NJ Bergen Performing Arts Center Renowned for its world - number of cities it traveled within dedicated world -music cir- Oct. 15 Greenvale, NY Hillwood Recital Hall music compilations, inde- to, which was 18 or 19 back cles. She has released countless Oct. 16 Camden, NJ Gordon Theater pendently owned Putu- in 1999. Three artists tour- albums but has never toured here. Oct. 17 Bayside, NY Queensborough Community mayo World Music has ing together under one em- It's a real honor to actually bring College Theatre gradually become a well - blem doesn't happen that her to America and, more impor- Oct. 19 Providence The Auditorium in Roberts Hall known brand in the world - often. We hope to change tant, to present her for the first Oct. 22 Washington, DC Lisner Auditorium music community and that beginning with Putu- time in the proper way. Oct. 24/25 Hampton, VA The American Theater played an important role in mayo Presents Latinas: The other artists we have chosen, Oct. 26 Chapel Hill, NC The Great Hall the overall growth of inter- Women of Latin America, Mariana Montalvo and Belô Velloso, Oct. 27 Wilmington, NC Thalian Hall est in world music among featuring Toto La Mompo- are both newer fantastic artists whom Oct. 28 Brevard, NC Porter Center of Performing Arts the general public. Fabian Alsultany sina from Colombia, Mari- we hope we can help to break here. Oct. 29 Atlanta Rialto Center for the Performing Arts Putumayo is considered ana Montalvo from Chile We've helped them to get record deals a pioneer and leader in developing the and Belô Velloso from Brazil. in the U.S. and to get press stories go- Oct. 30 Knoxville University Center Auditorium nontraditional market. Besides dis- What we hope to do is produce one ing and to get them booking agents Nov. 4 Albuquerque Popejoy Hall tributing and selling its catalog of these branded tours on an annual and to generally push it all forward. Nov. 6 Irvine, CA Irvine Barclay Theatre through traditional music retail chan- basis, as well as put on Putumayo Beyond us doing this tour and sell- Nov. 7 La Jolla, CA Mandeville Center Auditorium nels, it hasbuilta proprietary network World Musical Festivals in select cit- ing Putumayo records, it is about us Nov. 10 Santa Barbara, CA Campbell Hall of book, gift, clothing, coffee and oth- ies in North America and internation- bringing a musical culture to Ameri- Nov. 13 Tucson Centennial Hall er specialty retailers that play and sell ally. This year we have the Latinas ca that rarely ever gets to have this Nov. 16 Saratoga, CA The Claire Loftus Carriage House its CDs. Not only has Putumayo es- package, and next year we are look- type of package and branding behind Theatre tablished a solid foundation in North ing at doing something called the it. We are very excited that we are able Nov 17 Davis, CA Mondavi Center for Performance America, it has also branched out to Mediterranean Odyssey, where we'll to take this tour to markets beyond the Arts many countries around the world. choose one artist from the Middle major cities, which are usually the Nov. 18 Arcata, CA Van Duzer Theatre In an effort to expand its brand in Eastern region, one from Italy or Spain only places that get these kinds of Nov. 19 San Rafael, CA Marin Center the North American market, the com- and perhaps a Turkish artist and tour shows. Taking this kind of music to Nov. 21 Eugene, OR Silva Concert Hall pany hired Fabian Alsultany as them together. We are still in the ear- the heartland of America is an impor- Nov. 22 Tacoma, WA Rialto Theatre Events Manager. He came to Putu- ly stages of putting that one together. tant personal mission of mine. Nov. 23 Seattle Moore Theatre mayo in January, after closing his We are also approaching this live All across this country and world -music management company. performance concept on a more fo- throughout the world there is grow- these shows - from simply putting are about and the kinds of influences In addition, Alsultany produced the cused level. For example, this past ing interest in all kinds of music from concert posters up in their window to that inform their music. Many world - Africa Fete tours in the late '90s and summer we released the Women ofAf- all over the world. It's a lot of fun to having an in-store event with the art- music artists are inspired by political also did a series called Viva La World, rica compilation and staged three be part of this. We are all looking for ists when they are in town for the and social causes in their countries a package show that was sponsored Women of Africa concerts in associa- new and different kinds of music to show. and address them in their music. by the French government. These and tion with that release. They were very discover and enoy. As the majors continue to consol- These workshops allow people to other tours and festivals he has been successful. R&R Putumayo has establisheda dis- idate, we are just one aspect of the learn more about a country's history involved with have given him the in- R&R You arefocused on these concerts tinctive brand. I also think it is interest- vibrant independent music scene and its musical and cultural aspects sight and experience he brings to his to help push the Putumayo brand and to ing how the company - as an indepen- that is moving in to fill the void. We and will, therefore, allow them to un- new role at Putumayo. sell the world -music compilations the com- dent entity - has established a vast net - are just one of many independent derstand the music that much more. When I talked with Alsultany the pany puts together, but I get the feeling the work of distributim partners beyond the labels that has found its niche, has R&R: Lastly, it is easy for us to think company had just launched its first intent is also grander, in that you ca re deep- traditional ways to sell music. built a foundation for it and is ready that something like a Latinas Tour repre- Putumayo Presents tour in North ¡y about fiirthering world music and world - FA: There is a specific flavor of to expand on it. sents a close-knit community of perform- America, tied in with the recent release music artists in general. world music that Putumayo repre- R &R: I noticed that many of the dates ers and musicians - like the rock or hip - Latins: Women of Latin America. We FA: We are all about world music sents - music from all over the world are tied in with universities and other ed- hop worlds - but, really, we are talking spoke about the tour, world music's here. We are a company that sells world that retains its traditional and cultur- ucational entities. Is this because these are about distinctly different musical genres growth and the mission of Putumayo. music, and we have a vested interest al roots while being informed by con- the types of "promoters" who'll take on a emanating from different countries, in this in expanding the appeal of this music, temporary movements. This music show like this? case Colombia, Chile and Brazil. Have R &R: This Latinas tour is your first but we also believe that, through mu- can easily be played on contemporary FA: To a certain extent that may be these three artists ever performed togeth- big project since joining Putumayo. sic, people from all over the world can radio, and that same brand and mu- true. These are also the communities er before? FA: Yes. Believe or not, this is the learn more about each other, and that sical representation can easily be of people who are predisposed to en- FA: Actually, no. In fact, they are biggest world -music package tour to helps bring us all together. translated in other ways, such as joy this type of music most. But we meeting for the first time as the tour ever hit North America. We are going Through the compilations we put through these festival and tours. also have several cultural activities di- starts. It will be interesting to see how to be in 28 cities. Many popular world - together we have access to a great pool In addition to selling music at plac- rectly linked to this series of concerts. they react to one another and, in the music artists can book more dates as of artists and musical communities es like Borders and Tower and other Besides the show itself, the in-store ap- long term, if one has an influence on individual artists, such as Youssou around the world. We want to take traditional outlets for music, we have pearances and the press events, we are another. N'Dour or Cesaria Evora, but in terms advantage of that on as many levels a distribution network of over 3,000 doing a series of workshops in almost of a packaged and branded tout this as we can - as businesspeople and as nontraditional retailers who stock and every market we are playing in. You can reach Alsultany at 212 -825- is the largest so far. citizens of the world community sell Putumayo music. Over 1,000 of This allows people to go beyond 1400. For more information about Putu- Africa Fete was the biggest package Many international artists who may them are getting involved on one lev- the music and performance and to get mayo or the Latinas Tour, log on to tour prior to this one, in regard to the be hugely popular in their own coun- el or another in helping us to promote a little deeper into what these artists www.putumayo.com.

www.americanradiohistory.com 65 POWERED r TRIM: EA TOP3O, 1NEDIABASE oD October 15, 2004 LAST THIS TOTAL TOTAL WEEKS ON TOTAL STATIONS. WEEK WEEK ARTIST TITLE LABEL(S) PLAYS PLAYS AUDIENCE CHART ADDS Most Added® 1001 www.rradds.coro i 1 R.E.M. Leaving New York (Warner Bros.) 571 -3 26634 8 2510 ARTIST TITLE LABEL/S) ADDS 2 2 U2 Vertigo llnterscope) 546 23 29664 3 2410 GREEN DAY Boulevard Of Broken Dreams (Reprise) 5 4 3 JOHN MELLENCAMP Walk Tall (/s /and//DJMG) 380 -15 20125 8 1810 M. JAGGER & D. STEWART fl S. CROW Old Habits Die Hard (Virgin) 3

3 4 BRUCE HORNSBY Gonna Be Some Changes Made (Columbia) 373 32 17273 14 2110 ROBERT RANDOLPH Nobody (Warner Bros.) 3

5 5 JAMIE CULLUM All At Sea (Verve /Universal) 317 -19 13533 19 19)0 MOE fIJOHN HIATT The Ballad Of Curtis Loew (Sanctuary/SRG) 3 6 0 CARBON LEAF Life Less Ordinary (Vanguard) 314 +21 12946 9 1910 9 0 MARK KNOPFLER Boom, Like That (Warner Bros.) 301 +33 16374 5 20)0 7 8 JOHN FOGERTY Deja Vu (All Over Again) (DreamWorks/Geflen/ 274 15 16520 10 1810 10 0 CROSBY & NASH Lay Me Down (Sanctuary/SRG) 267 +5 12181 12 1710 8 10 FINGER ELEVEN One Thing /Wind -up) 267 -3 12423 16 1210 11 Q KEANE Somewhere Only We Know (lnterscopel 262 +1 12878 7 2011 14 12 SCISSOR SISTERS Take Your Mama (Universal) 239 -5 10580 15 1310 Most 13 13 RACHAEL YAMAGATA Worn Me Down (RCA Victor) 237 14 8944 17 1910 Increased Plays 15 MAROON 5 She Will Be Loved (Octane/J /RMG) 222 +1 11360 9 810 0 TOTAL PLAY 12 15 (Who Discovered) 1812 OZOMATLI America? (Concord) 218 -35 11153 14 ARTIST - OLE LABEL(S) INCREASE

16 16 SNOW PATROL Run lA &Mllaterscope) 211 -6 8192 6 1710 JET Look What You've Done (Atlantic) +49 18 m ELVIS COSTELLO Monkey To Man (lost Highway) 188 +6 7238 4 1410 MARK KNOPFLER Boom, Like That (WarnerBros.) +33 GREEN DAY Boulevard Of Broken Dreams (Reprise) +29 20 0 CAKE No Phone (Columbia) 184 +13 9614 6 1210 M. JAGGER & D. STEWART 0 S. CROW Old Habas Die Hard NagiN +28 17 19 MODEST MOUSE Float On (Epic) 183 8 8278 17 1412 CARBON LEAF Life Less Ordinary (Vanguard) +21 19 20 THRILLS Not For All The Love In The World (Virgin) 173 .2 4811 8 1510 LOW MILLIONS Eleanor (Manhattan /EMC) +21 22 ® RAY LAMONTAGNE Trouble (RCA /11M6) 169 +10 7505 4 1510 JOHN MAYER Daughters (Aware/Columbia) +21 26 ® SARAH MCLACHLAN World On Fire (Arista/RMG) 168 +19 7117 6 1211 SARAH MCLACHLAN World On Fire (Arista/RMG) +19 G. LOVE Waiting (Brushfre/Universal) +19 23 ® STEVE EARLE The Revolution Starts Now (E- Squared/Artemis) 161 +6 8487 4 1511 BOB SCHNEIDER Cap'n Kirk (Shockorama /Vanguard) +19 29 0 LOW MILLIONS Eleanor (Manhattan/EMC) 159 +21 3927 3 1510 25 25 NEVILLE BROTHERS Ball Of Confusion (Back Porch/Narada/ 147 .4 4861 2 1210

28 CD FRANZ FERDINAND Take Me Out (Domino /Epic) 144 +5 6708 2 611 30 ® CHARLIE MARS Gather The Horses (V2) 141 +10 3383 5 1211 27 28 CHRISTINE MCVIE Friend (Koch) 130 -15 4282 9 1310

21 29 FINN BROTHERS Won't Give In (Nettwerk) 126 -37 5678 13 1510 30 K.D. LANG Helpless (Nonesuch) 111 -12 3263 2 1310 Most 25 Triple A reporters. Monitored airplay data supplied by Mediabase Research, a division of Premiere Radio Networks. Songs ranked by total plays for the airplay week Played Recurrents of 10/3 -10/9. Bullets appear on songs gaining plays or remaining flat from previous week. If two songs are tied in total plays, the song with the larger increase in plays is placed first. Songs below No. 15 are moved to recurrent after 20 weeks on the chart. Most Added is the total number of new adds officially reported to R &R by each TOTAL

ARTIST . . reporting station. Songs unreported as adds do not count toward overall total stations playing a song. Total Audience equals Average Quarter Hour Persons times number L PLAYS of plays (times 100). Each daypart on each station is assigned an AQH number. Average Quarter Hour Persons used herein with permission from Arbitron Inc. (© 2004, LOS LONELY BOYS Heaven (Or/Epic) 219 Arbitron Inc.). © 2004, R &R, Inc. MINDY SMITH Come To Jesus (Vanguard) 200 New &Active COUNTING CROWS Accidentally In Love (OreamWorks/Gefen) 178 NORAH JONES What Am I To You? (Blue Note/EMC) 165 SIMPLE KID The (Vector) Staring At Sun JET Look What You've Done (Atlantic) 311 Love Song (Volcano /Zomba) 139 Total Plays: 109, 10, Total Stations: Adds: 0 Plays: 1 Total 96, Total Stations: 12, Adds: D. FRANKENREITER fIJ. JOHNSON Free (Brushfire/Universal) 128 GAVIN DEGRAW I Dont Want To Be (J/RMG) G. LOVE Waiting (Brushfire/Universal) JET Are You Gonna Be My Girl (Atlantic) 114 Total Plays: 105, Total Stations: 4, Adds: 0 Total Plays: 92, Total Stations: 9, Adds: 1 DAVE MATTHEWS Oh IRCA/RMG) 111 TOOTS AND THE MAYTALS WI ERIC CLAPTON Pressure Drop /V2) RAY CHARLES IIVAN MORRISON Crazy Love (Concord) COLDPLAY Clocks (Capitol) 110 Total Plays: 101, Total Stations: 8, Adds: 2 Total Plays: 90, Total Stations: 8, Adds: 2 LENNY KRAVITZ Where Are We Runniú ? /Virgin/ 104 LENNY KRAVITZ Lady (Virgin) MICHAEL FRANTI Yes I Will //Music)

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LAST THIS TOTAL TOTAL WEEKS ON TOTAL STATIONS' WEEK WEEK ARTIST TITLE LABELISI PLAYS PLAYS AUDIENCE CHART ADDS Most Added (00) 1 o R.E.M. Leaving New York (Warner Bros.) 577 +10 6331 7 3210 www. rrindicator. corn ARTIST'" A _ -r, S ADDS 3 o MARK KNOPFLER Boom, Like That (WarnerBros.) 445 +24 6098 5 3110 JET Look What You've Done (Atlantic, 6 6 ELVIS COSTELLO Monkey To Man (Lost Highway) 423 +19 6874 5 3110 o MOE IIJOHN HIATT The Ballad Of Curtis Loew (Sanctuary/SRG) 5 7 o U2 Vertigo (lnterscopel 414 +47 4400 2 2711 M. JAGGER & D. STEWART fI S. CROW Old Habits Die Hard (Virgin) 4 ROBERT RANDOLPH Nobody (Warner Bros.) 4 2 5 JOHN MELLENCAMP Walk Tall (/s /and//DJMG) 412 -10 2739 8 2210 WALLFLOWERS Lawyers, Guns & Money (Artemis) 4 5 6 BRUCE HORNSBY Gonna Be Some Changes Made (Columbia) 371 -43 3614 14 2410 HOTHOUSE FLOWERS Your Love Goes On (Eleven Thirty) 4 10 o STEVE EARLE The Revolution Starts Now (E- Squared/Artemis) 340 +10 5404 8 2710 DAMIEN RICE The Blower's Daughter (Vector/WarnerBros. 3 8 8 CROSBY & NASH Lay Me Down (Sanctuary /SRG) 334 -15 3603 13 2410 4 9 FINN BROTHERS Won't Give In (Nettwerk) 334 -86 3913 12 2410 Most 9 lo JOHN FOGERTY Deja Vu (All Over Again) (Dream Works /Geffen) 327 -14 4009 11 2210 Increased Plays TOTAL 12 RAY LAMONTAGNE Trouble (RCA/BMW 315 +50 4714 5 2810 m ' PLAY ARTIST " E _ c__ INCREASE 11 KEANE Somewhere Only We Know (lnterscope) 314 +10 3862 13 2210 M. JAGGER & D. STEWART fl S. CROW Old Habits Die Hard (Virgin) +82 16 CARBON LEAF Life Less Ordinary (Vanguard) 232 +12 1226 12 1711 e JET Look What You've Done (Atlantic) +56

19 BEN HARPER & BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA Wicked Man (Virgin) 227 +26 3987 4 2412 RAY LAMONTAGNE Trouble (RCA/RMG) +50

15 15 CHRISTINEMCVIE Friend /Koch) 219 -24 1764 10 1810 U2 Vertigo (We/scope) +47 BEN HARPER & BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA Wicked Man (Virgin) +26 21 MADELEINE PEYROUX Don't Wait Too Long (Rounder) 214 +17 4671 5 2110 DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS Never Gonna Change (New West) +25 13 17 RACHAEL YAMAGATA Worn Me Down (RCA Victor) 211 -34 1359 17 1310 MARK KNOPFLER Boom, Like That (WarnerBros) +24

17 18 THRILLS Not For All The Love In The World (Virgin) 203 -5 3258 8 1810 KASEY CHAMBERS Stronger (Warner Bros.) +22 AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB Another Morning (Merge) +21 22 19 NEVILLE BROTHERS Ball Of Confusion (Back Porch/Narada) 190 .4 2443 5 1910 ELVIS COSTELLO Monkey To Man (Lost Highway) +19 18 20 GOMEZ Nothing Is Wrong (Hut /Virgin) 181 -27 1768 14 1510 20 21 K.D. LANG Helpless (Nonesuch) 170 -30 1472 11 1710 Syndicated 26 MINDY SMITH Fighting For It All (Vanguard) 168 +5 1930 2 1610 Programming 28 e KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD Hey, What Do You Say (Reprise) 159 +1 684 5 1210 Added This Week 23 24 OZOMATLI (Who Discovered) America? (Concord) 154 -22 1662 19 1210 World Cafe Erica Zito 215. 898 -6677 27 25 CAKE No Phone (Columbia) 152 .9 980 2 1410 - No new adds reported this week. 30 LOW MILLIONS Eleanor (Manhattan/EMC) 151 +4 1475 6 1310

29 27 DONAVON FRANKENREITER It Dort Matter (Brush fire/Universal) 151 -7 989 8 1210 Acoustic Cafe -Rob Reinhart 734 -761 -2043 'Debut e JOSEPH ARTHUR Can't Exist (Vector) 150 +8 1801 1 2012 ERIN BODE Here, There ¡Debut DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS Never Gonna Change (New West) 145 +25 900 1 1210 NATHAN Sunset Chaser ¡Debut> GOV'T MULE SlackjawJezebel (ATO/RCA /RMG) 145 +1 1926 1 1510 RICHARD BUCKNER Straight

ROBYN HITCHCOCK We're Gonna Live On by plays for week of Sunday 10/3 - Saturday 10/9. 34 Triple A reporters. Songs ranked total the airplay TOM WAITS Trampled Rose © 2004 Radio & Records. Reporters Stations and their adds fisted alphabetically by market

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WDET/Detroit, MI KTCZ/Minneaolis. MN' XM Cafe/Rehr/oak KTHXBena, NV' PD: Judy Adams PO: Lauren Maceeash Po: Bill Evans OM: Rob Brooks y MD: Brian Chambe lain KRVBBoise, ID' Mo: APCMO: Mike Wall PD: Harty ReynOldS M`dÉÓ BÑívf e APÓO. David Herold OM /PD: DannnMCCOIIy 2 s DAvD Guy SMITH 'Monitored Reporters POWEREDI 2 inNlexollEUESTItGIUB i ELLIOTT 2 BADLY DRAWN Bo- U ISTiA.U61 erroYnOORN owE.is 59 Total Reporters -II,III,iBASE WVOD/Elizabeth City, NC WGVX/Minneapolis. MN' COMMON ROTATION KENZBaII Lake City, UT' PO Man Dave Cooper OM. Hamilton OM PD: Bruce Jones WBOSBosIon, MA' HOMOVSU Ró1NYEE w MD'. Tad Abbey PD: Jett Collins Karl Bushman OM: Bun Knight MD: 25 Total Monitored MOUE MIL David Ginsburg ADESI DUP. DURAN no noob GRIER CM WFUV/New York, NY 34 Total Indicator WNCW /Greenville. SC PD: Chuck Singleton MO: Rib ouston OM: Ellen PElnmann WZEW/MObile, AL' WW1 ITH KPRI/San Diego. CA' PO' Kim Clad OM: him Camp JOHN CALE ODINOCHAEDona Shame KMMS/BOZeman, MT APDMD: Martin Mderson PO: Jim Mahanay JACKSON OM/PO'. Michelle Wolle At WARS MDMLee Xo.Ik AmryocAN STEWART I' S CROW issweI No NORTHOSS MES ÁHx Ammo NES5iLE,LUB M JAGGER., D

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It's a into -alternative underground movement, shame these two didn't get the chance to work together more. You they, almost in spite of themselves, ended Blue," "Final Straw," "Boy in the Well," up becoming international superstars "Aftermath" and "Around the Sun." should also check out Ray and Willie Nelson doing "It Was a Very and influencing more than one generation "This record covers a lot of ground," says Good Year" for a true emotional depth charge. It could have been a of artists. As they have matured, so has Buck. `To a certain degree, all eras of what disaster, but instead it may send goose bumps up your arms. ä Ray their sound, and last year's greatest -hits we've done over the years are represented was an original, and his duet work shows off his generosity and ex- package, Time After7Tme, chronicled that here. Some of the acoustic stuff might re- ceptional voice in the autumn of his years. evolution. mind people of the Automatic for the People R.E.M. are now back with Around the period, and there are a few electronic -type Sun, a project that garnered an amazing things that maybe are more like Up. We Note: The monitored airplay chart amount of interest during its recording had a lot of songs, and we picked the ones was affected this week by reduced Triple A process. In many ways it recaptures the we felt worked best together." spins at KTHX/Reno, NV due to an A -Z original influences that spawned R.E.M.'s R.E.M. have always had something to promotion. Consequently, the chart stays sound in the first place - the chiming say in their songs, be it on a social or a pretty stable ... k.d. lang debuts ... On ("OJT_ (um guitars of The Byrds, the pop sensibilities personal level, but they have rarely, as a the mystery championed a political cause. the Indicator chart, R.E.M. hold at 1 ", of and rural band, That Mark Knopfler increases to 2", Elvis of The Band. has changed at this point: The band has R.E.M. may have struggled a bit to re- joined a long list of high- profile artists in Costello jumps to 3*, and U2 climb to RA establish their musical identity after the the America Coming Together initiative. 4*, while Steve Earle rounds out the exit of drummer Bill Berry, but Michael The main thrust of the effort is to get out bulleted top 10 at 7* ... Knocking on the top -10 door are Ray Stipe (vocals), Mike Mills (bass) and Pe- the vote, mainly by sponsoring a series of LaMontagne, Keane, Carbon Leaf and Ben Harper And The Blind ter Buck (guitar) have now settled into a concerts in October dubbed Vote for Boys Of Alabama ... Other movers include Madeleine Peyroux (21*- mellower sound on this project that suits Change. 16*), Mindy Smith (26 " -22 "), Kenny Wayne Shepherd (28 " -23 ") and their current stature quite well. Says Buck, "Generally, when we do Low Millions (30' -26 ") ... Joseph Arthur, Drive -By Truckers and With the help of producer Pat charity stuff, it's just a matter of writing McCarthy, A.E.M. laid down tracks for a check, and that's easy to do. But this is Gov't Mule debut ... On the Most Added side, we see early action on the album in three different studios be- a really important election. We're going the Zevon tribute, with on several tracks. In Moe Warren adds addition, fore they felt they'd achieved the right to decide what kind of country America featuring John Hiatt, Robert Randolph and Hothouse Flowers are balance of technical wizardry and inspi- is going to be. Are we going to be a coun- off to a good start this week ... Jet, Mick Jagger & Dave Stewart fea- rational honesty. 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TXIPLA"SEK CUMLATIVE ARTIST " " -_ PLAYS PLAYS Americana Spot light STEVE EARLE The Revolution Starts Now (Artemis) 646 .29 5866 by John Schoenberger

2 KASEY CHAMBERS Wayward Angel /Warne/Bros.) 591 +43 2112 Artist: Cowboy Jack Clement Label: Dualtone 7 BUDDY MIILER Universal United House Of Prayer (New West) 493 +69 1434 Honored this year with the Americana Lifetime Achievement Award 3 4 VARIOUS ARTISTS Touch My Heart... (Sugar HO 484 .4 4652 in the songwriter category, Cowboy Jack Clement has been kickin' around the music business for decades. Born in Memphis in 1931, 4 5 JUNIOR BROWN Down Home Chrome (Telarc) 481 -6 3400 Clements was an early rockabilly pioneer, served as a musician and producer at Sun Records' studio for many years and worked as a 8 0 CHARLIE ROBISON Good Times (Dualtone) 428 +8 2101 producer and record executive with Chet Atkins. He has collaborated 5 7 TIFT MERK TT tambourine (Lost Highway) 427 -37 3480 with a long list of artists ranging from Johnny Cash and Charlie Pride to Townes Van Zandt and Waylon Jennings. He has also written 6 8 VARIOUS ARTISTS Por Vida. A Tribute To The Sangs... (08) 401 48 5784 countless songs over the years, which have been recorded by a

9 9 K. KANE & (. WELCH You Cant... (Compass /OeadReckoning) 382 -15 6921 broad spectrum of artists. After being more or less behind the scenes for decades, Clement now steps back into the limelight with his first album in 25 years, Guess 10 10 TODD SNIDER East Nashville Skyline (Oh Boy) 38? 9 6335 Things Happen That Way. Many of these songs have been in progress on one level or another nearly the entire time. The track listing includes Clement classics, brand -new tunes and a few choice covers 12 Q VARIOUS ARTISTS The Unbroken Circle (Dua/tone) 373 +10 3219 of songs he loves. "I wanted to make a record with a collection of different stories that, when you

11 12 NOTORIOUS CHERRY BOMBS The Notoráus...s(Unwersa /South) 363 23 7041 hear it, you would imagine as a movie. I basically set out to put on an ear show!" Check out "No Expectations," "Dreaming My Dreams With You" and the title track, which features Cash on vocals. 13 13 Welcome To Woody Creek (Dua/tone) 316 -9 2212

14 14 VARIOUS AFTISTS Beautiful Dreamer... (American RootsPub/iishirg) 301 -3 2910 Americana News

16 15 MEaONIE CANNON Melonie Cannon (Skaggs Family) 283 .1 1621 Ticket sales for MerleFest 2005 will begin on Tuesday, Nov. 9. Those joining Richard Watson, Merle's son, and Doc Watson for MerleFest 2005 include BR549, Sam Bush, The Chieftains, Vassar Clements, 25 RICKY SKAGGS... Brand New Strings (Skaggs Family) 273 +52 622 John Cowan Band, Rodney Crowell, Donna The Buffalo, Jerry Douglas, Bela Fleck, John Hiatt, Corey

15 17 BILLY JOE SHAVER Billy And The Kid (Compadre) 272 -24 3128 Harris, Loretta Lynn, Del McCoury Band, Buddy Miller, Allison Moorer, Tim O'Brien, Railroad Earth, Peter Rowan, Darrell Scott, Earl Scruggs, Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder and many others ... 18 0 BURRITO DELUXE The Whole Enchilada (LucaChica) 268 +2 1689 Loretta Lynn has filed suit against the Sure -Fire Music Company in Nashville in an effort to regain the copyrights to "Coal Miner's Daughter," "You Ain't Woman Enough" and 112 other songs she wrote or 17 19 ELEVEN HUNDRED SPRINGS Bandwagon (Palo Dural 267 -9 2549 co- wrote. In other Lynn news, MTV has added her video for "Portland, Oregon." Lynne has also

19 20 DRIVE BY T3UCKERS The Dirty South (New West) 245 18 2005 received several honors and accolades lately: She was awarded Americana Music Awards for Album of the Year, for Van Lear Rose, and Artist of the Year and was featured in Spin magazine's 2004 Cool List 21 DAVE ALVIN Ashgrove Roc/ 245 .17 7570 20 (Yep at No.10. Additionally, Lynn was recently nominated for the 2004 Shortlist Music Prize, and she will be honored as a BMI Icon at the performing rights organization's 52nd annual Country Awards, to be held 23 a PAUL THORN Are You With Me? (Back Porch/Virgin) 246 +4 2940 Nov. 8 ... Glen Campbell was recently given the Western Heritage Award in Los Angeles by the Gene 30 ® TOP JOE WHITE The Heroines (Sanctuary/SRG) 240 +44 558 Autry Museum of Western Heritage. Past recipients include Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and actors James Stewart, James Garner, Clint Eastwood and James Arness. 21 24 MAVIS STAPLES Have A Little Faith (Alligator) 234 .24 2266 Note: If you have Americana news, please forward it to jschoenberger @radioandrecords.com. 28 ® MELROYS The Melroys (95 North) 224 +16 2092

loebut> NATHAN Jinson Weed (Nettwerk) 223 +36 773 Most Added' *but> a PETER ROWAN & TONY RICE You Were There for Me (Rounder)218 +22 574 ARTIST TITLE LABEL(S) ADDS PINETOP PERKINS Ladies Man (M.C.) 10 28 MAGGIE BROWN Maggie Brown (Riverwidel 213 O 1349 27 TOM GILLAM Shake My Hand (Hayden Ferry) 7

TOM WAITS Real Gone (Anti/Epitaph) 6 goc> CD CHUCK PROPHET Age Of Miracles (New West) 210 +22 697 RICHARD BUCKNER Dents and Shells (Merge) 6

22 30 CRICKETS & THEIR BUDDIES The Crickets... (Sovereign) 206 43 3715 ACOUSTIC SYNDICATE Long Way Round (Sugar Hill) 6 MOFRO Lochlossa (Independent) 6 The Americana Airplay chart represents the reported play of terrestrial radio stations, nationally syndicated PETER ROWAN & TOAY RICE You Were There For Me (Rounder) 5 radio shows, satellite radio and internet stations that have agreed to submit weekly spin counts. 5 For more information please visit www.americanamusic.org. ELVIS COSTELLO The Delivery Man (Lost Highway) © 2004 Americana Music Association. KEVN KINNEY Sun Targled Angel Revival (Compadre) 5

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t is no secret that much of the Americana music community comprises in- Americana Labels dependent labels. In keeping with our independent label theme issue, we thought it would helpful to give you a comprehensive listing of Americana Americana record -label contacts labels and contact information.

Label Contact Phone E-Mail 95 NORTH Bill Hurley 603- 357 -3666 bill hurley @95northrecords.com ACOUSTIC DISC Rob Bleetstein 415 -485 -1229 [email protected] ALLIGATOR Tim Kolleth 773- 973 -7736 tim @allig.00m AMERICAN ROOTS Tamara Saviano 615- 298 -2009 tsaviano @comcast.net AMERICAN RURAL Joy Jungers 512-357-6160 [email protected] ANTI /EPITAPH Krystal Prickett 213 -413-7353 krystal @epitaph.com ARTEMIS/E- SQUARED Eric Cole 212-433 -1847 [email protected] ATLANTIC RECORDS GROUP Brian Corona 818- 238 -6838 [email protected] ATO Nick Attaway 540- 456-4938 [email protected] BACKPORCH Sue Schrader 414 -961 -8350 [email protected] BAR /NONE Glenn Morrow 201- 795-9424 bamonerec @aoLcom BASIN STREET Jack Hopke 504 -483-0002 [email protected] BIG BENDER Morris Beegle 970 -613-8879 [email protected] BENCHMARK Josh Baker 317 -255-3780 [email protected] BLUE LIGHT Korby Lenker 360- 319-2584 korby @ korbylenker. cram BLIND PIG Luke Welsh 415 -550 -6484 radio @blindpig.com BLOODSHOT Scott Schaefer 773-604-5300 [email protected] BLUECORN MUSIC Greg Ellie 713 -528 -6135 [email protected] CALLIOPE Michele Tayler 203 -938 -5544 [email protected] CARNIVAL Courtney Clay 615- 259 -0841 [email protected] CIMMARON James Talley 615 -329 -9988 [email protected] COMPADRE Brad Turcotte 713- 228 -3847 [email protected] COMPASS David Haley 615-320-7672 [email protected] COMPENDIA Beth Lewis 615- 277 -1832 [email protected] DIG MUSIC Marty DeAnda 916-442 -5344 marry @digmusic.com DUALTONE Lori Kampa 615 -320-0620 lorikampa @dualtone. com EMERGENT David Marcias 615- 383 -4041 david @emergentmm.com EMI MUSIC Herb Anger 615-269 -2000 herb @emicap.corn FULL LIGHT John Condon 615-385 -0001 condon ®comcast net HIGHTONE Darryl Anderson 510-763-8500 dander959 @aol.com HOLLYWOOD Nick Bedding 818-560 -7501 nick. bedding @ disney. com INTERSCOPE GEFFEN James Evans 310-865 -4559 [email protected] KOCH Nick Hunter 615-269 -4500 nhunter @audiument.com LEAPS Fredro Perry 718- 707 -7184 [email protected] LITTLE DOG Pete Anderson 818-557 -1595 [email protected] LOST HIGHWAY Ray Di Pietro 615 -524 -7805 [email protected] LUNA CHICA Dave Galinksi 301 -962 -9101 mrdave @comcastnet M.C. RECORDS Catherine Carpentieri 631 -754 -8725 me @mc-records. com MUSIC MAKER Tim Duffy 919- 643 -2456 info @musicmakerorg NETTWERK AMERICA Rae Cline 310 -855 -0643 rae @nettwerk.com NEW WEST Jeff Cook 866-960 -7524 jell @ ne wwestrecords. com NONESUCH Peter Clancy 212-707 -2893 [email protected] OH BOY Al Bunetta 615- 742 -1250 al @ohboycom OR MUSIC Jason Fisher 212-675 -8200 Jason @ormusic.corn PROPER MUSIC U.K. Malcolm Mills - malc @properuk.com RAMSEUR Dolph Ramseur 704- 262 -3469 ramseurrecords Gaol. com RCA VICTOR GROUP Dave Einstein 212 -930 -4485 [email protected] REBEL Mark Freeman 434- 973 -5151 [email protected] RED HOUSE Linda Fahey 651 -644 -4161 [email protected] RED INK Howie Gabriel 212 -404 -0757 howard gabriel @redmusic.com REPRISE Alex Coronfly 818-953-3744 [email protected] RIGHTEOUS BABE Sean O'Connell 828- 252 -6300 [email protected] RIVERWIDE Jeff Ford 225- 303-0165 [email protected] ROUNDER Brad Paul 617 -218 -4413 brad @rounder.com SADDLE CREEK Joe Schuld 913-888-6681 [email protected] SANCTUARY Drew Murray 212 -599 -2757 drew [email protected] SCI-FI Reis Baron 303 -544 -1818 reis c scifidelity.corn SIGNATURE SOUNDS Jim Olsen 413-665 -4036 [email protected] SKAGGS FAMILY Michelle Nikolai 615-264-8877 [email protected] SONY John Vernile 212-833 -4765 [email protected] SOVEREIGN ARTISTS Charlie Springer 310-314-4137 [email protected] SUGAR HILL Lindsey Reed 919-489 -4349 [email protected] TELARC Rob Saslow 216 -360 -9663 rsaslow @telarc.com TEXAS MUSIC GROUP Heinz Geissler 512- 322 -0617 [email protected] TONE -COOL Richard Rosenblatt 781 -263 -9201 richardr @tonecool.com UNIVERSAL SOUTH Michael Powers 615 -259 -5380 [email protected] VALLEY ENTERTAINMENT Sue Stillwagon 212 -974 -9400 sue @ valley -entertainment com VANGUARD An Phillips 310-829 -9355 [email protected] VECTOR Andy Moore 615-269 -6600 andy @vectormgmt.com VIRGIN Ray Gmeiner 323-692 -1388 [email protected] V2 Matt Pollack 212 -320 -8522 [email protected] WARNER BROS. Julie Muncy 818-953 -3567 julie.muncy @wbrcom YEP ROC Joe Swank 336- 578 -7300 joe.swank @redeyeusa. com

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use independents for promotion and it is selling records, I have no and tracking, and they are very im- right to complain, I guess." We Try Harder portant in the overall strategy but Reaching radio: "We have to be the direct relationship is key." innovative and creative with pro- The indie advantage: "It's all motions. We may not have the core Independents assess their advantages and limitations about hard work We must artists, but we have the fu- work harder and smarter ture core acts. I have chal- By Chuck Aly than anyone else to be able lenged my radio team to to compete with the big find ways to be creative The music industry's top companies continue to con- Velasquez and my mom cooked din- boys." with promotions that will solidate, creating hopes of greater operating space for ner for them, and we got to know The hurdle: "We are move units at retail but smaller labels and entrepreneurs. Independent Chris- them on a personal level." very aware of our limita- benefit our promotional Crossing oven "We are always tions. We have to work partners at radio." tian record companies understand this landscape well, going to have breakout hits, because hand -in -hand with our Crossing over: "From as they've maneuvered in and around three dominant people have a desire to connect to distributor, EMI CMG/ Rob Poz nanski what I can see, other for- majors for years. the God they know is real. They EMM, and rely on them to mats and marketplaces are aren't going to get it from a lyric that help us do the right thing for our art- starting to see our industry as anoth- R&R surveyed a handful of inde- seems to be gravitating to styles that is wrap -ped in teenage angst or a ists. The most difficult thing is keep- er piece of the pie. They also see us pendent label executives in various are not so easily defined. When you rapper who thinks degrading wom- ing focused on those artists we've as another revenue stream. While stages of implementing their compa- hear 'Word of God Speak' by Merry en is cool. They get it from lyrics like partnered with, especially the de- the majors have started to shrink nies' strategies. This week they offer Me followed by a Pillar song, it's 'Meant to Live' by Switchfoot. The veloping artists in the bigger mu- their promotional budgets, the sta- their views of the marketplace and hard to assign what is CHR, AC or song clinches the deal when it states sic- industry system." fons and marketplaces have seen the independent label's role in it. even Inspo. And independents have 'We were meant to live for so much that our checks cash too." Rob Poznanski always started the trends. Look at more. "' The "We Dien Lenz indie advantage: have Jeremy Camp, Mercy Me, Chris Over the horizon: "We Director /Marketing & GM/A &R, Apostrophe can expect a very lean staff and ownership from Rice, Grits and Out Of Eden. When more growth in the industry be- Promotion, Inpop the employee level. Everyone puts A'postrophe's mark: "How do Reunion was an independent, we cause there is a thirst out there for Industry's biggest challenge: his or her heart and soul into a we make noise in a loud got Rich Mullins and people to reconnect with their be- "Trying to stay ahead of the curve. project. When an employee has an world? We can't make an ( Michael W. Smith." liefs. In a world as crazy as ours we We tend to follow the leader." idea, they execute it." impact without radio and Tuning in: "The core of don't have to take the hard -sell ap- Key issue "Digital downloading. The hurdle: "Sometimes we are " partnerships in the indus- Christian radio has been its While it may be a hang -up at the hindered because we can't divide by We are putting a great "*' . ability to remain focused corporate level, we are embracing and conquer like the majors. We Try WM deal of energy into getting on messages of hope, promotional downloading. This is a have one person in the vital areas, radio's attention and treat- praise and love that draw GM, Flicker great tool." but that one person may also pinch ing every station as if it listeners by the millions, The industry's biggest challenge: Q4 outlook: "Strong and crowd- hit in another area to make sure it is were a reporter. For exam- !a. especially in today's land - "Shrinking independent retail ed with lots of A -level acts. We have covered." ple, when our artists call a Dion Lopez scape. If Christian radio means fewer places to break devel- five releases, and this will be the Michael Turner particular market, nonreporters re- has a weakness, it's that it fails to oping artists. Also, the increased strongest year in Inpop's five -year ceive a call as well. Sales come from take risks. All too often you won't overall cost of dcing busi- history. And '05 is poised GM, Shelter every comer of the country, regard - see a station play a song that its lis- ness and online music to be even better." Banding together: "We don't less of whether the local station is a teners want to hear until it becomes downloading and trading Creatively speaking: have that huge of a budget, so we reporter. We want to support their a hit at every other format. If the are challenges. Statistical- "Our industry is the have to use that to our advantage by efforts." public doesn't like the music we put ly, Christian -music con- strongest it has ever been relying on our relationships, partic- Q4 outlook: "Purely investment out, I can live with that. If they nev- sumers are as prone to use at discovering new talent ularly with our distributor, Word. It time. Since our first records do not er had a chance to hear it, I don't peer -to-peer file sharing and creating music that is amazing the kind of opportunities release until January 2005, we are on think I can live with that." for music as those who can compete in the main- Shelter is given by working with a mission to multiply our marketing Reaching radio: "Certainly, we don't consume Christian stream. With the success other independent labels like Flood- dollars effectively through good old- have to try harder. Both of our acts music." Troy Vest of Stacie Orrico, Switch - gate and A'Postrophe on events and fashioned hard work and fan-base have already been on radio tours. Key issue: "For rock art- foot and Mercy Me, there ads. It is a give- and -take independent development at the grass -mots lev- We also recently flew in 11 report- ists in general, we can no longer should be no excuses, just better world." el." ers to meet the artists and hear some break a developing artist in the music. As an indie, we're just try- Creatively speaking: "It is very Creatively speaking: "The public music. The coolest thing is that Jaci Christian retail marketplace alone. ing to find new talent that can corn - easy for Shelter to adapt to cur- In order to serve our artists well, as pete with the majors. Sometimes rent trends because of our flexi- much effort must be put into reach- we lose out simply because we are bility. We're owned by an artist, ! ing those Christian kids who shop still finding the pieces for our ma- Gary Chapman, and many artists I WATERMARK at Best Buy and other mass mer- chine while other labels choose to go to indepen- "The Glory Of Your Name" chants as is put into reaching those have the machine built dent labels because they who shop at Chrstian retail." and well oiled." have more input. We lis- #1 INSP >>>Top 15 AC Q4 outlook: "By year's end Tuning in: "Testing is a ten to the artists and rely Thank you, Radio! Christian-music sales will be basi- strength, don't get me on what our relation- cally flat compared to 2003. Flicker wrong. It has given us bet- ships are telling us." will be up year -over -year by 400 %. ter Christian radio. But The indie advantage: GEORGE ROWE It's been a good year." testing has also paralyzed "We have the freedom to The new INSP-only single, Creatively speaking: "Indies playlists to the point turn on a dime. When "My Prayer (Use Me)" move faster and have more freedom where songs are moving Michael Turner quick decisions need to be to line up with overall trends in the out slower than ever. We made, we do it. We also 2nd MOST ADDED this week! r marketplace. As an example, we are only allowed to release two sin- like to keep a fun atmosphere. We WCSG, KCBI, KCFB, WJLZ! have seen harder music continue to gles from a CD, and then we have depend a lot on our artists and grow in overall share. Therefore, our to start thinking about the next management. When someone signs current roster is leaning toward the project. Stations have forgotten there with Shelter, they're agreeing to TAYLOR SORENSEN left of hard." are gold and power gold categories help in the whole process. We rely The new ClrR/Rock single, Reaching radio: "It's been ex- to put great-testing songs into. on each other as a team, and it "What Love Is" tremely important for us to have "Radio will play a song for 52 works." move it to In The hurdle: "In the past inde- Already showing `love': someone on staff working full -time weeks and then gold. with radio. AJ Strout is one of the theory, wouldn't a listener listen pendents were looked at as WJYF, WQFL, KADI, KOKF! best in the business, and we are ex- longer to hear their favorite song if stepchildren, but in today's [email protected] (or) tremely blessed to have someone it was spaced out more? I may be environment, with corporations rocketown 4 records andrew®rocketownrecords.com who works as hard as she does and missing something in the equation having to make severe cutbacks, 615.503.9994 knows radio like she does. We still here. But then, if it's a strong song independents can shine."

www.americanradiohistory.com 71 POWERED ( CHRIST/AN AC TOP 30 1NEDIABASE ao October 15, 2004 LAST THIS WEEKS ON TOTAL WEEK WEEK ARTIST TITLE LABEL(S) PLAYS CHART STATIONS Most Added 930 -69 22 3710 1 1 JEREMY CAMP Walk By Faith (BEC) www-rrindica tor. corn 3810 3 2 MERCYME Here With Me (/NO /Curb) 826 -21 29 ARTIST TITLE LABEL/.$ ADDS +39 10 3411 4 CHRIS TOM H N Indescribable (Sixsteps/Sparrow/EMICMG) 824 SALVADOR Heaven (Word/Curb/WarnerBros.) 6

2 4 BETHANY DILLON All I Need (Sparrow/EM/CMG) 815 -45 12 3310 CASTING CROWNS Voice Of Truth (Beach Street/Reunion/PIG) 5 6 0 MICHAEL W. SMITH Healing Rain (Reunion/PIG) 765 +34 B 3311 MONK & NEAGLE Dancing With The Angels (Flicker) 5 MARK SCHULTZ He Will Carry Me (Word/Curb /Warner Bros.) 4 5 6 TREE63 Blessed Be Your Name (Inpop) 759 -4 36 3710 BY THE TREE Beautiful One (Fervent) 3 9 BY THE TREE Beautiful One (Fervent) 734 +16 10 2913 NEWSBOYS Presence (My Heart's Desire) (Sparrow/EMICMG) 3

7 8 THIRD DAY I Believe (Essential/PIG) 642 60 23 3610 PHILLIPS, CRAIG & DEAN You Are God Alone LINO/ 3

8 9 STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN All Things New (Sparrow/EMICMG) 617 84 18 3210 FFH Still The Crass (Essential/PLG) 3

11 10 CASTING CROWNS Who Am I (Beach Street/Reunion/PIG) 615 8 32 3510 THIRD...ISTEVEN C. CHAPMANIMERCY... I See... (Lost Keyword/ 3

10 11 SHAWN MCDONALD Gravity (Sparrow/EM /CMG% 600 50 15 2910

13 NEWSBOYS Presence ¡My Heart's Desire) (Sparrow/EMICMG) 575 +78 6 2813

23 CASTING CROWNS Voice Of Truth (BeachStreet /Reunion/PLG) 513 +119 2 3015 19 BUILDING 429 The Space In Between Us (Word/Curb/Warner Bros.) 500 +86 5 2312 Most 12 15 WATERMARK The Glory Of Your Name (Rocketown) 479 .40 10 2610 Increased Plays 17 FFH Still The Cross (EssentiaUPIG) 468 +39 6 2113 TOTAL PLAY

16 17 TELECAST The Beauty Of Simplicity (BEC/ 467 5 11 2010 ARTIST TITLE L EELS. INCREASE

21 BEBO NORMAN Disappear (Essential/P16) 443 +8 7 2112 CASTING CROWNS Voice Of Truth (Beach Street/Reunion /PIG/ +119

18 RACHAEL LAMPA When I Fall (Word/Curb /WarnerBros.) 425 +19 12 1910 SALVADOR Heaven (Word/Curb /WarnerBros.) +95

22 PHILLIPS, CRAIG & DEAN You Are God Alone (INO) 418 -23 3 2413 BUILDING 429 The Space In Between Us (WordlCurb4Name /Bros.) +86 NEWSBOYS Presence (My Heart's Desire) (Sparrow/EMICMG) +78 26 POINT OF GRACE I Choose You (Word/Curb /Warner Bros.! 396 +34 3 22(2 NICHOLAS JONAS Dear God (Columbia) +60 25 22 TREVOR MORGAN Fall Down (BHT) 381 5 10 1610 NATALIE GRANT Live For Today (Curb) +50 24 23 BARLOWGIRL Never Alone (fervent) 367 26 13 1610 THIRD...ISTEVEN C. CHAPMANIMERCY... I See... (lost Keyword) +48 20 24 MATTHEW WEST The End (Sparrow /EMICMG) 340 -61 19 2211 CHRIS TOMLIN Indescribable (Sixsteps /Sparrow/EMICMG) +39

27 ® JEFF DEYO As I Lift You Up (Gotee) 328 +3 13 1310 FFH S:Ill The Cross (Essential /PLG) +39 You 29 TREE63 King (Inpop) 317 +24 2 1512 STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN Much Of (Sparrow/EM /CMG) +37

28 27 ANTHONY EVANS Here's My Life (INO) 295 -5 15 1810

30 SWIFT Alive In Love (Flicker) 289 +9 7 1511 - e BIG DADDY WEAVE Heart Cries Holy (Fervent) 257 +20 17 1311 IDebut> Most e THIRD DAYISTEVEN CURTIS CHAPMANIMERCYME I See Love (Lost Keyword) 251 +48 1 1113 Played Recurrents 39 AC reporters. Monitored airplay data supplied by Mediabase Research, a division of Premiere Radio Networks. Songs ranked by total plays for the airplay week of TOTAL 10/3 -10/9. Bullets appear on songs gaining plays or remaining flat from previous week. If two songs are tied in total plays, the song with the larger increase in plays is PLAYS placed first. Songs below No. 15 are moved to recurrent after 20 weeks on the chart. Most Added is the total number of new adds officially reported to R &R by each ARTIST -_ ... reporting station. Songs unreported as adds do not count toward overall total stations playing a song. Total Audience equals Average Quarter Hour Persons times MATTHEW WEST More (Universal South /EMICMG) 476 number of plays (times 100). Each daypart on each station is assigned an AOH number. Average Quarter Hour Persons used herein with permission from Arbitron Inc. (© 2004. Arbitron Inc.). © 2004. R &R. Inc. BUILDING 429 Glary Defined (Word/Curb /WarnerBros.) 450 SELAH You Raise Me Up (Curb) 429 New &Active DAVID CROWDER BAND Open Skies (Sixsteps/Sparrow/EMICMG) 402 KUTLESS Sea Of Faces (BEC) 388 THIRD DAY You Are Mine (EssentiaUPIG) GINNY OWENS New Song (Rocketown) NEWSBOYS You Are My King !Amazing Love) (Sparrow/EM/CMG) 354

Total Plays: 241, Total Stations: 15, Adds: 1 Total Plays: 134, Total Stations: 7, Adds: 0 MERCYME Word Of God Speak (l NO) 350 NATALIE GRANT Live For Today (Curb) NICOLE C. MULLEN Everyday People (Word /Curb/Warner Bros.) MERCYME I Can Only Imagine (/NO /Curb) 348

Total Plays: 222, Total 13, 1 Stations: Adds: 2 Total Plays: 126, Total Stations: 6, Adds: NEWSBOYS He Reigns (Sparrow/EMICMG) 339 SHANE & SHANE He Is Exalted (tnpap) When God Ran ACROSS THE SKY (Creative Trust) MICHAEL W. SMITH You Are Holy (Prince Of Peace) (Reunion) 311

Total Plays: 199, Total Stations: 13, Adds: 1 Total Plays: 109, Total Stations: 5, Adds: 0 NICOL SPONBERG Safe (Curb) TODD AGNEW Still Here Waiting (Ardent) Station playlists for all R &R reporters Total Plays: 138, Total Stations: 8, Adds: 0 Total Plays: 93, Total Stations: 5, Adds: 1 are available on the web at SALVADOR Heaven (Word/Curb /Warner Bros.) OVERFLOW Come Home (EssentiaUPIG) Total Plays: 137, Total Stations: 11, Adds: 6 Total Plays: 89, Total Stations: 5, Adds: 0 www.radioandrecords.com.

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LAST TOTAL -I- WEEKS ON TOTAL LAST TOTAL I- WEEKS ON TOTAL WEEK ARTIST TIT -E LABELS; PLAYS PLAYS CHART STATIONS WEEK WEEK ARTIST TITLE LABELS) PLAYS PLAYS CHART STATIONS

2 TOBYMAC Gone (forefront/EMICMG) 1019 +61 8 2911 2 o TOBYMAC Gone (Forefront /EM /CMG) 403 +42 7 3211

1 2 SANCTUS REAL Everything... (Sparrow/EMICMG) 967 -34 19 2410 1 o THOUSAND FOOT... Faith, Love... (Tooth &Nai((EMC) 371 +7 13 3213 3 0 BY THE TREE Beautiful One (Fervent) 941 +36 14 2611 3 © MOURNING SEPTEMBER Glorietta (Floodgate) 369 +9 13 2211 4 BETHANY DILLON All I Need (Sparrow/EMICMG) 929 +26 11 2410 5 0 KIDS IN THE WAY Phoenix /Ricker) 306 +25 10 2410 5 0 SHAWN MCDONALD Gravity (Sparrow/EMICMG) 924 +21 13 2310 4 5 KUTLESS Not What You See (BEC) 296 -3 16 2410 7 0 PAUL WRIGHT You're Beautiful (Gotee) 738 +9 15 2211 9 0 SKILLET Open Wounds /Ardent/Laval 258 +25 8 2711 8 0 RACHAEL LAMPA When I Fall (Word/Curb/WarnerBros.) 704 +31 10 2110 6 7 TAIT Reconnecting (forefront /EMICMG) 258 -5 14 2610 6 8 BARLOWGIRL Never Alone (Fervent) 680 164 27 1810 10 12 STONES Far Away (Wind-up) 246 +16 11 2710

9 9 JEREMY CAMP Stay (BEC) 640 -31 20 1910 1 NATE SALLIE Without You (Curb) 238 0 9 2111

13 BIG DISMAL Rainy Day (Lost Keyword) 615 +46 5 2411 8 10 DAY OF FIRE Cornerstone (Essential/PLGI 230 -5 7 2911

12 11 AUDIO ADRENALINE Miracle (Forefront/EM /CMG) 594 -18 11 1910 12 FM STATIC Definitely Maybe (Tooth & Nail) 227 +7 7 1811 10 12 OUT OF EDEN Soldiers (Gotee) 553 -72 13 1610 13 o NUMBER ONE GUN You Fail... (Salvagelfloodgate) 226 +12 13 1611 15 TREE63 King /Inpop) 540 +30 6 2212 15 o POOR MAN'S RICHES Energy (Word 01 Mouth) 214 +8 7 1910 17 0 DAY OF FIRE Cornerstone (Essential/PIG) 538 +53 5 2010 17 FURTHER SEEMS FOREVER Hide Nothing (Tooth & Nad) 204 +32 5 1911 11 15 MERCYME Here With Me LINO /Curb) 535 -87 29 1310 16 15 TODD SMITH Alive (Curb) 189 16 11 2210

18 BUILDING 429 The Space... (Ward/Curb/WarnerBros.) 520 +54 5 1912 11 16 JEREMY CAMP Stay (BEC) 185 38 20 1710 27 MAT KEARNEY Undeniable (Inpop) 419 +56 2 2211 19 m MUTE MATH Control (TekprompdWord/CurhffamerBros.) 181 +25 3 2111 22 NEWSBOYS Presence... (Sparrow/EM /CMG/ 414 +34 4 1611 20 o SANCTUS REAL Alone (Sparrow /EM/CMG) 175 +20 3 2014 21 19 TODD AGNEW Reached Down (Ardent) 390 -2 5 1610 23 o PROJECT 86 Safe Haven (Tooth & Nail) 157 +21 11 1911 19 20 SWITCHFOOT Meant To Live (Redlnk/Columbia) 386 -32 14 710 14 20 LAST TUESDAY Beat Dependent (DUG) 145 .67 14 1811

26 HAWK NELSON Every Little Thing (Tooth &Nail) 385 +18 12 1411 21 21 GRETCHEN Fading (Independent) 139 5 4 1810 23 22 IAN ESKELIN Shout (Inpop) 377 .3 5 1610 22 ® EVER STAYS RED I'll Tell The World (Wrinkle Free) 138 0 4 1710 16 23 D.CROWDER... Open Skies (Sixsteps/Sparrow/EMICMG) 366 -127 19 1110 25 FALLOUT Somewhere In Between (Be3) 133 +2 4 1211

20 24 JADON LAVIK Following You (BEC) 357 -38 18 910 24 UNDEROATH Reinventing Your Exit (Independent) 133 +1 8 811 25 25 JEREMY CAMP Walk By Faith (BEC) 335 -38 9 810 ¡Debut> ® ROPER Amplify (5 Minute Walk) 132 +53 1 1314 30 EVERLIFE Evidence (Tovah /SHELTER) 319 +28 3 1211 26 a) IAN ESKELIN Shout (Inpop) 130 +3 2 1411 ¡Debut > m MUTE MATH Control (TekprarpUWatfCurb'WarrerBrosJ 282 +45 1 1312 27 ® TREE63 King (Inpop) 116 0 2 1311 24 28 MATTHEW WEST The End (Sparrow/EMICMG) 277 -101 17 910 29 STAPLE Pop (Flicker) 113 +6 2 1311

29 29 STEVEN C. CHAPMAN All Things... (SparrowlEMICMG) 272 -36 16 910 IDebut> 29 AUDIO ADRENALINE Miracle (forefront/EMICMG) 93 -3 1 1010

IDebut> ®I PILLAR Rewind (Flicker/EMI CMG) 265 +25 1 1310 IDebut> 30 HAWK NELSON Take Me (Tooth & Nail) 93 -3 1 210

31 CHR reporters. Songs ranked by total plays for the airplay week of Sunday 10,13 - Saturday 1019. 37 Rock reporters. Songs ranked by total plays for the airplay week of Sunday 10/3 - Saturday 10/9. © 2004 Radio & Records. © 2004 Radio & Records. New &Active New &Active

Revolution (Sparrow CMG) BEBO NORMAN Disappear (Essential/PIG) SKILLET A Little More (Ardent/Lava) DROWNING JONAH Compromise (Independent) STARFIELO /EM/ 8, Adds: 0 Total Plays: 259, Total Stations: 10, Adds: 0 Total Plays: 204, Total Stations: 9, Adds: 2 Total Plays: 88, Total Stations: 4, Adds: 0 Total Plays: 67, Total Stations:

KIERRA SHEARD You Don't Know (EMI Gospel) BOA Maybe You (Creative Trust) TODD AGNEW Reached Down (Ardent) RELIENT K Be My Escape (Gotee) 87, Total Stations: 4, Adds: 0 Total Plays: 60, Total Stations: 10, Adds: 9 Total Plays: 243, Total Stations: 8, Adds: 1 Total Plays: 191, Total Stations: 8, Adds: 3 Total flays: THE Be There (Independent) FM STATIC Definitely Maybe (Tooth & Nail) THIRD DAY You Are Mine (EssentialPLG) ONE DAY LESS Blinded (Independent) AFTER ORDER

1 Total Plays: 59, Total Stations: 5, Adds: 0 Total Plays: 241, Total Stations: 9, Adds: 2 Total Plays: 178, Total Stations: 10, Adds: 1 Total Plays: 82, Total Stations: 6, Adds:

DAY The Day I Die (EssentiaiPLG) OVERFLOW Better Place /Essen/1.0PLG) BIG DADDY WEAVE Set Me Free (Fervent) OVERFLOW Better Place (Essential/PLGI THIRD fil

1 Total 10, Adds: 2 Total Plays: 226, Total Stations: 10, Adds: 0 Total Plays: 174, Total Stations: 5, Adds: 0 Total Plays: 72, Total Stations: 7, Adds: Total Plays: 56, Stations: GRAND PRIZE King Of Kings (A'postrophel CHARITY VON Weight Of The World (Slanted) STACIE ORRICO I Could Be The One (Forefront) NATE SALLIE Save Me (Curb)

1 Total Plays: 56, Total Stations: 8, Adds: 0 Total Plays: 226, Total Stations: 7, Adds: 0 Total Plays: 166, Total Stations: 6, Adds: 0 Total Plays: 68, Total Stations: 7, Adds: J

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LAST THIS TOTAL 1- WEEKS ON TOTAL ARTIST - -_E - PLAYS PLAYS STATIONS 1 WATERMARK The Glory Of Your Name (Rocketownl 397 +11 12 2210 WEEK WEEK -.. CHART 2 O CHRIS TOMLIN Indescribable (Sixsteps/Sparrow/EM /CMG) 858 +76 9 3114 4 © BEBO NORMAN Disappear (Essential/PLGI 361 +37 8 2010

1 2 BETHANY DILLON All I Need (Sparrow /EMICMG) 852 -2 12 3110 3 MICHAEL W. SMITH Healing Rain (Reunion/PLG) 361 +15 7 2210 © 3 0 MICHAEL W. SMITH Healing Rain (Reunion /PLGI 802 +32 8 3011 5 Q FFH Still The Crass (Essential/PIG/ 353 +34 8 2110 5 0 BY THE TREE Beautiful One (fervent) 740 -, 1 13 2810 11 PHILLIPS, CRAIG & DEAN You Are God Alone (/N0) 646 +77 6 2512 2 5 STEVEN C. CHAPMAN All Things... (Sparrow/EMI CMG) 326 -41 17 1710 0 8 0 FFH Still The Cross (Essential/PLR 640 +5 9 2510 9 PHILLIPS, CRAIG & DEAN You Are God Alone (/N0) 279 +58 5 1711 Q 6 7 JEREMY CAMP Walk By Faith (BEC) 631 -65 21 2310

6 7 CHRIS RICE Go Light Your World (Rocketownl 266 -2 14 1410 7 8 SHAWN MCDONALD Gravity (Sparrow /EMI CMG) 623 -18 12 2310 10 0 NEWSBOYS Presence... (Sparrow/EMI CMG) 614 +39 6 2611 10 0 FERNANDO ORTEGA Take Heart, My Friend (Curb) 245 +27 7 1911 14 CASTING CROWNS Voice... (BeachStreeUReunion /PLG) 579 +81 3 2813 7 9 JEREMY CAMP Walk By Faith (BEC) 241 -21 18 1410 4 11 STEVEN C. CHAPMAN All Things... (Sparrow/EMICMG) 563 -186 18 1810

8 DESPERATION Beauty Of The Lord (Integrity /Vertical) 235 +5 12 1210 9 12 BEBO NORMAN Disappear (Essential /PLG) 560 -22 13 2210

15 ® BUILDING 429 The Space... (Word/Curb /WarnerBros.) 499 +60 5 2211 13 DELIRIOUS? Majesty (Here I Am) (Sparrow/EM/ CMG) 202 +19 8 1310

13 14 RACHAEL LAMPA When I Fall (Word/Curb /Warner Bros.) 499 -1 12 1810 18 CASTING CROWNS Voice... (BeachStreet/Reunion /PLGI 183 +54 2 1615 12 15 MERCYME Here With Me (1410/Curb) 480 -60 23 1111

14 NEWSBOYS Presence...) /EMICMG) 172 +11 3 1412 ® (Sparrow 18 0 POINT OF GRACE I Choose You (Word/Curb/Wame /Bros.) 428 +22 3 2311 17 17 TELECAST The Beauty Of Simplicity (BEC) 412 -23 8 1710 15 0 ALLEN ASBURY This Is My Father's World (Doxology) 166 +18 4 1010 16 18 BARLOWGIRL Never Alone (fervent) 393 .44 16 1610 12 15 ANTHONY EVANS Here's My Life (/N0/ 166 -21 11 1210 20 19 TREVOR MORGAN Fall Down (BHT) 379 -5 11 1710 11 16 AVALON You Were There (Sparrow/EMI CMG) 164 -39 20 910 19 20 WATERMARK The Glory Of Your Name (Rocketownl 379 6 10 1911

26 THIRD DAY You Are Mine (Essential/PLR 363 +114 2 2013 16 17 TREE63 Blessed Be Your Name (Inpop) 142 4 7 710 ®

22 22 JEFF DEYO As I Lift You Up (Gotee/ 325 -15 10 1210 19 0 CHRISTOMLIN indescribable (Sixsteps/Sparrow /EMICMG) 132 +14 2 711 21 23 ANTHONY EVANS Here's My Life (/1110) 279 -81 15 1310

¡Debut> THIRD DAY You Are Mine (Essential/PLO 129 +29 1 1013 0 23 24 CHRIS RICE Go Light Your World (Rocketown) 253 -59 15 1410 /nebut> 25 BIG DADDY WEAVE Set Me Free (fervent) JOYCE MARTIN This Is My Prayer (Spring Hill) 126 +10 1 1110 24 244 -21 9 1210 iDebut> TREE63 King (lnpop) 234 +50 1 1413

Inebut> CAEDMON'S CALL There's Only One... (Essentia(/PLG) 233 +28 1 1211 22 Inspo reporters. Songs ranked by total plays for the airplay week of Sunday 10/3 - Saturday 10/9. 25 28 NICOL SPONBERG Safe (Curb) -25 © 2004 Radio & Records 233 3 1110 27 29 SHANE & SHANE He Is Exalted (Inpop) 232 -12 3 1310 Rhythmic Specialty Programming 28 30 BIG DISMAL Rainy Day (Lost Keyword) 222 -6 2 1211 34 AC reporters. Songs ranked by total plays for the airplay week of Sunday 10/3 - Saturday 10/9. © 2004 Radio & Records. RANK ARTIST TITLE LABELS;

1 GRITS Hittin' Curves (Gotee) New &Active 2 JOHN REUBEN Life Is Short (Gotee)

3 OUT OF EDEN Soldiers (Gotee) TODD SMITH Turn To You (Curb/ OVERFLOW Come Home (Essential/PLG) Total Plays: 217, Total Stations: 10, Adds: 0 Total Plays: 195, Total Stations: 9, Adds: 0 4 SOUL PURPOSE Bounce With Me (BEC) TODD AGNEW Still Here Waiting (Ardent) NICOLE C. MULLEN Everyday People (Word/Curb /WarnerBros.) 5 MARS ILL Planes And Trains (Gotee) Total Plays: 209, Total Stations: 11, Adds: 1 Total Plays: 184, Total Stations: 9, Adds: 1

6 LOJIGUE Adrenaline Rush (///ect) NEWSONG When God Made You (Reunion/PL G) ACROSS THE SKY When God Ran (Creative Trust'

Total Plays: 205, Total Stations: 11, Adds: 3 Total Plays: 184, Total Stations: O 7 STU DENT f /RELIC Portable Eclipse (///ectl 9, Adds: MONK & NEAGLE Dancing With The Angels (flicker) BUILDING 429 Glory Defined (Word/Curb /WarnerBros.) 8 M.O.C. Blase (Move) Total Plays: 204, Total Stations: 11, Adds: 4 Total Plays: 178, Total Stations: 8, Adds: 1 9 PEACE OF MIND We Gon A Make It (BEC) AMY GRANT The Water (Word/Curb /Warner Bros.) IAN ESKELIN Magnify (lnpop) 10 DISCIPLES OF CHRIST (D.O.C) Antidote (Disciples 01 Christ/Throne Room) Total Plays: 196, Total Stations: 9, Adds: O Total Plays: 149, Total Stations: 7, Adds: 0 J \

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The Rebirth Of Independents How indie labels got back in the game UNTOUCHABLE Intocable continue to top the charts with their music, and they are working on a new album for release early next year Here they are with KEJS/Lubbock, 1X DJ La Chillada. Like the general market, the Latin recording indus- Coast. Every niche has its own try is facing challenging times. Companies are merg- thing. That doesn't mean we will ing, there have been layoffs, and many well -known concentrate only on tropical and ur- in the same way they spend their bum, and the single "Fabricando ban, but that is our foundation." Fantasías" has gone to No. 1. "Sales com- money on the heavyweight market- artists are without record contracts. Other record Mexa is focusing on Mexican ing of their established artists. are over 50,000, and the second sin- panies are specializing in particular genres, like pop, music. "I wanted to represent Mex- "We operate very gle just went to radio," and not signing or developing tropical and regional ican music in a more dignified way," small. Our overhead is Zamora says. "We expect Mexican acts. This is why independent labels are so Trujillo wrote in an article for R &R small, and we are going to great things from Tito. important. ( "Understanding Regional Mexican maintain it that way, be- "We have a lot of peo- Music," 9/10). "Mexa Entertain- cause we would rather ple in the studio, like a As we have seen when the majors of sales," says MP President Tony ment is a company that is 100% ded- spend money on making Colombian group out of faced challenges in the past, inde- Moreno. "The majors control the icated to Mexican music. We want- the right records and do- Miami called Ciclón pendent labels are chain stores completely. ed to help companies promote their ing the right marketing Bananero. They are a vall- springing up whose job it They won't let any inde- than worrying about how enato pop group. We is to develop new artists pendents get in, and the much we pay in rent." have a pop reggaetón vo- who are later signed by stores would rather deal Trujillo agrees, saying, Miguel Trujillo cal group from New York the majors. The cycle with one person instead "Being independent allows you to called Antidote, and they will be goes on, and this is the of dealing with Indies. "Being independent work from another standpoint, a going to the studio soon. place where the industry "That has closed the place where ideas aren't shot down "And we have some finished finds itself again. door for independents. allows you to work because they don't fit the current product, like Charlie Cruz's new al- Ex- major-label execu- Four or five years ago the corporate mold." bum and a reggaetón compilation tives and others are taking chain stores used to buy from another Zamora points out that artists feel called Flow Callejero with people like George Zamora advantage of the oppor- from the independents. more appreciated at a small label. Don Omar, Bimbo, Daddy Yankee, tunities arising from the industry's Now they don't." To stay alive, an standpoint, a place "They feel like they are part owner Tego Calderón and many others." current state and building of the company, indepen- indie has to be distributed by a ma- where ideas and the employees dent labels. Among them are SGZ jor, says Moreno. aren't we have feel a morale boost when Entertainment President George down someone like Tito Nieves breaks as Zamora, who previously headed New On The Block shot because big as he has," he says. "We have the "We feel that Sony Discos and, later, Warner Mu- But while it may not be easy to they don't fit the whole little structure behind an art- sic Latina, partner and his in SGZ, succeed, the men behind some of the ist. You have to make new music the future is in Sergio George, who is considered up- and -coming indie labels think current corporate and the right kind of music." one of Latin music's top producers. the outlook is much brighter. Each Many established artists have the hands of Mexa Entertainment is headed by of these new independents is con- mold." been left without contracts, but the former EMI Latin VP Miguel Trujillo, centrating on a particular music indies believe these artists still have independents to and leading Ole Entertainment is genre, although all say that they are Miguel Trujillo sales potential. "There are a tremen- former Sony Discos Chairman Os- not closed to the idea of expanding. dous number of artists who are be- make new music car Llord. SGZ, for example, focuses on ing let go from every major label Of the established indie labels, tropical and urban music. 'The la- who still have great careers," Zamo- and new J &N Records, Balboa and MP are bel has a stronghold in East Coast ra says. "The problem is that when some that have been able to estab- repertoire, tropical and urban," music in a professional way that the majors start consolidating, it's a artists." lish artists and stay independent. Zamora says. "Sergio George, who would be reflected in sales, as well matter of a cost -cutting procedure, George Zamora J &N is distributed by Sony. MP used is a great producer, and I feel we as help individual artists promote and they forget what we're all about, to be but now handles its own need to focus our strength where we their music and be hired to play which is making music. distribution. feel our strength is. events or dances." Mexa Music and "When you start worrying about One thing is for certain: It's not "The urban market is definitely SGZ are both distributed by Sony the total financial picture it definite- easy to stay alive when competing huge - look at what is happening Music Norte. ly deteriorates a bit of the creativity Ole continues to sign and devel- in the major leagues. 'The business with reggaetón. They are the big- Ole Music, which falls under Ole that the music companies have to go op artists, and Mexa is managing has turned around so much in terms gest- selling artists on the entire East Entertainment, has released such through in order to be successful." and marketing several artists with artists as Charlie Zaa and Elvis Cres- Trujillo points out that artists are great success, among them Warn- po with great success. Ole, like looking for someone who not only er Music Latina's Pesado, who are Mexa, performs several other func- makes them feel respected as hu- No. 1 on the Regional Mexican "The problem is that when the majors start tions, including artist management man beings and artists, but who also chart with " Ojalá Que Te Mueras." and marketing. knows how to market and promote How long will these companies consolidating, it's a matter of a cost- cutting remain independent? Only will Why It Works their music. time tell, but history points to buyouts by The procedure, and they forget what we're all "We feel that the future is in the Future the majors that will later open the hands of independents to make new All these executives have exten- way for new indies. That seems to about, which is making music." music and new artists," says Zamo- sive experience in the music busi- be how the game is played. For now, ra. "The way is George Zamora the market and the ness, and they believe their hard though, we can expect to see the flow of the major labels make it dif- work will pay off. And so far it has. most exciting projects come from the ficult for them to create new artists SGZ released Tito Nieves' new al- indies.

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j I "What we did on this record was take advantage of the 15 J J J s //,,// minutes of fame we got from Caraluna and `Mi Primer /til, Millón' to release the record we wanted to make, not the This Week In Spanish - 'anguage Music one that was to our advantage to make." On The Spot We're very proud of that and conscious that JV: Unfortunately, our record label has it has consequences. Whoever is looking for gone through hard times. They went "La Vida Loca" will not find it on our through the biggest flop ever in capitalism, record. There are people who want to hear which was the Time Warner-AOL merger. Bacilos music with some kind of commitment, and That has translated to smaller budgets for that's what they will find here. developing artists. We have been working R &R: Did you face the making and release of with limited budgets, but within the label this new album without fear, thinking only of there are people who have dedicated all ith the album Caraluna, Bacilos' success was almost the fulfill- the art you were creating, since Caraluna was their attention to us, and we can't say they ment of what the megahit from that record, "Mi Primer Millón," so incredibly successful? haven't supported us. talked about: wanting to be on the radio, being famous and making JV: Not all art is successful. There are R &R: With the new record and single out, their first million dollars. And they got more than that: Not only was great artists who are not successful, or it looking back at creating it - and even looking the single on the radio takes them a long time to become success- back at your other records - do you still enjoy in constant rotation, the album also won them ful. In the long run, if you work hard on pro- the process? Do you look at fame the same way Latin Grammys for Best Latin Pop Album, Best Pop Album by a Duo moting your record and are willing to get now that you have it? or Group and Best Tropical Song for "Mi Primer Millón." JV: It varies. There are times when you get disappointed. There are times when you Now, with their latest album, Sinvergüen- was written for the record, and it has that think too much about competition, about za, and the single "Pasos De Gigante," the inevitable maturity that comes with time. wanting to be successful and being better band is on an extensive international pro- Sinvergüenza is a record that was created than the others. But at this point in time we motional tour and will later be doing live with a lot of heart. There are real feelings are in a good place spiritually. We appreci- performances in the U.S. In an interview and magic in it. It wasn't made to sell a cer- ate our work and are happy with it. I feel with R &R, Bacilos' lead singer and song- tain number of copies in a certain amount comfortable with who I am and with my writer, Jorge Villamizar, speaks about the of time. It was made to last, like a classic music. new album, creating art, what he calls the record, one you will keep for a long time. I know we can't do everything, that there band's "15 minutes of fame" and more. It's a record that will stand the test of time, is much better music than ours, and that a record that has a lot of Latin roots. We're there are people who are a lot more talent- R &R: Tell me about your new record, Sin- not imitating anyone - this is what being ed or who sell more records. But we just tell vergüenza, an album that has lots offusion and Latin is about. ourselves that we are fine, the sun is out, plays with different Latin sounds. R&R: Speaking of maturity, there is notice- and let's enjoy life and who we are. Let's JV: Our biggest challenge was to be able able musical growth on this record. Give me your enjoy playing our music. to work with the producers we wanted to thoughts from the point of view of the creator of Bacilos Even things like doing promotion, which work with, Tom Capone and Juan Vicente the music, coming from an extremely successful I used to get tired of, I now realize it's fun. Zambrano. Being able to work with them previous album. up early and werk hard, there's more of a It's fun to meet new people and visit differ - isn't as easy as it seems, because each has JV: It's a double commitment. You have possibility that your ideas will be heard. We ent countries. his own schedule. Once we had them, we to give your fans what they want, and your are now at a time when we have some fame, R &R: You may think there are better artists let them take over and do what they want- musical team, who live off what they do so we can take advantage of that to see if than Bacilos, but you have your own success, ed with our music. They had very different with you. On the other hand, there is a cotn- people consider art to be what we consider and there are lots of people who think your mu- ideas coming from two completely opposite mitment to the art, and art is selfish. It has art and if they will open the doors to their sic is the best. cities, Miami and Rio de Janeiro. its own cause to fight for, so you have to Discman or radio - and their hearts - to JV: [Laughs] Sure. Artists live 90% from somehow balance it all. our music. their fans. An artist without fans has a dif- What we did on this record was take ad- R &R: The industry is facing difficult times, ficult mission ahead. There are artists like vantage of the 15 minutes of fame we got and many developing artists aren't getting much that, and it's a difficult life. Thank God we "Sinvergüenza is a from Caraluna and "Mi Primer Millón" to support. You proved yourselves with Caraluna, have a lot of people who support us. The release the record we wanted to make, not but are you getting the support you need from important thing is to be OK with what you record that was created the one that was to our advantage to make. the label to continue to develop your music? do and not try to be something you are not with a lot of heart. There are real feelings and magic in it. It

wasn't made to sell a certain number of copies in a certain amount of time."

R &R: What about the writing process? AMONG FRIENDSAlternative music styles are making a push to take JV: These songs come from another part center stage in the world of Latin music. Here Ozomatli share a moment with of my life. The songs from the previous JENNI'S PARTY Singer Jenni Rivera has released her new album, fellow artists Mexiclan. Seen here are (I -r) Asdrubal Sierra of Ozomafli, Sem records came from the band's original rep- Simplemente La Mejor, her first with Univision Pecords. She s seen here after Vargas of Mexiclan, Ozomatli's Wil-Dog Abers and Mexiclan's Marco Antonio ertoire, from the small concerts we did for a mini concertfor the release. Muñoz. years. Much of the material on this record

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"-K ARTIS. Most Added +69 3 2510 1 EK JUANES Nada Valgo Sin Tu Amor (Universal/ 1020 www.rradds. com 3 ALEKS SYNTEK fIANA TORROJA Duele El Amor (EMlLatin) 781 +24 3 2110 o ADOS 4 © ALEJANDRO FERNANDEZ Me Dediqué A Perderte (Sony Discos) 739 +31 3 2110 LUIS MIGUEL Que Seas Feliz (Warner Mil 2 2 4 PEPE AGUILAR Miedo (Sony Discos) 643 -67 3 2210

5 5 KALIMBA No Me Quiero Enamorar (Sony Discos) 615 -4 3 1810

6 6 CARLOS VIVES Como Tú (EMlLatin) 533 .26 3 1710

7 7 FRANCO DE VITA fISIN BANDERA Si La Ves (Sony Discos) 528 17 3 1710

10 8 ANDY & LUCAS Son De Amares (BMGLatin) 452 -6 3 1610

9 9 PAULINA RUBIO Algo Tienes (Universal) 402 67 3 2010

15 REYLI BARBA Desde Que Llegaste (Sony Discos) 391 +12 3 1510

8 11 YAHIR La Locura (WarnerM.L) 389 47 3 1710 Most

13 12 HA'ASH Estés En Donde Estés (Sony Discos) 387 -12 3 1410 Increased Plays 18 ® JULIETA VENEGAS Lento (BMGLatin) 381 +8 3 1410 TOTAL ?LAY 17 BETZAIDA Te Tengo Que Aprender A Olvidar (Fono visa) 375 +22 3 1310 INCREASE LUIS MIGUEL Que Seas Feliz (Warner Mi.) +212 21 ® DIEGO TORRES Déjame Estar (BMGLatin) 375 +20 3 1210 LAURA PAUSINI Escucha Atento (Warner M.L.) +87 23 16 MARIANA Que No Me Faltes Tú ( Univision) 315 -31 3 1210 JUANES Nada Valgo Sin Tu Amor (Universal) +69 25 17 MARC ANTHONY Ahora Quién (Sonyaiscon) 246 -30 3 1210 PAULINA RUBIO Otro Tequila (Universal) +62

30 18 JENNIFER PENA Hasta El Fin Del Mundo ( Univision) 234 23 2 810 OBIE BERMUDEZ Todo El Año ( EMlLatin) +43

(Debut> ALEX UBAGO Fantasía 0 Realidad (Warner Mi.) 230 +18 1 711 RICARDO ARJONA Dame (Sony Discos) +42 (Debut> MARCO ANTONIO SOLIS Mi Mayor Sacrificio (Fonovisa) +40 e PABLO MONTERO Dicen Por Ahí (BMGLatin) 226 +33 1 210 ANA BARBARA +38 LDebut> Loca (Fonovisa) ® MARC ANTHONY Valió La Pena (Sony Discos) 221 +9 1 710 DADDY YANKEE f /ANDY MONTAÑEZ Sabor A Melao (VlMusic) +36 20 22 MARCO ANTONIO SOLIS Prefiero Partir (Fonovisa) 215 -69 3 1010

LDebut> LUIS MIGUEL Que Seas Feliz (WarnerM.L.) 212 +212 1 312 (Debut> ED JUAN LUIS GUERRA Las Avispas ( Karen) 209 +16 1 410 (Debu[> ® BACILOS Pasos De Gigante (Warner ML.1 202 +7 1 510 27 26 JD NATASHA Lágrimas (EMlLatin) 198 -53 3 1010 (Debut> ® LAURA PAUSINI Escucha Atento (Warner Mi.) 194 +87 1 510 (Debut> 28 MELINA LEON Quiero Ser Tuya (Sony Discos) 190 2 1 610 Most (Debut> 29 JOSE FELICIANO Cien Años (Universal) 174 -3 1 610 'Debut Played Recurrents 30 LUIS FONSI Por Ti Podría Morir (Universal) 174 -5 1 610 TOTAL

30 Spanish Contemporary reporters. Monitored airplay data supplied by Mediabase Research, a division of Premiere Radio Networks. Songs ranked by total plays for the ART:ST - PLAYS airplay week of 1013 -10/9. Bullets appear on songs gaining plays or remaining flat from previous week. If two songs are tied in total plays, the song with the larger increase in plays is first. No 15 are moved recurrent is number of new R placed Songs below to after 20 weeks on the chart. Most Added the total adds officially reported to &R JULIETA VENEGAS Andar Conmigo (BMGLatin) 430 by each reporting station. Songs unreported as adds do not count toward overall total stations playing a song. Most Increased Plays lists the songs with the greatest SIN BANDERA Que Lloro (Sony Discos) 354 week -to -week increases in total plays. Total Audience equals Average Quarter Hour Persons times number of plays (times 100). Each daypart on each station is assigned an AOH number. Average Quarter Hour Persons used herein with permission from Arbitron Inc. (© 2004, Arbitron Inc.). © 2004, R &R, Inc. OBIE BERMUDEZ Antes (EMlLatin) 337 New &Active FRANCO DE VITA Té De Qué Vas (Sony Discos) 335 LA OREJA DE VAN GOGH Rosas (Sony Discos) 328

CHAYANNE Cuidarte El Alma (Sony Discos) 316 ANGELA MARIA FORERO Fiera Inquieta (Sony Discos) ROCIO DURCAL Echame A Mí La Culpa (BMGLatin) PAULINA RUBIO Te Quise Tanto (Universal) 266 Total Plays: 158, Total Stations: 4, Adds: 0 Total Plays: 109, Total Stations: 3, Adds: 0 MANA Mariposa Traicionera (Warner ML.) 243 LA 5A. ESTACION El Sol No Regresa (BMGLatin) AMARAL Te Necesito (EMI Latin) CHAYANNE Sentada Aqui En Mi Alma Discos) 229 Total Plays: 136, Total Stations: 4, Adds: 0 Total Plays: 108, Total Stations: 3, Adds: 0 (Sony RICKY MARTIN Y Todo Queda En Nada CAFE TACUBA Eres (Universal/ THALIA No Me Enseñaste (EMI Latin/ (Sony Discos) 223 Total Plays: 122, Total Stations: 6, Adds: 0 Total Plays: 101, Total Stations: 4, Adds: 0 GRACIELA BELTRAN Corazón Encadenado (Univision) GILBERTO SANTA ROSA Sombra Loca (Sony Discos) Total Plays: 114, Total Stations: 4, Adds: 0 Total Plays: 101, Total Stations: 3, Adds: 0 Station playlists for all R &R ALESSANDRA & RICARDO MONTANER Amarte Es Mi Pecado (EMI Latin) SIN BANDERA De Viaje (Sony Discos) reporters are available on the web

Total Plays: 110, Total Stations: 4, Adds: 0 Total Plays: 100, Total Stations: 6, Adds: 1 at www.radioandrecords.com. Songs ranked by total plays TITO NIEvis Following up on Tito's #1 Single "Fabricando Fantasias," > his new single Ya No Queda Nada" Featuring La India and Nicky Jam.

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.A5- TOTAL - WEEKS ON TOTAL STATIONS/ WEEK ARTIST TITLE LABELS) P -AYS PLAYS CHART ADDS Most Added® 2 0 BETO Y SUS CANARIOS Está Llorando Mi Corazón (Edimonsal 956 +5 2 3010 www. rradds. corn 1 2 PESADO Ojalá Que Te Mueras (WarnerMI.) 936 -22 3 3210 ART 5' - . ADDS 3 3 GRUPO MONTEZ DE DURANGO Lástima Es Mi Mujer (Disal 912 -16 2 3210 4 0 TIGRILLOS La Etica (Din) 894 +39 2 2710 GRUPO MONTEZ DE DURANGO Lástima Es Mi Mujer (Disal 2 5 CONJUNTO PRIMAVERA Vuelve Conmigo (Fonovisa) 821 +1 2 2610 0 LOS HOROSCOPOS DE DURANGO Obsesión (Edimonsa) 2 6 6 BANDA EL RECODO Delante De Mí (Fonovisa) -39 2 2810 794 JIMMY GONZALEZ & EL GRUPO MAll Corazón Dormido (Freddie) 2 11 o BRONCO "EL GIGANTE DE AMERICA" Basta (Fonovisa) 727 +44 2 2510 MICHAEL SALGADO Lloré Lloré (Freddie) 2 9 8 INTOCABLE Si Pudiera (EMILatin) 685 3 2 2510 13 0 K PAZ DE LA SIERRA Volveré (Univision) E75 +28 2 2010

12 10 COYOTE Y SU BANDA TIERRA SANTA Piquetes De Hormiga (EMILatin) E 54 -3 2 2410

10 11 LOS HURACANES DEL NORTE Te Perdoné Una Vez ( Univision) E 36 -45 2 2510 8 12 PATRULLA 81 Na Aprendí A Olvidar (Disa) E 28 -85 2 2510 Most 18 ® KUMBIA KINGS Fuego (EMILatin) E26 +130 2 1511 Increased Plays 7 14 LOS TEMERARIOS Qué De Raro Tiene (Fonovisa) 549 -223 2 2710 TOTAL 16 15 EL PODER DEL NORTE Que Nunca Llores (Disal 504 -6 2 1810 PLAY INCREASE 19 16 JENNIFER PEÑA Hasta El Fin Del Mundo ( Univision) 490 -1 2 1510

22 60 CONJUNTO ATARDECER Y Las Mariposas (Universal) 482 +53 2 211 LOS HOROSCOPOS DE DURANGO Obsesión (Edimonsal +317

20 18 LOS RIELEROS DEL NORTE Tu Nuevo Cariñito (Fonovisal 482 -6 2 1910 GERMAN LIZARRAGA Enamorado De Ti (Dim) +316

23 LOS INVASORES DE NUEVO LEON El Rumbo Que Tú Quieras (EM/Latin) 463 +40 2 1510 LOS TEMERARIOS Sombras [Fonovisal +244

LOS TIGRES DEL NORTE La Manzanita (Fonovisal +153 17 20 VICENTE FERNANDEZ La Primera Con Agua (Sony Discos) 432 -64 2 1910 JIMMY GONZALEZ & EL GRUPO MAZZ Corazón Dorado (Freddie) +152 /Debut> LOS HOROSCOPOS DE DURANGO Obsesión (Edimonsa) 420 +317 1 811 ® KUMBIA KINGS Fuego (EMI Latin) +130 /Debut> ISABELA A Manos Llenas (Disal 415 +93 1 1210 DIANA REYES Rosas (Universal) +130 23 PEPE 24 AGUILAR Prometí Olvidarte (SonyDiscos) 401 -17 2 1610 VOCES DEL RANCHO Los Males De Micaela (EM/Latin) +106

21 24 ALICIA VILLARREAL Soy Tu Mujer (Universal) 399 -51 2 1910 ISABELA A Manos Llenas (Bisa) +93

GRUPO INNOVACION Mañana Que Ya No Esté +74 'Debut> LOS TIGRES DEL NORTE La Manzanita (Fonovisa) 397 +153 1 111 (Fonovisal

iDebut) ADOLFO URIAS Qué Chulos Ojos (Fonovisa) 384 +20 1 010

30 ® LOS ALACRANES MUSICALES A Cambio De Qué (Univision) 391 +23 2 1510 29 28 DUELO Para Sobrevivir (Un/vision) 371 -19 2 1410

FDbt> 29 LUPILLO RIVERA Paco A Poco (Univision) 356 -8 1210 Most 27 30 K-PAZ DE LA SIERRA Imposible Olvidarte ( Edimonsa) 314 -8 2 1210 Played Recurrents TOTAL 47 Regional Mexican reporters. Monitored airplay data supplied by Mediabase Research, a division of Premiere Radio Networks. Songs ranked by total plays for the ARTIST TITLE LABELS PLAYS airplay week of 10/3 -10/9. Bullets appear on songs gaining plays or remaining flat from previous week. It two songs are tied in total plays, the song with the larger increase in plays is placed first. Songs below No. 15 are moved to recurrent after 20 weeks on the chart. Most Added is the total number of new adds officially reported to R &R by each reporting station. Songs unreported as adds do not count toward overall total stations playing a song. Most Increased Plays lists the songs with the greatest PALOMO Miedo (Bisa) 551 week -to -week increases in total plays. Total Audience equals Average Quarter Hour Persons times number of plays ;times 100). Each daypart on each station is assigned LOS HOROSCOPOS DE DURANGO Das Locos (Mimosa) 510 an AQH number. Average Quarter Hour Persons used herein with permission from Arbitron Inc. 2004, Arbitron Inc.). 2004, R &R, Inc. (© © PATRULLA 81 Cómo Pude Enamorarme De Ti (Disal 357 New &Active LOS TIGRES DEL NORTE No Tiene La Culpa El Indio (Fonovisal 268 GRUPO MONTEZ DE DURANGO Te Guise Olvidar (pisa) 240

LOS REYES DEL CAMINO Tu Historieta (Dim) ALEJANDRO FERNANDEZ Me Dediqué A Perderte (Sony Discos) INTOCABLE A Dónde Estabas (EMILatin) 234 Total Plays: 338, Total Stations: 8, Adds: 0 Total Plays: 263, Total Stations: 12, Adds: 0 LOS HURACANES DEL NORTE Nomás Por Tu Culpa (Univisron) 184 AROMA Olfato Femenino (Fonovisal BETZAIDA Te Tengo Que Aprender A Olvidar (Fonovisa) GRUPO MONTEZ DE DURANGO Lágrimas De Cristal (Disai 178 Total Plays: 320, Total Stations: 10, Adds: 0 Total Plays: 244, Total Stations: 13, Adds: 0 CONJUNTO PRIMAVERA Ave Cautiva (Fonovisal 155

TRINY Y LA LEYENDA Celos (Universal) LALO MORA Si Me Vas A Dejar (Dim) LIMITE Ay Papacito (Universal) 150 Total Plays: 315, Total Stations: 13, Adds: 0 Total Plays: 239, Total Stations: 7, Adds: 0 CONJUNTO LOS TONY'S Andar Conmigo (Procan) CARDENALES DE NUEVO LEON El Llanto De Un Borracho (Bisa) Total Plays: 302, Total Stations: 7, Adds: 0 Total Plays: 208, Total Stations: 6, Adds: 0 Station playlists for all R &R GUARDIANES DEL AMOR Bebiendo Lágrimas (Fonovisal VOCES DEL RANCHO Los Males De Micaela (EM/Latin) reporters are available on the web Total Plays: 273, Total Stations: 12, Adds: 1 Total Plays: 203, Total Stations: 6, Adds: 0 at www.radioandrecords.com. Songs ranked by total plays

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TROPICAL TOP 25 ROCK/ALTERNAT IVE

TW ARTIST Title Laul.9 ARTIST TITLE LABELIS) POINTS

1 BERSUIT VERGARABAT Argentinidad Al Palo (Universal) 1 GILBERTO SANTA ROSA Sombra Loca (SonyOiscosl 272 2 VOLUMEN CERO Autos (Warner 2 JUAN LUIS GUERRA Las Avispas (Karen) 263 M l 3 ELY GUERRA Ojos Claros, Labios Rosas (Higher Octave) 3 MARC ANTHONY Valió La Pena (Sony Discos) 225 VERDES Tu Cárcel (Universal) 4 MONCHY & ALEXANDRA Perdidos (J &N) 170 4 ENANITOS 5 PANTEON ROCOCO La Ciudad De La Esperanza (Delanuca /DLN) 5 TITO NIEVES Fabricando Fantasías (S67 Entertainment) 159 6 OZOMATLI Cuando Canto (Concord) 6 VICTOR MANUELLE Te Propongo (Sony Discos) 156

7 CONTROL MACHETE El Apostador (Universal) 7 JUANES Nada Valgo Sin Tu Amor (Universal) 147 8 LUCYBELL Sálvame La Vida (Warner Mt.) 8 DADDY YANKEE Gasolina (V /Music) 126 9 LIQUITS Chido (Surco) 9 ANDY & LUCAS Son De Amores (BMGLatin) 115

10 ALEKS SYNTEK fIANA TORROJA Duele El Amor (EMI Latin) 10 GRUPO NICHE Ni Como Amiga Ni Como Amante (Sony Discos) 103

11 LUCYBELL Hoy Solié (Warner M.L.) 11 CARLOS VIVES Corno Tú (EMI Latin) 102 12 BABASONICOS Putita (EMILatin) 12 DON OMAR Pobre Diabla (V/Music) 74 13 IGNACIO PEÑA fIGUSTAVO LAUREANO Velocidad De Escape (Everywhere Music) 13 ALEJANDRO FERNANDEZ Me Dediqué A Perderte (Sony Discos) 71 Tú Eres Mi Luz 14 LA GRAN BANDA Amiga Soledad (DAM Productions) 71 14 ALEJANDRA GUZMAN (BMGLatin) 15 SONIKO Los Muebles Del Planeta De Los Simios (My Music) 15 REY RUIZ Mi Tentación (SonyDiscos) 66

16 GRUPO NICHE Culebra (Sony Discos' 62 Songs ranked by total number of points. 10 Rock/Altemative reporters. 17 FRANK REYES Duión Eres Tú (J&N) 54

18 PUERTO RICAN POWER Si Pero No (J &N) 53 19 MELINA LEON Quiero Ser Tuya (Sony Discos) 50 RECORD POOL 20 DOMENIC MARTE VenTú (J&N) 49 TW ARTIST Title Labe.sl 21 EL PUEBLO Shorty Ven Conmigo (DAM Productions) 48

1 MONCHY & ALEXANDRA Perdidos (J &N) 22 MARC ANTHONY Ahora Quién (Sony Discos) 45 2 MARC ANTHONY Valió La Pena (SonyDiscos) 23 RUBBY PEREZ Ese Tonto Corazón (Taros) 42 3 PAULINA RUBIO Perros (Universal) 24 ELVIS CRESPO 7 Dias (Ole Music) 42 4 TITO NIEVES Fabricando Fantasías (SGZEntertainment) 25 TITO NIEVES fILA INDIA Ya No Queda Nada (SW Entertainment) 41 5 VICTOR MANUELLE Te Propongo (Sony Discos) Data is complied from the airplay week of October 3-9, 6 PEDRO JESUS Miradita Y Meneito (MP) and based on a point system. © 2004 Radio & Records. 7 CELIA CRUZ & DON DINERO Son De La Loma (Universal)

8 GUANABANAS Pa' Mis Mujeres Del Mundo (Cutting)

9 SON DE CALI Vida Consentida ( Univision) GOING FOR ADDS 10 FRANK REYES Quién Eres Tú (J &N)

11 GILBERTO SANTA ROSA Sombra Loca (SonyDiscos) Contemporary 12 JUANES Nada Valgo Sin Tu Amor (Universal) 13 ZAFRA NEGRA fIKINITO MENDEZ & RIKARENA El Chisme (J&N)

14 DOMENIC MARTE Ven Tú (J &N) JD NATASHA Tanta (EMICatinl 15 ANGEL LOPEZ fIBABY RANK Hasta Cuándo (OleMusic) OB1E BERMUDEZ Todo El Año (EMILatin) TIZIANO FERRO No Me Lo Puedo Explicar (EM/Latin) Songs ranked by total number of points. 22 Record Pool reporters. Regional Mexican

LUIS MIGUEL Que Seas Feliz (WarnerMt.) MARIO "EL CACHORRO" DELGADO Amargas Penas (BMGLatin) i PABLO MONTERO Dicen Por Ahí (BMGLatin) Qué Pasa Radio! ROCIO DURCAL Echame A Mí La Culpa (BMGLatin) And we're off! Kudos to those clever stations that totally got the concept of adds and are reporting theirs. You guys rock! For those Tropical who still don't get it, it's really easy: Just let us know which songs you are adding to your programming on a weekly basis. Go to

FULANITO Gozando Viviré (Cutting) www.rradds.com, log on with your username and password and GUANABANAS Pa' Mis Mujeres Del Mundo (Cutting) report those songs. This is like voting - voting for the best songs in Latin music - and each vote counts. With your add, you are saying that this song has a spot in your station's programming and that your station is Rock /Alternative contributing to making it a hit. Your adds mean you are supporting the artists - the same artists who perform at your private concerts, festivals and other events which bring you so many ratings. If you still don't get it, don't be shy; No Going for Adds for this Week give us a call, and we'll explain it to you. Be a leader: Report your adds.

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1 1 MAROON 5 She Will Be Loved (Octane /JIRMG) 3 0 USHER & ALICIA KEYS My Boo (Laface /Zomba) 3 0 USHER & ALICIA KEYS My Boo (Laface /Zomba) 2 2 AVRIL LAVIGNE My Happy Ending (Arista/RMG) 1 2 CIARA fIPETEY PABLO Goodies (Laface/Zomba) 1 2 CIARA IIPETEY PABLO Goodies [Laface /Zomba) 4 CIARA ffPETEY PABLO Goodies /Laface/Zomba) 2 3 TERROR SOUAD Lean Back (Universal) 2 3 NELLY My Place (Oerrty/Fo'Reel /Universa// 3 RYAN CABRERA On The Way Down (EVL.AJAtlantir) 4 4 AKON fISTYLES P. Loçked Up (SRC/Universal) 4 4 TERROR SQUAD Lean Back (Universal) 7 KELLY CLARKSON Breakaway (Hollywood) 5 5 NELLY My Place (Oerrty /fo'ReelUniversal) 8 0 ANTHONY HAMILTON Charlene (So So 0e//Zomba) 8 DESTINY'S CHILD Lose My Breath (Columbia) 7 EMINEM Just Lose It [Shady/Aftermath /lnterscope) 7 6 AKON fISTYLES P. Locked Up (SRC /Universal) 6 7 BLACK EYED PEAS Let's Get It Started (A &M/lnterscopel 8 TRICK DADDY Let's Go (Slip- NSlide/Atlantic) 10 o LIU WAYNE Go DJ (Cash MoneylUniversal) 5 8 ASHLEE SIMPSON Pieces Of Me (Geffen) 9 DESTINY'S CHILD Lose My Breath (Columbia) 6 8 ALICIA KEYS ffTONY, TONI, TONE & JERMAINE PAUL Diary (J /RMG)

13 EMINEM Just Lose It (Shady/Aftermath /lnterscope) 11 ' N. O. R. E. fININA SKY & DADDY YANKEE OyeMiCanta (Roc-A-fe/adLUMG) 14 SNOOP DOGG fIPHARRELL Drop It Like It's Hot (Oaggyôtyle/Geflen)

10 FINGER ELEVEN One Thing (Windup) 6 10 LIL' FLIP Sunshine (Such free/toud/Columbia) 11 r DESTINY'S CHILD Lose My Breath (Columbia) 16 SEETHER fIAMY LEE Broken (Wind-up) 14 Q SNOOP DOGG fIPHARRELL Drop It Like It's Hot (Doggy Style/Geffen) 5 11 JADAKISS fIANTHONY HAMILTON Why (RuffRyders/lnterscope) 18 USHER & ALICIA KEYS My Boo (Laface/Zomba) 10 12 LL COOL J Headsprung (DelJam/LOJMG) 9 12 LIL SCRAPPY No Problem (BME /Reprise) 15 BOWLING FOR SOUP 1985 (Silvertone/Jive /Zomba) 12 13 JUVENILE Slow Motion (Cash Money/Universal) 12 ® JUVENILE fIWACKO & SKIP Nolia Clap (Rap-A-Lot /Asylum) 9 14 LIL' FLIP Sunshine (Sucka free /Loud/Columbia) 17 LL COOL J Hush (DefJam/ IOJMG) 13 14 MASE Breathe, Stretch, Shake (Bad Boy/Universal) 11 15 JOJO Leave (Get Out) (BlackGround/Oniversal) 20 CHINGY Balla Baby (DTP/Capitol) 17 ® LL COOL J Hush (DefJam //BJMG) 12 16 ALICIA KEYS If I Ain't Got You (J /RMG) 13 16 CHRISTINA MILIAN Op It Low flsland/ IDJMG) 15 16 NELLY Flap Your Wings (Derrty/fo'ReellUniversa // 21 ASHLEE SIMPSON Shadow (Geffen) 25 NELLY 1111M MCGRAW Over And Over(Oerrty/Fo'Reel /Curb /Universal) 19 YOUNG BUCK Shorty Wanna Ride (lnterscopel 20 8 SWITCHFOOT Dare You To Move (RedInk/Columbia) 16 18 ALICIA KEYS //TONY, TONI, TONE & JERMAINE PAUL Diary (J/RMGI 20 FABOLOUS Breathe (Atlantic) 14 19 TERROR SQUAD Lean Back (Universal) 19 19 MASE Breathe, Stretch, Shake (Bad Boy /Universal/ 16 19 LL COOL J Headsprung (DefJam/IDJMG) 39 0 NELLY f/TIM MCGRAW Over And Over(Oetrty/fo'Reel /Curb /Universal) 23 FABOLOUS Breathe (Atlantic) 23 0 CHINGY Balla Baby (DTP/Capitol) 17 21 HOUSTON fICHINGY & NATE DOGG I Like That (Capitol) 22 G71 LIL SCRAPPY No Problem (BME /Reprise) 18 21 LIL' FLIP Sunshine (Sucka free/Loud /Columbia) 25 ® BRITNEY SPEARS My Prerogative (Jive/Zomba) 15 22 J.KWON You & Me (So So Del/Zomba) 22 DEM FRANCHISE BOYZ White Teez (Universal) 23 23 NINA SKY Move Ya Body (Next Plateau/Universal) 18 23 JADAKISS f!ANTHONY HAMILTON Why (Ruff Ryders/lnterscope) 26 TRICK DADDY Let's Go (Shp-NSlide/Atlantic) 22 24 LINKIN PARK Breaking The Habit (Warner Bros.) 36 ED JA RULE fIR. KELLY & ASHANTI Wonderful (Murder /ncJIDJMG) 24 JOHN LEGEND Used To Love You (Columbia)

26 25 NELLY fIC. AGUILERA Tilt Ya Head Back (Oerrty/Fo'Reel/Universal) 27 25 SHAWNNA fILUDACRIS Shake That Sht (DTP/DefJam / IOJMG) 25 25 BODY HEADBANGERS f)YOUNGBL00DZ I Smoke, I Drink (Universal) 28 JOJO Baby It's You (BlackGround/Universal) 29 a JOJO Baby Ifs You (BlackGround/Universal) 36 JA RULE IIR. KELLY & ASHANTI Wonderful (Murderinc.,70JMG) 30 NITTY Nasty Girl (Rostrum /Universal) 28 27 GAME f150 CENT Wes(side Story (Aftermath /G-Unit/lnterscope) 31 R. KELLY Red Carpet (Jive /Zomba) 33 SIMPLE PLAN Welcome To My Life (Lava) 33 YOUNG BUCK Shorty Wanna Ride (lnterscopel 28 28 CRIME MOB Knuck If You Buck (BME/Warner Bros. /Reprise) 36 ' TRICK DADDY Let's Go /Slip- N-Slide/At /antic) 37 ' LIL' WAYNE Go DJ (Cash Money /Univerall 42 a R. KELLY & JAY.Z Big Chips (Jive/RocA-fella /l0JMG) 31 VANESSA CARLTON White Houses (A &M/lnterscopel 24 30 T.I. Let's Get Away (GrundHustle/Atlantic) 21 30 GUERILLA BLACK fIBEENIE MAN Compton (Virgin)

#1 MOST ADDED #1 MOST ADDED #1 MOST ADDED RYAN CABRERA True (E. V.L.AJAtlantic) LLOYD BANKS Karma !lnterscopel LLOYD BANKS Karma lnterscope)

#1 MOST INCREASED PLAYS #1 MOST INCREASED PLAYS #1 MOST INCREASED PLAYS NELLY FITIM MCGRAW Over And Over (Derrty/Fo'Reel /Curb /Universal) NELLY FITIM MCGRAW Over And Over fûerrty/fo'Reel /Curb /Universal) SNOOP DOGG FIPHARRELL Drop It Like It's Hot (Doggy Style /Geffen)

TOP 5 NEW & ACTIVE TOP 5 NEW & ACTIVE TOP 5 NEW & ACTIVE LL COOL J Flush (Bet Jam/ IDJMG) NELLY FICHRISTINA AGUILERA Tilt Ya Head Back fDerrty/fo'ReelUniversal/ 4MULA1 Gotta Rot (Sobe) JESSE MCCARTNEY Beautiful Soul (Hollywood) LLOYD Hey Young GPI (Murder Inc/DelJam/IVJMG) J.KWON You & Me (So So Del/Zomba) THREE DAYS GRACE Just Like You (Jive/Zomba/ PLAY-N.SKIILZ Call Me (Universal) LIL' ROMEO FINICK CANNON My Cinderella (New No Lim& CROSSEADE Cold (Columbia) KANYE WEST The New Workout Plan (Roc-A- fe //a //OJMGi LIL' JON & THE EASTSIDE BOYZ FILIL SCRAPPY What U Gon' Do awl KEVIN LYTTLE Drive Me Crazy !Atlantic) ANTHONY HAMILTCN Charlene (So SoDelZomba) LLOYD BANKS Karma !lnterscope)

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AC HOT AC ROCK LW TW LW PN LW N 1 O LOS LONELY BOYS Heaven (Or/Epicl 1 O MAROON 5 She Will Be Loved (Octane //RMGI 1 o VELVET REVOLVER Fall To Pieces /RCA /RMGI 3 FIVE FOR FIGHTING 100 Years (Aware /Columbia) 2 2 FINGER ELEVEN One Thing (Windup) 2 2 THREE DAYS GRACE Just Like You (Jive /Zomba) 4 DIDO White Flag (Arista/RMGI 4 3 LOS LONELY BOYS Heaven (Or/Epic) 3 3 ALTER BRIDGE Open Your Eyes (Wind-up) 2 4 MARTINA MCBRIDE This One's For The Girls (RCA) 3 4 HOOBASTANK The Reason flsland/IDJMGI 4 U2 Vertigo (lnterscope) 6 0 MAROON 5 This Love (Octone/ /RMG) 5 © ASHLEE SIMPSON Pieces Of Me (Geffen) 6 SILVERTIDE Ain't Comm n' Home (J/RMGI 5 6 MICHAEL MCDONALD Ain't No Mountain High Enough (Motown) 6 0 AVRIL LAVIGNE My Happy Ending (Arista/RMG) 5 LINKIN PARK Breaking The Habit (Warner Bros.) 7 7 KIMBERLEY LOCKE 8th World Wonder (Curb) 7 7 COUNTING CROWS Accidentally In Love (Bream Works /Geffen) 9 PAPA ROACH Getting Away With Murder (Geffen) 8 8 SEAL Love's Divine (Warner Bros.) 8 8 MAROON 5 This Love (Uctone /J/RMG) 12 GREEN DAY American Idiot (Reprise) 9 0 KEITH URBAN You'll Think Of Me (Capitol) 9 JOHN MAYER Daughters (Aware /Columbia) 11 KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD Alive (Reprise) 10 10 MERCYME Here With Me ( /NO/Curb) 11 BOWLING FOR SOUP 1985 (Silvertone /Jive/Zomba) 7 10 GODSMACKfIDROPBOX Touche (Republic/Universal) 12 Q ELTON JOHN Answer In The Sky (Universal) 13 RYAN CABRERA On The Way Down (EVL.A. /Atlantic) 14 NICKELBACK Because 01 You (Roadrunner/IDJMG) 11 12 JOSH GROBAN You Raise Me Up (143/Reprise) 10 12 GAVIN DEGRAW I Don'- Want To Be (J/RMG) 10 12 VELVET REVOLVER Slither (RCA /RMG) 13 13 3 DOORS DOWN Here Without You (Republic/Universal) 15 SARAH MCLACHLAN World On Fire (Arista/RMG) B 13 CROSSFADE Cold (Columbia) 16 PHIL COLLINS Don't Let Him Steal Your Heart Away (Atlantic) 17 8 KELLY CLARKSON Breakaway (Hollywood) 13 BREAKING BENJAMIN So Cold (Hollywood) 17 8 MARTINA MCBRIDE In My Daughter's Eyes (RCA) 12 15 3 DOORS DOWN Away From The Sun (Republic /Universal) 15 CHEVELLE Vitamin R (leading Us Along) (Epic) 14 16 JOSH GROBAN Remember When It Rained (143 /Reprise) 16 SEETHER ',AMY LEE Broken (Wind-up) 17 COLLECTIVE SOUL Counting The Days (El Music Group) 18 HALL & DATES I'll Be Around IUWatch) 19 DURAN DURAN (Reach Up For The) Sunrise (Epic) 16 17 SHINEDOWN Simple Man (Atlantic)

19 ALICIA KEYS If I Ain't Got You (JIRMG) 20 LENNY KRAVITZ Lady (Virgin) 18 18 FUTURE LEADERS OF THE WORLD Let Me Out (Epic) .

20 ' HOOBASTANK The Reason ( /s/amllIDJMG) 18 19 NICKELBACK Feelin Way Too Dame Good (Roadrunner/IDJMG) 19 19 KORN Word Up (Epic)

15 20 LEANN RIMES fIRONAN KEATING Last Thing On My Mind (Curb) 23 I U2 Vertigo (lnterscope) 22 m MEGADETH Die Dead Enough (Sanctuary /SRG( 23 NEWSONG When God Made You (Reunion /PIG) 22 SWITCHFOOT Dare You To Move (Red Ink/Columbia) 21 21 LOSTPROPHETS Wake Up (Make A Move) (Columbia) 27 TIM MCGRAW Live Like You Were Dying (Curb) 21 KILLERS Somebody Told Me (Island/IDJMG) 25 ® DROWNING POOL Love And War (Windup) 25 KELLY CLARKSON Breakaway (Hollywood) 26 HOWIE DAY Collide (Epic) 27 ® THORNLEY Easy Comes (Roadrunner/ID MG) 30 MICHAEL MCDONALD Reach Out, I'll Be There (Motown /Universal) 29 DIDO Sand In My Shoes Arista /RMGI 20 24 SALIVA Survival Of The Sickest (Island/IDJMG) (Sanctuary/SRG) 22 25 CLAY AIKEN I Will Carry You (RCA/RMG) 28 VANESSA CARLTON White Houses (A&M/Interscope) 24 25 TESLA Words Can't Explain - MAROON 5 She Will Be Loved (Octone //RMGI 25 26 ALANIS MORISSETTE Eight Easy Steps (Maverick/Reprise) 26 26 A PERFECT CIRCLE Blue (Virgin) 24 27 SEALS & CROFTS Summer Breeze '04 (Warner Bros.) 30 27 LINKIN PARK Breaking The Habit (Warner Bros.) - SWITCHFOOT Meant To Live (RedInk/Columbia) 21 28 CHERIE Older Than My Years (Lava) 24 28 AVION Seven Days Without You (Columbia) 29 28 DAMAGEPLAN Pride (Elektra /At/antic) 28 29 COUNTING CROWS Accidentally In Love (OreamWorks/Geffen) 33 LOS LONELY BOYS More Than Love (OUfpic) 28 29 SPIDERBAIT Black Betty /lnterscopel

KATRINACARLSON Drive (Kataphonic) 32 r TEARS FOR FEARS Call Me Mellow (Universal Music] 23 30 JET Rollover O.J. (Atlantic) - 0 . #1 MOST ADDED #1 MOST ADDED #1 MOST ADDED ROD STEWART What A Wonderful World (J /RMGJ GOO G00 DOLLS G ve A Little Bit (Warner Bras.) SHINEDOWN Burning Bright (Atlantic)

#1 MOST INCREASED PLAYS #1 MOST INCREASED PLAYS #1 MOST INCREASED PLAYS PHIL COLLINS Can't Stop Loving You (Atlantic) G00 GOO DOLLS G.ve A Little Bit (Warner Bros.) SILVERTIDE Ain't Conn' Home (J/RMG)

TOP 5 NEW & ACTIVE TOP 5 NEW & ACTIVE TOP 5 NEW & ACTIVE JOHN MELLENCAMP Walk Tall (/sland / /DJMG) KEANE Somewhere Only We Know (lnterscopel SHINEDOWN Burning Bright (Atlantic) SIMPLY RED Home (simplyred.com) MARC BROUSSARD Where You Are (Island/ IDJMGI THREE DAYS GRACE Home (Jive /Zomba) JOHN MAYER Daughters (Aware /Columbia) LOW MILLIONS Eleanor (Manhattan/EMC) JET Look What You've Done (Atlantic) BRUCE HORNSBY Gonna Be Some Changes Made (Columbia) FROU FROU Let Go (Geffen) A PERFECT CIRCLE Imagine (Virgin) CHRISTINE MCVIE Friend (Koch) UNCLE KRACKER Writing It Down (Lava/WarnerBros.) BURDEN BROTHERS Shadow (Kirtland)

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1 To The Max (GRP 1 o ALICIA KEYS ((TONY, TONI, TONE & JERMAINE PAUL Diary l/RMGI 1 O SARA EVANS Suds In The Bucket (RCAI o GERALD ALBRIGHT /VMGI 2 2 PRINCE Call My Name (Columbia) 3 © GEORGE STRAIT I Hate Everything (MCA) 2 2 BONEY JAMES Here She Comes (Warner Bros.) 3 ANITA BAKER You're My Everything (BlueNote/EMCI 2 3 KEITH URBAN Days Go By (Capitol) 5 o WAYMAN TISDALE Ain't No Stoppid Us Now (Rendezvous) 4 BRIAN MCKNIGHT What We Do Here (Motown) 4 4 GRETCHEN WILSON Here For The Party (Epic) 3 4 GEORGE BENSON Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise (GRP/VMG)

5 5 LUTHER VANDROSS Think About You (J/RMG) 5 PHIL VASSAR In A Real Love (Arista) 4 5 MICHAEL LINGTON Show Me (Rendezvous)

7 6 TEENA MARIE Still In Love (Cash Money /Universal) 8 TOBY KEITH Stays In Mexico (Dream Works) 7 RICHARD ELLIOT Your Secret Love (GRP/VMG) 6 7 JILL SCOTT Golden (Hidden Beach /Epic) 9 BROOKS & DUNN That's What Its All About (Arista) 6 ANITA BAKER You're My Everything (Blue Note/EMCI 8 0 PATTI LABELLE & RONALD ISLET Gotta Go Solo /Def Sau///DJMGI 7 8 RASCAL FLATTS Feels Like Today (Lyric Street) 9 Q CHRIS BOTTI Back Into My Heart (Columbia) 9 9 R. KELLY U Saved Me (Jive/Zomba) 11 O LONESTAR Mr. Mom (BNAI 8 9 MARC ANTOINE Mediterraneo (Rendezvous)

t 81 10 10 ALICIA KEYS If I Ain't Got You LJ/RMGI 10 i GARY ALLAN Nothing On But The Radio (MCA) 12 TIM BOWMAN Summer Groove (Liquid 13 61 T. MARIE HG. LEVERT A Rose By Any Other Name (Cash Money/Universal) 12 JOE NICHOLS If Nobody Believed In You (Universal South) 13 MARION MEADOWS Sweet Grapes (Heads Up) 12 12 KEM Love Calls [Motown/Universal) 13 KENNY CHESNEY The Woman With You (BNA) 15 NORMAN BROWN Up 'N' At 'Em (Warner Bros.) 11 13 BOYZ II MEN What You Won't Do Far Love (MSM /Koch) 6 13 ALAN JACKSON Too Much Of A Good Thing Is A Good Thing (Arista) 16 MIND( ABAIR Come As You Are (GRP/VMG) 16 0 TAMYRA GRAY Raindrops Will Fall (19 /Sobel 15 DIERKS BENTLEY How Am I Doin' (Capitol) 14 PAUL JACKSON,JR. Welkin' (Blue Note/EMC) 15 15 R. KELLY Happy People (Jive/Zomba) 14 TRACE ADKINS Rough & Ready (Capitol) 11 15 SEAL Loves Divine (Warner Bros.) Here In 17 SOUL BALLET Cream (215) 17 VAN HUNT Down Hell (With You) (Capitol( 16 . BLAKE SHELTON Some Beach (Warner Bros.) Q

19 NORMAN BROWN I Might (Warner Bros.) 21 TIM MCGRAW Back When (Curb) 18 17 NICK COLIONNE It's Been Too Long (3 Keys Music) 24 O'JAYS Make Up (Music World/SRC) 19 DARRYL WORLEY Awful, Beautiful Life (Dream Works) 19 KIM WATERS In Deep (Shanachie)

20 19 ANGIE STONE U-Haul (J /RMGI 18 ' SHANIA TWAIN WI BILLY CURRINGTON Party For Two (Mercury) 21 HALL & OATES Love TKO (U Watch)

22 t NELLY My Place (Derrty/Eo'Reel /Universal) 20 I SHEDAISY Come Home Soon (Lyric Street) 22 i PETER WHITE How Does It Feel (Columbia) 26 ANITA BAKER How Does It Feel (Blue Note /Virgin/ 25 J. BUFFETT fIM. MCBRIDE Trip Around The Sun (RCA /Mailboat) 23 21 RENEE OLSTEAD A Love That Will Last (143/Reprise) 18 22 BONEY JAMES fIBILAL Better With Time (Warner Bros.) 17 22 JIMMY WAYNE You Are (DreamWorks) 20 22 RAMSEY LEWIS TRIO The In Crowd (Naiads) 21 23 LALAH HATHAWAY Forever, For Always, For Love (GRP/VMG) 23 LEANN RIMES Nothin Bout Lave Makes Sense (Asylum /Curb) 24 23 PATTI LABELLE New Day (Del Soul/ IDJMG) 27 0 JOSS STONE Spoiled (SCurve /EMCI 22 MONTGOMERY GENTRY You Do Your Thing (Columbia) 25 24 STEVE OLIVER Chips & Salsa (Koch) 23 25 AMEL LARRIEUX For Real (Bliss Life) 26 REBA MCENTIRE He Gets That From Me (MCA) 26 PIECES OF A DREAM Its Go Time (Heads Up) 28 m USHER & ALICIA KEYS My Boo (Laface/Zomba/ 24 26 BLUE COUNTY That's Cool (Asylum/Curb) - MICHAEL MCDONALD Tracks Of My Tears (Motown /Universal) 25 27 TAMIA Still (Atlantic) 27 TRAVIS TRITT IIJOHN MELLENCAMP What Say You (Columbia) 27 CRAIG CHADUICO Her Boyfriend's Wedding (Narada)

30 URBAN MYSTIC Where Were You? (Sobel 34 BRAD PAISLEY Mud On The Tires (Arista) 30 + GREG ADAMS Firefly (2/5) USHER Confessions Part 2 (La face/Zomba) 32 BIG & RICH Holy Water (Warner Bros.) 29 29 PAUL BROWN Moment By Moment (GRP/VMGI

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1 GREEN DAY American Idiot (Reprise) 1 1 R.E.M. Leaving New York (Warner Bros.) 1 o PAPA ROACH Getting Away With Murder (Geffen) O 2 2 VELVET REVOLVER Fall To Pieces /RCA/RMGI 4 © U2 Vertigo (lnterscopel 2 2 U2 Vertigo (lnterscope) 3 3 BREAKING BENJAMIN So Cold (Hollywood) 3 3 BREAKING BENJAMIN So Cold (Hollywood) 4 3 JOHN MELLENCAMP Walk Tall (/s /and/ /OJMG)

5 . VELVET REVOLVER Fall To Pieces (RCA /RMG) 3 4 BRUCE HORNSBY Gonna Be Some Changes Made (Columbia) 4 . CHEVELLE Vitamin R (Leading Us Along) (Epic) 7 Pain (lnterscopel 5 5 JAMIE CULLUM All At Sea /Universal/ 9 © GREEN DAY American Idiot (Reprise) © JIMMY EAT WORLD /Verve 6 6 LINKIN PARK Breaking The Habit (Warner Bras.) 2 6 LINKIN PARK Breaking The Habit (Warner Bros.) 6 O CARBON LEAF Life Less Ordinary (Vanguard) R Along) MARK KNOPFLER Boom, Like That 11 o FUTURE LEADERS OF THE WORLD Let Me Out (Epic) 6 7 CHEVELLE Vitamin (Leading Us (Epic) 9 o (Warner Bros.) 7 8 CROSSFADE Cold (Columbia) 9 Q PAPA ROACH Getting Away With Murder (Geffen) 7 8 JOHN FOGERTY Deja Vu All Over Again) (Dream Works/Geffen) 8 9 THREE DAYS GRACE Just Like You (Jive/Zombal 8 9 THREE DAYS GRACE Just Like You (Jive/Zomba) 10 0 CROSBY & NASH Lay Me Down (Sanctuary /SRG( 10 10 GODSMACKIIDROPBOX Touche [Republic /Universal) 10 10 KILLERS Somebody Told Me Llsland//DJMG) 8 10 FINGER ELEVEN One Thing (Windup) 11 KEANE Somewhere Only We Know (lnterscopel 5 11 ALTER BRIDGE Open Your Eyes (Windup) 13 a CROSSFADE Cold (Columbia) a 12 KORN Word Up (Epic) 11 12 LOSTPROPHETS Wake Up (Make A Move) (Columbia) 14 12 SCISSOR SISTERS Take Your Mama (Universal) 13 SLIPKNOT Duality (Roadrunner//DJMGI 16 ® SUM41 We're All To Blame ( /s/and / /DJMGI 13 13 RACHAEL YAMAGATA Worn Me Down (RCA Victor) 12 14 SLIPKNOT Duality Roadrunner//DM) 15 MAROON 5 She Will Be Loved (Ottone/J /RMG) 14 SILVERTIDE Ain't Comm ri Home (J/RMG) 0 20 U2 Vertigo (lnterscopel 19 ® MODEST MOUSE Ocean Breathes Salty (Epic) 12 15 OZOMATLI Who Discovered) America? (Concord) 16 NICKELBACK Because Of You /Roadrunner /(DJMGI 14 16 FRANZ FERDINAND Take Me Out (Domino/Epic) 16 16 SNOW PATROL Run (A &Mllnterscopel 19 MARILYN MANSON Personal Jesus /Nothing/lnterscopel 15 17 COHEED AND CAMBRIA A Favor House Atlantic (Columbia) 18 ELVIS COSTELLO Monkey To Man (Lost Highway) 18 KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD Alive (Reprise) 20 SNOW PATROL Run (A &M/lnterscopel 20 CAKE No Phone (Columbia) 15 19 LOSTPROPHETS Wake Up (Make A Move) (Columbia) 17 USED Take It Away (Reprise) 17 19 MODEST MOUSE Float On (Epic) In 21 SKINDRED Nobody (Laval 23 i CAKE No Phone (Co /umbia) 19 20 THRILLS Not For All The Love The World (Virgin) 23 DROWNING POOL Lave And War (Windup) 22 KORN Word Up (Epic) 22 RAY LAMONTAGNE Trouble (RCA /RMG) 24 MEGADETH Die Dead Enough (Sanctuary/SRGI 18 22 TAKING BACK SUNDAY A Decade Under the Influence (Victory) 26 SARAH MCLACHLAN World On Fire (Arista/RMG) 29 COLLECTIVE SOUL Counting The Days (El Music Group) 26 SKINDRED Nobody (Laval 23 STEVE EARLE The Revolution Starts Now (ESquared/Artemisi 17 24 SALIVA Survival Of The Sickest (/s /and//0JMG) 27 INTERPOL Slow Hands (Matador) 29 LOW MILLIONS Eleanor (Manhattan/EMC) 33 e A PERFECT CIRCLE Imagine (Virgin) 28 MUSE Hysteria (EastWest/Warner Bros.) 25 25 NEVILLE BROTHERS Ball Of Confusion (BackPorch/Narada) 27 26 HELMET See You Dead /lnterscopel 30 SOCIAL DISTORTION Reach For The Sky (Time Bomb) 28 FRANZ FERDINAND Take Me Out (Domino/Epic) 26 27 THORNLEY Easy Comes (Roadrunner //DJMGI 24 27 YELLOWCARD Only One (Capitol) 30 8 CHARLIE MARS Gather The Horses (V71 22 28 A PERFECT CIRCLE Blue (Virgin) 31 MARILYN MANSON Personal Jesus (Nothing /lnterscopel 27 28 CHRISTINE MCVIE Friend (Koch) 30 29 DAMAGEPLAN Pride (Elektra/Atlantic) 37 ' GREEN DAY Boulevard Of Broken Dreams (Reprise) 21 29 FINN BROTHERS Won't Give In (Nettwerk) 32 KILLSWITCH ENGAGE The End Of Heartache (Roadrune/ /IDMG) 33 I GOOD CHARLOTTE Predictable (Daylight /Epic) - 30 K.O. LANG Helpless (Nonesuch)

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RAMMSTEIN Amerika (Republic/Universal) DOGS DIE IN HOT CARS I Love You 'Cause I Have To (V2) GAVIN DEGRAW I Don't Want To Be WHAM LAMB OF GOD Laid To Rest (Prosthetic /Epic) SLIPKNOT Vermilion (Roadrunner/IDJMG) TOOTS AND THE MAYTALS WI ERIC CLAPTON Pressure Drop (1/2) EXIES Ugly (Virgin) SEVENDUST Face To Face LTVTL LENNY KRAVITZ Lady (Virgin) DONNAS Fall Behind Me (Lookout!/Atlantic/ INSTRUCTION Breakdown (Geffen) JOHN MAYER Daughters /Aware /Columbia)

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BILL SHERARD Managing Partner, Two Rivers Communications

the $100 spot. The same principle applies to it's inevitable that the business culture had to change and investment." become more focused on short-term profits. But on the Founding Two Rivers Communications: "Two Rivers other hand, in the quest for higher and higher profit Communications was started because Sid Abel, another margins the industry has lost its balance. It was always local broadcaster, and I sold our equity pieces in difficult for us to maintain a balance between Washington radio. Sid was an operator of another local programming appeal and sales goals. That's been true for Washington radio station after having worked for many decades. Now, with stockholders and their artificially high years in his youth for Metromedia and retiring. We'd sit expectations, a third element has entered the picture. around and have coffee every week and bemoan the "For me to read in the trades years after industry. We were like WWI fighter pilots bemoaning the consolidation took effect that major corporations have a advent of the cruise missile, saying how great radio used new concept called 'fewer commercials and more music' to be and wondering why we couldn't do it again. We really takes the cake. For decades radio was a tiny started looking for properties that were within driving business that had a great effect on communities. Now it's distance of Washington, DC. We found our first one down a huge business that has an almost generic impact on in the northern neck of Virginia last year." communities. Mission of the company: "Have fun, make money, "I keep in touch with a lot of former employees here ill Sherard is one of those rare individuals and never get our bowels in an uproar." in town, and Fm constantly struck by the tales of how who has been fortunate enough to live in Long -range plans: "We are looking for growth in a radio is conducted with this hugely complex internal roughly the same part of the country - narrow way. One of the qualifications is still that the structure. Many of the individuals I know who have the Washington, DC area - for all 30 station be within driving distance of DC. I have no talent, whether it's in sales or programming, are years of his successful radio career. He has qualitative data to back this up, but it seems to me there overmanaged, overanalyzed and over -reviewed to such a a long track record of developing highly is a trend for operators to find small markets - and I degree that the final result is not a big failure nor a rated and profitable radio properties in mean small -town or small-county radio stations - and stellar performance, it's sort of in the middle. It's small, midsized and large markets. consolidate those without suffering many of the negative paralysis by analysis. It's mediocre. The opportunity for Sherard's latest venture, Two Rivers aspects of consolidation that we see in larger cities that individualism, generally speaking, is going to be in Communications, is targeting stations are the result of the quest for dramatic gains in revenue smaller markets or in other media where an individual within driving distance of his home. in every quarter." can make mistakes and develop his craft." Getting into the business: "I was a On starting with one station, WKWI/Kilmarnock, VA: Most influential individual: "Norman Wain. He B DJ at WLSD /Big Stone Gap, VA, hired by a "It has a vey small staff. Everyone is a generalist, brought enthusiasm to both programming and sales. He's local gentleman who needed a replacement for the including me. Frequently, when I arrive I find myself an ethical, honest person who combined the elements of graduating high school DJ. I was in the 10th grade. My spending ouch of the time answering the telephone marketing, show biz and ethics to be a really great father was a small -town car dealer, so I was fortunate to because we have no receptionist. Everyone answers the broadcaster." have an automobile to drive the 14 miles from my phones. The total environment is one of energy, Career highlight "We were the only radio station in hometown to Big Stone Gap each afternoon. It was a excitement, problem-solving and having a lot of fun Washington to promote a fundraiser for the Vietnam fabulous deal. I went through the ego end of the DJ playing radio and recapturing many of the reasons I got Veterans Memorial at a time when all other media stayed business very early in life and was able to put a lot of into the business in the first place, which included being away from it. We raised nearly $300,000 in 48 hours and that aside by the time I grew older. I didn't have a plan able to have an influence on something in a direct way. then went on to win the Billboard Radio Station of the until I was 34. Everything just kept getting better all the "When we're fully staffed we should have about five Year award. It was a real payoff for the staff involved. time, and I just followed the next opportunity." employees. We're programming it locally, though the The linkage between the station, the timing of the event Moving into ownership: "The Washington, DC music is selected by a wonderful service out of Omaha and the feedback from the community came together in opportunity in 1980 was my fast venture into equity. called Waitt. The music is played locally, and we can have one narrow band. It was a wonderful time." Norman Wain and Bob Weiss with Metroplex input into it, but from 10am on the DJs are downloaded Career disappointment "I wish Td never hired Gary Communications had to be some of the first operators to from Omaha. If you listen to the station, on almost every D. He was a very controversial morning man who had the provide equity for their GMs. For me, having a background break there is some reference to the local community. ability to offend everybody at once." in programming and a limited background as a general With Waitt's system we're able to fax them data almost Favorite radio format "Any local format in a small manager, it was an opportunity to come back to hourly, and they read it on the air. If the skies clear up market. I love listening to hometown radio." Washington with a small piece of ownership. It got me after a hurricane, you'll hear it on the station. It's very Favorite television show: "I always watch Ali G." started on the equity road. difficult to tell that, outside of the morning show, these Favorite song: "That's like asking a chef for his "After Group W traded our station to Viacom, I fellows are in another part of the country." favorite cake. It's going to be something new, whatever purchased an equity piece of an AM station in Biggest challenge: I don't want to sound like a it is." Washington that I still own today. It's a multicultural broken record, but it is finding great employees. When Favorite movie: "Any movie by Christopher Guest." format. While it's off the beaten path for commercial you conside: that in the market we're in, four counties Favorite book: "The 80/20 Principle." radio, it's proven to be a very lucrative venture that add up to 50,000 people, it's difficult to find employees. I Favorite restaurant "Morton's." serves the needs and interests of a variety of communities think we have one stoplight in the city of license. On the Beverage of choice: "Pinot grigio." better than many large consolidators today. That's New other hand, when you run a classified ad, everyone hears Hobbies: "Auto restoration, cycling and World Broadcasting. I have a very enthusiastic partner it. The read. is 100 %. When you announce on the radio photography." named Jim Weitzman who loves multicultural that you're remodeling the studios, 50 people stop by E -mail address: "billsherard @tworivers.net." broadcasting and has a strong involvement in the station during the week to see what's going on. That's the kind of Advice for broadcasters: "If you're in an and is directly responsible for its success. It was an equity feedback I remember from the early days of radio, where environment where individuals tend to be viewed as two- thing I went into after leaving Group W after 15 years of when you put an announcement on, you saw the results." dimensional, expendable figures, leave. Unless you're two - management. They gave me a nice parachute. On getting back on the air. "I'm cutting dimensional. In that case, ignore this message. The biggest -I decided to get back into an equity position in commercials almost daily for the station. After I sold change in our industry is the simple fact that change takes commercial radio. After a year and a half and, frankly, Spring Broadcasting I joined SAG and AFTRA and built a place faster and faster. Not only is there a tendency to get lots of money, I was able to do it on a fairly large scale, digital studio at home, and I've been doing voiceover caught up in the change, there's also a reticence to make for me. I found out that it was easier to buy lots of commercials for the last two years. You don't have to get changes yourself. People should not delay their own lives stations than it was to buy one. That's a lesson you dressed up, and when you do it, it's over, you're finished. waiting for changes to occur around them. They should don't really learn until you try doing it. Much like Jerry It's a lot of fun." spend more of their time deciding what they want and Blum at WOXI /Atlanta told me years ago, it's just as State of the industry: "Don't get me wrong, I realize where they want to go and start making changes and hard to sell a $10 spot as it is to sell a $100 spot, so sell that with stockholders and highly leveraged companies taking risks earlier in life, rather than later."

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