advertisement Music Media. MARCH 11, 2000 Volume 17, Issue 11 £3.95 RISL TITVT T TOP 10 II we talk to radio M&M chart toppers this week Eurochart Hot 100 Singles TOM JONES & MOUSSE T Sex Bomb (Bliss Co.) European Top 100 Albums SANTANA Supernatural (Arista) European Radio Top 50 ALL SAINTS Pure Shores (London) European Dance Traxx CHICANE Don't Give Up (Xtravaganza) Inside M&M this week MARLIN NETS AWARDS HAUL Virgin signing Lene Marlin scooped four awards at Norway's music awards show Spellemannprisen last week, in a celebration of home- grown talent. Page 4 TAKING THE RAP The biggest of US rap stars can find it hard going in Europe. M&M examines the penetration this American genre has achieved in Europe, and looks at what its future might be in the difficult continental markets. Page 7 DOWNLOADING THE WORLD The first of a series of monthly Internet -related M&M features reports on the race to create consumer -friendly new technology in a world where music downloading will become as commonplace as a visit to the local store. Page 8 Sony takes Steppes to conquer Russia by Gordon Masson, International news editor, Billboard Moscow - Sony Music is taking the plunge into the economically uncer- tain by establishing a wholly owned subsidiary in Russia. 100% ownership of a Despite a chronic pira- Sony Music Russian affiliate. How- cy problem and plummet- ever, it is not the first to venture into the complex world of the Russian music industry. Universal is already heavily involved in the former Soviet country with its 90% stake in Universal Music Russia, and, with a view to tapping into Russian youth, MTV recently established its MTV Rus- sia platform-an outlet which SMER is likely to try to exploit in marketing its product. Previously, Sony Music had been shipping finished CDs into Russia on a distribution -only basis. However, with continued on page 21 ing sales in that territory, the compa- ny is setting up Sony Music Enter- tainment Russia (SMER). Operating from offices in Moscow, SMER will be headed by managing director Andrei Sumin. He will lead an operational staff of 14 people including a full A&R department which plans to develop the existing roster of local artists as well as signing both new and established Russian artists. Those local artists include Nautil- ius Pompilius and Valery Leontyev, who had been with Dana Music, a company set up by Sumin in 1996. A Sony spokesman confirmed that the company had acquired selected assets of Dana Music for an undisclosed fee. Sony claims to be the first company among the majors in Russia to have Aqua thank their guests at the Royal Library of Congress in Copen- hagen at a lavish launch party on February 25 to mark their return to winning ways with their album Aquarius, already certified quadruple platinum (200,000 units sold) in their native Denmark. San Remo celebrates Italy's new music by Mark Dezzani SAN REMO - The 50th edition of Italy's annual San Remo Song Festi- val (February 21-26) is being applaud- ed by the country's record industry for breaking with tradition and becoming representa- tive of Italy's new pop. The festival is one of the biggest annual TV viewing events in se Italy, and. the final Satur- day evening show on Italy's public ser- vice network RAIUNO was watched by an audience of more than 16.2 million (62.48% share). The cult folk/rock outfit Piccola Orchestra Avion Travel won the sec- tion for established artists with their atmospheric song Sentimento (Insieme/Sugar), and Jenni B won the A stealth `attaque' on the French charts by Gary Smith PARIS - Any band that sells over two million albums can expect a major marketing campaign behind its next release-unless that band is French rock sensation Louise Attaque. After the success of their self - titled debut, the band adamantly refused to hype their new album, Comme On A Dit (Atmo- spheriques/Trema), but that didn't stop it enter- ing the French charts at number one. "We were very aware that their ini- tial success had been an organic process," explains Atmospheriques managing director Marc Thonon. "The group were determined to resist the pressure from media and retailers for continued on page 21 the New Album RETURN OF SATURN Follow-up to the multi platinum sellino 'Tragic Kingdom', featuring the singles 'Don't Speak' & 'Just A Girl` the New Single EX -GIRLFRIEND AmericanRadioHistory.Com
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Volume 17, Issue 11
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RISLTITVT T
TOP 10II
we talk to radioM&M chart toppers this week
Eurochart Hot 100 SinglesTOM JONES & MOUSSE T
Sex Bomb(Bliss Co.)
European Top 100 AlbumsSANTANA
Supernatural(Arista)
European Radio Top 50ALL SAINTSPure Shores
(London)
European Dance TraxxCHICANE
Don't Give Up(Xtravaganza)
Inside M&M this week
MARLIN NETS AWARDS HAULVirgin signing LeneMarlin scooped fourawards at Norway'smusic awards showSpellemannprisenlast week, in acelebration of home-grown talent. Page 4
TAKING THE RAPThe biggest of US rap stars canfind it hard going in Europe.M&M examines the penetrationthis American genre has achievedin Europe, and looks at what itsfuture might be in the difficultcontinental markets. Page 7
DOWNLOADING THE WORLDThe first of a series of monthlyInternet -related M&M featuresreports on the race to createconsumer -friendly new technologyin a world where musicdownloading will become ascommonplace as a visit to thelocal store. Page 8
Sony takes Steppesto conquer Russiaby Gordon Masson,International news editor, Billboard
Moscow - Sony Music is taking theplunge into the economically uncer-tain by establishing a wholly ownedsubsidiary in Russia. 100% ownership of a
Despite a chronic pira- Sony Music Russian affiliate. How-cy problem and plummet- ever, it is not the first to
venture into the complex world of theRussian music industry. Universal isalready heavily involved in the formerSoviet country with its 90% stake inUniversal Music Russia, and, with aview to tapping into Russian youth,MTV recently established its MTV Rus-sia platform-an outlet which SMER islikely to try to exploit in marketing itsproduct.
Previously, Sony Music had beenshipping finished CDs into Russia on adistribution -only basis. However, with
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ing sales in that territory, the compa-ny is setting up Sony Music Enter-tainment Russia (SMER).
Operating from offices in Moscow,SMER will be headed by managingdirector Andrei Sumin. He will lead anoperational staff of 14 people includinga full A&R department which plans todevelop the existing roster of localartists as well as signing both new andestablished Russian artists.
Those local artists include Nautil-ius Pompilius and Valery Leontyev,who had been with Dana Music, a
company set up by Sumin in 1996. ASony spokesman confirmed that thecompany had acquired selected assetsof Dana Music for an undisclosed fee.
Sony claims to be the first companyamong the majors in Russia to have
Aqua thank their guests at the Royal Library of Congress in Copen-hagen at a lavish launch party on February 25 to mark their return towinning ways with their album Aquarius, already certified quadrupleplatinum (200,000 units sold) in their native Denmark.
San Remo celebratesItaly's new musicby Mark Dezzani
SAN REMO - The 50th edition ofItaly's annual San Remo Song Festi-val (February 21-26) is being applaud-ed by the country's record industryfor breaking with traditionand becoming representa-tive of Italy's new pop.
The festival is oneof the biggest annualTV viewing events in seItaly, and. the final Satur-day evening show on Italy's public ser-vice network RAIUNO was watched byan audience of more than 16.2 million(62.48% share).
The cult folk/rock outfit PiccolaOrchestra Avion Travel won the sec-tion for established artists with theiratmospheric song Sentimento(Insieme/Sugar), and Jenni B won the
A stealth `attaque'on the French chartsby Gary Smith
PARIS - Any band that sells over twomillion albums can expect a majormarketing campaign behind its nextrelease-unless that band is Frenchrock sensation Louise Attaque. Afterthe success of their self -titled debut, the bandadamantly refused tohype their new album,Comme On A Dit (Atmo-spheriques/Trema), butthat didn't stop it enter-ing the French charts at number one.
"We were very aware that their ini-tial success had been an organicprocess," explains Atmospheriquesmanaging director Marc Thonon. "Thegroup were determined to resist thepressure from media and retailers for
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Upfrontby Emmanuel Legrand, Music & Media editor -in -chief
tries such as Germany and France where A&R, marketingand promotional costs have risen to levels which are simi-lar to-if not higher than-those in the UK.
Because even if the situation is not as flourishing as itwas a few years back, the UK still has the ambition-andthe potential-to produce acts of international class for theworld, and therefore can recoup investments from a biggerpool than many other European territories which mostlyproduce for local consumption.
Besides, how can labels justify different pricing struc-tures in all these countries when, through the Internet,you can chose "the right price"?
Now, the only way forward is to understand finally thatthe European market is one single market and that thereshould be, for any given CD, one single wholesale price inEuros for the whole of Europe. Andif this wholesale price could be clos-er to the US's it would be even bet-ter. UK indie Beggars Banquetshowed the way a few months back.It is now the time for all the othercompanies, especially the majors, tostart thinking globally and actingaccordingly.
CD pricing was a debate fromanother century. Time to move on.
So once again CD pricing is under fire in the UK. A recentsurvey undertaken by Nielsen in several European Unionterritories on behalf of the UK Department of Trade &Industry compared prices of dozens of consumer goods,and found out that CDs were over -priced in the UK com-pared to other countries.
The debate is not new, but it's exacerbated by increasingpressure on UK prices from supermarket and hypermarketchain discounters such as Asda and Woolworth.
The UK's industry body the BPI has reacted strongly tothe report, which the local press promptly used to suggestthat consumers were being ripped off by labels. The BPIhas a point when it says all things are not comparable,and that consumer prices don't always reflect the truenature of pricing, which can be affected by different taxrates and cost structures.
However, the BPI crosses a dangerous line when itstates that "UK research and development costs are higherthan in other countries, particularly those in Europe." Thisargument will probably be seriously questioned by coun-
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Kavanagh departs Emap Radioby Jon Heasman
LONDON - Another major UK radiogroup has lost its group programmedirector following Paul Kavanagh'sdecision to resign from Emap.
Kavanagh's departure comes lessthan a month after news thatChrysalis Radio programme directorKeith Pringle is moving into theInternet sector with his newventure, Ride the Tiger(M&M, February 19).
However, while Chrysalisis understood to be stillsearching for a new group pro-grammer, it is believed thatEmap is trying to secure theservices of a high -profile exec-utive from the UK's publicradio sector to oversee music policymatters right across its newly -creat-ed Performance division, which incor-porates music -related magazines, TVand on-line interests in addition toradio. Group broadcast director Dave
Lincoln-appointed to that post lastyear-is also likely to inherit some ofKavanagh's previous responsibilities.
Kavanagh is leaving Emap afterfour years as group programmer to setup a consultancy which he promiseswill "add value and strengthen rela-tionships between consumers andmedia." He adds: "I am now ready fora new challenge. There is a lot of
opportunity to get moreinvolved in the music indus-try, Internet, new mediaand investments aswell as European,Irish and UK radio."
Of his time withEmap, Kavanaghsays: "We have builtsome very exciting
brands, won a lot of awardsand developed some of theUK's best [air] talent."
A further Emap move announcedthis week sees another senior UKradio executive moving into the Inter-
net sector. Tom Hunter, currentlymanaging director of Emap's Liver-pool CHR station Radio City, hasbeen appointed managing director ofthe Emap Performance Network'slocal radio -linked Internet brand,Yourscreen.com.
lain Clasper, who previously head-ed up the development of those sites,will continue to work alongsideHunter before moving on to furtherspecial projects within the company.
"We are now ready to take theYourscreen product andrelationships with radiostations to the next level,"says Emap PerformanceNetwork chief executiveTim Schoonmaker. "Tom isthe ideal person to take thison. His experience andknowledge will build on thesuccess already achieved."
Hunter is replaced at Radio City bySean Marley, who is promoted fromprogramme director.
Radio selling music in Flandersby Marc Maes
BRUSSELS - The Flemish statebroadcaster's commercial and adver-tising arm Vlaamse AudiovisueleRegie (VAR) has registered a notableachievement in the first month of thenew millennium with five radio -relat-ed albums charted in the officialUltratop Top 20 album chart.
"The result is quite remarkable,"enthuses VAR merchandising manag-er Willy Van Poucke, "and we'redelighted that Flemish music buyersare going for these radio -related com-pilations. It's been our policy to linkCD projects to radio programmes,and the current chart positions provethat it's a successful strategy."
Albums such as Hit Club 1999(EVA Belgium) and Donna's Top 200(Universal), both related to CHR sta-tion Radio Donna, Wie Is Er Bang VanChanson (Universal)and Pure Music 3 (EVA yBelgium), both withVRT Radio 1 branding,and the Studio Brussel backed chartalbum De Afrekening 2000 (Universal)account for a quarter of the titles onthe Ultratop Top 20 and total 160,000units sold this year.
Van Poucke adds that the restric-tion on TV advertising for the VAR -compilations implemented somethree years ago to avoid "screenoverkill" has paid off. "We have con-tinued this policy without any nega-
kyl aaaaa
tive effect [on sales]," he says.The top -selling compilation project
De Prehistoric (EVA Belgium), basedon the popular VRT Radio 2 show and
complemented by a TVseries, has racked upsales of more than twomillion units to date,
and is still steadily selling some100,000 copies a year. Not surprisingly,VAR wants to continue the compilationseries in the future. "In addition to theradio -related albums, we also have anumber of projects linked to TV pro-grammes," says Van Poucke. "Butalthough they are also successful, theyare limited to the 13 weeks the pro-grammes generally run on TV-whichshortens their chart -life."
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ON THE BEATMUSIC RADIO TAKES SHAPELONDON - The line-up for the Radio Academy's Music Radio2000 conference in London on April 18 will include keynoteaddresses from BPI and Instant Karma chairman Rob Dickins,and GWR group programme director Steve Orchard, with soap-box sessions from artist Billy Bragg (who has recently been pre-senting shows on BBC Radio 2) and BBC Radio 1 rap guru TimWestwood. Panel debates this year will include sessions on howthe latest Internet and related developments are affectingradio; the challenges of crossing from the music industry to theradio industry (or vice -versa); and the importance of "goodideas and great speech" to music radio.
NETHERLANDS CLASSICAL CLOSUREHILVERSUM - ConcertRadio, the Dutch classical -formatted commercial cableradio station which started life as part of the Radio 10 Group but was takenover by private investors in 1998, will be closed down on April 1 becausefuture revenue projections make it financially unviable. A promo trail run-ning on the frequency will redirect listeners to rival station Classic FM.In other Dutch cable radio news, Dutch dance organisation ID&T willinvest in the dance -formatted commercial station NEW Dance radio tocross -promote their dance magazine Slam!, parties and dance compilationCDs. From April 1, the station will be known as Slam! Radio.
PREMIERE TV UPS MUSIC CHOICESMUNICH - German digital Pay TV company Premiere World is offering anew bouquet of channels-named Gala World-from March 1, including abrand new schlager music TV channel. Gala World is aimed mainly at olderfemales and comprises the all-schlager channel Gold Star TV, a choice ofmovie channels and six digital audio channels featuring schlager, love songs,musicals and easy listening. Viewers pay a monthly fee for the digitaldecoder and an extra fee for receiving the Gala World package. PremiereWorld, which launched on October 1 1999 after the merger of DF1 and Pre-miere, is owned by German media giant Kirch (95%) and CLT-UFA (5%).
ONDA CERO IN ACCORD WITH ILUSIONMADRID - Spain's third largest commercial radio group, Telefonica-ownedCorporacion Onda Cero, is pursuing its growth and development policywith the February 18 signing of an accord with the 11 -station Radio Ilusionin the south-eastern region of Murcia. Radio Ilusion chairwoman MariaEsperanza Zambudio and Onda Cero MD Pedro Diez signed an agreementto unite their radio assets. Radio Ilusion will broadcast Onda Cero pro-grammes, and Murcia's Onda Cero stations will transmit Radio Ilusion'sregional coverage.
DUTCH CHOOSE THEIR EUROVISION SONGROTTERDAM - Linda Wagenmakers' No Goodbyes (ABCD Records/Edel)has won the nod from a professional jury and telephone voters to representthe Netherlands at the Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm on May 13,having beaten seven other contenders at the National Song Contest stagedin the sold out Rotterdam Ahoy venue. The show was also broadcast live onnational TV2. Wagenmakers established her name in the Netherlandsplaying the leading role in the Dutch version of the "Miss Saigon" musical.
MOVING CHAIRSSTOCKHOLM - NRJ's breakfast show host in Sweden, Johan Engberg, isleaving after five years at the CHR network to host Friday nights andweekend shows on Stockholm's market leader, CHR/dance station PowerHit Radio.DUBLIN - Tipp FM/Clonmel programme controllerMichael Brett has been appointed station manager ofCork's 103FM. Breakfast presenter Mike Kelly replacesBrett at Tipp FM.Ono - Jive/Zomba's Norwegian affliate, due to open inApril, will have a staff of two: marketing manager Ken-neth Ruiz -Davila and promotion manager CecilieNorseth. Ruiz -Davila, whose job credentials includestints at EMI and Levi's, will report to Jive/Zomba'sStockholm -based managing director Magnus Bohman.Norseth will be joining from a similar position at Roadrunner Arcade.
Cato Ingebrigtsen has joined Sony Music Norway as head of mar-keting/local repertoire. He recently had a similar role at BMG Norway,and before that he was label manager at MCA and Universal.
Christer Jacobsen is leaving his position as promotion manager atWarner Music Norway to take up a similar position at Edel RecordsNorway as from March 1.MADRID - Manuel Puig has been appointed general director of the pub-lic TV and radio group Corporacion Catalana de Radio y Television,which runs the Barcelona -based Catalunya Radio as well as the region-al TV channel, TNT3.
Norway recognisesits international starsby Kai R. Lofthus
OSLO - For the first time in its 28 -year history, Norwegian music awardsshow Spellemannprisen's pop/rock sec-tion (it acknowledges folk, jazz andclassical talent separately) has trulyreflected the wide internationalappeal of local artists.
Virgin Records -signed Lene Marlin,who has sold one million copies of heralbum Playing My Game in Europeand Japan according to the label, tookhome four awards from the February25 ceremony in the Oslo Spektrumconcert venue, attended by some 2,500consumers and industry executives.The show was aired live on Norway'spublic TV network NRK 1.
Marlin won best artist, song, new-comer and solo pop artist titles to addto her 1998 best song award for thesingle Unforgivable Sinner, and Virgincontinued its awards bonanza bysecuring the best rock award forMadrugada's Industrial Silence(M&M, October 2 & July 17, 1999.)
Besides Marlin and Madrugada,Virgin had nominees in all but two ofthe pop/rock categories, with artistsincluding Morten Abel with Here WeGo Then, You And I (solo pop artist),Mental Overdrive with Ad Absurdum(dance) and Euroboys with Long DaysFlight Till Tomorrow (rock).
A fresh signing at Virgin which isexpected to have a major impact onthe label's forthcoming business yearis dance/R&B combo D'Sound, whohave issued two highly successfulalbums on Universal Music but
recently parted with the label becauseof a contractual dispute.
While acts such as A -ha and JanGarbarek have built a major followingworldwide, they have never beforebeen acknowledged by Spelleman-nprisen since they are signed to labelsabroad. But at this year's show, inter-national signings A -ha (WEA/Ham-burg), M2M (Atlantic/N.Y.) andAl(Columbia/UK)-who have Norwe-gian Christian Ingebrigtsen amongtheir four members-were allowed toperform. A -ha presented SummerMoved On, the band's first singleunder their new contract with WEA,which is reportedly scheduled forMarch 27 release with the album,Minor Earth, Major Sky, to follow onApril 17. Babel Fish, another Norwe-gian band signed toAtlantic in NewYork, won theaward in the videocategory for LightOf Day.
The winners ineach Spellemann-prisen category aredetermined by afive -member juryfrom the industry.Nominations canbe submitted byany recording company, and the finalnominations are assembled by a com-mittee of nine people. This year's com-mittee, which was also the sole jury onthe Song of the Year Award, waschaired by Warner Music managingdirector Mats Nilsson.
Spellemannprisen 2000 Winners (key categories):
Song:Artist:Newcomer:Solo pop artist:Video:Rock:Hard rock:Dance:Pop group:
Lene Marlin/Sitting Down HereLene Marlin/Playing My GameLene Marlin/Playing My GameLene Marlin/Playing My GameBabel Fish/Light Of DayMadrugada/Industrial SilenceThe Kovenant/AnimatronicPalace Of Pleasure/PopagandaSavoy/Mountains Of Time
(Virgin)(Virgin)(Virgin)(Virgin)
(Atlantic/Warner)(Virgin)
(Voices Of Wonder)(S2 Records)
(EMI)
GVM concludes latin dealby Howell Llewellyn
MADRID - Spanish music groupGran Via Musical (GVM) is to dis-tribute leading latin artist labelsFonovisa and Karen Music in Spainin deals which further the expansionof the holding company formed lastyear by broadcasting conglomerateGrupo Prisa.
One of GVM's five divisions, GranVia Distribucion, will distribute theFonovisa and Karen Music cataloguesin Spain, while GVM's umbrellarecord label, MuXXIc, will marketFonovisa artists.
Fonovisa, the Mexican labelresponsible for Enrique Iglesias' inter-national profile, has been distributed
worldwide up until now by UniversalMusic Group. Universal is also dis-tributing worldwide outside SpainMuilalc's first successful album, Gra-cias, by 15 -year -old female gypsyTamara, which has been number onein Spain for a month with double plat-inum (200,000) sales.
MuXXIc marketing director Domin-go Garcia says "MuXXIc MD AngelPecci and I have just returned fromMiami, where we met Fonovisa execu-tives and decided that Noelia, LosTemerarios and Solis would be theirpriority artists for Spain this year."
GVM's concert and tour promotionarm, Planet Events, will handle allSpanish tours by Fonovisa and KarenMusic artists.
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Flemish cable in fluxby Marc Maes
BRUSSELS - Radio 538's decision toaxe its cable operations in Flandersfrom March 1 has highlighted thecrisis in the cable radio sector a yearafter its launch.
Despite Belgium having the high-est cable penetration in Europe, andheavy marketing undertaken by thecable stations, the ratings for the newcable services remain marginal.Insiders estimate that only some 15-20% of Flemish households have actu-ally connected their radios to thecable radio signal, despite the factthat all of them have been paying forthe service since dayone.
Admits Peter VanDam, managing direc-tor of both Flemishcable pioneer RadioFlandria and spin-offservice Radio Bob: "Weare having some diffi-culties in keeping thething going. The[advertising] marketisn't quite ready forcable."
Dutch -ownedCHR/dance stationRadio 538 had beenoperating its Flemishcable service from itsHilversum studios, offering specialFlemish programming without com-mitting to too much investment in theterritory. "We were facing a number ofissues in Flanders," says Radio 538MD Erik de Zwart. "Cable radio wasnew here, and the competition of fivepublic channels plus commercial net-works was just too much for the limit-ed advertising market which Flandersis."
Rumours that Radio Flandria andRadio Bob, both owned by Dutchshareholders, are also slimming downtheir operations are addressed byJeroen Soer of 3LP Radio Holdings:"We have no plans as yet," he says,"but the fact is that the Flemishadvertising market is performingbelow all expectations. Things don'tseem too bright from this end."
However, not all cable operatorsare gloomy about the medium'sprospects. S&SI Hitmix is planning tocahnge its CHR programming to anAC/Rock format under the newmoniker of Radio Roxy. Stationfounders Gust De Coster and ChrisBraems have teamed up with TV per-sonalities Luk Alloo and HermanSchueremans to offer what they claimis a real alternative to existing sta-tions on the Flemish dial. "We want tobe a less extreme Studio Brussel,"says De Coster, making comparisonsto public broadcaster VRT's wide-ranging alternative music station."Our core artists will run from Presley
and the Small Facesto Texas and Blood-hound Gang." RadioRoxy hopes to launcharound Easter, andDe Coster is con-vinced that Schuere-mans' name (he isalso the founder anddirector of theThrhout/Werchter fes-tival) will add to theoutlet's credibility.
The station hasalready concluded anagreement with saleshouse IP Radio fornational advertising,and has also applied
for a national terrestrial frequency.Gold -formatted Radio Magdalena
(targetting the 35-40+ age group) hasalso signed a deal with IP Radio, offer-ing the advertising company access toa wide variety of formats in Flandersvia networks such as Radio Contactand Family Radio, as well as two com-plementary stations on the nationalcable network.
"IP Radio's priority is to increaseits market share in Flanders," explainsdirector Steve Van den Audenaerde."By offering two unique formats with-out any competition from the nationalbroadcasters, the operation will bevery positive. The audience has beenmade aware of cable radio for sometime now. A next step will be servingthem with the specific programmingthey want. Diversity is important."
Erik de Zwart
LETTERS TO THE EDITORDear Sir,With reference to your Upfront piece in M&M dated February 26 aboutdepressed major record company revenues and "slippage," in the world ofmergers and even bigger conglomerates, artist rosters seem inevitably tocome under the spotlight, and that generally means only one thing-theybecome smaller!
As you accurately stated, fewer artists means ultimately fewer releases,and a decrease in revenues. Try telling the financial analysts other than that,and you are treated to a lecture on costs and investment prudence. Here atCastle Music, one of the largest independent holders of copyrights in theworld, we are delighted now to have the opportunity to bid for some of theartists out of contract due to this current round of roster "rationalisation."
Hopefully, the whole thing eventually gets evened out-especially as newchannels of distributing music come to the fore. But in the meantime, it isundoubtedly sad that major label artist development is somewhat steam-rollered and flattened to the point of near extinction by shareholders and thelike, to whom new releases sometimes seem to be more to do with negativecosts than creative opportunity.
Julian Wall, international director, Castle Music Limited.
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Raab's Eurovision 'joke'upsets schlager communityby Gesa Birnkraut & Tayfun Kesgin
COLOGNE - The Eurovision SongContest has shaken off its staidimage and become a hot topic inGermany, where this year's domes-tic eliminator to represent the coun-try in Stockholm on May 13 attract-ed a near -eight mil-lion TV audience, dou-bled the number ofphone-in votes fromthe public, andwhipped up a storm ofcontroversy.
The German com-petition to pick aEurovision song, heldin Bremen on Febru-ary 18 and televisedlive on public TV net-work ARD, drew aviewing audience of7.87 million, com-pared to 5.63 millionlast year. 1.5 millioncallers voted for theirchoice from the 11 acts competing(681,000 in 1999), with BMGHansa -signed TV presenter, produc-er and comedian Stefan Raab win-ning a comfortable 57.4% of theoverall vote with his jokey WaddeHadde Dudde Da?
Raab has a track record in Euro-vision, having produced GuildoHorn's entry Guildo Hat Euch Liebin 1998. He has also sold a millioncopies of his recent single Maschen-drahtzaun (RARE) in his home terri-tory. But his Eurovision win hasincensed traditionalists, who are notonly upset by Raab's pre -eliminatorpromotion of his song on his own TVshow, "TV Total," aired on commer-cial channel Pro Sieben, but alsoclaim his humerous entry represents"a lowering of standards" from thosepreviously set by German schlager.
There is no doubt in Germanyabout Raab's credentials as an enter-tainer, producer and musician, butwhen it comes to Eurovision entriesthe traditional schlager communityfeels justified in voicing its opinion.
Ralf Siegel, the composer who hascontributed many German entries toEurovision in the past and whose IBelieve In. God by Corinna May lostout to Raab this year, could not hidehis frustration after the show andannounced his withdrawal from anyfuture contests, saying "under these
circumstances itwould be mean-ingless to partici-pate again."Dieter -Thomas Heck,former host ofcult schlagershow "Die ZDFHitparade," hadpreviously saidin an interviewwith newspaperSiiddeutscheZeitung thatGermany'schances in thisyear's final inStockholm would
be limited to the category of "whocame up with the stupidest song,"after vehemently pointing out thatRaab's entry was lowering the stan-dards of German schlager.
Heck is one of a group of tradi-tionalists who are opposed to thechange of format which allows con-testants in the German qualifier tocompete with English languagesongs.
Radio is supporting Raab's entry.Straight after the February 18 con-test German radio stations, whoseprogramme directors have recog-nised the hit potential of Raab'ssongs, added Wadde Hadde DuddeDa? to their playlists. Public broad-caster NDR 2 (AC) had Raab's songclimbing from 95 to 14 in its firstweek on North Germany's airplaychart. Another public station, Bayern3 (Rock), has included the single inits "HitTip" selections, andSchlager/Gold formatted Bayern 1 isone of the few schlager stations tohave added the comedy song to itsplaylist.
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IDcincgroovesby Gary Smith
SEASONAL ADJUSTMENTAlthough Beanfield's Human Patterns (Compost/Germany)was one of the richest and most widely praised nu jazzalbums of 1999, it was not widely noted was that it containsat least two cracking singles. The Season, featuring theHolliday-esque vocal talents of Bajka, is being hammered inthe clubs by Gilles Peterson, King Britt and Phil Asher.Interestingly and somewhat unusually, Compost have madea video which, hopefully, will help this excellent slice of deepsoul funk to get the attention it so richly deserves.
JUMPFresh from providing vocal and keyboard parts forYomanda's Sunshine, Swedish producer Stonebridge hashit paydirt with KWA's Hopscotch (StonebridgeRecordings/Sweden). Based around a child's voice explain-ing how to play the game, Hopscotch is a no nonsensefloorfiller with enough charm to merit a radio edit.Although the track booms along at a house-ish 120 bpmthe syncopated groove is evidence of the producer's hip hoproots. A fresh, lively and highly charming tune.
PARLIAFUNKADELICThe Phunky Data remix of J Dave Davis' Disco Salsa (BigTime International/Belgium) is one of those tracks with"summer tune" writ large across its grooves. In contrast toIbiza's ongoing trance obsession, this track is much bettersuited to Ayia Napa's rather moreurban/eclectic scene. Itslazy house groove, a higher than average funk quotientplus a chant -along vocal and percussive guitar make for apotent mixture.
MINTYThanks to a clutch of intensely riffy piano parts, Afropeans'aptly named Piano Lick (Peppermint Jam/Germany) is acharming instrumental with more than a hint of the DaveBrubeck approach. While the stripped down nature of thistune means that it is not a crossover track, the flip sideDogstar is much more radio friendly. Hints of salsoul discoblend with mountains of percussion and some devilishlyfunky guitar to produce a robust and compulsive feel.
FAST EDDIEHaving kicked off in fine style with a clutch of licensed
tracks including Hani's Baby Wants ToRide and the vocal heavy White Treble,Black Bass by Sgt. Slick, EddieGordon's Neo Records is now poised tobranch out further with its own roster."We're moving up a gear this year,"says label co-ordinator Nikki Wright.Voted Best Label of 1999 by BBM
Magazine while regularly crossing over to regional andnational radio, Neo is now poised to make a further attackon the charts with Neve featuring Angela John's debutSacrifice. "It's a progressive, breakbeat trancer," saysWright. "We've recently serviced the Starecase and Alaskaremixes to DJ tastemakers only. Reactions are veryencouraging." Due for official release on April 3, Sacrificeis something of a split personality track. "The album ver-sion is really different to the remixes-much slower andcertainly more suitable for radio," continues Wright. "Wewill be playing that version to pluggers very soon to see ifthey think it has a real crossover chance."
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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 de Lluria45 -3° -2, 08009 Barcelona, Spain.
ARTISTS & MUSIC
Will Europe take the rap?by Paul Sexton
"I'd do anything," runs the sample from Oliveron Jay -Z's current Def Jam single Anything,the New York rapper's latest pitch for playlistswith a shotgun marriage of hardcore rap andshow -tune soundbite. But is Europe wooed bysuch tactics, and what are the marketprospects for those rappers who don't makeany concessions to radio?
Some of the biggest US rap stars continueto find the commercial running much harderin Europe, where for all their self-aggrandizing rhymes, many remainlargely unknown and sometimesunreleased. A focus on the bigAmerican rap crossovers of the pasttwo years (see box) suggests that"real" rap, discounting the confec-tions of artists such as Will Smith,is now leaving even less of animprint at European Top 40.
In 1998, two of the top seven hitson M&M's year-end Eurochart Hot 100 Singleswere rap -based, It's Like That by Run DMCvs.Jason Nevins (SmOle/Profile) and PrasMichel's Ghetto Supastar (Interscope). But thehighest-ranking hardcore rapper on the 1999rankings was 2Pac with the posthumous hitChanges (Amaru/Jive), number 22 for the year.
Jay -Z made a European name for himselflast year when the single Hard Knock Life(Ghetto Anthem) rode another improbablesample, from the musical Annie, into thecharts. His new album Vol.3...Life And TimesOf S.Carter sold 463,000 copies inAmerica in its first week, but hasyet to figure on European Top 100Albums.
Nevertheless, Jay -Z is a longway ahead of several of the hard-core rappers liberally pepperedamong last year's top 50 US albumbestsellers who remain specialisttastes here. Juvenile's 400 Degreez(Cash Money/Universal) sold 3.3 millioncopies, America's 12th bestseller of 1999;Dr.Dre's 2001 (Aftermath Interscope) and theRuff Ryders: Ryde Or Die Vol.1 collection (RuffRyders/Interscope) sold 1.9 million each.
But Matt Voss, VP of marketing forUniversal Music International, believes that the .US industry is coming to realise that the marketfor rap in Europe is simply not the same. "Thoseindividuals who take the time to travel toEurope do understand that the ethnic make-upof European countries is very different to that inAmerica," he says. "There are communities thatdefinitely have an affinity to rap, whether it'sAfricans in France, or the Turkish in Germany,but they need to make it their own. Any culture
wants to stamp its own mark on things."Pockets of mainstream support for rap con-
tinue to exist, whether it be Danish nationalCHR DR P3 adding Bone Thugs -N -Harmony'sResurrection or national French CHR/Urbanoutlet Skyrock's support of Dr.Dre's Still Dre.Press acclaim can also be a factor, as last yearin the UK for controversial rap discoveryEminem, who sold well with his Slim ShadyEP and top five singles My Name Is and GuiltyConscience despite the predictable antipathyof most daytime formats.
But the urban sub -formats preva-lent in the US are largely absenthere. "It's so different over therebecause there's so much niche-ing ofradio, still far more than here," saysGordon Crawford, head of music atthe UK's dance -formatted GalaxyNetwork. "We do put some [US raptracks] on, but they still need tosound good on the radio. Puff Daddyis on at the moment [with Satisfy You
on Bad Boy/Arista], that's researching reallywell, but that's him as an artist. Jay -Z doesn'thave such mainstream appeal."
"We have the Cash Money label which isobviously incredibly successful in America,"says Voss. "From a record point of view inEurope it's failed to live up to [those] sales, butI do believe there's a reasonable touring mar-ket, and we're looking to bring some sort ofCash Money roadshow here in 2000.
"What we may do is take one of the tracksand try and put another UK rapper on it, like
Glamma Kid. Artists like Juvenileand Lil' Wayne [platinum in the USon Cash Money with Tha Block IsHot] aren't radio artists at themoment, so you have to Anglicise,Germanise, Europeanise them togive a different angle, and I thinkthat will happen in time."
To compound the challenge tolabels, many US rap stars do not
commit the promotional time to break newmarkets. Voss thinks that may be improving."There's a groWing understanding of the mar-ketplace [by] American executives, and tour-ing can only help that," he says. "If [artists]spend time here they'll understand veryquickly the parts that work and don't work."
What will always work is a catchy tune, asNick Raphael (co-founder of BMG'sNorthwestside label, which formerlyreleased Jay -Z in the UK) said before hisrecent appointment as director of A&R atArista. His advice to US rappers: "Be as goodas the Fugees and have as many pop recordsas the Fugees, be as consistent as them andyou'll be humongous."
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Europe's favourite US rap crossovers, 1998-99
Year Artist/Title
1998 RUN DMC vs.JASONNEVINS/It's Like That
1998 PRAS MICHEL featuring OL'DIRTYBASTARD & MYA/Ghetto Supastar
1998 PUFF DADDY featuringJIMMY PAGE/Come With Me
1999 2PAC/Changes1998 THE RAPSODY featuring
WARREN G & SISSEL/ Prince Igor1999 JAY-Z/Hard Knock Life
Label Year end position Weeks onM&M Eurochart Eurochart
SmOle/Profile 2
Interscope 7
Epic 17Amaru/Jive 22
Def Jam/Mercury 39
Northwestside/BMGClockwork/Epic
Bad Boy/Arista
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M&M ONIINE
Searching for downloadable solutionsIn the first of our monthlyInternet -related features,M&M new media corre-spondent Juliana Korantengreports on the race to createnew technology which willmake the experience ofdownloading music fromthe Internet a less painfuland time consuming experi-ence than at present.
you love music. Switch on theTV, and who cares how thevideos got there. Tune intoyour favourite radio station,and the latest hits immedi-
ately blast through the speakers.But log onto the Internet, and thus
begins a laborious trek to download aspate of software technology on toyour PC. And, if you're lucky, you justmight be able to pronounce the namesof the unknown dot -corn bands beforethe music begins to play.
As JD Heilprin, executive VP atUS -based RioPort Inc, suc-cinctly stated at a recentLondon conference on digi-tally distributed music:"The consumer experiencetoday stinks. We need tomake the consumer experi-ence exceedingly easy."
Digital growthAs multinational record companiesand leading independents committheir catalogue of hits to on-line dis-tribution, music fans' demand foruser-friendly on-line systems will bekey to their enjoyment of digitally dis-tributed recordings.
Digitally delivered music repre-sents the most radical change in theway people consume music today. Yet,despite being time-consuming andslow, and still only playable on thefixed PC (as opposed to beingportable), it is a rapidly growing sector.
Industry figures indicate morethan 30 million audio and video files(which can be copied) were down-loaded for free in the US alone lastyear. More than 22 million people lis-
tened or watched streamed events on-line (which cannot be copied). Nearly35% of US college students down-loaded music, while 72% play musicon their PC.
The trend has also hit Europe,where between 4% and 13% of con-sumers in the major markets listento Web radio services, and up to 19%of on-line customers in the regiondownload music.
Offering licensed worksThe year 2000 sees more record compa-
nies and technology developerssuch as Microsoft Corp.,RealNetworks Inc and LiquidAudio joining forces to boostthe number of licensed worksfor digital sale. They have beenspurred by the joint -fundedindustry forum Secure DigitalMusic Initiative (SDMI).
"There's still no one piece ofsoftware that can handle every type ofaudio format and digital -rights -man-agement technology. But SDMI has gotall the different companies to agreephilosophically on how to work togeth-er," observes Howie Singer, senior VPof business development at Reciprocal
Music, a US technology specialist indigital music transactions.
The majority of music availablevia the Web comprises unlicensedand unprotected works distributed onthe notorious MP3 formats. The lim-ited number of licensed digitisedrecordings are encrypted in differentsound file formats developed by thetechnology groups.
The music and technology compa-nies know that only die-hard earlyadopters are more than willing toswitch on the PC, go on-line, retrievea Web site and spend hours down-loading the distribution software forplaying music on their PCs.
In some cases, Internet users stillneed to leave the Web site, return tothe PC's desktop area to complete theprocess of storing the software, beforereturning to the same site to down-load the individual tracks.
Even more infuriating is the needto download another digital player ifthey want to listen to more music onother Web sites.
Consumer benefits"Right now, consumers need everypiece of software that supports digital
"The consumer experience today stinks. Weneed to make the consumer experience
The international ambitions of twoleading music download specialistsare summed up by a simple yet seem-ingly contradictory strategy: in orderto localise, you need to globalise.
US customised CD companyMusicmaker.com hasunveiled plans to expand itsdownloading and CD -burn-ing services internationally.At the same time, CrunchMusic (www.crunch.co.uk), aUK Web portal offeringexclusive music downloadstargeted at a youth audi-ence, is also embarking on asimilar multinational growth over thenext year.
Those moves confirm the view thatbecause the music -download sector isstill so small and generating littlerevenue, expansion of companies' ser-vices outside their respective homemarkets is essential to create busi-ness. Moreover, consumers must startdigging into their pockets and pay for
downloads, instead of just being free-loaders.
Speaking at the Music Online 2000conference in London on February 16-17, Larry Lieberman, Musicmaker'sVP marketing, advertising and on-line development confirmed that"International repertoire is a priority
for us. We have sales initia-tives for other territoriesand plans for local -lan-guage sites."
Musicmaker.com cur-rently offers its site's visi-tors more than' 100,000downloadable tracks usingthe MP3 sound file formatand Microsoft's Windows
Media Audio 4.0. The company is nowworking with shareholder EMIMusic, which has offered the companythe exclusive digital compilationrights to a catalogue of more than 500artists.
Musicmaker.com will work withEMI's local offices worldwide to gainaccess to local repertoire, with Franceand the UK expected to be among the
first localised markets. Illustratingthe point, Lieberman says, "We wantto reach Hungarian Americans withrepertoire from Hungary."
Compared with its digital distribu-tion business, Musicmaker.corn's cus-tom -CD business is profitable interms of margins per sale, Liebermandiscloses. "But we want to move fromcustom CDs to pay downloads," headds. "And I am more than happy tointroduce (music fans] to free down-loads until they're willing to pay."
On the other side of the Atlantic,popular UK Web portal Crunch,describing itself as an "on-line recordlabel," is planning a similar interna-tional strategy. But analysts insist
the site will also need high -profileacts to make the grade globally.Crunch specialises in exclusive digitaldownloads from local independentrecord labels. "But in the next two tothree years, the pressure is on themto attract big name artists," says
Simon Dyson, head of music researchat London -based research groupMarket Tracking International.
With shareholders which includeEmusic.com, the US music downloadspecialist, and AOL Bertelsmann,Crunch plans to localise its music con-tent and format worldwide by the endof 2001. The company currently hasexclusive download distribution dealswith more than 500 artists on UKindependent labels; internationalrepertoire will be supplied byEmusic.com.
Crunch's original UK site alone isto be relaunched in March as part ofa £10 million (euro 16.3 m) revamp,according to CEO David Phillips.Between May and October, Crunchwill also be rolled out in France,Germany, the Benelux countries,Scandinavia, Switzerland, Spainand Italy.
International expansion has beenprompted by the growing number ofoverseas visitors to its UK site. "Oneof the things we're seeing is thatBritish electronic dance music andculture is popular abroad. There's ahuge untapped market for this outsidethe UK," says Phillips. He notes thatthe demand had been created by thelimited range of British dance musictitles at even the biggest music storesin the US. "That's why we're seeing ahuge traffic from outside the UK."
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M&M ONIINErights management solutions," saysAram Sinnreich, analyst at NewYork -based Jupiter Communications."It will take a lot of effort on the partof software manufacturers to makesure consumers can receive varioustypes of [on-line music] files."
Most downloaded music is free.Sinnreich argues that consumers willonly pay for digital downloads whenaccess is effortless. RioPort's Heilprinagrees: "Downloading needs to be soeasy that consumers need to knownothing about the technology Theyneed a system that plays music on any[technology] format. They shouldn'tneed to download a separate LiquidAudio plug-in or Microsoft plug-in."
To this end, the music industryand digital distribution specialistsare making the different audio for-mats compatible or, using the latestindustry jargon, "interoperable." InJanuary, Microsoft unveiled plans tointegrate its Windows MediaTechnologies format into the systemused by Liquid Audio to encrypt anddistribute more than 50,000 down-loadable songs and one millionmusic samples.
Windows of opportunityThe move means consumers with theWindows Media Technologies alonecan play a wider choice of protecteddigital music, which includes LiquidAudio's catalogue, plus songs fromEMI, Warner Music Group, BMG,
Sony Music and major US indepen-dents that are using Windows MediaTechnologies encryption.
Microsoft has bundled WindowsMedia Technologies on to its newWindows 2000 PC operating soft-ware, which is being sold in morethan 60 countries in more than 16languages. The move looks set tomake Windows Media Technologiesthe most widely used digital -distribu-tion player.
Universal Music Group has linkedup with Microsoft's rival RealNetworksto develop a special plug-in for down-loading and playing UMG music onRealNetworks' RealJukebox digitalplayer. Meanwhile, Sony Corp., ownerof Sony Music Entertainment, is work-ing with RealNetworks to enable con-sumers to download SME recordingson to the new Sony MS Walkmanportable digital players.
"What manufacturers are doing ismaking sure that digital players canaccommodate the different file for-mats," says UK analyst Simon Dysonat Market Tracking International."Unless they are able to play the dif-ferent file formats, these companiesare limiting themselves."
However, Jupiter Communications'Sinnreich notes that, like the currentdownloading experience, the compa-nies face a tough ride. "All the majorrecord labels are [encrypting] in allSDMI-approved sound files. That'sgoing to be a right pain in the arse."
MTV's Sonic boomsMusic fans could soon betuning into a much -boosted European ver-sion of SonicNet.com(www.sonicnet.com), the
US Web music entertainment fanfare.Owned by the MTVi Group, the
interactive subsidiary of the interna-tional youth music TV service MTV,the original SonicNet is a brash andloud good-time site. Packed withnews, information and Web links formore than 50,000 artists, it also fea-tures Radio SonicNet, an on-line
radio station featuring more than 75pre-programmed, genre -based chan-nels. The digital player for listeningto the streamed music is based onSonicNet's proprietary technology.
The cool bit is the opportunity forfans to "pick and mix" from the differ-ent music genres, from pop, hip -hop,country to classical music, to createtheir own radio station. "[SonicNet] isthe ultimate personal music destina-tion," says New York -based TonyElison VP, international, the MTViGroup. Now, he says, MTVi wants toreplicate that experience in other
countries, especially the developedon-line markets in Europe.
The service, funded by advertisingand e -commerce, has already beenlocalised by licensees in Australia,Japan and German-speakingSwitzerland (www.sonicnet.ch). InSwitzerland, the licensee is The BlueWindow, the country's leadingInternet service provider with its ownportal Web site.
Owned by Swisscom, the telecom-munications group, SonicNet.ch pro-vides Blue Window's music -related con-tent. Focusing mainly on music newsand information and offering someMP3 downloads, SonicNet.ch is not ascomprehensive as the US original.
But, according to ChristophBrand, The Blue Window's CEO, theexisting SonicNet.ch could provideone of the platforms for extending thebrand in Europe. "We're planning toexpand all the time, and we're evalu-ating the possibility of SonicNet forall the German-speaking markets,including Germany and Austria."
The revamped and expandedGerman-speaking SonicNet will fea-ture more music, to be sourced fromlocal independent labels and, becauseof the MTV connection, possibly themajors. The industry will be keepinga sharp eye on these developments.
MTVi, which floats on the stockexchange in April, is currently debat-ing with EMI Recorded Music andSony Music in the US about whetherthe TV copyright for MTV Networksalso applies to the Web venture.
With the only genuinely pan-Europeannetwork across all major territories,Vitaminic is the digital downloadablemusic community with offices all overEurope and USA.So what?It means we can sell your music to anymarket.It means we can promote your music toany market. On the Internet. The world'sfastest growing audience.1 hat's what.
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10The Corrs AIRL.NL.UK.FLWA
60 97 Talk On Corners - 143/Lava/Atlantic
52Abeba
Complete Singles Collection - PolarA.D.CH.
AD.NL.E.CH.FL.Vonda Shepard" 17 Heart & Soul: New Songs From Ally McBeal - Epic
Simon & Garfunkel S.UKFL.WA.
57 31 5 Tales From New York The Very Best Of... - Columbia
Echt58 39 Freischwimmer - Edel
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32 Adriano Celentano" " Io Non So Parlar D'Amore - Clan I Sony
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Robbie Williams65 53 15 I've Been Expecting You - Chrysalis
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67 67 3 TtillyD°anritilil!°Cnollection - Virgin
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SantanaThe Ultimate Collection - Sony Music TV
R. Kelly71 39 R. - Jive
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Top National SellersUNITED KINGDOMTW LW Stemix
1 1 All Saints - Pure Shores (London)2 NE Artful Dodger - Movin' Too Fast (Locked On)3 NE Backstreet Boys Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely (Jive(
4 NE Kelis - Caught Out There (Virgin)5 NE Jamelia feat. Beenie Man - Money (Parlophone Rhythm)
6 NE Al - Like A Rose (Columbia)7 2 Gabrielle - Rise (Go! Beat/Polydor)8 3 Christina Aguilera - What A Girl Wants (RCA)9 6 Eiffel 65 - Move Your Body (Eternal/WEA)10 7 Aqua - Cartoon Heroes (MCA)
TW LW ALBUMS1 1 Gabrielle - Rise (Go! Beat/Polydor)2 2 Shania Twain - Come On Over (Mercury)3 3 Travis- The Man Who (Independiente)4 16 Santana - Supernatural (Arista)5 15 Macy Gray - On How Life Is (Epic)
6 5 Britney Spears - ...Baby One More Time (Jive)7 15 Moby - Play (Mute)8 13 S Club 7 - S Club (Polydor)
9 9 Stereophonics - Word Gets Around (V2)
10 12 Fatboy Slim - You've Come A Long Way Baby (Skint)
GERMANY FRANCE
TW LW SINGLES1 1 French Affair - My Heart Goes Boom (RCA)2 9 Stefan Raab - Wadde Hadde Dudde Da (EMI)3 15 Santana - Maria Maria (Ariola)4 NE 'N Sync - Bye Bye Bye (Jive/Zomba)5 4 Ayman - Mein Stern (East West)6 14 S Club 7 - Bring It All Back (Polydor)7 3 Tom Jones & Mousse T. - Sex Bomb (V2)
10 7 Backstreet Boys - Show Me The Meaning OfBeing Lonely (Jive/lath&
TW LW ALBUMS1 1 Santana - Supernatural (Ariola)
2 2 A* Teens - The Abba Generation (Motor)
3 4 Tom Jones - Reload (V2)
4 3 IBM - Razorblade Romance (Supersonie/Gun/BMG Kiln)
5 16 Tracy Chapman - Telling Stories(East West)6 8 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication (WEA)7 7 Metallica - S&M (Mercury)8 5 The Cure - Bloodflowers (Polydor)9 21 Sting - Brand New Day (Mercury)10 6 Mundstuhl - Deluxe (Columbia)
TW LW SINGLES1 5 Tom Jones & Mousse T. - Sex Bomb (V2)
2 2 Eiffel 65 - Move Your Body (Hot Tracks/Sony)3 1 Helene Segara -11Y A Trop De Gens Qui TAiment (East West)
4 4 Tina Arena - Les 3 Cloches (Columbia)5 3 Shank+. Twain - Man! I Feel Like A Woman (Mercury)
6 6 Superfunk - Lucky Star (Labels)7 NE Mylene Farmer - Optimistique-Moi (Polydor)8 15 All Saints - Pure Shores (East West)9 11 Shola Ama - Still Believe (WEA)
10 21 Sonia Laces & Sebastien Lorca Tu Me Mangum... (Mercury)
TW LW ALBUMS1 7 Santana - Supernatural (Ariola)2 NE AC/DC - Stiff Upper Lip (East West)3 1 Louise Attaque - Connie On A Dit (Atmospherigues/Sony)
4 4 Tina Arena - In Deep (Columbia)5 2 Helene Segara - Au Nom D'Une Femme(East West)
6 5 Shania Twain - Come On Over (Mercury)7 6 Eiffel 65 - Europop (Hot Tracks/Sony)8 16 Soundtrack - The Beach (East West)9 23 Tom Jones - Reload (V2)
10 25 Tracy Chapman - Telling Stories (WEA)
ITALY
Communications Inc
TW LW SINGLES1 1 Eiffel 65 - Move Your Body (Bliss Co.)2 2 Tom Jones & Mousse T. - Sex Bomb (V2)
3 3 Andreas Johnson - Glorious (WEA)
4 5 Oasis - Go Let It Out (Epic)
5 4 Blink 182 - What's My Age Again?(Universal(6 20 R.E.M. - The Great Beyond (WEA)
7 6 Aqua - Cartoon Heroes (Universal)8 21 All Saints - Pure Shores (CGD)9 9 Lene Marlin - Where I'm Headed (Virgin)
10 15 Piotta - La Mossa Del Giagivaro (Universal)TW LW ALBUMS
1 2 Hevia - Tierra De Nadie (EMI)2 3 Francesco Guccini - Stagioni (EMI)
3 1 Adrian Celentano - lo Non So Parlar D'Amore (Clan/Sony)
4 4 Santana - Supernatural (BMG Ricordi)5 6 Luna Pop - Sque'Rez? (Banana Record)6 5 Blink 182 - Enema Of The State (Universal)7 8 lvano Fossati - La Discipline Della Terra (Columbia)8 25 The Cure - Bloodflowers (Polydor)9 7 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication (WEA)
10 9 Barry White The Ultimate Collection (Mercury)
SPAIN HOLLAND WALLONY SWEDEN
TW LW SINGLES1 NE Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch (Polydor)2 1 Oasis - Go Let It Out (Columbia)3 2 Aqua - Cartoon Heroes (Universal)4 3 Tom Jones & Mousse T. - Sex Bomb (Universal)5 NE Santana - Corazon Espinado (Ariola)6 7 Bunbury - Infinito (Chrysalis)7 5 Christina Aguilera - What A Girl Wants (RCA)8 4 Ace Of Base - C'Est La Vie (Polydor)9 6 Modern Talking - China In Her Eyes (Ariola)10 NE William Orbit - Barber's Adagio For Strings (WEA)
TW LW Minims1 1 Tamara - Gracias (Universal)2 2 Santana - Supernatural (Ariola)3 15 Berlin Osborne - Sabor A Mexico (Mercury)4 3 Toni Jones - Reload (V2)
5 5 Luis Miguel - Amarte Es Un Placer (WEA)6 19 M -Clan - Usar Y Tirar (DRO)
7 4 Marcela Morelo - Eclipse (RCA)
8 12 Carlos Vives - El Amor De Mi Tierra (Virgin)9 9 Enrique Iglesias - Enrique (Polydor)10 8 Luz Casal - Un Mar De Confianza (Hispavox)
DENMARK
TW LW SINGLES1 1 Abel - Onderweg (PIAS)2 2 Vengaboys - Sha La La La La (Violent)3 5 S Club 7 - Bring It All Back (Polydor)4 6 'N Sync - Bye Bye Bye (Jive/Zomba)5 7 Artful Dodger - Re -Rewind The Crowd Say Bo Selecta (Epic)
6 3 Scoop - Drop It (EMI)7 4 Metallica - Nothing Else Matters (Mercury)8 11 Montell Jordan - Get It On Tonite (Mercury)9 8 Kelis - Caught Out There (Virgin)
10 13 All Saints - Pure Shores (Warner)TW LW ALBUMS
1 1 Marco Borsato - Luid En Duidelijk (Polydor)2 15 Santana - Supernatural (BMG)
3 3 Celine Dion - All The Way...A Decade Of Song (Columbia)
4 5 Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication (Warner)5 7 Andre Hazes - Want Ik Hou Van You (EMI)6 9 Alanis Morissette - Unplugged (Warner)7 6 Enigma - The Screen Behind The Mirror (Virgin)8 4 Metallica - S&M (Mercury)9 14 The Corrs - Unplugged (Warner)10 2 Kane - As Long As You Want This (BMG)
TW LW SINGLES1 1 Helene Segara -11Y A 'Prop De Gens Qui TAiment(Warner)
2 2 Axelle Red - Parce Que C'Est Toi (Virgin)3 3 Tom Jones & Mousse T. - Sex Bomb (V2)
4 4 Eiffel 65 - Move Your Body (BMG)
5 5 S Club 7 - Bring It All Back (Polydor)6 11 Superfunk - Lucky Star (Virgin)7 7 Technotronic - Like This (ARS)
8 10 Aqua - Cartoon Heroes (Universal)9 17 Tina Arena - Les 3 Cloches (Columbia)10 6 R. Kelly - HI Could Turn Back... (Jive/Zomba)
TW LW ALBUMS1 2 Helene Segara - Au Nom D'Une Femme (Warner)
2 1 Louise Attaque - Comme On A Dit (Trerna)3 3 The Corrs - Unplugged (Warner)4 6 Axelle Red - Toujours Moi (Virgin)5 8 Shania Twain - Come On Over (Mercury)6 4 Celine Dion - All The Way...A Decade Of Song (Columbia)
7 5 George Michael - Songs From The Last Century (Virgin)
8 7 Pascal Obispo - Soledad (Epic)9 16 The Cure - Bloodflowers (Polydor)10 9 R. Kelly - R. (Jive/Zomba)
TW LW SINGLES1 1 Bomfunk MC's - Freestyler (Sony)2 4 Markoolio - Gar Det Igen (Arcade)3 2 Aqua - Cartoon Heroes (Universal)4 NE Madonna - American Pie (Warner)5 56 'N Sync - Bye Bye Bye (Jive/Zomba)6 11 Petter & Eye'n I - Si Klart (BMG)7 5 DJ Mendez - Razor Tongue (Stockholm)8 3 Backstreet Boys - Show Me The Meaning... (Jive/Zomba)
9 15 Blink 182 - All The Small Things (Universal)10 7 Antiloop - Start Rockin' (Stockholm)7W LW ALaums1 NE AC/DC - Stiff Upper Lip (Warner)2 1 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication (Warner)3 NE Oasis - Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants (Sony)4 NE Gheorghe Zamfir - Feeling Of Romance (CMC)5 NE Di Leva -Alska (Warner)6 8 Barbados - Rosalita (Mariann)7 7 Enigma - The Screen Behind The Mirror (Virgin)8 2 Roy Orbison - Sweets For Sweden - The Very Best Of (Virgin)
9 3 Simon& Garfunkel - Tales From New York The Very Best Of.. (Sony)
10 4 Various Artists - En Salig Samling (Fralsningsarmen)
2 2 Aqua - Cartoon Heroes (Universal)3 3 Bigbang - Girl In Oslo (Warner)4 20 Tess - Justify My Love (Bonnier)5 5 Backstreet Boys - Show Me The Meaning...(JiveNirgin)
6 12 All Saints - Pure Shores (Warner)7 13 Al - Everytime/Ready Or Not (Sony)8 9 M2M - Don't Say You Love Me (Atlantic)9 6 Macy Gray - I Try (Sony)
10 8 Britney Spears - Bonn To Make You Happy (JiveNirgin)
TW LW ALBUMS1 1 Santana - Supernatural (BMG)
2 9 Bomfunk MC's - In Stereo (Sony)3 3 Helmut Lotti - Goes Classic (BMG)4 2 Macy Gray - On How Life Is (Sony)5 6 Morten Abel - Here We Go Then -You And I (Virgin)
6 7 Barry White - The Ultimate Collection (Universal)7 NE M2M - Shades Of Purple (Warner)8 11 Al - Here We Come (Sony)
9 12 DJ Johan Gielen - In Trance We Trust 4 (Playground)
10 10 Scorpions - The Best Of (EMI)
1W LW SINGLES1 1
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Waldo's People - 1000 Ways (BMG)
Apulanta - Kaanna Se Pois (Levy-Yhtie)Terrier)Darude - Sandstorm (16 Inch Records)Tiktak - Sydan Lya (Polydor)Oasis - Go Let It Out (Big Brother)
1W LW ALBUMS1 NE Stratovarius - Infinity (Nuclear Blast)2 2 HIM - Razorblade Romance (Terrier/BMG)3 1 Apulanta - Plastik (Leyy-Yhtia)4 37 Juice Leskinen L (Grand Slam)5 4 Soundtrack - Levoltornat (BMG)6 6 Bomfunk MC's - In Stereo (Epidrome)7 8 Soundtrack Park South Park - Bigger, Longer AndUncut (Warner)
8 RE Juice Leskinen - Kautta Aikain(Grand Slam)9 3 Yiilintu - Pienen Pojan Haaveet (Warner)10 13 Tiktak - Frendit (Polydor)
TW LW SINGLES1 3 All Saints - Pure Shores (London)2 2 Mark McCabe - Maniac 2000 (Abbye Dance)3 1 Gabrielle - Rise (Go! Beat/Polydor)4 6 Eiffel 65 - Move Your Body (Eternal)5 5 Delerium - Silence (Nettwerk)6 8 R.E.M. - The Great Beyond (WEA)
7 9 Christina Aguilera - What A Girl Wants (RCA)8 NE Backstreet Boys - Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely (Jive)
9 12 Dance To Tipperary - The Irish Rover (21C Records)10 4 Oasis - Go Let It Out (Big Brother)Tv LW ALBUMS
1 2 Moby - Play (Mute)2 1 David Gray - White Ladder (IHT)3 5 Shania Twain - Come On Over (Mercury)4 3 Travis - The Man Who (Independiente)5 6 R.E.M. - Automatic For The People (WEA)
6 10 Gabrielle - Rise (Go! Beat/Polydor)7 4 Macy Gray - On How Life Is (Epic)8 8 Westlife - Westlife (RCA)
9 46 Thin Lizzy - Wild One - The Very Best Of (Vertigo)10 16 Jack Lukeman - Metropolis Blue (Dara)
SWITZERLAND AUSTRIA PORTUGAL HUNGARY
TW LW SINGLES1 1 Tom Jones & Mousse T. - Sex Bomb (Zomba/MusikVertrieb)
2 3 S Club 7 - Bring It All Back (Universal)3 12 French Affair - My Heart Goes Boom (BMG)4 2 Backstreet Boys - Show Me The Meaning... (livethlusikvertrieb)
5 6 Eiffel 65 - Move Your Body (BMG)
6 9 Vengaboys - Sha La La La La (EMI)
7 4 Metallica - Nothing Else Matters (Universal)8 16 All Saints - Pure Shores (Warner)9 5 R. Kelly - If I Could Turn Back... (Jive/Musikvertrieb)
10 7 Highland - Bella Stella (Warner)TW LW ALBUMS
1 1 Santana - Supernatural (BMG)
2 4 Tracy Chapman - Telling Stories (Warner)3 2 Polo Hofer & Die Schmetterband - Harzbluet(Sound Service)
4 3 The Cure - Bloodflowers (Universal)5 7 Tom Jones - Reload (Zomba/Musikvertrieb)6 6 The Corrs - Unplugged (Warner)7 5 Celine Dion - All The Way..A Decade Of Song (Sony)
8 9 HIM - Razorblade Romance (BMG)
9 10 DJ Tatana - 24 Karat (WEA)
10 13 Shania Twain - Come On Over (Mercury)
TW LW SINGLES1 1 Anton Aus Tirol feat. DJ Oetei Anton Aus Tirol (EMI)
2 4 French Affair - My Heart Goes Boom (BMG)3 5 Macy Gray - I Tryy (Sony)4 3 Tom Jones & Mousse T. - Sex Bomb(Zomba)5 2 HIM - Join Me (BMG)
6 7 Metallica - Nothing Else Matters (Universal)7 6 Eiffel 65 - Move Your Body (BMG)
8 11 Backstreet Boys - Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely (Jrve/Zomba)
10 NE Quartet° Jobim Morelenbau -Jobim Morelenbaum (Universal)
11 16 Led Zeppelin - Early Days The Best Of Led Zeppelin Volt (Warner)
12 13 Macy Gray - On How Life Is (Sony)13 12 Jennifer Lopez - On The 6 (Sony)
14 10 Metallica - S&M (Universal)15 11 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication (Warner)16 19 Enigma - The Screen Behind The Mirror (Virgin)17 18 Joao Pedro Pais - Outra Vez (Popular)18 14 Scorpions - The Best Of (EMI)
1 1 Ganxsta Zolee Es A Bartel - Nehay Jo Dolog (Sony)
2 NE Jazz + Az - Hello Edes (BMC)
3 8 Ganxsta Zolee Es A Bartel - Blow Feld (vs. DJ Bond) (Sony)
4 5 Tom Jones & Mousse T. - Sex Bomb (FMK)5 4 Hooligans - Alomferfiak (K.O. Music)6 7 Enrique Iglesias - Rhythm Divine (Universal)7 NE Modern Talking - China In Her Eyes (BMG)8 3 Celine Dion - That's The Way It Is (Sony)9 NE Five - Don't Wanna Let You Go (BMG)10 NE Shania Twain - Don't Be Stupid (You Know I Love You) (Universal)
5 7 Sub Bass Monster - Felre Az Uthol (Magneoton)6 9 Fekete Vonat - A Varos Masik Oldalan(EMI)7 3 Michael Flatley - Lord Of The Dance (Universal)
8 11 Thalia - Amor A La Mexicana (EMI)
9 12 Enigma - The Screen Behind The Mirror (EMI)10 4 Hevia - Tierra De Nadie (EMI)
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SALES
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LOU REEDECSTASYRepriseRelease date: 3rd AprilTo say the pre-eminent NewYork underground hero's careerhas been patchy would be anunderstatement, but with hisfirst studio album since 1996'scomparatively accessible Set The
Twilight Reeling he's once again setting thestandard in uncompromising, intelligent rock. Reed'sacerbic wit and storytelling lyrical style areprominent throughout the album which kick startsin confidently with the upbeat and unashamedlygroovy, riff -laden Paranoia Key of E. Of the 14 trackson Ecstasy few are not worthy of a mention, but thestandout track is undoubtedly Like A Possum.Eighteen minutes of heaving distorted guitar andslow pounding drums accompanied by his trademarkpoetic lyrics. "I gotta hole in my heart the size of atruck, it won't be filled by a one night f***" meansit's not exactly ideal for radio but it is a certainclassic. More suitable airplay candidates are thegently melodic Modern Dance and the storming BigSky with its defiant lyrics and soaring guitars.Laurie Anderson contributes electric violin to RockMinuet, a disturbing, atmospheric gem and the 61 -second long Rouge, while Hal Wilner accompaniesReed at the production desk. CB
EELSDAISIES OF THEGALAXYDreamworks RecordsRelease date: February 28Pop music-aural con-fectionery or life -af-firming artform? Both ofcourse and often sim-ultaneously, but whereS Club 7 deal in harm-less, intellect -free doodling, the Eels paint a canvasrich in emotion, heartbreak and insight. The deathof his parents and suicide of his sister have infusedsinger E's previous two albums with a gut -wrenching poignancy that is often painful torevisit-and this heart of darkness is equallyevident on Daisies Of The Galaxy. What's differentthis time round is the wounds seem to be healing.The title itself points to a new start and the subtlecombination of brass, xylophones, bells andacoustic guitar provides a soothing antidote to theelectrified distress of Electro-shock Blues. Here, Eis joined by REM's Peter Buck, Grant Lee Phillipsfrom Grant Lee Buffalo as well as longstandingEels' drummer Butch on a collection of songs thatrecall the elegaic beauty of Neil Young on After TheGoldrush. The most striking aspect of the albumthough is the lyrics. "It's a motherfucker being herewithout you and I won't ever be the same" is bothincredibly desolate and irresistible, gentlycushioned on a layer of strings and piano. AH
Please send review copies, information and artistphotographs for consideration as Album Spotlight entries
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Barber's Adagio For Strings 38 My Heart Goes Boom 5
Bella Stella 36 Nothing Else Matters 15
Bla Bla Bla 96 Onderweg 62
Born To Make You Happy 8 Ooh Stick You 53
Bring It All Back 7 Optimistique-Moi 34
Bye Bye Bye 16 Parce Que C'Est Toi 35
Can We Talk About It 98 Pure Shores 3
Cartoon Heroes 6 Re -Rewind The Crowd Say Bo Selecta 57
Caught Out There 9 Rhythm Divine 61
China In Her Eyes 64 Rise 19
Dancing In The Moonlight 80 Satisfy You 85
Desert Rose 21 Sex Bomb 1
Don't Be Stupid (You Know I Love You) 42 Sha La La La La 14
Don't Call Me Baby 74 She's The One/It's Only Us 68
Don't Say You Love Me 91 Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely 4
Dunkler Ort 45 Si Loin De Toi 70
Et Si 76 Smooth 44
Freestyler 39 Stand Inside Your Love 69
Get It On Tonite 51 Stay With Me (Baby) 81
Girl On TV 79 Still Believe 40
Glorious 49 Summer Son 99
Go Let It Out 23 Sunburn 86
Gor Det Igen 95 Super Trouper 58
Hammer To The Heart 83 Sweet Love 97
I Got A Girl 52 Tell Me Why 75
I Have A Dream/Seasons In The Sun 46 Thank God I Found You 59
I Need To Know 60 That's The Way It Is 56
I Try 20 The Bad Touch 32
I Wanna Love You Forever 71 The Ballad Of Chasey Lain 63
RI Could Turn Back The Hands Of Time 11 The Great Beyond 47
II Y A Trop De Gens Qui T'Aiment 12 The Sound Of Bamboo 48
Irgendwie, Irgendwo, Irgendwann 65 The Way I Mate 72
It's OK 77 Tonton Du Bled 88
Je Serai La 100 Tu Me Manques Depuis Longtemps 43
Join Me 29 Turn Your Lights Down Low 41
Keep The Home Fires Burning 55 U Know What's Up 73
Kiss (When The Sun Don't Shine) 54 Voices 90
Le Fruit Defendu 87 Wadde Hadde Dudde Da 33
Les 3 Cloches 18 What A Girl Wants 10
Les Enfants De L'An 2000 78 Where I'm Headed 89
Liebesbrief 67 Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad 50
Like A Rose 30 You Drive Me Crazy 66
Top 100 c311=.urns113 99 George Michael 29
A* Teens 8 Luis Miguel 81
Abbe 39 Millencolin 80
Abbe 55 Moby 20
AC/DC 21 Alanis Morissette 31
Bryan Adams 42 Alanis Morissette 100
Christina Aguilera 36 Mundstuhl 37
Tina Arena 34 Youssou N'Dour 69
Louise Attaque 25 Oasis 77
Backstreet Boys 27 Roy Orbison 67
Blink 182 26 William Orbit 60
Bloodhound Gang 30 Berlin Osborne 62
Bomfunk MC's 59 Elvis Presley 73
Marco Borsato 53 Primal Scream 94
Mariah Carey 50 R.E.M. 52
Adrian Celentano 32 R.E.M. 86
Manu Chao 70 Red Hot Chili Peppers 4
Tracy Chapman 7 Red Hot Chili Peppers 97
Cher 41 Axelle Red 84
Nat King Cole 74 Andre Rieu 76
Ry Cooder 24 S Club 7 33
The Com 9 Sanne Salomonsen 78
The Corm 54 Santana 1
The Cure 5 Santana 88
D'Angelo 63 Scorpions 82
Celine Dion 10 Helene Segara 35
Dr. Dre 47 Vonda Shepard 56
Echt 58 Vonda Shepard 71
Eiffel 65 18 Simon & Garfunkel 57
Enigma 16 Soundtrack - Buffy The Vampire Slayer 93
Fatboy Slim 45 Soundtrack - Tarzan 96
Five 46 Soundtrack - The Beach 22
Ivano Fossati 66 Soundtrack - The Next Best Thing 61
Gabrielle 13 Britney Spears 11
Marvin Gaye 98 Stereophonics 44
Macy Gray 6 Stereophonics 72
Francesco Guccini 28 Sting 17
Hevia 19 Stratovarius 91
HIM 12 Superfunk 83
Polo Hofer & Die Schmetterband 85 Tamara 43
Whitney Houston 90 Texas 75
Enrique Iglesias 23 TLC 87
Jean -Michel Jarre 48 Die Toten Hosen 68
Tom Jones 2 Travis 15
Montell Jordan 79 Shania Twain 3
R. Kelly 89 Westlife 38
Luna Pop 49 Barry White 40
Lene Marlin 51 Barry White 64
M -Clan 92 Robbie Williams 65
Metallica 14 Gheorghe Zamfir 95
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Dance BeatThe weekly dance chart comment by Harald Roth
When all signs pointed to William Orbit or Air-wave becoming the next European Dance Traxxchart topper, another Brit, trance act Chicanewith a little help from Canadian pal BryanAdams, have ended up in pole position this week.
Their track Don't Give Up (Xtravaganza) hasmoved up to number one from six, beating all theother contenders and debunking Tom Jones Vs.Mousse T's Sex Bomb (Peppermint Jam/Gut) afterthree consecutive weeks at the top. It was a quickrise to the summit for Chicane, taking just threeweeks to get there and is the first chart -topper forthe Xtravaganza label.
Rank l's Airwave (Free-For-All/ID&T), stand-ing at five this week, continues to gain momen-tum, thanks mainly to Belgian club DJs. Anotherinstrumental, Hi -Gate's Pitchin' (Incentive),climbs one notch to six, with Britain, Germanyand Benelux as the track's strongest markets.
Superfunk's Lucky Star (Fiat Lux/Labels)climbs one position to eight and begins to makeinroads into Scandinavia, where it has debuted inDenmark. Italy's The Lawyer's I Wanna Hmmm...(SPY:) has moved from 50 to nine in just fourweeks, and stands a very good chance of makingit all the way to the top of the chart.
A few other continental tracks are also mak-ing impressive moves on the Dance Traxxchart this week. Plug & Play's Prophecy I Body -rock (EDM Hamburg) comes in at 35, and isthe chart's biggest overall gainer. For the mo-ment, its support is limited to the act's home -base of Germany, but it should start crossingborders in a few weeks time. Also benefitingfrom support in Germany is the latest entryfrom Italy, DJ Spiller's Mighty Miami E.P.Originating from Spiller's own Fruit Of TheMoon label and licensed to Joe T. Vanelli'sDreambeat label, the track has jumped fromlast week's 80 to this week's 34, thanks tospins from German DJs.
Other tracks to keep an eye on are Joey Negro(aka Dave Lee) feat. Taka Boom (the sister ofChaka Khan) with Must Be The Music (Incen-tive), which moves up 23 to 23, and Star Party'sI'm In Love (GFI), rocketing to 24 from 87, andbacked by huge success in Britain and Germany.
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COMMUNICATION Mario Piu-WELCOME TO THE DANCE Des Mitchell
37 34 4 ARABIAN PLEASUREMario Piu' & Mauro Picotto
BXRCP(65%): D. / S(35%): D. - 136
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38 28 4 STOP PLAYING WITH MY MIND Strictly RhythmBarbara Tucker CP: Uk.Dk.E.Hun. - 126
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39 RE 10 * WELCOME TO THE DANCE Antler -SubwayDes Mitchell CP(69%): Uk.D. / S(31%): Uk. - 13
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CD Copyright 2000 by M.I.S., all rights reserved.The Dance lSc,.i based on the information from the following clubplay (CPI and specialist dance sales IS) sources: Uli=United Kingdom: MUSIC Week Club Chart ICP1. CUd Dance Singles (SI; Au=Austria: Deejay Top 4ty (CPS D=Germany: DDC
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Each week, M&M brings you the latest airplay additionsfrom market leaders and taste -makers at radio across
Europe-the Power Players(figures in brackets are the predicted number of plays for the current week)
Jessica Simpson/I Wanna Love You Forever (28)Raissa/How Long Do I Get (28)Coco Lee/Do You Want My Love(28)Elton John/Someday Out OfThe Blue (28)Hanson/If Only (28)
Nightwish/Sleepwalker (15-20)Hanson/If Only (10-15)Kent/En Himmelsk Drog (6-8)Angie Stone/Life Story (6-8)Jennifer Lopez/Feelin' So Good (6-8)Melanie C. feat. Lefteye/Never Be The SameAgain (6-8)Embrace/You're Not Alone (6-8)Richard Ashcroft/A Song For The Lovers (6-8)Eiffel 65/Too Much Of Heaven(6-8)Aika/Little By Little (6-8)
Anouk/R U Kidding Me? (n/a)Wisdome/Off The Wall (n/a)Beck/Mixed Biznizz (n/a)Malu/Sin Caminos (n/a)El Hombre Gancho/Calle Pena (n/a)Nello Y La Banda DelZoco/Canica Oscura (n/a)Dover/Flashback (n/a) A
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Belgium: Radio Contact F
FORMAT: CHRSERVICE AREA: French Speak-ing BelgiumPLAYLIST MEETING: VariesGROUP/OWNER: CLT-UFA
Playlist Additions Jean -Lou BertinProgramme & music director
Will Smith/Freakin' It (21)Veronique Sanson/Pour Me Comprendre (21)Chicane feat. Bryan Adams/Don't Give Up (21)Patricia Kaas/Le Mot De Passe (21)Metallica/Nothing Else Matters (6-7)Stephan Eicher/Sans Vouloir Te Commander(6-7)Pet Shop Boys/Drunk (6-7)David Hallyday/Ange Etrange (6-7)
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UK: Galaxy Network Germany: WDR Eins Live The Netherlands: Radio 3FM
FORMAT: DanceSERVICE AREA: Yorkshire, North East
England, Severn Estuary. ManchesterPLAYLIST MEETING: Wednesday AM
GRouP/owNER: Chrysalis Radiowww.galaxyfm.co.uk
Playlist AdditionsGordon Crawford
Head of music
Destiny's Child/Say My Name (n/a)Basement Jaxx/Bingo Bango (n/a)Shaft/Mambo Italiano (n/a)Barkin Brothers/Gonna CatchYou Baby (n/a)Craig David/Fill Me In (n/a)
Reamonn/Supergirl (7-10)Randy Crawford/I'll Be Around (7-10)The Corrs/At My Side (7-10)Jennifer Adams/Chelsea (7-10)
Bayern
U.K: Kiss 100
FORMAT: Da nee
SERVICE AREA: LondonPLAYLIST MEETING: Thltrscia:k I'MGROUP/OWNER: Emap RadioV. 11 k Iss1t)t) coin
Playlist Additions Andy RobertsProgramme director
Jennifer Lopez/Feelin' So Good (n/a)Precious/Rewind (n/a)Moloko/The Time Is Now (n/a) Klc:;"
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Sweden: WOW! 105.5
FORMAT: '.Modery. .\C
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Playlist AdditionsAnika Paris/It's About (15)Sting feat. Cheb Mami/Desert Rose (15)U2/The Ground Beneath Her Feet (15)Louise Hoffsten/Fire Is A Good Thing (15)
Markus OnnestamMusic director
WAVY5
FORMAT: CHR
SERVICE AREA: North
Rhine/WestphaliaPLAYLIST MEETING: Friday AM
GROUP/OWNER: Public broadcasterwww.einslive.de
Playlist Additions
Garbage/When I Grow Up (7)Praga Khan/Breakfast In Vegas (7)Bush/Letting The Cables Sleep (7)Jennifer Lopez/Feelin' So Good (7)Richard Ashcroft/A Song For The Lovers (7)Eiffel 65/Too Much Of Heaven (7)Tom Novy feat. Lina/Now OrNever (7)
Jochen RauschMusic director
L EVERadio Eins Live
Denmark: Radio 2
FORMAT: ACSERVICE AREA: NationalPLAYLIST MEETING: Wednesday AM
GROUP/OWNER: Clear Chan-nel
Playlist AdditionsHevia/Busindre Reel (10-16)Phil Collins/Son Of Man (10-16)Enrique Iglesias/Be With You(10-16)Soren Sko/Right Here Waiting(10-16) IA R II 41,
Denmark: DR P3
ORMAT:
SERVICE AREA: NationalPLAYLIST MEETING: Wednesday AM
Humleridderne/Et Sporgsmal Om 'Ed (30)Toploader/Dancing In The Moonlight (3-4)Madasun/Don't You Worry (2-3)Ian Brown/Dolphins Were Monkeys (2-3)
DR
UK & Eire: Atlantic 252
FORMAT: CI IN. panic'SERVICE AREA: Nat tonal
PLAYLIST MEETING: Me!1,i .1 1 ;0
GRt3UP/OWNER: Cl r \\\ \\ v1/4 jtlanii,27,2. cool
Playlist Additions John O'HaraProgramme director
Puff Daddy feat. R. Kelly/Satisfy You (20-25)Geri Halliwell/Bag It Up (20-25)
Atlantic252long wave
FORMAT: CHRSERVICE AREA: NationalPLAYLIST MEETING: Friday AMGROUP/OWNER: Public broadcaster
W WW.3fm.n1
Playlist Additions Paul Van Der LugtProgramme coordinator
Blink 182/All The Small Things (23-24)Santana/Maria Maria (13-14)Limp Bizkit/N 2 Gether Now (7-8)Hi-Gate/Pitchin' (7-8)Macy Gray/Still (7-8)No Doubt/Ex-Girlfriend (7-8)
GROUP/OWNER: Public broad-castertvww.bbe,co. uk/radio 1
Playlist Additions Jeff SmithHead of music policy
Will Smith/Freakin' It (n/a)Geri Halliwell/Bag It Up (n/a)Precious/Rewind (n/a)Sweet FA/Flowers (n/a)Primal Scream/Kill All Hippies (n/a)
97-99 PM imam RADIO 1
Norway: NRK P3
FORMAT: CHR
SERVICE AREA: NationalPLAYLIST MEETING: Tuesday AM
GRouP/owNER: Public BroadcasterNV W .nrk.r10 p3
Playlist Additions Marius LillelienHead of music
Richard Ashcroft/A Song For The Lovers (15)Number Seven Deli/In The Wrong Arms (15)Katthult/Weaker (15)Midnight Choir/Double Blank (8-10)Moloko/The Time Is Now (8-10)
Sweden: SR P5 Radio Stockholm
FORMAT.'C l E. ACSERVICE AREA: Stockholm
PLAYLIST MEETING: Thursday 11:00
GROLJP/OWNER: Public Broadcast,'w s se/stock hol m
Playlist Additions Robert SehlbergMusic director
Taxiride/Everywhere You Go (10-15)Red Hot Chili Peppers/Otherside (5-8)Eels/Mr. E's Beautiful Blues (5-8)Steely Dan/Cousin Dupree (5-8)Prominent/Give A Little (5-8)Di Leva/Anglar Skal Hela Mig (3-5)Jill Johnson/Everybody's Confidante (3-5)
Richard AshcroftA Song For The Lovers(HUT/Virgin) 6
Melanie C. Never Be The Same Again(Virgin) 6
Chicane/Bryan Adams Don't Give Up
(Xtravaganza) 6
Geri Halliwell Bag It Up
(EMI) 6
M2M Don't Say You Love Me(Atlantic) 6
No Doubt Ex -Girlfriend
(Interscope) 6
Most Added are those songs which receivedthe highest number of playlist additions duringthe week. In the case of a tie, songs are listedalphabetically by artist.
Station Reports include all new additions to the playlist. Some reports will also include "PowerPlay" songs, which receive special emphasis during the week. All Power Play songs are printed,whether they are reported for the first time or not. Some lists include featured new albums, as indi-cated by the abbreviation "AL" Within each country, stations are grouped by ranking and listedalphabetically. Rankings include: platinum (P), Gold (G), Silver (S) and Bronze (B). All playlists mustbe received by Monday at 13.00 h. CET.
GERMANYANTENNE BAYERN/Munich P
AC
Stephan Offieromki Programme Director
Playlist Additions:Prezio., feat. Marvin- Tell Me Why
Playlist Additions:BlaqueIN Sync- Bring It All To Me.
The Corr. -Radio
Leveling.. Under My Skin
Nu Generation- In Your ArmsB.E.M.- The Great Beyond
Macy Gray- StillEnrique Iglesias- Be With You
No Doubt- Ex -Girlfriend
Stine Stine. Don't TalkM2M- Mirror Mirror
Aqua- Around The World
COULEUR 3/Laumuirie G
Alternative
Thierry Catherine - Read Of MoakPower Rotation Add:
Amer- Red Sky
Day One- Bedroom Dancing
Playlist Additions:Big Red -Respect Or Die
Jan Eissfeldt- Irgendwie, lrgendwo
Moloko- The Time Is Now
RADIO 105 NEFWORK/
Basel G
CHR
Matthias Voel. - Head Of ManicPlaylist Addition.
Movie Love- Slice Of Da PieGigi D'Agostino- Bla BIs IleJanet Jackson- Because Of Love
PJ- Happy Days
Scoop- Drop It
Ministers Da Funk- BelieveFree Love Sunshine, Free Love Sunshine
Joey Negro- Must Be The Music
Yomandla- Sunshine
Melanie C. Never Be The Same Again
No Doubt- Ex -Girlfriend
RADIO LAC/Geneve SCHR
Sacha Horowitz Prog DirPlaylist Addition.
Eric Clairton- Get LostMartell Carey. Thank God I Found You
Eels- Mr. E's Beautiful Blues
Melanie C. Never Be The Same Again
AUSTRIAo 3/Vienne PCHR
A/Prod Rosenauer - Head Of Music
Playlist Addition.Santana- Maria Maria
Geri Bothwell- Bag It Up
SWEDENSR P3/Stockholm P
CHR
Mats Grimherg - ProducerMyna( Additions
Marie Frank- Symptom Of My Time
Madonna- American Pie
No Doubt. Ex -Girlfriend
Marie EredrikssonAutligen-
Motornomes- For Whom It May Concern
Ark- Let Your Body Decide
Fidget- Living On Video
MIX FM/Stockholm GAC
Anders Svensson . Head Of Mosie
Power Rotation Add:Enrique Iglealas- Be With You
BM FM 94.2/Bromme S
Dance
Jocke Bring Prog DirPlaylist Additions:
Chemical Brothers- Muer Response
Vacuum- [taros
B -One- Celebrate The Music
Bob Marley feat. Mclyte- Jame.'
Earthbound- Phuturistic JourneyProminent- Give A Little
Stereophonic Sound -Journey Into Sound
Jungle Brothers- Freakin' You
NORWAYRADIO I NETWORK/Oslo 0
CDR
Christian Jebsen Music DirectorPlaylist Additions:
Santana- Mara Maria
Macy Gray. Still
A-Ela- Summer Moved On
Aqua- Around The World
RADIO 102/Haugesund
Hot AC
Egil Houeland - Head Of MusicPlaylist Additions:
Jennifer Lopez- Feelin' So Good
Briskehy- Propaganda
Steely Dan- Comiu Dupree
FINLANDFINNISH AIRPLAY TOP 40/
Tampere PPentti Terevainen - DirectorPlaylist Additions:
Len- Steal My Sunshine
Ricky Marlin & MM. Private Emotion
Gabrielle -Rise
Malta Vilkkumaa- Tahti
Geri Halliwell- Bag It Up
Heikki Bela- Onko Site Kipinha
RUSSIARADIO MAXIMUM/Moscow/
St. Petersburg PCHR
Mhkhd Eidehnan Programmme Director
Playlist Additions:Filter- Take A Picture
Ricked Ashcroft. A Song For The lovers
Alin -Solos- orot
RADIO MAXIMUM/Perm G
CHR
Alekey Glarotov - General Direcor
Playlist Additions:Ricky Martin & Meja Private Emotion
All Saints- Pure ShoresFive- Don't Wanna Let You Go
POLANDPOLSKIE RADIO 3/Warsaw P
CHR
M,rek Niedzwiecki - ProducerPlaylist Addition.
Cesaria Evora -Cabo Verde
Brainstorm- Weekends Are Not My
Sugar Ray- Falls Apart
Faith Hill- Breathe
Pale Implosion- Free To Go
Air- Playground Love
Savage Garden Crash And Burn
Simon Collins- Shine Through
Jennifer Lopez- Feelin' So Good
Varius Manx. Wolni W Niewoli
Crush- There She Goes
Anna Maria Jopek- Smutoy Bog
Meryl. Roeowicv Jak Bohm Nam
Elton John- Someday Out Of The Blue
RADIO 4 Ut DANCE/Warsaw GDance
Bogdan Fabianski - DJ/Prod.Playlist Additions:
Daddys Favourite- I Feel Good 'Things
Blood- Thinkin' About It
Perfect Phase- Horny Horns
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Skulk Anansie Tout] Follow Me Down
Artful Dodger- Re -RewindGREECE LITHUANIA
Power Rotation Add:Metallica- No Leaf Clover
Motorhomes. For Whom II May Concern Jamelio/ Beenie Man- Money
Live. Run To The Water
Thomas D- LiebesbriefDr. Dre/Eminem- Forget About Dee
Relic- Caught Out There
Aqua. Cartoon Heroes
KISS 909 FM/Athens G RADIO M-1/VilniusEverything Bane Gal.TemperamentiHeavy Rotation: MTV/Southern Feeit P Will Smith- Freakin' It New Video. All Saint. Pure Shores
Utah Saints. Love Song CHR CHRSantana. Maria Maria Clive Even Head Of Music Guy- Deacon' Metallica. No Leaf Clover Oasis- Go Let It Out
Crazy Town- Butterfly Michael Tsaoussopoulos Prog Dir Asta Gujyte Prog Dir Tom Jones & Mousse T. Sex Bomb Heavy Rotation: Van Dik Bout- Dromendief Vivid- Up To Me Rednex- The Way I Mate
MPackl- My Ding -A -Ling Power Rotation: Penner Rotation Add:Blink 182- All The Small Things Sasha. I Feel Lonely No Doubt- Ex -Girlfriend .Aaiun Dub Foundation. Real Great Britain Live- Run To The Water
Shawn Christopher.AeotherSleepness Night Scanty Sandwich. Because Of You Chicane. Don't Give UpBackstreet Boys, Row Me The Meaning Of Beck- Sexxlaws Eden. Speed Superformy. Pup Will Save The World LaTchak- If This Is Love
Amber- Above The Clouds Ploylist Additions: Playlist Addition.Red Hot Chili Peppers. Other Side Blink 182. All The Smell Things Kid Koala. Fender Bender 'N Sync- Bye Bye Bye
A.S.Y.S.. Acid Save Your Soul Triple X- Feel The Same Semisonie Singing In My SleepFrench Affair My Heart Goes Boom R.E.M. The Great Beyond VII-1/London P Myballoon- On My Way Vengaboys- She La La La La
Waradue Project. You're The Reason Savage Garden- Crash And BurnBloodhound Gang. The Ballad Of All Saints- Pure Shores Leger Mordue Head Of Programming Limp Bizkit. Break Stuff New Videos:
M2M- Don't Say You Love Me Chumbawamba- She s Got All The FnendsAyman. Mein Stern Will Smith- Freak.' It Heavy Rotation: KC Da Booker- token Of The Year Travis -Driftwood
Methods Of Mayhem -Get NakedCZECH REPUBLIC Pelenai- KrtaipKeith Caputo- Selfish Emiliana Torrini- Baby Blue Gabrielle- Rise Notorious BIG. Notorious BIG
RADIO IMPULS/Prague Jescica Roma. I Warm ',rely Forever Ckumbawsmbe She's Gm. ll The frienis Oasis Go Let It Out THE BOX/London G Gabrielle- Rise
CHR
Jan Hanousek Head Of MusicTURKEY Artful Dodger- Re -Rewind
M2M- Don't Say You Love Me
Chicane- Don't Give Up
Mary J. Blige- Give Me You
Madonna- American Pie Francis Currie - Programme Director
Box Tops:
Smashing Pumpkins -The beds...TO.
Bush- Letting The Cables SleepLIECHTENSTEIN
Playlist Additions: POWER FM NETWORK Enrique Iglesias- Be With You Geri Bothwell- Bag It Up VIVA TV/Cologne P Lane Marlin- Sitting Down Here Bloodhound Gang The Ballad Of
S Club 7- Bring It All Back TURKEY/Istanbul P RADIO I/Liechtenstein 9 Stefan Raab- Wadde Hadde Burke Da Irene Graeedi- La Tun Ragotze Tina Busch - Prog Dir Artful Dodger- Moor' Too Fast Jay -Z- Anything
Eurythmics- Seventeen Again CHR CHR Myballoon- On My Way Heavy Rotation: Puff Daddy. Satisfy You Will Smith- Freak.* It
Atilla Sen - Music Director Roland Blum - Head Of Music Tom Noe' feat Liam- Now Or Never MTV/U.K. Feed Metallica- Nothing Else Matters Ann Lee- Voices Me & My Melody. Arid
Playlist Addition. Playlist Addition. Power Rotation Add: S Club 7- Bong It All Back Dr. Dre/Snoop Dogg. Still Dre Mama o Jasje- Wie Ben Jij?
HUNGARY g-Pem. Poe Bra Trak Vasa an Up Souls -hue, Try Not To Cry MTV/European Feed P Babybird- The F -Word Santana- Maria Marin Lyte Funkie Ones. Girl On TV
Superfunk- Lucky Star Terry Byrne. Found It In The Love Hans Hagman - Head Of Music Heavy Rotation: A. Teens- Super Trouper Blink 182- All The Smell Things
DANUBIUS RADIO/Budapest P Nino- Santiago Enrique Iglesias. Be With You Heavy Rotation: Andreas Johnson- Glorious Him- Join Me Backstreet Boyr.Shm Or The Meaning Of
CHRLene Marlin- Sitting Down Here Donell Jones- C Know What's Up Tom Jones/Mousse T.- Sex Bomb Eiffel 65- Move Your Body
Saodor Buse - Music Dir RADIO NUMBER ONE FM/ LHill/B.Marley. Turn Your Lights Gabrielle- Rise Backstreet Boys Show kle The Meaning Of Britney Spears Born To Make You Sappy
Play list Addition.'N Sync. Bye Bye Bye
Istanbul P
CHR MUSIC TELEVISIONArtful Dodger- Re -Rewind
Montell Jordan -Get It On Tonite
Christina Aguilers- 0. nut A Girl Wants
Mum Spews- Born To Make You Happy
Highland Bella StellaFrench .Affair- My Heart Goes Boom
All Saints- Pure Shores
Northers Line L-ve On The Ynriem Lae
Dore Tinter Music & Programme Director TLC. Dear Lie Relic- Caught Out There Bloodhound Gang. The Ballad Of Jamelia/Beenie Man- MoneyMCM/Paris PHerve Lemaire - Prog DirHUNGARIAN TOP 29 AIRPLAY CHART/ Power Rotation: Kelis- Caught Out There All Saints- Pure Shores Ayman- Mein Stern Madasun- Don't You Worry
Budapest P Madonna. American PiePower Rotation:
Red Hot Chili Peppers. Other Side Oasis- Go Let It Out Thomas D- Liebesbrief Five- Don't Wan. Let You Go
Playlist Additions: Playlist Addition.All Saints- Pure Shores
New Video. New Videos: Modern Talking China In Her Eyes 'N Sync- Bye Bye Bye
Mare Anthony- I Need To Know Cayenne- Dejarm Tode Power Rotation Add:Sugar Ray- Falls Apart Semisonic- Singing In My Sleep Vengaboys- Sha La La La La Vengaboys- Sha La La La La
Connie Williams- A World Celebration Kim Lucas- All I Really Want Destiny's Child- Bug -A -BooJGair. SimpoeIWanna Love You Former Bush- Warm Machine Stefan Raab- Wadde Hadde Buckle Da Madonna- American Pie
M2M- Don't Say You Love Me Ricky Martin & Meja- Diva. EmotionHeavy Rotation:
Air. Playground Love Lightning Seeds Sweet Soul Sensation New Videos: Geri Bothwell- Bag It Up
Scooch. More Than I Needed To KnowMarc Anthony- You Sang To Me
Shole Aeeea- Still BelieveFive- Don't Wanna Let You Go Ruffneck- Reny Meeny Steps. Deeper Shade Of Blue
Aqua. Cartoon Heroes Enrique Iglesias -Be With YouAxelle Red- Pane Que C'Eet Toi
Chicane- Don't Give Up THE MUSIC FACTORY/ Bornfunk MC's- Freestyler New Video.
Jazz Ax Hello Eden TLC. Dear LieMoloko- The Time Is Now Bosom, Holland P Steps- Say You'll Be Mine Mandy Moore- Candy
AD Studio- Parati. Porno Tom Jones & Mousse T.. Sex BombErik Brow Music Director R.E.M. The Great Beyond Jennifer Lopes Feehn' So Good
Genend.Csongess Be HonamJebarat
Mr. Rick- &vitt A SzelRed Hot Chili Peppers. Other Side
Britney Spears born To bloke toe Happy
MTV/Nordic Feed P
Hans Hagman Head Of Music
Power Rotation Add:Blink 182- All The Small Things
Enrique. Iglesias- Be With You
Geri Bothwell- Bag It Up
Colour Girt. Can't Gei Used Tn Irving You
TnmJonesIStereophonies. Memo ToltIMeESTONIARAADIO 2/TallinnStaff- Ujra El Superfunk- Lucky Star
Heavy Rotation: Heavy Rotation: No Doubt- Ex -Girlfriend Moloko- The Time Is Now
CHR Peeeol Obispo- LlopoMOCEst DAimerBomfunk MC's- Freestyler Bomfunk MC's- Freestyler Killer Barbies- Mars Babybird- The F -Word
Immo Mihkelson - Head Of Music New Video.TLC- Dear Lie
Kent - Musik Non Stop Beekman Boys.Row Belle Messing Of A- I Love Take TahoeHim- Join Me Blink 182- All The Small Things
Red Hot Chili Peppers. Other Side All Saints- Pure Shores THE MUSIC FACTORY/Savage Garden- Crash And Burn
Five- Don't Wanna Let You Cm
M2M- Don't Say You Love Me
Dje-An, Mon CaractereBrittle", Spears- Born To Make You Happy
Madonna- American Pie
Abel- Onderweg
A.nouk- The Dark
VIVA ZWEI TV/Cologne P
Marcel Hamacher Programme Director
FlandendlYlechelen
len them Prop Riau VasherMusic Director
Atomic Kitten- See Ye Vibe -ConfessionNew Video. 'N Sync- Bye Bye Bye Heavy Rotation: Heavy Rotation:
AC/DC- Stiff Upper Lip Madonna- American PieKraftwerk- Expo 2000 Madonna- American Pie Blink 182- All The Small Things Madison Avenue Don I Call Nle Baby
Ines- Once In A Lifetime Intik. Va Le Dire A Ta MereMoby. Natural Blues New Videos: Red Hot Chili Peppers Other Side Puff Daddy- Satisfy You
MariLiia Gina Kirval Indochine- Steph 2Dicta- If This Is Cool S Club 7- Bring It All Back Die Toten Bonen- Unoterblich Mune- Muscle Museum
Dr. Dre- Forgot About Dre +Tip- Breathe And Stop Such A Surge -Chaos Madkatt Courtship -My Life Mutik
MTV/Central Feed PEskobar Good Day For Dying Air- Playground Love Bloodhound Gang- The Ballad Of Blink 182- All The Small Things
Andreas Heineke Head Of Music
RISE
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THE MASSIVE UK NO. 1 SALES& AIRPLAY HIT SINGLE
TAKEN FROM THE NO. 1PLATINUM SELLING ALBUM
TOP 10ON THE EUROPEAN AIRPLAY CHART
RELEASED THROUGHOUTEUROPE IN MARCH
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On the airM&M's weekly airplay analysis column
Film -related songs dominate the top of theEuropean Radio Top 50 this week. All Saints'Pure Shores (London), from the recently -released"The Beach" soundtrack, is the new number oneafter seven weeks in the chart. Madonna'sAmerican Pie (Maverick/Warner Bros.), from hernew film "The Next Big Thing," out this week inthe US, goes down to number two after only oneweek in the top spot.
Just as it seemed the hits from last summerhad finally vanished, Spanish charmer Enrique
Iglesias' Be With You(Interscope) comes in asthe highest new entryat 39. Morten Bach,programme director atDanish Radio ABC, hasput it on the CHRstation's playlist. "It'snot hard to tell who'ssinging," he says. "It'svery similar to every-
thing else on his album Enrique. It's a good song,but I'm not sure if it will be as big as Bailamos.It's got that summer feel to it, though, so I thinkit will hang around until then."
Also new in is the artist formerly known asGinger Spice Geri Halliwell's Bag It Up (EMI) at42. The single has been immediately picked upby European radio. Lithuanian CHR stationRadio M -1's programme director Asta Gujyte is afan: "Everything Geri does is brilliant-each andevery song on the album could be released as asingle. Bag It Up is very similar to Look At Me,which did very well in Lithuania.Melanie C. are pop favourites here."
As British acts are the top of the tops inLithuania, The Brit Awards will not go unnoticedat Gujyte's station. She explains: "Britain ismore important to us than the US and theirGrammies. We are preparing for the Brits now,and [on March 3, day of the Brit Awards we willbring the news as it happens to our listeners."
Ricky Martin has teamed up with a fellowColumbia act, Swedish Mej a, whose All 'BoutThe Money was to be heard on Europeanairwaves in early 1999. The single is calledPrivate Emotion (Columbia) and it is the mostadded record this week, and new at 45 thanks toa great deal of support in Scandinavia andGermany. Other new entries are Jennifer Lopez'Feelin' So Good (Work/Columbia) at 47 andJessica Simpson's I Wanna Love You Forever(Columbia) at 48.
Red Hot Chili Peppers' Otherside (WarnerBros.) keeps climbing the chart, at 17 this weekup from 22. Norwegian teen duo M2M's Don'tSay You Love Me (Atlantic) is close behind, upfrom last week's 23 to 17.
Next week may see the entry of FrenchAffair's My Heart GoesBoom (RCA), numberone in Germany's sin-gles chart this week.Having received eightGrammy Awards, San-tana is a strong con-tender next week withWyclef Jean on MariaMaria (Arista). Ex -Verve Richard Ashcroftis also likely to make his way into Europeanplaylists next week with his A Song For TheLovers (HUT/Virgin).
32 28 4 Superfunk/Lucky Star ,..IVIrtr.., (Fiat Lux/Labels) 19 3
0 40 2 Macy Gray/Still (Epic) 22 3
0 41 2 Melanie CJNever Be The Same Again (Virgin) 18 5
35 39 7 Madison Avenue/Don't Call Me Baby (Virgin/Sony) 18 1
@ 48 2 Five/Don't Wanna Let You Go (RCA) 23 5
37 36 2 Shania Twain/Don't Be Stupid (You Know I Love You) (Mercury) 24 1
@ 47 4 Simply Red/Your Eyes (East West) 20 3
.9) > NE Enrique Iglesias/Be With You (Interscope) 14 7
40 26 16 Whitney Houston/I Learned From The Best (Arista) 18 0
41 42 2 William Orbit/Barber's Adagio For Strings (WEA) 18 1
@ > NE Geri HalliwelUBag It Up (EMI) 17 6
43 29 17 Texas/When We Are Together (Mercury) 15 0
44 32 21 Robbie Williams/She's The One (Chrysalis) 17 0
(3) > NE Ricky Martin & Meja/Private Emotion (Columbia) 18 9
c) . RE S Club 7/Bring It All Back (Polydor) 14 2
0 ,... NE Jennifer Lopez/Feelin' So Good (Work/Columbia) 16 8
0 > NE Jessica Simpson/I Wanna Love You Forever (Columbia) 14 3
49 33 8 L. ene Marlin/Where I'm Headed BIEL% (Virgin) 13 0
50 43 3 George Michael/Miss Sarajevo (Virgin) 15 1
The European Radio 7bp 50 chart is based on a weightedacoring system.Songs score points by achieving airplay on all of M&M's reporting stations with contemporary music &name or during specific dayparts.
Stations are weighted by market size and by the number of hours per week.TW = This Week, LW = Last Week, NE = New Entry, TS = Ibtal Stations
Indicates singles which previously featured in the Border Breakers chart Highest new entry Et Greatest chart points gainer
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NEWSA stealth `attaque' on the French chartsa big campaign, so we formulated astrategy that respected their wisheswhile getting the message out."
The strategy in question involvedgoing straight to the fanbase andkeeping France's media in the dark."We wanted the audience to make uptheir own minds about the record,"confirms Thonon. "Louise Attaquehave built a relationship with theiraudience based on respect. When weexplained this to journalists, most ofwhom were very late in discoveringthe band in the first place, theyagreed it was appropriate."
Not only appropriate but, sixweeks after release, very effective.Comme On A Dit is already platinumin France with sales exceeding the300,000 mark, while in Belgium thealbum has sold more than 30,000copies and, in Switzerland, the tallyis 15,000 to date.
Another unusual aspect of thecampaign is the lack of a video. MarcThornton explains: "This was partlybecause we couldn't find a projectthat everyone liked. But with the sec-ond single La Plume there is onedone already. We hope that by pro-viding another distraction it will helpto stop radio burning the album out."
Burn out or no burn out, networkssuch as NM were quick to jump onTu Dis Rien. "The sense of expecta-tion was immense," says NRJ's pro-gramme director Michael Magnin."And the material is excellent. Likethe first album, some tracks are hardand some are pop, but they're allvery strong songs."
With only two full -page pressadvertisements in Les Inrockupt-ibles and daily newspaper Libera-tion, the bulk of the marketing mon-ey has been channeled into retail
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presence. "We wanted in-store visi-bility, so that's where we invested,"continues Thonton. "We securedgood positions with the right coloursto make sure our stands had visibili-ty. The album is black on black, sodark surroundings were changedwhere necessary."
On January 19, the day after thealbum's release, Louise Attaquestarted a low-key club tour, withdates only announced on local rockradio some 48 hours beforehand. "Welost money on the tour," admitsThonon, "but the idea was to create a`word of mouth' phenomenon."
Now non -Francophone territoriesare picking up on the act. Thanks tosignal spillage from Switzerland,Italian radio has been playing thenew album's title track, while inter-est is also coming in from Spanishlabels looking to pick up on the band.
Foster takes on new mediaLONDON - Warner Music Interna-tional (WMI) has made two seniorappointments.
Mark Foster, currently vicepresident marketing at WarnerMusic Europe, has been promotedto senior vice president NewMedia at WMI, effective April 3,2000. In his new position Foster,who reports to Stephen Shrimp -ton, chairman & CEO of WMI,will assume responsibility forWMI's New Media Group, a newdivision created in August 1999to oversee the company's develop-ments in the new media area.Martin Craig, who was appointedvice president New Media lastAugust, will continue to reportdirectly to Foster.
Foster joined WMI in 1990, andafter stints at WEA Records UK,Carrere Records and WEA Music inFrance, moved to Warner MusicEurope in August 1994.
In a non -related move, DennisPloug joined WMI on March 1 as VP,Warner Music Media (WMM), a newdivision formed within WMI.
Mariah Carey takes time out from her European tour to receive a spe-cial sales award marking album sales in Europe in excess of 25 millionunits since her first, eponymous album was released in 1990. Picturedbackstage in Milan are (l. -r.): Rick Dobbis, president, Sony MusicInternational; Richard Ogden, Snr. VP, Sony Music Europe; MariahCarey; Paul Russell, chairman, Sony Music Europe; Paul -Rene Alberti-ni, executive VP, Sony Music Europe and president & CEO, SonyMusic France; Franco Cabrini, president and MD, Sony Music Italy.
Sony takes Steppes to conquer Russia
the launch of the new company, theSony Music catalogue will now beavailable. CDs will be manufacturedby Sony's DADC Austria plant whilecassettes, which represent the biggermarket, will be manufactured locallyin Russia. Sales and distribution of thenew subsidiary's products will be han-dled by Russian registered companyHunter Music, which previously actedas a non-exclusive distributor for Sony.
Nobody at Sony was available tocomment on the company's plans forRussia, but with Sumin at the wheel,SMER at least will have the benefitof local knowledge in a market whichpresents significant difficulties.
According to the International Fed-eration of the Phonographic Industry(IFPI), Russia's economic problemsand the country's thriving piracyindustry have slammed legitimatemusic sales in the past couple of years.
While Europe's music market as a
whole has grown significantly overthe past 7 years, to euro 13 billion,only 5% can be accounted for in East-ern Europe, including Russia. In fact,IFPI figures indicate a decline inEastern Europe.
In 1998 the Eastern Europeanmusic market was worth just undereuro 0.6 billion, and was dominatedby Russia. Following a low in 1993,the region's market had picked up,but it fell by 12% in value in 1998,suffering the effects of the economiccrisis and rising piracy levels,according to IFPI.
As a whole, Eastern Europe iscassette -driven, with the cassetterepresenting around 80% of the mar-ket. The 1998 level of CD sales inRussia was a mere 7%. Those statis-tics are compounded by IFPI's fig-ures for the first half of 1999, whichrevealed that while world musicsales were flat, sales values in Rus-
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sia were down by 50% in unit termsand 68% in value.
Sony's accountants may be prepar-ing quite literally for a trip into thered, but the company remains upbeatabout its foray into the Russianmusic scene.
"Everyone at Sony Music firmlybelieves that establishing a compa-ny in Russia is a long term commit-ment," says Paul Russell, chairmanof Sony Music EntertainmentEurope. "That is why we believethat taking full ownership [ofSMERI is important, and willenable us to contribute and partici-pate there in the development andgrowth of the business."
Russell also pays tribute to Sum -in. "Andrei, throughout the negotia-tions, has been incredibly profession-al, understands our long term objec-tives, and....is the ideal person tobuild a strong company for us there."
San Remo continued from page 1
newcomers' section with a classicballad, Semplice Sai (Ftm ZigZag/EMI). Irene Grandi was runner-up in the established section with LaTua Ragazza Sempre (CGD-EastWest), a song penned by rock starVasco Rossi. Old San Remo favouriteGianni Morandi came third withInnamorato (Mormora/BMG).
Avion Travel's manager FrancescoFracassi comments: "For us our SanRemo victory represents a careerprize for a band which has spannedtwenty years. It's recognition that wehave popularised our particular mixof traditional Italian folk music andmodern rock."
Caterina Caselli Sugar, presidentof the Insieme-Sugar label, says:"With avant-garde acts like AvionTravel you cannot expect to investand win straight away, but wealways believed that they wouldmake a breakthrough to a wideraudience one day."
The winners at San Remo areselected through a combination ofvotes from a demographically repre-sentative public jury and a jury ofexperts. Mike Bongiorno, a veteranpresenter of the San Remo Festivaland this year president of the expertjury, told the Italian press that itdeliberately manipulated its votes tosecure Avion Travel's win. In thepublic voting, second and thirdprizewinners Irene Grandi and Gian-ni Morandi were placed much higherthan Avion Travel.
"I think that too much weight wasgiven to the expert jury and notenough to the public voting," com-ments Gerolamo Caccia Dominioni,president of Warner Music SouthernEurope & Italy and MD of CGD-EastWest Records.
"Avion Travel's victory is very pop-ular with the music critics and it isgood that a quality song won insteadof some of the immediately forgettablesongs which have won in recentyears," adds Caccia Dominioni. "Itremains to be seen who will sell themost records on the back of this year'sfestival and whether San Remo'simpact on record sales improves afterseveral disappointing years."
Riccardo Clary, president of EMIMusic Italy and MD of VirginMusic Italy, who licensed the win-ner of the newcomers section JenniB prior to the festival from Rome -based independent Ftm/Zig ZagRecords, asserts that "the mostimportant thing about the festivalis awareness amongst the publicand not the final result. This year'sSan Remo was a major improve-ment for showcasing exciting Ital-ian artists such as Subsonica(Mescal/Universal) and Irene Gran -di (CGD-East West)."
CorrectionIn M&M's profile of Matia Bazarin our San Remo Special (issuedated February 26) it was erro-neously stated that Piero Cassanohad departed from the band. Cas-sano has, in fact, recentlyreturned to the group. We apolo-gise for any confusion caused.
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At time of going to press, the organisers of Frenchmusic awards show Victoires de la Musique werestill unsure whether the show would take place asplanned on March 11. The organisation of the eventsuffered a severe blow on February 29 when theoperators of the 6,000 -seater Zenith concert venueabruptly announced that it would close at leastuntil the month of September for alleged securityreasons. Attempts are being made to get the Zenithto reopen for the Victoires date, but if they fail alack of suitable alternative venues in Paris couldforce the organisers to postpone the show.
Warner Music Spain & Portugal presidentSaul Tagarro has appointed Jose Carlos "Char-lie" Sanchez as deputy MD of DRO East WestSpain. Sanchez will report to Tagarro, who in Jan-uary was appointed acting MD of DRO followingthe departure of Mariano Perez, who was namedMD of Warner Music Spain.
The US music and radio industry is still assess-ing the impact of the February 29 announcement ofthe acquisition of SFX Entertainment by ClearChannel Communications in a deal which willmarry the biggest US radio group with the world'slargest promoter and producer of live events. "Itgives you a lot of leverage with the artists," says aClear Channel radio executive. Clear Channeloperates 867 radio and 19 television stations in theUS, and has interests in over 240 radio stationsoutside the US.
Lou Reed is joining the list of acts who havedecided they'll no longer perform in Austria inprotest against the participation of Jorg Haider'sextreme -right party in the Austrian governmentcoalition. Reed was due to perform in Austria in May.
The German Echo Awards, which take place inHamburg on March 9, are now on-line, through anagreement with Internet pro-viders T -Online. The GermanPhono Academy web -site(www.t-online.de/echo2000) offersupdated information about theevent and the acts performing,and will offer live interviews withartists on the night of the awards.
Effective April 1, Rene Smit will become A&Rmanager at EMI Holland, replacing DannyFriedrichs. Smit was formerly general creativemanager at MCA PolyGram Publishing, wherehe signed a publishing deal with Violent Records,repertoire owner of all Vengaboys material.
Steve Woods joins the UK's Chrysalis RadioGroup from GWR as group head of production. Hewill oversee the on -air produced sound of the Heartand Galaxy brands. He was previously head ofgroup programme production at GWR, and morerecently 2CR FM programme controller. ChristianSmith, who joined Chrysalis Radio in May 1999 asGalaxy Network music coordinator, is promoted todeputy head of music of the Galaxy Network.
German Music TV Channel VIVA and Swissmedia partner SWIZZ Music Television officiallyannounced on March 1 their cooperation on theSwiss market. VIVA's managing director DieterGorny said: "The development in Switzerland is animportant step for VIVA's future plans to be pre-sent in all major European countries with nationalprogramming."
In one of her acceptance speeches at the Spelle-mannprisen show, Lene Marlin reminded VirginRecords Norway managing director Per EirikJohansen of his promise to quit smoking if heralbum Playing My Game sold over a million units."The MD of my record company must quit smokingnow," she quipped. Johansen has not indicated if heintends to comply.
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Compiled by M&M on the basis of playlist reports, using a weighted -scoring system,based on audience size.
TW LW WOC Artist/Title
1 1 62 2 83 4 5
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ALL SAINTS/PURE SHORES (LONDON)Oasis/Go Let It Out (Big Brother)Orup/Unga Hjartan (Sony)M2M/Don't Say You Love Me (Warner)Madonna/American Pie (Maverick/Warner Bros.)Backstreet Boys/Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely (Jive)
Kelis/Caught Out There (Virgin)Enrique Iglesias/Be With YouR.E.M../The Great BeyondMelanie CJNever Be The Same AgainBritney Spears/Born To Make You HappyEric Gadd/Eye Of The SpiritChicane/Don't Give UpLen/Steal My SunshineGabrielle/RiseSavage Garden/Crash And BurnMacy Gray/StillAqua/Cartoon HeroesRicky Martin & Meja/Private EmotionRobbie Williams/She's The One
All Saints/Pure Shores (London)Pet Shop Boys/Drunk (Parlophone)
1616
234
1126
99
10
Tom Jones & Mousse TJSex BombTLC/Dear LieMystic/Le Fruit Defendu
(V2)(BMG)(Epic)
Backstreet Boys/Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely (Jive) 13 5 10 10 Eiffel 65/Move Your Body (Hot Tracks)
Tom Jones & Mousse TJSex Bomb (Gut/V2) 14 6 3 20 Lauryn Hill feat. Bob Marley/rum Your Lights Down Low (Small/Sony)
Madonna/American Pie (Maverick/Warner Bros.)French Affair/My Heart Goes Boom (RCA)
1212
789
18178
10811
Helene Segara/II Y A Trop De GensThe Cranberries/Just My ImaginationSuperfunk/Lucky Star
(East West)(Island)(Virgin)
Travis/Why Does It Always Rain On Me (Independiente) 12 10 23 28 Texas/Summer Son (Mercury)
Stefan Raab/Wadde Hadde Dudde Da (EMI)Highland/Bella Stella (East West)Christina Aguilera/What A Girl Wants (RCA)
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9
11
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6171518
Pascal Obispo/L'Important C'Est D'AimerAxelle Red/Parce Que Cent ToiShania Twain/Man! I Feel Like A WomanLene Marlin/Where I'm Headed
(Epic)(Virgin)
(Mercury)(Virgin)
Macy Gray/I Try (Epic) 11 15 27 8 Sko & Paul Kaflon/Show Me The Way (BMG)
Echt/Weinst Du (Edel) 11 16 4 16 Whitney Houston/It's Not Right But It's OK (BMG)
Savage Garden/Crash And Burn (Columbia)Mariah Carey/Thank God I Found You (Columbia)
810
171819
20167
11
167
Eddy Mitchell/J'Aime Pas Lou Gens HeureuxFrancis Cabrel/Hors SaisonChristina Aguilera/What A Girl Wants
(Polydor)(Columbia)
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2622
125
Menelik/Je 'Mime Comme TEsMariah Carey/Thank God I Found You
(Small/Sony)(Columbia)
'N Sync/Bye Bye Bye (Jive) 10 24 19 15 The Corrs/Only When I Sleep (East West)Sasha/Let Me Be The One (WEA) 9 25 15 13 Jamiroquai/Kmg For A Day (Small/Sony)
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11 1 1 15 LENE MARLIN/SITTING DOWN HERE11 2 2 8 Backstreet Boys/Show Me The Meaning
3 3 15 Celine Dion/That's The Way It Is7 4 4 15 Marco Borsato/Binnen8 5 7 6 All Saints/Pure Shores
6 5 7 Abel/Onderweg7 11 10 The Corrs/Radio8 9 4 Madonna/American Pie9 16 14 Metallica/Nothing Else Matters10 15 15 Whitney Houston/I Learned From The Best11 12 15 Britney Spears/Born To Make You Happy12 27 3 Gabrielle/Rise13 14 13 Montell Jordan/Get It On Tonight14 10 7 Brian McKnight/Back At One15 17 15 Stephen Simmonds/Tears Never Dry16 49 13 Savage Garden/I Knew I Loved You17 19 6 Red Hot Chili Peppers/Otherside18 8 5 'N Sync/Bye Bye Bye19 6 3 Acda & De Munnik/Schoolplein20 n NE Moby/Natural Blues21 23 15 Jennifer Lopez/Waiting For Tonight22 18 12 Madison Avenue/Don't Call Me Baby23 36 6 Anouk/In The Dark24 21 4 Shania Twain/Don't Be Stupid25 42 15 R. Kelly/If I Could 'Turn Back The Hands
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Compiled by M&M on the basis of playlist reports, using a weighted -scoring system,based on audience size.
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1 n. RE TOM JONES & MOUSSE TJSEX BOMB2 5 5 George Michael/Miss Sarajevo3 7 3 U2/The Ground Beneath Her Feet4 > NE Beck/Mixed Biznizz5 1 5 Mana/Se Me Olvido Otra Vez6 2 3 Guillermo/Estoy harto7 10 3 Phats & Smallflbnite (Multiply/Sony)8 8 4 Mariah Carey/Thank God I Found You (Columbia)
9 12 2 Jennifer Lopez/Let's Get Loud (Work/Columbia)10 3 2 Ketama/Agustito (Mercury)
11 13 3 Lene Marlin/Where I'm Headed (Virgin)
12 17 3 Presuntos Implicados/Samurai (WEA)
13 > Macy Gray/I Try (Epic)
14 Madonna/American Pie (Maverick/Warner Bros.)
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(GUT/V2)(Virgin)(Island)(Geffen)
(WEA)(WEA)
(Capitol)(Ariola)
(Hispavox)(Virgin)
(Elektra)(A&M)
33
3
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
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Compiled by M&M on the basis of playlist reports, using a weighted -scoring system,based on audience size.
(VIRGIN)(Jive/Zomba)
(Columbia)(Polydor)(Warner)
(HAS)(Warner)(Warner)
(Mercury)(BMG)
(Jive/Zomba)(Polydor)
(Mercury)(Mercury)
(EMI)(Columbia)
(Warner)(Jive/Zomba)
(Smart)(PIAS)
(Columbia)(Epic)(Dino)
(Mercury)(Jive/Zomba)
Data supplied by Aircheck Nederland from an electronically monitored panel of national (8) and
regional stations (8). Songs are ranked by number of plays and weighted by audience
TW LW WOC Artist/Title
1 17 22 2 33 12 64 13 65 15 66 6 67 5 5
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Original Label TS
EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRUTEMPERAMENTAL (VIRGIN) 4Eric Clapton/I Get Lost (Reprise) 2
Myslovitz/My (Sony) 3
Kidnaper/Swiety (K-Swiety) 3
Edyta Gorniak/Hunting High And Low (Orca) 3
Bob Marley, Tsidii Le Loka, Ziggy Marley/One Love (Island) 3
George Michael/Miss Sarajevo (Virgin) 3
Natalia Kukulska/Zakochani (Universal) 3
R.E.MJThe Great Beyond (Warner Bros.) 3
Mariah Carey/Thank God I Found You (Columbia) 3
Karma Coma/Otworz Serce (Universal) 3
No Doubt/Ex-Girlfriend (Interscope) 3
Chris De Burgh/A Woman's Heart (A&M) 3
Oasis/Go Let It Out (Big Brother) 3
Eurythmics/Seventeen Again (RCA) 3
Tomasz Kaminski/Tylko Troche Trzeba Dec (Pomaton) 2
Natural Born Hippies/Save Me (RCA) 2
Bloodhound Gang/The Ballad Of Chasey Lain (Geffen) 2
T. Love/Piosenka (Pomaton) 2
Varius Manx/Teraz I Tu (BMG) 2
Compiled by M&M on the basis of playlist reports, using a weighted -scoring system,based on audience size.
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 Original Label TS
1 1 7 OASIS/GO LET IT OUT (BIG BROTHER)2 3 11 Tom Jones & Mousse TJSex Bomb (Gut/V2)
3 2 7 Kelis/Caught Out There (Virgin)4 4 8 Lunapop/Un Giomo Migliore (Universo-Hitmania)5 5 3 Aqua/Cartoon Heroes (Universal)6 6 7 Hevia/Busindre Reel (Hispavox)7 7 3 Andreas Johnson/Glorious (WEA)
8 8 3 Enrique Iglesias/Be With You (Interscope)9 9 2 Orishas/A Lo Cubano (EMI)10 10 3 Madonna/American Pie (Maverick/Warner Bros.)ll 12 7 Superfunk/Lucky Star (Fiat Lux/Labels)12 13 3 T 42 feat. Sharp/Run To You (No Colors)13 15 3 Britney Spears/Born To Make You Happy (Jive)14 17 4 Sergent Garcia/Camino De La Vida (Labels)15 16 4 Mina/Neri (PDU)16 18 6 Ligabue/L'Odore Del Sesso (WEA)
17 19 3 Mariah Carey/Thank God I Found You (Columbia)18 11 2 Litfiba/Elettromacumba (EMI)19 20 7 De-Phazz/The Mambo Craze (More)20 n RE Red Hot Chili Peppera/Otherside (Warner Bros.)
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(WEA)(Epic/Columbia)
(Gut/V2)(Interscope)
(Record Express)(Jive)(EMI)
(Peppermint Jam)(Universal)
(Sony)(BMG)
(Work/Columbia)(RCA)
(Universal)(Parlophone)
(Atlantic)(RCA)
(Universal)(Columbia)
(MI -5)
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