APRIL 13, 2002 Volume 20, Issue 16 £3.95 Mimic euros 6.5 Celine Dion's A New Day Has Come (Columbia) goes straight in at number one on M&M's European Top 100 Albums chart. Media®we talk to radio M&M chart toppers this week Bankers take stake in Wise Buddah tries Eurochart Hot 100 Singles to keep European SHAKIRA Branson's struggling V2shows on the air Whenever Wherever (Epic) by Adam Howorth V2 a further $120 million, with by Gareth Thomas European Top 100 Albums Branson investing a similar amount CELINE DION LONDON - The V2 Music Groupfor artist acquisitions as the label LONDON - UK production company has received a much -need- continues in its quest to Wise Buddah says it is looking to A New Day Has Come continue supplying its syndicated (Columbia) ed injection of cash after become the largest inde- US merchant bank Morgan pendent music group in the shows to European radio stations, European Radio Top 50 Stanley Dean Witter exer- world. despite the shock 'closureof its KYLIE MINOGUE cised its right to convert Branson, tile V2 chair- broadcast division last week. In Your Eyes $128 million (euros 145 m) man who last December The announcement of the wind- (Parlophone) of bonds into a 47.5% equi- replacedfoundingCEO ing up of Wise Buddah Broadcast ty stake in the label. Jeremy Pearce with former came after restructuring efforts by European Dance Traxx The deal frees V2 from BMG Europe VP of opera- the company failed. Thirty-one peo- DB BOULEVARD crippling interest charges tions Stephen Navin, while ple out of 46 -strong workforce have Point Of View payable on the bonds Mor- at the same time establish-been made redundant. Managing (Airplane) gan Stanley took out in 1998, anding a new management structure, directorStephen will help fund. what Richard Bran-says: "V2 is coming of age after five Mulholland re- son(pictured)describesastheyears of development and I am signed last month. Inside M&M this week label's"strongesteverreleasedelighted that Morgan Stanley have Wise Buddah schedule." decided to convert their bonds into chairman Mark The bank has also agreed to lend continued on page 21 Goodier (pictured) Regularairchecksessionsare iscurrentlyin important for even the most estab- negotiations to lished radio presenters. Radio con- Bowie renews Visconti partnership continue to supply sultantValerieGellerprovides Roger Sanchez's some airchecking tips for both pro- by Paul Sexton ReleaseYourself grammers and talent. Page 7 and Pete Tongs LONDON - David Bowie has signed a Essential Selection shows, which MUSIC'S BURNING ISSUE multi -album marketing and distribu- both go out to a around dozen terri- Recent music sales figures show tion deal for his new ISO Records tories in Europe, as well as Boy the impact illegal CD -burning is label with Columbia. The first fruits, George's Clubversive show, which having on the industry. Juliana due June 10, will be Heathen, his airs in 10 territories. Koranteng looks at the technology much -anticipated reunion with pro- "We've worked very hardto being developed to help the music ducer Tony Visconti-who tells M&M: ensure continuity of supply of the business fight back. Pages 8-11 "I feel it's the best album we've made programmes," Goodier tells M&M. together." "We are fairly confident of continu- WORLD CUP SOCCER STARS The deal, which also embraces ing with one, if not two, of them. UNITE FOR CHARITY future signings to ISO, may have sur- We'll still have the organisational A "dream team" of World prised some observers, coming within back-up in our studios that we can Cup footballers from over three months of Bowie expressing his use for those programmes." 1OTE 20 countries appear on Live Goodier said he expected to be urgum weariness of "bumping heads with the For Love United, a Pascal corporate structure." Moreover, able to confirm the fate of the pro- Obispo -penned charity sin- despite a creative legacy matched by grammes shortly. gle to raise funds for an few, he has managed only one top 10 Meanwhile, the nine weekly spe- AIDS organisation. It also forms UK single (1993's Jump They Say) in cialist music shows produced by part of the forthcoming official the past 16 years, and his last studio Wise Buddah for UK public CHR World Cup album. Page 11 album, 1999's Hours...(Virgin), while station BBC Radio 1 have all been continued on page 21 continued on page 21 see you soon at MUZIEK & BEELD LIVE 1 29 April 2002 1 Huizen, The Netherlands WWW.MUSICTRADECENTER.COM making the music business a whole lot easier. don't forget, drop by and say hello... AmericanRadioHistory.Com TheAALBUM New #1 Dayalbum Has in Come: Europe ItalyFranceUK #1 GermanyIrelandFinland #2#1 AustriaNorwaySwitzerlandSweden #1#1 SpainBelgiumHollandDenmark #4#3#2 #5ASINGLE New in the Day European Has Come: Single Charts Major TV performances in April including: AmericanRadioHistory.Com WedTueSunSat 69107 FranceHollandItaly 'DominicaTiorello 'Hit'TV Machine'Special TV' In' for TROS TV' WedTueThurSat 13161117 GermanySwedenSpainFrance 'Gala `Graine 'The 'Stern TV National deSpecialTV' Star' Lottery for Tele Show' 5' (ANA www.celinedion.coniwww.sonyniusiceurope.com NEWS her preparation of this week's special report on copy Music protection, labels are not prepared to discuss on the record (and sometimes not even off the record) their Media Upfront strategy regarding this issue. by Emmanuel Legrand, Music & Media editor -in -chief What's the big secret? Call M&M on: tel (+44) 207 420 6005 Being on the defensive is not the best strategy-and fax (+44) 207 420 6016 Last week, Internet message boards were flooded withdoing things secretly will cause more damageing than heated discussions about Celine Dion's latest release Aanything else. At least now, most labels have under- For direct lines dial +44 207 420, New Day Has Come. stood that copy -protected CDs need to be labelled as followed by the required extension The bulk of the comments were not about the musi- such for the consumers' benefit, although even that Publisher: Ron Betist (ext. 6154) cal and artistic merits of the artist, but about a tech-was not as natural an attitude as one could expect Editor -in -chief: Emmanuel Legrand (6155) nological development-the CD could not be played on from labels. Director of operations: Kate Leech (6017) computer CD drives. But a lot more needs to be done. In Europe, and espe- Editorial Sony Music released the album using Sony's propri- cially in the US where the topic has become linked to free Deputy editor: Jon Heasman (6167) News editor: Gareth Thomas (6162) etary copy protection technology Key2Audio. The goal speech and where copying is considered as a legal right, Features/specials editor: Steve Adams was to prevent consumers from making straight copies record companies face another potential PR disaster if Music editor: Adam Howorth (6161) Reporter: Siri Stavenes Dove (6163) of the CD or downloading it on their hard disk andthey don't address the issue and com- Charts 8(resecirch then offering it to others via Napster clones. municate thoroughly the reasons Charts editor: Raul Cairo (6156) The prime target was countries such as Germany,they are adopting such extreme mea- Charts researcher: Beverley Evans (6157) where CD -burning is responsible for making a massive sures to protect their-and their Production dent in legitimate sales. Sony is not alone in releasingartists'-property. Production & art co-ordinator: Mat Deaves (6110) copy -protected CDs. All labels are looking into it as a The issue of copy protection has Correspondents way to limit the scope of illegitimate CD -Rs and files become one of the hottest potatoes Belgium: Marc Maes - (32) 3 568 8082 Classical/jazz: Terry Berne - (34) 91 474 4640 travelling through cyberspace. for the music industry and, if not Dance: Gary Smith - (33) 49172 4753 However, record companies are not as straight -talk-handled properly, is threatening to Denmark: Charles Ferro - (45) 3369 0701 Finland: Jonathan Mander - (358) 503 527384 ing as one could expect on the subject. As M&M newwiden the gap even more between France: Joanna Shore -(33)14735 7042 media correspondent Juliana Koranteng has learnt inthe industry and consumers. Germany: Gesa Birnkraut - (49) 4101 45930 Michael Lawton - (49) 172 241 2107 Greece: Maria Paravantes - (30) 932 665432 Music & Media values its readers' opinions-you can e-mail the editor -in -chief at: [email protected] Ireland: Ann Scott - (353) 864 061 570 Italy: Mark Worden - (39) 02 4802 4127 Netherlands: Menno Visser - (31) 206 738 378 New Media: Juliana Koranteng - (44) 208 891 3893 Norway: Kai R. Lofthus - (47) 918 21 208 Spain: Howell Llewellyn - (34) 9 1593 2429 Viva,Rete A relationship terminated Sweden: Johan Lindstrom - (46) 8 470 3730 Soles C:11-14=1 Marketing by Mark Worden tant Rosario Pacini (pictured) tellsa creative input at the end of last year International sales director: M&M. "When we signed [the deal] Ron Betist (UK, USA) - (31) 299 420274; and we re -launched the channel, mobile: (31) 653 194133 MILAN - Italian music TV channel with Viva, they took out a 5% share inlargely without them, in January. The Sales executives: Patrick Jansen (Benelux & Rete A Viva is to be rebranded as Rete Rete A, with an option to buy a furtherchange of name merely formalises a Scandinavia) - (31) 299 420274 Francois Millet (France) - (33) 145 49 29 33 A All Music on May 1, follow- 50% in October. Things began state of affairs that has been going on Lidia Bonguardo (Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal) ing the end of a year -long to go wrong when that for several months." - (39) 031570056 relationship between Rete A option wasn't exercised." Rete A formerly palyed host to Sales & marketing co-ordinator: and German music TV broad- Pacini says the MTV's Italian channel.