'Playground Pirates' Dent Sales a Music & Media Staff Report to Pay for That-Or Any Other-Music
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APRIL24, 1999 Music Volume 16, Issue 17 £3.95 Martine McCutcheon sav- DM11 ours that Perfect Moment FFR35 (Innocent/Virgin) as the USS7 song becomes this week's DFL11.50 highest new entry, at no. 10, in M&M's Eurochart Hot 100 die® Singles. -V7-4' taller 14C30 1.'"miL41:/_-1.41C10 M&M chart toppers this week 'Playground pirates' dent sales A Music & Media staff report to pay for that-or any other-music. percent in 1998 to euro 2.56 billion, Eurochart Hot 100 Singles Sales figures from German labels'according to the BPW, whose mem- BRITNEY SPEARS HAMBURG/PARIS -Germanandbody the BPW and French equivalentbers account for some 94 percent of ...Baby One More Time French kids want to hear music inSNEP, justpublished,show thethe market. Album sales volume last (Jive) their own language more than ever.extent to which new technology isyear fell 2.4 percent to 218.9 million But the spread of CD burners, mini -dentingsales,andbothbodies units, and singles were down 0.4 per- European Top 100 Albums disc recorders, the Internet and e-mailexpressconcernsaboutso-called cent to 51.8 million units. ANDREA BOCELLI in these countries means that the"playground piracy." At the same time, the share of Sogno same kids are increasingly less likely Record sales in Germany fell 1.5 continued on page 21 (Sugar/Polydor) European Radio Top 50 Conroy attacks U.K. radio 'blandness' BRITNEY SPEARS Victoires in ...Baby One More Time (Jive) jeopardy? PARIS -Increasing dissent on Inside M&M this week theboardofFrench musicawards show Victoires de la MUSIC RADIO IN CRISIS lei A AL The Kosovo crisis presents Euro- Musique is threat- ti pean music radio with a dilemma: ening to break up step up news coverage or keep play- the organisation, writes ing the music to provide light relief Emmanuel Legrand. for war weary listeners? M&M A row betweenlabels'bodies reports on programming approach- SNEP and UPFI on the one hand, es around Europe. Page 7 and musician's union SNAM on the other, could lead the labels to create CATATONIA'S BLESSING their own awards show. Welsh rock by Emmanuel Legrand Academy's Music Radio Conference Music & Media has learned that a band Catato- 1999 here on April 13 (see full cover- growing number of record label exec- nia's third LONDON -Virgin Records UK age, page 9), Conroy warned stations utives have become increasingly con- album, Equally president Paul Conroy has urgedthat they risked "stagnation" by not cerned by what they seeas an Cursed And British radio programmers to useembracing new artistsand new aggressive attitude from SNAM, to Blessed (Blanco more "gut feel" and less researchmusical styles. He suggested that the point where some would be ready Y Negro/WEA) when they choose music, and calledsome music programmers are "abdi- to leave the Victoires. A Victoires is seen as the for more airtime to be devoted to cating their editorial responsibility" board meeting planned for April 14- launch pad for a massive interna- new talent. by relying too much on research. where theissue was tobedis- tional campaign. Page 12 In a keynote speech at the Radio continued on page 21 continued on page 21 A YOUNGER OUTLOOK The Radio Academy 1999 Music Radio Conference on As German publicbroadcasters April 13 ended with an evening showcase event in Lon- actively pursue young radio audi- don. Entitled "A Celebration of Music Radio," it included ences, the competition with com- performances from (left to right) 3rd. Storee, mercial outlets is producing a situa- BB Mak and Precious. Radio 2 presenter Steve tion which may be very healthy for Wright (left), whose career has spanned Radio musicprogrammingacrossthe 210/Reading, Radio Luxembourg, BBC Radio 1 country. Page 10 and the GWR Group, received the award for Outstanding Contribution to Music Radio. FIND OUT WHAT RECORDS ARE BREAKING IN THE U.S. WE LISTEN TO RADIO BEFORE YOUR COMPETITION BREAKS THEM FOR YOU. or American programmers cite Airplay Monitor as their #1 source for chart information and their most trusted programming tool. Airplay Monitor delivers the radio and record industries weekly chart's, total audience, spins and station playlists from around the U.S. in 13 different formats using 24 hour a day electronic monitoring from BDS. Top 40 - £156/220 Euros (1 year/50 Issues) Country, R&B, or Rock - £137/193 Euros (1 year/50 Issues) Call +44 (0) 111 323 6686 to subscribe or tax your order to +44 (0) 111 631 0428. Or mail payment to: Billboard/Monitor, Att: Paul Brigden, 23 Ridgmount Street, London, WCIE 7AH, United Kingdom. Part of the Billboard Music Group. H91 B AmericanRadioHistory.Com forms of content-music. Indie labels have from the outset looked at the Internet Music as a "gift of God," in that they could reach their consumers Upfront directly without the massive costs of setting up an infra- by Emmanuel Legrand, Music & Media editor -in -chief structure for the distribution of physical goods. But, Media. between the hundred titles or songs an indie can control, Call M&M on: Surprise,surprise! The Internet is not that bad after all. and the hundreds of thousands a major has in its vaults, tel (+44) 171 323 6686 fax (+44) 171 323 2314/16 True to the old saying "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em!" there is a massive difference of scale. the major companies have begun to realise that on-line The involvement of majors is of paramount importance Publisher: Ron Betist activity is as much a fantastic business opportunity as a for the development of the music industry of the future. Editor in chief: Emmanuel Legrand Director of operations: Kate Leech tremendous promotional window for their artists. When big players enter the field, it raises the standard of Editorial What we've seen over the past weeks and months- the game and brings benefits to all. It helps set up guide- Deputy editor/news editor: Jonathan Heasman from BMG/Universal's Internet joint venture, Sony's part- lineswhichwilleventually be Features/specials editor: Terry Heath nership with Launch Media, and other initiatives-is the accepted by all. The law of the jungle Music business/talent editor: Christian Lorenz evidence that majors have now decided to put resources, can prevail for a while, but when the Charts 8cresearch energy and time into music on-line businesses. big guys come in, you can expect Charts editor: Rani Cairo Charts researchers: Menno Visser, Of course, majors are not (yet?) embracing MP3 andsome policing to be introduced. Siri Stavenes other download devices, but they have made significant Record companies can gain a lot Production moves forward. The clock was ticking and they faced the from being involved in the Internet. Production manager: Jonathan Crouch prospect of seeing all music Internet -related activities- After all, the music industry was one Designer: Dominic Salmon community web sites, e -commerce and the rest-takenof the first to enter the digital age Correspondents over by others. when it embraced the CD in the Austria: Susan L. Schuhmayer - (43) 1 334 9608 In the cyberworld content is king, and record compa- early'80s.So welcometothe Belgium: Marc Maes - (32) 3 568 8082 Classical/jazz: Terry Berne - (34) 9 3458 3791 nies are in a position to provide one of the most wanted 21st century. Czech Republic: Michele Legge - (42) 2 248 75000 Dance Grooves: Gary Smith - (34) 9 3488 2180 Denmark: Charles Ferro - (45) 3391 9156 France: Remi Bouton (radio and music Sex and music: a winning combination for Los 40 business) - (33) 1 4586 8466; Cecile Tesseyre (artist profiles) - (33) 1 4909 0896 by Howell Llewellyn much fuss, because we 100's audience had doubled in C Germany: Gesa Birnkraut (Hamburg)-(49) didn't want to invite con- just two years. 4101 45930; Ed Meza - (Berlin) (49) 30 423 9782; A D Scott Roxborough (Cologne) - (49) 221 9833 148 MADRID- Spain's music radio leader, troversy,"saysPons.I "lb tell you the truth, I was Greece: Cosmos Develegas - (30) 935 65641 Cadena SER's CHR network Los 40 "We have had a handful worried when the figure first Italy: Mark Dezzani - (39) 0184 292 824 N The Netherlands: Robbed Tilli -(31)20-672 2566 Principales, surged further ahead ofof complaints, for exam- came through," says Jordi Norway: Kai Lofthus - (47) 918 21 208 its competitors in the first three ple from a mother listen-PRINCIPALESCasoliva, director of Cadena Spain: Howell Llewellyn - (34) 9 1593 2429; Sweden: Fredrik Nilsson - (46) 8 735 9750 months of 1999, with an average ing to the programme with her child in100. "But when we studied the break- Sales and Marketing daily audience of 2.5 million, a rise ofthe car. But the idea is basically to pre-down, we saw there were two factors in Director of advertising sales: 117,000 over the previous surveyvent Aids and unwanted babies-whoparticular that reassured us. First, the Christine Chinetti period in October/November. better to do this than a radio network setback refers to two programmes in International sales director: The next five music networks infor teenagers?" particular that we knew were not right, Ron Betist (UK, USA) - (31) 299 420274; mobile: (31) 653 194133 order of popularity all lost audience, Cadena 100's audience fell byand last Monday, before we had these Sales executives: Christine Chinetti (G/S/A) - according to data from the Estudio 116,000,accordingto EGM,to results, we had already made impor- (44) 171 323 6686; Igor Rooselaar (Benelux; Scandinavia) - (31) 299 420274 General de Medios (EGM), published 931,000. Champagne corks popped tant structural changes to one of them Francois Millet (France) - (33) 145 49 29 33 April 12.