JULY 19, 2003 Volume 22, Issue 30 Music £3.95 euros 6.5 ChapterII(Murdering/ Mercury) by Ashanti is the highest new entry in this week's European Top 100 Albums chart, at number seven. Media®we taller dradio M&M chart toppers this week Warner France president dies in crash Eurochart Hot 100 Singles by Emmanuel Legrand van in a Paris street after he lost con- informing them of the news. EVANESCENCE FEAT. PAUL MCCOY trol of the machine. He suffered brain Last week, top AOL Time Warner Bring Me To Life PARIS - The French music industrydamage and was pronounced dead executives-including chairman and (Wind-Up/Epic) has been paying tribute to Warnerupon arrival at the hospital. Blanc hadCEO Dick Parsons-were in Paris to European Top 100 Albums Music France president/CEO Yan-just spent an evening with friends who meet with French officials and Blanc METALLICA Philippe Blanc, 39, who died in aincluded BMG France MD Christophe played a major part in setting up their St. Anger motorcycle accident in Paris on July 9. Lameignere, indie label Atmospheri- agenda, according to sources. "He was (Vertigo) "We are devastated," says Herve que's founder Marc Thonon, and Warn- extremely enthusiastic about these Rony,director generalof industryer's label Tot Ou Tard MD Vincent meetings," says Rony. European Radio Top 50 body SNEP, of which Blanc was a vice- Frerebeau. Frerebeau is understood to Blanc joined Warner in April 2001 MADONNA president. "He was an adorable man,have been alongside Blanc on anotherfrom Universal Music France, where he Hollywood and one of our most active members." motorbike when the crash happened. had been MD of Mercury. During his (Maverick/Warner Bros) Independent labels' body UPFI said A spokesman for Warner Musictenure at Warner he refocused the com- European Dance Traxx in a statement: "The whole musicInternational (WMI) describedthepany towards local repertoire, and it industry is in mourning and all theevent as "tragic and awful" but re- subsequently increased its market share JUNIOR JACK phonographic producers express their fused to comment further. An internal from 10.0% in 2001 to 11.2% in 2002. E Samba sadness at the tragic death of a manmemo was sent to WMI executives on Blanc is survived by his wife, TV (PIAS) who had a promising career." behalf of WMI president Paul -Reneproducer Alexia Laroche-Joubert, and Blanc's motorcyle crashed into aAlbertini-a close friend of Blanc-their two children. Inside M&M this week Naidoo travels well with RZADyke warns against TRAFFIC IS MOVING AHEAD How do you make roadblocks and deregulation danger diversions sound sexy? Radio con- by Jon Heasman sultant Valierie Geller tells how to make radio travel news both BIRMINGHAM - Greg Dyke, director accurate and engaging.Page 6 generalof UK publicbroadcaster the BBC, has added his voice to those THE BEAT GOESON who have already expressed their con- Ten years after PolyGram ac- cerns about the likely effects of the quired Motown, the soul label is government's deregulatory Communi- still going strong. M&M turns its cations Bill. spotlight on the label that made Speaking at the Radio Academy's Detroit famous in the '60s for the Radio Festival in Birmingham on driving soul sound created by the July 8, Dyke said: "I believe that if we Funk Brothers. Page 7 go down the road of embracing exces- sive deregulation, there must be a BENNETT LOUNGES WITH LANG danger that we're going to slide into a Crooner Tony Bennett isstill country with a homogenised media, packing out and I fear that we will end up with concert halls radio stations which are simply in the alloverthe by Olaf Furniss The song, Es Gibt Nichts (Das So business of selling products for adver- world. His lat- Schiin 1st Wie Du), topped the German tisers where profit is the only motive." est album sees BERLIN - Germany's biggest artist tosales chart at the beginning of July, Dyke said that, as a former com- him collabo- emerge in the past five years, Xavier and is being released across Europe as mercial TV executive, he believed rating with Naidoo, is to get his first release out-the English -language I've Never Seen. there is "a strong case for fewer rules KD Lang on songs recorded by side of the GSA territories after scor- Es Gibt Nichts has already received on both ownership and output." But, Louis Armstrong. 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Upfront taking place, while the IFPI is making sure that world by Emmanuel Legrand Music & Media editor -in -chief governments are aware of the importance of the issues Call M&M on: tel (+44) 207 420 6005 and taking action. fax (+44) 207 420 6016 There's been so much written about online piracy that But what effect does a seizure of 50 million CDs have, we've forgotten that there's still a major problem hitting when the flow of pirated discs exceeds a billion? For For direct lines dial +44 207 420, the music industry, namely physical piracy. every manufacturing plant shuttered, how many more followed by the required extension The figures published this week by the IFPI are both are opening? And how can you stem the flow when CD -R Editor -in -chief Emmanuel Legrand (6155) staggering and frightening. Two out of every five record-operations are so easy to set up? Director of operations: Kate Leech (6017) ings sold in the world are pirated. "Sales" of pirate discs But these factors are no reason to let up. The IFPI's Eclitoridl have passed the billion -unit mark for the first time. plan is necessary and costly; indeed in the current cli- Executive editor: Jon Heasman (6167) News editor: Hamish Champ (6163) Piracy is a big business, and it is mostly controlled bymate, how long will labels continue Music & talent editor: Gareth Thomas (6162) organised crime. The ways in which piracy operates areto pay for it? Getting more govern- Features/specials editor: Steve Adams as varied as they are multiple. It ranges from the one- ments and enforcement agencies on Charts 8( resectrch man operations with CD -R recorders producing a fewboard is crucial, and working with Chart production manager: Beverley Evans (6157) hundred units per week, to millions of CDs produced other similarly affected intellectual Charts researcher: Paul Pomfret (6165) annually via manufacturing plants around the world.property businesses, such as the Production Then there are complex distribution routes that would be film industry, is the way forward. Production & art co-ordinator: Mat Deaves (6110) the envy of the best legitimate companies, and finally, a It will not stop people from pirat- Correspondents network of street vendors. ing, but it will make their life more Senior correspondent: Olaf Furniss - (44) 797 457 2072 Belgium: Marc Maes - (32) 3 568 8082 Faced with this underground system, with its insidi- difficult. Classical/jazz: Terry Berne - (34) 91 474 4640 Dance: Gary Smith - (33) 49172 4753 Music & Media values its readers' opinions-you can e-mail the editor -in -chief at: [email protected] Denmark: Charles Ferro - (45) 3369 0701 Finland: Jonathan Mander - (358) 503 527384 France: Lisa Pasold -(33)14252 8370 Germany: Michael Lawton - (49) 172 241 2107 Greece: Maria Paravantes - (36) 932 665432 UK's PPL lobbies government over royalties Ireland: Ann Scott - (353) 864 061 570 Italy: Mark Worden - (39) 02 4802 4127 New Media Juliana Koranteng - (44) 208 891 3893 by Gordon Masson remuneration when their work is Union." Portugal: Chris Graeme - (351) 21 840 1488 played via radio or TV. Publishers Spain: Howell Llewellyn - (34) 9 1593 2429 As well as support from all UK Sweden: Johan LindstrOm - (46) 891 1394 LONDON - Pressure is mounting onand songwriters, meanwhile, domusic industry trade bodies, PPL's Scales and IVIcArketing the UK government to repeal legisla-receive royalties from such broad-lobbying efforts are being backed by International sales director: tion that costs artists and recordcasts.