THIS WEEK IN MONITOR: WLTW, WBLI Tops In Fall Arbitrons p.41,067 Labels Are Hurting, Does Radio Care? p. 28Litefin JANUARY 10, 2003 We Listen To Radio VOLUME 11 NO. 2SB.95 Welcome To The New Airplay Monitor Usually, an Airplay Monitor reader can count on opening our first magazine of the year and find- ing out what stations around the country changed formats during the holiday season. This year, the format change is ours. For the past 10 years, even the most devoted reader of the Airplay Monitor publications proba- bly wasn't seeing all our best stuff. That's because there were four, very specifically targeted editions of this magazine-serving top 40, R&B, country, and rock-that joined forces only for our year- end special edition and our fifth -anniversary issue. This week, there is one Airplay Monitor that gives programmers all the information they need from all 14 formats we cover. It's the same chart info from Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems that you've trusted for more than a decade. It's the same hard-hitting Monitor journalism that ana- lyzes radio programming and trends like no other publication. Just more of it. The new all -format Airplay Monitor is in recog- nition of the changes that have taken place in our industries in recent years. PDs rarely have the lux- ury of work- ing with only WHAT'S CHANGED one station. or format. More Chart Info anymore. Every Format in One Labels, for Magazine theirpart. New Features now think of almost even WHAT HASN'T projectin Country Radio multi -format BDS Chart Reliability terms. And Hard -Hitting Journalism as much a. Commitment to Your we would lik( Format every reader to subscribe to four publications to keep up v. itt it all, we realize that's a little unlikely. We've organized the new Airplay Monitor by format. Our breaking -news roundup, Radioac- tive, and our look at the charts and what they mean to you, The Spin, are still found on page From the 3, followed by news and charts for top 40 (as well as AC, adult top 40, and rhythmic top 40), R&B, country, and rock. On the inside back page, you'll find the top 10 songs from eight Airplay Monitor formats and Ross on Radio-the expanded, all -format version of Top 40 Topics, and editor Sean Ross' perspective on the state of today's radio. We've also made some changes in the way we present Monitor chart information. We've con- solidated our airplay and audience charts, now showing you both the most -spun and most -heard records on one chart; we've combined Monitor's Song Activity Reports and Impact! feature in one page, to show you all the songs in play at a given format in one place; and we've created an expanded Airplay Adds section, starting on page TK, where you can find the new songs on your station, or one in a rival format. What hasn't changed is our commitment to all the formats we cover in Airplay Monitor, or to giv- ing our record and radio readers the most use- ful publication possible at a time when they need . w.dreamworksr.ashville.com www.:obykeith.com it most. As always, we welcome your feedback, We Believe in Toby Keith! Ica online keyword: toby keith and welcome you to the new Airplay Monitor. 200, SKG Music Nast tillsLL.g Records Nashville ALREADY DEBUTED! Monitor Active: (30)- (28) Mainstream: (28)-(28) Heritage: (30)- (33) R&R Alternative: Debut 47* Active: 42-28* WON' ElfiCK HOMY COULDN'T WAIT: WIIL WZTA KTBZ KXXR WRIF KBPI WXDX KWODWLZR WLUM WHRL KISS WENDWBRU WBZX KXTE KLBJ KKND WPBZ WEGR WJBX WNFZWNVE WCMF WRAX WTPT KPOI KLPX KFRQ WQBK KMOD WWBN KMYZ And manymore... 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Enough New Acts Had Easier Time Charting In '02 to crash the FCC's computer system, according to FCC com- It was easier for a new artist to chart in Airplay Monitorin 2002 but not as easy to reach the top missioner Michael Copps, who says the crash took place in the 10. An analysis of seven Monitorcharts (mainstream top 40, rhythmic top 40, adult top 40, R&B/hip- last six to eight weeks as a result of indecency -related e -mails. hop, country, modern rock, and active rock) found that five of those formats made way for more new artists in 2002 but only in modern rock did more artists reach the top 10 last year. The full Copps interview appears in the new Tuned In: Radio For the second straight year, active rock had the most new artists with 48, 11 more than a year column by Marc Schiffman in the Jan. 18 issue of Billboard. before, while the format's percentage of new artists charted-47%-was easily the largest of the But a new study commissioned by the National Assn. of Broad- seven formats. Modern rock was a close second with 46 new acts, a gain of 10. Country (29 new casters finds that 65% of 1,000 radio listeners polled nation- artists) and adult top 40 (30) each had eight more new artists in 2002. Mainstream top 40 charted wide expressed satisfaction with the programming provided by 33 new acts, two more than 2001. Only rhythmic top 40 and R&B/hip-hop saw a decline in the number of charted new artists, and then only by one and two, respectively. local stations, and 77% of those polled said their favorite local So how far did these acts get? Further at mainstream top 40, where 14 reached the top 10- station provides the music they like at least some of the time. Sev- same as the year before. Modern rock saw 13 new artists reach the top 10, up two from 2001- enteen percent of those polled said local radio stations are providing less variety than the only format with an increase. Active rock was the only other format with double-digit new they were five years ago, while 29% said stations are providing more variety. The study artists, as 10 cracked the top 10-one fewer than in 2001. The steepest decline was at rhythmic was conducted by Washington polling firm the Mellman Group. top 40, where eight new artists made the top 10 in 2002, a drop of seven from 2001. Also bring- ing up the rear were R&B/hip-hop (8), adult top 40 (7), and country, where only four new artists had a top 10 track; six new artists had done so in 2001. MICHAELS READY TO MOVE? Army Reserve for a year. He will initially be sta- A recent article tioned in Fort Benning, Ga. CHART ACTION: Josh Groban's second AC single, "0 Holy Night," became his second No. 1 about Randy Michaels during the holidays, following "To Where You Are" (143/Reprise). Thanks to the AC stations that in the Cincinnati Busi- FORMATS: CC JAMS MIAMI, VEGAS went all -Christmas and an increased presence of holiday music for stations that didn't flip outright, ness Courier indicated As expected, Clear Channel flipped R&B oldies it's the third straight year that a holiday title has been No. 1 on the AC chart, following NewSong's that the former Clear WMGE (Mega 103.5) Miami to R&B WMIB (the "The Christmas Shoes" and last year's holiday mix of Jim Bridanan & Rebecca Lynn Howard's Channel CEOis Beat) on NewYear's Eve. The station is the brain- "The Simple Things." exploring the forma- child of Clear Channel VP of urban program- Matchbox l'wenty's "Disease" (Atlantic) earns the band its fourth modern AC No. 1, the most by tion of a new radio ming Doc Wynter and Clear Channel senior VP any act. Sharing the lead with the band until now were Sugar Ray, Goo Goo Dolls, and Smash Mouth. company. Michaels, of programming Steve Smith. The station kicked Saliva's "Always" gives the Island imprint its first active rock No. 1 this week. Parent IDJMG pre- who is still a Clear off jock -free, "rollin' 10,000 joints in a row," which, viously reached the top with Roadrunner's "Too Bad" by Nickelback. Channel employee, according to The Miami Herald, a memo to spon- told the paper, "I MICHAELS sors felt the need to point out was "not a refer- don't knoW what ence to marijuana." Several days later, the duo retirement's like, and I have no desire to learn." struck again, flipping mainstream top 4() KFMS The paper sources "people close to Michaels"Las Vegas to KWID (Wild 102), positioned as Monitor's Ross Named Editor In Chief on reports that Michaels "turned down a lucra- "Where hip -hop lives" under newly hired PD Tom Eight -year Airplay Monitor vet- & Records.