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AALIYAH ALISHA'S ATTIC BABYFACE COLLECTIVE SOUL EN VOGUE 4 Page Letter I Am, I Feel How Come, How Long Listen Whatever Bel/MI/MI G 98021 Mercury N/A Epic N/A AtI/Atl G 84006 EW/EEG N/A

JAMIROQUAI JONNY LANG PAUL McCARTNEY MASTA P Virtual Insanity Lie To Me The World Tonight If I Could Change WORK N/A A&M N/A Capitol N/A NI/Priority 53273

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DENNIS LAVINTHAL Publisher LENNY BEER VIBE-RATERS 4 Winning Ticket Editor In Chief Hanson are in the middle of somewhere and Meredith Brooks TONI PROFERA moves to the edge while the debuting Sammy Hagar and Executive Editor Supergrass grow. DAVID ADELSON Vice President/Managing Editor KAREN GLAUBER MOST POWERFUL SONGS 6 Senior Vice President Spice Girls just want to have fun at #1 over runner-up Mary J. TODD HENSLEY Blige while fellow teen idols Hanson are "mmm" good to Vice President/Sr. Broadcast Editor "bop" with a#5 debut. JOE FLEISCHER Vice President/Senior Editor DIALOGUE 46 JON O'HARA General Manager D.C.'s second most powerful Hilary, RIAA President/C00 Hilary Rosen, holds forth on the state of the music industry ROY TRAKIN Senior Editor before busting HITS' notorious bootlegger Tina "Lewis &" MARK PEARSON Clarke for selling pirate Richard Clayderman eight-tracks at a Retail Editor Staten Island flea market. RICKY LEIGH MENSH With the Top Ten bow of Mix Show Editor POST MODERN 55 MIKE MURPHY "Middle of Nowhere," the Special Projects The Verve Pipe goes to the top of the class, Meredith Brooks debut album from new teen GARY JACKSON and Sneaker Pimps are abitch, while Ivana's Spite Girls are idols Hanson, Mercury Senior JAMZ Editor available for weddings, bat mitzvahs, track dates and the President Danny Goldberg KANDACE TAYLOR occasional summer radio fest. Senior Jamz Editor has launched one of the JIMMY BARNES ROCK 85 most impressive youth Rock Broadcast Editor Most Requested The Offspring's tops, Megadeth's Most Added campaigns since the days of ED BROWN Broadcast Editor and Sammy Hagar's the big man on campus as metal iceman JFK. Meanwhile, his savvy, JENNIFER NORWOOD Jimmy "Are We Not Men?" Barnes' Stanley Cup runneth over. grass-roots approach is Rap Editor breaking the hard-working KEITH CHAGNON JAMZ 91 Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Director of Retail Marketing Veteran radio programmer and music scheduling software and just to prove he covers JENNI REDDINGTON guru Earl Boston gets down in the cyberspace between the Retail Coordinator all ends of the political ears of JAMZ's towering bald guy Gary "How's The Weather TAMI PACKLEY spectrum, Goldberg's got Up There?" Jackson. JULIA TRAINOR Jon Bon Jovi's Most Added CAERI BERTRAND solo record headed for Top Research Editors ALBUMS 116 JIMMY STEWART Spice makes nice at #1, while George Strait cools his 40 mass appeal. Of course, FREDDIE VASQUEZ bootheels at #2 and younguns Hanson turn up from the that was all before he was CELENE CLAUSE "middle of nowhere" with aTop Ten bow. hit with the scandal of Research Assistants HITS Contentsgate. LEISA ST. JOHN Office Manager Hitsbound 32 RANDI RASKIND Top Tens 110 Faith in Blind. JOCELYN DEAL It's Blige's "World." Art Direction REBECCA ESMERIAN Requests 40 Breakouts 114 Editorial Design "Bop" pops. Teen work. BRIAN LINDSEY Art Operations Earpicks 50 MICHAEL ALLEN On The Cover Computer Operations Crow's feat. SCOTT KILLAM Mercury cover pubes Facility Manager Hanson learn what "Middle BILL TREADWAY Front Page 11 Post Toasted 55 of Nowhere" really means Distribution Manager with this HITS appearance, COLOR WEST Near Myths 22 In 'Tha Mix 107 which marks their Top Ten Lithography Letters & Mugs 24 Rerap 112 14958 Ventura Blvd. debut on both the album Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 Wheels & Deals 27 Wavelength 122 and MPS charts. (818) 501-7900 , I ",e, ! I , e • 4„ ' - fe-learfe. ete

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Gold on arrival! Huge first week at retail, Album shipped Gold! Major jumps: #9 nat'l. debut. #3 Most Played Top 40, #49-22 Best Buy, #41-27 Target, #64- panel closed. 650k shipped. 22 Heavy 40 B'buster. 12 MTV spins, up at VH1. MTV Buzz Clip; 21 VH1 Large spins; #2 Crossing Rock to Hot Adult, adds: KALC, Pop Video on The Box. Features in Time, WLUP. #1 WKZQ, #2 KLOS. #12 Most Newsweek. Thousands show up for mall Played APM. #1s: KMTT, KXPT. appearances. Mgmt:Christopher Sabec, Aerosmith tour June. Letterman 6/24. Stirling Mcllwaine/Triune Music Group. Mgmt: James Klein/Blue Sky Artists.

MEREDITH BROOKS • CAPITOL THIRD EYE BLIND • ELEKTRA/EEG • o 10 LW 10 2W 12 3W album: BLURRING THE EDGES album: THIRD EYE BLIND

track: BITCH track: SEMI-CHARMED LIFE Huge first week at retail as LP takes full Huge gains at major accts. as LP looks to advantage of radio, MTV support. #21 have really turned the corner. Closing natl. debut! #6 S'berries, #7 Hastings, multi-format radio attack. Added at KPLZ, #14 Musicland, #11 Best Buy. Adds: WT1C, KKRZ, B97, y 100. 15 Stress MW WBL1, KMXV, KIIS as Top 40 panel starts spins. On VH1 Custom, M2 and The to close. Still Top 5 Most Played PoMo. Box. "Losing A Whole Year" going to 15 MN Stress, 21 VH1 XL spins. Touring PoMo radio. 165k out with 15k 5-day. now. Mgmt: Lori Leve Mgmt. On tour. Mgmt: Eric Godtiand Mgmt.

SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS • MAMMOTH MATCHBOX 20 • LAVA/ATL/ATL G e • • 2 LW 2 2W 2 3W 9 Lw 9 sw 9 3W album: HOT album: YOURSELF OR... track: HELL track: PUSH

Continuing to sell like hell—shipped Sales way up smasharooni! Over Gold! #29-25 B'buster, #13-10 Where- 420k shipped, massive 163k 5-day. Top house, #38-25 S'berries. Mod. Adult 40 date 6/9. PoMo hot with #1 KTBZ; adds: WXPT, WLNK, #4 WPLY, #7 Top 10s: WEND, KDGE, KNRK, 99X, KWOD. PoMo adds: VVVVCD, KPNT. KWOD, WAQZ. Rock Top 5s: WIYY, 22 Heavy MTV Buzz Clip spins. Details KEGL, WZTA. APM building. Active feature soon. Letterman 6/4. HORDE MTV, Added VH1. On tour, radio shows Tour booked. Mgmt: Mike Renault/E.S.P. soon. Mgmt: Lippman Entertainment.

JAMIROQUAI • WORK GROUP TONIC • POLYDOR • o o 2W 3W LW 2W 3W 3 Lw 3 3 8 8 8 album: TRAVELLING ... album: LEMON PARADE ..50›..r. track: VIRTUAL INSANITY track: IF YOU COULD... Sales continue to gain as big PoMo e Sales keep growing. Top 40 responding radio base gets ready to cross to Top 40. to acoustic version. KXPK adds as PoMo Added WPLY, WHYT. LP up at all major closes. #1s: KPNT, WENZ. Top 10 accts., 21k 5-day, 549k shipped. Added Most Played PoMo, and Top 5 at Active at VH1; 20 Heavy MTV spins. Sold-out Rock. Big major retail jumps. 325k tour kicks off at presstime. Lena 5/16, shipped, huge 25k 5-day. 7 MTV Active Conan 6/4. WHFS, 0101 Pests soon. spins. Verve Pipe tour thru summer. Mgmt: Kevin Simpson. Mgmt: Sheila Scott/Jealous Dogs.

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Big buzz in front of hugely anticipated LP Magically delicious with adds at VH1, debut. Major kick-off in Cabo. #1 Most M2 and on 120 Minutes! Continuing to Played and Requested Active Rock. #1s: cross to PoMo from huge ARM radio WBAB, KUFO, WRCX, KEGL, KUPD, base. 0101 adds, spinning on WRLG, WRIF. MTV, M2 adds. Comedy Central, 99X, KWOD, WENZ, KLZR, WBRU, MTV Loveline, H. Stern all on 5/21, lop 10 at APM. LP hits 5/20 with 100k. Letterman 5/23. Shipping 350k, hits Radio shows begin 5/16. Lillith tour in street 5/20. Mgmt: Gary Stamler Mgmt. July. Mgmt: Tim Neece Mgmt.

BLUR • CLEAN UP/VIRGIN GOD'S PROPERTY • B-RITE e • C )h W 11 2W lo 3W DEBUT 16 LW album: BLUR album: GOD'S PROPERTY... track: SONG 2 track: STOMP Sales moving so fast, they're a blur! Crossing all genres, Gospel to Hip-hop to #102-62 W'house, #78-68 Musicland, Pop. Features platinum Kirk Franklin. Look #60-52 Best Buy, #57-29 S'berries. for MN to make move soon. On BET, PoMo panel closed! Breaking Active The Box. WJMH added. 1,400 spins, Rock. Top 10s: Q101, KTBZ, KNDD, going for adds 5/20. Spinning: WPGC, WRLG, #12 KROQ, #11 KXRK. 18 92Q, KUBE. LP hits 5/27 with over Heavy Buzz Clip Spins. Stateside dates 400k. Massive retail requests! Letterman this summer. Mgmt: CM0 Mgmt. 5/20. Mgmt: Debbie May Prod.

SNEAKER PIMPS • CLEAN UP/VIRGIN ED COOL FOR AUGUST • WARNER BROS. iIi --• 13 Lw 14 2W 15 3W 14 LIN 15 2vii 16 3vi album: BECOMING X album: GRAND WORLD track: 6 UNDERGROUND track: DON'T WANNA BE...

More breakout West Coast sales Looking cool with Active Rock gains as highlighted by big L.A. story. #4 at cut continues to cross PoMo. Moves into KROQ (36x). LP action at Tower Sunset Top 20 Most Played at Active Rock. Add and Sherman Oaks, Penny Lane, Aron's, at KUPD. #1 WZTA (38x), #6 KRXQ, Moby Disc. Added at WXRK, KDGE, #11 WMMS, #13 KQRC. 10 M2 WRLG, KPNT. On at M2. Tour on West spins. On Matchbox 20 tour. 99X show Coast swing. Featured on "The Saint" 5/31. 45k shipped, over 5k 5-day. Soundtrack. Mgmt: Scott Rodger/Quest. Mgmt: Ross Schwartz/Building Mgmt.

BEN FOLDS FIVE • 550 MUSIC SUPERGRASS • CAPITOL 12 wil22w11 3W DEBUT album: WHATEVER AND... album: IN IT FOR THE MONEY track: BATTLE OF WHO... track: CHEAPSKATE

Selling through at indie trend accts. from #2 record in England having sweet first PoMo, APM play as MTV comes to week at radio and retail. PoMo adds: party. Top 10s: KLZR, WFNX, WEND, 'WBRU, KLZR, KNDD, WOXY, spinning WHYT. 11 MN Stress spins, on at M2, at KROQ, WBCN, WFNX, 91X. Added The Box. Conan 6/10. Jenny McCarthy at M2. 55k shipped with 9-track bonus 6/11. Central Pk. Summer Stage 6/12. CD. Huge at indie trends. Club tour soon, 9k 5-day, 157k shipped. Mgmt: Alan Foe Fighters dates in July. Mgmt: Bryce Wolmark, Peter Felstead/CEC. Edge/Chris Hufford/Courtyard Mgmt.

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SPICE GIRLS SAY YOU'LL BE THERE Virgin 38592 #1 LP, #13 singles, #2 MTV, Lar .e VH1, #26 BOX

MARY JBLIGE LOVE IS ALL WE NEED MCA N/A #3 LP, #21 MN, Top 40, JAMZ

WALLFLOWERS ONE HEADLIGHT Interscope N/A #fi LP, XL VH1, multi-format airplay

NOTORIOUS B.I.G. HYPNOTIZE B. Boy/Arista 79093 #4 LP, #2 singles, #1 MTV, #28 BOX, Crossover, Rap

HANSON MrVIMBOP Mercury 574-261 Debut #9 LP, #1 single sales, MN, VH1, BOX JEWEL YOU WERE MEANT... AtI/Atl G87021 #8 LP, #16 singles, on MN, XL VH1, Top 40 MONICA r47 FOR YOU IWILL WS/AtI/Atl G87003 #5 "Space Jam" (ST), #7 singles, Med. VH1, #25 BOX

CELINE DION ALL BY MYSELF 550 Music 78529 #7 LP, #39 singles. Top 40

17 1 BLACKSTREET DONT LEAVE ME Interscope N/A #14 LP, #3 MN, Custom VH1, Top 40 and JAMZ 10 ERYKAH BADU NEXT LIFETIME Kedar/Univ N/A #10 LP, #33 MN, Custom VH1, #6 BOX, JAMZ, BET VERVE PIPE THE FRESHMEN RCA 64733 #23 LP, #17 singles, #6 MN, Custom VH1, #45 BOX

r81 18 1 SPICE GIRLS WANNABE Virgin 38579 #1 LP, #33 singles, #29 BOX 12 1121 U2 STARING AT THE SUN Island 854-972 #20 LP, #15 MN, Large VH1, multi-format air 18 16i 14 SAVAGE GARDEN IWANT YOU Col/CRG 78505 #28 LP. #27 singles, #23 MTV, XL VH1, Top 40 15 E INDIGO GIRLS SHAME ON YOU Epic N/A #16 LP, Top 40, PoMo and APM

SUBLIME SANTERIA G. Alley/MCA N/A #24 LP, Top 40. PoMo

DEPECHE MODE ITS NO GOOD Mute/Rep 17390 #29 LP, #66 singles, #37 MN. Top 40 and PoMo 18 MEREDITH BROOKS BITCH Capitol 58634 Debut #21 LP, #21 single, #19 MN, VH1, T40, PoMo [211 -191 19 S. NUT ZIPPERS HELL Mammoth N/A #37 LP, #9 MN, PoMo

1161 17 1 20 NO DOUBT DON'T SPEAK Trauma/Int N/A #15 LP, lop 40

BEE GEES ALONE Poly/A&M 571006 Debut #12 LP, Large VH1, lop 40

TONI BRAXTON UN-BREAK MY HEART LaF/Arista 24200 #22 LP. on the way out now !261 ROME IBELONG TO YOU RCA 64759 #35 LP, #5 singles, add MTV, #16 BOX, JAMZ 25 CHEMICAL BROTHERS BLOCK ROCKIN'... AW/Caroline 6195 #42 LP, #4 MN. PoMo 30 [281 MIGHTY BOSSTONES THE IMPRESSION... Big Rig/Mercury N/A #43 LP, #18 MTV, PoMo

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New At: WXPT/Milwaukee WLNK/Charlotte With First 3 Adult Top 40 Adds/Airplay, Album Jumps Into The Top 20 In San Diego KFMB 30x - Over 9600 units sold in San Diego "It's different, unique, and has generated a ton of calls... It's quirky at first, but strong enoug to be more than just a novelty record. We're 250 spins in and the album has Top Ten sales' here!' — Tracy Johnson, KFMB Seattle Albuquerque KI'L'L 10x = 877 units scanned/#17 KI'EK 18x = 242 units scanned/#16 The Hot Story... ir KROWL.A. #1 Callout • KDGE/Dallas #6 Callout G105/Raleigh Top 5 Callout t-rve 30x #18* Billboard Modern Rock Monitor • 1350 Modern BDS Spins Billboard Top 200 #31* TW Soundf3can 30,215 Units • Over 450,000 Units Shipped To Date airwavesem

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PAULA COLE WHERE HAVE ALL... Imago/WB 17373 #41 LP, #29 singles. #26 MTV. XL VH1, radio 37 JONNY LANG LIE TO ME A&M N/A #45 LP, #29 MTV, Custom VH1 Rock radio 1231 28 GINUWINE TELL ME DO UWANNA 550 Music N/A #31 LP, #38 MTV, JAMZ

30 29 JAMIROQUAI VIRTUAL INSANITY Work N/A #53 LP, #11 MTV, add VH1, #36 BOX, PoMo and AP--'

30 LAURYN HILL THE SWEETEST THING Col/CRG N/A From #25 "love Jones" (ST), JAMZ

LIL KIM CRUSH ON YOU Un/F3B/Atl/Atl G N/A #49 LP, #25 MN, #17 BOX, JAMZ and RAP 48 TONIC IF YOU COULD ONLY... Poly/A&M N/A #61 LP, #39 MN, #49 BOX, multi-format airplay

HEAVY D BIG DADDY Upt/Universal 56039 #17 LP, #32 singles, JAMZ and RAP 46 41 THIRD EYE BLIND SEMI-CHARMED LIFE Elek/EEG N/A Hot LP sales, #20 MN, Cust. VH1, T40, PoMo

1361 LIVE FREAKS Radioactive N/A #38 LP, #14 MN, PoMo 38 36 MATCHBOX 20 PUSH Lava/AtI/Atl G N/A Breaking LP sales, #47 MN, Custom VH1 1381 371 MARK MORRISON RETURN OF THE... AtVAtl G82963 Top 10 play, #9 singles, #41 MN, VH1, BOX 1411 SHAWN COLVIN SUNNY CAME... Col/CRG 78528 LP breaking big, add MN. Lg VH1, multi-format air 33 39 FIONA APPLE SLEEP TO DREAM Work N/A #59 LP, #17 MN, Custom VH1, PoMo and APM 1491 40 BLUR SONG 2 Virgin N/A Developing LP sales, #16 MN, PoMo 45 1431 41 AZ YET HARD TO SAY... LaFace/Arista 24223 Selling LPs, #14 singles, #43 MN, VH1, BOX, T40 32 131, ps WHITE TOWN YOUR WOMAN Chry/EMI 58638 Developing LP sales, #35 MTV, Custom VH1 47 1451 43 SHERYL CROW ACHANGE... A&M N/A #50 LP, add VH1, Top 40 and PoMo

1461 44 COUNTING CROWS DAYLIGHT FADING DGC N/A Selling LPs, #46 MTV, VH1, add BOX, muliti-format air 1401 45 1361 ERASURE IN MY ARMS Mute/Mav/WB 17371 Selling LPs, Custom VH1, Top 40 and PoMo

46 SCARFACE SMILE NT/Virgin 38581 #26 LP, #5 BOX, RAP

1491 47 TONI BRAXTON I DONT WANT TO LaF/Arista 24229 #22 LP, #18 single sales, #32 MN, Top 40, VH1, BOY 44 48 r44- 1 NO DOUBT SUNDAY MORNING Trauma/Int N/A #15 LP, #22 MN, Top 40, PoMo 1261 1291 49 MAXWELL SUMTHIN' SUMTHIN' Col/CRG 78477 #76 solo LP  "love Jones" (ST), JAMZ 1501 50 DAVE MATTHEWS CRASH INTO ME RCA N/A #56 LP, Medium VH1, #54 MN, multi-format airplay

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Spice Girls Go #1, Bee Gees Go Boom, But Hanson's #9 Debut Means It's Time For A... YOUTH MOVEMENT

here's just one word to Virtual describe the big story on hthis week's album chart. Spice Mmmbop. Thank you. Yes, folks, those precocious The Spice Girls have hit pubescent popsters Hanson the Net. The quintet's Virgin lived up to the hype this week Records website generates by posting amonster #9 for more than 1.5 million hits per their first major label project, month. The site includes pho- "Middle Of Nowhere." tos of the gals cavorting, music "It's all about radio and the samples and links to related incredible rotations at MTV newsgroups and sites, includ- and VH1," said Mercury GM ing alt.homyforspicegirls.com David Leach as he trolled and http://pop.spice.nude.self- preschool playgrounds in search gratification.com. of fourth quarter releases. 'With The Spice Girls have also Crossover radio now coming to announced adeal with Pepsi, the party, an already incredible which will give away copies of story is becoming even more the band's new single along with incredible." 40,000 tickets for aconcert in Not much for hype, is he? Turkey later this year in con- But it ain't just elated label junction with the girls' current geeks, folks. Retailers are doing commercial for the product. their share of drooling. "Pop Can a'Hanson Goes Better music is apparently alive and With Coke" spot be far behind? well," teethed Tom Hauserman In other Spice news, the of The Wall. 'With huge debuts gals told aCannes press confer- by newcomers Hanson and vet- ence that their upcoming $5 erans like the Bee Gees, along- million "Spice The Movie" will meredith brooks: method to her moodiness. side the continued sales power begin shooting in London next shown by the Spice Girls, it defi- month for ascheduled Christ- nitely looks like it's going to be mas release. The band mem- the Summer of Pop." bers will contribute to both the Yes folks, Tom did mention script and the casting. TOP SELLING SINGLES those nutty Spice Girls, who Said the band's Geri (Gin- The best-selling singles this #5 Rome (RCA), *6 Joe captured the #1 spot this week. ger) Spice: "It will work on all week are #1 Hanson (Mer- (Jive), #7 Monica (Atl/Atl G), Meanwhile, the Bee Gees levels—thriller, comedy, love cury), #2 Notorious B.I.G. #8 Tim McGraw (Curb) #9 should be dancing over their story, action-adventure. All (BB/Arista), #3 Changing Mark Morrison (At1/Atl G) Top 20 debut as "Still Waters" flavors are there. It's spicy." Faces (BB/At1/Atl G), #4 and #10 B. Rock & The Biz bows at #12. But the big question re- Kenny Lattimore (CoVCRG), (LaFace/Arista). "I like forks," quipped The mains, will we get Raw Spice? Wall's Hauserman.

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To:End Takes A Prisoner Our own PoMo dreamboat Tami Packley is shown triumphantly resisting the pull of inbreeding by marrying her SECOND cousin, Joe Bob Billy Bob Ed Bob Luther Packley, in adelightful closed-barn ceremony. Even though several wedding guests drank too much corn liquor and tripped over the propane tank, we con- gratulate Tami for widening the circle of genetic probability. Yeeeee-hahhhhh!

MOST ADDED SINGLES Sony Side Up He Works The Most Added tracks at Thanks to Celine Dion, new Playstation helped the Pop radio this week are Tom Cruise and the new electronics unit post a24.3% Hard For #1 Sheryl Crow (A&M), Playstation video game, Sony increase to $35.4 billion... #2 Jon Bon Jovi (Mercury), Corp. registered record earn- minus $27.4 billion for the sale The Money #3 Bob Carlisle (Jive), #4 ings and revenue for the just- of Trinitrons "that fell off the Indigo Girls (Epic) and #5 ended 1997 fiscal year. back of the truck." Gina G. (Warner Bros.). Also, The Tokyo-based Sony In the fourth quarter, Mighty Mighty Bosstones Corp. reported anet income of worldwide revenue from the (Mercury) continues to spread $1.12 billion, an increase of Sony Music Group (SMEI) behind solid album sales. 157%, based on a23% higher increased 11.8% to $1.1 bil- revenue of $45.6 billion and lion, while U.S. dollar sales global music sales of $4.7 bil- were up 17% (and 4% for the WILD lion. The company's results year), in large part as aresult were enhanced by the yen's of Dion's Grammy-winning CARD 15% decline against the dollar "Falling Into You," which has EN VOGUE over the past year. sold 21 million units worldwide EW/EEG Revenue for Sony Pictures since its March '96 release. Talk about your unbeatable climbed 37.8% to $3.5 billion, That translates into 2,987,765 combinations!!! Take the thanks to the box-office perfor- spicy tuna handrolls, 3,546,765 incredible harmonies of these mance of Cruise's "Jerry large sakes and 2,345 square Flash! Ever since being named super-hot female songstress- Maguire," while the company's feet of salmon skin. "Employee of the Month," Mix es, add the producing/song- Show editor Rick Niensh has writing talents of multiple Grammy Award winner Baby- really put his nose to the grind- face and you have not only stone. As if to prove that even when an instant smash but an early ACTION you're giving your all there's still contender for next year's The MTV adds this week Dave Matthews (RCA), room to do even better, this shining Grammy throne. Greg are Puff Daddy (BB/Arista), Shawn Colvin (Col/CRG) and example of workplace achievement Thompson and staff, hot off Jon Bon Jovi (Mercury), will never rest on his laurels. In the success of Third Eye Robyn (RCA). There are no Blind, will coast to the finish Sammy Hagar (T.F./MCA), rotation increases. arelated story, afamily of grubs line with this runaway! Rome (RCA), 112 (Motown), moved out of his mouth due to noxious fumes.

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MTV Music To Viacom's Ears The unlikely triumvirate declines at its troubled Block- ILITuw of Beavis, Butt-Head and buster Entertainment unit. Howard Stern offered their Over acomparable period ABlatant Rup-all of a Goodz Maga own cure for the Sumner- last year, Viacom had income time blues. Thanks to MTV from continuing operations of

as well as the shock jock's $19.4 million or 1cent ashare. L eilffli T 1 "Private Parts" movie, Via- MTV's cash flow rose WHAT WEASELS ARE WEASELING ABOUT THIS WEEK com Chairman Redstone saw 22.4% to $114.5 million from his company's first-quarter $93.5 million and revenues 1 HANSON: Puberty-Rock rules, dude. Think of all the operating cash flow rise a rose 15.4% to $304.7 million Clearasil they can buy. modest 4%, with aless-than- from $264 million. expected loss from continuing Video and foreign revenue 2 BEE GEES: Stayin alive. Next thing you know, John operations of $23.8 million, or for "The First Wives Club" Travolta will be making acomeback. 11 cents ashare. Revenue and the domestic box office increased 1% to $2.91 billion, performance of Stem's "Pri- 3 GARY GERSH: Meredith, McCartney, Foo while total operating cash vate Parts" helped boost Para- Fighters &Supergrass. He's swingin' on Vine. flow fell 13% to $392 million. mount's first quarter results. According to Wall Street In other news, Redstone • analysts, the results offer "a has offered afree "Dear God" 4 DANNY GOLDBERG: Bosstones, Bon Jovi little bit of relief in the short video rental to anyone who and, of course, Hanson. Most effective employer of child term," for Viacom, Inc., publicly confesses to being a labor since Kathie Lee Gifford. which had been rocked by Greg Kinnear fan. 5 JON BON jOVI: Top 40's model citizen. Pop goes He's There For Them the haircut. 6 GARY LEMEL: Holy soundtrack sales, caped crusaders! No jokering around.

7 JOHN BARBIS: With Bee Gees &Tonic, he likes his new Lot in life.

8 MARILYN MANSON: Banned on the run.

Giving A&M recording artists Del Amitri awarm welcome is A&M Chair- 9 NEIL YOUNG: In reality, there wasn't enough room on the man/CEO AI Ca faro (r), who was quick to give the band's Justin stage with Crosby &Stills. Currie (I) and lain Harvie (r) credit for the label's continued success. "You guys are the best, man," Coloro was heard to say. "That 'friends' 10 TREVOR HORN/JILL SINCLAIR: Will ZTT sign, theme has really jump-started your career!" The trio later celebrated in the Seal &deliver? A&M commissary with Cheez Whiz and mud pies. Woodstock World Bernadette Peters Out It's not about the money, Helicopter Whirley-Gig and it's about peace and love, man. the Jinni Hendrix Wah-Wah At least it is to cable TV mogul House of Horrors. Alan Gerry, who shelled out a In other counterculture cool million for the 37-acre capitalist news, Bill Graham site of the Woodstock festival Presents has trademarked the in upstate New York. Gerry phrase "Summer of Love" for plans to open atheme park on this year's 30-year anniversary the site, with concert stages concert in S.F.'s Golden Gate and amovie complex to help Park. The company made the boost the area's faltering move "to protect [the phrase] "If you were regular people, I'd treat you like opile of dog crap," chortled the lovely economy. Among the attrac- from schlock promoters with and talented Bernadette Peters to EMI Music President/CEO Jim Fifield tions planned are the Don't fictitious names." Yeah, OK, and Angel Records President Steven Murphy. "But since you're record compa- Eat The Brown Acid Roller- and the man can't bust our ny executives who might help my career in the future, I'll pretend to be mildly inter- Coaster, the Wavy Gravy music. Is it too late to copyright ested in talking to you." Fifield and Murphy were naturally grateful replying that Fun Arcade, the Alvin Lee the phrase, "Summer of Hate"? they look forward to seeing her in "Meatballs 14." Ahhhh, the rich and famous.

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Bee Gees Have A&M Associated Wired Their highest chart debut the Bee Gees have been able in the last decade was in the to ride out recent musical high hundreds, their fortunes cycles and emerge as cur- have risen and fallen over Top lo Teens' Tips for Tots rently viable Top 40 artists the past four decades like a as well as veteran pop music Saturday night fever (Ed DEAR HANSON: I'm ii and Iplay DEAR HANSON: There's this icons. The band, which is Note: nyuck, nyuck). Now in aband but I'm, like, not good creepy guy who follows me riding anew wave of nostal- the Bee Gees circa '97 are looking and Ihave acne. How home after school and tells me gic adoration, was inducted can Ibe as successful as you that if Iride with him in his van back with—get this—a Top into the Rock And Roll Hall guys? BUTT-UGLY IN BARSTOW he'll give me anything Iwant. 20 debut for their new album of Fame last week. Dear Butt: Bummer. You should Should Igive him a copy of my "Still Waters," on Nick Gat- Meanwhile, the single probably do techno, becatiçe alot of tape? TROUBLED IN TAMPA field's Polydor/A&M Associ- "Alone" continues to grow, those dudes are, like, gnarly to look Dear Troubled: You never know ated label. The album bows albeit slowly. "This is not an at. But if you've just gotta rock, who can help your career. This at #I2 on the HITS Top 50 easy record the first time remember: it's never too early for business is all about relationships. Album chart this week. around," Barbis acknowledged. plastic surgery. "This has definitely been "Hopefully, this first-week DEAR HANSON: I'm 15, and Ijust a team effort," said A&M sales story will help break DEAR HANSON: Me and my found out that my contract says I Associated President John nine -year -old brother just fin- have to give massages to the down even more barriers." Barbis, who is also experi- ished our demo tape, and our CEO of my record company. Is encing a sales glow from lawyer says there's a "bidding this normal? BAFRED IN BOSTON war" to sign us. What do we Dear Baffled: Iknow it sounds breaking Polydor band need to know to survive in the weird, but everybody at my label Tonic. "It's been an incredi- music business? BUMP( IN BOISE says it's normal. And remember, ble job by Al Cafaro and his Dear Buzzin': The most impor- music executives have alot of crew, as well as everyone tant thing you need to know àthat stress. Massages help them relax. at POD. But most impor- music business people will probably tantly, the band delivered want to have meetings with you in DISCLAIMER; OF COURSE. HANSON agreat record and are work- unusual places, like the shower. It R&D NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS,.. ing incredibly hard to sup- helps them relax. And sometimes THEY WERE TOO BUSY FULLY port it." they like to wrestle, too. STOKING OVER THEIR RAD LP DEBUT Indeed, it appears that Bee Gees: They should be dancin' Suave Sophistication

This Week's Employee Of The Month Today Is... Director Of Retail Marketing Keith Chagnon Day in and day out, this dependable and loyal marketer inspires his staff with his confident demeanor and striking personal habits. The success of his highly effective Tony Robbins motivational style is evident in both the fierce respect Keith commands and the unmistake- able pride he takes in being the best he can be. When he's not serving as HITS' liaison to the Labor Board, you can usually find Keith making sure that any pesky product clutter is kept to aminimum.

DUTIES: ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Universal Music Group Chair/CEO Doug Morris (I) drops some science •Discussing feminine •Served ‘is President of National on the domes of (l-r) UMG Sr. VP/Special Assistant to the Chairman Joce- hygiene products. Zebra-Boy Love Association (NAZBLA). lyn Cooper-Gilstrap, Suave House Founder/CEO Tony Draper, •Pre-planning the •Volunteer for People for the Ethical return of Neobilly. Universal Records President Black Music Jean Riggins, Suave House Treatment of Zebras (PETZ). •Polishing up his •Keeping that whole zany zebra gag Promotion VP Rich "Kidd" Daniels and Suave House Northeast trusty vehicle, running for three years. Regional Manager Promotion David Seabrook. Said Morris: "Your "Barbie's Dream Jeep." •Once ate an entire zebra. rhythmic percussive repetitions possess borderline obesity." Rejoined QUOTE "Is my pesto okay? Gee, Idon't know, is your pesto OK, Toni?" Seabrook: "Quite."

14 HITS May 19, 1997 "LOVE II LOVE" FROM THE CRITIQUE LP "FOREVER" MOST ADDED R&B! T Ili E MOST ADDED RHYTHM/CROSSOVER! retrileePrereeffleML Will MUSIC leltVISION WCIVCOMI1101— WJMN WHHH WWKX Z90 KTFM WFHN KDGS KHTS KLUC WOCQ KQMQ KHTN WJJS r.s O A G E This VH1's For Young Poking fun at Neil Young's available to the general public, well-publicized absence from not just label executives and last week's Rock & Roll Hall of VIPs paying $25,000 atable. FOLLOWiNG Tg SUCC[S) OF 1-IANSON, Fame Induction ceremonies in "Actually, the controversy Cleveland (see last week's helped us by focusing more DANNY GOLDBERG LOOKS FOR TI-IE NEXT Be HITS "News"), VH1 renamed media attention on the event," TUNG.. the channel "VH-Young" last asserts Sykes, who says he has Friday (5/9), playing one of his inked atwo-year deal to televise videos every hour leading up to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame the premier airing of the event Induction ceremonies as away on the channel. to continue providing an identi- "We dedicated the pro- ty—and much-needed original gram to Neil, agreat artist and programming—for MTV's sister one of the original rebels, so station. It is the first time the that he could watch it at home previously private proceedings with the rest of America," says have been televised. VH1 President John Sykes, Sykes says ratings aren't who insists there are no hard the most important issue for feelings over the snub or the two-and-a-half hour show. Young's reason for his "After next year, we'll sit absence—the fact the previ- down to talk and, hopefully, ously private ceremony was to we can turn this into an annu- be nationally televised on al event. This is what we need VH1. "We just felt this was to do if we're going to carve one of the biggest nights in out aniche for ourselves as a rock & roll and it should be music channel."

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HEY JOE, WHO'S PULLING THE about when DreamWorks will STRINGS? After weeks of high- Elliot for developing what has the make an East Coast A&R hire. and appearance times... Mean- level weasels dropping by their makings abright, new star... Lots Who's in play?... Co ngrats to while, one band currently riding a rehearsal studio for intimate of chatter about one major label Time Bomb's Jim Guerinot and radio hot streak is rumored to be showcases, Joe 90 turned out president not showing up for Emily Kaye who nabN . American facing an ultimatum from one overwhelming weasliness for the scheduled meetings with two rights for Dec onstruct ion 's tour's organizers over playing Dragonfly debut last week in serious buzzbands during the Uonrock and Death In Vegas... dates for another summer tour in what could have been the big- label's big red-carpet rollout... The Bill Phifer-repped Michelle the same markets... BUZZIN': gest L.A.-based weaselfest of the The buzz remains big on the Lewis turned out th e heavies Furslide, Scott Thomas, Seymour year. In the house were the Steve Stewart-repped Gordon, from MCA, Geffen, Elektra, Stein, Chris Rivera. email: heavyweights from both coasts with 550, Island, Hollywood, Arista and Colum bi a to her L.A. [email protected] from Maverick (yep, even Revolution and Capitol all dates last week. Michell e returns Madonna and Guy O. and his rumored to making plays. Does to the Big Appl e thi s week with modern day Rat Pack), Geffen, Delicious Vinyl retain any rights David Kahne serious ne go ti at ions looking under a previous demo deal?... Red Ant, A&M, DreamWorIcs, about to beg in and a big CB 's The Enclave, Epic, Columbia, Robin Godfrey-Cass exits EMI Gallery date loom ing on May and Elektra—and we're sure 20... Mea nw hil e, 19-year-old Music Publishing on the West there were plenty others. Is it Coast. EMI Music chief Martin si nger/songwriter/multi-instru- wide open or is everybody just Bandier has convened a search mentalist Imani has emerged as sucking one West Coast major's party for his replacement... the biggest buzz of NYC, as dust?... At presstime, rumors Kathy Kemp has left Rondor Maverick, Elektra, V2, Geffen, were circultaing that producer Music on the East Coast. Don't Interscope, Columbia, Vi rg in, and former Columbia A&R man look for this talented, young A&R Warner Bros., RCA, Dream- David Kahne was headed to rep to be a free agent for very Works and Gee Street all vie for Reprise Records in an A&R exec- long... More trouble in summer her attention. Ima niw ill ma ke the utive capacity. Stand by. Mean- tourland, as Georgia-based trip to the WestC oast for label while, big pre-release buzzes on Widespread Panic have with- meetings this week—after she Reprise's Kara's Flowers and drawn from the H.O.R.D.E. Tour, completes final exams,t hat is. Drillteam... Buzzers buzzing citing a disagreement with tour Kudos to Famous Music's Ross organizers over the show's lineup On the move?

CREEPER LAGOON May 15 Brownies tba EMI now in play? NYC

DUKE DANIELS May 23 The Mint Post-Wallflowers date. Pubs tba Hollywood coming to the party now. ASCAP SHOWCASE May 28 Opium Den Feat. Jesus Chrysler Supercar, 8:oo pm Hollywood Engine 88 and Slider. MICHELLE LEWIS May 20 CB's Gallery Heating up now. Reminds us 8:oo pm NYC of the Lisa Loeb story. NEFERTITI JONES May 15 Cafe du Nord tba Columbia, Volcano leading. San Francisco

HITS March 24, 1997

27 Le"11 Spice get into apost-nuclear cat- ST for Rysher's romantic come- for Miramax. The Tri -Tone duo fight with Posh Spice, Baby What'cha Gonna Do About It: dy, "A Smile Like Yours," starring are also looking to place four Spice and Ginger Spice over Anita Camarata derails the com- Greg Kinnear and my new girl- "fun upbeat" songs in "Home their lingerie collection. Clearly, petition and not only lands the friend Lauren Holly. The movie's Alone 3."... Was that "Great Mike needs help. Email music supervision gig on Para- supervisor, Randy Gerston, has Expectations" director Alfonso [email protected] mount's "Sliding Doors," but assembled lots of Motown stuff Cuaron hanging out with the also will release the ST on her and a new Dianne Warren- Verve Pipe's Brian Van Der Ark Jersey Records. Look for mucho penned track sung by Natalie Leah Andreone at last week's NY show? Is aslot English acts to help reflect the Cole, which goes to radio June on the Atlantic ST far behind?... London setting of the Gwyneth 1... I Love This Town: What In the "Where Are They Now Paltrow-starrer. Paramount's department head of what stu- File," Deborah (aka Debbie) Harlan Goodman says he's real- dio forgot to clear what song Gibson is currently shooting the ly excited to be working with before what video release was screwball comedy "My Girl- Anita again. Said Goodman: "I'm shipped? ... Virgin's "Speed 2" friend's Boyfriend." She's also really excited to be working with ST has Maxi Priest doing "The composing the score and origi- Anita again." The Paramount Tide Is High," and Leah An- nal music... John Houlihan puts honcho is also in negotiations dreone doing "I Feel The Earth lnterscope buzzband Transistor with The Prodigy to finalize the Move."... Spice Girls Movie Plots and Super 8in "NightWatch" for mainstream techno stars' in- Competition: After receiving al- Miramax... Peter Afterman's volvement with the sci-fi thriller, most two suggested plot lines, looking for "cool" club music for "Event Horizon."... Mary Ramos Dreamwork's Mike Badami is "Kiss The Girls" at Paramount. and Michelle Kuznetsky land the this week's winner. He favors a Afterman also gets Sony Class- much-coveted ST for Tarantino's "Mad Max" meets "Debbie ical artist Mark O' Connor to "Jackie Brown." Expect to hear Does Dallas" kind of scenario sign on to do the music for "The The earth moved for me too, Leah. lots of "Motownish/silly groove" where Sporty Spice and Scary Apostle."... Elelctra picks up the stuff for the Blaxploitation flick

STUDIO CONTACT LABEL MOVIE New Line Jon McHugh tbd DARK CITY Alex Steyermark TriStar IKNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER tbd New Line Immortal/EPIC Soundtrax Happy Walters/Glen B.

Ramos & Kuznetsky Miramax JACKIE BROWN tbd Paramount Anita Camarata tersey Records SLIDING DOORS Mike Morrison tbd tbd CLUBLAND Fox . Darren Higman gommaimaNOMIBM Atlantic GREAT EXPECTATIONS Touchstone Kathy Nelson tbd THE HORSE WHISPERER tbd David Jenison BOOGIE BOY tbd Sharon Boyle/John Houlihan New Line TVT MORTAL KOMBAT 2

H 19, 1997 STEVE WIMNOOD SPY I\ THE HOUSE OF LOVE

From the new album "Junction Seven"

Produced and arranged by Narada Mucha el Walden and Steve Winwood Management: Ron Weisner Entertainment http://www.virgenecords.com AOL Keyword: Virgin Records

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01997 Virgin Records Ltd. ILWILK jairjiàjllhaàrmijill BY RANSLEY (there's just no stopping us). But concerns certain players at a fact, the bidding war is reaching we have to ask ourselves why as Our pencil is blunted by the certain major allegedly being fever pitch, particularly within the the trip proved largely futile— excesses and total lack of sleep shown alarge rectangular wood- PolyGram building—al • d bands like Shiver and Skindive last night—tour bus party may- en thing with ahandle on it (ged- together, hey boys and girls? So caused a ripple of excitement hem at the Santa Cruz gig in dit?), and being replaced by a Moreau's Island and Cuff did not and The Marbles were good Manchester—but that not your certain head honcho at a pub- exactly gild their respective llilies, entertainment but don't get your lishing company. Let's just say concern at this point 'cos you but Ultrasound, who still doesn't cheque books out just yet. over- want want to know the inside we'd be wildly amused if it were float our boat, seemed to have all, it wasn't great. Still the story on the unsigned happen- true especially as the label con- upped their ante and convinced Guinness was... Over and out. ings. So do we! Those of you cerned vehemently denies any all and sundry that they are the who were at London Music charges, buyouts or otherwise. next big thing. Our favourite was Week's Undiscovered carnival— Shock of the news doesn't con- Feeder Greenship, whose buoyant per- and let's face it there were asize- cern PolyGram or V2... proba- formance kept the eager troupe able bunch of our Yankee com- bly... Publishing Alert: A swarm of A&R elves at EMI bobbing fer- rades in attendance--can ignore of publishers are courting vently at the front... A definite the next few paragraphs (not Electrasy from Yeovil—who can signing by Richard Russell at the that you needed much encour- blame them. An exhorbitant suitable cred indie XL Record- agement). So Ultrasound made offer is down for Gorky's ings is Stroke, who beat off (not it through to the final. BIG sur- Zygotic Mynci (have a hit, we literally ,folks) the majors with a prise there—alongside Moreau's dare you) from PolyGram. And very big stick... Big congrats to Island (don't worry the gig was look out for the mega money Darren Woodford at Echo, who unremarkable), Cuff (we told you heading the way of Virgin has been promoted to the long- they would) and the Lofi Allstars, UK/Geffen US band Embrace... vacant position of Head of who decided they wanted no Lest we forget—and we nearly A&R—no doubt partly based on part of the charade, and rightly did—we were among the few the securing of US deals for his so, as they are no talent-contest Aeroplane & Restaurant devo- signings Baby Bird, Feeder and band. Their gig was living proof tees who made it over to the Subcircus.... The big rumours Echoing across the Pond that there are far bigger and bet- Dublin Green Energy Festival circulating the industry recently ter things on their horizon. In

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LABEL TITLE RC A "You're Not Alone" OLIVE Stockholm "Loyefool" (remix) 2 THE CARDIGANS Big Life "Wonderful Tonight"

3 DAMAGE sornamiiMr. Freakstreet/WEA "You Might Need Somebody" 4 SHOLA AMA Jive "I Believe ICan Fly" 5 R KELLY RCA "Love Won't Wait" 6 GARY BARLOW RCA "I'm A Man Not A Boy" 7 NORTH AND SOUTH Creation "Kowalski" 8 PRIMAL SCREAM DreamWorks "Susan's House" 9 EELS Positiva "Bellissime ao DI QUICKSILVER

,1997 di" HITS I 19 " ONE MRE DAY" The Latest Single From Their Double-Platinum Album Home Again

Impacting Top 40 May 19th Debut 32* Rhythm/Crossover Monitor Reported And In Rotation At: HOT97 KMEL Z90 KHTS KUBE KBXX WNVZ KKFR WHHH WJMN KSFM WJBT KDON KIKI K92 Share My World KLUC KPRR WKRZ THE PLATINUM ALBUM featuring "LOVE IS ALL WE NEED" with NAS #3 SoundScan Albums #15 Rhythm/Crossover Monitor Reported And In Rotation At: LW H0197 KMEL KIIS Z90 KHKS KHTS WFLZ KKRZ WNVZ orrioN KUBE KGGI WQZQ WJMN WHHH WIOQ • ;re WNKS WZJM KKFR dime And Many More! e • 4-1* ri

SHARE MYWORLD FEATURES THE PRODUCTION TALENTS OF: BABYFACE JIMMY JAM &TERRY LEWIS MTUME R. KELLY TRACKMASTERS BRYCE WILSON MALIK PENDLETON Produced by Jimmy Jam terry Le sfor Flyte Tyme Productions ana' RODNEY JERKINS Management: Brooke Payne of 617 Management MCA

MCA. A/anement Steve Luc.. and ASeX. triC & SteVC. Stoute Management 01197 Jr/CA Ilseed• loc Sheryl Crow is Most Added, followed by Jon Bon Jo vi. Puff Daddy, Dave Matthews, Shawn Colvin. VH1 hits Mc- Spice Girls top the albums chart; debuts include Hanson #9, Cartney and Bon Joyi. This week's Wildcard is the long Bee Gees #12, Meredith Brooks #21. MW adds include awaited release from En Vogue, "Whatever".

ON S Ibtal stations repotting airplay AGGRESSIVES =A 10 play or more increase from last week TOP 40 MARKETS =Total plays from stations in major markets ADDS= Total stations reporting new play TOTAL PLAYS= Total plays from all reporting stations MTV= Total plays for the week /Total plays Y-T-D

ARTIST TITLE LABEL TOTAL TOP 40 DNS ADDS AGDR PLAYS • 2. MTV HANSON MMMBOP MERCURY 175 7 50 7723 2420 22/233 Debut 9Albums, deb 5MPS, #1 Requests; new multi-format play: 896, WRQX, WKTU, WYXR, WHHH, more.

WHITE TOWN YOUR WOMAN CHRY/EMI 163 2 23 5189 1597 8/ 93 #42 MPS, #11 Requests; goes on at VVWZZ, KPLZ

SHAWN COLVIN SUNNY CAME... COUCRG 161 3 20 5236 2055 2/4 #38 MPS, #14 Requests; airplay spreading with new reports including KZHT.

ROBYN DO YOU KNOW... RCA 158 11 39 3652 984 0/0 Debut 18 Requests; new at PWR96. WPGC, KRBE, Z90, KZHT.

MARK MORRISON RETURN OF... ATUATL G 157 3 28 5909 1819 6/ 43 #37 MPS, #4 Requests; new reports include 920. Always better with super-size fries...

U2 STARING AT... ISLAND 150 1 10 3757 1129 19/7 #20 Albums, #13 MPS; KALC in this week.

BLACKstreet DON'T LEAVE ME INTERSCOPE 141 5 19 4622 1658 31/373 #14 Albums, #9 MPS, #10 Requests; what are you waiting for...

THIRD EYE BLIND SEMI-CHARMED... ELEWEEG 140 12 30 2545 1006 15/ 103 #19 Albums, #34 MPS; blowing up -new at 897, Y100, KKRZ XL106, VVTIC, KPLZ, more.

VERVE PIPE THE FRESHMEN RCA 138 6 30 3451 1182 25/ 344 #23 Albums, #11 MPS, #8 Requests; new play in the majors at KDWB, KZHT, WNKS, XL106, VVTIC.

MEREDITH BROOKS BITCH CAPITOL 136 16 37 2858 1384 15/43 Debut 21 Albums, deb 18 MPS, #7 Requests; KIIS, WZPL, KMXV, WBLI, WZJM, more. Quit bitchin' and play it!

SISTER HAZEL ALL FOR YOU UNIVERSAL 132 9 16 2859 884 0/0 KDMX, KISN, KYKY KSTP, WFLY, more. Anyone see my rosary?

AZ YET HARD TO SAY... LAF/ARISTA 130 1 24 3791 1143 5/ 29 #41 MPS, #15 Requests; WZYP puts in rotation this week.

BOB CARLISLE BUTTERFLY... JIVE 122 49 58 2003 807 0/0 #13 Requests; new for KMXV, KHMX, KISF, WQZQ, WALC, more. Idon't get it -they have such tiny mouths...

OMC HOW BIZARRE HUH!/MERCURY 122 9 17 3097 923 1/1 #17 Requests; KZZP, W8MX, KRBE. WMC, WKSI among the new reports.

ERASURE IN MY ARMS MUTE/MAV/VVB 121 0 11 2436 682 0/0 #45 MPS; rotations up abit this week.

32 HITS May 19, 1997 200,000+ SoundScanned In 4 Weeks! Over 500,000 Ordered! Now On 60 Top 40's!

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San Diego #11 Sales Los Angeles #10 Sales Seattle #10 Sales Boston #13 Sales San Francisco #13 Sales Chicago #18 Sales KFMB On 29 KROO #7 26 KNDD #10 24 WBCN 16 LIVE 105 #7 26 0101 #4 33 XHRM #3 35 KLYY #7 28 KMTT On 6 WFNX #7 29 KLLC #8 34 WLUP #11 21 91X On 17 KACD On 10 WXRV #2 16 KOME #14 23 0-106 ADD! Baltimore #17 Sales WXRT On 7 KIBMX On 5 Salt Lake City #10 Sales Washington DC #23 Sales Phoenix #20 Sales Houston #23 Sales Denver #18 Sales KENZ #3 31 WHFS #3 33 Spokane #26 Sales KZON #6 27 KTBZ #3 40 KYPK #4 28 X96 #4 30 WWDC On 10 KAEP #1 32 KEDJ On 19 KRBE On 8 KTCL #4 27 KZ/-IT On 28 KHTO Add ARTIST TITLE LABEL ONS AMOS AXIOM TOTAL TOP 40 MTV TONI BRAXTON IDON'T WANT TO LAF/AF11STA 118 4 14 2063 459 10/64 #22 Albums, #47 MPS; WSNX, U93, WSKS and KPSI this week.

B.U.O. SOULS IVVANNA BE... EMI 113 3 20 2584 531 0/0 Airplay up with new reports from VVTMX, WAPE, WHTS.

SHERYL CROW A CHANGE... A&M 109 74 27 1055 590 0/0 #1 Most Added including VH1, 894, WZPL, 0102, 897, WXKS, WDBZ many more.

COUNTING CROWS DAYLIGHT... DGC 89 20 26 1198 418 4/4 #44 MPS; BOX hits the video -new radio play includes KFMB, WRVW, KZZP, WTMX, WFBC, WZYP, more.

NO DOUBT SUNDAY... TRA/INTER 89 2 5 1220 276 14/39 #15 Albums, #48 MPS; new this week at WFBC, WLKT.

BEE GEES ALONE POLY/A&M 88 0 3 1341 213 0/0 Debut 12 Albums, deb 21 MPS; Hall Of Fame inductees -airplay steady.

MARY J BLIGE LOVE IS ALL... MCA 87 4 9 1650 495 14/ 120 #3 Albums, #2 MPS; KHKS, WJMN, KHFI. KRO this week.

3RD PARTY CAN U FEEL IT DV8/A&M 83 11 13 1121 335 0/0 Goes on this week at WIOQ, PWR96, XL106.

DEPECHE MODE IT'S NO GOOD MUTE/REPRISE 79 3 5 1232 463 7/ 15 #29 Albums, #17 MPS; new at 0106.

JON BON JOVI MIDNIGHT IN... MERCURY 72 70 7 176 86 0/0 #2 Most Added including VH1, KIIS, KHKS, 0102, WXKS, 897, Y100, Z100, WKTI, KPLZ, many more.

GINA G GIMME SOME... ETERNAUWB 72 21 14 814 248 0/0 Spreading from crossover -KHKS, Z100. KDWB, KKRZ, WFLZ WKSS, more.

INDIGO GIRLS SHAME ON YOU EPIC 65 23 11 785 462 0/0 #16 Albums, #15 MPS; more play in the majors at KYSR, KHMX KDMX, WALC, WKOI, KMXB, KISF.

FREAK NASTY DA DIP POWER/TRIAD 57 5 2 1545 755 13/73 #16 Requests; selling abunch of singles -new at WZJM, WFBC, WFLY. WLKT, KMCK.

TTW SPROCKET COME DOWN COUCRG 54 21 5 713 467 0/1 Out of the box including 930, KKRD. K92, WPST, VVTWR, KRUF, more.

AEROSMITH HOLE IN MY... COUCRG 51 12 19 547 34 0/0 #32 Albums; new reports from 897, WSTW, 98PXY, WLSS. others.

DAVE MATTHEWS CRASH INTO ME RCA 50 2 7 1643 1133 3/ 225 #519 Albums; reported at WXKS, WOAL

SUBLIME SANTERIA GA/MCA 50 1 5 858 276 1/ 258 #24 Albums, #16 MPS; new believer at WIXX.

112 CUPID B BCY/ARISTA 49 7 10 1407 746 0/0 Second week reports include WNVZ.

34 HITS May 19, 1997 warrenlg

featuring Ronald lsley

The follow-up single to the certified Gold smash "I Shot the Sheriff" From his Sophomore album "Take aLook Over Your Shoulder" IN STORES NOW YOUR DESK NOW

"The teaming of Warren G& Ronald lsley should be an explosive combination at radio!" Michelle S.-PD-KMEL

"Puff, puff, give - `Smokin' Me Out' is on fire!" Mikey Freeman-MD-KKFR

"The mixture of Warren Gand Ronald lsley creates anice, smooth sound. `Smokin' Me Out' is ahit record!" Richie Aqui-MD-KIKI

et am recogdings from the LP. CD 8. Cassette "Take A Look Over Your Shoulder (Reality)" (314 537 234) e 1997 GiFunk Music, Inc. OP yGram company Wine

ARTIST TITLE LABEL °NS ADDS AIGOR TOTAL.. 40TOP MTV IF YOU COULD... POLY/A&M TONIC 45 3 1 646 261 7/ 108 #32 MPS; Active Rock/PoMo leading here - new at WLSS, WABB.

NO MERCY WHEN IDIE ARISTA 43 6 4 387 61 0/0 Goes in play at KRBE, KDGS, WDJX, more.

BACKSTREET BOYS QUIT PLAYING... JIVE 38 10 16 607 413 0/0 Spreading from Crossover with reports this week at KIIS, KHFI, KBFM, CK105, more.

MIGHTY BOSSTONES IMPRESSION... BR/MERCURY 37 9 8 495 316 16/165 #43 Albums, #25 MPS; new at WQZQ. KALC.

LAKIESHA BERRI LIKE THIS... HOLLYWOOD 36 1 0 514 160 0/0 KRQ puts into rotation this week -JAMZ play building.

ROME IBELONG TO... RCA 36 5 16 1227 523 3/3 #35 Albums, #23 MPS; new: HOT97. KMEL. 92Q, KGGI.

702 GET IT... BIV 10/MOTOWN 36 1 6 1198 560 1/2 Crossing from JAMZ/Rhythm base with new play at PWR96.

NEW EDMON ONE MORE DAY MCA 33 7 8 578 253 0/0 Out of the box at WKRZ KKSS, Q105, KDNR, KHTO, K92.

AALIYAH FOUR-PAGE... BeVATL'ATL G 32 2 4 701 311 8/ 11 Crossover play leading here -new at KSJM, KCHX.

BILLY LAWRENCE COME ON EW/EEG 28 2 8 705 273 0/0 Blowin' up at JAMZ -new at KS107, KTFM.

DJ COMPANY RHYTHM OF... CRAVE 27 18 6 188 150 0/0 Starting at Crossover -KHYS, KHTS, WQZQ, WWKX, WIOQ, KBFM, many more.

BROWNSTONE 5MILES TO... MJJ/WORK 24 1 2 347 152 0/0 Rotations steady this week -more early play from KLUC.

JAMIROQUAI VIRTUAL... WORK 23 7 1 363 241 20/ 322 #29 MPS; VH1 adds along with more early play from WZJM, WHYT, KBBT -selling albums.

NOTORIOUS B.I.G. MO' MONEY... B BOY/ARISTA 21 14 6 368 334 0/0 #4 Albums; new cut takes off with PWR106, Z90, KUBE, 920, WHHH. more.

KENNY LATTIMORE FOR YOU COLJCRG 19 3 0 294 163 0/0 Huge JAMZ base here -early reports include WZJM.

FROST WHAT'S YOUR... RELATIVITY 16 2 1 184 111 0/0 Mix play leading -new at WWKX, KWNZ

L HILUR. CAMP SWEETEST... COL/CRG 16 1 4 417 311 0/0 #25 Albums (strk), debut 30 MPS; added at KMEL, The BOX.

KYLE VINCENT WAKE ME UP... HOLLYWOOD 16 2 2 269 217 0/0 More Hot Adult play from WSHE, WAZY.

36 HITS May 19, 1997 The New Single and Video From The Double Platinum Album Recovering the Satellites The Follow-Up To The Top 5 Single "A Long December"

Now on Worldwide Twt-1-d. playing an amphitheatr near you with the Wallflowers 1 ly -A • ust 9, 1997

After One Week: Top 40 BD 508 (+218) 16 M I . TOP 40 ADDS! HOT & MODERN AC: ALREADY ON: On 70 Top 40 Stations: MOST ADDED! KYSR/Los Angeles WSTR/Atlanta VVKRQ/Cincinnati VVPTE/Norfolk KFMB/San Diego KLLC/San Francisco WXKS/E3oston WRVW/Nashville WTMX/Chicago KZZP/Phoenix WBMX/Boston G105 MO VVZYP WAYV VVMXB KRUZ WKYE WQSM KFMB/San Diego WPST WLSS WKRZ WDBR VVAEB WVKS VVBHT And More! KTNP WJRZ WDAQ KALC/Denver VVNNK WLAN KDUK KBBT/Portland

•>›,. Voted Best Official Artist/Band-Produced Site http://countingcrows.com by the MTV & Yahoo Fan Website UNFURLED

Produced by Cal Norton • Mored by Michael Barbtero • °erect Management Group Inc. • Steven Jensen & Manx, Kinser, • Pmerv.getlencam •S2 1997 Geffen Records, Inc ARTIST TITLE LABEL ONS TOTAL TOP 40 ADDS AOOR IA\ WALLFLOWERS DIFFERENCE INTERSCOPE 14 2 2 202 179 0/ 0 #6 Albums; more early reports include KTBZ WLUP.

DAMAGE LOVE II LOVE CRITIQUE 13 13 2 41 10 0/0 Taking off at Crossover -WHHH, KHTS. WJMN, Z90, VVWKX more

4 P.M. IGAVE YOU... N PLATEAU 13 1 1 232 81 0/0 Goes in rotation this week at KQMQ -Top 5at The BOX.

S. NUT ZIPPERS HELL MAMMOTH 13 1 3 279 229 22/ 274 #37 Albums, #19 MPS; MTV Buzz Clip. What the hell are you waiting for -- thank you.

CHANGING FACES G.H.E.T.T.O.U.T. ATUATL G 13 3 4 319 258 0/0 JAMZ/Crossover leading here -new at KHOM.

DEBORAH COX THINGS JUST... ARISTA 12 7 3 70 11 0/0 Crossover play starting -new reports at FM102, KUBE, KGGI.

CHEMICAL BROTHERS BLOCK ROCKIN'... AW/CAROLINE 10 2 1 95 91 30/ 66 #42 Albums, #24 MPS; MN Buzz clip -PoMo leading.

UB40 TELL ME... VIRGIN 10 3 4 66 20 0/0 From "The Saint" soundtrack - new at KHTO, WKZW, VVTWR.

I t4 1 all TOP 40 MAINSTREAM HOT AC Total Spins: 1,165 Total Spins: 824 "ALL FOR YOU" Audience: 5.97 Million Audience: 8.1 Million BUS: 35* - 30* BUS: 23 - 17* (Airpower) ligdZ: 27* - 25* Ittielt: 16* — 13*

MAJOR MARKET AIRPLAY CALL-OUT HIGHLIGHTS Z100 New York KFMB San Diego WBMX Boston #1 WDBZ New York Q106 San Diego WMXB Richmond Top 5 KYSR Los Angeles WNCI Columbus WSHE Orlando Top 5 WLUP Chicago Q102 Cincinnati KLLC San Francisco Top 5 WTMX Chicago WPRO Providence WRFY Reading #8 WZPL Indianapolis ULC KLLCQ95 DetroitSan Francisco G105 Raleigh #8 KMXV Kansas City WNNK Harrisburg Top 10 KDMX Dallas KZHT Salt Lake City wxxs Boston Top 10 WXKS Boston KALC Denver WBMX Boston B97 New Orleans WPLL Miami WPRO Providence •over 2500 spins at Top 40 radio

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HANSON MMMBOP MERCURY 78 WNCI PRO-FM WZPL 51 KKRZ KMXV KQKQ

SPICE GIRLS SAY YOU'LL BE VIRGIN 61 WNVZ KS107 WBLI 40 WKQI WMYK WYOY

SAVAGE GARDEN IWANT YOU COUCRG 52 KHMX KALC 98PXY 34 WKSI WZJM KG RS 4 MARK MORRISON RETURN OF THE. ATUATL G 47 B96 Z90 WHTS 31 KHFI WBHT WGTZ

MONICA FOR YOU IWILL WS/ATUATL G 43 VVWZZ WZJM WI 00 28 WNCI WFBC WPST

PAULA COLE WHERE HAVE ALL.. IMAGOANB 41 0102 B97 WZPL 27 WLSS WRFY WDBZ

M. BROOKS BITCH CAPITOL 38 KTBZ KM XB WZYP 25 930 KZHT WABB

VERVE PIPE THE FRESHMEN RCA 37 KLLC WBMX VVWXM 24 WZNY 0105 U93

WALLFLOWERS ONE HEADLIGHT INTERSCOPE 36 KHMX XL106 WRQX 23 KISX JET-FM KAMX 10 BLACKSTREET DON'T LEAVE ME INTERSCOPE 34 KBX B96 WNVZ 22 WZYP WHTS WSNX

WHITE TOWN YOUR WOMAN CHRY/EMI 33 WPLL WDBZ WKQI 21 WDJX WLKT KMCK 10 JEWEL YOU WERE MEANT... ATUATL G 32 0102 WPNT WZPL 21 WKSI KHTQ KHFI

BOB CARLISLE BUTTERFLY KISSES JIVE 25 KZHT XL106 98PXY 16 CK105 KESR KFRX

SHAWN COLVIN SUNNY CAME HOME COUCRG 22 KFMB KALC KHMX 14 KKRZ WTMX WYOY AZ YET HARD TO SAY I'M... LAF/ARISTA 21 ' KS107 VVWKX B96 13 KBFM KHTVV 930 16 FREAK NASTY DA DIP POWER/TRIAD 18 KHTS KJMN KKFR 11 VVWLD WZYP KRQ

OMC HOW BIZARRE HUH!/MERCURY 16 KQKQ WDJX WLKT 10 KVSR KISX KLCA

ROBYN DO YOU KNOW... RCA 15 KHFI B96 KS107 9 WSPK WYOY KNHC 20 19 THIRD EYE BLIND SEMI-CHARMED LIFE ELEK/EEG 11 WLUM KALC KDMX 7 KHTQ KLLC WBIZ 20 NOTORIOUS B.I.G. HYPNOTIZE B BOY/ARISTA 10 KBXX KJMN PWR 106 6 WJHM VVWKX KS107

Total stations reporting this week: 151

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MTV VH1 BOX T40 MKT T40 MKT LP SINGLE ARTIST SPINS SPINS RANK PLAYS RANK REQ RANK RANK

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MARY J. BLIGE 14 0 ON 495 48 3 3 WALLFLOWERS 5 ON i 2 8 6

NOTORIOUS B.I.G. 0 28 ,• 2 25_J 8 U4 HANSON 23 ' 2420 4 10 9

JEWEL 3 ON : 2734 î 1 7 8

MONICA/SPACE JAM (ST) 3 7 25 ' 1833 1 10 9 5

CELINE DION 0 O ON 308 76 2 39

BLACKSTREET 2 ON 1 14 0

ERYKAH BADU 9 2 352 66 6 10 0

VERVE PIPE 8 45 1182 17 2 • SPICE GIRLS/WANNABE 0 0 29 886 1 28 5 1 U2 19 ON 1129 1 21 5 20 69 SAVAGE GARDEN 14 ON II 3 28 INDIGO GIRLS 462 53 4 16 -

SUBLIME 1 0 ON 276 ._ 81 3 24 _ IMP DEPECHE MODE 7 0 ON 463 52 5 29

MEREDITH BROOKS 15 ON 16 21 21

SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS 0 ON 229 93 37 -

NO DOUBT/DON'T 0 0 ON 192 8 4 15 -

BEE GEES 0 15 ON 213 99 4 . 12 -

TONI BRAXTON/UNBREAK 4 0 ON 65: • 38 4 22 0

ROME 3 ADD 46 35 5

CHEMICAL BROTHERS 0 ON 91 157 6 42 0

MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES 16 0 ON 316 71 4 43 -

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BOX: Top 50 most played, on or add. Dash = No video available.

Top 40 Market Plays/Rank: Plays and rank in the 40 largest national markets.

Requests: Ranked 1 to 10 with 10 being hottest.

LP Rank: Top 200 sales position. Dash = LP not yet released.

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JONNY LANG 12 5 ON 44 45

GINUWINE 7 0 ON 59 1 42 3 31

JAMIROQUAI ADD 36 241 91 4

LAURYN HILL/LOVE JONES (ST) 0 0 ADD 311 74 2 25 -

LIL' KIM 13 0 399 59 .ja 7 49

TONIC 7 0 49 261 84 - 3 61

HEAVY D 1 0 ON 312 72 4

THIRD EYE BLIND 15 2 ON 1006 le 23 86

LIVE 19 0 0 177 110 3

MATCHBOX 20 4 alw ON 287 77 2 63 le MARK MORRISON 6 alw 7 1819 11 9 ' 65

SHAWN COLVIN ADD ON • 2055 7 7 98 -

FIONA APPLE 17 2 ON 167 112 1 59 -

BLUR 18 0 ON 180 107 5 85

AZ YET 5 2 41 1 19 6 113

WHITE TOWN 8 3 ON 1597 14 87

SHERYL CROW 0 ADD 0 • § 43 3 50 -

COUNTING CROWS alw alw ADD 418 57 2 97 -

ERASURE 0 1 0 682 3 3 112 76

SCARFACE 0 0 150 120 6 26 0

TONI BRAXTON/DON'T 10 8 459 54 6 22 18

NO DOUBT/SUNDAY 14 0 39 276 80 15 -

MAXWELL 0 0 ON 0 451 1 -

DAVE MATTHEWS BAND 3 12 ON 1133 5 -

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BOX: Top 50 most played, on or add. Dash = No video available.

Top 40 Market Plays/Rank: Plays and rank in the 40 largest national markets.

Requests: Ranked 1 to 10 with 10 being hottest.

LP Rank: Top 200 sales position. Dash = LP not yet released.

Single Rank: Top 100 sales position. Dash = Single not available at retail.

HITS May 19, 1997 "Aliaha's Attic, 'I Am, I Feel' is fun, uptempo and has inter- esting lyrics. It sounds great on the air, and may be the best pop song we've played since 'Mouth' or 'I Love You Always Forever."

-Tracy Johnson Star 100.7/San Diego

the first track from the debut album Ali-Sha rUleS the WOrld

two sisters from London singing "...spunky, pissed-off anthems..." -Details

-4> Produced by: Dave Stewart Management: Paul White :997 Mercury Records http://www.mercuryrecords.com/mercury EVERYTHING'S COMING UP ROSEN

Since its establishment in 1952, the respected Washington lobbyist and serves on the boards of several non-

Washington, D.C.-based Recording social activist. She was aVice profit organizations, including the Na-

Industry Association of America (RI- President for Liz Robbins Associ- tional Cancer Foundation,The Hu-

AA) has been agalvanzing force for ates, alobbying firm representing man Rights Campaign. NARAS Advi-

its member companies, who create, such diverse clients as Goldman sory Council for Musicares and Na- manufacture and distribute 90% of Sachs, the cities of San Francisco, tional Advisory Council for Artists

the records released in this country Denver and New York and the for aHate Free America. Rosen

every year. With more than 340 ac- Association of Housing Finance will soon assume the role of Chief tive members, this trade associations Agencies. Rosen has also worked Executive Officer from aretiring Jay

mission statement reads like the U.N. for former New Jersey Governor Berman, who has served as RIAA

charter Besides handing out those Brendan Byrne and served on U.S. Chairman/CEO for the past much-coveted Gold and Platinum Senators Bill Bradley and Dianne decade.This week, she will be

Awards every year the RIAA serves Feinstein's transition teams. honored with the ACLU's "Torch of as awatchdog for the industry pro- Since Joining the RIAA as Vice Liberty" award in LA

tecting and defending artistic free- President Goverment Relations in A frequent White House guest—

dom; combating piracy and copyright 1987, Rosen has made many con- she gets cut rates on the Lincoln

infringement facilitating voluntary in- tributions. She was instrumental in bedroom in exchange for Kenny G dustry standards and bringing public obtaining an amendment to the CDs—it wouldn't be too much of

awareness to industry issues and Copyright Act to grant aperfor- astretch to call Rosen the second

products.The R1AA also works to mance right in sound recordings, most influential "Hilary" in town.

develop the industry's future, helping providing alegislative resolution the And it wouldn't be astretch at all to expand marketing opportunities much-disputed audio home taping to call HITS' adult home video star both domestically and abroad in ar- issue. She has been aguiding force in Tina "I Want A" Clarke "Bar" the eas such as new technologies. the hugely influential RockThe Vote, most welcome visiting dignitary

As RIAA President/C00, Hilary which has registered millions of since Gennifer Flowers. Rosen is steering the ship, oversee- young voters and helped pass the

ing the operation of this powerful Motor Voter bill, and has been avo-

trade organization. Rosen joined cal supporter of arts in the music in-

the RIAA ten years ago, having dustry's campaign against censorship,

already established acareer as a including fighting anumber of region- al bills that would create achilling ef-

fect for record labels seeking to re-

lease controversial material. Hilar-y

An exclusive H,TS interview with RIAA President/C00 Hilary Rosen BY TINA CLARKE

46 HITS May 19, 1997 YOU'VE BEEN INVOLVED IN SOCIAL ACTIVISM MORE ACTIVELY BUYING RECORDS FOR WHOM MU- UNFAMILIAR WITH IT, IF THEY LIKE IT, THEY'LL BUY IT. THROUGHOUT YOUR CAREER. THIS WEEK, YOU SIC IS THEIR PRIMARY SOURCE OF ENTERTAINMENT. Another thing we found in our focus group research WILL BE HONORED IN LOS ANGELES BY THE ACLU AND WHILE THEY ARE ACTIVELY SEEKING OUT which is relevant for the Starbucks model is that FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WITH ITS NEW ARTISTS, THEY ARE CONSISTENTLY BEING UN- we've tended to market records only within the in- "TORCH OF LIBERTY" AWARD. ANY THOUGHTS? It's always nice that people recognize your work and that somebody thinks you may be useful to raise trend within the money around. I'm excited. "For vears,or has THE RIAA RECENTLY PUBLISHED SOME PRETTY IN- recer CI Indus been to market TERESTING DEMOGRAPHIC DATA ABOUT RECORD- to 100 4U raj an the first shelf at BUYERS. WHAT WAS PARTICULARLY NOTEWORTHY reta insteaci or to a racer ano more IS THAT, IN 1996, OVER 50% OF ALL ROCK MUSIC BUYERS WERE OVER THE AGE OF 25, WITH THE averse consumer auclence 35+ CATEGORY INCREASING STEADILY EACH YEAR SINCE 1992. DERSERVED BY MARKETING. IT'S SURPRISING. dustry and according to genre. People don't really You could definitely point to 1996 as a year when We did focus groups across several demographics, so think of music by genre; they think, hey, I'm having there were alot of great records out there for an au- it was really qualitative, not quantitative, research. a brunch on Sunday and Iwant agreat record to dience that would be seen as typically alittle older. We found that, almost across all demographics, con- play to keep it lively or I've got ahot date Saturday Everything from Celine Dion to the Beatles to Smash- sumers were underinformed about new music and al- night and I need a romantic record and so on. ing Pumpkins, Shania Twain, Toni Braxton. ternative music choices and that when they go into You're going to see alot more lifestyle marketing in COUNTRY AND POP HAVE ALWAYS SKEWED OLD- retail stores, their problem isn't necessarily solved. both the retail and record company areas. Con- ER. THE RESULTS IN THE ROCK GENRE PROVE For years, the trend within the record industry has sumers are anxious for that THERE'S STILL A SIZABLE BOOMER AUDIENCE BUY- been to market to Top 4() radio and the first shelf at THE AVERAGE CONSUMER DOESN'T KNOW THE ING RECORDS OUT THERE. retail instead of to abroader and more diverse con- DIFFERENCE BETWEEN, SAY, ADULT CONTEMPO- Even in rock, you have quite agreat deal of sophisti- sumer audience. RARY AND JAZZ. I WONDER HOW THAT WILL cated music. The Beatles were rock; groups like the The way retail has traditionally been set up does- CHANGE THE WAY RECORD COMPANIES MARKET AND PROMOTE THEIR PRODUCT. A ROSEN BY ANY Interestingly, it seems label executives and artists in- OTHER NAME: stinctively know the mood and feel of a record and •.A President Hilary what it evokes for them and what they think it will Rosen (second from I) evoke for acustomer, but that doesn't necessarily get sols her heels in the translated to the consumer because of this filter of ra- East Room of the VVhite dio and retail that has to fit the music into their slots. House with superstar HOW WILL THE EMERGING NEW TECHNOLOGIES Sheryl Crow (I) , AFFECT MUSIC COPYRIGHTS AND COPYRIGHT EN- outgoing RIAA chief FORCEMENT? Jay Berman (r) On the technology front, Isee two big issues on the and members of the horizon. One is how you manage the vast amount Neville Brothers of unauthorized transmissions. We've already seen waiting for Bill vast amounts of those transmissions and we're reg- Clinton to bring ularly enforcing against them. The other issue, and ,itrn some ice for the they're related, is the development of a legitimate Lincoln Bedroom. on-line business. WHAT'S HAPPENING AT THE MOMENT IN THOSE Smashing Pumpkins, No Doubt and Alants Morrisette n't serve to inform and educate those consumers. The AREAS? are appealing across the demographic board, too. record companies have to take more responsibility You have to look at what kind of consumer interfaces What you're getting at is something that, clearly as an in this area and not leave it to radio and retail to ed- there will be in the near-future. Are consumers going industry, we need to be more thoughtful about. ucate our customers to do this through their PC system, their cable TV, Catalog has sold by virtue of people replacing their WHAT NEW AVENUES OF MARKETING SUPPORT their telephone lines? What kind of standards as an existing LPs and some word-of-mouth. Still, there is a DO YOU SEE EMERGING? industry do we need to consider before that happens? broad audience out there that is much less price -sen- Ithink you are going to see more creative approaches Frankly, from arecord company standpoint, Iam sitive and doesn't get enough information about new to marketing, whether that's alternative news outlets, determined not to let record companies fall into—if music by virtue of the news and information sources consumer channels or more street-oriented stuff, which that they see. They have really become much more of is where the rap community has had such success. :In untapped resource as \\ e go forward THERE HAVE BEEN SOME SERIOUS PROBLEMS AT "You're goingtto THAT'S WHAT REALLY HIT ME GOING THROUGH THE RETAIL WITH THE FLATTENING OF SALES, AND THE STUDIES. IT SEEMS THE BUSINESS CHANGES REALLY CHAPTER 11S BEING FILED BY SOME OF THE MA- see a lot rr)oreirrestyle RAPIDLY ON A CONSUMER LEVEL BUT THE INDUS- JOR CHAINS. HOW ARE PEOPLE GOING TO AC- marketInci in both TRY ALWAYS TAKES TIME TO CATCH UP WITH IT. IGET QUIRE MUSIC IN THE FUTURE? _ne rea l record THE IMPRESSION FROM THESE NUMBERS THAT Frankly, all of retail has been overexpanded and over- THERE ARE AT LEAST THREE GENERATIONS OR stored, as they say. Record retail has gone through company areas. some major changes over the last decade. Their overexpansion has hurt profits and led them to you will—a music publishers' model, where all we're use price and positioning and advertising dol- doing is basically licensing the work to somebody else lars—the ancillary income that they've been re- who packages, promotes and markets it on-line. It ceiving from record companies—to support the seems to me, from the moment an artist is signed and bottom line instead of using it to reach out and begins to work with arecord company, its promotion, educate their customers. marketing and distribution must continue to develop, With the advent of on-line distribution and even as technology progresses to have a say and a music being sold in Starbucks and supermar- piece of how those tasks will ht.' accomplished. kets, the retail community really need to re- WHEN THE RIAA WAS FIRST ESTABLISHED IN 1952, group and figure out how, not only to attract cus- THE INDUSTRY WAS VERY DIFFERENT. AS A RESULT tomers, but also make sure they find what they OF THE CONTINUED ADVENT OF NEW DISTRIBU- want and buy it when they walk in the stores. TION TECHNOLOGIES, THE BUSINESS IS RAPIDLY THE SUCCESS OF THE STARBUCKS COMPILA- BEING FORCED INTO THE FUTURE. TIONS PROVES THE THEORY, WHEN PEOPLE Tite difference between an on-line business and acon- ARE EXPOSED TO MUSIC, EVEN IF THEY ARE sumer-packaged format is that the level of control the artist and record company have directly depends on NOT THAT HILARY: Bill Clinton gives RIAA President Hilary Rosen an how aggressively we develop the marketplace our- impromptu report on the ate or ors own Union before realizing he was talking to the wrong Hillary. selves as opposed to having somebody else do it for us. HILARY perience has been pretty typical in make today. MEETS that women have been helping run For many years, record companies were criticized HILLARY: these organizations for a long time for demotivating people via music and that's why the -sident and evolving to the top position is ability of Rock The Vote to energize this population Hilary just part of the natural flow. It's about civic participation is really important. Unfortu- Rosen askS clearly how men have done it for nately, politics basically suck in this country as a First Lady years. Sylvia Rhone, Michele An- whole and everyone is pretty disillusioned. In partic- Hillary thony and Terri Santisi have been ular, we've had a harder time this past year finding Clinton if she working in more supportive posi- ways to motivate young people to participate when can check the tions for many years, so their rise is we don't want to participate ourselves. It feeLs like the White House anatural evolution. '50s, when we didn't really want our leaders and china for any As we continue to hire more and politicians to do too much. We want to be left alone. pirate tea more capable young women, that is Unfortunately, they are still running the country and cups in one of what will happen. This is not abusi- we need to be involved those moments ness where there are alot of lateral EVERYONE IS FACED WITH SO MANY DAILY CHOIC- you're proud hires from other industries. I'm not ES FOR THE SIMPLEST THINGS. WHEN YOU WALK to be an sure if that's good or bad, but INTO A GROCERY STORE AND HAVE TO DECIDE American. nonetheless, that's the reality, so WHICH CEREAL TO BUY AND YOU'RE FACED WITH we're essentially grooming our own 600 CHOICES EVERYTIME, IT CAN BE A LITTLE WHILE THE GOVERNMENT CONTINUES ITS AT- SINCE THE MOVE TO WASHINGTON SEVERAL OVERWHELMING TO THE HUMAN SPIRIT, ES- TEMPTS TO REGULATE AND CENSOR THE INDUSTRY. YEARS BACK, THE RIAA HAS REALLY BECOME A PECAILLY WHEN THERE ARE SO MANY MORE IM- There is a bill right now that has passed the Texas STRONGER, MORE EFFECTIVE VOICE FOR THE IN- PORTANT THINGS TO WORRY ABOUT. Senate that we're hoping to stop when it reaches DUSTRY AS FAR AS GOVERNMENT ISSUES GOES. It's the same as picking the social issues we get in- the House. What it would do is essentially prohibit We have a tremendous team of people here. Ihave volved with as an industry. We have to choose among them as much as we have to choose among the cere- al boxes. The need is so great in so many places, how "As spm one who has rroteçted you focus your efforts is very important. artists ricflits for over ten vears I ve As Ilook at my tenure over the next few years for the RIAA, Iwould like to focus on three things. One cievewi some senseaót .ine erence is what we talked about earlier... How are we moving be-w olo etoric rea switn into this new technological environment as a record peo en ega ana ûusness impac_, industry and how are we going to make sure that artists and record companies' interests are protected and enhanced in the new distribution business? the Texas public employees pension fund from in- been blessed with a great senior management team The next is to continue the strides and progress vesting in any company that produces music they with agreat deal of experience who bring agreat added that we've made internationally to open up markets deem objectionable. value to the company. By the board putting me in this around the world, working with our government and WHAT CRITERIA MIGHT THAT INCLUDE? position, they're not just saying, Hilary you've got the other governments on the effective enforcement and It's very broad and very nebulous, but it projects vio- job, we've elected you to this. Ithink they're really say- protection of copyright. We're seeing some of the lence, sex, drugs.., the usual laundry list. It could in- ing the RIM has been transformed over the last num- most important growth and profit potential for the clude virtually anything from Marilyn Manson to Eric ber of years. It's asign they believe we're on the right U.S. industry—internationally. (lepton or Willie Nelson. track and they want us to keep doing it. The third area where we have been successful is AS SOMEONE WHO'S WORKED IN WASHINGTON LEI'S TALK ABOUT THE HER WHOLE CAREER, WHERE DO YOU SEE THIS DRUG ISSUE. WHAT'S CLIMATE OF CENSORSHIP HEADED? THE CURRENT STATUS In some respects, I've come full circle on this. As OF THE MUSICIANS someone who has protected artists' rights for over ten ASSISTANCE PROGRAM years, I've developed a sense of the difference be- (MAP) WHICH YOU'VE tween hollow rhetoric and threats with potential legal HELPED FUND? and business impact. We've had asignificant Frankly, Iwould put Bill Bennett and C. DeLores number of people help- Tucker in the former category, but abill in the legis- ed with money going lature affecting the limits of the law has a real legal directly into interven- and business impact. Having said that, we think the tion and treatment. A bill is blatantly unconstitutional and that we would very comprehensive win acourt case. The legislature is doing nothing but education and training wasting the money of the people of Texas. So I'm con- program for executives vinced we have agood handle on where we have legal within the record com- rights and where people are just trying to make a panies has also been name for themselves. developed to help them Of course, the real threat out there doesn't exist deal with artists, em- from alegal standpoint. The real challenge for us as ployees and colleagues an industry and as citizens is to figure out where our who may have a sub- own limits are. It's not about what somebody else stance abuse problem. BOVZ II WOMAN: ./lotown Records superstars Boys Il Men ask RIAA doesn't accept; it's about what we do. Iwill defend MAP developed the Pr»- Hilary Rosen why the CDs on their multi-platinum plaque are old any record that has authenticity and credibility and program. They have Zamfir the Pan Flute master bootlegs. something to say from an artistic and creative stand- been going to the re- point... even if most people hate it. cord labels one by one providing the training. We're developing a sense of camaraderie and cooperation WE'VE HEARD THAT CURRENT RIAA CHAIRMAN JAY very excited about that; it's been avery private, off- within the industry to work on issues that affect all of BERMAN IS LEAVING AT THE END OF THE YEAR AND the-record activity and resource that the companies us. We will continue trying to bring the industry to- THAT YOU ARE THE HEIR APPARENT. THE RECORD have been able to avail themselves of and MAP's just gether to work on the societal and social problems we INDUSTRY HAS TRADITIONALLY BEEN A BOYS CLUB, done aphenomenal job. care about—whether it's health care, drug abuse or WITH FEW WOMEN REACHING SIGNIFICANT POSI- WHAT OTHER SORT OF HUMAN RESOURCES/PUB- opportunities for young people and music educa- TIONS OF POWER. YOU ARE THE FIRST WOMAN LIC WORKS ACTIVES DOES THE RIAA SUPPORT? tion. Isee that as an important part of our role. Our EVER TO HEAD THE RIAA. HOW DO YOU SEE THE We've obviously been very active in the founding and resources are always going to be more limited than CHANGING ROLE OF WOMEN IN THE INDUSTRY? support of Rock The Vote, which remains a critical people would like. We're never going to be able to fin excited and obviously grateful that the board and organization for the music community because it es- satisfy all the needs or all the wants, but one of the the company CEOs have the faith in me to take the sentially redirects the power in society to the place things that I'm always very conscious of is trying to reigns. Jay's shoes are big ones to fill. where it belongs—in the hands of the young people use our money and resources in the most efficient As for the rise of women in the industry... My ex- whose future depends on the decisions our leaders way we can.°

48 HITS May 19, 1997 White Town y ii 11111:1 Your Woman ACTIVE CUSTOM

#3 MOST REQUESTED SONG NATIONALLY! AUDIENCE INCREASED New Action: BY 25% IN ONE WEEK! WWZZ/Washington DC Whi te Town 11*-8* Billboard Monitor/Top 40! Is White Hot! 10*-8* R&R/Pop Chart! Over 5000 BDS Spins/Hot 100! EMI Records Over 2800 BDS Spins/Top 40! ti B!! Chrysalis Over 37 Million In Audience/BDS Hot 100! ©1997 Chrysalis/EMI Records

w ann a b e there the first single from their forthcoming self-titled album.

34*-27 Billboard Monitor/Top 40

Singles Sales Doubled In One Week!

Audience Over 9.4 Million & Gaining Fast!/BDS Hot 100!

Single In Stores Now! LP In Stores May 20th!

Appearing On "Live With Regis & Kathie Lee" Thursday May 29th!

EMI Records Produced by EMOSIA. Co-Produced by C.P. Roth. Mixed by Tom Lord-Alge EMI Management: Mark Liggett for Legend Entertainment Corp.

e-mail: [email protected] http://www.cii,cle.net/tetryl/bous

TOO LATE SE(AL)ATOO SOON The first single and video by JON SECADA from the forthcoming album SECADA. Single produced and arranged by JIMMY JAM & TERRY LEWIS for Flyte Tyme Productions, Inc.

Major Market Airplay: WXKS/Boston KMXV/Kansas City WBLI/Long Island KHKS/Dallas WHYI/Miami WNCl/Columbus KHOM/New Orleans WKSE/Buffalo WKSS/Hartford

Over 150,000 Units Scanned! I•151C flItST

Written by James Harris III, Terry Lewis, Jon Secada. Management by Emilio Estefan Jr. for Estephan Enterprises, Inc. htlp://www.emirecords.com 01997 SBK Records lans z

CURRENT FAVORITES AS CHOSEN BY MEMBERS OF ALL CKSSEGMENTS OF THE MUSIC INDUSTRY

WINNERS

1 SHERYL CROW A Change... (A&M) 6 NEW EDITION One More Day (MCA)

2 -1-1"VV SPROCKET Come Down (Col/CRG) 7 M. BROOKS Bitch (Capitol)

3 JON BON JOVI Midnight... (Mercury) 8 INDIGO GIRLS Shame On You (Epic)

4 COUN11NG CROWS Daylight... (DGC) 9 BS BOYS Quit Playing... (Jive)

5 TONIC If You Could... (Poly/A&M) 10 M.M. BOSSTONES The Impression...(BR/Merc)

JACK() /CK105/FLINT FRED BUCHALTER/WKQUIDE IROIT M DEVINE/FACE THE MUSIC/MINNY JB Jovi/S Crow/MM Bosstones Mark Twain Hanson/C Stevens/R Cray/M Brooks

JANDERSON/WVAQ/MORGANTOWN C BUCHANAN/KZIIT/SALT LAKE CITY JOHN DIMICK/WNCl/COLUMBUS No Doubt/Aerosmith N Edition/S Crow/BS Boys IGirls

JANDREWS/KHTW/LA CROSSE C BURNAUGH/TOWER/NASHVILLE FRANK DOUAI/TOWER/NEW ORLEANS JB Jovi/S Crow BN Heavies/Hanson/SC Mary SCrow/S Girls

RICH ANHORN/1CHMX/HOUSTON LEE CAGLE/KS107.5/DENVER D DOYLE/REC EXCHANGE/ROANOKE IGirls/D Amitri Brownstone/Babyface/Wyclef/Darnage SCrow/IT Wet Sprocket/Tonic

MARC ANTHONY/TOWER/CHICAGO TOM CALOCOCCl/92Q/BALTEMORE CHRIS EBBOT/KYSR/LOS ANGF1 ES M Jackson/IT Wet Sprocket/PD Pondering Wyclef IGirls/Tonic

TOMMY AUSITN/KKRZ/PORTLAND T CARPENTER/WBAM/MONTGOMERY BOB FENTY/ASSOCIATED/PHOENDC SGarden/W Smith/JB Jovi C Crows/S Crow N Edition/Robin S/TT Wet Sprocket/Tonic

WALLY B/WWXM/MYRTLE BEACH SCARRTTOWER/CHERRY HILL CHAD FITZGERALD/TOWER/FRESNO BS Boys/Aerosrnith/S Crow JLang/A DiFranco/Slaughter/D Punk SCrow/C Crows/JB Jovi

JERI BANTA/WYKS/GAINESVILLE KEVIN CASEY/WYOY/JACKSON JIM FREEMAN/HMV/STAMFORD Jamiroquai/SN Zippers/MM Bosstones SCrow/JB Jovi L Stansfield/Faithless/Cartouche

BOB BELL/WHEREHOUSE/TORRANCE BILL CATCHER/WSKS/LTTICA MICK FULGHAM/KISX/TYLER SCrow/IT Wet Sprocket/C Crows C Crows SCrow/C Crows/M Brooks

KEN BENSON/ICICRZ/PORTLAND MIKE CHASE/KMCK/FAYETTEVILLE CHUCK GEIGER/WLSS/BATON ROUGE En Vogue/W Smith SCrow/Gina G SCrow/JB Jovi

FRANKIE BLUE/WICTU/NEW YORK E CROOKS/TOWER/LAS VEGAS MIKE GIBSON/WZST/CHATTANOOGA Hanson/Robyn SCrow/JB Jovi JE JoviTTT Wet Sprocket/S Crow

ERIK BRADLEY/B96/CHICAGO MIKE CURRAN/THE WIZ/NEW YORK JOEY GIOVINGO/B97/NEW ORLEANS En Vogue/P Daddy/Robyn SCrow/N Edition Aerosmith/S Crow/C Crows

BILL BRAVO/WEOW/KEY WEST JACK DANIELS/WEND/CHARLOTTE JAMES GREGORY/WMGB/MACON LTwice/B Carlisle Supergrass/F Implosion/Nixons SCrow/S Hazel

50 HITS May 19, 1997 1 11 ilit'i -D1 \•H NO ONE MIN WAR YOU CIEIEINIE CURRENT FAVORITES AS CHOSEN BY MEMBERS OF ALL SEGMENTS OF THE MUSIC INDUSTRY

RON HANCOCIUTOWER/ATLANTA BILL MTTCHELL/U93/SOUTH BEND D SMITH/NAT'L REC MART/P'BURGH TT Wet Sprocket/Robin S/N Edition/S Crow FGarden/JB Jovi/S Crow/M Brooks TT Wet Sprocket/Tonic/S Crow

DUSTY HAYES/KAMX/AUST1N MIKE MURPHY/MOBY DISC/LA AMANDA SMITH/VIRGIN/HOLLYWOOD Tonic/Sublime/I Girls SBrown A DiFranco/G Fibbers/C Like/MB Manifesto

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THE VERVE PIPE -RCA #1 KEGE,CIMX BITCH: After alifetime of hearing, "Why do you have to be such a The Freshmen total BITCH?," it's with enormous smugness that we report Meredith LIVE -Radioactive #1 WQXA,WBZU Brooks' album, propelled by the single "Bitch," sold more than 33,000 copies in its debut week at retail!!!! Since the single is just start- Freaks,Turn My Head... ing to get Pop airplay, this number was actually generated by PoMo MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSS... -Big RicyMerc .#1 0101 X-96 play! If you were overthinking this record, maybe it's time to do an The Impression That... about-face and take some pride in ownership. (By the way, Alanis sold 4 Mute/Reprise DEPECHE MODE - #1 XHRM,KAEP 9,000 copies the first week, in case you were It's No Good wondering). While two of the biggest PoMo boy TAO & DAVE MEREDITH BROOKS -Capitol HUGE LP SALES!! bands are trying to out-"Freak" each other, the GEORGEFF Bitch girls know that being a"Bitch" is truly where it's 6 U2 -Island #1 KKDM,WPLA at. Somewhere, Shannon Doherty must feel vin- Staring At The Sun dicated We all survived Tami Packley's wed- 8 WALLFLOWERS -lnterscope AMAZING VIDEO! ding (that was NOT me doing the "chicken The Difference dance" or dancing to the "Grease Megamix") and We Knew The Bride while she's off in Maui on her honeymoon, I've When She Used To 9 THIRD EYE BLIND -ElektraJEEG #1 KENZ,WROX had our office to myself, enabling me to play the Rock 'N Roll Semi-Charmed Life new Superchunk and Marcy Playground 9 OFFSPRING -Columbia/CRG #1 WXRK,KMYZ u albums at full volume, to my heart's content. Isuppose I'll try to clean Gone Away up before Abra Moore gets here this afternoon because I'm way too 10 10 TONIC -Polydor/A&M #1 KROX,WENZ much of afan to want her to think I'm acomplete slob. Q101, KHTY, If You Could Only See VVKRO, KTOZ and WUBZ were among the stations to add "Four 6 SUBLIME -Gasoline Alley/MCA #1 91X,KOME Leaf Clover" this week and the song really feels like ahit to every pro- Wrong Way grammer playing We love the Sununercamp album and it's a SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS -Mam. KPNT,WROX Add real testament to the folks at Maverick (like Sherri) that "Drawer" Hell was "#1 Most Added", especially in the current radio climate (much gnashing of teeth, stress migraines and jumping off of ledges by pro- 18 MATCHBOX 20 -Lava/Atlantic/AG #1 KTBZ,WXSR mo-types). Every time we hear the single, we think fondly of the hal- Push cyon days of bands like Jellyfish and we hope and pray that Big Star- BUSH -Trauma/Interscope such angst esque Pop makes ahuge comeback. We were encouraged towards that Cold Contagious end when we saw how many adds the Supergrass and Ctuminghams LOST HIGHWAY OST. -Not./Int. #1 KWOD,WRZX singles got this week and we're certain that the Lightning Seeds single NIN,Smashing Pumpkins will be the recipient of such kindness next week The new Space 16 BLUR -Virgin MTV Buzz Clip single, "Neighbourhood," is aperfect programming tool for you right Song 2 now, balancing the best Brit-pop with the Reggae vibe the kids love. DAVE MATTHEWS BAND -RCA MTV Add We can't wait to see them again at the Y-100 show in Philadelphia on Tripping Billies June 1 Speaking of no-brainer SMASHES, isn't the Manbreak 19 18 COLLECTIVE SOUL -Atlantic/AG Many new adds mingle, "Ready Or Not," completely genius? We've loved this song for months and are thrilled it's finally out on Almo! Expect to see tons of Listen radio action on it this week WZRH and WNTX have bit the PoMo 19 WHITE TOWN -EMI #1 WPGU,WWDX lEI dust. Hopefully, Bill and Darren will swiftly fmd gainful employment Your Woman because they actually like music Big rumblings on some other Brit- K'S CHOICE -550 Music #1 KNDD.WMAD pop acts this week like Mansun (already added on KROQ), The Sea- Not An Addict horses (featuring John Squire from the Stone Roses), our old friends 20 Ea VERUCA SALT -Outpost/Geffen #1 WDGE,WEDG Echo & The Bunnymen, Monaco, Del Amitri and Lauren Christy Volcano Girls (you can hear "Breed" on the new HITS PoMo sampler as well as the BECK -DGC #1 KNRK,KTCL upcoming "Batman & Robin" soundtrack) To clear up any confu- New Pollution sion among you closet Hanson fans, they're three brothers (no girls). COUNTING CROWS -DGC big summer tour Some of us love this album and harbor asecret crush on Taylor, but we're not telling who We've made our not-so-secret crush on Jere- Daylight Fading my Toback abundantly clear over the past year, but we're willing to 16 INXS -Mercury #1 WQBK,WGBD "share" him, so why don't you add "California Phase" so your audi- Elegantly Wasted ence can experience his swoon-worthiness too. Speaking of which, SNEAKER PIMPS -Clean UpNirgin WXRK,KDGE Add have you seen the new Michael Penn and Wallfowers videos? Be 6 Underground still, my beating heart E-mail: [email protected]. 0!) 2:14Lilien

HOTS ADDS 1. MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES (Big Rig/Merc.) 1. SUMMERCAMP ("Drawer") (Maverick/Reprise) 2. LOST HIGHWAY OST. (Nothing/Int.) 2. SUPERGRASS ("Cheapskate") (Capitol) 3. THIRD EYE BLIND (Elektra/EEG) 3. MICHAEL PENN ("Try") (57 Records/Epic) 4. THE VERVE PIPE (RCA) 4. SHERYL CROW ("A Change') (A&M) 5. K'S CHOICE (Epic) 5. FAITH NO MORE ("Last Cup Of Sorrow') (Slash/Reprise) 6. SUBLIME (Gasoline Alley/MCA) 6. WALLFLOWERS ("The Difference") (Interscope)

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KTEG /SKIP ISLEY /JULIE Q101 /MARY SHUMINAS / WWDX /CHRIS BRUNDT / KISF /JON ANTHONY / HOYT /ALBUQUERQUE CHICAGO E. LANSING, MI KANSAS CITY Tonic Meredith Brooks White Town Dave Matthews Band The Verve Pipe Blur Lost Highway OST Lost Highway OST Meredith Brooks Daft Punk Offspring Sublime Lost Highway K's Choice Tonic Third Eye Blind Squirrel Nut Zippers Foo Fighters Mighty Mighty Bosstones Mighty Mighty Bosstones

99X /BRIAN /LESLIE /SEAN / WAQZ /MATT HARRIS / WEJE /SEAN SMYTH / KCHZ /SUPERFRANK / ATLANTA CINCINNATI, OH WEASEL /FORT WAYNE, IN KANSIS CITY, KS Foo Fighters Wallflowers The Verve Pipe Third Eye Blind Mighty Mighty Bosstones Tonic Sublime The Verve Pipe Matthew Sweet OMC Third Eye Blind Sister Hazel Matchbox 20 White Town Offspring Matchbox 20 Sneaker Pimps Duncan Sheik Veruca Salt U2

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WBCN /OEDIPUS/CARTER KDGE /JOEL FOLGER / KTCL /JOHN HAYES / KLZR /BOB OSBURN / ALAN /BOSTON MIKE PEER / DALLAS FT. COLLINS LAWRENCE, KS Mighty Mighty Bosstones OMC Beck Blur Sublime Dave Matthews Band Meredith Brooks K's Choice Fiona Apple The Verve Pipe Sneaker Pimps Meredith Brooks The Verve Pipe K's Choice White Town Sneaker Pimps Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind Depeche Mode Descendents

WFNX /BILL /LAURIE / KXPK /ERIK SCHMIDT/GARY WMRQ /DAVE HILL / WXZZ /PETER DELLORO / BOSTON SCHOENWETTER /DENVER HARTFORD, CT LEXINGTON, KY Foo Fighters Mighty Mighty Bosstones Squirrel Nut Zippers OMC Live INXS Mighty Mighty Bosstones Dave Matthews Band Lost Highway OST Toad The Wet Sprocket Sponge White Town Ben Folds Five Depeche Mode Blur Sublime Reel Big Fish Third Eye Blind Foo Fighters Duncan Sheik

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ALM• www alfrosoundA com A BILL CARROLL LONDON RECORDS, N.Y. Since Bill's recent promotion to VP of Promotion, he's been juggling the challenge of convincing radio programmers to push their playlist boundaries by playing "Electronica" like Orbital (could there be aWeenie Roast in their future???) DJ Shadow and the ffrr catalog as well as 80's favorites from the Grosse Point Blank soundtrack. All this while enduring Neil Harris r secondhand smoke and Guy Leger's pronounciation demands ("it's Gee, no it's Guy, no it's Ghi"). Bill was ecstatic this week after WHYT added the English Beat's "Mirror In The Bathroom" and with "Grosse Point Blank" still selling like crazy, could Bill be venturing into the "Music Of YOUR Life" arena? Could an infomercial be far behind? While Bill is busy working these bands WE worked more than 10 years ago, we're too busy loving the new Tindersticks album to torture him too much about it.

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WIILG /JULIE FORMAN / ICFMA /SU'ZJB DUNN / KVVOD / RON BUNCE / KTOZ /MATT JONES / JASON MOON /NASHVILLE PHOENIX SACRAMENTO SPRINGFIELD, MO • Blur Shoebomb Lost Highway OST Third Eye Blind Bloodhound Gang K's Choice Third Eye Blind Sister Hazel ,14: Korn Cake Beck Sublime '•,;,;'‘ K's Choice Chemical Brothers The Verve Pipe The Verve Pipe *". Squirrel Nut Zippers Daft Punk White Town Lost Highway OST a. IŒND /VINCE RICHARDS / KNRK /MARK HAMILTON / 91X /MALCOLM/ BRYAN SHOCK / VVXSR /RICK SCHMIDT / ROD RYAN /NEW ORLEANS BOB ANBETTA /PORTLAND, OR MUCKLEY /SAN DIEGO ORLANDO /TALLAHASSEE, FL Tonic Beck Sublime Matchbox 20 The Verve Pipe Foo Fighters Third Eye blind Meredith Brooks 4 ' Live Live Mighty Mighty Bosstones Live ste.r": Bush Mighty Mighty Bosstones Lost Highway OST Counting Crows Lost Highway OST Offspring Offspring Toad The Wet Sprocket

WXRK /ALEXA TOBIN /STEVE WBRU /MATT /TIM / XHRM /BRYNN /GREG / VVHFS /ROBERT /BOB /PAT / KINGSTON /NEW YORK PROVIDENCE SAN DIEGO WASHINGTON D.C. Offspring Mighty Mighty Bosstones Depeche Mode Squirrel Nut Zippers Lost Highway OST K's Choice Sneaker Pimps Depeche Mode Metallica Third Eye blind Sublime Jamiroquai Wallflowers Blur Cake Third Eye Blind Soundgarden Squirrel Nut Zippers Third Eye Blind Mighty Mighty Bosstones

KNRX /MIKE MCCOY / GENO WDGE /BRENT PETERSON / KIT'S /AARON/ ROLAND/ WPBZ /ROBERT ENGLISH / PEARSON /OKLAHOMA CITY PROVIDENCE, RI RICHARD SANDS/SAN FRANCISCO WEST PALM BEACH Sublime Veruca Salt Foo Fighters The Verve Pipe Veruca Salt Mighty Mighty Bosstones Live Lost Highway OST Tonic The Verve Pipe Austin Powers OST INXS Offspring Offspring Marcy Playground K's Choice Mighty Mighty Bosstones Paula Cole Blur 311

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The peerless, guitarless piano trio Ben Folds Five recently released "Whatever And Ever, Amen" (Sony 550 Music), the follow-up to their near-perfect, eponymously titled debut. Three things you may not know about their fearless leader, Ben Folds: 1) His love of Liz Phair, the Cardigans and Counting Crows is bottomless. Counting Crows returned the favor by mentioning Folds in their song, "Monkey," as well as by taking him on the road, for which he is touched, and absurdly grateful. 2) He recently got married and plans to move to Los Angeles to live with his new wife, even though he doesn't like it. 3) Pre-BFF, he used to perform in musical theater in his native Chapel Hill, North Carolina. "It was shitty," he says, "but Isort of liked it." One thing he certainly dislikes is being questioned by HITS' own Windy City windbag Alison "You Know This World Is Killing Me" Stewart.

dy gut feeling is that there's afriendly kind of naive factor union into YOU CALL SOMEONE A BITCH ON "SONG say Ithink "Undergrouner should have been a WANTED YOU THE MOST? FOR THE DUMPED." YOU SEEM LIKE SUCH A hit. It was just timing, you know? By the time It would be easier to say who wasn't. Geffen NICE PERSON, WHY WOULD YOU GO AND the label figured out the band was actually ac- didn't say anything until the last minute, and DO SOMETHING MISOGYNISTIC LIKE THAT? cessible, that we were doing something people that's about it. Ithink we're on the right label; Uni, someone else in the hand wrote that song, would listen to, it was too late. The sales pro-, Iknow there's astigma attached to Sony, that and Ididn't know that it might offend anyone. jections were like 6,000 records, and when it's not associated with the cutting edge, that We went out one night and played it to this that's what you think you're gonna get, you it's not Matador, or whatever. But my gut feel- college crowd, and Ilooked down and saw all aren't concerned with radio strategy. Unfortu- ing is that there's afriendly kind of naive fac- these girls looking up at me, and Iknew there nately, they got good at marketing us after it tor seeping into pop music; it's not just the might be trouble, was too late. coolie hipster kids anymore. Iguess what I'm THE NEW RECORD SEEMS DIFFERENT IN THE BIDDING WAR SEEMED TO START saying is. Ididn't want to sign with anyone be- SOME INDESTRUCTIBLE WAY; YOU SOUND AS THE RECORD WAS RELEASED. WERE cause they have cool tennis shoes. MORE GROWN-UP, SOMEHOW. YOU SURPRISED AT HOW FAST THINGS DID SONY 550 LET YOU DO WHATEVER YOU 1think there's a maturity, a sense of wis- HAPPENED? WANTED RECORDING-WISE? dom, or at least an attempt at it. Idon't It seemed like it started the day after the We recorded the album in our house in North think younger people are gonna get the record came out. Everything was so new to Carolina, and they didn't hear it until it was whole thing; hopefully, older people will. I me then. I'd never been on the road before, finished. We even made Polaroid artwork for think the second record's got a little more I'd never been, like, "OK, we're in a band, it, and sent it off to them, and they used it. You meat on it for an older audience, although I we're going to go out and play," let alone can't ask for more than that. sure as shit don't think about demographics that someone from the opposite side of the When we signed, they were like, "Go do what while making arecord. Iwould think, "Wow, country would come to see us. Trying to fig- you do and we'll put your records out." Other this is really right. It's never gonna sell." But ure out what to eat in general on the road, people were like, "We know how to make good it never got as far as thinking we should that was new enough, and then to have records; that's what we do." And we were sort change it. If that approach really worked, these people from New York and L.A. up of like, "No, that's what we do." Ididn't like people would be doing it all the tinte. your ass the whole time... the idea that people knew how to do anything, YOU SEEM TO HAVE SOLD A LOT OF THINK OF ALL THE REALLY NICE FREE DIN- because Ithink everything's changing, and I COPIES OF THE FIRST RECORD WITHOUT NERS YOU GOT OUT OF IT. just wanted people who didn't claim to know ANY REAL HELP FROM MTV OR RADIO, Iwas really nervous, and Istayed nervous for anything about the future, but who just fig- WHICH IS SURPRISING. like, two months. Icouldn't figure out why 1 ured, "It's good music, and we'll put it out." Be- There weren't any singles on the record, but was anxious all the time. All those nice din- sides, 550's only been around for afew years, the funny thing is, people thought there were. ners? Icouldn't eat 'ern. I'd sit there like, twid- and Iliked that they didn't have ahistory, that It's like, every song was one millimeter shy of dling little noodles around or something. they weren't like, "Well, it all started with being areally good single. I'm not ashamed to WHAT LABELS WERE INVOLVED? WHO Jethro Tull," or whatever.D le • • non Itea/— e not--a inct!__a up!the tilfillP melon kids anymore." eiriar MIIIMAMP, u nu' pupa MU UU1.1111.1 mpuun muu 60 " HITS May 19, 1997 wer Out Of The Box: KNDD WRXQ KROQ VVHMP- KOME WPBZ WBRU WEQX WBCN VVDST VVFNX WKRL 91X VVHTG CFNY KGDE ' KFMA KLZR #1 Most Added @ Alternative Radio Everywhere! KNSX VVJPZ • @ SoundScan New Alternative Artist Sales Chart. VVKRO And Many Many Morel 4629 Pieces Scanned In The First Week On Sale._ "Cheapskate" the first single from the new album In It For The Mone

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Progressive, atmospheric and post-punk are just afew labels pegged to Doug Martsch's Built To Spill. He doesn't seem Ega to mind the boxes, pe'haps because he can climb into whichever one he chooses. The epitome of autonomy, only now • does Martsch profess to be settling down with apermanent line-up. Having released two albums on the india UP Records, he's gathered and parted ways with collaborators to maintain creative control and keep things in flux. But now, on the band's Warner Bros. debut, "Perfect From Now On," the Boise-bound Martsch is joined by the stable ensemble of Brett Nelson on bass and ex-Spinane Scott Plouf on drums. Filled with achoppy sea of lyrical confusion, the compositions twang, soar and find melody in masterful guitar solos. And, with plenty of guest musicians sitting in on the effort, the sonic complexity of the eight lengthy pieces shines through. DID YOU EXPECT TO BE THE SUBJECTS OF SUCH A HITS' very own quicker-picker-upper, Alexa Joy "Don't Squeeze The" Sherman, HUGE BIDDING WAR? sits down with Martsch, and tries to get him to spew some details about being an Not really. Ididn't expect there to be any interest in India-rocker in amajor cosmos. the first place. It's Just like one label thought about it and then other labels jumped in, and everyone other bands, too, like Caustic Resin, who were sort of claimed that wasn't the case, but Iassume it was. asuper-heavy psychedelic blues band. Brett Netson, Warner Bros. seemed like the most reputable. Mostly their guitar player, plays alot of the guitar and beat it was Joe McEwen, who's atotally laid-back guy. Ifig- stuff on our album. It's very atmospheric, but really ured he'd be easy to deal with and he'd leave me heavy and beautiful—simple chord structures... lie's e. alone, and he has. There were acouple of labels who the best guitar player alive. offered me better deals. WHAT SORT OF BANDS DID YOU LISTEN TO THINGS HAVE MOVED PRETTY QUICKLY FOR YOU. GROWING UP? Each time we made arecord, afew more people would When Iwas in high school, it was mostly post-punk Its listen to it. When you do stuff long enough, people under- that influenced me. Ithink our music fits into that: stand your personality alittle bit better, no matter how Husker Du, the Pixies... You take familiar things, like shitty aband is. There are some limits, but after ten something that sounds nice, and do it in an unortho- years or so, you're bound to have afollowing. dox way. When you're making up asong, you think of WHAT'S CHANGED SINCE YOU STARTED OUT? other things you've listened to, from lots of different itr All of our records are pretty different-sounding. The places, and then Ihave my own limitations as far as Idea of the hand is to not really have one sound, but what Ican and can't do. Ican only create an idea as to capture whatever sounds we like. This album was well as Iknow how. just me playing songs alone mostly. The line-up of the WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS AFTER THIS TOUR ENDS? hand changed over and over again, which was !inten- Home. We'll work on new songs and record in the tional]. Since we finished the record in August, Brett Fall. Ihave another band, too, called the Halo Ben- Nelson and Iare the permanent lineup. We both live ders. We'll maybe make arecord in the summer, or in Idaho. Scott comes down one week amonth to et, part of arecord. Ijust don't have much time. Ihave a practice. We've been writing songs together as aband, family and stuff, so Ican't really get out of town very which is just awesome. The process is always different often. I'd never intended to keep aline-up until now. with every song. But now we all get together and write I'd been in aband for along time with friends, and we rAeL4g;g songs and then Ifine-tune them. were really tight, and Ididn't want afamily outside of DO YOU EVER FEEL THAT YOUR MUSIC IS MISUN- my family. Ihave agirlfriend and athree-year-old son. DERSTOOD? HOW HAS FATHERHOOD CHANGED YOU? You can't always he understood. I'm understood by Ihave some different views. Ithink alittle more seri- completely genuine, sincere people that Ilove. ously, since Ihave astake in the world. Before Iwas ARE THERE ANY PLANS TO TOUR WITH A MORE ES- resigned to the world being f**ked, but now there's ... TABLISHED ACT? reason to be alittle more concerned. • _lie e.4.e.,•.•-- 4..," e et=e4-e-,, -. ,14. ""' .- No. We recently had Counting Crows ask us to go out WHAT'S YOUR OPINION OF THE CURRENT 'Os .. -- , r 10.1Zeliffle... .. : with them. We did one tour of Europe with the Foo MUSICAL CLIMATE? '."---1- Fighters, which sucked for alot of reasons. It made Right now, there are better bands than Ican ever .. me not want to open for aband. We do fine in Ameri- remember. A band like Modest Mouse, who has been •• . 1... ca and Europe. I'd rather play for 50 people who want opening for us on this tour, was listening to the BUILT TO to see us than for 2,000 who don't. Ithink some Pixies when they were in junior high school. So BILL: Built T bands can pull that off, but to appreciate us, you have they're going to be smarter than we were, and get Spill's Doug to spend alittle time with it. Our records are that Martsch ear in touch with good things more quickly. tee hard wa way, too. HOW DO YOU AVOID BECOMING DERIVATIVE? the budget WHERE DO THE LYRICS COME FROM? There are an infinite number of possibilities. Idon't his second bum has Wherever. A lot of people help me out. My girlfriend find much music to be that way. My friends and peo- r.m tcoenanter. writes alot of lyrics. Sometimes I'll stumble across ple in other bands that Ilike just do things that they something good, but mostly it's just things to fit into like. It would never occur to any of us to do things fold featuri the meter of the song. newest star that we weren't comfortable with, just to make mon- reporter an WHAT'S THE MUSIC SCENE LIKE IN BOISE? ey. It's definitely aconsideration that Warner Bros. unabashed Good. That's why Istarted making music; when Iwas can sell more records, but Iwasn't really interested in 9.;eskA pt» in high school in the mid-'80s, Isaw bands putting on the prestige of being on amajor label. It's just that No" Joy in hardcore shows. This band State of Confusion, in par- now Ihave the freedom to do what Iwant to do.c Mudville" ticular, was really amazing and actually all of them Sherman. except the drummer became my first band, the Tree- ie people. What inspired me to do stuff was seeing it done and realizing it was attainable. 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Ften tit? new otarvin PrvdmcekA Rerda nt knee y citieé smeAerft een, Flied M%4 byArx, caroline YVHATVER. "'tNJD EVER_ AMEN; t.rnrcetrent tsioirnei rttui Peter Febtrei nt (MD epIC • sthere anything Stephan Jenkins can't *do? In the past year, the S.E singer/ songwriter conceived the Braids, a Berkeley-based, hip-hop duo whose heavy cover of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" became an international hit then signed the biggest publishing deal for an artist that has never released music and landed acontract with Elektra for his own rock band, Third Eye Blind, which also includes guitarist Kevin Cadogan, bassist Arion Salazar and drummer Brad Hargraves. The group just released its self-titled Elek- tra debut last month. With incendiary songs like "Semi Charmed Life" and "Motorcycle Drive-by" already getting play on major alternative stations, it won't be long before everyone knows about this man's innumerable talents and unstoppable ambition. "I've struggled for along time," Jenkins says. "I'm well- accustomed to sleeping on the floor. But I've always done what Iwanted. I've never had afall-back job, because Iwas always scared Iwould fall-back." Some- one who has absolutely nothing to fall back on is HITS' own NoCal noodnick "Gung" Aidin Vaziri.

Time to leave your heart in San Francisco with Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins by tiditt aziri " el visit- speaks WHAT DID YOU SET OUT TO ACCOMPLISH WITH YOUR DEBUT ALBUM? to you Ididn't make this record to chart. These are songs about what it's like to be here in these times. Ithink and It comes from agenuine place. If people get to hear it, it will connect with them. I've never written asong tells so that people would like it. Imake it for what it is. There are common threads in the stuff that Ido. Ibelieve mu- sic should be an intoxicating, spontaneous event and it can't be that if you're worried about where it's going to fit. It's meant to be you rebellious. Music speaks to you and tells you where you're from. where YOU HAVE MANY DIFFERENT STYLES ON YOUR DEBUT RECORD. you're Somebody said we sounded like acombination of the Clash and Led Zeppelin. But we all have roots in black music, too. Our guitar from." player [Kevin Cadogan] was into the Ohio Players and George Clinton, then discovered U2 and the Clash. Suicidal Tendencies came after Clinton. It's areal subtle thread, but you can hear it. It's not intentional, but it's there. The Braids are the opposite. Iconceived the group as hip-hop without borders, disregarding the parameters of current urban music. IS IT DIFFICULT BALANCING THE TWO EXTREMES REPRESENTED BY THE BRAIDS AND THIRD EYE BLIND? It separates itself. Third Eye Blind is the band Iplay in, and the Braids is just adifferent -sounding thing. You don't need to sep- arate the two... it's my own passion for apples and oranges. Ijust like to make different things, which coincide because it's re- ally an exciting time to be playing music. If it's coming from areal place, then you can do what you want. If the funk flows from within, then you can play hip-hop. WHAT IS IT THAT HAS MADE BOTH PROJECTS SUCH RESOUNDING SUCCESSES? Got me. I've always stuck with doing the same thing. Not musically, that is... these aren't formulas so much as processes of change. I've been working on them for along time. I've had the Braids in my head for awhile. The guiding principle is, we do what we want and what we believe in without trying to consider what other people are going to think. Doing that long enough, Iwas able to get people together who were working on the same tip. My contribution was bringing together alot of talented people. We had ahard-working and very bright manager who got involved early on and believed in what we were trying to do. Third Eye Blind are undeniably amazing. It is so rare to hear someone who plays guitar and makes it sound unlike anything else. This band's more about bringing together people in an environment where they can do their best work. WHAT IS YOUR INVOLVEMENT WITH THE BRAIDS? Iarrange the music and produce the group. But their voices are the incendiary elements that make the whole thing come alive. Idon't play them the music before they come in the studio. They come in, read the lyrics and work it out behind the microphone. It's been several months since we did the first single. They were kinds antsy. We had the tracks recorded. They just said, "Can we sing this through?" and we let them run with it. They were standing there and the magic just came. It's areally great thing to be apart of. We have areally great band together. Ihad this idea for agroup; ahybrid of British club influences with real American R&B vocals. This real Berkeley sound. I've given birth to this bird that's flown away, but they've made it their own. WOULD YOU EVER CONSIDER TAKING ANY TIME AWAY FROM MUSIC? What would Ido, get ahobby? The most fun thing for me is to be in the studio recording music. As well as having martinis after workz

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INDIGO GIRLS -Epic #1 WNCS,KBXR 1. JOHN FOGERTY ("Walking In A...") (WB) Shaming Of The Sun 2. KATELL KEINEG ("One Hell Of A...") (Elek./EEG) THE WALLFLOWERS -Interscope KTCZ,WAVF add 3. PAULA COLE ("I Don't Want...") (WB) Bringing Down The Horse 4. LEO KOTKE (LP) (Windham Hill) U2 -Island VV)(KR adds 1Do You' 5. LIGHTNING SEEDS ("Austin Powers" OST.) (Hwd/Epic) Pop VAN MORRISON -Polydor VVTTS,KFMU add 5. MICHAEL PENN ("Try") (57 Records/Epic) The Healing Game COUNTING CROWS - DGC MTV STRESS Recovering The Satellites HOTS 6 BIG HEAD TODD/MONSTERS -Rev .KBXR add Beautiful World 1. INDIGO GIRLS (Epic) 8 SHERYL CROW - A&M VH1 add 2. THE VERVE PIPE (RCA) Sheryl Crow 3. WALLFLOWERS (Interscope) INXS -Mercury hangover coming 4. PAUL MCCARTNEY (Capitol) Elegantly Wasted 5. INXS (Mercury) 9 THE VERVE PIPE -RCA #1 WJBX,WOXF 6. OMC (Mercury) Villains 10 BOZ SCAGGS -Virgin boz duz blooz Come On Home 14 DAVE MATTHEWS BAND -RCA WMVY,KTHX add APM PROFILE Crash Abra Moore: The radio success of "Four Leaf SON VOLT -Warner BIDS. #1 KGSR,WRSI Clover" may seem sudden and swift to those Straightaways unaware of Abra's long road of artistic endeavors, SHAWN COLVIN -Columbia MTV add but to most APM programmers, it's arecognition long deserved. Hawaiin-born Abra (say the "A" in A Few Small Repairs Abra like you're saying "ah -so," even though she's JONNY LANG -A&M VVXRV adds "Still" not Chinese) began her professional career ten years Lie To Me ago, as afounding member of eclectic-pop band Poi 19 COLLECTIVE SOUL -Atlantic/AG WVRV,WRLT add Dog Pondering. But prior to that, she had mastered Disciplined BreakdowN the piano and guitar and could be found busking in Paris and playing in 16 WIDESPREAD PANIC -CapJMerc. KFOG,WDOD add small clubs in England as ateenager. Poi Dog eventually settled in • t Bombs & Butterflies Austin, where Abra pursued asolo artistic life. Her 1995 Bohemia 4. 18 JAYHAWKS -American/Reprise WRNX add Beat LP, "Sing," was well-received at APM radio and garnered a Sound Of Lies NAIRD nomination for Best Pop Album. Current Arista Austin LP "Strangest Places" grabs VH1 and M2 adds this week. In stores 5/20. MORPHINE -DreamWorics/Rykodisc bumpski? Like Swimming 19 PAULA COLE -Warner Bros. 2nd chart debut APM PICK This Fire Hamell On Trial "The Chord Is Mightier 20 SISTER HAZEL -Universal WRNX add •1. Than The Sword" (Mercury): Screaming Somewhere More Familiar with fury, speed-strumming, lapsing into FIONA APPLE -Clean Slate/Work "Criminal" next spoken word, haunting vocals and then Tidal spoken word again, native New Yorker Ed I. BEN FOLDS FIVE -550 Music #1 KIWR,WNKU Hamell unleashes a second LP that is bru- Whatever And Ever Amen tally frank and magical. From the first MATCHBOX 20 -Lava/Atlantic/AG CIDR add husky and striking lyrics of "Mr. Fear" to Yourself Or Someone Like You the remarkable story of "The Vines," Hamell reels you in with 24 ROBERT EARL KEEN -Arista Austin 11K in two weeks his guitar and gifts of passion and intensity. "The Chord..." is a Picnic rarity chock full of laughter and candor matched with Hamell's MATTHEW SWEET -Volcano olestra anyone? unique musical genius and flair for storytelling in the form of Blue Sky On Mars modern music. (Ericka Mendoza)

hin's mey 1 :19 97 .•• KALUN LEE & JESSE BARNETT Hybrid Recordings, New York No doubt you had some sort of brush with this Ren & Stimpy dynamic duo as they did their radio promo tour last month with Sherri Jackson in tow. Starting from the West Coast and eating their way (mostly piz- zas and Pringles) through every town in America, until they arrived on the East Coast with aslew of Jack- son believers. It's dedication done the old way, through hard work, which makes sense considering Hybrid's parent company is veteran concert promotion powerhouse Metropolitan Entertainment. Their commitment to breaking Sherri is intense. Kalun, former Concrete Marketing thinktanker, has sworn to shave his head and giveaway his silicon implants for a major market add. And Jesse, former right arm to J.B. Brenner at A&M, has promised to send a diagram demonstrating how to roll a J.B.-styled mondo spliff for to anyone with rotation increases. You can't help hut to love these guys!

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f:.,:illbe llfr,: te.iirri rc's al e :,.: "Maaaaan, Joan Osborne!" Well it's adifferent game in 1997. Here we pta *dui, .jirle g are trying to claim ownership, among abunch of signals in our market, to those artists and sounds that seemed so rightfully ours. Well, they're not Fe -e.) dune , "ours" exclusively anymore, as Green Day gives way to Paula Cole at d 'Ad; he PoMo and awhole new breed of "Modem Adult" pop radio is suddenly Idnel • born. And both are spinning our "core artists" ahelluva lot more than we ding 1 do. It seems screwy that over half of our Top 20 artists are completely dominated (spin-wise) by other formats. So you have afew program- ming choices. Try to "image" yourself as THE new music adult station by either a) Muscling out promotions from JAYHAWKS record companies so it looks like you "own" the artist/lifestyle (by the way, your competi- tor, his owner and the owner's five other sta- tions in the market are already trying to do the same thing); or b) Convincing your OM to do the latter with station money, including TV/billboard campaigns (I'm stifling my laughter, you can too). Then there is the whole "increase your spins" idea, which VVBOS has done recently (heavy spins =45) You know it's up and WXLE did this week (to 55). Hey, hard to you. times call for maximum measures in some markets. Then, of course, you can give up on the new music position all together, by cutting your currents down to cincl only researched hits and playing conservative ball until time or luck reJpwt; picks you to be the winner. It is now that Iwant to remind you to remem- ddlhid fdp1y'; 11,31 ber why you got into radio and what you wanted to *achieve when you Jinv1* "Upldwn" liieldp die dur excitedly joined your station. You wanted it to be aunique style of radio, tifiy ciuiiir one that had an adult flavor catering to your distinctive market, one that dfibt yEiddl" plays hits and discovers/owns new artists, and one that gains aloyal, large listenership. Right? Now ask yourself if you are trying—every - f day—to create that vision, through both music and marketing. Have con- vinced your sales manager and OM and receptionist of this same vision? nly Because without you and your entire team committed to the same vision, ?A: you're just another spot on the dial someone is selling, and someone else 1:7 is figuring out whether or not they want to stick around for another seven minutes. With all this in mind, a coupla music things need to be

- Y/ ..21 f addressed. Two years ago, you APM-sters unhesitatingly, unquestion- ably made the Jayhawlcs your #1 artist— for something like ten weeks in arow. They have made astellar new album with at least four amazing songs on it (C'mon doesn't "Trouble" just slay you? And VVXPN is get- ting Top 5 Philly phones on "It's Up To You."). Anyone who is NOT playing this former #1 APM artist is afool, and Imean it Buzzin' in print: Mark Eiztel and Rober Earl Keen mentions in "Entertainment Weekly" (Eitzel also scores with HUGE sales debuts in APM markets Booking... San Fransisco and Seattle), Laura Love in 'Time" and acoming "Spin" =Am cover story on AM DiFranco Buzzin' at radio: the sexy, sexy Huf- Management: Paul Croekford Management famoose, the much-heralded World Party, Jeremy Toback (added at London Tel: 011-44-171-792-4313 WXLE) and Lauren Christy. Trust me, trust me.

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Austin Powers OST -Hollywood Play the Seeds NOW! Wanna make a million dollars?: Thought you'd say yes, so Lightning Seeds here's my idea (just don't steal it!). My recent trips to migrane clinics Chemical Bros. - Astwks/Car. 150,000+ SOLD!!! have me thinking about those plastic, almost candy raver-kid j.. Dig Your Own Hole bracelets and those big, clunky silver medical alert bracelets. What if •11 Yo La Tengo - Matador WQBK, WBRU we, together of course, made bracelets that let people know our P ICan Hear... social and dating shortcomings in nice clear type? Iguess they'd be Truth Alert Bracelets. "Tendency toward the dramatic," "Apt to forget 6 4 Supergrass - Capitol KKND, WBTZ your name or in In It For The Money seconds after introduction," even "Emotionally needy any relationship." That way not only would those geeky conventions Daft Punk - Virgin KPNT, KKND be easier, but dating in the real world would Homework be a snap—just avoid the advertised incom- Kevin of KEDG: 6 Papas Fritas - Minty Fresh KWUR, KFTE patibles from the get go! We can even have Helioself them boast favorite and most influential Sleater-Kinney - Kill Rock Stars WBCN, KBOO bands for conversational ice-breaking. Mine Dig Me Out could read: "Falls for overly emotional cute- Gus Gus - 4AD WXRK, KDGE boy drummers. If seen near one, please • Polydistortion phone for help." It could also read: Beth 9 Folk Implosion - Communion WROX, WNYU Orton devotee who listens to Beth, Jeremy Drawn To The Deep Toback and Papas Fritas repeatedly!" Beth 10 CirrusMoonshine Music WMNF, 91X will be performing at select Lille tour dates, Abducting Vegas! Drop The Break call us here at HITS for dates or a copy of The Saint OST - Virgin WXRK, MTV! the epic album, 'Trailer Park." Then Email me your bracelet ideas for Orbital, Bowie... your own personality and those in the biz (we'll keep it to ourselves, I 16 that dog. - Geffen WXDX, WTSR promise)... New spec show alert! Area 51 is Iwo hours of pure musi- Retreat From The Sun cal abduction on KEDG Vegas with my new friend Kevin. We bonded Ani DiFranco - Righteous Babe KTBZ, KNRK during the overwhelmingly great Chemical Brothers show in Vegas in every Living In Clip and Ihave faith one of his picks! Send him records! Vegas didn't seem to have much of an outlet for the kids. How amazing (or Atari Teenage Riot - DH/GR WRIU, WXRK deadbeat) is the underground electronic/traveling party/after hours Atari Teenage Riot scene in your town? Every city I've lived in had athriving one (Chica- Pennywise - Epitaph WLUM, KOME go, Detroit, and Tokyo just never closes—in Full Circle Mulu: fact, you are trapped out from 11pm until the 16 Summercamp -Maverick WBCN, WRLG trains start back up at 5am, unless you are rich "Drawer" enough for a cab! Inever was. )! I'd love to X96, KFMA e" Poster Children - Reprise hear about the scene in your city!... Could I RTFM possibly make my complete worship of 18 Bettie Seveert -Matador/Capitol KFTE, WBTZ Nashville indie-rock heartthrob Jason Moon Dust Bunnies (sigh) at WRLG any more obvious? Maybe not, 19 Pulsars -Almo/Geffen KITS, KGDE but Ido want to agree with his latest assertion Pulsars that the Spiritualized record is too beautiful and 20 Polara -Interscope WVUM, WHFS Desire-able! deep to comprehend in one or two listens. Spir- C'est La Vie tualized, how we thank you for renewing our Jamiroquai -Work #1 WWDX forever faith in music, and spurring on Jason's incredible band Toybean.... I Traveling Without Moving would send you adashboard Royal Canadian Mounted Police statue from my nightmare trip to Toronto, but I'm out The only good part of 18 Mansun -Epic WHFS, WQBK my trip was getting to meet the wonderful Elliot Lefko (Universal Con- Take It Easy, Chicken certs Canada), a name synonymous breaking music in Canada... Bennet -Roadrunner WZRH, KGDE Music that kept me sane while Hying coach (similar to flying in a dark Super Natural alley filled wi*i screaming kids) for six hours on Air Canada: Herbalis- Hooverphonic -Epic WVUM, KFMA er (yes!), Mulu, Radar Bros., the new and unreleased BT tracks, Carl 2Wicky •.! Craig, Idaho, "Paul's Boutique"... EMAIL me: [email protected]. The Cunninghams -Revolution KOME, WPLY Call (818) 501-7900. Ask for 'Your friend Caere Zeroed Out SPECIAL DISCS SPECIAL MUGS Yo La Tengo "I Can Hear The Heart .r ....aw...181111•AZOT aumnmegi Me. Beating As One" (Matador): Last year Yo YO LA TENGO La Tengo were described in aNYC guerilla . I poster campaign as "...better than Chinese food." This new CD lives up to every sweet, sour and spicy expectation and promises that hungry ache of longing for more an hour later. This is serious sit-down dining, with velvet crushed harmonies heavy as draperies ("Moby Octopad,") and unrelenting strong-yet-sweet guitar fuzz through- out "Sugarcube," "Autumn Sweater" and the cover of the Beach Boys' "Little Honda." Magnificent. (C.B.) It's Extra-Special, Right?: (Do your best Jeremy Brown imita- Magnet "Don't Be A Penguin" (PC Music): VU fans tion out loud when reading this caption.) It's truly the bomb, right? A everywhere, brace yourselves: Magnet is about to take your life happy family of electronica photo featuring official Special Beat renegades of the soundwaves Aaron Axelsen of Live 105, in his stu- over with those precious rock and roll moments that made you dio/lair with an arm around our mutual pal and subject of great worship the Velvets in the first place. Magnet, featuring the one o admiration Jeremy (Mr. Moonshine Music VP to you, okay?), both and only Moe Tucker, is Mark Goodman's collaboration of musi- looking great, right? It's all good, right? C'mon kids, risk your cool cians (the credits on this range from VU to Morphine to Trip demeanor and yell that Jeremy patented shout: YES! Shakespeare to apsychiatrist!). Together they create inspired songs that charm with grevious country guitars and the honesty of Tucker's VERY SPECIAL and Goodman's hushed, gorgeous voices OFFBEAT PERSON "Everyone" and "Summer &Winter" are crim- inall •reat.(C.B.)

Darren Price "Under The Flightpath" Greg Gnyp (NovaMute): Having your studio under Run- Club X way One at London's Heathrow airport and the Detroit, MI Concorde landing on your roof twice aday doesn't sound like the ideal creative environ- ment. Darren Price rises to this audio challenge with all the grace and skill of aseasoned veteran, which, of course, Gnyp is the only man 'n the music business (okay, in the world) who he is, having opened for Underworld around the world and has known me since Iwas 16 and had braces (and Iknew him remixed Depeche Mode. His full CD is beautifully lush British tech - before his 30+ tattoo spree began). We met and became friends in no that couldn't have come from anywhere else. Star tracks are Detroit college radio, when we played whatever we wanted on the "Loose No Time" (sic), the single, and "Airspace."(Richard Winn) air (even if it was noise or our friend Trevor's odd classical composi- tions) and learned about music of all types, boys and girls, and the Dr. Octagon "Dr. Octagynocologist" (Dreamworks): if techno scene blowing up in the city around us. Now Iam on aseri- you're familiar with Kool Keith, you'll dig this collection of the ous quest to get everyone to recognize this undiscovered, unexploited many "albums" he's dropped under the alias Dr. Octagon in the genius of radio and music, and to make him the record company VP past. As aset these recordings bring back atime when "hip-hop" or superstar programmer he deserves to be! Gnyp doesn't ¡ust know was innovative, angry and full of energy. With PoMo or electronic music—he IS the music. He is the person you soon-to-be-classic songs like "3000," "Technical need, as A&R, promotions, Music Director or just Gambling Buddy. Difficulties," and "Blue Flowers," combined with He's the love of my life. He drives aHarley and has afew too many entertaining skits like "I Got To Tell You," this CD piercings. Danger is his middle name. Hire him now!!! I'll love you puts Keith in the limelight where real sound and forever, and you will be grateful for agood 30 years. Ipromise. style originators truly belong. (C Minus) "A Blast of a Soundtrack" -- USA Today

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OVER 350,000 UNITS SOLD! =_%Jo _ NEARING 150,000 UNITS SCANNED! 1997 London Records USA_ spainful as it is, sometimes di vorce is a necessary risk. When MarkOl- Ason left the Jayhawks in late 1995, they lost half of their powerful singer/songwriter team. Band break-up rumors flew and were perpetuated

by along delay in releasing their upcoming album, "Sound Of Lies" [Amer-

ican Recordings]. But "newly single" front man Gary Louris emphasizes the

delay was simply about waiting for producer Brian Paulson's [Beck, Super-

chunck] busy schedule to open up. "The band never broke up," assures

Louris. "We started rehearsing amonth after Mark left."

The result is adeparture from the country-rock hooks that have defined this seminal Minneapolis group since their 1985 inception. While there are HA wking still many solid examples of Louris' quietly sublime songwriting, there is al-

so asense that the band—bassist Marc Perlman, keyboardist Karen Grot-

berg and drummer Tim O'Reagan—is ready for an all-out rock & roll bender. On the first single, "Think About It," there's afeeling of new-found freedom

as they gleefully harmonize in "Sgt. Pepper"-era Beatles style over distor-

tion-heavy, Hendrix-flavored guitar solos.

Through it all, Louris' cracked velvet voice soars. His singing is joyful tes-

timony that the band—the "family"—will not only survive the break, but

thrive under his watch. "Grapes bitter/I'm no quitter," he says in the hope-

ful, ironic rocker "Big Star," letting us know that despite the pain, and on the verge of a year-long

world tour including

stops in Japan and TIME TO HARMONIZE WITH THE JAYHAWICS' GARY LOURIS Laura Kane Southeast Asia, there YOUR EARLY MINNEAPOLIS CONTEMPORARIES WERE out together. In general, Mark and Iwrote separately. are some risks well MOSTLY PUNK BANDS. WHO INFLUENCED YOU AND HOW We realized each of us was only getting five or six DID YOU END UP PLAYING COUNTRY-ROCK? worth taking. One songs on a record every two years and it wasn't very Istarted out listening to rock and pop music, then later, fulfilling. It couldn't go on that way. Somebody was go- risk that definitely it was art-rock and punk-rock, especially the late-'70s ing to go. It was like ending a relationship, but it was British stuff—the Stranglers, Buzzcocks, Sex Pistols, wasn't worth it was Mark who had the guts to actually come out and say, Clash. A band colleague at the time played me the Elvis "Time for me to move on." Louris' decision to "Sun Sessions," which got me into rockabilly, folk, blues, Ished some tears, but Ithought it was the right thing. country, all that. share his angst with It's allowed us to change direction. We were like an old We were living in atown [Minneapolis] that had the best married couple--set in our ways. The shake-up of the HITS' own kitten with rock bands of the day—the Replacements and Hüsker band opened the door for us to explore other things we've a whip, Laura "No DU. We felt that was already being done and we didn't always wanted to do. want to copy them. Mark and Iboth happened to be lis- DID YOU EVER THINK IT WAS THE END OF THE BAND? Pain No" Kane. tening to country music and we saw it as really rebellious. Ispent acouple of weeks reviewing my life while the band It was a reaction. We did it in an irreverent way. At first, waited to see what Iwanted to do. Iwanted to be the lead it was very raw with lots of feedback. But my roots are re- guy. When Iwas growing up, Inever saw myself as the ally more just rock. Ididn't grow up on afarm. Igrew up second banana singing harmony in a country band. I in the suburbs. My dad sold insurance. wanted to be arock star. This was finally my opportunity WHAT WERE YOUR ROCK ROOTS? to do that. And once Istarted, Iloved it. Iasked myself Iwas abig Beatles fan for a long time, and Ilike Bowie, why Ihadn't done it sooner. Now I'm really happy. the Kinks, Todd Rundgren, MC5 and Iggy—anything that HOW DID IT FEEL WRITING AN ALBUM WITHOUT MARK? was raw. Ifelt free because Icould write as many songs as Iwant- WERE YOU IN THE VANGUARD OF THE 'ALTERNATIVE ed. When we started playing again, we had a pedal steel COUNTRY' MOVEMENT? player come in and we sounded like the old Jayhawks. We were one of the first bands to play that kind of music. That's when his absence was noticeable. It was only when But we never asked to be the flag bearers of amovement. we asked, "Why are we doing this?" It was habit, aknee- Idon't feel there's any allegiance to agenre. There's no jerk reaction. It felt comfortable. country on the new record, and that was by design. We'd Marc Perlman encouraged us to explore different ways been playing that way for 12 years and we were tired of of approaching the songs. So we took our acoustic guitars it. Any time you start feeling trapped by genre expecta- into my living room and got alittle bit out there. We did- tions, you run away. That's what we've done. We want to n't even mind if we sounded arty or pretentious, because keep people guessing about what we're going to do next. in our minds, it was better than being predictable. It WHAT BROUGHT ABOUT MARK OLSON'S DEPARTURE? sounded like anew band. We knew we were on to some- It was something that was coming over the last couple of thing. It was exciting and different—got our creative years, but we didn't know in what way. The band had be- blood flowing again. In essence, we lost a singer/song- come dispersed. Gone were the days when we'd all hang writer and gained ahand.D "WE LOST A SINGER/SONGWRITER AND GAINED A BAND."

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You wanna add it, So add it NOW! TIME THOSE WHO FELL for the summery FOR cocktail vibes of the Cardigans will SOME thrill to Cinnamon's brilliant update SUGAR of the Stockholm pop sound. Singer AND Frida Diesen and guitarist Jiri Novak SPICE Make up the duo, whose self-pro- WITH duced Island debut "The Courier" CINNA- (with production assistance from Ted

MON'S Nicely and the Cars' Elliot Easton) FRIDA oets abelated American release.

DIESEN Influenced by eccentric British AND JIRI songwriters like Momus. Orange NOVAK Juice and Scott Walker, Cinnamon

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WHY WAS THE ALBUM'S AMERICAN RELEASE DELAYED SO LONG? for real, not just kitschy. Jiri Novak: Idon't really know... you would have to ask Island. (hie thing WHAT ELSE GOES INTO YOUR SONGS? that happened was they were releasing their best-selling artists at that Novak: We are also influenced by Kraftwerk and the whole European scene, time, so they had to postpone it. That was the season when there's not Serge Gainsbourg, modern music. Music is our life, so we try to put all the many new releases coming out. We've been through that in Sweden and things we like subconsciously into our songs. In the end it will turn out to Japan also, hut not so long as this. We were disappointed, mostly because be something that is Cinnamon. it's hard to keep those songs fresh. Because we had spare time, we did an Diesen: That's a specialty Jiri has. lie's not as young as Iam; he has El' in the meantime. learned agreat .deal from all the music he's listened to. Itry to bring on Frida Diesen: Yeah, it's taken apretty long time to come out. But it's agood the things that Ilike, but he's really good at arranging stuff. He takes the album. We were thinking what we were going to do when the release was inspirational stuff and puts his own musical knowledge to it. Which is postponed. Were we going to quit music? Do something completely differ- what makes it modern. ent? But we decided to take the period to write some new stuff. Then we got HOW SUCCESSFUL ARE YOU IN SCANDINAVIA? the opportunity to record the El', so that was good. We had something to do Novak: Idon't know what success really means. We've only done two El's Instead of just waiting for the album to come out. and one album. The one that's coming out in America is like agreatest hits. THE NEW SONGS SOUND SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT. DID YOUR INTERESTS We have some nice reviews, we played some festivals and were on TV. But CHANGE WHILE YOU WERE WAITING? it's not like we're Alanis Morissette, Novak: It's always difficult to see yourself. You never really know what's go- HOW DO YOU THINK YOUR MUSIC WILL AFFECT PEOPLE? ing on until somebody says, "Hey, it sounds alittle bit different." Inever no- Novak: Cinnamon's music that might mean something Friday night but ticed myself. We experienced new things, new places and listened to new it means something quite different Sunday morning. There are many dif- records, so underneath, you get inspired. And you learn to play better. ferent feelings in all those songs. Iwould leave it to the listener to decide DESPITE THE DELAY, ARE YOU HAPPY WITH THE ALBUM? what they feel. Novak: It's been quite difficult; it's been getting on our nerves that it hasn't Diesen: The songs are about things I've experienced. Then we tend to mix been released earlier. I'm happy with the songs. I'm happy with the sounds. it with fiction. We get inspired by film, books and other music. Many times The album is really good. we'll tap into our experience of traveling around Europe. You have to put Diesen: I'm amazed Istill think it's good. There are periods when you have your personal experiences in the songs and mix it with stuff you haven't ex- finished the songs, mixed them and you're really fed up with them. But if perienced. It becomes small stories, not just about your own life. you let them rest for a while and put them on again, it's still good. I'm IS IT DIFFICULT BOTH LIVING AND WORKING TOGETHER? amazed by that. Novak: We get on each other's nerves sometimes. I'm living in her apartment WHAT QUALITY ARE YOU TRYING TO CAPTURE WITH YOUR MUSIC? so we have access to each other in every way. You can pick up the guitar and Novak: Coming from Europe is quite different than corning from America or write songs in the middle of the night if you feel like it. We listen to the same England. What most inspired us was listening to Chicago soul music from kind of music and watch the same films, so it's easier. the '60s, like the Okeh and Chess labels. Stuff you can't even notice in our Diesen: It's good, otherwise we probably wouldn't be doing it. It's good that songs. What is really important to us is that it has to be real, it has to allow we have access to each other all the time, so we can just sit around, relax, soul .\101.11e \VC have quite different soul._ we have white soul. It must he take it slowly and lam ti getherp "CINNAMON'S MUSIC THAT MIGHT MEAN SOMETHING FRIDAY NIGHT, BUT IT MEANS SOMETHING QUITE DIFFERENT SUNDAY MORNING." JIRI NOVAK

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ubblegum punk is alive and well and running rampant on the streets of LA. in the form of The Muffs! On their third Reprise release, "Happy Birthday To Me," the Kim Shattuck-fronted trio—which also includes bassist Ronnie Barnett and drummer Roy McDonald—continues its ag- gressive approach to melodic existential musings. They're not angry, they're poppy... No wait, they're angry.. Actually, they're a musical dichotomy. Here, our very own HITS' resident Muff-In-Training (that's MIT to you), Alexa Joy "To the World" Sherman, sits down with Shattuck and Barnett to discuss everything from genitalia to the joys of jamming.

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IS ALTERNATIVE ROCK DEAD ? want to have acareer. We listened to our last record and knew what we wanted to RONNIE RUGNETFI Were not really alternative. Iguess we're alternative to elec- change. We improved the drum and guitar sounds agreat deal. The vocals we did- tronic and hard rock, but... n't really improve—even though Idid them in areally hi-fi way, they still sound lo- KiM SuArtruu Since we're in our own little world, we don't really care. Inever fit fi. Ilike this batch of songs better than the last. It's our third record, so we're past in with any trend. And if any trend even came close to what Iwas thinking in my the point of thinking we're going to be rich or people are going to mob us on the head, It could come and go, but I'd still be thinking it. My brain only works in one street. Fm not into that, anyway. People come see our shows and write to us. We've way. had acouple of stalkers here and there, but nothing bad. RoNNue Alternative is just some term invented years ago. The industry is not doing WHAT ARE THE MUFFS UKE UVE? so well tht..e days, so everyone is looking for the next thing to keep paying for their Kau We spit, we kick, we hit, we bash the guitars. If there's abig jock in the front expense accounts and to pat themselves on the back. What are we going to do? Ilire row screaming,"Show us your tits!," we'll do stuff that the crowd just loves. One the Dust Bros. to produce our next record now because they're hip? We're not gonna time we chanted, "white trash!" to aguy until he got kicked out. There are those do that. kind of people at every show, who aren't there to see us. It's great when it happens, ARE THE COMPARISONS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE TO ANGRY GIRL BANDS,PAR - though. One time we played this show in San Francisco, and this guy started doing TICULARLY HOLE,APPROPRIATE ? all kinds of dickish things, and in that case we can play stuff like "Big Mouth" or "Fm Kim: I'm sure we've probably got similar influences, in terms of screaming girls and A Dick." So, it's perfect. all that, but our music is influenced more by melodic stuff and hers is influenced HAVE YOU WORKED ON ANY PROJECTS BESIDES THE NEW ALBUM? more by angry stuff. RONNIE: We have three songs in Ivan Reitman's new movie "Father's Day" with RonmE: The new album is less angry, but not in awimpy sort of way. We've always Robin Williams and Billy Crystal. And Kim was supposed to be in "Romy and been alittle too pop for punks, and alittle too punk for pop. Michelle's High School Reunion." She had two lines, but they wound up on the cut- Kee Idon't redly mean it to be angry. Ireally like the melodic, Merseybeat style from ting-room floor. the '60s, like the Beatles or the Kinks. I've always had this sort of sarcastic, cynical per- WHY ARE YOUR SONGS SO SHORT? sonality, so that comes out in the songs, but then the melodies are so sweet that every- Knt: Deconstruction, man. Ilike getting to the point really quick Idon't like re- one says I'm happy and bubbly, when really I'm thinking about death and anger. But peating things 500 times the way Nirvana did. Repetition gets on my nerves and I'm definitely not aman-hater. Most of the songs aren't about men—just people Iknow. freaks me out. That's why we'd never be gxxl at disco. ARE YOUR SONGS ROOTED IN PERSONAL EXPERIENCE? IS IT TRUE THAT YOU DIDN'TWANT A RECORD DEAL WHEN YOU STARTED ? Kim: Yes, mostly they're about things that have happened to me, and it's definitely Kim: When labels started to pursue us, Iwas pretty suspicious. But it seems to be my own voice. Sometimes Ihave to blank my mind out to write or Ihave to have working out OK. something happen that's kind of f**ked. Then it comes out later, and Iwon't even Rummies We didn't set out to get signed. We didn't make ademo or shop ourselves. know what it means in the moment. Ihave to think about it for awhile, and then, Iknow it sounds weird for aband from L.A., but we only formed because Kim had all of asudden, it just makes sense. aguitar and some great songs. ARE THERE ANY MUSICIANS YOU ADMIRE THAT YOU'D UKE TO WORK WITH? Kuu Basically, we wanted to do it for fun. Iwanted to be able to make records what- Kim: Oh, yeah... Rip Taylor. Ile's so great. Ile'd tell some jokes, throw some confet- ever way we could. Ididn't want to go to alabel and have them tell me what to do. ti. Ialso want to see Milton Berle's dick. Iwant to see if it's as huge as the legend This was way back when all of the people at the labels were doing buckets of co- says. It's supposed to be torpedo-sized. caine, and they were the biggest geeks ever. Iwish there was still payola and that we RONNIE: Milton Berle is apparently bigger than Huey Lewis. And Peter Frampton is had alot of money. But I'm more into breaking people's legs... play us, or we'll break supposedly the smallest. Like, less than apinky. WHAT ARE YOUR EXPECTATIONS FOR THE NEW ALBUM ? Ve ve ALWAYS BEEN A unu TOO POP FOR PUNKS, Kim: Ihope it does better than the last one. Ijust want to continue going up. We AND A LTITLE TOO KM FOR POP." Ronnie Barriett 80 HITS May 19, 1997 - k '41-Ae ig e of dJ Y o >gro w, 1 0 IIlb lei

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Marcy Playground "Marcy Play marcyplaygrovnd ground" (EMI): For many alt-rockers, the playground was the place where one's ass was thoroughly kicked. While some sur- vivors turned to thrashing guitars, others NO BULL: Obviously elated at having the chance to buddy up with took amore delicate route. With the excep- anyone even remotely associated with her hometown NBA faves, HITS pomette and rabid hoop freak Tami Packley gets in one last pre-nup- tion of its opening track, the crunch-pop his- tial squeeze with another guy, namely ex-Bull John Salley. The pair tory lesson "Poppies," this disc is more later squared offfor some brutal one-on-one in the parking lot. insinuating than slamming. Singer-songwriter-guitarist John Wozni- ak's tunes wed often delicate melodies and instrumentation to unsa- vory subject matter. A case in point, and the album's highlight, is "Sex and Candy," which is every bit as enticing as it sounds. (S.G.)

Austin Powers OST (Hollywood): It's all about shagging, baby, and this compilation packs more swinging grooves than the International Man of Mystery himself. A musical orgy mixing old and new, featured fabsters include Edwyn Collins, Space, Burt Bacharach and SALT-N-PAPRIKA: After afully rawking show, WXRK fun-time guy Strawberry Alarm Clock. The Lightning Booker hangs with the decidedly un-waifish Veruca Salt gals and lures Seeds get psychedelic on their cover of The Byrds' "You them into following him to his favorite greasy spoon to pound some Showed Me" and the Cardigans are saucy as ever on "Carnival." goulash. Here's Booker promising more than just areally good pickle to Nina Gordon (I) and Louise Post (r). But beware: This lounge-pop cocktail may make you randy faster than you can say "shag-a-delic." (A.S.)

Cinnamon "The Courier" (Soap/ Island): Once again, Stockholm proves to be fertile spawning ground for female- fronted wünder-pop. Frida Diesen is the sweet and reflective voice, backed by uiri Novak's ethereal guitars, vibes and pro- gramming. Several guest musicians join the duo, enhancing the jazzy, melodic simplicity of their Island debut. Like the Sundays, there is t ONE NECK, NO WAMNG: Whoa. Here's acouple of real compati- catchy familiarity in tracks such as "Hopeless Case," "Missing ble guys. "Man, Icould crack your skull like adried-up walnut. Where's my thyroid medication?" Thus growled awarm and fuzzy Henry Rollins Persons File," and "The Promenade." How refreshing—a spice (r) to The Voice of Modern Rock Live—or smiley—Tom Calderone. band with abit of substance. (A.S.) The pair later shared stories of their childhood, then hugged and cried. EARLY BELIEVERS: KNDD 91X Live 105 KEDJ WFNX WOXY WBER KNSX GUS GUS "BELIEVE"

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RAP RADIO TOP THIRTY PASS THE WORD Beare 2W LW TW ARTIST TITLE LABEL ALWAYS SOMETHING THERE TO REMIND ME: Ithought I 1 KRS-ONE Step Into A World Jive gi pi would take out the time to welcome, a little belatedly, some ▪ El 2 LADY OF RAGE Sho Shot Death Row/Int. more of our HITS reporters: KTRU's Eddie Question, WLUW's Lionel Freeman, WPRK's Mark Anthony, WXJM's Omar E EI NOTORIOUS B.I.G. Hypnotize Bad Boy/Arista Joseph, and Heavy at WCHP. Bienvenidos... NUMBERS!: J.T. Quick at KJMMÍTulsa has a new address: 4937 S. Cincinatti, E ri TRACEY LEE The Afterparty Bystorm/Universal Tulsa OK 74105-4607... WFXA MD/mixer Lance-A-Rock has a new pager, (888) 916-1503... Larry Scott at Island has a new 5 ALKAHOLIKS Hip Hop Drunkies Loud number, (212) 603-7893... Jen-Boogie has an e-mail address, [email protected]... Has anyone found apractical use for the JAY-Z Who You Wit Qwest/WB quadratic formula?... CHART CHECK: Yes, KRS-One "Step BUCKSHOT No Joke/Follow Me Loud Into A World" (Jive) is still #1 because of the points gained from the remix and because Al Lindstrom is a hard worker. 10 JUNGLE BROS. Brain Gee StreetN2 There is, however, a very cood chance that Lady Of Rage "Sho Shot" (Death Row) and Tracey Lee "The Afterparty" 3X KRAZY Keep It On The Real DS/NT/Virgin (Bystorm/Universal) could see the top in a minute... 0.C. "My World" (Payday) takes most-added in one week (84 adds!!) and 10 UL' KIM Crush On You Undeas/BB/AtI/AG will probably see the top 30 next week. Same thing with Rampage "Take It To The Streets" El 133 11 MR. COMPLEX Visualize/Why... Rawshack (Elektra)... DO NOT BACK UP, Ej al 12 G.R WU Black On Black... MCA SEVERE CAREER DAMAGE: From the turntables to show producer to 13 10 la HEAVY D Big Daddy Uptown/Universal part-time announcer to programming assistant to...? Where are you trying to ED 0E1 B-ROCK &THE BIZ/ MyBabyDaddy TM/LaFace/Arista go? Always have the next step in mind... Now is a good time to big-up 30 15 MASTER P If ICould Change No Limit/Priority Funkmaster Flex of Hot 97 and J-Ro of the Alkaholiks, the actual authors of 16 BIG MIKE All A Dream Rap-A-Lot/NT/Virgin "NYC Alert" and "Likwit Sports," respectively. Thanks for adding flavor 17 BIG PUNISHER You Ain't A Killer Loud Energy 108's and knowledge to our HITS rap sec- Mastermind and little CRU Just Another Case Def Jam/Mercury tion, and keep up the good work!... DJ Nate... Chubb Rock called me to let us know En E ilt TOO SHORT/UL' KIM Call Me Jive he has a new single, "Beef" (Select), shipping this week; it features Das EFX and PMD, who proba- El El 20 JERU Me Or The Papes Payday/Island bly knows a little something about beef... SHOW ME THE ▪ ZI RASCO Unassisted Stone's Throw MONEY: TLC is back in the studio recording an album sched- uled for release late this year... In other LaFace news, "Pina Ei in El CAPONE NNOREAGATop Of N.Y. Penalty/Tommy Boy Colada" by The Real One will be the next single off the "And Then There Was Bass" compilation, so get at Taiye and Randall Ez1 GI El RAwconcs Nevertheless Opposition at (404) 869-4069 for yours... The Wu-Tang Clan was in L.A. this past weekend, filming the video to "The Triumph"... A good Columbia/CRG Ei El RZA/GZA Third World way to check out all-around-nice-guy Mastermind from Energy 108 is on the Internet (at wmvv.energy108.ca) on Mondays and a B BOOGIEMONSTERS Beginning Of The End EMI Tuesdays from midnight to 1 a.m. Eastern time. And that's in rej 20 rj ALL NATURAL 50 Years/Writer's... Natural RealAudio, folks... Sway & Tech's worldwide-syndicated Wake Up Show has picked up WLRD/Fayetteville... Nervous Records la Is] Ea SUGA FREE If UStay Ready SL/Unfadeable/Island has signed rapper Breez Evaflowin', whose current single, "You Ain't Heard," is already being played at college radio... Hey, el En El GODFATHER DON Piece Of The Action Hydra dudes, a good way to keep the madness of the promotion game in perspective is to volunteer some of your spare time for KILLARMY Wu Renegades Wu Tang/Priority charitable deeds, such as helping out at soup kitchens or donat- ▪ 30 BEATNUTS Do You Believe Relativity ing clothes to women's shelters. And it don't stop...

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# ARTIST TITLE LABEL This week's props go out to William COMMENTS West, better known as Fuzzy. Pulled into 1. NOTORIOUS B.I.G. Life After Death Bad Boy/Arista the promotion game in 1992 by Paul "Mo Money" mo sales Stewart to work RuPaul as afavor, Fuzzy 2. SPACE JAM Soundtrack Sunset Warner/AUG has emerged as a premier rap promoter astronomical sales for such labels as New Deal, Wild Pitch, 3. HEAVY D Waterbed Hey Uptown/MCA Payday, Warner Bros. and PMP, not to "Big Daddy," big sales mention his stint as tour soundman for 4. SCARFACE Untouc hable Rap-A-Lot/NTNirgin the Pharcyde. In 1997, Power106/L.A. PD Michelle Mercer $ales make us "Smile" hired Fuzzy to do on-air part-time. It was there that he intro- 5. STEADY MOBB'N Pre-Meditated Drama No Limit/Priority duced the "Curb Servin — segment to "Friday Night Flavas," Master P's boyz bringing in guest artists like Master P, the Comrads and MC 6. BOOTY CALL Soundtrack Jive Eiht. Fuzzy explains, "I wanted to expose the kind of hip-hop Too Short, SWV, Joe... on the radio that you would normally only hear on the streets. 7. MAKAVELI Don Kiluminati Death Row/Int Everyone in L.A. plays uptempo rap on mixshows, and the Hail Mary records from down South and the West get lost in the sauce. 8. T.R.U. TRU 2Da Game No Limit/Priority Shouts to Big Scoop, Choc, Big Boy, D-Young, Snoop Dogg nearly Gold and my lovely wife, Kathy." On the strength... 9. LIL' KIM Hardccire Undeas/BB/AtIG "Crush" 41 MTV Jam 10. BIG MIKE Still Serious Rap-A-Lot/NTNirgin LIKWIT SPORTS BY J-RO "All A Dream" — ut up!!! Iknow Iput it out there about taking bets on the REGIONAL FLAYA Lakers. I'm broke as 4!@#$% now. Ieven owe my momz 20 bucks. But it's all good... There's mad talk about some very big changes coming in the Lackers--er, Lakers line-up. If Ipassed on some of the comments I've heard about coach Del Harris, TWISTA, this week's column probably wouldn't get printed. Isay, if he TONE, 3 X KRAZY goes, he goes! Whaddaya want, acookie? Nick Van Exel had HOOKER, O.C. a lot to say about his probably-soon-to-be-ex-coach after the RASCO, Lakers season ended on Monday night. Iwon't comment, for ALKAHOLIKS fear of jinxing the outcome Iwant. Remember, Penny will be a 111 free agent. Anyway, Lexington, Kentucky will be opening its arms to aformer Rick Pitino assistant. Former Georgia coach Tubby Smith was unanimously approved by the University of Kentucky Athletic Association only seven minutes after being le 1) «rAZ, recommended by Athletic Director C.M. Newton. What le 1(4 S/P JFFY makes this so significant is the fact that Smith is ablack man. If you didn't know, Kentucky's reputation was tarnished because of the 42-year reign of Adolph Rupp as head coach. Let's hope that Kentucky can thrive with Smith at the helm and shake the history that seems to follow them. Good luck, Tubby!... OUT DA UNDAGROUND

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"HIP HOP, COLLARD GREENS & I. NOTORIOUS B.I.G. Hypnotize Bad Boy/Arista 135 CORNBREAD...:" Tha title of what our man in tha mix DJ Ran (WUSL) cites az a 2. JAY-1 Who You Wit' Qwest/WB 120 continuing service problem on behalf of 3. SURFACE Ff2PAC Smile RAUNoo Trybeffir 117 mix show DJs who've been pigeonholed az"hip hop DJs" & az arezult, sparse if no 4. KRS-ONE Step Into AWorld jive 115 service on Ballads, Dance,Techno,Alternative, etc. Ran:"It'z sum muzikal 5. LADY OF RAGE Sho Shot Death Row/It Ill Jim Crow shit! When I'm tryin to get anything other than rap or R&B, Igotta beg to get it for me and/or my pc,o1 (Philly DiscMasters). last 6. HEAVY D Big Daddy Uptown/Universal 108 time Ichecked, members of LaBouche, Funky Green Dogs, Spice 7. TRACEY LEE The Theme Bystorm/Universal 104 Girls, Brand New Heavies, etc. are black. We do play more than Biggie & 2Pac; das right! Ido jetskis & watches hockey too. Matter of 8. I.11! KIM Crush On You Un/BB/Ati G 103

fact, Igotta house reconi cummin out called Tha Watermelon Guy' 9. NOTORIOUS B.I.G. Mo Money... Bad Boy/Arista 102 Check tha `Fried Chicken Remix:" Steve "Miggedy" Maestro H.O.LA./Island 101 (WGCI):"Just so happens that we play dance muzik, too. If we don't get 10. VERONICA No One But You serviced, what're we suppozed to do, sing it?" Ran:"Let us hear tha shit 1I. SUGA FREE If You Stay... Sheppard lane/Unfadeable/Id. 98 & make our own decisions! It'z all good to ship out tha white labels az Get It Together (mix) Biv 10/Motown 97 long az you remember tha vinyl iz black! Reran( »Jae." Soundz like sum 12. 102 mix promo folks betta take sum time away from wearin out their 13. PR Can We jive 95 Amex's tryin to look kool & spend more time doin their fukkin home- 14. ALKAHOLIKS F/ODB Hip-Hop Dnmkies LOUD 91 werk, revize their lists & stop discriminatin... Congratz ScarfaceJ2Pac (Rap-A-Lot/NooTrybe/Virgin) 4th straight wk @ *1 conf call pic az Wu- IS. CRU Just Another Case Vio/Def Jam/Merc. Tang Clan (LOUD/RCA) stayz *1 on tha unda w/12s just shipped...Ya 16. GOD'S PROPERTY Stomp B-Rite 87 Can Go Ilome Pt IV: Az in my last stompin grounds before checicin outta radio full-time, KSFM for their Spring Jam for 10K plus, w/stand- 17. REDMAN Pick It Up Del Jam/Mercury 85 out performances from Dru Hill (Island) & Az Yet (LaFace). Luvv to 18. GYRL Get Your Groan On Silas/MCA 84 Trejo & wifey Trish, Mr. West, Randy, E-Bro, JB, Nicky, Angela, Laticiajenny, Boomer, Charlie Ramos & my man Mixxula.Top Pic 19. BIG SUB Need Your Love Kedar/Universal 82 (I-r) Davey D (KSFM), Connie Breeze (Motown), Bob West 20. (ORINA Summertime, Summertime So So Def/Col/CRG 81 (PD/KSFM), Trejo (MD/APD/KSFM) az Davey displays tha proper lip formation for management tushys...Ya get Awesome 2's (I lappy 15th Anni.-May 18, 1982-'97/WNWK) mix tape they did for The Olays OUTTA THA BOX (Volcano Ent.)? Their new shit iz outta here! Get w/new mix promo WEEKLY CONFERENCE Brett Wright's cur washer "Slim" Pickens @ 212-352-5319 for a ICALL WINNERS copy.. Joy to Roy Barbosa's (WJMN) family on dad's recovery.. ARTIST TITLE LABEL Remember Isaid this:There are 2snduks cummin that'll rule Summer COMMERCIAL into Fall @ least:" HowTo Be A Playa" (DefJam/Merc) feat. collab w/Rick I. SCARFACE F/2PAC Smile RAL/Noo Trybe/Virgin James, DJ Quik & Richie Rich that's FLIKKLN REEDICKULOUS & 2. NOTORIOUS B.I.G. Mo Money, Mo Problems Bad Boy/Arista 1.01:DS"Hoodlum."...Speakin ofl)ef Jam, check their new sub-label CD 3. GOD'S PROPERTY Stomp 8-Rite Records Def Soul sampler for Playa-HOTIT!... Ron Love (WJBT): "Tell them 4. JAY-i Who You Wit' Qwest/WB 5. BIG BUB What You Need Kedar/Universal reconi muthafuldcaz to send me sum R&B shit, too, & stop hip-hoppin 6. K-C1 &JO JO You Bring Me Up MCA my asss to defl"Taste tha hate... Iluvvv Laurnea's (Epic) project! TAL- 7. SUGA FREE If UStay Ready Sheppard Lane/Unfadeable/Isl. ENT!... Happy B-claze: Eric Brooks (NooTrybe/Virgin), "Hurnpty" 8. CRAIG MACK Jockin' My Style Street Life/Scotti Bros. (KPWR), Evil Dee (WQI Tamia (Qwest) & Glenn Aure (KMEL)... 9. 702 Get It Together (Bass remix) Biv 10/Motown 10. GYRL Get Your Groove On Silas/MCA Jammin Jay addz The Candyman to tha mix. Send all shit for both 11. CORINA Summertime, Summertime So So Del/Col/GIG c/o Jay/WIBB, 7080 Industrial Hwy Macon, GA 31206... Bad Boy Bill's (WBBM) video, now on The Box, à pure DJ turntable sexuality.. Lotsa UNDERGROUND conf call pix (see OuttaTha Box).Why?There REALLY à alotta hotu shit I. WU TANG CLAN The Triumph LOUD 2. CRU Just Another Case Violator/Def Jam/Merc. out now & w/more on-air mix time happenin than ever in this DJ's 3. ALKAHOLIKS F/O.D.B. Hip-Hop Drunkies LOUD mush-mouth memory ya PD/MD/APD/AMD/Consultant folks need to 4. REDMAN Pick It Up Del Jam/Mercury checiddcly check w/ya in-house muzikal expert more than ever on 5. RAMPAGE Take It To The Street Elektra/EEG what'z ready for regular ro. Like PD Michelle S. (KMEL) utilizin Sway 6. WHORIDAS Talkin"Bout Bank Delicious Vinyl/Red Ant 7. DJ FLEXX Crowd Participation LOUD & Tech &The Alistar DJs, for example...

107 HITS May 19. 1997 MEW_ Hg Leading MiXer5 I WOLF-D • WKKV I DJ ILLEGAL • KBXX

• The Olays Gyrl "What's StoppingYou" "Get Your Groove On" Volcano Ent. Silas/MCA

"This classic group of gentlemen has just "This iz adope-ass summertime record. pulled off what is nearly impossible for so Ilike tha vocals, tha beats—all of it! I'm many hit acts from past eras.This new sin- gonna try my best to blow this up down gle (and tha rest of their album) fits right in tha mix with all of tha other here!" Editor's/Latin Prince note: Recently, KBXX, after endurin many, young buck artists in today's market.That's what is so impressive about many of their local sports teams' non-championship seasons, haz decid- this album.They sound just as natural as all of tha Tonies, Maxwells, etc, /ed to sponsor tha 1st-ever urban sumo wrestling team. Candidates (1- Iand many other artists they've inspired." Editor's note: Nice that all five r) Ricky Leigh, Clark Kent (Motown), DJ Illegal, B-Swift (KBXX) & of C-Minus' friends showed for hiz goin back to Power 106 party. I Dangerous D (Gulf Coast Rec. Pool). Still @ dinner, waitin for 4ths, understand Laurnea's (Epic/center) appearance waz apaid gig.Wolf's not probably 5ths: Reg-N-Effect, Kid Fresh, Steve Nyce, Michael Watts & here.That's right,Wolf duzn't appear on spec. Robert Scorpio.

I ICY ICE • KKBT I DWIGHT STONE • WBHJ

Alkaholiks feat. ODB CRU "Hip-Hop Drunkies" "Just Another Case" LOUD Violator/Def Jam/Mercury ''What's your name?' Tha combination of tha liks and tha 0.D.B. make this "This joint got it! Production's song a classic in itself. It will always be tight, a catchy hook and Slick remembered for tha way 0.D.B. Rick tha Ruler? CRU's flava is on screams in tha beginning. E-Swift's production, tha 'Liks & 0.D.B. equal sum nexxt level ishh. I'm lovin' aperfect team." Editor's note: Proving once again that L.A. haz serious 1problems w/border patrol (I-r) Dave "Wicked Mix" Meyer (KMEL), Icy it!" Latin Prince/C-Minus Note: Breasts feeling kinda heavy? Just Ice "Bucket," Chuy "Chewbacca" Gomez (KMEL) & DJ "INS." Style give E-Man a call, he'll be glad to assist you and show off his new (XHTZ).All four were seen shortly after this pic in orange L.A. County state-of-tha-art "Ta-Tas Holder." Available for only $19.99 or an uniforms cleanin tha beach. edge-up from SuperCuts. It pays to be short in tha mix.

I EARL "MIXIN" MCKINNEY • WCHB 1I RON LOVE • WJBT 702 Jay-Z "Get It Together" "Who You Wit" Biv I0/Motown Ingrue (from the "Sprung" soundtrack) Qwest/WB "For one, tha track cooks you eti iteJ as tha lyrics hook you. Flat out, "If you watch tha video, you see him dipping outta tha box, this record's back to hiz 'Hawaiian Sophie' fame. Tha hottt! Heavy phones. Anybody 4. beats are tight! It'z all good! Getting who sleeps, slips on this record!" Latin Prince/C-Minus Note: Here's 1 maaaaddd phones!" Latin Prince Note:Yo, wass up with tha '60s plants Nasty Nes' (left) impersonation of Curty Cut, displayin' his well- in the back? Ifeel like I'm at my grandmother's flower shop... and that earned degree in aroma therapy to DJ Marvin while both listen to Earl old Beat Street posel" Man, all you need now is avelvet painting of in tha mix! Smell-O-Vision at ira best! your girl... no, wait aminute,1 have that. Nevermind. 1I DJ LYNNWOOD • KGGI I DJ JELLY • WHTA Corina Warren G "Summertime Summertime" "Smokin' Me Out" So So Def/Columbia/CRG Violator/Def Jam/Mercury

"This shit iz DOOOPPPE! Nocera super- "Warren haz reinvented this track; in other charged without tha accent This will be abig words, he added new flava to aklassic track Riverside record for dia summer!" Latin & group while he put anew twist on it that Prince/C-Minus Note:This week's Smokin' Crack Award goes to our only he can. He haz made this into asoon- 1very own "King Of Rive rs id e" DJ Lynnwoo d for cont inu ing to rock to-be hit!" Latin Prince/C-Minus Note: Here we see Jelly on-air tha Z. Cavaricci poster-boy-l oo k(Y o,b y tha way,w ho is your agent?). promoting hiz new 18 & Over strip jointlelly's Cream Club." Can we And when you & Ricky bothstart dressing for tha '90s, give us a ca ll get aV.I.P. card? We'll be waiting... w/a full report & we'll share it with your loyal fan clubo fseven !! Red ribbons

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BASED ON SALES OF ALBUMS, TAPES AND CD'S FROM THE NATION'S LEADING RECORD MERCHANDISERS WINNERS

MOST #1's MOST TOP 5's MOST TOP 10's

1. MARY J. BLIGE 1. MARY J. BLIGE 1. NOTORIOUS B.I.G. 2. INDIGO GIRLS 2. NOTORIOUS B.I.G. 2. MARY J. BLIGE 3. NOTORIOUS B.I.G. 3. DEPECHE MODE 3. SPICE GIRLS

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BLOCKBUSTER ANDERSON MERCHANDISER UNIVERSAL ONE-STOP 1. MARY J. BLIGE 1. GEORGE STRAIT 1. NOTORIOUS B.I.G. 2. NOTORIOUS B.I.G. 2. SPIC:E GIRLS 2. MARY J. BLIGE 3. SPICE GIRLS 3. SPACE JAM (ST) 3. HEAVY D 4. ERYKAH BADU 4. LEANN RIMES 4. INDIGO GIRLS 5. GEORGE STRAIT 5. LEA \IN RIMES/EARLY YEARS 5. ERYKAH BADU 6. WALLFLOWERS 6. DEANA CARTER 6. ALLURE 7. STEADY MOBB'N 7. WALLFLOWERS 7. BEE GEES 8. RICHARD "HUMPTY" VISSION 8. CELINE DION 8. LOVE JONES (ST) 9. HANSON 9. CLAY WALKER 9. HANSON 10. BEE GEES 10. SELIENA (ST) 10. SPICE GIRLS

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WHEREHOUSE THE WALL MUSIC INC ' NAT'L RECORD MART 1. NOTORIOUS B.I.G. 1. MARY J. BLIGE 1. SPICE GIRLS 2. MARY J. BLIGE 2. HANSON 2. NOTORIOUS B.I.G. 3. RICHARD "HUMPTY" VISSION 1 3. SPICE GIRLS 3. HANSON 4. STEADY MOBB'N 4. NOTORIOUS B.I.G. 4. MARY J. BLIGE 5. ERYKAH BADU lir 5. BEE GEES 5. STEADY MOBB'N 6. SUBLIME 6. WALLFLOWERS 6. WALLFLOWERS 7. CELINE DION 7. CELINE DION 7. INDIGO GIRLS 8. GEORGE STRAIT 8. JEWEL 8. SPACE JAM (ST) 9. ROMY & MICHELLE (ST) 9. PURE MOODS 9. JEWEL 10. SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS 10. VERVE PIPE 10. BLACKSTREET

JOHN MICHAEL JIM FREEMAN f BRANT BERRY 272 Retail Stores HMV 16 Retail Stores 110 Retail Stores (Bloomington) EGORC, s-rort.s (New York) (Portland) 'mi.! »sit

BEST BUY HMV RECORD STORES FRED MEYER 1. NOTORIOUS B.I.G. 1. MARY J. BLIGE 1. SPICE GIRLS 2. HANSON 2. INDIGO GIRLS 2. GEORGE STRAIT 3. WALLFLOWERS 3. ERYKAH BADU 3. JEWEL 4. MARY J. BLIGE 4. SPICE GIRLS 4. PURE MOODS 5. GEORGE STRAIT 5. U2 5. BEE GEES 6. BEE GEES 6. HANSON 6. YANNI 7. SPICE GIRLS 7. GROSSE POINT BLANK (ST) 7. SPACE JAM (ST) 8. JEWEL 8. CELINE DION 8. HANSON 9. CELINE DION 9. NOTORIOUS B.I.G. 9. CELINE DION 10. ERYKAH BADU 10. WALLFLOWERS 10. WALLFLOWERS

110 HITS May 19, 1997 IT'S WHAT 1011 WANTED. .k

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Bits and pieces: Spec's Jeff says Garkinos. "And now that we Fletcher confirms that the 53- have those first stores in place, we store Miami-based chain will not know people are reacting posi- be closing its warehouse as tively to the concept" Although originally planned, but will keep it Vugin doesn't break out in- open in a "reduced capacity" dividual store numbers, insiders Fletcher: "We found that, if we tell us that the 72,000-sq. ft Tunes shift our buying priorities and use Square location alone is doing our supplier huge more effectively upwards of $50 million per year. and in a cost-effective manner, The new stores will range in size closing the warehouse is not between 25,000 and 50,000 sq. necessary." Negotiations are ap- Last year, Epitaph Records' parently still underway with both resident sales and marketing god- IMPERFECT HARMONY: Mercury superstar Jon Bon Jovi sets hearts Valley and Alliance one-stops, one dess Melissa Boag came up with aflutter during a visit to Troy, MI's Harmony House when lw reveals he has ahome of which will probably still play a asimple but great idea. Make up video featuring Richie Sambora and Heather Locklear in the shower as part in Spec's inventory control... bin card stickers that can give he promotes his new solo CD, "Destination Anywhere," and gives hair care tips to (I- Lots of talk this week about the band bio information, other r) Harmony House's Gaspur Mallizo, PGD's Bill Schulte, Bon foil, Har- big Musiciand conference call catalog titles available and lead a mony House's Dave Levesque &Sandy Bean and »may's Jeff Brody. last Friday (5/9), and whether or customer to other discs ("if you not they have secured a new like these guys, then you should financial partner. Stay tuned... The also be listening to..."). Indie eight-store Virgin Mega-Store stores nationwide have been using chain will be opening another six them to advantage since inception, locations in '97, with plans to ex- but the first major just jumped on- pand by another eight to ten stores board The stickers aie shipping in '98. The new sites include Or- this week to 1,000 Musicland lando, Vegas, Long Island, locations as per Dick Odette... At Phoenix, Dallas and New Or- least for the time being. the leans. Head Of Marketing Chris- Northwestern 220-store Fred tos Garldnos confirms that Vir- Meyer chain does not plan on put- gin's business was in excis of ting music product into the newly $125 million in 1996 and the plan acquired Southwestern 152-store GETTING HIGH MARX: Capitol Records artist Richard Marx visits the is to double that figure for '98. Smith Food and Drug chain. Al- Borders store in Bryn Mawr; PA, as part of his NARAS-sponsored "Fight For The Arts" national campaign in support of the NEA as well as to promote his new album, Having slowly opened the first though that could change in a "Flesh and Bone." Shown before being arrested on obscenity charges for imper- eight stores (the first was the couple of years... There's an un- sonating a Robert Mapplethorpe photo are (back, l-r) B101 MD Donna Hollywood/Sunset Blvd. store in commonly large buzz in front of Rowland, Man.,EMD Mktg. Dir Ray Gianchetti, Capitol Pop Promotions '92), they now feel that they can the upcoming long-form video Frank Falise, EMD's Jackie Nichols and Borders' Rebecca Hickey: move more quickly. "We've been release by Alanis Morissette. (front, 1-r) Borders Music Mgr Sean Hickey and Capitol Post Modern Adult very smart about our locations," Maverick sales honcho Fred Promotions Nick Bedding. Crashai confirms that they will He Oughta Know be shipping an extraordinary (for music video) 100,000-plus for a July 1street dal?, accompanied by a virtual laundry list of P.O.P materials. Musicland is planning to adorn every Sam Goody and Suncoast window with asix-foot video box and life-si7P stand-up of Alanis. Anyone that has had the chance to see the eye-popping opening sequence knows that this video might very well bleak some records... Wherehouse has just PLAY IT AS IT LEIS: Dancing CaeWindham Hill artists Keola Beamer, given VP snipes to longtime head George Kahumoku, James "Bla" Pahinui and Ledward Kaapana of music purchasing Kevin Mil- & Bob Brozman celebrate their newest releases of Hawaiian slack key guitar Fred Croshal: Won't be shorted music outside Honolulu's Academy of Art. Shown just before getting hit on the head on Alanis video sales. ligan. Congrats. with coconuts and dreaming they were in Billboard are (1-r) Beamer mgr Marty Kirkman. Kaapana, Kahurnolar, Brozman, Beamer Pahinui, Dancing Cat Records' Ben Churchill and Windham Hill's Kathy Callahan.

112 HITS May 19, 1997 "When Iwas young and knew everything..." Everyone can relate to "the freshmen"

#9 Most Played Song At Radio (All Formats)* 32,395 Albums Scanned This Week 58,997 Singles Scanned This Week #11 Best Selling Top 40 Album**

,11 #4 Best Selling Top 40 Single** 29-25 Top 40 Mainstream Monitor 24-22 Top 40 Adult Monitor

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WM E #2 Modern Rock Monitor

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*According To BDS National Airplay Chart '• According To Songs Charted On The Top 40 Mainstream Monitor

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2 BEE GEES (Poly/A&M 537-302) 78% 7 SUPERGRASS (Capitol 55228) 28%

3 M. BROOKS (Capitol 36919) 70% S. OF BLACKNESS (A&M 549-029) 27%

4 STEADY MOBB 'N (Priority 50704) 53% In MTV'S AMPED (Caroline 7550) 24%

5 ALLURE (Crave 67848) 36% 11 MARK EITZEL (WB 46602) 18%

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114 HITS May 19, 1997 Every Moment Is Something Special. James Taylor Little More Time With You The first single from his new album "Hourglass."

T.T. on TV: Monday, May 19 "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno"

Friday, May 23 "The Today Show"

And don't missn James Taylor's • Special "Live By Request" Wednesday, June 25th. (Check local listings.)

Look for him on tour all summer.

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10 ERYKAH BADU BADUIZM Kedar/Univ 53027 Heading toward 2 million 72.6 1111 _8 LEANN RIMES BLUE MCG/Curb 77821 Mega sales here 68.3 BEE GEES STILL WATERS Poly/A&M 537-302 Huge fan base, H of Fame 65.7 13 12 LEANN RIMES EARLY YEARS MCG/Curb 77856 Country wonder 52.6 12 13j 14 BLACKSTREET ANOTHER LEVEL lnterscope 90071 Over 3 million 51.9 14 14 NO DOUBT TRAGIC KINGDOM Trauma/Int 92580 "Sunday..." up now 48.4 INDIGO GIRLS 151 SHAMING OF THE SUN Epic 67891 "Shame On You" leads 48.0 15 HEAVY D 191 WATERBED HEV Upt/Universal 53033 "Big Daddy" leads 43.0 33 17 DEANA CARTER DID ISHAVE MY LEGS Capitol 37514 Hot Country single leads 41.9 1471 47 19 YANNI IN THE MIRROR Pri/WHG 82150 Best of 40.4 16 ¡16¡ 20 U2 POP Island 524-334 Tour under way 40.2 MEREDITH BROOKS 1-1 BURNING EDGES Capitol 36919 "Bitch" leads 37.3

23 [22] TONI BRAXTON SECRETS LaF/Arista 26020 Over 5 million now 35.7 22 [21 VERVE PIPE VILLAINS RCA 66809 "The Freshmen" #6 MTV 35.1

18 SUBLIME SUBLIME GA/MCA 1141 Past Platinum 34.8

21 LOVE JONES SOUNDTRACK Col/CRG 67917 Contains Lauryn Hill cut 32.9

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