AUGUST 25, 2000 ISSUE 2319 THE MOST TRUSTED NAME IN RADIO A/C Special: Spotlight on WBMX MUSIC The Biggest Multi -Media TOP 40 Artist of the Year! Every Shade Of'ink Radio Superbowl RHYTHM CROSSOVER Grammys My Oh Mya Pepsi Campaign Covergirl Campaign HOT AIC Oscars VH-1 BNL: Pinch This! - Artist of the Month - Divas - Behind The Music ALTERNATIVE Sold -out Tour Orgy, Anyone? COUNTRY Aaron Kisses Top 10 NEWS Music On The Net Agenda Announced MP3 Settles With Sony Home of the Seminar in Radio www.wbr.com e Produced by Byron Baltimore and Faith Hilt Mixed by Mike Shipley Management: Borman Entertainment You 10v From Publishers of MBI Way the Music Week, and fono The A United Business Media Publication 81000 Warner Bros. Records Inc. www.americanradiohistory.com j 11* - Billboard Album Chart \' 66,948 SOLD THIS WEEK!!! : Over 150,000 SOLD IN 3 WEEKS!!!! , OR UAW' RIMES 'Cal F16ME1NE MOOMUONr. 'KEW REMEMNER'. 'iNEAIRXERIMO TE W RANG 9U11 DO LOVE YOU new single LeAnn Rimes "Can't Fight The Moonlight' theme from "COYOTE UGLY" single and soundtrack album available i Mores nom. Top 10 Sales EXPLODING in these markets: LA Chicago Houston Minneapolis St. Louis Denver Phoenix San Diego Kansas City Milwaukee Oklahoma City Salt La ice Columbus Madison CURB AND MANY MORE!!!!!! R ECOR DS www.americanradiohistory.com Hypocritic Oath "It's amazing to realize there's a trend for rock musicians to champion caus- es like Free Tibet, Save the Planet, animal rights,' and racial equality. Yet in fact these same artists support racist and genocidal attacks against minori- ties, both domestically and abroad. This is hypocrisy. Where's the outrage?" -BRYAN KEMPER OF "ROCK FOR LIFE," CITING THE VAN'S WARPED TOUR AND VARIOUS PROMINENT ARTISTS WHO ARE WORKING IN COLLABORATION WITH MARGARET SANGER'S PLANNED PARENTHOOD Free Fall "Napster is a good idea, but its business model is flawed. Even if Napster GAVIN Summit Hits Rocky begins charging for downloads to accommodate the recording industry's demand that artists be compensated when their music is accessed online, the fans will lose out. Their 'free' music is suddenly no longer free. And Mountain High In Boulder Napster remains operating with a flawed business model." -SOUNDOM CEO WILLIAM YEAGER WHO, COINCIDENTALLY, HAS COME UP Where nowhere is heard a discouraging word... WITH AN ALTERNATIVE BUSINESS MODEL FOR HIS OWN COMPANY ..That very well could have been and Americana stations in markets the theme of GAVIN Summit 2000 as large and small, commercial and Bad Choice 0f Words hundreds of radio and record exec- non-commercial. By contrast, the "I am shocked and appalled that Disney extended Mark and Brian's con- utives converged on beautiful nights went late: After the marquee tract." -CORE (CONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY) VICE PRESIDENT SANDRA Boulder, Colo. last week to talk shows each evening at the Fox MOORE, COMMENTING ON THE CONTRACT EXTENSIONS OF DISNEY'S about radio, learn about business, Theatre and Tulagi's, attendees ran KLOS/FM's TALK -SHOW HOSTS MARK THOMPSON AND BRIAN PHELPS IN THE listen to music, laugh, talk shop, and back to the hotel for the Midnight WAKE OF THEIR "BLACK HOE" RADIO PROMOTION schmooze, schmooze, schmooze. In Lounge Americana performances. fact, the word was When the last chord anything but dis- died out each night, Po Bronson To Keynote at "Music On The Net" couraging from the grinning stragglers Best-selling author and social con-men- Triple A and shuffled out the tator Po Bronson is slated to present a Americana radio doors-often not keynote address at the Gavin.com: programmers, pro- until 1:30 a.m.- Music on the Net conference at the moters, labels, and many of them just Hyatt Regency Embarcadero in San artists who came to to head out for Francisco next month (Sept. 20-22). town for the more action; like A leading chronicler of the new techno- Summit and the that found at the Fat logical "renaissance" and Silicon Valley musical artists who Radio suite on the dot-com culture, Bronson has an strummed, sang, flailed, wailed, fifth floor, where artists rocked out uncanny ability to capture the econom- danced, crooned, bopped, and for web surfers and Sumiteers alike, ics, motivations, and personalities that rocked the Fox Theatre and until who -knows -when. If you were are defining our future and influencing Tulagi's. there, of course, you already know virtually every aspect of modern cul- The days started early with ses- all that. And whether you were ture. The author of Bombardiers, The First $20 Million is Always the sions and panel discussions that there or not...see you next August! Hardest, and The Nudist on the Late Shift, Bronson deftly peeks under the focused on programming, the More on the GAVIN Summit on covers of the major (and would-be major) players in what he lovingly refers Internet, ratings, sales, and music pages 44 and 47 (and more pics to as "Superachieverland." selection-and targeted Triple A next week)! Bronson speaks from experience. A former bond trader with First Boston, Bronson achieved notoriety as a feature writer for Wired. He combines a InfoStream Dries Up; "WebCast Ratings" Emerge unique blend of experience and insight to explore the ways in which technology is changing the nation's corporate, cultural, and economic Effective with the release in two weeks of their March ratings of online listening, the landscape-and reveals the potential of today's younger population to "InfoStream" nomenclature for these reports will be history. The new title will now be "Arbitron WebCast Ratings." In addition to the March data, September should also see the release of web revolutionize the way corporations are 'Quilt, ideas generated, and infor- listening data for the months of April and May, according to Arbitron's Bill Rose. mation accessed. CONTENTS FORMAT SECTIONS ALTERNATIVE 35 NEWS TOP 40/RHYTHM CROSSOVER 10 An Alternative Q&A with Paragon's Mike Henry GAVIN Summit Hits Rocky Mountian High 3 Beyond "Millionaire," "Survivor"-Meet the ACTIVE ROCK 39 Po Bronson to Keynote GAVIN Conference 3 Chain Gang COUNTRY 40 Music Metrix 6 RAP/HIP-HOP 15 GAVIN Exclusive Photos of CRS -Southwest RATINGS RESEARCH 8 The Hustle: Glenn Aure AMERICNA44 "A/C Spring Arbs: Lookin' Good!" URBAN/URBAN A/C 17 Wrapping On The GAVIN Summit 2000 RADIO@LARGE 9 Quenching Radio's Thirst for Cleaner Water TRIPLE A 47 "The 'Thon Song" Boulder Summit Picture Page SPECIAL: A/C, HOT A/C JAll/SMOOTH JAZZ & VOCALS 53 I rf United Business Media Creating the Mix That Boston Loves: GAVIN Radio Speaks on The Legacy of Charlie Parker .1 AUnited News &Media company e2000 GAVIN Spotlights WBMX 21 Mix 98-5 Alumni Recall Their "Boston Days" 28 gavin August 25, 2000. 3 www.americanradiohistory.com GAVIN News You've never Music on the Net: You Gotta Be There "Where the hell is all this going?" seen so many Unless you just crawled out from prises that are sure to make the everything you've heard, the session under a rock on Palau Tiga, that's the evening unforgettable. But don't stay How Does Radio Stay Relevant on question of the month (probably the out too late, because... the Web? is designed to provide year). And to answer that question- ...the following morning we start some practical solutions you can take radio people more specifically, "Where the hell is off at 9:30 with another leadership home to your station. Then we wrap all this radio, music, digital download- session, The Music Industry: Bridging up with Using the Web For A&R, tak- ing, and Napster stuff going?"- the Digital Divide, featuring the top ing a close look at whether (and how Gavin.com has developed a must - in one attend event for anyone (and every- place one) who wants to survive the con- vergence of the new and old media. Some of you have been patient while we've put together an agenda of without an experts, others not-so-patient...but in either case, we've got a lot in store for you during this focused, 2-1/2 day conference at the Hyatt Regency open bar. Embarcadero in San Francisco next month (Sept. 20-22). We start things off with a cocktail reception Wednesday evening (think GAVIN Seminar!), then leave you to your own devices for dinner and entertain- ment. Hint: Enjoy your free time, new media gums from the major successfully) new artists can emerge because the next two days will be record labels. Next up: Using the from obscurity and achieve super - intense and jam-packed. Web to Break an Act, which will dis- stardom via the Internet. The following morning (Thursday) cuss-what else?-how the Internet All -in -all, it's virtually everything we bring together some of the can be used to market and promote you need to know in order to be brightest minds for two back-to-back new music and/or new projects. equipped to deal with the fast - sessions: an industry Town Hall Our keynote speaker at lunch on changing world in which we live Meeting, which will address the most Friday is none other than author and and work. All at Gavin.com: Music pressing issues facing the radio, social commentator Po Bronson, on the Net, all in San Francisco Sept. music, and Internet worlds, followed who is uniquely qualified to define 20-22. by an Executive Leadership Forum, and describe the economics, motiva- Oh, yeah...one more thing: If which will provide an introspective tions, and personalities that are you're coming to San Francisco (not look at some of the challenges facing defining our collective future in this a major challenge for most people), us during this technological and cul- business we know and love (see keep in mind that Music on the Net tural convergence.