p Europe's Radio -Active Newsweekly Volume 11 . Issue 42 . October 15, 1994 Celentano Continues To Inspire Radio ITALY by Mark Dezzani Veteran Italian rocker Adrian Celentano is finding renewed success throughout Europe with a surprising new album Quel Punto (Clan/CGD) which encompasses a diversity of musical styles from rock to acid jazz. The first single off the album, Attraverso Me, has entered M&M's "Border Break- ers" chart at number 20, due to cross -border radio success in the German-speaking territories, Belgium, Spain and France. Celentano's new album is his first studio release since 1991 with an anthology released two years ago. So far, Quel Punto has sold over 150.000 copies in Italy and according to Alda Dury, international promotions manager at Milan -based Warner affiliate CGD, it is also selling well in Germany. She says that (continues on page 32) 1984 10 years 1994 WEA Pushes Westernhagen 9 World Music Hits Mainstream 10 Europe Goes To NAB/L.A. 15 2.95, DM 8, FFr 25, US$ 5 NRJ, Rix Form Sweden's Largest Private Network SWEDEN by Nicholas George Two of Sweden's biggest radio networks, NRJ and Rix, have joined forces to create a 19 -strong national group of stations. The move, which will com- bine sales for the two networks in a newly -formed sales house, will allow NRJ to expand its EHR for- mat outside the country's three EAST 17 SET FOR AUTUMN PROMOTION - East 17 are ready for an intensive campaign for their second album "Steam," released on October 17. Playback performances are already scheduled on Radio Deejay/ Milan, Cadena 40 Principales and BBC Radio 1 (See page 17). The band is pictured here being presented with double gold discs for sales in France. biggest cities, while struggling Rix will benefit from the com- mercial and prograihming experi- ence of NRJ's French backers in running its ACE -fix -matted sta- tions. NRJ's French ACE net Cherie is expected to be used as a programming inbdel in the upcoming chling6t. The two companies will broadcast "complementary" pro- gramming from separate stations in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmo. Meanwhile, NRJ will gain two of Rix's 11 frequencies in other areas of the country. While Swedish law forbids majority ownerhip of more than one local station, a series of acquisitions effectively gives NRJ a 30% share in the Rix company. The package includes 40% of Rix in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmo and Eskiltuna and 30% of Rix owner SRU (Svensk Radioutv eck 1 i ng). (continues on page 32) Can Programmers Target Women Better? EUROPE Starting on March 8 1992, women in Bristol ran a radio station called Fern FM for a week to show that speech radio made for and by women can be interesting. On September 15, 1994 staff at P4 Radio Hele Norge in Norway celebrated their first birthday with a weekly national reach of 31% and a jam-packed rev- enue book, thanks to a musical programme principally aimed at women. The success of the format has set other radio stations in Nor- way examining and tweaking their playlists. Could it be that the tabbooed gender -oriented programming policy actually works? A -specif- ic demographic target is a difficult basis upon which to create 24 hours a day of program- ming. Surely, what distinguishes a 19 -year -old male student from a 47 -year -old businesswom- an is not gender but age? Julia Sullivan reports. The remarkable thing about this format is that men also enjoy tuning in. It appeared that what defined the station was not a specific lis- tening demographic, but a tone and style which was universally appealing. "The last thing we wanted to do was to brand ourselves as a women's station," says P4 music research director Mary Crouch. "We don't sit around talking about knitting, and when you tune in you are not constantly aware that we are 'a woman's station.' We produce intelligent music -based programmes which women enjoy listening to just as much as men." "It is a question of presentation style," says Crouch. "Our presentation style is warm, friendly. Our most popular presenter, for example, is a woman in her early 50s with an intimate, warm and intelligent style. When you listen in you immediately feel that she's (continues on page 31) Dischi Ricordi Appoints Guastoni As New MD ITALY by Mark Dezzani Italy's largest music group Dis- chi Ricordi, which was pur- chased by German entertain- ment conglomerate Bertelsmann this August, has appointed Mimma Guastoni as its new MD. Guastoni was previously general manager of Ricordi's publishing interests. He replaces Guido Rignano, who retains his position as Ricordi president, (continues on page 32) No. 1 in EUROPE European Hit Radio YOUSSOU N'DOUR/NENEH CHERRY 7 Seconds (Columbia) Eurochart Hot 100 Singles WET WET WET Love Is All Around (Precious) European Top 100 Albums CARRERAS/DOMINGO/PAVAROTTI Three Tenors In Concert '94 (Teldec) (advertisement) 10414 G \---afr-br house of love fp, new album cq3OF O From RM The USA MOTOWN (8thweek!) I'LL MAKE LOVE TO YOU Album 1 MIK AmericanRadioHistory.Com
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Volume 11 . Issue 42 . October 15, 1994
CelentanoContinues ToInspire Radio
ITALYby Mark Dezzani
Veteran Italian rocker AdrianCelentano is finding renewedsuccess throughout Europe witha surprising new album QuelPunto (Clan/CGD) whichencompasses a diversity ofmusical styles from rock to acidjazz. The first single off thealbum, Attraverso Me, hasentered M&M's "Border Break-ers" chart at number 20, due tocross -border radio success in theGerman-speaking territories,Belgium, Spain and France.
Celentano's new album is hisfirst studio release since 1991with an anthology released twoyears ago. So far, Quel Puntohas sold over 150.000 copies inItaly and according to AldaDury, international promotionsmanager at Milan -based Warneraffiliate CGD, it is also sellingwell in Germany. She says that
(continues on page 32)
198410 years
1994
WEA Pushes Westernhagen 9
World Music Hits Mainstream 10
Europe Goes To NAB/L.A. 15
2.95, DM 8, FFr 25, US$ 5
NRJ, Rix Form Sweden'sLargest Private NetworkSWEDENby Nicholas George
Two of Sweden's biggest radionetworks, NRJ and Rix, havejoined forces to create a 19 -strong
national group of stations.The move, which will com-
bine sales for the two networks ina newly -formed sales house, willallow NRJ to expand its EHR for-mat outside the country's three
EAST 17 SET FOR AUTUMN PROMOTION - East 17 are ready for anintensive campaign for their second album "Steam," released on October17. Playback performances are already scheduled on Radio Deejay/Milan, Cadena 40 Principales and BBC Radio 1 (See page 17). The bandis pictured here being presented with double gold discs for sales in France.
biggest cities, while strugglingRix will benefit from the com-mercial and prograihming experi-ence of NRJ's French backers inrunning its ACE -fix -matted sta-tions. NRJ's French ACE netCherie is expected to be used as aprogramming inbdel in theupcoming chling6t.
The two companies willbroadcast "complementary" pro-gramming from separate stationsin Stockholm, Gothenburg andMalmo. Meanwhile, NRJ willgain two of Rix's 11 frequenciesin other areas of the country.
While Swedish law forbidsmajority ownerhip of more thanone local station, a series ofacquisitions effectively gives NRJa 30% share in the Rix company.The package includes 40% of Rixin Stockholm, Gothenburg,Malmo and Eskiltuna and 30% ofRix owner SRU (SvenskRadioutv eck 1 i ng).
(continues on page 32)
Can Programmers Target Women Better?EUROPE
Starting on March 8 1992, women in Bristolran a radio station called Fern FM for a weekto show that speech radio made for and bywomen can be interesting. On September 15,1994 staff at P4 Radio Hele Norge in Norwaycelebrated their first birthday with a weeklynational reach of 31% and a jam-packed rev-enue book, thanks to a musical programmeprincipally aimed at women. The success ofthe format has set other radio stations in Nor-way examining and tweaking their playlists.Could it be that the tabbooed gender -oriented
programming policy actually works? A -specif-ic demographic target is a difficult basis uponwhich to create 24 hours a day of program-ming. Surely, what distinguishes a 19 -year -oldmale student from a 47 -year -old businesswom-an is not gender but age? Julia Sullivanreports.
The remarkable thing about this format isthat men also enjoy tuning in. It appeared thatwhat defined the station was not a specific lis-tening demographic, but a tone and stylewhich was universally appealing. "The lastthing we wanted to do was to brand ourselves
as a women's station," says P4 music researchdirector Mary Crouch. "We don't sit aroundtalking about knitting, and when you tune inyou are not constantly aware that we are 'awoman's station.' We produce intelligentmusic -based programmes which women enjoylistening to just as much as men."
"It is a question of presentation style," saysCrouch. "Our presentation style is warm,friendly. Our most popular presenter, forexample, is a woman in her early 50s with anintimate, warm and intelligent style. Whenyou listen in you immediately feel that she's
(continues on page 31)
Dischi RicordiAppoints
Guastoni AsNew MD
ITALYby Mark Dezzani
Italy's largest music group Dis-chi Ricordi, which was pur-chased by German entertain-ment conglomerate Bertelsmannthis August, has appointedMimma Guastoni as its newMD.
Guastoni was previouslygeneral manager of Ricordi'spublishing interests. He replacesGuido Rignano, who retains hisposition as Ricordi president,
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First National Dance Station ToGo On Dutch Cable April '95HOLLANDby Christian Lorenz
Amsterdam -based New DanceRadio plans to start broadcastinga dance format by April 1 1995,having signed a national distribu-tion contract with Dutch cableoperator VECAI on October 51994.
Co -owners Jan Lochtenbergand Soedesh Moerlie, who havebeen working on preparations forthe station, to be programmed onthe lines of London's Kiss FM,were the founders of trend -settingDutch pirate WAPS which waslaunched in the early '80s.
New Dance Radio will feature
RMC's TassezTo Head UpSofiradFRANCEThe French government hasappointed current Radio MonteCarlo general manager Jean -NoelTassez as president of state-owned financial holding Sofirad,following the resignation of Jean-Louis Dutaret at the end ofSeptember.
Dutaret had been accused ofillegally financing political cam-paigns for former communica-tions minister Alain Carignon.
With his experience at RMC,Tassez is seen as the candidatethe most capable of privatisingthe station after the next presiden-tial elections.
As Sofirad president, he nowoversees RMC, Nostalgie, RadioMontmartre, (renamed Mont-martre FM), and a series of par-ticipations in overseas radio sta-tions and TV channels. One of hisfirst tasks will be to appoint anew general manager for RMC.
the most popular dance releasesin Holland, based on the chartscompiled by Dutch recordimporters. Moerlie, who ownsAmsterdam -based record importcompany Dance Tracks, will pro-vide the station with sales figures.During the day the playlist will bebased on best-selling dancetracks. For the evening Lochten-berg plans programmes featuringspecialist styles such as funk, jazzand soul.
Regular features will alsoinclude a dance classics pro-gramme and personality showshighlighting the talents of popularclub Ws. So far, New DanceRadio has secured the support of
jazz/rare groOve DJ Graham B.,initiator of the highly successfulClub 805 ambiance nights atAmsterdam's Paradiso.
The station targets active,trendy audiences between 12 and24. Lochtenberg says, "We willnot just play music. New DanceRadio is going to address youthissues and will provide practicalinformation."
The station will co-operatewith the Amsterdam job centre toproduce regular features on train-ing and education programmes.Lochtenberg also plans a seriesadvising young people on how tostart up and run a business oftheir own.
World Radio NetStarts Second NewsService In GermanEUROPEby Christian Lorenz
European satellite news stationWorld Radio Net celebrated itsfirst anniversary on October 1
with plans to launch a second,German language service beforethe end of the year.
The new service will be runalong the lines of the successfulEnglish channel Network One,targetting an audience with a"more than average interest incurrent affairs" as well as Germanexpatriates. Further plans forexpansion include the start of aSpanish -language service in1995.
The German -language Net-work Two will broadcast viasatellite Astra 1B, with program-ming made up of news and cur-
rent affairs features contributedfrom cooperating stations. Thelist of associated stations current-ly includes, amongst others,Radio Nederland, Radio Australiaand Radio Poland.
All contributions will be col-lected via ISDN in NetworkTwo's studio in Berli from wherethe programme is broadcast tosatellite. There are plans to feedthe channel into local cable net-works at a later date.
At present, World Radio Net-work's service can be received viacable in six European cities,including Amsterdam, Antwerp,Berlin, Brussels, Dublin and Lon-don. Bonn, Geneva, Paris, Stras-bourg and Vienna will be addedlater, when cable distribution issecured.
Let New Law Solve OwnershipQuestions, Says RTL's SautterFRANCEby Emmanuel Legrand
RTL vice-president Remy Sautterhas strongly urged the CSA toimplement the delayed Carignon[communication] Law passed in1993, which extends the maxi-mum ownership of any mediagroup to a potential listenershipof 150 million.
RTL recently received autho-risation from the CSA to acquireFrench net M40, but the matter isnow awaiting approval from theCompetition Council, regardingthe issue of "abuse of dominantposition." Sautter dismisses theCSA decision as without mean-ing, however, because, until thelaw is implemented, the greater
problem of ownership remainsunsolved. Competition Councilstudies have no place in the newlaw, he argues.
"We submitted a proposal onMarch 3. It has been six monthsand no decision has been made.The only thing we ask for is theimplementation of the law."
With the combination of RTLand Fun, Luxembourg -basedgroup CLT has a combinedpotential listenership of 80 mil-lion people, while the Carignonlaw authorises 150 million. Evenwith M40's 28 million listeners,CLT would be far from the ceil-ing, he adds.
"Where is the problem whenthe Hachette Group owns EuropeI, Europe 2 and controls also
RFM through its shareholdingand its ad rep house?" asks Saut-ter, who adds, "We too want to beable to develop."
The Competition Council isreportedly due to issue its deci-sion on November 15. This willhave to be confirmed by the CSA,followed by an authorisation ofthe format changes.
For The RecordContrary to what was stated inM&M October 1, Alfredo LarryPignagnoli is not an impresariobut a record producer who alsoco -wrote and co -arrangedWhigfield's Saturday Nightwith Davide Riva.
EUROPE A T A GLANCEUNITED KINGDOM:London Radio Starts Amid Legal TalkReuters -owned London Radio started broadcasting on October 5, onlyto find itself in the midst of a legal row. Talk Radio UK, the nationalnewstalk station which is due to come on air in early '95, claimed thenew London station's slogan "original talk radio" was an attempt tohijack the national service's name and to confuse listeners and adver-tisers. London Radio has spent 1 million promoting its launch. TalkRadio is considering legal action, but this depends on whether thewords "talk radio" can belong to one company. Julia Sullivan
HOLLAND: NOS Sees Future Public -Commercial AllianceThe chairman of the Dutch broadcasters' umbrella organisation NOS,Andre van der Louw, has called for a "strategic alliance" between pub-lic and commercial broadcasters. Speaking at the Dutch BroadcastingConference, Van Der Louw said he wanted agreements made on thepractice of acquiring rights for sports and other programmes, and thepurchase of foreign productions. But he added, "I'm not thinking aboutthe collective production of programmes. We [commercial and publicbroadcasters] will always remain competitiors." Julia Bakker
INTERNATIONAL: BMG International To Handle AmericanAs widely speculated, BMG International has reached an agreementwith American Recordings to handle all of the label's acts outsideNorth America. American owner Rick Rubin terminated his relation-ship with Phonogram in March this year. In the new set-up, NewYork -based BMG International will work closely with American's UKoffice headed by MD Dave Robinson for the marketing, promotion,sales and distribution of such acts as Johnny Cash, Slayer, Danzig andthe Black Crowes. Machgiel Bakker
SWITZERLAND: Tender For New Radio Licences In DecemberThe Swiss Federal Office for Communication in Biel has invited sta-tions to submit tenders for new private radio licences for December1994. The results will be announced next spring. Christian Lorenz
UNITED KINGDOM: Supermarket Chain Sponsors Classic FMUK supermarket chain Sainsbury's is to sponsor Classic FM's morningrecipe feature in the UK. It is the retailer's first venture into mediasponsorship. Meanwhile, Classic FM's record label last week issued itssecond release, Classic FM Nocturne, which is being marketed anddistributed by Sony Music Entertainment. Jeff Clark -Meads
UNITED KINGDOM: Down Under FM Targets Ausi ExpatsA station for Australians and New Zealanders in ,London has securedits first advertising deal before being sure of coming on air. DownUnder FM, a station hoping to target expats and travellers between 18-26, has applied for a one -month licence starting end November. Sta-tion manager Kris Burford estimates the size of Down Under's poten-tial audience to be around 250.000 listeners, and Australian brewerFosters has already expressed its confidence in the station by bookingadvertising time. The station will feature 80% all -New Zealand andAustralian music and 20% news and sports. CL
EUROPE: Happy Nation Sales Reach 5.1 MillionAce Of Base's album Happy Nation has so far clocked up sales of 5.1million in Europe, according to Mega Productions. The first edition ofthe album has sold 2.1 million, while the US version has now soldmore than 3 million units. MB
CZECH REPUBLIC: Broadcasting Council Appoints New ChairmanThe Council for Czech Radio and TV Broadcasting has elected formerdeputy chairman Bohuslav Hanus as its new chairman. He takes overfrom Jindrich Kabat. who resigned earlier in September. JS
INTERNATIONAL: PolyGram Opens Colombia OfficePolyGram has opened a new subsidiary in Colombia. Based in Bogota,the new company is PolyGram's fifth wholly -owned subsidiary inLatin America after Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico. JS
GERMANY: WDR 1 Prepares For 10th Rock FestivalGerman pubcaster WDR 1 is continuing a 10 -year tradition with thisyear's edition of its festival highlighting contemporary rock music.Bonn's Biskuithalle will provide the stage for 10 bands on November21, in an eight -hour event which will be broadcast live. This year'sline-up includes Stiltskin (UK), Urban Dance Squad (Holland),Hoodoo Gurus (Australia), legendary punk rockers Slime (Germany)and Swimming the Nile (Germany). CL
UNITED KINGDOM: Fourth Radio Workers Day Moves To Bristol"What About The Workers IV," a day conference for those involved increating radio, will take place in Bristol this year, on October 20.Among sessions scheduled are "Mandy Wheeler's One -Minute Chal-lenge"; "It's Not What You Hear It's The Way That You Listen"; and"Ethnic Radio-Ghetto, Token or Melting Pot?". JS
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The international successof acts such as AlphaBlondy and Soon E MChas led to EMI France'sdecision to maximise itslocal catalogue with thelaunch of a separatedepartment focussing oninternational develop-ment.
With this, EMI joinsthe list of companiesincluding PolyGram,BMG and Virgin, withstand-alone departmentsfor international devel-opment of local cata-logue.
CEO Gilbert Ohayonremembers back threeyears to when the com-pany was reshaped, withthe priority of getting A&Rback on track and rebuilding alocal catalogue. "Since thensome of our artists started hav-ing an impact on the interna-tional market last year, and wehave an increasing number ofprojects with internationalpotential. This area of the com-pany has now become impor-tant enough to justify the cre-ation of a specific profit centre."
A&R director Jean -JacquesSouplet will continue hisresponsibility for internationalexploitation, and will now over -
Alpha Blondy
see a specific internationaldepartment, which will be head-ed by newcomer Wende Cookas director of international pro-motion. She will be assisted bySophie Cayre who will concen-trate on the international pro-motion of EMI's ample back -catalogue (Edith Piaf andCharles Trenet, among others).Cook will also be in charge ofthe international corporatecommunication for EMIFrance.
Although obviously ambi-tious about the new department,
Ohayon is realistic about thelimits of what can be done inter-nationally. "You can't break 10acts in 15 different countries atthe same time. We have to focusour attention on a few numberof acts and on some territories."
Among the priorities he listsfor the months to come are DaoDezi, a project based on tradi-tional celtic music from Britan-ny, created by Eric Mouquetand Guilain Joncheray, knownfor Deep Forest, rapper Soon EMC (both acts will have theiralbums released in UK and the
Sveriges Radio PDs Get Digital On -
Air Training At Dutch Ad RolandHOLLANDby Machgiel Bakker
Thirteen programme directorsfrom Swedish Sveriges Radio(SR) underwent their first foreigntraining session in Septemberwhen they took part in a trainingweek on integrated digital systemsat Dutch radio consultancy firmAd Roland Media Services(ARMS).
As part of the project, which isthe largest move by a publicbroadcaster to train programmersin new technology, each program-mer will draw up a paper for studyby the SR management.
It is important for programmersto start looking at how integrateddigital systems will affect theirwork, believes Anne Chaabane,
head of staff training and program-ming development at SR. "Thisprocess should be programmer -ledand not driven by the engineers.We should orientate ourselves tothe future, analyse the systems andhow they can work to our advan-tage."
The week included training onthree digital on -air systems-RCS-Works, Digispot and DCS-UDS. Two executives from ABCin Australia gave a demonstrationon the D -Radio system, claimed tobe the world's first totally integrat-ed, digital on -air system, whichwill be installed at ABC inNovember.
According to Ad Roland, whileenough is known about the bene-fits computerised system can bringto the editing process, information
is often lacking on how it caninfluence on -air scheduling, andinteraction with other systemssuch as billing, traffic, royaltyaccounting and record archiving.
Soon E MC
USA in January), new jackband Tribal Jam and twoFrench pop acts, De Palmas andVallee. EL
Private Licences
Scheduled ForSummer '95AUSTRIA
Private radio is expected to bebecome operational in Austria byearly summer 1995, when theAustrian ministry for traffic willallocate 10 regional FM broadcast-ing licences.
Out of 150 applications, theministry has selected seven candi-dates per licence. IFPI Austria MDDr. Franz Medwenitsch expects adecision by early November. Theministry will distribute one licencefor each of Austria's nine stateswith the exception of the state ofVienna, which will be covered bya city and a regional licence. Thelicences will be valid for fiveyears. CL
Independent Entertainment Pro-motions (IEP), launched by for-mer EMI head of promotion Pimvan der Kolk, has proved in itsfirst nine months that there is amarket for independent and spe-cialised music promotion.
The company, which coordi-nates radio, TV and press promo-tion for individual projects,employs five full-time staffersand five freelancers. Since itslaunch on January 1 it has han-dled projects from 16 differentlabels.
An increasingly fragmentedmedia has led to the situation
where different records may needseveral radio pluggers for differ-ent formats, says Van der Kolk,an 18 -year EMI veteran. "Weoffer that range of specialism inone promotion team."
Among hits to benefit fromIEP services are DJ Bobo'sEverybody, Corona's The RhythmOf The Night and Double You'sRun To Me (all for IMC/ZYX).Other projects include the radiopromotion for all of Sony Music'snational roster (Herman Brood,Moonflower, Bolland & Bol-land); all media promotion forPhonogram's Indigo and Roos;and the promotion of Dino's EdithPiaf tribute. MB
INTERNATIONAL: MikeThome has been appointed direc-tor of new music media develop-ment for Warner Music Interna-tional (IAMB, reporting to seniorVP Peter Ikin. Thome, producerfor such acts as Soft Cell, BronskiBeat and the Communards, willbe responsible for developingmusic projects in new media for-mats for WMI worldwide.
Newsmakers INTERNATIONAL: LucySmith, currently European businessmanager at Unique Broadcasting,will be joining NAB Europe asdirector of European affairs thismonth. Smith replaces RobertMarking, who is leaving the compa-ny to cany out consultancy work.Meanwhile, Pascal Grierson will beleaving his post at UK -based MetroTraffic to replace Smith at Unique.
UNITED KINGDOM: BMGRecords (UK) has announced thepromotion of finance directorRatnam Bala --popularly knownas Bala in the music industry --tothe position of MD operations.Bala joined the company in 1988from PolyGram International.Simon Robinson will be actinghead of finance until a permanentappointment is made.
FIMI Official Sales -Based Chart Set To Launch In New YearITALYby Mark Dezzani
Arguments over music sales fig-ures are hoped to be a thing ofthe past when the new FIMI-sponsored sales chart launcheson January 1 1995.
Compiled by the internationalDanish market research companyNielsen, the chart, which wasunveiled at Milan's Audio/tradeFair SIM Hi-Fi in September, isclaimed to be Italy's first reliablesales chart based on scientificmarket research techniques.
"Existing charts are oftenunreliable, reflecting shipmentsto shops instead of actual sales,"said CGD/Warner MD and FIMIpresident Gerolamo CacciaDominioni, who repeated his callthat the industry needs better andfaster feedback on market trends.
"There is a new managementculture in the Italian recordindustry, which not only focuseson the creation of product but onthe development of the market,which requires a steady flux ofreliable sales -based informa-tion."
Electronic bar-code technolo-gy installed at retail counters willsupply daily sales figures. Some1.000 shops are being investigat-ed, with an eventual 350 beingselected to participate in the ini-tial sample.
Caccia said that the chartshould open up new promotionalopportunities for music, includ-ing the establishment of an annu-al awards gala based on sales.Meanwhile, as from October 1,the criteria for Gold and Plat-inum discs has been halved tosales of 50.000 and 100.000
units respectively, bringingItaly's awards in line with therest of Europe in terms of rela-tive market volumes.
However, the chart's linkswith FIMI, which represents thecountry's major record compa-nies, has raised some questionmarks among members of theindependent's industry body AFIover possible bias of information.
Mario de Luigi, editor ofItaly's monthly music industrytrade magazine, Musica e Dischi,which compiles what is consid-ered to be the more reliable of
Italy's two existing charts, identi-fied the issue as a potential prob-lem.
"FIMI will participate directlyin the charts compilation afterthe data has been collected byNielsen. This must make thechart's independence question-able."
His fears were echoed byTony Verona, MD of the indieAla Bianca label, who voiced hisconcern that the chart could bebiased by sampling FIMI-sup-plied shops where their productdominates the shelves.
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Programming The Music Radio
Radio ABC: On A Mission To EntertainA classic all-rounder station typical of thestill unformatted Danish market, RadioABC faces the challenge of serving listen-ers ranging from 15 to 49 with a "hand-picked" mix of music. Head of music KentHansen has the luxury of being able to pickthe best from all genres; however, withoutcompartmentalising the day according totarget demographics, he and MD StigHartvig Nielsen face the challenge of main-taining momentum throughout the day. Hespoke to Julia Sullivan.
"We often ask ourselves, how is it pos-sible that we manage to cater for a demo aswide as 15 - 49, without too many prob-lems? I don't really have an answer otherthan the fact that the radio situation inDenmark is still fairly undeveloped. Insome years, the situation will start lookinglike the set-up in the UK, and stations willhave to be split up into more specific for-mats. Until then, however, we manage tosurvive with a combination of EHR, ACEand newstalk programming.
The difficulty of this approach, though,is that you have to programme very muchaccording to 'feel.' In order to do this wellyou have to be confident that you are veryin touch with your listeners, and that youknow what music they like. We do this byregularly asking listeners, on and off theair, what they enjoy listening to. Ratherthan basing our programmes on data col-lected from conducting listening tests, weprefer to gauge tastes through direct DJcontact with our audience.
No Criteria But QualityWe programme everything from country,country rock, to disco and dance music.There are no "format variations" during theday. The mix of music is the same thewhole day. However, we try to limit thetune -out factor by avoiding extremes inevery part.As far as I am concerned, as long as a songis good, I don't care how it is categorised.Our listeners enjoy our mix of music, andthat is the most important. I am very happyprogramming country in our general pro-grammes. One country track we added inAugust was the new Sammy Kershaw fromthe soundtrack of "Maverick."
Being First With The New HitsThe Danish record companies are quiteslow, and as I like to keep my ears open for
new tracks early on, I often use importshops or ring up affiliates in other countriesto get releases immediately, rather thanwaiting for them to come out here. It takesatleast two weeks for a track released in theUK or even Holland to be released by theDanish affiliate. Lucilectric is one case inpoint. It was on powerplay in Holland, butwasn't due for release in Denmark at all. Irang up BMG in Denmark and told themwe wanted to playlistthe song, and they laterreleased it. This kind ofcommunication doessometimes work. I havegood contacts with therecord companies, andwhen they hear that weare keen on one song orother, that can some-times lead to alterationsin promotions.Everybody has the feel-ing at sometime or otherthat not the best thingsare being released. Insome ways though,that's just as well. I can't put 200on my playlist at one time.The summer period and January are oftenparticularly slow times and those are theperiods when you run the risk, for example,of playing the Christmas songs for Godknows how long. Those are the momentswhen we try and look at some songs whichmay not be our number one choice.
Phone -Ins, ProgrammeAnnouncementsMost of the slots on ABC are two to threehours long, apart from the five -hour longafternoon show, which I present withanother DJ. This is a long time to keep aprogramme interesting, but since we madesome changes in May, I believe there arenow enough factors keeping the momen-tum going. One thing we have done is toincrease the interactivity of the show, witha lot of live reports and phone-ins. Also,announcements for features coming up inthe show help to keep things moving for-ward, as well as lots of interviews and liveexternal broadcasts. Having two DJs who"spar" off each other is a good way ofkeeping the energy level high.
Kent Hansen
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Humour As A Mission StatementHumour is a very important part of our pro -
Radio Silkeborge Extends ReachCongratulations to Danish local ACE/EHR station Radio Silkeborg, who expandedtheir reach at the beginning of September. The station now takes in the middle andeastern areas of Jutland --an estimated half million listeners. Meanwhile, head of pro-grammes Carsten Worsoe has left the station to move to national station DenmarksRadio P3.
MCM Secures Rights For Elvis TributeRadio production and syndication company MCM Entertainment has secured theexclusive radio rights for the world outside the US to "Elvis Aaron Presley --TheTribute." The three-hour event, which took place on October 8, featured well-knownartists performing Elvis tracks. Names included Bryan Adams, Jon Bon Jovi, MichaelBolton and the Scorpions.
The Voice Stations Coordinate PlaylistsNew programme director at The Voice in Denmark--Eik Frederiksen--has been busycoordinating playlists on all the station's outlets in Denmark. As from October 15 thestations in Copenhagen, Odensen, Nordjylland as well as the satellite The Voice ofScandinavia will not only run the same powerplays, but will all have the sameplaylists.
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gramming. If there is any thing that defineswhat we stand for, it's humour and enter-tainment. We are not religious, we are non-political, but what does concern us is keep-ing people entertained. We do that both bymaking them laugh, and by making themthink about and discuss different aspects oflife.One of our major programmes is the morn-ing show presented by our DJ Lars
Hildegaard, who is amajor personality at thestation. He has loads ofgossip, and has differ-ent invented characterseveryday who talk tohim and comment onthe listeners, or on peo-ple who have phonedin. Another of his tricksis to use voice imitatorsto make up ridiculousstories on politicians orother famous people.We have some verylong discussions in ourshow, and since May
have been encouraging listeners muchmore to phone in with comments on whatwe say, which often leads to long debatesand gets listeners on the air a lot more.
Leave In The Street SoundsGoing out into the city is a good way ofinjecting some texture and energy into aprogramme. Outdoor sounds and inter-
views with people in the street providevariety and are an effective way of cultivat-ing the impression that you are in contactwith the locality. One or the other of usgets out two or three times a week, within areach of some 50 KM from our studios.In August there was a big week-long partyin Randers, with concerts, exhibitions andparties. We picked out one or two things totalk about everyday, and used those as afocal point for the programme. One day wewent and talked to the people behind thescenes and some of the TV camera crew.That really gave a sense that we were rightin there."
use of Cappella, Clubhouse, 49ers, East Side Beat,arada House Gang, Anticappella, Lance Ellington,
The Professor and so on....
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The Rise Of National Music StationsFor the last two years there has been much talk of a
renaissance of German language music in Germany,with a revival in the popularity of schlager figures like
Marianne Rosenberg, cult schlager nights like Munich's"Otto's Tanzpalast" and schlager festivals.
hether or not a real renais-sance is taking place is a matter of debate,but the popularity of national music sta-tions can be seen clearly by their dominantposition in German ratings. The most -lis-tened -to station in the whole of Germany isCologne pubcaster WDR 4, which playsaround 95% German language music; thenumber 1 private station in Munich isnational music for-mat Radio Arabella,while a change offormat to nationalmusic for RPR/2 inLudwigshafen meanta rise of 40% in lis-teners for the stationin this year's MA.
WDR 4's nationalmusic format hasproved successful forthe past 11 years. In this year's MA ratingsWDR 4 clocked up 1.17 million listenersper hour, its hold slipping 130.000 fromlast year's position, but still placing itleagues ahead of its competitors. Head ofmusic/light entertainment for WDR 4Rudolf Heinemann believes there is a
huge audience for national music and thisis proved by the station's impressive listen-ership. "In Germany and other Europeancountries, there is a large sector of the pub-lic which has little interest in the interna-tional rock pop scene. We are not talkingabout the mass public, but nonetheless avery significant part. These people preferto listen to lighter, softer music ofEuropean origin."
WDR 4 plays 95% German music,including the latest "Deutsche Schlager" bythe likes of Roland Kaiser as well as yolk-stihnliche music (commercial folk music),carnival songs, brass music and operetta.Everything from Howard Carpendale toMarianne Rosenberg to PeterAlexander, Nino de Angelo and James
National NeedsRPR/2 changed its format to national
music this:year and shot up in the MA rat-ings as a result to 200.000 listeners perhour. Now the station has been granted anationwide license to broadcast on ana-logue and digital satellite, which PD DieterMauer claims gives his station an extratechnical reach of two to three million lis-teners. Mauer says there is a big demandfor national music. "A big proportion of the
public wants to listento softer music.Around 80% of pri-vate programmes playEnglish -languagemusic, while everythird programme onpublic radio playEnglish -orientedmaterial. All these arevery much alike andcan't satisfy 80% of
the population." He adds that most radioprogrammers are relatively young andmake the presumption that Anglo-American hit material is what everyonewants to listen to. WDR 4 is good evidencethat this is not the case, says Mauer:.
Mauer does believe that there is arenaissance of German music taking place,which has nothing to do with nationalism,but a sense of identity, he says. "Peoplelike to tune in and say this is my Germanmusic station. Radio will become muchmore niche -oriented in the future and lis-teners will become more selective in theirlistening, looking for a certain genre in astation.
"We always get far more requests fornational music than international," he adds."And our RPR 'Schlager Parade' shows areall sold out. If we tried to stage shows likethis 10 or 15 years ago, no one would haveturned up. Two weeks ago we held an RPRparty and in the afternoon we only playedRPR 2 music [ie German Schlager]; 30.000people turned up and of those around 40%
"Arabella has proved that people really do want to listen toGerman hits. We have been seeing a revival of German music
over the last two years, which is mirrored by the success of our'Schlager Olymplade.'"- Radio Arabella PD Karl -Heinz Schweter
Last. "WDR 4's success shows we aremeeting the demands of a certain audi-ence," says Heinemann, "which is notbeing met by international rock/pop formatstations. I believe that there is a similaraudience in other European countries too."
Heinemann is very sceptical about theso-called renaissance of German music."We have been consistently successful forthe past 11 years; people have always likedto listen to this sort of music. I don'tbelieve that there is any renaissance goingon."
were under 30!"RPR plays 90% German language
music, with core artists including UdoJurgens, Howard Carpendale and RolandKaiser.
Radio Arabella in Munich has beenenjoying success as the city's number 1 pri-vate station since its launch five yearsago-and as Germany's first national musicformat private station. Although there areothers now such as Radio Brocken andRPR/2, PD Karl -Heinz Schweter says it isa mystery why there aren't more national
music stations. "I think one of the mainproblems is finding people who will identi-fy with this sort of programme and willback it," says Schweter. Many see nationalmusic as old-fashioned, outmoded andunhip, but Arabella's track record showsthat stations who break out of the ACEmould and play national music, soon winlisteners.
Arabella used to be rock format stationMl, but too few listeners made the stationrethink its programming strategy and anational music format was the result.Arabella plays mostly German schlager,with 30% international hits. Core artistsinclude everything from Christina Bach to
DDR. "English language programmes arenot as popular here as in west Germany,because of the history of east Germany.People here have not had the same contactwith English-speaking people as in thewest, so they don't have the same accep-tance or sympathy with American music."A classic ACE format isn't sufficient, saysMuller, to fulfil the demand for nationalmusic in east Germany. Miller says he seesan increase in the amount of national musicbeing played on other German stations."Where stations used to play 5% Germanlanguage music, they'll now play 15%. It'sharder for EHR format stations to playmore German music though-they can
"Where stations used to play 5% German languagemusic, they'll now play 15%. It's harder for EHR format
stations to play more German music though-theycan play Udo Lindenberg and Peter Maffay and that's
about it."- Radio Brocken PD Stephan Muller
Brummer And Brummer to Andy Borgto Connie Francis. Schweter says the suc-cess of Arabella is down to the fact that thestation "plays what the people want." Headds, "Arabella has proved that peoplereally do want to listen to German hits. Wehave been seeing a revival of Germanmusic over the last two years,which is mirrored by the suc-cess of our 'SchlagerOlymplade' ['SchlagerFestival'] which we holdevery year. This year itattracted 9.000 people of allages, including many youngpeople."
The Middle GapRadio Brocken in Halle,
east Germany has come upwith a new format, with a mixof 50% German language and50% international ACE. It isnow one of the most success-ful stations in the newBiindeslander with over200.000 listeners per hour andover one million listeners aday (EMA Ost '94). PDStephan Miiller explains,"We saw the gaps in the mar-ket for classic internationalhits and national German lan-guage music. What we aredoing is a bit like some of theFrench radio formats. A fewyears ago, what we are doingwould have been seen asimpossible. With this formatwe aim for a uniform soundby having music flow' in ourformat mix. We create a bal-ance between the German andinternational music. The pub-lic stations play the real clas-sic German language songsand therefore they attract a very old targetgroup. But because we have a mixed for-mat we have succeeded in targetting thegap in the middle, that is the 30-50 agegroup."
All over Germany, Miller says we areseeing a rebirth of German language musicand the share of national music is increas-ing all the time, especially in the former
Schweter
Heinemann
play Udo Lindenberg and Peter Maffayand that's about it."
Muller says that the international musicscene has changed over the years, with anarrowing band of megastars, resulting innational music playing a bigger role acrossEurope in countries like France and Italy.
"We did a lot ofresearch and were sur-prised how high theacceptance of Germanlanguage music was.As long as you have aconsistent music flowit doesn't matter if youare playing interna-tional ACE or Germanlanguage or Italian lan-guage music." Coreartists on Brockeninclude RogerWhitaker, JurgenDrevs, FrankSchobel, Udo Jiirgensand Rex Gildo, along-side internationaloldies from the likes ofthe Beatles, BeachBoys and CliffRichard.
Muller says animportant feature ofhis station's program-ming is the formationof slots of current hitsto "freshen up theolder programme andreach younger listen-ers." The image of anational music stationdoesn't have to be yes-teryear," says Muller."In the past a lot of sta-tions marketed as 'DerOldie Sender' haveonly enjoyed short-
term success. This is because people likehearing old songs, but don't want to beassociated with liking something which isseen as outdated or yesteryear. To counterthis, we put new and modern titles in rota-tion to give people the slice of actualitythey want. Image is all-important."
Miranda Watson
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MULLER-WESTERNHAGEN: New Releases
WEA's Biggest Promo YetGERMANYby Christian Lorenz
Even before Marius Muller-Westernhagen's new album Affentheater("Monkey Business")was released August30, pre -sales alreadyamounted to 700.000units, enough tolaunch the recordstraight into the num-ber 1 slot of theGerman albumcharts.
German languagerock/pop artist Westernhagen has beensigned to WEA Music ever since his debutin 1974. In 20 years WEA has released 16Westernhagen albums of which ninereached gold status (250.000 sold), fourwent platinum (500.000 sold) and four soldmore than a million copies. WEA deputyMD and head of marketing Bernd Doppcalls Westernhagen's previous albumreleases "the best selling back cataloguetitles at WEA together with Phil Collins'albums."
Dopp explainsthe special rela-tion betweenWEA andWesternhagen as"very good andMarius knowsthat we standbehind him inbad times aswell." WEA'strust inWesternhagen'spotential during aperiod of lowpopularity in theearly '80s haspaid off since.His 1989 albumHalleluja was the first album by a Germanartist to enter the German album charts atnumber 1.
Westernhagen's poignant German lan-guage lyrics set the tone for WEA's mar-keting. "Germany is Westernhagen's mainmarket," says Alexander Maurus, market-ing manager at WEA Music and responsi-ble for the co-ordination of theWesternhagen campaign. "We don't aim toestablish the artist in other than Germanlanguage countries." For the first time,Austria and Switzerland are specificallytmetted by WEA's promotion for aWesternhagen release. Affentheater cur-rently is at number 36 in the Swiss albumcharts and still on the waiting list for theAustrian charts.
WEA Music is very pleased withWesternhagen's success and sees no neces-sity to widen the artists market appeal.Says Maurus, "There will never be anEnglish language Westernhagen album."Sales of Westernhagen's current album arefuelled by a marketing campaign which isthe biggest operation WEA Music has everlaunched in Germany. Says Maurus, "Noteven Phil Collins got a comparable promo-tion campaign from us." For the first time,WEA Music used teaser countdown spotsand sneak previews to promote an artist.
Teaser spots were broadcast on MTVEurope and the German music channel
Viva. Starting five days before release, agenuine news presenter from German pub-lic TV network ARD would read out aspoof news flash, stating the number ofclays left to the release of the album. MTV
and Viva showedsix to seven ofthese spots perday.
Sneak pre-views were heldfive days beforethe release date inmid -sized musicvenues in fiveGerman cities
simultaneously: Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg,Leipzig and Munich. Through local radioand newspapers, fans were invited to join aWesternhagen party, where Affentheaterwould be played back in its entirety for thefirst time in public. "Imagine listening tothe album played back over a big PA sys-tem with the venue decorated in the style ofthe album's artwork," says Maurus todescribe the setting. "The main objective ofthese previews was to motivate the fanswho attended the parties to spread positive
mouth-to-mouthpropaganda," saysMaurus. He addsthat "the partieshave been a greatsuccess." The pre-views allowedWEA more con-trol over the con-ditions, of whichWestern hag en'salbum would belistened to for thatall important firstimpression.
Post -releaseactivities are cen-tred around thesongs on
Affentheater which are going to be market-ed as singles. WEA plans to release twomore singles from the album. The nextsong scheduled for single release isWillenlos. For a third single WEA hasselected the ballad Tanz Mit Dem Teufel.
A 45 -second spot compiled from thevideos of all three singles will be shown in900 cinemas all over Germany in October.For early November, WEA is preparing aTV spot which will be shown on Germancable stations SAT 1, wriL and Pro 7.
Westernhagen will take the album onthe road between June 8 and July 4, 1995.The tour, covering nine stadiums, is spon-sored by RU and covers all major Germancities. Tickets are already on pre -sale at themoment, and a total of 35 TV spots pro-moting the concerts will be broadcastbetween November 16-30.
Signed to: WEA Music Germany Publisher: More Music/Kick Musik Management: Kick/Cologne New album: Affentheater New single: Es Geht Mir Gut
Recorded at: Townhouse/London,Olympic/London and Can Studio/Weilerswist, Germany Producers: Pete Wingfield, MariusMiiller-Westernhagen
SINGLES
BASS BUMPERSGood Fun - Ultraphonic/East WestPRODUCER: Bass BumpersMinimalistic techno is the fare here andonce again this outfit proves that stickingto the basics is quite often the best. Thesong itself has a conventional structure,which gives it some pop crossover appealas well.
COCOI Had A Dream - MAAD/WEAPRODUCER: Marc ZArmed with ambient overtones, Coco'sunorthodox houser is hard hitting but notwithout a sense of melody. In combinationwith its odd but pleasant sound it has radiopotential.
CODADreamstate - Logic
PRODUCER: Linus Burdick
As the title implies this dance track has acalming and mellow feel. Some of theremixes do have enough punch to cutthrough on the dancefloor.
MR. PRESIDENTUp 'N Away - Club Culture/WEAPRODUCER: Kai MatthiesenThis is a bit of an oddity, as it employs vir-tually all styles currently hip in the dancearena. It could be considered the Germananswer to the UK's current jungle craze.
RHYTHM CORPORATIONWild For You - MetronomePRODUCER: Rhythm CorporationThis mid -tempo semi -acoustic rocker cou-ples the former Rainbirds' rhythm sectionwith the talents of Australian singer GrantStevens and guitarist Gary Schmalz. Itshould come as no surprise that the song isused in C&A's movie campaign this fall.
SCOOTERHyper Hyper - The Remixes - Club Tools/EdelPRODUCER: The Loop
With pulsating beats executed at breakneckspeed, this techno tune was a big club hitthe first time around. Now the numerousremixes which take things even furtherenter the German sales charts at 43.
SELIG
Ohne Dich - EpicPRODUCER: Franz PlasaThis sweet and wistful ballad representsquite a different side of this rock band.Selig pulls it off with so much verve thatone can only wonder why they don't resortto this approach more often.
SPARKSWhen Do I Get To Sing My.Way - LogicPRODUCER: Ron & Russell Mael
With a wink at Frank Sinatra, the twobrothers who gave us Amateur Houramong a host of other gems return armed
with a Germandeal. This songwhich includesremixes by theGrid's VinceClarke has themsounding like across betweenAlphaville andPet Shop Boys.
THIS IS TRE BRAND NEW SPARKS SING
ALBUMS
COSMIC BABYFantasia - LogicPRODUCER: Cosmic BabyActually this is a derivative of the ThinkingAbout Myself album, containing remixes ofthe Fantasia track on that album so diversethey can be referred to as new songs. Someof them, especially Airplay are fairly acces-sible, while others like Talking Drums areesoteric to say the least.
JINGO DE LUNCHDeja VooDoo - VertigoPRODUCER: Jon Caffery/Jingo De LunchBy current standards this Berlin postpunkoutfit belongs to the veteran class. Theirthird album for Vertigo marks a return totheir hardcore roots. They do sound verydifferent nonetheless because their musicalability has greatly increased over the yearsand a fine production job provides the icingon the cake. The result are tunes like RingA Bell?, War and So What which are loudbut smooth.
OTROPIC T(H)REEPerfectly Planted - DragnetPRODUCER: Roey Marquis II
Here's awhichfollowsguidelines as setby A TribeCalled Quest andArrestedDevelopment.The results are arural hip hop
style, while most samples used are eithertraditional R&B or jazz. Tracks like BackIn The Days and Keep It Flowing areexemplary. The smooth and soulful I Seedeserves special attention.
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SANDY REEDI Believe - WEAPRODUCER: Falk/Hine/LewisQuality pop founded on an R&B founda-tion is what you can expect here and thefirst two singles Sweet Love and (ThisWorld Is) Too Big For Me provided anopening towards EHR. The rest of thealbum doesn't disappoint either. Tracksworth mentioning further include the forayin Amy Grant territory God Has A MillionFaces and Hit And Run, for which sheteamed up with Inner Circle.
SWIMMING THE NILEHome - WEAPRODUCER: Franz Plasa
For their thirdalbum the Nilehas opted for anapproach that isboth more metal-lic and moreexperimental.This leads tosongs likeSummertime and
Nothing which sound like Sonic Youthgone hardcore. The first single Star is dif-ferent from the aforementioned because it'ssomewhat Gothic, almost like the SistersOf Mercy meet the Cult.
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A Catch -All PhraseWorld music-a phrase describing a plethora of ethnic -based musical stylesthat fall outside the usual Anglo-European pop sphere-has yet to fulfill theexpectations kindled by its emergence and modest crossover success in the midto late '80s. Yet it has, without question, become an established and reliablegenre akin to jazz or blues, and certain styles and artists have finally coalescedfrom the promising chaos of its first international ripples.
by Terry Berne
Highlife, soca, township jive, rai,juju, cumbia, afro -beat, dance -hall, konpa, soukous, kassav,nuevo flamenco, celtic... These arejust a few of the many styles thatthe term world music encompass-es. They are hybrid forms, com-bining local rhythmic and melodictraditions with jazz, reggae, popor dance elements. But anotherparallel trend focuses on morepurely ethnic, folk -based acousticmusic from around the globe.Labels like Nimbus, HarmoniaMundi and Buda concentratetheir efforts on documenting thisaspect of the world's musical her-itage, while the majors and largerspecialised independents vie for abroader public's attention withworld -beat stars like Mory Kante,Salif Keita, Juan Luis Guerraand Yothu Yindi.
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music superstar of the rock erawas Ravi Shankar, and if its firsttrue fusion with pop came at thehands of guitarist CarlosSantana, it was the eruption ofreggae onto the scene in the early'70s and the subsequent triumphof Bob Marley which alerted popaudiences to the riches to befound beyond the musical pale.And though artists like MiriamMakeba and Hugh Masakela hadpreviously broken down con-sumer as well as industry ban-i-ers, it was the discovery of Africanartists like Osibisa, Fela Kuti,King Sunny Ade or Manu Diban-go by curious and more sophisti-cated western record buyers thatpaved the way for the huge suc-cess of Paul Simon's brilliant andgroundbreaking album Grace -land, inspired by the music ofSouth Africa's townships and gen-erally credited with the surge ofinterest in world music on thepart of media, the industry andmusic fans. World music actssuch as Ofra Haza, JohnnyClegg, Alpha Blondy, Les VoixBulgares, Khaled, LadysmithBlack Mambazo, Cesaria Evora,Zap Mama and others became aforce to contend with.
And while hopes forestablishing world music as pop'snew frontier may have turned torealism, that it is still capable ofsurprises is demonstrated by 7Seconds, the recent single onColumbia from Youssou N'Dourfeaturing Neneh Cherry. In earlySeptember it became the mostplayed single on European radio,reaching number 1 on the EHRTop 40, with top 10 airplay inevery region tracked by M&M'sregional airplay chart. Sales havebeen quick to follow; the singletopped the Eurochart Hot 100,hitting the top five in 10 coun-tries, while the album justdropped out of the top 20 after 14weeks on the chart.
Two other worldmusic albums have made particu-lar impact this summer inEurope: Angelique Kidjo's Aya, arousing rhythm celebration partlyrecorded at Paisley Park out onMango, and Talking Timbuktu, thebluesy collaboration of Ali FarkaToure with Ry Cooder fromWorld Circuit.
Name recognitionand high artist profiles are part ofworld music's recent achieve-ments. Thus, in contrast to evenfive years ago, world music has itsstars, its styles, and even itssales. And if these weren't evi-
dence enough of its growing influ-ence, acts like Deep Forest,Enigma, Stone Age, D -EmotionProject or even Mano Negro tes-tify to the significance of worldmusic rhythms, vocals and musicon contemporary pop sensibility,in what can be seen as a kind of"second generation" of artists fol-lowing the lead of such '80s inno-vators as Peter Gabriel, DavidByrne and Paul Simon.
No Stereotypes, PleaseThe first boundary to
be hurdled is often the term itself.World Circuit's MD NickGold is not keen on theepithet. 'World music isnot really a genre at all,"he says, "much less astyle. What's calledworld music consists ofabout 90% of theworld's music which isthen assigned thistiny marginal catego-ry." The label, withsome 30 titles in itscatalogue, includ-ing Revolution InMotion, a rivetingselection of musicfrom Brazil'sBloco Afra groupOlodum and ge]iCelebration, the v tie Joaward winning BhekiMseleku album, began as acompany which organised con-certs for many of the artists itlater recorded. This is reflected intheir attitude. 'We promote artistsand not representatives of anyparticular style," Gold asserts."And consumer awareness hascertainly grown; people now knowmany artists by name and havemore than just a vague idea ofregions."
One advantage worldmusic has, Gold believes, is thatthe problem of image is of mini-mal importance; 'The music soclearly speaks for itself," he adds.This is one reason why radiolooms large as a potential promo-tional tool, though in the UK atleast it is still an uphill climb.'There are so few outlets for thistype of music. It's very difficult toget music not sung in English onthe air, especially at the nationallevel, though this is less a prob-lem on the mainland."
On the question ofcollaborations in general, and thesuccess of Talking Timbuktu inparticular, Gold says, "It's fantas-tic that Ry's participation helpedthe album to be widely heard. It
should boost awareness a greatdeal because it is still veryAfrican, still very much FarkaToure sound. A pop sensibility iseffective but certainly not animportant criterion for everyrecording. The musical traditionsof this music are so strong thatit's actually difficult to dilute it;what is authentic in it will alwaysremain." Upcoming releasesinclude Gnawa musician MustafaBaqbou and Cuban son groupSierra Maestra.
Real World is anoth-er label that originated as a pio-neer world music concert produc-er before the term existed. 'Thereis still a symbiotic relationshipbetween the WOMAD organisationand the label, though they oper-ate independently," commentsVirgin head of specialist musicDeclan Colgan. The label, now inits fifth year, has released some50 titles to date, and enjoyedrecent notoriety with SheilaChandra's album Zen Kiss. 'Whenthe expression 'world music' firstgained prominence," noted Col-
gan, "there was an initialfear that peoplewould regard itas either narrow-
ly ethnic or asstrictly Africanpop. But much as
jazz can encompasseveryone from Louis
Armstrong to JohnZorn, people now
realise that worldmusic can mean any-
thing from nativeAmerican chants toYoussou N'Dour singingwith Neneh Cherry. And
its quite valid as a sectiontitle in a record store indi-
cating where people canlook for something."
Real World cer-tainly tries to embrace extremes.Explains Colgan, "As the label hasgrown so has its philosophy. Thecatalogue contains pure unadul-terated traditional music recordedlive, as well as sophisticatedmulti -track productions such asGeoffrey Oryema's secondalbum." In fact, it is this depththat helps to build the label'sidentity. "In a market still in itsinfancy, the consumer has achance, once they've made an ini-tial discovery, to delve into theextensive back catalogue."
From Culture To CultureBut not all of world
music's problems stem from theunfamiliar nature of the music.Despite the single market, Europeremains a hodge-podge of tradi-tions and economic structures.'With the best will in the worldyou still can't treat Europe as oneterritory," Colgan assets. A coun-try like France, for instance, has awell -developed sense of whatworld music can achieve. Other
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countries are only graduallyreaching that same understand-ing. Something can be played todeath in one territory and virtual-ly ignored next door."
That also holds true,of course, for every other kind ofmusic, including the purest EHR.So it is doubly exceptional when atrack like 7 Seconds explodesacross all borders. The key, apartfrom good songwriting andproduction, was thecollaborative element,which made the songimmediately moreaccessible to radio, as itscharge up the EHR chartsubsequently proves.Sony UK product managerSara Macintosh notes sev-eral factors contributing tothe Senegalese singer's suc-cess, including the fact thatYoussou N'Dour had previ-ously recorded with PeterGabriel, so was already some-what known. "Everything has tobe deliberated, from the mix tothe cover art," she says. "I thinkone reason why world musicseems to be popular at themoment is because of what's hap-pened with dance music, which ispopular across Europe, and muchof so-called world beat has adance vibe."
She feels that thevalue of the term varies fromartist to artist. 'When applied toveterans like Youssou people tendto understand it right away. Butwith a new artist, like the Anglo-Indian Bally Sagoo, whose albumwe're releasing in October, it canmake it more difficult to distin-guish them from the crowd. Ifyou're trying to promote an artistless as an ethnic or folk act andmore as a pop act the term candefinitely confuse things."
Irregardless of 7 Sec-onds' trajectory, any hopes thatworld music will become a stapleon EHR or will even have an easi-er time getting playlisted in thefuture are dispelled by Sony'sexperience with Deep Forest,which ulitises samples of tradi-tional chants from Cameroun,Barundi, Senegal and the Congo."Stations tended to lump ittogether with other world musicinfluenced pop," claims Macin-tosh. "We're already playing atrack like that,' was a typicalresponse by radio stations, andthey had room for only one or twosimilar tracks. They refused toview it as simply a great cut." Soit all may just come down to tim-ing.
Timing is certainlysomething which Island Record'sworld music label Mango has inabundance. With current albumsout by such big names as SalifKeita, Khaled and AngeliqueKidjo, and a new album by BaabaMaal about to hit the streets,Mango is poised for an assault onnarrow conceptions of what musicthe public will buy and what theywant to hear.
'The whole musicscene is based more than ever onrhythms due to the popularity of
dance," says international prod-uct manager Paul Zijlstra echo-ing Sony's Macintosh. "And worldmusic is selling to a broader audi-ence than before. In order to over-come the inertia of the term, youhave to work these acts as youwould any other pop act, throughcareful production, videos andperformances. IfAngelique Kidjoand
BaabaMaal are at turning
points in their careers, it'sbecause of years of hard work andinvestment, and because of faiththat their music would eventuallybreak through. It's not just aquestion of the music."
Zijlstra sees threephases to the development ofworld music. It arrived on theinternational scene as a localroots music, then incorporatedpop elements which quickly over-whelmed its individual style, thenfinally found a7way to blend thetwo traditions in a more natural,mutually beneficial manner.
The fusion is payingoff. Aya has sold over 100.000units in Europe alone. "Radio hasbeen responsive, especially inScandinavia and Holland," affirmsZijlstra, "and Viva TV in Germanyhas also been supportive, provingthat Angelique's music appeals toa younger audience."
Let The World KnowAs with any other
genre, exposure is the key. WulfMuller, international marketingdirector for jazz at PolyGram, andresponsible for Verve's Worldimprint, argues, "There's not nec-essarily a better market for worldmusic now, but a market thatexists and if you service it betteryou'll see sales increasing. That'swhat some of the majors are real-ising; they see there's a marketand they're moving in that direc-tion. It makes particular sense fora multinational as their locallabels have already recordedmuch of the material."
Recently reactivatedVerve World was created with justthat idea in mind. It will serve tochannel worthy product from thelocal PolyGram companies world-wide. No artists will be signed tothe label, and no productions willoriginate with it. The majority ofits 20 releases come from Verve'sBrazilian repertoire, though thebalance is changing rapidly andalready includes albums fromother territories, such as the mar-
velous and haunting Eagle Broth-er from Mari Boine, a singer/songwriter from Lapland, or TheSplendid Master Gnawa MusiciansOf Morocco, produced by Vervejazz pianist Randy Weston.
"There is a definitetrend toward name recognition,"Muller muses, "because worldmusic is not just a series ofstyles, but very much a result ofindividual artistic vision. Ourjob is to develop artists, notmusical styles. This is as truefor pop or jazz or classical asit is for world music. ManBoine is a good example ofthis. She may develop into amajor act because she is sounique and musicallyinteresting."
Jon Uren,marketing manager atWarner Music Interna-tional and responsiblefor David Byrne'sLuaka Bop label inEurope, agrees. 'We're
not interested in world musicas a genre per se, but on an act -by -act basis. Pigeon -holing termscan be a problem from a market-ing standpoint," though he admitsthat individual acts are some-times hard to define. In theawareness campaign that Warneris waging for the label Luaka Bopartists are being promoted as agroup. More of the imprint'salbums are being released inmore territories, and a specialpromotional CD and cataloguehave been created. In August,Geggy Tah and Shoukichi Kina,two Luaka Bop artists, performedat a special concert at London'sRoyal Festival Hall.
One country's localstars are another country's worldmusic. Or another hemisphere's.Hemisphere is the name of EMI'snew world music label, which waslaunched earlier this year in amassive coordinated effort involv-ing over 50 countries with a com-bined total of 200.000 albumsshipped of the first six releases.Four of these are compilationsfrom various regions, includingMali, Brazil, Zaire and the Andes;one is a collection of African rootsreggae, and the remaining disc isby the multi -talented singer/com-poser/ arranger/producerPatience Debany. Label headGerald Seligman hopes to issue atleast six titles a year, culling thebest from local EMI affiliates inAfrica, India, Asia, Oceana,Europe and the Americas.
One of the true land-marks of world music is the won-derful series of South Africantownship music released byEarthworks in the mid -'80s underthe collective title The Indestruc-tible Beat of Soweto. Earthworks,formerly with Virgin and dormantfor several years, has been revivedin a deal with UK -based worldmusic label, distributor and retailoutlet Stern's and will henceforthbe known as Earthworks/Stern's.The combination is formidable.London -based Stern's, the largestdistributor of African music out-side Paris, whose shop on Whit-field Street is a rallying point formusicians and fans alike, cele-brated its 10th anniversary lastyear. Notable releases on its ownlabel are the two Africando CDs,Trovador and Tierra Tradicional,which present a unique andsparkling fusion of Latin andAfrican sounds sung in bothSpanish and Wolof.
Earthwork's firstrelease under the new arrange-ment with Stern's will be by theSoul Brothers, township jive'smost popular group, who werefeatured on the last Indestructibleanthology. Also in the works isthe fifth installment of that series.
'We hope to release aminimum of 10 CDs over the nexttwo years," reports directorTrevor Herman, "and hopefullymore. We've been scouring Africa,the Caribbean and Central andSouth America for material." Healso mentions Spain as a possiblesource closer to home. This is notsurprising, given the high qualityof exciting projects like the twoSonghai albums from NeuvosMedios, or Radio Tarifa's fineAfro -flamenco album RumbaArgelina, from Musica Sin Fin. Inmany ways Spain is Europe'smost natural link to both LatinAmerica and Africa.
UK's Globestyle,Belgium's Crammed Discs,France's Cobalt, FNAC andDeclic/Blue Silver and Ger-many's VeraBra and Piranha arejust some of the smaller labelsdedicated to this increasinglyinfluential genre. As Hermanpoints out, 'There is a growingcommunity of people within theindustry that are interested in themusic and are very helpful whenit comes time to promoting thismusic. We'll be attacking on allfronts," he adds, and in his wordsone hears the future of worldmusic.
,World Music Charts EuropeAn initiative of the World Music Workshop of the European Broad-casting Union (EBU), the World Music Chart Europe is compiledmonthly and is 100% airplay driven. Thirty-six DJs from 17 coun-tries constitute the chart's panel, which meets once a year to coor-dinate activities. The published list consists of the top 10 playedCDs, selected by computer from a total of about 120 albums. Rig-orous internal accounting is kept to assure the fidelity of thechart, which is mailed to seem 650 retail and industry addressesthroughout Europe. It also appears in more than two dozen maga-zines, as well as on Teletext in Belgium, Germany, Italy and Slove-nia. The fact that some dailies also print the chart increases itsexposure dramatically. Formerly sponsored by Radio 4U/Berlin, itwas taken over by FFB2 and MDR Sputnik. The chart is currentlythreatened by cutbacks at member stations of the EBU.
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NAB's Meeting Of The StarsWhere does one go to see the largest collection of radiobroadcasters under one roof? This year, it's Los Angeles.
The next NAB Radio Show will take placeon October 12-15 under the sunny skies ofLos Angeles, California, and expects noless than 6.000 radio experts from aroundthe globe.
In addition, all attendees to this year'sshow will have complete access to WorldMedia Expo, an exhibition featuring the lat-est radio equipment available. Open fromOctober 13-15, the exhibition is the secondlargest radio and TVbroadcast venue in theworld and alreadyexpects over 20.000visitors.
The NAB show isorganised by US -basedradio organisation theNational Associationof Broadcasters, is fre-quently involved inEuropean radio indus-try events includingMIDEM and theLeipzig Radio Show.This year, NAB willalso run a show in Amsterdam on Novem-ber 20-22 for the European market.
Faces In The CrowdAlthough the NAB is active in Europe,
its American -based shows continue to drawinternational crowds, and this year shouldbe no exception. Several well-known facesfrom the European broadcasting industryare expected to be in Los Angeles thismonth for the show, and although the NABwould rather keep its entire registration listconfidential until the event, BBC Radio 1programme controller Matthew Bannister,Skyrock president Pierre Bellanger andCherie FM MD Jean Paul Baudecrouxare a few of the faces expected to be seenthere. Additional companies to be repre-sented at the show include the UK's RadioAuthority and Scandinavian media groupScandinavian Broadcasting System.
Radio 10 Group PD Tom Mulder'sinitial reason for going to NAB this year isquite simple, "I've never been to the showyet and I've heard from several people that Ishould go." Mulder says he visits Americaregularly and always listens to radio there."I enjoy American radio and am rather curi-ous to see what they do on the preparationside of broadcasting," he adds.
MCM Networking's executive produc-er for radio Stephen Mulhollan is also onNAB's guest list for the first time. "I'm hop-ing to have the chance to immerse myself inthe best and biggest radio festival in radio'smost competitive market. It's also a greatway to meet people in broadcasting fromaround the world and receive some tipsfrom their experiences. But most of all it'sto see how stations in America push them-selves above the others. I see London in afew years developing into this kind of acompetitive market."
NAB international affairs consultant BillHaratunian isn't at all surprised with theinterest European radio is showing in thisyear's event. "NAB is a very interesting andimportant venue for broadcasters to hearfrom experts in the industry on a variety ofrelevant subjects," he claims. "The show
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Generic RadioSome European broadcasters are hesi-
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tion in Europe.Haratunian claims thatalthough the NABRadio Show does nottreat the Europeanmarket as a separateentity, the Europeanvisitor won't leaveempty handed. "Whatmakes NAB very dif-ferent and exciting areits conventions, whichare highly informativeand very interesting,"says Haratunian, whoclaims that surveys
taken in the past have proven that a greatdeal of international guests "responded pos-itively to what they see and hear. NABoffers an open environment. We excel atinformality, which is somewhat differentfrom the way things are done in other coun-tries." '
This year, attendees are invited to attendover 50 panels separated into three facets ofbroadcasting: management/operations,sales/marketing and programming. In addi-tion to these panels, NAB also offers tech-nicallengineeing seminars for an additionalprice for those who want to learn how tomaximise performance of their present AMsystem, how to deal with technologychanges and how to prepare for the comingof digital radio, including a comparison ofdifferent DAB services available.
None of the panels at the NAB Radioshow address the specific issues Europeanradio is facing, but this should not be seenas negative, claims Haratunian. "None ofthe seminars or panels are focussed on anyparticular radio scene, but treat radio as ageneric product. That is what gives it rele-vance. We all work for one medium; wehave common problems and commonapproaches. DAB is important for anyoneinterested in seeing and learning a differentapproach." Mary Weller
NAB Sessions Of ValueTo European Attendees
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SINGLES
2 UNLIMITEDNo One - Byte D/EHRPRODUCER: Phil Wilde/Jean-Paul De CosterIt's too simple to say that everything theydo is the same. They'll prove you wrongstraight off. It's their first reggae attempt,and no one has blended it with Euro danceso seamlessly before. Hit Radio N 1/Nuremberg programmer EranieFunderburk was charmed by the differ-ence at once. "With rapper Ray kicking off,I first thought it was Dr. Alban. We've putit in A rotation, playing it five times a day."
THE AFFAIR
Are You Ready - 4th & BroadwayPRODUCER: Errol Henry
Get ready for a singer with a Whitney orMariah reach. Unintentionally the"Drummond Bass Old Skool" remix of theupbeat song uncovers the evolution of plain'80s soul to swingbeat.
TONY BENNETT & ELVIS COSTELLOThey Can't Take That Away From Me - Columbia ACE/.1
PRODUCER: David KahneLike the Spanish monks, old croonerBennett is hip among grungers who alsoneed some peace. Hopefully by thisGershwin song, their attention span willlast a little longer for Costello too.
ANDREA BOC ELLIVivere - Sugar ACE/EHRPRODUCER: Celso Valli
With his opera talent Bocelli opened doorsin the Benelux, but now with GerardinoTrovato on his side he goes for the tradi-tional Italian passionate pop ballad with arocky edge.
THE BRAND NEW HEAVIESSpend Some Time - ffrr D/EHR/ACEPRODUCER: The Brand New HeaviesNever lose momentum is one of the mostimportant adages in pop music, and thisacid jazz ensemble realises this fully bylengthening the string of singles off
Brother Sister.
CHRIS DUARTE GROUPMy Way Down - Silvertone R/APRODUCER: Dennis Herring
Silvertone's celebration of October "monthof the blues"-in which a new Buddy Guyalbum comes out-couldn't start better thanwith this young Stevie Ray Vaughan -styledguitarist. Fonkee!
PAULINE HENRYRevolution - Sony Soho Square D/EHRPRODUCER: Mike Ward/Eliott Kennedy/Cary Baylis
From the outside she's the archetype rockchick, but on the inside she has the warm
beating heart of a soul sister. As theumpteenth single it's not exactly revolu-tionary, but adequate.
A HOUSEHere Come The Good Times - Setanta A/EHRPRODUCER: Phil ThornallyThose double single packages get moreinteresting with each release. The A -trackis on a Slade '70s shout -along level. As abonus you get T -Rex, Donna Summer andDamned numbers.
NICK HOWARDEverybody Needs Somebody - Bell EHR/D
PRODUCER: Tommy Faragher/Lotti GoldenTeen bands are ruling, but that's no reasonnot to try for yourself. Try to imagine aone-man East 17 singing in a Deep vein,and you got the picture.
INNER CIRCLESummer Jammin' - WEA EHR/ACEPRODUCER: Ian Lewis/Touter HarveyAlright, the timing of this release is debat-able, but who says the summer is alreadyforgotten? Listening to such sunny reggaeis like looking at your holiday pictures on arainy day.
THE LADY OF RAGEAfro Puffs - Death Row D/A/EHRPRODUCER: Dr. Dre/DazThe female element out of Dre's andSnoop's posse now debuts as a solo artistwith a streetwise rap track on a repetitiveP -funk synth bassline taken off the AboveThe Rim soundtrack.
M PEOPLEElegantly American EP - deConstruction D/EHR
PRODUCER: M People
For many Europeans the words "elegant"and "American" might contradict eachother. What they get here is One Night InHeaven, seen through the eyes of Americanproducer/remixer David Morales.
JULIET ROBERTS
I Want You - Cooltempo D/EHRPRODUCER: Dancin' Danny D"Canned violins" make a striking intro tothe "monster album edit" only, withoutdoubt the most suitable remix of the fastsoul song for daytime radio play.
PERCY SLEDGE
Love Come Knockin' - Sky Ranch ACE/EHR/R/A
PRODUCER: Saul Davis/Barry GoldbergHow many comebacks see our loved soulbrothers of the '60s in a deplorable statedue to wrong producers and song material?Brother Sledge, however, returns in Staxstyle as it should be! Radio 32/Zuchwil(Switzerland) head of PD Ralph Wield fellfor the combination of soul, melody andvocals. "There's nothing new about it, butmaybe that's the great attraction of it.Because of its simplicity it doesn't demandtoo much from our listeners either. Oneplay daily is our prescription."
TAKE THATSure - RCA EHR/DPRODUCER: Brothers In RhythmInternational stardom is not enough.Concerns about the credibility factor are thelatest craze in teenland. Yet through Sure'ship and raw swingbeat production evenTake That enemies will have to give in.
ALBUMS
DADAAmerican Highway Flower - I.R.S. RJEHRPRODUCER: Jason Corsaro/dadaL.A. trio shows a good mix of conventionalrock with radio smart hooks and a dash offamiliarity. With most songs packed intopowerchording, the importance of a capti-vating melody is never lost, best exempli-fied by the Byrds-inspired Feet To TheSun, the brash chorus of Feel Me Don't You("Don't You Fucking Touch Me!") and thesoft, Beatles -like 8 Track. Other airplayfriendly tracks include All I Am and Scum.A worthy follow-up to the debut Puzzle.
JADEMind, Body & Song - Giant D/EHR/ACEPRODUCER: Jade/D. Hall/J. Howcott/E.Officer/D. Parks/M. Rooney/M. Morales/C. Curt/R. Heard/R. JeraldGet down on it. Romance is in the air withthe new jill swing trio specialised in loveballads with indisputable sex appeal.Bedroom doesn't make any secret of theirintentions. To avoid the couch potatolover's image, they sometimes opt for moreaction. The single 5-4-3-2 (Yo! Time Is Up)demands a more dynamic attitude from oursweethearts, and so does Hangin'. Don'tconfuse the plead for peace What's GoingOn with the Marvin Gaye classic. But therequired social engagement does slip in-news snippets about juvenile violence andpregnancy-a literal embodiment of musicfor the mind and the body.
Lyle Lovett
I Love Everybody - Curb ACE/RPRODUCER: Lyle Lovett/Billy WilliamsMore in the news because of his wife, itwas high time for a new album to draw theattention to what really matters, his unri-valled musical craftsmanship. By the way,the 18 songs here date from his pre -record-ing artist days. The instrumentation is assparse as on his first albums, while hisobservations of human life are as sharp asever. Long overdue phone conversations(Hello Grandma), jealousy of other guys(Skinny Legs), a hint from colleagueRobert Earl (Record Lady)-it all soundsso natural coming out of his mouth. If thewords to Creeps Like Me would be true,the world would be full of top -ratesinger/songwriters. We know better thanthat.
MAGIC DICK & JAY GEILSBluestime - Rounder R/J/A/ACEPRODUCER: Magic Dick/Jay GeilsCenterfielders in the J. Geils Band's R&Bsound, the two buddies have found eachother again in this strictly blues project.Magic Dick's name is mentioned first, a
clue towards the harmonica blues set youpositively get. We always reckoned LittleWalter Jacobs was Mr. WhammerJammer's main man, and, hell yes, three ofhis compositions are listed here. Bluestimemainly means a good time, best shown byDick funnily spurring his "fellas to putsome overdrive" in the Muddy Watersslow blues The Stuff You Gotta Watch.
MASSIVE ATTACKProtection - Circa D/A/EHR/ACEPRODUCER: Nellee Hooper/Massive AttackAll the damage to good music brought onby so many dance outfits is entirely madeup by this album. The Hooper troop showsthat dance minds and musicality don't haveto be antagonistic. Sparse are the arrange-ments, ambient is the feel, but less is morein their adventurous universe. EvenEverything But The Girl singer TraceyThorne sounds liberated within this con-cept (Better Things and the title track). Enpassant we learn that ground breaking newmusic and bottles of wine aren't necessarilyhostile as well.
MOONFLOWERThe Real Thang - Columbia EHR/ACE
PRODUCER: Jean MonsouRecognise some familiar faces round here?It's a re -styled Jeanny's Wild Obsession,the Dutch band which enjoyed one minuteof fame on Polydor UK. Eyecatcher is stillAngeline Bonette, and the musical directoris the same too, Jean Monsou. Bowie'sLife On Mars shines through on the repre-sentative first single Angel. Varioustastes-"Motown" on She Doesn't LoveYou Anymore and "Sisters Of Mercy" onHead Above The Heart-add up to a verycomplete pop album.
ROBERT PALMERHoney - EMI EHR/ACE/R/WPRODUCER: Robert PalmerWith some singers you're never sure howserious they take their career. Right whenyou've written off the eternal nobleman asa lost crooner, he returns with a vengeance.Surrounded by ambitious musicians-pri-marily Extreme guitarist Nuno Betten-court-he has provided his most inspiredalbum in years. If people call R.E.M"punks," then what's the best title forPalmer? Hungry for artistic revenge, thevariety of styles is incredible. Honey B isAfrican -moulded pop; Girl U Know meansnuclear rock, condensed in just over twominutes. Okay, there's some candlelightromance too (Honeymoon), but he's neverin the danger zone reserved for pitifulburn -outs.
Following the much -applauded debut ExileOn Guyville, Phair returns via a major dis-tribution deal but has lost nothing of hercharm and bite. Her concise songs aredelivered bare to the bone but behind thein -your -face arrangements, some cleverand sticky hooks are hidden. Supernova,Support System, Dogs Of L.A. and Whip -Smart (that deserves to get a commercialsingle release) are all prime contenders forplaylist acceptance by rock programmerson the look -out for something special andquirky.
Singles and albums featured in New Releases are listed alphabetically. Each record is recommended for format or programme suitability. Abbreviations used include: EHR,(Easy Listening), NAC (New Adult Contemporary), A (Alternative), W (World) and M (Metal). Please send your samples to Robbert Tilli/Machgiel Bakker, Music & Media, PO
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Yello Rides A Zebra And Gives Shareware SamplesGERMANYby Robbed Tilli
The race for the most -sampled artists inhistory will probably end up in a photo -finish for James Brown, Phil Collins andSwiss electro eccentrics Yello. Knowingtheir own position of market leaders of"stolen moments,"gentleman MCDieter Meier andcomputer pilot BorisBlank have givenaway the samples ofHow How, the firstsingle off the newalbum Zebra before-hand.
That baritone sax -inseminated track isissued in four different CD singles, con-taining interpretations by prominentremixers such as Fluke and Plutone. TheBreaks, Beats & Loops edition for profes-sional and D.I.Y purpose, sums up exactlywhat the synth revolutionaries do andexpect from their "users." Toying withsounds is what it is. Various remix compe-titions, among which a nationwide one on
German video outlet Viva, are being tiedin with that idea.
Interactivity, the word is out again, andyes, our loonies have even logged in theInternet and CompuServe networks. Asof September 1, the world can downloadYello information and samples, while inDecember the entire planet can communi-
cate with Mr. Meierhimself via E -Mail.
With so muchpromotion activityhandled by the cre-ative duo itself, thequestion arises ifthere is anything leftfor PhonogramGermany to dobesides release thealbum. Repertoire
manager alternative Torsten Reuberassures there is plenty work ahead of him."Of course there is the traditional cam-paign with a strong in-store presence forthe existing fan -base. For example we'llrun a competition in the shops whereby aFiat Cinquecento in the Zebra colours isthe first prize."
Another striking promo gadget is the
limited "metal box" edition, consisting ofthe CD plus a Crash watch, assembled ofrecycled material only. "It's where F.R.I.S.meet F.R.I.M. [fully recycled industrialsounds and materials]," as Meier himselfputs it simply.
"But the main idea of the campaign,"continues Reuber, "is to reach the younggeneration which isn't familiar with Yelloat all. Since Yello is synonymous with the'future,' the network services offered willbe appealing to youngsters who arebrought up with computers. About 300.000people in Germany-and three millionworldwide-with an average age between17 and 25 use these systems quite regular-ly. And we want them to get in touch withYello, one way or another."
Yello manager Peter Zumsteg stronglyemphasizes the importance of this directcontact. "When I came in two years ago, Ifirst wanted to find out where we exactlystand. It appeared that they were very pop-ular with the big DJs of our time, but thatthe act itself led too much of a sleepy life.Gaps between albums were too long, oftenthree years. Of course the interest in theback catalogue has stayed alive, but a bitof continuity was desperately needed.
Such long recording breaks will no longerhappen."
The album is called Zebra, because it isthe only horse -like animal no man canride. Even a mechanical rodeo is morejockey -friendly. The Yello maestros like tosee themselves as a difficult -but -desirablebeast for disc jockeys, as is more than suf-ficiently proved by the ongoing "greatYello robbery."
Here and there they give examples totheir users of how they would have re-mixed their own stuff. How How is fea-tured twice, and the mysterious albumopener Suite 909 and the balladTremendous Pain appear to be the "same"as well. Apart from the shareware samplesof the single, there is enough for profes-sionals and amateurs to be tackled enthusi-astically.
Or to be played and enjoyed of course.Night Train sets Kraftwerks's TransEurope Express rolling again. S.A.X. is aswild as the single, but rather bebop than'50s rock 'n' roll -inspired. Reggae furtherexpands Yello's palette of musical colourson Fat Cry. The record brings surpriseafter surprise: saddle up a Zebra if youdare.
East 17's Street -Grad Takes The World By Steam.UNITED KINGDOMby Miranda Watson
It's two years now since East 17 hit theUK music scene with their debut albumWalthamstow and gave a frustrated UKpress the headline story they were waitingfor: the battle of the giant teenie giants.Now they're back with a raunchy newalbum entitled Steam, due for Eurowiderelease on October 17.
Walthamstow spawned six singles inthe UK and has now sold one and a halfmillion copies worldwide. While the bandenjoyed Continental hits with all singlereleases, it was It's Alright, the last singleoff East 17's debut album, which reallyexploded the band in Europe with top 5positions in ten countries.
It's Alright stayed at number 1 forseven weeks in Australia, the first band todo so since Bryan Adams, according toLondon MD Colin Bell. Around TheWorld, the first single off the new album,has already been a major hit acrossEurope. The second single, the title track,was released on September 19 and debutedin the UK chart at number 7.
London has high hopes for East 17'ssecond album. Head of internationalLizzie Anders expects to shift one millioncopies of Steam by Christmas. StayAnother Day, the third single off the albummarks a change of style for the band, aswoonsome ballad, which is set for a time-ly release around Christmas, and is certainto reach to number 1, according to Anders.
If it does, it will be the band's firstnumber 1 single in the UK, as East 17'snumber 1 single successes have been else-where in Europe. East 17 have had sixnumber ones in Israel, the first countryoutside the UK to pick up on the band, and
have topped the charts in Sweden, France,Finland, Switzerland, Ireland and Holland.They have collected gold or double goldsales in every territory in Europe, bailtalyand Spain, where East 17 -mania is nowbuilding up fast. The UK was, however,the only country where the album went tonumber 1.
The band's manager Tom Watkinssays they have been successful in Europefor over a year now. "While Take Thatwas reigning supreme in the UK, wedecided that if we couldn't beat them, we'dlook elsewhere and we worked the bandhard in Europe." Now it is paying off in abig way with East 17 maniaspreading rapidly across theContinent, especially in
France,and the
Germany,ScandinaviaBenelux.
Watkins puts much ofthe band's appeal down toits street-cred. "They're soreal and so is the musicthey make. You can't makechicken soup out of chickenshit." The next step, says Watkins, is tobreak the band in the US, where they havealready enjoyed several dance hits.
London's European partners were con-vinced of East 17's potential early on, saysBell. "We launched East 17 very aggres-sively with their first album and ourEuropean partners, especially Metronome[Germany] and Barclay [France], werevery supportive from the start. Barclay sawEast 17 as a long-term project, it took themnine months to break House Of Love."
Marketing the second album is a differ-ent story, says Bell. "I've now got a verysuccessful pop group on my hands, insteadof a new band. It gives us an entirely dif-
ferent platform to work from." Belldescribes Steam as a "more mature albumand in my view a lot better than their first.It's American street music put into aEuropean context."
To tie in with the album release,between now and Christmas the band willbe making promotional appearancesacross Europe, press and TV autographsignings and radio visits, with playbackperformances on several stations includingRadio Deejay/Milan, Cadena 40Principales and BBC Radio 1. Anderssays the band "are mobbed wherever theygo." Frenzied fans greeted them on arrival
in Germany and, for thefirst time, Italian devoteesof the Cockney lads wentinto mobbing gear. For thealbum launch in Holland onOctober 14 a steam trainhas been hired. The bandwill embark on a world tournext spring.
Despite the teen tag,East 17 are also increasing-ly seen as a more alterna-
tive than teen band, says Anders. Besidesbeing honoured with a feature in UKmusic bible NME, Carter USM produceda remix of Steam, which has been featuredheavily on Radio l's alternative eveningshow.
Watkins says the UK is the only coun-try to regard the band as a teen act andalthough their fan base consists of mainlyteenage girls, a swift look round the audi-ence at an East 17 concert, will show thatthere is a large proportion of males in theaudience too. "East 17 have become afashion centre for a lot of young people,"says Watkins. A far cry from the squeakyclean pretty boy image of Take That, East
17 present a tough, gritty image, theirmusic has a definite edge to it and theyspeak out against racism and polluting theenvironment, issues which concern today'syouth.
SHORT TAKES After Pandora's Box containing theirCBS years, another boxed set ofAerosmith's pre -Geffen recordings,called Box Of Fire, will see the light onNovember 11. This time it will be a com-plete overview of that, consisting of all 10CBS albums plus one rarities CD. Talking of boxes. Even Weird AlYankovic has assembled one, PermanentRecord on Scotti Bros, and no..., it isn't ajoke. Did you know that Sugar bass playerDavid Barbe used to front Athens,Georgia's loud melodic pop comboMercyland? The Ryko sampler Spillagebrings together rare live tracks plus theirpreviously unreleased second album, aconcept the label has followed before forthe True Believers. Two Merle Haggard tribute albumsare about to be released almost simultane-ously, one on Hightone (Tulae Dust) andone on Arista (Mama's Hungry Eyes).Contributing artists on the first are amongothers Dave Alvin, Rosie Flores andDwight Yoakam, while more mainstreamartists like Vince Gill, Alan Jackson andClint Black are present on the latter. After Dulfer's Big Boy, S.O. Jazz's selftitled EP is the second release on EMIHolland's Monsters Of Jazz label. Bestknown musician in the six -piece is tenorsaxophonist Rinus Groeneveld.
Marketing The Music: Artists featured have achieved Top 15 chart status in their country of origin.
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FABIO B.Voglio Andare El Mare - Impulse/Media (Italy)
PRODUCER: Gianfranco Bortolotti
The intention behind this projectwas to come up with a whollydifferent approach to Italianmusic. Aided by the country'sbest known dance producer,Fabio B. successfully fusesItalian pop in a traditional can -zone sense with Italo house. Itshould be both a dancefloor andan airwave smash. ContactAngela Maffinelli at tel: (+39)30.258 2353; fax: 30.258 2161.
From the land that gave usKrokus and more recentlyGotthard comes this bunch oftechnically skillful traditionalhard rockers, who practice theircraft with clockwork precision.Accuracy and a crystal clear pro-duction are especially well -suitedfor this style, be it ballads such asTime Was or the uptempo materi-al. Contact Michael Georgiou attel: (+41) 33.433 524; fax: 33.435210.
HAMLETSanatoria De Munecos - Romilar (CD) (Spain)
PRODUCER: Tom Morris
Somewhere on the middle groundbetween metal and hardcore thisyoung but experienced band man-aged to translate its live energy torecord, making it now possible toenjoy fast and furious tracks likeReza and Basta in the safety ofyour own home. Contact JuanHermida at tel: (+34) 1.5595657; fax: 1.559 1828.
A singer/songwriter who actuallyknows to rock? In a way this isthe best of both worlds, becausethis album kicks off with thebright uptempo rocker The End,and then gradually slows down tothe predominantly acoustic Don'tBring Me Down, passing suchintermediate tunes as What YouGot and Comes A Time along theway. Contact Bob Armstrong attel:(+61) 2.319 4615; fax: 2.3102212.
I TRAVELBoulevard Of Broken Dreams - Ray's Music (Holland)
PRODUCER: Emile Den Tex/D. J. Vermeij
Californian '70s rock is the maininspiration for this reunited Dutch
BOULEVARD OF BROREN DREAMS
band. The comeback single is acatchy midtempo rocker in aByrds tradition. With its stronghook it boasts considerable popappeal. Contact Jan de Leeuw attel:(+31) 3402.66 884; fax:3402.63 454.
WAYNE MARSHALLOoh Aah (G -Spot) - Soultown (UK)
PRODUCER: Wayne Marshall
This gorgeous, sensual soul bal-lad is already a bit of a cult hitamong R&B devotees in the UK.Its potential is far bigger thanthat, however, because additionalremixes and a proper promotionalsupport could send it to the top ofthe US pop and R&B charts.Contact Orlando Gittens at tel:(+44) 956.506 711.
Records mentioned in Music Market Place are by acts signed to independent labels for which license and/or publishing rights areavailable, except as noted. Please send your samples to Raid Cairo, Music & Media, PO Box 9027, 1006 AA Amsterdam, Holland.
VARIUS MANXEMU - Zic Zac (CD) (Poland)
PRODUCER: Varius Manx
These melodic rockers, who wonthe prestigious Sopot Grand Prixfestival earlier this year, use thisalbum-their third-to introducethe new lead singer. Stylistically,they owe a lot to '70s British artrockers such as Yes and Genesis,but unlike their examples theystick to compact songs likeFather Pio and the openingTokyo. Contact DorotaPiskorska at tel: (+48) 2.6175050; fax: 2.617 7145.
VYLINDAThe Kiss - Chi'me.ra (UK)
PRODUCER: Sadia
Preceded by the single Face TheFuture, this violinist continues herquest for the unorthodox. Onceagain, the five -string electric violingenerates all instrumental parts.The music ranges from dark andmoody such as is the case withRuby's Tear, which brings backmemories of Dead Can Dance, tobright and upbeat such as Cazerineand Wise Up. Contact ChrisMolloy at tel: (+44) 71.385 5724;fax: 71.386 0701.
DJ's Delite - Stephanie DenhamStephanie Denham, head ofmusic at Radio Wyvern/Worcester schedules what is basi-cally an ACE station but alsofinds room to steer off the beatentrack when the occasion arises."Because this is a predominantlyrural area, I can incorporate folkand country tunes, which tend togo down well. Emmylou Harris'haunting version of Ray Charles'classic You Don't Know is a fineexample of this. Among the cur-rents that stand out I must countBryan Ferry's Your PaintedSmile and Fireworks by Roxette."I tend to pick records by gut
feeling because it works very wellfor me in general. I started play-ing the Youssou N'Dour andNeneh Cherry cooperation 7Seconds four months ago,because I felt it was an absolutewinner. The same applies toJoshua Kadison's lovely Jessie,which I programmed as soon as itwas first released in March. Itdidn't do anything back then but Istuck with it nonetheless; andnow it's re -launched. Future tipsof mine include Huey Lewis'sBut It's Alright and LaurenChristie's Color Of The Night(Mercury)."
A/Z Indexes EUROCHART Breakin' & Entering
EUROCHART HOT 100 SINGLES EUROPEAN TOP 100 ALBUMS
Sppna Din Dir' r 55 Inside 25 2 Unlimited 89 Kastelruther Spatzen 84
7 Seconds 2 It's A Rainy Day 18 Ace Of Base 20 Kelly Family 39
Everybody Gonfi Gon 32 Sweet Dreams 21 Eric Clapton 3 Rolling Stones 14
Feel The Heat Of The Night 43 Sweetness 37 Eric Clapton 91 Roxette 31
Find Me (Odyssey To Anyoona) 72 Take Your Chance 96 Eric Serra 58 Sinead O'Connor 13
Fireworks 86 The Power Of Love 47 Eternal 86 Souudgarden 24
Gam Gana 94 The Real Thing 81 Francis Cabrel 17 Soundtrack - 4 Weddings & A Funeral 79
Gimme All Your Lavin' 77 The Rhythm Is Magic 89 Gipsy Kings 11 Soundtrack - The Commitments 46
Godfather 80 The Rhythm Of The Night 7 Grant Lee Buffalo 47 Soundtrack - The Crow 38
Guaglione 87 The Summer Is Magic 35 Gun 57 The Almighty 61
Hemelsblauw 58 Think About The Way 48 Dunne Boel 42 The Eagles 80
Hey Now (Girl's Just Want...) 15 This Is Your Night 52 Helloween 55 The Grid 48
Hey SAsser 30 Trouble 62 Herbert Von Karajan 53 The Prodigy 18
I Feel You Tonight 88 Veni, Vidi, Vici 78 Hubert Von Goisem 99 The Wonder Stuff 41
I Like To Move It 41 Voodoo People 26 Ice MC 56 Tina Tumer 68
I Show You Secrets 28 Voorbiylk Ben Zo Blij.. 65 Joan Manuel Serrat 40 UB40 74
I Swear 4 Welcome To Tomorrow 13 Joaquin Sabina 75 Warren G 45
I Want The World 93 What's The Frequency, Kenneth? 20 Joe Cocker 5 Westemhagen 9
I'll Make Love To You II Without You 19 Joshua Kadison 52 Wet Wet Wet 4
III Give You My Number 76 You Don't Love Me (No, No, No) 99 Jovanotti 54 Wilmer X 81
In The Middle Of The Night 69 You Got Me Rocking 82 Juan Luis Guerra 85 Youssou N'Dour 26
Incredible 59 Zombie 40 Julio Iglesias 43 Zillertaler SchArzenj&ger 70
Bon Jovi's Always prolongs itsSales Breaker status earned lastweek, jumping only three placesto number 5-a fair indication ofthe current top 5's competitivestrength. While Wet Wet Wet'sLove Is All Around remains bul-letless, yet on top for the 1 1 th
consecutive week, Whigfields'sSaturday Night climbs one placeto number 3 where it threatensYoussou N'Dour and NenehCherry's Seven Seconds whichfeatures as runner-up for the sixthweek in a row.
Madonna's Secret is out. It isher second Eurochart entry this
year after I'll Remember from thesoundtrack With Honours. Thetrack is also the first single takenoff her forthcoming, ninth albumBedtime Stories (Maverick/Sire).Undoubtedly the Eurochart Hot100's most successful artist todate, Madonna has enjoyed 33previous entries since her 1984debut single Holiday, ten ofwhich went to number 1. CheckChronos' listing in the box below.
Next week we'll have a lookat this week's second highestentry Elton John whose CircleOf Live marks his 26th Eurochartentry. Mark Sperwer
Year Title Peak Wks Year Title Peak Wks
'84 Holiday 13 27 '87 The Look Of Love 17 15
'84 Lucky Star 29 7 '89 Like A Prayer 1 29 '84 Like A Virgin 1 21 '89 Express Yourself 1 19
'85 Material Girl 5 14 '89 Cherish 5 16
et '85 Crazy For You 6 22 '89 Dear Jessie 9 9
'85 Angel 14 9 '90 Vogue 1 25
'85 Into The Groove 1 32 '90 Hanky Panky 4 10
'85 Gambler 8 18 '90 Justify My Love 3 18
:85 Dress You Up 6 22 '91 Rescue Me 3 12
'86 Borderline 21 9 '92 This Used To Be My '86 Live To Tell 1 22 Playground 2 21
A = Austria, B = k4gium, DK = Deemed, RN = finlond, F - France, D = Germany, UK - Ireland, I = Italy, NI.= Netherlands,
N - I4orway, P - Portugal, E SpaIn S = Sweden, CH = Swiherland, UK = United KingdomQ . FAST MOVERS - 1100 =NEW ENTRY Ego. =RE -MY
****** SALES BREAKER ****** indicates the single registering the biggest increase in chart points.The Eurochart Hot 100 Singles is compiled by BPI Communications BV and based on the following national singles sales charts: CIN (UK); Bundesverband Der PhonographischenWirtschaft/Media Control (Germany);
65 57 45 So Far, So Good - A&M A3,iThr. Hubert Von Goisern & Die AlpinkatzenYks...7.0 NW OmUndUntn - Ariola
Aerosmith DK.D.IRENLPECH
32 31 74 Get A Grip - Geffen/MCAAnita Baker DKNIUK
66 56 3 Rhythm Of Love - Elektra
AT',N.n R.E.M. IRE.NLUK
RUN Mil' Automatic For The People - Warner Brothers A3
Rage Against The Machine B.DK.ED.NL33 41 17 Rage Against The Machine - Epic 0FMC Solaar
67 65 19 Prose Combat - Polydor
A =Austria, B. Belgium, OK . Denmark, FBI = Finland, F . France, D = Germany, IRL = Ireland, I = holy, NL . NeMerlands,
N.14:11.Way, P - Porlvgal, E . Spain, 5 = Sweden, CH . SwiDerland, UK = United Kingdarn.
=FAST MOVERS IIIIE* =NEW EMET Bil. =Rum"
****** SALES BREAKER ****** indicates the album registering the biggest increase in chart points.The European Top 100 Albums is compiled by BPI Communications BV. 0 BPI Communications By. All rights reserved. Compiled from the national album sales charts of 14 European territories.
recognition of pan-European soles of 500.000 units recognition of sales of 1 million units, with multi -million sellers indicated by a numeral following the symbol.
Carreras/Domingo/Pavarofti/Mehta - In Concert '94 (WEA)
(Dora)
(Chrysalis)
(PolyGram)
(Solid)
Various - A Woman's Heart 2Sinead O'Connor - Universal Mother
Wet Wet Wet - End Of Part OneSharon Shannon - Out The Gap
Various - Dance Zone Level III (PolyGram TV)
Nanci Griffith - The Flyer (MCA)
Various - The Best Rock Album In The World..Ever (Virgin)
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Industry Directory 1995
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ask for Ylonka de BoerBased on the national sales charts horn 15 European markets. Information supplied by CIN (UK); Bundesverband Der Phonographischen Wirtschaft/Media Control (Germany); SNEP/OPFI (France)
Musico E Dischi/Mario De Luigi (Italyl;Stichting Top 50 (Holland); SABAM/IFPI (Belgium); GLF/IFPI (Sweden); IFPI/Nielsen Marketing Research (Denmark); VG (Norway);
ALEF MB/TVE (Spain); YLE 2 Radiomafia/IFPI (Finland); IFPI (Ireland); AFP (Portugal); Austria Top 30 (Austria); Media Control/Musikmarkt (Switzerland).
Labels listed are the national marketing companies.
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Antic Schmidt - Head Of Musk
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BAYERN 3/Munich P
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Jim Sampson - Music Dir
Walter Schmich - Music Dir
A List:
AD Ratchford- This Generation
Traffic- Some Kind Of Women
HR GRAFITTI/Frankfurt P
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Markus Herlie - Producer
A List
AD Cappello- Move It Up
Take That- Sure
RADIO FFH/Frankfurt P
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Ralf Blasberg - Head Of Music
A List:
AD Cyndi Loupes- Hey Now
Worlds Apart- Everlasting
B List
AD Dave Stewart- Heart Of
Vandross/Carey- Endless Love
RADIO NRW/Oberhausen P
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Jeff son Gelder - Head Of Music
A List
AD Abbe- Dream World
Werding/Reilly/Lazlo- Engel Wie
Purple Schulz Wenn Du
Right Said Fred- Dance
SWF 3: POPSHOP HITLINE/
Baden Baden P
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Erg Lange - Producer
A listAD Chumbowamba- Time Bomb
Rosette- Fireworks
WDR I: SCHLAGERRALLYE/Cologne P
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Wolfgang Roth - Producer
A List.
AD America- Hope
Atlantic Star- Everybody's Got
Aunt lamina- Chains
Boyz II Men. ill Make Love
Da Youngsho's- Hip Hop Ride
Dostoyevskys- Am Fenster
Beira- Once In A lifetime
Meat Loaf- Heroes
Onkel Hoge- Wichtel
Right Said Fred- Dance
Snap- Welcome To Tomorrow
Stiltskin- Footsteps
Tom Petty- You Don't Know
Ulla Meinecke- Wir Passer
XL Singleton- Tequila Rap
HIT RADIO N I /Nuremberg G
Dance
Stefan Meixner Prog Dir
A List:
AD Bon Jovi- Always
Roxette- Fireworks
B List:
AD East 17- Steam
Lisa Stanfield- Make It
HUNDERT 6/Berlin G
ACE
Rainer Gruhn - Muds Dir
A List.
AD Bryan Ferry -Your Painted
Chocolate- Rihno De La Noche
Tony Carey- Cold War Kids
Western Union- Wieder
ORB/FRITZ/Potsdam G
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Bernd Albrecht, Frank Menzel,
Jens Molle - Memo Prog
A List
AD Kylie Minogoe- Confide In Me
Redd Kross- Yesterday Once More
B List.
AD Andy/Anitas- Ich Will Zu
Barenaked Ladies- Jane
Blind Passengers- Born To Die
Cause & Effect- It's Over
Counting Crows- Rain King
Donoyevskys- Am Fenster
Station Reports
INXS- The Strongest Party AD Illegal 2001- Alles Aus Liebe RADIO F/Nuremberg Elton John- Circle Of Life LWS. Gosp Heather Nova- Walk This
Tom Petty- You Don't Know A list ACE LEAK- What's The Frequency Nyack- Savage Smile Jen Secede- Whipped
AL Massive Attack AD Chino Black- Searching Ziggie Hoge - Prog Dir Skin- look But Don't Touch PJ & Duncan- If I Give
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Darren Parks - Head Of Musk
Jeremy Clark - Head Of Music
Chyp Nets- Don't Break A List. BBC RADIO 1/London P RIM.- Bang And Blame B List
RADIO 7/Ulm G Cyndi Lauper- Hey Now AD Mary Roos- Das Lacher EHR CAPITAL FM/Landon P Seal- Newborn Friend AD Ace Of Base- Happy Nation
ACE Desiree- Little Child Shakin' Stevens. I Can Help Paul Robinson - Prog Dir EHR Stamm- That's Where Gloria Estefan-Turn The
Alex Naumann - Head Of Music Gerry Rafferty- A New Beginning Westernhogen Willenlos Power Play: Richard Pork - Prog Conk Ultimate Koos- Sane Girls Juliet Robert- I Want You
A List. Inner Circle- Summer Jammin' Bon Joni- Always A List Urban Cookie Collective- Bring It RI& Duman- If I Give
AD Gerry Rafferty- A New Beginning Lucileciris- Hey Siisser RADIO GONG 2000/Munich 5 Boys II Men- I'll Make Love AD R. Kelly- She's Got That R. Kelly- She's Got That
Joe Cocker- The Simple Right Said Fred- Dance EHR Corona- The Rhythm Of Sting- When We Dance KISS 100 FM/London P Seal- Newborn Friend
Rosette- Fireworks Roachford- This Generation Andy Wenzel - Heed Of Prog East 17- Steam B list: Dance
B List: Ryuichi Sakamoto- Moving On Power Play: Loeb/Nine Stories- Stoy AD China Block- Stars Lorna Clarke - Head OF Prog RADIO CLYDE/Glasgow G
AD Atlantic Star- Everybody's Got Sparks- When Do I Get To Boyz II Men- I'll Make Love Pato Banton- Baby Come Back Eternal- Oh Baby I... Lindsay Wesker - Head Of Music EHR
Black Box- Not Anyone Tom Petty- You Don't Know Cologne (Wanda- Song For R.E.M.- What's The Frequency komiroguai- Space Cowboy A List Alex Dickson - Prog Dir
Bon lova Always Worlds Apart- Evedosting AD C&C Music Factory- Do You Whigfield- Saturday Night Let Loose- Seventeen AD Brand New Heavies- Spend A List
Chyp Notic- Don't Break AL Pe Werner A List B List: Charlene Smith teemed AD China Blank- Stars
Penman- NobodyChina Black- Stars Crash Test Dummies- God Shuffled
Fool's Gorden- Wild DaysJeanie Tracy- Do You Believe Dave Dixon- Faith Love
Holly Johnson -LegendaryJoey Washington- Keep It Eternal- Oh Baby I..
Margie Cox- Standing AtP.Rock/CL Smooth- I Got A Loth Foreigner- White Lie
Michel Van Dyke- Maybe ITwangfing- Twongling Michelle Gayle- Sweetness
Michelle Gayle- SweetnessUltimate Koos- Some Girls PJ Pr Duman- If I Give
Nation/Abel- The MoreSeal Newborn Friend
Pet Shop Boys- Yesterday WhenMETRO RADIO GROUP/Newcastle P B list
Sarah McLachlan- Good EnoughEHR AD Caine Dion- Think Twice
Soulsister Wild LoveLiz Elliott - Music Organiser Cruel Sea. The Honeymoon
Traffic- Some Kind Of WomenA List Nei Young My Heart
AD Celine Dion- Think Twice Pato Banton- Baby Come Back
RADIO ENERGY 93,3/Munich GForeigner- White Lie Pink Floyd- Keep Talking
RockSeal- Newborn Friend Rosalie- You Never tone
Stevie Hoper - Prog DirB List.
B ListAD two Third3- I Want RADIO WYVERN/Worcester G
AD Deadeye Dick New Age GirlCJ. Lewis- Best Of My Love ACE
Peter Gabriel- Red RainPJ & Duncan- If I Give Stephanie Denham - Head Of Music
Schulze- Ich Hong An DirUltimate Koos- Some Girls A List
Stevie Nicks- Maybe LoveUrban Cookie Collective- Bring It AD Amy Grant- Soy You'll
Crash Test Dummies- God Shuffled
RADIO GONG/Nuremberg G VIRGIN 1215 AM/London P E.L.O. Breokin' Down The
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Peter "Marc" Stingl - Music DirRichard Skinner - Prog Dir Janet Jackson You Wont
A List.John Revell - Frog Dir Pink Floyd- Keep Talking
AD Cyndi Lamer- Hey NowB List Toad The Wet S.- Fall
East 17- SteamAD Cruel Sea- The Honeymoon
John Mellencomp- Wild Night Dodgy- Staying Out BROADIAND FM/SGR-FM/
Pe Werner- OttoElton John- Circle Of life Norwich/Ipswich and Bury 5
B List:Sugar- Believe What You're EHR
AD Gerry Rafferty- A New BeginningMike Stewart - Prog Dir
Ochsenknecht- The Rood2CR-FM/Bournemouth G Dove Brown - Heod Of Music
Worlds Apart- EverlastingACE A List:
Yo! Co Ross- Miss MeJean -Paul Hanford - Prog Dir AD Rozalla- You Never Love
Dave Luck - Head Of Music B List:
RADIO KOLN: COLOGNE CHARTS/A List AD Foreigner- White tie
Cologne G AD Sophie B. Hawkins- Right &side Let Loose- Seventeen
EHRB List Pretenders- 977
Uwe Sport Prog Dir AD BBM- Where In The World Shakatak- Brazilian Love Affair
Ludwig Schieffer - Prog DirBeautiful South- Prettiest Stamm- That's Where
A List:INKS- The Strangest Party
AD Bon Levi- AlwaysMadonna- Secret RED DRAGON FM/Cardiff/Newport S
Edyta- Once In A LifetimeMichelle Gayle- Sweetness EHR
Eric Clapton- Motherless ChildPink Floyd- Take It Chris Moore - Head Of Music
La &niche- Sweet DreamsPretenders- 977 Play:
Tony Di -Bart- Do ItBeautiful South- Prettiest
COOL FM/Belfast G China Black- Searching
RADIO REGENBOGEN/Mannheim G ACE Eternal- So Good
EHR/GoldJohn Paul Ballantine - HOM Vandross/Carey- Endless love
Martin Schwebel - Music Dir A List Michelle Gayle- Sweetness
Power Play:AD Babylan When Can I See You Youssou N'Dour- 7 Seconds
AD Right Said Fred- DanceCorona- The Rhythm Of A Ust
A ListCranberries- Zombie AD Foreigner- White Lie
AD Franz Benton- Would You B List Let Loose- Seventeen
B ListAD Computer Game- Tiberius Pretenders- 977
AD Anita Hegerland- All Kinds Electric Hippies- Greedy People Roxalkr You Never Love
6 4 16 ALL 4 ONE/I Swear (Atlantic) 8 4 DAVE STEWART/Heart Of Stone (East West)
8 7 17 WET WET WET/Love Is All Around (Precious)
0 11 5 JOSHUA KADISON/Picture Postcards From L.A. (SBK)
0 13 2 CYNDI LAUPER/Hey Now (Girls Just Want to Have Fun) (Epic)
11 10 14 INNER CIRCLE/Games People Play (WEA)
O 12 4 ROBERT PALMER/Know By Now (EMI)
13 6 14 ELTON JOHN/Can You Feel The Love Tonight (Mercury)
ED 14 5 LEVEL 42/Love In A Peaceful World (RCA)
O 16 9 USA LOEB & NINE STORIES/Stay (RCA)
16 20 3 WARREN G & NATE DOGG/Regulate (Death Row)
0 17 5 PRINCE/ Letitgo (Warner Brothers)
18 15 9 ASWAD/Shine (Bubblin')
19 18 10 CRASH TEST DUMMIES/Afternoons And Coffee Spoons (Arista)
20 22 3 SOPHIE B. HAWKINS/Right Beside You (Columbia)
KYUE MINOGUE/Confide In Me (Deconstruction)
AMY GRANT/Lucky One (A&M)
EDIE BRICKELL/Good Times (Geffen)
24 24 2 LONDONBEAT/Come Back (RCA)
25 23 3 RICHARD MARX/The Way She Loves Me (Capitol)
21 11.22
23 110,
The Adult Contemporary Europe (ACE) Top 25 k based on a weighted -scoring system. It is corn -piled on the basis of playlists of European stations programming soft pop/rock sounds far 25-49 year -olds, fulltime or during specific dayports. Songs in "A" rotation receive more pointsthan those in "B" rotation or more limited airplay exposure.
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European Dance RadioEDR TOP 25
1W LW WOC Artist/Title Label
0 1 4 2 3 3 10
8 2
5 4 11
11 2
7 5 15
10 2
9 6 3
10 15 3
11 14 2
O 16 2
13
14 19 4
16 7 4
17 9 9
18 13 8
19 20 2
20 g.21 21 2
14) 22 12
024 23 2
25 24 3
PET SHOP BOYS/Yesterday When I Was Mad (Parlophone)
SNAP/Welcome To Tomorrow (Logic)
C&C MUSIC FACTORY/Do You Wanna Get Funky (Columbia)
REEL 2 REAL FEAT. THE MAD STUNTMAN/Can You Feel It (Positive)
FUN FACTORY/Close To You (Control)
WHIGFIELD/Saturday Night
LA BOUCHE/Sweet Dreams
ICE MC/It's A Rainy Day
PRINCE/Letitgo
TINMAN/Eighteen Strings
TAKE THAT/Sure
CENTORY/Point Of No Return
(X -Energy)
(MCI)
(DWA)
(Warner Brothers)
(ffrr)
(RCA)
(EMI)
MAURO PILATO & MAX MONTI/Gam Gam (Volumex)
MADONNA/Secret (Maverick)
MO-DO/Eins, Zwei, Polizei (plaStika)
KYUE MINOGUE/Confide In Me (Deconstruction)
RED DRAGON/Compliments On Your Kiss, (Mango)
PLAYAHITTY/The Summer Is Magic (WW)
DR. AUTAN/Let The Beat Go On (Cheiron)
2 UNLIMITED/No-One
AMOS/Sweet Music
LE CUCK/Tonight Is The Night
CYNDI lAUPER/Hey Now (Girls Just Want to Have Fun) (Epic)
CAPPEIJA/Move It Up (Media)
R. KELLY/Summer Bunnies (Jive)
(Byte)
(Positiva)
(Logic)
The European Dance Radio (EDR) Top 25 is based on a weighted -scoring system. It is compiled onthe basis of ploylists of European stations programming various styles of dance music (includinghip hop/rap, R&B and swingbeat) for 15-30 year -olds, fulltime or during specific dayparts.Songs that have achieved top 20 status in the EHR Top 40 are regarded as non-specific her EDRand receive limited points. 0 BPI Communications BV
Billboard SinglesUSA TOP 25
1W LW Artist/Title For week ending October 15th 1994 Label ECO
1 1 BOYZ II MEN/I'll Make Love To You Motown
0 2 SHERYL CROW/All I Wanna Do A&M
3 3 LUTHER VANDROSS/MARIAH CAREY/Endless Love Columbia
4 4 BABYFACE/When Can I See You Epic
0 9 IMMATURE/Never Lie MCA
0 8 AAUYAH/At Your Best (You Are Love) Blackground
7 6 CHANGING FACES/Stroke You Up Spoiled Rotten
8 5 JOHN MELIENCAMP/ME'SHELL NDEGEOCEILO/Wild Night Mercury
0 30 MADONNA/Secret Maverick
0 10 REAL MCCOY/Another Night Arista
0 11 CRYSTAL WATERS/100% Pure Love Mercury UK
12 7 USA LOEB & NINE STORIES/Stay (I Missed You) RCA
13 13 69 BOYZ/Tootsee Roll Rip -It
14 19 FOUR SEASONS/December 1963 (Oh, What A Night) Curb
15 14 ACE OF BASE/Don't Turn Around Arista DK
16 21 CRAIG MACK/Flava In Ya Ear Bad Boy
17 12 WARREN G/This D.J. Violator
18 24 ELTON JOHN/Circle Of Life Hollywood
0 37 BRANDY/I Wanna Be Down Atlantic
20 16 COLLECTIVE SOUL/Shine Atlantic
39 BON JOVI/Always Mercury
22 18 AMY GRANT/Lucky One A&M
23 20 CANDLEBOX/Far Behind Maverick
@ 28 MELISSA ETHERIDGE/I'm The Only One Island
25 15 ELTON JOHN/Can You Feel The Love Tonight Hollywood
1994, BPI Communications, Broadcast Data Systems and Soundscan, Inc. This chart isconstructed by Billboard magazine from information including data collected, compiled andprovided by Soundscan, Inc and Broadcast Data Systems.
ECO = European Country of Origin
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AirplayM&M Reporter Roster
L NORTHWEST
PLATINUM2 FM/Dublin96.4FM-BRMB/BirminghomATLANTIC 252/LondonBBC RADIO 1/LondonBEACON RADIO/WolverhamptonCAPITAL FM/London
SVERIGES RADIO AB P3: TRACKS/StockholmSVERIGES RADIO P3:SMEST SPEIADE MELODIER/Stockholm
THE VOICE/Copenhagen
YLE 2/RADIOMAFIA/Helsinki
GOLDARHUS NARRADIO/RADIO COLOMBO/ArhusANR/AolborgCITY 107/GothenburgCITY 107/MalmoEAST FM 106 1/2/NorrkopingRADIO 1/OsloRADIO 1 Helsinki
RADIO 1 FM/BergenRADIO 1 GRENLAND/SkienRADIO 100.6/TampereRADIO 102/HaugesundRADIO ABC/Randers
RADIO CITY/Stockholm
RADIO CITY/Helsinki
RADIO HUDDINGE/Stockholm
RADIO OSLO/OsloRADIO STOCKHOLM/StockholmRADIO VIBORGARborgUPTOWN FM/CopenhagenZ102 STOCKHOLM/Stockholm
SILVER
JARRADIOEN/KleppeRADIO OST/RadeRADIO 1 TRONDHEIM/TrondheimRADIO 89.1/HelsingorRADIO AMAGER CITY/CopenhagenRADIO FM 104.3/LinkopingRADIO FREDERICIA/Fredericia
RADIO HERNING/HerningRADIO MOJN/Aobenraa & SanderborgRADIO RIX/GoteborgRADIO ROSKILDE/Roskilde
RADIO SIULLBORG/SiffebargRADIO VICTOR/Esbjerg
STUDIO HIT FM/Stockholm
THE VOICE NORDJYLLAND/Aalborg
BRONZEBYLGJAN FM 98.9 /ReykjavikEAST FM 106 1/2: DANCE/NorrkopingHILLEROD LOKALRADIO MendRADIO 1 HARSTAD trod
RADIO FREDRIKSTAD/Fredrikstad
RADIO HOLBAK. HolbaeckRADIO HOLSTEBRO/HolstebroRADIO KOLDING/KoldingRADIO RYD STUDENTRADION/LinkopingRADIO SLR/Slagelse
RADIO STELLA FM 106/HelsingborgSTUDENTRADIOEN/Tromso
ACE
ACE
EHR
EHR
Music Television
EHR
EHR/Rock
EHR
ACE
EHR
EHR
Rock
ACE
EHR
EHR
Donce/EHR
Donee
National Music
ACE/EHR
EHR
Rock
EHR
ACE
Gold/OldiesACE
EHR
EHR
EHR/Rock
EHR/Rock
EHR/Rock
EHR
EHR
EHR
EHR
EHR
EHR
ACE/EHR
EHR
EHR
ACE
EHR
EHR
EHR
EHR
EHR
EHR
EHR
EHR
Rock
EHR/ACE
ERR
EHR
EHR
ACE/EHR
ACE/EHR
EHR
ACE
ERR/Rock/NOR
EHR
ERR
ACE
ACE/EHR
EHR
ACE
ACE
ACE
ACE/EHR
EHR
Dance
EHR
EHR
ACE/EHR
Dance
EHR
EHR
EHR
EHR
EHR
EHR
EHR
EHR
EHR
Rock/EHR
5. WEST CENTRAL
PLATINUMBRTN RADIO DONNA/BrusselsBRTN STUDIO BRUSSEL/Brussels
HET STATION/Hilversum
NOS AVONDSPITS/HilversumRADIO 2/HilversumRADIO 3/HilversumRADIO CONTACT N/BrusselsSKY RADIO/Bussum
TROS RADIO 3/HilversumVERONICA/Hilversum
GOLD675 RADIO 10 GOLD/AmsterdamLOVE RADIO/Amsterdam
RADIO 538/Bussum
SILVER
DELTA RADIO/BlIzen
BRONZEBRTN RADIO 2 -EAST FLANDERS/Ghent
BRTN RADIO 2 -WEST FLANDERS/KortrijkCFNB/Brunssum
HIT -FM 106.I/HoPeltRADIO EXPRES/AntwerpRADIO MOLD Mol
RADIO ROYAAL/HamonsAchel
ERR
EHR/Rock
EHR
EHR
ACE
EHR
EHR
ACE
EHR
EHR
Gold/OldiesACE
EHR
EHR
EHR
EHR
ACE
EHR
EHR/Gold
EHR
EHR
6. SOUTH
PLATINUMITALIA NETWORK: LOS CUARENTA/UdineITALIA NETWORK: MUSIC FM/Udine
RADIO DEEJAY NETWORK/MilanRADIO DIMENSIONE SUONO/RomeRADIO ITALIA SMI/MbonRADIO KISS KISS NETWORK/NaplesRADIO MONTE CARLO/MilanRETE 105 NETWORK MilanRTL 102.5 - HIT RADIO/Bergamo
GOLD101 NETWORK/Milan101 NETWORK: DANCE PARADE/MilanPOWER RV I THE BLACK RADIO/TurinRADIO BABBOLEO/GenoaRADIO CLUB 91/NaplesRADIO CLUB 91: DANCE/Naples
SILVERANTENNA DELLO STRETTO/Messina
NUMBER ONE RADIO/BresciaRADIO ONDA LIBERA/PerugiaRADIO SOUND STEREO/Ferrara
RADIO SULCIS/Carbonia
ROCK FM/MilanSTUDIO UNO BROADCASTING/Reggio Calabria
BRONZEBAY RADIO/St. Julion's
NUMBER ONE: DANCE ACTION/BresciaPRIMARADIO/NoplesRADIO 3 III/MendrisioRADIO 3 DISCO/MendrisioRADIO BLU/VeronaRADIO METEORA/Son Paolo di Jesi
RADIO STAR/VicenzaRADIO SULCIS: DANCE/CarbonicRETE 3/Lugano
Dance
EHR
EHR/Donce/RodEHR
National Music
ACE/Dance
ACE
EHR
EHR
EHR
Dance
Donee
EHR
EHR
Donce
8. EAST CENTRAL
POLSKIE RADIO 3 WarsawRADIO DANUBIUS: BudapestRMF-FM ..dx
BONTON RADIO kiogueEUROPA 2 PRAHA "agueRADIO 4 U: DANCERADIO BIALYSTOKRADIO L.
RADIO LODZRADIO MERKURY
RADIO OLSZTYN
RADIO ORIONRADIO SZCZECIN - --RADIO ZACHOD :mono GoraRTL CITY RADIO Prague
GOLDM-80/MadridONDA CERO MUSICA/MadridRADIO ENERGIA/LisbonRADIO NOVA ERA/Vila Novo de Goio
BRONZERADIO 16/MadridRADIO PALAFRUGELL/FoHINgell
Rock/EHR
EHR
Notional Music
EHR
ACE/EHR
EHR/ACE
EHR
EHR
ACE
EHR
RAADIO 2/TallinnRADIO KUKU/TollinnRADIO M-1/VilniusRADIOCENTRAS/Vilnius
RADIO SWH/Riga
SILVER
BRONZE
10. NORTHEAST
GOLD
SILVER
PLATINUMRADIO MAXIMUM/Moscow/S1 Petersburg
GOLDM -RADIO Moscow
RADIO MAXIMUM/Perm
EHR
EHR
EHR
EHR
ACE
Dance
EHR
Rock
EHR
ACE
EHR/Rock
EHR
EHR
EHR
EHR
EHR
EHR
ACE
Rock
EHR
EHR
ACE
EHR
ACE
EHR
EHR
EHR
EHR
EHR
EHR
EHR/Notional Music
EHR
EHR/Dance/Rook
EHR/Dance
EHR
EHR
ACE
EHR
EHR
EHR
EHR
Rock/ACE
EHR
EHR
EHR
EHR
EHR
EHR
12. PAN -EUROPEAN
MTV EUROPE/ London
VOICE OF AMERICA/E.:inn,Music Television
EHR
5IVERCMT EUROPE 'N s Music Television
RADIO EXPRESS: AMERKAN TOP 48 1prog.pppli EHR
RICK DEES WEEKLY TOP 40 - .ppfl EHR/ACE
THE WORLD'S GREATEST FITS - .cg so/4 EHR/ACE/Rock
WESTWOOD ONE: CASEY'S COUNTDOWN/U.S.A. (prog supplk EHR
WESTWOOD ONE: COUNTRY'S CUTTING EDGE/U.S.A. (grog supplI Country
A Guide To M&M's Radio Station Reporting Rankings
M&M's EHR Top 40, ACE Top 25, EDR Top 25, Regional Crossovers and Regional Airplay charts ore based 1005 on airplay reported each week byM&M's reporter team. Participating stations are selected as reporters and "wer.e-:" Co "P)annum," "Gold," "Silver" or "Bronze" stations based on
the following criteria: market population, location, weekly reach and/or average share of the available audience, policy of programming current music, retail sales influence and abilityto report in a timely, consistent and accurate mower. More detailed definitions follow below. It should be noted
that points awarded for airplay may vary slightly from one station to another within one of these four groups. For example, some Platinum stations areweighted slightly more or less than other Platinum stations. However, all Platinum reporters will be weighted more than Gold, Silver, or Bronze
stations. Individual station classifications are subject to regular review as ratings and station policies change. Broadcasters interested in joining M&M's Reporter Roster should call or fax M&M Station Reports Manager Pieter /Cops; Jet: (+311 20.669 1961; fax: 669.1951 or 1941.
Platinum (P1: Leading stations/networks/dominant programmes in major markets. Most of these stations have an estimated average weekly reach of at least I million listeners and are regarded as having moderate to heavy keel of reboil influence. Gold (G): Leading stations/networks/dominant
programmes in medium markets or secondary broadcasters in major markets. Most of these stations have an estimated average weekly reach of 200.000 to I million listeners. Stations from smaller markets usually hose on above -average level of retail influence. Silver (S): Leading stations in
smaller markets or secondary broadcasters in medium markets. Most of these stations have an estimated average weekly reach of 50.000 to 200.000 listeners. Stations from smaller markets usually have on obese -average level of retail influence. Bronze (B): Smaller broadcast operations,
individual programmes at larger stations, certain cable -only stations, and/or dayported blocks of programming on small market stations. Most of these stations/ programmes reach between 15.000 and 50.000 listeners weekly. Small market stations have at least a moderate level of retail
influence; larger stations in this group may have a low level of retail influence.
Regions
1. NORTHWEST (NW): British Isles (United Kingdom, Ireland).2. CENTRAL (C): German -Language areas
(Germany, Austria, parts of Switzerland, Luxembourg).3. WEST (W): Francophone areas
(France, Wallonia/Belgium, parts of Switzerland, Monaco).4. NORTH (N): Scandinavia (Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland).
5. WEST CENTRAL (WC): Dutch -Language areas(Holland; Flanders/Belgium).
6. SOUTH (S): Italian -Language areas (Italy, Ticino/Switzerland, Malta).7. SOUTHWEST (SW): Iberia (Spain, Portugal).8. EAST CENTRAL (EC): East Central area
(Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland).
9. SOUTHEAST (SE): Balkan (Greece, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Turkey).10. NORTHEAST (NE): Baltic area (Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia).11. EAST (El: Eastern area (Russia).12. PAN -EUROPEAN (PE): Stations targeting listeners throughout Europe.For exact specifications on particular regions, see Regional Airplay page, else-where in this issue.
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making a connection."Programmers hoping to rescue
their female listeners from tuningout by throwing in a daily pro-gramme on a so-calledfemale -orientated issueare likely to find itback -fires on them, shewarns.
In France, the full -service stations attracta large number of olderfemale listeners via astrong policy of broad -rather than narrow-casting: a high quota oftalk and varied pro-gramming schedulesvery much gearedtowards netting thewidest spectrum of lis
tastes of women. They tend tocater for women only throughtheir gold services, which areoften poorly targetted." With ILRtending increasingly towards all -music, the likelihood is high that
listeners."The advertising agencies in
Norway were open and ready forour target when we started," saysCrouch. "Our ad spots are expen-sive and booked up far in
female difference. Katy Turner,who was responsible for the bid,explains. "It occurred to me acouple of years ago when I waslistening to the radio in my car,that there is not a station for me.
There was nothing with
"Men consume radio verydifferently; they want to knowwhat time it is, and want to havefacts; women are concerned morewith feeling good, being mellow."
- Katy Turner, Viva AM
teners provide a balance to theslightly male -oriented FM musicnets.
Market leader RTL France hasan audience which is 52% female,thanks to a strict policy of nofavouritism. Programme directorStephane Duhamel is adamantthat "lifestyle categories are inter-esting target groups for advertis-ing agencies, but don't constitutethe base for coherent radio pro-grammes."
"It would be an error for us tostart programming for women.We would probably end up withflat material none of our listenersare interested in listening to."
However, in areas without thepopulist full -service phenomenon,the draw of formatting and non-stop music is leading to ratingswhich show that radio acrossEurope is turning on fewerwomen than men. According tostatistics published by Carat,French radio reaches only 75.5%of women versus 82.9% of men,UK radio reaches 87% womenversus 88% men, while Germanradio reaches 81.2% women ver-sus 83.1% of men.
Women Often BanishedTo 'Gold Ghettoes'
Bob Pierson of ParagonResearch in the UK admits that,while there is no question of con-scious discrimination, "Womenare probably underexposed toindependent radio in the UK, par-ticularly the 45-54 plus age range.My suspicion is that these stationsare usually programmed by men,who have little understanding of
programming will become lessinteresting for many women.Could this leave room for a moreconscious broadcasting effort tointerest these lost listeners? Abso-lutely, agrees Pierson.
Swedish AdvertisersCry Out For Women
An economic market in whichsome 80% of the female popula-tion work, and where women hold70% of the total purchasingpower is the reason for the seri-ousness with which both mediaauthorities and advertisers inScandinavia advertisers wel-comed P4. TV advertisers are sokeen to target female audiencesthat cost -per -thousand TV ratesfor female audiences in Swedenare higher than their male coun-terparts in off-peak hours. Nor-way, meanwhile, is the sole coun-try to rate peak time listeninghours equally for men andwomen. Rates for female audi-ences elsewhere in Europe areconsistently lower than those formen.
Swedish women's TV stationTV6 has been sold out since itlaunched in March this year, andwill be expanding to Norway andDenmark at the end of the year.TV Plus, set to start in Norwaynext year, is similarly targetted.Meanwhile, for advertisers clam-ouring for more female targettedair- and screen -time, the new Kin-nevik-owned sales house AdTime offers specifically targetedtime -buy packages on TV3, ZTVand TV6 guaranteeing daypartswith high percentages of female
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advance; and not just for dish-washers and clothes, but cars,Coca-Cola, Pepsi, insurance.Advertisers are well aware that inmost households the women arethe decision makers as far asspending large sums of money."
Jo Reid of Ogilvy and Matheradvertising agency in Londonagrees that some advertisers inthe car industry in the UK arenow becoming much moreaware of the need to targetwomen, and to do that in a moredirect way. She is in charge ofthe account for the new FiestaSI, which has had an exclusive-ly female -oriented campaign viafemale magazines such asMarie Claire, Cosmopolitan andElle, highlighting less machoqualities such as glamour, safe-ty, and "ability to squeeze intosmall parking spaces."
"It is widely accepted thatunisex cars are driven andbought by women, and thatcampaigns now need to be tar-getted that way, but this is thefirst campaign which has notincluded men," she says, refer-ing to campaigns for theRenault Clio and the Peugeot106 (based on the Thelma andLouise theme.)
Don Thomson, sales directorat Heart FM, the Birmingham -based regional station whichstarted in September this year,adds that the insurance andautomobile industries areincreasingly realising the impor-tance of women in spending deci-sions. What is more, manufactur-ers of household products such asProctor and Gamble and Unileverare starting to use radio more andmore.
With this in mind, and hopingto attract some of the listenersfeeling disenfranchised by BBCRadio 1 and 2, Heart has chosento target the 25-45 demo, and hasa definite bias towards women 30-39. Under the logo "We've GotYour Music At Heart," music isACE and the tone intimate andhomely, says Thomson. "We playthe kind of music you would havein your CD collection."
Viva AM, a proposal for oneof the London frequencies to bedistributed this month, is morespecific in its plans for amusic/speech format with a
the right balance ofinteresting topics andnaughtiness. Radio 4 issometimes too serious,as is LBC."
"Viva would bepeppy, energetic; itwould have more emo-tional music [Georgia,Ray Charles; Feel SoHigh, Des'ree; New YorkState Of Mind, BillyJoel; Teach Your Chil-dren, Crosby Stills &Nash]. There wouldsome features on topics
like schools and kids, that womenwant to know about, but also ahealthy dose of irreverence andwit. It will not be out to alienatemen at all. It is not a feministissue, but a question of a style andapproach which is not currentlyavailable. I see it as a combina-tion between Marie Claire, Best,
ers' name at the end of it.""Men consume radio very dif-
ferently; they want to know whattime it is, and want to have facts;women are concerned more withfeeling good, being mellow."
In the current order of thingswomen in the UK, particularly theolder demos, tend to be servedthrough local gold and MOR ser-vices, which, in their effort to beall -encompassing, often leavelarge gaps, according to Paragon'sPierson.
"In a report I recently wrotefor one of my clients I noted thattheir gold service was unbal-anced. The male reach peaked at45 years old, while the femalereach peaked at 35. Problems likethis can only be addressed withserious research."
In the meantime, independentradio in the UK is moving rapidlyaway from speech and features -style programmes towards lettingthe music roll.
A one -day conference on"Women and Radio In TheNineties" scheduled to take placeat Sunderland Univerty on Octo-ber 15 will be addressing a series
of topics surrounding the issue."Is there a need for a 'Woman'sHour' on Radio 4?," "Canfemale oriented commercialstations satisfy advertisers andfeminists?" "What can the UKlearn from international wom-en's radio initiatives?" Speakersinclude Guardian radio criticAnne Karpf, BBC Radio 4Woman's Hour editor SallyFeldman, and keynote speakerRosalind Gill, author of "Gen-der, Media and Society."
The time is now ripe toexamine ways of improving theoffer of programmes forwomen, believes CarolineMitchell, senior lecturer onradio at Sunderland Universityand organiser of the conference."Radio now has a higher profilein the UK; advertisers are nowtaking the media much moreseriously, and women are alsobeing taken increasingly seri-ously by advertisers."
To talk about a shortcomingin radio programming forwomen is difficult, however."A lot of people have a verypassive relationship with forms
of media, including radio," saysMitchell, "Women don't expecttheir concerns to be covered onradio, as they would with maga-zines." Although radio is nowreceiving more attention fromboth advertisers and academicsthan ever before, a long traditionas a "background" media hasallowed gaps in radio coverage toarise unchecked.
"It is not until people get achance to hear what a differentstyle of radio programmingsounds like that they will realisewhat they had been missing," shesays. "The Radio Authority'srequirement that new stationsshould provide new types of pro-gramming is a step in the rightdirection."
For those looking to set up anew format, this might be foodfor thought.
"When you tune in you arenot constantly aware that we
are 'a woman's station.'We produce intelligent
music -basedprogrammes which women
enjoy listening to just asmuch as men."
- Mary Crouch, P4
Hello and Cosmopolitan. Just aslots of men read Cosmopolitan, alot of men will also enjoy Viva'sprogramming."
Female RadioConsumption Is Different
The tradition of building allprogramming around the back-bone of age categories may not beas reliable as programmers think,argues Turner. The age differencebetween a 16 -year -old schoolgirland a 36 -year old businessman isfar less important to the way theythink, than their gender. "Let'sface it, men and women are verydifferent. Put 25 women togetherin a room for half an hour andthey will start talking about rela-tionships almost immediately. Dothe same with 25 men and theywill talk about sport, music, andprobably won't known each oth-
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A TOAST TO EASTERN EUROPE - The recent Leipzig Radio Conferenceattracted a number of international radio experts interested in learningmore about eastern Europe's radio situation. During an evening partysponsored by Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, attendees had the chance to hashthrough the day's events. Pictured (from l -r): Hungarian commercial stationRadio Danubius PD Zsuzsa Kalman, Radio Express vice president of salesCarmen Ketola and Finland's Radio 100 head of music Kari Purssila.
EMI'S BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS AT BRIGHTON - EMI UK enjoyed a triplecelebration when they presented three of their development acts with discawards at the company's recent conference in Brighton. Pop/dance four-some Eternal were honoured with a platinum disc for sales of over one mil-lion copies of their debut album "Always And Forever," rock band Terrorvi-sion received a silver disc for the album "How To Make Friends AndInfluence People" while Positiva stars Reel 2 Real were handed out discs forworldwide sales of over one million for their debut single "I Like To Move It".The acts are pictured with EMI Records Group UK and Eire president RupertPerry and EMI Records MD Jean Francois Cecillon, kneeling next to Eternal.
Celentano(continued from page 1)
Euro-stardom is not new to Celen-tano. "Many Europeans know himas a film star from the '70s andearly '80s [including an appearancein Federico Fellini's landmark1960 film "Dolce vital. He alsohad several European hits includ-ing Prisencolinesinainciusol." Thesong of nonsense verse, from '72,is regarded as one of the first raprecords ever.
Ironically, a new version on hislatest album criticises the currenttrend of Italian rap groups includ-ing Jovanotti, claiming that rapartists' socio/political lyrics are notgrounded in truth or conviction,although young audiences listen tothe words as if they were the bibli-cal truth. Italian rap group Articolo31 immediately countered byreleasing a rap attacking Celen-tano's sincerity.
Celentano is not afraid of con-troversy, often releasing songswhose lyrics have tackled suchproblems as the environment andpolitical corruption back in the '60sand '70s, well before these subjectsbecame fashionable for singer/songwriters.
The title track of the newalbum came in for widespread dis-approval when its lyrics criticisingsexual ambiguity was interpretedby much of the media as anti -gay.
CGD director of promotionLuciano Linzi comments, "Celen-tano has always caused a stir eversince he launched his career asItaly's first rock & roll performer inthe late '50s in the same way thatElvis Presley shocked parents withhis gyrating hips and R&B-influ-enced music. Since then Celentanohas had hundreds of hits."
Adriano Celentano's careerfaithfully follows the story of Ital-ian pop to the point where his newalbum features a surprising diversi-ty of styles. "There's a bit of every-thing on this album," says Linzi."Attraverso Me has a very Ameri-can rock riff which went downwell on radio, the second singleand title track is more dance -ori-ented, one of his old songs Oh -Oh!has been retreated with a hardtechno-beat, I Want To Know hasan acid jazz arrangement, while thelast song on the album RefugioBianco features a traditionalAlpine chorus."
Celentano releases his recordson his own Clan label, distributed
Dischi Ricordi(continued from page 1)
and will be responsible for theestablishment of a cultural foun-dation to preserve the company'shistorically important musicalarchives. These include originalmanuscripts from Italian com-posers such as Puccini, Don-nizzetti, Rossini and Verdi.
BMG's buy-out of Ricordi,which operates Italy's largestindependent label Dischi Ricordi,has provoked a new round of talksbetween Italy's independent tradegroup AFI and the IFPI recog-nised federation FIMI, which rep-resents the country's major labels,regarding a possible reunificationof the two bodies.
While Dischi Ricordi remainsa member of AFI, it is consideredinevitable that it changes tobecome a FIMI affiliate, joiningits new parent company BMG.Ricordi's 16% market share repre-sents the majority of AFI mem-bers' total share of 25% of Italy'smusic market.
FIMI was formed over twoyears ago, when Italy's majorsbroke away from AFI claimingthat they were under -representeddespite having a majority marketshare.
FIMI president and CGD MDGerolamo Cacci Dominionaidenied that reunificaion wasimminent; however, AFI secretaryFranco Crepax acknowledged thattalks were underway and that
results could be achieved within amonth if the terms are correct.
Several independents who areunhappy about a possible quickagreement have intimated thatthey might form their own splinterassociation if they disagree withterms agreed by AFI and FIMI.
Meanwhile, confusion sur-rounds a statement made to theItalian press by Michael Dome-mann, CEO of BMG Entertain-ment. He told reporters that BMGintended to sell off several ofRicordi's non-musical assets,including its 22 record shops. Aspokesman for Ricordi denied thatthe retail chain was up for sale,adding that the Ricordi groupwould stay intact as part of thesale agreement.
NRJ/Rix(continued from page 1)
In the past year NRJ hasproven itself as Sweden's mostsuccessful commercial radio net-work, gaining 14% of daily lis-teners in Stockholm alone. Itshighly professional EHR format-ting has given it a clear lead overcommercial rivals.
Rix has faired less well andhas been experimenting with dif-ferent formats in an effort to finda niche in the market. This haslead to a situation where formatshave varied considerabely,including classical, ACE and goldprogramming. One RUAB surveyshowed it had gained less than1% of daily listeners in Stock -balm but had been more success-
ful in Sweden's smaller towns.The net's lack of cohesion led
to Rix's dissolution of its nationalsales house in July, and a move toselling on a station -by -stationbasis. The company has beensearching for an advertising part-ner since then.
In the latest attempt by Rix toimprove local ratings, its Stock-holm station underwent a muchpublicised revamp in Septemberwith its own gold format and aname change to Vinyl 107.
This transformation will nowbe reversed as part of a relaunchfor the entire Rix network, whichwill be marketed as a unit underone name and one format.
Between them, the two net-works have some 570.000 dailylisteners nationally across a broad
age group. They are expected topurchase more frequencies in thenext round of Swedish frequencyauctions to be held in November.
General manager of NRJ Swe-den Bertil Damberg says, "Ourcooperation will be an additionalcontribution to an even strongermedia, where obvious alternativesare necessary."
NRJ has stations in Stock-holm, Gothenburg and Malmoand has recently begun broadcast-ing on two newly acquired fre-quencies, Radio H in Halmstadand Radio Nordost in Kristand-shed. Rix has been broadcastingvia 14 stations, including thethree main cities. According tothe new deal Rix will transfer itsfrequencies in Umea and Eskil-tuna to NRJ.
by CGD. "The Clan project is a bitlike Prince's Paisley Park," saysLinzi. "They have launched andproduced many new artists andprojects."
Carlo Mancini, music directorat EHR network Radio Dimen-sione Suono/Rome says he placedthe single immediately on fast rota-tion and it received excellent lis-tener responses. "Although wehave a hit radio format, weplaylisted it straight away as weknew it would be an instant suc-cess." The follow-up, however, hasnot been playlisted, but Mancinidenies that this is because of con-troversy surrounding the song'slyrics. "We have selected anothertrack from the album, Gia TebiaLiubliu, which is a sort of lovesong. For me it's more radio -friendly. As far as the controversyis concerned I think the mediaoften makes too much of an issueof everything. It's the music that'simportant."
Celentano is currently on anItalian tour and will start a series ofEuropean showcases on October28 at the Zenith in Paris. This willbe followed by seven conceits inGermany, kicking off in Frankfurt(October 30) and ending onNovember 15 in Munich, with per-formances in Cologne, Dortmund,Berlin, Mannheim and Stuttgart.
European media including Ger-many's ZDF and ARD plus Swissand French 1'V networks will beattending his Florence concert on
October 10 to arrange interviewsand TV appearances. French TVnetwork Antenne 2 will be doing aspecial on the artist.
Although pubcaster Berlin 88.8is programming 80% nationalmusic, the remainder is filled byItalian, Spanish and French -lan-guage titles, and Celentano fitsright in, says head of music HolgerWolgast. "He is very popular withour 35 -plus target group." Wolgastis very taken with Celentano'salbum. "You hear that he doesn'thave to prove anything to anybody.He just does what he likes doing."The station will keep the single inA -rotation until November 15.
EHR Radio Regenbogen is thesponsor of Celentano's concert in
Mannheim. Music editor PeteTraynor says that the single will bein A -rotation for another three tofour weeks, "after that we will playit occasionally to promote the con-cert."
At ACE Radio 7/Ulm, the sin-gle will stay on B -rotation foranother two weeks. "It appealsmainly to the 30-40 age group,"says head of music Alex Neu-mann. "Therefore we only play itduring daytime." He adds, "Thesingle has a real old-fashioned feelabout it. It could have been made20 years ago."
Additional reporting by Chris-tian Lorenz
Radio Club '91 Sponsors SecondNeapolitan Blues FestivalITALY
Naples regional EHR Radio Club'91 sponsored the second annualedition of the city's blues festival-Marechiaro Blues at the end ofSeptember.
This year's festival featured aspecial set from Neapolitan blues -man Eduardo Bennota, who per-formed a string of his hits acousti-cally with a classical string quartetbefore presenting tracks from hislatest album Se Non Rose Fiori-ranno (Virgin) with his own band.Guitar hero Alvin Lee relived his
famous Woodstock solo with TenYears After hits and accomplishedversions of some steamy bluesclassics.
James Senese, nicknamedNaples' James Brown, performedan Afro -funk set, as one of themany local R&B artists on thisyear's bill along with Modena'sLadri di Bicicletti.
Mario Core, PD at Radio Club'91, said that the strong line-up oflocal blues and R&B talent provedthat Naples is the blues capital ofItaly, and confirmed his station'scommitment to local talent. MD
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week 42/94 EHR TOP 40TW LW WOC Artist/Title Original
4l 23 3 CYNDI LAUPER/Hey Now (Girls Just Want to Have Fun)
22 19 7 EDIE BRICKELL/Good Times
4DI 26 3 WHIGFIELD/Saturday Night
24 22 15 ELTON JOHN/Can You Feel The Love Tonight
29 3 LONDONBEAT/Come Back
26 20 15 INNER CIRCLE/Games People Play
27 28 8 RED DRAGON/Compliments On Your .Kiss
28 31 7 SYMBOL & NONA GAYE/Lovesign
29 24 15 ASWAD/Shine
30 30 15 ROWNG STONES/Love Is Strong
g 36 2 SHERYL CROW/All I Wanna Do
O OW TAKE THAT/Sure33 32 3 ANITA BAKER/Body And Soul
34 10 JOHN MELLENCAMP & ME'SHELL NDEGEOCELLO/Wild Night (Mercury)
35 33 11 JAM & SPOON/Find Me (Journey To Anyoona) (Dance Pool)
36 27 10 LET LOOSE/Crazy For You (Vertigo)
g 39 4 JOSHUA KADISON/Picture Postcards From L.A. (SBK)
0 111112110. ROLLING STONES/You Got Me Rocking (Virgin)
1311110. CORONA/The Rhythm Of The Night (DWA)
40 35 3 PET SHOP BOYS/Yesterday When I Was Mad (Pa rlophone)
(Columbia)
(East West)
(Jambco)
(Motown)
(Epic)
(Maverick)
(Warner Brothers)
(Ariola)
(Columbia)
(EMI)
(Precious)
(RCA)
(EMI)
(Deconstruction)
(Atlantic)
(EMI)
(Warner Brothers)
(London)
(Death Row)
(Wild Card)
(Epic)
(Geffen)
(X -Energy)
(Mercury)
(RCA)
(WEA)
,(Mango)
(NPG)
(Bubblin')
(Virgin)
(A&M)
(RCA)
(Elektra)
104 79 25 0
109 79 30 6
93 67 26 17
109 79 30 3
108 81 27 6
87 68 19 31
88 57 31 12
77 58 19 2
86 54 32 0
102 65 37 8
87 69 18 1
77 54 23 3
93 58 35 0
72 51 21 5
69 48 21 1
88 59 29 5
67 38 29 1
54 38 16 14
65 43 22 2
57 39 18 7
68 47 21 8
69 42 27 4
53 40 13 6
49 33 16 1
56 32 24 5
49 23 26 0
41 25 16 0
45 32 13 2
51 26 25 0
43 22 21 1
45 30 15 3
32 25 7 10
45 30 15 4
44 24 20 2
39 22 17 0
37 27 10 0
46 27 19 3
37 23 14 10
31 20 11 2
44 31 13 4
The EHR Top 40 chart is based on a weighted -scoring system. Songs score points by achieving airplay at M&M's EHR reporting stations, that target 12-34 year -old listeners with contemporary music killtime or during
specific doyports. Songs in 'A" rotation airplay receive more points than those in "B" rotation or more limited airplay exposure. Stations are weighted by market size and by the number of hours per week committed to the
format. indicates Europe's most Radio Active record, registering the biggest increase in chart points.Ver
CHARTBOUND
AMY GRANT/Lucky One
LIGHTNING SEEDS/Lucky You
SWING OUT SISTER/La La (Means I love You)
2 UNUMITED/No-One
BIG MOUNTAIN/Sweet Sensual love
MICHELLE GAYLE/Sweetness
REDNEX/Cotton Eye Joe
NAOMI CAMPBELL/Love And Tears
BRYAN FERRY/Your Painted Smile
GLORIA ESTEFAN/Turn The Beat Around*
DR, ALBAN/Let The Beat Go On
(A&M)
(Epic)
(Fontana)
(Byte)
(Giant)
(RCA)
(Epic)
(Virgin)
(Epic)
(Cheiron)
SINEAD O'CONNOR/Fire On Babylon (Ensign/Chrysalis)
SOUNDGARDEN/Black Hole Sun (A&M)
TONY DI-BART/Do It (Cleveland City)
JOSHUA KADISON/Jessie (SBK)
50/3
39/3
37/5
36/12
34/2
33/6
33/6
33/3
32/2
30/12
30/4
30/2
30/1
30/1
29/2
LA BOUCHE/Sweet Dreams (MCI)
ELTON JOHN/Circle Of Life* (Rocket)
CRASH TEST DUMMIES/God Shuffled His Feet (Arista)
ROACHFORD/This Generation
ERIC CLAPTON/Motherless Child*
JON SECADA/Whipped*
WESTERNHAGEN/Es Geht Mir Gut
HANNE BOEL/All It Takes
PRINCE ITAL JOE & MARY MARK/Life In The Streets
SHAMPOO/Trouble
FOREIGNER/White Lie*
C&C MUSIC FACTORY/Do You Wanna Get Funky
SHAWN COLVIN/Every Little Thing He Does Is Magic
ICE MC/It's A Rainy Day*
TRAFFIC/Some Kind Of Women*
(Columbia)
(Duck/Reprise)
(SBK)
(WEA)
(EMI -Medley)
(East West)
(Food)
(Arista)
(Columbia)
(Columbia)
(DWA)
(Virgin)
29/2
28/9
28/5
26/5
24/5
24/5
24/0
23/2
23/10
23/0
22/14
22/1
22/0
21/5
21/5
The EHR "chardsound" chart lists the total number of EHR reporting stations playing newer songs that do not yet have enough airplay points to rank among the EHR Top 40. The second number represents
how many stations reported it to M&M for the first lime. Songs which have received no new airplay for two consecutive weeks will be deleted from this chart but may reappear with new airplay. In the case of a
tie songs are listed by new odds. Asterisks indicate new entries in Chortbound. BPI Communications BV
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Madonna's ManoeuvresIt doesn't really come as a surprise that this week'sRadio Active award is claimed by Madonna, whoseSecret made a majestic entrance last week with thehighest amount of adds ever scored (48). This weekagain, the single enjoys the largest number of new adds(31), earning it the status of Most Added leader for thesecond consecutive time. Secret also performs thisweek's highest leap in terms of positions, jumping up 11places from number 17 and landing in the middle of thetop 10 at number 6.
Madonna's new single is especially growing in
Denmark, Italy, France, Sweden and Belgium and is beingplaylisted now in 19 European territories. Italy shows thebest penetration figure (87% of M&M's EHR reporters),followed by Denmark (70%), the UK (60%) and Norway(55%). On a regional level, the track is best exposed in theSouth, where it climbs to the top spot this week. In theNorth the record is already top 3 (see Regional Airplay,page 35).
British teen act Take That grab the highest new entryin the EHR Top 4-0 at number 32 with Sure, the first singleto be included on their forthcoming third album, whichremains as yet untitled-as a matter of fact, the rest of thealbum still has to be recorded. Sure is the seventh EHR hitsingle for the quintet, whose most successful songs to dateare 1993's Relight My Fire (peaking at 3) and Pray (5)and this year's Everything Changes (also 5).
Sure profits from a roster that is of significantly highcalibre-no less than 53% of it comprises of platinum -ranked stations. This explains why the song entersrelatively high with "only" 32 stations at its side. As yet itis playlisted in merely six European countries, generatingthe best penetration ratios in the UK (65%) and Italy(60%). Belgium, Denmark, Germany and Holland are theremaining four. When talking regions, Take That's newmaterial is already number 11 in the South and number 12in the Northwest (see Regional Airplay).
Steam, the second single from the same -titled secondalbum from that other British teen act East 17, is alsomaking good moves on EHR. The song enters the top 20at number 18 in its second charting week, relying on asolid point -gain (the second-best of the week), due to 14weighty adds and a handful of conversions to a higherrotation level. East 17 is playlisted in 17 countries and,just like their fellow countrymen Take That, they meetgood response in their homeland (70% penetration) andItaly (53%). Unlike the former, however, they can alreadyboast conquering Dutch EHR-in Holland they register a
remarkable 100%. The group had four EHR hits before,of which Around The World went highest, peaking atnumber 5 earlier this year. (For more details on East 17,
see "Marketing The Music," page 17.) Pieter Kops
MOST ADDED
MADONNA/SecretBON JOVI/AlwaysEAST 17/SteamFOREIGNER/White LieSEAL/Newborn FriendGLORIA ESTEFAN/Turn The Beat AroundR.E.M./What's The Frequency Kenneth2 UNDATED/No-One
(Maverick) 31
(Jambco) 17
(London) 14
(Arista) 14(21T) 13
(Epic) 12
(Warner Brothers) 12
(Byte) 12
Moo added ore those songs wheat, reaned 6e highest mmrber oiplaylisr oddtians during the week. In 6e core of o he, songs
are hoed aphabehrolly by erne
"A" ROTATION PERFORMANCE
TERRY HALL/ForeverETERNAL/So GoodTAKE THAT/SureTONY DI-BART/Do ItROACHFORD/This GenerationWESTERNHAGEN/Es Gehl Mir GutWHIGFIELD/Saturclay Night
(Anxious) 85(EMI) 79(RCA) 78
(Cleveland City) 76(Columbia) 76
(WEA) 75(X -Energy) 75
Reenhon Pen'onnance is a fish, of doss records +i101 have acheeeel the bee A retesiw peneharion. Records lis6rI are (hose
artside the EHR tar 20 and with o vol number of reporeng storions of re lean 20 Songs red ore listed olphobericakf by artist
NEW TOP 20 CONTENDERS
FOREIGNER/White LieICE MC/It's A Rainy DayTRAFFIC/Some Kind OF WomenTERRY HALL/ForeverI
(Arista)(DWA)(Virgin)
(Anxious)
22
21
21
20
New Top 20 Contenders ore those wires ihof hove not yet hod on EHR top 20 hit and appear on this poge for the first erne with
this single. Artists ore listed by 661 number of stations. In case d a fie, records ore listed alphabetically by artist.
BORDER BREAKERS Mainland European records breaking out of their region of signing
TW LW WOC Artist/Title Original Label Region Of Signing Crossover Regions Total Stations
1 1 8 ROXETTE/Fireworks EMI NORTH WC.EC.W.C.NW.S.SW.NE.SE.E 93
2 2 7 SNAP/Welcome To Tomorrow Ariola CENTRAL WC.EC.W.NW.N.S.SW.NE.SE.E 73
3 3 16 INNER CIRCLE/Games People Play WEA NORTH WC.EC.W.C.NW.S.SW.NE.SE.E 61
4 4 5 WHIGFIELD/Saturday Night X -Energy SOUTH EC.W.C.NW.N.NE.SE.E 575 5 28 CORONA/The Rhythm Of The Night DWA SOUTH W.C.NW.N.NE.SE 36
6 6 13 JAM & SPOON/Find Me (Journey To Anyoona) Dance Pool CENTRAL WC.EC.W.NW.N.S.SW.SE.E 33
7 14 2 2 UNLIMITED/No-One Byte WEST CENTRAL EC.W.C.NW.N.S.NE.SE 33
8 7 21 ROXETTE/Crash! Boom! Bang! EMI NORTH WC.EC.W.C.S.SW.E 23
9 8 16 LA BOUCHE/Sweet Dreams MCI CENTRAL WC.EC.W.NW.S.SW.SE.E 25
10 9 11 JOVANOTTI/Serenata Rap Solaluna SOUTH W.C.SW.SE 23
11 13 3 REDNEX/Cotton Eye Joe Jive WEST CENTRAL EC.W.C.N 29
12 20 3 DR. ALBAN/Let The Beat Go On Cheiron CENTRAL WC.EC.W.N.S.SE 2713 10 4 MO-DO/Eins, Zwei, Polizei plaStika SOUTH WC.W.C.N.SW.SE 21
14 15 17 ICE MC/Think About The Way DWA SOUTH WC.W.C.NW.N.E 18
15 11 12 DJ BOBO/Everybody Fresh CENTRAL WC.W.NW.N.S.SE.E 21
16 NE ICE MC/It's A Rainy Day DWA SOUTH WC.EC.W.C.N.SW 20
17 16 37 ANGELIQUE KIDJO/Agolo Mango WEST C 13
18 12 29 ACE OF BASE/Don't Turn Around Mega NORTH W.C.NW.SW.SE 12
19 19 2 2 BROTHERS ON THE 4TH FLOOR/Dreams Bounce WEST CENTRAL EC.W.C.N.S.SE 20
20 NE ADRIANO CELENTANO/Attraverso Me Clan SOUTH WC.EC.W.C.SW 14
21 22 3 NICE LITTLE PENGUINS/Flying Replay NORTH EC.0 13
22 RE MIGUEL BOSE/Si Tu No Vuelves/Se Tu Non Torni WEA SOUTHWEST S 6
23 21 22 SIX WAS NINE/Drop Dead Beautiful Virgin CENTRAL WC.EC.W.NW.N.S.SW.SE 16
24 18 9 GIPSY KINGS/Medley Columbia WEST EC.C.N.S.SW.SE.E 13
25 23 8 DJ MIKO/What's Up Dig It SOUTH W.NW.SE.E 11
CHANNEL CROSSOVERS The top-playlisted UK/Irish records on mainland European radio
TW LW WOC Artist/Title Original Label Crossover Regions Total Stations
1 1 6 DAVE STEWART/Heart Of Stone East West WC.EC.W.C.N.S.SW.NE.SE.E 1302 3 6 ROBERT PALMER/Know By Now EMI WC.EC.W.C.N.S.SW.NE.SE.E 111
3 2 19 WET WET WET/Love Is All Around Precious WC.EC.W.C.N.S.SW.NE.SE.E 1034 5 5 KYLIE MINOGUE/Confide In Me Deconstruction WC.EC.W.C.N.S.SW.NE.SE.E 76
5 4 16 ELTON JOHN/Can You Feel The Love Tonight Mercury WC.EC.W.C.N.S.SW.SE 726 8 4 LONDONBEAT/Come Back RCA WC.EC.W.C.N.S.NE.SE 727 7 15 ROLLING STONES/Love Is Strong Virgin WC.EC.W.C.N.S.SW.NE.SE.E 548 17 2 EAST 17/Steam London WC.EC.W.C.N.S.SW.SE 469 6 14 ASWAD/Shine Bubblin' WC.EC.W.C.N.S.SW.NE.SE.E 6510 10 6 CHINA BLACK/Searching Wild Cord WC.EC.W.C.N.S.SW.SE.E 4811 9 3 PET SHOP BOYS/Yesterday When I Was Mad Parlophone WC.EC.W.C.N.S.NE.SE.E 5212 12 3 NAOMI CAMPBELL/Love And Tears Epic WC.EC.W.C.N.S.SW 3913 11 7 RED DRAGON/Compliments On Your Kiss Mango WC.EC.W.C.N.S.SE.E 3914 15 6 BRAND NEW HEAVIES/Midnight At The Oasis ttrr WC.EC.W.C.N.S.SW.SE 4215 13 4 SINEAD O'CONNOR/Fire On Babylon Ensign WC.EC.W.N.S.SW.NE.SE.E 3716 20 3 LIGHTNING SEEDS/Lucky You Epic EC.W.C.N.S.SW.NE.SE.E 4917 NE ROLLING STONES/You Got Me Rocking Virgin WC.EC.W.C.N.S.SW.NE.SE 3818 19 4 BRYAN FERRY/Your Painted Smile Virgin EC.W.C.N.S.SW.SE 4019 21 12 GUN/Word Up A&M EC.W.C.N.S.SW.SE 2420 24 2 SWING OUT SISTER/La La (Means I Love You) Fontana EC.W.C.N.S.SW.SE.E 4021 14 14 TAKE THAT/Love Ain't Here Anymore RCA WC.EC.W.C.N.S.SE 3522 NE PINK FLOYD/High Hopes EMI EC.W.C.SW.SE 2423 22 13 ROACHFORD/Lay Your Love On Me Columbia C.N.SW.SE.E 2324 n NE WORLDS APART/Everlasting Love Arista WC.C.S.SW.NE 2325 NE TAKE THAT/Sure RCA WC.W.C.N.S 21
For all artists appearing on this chart, the Region Of Signing is Northwest.
ATLANTIC CROSSOVERS The top-playlisted North American records on European radio
TW LW WOC Artist/Title Original Label Crossover Regions Total Stations
1 1 20 YOUSSOU N'DOUR FEAT. NENEH CHERRY/7 Seconds Columbia WC.EC.W.C.NW.N.S.SW.NE.SE.E 402 2 8 BOYZ II MEN/I'll Make Love To You Motown WC.EC.W.C.NW.N.S.SW.NE.SE.E 453 6 3 BON JOVI/Always Jambco WC.EC.W.C.NW.N.S.SW.NE.SE.E 15
4 3 5 LUTHER VANDROSS & MARIAN CAREY/Endless Love Epic WC.EC.W.C.NW.N.S.SW.NE.SE 355 12 2 MADONNA/Secret Maverick WC.EC.W.C.NW.N.S.SW.SE 096 8 4 R.E.M./What's The Frequency Kenneth Warner Brothers WC.EC.W.C.NW.N.S.SW.NE.SE 10
7 5 8 JOE COCKER/The Simple Things EMI WC.EC.W.C.NW.N.S.SW.NE.SE.E 21
8 4 11 SOPHIE B. HAWKINS/Right Beside You Columbia WC.EC.W.C.NW.N.S.SW.NE.SE.E 059 10 12 LISA LOEB & NINE STORIES/Stay RCA WC.EC.W.C.NW.N.S.SW.NE.SE.E 93
10 9 19 ALL 4 ONE/I Swear Atlantic WC.EC.W.C.NW.N.S.SW.NE.SE 9411 7 9 PRINCE/Letitgo Warner Brothers EC.W.C.NW.N.S.SW.NE.SE.E 91
12 13 4 CYNDI LAUPER/Hey Now (Girls Just Want to Have Fun) Epic WC.EC.W.C.NW.N.S.SW.NE.SE 9413 11 12 WARREN G & NATE DOGG/Regulate Death Row WC.EC.W.C.NW.N.S.SW.SE.E 8514 14 7 EDIE BRICKELL/Good Times Geffen EC.W.C.NW.N.S.SW.NE.SE.E 8515 15 6 JOSHUA KADISON/Picture Postcards From L.A. SBK WC.EC.C.N.S 6516 16 8 SYMBOL & NONA GAYE/Lovesign NPG WC.EC.W.C.NW.N.S.SW.SE.E 6017 20 3 SHERYL CROW/All I Wanna Do A&M EC.W.C.NW.N.S.SW.SE.E 5418 21 5 JOHN MELLENCAMP & ME'SHELL NDEGEOCELLO/Wild Night Mercury WC.EC.W.C.NW.N.S.SW.SE.E 51
19 18 19 MARIAH CAREY/Anytime You Need A Friend Columbia WC.EC.W.C.N.S.SW.NE.SE 4720 19 3 ANITA BAKER/Body And Soul Elektra WC.EC.W.C.NW.N.S.SW.SE 5621 NE GLORIA ESTEFAN/Turn The Beat Around Epic WC.EC.C.NW.N.S.SW.NE.SE 3422 23 2 AMY GRANT/Lucky One A&M WC.EC.W.C.NW.N.S.SW.NE.SE.E 5923 22 26 BIG MOUNTAIN/Baby I Love Your Way/Baby, Te Quiero Ati Giant WC.EC.W.C.NW.N.S.SW.SE 4324 RE SOUNDGARDEN/Black Hole Sun A&M WC.EC.W.C.N.S.SW.NE.SE 37
25 RE JOSHUA KADISON/Jessie SBK WC.W.C.NW.N.S.SW 34
For all artists appearing on this chart, the Region Of Signing is North America.
American -born Euro dance artist Ice MC,who is signed to the Italian DWA label,enjoys this week's highest new entry inthe Border Breakers chart at number 16.Apart from receiving playlistings at 11
stations in its region of origin (the South),It's A Rainy Day crosses over to 20 stat-ions in six "foreign" regions, thus beingensured of a solid and varied support rost-er outside the Italian-speaking areas.
Most fervently tuning into the Italiandance record is the Central region
(German-speaking areas), where no less than six reportersare playlisting the track, including gold -ranked Germanstations like the EHR-formatted OK Radio/Hamburg andRB 4/Bremen as well as the dance specialist Hit Radio N1/Nuremberg. The Swiss contribution to the record's
Central roster comprises of Radio Pilatus 104.9/Luzern,another gold -ranked EHR outlet.
The second best crossover region for "Rainy Day" isthe West Central (Dutch -speaking areas), where the supportbase is currently only to be found in the Belgian part-noless than five Flemish stations are championing the track,most significantly the platinum -ranked EHR reporterBRTN Radio Donna/Brussels. But also in a couple ofother regions, platinum stations are found playlisting thesong. These include the Southwest where Spanish nationalnetwork Cadena 40 Principales has joined in, and theWest, which is represented on this ranking level by French-speaking Belgian Radio Contact F/Brussels.
On the television side of airplay, it is interesting to notethat German Viva TV/Cologne also has the Ice MC trackon rotation, although this doesn't contribute to the entirelyradio -driven chart.
In the meanwhile, Ice MC's single is also doing wellsales -wise, as it has been charting for three weeks in theEurochart Hot 100 now, mounting to number 18 thisweek, thanks to chart positions in Italy (2), Spain (4),Germany (16), Belgium (17), Switzerland (19) and France(26). Pieter Kops
The Regional Crossover charts track the cross -regional movement ofproduct. The Border Breakers chart ranks the 25 most successfulContinental European records making airplay impact outside theirregion of signing (airplay achieved in the original region is excluded
from the calculations).The second chart, Channel Crossovers, registers the airplay pene-
tration of UK -signed artists in mainland Europe, while the third Top25, the Atlantic Crossover chart, ranks the most successful NorthAmerican artists according to regional airplay impact in Europe.
All three charts are non -format specific. "Region Of Origin" is notnecessarily an indication of where the artist comes from but, more sig-nificantly, where he/she is signed. An increasing number of nationalartists are signed to "foreign" labels and M&M wants to acknowledgethe crossover impact of such deals.
For each record, "Crossover Regions" are listed in order of first-
20 14 9 RED DRAGON/Compliments On Your Kiss (Mango) 14 9 5 0
MOST ADDEDSEAL/Newborn FriendPRETENDERS/977
ULTIMATE KAOS/Some GirlsP.I & DUNCAN/If I Give My NumberFOREIGNER/White Lie
(MI(WEA)
(Wild Card)(Xsrhythrn)
(Arista)
NORTH
1W LW WOC Artist/TitleOriginal Tot
Label Sot
1 1 5 DAVE STEWART/Heart Of Stone (East West) 40
2 2 7 BOYZ II MEN/I'll Make Love To You (Motown) 353 17 2 MADONNA/Secret (Maverick) 334 3 4 ROBERT PALMER/Know By Now (EMI) 335 7 4 R.E.M./What's The Frequency (Warner Brothers) 256 6 3 VANDROSS/CAREY/Endless Love (Epic) 347 16 2 BON JOVI/Always (Jambco) 26
8 4 18 WET WET WET/Love Is All Around (Precious) 27
9 9 3 KYLIE MINOGUE/Confide In Me (Deconstruction) 22
10 13 3 REDNEX/Cotton Eye Joe (Jive) 25
11 8 19 YOUSSOU N'DOUR/7 Seconds (Columbia) 2312 5 9 SOPHIE B. HAWKINS/Right 22
MOST ADDEDROWNG STONES/You Got Me RockingANITA BAKER/Body And SoulR.E.M./What's The Frequency KennethDAVE STEWART/Heart Of StoneTRAFFIC/Some Kind Of Women
(Virgin)(Elektra)
(Warner Brothers)(East West)
(Virgin)
NW = NORTHWEST: British Isles(United Kingdom, Ireland).C = CENTRAL: German -Language areas(Germany, Austria, parts of Switzerland, Luxembourg).W = WEST: Francophone areas(France, Wallonia/Belgium, parts of Switzerland, Monaco).
N = NORTH: Scandinavia(Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Finland).WC = WEST CENTRAL: Dukh-Language areas(Holland; Flanders/Belgium).S = SOUTH: Italian -Language areas(Italy, Ticino/Switzerland, Malta).
SW = SOUTHWEST: Iberia (Spain, Portugal)EC = EAST CENTRAL: East Central area(Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland).SE = SOUTHEAST: Balkan (no chart compiled yet).NE = NORTHEAST: Baltic area (no chart compiled yet).E = EAST: Eastern area (no chart compiled yet).
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