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MUSIC MAKERS AT MIDEMAs the internationalmusic community gath-ers in Cannes for the1998 Midem music mar-ket, M&M offers inter- mideniviews with leading record companyexecutives and Midem organiserXavier Roy on the agenda for atten-dees at this year's event. Pages 9-12

DANCING TOWARDS 2000M&M dance correspondent GarySmith assesses the state of thegenre helped by representativesfrom several of Europe's leadingdance labels. Pages 28-29

CRISIS? WHAT CRISIS?Italy's independent labels arefacing a crisis, with news

this week of the closure oftwo leading inches. In a

nine -page Italian spe-cial, we attempt to putthat "crisis" in perspec-tive, and look at the

current state of the Ital-ian market. Pages 13-21

Royally deal at Midem?by Remi Bouton

PARIS -A long awaited majornew agreement on mechanicalroyalty rates for continentalEurope looks close to signature.

According to sources close tothe deal, it is likely to be signedthis week at the Midem musicmarket in Cannes (January 18-22). It would end a year inwhich there has been no stan-dard contract between BIEM, repre-senting mechanical societies inEurope, and IFPI (the International

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'Body blow' for U.K. radioby Mike McGeever

LONDON - Major players in U.K. com-mercial radio have been dealt a severeblow by the publication of a govern-ment report with major implicationsfor the industry.

On January 13 the Monopolies andMergers Commission (MMC)-the U.K.

government's anti-trust body-pub-lished its reportinto the proposedacquisition ofnational broadcast-er Virgin Radio bythe Capital Radio


Radio is JustThe Way fordiva McNealby Christian Lorenz &Mike McGeever

STOCKHOLM/LONDON - Mariah Careypersonally signed her to her Cravelabel for the U.S.-now Swedish R&Bdiva Lutricia McNeal appears to havethe world at herfeet, thanks toradio's love affairwith her break-through singleAin't That JustThe Way.

The U.S.-bornartist first cameto notice as thelead singer ofSwedish dance actRob'N'Raz; hercareer moved intotop gear whenthat band's man -


BMG revampsEuropean opsLONDON - BMG Entertainment Inter-national is reorganising its Europeanoperations into two new regional struc-tures -BMG U.K.-Central Europe and

BMG G/S/A-EasternEurope writes Emm-anuel Legrand.

The new structure,replacing the company'sthree previous Euro-pean divisions, isdesigned to allow BMGto "redouble the Euro-


Ipsos to expand activitiesby Emmanuel Legrand

PARIS - The temperature of the com-petition in Europe's airplay monitor-ing business looks set for a major rise.

French research and polling groupIpsos-which has monitored airplay inFrance for the past five years-plans toextend its operations into other Euro-pean territories. Ipsos, one of the worldleaders in market/advertising research,is setting up a new stand-alone divi-sion-tentatively named Ipsos Cul-ture-which will be involved in moni-toring the whole range of consumerbehaviour in the "cultural goods" sector,

including music, cinema, literature,theatres, museums and multimedia.

Ipsos Culture will be headed bySophie Martin, who says that from theoutset, she wants the division to havean international profile, especially withits airplay monitoring activity. "In1998, I want to develop our [airplaymonitoring] business in other territo-ries, with priority targets being Spainand the U.K."

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Italian dance indies foldingby Mark Dezzani

MILAN - Two of Italy's most influen-tial independent record companies areclosing down as a result of a drasticdrop in domestic dance music salesduring the past year.

Naples -based Flying Records, onceregarded as innovators on Italy'sunderground dance and rap scenesand responsible for launching thecareers of Articolo 31, 99 Posse, AlexParty and Blast!, is being forced intoliquidation due to "an unsustainabledebt load." The independent SugarMusic Group says that the imminentclosure of its own Milan -based ZacMusic represents "a strategic with-drawal from a depressed market."

Flying Records managing director

Flavio Rossi was unavailable for com-ment at time of going to press, but aspokesman for the company confirmsthat "Flying Records is no longer inoperation and only exists as an admin-istrative entity, which is currentlybeing liquidated." Offices in New York,London, Rome and Milan have alreadybeen closed and their staff maderedundant.

One industry insider says Flying,which described itself as "The majorindependent," overstretched itself byexpanding too rapidly (especiallyinternationally) and trying to take onall of the traditional roles of a majorlabel. "Expansion worked fine as longas the dance market was booming,but as soon as the domestic marketstarted falling off two years ago

Flying found itself in immediate trou-ble." The source adds: "Most of theindies restructured and focused moreon artistic production, but Flyingtried to expand their way out of theirdifficulties, and as a result collapsed."

Filippo Sugar, managing directorof Zac Music, confirms that he will beliquidating the label within the nexttwo months. "We entered the [dance]market three years ago when it wasvery strong, but there has been a col-lapse in 12 -inch singles sales and themajors are now keeping compilationsto themselves. As a result, we havedecided that independent distribu-tion represents too much effort for toolittle return."Further analysis of the difficulties currently fac-ing the Italian indie sector can be found in ourItaly special, starting on page 19.

Verve lead Brits/sweet symphonyby Christian Lorenz

LONDON - The surprise comebackact of the year, Virgin Records signingThe Verve, top the nominations forthis year's Brit Awards.

In addition to the prestigious BestBritish Group and Best BritishAlbum categories, the Hut/Virgin acthave also been nominated for theBest British Singleand BestBritish Videocategories.Organised byU.K labels' bodythe British Phonographic Industry(BPI) and sponsored by mail orderoperation Britannia Music Club, theawards ceremony will take place atthe London Arena on February 9.

At a press launch in London onJanuary 12 to announce the nomina-tions, Brit Awards chairman Paul

Conroy (also Virgin Records U.K.president) revealed that EMI actChumbawamba will perform at theawards show, which will also featurelive performances by Texas, FinleyQuaye and, from the U.S., the FunLoving Criminals.

There were no real surprisesamongst the nominations, althoughthe Spice Girls-despite their astro-nomical international success during

1997-were absent from all cate-gories bar the BestBritish Videoaward for Spice UpYour Life (Virgin).

In addition toThe Verve, Radiohead (Parlophone/EMI), Oasis (Creation/Sony), TheProdigy (XL) and Texas (Mercury) werenominated for both the Best BritishAlbum and Best British Group cate-gories. Nominations in the Best BritishNewcomer category included Roth

Size/Reprazent (Talkin' Loud/PolyGram), All Saints (London) andShola Ama (WEA).

Commercial TV station Carltonwill produce a two hour edit of theawards ceremony, which will beshown at prime -time across theU.K.'s ITV network on February 10.Last year's ITV broadcast attractedsome 10 million viewers.

French exporters mind their languageby Remi Bouton

PARIS - To export French music, itseems it's best to avoid singing in theFrench language.

According to export statistics to bereleased during Midem for the first timeby the French music export office, 35albums produced in France have soldover 40,000 units each outside Francesince May 1996-a combined total ofsome nine million units.

The genres that sell well abroad areelectronic instrumental music (Era,Jean -Michel Jarre, Eric Serra), worldmusic (Carrapicho, Khaled, Wes,Cesaria Evora), techno (Daft Punk,Laurent Gamier), and jazz (MichelPetrucciani). "The biggest sales areachieved by albums from acts who don'tsing in French," notes Virgin interna-tional exploitation manager ThierryJacquet. However, he notes, "It's reas-suring that in the Top 3, there's a band,Daft Punk, which is in a genre [technol

that people originally considered asnon-commercial."

Traditional French language "chan-son" fares less well in export markets-the most popular album during the sur-vey period was Patricia Kaas' Dans MaChair (Columbia), the seventh best sell-ing export album overall. AnotherFrench language genre-rap-soldaround 100,000 units outside France,most notably by TAM and MC Solaar-the latter's album Paradisiaque

(Polydor), sold 90,000 copies."Overall," reflects Jacquet, "it's quite

an interesting result. There is a largevariety of styles represented and ourrepertoire is receiving better considera-tion nowadays. It proves the abilityFrench labels have acquired in sellingtheir repertoire outside France. It is notan instant thing-it's the result of a lotof field work in A&R and marketing,and in how we present our products toour affiliates."

Top 10 French album exports (May '96 -Dec. '97)

Artist Album Label Release date Units soldCarrapicho Fiesta Da Boi Bumba RCA/BMG June 96 950.000Supertramp Some Things Never Change EMI March 97 900.000+Daft Punk Homework Labels/Virgin June 97 9130 000

Gipsy Kings Compas P.E.M. July 97 770.020J -M Jarre Oxygene 7-13 Dreyfus Feb 97 600.000Era Era Mercury March 97 600.000Patricia Kaas Dans Ma Chair Columbia March 97 450.000Nana Mouskouri Nana Latina PolyGram n/a 400.000Khaled Sahra Barclay Nov 96 350.000Eric Serra Fifth Element OST Virgin May 97 320.000

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Open MikePaul -Rene AlbertiniPresident of SonyMusic Enter-tainment France,Albertini waselected presidentof French record 11

companies'body SNEP inOctober 1997.

Q: What are your goals aspresident of SNEP?A: I plan to have goals which are insynch with the future of our industry,not its past. I view our function aslooking ahead and seeing how we canprotect our business within three,five or 10 years. So for me, the mainquestions we have to deal with arelinked to the rights situation.

We will focus on the rights of[music] production companies with theadvent of new technologies. In short,we are going to re -adjust the prioritiesof SNEP in order to take more intoaccount the business of music produc-tion. We also want to make more roomfor independent companies.

Q: Indies already have their owntrade body (UPFI), so how do youplan to achieve that?A: I want SNEP to become muchmore representative of the wholemusic production field. I'm convincedwe can bring together independentproduction labels and major compa-nies. We are currently reviewing theway we make decisions-I want togive more power to the [SNEP]board, which will allow members tobe more involved.

We should also welcome moreindependent labels on to the [SNEP]committee. Those changes, whichshould be effective within the nextthree months, will allow SNEP to bemuch more efficient and the indies tobe better represented.

Q: Are issues such as the VAT rateon records and minimum retailpricing less important to youthan they were before for SNEP?A: A lower VAT rate remains animportant issue. SNEP started thewhole debate which is now takingplace in other European countries,most notably in Italy. We will contin-ue to follow this marathon process toits conclusion.

As for the the minimum recordretail price, it has been a constantconcern for SNEP, as we want toavoid abuses, loss -leading sales anddangerous imbalances within the dif-ferent branches of the retail sector.That said, a lot has already beendone-especially with the implemen-tation of the notion of minimum rate.And I don't think it is up to SNEP togo further and decide upon a specificapproach towards retail.

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NEWS

XFM MAKES CHANGESLONDON - Alternative rock station Xfm/London hasrevamped its daytime programme schedule just four monthsafter its September 1 launch. American breakfast show hostEric Hodge has been replaced by the station's drivetime DJ

Paul Anderson-in turn substituted by formerHeart 106.2/London presenter Ian Camfield,

who also gets a new Sunday night metalshow. The changes have further fuelledindustry speculation that Xfm is notreaching the 500,000 listeners it had

hoped for (M&M, September 13). Xfm'sfirst official audience figures will be published in

RADAR fourth quarter 1997 survey results, due February 6.

COMMUNITY STATIONS BOOSTED IN SAXONYBERLIN - Saxony radio regulator the SLM has agreed topay German Telecom charges-as well as related technicalbroadcasting costs-incurred by the state's non-commer-cial stations during 1998. The SLM has also allocatedsome $21,000 for the partial funding of university stationRadio Mephisto, community broadcaster RadioBlau/Leipzig, and Radio T/Chemnitz (which carries a widerange of minority music programming). State regulatorsin Germany are responsible for-at least-the partialfunding of non-commercial stations, which are alsofinanced through listener donations.

MUSIC DATABASE SET TO LAUNCHLONDON - U.K labels' and publishers' organisations areteaming up to develop and manage "the world's mostadvanced music database." The organisations claim the data-base will assist distribution of all forms of royalties, and helpcombat piracy by facilitating easy identification of genuinerights holders. A joint venture company, National Discogra-phy Limited, will be set up to "promote and service use of thedatabase by third parties and in common areas of business."

NEW ARTISTS GET KICK IN DENMARKCOPENHAGEN - Danish indielabel Kick Music is to release aseries of four promotionalalbums featuring unsigned localacts. The non -profit -making pro-ject, on Kick's Recordserviceimprint, will contain tracks fromvarious genres, from pop/rock tojungle. The CDs will be distrib-uted at trade fairs, sent to 350 record companies in Den-mark and to the media. Public broadcaster DanmarksRadio's CHR station P3 has already agreed to support theproject, and has produced tracks on the first CD by TheDawn Pirates and Supersilent.

RADIO DONNA GETS MAKE -OVERBRUSSELS - Flemish CHR station Radio Donna is freshen-ing up its output for '98 with a new programme schedule andjingle package. Michel Follet leaves the breakfast show tohost a new lunchtime quiz show-his replacements atbreakfast are former traffic reporter Johan Henneman andex -Radio 2 Vlaams Brabant presenter Birgit Simal. Mean-while, Donna's parent corporation, the BRTN, is changingits name. The Flemish public broadcaster will now be knownas VRT (Vlaamse Radio en Televisie) following recentapproval of the change by the Flemish parliament.

MOVING CHAIRSPARIS - Former Mercury Francemanaging director Yves Bigot (pic-tured) has been appointed schedulingmanager of the new Paris sports stationSport O'FM.OSLO - Marius Lillelien, formerly alocal A&R manager at Sony Music Nor-way, is the new music director at publicCHR station NRK P3. His responsibili-ties at Sony Music Norway will be takenup by the affiliate's other local A&Rmanager, Per Ostmark.

attempt to bolster thestation's low audiencefigures. Ginger, hired lastyear to revamp the station'soutput and structure (M&M,September 27, 1997), movedswiftly to implement thechanges after they wereapproved by Irish broadcasting

Today's menu: soft classicsby Mike McGeever

Dust N - Less than one yearafter going on air, Irish nationalcommercial broadcaster RadioIreland-rebranded as TodayFM-has relaunched with a softAC format and a I£1 million($1.6 million) marketing blitz.

The programming changeshave been carried out by Gin-ger Radio, a division of U.K.broadcaster ChrisEvans' Ginger Media

regulator the IRTC."In its former life, Today FM

never had a music policy. It wasall block programming, like TV,"observes Ginger Radio head ofprogramming Geoff Holland. "Sowhat we have done between thehours of midnight and 17.00 is togive the station a mainstreammusic policy. It is now positionedas a soft, classic -leaning AC

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broadcaster," says Holland,who was also recently appointedprogramme director at U.K rockstation Virgin Radio following itstake-over by GMC.

Under the new music policy,softer contemporary tracks byartists such as Celine Dion are"bang on the mark," along witholder titles from the likes of TheEagles or Van Morrison, says theprogramming executive.

The station's new music pol-icy is filling a gap in the Irishradio market, Holland claims."Most of the stations in thecountry are chart -driven to apoint, which Today FM is not.

Nationally, there is anopportunity for a really

riftwell-defined, well -focused soft AC broad-

caster with a classic lean."Today FM has kept some of

its specialist music output cov-ering soul, jazz, blues, anddomestic music, but these arenow scheduled in separate pro-grammes during the evening.

Rebet's 'Naive' moveby Remi Bouton

PARIS - Frederic Rebet, theSony Music France executivebehind the international successof Deep For-est and Wes,is leavinghis SaintGeorgeimprint to become a partner/managing director in Naive, thecompany set up last Novemberby former Virgin France chair-man Patrick Zelnik and advertis-ing executive Eric Tong Cuong.

"Frederic is quite an uncon-ventional figure in this busi-ness," comments Zelnik. "Ithink the word 'Naive' fits himquite well, because he is open toall music genres, while havinga fresh and innocent attitude."

Rebet will continue to act asA&R consultant to Saint Georgefor one year following up onimportant label projects such asWes (currently breaking in Ger-many), the new Deep Forestalbum and new releases fromStone Age and Dan Ar Braz.

"I'll be 100 percent dedicatedto Naïve, but I will remainassociated with the main deci-sions taken at Saint George fora year, without getting involvedin the day-to-day running of myformer label," explains Rebet."This provides a smooth wayout from the label I founded atSony. It is important for theacts I've signed and for theirinternational development."

At Naive, Rebet says heplans to sign "acts that have aninternational potential andwho have the capacity to workbeyond the boundaries, andwrite for movies, multimediaor TV."

Zelnik says the philosophybehind Naive is to "accompanyartists without distorting theirintentions, and to find natural

ways of development." He adds:"Rebet knowshow to do that-he is the bestpartner that wecould havefound to dev-elop Naive."

Danubius boostsHungarian musicby Susan L. Schuhmayer

BUDAPEST - Hungarian musi-cians have received an unex-pected boost following the pri-vatisation of Radio Danubius.

Since the station's new own-ers-U.K. company DMGRadio-unveiled its program-ming changes on January 1,three songs from Hungarianartists are being aired each hour;the early morning 04.00-05.00slot now features back-to-backHungarian records each day.

When the station-whichcovers 67 percent of the coun-try-was state-owned by thestate, only one Hungariantrack was played per hour. "It'sa very important change,because the Hungarian peoplelike Hungarian music," saysRadio Danubius music director

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new managing director RobertClarkson, Radio Danubius isfocusing on the 18-45 demo-graphic, offering a mix of pop,dance and Hungarian music.The station's new breakfastshow, "Cappucino," offers ahealthy slice of humour, whilethe early evening 18.00-20.00slot now features a game show.Talk is prominent in the lateafternoon and late at night.Between 20.00 and 22.00, thenew -look station carries spe-cialist music programmes, fromjazz to rock and blues to soul.

From the middle of Febru-ary, Danubius will face nation-al competition from a new com-mercial station headed by U.S.broadcaster Emmis Interna-tional (M&M, November 15).


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mediawatchVOX The monthly U.Kmusic magazine takes a behind -the -scenes look at the role of PRs in themusic industry. "Some journalistswant you to be a sycophant, a door-mat, a shopping service, a punchbag, atravel agency and their nanny,"observes one (anonymous) PR. Thearticle, brim -full with anecdotes ofjournalists' and artists' treatment ofPRs, notes that the vast majority ofpress officers-in an otherwise male -dominated industry-are women.Says one female PR: "Record compa-nies are full of sexist wankers...they've driven an entire generation ofthe best female press officers out of themajor labels and into independent PRcompanies, with the result that fewerand fewer bands are willing to havetheir record company do their press.There are some really good male pressofficers, but most of the really success-ful ones are women."Vox (U.K.) Feb 1998 issue

LIDOVE NOVINY In an article in theCzech daily's media section, PetrStepanek, vice-chairman of theCzech Council for Radio and TVBroadcasting, claims the behaviourof national commercial TV broadcast-er TV Nova is damaging the Czechradio industry. "TV Nova has alreadythreatened some broadcast servicesby price -slashing morning advertis-ing, which are the most importanthours for radio stations," claimsStepanek. In a recent deal, the U.S.-owned Nova-already the favouritechannel of 60 percent of Czechs-haslinked its programming to anothercommercial TV station, TV Prima.Stepanek says further co-operationbetween the two commercial TV sta-tions "will lead to the destruction ofthe entire Czech media market."Lidove Noviny (Czech Rep) Jan 12

feillonat Fifty-four year -old French rock icon Johnny Hallydayhas given the French daily a candidand unprecedented interview, which

received massive media coverage inFrance. For the first time, Hallydaydiscussed with writer MichelBraudeau his father (a "bum" who lefthome when he was eight months old);drugs ("cocaine, yes, I used to take it assoon as I got out of bed in the morning,but not any more. Now, I take some forwork, to put the machine into gear. I'mnot proud of it, but that's the way itis"); religion ("I'm a Catholic and abeliever") and death ("I am scared of it.My dream would be to die brutally,without noticing, like James Dean").Le Monde (France), Jan 7

THE INDEPENDENT Chris Evans' newbreakfast show on rock station VirginRadio has already come under thescrutiny of U.K. commercial radio reg-ulator the Radio Authority (RA),according to the British daily newspa-per. The issue is "the way he [Evans]talks about the programme's sponsorsduring his show." Media correspon-dent Paul McCann reports that Evansmay be failing to comply with the RA'sstrict sponsorship code, which does notlet presenters explicitly endorse prod-ucts on -air. David Lloyd, RA head ofprogramming and advertising, is quot-ed as saying: "This is a matter that hasbeen discussed and we will monitorthe situation."The Independent (U.K.) Jan 10

Capital The Rolling Stonesare "the leading rock multi -national"according to a piece in the Frenchbusiness monthly. Looking at thebusiness side of the band, writer EricWattez comments: "Fully professionalon stage, the band members areequally careful of every detail when itcomes to the exploitation of their sta-tus as living legends. The band workswith the cream of lawyers, financialadvisers and rock promoters." The1997/98 Bridges to Babylon tour isexpected to gross over $200 millionworld-wide, according to Capital."Only one band can outsell theStones-the Stones themselves," con-cludes Wattez.Capital (France), Jan 1998 issue

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COPENHAGEN - Copenhagen -basedEminence Promotion Group has wona unique contract to promote the U.S.Grammy Awards in all territoriesoutside North America.

It is the firsttime the awardshave been activelypromoted on a co-ordinated world-wide basis outsidethe U.S., and radiois central toEminence's strate-gy. Eminence man-aging partnerKristen Skograndsays participating radio stationswill have the opportunity to run offi-cial on -air Grammy promotions incollaboration with their own sponsorsand advertisers, giving awayGrammy tour packages as prizes totheir listeners.

"One of our main objectives is topromote the Grammies throughradio," says Skogrand. "We havedeveloped promotional concepts that

benefit both the stations and theirrespective sponsors."

Eminence is working closely withthe L'Express Group, the U.S. compa-ny responsible for promoting theFebruary 25 event in America.L'Express decided to license the

rights outside the U.S. because itbelieved that would be a moreeffective way of promoting theshow abroad.

European acts amongst the nom-inees for the key Grammy

categories this yearinclude Radiohead

(album of the year andalternativemusic perfor-mance); DaftPunk (dance

1 \V recording); EltonJohn and Seal (male

vocal pop performance); PaulMcCartney (album of the year); TheChemical Brothers (alternative musicperformance and rock instrumentalperformance). All five nominations forbest alternative music performancecome from Europe-David Bowie andBjork being the others.

During a recent appearance on German TV game show "Wetten Da,"the Spice Girls were presented with platinum discs in recognition of500,000 German sales of their album, Spiceworld (Virgin). Pictured withthe group are Virgin Germany's outgoing head of radio promotions,Jane Smith (left) and Virgin Germany product manager StephanieReisinger (right).

Voz teams with Telefonicaby Howell Llewellyn

MADRID - Grupo Voz, owners of the14 -station Radio Voz group based inSpain's north-western Galicia region,has announced that it is forming anew joint company with telecommu-nications giant Telefonica, which islooking to expand its media interests.

On paper at least, the purpose ofthe new company is to bid for con-tracts to install cable TV in the region.Grupo Voz says its project withTelefonica will involve cabling morethan 450,000 Galician homes over thenext 10 years at a cost of more thanPta25 billion ($167 million).

However, there is speculation thatthe deal is also linked to recent

reports of interests close to Spain'scentre -right government planning toform a major new radio companyaround Telefonica to rival theSER/Union Radio group, whichowned by the socialist -leaning mediaconglomerate Grupo Prisa (M&M,December 27).

Radio Voz already owns three sta-tions outside Galicia-Radio VozMadrid, Radio Voz Palma de Mallorcaand Radio Voz Sevilla-and it is wide-ly known to have ambitions to becomea fully-fledged national radio grouping.

Neither Telefonica or Grupo Voz-which also controls Galicia's largestnewspaper, La Voz de Galicia-wereable to comment on the matter at timeof going to press.

MUSIC & MEDIA °JANUARY 24, 1998AmericanRadioHistory.Com

ARTISTS & MUSIC

The voice is King inDeep Forest's worldby Cecile Tesseyre

Whether it's in a Celtic folk song or a tribalchant, for French duo Deep Forest, the humanvoice still reigns supreme in an age of elec-tronic sounds.

Standing at the cross-roads of various types ofmusic, Deep Forest feel their roots are in worldmusic rather than newage or pop. "Despitethe technology, whatcomes first in oursongs are the voices,"declares the act'sMichel Sanchez.

That mixture of oldworld vocals and newage technology hashelped Deep Forestclock up sales of morethan three millionalbums worldwide over the past five years. Now,they're with their third album Deep Forest III-Comparsa (Saint George/Sony Music)-due outon January 20-which features a new and dis-tinctive voice, Europe's current crossover King,Wes Madiko.

Sanchez and the other half of Deep Forest,Eric Mouquet, stay true to their ethnically -charged brand of new age music on Comparsa,which draws from a wide range of sources, fromceltic folk to African chants. Deep Forest inviteda number of guest vocalists to record for the

album, most prominently Sanchez' protege Wes,who at present has a pan-European hit with hissingle Alane (Saint George/Sony) (see Music &Media, January 17).

lb write the songs for Comparsa-the Cubanword for companion-the pair travelled theworld for the first time rather than using tapesfrom sound libraries. Sanchez went to Cuba,

while Mouquet visited Mexicoand Belize to collect freshmaterial. "It was a great expe-rience," recalls Mouquet, "toland in a country with no ref-erences at all and to build upconnections from scratch with-in a few days."

Mouquet and Sanchez com-pare their approach to musicto surrealist artists' collagetechnique. "We don't use tradi-tional [folk] songs in their

entirety," says Sanchez. "We use some of thewords and notes and build up a melody around it.It gives us the chance to mix up voices from dif-ferent parts of the world."

Deep Forest are signed to Sony MusicFrance's Saint George label, which is distributedworldwide by Sony Music's Columbia divisionexcept for the U.S. and Australia, where it is han-dled by 550/Epic. The first single from Comparsa,Madazulu will be released on January 19 in mostterritories. Germany and the Netherlands willfollow in February, the U.K in March.

Solo career calls for Butlerby Sally Stratton

Bernard Butler, the guitarist who left Suede atthe height of the U.K. band's success in 1994,returns thisspring with hisfirst solo album,People Move On(Creation/ Sony),due on April 6.

His debut sin-gle Stay, releasedacross Europe onJanuary 5, ispicking up radiosupport in theU.K., Scand-inavia and Switz-erland. It will befollowed by theuplifting NotAlone-reminis-cent of Yes (Hut),his 1995 U.K. hitwith DavidMcAlmont-onMarch 16. Low-key live dates areplanned around thetour this summer.

"I didn't leave Suede because I wanted tostart a huge solo career," Butler says whenasked about the split four years ago. "I left theband because I had no choice, nobody wantedme in it. I hated the music I was making, thevision of the music and the atmosphere aroundit. I wanted to do things musically that I could-n't do within Suede."

release, ahead of a full

Suede have been called forerunners of theBritpop scene, but Butler declares it: "Theworst thing to happen to British music in thelast 10 years. Britpop had this great impact

and sold so many recordsbut will never influenceanybody." However, hecites Radiohead and TheVerve as "inspirational"artists of the moment.

Move On's grandarrangements and bitter-sweet lyrics recall thosebands, particularly TheVerve's rhythmic accom-plishment. "I've neverbeen a very good guitar.player technically,"admits Butler. "I've writ-ten a lot of my songs from

the perspectiveof a drummer,so you get somestrong andinteresting

rhythms on Move On."Butler praises

Creation for giving himthe creative freedom to be his own produceron this album and the label's distributionpartner Sony Music for their hands-offapproach. Both companies' reactions to hissolo recordings have made him positive aboutpromoting Move On in Europe. "I haven'tdone promotional stuff in the last few years,"he says, "because I've been a bit embarrassed[about the past] but now I'm fully in control ofmy emotions."

EDcincgroovesby Gary Smith

MIGHTY REAL....The appropriately named Feels Real by The Mudmen(eXtatique/U.K.) packs a gutsy, in -your -face soul/garagefeel. Combining a vocal -heavy radio mix which concen-trates on the melody with two excellent garage mixes andan extended house version, this EP offers variety andquality. Especially good is the London Bass Mix, a thump-ing city soundscape with a slightly incongruous butattractive flute riff.

...AND MIGHTY FUNKYA furiously funky house beat plus a dash of jazz sophistica-tion, some sublime electro drops, a rap and a dreamy chorusare the core ingredients of Oh Boy by the Fabulous BakerBoys (Mo' Bizz/Netherlands). The original mix is a 130 bpmshuffle that unites those elements to create a classic clubmoment; the Ramsey & Fen Mix whips up an even funkiergroove with extra saxophone, string arrangements and aplaintive vocal.

JUNGLE FEVERDespite Goldie and Roni Size, drum'n'bass is still strugglingto find its place in the greater scheme of things, especiallywhen it comes to harnessing those beats to a pop tune.Consequently hybrids like Kapta's Everything Changes(Flow/U.K) are particularly welcome. With its soaring,atmospheric strings, jangly guitar and cute vocals, this trackreally should be on the radio.

LIQUID SATISFACTIONIf Prague -based Liquid Harmony's debut single DiscoSatisfaction (S3/Sony Music) is a measure of where they'reat, they have a chance to become European dance heavy-weights. The track starts with a junglist breakbeat which,without pausing for breath, becomes a mad disco stomper. Astorming soul vocal and a distinctly live feel to the instru-mentation makes for a vibrant, fresh, club/pop song.

NINE DEADLY FINNS?After an apprenticeship in hisnative Germany in A&R forT.I.S./East West, then represent-ing Acid Jazz and YellowProductions in Hamburg, RafaelRybczynski moved closer to theArctic circle on a new mission.With business partner EuropekkaRislakki, he launched dance labelSauna Connections with the aimFinnish music to the world.

"We started putting our first release-the SaunaConnections compilation-together about five months ago.The results have surprised a lot of people," says Rybczynski.Indeed, the nine track/five artist compilation is quite a head -turner. Apart from its original packaging, the quality of themusic is excellent, taking in house, techno and dance/pop.Licensing deals have already been struck for Asia/Japan,Germany, Spain and the U.K

Media reaction has been positive, with German CHRbroadcaster Eins Live regularly playing Sauna acts NewComposer and Koneveljet on specialist shows. Closer tohome, Danmarks Radio's Jan Sneum has been playingSauna tracks and Swedish Radio has just completed a onehour special about the label. A Viva TV programme onHelsinki, to be broadcast in February, will feature Sauna'slaunch party, with Corporate 09 and Koneveljet.

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All new releases, biographies and photographs for con-sideration for inclusion in the Dance Grooves columnshould be sent direct to: Gary Smith, c/o. Roger deLluria 45-3° -2,08009 Barcelona, Spain.

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For Midem '98, Marketplace looks atwhat happened to three of the morepromising records featured herein 1997.

Y FRONTPATCHWORK OF A HAPPIER PLACEAbatrash/Boucherie (France)

This debut album fromthe French techno trioprovided a single,Parasite, which waspicked up early on byFrench CHR networkNRJ, and Boucherie'sinternational managerStan Hintzy signed a

deal with Germany's Art Beat label forthe G/S/A after the Marketplace entryin issue 30. Hintzy also received reac-tions from five U.S. labels-At themoment, he's talking to all five, andhopes to conclude deals forScandinavia and the U.K. at Midem.

LEIGH BLONDSEE ME THRURM Records (Netherlands)This was the second solo album by

Dutch singer/songwriter Blond-aveteran of the British blues scene.Bert de Ruijter (Blond himself) saysthe Marketplace review (issue 44)resulted in immediate responses fromtwo Scandinavian and two Germanlabels-he's currently talking to allfour labels about a possible deal. Thealbum also received radio support inWarsaw and Gdansk, and Sony MusicPoland has also shown interest.

JC HOPKINSATHENS BY NIGHTShell Records (U.S.)

"We got a very quick response to theMarketplace entry (M&M, issue 15),"says Shell Records MD Shell White,"from Tommy Sarig, president of TVTRecords in New York. I was told thatafter reading Music & Media, he hadhis entire staff hunting down infor-mation on us." Hopkins (discovered byU.S. singer/songwriter Peter Case)found an audience for this jazzyalbum at American colleges last year:"It was a Top 10 add to college stationrotation in May," says White. Henotes, however: "We haven't madeany foreign deals yet, but the next sixmonths look promising."

Records featured in Market Place are by acts signed to independent labels for whichlicensing and/or publishing rights are available, except where noted. Please send yoursamples to Thessa Mooij, PO Box 59115, 1040 KC Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Fax (+31)20 682 0614. When submitting material for this column, please indicate for which territorieslicensing is still available.

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Pearl Jam looking forEurope to Yield rewards

by Christian Lorenz

Album and ticket sales outside theirhome market have formed the back-bone of U.S. alternative rock stalwartsPearl Jam's career.

In their homeland, the Seattleband's sales have steadily declinedsince the high water mark of their1992 debut album Ten (Epic). Whilstsales for Ten reached 8 million units,their last album No Code-releasedin 1995-barely passed the 1.3 mil-lion mark. At the same time, sales inEurope, Canada and Australiaincreased significantly. No Code soldmore than three million copies out-side the U.S.-600,000 in Europe.

On February 2, Pearl Jam releasetheir fourth album, Yield (Epic) andearly signs are that the band may beable to reverse that downwardstrend. Given To Fly, the first singlefrom the album, has received strongsupport from European radio since itwas serviced on December 19.

The track-released commerciallyon January 5-entered the singlescharts in Germany (67) and Holland(76) this week, largely due to chartpoints based on airplay. "Given 7b Flyis the first Pearl Jam single sinceJeremy [1992] to get this amount ofairplay," says Sony Music Europeinternational marketing manager EpicDaniel Levy.

At German rock station RadioGong, Pearl Jam share the playlistwith acts like U2, Sheryl Crow andBryan Adams. Programme directorMarc Stingl says "We played PearlJam singles before, but only after8pm. Given To Fly is catchy enoughfor our daytime programmes, and wehave it on standard rotation with 4plays per week between 06.00-19.00."Other European stations champi-oning the track include SWF3(Germany), Fun Radio (France),Radio DeeJay (Italy) and BBC Radio1 (U.K.).

As an additional promotionalitem, Epic has offered Europeanradio a 120 minute DAT of a complete

radio show pre-recorded by the band.Titled Monkey Wrench, the pro-gramme includes live performancesby the band and a number of specialguests. According to Levy "[Londonalternative rock station] Xfm and[Spanish CHR network] Cadena 40Principales have already showninterest in the programme."

Pearl Band's Seattle -based man-ager Kelly Curtis acknowledges theneed for the band to focus on territo-ries outside the U.S. "At the moment,the U.S. public is not much in favourof rock," he comments, "but the pen-dulum will swing back eventually.Rock'n' roll will always be around andPearl Jam is a great rock'n'roll band."

According to Curtis, the band'smain markets abroad are Australia,Canada, the Netherlands, the U.K.and Germany. Ticket sales for a worldtour which kicks off on February 20 inMaui, Hawaii, seem to prove hispoint-the Australian leg of the tour inFebruary/March is as good as sold out.Later this year, the tour will hit Japan,the U.S. and finally Europe, wheredates have not yet been confirmed yet,although Levy expects some shows totake place in September.

Famously publicity shy, live con-certs have become the main means ofpromotion for a band which routinelyturns down press interviews and whohave refused to shoot videos for theirsingles for the past six years. Curtisis aware, that "it became increasinglyfrustrating for fans not to be able toget hold of the band."

He adds "the band wrestled withthis issue for a long time and we didsome press this time. I understandthe frustration of not having a video[for Given To Fly], but the band isvery private and prefers to do recordsor play live."

Under those circumstances, Epicis relying on airplay for Given To Flyto promote the album. "We will workthe single for quite a long while," saysLevy. On the strength of the first air-play reactions, he says he expectsYield "to outsell No Code in Europe."


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Music in '98: regulate, educate, organiseAs the world's music industry gathers in Cannes for the Midem internationalmusic market, M&M editor -in -chief Emmanuel Legrand asks two key record com-pany executives their views on the issues facing Europe's music industry in 1998.

Paul RussellPresident, Sony Music Europe"1997 in Europe was a tough year foreverybody. We expect this year to bebetter, but it is going to be a strugglebecause we have to deal with a staticmarket. If you look at the net realisedprice-what we actually get afterretailer discounts and so on-you actu-ally see it is going down.

"In a declining market with risingcosts, you're in a margin -erosion busi-ness. So you have to do things to coun-terbalance that: keep your expensesunder control, look for cost -savings, bemore efficient in marketing expendi-ture and sell more records.

"On the positive side, there will be acontinuing increase in the marketshare of local artists everywhere inEurope. We will see that trend continueand it will cause people to look at them-selves and think at what they're doing.

"I don't doubt our ability as recordcompanies to spread local success intointernational success. From a localA&R point of view, everybody is goingto be extremely competitive.

"In 1998, we'll see trends whichmay set the agenda for the ensuingyears in the area of new technologies.What is the Internet going to do or notdo with us as an industry? How is on-line retail going to affect us? What are

"From a localA&R point ofview, everybodyis going to beextremelycompetitive"

-Paul Russell

Websites going to add to the promo-tion of artists? Some of those trendsmight not be that significant now, butwill change the shape of the industry.

"In terms of sound carriers, we'rerapidly becoming a one -carrier mar-ket in Europe. We used to be a two-if not three-carrier market. DVDmay be out there but it's not going tohelp us this year. So I think MiniDiscwill get a significant foothold in 1998.There will be more repertoire avail-able on MiniDisc by the end of 1998.It'll start to become serious in themind of some people who don't look atit seriously these days-I'm thinkingabout other record companies whohave dismissed MiniDisc so far."

Rick DobbisPresident, PolyGramContinental Europe"During 1997, music from all aroundthe world had success in Europe; that'sgood news for the European musicindustry. There was also a lot of bordercrossing in all sorts of music. It is veryhealthy, especially in the light of thechanges at MTV and the speculationabout the end of pan-European media.

"The market as a whole didn'timprove dramatically over previousyears, but there was some good news,especially in Eastern Europe. Ourrecord companies there have becomefully integrated in our operations.

"For the year to come, three mainissues-piracy, the CopyrightDirective and electronic delivery of ourproducts-will have an effect on theevolution of our business. Add to thatthe coming of EMU, which is a veryimportant operational factor, but alsoan indicator of the evolution of ourbusiness. 1998 will be a transition yearfor the EMU-we are just a year awayfrom publishing our prices in 'Elms.'

"Overall, we are confronted withbig issues that operating companiessuch as ours don't like to deal with, butwe have to. The entire future of therecorded music business is likely to bequite different and the elements ofchange are in front of us today. If wewant to march into this new world faceforward, we have to take action and ifwe don't, we'll be dragged into a futurethat will surprise us, disappoint us-and maybe put us out of business.

"Ratification of the WorldIntellectual Property Organisation(WIPO) treaty [agreed in late 1996]will move forward in 1998. The ques-tion is: will this common denominatoragreement be the basis of the future ofour industry? If that is the case, I thinkit is a dangerous set of circumstances.

"To be positive on that issue, therewill be a renewed and refocused lob-bying effort from record companiesand the IFPI this year with regards tothe Copyright Directive in Europe,which hopefully will raise standards

somewhat and bring into the opensome serious issuess.

"At the very least, we need to beclear in our lobbying efforts. We areentitled [from regulators] to the sameability to do business with our prod-ucts as the computer software indus-try is. I was disappointed with wherewe ended up with the CopyrightDirective at the end of the year, butyou have to be hopeful that as the var-ious players-the EuropeanCommission, Parliament-get intothe process of approving the directive,the protection will be improved. WIPOand the directive are also tied to thepiracy issue and we have to demon-strate how critical our situation is.

"The industry is getting closer topolicy makers, and with that regard,the lessons of 1997 will be put to gooduse in 1998. The IFPI, with inputfrom record companies, 'has drafted awell -formed and clear lobbying strat-egy for this year-it is a long termprocess. The industry has learnedthat we have to be willing to put inthe necessary time and effort if wewant things to change."

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New music, new technology at MidemSome 10,000 music and radio industry professionals fromover 100 countries are expected to attend the Midem trademarket in Cannes, January 18-24. The event's organiser,Xavier Roy, discusses the main themes of this year's show.

This year sees Midem focusingon two main topics. One is thenotion of tearing down barri-ers between different territo-ries to let music flow across,

and the other the impact of new tech-nologies on the business of music.

At least, such is the belief of XavierRoy, chief executive of the event,which celebrates its 32nd anniversaryin 1998. "The world's music market,"says Roy, "which has been predomi-nantly Anglo-Saxon, is becomingincreasingly receptive to new styles ofmusic-dance and techno, for exam-ple-but Latin American rhythmsand world music are also flourishing.

"For 32 years," he continues,"Midem has provided, and will contin-ue to provide, an essential platformwhich greatly contributes to and accel-erates the internationalisation andexport of music produced throughoutthe world."

New and liveThe blending of musical tastes, newmusical trends and the rise of newsources of repertoire will be high-lighted during Midem in more than40 concerts, featuring some 130artists (see M&M, January 17).

"Music is the pulse of the Midemevent, and at the very heart of theindustry," Roy notes. "Theconcert programme will con-tinue its mission of focusingon both major and develop-ing niche music genres.

"Over recent years newand emerging music trends-dance music, hip -hop, newelectronic music and thehugely varied rhythms ofLatin America and theCaribbean-have beenincreasingly successful incaptivating new audiencesacross the globe, and have been agrowing focal point at Midem. This

year this visibility and support willbe strengthened."

But if Midem is first and foremost aplace where the music community gath-ers for business purposes, Roy pointsout that the event "has always endeav-oured to anticipate and reflect the evo-lution of the music industry it serves.

"On the eve of the 21st century,"Roy continues, "there are a number ofmajor factors and developments whichwill have an increasing influence onthe music industry, and on the manydifferent sectors it incorporates."

Digital age addressedThose changes and new developmentsaffecting the music industry will betackled during Midem, especially atconferences which will focus on theevolution of digital technologies andtheir consequences for the music andradio industries. Roy considers that"the birth of Internet and the explosionof new technologies accelerate the cir-culation of information and are revolu-

copyright and production."Reed Midem has already embraced

these new technologies with thelaunch-two years ago-of a Websitewhich operates, in Roy's words, as "apermanent on -line -market, whichenables professionals to communicate

International Music Makers honouredThis year, Midem once again celebrates three professionals' "outstandingcontributions to the international music industry" and their "exceptionalinfluence in the world of entertainment" with its Music Makers awards.

The three Midem Music Makers for 1998 are: American independent musicpublisher Ralph Peer II (pictured), CEO of Peermusic; Michael Haentjes, founder

and CEO of German label Edel Music; and Canadian (Quebec)lyricist Luc Plamondon, who created, with the late Michel Berger,the musical Starmania (Tycoon), and who will present in Canneshis new musical, Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, co -written with Italian singer/songwriter Richard Coeciante.

Last year's Music Makers were Jean -Paul Baudecroux,president of French radio group NRJ, Tom Yoda, chief execu-tive of Japanese label Avex, and British concert promoterHarvey Goldsmith.

tionising communica-tion." They will, he pre-dicts, "bring about sig-nificant changes

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Enter the Techno ClubAnother innovation at Midem 1998which Roy stresses, reflecting thegrowing importance of new musictrends, is the Midem Techno Club. Adesignated area consists of a largelounge, equipped for meetings anddiscussions, with listening booths andhostesses. The Club has direct accessto Jimmy'z club (within the PalaisDes Festivals), where delegates willbe able to schedule 30 -minute slots toshowcase live performances and DJsduring market hours.

"It has been specifically devised toenable many of the smaller but verycreative labels who have neverattended Cannes, to do so," says Roy."The club offers attractive prices and

maximum visibility, and will allowthose young labels to benefit from thehugely international business plat-form which is Midem."

Looking to the future of the musicindustry, Roy expresses his faith inthe emergence of new markets in Asiaand Latin America. "Both of thoseregions represent huge potential mar-kets for music, in quantitative terms,but also in the quality of the reper-toire they possess," he declares.

New market developmentThe development of the music mar-kets in those regions has promptedthe Reed Midem Organisation tolaunch two new markets in recentyears-Midem Asia in 1995 in HongKong, and the Midem Latin Americaand Caribbean Music Market, lastSeptember in Miami Beach.

"Both these events were designedto meet the specific needs of theindustry in these dynamic regions,"says Roy. The former, targeting thegrowing pan -Asian market, is nowmoving location and will take placeMay 26-29 in Bali, after three yearsin Hong Kong. The decision to moveto the Indonesian holiday resort ofBali was motivated by financial con-cerns, and reflects the will to offer aless expensive package to partici-pants, Roy says.

The latter event was hailed a suc-cess by Roy, with over 3,300 delegatesfrom 65 countries, but came under firewhen it became apparent that, due tolocal regulations, professionals andmusicians from Cuba could not attend.

Reed Midem threatened to leaveMiami for another location.Apparently, an agreement has beenworked out with local authoritiesallowing "all the actors from theworld-wide music community toattend the show," according to a com-pany spokesperson. As a result of thisagreement, in 1998, the Midem LatinAmerica & Caribbean Music Marketwill be held again in Miami Beach,from August 25-28.

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Ahmet Ertegun: Midem Man Of The YearThe Midem Man Of The Year for 1998 is Ahmet Ertegun,the co-founder, 50 years ago, of the Atlantic label.Ertegun will receive his award from Reed Midem chiefexecutive Xavier Roy during a special evening in Canneson January 19. Here, French journalist and formerMercury France MD Yves Bigot profiles the ultimate"music man" for Music & Media, and three of his manyfriends in the European music industry give their viewson Ertegun and his achievements.

0 ne of the last survivors of along -gone era in the musicbusiness, Ahmet Ertegunis also one of the few in ourindustry who can justify

the use of the cliché "living legend."Ertegun has lived a unique life in an

industry he helped to shape; he is stillco-chairman of Atlantic Records, thelegendary label which he co-foundedhalf a century ago.

At heart, Ahmet Ertegun remainsessentially what he was when he beganAtlantic operations from a base in theHotel Jefferson in Manhattan 50 yearsago-a genuine music fan. He's a manof many skills-talent spotter, musicproducer, socialite, entertainer andeven composer (under theanagram/pseudonym A. Nugrete). Hehas written songs for Big Joe Turner,Ray Charles and Aaron Neville, andhas produced artists ranging from BenE King to Manhattan Transfer.

European originsErtegun's father was a Turkish generalappointed to the Society of Nations inGeneva before World War II. Theyoung Ahmet picked up perfect Frenchthere, then in Paris, before his fatherbecame Turkey's first ambassador toWashington, DC.

After their father died in 1944,Ahmet and his older brother Nesuhiremained in the U.S., and it was therethat Ahmet developed his genuine lovefor black American music, particularlyjazz and R&B. When he was still a stu-dent, he used to have lunch in a smallnear -derelict Chinese restaurantbecause he loved the piano player.Years later, they would meet again in aposh Beverly Hills eaterie-the pianoman had become Nat "King" Cole.

An astute businessman, Ahmet alsohad the vision to see further than thenext dollar. At Atlantic, which he found-ed with fellow jazz fan Herb Abramson,not only did he provide a home forincredible talent, but he was also one ofthe very first producers to actually payroyalties to struggling artists, many ofwhom had been happy until then to selltheir performances for a flat fee.

The team builderThe early days saw jazz musicians,blues shouters and R'n'B balladeersfinding a home at Atlantic. However,as great as they were, Ertegun didn'tstop there. He was instrumental, forexample, in changing the direction ofRay Charles' career; from a Nat "King"Cole wannabe, he developed into-inthe words of Frank Sinatra-"the only

true genius in the business."By the mid -fifties, Ahmet Ertegun

had also put together arguably the bestteam any record company ever had.That team included brother Nesuhi,soon in charge of the jazz division (witha roster ranging from the Modern JazzQuartet to John Coltrane) and later, dis-tribution and over-seas operations.

Also on boardwere JerryWexler, who wenton to producegreat artists fromAretha Franklinto Bob Dylan, anddeveloped a fruit-ful relationshipwith StaxRecords, andmulti -track engineering pioneer TomDowd, who assisted Wexler for years,before going on produce the AllmanBrothers, Eric Clapton and LynyrdSkynyrd. Ahmet and Jerry Wexlerbought out Abramson in 1955-ayear later, the legendary song-writ-

Ertegun (centre) with Eleidra founder JacHolzman and Jerry Wexler at Atlantic's 25anniversary sdes convention h Paris, 1973.

ing/production duo Jerry Lieber andMike Stoller joined up with theAtlantic team, paving the way for astream of hits.

From soul and R'n'B, AhmetErtegun went on to demonstrate anequally well -tuned ear for white rock.He acquired distribution rights for

British '60s"supergroup"Cream in theU.S. and wasalso one ofthe first fromthe New

' York musicto make themove toCalifornia,signing LosAngeles'

Buffalo Springfield. When that bandimploded, he gave development moneyto one of its leading lights, Steven Stillsand his fellow musicians in Crosby,Stills & Nash. After Warner Brosbought the label in 1967, Ahmetbrought to it Dr. John, Led Zeppelin,

A European perspectiveEddie BarclayFounder of Disques Barclay (France)"Ahmet is one of the greatest profes-sionals I've ever known. I made my firstdeal with him and his brother Nesuhiright after the [Second World] War. Wewere all broke, and we agreed to anexchange of masters, four each. Lateron, we signed a standard licensing con-tract and I represented Atlantic inFrance for about 30 years.

"Ahmet is a man of many talents-not the least being able to spot the rightartists, and God knows he discoveredmany of them-as a producer and as apromoter. As a record man, he knowshow to take a chance on someone, toinvest when needed; he did some fan-tastic coups. He is a gifted professionaland an exceptional human being, veryfunny and entertaining."

Claude NobsFounder of the Montreux jazz festivaland CEO, Warner Music Switzerland"From the beginning, Ahmet was onlyinterested in culture: he wanted to pro-duce records which would last, thatwould make history His 'genius idea,'when he started, was to produce blackartists for the white market. Beforethey were with Atlantic, Ray Charlesand Aretha [Frafildin] weren't makingthe [right] records, or getting the hits

which they did when they got there."He has always been in control of

Atlantic's destiny because he knewwhat the real priorities were signinggreat artists, making good records,building the best artistic teams. Theexecutive he feels closest to nowadays isChris Blackwell-they share this love ofmusic and artists, and this incredibleflair. Not your average 'bean counter.'

"The most amazing thing abouthim is how he manages to make him-self so readily available to others. Andhow much he still is, at 75, such a fan.His office is full of CDs and tapes, andhe's still discovering new talent, tak-ing his company to clubs to see newacts all the time. A few days ago, hewas in the studio again, producing ablues album.

"He has this diplomatic cultureinherited from his father. He's anincredibly well-read man, always intooverdrive. Time spent with him alwaysprovides incredible hindsight. He has awild sense of humour. Devastating. He

the J. Geils Band, the MC5 and Yes.

A versatile giantWhen being the boss isn't enough,Ertegun not only provides songs or pro-ducer-he even helps others to get intohis own business, from the RollingStones to David Geffen to the MontreuxFestival's Claude Nobs.

Perhaps his only failure was tryingto turn Americans on to football bylaunching a professional soccer league.He built the New York Cosmos fromscratch, recruiting Pele and otherworld stars, but couldn't sustain long-lasting public interest. He was alsounable to start his dream version of acycling Tour of America (as in the Tourde France), but he had foreseen thelinks between music and sport thatwould become ever closer in the future.

In a era of rapid change-and in abusiness where three years is consid-ered a long-term commitment,-histo-ry books and accountants' ledgers alikebear witness to Ahmet Ertegun'sdeserved place as one of the giants ofthe modern recording industry.

is also very down to earth, which giveshim a great rapport with musicians."

Bernard de BossonFormer president, WEA Music France"Ahmet is the soul of Atlantic, the mostimportant A&R man in the UnitedStates from 1955 through to 1975/80.He has discovered an incalculable num-ber of talents. He is one of those magicpeople who attract artists. And in addi-tion to that, he is great fun to be with.

"When Ahmet was coming to London[in the '60s], the rumour preceded him.Everybody wanted to give him demotapes. I remember a meeting with himat the Speakeasy at the end of the1960s, and all the artists that matteredin London at that time were sitting athis table.

"Among the things he taught me wasrespect for people. The first time I methim, when I was working with EddieBarclay in 1967, he gave me the feelingthat I was the most important person inthe world. He knows how to put peopleinto the light, respect them and listen tothem. His brother [Nesuhi, who died in1989] had the same qualities."

"The most amazing thingabout him is how he managesto make himself so readilyavailable to others."

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iriCiAiCo -existence the key for music industryAn economic crisis in the Italian music business in recent years has led to changes inrecord company operations. The majors have all launched specialist labels aiming tocopy the independents' creative A&R approach whilst exploiting their own infrastruc-ture. Italian label executives talk to Mark Dezzani about their priorities for 1998, asmajors and indies construct a new era of peaceful, profitable co -existence.

taly's Indies and majors have oftenhad a hostile relationship since themajors split from domestic trade asso-ciationAFI to form a new federation-FIMI-six years ago. Now they are

finding new ways of working together.Official statistics-and the coun-

try's centre-left government-assureItalians the worst years of austerityare over and economic renewal is final-ly underway in Italy, but record com-pany executives-both independentsand majors-are not expecting anyimmediate upturn in domestic sales.

With a low domestic per capitaspend on records, and increasing com-petition from multi -media leisurehardware and software, exports arethe music industry's best growthopportunity. Italy has a strong tradi-tion of marketing itsartists abroad, and a newwave of acts is set to belaunched on the interna-tional stage.

In 1997, tenor AndreaBocelli, dance stars Galaand Alexia andsinger/songwriter Nekjoined established Italianacts with significant salesabroad such as Eros Ramazzotti,Laura Pausini, Robert Miles, Zuccheroand Jovanotti, who all managed tosustain their international presencelast year.

Among the many more lined up forexport in '98 are rocker Ligabue, whohas sold millions of albums domesti-cally, and singer/songwriter Elisa,whose debut album Pipes

Zucchero

& Flowers (Sugar/Universal), releasedin English last year, has already goneplatinum (100,000 copies) in Italy.

VAT still the big issueWithin the Italian market, thebiggest issue amongst label execu-tives remains value added tax (VAT).A 4 percent increase in the rate ofVAT levied on records (from 16 per-cent to 20 percent) in October 1997was the final straw for many labelswho were already being regularlycriticised for the high price of top -lineCDs in Italy.

Blaming the increase on compliancewith EU standardisation of tax brack-ets within the European Community,Italy's culture minister Walter Veltroniand finance minister Vincenzo Vita

have committed to lobbyingthe EU for recognition ofrecords as cultural goods(M&M, November 8, 1997),and therefore eligible for areduced VAT rate as low as 4percent, as with books.

"There are three priori-ties for the industry in 1998,"says Caccia Dominioni, pres-ident of Warner Music 4taly

& Greece, and president of IFPI-recog-nised industry federation, FIMI. "Aconsiderable reduction in VAT, the re-launch of our retail distribution systemand continued success in the fightagainst piracy.

"Despite the political difficulties inaligning opinion between various EUmembers, there is a lot of awareness ofthe campaign to reduce VAT onrecords, and I believe much can bedone to secure a reduction this year,"says Caccia. "As far as distribution isconcerned," he adds, "we need morenew point -of -sale and music retailchains to invest in Italy."

Anti-trust blowFollowing the increase in VAT lastOctober came another blow for themajors. Italy's anti-trust authority con-cluded a year -long investigation intothe record business and found fivemultinationals guilty of operating an

effective price-fixing cartel.The five majors named(BMG Ricordi, EMI,Polygram, Sony and Warner)have all appealed.

"I hope this year willbring the situation undercontrol, that our appeal say-ing we are not guilty is, Ihope, accepted [by theappeals court]," commentsSony Music Italy presidentFranco Cabrini.

Many independent oper-ators welcomed the anti-trust watchdog's verdict as

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a moral victory, but believe it will nothave a practical effect in making themarket any easier for them.

"It was an excellent result," saysMax Moroldo, MD of Milan -based indieDo It Yourself. "As well as the price-fix-ing verdict, it was an indirect recogni-tion of how difficult it can be for anindie to compete in the market againstthe massive investment by the majors,especially in radio & TV promotion.However, it won't change anything. Theprice of CDs has not come down.

"At the other extreme," Moroldoadds, "electronic goods chains such asMedia World are selling CDs as lossleaders at seriously discounted prices,and putting many specialist shops-the main outlets for indie product-out of business."

Independents in crisisWarner Music Italy president CacciaDominioni acknowledges there is a cri-sis among Italy's independent labels,but suggests they are facing the same

problems the majors have to confront."There are no barriers against

anyone entering the market. Theirstrength is creativity, and it is enoughto have one hit to be successful," saysCaccia, adding. "Their [indepen-dents'] weakness," he adds, "is whenthey overextend and try to maintaintheir own distribution, which is verycostly and has small margins. Therecent failure of Flying Recordsdemonstrates that when an indepen-dent forgets its creative priorities, itis more likely to fail."

Sugar Music was Italy's most suc-cessful independent in 1997, withworldwide sales for Andrea Bocelliand the successful launch of domesticacts Kaigo and Elisa, the latter nowalso being promoted internationally.International exploitation managerMonica Dahl says distribution by amajor for a non -dance artist is essen-tial for international success. "Itwould have been impossible to achievethe international results we've hadwith Bocelli by going through inde-pendent distribution channels.

"When choosing major partners,we keep our options open and find themost suitable for each artist.However, we've established a greatrelationship with Polydor, and


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glaunches and record advertisingrowth,

Italy's radio operatorsare looking to 1998 as a year forfocusing their formats and con-

solidation, writes Mark Dezanni.Eduardo Montefusco, president

of Rome -based CHR network RadioDimensione Suono, says his priori-

ties this year areprogramming andsponsorship."Without makingany radical changes,we'll Je fine-tuningour targeting ourcore 25-34 year oldaudience, and con-tinuing to promote

major open-air concerts which areaired live on RDS and national TV"

Promotion and format fine-tuningare common priorities for the fiveleading commercial networks, whichare often criticised for being too "gen-eral" and sounding too similar. CHRnetworks Radio Deejay and Radio 105are both focusing more on the 15-25target, and RDS, (national music)Radio Italia SMI and RTL 102.5 HitRadio on their 25-34 core audiences.

Changes at smaller networksGuido Monti, station manager atMilan -based Radio 105 predicts that,

while the top five commercial net-works will concentrate on consolida-tion, some major changes can beexpected from those struggling lowerdown the ratings table.

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will swap posi-tions in the ratings

depending on thestrength of special promo-

tions and events they sponsor." saysMonti. He adds: "A lot of turbulenceand change can be expected for theother networks who, despite tryingout new approaches, are still too gen-eralist. More specialist formats suchas AC, news and talk radio, urban,classical and gold are completelymissing here in Italy."

The two new networks launchedlast year have still to make an impres-sion in the ratings. Radio Capital,with an AC and news/talk mix, hasstill to register any significant growth,while Station One, which is trying outan all -new music formula for the 15-25 demographic, is languishing in thelistening doldrums.

"Those stations who make radicalchanges will have to expect a loss oftheir traditional core audience, and

invest heavily in promotion over a sus-tained period before they can expectpositive results," explains Monti.

New artists to benefitMusic industry executives point outthat, with the major network formatsbecoming more focused, it is easier toget airplay for new artists.

According to Adrian Berwick, labelmanager at BMG Ricordis BMGRecords, one key event which is helpingtransform the way in which Italianradio and TV promotes music has been

the expansion ofMTV Italy lastSeptember. Themusic specialistadopted a nation-al terrestrial sig-nal, andincreased its ded-icated Italianprogramming.

"The expansion of MTV Italy ishaving a positive effect," he says."More emergent local artists are get-ting exposure thanks to MTV's adven-turous playlist policy, and this is hav-ing a knock -on effect for radio.

"Many radio programmers areadding new artists quicker after see-ing the video clip on MTV, althoughwe are still having problems gettingrock acts onto radio."

The music marketAccording to figures supplied byItaly's IFPI-recognised industry asso-ciation, FIMI, the country's musicmarket during 1996-the last yearfor which figures are available-wasworth $414.5 million U.S. (trade),$637.5m U.S. (retail).

That figure, based on sales in tra-ditional music retail outlets, repre-sents per capita sales of less than one(0.7) top -price CD album per person.In 1996, Italy was ranked tenth inworld music sales by value.

Because of the investigation whichfound major labels guilty of operating aprice-fixing cartel, quarterly marketstatistics were not published by FIMIduring 1997. Figures for 1997 will notbe compiled by FIMI but by accountingfirm Price Waterhouse and publishedearly in February.

Industry insiders, however, saythat the market was stagnant in1997, and that whilst unit sales willbe up, due to increased mid and lowprice catalogue sales, top price CDsales have dropped and market valuewill be around the same as 1996.

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although I wouldn't want to sign allour international acts with the samecompany, once you have a good rela-tionship, it's a great advantage."

Indies' survival is vital.In Italy, Sugar Music is distributedby Universal Music, which estab-lished its own distribution networkjust over a year ago.

Universal Music Italy PresidentPiero La Falce says the survival of ahealthy indie sector is fundamental to

the market."There is a turn-ing point now, asindies move awayfrom dancetowards moremainstream pop.Out of researchand development,

the two crucial elements for the musicbusiness, the indies are good atresearch but lack the structure tofully develop artists," he says.

"This is where licensing to amajor-including not only distribu-tion but also investment in promo-tion-becomes vital. The strongestindies focus on research, leaving themajors to develop artists, since theydon't have the structure to take onevery aspect of promotion, marketingand distribution, which are essentialsto maximise success."

Whilst some indies lament that,inevitably, majors will prioritise theirown artists above a licensed artist, thiscan be overcome by being clear aboutterms before signing a licensing deal.

Roberto Zanetti, MD of indie labelDWA whose pop/dance artist Alexia isdistributed by Sony's Dance Pool, says,"Clarity is essential; this can beachieved by getting fixed budget guar-antees from the majors, especially forTV and radio advertising, prior to sign-ing a contract."

Majors specialisingVirgin MusicItaly, like its par-ent company, hasmodelled itselfalong the lines ofa large indepen-dent, and lastyear set up spe-cialist dance labelVCI, run by MarioNicoletti, a former A&R executivewith the now defunct Flying Records.

Virgin Italy marketing managerMarco Cestoni says that, despite a goodyear supported by a strong internation-al release slate, 1998 will be tough forindependents and majors alike. "Thesales crisis hit both in 1997, but theindies were hit hardest as they don'thave the strong backbone provided bylarge catalogues, which the majorshave. We're regularly approached byindustry professionals and artists tra-ditionally linked with indie labels,"Cestoni adds.

"Although the local economy isstarting to improve," he predicts,"1998 will continue to be difficulteven for the survivors, because thereis a global dip in the music marketand ever increasing competition forleisure spending from products basedon new technologies."

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Italy: a state of independentsThe past two years have been tough times for Italy's record market, especially for thecountry's independent labels, many of which had thrived on the dance music boom.Here, M&M's Italian correspondent Mark Dezzani asks executives from ten Italianindependent record companies for their thoughts on the current situation, and howthey are adapting to survive in an increasingly competitive market.

taly's economic crisis has hit thedance industry-and the country'sindependent labels-hard over thepast two years. It has been respon-sible for the closure of many clubs

and discotheques, resulting in a dras-tic drop in demand for 12 -inch vinylsingles, the mainstay of domesticdance music sales. Sales of dancecompilations have also plummeted.

This erosion of the local dancemarket has provoked many estab-lished labels to review their strate-gies and transform their operations.Several, including the Naples -basedFlying Records, have had toclosed down.

But is Italian dance dying or justsleeping off a hangover? Is it possibleto work with the majors, who haveestablished their own niche danceoperations and are taking more andmore of their traditional business?The leading lights of several of Italy'sindependent labels have a number ofanswers to those questions...

Franco DonatoPresident, AFI, and managingdirector, Full Time Productions

This year, Italy's independentlabels' and producers' associa-tion, AFI, celebrates its 50thanniversary. After a splitwith the local major labels sixyears ago-those companiesformed the IFPI-recognisedFIMI federation-Donatonow describes AFI's relations

with FIMI and the majors as "positiveand constructive."

Donato seems relatively unper-turbed by the talk of major problemsfor Italian indies: "Crisis, what crisis?What we have seen is a cycle that hasbeen going on for years. Over the past20 years I have been in this business,I have seen many companies go out ofbusiness, but they are alwaysreplaced by new enterprises."

He continues: "After a difficult twoyears, I predict that 1998 will be a yearof renewal for the independent sector.This is not grounded in optimism butin reality. According to figures com-piled by [authors' rights society SIAE],the indies' market share was 24.4 per-cent last year. Many companies whoestablished themselves during thedance boom are now discovering newniches at home and abroad, and usingevents such as MIDEM Asia andMIDEM Latino to break into new mar-kets. There is very healthy competi-tion between indies, especially in thelow -and mid -price categories."

Gianfranco BortolottiManaging director, MediaRecords/Impulse PromotionsBrescia -based Media Records has had

international success with Capella,49ers and Clock. Recently the compa-ny has concentrated on the progres-sive dance sound as popularised byRobert Miles, and on traditionalItalian pop.

"There is a series of new indepen-dent distributors starting up toreplace those that have gone bust,"says Bortolotti. "This is important,because if there isonly one-such asSelf Distribution-they can start dictat-ing terms. Thenewest indie distrib-utors are becominghyper -specialised.

"We are reposi-tioning MediaRecords, including atransformation ofour image from adance label to a poprecord company. Weare not completelyabandoning dance,but it will moreand more behandled by ourU.K. operation;Clock haveanother clubhit there. Afterlast year's pro-gressive trendin the dancearena, we aretrying out anew ge-nre-speedgarage-with rootsin the trip -hop sound.Otherwise,we arefocusing ondomesticpop produc-tion with theaim of dis-covering alocal artistwith theinternation-al potentialof an Eros RamazzottiPausini by 1999."

Alvaro UgoliniManaging director, Energy RecordsRome -based Energy, once a prolificproducer of underground dance, isnow best known for its international

or Laura

success with Whigfield."Italian dance isn't dead," says

Ugolini, "even if the domestic marketis at an all-time low. In my opinionthis is not just an economic but a for-mat problem. Most dance sales were12 -inch vinyl singles, and with theclosure of many clubs, and the virtualdisappearance of turntables fromhomes, the CD single format has not

yet establisheditself in Italy.

"Althoughthe majors say

Faces of independence for '98

(from top): 883, Whigfield, Gala,

Michele Zarillo and PFMthey support establishing the CD sin-gle format, they keep pulling CD sin-gles from retail early to favour album

"1998 will be a year of renewal forthe independent sector"

-Franco Donato, AFI/Full Time Productions

sales, and still use singles almostexclusively for radio promotion."

Roberto MagriniManaging director, RTI MusicPart of theMediaset mediaempire (51 per-cent owned bymedia magnateSilvio Berlusconi),RTI Music is oneof two large inde-pendents surviv-ing in Italy. Theirmajor artistsinclude Mina,883, PFM and Michele Zarillo.

"There is not a lot the small indiescan do-the market reality today saysthat only those with big resources can

survive," says Magrini."Majors have their catalogueswith mid -price product toturn to during the lean peri-ods. Now that the danceboom in Italy has imploded,and the emphasis is ondeveloping artists, thesmaller labels just cannotmatch the investment, espe-cially for promotion, thatthe majors have access to.

"RTI Music is part ofMediaset, which is publiclyquoted media group [withTV and movie interests], and

has to respond to shareholders, but itgives us the resources to survive as oneof only two independents in Italyregarded as medium-sized companies."

Max MoroldoManaging director,Do It Yourself Records.Milan -based Do It Yourself enjoyedpan-European success with dance/popartist Gala in 1997; its latest project isanother crossover dance diva, Regina.

"Now that the specialist dance sec-tor has faded," says Moroldo, "it is

important to focus on build-ing artists' careers. Thebiggest problem for anindependent in doing this isthe high cost of productionand promotion.

"The small size of theItalian market makes it nec-essary to target product forabroad, or to secure invest-ment through licensing to amajor. Although this invest-ment helps, majors

inevitably put priority on their ownartists. Domestically, we felt that wecould have sold more than 50,000copies of Gala's first album [distributedby BMG in Italy], but it was unavail-able after the early shipments sold out.Apart from Germany, where VIVArefused to air the video for Gala's sin-gle, everywhere else in Europe wherewe have licensed Gala to indie distrib-utors sales have been excellent."

Roberto ZaneffiManaging director, DWA Records


ITALIAN SPECIALTuscany -based DWA has scored inter-national hits with Double You,Corona, Ice MC and, most recently,Alexia. Like many Italian indies,DWA product is distributed by amajor (Sony).

"The problem with dance music,"says Zanetti, "is that albums do notsell well. In Italy, the indies lamentthat majors don't give sufficient sup-port to their artists. There is a chick-en and egg situation, in that majorsdo not give priority to dance albumsbecause they know they don't sellwell, but 50,000 sales for a debutalbum in the Italian market is anexcellent result for any genre.

"Many indies made the mistake ofexaggerating their production poten-tial. They tried to behave like majorsand spread themselves too thinly.DWA is now more of a productionhouse than a record label, and we'reconcentrating on crossover dance/popartists such as Alexia, with strongerdance re -mixes for clubs. I think theway forward is to take on fewer pro-jects and focus on a few priorities.

"Through concentrating on produc-tion and managing the artist's image,you can achieve a high quality product,which is what consumers demand."

Filippo SugarManagin Director,Edizioni Suvini ZerboniPart of the Sugar Music Group, one ofItaly's two remaining medium-sized

"There is very little space left for independents,except as producers of individual projects"

-Filippo Sugar, Edizioni Suvini Zerboniindependents, which scored global suc-cess with Andrea Bocelli in 1997.Filippo Sugar is liquidating the group'sdance label, Zac Music, after some threeyears operation, as a result of the dropin Italian dance music sales.

"Even Sugar Music has a problemgetting the right attention from themajors," says Sugar. "It took us 18months of working with Polydor onAndrea Bocelli before he became apriority for them. In the dance musicfield, the autonomous specialist oper-ations set up within the majors-suchas BMG's Movimento and Sony'sDance Pool label-have pushed outthe indies.

"Five or six years ago the majorswere still asleep to the dance explo-sion and the indies thrived. Now theyhave moved in there is very littlespace left for independents, except asproducers of individual projects."

Massimo BeniniManaging director, IRMABologna -based IRMA moved away fromalternative rock and dance into acid jazzand jungle 3 years ago. Its bandJestofunk have enjoyed internationalsuccess, and its latest project-loungeact Montefiore Cocktail-has foundniche success in the U.S.

"Although, like other indies, we grewup on producing 12 -inch vinyl singles,"says Benini, "for three years we havebeen focusing on developing groups andproducing albums in specialist genres:acid jazz, jungle, trip -hop and mostrecently lounge music. We have foundthat whilst these niches are tiny in Italy,we have carved out good markets inGermany, the U.S. and now the U.K. Weare concentrating on quality and thecreation of a unique image.

"For indies to survive in 1998 themost important things will be to servemore targeted markets, and to plan aproject well before producing it."

Marina BarboneLabel manager, Duck RecordsFormerly specialising in traditionalItalian music, Duck Records hasbranched out into Latin music and mod-ern pop, and is finding export marketsin Asia.

"Latin music found renewed popu-larity in Italy last year," says Barbone."Merengue compilations sold especiallywell. We manage our own distributionand have had success with mid -priceproduct sold to large outlets such ashypermarkets. Our core catalogue isstill traditional Italian pop, accordionand liscio [ballroom] music, but we are

also investing in new age and moderndomestic pop artists."

Giacomo MaioliniManaging director, Time Records/Self DistributionBrescia -baseddance specialistTime Records'repertoire includesDJ Dado, Datura,Molella, Usura andOuthere Brothers.Self Distribution,founded byMaiolini two yearsago, is one of Italy'sleading indepen-dent distributors.

"I don't regard the recent failures asa crisis," says Maiolini, "but the clearingout of a saturated market. Companiesthat have failed recently took on toomuch and released a lot of average orpoor material. It is important to concen-trate on good product and not makemusic for the sake of it.

"The independents and majors havecomplementary roles," he argues. "Wehandle the production and distributionof 12 -inch vinyl releases for severalmajors (Virgin, BMG and Sony), andexpect to sign up another major shortly."

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Kaas: 10 years of French styleA decade ago, the bluesy single Mademoiselle Chante Le Blues stormed the Frenchcharts and launched the career of Patricia Kaas. Emmanuel Legrand profilesFrance's leading chanteuse, who this week embarks on an 80 -date European tour.

Asingle song can open thedoor to stardom; forPatricia Kaas it was thecatchy, melancholicMademoiselle Chante Le

Blues which was the passport to fame.A decade later, in her early thirties

and still singing the blues-amongother styles-Kaas has become themost popular French female singer inFrance and the country's most valu-able musical export item. Since the1987 release of Mademoiselle, theSony Music -signed artist has sold over11 million albums, half of them outsideher native country. Her last two worldtours saw her play to atotal audience of morethan 1.5 million people.

"What she hasachieved is extraordi-nary," enthuses PaulRussell, president ofSony Music Europe."I'm probably not themost objective personto talk about herbecause I'm a fan. Shehas a unique talentand is definitely part ofthe Columbia group of[elite] artists alongsideBob Dylan, MariahCarey, BarbraStreisand and Bruce Springsteen. Asa person she is enchanting in the tra-ditional French manner-and she'salso terribly sexy."

ted. One thing led to another, and Ieventually became her manager."

Shortly after they teamed up, thesingle took off in France. "Successcame quite rapidly," Prieur adds, "andwe all got caught in a spiral. We didn'trealise the scope of what she wasachieving because we were totallyfocused on breaking her."

Today, Kaas says she considersboth managers as friends. "We dis-cuss a lot," says Prieur, "but in theend, she makes the final decision."

Period of transitionThe success of the single pushed Kaas'

thought things could happen.Germany was on top of our list. Thenyou have to motivate the affiliates ofthe record company, and make yourselfavailable and be ready to do extensivepromotion. In the beginning, Patriciawould go anywhere there was someinterest for her. She did a lot of TVshows and press interviews.Journalists like her-she has a storyto tell. And it paid off."

The radio connectionPrieur points out that Kaas has beenable to achieve her excellent Europeansales levels without having had a pan-

European radio hit."Stations won't

play her," he says,"because she sings inFrench, or becauseher musical style isnot exactly tailoredfor FM stations. She'ssometimes played onadult stations butnever on CHR."

However, Frenchfull -service stationRTL has been a sup-porter since the begin-ning. "She definitelyhas a style of her own,outside the streams of

fashion," says Alain Tibolla, RTL direc-tor of artistic services. The station hasgone into partnership with Kaas on allher French tours, including this year's.

"RTL is very proud to be associatedwith such an artist," Tibolla adds. "Wehave a strong link with her and shehas always been faithful to us. She hasmanaged her career very intelligently.What strikes me is that she has beenable to go through 10 years and stillhas so much to offer."

Patricia Kaas with (from Ito r): Columbia France MD

Olivier Montfort, co -manager Cyril Prieur and Paul

Russell, president of Sony Music Europe

Fairy tales and hard workKaas' life has some of the elements ofa fairy tale about it, according to herco -manager Cyril Prieur.

Born the daughter of a coal minerin 1966 in Forbach, in the heart ofFrance's mining and steel region ofLorraine (near the German border),she started singing in public at localevents at the age of seven. For years,her weekends were spent performingin cabaret in Lorraine and across theborder in Germany.

In the mid -1980s her first single,Jalouse-financed by actor GerardDepardieu, whose wife wrote thelyrics-and released on the indepen-dent BSO label. It failed, but Kaasdecided to go on with a singing career,and picked up Mademoiselle Chante LeBlues from popular and prolific Frenchcomposer Didier Barbelivien. The songwas eventually released through a BSOtie-up with Polydor, but months laternothing was happening with it, despiteKaas' own strenuous promotion efforts.

It was then she met Prieur who,together with his partner RichardWalter, now co -manages Kaas throughParis -based management companyTalent Sorcier. Prieur recalls he mether "in Lorraine on a radio show, whereshe was promoting her song. She wasunknown but already totally commit -

debut album, Mademoiselle Chante(BSO/Polydor), to platinum status inFrance. However, soon after her link-up with Talent Sorcier, Kaas decidedto sever her links with the Polydorlabel. In 1990, a licensing dealbetween newly -created company Notede Blues (owned by Kaas, Prieur andWalter) and Columbia was signed.

Prieur says the change of label wasKaas' decision, and several factors ledher to choose the Sony Music label."They were offering guarantees oninternational development; they hadthe intelligence to propose a veryunusual contract, which involved bothFrance and Germany [this proved awinner-Kaas has since sold over 1.5million albums in Germany]; and thepersonality of [former Sony Musicpresident] Henri de Bodinat was also afactor she took into account.

"From the outset," Prieur contin-ues, "we concentrated not only onbreaking her in France, but on theinternational market. We were con-vinced that if we weren't starting towork the international [side] in paral-lel with the local market, nothingwould ever happen. It was tough-nobody knew her outside France-butshe rapidly became popular in Quebecand in Japan. Germany came later,with the second album."

On Kaas' international success,Prieur says, "When you are an artistsinging in French, from the start youhave a handicap. Bearing that inmind, we set priorities where we

An international naturalSony's Paul Russell says of Kaas' bor-der -breaking abilities: "The fact thatshe sells outside France has to do to alarge extent with the quality of her

work, and it says something about heras an artist. She just naturally mergesinto the international landscape.

"It's not a forced thing. She doesunderstand the business she's in,"Russell adds. "She knows how it worksand what is important. She worksunbelievably hard, and has good man-agers. In other words, she is a pro."

Columbia France MD OlivierMontfort agrees. "She's a real hard-working woman, never afraid to startfrom scratch in each territory. She'stotally committed to making thingshappen-we try to work with her allthe way."

Kaas is now launching a new worldtour to promote her fourth and latestalbum, Dans Ma Chair, recorded inNew York at Battery Studios. Her firstforay into producing, it sees her shareproduction credits with Phil Ramone.

The album has already passed thedouble platinum mark in France (over600,000 units) and has sold some450,000 units outside France. It will befollowed by another challenge-analbum in English, tailored for the U.S.and U.K. markets.

A full English -language album hasalready been recorded, but Kaas andher management were still not satis-fied with the end results, and she willrecord new songs during the first halfof the year, aiming for a tentativeyear-end release. Kaas has recordedsongs by Sheryl Crow (When Love IsOver), Diane Warren, and even fromrock band Garbage (Milk), with Joeland Adam Dome producing.

"A&R-ing an album in English isnot easy," says Prieur. "It is a long-term process. You have to listen to a lotof songs before picking the right ones."

But Kaas views this new project asher gateway to the U.S. market, andshe wants to prove that a youngwoman from Lorraine, of modestupbringing, can make it in the States.

Columbia's Montfort says Kaas is:"a genuine popular artist in the mostthorough and noble definition of theword. Artistically, she is not a copy ofa U.S. singer. She hasa real personality,and she doesn't cheather public."

10 steps to stardom1966: Patricia Kaas born on December 5 in Forbach, France.1985: first single, Jalouse.

1987: first hit, Mademoiselle Chante le Blues.1988: first album, Mademoiselle Chante, and first Victoire award for best new-

comer.1989: Mademoiselle Chante passes the million sales mark in France.1990: leaves BSO/PolOor for Sony Muslc's label Columbia, releases second

album, Scene De Vie1992: first tour of the USA, and another Victoire award for the most exported

French album.1993: releases third albums Je Te Dis Vow, produced by Robin Millar.1997: releases Dam Ma Chair, an album she co -produced with Phil

Ramone.1998: 80 date European tour begins

"She has a real personality, andshe doesn't cheat her public"

-Olivier Montfort, Columbia Fran

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France's most popular femalto Emmanuel Legrand abouther 10 -year career to date.

Q: When did you start singing,and in what kind of environment?A: I started when I was very young. Ihad a good ear for picking up melodies.Each time there was a singing contest,I would go there. For me, it was a realpleasure. I even had a band at the ageof 9, and we were playing everySaturday evening in different places.

I was singing at balls and all sortsof places, both in my native region ofLorraine, and in Sarre, in Germany.For me, there were no differencesbetween the two places. There were nocontracts then. It was just for fun. Butit was the best training school I couldever have gone to. I was also blessedwith parents who were neither againstit, nor ever forced me to do it. And theyhave always been very supportive.

Q: When did you think of becom-ing a professional singer?A: I always wanted to sing and be asinger; I loved it. For me, being asinger meant being on a stage andplaying to an audience. But I thinkthe idea of becoming a professionalsinger actually came after the releaseof the first single Jalouse (BSO).

Q: There's a story that [Frenchactor] Gerard Depardieu wasinvolved in that first single. What'sthe truth behind that story?A: I went to record company audi-tions, and someone who knew [com-poser and music producer] FrancoisBernheim put me in contact with him.Bernheim was friends withDepardieu's family. Gerard, whoheard me singing, said "We must do

Mademoiselle sings the hitse artist Patricia Kaas talkssome of the key moments in

something for the kid!"So, he financed the production of

my first single, which had no successat all. I see him from time to time,when I perform in Paris. I kind ofregret that he didn't continue to sup-port me after the first single, but I'mgrateful for what he did.

Q: The big break came with theMademoiselle Chante Le Blues(BSO/Polydor) single in 1987. Howdid that come about?A: Well, after the failure of the first sin-gle, I was in a strange situation. Mymother was very sick and she reallywanted to see me growing as a singer. Iwent back to Bernheim, who put me incontact with [prolific French compos-er] Didier Barbelivien. He offeredme a song he had in his drawer.It was Mademoiselle. I grabbedit and recorded it.

In the beginning, it was-n't easy. People were tellingme "it's not commercialenough." But I fought forit, did what was neces-sary, called radio stations,tried to get people inter-ested. In fact, the publicadopted me and turnedit into a success. Peoplewere calling radio sta-tions asking for thatsong. It took quite sometime to see it happen-the sin-gle was released in March [1987] andstarted to sell in October.

Q: The subsequent album,Mademoiselle Chante, also tookoff rapidly and ended up sellingover a million units in France.Did you expect such a massive-almost overnight-success?A: You never know what can bringsuccess. I was glad I had a goodalbum I was proud of. I just movedon and on, not realising what washappening. You always hope for suc-cess, but, you know, I wasn't reallygetting the full meaning of salesfigures-one thousand or one mil-lion units-and what it actuallyrepresented. I knew somethingwas happening, but I was justspeeding along.

Q: You've been working with thesame management company foryears and, except for that firstalbum, with the same record com-pany. That's pretty unusual...A: The situations are quite different.I've known Richard [Walter] and Cyril[Prieur, both from management com-pany Talent Sorcier] for more than 12years. We are friends, we trust eachother, and we work together. As for therest, it's a business where you meet alot of people. Some of them you can

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start to really like, and the next daythey're gone. People in record compa-nies change all the time.

In the early days, I tried to be veryclose to the people I worked with, only

had heard of Piaf, Brel, Chevalier,Montand, and perhaps of MireilleMathieu or Adarno. But that was it. Butbecause of where I come from, the ideaof going to Germany was natural, evenif I was warned that I'd never make itthere singing in French, and that it

would be too complicated.You have to go to other countries,

show who you are, meet the publicand the media: It helps enormously.The countries I have visited the mostare those where I have had thebiggest success-by contrast, in coun-tries such as Italy or Spain, where I'vehardly ever been, I'm totally unknown.It's hard work but it pays off.

That said, you can't impose thingson people if they don't like them, nomatter how hard you try. That I canunderstand. But at least I try, becauseI am interested in meeting a new pub-lic and sharing my music.

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artist. All they see isthe artist, and when

there's a cock -up, thespotlight is on the

artist too."to find overnight that they weren'tthere any more. So, as the years wentby, I started to become much moredemanding. I can be close to people, butI also ask for them to be professional.

I realised that when you're nice,things tend to become loose. People say,"Oh, she's nice, she won't mind," whenthings are not done the right way.

The problem is that the public does-n't see what's surrounding the artist.All they see is the artist, and whenthere is a cock -up, the spotlight is onthe artist too.

Q: From the start, you've concen-trated your career on the interna-tional market and not simply onFrance. That's not a usual atti-tude for a French act.A: French music [at that time] didn'thave much of a profile outside France.Some people-the older generation-

Q: With such a hectic schedule,don't you get tired sometimes?A: Of course. Sometimes you just getexhausted. There are times whenI'd like to have less to do. But whenI'm on holiday, after a few days I callCyril and ask him if there is any-thing I can do... I guess I am what

you could call a hard worker.

Q: Looking back at those past10 years, what comes to mind?

public A: Well, it looks as if we have cov-ered quite some ground, haven't we?doesn't see And there's no reason to stop at this

stage,not least out of respect for thewhat s memory of my mother. But just

because I have a 10 -year careersurrounding the doesn't mean that things are easy.When I'm recording a song, I

never think it's "a home run"-Ialways have my doubts. One of myconcerns is to get the public toevolve with me. When I'm recordingan album, I have two things in mind:to get pleasure out of it and, ulti-mately, to respect my public. I hopethat will continue.

Q: What's on your agendafor 1998?A: We start an international tour inJanuary which will keep me busythroughout most of the first half ofthe year. The concept of my show is totake the public to places where I havesung-such as smoky cabaret venuesor theatres-and to create differentmoods and ambiences.

I'm also working on an internation-al album in English. Some tracks havealready been recorded, and I've got afew weeks off in my itinerary which Iwill use to record the remaining songs.But my priority is to really give thebest of myself on stage.

I don't really fit with one specificstyle-it can be chanson Francaise,bluesy or jazzy material-and that's thekind of variety of styles I'd like toexpose my public to. I'd like to takethem into these environments where Ifeel good.

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DANCE SPECIAL

1998: the year of the crossover?With dance once again a heavily featured item onthe MIDEM agenda,Gary Smith assesses the stateof the genre at the beginning of a new year, andtalks to label executives across Europe about theirplans, predictions and hopes for 1998.

As 1998 dawns, dance explore paths less travelled, despitemusic in its multifarious scoring Top 40 placings in 1997.forms seems poised to fur- "Aphex Twin has a big enough fan-ther consolidate its place base that we can chart his singleson charts and playlists (Come To Daddy has sold more than

around the world. 100,000 copies)," says Rob Gretton, co -Following the inexorable percola- founder of U.K. label Warp Records.

tion up from the underground of "nu- "It's excellent publicity but we don'tDisco," a U.K-led Garage revival has always want to play that game."given melody a new relevance. Thesong is back, and "old skool" instru- The return of the soul vocalments are an increasingly commonsight. The result ? 1998 may see theend of the idea that theunderground is some-how divorced from chartaction. Welcome to theyear of the crossover.

A statement like thatbegs some qualification.Only certain sections ofthe loose -knit coalitionknown as "the under-ground" can reasonablyexpect to see their soundtranslated into chart plac-ings. In others, acts suchas Coldcut and AphexTwin happily continue to

Back in that over -populated regionknown affectionatelyas the mainstream,an increasing num-ber of major clubrecords with all theright frequencies fordancefloor dutyhave been carryingclassic soul vocals.

Ultra Nate's Free(AM:PM), CandiStaton's You GotThe Love (React)and Roy Davis Jr.'s

good examples ofthat trend, but so

Dancing into 1998European label executives reveal their predictionsand hot dance prospects for the coming year.

Jean -Paul de CosterFounder, Byte Records (Belgium)No longer known merely as "the man behind 2 Unlimited,"Byte Records founder Jean -Paul de Coster is currently capi-talising on his love of a good tune and a storming beat inother ways. 1997 was a good year for Byte, with over 5 mil-

lion Sash! records sold around theglobe, plus a rash of chart placings forRed 5's Da Beat Goes.

Apart from his prediction thatspeed garage will be a major influenceon European dance pop this year, deCoster is also betting on a sound

which originated in the Belgianclubs-party techno. "DJ Peter's Put Your Hands In The Airis a very Belgian track," says de Coster, "but it looks likebeing [underground offshoot] Byte Progressive's firstcrossover success." The track, which combines the energy ofhardcore with a lower bpm trance feel, is patently not techno-lite a la Quicksilver, nor is it happy hardcore. However,vinyl sales are encouragingly good, and licensingrequests have come in from several major territories."

Helge HaasA&R/marketing manager, Motor Music (Germany)As if it were not already enough that Hamburg -based Motor Music sold moresingles than any other German label in 1995 and 1996, they might well havedone it again last year. On top of that, Germany's currently powerful positionin the European market could be boosted in 1998, making it a genuine rival tothe U.K and U.S. hit providers.

That is to some degree due to an increasingly sophisticated, broad -basedmarket. However, the other main factor has been the quality sound of German

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are a lot of speed garage tracks. "Thegood thing about the garage revival isthat it's pushing the soul vocal," saysTony Colman, co-founder of U.K. labelHospital. "We can expect to see morevocal -heavy material coming fromclub culture this year."

The Belgium -based Byte label'smanaging director Jean -Paul deCoster agrees. "One of the big influ-ences in Europe this year will bespeed garage," says de Coster. "It'senergetic and more accessible thanmost underground forms. Even if wearen't releasing tracks in the genre ithas become a serious remix option."

A new disco infernoWhile garage might be one of thechoice phenomena of 1998, there isevery chance that the disco feel whichserved Da Hool and Tom Novi sowell-on Meet Her At The Love Paradeand Superstar (both on German labelKosmo) respectively-could onceagain be a dominant dancefloor sound,more than twenty years after the first,short-lived "disco explosion."

At BMG-distributed French labelPlatinum Records, label headLaurent Laffargue says, "Disco hasbeen threatening to invade the charts

for the last year. Now that there's ageneral move towards a richer, morecomplex sound it seems logical that itshould make a comeback."

Laffargue has another interestingtheory about the sound of 1998."Latin -influenced house has beenaround almost as long as house, and Ithink we'll see more high -profilecrossover records with a Latin feel."

Whatever happened to techno?In amongst all the talk of house andspeed garage, one may well wonderwhat happened to techno andtech/house.

The musical form which gaveJaydee, Future Breeez, Sash, Mr.President, Quicksilver, DJ Bobo andeven Aqua their basic sound is,according to some, on the way out,while others believe that the "techno-lite" wave has only just begun.

"The techno/pop thing is holdingon," says Max Music Germany MDAlex Haas-Guder. "But," he adds,"there are so many new forms comingout of Germany, which has traditional-ly been the home of techno, that Ithink the linear beat will fade into thebackground. People want a funkier,blacker sound."

"We'll see more high -profilecrossover records with a Latin feel"

- Laurent Laffargue, Platinum Records

Nana

productions, attributed to "Deutschegrundlichkeit" or extreme precision, citedby many as being at the core of manycrossover successes.

"We expected urban music to hit big inGermany in 1997, and it did," saysA&R/marketing manager Helge Haas. Hesays he was pleasantly surprised with just

how far Motor's urban roster pushedinto the mainstream. Nana's first twosingles, Lonely and He's Coming, shiftednearly 1 million units in Germanyalone; the self -titled album is at500,000. In the same "melodic gangs-ta" vein, R'n'G's Tick Tock/Here

Comes The Sun is expected to followNana's success, while House act Nalin & Kane's follow-up to the 1997 summer anthem Beachball is the equallybig-hearted and seductive Talkin' About.

Thomas FoleyCo-founder, React (U.K.)While no-one would deny that the compilation market is rather crowded,there are still some under -exploited areas-happy hardcore, for example.Currently basking in the warm glow of a U.K. silver disc (60,000 albums),React's co-founder Thomas Foley explains. "Bonkers 3 came out at a time

when there was little competition.Consequently we've sold 80,000 units [in theU.K.]." However, it was not merely luck whichturned this triple CD into a market leader.Packaging and choice of DJs (Sharkey, Dougaland Hixxsy are "la creme de la creme") alsoplayed their part.

Meanwhile, React is shifting its attentionincreasingly to its own roster. Hits in 1997 forthe Age Of Love Remixes, The Source featuringCandi Staton, Sundance and Mrs.Wood'sJoanna formed an increasingly significant per-centage of turnover.

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Motor Music's A&R/mar-keting manager Helge Haasagrees: "Techno-pop will con-tinue to lose ground simplybecause the rave scene needsmore time to develop a newkind of crossover."

However,Torsten Jurk,co-founder ofBerlin -basedtechno labelMFS, home toPaul van Dijkand rising youngstar Cybersecrecy,sees a more complex situa-tion. "There's a fundamentalgenerational shift in techno.

Robin 'Jaydee' Albers

The average age of kids inclubs is around 16-22, likewise

the artists. These are people towhom the guitar just doesn't

exist. Their sound is very dark.It reminds me of the

early techno scene,very undergroundand totallyuncommercial.Give them twoyears, though,and they'll be

producing awhole new kind

of crossover."

The broadcast bunchWhen it comes to all-importantmedia exposure, it's hardlynews that both radio and TVhave made efforts to accomo-date club culture in their pro-

gramming-they have hadprecious little choice.

However, the number of program-mers airing "dance" throughoutEurope is a pleasant surprise. "It's get-ting a lot better in France," saysOmnisonus label manager ThierryRueda. "Contact FM in particularplays all kinds of electronic music and,most importantly, they have an influ-ence on sales. Fun Radio and Skyrockplay club music at night [Skyrock'sdaily show, Rap & Techno, has beencredited with helping the station's dra-matic ratings rise], and even NRJ

DANCE SPECIAL,plays a few commercial house tracks inthe daytime now."

U.K. radio is the object of some ful-some praise from React label co-founder Thomas Foley, to whomnational CHR station BBC Radio l'ssupport of the Age Of Love Remixes(by Age Of Love) was crucial. "TheA. 0.L Remixes were on Radio l's BList, which was very adventurous ofthem and pushed sales significantly-it is after all an instrumental track."

Distinctive label managerRichard Ford agrees. "Radio is stillthe way to break records in theU.K. Even though TV exposure isan attention -grabber, it's stillradio that drives sales."

Such is not the case inGermany, where the "videokilled the radio star" sce-nario really happened. Theroot of the problem is thatnational music TV channelViva and dance music startedat the same time there, hencethere is a whole block of'90s kids who simply donot relate to radio.

"The bottomline is thatViva ratherthan radio dri-ves sales," saysMotor Music'sHelge Haas."Radio hasbeen trying

hard to play catch-up for the last twoyears, and there have been somenotable successes. WDR's EMs Live,and to a degree SWF 3, have growntheir audiences, but now that urban isso popular, radio is tending to go withthat. It's much more melodic."

Which begs the question that, if1998 really does turn out to be theyear when melody strikes back, willEuropean programmers include morehouse and garage? The broadcast

map of Europe is an increasinglyregionalised one and less easy

to read than ever."Song -based labels such as

Peppermint Jam and manyof the Dutch house labels

could be in for a boost fromradio," says Max Spainhead of international A&R,Matt Tallon.

"There are several otherlabels which could benefit suchas Basic Beats (Belgium),

Antler/Subway (Belgium),NEWS (Belgium),

Suntune (Italy) andAlphabet City

(Netherlands)."Of course,

the real win-ner would bedance music,the formwhich refusedto lay downand die.

"People want a funkier, blacker sound"-Alex Haas-Guder, Max Music Germany

"We want to maintain our success with credible compilations, but we hopeto get the turnover from our roster up to around 25 percent of the total for1998 (from 15 percent)," says Foley. Hopes are pinned on Trip Hop actKitachi's first self -titled long player plus I Feel Divine, the new single from S -J, and Mrs Wood's debut album, Woodwork.

Laurent LaffargueLabel head, Platinum RecordsWhile their sales figures might not be giving major label exec-utives too many sleepless nights, the influence of small labelssuch as Bordeaux -based Platinum Records is being felt across

the continent.The underground success in the

U.K. and Germany of Rollercoasterby Curtis, plus Bosco's

Everybody On The Dancefloor has seenPlatinum's stock rise, their highly individualtake on disco and house having been one of themore refreshing sounds of 1997.

"We like to push a genre to its limits," sayslabel boss Laurent Laffargue. "But our first

goal as a company is the long-term developmentof our acts. We'll worry about pushing sales later, whenwe're established as purveyors of quality music."

Having got off to a frankly excellent start with theabove -mentioned e.p.s, Platinum is preparing Bosco'sas -yet -untitled debut album for early 1998 release and,once again, pushing boundaries. "You'll very probablysee us moving into other genres this year," saysLaffargue. "Being an indie dance label doesn't meanwe're incapable of doing a professional job in otherareas such as rock and varieter

Tony ColmanCo-founder, Hospital/Galactic Disco (U.K.)The avalanche of releases last year had two unfortunate effects: some less -than -sparkling records were overly acclaimed, and some very good ones were over-looked. Moonrock, by Future Homosapiens, falls into the latter category.

Packed with thumping disco grooves, big tunes and mixed with a deft musi-

cality, the album, on London -based Galactic Disco,has just had the dubious honour of being named"Most Underated Album of 1997" by British DJmagazine, Mixmag. "It was always the plan tohave a disco and a breakbeat label," says co-founder Tony Colman, "and that both of themshould be very funky."

Encouraged by steadily climbing sales and goodpress, Galactic Disco and junglist imprintHospital are looking at an active 1998. Releasesinclude Rewind-a London Electricity single with vocalist Liane Carol whichColman describes as a "Jazz Funk Opera... dramatic with dense vocalsweeps," the string -loaded When Worlds Collide (Disco Galactica) fromIntergalatic Orchestra, and London Electricity's debut album.

Rob GrettonCo-founder, Warp Records (U.K.)Warp Records are "out of sync" tosome degree with the U.K. audience,but co-founder Rob Gretton is notworried. "The section of the U.K.audience which buys our records isinto Big Beat, but we prefer to stickwith our own sound," he states.

Warp is, after all, a label which hasalways done what it thought best,generally to excellent effect.Squarepusher's Hard Normal Daddy has sold 35,000

copies in Japan alone,while Aphex Twin is wide-ly appreciated in the 10111111/U.S.A. as a "classic AlkaTedio.English eccentric." In the firsthalf of 1998, this Sheffield -based alternative pow-erhouse will be putting out new albums by AndrewWeatherall, Jimmy Tenor, Aphex Twin, RedSnapper, Nightmares On Wax and new signingPhone, the latter described by Gretton as "EnnioMorricone meets Kraftwerk."


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1 1 20Barbie GirlAqua - Universal (MCA)

countriescharted

A.B.DKED.I.NL.E.S.CFLUKIFIUN

Something About/Candle In The Wind 1997 A aDKRUME Raj E S ell UK2 2 18 Elton John - Rocket (PolyGram 'Warner Chappell)

Together Again A.B.DK.F.D.IRE.LNL.N.S.CH.UKHUN0 5 6 Janet Jackson - Virgin (EMI 'Various)

C)It's Like That A.B.F.D.LNL.CH

4 8 Run DMC Vs. Jason Nevins - Profile (Warner Chappell)

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®Do Ya Think I'm Sexy? A.B.DK.D.1RE.LNL.N.S.CH.HUN31 16 N -Trance feat. Rod Stewart AllAround The World Mstalk !Warner Chappell )EMIT

Meet Her At The Love Parade45 23 Da Hool - Kosmo (Warner Chappell)

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No One But You (Only The Good Die Young) NL UK40 2 Queen - Parlophone (Queen I EMI)

AB.DK.F.D.IRE.LNL.N.E.S.CH.UKTorn0 14 12 Natalie Imbruglia - RCA (Island 1 EMI I BMG)

Prince Igor AB.DKFINF.D.NL.N.S.CH.UIC

©8 13 The Rapsody feat Wanen G. & Sissel Del Jam (PolyGrain !Madhouse IBIPWarner Chappell)

Tell Him A.B.F.D.1RE.LNL.N.S.CH.UK.HUN

7 6 11 Celine Dion & Barbra Streisand - Columbia (Various)

Too Much AB.DK.F7N.D.IRE.LNL.S.CH.UKHUN

8 3 5 Spice Girls - Virgin (Windswept Pacific 119 I BMG)

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Jones10 10 Aqua - Universal (MCA)

A.B.DK.FIN.D.INL.S.CH

I Will Come To You AB.DKFINF.D.IRE.IVLAT.S.CH

10 9 9 Hanson - Mercury (Warner Chappell I Dyad)

0 Vivo Per Lei BF

12 6 Andrea Bocelli & Helene Segara - Polydor (Not Listed)

AFIN.D.CH21

Johnny B.Down Low - K -Town -Shift I Zyx (Intro I PolyGram)

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51 11 Anouk - Dino (DBM)B.DICIVL.N.S

0 Je T'Aime" 11 Lara Fabian - Polydor (Fabsongs /Editions Charlot)

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BB aarninbbor-fiCeRecordings (Peer Music)

As Long As You Love Me B DK.F.D.IRE.LNL.N.S.CH.UK

13 11 15 Backstreet Boys - Jive (Grantsville / Zomba)

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Never Ever0 16 10 All Saints - London (Perfect/MCA)

Perfect Day B.FIND.IRE.LNL.N.S.UK.HUN

Various Artists - Chrysalis (EMI)

Savoir Aimer16 15 12 Florent Pagny - Mercury (Ed. Laurelenn /EMI)

All Around The WorldOW - Oasis - Creation (Oasis I Creation I ATV I Sony)

15 7 9

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0 Hasta Siempre B.F

19 15 Nathalie Cardone - Columbia (Legende Enterprises)

Sunchyme AB.FD.IRE.CH.UKHUN®18 18 Dario G - WEA (Warner Chappell)

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I Will Survive57 16 Hermes House Band - Xplo Music (PolyGram)

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®Das Modell72 7 Rammstein - Motor (BMG)

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Men In Black50 28 Will Smith - Columbia (Various)

F.D.CH.HUN

Slam Dunk Da Funk59 6 Five - RCA (Cheiron 1 Mega I BMG)

RD.IRE.NL.S.UK

StayUAW Bernard Butler - Creation (PolyGram)

UK

0 Pushed AgainIlAW Die Toten Hosen - JKP I East West (Not Listed)

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Crazy Little Party Girl A.DKD.NL.N.S.CH

34 7 Aaron Carter - Edel (Trans Continental)

AF.D.LS.CHVa Pensiero044 8 Zucchero Fomaciari - Polydor (PolyGram)

0 That's The Way (I Like It)inalP Clock - Media (Windswept Pacific)

UK

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Will44 36 8 Will Smith - Columbia (Tryball1Ill

High IRE.UK

45 27 3 Lighthouse Family - Polydor I Wildcard (PolyGram)

Ain't That Just The Way F.D.IRE.CH.UK

Lutricia McNeal - Siljemark I CNR (MCA)

Je Zappe Et Je Mate54 4 Passi - V2 (Not Listed)

Here I Amtil-V Sandra Pires Ariola (Not Listed)

Round 'N' Round74 69 6 Gil - RCA (Not Listed)

Teletubbies Say "Eh -Oh"30 7 Teletubbies - BBC Worldwide (BMG)

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One Minute86 2 Boyz - East West (EMI)

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77 61 95,6,7,8Steps - Jive (Copyright Control I Cordella)

78 Eternal Grace'" C -Block - WEA (Daam I BMG Ufa)

UK

Baby Can I Hold You/Shooting Star79 ° Boyzone - Polydor (EMI /Wonderland I Disney)UK

If God Will Send His Angelsa 48 5 U2 - Island (Blue Mountain)

FIN.IRKLIVL.E.UK

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" " Chumbawamba - EMI (Chumbawamba)LCH.UK

All NL.S.UK

50 35 2 AllureCrtadt . (?1.12 - Epic (BMG I Zomba)

Smack My Bitch Up FIN.FIRE.NL.S.UK41 Prodigy - XL (EMI 'Next Plateau /Beats G)

52 " Avenging AngelsSpace - Gut (Gut I Hit & Run)

UK

Cherish20 13 13 Pappa Bear - Universal (Delightful)

A.D.CH

0 Renegade Master '98- Wildchild - Hi -Life (MCA)

IRE.UK

0 Come Into My Life28 1" Gala - Nite Life (Do It Yourself)

Breathe23 6 Midge Ure - Arista (Not Listed)

B.F.I.NL

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Too Much Heaven24 20 6 Nana - Motor (Warner Chappell)

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83 52 17 Janet Jackson - Virgin (EMI I Windswept 'Various)

My StarILL, Ian Brown - Polydor (Not Listed)

UK

76 2 Young Deenay - WEA (Click 1Hafenklang I BMG Ufa)Walk On By

®No SuprisesRadiohead - Parlophone (Warner Chappell)

UK

Quilt En Soit Ainsi66 8 Poetic Lovers - M6 Int. (Not Listed)

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Stay B.DKEINFIRE.LNL.S.CH.UK0 29 16 Sash! - Byte Blue (Step By Step I Strongsongs)

Rescue Me26 22 16 Bell, Book & Candle - Ariola (EMI)

Spice Up Your Life A.B.DIC.F.D.1 .1.1VL.S.CH.HUN27 17 14 Spice Girls - Virgin (Windswept Pori fi c I PolyGram)

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0 Mane B.D.NZ,.S

39 34 Wes - Saint George/Columbia (Sony I Michel Sanchez)

Everything's Gonna Be Alright ADK.FIND.IVLE.S.CH

29 26 9 Sweetbox - RCA (EMI)

30 Te Garder Pres De Moi24 12 Alliage & Boyzone - Mercury (Not Listed)

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BacheloretteBjork - Mother I One Little Indian (PolyGram)

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Je Serai La59 60 4 Worlds Apart - EMI (Not Listed)

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60 I Wanna Be The Only One F CH

46 " Eternal feat. BeBe Winans - 1st Avenue I EMI (EMI I BMG)

Te Extrano, Te Olvido, Te Amo81 55 16 Ricky Martin - Tristar I Columbia (Various)

B.F.CH

N'Oubliez Jamais62 64 13 Joe Cocker - Capitol (MCA)A.B.F

Du Fehlst Mir63 53 14 Cappuccino - Mercury (EMI)

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C)Casanova

43 6 Ultimate Kaos - Wild Card 1Polydor (EMI)

Angels38 7 Robbie Williams - Chrysalis (EMI I BMG)

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0 Tomorrow Never Dies B.F.DIRENL.S.CH.UK

32 7 Sheryl Crow - A&M (Warner Tamerlane /Old Crow)

Sing Up For The Champions MENU%58 Reds United - Music Collection (MCI I Peer 'Various)

My Heart Will Go OnlalP Celine Dion - Epic/Columbia (Rondor)

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0 Laura Non C'E'70 6 Nek - WEA (Don't Worry)

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0 Wind Beneath My Wings89 9 Steven Houghton - RCA (Warner Chappell)

Free011, Ultra Nate - A&M (Strictly Rhythm)

Shelter56 2 Brand New Heavies - ffrr (PolyGram)

Feel So Good IRE.NL.UK

84 47 4 Mese - Bad Boy (Windswept Pacific' EMI IWarner-Chappell)

85 75 2 - Perfecto (Ounld Gate 1 BMG)

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Baby Don't Go83 2 Close II You - Epic (Not Listed)

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- When Susannah Criesrwr Espen Lind - Universal (Not Listed)

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90 3 Boyzone - Polydor (PolyGram1191BMG Sony ATV I Island)

@Mon Papa A Moi Est Un Gangster

99 2 Stomy Bugsy - Columbia (Not Listed)

0 I'll Be There For You166 2 Solid Harmonie - Jive (Not Listed)

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92Planet LoveDJ Quicksilver - Dos Or Die (Lino)

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(1) UntouchableliulP Rialto - East West (Not Listed)

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Burnin'96 4 Cue - Pool Sounds (Not Listed)

Angel Of Mine B.IRE.NL.IV.S

95 77 16 Eternal- 1st Avenu e IEMI (Rhettrhyme 'Warner Chappell I PolyGram)

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96 84 31 Puff Daddy & Faith Evans feat. 112 - Bad Boy/Arista (Various)

Choose Life B IRES.UK

97 78 11 PF Project feat. Ewan McGregor - Positiva (Sony ATV)

The Reason IRE.UK

`' Celine Dion - Epic I Columbia (MCA 'Various)

®- To The Moon And BackSavage Garden - Columbia (EMI)

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Ashes To AshesFaith No More - Slash /London (Rondor)

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Stichting Promuvi (Belgium); GLF/1371 (Sweden), (FPI/Nielsen Marketing Research (Denmark); VG (Norway): ALEF MB/AFYVE (Spain); YLE 2 Radiomalla/IFPI (Finland): Austria Top 30 (Austria);Full chart service by Media Control AG 0041-61-2718989 (Switzerland); IPSOS/Mahass-IFPI (Hungary) [FPI (Czech Republic).


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52 Like You Do...Best Of -Epic'Paul De Lee uw NL

68 66 9 Lief - Brommerpech /Epic

Spice Girls A.B.DKFINFD.GRKIRE.I.NLN.P.E.S.CH.UKHUNCZE2 2 11 Spiceworld - Virgin 35 Schlfunpfe A.D.CH

30 8 Irre Galaktisch 6 EMI....... John Mellencamp UK

LailP The Best That I Could Do - Mercury

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3 3 12 Eros - DDD CI

M People D.IREUK

" 14 Fresco - M People I BMGPeter Joback

70 69 5 Personliga Val - Columbia

Aqua A.B.DEFINED.G IRE .LNL.NP.E .S. CH .UKHUNCZE

5 41 Aquarium - Universal CI

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Enya AB.DK.FRV.D.GRE.IRE.LNL.N.RES.CH.UK.HUNCZE

5 4 10 Paint The Sky With Stars - WEA 0Daze DKFIN

72 8 Super Heroes - Columbia '883

79 29 La Dura Legge Del Gol - FRI

The Verve A.B.DEFINED.GRE.IRE .LNL.NP.E .S.CI LUK GEE® 7 16 Urban Hymns - Hut /VirginWill Smith ED.ECH.UK

37 7 Big Willie Style - ColumbiaHelmut Lotti AB.D

83 5 Goes Classic - EMI

Backstreet Boys ARDEFINERGREIRE.LNLNP.E.S.CRUKHUNCZE7 6 23 Backstreet's Back - Jive CI

Bjork B.ED.GRENL.N.CH.UK

65 4 Homogenic - Mother/One Little Indian

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9 12 Era -Mercury plat 0Alejandro Sanz E

40 18 Mas WEALouise Attaque

@ 98 2 Louise Attaque - Trema

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8 519 Romanza - Sugar/Polydor 0Andre Rieu FPortishead

42 36 6 Valses Et Compagnie - Mercury

F.D.GRE.UK

68 2 Portishead - Go!Beat

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111 15 The Velvet Rope - VirginWolfgang Petry D

43 43 21 Nie Genug - HansaThe Rapsody AED.GRE

77 56 3 The Rapsody Overture:Hip Hop Meets Classics - Def Jam !Mercury

Metallica A.B.FIIV.ED.GRENL.N.P.E.S.CH.HUNCZE

31 10 9 Re -Load - VertigoSarah Brightman/LSO DILFINN.PKIIK

4 22 Timeless - East WestMariah Carey RF.D.GRE.IRE.IVL.E.CFI

Butterfly - Columbia CI

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UAW Titanic - Sony ClassicalB.B. King D.GRE.NL.E.CH

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Bryan Adams A.B.FIND.GREIRE .NL.NRCH.UK

13 14 6 Unplugged - A&MLara Fabian B.F

4642 13 Pure - Polydormy. ElisaOLP 71 3 Pipes & Flowers - Sugar I Polydor

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0 59 2 LifebXen1W; Lens -sChlysali

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47 79 3 Les Tentations - V2Paul Simon INL.SUIC

63. 74 2 Songs From The Capemen - Warner Brothers

Al Bano & Carissi AFinley48 45 6 Il Concerto Classico - WEA

FIRE. UKQuaye# ) Maverick A Strike - Epic

Wham ! A .B.GRLIRE LNL.PECILLICHUN

LS 12 7 The Best Of Wham! - EpicThe Kelly Family AD.NL.P.CH.HUN.CZE

49 35 10 Growing Up - Kel-LifeAndrea Bocelli ENL.CH.CZE

83 53 7 Viaggio Italiano Sugar I Polydor

Lighthouse Family DIRE. UK

0 28 13 Postcards From Heaven - Polydor 1 WildcardSash! DK IBEX UK

0 49 12 It's My Life - Byte BlueNana D.CH.HUN

84 77 34 Nana - Motor

John Lennon ARDEFIND.GRE.IREE.CHUK

17 16 11 Lennon Legend - ParlophoneMonica Naranjo E

51 47 13 Palabra De Mujer - Epic

DO Andre Rieu99 2 Wiener Melange - Mercury

Sting & The Police A.B.DKFIN.D.GR EIRE .NL.S.CH .UK

18 13 9 The Best Of Sting & The Police - A&MMagnus Uggla

51 11 Karaoke - ColumbiaGotthard cOcoDefrosted - Ariola

Eternal B.DK.IRE.NL.N.E.S.CH.UK

19 17 12 Greatest Hits -1st Avenue /EMIHelmut Lotti RNL

53 46 12 -GoesClassic III - RCABjorn Eidsvag

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57 39 20 En Passant - ColumbiaJewel D.IREIVLN

91 78 5 Pieces Of You - Atlantic

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CD/29 7 Strauss & Co. - Mercury 1=1

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58 57 11 Storms EMI 92 86 15 Augenblicke - EMI

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54 32 6 The Best Of Pooh - CGD..... Soundtrack A.D.HUN

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66 48 2 Much Love - WEASeahorses UE

100 94 2 Do It Yourself - Geffen

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1 27 Bamboo - Bamboogie (VC Recordings)2 NE Oasis - All Around The World (Creation)3 4 All Saints - Never Ever (London)4 40 Wildchild - Renegade Master '98 (Polydor)5 1 Spice Girls - Too Much (Virgin)6 3 Janet Jackson - Together Again (Virgin)7 10 Queen - No One But You (Only The Good Die Young) (Parlophone)

8 2 Various Artists - Perfect Day (Chrysalis)9 14 Robbie Williams - Angels (Chrysalis)10 32 Clock - That's The Way (I Like It) (Media)TW LW ALBUMS

1 1 The Verve - Urban Hymns (Virgin)2 2 All Saints - All Saints (London)3 20 Robbie Williams - Life Thru A Lens (Chrysalis)4 7 Lighthouse Family - Postcards From Heaven (Polydor)

5 11 Natalie Imbruglia - Left Of The Middle (RCA)6 3 Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love (Epic)7 15 Radiohead - OK Computer (Parlophone)8 4 Spice Girls - Spiceworld (Virgin)9 9 Various - Now 38 (EMI/Virgin/PolyGram)10 16 Lightning Seeds - Like You Do...Best Of (Epic)

TW LW SINGLES

1 1 Run DMC Vs. Jason Nevins - It's Like That (Epic)

2 6 Janet Jackson - Together Again (Virgin)3 2 Nana - Too Much Heaven (Motor)4 NE Die Toten Hosen - Pushed Again(East West)5 13 Wes - Alane (Epic)6 11 Young Deenay - Walk On By (WEA)7 9 Aqua - Doctor Jones (Universal)8 3 Aqua - Barbie Girl (Universal)9 12 Boyz - One Minute (East West)10 10 C -Block - Eternal Grace (WEA)TW LW ALaulas

1 1 Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love (Columbia)2 3 Eros Ramazzotti - Ems (Ariola)3 2 Era - Era (Mercury)4 5 Andre Rieu - Strauss & Co. (Polydor)5 7 Spice Girls - Spiceworld (Virgin)6 11 Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope (Virgin)7 8 The Rolling Stones - Bridges To Babylon (Virgin)8 4 Metallica - Re -Load (Mercury)9 9 Enya - Paint The Sky With Stars (WEA)10 10 Wolfgang Petry - Nie Genug (Ariola)

TW LW SINGLES

1 1 Andrea Bocelli - Vivo Per Lei (Polydor)2 2 Florent Pagny - Savoir Aimer (Mercury)3 4 Nathalie Cardone - Haste Siempre (Columbia)

4 3 Aqua - Barbie Girl (Universal)5 8 Ultimate Kaos - Casanova (Polydor)6 5 Alliage & Boyzone - Te Garder Pres De Moi (Mercury)

7 9 Da Hool - Meet Her At The Love Parade (Dance Pool)8 6 The Rapsody feat. Warren G. & Sissel Prince Igor (Island)

9 10 Lara Fabian - Je T'Aime (Polydor)10 12 Passi - Je Zappe Et Je Mate (V2)

TW LW ALBUMS

1 NE Main Bashung - Fantasie Militaire (Barclay)2 1 Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love (Columbia)3 2 Andrea Bocelli - Romanza (Polydor)4 8 Era - Era (Mercury)5 4 Florent Pagny - Savoir Aimer (Mercury)6 5 Andre Rieu - Valses Et Compagnie (Philips)7 11 Passi - Les Tentations (V2)8 9 Poetic Lover - Amants Poetiques (M6 Int.)9 7 Lara Fabian - Pure (Polydor)

10 3 Spice Girls - Spiceworld (Virgin)

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Gala - Come Into My Life (Do It Yourself)Aqua - Doctor Jones (Universal)Sash! - Stay (FMA)Chumbawamba - Tubthumping (EMI)Elton John - Something About/Candle In The Wind1997 (Mercury)

Natalie Imbruglia - Torn (BMG Ricordi)Janet Jackson - Together Again (Virgin)Midge Ure - Breathe (BMG Ricordi)Aqua - Barbie Girl (Universal)1.12 - If God Will Send His Angels (Mercury)

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Aqua - Aquarium (Universal)Enya - Paint The Sky With Stars (WEA)Spice Girls - Spiceworld (Virgin)Eros Ramazzotti - Eros (BMG Ricordi)Backstreet Boys - Backstreet's Back (Virgin)Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love (Columbia)The Verve - Urban Hymns (Virgin)Pooh - The Best Of Pooh (CGD)883 - La Dura Legge Del Gol (RTI)Andrea Bocelli - Romanza (Sugar)

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Elton John - Something Aliout/Candle In The Wind 1997 (Mercury)

Aqua - Barbie Girl (Universal)Rosana - En Navidad (Universal)Sweetbox - Everything's Gonna Be Alright (BEG Dance -Net)

Monica Naranjo - Monica Naranjo Remixes (Epic)Pedro Guerra - Pasa (Ariola)Natalie Imbruglia - Torn (RCA)Enrique Banbury Alicia Expulsada Al Pais De La Mar (Chrysalis)

U2 - If God Will Send His Angels (Mercury)Tom Jones - You Can Leave Your Hat On (RCA)

ALBUMS

1 1 Alejandro Sanz - Mas (WEA)

2 2 Backstreet Boys - Backstreet's Back (Virgin)3 3 Monica Naranjo - Palabra De Mujer (Epic)4 5 Aqua - Aquarium (Universal)5 7 The CO/TS - Talk On Corners (DRO)6 4 Enya - Paint The Sky With Stars (WEA)7 8 Jarabe De Palo - La Placa (Virgin)8 6 Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love (Columbia)9 9 Spice Girls - Spiceworld (Virgin)10 11 Eros Ramazzotti - Eros (RCA)

TW LW SINGLES

1 1 Run DMC Vs. Jason Nevins - It's Like That (PIAS)

2 2 Celine Dion & Barbra Streisand - Tell Him (Columbia)3 3 Wes - Alane (Epic)4 4 Close H You - Baby Don't Go (Epic)5 12 Janet Jackson - Together Again (Virgin)6 14 Natalie Imbruglia - Tom (BMG)7 6 Various Artists - Perfect Day (EMI)8 9 Allure feat. 112 - All Cried Out (Epic)9 5 Paul De Leeuw - `K Heb je Lief En Wacht Op Je (Epic)

10 10 Solid Harmonie - Ell Be There For You (Zomba)

TW LW ALBUMS

1 1 Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love (Columbia)2 2 Paul De Leeuw - Lief (Epic)3 3 Eros Ramazzotti - Eros (BMG)4 4 Andrea Bocelli - Romanza (Polydor)5 6 Anouk - Together Alone (Dino)6 8 Era - Era (Mercury)7 5 Barbra Streisand - Higher Ground (Columbia)8 7 Youp van Hek - Schaven (CNR)9 11 Spice Girls - Spiceworld (Virgin)10 12 Aqua - Aquarium (Universal)

TW LW SINGLES

1 2 Natalie Imbruglia - Torn (BMG)2 1 Aqua - Barbie Girl (Universal)3 5 Aqua - Doctor Jones (Universal)4 3 Celine Dion & Barbra Streisand - Tell Him (Sony)

5 4 Run DMC Vs. Jason Nevins - It's Like That (PIAS)

6 6 Hanson - I Will Come To You (PolyGram)7 15 Espen Lind - When Susannah Cries (Universal)8 14 The Rapsody feat. Warren G. & Sissel- Prince Igor (PolyGram)

9 10 Various Artists - Perfect Day (EMI)10 8 Gala - Come Into My, Life (Private Life)TW LW ALBUMS

1 1 Helmut Lotti - Goes Classic III (BMG)

2 2 Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love (Sony)3 4 Spice Girls - Spiceworld (Virgin)4 6 Wham ! - The Best Of Wham! (Sony)5 5 Various - Diana, Princess Of Wales - A Tribute (Sony)6 3 Clouseau - Verzameld 87-97 (EMI)7 7 Eros Ramazzotti - Eros (BMG)8 8 Aqua - Aquarium (Universal)9 9 Florent Pagny - Savoir Aimer (PolyGram)

10 15 Lara Fabian - Pure (PolyGram)

TW LW SINGLES

1 1 Hanson - I Will Come To You (PolyGram)2 4 Elton John- Something Abouti/Candle In The Wind 1997 (PolyGram)

3 5 Anouk - Nobody's Wife (BMG)4 3 Aqua - Doctor Jones (Universal)5 8 The Rapsody feat. Warren G. & Sissel - Prince Igor (PolyGram)

6 12 Natalie Imbruglia - Torn (BMG)7 9 Backstreet Boys - As Long As You Love Me (Virgin)

8 7 Cue - Burnin' (DHE)9 10 Bloodhound Gang - Fire, Water, Burn (Universal)

10 11 Era - Ameno (PolyGram)TW LW ALBUMS

1 3 Era - Era (PolyGram)2 1 Enya - Paint The Sky With Stars (Warner)3 2 Aqua - Aquarium (Universal)4 4 Magnus Uggla - Karaoke (Sony)5 5 Peter Joback - Personliga Val (Sony)6 11 Eros Ramazzotti - Eros (BMG)7 6 Nordman - Har Och Nu (PolyGram)8 16 Peter Lemarc - Nio Broars Vag (MNW)9 7 Hanson - Middle Of Nowhere (PolyGram)

10 15 Eagle -Eye Cherry - Desireless (BMG)

DENMARK NORWAY FINLAND IRELANDTW LW SINGLES

1 1 Elton John- Something About/Candle In The Wind 1997 (PolyGram)

2 2 Backstreet Boys - As Long As You Love Me (Virgin)

3 RE The Rapsody feat. Warren G. & Sissel - Prince Igor (PolyGram)

4 4 Natalie Imbruglia - Torn (BMG)5 5 Aqua - Barbie Girl (Universal)6 6 S.0A.P. - This Is How We Party (Sony)7 7 Spice Girls - Too Much (Virgin)8 8 Sash! - Stay (Scandinavian)9 9 Aqua - Doctor Jones (Universal)10 10 Aaron Carter - Crazy Little Party Girl (Edelpitch)TW LW ALBUMS

1 1 Spice Girls - Spiceworld (Virgin)2 3 Backstreet Boys - Backstreet's Back (Virgin)3 11 Daze - Super Heroes (Sony)4 12 Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope (Virgin)5 2 Thomas Hehnig - Arene Gar (BMG)6 6 Eros Ramazzotti - Eros (BMG)7 5 Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love (Sony)8 8 D.A.D. - Simpatico (EMI)9 4 John Lennon - Lennon Legend (EMI)10 RE Michael Learns To Rock - Nothing To Lose (EMI)

TW LW SINGLES

1 1 Various Artists - Perfect Day (EMI)2 2 Reds United - Sing Up For The Champions (Norske Gram)

3 4 Daze - Superhero (Sony)4 3 The Rapsody feat Warren G. & Sissel - Prince Igor (PolyGram)

5 11 Anouk - Nobody's Wife (BMG)6 13 Cue - Burnin' (Universal)7 8 Elton John- Something About./Candle In The Wind 1997 (PolyGram)

8 5 Backstreet Boys - As Long As You Love Me (Virgin)

9 6 Refugee Camp All Star feat. Pras - Avenues (BMG)

10 7 Hanson - I Will Come To You (PolyGram)TW LW ALBUMS

1 1 Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love (Sony)2 NE Janis Joplin - Absolute Janis (Sony)3 3 Elton John - The Big Picture (PolyGram)4 6 Bjorn Eidsvag - Pa Svai (BMG)5 20 Dance With A Stranger- Best Of Dance With A Stranger (PolyGrami

6 11 Backstreet Boys - Backstreet's Back (Virgin)7 2 Enya - Paint The Sky With Stars (Warner)8 13 Aaron Carter - Aaron Carter (Edelpitch)9 8 The Verve - Urban Hymns (Virgin)10 22 Spice Girls - Spiceworld (Virgin)

TW LW SINGLES

Nelja Baritonia - Pop-Musiikkia (Poke)(SMD-Musiiki)

(K -Tel)(PolyGram)

(EMI)(Sony)

(Virgin)(K -Tel)

1 1

2 2 Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up3 5 Scooter - No Fate4 4 Hanson - I Will Come To You5 10 Various Artists - PerfectDay6 8 Daze - Tamagotchi7 3 Spice Girls - Too Much8 14 Down Low - Johnny B.9 6 U2 - If God Will Send His Angels (PolyGram)

10 12 Sweetbox - Everything's Gonna Be Alright (BMG)

TW LW ALBUMS

1 3 Daze - Super Heroes (Sony)2 1 Era - Era (PolyGram)3 4 Lent And The Leavings Kessanko 40 Ansimmaista liana (Megarnania)

4 8 Don Huonot - Hyvaa 'Rita Ja Huomenta (BMG)

5 2 Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love (Sony)6 6 Metallica - Re -Load (PolyGram)7 7 Aqua - Aquarium (Universal)8 5 Spice Girls - Spiceworld (Virgin)9 11 Ultra Bra - Kroketti (Pyramid)10 10 Eros Ramazzotti - Eros (BMG)

TW LW SINGLES

1 1 Various Artists - Perfect Day (Chrysalis)2 3 All Saints - Never Ever (London)3 NE Boyzone - Baby Can I Hold You (Polydor)4 4 Spice Girls - Too Much (Virgin)5 9 Janet Jackson - Together Again (Virgin)6 6 Natalie Imbruglia - Torn (RCA)7 5 Teletubbies - Teletubbies Say "Eh -Oh" (BBC)8 8 Robbie Williams - Angels (Chrysalis)9 10 Richie Kavanagh - The Mobile Phone (Lynwood)

10 13 Elton John Something AteutJCandle In The Wind 1997 (Mercury)

TW LW ALBUMS

1 1 The Verve - Urban Hymns (Virgin)2 2 Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love (Epic)3 4 The Corrs - Talk On Corners (East West)4 5 Spice Girls - Spiceworld (Virgin)5 3 Dustin - Faith Of Our Feathers (Lime)6 9 All Saints - All Saints (London)7 6 Various - Now 38 (EMI/Virgin/PolyGram)8 12 Oasis - Be Here Now (Creation)9 13 Texas - White On Blonde (Mercury)

10 8 Wham I- The Best Of Wham! (Epic)

SWITZERLAND AUSTRIA PORTUGAL CZECH REPUBLICTW LW SINGLES

1 6 Run DMC Vs. Jason Nevins - It's Like That (Sony)

2 5 Dario G - Sunchyme (MV)3 2 Aqua - Barbie Girl (Universal)4 3 Pappa Bear - Cherish (Universal)5 1 Elton John - Something About./Candle In The Wind 1997 (PolyGram)

6 4 Celine Dion & Barbra Streisand - Tell Him (Sony)

7 8 Bell, Book & Candle - Rescue Me (BMG)8 7 Nana - Too Much Heaven (PolyGram)9 13 Janet Jackson - Together Again (Virgin)

10 10 Sweetbox - Everything's Gonna Be Alright (BMG)TW LW ALBUMS

1 1 Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love (Sony)2 2 Eros Ramazzotti - Eros (BMG)3 3 Bryan Adams - Unplugged (PolyGram)4 11 Aqua - Aquarium (Universal)5 7 Gotthard - Defrosted (BMG)

6 5 Spice Girls - Spiceworld (Virgin)7 12 Enya - Paint The Sky With Stars (MV)

8 4 Peter Reber - D'Hits Vom Peter Reber (PolyGram)

9 9 Andrea Bocelli - Romanza (PolyGram)10 8 Backstreet Boys - Backstreet's Back (MV)

TW LW SINGLES

1 1 Elton John- Something About/Candle In The Wind 1997 (PolyGraml

2 3 Midge Ure - Breathe (BMG)3 4 Run DMC Vs. Jason Nevins - It's Like That (Sony)

4 2 Pappa Bear - Cherish (Universal)5 5 Bell, Book & Candle - Rescue Me (BMG)6 13 Sandra Pires - Here I Am (BMG)7 6 Aqua - Barbie Girl (Universal)8 7 Sweetbox - Everything's Gonna Be Alright (BMG)

9 9 Dario G - Sunchyme (Warner)10 10 N -Trance feat. Rod Stewart - Do Ya Think Pm Sexy? (EMI)

TW LW ALBUMS

1 1 Al Bano & Carissi - II Concerto Classico (Warner)2 5 Spice Girls - Spiceworld (Virgin)3 3 Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love (Sony)4 2 Eros Ramazzotti - Eros (BMG)5 4 Sting & The Police - The Best Of Sting & The Police (PolyGram)

6 7 Enya - Paint The Sky With Stars (Warner)7 11 Bryan Adams - Unplugged (PolyGram)8 6 Schliimpfe - Irre Galaktisch 6 (EMI)9 10 Andrea Bocelli - Romanza (PolyGram)10 20 Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope (Virgin)

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ALBUMS

Exceso - Eu Sou Aquele (PolyGram)Daniela Mercury - Feijao Com Arroz (Sony)Andrea Bocelli - Romanza (PolyGram)The Verve - Urban Hymns (Virgin)Demis Roussos - 34 Titulos (PolyGram)Backstreet Boys - Backstreet's Back (Virgin)

(BMG)(EMI)(EMI)

(Virgin)(Universal)

(BMG)(Columbia)

Eurythmics - Greatest HitsMadredeus - 0 ParaisoRio Grande - Dia De ConcertoSpice Girls - SpiceworldAqua -AquariumEros Ramazzotti - ErosBob Dylan - The Best Of Bob DylanCeline Dion - Let's Talk About Love (Sony)Paulo Gonzo - Quase Tudo (Sony)Maria Joao Pires - Schubert Improvises (PolyGram)

Enya - Paint The Sky With Stars (Warner)Jacques Brel - 34 Canaoes . (PolyGram)Kenny G - Greatest Hits (BMG)The Kelly Family - Growing Up (EMI)

TW LW ALBUMS

1 1 Jan Nedved - Honza (BMG)2 3 Karel Gott & Lucie Bila - Duety (EMI)3 2 Andrea Bocelli - Romanza (PolyGram)4 7 Prazsky Vyber - Ber (Bonton)5 6 Daniel Hulka - Daniel Hulka (EMI)6 5 Smoulove - Prvni Zimni Smoulympiada (EMI)7 8 Enya - Paint The Sky With Stars (Warner)8 13 Wanastovi Vjeci - 333 Stribmejch Strikacek (B&M)

9 9 Daniel Landa - Pozdrav Z Koze Jel (EMI)10 11 Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love (Sony)11 NE David Hasselhoff - Hooked On A Feeling (PolyGram)12 14 Ozzy Osbourne - The Ozzman Cometh (Sony)13 12 Metallica - Re -Load (PolyGram)14 4 Andrea Bocelli - Viaggio Italian° (PolyGram)15 27 Backstreet Boys - Backstreet's Back (EMI)16 19 Barbra Streisand - Higher Ground (Sony)17 15 The Kelly Family - Growing Up (EMI)18 36 Sinead O'Connor - So Far... The Best Of (EMI)19 31 The Rolling Stones - Bridges To Babylon (EMI)

20 16 Dagmar Patrasovii- Kureitka S Dade° (Bonton)

Based on the national sales charts from 16 European markets. Intramtion supplied by ChartTrack (UK); Full chartservice by Media Control GmbH 0049-7221-366201 (Germany); SNEP (France);single. Musics E DischilMario De Luigi, albums: Fimi-Nielsen (Italy); Stichting Mega Top 100 (Holland); Stiehting Promuvi (Belgium); IPSOS/Mahass-IFPI (Hungary); GLF/TFPI (Sweden); UPI/Nielsen Marketing Research (Denmark); VG (Norway); ALEF MB/AFYVE (Spain);

YLE 2 RadiomaRa/IFPI (Finland); IFPI (Ireland); AFP (Portugal); Austria Top 30 (Austria); Full chartserviee by Media Control AG 0041-61-2718989 (Switzerland); IFPI CR (Czech Republic). Labelslisted are the national marketing companies.

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SVEN VATHFUSIONVirginInternational release date: March 2One of Germany's most internationally respectedDJs, Frankfurt -based techno pioneer Sven Vathwent through something of a rough patch last yearafter splitting up with his long-standing businesspartners Matthias Hoffmann and Heinz Roth andabandoning the labels Eye -Q and Harthouse, whichwere mutually owned by all three. Now signed to

Virgin Records, Vath re-emerges out of that turmoilwith Fusion, his first album inthree years, and his mostuncompromising record todate. Much closer to his leg-endary, adrenalin-fuelled DJ -sets than its undecisive,syrupy predecessor, The Har-

lequin, The Robot & The Ballet Dancer (Eye-Q/Warn-er), Fusion features 10 classy techno tracks of serenebeauty. Vath manages to stay close to the minimalistDetroit techno school of Jeff Mills (Scorpio's Move-ment and Discophon) while integrating elements ofold-skool electro (on Sensual Enjoyments), Brazilianbateria-beats and vintage Yello (on the album's titletrack). The first single from the album-the doubleA -side Fusion/Scorpio's Movement -is due out inFebruary. It comes complete with Fila Brazilia andDr. Rockit remixes. Recently voted one of the 100

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best DJs in the world by readers of U.K.-based DJmagazine, with this album Vath delivers the secondkey electronica release this year, following Frenchnewcomers Air's Moon Safari.

NICK HEYWARDTHE APPLE BEDCreation/Sony MusicU.K. release date: February 9International release date:February 23The former Haircut 100singer-best known for the1982 hits Favourite Shirts(Boy Meets Girl) and LovePlus One-adapts well to one of the Creation labelscurrently favoured sounds, that of urban, "blue-eyed" soul. Like other recent Creation releases byartists looking for a comeback-Dave Ball (ex -Times) and Bernard Butler (ex-Suede)-The AppleBed features sweeping string arrangements androusing horns that whisk you right back to theinfectuous "soulboy" nostalgia of early Dexy's Mid-night Runners. From a European point of view,Heyward's self -produced debut for Creation-hisfirst album in 12 years-lacks the universal appealof, say, Butler's more rock -oriented approach, butits classic, '60s -inspired sound could win over fansparticularly in Scandinavia and Germany. It maynot seem an obvious radio record at first, but Hey -ward's well -crafted songs sound as though theyhave real staying power. A grower.

Please send review copies, information and artistphotographs for consideration as Album Spotlight entries

to: Christian Lorenz, Music Editor, Music & Media,23 Ridgmount Street, London, WC I E 7AH, U.K.

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(1), 1 TRULY MADLY DEEPLYCOLUMBIA SAVAGE GARDEN

a.,,, 4 HOW DO I LIVECURB LEANN RIMES

3 2 TOGETHER AGAINVIRGIN JANET

4 5 BEEN AROUND THE WORLDBAD BOY/ARISTA PUFF DADDY & THE FAMILY (FEAT. THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. & BASE)

5 3 SOMETHING ABOUT THE WAY..JCANDLE IN THE WIND 1997ROCKET/A&M ELTON JOHN

6 6 MY BODYEASTWEST/EEG LSG

18 TUBTHUMPING

REPUBLIC/UNIVERSAL CHUMBAWAMBA

8 9 SHOW ME LOVERCA ROBYN

,a) NEW NICE & SLOWLAFACE/ARISTA USHER

10 7 YOU MAKE ME WANNA...LAFACE/ARISTA USHER

l',DI 14 I DON'T EVER WANT TO SEE YOU AGAINSTONECREEK/EPIC UNCLE SAM

12 13 A SONG FOR MAMAMOTOWN BOYZ II MEN

13 11 I DON'T WANT TO WAITIMAGO/WARNER BROS. PAULA COLE

14 10 FEEL SO GOODBAD BOY/ARISTA MASE

® is DANGEROUSELEKTRA/EEG BUSTA RHYMES

la) 16 HOWS IT GOING TO BEELEKTRA/EEG THIRD EYE BLIND

11 12 MY LOVE IS THE SHHH!WARNER BROS. SOMETHIN' FOR THE PEOPLE FEATURING TRINA & TAMARA

CR) 19 I DOGEFFEN LISA LOEB

19 15 WE'RE NOT MAKING LOVE NO MORELAFACE/ARISTA DRU HILL

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oj 12 MY WAYLAFACE/ARISTA USHER

5 2 SEVENSCAPITOL (NASHVILLE)/CAPITOL NASHVILLE GARTH BROOKS

6 4 HARLEM WORLDBAD BOY/ARISTA MASE

1 9 BACKSTREET BOYSJIVE BACKSTREET BOYS

. 8 7 YOURSELF OR SOMEONE LIKE YOULAVA/ATLANTIC/AG MATCHBOX 20

9 5 YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE- INSPIRATIONAL SONGSCURB LEANN RIMES

10 8 NO WAY OUTBAD BOY/ARISTA PUFF DADDY & THE FAMILY

11 6 COME ON OVERMERCURY (NASHVILLE) SHANIA TWAIN

12 16 HIGHER GROUNDCOLUMBIA BARBRA STREISAND

13 13 SPICEWORLDVIRGIN SPICE GIRLS

14 15 BUTTERFLYCOLUMBIA MARIAN CAREY

15 14 RELOADELEKTRA/EEG METALLICA

1617 BIG WILLIE STYLE

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Eurochart A/Z IndexesHot 1 00 singles

5,6,7,8Ain't That Just The WayAlaneAll Around The WorldAll Cried OutAngel Of MineAngelsAs Long As You Love MeAshes To AshesAvenging AngelsBaby Can I Hold You/Shooting StarBaby Don't GoBacheloretteBamboogieBarbie GirlBreatheBurnin'CasanovaCherishChoose LifeCome Into My LifeCrazy Little Party GirlDas ModellDo Ya Think I'm Sexy?Doctor JonesDu Fehlst MirEternal GraceEverything's Gonna Be AlrightFeel So GoodFlaming JuneFreeGot Til It's GoneHaste SiempreHere I AmHighI Wanna Be The Only OneI Will Come To YouI Will SurvivePll Be Missing YouI'll Be There For YouI'll Be There For YouIf God Will Send His AngelsIt's Like ThatJames Bond ThemeJe Serai LaJe TAimeJe Zappe Et Je MateJohnny B.Just Cruisin'Laura Non C'E'

77 Ma S... A Moi46 Meet Her At The Love Parade28 Men In Black17 Mon Papa A Moi Est Un Gangster50 My Heart Will Go On95 My Star32 N'Oubliez Jamais13 Never Ever

100 No One But You (Only The Good Die Young)

52 No Suprises79 Nobody's Wife86 One Minute58 Perfect Day12 Picture Of You

1 Planet Love23 Prince Igor94 Pushed Again31 Qu'll En Soit Ainsi20 Renegade Master '9897 Rescue Me22 Round Round41 Savoir Aimer69 Shelter34 Sing Up For The Champions

9 Slam Dunk Da Funk63 Smack My Bitch Up78 Something AboutiCandk In The Wind 1997

29 Spice Up Your Life84 Stay85 Stay82 Sunchyme53 Te Extrano, Te Olvido, Te Amo18 Te Garder Pres De Moi73 Teletubbies Say "Eh -Oh"45 Tell Him60 That's The Way (I Like It)10 The Reason68 To The Moon And Back96 Together Again87 Tomorrow Never Dies91 Too Much

48 Too Much Heaven4 Torn

66 Tubthuraping59 Untouchable39 Va Pensiero47 Vivo Per Lei37 Walk On By44 When Susannah Cries67 Wind Beneath My Wings

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Top 1 00 clIburins883Bryan AdamsAll SaintsShola AmaAnoukAquaLouise AttaqueBackstreet BoysAl Bano & CarissiMain BashungBjorkAndrea BocelliAndrea BocelliAndrea BocelliSarah Brightman/LSOGarth BrooksMariah CareyAaron CarterEagle -Eye CherryJoe CockerThe CorrsThomas DDazeCeline DionBjorn EidsvagLisa EkdahlElisaEnyaEraEternalLara FabianJean -Jacques GoldmanGotthardHansonNatalie ImbrugliaJanet JacksonJewelPeter abackElton JohnJanis JoplinClaudia JungThe Kelly FamilyB.B. KingPaul De LeeuwJohn LennonLighthouse FamilyLightning SeedsHelmut LottiHelmut LothM People

72 Vanessa Mae 5813 Loreena McKennitt 9612 John Mellencamp 6966 Metallica 11

74 Nana 844 Monica Naranjo 51

75 Nordman 937 Oasis 29

48 Pascal Obispo 6321 Florent Pagny 3340 Passi 47

9 Wolfgang Petry 4383 Wolfgang Petry 5497 Poetic Lover 5544 Pooh 6467 Portishead 7678 Prodigy 2731 Finley Quaye 82

95 Radiohead 20

28 Eros Ramazzotti 3

23 Rammstein 61

88 The Rapsody 77

38 Andre Rim 241 Andre Rieu 42

87 Andre Rieu 8594 Andre Rieu 9080 The Rolling Stones 26

5 Alejandro Sanz 41

8 Sardou, Michel 6519 Sash! 50

46 Schliimpfe 3557 Seahorses 10086 Paul Simon 81

37 Frank Sinatra 6222 Will Smith 3910 Soundtrack - Comedian Harmonisis 5991 Soundtrack - My Best Friend's Wedding 9870 Soundtrack - The Full Monty 8925 Soundtrack - Titanic 45

60 Spice Girls 2

92 Spice Girls 56

49 Sting & The Police 18

79 Barbra Streisand 32

68 Texas 3017 Tic Tac Toe 99

16 Magnus Uggla 52

34 The Verve 6

53 Wham ! 15

73 Robbie Williams 14

36 Yanni 71


STATION WOW©Billboard Music Group

Most addedweek 04/98Elton John Recover Your Soul

(Rocket) 28

Pearl Jam Given To Fly(Epic) 21

Rolling Stones Saint Of Me(Virgin) 19

Boyzone Baby Can I Hol(dPolyYoudor)-1

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Eros Ramazzoiti & Tina Turner Cose Della Vita(DDD) 16

Lighthouse Family(Wild Card) HY4

Corrs I Never Loved You Anyway(Lava/Alk:intic) 13

Natalie Imbruglia Tom(RCA) 13

Aqua Doctor Jones(Universal) 11

All Saints Never Ever(London) 10

Will SmithGe(tdOlUrr lgral)Wth110

Janet Jackson Together Again(Virgin) 9

Warren G & &ssel Prince Igor(Mercury) 9

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Most Added are those songs which receivedthe highest number of playlist additionsduring the week. In the case of a tie, songsare listed alphabetically by artist.

Station Reports include all new additions to the playlist. Some reports willalso include "Power Play" songs, which receive special emphasis during theweek. All Power Play songs are printed, whether they are reported for the firsttime or not. Some lists include featured new albums, as indicated by the abbre-viation "AL." Within each country, stations are grouped by ranking and listedalphabetically. Rankings include: platinum (P), Gold (G), Silver (S) andBronze (B). All playlists must be received by Monday at 13.00 h. CET.

GERMANYBAYERN 3/Munich P

CHR

Jim Sampson Music DirWalter Schmidt - Music DirPlayliat Additions:

Babyface- Change

Bell Book & Candle, Read My Sign

Roaming Cowes. Meet Me On Sunday

Jimmy Ray- Are You

Joe Cocker- YOublie

Live- Turn My Head

Paid/Live/Hill- All My Time

Pearl Joni. Our, To FlyRobyn- Show Me Love

Rolling Stones. Saint Of Me

Thomas D.- Ruckenwind

Verve- Lucky

Vivid- We Gave

EINS LIVE/Cologne PCHR

Jochen Bausch - Music DirPower Play:

Air- Sexy Boy

Huff And Herb- Feeling

Propellerheadallassey. Binary Repeating

Playliat Additions:

Aqua. Doctor Jones

Culture Beat- Same Line

Die Toter Hosea Pushed Again

No Authority. Don't Stop

Novy vs. &dee- SuperstarPeRVLivettill- All My Time

Verve -Lucky

Vivid- VVe Gave

RADIO FFH/FrankfurtCHR

Ralf Blasberg Head Of MusicPlayliat Additions:

Aqua- Doctor Jones

Celine Dion. My Heart Will Go On

Ramamotti/Turner Cose Della Vita

Nana- Too Much

Usher- You Make Me Wanna

RADIO NRW/Oberhaumn P

AC

Jeff van Gelder Head Of MusicPlayliat Additions:

Celine Dion- My Heart Will Go On

Elton John. Recover YOUr Soul

Era- Ameno

Natalie Imbroglio- Torn

DELTA RADIO/Kiel GRock Pop

Adam Hahne - Pros DirFrank Wilkat Head Of MusicPower Play:

Bloodhound Gang Wish I Was Queer

Feline -.lust As You Are

Guano Apes- Open Your Eyes

Meta lies- The Memory Remains

Verve- The Drugs Don't Work

Verve -Lucky

Playlist. Additions:

Bush- Mouth

Pearl Jam- Given To Fly

Rolling Stones- Saint Of Me

Vivid- We Gave

AL Corrs

HIT RADIO N (/Nuremberg

Dance

Stefan Meixner - Prog DirEranie Funderbunk - Music EditorPower Play:

Celine Dion. My Bean Will Go On

Playliat Additions:Den Hill. In My Bed

Natalie Imbroglio- TornWes -Alone

HUNDERT 6/Berlin

AC

Rainer Grultn M.ic DirPlayliat Additions:

Bonnie Tyler- He's The Xing

RantastottifTumen Coo Della Vita

Michael Jackson- On The Line

ORBTRITZ/Potsdam GCHR

Bernd Albrecht, Frank MenseLJens Male - ProducersPlayliat Additions:

Bell Book & Candle. Read My Sign

Danielle's Dane- 100% Jesus

Die Toten Homo- Pushed Again

Fischmob- Tranquil°

Nana- Too Much

Sabrina Setter- Frei SeinSavage Garden- To The Moon

Verve. Lucky

ORB/FRITZ: nun ROADSFIOW/

Potsdam GCIIHRock

Bern Albrecht, Frank Menzel.Jens MoBe ProducersPlayliat Additions:

All Saints- Never Ever

Aqua Doctor Jon.Bell Book & Candle. Read My Sign

Chumbawamba- Amnesm

Dance 2 Trance- P.owerFive- Slam Dunk Da Funk

Spektacoobir- Du But AbgehoUn

Verve- Lucky

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National Music

Matthias Friedrich - Prog DirPlayliat Additions:

Astrid Harthecker. Gross Mir Ue

Bianca Shomburg- Pnvacy

Corriere- Well Ich Dich

Linda Feller- Auch Eine Frau%sham Zang:mkt- Mn San MUG.

RADIO FFN/Hannover GCHR

Rainer M. Cabanis Prog DirAntje Schmidt - Head Of M.icPlayliat Additions:

Aline- Nur For Dich

13.0.0N- Sometime Somewhere

Babyface- Change

Corrs. Only When I Sleep

Five. Slam Dunk Da Funk

Meredith Brooks- What Would }IMP.'

Natalie Imbroglios- Torn

PC Groove Sensation- Givid It Up

Verve- Lucky

Vivid- We Gave

Wes. Alone

RADIO GONG/Nuremberg C

Rock/CHR

Peter "Marc" Stingl Prog DirPlayliat Additions:

Green Day- Time For Your Life

Pearl Jain Given To Fly

Rick Springfield- Love Receiver

Robbie Williams- Angels


AL Matchbox 20

RADIO REGENBOGEN/Mannhenn

CHR/Gold

Martin Schwebel Mimic DirPower Play:

Janet Jackson TogetherPlayliat Additions:

Aerosmith- Pink

Aqua- Doctor Jones

Bell Book & Candle. Read My Sign

C -Block- Eternal Grace

Cultured Pearls. Just To Let You Know

Gil- Round 'N Round

Golden Brown- Wide Awake Girl

Hall & Oates- Premise Ain't Enough

Natalie Imbruglia- Torn

Nino De Angelo- I Can See The Light

No Means Yes- Amanlli

Robyn -Show Me Love

Something FIT People- Shhh!


RADIO SALCSaarbrisecken

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Brigitte Barthel Prog DirPlayliat Additions:

Bell Book & Candle- Read My Sign

Run DMC- It's Like That

RSH/Kiel

CHR

Stephan Hampe Head Of MusicPower Play:

Janet Jackson. Together.again

RADIO FfNuremberg SAC

Ziggie Hoge Prog DirPetra Steel - Pros CooedPlaylist Additions:

Michelle- Kleine Pnnaemm

Nino De Angelo I Can See The Light

Southern Pacific What About Love

UNITED KINGDOM95-8 CAPITAL FM/Iondon P

CHR

Pete Simmons - Programme Con-trollerPlayliat Addition.

Another Level. Be Alone No More

Backstreet Boys -.All I Have To Give

Bamboo- Bamboome

Cornershop- BnmfuI Of Asha

Elton John- limner Your SoulRadiohead- No Surpnses

Will Smith- Get diem' With It

Wildchild. Renegade Master

06.4FM-BRIBBIBirmingham PCHR

Paul Jackson - Programme Con-trollerRosa Evans - Assistant Program

ControllerPlaylist Additions:

Aqua- Doctor Jones

B.B.E. Desire

Elton John. Recover Your Soul

Encore. Ix Disc -Jockey

Martha Wash. It's Raining Men

Peter Andre- All Night, All Right

Rialto- UntouchableRoachford. How Could C' Insecurity,

Rolling Stones- Samt Of Me

Usher. You Make Me Worms

Wes- Alane

Will Smith. Get Jig,. With It

CLYDE 1 FM/Glasgow G

CHR

Ross Macfadgen - Heed Of MusicPlayliat Additions:

Alarm. Myles- Bad For You

Wes- Alone

RTL COUNTRY I035/London S

Country

Keith Francis Programme Con-

PropellerheadBassey Histon Repeating

Rolling Stones. Saint Of Me

IPSOS CHART/Paris P

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ATLANTIC 252/Dublin P Byron Stingily. You Make Me Feel troller Playlist Additions:

CHR Catatonia. Murder And Scully Playliat Additions All Saints- I Know Where It's At

Al Dunne Program Director Ian Brown- My Star Alan Jackson. There Goes Debatcha'..- to Grand Pardon

Playliat Additions: Jimmy Ray- Coin' To Vegas Alan Jackson- Devil & Me Midge Ure- Breathe

Allure- All Cried Out Maria Nayler. Narked And Sacred Alabama- Of Course Moby- James Bond Theme

Aqua. Doctor Jones Chely Wright. Heartache Tribal Jam- Quend Tu Souris

Hurricane- Only The Strongest DOWNTOWN RADIO/Belfast G Clint Black- Nothid But

Jay -Z- Wishing On Full Service Colin Rage- Little Red Rodeo NFU NETWORK/Paris P

&enlister. Slide John Rosborough Prog Dir Deana Carter- Did I Shave CHR

Puff Daddy- ICs All About Playliat Additions: Delevantes. I'm Your Max Guarrini Dir

Robyn- Show Me Love Clock- That The Way Diamond Rio- Imagine That Playliat Additions:

Seventh Sense- Breakout Elton John- Recover Your Soul Dixie Chicks- I Can Love Blackst reet Buy Me Lore

Will Smith. Get Jigm With It Jewel. Foolish Games Garth Brooks- Belleau Wood Bryan Adams. Back To You

OTT- The Story Of Love Gretchen Peters- I Ain't Ever Janet Jackson. Together

BBC RADIO I/London P Space- Avenging Angelo BriclunadhleBride- Valentine Lighthouse Family- Raincloud

CHR John Fogerty- Rambunctious Boy Natalie Imbroglio -Tom

Jeff Smith Head Of Music Policy FORTH FM/Edinburgh C Keith Gallia- Titanic Paid/Live/Hill. All My Time

A List: CHR Kinleys- Between You And Me Rolling Sloan- Saint Of Me

AD Verve -Sonnet Tom Wilson - Music Co-ordinator Leann Mimes- Side Of Angels Shawn Colvin- Sunny Came Home

B List: Playliat Additions: Leann Rime. How Do I Live Sheryl Crow. Tomorrow Never Dim

AD A- Foghorn Alannak Myles. Bad For You Lila McCann- I Wanna Fall In Love Smash Month. Walking On The Sun

Jimmy Ray. (loin' To Vegas Backstreet Boys. MI I Have To Cove Lome Morgan. One Dillow Nights Sweetbom Everything's

Lilys- A Nanny In Manhattan Carleen Anderson. Maybe I'm Artimed Mark Collie- Rapid Boy Thomas D. RAckenwind

Ruff Drivers- Don't Stop Chris Rea. Square Peg Matt King- I Wrote The Book Usher. You Make Me Wanna

Solid Harmonie. I'll Be There Cleopatra- Cleopatra's Theme Maraca Berg. Back When We Were Vivid- Sc Gave

Soundscape- Dubplate Culture &Male We Am E -Male Mindy McCready-. Yooll Never Know

Warm Jets- Never Jewel- Foolish Games Pam TRH. Land Of The Living MIL 2/Paris P

C List Addition Jimmy Ray- Coln' To Vegas Patty Loveless- You Don't Seem AC

Air. Sexy Boy Jimmy Nail- Show Me Heaven Ricochet. Blink Of An Eye Christian Lefebvre - Program Dir

Bluetones. Solomon Bit. The Worm Juliet Roberts. So Good Sara Evans- Shame About That Playliat Additions:

Camisra. Let Me Libido- Overthrown Shania Twain. Don't Be stupid Chris Rea- The Blue Cafe

Cornershop- Brimful Of Asha Mike Seen Rare Precious And Gone Steve Earle, Telephone Rood Garry Christian- Cry

Dandy Wadiols, ben Day ShoMI Be Rolling Stones- Saint Of Mr Thompson B.B. Drive Me Crazy U2. Angels

Dust Junkys- What Time Is It? Will Smith- Get loon With It Tim McGraw & Faith Hill. I, Your Love

Earl Brutus- l'erne Taste My Mind Tim McGraw- Your Snide ROC FM/Lille G

Money Mark. Hand In Your Head GALAXY 101 FIN/Bristol G Toby Keith- I'm So Hopp, Dance/CHR

Notorious BIG- Sky's The Limit Dance CHR Travis Trite -Still In love Philippe Schemberg - Prog Dir

Rolling Stones- Saint Of Me Simon Dennis Program Controller Victoria Shaw- She's Waiting Playliat Additions:

Spiritualixed. I Think Mike Cass - Head Of Music Wynonna, When Love Mane Ulna All Saints. Never Ever

Unbelievable Truth Nigher Than Remon Playliat Additions: Cut Killer- Mal Partin

Alibi- How Much I Feel TAY FM/Dundee S H -Town- They Like It Slow

KISS 100 FM/London P Bamboo- Bumhimpe CI -112 K.C1 Halley. All My Life

Dance Brand New Heavies- Shelter Arthur Ballingall - Prog Dir Mary J. Blige- Missing You

Mark Matthews Programme Dir Byron Stii;gily- You Make Me Feel John Darroch - FM Coordinator MC Solent.- Illim Presto

Simon Settler - Head Of Music Casual Sub- Eta Maylist Addition. MC Solaar- Protege -Tibia

Power Play: Ce Ce Periiston- Somebody Bernard Butler- Stay MC Solo.- Daydreamid

Camita-a. Let Me Devi Hines- Delicious Brand New Heavies- Shelter Puff Daddy- Inc' All About

Da Hoot. Love Parade Family Stand- Ghetto Heaven Carleen Anderson. Maybe IM Amazed Rapido Brothers. Walk This Way

Freakpower. Nu Way Heartista Belo Horiaonti Catatonia Murder And Scully Sly & Robbie. Penny Lover

Lee. Conquest. Boundanes Jay -Z. Wishing On Ce Ce Peniston Somebody

Lyndon David Hall- Do I Qualify Juliet Roberts- So Good Cleopatra. Cleopatra's Theme ISABELLE FM,F.ane Saint Apre

Misay Elliott- Beep Me 911 Peter Andre- All Night. All Right Encore- le Disc -Jockey CHR

Will Smith- Get Jiggy With It Sol- I Feel Diving Eternal Might As Well Patrick Lapeyronnie - Prog Dir

Playliat Additions: Saint Etienne- Sylvie Family Stand. Ghetto Heaven Playliat Additions:

Another Level. Be Alone No More Seventh Sense- Breakout Foo

B.B.E. Desire Smokin. Beats. Dreams Green Day. Time Fur Your Life Melgroove- Apace Arrive

Ce Ce Peniston Somebody Something FT People- Shhh! Ian Brown. My Star Opus BOB. Winter

Cleopatra- Clmpatra's Theme Sting. Walking On The Moon Jimmy Ray. G. To Vegas Worlds Apart. Je Senn La

DJ Quicksilver- Planet Love Usher- You Make Me Wanna Kinane- Business

Gino me HollerLevert. Sweat & Gill- My Body

W.- Alone

Will Smith -Get Jiggs With It

Lisa Loeb- I D.

OTT- The Story Of Love ITALYMose- What You Want Rialto- Untouchable

Notorious BIG- Sky's The Limit HALI.AM FM/Sheffield G Rolling Stones. Saint Of Me101 NETWORK/Milan P

Puff Daddy- It's All About CHR S -J- I Feel DivingAC

Ramsey & Fen. Love Bug Tony McKenrie - Program Controller Saint Etienne- SylviaStefano Carboni - Musk Dir

Something F7 People- Shhh! Chris Straw - Head Of Music Smokin' Beats. DreamsDario Desi - Head Of Music

Twisted- Twisted Playliat Additions: Solid Harmonic. I'll Be TherePlayliat Additions:

Yeti -Abandon Me Bag- Blue Suburban Skies Superstar- Ever) Day I FallBoysona Baby Can I Hold -

Byron Stingily. You Slake Me Feel Thriller U. Here I ComeCandyskins- Monday Morning

Ammo FM/Newcastle P Ce Ce Peniston. Somebody Thunder- The Only OneChumbawansba- Amnesia

CUR Clock- That', The Wm We, -ManeEternal- Angel Of Mine

Sean Marley Programme Controller Diana King- Will Smith. Get Jigm With ItLeann Rimes- How Do I Live

Luis Clark - Head of Music Headswim. Tourniquet Wildchild. lienegade MasterLouise Leis Go Round

Playliat Additions: Heartists. Belo Bona°.Missy Elliott Sock It 2 Me

Aqua- Doctor Jones Ian Brown- My Star VIBE FM/Bury St. Edmunds BNeffa- Nemghero La No.

Backstreet Boys I Have T., tine Jay -Z. Wishing On DancePeter Andre- All Night. All Right

Byron Stingily. You Make Me Feei OTT- The Story Of Love Barry Jones - Program ManagerSneaker Pimps- 6 Underground

Chumbawamba. Amnesia Peter Andre- All Night, All Right Playliat Additions:Taglia 42- Angora Un Pd

Clock. That's The Way Puff Daddy/Family. It's All About 7th District Inc- The Bottle

Dubin.- I Will Be Your Saint Etienne- Sylvie Annette Taylor- Upside DownITALIA NETWORK: LOS

EMale- We Are E -Male SJ. l Feel Divine Bruce Wayne- ReadyCUARENTAJ

Elton John- Recover Your Soul Smokin' Beats- Dreams Chicane. bast You SomewhereBologna P

Juliet Roberts. Su Good Usher- You Make Me Wanna Carta Nostra- Girl TalkDance

Libido- Overthrown Will Smith- Get Jiga With It Joe- Good GirlsMichele Menegon Prog Dir

Lisa Loeb- I Do Biome- BusinessPlay -list Additions:

OTT. The Story Of Live MELODY FM/London G Co Click- HeavenA.R. SoulAl. Brown- Free

Rialto- Untouchable MORAC Minty Elliott- Beep Me 911E.O.S. Sex Hypnotic

Robyn -Show Me Love Francis Currie Program Director Wes- AloneSleeplessmen. First Extraction

Sol- I Feel Diving Playlist Unchanged

Saint Etienne. Sylvie XFM 104.9/London BITALIA NETWORK: MUSIC

ESSEX FM/SoutendOn-Sea S AlternativiFM/Bologna P

VIRGIN RADIO/London P CHR Sammy Jacob - Program DirectorCHR

Rock Paul Chantler - Prog Dir Playliat AdditionwMichele Menegon Prog Dir

Geoff Holland- Program Director Playliat Addition*: Bloriones- Solomon Bites The WormPlayliat Additions:

Playliat Additions: BT- Flaming June Feeder- SuffocateDonjoevanni- Quell° Per Cu, Vivo

Cornershop- Brimful Of Asha Byron Stingily- You Make Me Feel Gus Gus. PolymterdayGianluca Grignani Baby Revolution

In Copolla. Legend Of A Cowgirl Elton John- Recover Your Soul Idle & Wild -Satan PolaroidLa Pins, Questa Fly

Rolling Stones. Saint Of Me Encore. le Dim -Jockey Pearl Jam. Given To Fly'Udall"- Mang. Amore

Jay -Z- Wishing On Salamanda- 2 Wheels CleverSottotono- Lo Vita Che Vivo

CITY FM/Liverpool G Rialto- Untouchable Seafood- Scorched ComfortSpice Girls Saturday Night Divas

CHR Roadford. How Could I' Inset -linty Stereophonic. Local Boy InTaglia 42. Ancona Cn Po'

Dave Shearer Program Controller Rolling Stones- Saint Of Me Unbelievable Truth. Higher Than ReasonUstmamo'- Kertoospiritual

Playliat Additions: Warren G/Sisml. Prince Igor Verve. Velvet Morning

Backstreet Boys. All I Have To GiveRADIO 105/Milan P

Byron Stingily. You Make Me Feel

Diann King- L -I -lies

Q 102.9 FM/Londonderry SCHB

CHR

Angelo De Robert is Head Of MusicFRANCEEncore- Le Disc.Jorkey Trevor Thomas - Head Of Music

Playliat Additions:

Green Day- Time For Your Life Playliat Additions:FRANCE INTER/Paris P Bamboo- Bamhoogie

I. Brown. My Star Alibi- How Much I FeelAC Happy Nation- i :iris Just Wanna

Jay -Z- Wishing On Aqua- Doctor JonesMarc Garcia - Music Dir Lighthouse Family- High

Maria Sayler- Necked And Sacred Bernard Butler. StayPlayliat Additions:

Puff Daddy. It's All About Byron Stingily. You Make Me FeelCatherine Ringer, E. Es El Amor RV1 FM/Turin G

Roacbford. How Could P ,Insecurityi Ce Ce Peniston- SomebodyHarry Connick- learn To Love CHR

Seventh Sense- Breakout Chumbawamba AmnesiaIsabelle Caux- Changer LEau Max Desiato - Head Of Music

Spice Girls. Stop Elton John- Recover Your. oulJeff Bodart- La Vie D'Artiste Power Play:

Thriller U- Here I Come lan Brown- My StarJulien Clerc- La Phare Taglia 42- Amore Un

Usher- You Make Me Wanna Jay -Z- Wishing OnMatthew Neil- Ll-lornme Rave Playliat Additions:

Will Smith- Get Jig®- With It Peter Andre- All Night. Al RightNatacha Atlas- L'Egyptaenne Sting & Pres. Rosanne iPuIIDaddy Remit

Queen- No OneNilda Fernandes- Nina Bonita


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RADIO SOUND STEREO/Ferrara S Nina Simone- MIA Got No Power Play: Madame- The Breaks ARHUS NiERRADIO/RADIO Sunset- You To Me Brand New Heavies- Shelter

CHR Playliat Additions: BRTN RADIO 2 -EAST Joe Cocker- Tonight Ultimate Ems- Casanova COLOMBO/ Titiyo- Before The Day Celine Dion- The Reason

Sandra ALberghini Prog Dir Cornershop- Brimful Of Asher FLANDERS/Ghent G Natalie linbruglia- Tom Yesterday For Today. Riding High Arhus G Usher- Nice And Slow Caere- I Never Loved You

Power Play,RamazzottiTumer Coo Della Vile

RamazzottilTurner- Cose Della Vita

Robyn- Shove Me Love

CHR

Johan Van Achte - ProducerPaul McCartney- Beautiful Nigh

Paul Carrick- Beautiful World RADIO 3 HUMendrisio B

CHR

Jeaper Raab - Music DirectorWarren G/Siasel- Prince Igor Moby- James Bond Theme

Robbie Williams -Angels

Smash Mouth- Walking On The Sun Scott Garcia- London Thing Playliat Addition: Pur- We. Du Da Bist CHR Power Play: THE WAVE - RADIO 89.1/Helsingor Scooter- No Fate

Verve- Lucky Soviet Sex- Maar Noel Met Jou Doran- Jo Bent Various- Perfect Day Boris Piffaretti Prog Dir Sunset- You To Me Shola Ama- Who's Loving My Baby

Playliat Additions: Janet Jackson- Together Playliat Additions: Riccardo Pellegeiai - Head Of Music Playliat Additions: CHR Solid Harmonic- I'll Be There

Corry I Never Loved You RADIO 538/Hilversum P Warren G/Sissel- Prince Igor Bell Book & Candle- Read My Sign Playliat Additions: Elton John- Recover Your Soul Deny Vicente Fobian Head Of Todd Terry- It's Over Love

Marco Adami- E'Si 0 No? CHR Celine Dion My Heart Will Go On Giaeluu Grignani. Baby Revolution Gangway- Goodbye Music Verve. Lucky

Ocean Colour Scene- Better Day Erik de Zwert MD BRF/Eupen S Gotthard -Someday Giorgio- U n Amore Da Favola Lisa Loeb- I Do Playliat Additions:

Seahorses- You Can Talk To Me Playliat Additions:2Pac- I Wonder If

AC

Guy Janssens - ProducerKinleys- Between You And Me

La Bouche- You Won't Forget Me

Jamiroquai. High Times Shania Twain You're Still

Titiyo- Before The Day

Eternal- Angel Of Mine

La Bouche- You Won't Forget Me RUSSIAROCK FM/Mil. S 666- Alarma Power Play: Span- Liebefeld RADIO RHONE/Sion B SOAP- This Is How We Party

Rock RamanotliTurner Cow Della Ws Janet Jackson- Together AC ANR/AalborgRADIO MAXIMUM/

Marco Garavelli Head Of Music Natural Bora Chillers Rock The Funky Real Latin Quarter -Angel RADIO FRAMBOISD Joel Perrier- Prog Dir AC/CHR VLII/Vejle SMoscow/St. Petersburg P

Playliat Additions: Propellerheaddlessey. lintory Repeating Natalie Imbruglia- Tnm Lausanne-Crissier G Playliat Additions: Lars Trillingsg.rd - Head Of Music CHRCHR

David Lee Roth. Don't Piss Me Off Robyn- Show Me Love Spice Girls- Too CHR Lightning Seeds- What You Say Playliat Additions: Jon Eristionsen - Prog Dir/Head OfMikhail Kozareff Prog Dir

NOM All Blu Suits Robbie Williams- Angels Playliat Additions: Jean Luc Zwickert - Prog Dir Rolling Stories- Saint Of Me Bernard Butler- Stay MusicPower Play:

Tanya Donnely. The Bright Light Something FP People- Shhh! Aerosmith- Pink Playliat Addition: Boy. II Men- A Song For Mama Playliat Additions:Vanessa Mae- I Feel Love

Triple S- Keep Your Head Fleetwood Mac- Silver Springs Cerra- Only When I Sleep WORLD RADIO GENEVA WRG-FM Days/New- Touch, Feel & Stand Bernard Butler. StayPlayliat Additions:

Run DMC- Ifs Like That Natalie Imbruglia- Tom 88.4/ Gangway -Goodbye Boris Dlugosch. Hold Your HeadLighthouse Family- High

SPAIN RADIO NOORD7RE Scooter- No Fa. Will Smith. Get Jiggy With It Geneva B Imani Copolla- Legend Of A Cowgirl Celine Dion- The Reason

NATIONAAI/Naarden P AC Lisa Loeb- I Do Colourblind- Sentimental FoolRADIO C/Eketerinbearg G

CADENA 100/Madrid P

Rock/CHRNational Mumo/AC HIT -FM 106.1/Hasselt B RADIO PILATUS 104.9/Luzern Andrew Pettit - Music Director Matchbox 20- 3 ASA, Elton John- Recover Your Soul

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Oleg Khlebnikov -Prog Dir

Carlos Finely Prog DirRon Sterrenburg Head Of MusicPlayliat Additions:

CHR

Andre Hemeryck - Prog DirCHR

Ralf Tschuppert - Music DirPlayliat Additions:

King/Chapman. The Thrills Is Gone

Peter Andre -All Night, All Right

Roachford- How Could I? ansecmity)

Funky White Devils- Hey You

[main Copolla- Legend Of A CowgirlPlayliat Unchanged

Playliat Additions:Andre Van Duin- Ayohee Playliat Additions: Philippe Unterschits - Head Of Celine Dion- My Heart Will Go On Shawn Colvin. You And Mona Lim Infernal- Sorti De L'Enfer

Andres Calamaro- FlamDiane- lk Mis Je Human Nature- Whisper Your Name Mimic Collective Soul -Maybe Sunset- You To Me Lighthouse Family- High

RADIO MAXIMUM/Perm G

Bell Book & Candle- Rescue MeGun Mmuwis- 7 Deaden. Kaleef- Sands Of Time Playlist Additions: Corry- I Never Loved You Warren G/Sissel. Prince Igor Lisa Loeb- I Do

ChM

Camilo Sesta- El Amor De NE VidaPaul de Lmuw. Je, Jij Pat 'Crime°. Paranoid In Moscow 4 -PM- Get Your Groove On Elton John- Recover Your Soul M. Mighty &atones- The Rascal King

Alexey Glazatov Prog Dir

Cure- Friday Fm In LoveRuth Jecott- Wet Jij Wd Warren G/Sissel- Prince Igor Bonnie Tyler- He's The King Janet Jackson Together RADIO ABC/Randers Picture Hone -Somebody

Playliat Additions:

Lewis/Richert At The BeginningBoyzone- Baby Can 1 Hold Paul Simon Bernadette CHR Saint Etienne- Sylvia

Bravo- Vem

Emen Lind. When Susannah CriesSKY RADIO 100.7FM/Busstun P RADIO MOL/Mol B Fury/Slaughterhouse Time To Wonder 97 Rolling Stones- Saint Of Me Kent Kordt Rdder Prog Dir Seahorses- You Can Talk To Me


Finley Quaye- Even After AllAC CHR Joe- Good Girls Spice Girls- Too Power Play: Thalia- Amor A La Mexican

Depeche Mode- Useless

FR David- Words 97Ton Lathouwers - MD Sonja Celen - Producer Lighthouse Family- High Texas- Put Your Arms Shania Twain -You're Still Thomas- Another Saturday Night

Elton John- Recover Your Soul

Joe Henderson & Sting- It Ain'tPlayliat Additions: Power Play: Melgroove- Apoca Arrive U2- Angels Playliat Additions: Warren G/Sisset Prince Igor

Mutely Troll- Delphiny

Jorge Drexler- AntesAll Saints- Never Ever Jimmy Somerville- Safe Rolling Stones- Saint Of Me Various- Perfect Day Celine Dion- The Reason

Kenny G- SilhouetteRene Froger- Never Fall In Love Playliat Additions: Sp.- Liebefeld Elton John- Recover Your Soul RADIO 2/Copenhagen B

MUSIC RADIO/Perm S

Knock- My SheromRamassoniMurner. Cose Della Vita Toed- Pain Imani Capella- Legend Of A Cowgirl AC

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AUSTRIALa Plata- MariaTROS RADIO 3/MEGA TOP 100/ Warren G/Sieael- Prin. Igor Wondertoya- Steeling Slippers Lois- Let It Flow Hans -Otto Biogaard - Prog Dir

Mikhail Eidelman Prog Controller

Michael Jackson- On The LineHilversum P Shawn Colvin- You And Mona Loa J. Brodde Muaic Cooed

Playliat Additions:

Oasis- Around The WorldCHR RADIO Z/Zurich

o 3/Viema PPlayliat Additions:

Annie Lennox- Angel

SWITZERLANDPaco De Lucia- Entre Dos AguasKlima Samplonius - Head Of Music AC

CHRRADIO UPTOWN/Copenhagen Anders Glenmark Lau Som En Fader

Laima Vaykule- Ye Skuchazy

Queen- Fat BottomedPlayliat Additions: Chris Kramer - Head Of Music

Alfred Roseinmer - Heed Of MusicCHR Elton John- Recover Your Soul

Paul Simon- Ten Years

Rolling Stones- Saint Of Me666- Alarma

COULEUR 3/Lausanne GPlaylist Additions:

Playliat Additions:J. Bredde - Music Cooed Ramanottirfurner- Cose Della Vita

Paul McCartney- Little Willow

Simply Red- StarsBabyface- Gone Ton Soon

RockAqua- Doctor Jones

2 In 1- MakeetiaPlayliat Additions: Lighthouse Family- High

Wham!- Everything She Wants Tiagelbert liumperdinck- A Little In Low

Thierry Catherine - Head Of MueicPower Play:

Crank- Heavenly AppealMoffatts-Ill Be Them

-Anders Glenmark Lan Som En F.er Shania Twain- You're Still POLANDRamarrottiTurner Cosa Della Vita Five- Slam Dunk Da Funk Chumbawamba- Amnesia

CADENA 40 PRINCIPALES/51adridGum Meeuwis- T Dendert

Christopher Just. cm A Disco Dancer

Global Comminution. The GrooveGil -Round 'N Round SWEDEN Elton John. Recover Your Soul RADIO HOLIVEK/Holbaeck POLSKIE RADIO 3/Warsaw P

CHRPaul de Leans- Ja M In De 01.204

Pills- Garden PartyJ.Jacques Gold... On lea Lighthouse Family- High CHR CHR

Luis Merino - MD/Head Of MusicPearl Jam- Given To Fly

Playliat Additions:Jimmy Ray- Am You RADIO STOCKHOLM/Stockholm G Lisa Loeb- I Do Mette Kofoed Prog Dir Marek Niedzwiecki - Producer

Sandro d'Angeli - Prog DirRobyn- Show Me Love

Abacus- When I FallRolling Stone. Saint Of Me CHR B. Mighty Bosstones. The Rascal King Playliat Additions: Power Play:

Playliat Additions:Scott Garcia- London Thing

Bernard Butler- StayRobert Seblberg Music Director Pete Belasco- All I Want Bryan Adams- Back To You Pearl Jam- Given To Fly

Bell Book & Candle- Rescue Me

noble 0 Nada- Tres Corazones675 RADIO 10 GOLD/Amsterdam G

Cake- Perhaps

Fomtains/Wayne-Alien For anatome

RADIO ZUERLSEE/Rapperswil G

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Playliat Additions:Allure- All Cried Out

Regi.- Day By Day.St. Etienne- Sylvia

Emotions- Olivia

Jobe Mellencarap- Without Erpressm

Playliat Additions:2Pac. I Wonder If

Espen Lind- When Susannah CriesGold

Ivy- BestHarry Stiteel - Mimic Editor Mary J. Blige- Missing You Usher- Nice And Slow SOAP- This Is How We Party Air Supply- We The People

Jorge Drexler- AntesTom Mulder Prog Dir

Pearl Jam- Given To FlyPlaylet Additions: Melodic MC- Fake Warren G/Siseel- Prince Igor Tom Jones- Leave Your Hat On Ambersunshower- Running Sun

Lightning Seeds- What You SayPlayliat Additions: Alexander O'Neal- Let's Get Oasis- Around The World Club Unique- Just The Way

Meredith Brook. I NeedClose II You- Baby Don't Go

DRS 3/Zurich GBoyzone- Baby Can I Hold



Smash Mouth- Why Can't We

RADIO VD3ORG/Viborg GCHR NORWAY


La.. Hill- The SweetestOasis- Around The World

LOVE RADIO/Amsterdam BRock

Janet Jackson -Together Poul Foged Operations Manager Lisa StansBeld- Don't Cry For MePresentee Implicados. Num Es Para

ACChristoph Aliapach - Music Ca -Ord

M -People- Fantasy Island Jan Thulstrup - Head Of MusicNRK PETRE/Osio P

No Doubt- Sunday MorningDENMARKRahman Patterson- My Sweet Heart

Elliott Robinson - Music DirPlayliat Additions:

No Mercy- My Promise Playliat Additions:CHR

Police- Walking On The IRMX)Rolling Stones- Saint Of Me

Playlet Addition:Ashford & Simpson- Been Found

Paul Carrick- Beautiful World All Saints- Never EverNils Heftiest Head Of Music

Robyn- Show Me LoveSavage Garden. Truly Madly Deeply

Janet Jackson TogetherG.ffrey I Guess I

Robert Miles- FreedomDANMARKS RADIO P3/Copenhagen

AnniOne- Stem. OnPlayliat Additions:

Tont.- Para Toe. El Cielo Ulla- Still AliveSpice Girls- Too Celine Dion- The Reason

Anouk- Nobody's WifeRADIO GDANSK/Gdansk G

Jarniroquai- High TimesSweetbox- Everything's

CHBElton John- Recover Your Soul

Bernard Butler- StayCHR

PORTUGAL BELGIUM Lighthouse Family- High

Midge Ure- BreatheUmberto Tonal- Aria E Cielo

Morten Rindholt Playliat Co-ord.Power Play:

Lighthouse Family- HighBlur- Death Of A Party

Laptop- End CreditsMarek Cegielski - Head (BMus.

Natio & Kane- Talkie AboutZucchero- Va Pensiero

Space- Avenging AngelsLisa Loeb- I Do

Pearl Jam- Given To FlyPower Play:

HEW/Lisbon PBRTN RADIO DONNA/Ilruesels P

Pearl Jam- Given To Fly Playliat Additions:M -People- Never Mined Love

Teenage Fond.- Start AgainS. Soyka- Tango Memento Vitae

CHRCHR

Run DMC- It's Like ThatRADIO LAC/Geneva S

Colourblind- Sentimental FoolRolling Stones- Saint Of Me Playliat Additions: -

Pedro Tojal - Head Of Muni°Mare Mate Programmer

Span- LiebefeldCHR

Funky White Devils- Hey YouShawn Calvin- You And Mona Lisa

RADIO 102/Haugesund G911- Party People

Playliat Additions:Playliat Additions:

Wizards Of Ooze- Trippin'Jacky Sanders - Prog Dir

Ian Brown- My StarShania Twain- You're Still

CHRAmbersunshower. Running Sun

All Saints- Never EverI.Y. Cool J. Hot

Playliat Additions:Imani Copolla. Legend Of A Cowgirl Egil Houeland Head Of Music

Boyzone- Baby C. I Hold

Excesso- Nao Sei Vwer Sem TiRolling Stones- Saint Of Me

RADIO 24/Zurich GAlain Chandort- Tombouctoe

Li. Loeb- I DoRADIO MOJN/Aabenraa S

Playliat Additions.Corrs- I Never Loved You

Kutos & Pontapes- Para SnooperSteps- 5,6,7,8

CHRAll Saints- Lady Marmalade

Lois- Let It FlowHot AC

lioysone- Baby Can I HoldLewis/Richard- At The Beginning

BRTN STUDIO BRUSSEL/Brussels Dani Richiger - Head (MMus.Chantal Ereviazuk- Surrounded

Queen Pee- Men Behind The MusicClaus Nielsen - HOM

Britt *move- I'm Not Sad TonightElton John- Recover Your Soul

P Power Play:George Michael- SafeMelgroove- Apoca Arrive

Skink- Uma Partida De FutbulPlayliat Additions:

Celine Dion- The ReasonCue- !dentin'

Rarnamattithuner- Cose Dena Vita

Lauryn Hill- The SweetestHOLLANDRock/CHR Dario G- Sunchyme

Natalie Imbroglio- Big Mistake Mammoth/Turner- Cose Della VitaEagle -Eye Cherry- Save Tonight

Pearl Jam- Given To FlyNPS HORT EN ELIJNlllilversum P Jan Hautekiet - Producer Papua Be.- Cherish

Paul McCartney- Beautiful NightTHE VOICECopenhagen P

Flip Da- I NeverLittle Sister- Lefl You In

Police- Walking On The (RME)CHB Playliat Additions: Sheryl Crow -Tomorrow Never Dos

R.N.B- For WhatCHR Natalie Imbrue.- Tom

Tom Blomberg DJ/Producer David Bowie- I Can't Read Playliat Addition.Sliania Twain- You're Still

Eik Frederiksen Prog DirRADIO SILKERORG/Silkeborg S RADIO LODZ/Iods G

Comae Flilin DJ/ProducerPlayliat Additions:

Finley Quaye Ws Greet Whack We're Together

Ian Brown- My StarCeline Dion- The Reason

U2- AngelsPlayliat Additions:

2 Brothers OfT 4th F. CmThinkcog Of YouAC/CHR FINLAND CHR

4 Fun. Levenslmg Immi Capella. Legend Of A Cowgirl RADIO BASILISK/Basel GWill Smith- Just Cruisin'

2Pac- I Wonder IfMichael Jorgensen - HOM Adam Kolacinski - Head Of Music

B.B.E. Desire Pat Dinizio- Songs And Sounds ACZucchero- V11 Pmsiero

Adam F- MusicPlayliat Additions: FINNISH AIRPLAY TOP 30/Tampere Power Play:

Da Hool- Bora Bore Nick Schulz - Head Of Music AnniOne- Steppin' OnAnnie- Uskyldige Pearl Jam- Given To Fly

Fabulous Baker Boys- Oh Boy RADIO 2I/Brussels P Playliat Additions:ONE FM/Geneva B

Antil.p- Nowhere To HideElton John- Recover Your Soul CHR Sixteen- Shod We Mnie Wen.

Imani Copolla. Legend Of A Cowgirl CHRRock Boy.- One MinuteCHR

B.B.E- DesireFunky White Devils- Hey You Penni Tertiviiinen - Director S. Soyka- Tmgo Memento Vitae

Ned. Misters- Een Perfecte Dag Christine Goor - Head Of Music Brand New Heavies- You've GotMichel Cone - Prog DirDavid Reumeau - Head Of Music

DAD. Home Alone 4Gangway- Goodbye

Garth Brooks- You Move Me

Playliat Additions:late Milltown- Onnen Oikotie

Playliat Addition:911- Party People

Robbie Williams -Angels Marc Francart/Pierre Dubois HOM Cultured Pearls- Sugar Sugar HoneyPlayliat Additions:

Gangway -GoodbyeLighthouse Family- High Mill.n.ade. Seiko Boyzone- Baby Can 1 Hold

Something Fa People- Shhh! Playliat Additions: Lighthouse Family- HighAxelle Red- Ma Pnere

Groove Zone- EisbaerLisa Loeb- I Do Robbie Williams- Angels C -Block- Eternal Grace

Sweetbox- Everything's Alain Chandort Mes Ideas Noires Robbie Williams -AngelsCorrs- I Never Loved You

Pearl Jam- Given To FlyRun 4 Fun Feat. Zia -On The Radio Susanna Heikki- Arnorin Kaaret Club Unique- Just The Way

Bootsy Collins- OR Da Hook Savage Garden- To The MoonDJ Phantasma. Welcome To The Club

Pockets- Now You KnowSaint Etienne- Sylvie Elton John- Recover Your Soul

RADIO 3/Hilversum P Gang Starr- You Know MyErick Sermon- Rapper's Delight

Queen Pen- Men Behind The MusicSeahorses- You Can Telk To Me KISS FM/Helsinki G Ramanottiffurner- Cose Dells Vita

CHR Green Day- Time For Your Life RADIO EXTRA BERN/Bern GJmairoquai- High Times

Rahsaan Patterson- Where YouShawn Colvin You And Mona Lisa CHR Police- Walking On The /BMX)

Paul van der Lugt Coord Ivy- I've Got A Feeling ACMariah Carey- Butterfly

Run DMC- It's Like ThatSneakers- Signal '97 Merge Vainio - Prog Dir Stevie Wonder- Seasons Of Love

Power Play: Ray Davis Jr.- Gabrielle Pierre Barbesat - Head Of MusicMenelik- Je Me Souviens

Sunset- You To MeSpace- Avenging Angels Playliat Additions: Zdrowa Woda- Bractvvo

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STATION REPORTS

RADIO LUBLPI/Lublin GRock

Wiktor dacha°. DJ/ProducerPower Play:

Com- I Never Loved You

S. Soyka- Tango Memento Vitae

Playliat Additions:911- Party People

Boyzone- Baby Can I Hold

CBlock, Eternal Grace

Club Unique -Just The Way

Lewis/Richard-At The Beginning



Police- Walking On The MEC)

Sixteen- Obud We Male Wen.Zdrowa Woda- Bractwo

RADIO MANHATTAN/Lod. 17

CHR/Rock

Marcia Bisiorek Head Of MimicPower Play:

Caere- I Never Loved You

Ramarrottifftwo. Cose Della Vita

Moist -Tangerine

Reel Big Fish- Sad Out

Verbal M.x- Pilnujcie Marren

RADIO MERICURY/Poznan G

AC

Ryszard Gloger - Head Of Music

Power Play:

Whaml- If Too Were There

RADIO GRA/Toren B

CHR

Krzysztof Komendo - Head of Music

Power Play:Boyzone- Baby Can I Hold

Playliat Additions:911- Party People


Club Unique- Just The Way

Lewis/Richard At The Begmaing


Police- Walking On The (RMX)

Sabrina Seder- Du Lid. Mich Nicht

Sixteen- Obud We Mnie Wen.S. Soyka- Tango Memento Vitae

RADIO TORUNToron BCDR

Pawel Penako - Head Of Marie

Power Play:Pearl Jam- Given To Fly

Sixteen- Obud We Mnie Worms

Playliat Additions:Aqua- Doctor Jones

Club Unique -Just The Way

Corr. I Never Loved You

Lewis/Richard-At The Beginning


RamazzottifTmer. Cose Della Vita

Michael Jackson- On The Line

Sabrina Seder. Du Lieber Mich Nicht

Belinda Carlisle- I Won't Say

Collective Soul- Maybe

Diana King- L -1 -lies

Debater- I Will Be Your

Natalie Imbroglio- Big Mistake

Oa.. Around The World

OTT- The Story Of Love

DDT- Mertvu Gored

Hotenonova- Ayla

Mediu Vremerti- On BA Starshe Re

Metallic. The Memory Remains

Moral.' Radek. Na Palube Matron

Robbie Williams -Angela

LUXEMBOURGHUNGARY

ELDORADIO/Lusembeurg SCDR

Luc Melsen - Head Of Musk

Playlist Additions:Blimchen- Bosom JamCeline Dion- My Heart Will Go On

&pen Liud- When Sum.. Cries

Gil- Round N Round

Melgroove- Apoca Arrive

Sharmine- InsideShiny Toys- Twister Love

RADIO BRIDGE/Budapest 0AC

Omolya Megyeri - Head Of Music

Playliat Addition.Enya- Only If

Janet Jackson -TogetherLevellers- Dog Tram

Lighthouse Family- HighLouise- Lees Go Round

Lutricia McNeal- Ain't That Just

TURKEY LIECHTENSTEINRADIO Edstanbul CCHR

Tim Verheyen - SupervisorHadi Ehmai - Director Of Music

Playliat Additions:Chumbawamba- Amnesia

Levellers- Dog Train

Sweetbox- Everything's

RADIO I./Liechtenstein BCldRIAC

Dead Sigel - Program DirectorRoland Blum - Head Of Mimic

Playliat Additions:Celine Dion- The Reason


Verve- Lucky


Playliat Additions:

S. Soyka- Tango Memento Vitae

Sting- Walking On The Moon GREECE PROGRAMME2Pac- I Wonder If Zdrowa Woda- Bractwo

KISS 909 FM/Athens C SUPPLIERS911- Party People

CHR/DanceBen Harper. Glory & Consequence

Boyzone- Baby Can I Hold CZECH REPUBLIC Michael Taaoussopoolos - Prog DieFM RADIO NET G

CHR

Club Unique- Just The WayPower Play:

Armin Weis - Frog Die

Daft Punk- Revolution 909CITY 93.7 FM/Prague Serious Danger- Deeper

A List:

Elton John- Recover Your SoulCHR Playliat Additions:

Aqua- Doctor Jones

Lauryn Hill- The SweetestPeter Kral - Prog Dir B.B.E. Desire

Awesome- Rumours

Mark Hoopfler- Wag The DogDavid Beck - Head Of Music Course- Beat Love

Bootsy Collins- Pm Leavin' U

Maze- Feel So GoodPlayliat Additions: DJ Quicksilver- Planet Love

Dario G- Sunchyme

Sabrina Seder -Du Liebst Mich NichtDaniel Hui.- Dent, Vus A Plac Various- Perfect Day

Down Law- Johnny B

Sixteen- Obud We Mnie WennsGenesis- Shipwrecked

Eternal -Angel Of Mine

S. Soyka- Tango Memento VitaeOasis- Around The World GREEK RADIO CORFU/Corfu B

Five- Slam Dunk Da Funk

Zdrowa Woda- BractwoThird Eye Blind- Semi -Charmed CHR

Janet Jackeon, TogetherSpyros Hytiria - Head Of Music

MPeople- Fantasy Island

RADIO PLUS/GdanskEVROPA 2/Prague G Playliat Additions:

Nana- Too Much

ACAC Foo Fighter. My Hero

Natalie Imbruglia- Tom

Piotr Felgentreu - Read Of MeekMilos Pokorny - Head Of Program-

ming

Geneva- Into The Blue

Portishead- All MinePappa Bear- Cherish

Power Play:Roman Ondracek - Head Of Music Will Oldham- Let It

Robert Mil.- FreedomLewis/Richard-At The Beginning

Playliat Additions:Salt -N -Pepe- R U Ready

Playliat Addition.Hot Chocolate- Sexy Thing NRG 87.7/Athens B

Shola Am. You're The One I Love

Ambereunehower- Running SunMidge Ure- Breathe Dance

Spice Girls- Too

Boyzone- Baby C. I HoldTolls Varnm - Head Of Music


FREKVENCE 1/Prague G Playlist AdditionalWarren G/Sissel- Prince Igor

RADIO POMORZA I KUJAW/Byd-gooses G

AC Antiloop- Nowhere To HideA List:

AD Missy Elliott- Sock It 2 Me

CHR/RockRene Hnilicka - Music Manager Blackout- Gotta Have Hope


Zdwialaw Pajak - Head Of MusicPlaylist Additions: Brutal Bill- I Know

Smash Mouth- Walking On The Sun

Power Play:Era- Ameno Delta Sites- Saturday Of..

Usher You Make Me Wanna

Moffatte- Ill Be ThereGoldie/ERS-One- Digital

Playliat Additions:RADIO ALFA/Prague G Natural Born Chillers. R. The Funky Beat

MUSICAdrian Celentano- Don't Play ThatAC Ralphi Rosario- Take Me Up

All Saints- Never EverDusan Kotora - Head Of MusicPlayliat Addition.

Way Out West- AjareTELEVISION

Ben Harper -Glory & Consequence

Mese- Feel So GoodBoyzone- Baby C. I Hold

Era- Ameno ESTONIA MTV EUROPE/London PRammstein- Das Modell

Robbie Williams -AngelsMusic Television

Rebel Big Fiah- Sell Out RAADIO 2/Tallinn C Peter Geed - Controller MimicSmoke City- Aguas De Marco CHR Programming MTV NetworksTllaperzy lead Maly- Ero-Disco

RADIO DRAGONBarlovy Vary SImmo Milkel.n -Head Of Music A Lish

Tic Tac Toe- Bide Kiiss'CHR

Playliat Additions: Aeroamith- PinkZdenek P.hovsky - Music Manager

Gil- Round N Round Block- Bachelorette

RADIO BIALYSTOK/Bialystok SPlayliat Addition.

Horace. Mu Laulud Mu Laulud Eternal- Angel Of Mine

CHRCeline Dion- The Reason

Saint Etienne- Sylvia Five- Slam Dunk Da Funk

Tomek Wolski - Head Of MusicConde- Around The World

Savage Gorden- Truly Madly Deeply Jimmy Ray- Are You

Power Play: Metalli.- The Memory RemainsElektrycane Gitary- Ja Astern

RADIO FM PLUS/Pilsen SRADIO HUHUfrollinn G Natalie Imbroglio- Torn

Nowy RokAC

Rock/AC Robbie Williams- Angels

Natalie Imbruglia- TornJan Hanousek - Head Of Manic

Jean Riikoja Head Of Music Sheryl Crow- Tomorrow Never Dim

Playliat Additions:Playliat Additions:

Playliat Additional Usher- You Make Me Wanna

Adrian Celentano- Don't Play ThatAll Saints- Never Ever

Anggun- Life On

All Saints- Never EverBell Book & Candlo Read My Sign

Brand New Heavies- Shelter MTV/Central Region PBlekitny N.oresec- Jak Diego

Bryan Adams- Back To YouPaul Simon- Trailway Blues Music Television

Chrietafari- SelahJimmy Ray- Are You

Saint Etienne- Sylvia Andreas Heineke - Head Of MusicDario G- Sunchyme

Natalie Imbroglio- TornVarious- Perfect Day A List:

Max Sharam- IhmtinggroundSw.tbox- Everything's

AD `1,1 Sync- Together

Oliver Shanti- 4 Circles Of WaterVarious- Perfect Day

BellBook & Candle -Read My SignLATVIASecretes- Pero A Tu Ledo Mork- Bachelorette

RADIO PROFH/Pardebice SBoys- One Minute

RADIO ESKA WROCLAW/WroelawAC RADIO RIGAI 1g6,2/Riga B

Beata Rhymes- DangerousMichell Holy - Head Of Music CHR

DJ Quicksilver- Planet LoveCHR

Power Play: Eric Niedra - Prog DirDown Low -Johnny B

Piotr Web - DJ ProducerRamazzottiffluner- Cose Della Vita Power Play:

Dru Hill- In My Bed

Power Play:Playliat Additions: Agnese & Keepers- Aplis


Club Unique- Juat The WayNana- He's Comm' Boyzone- Baby Can I Hold

Nana- Too Much

Elton John- Recover Your SoulRamamottiff Cose Dena Vita

0.is- Around The WorldPearl Jam- Given To Fly

RADIO RELAIC/Kladno S Lighthouse Family- HighPappa Bear- Cherish

Playliat Additions:CHR Natalie Imbroglio- Torn

Robbie Williams -Angels911- Party People

Milan Hamm Head Of Program-ming

Ofra Hasa- Give Me A Sign

Playliat Additions:Savage Garden -To The Moon

Boysone- Baby Can I HoldPlayliat Additions: Bell Book & Candle- Read My Sign

Spice Girls- Too

Corr. !Never Loved YouAlanis Morie.tte- Hand In My Bernard Butler- Stay

Thomas D. RAckenwindLewisAli.chard- At The Beginning

Boyzone- Baby Can I Hold Brand New Heavies- ShelterMoffatt. Ill Be There

Chinaski- Stejne Jako Ja Kenny Wayne Shepherd -Blue On BlackMTV ITALY/Southern Region P

Police- Walking On The (BMX)Dr. Alban- Long Time Ago Lightning Seeds- Brain Dain

Music Television

Sixteen. Obud We Mnie WenueHaddaway- Who Do You Love Liao Loeb- I Do

Clive Evan - Head Of Moak

Kylie Minoge. Did It AgainA List:

RADIO PULS/Gliwice S AD Barbara- Le Voci Atroci

ACLighthouse Family- Raincloud

Nana- Let It Rain UKRAINE 13jork- Bachelorette

Derek Kapturski - Head Of MusicOasis- Around The World

Boysone- Baby C. I HoldPower Play:

Touche- I C.'t PROSTO RADLO/Kiev/Odes. S Chief & Soci- Vivrei Di Te

Lighthouse Family- HighTrademark- Ill Be The One

CHR Dbamm- B Cielo Sotto

New Life Music- Twoja MiloscWarren G/Sissel- Prince Igor

Artem Vornyok - GM Diana King- L -l -lies

Playliat Additione: Andry Dmaneky Prog Dir Finley Quay. Its Great Woes. We're Together

Backstreet Boy. All I Have To Give Power Play: Five- Slam Dunk Da Funk

Bjirk- Bachelorette SLOVAKIA Bryan Adams- Back To You Louise- Lees Go Round

Chicken Shed- rm In Love With Dario G- Sunchyrne Mary J. Blige- Love Is All

E.W.&F. September FUN RADIO/Bratislava S Natalie Imbroglio- Tom Otierre/La CT NTErykah Bade- Aplletme CHR Joe Cocker- Tonight Paola & Chiara- Ti Veda 0 NoMane- Feel So Good Patrik Z.. Music Dir Vanessa Mae- I Feel Love Peter Andre- All Night, All Right

Robert Gawlineki- Tacy Jak Ja Playliat Additions: Playliat Additions: Puff Daddy- It's All About

Puff Daddy- Been Around

Radiohead- No Sum..Ran DMC- It's Like That

Sheryl Crow- Tomorrow Never Dies

Sm. Mouth- Walking On The Sun

Sting & Pr...Roxanne (Puff Daddy &mix)


MTV U.KJLondon PMusic Television

Heavy RotationAll Saints- Never Ever

Janet Jackson- TogetherNatalie Imbroglio- TomOasis- Around The World


Spice Girls -Teo

Verve- Lucky

VH-1/London PMusic Television

Mark Hagen - Head Of Programming& Acq

Heavy RotationBryan Adams- Back To You

Lighthouse Family- High

Fantasy Island


Various- Perfect Day

Active Rotation

Enya- Only If

Robbie Williams- AngelsSheryl Crow- Tomorrow Never Dies

Medium RotationCerra- I Never Loved You

Hot Chocolate- Sexy Thing

Janet JACII.8011- Together

Paul McCartney -Beautiful Night

Queen- No One

Steve Houghton- Wind Beneath

New Vide.Carleen Anders. Maybe In Amazed

Celine Dion -The Reason

Jewel- Foolish Games

MCM/Parie PMusic Television

Her. Lemaire Prog DieCecile Estrade - Programmer

A Liet:

Deni Hines- Alright

Florent Pagny- Smoir Aimer

Ginie Line- Un Simple Pas

Harmon- I Will Come To You

I Am- Nes Sous

J.Jacques Goldman- On IrePassi- Je Zappe Et Je Mate

Spice Girls- Too

Texas- Black Eyed Boy

Warren G/Sissel- Prince Igor

New Videos

Aeroemith- PinkAqua- Doctor Jones

Axelle Red- A Quoi

Backstreet Boys- As Long A8

Debatcho'm- Le Grand Pardon

Jamiroquai- High TimesJesolouis Albert Je Croix So Tout

Murreylltedmantgermon Rapper's Delight

Smash Beath. Welting On The Sas

Verve- The Drugs Don't Work

VIVA TV/Cologne P

Music Television

TM Busch - Prog DirA LW:

Aqua- Doctor Jones

Awesome- Run..Backstreet Boya- As Long As

Bell Book & Candle- Rescue Me

Boys- One Minute


Dario C- Smelly=Down Low -Johnny B

Janet Jackson- TogetherNana- Too Much

Pappa Bear- Cherish

Ron DMC- Its Like That


Warren GISimel- Prince Igor

Wes- Alone

Young Deenay- Walk On By

B List:

N Sync- Together

Aaron Carter- Crary Little Party Girl

Ali.- Nur For DickAqua- Barbie Girl

Bliiinchen- Scram Jam

Cappuccino- Du Fehlst Mir

DJ Quicksilver- Planet LoveGil- Round IV Round

Jay-Z/Babyface/13rown- Sunshine

La Bouche- You Won't Forget Me

Moffatts- Ill Be There

N -Trance- I'm Sexy?


11.0.0.8.- Instant Moments

Richie- Lech Isch Oda Was

Robbie Williams -Angels

Savage Garden -To The Moon

Spektac.Bir- Meine KleineSpice Girls- Too

W.tbam- Hard Times

C List:

De La Cruz- Tonight

DJ Sammy & Corinna- Golden Child

Hanson- I Will Come To You

Mr. President- Where Do I Belong?

Novy vs. lines- SuperstarPer- Wenn Du Da Biat

Sabrina Setter- Frei Sein

Thomas D.- RAckenwind

Usher -You Make Me Wanna

Wren. Finally Alone

UNDUE

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Each week, some 10 million European listeners tune into listen to the two hour Eurochart singles countdownshow, based on Music & Media's Eurochart Hot 100.

Supplied in a kit form (with records, script and soundbites) and syndicated by London -based company UniqueBroadcasting, the Eurochart is a chart countdown, withbehind the songs stories, artist interviews, gossip, tips, newentries, hits to happen and the album of the week.

Content of the Eurochart Hot 100 show this week:

),-Interviews: Propellerheads, Chumbawamba)=-Hits to happen: Peter Andre/All Night All Right (Mush-room); Chumbawamba/Amnesia (EMI Electrola); WillSmith!Gettin' Jiggy With It (Columbia)>Album of the week: Propellerheads Decks And DrumsAnd Rock'n Roll (Wall Of Sound)

Stations broadcasting the show include: FM 104(Dublin); Ml Radio Station (Vilnius); Power FM

(Istanbul); Radio Danubius (Budapest); Radio City

(Prague), Raadio Uuno (Estonia).

Station interested in the show should contact Pascal Griersonor Olivier Semonnay at Unique Broadcasting.

Tel: (+44) 0171 402 1011; Fax: (+44) 0171 723 6132.

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Will Smith- Just Cruisin'

N List:

Aerosmith- Pink

All Saints- Never Ever

Backstreet Boys, MI I Have To Give

Bell Book & Candle- Read My Sign

D. Hall & Rain- Video Lover

Die Toren Hose. Pushed AgainE.. Lind- When Susannah Cries

Flip Da- I NeverIll Be There

Missy Elliott- Sock It 2 Me

Nalin & Kane- T.. AboutSpektacoolia Du Bist Ahgeha.

New Videos

560- Alarma

Celine Dion -My Heart Will Go On

CM -Dream Universe

Dance 2 Trance- Rower

Dro Rill- In My Bed


Groove Gangsters- Funky Beam

Groove Zone- &sheer

Jamkantine- Kohl BockKai Tracid- Your Own Reality

Oasis- Around The World

Paralyzer- Sip Bip Sop


RLC- Soldier

Something F/T People- Shhh!Spice 1- Playa Man

Three 'N One- Pearl River

VIVA ZWEI TV/Cologne P

Music Television

Jorge Cebrian Lopez - Prog DirA List:

Janet Jackaon- Together

Jay-Z/Babytacedkown- S.shine

Nana- Too Much

Rolling Stones- Anybody Seen

Savage Garden- To The Moon

B

2Pac- I Wonder If

Aeroamith- PinkJimmy Ray -Are You

Jon Bon Jovi- Janie, Don't TakeJonestown- Sweet

Metallica- The Memory Remains

Natalie Imbroglio -TornProdigy- Smack My Bitch Up


Sabrina Setter- Frei Sein

Sheryl Crow Tomorrow Never Dies

Thomas D. Riickenwind


Verve -Lucky

C List:

Brand New Heavies- You've Got


Moby- James Bond Theme

01081A- Stand By Me


N List:

Ask- A Life less

Blackstreet- Buy Me Love

Brownstone- Kiss

Beata Rhymes- Dangerous

Bush- Mouth

Chumbawamba- Amnesia

Die Toten Hosea- Pushed AgainRadiohead. No Surprises

Smash Mouth- Walking CM The S.

Stereophonic. Not Up To YouThird Eye Blind -How It's Going To Be

New Videos

Dro Hill- In My Bed

Jamkantine Kein BockMeredith Brooks- What Would Ihippm?

Philip Boa & Voodoo Club- Kiss My Sod


Spice Girls- Spire Up Your Life

THE BOX/London G

Music Television

Liz Laskowski - Dir of Prog

Box Tops

Allure- All Cried Out

All Sainte- Never Ever

Aqua- Doctor Jones

Aqua- Barbie Girl

Backstreet Boys, All I Have To Give

Backstreet Boys- As Long As

Backstreet Boye- EverybodyBoyzone- Baby Can I Hold


Janet Jackson- TogetherMilk Inc.- La Vache

Natalie Imbruglia- TornSpice Girls -Too

Steps -5,0,7,5


Vanilla- No Way, No Way

Breakin' Out Of The BoxAaron Carter- Gram little Party Girl


Notorious BIG- Sky's The Limit

Party Animals- My Way

Queen- No One

New Videos

Alexia- Uh La La

Another Level- Be Alone No More

Awesome- Crazy

Backstreet Boys- Quit Playing

Bernard Butler- StayByron Stingily -You Make Be F.1

Carless Andenon- Maybe I'm Amsted

Celetia- Rewind

Cleopatra- Cleopatra 's Theme

Destiny's Child -No, No, No

Diana King- L -1 -Ii.

DJ Supreme -The Horns OfJerico

E -Male- We Are E -Male


Faith No More -Ashes

Gang Starr -You Know My

Ginuwine- Holler

Goldin- Temper, Temper

Gravedigg.- The Night The Earth

Hirt. Hicks- If You Want Me

I. Brown- My StarJuliet Roberts- So Good

Kaleet- Sands Of Time

Martha Wash- It's Raining Men

No Authority- Don't StopPeter Andre, All Night, All Right

Puff Daddy- All About

Radiohead- No Surprises

Solid Harmonie-171 He There

Elk Etienne- Sylvia

Ultra Nate- Free

Warm Jets -Never

Wes- Alone

Wildchild- Renegade Master

Will Smith- Get Jiggy With It

MUTE - MUSIC 'TELEVISION/War.

saw SMusic Television

Piotr Majewski - Head Of MusicPower Plop

Ambersenehower- Running Sun

Asia- Bracia BumE.L.&P.- B -Roll

Genesis- Congo

Grunwald- Dla Ciebie

Homo Twist- Twist Again

Heavy Flotation

Carrerae/Gornik- Hope For Us

Depeche Mode- Miele.Ellartosiewicz- Nie loamy Sie

Elektryczne Gitary- KileyLL. Cool J- Phenomenon

Metallica- The Memory Remains

Prodigy- Smack My Bitch Up

Rolling Stones- Anybody Seen

T. Love- Chlopaki Nie Places.

THE MUSIC FACTORY/

&mama, Holland BMusic Television

Erik Kress - Music DirectorA Lit:

Aeroamith- Pink

Close II You- Baby Don't Go

Ramazzottiff urner- Core Della Vita

Janet Jackson- TogetherNatalie Imbroglio- Tom


Solid Harmonie- I'll Be There

Something FfT People- Shhhl


New Videos

2Pac- I Wonder If

B.B.E. Desire

Bernard Butler- StayBoys II Men- A Song For Mama

BT- Love, Peace & Grease

DJ Quicksilver- Planet Love

Even Lind- When Susannah Cries

Groove Zone- Eisbaer

Nalin & Kane- Talkin' About

Oasis -Around The World

Pappa Bear- Cheri.


AIRPLAY CHARTS

On the airM&M's weekly airplay analysis CO/Will?

The Spice Girls may claim to have inventedthe Girl Power slogan, but this week provesthat the concept isn't exclusive to the Fab Five.

Janet Jackson finds herself Together Againwith the top spot on the European Radio Top50 thanks to her latest Virgin single from theVelvet Rope album, after a very close finishwith Natalie Imbruglia's Torn (RCA). In theirown words, the Spice Girls' attempt to claimthe No.1 position looks to have been just a lit-tle Too Much for them, as their Virgin singledrops to number 3 this week, having peakedat number 2.

The phrase Boy Power is hardly relevantfor this week's highest new entry on the Top50, but the Rolling Stones Saint Of Me (Virgin)at number 27 proves that the veteran rockersare not quite ready for pensioning off just yet,due to a warm welcome from Spain, Denmarkand U.K. commercial radio.

Another artist who's some distance fromboyhood-the recently knighted Sir EltonJohn-also has a new entry this week, withRecover Your Soul (Rocket) at 33. It's undoubt-edly an impossible job to beat the record -breaking sales feats of Candle In The Wind'97/Something About The Way You LookTonight previous single, but Elton's new sin-gle is this week's Most Added record acrossEurope, due to early support from EasternEurope, Switzerland and Denmark.

After a row about the leaking of albumtracks of the new Pearl Jam album, Yield, on

the Internet, their singlePearl Jam is now available via

more regular outlets.The rotation for GivenTo Fly (Epic) on Europe'smore leftfield stations isenough to debut at num-ber 38. See page 8 formore info about thealbum and single. In

rock -loving Poland, the band even entered theregional airplay chart at No.l.

In a rather saucier style, Will Smith isGettin' Jiggy With It (Columbia), completewith samples from the 1979 Sister Sledgefloorfiller He's The Greatest Dancer. Theman who would be Big Willie is currently onthe rise on radio stations in the U.K., Italyand Switzerland.

Elsewhere on the 50, (re -)entries comefrom Robyn, Lutricia McNeal and Bell Book& Candle, all crossing over from the BorderBreakers Chart. The re-entry at 48 of Ain'tThat Just The Way (Siljemark/CNR) fromSweden -signed female singer Lutricia Mc-Neal is noteworthy (see story, front page).The track has already notched up a massive44 weeks as a Border Breaker, and the endis still not in sight.

Over on that Border Breakers chart, thehighest new entry this week comes fromFrench duo Air(M&M, January 17),at number 17 withtheir hotly tippedsingle Sexy Boy(Source). The track isreceiving the samesort of attention inthe U.K. and the Benelux countries as compa-triots Daft Punk benefitted from last year.

Menno Visser

week 04/98 I.turopean Radio Top 50


TW LW WOC Artist Title OriginalLabel

TotalStations

NewAdds

(9 3 9 117 9JANET JACKSON/TOGETHER AGAIN (VIRGIN)

0 1 9 Natalie Imbruglia/Torn (RCA) 110 13

0 2 7 Spice Girls/Too Much (Virgin) 106 5

® 4 9 Bryan Adams/Back To You (A&M) 94 4

® 7 8 Sweetbox/Everything's Gonna Be Alright Might (RCA) 74 6

® 8 8 Robbie Williams/Angels (Chrysalis) 74 8

7 5 10 Sheryl Crow/Tomorrow Never Dies (A&M) 80 1

* 13 5 Oasis/All Around The World (Creation) 52 8

9 6 11 Hanson/I Will Come To You (Mercury) 63 1

0 10 7 Various/Perfect Day (Chrysalis) 72 6

11 9 11 Enya/Only If (WEA) 62 1

0 11 8 M-People/Fantasy Island (M People/BMG) 67 2

0 18 7 Verve/Lucky Man (Hut) 60 80 20 7 All Saints/Never Ever (London) 65 10

@ 15 11 Warren G & Sissel/Prince Igor BQEPh, (Mercury) 55 9

16 16 7 Aerosmith/Pink (Columbia) 46 2

17 12 16 Dario G/Sunchyme (Eternal/WEA) 46 1

0 21 5 Celine Dion/The Reason (Columbia) 39 8

19 19 10 Mariah Carey/Butterfly (Columbia) 40 1

0 26 7 Boyzone/Baby Can I Hold You Tonight (Polydor) 52 18

21 14 16 Backstreet Boys/As Long As You Love Me (Jive) 42 1

0 45 4 Lighthouse Family/High (Wild Card) 39 14

23 17 10 Queen/No One But You (Parlophone) 49 2

* 25 4 Aqua/Doctor Jones 1119bt (Universal) 43 11

25 22 10 Robert Miles/Freedom VVIAkt (DBX/Deconstruction) 48 1

0 36 2 Chumbawamba/Amnesia (EMI) 41 6

(It NE Rolling Stones/Saint Of Me (Virgin) 34 19

* 32 3 Eros Ramazzotti & Tina Turner/Cose Della Vita 114,101ht (DDD) 41 16

29 28 13 Smash Mouth/Walking On The Sun (Interscope) 30 2

0 44 2 Usher/You Make Me Wanna (LaFace/Arista) 34 8

4 35 12 Jimmy Ray/Are You Jimmy Ray? (Sony S2) 35 3

43 9 Genesis/Shipwrecked (Virgin) 40 1

0 > NE Elton John/Recover Your Soul (Rocket) 42 28

34 34 14 Eternal/Angel Of Mine (EMI) 35 2

35 24 5 Gala/Come Into My Life BIM% (Do It Yourself) 26 0

36 33 3 Wham!/Everything She Wants '97 (Epic) 27 1e 40 2 Run DMC vs. Jason Nevins/It's Like That (Profile) 29 5

4 ).- NE Pearl Jam/Given To Fly (Epic) 28 21

* ).- NE Will Smith/Gettin' Jiggy With It (Columbia) 24 10

40 41 6 Radiohead/No Surprises (Parlophone) 29 1

41 29 14 Jon Bon Jovi/Janie, Don't Take Your Love To Town (Mercury) 35 1

42 30 8 Sting & Pras/Roxanne (Puff Daddy Remix) (A&M) 31 1

0 > RE Bell Book & Candle/Rescue Me VL (Ariola) 35 2

44 23 15 Sashl/Stay lilt9,,,w,, (Byte Blue) 29 0

45 27 11 Celine Dion & Barbra Streisand/Tell Him (Columbia) 37 0

46 38 4 Mase/Feel So Good (Bad Boy/Arista) 27 5

Cit 49 2 Five/Slam Dunk Da Funk (RCA) 29 3

0 > RE Lutricia McNeal/Ain't That Just The Way liMetv,- (Siljemark/CNR) 31 2

49 31 18 Lighthouse Family/Raincloud (Wild Card/Polydor) 27 3

0 > NE Robyn/Show Me Love lillehri (Ricochet/RCA) 21 8

The European Radio Top 50 chart is based on a weighted -scoring system.Songs score points by achieving airplay on all of M&M's reporting stations with contemporary music fulltime or during specific dayparts

Stations are weighted by market size awl by the number of hours per week.TW = This Week, LW = Last Week, NE = New Entry, TS = Total Stations

Initft Indicates singles which previously featured in the Border Breakers chart I 1Highest new entry Greatest chart points gainer


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Although both parties say no dealis yet in place, Music & Media haslearned that, at the instigation ofIFPI, BIEM president Jean -LoupTournier and IFPI chairman DavidFine resumed talks at the end of1997 after eight months of silence.Fine and Tournier are said to havefinally agreed on the main points of athree year standard contract.

It is understood that, althoughFine and Tournier have discussed ageneral framework, a final text stillneeds to be approved by both parties.Tournier declines to comment on thematter, and an IFPI spokeswomansays: "There's still no agreementwith BIEM. We've been in discus-sions but there's no agreement." Shecontinues, however: "We're veryhopeful that there will be an agree-ment but I can't say when and I can'tsay anything about rates."

Nevertheless, sources close to thedeal say the agreement may well besigned during Midem, and in anycase should be signed before the endof January, and implemented by Feb-ruary 15. Some specific conditionsregarding certain territories will stillremain subject to discussion; it isunderstood these could be agreedduring February. The three year con-tract would be retrospective in itsscope and would cover the periodfrom July 1 1997 to June 30 2000.

Sources say the new contract willbe quite similar to the previous(1992) agreement. However, the newcontract will see a reduction of theamount labels will have to pay formechanical royalties. It is under-

stood the new standard mechanicalroyalty rate will be closer to 9 per-cent of the published price to dealer(PPD) than the previous 9.306 per-cent rate.

"Some very important efforts havebeen made from both sides," says oneinsider close to the deal, who adds that"the authors have limited the damage."

Nevertheless, it seems thatmechanical societies have beenforced in the agreement to adapt tonew market rules by making someadjustments to former procedures.For example, the number of freerecords for promotion purposes


agreed in the new contract will begreater than in the past. Also,reduced rates have been discussedfor records which will be exported.According to the source, thosechanges represent a limited loss ofrevenue for the mechanical societies.

"Pressure from the labels [forlower mechanical rates] has beenvery strong," admits a source close tomechanical societies. "We have firm-ly resisted, which probably explainswhy it took so much time to findan agreement."Additional reporting by Jeff Clark -Meads, inter-national news editor, Billboard

Seen sampling the finest of British cuisine-fish & chips-at the Eng-lish seaside resort of Brighton, execs from Sony Music Europe's SINEdivision celebrate the acquisition of a minority stake in hotly -tippedU.K. dance labels Skint and Loaded. Chipping in on Brighton Pier are(left to right): Mark McQuillan (label manager at Skint/Loaded U.K.distributors 3MV), Skint/Loaded director J.C. Reid, SINE internation-al marketing manager Thorsten Luth, Loaded director Tim Jeffries,Skint director Damian Harris and SINE senior VP Marc Chung.

IPSOS expandscontinued from page 1

Music, the company's existing special-ist airplay monitoring unit in France.In October 1993, Ipsos Music won thecontract put out for tender by Frenchrecord companies' body SNEP to moni-tor music radio programming onbehalf of labels. The airplay chart forFrance published in Music & Media iscompiled using Ipsos data; that infor-mation is also used when compilingpositions on the M&M EuropeanRadio Top 50.

That contract is up for renewal inJune, and SNEP has sent its list ofrequirements to companies interest-ed in bidding for the contract. "Therequirements are tough, but nothingimpossible," comments Martin."Besides, I don't think we've donesuch a bad job during the past years."

In most territories,Ipsos Culture will becompeting with MusicControl, a joint venturebetween Media Controlof Germany and Broadcast Data Sys-tems (BDS) of the U.S. Music Controluses a technology known as Medicor tomonitor stations' output, while Ipsosuses the Aircheck system developed byU.S. radio software company RCS.

"The big advantage of our system,"says Martin, "is that it has memory-itkeeps titles of tracks and archivesthem. Keeping track of all the data wemonitor allows us to make thoroughstudies of programming. It is perfectlytailored for the needs of record compa-nies, media groups and collecting soci-eties. More and more people in differentfields need to know what is preciselyhappening on radio."

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`Body blow' for U.K. radiogroup. In it, the MMC indicated itwould have tried to block the deal orimposed severe conditions on Capitalif the acquisition had been allowed togo through.

The implications ofthe report could have asizeable effect upon the cur-rent trend towards consolida-tion in the industry by majorbroadcasting groups.

The proposed purchase ofVirgin Radio's national AMand London FM rock stationsby Capital wasbeing investigated CAPITAby the MMC beforeChristmas, when arival bid for Virgin Radiomounted by GingerMedia Group wasaccepted instead by Virgin's owner,Richard Branson. However, for legalreasons the MMC was still obliged topublish its report on the inquiry.

The MMC's findings may wellforce other major radio groups suchas GWR, Emap Radio and ScottishRadio Holdings to rethink their ambi-tions of owning two FM licences insingle markets. After intense lobby-ing by the commercial radio industry,"dual FM" ownership was finally per-mitted by the previous Conservativegovernment in the 1996 Broadcasting

Act, despite the opposi-tion of commercialradio regulator theRadio Authority.

In itsJanuary 13

report, theMMC stated

that if Capitalhad taken overVirgin Radio, itwould have been

RADIO necessary to hive off its Lon-don AM station, 1548 AM

Capital Gold,

L RADIO or excludeVirgin Rad-

io's London FMstation from the deal.

Either way, Capital would havebeen left still holding only two licencesin London.

If Capital had not been willing toaccept those conditions, then thetakeover deal should have beenblocked, according to the MMC's 150 -page report to Parliament.

The MMC's findings mean that aCapital Radio bid for London's softAC/MOR station Melody FM-cur-rently for sale-is now unlikely. Noris Virgin's new owner the GingerMedia Group now likely to pursue atake-over of Capital Radio, which ithad stated it was considering.

Significantly, the reportalso regarded radio advertis-ing, which commands lessthan five percent of all dis-play advertising in the U.K.,as a separate entity (distinctfrom other media advertising)"for the purpose of competi-tion analysis."

Commentingon the MMCfindings, govern-ment ministerMargaret Beck-ett, president ofthe Board ofTrade, said in astatement that,if the deal hadgone through, itwould "...weakenthe ability of

other stations to compete for [Londonand national advertising] revenue andincrease opportunities for Capital toadopt sales practices which might beexpected to have detrimental effectson its competitors." She added thatthe acquisition would have increasedCapital's "dominance" in the local andnational markets.

However, a look at other majorU.K. cities such as Newcastle andManchester clearly shows that othermajor radio groups-such as Emap-


currently hold much larger slices ofthe radio advertising cake in thosemarkets than Capital presently holdsin London, or would have held, had itwon control of Virgin Radio.

Broadcasters have expressedalarm that-based on the evidence ofthe MMC report-the new Labourgovernment has inherited concep-tions about commercial radio fromprevious administrations.

"The idea that [commercial] radiois a separate medium, that cannot besubstituted with other display adver-tising media, is an old-fashioned andincreasingly outdated view of media,"charges Tim Schoonmaker, chiefexecutive of Emap Radio. "There is aconvergence in media. That view [ofthe MMC] will be seen as eccentric.This [report] will stiffen the resolve ofthe industry to push for more [leg-islative] freedom. There is too muchlegislation regarding comm-ercial radio."

Paul Brown, chief executive of theCommercial Radio Companies Associ-ation (CRCA), comments: "CRCAmembers will be aware of a tensionbetween the MMC ruling-which isbased on an assessment of the radiomarket alone-and the momentumthat exists in the U.K and Europewhich seeks a regulatory environmentfor a more converged media world."

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NUSBMG revamps European opspean region's A&R/marketing effortsand address the needs of this changingmarket," according to a company state-ment.

BMG Entertainment Internationalpresident and CEO Rudi Gassnersays the new structure answers hiswish to "take a very lean, aggressiveand creatively -driven organisationinto the next century."

As of January 15, the London -based BMG UK -Central Europe divi-sion (comprising The U.K., France,Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Nordic andBenelux regions) will be the responsi-bility of Richard Griffiths, who servedas president of Epic Records in theU.S. from 1994 to September 1997.

Griffiths has been appointed chair-man of BMG U.K. and Ireland andexecutive vice-president of CentralEurope. As a result, BMG U.K. andIreland chairman John Preston willbe leaving the company. Griffiths sayshe plans to "bolster the CentralEurope Region, particularly now aswe embark on a re -definition of theterritory in the midst of so muchchange for the continent. I see it as aregion rich in potential."

BMG G/S/A-Eastern Europe con-tains the G/S/A countries supervisedby Munich -based G/S/A presidentThomas M Stein, who will become

president of the new division andadd to his fold the Baltics, Bulgar-ia, Croatia, the Czech Republic,Hungary, Israel, Malta, Poland,Russia and Turkey.

Stein says he views these addedresponsibilities as "a very gratifyingvote of confidence from Rudi." Headds that he is confident that activi-ty in eastern European countries willdevelop at a rapid pace. Says Stein:"In terms of the music industry,many of the countries within the east-ern Europe region are still in the earlystages of their development, whichmeans that the possibilities are asgreat as the challenges."

Stein adds: "Within the easternEurope region there is great creativepotential. I see the exchange of productbetween Germany and other countrieswithin the region clearly as atwo-way process. A numberof acts signed toBMG in Ger- lEigmany are al-ready successfulin differentparts of the eastern Europe region.

"Remarkable in that context is thatwe're talking about German languageproductions here, for instance [femalerap trio] Tic Tac Toe, who are very wellreceived in Poland. But before we can

make any predic-tions on the range

of possibilities for local repertoire ineastern Europe, we will have to take aclose look at existing links between thedifferent markets within the region."

BMG formerly had three separatestructures in Europe-BMG U.K. andIreland, BMG Central Europe (whichincluded eastern Europe) and G/S/A,respectively run by John Preston,

Arnold Bahlmann and ThomasStein. Gassner says the departure

last November ofBahlmann (M&M,November 22, to runCLT-UFA's televisiondivision "allowed me

to shuffle the pack."Gassner says the split is "a natural

division, as the Eastern part of Europetends to look at Germany while theBenelux and Scandinavian countriestend to look towards the U.K." Gassner


adds that he expects "a greater A&Rfocus" with this new structure.

The new figure in this dual structureis Griffiths, described by Gassner assomeone who "has a great ear, excep-tional leadership and motivational abil-ities, is internationally -minded, andbrings an incredible level of enthusiasmand commitment to the task at hand."

"Unfortunately," Gassner notes,"this change means the departure ofone of our most well -respected execu-tives, John Preston, and we will misshim greatly." Both Gassner and Pre-ston say the U.K. executive's depar-ture is amicable and mutually agreed.

Preston says he has "no plans toannounce" for the moment, but addsthat "BMG has behaved absolutelyproperly and has been immensely sup-portive throughout the process. I amnot devastated by what's going on."Additional reporting by Jeff -Clark Meads andChristian Lorenz

Radio is Just The Way for diva McNeal

Pictured with Lutricia McNeal: Arcade MusicSweden MD Jonas Siljemark (left), McNeal andArcade Music Group president and CEO Andrede Raaff (right).

ager Jonas Siljemark convinced her totry some solo recordings for his ownSiljemark label in 1995.

One year on, back in October 1996,McNeal's single Ain't That Just TheWay (Siljemark/CNR) became a No.1hit in Sweden-it currently stands atnumber 46 on Music & Media'sEurochart Hot 100 singles listing.

"It was radio which broke Ain'tThat Just The Way," asserts ArcadeSweden creative director Per Stavborg."Once the big stations like [public CHRnetwork] P3 played the record, listen-ers recognised Lutricia's voice from herearlier hits with Rob'N'Raz and start-ed requesting the track."

The song appeared in Sweden justin time for Robin Simonse, CNR VP

and Arcade Swedeninterim managing direc-tor, to fall in love with itbefore he returned to hisnative Netherlands.Leaving Arcade Swedenin the hands of thefreshly -appointed JonasSiljemark, he made therecord a CNR priority.

Dutch radio pro-grammers soon pickedup on the languid R&Bnumber early in 1997.From the Netherlands-where Ain't That... sold55,000 units -therecord broke into neigh-bouring Germany,Europe's largest marketfor recorded music, andlater into Belgium, Aus-tria and Switzerland.

"Germany is the onlycountry where Ain't

That... was broken in the clubs," saysGuido Janssens, international market-ing director at Arcade's CNR label."The track became popular with a veryyoung audience at first; German radiodid not really warm to it and [music TVstation] Viva did not like the video."

At that stage, CNR opted to push tothe German media the fact thatMcNeal was an accomplished artistwith a Swedish album release alreadybehind her. "We thought she was suf-fering from a 'one hit wonder' image,"comments Janssens, "so to fight thatwe produced a brochure and includedsamples from her debut album MySide Of Town, which was released inSweden at the end of 1996."

The strategy paid off for CNR. The

single entered the German Top 40with the help of a few early support-ers in the radio market and then sim-ply exploded. "We worked 10 weekson this record," recalls Janssens, "andin the end we sold more than 400,000singles in Germany."

Now Ain't That... looks set tobreak into the English-speaking mar-kets. In the U.K., where McNeal issigned to the Capital Radio/Telstarjoint venture Wildstar, Ain't That...took the airwaves by storm duringthe end of 1997 despite a lack of air-play support from public CHR net-work BBC Radio 1. At its airplaypeak, the single appeared on 105playlists in the U.K., helping to boostthe sales of Ain't That Just The Wayto some 250,000 units at press time.

"We tried to release the single [onTelstar] a couple of months earlierand took it to Radio 1, which wasn'tinterested," says Philip Seidl, seniorproduct manager for Telstar/Wild-star. "We sent the video to [music TVstation] The Box where it got consis-tent play for 10 weeks.

"We took it to Capital Radio, andthey loved it, which resulted in Lutri-cia being signed to Wildstar and theairplay success -not just on Capital -owned stations, but up and down thecountry," he explains.

Al Dunne, programme director atAtlantic 252, the Eire -based commer-cial station which broadscasts to theU.K., believes McNeal is no one -hitwonder, and is "well on the way" tobecoming established in the U.K.

'We got the single about sixmonths ago, and I thought it was per-fect for our audience," says Dunne."We put it on our 'Kick Butt' segment


[for new releases]. If a song goes inthat show, it has to be strong. That isvery unusual for an artist who waspretty much unknown. We are lookingforward to more material from her."

McNeal's international career nowlooks set for take -off. In the U.S.,released on Mariah Carey's Cravenimprint, Ain't That... entered the Bill-board Hot 100 Singles charts threeweeks ago at number 91. It has sincemoved up to 80. Meanwhile, the artisthas moved back to her native Dallas tofacilitate U.S. promotion of the single.

In Europe, McNeal mania will befurther fuelled by the U.K. release ofthe My Side Of Town album in April.Janssen adds that Lutricia "isalready working on her next album,which is likely to be released in someterritories in September."

Letter to the editorDear sir,Recent issues of Music & Media havemade great reading in the radio busi-ness; knowing, for example, thatEmap are looking into France andthat Atlantic 252 is expanding itsbrand, or at least planning to expandits brand.

All the radio coverage you've beendoing recently really makes the mag-azine an interesting read and a usefultool for people who are trying to man-age their way through the busy busi-ness that the radio industry now is.

Kind regards,Paul KavanaghGroup programme director,Emap Radio

MUSIC & MEDIA °JANUARY 24, 1998AmericanRadioHistory.Com

AIRPLAY CHARTS

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week 04 / 98 Border BreakersMainland European records breaking out of their country of signing


TW LW WOC Artist/Title Original LabelCountryOf

Signing TS

1 1 8 SVVEETBOX/EVERYTHING'S GONNA BE ALRIGHT (RCA) GERMANY 48

0 3 10 Warren G & Sissel/Prince Igor (Def Jam/Mercury) GERMANY 43

® 4 7 Aqua/Doctor Jones (Universala) DENMARK 39

4 5 12 Robert Miles/Freedom (DBX/Deconstruction/Motor) ITALY 42

0 7 7 Eros Ramazzotti & Tina Turner/Cose Della Vita (DDD) ITALY 36

0 6 44 Lutricia McNeal/Ain't That Just The Way (Siljemark/CNR) SWEDEN 31

7 2 19 Sash!/Stay (Byte Blue) BELGIUM 24

0 14 9 Robyn/Show Me Loveii .s

(Ricochet/RCA) SWEDEN 20

0 11 29 Wes/Alane (Saint George/Columbia) FRANCE 26

10 8 9 Gala/Come Into My Life (Do It Yourself) ITALY 21

0 16 8 Espen Lind/When Susanna Cries (Universal) NORWAY 22

12 9 21 Aqua/Barbie Girl (Universal) DENMARK 22

0 13 8 Era/Ameno (Mercury) FRANCE 15

0 15 6 Bell Book & Candle/Rescue Me (Ariola) GERMANY 24

15 10 19 Eros Ramazzotti/Quanto Amore Sei/Cuanto Amore Me Das (DDD) ITALY 18

16 12 9 Bootsy Collins/I'm Leavin' U (WEA) GERMANY 15

0 ,=- NE Air/Sexy Boy (Source) FRANCE 6

18 20 11 Lutricia McNeal/My Side Of Town (Siljemark/CNR) SWEDEN 9

19 17 5 Nek/Laura Non C'E' (WEA) ITALY 7

0 25 2 Zucchero/Va Pensiero (Polydor) ITALY 14

0 )=- NE B.B.E./Desire (Triangle) FRANCE 10

22 21 3 Pappa Bear/Cherish (Universal) GERMANY 13

23 24 2 Regina/Day By Day (Do It Yourself) ITALY 8

24 23 14 Da Hool/Meet Her At The Love Parade (Kosmo) GERMANY 5

0 - NE Scooter/No Fate (Club Tools/Edel) GERMANY 11

TW = This Week, LW = Last Week, WOC = Weeks On Chart, TS = Total Stations, NE = New Entry, RE = Re -Entry. Titles registering a significant point gain are awarded a bullet.

indicates the Road Runner award, assigned to the single with the biggest increase In chart points.

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At time of going to press, French ratings organisa-tion Mediametrie was unveiling the radio ratingsin France for the period of November -December1997. CHR network NRJ has apparently taken anose-dive, with a cumulative audience of 10.3 per-cent, down from 11.6 percent in Sept -Oct. FellowCHR network Fun Radio is also down (to 5.1 per-cent from 5.8), but three AC nets are on the rise:Europe 2 (5.9), Cherie FM (4.7) and RTL2 (3.6).

New U.K company The OutsideOrganisation is apparently to handle domesticand international publicity for the Spice Girls.Outside rose from the ashes of U.K. PR companyPoole Edwards, whose founders Chris Pooleand Alan Edwards are directors with JudyLipsey, who previously ran PR company LipseyMeade in tandem with (ex-BMG corporate PR)Rosy Meade. Meade will be a consultant direc-tor, handling international publicity for WhitneyHouston. Outside's other consultant director isDave Woolf, co -manager (with Edwards) ofParlophone R&B singer Beverley Knight.

Geoff Holland, newly -appointed programmedirector at U.K national/London rock broadcaster

Virgin Radio programme director hasrestructured his department. Head ofmusic Trevor White was recently maderedundant, and deputy programmedirector Bobby Hain, has assumed hisduties. A Virgin source says: "Trevorwas very good at his job, but effectively

there were two people doing the same job."OTR hears that the Mega Scandinavia label

has finalised the deal (M&M, November 13) withDutch music group Arcade which will makeArcade the new distributor of its repertoire inScandinavia, excluding Denmark

Polydor MOR vocalist Marco Borsato wonthe pop music award at annual Dutch musicindustry conference Noorderslag (January 9-10)in Groningen. However, it seems the audiencedidn't share the jury's enthusiasm for Borsato'shuge -selling Dutch language pop bal-lads-the artist was not showered withcompliments by the crowd, but ratherwith beer.... A Noorderslag panel on thecurrent state of Europe's public broad-casters found Jan Sneum, live musicco-ordinator at Danish public networkP3 revealing that he can afford to putnew Danish talent in the studio for three days,putting one of the resulting three songs in rota-tion. That's one way of getting new music on -air...

U.K. radio company GWR Group is setting upa digital arm, Group Digital Division. It will bepart of a consortium bidding for a digital radiomultiplex licence in the spring. GWR technicaldirector, Quentin Howard, is expected to headthe division as MD.

It looks as though Sony Music Europe willsoon be appointing a new VP international mar-keting for Epic, reporting to London -based SMEVP international marketing Richard Ogden.

The French music market saw a 7 percentincrease in value (to Ffr7.36 billion) and an 8.4 risein units in 1997 according to new figures from labels'body SNEP. For the first time, SNEP has publishedcompanies' market shares; PolyGram is top with35.5 percent (including distributed products), fol-lowed by Sony Music (23.1), EMI (11.5), Virgin(10.5), Warner/East West (7.5), BMG (6.7) andUniversal (1.9, but only covering 6 months).

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AIRPLAY CHARTSweek 04/98 Major Market Airplay

The most aired songs in Europe's leading radio marketsTW=This Week, LW=Last Week, WOC=Weeks On Chart, TS=Total Stations

N.J UNITED KINGDOMArtistTitle Original Label

7thTW LW WOC

1 1 8 JANET JACKSON/TOGETHER AGAIN (VIRGIN)2 9 5 Space/Avenging Angels (Gut)3 3 10 All Saints/Never Ever (London)4 7 7 Lighthouse Family/High (Wild Card)5 10 6 Spice Girls/Too Much (Virgin)6 8 5 Oasis/Around The World (Creation)7 20 2 Byron Stingily/You Make Me Feel (Manifesto)8 4 15 Natalie Imbruglia/Torn (RCA)9 > NE Will Smith/Gettin' Jiggy With It (Columbia)10 2 8 Boyzone/Baby Can I Hold (Polydor)11 12 3 Bamboo/Bamboogie (VC Recordings)12 v.- NE Jay-Z/Wishing On A Star (DefJam)13 13 4 Juliet Roberts/So Good (Cooltempo)14 11 7 Robbie Williams/Angels (Chrysalis)15 18 9 Verve/Lucky Man (Hut)16 16 8 Lutricia McNeallAin't That Just (Siljemark/CNR)17 n NE Ce Ce Peniston/Somebody Else's Guy (A&M)18 > NE Chumbawamba/Amnesia (EMI)19 > NE Peter Andre/All Night, All Right (Mushroom)20 19 9 Various/Perfect Day (Chrysalis)

TS

OTW LW Woe ArtistTitle

GSA

16 1 1 11 SWEETBOX/EVERYTHING'S15 2 3 6 Natalie Imbruglia/Torn15 3 6 8 Janet Jackson/Together Again15 4 2 6 Spice Girls/Too Much13 5 7 7 Sheryl Crow/Tomorrow Never Dies13 6 5 13 Dario G/Sunchyme13 7 > RE Robbie Williams/Angels13 8 4 7 Bryan Adams/Back To You11 9 20 2 Bell Book & Candle/Read My Sign14 10 11 3 Nana/Too Much Heaven12 11 13 8 Hanson/1 Will Come To You12 12 19 5 M-People/Fantasy Island11 13 n RE Genesis/Shipwrecked12 14 12 15 Bell Book & Candle/Rescue Me12 15 n NE Verve/Lucky Man13 16 15 2 Run DMC/It's Like That11 17 n NE Celine Dion/My Heart Will Go On9 18 8 5 Down Low/Johnny B

11 19 17 8 Awesome/Rumours10 20 > NE Wes/Alane

Compiled by M&M on the basis of playlist reports, using a weighted -scoring system,based on audience size.

_I I__i-TW LW WOC Artist/Title

MN1111

1 4 10 EAGLE -EYE CHERRY/SAVE TONIGHT2 1 5 Spice Girls/Too Much3 2 8 Janet Jackson/Together Again4 5 7 Natalie Imbruglia/Torn5 3 8 Bryan Adams/Back To You6 13 6 Verve/Lucky Man7 9 4 Robbie Williams/Angels8 11 4 Various/Perfect Day9 6 10 Hanson/1 Will Come To You10 7 11 Sheryl Crow/Tomorrow Never Dies11 8 9 Boyzone/13aby Can I Hold12 14 4 Oasis/Around The World13 12 7 Sweetbox/Everything's14 > NE Celine Dion/The Reason15 15 3 S.O.A.P/This Is How We Party16 10 4 M-People/Fantasy Island17 )- NE Anouk/Nobody's Wife18 20 2 Rolling Stones/Saint Of Me19 n NE Lisa Loeb/I Do20 17 2 Juice/Down For Your Love

Original Label TS

(BMG)(Virgin)(Virgin)

(RCA)(A&M)

(Hut)(Chrysalis)(Chrysalis)

(Mercury)(A&M)

(Polydor)(Creation)

(RCA)(Columbia)

(Dance Pool)(M People/BMG)

(Dino)(Virgin)(Geffen)

(EMI -Medley)

Original Label TS

(RCA)(RCA)

(Virgin)(Virgin)

(A&M)

(Eternal/WEA)(Chrysalis)

(A&M)(Ariola)

(Urban/Motor)(Mercury)

(M People/BMG)(Virgin)(Ariola)

(Hut)(Profile)

(Epic/Columbia)(K -Town Record/Shift)

(CNR)(Saint George/Columbia)

2728

27

24

22

17

16

21

14

13

16

17

15

11

15

13

14

1111

9


BENELUXTW LW WOC Artist ins

16 1 1 5 NATALIE IMBRUGLIATORN16 2 2 7 Various/Perfect Day17 3 6 5 Janet Jackson/Together Again14 4 5 8 Run DMC/It's Like That16 5 3 5 Spice Girls/Too Much12 6 11 5 Close H You/Baby Don't Go12 7 10 5 Propellerheads/Bassey/History Repeating14 8 16 2 Warren G & SissellPrince Igor11 9 n NE Imani Copolla/Legend Of A Cowgirl10 10 12 5 Allure/All Cried Out13 11 17 4 Robbie Williams/Angels11 12 9 6 Gala/Come Into My Life13 13 14 9 Celine Dion/Tell Him13 14 19 2 Sweetbox/Everything's11 15 4 9 Hanson/I Will Come To You

9 16 18 2 Aerosmith/Pink8 17 20 7 Solid Harmonic/I'll Be There For You9 18 > NE Five/Slam Dunk Da Funk8 19 n NE All Saints/Never Ever

12 20 n RE Anouk/Nobody's Wife


SPAINTW LW WOC Artiet/Title

1 v- RE2 v- RE3 n NE4 n RE5 n RE6 n RE7 n RE8 n RE9 n RE10 n RE11 n RE12 n RE13 n RE14 n RE15 n RE16 n RE17 n RE18 20 7

19 19 2

20 18 2

BOYZ H MEN/A SONG FOR MAMAEternal/Angel Of MineMichael Jackson/On The LineMariah Carey/ButterflyCeltas Cortos/20 De AbrilM-People/Fantasy IslandSpice Girls/Too MuchNatalie Imbruglia/TomCeline Dion/The ReasonSweetbox/Everything'sAerosmith/PinkQueen/No One But YouAll Saints/I Know Where It's AtRevolver/El PeligroPaul Carrack/Beautiful WorldRicky Martin/No Imports La DistanciaSting & Pras/Roxanne (Puff Daddy Remix)Rosana/En NavidadPulp/Help The AgedNek/Como Vivir Sin Ti

Original Label TS

(MOTOWN)(EMI)(Epic)

(Columbia)(DRO)

(M People/BMG)(Virgin)

(RCA)(Columbia)

(RCA)(Columbia)

(Parlophone)(London)

(WEA)(EMI)

(Columbia)(A&M)(MCA)

(Island)(WEA)

22

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2


Original Label TS

(RCA) 12(Chrysalis) 10

(Virgin) 11

(Profile) 10

(Virgin) 9

(Epic) 7

(Wall Of Sound) 6

(Mercury) 8

(Columbia) 5

(Columbia) 6

(Chrysalis) 8

(Do It Yourself) 8

(Columbia) 6

(RCA) 6

(Mercury) 7

(Columbia) 6

(Jive) 6

(RCA) 6

(London) 5

(Dino) 5


POLANDTW LW WOC ArnanTitl,

1

2 2

34 1

5 5

6 147 3

8 4

9 7

1011 61213 1214

1516 1017

18 1119 1820 15

PEARL JAM/GIVEN TO FLYElektryczne Gitary/Ja Jestem Nowy RokMoffatts/I'll Be There For YouSpice Girls/Too MuchSheryl Crow/Tomorrow Never DiesAll Saints/Never EverHot Chocolate/You Sexy ThingMyslovitz/To Nie Byl FilmJanet Jackson/Together AgainS. Soyka/Tango Memento VitaeVanessa Mae/I Feel LoveAmbersunshower/Running SongBryan AdamsBack To YouElton John/Recover Your SoulClub Unique/Just The Way It IsDiana King/L-1-liesCarreras/Gornik/Hope For UsChris Rea/The Blue CafeNatalie Imbruglia/TomPaul McCartney/Beautiful Night

Ongneal Label TS

(EPIC)(Mercury)

(EMI)(Virgin)

(A&M)(London)

(EMI)(Columbia)

(Virgin)(Ariola)

(EMI)(Gee Street)

(A&M)

(Rocket)(Virgin)

(Work/Columbia)(Pomaton/EMI)

(East West)(RCA)

(Parlophone)

TW


FRANCELW WOC Artist/Title

1 1 13 JEAN-JAQUES GOLDMAN/ON IRA2 3 17 Florent Pagny/Savoir Aimer3 4 14 Texas/Blackeyed Boy4 3 15 Deni HinesAt's Alright5 6 8 Natalie ImbrugliaTorn6 5 16 EternaUWinans/1 Wanna Be The Only One7 8 15 Passi/Je Zappe Et Je Mate8 7 8 Hanson/I Will Come To You9 9 8 Eros Ramazzotti/Quanto Amore Sei

10 18 6 Will Smith/Just Cruisin'11 22 6 MC Solaar/Paradisiaque12 10 6 Shola Ama/You're The One I Love13 11 8 Gala/Come Into My Life14 14 13 Lighthouse Family/Raincloud15 32 6 Sheryl Crow/Tomorrow Never Dies16 19 8 Nek/Laura Non CT17 20 8 Da HoollMeet Her At The Love Parade18 13 19 I Am//Nes Sous La Kerne Etoile19 15 27 Axelle Red/Ma Priere20 25 7 Veronique Sanson/Un Etre Ideal21 23 13 Pascal Obispo & Zazie/Les Meilleurs Ennemis22 24 4 Spice Girls/Too Much23 28 15 The Rolling Stones/Anybody Seen My Baby?24 24 6 The Corrs/Only When I Sleep25 15 11 Ginie Line/Un Simple Pas

Local Label

(COLUMBIA)(Mercury)(Mercury)

(RCA)(RCA)(EMI)

(V2)(Mercury)

(Ariola)(Columbia)

(Polydor)OTTA)

(Scorpio)(Polydor)(Polydor)(Warner)

(Dance Pool)(Virgin)(Virgin)

(WEA)(Epic)

(Virgin)(Virgin)

(East West)(EMI)

Data supplied by SNEP/IPSOS from an electronically monitored panel of national andregional stations. Songs are ranked by number of plays and weighted by audience.

TW LW WOC Artist/Title

1 3 8 BRYAN ADAMS/BACK TO YOU2 11 6 Robbie Williams/Angels3 1 7 Janet Jackson/Together Again4 2 4 Oasis/Around The World5 6 9 Natalie Imbruglia/Torn6 8 2 Enya/Only If7 4 6 Spice Girls/Too Much8 17 5 Smash Mouth/Walking On The Sun9 14 7 Jimmy Ray/Are You Jimmy Ray?10 7 11 Elisa/Labyrinth11 10 3 Gala/Come Into My Life12 9 3 WhamllEverything She Wants '9713 n RE Sweetbox/Everything's14 12 4 Sneaker Pimps/6 Underground (Clean Up)15 n NE Sting & Pras/Roxanne (Puff Daddy Remix) (A&M)

16 5 4 Will Smith/Get Jiggy With It (Columbia) 6

17 15 5 Aqua/Doctor Jones (Universal) 5

18 16 12 Robert Miles/Freedom (DBX/Deconstruction) 619 20 2 Frankie Hi-NRG/Quelli Che Benpensamo (Irma) 5

20 > NE Verve/Lucky Man (Hut) 6

Original Label TS

(A&M)(Chrysalis)

(Virgin)(Creation)

(RCA)(WEA)

(Virgin)(Interscope)

(Sony S2)(Sugar/Polydor)(Do It Yourself)

(Epic)(RCA)

109

9

7

8

6

8

6

6

6

5

5

7

6

5


HUNGARYTW LW Well. Artist/Title

12 1 1 9 DARIO G/SUNCHYME14 2 2 8 N-Trance/I'm Sexy?14 3 3 4 Janet Jackson/Together Again15 4 4 4 Smash Mouth/Walking On The Sun15 5 5 8 Csonka Andras/Alij Meg Kisiany14 6 6 4 Brand New Heavies/You've Got14 7 7 9 Lighthouse Family/Raincloud14 8 8 4 Corrs/Only When I Sleep16 9 9 5 Carpe Diem/Bonyolult Lamy12 10 10 5 Sipos F. Tamas/Boogie-Woogie13 11 11 5 Amy Grant/Take A Little Time10 12 12 4 Diana King/I Say14 13 13 4 M-People/Fantasy Island11 14 14 5 Amokfutok/Maghalok A Csokodert12 15 15 5 Alphaville/Flame12 16 16 4 Mase/Feel So Good10 17 17 4 Backstreet Boys/As Long As11 18 18 4 Szulak Andrea/C'Est La Vie12 19 19 4 Aerosmith/Pink15 20 20 4 Savage Garden/To The Moon


Original Label

(ETERNAL/WEA)(All Around The World)

(Virgin)(Interscope)

(Ariola)(ffrr)

(Wild Card/Polydor)(Lava/Atlantic)

(Magneoton)(EMI)

(A&M)

(Work/Columbia)(M People/BMG)

(Magneoton)(WEA)

(Bad Boy/Arista)(Jive)

(BMG)(Columbia)(Columbia)

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Even if you've been throat -warbling in Siberia for a year you will know......LMW is an international music business convention, now approaching its second year. It combines anextensive week-long public Festival of Live Music with a forward looking trade -only Conference, and a busyExhibition packed to the corners with the very best contemporary music product available for worldwidelicensing, distribution and retailing. LMW is the first international music event in London to combine thevital ingredients required for successful trading, music promotion, discussion, networking, education and -

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If your business is music you need to get involved!(...no more throat -warblers need apply.)

live s FESTIVAL25 April - 1 May 1998 )c7 days of gigs jointly promoted by Radio One, Metropolis Music & LMWOver 100 gigs, 50 venues, and two dozen bands broadcast live on Radio One,- others on Carlton TV

"Having a music week in Londonwould have been a great idea at

any time; but after the hugeoutpouring of talent we have seen

in British music these past fewCOOL - CONTEMPORARY - INTERNATIONAL - ESSENTIAL years, it is essential."

Established bandi)7 days of first class music compiled by promoter Metropolis Music (credits include RobbieWilliams, Ocean Colour Scene, Massive Attack, Primal Scream in Victoria Park).

R&B and black music genres will additionally be promoted by MOBO.

LMW'97 participants included The Eels, Junior Vasquez, Kenickie, Embrace, Symposium,Bis, Silver Sun, Goldie, Warren G and Gabrielle.

Steve RedmondEditor in Chief, Music Week

(Radio One Live at London Music Week) Kicking off with Pete Tong's Essential Mix live on Sat 25 April - Radio One will broadcast an

extensive 7 -day programme direct from LMW venues around London.

Two gigs broadcast live each night, introduced by Steve Lamacq, plus lunchtime sessions.

Other shows covering LMW include Tim Westwood, Mary Anne Hobbs and Jo Whiley.

A daytime Radio One Live broadcast stage within the Business Design Centre will feature livemusic, personality interviews and music news as it breaks during the show.

Club Nights

Regular successful club promoters from Liverpool, London, Leeds, Brighton and Manchesterwill be among those invited to host 3 nights of their specialist club as part of LMW'98.

LMW'97 included exclusive gigs by Club 21st Century (Goldie, Roni Size and Rob Playford), andWarp's Blech Club (Andrew Weatherall) plus many more.

(Label/Industry showcasesGET INVOLVED! - Record labels and industry organisations from all territories wishing to puton showcases should contact us early. £100 +VAT secures inclusion and full 'editorial' control.

(UndiscoveredThe unsigned band event Undiscovered will take place in 6 Islington venues. For 3 nights 54finalists (pre -selected by a panel including Radio One, Music Week, Melody Maker and LMW)will battle to impress the cream of A&R folk. The CD of finalists will be available to A&R depts,courtesy of Sugar Records. Undiscovered is open to bands of all nationalities.LMW'97 discoveries included Ultrasound, Lo -Fidelity Allstars and Cuff.

The call goes out on 2 February - from that date product can be posted to LMW direct, ordeposited at specially provided collection points at any participating record retailer.

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Following the successful LMW'97 conference programme we continue the theme of themusic industry looking outwards. All sessions will again take place in our state-of-the-art conference facility in the Business Design Centre, adjacent to the busy ExhibitionHall. This year all sessions will be staggered to allow delegates enough time to visitthe exhibition trading floor before and after their chosen sessions - and of course'refresh' themselves at the Sony Central bar at the heart of all the dealings!

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International Music & Media Trading PavilionCountry stands with overseas labels, import/export,music organisations, press and other media exhibitors.Happy Hours!International territories are represented with group standsConfirmed delegates from Germany, Netherlands, Ireland,Sweden, Spain, Finland, Canada and USA.

Earlybird delegates and exhibitors already confirmed include the following companies:

Shellshock, New Millenium Communications, Telstar, Vital, Rock Box, The Outside Organisation, Music Choice Europe, FT Music & Copyright, Mo's Music Machine, The

Guardian, BBC Radio One, Metropolis Music, BMG, IMVS, THE, 4 -AD, Chemikal Underground, Lightning, SRD, Global, London Arena, PIAS, Forward Sound & Vision, Acid

Jazz, Skint, Innocent, Astralwerks, Echo, Pinnacle, Media Campaign Services, CB Productions, Sony, EMI Music, Miller -Freeman Entertainment, BPI, Virgin, Initial TV,

Luther Pendragon, Rentals & Sales, New World Music, Probe Media, MTC Music, Mushroom, Zgen United, Notorious Arts Group, Music Workz, Orbison Records, Arts

Council of England, Infectious, Independiente, AMX Digital, MPA, Irish Trade Board, Roskilde Festival, Mr Cheng's Quality Tunes, Mediaspec, SESAC, Tug Records, 9PM,

Warner Music Norway, EMI Norsk, Continental, Phoenix Posters & Distribution, AEI, The Product Exchange, Music & Media, Musik Woche, Beggars Banquet...etc

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"I listened to more, learnedmore and overheard

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cheque enclosed for £

CREDIT CARD

if paying by credit card please fax direct to LMW'98

+44 (0)171 288 6446please debit my credit card for £

O amex

card number

expiry date

cardholder name

O visa

signature

mastercard

date

complete in CAPITALS (or attach your business card)

name

job title

company name

address

town

county/state post/zip code

country tel

fax email

type of business

notes: Cheques should be made payable to the Business Design Centre Ltd. Registration will be acknowledged by post in the form of a VAT receipt.All fees are subject to UK VAT which is payable by delegates from all countries without exception. VAT registration No. 220332132. Fees cannotbe refunded in the case of cancellation, however, until 31 March 1998, four weeks prior to the show, you may substitute the name of another person.The BDC reserves the right to alter the programme as published, without further notice to delegates. Passes are strictly not transferable. Photopasses will only be issued on presentation of proof of identity.


What It Costs

Exhibition and Delegate prices have been reduced for LMW'98 to reflect the overall increase in visitor numbers andinclude FREE access to ALL gigs and seminars (subject to capacity):

Full Week Registration: to 31 Dec (Earlybirdto 31 March (Advance)to 24 April (Normal):from 28 April (Walk-up):

£99 +VAT£145 +VAT£175 +VAT£225 +VAT

txmoitionSpace Only - Rate per sq m: £250+vATNo minimum size restriction. Includes one fullweek pass and 3 one -day passes for every15 sq m.

Space + Package - Rate per sq m £300+vATMinimum size 15 sq m. Includes shell system walls,stand cleaning, fascia sign and graphics panel,lighting electrical supply plus one full week passand 3 one -day passes for every 15 sq m.

Distributor & Indie City - For special rates call LMW'98 for more informationA BPI sponsored initative. Use by special application only. Subsidised use of meeting rooms, photocopy, fax,

email services, cd/tape players, lounge and messaging/diary service. Everything you need to run an office,

relax, talk business and take orders.

Sponsorship:Opportunities include conference seminars, banner/poster sites, delegate 'goody' bag, listening posts, 'Soapboxes',telephone booths, beer mats, goody bag inserts....you name it! Prices start at £100.

Hospitality:Receptions, parties, bar areas, awards....tell us your ideas - we'll do the rest!

Publications:The LMW'98 Official Directory will be published by Music Week, listing exhibitors, exhibitor profiles, conferencespeakers, full pre -registered delegate list/contact details, live gigs, participating venues, exhibition/conferenceroom plan and schedule, etc.For Advertising rates telephone Rudi Blackett at Music WeekT: +44 (0)171 620 3636

The Media:BBC Radio One, Carlton TV, MTV/VH-1, Music Week, MBI, Music& Media, Musik Woche, Gavin, FT Music & Copyright, Pollstar,Muzik, Melody Maker, NME, Topp40, GEM....with more to follow soon.

Travel & Accommodation:All hotel, flight, Eurostar and general travel arrangements canbe made through our official agent.Travel By Appointment - Tel: +44 (0)181 960 1600

Fax: +44 (0)181 960 1255

For hotel accommodation contact the luxury four star IsStakis Hotel, located next to the Business Design Centreon +44 (0)171 354 7700.

LMW'98 ContactsContact

Conference/Live Music Festival

LMW'98 - A&R Dept

Exhibition/Sponsorship

!IP

Marketing & PR

Managing Director

Web Site

Directory Advertising

International Contacts

Tel: +44 (0)171 359 3535 Fax: +44 (0)171 288 6446Bindi Binning EMail: [email protected]

BDC Events, 52 Upper Street, London, Ni 00H, UK

Phil Graham EMail: [email protected] Khan EMail: [email protected]

Darren Haynes EMail: [email protected]

Andrew Morris

http://www.londcn-music-week.com

Pudi Blackett (Music Week/Miller Freeman Entertainment)Tel: +44 (0)171 620 3636 Fax:+44 (0)171 401 8035

Gerd Leonhard, Markus Benz (Music Workz)Tel: +49 7681 9050 Fax: +49 7681 9053 Email: [email protected]

LMW'98 Advisory Council: Andrew Morris (Business Design Centre)Tony Powell (Pinnacle)Gary Farrow (Sony) Fiona Haycock (BPi)Steve Redmond (Music Week)Tony Crean (Independiente) Tim Blackmore (Unique Broadcasting) Danny van Emden (Virgin)Sarah Faulder (MPA) Malcolm Gerrie (Initial TV) Rob Jefferson (Mushroom/Infectious) Simon Scott (AMX Digital)Mike Smith (EMI Publishing) Charles Stewart -Smith (Luther Pendragon) Selina Webb (Music Week)


Documents

US$7 Singing DFL11.50 profiles Patricia Kaas, France's hottest we … · 1998. 1. 24. · Volume 15, Issue 4 £3.95 DM11 FFR35 US$7 DFL11.50 Singing Le Bluer, Music & Media profiles