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VOLUME 109 NO 35 RIAA Midyear Figs Show Mixed News THE 102 * NO WAY OUT PUFF DADDY & THE FAMILY HAD BOY Trade Group Insists Music Retail Is Healthier BLUES BY BILL HOLLAND The dollar value of that product, calculat- out a net shipment [number] after returns. * UVE AT CARNEGIE HALL 37 STEVIE RAY VAUGHN AND DOUBLE TROUBLE EPIC ed at suggested list price, decreased from So if for some reason a chain closes, or files WASHINGTON, D.C. -Partial market $5.5 billion at midyear '96 to $5.2 billion this for bankruptcy, and pays some of its bill by CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN 36 shrinkage causing a nearly 10% drop in over- year -a 5% decrease (Billboard Bulletin, returning product, that goes off as a nega- * SHADES OF GRACE BOB CARLISLE DIADEM all units shipped and a 5% drop in dollar Aug. 20). tive." in owner of the six- store, COUNTRY value- that's the short version of the bad The RIAA's downbeat figures stand Carl Singmaster, 30 S.C. -based Manifest Disc & Tapes, T * EVERYWHERE TIM MCGRAW CURB news in the midyear sales figures from the stark contrast with recent midyear numbers Columbia, Recording Industry Assn. of America issued by SoundScan, which show a 7.3% in- seconds that assessment. He feels that the O GOSPEL (RIAA), released Aug. 19. crease in units sold at retail. RIAA figures may be accounted for by the P GOD'S PROPERTY 34 * - Mike Fine says, howev- number of chains that have closed stores or GOD'S PROPERTY FROM KIRK FRANKLIN'S NU NATION B.RITE The continuing growth in sales of full SoundScan CEO i length CD albums at retail and a strong er, "I don't necessarily find that a contradic- are buying much more prudently. A HEATSEEKERS uptick in CD singles is the capsule summary tion." "The big guys are buying a lot tighter * BECOMING X SNEAKER PIMPS CLEAN UP now," He also cites changes in label L of the good. He explains, "Their figures say, in retail, he says. of new-re- B KID AUDIO According to the RIAA statistics, the net sales are up; it's among the special markets policies that allow for an extension * CLASSIC DISNEY VOL. I - 60 YEARS OF MUSICAL MAGIC 79 number of all audio and product that they say sales are down. SoundScan does lease deals; therefore, retailers can buy VARIOUS ARTISTS WALT DISNEY that manufacturers shipped to U.S. markets not report special- market sales." "more responsibly, because you still have a M (retail, mass merchandisers, and special mar- The RIAA defines the special- market seg- chance on the day after release data to buy THE BILLBOARD LATIN 50 33 S * ROMANCES LUIS MIGUEL WEA LATINA kets, such as record clubs) dropped from ment as including mail-order operations and in at the new -release deal price." 521.2 million at midyear 1996 to 470.7 million record clubs, which it says accounts for 18% For his part, Singmaster says his sales in POP CATALOG 75 in 1997-a 9.7% decrease. of all shipments. 1997 are up "far beyond last year; we're in * GREASE POLYDOR Factoring out this segment, the RIAA says double digits." that retail -only unit shipments of all configu- Sandy Bean, VP of advertising and pro- R &B 21 rations were down only 1.6% and that ship- motions for the 38- store, Troy, Mich.-based * NO WAY OUT PUFF DADDY & THE FAMILY BAD BOY 1st RIAA Latino ments of CD albums to this sector were actu- Harmony House, also reports strong re- ally up 3.2 %. In shipments to all market sults-"we're having the best year we've ever 37 sectors, CD album shipments dropped 7.3% had; we're up double digits" -and expresses * REGGAE GOLD 1997 VARIOUS ARTISTS VP Report Reflects in units, to 331 million, and 2.3% in dollar surprise at the RIAA stats as compared with value, to $4.2 billion, as compared with the the more upbeat SoundScan data. * MICHAEL FLATLEYS LORD OF THE DANCE 37 Harmony House's senior music buyer, RONAN HARDIMAN PHIUPS Major U.S. Growth prior year period. Fine also says that there will be differences Levesque, speculates that the discrep- THE HOT 100 BY JOHN LANNERT between the RIAA and SoundScan statistics ancy may come from older albums that the * MO MONEY MO PROBLEMS 100 for in 1996 that were sold in THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. (FEAT. PUFF DADDY & MASE) BAD BOY "if in fact inventories have been lowered - RIAA accounted The overall U.S. domestic record industry because what the manufacturer does is send (Continued on page 101) ADULT CONTEMPORARY 94 may be showing a downturn, according to the * SUNNY CAME HOME SHAWN COLVIN COWMRIA latest Recording Industry Assn. of America figures (see story, this page), but the (RIAA) 94 inaugural music ship- * ALL FOR YOU SISTER HAZEL UNIVERSAL trade group's ment report confirms the rampaging growth of the U.S. Latino record business. H COUNTRY 28 O * SHE'S GOT IT ALL BNA The midyear report states that in the first six months of 1997, the U.S. Hispanic record T DANCE / CLUB PLAY 26 market moved 19.5 million units, valued at * THIS MAN KELLEE MOONSHINE $213.2 million. The unit tally was 23% high- $ DANCE / MAXI- SINGLES SALES er than the figure for the same period in I * I'LL BE MISSING YOU 26 1996. Similarly, the revenue number was 25% N PUFF DADDY & FAITH EVANS (FEATURING 1 12) BAD BOY above the amount generated from January - June 1996. G LATIN 32 L * MIENTE FONOVISA In addition, the RIAA report states that the 1996 year -end sales for the U.S. Latino E R &B 23 market came in at 36.1 million units, worth S * NEVER MAKE A PROMISE DRU HILL ISLAND $391.7 million. Comparison figures for 1995 RAP were not available. * MO MONEY MO PROBLEMS 22 Unusually, in both the midyear reports THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. (FEAT. PUFF DADDY & MASE) BAD BOY and the year-end report, the market share of Virgin's Dreams Come True. Japanese act Dreams Come True recently inked a worldwide the CD and cassette configurations in units multi -album deal with Virgin Records America. The deal marks the first long -term multi -album ROCK / TRACKS 93 and revenue remained identical. CDs * USTEN COLLECTIVE SOUL ATLANTIC deal between a Japanese artist and an American -based record company. The group's previ- accounted for 58% of unit sales and 69% of ous eight albums have sold more than 20 million copies. Pictured, from left, are Masata Naka- revenues, while cassette sales made up 42% mura, band member; Berry, president, EMI Recorded Music; Miwa Yoshida, band mem- ROCK / MODERN ROCK TRACKS 93 * FLY SUGAR RAY LAVA of unit tallies and 31% of earnings. ber; and Takahiro Nishikawa, band member. (Continued on page 101) TOP VIDEO SALES 82 T * JERRY MAGUIRE COWMBIA TRISTAR HOME VIDEO T H I S W E E K I N B I L L B O A R D FITNESS HEALTH & 81 * THE FIRM: 5 DAY ABS BMG VIDEO NASHVILLE'S PLANE PROBLEM COMMENTARY 4 MERCHANTS & MARKETING 74 V MUSIC VIDEO SALES to end its flight between Retail Track 76 84 American Airlines' decision nonstop ARTISTS & MUSIC 9 I * I'M BOUT IT MASTER P PRIORITY VIDEO Nashville and Los Angeles have significant implications for Declarations Of Independents 77 could Executive Turntable 10 D Nashville's studio business. Correspondent Dan Daley reports. 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BILLBOARD AUGUST 30, 1997 3 www.americanradiohistory.com Billboard. Editor in Chief: TIMOTHY WHITE EDITORIAL r Managing Editor: SUSAN NUNZIATA Corn rnenta Deputy Editor: Iry Lichtman News Editor: Marilyn A. Gillen Director of Special Issues: Gene Sculatti; Dalet Brady, Associate Director; Porter Hall, Special Issues Coordinator Bureau Chiefs: Craig Rosen (L.A.), Chet Flippo (Nashville), Bill Holland (Washington), John Lannert (Caribbean and Latin America) Art Director: Jeff Nisbet; Assistant: Raymond Carlson New -Media Biz Will Benefit From Diversity Copy Chief: Bruce Janicke Copy Editors: Tammy La Gorce, Elizabeth Renaud, Cad Rosen Senior Editors: Melinda Newman, Talent (N.Y.), Ed Christman, Retail (N.Y.) BY LAUREN COLEMAN a new -media film executive tell me so in so plus in buying power and 25% of the all- impor- Senior Writers: Chris Morris (L.A.), Bradley Bambarger (N.Y.) words. R&B Music: J.R. Reynolds, Editor (L.A.) many tant urban market for box- office sales, accord- /Nashville: Deborah Evans Price, Associate Editor As the entertainment industry becomes Such wrongheaded thinking is like a throw- ing to Ebony magazine -can be fully and : Larry Flick, Editor (N.Y.) Pro Audio/Technology: Paul Verna, Editor (N.Y.) more deeply entrenched in the emerging dig- back to the early days of the VCR, and it profitably tapped into. Merchants & Marketing: Don Jeffrey, Editor (N.Y.) ital era, it is the responsibility of all those brings to mind the initial industry response to And if true company partnerships cannot be Home Video: Seth Goldstein, Editor (N.Y.), Eileen Fitzpatrick, Associate Ed. (L.A.) Radio: Chuck Taylor, Editor (N.Y.) involved in the interactive business to make Jayne Kennedy's aerobic videocassette. It is forged, black new-media creative people should Music Video/Enter*Active: Brett Atwood, Editor (L.A.) certain that cyberspace fully and accurately said that Madison Avenue did not embrace her become in helping to achieve Heatseekers Features Editor: Doug Reece (L.A.) Staff Reporter: Shawnee Smith (N.Y.) reflects the multiculturalism-and, in partic- video because it did not believe that African - these goals on their own. According to Black Editorial Assistant: Gina van der Vliet (L.A.) ular, the African -American culture -that has Americans owned VCRs. They, of course, were Enterprise publisher Earl Graves in his book Administrative/Research Assistant: Dylan Siegler (N.Y.) Special Correspondent: Jim Bessman been so key in shaping the American popular very wrong. "How To Succeed In Business Without Being Contributors: Catherine Applefeld Olson, Fred Bronson, consciousness to date. African -Americans are plugged in, with Black" (HarperBusiness), "We are expected to Lisa Collins, Larry LeBlanc, Jim Macnie, Moira McCormick, David Nathan, Havelock Nelson, Phyllis Stark, Heidi Waleson Unfortunately, I have already seen a bit of everything in their homes from CD players to add unique business perspective and a fresh International Editor in Chief: ADAM WHITE Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" syndrome satellite dishes. But that doesn't mean we will dimension ... That is a strength to be lever- International Deputy Editor: Thom Duffy International Music Editor: Dominic Pride quietly inhabiting parts of the interactive com- aged, not a deficit to be hidden away" International News Editor: Jeff Clark -Meads munity. As the dawn of this intriguing new Imagine the combination of the newest International Associate Editor: Mark Solomon `There German Bureau Chief: Wolfgang Spahr medium gives way to a power -packed new day are cul- technology with the lingo, panache, and style Japan Bureau Chief: Steve McClure of influence and opportunity, it is imperative tural nuances of urban youth culture. There is Far East Bureau Chief: Geoff Burpee be in Contributing Editor: Paul Sexton that this stopped its tracks. within our com- about the explosive results. In fact, it is an Already there have been a number of mul- apparent effect that writer Michael Eric CHARTS & RESEARCH munity that must Director of Charts: GEOFF MAYFIELD timedia marketing efforts that simply over- Dyson observed when he mentioned in his Chart Managers: Anthony Colombo (Mainstream Rock/New Age) be addressed Ricardo Companioni (Dance), Datu Faison (Hot R&B Singles/Top R &B look the user of color in their content and aim. book "Between God And " Albums/Rap/Gospel /Reggae), Steven Graybow (Adult Contemporary/Adult Top Too often also, there have been sites created and respected' (Oxford University Press) that the black cul- 40 /Jazz/Blues/Studio Action), Wade Jessen (Country/Contemporary Christian), for urban films or other African-American tural notions of cool, hip, and chic have unde- John Lannert (Latin), Mark Marone (Modern Rock), Geoff Mayfield (Billboard Lauren Coleman is 200 /Heatseekers/Catalog), Jan Marie Perry (World Music), Theda Sandiford- endeavors that have arisen without the col- niably influenced the look and sound of Amer- Waller (Hot 100 Singles), Marc Zubatkin (Video/Classical /Kid Audio) president and owner of Chart Production Manager: Michael Cusson laboration of so much as one technical or cre- Punch Media, a Los ica. It is to be hoped that cyberspace will Assistant Chart Production Manager: Alex Vitoulis ative person of color. And too often, important Angeles multime- someday be added to that list as well. Archive Research Supervisor: Silvio Pietroluongo -based Administrative Assistants: Joe Berinato (N.Y.), Mary DeCroce (Nashville) strategic alliances have been forged with nary dia communications Make no mistake: No one is asking that SALES a single black -owned multimedia company or company. preferential treatment be given to black con- Associate Publisher/U.S.: JIM BELOFF person represented at the table. tent providers, producers, etc. In the words of New York: Kara DioGuardi, Pat Jennings Nashville: Lee Ann Photoglo There have, of course, been some attempts buy just anything. Like any other consumers, Graves, "We only want the opportunity to run L.A.: Jill Carrigan, Dan Dodd, Lezle Stein made to address this vital African -American we are watching and listening to what appeals the race wearing the same track shoes that Advertising Coordinators: Evelyn Aszodi, Erica Bengtson Advertising Assistants: Hollie Adams, Todd Maycher demographic and to tap into its creative poten- to us. That shouldn't be a revelation, but unfor- the [mainstream] wear, rather than combat Classified (N.Y.): Jeff Serrette, Stephanie Woods tial, such as the Microsoft/BET venture, tunately it seems like it might come as one to boots." Associate Publisher /Intl.: GENE SMITH MSBET. But too often these efforts are not some content suppliers. What is being asked is that corporate Amer- Europe: Christine Chinetti, Ian Remmer 44- 171-323 -6686 Asia -Pacific: Publicitas, 65- 338 -2774 (Singapore); backed with the same promotional and mone- What new -technology corporations must ica respect the African -American consumer Alex Ho, 852 -2527 -3525 (Hong Kong) Australia: Amanda Guest, 613- 9824 -8260- tary support seen for their "mainstream" accept is that there are cultural nuances with- and businessperson and make real commit- Japan: Aki Kaneko, 213- 650 -3171 counterparts. And compared with the host of in our community that, as with any group of ments to these segments when it comes to Milan: Lidia Bonguardo, 39 +(0)362 +54.44.24 Paris: Francois Millet, 33 -1- 4549-2933 multimedia deals unveiled on any given day, people, must be addressed and respected (i.e., interactive endeavors. These could range from Latin America/: Angela Rodriguez, 305 -441 -7976 this small segment addressing the urban com- give us some content designed with our mar- active recruiting of talented executives to the Mexico/West Coast Latin: Daisy Ducret 213- 525-2307 : Marcia Frith -Kohler 876 -974 -1245 munity is laughable by comparison. ket in mind) before an entertainment entity creation of high school programs designed to MARKETING Why is this ? Is it because the will be fully embraced (i.e., maybe then we will ensure that young African- Americans have the Director of Marketing: ELISSA TOMASETTI person of color is seen as basically nonexistent buy the corresponding hardware en masse). opportunity to participate -as creators and Marketing Manager: Gayle Lashin Promotion Coordinator: Phyllis Demo or unimportant -not a vital enough segment It is only then that this appealing demo- consumers -in the emerging digital world. Senior Designer: Melissa Subatch to bother addressing? Possibly. I have even had graphic segment- accounting for $400 million The upside is that everyone benefits. Special Events Director: Maureen Ryan Publicist/Special Events: Michele Jacangelo Quigley Circulation Director: Jeanne Jamin European Circulation Manager: Sue Dowman () Tradeshow Manager /Circulation: Adam Waldman R S Group Sales Manager: Jennifer Shulties LETTE Circulation Promotion Account Manager: Trish Daly Louw Circulation Sales Manager: Michael Sisto PRODUCTION BIG APPLE SITE FOR SONGWRITERS' HALL Hoboken's native son, Frank Sinatra, have chain is making against the music industry - Director: MARIE R. GOMBERT New York, a place filled with sharp con- done it "his way" in any other place except with a possible solution. As I stated in my pre- Advertising Production Manager: John Wallace Associate Advertising Production Manager: Lydia Mikulko trasts and endless stories, has provided the "New York, New York "? I don't think so. vious letter, Wal-Mart stores frequently break Advertising Production Coordinator: Cindee Weiss inspiration for generations of songwriters. Many consider our city the cultural heart release dates on major releases in order to Editorial Production Manager: Terrence C. Sanders Associate Editorial Production Manager: Drew Wheeler My father, Clyde L. Otis, figures prominent- of the country by virtue of the quality and cal- monopolize sales (I have a receipt, dated Aug. Specials Production Editor: Marcia Repinski ly among them. As an aspiring , he iber of the museums along Museum Mile. New 4, 1997, for 311's "Transistor" album, released Assistant Specials Production Editor: Marc Giaquinto Systems/Technology Supervisor: Barry Bishin came to New York and supported himself dri- York is undergoing a cultural boom right now. Aug. 5, 1997). I also stated that Wal -Mart is Composition Technicians: Susan Chicola, Maria Manliclic, Anthony T. Stallings ving a cab while pursuing his dream. New With Disney re- gentrifying Times Square, I not penalized by the record labels, because Directories Production Manager: Len Durham Classified Production Assistant: Gene Williams York, the home of Tin Pan Alley and the Brill believe some concrete ideas must be developed the chain is responsible for approximately ADMINISTRATION Building, has always stood as a beacon for between the city government and the enter- 12% of all . Distribution Director: Edward Skiba Web Site Designer: David Wertheimer those who wanted to say it with a song. His tainment conglomerates dominating that The solution to this problem is simple and Online Sales Manager: Sam D. Bell Billing: Debbie Liptzer Assistant to the Publisher: Susan Mazo contributions to the American songbook, prime real- estate area for the identification of inexpensive. Between the hours of 4 a.m. and

PRESIDENT & PUBLISHER: HOWARD LANDER which is a cornerstone of our collective cul- suitable space for a songwriters' museum. noon on Sundays, it is against the law to pur- BILLBOARD OFFICES: tural identity, should be preserved for gener- Weinstein should be supported in his ef- chase alcoholic beverages. In order to enforce New York Washington, D.C. Nashville ations of songwriters yet to be born. forts to locate a suitable museum space. The that law, supermarkets and other stores that 1515 Broadway 733 15th St. N.W. 49 Music Square W. That is why it is so surprising that the Song- Recording Industry Assn. of America should sell alcohol simply deactivate UPC codes until N.Y., NY 10036 Wash., D.C. 20005 Nashville, TN 37203 212- 764 -7300 202 -783-3282 615 -321 -4290 writers' Hall of Fame (where my father is on be the first organization to open dialogue with it is once again legal to purchase alcohol. My edit fax 212 -536 -5358 fax 202 -737 -3833 fax 615 -320 -0454 the board of directors) is without a museum other music trade organizations to resolve this question is this: Why can't we simply deacti- sales fax 212 -536 -5055 London Tokyo home of its own. Bobby Weinstein, president of important cultural issue. After all, there's far vate UPC codes on a record until midnight on Los Angeles 3rd Floor 10th Floor No. 103 the Songwriters' Hall of Fame, has spent too much songwriting history in this city for the slated release date? Wouldn't this solve 5055 Wilshire Blvd. 23 Ridgmount St. Sogo -Hirakawacho Bldg., 4 -12 to find a display for it to not have a permanent home where it the problem? I am challenging the music Los Angeles, CA 90036 London WC1E 7AH Hirakawacho 1-chome, years trying permanent 213 -525-2300 44- 171 -323 -6686 Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102, Japan reams of sheet music and manuscripts, as well belongs. Thank you. industry, in collaboration with music stores, fax 213-525 -2394/2395 fax 44 -171- 323 -2314/2316 3- 3262 -7246 fax 3- 3262-7247 as "Fats" Waller's and Henry Mancini's Clyde Otis Ill to implement my idea. I believe that if this is BILLBOARD BULLETIN: . Although there have been offers of VP Business and Legal Affairs successful, it might help the music industry Managing Editor: Michael Amicone Associate Editor: Horwitz International Editor: Mark Solomon space from locales such as Lenox, Mass.; The Clyde Otis Music Group climb out of the financial slump it has been in Savannah, Ga.; and even Hoboken, N.J., none Englewood, N.J. for the past five years. BILLBOARD ONLINE: http:/ /www.billboard.com of these places loom significantly as a suitable Mark A. Roesler 212- 536 -1402, sbell @billboard.com place in my mind. Do you really think Irving SOLVING STREET-DATE VIOLATIONS Concrete Marketing Berlin would have written "White Christmas" I am writing to Billboard once again about New York PRESIDENT: HOWARD LANDER looking out of a window in Savannah? Would the ongoing blatant infractions the Wal-Mart Senior VP /General Counsel: Georgina Challis Vice Presidents: Karen Oert ley, Adam White Strategic Development: Ken Schlager Director of Articles and letters appearing on this page serve as a forum for the expression of views of general interest. The opinions offered here are not necessarily those of Billboard or its management. Business Manager: Joelien Sommer Billboard Music Group Letters should be submitted to the Letters Editor. Commentaries should be submitted to Commentary Editor Marilyn A. Gillen, Billboard, 1515 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10036

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www.americanradiohistory.com PopKomm Speaker Bemoans Govt. Inaction Burke Prepares Overhaul BPW's Stein Says German Officials Ignored Music Concerns For BY JEFF CLARK -MEADS turc in ,' it's all too easy to get other, and it is the flourishing cultural Virgin Retail Europe the impression that he is really talking scene -as Mr. Stein put it-that will LONDON -The loss- making Virgin "I am considering ways in which COLOGNE, Germany -A plea by the about so -called `serious music.' " profit as a whole. I can only ask my Retail Europe is on the point of a the experience and expertise we have leader of the German record industry Stein contended that all areas of the friend Mr. Stein not to drive a wedge major overhaul, a restructuring that got in all of the various territories can for more help from politicians has music industry must combine to seek between just to accommo- appears likely to involve store clo- better be used for the whole business apparently fallen on deaf ears. In fact, protections for copyrights in the digi- date the business interests of the rec- sures. and make it more of a single Euro- argues Thomas Stein, president of tal environment. "If we do not pull ord industry." The man at the head of the 26- pean business rather than three busi- industry body BPW, many areas of together in the future, music will be Earlier, Wolfgang Clement, eco- store chain, Simon Burke, says that nesses, as it is at present." concern for the business have actually banished to the cultural wilderness." nomics and technology minister for the a plan for bringing the group to prof- It has not been revealed how the gotten worse. Later in the opening ceremony, state of North Rhine -Westphalia, itability is set to be announced `with- retailing and cinema arms of the Vir- He contends that the German gov- Christian Bruhn, chairman of GEMA's which includes PopKomm's host city of in the next couple of months." gin group would interact under any ernment, instead of encouraging in- board of supervisors, responded to Cologne, had offered an olive branch to He adds that "no decision has been new structure. vestment capital, "strangles individual Stein by saying, "GEMA will be rais- the music industry. taken on closures," although last The way would seem to be clear for initiatives at birth." Further, says ing its voice in the interests of all In his speech at the opening cere- year-when he took over the helm of Burke to implement a new manage- Stein, the state was prepared to put authors, making no distinction between mony, he said, "I hope at this Pop - the chain -Burke told Billboard that ment regime. Longstanding Virgin one of its most "creative and economi- the authors of light music and the Komm we can enter a new phase of dia- he planned to "prune it back to a Retail Europe managing director productive individuals in chains - authors of so -called serious music. logue and partnership between pop point where I think it's viable. Then it Alastair Kerr left the company in in the fullest sense of the word." "Both sectors benefit from each (Continued on page 105) can flourish." July to "pursue a private project," Stein was speaking at the Aug. 14 Burke took responsibility for Vir- according to the company (Billboard, opening of the PopKomm trade fair gin's retailing operations outside the Aug. 2), and Burke assumed his here (see stories, page 57). In front of U.K. when he was appointed chief ex- duties on an interim basis. No an audience consisting of a number of ecutive of the Virgin Retail Group's replacement for Kerr has been senior local and national politicians, he worldwide retail and cinema business named to date, however. assessed progress that had been made Nov. 1 (Billboard, Sept. 21, 1996). He The Virgin Retail Group under on the issues he raised at the equivalent had previously been managing direc- Burke also has a 25% stake in the point last year (Billboard, Aug. 31, 1996). tor of Virgin Retail U.K., a chain he chain of the same name in the U.K., Stein, who is also president of BMG turned from the point of closure to and a management vacuum also Entertainment International in the one of the U.K.'s leading music retail appears to exist there. Burke has not German -speaking territories, stated, brands. been directly replaced since leaving "Last year, I stood here and appealed Of Virgin Retail Europe -which the U.K. business. to you, ladies and gentlemen from the has stores in , , , The remaining 75% of Virgin world of politics, to remove the obsta- , the Netherlands, , and Retail U.K. is owned by the W H cles that stand in the way of our indus- Greece -Burke says, "The business Smith Group, whose chief executive, try and our artists. I asked you to is still loss- making, and we are con- Bill Cockburn, will depart the com- change the slippery slope of statutory sidering a couple of routes to take in pany in October (Billboard, July 5). handicaps into a downhill slope, a take- order to bring it to profitability. JEFF CLARK -MEADS off runway, for artistic creativity." What had happened, he said, was that "the discrimination of value -added tax Elvis Lives Abroad. RCA Records and BMG Entertainment International recent- [VAT] on music is still in place, just like ly announced that total sales of records, outside of the U.S., have the discriminatory tax on foreigners." surpassed 400 million. The milestone was celebrated with the unveiling of a VAT in Germany, as in Red Ant Back In Action elsewhere plaque in addition to 125 gold, platinum, double -platinum, silver, and diamond the European Union, is levied at a high- album-sales plaques from 29 countries. The event kicked off Graceland's Elvis er rate on music than on, for example, Start -Up Label Working Toward Future Week, which commemorated the 20th anniversary of the singer's death. RCA books and magazines because music is BY ED recently released a four -CD boxed set, "Elvis Presley Platinum: A Life In Music." CHRISTMAN investment firm, told Billboard Aug. 13 not deemed to be a cultural good, Celebrating the event, from left, are Bob Jamieson, president of RCA; Jack that his firm still believed in music whereas books and magazines are. Soden, CEO of Elvis Presley Enterprises; and Rudi Gassner, president/CEO of NEW YORK -With a new lease on assets. Before the fate of his bid was The "discriminatory" tax on for- BMG Entertainment International. life, Red Ant president Randy Phillips known, Ziebold pointed out that the eigners is a new tax structure intro- is working to re-invigorate the start -up firm invested $20 million in Red Ant duced by the German federal authori- label. when the label was founded by Al ties early last year that doubled the tax The first order of business, accord- Teller and before it was sold to burden on international acts touring ing to Phillips, is to replace the people Alliance. That investment has created the country to 32% of revenue (Bill- AFTRA Case Moves Forward who left the label during the period a foundation for the label, he said. board, March 23, 1996). when Red Ant's fate was uncertain. "Some of that has been compromised Stein argued that the government Judge Says There Is Enough Evidence Many projects from the label's 18- by the bankruptcy," he added. "[But] had been intransigent over this matter. act roster were left in limbo because of this is an existing company with viable In what was likely a reference to lead- BY BILL HOLLAND ords of AFTRA Funds under the Em- the bankruptcy filing by Red Ant's management and viable acts. Despite ing concert Marcel Avram, ployee Retirement Security Program former parent, Alliance Entertainment all the negativity, we think we can still in prison facing charges of tax evasion A four -year legal battle over health federal guidelines. The case also Corp., and Phillips says he wants to re- establish Red Ant." Ziebold has (Billboard, Aug. 23), Stein said, "In- and retirement benefits waged by a charges violations under the Racketeer start moving those projects along. been unavailable for comment since stead of seeking compromise, an ex- group of singers from the 1960s against Influenced and Corrupt Organization Finally, he says, the company has the deal was completed. ample was set. Instead of loosening the the six major record companies, sever- Act. The case could set a precedent for albums to release in the fourth quarter, In other developments, sources state fetters on creative people, one of al indie labels, and the American Fed- future suits dealing with the pension and its distribution must be decided in familiar with the court proceedings say the most creative and economically eration of Television and Radio Artists funds of present -day performers. order to accommodate those titles. that Red Ant and PolyGram have cre- productive individuals in the industry (AFTRA) took a significant step for- According to court documents, rec- The titles slated for release in the ated a joint venture, which has signed was put in chains, in the fullest sense ward Aug. 14 when a judge ruled that ord companies are responsible for mak- upcoming months include Sunz Of Man Salt-N -Pepa. Sources say the record- of the word, when he was on his hospi- there is enough evidence for a suit to ing contributions to the AFTRA Funds and Militia. The label currently has ing act is getting approximately $14 tal bed. I do not seek to defend tax eva- proceed. under the AFTRA Code of Fair Prac- sets from Symposium, Mexico 70, and million. The duo's new album, "Brand sion-if this is what happened -but The group is alleging that the health - tice for Phonograph Recordings (the Naked in the marketplace. New," is slated to be released on Lon- this example is not a way to solve Ger- plan administrators of AFTRA under- "Phono Code "). The Phono Code re- Red Ant was facing almost certain li- don Records and Red Ant and will be man tax problems." paid or intentionally neglected to pay quires record companies to make con- quidation after Wasserstein, Perella & worked by both labels, according to He said that despite industry con- retirement and health funds over the tributions to the funds based upon Co. saw its bid shot down in court (Bill- Darryll Brooks, a principal in Salt-N- cerns over the tax issue, it "has not past four decades. They are further "compensation paid to the recording board, Aug. 23) because the unsecured Pepa's management firm, CD Man- been eliminated. Administrative tricks claiming that the so- called "AFTRA artists" and to submit reports. creditors' committee considered the agement. have merely been used to make it look Funds" administrators and the record The plaintiffs told the court that bid "inadequate." But subsequent However, sources within Universal smaller." companies should be held accountable after four years of legal fencing with negotiations resulted in Wasserstein Music Group indicate that MCA, the He added, `The state's tax policy dis- to ensure that they, and other artists, the companies in the Atlanta court, Perella agreeing to pay $1.05 million act's current label, has yet to agree on courages the accumulation of creative receive proper contributions. they had exhausted all administrative for the label. Of that, $625,000 was paid a buyout of the group's contract. wealth. It strangles individual initia- Judge Clarence Cooper of the U.S. remedies. The court agreed. on the closing Aug. 19; the remainder, MCA officials had no comment at tives at birth." District Court for the Northern District Joining plaintiff Moore in the suit are in the form of a promissory note, is press time. Stein also argued that both the gov- of Georgia, Atlanta Division, ruled that , Jerry Butler, Carl payable in one year and carries 8% Meanwhile, the fate of the $25 mil- ernment and authors' body GEMA the case, Samuel D. Moore vs. AFTRA Gardner, Brian Hyland, Leslie Cham- interest. In addition, Alliance will hold lion lawsuit by Delicious Vinyl couldn't appeared to ascribe value only to music Health and Retirement Funds, can now bers, Willie B. Pinkney, Barbara Ack- a 10% stake in Red Ant. be determined at press time. Accord- for minority tastes. "This means that move forward to the discovery and lin, Alfred Smith (known professional- The Wasserstein Perella entity that ing to testimony given in court during too many people still think class -certification stage. ly as Brenton Wood), and Otis R. owns Red Ant is an investment fund the Red Ant hearing, a settlement has is inferior to classical music," said Preliminary hearings in the case Harris (known professionally as known as Cyprus Ventures Inc. been negotiated with the Los Angeles - Stein. began in 1995 (Billboard, Dec. 16, 1995). Damon Harris) and the estates or ben- Despite the tough times the label based hip -hop label whereby it would He continued,'When GEMA [pres- The complaint was filed in fall 1993. eficiaries of Jackie Wilson, Dave Prater experienced while under Alliance own- buy itself out of its joint venture with ident/GM Reinhold Kreile] talks about The landmark case is the first time (of Sam & Dave), Doris Jackson, Mar- ership, Townsend Ziebold, a managing Red Ant for $1.5 million; payments the `growth and expansion of music cul- a court has examined the financial rec- shall Thompson, and Mary Wells. director for the New York -based would be made in three installments.

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www.americanradiohistory.com ArtistR &B RAP DANCE COUNTRY LATIN CLASSICAL JAll PRO AUDIO usic TWO HEATSEEKERS ACTS MAKE A SPEEDY IMPACT the band decided to ly well." Interscope Is ` Walkin' ' guys getting all this attention? They It wasn't until Asylum's McCann, 15, haven't been in the trenches that long.' take matters into its own hands, hiring Lehning emphasizes that McCann High With But the truth is that, individually, we producer Eric Valentine (Third Eye Scores With Own Sound was signed before Rimes hit. "It's not had all been playing for a long time in Blind) to work on the demo that even- about that at all. She was pre -LeAnn. she BY DOUG REECE different bands." tually ended up at KOME, that McDon- BY CHET FLIPPO It didn't matter how old or young Singer , inspired by nell was able to bring Smash mouth to might be. All of our artists are long- LOS ANGELES-"So don't delay/Act such acts as House Of Pain, had landed the attention of Interscope president NASHVILLE -On Sept. 1, Lila term artists for us." now/Supplies are running out" goes the a single deal on Taboo Records as part Tom Whalley. McCann will be filming a video here for They selected Mark Spiro to pro- first verse of the chorus to "Walkin' On of the rap act F.O.S. (Freedom Of "The band was in L.A. talking to a the second single from her fast-rising duce, partly because he had written The Sun," the impossibly catchy debut Speech). few other labels and I hadn't even self -titled debut album. "Blackbird" (with Michael Smother - single from Interscope act Smash Similar to Smash mouth's alliance heard the new demo, but I went down On Sept. 2, McCann will start ninth man) and partly due to his work pro- mouth's album "Fush Yu Mang." with KOME, the deal with Taboo was to Tom's office and gave him the scoop grade in her hometown of Steilacoom, ducing Julian Lennon. Those lines, which refer to the cemented after a local radio outlet, the on everything that they had done," says Wash. "I had done demos of Mark's songs," singer's urge to return to a more peace- now-defunct San Jose -cross- McDonnell. "He happened to know The 15- year -old, whose album McCann says, "and we loved him. I ful societal aesthetic, could also be over station KHQT (Hot 97.7), began their lawyer, made a phone call, and (released June 17) achieved Billboard don't think we could have chosen a bet- applied to the rabidity with which con- supporting the song. after a few meetings they signed with Heatseeker Impact status at No. 94 on ter producer. Most of the songs for the sumers have been purchasing the Such lessons, say Harwell, fired his us. Then I started getting nervous." The Billboard 200 and whose first sin- album came through Mark. We went band's album since its July 8 release. already-acute interest in the business Though McDonnell may have sec- gle, "Down Came A Blackbird," is at song- searching through all the pub- As a result of the huge reac- side of the music industry. Along with ond- guessed her boosterism, all fears No. 29 on the Hot Country Singles & lishing companies around Nashville, tion, Smash were assuaged when it became evident Tracks chart mouth achieved "Walkin' On The Sun" was highly reac- this issue, has a Heatseeker Im- tive at radio. very low -key HEAT pact status "It's funny," McDonnell says of the HEAT attitude about when "Fush Yu single's appeal. "It's like osmosis; peo- her newfound SEEKERS, SEEKERS Mang" rose to ple have just been sponging it in." success. ,MPAcT No. 86 on The KOME has spun the song 294 times, She and her Billboard 200 according to Broadcast Data Systems, label, Asylum for the issue and PD/music director Jay Taylor says Records, down- dated Aug. 23. The album is at No. 74 it's showing no sign of burn. play any comparisons to LeAnn Rimes, McCANN with Pacesetter distinction this issue. "I think the song proved to people and McCann plans to stay in school and Sales of the album are in excess of SMASH MOUTH that the band had a lot of depth, and it pursue her career around her education. 61,000 units, according to SoundScan. was one of those records that the first Asylum co- president Kyle Lehning me and my mother and my manager The relatively speedy rise of the San other band members, he is now con- time you hear it you know it has the signed her to a development deal two and Mary Martin from Asylum. That's Jose, Calif. -based foursome's album templating starting a label in San Jose. potential to be huge," says Taylor. years ago on the recommendation of how we found the other songs. has its roots in a chain of events that "When our lawyer was setting up With KOME and XTRA-FM San then Elektra Entertainment Group 'We had had the song `Blackbird' for began at local modern rock outlet meetings with record labels, I would Diego on board two weeks before the president Seymour Stein. about 21/2 years. That was the first song KOME San Jose. ask him if he could just let me go down song's June 30 radio release date, and "I was playing at the Palomino Club we picked for the album. I had demoed When the station began playing and talk to people myself," says Har- such major stations as KROQ Los in Los Angeles when I was 12 or so, `Blackbird' for Mark before. I had been "Nervous In The Alley" from the then well. "Even if they weren't into the Angeles, WHFS Washington, D.C., and and Seymour saw me there, and he doing it live, and everybody thought it unsigned band's demo tape in April music, it was cool to make friends and WLUM Milwaukee jumping on the loved me," says McCann. "That was was pretty cool, and it was cool to see 1996, its subsequent popularity with lis- build relationships. Someone in radio track a week early, the song had a head really cool. Then Seymour set up a how people reacted to it." teners resulted in an invitation for the once told me that you meet the same start in the radio footrace. showcase for me with Kyle in June of McCann co -wrote one song with group to appear with such acts as No people on the way up that you do on the The track is also already achieving a '95. Then I got my record deal in Spiro on the album and is already writ- Doubt, Beck, and 311 at the station's way down, so I've been trying to look smattering of at mainstream December of that year." ing songs for the follow -up. 'Writing is Kamp KOME . Label at things that way and avoid burning rock and even triple -A stations. Inter - Lehning says that before the show- fun," she says, "and I definitely want interest and press coverage followed. bridges." scope will begin working the track at case, he listened to a McCann tape that to do more." Smash mouth's guitarist/main song- The band's connections have already top 40 radio Tuesday (26). he found "good, but not great. Nothing "Down Came A Blackbird" is, says writer, Greg Camp, says that the early served it well. Interscope's national di- MTV has also rung in with support, was killing me. We were kind of hem- Lehning, a song that tends to polarize strong attention did result in some- rector of alternative promotions, Lynn moving the clip for the track into heavy ming and hawing about what to do, people. 'We came with that as the first thing of a backlash, however. McDonnell, who first saw the act per- rotation Aug. 19. because there wasn't an obvious direc- single because we knew there would be 'We played Kamp KOME at Shore- form a few years ago at a house party Camp explains that the musical tion. Then I got a tape of her singing comparisons with LeAnn, and we felt line and were on the cover of BAM [Bay in San Jose, says she made more than backbone of the song, which was re- demos, and one of those was `Down that that song would separate her from Area Music] before we even got signed, one failed attempt at getting Inter - corded on 8- track, began as a tempo Came A Blackbird.' 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Industry Pays Tribute To Stays True To Sound Of His `Soul' Tommy Boy Anticipates Album To Enjoy Int'l Success Qawwali Master Khan BY SHAWNEE SMITH mercially released June 17 and has sold of modes [on `My Soul']." 486,000 units, according to SoundScan. Tommy Boy is expecting "My Soul" BY NIGEL WILLIAMSON tributed a track to "Vande Mataram," NEW YORK-Coolio admits that when "[`C U When U Get There'] is a hit to surpass Coolio's earlier sets. Ac- a Sony Music India album, released he set out to record his latest album, for us, that's why we're playing it 95 cording to SoundScan, "It Takes A LONDON -An album of electronic Aug. 15, marking India's 50th "My Soul" -which streets internation- times a week," says Joe Dawson, PD Thief" has sold 994,000 units, and dance of the music of Nusrat anniversary (Billboard, Aug. 16). A ally Monday (25) and in the U.S. Tues- at WWKX Providence, R.I. "As far as "Gangsta's Paradise," has sold 2.6 mil- Fateh Ali Khan, produced by Peter Hindi- language film featuring his day (26) -he felt pressure from his I'm concerned, whatever Coolio touch- lion units. "It Takes A Thief' spawned Gabriel, is scheduled for October music, "Aur Pyar Ho Gaya," also was and people around him to es turns into a hit, and I don't expect the hit "Fantastic Voyage," which release as a tribute to the Pakistani released that week in India (See produce an album that would duplicate anything less from this new album." peaked at No. 3 on the Hot 100 in July gawwali singer, who died of heart fail- Global Music Pulse, page 59). the level of success attained by 1995's In addition to "C U When U Get 1994, while the single "Gangsta's Par- ure Aug. 16. Says Gabriel, "I feel a great sense "Gangsta's Paradise." There," "My Soul" also contains the adise" hit No. 1 in September 1995 and Khan, 49, died suddenly in a Lon- of loss of an extraordinary artist and But instead of being swayed by pub- tracks "Ooh La La," "Homeboy," "The sold 3.1 million units. don hospital but had suffered from ill a friend. I have never heard so much lic opinion, he allowed his vision to Devil Is Dope," and "Knight Fall," "Coolio has hosted `Motel ' health for some time. He had been spirit in a voice. My two main singing permeate the set lyric- and produc- which run the gamut of tempos and re- this summer on MTV, he'll be doing told by doctors inspirations, Nusrat and Otis Red- tion -wise and achieved a personal goal flect his ideals. In special performances on BET and that his kidneys ding, have been supreme examples of that he believes has gone unattained the U.S., "Ooh La MTV, and he's been on [Jay] Leno, were in danger of how far and deep a voice can go in since his debut set, "It Takes A Thief," La" will be the [David] Letterman, and Rosie O'Don- failing and that finding, touching, and moving a soul. was released in 1994. album's first single; nell. He's popular in so many markets he should lose It was always a thrill to work togeth- "It's funny that I'm a black man but the track is being at radio, though, so it's hard to do any weight. He was er. He was always generous and white stations add my music before serviced to radio exclusive promo giveaways," says Wall. reportedly wait- ready to experiment with whatever I black stations do," Coolio says. "My Sept. 9. A commer- Coolio will launch the album with an ing for a kidney - threw at him." music has attracted a lot of people, but cial release date in -store appearance Tuesday (26) at transplant opera- Born in 1948 to a family that boast- the hardest audience to reach is the had not been set at Wherehouse in Los Angeles' Beverly tion at the time of KHAN ed a 600 -year tradition of classical hardcore hip -hop audience that listens COOLIO press time. Connection mall, which is being publi- his death. His Islamic singing, Nusrat started per- to Wu -Tang, , and Snoop .. Kevin Engeler, cized at L.A. radio stations KPWR body was immediately flown back to forming professionally in 1964. He I think this album will reach them." music buyer at Best Buy, expects "My (Power), KKBT (the Beat), and KIIS. his hometown of Faisalabad, Pak- swiftly built a reputation as one of the Continuing to espouse the same pos- Soul" to be one of the best -selling Coolio is booked by William Morris istan, for burial (Billboard Bulletin, finest practitioners of qawwali, the itive sentiments, intricately explained albums of this quarter. and managed by Josefa Salinas of Aug. 19). devotional music of the Sufis, one of life lessons, and party anthems present "It's going to be one of the biggest Crowbar Management. His publishing The singer rose to international the three main divisions of Islamic on previous sets, "My Soul" is steeped titles of the year," he says. "Coolio has is handled by Boo Daddy Publishing prominence on the back of the world doctrine. His style was highly pas- in an ideology Coolio attained through established himself as a major cross- (ASCAP). music phenomenon in the '80s and sionate, drawing on a centuries -old growing up in the ghetto and getting an over artist with a fan in both Internationally, Coolio recently fin- popularized Islamic music across the canon, but his trademark became a opportunity to rise above the despair urban and pop. He's got a lot of poten- ished a nine -day promo tour, perform- Western world. A professional singer slightly faster tempo than traditional and shape a universal worldvew. tial singles on this new record." ing at the Essential Festival at Centu- in his native Pakistan for more than qawwali music, which seemed to "I've traveled the world, and I've Although Coolio has set his sights ry Park in London, PopKomm and the 30 years, he signed to Gabriel's Real appeal to a younger audience. seen people in Poland living worse on attracting a new fan base, Tommy VIVA Awards in Germany, and vari- World label and burst out of the His live appearances were charac- than I've ever lived, kids in not Boy hasn't changed its marketing ous festivals throughout Europe, straitjacket of traditional music with terized by heavy improvisation; he having clothes to wear and enough strategy. "We don't try to market Coo- according to Martin Davies, Tommy a series of breathtaking East -West would repeat one word from a song food to eat, and realize my life wasn't lio to the whole world," says Garry Boy International rep. In most terri- fusions with electronic composer some 20 or 30 times in often complex so bad," he says. "But I think that Wall, Tommy Boy marketing rep. "A tories the label is distributed by its Peter Brook. rhythmic patterns, producing an mentally [African- Americans] go huge group of people are drawn to own Tommy Boy Music. His voice also became much in ecstatic, trance -like effect. It was this through the most stress, because we've Coolio for different reasons, but they Davies notes that "C U When U Get demand for movie , from quality that first attracted listeners been taught to believe that we can't all end up loving him for the same rea- There" is very much seen internation- "Natural Born Killers" to "Dead Man in the West, who had little idea of the achieve. But I've been able to depro- son- because he makes good songs." ally as the first single from the Coolio Walking," in which he was featured meaning of the words drawn from the gram myself from the environment I Wall notes that while "C U When U album, because the film "Nothing To in two unlikely duets with Eddie Ved- works of Sufi poets and saints. He grew up around, and I just want my Get There" serves as a good launching Lose" won't be released worldwide der of Pearl Jam. always insisted that his music was not music to be a mind opener, to expose pad for "My Soul," the label is pro- until November. Despite the lack of officially sanc- exclusively for Muslims but spoke in people to other perspectives." moting "Ooh La La" as the first single "I'm very excited because there tioned cultural links between Muslim a universal language that could be "My Soul" will likely be bolstered by to be associated with the label. " `C U hasn't really been a singles market in Pakistan and the Hindu state of understood by anyone in search of the single "C U When U Get There," When U Get There' is not an official Japan and Brazil," he says, "and Sony India, Khan worked on both sides of their own spirituality. from Tommy Boy's "Nothing To Lose" first impression of the album," says Japan and Warner Brazil, our [respec- the border and made a significant Over the past 10 years, he toured soundtrack, which is No. 16 on this Wall. "It's definitely one category or tive representatives] in those coun- contribution to the Indian music North America and Europe exten- issue's Hot 100. Broadcast Data Sys- one facet in that it's a hit record, with tries, have chosen `C U When U Get scene. sively, performing cross -legged and tems detected 851 spins at rhythm - its tempo, its attitude, and its sound, There' as one of the first singles to be Shortly before his death, he con- (Continued on page 96) crossover radio for the single during the but the album has a variety of differ- released in those markets. He is real- week of Aug. 11. The track was corn- ent songs, and Coolio displays an array ly breaking international boundaries."

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RECORD COMPANIES. MCA Records in Universal City, Calif., appoints Steve Zap VP of top 40 promotion, Debby Peterson national director of crossover promotion, and Michelle St. Clair senior director of alternative promotion. They were, respectively, VP of pop promotion at Red Ant Records, national director of crossover ZAP PETERSON ST. CLAIR BROWN FONTAINE POLLACK ZUCKER ANDERSON promotion at Red Ant, and senior director of alternative promotion at and manager of merchandising. Joseph Salvo senior director of busi- She was media and artist relations Windham Hill Group in Beverly Hills, Red Ant. V2 Records in New York names ness and legal affairs. They were, assistant. Calif. She was senior label director for Island Black Music in New York Matt Pollack VP of promotion and respectively, black music coordinator Cherry Entertainment Group ap- Cerna Distribution. promotes Stanley Brown to VP of David Calderley VP of design. They and senior counsel at Sony Music. points Jennifer Blakeman VP of oper- A &R. He was senior A &R director. were, respectively, VP of alternative Yvette Davis is appointed manager ations and special projects and Leslie PUBLISHING. Dan Zucker is promot- Island Records in New York names promotion at and of press and artist development at Reed director of A&R research. They ed to senior VP of business affairs and Jeff Condon associate director of na- senior art director at Island Records/ Elektra Entertainment Group in New were, respectively, A &R rep at Mary Kay Bua is named director of tional media relations. He was inter- PolyGram. York. She was media assistant at and A &R rep/sound- licensing and business affairs at national publicity manager. Diane Lockner is named associate . track coordinator at Atlantic. Zomba Recording Corp. in New York. Justin Fontaine is appointed VP of director of promotion at Guardian Rec- Antone DeSantis is promoted to Word Records in Nashville pro- They were, respectively, VP of busi- national promotion and Doneen Lom- ords in New York. She was promotion director of national field sales at Rhino motes Lesley Burbridge to director of ness affairs and manager of licensing. bardi is promoted to director of mer- coordinator at TAG Recordings. Records in Los Angeles. He was na- public relations. She was manager of Quincy Jones Music Publishing in chandising at in Hol- in New York pro- tional field sales manager. media relations. Los Angeles promotes Tracy Ander- lywood, Calif. They were, respectively, motes Lisa Hinds to manager of R &B Atlantic Records in New York pro- Kathleen Callahan is named direc- son to creative manager. She was cre- VP of promotion at Sony Work Group promotion operations and names motes Rachel Arturi to tour publicist. tor of West Coast regional sales at the ative coordinator.

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Kenny Wayne Shepherd's Got `Trouble' Jerry Harrison Produces Blues Rocker's Revolution Set BY CARRIE BORZILLO ments of the songs -he hears things in Shepherd is also excited about the certain places that aren't there," Shep- addition of his new singer, Hunt, for- LOS ANGELES -When 20-year -old herd says. "It's a more aggressive merly of Cincinnati -based roots rock- blues -rock guitarist Kenny Wayne sound, sonically. It's really in your face. ers Uncle Six. Hunt replaced Corey Shepherd was first approached by Rev- That's what I was going for." Sterling in April. "The difference olution Records A &R executive Jeff Even with Harrison's background between him and Corey," says Shep- Aldrich with the idea for ex- Talking with alternative herd, "is Corey came from an alterna- Head Jerry Harrison to produce his bands (Live, the tive background. Noah knows -he's new album, he said, "Whoa. What's that Verve Pipe, Vio- studied-blues, like me. We're coming got to do with the blues ?" lent Femmes), the from the same place. And he's got such "But then I heard the music," says producer's influ- a great voice." Shepherd from the recording studio ences didn't Shepherd, who wrote all of the lyrics where he is putting the finishing touch- change Shepherd's on the album and arranged the music es on "Trouble Is . ," due Oct. 7 on core sound much. with Harrison and Bill Pfordresher, Revolution. "I listened to some of the "It seems to be recorded three cover songs: Bob projects he produced, like Big Head SHEPHERD taking a step in Dylan's "Everything Is Broken," which Todd & the Monsters, and the produc- the more contem- Harrison suggested, and Jimi Hen - Toys In The Garden. The members of Aerosmith are presented plaques from tion was great." porary direction," says Shepherd. "We drix's "I Don't Live Today" and Madison Square Garden execs commemorating 20 years of shows by the group The pairing-as well as using such did some different-style songs. The "Voodoo ." at the New York arena. Shown in the front row, from left, are Aerosmith's Brad noted players as Double Trouble's first single, `Slow Ride,' is pretty hard - The latter song is one of the first that Whitford, Joe Perry, Steven Tyler, Joey Kramer, and Tom Hamilton. Pictured in , Tommy Shannon, and core. It rocks. the young Shepherd played and the the back row, from left, are band manager Wendy Laister; Joel Peresman, Madi- Reese Wynans; James Cotton; and new "[Harrison] was really a pleasure to song he usually closes his shows with. son Square Garden VP in charge of and entertainment; and Burt Gold- singer Noah Hunt -seems to work. work with. He gave me freedom to do However, at press time, the final stein, Aerosmith's business manager. "Trouble Is . ," the follow -up to his what I want to do and had great ideas. (Continued on page 16) "Ledbetter Heights" debut, is chock- It was also inspiring to work with some full of Shepherd's soulful, wise-beyond- of the best players in town. It was just his- years guitar playing and heartfelt a great experience to work with these lyrics. guys that I looked up to for so many Anger May Be Headed To N2K; "Jerry contributed to the arrange- years." Slate of Stones Events Gets Rolling CHANGES: Although N2K would not confirm by press a slate of activities. The band will appear live via satellite Hall & Oates Get Label time, look for Harry Anger to be named GM of N2K En- at MTV's Video Music Awards Sept. 4, and MTV will have coded Music. Industry vet Anger most recently headed up the exclusive premiere of the first two from new set AVI, the label group whose imprints included Excello and "Bridges To Babylon," to be released Sept. 30, including Push For `Marigold Sky' Nashboro ... Freddy DeMann, who has managed Madon- first single "Has Anybody Seen My Baby." Both VHl and BY MELINDA NEWMAN na for 14 years, has decided to concentrate solely on Mav- MTV will air portions of the opening -night concert live. erick, the label started by Madonna and DeMann five years Also, the group will perform Oct. 14 on MTV's "Live At NEW YORK- Despite the fact that ago. Caresse Norman, who has been acting as Madonna's The 10 Spot," and the Stones will appear Oct. 28 on VH1's they haven't released an album in co- manager, will now "function" as her manager, accord - Fashion Awards. Additionally, VH1 will be dubbed "Stones seven years, Daryl Hall says there was ing to spokeswoman Liz Rosenberg TV Stoned Again" the week of the no doubt that he and partner John (Billboard Bulletin, Aug. 19). OA tour opening and will feature Stones' Oates would record another album concerts, documentaries, movies, together. S IT REALLY SO? We'd all but and videoclips. Who needs to go to "I never thought we weren't going given up hope that the Beach Boys' the show when you can get all this for to work together again," says Hall. "I boxed set "The Pet Sounds Sessions" free - unless, of course, you want to didn't know when -we made it an would ever come out, but - see one of the opening acts. Sharing open -ended sort of separation - CD collection is now slated for a Nov the stage with the Stones for various because we both wanted to explore our HALL & OATES 4 release on Capitol Records /EMI- dates will be Blues Traveler, Sheryl individual personalities." Capitol Entertainment Properties. by Melinda Newman Crow, Foo Fighters, Dave Having done that, the pair, who in The long -delayed set was originally Matthews Band, Jamiroquai, and the late '80s surpassed the Everly "They're playing here Monday (25), slated to come out in May 1996 in conjunction with the 30th the Smashing Pumpkins. Brothers as the No. 1 charting duo of and there seems to be a pretty good anniversary of the release of the seminal "Pet Sounds." the rock era, has returned to the level of excitement," says Stan Phillips, Among the highlights of the set are vocal- and instrumen- THIS AND THAT: Usual suspects Bonnie Raiff., Indigo recording studio to make "Marigold PD at WMGS Wilkes- Barre, Pa. "The tal -only versions of "Pet Sounds" ... Columbia execs are Girls, and John Trudell will participate in a No Nukes ben- Sky." Their first album together since song seems to have that classic Hall & reviewing tapes of material that Jeff Buckley was record- efit concert slated for Sept. 24 at the Warner Theater in 1990's "Change Of Season," the Oates sound; it sounds more like '70s ing when he drowned in May in Memphis while working on Washington, D.C. Proceeds will go to the Nuclear Infor- release will come out Sept. 30 on Hall & Oates to me. The song seems to his second full- length album for the label. According to a mation and Resource Service, an info and networking cen- BMG- distributed Push Records. The be textured for the AC format." source, Columbia will consult with Buckley's management ter for grass -roots anti-nuclear and safe -energy organiza- album was produced by Hall, Oates, That's exactly why it was chosen as and family about possibly releasing the material. A release tions. The three acts will reunite Sept. 30 for another benefit and David Bellochio. the first single, says Hall. "We wanted could come before the end of the year ... Look for Atlantic show in Las Vegas ... guitarist Jerry The sound is unmistakably Hall & to get to the AC market because we to release a Led Zeppelin live set, culled from BBC per- Cantrell's solo album has been pushed back from a fall Oates, with Hall's soulful vocals, the thought it was probably our core mar- formances, Nov 11. The set will retail for $24.98. release to early '98, according to Columbia Records, sim- pair's ripe harmonies, and catchy, ket, and we thought that song would ply because Cantrell is still in the studio. Alice In Chains rhythmic pop . "We've invent- work on the AC format," says Hall. ZIP UP: Although the third Squirrel Nut Zippers set is in drummer Sean Kinney plays on the album, as does ed a certain kind of music that's iden- "We're thinking about other songs for the can, Mammoth is delaying the release of the project Mike Inez, who appears on a few tracks. Noticeably absent tifiable," says Hall, "certain kinds of other markets. I think there are a lot until 1998 to prolong the life of the group's appropriately is Chains lead singer Layne Staley ... The Spin Doctors, melodies, harmonies, ; more aggressive songs, more identifi- titled "Hot," which has been certified gold and is still in the the act that parted ways with last year, have certain lyrical point of view. It's hard able Hall & Oates songs on the album." top half of The Billboard 200. However, Zipper nuts can get signed a new deal with Columbia -distributed Ruffhouse to describe, but when you do these In fact, Brian Doyle, the band's man- their paws on new material Sept. 9, when Mammoth releas- Records ... The members of Supersoul/Roadrunner group things, it sounds like Hall & Oates." ager and Push president, says his label es "Sold Out," a six -track EP of live tunes and outtakes, Shelter are recovering from a horrendous van crash that Finding the blend between the old plans to work various songs to a vari- including one from the forthcoming set. The only song pre- occurred as they drove to Denver following an Aug. 16 show and new Hall & Oates was not always ety of audiences that fall outside of Hall viously recorded by the band is "La Grippe," which appears in Salt Lake City. The injuries ranged from bumps and easy, says Oates. "That was the biggest & Oates' primary demographic of as a live version on "Sold Out" from a show at Atlanta's Roxy scrapes to broken vertebrae. Roadrunner still plans to challenge," he says. "To not repeat our- females between the ages of 35 and 55. Theater. The EP which sells for $9.98, is a limited edition, release the band's new album, "Beyond Planet Earth," Sept. selves, but at the same time, maintain Triple -A stations will be serviced with with approximately 30,000 copies sent to retail. After record 23 ... PBS is broadcasting "Dave Koz: Off The Beaten Path, the style the people know" the complete album at the end of the stores sell out, the band will sell the CD at its shows. Live From Trinidad" as part of its August pledge drive, Clearly, the duo is right on the mark. month, "Time Won't Pass Me By" will marking the first time a contemporary jazz artist has been The first single, the silky ballad be featured on a sampler aimed at DON'T FRET: Even if your town isn't a scheduled stop part of the fund- raising activities. The one -hour concert spe- "Promise Ain't Enough," got added to alternative fans, and the label is even for tour, it will be hard to escape Mick, cial features the saxophonist performing in Trinidad. Capi- 21 AC stations its first week out, includ- running a contest in conjunction with Keith, and company once they hit the trail Sept. 23 at tol Home Video will release the special in September, the ing WBEB Philadelphia; WSHH Pitts- dance -oriented magazine Streetsound Chicago's Soldier Field. MTV and VH1, which are pre- same month Koz's Christmas album, "December Makes Me burgh; WGSY Columbus, Ga.; and for readers to the song "Hold senting the tour in conjunction with Sprint, have lined up Feel This Way," will be released. KKCW, Portland, Ore. (Continued on page 14)

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RCA Sees A Multi -Genre `Slide' Windham Hill Counts on `Hunger' For Ian To Success For Irish Act Junkster Label Targets Demo Group Via Lilith Fair, Triple -A BY JIM BESSMAN is me being second -generation Ameri- while, "has AC written all over it," says BY PAUL SEXTON BMG International says the album can and [having] the hunger to belong, Newman, who looks to take it there will be made commercially available NEW YORK-When it comes to Janis then hunger for family and fulfillment, early next year. LONDON-Junkster may be mak- to its European companies (outside Ian, timing is everything. the hunger for a country to live up to Sampler discs containing "Honor ing strides on Billboard's Hot of the U.K.) throughout September. At least that's the way her new label, its promise-which is also obviously Them All" and "Searching For Amer- Dance Music /Club Play chart, but Beginning Windham Hill, sees it. "She's a pioneer reflected in `Searching." ica" have also gone out to program- RCA has a multi- format break- July 13, the in the female musician arena, which Noting that her landmark 1966 mers, much to the delight of Mia Kar- through in its sites for the Irish band was in started out decades ago and went breakthrough hit natz, development director of triple -A newcomers. the U.S. to underground -then exploded with "Society's Child" KPCC Pasadena, Calif., and host of a Fronted by singer /lyricist play a series everybody from Shawn Colvin to Jewel -about a doomed Monday-night slot there. "I'll sure play Deirdre O'Neill, the Dublin five - of club dates to Sarah McLachlan," says Grace New- interracial ro- the heck out of it, because one of our piece (signed directly to RCA's U.S. in Philadel- man, senior director of field marketing mance -still gets focuses is singer /songwriters," she company) is taking its American phia, Boston, for Windham Hill, which releases Ian's college radio play, says, "but I'm always really excited to bow ahead of its British debut, with New York, label debut, "Hunger," Sept. 30. "In Ian believes that get new music from Janis Ian, because its label upbeat about the group's and Wash- light of that explosion, there's a huge one "Hunger" she's one of the finest singer /song- out -of-the -box potential. JUNKSTER ington, D.C. opportunity to capture a new audience track, "In Black writers out there. It's nice to see that "Slide," with mixes by Todd Junkster al- for Janis of the younger people who IAN And White," a she's continuing to write and put new Terry, climbed to No. 19 on the Hot so performed at RCA's sales con- form the demo for this music -as well contemporary music out, because she writes such Dance Music /Club Play chart in vention July 19 in New York. "One as her many longtime fans who've been take on race relations that has gotten wonderful songs, like [1975's] `At Sev- Billboard's Aug. 2 issue. of our strategies was to go to waiting for a new album from her." standing ovations at folk festivals this enteen,' that we all relate to." On Aug. 12, RCA took "Mr. Blue," clubs," says Dwayne Welch, RCA As a revered singer /songwriter summer, will garner the same. But the But any airplay will be "icing on the a mid -paced pop -rock track with VP of international (U.S.). "But the signed to Windham Hill proper (as first single is "Honor Them All," which cake" for Windham Hill, says New- hip -hop beats, to modern rock album can appeal to so many dif- opposed to sister labels High Street goes to triple -A stations Sept. 9 and man. Cassette samplers with two cuts radio. The album "Junkster" will be ferent genres that through the and Private), Ian is seen as key to the possibly to hot AC outlets thereafter. each by Ian and High Street's Patty released Sept. 30 by RCA in the entire album project we're going to expansion of the BMG Entertainment The ballad "Getting Over You," mean- (Continued on page 15) U.S. and in October in the U.K. (Continued on page 15) unit beyond its former new age base. Initially, however, Ian, whose last al- bum, "Revenge," came out on Beacon Records, had little interest in going HALL & OATES' `MARIGOLD SKY' with a major. amusement (Continued from page 12) "They approached my manager BOXSCORE b u s i n e s s Onto Yourself." committee decides upon, where we're [Simon Renshaw], but I told him I TOP 10 CONCERT GROSSES labels, and I Gross Attendance After releasing two albums on competing with other acts being didn't trust major that ARTIST(S) Venue Date(s) Ticket Price(s) Capacity Promoter Arista, the duo and label split amicably. released the same week. I really want- certainly didn't want to be with Wind- "[Arista president] Clive Davis felt like ed to do it ourselves. BMG is distribut- ham Hill and make zither music!" she MICHAEL JACKSON Ring Aug. 10 $3,261,701 88000 Mama Concerts & Hockenheim, (5,642,743 marks) sellout Rau he wanted a record skewing a little bit ing us, so it's not like we're out there says, laughing. "But I met with them Germany $46.24/$45.66/ younger demo, he wasn't completely selling it off the street." when I was in L.A., and they treated $38.731$36.30 satisfied," says Doyle. "We felt like it Oates says that confirmation that the me like royalty, and for someone in my was a tremendous record, so we agreed pair made the right album using its age group who's going through all the MICHAEL JACKSON Olympic Stadium Aug. 1 $2,934.036 78,187 Mama Concerts & to part ways." own judgment is borne out by the reac- problems that older female artists have Berlin 15,075.883 marks) sellout Rau Hall, Oates, and Doyle express only tion the new tunes are getting on tour, to deal with, it can be an unkind world. $42.20/$38.15/ the utmost respect for Davis. In fact, "We're only playing three new songs, They heard a couple songs and were 535.261$33.35 Doyle says there was no other major `Promise Ain't Enough,' `Marigold Sky' thoroughly stoked and wined me and the duo wanted to be with. and `Romeo's Bleeding,' and they're dined me like all the 19- year -olds I MICHAEL JACKSON Parken Stadium Aug. 14 $2.681,644 47,402 ET Promotions "In all honesty, Clive Davis is the really going over well," he says. "In the know who get deals. When you have a Copenhagen (17,430,685 kroner) sellout best," Doyle says. "If we're going to go past, we've played new songs, and we've few albums under your belt, they as- $93.08/$70/$62.31 / ahead and part ways with one of the had very bad luck. Even songs that sume you don't respond to that any- $54.62 best guys in the business, then it was eventually became hits, when we first more -but everybody does!" were initially Ian produced with really the sign for us to do it ourselves." played them, people just "Hunger" Craig Radio City Music Hall July 22 -23, $2851,000 41850 Radio City Prods. (Hall has also ended ties with his solo polite. People are treating these new Street and Jeff Balding. Additionally, CYNDILAUPER New York 25 -27, $1001$60/550/$40 seven label, Epic. Any future solo records will songs like they've had them for a long Ani DiFranco produced the opening 29 -30 sellouts come out on Push.) time." cut, "Searching For America," and Push is the record label arm of Par- The duo, who continued to play lim- provided backup vocal and instrumen- adise Entertainment, a publicly held ited concert tours during their break tal support on it. MICHAEL JACKSON St. Jakob Stadium July 25 52,317881 50.000 Good News Prods. company that also encompasses a com- from recording together, are currently "It was the nicest producer experi- Basel, Switzerland (3,500,000 francs) sellout mercial jingle company, video produc- on a seven -week tour. ence of my life," Ian says of recording $46.35 tion outfit, and management company. To prime the pump for the album's "Searching." "I'd listened to the `Not Among Push's main stockholders are arrival in stores, postcards with the A Pretty Girl' album 12 times and

Hall; Oates; Doyle; Doyle's partner, "Marigold Sky" are put on thought I should find something else to MICHAEL JACKSON Ullevi Stadium Aug. 16 $2,202,073 50,000 Tomas Johannssen Rick Flynn; video producer Jon Small; each seat at each venue. The cards give do with my life! I'd heard for years that Gothenberg, 117,0OÓ.000 kroner) sellout and jingles company owner John Loef- fans to pre -order the album she was a young Janis Ian, then found $44.04 fler. from J&R Music World and receive at- that she was pushing the envelope in Originally, the idea was for the label home delivery on the album's release ways I wanted to do. So I wrote her a to showcase new talent. "Push was not date. letter and then sent her eight songs MICHAEL JACKSON Fest Wiese Aug. 3 $2,110,035 54,483 Mama Concerts & & Hall & Oates will take a break from and she chose `Searching,' but she Leipzig, Germany (3,650,361 marks) 55.000 Rau about signing Hall Oates, but about $38.73 signing baby bands," says Doyle. How- playing live to do television and radio to hadn't produced anything besides her ever, after the split with Arista, the nat- push the album before undertaking own work and was worried she'd be ural move was to put the duo on Par- another tour. Included in the promo intrusive. It took a year to convince adise's own label. tour is a Sept. 19 appearance on TV's her!" MICHAEL JACKSON RDS Stadium July 19 51,740,203 43,261 Aiken Promotions Ian and core Dublin (1,160,135 punts) sellout Push has also signed active rock "Today." Doyle is also talking to VH1 Acoustic guitarist her $50.25!$41.25 quartet Luxx. The foursome's album about a number of possibilities. backup -percussionist Cyro Baptista, debut will come out in January, follow- At retail, the duo has already lined electric and steel guitar player Kevin ing a single in October. Ideally, Doyle up three in- stores, including one Oct. 1 Breit, and upright bassist David will release up to five at Tower Records in the pair's home- Piltch -cut all the basics on most of MICHAEL JACKSON Roger Herman July 27 $1,083,898 30,003 Inter Concerts says, Push Stadium (6,416,676 francs) 36,260 albums a year. town of Philadelphia. Another in -store the songs live in four days at Nice, France $5912350.681 But for now, Hall & Oates are the big will take place at HMV in New York Bearsville's Barn studio in , $34.63/$32.09 priority, and Hall says they are happy around the time of the album's release, N.Y. The finished product was origi- to be away from the big -label machin- with an appearance at the Virgin nally titled "Searching For America," for was changed to "Welcome To BROOKS & DUNN/REBA Civic Arena Aug. 16 $594,840 14,921 Starstruck ery. Megastore in Los Angeles slated then MCENTIRE Pittsburgh $40 16.000 Promotions "There's something about my and later in the fall. Acousticville "- another album track - Titley /Spalding John's music, where we don't necessar- Because "a lot of 35- to 55 -year -olds before finally settling on "Hunger," ily fit that well into the situation of don't sit in their car listening to the also the name of the second cut. major labels," says Hall. "I think they radio," Doyle says, the label is also try- "It was the easy way to explain the in certain catalogs for theme of the album," says Ian. "I think Copyrighted and compiled by Amusement Business, a publication of Billboard Music Group. Box- move a bit slow for us. Our music goes ing to tie with scores should be submitted to: Marie Ratliff, Nashville. Phone: 615- 321 -4295, Fax: 615-321- in a lot of different directions. We don't higher -end stores like the Sharper the whole album really addresses the 0878. For research information and pricing, call Marie Ratliff, 615 -321 -4295. want to depend on the single that a Image or Harringtons. hunger that can't be satiated. A lot of it BILLBOARD AUGUST 30, 1997 14 www.americanradiohistory.com Artists & Music

RCA SEES A MULTI -GENRE SLIDE TO SUCCESS FOR IRISH ACT JUNKSTER (Continued fro'', ouge 14) the U.K." have an all- format record." Irish act vclose acceptance at home childhood in Africa, convened at Bearsville in Woodstock, N.Y. many, Spain, Austria, and chops," Junkster, which signed to RCA was secondary to its American suc- Junkster as a quartet about 21/2 years "The whole project has taken a The band "earned their worldwide after being chased by cess, but O'Neill does not take kind- ago, but its earliest incarnation was, year," says O'Neill. "We were going according to Welch, by getting in a shows plus myriad other labels, was featured in ly to musical comparisons with her she confesses, stylistically unfocused. to call the album `Maybe Next Week,' van and playing European including one in May a presentation at the company's sales act's compatriots. "Junkster" shows The group's goals became clear dur- because that's what we heard for a Dublin dates, In Europe, plans conference in June in Crete. "It's a a combination of rock influences, ing a make -or -break band holiday on year. But in this industry, by defini- supporting the eels. to play some festi- massive machine, and it's all worked trance beats, and lush . the beaches of Greece, where it tion, that just happens." call for the band 10- out nicely and simultaneously," says "I'm not concerned about whether resolved to poach guitarist Mick " `Slide' is being used to seed the vals this month, and a September the Chesterfield Cafe O'Neill of the label and its release we're cool or hip or happening in New Creedon from a fellow local act. project," says Welch, "and there's a date booking at band's home York or London," says O'Neill. "The O'Neill, Creedon, and fellow gui- low -key video made in Dublin which in Paris is also in place. plans. Ironically, the confidence country will be the last to have access loops may go out of fashion very tarist Aidan Lane became the song- we're using at lifestyle outlets, like But if the collective lead to commercial success to Junkster's music. "That doesn't quickly, but they're good songs." writers for the new lineup and set Irish pubs." The video for "Mr. Blue" does not is mentally pre- bother me," says the singer. "That Adds Welch, "Garbage and Republica about finding a sympathetic produc- was directed by Toby Tremplett, who for Junkster, O'Neill be too careerist seems to be the way people have done have been mentioned [as compar- er, eventually selecting Al Stone, lensed Sneaker Pimps' "6 Under- pared. "You can't says. "If it sticks, fan- it in Ireland. We're not the best at isons], but I like to think they're whose previous work with Bjork and ground" clip. about it," she I'll still think own where the Cranberries should have the Stereo MC's they had admired. The RCA executive says that, after tastic, but if it doesn't, nurturing our talent." do The comment may provoke gone." Then came a long pregnancy before distributing pro -CDs of Junkster to I've had an amazing chance to I to do. You have thoughts of the Cranberries, another O'Neill, who spent part of her the delivery of the album, recorded its worldwide companies in February, something wanted enthusiasm was widespread. "Every- to remember, three of the band used one loved the album," he says, "espe- to make sandwiches, and one worked cially the companies in Holland, Ger- in a chemical plant." WINDHAM HILL COUNTS ON `HUNGER' FOR IAN (Continued from page 14) Larkin have been handed out at Lilith lyrics. We'll keep her busy for a couple press will be plied at street date in shows to feedback, says days!" major markets and in tour markets ANNOUNCING Fair great Newman, noting that Lilith Fair atten- Other contests are also in the works, during a 25 -date tour in September the Grand Opening of the New dees are the "perfect audience to get a including one on the Internet that will and October. great buzz" early on "Hunger." give away an Ian guitar or other per- Ian, who Newman says wowed the An "aggressive presence" at retail sonal effect to the person writing the crowd at the July BMG convention in ENTERTAINMENT OFFICE COMPLEX is now planned to illustrate the label's best essay or song relating to the New York, is also doing an Acoustic - new "no more sandals and candles" "Hunger" theme, and another at retail ville U.K. tour in November with Dar Home of the Flagship approach, says Newman, who adds or radio awarding an Ian "living-room Williams and Martyn Joseph before that the push will be more intensive in concert" to the winner and 25 or so returning for another round of domes- support of Ian in light of the fact "that friends at the winner's home. tic gigs. The song "Welcome To ARD ROCK CAFE no one's seen her in a long time." Sam- In addition, Newman expects a Acousticville," incidentally, is "sort of plers, in -store play, album copies, and "huge" publicity campaign, covering a folk `,' " Ian says. It 221 West 57th Street, New York promotional fliers are going out to such broadcast outlets as network was recorded live last April in Salt "heavily trafficked female demo morning shows, female -oriented after- Lake City and is the first live cut she's Join Your Neighbors stores," says Newman. "As much noon shows, and major Ian supporter ever released on an album. Virgin Records, Universal Records, Carnegie Hall, Central Park, Etc. `chick music' that's out there, there's Howard Stern's syndicated radio pro- Other upcoming appearances in- still a lack of females in record stores, gram. Print targets include The New clude Ian's first showing at the Nation- FULL FLOORS FROM 3,900 to 8,800 SQ. Feet so we're targeting elsewhere- cloth- Yorker, Utne Reader, and New Age al Assn. of Recording Merchandisers ( Will build to suit) (Up to 46,000 Sq.Feet Contiguous) ing stores, candle /gift shops, cafes- Journal, along with lifestyle, musician, Convention and a stop at a New York NEW STATE OF THE ART RENOVATIONS IN PROGRESS An Borders Books & Music outlet. "I did getting in -store and in -cafe play and gay and lesbian publications. IMMEDIATE & CONVENIENT LEASES TO SUIT YOUR NEED copies, so when customers hear it album launch party in New York in one of the first Borders tours -plus also do a conjunction with the Advocate is they give me 30% off," says Ian, adding they'll ask what it is. We'll For Further information, .lease call: Howard Zelcer 718.853.3125 retail contest to win handwritten song scheduled, while local entertainment with a laugh. "I'll work for books!"

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KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD'S GOT `TROUBLE' (Continued from page 12) track listing for the album was not corn - Shepherd was one of the surprise person who loves music that moves plete, so it is uncertain if these three success stories of 1996. Rather than be them. Our real goal is to have people E songs will make the final cut. The relegated to just blues and triple -A not say, `Wow, Kenny is a great blues SOUNDTRACKREEL-\C 8c FILM SCORE NEWS album will include the riveting instru- radio stations, his blues -rock anthem player or guitar player or rock player, mental title track, which was co -writ- "Deja Voodoo" made its way onto but, `Wow, what a soulful genius.' " ten with Double Trouble; "Long Gone," mainstream rock playlists. The song The label already got a jump -start on BY EDITED CATHERINE APPLEFELD OLSON featuring Cotton on harmonica; and a reached No. 9 on the Mainstream setting up "Trouble Is ..." Guitar few radio -ready rockers, "Somehow, Rock Tracks chart. His two other sin- World and Guitar magazines, as well as BEGINNING OF THE END': Outpost Recordings is taking two with the Somewhere, Someway," "Blue On gles, "Born With A Broken Heart" and many of the daily newspapers, have Sept. 9 release of the soundtrack and score sets to Wim Wenders' film "The Black," and "Slow Ride," which will be "Aberdeen," peaked at No. 15 and No. already run features on him, in con- End Of Violence," reuniting Wenders and Ry Cooder, who served as music serviced to mainstream rock radio 23, respectively, on Mainstream Rock junction with the G3 tour he was on in supervisor on the score and contributes a song to the soundtrack. Cooder also Sept. 16. (Blues and triple -A stations Tracks. June with rock guitarists Joe Satriani scored Wenders' only other movie filmed in the U.S., 1984's "Paris, Texas." will get the album in its entirety Oct. "At the time, we were playing more and . The soundtrack, the first film music project for Geffen's Outpost, undulates 1.) active rock stuff, like Pearl Jam and Shepherd kicked off a tour with with a blend of instrumental music and songs that wash among eerie ethere- , and it was like, `Where Lynyrd Skynyrd Aug. 14. After that al sounds, harder-edged rock, and Latino influences. The collection is meant does this fit in ?' But it did," says Rita wraps up Saturday (30), he'll go back to evoke the various spirits of modern-day Los Wilde, music director at mainstream on the G3 tour from Sept. 26 through Angeles, the film's setting, according to Out- SMASH MOUTH rock KLOS Los Angeles. " `Deja Oct. 9. He'll also play a few intimate (Continued from page 9) post principal Mark Williams. Among the Voodoo' had a totally unique sound. It gatherings, such as a Sept. 13 show at highlights are two duets -a quirky entree man's enthusiasm for the track re- just sounded real comfortable and nat- the Roxy in Los Angeles. wrote for and Sinéad O'Connor, and sulted in the band working to flesh it ural, new but yet it had an old, com- "We're going to spend the next two a Michael Stipe/Vic Chesnutt collaboration out into its final version. Strangely fortable feeling about it. I haven't heard years trying to break him worldwide," that Stipe originally had written for Joan Baez reminiscent of '60s rock and jingle the new stuff yet, but with how well says Worth. "We're really trying to five years ago but had never been recorded. The music, the song is at once slick and Jonny Lang's been doing lately, I show more of who he is this time. We soundtrack also features Tom Waits, Los kitschy. expect people to welcome Kenny's new want people to get face to face with Lobos, Outpost act Whiskeytown, Spain, eels, On both the single and "Nervous In album too." him, so we're planning to do a lot of TV and a previously unreleased Roy Orbison tune, The Alley," Camp exhibits a knack for Meanwhile, "Ledbetter Heights" everything from ` Rosie O'Donnell' to "You May Feel Me Crying." U.K. DJ Howie B., writing songs that defy their chipper has sold more than 463,000 copies, `Saturday Night Live' to `RuPaul.' " who helped out on the score, also contributes a track. rhythms with lyrics bent by more according to SoundScan. It was No. 1 "We put together a wish list of acts we wanted for the record ... and I would weighty social matters. All the cuts on on the Top Blues Albums chart for a say we ended up batting somewhere in the .800s," says Williams of the fin- the album, except for the band's take on whopping 20 weeks and is No. 11 on the ished product, which upholds a tradition that has made the soundtracks to such the War hit "Why Can't We Be chart this issue. It also hit No. l on the LILA McCANN (Continued page 9) previous Wenders films as "Wings Of Desire" and "Until The End Of The Friends ?," are published by Smash Heatseekers chart and No. 108 on The from World" as eagerly anticipated as the films they complement. "It's not so dif- mouth, BMI. Billboard 200. that is out there. I thought it was a ferent from other Wim soundtracks," Williams says. "Wim is known for bring- Still, "Walkin' On The Sun" is an "Kenny is truly an amazing talent," unique record and would make a name ing in music that complements the emotion and intellect of his films. We worked anomaly in a collection of music that is says Irving Azoff, president of Revolu- for Lila right off the bat and separate from beginning to end to not just have a collection of songs but a record that otherwise angled toward melodic pop/ tion. "He has something that is not her from the pack." would stand alone as a piece of music." punk. learned; you're born with it. `Trouble McCann has not done a radio tour Spain's "Every Time I Try," the first emphasis track, will be released as a Though Harwell and Camp say they Is ...' is from the soul. It's a record that but does phone interviews and makes commercial single in selected markets outside the U.S. and as a promo track were nervous that fans would be put off will haunt you both lyrically and musi- frequent stops at the area's primary to triple -A radio within the U.S. Sept. 2. Williams says he expects radio will dig by the rest of the album after buying cally." country station, KMPS . deep into the set. "We think we have something for everyone at radio," he notes. "Fush Yu Mang" based on their liking Along the way, Shepherd's young There, music director Tony Thomas "For rock, the U2 and maybe the Stipe track; for modern rock, DJ Shadow, of the single, Harwell says feedback face has graced the covers of such pub- says she's become a local fixture. "Until U2, and Stipe and Chesnutt; and anything on the album can go to triple -A." has been positive. lications as USA Today, Pollstar, and this year," he says, "there hasn't been "It did kind of freak people out about Guitar. But he says the best part of his a country artist from the Puget Sound NORTHERN EXPOSURE: In an attempt to shine a little more light on its the record," he says, "because that one success has came from touring. "Get- area since maybe Gail Davies. Now domestic artist roster, EMI Music Canada is launching a campaign to attract song is so different from the rest of the ting to play with my was really we've got both Lila and Michael Peter- the attention of the U.S. and international film and TV markets. "We are solic- album, but most of the people we've something," he says. "I played with son. Lila has a neat, contemporary iting all the music supervisors in New York and L.A. and around the world and talked to have told us they enjoy the al- B.B. King, -all the guys I sound, we feel, and she has a huge fol- bringing them up to speed on our catalog," says Fraser Hill, who handles bum because you can listen to it from listened to for many years as a little lowing here. We like the music and love A &R /special projects for the company. "For one reason or another, a lot of front to back, and every song has its kid. Those kinds of things you have to her story and put the two together on times Canadian acts don't get releases in certain territories. Soundtracks are own style." pinch yourself. Watching your name on the air. The fact that she's a teenager is really huge right now, and if you hit the right one, you can break a band." Another factor in the band's snow- the charts and my face on magazines, secondary to the fact that she can real- Thus far, Canadian act Econoline Crush has landed music cues in episodes balling popularity has been its live show. it's definitely something new to deal ly sing." of the TV series "Soldier Of Fortune" and "LA. Fame." Additionally, the record The group, which is booked by Creative with, but I think I've fallen into the role Asylum VP for promotion Stan Byrd company will distribute the Virgin Records soundtrack to the Canadian film Artists Agency and managed by Sound pretty well." says, "We're doing it the old- fashioned "The Hanging Garden," which opens at the Film Festival in early Sep- Management in Los Angeles, is open- A blues -rock album from a blond - way, which is to put the record out, get tember. The EMI Canada domestic roster also includes Anne Murray, Tom ing for Lava /Atlantic recording act haired, blue -eyed teenager from some airplay, and if the audiences Cochrane, Moist, the Tea Party, the Rankin Family, and Glueleg. Sugar Ray. Shreveport, La., isn't exactly an easy respond to it, then chase the ever-lov- While the two bands continue their one to break. It was mostly touring and ing heck out of it." WITH THE RELEASE of "Money Talks" Aug. 19, Arista Records is laying duel on the Modern Rock Tracks chart the undying support of an army of "gui- For the moment, McCann says she another stone in its foundation of R &B/hip -hop soundtrack hits. The album is with No. 2 ( "Walkin' On The Sun ") and tar god" worshipers hungry for an plans to wait until next summer to tour, a mélange of songs by proven acts and newer kids on the block, including No. l (Sugar Ray's "Fly ") positions this artist like Shepherd that helped put but "if anything comes up, I would def- Refugee Allstars featuring Pras, Barry White and Faith Evans, Lil' Kim, issue, their road compatibility has re- him on the map. initely go for it. My plan right now is to Me'Shell Ndegéocello, Lisa Stansfield, and Puff Daddy. First singles are sulted in a highly successful tour. "In every genre there's that special go on and graduate from high school Refugee Allstars' `Avenue" and White and Evans' "My Everything." While on the road, Smash mouth has 5 %, and that 5 %, no matter what and then go on tour for a few years so also been active with in -store appear- they're doing, will find its audience I can really get into it a lot and then INFORMATION PLEASE: The budgets. The vast talent pool. The fear of miss- ances combined with ticket giveaways because it's coming from the soul," says maybe go to college. I will definitely ing the next big thing. What's an exec working in film music to do? Actually and contests. Missy Worth, senior creative executive stay in country music." there are several good references available. The '97 -'98 "Film Composers This could help boost what have been at Revolution. "Kenny is a five per - She began singing at local lodges and Guide," the report's fourth edition, is just out from L.A.-based Lone Eagle Pub- sluggish sales in some regions. center. Jeff Buckley and Nirvana were dances in and around Steilacoom with lishing. Compiled and edited by Vincent Francillon, the soft-cover book is big "It just hasn't really happened in the five percenters. This is a guitar player her father's group, the Southlanders. and beautiful in terms of its breadth of info, ranging from current and notable South yet," says Karl Grier, buyer for who can sell without KROQ [Los Ange- "My dad has a country music band, past composers, music supervisors, record labels, licensing and publishing con- Atlanta -based one -stop the Music Net- les] and MTV He can go into any sec- and I've been singing with them since I cerns, and even score and song Oscar winners. work. ondary market or primary market and was 4 years old," she says. "So that's 11 For those looking for more up -to- the -minute guidance, L.A. -based Break- The two groups will also share sell out at least 2,500 without a record. years now I was singing stuff from the down Services Ltd.'s The Music Report segued from biweekly to weekly sta- billing, along with such acts as Cake, That's how we know he's in that 5 %." Judds and `Young Love,' and I sang `On tus in August. The 3- year -old faxed report is organized into concise music cue Third Eye Blind, and Fiona Apple, dur- Revolution is setting its sights high Down The Line' by Patty Loveless and calls supervisors are looking to incorporate into a given film project. The Music ing Kamp KOME II Sept. 13 at the for "Trouble Is . ," which will be `Crazy' and stuff like that. After a Report features only calls for submissions (complete with contact info) that are Shoreline Amphitheater. released under the moniker the Kenny while, I would open up for my dad's confirmed by studios and production companies, not rumors and so-called tips. After playing another radio show for Wayne Shepherd Band instead of just show and sing the first hour. Then peo- "I cringe when I hear the word tip sheet," says managing editor Adam Wolf. KPOI Honolulu, Smash mouth will take the artist's name, as was "Ledbetter ple would come out to see just me, and a short break, then return Sept. 16 for Heights." that was cool." managed by Walker Man- FOR THE RECORD: Ted Hope and James Schamus are co- presidents of three weeks of supporting dates with "What we want to do is not be genre - McCann is Los Angeles and booked by New York-based production company Good Machine. Schamus was omitted Blur. specific," says Worth. "Not that I'll ever agement of Morris Agency. Her pub- from an article on Velvel Records' new soundtrack label, ReelSounds (Bill- The act has also landed a spot on hear him on KROQ; I don't care. But he the William with is by Binky Broadcasting board, Aug. 23). "Late Show With David Letterman" in is a mass -media artist, especially lishing early October. this record. He'll [attract] any single (ASCAP).

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COMPILED FROM A NATIONAL SAMPLE OF RETAIL STORE AND RACK SoundScan® The Heatseekers chart lists the best-selling titles by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the Ó SALES REPORTS COLLECTED, COMPILED, AND PROVIDED BY """I top 100 of The Billboard 200chart. When an album reaches this level, the album and the artist's subsequent albums are immedi- ately ineligible to appear on the Heatseekers chart. All albums are available on cassette and CD. *Asterisk indicates vinyl LP is N W w . x AUGUST 30, 1997 = w á W Y = ARTIST TITLE available. O Albums with the greatest sales gains. © 1997, Billboard/BPI Communications. I- 3 - 3 3 Q LABEL & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL (SUGGESTED LIST PRICE OR EQUIVALENT FOR CASSETTE/CD) * * * No.1 * ** 26 27 9 LOS TIGRES DEL NORTE FONOVISA 80711 (13.98/18.98) JEFE DE JEFES 25 SNEAKER PIMPS CLEAN UP 42587NIRGIN (10.98/15.98) BECOMING X Q1 ® 33 34 SOUL COUGHING 46175 ./WARNER BROS. (10.98/15.98) IRRESISTIBLE BLISS 4 5 TRIO CHRONICLES 536205/MERCURY (10.98 EQ/16.98) DA DA DA © 28 34 21 CAEDMON'S CALL WARNER ALLIANCE 46463/WARNER BROS. (8.98/13.981 CAEDMON'S CALL 3 2 8 ROBYN RCA 67477 (10.98/16.98) ROBYN IS HERE 29 18 5 DJ POOH DA BOMB/ATLANTIC 52752 * /AG (10.98/15.98) BAD NEWZ TRAVELS FAST 3 14 LEE ANN WOMACK DECCA 11585/MCA (10.98/15.98) LEE ANN WOMACK cD 30 23 7 LIMP BIZKIT FLIP 90124 /INTERSCOPE (8.98/12.981 THREE DOLLAR BILL, Y'ALL 5 5 20 K'S CHOICE 550 MUSIC 67720/EPIC (10.98 EQ/16.98) PARADISE IN ME 31 30 49 LOCAL H ISLAND 524202 (8.98/14.98) AS GOOD AS DEAD 10 3 98 DEGREES MOTOWN 530796* (6.98/10.98) 98 DEGREES ® 42 22 RONAN HARDIMAN PHILIPS 533757 (10.98/17.981 MICHAEL FLATLEY'S LORD OF THE DANCE 7 6 5 MICHAEL PETERSON REPRISE 46618/WARNER BROS. (10.98/16.98) MICHAEL PETERSON © 33 26 16 COWBOY MOUTH MCA 11447 (9.98/12.981 ARE YOU WITH ME? 8 7 19 DAFT PUNK SOMA 42609 *VIRGIN (10.98/16.98) HOMEWORK 34 28 27 LESS THAN JAKE CAPITOL 37235 (6.98/9.98) LOSING STREAK 9 11 54 JACI VELASQUEZ MYRRH/WORD 67823/EPIC (10.98 EQ/15.98) HEAVENLY PLACE 35 ) NEW THE DANDY WARHOLS TIM KERR 36505/CAPITOL 00.98/15.98) ...THE DANDY WARHOLS COME DOWN 10 9 11 THE SUPERTONES BEC 17401 (10.98/15.98) SUPERTONES STRIKE BACK 36 32 9 CHRIS RICE ROCKETOWN 1528/WORD (10.98/15.98) DEEP ENOUGH TO DREAM 11 12 33 BARENAKED LADIES REPRISE46393/WARNER BROS. (10.98/16.98) ROCK SPECTACLE 31 29 5 CHARLIE ZAA SONOLUX 82136/SONY (8.98 E0114.98) SENTIMIENTOS © 17 12 OUR LADY PEACE COLUMBIA 67940 (10.98 EQ/16.98) CLUMSY NEW DJ TAZ BREAKAWAY/SUCCESS 50736 /PRIORITY (10.98/16.98) ...WORLDWIDE 13 8 12 BONEY JAMES WARNER BROS. 46548 (10.98/16.98) SWEET THING c 39 41 5 DAR WILLIAMS RAZOR & TIE 2830 (10.98/16.98) END OF THE SUMMER ® 14 11 BUCK -O -NINE Tvr 5760* (6.98/9.98) TWENTY -EIGHT TEETH NEW SEAGRAM RAP -A- LOT /N00 TRYBE 44566NIRGIN (10.98/15.98) SOULS ON ICE © 22 9 BLINK 182 CARGO 11624*/MCA (8.98/12.98) DUDE RANCH ® 41 35 8 ABRA MOORE ARISTA AUSTIN 18839 /ARISTA (10.98/16.98) STRANGEST PLACES 16 15 3 KEOKI MOONSHINE 80069* (10.98/15.98) EGO -TRIP 42 45 2 ARTIFICIAL JOY CLUB CRUNCHY 90125/INTERSCOPE (8.98/12.98) MELT © 21 6 GHETTO MAFIA DOWN SOUTH 2003/FULLY LOADED (9.98/15.98) STRAIGHT FROM THE DEC RE -ENTRY REBECCA ST. JAMES FOREFRONT 25141 (9.98/14.98) GOD 18 16 3 PHILLIPS, CRAIG AND DEAN STAR SONG 20156/SPARROW (10.98/15.98) WHERE STRENGTH BEGINS ( 43)

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ACID DROP: Never Records While the retail anticipation Please Play. Epic Nashville Roundup this issue. as many people as we can with director of marketing Megan can be traced to the band's duo the Kinleys are making this thing," says Hymson, Brady says that "Our Little strong underground follow- strides at radio, thanks to their J UST PLAIN SILLY: quipping, "It's in the same vein Secret," the third album from ing, Brady says that Never's warmly received single, Dystopia One, the merry as [King Missile's] 'Detach- controversial electronic act goal is to expand the Lords' "Please." The track, which prankster of industrial music, able Penis.' " Lords Of Acid, is promising to audience by attacking main- moves up to No. 38 on the is at it again with its latest pro- be the group's most successful stream press and commercial Hot Country Singles & Tracks ject, "The Buscemi Tapes." R OADWORK: The Sydney, title yet, with more than radio. chart this issue, is the debut The act, which is best known Australia -based Frenzal In addition to college play, single from the group's for getting MTV exposure Rhomb joins Heatseekers the album's first single, "Rub- album, 'Just Between You And after falsely claiming that its Blink 182 and Less Than Jake ber Doll," is accumulating Me," which bows Sept. 23. departing bassist Jonathan on the Race Around Uranus late -night spins on such mod- Zimmer had died of food poi- tour beginning Wednesday (27) ern rock stations as KTCL soning induced by a bad batch in Gainesville, Fla. The band's Denver. of spinach, has toned down its U.S. debut on Rubber Records, Lords Of Acid, who are REGIONAL HEATSEEKERS NO.ls approach, but is still hustling to booked by Creative keep in the public eye. Artists Agency, MOUNTAIN NORTHEAST Its latest gimmick begin a 42-date tour Nastyboy Klick, The 1st Chapter Our Lady Peace, Clumsy is a ranting novelty in late September. song based on the EAST NORTH CENTRAL band's obsession with C LINICAL AP- Trio, Da Da Da actor Steve Buscemi. PROACH: In sup- The track is includ- of ed on a same -titled Summer Heat. Smooth port "Tiger Walk," his latest MIDDLE ATLANTIC promo-only EP issued jazz artist Ray Obiedo's lat- One Stops. Restless release on Stretch/ WEST NORTH CENTRAL Sneaker Pimps, Becoming X on Winged Disk. Windham Hill, Records group Chopper est for Blue Thumb Rec- Mo, Da Da Da So far, the song has Summer Days," One opens for Goldfinger "Sweet ords, guitar virtu- attracted the atten- features guest vocals by SOUTH ATLANTIC Tuesday (26) through Fri- oso Robben Ford Kilo Ali, Organized Bass tion of WBAB Long Bryson as well as day (29) during East Coast Peabo has been traveling PACIFIC Island, N.Y., opera- the chops of percussionist Sneaker Pimps, Becoming X stops. Meanwhile, a video the country on a V tions director Eric for Chopper's first single, Sheila E. The album, and MTV's Fender Guitars - Wellman "Touch My Fuzz," has just released in July, benefits SOUTH CENTRAL Pinfield, who sponsored album Ghetto 1'wiinz, In That Water Matt been put into rotation on from exposure via the title has committed to play promotion /gui- M2. The band, whose track, which is gaining on his up- tar clinic tour. the track album "Now Playing" was spins at such stations as This, the first coming Westwood KTWV Los Angles and released July 15, is fronted album from the renowned gui- One- syndicated program by former Weezer guitarist KIFM San Diego. Mean- T H E R E G I O N A L R O U N D U P tarist in several years that "Going Underground." while, WKTD New York has Jason Cropper. does not feature his band, the Rotating top 10 lists of best -selling itles by new and developing artists. Dystopia One drummer Mr. been playing album cut Blue Line, includes guest Hymson admits that the band's "Current State." WEST NORTH CENTRAL MIDDLE ATLANTIC work by an all -star group fea- 1. Trio Da Da Da 1. Sneaker Pimps Becoming X unusual tactics have risen out "Not So Tough Now," bowed 2. Lee Ann Womack Lee Arm Womack 2. The Beatnuts Stone Crazy of and says earlier this summer ... Clean turing keyboardist Bernie 3. K's Choice Paradise In Me 3. Trio Da Da Da desperation that 4. Robyn Robyn Is Here 4. Our Lady Peace Clumsy Kier- 170,000 units shipped. Worrell, bassist Charlie "The Buscemi Tapes" is a nat- Cuts Records folk artist 5. Michael Peterson Michael Peterson 5. Robyn Robyn Is Here ural extension of the act's cre- an McGee stops Monday (25) The set, which is being is- Drayton, and drummer Steve 6. Sneaker Pimps Becoming X 6. Allure Allure 7. Days Of The New Days Of The New 7. 98 Degrees 98 Degrees ative, if sometimes in poor taste, at the Lakeside Lounge in New sued on Never imprint Antler Jordan. 8. 98 Degrees 98 Degrees 8. Soul Coughing Irresistible Bliss 9. Le Click Feat. Kayo Le Click Feat. Kayo -promotion. York. His album, "Left For Subway Records, bowed Aug. "Tiger Walk" debuts at No. 9. Corey Stevens Road To Zen methods of self 10. Ricochet Blink Of An Eye 10. Boney James Sweet Thing to Dead," was released Aug. 5. 19. 21 on the Mountain Regional "We're hoping bombard

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www.americanradiohistory.com R &B ARTISTS & MUSIC Boyz Wave Flag For Uncle Sam Stonecreek Owners Add Star Power To Debut Set BY GINA VAN DER VLIET in the recording studio working on the ception] by showing people Sam is a vocalist's album. young and energetic guy who is [com- LOS ANGELES -When Stonecreek Sam, who began singing at the age of fortable with] many styles of music." Recordings releases Uncle Sam's self- 3 in his father's church, earned his The track features former Wu-Tang titled debut album, it will do so with the stage name after Wanya phoned the Clan rapper Popa Chief, who is also superstar backing of label owners artist at home and overheard the signed to Stonecreek and penned the Nathan and Wanya Morris, Michael singer's niece for "Uncle Sam" single with Wanya and MAS -PD. McCary, and Shawn Stockman, better to pick up the phone. The album also includes a remix of known by consumers as Boyz II Men. Nathan, who has had a firm hand in "Tender Love," written by Jimmy Jam The Epic -dis- the development of the singer's career, and Terry Lewis and a hit in 1985 for describes Force M.D.'s. tributed album, Uncle Sam as a definite "Boyz Fast Food Fantasy. Bad Boy act 702 stands with Kenan and Kel, the stars of scheduled to street II Men spin-off." According to Epic product manager the comedy film "Good Burger, during the video shoot for the female trio's sin - Oct. 14, is ballad - "Working with [Boyz II Men] means Donald Wood, "Can You Feel It" was gle "All I Want," which appears on the movie's Capitol soundtrack. Pictured, from 12 heavy and features working with people who understand serviced Aug. to R &B stations and left, are 702's Kameelah, Kenan, 702's Lemisha, Kel, and 702's Irish. backing vocals by the situation from an artist's point of (Continued on page 22) such high -profile view, as well as from a label executive's artists as Brandy, perspective," says Sam, who co-wrote Johnny Gill, and the track "Throw Your Hands In The UNCLE SAM Boyz II Men - Air" with Wanya. "That's why I feel the whose members project is very well- rounded. To have Stanley Clarke Gets Down To Basic Co.; also wrote most of the material. their ear to the project was like a bless- Uncle Sam, whose real name is Sam ing. I love working with them broth- Turner, is the first artist signed to ers." Philadelphia -based Stonecreek. He Even though "Uncle Sam" features E.T.W.'s Message Transcends Its Music found his way onto the label in late 1995 mostly ballads, "Can You Feel It" was after auditioning for Boyz II Men's selected as the first single, because it's P IONEERING SPIRIT: Grammy- winning jazz bas- Rounding out the funky rap act is MC El (Elroy Wanya over the phone. Impressed by uptempo and helped the marketing sist /composer/film scorer Stanley Clarke has formed Forbes) and Johnnie Jam (Johnnie Williams). Sam's vocal talents, Wanya had his strategy. "When people hear the name Basic Music Co. (BMC), a Los Angeles -based entertain- "When we get in front of kids, we try to get all the way brother Nathan fly to Sam's hometown Uncle Sam, they tend to think of an ment company. Under the BMC umbrella is a record label, down to their core, past all that, and get them to think of Detroit to meet the artist. By early older [jazz AC] type of artist," says an instructional video shop, a management company for about who they are as human beings," Forbes says. 1996, Uncle Sam and Boyz II Men were Nathan. "We wanted to avoid that [per- film scorers, and a print- publishing arm. Catrina Hakim "After we get him or her in touch with who they are and will head the conglomerate. what they really want, then we can start talking about the BMC Records has signed artists spanning several gen- spirituality of our messages," adds Williams. Jay -Z Ponders His `Lifetime' res and plans to release three albums in 1998. The first is Putting their money where their mouths (and hearts) singer /bass player Armand Sabu -Lecco, a pop artist are, a portion of the proceeds from "Ain't Nobody Dyin' heavily influenced by African music. Other acts on the But Us" is being donated to Mothers Against Violence, a On Roc -A- Fella/Def Jam Set label include contemporary jazz pianist Nick Smith and privately funded national organization committed to "sav- BY HAVELOCK NELSON board's Hot R &B Albums chart, two unnamed hip -hop acts. BMC also plans to release ing the lives of youth through education, motivation, and spawned the hit singles "Ain't No remnant recordings from implementation." NEW YORK -With his Roc -A- Fella/ Nigga/Dead Presidents," "Can't Knock Clarke's repertoire that never ForeFront is distributed Def Jam sophomore set, "In My Life- The Hustle," and "Feelin' It" and sold made it onto any of his albums. through Chordant Distribution time," rapper Jay -Z has traded in much 437,000 units, according to SoundScan. "I get letters from people all The Group. of his lyrical player prose for a more Jay -Z says,." `Reasonable Doubt' the time asking if I have any mature pose. dealt with things that happened from leftover musical works avail- Rhythm V EGAS CONFERENCE: The collection, which ships Oct. 21, like '88 on. I decided to take it back a able," Clarke says. The label is The Economic Opportunity reflects an entirely new catalog of expe- little now, to reflect." in negotiations with distribu- and the Board of Clark County's Micro riences by the artist (whose real name is He adds, "I want people to compare tors. Business Program and KCEP Shawn Carter) in an attempt to atone the two albums to a relationship with a BMC's video arm will kick - Blues Las Vegas are sponsoring the for past activities. girl. Most times off with a series of instru- second Business of Music Con- Def Jam executives are confident that when you meet ment- instruction tapes, begin- by J. R. Reynolds ference Sept. 20-21 at the West the album will facilitate Jay -Z's ambi- her, it's physical. ning with a how -to video for Las Vegas Library. tion to punch a higher floor in terms of And the first al- playing bass. The video is The event, which is being consumer familiarity and market pene- bum dealt with scheduled for release during the holiday season. A clas- held in the heart of the city's black community, is designed tration. "The overall plan is to increase things on the out- sically trained multi- instrumentalist, Clarke will be the to expose inner -city minorities to the business side of the his visibility and make him that side -the cars, host in a steady stream of other instructional videos to be industry via a series of informational meetings with vet- crossover artist without sacrificing his the jewelry, the released throughout '98. On the film- scoring side, Clarke eran music industry professionals. For information on full street credibility," says Def Jam clothes ... things plans to sign "10 -12 composers" and shop to film compa- participating, contact conference coordinator Kimberly product manager Jazz Young. JAY-Z you could see. nies for scoring projects. "I want to go and make deals Bailey at 702 -647 -7735. Supervised by producers DJ Pre- Now that every- business -to- business, as opposed to artist -to- business, in mier, Buckwild, Stevie J., Ski, Teddy one got to know that, I'm gonna take order to have a little more leverage for my clients," he I NDUSTRY INTELLIGENCE: LaFace co- president Riley, and Sean "Puffy" Combs and 'em a little deeper. Now we can explore says. L.A. Reid says he feels good about artist Tony Rich's new members of his Hitmen studio squad, and get to the heart of Jay -Z." In spring 1998, BMC's print -publishing arm plans to album. The artist's single, "If You're An Angel," is due in "In My Lifetime" reflects artistic "You Must Love Me" is a somber kick off Sofia, a bilingual consumer -lifestyle magazine for September. "Blue Butterfly," which is scheduled to arrive growth and a fresh maturity, evidenced, song "that came from me just sittin' Latino females. in November, was almost entirely written and produced for example, by the stance duet partner around thinkin', `Dag, I did a lotta by Reid. Eric Clapton fans might be interested in know- Foxy Brown takes on the first single, fucked -up things in my life,' " says a SPIRITUAL UPLIFT: Radio's overwhelming embrace ing that the legend's talents are featured throughout the "Sunshine," which hits stores Sept. 9. soft -spoken Jay -Z, whose former of Kirk Franklin's hip spiritual messages has opened the set. The song, which samples the sandpa- career was hustling on the streets of door for other acts interested in spreading the Word to Public Announcement's radio single "Body Bumpin' " pery true -school jam "Rockin' It" and Brooklyn, N.Y. "The song is almost an the R &B masses. One such act that could benefit is veter- is clobbering the competition on Chicago airwaves, features backing vocals by superstar apology to a couple people, including an Tulsa, Okla., group E.T.W., whose hip -hop set "Ain't according to sources. And the R &B quartet (which used R &B crooner Babyface, is a thematic my brother, for some of the things I did Nobody Dyin' But Us" on ForeFront Records provides to feature R. Kelly) doesn't even have a deal. But that follow -up to Jay -Z's first single, "Ain't growing up." young consumers with a compilation of nourishing tracks could change very soon, as several label A&R honchos No Nigga," a top -five rap hit from last Another song, "City Is Mine," inter- from the act's last four releases. swooped into Chi -town to check out the group during a year in which Brown declared that as polates 's "You Belong To The three -man crew, whose name stands for End Time recent showcase performance. Earl Robinson, the act's long she was being taken care of fman- The City" and deals with life after the Warriors, spouts non -preachy thoughts on the diseased remaining original member, produced their joint, with U cially by her man, everything was good. death of Jay-Z's close friend and col- state of young minds. But there's more to this group than No Hoo serving as executive producer. Now she's a little tougher and more league the Notorious B.I.G., aka Biggie words on wax. "We travel around the country talking with Arista's soundtrack to "Money Talks" hit stores Aug. demanding. When Jay -Z asks, "Catch Smalls. shorties and teenagers about the root problem in their 19. The first single, "Avenues," features the Refugee Also on album is Faith me with a chick [will you] forgive me ?" "His passing was tragic for me, lives," says Big Free, whose real name is Mike Hill. "The Camp Allstars and Lil' Kim. the By Deborah Cox, her answer is, "I dunno." because he's one of those rare guys. I drug abuse, the violence, the thug lifestyle -those are only and Barry White, Naughty Nature, Jay -Z's debut album, "Reasonable mean, I don't really vibe with every - the symptoms of a larger problem." Rick James, and Lisa Stansfield. Doubt," which peaked at No. 3 on Bill- (Continued on page 22) 20 BILLBOARD AUGUST 30, 1997 www.americanradiohistory.com FROM A NATIONAL SAMPLE OF RETAIL

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°Albums with the greatest sales gains this week. Recording Industry Assn. Of America (RIAA) certification for shipment of 500,000 album units. RIAA certification for shipment of 1 million units, with multiplatinum titles indicated by a numeral following the symbol. For boxed sets, and double albums with a running t me that exceeds two hours, the RIAA multiplies shipments by the number of discs and/or tapes. *Asterisk indicates LP is avalable. Most tape prices, and CD prices for BMG and WEA labels, are suggested lists. Tape prices marked EQ, and all other CD prices, are equivalent prices, which are projected from wholesale prices. Greatest Gainer shows chart's largest unit increase. Pacesetter indicates biggest percentage growth. Heatseeker Impact shows albums removed from Heatseekers this week. ® indicates past or present Heatseeker title. ©1997, Billboard /BPI Communications, and SoundScan, Inc. HIT SINGLE: JIMMY LEWIS "SEE YOU NEXT WEEKEND ": Duet Featuring PEGGY SCOTT-ADAMS Jimmy Lewis wrote and produced Peggy Scott -Adams' Hit CD "HELP YOURSELF" special guest star featuring the Hit Single "BILL" PEGGY SCOTT-ADAMS special guest superstar OVER 500,000 SOLD! LITTLE RICHARD JIMMY LEWIS Miss Butch Records ®istributed by MB-4004 M B -4004 MARDI GRAS RECORDS - 800- 895 -0441

BILLBOARD AUGUST 30, 1997 21 www.americanradiohistory.com Billboard® AUGUST 30, 1997 R &B Not Ra p SlilgieS.. UNCLE SAM (Continued from page 20) Z COMPILED FROM A NATIONAL SAMPLE OF RETAIL STORE SALES REPORTS ,_ COLLECTED, COMPILED, AND PROVIDED BY SoundScan® retailers, followed by service to TITLE ARTIST crossover stations. F3 g " Ú NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL 1""" WELCOME BACK: As United Parcel Service (UPS) workers across the The single's clip was sent July 7 to * * * No. 1 * ** nation put on their brown uniforms Aug. 20 and begin restocking the retail video shows on such national channels MO MONEY MO PROBLEMS THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. (FEAT. PUFF DADDY & MASE) 1 I 1 5 drought, several debuts on today's Top R &B Albums saw less- than-spec- as MTV BET, and the Box (C) (D) (T) (X) BAD BOY 79100/ ARISTA 4 weeks at No. I UP JUMPS DA BOOGIE MAGUO AND TIMBALAND tacular sales for week ending Aug. 17 as a result of shipping problems. Depending on the run of the single, 2 2 4 7 the (C) (D) BLACKGROUND /ATLANTIC 98018/AG SWV's "Release Some Tension" (RCA) in 44,000 all - its follow-up, "I Don't Ever Wanna See rang units at the NOTTONIGHTR08WUTOLOSEII / UL' OMEBIDABRAT ,LEREYE,WSSYEW01TNAA#OEMR1IE1 3 3 2 9 stores panel, earning a No. 26 placement on The Billboard 200. With 11,000 You Again," which was produced, writ- (C) (D) (T) (X) UNDEAS/TOMMY BOY 98019 /AG I'LL BE MISSING YOU A3 PUFF DADDY & FAITH EVANS (FEAT. 112) units scanned among the R &B core panel, the trio lands Hot Shot Debut on ten, and arranged by Nathan, will be 4 4 3 12 (M) (T) (X) BAD BOY 79097/ARISTA Top R &B Albums at No. 5. While that is a respectable number, the group's serviced about the same time the album TAKE IT TO THE STREETS RAMPAGE FEAT. BELLY LAWRENCE 5 5 5 8 last album, 1996's "New Beginning," scanned 73,000 units at the full panel, ships. (C) (D) (M) (T) (X) VIOLATOR /ELEKTRA 64171 /EEG earning a No. 9 ranking on The Billboard 200, and entered at No. 3 on Top As part of the artist's promotional * * * GREATEST GAINER* * * R &B Albums for 16,000 units at core stores. The group's "Can We" hit No. tour, Uncle Sam performed in April at BACKYARD BOOGIE 34 - 2 1 on Hot R&B Airplay, its last chart- topper on that chart since 1993's "Right Impact's Super Summit Conference © (C) (D) m PRIORITY 53282 C U WHEN U GET THERE (FROM "NOTHING TO LOSE') COOLIO FEAT. 40 THEVZ Here," while its latest single, "Someone," peaked at No. 5 on Hot R &B Sin- and made an early -July appearance at 7 7 8 9 gles. the Black Expo show in New York. The (C) (D) (T) (X) TOMMY BOY 7785 LOOK INTO MY EYES (FROM "BATMAN & ROBIN") BONE THUGS -N- HARMONY 8 6 6 12 The album's setup drew a solicitation of 500,000 units, but only 40% of artist also went on a national promo- (C) (D) (T) RUTHLESS 6343/RELATIVITY sum retailers, according to distributor BMG. Similarly, Back- tional tour July 30 through Aug. 10. TALKIN' BOUT' BANK THE WHORIDAS that reached 09 11 29 14 street Boys' self-titled set on Jive saw a No. 29 entry on The Billboard 200 Markets visited include Chicago, New (C) (D) (T) SOUTHPAW/DEUCIOUS VINYL 4007/RED ANT SMILE SCARFACE FEATURING 2PAC & JOHNNY P 10 8 7 12 for sales of 40,000 units, while solicitation for the album stood at 602,000 Orleans, Dallas, Los Angeles, and San (C) (D) RAP -A- LOT/N00 TRYBE 38581NIRGIN

units following the group's latest hit, "Quit Playing Games (With My Francisco. During the tour, Sam was DOWN FOR YOURS NASTYBOY KLICK FEAT. ROGER TROUTMAN 11 12 15 4 Heart)," No. 3 this issue on the Hot 100. accompanied by the members of Boyz (C) (D) (T) NASTYBOY/GLASSNOTE 574748/MERCURY BIG BAD MAMMA (FROM "DEF JAMS HOW TO BE A PLAYER") FOXY BROWN FEAT. DRU HILL A Men, who 12 9 9 4 BMG claims that only 30% of its product made it to stores. source at II personally introduced the (T) VIOLATOR/DEF JAM 571441 */MERCURY Minneapolis -based chain Musicland says that sales of the SWV title came vocalist to key radio and retail person- THAT'S RIGHT DJ TAZ FEATURING RAHEEM THE DREAM 13 10 10 23 in just above its 4,000 -unit first -week forecast, which was tallied with ship- nel. (C) (T) (X) BREAKAWAY/SUCCESS 53289/PRIORITY FAR FROM YOURS O.C. FEATURING YVETTE MICHELE ping problems in mind. The source adds that although inventory is very low Boyz II Men -whose album "Evolu- 14 13 12 7 (C) (D) (T) PAYDAY/FFRR 850916ASLAND on that album, the retailer expects to see sales rebound in the next two to tion" is slated for release in the fall- ANOTHER CASE CRU FEATURING SLICK RICK 15 15 11 18 JUST three weeks as more product arrives. plan to take Uncle Sam on the road as (C) (D) (M) (T) (X) VIOLATOR/DEF JAM 573856/MERCURY FICOUIDOIN BROM1TIBUTIT1 1MASTERPFEAT. STEADYMOBB1I,NIA K,MOB.DEK &ODE.1 An executive at Interscope says that the label was very disappointedwith the opening act on selected dates for 16 16 16 17 (C) (D) (T) NO LIMIT 53273 /PRIORITY first -week sales of the "Hoodlum" soundtrack, after shipping in excess of their U.S. and international concert HEY AZ AZ FEATURING SWV 11 40 2 300,000 units. The album debuted at No. 23 on Top R &B Albums, and sales tours in 1998. (T) NOO TRYBE/EMI 58655 *NIRGIN BE THE REALIST TRAPE TUPAC & NOTORIOUS B.I.G. of 12,000 units earned it a No. 94 bow on The Billboard 200. The represen- "Promotional tours are very impor- 18 14 18 4 DEFF TRAPP tative did say he couldn't fully blame UPS for the poor entry and says tant," says Nathan. "When [Boyz II (C) 9283ANTERSOUND that DRUNKIES THA ALKAHOLIKS FEAT. OL' DIRTY BASTARD 19 18 17 11 that he believes about 80% of the product hit stores. Men] first joined Motown, we went on a (CI ID) (T) LOUD 64882/RCA SMOKIN' ME OUT WARREN G FEAT. RONALD ISLEY While some records arrived at stores late or not at all, others arrived promotional tour for 10 months straight. 20 19 13 11 early, thereby causing many singles to be sold before street date. Billboard's The average [act] today goes on the (C) (D) (T) G- /DEF JAM 571024/MERCURY ICED DOWN MEDALLIONS ROYAL FLUSH 21 20 23 6 policy for Hot R &B Singles and the Hot 100 states that a title must debut if road for three weeks, then they say (C) (D) (T) BLUNT 6614/M it sells enough to enter the top 75 singles sales component of either chart. they've done a promotional tour. And DA' FREAKNASTY 22 11 14 48 DIP However, in this issue Billboard's singles charts did not penalize records then they wonder why they only sell CO (D (X) HARD HOOD/POWER 0112/TRIAD ON & POPPIN' YOUNG MC on 23 32 30 6 that broke street date, considering the disruption in shipping schedules. 250,000 records. People have to think (C) (D) OVERALL 77001 a global level when it comes to promot- I'LL BE FOXY BROWN FEATURING JAY-Z 24 24 24 29 JUST FYI: After a four-year hiatus, Young MC returns via his own label ing artists." (C) (D) (T) VIOLATOR/DEF JAM 574028/MERCURY HYPNOTIZE THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. -23 The 25 22 19 19 with "On & Poppin' " (Overall), which moves 32 on Hot Rap Singles. (C) (D) BAD BOY 79092/ARISTA rapper is best remembered for "Bust A Move" (Capitol), which peaked at I GOT DAT FEELIN' DJ KOOL JAY-Z 26 NEW 1 No. 9 on Hot R &B Singles in the Oct. 11, 1989, issue, during the height of (C) (D) (M) (T) CLR/AMERICAN 17329/WARNER BROS. (Continued from page 20) IF U STAY READY SUGA FREE rap era. His new opus, "Return Of The One Hit Wonder," hits 27 25 26 17 the commercial (C) (D) (T) SHEPPARD LANE/UNFADEABLE 854976/ISLAND stores next month. body, but he and I clicked so well. We LET ME CLEAR MY THROAT DJ KOOL 28 21 22 55 Blac Haze's "Let Me Holla At Cha" (Live Shot) makes its debut on Hot lived, like, 15 minutes away from each (C) (T) (X) CLR/AMERICAN 17441/WARNER BROS. HOW WE COMIN' RBL POSSE Rap Singles at No. 36 to the tune of 500 units. The artist raps over a sam- other, and we thought alike, because we 29 30 35 5 (C)(D) (T) BIG BEAT/ATLANTIC 98017/AG ple of Cheryl Lynn's hit "Got To Be Real," the twist being that the rapper come from the same place." CAN'T NOBODY HOLD ME DOWN A' PUFF DADDY (FEAT. MASE) sounds exactly like 2Pac. To add to the irony, the cover of the single depicts Like Biggie, Jay-Z never writes his 30 23 20 32 in black haze, with his hat rhymes down; he memorizes them. "So U WIT LIL JON AND THE EAST SIDE BOYZ a man dressed in a black trench coat standing a 31 36 28 6 WHO covering his face, sort of like Darkman. The song title is depicted on a tomb- basically, I had the whole `In My Life- (C) (D) m MIRROR IMAGE410ACHIBAN TRYING TO STAY ALIVE WYCLEF JEAN FEAT. REFUGEE ALLSTARS I 32 29 21 13 WE stone to his left. The back and inside covers show similarly vague pictures. time' album mapped out before even (M) (T) (X) RUFFHOUSE 78602 * /COLUMBIA set foot in the studio to record it," he. A FRIEND KRS -ONE 33 31 37 3 says. "I had all the titles. All I did was (T) (X) JIVE 42471* EMOTIONS TWISTA try to look for the right producers whose 34 28 25 22 (C) (D) (M) (T) 00 CREATOR'S WAY /ATLANTIC 98025/AG emotions I music would complement the HOODLUM (FROM "HOODLUM") MOBB DEEP FEAT. BIG NOYD & RAKIM 35 38 31 4 was feeling. I went through many, many (T) LOUD 95013'ANTERSCOPE LET ME HOLLA AT CHA BLAC HAZE tracks trying to create the perfect mar- 36 NEW 1 riages between words and music." (C) (D) LIVE SHOT 7001 CROOKED GREEN PAPERS KINFUSION 31 27 2 To promote My Lifetime," Def -- (C) (D) BEFORE DAWN 109/TOUCHWOOD BUBBLING UNDER.. _ IIrd "In (T) -A -Fella have been work- BOUNCE MARKIE DEE Jam and Roc 38 33 32 4 ó ó (C) (D) m CRAVE 78604/EPIC 3 ing at saturating the marketplace with 3 3 3 MY BABY DADDY B -ROCK & THE BIZZ TITLE TITLE 39 26 27 21 Jay -Z-related materials, including retail (C) (D) (T) (X) TONY MERCEDES/LAFACE 24221 /ARISTA 3 ARTIST (LABEL/PROMOTION LABEL) 3 ARTIST (LABEL/PROMOTION LABEL) and street posters, fliers, flats, stickers, DA' DIP MC LUSCIOUS FEATURING KINSUI 40 39 39 16 ' CAN YOU FEEL IT DOWN LOW (CI (D) (T) BIG BEAT /ATLANTIC 98022/AG 1 1 14 2 6 UNCLE SAM (STONECREEK/EPIC) FREAKNASTY (HARD HOOD/POWER/TRIAD) and TV spots that will run on the Box, JAZZY BELLE OUTKAST BET, and MTV for a month -"two 41 44 38 22 'BURBAN & IMPALAS KEEP ME LIFTED IC) (D) (T) (X) 2 1 3 15 1 LAFACE 24224/ARISTA 81G MIKE (RAP-A- LOT/N00 TRYBE/VIRGIN) SPEARHEAD (CAPITOL) weeks prior to and two after the release FEELIN' IT JAY -Z 42 45 49 19 GUNJA HONORS of album," Young says. (C) (D) ROC -A-FELLA 53272/PRIORITY IT'S ALRIGHT 16 12 9 the (T) 3 1 HOWSTER (DEE SQUAD/EMU DEAD RINGAZ (HUSH) DAVE In the New York area, a Roc -A-Fella- THE THEME (IT'S PARTY TIME) TRACEY LEE 43 49 28 - (C) (D) BYSTORM 56114/UNIVERSAL BABY, BABY RUNNING SONG W 4 13 2 17 20 14 owned Mercedes Benz will roll by sev- KILO ALI (ORGANIZED NOIZE/NTERSCOPE) AMBERSUNSHOWER (GEE STREETN2) DO YOU BELIEVE? THE BEATNUTS eral venues and party events around the 44 46 43 15 HOODLUM IN THE COMPANY (OF KILLAZ) (C) (D) (T) VIOLATOR 1606/RELATIVITY 5 5 4 18 15 3 JAM/MERCURY). MOBB DEEP FEAT. BIG NOYD d RAKIM IWUDANTERSDOPE) WISEGUYS (SURRENDER/DEE time of the album's release, pumping HOW DO U WANT IT/CALIFORNIA LOVE A' 2PAC (FEAT. KC AND JOJO) 45 41 45 55 " (C) (D) (M) (T) (X) DEATH ROW/INTERSCOPE 854652/ISLAND LET ME HOLLA AT CHA LET ME SEE YOU (FREAK OUT) tracks and distributing promotional 6 1 19 18 4 BLAC HAZE (LIVE SHOT) 12 GkEE RAT FRFAXIUSTY Ill RECORDSPONDIUAADRRIADI 2 MUCH BOOTY (IN DA PANTS) SOUNDMASTER T materials for "In My Lifetime." In addi- RE -ENTRY 19 ® (C) (T) ID/WRAP 414/ICHIBAN SUPERNATURAL FAST LANE to 7 14 2 20 16 11 tion, painted stencils will be used YOU WIT (FROM "SPRUNG ") JAY -Z WILD ORCHID (RCA) MAD DOG CLIQUE (CROSSTOWN) 47 47 40 14 WHO mark city streets with Jay -Z's name and (T) ()WEST 43883 */WARNER BROS. HELP WANTED (HEROES ME IN SHORT SUPPLY) WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO 8 3 4 21 4 5 SUMMER JAM QUAD CITY DJ'S THE CHI -LITES (COPPER SUN) RONNIE HENSON (MOTOWN) logo. 48 37 41 5 In a rare occurrence, Jay -Z has (C) (D) (T) (X) QUADRASOUND/ATLANTIC 98016/AG PEOPLE GET READY IT'S ABOUT TIME YARDCORE BORN JAMERICANS 9 8 8 22 1 '' THE MAKERS (ELEKTRAÆEG) L.A. NASH (MENES) 49 35 33 30 ZK,GY MARLEY E already been profiled in a seven-minute (C) (D) (T) DELICIOUS VINYL 4003/RED ANT DANGEROUS MINDZ STEADY SLANGIN' segment on cable channel NY -1 by GUNJA HONORS DEAD RINGAZ 10 1 23 1 RE -ENTRY 2 GRAVEDIGGAZ (GEE STREETN2) WISE INTELLIGENT (CONTRACT) reporter Mike Gilliam. In print media, ® ,..:'. (C) (T) (X) HUSH 6612 SERENADE SO IN LOVE 11 6 13 24 1 "In My Lifetime" will be advertised "in Industry s iation SHADES (MOTOWN) SAISON (KATS EYE/UNITE) Q Records with the greatest sales gains this week. Videoc)ip availability. Recording At about 10-15 mainstream publications," of America (RIAA) certification for sales of 500,000 units. RIAA certification for sales of 1 million units. Catalog MY PHILOSOPHY SHAKE IT maxi -single; unavailable. 12 1 25 25 4 no. is for cassette single. *Asterisk indicates catalog number is for cassette KRS -ONE (JIVE) NEW YORK OTY DIS (DEEP BLUE/MIXT PLATEAU) according to Young. "I'm also working (C) Cassette single availability. (D) CD single availability. (M) Cassette maxi-single availability. (T) Vinyl maxi- single BLACK NOSTAUACK (AKA COME ON) on creating and setting up a Roc -A- availability. (V) Vinyl single availability. (X) CD maxi -single availability. ©1997, Billboard/BPI Communications, 9 8 Bubbling Under lists the top 25 singles under No. 100 13 FEAT. RUN AND KID CAPRI (PROFILE) CAMP LO which have not yet charted. Fella display bin for retail purposes." and SoundScan, Inc.

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INNOCENCE LOST: As grateful as mer on his sleeve. Actually, we think we are to have a weekly forum to dis- La Donna would be wise to look this lad cuss our love of music -and to be up. His talent and reverence would among the "insiders" of the industry - result in a smokin' pop comeback for there are days when we miss being a the legend. civilian record -buyer. It seems like Elsewhere on the diva tip, Kim Eng- several lifetimes ago. Back then, we by Larry Flick lish returns with "Learn To Love," an were free to believe (without mind - uplifting houser produced by Mood II numbing qualification or blind fantasy) Swing. English is the picture of subtle that talent and hard work equals suc- the countless who prey on the opti- grace, wisely dodging the temptation cess, and that great records will always mistic and naive. If only some of them to rant and scream. Instead, she offers have a fair shot at being heard by the would wake up and realize that they a well- shaded, warmly spiritual vocal public. After seven years at the helm are playing with people's lives -or that slowly and effectively builds to a of this column, we now know better. maybe that's a big part of the rush they roof-raising climax. We've seen far too many question- derive from the game in the first place. Mood II Swing's restrained version able backroom scenarios unfold in DJ Sounds like we need a nice, long is reconstructed into an NRGetic an- booths, at record companies, and in vacation, doesn't it? Well, perhaps we them by R.H. Factor, while Tommy radio stations during which music is do. But extra sleep and time away from Musto contributes one of his patented lost in the shuffle of politics. Like the our computer will not soothe the sad- soul-house versions. Rounding out this top 40 programmer who won't offi- ness triggered by the realization of our essential Nervous Records package is cially add a single that's getting con- increasingly jaded nature. Actually, our a solo mix by Mood II Swing's Jon Cia- Colorful Beats. Producer/DJ Danny Tenaglia recently stopped by New York's stant mix -show airplay on his station time is better spent continuing to ded- fone and Francois K. Need we say Virgin Megastore to autograph the Twisted America compilation "Color Me because he's miffed with said single's icate our energy to illuminating the more? Get thee to a store immediately Danny," which gathers some of his most successful club remixes. Between DJ label president. Or another single that efforts of those who refuse to give up and buy a copy! gigs and promotional stops for the set, Tenaglia can be found in the studio several tastemaking club DJs won't the fight. As for the rest of you, we If you haven't already picked up a recording an album of new material that is tentatively planned for release later have a clear view of your every move. copy of "Clap Your Hands" by Li'l this year. Pictured in the back row, from left, are Twisted America staffers Mark It's only a matter of time before you Louis on U.K. import, hang tight a Davenport, Julie Griner, and Mike Bergin. In the front row, from left, are Kevin victimize someone who is brave enough couple weeks longer for the domestic McHugh, Tenaglia's manager; Tenaglia; and Sean Bronn, Virgin Megastore. to speak to us for the record. release of the handbag -swingin' an- them on London /ffrr. The dude who is GROOVIN': Has anyone else been responsible for such classics as "Club mainstream -thanks to his forthcom- ground sounds. The label is off and desperately missing the frequent pres- Lonely" (with Joi Cardwell) and ing cinematic A &M debut, "Let's Get running with a pair of 10 -inch vinyl ence of India on the dancefloor? Her "French Kiss" has once again cooked Killed," due Sept. 30. samplers with cuts by Ace Face, brief but memorable appearance on up a groove and melody that instantly The set is off to a nifty start with the Assassins Of Sound, and Genetics, Soul's recent album was stick to the brain and rouse the body. single "Gritty Shaker," which is not among others. Check 'em out. They're only a mouthwatering teaser. We want Although it's difficult to let go of the just another sample -laden electronic likely to become collector's items. more! song's primary version, briefly loosen chugger-though narrow minds may Another mad -cool collectible is Well, the lovely Latina has answered your grip and spend a moment with describe it that way upon superficial "Shake Your Booty" by Dave Clarke. our prayers with "La Coe En Voe (Viva Louis' radio -ready hip -hop remixes. listen. Dig deeper and you'll discover a The deConstruction producer/artist )" and "To Be In Love," a Very cute, indeed. track that embraces old- school funk initially planned to use this disco - pair of delicious treats on New York's By the by, "Clap Your Hands" pre- and traditional jazz while exploring the soaked raver only for his live debut at MAW Records. Each cut nicely show- views an album tentatively due early outer boundaries of ambient -dub and this year's Tribal Gathering festival. cases India's confidently boisterous next year. orchestral pop. Holmes has a remark- The track -and Clarke's perfor- Whilst we have London /ffrr on the able, almost classical sense of melody, mance -went over so well that a com- Chlllin'. DJ Wally, left, and DJ voice, while producers Kenny "Dope" and we're to note that Por- which he contrasts with his primal mercial pressing was demanded. Lose Swingsett take a breather between Gonzalez "Little" Louie Vega brain, pleased for a of -weaving. This is not for yourself in the lad's flair for rhythm recording sessions for their first weave grooves that are a tight and tishead is about to confirm dates style beat in of child who wants to jump up and melodrama, while his keen pop sensi- Ubiquity Records album, "Dog Leg tasteful blend of salsa and tribal -house three -week stateside tour support the set, which down mindlessly. Rather, "Gritty Shak- bility once again rises to the top of the Left." The well -crafted, adventurous patterns. "To Be In Love" has the its eponymous sophomore from your retail well as "My Mate Paul" and . How long will it be collection combines trend -sensitive strongest mainstream potential, given you can grab trusty er"-as 30. "" from "Let's Get Killed" before Clarke is scoring massive top 40 electronic concepts with splashes of its English lyrics and strobing pop racks Sept. - lauded is like a life tossed to those hits? old- school funk and hip -hop. Although hook. After consuming both tracks, After cranking out critically preserver 1993, who want to believe that dance music "Shake Your Booty" should keep all the tracks are mostly instrumental, you'll likely join us in hankering for singles since David Holmes the and can go of us Clarke -heads happy until he com- Swingsett's wife, Lisa Winsett, makes another album of dance tunes. Get looks like he's about to penetrate intelligence comfortably hand in hand. pletes his next full -length opus, which occasional vocal appearances -which workin', Miss Thing! won't be ready until early next year. add a pop accessibility to the project. Speaking of Latin belters, former By a Beyond Clarke's latest release, Look for Wally and Swingsett to begin freestyle vixen Cynthia has turned us M OVIN': establishing Stress America logo and office in New York, deConstruction is ending the summer a string of live club gigs this fall. upside down with "Like A Star," the Billboard. first hitbound single from an album on our pals at the ever -experimental U.K. with a resounding bang. Way Out Timber! /Tommy Boy. Swathed in soft HOT 1641ce indie are getting serious about devel- West is enjoying applause for "Blue," publicly acknowledge spinning to disco threads sewn by producer Tony oping a place of prominence in the which jiggles with the electro -funk fla- rabid audience response because the Moran, the singer oozes with the U.S. -and it's about time. With a ros- vor that made "The Gift" a smash. producer of said record is "a queen breathless charm of an ingénue, while ter that includes Full Intention and Meanwhile, Canadian producer/musi- who thinks he's too fierce to return displaying the chops of an artist who is AUGUST 30, 1997 Chris & James, the label has kept cian Paul Jacobs is fast becoming a phone calls." And then there's the maturing quite nicely. She has a field many a stateside punter on the import U.K. darling with "Happy Days," a major -label project that's faltering day with the song's romantic lyrics, CLUB PLAY hunt. stormin' disco-houser that he's issued after a promising start because the alternating between cooing verses and 1. RUN TO YOU JOl CARDWELL EIGHTBALL If you're behind on your Stress under the moniker P.J. White- labeled label has abandoned it in order to assured chorus vamps. "Like A Star" 2. CELEBRATE RUPAUL RHINO material, then here's your chance to test pressings of the track are a resuscitate an already failed album is the first cut from what should be an 3. NEVER NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU catch up. The label has just issued mighty hot item at the moment, trig- UP LISA STANSFIELD ARISTA that was signed by that label's senior awesome album. fresh mixes of Chris & James' dreamy gering high sales hopes for its Sept. 1 4. SOMEWHERE PET SHOP BOYS VP of A &R. These are all true tales Cynthia's fine performance is com- ATLANTIC "Ghosts" by Fade. These new versions commercial onset. we've heard within the space of a plemented by a bottomless well of 5. COMMAND & OBEY GROOVE THING widen the trance -induced track's club recent hour. remixes contributed by Joey Gardner, FEAT. DEBBIE HARRY EIGHTBALL appeal with beefier beats and a thick- REACHIN': Veteran hi -NRG per- Sad, eh? Even sadder is the fact that Todd Terry, the Fitch Brothers, DJ er . All the while, singer Sally former Ernest Kohl and artist man- such political entanglements must Lucho & Ray Abraxas, Jonathan MAXI -SINGLES SALES Rodgers tickles the senses with her ager Brian Harper have just sealed a often be endured in order to get ahead Peters & Eddie Baez, and the team of 1. BACKYARD BOOGIE MACK 10 PRIORITY ethereal presence. deal with Miami's Hot Productions to in this industry. Yeah, talent matters - Steve Chavez, Chavez, and 2. LUV'D UP CRUSH ROBBINS The label is also gathering props for launch Perseverance Music U.S.A. most of the time. Charm and charisma Albert Castillo. Lots of positive vibes 3. LIFT YOU UP K5 ROBBINS "PM3" by Palefield Mountain, which Records. The first release from the count. And there are even a handful of and wriggling grooves to choose from 4. COMMAND & OBEY GROOVE THING tingles with frenetic beats and a New York-rooted label will be Kohl's heroes behind the scenes who regular- here, though we're most stuck on FEAT. DEBBIE HARRY EIGHTBALL melody that wraps tightly around the dance interpretation of "This Is The 5. WE CAN GET DOWN MYRON ISLAND ly resist the temptation to abuse their Moran's epic original version. Gardner brain and never lightens its grip. Moment" from Broadway's "Jekyll & power. It's just a drag that it's easier also deserves high marks for a pop - Breakouts: Titles with future chart potential, Stress also has a spankin' new sub- ." The single will precede "The based on club play or sales reported this week. and quicker to roll through that short - smart version on which he proudly sidiary in the form of Related Records, Importance Of Being," a full -length list of names than it is to keep track of wears his affection for Donna Sum- which will mine dark, more under- (Continued on next page)

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DANCE TRAX (Continued from preceding page) collection of original tunes later this tional support intensifies. LA's Green State, System 7, and Medicine Drum, enlisted the beat -blending skills of the when it was first issued 10 years ago. year. Galactic Communications shows signs among others. fab Eric "E- Smoove" Miller and club The fine folks at Edel America have "Doing our own label will allow us to of becoming a major player in this area Pagan America has another under- legend Maurice Joshua for "A Taste another breakout hit in the making have a more consistent flow of releas- with the addition of Susan Mainzer ground winner with "Soul Rebels" by Of Chicago," a multi -act set gathering with "Oh La La La," a giddy li'l romp es and maintain control over what we and A.J. Peralta to its ranks. Mainzer House Of 909. Partners Nigel Casey, some of the cuter jams originating by 2 Eivissa. If you're looking for a want to do musically," Harper says. comes to the fold with a history that Affie Yussuf, Trevor Loveys, Jamie from that city in recent years. Pop record that is wildly intelligent or that Other signings to the label will be includes gigs at Priority and Island Cox, and Martin Howes do an incred- heads will be enticed by novelty hits will change the face of dance music, confirmed in weeks, as well Records, while Peralta previously ible job of merging their broad back- like "Short Dick Man" by Gillette and keep on steppin'. "Oh La La La" is as the track listing for the multi -act earned respect with his Tokyo -based grounds into a satisfying album that "Lick It" by Roula, while purists will nothing more than a feel -good jam with "Perseverance Power Dance Mix" com- media production and software distri- could prove attractive to househeads dig the inclusion of "Percolator" by a sticky chorus that will appeal and pilation, which is planned for early - bution company, Lamuz Inc. Lynn and listeners alike. Cajmere and "All I Wanna Do" by madden almost at the same time. This winter release. Hasty continues to preside over Green "The Last Dance" is particularly Lidell Townsell. A nifty collection shrewdly constructed Team 33 pro- As the field of electronic -based acts Galactic, which has a roster that potent, with it throbbing, trance -like that gets even better once Joshua's own duction has already won the hearts of grows to frightening proportions, the includes the indie labels Hypnotic, bassline and creamy keyboards. classic anthem "This Is Acid" kicks in. European punters and is quickly gath- need for solid marketing and promo- Instinct, and Shadow and the acts 808 Chicago's Aureus Records has That jam sounds as fresh now as it did ering ardent supporters here. 26 BILLBOARD AUGUST 30, 1997 www.americanradiohistory.com ARTISTS & MUSIC BNA Targets As The `Man' For All Reasons BY DEBORAH EVANS PRICE viewed Sellers' album for radio pro- impression on people. He's genuine, and been a part of so many hits as a demo all the different subjects unapologeti- grammers and industry executives at he's heartfelt. From all the visits I've singer," he says. "That gives people a cally. I feel like it really expresses how NASHVILLE BNA Records execu- two showcases designed to tie into the been to and field reports I've got, radio chance to hear something they are I feel and who I am." tives think the music from newcomer "music that's out of likes the music a lot." The first single, familiar with and see his touch on it." Sellers says that the label gave him Jason Sellers' Sept. 30 debut album, this world" theme. "I'm Your Man," arrived at radio July Sellers is at ease in front of an audi- the freedom to create the kind of album "I'm Your Man," is so "out of this world" The first was held 14. ence, and it's a comfort level that comes he wanted and that he also credits pro- that they've been going to extremes to in Roswell, N.M., Rick West, music director at KMOU- from years of working the road. Though ducer Chris Farren with helping shape promote the disc. the site of a sup- FM Roswell, N.M., saw Sellers' show- he lists Gilmer, Texas, as his hometown, the project. "He's a great talent. He's "We're into Jason," says RCA Label posed UFO crash case and became a supporter. "I like his Sellers' true home was the road, as he real hot right now," he says. "I think he's Group (RLG) chairman Joe Galante. 50 years ago. and his music," he says. "It was a spent more than 250 days a year singing really tapped into what's going on "Jason is an act. I know that this guy can second took place great showcase. I was very impressed, and playing bass with his family's coun- now -real fresh -sounding stuff ... I stand in front of an audience in a coli- aboard a cruise to and afterward we added the single, `I'm try gospel group, the Sellers Family. met with him, and we just hit it off. We seum at some point and play to these SELLERS the Bahamas that Your Man.' It's getting positive reaction "We traveled mostly in Texas, had the same vision for what would be guys, and he will entertain them. He's originated from from our listeners." Louisiana, and Oklahoma," he says. "It the best record for me." an entertainer, a personality, a song- Cape Canaveral, Fla. Van Durand says that Sellers has was a regional thing, but it was full - Sellers wrote five of the cuts on his writer, and he's a hell of a singer. That "Reaction has been very positive all been performing live at radio stations time and we traveled pretty much all album -"Walking In My Sleep," "That fits all the criteria in my book." the way around," says BNA VP of na- and that in addition to performing songs the time. So I was on correspondence Does It," "Small Divide," "It's A Man's To give country music gatekeepers a tional promotion Ken Van Durand. from the album, he sings some of the courses and home schooling just like Job," and "Divorce My Heart" He's also sense of all those talents, the label pre- "He's very friendly and makes a great hits for which he sang demos. "He's Aubrie [his 6- year -old daughter of had his songs recorded by several other whom he shares custody with ex -wife artists, including Womack, Pam Tillis, Lee Ann Womack]." , Wade Hayes, and Skaggs. When he was 17, he was recruited to Unlike some new artists who start perform for a year at a country music holding all their songs for their own al- show in Mountain View, Ark. He re- bums when they get a recording con- True Country Fans Will `Thank God' turned to Texas and then decided to tract, Sellers says he plans to continue move to Nashville at 19. When he got to pitching to other acts. He says some Music City, a friend gave him Vince acts often worry about having passed For Chesnutt Set; A Tribute To Monroe Gill's number and urged him to contact over a song that went on to become a hit. the up- and-coming artist. "I don't think just because they're a hit H ONKY -TONKIN': Put this down as a lock for your list SHOW ... Michael Martin Murphey's WestFest takes "It was before `When I Call Your song they're right for everybody," he of top 10 country albums of 1997: "Thank God For Believ- place Saturday (30)-Sept. 1 at the Copper Mountain Resort Name,' " Sellers explains. "He an- says. "I write these songs, we listen to ers" by . Seven years into a career of in Colorado. Artists performing include Willie Nelson, swered the phone, and I was shocked. I them, and if we don't feel they are right staunch, traditional country music on the honky -tonk side, , Ty Herndon, Mindy McCready, the gave him my sales pitch, and he said for my record, the publishing company Chesnutt seems to be getting stronger musically. Com- Thompson Brothers, Bill Miller, Mila Mason, and Ian he'd help me." starts pitching them to other people." mercially, he was not supposed to make it in an era of pop - Tyson. The event phone number is 800- 458-8386, extension Gill used Sellers as a fill-in bass play- Sellers' songs run the gamut of emo- sounding country, but he now has three platinum and two 7899 ... The late Hank Williams has had an Alabama high- er whenever his regular bassist was tional experiences, and he'll be the first gold albums on Decca. So why is it working for him? way named after him. The 50 -mile stretch of Interstate 65 unavailable, and he recommended Sell- to admit this year has been somewhat "I'm still doing what I've always done," Chesnutt tells between Montgomery and Hank's hometown of Georgiana ers for a job in Billy Joe Royal's band, of an emotional roller coaster. The highs Nashville Scene. "I'm out here trying to burn the tires off will now be known as the Hank Williams Memorial Lost which he got. He spent two years with have included finishing the album and them buses. We're still rolling along at a steady pace. Highway ... Bill Anderson recently had a street named Royal before landing a gig with Ricky seeing positive reaction to the initial sin- Crowds are growing , which is a huge after him in his adopted hometown of Commerce, Ga. Skaggs that found Sellers singing, writ- gle, but he's suffered some devastating surprise for me. It's better than ever. The songs `It's A Lit- German country singer Jill Morris has been in town ing songs, playing bass, and even road lows -his divorce from Womack and the tle Too Late' and `Let It Rain' last year seemed to give me recording her next BMG album at Sound Stage. She's work- managing. Sellers says working for death of his father on Father's Day. a big boost. I was told corn- ing on getting U.S. distri- Skaggs was a great experience that "Divorce My Heart" was written ing into this business that bution ... Australian provided many valuable opportunities, about his experience with Womack. around four or five years is country great Slim Dusty among them playing on a Chieftains When asked if it was hard to be that the life span of a country made two rare Grand Ole album and performing with country vulnerable on his debut record, he career. That kind of scared Opry appearances Aug. legends like Bill Monroe and Ray Price. answers, "It wasn't particularly hard. me, but now it looks like Nashville 15. Making its first Opry Singing demos and writing songs I'm an open book. I have this theory people want what I'm appearance, the Capitol helped Sellers garner attention from that you and me and Vince and our par- doing. I didn't realize it / Nashville band the Music Row's record labels. RCA staf- ents and friends back home are all the had been seven years until vl\ Cake Ranch backed Dusty up. fers brought Sellers to Galante's atten- same. We all get up and put our clothes Tony Brown showed me a The Ranch's Keith Urban tion. At the time, Sellers was being on in the morning. We all have cars that list of all the singles." rM and Peter Clarke are managed by Reba McEntire's Star - break down. We fall in love and out of Chesnutt says he's been native Australians who struck Entertainment, and Galante vis- love, lose loved ones, go through di- doing more songwriting by Chet Flippo moved here in 1992 .. . ited the company's offices for a show- vorces, have kids, and so many things. and co -wrote five of the 10 The Opry also welcomed case. By the time he got back to RCA, We're all God's children. We're so much songs on "Thank God For Japanese country singer he called to offer Sellers a deal. (He's the same, and for me to write that stuff, Believers." Unlike most artists, Chesnutt's writing thrives Kenji Nagatomi, who's recording his next album here, still signed to Starstruck Writers Group I'm just saying it like you might share it on the road. "That's the only place I do any writing at all," with Charlie McCoy producing. for publishing but is now managed by with a friend. It's kind of like me shar- he says. "I can't write by appointment, and I didn't write Registration begins Saturday (23) and runs through David Corlees) ing it with my friends. It's my life." with anybody else until I got together with Roger Tuesday (26) for the Business of Music course at Vander- Sellers refers to his music as "y'all- Sellers says the best songs are writ- Springer. We both grew up in the honky -tonks and had bilt University's Blair School of Music. Veteran Music Row ternative." He adds, "I hesitate to de- ten from personal experience. "I don't the same heroes and same background. He comes out on executive Jim Foglesong will teach the 15 -week course. scribe it sometimes, because it seems have a mask on or a shield up to protect the road with me, and we write together on the bus at 3 or The phone number is 615- 322-7651 ... Shelby Kennedy like then you paint yourself in a corner me from what people might think," he 4 o'clock in the morning. He's the melody man; he can come exits ASCAP to join the A &R staff at Lyric Street almost because you describe it one way says. "People might form their own up with some of the finest country melodies. And I come Records ... Anthony Martin and Laura Putty have been and someone else may listen to it and opinion, but I think if we're honest, I up with some ideas and words. It's really a lot of fun." hired by as A &R managers .. . get a whole different picture," he says. don't think that honesty is going to He says songs he co -wrote with Springer on the new Brian Hill joins Monterey Artists as an agent . . . "But the uptempos are pretty aggres- scare anybody away." album, such as "Numbers On The Jukebox" and "Goodbye Nashville's Wildhorse Saloon is opening a new club in the sive. The ballads are power ballads. Sellers says he hasn't yet signed with Heartache," are beginning to approximate his country Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Fla. The new There aren't a lot of midtempos. It's all a booking agency, so tour plans have yet vision. "These are closer to what I've wanted to do. I get 27,000 -square -foot Wildhorse is set to open in spring 1998. pretty aggressive in one way or anoth- to be finalized. However, RLG has kept a lot of great songs sent to me, but there was something I er, whether it's reaching in and grab- him busy touring radio and retail in sup- wasn't hearing for myself. So that's what we're trying to FATHERS & SONS: James Monroe has returned to the bing your heart on a ballad or whether port of the project. do: real country stuff. The album is more country than studio for the first time in many years to record a tribute it's rockin' on an uptempo -they all RLG VP of sales Ron Howie says the what the first single [the title cut] even suggests." The album to his father, the late Bill Monroe. It includes two seem to reach out a lot." label is plugging Sellers' album into album is due for release Sept. 23. previously unrecorded songs: "Bean Blossom Memories" Like all good songwriters, Sellers artist development and sneak-peek pro- is a tribute to Bill written by Damon Black, and "Roxan- writes from personal experience, and grams at retail. "As we get closer to PEOPLE: Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood will per- na Waltz" is a Bill Monroe composition that James found there's a lot of vulnerability expressed street date, we'll turn the heat up on a form their duet of "In Another's Eyes" on "The Tonight on an old Opry rehearsal cassette. "My Father: In Mem- in his lyrics. "Lyrically, I think it's real case -by -case basis," he says. "This is Show With Jay Leno" Sept. 11... Jerry Jeff Walker is stag- ory Of Bill Monroe," on the Raintree label, is available honest," he says of the album. "I don't about getting the album into the mar- ing his 1997 Laborfest Aug. 31 in Luckenbach, Texas. Guest through the Ernest Tubb Record Shops and Record Depot have any secrets. My scars are [visible]. ket. It's about letting the single create performers include Joe Ely, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Kelly ... Josh Leo is producing an album for Reprise by the I'm open to the world, and I think the demand and building from there. The Willis, and Todd Snider. The phone number is 800-966- Nelsons, the late Rick Nelson's boys. songs are evidence of that. They talk music is fresh, and he's got an incredi- about heartbreak and being in love and ble voice."

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HOW A COWGIRL SAYS GOODBYE TRACY LAWRENCE 4 I'M YOUR MAN JASON SELLERS 4 4 14 42 43 47 5 42 D.COOK (L.BOONE,P.NELSON,T.LAWRENCE) (C) (DI ATLANTIC 82985 C.FARREN (A.CUNNINGHAM,M.D. SANDERS) (C) (V) BNA 64915 WE WERE IN LOVE TOBY KEITH 7 10 12 5 HOW DO I LIVE LEANN RIMES J.STROUD,T.KEITH (C.CANNON,A.SHAMBLIN) (V) MERCURY 43 44 44 12 43 574636 C.HOWARD,W.RIMES,M.CURB (D.WARREN) (C) (D) (V) CURB 73022 CARRYING YOUR LOVE WITH ME GEORGE STRAIT 6 6 2 18 1 DON'T LOVE MAKE A DIAMOND SHINE T.BROWN,G.STRAIT (J.STEVENS,S.BOGARD) (V) MCA 72007 44 38 27 16 17 T.BROWN (C.WISEMAN,M.DEKLE) (V) MCA 72002 COME CRYIN' TO ME LONESTAR 1 1 18 1 RIDIN' OUT THE HEARTACHE TANYA TUCKER D.COOK,W.WILSON (J.RICH,W.WILSON,M.D. SANDERS) (CI (D) (V) BNA 64841 45 46 50 7 45 G.BROWN (C.MAJESKI,S.RUSS,S.SMITH) (V) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 19628 DANCIN', SHAGGIN' ON THE BOULEVARD ALABAMA 8 13 10 8 THREE CHORDS AND THE TRUTH SARA EVANS CD D.COOK,ALABAMA (R.OWEN,T.GENTRY,G.FOWLER) (V) RCA 64849 46 48 52 8 46 P.ANDERSON (S.EVANS,R.HARBIN,A.MAYO) (CI (V) RCA 64876 HOW WAS I TO KNOW JOHN MICHAEL MONTGOMERY 9 14 12 9 CLAUDETTE DWIGHT YOAKAM C.PETOCZ (B.DALY,W.RAMBEAUX) ATLANTIC ALBUM CUT 47 48 8 47 CI P.ANDERSON (R.ORBISON) REPRISE ALBUM CUT THERE GOES ALAN JACKSON 10 10 12 8 10 YOU CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE K.STEGALL (A.JACKSON) (V) ARISTA 13070 48 57 72 3 48 L.PARNELL,THE HOT LINKS (T.ARATA) CAREER ALBUM CUT HOW YOUR LOVE MAKES ME FEEL DIAMOND RIO 11 12 16 13 11 2 YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE LEANN RIMES 49 M.D.CLUTE,DIAMOND RIO (M.T.BARNES,T.BRUCE) ARISTA ALBUM CUT 49 49 - W.C.RIMES,C.HOWARD,M.CURB (J.BROOKS) CURB ALBUM CUT THE SHAKE NEAL MCCOY 12 13 15 15 12 2 NICKAJACK RIVER ROAD K.LEHNING (J.MCELROY,B.CARR) ATLANTIC ALBUM CUT 50 63 - 50 S.BOGARD ,S.CURNUTTE,M.MAHER (S.HENDRICKS,G.NICHOLSON) (C) (D) (V) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 58666 WHAT THE HEART WANTS COLLIN RAYE 16 17 13 13 FLUTTER JACK INGRAM J. HOBBS,E.SEAY,P.WORLEY (M.DULANEY) EPIC ALBUM CUT 51 52 53 7 51 S.EARLE,R.KENNEDY (C.BOYD) RISING TIDE ALBUM CUT THE FOOL LEE ANN WOMACK 14 17 19 11 14 LUCKY IN LOVE SHERRIE AUSTIN M.WRIGHT (M. CANNON,C,STEFL,G.ELLSWORTH) (V) DECCA 72009 52 45 37 15 34 E.SEAY,W.RAMBEAUX (S.AUSTIN,B.DALY,W.RAMBEAUX) (C) (D) (V) ARISTA 13083 AIRPOWER ONE, TWO, I LOVE YOU CLAY WALKER * * * * * * 53 51 49 19 18 J.STROUD,C.WALKER (B.JONES,E.HILL) (V) GIANT 17351 /REPRISE DAY IN, DAY OUT DAVID KERSH 15 20 21 14 5 P.MCMAKIN (M. GREEN,T. MCHUGH) CURB ALBUM CUT NOWHERE, USA DEAN MILLER 54 54 54 6 54 G.BROWN (D.MILLER) (C) (D) (V) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 58665 PERFECT DAY BLAKE & BRIAN * * * AIRPOWER * * * 55 55 55 7 ANOTHER 55 C.HOWARD (P.BARNHART,B.TABOR,C.WHITE) (C) (D) (V) CURB 73024 GO AWAY 16 25 16 21 9 (V) LOVE TRAVELS KATHY MATTEA J.STROUD,L.MORGAN (S.SMITH,C.MAJESKI,SRUSS) (C) (D} BNA 64914 58 61 3 56 CI B.WISCH,K.MATTEA (B.HALLIGAN, JR.,L.HALLIGAN) (V) MERCURY 578550 IT'S YOUR LOVE TIM MCGRAW (WITH FAITH HILL) 17 14 9 17 1 I WILL, IF YOU WILL JOHN BERRY 19 J. STROUD,B.GALLIMORE,T.MCGRAW (S.SMITH) (C) (D) (V) CURB 73019 51 50 40 20 C.HOWARD (J.B.JARVIS,R.GOODRUM) (V) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 19511 YOU AND YOU ALONE 18 22 23 7 18 LINEMAN WADE HAYES T. BROWN (V.GILL) (V) MCA 72010 58 61 62 4 WICHITA 58 D.COOK (J.WEBB) COLUMBIA ALBUM CUT IT'S ALL THE SAME TO ME BILLY RAY CYRUS 19 23 22 13 19 THE TROUBLE WITH THE TRUTH PATTY LOVELESS K.STEGALL,J.KELTON (K.K.PHILLIPS,J.LASETER) (V) MERCURY 574638 59 53 46 19 15 E.GORDY,JR. (G.NICHOLSON) EPIC ALBUM CUT I LEFT SOMETHING TURNED ON AT HOME TRACE ADKINS 20 11 3 19 2 WARNING SIGNS BILL ENGVALL WITH SPECIAL GUEST JOHN MICHAEL MONTGOMERY S. HENDRICKS (B.LAWSON,J.SCHWEERS) (V) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 19579 60 56 57 3 56 C.PETOCZ,D.GRAU (B.ENGVALL,S.ROUSE,R.SCAIFE) WARNER BROS. ALBUM CUT HOW DO I GET THERE DEANA CARTER 21 25 31 5 21 BUTTERFLY KISSES RAYBON BROS. C.FARREN (D.CARTER,C.FARREN) (V) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 19646 61 60 56 14 37 D.COOK,T.BROWN (B.CARLISLE,R.THOMAS) (C) (D) (V) MCA 72016 JOHN ANDERSON 22 24 24 9 22 SOMETHING THAT WE DO CLINT BLACK K.STEGALL (B.MCDILL,R.MURRAH) (C) (V) MERCURY 574640 62 NEW P 1 62 C.BLACK,J.STROUD (C.BLACK,S.EWING) RCA ALBUM CUT IF YOU LOVE SOMEBODY KEVIN SHARP 23 26 32 6 23 LIKE YOU MATT KING C.FARREN (C.FARREN,J.STEELE) 143 ALBUM CUT /ASYLUM 68 - 2 A WOMAN 63 CI G.MORRIS (M.KING,D.GIBSON,C.KARP) ATLANTIC ALBUM CUT STILL HOLDING ON CLINT BLACK & MARTINA MCBRIDE 24 15 11 12 11 HERE'S THE DEAL JEFF CARSON J.STROUD,C.BLACK (C.BLACK,M.BERG,M.STUART) (V) RCA 64850 64 66 68 3 64 C.HOWARD (B.TAYLOR,J.JARRIS) (C) (D) (V) CURB 73023 THIS NIGHT WON'T LAST FOREVER SAWYER BROWN 25 28 33 10 25 FLOWERS BILLY YATES M.MILLER,M.MCANALLY (B.LABOUNTY,R.FREELAND) (C) (D) (V) CURB 73016 65 60 15 36 CI G.FUNDIS,B.YATES (B.YATES,M.CRISWELL) ALMO SOUNDS ALBUM CUT ALL THE GOOD ONES ARE GONE PAM TILLIS 26 18 8 9 4 THE WAY SHE'S LOOKING RAYBON BROS. B.J.WALKER,JR.,P.TILLIS (D.DILLON,B.MCDILL) (V) ARISTA 13084 66 64 74 3 64 D.COOK,T.BROWN (D.000K,B.LAWSON) (V) MCA 72017 NOTHIN' LESS THAN LOVE THE BUFFALO CLUB 27 27 29 13 27 LIVING IN A HOUSE FULL OF LOVE B.BECKETT (W.TESTER,R.YOUNG) RISING TIDE ALBUM CUT 61 70 - 2 67 M.WRIGHT,B.HILL (G.SUTTON,B.SHERRILL) DECCA ALBUM CUT LOVE IS THE RIGHT PLACE BRYAN WHITE 28 28 34 38 5 64152 ANSWER TO MY PRAYER SKIP EWING B.1.WALKER,JR.,K.LEHNING (M.HUMMON,T.SIMS) (C) ASYLUM CI 73 - 2 68 NASHVILLE ALBUM CUT DOWN CAME A BLACKBIRD LILA MCCANN B.J.WALKER,JR. (V.SHAW,S.EWING) WORD 29 29 28 16 28 M.SPIRO (M.SPIRO,M.SMOTHERMAN) ASYLUM ALBUM CUT NAKED TO THE PAIN JAMES BONAMY 69 69 71 71 3 EPIC ALBUM CUT HELPING ME GET OVER YOU FEATURING LARI WHITE D.JOHNSON (D.PFRIMMER,R.WOLD) 30 31 36 6 30 D. WAS,T.TRITT (T.TRITT,L.WHITE) WARNER BROS. ALBUM CUT LONESTAR 70 10 NEW 1 D.COOK,W.WILSON (R.J.LANGE,B.ADAMS) BNA ALBUM CUT ALL LIT UP IN LOVE DAVID LEE MURPHY 31 33 34 9 31 T.BROWN (D.L.MURPHY) (C) (D) (V) MCA 72008 JUST TO SEE YOU SMILE TIM MCGRAW CI 72 70 4 70 EVERYWHERE TIM MCGRAW B.GALLIMORE,T.MCGRAW (M. NESLER,T,MARTIN) CURB ALBUM CUT 32 40 45 9 32 B.GALLIMORE,J,STROUD,T.MCGRAW (C.WISEMAN,M.REID) CURB ALBUM CUT SHE'S GOING HOME WITH ME TRAVIS TRITT 12 67 63 20 24 SHUT UP AND DRIVE CHELY WRIGHT D.WAS,T.TRITT (T.TRITT) WARNER BROS. ALBUM CUT 33 36 39 7 33 T. BROWN (S.TATE,A.TATE,R.RUTHERFORD) (C) (D) (V) MCA 72012 HAND OF FATE SONS OF THE DESERT 13 NEW' 1 73 HE LEFT A LOT TO BE DESIRED RICOCHET J.SLATE,D.JOHNSON (M.LUNN,M.NOBLE) EPIC ALBUM CUT 34 19 18 18 18 R.CHANCEY,E.SEAY (R.BOWLES,L.BOONE) (C) (D) COLUMBIA 78564 IN A HEARTBEAT RODNEY ATKINS 14 NEW 1 74 HOLE IN MY HEART BLACKHAWK C.HOWARD (R.ATKINS,T.HEWITT,B.GOWAN) CURB ALBUM CUT 35 35 35 10 35 M.BRIGHT ( D.CHILD,D.ROBBINS,V.STEPHENSON) (C) (D) (V) ARISTA 13092 SHE KNOWS ME BY HEART SEMINOLE RE -ENTRY 2 73 IN ANOTHER'S EYES TRISHA YEARWOOD AND GARTH BROOKS CI M.MILLER,M.MCANALLY (B.SHORE,R.WEST,D.MYERS) (C) (D) (V) CURB 56094 /UNIVERSAL 36 62 2 36 - A.REYNOLDS (B.WOOD,J.PEPPARD,G.BROOKS) MCA ALBUM CUT THANK GOD FOR BELIEVERS MARK CHESNUTT 37 31 42 5 37 Records showing an increase in detections over the previous week, regardless of chart movement. Airpower awarded to those records which M.WRIGHT (R. SPRINGER ,M.A.SPRINGER,T.JOHNSON) (C) (D) (V) DECCA 72014 Q attain 3200 detections for the first time. Videoclip availability. Catalog number is for cassette single, or vinyl if cassette is unavailable. (C) PLEASE THE KINLEYS 38 39 43 38 Cassette single availability. (D) CD single availability. (M) Cassette maxi -single availability. (T) Vinyl maxi -single availability. (V) Vinyl single avail- O D EPIC 78656 D(D) ability. (X) CD maxi -single availability. ©1997, Billboard/BPI Communications. COMPILED FROM A NATIONAL SAMPLE OF RETAIL STORE AND RACK SALES REPORTS COLLECTED. COMPILED, AND PROVIDED BY "can®; BiIIboard Top Country Singles Sales.. AUGUST 30, 1997 ;

`1 Y I- Y V) w W O x3N W W 30O w ln Yi 53 N Q TITLE LABEL& NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL ARTIST 3 53 N Q 4y TITLE LABEL & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL ARTIST * * *No.1 * ** 14 20 23 3 WE WERE IN LOVE MERCURY 574636 TOBY KEITH 15 13 14 HOLE IN MY HEART ARISTA 13092 BLACKHAWK I 4 weeks at No. 1 LEANN RIMES 01 1 1 HOW DO LIVE CURB 73022 16 18 21 SHUT UP AND DRIVE MCA 72012 CHELY WRIGHT 2 2 2 Ib IT'S YOUR LOVE CURB 73019 TIM MCGRAW (WITH FAITH HILL) 17 16 15 7 PEACE TRAIN FDP IT 44000 /ARK 21 DOLLY PARTON 3 3 3 13 BUTTERFLY KISSES MCA 72016 RAYBON BROS. 18 14 12 10 LUCKY IN LOVE ARISTA 13083 SHERRIE AUSTIN 4 4 4 11 HOW DO I LIVE MCA 72015 TRISHA YEARWOOD 19 15 13 23 LITTLE THINGS CAPITOL NASHVILLE 58630 TANYA TUCKER 5 5 5 31 HERE'S YOUR SIGN (GET THE PICTURE) wß.17491 BILL ENGVALL WITH SPECIAL GUEST TRAVIS TRITT NEW 1 PLEASE EPIC 78656/SONY THE KINLEYS 6 6 6 13 DRINK, SWEAR, STEAL & LIE REPRISE 17379/WARNER BROS. MICHAEL PETERSON 21 2 THANK GOD FOR BELIEVERS DECCA 72014/MCA MARK CHESNUTT 1 8 8 63 THE LIGHT IN YOUR EYES/BLUE CURB 76959 LEANN RIMES 22 17 16 21 BETTER MAN, BETTER OFF ATLANTIC 83004/AG TRACY LAWRENCE 8 7 7 9 HERE'S THE DEAL/BUTTERFLY KISSES CURB 73023 JEFF CARSON 23 19 17 32 A GIRL'S GOTTA DO (WHAT A GIRL'S GOTTA DOI/AAYBE HE'LL NOTICE HER NOW BNA 64757/RCA MINDY MCCREADY 9 9 11 4 GO AWAY BNA 64914/RCA LORRIE MORGAN 24 22 18 24 I'D BE WITH YOU/DADDY'S LITTLE GIRL CURB 56092/UNIVERSAL KIPPT BRANNON 10 10 9 SHE'S GOT IT ALL BNA64894 /RCA KENNY CHESNEY 25 24 22 13 COME CRYIN' TO ME BNA 64841/RCA LONESTAR 12 20 3 SOMEBODY SLAP ME MERCURY 574640 JOHN ANDERSON BRYAN WHITE Records wi h the greatest sales gains this week. Recording Industry Assn. of America certification for sales of 500,000 units. RIAA NEW 1 LOVE IS THE RIGHT PLACE ASYLUM 64152/EEG O certification fo sales of 1 million units, with multimillion titles indicated by a numeral following the symbol. © 1997, Billboard /BPI CURB 73016 SAWYER BROWN 13 11 10 21 THIS NIGHT WONT LAST FOREVER/SIX DAYS ON THE ROAD Communications and SoundScan, Inc.

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BMI/Kidder Hill, BMI/New Haven, BMI/Music Hill, BMI) COUNTRY SINGLES A -Z HL/WBM 38 PLEASE (We've Got The Music, BM(/Ashwords, PUBLISHERS /PERFORMANCE RIGHTS /SHEET MUSIC BMI/Songs Of PolyGram Intl, BMI) HL COUNTRY 45 RIDIN' OUT THE HEARTACHE (Songs For Debin, ASCAP/Starstruck Angel, BMI /EMI Blackwood, TITLE (Publisher - Licensing Org.) Sheet Music Dist. * * * * * * * * ** BMI/Singles Only, BMI) HL 31 ALL LIT UP IN LOVE (Old Desperados, ASCAP /N2 D, ly, BMI /Sony/AN Tunes LLC, ASCAP/Kim. Williams, 12 THE SHAKE (Log Rhythm, BMI/Millhouse, BMI) ASCAP) ASCAP/Zomba, ASCAP) 15 SHE KNOWS ME BY HEART (Club Zoo, BMI /Katie 26 ALL THE GOOD ONES ARE GONE (Acuff -Rose, 4 HOW A COWGIRL SAYS GOODBYE (Sony/AN Cross Walker, BMI /Dabi Lu, BMI) BMI/Polygram Intl, ASCAP/Ranger Bob, ASCAP) Keys, ASCAP/SLL, ASCAP /Sony /AN Tree, BMI/Terilee, 72 SHE'S GOING HOME WITH ME (Post Oak, BMI) HL HL/WBM BMI) HL 1 SHE'S GOT IT ALL (Emdar, ASCAP/Texas Wedge, 55 ANOTHER PERFECT DAY (Sony/ATV Tree, BMI/Suffer 21 HOW DO I GET THERE (EMI Princeton Street, ASCAP/Womaculate Conceptions, ASCAP /Almo, CORNER In Silence, BMI/Sony /ATV Cross Keys, ASCAP) HL ASCAP/Full Keel, ASCAP/Farrenuff, ASCAP) HL/WBM ASCAP/Daddy Rabbit, ASCAP) WBM 68 ANSWER TO MY PRAYER (Minka, ASCAP /Maverick, 2 HOW DO I LIVE (FROM CON AIR) (Realsongs, 33 SHUT UP AND DRIVE (Blue Water, BMI/Music Corp. ASCAP/WB, ASCAP/Acuff -Rose, BMI) WBM ASCAP) WBM Of America, BMI) HL PolyGram Intl, by Wade Jessen 61 BUTTERFLY KISSES (Polygram Intl, ASCAP/Diadem, 43 HOW DO I LIVE ( Realsongs, ASCAP) WBM 22 SOMEBODY SLAP ME (Songs Of SESAC) HUWBM 9 HOW WAS I TO KNOW (Reynsong, BMI/Bayou Boy, BMI/Ranger Bob, ASCAP/Murrah, BMI) HL/WBM 6 CARRYING YOUR LOVE WITH ME (Warner -Tamerlane, BMI/Kentucky Girl, BMI) HL 62 SOMETHING THAT WE DO (Blackened, BMI /Acuff- S 1-IE WENT A LITTLE BIT FARTHER: With an increase of 358 spins, BMI/Rancho Belita, BMI /Jeff Stevens, BMI) WBM 11 HOW YOUR LOVE MAKES ME FEEL (Island Bound, Rose, BMI) Kenny Chesney's "She's Got It All" rises 2 -1 on Billboard's Hot Country Sin- 47 CLAUDETTE (Roy Orbison, BMI /Songs Of PolyGram ASCAP/Famous, ASCAP/WB, ASCAP/Pop -A- Wheelie, 40 SOMETHIN' LIKE THIS (Emdar, ASCAP/Texas Wedge, this Int'I, BMI/Barbara Orbison, BMI) HL ASCAP /Big Tractor, ASCAP) HL/WBM ASCAP/Full Keel, ASCAP/Mike Curb, BMI/Ron Williams, gles & Tracks. Although Chesney had chart runs with eight prior titles, 7 COME CRYIN' TO ME (Sony/ATV Tree, BMI /Feed Them 23 IF YOU LOVE SOMEBODY (Farrenuff, ASCAP/Full Keel, BMI/Diamond Storm, BMI) WBM track is his first to reach the top, and he's had several near misses. "Me And Kids, BMI/Starstruck Angel, ASCAP/Mark D., ASCAP) ASCAP/Longitude, BMI/Blue Desert, BM)) WBM 24 STILL HOLDING ON (Blackened, BMI/Wedgewood (Catch BMI/Longitude, BMI/Wam- You" peaked at No. 2 in the Nov. 2, 1996, issue, and "When I Close My Eyes" HL 20 I LEFT SOMETHING TURNED ON AT HOME Avenue, BMI /Great Broad, 8 DANCIN', SHAGGIN' ON THE BOULEVARD (Maypop. The Boat, ASCAP/Castle Street, ASCAP) WBM er- Tamerlane, BMI/Marty Party, BMI) WBM stalled at No. 2 this spring when Clay Walker's "Rumor Has It" dominated BMI) WBM 42 I'M YOUR MAN ( Starrtmck Writers Group, 37 THANK GOD FOR BELIEVERS (EMI Blackwood, for a second consecutive week in the April 19 Billboard. The following week, 15 DAY IN, DAY OUT (Wamer -Tamerlane, BMI /Golden ASCAP/Mark D., ASCAP/Senior Partner, ASCAP) HL BMI/Mark Alan Springer, BMI/Big Giant, BMI) HL "One Night At A Time," as Wheat, BMI/Kicking Bird, BMI/Thomahawk, BM)) WBM 14 IN A HEARTBEAT (Mike Curia BMI /Diamond Storm, 10 THERE GOES (WB, ASCAP/Yee Haw, ASCAP) WBM Chesney's song was eclipsed by George Strait's 44 DON'T LOVE MAKE A DIAMOND SHINE (Almo, BMI /Curbsongs, ASCAP/Kinetic Diamond II, ASCAP) 25 THIS NIGHT WON'T LAST FOREVER (Careers -BMG, that track buckled in for a five -week run at No. 1 on our airplay chart. ASCAP /Daddy Rabbit, ASCAP/Wayland, ASCAP) WBM 36 IN ANOTHER'S EYES (Major Bob, ASCAP/No Fences, BMI) HL /Cat's Eye, BM)) WBM AND THE TRUTH (Sony/ATV Tree, "We're coming off a two -week No. 1 with Lonestar, and nothing would 29 DOWN CAME A BLACKBIRD (M. Spiro, BMI/Hidden ASCAP/Rio Bravo, BMI 46 THREE CHORDS BMI /Nakomis, ASCAP) 19 IT'S ALL THE SAME TO ME ( Emdar, ASCAP/Texas BMI/Sony /ATV Cross Keys, ASCAP/Kim Williams, No. 1] another Words, make our company more proud than to have Kenny stay [at 3 DRINK, SWEAR, STEAL & LIE (Warner- Tamerlane, Wedge, ASCAP/Don't Tell Mama, BMI /John Juan, MC ASCAP) HL/WBM week," says BNA promotion VP Ken Van Durand. "If that happens, we will BMI /BMG, ASCAP /Above The Rim, ASCAP) HL/WBM WBM 59 THE TROUBLE WITH THE TRUTH (Cross Keys, have a solid month of dominance with quantifiable, monitored airplay. That's 32 EVERYWHERE (Almo, ASCAP/Daddy Rabbit, 11 IT'S YOUR LOVE (EMI Blaclwnood, BMI) HL ASCAP/Four Sons, ASCAP) HL ASCAP /Brio Blues, ASCAP) WBM 57 I WILL, IF YOU WILL (Zomba, ASCAP/Inspector Bar- 60 WARNING SIGNS ( Spurs, BMI/Shabloo, rarefied territory as far as we're concerned, and we're thrilled about it, espe- 65 FLOWERS (Music Corp. Of America, BMI /So Bizzy, low, ASCAP/Mighty Good, ASCAP) WBM BMI/Songs Of PolyGram Int'I, BMINirgin Timber, BMI) Of America, To Music, BMI/0- cially for Kenny, since it's his first No. 1." BMI /Hillbillion, BMI/Hamstein Cumberland, BMI) 71 JUST TO SEE YOU SMILE (Music Corp. 39 WATCH THIS (Notewrite, BMI/Words /Hamstein Cumberland, BMI/Baby Tex, Sparrow, BMI/Sony /ATV Cross Keys, All" is the lead single from Chesney's "" set, which HL/WBM BMI /Glitterfish, BMI BMI/Blind "She's Got It 51 FLUTTER (Irving, BMI/Two Bagger, BMI) WBM Mae, BMI) HL/WBM ASCAP /Kim Williams, ASCAP) HL bowed at No. 10 in the Aug. 2 issue. That package features a stripped-down 14 THE FOOL (Major Bob, ASCAP/St. Myrna, ASCAP /Cas- 67 LIVING IN A HOUSE FULL OF LOVE (EMI, BMI /AI 66 THE WAY SHE'S LOOKING (Sony/AN Tree, BMI/Don acoustic performance of "When I Close My Eyes" and a countryfied reprise tle Bound, SESAC/Mountain Thyme, SESAC) WBM Gal)ico, BMI) WBM Cook, BMI/Sony/ATV Cross Keys, ASCAP) 16 GO AWAY (EMI Blackwood, BMI/Starstruck Angel, 28 LOVE IS THE RIGHT PLACE (Careers -BMG, 5 WE WERE IN LOVE (Wacissa River, BMI /CMI, of Tony Joe White's "Steamy Windows," a 1989 pop hit for Tina Turner. BMI/Sony /ATV Cross Keys, ASCAP/AII Around Town, BMI/Floyd's Dream, BMI/MCA, ASCAP /Bases Loaded, BMI/Built On Rock, ASCAP/CMI, ASCAP/Song Matters, Incidentally, Chesney is not the first country artist to take a shot at White's ASCAP) HL/WBM ASCAP /EMI Christian, ASCAP) HL ASCAP/Famous, ASCAP) HL sexy song. It was on John Anderson's 1992 comeback album, "Seminole 73 HAND OF FATE (WB, ASCAP /Lunn, ASCAP/Warner- 56 LOVE TRAVELS (BMG, ASCAP/Wood Monkey, 13 WHAT THE HEART WANTS (Moon Catcher, BMI /Son Tamerlane, BMI/Under The Bridge, BMI) ASCAP /Careers -BMG, BMI/Ellymax, BMI) Of Gila Monster, BMI) WBM Wind." 34 HE LEFT A LOT TO BE DESIRED (Starstruck Angel, 52 LUCKY IN LOVE (Reynsong,BMI /Lucky Lady Bug, 58 WICHITA LINEMAN (Polygram Intl, ASCAP) HL BMI/Dead Solid Perfect, BMI/Sony /AN Cross Keys, BMI/Bayou Boy, BMI/Kentucky Girl, BM)) HL 63 A WOMAN LIKE YOU (Rocking K, ASCAP/Wamer -CLOCK LOVIN': In the Airpower winner's circle, David ASCAP) HL 69 NAKED TO THE PAIN (G.).D., ASCAP/Warner- Tamer- Chappell, ASCAP/Little Poncho's, BMI/Little Big Town, ROUND- THE 30 HELPING ME GET OVER YOU (Post Oak, lane, BMI /Des Chalets, BMI) WBM BMI /Karpfish, BMI) WBM Kersh's "Day In, Day Out" increases by 306 spins and rises 20 -15 on Hot BMI/LaSongs, ASCAP /Almo, ASCAP) HL/WBM 50 NICKAJACK (Warner-Tamerlane, BMI /Rancho Belita, 18 YOU AND YOU ALONE (Benefit, BMI) WBM Country Singles & Tracks. Kersh's song is airing on 159 monitored stations, 64 HERE'S THE DEAL (Sixteen Stars, BMI/John Juan, BMI/Yatata, BMI) WBM 48 YOU CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE (Little Tybee, BMI) 27 NOTHIN' LESS THAN LOVE (MCA,ASCAP/WB, ASCAP/Forerunner, ASCAP) with heavy airplay (more than 35 spins) detected at eight of those outlets: 35 HOLE IN MY HEART (EMI April, ASCAP /Desmobile, ASCAP/Music Cabin, ASCAP/Maverick, ASCAP) 49 YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE ( Po)yGram, ASCAP/Curb, (Continued on page 104) ASCAP /Joe David, ASCAP/EMI Blackwood. BMI/Vee HL/WBM ASCAP) WBM One, BM)) HL 54 NOWHERE, USA (Sony/ATV-free, BMI) HL 70 YOU WALKED IN (Zomba, ASCAP/Badams, 41 HONKY TONK TRUTH (Sony/AN Songs, BMI/Showbil- 53 ONE, TWO, I LOVE YOU (Songs Of PolyGram ASCAP/Sony/AN Tunes LLC, ASCAP)

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EPIC I YOU 1 1 1 11 TIM MCGRAW CURB 77886 (10.98/16.98) 11 weeks at No. 1 EVERYWHERE 1 38 40 40 I 104 I COLLIN RAYE 67033/SONY (10.98 EQ/15.98) THINK ABOUT 5

41 42 I MINDY MCCREADY BNA 66806/RCA (9.98/15.98) 5 * * *GREATEST GAINER* * * 39 68 I ®

39 38 I 9 I LONESTAR BNA 67422/RCA (10.98/16.98) CRAZY NIGHTS 16 (2) 3 3 58 LEANN RIMES3 CURB 77821 (10.98/15:98) BLUE 40

ASYLUM NOW AND FOREVER 1 42 46 I 13 61880/EEG (10.98/15.98) BETWEEN 3 2 2 17 GEORGE STRAIT MCA 11584 (10.98/16.98) CARRYING YOUR LOVE WITH ME 1 41 I BRYAN WHITE PATSY CLINE LEANN RIMES 42 32 37 PATSY CLINE LIVE AT THE CIMARRON BALLROOM 32 5 5 27 /THE EARLY YEARS 1 MCA 11579(10.98/16.98) (4) CURB 77856 (10.98/15.98) TRAVIS TRITT 5 4 4 3 CLINT BLACK RCA 67515 (10.98/16.98) NOTHIN' BUT THE TAILLIGHTS 4 43 44 47 101 I GREATEST HITS - FROM THE BEGINNING 3 WARNER BROS. 46001 (10.98/16.98)

I THE KIND (s) 7 7 10 NEAL MCCOY ATLANTIC 83011 /AG (10.98/16.98) GREATEST HITS 6 44 45 48 51 I TRAVIS TRITT WARNER BROS. 46304 (10.98/16.98) RESTLESS 7 MCA 1 DEANA CARTER A' 45 46 44 I 69 I GEORGE STRAIT A 11428 (10.98/16.98) BLUE CLEAR SKY 7 6 6 50 DID I SHAVE MY LEGS FOR THIS? 2 CAPITOL NASHVILLE 37514 (10.98/15.98)

10 11 9 LILA MCCANN ASYLUM 62042/EEG LILA 8 * * * PACESETTER* * * VARIOUS ARTISTS (46) 58 62 3 COWBOY UP - THE OFFICIAL PRCA RODEO ALBUM 46 9 9 8 11 PAM TILLIS ARISTA 18836 (10.98/16.98) GREATEST HITS 6 EDEL AMERICA 3699 (10.98/16.98)

47 38 32 I 48 I JOHN BERRY CAPITOL NASHVILLE 35464 (10.98/15.98) FACES 9 10 8 9 3 BLACKHAWK ARISTA 18837 (10 98/16 98) LOVE & GRAVITY 8

48 43 34 I 46 RICK TREVINO COLUMBIA 67452/SONY (10.98 EQ/15.98) LEARNING AS YOU GO 17 11 11 10 5 DIAMOND RIO ARISTA 18844 (10.98/16.98) GREATEST HITS 8

49 49 55 I 91 I VINCE GILL MCA 11394(10.98/16.98) SOUVENIRS 3 12 12 13 42 ALAN JACKSON ARISTA 18813 (10.98/16.98) EVERYTHING I LOVE 1

50 47 63 I 3 I JOHN DENVER LEGACY 65183 /SONY (9.98 EQ/13.98) THE BEST OF JOHN DENVER LIVE 47 13 13 14 19 ALABAMA RCA 67426 (10 98/16 98) DANCIN' ON THE BOULEVARD 5

51 48 51 m CLEDUS "T." JUDD RAZOR & TIE 2825 (10.98/16.98) I3 I STOLED THIS RECORD 23 * * * HOT SHOT DEBUT* * * AARON TIPPIN 52 55 53 m GREATEST HITS...AND THEN SOME 17 14 NEW 1 LORRIE MORGAN BNA 67499/RCA (10.98/16.98) SHAKIN' THINGS UP 14 RCA 67427 (10.98/16.98) 53 51 52 60 KENNY CHESNEY BNA 66908/RCA (10.98/15.981 ME AND YOU 9 15 17 18 ALAN JACKSON A ARISTA 18801 (10.98,16 98) THE GREATEST HITS COLLECTION 1

54 56 54 il TIM MCGRAW A` CURB 77800 (10.98/16.98) ALL I WANT 1 16 20 20 LEE ANN WOMACK DECCA 11585/MCA (10.98/15.981 DI LEE ANN WOMACK 9 55 52 43 0 JAMES BONAMY EPIC 67878/SONY (10.98 EQ/16.98)1021 ROOTS AND WINGS 25 17 15 15 KENNY CHESNEY BNA 67498/RCA (10.98/16.98) I WILL STAND 10 56 57 56 39 MARK CHESNUTT DECCA 11529/MCA(I0.98/16.98) GREATEST HITS 18 18 16 16 TOBY KEITH MERCURY 534836 (10.98 EQ/16.98) DREAM WALKIN' 8 51 50 50 RICOCHET COLUMBIA 67773/SONY (10.98 EQ/15.98) RI BLINK OF AN EYE 24 19 18 17 CLAY WALKER GIANT 24674/WARNER BROS. (10.98/16.98) RUMOR HAS IT 4 58 59 59 FAITH HILL A' WARNER BROS. 45872 (10.98/16.98) IT MATTERS TO ME 20 14 12 DWIGHT YOAKAM REPRISE 46690/WARNER BROS. (10.98/16.98) UNDER THE COVERS 8 59 54 31 1 KENNY ROGERS MAGNATONE 116 (10.98/16.98) ACROSS MY HEART 26 1) 25 45 91 GARTH BROOKS A° CAPITOL NASHVILLE 32080 (10.98/15.98) FRESH HORSES 1 6 68 m NEAL MCCOY ATLANTIC 82907/AG (10.98/15.98) NEAL MCCOY 7 22 19 24 3 JOHN ANDERSON MERCURY 536004 (10.98 EQ/16.98) TAKIN' THE COUNTRY BACK 19 61 53 49 SHERRIE AUSTIN ARISTA 18843 (10.98/16.981 Mg WORDS 41 23 21 19 31 BILL ENGVALL WARNER BROS. 46263 (10.98/16.98) RI HERE'S YOUR SIGN 5 62 61 65 NID GEORGE STRAIT " MCA 11263 (39.98/49.98) STRAIT OUT OF THE BOX 9 24 22 21 60 TRACE ADKINS CAPITOL NASHVILLE 37222 (10.98/15.98) I:11 DREAMIN' OUT LOUD 6 ROY D. MERCER 63 60 58 15 HOW BIGA BOY ARE YA? VOLUME 1 57 25 23 22 22 TRACY LAWRENCE ATLANTIC 82985/AG (10.98/16.98) THE COAST IS CLEAR 4 CAPITOL NASHVILLE 54781 (9.98/15.98) 64 62 57 21 TANYA TUCKER CAPITOL NASHVILLE 36885 (10.98/16.98) COMPLICATED 15 26 24 23 MICHAEL PETERSON REPRISE 46618/WARNER BROS. (10.98/16.98)1M MICHAEL PETERSON 18 65 63 73 TRISHA YEARWOOD MCA 11477 (10.98/16.98) EVERYBODY KNOWS 6 21 26 25 18 SAWYER BROWN CURB 77883 (10.98/16.98) SIX DAYS ON THE ROAD 8 ROY D. MERCER 66 66 66 m HOW BIGA BOY ARE YA? VOLUME 2 63 28 28 27 70 BROOKS & DUNN A2 ARISTA 18810 (10.98/15.981 BORDERLINE 1 CAPITOL NASHVILLE 54782 (9.98/15.981 VARIOUS ARTISTS JOHN MICHAEL MONTGOMERY 67 67 68 m THE BEST OF COUNTRY SING THE BEST OF DISNEY 17 29 27 28 47 WHAT I DO THE BEST 5 WALT DISNEY 60902 (10.98/16.98) ATLANTIC 82947/AG (10.98/16.98) 68 65 61 fkl TRACY BYRD MCA 11485 (10.98/16.981 BIG LOVE 12 30 30 26 41 REBA MCENTIRE MCA 11500(10.98/16.98) WHAT IF IT'S YOU 1 69 75 75 m LYLE LOVETT CURB 11409/MCA (10.98/16.98) THE ROAD TO ENSENADA 4 31 31 29 47 CLINT BLACK RCA66671 (10.98/16.98) THE GREATEST HITS 2 70 70 72 11 SONS OF THE DESERT EPIC 67619/SONY (7.98 EQ/11.98) 1111 WHATEVER COMES FIRST 38 32 35 33 CHRIS LEDOUX CAPITOL NASHVILLE 52775 (10.98/16.98) LIVE 26 71 69 69 ROY ORBISON COLUMBIA 67297/SONY (5.98 EO/9.981 SUPER HITS 54 BILLY RAY CYRUS 33 29 35 THE BEST OF BILLY RAY CYRUS COVER TO COVER 23 MERCURY (10.98 EQ/16.98) 534837 72 64 67 58 ALABAMA RCA 66848 (4.98/9.98) SUPER HITS 47 ALISON KRAUSS & UNION STATION 37 39 21 SO LONG SO WRONG 4 72 60 TY HERNDON EPIC 67564/SONY (10.98 EQ/15.98) LIVING IN A MOMENT 6 ® ROUNDER 0365 (9.98/15.98) 73 ® 35 36 41 64 VINCE GILL MCA 11422 (10.98/16.98) HIGH LONESOME SOUND 3 14 73 70 m LORRIE MORGAN BNA 66847/RCA (10.98/16.98) GREATER NEED 8 GOODNIGHT SWEETHEART 21 36 34 36 19 WYNONNA CURB 11583/MCA (10.98/16.98) COLLECTION 9 15 RE-ENTRY m DAVID KERSH CURB 77848 (10.98/15.9811M

°Albums with the greatest sales gains this week. Recording Industry Assn. Of America (RIAA) certification for sales of 500,000 units. R AA certification for sales of 1 million units, with multimillion sellers indicated by a numeral following the symbol. For boxed sets, and double albums with a running time that exceeds two hours, the RIM multiplies shipments by the number of discs and/or tapes. *Asterisk indicates LP is avai able. Most tape prices, and CD prices for BMG and WEA labels, are suggested lists. Tape prices marked EQ, and all other CD prices, are equivalen prices, which are projected from wholesale prices. Greatest Gainer shows chart's largest unit increase. Pacesetter indicates biggest percentage growth. Heatseeker Impact shows albums removed from Heatseekers this week. ® indicates past or present Heatseeker title. ©1997, Billboard /BPI Communications, and SoundScan, Inc.

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MCA 10651 (10.98/15.98) PURE COUNTRY (SOUNDTRACK) 257 1 1 GARTH BROOKS A CAPITOL NASHVILLE 29689 (10.98/15.98) 10 weeks at No. 1 THE HITS 140 14 10 GEORGE STRAIT A' THE CHASE 148 2 2 GARTH BROOKS 3 CAPITOL NASHVILLE 93866 (9.98/13.98) NO FENCES 333 15 15 GARTH BROOKS A' CAPITOL NASHVILLE 98743 (10.98/16.981 3 3 SHANIA TWAIN ' MERCURY 522886 (10.98 E0/16.98)11111 THE WOMAN IN ME 132 16 13 VINCE GILL A' MCA 11047 (10.98/15.98) WHEN LOVE FINDS YOU 167 GARTH BROOKS 333 4 5 GARTH BROOKS A' CAPITOL NASHVILLE 90897 (9.98/13.981 17 16 HANK WILLIAMS MERCURY 823293 (7.98 EQ/11.98) 24 OF HANK WILLIAMS GREATEST HITS 156

ELVIS PRESLEY RCA 67462 (11.98/16.981 ELVIS' GOLDEN RECORDS 5 18 EPIC 40776/SONY (5.98 EQ/9.98) SUPER HITS 334

6 9 12 GREATEST HITS 543 19 20 ALABAMA RCA 66410 (10.98/15.98) GREATEST HITS VOL. III 150 4 CHARLIE DANIELS EPIC 64182/SONY (5.98 E0/9.98) SUPER HITS 144 20 19 ALISON KRAUSS A' ROUNDER 0325*(9.98/15.981E NOW THAT I'VE FOUND YOU: A COLLECTION 132 8 TIM MCGRAW A' CURB 77659 (9.98/15.981 NOT A MOMENT TOO SOON 178 21 17 REBA MCENTIRE A° ma 10906 (10.98/15.98) GREATEST HITS VOLUME TWO 203 9 6 WILLIE NELSON COLUMBIA 64184/SONY (5.98 E0/9.98) SUPER HITS 161 22 22 MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER A' COLUMBIA 48881/SONY (10.98 EO/16.98) COME ON COME ON 245 10 12 GARTH BROOKS" CAPITOL NASHVILLE 96330 (10.98/15.98) ROPIN' THE WIND 186 23 21 JOHNNY CASH COLUMBIA 66773/SONY (5.98 EQ/9.98) SUPER HITS 37 11 8 HANK WILLIAMS, JR. CURB 77638 (6.98/9.98) GREATEST HITS, VOL. 1 171 24 PATSY CLINE MCA 4038 (7.98/12.98) THE PATSY CLINE STORY 159 EQ/11 98) A DECADE OF HITS 408 - 12 11 THE CHARLIE DANIELS BAND A' EPIC 38795/SONY (7.98 130 25 23 TRACY BYRD A' MCA 10991 (10.98/15.98) 167 13 14 GARTH BROOKS A' CAPITOL NASHVILLE 80857 (10.98/16.98) IN PIECES Assn. Of America (RIAA) certification for sales of 500,000 units. RIAA certification for sales of 1 mil- or reissues of older albums. Total Chart Weeks column reflects combined weeks title has appeared on Top Country Albums and Top Country Catalog. Recording Industry Catalog a burns are 2-year-old titles that have fallen below No. 100 on The Billboard 200 from wholesale prices. indicates past Heatseeker title. prices, and CD prices for BMG and WEA labels are suggested lists. Tape prices marked EQ, and all other CD prices, are equivalent prices, which are projected ion units, with mul irnillion sellers indicated by a numeral following the symbol. *Asterisk indicates vinyl LP is available. Most tape C 1997, Billboard/BPI C,ommunications and SoundScan, Inc.

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COMPILED FROM A NATIONAL SAMPLE OF AIRPLAY SUPPLIED BY BROADCAST RIAA's 1st Latin Figs Hold Surprises z DATA SYSTEMS' RADIO TRACK SERVICE. 95 STATIONS ARE ELEC- 01- IRONICALLY MONITORED 24 HOURS A DAY, 7 DAYS A WEEK w Ñ W 3° = ARTIST TITLE QUANTIFYING LATINO MUSIC: dita Vecindad), (Dividi- h .3 c .1 ¢ $ (.) LABEL/PROMOTION LABEL PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) It took nearly 31/2 years, but the Re- dos), and Chile (Los Prisioneros). * ** No. 1 * ** cording Industry Assn. of America ENRIQUE IGLESIAS MIENTE 1 1 1 5 (RIAA) finally has succeeded in pub- FANTASIZED RELEASES: In Sep- FONOVISA 4 weeks al No. I R.PEREZ -BOTIJA (R.PEREZ- BOTIJA) lishing official sales data for the U.S. LUIS MIGUEL POR DEBAJO DE LA MESA tember, Fantasy is releasing three Lati- 2 2 5 O WEA LATINA L.MIGUEL (A.MANZANERO) Latino market (see story, page 3). Notas no- oriented packages of previously JORDI DESESPERADAMENTE ENAMORADO The nearly $392 million retail tally Q 3 4 9 released material: "Brazilian Hori- FONOVISA DYANGO (P.MARTINEZ) for 1996 comes in somewhat lower LOS TIGRES DEL NORTE than zons," a collection of upscale, Brazilian 6 12 4 JEFE DE JEFES by John Lannert FONOVISA TN INC. (T.BELLO) the $425 million -$450 million that in- pop /jazz tunes featuring Ella Fitzger- ® INTOCABLE 7 6 7 VIVIR SIN ELLAS dustry sources had mentioned in casu- ald, ® EMI LATIN Flora Purim, and Luiz Bonfá; J.L.AYALA (DARIAN) al conversation in the year. How- THALIA AMOR A LA MEXICANA past "Solo Two" and "Happy Together," a 6 8 7 9 ever, since the RIAA report does not EMI LATIN'S VOLCANIC QUAR- single CD by Pete & Sheila Escovedo EMI LATIN K.SANTANDER,B.OSSA (M.PUPPARO) MARCO ANTONIO SOLIS MI ULTIMO ADIOS include indie labels, which could 7 5 10 9 add TER: A veritable eruption of product that combines material from the origi- FONOVISA M.A.SOLIS ( M.A.SOLIS) another 10% to 15% to the grand total, will be in LOS TEMERARIOS ACEPTA MI ERROR emanating from EMI Latin nal pair of releases; and "Goldenwings" 8 9 8 8 the industry estimates are remarkably the next three months in what surely and "Magic Time," another compilation FONOVISA A.ANGEL ALBA (G.A.ALVA) JUAN GABRIEL 9 10 9 13 TE SIGO AMANDO close. has to be one of the more active, big - of two original titles by Uruguayan trio ARIOLA/BMG J.GABRIEL ( J.GABRIEL) Given - name VICTORIA this year's healthy January release schedules in quite some Opa. Argentinian indie EPSA has put 10 17 29 5 QUISIERA June tally of almost $213 million, plus time. out "El Sueño De Mi Guitarra," a col- FONOVISA R.LIVI (R.LIVI,J.MARCELO) LOS MISMOS AMAME the usual burst of sales There already of a 11 18 25 5 during the are signs torren- lection of classics by legendary gui- EMI LATIN LOS MISMOS (R.DAMIAN) fourth quarter, and all of a sudden $500 tial of product a- comin'. Just re- tarist Eduardo Falú that was origi- JOSE JAVIER SOLIS 12 15 28 3 FUE SU VOZ million does not look out of reach. leased are the latest albums by Jen- nally released last year in Spain. FONOVISA M.A.SOLIS (M.MORALES,A.MORALES) BANDA MAGUEY PERO TE AMO At $500 million, the U.S. Latino mar- Y ( ") 13 14 15 10 nifer Los Jetz "Jennifer and FONOVISA E.SOLANO (E.SOLANO) ket would compose approximately 5 %- Mazz ( "Al Frente De Todo "). G ETTING CAUGHT UP: Warner LOS TUCANES DE TIJUANA EL TUCANAZO 14 4 3 12 6% of the projected overall domestic Slated for shipment in September is Brasil star Gilberto Gil is slated to EMI LATIN G.FELIX (M.QUINTERO LARA) MOJADO MOTIVOS retail industry. But growth ( 15 11 11 13 the overall new product from Bobby Pulido "Lle- begin a four -city U.S. swing on FONOVISA L.LOZANO (F.BARRIENTOS,L.LOZANO) of 20% or more enjoyed by the U.S. gaste A Mi Vida"), Los Mismos ("Te Wednesday (27) at Irving Plaza in New VICTOR MANUELLE DILE A ELLA 16 24 17 11 Latino segment far outstrips the over- Llevas Mi Vida "), and Vives York. The other dates are in Miami SONY TROPICAL/SONY NOT LISTED (G.FRANCISCO) BRONCO TU Y YO all growth rate, which is projected ( "Tengo "). 17 19 13 12 to Fe Also scheduled to drop (Friday [29]), San Francisco (Aug. 31), FONOVISA BRONCO (J.GUADALUPE ESPARZA) be about 5 %. in September are greatest -hits pack- and Los Angeles (Sept. 3). Gil is tour- GABRIEL/ROCIO DURCAL LA INCERTIDUMBRE 18 20 23 6 JUAN The most surprising stat is that cas- ages from Barrio Boyzz and Graciela ing in support of his latest album, ARIOLA/BMG J.GABRIEL,E.OKAMURA (J.GABRIEL) LA MAFIA ENAMORADA sette sales account for a whopping 42% Beltrán. Rounding out the 19 12 14 13 September "Quanta," which was just dropped by SONY /SONY M.LICHTENBERGER JR. (1.L. PILOTO) of total unit sales, compared with 20% schedule is a double- artist greatest- Mesa /Atlantic. GRUPO BRYNDIS OLVIDEMOS 20 16 18 11 NUESTRO ORGULLO for the rest of the market. That per- hits set by La Mafia and Mazz called Though it has a four-year contract DISNEMI LATIN L.P..CHAVEZ (M.POSADAS) GLORIA ESTEFAN NO PRETENDO centage lends convincing evidence to "Reconciliación." with the city of Miami Beach, Fla., the 21 13 5 10 EPIC/SONY E.ESTEFAN JR.,K.SANTANDER (G.ESTEFAN,K.SANTANDER) the strength of the large regional Mex- In October, EMI is expected to re- Reed Midem Organisation, organizer BANDA EL RECODO QUE 22 23 20 8 SOLO ESTOY SIN TI FONOVISA ican market in which the format of lease albums by Emilio, Alvaro Tor- of the upcoming Midem Latin Ameri- G.LIZARRAGA ( M.A.SOLIS) LORENZO ANTONIO NO QUIEREN QUE TE QUIERA preference is cassette. res, and Pandora, the latter of which ca & Caribbean trade fair, is mulling 23 21 16 7 FONOVISA T.MORRIE (L.ANTONIO) While the RIAA Latino sales re- will be a mariachi set. the possibility of not holding the event LORENA NUESTRO 24 NEW I AMOR SE FUE port is certainly a useful tool in gaug- Come November, the label is slated there in the future. Dade County rules FONOVISA M.A.SOLIS ( M.A.SOLIS) GRUPO LIMITE SOLO CONTIGO ing the size of the domestic Latino to release a dance -remix greatest-hits excluding Cuban artists from the fair 25 28 21 17 industry, it could still POLYGRAM LATINO ).CARRILLO (A.VILLAREAU be upgraded. collection by Los Tucanes De Tijua- have drawn the ire of Spanish and U.S. CHAYANNE TAL VEZ ES 26 27 - 2 AMOR First, base sales reports on a label's na titled "15 Super Éxitos De Siem- Anglo indies that do business with SONY LATIN /SONY R.FOSTER (A.CESAR,P.S.VALLE) FRANKIE NEGRON HOY ME HE VUELTO A ENAMORAR wholesale figures, not its retail num- pre." A home video by Los Tucanes (Continued on next page) 27 22 35 4 WEACARIBE/WEA LATINA LEM (J.L.PILOTO) bers. The current sales information is will be released simultaneously. REGRESA 28 30 2 JAILENE A MI based on a label's suggested retail In addition, a best -of compendium EMI LATIN H.JIMENEZ (D.WARREN) VICENTE FERNANDEZ ESTATUA DE MARFIL price of a shipped album, a price that by Ednita Nazario will be issued. LATIN TRACKS 29 26 40 4 A-Z SONY DISCOS/SONY P.RAMIREZ (M.URIETA) few retailers adhere to. So the actual TITLE (Publisher - Licensing Org.) Sheet Music Dist. BOBBY PULIDO LA PLANCHA 30 35 - 2 revenue count could vary greatly, de- U NIVERSAL INKS SANTAOLA- 39 ABRAZAME (EMI Waterford. ASCAP/Notas Magicas, EMI LATIN B.PULIDO (B.PULIDO,M.A.PEREZ) ASCAP) MDO NO PUEDO OLVIDARME DE TI pending on the price offered by a par- LLA: Universal Latin America has 31 29 30 5 ticular retailer. established a joint-venture label called 8 ACEPTA MI ERROR (Edimonsa, ASCAP) SONY LATIN/SONY NOT LISTED (A.JAEN) 11 AMAME (Vander, ASCAP) LOS ANGELES AZULES AMOR DE MIS AMORES 32 NEW I Second, a -share breakdown DISNEMI LATIN D.L.CHAVEZ MORENO (J.MEJIA AVANTE) market Surco with noted producer Gustavo 6 AMOR A LA MEXICANA (Peermusic, BMI) illustrating the performance of indi- 2 FONDO JARA Santaolalla. 32 AMOR DE MIS AMORES (Edimonsa, ASCAP) 33 38 - ).GUADALUPE ESPARZA (J.GUADALDU ENESPARZA) vidual companies would be of immense Under the terms of the deal, San - 40 AMOR NARCOTICO (Copyright Control) LOS CAMINANTES CHIQUILLA 34 CHIQUILLA (De Luna, BMI) 34 32 38 3 value as a measuring stick of each taolalla will develop and produce art- LUNA/FONOVISA A.DE LUNA (L.HERNANDEZ) label's individual performance. ists for imprint. initial 3 DESESPERADAMENTE ENAMORADO (Teddy Sound, FEY LAS LAGRIMAS DE MI ALMOHADA the Surco's re- 35 40 - 2 Unfortunately, the implementation lease is Mexican rock act Molotov. SESAC) SONY LATIN/SONY J.R.FLOREZ (J.R.FLOREZ,EMARUGAN) 16 DILE A ELLA (Copyright Control) BANDA EL LIMON QUE SE TE OLVIDO 36 34 31 7 of these two changes to the Latino re- Known for his productions in the 37 EL HECHIZO (Copyright Control) FONOVISA M.CONTRERAS ('.GARZA) 14 EL TUCANAZO (Flamingo) GUARDIANES DEL AMOR EL HECHIZO port would run counter to long -held rock en español field, Santaolalla has 37 NEW 1 RCNBMG A.PASTOR (P.CALDERON) RIAA policies that are virtually sacro- helmed well -received albums from acts 19 ENAMORADA (Lanfranco, ASCAP) CONJUNTO PRIMAVERA ME NACIO DEL ALMA 29 ESTATUA DE MARFIL (Copyright Control) 38 39 2 sanct at this point. based in Mexico (Café Tacuba, Mal- - FONOVISA V.MATA,C.PRIMAVERA (R.BELLESTER) 12 FUE SU VOZ (Copyright Control) ALEJANDRO FERNANDEZ ABRÁZAME 27 HOY ME HE VUELTO A ENAMORAR (Lanfranco, NEW 1 01 SONY DISCOS/SONY PRAMIREZ (R.FERRO GARCIA,J.IGLESIAS) ASCAP) CHICHI PERALTA + SON FAMILIA AMOR NARCOTICO 4 JEFE DE JEFES (TN Ediciones Musicales, BMI) NEW 1 ® CAIMAN C.PERALTA ( JFELIX) 33 LA DENUNCIA (Vander, ASCAP) POP TROPICAUSALSA 18 LA INCERTIDUMBRE (BMG Songs, ASCAP) REGIONAL MEXICAN 30 LA PLANCHA (Sniper, ASCAP/Marce Antonio Perez, 27 STATIONS 16 STATIONS 57 STATIONS BMI) 1 LUIS MIGUEL WEA LATINA 1 VICTOR MANUELLE SONY 1 INTOCABLE EMI LATIN 35 LAGRIMAS LAS DE MI ALMOHADA (EMI Blackwood, POR DEBAJO DE LA MESA TROPICAL/SONY DILE A ELLA VIVIR SIN ELLAS BM)) 2 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS FONO- 2 FRANKIE NEGRON a- 2 LOS TIGRES DEL NORTE 38 ME NACIO DEL ALMA (Pacific) VISA MIENTE WEACARIBFJWEA LATINA HOY... FONOVISA JEFE DE JEFES 3 JORDI FONOVISA 3 JAILENE EMI LATIN 3 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS FONO- 1 MIENTE (Fonomusic, SESAC) - DESESPERADAMENTE... REGRESA A MI VISA MIENTE V 7 MI ULTIMO ADIOS (Crisma, SESAC) 4 CHAYANNE SONY LATIN/SONY 4 GILBERTO SANTA ROSA 4 MARCO ANTONIO SOLIS DISTRIBUTORS, 1110. 15 MOTIVOS (Fonomusic, SESAC) TAL VEZ ES AMOR SONY TROPICAUSONY PELIGRO FONOVISA MI ULTIMO ADIOS 5 GLORIA ESTEFAN EPIC/SONY 5 OLGA TANON wEA LATINA 5 LOS TEMERARIOS FONOVISA 21 NO PRETENDO (STEAL YOUR HEART) (FIPP, BM)) NO PRETENDO PORQUE NO TE ENCONTRE ACEPTA MI ERROR LA DISTRIBUIDORA MAS 31 NO PUEDO OLVIDARME DE TI (Ole Ole, ASCAP) 6 MDO SONY LATIN /SONY 6 DLG SIR GEORGE/SONY 6 LOS TUCANES DE TIJUANA Y MAS COMPLETA EN 23 NO QUIEREN QUE TE QUIERA (Striking, BMI) NO PUEDO OLVIDARME DE TI LA QUIERO A MORIR EMI LATIN EL TUCANAZO GRANDE 24 NUESTRO AMOR SE FUE (Crisma, SESAC) 7 VICTOR MANUELLE SONY 7 LUIS MIGUEL WEA LATINA 7 BANDA MAGUEY FONOVISA TROPICAL/SONY DILE A ELLA POR DEBAJO DE LA MESA PERO TE AMO 20 OLVIDEMOS NUESTRO ORGULLO (Edimonsa, MUSICA LATINA 8 JAILENE EMI LATIN 8 CHICHI PERALTA + SON 8 JOSE JAVIER SOLIS FONO- ASCAP) REGRESA A MI FAMILIA CAIMAN AMOR... VISA FUE SU VOZ EN EL MUNDO 13 PERO TE AMO (Ernesto Musical) 9 FRANKIE NEGRON 9 ADOLESCENT'S ORQUESTA 9 MOJADO FONOVISA WEACARIBE/WEA LATINA HOY... SONY TROPICAL/SONY PERSONA... MOTIVOS 2 POR DEBAJO DE LA MESA (Tillandsia, ASCAP) SIN DUDA, 10 CHARLIE ZAA SONOLUX/SONY 10 SERGIO VARGAS RCNBMG 10 LOS MISMOS EMI LATIN 36 QUE SE TE OLVIDO (Unimusica, ASCAP) DESEOS QUE TE HAS CREIDO AMAME SIMPLEMENTE LA MEJOR! 22 QUE SOLO ESTOY SIN TI (Mas Latin, SESAC) 11 JON SECADA EMI LATIN 11 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS FONO- 11 THALIA EMI LATIN MAGIA TU AMOR VISA MIENTE AMOR A LA MEXICANA 10 QUISIERA (2000 Amor) LA DE 12 WILL SMITH COLUMBIWsONY 12 LOS HERMANOS KAREN /POLY- 12 BRONCO FONOVISA Discos Compactos Videolaser Cassettes Accesorios A MY HEART) ( 28 REGRESA MI (UN -BREAK Realsongs, IN GRAM LATINO ROMPECINTURA TU Y YO Y MUCHO MAS! MEN BLACK ASCAP) 13 MOENIA UNIVERSAL 13 MELAZA WEACARIBE/WEA 13 GRUPO BRYNDIS DISNEMI 25 SOLO CONTIGO (Ruina) NO PUEDO ESTAR SIN TI LATINA ETERNO AMOR LATIN OLVIDEMOS... LLAMENOS HOY! 14 JUAN GABRIEL ARIOLA/BMG 14 TONO ROSARIO WEA LATINA 14 GRUPO LIMITE POLYGRAM 26 TAL VEZ ES AMOR (TALVEZ SEDA AMOR) (Sony Dis- TE SIGO AMANDO SEGUIRE LATINO SOLO CONTIGO cos, ASCAP/EMI April, ASCAP) 15 BACKSTREET BOYS JIVE 15 JORDI FONOVISA 15 BANDA EL RECODO FONO - '1-800-780-7712 QUIT PLAYING GAMES... DESESPERADAMENTE... VISA QUE SOLO ESTOY... 9 TE SIGO AMANDO (BMG Songs, ASCAP) Fax ;305¡ 261 6143 PRecords showing an increase in detections over the previous week, regardless of chart movement. A record which has been on the chart 6940 S W 12 Street Miami, FL 33144 Local ¡305) 262 -1711 17 TU Y YO (Vander, ASCAP) r more than 20 weeks will not receive a bullet, even if it registers an increase in detections. Airpower awarded to those records which attain 5 VIVIR SIN ELLAS (Copyright Control) 700 detections for the first time. If two records are tied in number of plays, the record being played on more stations is placed first. Records below the top 20 are removed from the chart after 26 weeks. © 1997 Billboard/BPI Communications, Inc. 32 BILLBOARD AUGUST 30, 1997 www.americanradiohistory.com AUGUST 30, 1997 Artists & Music THEBiIIboardn SoundScan® Latin 1111111 Compiled from a natui al sample of retail store and rack sales reports collected, compile d. and provided by

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Cuban acts. The trade fair is scheduled * * * GREATEST GAINER /NO. 1 * * * to run Sept. 8 -11 (Billboard Bulletin, O2 2 LUIS MIGUEL WEA LATINA 19798 1 week at No. 1 ROMANCES Aug. 12). On Sept. 10, Julio Iglesias, Paco de * * * HOT SHOT DEBUT * * * Lucia, and Los Del Rio are booked to NEW GIPSY KINGS NONESUCH /ATLANTIC 79466/AG COMPAS play a tribute show to Miguel Angel O2 Blanco, a Spanish politician slain in 0 4 29 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS FONOVISA 0001 VIVIR July by the Basque separatist move- 4 1 10 LOS TIGRES DEL NORTE FONOVISA 80711® JEFE DE JEFES ETA. Also ment slated to appear at the 5 3 9 CHARLIE ZAA soNOLUx 82136/SONY ® SENTIMIENTOS 20,000 -seat Las Ventas bullring are JULIO IGLESIAS COLUMBIA 67899/SONY TANGO and . © 11 39 Organizing the concert, which will 7 5 44 GRUPO LIMITE POLYGRAM LATINO 533302 ® PARTIENDOME EL ALMA be broadcast in Spain and around the ® 7 15 VARIOUS ARTISTS ARIOLA 46527/BMG TE SIGO AMANDO world, is RTVE. Proceeds will go to 9O 8 16 JUAN GABRIEL/ROCIO DURCAL ARIOLA 47805/BMG ® JUNTOS OTRA VEZ the Miguel Angel Blanco Foundation. 10 6 7 THALIA EMI LATIN 57977 AMOR A LA MEXICANA NOTAS: A.N.I.M.A.L., 11 10 76 SONY LATIN 81795/SONY ® PIES DESCALZOS ARGENTINA BMG Inks Leyva. BMG U.S. Latin has signed Cuban artist Alejandro Leyva to a FEY SONY LATIN 82059/SONY TIERNA LA NOCHE Warner's hard rock outfit that has recording deal. The signing took place Aug. 5, just five days after the former NG Ci 12 29 reached gold (30,000 units sold) with La Banda leader declared political asylum. Pictured, from left, are Hipólito 13 9 17 LOS TUCANES DE TIJUANA EMI LATIN 56921 NE TUCANES DE ORO its latest album, "El Nuevo Camino Del Martínez, president, Intromusik; Leyva; Leslie José Zigel, director of business 14 13 9 INTOCABLE EMI LATIN 56694 IM IV Hombre," has just finished an exten- and legal affairs, BMG; and Pablo Manavello, A &R director, BMG. 15 14 6 VICENTE FERNANDEZ SONY DISCOS 82356/SONY ESTATUA DE MARFIL sive tour of Argentina. The latest sin- IGLESIAS gle serviced to radio is "Chalito." 16 20 94 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS FONOVISA 0506 II ENRIQUE EMI has released La Portuaria's petted sales phenomenon with plat- sold a whopping 57,000 units. 11 18 34 ALEJANDRO FERNANDEZ SONY DISCOS 8208OBoNY MUY DENTRO DE MI CORAZON "En Vivo," a live recording of the band's inum sales (sales of more than 60,000 "Romances" accounts for 44% of the Cs NEW JENNIFER Y LOS JETZ EMI LATIN 59367 JENNIFER - 1994 show at Buenos Aires' Obras Sta- units) reached by its first two albums. total sales registered by the 50 top 19 15 9 GRUPO BRYNDIS DISA 57594/EMI LATIN ASI ES EL AMOR dium. The album contains a bonus Now, the band has dropped its selling Latino Sales of "Ro- third titles. 20 23 13 ILEGALES ARIOLA 47761/BMG REBOTANDO track, "Vudu Dance -Remix," which effort, "Ven Por Mí," which features mances" were good enough to earn the 21 17 24 BRONCO FONOVISA 6063 LA ULTIMA HUELLA was produced by Andrés Levin and special guest Mercedes Sosa on the album a splashy debut at No. 14 on The ® Arto Lindsay. With the band's front title track. Billboard 200. "Romances" not only is 22 21 25 SELENA EMI LATIN 19207 EXITOS Y RECUERDOS man, Diego Frenkel, going solo last "Testimonio II," the recording of a Luis Miguel's highest chart debut on 23 16 11 VICTOR MANUELLE SONY TROPICAL 82334/SONY A PESAR DE TODO ON year, "En Vivo" would appear to be the 1984 live concert by folklore giant The Billboard 200, it is the second - CI NEW DLG SONY TROPICAL 82340/SONY SWING four hit has re- highest bow by a Spanish -domi- band's swan song after albums. Atahualpa Yupanqui, been chart 25 19 17 LOS TUCANES DE TIJUANA EMI LATIN 56922 ® TUCANES DE PLATA After cutting six albums and receiv- leased by DNG and the Fundación nant disc since August 1995, when 26 24 16 OLGA TANON wEA LATINA 18733 ® LLEVAME CONTIGO ing five gold certificates with BMG, Atahualpa Yupanqui. Selena's "Dreaming Of You" (EMI/ 21 26 25 LOS ANGELES AZULES DISA 53791/EMI LATIN INOLVIDABLES rock /blues singer Juan Antonio Hard rock act Via Varela has put EMI Latin) debuted at No. 1. 27 4 BANDA EL RECODO FONOVISA 9580 DE PARRANDA CON LA BANDA "JAF" Ferreyra has released a new out its second EMI album, "0 Jure - If it were not for Luis Miguel, the 28 TUS MANOS album, "No. 7," on his own imprint Pis - mos." One track from the album, pro- Gipsy Kings' latest album, "Compas" 29 22 11 LA MAFIA SONY DISCOS 82267/SONY ® EN tas Candentes. duced by Oscar Mediavilla, is "Ayuden (Nonesuch), would be the talk of the 30 28 19 VARIOUS ARTISTS BEAST 53172 DJ LATIN MIX '97 Warner has put out a greatest -hits El Pobre," based on a B.B. King tune. chart this issue. The flamenco /rock 31 29 6 ALABINA ASTOR PLACE 4004 ALABINA package from pop /rock chanteuse group's best artistic effort since its 32 38 5 VARIOUS ARTISTS PUTUMAYO 131 LATINO! LATINO! Fabiana Cantilo, "Lo Mejor," that in- CHART NOTES: The three-way bat- groundbreaking, eponymous premiere 33 25 38 PEDRO FERNANDEZ POLYGRAM LATINO 534120 ® DESEOS Y DELIRIOS cludes a dance remix of "Nada Es Para tle among Luis Miguel, Julio Iglesias, 10 years ago has sold an impressive Siempre," the Fito Páez- penned hit and his son, Enrique, for top Latino 10,500 units. "Compas" also makes its ® 39 12 DI BLASIO ARIOLA 48018/BMG SOLO from her 1996 album, "Sol En Cinco." male vocalist takes a new turn this debut on The Billboard 200 this issue 35 35 14 VARIOUS ARTISTS SONY LATIN 82232/SONY LO NUESTRO Y LO MEJOR A bonus track is the previously unre- week as Luis Miguel hits No. 1 on The at No. 108. 36 37 94 RICKY MARTIN SONY LATIN 81651 /SONY A MEDIO VIVIR leased version of Los Rodriguez's Billboard Latin 50 with "Romances" 37 32 52 WIS MIGUEL WEA LATINA 15947 NADA ES IGUAL... nugget "Dulce Condena." (WEA Latina). Indeed, the Mexican Assistance in preparing this column 38 31 11 LIBERACION DISA 57261 /EMI LATIN UN LOCO ROMANTICO In the past two years, EMI folklore megastar's third supposedly was provided by Marcelo Fernández -and 39 30 26 MICHAEL SALGADO JOEY 8560 RECUERDO ESPECIAL act Los Nocheros has become an unex- last-album of pop /bolero covers has Bitar in Buenos Aires. 40 NEW TONO ROSARIO wEA LATINA 19530 SEGUIRE

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42 42 6 BANDA MAGUEY FONOVISA 5969 EL MUNDO GIRA Skank Steals Video Music Brasil Show 43 48 11 LUCERO UNIVERSAL 11630 PIEL DE ANGEL 44 43 14 MENDEZ J &N 82304/SONY EL DESCRETO BY ENOR PAIANO Staged much like the Academy songstress Daúde. 45 RE -ENTRY MARCO ANTONIO SOLIS FONOVISA 0512 ® EN PLENO VUELO Awards, the ceremony was expertly This year's VMB was a crisply SAO PAULO, Brazil-Skank solidified hosted by Globo television comedian paced two -hour extravaganza that was 46 34 9 VARIOUS ARTISTS EMI LATIN 57391 1997 TEJANO ALL -STARS its reputation as a superstar act in Pedro Cardoso, who introduced the better organized and more entertain- 41 33 8 LOS HURACANES DEL NORTE FONOVISA 6068 TOP NORTENO Brazil with three wins during the crowd of 1,500 to a wide variety of ing than in past years. And despite the 48 40 21 LOS TEMERARIOS FONOVISA sosa EN CONCIERTO VOL. II third annual Video Music Brasil Brazilian notables. number of awards and performances, 49 RE -ENTRY LUIS MIGUEL wEA LATINA 11212 EL CONCIERTO (VMB), held Aug. 14 here at the A laundry list of big -name enter- the show kept its freshness by staying Anhembi Theater. tainers served as presenters, includ- short -it was only two hours long. 50 RE -ENTRY RICARDO ARJONA SONY 82T1 I SI EL NORTE FUERA EL SUR Sony Brasil's reggae group from ing international stars Gal Costa, Cae- Following is a rundown of winners: POP TROPICAL/SALSA REGIONAL MEXICAN Belo Horizonte won three Clipes De Video of the year, audience 1 LUIS MIGUEL WEA LATINA 1 CHARLIE ZAA SONOwwSONY 1 LOS TIGRES DEL NORTE Ouro (Golden Clips) for the video of its choice: "t Urna Partida De Futebol," ROMANCES SENTIMIENTOS FONOVISA JEFE DE JEFES smash hit "t Urna Partida De Fute- Skank, Sony. 2 GIPSY KINGS NONESLCW 2 VICTOR MANUELLE SONY TROP- 2 GRUPO LIMITE POLYGRAM LATI- ATIANTIOAG COMPAS MausONY A PESAR DE TODO NO PARTIENDOME EL ALMA bol." The pop /reggae anthem won best Video of the year, jury: "Busca 3 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS FONO- 3 DLG SONY TROPICAL/SONY 3 JUAN GABRIEL/ROCIO DURCAL editing, best pop video, and video of Vida," Paralamas Do Sucesso, EMI. VISA VIVIR SWING ON ARIOUVBMG JUNTOS OTRA VEZ 4 JULIO IGLESIAS COLLMBIASONY 4 OLGA TANON wEA LATINA 4 LOS TUCANES DE TIJUANA the year, audience choice. Best pop video: "t Urna Partida De TANGO LLEVAME CONTIGO EMI LATIN TUCANES DE ORO - Futebol," Sony. 5 VARIOUS ARTISTS ARIOLA/ 5 VARIOUS ARTISTS PUTO- 5 INTOCABLE EMI LATIN IV Other awardees included EMI Skank, BMG TE SIGO AMANDO MAYO LATINO! LATINO! 6 VICENTE FERNANDEZ sow Dls- Odeon Brasil's pop /reggae veterans Best rock video: "Ratamahatta," 6 THALIA EMI LATIN 6 TONO ROSARIO WEA LATINA 00SSONV ESTATUA DE MARFIL AMOR A LA MEXICANA SEGUIRE 7 ALEJANDRO FERNANDEZ Paralamas Do Sucesso, who won video Sepultura, Roadrunner. 7 SHAKIRA SONY LATINSONY 7 FRANOE NEGRON wEAraaBEANEA SONY DISCOS/SOW MUY DEN - of the year with "Busca Vida"; Road- Best MPB video: "Mama Africa," PIES DESCALZOS LATINA CON AMOR SE GANA TRO DE MI CORAZON 8 FEY SONY LATIN/SONY 8 KINITO MENDEZ J &N/SONY 8 JENNIFER Y LOS JETZ EMI runner's thrash /metal act Sepultura, SKANK Chico Cesar, PolyGram. TIERNA LA NOCHE EL DESCRETO LATIN JENNIFER whose entry "Ratamahatta" tri Best rap video: "Mandando Bron- 9 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS FONO- 9 LDS HERMANOS ROSARIOMAREw 9 GRUPO BRYNDIS DISNEMI VISA ENRIQUE IGLESIAS POLYGRAM LATwoY6FAOL' LATIN ASI ES EL AMOR umphed in the best rock video catego- ca," Pavilhao 9, Zimbabwe. 10 ILEGALES ARIOLNBMG 10 GLORIA ESTEFAN EPIC/SONY 10 BRONCO FONOVISA ry; and PolyGram Brasil's star tano Veloso, and Milton Nascimento; Best video, new artist: "Con - REBOTANDO ABRIENDO PUERTAS LA ULTIMA HUELLA 11 VARIOUS ARTISTS BEAST 11 VARIOUS ARTISTS wEA LATINA 11 SELENA EMI LATIN singer/songwriter Chico Cesar, win- samba star Paulinho Da Viola; soccer quista," Claudinho E Bucheca, Uni- DJ LATIN MIX '97 MERENGON EXITOS Y RECUERDOS of Brazilian pop (MPB) idol Ronaldo; kitsch TV host Raúl Gil; versal. 12 ALABINA ASTOR PLACE 12 JUAN LUIS GUERRA 440 KAREN/ 12 LOS TUCANES DE TIJUANA ner the best ALABINA POLYGRAM LATINO GRANDES EXITOS EMI LATIN TUCANES DE PLATA video with "Mama Africa." and eccentric pop singer Baby Do Best demo video: "Detetive," 13 DI BLASIO ARIOLA/BMG SOLO 13 CIJBANISMO FEAEJESUSA AWN 13 LOS ANGELES AZULES 14 VARIOUS ARTISTS SONY LATIN/ R'NNIBAIRYKDDSCMALEMBE DISNEMI LATIN INOLVIDABLES Honorees were chosen by a jury Brasil. Comunidade Nin Jitsu, Tinnitus. SONY LO NUESTRO Y LO MEJOR 14 FANIA ALL STARS JERRY MASUC- 14 BANDA EL RECODO FONOVISA consisting of musicians, producers, Among the performers garnering Best direction: "Alma Nao Tern 15 RICKY MARTIN SONY O MUSIC/SONY BRAVO 97 DE PARRANDA CON LA BANDA LATIN/SONY 15 JAILENE EMI LATIN 15 LA MAFIA SONY DISCOS/SONY actors, and other entertainment indus- the most applause were famed rock act Cor," Karnak, Tinnitus. A MEDIO VIVIR AQUI ESTOY EN TUS MANOS try professionals. The audience choice Titas, noted singer/songwriter Lulu Best editing: "t Urna Partida De O Albums with the greatest sales gains this week. Recording Industry Assn. Of America (RIAA) certification for sales of video was voted on by viewers who Santos, and Carlinhos Brown, who did Futebol," Skank, Sony. 500,000 units. RIAA certification for sales of 1 million units, with multimillion sellers indicated by a numeral following the symbol. For boxed sets, and double albums with a running time that exceeds two hoorrs, the RIAA multiplies shipments by the selected their choice by telephone, a thunderous show -closing duet of Best videography: "Nobre Vaga- number of discs and /or tapes. Greatest Gainer shows chart's largest unit increase. l indicates past and present Heatseeker mail, and the Internet. " Pata" with up- and -coming bundo," Daniela Mercury, Sony. titles. ® 1997, Billboard/BPI Communications and SoundScan, Inc.

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á Compiled from a national sample of retail store and rack sales soundscan® midst of putting together a national Back to the Hood tour 6 ,. . reports collected, compiled, and provided by liiiiI to kick off in late September with potential sponsorships TITLE 3N Ñ3 ARTIST from Pepsi and Denny's. c' 3 LABEL & NUMBER /DISTRIBUTING LABEL Meanwhile, Verity VP James "Jazzy" Jordan and GM Tara Griggs -Magee were most excited about "Wow Gospel * * No. 1 * * GOD'S PROPERTY FROM KIRK FRANKLIN'S NU NATION '98," a compilation due in January. The project, encom- I 1 13 B -RITE 900931INTERSCOPE. 12 weeks at No. 1 GOD'S PROPERTY passing the top 30 gospel hits of 1996 -97, teams Verity with Gospo Centric, EMI Christian, and Word. 2 2 38 SOUNDTRACK` ARISTA 18951 THE PREACHER'S WIFE "The wonderful the project is that it shows thing about 3 3 69 KIRK FRANKLIN AND THE FAMILY A GOSPO CENTRIC 72127 WHATCHA LOOKIN' 4 by Lisa Collins the unity within our industry," notes Griggs- Magee. "It's HEZEKIAH WALKER & THE LOVE FELLOWSHIP CRUSADE CHOIR 5 14 going to give us the biggest songs in gospel, so obviously 4 VERITY 43023 IM LIVE IN LONDON AT WEMBLEY STOMPIN IN CINCINNATI: Downtown Cincinnati came we'll have a very aggressive marketing campaign-televi- 5 4 9 OLETA ADAMS HARMONY 1601 COME WALK WITH ME alive with the sounds of music as the 30th annual meeting sion and the whole nine yards -with distribution through THE CANTON SPIRITUALS of the Gospel Music Workshop of America (GMWA) drew Provident for the contemporary Christian marketplace and 6 5 6 VERITY 43021 ® LIVING THE DREAM: LIVE IN WASHINGTON D.C. more than 15,000 musicians, singers, executives, and man- BMG/Jive Records for mainstream." T.D. JAKES 10 27 ufacturers, including many of gospel's biggest names. The Kirk Franklin hosted Thursday's combined Gospo Cen- Q7 INTEGRITYAy00067931/EPIC T.D. JAKES PRESENTS MUSIC FROM WOMAN, THOU ART LOOSED! seven -day fest, spiked with nightly musicals, luncheon con- tric /Crystal Rose /Aleho showcase, which featured Aleho's FRED HAMMOND & RADICAL FOR CHRIST 8 7 64 certs, new -artist showcases, and three live choir recordings, Angela Spivey and the Ohio Baptist Mass Choir and VERITY 43046 ® THE SPIRIT OF DAVID -eye view of ahead in gospel. Gospo Centric's Kurt Carr and Bobby Jones (who can ex- VARIOUS ARTISTS offers a bird's the year 9 8 24 Savoy's Sunday -afternoon showcase kicked off the indus- pect the red -carpet treatment with the late -fall release of CGI 165252 TODAY'S GOSPEL MUSIC COLLECTION try track with the latest from the likes of LaShun Pace, his newest recording with the Nashville Super Choir). 10 9 42 DONNIE MCCLURKIN WARNER ALLIANCE 46297 DONNIE MCCLURKIN the Georgia Mass Choir, and the Mississippi Mass Choir. Crystal Rose threw its weight behind Patrick Love, Spe- 11 14 VIRTUE VERITY43020 VIRTUE Word Records' Monday-evening reception exploded with cial Gift, and Ricky Dillard & New G (with emphasis on 11 the sounds of Kelli Williams, Babbie Mason, Marvin his "Worked It Out" video due in late October), and Donald 12 12 16 SHIRLEY CAESAR WORD 68003 /EPIC ® A MIRACLE IN HARLEM Sapp, Charles Hayes & the Cosmopolitan Church Of Lawrence's much -talked -up "Hello Christmas" release, due 13 15 42 BEBE & CECE WINANS SPARROW 37048/EMI GREATEST HITS Prayer Choir, and B -Rite acts God's Property, Idol King, Oct. 7. and Trin -I -Tee 5:7, who thrilled the crowd with its rendition James Hall & Worship And Praise rocked CGI's New 14 24 32 WANDA NERO BUTLER SOUND OF GOSPEL 223 ALL TO THE GLORY OF GOD of "Oh Mary Don't You Weep," which is currently fielding Flava Showcase, aimed at spotlighting the label's youth -ori- requests at gospel radio. ented music ministries, including the Bronx Mass Choir, 15 14 6 DOTTIE PEOPLES ATLANTA INT'L 10233 TESTIFY & Voices JAM HALL & WORSHIP AND PRAISE Hezekiah Walker, the Canton Spirituals, Ben Eddie James, Tai Oney, Deitrick Haddon the 19 5 16 CGI 161ES ...ACCORDING TO JAMES HALL CHAPT. III Tankard, and Daryl Coley jammed at Verity's luncheon Of Unity, and the Imani Project; the label's luncheon 278 - showcase, which also featured Albert Jamison & the Tri- showcase keyed in on new product from William Becton, 11 13 12 ANDRAE CROUCH QWEST 45924/WARNER BROS. PRAY (through a distributed label, Music Lisa Paige, B. Chase Williams & Shabach, Candi Sta- Boro Mass Choir 18 16 42 ANOINTED WORD 67804/EPIC IM UNDER THE INFLUENCE Quest), Albertina Walker, Shawn McLemore, and Tar - ton (with Joe Ligon), and Hall. CARLTON PEARSON showcased her new release, "Testify," 17 27 ralyn Ramsey, a teen out of Florida who is the label's Dottie Peoples 19 WARNER ALLIANCE 46354 IM LIVE AT AZUSA 2 PRECIOUS MEMORIES newest find. Also performing was John P. Kee, who's and introduced her choir-the Rev. Dreyfus Smith & the IN WASHINGTON changed the name of his forthcoming album-now due Oct. Wings Of Faith -at a joint showcase for Atlanta Interna- 20 20 58 YOLANDA ADAMS VERITY 43027 YOLANDA LIVE 28 -from "Thursday Love" to "Strength." Kee is in the (Continued on page 36) O THE WILLIAMS SISTERS 26 46 21 FIRST LITE 4003 ® LIVE ON THE EAST COAST-LET EVERY EAR HEAR RICHARD SMALLWOOD WITH VISION 18 68 22 VERITY 43015 ADORATION: LIVE IN ATLANTA

23 23 22 KURT CARR SINGERS GOSPO CENTRIC 72138 NO ONE ELSE J444, 24 NEW BEN TANKARD VERITY 43095 GIT YO PRAYZE ON where he talks a lot, tells jokes. You really get a feel for 25 25 91 CECE WINANS SPARROW 51441 ALONE IN HIS PRESENCE

his personality," she says. In October, Ben Webster's 26 22 13 THE WILLIAMS BROTHERS BLACKBERRY 1618/MALACO STILL STANDING "King Of The Tenor" is due. CR FORD'S PURPOSE Mobile Fidelity works from the original masters only, 21 33 14 RAW BLUE HARAMMONY 1600 THE KING IS COMING ANY DAY! and Beaudoin says that both Verve and Storyville have NOTES been great about providing them. Some Verve titles 28 27 14 MARVIN SAPP WORD 68039/EPIC GRACE AND MERCY TM released by Mobile are in the marketplace already, "but 29 21 8 VICKIE WINANS CGI 161279 LIVE IN DETROIT we offer," she not the gold -disc audiophile versions that pg. MCKZIEEN & THE GOSPEL HI -LITES RE -ENTRY by Jim Macnie concludes. The Mobile Fidelity titles retail for $29.95. 30 FIRST LITE 4007 RIDE WITH JESUS

31 29 37 THE GEORGIA MASS CHOIR SAVOY 7123 GREATEST HITS NEW ATTITUDE: More and more jazz titles have been TV TUNES: Nothing's worse than when a film depicts a MISSISSIPPI MASS CHOIR apes the 30 64 trickling out of Mobile Fidelity's offices over the past year. saxophonist and the actor or actress bogusly 32 MALACO 6022 ® I'LL SEE YOU IN THE RAPTURE The label, which deals exclusively with audiophile reissues, sound of an authentic horn player. Julie Dash went for 5 MCLEMORE AND NEW IMAGE NEW LIFE 43022/VERITY WAIT ON HIM has largely built its rep on enviable sonic clarification of the real deal when she cast Warner Bros. recording artist 33 34 SHAWN pop music. But after striking separate deals with Verve Kenny Garrett as the subterranean musician in "Sax 34 28 14 DOROTHY NORWOOD MALACO 6024 HATTIE B'S DAUGHTER and Storyville, Mobile Fidelity has been making revered Cantor Riff," a segment of the much -ballyhooed HBO spe- ME and rare discs part of its catalog. cial "Subway Stories." The vignette, which regards the 35 35 15 CANDI STATOR CGI 161276 COVER The label only releases two or three new titles each interaction of a Jewish cantor and jazz musician, made its EDWIN HAWKINS 36 39 5 HARMONY DALLAS MUSIC & ARTS SEMINAR MASS CHOIR month. In August, a pair were jazz: Herbie Hancock's debut Aug. 17. Dash, who directed the 1992 feature film 1612 "Man- Child" originally out in 1975 on Columbia and the "Daughters Of The Dust," wrote and directed the short. 37 40 8 CHRISTOPHER BRINSON MALACO 4487 WHAT IF GOD IS UNHAPPY? Lee Konitz Quintet's "Live At The Mont- The soundtrack for the film is performed by the percus- Warne Marsh 38 37 76 V.I.P. MUSIC & ARTS SEMINAR MASS CHOIR VERITY 43014 g STAND! martre Club," a Storyville session. "We try to provide sion- oriented improvisational quartet Mecca Bodega. REV. MILTON BRUNSON AND THE THOMPSON COMMUNITY SINGERS has spent mucho time making 32 14 great sounds for a variety of music lovers," says Lori The inventive ensemble 39 WORD 67939/EPIC HE'S STILL GOOD Beaudoin, Mobile Fidelity's executive VP/GM. "Whenev- venues out of New York subway stops over the past few er we're lucky enough to come across strong jazz titles, we years. Its "Subway Stories" is out on Hybrid/Metropoli- 4O RE-ENTRY CHICAGO MASS CHOIR CGI 161267 YOU LOVE ME C) Records with the greatest sales gains this week. Recording Industry Assn. Of America (RIM) certification for seize the opportunity. Right now, really interesting archival tan ... Speaking of film and jazz, cuts by Gerry Mulli- safes of 500,000 units; RIAA certification for sales of 1 million units with each additional million indicated by a numeral following the symbol. For boxed sets, and double albums with a running time that exceeds two hours, the RIAA things have become available. The Storyville discs are gan, Miles Davis, and Chet Baker all find their way onto multiplies shipments by the number of discs and/or tapes. All albums available on cassette and CD. 'Asterisk indicates unique to us within the U.S. market, and we've gotten a the soundtrack for "L.A. Confidential," the retro noir vinyl available. ® indicates past or present Heatseeker titles. ® 1997, Billboard/BPI Communications. very positive response so far" escapade directed by Curtis Hanson. The album is on Success isn't measured by comparing the jazz discs to Restless. their pop brethren. The third August release for Mobile Fidelity was 's `Building The Perfect Beast." TITLE OF THE WEEK goes to Verve's reissue of Lalo DID YOU KNOW... Marsh couldn't do battle in any credible commercial way Schifrin's "The Dissection And Reconstruction Of Music with that classic album. "No, we know that's not the way From The Past As Performed By The Inmates Of Lalo WHEN RECORD COMPANIES HAVE POSITIONS to view it," says Beaudoin. "But the idea of keeping it var- Schifrin's Demented Ensemble As A Tribute To The ied is important; I don't want to release three rock titles Memory Of The Marquis De Sade." It's part of the label's TO FILL - THEIR #1 CHOICE IS ALWAYS release that's sched- at once. If we think the collector is going to be interested Very Elite Edition, a limited- project SECTION in the jazz title, we'll likely give it a shot, and we've come uled to place its first 10 titles in the racks Sept. 23. BILLBOARDS CLASSIFIED - across some great one of late." The albums, which carry a list $16.99, are differentiat- WE GET QUICK RESULTS!! Thelonious Monk's "Live At The Monterey Jazz Fes- ed from the usual Verve rereleases due to their "esoteric" tival, Volumes 1 & 2" sold surprisingly well for the com- nature. "There will be between 5,000 and 6,500 units of CALL market, depending on pany, according to Beaudoin. And Mobile Fidelity is opti- each title pressed for the worldwide 1- 800 -223 -7524 mistic about the forthcoming September release "Louis orders," says a company spokesman. There will be no sec- Armstrong: Masters Of Jazz Volume 1." "It's a live show ond pressing. FAX: 212 -536 -5055

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á Compiled from a national sample of retail store and rack sales SoundScamu w w reports collected, compiled, and provided by. I I I I I I I 3 ó N ARTIST TITLE to HIGHER NQC is also like country music's Fan Fair in that ti 3 LA,'. ,. °, i IBER /DISTRIBUTING LASH 3 fans line up at the exhibit booths to get autographs * * No.1 * * and to spend time chatting with artists like Mark BOB CARLISLE A2 Lowry, Bill and Gloria Gaither, and Janet Paschal. 1 1 60 DI;,CEM I 39/PROVIDENT ti 17 weeks at Ne. I SHADES OF GRACE Last year, there were 430 exhibitors. There are also 2 2 91 DC TALK A FOREFRONT 5140 /CHORDANT JESUS FREAK GROUND. a couple of fan -voted awards shows presented by The Gospel Voice and Singing News magazines. The 3 4 65 JACI VELASQUEZ MYRRH 6995/WORD ® HEAVENLY PLACE by Deborah Evans Price Thursday -night Singing News Fan Awards show is 4 3 11 THE SUPERTONES BEC 7401 / CHORDANT go SUPERTONES STRIKE BACK one of the best -attended events of the gathering. "It's exciting to know that gospel music's biggest 5 POINT OF GRACE WORD 9694 LIFE LOVE & OTHER MYSTERIES 5 49 N QC CELEBRATES 40TH: The top names in event is still growing by astounding rates in its 40th 6 7 3 PHILLIPS, CRAIG AND DEAN STAR SONG/SPARROW 0156/CHORDANT ® WHERE STRENGTH BEGINS Southern gospel music will gather Sept. 8 -13 in year," says NQC's executive director, Clarke Beasley, VARIOUS ARTISTS Louisville, Ky., at the Kentucky Fair and Exposition who adds that his organization plans to set attendance 1 8 42 SPARROW 1562/CHORDANT WOW -1997: THE YEAR'S 30 TOP CHRISTIAN ARTISTS AND SONGS Center to celebrate the National Quartet Convention records again. "Crowds are expected to be 45,000 plus 8 6 7 CLAY CROSSE REUNION 10005/PROVIDENT® STAINED GLASS (NQC)'s 40th anniversary. More than 70 acts are this year." scheduled to perform during the six -day event, Beasley's father, Les, serves as president of NQC 9 9 20 CARMAN SPARROW 1565/CHORDANT I SURRENDER ALL -30 CLASSIC HYMNS including the Florida Boys, the Cathedrals, the and, in addition to celebrating the organization's 40th 10 10 50 STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN SPARROW 1554/CHORDANT SIGNS OF LIFE Nelons, the Speers, Common Bond, the Steeles, and anniversary, will be marking another milestone this Karen Peck & New River. year as the Florida Boys observe their 50th. Beasley 11 13 21 CAEDMON'S CALL WARNER ALLIANCE 46463/WCD ® CAEDMON'S CALL NQC was originated in Memphis four decades ago joined the act in 1953, when founder J.G. Whitfield some of him as lead vocalist. He's been with the 12 12 9 CHRIS RICE ROCKETOWN 1528/WORD ® DEEP ENOUGH TO DREAM when J.D. Sumner and the genre's key hired group artists launched the first event with 5,000 Southern ever since as lead singer and began managing the 13 15 78 NEWSBOYS STAR SONG/SPARROW 0075/CHORDANT TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER gospel music enthusiasts in attendance. NQC contin- Florida Boys in 1958. The group still performs 265

14 11 68 KIRK FRANKLIN AND THE FAMILY GOSPO CENTRIC 2127/CHORDANT WHATCHA LOOKIN' 4 ued to grow into a major event and the gathering for days a year in addition to making radio and TV Southern gospel artists and fans. The event was held appearances, such as its visit to "The Today Show," 15 18 60 REBECCA ST. JAMES FOREFRONT 5141 /CHORDANT ® GOD for 22 years in Nashville before relocating to which kicked off NQC 1996. 1994. is 16 17 16 KATHY TROCCOLI REUNION 10003/PROVIDENT ® LOVE AND MERCY Louisville in The festivities include workshops, For the third year, September being recognized seminars, and shows during the day, but the main as Southern Gospel Music Month, and in promoting 11 14 25 PETRA WORD 9929 PETRA PRAISE 2 WE NEED JESUS thrust of the conference is the evening concerts and the event several retail chains -including Family 18 16 9 OLETA ADAMS HARMONY 7701 /CHORDANT COME WALK WITH ME the exhibit booths, which feature Southern gospel Christian Stores, Joshua's Baptist Bookstores, and artists, record labels, and affiliated companies. Last Berean -will feature a Southern gospel music sam- 19 19 78 AUDIO ADRENALINE FOREFRONT 5144/CHORDANT BLOOM year, some of the evening shows drew more than 8,000 pler titled "Southern Gospel -You Better Believe It,

20 22 35 VARIOUS ARTISTS HOSANNA! /INTEGRITY 8952/WORD SHOUT TO THE LORD attendees during the week, and Friday night's show Vol. 3," a multi- artist project being distributed by sold out, with 19,500 fans in attendance. Also last New Day Christian Distributors. The sampler retails 21 20 38 VARIOUS ARTISTS HOSANNASINTEGRITY 10492/WORD REVIVAL AT BROWNSVILLE year, I was surprised to see fans lining up at the tick- for $1.99 on cassette and $2.99 on CD. The latest sin-

22 21 46 CRYSTAL LEWIS MYRRH 5039/WORD ® BEAUTY FOR ASHES et office during the last few days of the event to pur- gles from Gold City, the Kingsmen, Ponder, Sykes chase tickets for next year. (Continued on next page) 23 24 76 THIRD DAY REUNION 0117/PROVIDENT ® THIRD DAY

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28 25 14 VIRTUE VERITY 50032 /PROVIDENT VIRTUE THE GREATEST PART OF ME especially telling repertoire for the all- female Anony- KEEPING mous 4. 29 26 35 MXPX TOOTH & NAIL 1060 /DIAMANTE IW LIFE IN GENERAL The program is built around liturgical music for the VARIOUS ARTISTS Oct. 21 feast day of St. Ursula and the 11,000 Vir- O30 29 13 HOSANNA! /INTEGRITY 11492/WORD REVIVAL - SONGS OF FIRE FROM ABOVE SCORE gins. (According to legend, St. Ursula and her virgin CD 39 37 OUT OF EDEN GOTEE 3826/WORD ® MORE THAN YOU KNOW companions, returning from a pilgrimage to Rome, VARIOUS ARTISTS were martyred by the Huns in Cologne, Germany, 32 33 83 by Heidi Waleson SPARROW 151E CHORDANT WOW -1996: THE YEAR'S 30 TOP CHRISTIAN ARTISTS AND SONGS when Ursula refused to marry their pagan chief.) Anonymous 4 has placed music in the 33 35 41 RAY BOLTZ WORD 9937 ® NO GREATER SACRIFICE the composer's H APPY BIRTHDAY: The Schubert Year draws to context of the standard liturgy, framing the exotic VARIOUS ARTISTS 34 NEW SPARROW 1624/CHORDANT FOCUS ON THE FAMILY PRESENTS RENEWING THE HEART an end, and now we leap even further back in time for Hildegard pieces with contemporaneous music for the Hildegard Year, which celebrates the 900th birth- Matins, Lauds, and Vespers -which makes for a more 35 RE -ENTRY SUSAN ASHTON SPARROW 1458/CHORDANT RE A DISTANT CALL day of the abbess Hildegard von Bingen, composer, shapely program and, as group member and musicol- 36 RE -ENTRY BEBE & CECE WINANS SPARROW 7048/CHORDANT GREATEST HITS poet, visionary, herbalist, and healer, who was born ogist Susan Hellauer notes, was probably the way it in 1098 near Mainz, Ger- was heard. CD RE-ENTRY THE SUPERTONES TOOTH & NAIL 1053 /DIAMANTE SUPERTONES many, the 10th child of Anonymous 4 will begin touring the program in 38 36 10 PLUMB ESSENTIAL 70008/PROVIDENT PLUMB noble parents. The cele- October; the group has 46 concerts, beginning in VARIOUS ARTISTS bratory year begins in Provo, Utah, and ending in late April '98 in Boston, 39 34 17 VINEYARD/STAR SONG 9243 /CHORDANT CHANGE MY HEART OH GOD, VOLUME 2 September, and to mark it with performances in New York; Chicago; Houston; ANDY GRIFFITH Iowa City, Iowa; Berlin; and Abbaye de Fontebrand, 40 31 71 Harmonia Mundi will SPARROW 144O/CHORDANT® I LOVE TO TELL THE STORY: 25 TIMELESS HYMNS release Anonymous 4's France, to name a few, in between. The group makes 0 Records with the greatest sales gains this week. Recording Industry Assn. Of America (RIAA) certification new recording, "11,000 its Wigmore Hall (in London) debut Nov. 11. for sales of 500,000 units; RIAA certification for sales of 1 million units with each additional million indicated by a numeral following the symbol. For boxed sets, and double albums with a running time that exceeds two hours, Virgins," Sept. 9. (Hilde- Anonymous 4 will also participate in the official cel- the RIM multiplies shipments by the number of discs and/or tapes. All albums available on cassette and CD. *Aster- ebration of the Hildegard year, which will center in © 1997, Billboard/BPI Communications. gard was never officially isk indicates vinyl available. In/indicates past or present Heatseeker title. canonized, but she does Bingen, Germany. Close to 150 events, including con- have a feast day, Sept. ANONYMOUS 4 certs, lectures, symposiums, exhibits, art openings, 21.) and wine tastings, have been organized; other fea- (Continued from page 34) The names of few female composers have come tures are Hildegard's "Vespers" in the Abbaye of St. tional Records, Born Again, and gence has become one of the con- down to the present, but Hildegard was a giant by Hildegard in Eibingen, a mystery play in the tradi- New Haven Records. Also perform- vention's prime events. The show's any standard. She was 43 and the leader of a small tion of the time of the composer, in September; an ing were the Voices Of Binghamp- lineup included the Canton Spiri- convent when she saw a vision of tongues of flame, international Hildegard symposium in March 1998 in ton, Kenny Eldridge, and Bishop tuals, the Williams Brothers (who which led her to write down her spiritual experiences. Mainz; and a big Hildegard Festival, in August and Abney, who was joined by Sapp on teamed with Mighty Clouds Of Her fame as a mystic spread; she wrote a scientific September 1998, during which Anonymous 4 and lead vocals. Rounding out the label Joy lead Ligon for a tune), the Five encyclopedia, visionary works, and a collection of Sequentia, which is recording the complete works of showcases was Chicago -based Meek Blind Boys, Slim & the Supreme poetical /musical works, the "Symphonia Armonie Hildegard, will perform. For German speakers, a full Records' Friday- afternoon recep- Angels, the Williams Sisters, Pil- Celestium Revelationum," (Symphony Of The Har- program can be accessed at the official 900th tion, featuring the Stellar Award - grim Jubilees, Spencer Taylor & mony Of Celestial Revelations), settings of 77 poems Anniversary World Wide Web site at Mainz Univer- winning AARC Mass Choir. the Highway QC's, Willie Neal that make up a liturgical cycle. Hildegard claimed to sity; the address is http://www.kath.de/bistum/mainz/ A near -capacity crowd packed Johnson & the Gospel Keynotes, have received her works in her visions, and in their bingen /veranst.htm. the Cincinnati Convention Center Dorothy Norwood, and the Jack- ecstatic and rhapsodic nature they resemble no other In the meantime, and for English speakers, "11,000 ballroom for the Annual Quartet son Southernaires and was coor- composer's music. They were also probably written Virgins" will be a listening -post feature on the Clas- Concert, which while bearing wit- dinated by the Christianaires' for women (that is, the nuns of Hildegard's convent) (Continued on next page) ness to the genre's booming resur- (Continued on next page) 36 BILLBOARD AUGUST30, 1997 www.americanradiohistory.com Billboard AUGUST 30, 1997 Artists & Music HAPPY 80th TOP REGGAE ALBUMS_.

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It also ing artist Jacky hosts 4 3 ARK 21 61868 includes $2 -off coupons good a writers' night Sept. 2 at the Blue - THE BEST OF-VOLUME ONE ÚB40 5 92 toward the purchase of the current Bird Cafe. Special guests include 5 VIRGIN 41009 Receiving a star on the THE BEST OF-VOLUME TWO UB4O release by the artists featured on Jennifer O'Neill and Mervin 6 s 93 Hollywood Walk the sampler. All in all, the package Louque ... Greystone Communi- VIRGIN 41010 YARDCORE BORN JAMERICANS Of Fame 9/11 includes more than $30 worth of cations is filming a documentary on 7 8 10 DELICIOUS VINYL 5018 * /RED ANT in coupons. The promotion also in- Southern gospel music ... Karen 8 FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN 2... REGGAE CELEBRATES ... VARIOUS ARTISTS 9 cludes album flats, shelf talkers, Peck & New River have signed a POW WOW 7466 PASSION LADY SAW and other point-of- purchase mate- booking agreement with Ed Harp- 9 9 9 VP 1493* & rials. Radio samplers are also being er of Harper Associates. (Peck APPOINTMENT WITH HIS MAJESTY BURNING SPEAR distributed to help entice con- has won an unprecedented 15 (10) NEW HEARTBEAT 211* sumers into stores. New Day is to favorite soprano Fan Awards from THE BEST OF ZIGGY MARLEY ... (1988 -1993) ZIGGY MARLEY AND THE MELODY MAKERS 11 11 19 be commended for its aggressive Singing News readers.) VIRGIN 44098 TAXMAN LUCKY DUKE 12 10 8 SHANACHIE 45032 GHETTO GOLD & PLATINUM RESPECT 13 12 8 WEEDED 20210 * /NERVOUS IN THE SPIRIT SOUL ALMIGHTY- THE FORMATIVE YEARS VOL. 1 BOB MARLEY 14 59 (Continued from preceding page) (14) JAD 1001 MR. MARLEY DAMIAN JR. GONG MARLEY Tyrone Porter, who's taken an man Al Hobbs, who also serves as 15 13 22 TUFF GONG 54177 /LIGHTYEAR active role in developing the founder /president of Aleho. "We're GMWA's increasingly popular quar- trying to challenge them to make tet seminar series. themselves `indispensable' as we TOP WORLD MUSIC ALBUMS.. Sporting the theme "Gospel realize that while gospel is not as media -pathways to success," the important a part of the newer for- it * NO. 1 1k * Gospel Announcers Guild (GAG) set mats, they are areas that we can't MICHAEL FLATLEY'S LORD OF THE DANCE RCNAN HARDIMAN 1 24 out to challenge the growing ten- afford to lose. The lifeblood of any- PHILIPS 533757 al 5 weeks at No. 1 RIVERDANCE BILL WHELAN sions between the oncoming 24- thing is its new product. So it's 3 62 2 CELTIC HEARTBEAT 82816/AG MI gospel and evolv- going to be radio and the hour formats the urban CELTIC PRIDE COLUMN MACOIREACHTAIGH & THE IRISH CEILI BAND ing Christian /gospel and R &B/ newer, more broad -based scenarios 3 2 10 RETRO 0090 le gospel formats. that will help break new music in RIVERDANCE BILL WHELAN 4 9 "Many are looking at the viabili- gospel." 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Boobie -Loo BMI and lyricist John Bettis, who have cre- ter (BMI), and that of Bettis, words by Bettis is said to be close to having 200 HOT RAP SINGLES ated dozens of hits and earned awards john (ASCAP), are administered by million in sales of song recordings fea- MO MONEY MO PROBLEMS Christopher Wallace, S. Jordan, M. Betha, B. Edwards. Nile Rodgers as collaborators and with other part- Warner /Chappell. turing his lyrics, including successes by Big Poppa /ASCAP, Justin Combs/ASCAP, EMI April /ASCAP, Steven A. Jordan /ASCAP. Bernard's ners, are preparing to put the finishing Besides "Say Goodnight," Dorff and Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, Whitney Other /ASCAP, Sony /ASCAP, M. Betha /ASCAP, Tommy Jymi /BMI touches on a musical about the lives of Bettis have written a score for a Christ- Houston, and Karen Carpenter. HOT LATIN TRACKS MIENTE Rafael Perez -Botija Fonomusic SESAC two giants of show business who were mas special, "Annabelle's Christmas The recipient of a 3 million perfor- Broadway stars before they were mul- Wish," whose songs are sung by Randy mance award from BMI for his work timedia icons. Travis, Alison Krauss, Beth Nielsen with lyricist Marty Panzer on the Dorff, Bettis, and librettist Rick Chapman, Nanci Griffith, Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers hit "Through The Hawkins have finished the first draft of Kevin Sharp, and Davis Gaines, among Years," Dorf has penned much mater- How Songwriters' Hall Of Fame "Say Goodnight," based on the life and others. The soundtrack is set for release ial for theater, film, and TV along with times of George Burns and Gracie Oct. 30 on Parton's Blue Eye label, dis- works recorded by Whitney Houston Got Named; peermusic Signings Allen, the husband tributed by Rising Tide Records. and Vanessa Williams. and wife team whose When the team was required to come Of their 12 -year association as stardom covered the up with another song for the TV special, friends and collaborators, Dorff says, w HAT'S IN A NAME: Oscar Brand adds. "It became the Nation- eras of vaudeville, one was written to also serve as a salute "There's a magic one gets in a long- Brand, the folklorist, performer, al Academy of Popular Music, with movies, radio, and to the July 28 birth of Dorff's daughter, standing collaboration. I have had sev- and songwriter, is a board member the added explanation `sponsoring TV. . It's called "Tiny Dreamer." eral that have been magic. My work and curator of the Songwriters' Hall the Songwriters' Hall of Fame.' " The trio of cre- Looking ahead, the pair hopes to be with John stands right up there." of Fame, and though he has been Brand notes that Hall chairman ators, whose "Lunch" associated with the hall since short- Frank Sinatra and president has been a regional ly after it was officially launched in Bobby Weinstein recently ordered BETTIS musical theater suc- 1969, he was unaware of how the five years' worth of stationery, cess (and a cast Rodgers & Hart, `Makers Of group was named -until recently. which "seems to indicate that album release on DRG Records), start- Rummaging through an accumu- NAPM sponsoring the Songwriters' ed the project when Hawkins lation of papers, he noticed the title Hall of Fame will be doing business approached Dorff and Bettis with the Melody,' Captured By Kino "Important Papers." "It turned out with that name into the next millen- idea two years ago. to be a chronicle of name changes nium." "Burns and Allen came out of vaude- NEW YORK- Although there are ularly attractive efforts, "Dearest for the National Academy of Popu- ville, where singing many vintage musical riches to be dis- Enemy" (1925) and "A Connecticut lar Music [NAPM], parent of the W RITER DEAL: Taiwanese and dancing were covered in Kino Video's release of four Yankee" (1927). Songwriters' Hall of Fame," he says. singer /songwriter Kuo Tze has part of their perfor- volumes of 35 mostly Paramount But, fanciful or not, "Makers Of "In 1966, according to the docu- joined the ranks of the Taipei -based mance," says Bettis. shorts dating back to 1929, serious Melody" is surely a grand historical ments, [publishers] Howard Rich- unit of U.S. independent peermusic, "We're looking at musical theater fans will be particu- document, for the presentation of the mond and Al Brackman ... incor- having previously made publishing the dynamics of the larly interested in and entertained by songs is theatrical and only several porated an organization to honor the arrangements on a song -by -song dream and their the first commercial video presenta- seasons away from the shows for people who write the songs. It was basis, a common practice for song- backstage life, some- tion of "Makers Of Melody." which they were written. called the Tin Pan Alley Hall of writers there. This deal, however, is thing we don't The 10- minute 1929 short, once And watching Rodgers and Hart Fame. In 1967, for life, in DORFF always get to know available in a far lesser-quality 8 mm interact with each other is enlighten- they widened terms of songs about. Any career version from Black Hawk Films, fea- ing in terms of the writers' personali- their horizon generated dur- that includes 40 years, including a mar- tures a reporter's "interview" with ties. Rodgers appears to be the more by renaming Words & ing the two - riage, has to have problems. The show the team of Richard Rodgers and urbane of the two, speaking in the their creation Musiç year deal, with is a homage to them as live performers." Lorenz Hart, who were hitting their articulate manner of a well -educated the Music Hall CïC>i7iLL7 options for a Dorff and Bettis note that there are stride then-years before they domi- New Yorker. Hart, equally as educat- of Fame. How- third, says two ways to approach a Broadway run nated musical theater with a string of ed, has a distinctive New York dialect. ever, they were peermusic GM these days. One is to play out of town in successes starting in the mid -'30s. And for those who are familiar with uneasy about by Iry Lichtman Leslie Mok. a single city and then move to Broadway. What follows, to the surprise of no Hart's devastating internal conflicts, the title, feel- Kuo, who is The other way, which they tend to favor, one watching the presentation, are his breezy nature can't his under- ing that people also a record- is to play for many weeks in key cities three spurious tales of how they came 5 -foot frame, on which sits a dispro- might think it was a Music Hall ing artist with Taiwan's Rock and then come to Broadway, like "Jekyll to write three of their biggest hits up portionately large head. enterprise. So, before the year was Records, has penned major hits for And Hyde" or the upcoming "Ragtime." to that point-"Manhattan," "The Boy Other than fleeting appearances in over, they changed the name to the Chinese pop stars like Jacky Che- Says Dorff, " `Lunch' taught us to Friend," and "The Blue Room." their 1933 feature (also via Para- American Music Hall of Fame. ung ( "Blessing," "Stealing Hearts)," have the creative package in place. In a The story of "Manhattan," however, mount) "Hallelujah, I'm A Bum," star- "In 1968, Johnny Mercer joined Co Co Lee ( "Bei Ai Nu Run "), and musical, everything you can think of can has at least one element of truth. The ring Al Jolson, "Makers Of Melody" is the fun and insisted on a new name. A -Mei ( "Shen Me Do Bu Shain be happening on the stage at the same boys actually were frustrated in try- likely to be the only extended situation This time it became the Academy of Yao "). time." ing to forge a career as a musical com- in which Rodgers and Hart as a team Popular Music, and Johnny was Also, Kuo has his own drama the- Because the Burns and Allen era is edy songwriting team before they are seen as well as heard. While the elected president. ater, Taipei Story, and is known for regarded as the golden period of song - were asked in 1925 to write songs for short shows these two giants in a fan- "In 1969, composer /publisher Abe combining classical training with writing craft -the team even per- a Theatre Guild review, "Garrick Gai- ciful way and with mannered dialogue, Olman joined the brave little trio of pop to expand the genre. Another formed in a George and Ira Gershwin eties." it still manages to suggest their real - founders and suggested a new, more recent peermusic signing, compos- film musical, "Damsel In Distress " -a "Manhattan," actually written for life relationship. Of course, it also has exciting name -the Songwriters' er /arranger George Leong, will reprise of some of those hits might have an earlier, unproduced effort, was three indelible melodies (and lyrics, Hall of Fame. Most people think accompany Kuo to Los Angeles soon made sense. Deciding otherwise, Dorf their contribution. too) from still -wonderful songs writ- that's the name today, but it isn't." to work on a second album for Rock, and Bettis bring to the project a deep In the short, Rodgers and Hart are ten more than 70 years ago. According to Brand, by 1971 hun- slated for release in October. love for the era and the good sense to seen gazing at the New York skyline It should be noted that "Makers Of dreds of members (not elected to the try to replicate a feel for the times, from the New Jersey shore, wonder- Melody" is misplaced as part of vol- Songwriters' Hall of Fame itself) PRINT ON PRINT: The following while making the songs they've written ing forlornly if they will ever make the ume two in the series. The volume is were claiming membership in the are the best -selling folios from relevant to today's audiences. grade after countless rejections by titled "Jazz Cocktails," but the "Mak- hall of fame in their bios, a situation Warner Bros. Publications: They are contemporary hitmakers music publishers. ers Of Melody" short has nothing to do that was particularly loathsome to 1. Collective Soul, "Disciplined but are imbued with a strong sense of Intended as a limited -run fund -rais- with jazz nor would it have fit com- Irving Berlin, who called Brand at Breakdown." the past. Composer Dorff's hero is er for the Guild, "Garrick Gaieties" fortably with the other volumes, the museum (then located at 1 Times 2. Jewel, "Pieces Of You." "filled 3. , "Life Is Peachy." Richard Rodgers ( "His melodies are ran for 211 performances and estab- including "Blue Melodies" (volume Square in New York). Berlin vocal quite amazing "), while Bettis says that lished the two as contenders for an three) and "Rhapsodies In Black And two hours of telephone time with 4. "Romeo + Juliet," the 20th century genius of lyric writers important role in musical theater. Blue" (volume four). some extremely creative expletives," selections." Into You." is Lorenz Hart, half of the venerable Indeed, by 1929 they had several hit Placement notwithstanding, the fact says Brand. 5. Celine Dion, "Falling team of Rodgers and Hart. songs to their credit, including "Thou that "Makers Of Melody" now has a "When Sammy Cahn, the new Assistance in preparing this column Dorff and Bettis became a team 12 Swell," "My Heart Stood Still," "You home on home video is the thing that president, was apprised of the prob- change was provided by Geoff Burpee in years ago because of the efforts of vet- Took Advantage Of Me," and "With A really counts. But the short would have lem, he called a meeting to Hong Kong. eran publishing executive Chuck Kaye, Song In My Heart." And among their been most at home in the first volume the name of the organization," then head of Warner/Chappell Music, show scores by then were two partie- (Continued on page 84) BILLBOARD AUGUST 30, 1997 38 www.americanradiohistory.com JUVENILE DIABETES FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL THE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION Fourth Annual MUSIC INDUSTRY DINNER Honoring BRUCE LUNDVALL

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www.americanradiohistory.com Studio Action ARTISTS & MUSIC End Of Nashville /L.A. Flight May Affect Studio Biz BY DAN DALEY Southwest Airlines offers nonstop, one- have also been good, says Tim Smith, a again, too. People in the entertainment that flight than any other that I take." cabin, unreserved- seating service corporate communications spokesman industry expect it." Nick Gold, president of Entertain- NASHVILLE -American Airlines between Nashville and L.A. for American. However, he adds that, Glenn Meadows, owner of Master - ment Travel, which has offices in has closed its sole remaining nonstop American's announcement could due to discount fares and upgrades for fonics, downplays the effect of the route Nashville, New York, and London, says, flight between here and Los Angeles, have significant long -term implications frequent fliers, "the route has not been loss, saying, "I don't think it's a big "I've spoken to numerous artists and effective Nov 1, and with it the last for Nashville's recording studio com- a financial success overall." deal. If to come to their labels, producers, and managers first-class service between the two munity and entertainment industry, American opened a hub in Nashville Nashville is based on a first -class cabin, about this. They're all appalled. entertainment communities, according which has stressed that clients beyond in 1986, building service to 144 nonstop you're coming for the wrong reasons." "When you think that Nashville has to a July 30 statement from the Dallas - Nashville's immediate music industry flights a day, including three a day to However, the first -class cabin on the [Country Music Assn.] and L.A. based carrier. could be critical for the success of L.A., five a day to New York, and a American is regarded by many in both has the [Academy of Country Music], As of Nov 1, two -cabin service be- expensive new studios, particularly in short -lived Nashville /London nonstop cities' entertainment industries as a and that recording artists and pro- tween Nashville and L.A. will be avail- light of recent contractions in country in 1994 -95. By year's end, the airline business tool on a par with dinner at ducers in both cities travel between able only via hub connections from music sales and recording budgets. will be down to 15 flights a day from Sunset Grill or drinks at Le Mondrian. them frequently to work, to limit American (which will also eliminate The entertainment industry in Nashville; it still has three nonstops a "Forget the inconvenience; you want first -class service limits Nashville's one flight a day to its Chicago and Dal- Nashville and Los Angeles has kept the day to New York's La Guardia airport. first class because you never know who music industry." las hubs from Nashville by Dec. 15) and first -class cabin of that route regularly Studio owners and managers for the you're going to run into and possibly other major carriers. Budget carrier full, and load factors in the coach cabin most part voice dismay over Ameri- make deals with," says Gary Haber, can's withdrawal. "It's really stupid," one of L.A.'s leading entertainment says Allen Sides, co -owner of Ocean industry business managers. His SSL Taps Plushner Way/Nashville and owner of two other clients include MCA Records Nashville Ocean Way recording facilities in Los president and producer Tony Brown As New U.S. Prez Angeles. and recording acts Randy Travis, Joe "If you do a lot of traveling between Cocker, and Lynyrd Skynyrd, many of Three months since the depar- the two cities, coach is definitely out of whom regularly work in both cities. ture of its U.S. president, Oxford, the question," he continues. "A lot of Referring to a recent flight, Haber England -based console manufac- recording artists and producers are says, "I just ran into Vince Gill's man- turer Solid State Logic (SSL) has going to be surprised and disappointed ager, and we made an appointment to appointed industry veteran Rick that they can't get a first -class seat discuss a country soundtrack for a Plushner president of the American nonstop here anymore from L.A. And film. I can't imagine an opportunity division, according to sources. Nashville is looking to increase its like that opening up on Southwest [Air- Plushner -a veteran of Euphonix, share of soundtrack work-film direc- lines]. It's a fine airline, but it's not at Sies Augio, and Sony-replaces tors are not going to fly coach." the upper-echelon executive level. Peo- Pierce Plaskitt, who stepped down Robert De La Garza, manager of ple are going to have to fly through as president of SSL U.S. in May. Starstruck Studios, says flatly, "We Dallas and Chicago to get to Nashville SSL U.S. VP Roger Charlesworth need a first -class cabin service be- from L.A. now, and that could discour- left concurrently with Plaskitt (Bill- tween here and Los Angeles, as well as age a few of them from coming." board, May 24). to New York. We need it to London Says Sides, "I do more business on

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With a worldwide overcapacity for Independent Experts To Get Involved CD audio and CD -ROM replication a fact of life, the promise of DVD in both its video and ROM formats has the BY DAN DALEY replication industry ramping up across North America and around the globe. Virtually all industry observers agree that As the CD became the con- tion but also including cover art, "The problems are based large- DVD -Video and DVD -ROM formats are sumer standard for prere- text and analog cassettes -have ly on digital, in the sense that the unlikely to have any major impact in the corded music in the 1990s become so endemic, say some, that master would come from the mas- Fetail marketplace until the year 2000. But and replication facilities prolifer- producers and artists are turning tering house to the record label," very positive consumer reception and criti- ated, replicators and record com- to independent sources to main- Engels explains. "They would cal reviews for the first DVD movies since panies had come to look at the tain quality. then have copies made in any their late -March debut-and good vibes quality of compact discs as a given. "You'd be at what gets number of places under any num- toward early DVD -ROM games, edutain- They relied on the technical side out there," observes Cheryl En- ber of quality conditions and send ment and reference products at both PC David Rubenstein, Cinram of replication facilities to guaran- gels, former staffer in the now - those copies to their regional and Expo and E3 this past June -are positive tee a disc's quality. Such quality - defunct quality- control and quality- overseas offices, which would omens for the future. compliance testing was generally assurance department at A&M then make more copies to send to The expanding availability of competitive- ly priced DVD -ROM drives that are back- ward compatible for CD- Audio, CD -ROM and DVD Video is another vital factor, with a forecast for as many as 2 million installed DVD -ROM systems in U.S. households alone by mid -1998. In North America, companies like Warner Advanced Media Operations (WAMO), Nimbus Manufacturing, Cinram, AmeriDisc, KAO Infosystems and Technicolor, among others, have significant investments in DVD replication and related systems. With as Continued on page 48 Lyndon Faulkner, Nimbus

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A decision on whether it can be implemented eral meeting of the British Phonographic In- is not expected until late in the year. dustry July 1, Garnett pointed out that the The IFPI's second commitment is in the greatest rises in CD production capacity form of Iain Grant. A former chief super- 'Se , ate. , ,exc P.,. were occurring in countries with little or intendent in the anti -narcotics depart- plLASTIC SURGERY Two t hin s no local demand for discs. ment of the Hong Kong police, Grant 555-504 He cited , with the capacity to became the IFPI's first director of anti - 00 $19. D U A MILLION FOR spec produce 250 million discs per annum but piracy at the beginning of this month. His r says "If you don't look eat ab yo u don t a domestic market estimated by IFPI of 20 1 objective is to hit pirate production before *Does not include anesthesia. million CDs; Bulgaria, with a 45 million pirate productions hit the streets. annual capacity and no discernable local The third arm of the IFPI's strategy is, Samuel MD Skim on market; , with a 15 million capacity simply, intellect and imagination, and it is the .. o, In audio manufacturing, less money doesn't and a negligible local market; , with a organization's imaginative solutions to the problem meane See ..,,',.. mean more value - it just means your project capacity of 45 million and 3 million discs sold local- that are likely to have the most impact on legitimate doesn't look or sound as good, and takes longer AUDIO ly; and Hong Kong, now under Chinese control, replicators. MANUFACTURING At Makers, we your with 28 CD plants capable of making 60 million discs In his BPI speech, Garnett warned that the intelli- 01 5G ' to make. oDisc money guarantee Cheap -O- Disc ...... annually for a city that buys only 15 million CDs a gence of pirates should not be underestimated. WE'LL BEAT ANY PRICE! nc We don't skimp when it comes to year. "These are clever people," he stated, "and we have Call re for our complete packages de r ete your CDs. Neither should you. In recent months, Garnett has increasingly allud- to be more clever than they are." 'Complete packages don't inclu ting, CO, film, color separations, or pr'n ° °' FREE CATALOG! ed to IFPI's desire to target manufacturers of pirate Such was the pirates' cleverness, he said, that 8, product rather than distributors or retailers. He they had turned the legitimate industry's Custom 1- 800 - 468 -9353 ...... _. i argues this is more effective and a more efficient use weapons against it. 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"I see far more prob- ROM were both exact the time they leave the mastering "We had never heard of this sort lems with CDs than I ever saw clones of the master - facility. She finds problems signif- of thing before," recalls Merchant. with [vinyl] records," he says. "It's that CDs were all just icant enough to halt replication, "It used to be the record compa- not funny anymore. And the zeros and ones, just duplication and release in as nies' job, and everyone assumed it record labels regard you as the data," he says. "It's much as 30( of the projects she's still was. The problem was that, in enemy when you want to bring turning out to be a involved w t I i the age of digital and mass manu- [an independent quality- control wrong assumption, facture of CDs, the record compa- source] in, because they don't but one that's still STILL WATERS RUN DEEP nies started believing that they have the patience to really look at widespread in the Engels was retained to do QC didn't need quality control, that it what they accomplish for us and industry." on the Bee Gees' most recent was all a matter of clones and ones for them." Engels prevented reversed channels on "Pop." BMG has now release, "Still Waters," co- and zeros. But man, that really Padgham, who notes that he has done a series of such produced by Arif Mardin, Russ made Bob Ludwig's famous on more than one occasion shared ultimately hurts an artist's sales. symposia in Nashville, with vari- Titelman, David Foster and Hugh quote- Never turn your back on the cost of bringing Cheryl Engels which is no good for either the ous replicators bringing down Padgham. John Merchant, studio digital' -turn out to be incredibly onto a project, says that Eth- artist or the label." discs replicated using a variety of manager at Middle Ear, the Bee true. There are so many subtle but eridge's Australian test cassettes Mastering engineer Glenn mastering methods. While BMG Gees' semi -private studio in dramatic ways that digital can go were "unplayable" and that En- Meadows concurs. "Years ago, the does not specify a particular meth- Miami, says Engels was recom- wrong. But the labels' perception gels' work saved them in that mar- record labels used to have a more odology at this point, Vaccarelli mended to the band by producer was, `Hey, it's digital. Everything's ket. "[The test cassettes there] direct connection with mastering says that the label has implement- Hugh Padgham just before the a perfect copy.' The labels just were dreadful," he says. "And that houses and pressing plants," he ed some changes into its produc- explains. "There would always be tion operations, including asking test pressings before mass pressing replication plants for production - would be allowed to begin. You line test pressings on major releas- don't see nearly as much of that es, something the label had not anymore." done before. Various replication manufac- NEW AWARENESS turers have come to these sym- If you're not The fact that some artists and posia, each bringing test press- producers have turned to outside ings of various mastering and sources for QC has reawakened manufacturing techniques in an buying your record companies and replication attempt to widen the dialogue compact discs facilities-both of which have been among the parties involved. One A slump in U.S. music sales, directly from combined with an o,ercapaci LUIROPADISIK... tined and more Leenly competí. five CD.replication industry, ...we'd like to has resulted ín a heí htened congratulate awareness of musíc.CD quality. pressured by flat sales, downward of the leaders is Cinram, whose you on having price pressure and increased com- U.S. holdings president and CEO petition-to the issue. "Two years David Rubenstein agrees that ago, I predicted that the CD busi- both replicators and label pro- ness was going to be in serious duction departments have had money to burn. trouble, based on what I saw as a their awareness of the difference huge overcapacity developing in between music and ROM prod- the industry; no way was there ucts raised significantly in recent going to be an increased level of months. "We were always a quali- demand that would be able to ty house, as are many of the other Most compact disk "manufacturers" are OUR SERVICES INCLUDE: keep up with that," says Robert major replicators," he says. "The Dobbin, CEO and co- founder of thing is, we've been learning that actually middlemen. You place your order CD-AUDIO REPLICATION CD Associates (CDA), which makes there may be special require- with them, they place your order with us, CD-ROM REPLICATION CD-analysis equipment. 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EUROPEAN EXPERIENCE AmericDisc Inc. and European MPO have invested more than $4 million in DVD -replication equip- ment, with the first DVD demo orders produced in early March in Europe for Thomson Consumer Electronics and TF1 Production, among others. AmericDisc's Mo- desto, Calif., plant will produce its first DVD disks this September, with combined start -up capacity of 150,000 DVD Video and ROM "There's no reason why the homevideo industry shouldn't expe. rience the same lift in sales From DVD.Video as the music indus. try did from CDAudio." Frank LoVerme Warner Media Services

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50 BILLBOARD SPOTLIGHT BILLBOARD AUGUST 30. 1997 www.americanradiohistory.com DVD -ROM "was the buzzword at the show, and everybody is excit- ed. There's also the recognition by software developers that author- ing and premastering are far more complex than for CD -ROM. Our business is currently 90% DVD -Video to 10% DVD -ROM, but it could change to as high as 50/50 by 1998, depending on how fast software developers shift over to DVD- ROM." KAO Infosystems, with six North American plants, put in a 5,000- square -foot expansion for DVD production in Fremont, Calif, with first discs off the lines in May, according to Jim Boyer, VP, multimedia services. "Our Tochigi plant in Japan, north of Tokyo, started DVD replication early this year," he reports, "and we currently have capacity for 500,000 units a month, running about 50% DVD -Video and 50% DVD -ROM. We installed our own on -site studio to provide author- ing, conversion, and pre- and post - production services, and we added another studio in Amprior, Ont., near Ottawa, to service the Can- adian market, in May." Boyer says he saw a dramatic change in his customers' attitude toward DVD starting in early June. "We're get- ting a lot more inquiries, and I've been asked for more technical pre- He's waiting sentations," he notes. "The interest level is starting to ramp up to for your where production will be mean- ingful in 1998. At the same time, I newest release. think DVD and CD will coexist, as some applications don't require the `robustness' of DVD." Technicolor has invested in excess of $8 million to set up its first DVD facility at the Camarillo, Calif., plant, according to Lanny Raimondo, president, packaged media business. "We're joining with our sister company, Complete Post in Hollywood, to offer total one -stop service to our clients," he says. "This adds DVD (MPEG2) compression and authoring capa- bilities to our mastering, manufac- turing and distribution services." With the first DVD product off the lines last month, Technicolor has the capacity to produce 40 million CDs and CD -ROMs a year, plus 5 million to 6 million DVD discs with the initial investment. "DVD -Video will clearly `carry' the introduction of the new format," Raimondo observes. "DVD -ROM will become the `bulk' of the product and will provide the legs of the long-term success of the format." "There's no reason why the It's a good thi9g Nimbus works fast. home -video industry shouldn't experience the same lift in sales At Nimbus, we understand that you have some pretty tough customers. from DVD -Video as the music That's why we specialize in meeting even the tightest deadlines. You see, at industry did from CD- Audio," observes Frank LoVerme, VP, Nimbus, we offer a wide range of services that include flexible scheduling, sales, advanced media, at Warner enhanced CDs, discs and alternative packaging. What's more, Media Services, speaking for him- self but expressing the feelings of we're the masters of last minute re- mixes. Which means we can complete many industry leaders. "I think your job even when you need a new rele.3se "yesterday ". So when you can't we'll sell a lot of movies on DVD, and it only gets better with a large afford to wait, call Nimbus for CD manufacturing in the US or UK. We keep screen TV /PC like Gateway's your deadlines. And you, in turn, keep your toughest customers happy. Destination and new models from RCA (Thomson) and Compaq, among others. As the installed base of DVD -ROM drives reaches 2 million to 3 million homes, the vxibvs games industry will make a huge manufactaring inc. transition. By early 1998, it's likely that every new PC that would have had a CD -ROM drive will have a The CD manufacturer independents depend on. DVD -ROM drive. It's a no -lose 'Jember of proposition for the consumer and East Coast Sales (800) 451 -8725 or (201) 379 -2890 bodes well for our replication West Coast Sales (800) 625 -3723 or (310; 769 -6660 IVA/RD industry."

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The packaging pool they are evaluat- ranges from WAMO's "Snapper ing," says David Pack," which houses titles from all Rubenstein, presi- Erick Hansen, Optical Disc Media Warner's DVD titles (above) come in "Snapper Packs" (below) of the Warner -distributed labels, dent and CEO of to the clear plastic Atnaray box Cinram. 'At some juncture, 1 `fcxlay. most independent repli- fin all these packages -to do that being touted by the Sony labels to would assume within a year, each cators and manufacturers are would be very expensive," he says. a combo box endorsed by Simitar studio will settle on its own choice, turning out jewel -box packaging "It is our hope that somewhere Entertainment to several versions and maybe there will be a stan- for DVD titles, as well as several along the line more yoluni of the jewel box. However, only a dard and maybe there won't. In other types. And the format's would be going to one package, few of the selections-the ones the beginning, it is more impor- newest cheerleader, Universal and then we would go automated that are being used by the compa- tant for tlic studios to have a sep- Studios, is considering endorsing for that package. Until then, we nies that have the majority of arate iclintity in the market." a jewel -box size pack. But there is have a slightly higher cost to put all these packages out on the shelf:" At Cinram, which in August will jack up its DVD capacity to 300,000 units per month, the cur- rent DVD packaging story is a familiar one. "We do a great deal of special packaging already, so we have a large department set up to Are Your a tide building against a jewel -box- do manual packaging" says only DVD presentation, and the Rubenstein. "Other than the jewel Video Software Dealers Assn. has box, we are treating every [DVD] come out with specs that are the configuration as a special configu- same width as a standard VHS ration. Certainly, it costs more to box, but much thinner, to accom- do something manually rather modate the DVD disc. than automate it, but it is not a Recorded "Our clients want to differenti- problem." ate between DVD and CD, and Optical Disc has settled on this is difficult to do with a jewel somewhat of a packaging compro- box," says Erick Hansen, CEO of mise for now. "I'he company last Optical Disc Media, which is capa- month purchased its first piece of ble of churning out 600,000 DVD machinery that automates produc- units per month. He adds that the tion of the Amaray box. However, case of theft of product housed in the equipment also automates CD -R's jewel box is another key sticking jewel -box production, which point with many distributors. serves the company's DVD as well "Our clients are concerned with as CD operations. "We can do 100 pilferage, and it is tough to get the pieces per minute now, so to a cer- other DVD boxes in your pocket." tain degree we are saving money," Hansen says that although the Hansen says. He adds that Warner waters appear crowded with DVD Bros. has approached Optical Disc packaging options, only a few actu- about becoming an authorized Any Good? ally are passing muster. "There are producer of the WAMO packag- only a few acceptable mediums out ing, but he is not taking the bait there now," he says. "Many of for now. 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Sumitomo Plastics Machinery machines as low as 3.6 seconds. featured its new manufacturing However, a machine should be optical -disc molding system com- judged on the number of good patible with CD, CD -ROM, DVD discs it produces each month, with and CD -R, among other formats. the highest yield percentage being (D Mastering Manufacturing Printing Packaging Warehousing Distribution fulfillment MEGASOFT ç As of this past March, the compa- the true bottom line." 54 BILLBOARD SPOTLIGHT BILLBOARD AUGUST 30, 1997 www.americanradiohistory.com I E S F R M A R O U N D T H E W O R L D nternatìonaT H E L A T E S T N E W S A N D V W O Acts EU Piracy Haven's End In Sight U.K. Report Says New Increasing Chart Presence New Luxembourg Law Closes Loophole This story was prepared by Mark BY JEFF CLARK -MEADS imports and pirate product entering the longer prison sentences for convicted Solomons, international editor of Bill- EU there rarely stay within the coun- pirates, Regnier says. The details, board Bulletin. BRUSSELS-The door is about to be try. though, will not be known until the law's shut on the twin threats to the Euro- That spillage of product is made pos- publication. LONDON-Newer artists, those who pean Union's music industry: piracy and sible by a lack of efficacy on the part of When IFPI made its complaint have broken through in the last five parallel imports. the country's authorities -a failure before the European Commission last years, are outselling their longer - New copyright law in Luxembourg that, Regnier believes, the new law will year, it said that the laxity of current established counterparts, according to means the last remaining legitimate go a long way toward correcting. Luxembourg copyright law meant that the fifth U.K. Record Industry Annu- JAMIROQUAI route for parallel She says, "The effect of the new law "between 1 million and 2 million pirate al Survey. imports from the is to give Luxembourg the tools to be CDs enter the EU through the Duchy Eleven of the top 50- selling albums 200 are new, citing early 1997 break- U.S. into the EU is effective against imports and pirate annually." in the U.K. last year were debuts, and throughs by White Town, Chemical to be closed. In product. The authorities will have the IFPI director of operations Mike only one-quarter were by acts whose Brothers, Mark Morrison, and addition, the pi- legal armory to act effectively." Edwards said at the time, "Luxem- first success was more than five years Jamiroquai. rates who have She notes that while Luxembourg has bourg is the last safe haven in the EU ago. By contrast, in 1993, there were (Continued on page 60) taken advantage of longstanding anti -piracy laws, their for an international bootleg business just four top 50 debuts, and "older" lax conditions in this tiny country in the weakness led to a relaxed attitude by that last year cost the legitimate music artists had two -thirds of those. heart of Europe are about to face new the country's authorities toward copy- industry an estimated $500 million." "If this pattern persists," says the Indonesia Makes and potent legislation. right infringement. With the new legal Parallel imports from the U.S. are, report, "it will undermine much of the The passage of the new copyright law weaponry, she says, customs and police until the new legislation is enacted, legal perceived wisdom in the industry, In Collecting in Luxembourg is a response to pres- can be more vigilant at the borders. in Luxembourg if they remain within where the trend in recent years has Strides sure applied by the International Fed- "They will check more shipments of the country. However, as with the pirate been to grant increasingly favourable eration of the Phonographic Industry records, and that helps in finding and product entering the EU through the deals to established U.K. superstars." Performance Fees (IFPI) and EU and U.S. trade authori- fighting pirate product," Regnier says. Luxembourg corridor, parallel imports The survey also points out that most ties. The issue came to a head in Sep- In addition to better policing, the new rarely remain inside this small territo- of the U.K. acts that have recently BY DEBE CAMPBELL tember last year when the IFPI made law should result in higher fines and ry. reached the top half of The Billboard a complaint before the European Com- JAKARTA, Indonesia -Royalty pay- mission against Luxembourg's failure ments, traditionally a thorny subject to implement EU copyright directives here, have begun to climb, according to (Billboard, Oct. 5, 1996). Takes Steps To Boost Exports the Malaysian collection body. However, Those directives have now been Norway while the organization says perfor- adopted by the country's parliament BY KAI ROGER OTTESEN under the auspices of Culture Minister way. It sees Scandinavia and spells it mance payments are increasing steeply, and will become law upon their publi- Turid Birkeland, who has argued that S-W- E- D -E -N." mechanical royalties remain a small cation in the legislature's official OSLO -The first Norwegian music pop and rock could be better promoted He added that "Norway has a good percentage of revenues. gazette. Olivia Regnier, legal adviser at export conference may not have result- by the Norwegian industry and that talent source. I wasn't aware of that," The collecting body, the Indonesian the IFPI office in Brussels, says she ed in as much energy and creativity as lessons could be learned from the suc- and mentioned such artists as Bel Canto Creative Foundation (Yayadan Karya in anticipates that publication before mid- had been hoped, but all parties agree it cess of neighboring Sweden (Billboard, (EMI), Sissel Kyrkjebo (PolyGram), Cipta Indonesia [YKCI]), says that September. was a necessary step toward boosting May 31). and Deepika (BMG). He called for the 1992, only 20% of music users in its tar- Regnier says the practical effect of sales of the country's music abroad. A majority of the attendees at the Norwegian business to have more con- get cities paid royalties at all, a figure the law will been seen in three areas: On Aug. 12, 88 executives from the conference stressed the importance of fidence in its ability and artists. that climbed to 40% the following year the raising of the protection period Norwegian music business met with a establishing strategic alliances, in- Erling Johannessen, director of local and to almost 70% by 1994. from 25 to 50 years; number of trade organizations and creasing the competence and knowl- A &R at PolyGram, called for Norwe- These figures, though, relate to con- the granting to record companies politicians in the Culture Ministry's edge about the individual foreign mar- gian labels to invest in talent, arguing centrated areas of this vast country; if of rental rights and neighboring rights headquarters here. Among the deci- kets, and of leaving behind the in- that "a lot of money is invested in the the nation as a whole was taken into for the first time; and sions made was an agreement to create feriority complex in relation to "big products we are competing with." account, the percentage of those paying the right of labels to control distri- an annual music seminar and to take brother" Sweden. Continued Prior, "My view is that the for music usage would be much smaller. bution of their material in the country. the first steps in setting up a local Two U.K. industry representatives, international markets have never been YKCI maximizes the impact of its While Luxembourg is a tiny mar - music export office. Fundamental Records managing direc- more open [to music from nontradi- resources by focusing on Indonesia's ket-the total population of the Grand The intention of the conference was tor Tim Prior and International Man- tional A &R sources], and there is no major markets-Jakarta, Surabaya, Duchy is less than 400,000 -its land to look at the obstacles the country agers Forum secretary general James reason why it shouldn't happen with Manado, Ujungpandang, Palembang, borders with Germany, France, and faces in the international marketplace Fisher, provided the international view Norway." Bandung, and Jayapura -and is Belgium combined with the free move- and to identify which resources the mu- on Norway. PolyGram Norway managing direc- expanding to include Denpasar and ment of goods within the single Euro- sic industry can apply to the problem. Prior told the attendees, "The inter- tor Jorn Johnsen commented after the Yogyakarta this year, according to GM pean market means that parallel The conference was established national music market doesn't see Nor- (Continued on next page) (Continued on next page)

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BILLBOARD AUGUST 30, 1997 55 www.americanradiohistory.com Billboard's International 1997 International Album Due For `Songs & Visions' Show Buyer's Guide Multi-Artist Concert Also Set For Further Broadcasts BY PAUL SEXTON tribute that began with Braxton's and so on, they've had an hour's "Love Me Tender." rehearsal and picked up a band on the LONDON -TV production company "I must say it was a great success," way. Stewart and [horn arranger] Tribute is planning what chairman says Winwood of the show. "It was a Jerry Hey had been working on these g1IlÌoUrsi, Tony Hollingsworth calls "the first live credit to Tony and all the production arrangements for three months." - album with three weeks of studio team. 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Band and artist rehearsals for the W.& MKS sou., r.. recording and performances that will Looking For' is a song I would never show took place at Olympic Studios in have been seen in 60 countries." have sung, but that was Seal's call, and southwest London. "We made a little The record will commemorate Trib- when we did it, I realized it was a record out of every single song," says Brand ute's "Songs & Vis- great idea. The Levine, "with Lisa Fischer singing ions" live spectacu- crowd was wild, guide vocals. So when the musicians New for lar, which took they made so much [including Nathan East on bass and 1997 place Aug. 16 at noise, and even Vinnie Colaiuta on drums] went to Wembley Stadium friends of mine who play them when the artists arrived here and celebrated are apt to shy away [from Aug. 10, six days before the con- 40 years of rock. A from showbizzy cert], they could switch easily from slew of internation- things seemed to 'Keep The Faith' to `Kiss From A al stars performed, enjoy it." Rose.' " including Jon Bon STEWART International Levine relishes the prospect of Jovi, , broadcasters have making a live record of the project. All Toni Braxton, and Seal, as well as rights to a second airing of the show of the artists' rehearsal performances best -selling Japanese artist Yazawa. to coincide with the record's release, were also recorded, "so there's any Over 50 Hollingsworth, the executive pro- which Hollingsworth says will come number of possibilities," he says. "But ducer of the show, says "Songs & either in November or early 1998. He I still think the ones from the night countries Visions" was aired live on TV in 20 is negotiating a label deal, and a char- are the ones to use." He is now pro- More than countries, in in 1..°°.. °...IT. listed chiefly Europe, and 24 ity element is planned in which 50% of ducing the show for further broadcast. 16,000 listings nations on radio. Deals in other major artist royalties will be donated to an "The way they dealt with the pro- markets are now being finalized for as- yet -undecided cause. ject as a repertory company was post-produced TV and radio versions. Musical director for the event was great," he continues. "I think [the "I didn't want to close those deals record veteran Stewart Levine, known artists' management and labels] are [in Germany, France, Italy, Japan, and for his work with , Sly & going to encourage rather than dis- elsewhere] till we'd done the show," he the Family Stone, and many others. courage an album. When you have Rod notes, "because I. was absolutely con- "We needed the discipline of a record Stewart and Mary J. Blige dueting on fident that it was much stronger than producer," says Hollingsworth of the 'Nothing Compares 2 U,' I don't know it read on paper." choice. "So often when you see per- anyone that wouldn't want to have -hour edit of the 150- minute- formances by artists at awards shows that." plus show was screened that night by Fox in the U.S., while BBC1 in the If you're interested in joining those well- connected folks whc do du: U.K. gave "Songs & Visions" a promi- INDONESIA MAKES STRIDES big deals, make the big money, and have the big fun ir: the music nent 21/2-hour slot the same evening. Hollingsworth says the Fox transmis- (Continued front preceding page) and video business, we suggest that you order your own p'z' of sion "was designed to be a flagship Candra Darusman. Since smaller collection is hindered by the industry. Billboard's 1997 International Buye:'s Guide before this y°-,ar's prey event in that market," leading to a cities' understanding of copyrights "It'll take another three or four years run is completely sold out. longer broadcast later. He expects the remains low, he says, they will be a sec- to restructure the local music industry concert to be broadcast in 60 countries ondary focus. "We cannot force them if to fully prepare for them. Since we deal IBG '97 brings you record labels, music publishers, "NI- olesalen within three months. they don't fully understand the idea," within the existing structure, it's hard and distributors, manufacturers, service and supply ccinpanies, Before a live audience close to Wem- Darusman comments. to apply the international system." home video companies, public reliations firms, schools. entertain- bley's 72,000 capacity, the show began YKCI bases its royalty rate on inter- Royalties in Indonesia are based on with Stewart sharing the stage with national standards modified for local the Copyright of 1982, updated in ment attorneys, tape duplicators. compact disc plar_ts aid an Mt Mary J. Blige, Steve Winwood, and conditions, and administers rights for 1987. But authors' royalty collection audio books section that has been doubled in size. PLis, you'L Chaka Khan for a version of "Papa songs by local and foreign artists and began only in 1990 with the foundation find more than 50 pages of informative ads, and an ertile section Was A ." It then moved composers used by Indonesian compa- of YKCI. Copyright law violations of manufacturing specification charts on blank tape backward one or two years at a time nies. carry maximum penalties of seven with single- and multi-artist covers of YKCI collected $200,000 in royalties years in prison and a $42,000 fine. With IBG '97, you will be able to: key songs, matched with iconic images in 1991 and nearly $700,000 in 1994. YKCI began collecting performance Reach record buyers worldwide a_ retail and distributors of each period. Performances includ- Last year's royalties totaled $1.4 mil- royalties through a census, monitoring importers /exporters. ed Seal and Blige's duet of his "Kiss lion, of which 90% was for performing songs played on radio and television, From A Rose," Blige and Stewart's rights. Darusman estimates a better according to Darusman, but station Find the telephone number, fax or E -Mail number of companies take on the Sinéad O'Connor hit balance of payments this year. reports are also an important part of the throughout the world. "Nothing Compares 2 U," and Khan Warner/Chappell Asian regional mix. He comments, though, "It's impos- Get specifications on blank media inclusive of blank tape iad diskettes. and k.d. lang's "Every Breath You director Harry Hui says a recent sible to be accurate. It would cost a for- Find manufacturers of jewel boxes and other service aid supply Take." agreement accounting for 1996 tune, but we try to reach an estimate by, organizations. Other highlights were Seal and Indonesia sales has paid off well, with for instance, giving the composers com- Steve Winwood's "I Still Haven't the major labels paying publishers July pensation for certain conditions." Locate a publisher who may have interest in your catabg a-iel/or spific Found What I'm Looking For "; 23. copyright. an For the royalty payment growth Artists are typically paid under a flat interpretation of "Like A Rolling shown by YKCI, however, Hui says, it system with a one -time advance, losing This is the kind of information that can put you at :he top of tie Stone" by Seal, Robert Palmer, and is important to note that "the driver the opportunity for royalties if the industry. And, best of all, it casts just $125 (plus ship9ing/t m- Jon Bon Jovi; and, on the 20th anniver- has been only in performance royal- music is a hit. "We try to recognize the sary of his death, an Elvis Presley ties." The executive adds that YKCI problem from the producer's side, set- dling), which is practically noth=ing when stag- compared to the has done "a very good job on the per- ting up a fair method to measure the gering cost of gathering this information on your 3wr_- particular- formance side. Their ability to license mechanical right through accurate cas- ly when you consider that the guide is constantly being updEed NORWAY TAKES STEPS on the performance side of things has sette returns," he says, adding that been great." producers sometimes take back unsold by our research teams in both the U.S. and Europe. (Continued from preceding page) Establishing a culture of mechanical cassettes after releasing them even if conference, "If the Ministry can come royalty payment in the country re- the composer is paid in advance. FOR FASTEST SERVICE CALL up with new ways of supporting music mains slow and difficult. While the con- YKCI consults with the Indonesian export, we think that is positive, but cept of royalty payments is strongly Producers Assn. and the Organization (800) 344.7119. In NJ (908) 363.4156. there aren't any indications of that. The supported by ASIRI, the local group- of Indonesian Recording Artists, Or send check/money order for $125 plus $6 S &H ($13 for ircerna- minister, however, shows an under- ing of the International Federation of Arrangers, and Composers (Persatu- for our music, which is tional orders) with this ad to: Billboard Directories. '.O. Box 2016, standing our the Phonographic Industry, a source an Artis, Pencipta Lagu dan Penata bread and butter." says, "The irony is that ASIRI repre- Musik Rekaman Indonesia [PAPPRI]) Lakewood, NJ 08701. Please add appropriate sales tax in r-Y, NJ, BMG Norway managing director sents the record companies, the ones on a regular basis to increase artists' PA, IL & in U S. CA, TN, MA, DC. Orders payable `.ands cnly. Elly Joys agrees with Johnsen, stating, that could move the mechanicals issue understanding of the system. PAP- All safes are final. "It's good to have started the dialogue that much further that much more PRI's role is to educate and improve BCBG3126 so that the industry can receive the help quickly ... but it doesn't." artist professionalism, while YKCI and support it needs." Darusman says mechanical rights plays the copyright watchdog.

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I2 TITAS ACÚSTICO WEA newsline... PRA CONTRARIAN BO SQ PRA CONTRARIAR St Comet Award Winners BRAG fA VARIOS A IMANABA MTV EUROPE'S HAMBURG -BASED CENTRAL SERVICE is to increase its Ger- BY DOMINIC PRIDE Musikmarkt and Musik Woche. SOM LIVRE from four hours to 12 hours per day starting Sony Music Europe president Paul IS LEGO URBANA UNA NOVA OERACAN man- language programming EMI 1. move PopKomm, MTV Cen- COLOGNE -Queen was honored with Russell was a guest at the ceremony Sept. Announcing the at II SPICE DIMS SPICE tral managing director Michael Oplesch said that the sta- the Lifetime Achievement Award at and gave it his endorsement. "I was at VIRGIN Awards, which the show two years ago, and it's 17 METIMNO AO VIVO tion had won around 30% more viewers when it introduced the third annual Comet POLYGRAM - more than two years in that its current level of local language content in March, but took place Aug. 15 here during Pop advanced 11 TONI BRAXTON SECRETS that "four hours is not enough." The channel will launch Komm. Band members Brian May and time," he says. "Dieter [Gorny, Viva BMG and his team are II PLANET HEMP OS CAES LABIUM MSS ... two German -language shows as part of the expansion: Roger Taylor were on hand to pick up managing director] SONY held at to be congratulated." "MTV Sports "-a weekly 30- minute program featuring their award at the ceremony, 11 RICA NEGRA VOLUME extreme and street sports such as -and "50:1," a daily count- As to whether the awards give acts RGE n BANDA EVA AO VIVO down of 50 music videos linked by a central theme. Presented by VJ Christ- POLYGRAM ian Ulmen, "50:1" will kick off Sept. 1 with a 1990s greatest -hits show, fol- 12 LUNDRO A LEONARDO VOLUME it CONTINENTAL lowed by programs featuring summer hits, beach videos, and boy bands. 13 CNICLETE CON BANANA É FESTA Existing content that will be localized includes afternoon shows "The Big Pic- BMG "; MTV has yet to reveal its plans 14 THALIA EN mTASIS ture," "Stylissimo," and "Weekend Edition EMI

for the channel's morning programming. 1S ROBERTA MIRANDA VIDA CHRISTIAN LORENZ POLYGRAM a sales boost, Russell notes that the 15 DJAVAN SONGBOOK have an but lack the LUMIAR AMERICAN PERFORMING RIGHT GROUP BMI plans to distribute new music Comets effect 17 GRUPO SENSACAD PRA SE ENCOMIMR... from Europe and Australia to college radio in the U.S. It will service a 30- SETLUR clout of more established awards in CONTINENTAL 11 GRUPO MALICIA SÉTIMO CES minute CD titled "Planet Stereo," including interviews, to U.S. stations start- Europe. "It's not the Brits or the BMG it's ing next month. `By the time records come out on import, it's already too late the Cologne Akropolis venue on the Echos, or even the Victoires yet, as H BANDA MAGNIFICOS NE USA for many college stations," says BMI European VP Phil Graham. city's outskirts. on one cable channel in Germany." SONY It HANSON MIDDLE OF NOWHERE DOMESTIC PRIDE Bono from U2 was also present to There's room for more than one POLYGRAM accept the band's prize for best inter- awards show, says Russell. "In the 21 REPECHE MODE ULTRA PARADOXX GERMAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS GIANT Deutsche Telekom plans to launch a national act. U.K. there's the Brits, the Mercurys, 22 JOAO PAULO E DANIEL VOLUME 1 music -on- demand service. According to a company spokesman, the service Two separate awards took place at , and the Q Awards, to CONTINENTAL T-Online network to link users with a database the event, which was attended by an name a few. They all work on a differ- u MAMA BETHANIA IMITACAO M VIDA will use Deutsche Telekom's EMI itself will be invited audience of industry guests. ent level, and there's no reason why containing information on the titles available, while the music 2$ J. QUEST J. OUEST supplied by record labels through Telekom's ISDN network T-Net. The ser- The Comet Media Awards were this shouldn't be true in Germany." SONY voted on The ceremony was to be shown 25 FERNANDA AIREO RAID K vice will be launched once a framework contract with the International Fed- presented to acts and were EMI Viva. three times over three days on Viva, eration of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has been signed; German IFPI by German cable music station 211 Zt RAMALNO aims mum ACÚSIIEA managing director Peter Zombik confirms that the parties "are in the final The Comet Industry Awards were starting Aug. 22. BMG 27 JON ION JIPE DESTINATION AMYNMEME stages of negotiations." given to industry figures for their Among winners of the national POLYGRAM achievement in the German market prizes were Tic Tac Toe (best nation- 21 ETAUASAMIA LUZ DO RETAJO EMI POLYGRAM GERMANY AFFILIATE MOTOR MUSIC has split its dance imprint and were chosen by a jury consisting al act), Mr. President (best dance act), ri SOAKIRA PIES DESCALZOS Urban into two labels, effective immediately. Urban Tracks will focus on of national and international media, Nana (best newcomer), and Sabrina SONY dancefloor productions, servicing DJs and clubbers with the latest sounds, including Billboard, Music & Media, Setlur (best video for "Du Liebst Mich BO VARIOS GOOD TIMES IN SOM LIVRE while Urban Empire will develop "pop acts whose roots go back to the dance - and German trade magazines Der (Continued on page 60) 31 MILTON NASCIMENTI NASCINEMTO floor" but appeal to a wider audience. Headed by product manager Katrin WEA will handle repertoire from distributed labels includ- 72 CASSIA ELLER VENENO AMTINANOTONIA Erichsen, Urban Tracks POLYGRAM ing Strictly Rhythm and Ultra from New York and Germany's Superstition, 33 JOANNA EN SAMBA CANCRO Kontor, and Le Petit , as well as dance product from U.K. -based part - Growth In E. Europe Varied BMG SA SANDRA DE SA A LOA SADE QUEM EU SOU PolyGram -owned ffrr; key artists to be handled by Urban Tracks include Ital- WEA

ian -house Robert Miles, Talla 2XLC, and Ultra Naté. Helge UNAN CON MEL VOLONE S dream pioneer Markets In Many Stages ZR Existing FOR ALL Haas will product -manage Urban Empire, whose roster includes domestic Lappe. BO MUTNOZ COIL LEIN EN TODO CANTO 01... artists Nana and Mark'Oh and international acts on the ffrr, London, and This story was prepared by Emmanuel Europe president Manfred SOBO ZOOM Motown imprints, such as Armand Van Helden and the All Saints. Legrand, editor in chief of Music & Lappe identified two main types of 37 MEORITUDE JR MOSSO NINNO CHRISTIAN LORENZ Media. countries in East Europe -those that EMI St RITA LEE SANTA RITA DE RAMPA are in an advanced development stage POLYGRAM GERMAN MUSIC TV STATION VIVA has forged COLOGNE -The harmonization of and have stabilized their economies 21 ELM RANAUO RIAOQUE BRAG Bravo. Viva Western Europe's economies is being and implemented adequate copyright an alliance with teen magazine 41 PROMO ME FAT OF ME LAND managing director Dieter Gorny says that reflected in the East of the continent legislation and those that are still PARADOXX by a greater fragmentation of the mar- struggling to overcome an unstable 41 BURIEL, 0 PENSADOR OUESRA- CAIECA the companies will "cooperate in the devel- SONY V3VA was told. political and economic situation. opment of new, digital -media formats." kets, a PopKomm panel 42 DEBORAH BLANCO UNICAMENTE Claus- Dieter Grabner, Bravo group manag- The increasing differences among The first group encompasses such VIRGIN Hungary, the u VARIOS PLANETA DD SN150 ing director at publisher Bauer Verlag, hopes that the pact will "extend Bravo's the record markets in the former com- countries as Poland, EMI Republics, and appeal to an older audience." munist nations of Eastern Europe are Czech and Slovakian 44 CELINE DION FAWNS INTO YOU directly affecting the way the music Slovenia (Billboard, Aug. 23). The sec- SONY 41 GILBERTO OIL IMANTA GERMAN ROCK BAND FURY IN THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE business operates in the region, and ond encompasses Romania, Bulgaria, WEA has signed to Spin Records, an imprint owned by global players have to take a local the Baltic States, the former Yugo- 41 TARINS CASA OA BOSS* Cologne -based EMI Electrola. Previously with indie approach to the music business in slavia, Croatia, Ukraine, Belarussia, POLYGRAM "The fur- 47 KATIMOUELE MUSSE DOS SQNNU EMI SPV, based in Hannover, Fury has built a strong Eastern European countries. Russia, and the CIS states. CONTINENTAL domestic following in Germany through extensive After the collapse of the Berlin Wall ther you go east, the worse the situa- Al VARIOS PLAT UST JOVEN MN and the political changes in the region, tion gets," said Lappe. FIELDZZ touring. MI MANISA MONTE MSULHINHO SIM DOMINIC PRIDE some countries, such as Poland and the Bianka Kortlan, who was director of EMI Czech Republic, have been able to the International Federation of the 11 PLACIBO DOMINGO DE MI ALMA LATINA 2 EMI THE ATTITUDE of radio professionals and legislators toward Digital Audio develop a sound music industry, while Phonographic Industry's East Europe Broadcasting (DAB) has changed from mildly euphoric to lukewarm over the others, such as Romania and the for- office in Poland until the end of August, past 12 months. Heralded as a chance to introduce more cutting -edge music mer U.S.S.R. Republics, are still fail- argued that legislation, which provides i n into Germany's radio landscape at last year's PopKomm, DAB got the thumbs - ing to build a legitimate business, the a proper frame for a legitimate indus- m a g a z e down during a Music & Media panel at this year's show. The panel members panel Window on the East European try, and business factors, such as the All about CDs in criticized the delays in the development of commercially available receivers Market was told. presence of foreign investors in the the Brazilian Market. and unanimously called DAB's ability to transfer additional visual informa- "We used to talk about Eastern music industry, are key to the develop- tion as its strongest selling point. `After almost two years of DAB pilot pro- Europe as a homogeneous region, but ment of countries in the region. ESPETACULO EDITORA jects, there are only 2,000 DAB receivers in Germany at present," said we are now confronted with a variety Kortlan said that such countries as Rua Vieira de Moraes, 859 Antenne Bayern PD Victor Worms, "and all of them are installed in cars." of countries with different political and Poland have benefited from the input 04617 -02 - São Paulo - SP - Brazil CHRISTIAN LORENZ legal systems and different stages of and presence of international compa- Tel (55-11)531-2155 / Fax: (55-11)530-1519 economical development," stated nies, which have helped stabilize the E -mail: sucessocd @espetaculo.com.br i Warner Music International East (Continued on page 60)

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MUSIC EUROCHART 08/20/9 & MEDIA SPAIN (AFYVE/ALEF MB) 08/13/97 GLOBAL THIS LAST THIS LAST WEEK WEEK SINGLES WEEK WEEK SINGLES 1 1 I'LL BE MISSING YOU PUFF DADDY & FAITH 1 6 ANONIM ANONIM MAX EVANS (FEAT. 112) BAD BOY /ARISTA 2 NEW PLASTIC THE SECRET KEY OF LIFE CNR ARCADE MUSIC PULSE 2 2 MEN IN BLACK WILL SMITH COLUMBIA 3 7 GREENSLEEVES (MANGAS VERDES) TWO DEE- 3 4 (UN, DOS, TRES) MARIA RICKY MARTIN TRISTAR THE LATEST MUSIC NEWS FROM AROUND THE PLANET 4 3 EVERYBODY (BACKSTREET'S BACK) BACKSTREET JAYS FEATURING MEDIEVAL MAX

BOYS JIVE 4 1 ATTACK VOL. 1 PASTIS & BUERNI DJ'S AT W -MAX 5 6 SAMBA DE JANEIRO BELLINI VIRGIN 5 9 VIRTUAL EXPERIENCE COCOOMA GINGER EDITED BY DAVID SINCLAIR 6 5 MMMBOP HANSON MERCURY 6 NEW MMMBOP HANSON POLYGRAM 7 NEW C U WHEN U GET THERE COOLIO FEAT. 40 THEVZ 7 RE REMIXES EX -3 GINGER TOMMY BOY INDIA/PAKISTAN: One of the outstanding achievements of renowned Pakistani qawwali singer Nus- 8 10 FREE ULTRA NATE BLANCO Y NEGRO 8 7 ALANE WES SAINT GEORGE/COLUMBIA rat Fateh Ali Khan (Global Music Pulse, Billboard, Aug. 2) was his ability to break down musical DEL MAR ENERGY 52 MAX 9 NEW BITCH MEREDITH BROOKS CAPITOL 9 NEW CAFE and political barriers. As well as his contribution to East /West fusion, the 10 9 I WANNA BE THE ONLY ONE ETERNAL FEAT BEBE 10 RE VELOCITY III D.J. KONIC BIT and WINANS IST AVENUE/EMI singer /composer did his bit toward healing the rift between Muslim Pakistan ALBUMS Aug. 16 (see ALBUMS Hindu India. One of his last major projects, realized before his death 1 2 JARABE DE PALO LA FLACA VIRGIN film "Aur Pyar Ho Gaya" (And i 1 PRODIGY THE FAT OF THE LAND xL story, page 10), was the soundtrack to the Indian 2 1 ANA TORROJA PUNTOS CARDINALES ARIOLA 2 NEW BACKSTREET BOYS BACKSTREET'S BACK JIVE Love Happened), which was scheduled to open at cinemas on India's Independence 3 3 MONICA NARANJO MONICA NARANJO EPIC 3 2 ANDREA BOCELLI ROMANZA SUGAR/POLYDOR Day, Aug. 15. The film stars Aishwarya Rai and has already gained significant BOY 4 6 NEK NEK WEA 4 3 PUFF DADDY & THE FAMILY NO WAY OUT BAD released in India in May by 5 4 SPICE GIRLS SPICE VIRGIN 5 7 PRODIGY THE FAT OF THE LAND CAROLINE ESPANA impetus thanks to the success of Khan's soundtrack, 1 6 NEW MEREDITH BROOKS BLURRING THE EDGES CAPI- 6 5 ANA BELEN MIRAME ARIOLA HMV/EMI. Since then, the company has reported album sales of million units, TOL 7 4 BACKSTREET BOYS BACKSTREET BOYS JIVE/VIRGIN with videos enjoying heavy rotation on numerous TV shows. Without question, 7 5 HANSON MIDDLE OF NOWHERE MERCURY 8 9 THE CORRS FORGIVEN, NOT FORGOTTEN DRO into national and international release. "Aur 8 6 RADIOHEAD OK COMPUTER PARLOPHONE sales will receive a further boost once the movie goes RE DOVER DEVIL CAME TO ME SUBTERFUGE 9 RE TEXAS WHITE ON BLONDE MERCURY 9 Pyar Ho Gaya" is unique in that it is the first time an Indian film has featured music entirely writ- 10 8 U2 POP ISLAND 10 RE HANSON MIDDLE OF NOWHERE POLYGRAM ten by a Pakistani artist. Having composed music for other singers on the soundtrack, Khan performs two songs himself, including the title track, rendered in characteristic style, infusing a classical MALAYSIA (RIM) 07/29/97 (Portugal /AFP) 08/19/97 sound with modern -day appeal. Another song performed in the style of a traditional qawwali acts THIS LAST HIS LAST as a backdrop for a wedding sequence, in which Khan and his accompanying musicians appear on WEEK Wmc ALBUMS WEEK Wm( ALBUMS screen, a trend among current Indian films that has so far guaranteed both strong soundtrack sales SONY NYAY 1 2 911 THE JOURNEY EMI 1 1 PAULO GONZO QUASE TUDO and box -office success. SHUSHAN 2 3 DR ALBAN THE VERY BEST OF 1990 -1997 BMG 2 2 THE KELLY FAMILY ALMOST HEAVEN EMI

EMI 3 BACKSTREET BOYS BACKSTREET'S BACK EMI 3 1 VARIOUS ARTISTS MEGAROCK BALLADS NEW SWEDEN: R &B /jazz /funk /hip -hop collective Blacknuss has extra reason to be happy for the suc- 4 4 HANSON MIDDLE OF NOWHERE POLYGRAM 4 3 DELFINS SABER A MAR BMG cess in America of singer /songwriter Robyn's single "Do You Know (What It Takes)." Black - 5 NEW VARIOUS ARTISTS METAL 605 LIFE RECORDS 5 7 RIO GRANDE RIO GRANDE EMI nuss' sophomore album, "Allstars" (BMG), includes the popular R &B cut "Roll With Me" featur- 6 9 RAIHAN PUJI -PUJIAN WARNER 6 NEW GABRIEL O PENSADOR QUEBRA -CABECA solo ing Robyn. "A year ago when we heard her for the first time, we couldn't believe it," says Blacknuss 7 6 SITI NURHALIZA AKU CINTA PADAMU SUWAH 7 4 SKUNK ANANSIE STOOSH VIRGIN member Martin Jonsson enthusiastically about the teenager's vocal talent. Out on promo disc ENTERPRISE 8 NEW HANSON MIDDLE OF NOWHERE POLYGRAM last year, the track may yet be given a commercial release as a single. But if not, Blacknuss still 8 7 ZIANA ZAIN PUNCAK KASIH BMX 9 5 ANTONIO VARIACOES 0 MELHOR DE ANTONIO hopes it will generate extra interest in the album's international release in the U.S. and in the U.K., 9 8 XPDC BRUTAL LIFE VARIACOES EMI where Robyn is relaunching her career with the July 28 release of "Do You Know (What It 10 RE XU MEI JING JING CAI 13 SHOU WHAT'S MUSIC 10 9 PRODIGY THE FAT OF THE LAND MVM Takes)." KWAKU

Research) 08/14/97 SWEDEN (GLF) 08/15/97 DENMARK (IFPI /Nielsen Marketing NETHERLANDS: While and Paul Weller have used street names for their album THIS LAST THS LAST titles-"Abbey Road" and "Stanley Road," respectively -and Scottish rockers G.U.N. co -opted WEEK Wm( SINGLES WEEK WEEK SINGLES a phone number ("0141 632 6326 "), Dutch happy hardcore (aka gabber) group the Party PUFF DADDY & FAITH 1 1 I'LL BE MISSING YOU PUFF DADDY & FAITH 1 1 I'LL BE MISSING YOU Animals have used their E -mail address, party @worldaccess.nl, as the title of their second album EVANS (FEAT. 112) BMG EVANS (FEAT. 112) BMG on Roadrunner's Mokum imprint. Masterminded, as before, by producers Flamman and WILL SMITH sow POLYGRAM 2 2 MEN IN BLACK 2 3 LONELY NANA project has changed course slightly. The half-Eng- 3 3 MMMBOP HANSON POLYGRAM 3 4 MEN IN BLACK WILL SMITH SONY Abraxas, but with a revised group lineup, the 4 NEW C U WHEN U GET THERE COOLIO FEAT 40 THEVZ 4 2 BAILANDO PARADISIO SCANDINAVIAN lish, half-Dutch vocals are more prominent than in the past, while elements of drum'n'bass have WARNER 5 6 SUPER HERO DAZE SONY been incorporated among some of the 16 tracks, notably "Can't Run, Can't Hide." The first two 5 5 ROSES ARE RED AQUA UNIVERSAL 6 9 C U WHEN U GET THERE COOLIO FEAT 40 THEVZ singles are both covers, namely Blondie's "Atomic" and Frank Sinatra's "My Way," which is 6 4 ! PARADISIO CNR EDELPITCH lines to Sid Vicious parody. Although certain " hooligans" have NEW UH LA LA LA ALEXIA K -TEL arranged along similar the 7 7 12 (UN, DOS, TRES) MARIA RICKY MARTIN SONY PARADISIO CNR a too literally, the group members and producers have explicitly dis- 8 9 BAILANDO 8 7 EVERYBODY (BACKSTREET'S BACK) BACKSTREET taken the band's name bit 9 8 EVERYBODY (BACKSTREET'S BACK) BACKSTREET here. Recently seen BOYS VIRGIN sociated themselves from a riot caused at one of their wilder gigs last year BOYS VIRGIN 9 5 ECUADOR SASH! SCANDINAVIAN at a MIDEM Asia showcase, the act, for the second year running, appeared at the RacismBeat 10 RE I WANNA BE THE ONLY ONE ETERNAL FEATUR- 10 NE SAMBA DE JANIERO BELLINI VIRGIN festival Aug. 17 in Spaarnwoude, just outside the city of Haarlem. ROBBERY TILL! ING BEBE WINANS EMI It! ALBUMS ALBUMS is 1 1 ANDREA BOCELLI ROMANZA POLYGRAM POLAND: "Eon," released on the small independent label Slorlce and distributed by Ars Mundi, 1 1 JOHN FOGERTY BLUE MOON SWAMP WARNER 4 AQUA AQUARIUM UNIVERSAL According to the band, the 2 2 PRODIGY THE FAT OF THE LAND MNW 2 the third album by art -rock group Annalist. 3 NEW POUL KREBS KOSMORAMA solY 3 3 SPICE GIRLS SPICE VIRGIN 12 Polish -language songs mark a move away from the complicated ten- 4 NEW BACKSTREET BOYS BACKSTREET'S BACK VIRGIN 4 5 AQUA AQUARIUM UNIVERSAL dencies of its previous albums, `Artemis" (1995) and "Memories" (1994), 5 6 MOONJAM SAXOPHONE SONGS VOL. 2 REPLAY 5 4 ERIC GADD THE RIGHT WAY STRAWBERRY /EDELPITCH pop, and folk elements. The change of 5 THE FAT OF THE LAND MD in favor of more accessible rock, 6 7 HANSON MIDDLE OF NOWHERE POLYGRAM 6 PRODIGY ROV UNIVERSAL found favor with fans of progressive, jazz, and even heavy 7 6 PUFF DADDY & THE FAMILY NO WAY OUT BMG 7 3 TAESKEHOLDET VI SPARKER direction has 8 9 SMURFANA SMURFHITS 2 CNR 8 NEW BIG FAT SNAKE FLAMES MEGA metal, and the first single, "Gdzie Skarb Tam Serce" (Where Is The Trea- 9 8 NO DOUBT TRAGIC KINGDOM UNIVERSAL 9 2 SOULTANS LOVE, SWEAT & TEARS BMG sure, There Is The Heart), has hit the top 30 of Polish Radio 3 and been 10 NEW SARAH BRIGHTMAN /LSO TIMELESS WARNER 10 NEW BOB DYLAN THE BEST OF SONY programmed by many other local radio stations. BEATA PRZEDPELSKA

(Verdens Gang Norway) 08/05/97 (Seura/IFPI Finland) 08/17/97 NORWAY IRELAND: In the last year or so, several nostalgic and spiritual records have enjoyed broad pop- LAST MIS LAST ularity and big sales here. These include "Faith Of Our Fathers" (Lunar), "Chants" by the Monks WEEK WEEK SINGLES MEEK WEEK SINGLES Of Glanstal (Ainm), and "Oro" by Na Casaidigh (the Cassidys) (RTE). The latest such success 1 1 I'LL BE MISSING YOU PUFF DADDY & FAITH 1 1 MATO APULANTA LEVY EVANS (FEAT. 112) BMG is "Heavenly" (Columbia), a beautifully sung, 17-track album of inspirational songs from Dublin 2 2 D'YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? OASIS SONY 2 4 C U WHEN I GET THERE COOLIO FEAT. 40 THEVZ Lisa, and Wendy -who were signed to Sony Ireland after A &R 3 4 VAMOS A LA DISCOTHECA! PARADISIO K -TEL trio the Vards Sisters -Cathy, WARNER in a church when he attended a friend's wedding. 3 3 MEN IN BLACK WILL SMITH SONY 4 NEW THE AGE OF LOVE SCOOTER K-TEL director Olan McGowan heard them singing

I FEAT BEBE Royal 4 2 WANNA BE THE ONLY ONE ETERNAL 5 3 BAILANDO PARADISIO K -TEL The Vards' career has been directed by eldest sister Cathy, a soprano who studied at the WINANS EMI 6 5 I'LL BE MISSING YOU PUFF DADDY & FAITH Irish Academy of Music and the Dublin College of Music. She and Lisa won a duet competition 5 7 BITCH MEREDITH BROOKS EMI EVANS (FEAT. 112) BMG 6 6 I'LL BE THERE FOR YOU THE REMBRANDTS on RTE Radio l's "Gay Byrne Show," and in 1993 the sisters sang with Germany's Bayer Choir WARNER 7 NEW TURN ME ON E -ROTIC EMI in Dublin, which led to an invitation to perform with the choir again in Germany. The album 7 10 TIC, TIC, TAC CHILLI FEATURING CARRAPICHO 8 RE SYNTYNYT KOYHANA TEHOSEKOITIN LEVY includes "The Flower Song" from Delibes' opera "Lakme," Sean O'Riada's "Ag Chriost An Siol" BMG 9 8 LAST NIGHT ON EARTH U2 POLYGRAM 8 8 EVERYBODY (BACKSTREET'S BACK) BACKSTREET (Christ Is The Seed), Schubert's "Ave Maria, "' Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Pie Jesu," and three 10 7 SAMBA DE JANEIRO BELLINI EMI BOYS VIRGIN compositions by modern Irish composer Liam Lawton. KEN STEWART 9 5 BAILANDO PARADISIO ARCADE ALBUMS 10 NEW BITTERSWEET SYMPHONY THE VERVE soar 1 NEW BACKSTREET BOYS BACKSTREET'S BACK EMI FRANCE: While new Socialist Party government has announced a formula that ALBUMS Lionel Jospin's 2 1 PRODIGY THE FAT OF THE LAND SMD residency to some of the thousands of illegal African immigrants, known 1 NEW BOYS BACKSTREET'S BACK VIRGIN should grant right of BACKSTREET 3 3 PRINCESSA CALLING YOU WARNER 2 1 BOB DYLAN THE BEST OF SONY here as les sans papiers (those without papers), their campaign to stay in this country, which 4 2 ALEXIA FAN CLUB solo 3 2 SMURFENE SMURFEHITS 3 ARCADE this time last year with a hunger strike and occupation of a Parisian 5 5 HANSON MIDDLE OF NOWHERE POLYGRAM gained international attention 4 5 AQUA AQUARIUM UNIVERSAL label of top African record pro- 5 3 MEREDITH BROOKS BLURRING THE EDGES EMI 6 4 JOHN FOGERTY BLUE MOON SWAMP WARNER church, continues. As an upbeat reminder, Syllart Productions, the FAT OF THE LAND MD 6 4 PRODIGY THE 7 6 SASH! IT'S MY LIFE K-TEL ducer Ibrahima Sylla, has just released "Sans Papiers Acte II," a compilation featuring sever- 7 9 HANSON MIDDLE OF NOWHERE POLYGRAM 8 7 SENTENCED STORY SPINEFARM al Francophone artists, including Fode Baro, Nyboma, and Tony Chasseur, that pulsates with 8 6 ANDREA BOCELLI ROMANZA POLYGRAM RE U2 POP POLYGRAM KWAKU 9 8 JOHN FOGERTY BLUE MOON SWAMP WARNER 9 joyous soca, soukous, highlife, and merengue rhythms. 10 10 TROSTE & BAERE GREATEST HITS TYLDEN a CO 10 9 PUFF DADDY & THE FAMILY NO WAY OUT BMG

BILLBOARD AUGUST 30, 1997 59 www.americanradiohistory.com International Canada Fearing Cuts An Upbeat `Lullaby' True North To Target Artist's Broader Base BY LARRY LeBLANC recording had so fatigued Fearing that Records] singer /songwriter record- he wanted to record differently. "I ings," says Linden. "We wanted [the TORONTO -Long heralded in Canada wanted [the follow -up] to be very spon- album] to be a little bit rough- edged. for his articulate songwriting, im- taneous," he says. "I wanted to have a Not necessarily to add rough edges to mense guitar skills, and dusky bari- good time making the record." what Stephen does, but to focus on that tone, singer/songwriter Stephen Fear- The first single, "Anything You side of who he is." ing now figures that the climate for his Want," is being issued to Canadian radio Widely criticized in the past for being is better than at any time Monday (25). A video of the track, too dark on previous albums, Fearing previously. directed by Warren Sonoda of Toronto's sounds like a ray of sunshine on "Indus- Hanson Gets Down Under. Mercury Records Australia marked the emergence Fearing's fourth album, "Industrial Black Walk Productions, will follow in trial Lullaby." of Hanson in Australia with commemorative awards acknowledging the double - Lullaby," is being released in Canada mid- September. "For beginners, we're "The Assassin's Apprentice," how- platinum (140,000 sales) success of the single "Mmmbop" and the platinum Sept. 2 by True North Records, dis- concentrating on hot AC and `new' coun- ever, was more upbeat than its murky (70,000 sales) status of the album "Middle Of Nowhere." The label says Aus- tributed by Universal Music Canada. try stations, but we feel we can get air- predecessors: 1988's "Out To Sea" on tralian sales of the album have now topped 110,000. Pictured, from left, are "With bands like Wilco and Beck, the play elsewhere," says Finkelstein. Aural Tradition in Vancouver, which Isaac Hanson, Taylor Hanson, PolyGram Australia group managing director Paul [pop music] barriers are off," says the To set the album up here, Fearing sold 15,000 units, according to Fearing; Dickson, Zachary Hanson, Mercury Australia managing director Mike Allen, and 34- year -old, a 10 -year veteran of Cana- will be doing a national promotional tour and 1990's "Blue Line," recorded for Hanson manager Chris Sabec. da's folk club and festival circuit. in September, with stops in Montreal Rough Trade in the U.K., which he says "What's going on now is marvelous be- (Sept. 4); Ottawa (Sept. 5); Winnipeg, sold about 2,500 copies. cause it goes right back to [top 40] radio Manitoba (Sept. 8); Calgary, Alberta Fearing is slightly bemused by the where you would hear one [musically (Sept. 9); Edmonton, Alberta (Sept 10); suggestion that his songs are more up- QUEEN AND U2 AMONG COMET AWARD WINNERS different] song after another." and Vancouver (Sept. 11 and 12). beat now "The subject matter is dark The foundation of Fearing's diverse There's also (Continued front page 57) talk of a in places, but overall it is a happier album lies with his work last year with fall double -bill tour album [than previous albums], even Nicht" [You Don't Love Me]). Inter- by Viva and Musik Komm, organizer Blackie & the Rodeo Kings, a trio of Canada with Cor- though `The Assassin's Apprentice' was national winners included Aerosmith of the PopKomm trade fair, as well as including Canadian blues and folk gui- ner Muse Records working its way toward slightly con- (best live act), 'N Sync (best newcom- Volkswagen, satellite company Eutel- tarist /producer Colin Linden and singer Laura Smith. juring up the odd smile," he says. er), and Spice Girls (best video for sat, and consumer goods company Junkhouse mainman Tom Wilson. In Finkelstein be- "[Previously] I've found it difficult "Wannabe "). Blna. 1996, the three released the critically lieves that even to write sometimes [while happy], but A Comet Industry Award went to Germany already has one set of acclaimed, richly textured roots album though "High On these songs all came in sort of a rush," Tic Tac Toe A &R executive Axel industry and consumer awards with "High On Hurtin'," a collection of 15 Hurtin' " was not a Fearing continues. "Some of the album Alexander for his work with the mil- the Echos, which are an initiative of songs originally penned by Willie P. FEARING major seller in Cana- was written a week before we went lion- selling trio. Eins Live (part of the German Phono Academy. The Ac- Bennett, one of Canada's most revered da, it significantly into the studio. For example, I wrote Cologne -based broadcaster WDR) ademy's director, Werner Hay, says he folk songwriters. That album was also broadened Fearing's fan base. "The al- `Dog On A Chain' in my car outside of was voted music format of the year. does not believe that the Comets are on True North. bum sold about 12,000 units, which may Tom's house [in Hamilton, Ontario] five Kraftwerk beat former Can member in direct competition with the Echos. Along with sizable airplay of several not appear to be much, but I believe it days before we began recording. I had Irmin Schmidt and dance music pro- "If you look at the target group, our of the album's tracks on Canadian coun- was to a different [audience] than the been listening to Nick Lowe's `The ducer Toni Cottura for the outstand- audience through the [national] try and rock radio and on CMT Cana- 10,000 [to which] Stephen had been sell- Best In Me' [from `The Impossible ing contribution /special jury prize. broadcasters we've had, such as ARD da, the trio was a major hit on Canada's ing," he says. Bird'], which I've been fascinated by, Other winners were Juergen Otter - and ZDF, then it's completely differ- folk festival circuit last summer. Per- Finkelstein is optimistic that "Indus- and I thought, `I really want to write a stein, formerly managing director of ent," Hay says. "It's actually great haps more significant, the three -who trial Lullaby" will attract more radio song like this.'" EastWest Germany, for his marketing that the idea of an awards show made came together because of a common airplay than Fearing's previous efforts. Although Fearing has written with work on Sarah Brightman and Andrea in Germany is being extended and love for Bennett's music -also greatly "Stephen's had a lot of [Canadian] col- others over the years, "Industrial Lul- Bocelli's duet "Time To Say Goodbye." developed, and that German music is influenced each another's music. lege airplay, but he's had little [com- laby" is his first album to feature co- The award for pop event of the year being given another outlet." "Creatively, Blackie & the Rodeo mercial radio] airplay," he says. written songs. They include "Coryan- went to Berlin's Love Parade festival Kings set up a lot of circumstances," " `Expectations' [from `The Assassin's na," with Bennett, and "Anything You and its organizer, Dr. Motte. Assistance in preparing this story was says True North president Bernie Apprentice'], which Sarah McLachlan Want" and the title track, both with The Comet Awards are sponsored provided by Christian Lorenz. Finkelstein, who is also Bruce Cock - sang on, got some [commercial] airplay, Wilson. According to Fearing, the Ben- burn's longtime manager. "Stephen but we hope to build on that now" nett collaboration was by chance, while learned a lot [musically] hanging out Last year, "The Assassin's Appren- Wilson's was deliberate. U.K. REPORT with Tom and Colin. Stephen also tice" was released in Europe on True "Two years ago, Willie and I had (Continued from page 55) played Willie P Bennett's songs over North, distributed by Continental Rec- worked on something else, and when I and over again and got to appreciate a ord Services in the Netherlands, and was writing `Coryanna' this chorus The report, written by Cliff Dane total figure of 211 million pounds certain kind of conciseness, which I released in the U.S. by Cooking Vinyl popped into my head and I went, `Wait a and published by Media Research Pub- ($337.6 million) some 44% ahead of the think you're now hearing on his new Records. "The album was already two second, this is very familiar. Where is it lishing, analyzes published accounts comparable sum in 1995. Major labels album." years old by the time we got it out [in from ?' Anything You Want' and 'Indus- filed by record labels, distributors, and were the main source of this wealth, "With Blackie, we all became close the U.S.]," says Finkelstein. "Still, we trial Lullaby' [were written with] me manufacturers and found that in 1996, contributing 134.4 million pounds ($215 friends," says Linden, who produced got a lot of good press clippings." driving to Tom's house [and] sitting the industry enjoyed its best -ever year million) to the total. "Industrial Lullaby" and is a former While there are no confirmed plans down with blank paper. He's very laid - in terms of profits generated, with the Several indie companies managed to Bennett sideman who today supports to release "Industrial Lullaby" outside back, very comfortable with throwing a significantly increase profitability in Cockburn. "As well, [musically] Tom of Canada, Finkelstein says that he's line in and retracting it if I didn't like it." 1996, though, and chief among these rubbed off on both of us, I rubbed off on "talking with several U.S. labels" about Fearing says that because he moved EASTERN EUROPE was Creation Records, whose profits both of them, and Stephen rubbed off an early 1998 release. The album, he around for much of his life, his musical were boosted 13 -fold by the second on Tom and I." (Continued from page 57) says, will be out in Italy in early '98 on inspiration comes from varied sources. Oasis album, "(What's The Story) It was Linden, while recording "High True North, which is distributed there Born in Vancouver, he lived in Dublin market. "The companies that have Morning Glory ?," which helped the On Hurtin'," who said that he'd like to by Nettle Distribution. from 1969 to 1981, after his parents made early the decision to enter a label reach a total just under 7 million produce Fearing's next album. Linden Recorded at Chemical Sound and the divorced and his mother remarried. market have helped it grow," she pounds ($11.3 million). Among the told Fearing that the latter's previous Gas Station studios in Toronto, "Indus- This was followed by two years in Min- said. majors, the Virgin and EMI compa- True North album, 1993's "The Assas- trial Lullaby" was mixed at Manta neapolis and a brief period in northern When the economic situation is sta- nies reported the highest individual sin's Apprentice," had been a "techni- Sound, also in Toronto, and engineered British Columbia, before settling in bilized, a market can show its full levels of operating profit, and Virgin color record," and that he'd like to re- by John Whynot. Vancouver. Today, he lives in Toronto. potential, she added. The Polish mar- Records also turned in the top profit cord him in "black and white." Fearing, Among those playing on the album "In Ireland, I was a typical teenag- ket has grown 10 -fold between 1989 margin, at 21.1 %. That figure com- however, was initially unsure what Lin- are Linden and Wilson, as well as sev- er, listening to pop music, Abba, the and 1995. "And yet, people don't have pares with 15.9% for Warner Music den meant by that latter term. eral other musicians who had partici- Clash, and the Sex Pistols, but my the purchasing power to buy as much U.K. and 13.6% for BMG Enter- Explains Linden, "His previous rec- pated on last year's Blackie & the Rodeo musical interests didn't really peak as they want," said Kortlan. "There tainment International U.K. and Ire- ords were all good, but I thought he'd Kings sessions, including Bennett, until we moved to the , is still an important potential in the land. Sony Music Entertainment, been recorded somewhat in a vacuum. Cockburn on guitar, John Dymond on and I really started buying records," region," she concluded. boosted by 14 million pounds "received He had outside players [on the sessions], bass, and the Band keyboardist Richard he says. as settlement in respect of various but [recording] had always been [too] Bell. Additionally, there's backup by "When I sit down to write, I don't claims" (thought to relate to the com- focused on him." Blue Rodeo bassist Bazil , Cow- have a cultural root I can hang my hat pany's agreement with George While "The Assassin's Apprentice," boy Junkies singer Margo Timmins, as on," Fearing continues. "I really envy TO OUR READERS Michael), was able to report operating produced by Steve Berlin at producer well as Gary Craig (drums), Ravi Naim- songwriters who can go, `I have no profits up five -fold to just under 19 Bruce Fairbairn's 48 -track Armoury pali (percussion), Janice Powers (key- inspiration today, so I'll lean on my Home & Abroad will return in the million pounds ($30.6 million). Despite Studio in Vancouver, had indicated that boards), and Oliver Schroer (violin). [musical] roots.' Mine are somewhere Sept. 13 issue. this, Sony's profit margin, at 5.2 %, is Fearing had finally become assured of "My role model for the record was in the middle of the Atlantic." well behind those of its competitors. his vocal and songwriting prowess, its Jesse Winchester's [1970s Bearsville

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- Japan's new crop of high - seven of Japan's top 10 royalty profile independent produc- earning songs for the year, accord- ers is changing the way pop ing to copyright society JASRAC. music is made in Japan by creating Kobayashi (born in Tokyo on its own musical visions. In a mar- June 7, 1959), first made a name ket where producers traditionally for himself as the producer of the have never had the creative clout band Mr. Children, which offers a seen in the West, three men, espe- literate (despite their odd English cially, have delivered a triple moniker) and melodic pop that's whammy to the Japanese music been enormously successful since industry in the past year. They've the band's 1992 debut with the helped two upstart indie labels album "Everything." These days, grab market share from estab- Kobayashi devotes most of his lished record companies. They've energies to My Little Lover, a accelerated the trend toward mar- three -person band of which he is a ket- dominating megahits. And member and whose vocalist, Akko, they've further eroded the A &R is his wife. Last year, Kobayashi, as role of Japanese labels. part of the fictitious "Yen Town The titanic trio - Ko- Band," co -wrote and produced muro, Takeshi Kobayashi and the music for the film "Swallowtail Tamio Okuda -have become stars Butterfly." in their own right instead of set- tling for the traditional anonymity FISHING FOR TALENT of Japanese record producers. CD Okuda (born in May jackets display their names as 12, 1965) first rose to fame as a prominently as the acts they pro- member of the rock band Uni- duce, and they're in big demand corn, which broke up in 1993 after not only as producers but also as a successful seven -year career. media celebrities. After taking a sabbatical during Besides bringing a new level of which he concentrated on fishing sophistication to Japanese pop, for black bass, Okuda went solo they've made bucketsful of yen and started working as a produc- for themselves and their labels. er. He struck paydirt in spring Komuro and Kobayashi, in partic- 1996 with the extraordinary suc- ular, have played a crucial role in cess of female pop duo Puffy, the rapid growth of indie labels whose music he writes, arranges Avex and Toy's Factory, respec- and produces as well as con- tively, into major powers in the tributes to as a performer. Japanese music industry whose While Okuda works as a free- every move is watched by other lance producer, he continues to labels keen to duplicate their suc- have strong ties with Sony -his cess. solo albums as well as his recent collaboration with singer /song- PERFORMERS TO writer Yosui Inoue are released by PRODUCERS Sony Records (the latter album in Komuro, Kobayashi and Okuda conjunction with indie imprint all started out as performers and For Life Records). continue to work either as mem- Foreign influences abound in bers of bands (Komuro in the trio the work of all three men. Ko- globe [sic], Kobayashi in My Little muro's fast -paced dance -oriented Lover), or solo, as in Okuda's case. pop is very much in the Of the three, Komuro (born in vein, while Kobayashi's guitar- Tokyo on Nov. 28, 1958) is oriented rock reminds many lis- undoubtedly the busiest. Formerly teners of early -'70s British rock. a member of dance -pop trio As for Okuda, the jangly pop style TMN, since the early '90s he has he affects on his solo albums in pioneered the concept of the indi- particular is not a million miles vidual producer who's often better removed from R.E.M. Check out known than the artists whose the Puffy single "Kore Ga Wa- music he produces. tashi no Ikiru Michi" ( "This Is Besides producing and writing The Path I Follow in My Life ") songs for such major Avex acts as (Epic /Sony), which is liberally , hitomi and globe, Komuro Indie Producers To In -House AAR: spiced with guitar riffs taken writes for and produces female from Beatles songs. singer Tomomi Kahala on his own CS That's not to say they're mere Orumok label (distributed by copyists-their genius lies in their Pioneer LDC), as well as doing Over_" ability to synthesize such influ- one -off projects such as the theme M ove ences into something altogether tune for the movie "Speed 2." Refusing to settle for the traditional anonymity of their new. Komuro, for example, accu- Komuro, who ranked fourth on craft, a trio of non -aligned hit men kicks open the doors rately describes his music as the list of individual Japanese tax- blending dance beats with kar- payers for 1996, wrote or co -wrote of the Japanese music industry. BY STEVE MCCLURE Continued on page 66

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Faced with a relatively flat, increasingly unpredictable market, Japanese labels, music stores and others in for more accurate, Significant developments in the Japa ` ese music and the music industry are looking detailed chart information to keep track of market trends. home -entertainment market during the past 12 months... Until recently, that kind of data just hasn't been avail- able. Charts were based on data collected by phone and AS PART OF ITS EFFORT to put more emphasis on stake in Avex D.D. in what was seen as an unprecedented fax, or were compiled by individual record chains or radio breaking new international acts in Japan, Avex D.D. in move in the Japanese music industry. Sony's stake is 5.5 %, stations, which don't provide a broadly based overview of September 1996 signed a three -year licensing deal with while the other two firms each have a the market. the Zomba group's Jive and Silvertone labels. The deal 2.75% share in Avex. But now, established trade magazine Original Confidence, included the catalogs of the two labels. better known as , and relative newcomer Sound - THE EPONYMOUS DEBUT album of Scan Japan, are putting together rival point -of-sale (POS)- FALLING SALES AT RECORD COMPANY Pony Canyon 's dance/pop trio globe based chart systems in a battle to win the allegiance of led to the appointment in October 1996 of Akinori Inaba [sic] () became the first Japan's music industry. as president in place of Akira Ijichi. Japanese album ever to top the 4- million- And as Oricon and SoundScan Japan get ready to fight sales mark. Not surprisingly, the Re- it out, the Recording Industry Association Of Japan is DIGITAL VERSATILE DISC (DVD) made its world pre- cording Industry Association Of Japan watching from the sidelines as it debates whether to devel- miere in Japan Nov. 1, when Toshiba and Matsushita rol- awarded the Album Of The Year award Namie Amuro op its own POS -based weekly charts. led out the first consumer-model DVD players. By mid - to globe at the RIAJ's Gold Disc Awards "The charts in Japan mean a tenth what they do in the 1997, five other companies had launched DVD players, ceremony in Tokyo March 5. Singer Namie Amuro (Avex rest of the world," says David Terrill, HMV Japan's mar- and despite a relative dearth of software, the industry was Trax), who is produced by Komuro, won the domestic keting director. "They've never really been invested in to predicting total sales in Japan of 600,000 units by the end Artist Of The Year gong by selling 4.25 million albums and the extent that was necessary. [The charts are] lists, and of 1997. 4.68 million singles in 1996 -more than any other they need to be much more than that." Japanese artist. So far, SoundScan Japan-operated by JVC subsidiary IN NOVEMBER, HMV AND TOWER announced plans to open two major stores in Tokyo: HMV, a 36,000- square- The top international act was Danish female duo Me & My foot outlet in the center of the city's Shibuya district in May (Toshiba -EMI), with sales of 1.29 million albums and ~ orartg 3-ara.\ ,.ea.\ a fe.4¡ what 1998 and Tower, a 35,000- square -foot. outlet in the Shin - 64,663 singles. Me & My also copped the foreign Album Tre juku area in October 1998. Of The Year award for "Dub -I- Dub," which shipped 1.27 gel do i7 tÌ,e rest of fl`e worl d,° million units. The top- selling domestic single was "Namo- IN DECEMBER, THE DIET (parliament) passed legisla- naki Uta" by Mr. Children (Toy's Factory), which sold 2.45 gayg Daud Terrill, tion bringing Japan's retroactive copyright protection for million copies, while the No. 1 foreign single, at 302,793 ] / v! dire,tor pre -1971 sound recordings up to the worldwide standard units, was "Now You're Not Here" by i Japa.\s*.drkefky of 50 years. U.K. duo Swing Out Sister, whose career -Tey'ue .Neuer really 6ee.\ i,voested to has been given a new lease on life in ever - TO COMMEMORATE THE LEGACY of Joe Miyazaki, loyal Japan. tÌ e e feat gat wag .Ne,eggary. former general manager of Shinko Music Publishing's r international division, who died Dec. 3, 1995, Shinko IN MARCH, MASAAKI SAITO was named L Trey dre Iisfs, d7d tesi .Need fo be established the Joe Miyazaki Music Awards last year. The the new president of Toshiba -EMI, >hyoh ,,ore tha.\ gat.- awards, presented in Tokyo Dec. 3, went to individuals Japan's No. 3 record company, replacing who made outstanding contributions in the field of foreign Takeshi Okkotsu, who will serve as chair- music in Japan. In the music -publisher category, the man. Saito, 49, is the first president of Masaaki Saito award went to Koji Matsuo of Fujipacific Music, who the company to be born after World War Soft Business Information Planning Inc. (SIP) which in played a key role in introducing a number of Swedish acts II and the first to have started his career with Toshiba -EMI 1995 signed a licensing deal with SoundScan in the U.S. - to the Japanese market. In the record company category, (in 1970). Following the announcement, Toshiba -EMI's has signed up about 600 of Japan's 5,000 -plus music out- the award went to Shigeru Fujita of Toshiba -EMI, who was marketing, A &R and promotion departments were reor- lets. Japanese record companies who have signed deals instrumental in launching dance label Intercord Japan, ganized into a Virgin division combining both internation- with SoundScan Japan to receive its on -line chart service while in the promoter and broadcast/print media category, al and Japanese music, and an EMI divi- are Matsushita- affiliated labels Victor Entertainment, the winner was Toru Miyata of promotion company HIP, sion combining EMI's international MCA Victor and Teichiku Records, along with indie im- who anticipated the popularity in Japan of overseas "club repertoire and Japanese artists signed to prints , VAP and Toy's Factory. Conspic- scene" style acts. Toshiba -EMI was set up. uously absent from the list are the labels of Sony Music Entertainment in Japan, which account for about 17% of ON MAY 20, MUSIC Publishers Assoc- RYUZO "JUNIOR" KOSUGI RESIGNED the market, as well as other major players, such as Toshiba - iation Of Japan chairman Misa Watanabe March 31 as chairman of Warner Music EMI, Avex and PolyGram K.K. was the guest of honor at a special tribute Japan for health reasons. Warner Music The industry consensus is that SIP's JVC /Matsushita held in Hong Kong during MIDEM Asia International president Stephen Shrimp- links mean that it will be a cold day in hell before Sony and by the event's organizers to recognize her ton will serve as WMJ's acting chairman Ryuzo Kosugi its labels, whose product is handled by Sony -affiliated dis- career of more than 40 years in the music until a replacement is found. Reporting tributor JDS, become SoundScan Japan subscribers. industry. to Shrimpton are WMJ vice chairman Kiyoshi Hachiya, Misa Watanabe WEA Japan president Mitsuaki Tsunekawa and East West PRODUCTION VS. SALES FIGURES AT THE BEGINNING OF 1997, BMG Japan president Takeyasu Hashizume. SoundScan Japan's online data service is updated daily. Victor changed its name to BMG Japan and underwent a It tracks sales of individual albums, singles and videos, as major reorganization into two main label groups -RCA FOR THE YEAR ENDING MARCH 31, Sony Music well as providing sales data arranged according to such Ariola, headed by Fumimaru Kawashima, and Arista, Entertainment (Japan), Japan's biggest record company, criteria as geographical region, record company and musi- headed by Jack Matsumura-and a media division, head- reported a 10% drop in net sales over the previous year, to cal genre. ed by Tomoyuki Tashiro. The Fun House label, which 103.1 billion yen ($832.6 million), and blamed it on a dras- Earlier this year, HMV Japan became the first foreign BMG Victor bought in 1996, continues to operate sepa- tic cutback in the number of new domestic releases. Net retailer to sign up with SoundScan Japan. SoundScan cur- rately, with Kazunaga Nitta as president. income fell 40.6% to 6.82 billion yen ($55.1 million), with rently collects data from the six HMV Japan stores revenue from Sony Computer Entertainment, in which equipped with POS systems. That number is set to rise to IN JANUARY, SONY MUSIC Entertainment (Japan), SMEJ has a 50% share, accounting for some 75% of the 12 in the near future (HMV Japan has 20 outlets nation - Toshiba -EMI and Nippon Crown took a collective 11% Continued on page 72 Continued on page 69

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aoke -style melodies. Love it or hate it, the music is instant- ly recognizable as having been produced by the ubiquitous TK, as he is known in the industry. Likewise, Kobayashi and Okuda have their individual sounds, which tend to be JAPAN warmer and less shrill than conventional Japanese pop. MIXED BLESSING Some see the three independent producers' rise to the top of the Japanese pop heap as a mixed blessing. Producer Profile: Until Komuro, Kobayashi and Okuda came along, Japanese producers played a relatively minor role in the creative process compared to their Western counterparts, r- notes Aki Morishita, VP and general manager of EMI yr Music Publishing Japan and Virgin Music Japan. "Komuro took Japanese music to a higher level, and so LIJ I 5 i now the focus is finally on producers," Morishita says. r Frustrated musicians (like Morishita himself, he points The prominent independent has a personal vision that includes success in America. But out), who ended up working at labels or publishers, can he admits, "It would be hard to keep up with the fast pace of the Japanese market if I now consider production work as a career option. were working internationally. No one will wait for you in the Japanese music market." But the downside, Morishita points out, is that now

Takeshi Kobayashi, 38, is one of What do you think of the so- called "producers "THERE ARE MANY, MANY 5000 ARTISTS IN the biggest names on the boom" on the Japanese music scene? JAPAN, RUT PEOPLE ARE NOT PAYING ATTEN- Japanese music scene today. I think it's a case of record companies trying to use the Along with Tetsuya Komuro and name value of well -known producers to boost their sales. TION TO THEM. THE MARKET IS SONG- Tamio Okuda, he's pioneered the role The producers themselves haven't created this trend. In ORIENTED-IT'S STILL NOT ARTIST- ORIENIEO. of producer in a the Japanese music scene, the focus has traditionally been country where producers have tradi- on creating stars, and the role of other people involved in I HOPE THE PRODUCERS BOOM WILL tionally been faceless record company the creative process has been downplayed. In that sense, ENCOURAGE NEl' PRUOUCERS TU GO IN A employees. His work with such major then, it's good that producers are now in the limelight. It acts as Mr. Children and My Little helps to create a new working climate in which there's UIFFERENI, MORE ARTIST- ORIENTED Lover as well as the Yen Town Band more emphasis on the content and the quality of music. U!RECIIJN. " -AKI MJRISHITA, EMI MUSIC one -off film soundtrack project, is How significant is the fact that you and other big - characterized by a sound that's some- name producers work independently and not as PUBLISHING, VIRGIN MUSIC (JAPAN) where between standardJapanese pop record label employees? and '70s British rock. I think this is an epoch- making development that is everybody wants to be like Komuro, Kobayashi and Bureau Chief good for both labels and independent producers. The Okuda, and labels concentrate on achieving megahits. Steve McClure recently caught up record companies are more aware of the need to develop "All of a sudden, Avex and Toy's became big, and every- with Kobayashi at the offices of his individual talents and not just concentrate on marketing, body followed them," says Morishita. "There are many, management company for a chat and on the other hand, producers are now involved in many good artists in Japan, but people are not paying about Japan's current `producers marketing product instead of concentrating only on the attention to them. The market is song -oriented -it's still boom" and the state of the Japanese recording process. not artist -oriented. I hope the producers boom will music scene in general. Continued on page 68 encourage new producers to go in a different, more artist - oriented direction." Another worrying aspect of the producers boom is that t highlights how many Japanese labels are increasingly cut off from the creative side of the music business. WELCOME TO "The labels are desperate to find someone to tell them OUR 0 L® OF MUSIC

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While at least Japanese producers may be doing better for themselves, the artist is still very much the low man on the totem pole. "Artists still make really lousy royalties, but they usually are on a payroll," notes one industry observer. Hoppy Kamiyama, a leading figure in Tokyo's indie/ underground scene, says the music being made by the tal- ented threesome is too normal for his taste. AAYS MPING TMI 175

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"[The producers boom] is a good thing, but the stuff they make is `safe, "' says Kamiyama, whose work as a per- former, writer and producer with indie bands such as Optical 8, Fomoflo and the Pugs is as far removed from 'safe' as Godzilla is from Bambi. "I think producers will FUJIPACIFIC MUSIC INC. become more important on the Japanese music scene, but I hope they try to make `future' music that doesn't copy 9F, 3 -1 -31, Minamiaoyama, Minatoku Tokyo 107 Japan Phone : (81) (3) 3796 -8605 Fax: (81) (3) 3796 -0150 Western music." The next crop of hot Japanese producers will likely come out of Tokyo's thriving club scene, says Masa Matsuzaki, manager of entertainment programs at Japan Satellite Broadcasting (WOWOW). "I think the three producers are 1. changing into `past persons, "' says Matsuzaki. "I think the Japanese market is ready for a new kind of producer -for example, club DJs, who are making good music." Mr-a 0-Tow Music, 1%V Mrs/ Cheerful, Folks 1i Q &A: TAKESHI KOBAYASHI l:,mlinued from pap (,,, Joyful trgM1 no you see yourself following the same path as Tetsuya Nomura? In his case, songwriting is central to his work. But in my case, I'm more of a performer, in the sense that I try to set the direction of the music from the point of view of some- one playing music. My style is closer to that of British or American producers. When it comes to making music, what matters most to you?

I want to make music that's different from other peo- ple's, music that's not boring. It doesn't have to be compli- cated-just as long as it has a "twisted" flavor. What are your musical influences? Well, I was more influenced by American and European music than Japanese music. I always followed the top 40, but I was also influenced by jazz. I loved and still love music that can grab people's minds. What about Japanese music? I was interested in Yellow Magic Orchestra, because their music had a lot of power. I also liked the music that came out of Japan's "new music" singer- songwriter boom (in the '70s and '80s), for example, Happy End and Tat - suro Yamashita. What future projects are you planning? JLISRL1C fin going to do more production IVork. I waist to devel- op a more efficient and economical way of producing Moriyuki Kato music. I want to get away from the idea that music should President be produced for big stars, and instead think about what JAPANESE SOCIETY FOR RIGHTS kind of artists should be developed for the sake of making OF AUTHORS, COMPOSERS AND PUBLISHERS} better music. But I don't want to go in the same direction as Tetsuya Komuro, although I envy him because of the 3 -6 -12 Uehara, Shibuya -ku, Tokyo 151, Japan way he can devote so much time and energy to producing Telephone: (033481 -2121 Fax: (033481 -2153 nmsic. Home Page: http: //www jasrac.or jp One thing that always strikes foreign observers of the Japanese music scene is the incredibly

68 BILLBOARD SPOTLIGHT BILLBOARD AUGUST 30, 1997 www.americanradiohistory.com pace of the market. Do you think this is a WHO'S NO. 1? What effect will the introduction of POS technology fast whole? problem? (:oìduiued from page 63 have on Japanese charts and the market as a way we collect data with our new I think so, yes. What I envy about America is that when Says Taruishi, "The "] system has changed, musicians make an album, they can spend two years on a wide). ` Shintaiju' [literally, "true big tree so much." In the promoting it. In Japan, we don't have this "SoundScan is the way to go," says HMV's Terrill. "One but the content of the data won't change patterns may be kind of situation. If we did, we could produce music using of the biggest problems we have here is a real lack of good future, however, changing music -retailing a strategy. But because Japan is so small in information about what is happening in the marketplace. reflected in the charts, he notes. longer -term at places other terms of area compared to the United States, people from That's no criticism at all of Oricon- they've chosen to "Recently, music has begun to be sold Taruishi. "We need to include Hokkaido to Okinawa are familiar with a song as soon as focus on a particular part of what is happening: the latest than record stores," says in our charts," and the Shintaiju sys- it's released. Japan is a very singles -oriented market. I hits. We're much more interested in the total market. data from such places to do that, he says. Oricon's aim, states like this, but I don't know how I can change the sit- Virtually all the reports that one reads about Japan are tem will help don't companies, as well is so it takes time based on production, not on retail sales. From our side, Taruishi. is to have all Japanese record uation. In America, the country big that agencies, for an individual song to penetrate the national market. that's completely misleading. So we think the SoundScan as music -production companies and advertising Speaking of America, you just bought a house in approach is the right one, because we think it will focus become subscribers to Shintaiju's online service. Angeles. Why? more tightly on the reality of the situation." Oricon publishes two editions: Original Confidence, a Los at the music in- In we're surrounded by too much information, In recent months, SoundScan Japan has made signifi- weekly magazine (circulation: 8,000) aimed Japan, (circulation: 360,000), which bothers me. When I'm in Los Angeles, I can be iso- cant progress in adapting its data -collection system so that dustry, and The Ichiban, also a weekly lated from all that. The reason why I didn't choose New sales of imported product can be tracked. While imports that targets general consumers. incredibly wide variety of is to Tokyo in terms of environ- from the U.S., Britain, France and Germany can now be Both magazines feature an York that it's quite similar album charts, the pace of life. I handled, a lot of work is still needed before product charts. Besides the top 100 singles and ment, the volume of information and rental video, free of such distractions when I'm making imported from Southeast Asia is included, according to Oricon features charts on sell- through and want to be comic books, CD- I in L.A. two three months a year. It's very SIP managing director Isamu Taniguchi. computer game software, "manga" music. stay or books. There's important to change your point of view by staying in a for- "It's absolutely vital that imports are included," says ROMs, karaoke hits, TV programs and Terrill. "If you don't include imports, you're misleading in even a chart listing the most popular TV commercials, eign country. major recording Do you want to work with American musicians? terms of what's happening out there in the market." which perhaps isn't surprising, given that appear in TV ads for all sorts of products. I want to find a female vocalist for a project which will Imports accounted for about 8% of the Japanese prere- artists regularly Yen Town Band. I haven't decided corded -music market in 1996, but are obviously a major be similar to the 100 whether this project should be aimed at the Japanese mar- concern at chains such as HMV, where they account for TIE -UPS ON THE TOP singles chart is that it market. And I haven't decided roughly 45% of stock. An interesting feature of Oricon's ket alone or the worldwide "tie-up" for each single. whether the singer should be a Japanese or an American One key difference between Japan's charts and those in lists the TV commercial/program with Ken Berry of Virgin about other countries is the speed at which songs move up and Just how widespread the tie -up phenomenon has become girl. We've been in contact on the June this. I've met him twice in Tokyo and will meet him again down the charts, reflecting Japan's fast-paced, youth - is shown by the fact that, of the top 100 singles also includes useful in London. oriented music market. Music Labo's June 30 album chart, 30 chart, 76 were tie -ups. The chart Japanese acts such as Buffalo Daughter, Piz- for example, featured no fewer than five first -time chart data such as the length of each song's instrumental intro- zicato Five and Hi- Standard have achieved some entries in the top 10. duction and the song's total duration. popularity in the U.S. Are you thinking of mar- Oricon also publishes international and domestic album keting your music overseas? ORICON'S TRUE BIG TREE charts, as well as a combined foreign/domestic album Yes, I am. But there's a limit in terms of what kind of Realizing the challenge posed by SoundScan, Oricon chart. to dissemi- music can be sold overseas, and making it internationally (which this year celebrates its 30th anniversary) is not While Oricon, as a publisher, is well -placed Japan is currently looking is not at the top of my list of priorities. I want to base about to rest on its laurels as the publisher of Japan's nate its chart data, SoundScan form as opposed to its myself on the Japanese market, because I don't want to definitive charts. Oricon started using POS data in compil- at ways to market its charts in print give up the pleasure of creating the kind of music that's ing its weekly music charts at the beginning of this year. At online service. matter -of- loved by Japanese people and instead launch some sort of present, Oricon collects sales data from about 600 stores "We're not a publisher," says SIP's Taniguchi my music to the world. And it would nationwide by fax and from another 300 based on POS factly. "If we can find a good partner, then we can develop campaign to spread data]." be hard for me to keep up with the fast pace of the data. [a mass -media version of SoundScan Japan's chart weekly music charts are Japanese market if I were working internationallyy. No one "SoundScan is now our rival," says Original Confidence Besides SoundScan and Oricon, Continued on page 72 will wait for you in the Japanese music market. editor -in -chief Katsuya Taruishi.

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Pro- MANAGEMENT: Taisuke ducer /Svengali Yasuharu Konishi, a BOOKING AGENT: Taisuke CRITIC'S CHOICE musical magpie if there ever was one, eonVcntional wisdom is that Osakans are earthy Continued fron page 70 once again takes the art of popmusic and unrestrained compared to uptight Tokyoites, pastiche to new heights on P5's latest and certainly Osaka's Ulfuls live up to the stereo- as a pleasant surprise. She's able to carry over the coquet- effort. The emphasis, as always, is on a type with their uniquely weird sensibility -I mean, you've tish inflections that distinguish her Japanese vocals to particularly cheesy sort of '60s movie - got to like a band whose lead English without sounding silly, and that augurs well for soundtrack sound, but there's enough singer calls himself Tortoise her as a singer with international potential. stylistic variation in the album to keep Matsumoto. 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But they still manage to communicate their BOOKING AGENT: Sony Music Artists, Camp Corp. madcap sensibility, mainly due to the music's warped, roof that the art of songwriting ARTIST: Various Ventures -meet -Godzilla style. On "Let's Go," the Ulfuls is alive and well in Japan. This ALBUM: "TK Million Works" cleverly alternate between pure silliness ( "Let's Go collaboration between singer/ LABEL: \vex Trax Monday ") and songs that show a more serious side to the songwriter Inoue, one of the most dis- DISTRIBUTOR: Nippon Crown band ("0-Yasumi Tokyo," or "Tokyo Holiday "). Unlike the tinctive voices in Japanese pop music, PUBLISHER: Various many Japanese bands -who are thrust into the studio and producer /artist Okuda (the brains MANAGEMENT: Various when they're still wet behind the ears, the Ulfuls have paid behind megapopular female pop duo BOOKING AGENT: Various their dues by doing the live -house circuit over several Puffy) is full of absolutely great jointly Avery useful introduction to the world of hyper -suc- years, and the result is this musically solid, always enter- written songs like "2 Cars," which has a cessful producer /composer /arranger Tetsuya Ko- taining album. kind of mystic, melancholy air that few muro, who dominates the Japanese music world in songwriters are able to achieve. The a way that few, if any, have ever done. This album gathers depth of Japan's songwriting talent is together several million -selling hits Komuro has produced NEWS IN REVIEW one of the world's great undiscovered Okuda and Inoue for various Avex artists over the last couple of years. Acts Continued fron page 63 treasures, and this album is further represented in "TK Million Works" include dance /pop proof of that. These two guys obviously had fun making group trf ( "Overnight Sensation," Boy Meets Girl "), globe label's profits. this album, and their enthusiasm comes through clearly. ( "Departures," "Is This Love ") and Namie Amuro ( "," "Don't Wanna Cry "), the petite Okinawan THE JAPANESE MUSIC BUSINESS suffered one of its ARTIST: vocalist whose gap- toothed smile is everywhere you look in worst -ever slumps in the latter part of 1996 and early 1997, ALBUM: "Happy End Of The World" the Japanese mass media. While Komuro's music is with sales down as much as 30%, according to many retail- LABEL: Rcadymade Records undoubtedly formulaic, you can't deny the fact that the ers. The industry consensus was that a dearth of new DISTRIBUTOR: Nippon Columbia guy has a genius for pop hooks. If you want to know what releases by big -name acts was responsible for the slump, but some observers saw it as evidence of a deeper malaise affecting the industry, as more young people spend their disposable income on such items as computer games and cellular telephones instead of music. Total production of audio software in 1996 was 472.3 million units, up just 1% over 1995, for a wholesale value of 583.86 billion yen ($4.82 billion), up 2 %, according to the Recording Industry Assn. Of Japan, while shipments in the first five months of 1997 were down 1% in quantity terms and up 3% in whole- p RINGING sale value, compared to the same period of 1996. PERFORMANCE/MECHANCIAL- RIGHTS SOCIETY JASRAC announced May 21 that its copyright fee collec- tions for the year ending March 31, 1997, were up 9.7 %, to 90.6 billion yen ($802.1 million), mainly due to a deal JAPAN worked out in 1996 between JASRAC and Japan's online karaoke-business operators, who previously had not paid D copyright fees to the society. WHO'S NO. 1? CLOSER conii1uied f ruur page 69 put together by daily electronics -industry newspaper Dempa Shimbun, based on data sent by fax from about 100 EXPORT, IMPORT, DISTRIBUTION stores nationwide. Individual stores belonging to the major retail webs maintain their own sales -based charts, which provide information about specific markets (charts from stores in Tokyo's trendsetting Shibuya district are FOR THE MOST EFFICIENT WAY TO CAPTURE watched with special interest). And major FM stations, such as Tokyo's J -WAVE, also have their own charts. THE JAPANESE MARKET CONTACT : RIAJ + POS The RIAJ, which for the past eight years has published monthly shipments -based charts in its newsletter, The Re- cord, is now looking at the possibility of developing weekly album and singles charts. The problem, however, is per etora money. "We've had many requests from our member companies asking us to provide weekly data based on a POS system," says RIAJ secretary-general Saburo Kimura. "But it's expensive to set up a POS system in each shop." Another thorny issue for the RIAJ is whether it, as a non -profit MAIN OFFICE: 1 -15 -6, SEMBAHIGASHI, MINOO, OSAKA, 562 JAPAN body, should go into competition with private businesses like Oricon and SIP. Kimura says the RIAJ has talked with (EXPORT, IMPORT & DISTRIBUTION) ( MINOO SOUND HILLS) SIP about possible cooperation in putting charts together, TEL (0727)28 -2351 FAX (0727)28 -2358 but so far nothing concrete has come from such discus- e-mail address: [email protected] sions.

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Marketin*ACTIVE ACCESSORIES RETAILING DISTRIBUTION DIRECT SALESHOME VIDEO ENTER EMD Confab Kicks Off New Regime Aftermath, Brilliant Digital Company Maps Out Its Strategy For The Future Debut DVD Interactive Vids is to bundle a BY ED CHRISTMAN the same and that EMD must be flexi- ing the holiday selling season. He noted BY BRETT ATWOOD The company aiming ble to fill the needs of labels and that the U.S. was the last Virgin affili- demo version of the disc with DVD play- and DVD -ROM drives, according to VANCOUVER-For the second year in accounts. ate to release Spice Girls' first album, LOS ANGELES -A second genera- ers a row, EMI Music Distribution's (EMD) At the convention, morning meetings which has been certified quadruple- tion of interactive movies is on the way Wheeler. video companies annual convention served as a healing were devoted to internal operational platinum, and that now the rest of the via DVD and the Internet. Despite con- While several home support to conduit, helping company staffers adapt seminars, and afternoons were allocat- world is awaiting a new set from the sumer resistance to earlier efforts in have shown early software few companies to dramatic corporate changes. ed to product presentations. After the group. Consequently, he said, Virgin the genre, Aftermath Media and Bril- the DVD video format, leap into the creation of This year, the convention, held July Cottrell opening address, Bill Hearn, and EMD will have the pleasure of liant Digital Entertainment (BDE) are are taking the a DVD -ROM titles. However, Lan- 28 through Aug. 1 here, came a month president/CEO of the Christian Music working two Spice Girl albums over the among the companies hoping to carve early after the North American corporate Group, highlighted some of his label's holiday selling season. niche for nonlinear films using newer deros is not deterred by the small and DVD - structure was eliminated, the EMI label upcoming releases from developing He played three tracks from the technologies. installed base for DVD video was shut down, and Richard Cottrell artists, including Switchfoot, which Janet Jackson album, which he Former Trilobyte executives Rob ROM. in it is exactly was appointed president of the distrib- played during the presentation, and promised was everything that attendees Landeros and David Wheeler, co -cre- "This is déjà vu, that ution company, replacing Russ Bach. Supertones, which played that night at were hoping for. He also played two ators of the pioneer full- motion -video Last year, the convention was held three the showcase. tracks from the new Rolling Stones set, CD -ROM "The 7th Guest" and its months after Cerna Distribution under- He also noted that among the compa- "Bridges To Babylon," and said it would sequel, "The 11th went a downsizing and was re- chris- ny's priorities for the fourth quarter be backed by a tour that will open Sept. Hour," are now tened as EMD. would be the third in 23 in Chicago. The label made a video focusing on DVD On July 29, in his first formal meet- the series of "Wow" of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, video and DVD - ing with his troops, Cottrell, with a EMD gospel compilation who told convention attendees, "We ROM to deliver their latest inter- scant 18 days and seven hours on the Mt MUSIC osrFamon albums. The first set wish we could be there, but we are busy job, chose to address the concerns of his in the series went planning a Borders acoustic tour." active projects. staffers head on. At the start of the con- platinum in seven The following day, after internal The two recently vention, amid swirling smoke from dry- months, he said. He added that the com- meetings, Capitol Nashville kicked off formed Aftermath ice machines, strobe lights, searching pany could spend as much as $3 million its presentations with a performance Media to launch spotlights, sirens, loud music, and fire- in television advertising for the new edi- from Deana Carter. Later in the day, their debut DVD works, Cottrell made his entrance. tion. José Behar, president of EMI Latin, effort, the psycho- After the pyrotechnic display ended, Next up was Virgin Records, with thanked EMD for helping the label logical thriller "Tender Loving Care." he stepped up to the podium, welcomed label president Phil Quartararo presid- become the market share leader in '95 The disc was originally created as a all to the convention, and said he chose ing. Most of the presentation was devot- and '96. But, he said, he still wants to CD -ROM but has since been enhanced to make a dramatic entrance to high- ed to upcoming albums from developing build on that success. The presentation with higher -quality video and AC3 dig- light two things. One, that in this busi- artists, including Sneaker Pimps, Cel- closed with a scorching set from Thalia. ital audio for a DVD release. The title ness, a distribution company has to be lophane, Seagram, Lauren Hoffman, That night, the artist showcase was stars actor John Hurt and is being cre- serious about the music and its cus- and Brigette McWilliams. Hoffman, put on by EMI Canada and Ark 21. ated for playback on both DVD video The forthcoming Aftermath interactive tomers. His second point was that there McWilliams, comedian Paul Rodriguez, EMI Canada presented Dayna Man- and DVD -ROM. Computer users will DVD title "Tender Loving Care" can be is a fun side to this business as well, and and hip -hop star Shaggy played that ning, and Ark 21 presented Wayne use a mouse and DVD video owners will played back with both linear and non- he implied that both areas would be cov- night at the label showcase, and Virgin Hancock, who had the audience yodel- use their remote controls to choose their linear plot lines. ered during the convention. artist Julia Fordham played during the ing from the rafters, and Liquid Soul, own story lines at various branch points Cottrell noted that since joining presentation. who turned the house into a dance club. in the film. EMD, he has spent as much time as In addition to introducing new On July 31, Capitol Records moved A linear version of the movie is also the same criticism that I encountered possible in the field, with trips to New artists, Quartararo took time to elabo- the convention to a movie theater where contained on the disc for consumers in 1991 with `The 7th Guest,' " he says. York, Detroit, Dallas, and Amarillo, rate on the company's big guns for the attendees could access popcorn and a who prefer a passive viewing experi- "The market may be nonexistent now, Texas. He also pointed out that the pre- fourth quarter. cappuccino bar during the presentation. ence. but it's about to bloom. `The 7th Guest' vious day he sat down with most of the First he outlined the marketing plan Capitol president Gary Gersh kicked Germany -based FunSoft will dis- was successful in part because it was company's market teams. for Yanni's label debut. He then things off by noting that thanks to the tribute the title in Europe and Aus- the only game of its type out at the time. Based on his field trips and the first announced that Virgin would have a music, Capitol is now "a very exciting tralia, but a distribution deal is still It allowed CD -ROM owners to show off day of meetings, Cottrell reassured the new Spice Girls album to promote dur- (Continued on next page) looming for North America and Asia. the potential of their system, which is staff that while "EMD has undergone what we aim to do again with ['Tender tremendous change, you deserve Loving Care] on the DVD format." tremendous credit. The operation is Other DVD titles in development by working well. We have a fantastic base Trans World Enjoys Healthy 2nd Quarter Aftermath include the mystery to build for the future." romance "Five Minutes With A But he noted that as EMD has Stranger" and the sci -fi flick "The changed, so has the marketplace. "Cus- Chain's Comp -Store, Total Sales Increase 9% Mind." tomer expectations are increasing," he BDE is using the Internet to deliver said. "We have to make sure we have BY DON JEFFREY chain operated 468 stores, compared quarter to $1.5 million from $3.1 mil- interactive movie programming using the best selling machine in the industry with 503 a year earlier. lion a year ago. This was the result of its own proprietary technology, mar- for the benefit of our artists and labels." NEW YORK -Trans World Enter- Higgins says, "The major closings lower outstanding revolving- credit keted as Multipath Movies. He said that the company has one tainment, continuing to outperform are behind us." balances, long -term debt, and inter- As with other other interactive overriding mission: to be No. 1. most other large music chains, re- The retailer still reports a net loss est rates. movies, users can choose multiple plot -video That means being No. 1 in sales ser- ports that sales from stores open for the quarter, which is typical for Meanwhile, Trans World is set to paths. However, unlike full- motion vice to the company's customers and in more than a year increased a robust music retailers during the non -holi- acquire the 118 -store Strawberries, efforts, Multipath Movies are com- supporting the profit and artist goals of 9% in the second fiscal quarter. This day period, but it was narrowed to which has been operating under pletely computer -generated, which EMD's labels, he said. was the sixth consecutive quarter of $834,000 from $2.4 million a year ago. Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. allows each film to be downloaded "Going forward," he said, "we must same-store sales gains (Billboard Bul- With higher sales per store, the Higgins says that he hopes the deal quickly via the Internet. work closer with labels; we need to letin, Aug. 15). chain raised its gross profit margin to will close by Oct. 15. Five episodes of the first project, understand them and their needs bet- "We had some strong new releases, 37.6% in the quarter from 35.8% the Following the announcement of the "CyberSwine," are already accessible ter. I want to be seen as an integral part and catalog's been selling very well," year before. In addition, it reduced its second-quarter results, Trans World's at http://www.bde.com.au. These of the labels [and] not just be referred to says chairman/CEO Robert Higgins. selling, general, and administrative stock rose $1 to $24 in Nasdaq trad- episodes are being offered free for a as the distribution company." Total sales for the quarter, which expenses ratio to 34% of sales from ing. It had been selling for as low as limited time, but BDE will eventually Also, he continued, "customer service ended Aug. 2, also rose nearly 9 %, to 35.3 %, excluding a gain of $2.5 million $5 a share in the past year. charge an access fee to download each is a fundamental priority. In every inter- $105 million from $96.7 million in the last year for the termination of a busi- The company operates stores installment. face, we should be easy to do business same period a year ago, despite a 7% ness development agreement. under the names Record Town, Coco- Other interactive titles are in the with." decline in the number of stores. At The loss was also reduced by a de- nuts Music and Movies, Saturday works, including titles based on the He noted that all companies aren't quarter's end, the Albany, N.Y. -based cline in interest expense during the Matinee, and F.Y.E. (Continued on next page)

BILLBOARD AUGUST 30, 1997 73 www.americanradiohistory.com Merchants & Marketing When the show hits the road, Offers Sales On Wheels the music industiy turns to Mobile Ticket Van Hits The Road In Southern Calif. BY DOUG REECE we are doing with people we are already the p mien reference gui working with-shouldn't be a big con- LOS ANGELES -Thanks to a new, cern for anybody else," says Rothman. specially equipped mobile ticketing cen- For security reasons, the van, which ter, Ticketmaster Ticketing is taking its is manned by two Ticketmaster em- THE INTERNATIONAL TALENT shows on the road, literally. ployees, will accept only credit card The prototypical vehicle, Ticketmas- purchases. & TOURING DIRECTORY ter's Mobile Ticket Van, debuted Aug. 8 The van can tap into a general power at 's stop in San Bernardi- supply and telephone lines at each loca- no, Calif. (Billboard Bulletin, Aug. 8), tion or, if isolated, can operate for near- and will be roving Southern California Ticketmaster's Mobile Ticket Van ly three hours on electricity generated Billboari °`° in the coming months, offering ducats debuted recently at Lollapalooza '97. by a running engine while conducting to all Ticketmaster- sponsored events in ticket transactions through cellular 1997 the region. the Hollywood Bowl that his wife has lines. Aug. 15-17, the van acted as the tick- been wanting to see." Ticket surcharges will remain the et booth for Jet Jam, a convention for Still, Rothman says, the van, because same as those on purchases via tradi- INTERNATIONAL owners of personal watercraft held in of its designation as a mainly promo- tional means, though Rothman says that Anaheim, Calif. tional vehicle, is not likely to pose a prices at the van could go up or down, TALENT No sales figures from either event threat to competing ticket agencies. depending on cellular charges and other & TOURING where the van appeared were available "It could be perceived as a threat if associated business fees. at press time. we rolled out a fleet of 25. But one van The van was donated to Ticketmas- DIRECTORY According to Ticketmaster Ticketing that is primarily a promotions tool - ter by General Motors, but $60,000 to executive VP Claire L. Rothman, the and in many cases just augments what $70,000 was spent to retrofit it. potential uses for the vans are vast. "We're still learning more about the ..) van and letting our imaginations go," she says. "There is an unlimited num- AFTERMATH, BRILLIANT DIGITAL DEBUT DVD VIDS ber of promotional tie -ins we could ini- (Continued from preceding page) tiate. I think we'll find so many uses for licensed characters Popeye and Ace However, Landeros says the creative this that one won't be nearly enough to Ventura. limitations of the CD -ROM format have cover L.A., and I wouldn't be surprised Multipath Movies will also be dis- been shattered by what is possible with if we roll them out in major cities tributed via CD -ROM and will be bun- DVD and the Internet. throughout the country" dled with more than 6 million Packard "A lot of people have been skeptical In addition to showing up at Ticket - Bell PCs. based on the checkered history of full - master- sponsored events to assist with Both Brilliant and Aftermath face a motion video in games," he says. "Some will-call and regular ticket sales, the van challenge in getting consumers to people say that the market may have gives the company access to consumers embrace the new generation of interac- passed us by, but I disagree. As tech- who may not live near a regular Ticket- tive movies. The first wave of full - nology improves, it allows us to create master outlet, usually housed in retail motion-video-based interactive movies a richer interactive product. If we can Order stores such as Tower Records, Rothman was poorly received by consumers and overcome the bias to the format, then says. critics. the quality will speak for itself." Now! She notes that the van will be espe- cially useful for events that draw con- sumers who may not have access to EMD CONFAB KICKS OFF NEW REGIME From the newest acts to the hottest venues, promoters, suppliers Ticketmaster due to the neighborhoods (Continued from preceding page) they live in. and equipment manufacturers, Billboard's 1997 International The van may also appear at tourist place." He backed that up by having bands' current albums will be rere- Talent & Touring Directory is the only worldwide directory attractions, festivals, or sporting events Meredith Brooks play a short set. Later, leased with a new album cover, and the to the entertainment industry. Finally, everything you need to to help prompt impulse ticket sales. Less Than Jake tore up the hall. material on the albums will be altered "One of the things I would love to do In addition to the company's upcom- either through remixing (in Fun Lovin' book talent, promote tours, and take care of business is in one is put the van at [local tourist attraction] ing releases, Gersh noted that the label Criminals' case) or by the addition of single, easy -to -use reference source! Universal City Walk," says Rothman. "I picked up a couple of EMI acts, includ- new songs (in Blessid Union's case). You get over 17,000 listings in the U.S. and 22 countries world- could definitely imagine a businessman ing Fun Lovin' Criminals and Blessid That night, the convention saw high - having lunch who sees the van and Union, formerly known as Blessid energy sets from Foo Fighters and wide! Agents & Managers 4/Sound & Lighting Services decides to get those tickets to a show at Union Of Souls. In both cases, the Radiohead. Venues Clubs Hotels 4/Instrument Rentals 4/Staging & During the Capitol presentation, Bruce Lundval, president of Blue Note, Special Effects Security Services 4/Charter Transportation presented his company's offerings for Merchandisers E X E C U T I V E T U R N T A B L E the fourth quarter. He noted that the label wants to double its sales volume Save time, save worry and make money - DISTRIBUTION. Rentrak Corp. in Port- by 1999 and closed his segment by pre- order the 1997 International Talent & Touring land, Ore., appoints Michael Light - senting Cassandra Wilson and Jacky Directory today! bourne executive VP. He was senior Terrasson, who played songs from their VP of marketing. upcoming "Rendezvous" album. Order multiple copies for your entire staff! Simitar Entertainment in Min- Last up was the Angel presentation, neapolis names Jim Chiado senior VP in which label president Steve Murphy of sales, Michael Meyer VP of mar- showed staffers how the label has LI YES! Please send me Billboard's 1997 International Talent & Touring Directory. keting, Mark Rosen VP of filmed en- changed to meet the needs of its con- I am enclosing $99 per copy plus $6 shipping and handling ($13 for international tertainment, Andrew Darrow VP of LIGHTBOURNE FINNEY sumers. He noted that among Angel's orders) NY, NJ, CA, TN, MA, IL, PA & DC please add applicable sales tax. business and legal affairs, and Michael big projects for the fourth quarter will # of copies . Check enclosed for $ . McCall warehouse manager. They HOME VIDEO. Tim Palen is promoted be an oratorio from Paul McCartney. Charge $ to my: American Express MasterCard Visa were, respectively, senior VP sales and to executive director of creative and Also, the label will issue Christmas marketing at Essex Entertainment, VP audiovisual services at Columbia Tri- albums from Roberta Flack, Melissa Card # Exp. Date of sales at Time Line Productions, VP/ Star Home Video in Culver City, Calif. Manchester, Ann Calloway, and Peabo Signature (required) general sales manager at Cannon He was creative director. Bryson. The presentation also featured Cardholder (please print) Films, senior partner at the law firm of a performance from Todd Rundgren, Name Darrow & Hart, and distribution cen- RELATED FIELDS. High Five Enter- who described his new album as a bossa ter manager at Software, Etc. tainment in Nashville names Sarah nova/acoustic cocktail jazz album. Company Brock director of programming de- Cottrell closed the convention by not- Address ENTERACTIVE. Disney Interactive in velopment and promotes Jo Pincek to ing that the company had "fun this City, State, Zip Burbank, Cali£, appoints Steve Finney director of music development and week, but now we have to deliver" suc- Please note: Orders are payable in U.S. funds drawn on a U.S. bank only. All sales are final. CFO and Jan Smith senior VP They JuLee Brand to creative director. cess in the fourth quarter for the com- Mail coupon to: Billboard Directories, P.O. Box 2016, Lakewood, NJ 08701. of pany's acts, customers, and labels. Now were, respectively, CFO of the Disney They were, respectively, director For fastest service call 1 -800 -344-7119. Store North America and Disney Direct creative affairs at Wind Dancer Pro- "we need to walk the walk," he stated. In NJ call (908) 363.4156. Marketing and VP/group publisher at duction Group, talent director, and "After [meeting] you this week, I have BDTD1106 Disney Publishing for Children. director of design. every confidence you will deliver." 74 BILLBOARD AUGUST 30, 1997 www.americanradiohistory.com AUGUST 30, 1997 NOT US. Merchants & Marketing The friendliest ghost you know is the Top Pop. Catalog AlbumsIM esprit de corpse behind a multi -million dollar franchise that's gone from COMPILED FROM A NATIONAL SAMPLE OF RETAIL STORE AND RACK SALES á REPORTS COLLECTED, COMPILED, AND PROVIDED BY SoundScan® its humble haunts in uw TITLE ¢w comic book land to such i7, y. ARTIST ",11 3 g 3 LABEL & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL (SUG. LIST PRICE. upscale digs as multi -plexes newsline... and toy superstores. * * No.1 * * SOUNDTRACK A" GREASE No 1 215 We haunted Executive 1 1 POLYDOR 8 »095/A&M (10.98/17.98) 31 weeks at READER'S DIGEST ASSN., the direct marketer of music, video, books, and Soundtrack Producers audiobooks, reports that revenue from its home entertainment and books BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS " LEGEND 2 3 TUFF GONG 846210"/ISLAND (10.98/17.981 427 Jonnie Forster and Ron 12% $1.9 the fiscal year ending June 30. Oper- segment declined to billion for PINK FLOYDA' DARK SIDE OF THE MOON Kenan until they explained 1065 ating profit fell 38% to $201.1 million. The declines were due to foreign cur- 3 2 CAPITOL 46001* (9.98/15.981 what the ghost of and lower METALLICA METALLICA rency changes and lower revenue in Europe from reduced prices soundtracks present was 4 4 ELEKTRA 61113 '* /EEG (10.98/16.98) 314 customer response rates to mailings. Profit also decreased due to "higher SARAH MCLACHLAN A' FUMBLING TOWARDS ECSTASY thinking when it put to - 153 inventory writedowns resulting from lower customer responses third 5 6 NETTWERK 18725/ARISTA (10.98/15.98) MR together the album for Pleasantville, N.Y. - 40 OZ. TO FREEDOM and fourth-quarter promotional mailings." Overall, the SUBLIME Fox Home Video's new based company reports net income of $133.5 million on revenue of $2.8 bil- 6 5 GASOLINE ALLEY 11474 /MCA (7.98/12.98) ® 42 MACH' GREATEST HITS direct -to -video '::0.6 million on $3.1 billion in revenue the FLEETWOOD lion, compared with net profit of 7 21 WARNER BROS. 25801 (9.9$/16.98) 262 kid- pleaser year before. GARTH BROOKS' THE HITS 8 8 CAPITOL NASHVILLE 29389 (10.98/15.98) 140 BORDERS GROUP says that sales from Borders Books & Music superstores ALANIS MORISSETTEA15 JAGGED LITTLE PILL 9 MAVERICK 45901/WARNER BROS. (10.98/16.98)1E1 114 open at least a year rose 7.5% for the second fiscal quarter, which ended - JAMES TAYLOR " GREATEST HITS 356 July 27. The Ann Arbor, Mich.-based retailer finished the quarter with 171 10 7 WARNER BROS. 3113* (7.98/11.98) "We set out to make a fun BY HEART superstores, compared with 127 at the same time last year. The company JIMMY BUFFETT' SONGS YOU KNOW record with groups that 11 11 MCA 5633* (7.98/11.98) 342 also operates 929 mall -based Waldenbooks. Overall, the company reports would interest kids, teens, VARIOUS ARTISTS JOCK JAMS VOL. 1 net income of $900,000 on sales of $929.9 million, compared with a loss of $5.7 12 9 TOMMY BOY 1137 (10.98/15.98) 108 young adults and parents. million on ',:18.3 million in revenue. BEASTIE BOYS5 LICENSED TO ILL Our first single, 13 10 DEF JAM 527351/MERCURY(7.98 E0111.98) 311 91 'LOVE SENSATION' RUMOURS l's 30 a -video set, "Roots Of FLEETWOOD MAC '' NEW VIDEO GROUP is releasing on Sept. three 14 22 WARNER BROS. 3010* (7.98/15.98) 137 sets the album's upbeat Rhythm," that traces the history of Latin music. Harry Belafonte is the nar- BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BANDA' GREATEST HITS and accessible tone. 12 CAPITOL 30334* (10.98/15.98) 147 rator and host of the series. The videos include performances and inter- 15 They're huge internationally, ELVIS PRESLEY THE NUMBER ONE HITS views with such artists as Dizzy Gillespie, Perez Prado, Machito, Xavier and now Virgin is blowing 16 RCA 6382 (10.98/16.98) 10 the set is $39.95. An accompany- - Cugat, and Desi Arnaz. The list price for 311 A' 311 them up in the States. 76 ing three -CD set called "Routes Of Rhythm" has already been released by 17 13 CAPRICORN 942041 /MERCURY (11.98 EO/17.398) We also locked in the E. ETERNAL Rounder Records. BONE THUGS- N- HARMONY' 1999 BACKSTREET BOYS, 18 14 RUTHLESS 5539 */RELATIVITY (10.98/15.98) 108 who've sold 10 million TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS 5 GREATEST HITS RECOTON, a manufacturer of consumer electronics accessories sold in music 19 18 MCA 10813 (10.98/17.98) 187 records worldwide and

stores, reports net profit of $1.08 million on $108.5 million in sales for the DAVE MATTHEWS BANDA' UNDER THE TABLE AND DREAMING have a Top 5 single here. second fiscal quarter, which ended June 30, compared with a net income of 20 16 RCA 66449 (10.98/15.981 149 A6 HELL FREEZES OVER last year. The big jump KC And THE SUNSHINE BAND $565,000 on sales of $51.8 million for the same period 21 17 GEFFEN 24725 (12.98/17.98) 145 in sales was principally due to the acquisition in August '96 of loudspeaker BUSH' SIXTEEN STONE and KOOL & THE GANG's manufacturer International Jensen (now Recoton Audio Corp.). 22 15 TRAUMA 92531/INTERSCOPE (10.98/16.98) 136 rendition of the Casper theme NO FENCES GARTH BROOKS" lets parents introduce their kids 23 23 CAPITOL NASHVILLE 93866 (9.98/13.98) 226 electronics retailer, re- to music they grew up with. THE GOOD GUYS!, a San Francisco -based consumer PINK FLOYDI" THE WALL ports a $4.1 million loss on $194.8 million in sales in the third fiscal quarter, 24 19 COLUMBIA 36183* (15.98 E0/31.98) 451 which ended June 30, compared with a $3.4 million loss on sales of $196.5 ' THE ULTIMATE EXPERIENCE And to round out the 25 20 MCA 10829 (10.98/17.98) 192 million a year earlier. Sales from stores open at least a year were down 3% album, we've got great tracks VAN MORRISON A' THE BEST OF VAN MORRISON by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, from the year before. But the company notes a 1.3- percentage point improve- 26 24 POLYDOR 841970/A&M (10.98/17.98) 350 ment in its gross profit margin and "positive consumer response" to its sec- SHANIA TWAIN THE WOMAN IN ME Bobby McFerrin, Oingo 27 27 MERCURY 522886 (10.98' EQ/16.98) 129 ond WOW! store, a joint venture with Tower Records, in Long Beach, Calif. Boingo, Bis, Shampoo METALLICA5 ...AND JUSTICE FOR ALL 76 outlets. and Supergrass. The first is in Las Vegas. The retailer operates 28 25 ELEKTRA 60812/EEG (10.98/16.98) 387 SOUNDTRACK TOP GUN 29 33 COLUMBIA 40323 (7.98' EQ/11.98) 240 CINRAM, a manufacturer of CDs, audio and videotapes, CD -ROMs, and DVD for movie and record companies, reports net profit of $6.3 million on $112.3 WU -TANG CLAN ENTER THE WU -TANG (36 CHAMBERS) 30 28 LOUD 66336*/RCA (10.98/16.98) 56 second income of $4.5 million million in sales for the quarter, compared with JOURNEY JOURNEY'S GREATEST HITS same last year. The results include 31 26 COLUMBIA 44493' (9.98 E0/15.98) 415 on sales of $69.1 million in the period sales from newly acquired Disc Manufacturing Inc. CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL A2 CHRONICLE VOL. 1 32 30 FANTASY 2* (12.98/17.98) 232 and Cinram Espana, as well as revenue from the STEVE MILLER BANDA' GREATEST HITS 1974 -78 new DVD format. Toronto -based Cinram agreed 33 36 CAPITOL 46101 (7.98/11.98) 322 Casper's a part in June to purchase PolyGram Manufacturing & ENIGMA' MCMXC A.D. 321 of everyone's upbringing, Distribution Centres B.V., an operator of a video 34 29 CHARISMA 86224NIRGIN (10.98/16.98) BIG ONES and the music we chose and audiocassette replicator in Amersfoort, AEROSMITH' 35 35 GEFFEN 24716 (12.98/17.98) 62 really reflects the friendly Netherlands, which under separate deals will supply most of the videocas- JANIS JOPLIN GREATEST HITS A' ghost's impact on each settes for Sony Music and Columbia TriStar Home Video in the U.K. 36 32 COLUMBIA 32168 (5.98 EO/9.98) 276 RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE A' RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE 31 45 EPIC 52959* (10.98 E0/16.98) ® 152 50- channel radio broadcast ser- CD RADIO, the developer of a satellite -to -car QUEEN GREATEST HITS ¡¡vvgeneration." vice in the U.S., says that it has obtained $45 million in financing from Loral 38 42 HOLLYWOOD 161265 (10.98/17.98) 242 LntiJO° 45 Space & Communications Ltd. Loral, which is the company's satellite ven- 2PAC ME AGAINST THE WORLD a3 CTOE3413 39 31 INTERSCOPE 50609 * /PRIORITY (10.98/16.98) 87 dor, has purchased $25 million worth of stock in Washington, D.C.-based 15Oß 1Eiß GUNS N' ROSES APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION CD Radio and will defer $20 million in payments to be made in connection 40 44 GEFFEN 24148 (7.98/12.98)' 331 SLAM MOM with the company's satellite contract for three years. Two CD Radio satel- CELINE DIONA' THE COLOUR OF MY LOVE DOO°S lites are scheduled for launch in 1999. 41 34 550 MUSIC 57555/EPIC (10.98 EQ/16.98) 182 OURS PREFER TRACY CHAPMAN A' TRACY CHAPMAN 42 - ELEKTRA 60774/EEG (7.98/11.98) 103 THE MARQUEE GROUP, a New York TV production and talent representa- METALLICAA3 RIDE THE LIGHTNING OPENING tion company, has acquired QBQ Entertainment, which books tours for such 43 38 MEGAFORCE 60396/EEG (10.98/16.98) 341 THEM! acts as Billy Joel, Metallica, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Luther Vandross, and Bruce BRUCE SPRINGSTEENA' GREATEST HITS 44 - COLUMBIA 67060* (10.98 Eß/16.98) 55 EMI -CAPITOL EIfIFRrAINMF'NP PROPERTIES Hornsby, for an estimated $3 million cash. After the deal closes, Dennis ABBA A' GOLD Arfa, founder/CEO of QBQ, will become CEO of a new unit called Marquee 45 39 POLYDOR 517007/A&M (10.98/17.98) 140 TEMPORARY Loco. Music. Marquee Group president/CEO Robert Gutkowski was formerly METALLICAA' CON EmPORARY COMPANY. ELEKTRA 60439/EEG (10.98/16.98) 359 president of New York's Madison Square Garden. 46 43 KORN KORN 47 37 IMMORTAL 66633/EPIC (10.98 E0116.98) IH 77 MAHI Or NTN COMMUNICATIONS, a provider of interactive entertainment, reports a GARTH BROOKS A' GARTH BROOKS 225 GHOSTS? net loss of $2.2 million on sales of $6.2 million in the second 48 - CAPITOL NASHVILLE 90897 (9.98/13.98) WE'LL FIX THAT GREATEST HITS a A' quarter, which ended June 30, compared with profit of 49 40 ROCKET 512532/ISLAND (7.98/11.981 284 Just clip and fax this strip, and mailing $650,000 on $7.1 million in sales last year. Revenue from JARS OF CLAY JARS OF CLAY along with your name NTN's online ventures -interactive trivia and sports 50 - ESSENTIAL/SILVERTONE 41580/JIVE (11.98/16.98) 6E 82 address, to 213.692.1294 by Friday, August 30, 1997 for games -rose 40% in the quarter. In other news, NTN and Catalog albums are 2- year-old titles that have fallen below No. 100 on The Billboard 200 or reissues of entry in a random drawing for GTECH have jointly agreed to terminate a deal in which older albums. Total Chart Weeks column reflects combined weeks title has appeared on The Billboard 200 and Top Pop Catalog Albums. Recording Industry Assn. Of America (RIAA) certification for sales a special limited edition NTN would be acquired by the other company. of 500,000 units. RIAA certification for sales of 1 million units, with multimillion sellers indicated by Casper collectible. and CD prices a numeral following the symbol. *Asterisk indicates vinyl LP is available. Most tape prices, uy.`. r999: n. mars_ r. for BMG and WEA, labels are suggested lists. Tape prices marked EQ, and all other CD prices, are equiva- AB Rapt * L tww Ur EauiW lent prices, which are projected from wholesale prices. ® indicates past or present Heatseeker title. 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76 BILLBOARD AUGUST 30, 1997 www.americanradiohistory.com Merchants & Marketin Au Go Go Hits U.S. Via Mordam G OIN' TO AU GO GO: Some deals While they were cutting the album in ' COMPACT DISCS L.A. December, Cline and Moore No 1 appeal to the freak in us. last YEASTENAT CASSETTES DECLARATIONS an in -store at Rhino. Indie-rock distributor Mordam Rec- decided to play VIDEOS ords in San Francisco is now manufac- That stunning set-46 minutes of bin - turing and distributing the demented *-NF** rattling axe dueling -was recorded by pactMUSIC VINYL Melbourne, Australia -based Au Go Go Cline's longtime associate Wayne Peet CD SINGLES has now been issued on CD as "In- Records in the U.S. llVDEPE)DE)T5,. and OUR ARE ALWAYS *CASSETTE SINGLES Au Go Go has been in business since Store." CUSTOMERS CD -ROM 1979. The company specializes in flam- The record is a joint release of AT THE TOP OF OUR CHARTS ing slabs of way -left rock'n'roll: Its by Chris Morris W.D.T.C.H.C., an LA -based label oper- =ACCESSORIES bulging catalog has included releases by ated by Rhino retail GM Dave Crouch, such home -grown noisemongers as the DISTRIBUTOR-GO- ROUND: A cou- and Father Yod, the Deerfield, Mass. - legendary Scientists and addled U.S. ple of indie distributors have announced based concern of writer (and former Knowledgeable & friendly sales reps ready to practitioners like Panther Burns and personnel additions that bring some vet- Rhino employee) Byron Coley. It's so answer any questions Same day shipping Weekly mailer the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, to eran indie players to new homes. especially fine that we hope other indie name but a handful of acts. The Amer- Now headquartered in Salem, Mass., retailers will consider issuing some of Inquire about FREE NEXT DAY DELIVERY ican bands have usually been repre- after the closure of its Minneapolis their better in -store shows on record. sented on Au Go Go with exclusive facility Aug. 1, the REP Co. has brought DIAL 1.800.899. DISC (3472) packages unavailable at home, like the Ira Kessler on board as its new buyer FLAG WAVING: Seana Carmody, Blues Explosion's fantastic "Mo' and hired Connie Kirch as marketing singer /guitarist for the Boston -based for your greatest hits Width." director. Kessler was formerly with pop band Syrup USA, wasn't expecting Among the initial titles available Alliance Entertainment's one -stop (Continued on next page) through Mordam are "When The Rev- group and with CD One Stop; Kirch olution Comes," from the crushing joins REP from NYNO Records after Texas roots /punk unit the Lord High stints at Rounder and Antone's. Fixers; "What Remains Inside A Black Select -O -Hits in Memphis has cor- Hole," a collection of B -sides by the ralled Gary Barnard as its head buyer extraterrestrial surf combo Man Or and label coordinator. Barnard is a 20- Astroman?; "Get Shitfaced With The year vet most recently with Indepen- These are Onyas," a set from the blotto Aussie dent National Distributors Inc. (INDI) drunk -punks; "Tokyo Trashville," a in Dallas. With Barnard's arrival, compilation of low -fi insanity by such Tiffany Phillips moves over to become zoned -out Japanese groups as Guitar a full -time sales manager. On Aug. 18, Wolf, Teengenerate, the 5.6.7.8's, and Tony Spinosa, formerly with the now- Jackie & the Cedrics; and "Texas," a defunct Passport Music in Denver, self -explanatory comp of Lone Star joined Select -O -Hits as its Midwest rep; garage rockers like Jack O' Fire, Sons the distributor had formerly serviced Of Hercules, the Motards, and Fire- Midwestern accounts out of Memphis. works. Soon to follow will be a batch of In other personnel news, Rick releases that will include a live Chrome Hocutt, L.A. branch manager for Cranks album hitherto unavailable in INDI, was laid off Aug. 15 after the "I have been very pleased with Valley's the U.S. except as a pricey import. branch was shuttered. Hocutt can be reached at 310 -417 -8713. attention to Customer Service and ACE'S HIGH: Malaco Records in commitment to quality. Our Sales Jackson, Miss., has secured a long -term MR. CLINE KEEPS BUSY: Back in license to market the Ace Records cat- April, we wrote in Flag Waving about Representative displays the highest alog in the U.S. and Canada from the the peripatetic guitarist Nels Cline's professionalism and is always U.K. firm Music Collection, which pur- multiplicity of current projects. Cline chased Ace's holdings earlier this year. now has two more new records on the there when help is needed.

Ace was founded in Jackson by leg- market that have an interestingly in- I enjoy dealing with endary Specialty Records A &R man tertwined recording history. Johnny Vincent. During its heyday in Little Brother Records in Eugene, Valley and am very the '50s and '60s, the label waxed classic Ore., has just issued "Pillow Wand," an pleased with the New Orleans R &B and rock'n'roll hits album of probing, largely restrained " by Huey "" Smith & the duets between Cline and Sonic Youth's service. Clowns, Frankie Ford, Earl King, Thurston Moore. Moore, who is one of Jimmy Clanton, and Smith's frequent the most compulsive record shoppers we Brian Jackson lead vocalist Bobby Marchan; in later know, met Cline years ago in L.A. when B.J.'s Video & years the label moved into the Southern the latter musician was still working soul market with records by Willie behind the counter at Rhino Records' Clayton and Cicero Blake. Westwood retail location.

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DECLARATIONS OF INDEPENDENTS (Continued j ona preceding page) her band to be a full-time concern when adds. "And then I got serious about it." produced by Christina Files, who re- she organized it in 1994. Originally a The band -which also includes key - placed Carmody in the Swirlies- Durable & Reliable side group, it has now become a full- boardist Matt Fein, bassist /vocalist sports a number of divergent influ- a new era time gig, and its first album, "All Over Sam Mallory, and drummer Orrin ences: Its keyboard-heavy sound is Easy Installation The Land," arrives Oct. 21 from the Anderson first released a pair of sin- simultaneously reminiscent of the in & Operation Newport, R.I.-based Flydaddy Record,. gles on its own Tru -Luv Recordings John Cale -era Velvet Underground Unparalleled In '94, Carmody was still the front imprint and contributed a couple of and Stereolab, while its oft -perky Sound Reproduction'. woman in the Swirlies, a Beantown tracks to compilations. The group was rhythms call up memories of the early music unit that combined frazzling noise with then signed by Flydaddy, a label that B -52's. Virtually Unlimited off-kilter pop tendencies. "I think they specializes in the forward -looking neo- "It definitely comes from new wave," Custom Fixturing were trying to hide the fact they were pop of artists like Number One Cup Carmody confesses. "Three of us were retailing & Graphics Available pop," Carmody says. and ex- Cardinal member Richard brought up in the '80s. We are all into "I started [Syrup USA] as a cute lit- Davies. that stuff." tle project with a friend of mine," she "All Over The Land" -which was Both Carmody and Anderson bristle slightly at the Stereolab comparisons, CD Listening Stations which they have obviously heard before from the World Leader (unsurprisingly, since the Boston band THE A TO Z OF SUCCESSFUL SELLING has shared a stage with the U.K. in Interactive group). Merchandising Systems "We are much more a pop construc- tion," Anderson says. "[The Stereolab Music previewing works and CD Lister inq sound] tends to be a piece of the song. Stall ons from MTi will help you sell m-,r That's my official defensive position." But, sonic similarities aside, Syrup CDs Get them now and your customs -s USA has its own sense of style, with will have a reascn to return tJ your store Carmody's innocent yet slyly sexy again and again vocals playing neatly off Fein's over-

loaded keyboard sound. "All Over The Ca I MTi at (800 426 -6844 for more irnfornation Land" is a deft, skewed-pop debut. Distributorships available in some arras On Halloween, Syrup USA will begin a national club tour with fellow Bosto- 1050 is W 229th Aye, Hillsboro, Oregon 97'24, USA nians Helium. (SC3) E48 -6500 ;800) 426 -6844 Fax (5(3) 648 -7500 s Y s t 6 M s_:: e -nail cdls @mti- interactive.com wwnt.mti- interactive.com RETAIL TRACK (Continued from page 76) surcharges and lowers minimum orders for most product lines, which means that loose -pick charges are more lenient. In other moves, the company has eliminated its incentive /disincentive charges for all singles. It also has gone to a one -way basis for vinyl albums. In other words, you buy it, you own it. He came to Your PGD also extended new -release with only deals to the Tuesday after street store date. That move, which has been one thing on his embraced by other majors, helps to eliminate front -loading, because it mind. He wanted allows accounts time to more accu- a CD. He didn't rately judge how a record will sell in its initial period of availability. want to hear In one of the more significant "we're out of it." moves detailed in the letter, PGD has embraced Sony Music's and Warner If You had been FOR LONGEVITY LIFT SYSTEMS Music's thinking on selling product internationally via the Internet. It out, he could've ARE NOT FADS WHICH BORE YOU says that Internet sales come under done something its import and export policies, which drastic ... AFTER A FEW MONTHS. THEY ARE I guess means that a U.S. -based Internet merchant can only sell to He'd prohably U.S.-based customers. TIMELESS AND CLASSIC IN DESIGN AND The other significant move the have gone to company made is increasing the another store- ARE AVAILABLE FOR YEARS TO COME. bonus and penalty for cassette orders and returns. The change raises the bonus on cassette purchases from 1% OUR FIXTURES CAN BE RETRO- FITTED might have to 1.75 %, while increasing the penal- he ty from 5.88% to 10.29%, with the never come back. WITH ADDITIONS AND EXTENSIONS FOR ALL break -even staying at 17%. While some may argue that is good for NEW MEDIA PRODUCTS. accounts that buy cassettes wisely because they can make more money, others argue that the higher penalty essentially prepares another nail for SOUT WEST the coffin of the cassette. WHO ESALF

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RAFFI -RAMA: Raffi, the acknowl- can enter a display contest by sending a girl soprano, Shallow s officially tar- a bardic storyteller who accompanies edged king of real -live children's per- color photo of their Singable Songs 20th geted to the 14- to 22- year -old age himself on harp and guitar, gives this formers, marks his 20th year as a kids' Anniversary display, along with perti- group. But whenever Sallow would most mystical of Arthurian legends a recording artist in 1997. He and his nent store information, to Rounder. The make in -store appearances, "We kept rich, captivating treatment. label, Troubadour/Rounder Records, entry deadline is Jan. 31, 1998. The win- getting all these 11- and 12 -year -olds, "The Hidden Grail," which focuses on have a number of events planned in ning outlet will receive a $200 gift cer- and even younger," says Fiona Bloom, bumbling country bumpkin- turned- honor of the milestone. Significantly, his tificate to "a fun eatery of the winner's Zero Hour's director of artist develop- knight Percival and his encounters with Rounder commemorative boxed set, choice," says a Rounder spokesman. ment. "We thought, Wow, we must have the Grail's keeper, the Fisher King, is "The Singable Songs Collection" (three by Moira McCormick In addition, an in -store customer con- something here [that appeals to grade- about "second chances," says Bodkin, CDs at $29.98, three cassettes at test for kids involves having them create schoolers].' " "which gives it a good modern angle. A $19.98), has been selling 500 units a Singable Songs 20th Anniversary par- a drawing of their favorite "Singable That something is Shields herself. lot of people are on second families or week, according to SoundScan. ties. Some 50 stores in the Zany Brainy Song." Three randomly drawn winners Not only does she "look like she's 15 and careers. `The Hidden Grail' is about how Rounder has been pushing the boxed chain (purveyor of children's toys, will receive a complete Raffi CD library sound like she's 11," as Bloom puts it, it can work out all right." "The Hidden set -which contains Raffi's first three books, video, audio, and computer soft- and personally autographed poster. the singer is a positive role model. "She Grail," which was commissioned by the "Singable Songs" albums, "Singable ware) held Raffi parties July 9. Rounder Each store submitting a winning entry likes to talk about the fact that she's Joseph Campbell Festival of Myth, Songs For The Very Young," "More provides Raffi magnets, pins, stickers, will receive a portable CD player. That really clean -living. She doesn't smoke Folklore and Story, is Bodkin's 15th title Singable Songs," and "The Corner Gro- postcards, pencils, balloons, coloring entry deadline is also Jan. 31. or drink and stays away from negative in 15 years and is being distributed by cery Store "-in part via in -store sheets, and games. Participating stores Bing Broderick, Rounder's director influences. Her love and joy is music." Rounder Kids, Silo Music, and Penton of special marketing, says that a num- Zero Hour plans to market Shallow Overseas. ber of chains, including Borders Books to the upper-grade and preteen audi- Bodkin is working on an original & Music and Noodle Kidoodle, are pick- ence once the band is on "a full tour," 10,000-word "high fantasy" epic poem, Billboard® AUGUST 30, 1997 ing up on the Raffi parties. He notes says Bloom (Shallow is on the road with which he's publishing free, canto by Space Age Recordings /Reprise act canto, on his World Wide Web site Spectrum). "We'd like to have Julie (http://www.oddsbodkin.com). "The appear in elementary schools and junior Rowan Canticles: A Tale Told In The TopKid diAuo T M highs, talking about staying drug- and Ancient Manner" is being written in some heroic couplets of iambic tetrameter cc alcohol-free and maybe perform Compiled from a national sample of retail store and rack soundscan® (the second canto, he says, will be qua- sales reports collected, compiled, and provided by I 1 1111 singable songs songs." Bloom notes that Shields has w w c=ai collection already appeared in grade schools in trains). 3 3 o ARTIST/SERIES TITLE hometown. "The Hidden Grail," like "The w the band's I-á LABEL, CATALOG NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL (SHELF PRICE) Odyssey" (which Bodkin has also re- 1- 3 LEGENDARY: One of the best kids' corded), contains themes of universal * * * No. 1 * * * spoken -word recordings we've heard is relevance, he says. In all Bodkin's re- 3 CD A [barns' VARIOUS ARTISTS CLASSIC DISNEY VOL. 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BILLBOARD AUGUST 30, 1997 79 www.americanradiohistory.com Home Video M E R C H A N T S & M A R K E T I N G Gay Films Find Growing Niche Majors Losing Their Unease With Genre BY ANNE SHERBER and no, according to studio executives or in the West Village. Unfortunately, involved in marketing this product. in a large part of the country, there is NEW YORK- Gay -themed movies are There are indications the video busi- still some stigma attached." (The two finding a home in Hollywood and, by ness is responding to the demand for communities, in Los Angeles and New extension, on video. The market isn't in homosexual product. Several major re- York, have large gay populations.) the mainstream, but it's big enough to tail chains, including Virgin, Tower, and Lynn says enough consumers can be support vendors and distributors that Blockbuster, have dedicated gay and reached via direct mail that Wolfe has specialize in the genre. lesbian sections in a number of their created a marketing piece encouraging Consider what's coming out in Hol- stores. And executives at two compa- them to reserve copies with a $25 lywood these days. In "Chasing Amy," nies that specialize in gay- and lesbian - deposit. A fourth -quarter '96 brochure a young man woos a lesbian. In "Love! themed product say that, due to recent "Jeffrey," "The offers "Wigstock," T. Rex Sets Sail. Universal Studios Home Video recently celebrated the Nov. 4 Valour! Compassion!," starring "Sein- high -profile TV shows and movies, Incredible True Adventures Of Two sell- through launch of "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" at the Central Park Boat- feld's" Jason Alexander, playwright sales are up. Girls In Love," and others. house in New York. The sequel will receive $50 million in marketing support. Terrence McNally offers his off- Broad- Maria Lynn, VP of Water Bearer Films, whose catalog distribution at Leading T. Rex to retail, from left, are Charlie Katz, Universal Studios' senior VP way-to- screen paean to gay life in the Wolfe Video, says that in addition to a is divided between art -house films and of marketing; Madeline Di Nonno, VP of strategic marketing; "Lost World" cast '905. list of 100,000 consumers and 400 gay "alternative lifestyle" product, distrib- member Vanessa Chester; and Andrew Kairey, Universal executive VP On TV, Ellen DeGeneres reveals her and lesbian bookstores, the company (Continued on next page) sexual identity in "Ellen" and in real does business with Ingram Entertain- life, while Disney shrugs off a threat- ment and Baker & Taylor, among other ened boycott. mainstream wholesalers. That's just this year. Over the past Wolfe, which distributes its own DVD Video Group Ramps Up Its five years, the studios have increasing- titles and those of BMG Video and ly embraced gay characters and situa- Columbia TriStar, got a leg up on the tions that on occasion generate big the- competition when Lily Tomlin chose the Marketing Blitz For The 4th Quarter atrical and cassette numbers. The company to be the exclusive distributor shining examples are Columbia Tri- of her videos, including her best -selling s CHOOL DAYS: Kids had their usual summer break, but ers Assn. (VSDA) Convention in Las Vegas, DVG was Star's "Philadelphia," about a lawyer "The Search For Signs Of Intelligent classes never let out for DVD marketers. Hardware and more concerned with housekeeping details like estab- dying of AIDS, and MGM's "The Bird- Life In The Universe." That drew the software suppliers are still at the low end of the learning lishing an 800 number, linking a World Wide Web site to cage," the thoroughly Americanized studios' attention -as well as the Wolfe curve in the school of hard knocks called retail. those of its members, and handing off promotional respon- "La Cage Aux Folles." catalog, which showed them "we're tar- The newly formed DVD Video Group (DVG) held a tuto- sibilities. There have also been starring roles geting markets that they're not already rial Aug. 15 at Sony headquarters in New York in an effort Douglas Consulting Group in Los Angeles, which orga- in "Wigstock," "To Wong Foo, Thanks in," Lynn notes. to launch its first joint advertising and promotion cam- nized the VSDA presentation, got the job to mount a fall For Everything, Julie Newmar," Unlike most other niche product, paign, timed for the all- important fourth quarter. A suc- consumer print campaign hailing DVD. An Aug. 12 press "Priest," and "Jeffrey" and featured gay -themed video tends to sell through, cessful holiday season -extending into January, when gift release points the direction: "Holiday gifts take on new performances in moneymakers like even at a rental price point. "A lot of certificates are redeemed -is crucial. DVD hasn't disap- sights and sounds." Philips DVD Entertainment Group "Four Weddings And A Funeral" and people are embarrassed to rent this pointed since its March launch; then again, expectations executive VP Emiel Petrone expects that the general "Mrs. Doubtfire." Rupert Everett, product," says Tracy Colona, executive were purposely dampened public "will know what playing a gay publisher, steals Colum- director of marketing and advertising until Warner Home Video DVD is" by year's end and bia TriStar's "My Best Friend's Wed- for Columbia TriStar. rolled out nationally. that 1998 will herald the ding," a candidate for direct -to -sell- This fall, the studio will be repricing Now software and play- start "of a very successful through release this fall. "The Celluloid Closet," a documentary ers should be everywhere, platform." But is Hollywood ready to open the about gays in Hollywood. Says Colona, while new releases contin- PURE DVG has added seven to closet and embrace what's inside? Yes "Not everyone lives in West Hollywood ue to flow unabated into 10 members since VSDA the market. Even if suppli- for a total of 26, including ers haven't pinpointed de- post -production houses, mand. Anchor Bay Enter- TR-WS replicators, and pack- Cable, Satellite, Vid Execs tainment, savvy in VHS agers. Retailers also are sell -through, admits that it by Seth Goldstein being solicited. "We're has no idea who's buying very pleased by the Debate Digital TV Options what or how many they're purchasing. Nonetheless, the response," says Petrone, who chairs the group. NEW YORK- Executives in cable, DVD is already beginning to fulfill company has high hopes for its first DVD slate, anchored The September meeting likely will be held in Los Ange- satellite, and video attending the Aug. its promise, according to a panel con- by the horror classic "Halloween." les as part of a monthly bicoastal drill. If and when the 12 -14 Digital Television Summit here, sisting of Emiel Petrone, executive VP Display racks need the fresh blood (and, in many stores, fence -sitting studios -Disney, Fox, and Paramount -enter sponsored by Kagan Seminars Inc., of Philips DVD Entertainment Group; something that explains the format), because the goods the business remains a puzzle. Given the positive start and were nicer to each other than they've Mike Fidler, VP of DVD at Sony Con- are moving. PolyGram Video president Bill Sondheim glowing outlook, "I'm just my head," Petrone been in the past. sumer Products; and Steve Nickerson, told video retailers attending the annual Sunsplash week- says. "I just don't get it." But the rivals for consumer attention DVD marketing VP for Toshiba Amer- end in Myrtle Beach, S.C., that he's shipping - took to familiar barricades when they ica Consumer Products. Their remarks sized quantities of his leadoff titles- 20,000 of "Lord Of ANCHOR'S AWAY: Blockbuster's loss is Anchor Bay's debated how best to bring digital enter- had the support of Kagan analyst The Dance" and 25,000 of "Fargo." gain in DVD. The Dallas-based chain ran out of rights to tainment into the home. DVD propo- Larry Gerbrandt, who was optimistic Barely 2 months old, DVD is already turning a profit, John Carpenter's "Halloween," which it issued as a retail nents contended that packaged media about near- and long -term results. Ger- Sondheim noted (holding to a schedule set down in a pre- exclusive, and "we were able to do a new deal," says Anchor offers the best solution. Meanwhile, brandt forecast 800,000 DVD units launch announcement earlier this spring). With results Bay acquisitions VP Jay Douglas. He's picking up where cable and satellite advocates opted for installed by the end of 1997,15 million like these, PolyGram and player manufacturer Philips the previous licensee and predecessor company, Video direct-to -home transmission. in five years, and 40 million in 2006. have the incentive they need to attract crowds to a joint Treasures, left off three years ago. One executive trotted out a premise The format competition will keep the DVD demonstration at the East Coast Video Show Oct. 7- Douglas has assembled a horrifyingly strong opening as old as cassette rentals in an attempt studios on their toes. Warner Home 9 in Atlantic City, N.J. DVD lineup, including "Dawn Of The Dead," "Prom to bridge the gap. Ed Bleier, president Video president Warren Lieberfarb, a Ironically, the only dust clouding the picture is from Night" (like "Halloween," starring the '70s queen of slice of domestic pay-TV cable and network DVD panelist, said, "Its going to be Philips and Sony. The pair lost out in the DVD format bat- and dice, Jamie Lee Curtis), "Hellraiser," and David Cro- features for Warner Bros., suggested hard to keep any form of packaged tle that ended 18 months ago and now seem to be getting nenberg's "Dead Ringers" (with Jeremy Irons playing that pay -per -view movies actually pro- media going in this new digital land- payback via newspaper headlines. When Sony announced twin gynecologists). Sometime next year, Anchor will in- mote rentals. scape. Pay-per -view and near- video -on- last month in Tokyo that it, Philips, and Hewlett- Packard troduce Hammer titles new to the video genre, among "Pay- per-view helps home video. We demand will grow because of channel were pursuing a recordable DVD standard, The Wall them "Dracula, Prince Of Darkness," "Plague Of Zom- spend a fortune promoting movies on capability, start times, and convenience. Street Journal sounded the alarm: The development was bies," "Quatermass," and "Lost Continent." Laserfile is cable. But as we know, pay-per -view But the growth will have to be very sig- "clouding digital videodisks' future." Never mind that the packaging the $24.98 DVD titles; Nimbus probably will offers a lot of promotion," said Bleier. nificant before there is a shift in cur- proposal relates currently only to computer applications, replicate, at a rate of about 15,000 copies each. "As many people who see those promos rent window patterns." is years away from implementation, and doesn't begin to Future releases could involve New Jersey -based Elite go to the video store to rent the movie To compete with online digital trans- deal with the thorniest consumer issue, copyright controls. Entertainment, which produces and sells like as order pay -per - view" mission, Lieberfarb continued, studios The Journal still managed to get phones ringing. "Night Of The Living Dead" that Anchor uses as masters In the race between formats, all will have to view DVD not as an alter- Ultimately, the DVG should be able to smooth ruffled for VHS copies. The two team up to "track down who owns agreed the studios will continue to native to television but as a business feathers. At the New York meeting, the first since the the license," says Elite's Vini Bancalari. Elite has a DVD grant winner's status to whichever more closely resembling music and trade group emerged during July's Video Software Deal- line as well (see Shelf Talk, page 82). delivery system makes the most money. (Continued on page 83) 80 BILLBOARD AUGUST 30, 1997 www.americanradiohistory.com Billboard. AUGUST 30, 1997 Home Video

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Video Rentals.. GAY FILMS FIND GROWING NICHE (Continued from preceding page) COMPILED FROM A NATIONAL SAMPLE OF RETAIL STORE RENTAL REPORTS. a1- utes only its own releases, all at $39.95 Y Y = w U W suggested list. Sales VP Mike Stimler O says, "We acquire our own titles exclu- Label Principal sively, and then we market them i á 3 TITLE (Rating) r- Distributing Label, Catalog Number Performers through the entire system to gay and * * * No.1 * * * lesbian bookstores, gay general novel-

Dimension Home Video Neve Campbell ty stores, Tower, and Virgin." 1 1 7 SCREAM (R) Buena Vista Home Video 10499 Drew Barrymore Stimler says Water Bearer arrived

Gent Eaacwood at $39.95 after some experimentation. 2 2 5 ABSOLUTE POWER (R) Warner Home Video 2508 Gene Hackman "We originally priced gay and lesbian

Al Pacino videos at $59.95," he notes. "Even 3 4 4 DONNIE BRASCO (R) Columbia TriStar Home Video 82513 Johnny Depp though $39.95 is neither fish nor fowl, Home Entertainment we've found it sells really well at that 4 3 4 SLING BLADE (R) Billy Bob Thornton Buena Vista Home Video 10487 price." Stimler also attributes recent Howard Stern sales gains to broader acceptance in 5 6 4 PRIVATE PARTS (R) Paramount Home Video 33251 Robin Quivers Hollywood. "The studios are beginning The corps de ballet in New Line's "Love! Valour! Compassion!" gently spoofs Touchstone Home Video to realize that you can market to the 6 5 5 METRO (R) Eddie Murphy gay sensibilities. Homosexual- and lesbian- oriented titles are gaining wider Buena Vista Home Video 1036 gay and lesbian population without acceptance in theaters and on cassette, as chains broaden their purchases. Penelope Ann Miller population." 7 8 4 THE RELIC (R) Paramount Home Video 331543 offending the general Tom Sizemore Though Water Bearer does best on New Line Home Video Geoffrey Rush in met- in general bemoan the difficul- Home Video's VP of marketing for 8 9 5 SHINE (PG -13) the East and West coasts, major keters Warner Home Video N4546 Armin Mueller-Stahl ropolitan areas, and on and around col- ty of getting retailers to focus on de- rental product. Jack Nicholson As proof, Bell cites reorder patterns 9 7 9 MARS ATTACKS! (PG -13) Warner Home Video 14480 lege campuses, he knows of more ex- mand rather than personal tastes. Glenn Close ceptions to those rules than one might "What I've found is with that gay - for repriced titles like "The Incredible Walt Disney Home Video Tim Allen Two In 10 14 2 JUNGLE 2 JUNGLE (PG) expect: "There are three general- inter- themed, or African- American- themed True Adventures Of Girls Buena Vista Home Video 603295 Martin Short est, mom -and -pop video stores in Des [releases], for that matter, retailers Love." The numbers are often disap- John T New Line takes the 11 10 10 MICHAEL (PG) Warner Home Video 16303 Moines [Iowa] that do a spectacular tend to underbuy initially because pointing unless Andie acDaowell business." they're not really sure how it will rent extra step. Chevy Chase 83) 12 13 6 VEGAS VACATION (PG) Warner Home Video 14906 Des Moines notwithstanding, mar- or sell," says Michele Bell, New Line (Continued on page Beverly D'Angelo

Tom Cruise 13 11 11 JERRY MAGUIRE (R) Columbia TriStar Home Video 82533 Cuba Gooding, Jr. Billboard AUGUST 30, 1997 Matthew Perry 14 18 5 FOOLS RUSH IN (PG -13) Columbia TriStar Home Video 94943 Salma Hayek

Hollywood Pictures Home Video Madonna 15 36 2 (PG) Buena Vista Home Video 12096 Antonio Banderas Top Special Interest Video Sales.. 16 15 6 BEVERLY HILLS NINJA (PG -13) Columbia TriStar Home Video 82503 Chris Farley

Compiled from a national sample of retail Compiled from a national sample of retail Woody Harrelson 17 12 11 THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT (R) Columbia TriStar Home Video 82453 stores sales reports. stores sales reports. Courtrtnn Love ó1- 3 ó Wesley Snipes a 18 34 2 MURDER AT 1600 (R) Warner Home Video 14915 N ucc Diane Lane YaN TITLE Ya TITLE H 3U Program Supplier, Catalog Number F 3= Program Supplier, Catalog Number Touchstone Home Video Mel Gibson 19 16 13 RANSOM (R) Buena Vista Home Video 8295 Rene Russo Alec Baldwin RECREATIONAL SPORTS HEALTH AND FITNESS. 20 5 GHOSTS OF MISSISSIPPI (PG -13) Columbia TriStar Home Video 95103 20 James Woods * * NO. 1 * * * * NO. 1 * * John Cleese 21 17 6 FIERCE CREATURES (PG -13) Universal Studios Home Video 82824 Jamie Lee Curtis TIGER WOODS: SON, HERO & CHAMPION THE FIRM: 5 DAY ABS 1 2 9 14.98 1 81 14.98 FoxVideo (CBS Video) 4098 BMG Video 80116 -3 Miramax Home Entertainment Jon Favreau 22 24 12 SWINGERS (R) THE FIRM: FIRM CARDIO Buena Vista Home Video 10483 Vince Vaughn MICHAEL JORDAN: ABOVE & BEYOND 19.98 1 14.98 2 2 17 2 67 FoxVideo (CBS/Fox) 8360 BMG Video 80314 -3 New Line Home Video 23 19 7 JACKIE CHAN'S FIRST STRIKE (R) Jackie Chan YEARS OF UNFORGETTABLE PLAYS &BLOOPERS THE FIRM: ABS, HIPS & THIGHS SCULPTING Warner Home Video N4456 THIS WEEK IN BASEBALL: 20 19.98 3 39 14.98 3 3 43 3 Orion Home Video 96002 BMG Video 80114 -3 Miramax Home Entertainment Diane Keaton 24 22 9 MARVIN'S ROOM (PG -13) Buena Vista Home Video 10496 Meryl Streep MICHAEL JORDAN: COME FLY WITH MEN THE FIRM: FIRM STRENGTH 386 19.98 4 17 19.98 4 4 FoxVideo (CBS/Fox) 2173 4 BMG Video 80305 -3 New Line Home Video Holly Hunter 25 HEWN. CRASH (NC -17) Warner Home Video N4565 James Spader THE OFFICIA 1996 -97 NBA CHAMPIONSHIP VIDEO THE FIRM: AEROBIC INTERVAL TRAINING 19.98 7 43 19.98 5 6 3 FoxVideo (CBS/Fox) 8452 5 BMG Video 80112 -3 RayrLi Holly 26 21 7 TURBULENCE (R) HBO Home Video Ray otta NBA AT 50 THE GRIND WORKOUT HIP HOP AEROBICS* 7 27 19.98 6 6 103 12.98 6 FoxVideo (CBS/Fox) 8450 Sony Music Video 49659 Julia Ormond 21 23 3 SMILLA'S SENSE OF SNOW (R) FoxVideo 4180 Gabriel Byrne MICHAEL JORDAN: AIR TIME THE GRIND WORKOUT: FITNESS WITH FLAVA 9.98 12.98 1 10 217 7 5 85 Sony Music Video 49796 Jack Lemmon FoxVideo (CBS/Fox) 5770 28 28 8 MY FELLOW AMERICANS (PG -13) Warner Home Video 14535 James Garner MUHAMMAD ALI: SKILL, BRAINS, & GUTS THE GRIND WORKOUT: STRENGTH AND FITNESS RE-ENTRY 19.98 14 29 12.98 8 Video 8 Sony Music Video 49805 Touchstone Home Video Matt Dillon MPI Home MP7116 29 25 2 ALBINO ALLIGATOR (R) Buena Vista Home Video 10460 Faye Dunaway DALLAS COWBOYS: SUPER BOWL XXX CHAMPIONS THE FIRM: THE HARE WORKOUT 19.95 19.98 9 12 67 9 10 19 BMG Video Jamie Eon PolyGram Video 8006353633 80124 -3 30 NEW BOOTY CALL (R) Columbia TriStar Home Video 94953 Tommy Davidson MIKE TYSON: THE INSIDE STORY CINDY CRAWFORD/THE NEXT CHALLENGE 19.98 8 131 19.99 10 9 83 MPI Home Video 7074 10 GoodTimes Home Video 05 -7100 BDOEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD 31 26 9 (PG 13) Paramount Home Video 332503 Animated AMERICA MICHAEL JORDAN'S PLAYGROUND THE FIRM: THE TORTOISE WORKOUT 19.98 19.98 11 16 291 11 11 19 BMG Video 80123 -3 Daniel Day -Lewis FoxVideo (CBS/Fox) 2858 32 27 6 THE CRUCIBLE (PG -13) FoxVideo 0414485 Winona Ryder MICHAEL JORDAN: THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION THE FIRM: COMPLETE AEROBIC WEIGHT TRAINING 29.98 19.98 12 13 29 12 9 43 BMG Video 80115 -3 New Line Home Video Sandra Bullock FoxVideo (CBS/Fox) 4101090 33 37 7 IN LOVE AND WAR (PG -13) Warner Home Video N4559 Chris O'Donnell THE OFFICIAL 1996 NBA FINALS VIDEO THE FIRM: UPPER BODY 19.98 14.98 13 1 3 13 15 63 BMG Video 80118 -3 Michelle Pfeiffer FoxVideo (CBS/Fox) 8345 34 29 12 ONE FINE DAY (PG) FoxVideo 4145 George Clooney MARK MESSIER: LEADER, CHAMPION & LEGEND THE FIRM: BODY SCULPTING BASICS 14 5 15 14.98 14 12 75 19.98 Sylvester Stallone FoxVideo ( CBS/Fox) 8425 BMG Video 80110 -3 35 32 12 DAYLIGHT (PG -13) Universal Studios Home Video 82828 Amy Brenneman THE OFFICIAL 1996 -97 STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONSHIP VIDEO THE FIRM: TIME CRUNCH WORKOUT 15 8 3 19.98 15 20 45 19.98 Harrison Ford FoxVideo (CBS/Fox) 4090 BMG Video 80113 -3 36 NEW THE DEVIL'S OWN (R) Columbia TriStar Home Video 82463 Brad Pitt MUHAMMAD ALI: THE WHOLE STORY YOGA JOURNAL'S YOGA PRACTICE FOR BEGINNERS 16 RE-ENTRY 109.98 16 16 149 14.98 Patrick Stewart Warner Home Video D5586 Healing Arts 1088 31 33 12 STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT (PG -13) Paramount Home Video 32797 Jonathan Frakes SUPER SLUGGERS THE FIRM: LOWER BODY SCULPTING 17 17 35 14.98 17 13 59 14.98 Jason Patric Orion Home Video 96001 BMG Video 80120 38 30 20 SLEEPERS (R) Warner Home Video 14482 Brad Pitt DORF GOES FISHINGO THE FIRM: LOW IMPACT AEROBICS 19.95 19.98 18 15 437 18 17 77 Video Victory BMG 80111 -3 39 31 11 THE MIRROR HAS TWO FACES (PG -13) Columbia TriStar Home Video 82523 Jeff Bridges NHL OVERTIME CRUNCH: FAT BLASTER PLUS RE-ENTRY 14.98 18 39 9.98 Diane Keaton 19 FoxVideo (CBS/Fox) 8357 19 Anchor Bay Entertainment SV10092 40 35 22 THE FIRST WIVES CLUB (PG) Paramount Home Video 326123 Hawn THE 1996 WORLD SERIES VIDEO BUNS OF STEEL 3 WITH TAMILEE WEBB 19.98 163 9.95 20 18 39 20 19 WarnerVision Entertainment 131 ITA gold certification for a minimum of 125,000 units or a dollar volume of $9 million at retail Orion Home Video 91096 for theatrically released programs, or of at least 25,000 units and $1 million at suggested retail for nontheatrical titles. O ITA platinum certification for a minimum sale of 250,000 units or a dollar ITA gold certification for sale of 125,000 units or a dollar volume of $9 million a retail for theat ically released programs, 25,000 units and $1 million at sug- volume of $18 million at retail for theatrically released programs, and of at least, 50,000 units and gested retail for nontheatrical titles. OITA platinum certification for sale of 250,000 units or a dollar volume of $18 million at retail for theatrically released pro- $2 million at suggested retail for nontheatrical titles. © 1997, Billboard/BPI Communications. grams, or 50,000 units or $2 million at suggested retail for nontheatrical titles. 4/1997, Billboard/BPI Communications.

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Elite Brings Horror To DVD; TM H acr COMPILED FROM A NATIONAL SAMPLE OF RETAIL STORE SALES REPORTS. Y Y Ux Sony Seeks Animation Deal z v w uuj 3 o m á Á 1ûa U' Ñ ui Label Principal -a 0 .- J TITLE TAKING THE PLUNGE: Special- PAJAMA PARTY: In a unique 3 Distributing Label, Catalog Number Performers > 1 Ñ ty laserdisc supplier Elite Enter- marketing joint venture, PolyGram tainment is jumping on the DVD Video and Random House Children's * * * No. 1 * ** bandwagon with its tiny catalog of Publishing are teaming to launch a Tom Cruise 1 1 11 JERRY MAGUIRE Columbia TriStar Home Video 82533 1996 R 14 95 horror films. series called "The Crayon Box." `Cuba Gooding, Jr. The Rockaway, N.J. Elite -based Under terms of the deal, the com- 2 2 4 FUN AND FANCY FREE Walt Disney Home Video 9875 Animated 1947 G 26.99 just shipped 3,000 units of a special panies jointly own the property, Walt Disney Home Video Tim Allen collector's edition of "Night Of The which will air in syndication this fall, 3 3 2 JUNGLE 2 JUNGLE 1997 PG 22.99 Living Dead." The title has a sug- according to PolyGram director of Buena Vista Home Video 60329 Martin Short

gested retail price of $29.99. Three - children's marketing Laura Smith. 4 5 8 DAS BOOT-THE DIRECTOR'S CUT Columbia TriStar Home Video 22203 Jurgen Prochnow 1981 R 24.95 year-old Elite has already released Random House will debut a book New Line Home Video 15 1, 5 4 6 PINK FLAMINGOS Divine 1972 NC -17 19.98 titles on laserdisc, including "The Nov and in 1998 PolyGram will Warner Home Video N4043 Texas Chainsaw Massacre." By the distribute videos from the series. Walt Disney Home Video 6 NEW POOH'S GREAT ADVENTURE Animated 1997 end of this year, it will release an The companies are signing up Buena Vista Home Video 16030 G 24.99 additional dozen titles on laserdisc. for toy licensees and other mer- HBO Home Video 7 NEW SPAWN Animated President Vini Bancalari says chandise rights. Warner Home Video 91425 1997 NR 22.97 the company The televi- Mighty Morphin 8 6 6 -A POWER RANGERS MOVIE FoxVideo 4181 1996 PG 19.98 took "the DVD sion show will Power Rangers plunge" be- be distributed cause its laser SHELF by Sachs Fam- 9 7 26 LORD OF THE DANCE PolyGram Video 4400431893 Michael Flatley 1997 NR 24.95 orders began ily Entertain- VCI l0 8 64 RIVERDANCE -THE SHOW Various Artists 1996 NR 24.95 dropping off ment, which Columbia TriStar Home Video 84060 about a year TA 14 introduced the ii 11 9 11 HAPPY GILMORE Universal Studios Home Video 82820 Adam Sandler 1996 PG -13 14.98 ago. by Eileen Fitzpatrick Australian im- "When we port "Bananas ALANIS ETTE: JAGGED 12 10 6 Warner Reprise Video 38476 Alanis Morissette 1997 NR 19.98 first started In Pajamas" to LITTLE PILLILL, LIVE three years ago, if a supplier had a the U.S. market two years ago. In Hollywood Pictures Home Video Sean Connery 13 11 11 THE ROCK 1996 R 19.99 pre -order for 1,000 laser units, they order to raise awareness for "The Buena Vista Home Video 8887 Nicolas Cage would order 2,000 from us" in antic- Crayon Box," a 15- minute segment No Limit Video 14 12 11 I'M BOUT IT Master P 1997 R 19.98 ipation of a sell -out, says Bancalari, of the show will air with 15 minutes Priority Video 53423 half of Elite's two -man operation. of "Bananas." Playboy Home Video 15 13 5 PLAYBOY'S GIRLS IN UNIFORM Various Artists 1997 NR 19.98 "Now, with the talk about DVD, a Sachs has already cleared the Universal Music Video Dist. PBV081 1 supplier usually orders 1,020 units program in all markets (90% of Walt Disney Home Video Glenn Close the 16 14 18 101 DALMATIANS 1996 G 26.99 on a 1,000 unit pre- order." Most U.S.) that now air "Bananas." Buena Vista Home Video 8996 Jeff Daniels

authoring is being done by Crofton, "Partnering `Crayon Box' with 11 22 2 BIOHUNTER Urban Vision Entertainment 1001 Animated 1997 NR 19.95 Md. -based NB Digital Solutions; `Bananas' is good timing for the pro- BEAVIS & BUTT -HEAD: INNOCENCE MTV Music Television Laserfile is the packager. ducers of `Bananas,' " says Smith. 18 21 4 Animated 1997 NR 14.98 Elite has no plans to cease sell- "It freshens up `Bananas,' and the LOST Sony Music Video 49332 Nickelodeon Video ing laserdiscs. "I think the two for- producers get a break from making 19 17 4 A RUGRATS VACATION Animated 1997 NR 12.95 Paramount Home Video 837793 mats will co -exist for a while, and 30- minute programs." The two PLAYBOY'S BIKER BABES -HOT Playboy Home Video 20 15 5 Various Artists 1997 NR 19.98 laser is for a while," shows also share the same director. WHEELS & HIGH HEELS Universal Music Video Dist. PBV0815 he says. "The Crayon Box" is an animated Playboy Home Video Bancalari, who started Elite out program about battling crayons that 21 19 9 PLAYBOY'S REAL COUPLES II Various Artists 1997 NR 19.98 Universal Music Video Dist. PBV0809 of his love for horror films, says the must learn to work together to cre- DVD editions will contain as much ate pictures. It is based on a poem 22 20 23 SPACE JAM Warner Home Video 16400 Michael Jordan 1996 PG 22.96 additional material as he can get his written by Shane De Rolf. John Travolta 23 24 81 GREASE Paramount Home Video 1 108 1978 PG 14.95 hands on. For example, "Night Of Olivia Newton -John The Living Dead" has commentary M EETING OF THE MINDS: ALL THE KING'S MEN: THE 24 NEW Real Entertainment Various Artists 1997 NR 19.99 from director George Romero and Five companies are joining forces to SECRET LIFE OF ELVIS 3001 a second audio track featuring cast produce "Great Minds Of Business," PLAYBOY CELEBRITY CENTERFOLD: Playboy Home Video 25 NEW Farrah Fawcett 1997 NR 19.98 members, theatrical trailers, origi- a project that will be released in var- FARRAH FAWCETT Universal Music Video Dist. PBV0812 nal television commercials, and a ious formats beginning in Septem- Sam Neill 26 16 60 JURASSIC PARK O Universal Studios Home Video 81409 1993 PG -13 9.98 student -made short, "Night Of The ber. Laura Dern Living Bread," in which slices of Forbes Inc., Unapix Entertain- Kyle MacLachlan 27 23 21 DUNE Universal Studios Home Video 80161 1984 PG -13 14.98 bread (instead of zombies) attack ment, PBS station WGBH Boston, Sting people. John Wiley & Sons, and Simon & 28 NEW ESCAPE FROM L.A. Paramount Video Kurt 1996 R 14.95 Next on the schedule are "Re- Schuster Audio are partners in the Home 332493 Russell Animator" and "Lady In White," deal. The five-part series, produced Harvey Keitel 29 25 90 RESERVOIR DOGS Live Home Video 68993 1992 R 14.98 which will include more than 80 pho- by WGBH and Unapix, gathers Tim Roth tographs and a separate soundtrack. leading business leaders for one -on- Frances McDormand 30 18 24 FARGO PolyGram Video 8006386933 1996 R 19.95 Both titles will be out in time for one interviews with Forbes maga- William H. Macy Halloween. zine senior editor Gretchen Mor- THUG IMMORTAL - 31 26 13 Xenon Entertainment 1085 Tupac Shakur 1997 R 24.95 genson. STORY SONY'S LOOKING: With the pop- Featured guests are former Fed- Robert De Niro 32 35 22 GOODFELLAS Warner Home Video 12039 1990 R 19.98 ularity of Japanese animation videos eral Reserve chairman Paul Volcker; Joe Pesci is looking Intel Andrew Richard Gere on the rise, Sony Wonder CEO Grove; toy man- 33 39 78 PRETTY WOMAN Touchstone Home Video 1027 1990 R 19.99 for a way to participate. ufacturer Pleasant Rowland, who Julia Roberts James Stewart "Japanese animation is very suc- founded the American Girls Doll Col- 34 27 37 VERTIGO Universal Studios Home Video 82940 1958 PG 19.98 cessful, and its followers buy every- lection; Federal Express founder Kim Novak Playboy Home Video thing available," says senior VP of Fred Smith; and former Magellan 35 28 18 PLAYBOY'S VOLUPTUOUS VIXENS Various Artists 1997 NR 19.98 Music Video Dist. PBVO820 marketing Wendy Moss. "But it's Fund manager Peter Lynch. Each Universal Tom Hulce definitely a niche market." Moss will tackle a different business topic, 36 29 83 AMADEUS Republic Pictures Home Video 5805 1984 PG 14.98 F. Murray Abraham would like a distribution deal with including finance, management, mar- GOOSEBUMPS: THE HAUNTED 37 32 2 FoxVideo 4398 Various Artists 1997 NR 14.98 an established player in order to keting, investing, and entrepreneur- MASK II ship. enter the business "instantly." 38 30 148 THE GODFATHER Paramount Home Video 8049 1972 R 24.95 But don't look for Sony to pick up PBS will begin airing the series Al Pacino any of the racy material typical of Sept. 15, followed by a video release Epic Music Video Joe Satrianh/Eric 39 36 10 G3: LIVE IN CONCERT 1997 NR 19.98 Japanimation. "It will be adult pro- the next day. Tapes will sell for Sony Music Video 50157 Johnson/Steve Vai grams, but not offensive," says $19.98 each or $79.98 for the boxed MGM /UA Home Video Peter Sellers 40 34 5 THE PINK PANTHER 1964 NR 14.95 Moss. In addition, she notes, the set. Each segment runs 30 minutes. Warner Home Video 663843 David Niven label is looking to take a new direc- A John Wiley companion book is due RIAA gold for sales of 50,000 units or $1 million in sales at suggested retail. RIM platinum cert. for sales of 100,000 units or $2 million in sales at suggested in stores 19, day- and -date with cert. tion and may pick up some sports Sept. retail. ITA gold certification for a minimum of 125,000 units or a dollar volume of $9 million at retail for theatrically released programs, or of at least 25,000 units and $1 programs as well. the Simon & Schuster audiotape. million at suggested retail for nontheatrical titles. O ITA platinum certification for a minimum sale of 250,000 units or a dollar volume of $18 million at retail for theatrically released programs, and of at least, 50,000 units and $2 million at suggested retail for nontheatrical titles. ®1997, Billboard/BPI Communications.

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GAY FILMS ( Continued from page 81) For instance, the company created an advertising campaign specifically for Out magazine to drum up interest in "Even Cowgirls Get The Blues," a F»LAr1E3IIR'r' TRAVELER box -office disaster directed by Gus Van Sant. New Line exhorted readers to "go to your video store and ask for it now if THIS IS ONE TRIP YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS your retailers has no plans to bring it in," Bell says. As result, she adds, the title enjoyed "significant incremental bumps" and exceeded sales goals. cc But for every title that overachieves, Front Jan C. Nickman, am Sumoc, last of the Phleig, several underachieve. Stimler says that Creator of the Original Water Bearer's very best releases The Planetary Travelers..." sometimes reach 8,000 units. BMG "The Mind's Eye" Video marketing director Stephanie Kovner acknowledges that "Stonewall," the critically acclaimed documentary With these words begins the ultimate quest of a mysterious alien about the landmark 1969 melee at a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village, P L-AlrIETi9RL J race. Their visual flight 'cgs unfold in a mesmerizing display of "didn't do great," although "we were TRAVELER nature's art on a cosmic scale. Spectacular planetary landscapes fine with the numbers." '0 According to Kovner, BMG eschewed overwhelm the senses in an unparalleled fusion of computer audience -specific advertising largely animation and originally scored music. because the potential audience for 7 "Stonewall" is much broader than gays. m Kovner believes the low sales had "less to do with the film's gay theme and more to do with the fact that retailers perceived it as a B title." However, there is an interesting foot- note to the "Stonewall" story. "I got a call from [a representative] at Columbia Records," Kovner recalls. "From the 31 street date forward, sales of the film's soundtrack jumped." The album, which is promoted at the beginning of the m video, includes performances by Judy r Garland and Patty LaBelle. m

CABLE, SATELLITE 41110111111111 (Continued from page 80) books. Two Hollywood majors, unsure W!NSrwp now, mak- about DVD until are near to WHE71028 ing that decision, he believes. Lieberfarb predicted Disney and Fox VNS' KEY SELLING POINTS will announce their plans to release HI FI movies on DVD at year's end. The third Planetary Traveler is the brainchild of two -time Emmy® award winning fence-sitter, Paramount, is dealing with director /producer Jan C. Nickman. His ground breaking projects include issues associated with sister subsidiary, Blockbuster, and what DVD may mean the multi-platinum computer animated video hit The Mind's Eye! "A feature production that's truly of the to rentals, in his view. The brilliant original musical sere was created by Grammy nominated Warner, which has released more 21st century... the fluid landscapes DVD titles than any other supplier, still composer Paul Haslinger, formerly of Tangerine Dream. hasn't formulated plans for secondary demonstrate state -of-the-art digital A revolutionary production... This breathtaking production triumphs as the and direct -to -video titles. However, computer effects that will mesmerize..." Lieberfarb sided with Toshiba's Nick- first full-length program ever produced entirely on desktop computers. erson, who said DVD will open up pro- Catherine Applefeld Olson gramming areas that haven't been Billboard Magazine MARKETING SUPPORT viable on VHS: "You'll see [what] you don't see in the bookstore." A massive publicity blitz in print and television. Your customers can't miss Operas with subtitles, ballets, and "certain definitive rock concerts" are the news about Planetary Traveler "potential sleeper products," Lieber- Order Date: September 5, 1997 Television advertising: 30 second spots will air after street date on The Sci- farb concurred. DVD panelists were skeptical about Street Date: September 26, 1997 Fi Channel, ESPN2, Fox Sports Net, and The Travel Channel. the potential of the pay-per -view tech- Traveler website for more nology known as Zoom TV to affect the You and your customers can vAt the Planetary format. Zoom was widely publicized at Suggested Retail Price: $19.98 background and additional pre iuct information. Take a look- the address the July Video Software Dealers Assn. Catalog Number: WHE71028 is http: //www.thirdplanet- inc.ocm. convention in Las Vegas as a way for program suppliers to share in DVD ISBN: 1-57252-134-1 Planetary Traveler shelf-talkers available for in -store promotion. revenues; consumers could either buy the disc or pay for a viewing. UPC: 7-20917-10283-2 Planetary Traveler Mini -Posters are available. "It was designed by copyright lawyers, who like any plan that gener- VIDEO IS FOR A FREE PHONE CARD ates a per -use fee," said Lieberfarb. He INSIDE EVERY A MAIL -IN CARD $5 doubted any of the studios currently FROM WINSTAR HOME ENTERTAINMENT. releasing DVD titles would endorse Zoom and said any of the fence -sitters testing the system would do so on a nonexclusive basis. Lieberfarb said it WINSTARO NOME ENTERTAINMENT FÓX LÓRBÉR was unclear who would make the Zoom STAR C^_t;1RAtr THIRD P L.\N E T hardware and whether it would be com- Program Content 1997 Third Planet Productions. All Rights Reserved. (0199. Fox Lorber Associates, Inc. All Rights Reserved patible with all DVD players. ANNE SHERBER

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To p Music Videos.. U date X = COMPILED FROM A NATIONAL SAMPLE OF RETAIL STORE AND RACK SALES w w o REPORTS COLLECTED, COMPILED, AND PROVIDED BY SoundScan® 3 i CALENDAR 3 3 ó 11111 e 1 F TITLE, Label Principal a M 5 3 Distributing Label, Catalog Number Performers I-- r/I)-I AUGUST Louise Hays Park, Kerrville, Texas. 210-367 -3750. Country Music Awards, Grand Ole Opry House, Aug. 20 -24, Vibe Music Seminar, Waldorf- Sept. 8 -11, MIDEM's Latin America & Nashville. 615- 244 -2840. NO. 1 * * * * Astoria, New York. 212- 446 -7499. Caribbean Music Market, Miami Beach Con- Sept. 25, SESAC Country Music Awards, I'M BOUT IT A' 1 1 1 Master F LF 19.98 Aug. 22 Fla. No Limit Video Priority Video 53423 -24, 36th Annual Philadelphia Folk vention Center, Miami Beach, 212 -689 -4220. SESAC headquarters, Nashville. 615- 320 -0055. Festival, Old Pool Farm, Schwenksville, Pa. 215- Sept. 10, SESAC Latin Music Awards, Big Sept. 26 -29, Audio Engineering Society's WELCOME TO THE FREAK SHOW 3 9 do Talk IS 1998 2 Forefront Video Chordant Dist. Group 24504 242- 0150,800- 556 -FOLK. Time Studio, Miami Beach, Fla. 212 -957 -7945. 103rd Convention, Jacob K. Javits Center, New Aug. 23, Henry Mancini Institute Summer Sept. 11, Remixing The Producer: How The York. 212- 661 -8528. LES MISERABLES: 10TH ANNIV. CONCERT 3 4 46 Various Artists LF 2495 VCI Columbia TriStar Home Video 88703 Concert Series Finale, California State Long Role Of The Producer Is Being Changed By Sept. 27, Technical Excellence & Creativity Beach campus, Long Beach, Calif. 310 -845- Technology, National Academy of Recording Arts Awards, Marriott Marquis, New York. 510 -939- JAGGED LITTLE PILL, LIVE 2 7 Alanis Morissette LF 1998 4 Warner Reprise Video 38476 1900. And Sciences' New York Chapter office, New York. 6149. Aug. 26, WBAI -FM Rock On: The Sound Of 212 -245 -5440. Sept. 27, How To Start & Run Your Own THEN NOW? 5 22 WHO Korn LF 19.98 5 Epic Music Video Sony Music Video 50153 Music Series, WBAI New York. 718- 693 -1280. Sept. 11, Opportunities In Broadcasting Record Label, New Yorker Hotel, New York. 212- Aug. 28 -31, International Country Music Seminar, sponsored by On the Air Studios, Sobel - 688 -3504. ELVIS -ALOHA FROM 6 20 14 Elvis Presley LF 1998 LightYear Ent. WamerVision Entertainment 5042 Expo Singers Expo, Opryland Hotel, Nashville. son School, New York. 212 -362 -0830. -PRO -SING. Sept. 11 ENLARGED TO SHOW DETAIL 800 -14, National Assn. of Record Mer- OCTOBER 7 41 311 LF 19.95 ] PolyGram Video 4400439253 Aug. 29 -Sept. 1, Bumbershoot, Seattle Arts chandisers' Fall Conference, Marriott's Lagu- Oct. 16-18, Billboard /Airplay Monitor Radio SELENA REMEMBERED Festival, Seattle Center, Seattle. 206 -281 -8111. na Cliffs Resort, Dana Point, Calif. 609 -596 -2221. Seminar & Awards, Orlando Renaissance Resort, 6 20 Selena LE 19.98 8 EMI Latin Video 77826 Sept. 16, National Academy Of Recording Orlando, Fla. 212 -536 -5002.

HISTORY ON FILM: VOLUME II SEPTEMBER Arts And Sciences Fall Symposium Series, 9 8 13 Michael Jackson LF 19.98 Epic Music Video Sony Music Video 50138 Sept. 3 -6, CMJ Music Fest'97, Lincoln Cen- "Breaking Down The First Door: Part II," A &M THE ALTERNATE ALOHA CONCERT ter, New York. 516 -498 -3150. Chaplin Soundstage, Los Angeles. 310- 392 -3777. 10 40 12 Elvis Presley LF 19.95 LightYear Ent. WarerVision Entertainment 54077 -3 Sept. 5 -7, Sixth Annual Reggae Ambas- Sept. 17 -20, National Assn. Of Broadcasters _ GOOD WORKS OUR FIRST VIDEO ''' Mary -Kate & sadors Worldwide Conference And Showcase, Radio Show, New Orleans Convention Center, 11 10 189 SF 12.95 Dualstar Video WamerVision Entertainment 53304 Ashley Olsen Radisson Hotel, Asheville, N.C. 910 -385-5786. New Orleans. 202-775 -4970. G3: LIVE IN CONCERT Joe Satriani /Eric Sept. 5 -7, Texas Heritage Music Festival, Sept. 24, Country Music Assn.'s 31st Annual 12 11 19.98 n Epic Music Video Sony Music Video 50157 Johnson/Steve Vai LF '68 COMEBACK SPECIAL HAND DELIVERED: Curb /Univer- 13 RE -ENTRY Elvis Presley LF 19.95 LightYear Ent. WamerVision Entertainment 54021 sal Records artist James T. Horn has JOY IN THE CAMP Bill & Gloria Gaither And LIFELINES donated a check for $1,039 to the Carl 14 18 16 LF 1998 I Spring Hill Video Chordant Dist. Group 101 Their Homecoming Friends Perkins Center for the Prevention of THE COMPLETE WOMAN IN ME Child Abuse in Nashville. The funds 15 14 39 Shania Twain LF 995 PolyGram Video 4400450893 BIRTHS before moving to EMI Records, where came from an impromptu jam session THE VIDEO COLLECTION: VOL. II Girl, Chelsea Lynn, to Sean and Kim- he worked with artists produced by held recently at the Paris, Tenn., home 16 RE -ENTRY Garth Brooks LF 12.95 Capitol Video 77820 berly Caldwell, Aug. 6 in Clearwater, George Martin and then headed the of Horn's manager, Brent Greer, where THE BOB MARLEY STORY Bob Marley And Fla. Father owns Sean Caldwell Pro- company's jukebox promotion office. He 200 guests chipped in after Horn played 1] 15 147 O 9.95 Island Video PolyGram Video 4400823733 The Wailers ductions, a voice -over company. later worked for Pye Records and BBC selections from his forthcoming debut PULSES Records. For the last 10 years, Faber album. When Horn heard that Perkins 16 13 114 Pink Floyd LF 24.98 Columbia Music Video Sony Music Video 50121 Boy, James Terence, to Steve and Mer- was in partnership with Mike Collier, was holding a telethon on WBBJ -TV ry Aug. 10 in N.Y. exploiting the Campbell Connelly reper- Jackson, Tenn., the following day, he 19 28 41 W0W -1997 Various Artists LF 19.98 Kennedy, Northport, Sparrow Video Chordant Dist. Group 1615 Father is New York sales manager at toire and other back catalog controlled decided to donate the money in person. LIVE IN LONDON Hezekiah Walker & The Love 615-399 -8521. 20 9 4 LE 19.98 Sony Music Distribution. by Music Sales. Faber and Collier also Contact: Kitt Webster at Verity BMG Video 43023 Fellowship Crusade Choir launched a successful reissue series I -LIVE! 17 16 Ozry Osbourne LF 19.98 Girl, Margot Frances, to Moira Bailey called "One Foot In The Groove," fea- 21 Red Ant Video 17000 and Thom Duffy, Aug. 11 in London. turing CD compilations of stars of the LIVE FROM AUSTIN, TEXAS Stevie Ray Vaughan RODGERS & HART 22 25 94 LF 1998 Mother is a writer at Time Life Inter- '30s and '40s. Faber is survived by Epic Music Video Sony Music Video 50130 And Double Trouble page 38) national. Father is international deputy daughters Linda and Donna, son (Continued from LIVE SHIT: BINGE & PURGE 16 '' Metallica LF 8998 editor Billboard. Stephen, and grandson Nathan. of the series, which is titled "Radio 190 at 23 Elektra Entertainment 5194 Rhythms" and is the least jazz-orient- LIVE IN EUROPE 1968 12 23 The Doors LF 1998 Boy, Ricardo Luke, to Rick and Karla Luise King Rey, 83, of natural causes, ed of the titles. "Radio Rhythms" fea- 24 WamerVision Entertainment 50191 Trevino, Aug. 15 in Austin, Texas. Aug. 4 in Sandy, Utah. An original tures presentations by Helen Kane, THOU ART LOOSED! 19 25 WOMAN, T.D. Jokes LF 1995 is Records record- member of the King which in- Hoagy Carmichael, Ruth Etting, Rudy 25 Integrity Video 2394 Father a Columbia Sisters, ing artist. cluded her sisters Alyce, Donna, and Vallee, Lillian Roth, and Bing Crosby. THIS IS GARTH BROOKS A' 23 190 Garth Brooks LF 2498 Yvonne, -band singing is among 26 Liberty Home Video 40038 the big act that Carmichael the songwrit- MARRIAGES was known for its four -part harmonies ers represented in "Radio Rhythms." VULGAR VIDEO 22 82 Pantera LF 1698 1939 27 WamerVision Entertainment 50345 -3 LeTia Bramble to Marcus Blas- and accompanied bands led by Horace He is featured in a self -titled short singame, July 27 in Bloomfield, N.J. Heldt; Luise's husband, Alvino Rey; with trombonist Jack Teagarden's band. RUSTED ROOT LIVE 21 8 Rusted Root LF 19.95 his 28 PolyGram Video 8006368553 Bride is director of artist development Artie Shaw; and Kay Kayser. The quar- Carmichael serves up some of songs at Arista Records. tet's biggest songs include "The Hut - with a band singer. Unfortunately, some NO BULL: LIVE AT PLAZA DE TOROS, MEXICO AC 26 39 /DC LF 1995 29 Elektra Entertainment 40192 Sut Song," "Rose O'Day," "My Devo- of the selections include racist snippets Debi Fleischer to Charlie Robin, Aug. tion," "I'll Get By," and "Saturday Night involving Southern blacks, who are sup- LIVE AT THE ACROPOLIS s 31 180 Yanni LF 19.98 30 Private Music BMG Video 82163 17 in Nashville. Bride is VP of promo- (Is The Loneliest Night Of The Week)." posed to mirror the sentiments of a tion Columbia Records. She will use The group appeared on various radio song such as "Lazy River." BLOOD BROTHERS Bruce Springsteen & at RE -ENTRY U 19.98 31 Columbia Music Video Sony Music Video 50139 The E Street Band the name Debi Fleischer -Robin. programs in the '30s and '40s; on TV Also, this Swing Era survey of the shows hosted by Ed Sullivan, Johnny Carmichael catalog, which includes VIDEO HITS: VOLUME 1 27 42 Van Halen LF 19.98 32 Wamer Reprise Video 3 -38428 DEATHS Carson, and Mery Griffin and on its such great ones as "Stardust" and in "Two Sleepy People," gives no credits LIVE! TONIGHT! SOLD OUT!! Don Steele, 61, of lung cancer, July 5 own TV show in the '60s called "The 34 133 Nirvana LF 24.98 33 Geffen Home Video Universal Music Video Dist. 39541 Hollywood, Calif. Steele worked the King Family"; and in numerous movies, to the lyricists in title credits or in the BACK HOME IN INDIANA afternoon slot at KRTH Los Angeles. including "Sing Your Worries Away," short itself, a failing on many other 29 7 The Gaither Vocal Band LF 29.98 34 Chapel Music Group 46165 He is survived by his wife, Shaune. "Meet The People," "The Thrill Of shorts in the collection. FEELIN' AT HOME Romance," and "Cuban Pete." Rey Self- evident recognition for the lyri- 24 11 Gaither & Friends LF 29.95 35 Chordant Dist. Group 4956 Fred Faber, 66, of a heart attack, July began her career as part of the Driggs cist is contained in the same volume's HOME VID CLIFF'EM ALL! 30 in London. One of the best known family of entertainers, which included "Hollywood Rhythm," a promo film 36 32 173 $19.98 Metallica LF 1998 Elektra Entertainment 40106 -3 U.K. record promotion reps of the post- her entire family, led by her father, mu- featuring lyricist Mack Gordon and THE EVOLUTION TOUR: LIVE IN MIAMI war years, Faber started his music sic teacher William King Driggs. She composer Harry Revel, writers of such 37 38 38 Gloria Estefan IF 19.98 Epic Music Video Sony Music Video 50149 career in the Philips recording studio and sisters Alyce and Maxine eventual- evergreens as "Did You Ever See A J.D. SUMNER & THE STAMPS J.D. Sumner & ly started their own spinoff act, per- Dream Walking ?" and "Stay As Sweet 3B 35 3 LF 29.95 Chordant Dist. Group 4925 The Stamps forming as the Boswell Sisters to earn As You Are." This short good- humored- KEPPEL ROAD FOR THE RECORD extra income and later incorporated sis- ly gives a bit of insight on how the pair 39 30 10 Bee Gees LF 19.95 PolyGram Video 4400548813 European airplay monitoring ters Donna, Yvonne, and Marilyn, in wrote their songs, with Gordon giving HELL FREEZES OVER A5 firm Music Control is a joint ven- place of Maxine, to become the Six King Revel some handy advice on where to 40 RE -ENTRY Eagles U 24.98 Geffen Home Video Universal Music Video Dist. 39548 ture between Media Control of Ger- Sisters. Rey is survived by her husband; go with a tune. many and Broadcast Data Systems three children, Robert Rey, Jon Rey, This short's title also serves as the O RIAA gold cert. for sales of 25,000 units for video singles; RIAA gold cert. for sales of 50,000 units fo of the Kino SF or LF videos; A RIAA platinum cert. for sales of 50,000 units for video singles; RIM platinum cent (BDS) of the U.S. (Billboard, Aug. and Liza Butler; four sisters, Maxine overall theme release, for sales of 100,000 units for SF or LF videos; O RIM gold cert. for 25,000 units for SF or LF videos certi 23). BDS is a subsidiary of BPI Thomas, Marilyn King, Donna Con - which will be released Tuesday (26). fied prior to April 1, 1991; RIM platinum cert. for 50,000 units for SF or LF videos certified prior to kling, and Yvonne Burch; six grandchil- Volumes list at $24.95 each or $89.95 for April 1, 1991. LF long -form. SF Short-form. VS Video single. ©1997, Billboard /BPI Communications. Communications. dren; and one great- grandson. the boxed set. IRV LICHTMAN

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and her appealing batch of hook - I H T S P O T L I G H T S P O T L I G H T S P O T L G drenched love songs. Leadoff ballad and hit single "Quisiera" spotlights FReetwood ANac siren's simultaneously angelic and vul- THE ovar, nerable vocal style, as do more rhyth- mic entries, such as the title track, "Lo AL3VS Voy A Dividir," and "Noche De Luna ELITE£ BY PAUL VER NA Llena."

P O P LORRIE MORGAN CLASSICAL Shakin' Things Up U! uAn, * NOBUKO IMAI 130 1.1001..1 , PRODUCERS: James Stroud & Lorrie Morgan A Bird Came Down The Walk BNA 67499 PRODUCER: Jens Braun S , : , : ' : : : u'uaea T. 7 Featured in Music to My Ears, ., It ll f BIS 829 wei1l: With its dark, vocal timbre, the viola Ally. 23. 1101 speaks an emotive language that is all VARIOUS ARTISTS too rarely spotlighted. One of the Tribute world's leading viola virtuosos -with The Songs Of Jimmie Rodgers -A VARIOUS ARTISTS FLEETWOOD MAC SWV PRODUCERS: various great records of Hindemith and Schnit- September Songs-The Music Of Kurt Weill The Dance Release Some Tension 67676 to her credit -Nobuko Imai has put Egyptian /Columbia PRODUCERS: Lindsey Buckingham & PRODUCERS: various tke PRODUCERS: various together an alluring recital of artful Featured in Music to My Ears, Sony Classical 63046 Reprise 46702 RCA 07863 n miniatures with pianist Roland Pönti- June 28. The songs of Kurt Weill have always It seemed only a matter of time Act's third set takes it back to the nen. Including the title work by the late captured the hearts of music before the members of Fleetwood street with gritty, infectious R &B Toru Takemitsu and * ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING cognoscenti, from the innumerable Mac's most successful lineup -Lind- tracks and performances. Project is Japanese master pieces by Britten, Bridge, Liszt, The Life stars who made "Mack The Knife a sey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, highlighted by satisfying funky PRODUCERS: Cy Mike Berniker Enescu, among others, "A Coleman, household hit to Jim Morrison, who Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, and loops and star -power vocals by Sibelius, and Sony Classical 63312 Bird Came Down The Walk" is grand rendered "Alabama Song" into one of John McVie -found their way back to guest performers. "Someone," the One of the stronger entries among Doors' most haunting tracks. each other. The first fruit of their head- nodding lead single, taps the and grave, intimate and accessible. A the irresistible musicals on Broadway last spring, Current tribute features some of the reunion is this live album, which cele- soundboard resources of super hot highlight: Nino Rota's - rihuted in the U.S. "The Life" has the right Broadway most distinctive artists interpreting brates the 20th anniversary of Sean "Puffy" Combs, who doubles "Intermezzo." Dist as it depicts a mel- by ized urban rhythms the Weill canon, from PJ Harvey's "Rumours" and the 30th anniversary on vocals as alter ego Puff Daddy, Qualiton. one lower tawdriness than remembers riveting "Ballad Of The Soldier's of the band with live remakes of such all to the droning loop of "Ten of Times Square in the '70s. Composer Wife" to murder balladeer Nick "Rumours" classics as "Dreams," "Go Crack Commandments," by the own background as a CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN Cy Coleman's Cave's appropriately spooky "Mack Your Own Way," and "You Make Lov- Notorious B.I.G. Other guests lend- jazzy keyboardist and singer is a big, The Knife." Other highlights include ing Fun," plus other Fleetwood Mac ing their talents include Snoop EAGER tuneful assist, and Ira Gasman's lyrics staples like "Rhiannon" and "Land- Doggy Dogg, Foxy Brown, Redman, PRODUCER: Jimmie Lee Sloes 's title cut; historical Mission 46723 are right in the groove. As Queen, slide." The album also contains three Lil' Caesar, Missy Elliott, Lil' Kim, Questar recordings by Weill's wife, Lotte There has been a great deal of antici- Pamela Isaacs gives her all to three new songs and a beautiful version of and E -40. Despite the plethora of Lenya, and his partner, Bertolt pation surrounding this release from fine plaintive songs -"He's No Good," "Silver Springs," initially a B -side featured artists, SWV manages to Brecht; two entries by opera diva the new band developed by former "I'm Leaving You," and "We Had A and now the emphasis track. Unlike maintain its independent identity on Teresa Stratas licensed from her PFR bassist Patrick Andrew. Eager Dream." "Easy Money" is Coleman in most reunions, this one yields satisfy- such trio -only cuts as the gentle Nonesuch catalog; and David lives up to expectations, delivering his frisky, "Sweet Charity" element. ing results and suggests a new musi- "Rain," the swaying "Here For Johansen's "Alabama Song." A per- music Christian modern rock and Isaacs' other vocal companions include cal life for one of the most enduring You," and the kick -back track that fect matching of timeless material pop stations will find easy to add to Kevin Ramsey and Lillias White. A and inspired performances. acts of all time. "When U Cry." new -show score from a true profes- their airwaves. Andrew handles bass sional, which is in short supply these and lead vocals and enlists three tal- colleagues to round out days. remakes some of the material from his esque, island -stylings of "Eclypso." ented musical the foursome -drummer Paul Eckberg, JAll critically hailed 1957 "Overseas" set. Beginning with Flanagan's smart, elas- guitarist Mark Kloos, and lead vocal- *TOMMY FLANAGAN TRIO Backed by bassist Peter Washington tically swinging title cut, the album C O U N T R Y ist /guitarist Greg Pope. Songwriting Sea Changes and drummer Lewis Nash, Flanagan is establishes a maritime theme with such DALE ANN BRADLEY responsibilities are shared by Andrew * PRODUCERS: Todd Barkan & Satoshi Hirano clearly still a force to be reckoned with, standards as a brightly hued "Between Pope wrote five songs solo East Kentucky Morning Evidence 22191 as he revises original themes that are The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea," a and -each PRODUCER: Sonny Osborne the final cut, "Million Masterful veteran hard -bop pianist marked by the breathless poignancy of dreamily wistful "How Deep Is The and co -wrote Pinecastle 1064 Tommy Flanagan casts his gaze back- the uptempo "Verandi," the warm bal- Ocean," and a deeply bluesy "C.C. Dollars." There's a clean, unfettered Dale Ann Bradley, lead singer for the music lets the deft ward 40 years with a new album that ladry of "Delarna," and the Rollins- Rider." Also features a gently naive solo approach to the that New Coon Creek Girls, steps out on her piano take on "Dear Old Stockholm" guitar playing shine and the lyrics take in a solo outing. own very authoritative and an infectious arrangement of Char- center stage. Among the standout Blessed with a voice and For pure soprano lie Parker's "Relaxin' At Camarillo," tunes are the first single, "Crimson R E I S S U E S® impressive writing chops, she evokes VITAL which was another track from that 1957 Downy Flake," "Decide For You," Alison Krauss and Dolly Parton while "Found Out," and "The Hand That MATERIAL tive, artful cover collage with a lame album. carving out her own turf. She does a Can." Seven Souls computerized overlay (an to cover of U2's "I Still Haven't Found attempt PRODUCER: Bill Laswell no What I'm Looking For" but doesn't attract the crowd, Meta/Worldly Triloka/Mercury 314 534 905 doubt). LATIN need it, since songs like the title cut, "I N E W A G E Way ahead of his time, producer DLG Want It Back," and "Will You Think Of SHARIFI extraordinaire Bill Laswell was incor- IKE QUEBEC Swing On *JAMSHIED Me" are chillbump- raising gems of A Prayer For The Soul Of Layla porating spoken word and cut -and- Ballads PRODUCER: Sergio George Sharifi & Akira Satake exquisite beauty. paste sound shaping into his intrepid REISSUE PRODUCER: Michael Cuscuna Sony Tropical/Sony 82340 PRODUCERS: Jamshied Alula 1005 brand of out -of-this -world music. Blue Note 56690 Grammy- nominated trio lead by ultra - DAVID ALLAN COE "A Prayer For The Soul Of Layla" is a Originally released in 1987 on Virgin, When you come home frazzled with a emotive front man Huey Dunbar will Live: If That Ain't Country ... seductive and serene album borne out "Seven Souls" features the late big need to chill, there are few musi- not suffer sophomore jinx, as this eight - PRODUCERS: David Allan Coe, Warren Haynes, and cians more satisfying than the late of the rhythms and melodies of the Blake Chancey William Burroughs intoning his apoca- song set contains the same sort of con- Quebec, whose Middle East. A film composer ( "Harriet Lucky Dog 67996 lyptic "The Western Lands" over a set tenor sax stylist Ike tagious R &B, reggae, and salsa blends Columbia The Spy ") and keyboardist with the of sublime Indo -jazz improvisations by sonorous, chesty tone and way with a as group's maiden effort. Old- school More than two decades on, cult country group Mo Boma, killer players: violinists L. ballad hits the spot every time. When salsa stomp "Juliana" (with guest vocal -tribal artist David Allan Coe remains as defi- some brings musi- Shankar and Simon Shaheen, guitarist the braying weedle -dweedle of so cameo by Cuco Valoy) plus rhythm and Jamshied Sharifi together ant and unconventional as ever. He's who call out Nicky Skopelitis, drummer Sly Dun- many contemporary jazz sax players salsa entries "Ya" and "Todo" sport cians from many traditions drawing new audiences to his high - spiritual chants, sing elaborate bar, percussionist Aiyb Dieng, key - starts to grate, try turning to this best shots at tropical radie. energy live shows, where they redis- minarets of melody, and gallop through cover his classic compositions, such as boardist Jeff Bova, and bassist time -tested, blue -light, slow -soul mas- VICTORIA some driving rhythms. Paula Cole "Take This Job And Shove It," "Would Laswell. There are some very power- ter and pick a track like "Nancy With Face." new El Color Del Amor intones a gospel -like, wordless vocal on You Lay With Me In A Field Of Stone," ful grooves here, and as a bonus, the The Laughing (The label's PRODUCER: Roberto Livi "Ammeh Kimia," and Hassan Hakmoun, "Willie, Waylon And Me," and, espe- Triloka reissue includes three acute "Ballads" series, by the way, also Fonovisa 6067 has remixes by Tetsu Inoue, Terre Thaem- includes a collection by another tenor the Moroccan sintirist and singer, cially, his reworking of Steve Good - With female pop idols in usual short rarely been more aptly used. Contact: By litz, and Tim Simenon. The only monarch with sure blue -fire talent, man's "You Never Even Called Me supply, the timing could not be better 800 -932 -5852 smudge on a noble, timely rerelease is Joe Henderson.) Care for a chilled 503-257 -8480 (Allegro); My Name" into the "perfect country for striking young diva from Argentina (Alula). song." the obscuring of the original evoca- martini?

SPOTLIGHT: Releases deemed by the review editors to deserve special attention on the basis of musical merit and /or Billboard chart potential. VITAL REISSUES: Rereleased albums of special artistic, archival, and commercial interest, and outstanding collet-

ALBUMS ° in CHOICES ): New releases, regardless of chart potential, highly recommended because of their musical tions of works by one or mom artists. PICKS ( ): New releases predicted to hit the top half of the chart the corresponding format. CRITICS (* merit.MUSIC TO MY EARS LC): New releases deemed Picks which were featured in the "Music To My Ears" column as being among the most significant records of the year. All albums commercially available In the U.S. are eligible. Send review copies to Paul Verna, Billboard, 1515 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10036. Send R&B albums to J.R. Reynolds, Billboard, 5055 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036. Send country albums to Chet Flippo, Billboard, 49 Music Square W., Nashville, TN 37203.Send Latin albums to John Lannert, 1814 Fern Valley Road, Louisville, KY 40219. Other contributors: Havelock Nelson (rap/N.Y.); Iry Lichtman (Broadway /cabaret/N.Y.); Brad Bambarger (classical /N.Y.); Drew Wheeler (jazz/N.Y.); Deborah Evans Price (contemporary Christian/Nashville); Gordon Ely (gospel); John Diliberto (new age).

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RAY GUELL Dejame (Let Me Go) (3:33) Together, they have a wonderful blend * MARTY STUART Sweet Love 3 21) terpiece of this recording is Peyroux's PRODUCERS: Chris Barbosa, Lenny Hoffman and natural vocal chemistry that will PRODUCERS: Tony Brown, Justin Niebank vocal, which is riddled with a disarming WRITER: not listed make listeners wish they'd record WRITER: D. Shannon contrast of hope and worldliness. This is PUBLISHER: not listed together more often. PUBLISHERS: Bug/Shidel, ASCAP where triple -A tastemakers get to look Groovy Tunes 1356 (CD single) MCA 55319 (Go Uni) (CD promo) like heroes and start the ball rolling for a There are no less than 14 versions of PAM TILLIS Land Of The 13:251 S\GLES Living This record has a great feel to it. most interesting and exciting artist. EIDITEID BY LARRY FLICK this bilingual song PRODUCERS: Billy Joe Walker Jr., Pam Tillis offered on its CD There's a freshness in the production by pressing. You WRITERS: W. Patton, T Sillers Excessive? bet- especial- Tony Brown and Justin Niebank, as well ly PUBLISHERS: MCA/Delta Kappa Twang, ASCAP; Tom when none of them are as strong as as an energy in Stuart's vocal perfor- ROCK TRACKS P O P the primary mix, which strobes with Collins, BMI mance that's extremely appealing. LOVERBOY Big Picture -r ,; BOYZ II MEN 4 Seasons Of Loneliness NRGetic dance /pop flavor. Guell is a Arista 3096 (c/o BMG) (CD promo) Penned by Del Shannon, the tune pro- PRODUCER: not listed (4:27) heartthrob in the making, with his Tillis has an uncanny way of writing or vides Stuart an opportunity to cut loose WRITERS: P Dean, K. McKenzie, M. Reno, S. Smith PRODUCERS: Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis swarthy Latin image and boyish selecting songs that convey the intrica- tenor and groove, and he make the most of it. PUBLISHER: not listed WRITERS: J. Harris III, T. Lewis vocal range. He does a solid job with the cies of the human condition with consid- The song has a late- summer, radio - CMC International 87230 (c/o BMG) (cassette single) PUBLISHERS: EMI -April /Flyte Tyme, ASCAP erable savvy and heart. "Land Of The song's simple but infectious hook. Give friendly feel that should catch attention. The band that scored eons ago with "Turn Motown 32077 (cassette single) Living" is life continuing in it a shot. Contact: 305-275 -7522. about the Me Loose" and "Working For The Week- The long- anticipated "Evolution" is pre- aftermath of a failed relationship, and it * KATHY MATTEA Love Travels (3:54) end" has resurfaced with a completely viewed with a heart -rending ballad that ranks right up there with the no- holds- PRODUCERS: Ben Wisch, Kathy Mattea enjoyable, fast -paced track that is cut underlines the act's signature har- barred observations found in such previ- R&B WRITERS: B. Halligan Jr., L. Halligan from the same rock mold. Unlike other monies with a quietly rumbling R &B So ous hits as "Spilled Perfume," "Let That PUBLISHERS: BMG Songs/Wood Monkey, PHAJJA Long (Well, Well, Well ,.1 ,r ASCAP; bands with distinctive sounds hitting the groove. Producers Jimmy Jam and PRODUCERS: Gray, Pony Run," and "All The Careers -BMG /Ellymax, BMI Tita Joy Bailey, Kevin K. Jackson, Good Ones Are comeback trail, these lads are smart Terry Lewis wisely do not fuss too much Li') Rick Gone." Song, performance, and produc- Mercury 131 (c/o PolyGram) (CD promo) enough not to try and reinvent themselves with the act's hit -making formula, which WRITERS: K. Jackson, R. White, E. Roberson tion add up to create a Previous from strong record singles Mattea's current as or acoustic pop. Instead, still sounds fresh after all these years PUBLISHERS: K Jack Top Ten /Baxter/Smoke Effect, that should find favorable reaction from album didn't set radio fire, - on but this they're banking on the sound that has thanks mostly to the friendly and often ASCAP programmers and fans alike. could be the record coun- that rekindles always worked -not to mention a heaping romantic personalities the lads bring to Warner Bros. 8971 (cassette single) try radio's love affair with - the Grammy dose of nostalgia -to push them back into the material. Others may be able to Up- and -coming female vocal group Pha- 0. LITTLE TEXAS The Call (3:591 winning artist. Penned by Bob and prominence. Use this fun single as a duplicate Boyz II Men's technical jja turns in an impressively produced PRODUCERS: Christy DiNapoli, Doug Grau Linda Halligan, the lyric is powerful and WRITERS: T. Rushlow, W. springboard into the album "Six" and then sound, but you can't manufacture vibe and lyrically sound ballad with "So Aldridge poetic with a positive message that is PUBLISHERS: Square West/Tall look for Loverboy on the road this fall and personality, both of which are in Long." Full of heart -tugging melodies Tale Tunes /Howlin' buoyed by the soaring melody. Mattea Hits /Rick Hall/Watertown, ASCAP with ZZ Top. ample supply here. The countdown to and heavy- hitting verses, the ladies play delivers a charming performance, utiliz- Warner Bros. 8968 (CD promo) No. 1 starts now. the role of a hurt but strong -willed ing members of Nashville -based band woman who decides to accept the thorns The song boasts a more laid -back, acoustic approach than the act's past Ceili Rain to provide backing vocals and RAP e ELTON JOHN Something About The Way as well as the roses of a relationship instrumentation, which gives the tune efforts, and it feels like a breath of fresh THE BEATNUTS FEATURING BIG PUNISHER You Look Tonight (3:56) gone bad. Expect lovelorn females to wonderful Celtic touches. Mattea is a air. The group's approach is earthy, & CUBAN LINK Off The Books (3.34, PRODUCER: not listed clog the request lines for this track, as talented artist making some of the best WRITER: not listed organic, and totally accessible -and it PRODUCERS: the Beatnuts it's a "girl, get over him" single that music of her career, and such artistry PUBLISHER: works extremely well. "The Call" dis- WRITERS: L. Fernandez, J. Tineo, C. Rios not listed encourages and allows its listeners to deserves to be heard. Rocket 00522 (cassette single) plays a mighty appealing side PUBLISHERS: Inkyju, ASCAP; Let Me Show You, BMI maintain - of the their self -respect and self Relativity 0628 (CD single) You should not reach for Elton John band's musical personality. Written by THE TRACTORS The Last Time esteem, while wiping away the foot- (3:59) The Beatnuts are one of the few acts to records expecting innovation or experi- lead singer Tim Rushlow with veteran PRODUCERS: prints of a cheating mate. Steve Ripley, Walt Richmond start out and remain hardcore throughout mentation anymore. Rather, you should hitmaker Walt Aldridge, it's a strong WRITER: not listed the pop -leaning, "Big Willie," player days. now expect the comfort of finely craft- BRIAN McKNIGHT You Should Be Mine song that really says something. We PUBLISHER: ABKO, BMI Concentrating foremost on lyrical content ed tunes that soothe the senses and (Don't Waste Your Time) (4:49) hope that radio will reward the effort Beyond Music 212 (CD promo) and original, gritty beats, "Off The Books" maintain a reasonably high standard PRODUCERS: Sean "Puffy" Combs, Ron Lawrence with airplay. The first single from "Stone Country" - adds Big Pun and Cuban Link to the for mainstream adult pop. This peek WRITERS: S. Combs, R. Lawrence, M. Betha, K. Price, a collection of Rolling Stones songs cov- Beatnuts' into his new album, "The Big Picture," J. Brown ered by such country acts as Deana already perfect appeal. With its radio -friendly production is is a grandly executed ballad that wash- PUBLISHER: not listed Carter, Travis Tritt, George Jones, and -the track N E W rooted in hardcore es John's larger- than -life performance Mercury 74761 (c/o PolyGram) (cassette single) & Collin Raye -is this feisty outing by the samples and bass, but bouncy enough for radio PDs its in cinematic strings and whooping, McKnight is back in action with a lively, N O T E W O R T H Y Tractors. The whole notion of a country -and choir -styled backing vocals. An instant funk -fortified kicker that ushers in his tribute to the Stones may seem a little metaphorically rich and less -violent clean fave for die-hards, this single will bring new "Anytime" collection. The magic JAKARANDA Everynight, Everyday (3:20) odd, but this interpretation shows that version, "Off The Books" is set to move kids at top 40 to the table after a few touch of Sean "Puffy" Combs is strongly PRODUCERS: The Berman Brothers the results could prove quite entertain- the Beatnuts beyond the underground, local hip -hop spins. felt here, whose superstar cachet will WRITERS: C.H. Berman, F. Berman, J. Copian, ing. Steve Ripley's distinctive vocal style fame they currently enjoy. open radio doors previously locked to M. Dexter stamps his personality all over this HURRICANE G. Somebody Else (3:461 ROBYN Show Me Love (3:27) the super -talented McKnight. The PUBLISHERS: Shark Media Songs /Warner -Chap- a cover in winning way. As to whether PRODUCER: D -Moet, Al "Butter" McLean PRODUCERS: Denniz Pop, Max Martin singer rises to the occasion with a per- pell, BMI; Humassive, ASCAP country radio will play this tune remains WRITER: not listed WRITER: not listed formance is Crave 2384 (c /o Sony) (cassette single) that equal parts street to be seen, but longtime Tractor fans PUBLISHER: not listed PUBLISHER: not listed swagger and lover is The fine folks at Crave are on a smooth man. He will enjoy the adventure. H.O.L.A. 41026 (c/o PolyGram) (CD single) RCA 6843 (c/o BMG) (cassette single) supported by a slick guest rap by Mase Euro -pop roll, as this bouncy ditty The brash glee of Robyn's break- comes fast on the heels of "Rhythm Hurricane G. comes on like a castrating and sweet harmonies by Kelly Price. An mama on this funky ode to a tired lover. through hit, "Do You Know (What It easy bet for R &B success, with a transi- Of Love" by DJ Company. Master- D A N C E Takes)," is followed by the far more minded by the ever -hot Berman The grabber of this jam is the use of the tion into the pop winner's circle both KIM ENGLISH Learn To Love (6:361 chorus from seductive tone of this jeep -pop confec- Brothers, "Everynight, Everyday" the Jones Girls disco classic likely and much deserved. PRODUCERS: Mood II Swing "You Gonna Make Me tion. Although it's too soon to tell how is designed to attract listeners who Love Somebody WRITERS: L. Springsteen, J. Ciafone Else," which injects instant familiarity to this teenage talent will evolve, she BROWNSTONE Kiss And Tell (4:t2) like their music feather -light and as PUBLISHERS: Moody Black Keys/Sorted, BMI; Commit - a cut that might otherwise get lost in the proves her capability to handle a meaty PRODUCER: not listed sweet as cotton candy. The act's ment/Misam, ASCAP crush of competition. Taken from the tune with a respectable degree of soul. WRITER: not listed videogenic female singers gleefully REMIXERS: Mood II Swing, Jon Ciafone, Tommy Musto, PUBLISHER: not listed album "All Woman," this cleverly rhymed She tweaks the song's ear -grabbing chirp over a springy, reggae -kissed R.H. Factor, Francois K. REMIXERS: Bogeystone, Cutfather & Joe jam hints at a lyrical talent worth develop- chorus and muscular bassline with sub- groove à la Ace Of Base, delivering Nervous 20248 (CD single) ing. Should be interesting to see tle improvisations and an assertive edge Work Group/MJJ 34234 (c /o Sony) (cassette single) a hook that you won't be able to English serves her club disciples a spir- where Hurricane next. that impresses. All this adds up to These divas-in- training continue to earn shake for hours after an initial spin. itually charged, optimistic house anthem goes stripes with a jeep chugger that makes another outta -da -box top 40 smash that In fact, look for this to be among that is destined for saturating exposure. THE 45 KING FEATURING LADY CHAMPAIN leaves the listener wanting more. the most of their glossy harmonies and the enticing guilty pleasures of the Her performance is etched with warm, sassy lead vocals. The song itself is not Beats Don't Fail Me Now /And You Don't Stop fall. subtle vocal strokes, which works perfect- (no timing listed) 3RD PARTY Love Is Alive (3:501 the best they've ever offered, but they ly with Mood II Swing's restrained, R &B- PRODUCER: The 45 King PRODUCER: LCD impress nonetheless. Also, the beat KIM FOX I Wanna Be A Witch (3:36) inflected house instrumentation. R.H. WRITERS: D. Grable, EZD, T. Woolfolk, C. Ivey WRITER: G. Wright rocks nicely is in of PRODUCER: Paul Mahern and right the pocket Factor transforms the song into an PUBLISHER: not listed PUBLISHER: MCA, ASCAP current R &B format trends. However, WRITER: K. Fox NRGetic radio contender, while Tommy CLR 5221 (c /o Relativity) (CD single) REMIXERS: LCD, Steve Chavez, Albert Castillo, PUBLISHERS: BMG Songs/Riticulous these ladies deserve meatier material Songs, Musto contributes one of his well- regard- Having spearheaded the successful run Charles Chavez, Stonebridge ASCAP next time around. ed soul -house versions. All in all, a well- of Flavor Unit (Queen Latifah, DV8 526 (c /o A &M) (cassette singlet REMIXER: Ben Grosse Chill Rob conceived, must -have package. Contact: G., Lakim Shabazz) as the mastermind The follow -up to the slow- burning hit DreamWorks 5035 (c /o Uni) (cassette single) 212 -730 -7160. behind the 45 puts "Can U Feel It" will not take nearly as COUNTRY It may be easy to initially discard beats, the King his hat back into the hip -hop ring with new long as its predecessor did to win a TRISHA YEARWOOD & GARTH BROOKS In Fox as another in a lengthening line broad and ardent audience. Besides the of hyper -sensitive female singer/ artist Lady Champain fronting him. Another's Eyes 13:321 AC While the King still has an eye for a familiarity of this deconstructed classic PRODUCER: Allen Reynolds songwriters. But if you actually lis- MADELEINE PEYROUX Dreamland loo timing skilled lyricists (close your eyes, and rocker by Gary Wright, this track is WRITERS: B. Wood, J. Peppard, G. Brooks ten to this first single from her fine- listed) Champain sounds like the Queen in her also a far more friendly vehicle for lead PUBLISHERS: Rio Bravo/Major Bob/Cat's Eye /No ly crafted debut album, "Moon Hut," PRODUCERS: Yves Beauvais, Greg Cohen lyrically hungrier, grittier early years), singer Maria Christensen, who oozes Fences, BMI /ASCAP you will discover a formidable young WRITER: M. Peyroux his ear for music hasn't matured. Here, MCA 72021 (c /o Uni) (7 -inch single) artist with a knack for combining with mucho star power. This petite PUBLISHER: Pennywell, BMI young woman vamps and belts with the The fact that this single is going to be a irony and humor with acoustic -rock- he weaves tracks characteristic of his Atlantic 8126 (CD promo) heyday in the but bravado and earthy soul of a seasoned, huge hit seems almost too obvious to rooted melodies that have a subtle '80s, that are some- Peyroux already has many critics with what unmarketable and "same -ol' " old- school diva. By the end of this sin- mention. However, the real news is that Tin Pan Alley feel. Yeah, stations good taste tripping over themselves with gle, you'll be hankering to hear more of "In Another's Eyes" has far more going that are stuck on Fiona Apple, Sarah going into the millennium. While the B- accolades. The time has come for radio side, "Terrordome," is undoubtably easi- what she has to offer on the act's forth- for it than merely star power. It's a fine- McLachlan, and the rest can (and programmers and consumers to join the er on the ear with its '70s blaxploitation coming full -length debut, "Alive." Until ly crafted song with a powerful lyric should) play this. But there's a lot party. This skittling tune deftly merges vibe, his beat selection is still, unfortu- indulge in the pleasure of this hit - and delicate melody. Yearwood and more going on here that needs to be then, elements of traditional roots rock with bits nately, light -years behind current sam- anthem. Brooks turn in great performances. discovered. Listen closely. bound dance /pop of delicate jazz/cabaret. The rightful cen- pling choices.

PICKS ( O.): New releases with the greatest chart potential. CRITICS CHOICE (*): New releases, regardless of potential chart action, which the reviewer highly recommends because of their musical merit. NEW AND NOTEWORTHY: Highlights new and SINGLES. developing acts worthy of attention. Cassette, vinyl or CD singles equally appropriate for more than one format are reviewed in the category with the broadest audience. All releases available to radio and /or retail in the U.S. are eligible for review. Send copies to Larry Flick, Billboard, 1515 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10036. Country singles should be sent to Deborah Evans Price, Billboard, 49 Music Square W., Nashville, Tenn. 37203. Contributors: Doug Reece (L.A.), Shawnee Smith (N.Y.)

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Bragg" is clearly the audio event of the ager, Scotty Moore," "That's chapters give some insight into From the start, Moore and bass year. Although it's released on four cas- settes, it's a mere three hours long. ' S Alright, Elvis" is a personal story the reasons he grew into a good - player Bill Black knew Parker CHILDREN Three -hour audios are generally pro- IN ITS MUSIC TIME that has been as bittersweet as natured fellow, but they really wanted to get rid of them. "Once BANANAS PAJAMAS: duced on two cassettes; the use of four PolyGram Video interesting. Childhood he felt he had Elvis' confidence, the King's life and career. aren't that cassettes looks like an attempt to fool 25 minutes, $12.95 his next the But a good ol' boy like Moore on , joining the Navy, and he took aim at target: the customer into thinking the audio is about music and movement in It's all would likely call that analysis hog- marrying early don't stand out all Blue Moon Boys," the name Moore longer than it is. Also, the title's price is the latest addition to the antics of the wash. The tone of Dickerson's that much. and Black were billed under. $3 -$6 higher than other three -hour twin bananas. Each of the short Aussie a man who nei- Of course, the story picks up To his credit, at first Presley titles. segments revolves around some sort of writing reflects ther enjoyed nor wanted the star when Moore encounters the shy refused to let the Colonel fire sound. In "Musical Stairs," B1 and B2 by 1957, THE ANGEL DOLL turn a creaky step into a song, and the trappings that consumed Presley. and demure young kid named Moore and Black, but hundreds of one -night By Jerry Bledsoe Teddies make a xylophone of sorts with Raised a simple country boy from after Read by J. Charles jars meant to collect drips from a leaky Tennessee, Moore was happy just stands and little pay, Moore Nova Audiobooks (an imprint of Brilliance Corp.) pipe. In "Getting Rhythm," the Bananas to play the guitar and make a few resigned from the group after 1 hour (unabridged), $13.95 find an old guitar on the beach, and in good records. reading an interview Presley had ISBN 1- 56740 -755 -2 "Take One" the four friends try to cap- A humble and modest man, done in The Memphis Press -Scim- In this nostalgic tale, a grown man ture their musical magic on tape and Mbore doesn't take much credit itar. recalls a heartwarming, bittersweet realize that recording the perfect take The article quoted him saying childhood experience. He describes his is it for revolutionizing rock'n'roll. and more difficult than would seem. he knew nothing about Moore '50s childhood in a small town Each tape comes packaged with a 10- His "that's alright" demeanor, that remembers that when he was 10 years minute sampler from Capitol Records' however, cost him dearly, and and Black's requests for more old, his best friend was a poor, father- upcoming audio companion, "It's Presley and especially Colonel money: "Had they come to me, we less boy whose little sister had polio. Singing Time." Tom Parker, his manager, took would have worked it out, and they The sister's dream was to have an angel advantage of it. But Moore har- would have got more money." doll, something that wasn't available in SO SMART! bors no ill will toward the Colonel Moore had requested raises the local stores. Her loving brother set The Baby School Co. out to fulfill her dream in an imagina- 30 minutes, $14.95 or Presley. from the Colonel, who he believes never told Presley. "He wanted to tive way. Later, as an adult, the narrator The current parental mind -set appears "If there was something that of the gift, which turns out rid of anyone who was pre - is reminded to be that it's never too early to start troubled Scotty, it ... saddened get to have repercussions through the infant. And stimulating the mind of an him ... that Elvis didn't come Parker." years. It's a well-told tale, and narrator as with most trends du jour, it hasn't through ... but he never cursed Although Moore's career with Charles reads in an appropriately remi- taken long for this one to trickle down him," recalled Moore's third wife, Presley yields some juicy insider niscent tone. But parents should be to the video market. This latest narra- information, the book is more well warned: Despite the inclusion of a cute of black- and -white Emily Sanders. 6vis's tionless spectacle rounded than your average tell - angel ornament with the tape, the story geometric shapes infused with splashes Others wouldn't be so kind. In t and manager. Scotty More the years that Moore worked with all. itself takes a tragic turn that will upset of bright colors is set to classical music young children. Save this one for adults from likes of Bach and Beethoven. Presley, from the 1954 Sun R e c - EILEEN FITZPATRICK the and kids over age 10.

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www.americanradiohistory.com i RADIOPROMOTIONSNETWORKS SYNDICATIONAIRWAVESMUSIC VIDEOVIDEO MONITOR Teens Contribute To AC, N/T Shifts Country Down Again Among Younger Demos This story was prepared by Sean Ross, 16.6). But it's down noticeably in 18 -34 (10.0- editor of the Airplay Monitors. Teen listening had been in the 7- to 9.6), particularly among teens (7.6-6.7). 8 -share range at AC since the early '905, Country has now trailed AC among NEW YORK-Those pesky teens. No largely a result of the number of mar- teens for a year and a half. But 6.7 was major format admits to targeting them. kets that no longer offered a top 40 its lowest teen share since winter 1992 And yet the fluctuations in their radio option. Now, with top 40 beginning to B.C. -Before Cyrus-when Billy Ray listening -often the result of being resurface in most markets, the lower - gave the format a bona fide teen idol. involuntarily exiled from one format or end boost at AC may also be tied to the Then again, the country /rock flavor that another -may have had a lot to do with rise of modern AC stations, as well as a seemed to coincide with a 12 -34 jump at Doing The Rounds. At WEJE () Fort Wayne, Ind.'s recent Edgefest, Dr. the fate of two seemingly unlikely for- more rock-based mix at other hot AC a format not traditionally known for Judy Kuriansky of Premiere Radio Networks' syndicated "Dr. Judy And Jagger's mats in the spring, according to Bill- and adult top 40 outlets. The net result younger listeners has been noticeably the bud- LovePhones Show" participated in a tongue -fest with the members of board /Airplay Monitor's exclusive na- is that AC, which lost the No. 1 nation- absent in recent months, with country ding Artificial Joy Club, photo left. At right, Dr. Judy hangs during an intimate tional Arbitron ratings. al spot to news /talk radio in 1994, is often sounding a lot more like the bal- moment with Gravity Kills lead singer Jeff Scheel at the X Fest, sponsored by Adult contemporary stations, which closer than it has been in years to N/T, lad- and midtempo- dominated format WRZX (X) Indianapolis. slid sharply from 1992 to '95, have been which was off 16.6 -15.6 this spring. that it was in the mid -'80s. creeping forward over the last three Now, consider what's happening at books, up 14.3- 14.5 -14.7 -14.8 since last country. After rebounding slightly in BUYERS DON'T CARE. WHY SHOULD I? summer. Much of that rise has taken the winter for only the second time in Advertisers still target 25 -54, of place at the format's younger end. AC an otherwise continuous slide since fall course, and so do country and AC sta- outlets were up 8.3 -9.0 in the teen demo '92, country was down again in the tions. So the news of their young -end from winter to spring. They were also spring, 10.6 -10.4, for its lowest 12 -plus fluctuations might not seem to make .. . up 15.5 -16.1 in the 18-34 demo. By con- number since the summer of 1990. much difference for either. But the newsilne an 11.9 share numbers show that 12 -24 can make a trast, AC was up slightly in 25 -54 (17.1- Country is flat in 35-64 at 17.3) and off very slightly in 35 -64 (16.7- and off only slightly in 25 -54 (10.9 -10.7). difference in a format's momentum and critical mass. And country record sales as in the RADIO ON THE ROAD. According to a new report from Interep Research, were never as strong they were out-of -home radio listening makes up the majority of all listening across all era when teen listening was higher (it major dayparts and demographics. At -work listening constitutes 64% of reached double digits in '94). Country and AC differ from top 40 overall listening, divided between in -car listening at 30% and at -work lis- 'ilif l f ;1lì 1 '91 his- tening at 34 %. The report theorizes that the numbers bode well for the radio and R &B radio in that there's little teen usage. R &B and industry, "as home -based media scramble to hold on to their audience [amid] PERSONS 12+ tory of automatic 40 have always managed some teen a barrage of in -home entertainment technologies [vying] for American's Adult Contemp. top %) have dis- attention." R&B 14.8% (14.7 MONDAY - SUNDAY numbers, even though both 11.0% couraged teens at various times and top 6 A.M. - MIDNIGHT OVERNIGHT WITH THE JONESES. Jones Radio is at it again. This time, the (10.9%) 40 has fallen from more than a 50 share in teens in 1990 to less than 30% of teen radio syndicator is offering "Jones Through The Night," designed for use News/Talk listening today, due to several years by oldies, country, and AC stations. The new programs offer three person- 15.6% (16.6%) ality- intensive evening programs, with the option to continue into the Country when the format suffered from severe 10.4% (10.6 %) overnight daypart. Evening programs run 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. and overnights "25- 54- itis." Rem. Formats 0.5% (0.4 °%b) through much of 1995 -96, from 1 a.m. to 6 a.m. The programs are "Dave's Diner" and "Through The R &B radio, achieved a record -high number with Night With Gary Outlaw" for oldies, "Hot Country Nights With The Con - Top 40 Classical 19"/ (2.0 %) man" and "Country Through The Night With Bob Booker" for country, and 8.8% (8.4)% each successive national ratings book. Religious 2 2% (2.2%) "Heart To Heart With Friday Epley" and `AC Through The Night With It was flat in the winter, but in the spring, R &B was up 10.9-11.0 for anoth- Scott Curtis" for AC. Jazz 3.1% (3.1 %) er record 12 -plus number, and it was ahead of country (No. 4). BEATSTOCK IN BROOKLYN. WKTU New York will bring the retro beat to Adult Standards 3.5% (3.5 %) third overall, Brooklyn with its Saturday (23) Beatstock'97. More than 37 artists are lined R &B was off slightly in the teen demo Album (24.3 -24.0), although it remained a solid up to perform their hits, which span 1976 through this year. Among those Modern Rock 4.1% (4.1 %) Rock 2 set records in 25-54 booked: Vicki Sue Robinson, Andrea True Connection, France Joli, Sugar 7.0% No. there, but it 4.6% °r.,) Hill Gang, Shannon, Evelyn "Champagne" King, Jocelyn Brown, Company (6.7)% Classic Rock (4.5 (10.5 -10.7) and 35-64 (8.5 -8.8), as well as %) with adult women (10.8- 10.9). B, George Lamond, Black Box, Crystal Waters, Sandy B, and Diana King. Spanish 6.3% (6.3) % Oldies 6.3% (6.0 Oh, and Vanilla Ice. R &B's upper -demo growth took (Numbers in parentheses represent Winter '97 shares) place despite the fact that adult R &B (Continued on page 94)

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P R O G R A M M I N G Danish Breakout Group Aqua Toys With Hardin Refines The Rock U.S. Pop Success With Its ` ' Sound Of WXTB, I N THE BARBIE WORLD: Ever spiration wonder. In its native Den - "We worked on making Lene's voice WTBT wonder where world phenomena grab mark, the group is well on its way to a little special on each song," Rasted WHEN BRAD HARDIN arrived at to them. The station never had a their first breath of life? becoming as famous as the bleached - says. "We dared to do songs very dif- WEBN Cincinnati, it was a dream morning show -never, ever -over In the case of what is quickly becom- blond dolly herself. ferently from each other. We really come true for a guy who started in the years. We wanted to put a high - ing the novelty song of the year -"Bar- From its debut album, "Aquarium," wanted to give each one a new sound. radio in nearby Louisville, Ky, while profile morning show on 'XTB, and bie Girl" from Danish act Aqua -in- the foursome has already scored three The voices are what you remember still in high school. we had Bubba [the Love Sponge], spiration started rolling on two wheels, No. 1 singles in Denmark, first with about Aqua. They're very distinct." Hardin wandered into the Jacor who was doing nights at 'FLZ for during a bicycle ride by group member the dance /pop jewels "Roses Are Red" And the themes that pervade songs tornado that sucks up talent wherev- years and was ready to do mornings. Soren Rasted . and "My Oh My," then with "Barbie like "Happy Boys & Girls" and "Lol- er it goes and redistributes it across He's a rock guy at heart, and his con- "I had just been to an art museum Girl," which entered the singles chart lipop (Candyman) "? "A lot of things the country, transferring from the PD tent always appealed much more to a exhibition kids for on Barbie," the co- that come are just fun, crazy ideas seat at rock WEBN Cincinnati to the male audience than a teen, female- songwriter explains, "and I started about pictures and things we see. We controls of Tampa, Fla.'s active rock leaning audience. So, we put Bubba singing the line to myself, `Life in plas- try to play around with words and her WXTB (98 Rock) and classic rock on in mornings, and it caught fire tic /It's fantastic,' " followed by the singing and his voice," he says. WTBT (Thunder immediately. It was song's inescapable chief hook, "I'm a One would swear, in fact, that Nys- 105.5) as operations the biggest buzz in Barbie girl /In the Barbie world." trom's vocals were sped up on "Barbie manager. Billboard® the market. Rasted quickly pedaled to the band's Girl," but Rasted claims that Barbie's Job one upon his ar- "We like to position recording studio, where he began spin- squeaky -clean persona is the singer's rival was to "refocus his show as the things ning random ideas into a playfully own creation, sans technology. "That the music on 'XTB to BRUADCASIER that guys talk about naughty Euro -dance ditty on the pri- was the idea," he says, "to make Barbie make it 25-34," Har- OF THE WEEK when girls aren't vate whims and desires of our plastic the kind of girl you think of, very high, din says. "We would around, stuff you talk pal and her male mainstay, Ken. "I very childish. I think Ken is a by Taylor very still play some of the about on the golf started to think it could be fun to do it Chuck masculine fellow, which is actually very 18 -24 stuff, but do vve course or at the gym as a song and to understate the humor," much how we work. Lene is the sweet need to play Marilyn or whatever. When he he says. "It just popped up like that." there at No. 1. The album, meanwhile, thing, and René is the tough thing. It's Manson in morning took over mornings, it controlled the national chart for 11 a good contrast." drive? I don't think so. was ranked 12th 25- weeks and has already become one of Amazingly, the words you've read We can still play it at 54. After the winter the top 10 best -selling albums in Dan- here already represent 100% more night. So, we stepped book, it was eighth, ish history. than Danish audiences knew by the it back and created and after the spring To top it all, Aqua was nominated for time "Barbie Girl" was released in the center sound for book, he was third, Denmark's equivalent of a Grammy for Scandinavia. The band decided early the station, consisting BRAD BA RHIN two-tenths away from best Danish dance release, while it also on to grant no press interviews until it of Van Halen, Rush, Operations Manager being second." has a fanzine, Aquascope, along with a felt the time was right. AC /DC, Aerosmith, WXTB /WTBT T ampa, Fla. But of course, the AQUA half-dozen World Wide Web sites in its "In Denmark, `Roses Are Red' Led Zeppelin. And missing piece for any honor (the official one, in Norwegian, started out at No. 20, and nice and easy with the '90s stuff, the station in the Jacor A little more than six months later, can be found at http. //www.aqua.dk). it climbed to No. 1," says Rasted. center sound from family was the atti- the one -listen, bubble -gum morsel is The band met four years ago, while "Then, `My Oh My' came out and took Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, and tude promotions the group is so well poised to pop up on top 40 playlists na- male vocalist René Dif was a leading the No. 1 spot from [`Roses']. At that Stone Temple Pilots, and we just made known for. "98 Rock is definitely the tionwide. Already, it is No. 36 on Hot Scandinavian DJ and female lead Lene point, we hadn't gone to any newspa- sure that if we played something new, male, testosterone radio station," 100 Airplay this issue, with a commer- Grawford Nystrom (who, incidentally, pers, [done] any interviews, nothing we always came back to that center Hardin says. Aside from the obliga- cial single slated for release Aug. 19. never owned a Barbie as a little girl) before we released the album. The sound. And it has helped the station." tory pregnant bikini contests, "we do has "It all the dressings of a classic, was hosting a TV show Dif heard Nys- press were very curious about who we 98 Rock finished the spring book the boob jobs. We're doing the Triple - three- minute slice of pop heaven," says trim sing and introduced her to his were. I guess we made them hungry" with a 4.8-5.3 rise, for sixth place in X games here soon -a takeoff of the Carmen Cacciatore, senior director bandmates, Rasted and Claus Nor - And then the group was nominated the market and Tampa's highest-rated X games -at a nudist colony" of East Coast A &R for MCA Records. reen, who wrote music together at the for the Danish Grammy. "It was very rock.signal. Hardin has also "let the other jocks "It's fun, it's quirky, it's camp, it's a lit- gas station where they worked. Among unreal to hear of this success when Here's a recent 3 p.m. hour on express their creativity. Before, they tle left -of- center, which I think is what their achievements: creating the score nobody knew who we were," he says. WXTB: AC/DC, "Highway To Hell"; were just `read these liners, read top 40 is looking for. And it taps into a for a highly popular children's film in At the awards ceremony, "compared to Creed, "My Own Prison "; Rush, these liners,' and a lot of them were slice of American culture in a very pos- Denmark. the Danish rock scene, we looked like "Tom Sawyer "; Offspring, "Gone frustrated. I said, `Open it up. If you itive way. All of Aqua's songs are very They all collaborated on "Aquari- wannabes." Away "; Metallica, "The Unforgiven "; go too far, and you do something uplifting and humorous, with a little bit um," on which Rasted says the goal "Our Aqua look is very colorful, and Van Halen, "You Really Got Me "; wrong, I'll tell you to come back. I'd of sexual innuendo here and there." was to craft songs that offer a dimen- people were staring at us," he says Megadeth, "Trust "; Pearl Jam, rather you try and fall down than not And how. Who could resist the giddy sion unique from the typical male -rap/ with a shrug. "We didn't win anything, "Alive "; Led Zeppelin, "Rock And try at all.'" 3:16 tale that begins with Ken roaring female- chorus formula of most Euro- but just being there was cool. It's some- Roll "; Alice In Chains, "Man In The Hardin thanks Spice Girls for help- up in his Corvette, offering the ever- dance tracks. For one, Aqua, which thing you always dream about." Box "; Stone Temple Pilots, "Inter- ing 98 Rock find its place in the mar- alluring Barbie a ride, with the ensu- sings all its lyrics in English, features In the spring, Aqua began radio state Love Song "; and Tool, "H." ket. Two years ago, WFLZ went ing lines, "You can brush my hair/un- two lead singers: the husky -timbred stops throughout the Scandinavian Next up was mornings. While 98 through a much -publicized switch dress me everywhere /Imagination/ Dif and the pliable, at times early region, where it would play "Barbie Rock was still under the Citicasters from rhythmic top 40 to a more mod- Life is your creation" and "Make me Cyndi Lauper-esque Nystrom. As Girl" with just two acoustic guitars and umbrella, top 40 WFLZ (now 98 ern rock -driven mainstream format. walk, make me talk, do whatever you well, while the band focuses on beat - vocals. The band is now beginning the Rock's sister) beat WXTB among "That's the kind of top 40 music that please/I can act like a star, I can beg heavy fare, it also packs some surpris- task of converting its repertoire into a men 18 -34 in mornings. "One of our was out at the time," Hardin notes. on my knees." ing production twists into more serious live stage act. "We just haven't had first goals was to get those men back, "Now, there's Spice Girls and things But despite the quirky thematics of cuts, such as the ballads "Be A Man" time," Rasted says. "It's all come about so we put a product on that appealed (Continued on page 94) "Barbie Girl," Aqua is hardly a one -in- and "Turn Back Time." (Continued on page 94) the Winner is d eut at the

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92 BILLBOARD AUGUST 30, 1997 www.americanradiohistory.com ri1JC-i iJ LMiICill=N AC things The Immortal /Epic soundtrack to the film own mechanistic side. "I've always been attracted to that way. `Trip Like I Do' was one of the easiest "Spawn" has an apt, odd-bedfellows conceptual electronic music," Patrick says. "That stuff is intuitive I've ever done. I started writing lyrics as soon as the bent, as a lineup of hard rock acts collaborate for me. And Filter is a kitchen -sink band anyway. Crystal Method guys sent me the tape of their song, with a set of artists of the electronic persuasion. From Acoustic guitars on top of electronic beats, whatever." then I just put vocals and guitars over it." the Dust Brothers laying beats upon a track by hate A former tour guitarist for Nine Inch Nails, Patrick The movie was just "OK," Patrick says, but "Spawn" rockers Korn to Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett the album was a worthy experiment. "There's some Sneak- adding leads to an Orbital song, from Moby making cool stuff there, like Marilyn Manson with the the most of the Butthole Surfers to and Atari "There's some er Pimps and Moby with the Butthole Surfers. There cool stuff on are some turds, too, though. The Stabbing Westward Teenage Riot bringing the noise in tandem, the pair- `Spawn,' and there ings do their damnedest to evoke the movie's dark, are some real track [with Wink] is the quintessential stink bomb. music take a comic book- derived story line. turds, too_" "It's been interesting to see electronic HITS! Patrick of Filter day in the At No. 30 on Modern Rock Tracks is the "Spawn" -Richard stab at the mainstream-although it had its every- single, "(Can't You) Trip Like I Do" from Filter and the '80s with Depeche Mode," Patrick adds. "But to Crystal Method. The latter is a digital duo from groovy scored a hit a couple of years ago with Filter's "Hey thing has a cycle. I think heavy guitars are going sake, Las Vegas, while the team's "human" element comes Man, Nice Shot," a song that took about "10 minutes to come back. Everything comes back. For Christ's courtesy of Richard Patrick of Filter, an act with its write," he says. "The best things always seem to work came back." IN

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.. TOKIO Mainstream Rock Tracks.. Modern Rock Tracks Week of August 10, 1997 ARTIST ,) TRACK TITLE ARTIST TRACK TITLE N 3 3o ALBUM TITLE (IF ANY) LABEL-PROMOTION LABEL MMMBop / Hanson f: 3 _i 3 N 5 3 o ALBUM TALE IF ANY) LABEL PROMOTION LABEL r 3 _i 3 02 I'll Be Missing You / Puff Daddy & * * * No. 1 * ** * * *No.1 * ** Faith Evans Featuring 112 ,.Tess at No. 1 SUGAR RAY 5 weeks at No. 1 COLLECTIVE SOUL FLY : LISTEN 1 1 1 1 1 15 to LAVNATLANTIC Sunshine Day / Matt Bianco DISCIPLINED BREAKDOWN ATLANTIC Ol FLOORED 0 ® Serial Thrilla / Prodigy IF YOU COULD ONLY SEE TONIC WALKIN' ON THE SUN SMASH MOUTH 2 2 2 21 2 4 7 INTERSCOPE LEMON PARADE POLYDOR/A&M 19 FUSH YU MANG Best Days / Juice TURN MY HEAD LIVE PUSH MATCHBOX 20 4 5 8 3 3 2 18 © Men In Black / Will Smith 0 SECRET SAMADHI RADIOACTIVE/MCA YOURSELF OR SOMEONE LIKE YOU LAVA/ATLANTIC / Robin S. THE DIFFERENCE THE WALLFLOWERS TURN MY HEAD LIVE It Must Be Love 4 3 3 16 12 BRINGING DOWN THE HORSE INTERSCOPE 4 4 3 RADIOACTIVE/MCA SECRET SAMADHI OB I Say A Little Prayer / Diana King MEGADETH OASIS TRUST D' YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? Bitch / Meredith Brooks 5 6 7 14 CAPITOL 5 5 5 7 CRYPTIC WRITINGS BE HERE NOW EPIC HAGAR ® Star / Primal Scream 9 9 4 MARCHING TO MARS SAMMY WAY SUBLIME MARCHING TO MARS THE TRACK FACTORY /MCA 6 6 12 WRONG © © SUBLIME GASOLINE ALLEY /MCA © Smile / The Supernaturals PINK AEROSMITH SARAH MCLACHLAN 16 22 16 COLUMBIA 9 BUILDING A MYSTERY All Kinds Of People / Big Mountain 0 NINE LIVES 7 8 ARISTA Q7 SURFACING METALLICA You Are The Universe / The Brand New BLEEDING ME PIMPS 8 8 6 12 ELEKTRNEEG 6 UNDERGROUND SNEAKER LOAD 8 8 7 19 BECOMING X CLEAN UPNIRGIN Heavies PUSH MATCHBOX 20 9 7 8 25 FIGHTERS YOURSELF OR SOMEONE LIKE YOU LAVA/ATLANTIC EVERLONG F00 ® Samba De Janeiro / Bellini 13 16 5 Q8 THE COLOUR AND THE SHAPE ROSWELL/CAPITOL CAROLINA BLUES BLUES TRAVELER ® Not Where It's At/ Del Amitri 5 4 12 10 TILL MORNING A &M SEMI -CHARMED LIFE THIRD EYE BLIND 10 9 10 23 For You / The Trampolines THIRD EYE BLIND ELEKTRNEEG Waiting TOUCH, PEEL AND STAND DAYS OF THE NEW 14 6 Anymore / Sarah Cracknell 11 ii DAYS OF THE NEW OUTPOST /GEFFEN IF YOU COULD ONLY SEE TONIC 11 10 11 23 LAZY EYE GOO G00 DOLLS LEMON PARADE POLYDOR/A&M ® Just A Freak / Crystal Waters 12 12 13 6 "BATMAN & ROBIN" SOUNDTRACK WARNER SUNSET/WARNER BROS. CRIMINAL FIONA APPLE 14 21 6 Featuring Dennis Rodman BATON ROUGE THE NIXONS CI TIDAL CLEAN SLATE/WORK 13 10 10 13 MCA Should I Walk Away / Summercamp THE NIXONS THE IMPRESSION THAT I GET THE MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES 13 12 12 26 LAST CUP OF SORROW FAITH NO MORE LET'S FACE IT BIG RIG/MERCURY ® Melody/ Ram Jam World Featuring Lisa 14 14 16 11 ALBUM OF THE YEAR SLASH/REPRISE SELL OUT REEL BIG FISH Buddy / Kenji Ozawa THE OFFSPRING 14 15 15 15 MOJO/UNIVERSAL 27 GONE AWAY TURN THE RADIO OFF 15 15 12 HOMBRE COLUMBIA Love Love Mode / Dimitri From Paris IXNAY ON THE THE DIFFERENCE THE WALLFLOWERS LIVE THROUGH THIS (FIFTEEN STORIES) MIGHTY JOE PLUM 15 li 9 16 INTERSCOPE Happiness / Vanessa Williams 18 19 6 BRINGING DOWN THE HORSE 0 THE HAPPIEST DAYS ATLANTIC a BECK Be Don't Wanna A Player /Joe 5 JACK -ASS 0 YOU QUEENSRYCHE 16 19 22 DGC/GEFFEN 13 11 9 ODELAY 11 HEAR IN THE NOW FRONT[ F ': xii VIRGIN Daijobu / Touko Furuuchi SICK & BEAUTIFUL ARTIFICIAL JOY CLUB 11 18 20 10 / En Vogue * * * AIRPOWER* * * MELT CRUNCHY/INTERSCOPE Whatever JACKYL ® Happy / Laurnea 7 LOCKED & LOADED (18) 17 15 EPIC * * * AIRPOWER* * * CUT THE CRAP Lie To Me / Jonny Lang KING THE MIGHTY MIGHTYBBOSSMONERS 0 18 4 EHEFRASCAL * * * AIRPOWER * * * 26 27 0 Pacific Oasis / Na Leo SUPERMAN'S DEAD OUR LAD BREATHE PRODIGY Honey / Mariah Carey 19 19 17 10 cDPEABE 19 21 23 8 CLUMSY THE FAT OF THE LAND XL MUTE/MAVERICK/WARNER BROS. ® Endless Summer Nude / Magokoro LAZY EYE 20 22 24 6 Brothers * * *AIRPOWER* * * "BATMAN & ROBIN" SOUNDTRACK WARNER SUNSET/WARNER BROS. SOUL OF LOVE PAUL RODGERS D'You Know What I Mean?' Oasis 20 18 7 SONG 2 BLUR (Di NOW VELVEL 21 20 17 21 BLUR FOOD/PARLOPHONENIRGIN 0 Shinshia / Tomoyo Harada K'S CHOICE Dwarf And 200 Solemn Faces / THE OFFSPRING NOT AN ADDICT ® One Angry 21 23 5 22 23 19 23 21 IXNAY ON THE HOMBRE COLUMBIA PARADISE IN ME 550 MUSIC Ben Folds Five EVERLONG F00 FIGHTERS GRADUATE THIRD EYE BLIND 2 4 22 25 - THE SHAPE ROSWELL/CAPITOL 23 27 33 ELEKTRNEEG ® No Communication / Namie Amuro THE COLOUR AND THIRD EYE BLIND SUGARCANE CRY OF LOVE OUR LADY PEACE Hannah / Sugarplum 23 28 3 SUPERMAN'S DEAD 23 DIAMONDS & DEBRIS COLUMBIA 24 28 31 5 COLUMBIA CLUMSY ® Ain'tThat Enough / Teenage Fanclub VILLAINS THE VERVE PIPE DO YOU WANT FROM ME? MONACO 24 24 25 6 RCA 25 24 25 8 WHAT Timemachine / Chara VILLAINS MUSIC FOR PLEASURE POLYDOR/A &M TOOL You 5 AENEMA 311 ® Little More Time With / James Taylor 25 26 27 ZOONOLCANO 9 TRANSISTOR AENIMA 26 16 14 CAPRICORN/MERCURY TRANSISTOR ® So Help Me Girl I Gary Barlow IN A HURRICANE JOHN FOGERTY 26 22 20 11 WALKING LISTEN COLLECTIVE SOUL BLUE MOON SWAMP WARNER BROS. 21 25 18 14 ® Collie Weed / Shinehead DISCIPLINED BREAKDOWN ATLANTIC GENESIS 2 CONGO ® Fly I Sugar Ray 21 35 - ATLANTIC LAST NIGHT ON EARTH U2 CALLING ALL STATIONS 28 17 13 10 POP ISLAND To Alive / Wyclef Jean ONE ANGEL ® We Trying Stay 28 29 2 - AWARE/CAP TI R VILLAINS THE VERVE PIPE Featuring Refugee AIIStars 29 31 35 4 RCA PLACE YOUR HANDS VILLAINS 29 30 30 4 Nervous / Cory Sipper GLOW R EPIC (CANT YOU) TRIP LIKE I DO FILTER AND THE CRYSTAL METHOD 30 30 36 3 IMMORTAL/EPIC Youni FLY SUGAR RAY "SPAWN" SOUNDTRACK ® Koiha Itsumo Maborosino / 30 NEW 1 FLOORED LAVA/ATLANTIC LET DOWN RADIOHEAD Hofadiran 31 36 38 3 CAPITOL MONKEY WRENCH F00 FIGHTERS OK COMPUTER No / Allure Featuring LL Cool J 31 27 24 17 ® Question THE COLOUR AND THE SHAPE ROSWELL/CAPITOL MY TOWN BUCK -O -NINE 32 35 39 4 ® Talk To Me / Wild Orchid MY OWN PRISON CREED TWENTY -EIGHT TEETH TVT 32 NEW 1 WIND -UP MY OWN PRISON IF YOU WERE THE LAST JUNKIE ON EARTH THE DANDY WARHOLS ® C U When U Get There / Coolio 33 37 37 3 NOT BRING IT ON LYNYRD SKYNYRD COME DOWN TIM KERR/CAPITOL 33 34 39 3 ® Day -O I Dub Train TWENTY CMC INTERNATIONAL SPACE MANSUN 9 WIDE OPEN Momotie / Miho Asahi 34 29 26 EPIC 3 FADE TO BLUE 38 SPECIAL ATTACK OF THE GREY LANTERN 34 33 - RAZOR & TIE RESOLUTION DREAMS FOREST FOR THE TREES Selections can be heard on JIMMIE'S CHICKEN SHACK 35 NEW 1 2 HIGH FOREST FOR THE TREES DREAMWORKS/GEFFEN "Sapporo Beer Tokio Hot 100 " 35 39 - ROCKET/POLYDOR/A &M ' PUSHING THE SALMANILLA ENVELOPE MEREDITH BROOKS BITCH every Sunday 1 PM -5 PM on D' YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? OASIS 36 34 34 21 36 36 38 3 BLURRING THE EDGES CAPITOL BE HERE NOW EPIC J- WAVE /81.3 FM in TOKYO TRIPPING BILLIES DAVE MATTHEWS BAND HIT THE GROUND RUNNING JONNY LANG 37 32 28 14 37 ' 1 CRASH RCA NEW LIE TO ME A &M TRAVELER TRANSISTOR 311 MOST PRECARIOUS BLUES 38 31 33 3 38 NEW 1 TILL MORNING A&M TRANSISTOR CAPRICORN/MERCURY STRAIGHT ON 111.3 FM J-WAUE FALLING IN LOVE (IS HARD ON THE KNEES) AEROSMITH HAVE YOU SEEN ME LATELY? COUNTING CROWS 39 38 34 25 39 NEW 1 DGC/GEFFEN NINE LIVES COLUMBIA RECOVERING THE SATELLITES information available at: HOLE IN MY SOUL AEROSMITH IT'S NO GOOD DEPECHE MODE Station 40 28 21 17 40 33 29 21 NINE LIVES COLUMBIA ULTRA. MUTE/REPRISE http: / /www.infojapan.com /JWAVE/ are monitored 24 ho is a day, 7 days a week. Songs ranked by number of detections. Compiled from a national sample of airplay supplied by Broadcast Data Systems' Radio Track service. 104 Mainstream rock stations and 82 modem rock stations electronically (Modern Rock) for the first time. 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Y ,,z TITLE ARTIST AQUA TOYS WITH U.S. POP SUCCESS WITH `BARBIE _ GIRL' N yi O LABEL & NUMBER/PROMOTION LABEL (Continued from page 92) * * *No.1 * ** so very fast." somebody's toes, and that's not the way makers of the doll. ") SUNNY CAME HOME SHAWN COLVIN 1 1 1 19 The act will soon pull it all together it was meant to be." That withstanding, Rasted says COLUMBIA 78528 4 weeks at No 1 for live dates at home, then will hit the Even Mattel management overseas that he and the bandmates wait GO THE DISTANCE can't 2 2 2 15 MICHAEL BOLTON COLUMBIA 78554 road for an exhaustive tour of Sweden, has given "Barbie Girl" an amused to touch down on U.S. soil. "In any FOR YOU I Hong 3 3 4 17 WILL MONICA Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Thai- thumbs up. "One of the radio stations interview, we always say how much we ROWDY/WARNER SUNSET 87003/ATLANTIC land, and Korea. It will then come to in Denmark phoned the Mattel compa- are looking forward to going to any ® 5 9 7 HOW DO I LIVE LEANN RIMES CURB 73022 the U.S. in late summer, just before ny, and they said the song was very country," he says. "But America has MORE TIME WITH YOU "Aquarium" is released 5 4 3 12 LITTLE JAMES TAYLOR here Sept. 9. positive and felt it was fun. They knew always been the biggest dream, COLUMBIA ALBUM CUT Already it is prepared to deal with we didn't want to hurt the doll in any because a Danish band has never had 8 FOR ONCE IN OUR LIVES 6 8 10 ARK 21 ALBUM CUT controversy in these culturally correct way. We haven't heard from the Amer- a song on the American charts. It is YOU THAT MUCH PETER 7 6 7 15 CETERA times, where a smattering of women ican company yet, but hopefully they the place to be if people like it. I can't RIVER LOVBEfMECUT have complained that the song will think the same thing, because it HERE IN MY HEART wait." 8 7 5 20 CHICAGO REPRISE ALBUM CUT demeans women by allegedly placing was all in fun." TO MAKE YOU FEEL MY LOVE BILLY JOEL in Q9 12 17 4 Barbie a servile role. It's the first One report says that Mattel U.S. had Reach radio editor Chuck Taylor by E- COLUMBIA 78641 that Rasted has heard of the issue. huffed that it was looking into poten- mail at [email protected]. A SMILE LIKE YOURS NATALIE COLE lO 1 O 11 $ ELEKTRA ALBUM CUT /EEG "The spirit is fun. We didn't make the tial trademark infringement, even YOU WERE MEANT FOR ME song to hurt the doll, the girls, or the though Aqua printed a disclaimer on 11 9 6 29 JEWEL ATLANTIC 87021 men and women," he responds. "We the CD single that says, "The song 3 FOOLISH GAMES JEWEL 12 14 22 care as much about women's liberation ` Barbie Girl' is a social comment and ATLANTIC ALBUM CUT HARDIN SILVER SPRINGS as anyone else. Sometimes, you step on was not created or by 13 18 27 3 FLEETWOOD MAC approved the REPRISE ALBUM CUT (Continued from page 92) PLAYING GAMES (WITH MY HEART) BACKSTREET 14 17 20 5 QUIT BOYS JIVE 42453 like that that are rhythmic, and that's I'LL ALWAYS BE RIGHT THERE BRYAN ADAMS the things 15 13 13 26 they're playing." A &M ALBUM CUT TEENS CONTRIBUTE TO AC, N/T SHIFTS Now that WXTB is on the path FOR THE FIRST TIME 16 11 10 34 KENNY LOGGINS (Continued from page 91) COLUMBIA ALBUM CUT Hardin intended for it, he's preparing ERIC stations were flat at a 3.7 share 12-plus, 5 -share range for the first time in mid - for his second chapter, the Thunder 11 20 19 63 CLAPTON REPRISE 17621 suggesting that the adult rise was at days and afternoons (up 4.9 -5.0 in both). remake. That station's gotten a little UN -BREAK MY 18 16 18 46 HEART TONI BRAXTON LAFACE 24200 /ARISTA mainstream R &B radio. So maybe Even though the oldies format re- more wiggle room lately. Hardin says,

I DON'T WANT TO TONI despite the publicity that hip -hop gen- bounded 6.0 -6.3 in the spring from its "When I got to the market, WHPT [the 19 15 12 21 BRAXTON LAFACE 24229 ARISTA erated during the spring, the format got lowest number in recent memory, for- Point] was pretty much a triple- A /clas- * * * AIRPOWER * * * an equal boost from the "Love Jones" mat observers worry that its bulge is in sic rock hybrid kind of radio station. TAKES A LITTLE TIME AMY soundtrack and all -fla- 10 21 26 3 GRANT the other retro the 45 -54 demo (34.1% of its listening), Since then, they've moved it into more A &M ALBUM CUT vored R &B music released as part of while its 18 -34 -demo shares have of a triple -A direction. They've had a I AM NOT HIDING KENNY LOGGINS 21 22 23 5 the format's neo- progressive movement. dropped from the 5s to the 3s since '95, real nice book, because the station's a COLUMBIA ALBUM CUT In fifth place, top 40 was up 8.4-8.8, leading many to wonder if the lot HARD TO SAY I'M SORRY AZ YET FEAT. PETER CETERA format more focused than it was before." 22 19 14 9 LAFACE 24223 /ARISTA its best number since fall '95. Top 40 was will become hard to sell in the same way The first thing he did with Thunder ALONE BEE GEES 23 23 16 18 flat in 35-64 (at a 4.4 share) and at night that was 10 -15 years ago. was slash its 800 -song library to a man- POLYDOR 571006/A&M (11.6), but up nicely in every other day - Classic rock seems to have a lot to do ageable 400 -500 tracks. "They were ARBFLY KISSES BOB CARLISLE 24 24 21 17 BUTT part and demo. It went 27.8 -28.9 in the with oldies' demo shift. Many of today's doing silly things, like tracking albums FOR YOU 25 26 28 3 ALL SISTER HAZEL teen demo, 12.9 -13.4 in 18 -34, and 7.0- classic rock stations evolved from '70s once per daypart, which is fine if you're UNIVERSAL 56135 7.2 in 25 -54. Top 40 was up 7.6 -7.9 in oldies and carried the 18-34s with them. going to do that, but it wasn't packaged; mornings, 7.0 -7.4 in middays, and 9.1- Classic rock's bulge is in 35-44 (37.4 %). they'd let the dead air go between each 9.4 in afternoons. Tied with oldies for seventh place is track," he says. Adult Top 40 It's worth noting that even in this era Spanish radio, flat at a 6.3 share 12-plus. "We just tightened it up, big time," * * *No.1 * of top 40 again playing teen-appeal mu- Spanish is up in mornings (6.1 -6.5), off Hardin continues. "It's a 6,000 -watt ** sic, from Hanson, Spice Girls, Robyn, at nights (6.8 -6.4), and flat during the radio station with a 2.9 share, the high- 1 ALL FOR YOU SISTER HAZEL O 1 18 UNIVERSAL 56135 3 weeks at No. 1 the Backstreet Boys, and others, the rest of the day. It was off with teens est ratings that it's had. And we're get- SUNNY CAME HOME SHAWN COLVIN format's biggest audience bulge is in 25- (5.3 -4.8), but up in 25-54 (6.6-6.8) and 35- ting ready to go full power, 100,000 2 2 2 27 COLUMBIA 78528 34, where it gets 25.5% of its listening 64 (5.9-6.2). watts, by Sept. 1. So it's probably going SEMI -CHARMED LIFE THIRD EYE BLIND 0 3 3 17 vs. 21.9% for teens and 23.4% in 18 -24. In 10th place, modern rock has been to beat 'XTB in the fall book, because ELEKTRA 64173/EEG Almost 25% of top 40's audience is over stable at a 4.1 share for three consecu- we're going to market it heavily, and 8 9 7 FOOLISH GAMES JEWEL co ATLANTIC ALBUM CUT 35 years old. R &B also has its bulge in tive books, down only a few tenths from there's such a hunger and hole in this HOW BIZARRE OMC 25 -34 (25.5 %). AC it in 35 -44 4.4 5 5 6 16 has its peak of a share in early '96, market for classic rock. If you look back HUH. ALBUM CUT/MERCURY (25.9 %). Country has an even spread despite the format's negative press. over the years, even the last two or so ONE HEADLIGHT THE WALLFLOWERS 6 4 4 28 INTERSCOPE ALBUM CUT past age 25; its bulge is also in 35 -44 Modern's female numbers, the ones you years of'YNF, they were battling 'XTB, A CHANGE WOULD DO YOU GOOD SHERYL CROW (22.1 %). Modern rock's bulge is in 25 -34 might expect to be the hardest hit by and it was like, `Who could play the 7 6 5 15 A &M ALBUM CUT (34.3 %), despite its reputation as an 18- modern AC, were at worst stymied at a most new records first ?' It's been five THE FRESHMEN THE VERVE PIPE 8 7 8 18 24 format. relatively low level, flat at a 2.6 share, or six years since this market a RCA 64734 has had down from a 2.9. rock 9 9 7 44 BARELY BREATHING DUNCAN SHEIK peak of With men, classic -leaning station, so it's going ATLANTIC 87027 ROCK REBOUNDS, CLASSICS STABLE meanwhile, the format was up 4.6-4.7 to be on fire. It's going to be huge." BUILDING A MYSTERY SARAH MCLACHLAN 10 11 16 8 Album rock, which fell to its lowest this time, but short of modern's 5.1 Here's a recent 3 p.m. hour on ARISTA 13395 point in the winter, came back 6.7 -7.0, share last spring. WTBT: Steppenwolf, "Born To Be MORE THAN THIS 10,000 MANIACS 11 10 11 9 GEFFEN 19411 for sixth place, with its biggest rebound Adult standards stations, which have Wild"; Eagles, "Take It To The Limit ";

I DON'T WANT TO WAIT PAULA COLE in 25-54 (8.1 -8.6). While album and clas- grown sharply in number recently, Doors, "Hello, I Love You "; Eric Clap - 12 14 22 6 IMAGO ALBUM CUT/WARNER BROS. sic rock have tended to trade off good didn't expand their audience during the ton, "Wonderful Tonight "; Grand Funk CRASH INTO ME DAVE MATTHEWS BAND 13 12 10 27 books, the ninth -place classic rock for- spring; they were flat at a 3.5 share, fol- Railroad, "We're An American Band "; RCA ALBUM CUT mat was slightly, 4.5 -4.6, lowed IF YOU COULD ONLY SEE TONIC up for its best by jazz (flat at 3.1), religious sta- Fleetwood Mac, "The Chain "; Phil 14 13 18 9 POLYDOR ALBUM CUT /A &M book ever. The format also cracked the tions (flat at 2.2), and classical (2.0 -1.9). Collins, "In The Air Tonight "; Pink THE DIFFERENCE THE WALLFLOWERS 15 21 7 Floyd, "Money "; , "The CI INTERSCOPE ALBUM CUT Load -Out /Stay "; Beatles, "Sgt. Pep - MATCHBOX E X E C U T I V E T U R N T A B L E 16 17 23 8 PUSH 20 LAVA ALBUM CUT /ATLANTIC per/A Day In The Life "; Steve Miller, YOU WERE MEANT FOR ME JEWEL "Fly "; 11 16 12 41 Like An Eagle Elton John, "Sat- ATLANTIC 87021 FOLKS. Dave Ervin, national PD for Tucson, Ariz., stations, replacing Larry urday Night's Alright For Fighting "; MEREDITH BROOKS 18 19 14 19 BITCH CAPITOL 58634 Bonneville, will be the new VP/GM of Browning. and Rolling Stones, "Wild Horses." HAVE ALL THE COWBOYS GONE? PAULA COLE country KZLA Los Angeles when Bon- With 98 Rock going heavy on the 19 18 13 31 WHERE IMAGO 17373/WARNER BROS. neville takes over the station, which it SALES. Following the controversy over attitude, Hardin sees Thunder as a I WANT YOU SAVAGE GARDEN 20 20 15 30 says may be as soon as two weeks. He the sale of noncommercial jazz outlet refuge for listeners. "If someone has a COLUMBIA 78503 succeeds Bruce Raven- Stark. Ervin WDCU Washington, D.C., from the problem with the content on Bubba's SHAME ON YOU INDIGO GIRLS 21 22 20 14 EPIC ALBUM CUT will report to newly named president of cash -strapped District government to show or the content of [WXTB], they MMMBOP HANSON the company's Los Angeles/Salt Lake religious Salem Broadcasting, the sta- can always go to Thunder, and it's going 22 21 17 21 MERCURY 574261 City Radio Group Richard Mecham. tion has instead been sold to C -SPAN, to be much more mass -appeal," he says. QUIT PLAYING GAMES (WITH MY HEART) BACKSTREET BOYS 23 24 24 6 Tom is from of which will flip it to an all- public- [for] a 45 now, 15 JIVE 42453 Owens upped VP affairs "It's guy that's and format. he AC THE IMPRESSION THAT I GET THE MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES programming to senior VP of pro- years ago thought /DC was too 24 25 27 5 BIG RIG ALBUM CUT /MERCURY gramming at Jacor Communications. hard. That's his radio station. And FOUR LEAF CLOVER ABRA MOORE 25 23 26 8 Longtime WUSL (Power 99) Phil- FORMATS. KNEW San Francisco picks we're doing more lifestyle stuff on ARISTA AUSTIN 13097 /ARISTA adelphia PD Gary Young exits. Steve up the syndicated Real Country format there, more qualitative types of promo- Compiled t om a national sample of ai.piny upplied by Broadcast Data Systems' Radio Track service. 54 adult contemporary stations and 63 adutt top 40 stations ar electronically monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Songs ranked by number of detections. °Tracks showing an increase in detections over Wexler, former PD of N/T WTMJ Mil- Sept. 15. Four staffers, including music tions, more higher -end stuff." the previous week, regardless of chart movement. Airpower awarded to songs which attain 400 adult contemporary detections or 700 adult top 40 detections for the first time. rs 1997. Billboard/BPI Communications. waukee, is the new VP/GM of Journal's director Richard Ryan, are out. MARC SCHIFFMAN

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Take It Like A Man 11 Sons Of The Desert, Hand Of Fate 18 Smash Mouth, Walkin On The Sun 23 Michelle Wright, Panels, Surprises 24 Alan Jackson, She's Got The Rhythm Info - Packed 19 Foxy Brown, Big Bad Mamma 12 Wade Hayes, Wichita Lineman 25 Tracy Lawrence, Alibis 13 Trisha Yearwood, How Do I Live 20 Jewel, Foolish Games 14 Kenny Chesney, She's Got It All 21 Mighty Mighty Busstones, The Rascal King 26 John Michael Montgomery, Line On Love Today 15 John Anderson, Somebody Slap Me 22 Fora Fighters, Everlong 27 Charley Pride W/Hal Ketchum, For Away A Winner In Store At Billboard Vid Confab iZZ 16 Reba McEntire, What If It's You 23 LIT' Kim, Not Tonight 28 Kathy Maltea, Walking Now 14 hours daily 17 Dean Miller, Nowhere, USA t 24 Spice Girls, 2 Become 1 29 Bryan White, Look At Me Street NE, Lad White, Helping M 1899 9th 18 River Road, Nickajack t 25 Fleetwood Mac, Silver Springs 30 Travis Tritt Feat. The The three -day event will conclude D.C. 20018 BILLBOARD SCHEDULE: Washington, 19 LeAnn Rimes, You Light Up My Life 26 Sneaker Pimps, 6 Underground 19th annual Billboard Music Video with the star- studded Billboard Music 20 Alison Krauss & Union Station, Looking In... f 27 Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, The Rain... * * NEW ONS** 1 Big Bad Mamma Foxy Brown, 21 John Fogerty, Southern Streamline t 28 Reel Big Fish, Sell Out is Video Awards. Watch this space for B.I.G., Mo Money Mo Problems If It's You Conference and Awards returning 2 The Notorious 22 Lila McCann, Down Came A Blackbird t 29 Dandy Warhols, Not If You Wem The Last Reba McEntire, What 3 Wyclef Jean, We Trying To Stay Alive Rimes, You Light Up My Life to Los Angeles with a jam -packed exciting announcements about this 23 Blackhawk, Hole In My Heart 30 Reef, Place Your Hands LeAnn Elliott, The Rain... 4 Missy "Misdemeanor" 24 Jason Sellers, I'm Your Man t 31 Mary J. Blige, Everything show, which will be held at Bill- Magoo, Up Jumps Da Boogie schedule of events for the music video year's 5 Timbaland & 25 Matraca Berg, That Train Don't Run t 32 Blackstreet, Fix 6 Mary J. Bilge, I Can Love You community. board Live on the Sunset Strip. 26 James Bonamy, Naked To The Pain t 33 Backstreet Boys, Quit Playing Games Fix 7 Blackstreet, 27 Bryan White, Love Is The Right Place t 34 Ginuwine, When Doves Cry Check out next issue's Homefront Labels and regional shows should 8 Will Smith, Men In Black 28 Brady Seals, Natural Born Lovers t 35 Tool, Aenema Kim, Not Tonight have received their nomina- 9 Lil' 29 Joe Diffie, Somethin' Like This t 36 Fitter & The Crystal Method, (Can't You) Trip... column for an exciting announcement already You Are 10 Rahsaan Patterson, Where With You Tonic, If You Could Only See 30 Reba McEntire, I'd Rather Ride Around 37 MUSIC FIRST about this year's keynote speech. tion submission forms. All forms are 11 Ginuwine, I'll Do Anything/I'm Sorry 31 Chely Wright, Shut Up And Drive 38 OMC, How Bizarre in Billboard's 12 Myron, We Can Get Down 32 Bill Engvall, Warning Signs t 39 Jamiroquai, Alright Continuous programming Expect some big news to be unveiled due to Maureen Ryan Benjamins 13 Puff Daddy, It's All About The 33 Chris LeDoux, This Cowboy's Hat 40 Beck, Jack -Ass 1515 Broadway, NY, NY 10036 1. Usher, You Make Me Wanna at the conference from not one but New York office no later than Sept. 14 34 Sara Evans, Three Chords And The Truth 41 Our Lady Peace, Superman's Dead Go Came Home 15 Laumea, Can't Let 35 Rodney Atkins, In A Heartbeat 42 Bosta Rhymes, Put Your Hands Where My Eyes... 1 Shawn Colvin, Sunny two major industry players. 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Also check out Billboard 19 SWV, Someone Where's The Love 39 Asleep At The Wheel, Boogie Back To Texas 46 Squirrel Nut Zippers, Put A Lid On It 5 Hanson, The Streets Crash Into Me packed with panels for Online for event up- 20 Rampage, Take It To 40 Buffalo Club, Nothin' Less Than Love 47 Sister Hazel, All For You 6 Dave Matthews Band, Puff Daddy & Faith Evans (Feat. 112) , How Bizarre 21 41 Ricochet, He Left A Lot To Be Desired 48 The Wallflowers, The Difference 7 OMC, music video program- dates at http /wwwbill- A Mystery 22 Epmd, Never Seen Before 42 Blake & Brian, Another Perfect Day 49 U2, Last Night On Earth 8 Sarah McLachlan, Building 702, All I Want One Headlight mers, label executives, board.com /events. 23 43 Jack Ingram, Flutter 50 Puff Daddy & Faith Evans (Feat. 112) , I'll Be... 9 The Wallflowers, The Game The 24 Erykah Badu, Otherside Of 44 Lorrie Morgan, Go Away 10 The Wallflowers, Difference and execu- Thugs- NHamhony, Look Into My Eyes ** Indicates MTV Exclusive The Freshmen production 25 Bone 45 David Lee Murphy, All Lit Up In Love 11 The Verve Pipe, tives. 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Awards. In addition, , Put Your Hands Where My... Ricochet, Blink Of An Eye THE NASHVILLE NETWORK. 23 Elvis Presley, Heartbreak Hotel rapper Lil' Kim will Natalie Cole, A Smile Like Yours The Heart of Country 24 Elvis Presley, Love Me Tender The Viewers Speak: Byron Stingily, Sing A Song 25 Elvis Presley, Burning Love A Billboard Focus lead an all -star female Billy Porter, Show Me 30 hours weekly 26 Elvis Presley, See See Rider Aallyah, Hot Like Fire 2806 Opryland Dr., 27 Meredith Brooks, Bitch Group: Back by popular hip -hop ensemble at the TN Nastyboy Klick, Down For Yours Nashville, 37214 28 Sheryl Crow, A Change Would Do You Good demand! Once again, show, which will include K -Cl & JoJo, Last Nights Letter 29 Duncan Sheik, She Runs Away 1 George Strait, Carrying Your Love With Me 30 Savage Garden, I Want You Billboard is assembling a Missy "Misdemeanor" =moor 2 Clay Walker, Watch This live focus group of by B rett Elliot. U2, Spice Girls, Continuous programming 3 Chris LeDoux, This Cowboy's Hat * * NEW ONS* * 1515 Broadway, NY, NY 10036 4 Lee Ann Womack, The Fool teenage viewers who will Beck, Jamiroquai, 5 Neal McCoy, The Shake Atw ood Meredith Brooks, I Need It All discuss their likes and Puff Daddy, and the T 1 Puff Daddy, It's All About The Benjamins 6 Kenny Chesney, She's Got Paul McCartney, Young Boy C We In Love 2 Sugar Ray, Fly 7 Toby Keith, Were Lazio Bane, Overkill been MUSIC rS4SUISIOM- The Boulevard dislikes about music videos. This is a Wallflowers have already 3 The Notorious B.I.G., Mo Money Mo Problems 8 Alabama, Dancin', Shaggin' On Mary J. Bilge, Everything Carey, Honey 9 Trisha Yearwood, How Do I Live rare chance to hear about viewing announced as performers at the Continuous programming 4 Mariah Lori Carson, I Saw The Light 2806 Opryland Dr., 5 Matchbox 20, Push 10 Diamond Rio, How Your Love Makes Me Feel Lauren Christy, Breed

4 I To Know habits straight from the source. event, which will be held Sept. at Nashville, TN 37214 6 Will Smith, Men In Black 11 John Michael Montgomery, How Was Genesis, Congo Assn. New York's Radio City Music Hall. 7 Sublime, Wrong Way 12 Deana Carter, Strawberry Wine Joe, The Love Scene Music Video Production I'd Rather Ride Around With You 1 George Strait, Carrying Your Love With Me 8 Fiona Apple, Criminal 13 Reba McEntire, Wild Orchid, Supernatural Presents: From the Director's In addition, LL Cool J will receive 2 Lee Ann Womack, The Fool 9 Sarah McLachlan, Building A Mystery 14 Tracy Lawrence, How A Cowgirl Says Goodb Chair: Well -known clip directors dis- the channel's Video Vanguard Award. 3 Diamond Rio, How Your Love Makes Me Feel 10 Prodigy, Breathe 15 Mchael Peterson, Drink, Swear, Steal & Lie 4 Tracy Lawrence, How A Cowgirl Says Goodbye 11 Live, Turn My Head 16 Buffalo Club, Nothin' Less Than Love Came A Blackbird cuss the art and commerce of music The rapper is being honored for his 5 Tim McGraw With Faith Hill, Its Your Love 12 Oasis, D' You Know What I Mean? ** 17 Lila Mccann, Down music video medi- 6 Alabama, Dancin', Shaggin' On The Boulevard 13 Wyclef Jean, We Trying To Stay Alive 18 Blackhawk, Hole In My Heart video making. contribution to the Go Away 7 John Michael Montgomery, How Was I To Know 14 Wu-Tang Clan, Triumph 19 Lorrie Morgan, Me Show Me the Money: The Dollars um, which includes several pioneer- 8 Michael Peterson, Drink, Swear, Steal & Lie 15 Hanson, Where's The Love 20 John Anderson, Somebody Slap Music Video: Regional ing rap clips and an acoustic perfor- 9 Neal McCoy, The Shake 16 Chris Rock, Champagne 21 Asleep At The Wheel, Boogie Back To Texas and Sense of 10 Toby Keith, We Were In Love 17 The Verve Pipe, Villains 22 Mark Chesnutt, Brother Jukebox programmers discuss ways to survive on "MTV Unplugged." A SAMPLING OF PLAYLISTS SUBMITTED BY and thrive in localized video pro- mance NATIONAL & LOCAL MUSIC VIDEO OUTLETS FOR gramming. This panel will be followed QUICK CUTS: Music video direc- THE CLIP LIST.. THE WEEK ENDING AUGUST 30, 1997. by breakout sessions for the R &B, tor Marcus Nispel will segue to the T N E Snot, Stoopid country, and modern rock formats. big screen to lens the theatrical adap- Yvette Michelle, Crazy Video Production vs. Video Pro- tation of the popular '70s police /4161( gramming: A Profitable Partner- drama "S.W.A.T." for TriStar Pic- V Pictures has MUSIC TELEVISION fa a TELEVISION ship or Unholy Alliance: Innovative tures ... Commotion TOW CONTROL TIN01 Sean Mullens . . . I"4 Five hours weekly and left -of- center videos get the signed director Continuous programming 110181Va13T =UM Continuous programming attention of viewers but can be a pain 's Simon LeBon and 1221 Collins Ave 1111 Lincoln Rd 223 -225 Washington St Miami Beach, FL 33139 Continuous programming Miami Beach, FL 33139 Newark, NJ 07102 to program. This session aims to partner Nick Wood have signed with 1515 Broadway

Garden, I Want You Cunninghams, Bottle Rocket clip with new Film Music Associates to foster devel- AMERICA'S NO. 1 VIDEO New York, NY 10036 Savage rethink the conventional Control Machete, Andamos Armados Ben Harper, Faded creative production, programming, opment of motion picture scores and Mariah Carey, Honey NEW Paula Cole, Where Have All The Cowboys Gone Pretenders, Goodbye and promotion strategies. original compositions for the duo's Hanson, Mmmbop Manbreak, Ready Or Not BOX TOPS Blur, M.O.R. Santa Sabina, Azul Casi Morado Kenickie, In Your Car Artists Panel: Established and Syn Studios ... Los Angeles Director Howie B, Angels Go Bald Too Plastilina Mosh, Nino Bomba Genesis, Congo The Notorious B.I.G., Mo Money Mo Problems The Chemical Brothers, Elektrobank Oasis, D'You Know What I Mean? Kara's Flowers, Soap Disco unveil their Michael Peleaux has joined SPI Pro- You Know It developing artists Will Smith, Men In Black Honeyrods, Love Bees The Chemical Brothers, Block Rockin' Beats Adina Howard, (Freak) And Mis Pasos Foxy Brown, Big Bad Mamma thoughts about making music videos. ductions' music video division. Puff Daddy & Faith Evans (Feat.112), I'll Be Missing You The Dambuilders, Burn This Bridge Julieta Venegas, De SWV f /Puff Daddy, Someone Love Spit Love, Long Long Time Daft Punk, Around The World The Dandy Warhols, Not If You Wem The Last... Troy Mia X, The Party Don't Stop Chumbawamba, Tubthumpirtg U2, Last Night On Earth Cinnamon, Me As Helen Of God Me Coolio, C U When You Get There Sandra St. Victor, Chocolate Luis Miguel, Por Debajo De La Mesa Chantal, Made Insane Clown Posse, Halls Of Illusion Brimful Of Asha, Cornershop Meredith Brooks, Bitch Blues Traveler, Carolina Blues Wu -Tang Clan, Triumph The Wallflowers, One Headlight Coolio, C U When You Get There Rascal King Various Artists, The Jock Jam Puff Daddy & Faith Evans (Feat 112), l'lI Be Missing You The Mighty Mighty Busstones, PRODUCTION NOTES Love Bees Adina Howard, (Freak) And U Know It Olive. You're Not Alone Honeyrods, Dru Hill, Never Make A Promise El Tri, Virgen Morena Ronnie Henson, What Are We Gonna Do Sarah McLachlan, Building A Mystery touchMgsic Gus Gus, Polyesterday NEW Molotov, Voto Latino Wild Orchid, Supernatural LOS ANGELES Kyle Jason's "Butter Baby" was 10, 000 Maniacs, More Than This Uncle Sam, Can You Feel It Blond Films' Jodi Moore and Kerri directed by Roberto Espinosa at the AZ, Hey AZ Continuous programming Beck, Jack -Ass 299 Queen St West Stuart directed Erin O'Donnell's Lenox Lounge. Victoria Vallas pro- Brian McKnight, You Should Be Mine Toronto, Ontario M5V2Z5 debut video for "Didn't Even Know" duced. Busta Rhymes, Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See CJlC Chris Rock, Champagne Coolio, Ooh La La (new) LIGHT MUSIC CALIFORNIA MUSIC CHANNEL Adam Shankman lensed the comed- Coolio, Ooh La La Supergarage, Fave (new) ic clip for Kacey Jones' "Men Are Some NASHVILLE Goo Goo Dolls, Lazy Eye The Gandharvas, Downtime (new) INOJ, Love You Down Our Lady Peace, Automatic Flowers (new) 1/2 -hour show weekly 15 hours weekly Of My Favorite People." David Landau "Go Away" by Lorrie Morgan was Jamiroquai, Alright Jamiroquai, Alright (new) Signal Hill Dr 10227 E 14th St produced for Sauce Entertainment. directed by Jim Hershleder of Picture Jon. B, Don't Say The Chemical Brothers, Electrobank (new) Wall, PA 15148 Oakland, CA 94603 K-Ci & JoJo, Last Night's Letters SWV, Someone (new) Hershleder also directed "A Supertones, Adonai Foxy Brown, Big Bad Mamma Director Graeme Joyce delivered a Vision. Milestone, I Care About You Zuckerbaby, Heavy (new) retro sci -fi feel to the Pulsars' video for Woman Like You" by Matt King. The Offspring, Meaning Of Life Delerium, Duende (new) Fold Zandura, Ember Wu -Tang Clan, Triumph Oran "Juice" Jones, Poppin' That Fly No Doubt, Hey You (new) Geoff Moore, Today The Notorious B.I.G., Mo Money Mo Problems "Tunnel Song." Primus, Over The Falls Foxy Brown & Dru Hill, Big Bad Mama (new) Considering Lily, Cup Magon And Timbaland, Up Jumps Da Boogie Mary J. Blige, Everything OTHER CITIES Reef, Place Your Hands Filter & The Crystal Method, (Can't You) Trip... (new) Value Pac, Happy Shaquille O'Neal, Men Of Steel Robyn, Do You Know (What It Takes) Three Crosses, This Is Not My Home Mariah Carey, Honey For The People, My Love Is The Shhh! NEW YORK The Presidents Of The United Vanessa Williams, Happiness Puff Daddy & Faith Evans (Feat. 1121,1'1 Be Missing You Hokus Pick, I'm So Happy Somethin' Haywood and Rubin Whit- States Of America swung by San Veruca Salt, Shutterbug The Tea Party, Temptation God's Property, Stomp Bone Thugs -N- Harmony, Look Into My Eyes Eric Alkaholiks, Off The WaIVHip Hop Drunkies Prodigy, Breathe Jeni Varnadeau, Between You And Me Missy "Misdemeneanor" Elliott, The Rain more are the eyes behind the video for Francisco to film a clip for "George Of Daz, Put The Monkey In It Will Smith, Men In Black Echoing Green, Oxygen Changing Faces, G.H.E.T.T.O.U.T. for 01 It The Jungle" with director George Eve- Keystone, If It Ain't Love Sheryl Crow, A Change Would Do You Good Bryan Duncan, When It Comes To Love the ballad "Set U Free" Skúl. Mobb Deep, Hoodlum Sarah McLachlan, Building A Mystery was produced by Whitmore for Tribal lyn. The song is on the soundtrack of Shola Ama, You Might Need Somebody Radiohead, Paranoid Android Communications. the same name.

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tenary celebrations late this year and chase materials, including an expansive adds, the sampler should be a good tool such soloists as pianist Sviatoslav and compositions for the stage; vintage next, the "Complete Edition" will con- display rack. Also getting its own dis- for nudging neophyte classical buyers Richter and violinist Gidon Kremer; vol. performances by the likes of Annie Fis- tain Beethoven's every composition in play is the Beethoven "Compacto- toward the edition's individual volumes, 4, the composer's only opera, "Fidelio," cher and Wilhelm Furtwängler; and a performances by longtime label artists theque," a 19 -track sampler for the if not the entire set. as well as its early version, "Leonora," world -premiere recording of the canta- past and present, including Herbert "Complete Edition" that includes a 90- "Putting the volumes out separately in a new recording by Gardiner; vol. 5, ta "Der Glorreiche Augenblick" (The von Karajan, Wilhelm Kempff, John page introductory catalog. is a good idea, because I don't know the piano sonatas, in the newly remas- Glorious Moment). And the ac- Eliot Gardiner, Anne- Sophie Mutter, Issued in August, "Compactotheque" how many of the entire box we'll sell- tered versions by Kempff; vol. 9, the companying book is itself a rarity, as it's and the Emerson Quartet, among has appeared on classical best- seller although we've certainly sold more ex- piano trios, with such artists as Kempff, to be found only in the "Complete scores of others. lists in Germany, and its presaging of pensive things, and I remember the old violinist Henryk Szeryng, and cellist Beethoven Edition" (aside from a few In U.S. stores Oct. 14, the deluxe the boxed set helped put Beethoven on LP edition doing really well," Edwards Pierre Fournier; vols. 11-13, the string promotional copies). boxed set contains 87 discs in 20 vol- an autumn "in" list compiled by Ger- says. "PolyGram was worried about re- quartets, with the Amadeus, Men- Produced in cooperation with the umes along with a 300 -page hardbound man lifestyle magazine Bunte. The tailers stocking the `Complete Edition,' delssohn, Emerson, and LaSalle quar- scholars of the Beethoven House in book, acrylic CD rack, and colorful car- sampler is budget- priced until January but we'll stock it substantially. We want tets; vol. 16, lieder, with such singers as Bonn, Germany, the book and each of rying case. The edition will feature sev- '98, when it joins the edition's other vol- to support something like this. Classi- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; and vol. 19, the volumes' accompanying booklets eral works never before recorded, as umes at midprice. cal retail can use these sorts of events." large choral works, such as the popular are lavishly researched and illustrated. well as some rare historical Beethoven In the U.S., "Compactotheque" Highlights of the "Complete Edition" "Missa Solemnis." "The whole package gives you such a recordings -such as that legendary seems to be moving briskly in a tradi- include vol. 1, the symphonies, in newly The rarities in the "Complete Edi- sense of Beethoven's life," Rittmöller Nikisch Fifth Symphony. tionally fallow selling period, according remastered transfers of Karajan's '63 tion" include Beethoven's folk -song says, "and that really helps pull you into "Beethoven has so much significance to Ray Edwards, national classical sales symphony cycle with the Berlin Phil- arrangements (many in brand -new re- this great music." for Deutsche Grammophon," says Anja manager for Tower Records. And, he harmonic; vol. 2, the concertos, with cordings); miscellaneous piano pieces Rittmöller, DG's product manager for reissues at its headquarters in Ham- burg. "The company has a strong Ger- FOR ITS 100TH, DG OFFERS AS MANY WAYS TO CELEBRATE man identity, and he is what many peo- (Continued from page 1) ple consider the greatest German composer. So the `Complete Edition' is Dubbed "100 Reasons You Should related events in nearly all of Borders' keting budgets more and more limited the ideal centenary project for DG." Be Listening To Classical Music," the 170-some stores. Such artists as Gil Sha- these days, record companies really Promotionally, "Complete Beethoven DG campaign kicks off in September ham will perform at various Borders N °22 have to start looking outside them- Edition" will benefit from the events and comprises a series of promotions around the country, and the chain will Meet interesting people. selves," he says. "And getting other cor- surrounding DG's 100th birthday. Plus, and outreach programs conducted in host educational seminars presented by porations involved can be a powerful the label's reputation in the repertoire tandem with Borders Books & Music various regional classical buyers and means of getting music to the masses." precedes itself. Karajan's symphony and the Discover Card company. And local music experts. According to Vicki DVOßRN As special releases appear through- cycles and Kempff's complete piano although the 18 -month campaign is Marshall, Borders' music co -op manag- FOR TWO out the rest of this year and '98, DG will sonata recordings have been bench- broad, the promotion favors DG's core er, the event portion of "100 Reasons" tie them into the "100 Reasons" cam- marks and best sellers since their ini- classics over any crossover titles, cov- should entail as many as 2,000 in -stores GIL SHRHRM paign -the label's "Complete Bee- tial release, as have many DG discs of ering a mix of reissues and new releas- by the campaign's end in December'98. YIDW thoven Edition" boxed set being a Beethoven chamber and vocal works. es by the label's stable of world -re- Borders' attraction to DG and classi- ORLI SHRUM prime example (see story, page 1). Compiling many of its landmark re- nowned artists. cal music stems from the fact that "in PIE Major tour events -like star violinist cordings from over the years, DG is- "Our centenary demands a state- most cases, the chain is at least in the and exclusive DG artist Anne-Sophie sued a 60-LP Beethoven edition in 1977, ment, and the one we're making is that top three of the country's biggest sell- Mutter's world trek on behalf of the which was one of the larger recording we don't plan to rest on our legacy," ers of classical music, based on reports Beethoven violin sonatas next year - projects in history and was very suc- says Albert Imperato, DG's VP and we get from all the labels," Marshall will also figure into the program. And cessful. An indication of the continuing U.S. label director. "Classical record says, "and DG titles -like those by Gil there will be virtual synergy for the cultural (and commercial) allure of companies can't just look at the lowly Shaham-are among our most popular. campaign and various releases and Beethoven's music can be found in 3 %-4% market share and bemoan the "We may have expanded to include tours via a "100 Reasons" Internet site Deutsche Grammophon's campaign 1994's "Immortal Beloved." The lack of in this country. pop in recent years," Marshall adds, (http://www.polygram- us.com). includes an innovative Beethoven biopic fared poorly at the- We have to step in and use the tools at "but the foundation of Borders' music series of ads As an age -old bastion of classical highlighting the reasons to listen to aters, but the Sony Classical sound- our disposal to introduce people to all business are the classical and jazz cus- integrityfounded in 1898 by one of the classical, such as No. above. track topped Billboard's Top Classical that's great about classical music. tomers-serious music buyers." 22, inventors of the gramophone record, Albums for '95. "The man on the street thinks that Marshall says that contrary to Emile Berliner -DG has taken some "Beethoven was a visionary," says the only reason he should listen to clas- reports of the demise of classical music, As part of the firm's efforts, it publish- critical hits in recent years as the label Albert Imperato, DG's VP and U.S. la- sical music is because it's good for him, Borders feels that genre's appeal has es a Music Discover Style newsletter, has taken tentative steps to broaden its bel director. "In many ways-such as like it's vegetables or medicine or some- been underestimated. "Only the surface which features Shaham in its Septem- marketing. But, Imperato says, "the his ideas of individual freedom, artistic thing," Imperato continues. `But really, has been tapped, really. There are a lot ber issue (going out to nearly 19 million fact that DG represents these venera- and social-we're closer to Beethoven's the reasons run the gamut from great of opportunities in classical for mar- people, the portion of Discover's card- ble values shouldn't preclude reaching values now than the general public of entertainment to profound en- keting initiatives- they've just never holders who hold the balances that out to a wider public. We want to make his own era." richment -and those usually coincide." been taken before." bring monthly bills). classical music popular music, and we'll Of course, no matter how much one The "100 Reasons You Should Be Lis- Of late, Discover has been striving to Jamie Certilman, formerly director of use the personalities in it, the history of appreciates or loves Beethoven, the re- tening To Classical Music" campaign be the card of choice for music pur- strategic development for PolyGram it, whatever we can to try to do that. tail list for the "Complete Edition" is a revolves around a series of colorful ads, chases, even signing up country star Classics & Jazz and now head of the "There's no reason why classical pricey one: about $957. But in October, tying each of those reasons to a specif- Trisha Yearwood for a high -profile ad New York -based Universal Marketing labels need a Hollywood hit to sell the edition's first five volumes will also ic DG release. For instance, reason No. campaign. And the company believes & Promotions, helped develop the part- records," Imperato adds. "But it's going be released individually at midprice, 22 is "Meet interesting people" and that "classical has the chance to be as nership among DG, Borders, and Dis- to take work and the concerted efforts with the next five coming out in No- spotlights sibling violin/piano duo Gil popular with our customers as any cover. He predicts that "100 Reasons" is of a lot of people over the long term if vember and the final 10 in December. and Orli Shaham's "Dvoiák For Two" genre of music," says Lisa Lampert, VP a harbinger for other such ambitious we're going to lay the foundation for the In Germany, DG is offering all the vol- album; reason No. 16 is "Get away from of Discover's card -member marketing. joint -marketing campaigns. "With mar- next 100 years." umes in the edition as part of a sub- it all," touting the "Summer Adagio" scription offer starting in September, anthology of slow movements from at a cumulative price of 1,699 deutsche orchestral works conducted by Herbert REAL WORLD DANCE SET TO HONOR LATE SINGER KHAN marks. After the new year, the set will von Karajan; reason No. 37 is "Explore (Continued from page 10) retail in its entirety for 1,999 deutsche the workings of a great mind," pitching marks. the introductory sampler of the Emer- barefoot as he brought his emotional tional Islamic vocals with contempo- released on Real World. In the U.S., "Complete Beethoven son Quartet's complete Beethoven take on Islamic tradition to new audi- rary Western sounds; many regard the Also in the pipeline is `The Supreme Edition" will be highlighted as part of string quartets collection; and No. 5 is ences. album as his classic work. Collection Volume 1," a two -disc set the label's extensive "100 Reasons You "For the sheer beauty of it," highlight- His success in the West owed much The title track was remixed by the from Caroline Records that features Should Be Listening To Classical Mu- ing mezzo -soprano Anne Sofie von to the patronage of Gabriel. Khan's Bristol -based trip -hop group Massive liner notes by the late Jeff Buckley. sic" centenary campaign with Borders Otter's new collection of Haydn, Mozart, first appearance outside the Islamic Attack and became a surprise dance The album, with material that has Books & Music and the Discover Card and Gluck opera arias (on Archiv, DG's world was at the 1986 Womad Festival hit; there was also talk, not realized by never before been available in the U.S., company (see story, page 1). And ads early -music -oriented imprint). at Reading, England, shortly after he the time of his death, of a collaboration is due in the coming weeks. and upcoming editorial in such publica- The "100 Reasons" program encom- signed to Real World. with Bjork. A second album with Elsewhere in the U.S., Baba Varma, tions as Gramophone and BBC Music passes 18 months of exclusive position- Gabriel used his voice in the 1988 Brook, "Night Song," followed in 1996. producer of Khan's 1996 world tour, is should draw attention to the "Complete ing at Borders for such releases, in- soundtrack to the Martin Scorsese film Khan came under attack from dedicating his first Good Karma Festi- Edition" in the U.S. and U.K, one of the cluding a listening station dedicated to "The Last Temptation Of Christ," and purists in Pakistan for his East/West val to the late singer (Saturday [30] in primary homes for classical collectors. DG. The display will rotate five DG Khan made a string of albums for collaborations, but he never lost the San Francisco and Aug. 31 in Los But Beethoven isn't just for Anglo-Sax- releases every three months, corre- Gabriel's label, including "Shahen- strong devotional quality of his music. Angeles). ons, of course, and Rittmöller expects sponding to the "100 Reasons" cam- Shah" (1989), "Shahbaaz" (1991), and He was fascinated with Western Says Sawhney of Khan, "He was Spain and Italy to welcome the set, too. paign. There will also be Borders pro- "The Last Prophet" (1994). He also and sanctioned totally in tune with mood and atmos- In most every territory, "Complete motions ranging from discounts on composed the score for the Anglo-Indi- many remixes. The compilation of phere. He had a raw energy which Beethoven Edition" will be featured in coffee drinks at the retailer's cafes to an movie `Bandit Queen" (1995). some of his best work, rendered by transcended all barriers, cultural, spir- various contests and radio giveaways, free shopping sprees, as well as more Ever keen to experiment, in 1990 he such U.K. dance acts as Fun- da -men- itual, and musical." as will Beethoven T- shirts and sundry than 25,000 "100 Reasons" brochures began a fruitful collaboration with tal, Blackstar Liner, Nitin Sawhney, other tchotchkes. The edition will be and DG cassette samplers handed out. Brook, producing "Mustt Mustt," an and Talvin Singh, was in preparation Assistance in preparing this story bolstered by considerable point- of-pur- Moreover, Discover will sponsor DG- extraordinary album that fused tradi- at the time of his death and will be was provided by Nyay Bhushan.

96 BILLBOARD AUGUST 30, 1997 www.americanradiohistory.com WARNER ASSESSES ITS FUTURE (Continued from page 1) `he Dance' Those artists, including such break- Inc., which serves as the umbrella for Their first official appointment was the U.S., according to SoundScan data. through acts as Prodigy, Third Eye Warner Bros. and Reprise, has been in Val Azzoli as co- chairman/co -CEO of "R.E.M. is a very, very important act Sales Don't Blind, and Sugar Ray, "accounted for a slump. As Warner Bros. Records Inc. the Atlantic Group in January 1996. It's at Warner Bros. and for our company," sales of 20 million albums in the last 12 chairman/CEO Russ Thyret admits, "It a title Azzoli still shares with Atlantic says Daly. "It was very important for months," Mount told the crowd. has been a tough 18 months." founder Ahmet Ertegun. us to re-sign them, and there was a lot Disappoint "Pardon my bragging," Mount Warner Bros. has scored big off Mav- While skeptics have doubted the wis- of competition." added, "but when you read in the press erick, its joint venture with co -CEOs dom of having Daly and Semel serve as Although Daly admits that domestic BY MELINDA NEWMAN that we've lost our edge or that we're Freddy DeMann and Madonna, which the head of both Time Warner's film sales of "New Adventures In Hi -Fi" not developing new artists anymore, it has yielded such blockbusters as Alanis and music divisions, the executives were disappointing, he says, "If I had it NEW YORK- Fleetwood Mac's just pisses me off." Morissette's "Jagged Little Pill" and inside the company say the duo's man- to do over again, I would. These guys "The Dance," predicted by Warner Despite Warner Music's declining Prodigy's "The Fat Of The Land," agement style over the music group is are going to be around a long time. We Music Group executives to be a win- for the company, is meeting fortunes, WMG remains the No. 1 which have sold 12.6 million and 795,000 a welcome relief. In fact, some liken it have a tremendous catalog with them, ner of the box. major music group, from Dec. 30, 1996- units, respectively, according to Sound- to the days when Warner Communica- and the deal involved catalog ... It's a company expectations out by Bill- Aug. 17, 1997, according to SoundScan Scan. But Warner Bros. has been slow tions Inc. (now Time Warner) was run deal we're going to make money on, and Retailers interviewed -day data. to develop its own new talent lately. by Ross, long before the turmoil within they are significant to the overall suc- board Aug. 20 say that first Bros. In total album market share, WMG In fact, much of the Warner Bros. and WMG was making headlines. cess of Warner Bros." sales of the Reprise/Warner accounts for 19.5 %. WMG's nearest Reprise fortunes seem to be banking on "I wasn't here then," Azzoli says, While R.E.M., which is expected to title were extremely strong. major competitor is Universal Music such veteran acts as Eric Clapton, Neil "but Ahmet says that to me a lot -that deliver a new album in late 1998 or "I wouldn't doubt if it's our No. 1 Group (UMG), with a 12.8% market Young, Joni Mitchell, recent signing it feels more like the old Warner Com- early 1999, has the strength of its orig- album this week," says Sandy Bean, share. Don Henley, and Fleetwood Mac. munications, which makes sense, inal lineup intact, Van Halen remains a VP of advertising and promotions Troy, Mich. -based Of WMG's 19.5 %, the Atlantic Group The latter act's "The Dance," which because that's where Bob and Terry question mark, as the group recently for the 38- store, Fleet- accounts for 8.3 %, Warner Bros. was released Aug. 19 on Reprise with come from." hired its third lead singer, Gary Harmony House. "I'm a big fan, I was surprised. Records Inc. has 6.5 %, and the Elektra much fanfare, including exclusive con- "They are there when I need them, Cherone of Extreme. Its 1996 greatest - wood Mac but out Entertainment Group has 3.4 %, with cert broadcasts on MTV, is clearly but they're not in my face day to day," hits package, featuring tracks cut dur- There's a big fan base there." other WMG labels accounting for the Warner's event record of the summer. adds Azzoli. The executive points to ing a short -lived reunion with original Retailers cite the extensive cov- remainder. With Fleetwood Mac's career sales October 1996, when Atlantic consoli- vocalist David Lee Roth, was also some- erage the Fleetwood Mac reunion as well as on If one looks at current market share, of 70 million albums worldwide, it is dated its efforts in what Azzoli explains thing of a disappointment, with U.S. has gotten in the press, is which excludes the WMG labels' rich clear that Warner Bros. is counting on was a pre- emptive measure designed to sales of 1.5 million, according to Sound- MTV and VH1. "The Dance" MTV catalog, WMG has a 17.7% share, com- "The Dance" to hit the multi-platinum prepare Atlantic for the tough road Scan. culled from the band's pared with UMG's 14%. heights of the band's '70s heyday with ahead (Billboard, Oct. 12, 1996). While some of Warner Bros.' cold "Unplugged" taping (Billboard, In spite of the fact that, even with the Warner Bros. (see story, this page). "When we did our cutbacks, I was streak can be attributed to the cyclical Aug. 16). setup of the album was decline, WMG remains No. 1 among the "Fleetwood Mac is very important," the one that went to them and said, nature of the music business and over- "Reprise's majors, much of the press the compa- says Daly. "Not only are the sales `This is what I want to do at my com- due superstar albums, two areas that exceptional in terms of total satura- says ny has received of late has Warner important, but the fact that they can pany,'" Azzoli recalls. "The advice they have been particularly troubling for tion, on MTV and elsewhere," Music Group falling apart at the seams. come back and have a hit will also be a gave me was not what I should or Warner Bros. have been the develop- Bob Bell, new -release buyer for the "It isn't as bad as it seems," says very big morale booster for the whole shouldn't cut back, but the most ment of new artists and the lack of suc- 231 -store Wherehouse chain based Harold Vogel, an analyst at the New company, and they need a couple of humane and gentlest manner to do it in cess in R &B and hip -hop. in Torrance, Calif. "We were very At York -based Cowen & Co., of the state good breaks." without hurting people. I think that One of the few new- artist break- pleased with how it sold. this be No. of WMG. "They are still a major power Warner Bros. Records Inc. may also says a lot about where they are coming throughs from the Warner Bros. and point, it looks like it will our both domestically and internationally. be looking to build on its executive tal- from." Reprise stables has been Paula Cole, 1 record of the week." Their profile isn't as strong as it was ent. Sources say that if Virgin president Rhone says that Daly and Semel whom Warner Bros. picked up in a deal "First -day sales were pretty five years ago, but they will probably be Phil Quartararo becomes available, have wisely taken a low -key approach, with Imago. Cole's "This Fire" has sold damn good," says John Artale, able to fix that over time." Thyret would like to bring him to the offering support rather than corporate more than 537,000 copies to date, buyer for Carnegie, Pa. -based With the music business in general company as president of Warner Bros. interference. according to SoundScan. National Record Mart. "We weren't on an apparent upswing (see related Records Inc., a title once held by Lenny "They are very smart, very prag- 'We are very pleased with what has surprised because of the way the up, with all story, page 1), Vogel predicts WMG will Waronker. Thyret declined to comment matic, very creative businessmen. happened with her," says Thyret, who label has set the album show "improved results as the year pro- on the matter. When entering into a new operation, predicts that Cole's new single, "I Don't the MTV buildup and VH1 con- gresses." like the music business, the smart thing Want To Wait," will do as well as stantly playing the special on to Elvis, and he had To further improve matters, WMG A CHECKERED RECENT PAST to do is study it until you feel articulate 'Where Have All The Cowboys Gone ?" `Rumours.' Next recently signed veteran producer Da- It's easy to see why many might pre- in it. They've picked up the business With the exception of Cole, however, to die to get it, they had the best cov- vid Foster to a new long -term deal, dict the premature death of the Warn- very quickly, and they are able to advise Warner Bros. and Reprise have had erage of anything around." making him a senior VP of WMG and er Music Group. Beginning in 1994, the management how to run our companies trouble breaking developing artists, Like a number of retailers, Artale upping his 143 Records label deal with company was rocked by corporate tur- more efficiently." including such critically acclaimed acts cited strong cassette sales on "The Atlantic into a joint venture (Billboard, moil that led to the departure of such For his part, Daly admits, "I would as Wilco, Son Volt, and Mark Eitzel. Dance." "We did 25% in cassettes, Aug. 23). executive talents as Mo Ostin, War - be the last person that I would pick to However, Warner Nashville has had which is pretty much unheard of. So The deal will have Foster available onker, Bob Krasnow, Henry Droz, run a label for this company, but that some breakthroughs, including the suc- there must be a whole lot of fans on an exclusive basis to produce WMG Doug Morris, Mel Lewinter, and Danny isn't what I'm doing, that isn't what cess of comedians Jeff Foxworthy and driving aroundlike it's summer with artists, and when he does do work out- Goldberg. Many predicted the execu- Terry is doing. Bill Engvall. their Fleetwood Mac cassettes," he side the group, WMG will share in the tive exodus would take its toll on the "I couldn't pick talent, but I also "We have had the good fortune of says. profits. Foster will be available to con- labels and also lead to many artist couldn't run production for Warner having some breakthrough major -sell- "I don't know what it means," sult with the various label chairmen, but departures. Bros.," Daly continues. "I wouldn't be ing new acts, whether it be echoes Nobody Beats the Wiz buyer none will report to him. WMG also buckled from pressure the person on the movie side to sit with or having the pleasure to work with Brian Yatzor, of the high cassette Still, WMG co- chairman Daly sees from its stockholders and anti -rap cru- writers to develop scripts. Alanis and Maverick," says Thyret. sales. "I didn't think the baby the Foster deal as an important step in saders and sold off its share of red -hot 'We are executives. We're creative "Not having one of those pop through boomers would have much use for the right direction, as the producer was (Billboard, Oct. 2, executives. Our job is to stimulate the for me in the last year and a half or two the tape. It turned out to be a six being wooed by UMG. 1995), which reunited with Morris, but people that work for us, make sure we years bothers me. You want to think [CDs] to one [cassette] split for us Says Daly, "No doubt we lost the beat this time under the UMG banner (Bill- have the right people working for us, that your signings are good and mar- with the tape. Many things come out for a while, so bringing someone like board, March, 2, 1996). motivate them, and give them guidance keting is good. I'm encouraged now by that are a 15 [CDs] to one [cassette] David aboard is only a positive." That turmoil has left a bad taste in and bring an overall business view and the reaction we have with a lot of our or 20 to one. The album definitely Daly reveals that Foster won't be the the mouths of WMG's current execu- practical view to the businesses we are new things, but you can't help but get did very well for us on the first day." only new senior VP at WMG. 'We are tive team. Elektra chairman Sylvia in." anxious when you go through a period Even alternative haven Manifest going to bring in two key positions in Rhone admits that she considered leav- THE FLAGSHIP LABEL when you don't have something like Disc & Tapes in Columbia, S.C., was the next two or three months," he says. ing the company while it was under the When Thyret looks at his tenure of that breakthrough." selling its fair share of Fleetwood "They will be more corporate people. watch of former HBO executive Mi- Warner Bros. Records Inc., one of the Still, Thyret is encouraged by in- Mac albums to closet fans. "It sur- They won't be presidents. We have no chael Fuchs, "but life has changed dra- things he is most proud of is the fact roads made by such relative new and prised me the number of people I intention of bringing in someone matically since then, for the better," she that he was able to re -sign some of the up- and -coming acts as Kara's Flowers, thought were alternative -minded between us and the labels." says. label's biggest stars, including R.E.M., and the company remains committed to who came out of the woodwork and A business affairs executive is Although she has no more experience Van Halen, and Dwight Yoakam, to Soul Coughing and Bare Naked Ladies. said, `I'm really into this Fleetwood expected to be named in the next week, than her counterparts at Atlantic and new deals. While hip -hop artists continue to be a Mac album. I've got to have this, but while another corporate executive Warner Bros., Rhone is the veteran of The deal with R.E.M., often report- dominant force, Warner Bros. and don't tell anybody,'" jokes owner appointment at WMG is expected in the the group in the role of chairman. ed as an :0 million five -year pact but Reprise are hardly a presence in that Carl Singmaster. next 60 days, Daly says. She rose to the title in July 1994 never officially confirmed as such, has area. Thyret admits that the labels The band is also doing extremely The news at the WMG labels is when Elektra's longtime chairman been a double -edged sword for the became "gun -shy" about hip -hop acts well at the box office with ticket mixed. The Atlantic Group is having a Krasnow was forced out by then WMG label. following the furor that erupted in 1992 sales for its upcoming tour. Accord- banner year, thanks to the long -term chairman Robert Morgado. "New Adventures In Hi -Fi," the over the Warner Bros. track "Cop ing to tour co- promoter Bruce commitment to such acts as Jewel and Thyret, who was named to the post band's 1996 album, released shortly Killer" by the hard -rock group Body Kapp, the band sold out 20,000 tick- Matchbox 20. of chairman /CEO of Warner Bros. after R.E.M.'s new deal was signed, was Count, which is fronted by rap artist ets for a Sept. 19 show at Great Elektra Entertainment, coming off Records Inc. by Fuchs, has held the perceived by much of the industry as a Ice -T. Woods Amphitheater outside of its own record -setting year in 1996, is title since August 1996. major disappointment, often lumped in 'We are still recovering from that, Boston and a combined 30,000 tick- holding its own with hits from such acts Following Fuchs' dismissal in with Pearl Jam's "No Code" and U2's and we are recovering at a slower rate ets for its two shows Oct. 17 -18 at as Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliot and November 1995, Daly and Terry Semel, "Pop" as superstar rock albums that than we would like to, but it is certain- Irvine (Calif.) Meadows Amphithe- Third Eye Blind. the co-heads of Warner Bros. Pictures, failed to live up to their potential. The ly not as a result of having been told not ater (Billboard Bulletin, Aug. 20). However, Warner Bros. Records were named co-chairs of WMG. album has sold 925,000 units to date in (Continued on next page)

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to do something," Thyret says. artists," Azzoli says. "We have bro- jury is still out," Azzoli says of the are releasing new studio albums, we services" and increase synergy be- However, Thyret is hopeful that new ken more new acts than any other la- band's current "Rock Crown," which are also trying to mine our catalog," tween WMG labels and other Warner artists such as Phajja and Nadanuf will bel in the business." has sold 87,000 units to date, accord- she says. companies. help Warner Bros. and Reprise raise Azzoli attributes that success to ing to SoundScan, compared with "One of the other things I am going "We will save a considerable their profile in R &B and hip -hop. putting out fewer titles and providing 1995's "American Standard," which to be very aggressive about in '98 is amount of money by basically having Joint ventures, too, have been a a more solid commitment to its re- has sold more than 1.1 million. "In putting out thematic compilations," one backroom for all the labels," Daly mixed bag for Warner Bros. While no leases. the typical Atlantic fashion, we Rhone adds. The compilations will be explains. "They will still have their one can argue with the success of That strategy is reflected in this should talk about Seven Mary Three tied into other Warner brand names. marketing, business affairs, and le- Maverick, other joint ventures have week's Billboard 200, which has at this time next year," he says. "I know there's tons in the market- gal, but most of the accounting will be provided few recent hits. Matchbox 20 and Jewel at Nos. 6 and Another Atlantic act that remains a place, but it's becoming a very viable in one central spot." Daly expects the "Many in the music business would 7, respectively, with bullets, while question mark is Stone Temple Pilots. product line, like it has been for years consolidation of the backroom func- concede that joint ventures are a diffi- Sugar Ray's second effort, With the instrumental core of the band internationally." tions, which began at the beginning cult way to go for both sides," Thryet "Floored," is No. 12 with a bullet and forming Talk Show and singer Scott For the fourth quarter, Rhone of the year, to be completed by the says. "The ones that work, you feel earns the "greatest gainer" distinc- Weiland embarking on a solo career, feels she has a stellar lineup of titles, end of 1998; they will be based in Bur- great about, and you need to be able to tion for the largest sales increase on the band's future seems shaky. including new releases from Metalli- bank, Calif. stand by and support the ones that the chart. "It's an interesting situation," Az- ca, Bjork, a Phish live album, Bryan As for published reports that don't work. After a period of time you "We have two records in the top 10 zoli says. "It's a situation that is go- White, and the one -off L.S.G. collab- WMG has cut back on its marketing become more realistic and sometimes this week, and both of them have ing to work itself out organically. The oration between Gerald Levert, dollars for up- and -coming acts, Daly have to make some tough decisions." been out for longer than a year, way I'm looking at it is that it's like Keith Sweat, and Johnny Gill. offers a flat denial. In fact, Thyret confirms that Warn- which is phenomenal, because they playing blackjack. I got two aces and "The first six months of the year "That is the furthest thing from er Bros. will officially end its rela- are both new artists," Azzoli says. I split the [cards], and I'm going to were honestly very tough," Rhone the truth," he says. "If anything, we tionship with Rick Rubin's American Atlantic's success is particularly ride them out now. Talk Show is a says. "But we are going to be on or encouraged Atlantic to spend money Recordings in the coming weeks. sweet for Azzoli, since naysayers in terrific record and the band had to do over budget, based on third- and on TV advertising for Jewel about a (Sources say Rubin has already the industry doubted he would be what it had to do and Scott had to do fourth -quarter releases." month ago to give the album another signed a new deal with Sony.) able to fill the shoes of his mentor what he had to do." push, and it worked out beautifully. "Rick Rubin and I have a very Doug Morris and suggested that he Azzoli says he is unsure if Talk THE FUTURE We've grown up in the movie busi- strong personal relationship, and I wasn't "a music man." Show and Weiland solo will have the One area of WMG to keep an eye ness, so you know we spend a lot of think both of us would like to contin- "That's always blown my mind," sales potential of an STP record. "I on in the future is Seymour Stein's money marketing. We are the last ue that relationship, but it just didn't Azzoli says. "Mo Ostin has always would like to have a new Stone Tem- Group. Stein has quiet- people to say we shouldn't spend make sense," says Thyret, who adds been considered the best executive in ple Pilots record, but if Scott and ly moved Sire from Elektra and has money on marketing." that Rubin may continue to produce the history of music, and he was an Talk Show are both successful and absorbed Discovery Records. That said, Daly and Semel are also artists for Warner Bros. 'We have a accountant. Clive Davis was a lawyer we never have another STP record, Stein, who is said to be looking for big on getting the WMG labels to uti- good relationship and wish him noth- ... That hurt me at the beginning. that's OK, too." new office space and signing acts, did lize the other Time Warner proper- ing but the best." I've got to thank Bob and Terry for On the horizon from Atlantic in not return phone calls seeking com- ties for free marketing opportunities. Rubin could not be reached for supporting me at the beginning. They 1998 are new titles from Tori Amos, ment. For example, videos by WMG comment by press time. said, `Give it your best shot.' It just Jewel, Plant & Page, Anita Baker, Rhone calls the split with Stein artists are now being screened at The Revolution/Giant and Qwest goes to show [that] with a lot of hard the Corrs, and the 3 Tenors. "amicable" and says that Daly and Time Warner's Six Flags amusement joint ventures have borne little fruit work and the right people, you can Semel "thought Stein would be more parks for visitors waiting in line for in recent months, save for Revolu- have success." ELEKTRA HOLDS ITS OWN valuable to the group helming a label rides, and Elektra act En Vogue re- tion's Kenny Wayne Shepherd. During Azzoli's tenure, he has While Elektra isn't likely to beat with indie credibility." cently served as guest hosts on the Still, Thyret's mood is optimistic streamlined Atlantic by ending label its banner 1996, which saw the label Daly calls Stein "a legend in the WB TV network. when he looks to the future. He's deals with Matador, Mammoth, and re- establishing the career of Tracy business who is terrific at signing 'We have about four or five other impressed with the work of the new Celtic Heartbeat and trimming his Chapman and breaking Natalie Mer- new talent." Among Stein's discover- acts we hope to line up before the end Warner Sunset soundtrack division, own staff. Azzoli says he has no re- chant as a solo artist, as well as scor- ies is Madonna. of the year," says Daly, who also which has spawned such moderate grets for ending those label deals; the ing with the debut from hip -hop mad- According to Daly, under current points to soundtrack promotions tied hits as "Howard Stern's Private imprints have since moved to Capitol, man Busts Rhymes, it does remain a plans, the creation of the Sire into the home video releases of Parts" and "Batman & Robin," which the Walt Disney Co., and Universal, potent force with new artists. Records Group will reteam Stein "Space Jam" and "Batman & Robin." have sold 502,000 and 558,000 units, respectively. Elektra's most recent success story with Warner Bros. for marketing and "We've tried to bring everyone to- respectively, according to SoundScan. "I'm dedicated to showing a bot- is Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliot, whose distribution purposes, while other gether to see how we can promote Among the slate of upcoming tom -line profit. Market share isn't as bow "Supa Dupa Fly" debuted at No. 3 Sire releases will go through Alterna- music using all of the facilities that releases Warner Bros. and Reprise important to me," says Azzoli, who on The Billboard 200 in July and has tive Distribution Alliance. Among are under our control," Daly adds. plan to deliver before the end of the adds that the current climate calls for sold more than 421,000 copies to date, Stein's hires is former Koch Records Daly, in reflecting on the group's year are new titles from comedian fewer releases. "If that's the case, according to SoundScan. GMNP Barry Feldman, who will commitment to overcoming current Adam Sandler, jazz musician Pat when we do have a hit, I would rather On the modern rock front, Elektra serve as VP of A &R at Sire. downturns and maintaining its mar- Metheny, Loreena McKennitt, and make 100% of the money rather than has scored success with the self -titled "[Stein's] objective is seven to 10 ket stronghold, cites as one example Shepherd; a Jane's Addiction retro- 50% of the money." debut from Third Eye Blind, which has albums a year," Daly says. "He's just the recent re- signing of producer spective; and new titles from such vet- Still, Azzoli says it makes sense to sold more than 368,000 copies to date, another resource with very low over- Foster. eran artists as Rod Stewart, Eric continue to work with Foster's 143 according to SoundScan. head searching for and finding new "What it said to everybody is that Clapton, and Paul Simon, whose per- Records. "This is a little different be- Elektra's Nashville -based Asylum talent." we were going to step up to bring all sonal version of the "Capeman" album cause it's David, we have a history label has had success with Kevin Daly expects the Sire Records the necessary creative resources that will be out in November in advance of with him, it has been successful, and Sharp, Bryan White, and newcomer Group to be fully operational in the we can find to help Warner Music get the original -cast album of Simon's we don't have to set up a whole other Lila McCann (see story, page 9). next two months. back to the place where it deserves to new musical, which is due next year. company," he says. "It is going to "The climate right now is very Among the other plans on the be," he says. "Although we are still One top Warner executive character- streamline right into Atlantic be- challenging for any company," says agenda for WMG is to cut costs on No. 1, I would be the last person to izes the Simon project as a "top pri- cause of the old 143 deal." Rhone, "because the superstars of backroom functions with "shared say we haven't slipped a little." ority" for the company this year. As for the future, Azzoli is nothing the past are finding it very difficult to Green Day will deliver a new title but optimistic. 'We are having one of position themselves in today's mar- Oct. 14, which sources have described the best years ever based on all new ket, so it is incumbent on any compa- as "a career -defining record." The talent, so the future is rosy, because ny to break new artists. But that group's 1994 Reprise debut, "Dookie," we are going to have second, third, doesn't happen overnight anymore. sold more than 6.2 million, but was and fourth records from these acts, It takes a long -term commitment for followed by the somewhat disappoint- so I think next year is going to be the return to be realized." ing "Insomniac," which sold 1.6 mil- even bigger." Rhone is especially high on "When lion, according to SoundScan. As is the case of many break- Disaster Strikes," the new effort Also expected before year's end is through albums, however, often a fol- from Busta Rhymes, due Sept. 23, an all -star live album from Neil low-up can't top the debut. That was which she predicts could debut at No. Young's annual Bridge concert. very much the case with Hootie & the 1 on The Billboard 200. But she is Artists set to deliver late -'97 or Blowfish's 1996 album, "Fairweather most proud of the label's diversity. early -'98 releases include Seal, Van Johnson," which has sold more than "You can see the diversity in the Halen, and Madonna, with Don Hen- 2.3 million, according to SoundScan, company," she says. "The country di- ley and Chris Isaak slated for new a far cry from the 9.5 million in sales vision is making a strong statement releases in the first quarter of '98. logged by 1994's "Cracked Rear ... We're breaking an alternative View." band and a hip -hop artist, so at least ATLANTIC: THE CURRENT JEWEL "At the end of the day there isn't a we have options, and it's about creat- By reaping the long -term develop- label in the world that wouldn't like to ing options right now." ment success of Jewel's 1995 album have the next Hootie & the Blowfish Aside from focusing on new artists, "Pieces Of You" and Matchbox 20's album," he says. 'We have a perenni- Elektra plans to beef up its efforts in 1996 set "Yourself Or Someone Like al platinum act now." A new Hootie catalog reissues and enter the compi- Liza's Melody. Liza Minnelli recently performed at the Cape Cod Melody Tent You," which have sold 3.9 million and album is expected in 1998, Azzoli lation business, Rhone reveals. in Hyannis, Mass. She was presented a plaque to mark the event's most suc- 850,000 units, respectively, the At- adds. Due from the label in coming cessful show since its inception 47 years ago. Shown backstage, from left, are lantic Group is WMG's current dia- Another act with a huge debut, weeks are boxed sets from the Doors Gary Labriola, Minnelli's personal appearance manager; Minnelli; and Vincent G. dem. Seven Mary Three, has also found it and AC/DC and a best -of from Jack- Longo, GM of South Shore Music Circus /Cape Cod Melody Tent. "We are back at the top with new hard to match its album bow. "The son Browne. "So at the same time we

98 BILLBOARD AUGUST 30, 1997 www.americanradiohistory.com RIAA MIDYEAR FIGURES SHOW MIXED NEWS (Continued from page 3)

1997, and therefore not registered by SoundScan until this year. "Maybe 1997 RIAA Midyear Statistics people are starting to sell stuff that has been sitting around but has never January -June 1996 January -June 1997 Percent Change crossed the cash register until this Unit Dollar Value Units Dollar Value Units Dollar Value year," he says. Hilary Rosen, president/CEO of the CO 35E.9 4,313.6 331.0 4,214.8 -7.3 -2.3 RIAA, put a positive spin on the ship- Cassette 101.9 866.0 74.9 653.9 -26.5 -24.5 by Theda Sandiford- Waller ment trend in a statement accompany- ing the midyear figures. Vinyl LP /EP 1.2 14.3 1.4 18.2 16.7 27.3 UPS UPDATE: Singles sales have been off since the beginning of the Unit- "We're seeing the arm of the pendu- CO Single 1E.0 84.1 30.6 128.6 70.0 52.9 ed Parcel Service (UPS) strike. This issue, there were only 22 titles that post- lum swing back to a more realistic bal- Cassette Single 36.4 95.3 21.0 64.0 -30.9 -32.8 ed piece count gains and earned bullets on Hot 100 Singles Sales. Only the No. ance between shipments and sales," she 1 title on Hot 100 Singles Sales moved more than 100,000 units, vs. three titles says. "The midyear numbers measure Vinyl Single E.5 25.6 4.5 21.0 -18.2 -18.0 that scanned at level for the comparable week last year. shipments into a retail base that is sub- that Music Video 1.3 101.7 7.3 125.6 0.0 23.5 After 16 long days, striking UPS workers returned to their jobs Aug. 20; stantially smaller than it was in 1996 however, the strike's effect on the industry will linger for some time. Obvi- and reflects a drop in shipments to spe- TOTALS 521.2 5,500.6 470.7 5,226.1 -9.7 -5.0 ously, as a result of the strike, distributors have been unable to guarantee cial markets. The bottom line ... under- Units = Manufacturers' Unit Shipments In Millions (Net After Returns) timely product shipment to stores. Since new releases have not been arriving scores the movement toward a healthy Dollar Value= Dollar Value In Millions (Suggested List Price) at retail at standard times (i.e., Friday ship date for Tuesday in -store date), balance in our industry." they currently have a greater tendency to break street date, particularly since The RIAA says the decline in the Source: Recording Industry Assn. of America distributors have been shipping product early through other channels. overall CD album shipment figures was In an effort to respond to this situation, Billboard and SoundScan have de- amplified by drops in the special -mar- cided to temporarily remove from the singles and album charts titles selling ket sector, which it says dragged the artists continue to capitalize on nostal- either, down 18.2% in units and 18% in prior to street date. Although this is contrary to our normal street -date pol- numbers down. gia for vinyl in their marketing strate- dollar value. icy, we feel that circumstances warrant this action until normal drop -ship Of special markets, the RIAA release gies by releasing a limited pressing of Music videos did not budge in units schedules resume, which we expect to occur by Friday (29). says, "This category, which greatly their current releases. shipped -a zero increase-but posted Under normal circumstances, Billboard policy states that a title must de- expanded earlier in the decade because Cassettes continued to decline, drop- a 23.5% gain in dollar value. but on a singles chart (i.e., the Hot 100 or Hot R &B Singles) if that title of extensive record club membership ping 26.5% in units and 24.5% in dollar Concludes Rosen, "There are a num- appears in the top 75 of the chart's component singles sales list. Billboard will recruitment and promotion programs, value from this time last year. ber of indicators of a healthy market. hold a song off if it ranks below No. 75 on the sales chart. has leveled off." Cassette singles tumbled, too, from We're seeing a steady flow of top re- On the upside, the consumer favorite 30.4 million units shipped in the first leases this year that's bringing more N EW & ACTIVE: "Mo Money Mo Problems" by the Notorious B.I.G. CD single did fine, fueling a 70% jump half of '96 to 21 million in '97 (with dol- consumers into stores; retailers are (Featuring Puff Daddy & Mase) (Bad Boy/Arista) slips into the pole posi- in units and a 52.9% increase in dollar lar value down from $95.3 million to $64 purchasing more efficiently and man- tion on the Hot 100, bringing the total number of weeks Arista has held the value over the same period last year. million). aging their inventories better than they No. 1 rank on that chart this year to a whopping 32. Earning Hot Shot De- Units also jumped from 18 million in Fine analyzed the cassette data by were in the early '90s; the return of but honors and doing their boss, Mariah Carey, proud this week is Allure. 1996 to 30.6 million this year. The dollar insisting that "there is sort of a leveling unsold product to manufacturers is The group's remake of & Cult Jam's "All Cried Out," on Track value of CD single shipments also grew off" of the cassette album format de- down 10 %; and sales are clearly up." Masters /Crave, bows at No. 40 on the Hot 100 and at No. 38 on Hot 100 Sin- from $84.1 million in 1996 to $128.6 mil- scent in stores, suggesting that "if you Fine concurs: "SoundScan shows gles Sales with 13,000 pieces scanned. lion in 1997. separate retail" from the precipitous we've had CD album growth of about At No. 88, Milestone's "I Care 'Bout You" (LaFace/Arista), from "Soul Vinyl hasn't gone away either-plat- decline of cassette sales in special prod- 5.5% for the first six months of the year. Food," is one of two new soundtrack singles entering the Hot 100 this issue. ters enjoyed a 16.7% growth in ship- ucts and record clubs, it's apparent that So I read it as the business is healthy." Milestone is an unrivaled one -time pairing of siblings from two musical fam- ments and 27.3% growth in dollar value, manufacturers and retailers "are final- ilies: Babyface and his brothers Melvin and Kevon Edmonds, formerly of driven, the RIAA said, "by demand for ly listening to us" to try and keep the Assistance in preparing this story was After 7, and K -Ci and Jo Jo Hailey of Jodeci. dance/techno recordings in this for- cassette album market alive and vital. provided by Melinda Newman in New mat." In addition, some high -profile Vinyl singles weren't doing well York. LATE BLOOMER: After posting modest point gains for the past 18 weeks on the Hot 100, the Sneaker Pimps' "6 Underground" (Clean Up/Virgin) has cracked the top 50. Label representatives say the song first received air- 1ST RIAA LATINO REPORT REFLECTS MAJOR U.S. GROWTH play last summer on public radio station KCRW Los Angeles. Then modern (Continued from page 3) rocker KITS (Live 105) San Francisco started spinning it as an import. "6 Underground" was fu-st serviced to rock stations last November, fol- Those percentages reveal that the Reaction to the RIAA report getting a smooth reporting process in lowed by mainstream top 40 in February of this year. The song was also fea- share split between the CD and cassette throughout the Latino music industry place and building upon that," says tured on the "Saint" soundtrack. Over the past year, the British trio has is much less tilted toward the CD than has been positive, although several Ganoe. "Now we would like to expand toured stateside three times. Its hard work is beginning to pay off: "6 Under- in the general market. executives express some doubts about our reporting database or look at a way ground" is ranked in the top 10 at 30 of the 121 monitored stations spinning The RIAA's Latino records report the large growth -rate percentage of reliably projecting the non -reporting the track, to the tune of 15.4 million audience impressions. The group's album was based on net shipments of full - cited. portion of the market. That is the next "Becoming X" is No. 111 on The Billboard 200 and has scanned more than length CDs, cassettes, and music videos "I think this report reinforces the step in the process." 100,000 units since arriving at retail 14 weeks ago. to all outlets, including retail stores and credibility of the U.S. Hispanic mar- While Llord also points out that a record and tape clubs. The dollar value ket," says José Béhar, president/CEO market breakdown of individual com- ThedaSandiford- Waller can be reached via E-mail at [email protected] of those shipments was derived from the of EMI Latin. "The more credibility panies would be a useful marketing and suggested retail price reported by seven we have as a viable industry, the more promotional tool, Ganoe says,' We have U.S. labels: BMG U.S. Latin, EMI business opportunities will become not had any desire to focus on individual Latin, Fonovisa, PolyGram Latino, available." companies." HOT 100 RMM, Sony Discos, and WEA Latina. Oscar Llord, VP/GM of Sony Discos, However, a sales report based on John Ganoe, the RIAA's VP of mem- agrees with Béhar but says the report wholesale figures instead of retail num- BUBBLING UNDERT. SINGLES ber services, says that the organiza- could be more accurate if sales from bers is periodically re-examined. tion's Latino music marks a solid Latino indies were included. Llord esti- 'We have looked at it both ways, but Z z report w 0 w w 0 indie sales make up about our sense is that to give a better read- 3 3 3 first step toward quantifying the busi- mates that TITLE o, Ñ w TITLE ness generated by U.S. Hispanic labels. 15% of the domestic Latino market. ing of the overall value of the product g a ARTIST (LABEL/PROMOTION LABEL) S 3 ARTIST (LABEL/PROMOTION LABEL) "This report is a good-faith attempt Ganoe acknowledges that attracting in the marketplace, we are getting more IN A DREAM SUMMER JAM 1 3 8 14 10 5 on suggested ROCKELL (ROBBINS) QUAD CITY DJ'S IQUADRASOUND/BIG BEAT/ATLANTIC) to put into place an accurate means of indie labels to participate in the sales useful numbers by basing reading shipments of Hispanic product report is a priority. list," says Ganoe. TALKIN' BOUT' BANK SOMEBODY SLAP ME 2 11 7 15 17 2 THE WHORIDAS (SOUTHPAW/DELICIOUS VINYL/RED ANTI JOHN ANDERSON (MERCURY) into the U.S. market," says Ganoe. "We "Our concern initially had been with ALMA MATTERS waited until mid -1997 to release a report 3 1 WECANGDOWN 16 9 2 - MYRON (ISLANDET) MORRISSEY (MERCURY) because we wanted to have a bench- FOREVER ALL OVER AGAIN LOVE IS THE RIGHT PLACE 4 2 3 17 1 a period time to NIGHT RANGER (LEGACY/COLUMBIA) - BRYAN WHITE (ASYLUM /EEG) mark, meaningful of compare performances. We have confi- THE WAY THAT YOU TALK EFFEN) 5 8 2 18 21 8 1997 RIAA Midyear Hispanic Music Statistics JAGGED EDGE FEAT. DA BRAT & JO ISO SO DEF/COLUMBIA) WANJG CHUNNG dence in the data, and we think the num-

HERE'S THE DEAL/BUTTERFLY KISSES THIS NIGHT WONT LAST FOREVER/SIX DAYS ON THE ROAD bers certainly point to a positive trend 6 1 9 19 14 8 JEFF CARSON (CURB) SAWYER BROWN (CURB) in the U.S. Latino record market." January-June 1996 January -June 1997 Percent Change GO AWAY HEY AZ 7 7 3 20 1 Though sales information submitted Units Dollar Value Units Dollar Value Units Dollar Value LORRIE MORGAN (BNNRCA) - AZ FEAT. SWV (N00 TRYBE/EMINIRGIN) to the RIAA's accounting firm, Coopers O TAKE ME AWAY CO 9.242 117.436 11.185 145.896 21.0 24.2 6 13 3 21 15 7 FRANKIE (CHULCKLIFE/EPIC) CULTURE BEAT (INTERHIT) & Lybrand, is not audited, Ganoe Cassette 6.604 52.503 8.282 66.826 25.4 27.3 SHOW ME WERE IN LOVE assures that the "guidelines filled out 9 19 2 22 1 WE BILLY PORTER (DVB/A - TOBY (MERCURY) &M) KEITH by the labels are very detailed, and the Music Video .026 .520 .026 .518 0.0 -0.4 I'VE BEEN HAVING AN AFFAIR HOW WE COMIN' 10 6 5 23 3 data is carefully scrubbed for compli- TONYA (J- TOWN /MALACO) - RBL POSSE (BIG BEAT/ATLANTIC) ance by Coopers & Lybrand." TOTALS 1L873 170.459 19.493< 213244 228 25.1 IT TO EVEN FLOW 11 5 3 GI 24 20 14 "Certainly any anomaly there PENDERGRASS (SUREFIRE/WIND -UP) PEARL JAM (EPIC) -and Units -Manufacturers' Unit Shipments In Millions (Net After Returns) of in SHE'S GOT IT ALL BLOCK ROCKIN' BEATS have been cases anomalies the 12 12 5 25 18 21 KENNY CHESNEY (BNNRCA) THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS (ASTRALWERKS/CAROLINE) past -can be readily traced back to Source: Recording Industry Assn. of America PUSHIN' INSIDE YOU individual and he 13 4 3 No. companies corrected," SONS OF FUNK (NO LIMIT /PRIORITY) Bubbling Under lists the top 25 singles under 100 which have not vet charted. adds.

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79 85 3 BLACKHAWK ARISTA 18837 (10.98/16.981 LOVE & GRAVITY 79 42 44 37 36 THE VERVE PIPE RCA 66809 (10.98/15.98) 01 VILLAINS 24 91 98 93 91 16 INDIGO GIRLS EPIC 67891 (10.98 EO/16.98) SHAMING OF THE SUN 7 43 37 28 10 SOUNDTRACK WARNER SUNSET 46620/WARNER BROS. (11.98/17.981 BATMAN & ROBIN 5 99 95 97 40 VARIOUS ARTISTS ARISTA 18943 (10.98/17.98) ULTIMATE DANCE PARTY 1997 17 44 45 39 75 CELINE DION A' 550 MUSIC 67541/EPIC (10.98 E0117.98) FALLING INTO YOU 1 100 98 109 61 BECK DGC 24823 * /GEFFEN (10.98/16.98) ODELAY 16 45 31 15 3 PANTERA EASTWEST 62068 */EEG (10.98/16.98) OFFICIAL LIVE: 101 PROOF 15

10 K.D. LANG WARNER BROS. 46623 (10.9816.98) DRAG 29 46 26 - 2 VARIOUS ARTISTS SUAVE HOUSE 1585 /RELATIVITY (10.98/15.98) SUAVE HOUSE 26 101 76 63 63 METALLICAA'ELEKTRA61923* /EEG (10.98/16.981 LOAD 1 47 47 44 27 ERYKAH BADU A' KEDAR 53027*/UNIVERSAL (10.98/15.98) BADUIZM 2 102 96 98 103 106 100 67 MAXWELL) COLUMBIA 66434* 110.98 EO/16.98) ® MAXWELL'S URBAN HANG SUITE 37 48 34 - 2 KILLARMY WU -TANG 50633 */PRIORITY (10.98/16.98) SILENT WEAPONS FOR QUIET WARS 34 88 83 9 K -CI & JOJO MCA 11613* (10.98/16,981 LOVE ALWAYS 24 49 52 53 26 LIVER RADIOACTIVE 11590* /MCA (10.98/16.981 SECRET SAMADHI 1 104 KENNY LOGGINS YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW: THE GREATEST HITS OF KENNY LOGGINS 39 30 7 SOUNDTRACK TOMMY BOY 1169 (11.98/16.98) NOTHING TO LOSE 12 105 102 104 21 50 40 COLUMBIA 67986 (10.98 E0/17.98)

5 DIAMOND RIO ARISTA 18844 (10.98/16.981 GREATEST HITS 75 51 ) 56 58 45 GINUWINE 550 MUSIC 67685 /EPIC(10.98EQ/16.98)all GINUWINE... THE BACHELOR 26 106 99 94

101 114 117 42 ALAN JACKSON A ARISTA 18813 (10.98/16.981 EVERYTHING I LOVE 12 52 50 49 18 SAVAGE GARDEN COLUMBIA 67954 (10.98 EQ/16.98) SAVAGE GARDEN 25

1 79466/AG (10.98/16.98) COMPAS 108 ROME 30 (108) NEW GIPSY KINGS NONESUCWATLANTIC 53 48 42 18 <` ROME GRAND JURY 67441/RCA (10.98/15.98)

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110 90 75 12 PAUL MCCARTNEY MPL 56500* /CAPITOL (10.98/16.98) FLAMING PIE 2 158 145 147 23 MARK MORRISON ATLANTIC 82963/AG (10.98/15.98) ® RETURN OF THE MACK 76

GENERATION SWINE 4 ® 119 128 14 SNEAKER PIMPS CLEAN UP42587NIRGIN (10.98/15.98)® BECOMING X 111 159 124 114 8 MOTLEY CRUE ELEKTRA 61901/EEG (10.98/16.98)

112 109 103 40 LIL' KIM UNDEAS/ATLANTIC 92733 * /AG (10.98/16.98) HARD CORE 11 160 154 140 46 KENNY GA' ARISTA 18935 (10.98/16.98) THE MOMENT 2

113 113 111 79 2PAC A' DEATH ROW/INTERSCOPE 524204 * /ISLAND (19.98/24.98) ALL EYEZ ON ME 1 161 150 151 21 TRACY LAWRENCE ATLANTIC 82985/AG (10.98/16.98) THE COAST IS CLEAR 45 MAKAVELI A' 114 112 106 41 THE DON KILLUMINATI: THE 7 DAY THEORY 1 /EPIC E0116.98) PARADISE IN ME 121 DEATH ROW 90039 * /INTERSCOPE (10.98/16.98) 162 159 158 15 K'S CHOICE 550 MUSIC 67720 (10.98 ON

104 88 8 /ATLANTIC 92757*/AG RUSH 71 163 115 TWISTA CREATORS WAY (10.98/15.98)E ADRENALINE lô3 188 2 98 DEGREES MOTOWN 530796* (6.98/10.98) ON 98 DEGREES

117 120 19 RCA DANCIN' ON 55 116 ALABAMA 67426(10.98/16.98) THE BOULEVARD 164 139 160 18 YANNI PRIVATE MUSIC 82150/WINDHAM HILL (10.98/16.98) IN THE MIRROR 17

117 116 110 11 BOSTON EPIC 67622 (10.98 E(Ú17.98) GREATEST HITS 47 165 160 153 38 ROD STEWART WARNER BROS. 46452 (11.98/17.98) IF WE FALL IN LOVE TONIGHT 19 118 105 86 12 SOUNDTRACK WALT DISNEY 60864 (10.98/16,98) HERCULES 37 166 157 141 29 KENNY LATTIMORE COLUMBIA 67125 (10.98 EO/16.98) ON KENNY LATTIMORE 92

1 LORRIE MORGAN BNA 67499/RCA (10.98/16,98) SHAKIN' THINGS UP 119 119 NEW SOUNDTRACK CAST 161 168 - 2 MUSIC FROM THE MOTION PICTURE " EVITA" 167 120 101 79 6 PRIMUS INTERSCOPE 90126* (10.98/16.98) BROWN ALBUM P1 WARNER BROS. 46692 (10.98/17.98) 168 143 122 8 BROWNSTONE MJJN/ORK 67524 EPIC (10.98 EO/16.981 STILL CLIMBING 51 121 107 93 5 THE O'JAYS GLOBAL SOUL 31149 *NOLCANO (10.98/15.98) LOVE YOU TO TEARS 75 169 162 129 9 CAPONE -N- NOREAGA PENALTY 30a1 */TOMMY BOY (10.98/15.98) THE WAR REPORT 21 122 111 92 17 HEAVY D UPTOWN 53033* /UNIVERSAL(10.98/16.98) WATERBED HEV 9 110 163 163 48 CAKE CAPRICORN 532867/MERCURY (10.98 EQ/16.98)1111 FASHION NUGGET 36 123 118 113 23 SOUNDTRACK COLUMBIA 67917 (10.98 EQ/16.98) LOVE JONES: THE MUSIC 16

124 110 96 15 BEE GEES POLYDOR 537302/A &M (10.98/16.98) STILL WATERS 11 171 173 168 45 MARILYN MANSON NOTHING 90086 /INTERSCOPE (10.9 8/1698) ANTICHRIST SUPERSTAR 3

125 115 107 44 COUNTING CROWS A'DGC24975*/GEFFEN (10.98/17.98) RECOVERING THE SATELLITES 1 172 158 162 60 KEITH SWEAT A' ELEKTRA 61707*/EEG (10.98/16.98) KEITH SWEAT 5

DA DA DA 126 J2ó 147 149 4 TRIO CHRONICLES 536205 /MERCURY (10.98 EQ/16.98) ® 173 164 155 5 MICHAEL PETERSON REPRISE 46618/WARNER BROS. (10.98/16.981® MICHAEL PETERSON 134

121 122 125 23 COLLECTIVE SOUL ATLANTIC 82984/AG (10.98/16.98) DISCIPLINED BREAKDOWN 16 114 170 172 43 VAN HALEN WARNER BROS. 46332 (11.98/17.98) BEST OF VOLUME 1 1

128 125 118 8 ROBYN RCA 67477 (10.98/16.98)M ROBYN IS HERE 106 175 165 159 43 WESTSIDE CONNECTION ALENCH MOB 5o583 */PRIORITY(10.98/16.98) BOW DOWN 2 129 120 116 51 112 A BAD BOY 73009/ARISTA (10.98/15.98) 112 37 116 174 161 92 TRACY CHAPMANA 'ELEKTRA61850/EEG(10.98/16.98) NEW BEGINNING 4 130 135 142 95 ALAN JACKSON A' ARISTA 18801 (10.98/16.98) THE GREATEST HITS COLLECTION 5 177 166 152 18 DEPECHE MODE MUTE/REPRISE 46522/WARNER BROS. (10.98/16.98) ULTRA. 5 1$ 141 144 13 LEE ANN WOMACK DECCA 11585/MCA (10.98/15.98) II© LEE ANN WOMACK 106 178 177 171 79 DC TALK FOREFRONT 25140 (10.98/1668) JESUS FREAK 16

132 127 121 5 KENNY CHESNEY BNA 67498/RCA (10.98/16.98) I WILL STAND 95 179 180 181 5 DAFT PUNK SOMA 42609 *NIRGIN (10.98/16.98) ® HOMEWORK 179 144 137 34 MASTER P NO LIMIT 53978 * /PRIORITY (10.98/16.98) ICE CREAM MAN 26 180 176 170 7 DAVE MATTHEWS BAND BAMA RAGS 67548/RCA (9.98 CD) RECENTLY 163 134 103 65 3 RAMPAGE VIOLATOR/ELEKTRA 62022 */EEG (10.98/16.98) SCOUTS HONOR...BY WAY OF BLOOD 65 1 1 189 182 69 RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINEA EPIC 57523 *(10.98EQ/16.98) EVIL EMPIRE 1 135 126 127 42 SOUNDTRACK A ' CAPITOL 37715(10.9815.98) ROMEO + JULIET 2 182 155 148 9 JON BON JOVI MERCURY 534903 (10.98 EQ/16.98) DESTINATION ANYWHERE 31 136 128 134 8 TOBY KEITH MERCURY 534836 (10.98 EQ/16.98) DREAM WALKIN' 107

175 157 9 BEN HARPER VIRGIN 44178 (10.98/16.98) THE WILL TO LIVE 89 131 129 130 28 THE OFFSPRING A COLUMBIA 67810* (10.98 E(Ú16.98) IXNAY ON THE HOMBRE 9 183 VARIOUS ARTISTS 153 169 25 SOUNDTRACK JIVE 41604* (11.98/16.98) BOOTY CALL 24 184 169 156 20 BOOTY MIX 2: THE NEXT BOUNCE II 93 INTERSOUND 95W (10.98/16.98) 139 137 119 23 SCARFACE A RAP -A- LOT/NOO TRYBE 42799 *NIRGIN (10.98/16.98) THE UNTOUCHABLE 1 185 179 165 23 SOUNDTRACK EMI LATIN 55535 (10.98/16.98) SELENA 7 140 134 132 39 FOXY BROWN VIOLATOR/DEFJAM 533684*/MERCURY (10.98 EQ/16.98) ILL NA NA 7 186 172 154 8 VARIOUS ARTISTS DEF JAM 534746* /MERCURY (10.98 E(Ú16,98) YO! MTV RAPS 88 141 136 135 19 CLAY WALKER GIANT24674/WARNER BROS. (10.98/16.98) RUMOR HAS IT 32 187 161 136 6 KENNY LOGGINS COLUMBIA 67865 (10.98 EQ/17.98) THE UNIMAGINABLE LIFE 107 142 133 150 44 KORN IMMORTAL 67554/EPIC (10.98 EQ/16.98) LIFE IS PEACHY 3 188 181 166 13 KRS -ONE JIVE 41601` (10.98/16.98) I GOT NEXT 3

143 130 123 39 BUSH A' TRAUMA 90091 * /INTERSCOPE (10.98/16.98) RAZORBLADE SUITCASE 1 189 191 - 9 JACI VELASQUEZ MYRRH/WORD 67823/EPIC (10.98 EQ/15.98)1111 HEAVENLY PLACE 166 144 123 115 5 DWIGHT YOAKAM REPRISE 46690/WARNER BROS. (10.98/16.98) UNDER THE COVERS 92 PETER CETERA 190 183 177 13 YOU'RE THE INSPIRATION: A COLLECTION 134 145 167 - 65 GARTH BROOKS A* CAPITOL NASHVILLE 32080 (10.98/16.98) FRESH HORSES 2 RIVER NORTH 161250 (10.98/16 98)

146 140 126 23 BLUR FOOD/PARLOPHONE 42876NIRGIN (10.98/16.98) BLUR 61 191 178 164 35 SOUNDTRACK EPIC SOUNDTRAX 67910/EPIC (10.98 EQ/17.98) JERRY MAGUIRE 49

141 138 179 3 JOHN ANDERSON MERCURY 536004 (10.98 EQ/16.98) TAKIN' THE COUNTRY BACK 138 192 186 186 6 THE SUPERTONES BEC 17401 (10.98/15.98) ® SUPERTONES STRIKE BACK 117

156 139 13 THE TRACK FACTORY 11627/MCA (10.98/16.98) MARCHING TO MARS 18 148 SAMMY HAGAR 193 190 193 31 DUNCAN SHEIK ATLANTIC 82879 /AG(10.98/15.98)® DUNCAN SHEIK 83

149 149 131 19 THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS ASTRALWERKS 6180*/CAROLINE (11.98/16.98) DIG YOUR OWN HOLE 14 194 192 189 14 SAWYER BROWN CURB 77883 (10.98/16.98) SIX DAYS ON THE ROAD 73 150 132 133 51 AALIYAHA'BLACICGItourO /ATLANTIC92715/AG(10.98/16.98) ONE IN A MILLION 18 195 199 - 7 BARENAKED LADIES REPRISE 46393/WARNER BROS. (10.98/16.981M ROCK SPECTACLE 175 151 131 124 42 BABYFACE2 EPIC 67293* (10.98 E0116.98) THE DAY 6 196 182 178 38 SOUNDTRACK A' ARISTA 18951 (10.98/16.98) THE PREACHER'S WIFE 3

152 151 145 52 VARIOUS ARTISTS TOMMY BOY 1163 (10.98/16.98) JOCK JAMS VOL. 2 10 cap RE -ENTRY 19 ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST DREAMWORKS 50003 /GEFFEN (22.98/32.98) RENT 19 153 121 101 4 SOUNDTRACK CAPITOL 57955 (10.98/16.98) GOOD BURGER 101 THE SMASHING PUMPKINSAa 198 RE -ENTRY 93 MELLON COLLIE AND THE INFINITE SADNESS 1 VIRGIN 40861 154 152 138 24 U2 A ISLAND 524334* (11.98/17.98) POP 1 (19.98/24.98)

193 200 3 SOUNDTRACK HOLLYWOOD 162091(10.98 /16.98) SWINGERS 193 15 RE- ENTRY 2 ELVIS PRESLEY RCA 67469 (59.98/69.98) PLATINUM: A LIFE IN MUSIC 80 199

197 199 70 BROOKS DUNN ARISTA 18810 (10.98/15.98) BORDERLINE 5 156 146 143 27 BILL ENGVALL WARNER BROS. 46263 (10,98/16.98) ® HERE'S YOUR SIGN 50 200 & Az

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112 129 Boston 117 Diamond Rio 106 Joe 28 Sarah McLachlan 8 Rage Against The Machine 181 The Preacher's Wife 196 U2 154 2Pac 113 Toni Braxton 83 Celine Dion 44 Megadeth 78 Rampage 134 Romeo + Juliet 135 K -Ci & JoJo 104 Jaci Velasquez 189 311 11 Brooks & Dunn 200 Dru Hill 82 Metallica 102 Reel Big Fish 68 Selena 185 Toby Keith 136 Van Halen 174 10,000 Maniacs 109 Garth Brooks 145 Mia X 59 LeAnn Rimes 24, 54 Space Jam 41 Missy "Misdemeanor' Elliott 19 Killarmy 48 VARIOUS ARTISTS 98 Degrees 163 Meredith Brooks 33 The Mighty Mighty Bosstones 31 Robyn 128 Spawn - The Album 13 En Vogue 73 Korn 142 Booty Mix 2: The Next Bounce II Brownstone 168 Luis Miguel 14 Rome 53 Swingers 199 Aaliyah 150 Bill Engvall 156 KRS -One 188 184 Foxy Brown 140 Lome Morgan 119 SOUNDTRACK CAST Trace Adkins 157 K's Choice 162 Savage Garden 52 Club Mix '97 77 Bush 143 John Fogerty 70 Mark Morrison 158 Music From The Motion Picture Aerosmith 56 Sawyer Brown 194 Jock Jams Vol. 2 152 Foo Fighters 71 Patti LaBelle 92 Morrissey 61 " Evita" 167 Alabama 116 Cake 170 Scarface 139 Pure Moods 23 Jonny Lang 80 Motley Crue 159 Spice Girls 4 John Anderson 147 Capone -N- Noreaga 169 Kenny G 160 Duncan Sheik 193 So So Def Bass All -Stars Vol. II 91 k.d. lang 101 Mr. Serv-on 36 Squirrel Nut Zippers 69 Fiona Apple 21 Bob Carlisle 35 Ginuwine 51 Sister Hazel 57 Suave House 46 Kenny Lattimore 166 Lisa Stansfield 86 Deana Carter 65 Gipsy Kings 108 No Doubt 72 The Smashing Pumpkins 198 Ultimate Dance Party 1997 99 Babyface 151 Tracy Lawrence 161 Rod Stewart 165 Peter Cetera 190 God's Property From Kirk Franklin's The Notorious B.I.G. 22 Smash Mouth 74 Yo! MTV Raps 186 Backstreet Boys 29 Lil' Kim 112 George Strait 27 Changing Faces 84 Nu Nation 15 Sneaker Pimps 111 Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Erykah Badu 47 Live 49 The O'Jays 121 Sublime 16 Tracy Chapman 176 SOUNDTRACK Trouble 63 Ant Banks 87 Sammy Hagar 148 Kenny Loggins 105, 187 The Offspring 137 Sugar Ray 12 The Chemical Brothers 149 Batman & Robin 43 The Verve Pipe 42 Barenaked Ladies 195 Hanson 5 Lost Boyz 95 OMC 40 The Supertones 192 Kenny Chesney 132 Booty Call 138 Beck 100 Ben Harper 183 ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST Keith Sweat 172 Clay Walker 141 Chicago 85 Makaveli 114 Def Jam's How To Be A Player 9 Bee Gees 124 Heavy D 122 Rent 197 SWV 26 The Wallflowers 17 Paula Cole 81 Marilyn Manson 171 GOOD Burger 153 Clint Black 55 Westside Connection 175 Collective Soul 127 Indigo Girls 98 Master P 133 Pantera 45 Hercules 118 James Taylor 62 Blackhawk 97 Lee Ann Womack 131 Shawn Colvin 96 Insane Clown Posse 66 Matchbox 20 6 Michael Peterson 173 Hoodlum 94 Third Eye Blind 39 BLACKstreet 75 Wu -Tang Clan 30 Counting Crows 125 Dave Matthews Band 37, 180 Elvis Presley 155 I'm Bout It 60 Pam Tillis 93 Mary J. Blige 25 Alan Jackson 107, 130 Sheryl Crow 64 Maxwell 76, 103 Primus 120 Jerry Maguire 191 Tonic 34 Yanni 164 Blues Traveler 38 79 Jamiroquai Lila McCann 89 Prodigy 10 Love Jones: The Music 123 Tool 88 Dwight Yoakam 144 Blur 146 Daft Punk 179 Wyclef Jean Featuring Refugee Paul McCartney 110 Puff Daddy & The Family 1 Men In Black -The Album 2 Trio 126 Jon Bon Jovi 182 dc Talk 178 Allstars 32 Neal McCoy 58 My Best Friend's Wedding 2C Tru 90 Bone Thugs -N- Harmony 3 Depeche Mode 177 Jewel 7 Radiohead 67 Tim McGraw 18 Nothing.To Lose 50 Twista 115

BILLBOARD AUGUST 30, 1997 103 www.americanradiohistory.com MALPASO SET TRUMPETS EASTWOOD'S JAll (Continued from page 1) two -disc recording of the Oct. 17, 1996, Warner Bros. Records, citing but one Eastwood himself wrote with Niehaus the concert, as will the 30- and 60 -sec- KLON's Willis notes that Mahogany, jazz concert at that fabled New York example of Eastwood's long-term and for "The Bridges Of Madison County," ond TV spots that Warner Bros. is now Moody, Carter, McPherson, Barron, venue. The show featured music asso- continuing commitment to the genre. the suite progressed into "Fats" preparing. and Redman are all "a regular part of ciated with Clint Eastwood's career "He really wants to use his influence to Waller's "Jitterbug Waltz," since East- While radio promotion is mainly our playlist-and here they are in one and starred a cross -generational cast further the cause of the music." wood, as a teenager in Oakland, Calif., geared toward jazz, public radio, and incredible organization. I can't wait to of jazz greats, the Jon Faddis -directed The "Eastwood After Hours" set was greatly influenced by the Waller college stations, Pierson says that adult see the video!" Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, Eastwood's does just that, notes Robert W. Smith, 78s that his mother played for him. standards formats will be serviced with Borders' Smith expects "Eastwood longtime composer /arranger Lennie jazz buyer for the Borders Books & A bit of "Take Five" came next, in the vocal tracks by Mahogany and After Hours" "to smoke all the way Niehaus, and Eastwood himself. Music chain. "It's in the best tradition of homage to Eastwood's excursions to Scott. through to the holiday season." The set will be released Sept. 23 on bringing together monster players and San Francisco to hear Dave Brubeck Eastwood's Warner Bros. -distributed turning them loose on well -known play at the Blackhawk club. "Claudia's Malpaso Records, with TV broadcasts tunes," he says. Theme," which Eastwood wrote for INTERSCOPE MAY DROP DEATH ROW and a Warner Home Video release of Adds Scott Willis, PD at jazz station "Unforgiven," followed, as did Niehaus' (Continued from page 1) the video counterpart slated for later in KLON Los Angeles, "The playing is main theme from "Tightrope." the talks had been sparked by an im- Last month, the Maryland state the year. really inspired, it's an incredible band, Niehaus then blended signature licks minent end to the label's association Legislature rejected a bill that would Besides the presence of Eastwood and it's a once -in-a- lifetime event fea- from Ennio Morricone's classic "The with Interscope. have mandated divestiture of its music and Niehaus, who premiered his turing some of the established vets and Good, The Bad And The Ugly" score At least one forthcoming Death Row holdings -including $14.5 million of Carnegie Hall- commissioned "East- some of the incredible young players." and Dimitri Tiomkin's "Rawhide," the album will be handled by a distributor Seagram stock, $17.1 million of EMI wood: After Hours" suite comprising The concert itself was produced by latter title, of course, being that of the other than Interscope: According to shares, and $25 million of Time Warn- themes from numerous Eastwood pro- George Wein and co-produced by Bruce TV western series that established the source, the soundtrack for the film er stock -and prohibited investment in jects, the program was magnified by Ricker. "My contribution was, `Please, Eastwood, who then went off to star in "Gang Related," which stars the label's such companies. the guest musicians. The stellar list don't have long speeches!' " says East- the legendary trilogy of Sergio Leone late rap star Tupac Shakur, will be dis- An MSRPS decision on divestiture included Kenny Barron, James Carter, wood, who produced the CD version spaghetti westerns that climaxed with tributed by L.A. -based Priority Rec- might come in the fall or could simply Kyle Eastwood, Roy Hargrove, Barry with Ricker and Phil Ramone. the former title. ords, whose releases are manufactured be left in limbo, according to several Harris, Gary LeMel, Kevin Mahogany, "But I'm very interested in jazz, as The suite, which closed the first half and fulfilled by EMI Music Distribu- insiders, who felt that the failure of leg- Christian McBride, Charles McPher- you know, and especially the perpetua- of the concert, ended with a portion of tion (EMD). islative passage cooled the issue. On son, Jay McShann, Thelonious Monk tion of jazz from generation to genera- "Misty" seguing into Monk's "Straight Priority president Bryan Turner Aug. 8, MSRPS met with the Record- Jr., James Moody, Flip Phillips, Joshua tion. I don't want it to get lost or dilut- No Chaser" and "Now's The Time," could not be reached at press time. ing Industry Assn. of America (RIAA), Redman, James Rivers, Jimmy Scott, ed down to where it becomes a cult with Carter and Redman battling it out A story in the Aug. 25 -Sept. 1 issue company executives, scholars, and anti- and Claude Williams. thing with no mainstream value to it," on tenor sax. of The New York Observer quotes an rap groups. In effect, it was a bringing together Eastwood continues. The high point of the second half was unnamed source who claims that In June, Texas passed a state appro- of jazz's old guard with its young lions, "But it was also fun to do a concert the closing "After Hours," the Avery Bronfman-whose company owns 80% priations bill containing a provision all under the auspices of the acting icon where you had the new players like Parish tune that Eastwood used to play of Universal Studios Inc., which in turn that prohibits state agencies from who has long championed the music. Christian McBride, James Carter, and in junior high school. He thrilled the owns 50% of Death Row's distributor, investing in firms owning more than "What made it most special was Clint Josh Redman and then the older ones Carnegie crowd by playing a piece of Interscope Records-has been pres- 10% of companies whose record labels Eastwood," says saxophonist Redman. like James Moody and Flip Phillips and the tune before surrendering to suring Interscope principals Ted Field release recordings with offensive lyrics "Just the chance to be part of a concert Jay McShann and then intermediates McShann, who led the band into East - and Jimmy Iovine to dump Death Row. (Billboard, June 14). which honored his work and his partic- like Jon Faddis," he adds. "So you had wood's "C.E. Blues." Representatives for Seagram and In testimony before the MSRPS, ipation in the jazz community. More a broad age range of players, making "As he said that afternoon at the declined to Sherman, senior executive VP than any other Hollywood figure, he for a wonderful evening." press conference, he always wanted to comment, citing the speculative nature and general counsel of the RIAA, said, has been actively contributing to the be a musician, but a slight acting career of the story. A Death Row spokesman "Divestiture won't do anything to stop jazz community since the beginning." LOVE OF JAll got in the way," says Niehaus. had no comment. the music." "Look at the exposure he gave John- For Niehaus, a saxophonist and An Interscope spokeswoman read a Sherman also pointed to testimony ny Hartman through `The Bridges Of woodwind player who first performed MAJOR MARKETING PUSH one -sentence prepared statement: from investment officials around the Madison County' soundtrack," says at Carnegie Hall with Stan Kenton's The "Eastwood After Hours -Live "Interscope Records has a contract to country who had concluded that a Matt Pierson, senior VP of jazz for band in 1952, the evening was all about At Carnegie Hall" discs will be pack- distribute Death Row Records which is divestiture policy based on social or Eastwood, his love of jazz, and his use of aged in a removable "0" card with mar- still in full force and effect." moral issues would lead to expensive jazz in his films. Niehaus first met East- keting information listing all the artists When Universal Music Group litigation and might affect a pension COUNTRY CORNER wood in the Army, when both were sta- and repertoire. The card also serves to announced its purchase of half of Inter - system's bottom line. Sherman noted (Continued from page 29) tioned at Fort Ord in California. "draw attention in the bin," says Pier- scope in February 1996, it pointedly that MSRPS executive director Peter KAJA San Antonio, Texas; KIKK "Even in [his last film] `Absolute son, as it gives the look of a boxed set. noted that it had the option not to release Vaughn was among those testifying Houston; KMDL Lafayette, La.; Power,' which wasn't a jazz underscore, The striking cover art is a black-and- any music it deemed objectionable (Bill- against the legislation. WGRL Indianapolis; WKIX Raleigh, for the scene where the president's in white shot of Eastwood on the Carnegie board, March 2, 1996). Warner Music Also among those testifying against N.C.; WUSY Chattanooga, Tenn.; and the room with the girl and she put on a stage, although the seats are, accurate- Group, which previously owned the 50% divestiture was Joe Fitzgerald, Sea- KPLX and KYNG Dallas. CD, he asked me to write a nice tenor ly, colored red. of Interscope bought by Universal, had gram & Sons VP of investor relations. Meanwhile, Lorrie Morgan's "Go ballad," says Niehaus. "Or in 'Heart- Warner Bros. will set up its "aggres- sold its holding back to Field and Iovine As Death Row's problems continue Away" is awarded Airpower creden- break Ridge,' where the band's playing sive" campaign, says Pierson, through after an outcry over lyric content-pri- to multiply on the business front, one tials, with an increase of 299 spins, and in the background in the officers' club, co -op advertising and price and posi- marily the content of songs by such of several pending legal actions against rises 21 -16. That track is airing on 160 he wanted a Basie -type thing. Or in the tioning campaigns, working with major Interscope-distributed Death Row acts the label appears to be close to a wrap - monitored stations, with heavy airplay Coleman Hawkins record [in the same chains in the jazz strongholds of New as 2Pac (the late rapper Tupac Shakur) up. at KHEY El Paso, Texas, and KTST film] when he dances with Marsha York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Snoop Doggy Dogg. A spokesman for the law firm repre- Oklahoma City. Mason -little things like that aren't Chicago, and Washington, D.C. These But the no-sale proviso held by Uni- senting the administrators of Tupac "Go Away" is the lead single from really noticeable that he's always markets will be followed by Atlanta, versal may not have been enough to Shakur's estate in their suit against "Shakin' Things Up," which takes Hot doing -or making [the Eastwood - Dallas, and Boston. satisfy Bronfman. Death Row says that negotiations are Shot Debut honors at No. 14 on Top directed Charlie Parker biopic] `Bird,' "Because of Clint's involvement, we His skittishness about Death Row - under way to settle the action. Country Albums and opens with more which Warner Bros. allowed him to expect a buzz to develop in tertiary whose founder, Marion "Suge" Knight, In April, Shakur's mother, Meni than 9,000 units. make even though it wouldn't be a $100 markets, too," says Pierson. "Obvious- is serving a nine -year prison sentence Shakur, and attorney Richard S. Fisch- million gross. So this was a way of hon- ly, everything centers on the story of for assault-has undoubtedly been bein sued Death Row, Knight, and his MEMPHIS AND NEW YORK: Fol- oring that." Clint's long -term support of jazz and heightened by an ongoing federal attorney, David Kenner, charging that lowing a well -attended Garth Brooks The Carnegie tribute concert fea- the inclusion of jazz in his films." investigation into the label's activities. the label had defrauded the rapper. sighting in the Big Apple (Country tured music from "Play Misty For Me," Eastwood's direct-marketing invol- In February, a grand jury subpoenaed The suit sought $150 million in dam- Corner, Billboard, Aug. 23) and Elvis the 1971 thriller that was Eastwood's vement includes his participation in the the records of some 15 companies affil- ages (Billboard, May 3). Shakur was sightings virtually everywhere, Bill- directorial debut, in which he played a creation of the concert's 90- and 30- iated with Death Row (Billboard, fatally shot while riding in Knight's car board's Top Country Catalog Albums jazz DJ; "Bird "; "The Last Of The Blue minute video versions-which Warner March 8). in Las Vegas last September. shows a level of activity that is typical- Devils," the Kansas City, Mo., jazz doc- Bros. now looks to place, respectively, A source familiar with the investiga- A spokesman for the New York law ly seen only during the holiday buying umentary that he helped release in on PBS and non -PBS TV outlets, in tion says that the grand jury has been firm of Fischbein Badillo Wagner season. As fans continue to add Europe; "Honkytonk Man," in which he addition to the home video release in taking testimony from "gangsters," Harding Final confirms that "settle- Brooks titles (all Capitol Nashville) to played a dissipated country singer the longer form. Eastwood also video- including convicted drug dealer ment negotiations are under way." their collections, "The Hits" moves whose son was played by real-life off- taped an interview for a WEA Distrib- Michael Harris, who is reputed to be At press time, attorney Donald 12,000 units to hold at No. 1, and "No spring Kyle; "White Hunter, Black ution sales presentation and is doing an early investor in Death Row. David, representing the estate's admin- Fences" moves more than 7,000 pieces Heart "; " Thelonious Monk: Straight, select press interviews. istrators, could not be reached for to take the runner-up trophy. Brooks' No Chaser," the documentary that Pierson adds that Warner Bros. will INVESTMENT CONCERNS comment. However, a report in the self-titled debut moves about 5,000 Eastwood executive -produced; "The also key in on Eastwood's heightened Bronfman may also be reacting to Aug. 19 issue of The Los Angeles Daily units and rises 5-4. "Ropin' The Wind" Bridges Of Madison County "; and "In media visibility later in the year, when recent concerns about explicit lyrics Journal, a legal publication, quotes moves 4,000 units (12 -10), while "In The Line Of Fire," in which Eastwood, he completes the eagerly awaited "Mid- within the investment community. David as saying the suit is "being Pieces" (14 -13) and "The Chase" (15- as a Secret Service agent, actually plays night In the Garden Of Good And Evil," Officials of the non -legislative Mary- resolved heavily in favor of the estate," 15) move about 3,500 units each. a bit of cocktail jazz piano. his current directorial film undertak- land State Retirement and Pension and that 150 of Shakur's unreleased As Elvis Presley fans commemorate But the centerpiece of the program ing. At present, the label is merchan- System (MSRPS) may soon decide masters would be turned over to the the 20th anniversary of his death, was Niehaus' "Eastwood: After Hours" dising "Eastwood After Hours" with whether they want to prohibit invest- estate. "Elvis' Golden Records" (RCA), a 1958 suite, which combined themes of some four -color posters and promotional ment in companies associated with compilation consisting primarily of his of the star's career highlights as well as brandy snifters. record labels that release records with Assistance in preparing this story was early country hits, moves 5,000 units to music that has influenced him. A consumer print campaign will explicit lyrics and initiate divestiture in provided by Bill Holland in Washing- bow at No. 5. Starting with "Doe Eyes," which focus on the forthcoming TV airings of those companies. ton, D.C.

104 BILLBOARD AUGUST 30, 1997 www.americanradiohistory.com RETAIL, LABELS HOPEFUL FOR 4TH -QUARTER SALES (Continued from page 1) the turnaround at retail that has been money in the bank," says Bob Douglas, this year. 'We're renegotiating leases still bothers accounts, although many general, not just the music business, has occurring this year. Most chains have VP of purchasing for HMV. trying to get into larger spaces." labels say they have trimmed their new- become more disposable, and as a result, reported greater same-store sales and New age votaries can look forward to Joe Pagano, merchandise manager release lists this year and have spread it's taking several hit songs by an artist gross profit margins than a year ago. new work from Yanni. "He's clearly a for music and movies at Best Buy, says the product throughout the year. to motivate consumers to buy." Meanwhile, label and retail execu- priority for Virgin," says Douglas. "He the chain will be buying more than last "There's always too many releases," Some retailers are worried that tives say they continue to have high hol- can do no wrong." year, especially catalog. "I think we've says Camelot's Garrett. "They can't labels might not have enough resources iday expectations for albums that were R &B retail buyers expect big num- enhanced our presentation of catalog in support in -store or on radio all the to support all the albums they are released during the first half. bers from the new Boyz II Men set our stores. There's a factor that new releases there are." putting out, whether that be co- opera- But challenges remain that could (Motown). They also cite albums by releases have -they generate more RCA's Rovner says, "When you tive advertising funds for retail print make for a less- than -merry Christmas Vanessa Williams and Brian McKnight traffic, and when the consumer's there, hear about the staggering number of ads or radio promotion budgets to get for the industry. (Mercury); R. Kelly (Jive); Aretha he buys more than the new releases." releases, you know that only so many singles on the air. Some distributors say that product Franklin (Arista); Immature and Bobby Even if the anticipated new releases are going to make it through the tun- Solomon says the fourth quarter returns persist at stubbornly high Brown (MCA); Tony Rich (LaFace/ don't perform as strongly as label sales nel, and that's why our paradigm of should be prosperous "especially if the rates-above 20 %-and that too many Arista); Brandy and All -4 -One reps declare they will, retailers hope not signing all that many acts and record companies do decent marketing, new releases continue to flood the (Atlantic); SWV (RCA); and Oran hits from the first half will continue to sticking with a record for a year works if they try to sell the market. Retailers pipelines. Sources say that retailers do "Juice" Jones (Tommy Boy). drive customers into stores. They say for us." help, but they aren't the whole story." not have the budgets to buy all the The most anticipated rap releases are albums by such acts as Jewel and Sarah And some industry executives ex- "I think it will be a project -by- project product in sufficient quantities and that by Coolio (Tommy Boy); LL Cool J, McLachlan and Fiona Apple may have press concern about the fickleness of deal," says John Kunz, owner of inde- labels may be spreading strained re- EPMD, Redman, and Method Man (Def the legs to yield strong holiday sales. the music consumer. Russ Solomon, pendent store Waterloo Records in sources too thin to effectively market it. Jam); Busta Rhymes (Elektra); Will Reprise president Howie Klein says, president of Tower Records, says, Austin, Texas. "If they see something The still-shaky financial situation of Smith (Columbia); and Mack 10 and "The first half was phenomenal in one "The biggest problem is that releases break out or develop in a particular some big players in the music busi- Master P (Priority). way, and that's what we were able to do have gone up and down so quickly. It's marketplace, they will support it." ness- Alliance Entertainment and The biggest Christian contemporary in terms of setting up the second half." better if they climb up and stay Konowitch acknowledges that Musicland, among others -puts addi- titles are likely to be by Jars Of Clay David Lang, president of Compact awhile." "releasing an album at Christmas with- tional pressure on labels to relax pay- (Essential/Silvertone), Amy Grant Disc World, says, "I felt this year the Steve Heldt, senior VP of sales at out the advantage of a good setup and ment terms at a time when some record (A&M/Myrrh), and Steven Curtis Chap- new releases were not as concentrated Elektra, says, "It has been a tough year. multiple singles could be more risky companies are reporting sluggish prof- man (Sparrow). in the fourth quarter as in previous Just look at the charts. You've got a now than in other years." its to their impatient corporate parents. Jazz fans eagerly anticipate a new years, which is part of the success we've record that debuts at No. 1 and falls The half-year statistics tell a puzzling Wynton Marsalis set (Columbia), while been having all year. A lot of records 50% [in unit sales] the following week. Assistance in preparing this story was story. SoundScan, which measures blues devotees look forward to a new out already are going to be strong sell- There doesn't seem to be any loyalty." provided by Chris Morris and J.R. sales at retail, reports that unit sales B.B. King album (MCA) featuring such ers in the fourth quarter." Jayne Simon, senior VP of marketing Reynolds in Los Angeles and Chet Flip- were up 7.3% through midyear. "The guests as the Rolling Stones, Bonnie But the total number of new titles and sales at MCA, adds, "Our culture in po in Nashville. music retail industry has been pretty Raitt, Clapton, and BLACKstreet. well turned around the first seven Country retailers anticipate strong months compared to last year," says sales from new sets by Shania Twain DESPITE HIGH RETURNS, INDIES SEE BETTER SALES Lew Garrett, VP of buying and mer- (Mercury); Trisha Yearwood (MCA (Continued front page 1) chandising at Camelot. Ian Duffell, Nashville); LeAnn Rimes and Wynonna president of Virgin Retail Group North (Curb); Bryan White (Asylum); Mindy releases from Sebadoh, Prodigy, and and Kelly Joe Phelps. tasy to its list. America, adds, "We've had an excellent McCready (BNA); Martina McBride Squirrel Nut Zippers. Tiffany Phillips, sales manager at Among albums currently in release, year. Comp sales are up almost 20 %." (RCA Nashville); Patty Loveless and Allen says that there are some Select -O-Hits in Memphis, says, "From Colson anticipates strong sales for Trans World Entertainment, a once- Collin Raye (Epic Nashville); Mark potential hits among ADA's third- and where we're sitting, this whole year has Heartbeat's Burning Spear title, Com- troubled chain, has seen its sales and Chesnutt (Decca); and Paul Brandt fourth- quarter releases, including been huge ... [And] we are going to pass' set from bassist Victor Wooten, stock price steadily rise in recent (Reprise) and greatest -hits packages by those from Scotty Moore (Sweetfish), have a huge fourth quarter. We've and Continental's album by lounge -ori- months, giving the retailer the confi- Brooks & Dunn (Arista) and John Coolio (Tommy Boy), Eric Matthews added a good team of reps, and we're ented unit 81/2 Souvenirs. dence not only to halt its closings of Michael Montgomery (Atlantic). (Sub Pop), and Squirrel Nut Zippers doing a lot of new business." Michael Rosenberg, VP of sales and underperforming stores, but to But retailers are disconcerted about (Mammoth). Regarding forthcoming product, marketing at Koch International in announce the acquisition of another the lack of a new Garth Brooks album. Allen notes that while ADA has post- Phillips says, "Priority, Tommy Boy, Port Washington, N.Y., reports, "A lot wounded chain, Strawberries, with the They say he squandered an opportuni- ed an overall return level of 16.3% so K -tel, and Quality have loaded our of return requests are continuing to goal of turning it around. ty after his much -publicized live -on- far this year, "I have many labels in the plates up for the fourth quarter." flood in." But the Recording Industry Assn. of HBO concert in New York's Central 40 % -50% range. That's a pattern like John Salstone, co -owner of Hanover However, Rosenberg adds, Koch's America (RIAA) reports the opposite Park this month. Chuck Papke, VP of last year. ". Park, Ill. -based M.S. Distributing, says, gross sales for the year so far are up news. It says unit shipments of music in retail at Harmony House, says, "I think Alan Becker, VP of product develop- "We think people are still going to 20% over 1996. "This will actually be the first half this year were down 9.7% that's a big disappointment. The day ment at the Sony -owned RED Distrib- remain very tight, keep their open -to- our best year in our history," he says. (see story, page 3). Some sources say after the TV show we got many calls ution, notes that the company posted buy very tight. The independents are He says that the strong performance the decline reflects the RIAA's inclu- looking for the new Garth Brooks. We'll its biggest sales month in history this suffering from tight budgets, but the of albums by Cledus "T." Judd and Dar sion of direct- marketing businesses like definitely miss sales on that." July and adds, "We're forecasting a sector is going to show strength." Williams (Razor & Tie), Mr. King the record clubs, which have had a While everyone expects big retail great last quarter of the year." Among the titles M.S. cites as its George (Ichiban), and Ani DiFranco tough year. But others say that cannot orders on proven winners like Carey RED's top titles for year's end biggest for the third and fourth quar- (Righteous Babe) have been responsi- account entirely for the discrepancy. and Jackson, many retail and label include two hot Relativity rap releases ters are Alligator's "Deluxe Edition" ble for potent sales. What most industry experts agree sources say they are uncertain whether from H -Town and Common; Epitaph packages for Albert Collins and Lonnie Potential hits among Koch's third - on, however, is that the slate of new there will be much depth of buying rock projects from NOFX, the Cramps, Brooks and Black Top's live Johnny and fourth -quarter releases are by rap- releases for the third and fourth quar- below the superstar level. and H20; and Dave Grusin's 'West Side Copeland set. per MC Breed (Wrap), Top Authority ters looks impressive not only in num- Jack Rovner, executive VP/GM of Story" set on N2K with guests Jon Independent National Distributors and R. Kelly's brother Carey Kelly ber but in variety. "It looks like it's RCA Records, says, "There doesn't Secada and Gloria Estefan. Inc. (INDI) has had a rocky year: The (Ichiban), and Ladysmith Black Mam- going to be a strong quarter across dif- seem to be the same turmoil going on in Joe Micallef, president of Allegro company drastically pared its label list, bazo (Shanachie). ferent kinds of music," says Marcia the last half of the year as there was in Corp. in Portland, Ore., says, "We've and some other labels were lost Appel, senior VP of corporate advertis- the first, but I do believe that retail as a had a pretty good year so far. We're up through attrition before its parent com- ing and marketing for Musicland. Trans whole is being very selective and con- about 15 %. The second half of the year pany, Alliance Entertainment Corp., World chairman Bob Higgins says,' We servative in their purchasing approach, is going to be far better than the first filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy pro- POPKOMM makes a lot of sense." half, because I'm seeing a lot more tection in July. think the music coming out for the and that (Continued from page 6) fourth quarter will be really great for Abbey Konowitch, executive VP /GM strength at retail ... I'm seeing returns INDI president Larry Stessel says Christmas." of MCA Records, adds, "There seems coming under control and some strong of his company's immediate future, "I , so that next year, at Slated to put out sets are such rock/ to be a perception of things getting bet- titles for us." think we will be leaner, and we're slow- the 10th PopKomm, we can present an pop favorites as Elton John (Rock - ter, but it's still not incendiary. Now, He predicts that his biggest title will ly going through our own reorganiza- interim report and we can ask whether et/A&M); Eric Clapton and Green Day getting retail to buy in with a four -week be Finer Arts Records' "Hill Country tion, as Alliance goes through its Chap- this dialogue has produced concrete (Reprise); Billy Joel, Bob Dylan, and supply is more than they need, even if it Christmas," a project by Willie Nelson. ter 11 reorganization, to make the results." Leonard Cohen (Columbia); the Rolling means shaving a few points. They don't Jim Cuomo, GM of the REP Co. in company stronger and leaner ... We PopKomm, held Aug. 14 -17 at Stones (Virgin); Jackson Browne, have the flow to do it, and where that's Salem, Mass., says, "Retail is starting have plans to make some corrections." Cologne's Congress Center, was Metallica, Phish, and Bjork (Elektra); affecting us is in our ability to get the to get it. Things are going very well. While Stessel suggests that the next attended this year by 15,203 delegates, Simon and Patti Smith (Arista); tonnage out in support of a hit." People are starting to spend money 18 months still could be "brutal," he according to Ralf Plaschke, deputy Genesis and Led Zeppelin (Atlantic); From the independent-distribution again ... I'm feeling good about the adds, "There is some really solid music managing director of organizer Musik Paul Simon, Rod Stewart, , sector, Andy Allen, president of Warn- business in general." coming out." Komm, up from 14,100 last year. The and & the Blackhearts er Music Group'sAlternative Distribu- Throughout a strong August, some James Colson, GM of Distribution number of exhibitors rose from 633 to (Warner Bros.); Duran Duran (Capitol); tion Alliance, says, "Most of the big of the most unusual titles from parent North America (DNA) in Woodland, 670. and Oasis (Epic). accounts are only buying hits. They're company and distributed label Ryko- Calif., says, "We've had a lot of The most significant growth for the In pop, retail has the highest expec- being very cautious and have a prove - disc have surprised REP, according to increased activity because of a lot of show, though, was in its international- tations for albums by divas Mariah it-to-me attitude. You have to have Cuomo. Sales of the label's Yoko Ono recent label additions ... Interest in ization; last year, 23 countries were Carey (Columbia), Celine Dion (550 something happening, or they'll pass." titles have tripled projections, while DNA has continued to increase." represented, while this year there were Music), and Janet Jackson (Virgin). Not all retailers are tightening their those of the Jack Kerouac tribute have The company, now wholly owned by delegates from 53 nations. For the first "The Janet Jackson by all accounts is open-to-buy dollars, though. Papke says doubled projections. Valley Record Distributors, has been a time this year, Musik Komm has going to be a brilliant album, the best the 37 -store chain's focus is to expand Many of REP's top titles for fall major beneficiary of Alliance Enter- released figures for the proportion of she's ever done," says Duffell. the amount of product it carries, and so come from in -house labels. 's tainment's difficulties this year and has foreign delegates, which show 22% of "The Carey and Dion are probably it expects to be buying more than usual offerings include albums by Morphine added such high -profile labels as Fan- attendees were from outside Germany.

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Biboard Music Group A NEW NO. 1 on the Hot 100 forces a major rewrite of in 1978, when the label captured eight of the 19 songs to lf,FRONT the chart history books. "Mo Money Mo Problems" by the reach the chart zenith -including the first five No. is of AN UPDATE ON BBMG EVENTS & Notorious B.I.G. (Featuring Puff Daddy & Mase) the year. RSO had six No. 1 singles in a row; the highest replaces "I'll Be Missing You" by Puff Daddy & Faith consecutive run for any label. Evans (Featuring 112) at the top after the latter single "Mo Money Mo Problems" establishes another first, had an 11 -week reign. If it had lasted only one more week, although it's not one anyone would care to match. It gives Radio Seminar Tunes In it would have been the first single in the rock era to have the Notorious B.I.G. the unenviable distinction of becom- a 12 -week run in pole position. While that didn't happen, ing the first person to have two posthumous No. l singles. a number of other things did. "Mo Money Mo Problems" remains Hot Topics, Cool Events Sean "Puffy" Combs, aka Puff No. 1 on Hot Rap Singles for a fourth Daddy, joins an incredibly elite club week. But what's most notable here of - A full agenda till hottest top bringing off successful concert of artists who have succeeded them- is that Combs has been a producer on ics in the radio ibilu1u'y is slated well events, as as a look at the in- selves at No. 1. The other members: the No. 1 rap song for 42 consecutive for the Billboard /Airplay Monitor creased synergy between radio and Elvis Presley, the Beatles, and CHART weeks. That dates back to Nov. 16, Radio Seminar to be held Oct. 16 -18 the concert business. Boyz II Men. And as a producer, 1996, when "No Time" by Lil' Kim at the Orlando Renaissance Resort. Next is an all- format session on Combs has helmed four of the last BEAT.. Featuring Puff Daddy began a nine- Among the scheduled events are BDS, offering Airplay Monitor edi- five chart-toppers: his own "Can't week run. Combs has been listed as more than a dozen panels and ses- tor-in-chief Heston Rosten, Moni- Nobody Hold Me Down" (which also by Fred Bronson one of the artists on the No. 1 rap sions, the T.J. Martell Orlando Golf tor editor Sean Ross, and various featured Mase); B.I.G.'s first posthu- song for 33 of those 42 weeks. Classic, and the posh annual BDS staffers to answer questions mous No. 1, "Hypnotize"; "I'll Be Missing You "; and "Mo awards show and dinner Saturday about how Broadcast Data Systems Money Mo Problems." SISTER ACT: Dannii Minogue collects the biggest hit evening, Oct. 18. Hosting this works, why BDS and Airplay Moni- But what's really impressive is what this streak of No. of her career as `All I Wanna Do" (Eternal /WEA) enters year's show is indefatigable radio tor make various decisions, as well is means for Combs' Bad Boy label. The imprint becomes the British top 20 at No. 5. Her previous best was No. 8, legend Casey Kasem. as information on new develop - the first label since Motown in 1964 to have its first four achieved by "Love And Kisses" and "Jump To The Beat," The seminar will ments on the charts chart- topping titles all fall in the same calendar year. both in 1991. Dannii may soon be battling sister Kylie open Thursday, Oct. i , and at BDS. Berry Gordy's Detroit -based label did it with "My Guy" Minogue on the U.K. chart as the latter's new decon- 16, with the brand- Simultaneous for - 0 S & Awards by Mary Wells and "Where Did Our Love Go," "Baby struction single, "Some Kind Of Bliss," is released Sept. 8. new charity golf mat sessions follow, Love," and "Come See About Me" by the Supremes. tourney, which will benefit cancer, with forums on the relationship Bad Boy is also the first label to have at least four No. THIRTY YEARS ON: Shaggy returns to the Hot 100 leukemia, and AIDS research. For between country records and radio, is in a calendar year since 1991, when A &M had four and with a song on its fourth chart -go- round. Most people info, call Bill Richards: 407 -292- moving modern rock forward, Columbia had six. The main differences: Those labels were remember that Big Brother & the 4424. young-end R &B, and a top 40 for - long established, while these are Bad Boy's first four No. had the biggest hit with Jerry Ragovoy and Bert Berns' The business of the event kicks in mat focus. 1 songs on the Hot 100, and in 1991 there were 27 titles "Piece Of My Heart." With searing vocals by Janis Friday morning with simultaneous Finally, one of the most popular that moved to the summit. Joplin, the song peaked at No. 12 in 1968. A year earli- format sessions for top 40, country, annual panels, the Air Personality "Mo Money Mo Problems" is only the sixth new single er, the original recording by Erma Franklin had gone rock, and R &B programmers. will Supergroup, gather before the of 1997, giving Bad Boy 66.66% of the No. 1 action this year to No. 62. The third chart version was a No. 73 hit for Following is a workshop on evening's dinner and awards festiv- in terms of the number of titles. That's a streak to rival Sammy Hagar in 1982. Shaggy's Virgin remake, fea- "Building the Perfect Manager," fo- ities begin. Also scheduled during the historic run that Robert Stigwood's RSO imprint had turing Marsha, is new at No. 86. cusing on key tools for self improve- the show is a music trivia game ment and time management, plus with Chart Beat's Fred Bronson an overview of management tech- and Ross, as well as numerous niques from a parade of experts. artist showcases and events to be "Sleeping with the Enemy" will announced. 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