Ambitious 101015 M Lust 0 : the Ambitious Lovers (Arto Lindsay and Peter Scherer) Make Music at Once Tropical and Metropolitan, Sophisticated and Savage
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For example, in Germany CDs RIM: Retailers the world music industry $1.1 billion lapse." account for more than half of the to- a year, according to figures just re- The new figures reveal that 477 tal piracy figure in units sold, with a leased by the IFPI. million pieces of pirate product were value of more than $28 million. This Can Help Fight The latest statistics, which cover circulating worldwide in 1989. Within represents more than a third of the 1989, show a 10% rise in pirated music that total, there has been a switch of legitimate industry's revenue from Bogus Tapes sales compared with 1987, the year emphasis from cassettes to CDs. CDs. for which totals were last collated. Says the IFPI, "Over the last two "The recent upsurge in the for - BY MELINDA NEWMAN They also indicate that counterfeit years, pirates, like the consumer, tunes of the recording industry has CDs are a potential disaster for the have moved into compact disc tech- been the result of CD sales, and NEW YORK Trying to enlist re- FISHBONE. - business. nology. Production difficulties have clearly competition from pirate prod - tailers in its drive against street THIS SPRING. Globally, piracy is having the big- been overcome and the `perfect medi- (Continued on page 83) vendors of counterfeit product, the Recording Industry Assn. of ON COLUMBIA. America is spreading word of a new anti -piracy program through the major labels. Phil Collins Leads Grammy -Nominee Pack The RIAA sent a letter to the BY PAUL VERNA Mariah Carey is one of three art- cal artists as the Who, M.C. Hammer, presidents of the six major record ists receiving five nominations. Carey Eurythmics, and Collins. (A list of distribution companies Jan. 3, ac- NEW YORK-Phil Collins tops the is named in the record, album, song - nominees appears on page 78). companied by a flier detailing the list of nominees for the National of- the -year, pop- female-vocalist, and Quincy Jones, the other artist re- "Street Vendor Alert Program," a Academy of Recording Arts and Sci- new -artist categories. The late con- ceiving five nominations, is now the step -by -step agenda that explains ences' 33rd annual Grammy Awards, ductor /composer Leonard Bernstein most -nominated artist in the history how retailers and distributors can receiving nominations in eight cate- is also nominated in five categories, of the awards, surpassing Henry tackle the counterfeiting problem gories, including record, album, and including best classical album and Mancini's previous record of 71. on the street level, song of the year (a songwriter's best longform music video, in which Jones has a total of 74 nominations. The RIAA is asking the distri- award). he will compete with such nonclassi- (Continued on page 79) bution heads to pass the flier on to branch managers to (Continued on page 83) B'buster Taking Personics Files Chapter 11, No. 1 IN BILLBOARD Ride the express train to Spanish Harlem Its Magazine on Together Forever, the scorching HOT 100 SINGLES new 12" from Lisette Melendez -Top * LOVE WILL NEVER DO (WITHOUT 15 at Tower Records Uptown and Anticipates New Financing YOU) To Newsstands JANET JACKSON (A&M) Downtown, and #28 at the Wiz. An BY DAVE DIMARTINO Calif. -based Personics, the filing instant hit for us...Our #1 request for TOP POP ALBUMS was made "to protect ourselves to BY JIM McCULLAUGH TO THE EXTREME over a month." Kevin McCabe, Hot 97. * LOS ANGELES Corp., allow us the time to complete anoth- VANILLA ICE (MK) On Fever / RAL/Columbia. 44 -73630 -Personics the in -store custom taping system er round [of financing]." Toward LOS ANGELES -Blockbuster En- HOT R &B SINGLES introduced four years ago, has filed that end, Boone says, the company tertainment Corp., the country's larg- * THE FIRST TIME SURFACE (COLUMBIA) for reorganization under Chapter is now "fairly close" to wrapping up est home video chain, is planning to TOP R &B ALBUMS 11 of the federal bankruptcy laws. new deals with two different par- upgrade its in -store promotional pub- * I'M YOUR BABY TONIGHT Company sources attribute the ties and "with a little luck" might lication into a high -profile, news- WHITNEY HOUSTON (ARISTA) move to the breakdown of two an- be able to announce one of them stand- distributed national consumer HOT COUNTRY SINGLES * UNANSWERED PRAYERS ticipated financing deals. within a week. video software magazine. GARTH BROOKS (CAPITOL) The petition, filed Dec. 31 in fed- In the interim, says Boone, field Sources say the first issue of the TOP COUNTRY ALBUMS eral bankruptcy court in San Fran- engineers will continue to maintain monthly publication could hit the * PUT YOURSELF IN MY SHOES cisco, lists the company's total as- the 255 existing Personics machines stands as early as April or May. The CLINT BLACK (RCA) sets $8.2 million its liabilities in marketplace, and the compa- is called TOP VIDEO SALES at and the promotional publication * PRETTY WOMAN at $7.3 million. ny will continue to provide technical Blockbuster Video Magazine. (TOUCHSTONE HOME VIDEO) According to Steve Boone, presi- support to handle any software A number of music and video TOP VIDEO RENTALS * ANOTHER 48 HRS. dent and CEO of Redwood City, (Continued on page 83) chains have promotional in -store (PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO) (Continued on page 80) Fatal Joy is the debut album from Britain's 29 Palms. The first single will be "Magic Man," which will be worked at A/ between brains and legs a lot can happen C and NAC radio. See 29 Palms on their first American tour March 1 -Marci 28, with an appearance in San Francisco around the NARM convention on Palm Sunday (3/24). (X2/4-13054) ambitious 101015 m lust 0 : The Ambitious Lovers (Arto Lindsay and Peter Scherer) make music at once tropical and metropolitan, sophisticated and savage. Their Elektra debut, Lust, Is a Brazilian -inflected mix of funk and finesse featuring the singles "Umbabarauma" and "Lust" Produced by Peter Scherer Album release date: January 18. o 71 486 02552 8 on elektra cassettes and compact discs © vin Elektra Entertainment, A Division of Worner Communications Inc. 0' A Time Warner Company Elektra ADVERTISEMENT www.americanradiohistory.com M www.americanradiohistory.com % cg Q O : C f- eoe _ wu CI u.r 0"" c ait; p . icx,Z Q w W , :% . 114, m zC , - tV W20 -J F , , 0 4 . i . 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They are a synagogue of Sa- VOLUME 103 NO. 3 JANUARY 19, 1991 isn't the only thing about it that is ish leaders, who are angered by a tan." causing controversy. Now a remix passage from the New Testament, That passage prompted complaints SOMETHING TO CROWE ABOUT contained on the cassette and CD -5 Revelations 2:9, featured in the re- from the Los Angeles -based Simon maxisingle of the hit has brought ac- mix.