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RADIO 1 NO. 1: LIFE COUNTRY BY KEN TUCKER BEGINS AT 40 FOR BBC RADIO NETWORK It's been a long time since the Daddy And Kinks or Roxy Music hit No.1, but now they find themselves -or their songs at least -back at the Daughter Duet summit of the U.K. charts, thanks to a new compilation celebrating 40 years of top Adding Miley Helps Billy Ray's Current Hit Climb \. 40 network BBC Radio 1. "Radio 1 Established 1967" -which features con- After lingering in the lower levels of Bill- "Home at Last" is the Greatest Gainer temporary artists covering hits from each of the board's Hot Country Songs chart for 11 on Top Country Albums with a 2,000 -unit last 40 years, including Robbie Williams' version weeks, Billy Ray Cyrus' previously solo ver- increase. It jumps 37 -22 with 5,000 of the Kinks' "Lola" (1970) and Kylie Minogue's sion of "Ready, Set, Don't Go" jumps 48 -33 copies sold and re- enters The Billboard take on Roxy Music's "Love Is the Drug" (1975) - thanks largely to his Oct. 9 performance of 200 at No. 159. debuted at No. 1 on the Official U.K. Charts Co.'s the song on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" compilations chart Oct. 7. In the process, the CD- with daughter Miley Cyrus, aka TV sensa- Additional reporting by Wade Jessen. only compilation, licensed to Universal Music TV, tion Hannah Montana. Walt Disney Records, became the fastest -selling album for the corpo- label home to father and daughter, has rere- ration's commercial arm, BBC Worldwide. It held Miley) leased the song to radio as a duet. READY, SET, JUMP 27/07 at No. 1 the following week, with total over -the- KPLX Dallas PD John Sebastian has added After 11 weeks in the lower reaches of counter sales now in excess of 127,000. the new version to the station's playlist. Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart, "Ready, "As a youth brand, we wanted to reflect our his- "When the opportunity came up for us to Set, Don't Go" catapulted 15 spaces when tory but still have meaning to a young audience,"

'play off of their duet on 'Dancing With the Walt Disney rereleased it as a duet. says Radio 1 head of music George Ergatoudis, Stars,' have Billy on the morning show, do who came up with the concept. an in -store and present him at the State Fair The tracks were premiered to Radio l's 10.87 of Texas, the duet version seemed to be a nat- million listeners in the two weeks prior to the net- ural," Sebastian says. work's 40th anniversary on Sept. 30. But, due to WBCT Grand Rapids, Mich., PD Doug public service broadcasting rules, DJs were not 9/29/07 Montgomery says, "The song is generating allowed to mention the album release on the air. a good amount of buzz and Miley is hot now, BBC Worldwide Audio and Music head of licens- too." Both stations are giving away tickets to ing Dominic Walker credits the success of the upcoming Miley Cyrus /Hannah Montana album to its "unique content" and predicts it will concerts in their markets. MILEY and eventually sell 500,000 -800,000 units. Meanwhile, Billy Ray Cyrus' album BILLY RAY CYRUS -Mark Sutherland

FOR , GLOBAL BY PAUL SEXTON MILLIONS OF TV VIEWS AND FRIENDS STILL DON'T TRANSLATE TO SALES PunkAlive, But Not Clicking Tila Tequila's new TV show may be atop the ratings, but it hasn't led to significant sales for her new sin- Sex Pistols Fans Snub album, 30 years and one day after its first ap- taking place with the approval of the band gle. "All My Stripper Friends," which was released Downloads, Opt For Vinyl pearance. That comes in heavyweight vinyl and that it dovetails well with the Pistols' digitally Oct. 9, sold less than 1,000 downloads in its and replicates the original insertion of a "Sub- brief reunion, which starts Oct. 25 at the Roxy first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Her British music weekly NME may have failed in mission" single and poster. The album is also in Los Angeles and includes seven U.K. previous single, "I Love U," was released in March its campaign to make the Sex Pistols' "God Save available digitally for the first time in the shows beginning Nov. 8. and has sold 17,500 copies. Neither song entered the Queen" a No. 1 single 30 years after it first United States, via iTunes. "There's loads of Pistols fans out there. any of Billboard's charts. missed the target, but EMI still regards its ac- "We've tried to re- create what happened 30 That's shown by the phenomenal gig up- MTV show "A Shot at Love With 111a Tequila" also companying vinyl reissue program as a success. years ago in a respectful and authentic way, and take," he says. "Fans haven't been able to get premiered Oct. 9, and ranked No.1 in its time slot Boosted by endorsements by such Sex Pis- the fans have bought into that," Wegg -Prosser the album in this format for 30 years. Obvi- for people ages 12 -34 across all cable competition, tols devotees as Foo Fighters, Klaxons and the says. "Aside from anything the NME have done, ously downloads are the way lots of things according to Nielsen. The show did especially well Beastie Boys, an NME campaign urged fans we're proud of how the vinyl has sold." will go, but there'll always be a place for a among women ages 18-24 and female teens, MTV to buy the track as a download via iTunes and Wegg -Prosser says the reissue program is nice slab of vinyl." says. An estimated 1.8 million people tuned in to the 7digital.com, or as part of the series of vinyl reality dating show, which centers on Tequila's quest 7 -inch Pistols singles issued on the EMI and to choose a mate from a panel of 16 Virgin labels in replica artwork, exactly as they men and 16 women. were in 1976 and 1977. The show makes little men- "God Save the Queen" peaked at No. 2 in tion of Tequila's musical career; the United Kingdom in the week of the the first episode noted her monarch's silver jubilee, ostensibly outsold music videos (where she is by Rod Stewart's "I Don't Want to Talk About often scantily clad) but not her It" / "The First Cut Is the Deepest" amid dark new single or forthcoming rumors that the "establishment" had kept it album. A release date and from the top spot. label for that album have No such maneuvers were required this time, not been announced. as "Queen" peaked at an anticlimactic No. 42. Tequila calls her- But, while downloads underperformed, EMI self "the queen of notes it was the best -selling vinyl single of the MySpace" and week, with sales of some 3,100. counts more than 2 EMI product manager Tom Wegg- Prosser million "friends" on says the vinyl sales fed the campaign leading her page. to the Oct. 29 rerelease of the iconic "Never -Cortney Harding Mind the Bollocks ... Here's the Sex Pistols"

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