AUGUST 22, 1998 Music Volume 15, Issue 34 £3.95 DM11 Saved again: Eagle - FFR35 Eye Cherry celebrates US$7 a sixth week on top of DFL11.50 M&M's Border Break- ers chart (page 18) Mediaewe taller to rya th M&M chart toppers this week French want radical Winners shine t 100 Singles on Comet trail MICHEL ODB & MYA music policy change COLOGNE - Anke Grol3 and Wolfram tto S pasta Kahler, the joint management team policies towards music behind public FAIR Mm The proposals come in a report to be broadcaster POP MUSIC exclusive POP ENTERTAINMENT presented to minister of culture Cather- Hessischer by Emmanuel Legrand ine Trautmann next month from the Rundfunk's komm. `NationalCommission on Today's cutting -edge PARIS - A commission of music profes- Music," launched at Trautmann's initia- CHR station XXL, sionals is to recommend a series of majortive in December last year. are among the win- European Radio I changes in the French government's continued on page 17 ners of the fourth Viva Branchen DES'REE Comet awards at thisyear's Pop- Life komm. trade fair. (Sony S2) Grol3 and Kahler were due to pick up their awards for Music Format of Inside M&M this week continued on page 17 AUTE: INVISIBLE IN ENGLISH German music Leading Spanish singer/ songwriter Luis Eduardo Aute is celebrating his 31 sales fall again year recording career by by Christian Lorenz releasing a new 31 -song album-including his first COLOGNE - Gloomy salesfigures English -languagerecord- Warner's Spanish superstar Alejandro Sanz recently played Antwerp's ings. Page 6 published on the eve of trade fair Pop- Sportpaleis venue prior to embarking on a sold -out tour of his home coun- comm.98 hadtheGerman music try. Sanz (centre) is pictured backstage with Warner Music Belgium staffers CONSOLIDATION RULES? industry warning of shrinking profit (1-r): Peter Van de Velde (product manager); Anne Baugnee (marketing margins this week. Latest ratings figures in the U.K. manager); Kathy Charlier (head of radio and TV promotion); Pascale De show substantial gains made by sta- At a special press conference in Weerdt (product secretary); Nathalie Dedoncker (marketing secretary) and Cologne on August 12, IFPI-recog- tions which have been part of com- Piet Vandevelde (promotion assistant). mercialradio'sconsolidationinto nisedGermantradebody BPW major national groups over the past revealedfiguresforthefirstsix 18 months. M&M takes a group -by - months of 1998 which show that total group look at those performances Fragments break across Europe music sales of BPW's members-who and, in his regular Talk Radio col- LONDON - The voice of Roy Maura and Maxi Trusso), account for an estimated 91 percent of umn,programmingeditorMike Orbison and filmscores willbereleasedacross the German music market-fell by 5.4 McGeever asks where the real bene- from the '40s and '50s are Europe on August 24. Early percent (in unit terms) compared to fit of the trend towards consolidation theunlikelycombination radio supportersrange the same period last year. lies. Pages 4, 14 which has inspired what from Zoe Ball,breakfast Turnover was down by four percent could be the surprise hit of presenter at U.K. public over the same period, according to U.K. MUSIC'S TOP SCORE the summer, writes Christ- CHR station BBC Radio 1 BPW, which only releases monetary Britishfootball teams may have ian Lorenz. to Tim Verheyen, supervi- salesfigures on an annual basis. failed to set this summer's World Fragments Of Life, the sor at Turkish CHR station Based on figures for 1997, the drop in Cup on fire,but they indirectly debut single from Mercury Radyo 5 in Istanbul. "The unit sales would put BPW members, helped light up the second quarter U.K-signed act Roy Vedas song has a great hook and revenues for the first half of 1998 at for their record industry. 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Media To order your copy please call Alison Smith on (+44)111323 6686 or fax (+44) 111 323 2314 AmericanRadioHistory.Com NEWS Music Italy takes action against pirates by Mark Dezzani ernment's own majority rejected the nomenon of illegal product sales which Media initial penalties." pervades the streets of certain cities, MILAN-After almost two years of inac- The conimission then proposed a and against which little has been done Call M&M on: tion, the Italian government is takingmaximum four year jail sentence for until now." tel (+44) 171 323 6686 positive steps to crack down on piracy. those involved in "higher level piracy" Concludes Mazza: "It is now up to fax (+44) 171 323 2314/16 Just prior to its summer recess, thesuch as production and distribution, the local and regional authorities to Editorial government implemented an emer-with a. maximum sentence of three implementthisdecreewithout Editor in chief: Emmanuel Legrand Managing editor: Tom Ferguson gency decree to penalise vendors ofyears for "lower levels," such as retail- any delay." News editor: Jonathan Heasman pirate recordings. ing illegal product. However, insists UnderliningMazza'scomments Features/specials: Terry Heath about organised crime and music pira- Music business/talent editor: Christian Lorenz U.S. trade regulatory body USTRMazza, "We are dealing with the same Programming editor: Mike McGeever placed Italy on its priority watch list on organised crime groups [as] in drug cy, IFPI this week announced that it is Cliorts & s rc piracy in June-a move which, accord- trafficking, and too low penalties will offering a $10,000 reward for informa- Charts editor: Raul Cairo ing to Enzo Mazza, president of Italy'snot do anything to deter them." tion leading to the arrest and conviction Charts researchers: Menno Visser, FPM(FederationagainstMusic In an attempt to compensate forof armed assailants who hospitalised Siri Stavenes Piracy), put the country "on a par withhis own government's vacillation over Sony Music's licensee in Romania. Procluctlon many Third World countries in terms ofthe legislation, Italian prime minister The day after he filed a complaint Production manager: Jonathan Crouch Designer: Dominic Salmon the volume of pirate product sold." Romano Prodi used his power ofwith the Romanian Copyright Office Correspondents: The USTR listing followed a num- decreetoimplementsanctionsabout the sale of pirate cassettes of Austria: Susan L. Schuhmayer - (43) 1 334 9608 ber of delays in ratifying new laws to against retailers of pirated product at Sony's World Cup 1998 album (Allez! Belgium: Marc Maes - (32) 3 568 8082 fight audiovisual piracy in Italy. IFPIthe end of July. Ola! Ole!), licensee Sorin Golea was Classical/jazz: Terry Berne -(34)9 3458 3791 beaten and threatened with a gun by Czech Republic. Michele Legge - estimates put the pirate market in The power of decree, aimed pri- (42) 2 248 75000 Italy at 20 percent of the official mar- marily at unlicensed street traders intwo attackers. Golea's nose was broken Dance Grooves: Gary Smith - (34) 9 3488 2180 cities throughout Italy, has to be and he lost two teeth during the attack. Denmark: Charles Ferro - (45) 3391 9156 ket in terms of units. Overall, IFPI val- France: Remi Bouton (radio and music ues the legal Italian market at $593m. renewed every six months until it is lain Grant, IFPI's London -based business) - (33) 1 4586 8466; Cecile Tosseyre The draft legislation, first proposed ratified or rejected by parliament and head of enforcement, says: "This attack (artist profiles) - (33) 1 4909 0896 Germany: Ed Meza (radio) - (49) 4239782 in October 1996, was approved by the senate. It allows fines of L5 million- is clearly linked to Sorin Golea's com- Greece: Cosmas Develegas - (30) 935 65641 Italian parliament, but the senate com- L30m ($2,850-$17,140) to be levied on plaint against music piracy" However, Italy: Mark Dezzani - (39) 184 292 824 The Netherlands: Robbert Tilli - (31) 20-672 2566 mission which had to approve the newretailers selling unlicensed audiovisu- he insists it will not deter IFPI in its Norway: Kai Lofthus - (47) 918 21 208 law rejected it on the grounds that pro-al product. The decree also sanctions fight against pirates: "Our message to Spain: Howell Llewellyn - (34) 9 1593 2429; Sweden: Keith Foster - (46) 8 366 228 posals to raise maximum prison sen- the confiscation of product, furnish-anyone producing music illegally in tences from three to five years were too ings and equipment. Romania is that we are now watching Solas oncl rs/lorketino Luciano Daffarra, Secretary General more closely than ever." IFPI estimates Director of advertising sales: tough. Mazza, who is also secretary Christine Chinetti generalof IFPI-recognisedmajorof FAPAV (Audiovisual Anti -piracy pirate recordings account for 90 percent International sales director: labels' body FIMI, says: "OppositionFederation) says: "The decree is an of sales in the Romanian music market. Ron Betist (UK, USA) - (31) 299 420274; mobile: (31) 653 194133 from elements within the coalition gov- important measure to fight thephe- Additional reporting by Tom Ferguson Sales executives: Christine Chinetti (G/S/A) - (44) 171 323 6686; Igor Rooselaar (Benelux; Scandinavia) - (31) 299 420274 Francois Millet (France) - (33) 145 49 29 33 Beth Dell'Isola (US Radio) - (1) 770 908 8373; Future is Clear Lidia Bonguardo (Italy, Spain, Greece, Ryko in Blackwell's Palm Portugal) - (39) 362 54 44 24.