MAGAZINE TRADE MUSIC THE November 2, 1991 Newspaper $3.50 5 VOL. LV, NO. 12, NOVEMBER 2, 1991 STAFF BOX GEORGE ALBERT President and PMisher KEITH ALBERT Vice President/General Manager JIM SHARP Vice President FRED L. GOODMAN Editor In Chief CAMILLE COMPASIO Director, Coin Machine Operations LEE JESKE THE MUSIC TRADE MAGAZINE New York Editor KIMMY WIX Nashville Editor Editorial RANDY CLARK, Assoc. Ed. (LA) BRYAN DeVANEY, Assoc. Ed. (LA) BERNETTA GREEN (N.Y.) INSIDE THE BOX WILMA MELTON (Nash.) STEVE GIUFFRIDA (Nash.) COVER STORY CORY CHESHIRE (Nash) GREGORYS. COOPER (Nash.) Heir Condition: Prince Stays Cool Chart Research JEFF KARP Once again, the Purple One is making headlines with Coordinator (L.A.) CLIFF GERKEN (Nash.) his new smash Paisley Park/Warner Bros. Ip Diamonds TERESA CHANCE (Nash.) And Pearls and his controversial behavior. But, as CHERRY URESTI (L.A.) JIMMY PASCHAL (LA) usual, through it all, he remains silent. However, Cash TONE HECTOR (L.A.) TODD MURPHY (LA.) Box associate editor Randy Clark got as close as one can get to Prince himself, speaking with Paisley park Production JIM GONZALEZ exec Jill Willis and members of the New Power Art Director Generation. Circulation —see page 7 NINATREGUB, Manager CYNTHIA BANTA NEWS Publication Offices NEW YORK “Brownouts” At CD Plants 1 57 W. 57th Street (Suite 1402) New York, NY 10019 Shortages Phone: (21 586-2640 Cause 2) Fax: (212) 582-2571 HOLLYWOOD The runaway success of compact discs is causing major 6464 Sunset Blvd. (Suite 605) problems at the plants that manufacture them. The Hollywood, CA 90028 Phone: (21 3) 464-8241 demand is far exceeding the supply, which might Fax: (213)464-3235 if is not a hit (like the Guns N' NASHVILLE mean an album two 50 Music Square West, (Suite #502) Roses lps, pictured), it may not get pressed. Cash Box Nashville TN 37203-3212 to several executives at manufacturing Phone: (615) 329-2898 spoke CD Fax: (615)320-5120 companies and labels who discuss their concerns. CHICAGO 1442 S. 61st Ave., Cicero IL 60650 Phone: (708) 863-7440 see page 3 BRAZIL — CHRISTOPHER PICKARD Av. Rio Branco, 123/2012 Rio de Janiero—RJ 20.040—Brazil Phone: (021) 222-4893/242-331 Fax: (021) 222-7904 ITALY NUMBER POP ALBUM CONTENTS MARIO DE LUIGI Use YOur Illusion II Dischi" Via De Amicis 47 “Music e ONES Guns 'N Roses COLUMNS 201233 Milan, Italy Country Music 19 (GEFFEN) Phone: (902) 839-18-37/832-79-37 East Coast 8 JAPAN West Coast 8 Adv. Mgr., SACHIO SAITO POP SINGLE R&B ALBUM Rap/ Dance 11 Editorial Mgr. KOZOOTSUKA Romantic Apocalypse 91.. Enemy Strikes Back Rhythm & Blues 12 2-chome, 11-1, Shinbashi, Karyn White Public Enemy Minato-ku CHARTS (WARNER BROS.) (DEF JAM/COLUMBIA) Tokyo Japan, 105 Top 40 Rap/Dance LPs & Singles 11 Phone: 504-1651 SINGLE Top 75 R&B LPs 12 UNITED KINGDOM R&B COUNTRY ALBUM Top 100 R&B Singles 13 CHRISSY ILEY Forever My Lady Ropin' The Wind Top 200 LPs 14 Flat 51 Cleveland Street 3, Top 100 Pop Singles 4 London W1 P 5PO England Jodeci Garth Brooks Phone: 01-631-1626 (UPTOWN/MCA) (CAPITOL) Top 100 Country Singles 20 Top 75 Country LPs 22 CASH BOX (ISSN 0008-7289) is pub- COUNTRY SINGLE GOSPEL ALBUM Top 40 Gospel LPs 17 lished weekly (except Christmas Country Chart Index 25 week) by Cash Box, 157 W.57th Street, Someday I'll Never Foiget Suite 1402 New York, NY 10019 for Alan Jackson Bobby Jones DEPARTMENTS $180 first class. Copyright 1991 by (ARISTA) (MALACO MAJ) News 3 George Albert. All rights reserved. 3 Copyright under Universal Copy- Executive on the Move right Convention. POSTMASTER: RAP SINGLE RAP ALBUM Country 19 Send address changes to CASH BOX, Coin Machine 25 157 W. 57th Street, Suite 1402, New Mind Playing Tricks On Me Apocolypse 91... Enemy Strikes Back Classifieds 29 York, NY 10019. Geto Boys Public Enemy (PRIORITY) (DEF JAM/COLUMBIA) — CASH BOX NOVEMBER 2, 1991 3 Mark Schulman ON “Brownouts” At CD Plants has been appointed to THE the newly-created job MOVE Shortages of vice president, Cause market development, By Don Perry Warner Music Group He was previously CONSUMERS OF PRERECORDED MUSIC are demonstrating senior vice president/general manager of Atlantic Schulman an increased preference for the compact disc, and the demand by Records since 1988. Columbia Records has promoted Rich Kudolla to senior vice president, record companies trying to fill that need is causing an overload among sales. A 12-year CBS Records veteran, he has been some CD replication facilities. vice president, sales, since 1989. MCA Records According to a spot survey last week by Cash Box, the burgeoning demand has announced that both Caroline Prutzman and single particularly as the holiday season approaches for the CD album and — Ron Shapiro have been promoted to vice presi- and the commensurate "brownout" at CD plants have caused some major record dent, public relations. Prior to joining MCA in 1990, companies to create priorities on what should be pressed to meet anticipated Prutzman was national publicity director at EMI, consumer needs. Kudolla and Shapiro was senior director, media & at Meaningi/am'f a hit, it might not get pressed. writer/publisher relations BMI. BBob Bernstein has been promoted to senior director, Replication facilities, conversely, imposing minimum-order limits, are striv- public relations/corporate communications at ing to gauge manpower and equipment expansion needs and are basically trying Capitol-EMI Music. He joined the company in to service their most consistent and profitable clients. 1987, and prior to that he served as account execu- Despite these efforts, more often than not "none of the record companies have tive/staff writer for Dennis Davidson Associates. they've ordered," according to Robinson, con- been getting exactly what Joe B Sherri Halford has been appointed to the posi- sumer product manager for Philips- Dupont Optical (PDO), which operates a tion of vice president of production for Capitol North Carolina plant and has corporate offices in Wilmington, Delware. Prutzman Records/Nashville. Before coming to "For the last two years there has been a capacity crunch," Robinson said. Capitol/Nashville in 1990, as director of produc- "Orders that took a few days to a couple of weeks to fill are now taking longer. tion, Halford was manager and director of produc- tion for Records. B Arista Records has ap- The order to completed disc turnover is being substantially pushed outward." MCA pointed Lena Dean Je'une to the position of coor- The dilemma affects labels both large and small, according to those contacted. dinator, black music Prior to joining that depart- While Priority Records had no official statement, a source there said that getting ment, she spent four years in the finance depart- orders filled on time and in quantity has been a problem. Cash Box has learned ment as accounts payable manager. Also at Arista, that Priority's backlogged CD order has risen as high as 500,000. Gerry Kuster has been promoted to the position of John Dietz, head of production and manufacturing for Geffen Records, said, Shapiro associate director, production. He has been with the "We always felt that problems of supply were short-term." Dietz noted that there label since 1987 and most recently held the title of has been no shortfall on such major titles as the Use Your Illusion albums by Guns co-manager, production. B Dino Paredes has been N' Roses which are currently cresting the album charts. "We've been fortunate appointed art director at Priority Records. He not to have CD back orders," Dietz observed, noting that Geffen has employed formerly held the simultaneous posts of art director at Triple X Records and staff designer at Hits a number of CD replication plants to meet market demands. "We look to be in magazine. B Robert Glanville has been promoted pretty good shape for the fourth quarter." to manager, regional industry relations at BMI. He Most of the manufacturers contacted either declined to participate in the joined the company in 1988 as a regional licensing story or would not reveal substantial information about the scope of their Bernstein executive. Also at BMI, Matthew Gute has been operations. promoted to field manager. He has been a licensing While PDO's Robinson declined to reveal the number of clients his company executive at BMI for five years. B Sony Music handles, he said that PDO replicates about 5 million units per month, or 60 Entertainment has upped John J. Hill to associate million annually. director, data processing audit; he joined the com- Joyce Jacalone, who works in sales at Burbank-based DMI, said that her pany as a senior auditor in 1988. B Roger Halperin has been made professional manager of the North company services about 2,000 clients, including CEMA Records and MCA American publishing company of Zomba, while Records, and that her company presses between 350,000 and one-half million Robert Andrejco Jr. signs on as its new tape and per week. "Hey, everybody's gearing up for the holidays," Jacalone noted. Halford dubbing operator. B Stephanie Shepherd, former "We've had to refuse orders less than 1,000 and we've had to spread out our DMR managing editor, has joined the New York- orders that larger 500,000." are than based dis public relations company as consultant Robinson said PDO attempts to gauge client needs and prepare for them and account executive. B Cheryl Lindsey, former- during the two peak periods—March and April and September through Novem- ly supervisor of the media and college marketing ber—but, "they expect us to be able to turn on like a power company.