DECEMBER 17, 13.?9 ISSUE 2285 THE MOST TRUSTED NAME IN RADIO SPECIALINSIDE Hey-Hey-Hey...It's Y2K Top Hits Of 1999 MUSIC TOP 40 Eiffel 65 Climbs Higher RHYTHM ;i11-$-IilI I Missy's Boyz Iz Hot Whitney Learns Fast QITE [MilTIVE Pumpkins' Return Is A Smash COUNTRY Faith's Early Xnas Gift NEWS WW1 Tops In RADAR 63 . ` i ; w Radio $$ Up 17% In October ,: Home of 'he / Semina: in Radio G2K h .CFO-Feb. 16-20, 2000 From the Pibishers of Music Week, VIBl and fono A Miller FrEerr an Publication Inc./"Monument" and Reg. R.S. Pal. R. Tm. 04. Moro Registrado. Is Artistry ß,1999 Sony Munk Btertaiwn.nt www.sonynosbvi3wou www.americanradiohistory.com Thanks Radio! for giving us our first Hit "ALL THINGS CONSIDERED" © 11999 Sony Mus c lntertainmen o fory Music Entertainment Inc. www.sonyna5t-ille.ccnk www.americanradiohistory.com Get Back "I always knew it was going to be a special night but this is better than I could have hoped." -PAUL MCCARTNEY, ADDRESSING THE CROWD DURING A SOLD-OUT SHOW AT LIVERPOOL'S CAVERN CLUB Gloom and Doom "It looks as if she's doomed to play dead celebri- ties' middle-aged wives. I suppose with a little more plastic surgery she could be Yoko Ono, because she sure has the voice for it." -MARILYN MANSON, BLASTING COURTNEY LOVE Clarion Signs Deal With XM, Sirius A1.1 ER SHE REVEALED THAT SHE PULLED OUT OF THEIR JOINT CONCERT TOUR BECAUSE OF MM'S ON-STAGE DRUG REFERENCES Both Sirius Satellite Radio and XM unprecedented choice, access to Satellite Radio were quick this commercial -free music with digital week to announce that Clarion Co., quality sound and seamless coast - Suit Case manufacturer of in -car and mobile to -coast coverage," commented "I guess I just bought myself a lawsuit." electronics equipment, will devel- James Minarek, president/CEO of -COUNTRY LEGEND KENNY ROGERS, AFTER ACCIDENTALLY HITTING A CHAN- op and manufacture car radios Clarion. "We are excited to partner DELIER WITH A FRISBEE AT A DALLAS CONCERT; THE BROKEN CHANDELIER, capable of receiving both satellite with Sirius and XM Satellite in SHOWERED GLASS ON A MAN WHO REQUIRED 70 STITCHES services' radio signals. bringing this revolutionary new ser- "Consumers will now have vice to U.S. consumers." Xmas Tops Lycos List Complaints Filed Against Shock Jocks 15. DVD With holiday shopping on 5. Y2K 16. Elf Bowling A coalition of Latino advocacy derogatory on -air remarks they a fast track to break all 6. Santa Claus 17. Marijuana organizations this week filed a allegedly made last August after national sales records, 7. WWF 18. Football complaint at the Federal the town of El Cenizo, Texas decid- here's a list of the top 8. Poetry 19. Mars Communications Commission ed it would conduct its city meet- Internet search topics, as 9. Pamela Anderson 20. Korn against nationally syndicated radio ings in Spanish. The pair reportedly reported by Lycos: 10. PlayStation 21. Wrestling personalities Don Geronimo and told one city commissioner that El 1. Christmas 11. Jennifer Lopez 22. NASA Mike O'Meara. The group asked the Cenizo residents who don't speak 2. Pokémon 12. NFL 23. South Park FCC to sanction the radio personal- English "should get on their burros 3. Britney Spears 13. Backstreet Boys 24. Tattoos ities and Infinity Broadcasting for and go back to Mexico." 4. Dragonball Z 14. Barbie 25. Final Fantasy WW1 Tops RADAR 63 Survey Radio revenues Up 17% in October Once again, Westwood One's CNN Max network is the most -listened -to Combined local and national radio network in the U.S., according to the just -released RADAR 63 report. radio dollars were up 17 percent The network cumed just over 7 million listeners persons 12+, down slightly in October vs. the same month 10/99 Combined 11% from the 7.15 million listeners reported in RADAR 62. last year, posting the 86th consec- utive month of sales increases for The top ten networks in RADAR 63 are: the industry. Local revenues 10/99 Local 14% Rank,fYelwork Audience Radar 62 Rank Rank,Network Audience Radar 02 Rank (OUR) Audience (ORO) (000) Audience (00O) increase 14 percent and national 1. Westwood CNN Max 7,007 7,154 (1) 7. Premiere Axis 2,569 2,516 (6) dollars were up 27 percent over October '98; year-to-date the 2. Premiere AM Drive 5,301 5,329 (2) 8. AMFM Diamond 2,458 2,454 (7) 10/99 National 21% industry is running 14 percent 3. AMFM Sapphire 4,545 4,296 (3) 9. Premiere Focus 2,352 1,957 (10) ahead of last year. Calculations lemma mow 4. ABC Prime 3,392 3,251 (4) 10. AMFM Emerald 1,984 1,898 (11) are based on the Radio YTD Total 12% Advertising Bureau radio revenue 5. Westwood Source Max 2,821 3,013 (5) The RADAR estimates, which actually measure radio listeners who hear network commercials, index of more than 100 markets. 6. ABC Advantage 2,570 2,303 (8) are compiled by Statistical Research, Inc. CONTENTS FORMAT SECTIONS ALTERNATIVE 38 "You Said It! Quotes from 1999" TOP 40/RHYTHM CROSSOVER 7 NEWS ACTIVE ROCK 43 Rhythm Crossover GAviN Award Nominees Westwood One Tops RADAR Survey 3 A Veteran of Fresno Radio Wars Sounds Off RAP 12 Radio $$$ Up 17percent in October 3 COUNTRY 45 Artist Profile: Cassidy RADIO@LARGE 4 Holiday Memories, Artists Share Their Best URBAN/URBAN A/C 16 "A Mary Richards Millennium" AMERICANA 54 "You Said It, 1999 Quotes" RATINGS & RESEARCH 6 "Americana Quotes of Note From 1999" A/C, HOT A/C 23 Understanding Arbitron's First Webcast Ratings TRIPLE A 56 Photos! Photos Photos! "Hello, Goodbye, and Hello Again" SPOTLIGHT: JAZZ/SMOOTH JAZZ & VOCALS 61 "One Last Look, It Was a Year of Angels" Miller Freeman "Hey! Hey! Hey! It's Y2K: A Veritable A United News & Media company ©1999 G A V I N Jambalaya of Reflection!" 28 December 17, 1999 gavin 3 www.americanradiohistory.com RADIOCLARGE FIRST WORDS `A Mary Richards Millennium" Not Even A Mouse BY PAIGE NIENABER ensure a call -in from a different ple partying and listening to your `Twas the night before party every 30 minutes, all night station going to want to hear a 40 Christmas and all through The term Mary Richards Party was long. In addition to getting out and second bio on Shania before you the station... coined a dozen or so years back by "touching" the listeners, you'll have play song number 12 in the count- No. Stop right there. No an intern whose name slips my the vibe of this New Year's. And down? Find ways to keep the pace cheesy rip-off of Clement mind. We were at one of those you will sound omnipresent. You'll brisk and upbeat. C. Moore's Xmas classic, events that comes along every now own New Year's on the air. Another key is cost. Keep it not in GAVIN. No song par- and again. We had, oh, ten people Most of you are already locked down and you're one step closer to odies, no references to Elmo and Patsy or chest- show up at our big bash despite an into clubs and events. Fine! Your ensuring that Ms. Richards doesn't nuts or round yon virgins incessant barrage of on -air promo- appear at your event. Babysitting is (I always wondered what tion backed by contesting and sec- a concern. Teenage girls are going a yon virgin was when I ondary mentions through client tie- to make a killing this year. They're was a kid). No partridges ins. I think it's one of God's ways charging $20 an hour and some are in pear trees (although we of teaching us humility. demanding and getting perks like did have one at this year's GAVIN Seminar in New Standing there, in the cavernous spa visits and gift certificates to 01cl Orleans)-and, above all room, the intern turned to me and Navy. Can you do something to else, no "Pokémon Christ- cracked, "It's like one of those par- address this issue with the people mas Carol" (but we were ties that Mary would have on the who are thinking of attending your tempted). old Mary Tyler Moore Show." And bash? Another way to avoid Mary. No, as 1999 draws to a he was right. Whenever Mary threw I knew a PD who treated New close and we put our final a party, it inevitably was doomed Year's as a throw-away night. No issue of the millennium to bed, it's time to reflect on to failure. Since then I've always one was listening, he reasoned, so the people, music, referred to these occasional disas- and he put a part-timer on the air, hung events that changed our ters as "Mary Richards Parties." Be a couple banners at a club, and that industries (and our lives) honest. We've all had at least one was pretty much it. Conversely, I over the last 12 months. in our career. An inexplicable align- look at New Year's-and this one That theme in mind, we ment of the planets that creates a especially-like Operation Desert asked you-the leaders of the radio and music massive no-show. The union walks Storm. Multiple elements hitting in industries-to share some and there's no power. I think broadcast, interspersed with calls waves with no one allowed leave of your personal memo- you've been there.