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$5.95 (U.S.), $6.95 (CAN.), £4.95 (U.K.), Y2,500 (JAPAN) 11i1n11nE1n1E11nE1nE1n11n1n111 I 11,..11 #BXNCCVR 3-DIGIT 908 #90807GEE374EM002# BLBD 722 A06 B0054 001 033002 2 MONTY GREENLY 3740 ELM AVE # A LONG BEACH CA 90807 -3402 THE INTERNATIONAL NEWSWEEKLY OF MUSIC, VIDEO, AND HOME ENTERTAINMEN FEBRUARY 26, 2000 VI U.K. Troubled By New AOL Service To Tap Viacom Preps Static '99 Market Urban Entertainment Market For Net Push BY TOM FERGUSON BY DON JEFFREY and PAUL SEXTON BY GAIL MITCHELL Also as part of this agreement, and BRIAN GARRITY LONDON-On the eve of its LOS ANGELES -As online compa- AOL will take a minority stake in NEW YORK -With revenue annual celebratory, and often nies continue to jockey for ways to DME Interactive, while DME will and profit from longstanding rambunctious, Brit Awards, the reach their targeted audiences, market AOL 5.0 through its various businesses like MTV Networks, U.K. record industry doesn't America Online (AOL) has joined marketing channels. Paramount Pictures, and Block- seem in the mood to party. with Englewood Cliffs, "This is the urban buster rising strongly, Viacom is Newly pub- N.J. -based DME version of AOL, with now prepar- NEWS lished statistics Interactive Holdings to 21,,. AOL /Compu- ing a big r,.nf'M IN neWl, ir.y yucoml ANALYSIS from the British form Places of Color, a V¡,A^MEAI[A Serve as a partner," move into Phonographic new partnership aimed explains DME Interactive CEO new media with an initial pub- Industry (BPI) have confirmed at the urban market. Darien Dash. "We're trying to create lic offering of its MTVi Group that there was no significant The CompuServe 2000 -powered places of color for people of color. I online operations in April. market growth last year (Bill - online service will provide Internet founded this company 51/2 years ago on The New York -based enter- boardBulletin, Feb. 14). But access and customized content to mi- the mission statement of expanding the tainment colossus also believes there are also other unsettling nority communities. (Cr, t, Trued on page 94) that its acquisition of major TV issues for the business, and these network and station owner CBS IT'S TIME TO GET LIVE. are bound to be chewed over at will be completed by March or London's Earl's Court venue April, despite a lawsuit recent- when the Brit Awards 2000 ly filed by a Viacom venture ( Continued on page 94) The `Real' Trisha Yearwood (Continued on page 93) MCA's Country Diva Pays Homage To female Troubadours BY DEBORAH EVANS PRICE olds and a change in management. Valley Amplifies NASHVILLE -Emotional hon- "Music has always been, for me, EMI, Supertracks esty is always a compelling musi- where I put my heart on my cal force, and it's a quality that can sleeve. The greatest thing about it Hatch Digital Plan Web Ventures be found in abundance on Trisha is I'm not the kind of person who BY ED CHRISTMAN Yearwood's upcoming will say, `Here's what BY MARILYN A. GILLEN NEW YORK -The merger of Valley MCA album, "Real Live I'm going through.' NEW YORK -1999 may not have Media's Internet fulfillment business Woman." Due March 28, Music is where I don't been the digital Christmas that some with Amplified.com (BillboardBul- the collection encom- have to explain myself." in the music industry had anticipat- letin, Feb. 16) allows the giant passes what are per- In selecting and ed, but spring is slowly shaping up wholesaler to more fully realize haps the most lyrically recording this collection to be a somewhat merrier season for Internet opportunities without in- vulnerable and emotion- of songs, which found fans seeking major -label downloads. curring any of the costly start -up ally charged perfor- her once again working Case in point: EMI Recorded Mu- 11 expenditures associated with such mances of the acclaimed with longtime producer sic has just tapped Portland, Ore. - THE DYNAMIC SOURCE Web -based ventures on its income chanteuse's career. 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CD sales were also up 3.7% to 1.48 billion BY ANDERS LUNDQUIST and KAI R. LOFTHUS krona ($171 million) and 21.2 million units Editor in Chief: TIMOTHY WHITE It felt as if the market STOCKHOLM -The Swedish music in- sold (up 0.4 %). EDITORIAL have welcomed Managing Editor: SUSAN NUNZIATA dustry gathered together Feb. 14 at the didn't experience an Industry executives Deputy Editor: Iry Lichtman the figures. Eric Hasselqvist, GM of News Editor: Marilyn A. Gillen country's annual Grammisgalan awards Director of Special Issues: Gene Sculatti; Dalet Brady, Associate Director; show to celebrate individual artists' increase, but it Stockholm Records (part -owned by Uni- Porter Hall, Assistant Editor; Katy Kroll, Special Issues Coordinator Bureau Chiefs: Chet Hippo (Nashville), Bill Holland (Washington), achievements, while basking in the glow versal) suggests that with several major John Lannert (Caribbean and Latin America), Melinda Newman (L.A.) obviously did' units last year, it felt Art Director: Jeff Nisbet; Assistant: Raymond Carlson of figures that show sales in the world's artists selling fewer Copy Chief: Bruce Janicke 13th biggest music market at an all -time as if the market was contracting -yet Copy Editors: Andrew Boorstyn, Marlaina Gray, Carl Rosen - ERIC HASSELQVIST - Senior Editor: Ed Christman, Retail (N.Y.) high. the opposite was true, with increased Senior Writer: Chris Morris (L.A.) Talent Editor: Larry Flick (N.Y.) At trade prices, recorded music ship- sales being spread over more acts. "It R &B Music: Gail Mitchell, Editor (L.A.) felt as if the market didn't experience an Country Music/Nashville: Deborah Evans Price, Associate Editor ments in Sweden rose 4.2% to 1.6 billion estimated retail sales, including product Dance Music: Michael Paoletta, Editor (N.Y.) krona ($184.2 million) in 1999, an increase from non -GLF members. increase, but it obviously did," he says. Pro Audio/Technology: Paul Verna, Editor (N.Y.) Merchants & Marketing: Don Jeffrey, Editor (N.Y.) of 4.2% over 1998. That figure represent- Single sales accounted for the highest "Stockholm Records has one double - Digital Entertainment: Eileen Fitzpatrick, Editor (L.A.) Radio: Chuck Taylor, Editor (N.Y.) ed total sales of singles, CDs, LPs, cas- sales increase in 1999. They rose 18.2% platinum [sales of 200,000 units] act, Heatseekers Features/Music Video: Carla Hay, Editor (N.Y.) million ($11.2 mil- A *Teens," he continues, "but we haven't Financial Reporter: Brian Garrity (N.Y.) settes, and MiniDiscs of 27.3 million units, in value to 97 krona Touring Reporter: Ray Waddell (Nashville) up 3.4% on the previous year.