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PPCA ANNOUNCES BOARD MEMBERS FOR 2004

The Phonographic Performance Company of Australia Limited (PPCA) is pleased to announce it’s Board of Directors for 2004.

Shaun James Chairman .................................Chairman & CEO, Warner Music Australia

George Ash ............................................. Managing Director, Universal Music Australia

Libby Blakey..............................Business Affairs Director, Festival Mushroom Records

Bill Cullen ............................................................................... One Louder Entertainment

Denis Handlin................................... Chairman & CEO, Sony Music Entertainment Aust.

Greg Macainsh ................................................................................ Artist Representative

Lindy Morrison ................................................................................ Artist Representative

John O’Donnell .................................................Managing Director, EMI Music Australia

Ed St John..................................................... Managing Director, BMG Australia Limited

Mr Shaun James has been re-elected as Chairman of the PPCA Board.

The PPCA Board contains three directors representing the interests of Australian Recording Artists who are registered with PPCA under its direct distribution scheme. Two of those directors (currently Ms Lindy Morrison and Mr Greg Macainsh) are appointed to the Board by popular vote of the registered recording artists. The third of those directors (currently Mr Bill Cullen) is invited to be a director of the Board following a nomination by the Music Managers’ Forum (on behalf of artist managers).

For 2004, the PPCA Board is pleased to welcome back Ms Lindy Morrison who was elected unoposed for a further two year term as an artist representative director. The Board is also pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Bill Cullen of One Louder Entertainment. Mr Bill Cullen replaces long serving Board member, Mr Michael McMartin, who resigned from the Board at the end of 2003.

ON THE RECORD

ABOVE: The 2004 PPCA Board Members. Back Row - L to R: John O’Donnell, George Ash, Shaun James (Chairman), Greg Macainsh, Ed St John. Front Row - L to R: Damian Rinaldi (alternate for Denis Handlin), Stephen Peach (CEO PPCA), Lindy Morrison, Bill Cullen (absent: Denis Handlin, Libby Blakey).

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IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR REGISTERED ARTISTSIf you’ve received this newsletter we’ve got your correct contact details. This isn’t so with all our registered artists. Please check the “Lost Artists” list on our website for your friends.If they’re on there, please ask them to contact us and update their details – there might be cheques that we haven’t been able to send them.

Remember to let us know if you’re moving – if we don’t have your correct contact details we can’t pay you.

Always remember that i tis important you register all releases on which you are eligible to claim for the Artist Direct Distribution Scheme. Record companies do not notify us of artist registrations – this is the artists responsibility. If you have released a CD and have not lodged your artist registrations then any income that may be earned for that release will be paid to your record label.

If you need to change your contact details or check what artist registrations we have for you, please contact the PPCA Distribution Department - we’ll be happy to help.

PPCA DistributionPh: 02 8569 1133Fax: 02 8569 1183 Email: distribution@ppca.com.au

2003The year in chartsSingles

The three big winners of 2003 on the ARIAnet charts were (in no particular order) Guy Sebastian, Delta Goodrem and the genre of Urban music in general (Eminemin particular).

Despite only having one single released during the year (and that not hitting the market until late November) Guy recorded sales levels not seen since Elton John’s 1997 tribute to Princess Diana and after only a month on the chart, his single Angels Brought Me Here rocketed to the top of the annual list.

Delta on the other hand had a bitter-sweet year. Battling illness throughout the year, she had an unprecedented five consecutive #1 singles from her debut album. All five of those singles ended 2003 in the Annualtop 20.

40 Urban singles made their way into the Top 100 for 2003. While this strike rate of 40% of the End Of Year Top 100 is impressive, they have an even stronger claim than that at the top end of the chart with 28 of the top 50 of the year having appeared on the Urban charts. While many acts have contributed to that success, some have had more influence than others, namely50 Cent, Beyonce and Justin Timberlake with 3 hits in the Top 100 of 2003 andJa Rule and Eminem with 4 hits each in the 2003 review. A total of 583 singles appeared in the ARIAnet Top 100 during 2003.

Albums

One artist stands over the 2003 ARIA Albums chart like a colossus – Released toward the end of March, Delta Goodrem’s Innocent Eyes album reached the magical 1,000,000 sales mark in Australia as the year ended and spent 27 of its 40 chart weeks during 2003 in the coveted #1 position.In contrast to the Singles chart where the Urban genre was all conquering, a variety of musical styles are given a fair showing from the cool jazz of Norah Jones at #2 for the year, Rock (Powderfinger, Matchbox 20), Pop (Avril Lavigne, Robbie Williams), Urban (Eminem) to Country & Classical a little further down the 2003 Top 100.

Lindy Morrison, Artist Director of PPCA attended this year’s Tamworth Country Music Festival in January. For the fourth year, Lindy delivered a seminar in the Musicians’ Headquarters in Peel St Tamworth on the role of PPCA, copyright and collecting societies. This year, the seminar was part of an inaugural conference, called “Music Know How….. Know how it works”, modeled on the Bondi Youth Wave annual conference.

Mr. Tony Windsor MP, the Independent Federal Member for New England opened the Tamworth conference and expressed a real interest in copyright issues. Amongst many speakers, the audience heard from Milly Petriella from APRA, Jane Douglas who owns well known Tamworth live venue called The Pub and manages The Baileys, Rose Pearce who runs an independent record label from Sydney, Peter Stapleton from the Community Radio Network, and QLD radio broadcaster, Kerry McInerney. The large audience was made up of diverse group of performers, songwriters, community radio presenters and aspiring managers.

Lindy Morrison also represented PPCA at the annual APRA / Contemporary Country Music Coalition cocktail party. At the event, Meryl Gross received an international award from Rob Potts on behalf of the American Country Music Association for her outstanding

contribution to developing Australian country music artists outside of North America.

TAMWORTH COUNTRYMUSIC FESTIVAL

ABOVE: Lindy Morrison, Meryl Gross and Jim White at the APRA Contemporary Country Music Coalition cocktail party.

For the financial year ending June 2003, PPCA achieved a record surplus of over $8.1 million. This represents an increase of over 12.5% on 2002, and an extra $900,000 available for allocation to controlling labels and registered performing artists.

The increase was principally the result of growth in broadcast and public perform-

ance fee income, with approximately 36,000 blanket public performance licences now established across Australia.

The surplus distribution process was finalised during December, with almost 600 cheques issued to registered Australian artists just prior to Christmas.

PPCA’S DISTRIBUTABLE SURPLUS GROWS IN 2003

We’ve all seen the P notice on CDs and have probably been advised to include it on our recordings. But do we really know what it means or how it should be written. Recent changes to the Copyright Act 1968 now make it more important than ever to use it correctly.

To assist you in correct use of the P notice PPCA, in conjunction with ARIA, has produced the enclosed booklet which gives guidelines for its proper use.

P CREDITDo we really know what it means?

1 ANGELS BROUGHT ME HERE Guy Sebastian BMG

2 LOSE YOURSELF Eminem INR/UMA

3 WHERE IS THE LOVE Black Eyed Peas UMA

4 BORN TO TRY Delta Goodrem EPI/SONY

5 IN DA CLUB 50 Cent INR/UMA

6 BRING ME TO LIFE EvanescenceEPI/SONY

7 LOST WITHOUT YOU Delta Goodrem EPI/SONY

8 THE KETCH UP SONG (ASEREJE)Las Ketchup COL/SONY

9 NU FLOW Big Brovaz EPI/SONY

10 IGNITION - REMIX R. Kelly BMG

11 ALL I HAVE Jennifer Lopez feat.L.L. Cool J EPI/SONY

12 STOLE Kelly Rowland COL/SONY

13 ANGEL Amanda Perez VIR/EMI

14 ALL THE THINGS SHE SAID t.A.T.u. INR/UMA

15 BIG YELLOW TAXI Counting Crows feat. Vanessa Carlton GEF/UMA

16 ‘03 BONNIE AND CLYDE Jay-Z feat. Beyonce Knowles RAL/UMA\

17 PREDICTABLE Delta Goodrem EPI/SONY

18 INNOCENT EYES Delta GoodremEPI/SONY

19 SHUT UP Black Eyed Peas UMA

20 NOT ME, NOT IDelta Goodrem EPI/SONY

21 SHAKE YA TAILFEATHERP. Diddy / Nelly / Murphy Lee UMA

22 HEY SEXY LADY Shaggy UMA

23 SOMEDAY Nickelback RR/UMA

24 BEAUTIFUL Christina AguileraRCA/BMG

25 BUMP BUMP BUMP B2K feat. P. Diddy EPI/SONY

26 DILEMMA Nelly feat. Kelly Rowland UMA

27 STUCK Stacie Orrico VIR/EMI

28 CRAZY IN LOVE Beyonce COL/SONY

29 REIGN Ja Rule RAL/UMA

30 BABY BOY Beyonce feat. Sean Paul COL/SONY

31 I KNOW WHAT YOU WANTBusta Rhymes and Mariah Carey J/BMG

32 JENNY FROM THE BLOCKJennifer Lopez EPI/SONY

top fifty singles

top fifty albums

33 P.I.M.P. 50 Cent INR/UMA

34 LOVESONG Amiel FMR

35 MESMERIZE Ja Rule feat. AshantiRAL/UMA

36 WORK IT Missy Elliott WARNER

37 BEAUTIFUL Snoop Dogg CAP/EMI

38 THE TIDE IS HIGH (GET THE FEELING) Atomic Kitten VIR/EMI

39 YOU PROMISED ME (TU ES FOUTU)

In-Grid TNS/BMG

40 SHE HATES ME Puddle Of Mudd GEF/UMA

41 DO IT WITH MADONNA The Androids ZINN/FMR

42 LANDSLIDE Dixie Chicks COL/SONY

43 INTUITION Jewel EW/WAR

44 21 QUESTIONS 50 Cent INR/UMA

45 GET BUSY Sean Paul EW/WAR

46 ROCK YOUR BODY Justin TimberlakeJIVE/BMG

47 THUG LOVIN’ Ja Rule feat. Bobby Brown RAL/UMA

48 ME AGAINST THE MUSICBritney Spears feat. Madonna JIVE/BMG

49 SO YESTERDAY Hilary Duff FMR

50 INTO YOU Fabolous WARNER

Compiled from actual record sales throughout Australia by ARIA. ARIAnet and the ARIA Chart are the ® ™ of the Australian Record Industry Association Ltd. © 2003 Australian Record Industry Association Ltd.

2 COME AWAY WITH ME Norah Jones EMI 3 LET GO Avril Lavigne ARI/BMG 4 VULTURE STREET Powderfinger UMA 5 JUST AS I AM Guy Sebastian BMG 6 THE EMINEM SHOW Eminem UMA 7 8 MILE Soundtrack INR/UMA 8 MORE THAN YOU THINK YOU ARE

Matchbox 20 EW/WAR 9 ESCAPOLOGY Robbie Williams

CAP/EMI 10 A RUSH OF BLOOD TO THE HEAD

Coldplay CAP/EMI11 LIFE FOR RENT Dido CHE/BMG 12 STRIPPED Christina Aguilera

RCA/BMG

13 ONE VOICE: THE GREATEST HITS John Farnham GOTH/BMG

14 METEORA Linkin Park WARNER

15 ALLEN Evanescence EPI/SONY

16 THE LAST TIME John Farnham GOTH/BMG

17 DIAMONDS ON THE INSIDEBen Harper VIR/EMI

18 IT HAD TO BE YOU... THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOKRod Stewart J/BMG

19 ON AND ON Jack Johnson EMI

20 JUSTIFIED Justin Timberlake JIVE/BMG 21 BY THE WAY Red Hot Chili Peppers

WARNER

22 GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN’ 50 Cent INR/UMA

23 HOME Dixie Chicks MMT/SONY 24 BEST OF 1990-2000 U2 ISL/UMA

25 GREATEST HITS Red Hot Chili Peppers WARNER

26 30 31 HITS Elvis Presley RCA/BMG

27 DIORAMA Silverchair ELEV/EMI

28 LIVE SUMMER 2003 Robbie Williams CAP/EMI

29 ROOM FOR SQUARES John Mayer COL/SONY

30 AUSTRALIAN IDOL: THE FINAL 12 Various BMG

31 THE YOUNG AND THE HOPELESSGood Charlotte EPI/SONY

32 ST. ANGER Metallica MUK/UMA

33 MICHAEL BUBLE Michael Buble WARNER

34 AUDIOSLAVE Audioslave EPI/SONY

35 SHAMAN Santana ARI/BMG

36 UP! Shania Twain MCY/UMA

37 ONE BY ONE Foo Fighters RCA/BMG

38 IN TIME: THE BEST OF R.E.M. 1988-2003 R.E.M. WARNER

39 BARRICADES & BRICKWALLSKasey Chambers CAP/EMI

40 UP ALL NIGHT The Waifs JAR/MGM

41 BRUSHFIRE FAIRYTALES Jack Johnson MOD/EMI

42 CHICAGO Soundtrack EPI/SONY

43 GREATEST HITS 1970 - 2002Elton John MUK/UMA

44 ELEPHUNK Black Eyed PeasA&M/UMA

45 ELEPHANT The White Stripes SHOCK

46 THE RECORD (GREATEST HITS) Bee Gees PDR/UMA

47 MUSIC, LIVE FROM THE PANELVOLUME 3 Various LIB/WAR

48 GET BORN Jet CAP/EMI

49 THIS IS ME... THEN Jennifer Lopez EPI/SONY

50 LAUNDRY SERVICE Shakira EPI/SONY

Compiled from actual record sales throughout Australia by ARIA. ARIAnet and the ARIA Chart are the ® ™ of the Australian Record Industry Association Ltd. © 2003 Australian Record Industry Association Ltd.

1 INNOCENT EYES Delta Goodrem EPI/SONY

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Content: Stephen Peach, Lynne Small, Ian Wallace,

Linda Courtney, Lindy Morrison

Photos: Rosie O’Donoghue, Lindy Morrison,

BMG, EPI/Sony used by permission

Design: Freestyle Design

Printing: Kwik Kopy Market Street, Sydney

Linking Australian Businesses with

Record and Music Video Makers

Many of you will be aware that, like PPCA, a number of overseas collecting societies distribute income directly to performers (including Australian performers). The UK based collecting society, PPL, is one such society. If you have not done so, we would urge you to register directly with PPL to receive payments for the broadcast or public performance of your recordings in the UK. Information on how to register with PPL can be obtained by going to www.ppluck.com

Those of you who have registered with PPL may have recently received a letter from them requesting your consent to them acting as your collection agent for other overseas territories (i.e. not just the UK). We have received queries from a number of artists registered with PPCA concerning this scheme. We hope that the following information is of some use.

Who is PPL?

Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL) is the UK based collecting society which grants licences for the broadcast and public performance of sound recordings in the UK. Like PPCA, it is authorised by nearly all the owners of copyright in commercially released sound recordings to grant those licences. Also, like PPCA, it is a non-profit organisation which distributes its net proceeds to both copyright owners (typically record companies) and recording artists. As is the case with PPCA, recording artists need to be registered with PPL in order to receive direct payments.

What is the collection scheme that PPL is offering?

There are a number of countries around the world (predominantly within Europe) that, like PPL, make direct payments to

overseas recording artists (including

Austral ian recording art ists) . However,

in order to receive those payments, the

performers currently need to be registered

with each of the collecting societies in

those countries.

Many recording artists are not aware of the countries that make such payments and even less have registered with each of therelevant collecting societies.

Accordingly, PPL is offering to act as a

collection agent for its registered artists

in each of the territories that make

payments directly to performers. In short,

if you consent, PPL will inform each of

the relevant collecting societies that they

have been authorised by you to collect

payments on your behalf. This means that

you will not need to register directly with

each of those collecting societies, thereby

saving you the time and inconvenience of

managing all those registrations yourself.

PPL will collect your entitlements from

each of those collecting societies and

will pay a lump sum through to you, less a

handling fee.

Do I have to appoint PPLfor every territory?

No, you don’t. You are entitled to choose

those territories in respect of which you

would like PPL to undertake collections.

This leaves you free to register directly

with the collecting societies in other

relevant territories. It is very important

that you do not appoint PPL to act on your

behalf if you already have a current direct

registration with a collecting society in a

relevant country - this will cause confusion

and delay in the payment of distributions

due to you.

Does PPCA offer thiscollection service?

At present, no. We will continue to keep this

under review. However, for the foreseeable

future, the costs of administering such a

scheme on behalf of PPCA’s registered

artists would be out of all proportion to the

likely income received. For that reason,

we consider that your interests are best

served at this time by registering directly

with PPL. We will, of course, notify you

in the event that we propose to introduce

such an international collections scheme.

Won’t I lose money through additional administration charges if I appoint PPL?

We understand that PPL intends to recover

the actual costs of col lecting and

distributing this revenue, but undertakes

that such costs will not exceed 10% for

the present. In deciding whether or not to

appoint PPL, you will need to consider the

costs likely to be charged by PPL against

the administration and inconvenience of

locating each of the relevant collecting

societies and registering directly with them

and keeping those registrations up to date.

That is an individual commercial decision

and PPCA is unable to express any opinion

as to whether or not individual performers

should take advantage of PPL’s offer.

If I want to register directly, how do I contact each of the relevant collecting societies?

PPCA is currently investigating the territories

where direct performers payments are

made, and will post the information on

the artists section of our website shortly.

In the interim, if you have any further

queries on this scheme, please email your

query to performer.info@ppluk.com.

OVERSEAS INCOME FOR PERFORMERS