Cash Box's Production JIM GONZALEZ Top 200 Album Chart and Has Sold Nearly 150,000 Units)
MAGAZINE TRADE MUSIC THE VOL. LV, NO. 30, MARCH 21, 1992 STAFF BOX GEORGE ALBERT President and Publisher KEITH ALBERT Vice President/General Manager FRED L. GOODMAN Editor In Chief CAMILLE COMPASIO Director, Coin Machine Operations LEE JESKE New York Editor THE MUSIC TRADE MAGAZINE Marketing LEON BELL (L A.) MARK WAGNER Director, Nashville Editorial RANDY CLARK, Assoc. Ed. (LA) COVER STORY BRYAN DeVANEY, Assoc. Ed (LA) BERNETTA GREEN (N.Y.) WILMA MELTON (Nash.) STEVE GIUFFRIDA (Nash.) Matthew Sweets Hot Girlfriend CORY CHESHIRE, Nashville Editor GREGORY S. COOPER-Gospel (Nash.) Chart Research MATTHEW SWEET SINGS AND WRITES POP SONGS. In an CHERRY URESTI (LA ) era where heavy metal and rap seem to be the sounds grabbing ears, JIMMY PASCHAL (LA) headlines and pocketbooks, good, commercial pop songs are getting TONIE HECTOR (LA) TODD MURPHY (LA) harder to come by. With the release of his third lp (and first for Zoo RAYMOND BALLARD (LA) Records), Girlfriend, Sweet has enhanced the power of pop in the JOHN COSSIBOOM (Nash.) marketplace (this week his album is #119 with a bullet on Cash Box's Production JIM GONZALEZ Top 200 Album Chart and has sold nearly 150,000 units). Art Director In 1986, when the Lincoln, Nebraska native released his debut Circulation album. Inside (Columbia), one critic noted, "Sweet's a pop addict and NINATREGUB, Manager his melodies are so effortlessly catchy that it's easy to dismiss his CYNTHIA BANTA as slight a big mistake." Publication Offices songs — NEW YORK Three years later. Sweet recorded Earth (A&M), another stunning 157 W. 57th Street (Suite 503) album that received accolades from the press but went virtually New York, NY 10019 unnoticed by most of the populace.
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